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Nov. 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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Right on cue, right?
The uh Reverend Jacks.
Ladies and gentlemen, long lines to vote are a sign of suppression.
Long lines to vote are a form of voter suppression.
They're always pushing left, folks, no matter what we do.
No matter what the Republican Party says or does, and no matter how much love it professes, they're always going to move left, and you see the story in 59.
Philadelphia voting districts, Mitt Romney got zero votes.
Not one vote in 59 Philadelphia voting districts.
Anybody that?
I mean, it happened.
Anybody believe it really happened?
Not one vote in 59 Philadelphia voting districts.
Great to have you back here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh the EIB network and the uh prestigious distinguished Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies that were going nowhere.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Cornell West, who has uh embarked on this uh poverty tour with Tavis Smiley of PBS.
These people, they're always they're always pushing left.
Now listen to the Cornell West, in an interview uh late last week with Democracy Now had harsh criticism for Obama.
Cornell West called Obama a Rockefeller Republican in blackface.
Not somebody who's actually looking out for the best interests of the impoverished.
The prominent social critic, Cornell West, who again is African American, also lashed out at black MSNBC personalities, accusing them of selling their souls in support of a president who's been anything but progressive.
He's I think it's morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend six billion dollars on an election, two billion dollars on a presidential election, not have any serious discussion.
The thing the thing about Cornell West, he's right about something.
Obama has left millions more impoverished.
And the numbers of African Americans in poverty grew.
The number of African Americans unemployed grew.
Almost a geometric proportions.
The number of people on food stamps more than we have uh were told.
Let me find that story that exactly.
Let me see uh Oh, by the way, guess folks.
Do you remember back in the 90s when Clint was lying left and right, and we got stories in New York Times how telling lies is actually good for us?
Little white lies actually help spare people's feelings.
Forbes has a story.
Receiving a compliment has the same positive effect as receiving a raise.
Do you realize now people who have jobs are now being told don't expect any money.
But you know what?
When you get praised, it means just as much to you.
Honestly, compliments may not pay the rent, but according to new research, they help improve performance in a similar way to receiving a cash award.
Researchers recruited 48 count them, 48 adults for the study.
They were asked to learn and perform a specific finger pattern, which is pushing on a on a keyboard to particular sequence as fast as possible in 30 seconds.
And once participants had learned the finger exercise, they were then separated into three groups.
When the participants were asked to repeat the finger exercise the next day, don't uh don't get distracted by this procedure here.
Here's the meat.
The group of participants who received direct compliments from an evaluator performed significantly better punching their fingers than participants from other groups.
The result indicates that receiving a compliment after exercising stimulated the individuals to perform better even a full day forward.
So get ready.
You aren't gonna get any raises.
There aren't any.
You in fact, your costs for health care, you haven't taxes you.
Better get ready.
But you aren't gonna get any raises.
You aren't gonna get any any any bonuses, and nothing gonna happen.
But if your boss will compliment you, it counts just as much.
You get a thumbs up, your boss is gonna give you a thumbs up, gonna call you in.
You're you are valuable.
We couldn't do what we're doing without you.
I'm sorry, you'll have to live on that.
That's what people are being told.
Now, here's the thing.
Here's the thing that we've got to understand.
People will accept this now.
We have to understand, given where we are culturally, that this will be fine.
We sit here and and we laugh and discard this or discount this, but this will be okay.
As long as it's perceived to have uh have its roots in Obamaism, it'll be okay.
There will not be a revolt of workers demanding money instead of compliments.
In fact, we're gonna get started.
Remember the stories we got, the value of being unemployed, and how you got closer to your family, how you got closer to your dogs, you're able to get closer to your friends.
It's gonna be the same thing here.
Lack of raises, but many compliments equals an improved self-esteem.
We get stories from people who they won the money anyway.
You wait.
I've learned, folks, I now know how to I know how to translate this stuff.
But Cornell West is right.
He is right.
There are many more impoverished in this country after all of Obama's spending and after all the spending on Obama's election, there are many more impoverished, and a lot of them are black.
Now, you know, I'll I'll stop short of saying that Obama is a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, but that's what Cornell West says.
And of course, he can say it.
One more little aside to your Republican consultants, and I'm I'm really I'm not taking what you're saying about me personally, because it isn't new.
I'm really trying to be helpful here.
You know, our side really does want to win elections.
We really do.
Do you think maybe that this last election shows that ruthless lying, repetitive, petty character assassination works?
What did they do to Mitt Ryan?
You look at the vote totals.
Romney and Ryan got 1.8 million, it turns out, and I think the number 1.8 million fewer votes than McCain got.
How did that happen?
Well, we got all kinds of arguments.
Some Republicans didn't like Romney sat home, some didn't like his being a Mormon sat home.
