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Nov. 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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So I'm in Pittsburgh yesterday, last night.
Went in for the Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens at Sunday night game, NBC.
And I took my usual jaunt to the sideline prior to the game.
And it's uh I didn't know it, but it was Steelers alumni night.
They had all these ex-Steelers players from the past, the all the 70s Super Bowl guys are there on the sideline chat.
I think it was John Stallworth was down there and LC Greenwood.
Um I think I saw Dirt Winston, uh, Lynn Swan, a nice conversation with him.
Uh oh, and there was an actress, the actress that plays the medical examiner on the Law and Order SVU.
I don't know, and I'm having a middle block on her name, but she was there on the sideline with the and I saw something last night I have not seen before.
I've been to the sideline of many NFL games.
During official warmups, something caught my eye on the field.
Steelers warmups.
Not Lucy Goosey Warren.
I mean, this was the formal warmups.
Everybody's out there lined up doing calisthenics at that portion.
And there's a woman running around hugging and kissing the players.
So I did a double take and I looked over there, and I recognized who it is.
Now I'm not going to tell you who it is, because it might embarrass her.
I don't know if it would embarrass her.
I have no clue anymore.
But I saw a journalist actually hugging and kissing on a cheek, this Peck's Steelers players.
And I thought, well, what's the difference in this in the White House press corps with Clinton?
Or the White House press corps with uh with with Obama.
What's the difference here?
But I just I'd never seen it.
I I'd never this on the and her camera crew was not with her and her microphone with her and she had no notebook out or any of that.
And nobody seemed the slightest bit concerned.
I'm the only guy that noticed it.
Just old out-of-touch rush, a journalist out there hugging and kissing the people she uh covers.
And it might not even embarrass her at all if I mentioned her name, but in the outside chance that it might, I'm not gonna.
Because I'm not this is not the point of the of the story.
It's just I looked at it and I said I can see this happening with Clinton.
I remember Nina Burley wanted to offer Clinton a Lewinsky for keeping abortion legal.
So I figure what's different?
Audio soundbites.
Yes, I'm gonna answer the question, but this is gonna set it up.
Roland Martin, this is Sunday morning on TV1's Washington watch with Roland Martin.
It's a discussion about Romney saying the reason he lost was because of gifts that Obama gave to minorities.
This has been an absolutely crazy week.
You see it, Mitt Romney, he comes out uh and he's talking about gifts being passed out like President Obama somehow is Santa Claus.
At some point, when will the Republicans learn to accept a butt kicking like a man?
Well, hey, Roland, at some point, when will Obama learn to accept that he screwed up the economy and not Bush?
Where does this stuff stop?
But anyway, you see, Roland Martin upset that Mitt would dare describe this Santa Claus.
Hey Roland, what is redistribution of wealth?
What is it?
What is it when you take what somebody has earned and give it to somebody else?
And what is it when the taker wants that and expects that?
What is it?
And Roland, are you really you're really unaware that that's the sales pitch for the Democrat Party for my whole life?
That the people who have have too much, and it isn't fair, they've got too much.
And it's the Democrats are gonna take it from them and do what with it?
Give it to the starving kids in China?
Don't think so.
Here's Marco Rubio.
This is Saturday night.
Altoona, Iowa, a fundraiser for Governor Terry Branstad.
From so many people on my side of the island, my party and the governor's party, a lot of frustration about the outcome of the election.
I've heard people say things like, I'm not getting involved anymore.
I'm just going to focus on my family and my community and leave politics to others.
Others have suggested maybe the American electorate has changed.
That what people want from government now is they're just going to vote for whoever promises them more.
I don't believe that's true.
I can't believe that's true.
Because if it's true, then the very nature of our country is changed forever.
Well, uh, has it?
That's the question.
Thomas B. Edsell, the New York Times yesterday.
Has uh I forget what's that was Rush Limbaugh lost America or whatever.
Rush Limbaugh's is Rush Limbaugh's country gone.
Okay, so and and Rubio has has been not happy with the Santa Claus uh thing that Romney has said.
Here's Bobby Gendal.
Sunday morning Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said, governor, what was stupid about what Romney said?
I absolutely reject what he said.
Look, we as a Republican Party have to campaign for every single vote.
If we want people to like us, we have to like them first.
And you don't start to like people by insulting them by saying their votes were bought.
I'm hearing this a lot.
We have to let them know that we like them.
