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Dec. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 4, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
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Jake Carney, the White House spokeskid.
Just called John Boehner's fiscal clip proposal, magic beans, and fairy dust.
Now Boehner's proposal is basically $800 billion of new revenue by closing loopholes.
And Obama says, well, we can't close loopholes.
Well, what would happen to charitable donation?
And if we close loopholes.
See, everything he says that he wants to do.
If it comes out of a Republican mouth, he's going to oppose it.
Obama actually does want to eliminate the charitable deduction.
That's.
Yes, he did.
Well, I don't know that Obama ever proposed it.
It was floated always out there as a possibility.
I don't think it was ever officially proposed, and I don't think it's been officially proposed now.
However, Romney, as part of his campaign, did talk about raising revenue by closing loopholes and not raising rates.
The problem with that is that there are legitimate deductions.
Lawful, legitimate tax deductions.
They've all now been called loopholes.
I mean, we're we're losing the language debate every day.
A legitimate tax deduction is not a loophole as far as it's low information voters, it is.
And Sarah Palin made a great point the other day.
Let me grab the sound of it.
She might be on something here.
She let me find the number.
What is it?
Yeah, number 17.
She was on um the No 17 is Joe Willie.
70, Joe Namath.
Uh where is it now?
Number 12.
That's right, number 12.
I know what two and a seven look a lot alike when you've been drinking.
Um Sarah Palet, she was she was on Hannity last night.
And uh they're talking about there there is a Gallup poll.
See, this let me find this poll.
Let me find because I've got the It's so frustrating.
There's a Gallup poll out that says a majority of Americans do not want Obamacare.
Uh and what else?
That's uh Gallup poll, capitalism versus socialism, 72% of Republicans felt positively about capitalism.
Only 55% of Democrats.
The next poll should not come as a surprise.
75% of Democrats feel positively about the term the federal government, only 27% of Democrats feel posit of Republicans feel positive about the term federal government.
So in other words, the left puts the federal government ahead of capitalism, freedom, and liberty.
And so do their voters.
That's what the Gallup poll shows.
And some of this other stuff too.
And Hannity wanted Sarah Palin's reaction.
How do you explain that for all these Democrats, the federal government trumps capitalism, freedom, and liberty?
Perhaps some survey recipients who answered the question are confusing corrupt dirty crony capitalism with genuine free market capitalism, which is the good kind of capitalism.
You know, we've shown a bright light on the problems caused by crony capitalism in recent months and in the last year or two, and I think that perhaps capitalism in general has taken a hit because of this new public awareness because of that light that's been shown on crony capitalism, and perhaps people are believing that capitalism in general isn't such a good thing.
Of course, that's a mistake.
I must, with all due respect, Lodge my disagreement.
I think the Democrats who oppose capitalism know exactly what they're opposing, and they oppose it because it isn't fair.
And it isn't any more complicated than that.
They don't like the fact that there are some losers, and they don't like the fact that you have to risk things.
We have become a risk averse society.
People shouldn't have to take risks.
And it's it it it ought you ought not like How about the line getting sick ought not mean going bankrupt.
The Democrats use that to scare people.
Capitalism is what's going to make you get sick and go bankrupt.
So I think it all has to do with this this notion of fairness.
Crony capitalism Obama voters vote for.
Crony capitalism cylindra.
Crony capitalism is GE not paying any taxes and getting 800 billion dollars in subsidies from Obama to run some phony green energy division.
There's crony capitalism all over the place.
My big beef about crony capitalism is that traditional Republican voters finally said to hell with it, and we'll play ball with the government if they're on our side.
I'm a CEO, and if the government's going to give me money, it's going to help my bottom line, make me look better, fine.
If that's the way the game's played, I'll play it, rather than standing on principles.
I think so many capitalists have thrown their principles aside.
Uh, and so many Obama voters, low information and other, simply reject capitalism because it isn't fair.
There are winners and losers, and it isn't fair.
Some people don't deserve to lose.
It's not right.
It just isn't fair.
They don't understand losing and winning and winning and losing and gaining and low it's not something that uh uh anybody thinks they should have to do.
They don't think a system should contain losing.
And to them, there is no losing when the government's providing for it.
You're always going to have something.
But capitalism, you could have nothing.
And these evil Republicans aren't going to help you then.
I'm all due respect.
I don't think they're confusing it with they vote for crony capitalists.
They supported Cylinder didn't bother anybody that voted for Obama, and he won.
And the crony capitalism and not just Cylinder, but all these other phony solar energy plans and the GM, all it didn't bother him, Obama voters.
Capitalism those, though.
There is no question about look at this.
You this is uh uh well it's from the National Review, but what's the survey?
Doesn't matter.
Sixty nine percent of New York state residents, not just the city.