What if Obama's voter suppression worked?
Because that was a central element of his campaign.
Depress despirit.
What if a number of people thought it was futile anyway?
Republicans didn't have a chance.
What if Obama's voter suppression campaign did work?
You know, we we sit here, we must reach out.
We must we must be uh likable, that we must show the Hispanics and the women that we do not threaten them and so forth, which is I mean, it's absurd to accept these premises about ourselves.
And then tell us we lost the election because we're not for amnesty, we lost election because we're not for abortion.
We lost the election because we're we're too rigid in these social issues.
We lost the election because there are too many conservatives.
How did Obama win this thing?
Ruthless.
Lying, repetitive, petty, character assassination.
That's what worked.
So a memo to those of you businesses uh out there who are reducing hours due to Obamacare.
Do it with lavish praise and compliments, and you're covered.
No problem.
As you tell people, no new hours, no additional hours, in fact, maybe no job.
Tell them how great they are.
And they'll walk away happy.
That is the um latest news out there.
Compliments matter more than money.
Food stamps surged by the most in a year.
In the two months per fire prior to the election, all time record.
Uh Delayed release of information.
A regime withheld information on food stamp usage.
You know, the uh Republican Party could always use better candidates, but that being said, what kind of candidate overcomes this?
Obama's USDA delayed release of a shockingly huge surge in food stamp usage.
Here are the numbers.
Obama delayed releasing information revealing a record breaking monthly increase from July to August of 421,000.
That's almost 10,000 new food stamp recipients per state in a single month.
421,000 new food stamp users.
This and they all voted Obama, folks, I guarantee you.
We have now a culture that will vote itself a lifestyle it is unwilling to earn.
And that's cruel.
I'm I will be castigated for saying that.
That will be what will they say?
That's uh that's insulting Obama boat.
That's calling them moochers.
That that's calling them slackers.
And this again, see, this is this is how Limbaugh loses votes for the Republican Party.
Slander, slandering Obama voters.
That's how I say we're never gonna get those voters as long as I keep talking about them.
Limbo, as long as you keep saying that that people will vote themselves lifestyles they're unwilling to earn, you're with a Republicans are never gonna get those votes.
Yeah, really.
So it's actually kind of comical.
Meanwhile, I mean, vote buying, vote buying really took off during the summer.
It just that nobody knew about it.
We and and and we're told Republicans are supposed to study this sort of thing and learn lessons that can be applied to 2016.
Well, what's the lesson here?
No, no, no, no, sir.
We got to give away more stuff.
Do you think the Democrats are going to let us in on the giveaway game?
Ha ha ha.
Youf oh, that's wonderful.
That's a solution.
Let's let's engage in the giveaway game.
Anyway, we'll move on.
I got a phone call.
We got uh uh Luis Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
Hello, sir.
Hello, hello, Russ.
What an honor, man.
F finally, after many years of listening to you, I'd be able to uh to talk to you for the first time.
Thank you very much, Luis.
Um I'm Hispanic, and um I have always voted um uh conservative Republican, and not because I am rich, I'm lower middle class.
It's just because of the fact that in in nature, most Hispanics are conservatives.
Uh we are pro-life.
We are um uh against, you know, uh things like uh uh thing sex marriage and and all the issues, all the social issues that Republicans advocate, we also advocate the the reason why I think um uh Latinos uh has switched over to uh Baraka Clause, other than all the stuff that he gives away is the fact that I have never I'm gonna be 43 next week.
I have never seen such a dirty campaign on univision.
See, univision is I think Luis has a point.
If he's right about the the the cultural makeup of Hispanics, why are they voting for Obama?
And the answer is Univision, the media.
You can't take that out of this equation.
Thank you, Luis.
So Obama played his uh what 15th round of golf while they are in day 12 or 13 without power in parts of New Jersey and Long Island.
But that's okay.
That's perfectly okay because they all know that Obama cares.
a couple days after the hurricane hit.
So that's okay.
Obama need he's a stressful campaign.
He needs relaxation.
He really it's it's okay.
They they they know he cares.
They know he's working on it.
By the way, 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Romney got zero votes.
The same thing happened in uh Ohio.
Cuyahoga County was Cleveland.
Barack Obama won more than ninety-nine percent of the vote in more than one hundred Ohio precincts.
Folks third world tin horn dictators don't get I mean the last guy that got this percentage of the vote was Saddam Hussein.
And the people that didn't vote for him got shot.
This just doesn't happen.
Even Hugo Chavez doesn't get a hundred percent or ninety-nine percent of the vote.
So 59 Philadelphia voting divisions Romney gets zero votes and uh Obama got more than ninety nine percent of the vote and over 100 Ohio precincts which primarily in the uh Cleveland area.
Here's Mark in Oak Park, Illinois.