And I gather that's the rub here.
That when we say that it's Santa Claus, that we're insulting them.
And that and that they don't we um yeah, we're we're insulting them, saying their votes were bought.
No, I don't think Obama phone lady.
The Obama phone lady is partying.
She's not insulted when Obama phone, what it was.
But I'd like to ask these guys, well, then why did Romney lose?
What is uh what is their thing?
Let's move forward and grab Soundbite nine, we'll do nine and ten.
Here's Newt Gingrich, ABC's this week.
This is during the uh the round table, and they're talking about Romney and Santa Claus.
Martha Raditz said, What do you think of that?
Is that is that where the Republican Party needs to go?
I just think it's nuts.
I mean, first of all, it's insulting.
This would be like Walmart having a bad week and going, the customers have really been unruly.
I mean, the job of a political leader in part is to understand the people.
If we can't offer a better future that is believable to more people, we're not gonna win.
And George Will, also on the round table, was asked by Martha Raditz.
George, how do you uh how do you do that?
Quit despising the American people, particularly because a lot of what they're despising them for are Republican policies.
When Mitt Romney said, so many Americans aren't paying taxes.
Yeah, because the Republicans doubled the child tax credit for conservative reasons.
Yes, because they expanded the earned income tax credit, as Ronald Reagan did because they thought it was an effective anti-poverty program.
Well, you know, there is some truth here to what George Will is saying.
The fact that so many Americans are not paying taxes can be traced in part to certain Republican policies.
But therein lies the rub.
And that is every time the Republicans try to be Democrat light, it doesn't work.
By the way, I would remind Newt that he's the same guy that Time magazine put a big picture of him on the cover with the headline one word, Scrooge.
Okay, so why, folks, is this Santa Claus thing so upsetting to these guys?
Because it's just it's a very simple and easy to understand explanation of redistributionist Policy.
And especially when you got 8% unemployment, Obama made that happen.
You go out, you attack the private sector, you say the private sector is inherently unfair, capitalism unfair, unjust, immoral, and then you go show how it is, and then what do you propose is the opposite?
Government picking up slack.
What is that?
So here's my theory on this.
These politicians have to assess the world in which they live.
And when they do that, they can do one of two things.
They all want to either be re-elected or they want to position themselves for higher office.
Or stay in office.
Now this is the world they live in.
They have to assess what's happening, and then ask themselves question.
Do I want to get in on that and be seen by voters that way, or do I want to take a different approach, educate, inform, what have you?
What I think is happening here is that an assessment of reality has been made.
And this is the world they live in.
And they have concluded that they do not want to upset the people who are getting freebies.
want their votes.
It's their business, folks.
Their business is to get votes.
Their business is to get elected.
That's what the the old argument rages about every every election.
How do you do it?
Do you tackle the problems and try to fix them?
Or do you simply say I can continue what you like, no matter what you think of it policy wise.
So I would say that they have made a calculation that just like I said about people of California, they're voting for what they want.
How sensible would it be for the Republicans to go to California and say, you know, you guys, we're gonna have to change the way you're voting, and we're gonna have to reclaim this state because we're heading toward collapse.
So for I don't think there's a Republican alive that would want to go out there and campaign on that basis, and that's slowly and surely becoming what's happening in national campaigns as well.
So forty-seven percent, whatever the number, make it 53%, whatever Obama got.
They're voting for a reason.
They do vote for reasons.
And they may be assessing that they can't win office or hold office if they oppose this, or if if if they don't join this this this movement train, what have you?
So talk about generalities and platitudes.
Well, you you st you still support the essence of the welfare state.
They don't want to be seen as disagreeing with the welfare state.
That that's that's that's what's I hate to say if that's what's happening.
They don't want to be seen as having any animus toward this.
They don't think they can get elected or higher office if they are seen in opposition.
They're reading the tea leaf, they're reading the election results.
Fact is they think probably this is right, but they don't dare say that, so they have to position themselves for the people who aren't voting for them, not the people who are.
Milton Friedman said there's no such thing as a free lunch.
What does that mean?
What does it mean?
World famous economist.
It means there's no Santa Claus.
And when government pretends to be Santa Claus, somebody pays.
So does Newt believe what Friedman said?
Did Bobby Gendal or DeMarco Ruby they believe what Friedman said or not?
Do they believe there's a free lunch or no free lunch?
And if they don't believe that there's a free lunch, then how can any of this be effectively addressed?
