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Feb. 13, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I can't believe they still don't know whether or not they got Dorner.
I can't believe they still don't know.
I can't well, and it's interesting and confusing because they did find some tracks leading away from the cabin and they found a body in there.
They still don't know whether or not Chris Dorner went up in flames along with the rest of the cabin.
They heard a gunshot.
They don't know if he shot himself.
They haven't done the idea.
This is amazing.
We're coming up on 24-hour, 18 hours, and they still don't know.
Anyway, hi, folks.
How are you?
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
And already Hump Day here on the fastest three hours in media.
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Actually, one of my talk is for people that work and doesn't mean as much.
Hump Day traditionally was over to hump.
Over halfway through the workday when this one finished on the downhill side.
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So yesterday, I was openly complaining.
Some might even say whining.
I was going to have to watch the State of the Union show.
And it was going to be sickening to listen to what was being said and then to watch members of Congress stand up and essentially applaud the destruction of the country.
And I talked to a bunch of people.
I'm not watching.
I'm not going to watch it.
Not going to spend any time on it.
And I said, well, I have to.
Reminds me of the days when I was in school when everybody told me they weren't doing their homework, so I didn't either.
Turns out they were lying.
They all did their homework, and I got D's and F's.
Well, everybody that told me they weren't going to watch the State of the Union ended up watching it, which means I ending not having to, but I did.
And I'll tell you what I thought of it, folks.
I disagreed with everything the president said, pretty much, in terms of his policies.
I disagree with everything he said, but that was a great speech.
I liked the speech, and you know what I really liked?
I liked that part where he said that we all have to get along and work together to help people.
I really liked that.
That really scored with me.
And I was watching the Frank Luntz focus group after the State of the Union speech and after Marco Rubio's response, it was on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
And he had this focus group, and it was made up of, I mean, if you didn't see it, it's too bad.
If you did, you were looking at the very definition of low-information voters.
And they had, it's amazing, the same reaction I had.
They disagreed with pretty much everything Obama said, policy-wise, but they supported him.
And they thought it was a great speech.
And they liked the part about everybody working together to get along.
They liked the fact that he's going to tackle a deficit.
They liked the fact that he's going to create jobs.
They were very much, I mean, they didn't agree with how he was going to do it, but they liked that he's going to.
They like that he's going to reduce the deficit.
They like the fact that he's going to bring the debt down.
They like the fact that health care costs are going to come down.
Did you know that?
Healthcare costs are already coming down.
And the focus, and I found myself agreeing.
I thought it was cool.
I mean, I disagreed with how the president said he's going to do it.
I mean, look, I had a bit of a problem with the president on global warming, where he basically said that if Congress doesn't act, he will.
And I disagreed with what he said, but I do think we need to deal with global warming.
Everybody knows that.
So I pretty much didn't agree with much, but I liked the speech.
I was very, very supportive.
And Obamacare, the costs are coming down.
That's good.
I'm very happy about that.
The debt, the deficit coming down, we're already over halfway to the targeted debt reduction of $4 trillion.
And so at least somebody's working on this stuff, and somebody's trying to make it happen.
And, you know, I wasn't crazy about some of the things I heard the president say on taxes, but I had to acknowledge that the rich, they've been getting away with murder all these years.
It's about time somebody tried to make everything fair.
And who can oppose fairness?
Yesterday we had the Gallup poll.
And on every issue except one, and I forget what the one issue was, every issue, every policy, by vast majority numbers, the American people disagree with Obama.
A vast majority disagree with Obama on every policy.
I mean, it's not close.
In some cases, the numbers of people who disagree are in the 60 percentages, and the people who agree with Obama are in the 40s.
But they liked the speech last night.
They thought it was exactly what was called for.
Now, the New York Times has a story today.
Polls show dissatisfaction with the country's direction, but support for Obama's agenda.
Just ahead of Obama's State of the Union show on Tuesday night, new polls find continued public dissatisfaction with the way the country's going, yet profound support for several of the policies the president said he's going to push.
And that's what I saw the focus group last night at Franklin.
They don't like the way the country's going, but man, they love what Obama's doing about it.
Well, I know, folks, don't ask me.
I'm just telling you what I saw, what I heard, and what's in the news.
They disagree with Obama.
No, well, yeah, the Gallup, it's a little conflicting.
The Gallup poll, people do disagree with Obama issue by issue by issue.
The New York Times say there is support for Obama's agenda, but dissatisfaction with the way the country's going.
See, those are two separate things.
This is what we are going to have to learn to understand.
Obama's agenda doesn't have anything to do with the country.