Sixty-nine percent of New York State residents believe climate change was responsible for Hurricane Sandy.
According to a Siena Research Institute poll that was released yesterday afternoon.
Respondents were asked if they thought the dramatic storms have hit New York State the last two years.
Hurricane Sandy and Irene, and then Tropical Storm Lee last year were isolated weather events, or if they demonstrated global climate change.
Sixty-nine percent said global climate change.
Seventy-two percent favored a major infrastructure project to protect New York City from future storms.
72% wanted a seawall built or some such equivalent to guard against the sea level rise that's coming with global warming.
Sixty nine percent of the people in New York State believe a hoax.
Sixty-nine percent of the people of New York State prove that you can politicize science, turn it into a political issue, and then forge political agreement and association on that basis with it.
Sixty-nine percent of the people agree with don't know that it's a hoax.
They go climate change.
We sit here, we laugh at this.
We laugh at the silly notion of people and six let's just say 70% of New Yorkers believe it.
A political science course at Indiana's Butler University is asking students to discard the mindset of quote Americanness, maleness, and whiteness, and heterosexuality and middle class status.
Political science course, Butler University, Indiana, asking students to discard the mindset of Americanness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, and middle class status.
The syllabus for Butler's course in political science 201, taught by Professor Robin Turner, indicates that students are expected to use quote inclusive language, unquote, that affirms racial and ethnic background stages of maturity and degrees of limiting conditions.
According to the syllabus, the use of such language is a fundamental issue of social justice.
So this has become public.
Butler University is standing by both Professor Turner's course requirements, which came under fire from a student who wrote it in the sh in the college fix that he dropped the course because of them.
A spokeswoman for the university told National Review Online the use of inclusive language is both encouraged and supported at Butler and is a standard for many writing styles.
So you want to pass this course now.
We've had stories like this my entire twenty-five years doing this show, and we laugh at them.
And we satirized it, made jokes about it.
But the simple fact of the matter is it is happening, and there are going to be students taking this course.
And they are going to be made to comply with it, and they're going to get out of this course believing and acting.
And thinking this way, and then they're going to become low information Democrat voters.
Butler University is actually educating.
We laugh at it.
We sit here and think nobody's gonna actually fall for this.
They do.
They have been.
They're young skulls full of mush, and they're being indoctrinated.
And so American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status, all of that is taboo.
Not permitted.
The mindset of all those, not permitted.
You're not allowed to think or write in those terms.
You must instead communicate in this class written and verbal with inclusive terminology.
Which means that Americanness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, and middle class status is not inclusive to this professor.
By definition, CNN is blaming a culture of manliness for the Jovan Belcher murder suicide.
Kevin Powell had an op-ed, former Democrat congressional candidate in New York.
He's a cast member of MTV's original season of the real world.
His column at CNN contends that it is America's culture of manliness.
Macho that led Belcher to blow away his girlfriend and then kill himself.
What does he say that the culture of manliness is if you had to if you had a define, so somebody comes up and they land from Mars and they read this column and they say, Oh, what is this culture of manliness?
What would you say, snurredly?
What is rugged individual, masculine, take care of yourself, take no prisoners.
Um, according to Kevin Powell, who wrote the piece, a culture of manliness is a culture of men hiding their emotions.
It is homophobia.
It is being macho.
That's what the culture of manliness is.
A guy who wants to make everybody think he's a real man is in truth a quivering mass of jelly who covers it up.
He's a homophobe and he covers it up.
And he's a phony fake macho guy, probably has tattoos.
Now, how many of you believe that the problem in America is the exact opposite?
That there ain't enough manliness.
Do you think it's manly to shoot your girlfriend?
A culture of manliness made this belcher guy.
What?
Because he plays football?
What man murders the mother of his wife?
And what lame brain believes that that is the culture that is causing problems in this country?
This is this is part of this feminism 101.
Men are predators, men are jerks, men are to be feared, men are out of control, men are crazy.
Men are to be avoided, particularly when they're really trying to be men.
That's what this guy is saying.
The fact of the matter is, this guy Belcher didn't have any male role models.
Culture of manliness.
Would you call Javon Belcher manly?
Not marrying his girlfriend, not caring enough about the child to murder the the child's mother.
What he's gay.
He did this because he's gay, and that's what this guy Kevin Powell says.
That's how absurd this is.
But you know what?
There's a guy that actually believes it.
And CNN thought it was good enough to put on their website.
And I guarantee you that while we sit here and act dismayed over this, there are people who are gonna eat this up.
And there are a lot of them, and they're gonna think there's something.
We're gonna have to start realizing we cannot just slough this stuff off as the writings of a bunch of lunatics.
