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Feb. 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 14, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, 3031 to 32.
And then we'll get back to number 12.
So may make a note there, 30, 3132.
Okay.
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I give you another example of how this Obama never governing, never governing, always campaigning, always fighting those powerful forces.
His policies don't have any relationship whatsoever to the problems.
He's just trying to fix everything.
He has nothing that he's doing has any relationship to what's happening.
And that's how the low information voters see it.
I'm telling you, folks, after the State of the Union, Sean Hannity put together a Frank Luntz focus group, Santa Monica, California, found a bunch of Romney voters who are essentially saying exactly to you what I'm saying here.
They love debt speech.
They mean they um they didn't particularly like Obama's policies, but they liked the speech and they like that he's trying to fix things.
But they did not blame his policies.
They didn't like them, but his policies had nothing to do with what's happening.
What they saw in Obama is a guy trying to fix things, trying to bring people together.
Obama talked about people working together, they wanted to hear that.
These low information people, they want this bipartisanship stuff.
They want people working together.
So another example of how this works.
This is another quote unquote fact that Obama is tweeting his low information voters.
Here's a president with a Twitter account, a Facebook account, a White House with a website, and it's all for campaign purposes.
One of the tweets that's coming out of the Obama account is this fact.
Obama's plan ends tax breaks for companies to ship jobs overseas and rewards companies that hire people here at home.
People hear that, or they read that, and that's wonderful.
It's about time somebody is making business play by the same rules everybody else has to play in.
No more tax cuts for companies to ship jobs overseas.
That shouldn't have happened in the first place, and whoever did that ought to be stopped.
And Obama's trying to stop it.
He's trying to reverse it.
And he's going to make sure that companies that hire people here at home are going to be rewarded.
He doesn't say how.
He just says they are.
And the low information voter says, boy, I can support that.
I hope he succeeds.
I really hope that he able to pull this off.
Now, the fact is that there aren't any tax breaks for companies who ship jobs overseas.
If there were, there wouldn't be too many jobs left in this country.
There are no tax breaks for companies to ship jobs overseas.
That's just made up.
But you know what's brilliant about it?
In a devious, dictatorial, statist kind of way, what's brilliant about it is that it is totally believable.
A low information American will no doubt, who's already been conditioned to suspect big business, has already been conditioned to hate them, already been conditioned for decades to think that big business is trying to shaft them, screw them, in case the drug companies kill them.
And now you've got a show on NBC on Monday night that's about that very thing.
A rich New York family living out there on Long Island, doing everything they can to, to kill their customers and hide the fact.
They want a product that kills their customers on the market.
So it's not hard to believe that the low information voter would think just that.
And that there are tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas.
What better way to explain my not having a job?
I'm not overseas, I'm here.
And these horrible companies, they're getting tax breaks for shipping my job overseas.
It's it's it's made the order.
It excuses unemployment.
It excuses going on unemployment benefits, it excuses using food stamps.
Well, hell, Mabel, they ship my job over to Somalia.
Don't get mad at me for not working.
Here Obama, I aren't any jobs anyway.
They're all being overseas that's where companies get tax breaks.
And then Mabel tells her friends, and they all get worked up against big business, and Obama says, but I'm gonna fix that by rewarding companies that hire here at home.
Yeah, yeah, Mabel, that's what ought to happen.
But there are no tax breaks.
Now you go out and you try to tell an Obama voter, a low information voter, hey, wait a minute, companies don't get tax breaks.
Folks, this happens to how's it happening?
You talk to a liberal or a leftist or a low information voter and you tell them the truth about something and they just refuse to believe you.
A, because it's you telling them, and you happen to be a Republican or conservative.
B, because if what they think is not true, they must be idiots to believe it, and nobody's gonna think of themselves as an idiot.
How many idiots have you known who are proud to be idiots?
How many literal ding bats have you met who know they are and are happy about it?
I'll tell you it's very few.
Being a ding bat or an idiot is not something that you ascribe to, and when you achieve it, you're very proud of it.
Quite the opposite, nobody thinks they are.
So if you confront them with something that the only explanation for their believing it would be that they're an idiot, you have no hope of persuading them.
So Obama and his campaign and the Democrat Party in general shoot for the lowest common denominator, and they don't care.
Because it's all about acquiring power, wielding power, and holding power.
Here's another Obama tweet.
Obama's plan grows the economy by investing in manufacturing infrastructure, clean energy, and education without raising the deficit.
But the deficit's getting bigger.
So how does that work?
Well, somebody else is doing it.
Because Obama said he won't.
Obama said his plan doesn't.
So if John Boehner comes along as, oh yes, it does.
Well, Boehner, I mean, he's an idiot.
Boehner's Boehner, I mean, Boehner's a Republican.