As far as the low-information voter is concerned, they're two separate things: support for Obama's agenda, but dissatisfaction with the country's direction.
Now, you and I might say, well, wait a second now.
The country's direction is precisely related to Obama's agenda.
But no, we would be terribly wrong.
Obama's agenda has nothing to do with the country's direction.
Obama's agenda is about fixing it.
And people support it.
Now, this is also a mendacious media at work because this is exactly the opposite of what Gallup reported the day before yesterday.
That we discussed, according to Gallup, the American public disapproves of every Obama policy except for his handling of defense.
But the New York Times has this story that's just the exact opposite.
Paul showed dissatisfaction with the country's direction, but support for Obama's agenda.
Two separate things.
And the Franklin's focus group, pretty much the same thing.
They disagreed with pretty much what they heard last night policy, but they really liked the speech and they like what Obama liked somebody's working on and they want everybody to work together.
Now, the Obama claim that the Affordable Care Act is already slowing health care costs.
Now, you and I would hear something like that.
The president said that last night already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.
I know your reaction was probably the same as mine when you heard that.
Just another bald, bold-faced lie.
The truth of the matter is that Obamacare has not even been fully implemented.
How can you give credit to Obamacare when it's yet to be enacted for slowing health care costs?
What is slowing health care costs to the extent that they're slowing down?
And that's even debatable.
But, you know, in a couple of isolated areas, you can see where health care costs a little bit less than they have been, but not very many.
But that's due to the recession.
It's nothing to do with Obama.
But this is way too much information at a low information order.
You can't persuade.
So what I've decided to do, ladies and gentlemen, we got hold of Paul Shanklin, and we decided to do a condensed version of last night's state of the Union.
Here, a union speech.
This is an honest, condensed version of last night's State of the Union.
And no, the honest, condensed version of President Obama's State of the Union address.
My fellow Americans, 51 years ago, John F. Kennedy said something profound at his State of the Union.
I will not.
Thanks to the grit and determination of the American people.
There isn't enough progress to my agenda.
Corporate profits are evil, and we need a middle class to tax.
It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country.
The idea that if you work hard, you can get ahead no matter what you look like, or how you sneaked in, or who you love in a cheap motel, or whether you have a thing for feathers, high heels, or wigs with banks.
Now, the American people don't expect us to solve every problem.
I haven't solved any, so don't worry.
But they do expect us to put the nation's interest before our party, you first.
In 2011, Congress passed my plan to have sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts called a sequester that would jeopardize our military readiness and would most certainly slow our recovery and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs.
So let's set party interest aside and work to pass a solution to end the sequester crisis I manufactured right here in America.
The biggest driver of our long-term debt is old people.
The Unaffordable Care Act is slowing their access to medical care, but not fast enough.
We must do more.
Now, our government shouldn't make promises we can't keep, but we must keep the ones we already made, unless it was to turn a budget in on time after four years.
And every day, I ask myself three questions about this nation: how do we attract more jobs to our shoulders?
How do we equip our people with skills they need to get those jobs?
And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?
Well, how do we?
We now produce more oil and gas right here in America.
So we must do more to combat climate change.
And if Congress won't act, I will do what I want whenever I want.
Why does Congress even exist?
We need more infrastructure like roads and bridges.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Today, too many families with solid credit are being turned down for home loans because of unnecessary regulation.
And I just now noticed.
So free school for everybody.
Now, we all know what needs to be done.
Send me a comprehensive immigration bill in Spanish, and I will sign it.
There are still places in America where you can't get ahead, like Chicago.
America will run away in Afghanistan and declare victory no matter what happens.
Today, the organization that attacked us on 9-11-no, not Benghazi, the other 9-11, is a shadow of its former self.
Cyber attacks are bad.
There are many places where people live on little more than a dollar a day.
Ask my brother George.
Now, women deserve combat duty.
And honestly, people, just give up your guns, and we'll protect you about as well as we can protect a small child on a playground in Chicago where they have plenty of gun control already.
And in closing, my fellow Americans, we are citizens.
Honest.
I have the birth certificates for both of us.
God bless you, and God help the United States of America because I won't.
Thank you.
And there you have it, my friends.
Our State of the Union condensed version for those of you who missed it last night.
No, I'm being entirely serious.
Snurdley is scratching his head.
So, what are you up to?
I'm not up to anything.
I'm telling you exactly how the speech was perceived last night.
A majority of Americans, depending on where you look, either do or don't like America, Obama's policies, but they really like the speech and they like that he's working on this stuff.
They like that he's attacking a deficit.
They like that he's fixing health care.
They like that he's doing all this, and they hope everybody works together on it.
That's what we really want.
They want everybody.