We're outnumbered in some cases by people, and I don't I don't this is 70% of New Yorkers think global climate change caused the hurricane?
I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
The new pharaoh of Egypt has fled his palace.
Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside uh Pharaoh Mohammed Morsi's palace in Cairo today, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building.
Officers fired tear gas up to 10,000 demonstrators, angered by Morsey's drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15th.
They are protesting like mad in front of his palace.
And a guy splits the scene.
He is fled.
He is out of there.
How's that Arab Spring working out for you people at the weekly standard?
All right, here's uh here's Clovis in Plainwell, Michigan.
Hi, Clovis, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you.
It's such an honor to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
I just like to wish you a Merry Christmas in America and God bless her troops.
My point was that uh they talk about the fiscal cliff.
We reached the fiscal cliff already on November 6th.
I hope that the Republican Party will cowboy up and ride that pony over the hill just like Felman and Louise did with their hands up in the air.
There, such, I mean, both parties for the last 40 years have had us uh just They haven't led the country.
They've led party.
And party's more important than the country.
Yeah.
And I'm just, I'm just so tired of these idiots and their blabber mouth and their talking points.
I'd like to see their face on January 1st when they wake up and reality hits them in the face to see what they've done to this country.
How's it going to affect them?
Wait, how's it gonna how's it gonna affect them?
What do you mean wake up on January 1st to see what they've done?
They they don't need to wait till January 1st to see what they've done to the country.
Look at it now.
Oh, yeah, I agree with you there, but can you imagine when it's official?
When they really hit the stark reality of what they have done.
Yeah, the reality is good.
We haven't been able to afford most of what we're paying for for decades.
They know it.
They've been kicking the can down the road, they're gonna do it again.
Well, I they can only kick it so far that and the can't either crushed or are the country's gone.
And uh they have nobody on either side is really taking anything serious about what the problems are in this country.
And look, I know what you're saying, and I understand your emotion, but I have to tell you something.
The day is never gonna come where these people are gonna wake up and see whatever damage they've caused and associate it with themselves.
You can dream it ain't gonna happen.
Well, you have a point there.
Maybe America will wake up and replace the idiots.
Uh I mean, we just can't go on like that.
The hell would it?
We we are the idiots.
You know, for example, crony capitalism.
You know who the cron you know who the cronies are as the Democrats.
That's why they support it.
The Democrats are the cronies.
I know.
It's it's it's it's it's a mess.
I think it is a mess.
It is a mess.
I don't know.
It it's these guys never gonna blame themselves, they're never gonna see what they've done.
That's not the way it works, and they're gonna be fine on January 1st.
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Here's this other polling data I was looking for earlier.
The uh lovely and gracious Mary Catherine Hammett, hot air.com has put together some polling data to blog post.
And basically, these three polls indicate I'm I'm not exaggerating here.
Indicate that there's very little that comes out of Obama's mouth that anyone really likes, including his voters.
These polls indicate that people don't support his liberal ideas.
It's it's the most convoluted thing.
Um for example, the first poll, and it's a it's a poll from uh uh Benninson strategy group, taken for a moderate Democrat think tank called Third Way, and it was first reported on Politico says that a majority of people in this country want spending cuts, not tax increases, and that they don't like Obamacare.
Go figure.
What are we to do?
What are we to make of this?
A majority of Obama voters do not want tax increases and they don't like Obamacare.
Uh what uh what in the world explains this?
Could it be, Lord knows, gosh, could it be that the people who voted for Obama just did?
I c I I can't.
Is it possible that a lot of people who elected Obama didn't care a whit what he said?
Don't care what that are don't know.
How do you make sense of this?
Is it now is it now people are finally being honest with pollsters?
No, because if they were lying, they would have voted for Romney.
This doesn't make any sense.
And they're okay, they hate Romney more, hate Republicans more.
Trust Republicans less.
You're locked on to that.
They hate Republicans.
Obama voters hate Republicans so much that it doesn't matter.
They're voting for Obama.
That's the snurgly view.
The official Obama criticizer says the only way to explain this is that the voters hate the Republicans, and it doesn't matter what Obama stands for.
They're going to vote for that because they're actually voting against Republicans, they hate them.
Okay, that was a survey of 800 voters.
Here's another one.
According to polling by CNN, registered voters oppose Obamacare by 10 points.
52 to 42%.
Independents like Obamacare even less.
Now we knew this before the election.
And they still voted for the architect of it.
They still voted to expand it.
They voted for the guy who's going to implement it.
And then there's this.
Americans still prefer a system based on private insurance to one run by the government.
57% want to hold on to private health insurance.
Only 36% want government run system.
Well, guess what?
A hundred percent of us are going to get a government run system.
When only thir, and that's Gallup.
So you've got you get three polls here.