And that's what's going to be said about anybody.
Mitch McConnell.
You tell it doesn't matter, Carl Rove.
Well, they're lying.
So there are a lot of factors here that make this possible.
This is not easy to do.
I mean, uh, Obama, as a cult figure.
Uh nobody doubts him.
Among his supporters, among the low information voters, the fact that he might be lying never crosses their mind.
It can't be.
So he tweets that his plan that he announced at the State of the Union grows the economy by investing in manufacturing infrastructure, clean energy.
Now the logical might say, wait a minute, that's what he said back in 2009.
He's been doing that then for four and a half years and it still isn't growing.
Well, hey, they don't think that way.
They don't remember four years ago what he said.
What they remember is that what he said he was going to do hasn't happened, but it isn't his fault.
There's somebody stopping him.
Somebody doesn't want him to succeed.
Somebody wants him to fail, remember that.
So powerful forces.
The fact that he's the most powerful person in the universe.
Most powerful person in the world doesn't compute.
He's being thwarted at every turn.
Another tweet.
Obama's plan would slash our reliance on foreign oil, create jobs, and cut energy costs by doubling clean energy production.
The fact that none of that's happened yet doesn't matter.
That's what he wants to happen.
It's what he's trying to make happen.
Somebody's stopping him.
Somebody's making sure it didn't happen.
It's got to be the Republicans.
They don't want, remember, Republicans are the people who will poison the air and the water.
Obama said that too.
And if they're not careful, Republicans will poison the climate.
That's what corporations do.
Al Gore's movie said the same thing.
And Michael Moore's movie said the same thing.
And my professor in college tells me this.
And my history teacher in high school tells me the same.
They're hearing all these people are hearing the identical thing everywhere they go except when they turn on talk radio or Fox News.
So what are they going to believe?
Clinton came close to being able to pull this off, but not quite.
Clinton never was.
I mean, Clinton had a constant campaign, but he also wanted to be seen as governing.
He wanted to be seen as charge in charge, and he wanted all the credit for all the stuff that was happening.
Another tweet from Obama.
Cuts to things like education and training.
Energy and national security will cost us jobs and slow down our recovery.
The thing is, there aren't any.
There aren't any cuts.
There aren't even any proposed cuts in anything.
Much less energy, training, education, national security.
There aren't any cuts.
The fact is, the only hope we have is shrinking the budget and shrinking the government.
That's the only hope we've got.
And yet cuts to things like, and fill in the blanket, it doesn't matter.
Cuts will cost us jobs and slow down our recovery.
And that's what's heard.
Now how is this permeated?
Well, that's why they're worried about Marco Rubio, and that's why CNN's out there trying to destroy him over this sip of water.
CNN's not just having fun.
CNN is the lowest of the lows.
CNN in a real world would be shame and embarrassed and would be afraid to go on the air.
But you can't shame these people, certainly can't shame themselves.
Marco Rubio or somebody, anybody that can cheerfully, positively, with lots of likability, articulate conservatism and the truth of this country and the founding can permeate this stuff.
Right now, the Republicans outside of Rubio and Ted Cruz and maybe one or two others don't even have anybody who's trying.
The Republicans right now are trying to figure out ways to say things without people hating them, without being criticized by Obama or the media.
Rubio's not there.
Rubio Is trying to cut through the noise, and that's why Van Jones warned his fellow Democrats yesterday not to laugh too hard at this water drinking moment of Rubio's.
Jones warned that Rubio is dangerous for Democrats because of his ability to connect emotionally with his audience.
I think people is Van Jones.
I can people laugh today if they want, but they're going to be worried about him tomorrow.
Rubio is dangerous.
I'm so glad that we're talking about him and we're joking about him because right when he reached for that water bottle, he was reaching an emotional part of that speech which he stepped on.
I'm glad that it happened when it did.
But it's not going to happen the next time Rubio makes a speech.
He's not going to need a sip of water.
He's going to be able to make that point.
So Van Jones has let the truth ooze out here.
Truth is, and they were worried about Palin, folks.
They'll always tell us who they fear.
They will always tell us by virtue of who they're trying to destroy or discredit or impune.
So when Obama comes out and says, You can't listen to that Roch Limbo or Fox News, and that's not how things get done.
What that means is he's worried that legitimate opposition is heard there, and it has somehow it's got to be discredited or done away with.
but Van Jones says this man can connect emotionally.
Here, we got it on table.
Audio soundbite number 32.
This is Van Jones.
This is Tuesday night, CNN.
Let me say one thing about Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio is dangerous for Democrats.
He is dangerous.
I was so glad he picked up that water bottle.
Because where he was going, he was getting emotional.
Marco Rubio is to the heart what Paul Ryan is to the head.