I saw it in the lunch focus group.
They want everybody to work together.
Everybody come together, get along, and fix these issues because we have a debt problem.
Obama's working on it, and that's good.
And we've got a health care problem, and Obama's working on it.
We've got an unemployment problem, Obama's working on it.
He's got a program for it.
But the thing that you got to take away, the thing that you must understand about last night that defines everything: there is massive dissatisfaction with the country's direction.
Vast majority of the American people do not like the direction the country is going, while at the same time, there is overwhelming support for Barack Obama's agenda, which means that to the vast majority of American voters, There is no relationship whatsoever between Obama's agenda and the direction of the country.
Ladies and gentlemen, I must, I feel bad I didn't.
I didn't know that Anderson Cooper, CNN, tweeted 14 hours ago that Dorner was confirmed dead and that his body had been removed from the cabin.
Because I thought I saw on Fox this morning a graphic which said, still don't know, still haven't ID the body.
There was a smoldering body in the cabin out there, and they hadn't ID'd it.
And I had people on, they had people on talking about it.
But Anderson Cooper tweeted 14 hours ago that it's confirmed dead.
Do you know there's already a conspiracy developing about this?
Conspiracies are already effervescing from the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Listen to this.
Unconfirmed police audio surfaces, possibly suggesting the police started the fire in the Chris Dorner standoff.
So there you go.
The wicked, racist LAPD burned him up for no reason.
The LAPD started the fire.
That's the latest conspiracy out there.
The Daily Beast has picked it up too.
Report cops started Dorner fire.
How dare they?
How mean?
My gosh, I can't the cruelty here.
This was a man that was speaking up for all Americans.
He was addressing our racist past.
He was calling attention.
He was raising all of our conscience levels so that we would all realize the depraved and decrepit past from which we all came.
The modern day Django.
This was a man who was getting even with all the people who need to be gotten even with for all the evil that had been done in the past to various minorities in this country.
And the LAPD started the fire in the cabin.
The LAPD burned him up.
The LAPD scorched him.
The LAPD did it.
The wicked, mean-spirited, racist LAPD.
That's what we heard yesterday.
And we had to listen to what Dorner said in the manifesto because the LAPD, there is racism out there.
We've got to understand this.
And Dorner's a smart guy, and therefore he's got an intellect, and therefore we have to endeavor to understand why he's mad.
And now they crispy creamed the guy.
The LAPD did it.
How unfair, how mean-spirited.
I mean, could have waited till he ran out of ammonia and gone in there, maybe lassoed the guy.
That'd be too racist to do that.
They started a fire.
A video is surfaced on YouTube.
It appears to include another recording of police audio.
In the audio, a voice says, we're going to go forward with the plan with the burn, like we talked about.
So obviously a conspiracy to torch it.
Okay, correction on the Chris Dorner conspiracy.
It was not the wicked LAPD which torched him.
It was the wicked San Bernardino PD.
We were inundated with calls from the wicked LAPD claiming it wasn't us being wicked, it was the San Bernardino wicked PD that did that.
The way, those of you out there to whom Dorner is some kind of great equalizer type hero, are you aware that the people Dorner killed were not white?
They're not all white.
I mean, he killed a black guy, killed an Asian.
If you listen to these people on Twitter and Facebook that think this guy's a modern-day Django, he's running around wiping out white people to get even for slavery and racism and bigotry and discrimination in the LAPD.
And he's not.
These are interesting little facts that often get ignored.
But anyway, the controversy has erupted, ladies and gentlemen.
I wasn't kidding.
First, from the Huffing and Puffington Post, unconfirmed police audio surfaces, possibly suggesting police started the fire in the Dorner standoff.
So there you go.
The wicked police burned him up for no reason.
That's the point of the HuffPo.
And then the Daily Beast chimes in.
Report, cops started fire.
Back to the Huffing and Puffington Post.
I read from their post in the police audio, which was broadcast on KCAL TV on Tuesday.
Frantic voices of officers can be heard, including one officer apparently saying, burn it down or burn him out.
While another wicked cop appears to shout, effing, burn this mother effing down.
That's apparently on the tape.
In addition, a video that has surfaced on YouTube appears to include another recording of police audio from Tuesday's standoff.
And in that audio, which could not be independently confirmed, a voice says, we're going to go forward with the plan with the burn, just like we talked about.
A short while later, a male voice says, seven burners deployed.
We have a fire.
Then a female voice responds, copy, seven burners deployed.
We have a fire.
My question is, does anybody know where Janet Reno's been?
Has anybody seen Janet Reno?
She has expertise in matters like this.
Remember the fire, the tanks, and the Waco invasion?