It's a question of just how much substance you want to get into versus marketing and selling.
It's I don't think it's it's they're just they're assessing the land as it exists now and their political fortunes as it exists now and what they must do to maintain or improve their standing, and they're simply assessing the electorate where it is.
And what they've decided is that even people who believe in Santa Claus don't want to think of themselves that way in part.
Let me take a brief why did Obama offer free contraceptives?
Why did Obama offer free health care for kids up 26?
Why is Obama offering all of these free things?
What does it mean?
I don't think folks, intellectually here, there's no argument that the Democrat Party is the party of redistribution.
Santa Claus, it just it's so simple to understand, it cuts way too close to the quick.
And it scares people.
That's insulting the voters.
And you can't insult the voters.
No, don't dare insult the voters.
See, we here can insult voters, but we're not trying to get votes.
That's the difference.
Be back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, all the speeches that I well, I don't give them anymore, but when I when I said maybe twice here, but when I have done that, one of the things I include in every one of them is to ask people to think why, how did the United States of America in less than what 300 years reach heights that no nation in the history of humanity has reached,
and some of these nations have existed for thousands of years.
How did it happen?
How did it happen that a country of human beings are no different DNA-wise than any anywhere else in the world?
What is it that sets the United States apart?
If you have traveled anywhere internationally, basic hygiene, basic services, basic, auto, what have you.
It's you always ask yourself, my gosh, when are these people going to get to the 20th century in whatever country you go to, even the UK?
How did it happen?
Here's another way.
Let's boil it down to something a little bit more understanding and less esoteric.
Although I like the esoteric.
Stop and think for a moment, everything in your life that really matters that you take for granted.
And let me just list some.
Plentiful food, electricity, the flick of a switch for most anything you want, toilets, flush toilets, the finest cars,
the finest trucks, the finest airplanes, toasters, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, cell phones, smartphones, computers, large-screen TVs, air conditioning, heating, quality homes and apartments, cutting-edge medicines, cutting edge medical devices, the list goes on and on and on in every one of those categories.
We either invented it or perfected it beyond anybody's wildest imagination.
And the question is, why did it take us to do it?
Why didn't others do it first?
Why did it happen to be that we did it?
Realizing our DNA is no different than anybody else's.
You see, these things, and more that you can mention in your own life, these things all happened because we were the freest people on earth.
These things all happened because of a degree and amount of liberty that people around the world have never known before the United States came into existence.
There have been socialist communist tyranny governments since the beginning of time.
And I am confident in saying that no government anywhere, any time, including ours, is responsible for any of these things on this list that I just mentioned.
People with the freedom and the liberty to use their God given talents and ambitions and ingenuity and creativity made all this happen.
If governments could do these kinds of things, it would have happened long before the founding of the United States.
But it was not even the founding of the United States government per se that made these things happen.
It wasn't the government that did it.
This is what's missing when people in politics talk about the importance of liberty and freedom.
Oh, yeah, we can talk about it all day long, but you've got to then finish the sentence.
You've got to explain to people what it means.
It's not just freedom from a dungeon.
It's not just freedom from burdensome regulation.
It really, really matters to quality of life and standard of living, the best the world has ever known.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Okay, so folks, why do Republicans not make these connections?
Liberty equals what?
Liberty means what?
You know, my friend Mark Lynn's first chapter in his book, Liberty and Tyranny is on this whole business of why freedom and liberty are so hard to sell.
It's because I'll just read a little excerpt.
Liberty's permanence in American society often makes its manifestations elusive or invisible to those born into it.
And even if liberty is acknowledged, it's often taken for granted, and it's permanence assumed.
So by asking people, stop next time you throw in that switch, next time you push the button to start your car, next time that download your email under your cell phone or whatever.
Don't take it for granted.
Stop to think of it.
And ask yourself what government did that.
The it's liberty, it's freedom.
A greater amount for humanity than has ever existed was in this country, and it's what made all these advances take place.
And some it's not just consumerism, the finest medical research treatment, you name it.
Air conditioning, the productivity of economies, the productivity of individuals, air conditioning alone, the economic impact, the positive economic impact resulting from the invention of air conditioning.
And I've I need to stress again that socialist or tyrannical or all kinds of oppressive governments have been around for years.
And it wasn't until we came along that all of this stuff began to happen in ways that had never happened before.
So what is hard about linking liberty to capitalism, freedom to all of these things I mentioned.