Then an Illinois poll of Hispanics finds agreement with the Republican Party on guns, gays, and abortion.
This is a daily caller story.
As Republicans ponder how to win over Hispanics in future elections, Michaels, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.
A poll of Illinois Hispanics conducted by pollster Mike McKeon found that a majority shared views generally considered to be sympathetic to the Republican Party.
The poll found Hispanics in the conservative camp on social issues in particular.
51% of Hispanics, Illinois.
Yeah, Illinois.
A blue state.
So blue, it's almost purple.
51% of Hispanics Illinois said that they opposed legalizing gay marriage.
But they voted for the guy that's going to do it.
Only 40% who favor it.
56% of Hispanics in Illinois call themselves pro-life.
Just 33% said they were pro-choice.
A small plurality of those surveyed said they did not believe that more gun laws would make their communities safer and reduce violence.
47% said it would not help.
42% said it would.
Only 14% of Illinois Hispanics identified themselves as liberals.
27% of Illinois Hispanics called themselves conservatives.
Yet, now keep that in mind.
14% Illinois Hispanics say that they're liberal.
27% say that they are conservative, but when asked for Party ID.
54% said they were Democrats and 31% independents, only 15% admitted to being Republicans.
So Snerdley may be right to an extent.
27% say they're conservative.
15% describe themselves as Republicans.
You would think that it would be at least 27% on both.
So the Snerdley theory to explain the Obama election is that the Republicans are literally despised.
Not trusted, hated, whatever, disliked intensely, whatever word makes you feel more comfortable.
So much so that they will vote against their own interests, such as their dislike.
How'd they get that theory from me?
How, you know, you know, Oh, oh.
I uh Snerdley says that I said that the Democrats hate us more than they hate the Taliban or Al Qaeda.
And oh, I see what you're saying.
I see what you're saying.
That the Democrats have succeeded in making their voters hate Republicans.
That Republicans pose a great a greater.
Oh, I thought you meant that their hate was justified.
You're saying their hate has been inspired.
That their leaders.
The Democrats have convinced their voters to hate Republicans, they're worse than terrorists as to what they're going to do to you.
So that no matter how much you might disagree with a Democrat, the last thing you want is a Republican around.
Okay, all right.
That is a little bit more palatable.
Okay, folks, I'm gonna tell you what happened.
I'm gonna tell you what all starting to make sense to me now.
We all know that Obama has built up a cult-like following.
And it consists of people who don't care what he stands for.
It doesn't matter.
There are people who are voting for him because he's the first black president, and they voted for him because he was a and then re-elect him in the same basis.
He had all this polling data which shows that even some of his voters, though disagree with what he's done, yet they still vote for him.
And I'll tell you what this proves.
He builds up this cult-like following, this messianic figure.
I mean, kids in these schools singing Obama songs.
And what did the Republicans do?
And I will remind you, I had not gonna mention any names because they're all thought the same thing.
Doesn't matter.
I had a Republican governor who was thinking of getting in a race.
He did get into a race for a while.
Came to my humble abode.
Take my temperature on his candidacy.
Of course, I just listen at these things.
But he said to me, Rush, we cannot go after Obama personally.
All we can do is go after his policies.
And that became, I mean, from Romney to it doesn't matter in every other Republican candidate.
You know, he's a nice guy, just known over his head.
He's a nice guy, just doesn't know what he's doing.
He's a nice guy, but he's not a nice guy.
We didn't tell people who he is, because we were afraid of the racist charge.
Well, uh none of this we business because I'm not afraid of it.
But the Republicans were, and they were afraid of it, and they didn't say that no Republican made any effort whatsoever to tell people who he is, ideologically or anything about his history.
He got away's the only president in this country who's never been vetted by the media.
To this day, there's nothing known about this guy, other than the cult-like figure characteristics That have been associated with him.
Now the Republicans listening, well, yeah, Russia, look at how much we're disliked and how much they would have hated us even more if we would have attacked Obama.
It's not attacking, it's explaining.
We're dealing with a hardcore leftist.
It was made to order.
We ought to be able to explain who Obama is in our sleep to people, because it's exactly what and who we oppose.
But no, what did we do?
He's a nice guy.
Wonderful family man, great, great guy.
He just happens to be wrong.
He just he's given it his best shot, but you know his ideas didn't work.
Well, what did that do?
All that confirmed for the people who look at him as a cult figure is he's a great guy, which is all that matters to people that look at people as a cult figure.
He's a cult figure, he's a great guy.
That's all they needed.
Everything else was irrelevant.
But...
Thank you.
So I think that's probably one of the um one of the explanations.
Vayner could give the speech at a guy once and then pass out condoms and Vaseline to everybody afterwards.
Make it uh smooth as possible.
Painless as possible.
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