Paul Ryan is dangerous because of the strength of his intellect.
This is a smart guy, Marco Rubio.
But when he connects, that last 90 seconds, Marco Rubio, he's dangerous.
Yeah, so as a result, he had better watch out for what they have planned for him.
Gotta take a brief time out here, we'll be back.
don't go away.
Eric in Bell, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
With regard to Chris Donner's manifesto.
Yeah.
If the retired FBI profilers and law enforcement officer experts who've gleaned it to evaluate it for the networks on his mental state are correct, Mr. Darner Donner's a narcissist, a psychopath, had violent tendencies going all the way back to school, and at least one domestic violence uh restraining order.
My question would be how did he get hired?
Do we have double standards?
Perhaps affirmative action.
I don't know the answer to that.
Like Tom Brokoff said about who Barack Obama is.
I don't know.
But it's a great it's a great question.
If if is that what the the profilers, the FBI people on TV are saying about the guy?
Is that right?
Yes, sir.
Well, then it is legit.
How did he get hired?
They said it was a problem that's been there for years.
It didn't just appear overnight.
Both CNN and Fox.
Hmm.
Then your question is entirely legitimate.
One I unlike you, I we can only speculate.
Affirmative action quotas, who knows.
But it still is a great question to ask.
How'd a guy like this get hired in the first place?
Do you know in Staten Island, New York, there are still citizens of New York City living in tents.
Part of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
In the light of this, the mayor of New York City, Mayor Doomberg in Brooklyn, just this afternoon at the Barclays Center, delivered his final State of the City address.
And as part of his final, and I say supposedly his final.
State Of the city address, he made this suggestion.
One product that is virtually impossible to recycle and never biodegrades is something Marty made fun about.
But it's not just terrible for the environment.
It's another thing that's terrible for the taxpayers.
Styrofoam increases the cost of recycling by as much as twenty dollars per ton because it has to be removed.
Something we know is environmentally destructive, that is costing taxpayers money, and that is easily replaceable, I think is something we can do without.
That was applauded.
Styrofoam.
So let's think.
How many ways that you could get how many years in jail in New York City?
Or how much money you could be fined.
You get caught with a big gulp full of sugar, soft drink.
That's a fine.
If you are caught eating salt and trans fats in your food, a problem.
If you sell food with too much salt in trans fats, the Board of Health could come in and shut you down.
And if you put your sugary soft drink larger than 16 ounces, and whatever food item with salt and trans fats in a styrofoam container, you might go to jail in New York City.
Now, this is a Reuters has the uh the print version of the story, and they say at the bottom of their article.
They mention in passing, the plan is likely to meet opposition from small businesses, since alternatives to styrofoam tend to cost between two and five times as much.
So isn't big business and small business getting away with murder already?
It ought to cost them two to five times as much.
Styrofoam now for styrofoam is a problem in New York City.
The Washington Post.
I mention, by the way, Fox, I'll mention that later.
In discussing the phenomenon that we have learned about, I've told you the past couple days about the total disconnect between Obama's presidency and his policies.
And how he's never ever seen his governing, he's always campaigning, always running against faceless, nameless people thwarting his attempts to fix what's wrong.
You need a slavish compliant media to pull that off.
In fact, some might say you need even more than a slavish and compliant media.
You need a media that helps you formulate ways.
A media that helps you strategy.
And here's how that happens.
Washington Post.
Kevin uh Karen Tummulty used to be at Time Magazine, Karen Tumulty and Laurie Montgomery in the Washington Post with a story is the deficit losing its urgency.
Well, what convenient timing for this, especially after Santa Obama just came out with an even longer than usual gift list.
For all of his constituents at the State of the Union Show.
And after telling everybody how the debt problem's almost been dealt with.
We just need another one point six trillion, and we will have met the goal.
What did he say?
We will reach the four trillion dollars in debt reduction that experts from both parties unanimously agree will get us back on track.
So Obama says all we need is 1.6 trillion more, and we got the debt problem fixed, and Stenny Hoyer says we don't have a spending problem.
We have a paying for it problem.
And Nancy Pelosi says we don't have a spending problem.
We've got a budget deficit problem.
Along comes the Washington Post with a story says, you know what?
The deficit isn't a big deal anymore, anyway.
As a news story, as an economic item, as a factor in life in America, it's not that big a deal anymore.
President Obama's State of the Union address laid down the marker for a new activist phase of his presidency, one in which he will not allow concerns about the deficit to dictate the major policy decisions that confront him.
Of course not, because it isn't a problem.
As he begins his second term, Obama is convinced that he's gained the upper hand on fiscal issues in part because the latest projections show the deficit's coming down from its record levels.
So the debt not a problem anymore.
The deficit is coming down.
And it's not a problem.
We don't need to worry about it.