Well, just one explanation is in today's world, if you want to make, and there are many more cases than these I mentioned, but these are the things off the top of my head.
Let's let's talk about uh cutting edge medicines.
A Republican comes out and starts praising cutting edge medicines.
That's what?
Drug companies.
What are the Democrats going to do to him?
Tool of big pharma.
Or he's a tool of big oil.
That's another thing.
Energy.
You want to talk about taking something for granted that has improved lifestyles and created more economic productivity and and and output than anybody could dream of a hundred years ago.
In the modern culture in which we live, linking liberty and freedom to big oil is an indictment of liberty and freedom.
By the time a Democrats get finished with it.
By the time the media gets finished.
It's like this this silly Benghazi stuff.
There's no question, Susan Rice was sent out to tell something it wasn't true.
There's no question that everybody involved, be it Intel, CIA, State Department knew that it was a terror attack.
But now the people trying to get to the bottom of this, so that American lives might be saved in the future are simply called racists and bigots.
A bunch of old white guys going after an innocent black woman, Susan Rice.
And guess who the voters happen to believe as we sit here today?
They actually, I'm telling you, a majority of people watching the news think, yep, a couple old white guys are unnecessarily attacking uh a poor black woman.
She doesn't deserve this.
That's the majority view.
It's just the world we live in right now.
By the way, speaking of Benghazi, have you heard the latest massage of this?
There were actually two protests.
The first one was bouncing off of Cairo, and it was because of the video, and then Al Qaeda saw that and jumped into the fray with their coordinated attack.
So Obama was telling the truth all along, folks.
It really was a protest.
And it really was the video that these mean Al-Qaeda people took advantage of later on.
And that's why it became a seven-hour.
I'm sorry.
When we're up against people willing to concoct and manufacture such blatant lies and distortions, it tests the metal of people who want to oppose it.
Tests the metal of people who want to make themselves targets.
Here's Mark.
Uh somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
It's really an honor.
I mean, this is great.
Thank you, sir.
Let me let me start.
I don't know how to start.
Let me preface by saying I'm a gay white male.
I have a partner who is black.
And it took me.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You're gay, you're white, you got black partner.
How old are you?
I'm 49.
So you're not 65?
No.
Do you live in like the sticks?
I live in the suburbs.
The suburbs, not the sticks.
Not the sticks.
Steve Schmidt says people like you do not listen to this show.
Well, guess what?
He's wrong.
Apparently so.
But I mean, it took me a year, almost a year to get my friend, my partner, to come to a Tea Party rally.
It was not apprehension, it was not trepidation, it was not anxiety, it was blatant fear.
To come to a Tea Party rally as a black man.
Why was he afraid?
Well, we're we're KKK members.
We have White Hoods and we string people up.
That's what they believe.
That's what he believes.
That's what the black community believes.
That's what the minority community believes.
They believe the Tea Party is the modern incarnation of Ku Klux Klan.
Yes.
Okay, who's told them that?
The media, of course.
Right.
You know, Reverend Jackson, he's been to Jackson Rallies, he's been to Shopton Rallies.
You know.
And after going, I I finally got him to go.
And after the meeting, he he well, how does this guy stay your partner if he thinks that you support this stuff?
I I don't know.
Well, here it's a long story.
But we we go, he after the meeting, he goes, I've never felt so unremarkable in my entire life.
I was treated as a person, not as a demographic, not as an exploitative type of you know person, you know, not a mic, not someone who's defective.
I'm a person.
Not someone who is defective and needs protection and needs care.
By the Tea Party.
You were treated as a human being, you mean, yes.
He was not treated any differently because of this skin colour, he was treated as a person, as opposed to being to a sharpton or a Jackson rally where you are defective.
You need protection, you need care.
Next time you talk to your partner, since he thinks you go to KKK rallies.
I want you to ask him.
Who founded the KKK?
Well, well, let's see.
Wilson was a big proponent of it.
And elective schools is still in the world.
It was the Democrats.
The KKK was a bunch of Democrats.
Yes, exactly.
Doesn't matter.
But that's what we do here at EIB.
We treat people like individuals, not a demographic.
We don't target or niche target this program.
Exactly.
I mean, but yet he still voted Democrat.
He goes, I'm black, I'm not Democrat.
I go, excuse me, what?
He goes, I'm black.
I have to vote Democrat.
Let me tell you what this underscores.