And the, what was the name of that group?
It was the religious group.
David Cornish, I forget his name.
I forget the name of the group.
Anyway, she was, she lit that place up.
The Branch Davidians.
That's who it was.
Now, Dorner has not killed anybody who was not involved in police work, and that's why he's a hero.
Because to the people who've elevated Dorner, the people Dorner is a great hero, it's because he's killing police.
Dorner is a cop killer.
That's why he's a hero.
I'm being sarcastic about it.
I don't want anybody to misunderstand, but that's the truth.
And he had legions of supporters, and that's why, I'm not kidding.
There honestly are people up.
The cops started that fire.
The cops burned him up.
The cops did this.
Even now, all of this happened because the LAPD is racist, and this stuff needed to happen.
Meanwhile, Dorner was not targeting white people.
Now, here's Anderson Cooper.
This is the source of my confusion.
Anderson Cooper last night on headline news, Nancy Grayson, he also tweeted this.
From multiple sources, we have been told that a body was removed in that cabin, and that body is believed to be the body of Christopher Dorner.
Now, the spokeswoman then came out and denied that that was the case, and she was accosted by media who thought at the time they knew what had happened.
Are you saying that reports that say body was inside the house?
That's being confirmed the vote reports are false.
No one has been inside the cabin.
It is not safe to go in there.
I'm getting conflicting information.
There is no conflicting information.
They have not been inside the cabin.
It is not safe to do that.
They believe there is a body in there.
They have not yet been inside.
It's not safe.
It's 11:44 last night, and you hear the public information officer for the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department about to pull her hair out.
Look at it.
Nobody's been in there.
I'm telling you.
But the reporters are all.
But Anderson Cooper said that a body was taken out of there.
Anderson Cooper said it three hours ago.
Well, I'm telling you, nobody's been in there.
It's too hot.
It's not safe.
Nobody's been inside that cabin.
It's not safe to go in there.
They think there's a body in there, but they haven't been inside.
But Anderson Cooper said that a body was seen being taken.
I'm telling you, nobody's been in there.
So the reporters were totally conflicted because one of their own had reported that a body had been removed.
A law enforcement spokesman, nope, nobody had been in there.
Now, this has a name.
It's called Speaking Truth to Power.
It's called Not Trusting Authority.
And Anderson Cooper's fellow journalists were simply not believing what they were hearing.
They were naturally curious or naturally predisposed to not believing the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department public information officer.
Her name is Cindy Bachman, by the way.
Now, if this had been Jay Carney, there wouldn't have been one question.
There wouldn't have been one doubt.
If it had been Obama reporting, nope, there had no body been taken out.
Nobody had been in there.
It's just okay.
And everybody would have run and tarred and feathered Anderson Cooper.
Just a little object lesson here.
San Bernardino County public or San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Public Information Officer, nobody believed her.
She has to say it over and over and over again.
This is what journalists used to do.
They just didn't believe what they were told from people in positions of authority or power.
But today, comes from Washington, the Obama administration.
There's no questioning it.
There's no doubting it.
There's no curiosity about it.
Just what is.
Now, before we move on to State of the Union stuff, I realize in the opening segments of the broadcast today, I had a little fun with this, but I do want to tell you something here that has been sort of an eye-opener for me.
Now, it may have been something that you understood long ago.
It may have been something you put together long ago.
I must confess that I only just realized this today.
And it's about trying to understand how could so many people say they disagree with Obama's policies and yet re-elect him.
I know that you and I have expressed our puzzlement and our curiosity over the great disconnect there is in this country, the people that vote for Obama who really don't like where we're going, the direction of the country, the policies of Obama.
Yet he wins elections.
So we've all been taking our stabs at trying to explain why.
Well, he won re-election because he did such a good job of demonizing Romney that he made everybody afraid to vote for Romney, and they settled and just voted for Obama, vote for the guy who's already there, at least he's a known quantity.
But the New York Times story today finally opens my eyes to what we're dealing with, at least for me.
And as I say, you may have understood this long ago: polls show dissatisfaction with the country's direction, but support for Obama's agenda.
Now, you and I, in what I would call the high-information voter sector, understand what a giant disconnect that is.
How in the world can people be dissatisfied with the country's direction while at the same time support the very agenda that's causing it?
This just doesn't compute to you and me.
We recognize that it is Obama's agenda which is leading to the problems this country has and thus the dissatisfaction that people have with the country's direction.
But the majority of people who vote, there is no connection of those two things whatsoever.
They support Obama's agenda and they are terribly unhappy about the direction of the country.
And therefore, they do not associate Obama's agenda or his policies with the direction of the country.