We go back to the phones.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Rush Limbaugh, I am so nervous to talk to you today, but I just want to say that, you know, I found your show.
I was going to the University of Illinois, and I found your show in the late 80s, I believe.
And finally, I found someone that talks the language that I talk.
As a black person from one of the poorest cities in Illinois, and to think conservatively, I'm telling you, you is not an easy path to have and uh this election has really upset me and depressed me in a way but let me just tell you um you speak a lot of truth and the same truth I have been trying to tell black people for years just falls on death e deaf years.
You know you talk about black people who are who are in the party and they discount them totally talk about Alan West we don't care.
Talk about Thomas Sowell we don't care.
Walter Williams we don't care Michael Steele and it goes on Condy Rice Clarence Thomas you start talking about these people you get labeled as an Uncle Tom as a house slave and you know it is wrong.
So one thing I want to tell you is the conservatives have got to we're never gonna get over double per we're never going to get 30% of the black vote.
It's not going to happen.
But what the conservatives can do is they can try to give a conservative answer for some of the problems that are affecting black America and maybe you can pull off some percentage but you know what I just want to thank you because if it wasn't for you a lot of my thoughts would not be as clear and that is incredibly important for you to know.
Mark, I really appreciate it.
I can't thank you enough.
And you're right.
You're right on the money.
We spoke about it last week.
All of the achieved, accomplished minorities that serve in positions of prominence, both elected and private sector, are not role models.
They are attacked, disparaged.
Their integrity character is destroyed within the black community.
community and it's always remained a puzzle and I've been I've been behind the golden EIB microphone for 25 years and for 25 years I've received calls from people like you I think I've heard from every conservative black in the country over 25 years.
And you said it, it's a lonely road to walk.
It's becoming that way for all conservatives.
Mark, not quite as outnumbered as you are, but the thought is now that we're outnumbered.
I actually, at the end of the day, don't think that.
But I really, I used to think, because of phone calls from guys like you, you that it was possible to get a maybe ten percent or twelve percent of the African American vote.
I don't think so.
Not with a black candidate, not with an African American president, not with an African American candidate.
It just isn't going to happen.
There's almost a cult like aura to Obama.
I mean, you look at the disaster that his first four years have been.
And people double down for him.
Now he got eight million fewer votes.
There was a way to beat him.
I don't want anybody to mistake.
There was a way to beat him.
We just didn't run a campaign to beat him.
We ran a campaign of fear.
We ran a campaign afraid to tell the truth about him, other than on the economy.
And we really didn't link his policies to it.
We gave him effort for trying.
We gave him credit for trying.
We just said his ideas didn't work.
We really didn't run against Obama.
We ran a campaign appealing to what we thought would be the common sense the American people, but the American people that vote for Obama have abandoned reason.
They're lost in the stuff maybe not messianic, but there's still that kind of appeal to Obama.
Let me read to you a paragraph here.
Uh uh Kyle Smith, who's a movie critic for the New York Post, has a blog, and he wrote a piece over the weekend called the Fanita La Comedia.
And it's a it's a piece about how we've lost the country, in his view.
And he says some things in here that are right on the money.
For example, liberalism multiplies and reinforces its own mistakes.
As liberalism's failures pile up, they will inevitably inspire more liberalism as solutions.
We've explained this on previous programs by saying government comes up with a program to fix a problem.
The program exacerbates and makes the problem worse.
People clamor for a fix.
The same people that came up with the bad problem fix of the bad solution in the first place get to do it all over again.
Liberalism is a force multiplier.
It multiplies and reinforces its own mistakes.
As liberalism's failures pile up, they will inevitably inspire more liberalism as solution.
Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal points out, listen to this, Mark.
Blacks have not only suffered in absolute terms under Obama, with unemployment rising, incomes declining, they have suffered relative to whites.
The gap between white unemployment and black unemployment is actually widening.
Recognizing all of this causes the black voter not to take an interest in the mighty wealth and job creating abilities of the free market, but to wish even more fervently for more government programs to alleviate the pain.
Today, 95% of blacks believe the federal government should provide them with a job if they are otherwise unable to secure one.
That's how it appears to Kyle Smith here.
And he bases it on an NAACP press release that he read, which is not reprinted here.
But he read an NAAC press release after the election.
Today 95% of blacks, it appears, believe the federal government should provide them with a job if they are otherwise unwilling to secure one.
Calling for the federal government to serve as the employer of last resort strikes me as a pretty radical idea, but just as yesterday's luxuries become today's necessities, yesterday's radicalism is today's progressivism is tomorrow's legislation.
So his point is, and one of the explanations for why the black vote will it's either going to be 93 or 95% of a Democrat candidate, and it's been that way for decades, folks.
No matter who the candidates are, there hasn't been a significant change in that electoral outcome.