See, I I said this last week, and I'm said it again today.
We're beyond the point now where words or policies are going to change anything.
Been there, done that.
We're now we now have to be patient.
Only events are going to upset the current status quo.
You see, folks, the Republicans will win again.
One of the things that worries me, and I don't sit around worrying.
That's I'm not I don't want you to picture me at home moping around fretting worrying.
I I don't do that.
But it has crossed my mind that the American people still are the most resilient bunch.
At some point, a majority of us are not going to put up with this economic decline anymore and are just gonna say the hell with it and do something about it.
And we are going to create a recovery of some kind.
Yeah, probably in our lifetime.
It may happen in our lifetime.
And the thing that that will really frost me is if Obama's policies got credit for it.
When it will be the exact opposite.
It will be the industriousness, the creativity, ingenuity of the American people saying the heck with it, I'm not participating anymore.
We have a political party that's made it okay to participate.
We have a political party, the Democrats said it's okay.
You're a victim.
It's okay to be the way you are.
These people have mistreated you, they've discriminated against you.
You are a victim.
We're here to take care of you and make it right at some point.
They're gonna see that there's a better life.
It's always happened.
It's a cyclical thing, and I don't know when it's gonna happen, but events will happen that will cause Republicans to win again.
But it will be the events, and it will be the decline due to these big government policies that leads to the Republican victory.
It will not be a bunch of Republicans running around saying things, obviously.
It's clear that that the Republican Party today, and and this could change next year.
I mean, this this is still the post-election aftermath where there's shell shock depression out there.
I can't emphasize how much they all thought we were gonna win.
Every they thought Romney was gonna win this, and uh I frankly, I think Obama thought he was gonna lose.
I think this election result has shocked everybody, and our side is no different.
I think they're running around shocked and surprised, they can't figure it out.
And so they're doing what Republicans always do.
The Democrats never do, by the way.
When they lose, they never say, no, you would better become uh anti-abortion.
You know what?
We better oppose gay marriage.
Democrats never do that.
We do.
We start beating ourselves up.
And as we sit here today on November 19th, it is patently obvious that there aren't very many Republicans who want to run for office, breaking up the welfare state.
They just don't want.
That's what the getting mad at Romney over to Santa Claus comments all of.
No, no, no, no.
We don't want to be seen as as disagreeing with what's happening now.
Because that's compassion, and we want to be seen as compassionate too.
But I'm just telling you, there something is going to happen.
I don't know what it is.
But what Obama's doing cannot sustain itself.
These policies will lead to an implosion and a decline and perhaps a collapse.
This can't go on.
It can go on longer than companies can behave like this because we can print money.
But it cannot go on.
Interminably.
There's going to be something happened somewhere.
Sometime.
Don't know when.
Because it always happens.
Gotta take a brief.
I mean, we look at we recovered from what four terms of FDR.
We recovered from Wood Woodrow Wilson.
We've done it.
It'll happen again.
The problem now is that it's really become institutional.
Obamacare is a ball game changer.
That's the thing because this empowers government like it's never been empowered before over every aspect of your life.
ways you can't even conceive right now.
Music by Ben Thede Folks, there's an outrage being perpetrated against Alan West up in um in St. Lucie County.
He's trailing the Democrat Patrick Murphy by 2,000 votes.
He wants a recount.
His his um current victory margin is just large enough to avoid triggering an automatic recall of all precincts and all the votes.
But there's a problem.
Gertrude Walker, 32-year veteran election supervisor, St. Lucy County, has spent much of the last two weeks explaining why her office completely botched the count.
She admitted her office, acted in haste in issuing results, says mistakes were made.
Among the mistakes, failing to count 40 of the 94 precincts under her jurisdiction on election night.
And then she counted the other 54 twice.
And on Friday, her office announced that it discovered 304 additional early votes left in a box.
None of them have been counted, but she's now in the hospital and is unavailable for comment.
I don't know what a full-fledged recount would show for Alan West, but this ought to taken care of.
This they need to get an accurate, honest tally up there.
This is a plus Republican district.
It's what Obama got what, 104% of the vote up there?
104% of the vote in St. Lucy County, Obama got.
There's something really, really odd about it.
And it's it'd be a shame to lose Alan West.
You talk about a genuine solid American hero.
This is something that needs to be addressed, and the count needs to happen honestly and legitimately up there, once and for all.
His name is Rick Scott, right?
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