They do not associate Obama's policies with what has happened to the country.
They don't associate all the spending and all the debt with the lack of jobs.
They don't make that connection.
They don't see any connection.
They don't see it at all.
Now, to me, this is an eye-opener, and it's going to force me to reassess, not reassess, going to force me to assess exactly how to go forward here in dealing with these people.
The idea is to persuade them.
I mean, they are the low-information voters.
Now, if they're unhappy with the economy, if they're unhappy with jobs, if they're unhappy with the debt, if they're unhappy with the housing market, and yet support Obama's agenda, then they obviously do not connect Obama's policies as being in any way related to or responsible for the country's direction that they don't like,
which means, well, it means a number of things, but it means that they see Obama as working really hard to try to fix everything rather than Obama as the reason for things worsening, the reason for the direction.
They just do not see that.
And to you and me, it's a slam dunk.
It's one plus one is two.
These are people, outcome-based education.
Two plus two equals five, and we'll give them an A for trying.
They don't see it.
So Obama is not at all connected to the tragic destruction of this country.
He is seen as somebody who wants to fix it.
It's the same thing as people seeing Colonel Sanders as a guy running a hospital to save chickens.
Wouldn't compute.
It wouldn't make any sense.
But that's how he's viewed.
Now, maybe one reason is that he has successfully blamed Bush all these years.
And the exit polling data, last November, vast majority of people still do blame Bush for the economy, but it's more than that.
It's that Obama never, ever allows himself to be seen as governing.
He is constantly campaigning.
Obama is constantly seen as in competition with what's happening in Washington.
It is though there are strawmen, there are men behind curtains.
There are invisible, evil people doing all this to the country.
And he's trying to expose them.
And he's working very hard in his campaigns about that.
Romney was one of them.
Romney was one of these guys that was going to destroy it.
Bush was one of them.
And there are a bunch of other strawmen, a bunch of other people.
We don't know who they are.
But Obama's trying to find them.
He's trying to expose them and trying to fix all this.
Obama is not seen as the guy behind the curtain pulling the levers.
Obama's not seen as the guy who does not like the way the country was founded and is trying to take this country in a different direction.
He's not seen at all the way he really is.
It can't all be because of the media.
I'm on a little long.
I've got to take a break.
Sit tight.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
You may have figured this out long ago, but it just hit me.
And if you figured it out long ago and you've been trying to get through here and tell me I wish you'd gotten through, for those of you who figured it out and I didn't, I'm just not getting to it.
I apologize for being a late arrival of the party.
But now it all makes sense.
For five years, Obama has never once allowed himself to be seen as governing.
He is constantly campaigning against mysterious forces who have ill intentions trying to harm you and this great country.
There are these figures behind the screen, behind the curtain.
Romney was one.
Bush was one.
There are others.
Obama's trying to expose them throughout history.
Dictators, for example, have never really been blamed for the bad things that happened in their countries.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, none of them were blamed by the rank-and-file citizenry.
They were instead the leaders of the revolution.
They were the great figures trying to change all the evil that was happening to everybody.
Here's Obama.
Let me prove this to you.
I have for you a little sound by 36 seconds.
People from the Frank Luntz focus group on Fox last night.
Every one of these people voted for Mitt Romney.
These are swing voters in Santa Monica.
Now, Santa Monica is a liberal hotbed, but every one of these people that you hear voted for Mitt Romney, and they are talking about their perception of last night's State of the Union speech.
From the Romney people, what did you like about Barack Obama's State of the Union address?
A couple of you.
I liked his immigration that he talked about putting people at the back of the line and so that they didn't get preferential treatment just because they were here.
I think education, the reform he was talking about, affordability and making it efficient, I think that's going to, education all starts from education, really.
One more.
I like how he spoke of bipartisanship and working with Congress and moving the country forward by working together.
I believe he means it.
How many of you believe he means it, that he's going to be more bipartisan this term than he was before?
He means it.
Those people all voted for Romney.
And they, even the people that voted for Romney, do not associate Obama with any of the problems in the country.
This is what you and I are going to have to learn and learn fast.
No matter what is said, no matter what evidence happens, no matter what's reported, it will not be possible to connect Obama to the negativity that's happening in the country today because he's campaigning against it himself.
That's the reason for the perpetual, never-ending campaign.
It is why in eight years, he will never allow himself one day to be seen as actually governing or presiding over any of this.
He's always going to be running against the very things he's doing.
back after this.
My friends, we have only scratched the surface of all the wonderfulness and all the fun, the excitement, all of the learning, all of the bright lights going off in your head.
That will happen today.
Just one hour of it.
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