And the theory is it's because liberalism is seen as the grand solution.
No matter what the problem, no matter that liberalism has caused the problem.
Understand, that's never explained.
Republicans are always the architects of the problem.
Republicans are the ones who don't care.
Republicans are the ones who are unfair.
Republicans are the ones who are racist or what.
So the left covers up its own mistakes by blaming others for them, and then doubles down on the mistake by creating it all over again in the solution to the problem.
Force multiplier.
Luis, our previous caller talked about Univision.
For four years, Univision did nothing but bash every potential Republican candidate.
It didn't matter what they thought of Obama.
The alternative was unacceptable.
This is why, by the way, I cringe when the Republicans and these brilliant consultants at the end of every election think that we have to become more like Democrats to win, which is essentially what they're saying.
And I'm just I look, I don't think I can ask this question too often.
It is said now that the Republicans need to move significantly toward the direction of amnesty and relaxing our views on social issues, which means a little bit more tolerance for abortion.
Maybe we don't oppose it anymore.
Just get rid of never mind the fact that over half the country, even in the exit polls, opposes it.
Doesn't matter.
It makes these Republicans and their consultants uncomfortable.
Hey, don't want to.
So we're gonna we're gonna move toward amnesty, pathway to citizenship, and we're gonna relax what we say on abortion.
Does anybody really believe the Democrats will allow that to happen?
Does anybody really believe that the Democrats are gonna sit by and simply let the Republicans take large chunks of their voters?
It's just not going to happen.
What's going to happen is the Republican Party is going to join forces with the Democrat Party in new policies that will result in the importation and legalization of more people who will vote Democrat.
If they actually follow through on what they're talking about, that's where this is headed.
But they might be okay with it because nobody will be saying mean things about them.
Except that's not true either.
Democrats and the media are always going to use lies and deceit, character assassination against Republicans because in their minds it works.
Why would they stop that?
Why would they give up large numbers of their voting coalition?
Why would they do this?
not going to.
It's kind of like when I first started out in radio, small market radio station, it was thought that we could get everybody in town listening with different formats for different, for For example, in the early morning you play Sinatra and big band stuff when the old folks are waking up, you don't want to shock them with that rock and roll garbage.
So you play Tommy Dorsey, the big man stuff in the morning till eight o'clock.
Then when the kids are as that's when you start the country Western at uh from eight, you don't do the rock and roll till three o'clock in the afternoon.
As such, the radio station didn't stand for anything.
It had no identity.
It's trying to reach everybody, and as it it didn't know.
And it was a common approach, the shotgun approach, but a political party can't do that kind of thing.
But that's where the Republicans are headed.
And in the process, blaming themselves.
But no, no, no.
Take it back.
Not blaming themselves, blaming talk radio, blaming me.
They're not even blaming Obama for their loss.
It's stunning.
I gotta take a brief time out.
A little long in this segment.
The next one's gonna be real short.
You have been warned.
Don't go away.
Let me grab another call.
This is Mark in Kansas City.
Mark, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks a lot.
Jackson County did a uh McCain won Jackson County in 08.
But this time he it they took a tramp thing.
But Russia, if the DLP establishment would ask us to compromise our conservative values to win elections, then shouldn't it be too much to ask them to change the party affiliation?
From Republican to Democrat?
Well, th they're they're they're not asking us to compromise our conservative values.
What they're telling us is that they're not gonna do that themselves anymore.
They're basically telling us that they're not even gonna make a pretense of conservatism.
We can stay out here and be all we want, but recognize we are the problem.
The Republicans finally are gonna do what's smart and wise, and they're gonna be democrat, they're gonna be like Democrats, only not quite.
Then we the people is no longer they represent the we the people.
Uh well, uh uh it's it's as simple as this.
It's as simple as this.
Whatever is not in the Democrat Party's best interest will not happen.
Yeah.
Voter ID.
Give it voter ID.
Why in the world does that not happen?
Because it is not in the interest of the Democrat Party, and no issue will ever be resolved until it is resolved in the favor of the Democrat Party.
Yes.
Pure and simple.
And and that this is the attitude of the media.
It's the attitude of the Democrats.
The Republicans are essentially saying that they're not going to mount any opposition to that anymore.
So we can be conservative all we want out here, but we better realize we're the problem.
That's how I read this.
They have all the answers.
Um Obama did not win a single state that has photo ID, by the way.
Do you know that?
Did not win a single state that has photo ID.
That's why we will never have a federal photo ID law, because it is not in the Democrat Party's best interests.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Folks, I just made a gigantic mistake that I must correct.
Virginia has photo ID, and Obama won Virginia.
So I probably am all wet on uh this business that Obama did.
Well, I know I uh I don't know how many other states have photo ID that he did win.
I'll check.
But that was a mistake I made to have to correct that.
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