Plus, Obama said that he's not going to allow concerns about it to dictate major policy decisions.
So this is how it all happens.
Obama comes up with policies to lower the debt, lower the deficit.
It takes him five years, but finally he overcomes the Republicans, except when he doesn't.
Every budget crisis.
And every time you're on the verge of fixing it, the Republicans screw up and find ways to spend more money like they did in December that caused the economy to shrink.
But for the most part, Obama's fixed it now.
The debt, we're within one trillion dollars of uh of getting it under control.
The deficit coming down, job creation going through the roof.
Um the deficit, we don't have to worry about it anymore.
We don't even have to have policies that deal with the deficit, which means we don't have to be concerned with what we're spending anymore.
So the Obama administration, coupled here with the Washington Post, just green lighted themselves.
And with every low information voter who now, low information voters might not read the Washington Post.
Doesn't matter.
TMZ will get hold of this in entertainment tonight, and enough pop culture outlets will get hold of this because all that really needs to be gleaned from this is Obama's fixed it.
He's on his way, he's overcome some of these mean people, and there no spending problem anymore.
We fixed it, and so if you hear the Republicans complaining about spending, ignore them.
We fixed it.
This is not a problem.
The deficit isn't urgent.
All we have is a pay for problem now.
And this is how it all works.
In reality, all of this is untrue.
The truth is the exact opposite of this.
Reality is the exact opposite.
Our debt is growing, and it is a more urgent problem than it has ever been.
It is squeezing people in the middle class, it is squeezing people in the private sector.
We are spending so much money that there is less and less capital money available to be earned, to be spent in the private sector than ever before.
But who's gonna believe me up against the president and TMZ Entertainment Tonight in the Washington Post?
Because they say deficit lost its urgency.
Yeah, it must have, because it's just not a problem anymore.
The president believes this from the article.
The president believes that his re-election has given him a new momentum to pursue new policies and new spending.
The politics have shifted.
It was intentional, said White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer.
In other words, Obama's reelection means we don't have to worry about the deficit anymore.
We got a green light for spending.
By the way, it comes in very handy right now.
But the truth is there hasn't been a shift.
There hasn't been a reduction in debt.
There hasn't been a reduction in the deficit.
And the truth is that Obama has never worried about the deficit.
He has never worried about the debt.
He's never worried about any of this.
In fact, what is happening is exactly what he has wanted to happen.
That really is what takes the cake, all this for me.
While Obama has convinced the low information voters that what is happening, he is desperately fighting and opposing.
He is working hard to stop all of this misery.
The fact of the matter, he's causing it.
You try telling a low information voter that.
See what happens.
I'm sure you have.
I'm sure you've run up against these people.
And by the way, low information voter doesn't mean stupid idiot.
You could run into a college professor who believes this crap.
You could run into college graduates who believe this garbage.
You can run into teachers who believe all this.
Low information voter does not necessarily mean blithering stupid idiot by any stretch, although they are among the group, but it's not required.
Mike Fairfield, California.
Glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, good morning, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Um in your comments about Chris Dorner this morning, you ran right up to it, but never said the word martyr.
I think the left is making a martyr of this guy.
And the comments that Dr. Lamot Hill made about you can think about this two different ways correlates directly to something that Bob said during the inauguration speech.
He said absolutes have no place in our conversation to reconcile our differences.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
Who was Bob?
Oh, Burack Obama.
Obama during the inauguration speech.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
And sluts have no place in our bedroom.
Pardon me?
Is that what he said?
No, he said absolutes have no place in our bedroom.
Absolutes.
Okay, absolutes have no place in our abdomen.
In our in our discussions to reconcile our differences.
In other words, there's no right or wrong.
There's no black or white.
Okay, exact everything's a gray area.
Absolutely.
Left open to interpretation by the truly knowledgeable.
Yes, sir.
And uh also, as by definition, as a loyal rush listener, I am not a low informed uh voter.
You can't possibly be if you're a listener here.
No, sir.
You can't possibly be.
So martyr, huh?
Well, you have to be dead to be a martyr.
Why not saint?
Uh it's clear that they want this guy to be a hero.
That they're making him out to be a hero.
Because he affords them the opportunity to address a grievance of theirs.
And of course, what's the grievance?
We still have slavery.
We still essentially have slavery.
Got racism discrimination is right there in the LAPD.
The San Bernardino PD.
Start fires on purpose to catch bad guys.
It's very, very mean of them.
And politics a grievance.
Dorner allows him to carry the water on that.
You're right.
We'll be back.
I t I don't know where time's gone, but all I know is there isn't any left.
That's it.
Enough time to say thanks for being here today, as always, and we'll be back tomorrow and do open line Friday.
Can't wait, folks.
See you then.
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