{"id":14353,"date":"2012-10-05T18:26:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-05T18:26:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:26:37","slug":"why_obama_didn_t_bring_up_the_47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/05\/why_obama_didn_t_bring_up_the_47\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama Didn\u2019t Bring Up the 47%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now,<a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14552\"> the 47% comment<\/a>. I want to go back to the debate for a second because <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14369\">I had a brilliant take on it yesterday<\/a>. Everybody\u2019s now admitting that I had a brilliant take. After 18 hours of intense news cycle coverage, I, El Rushbo, nevertheless had the unique take on the debate, what it meant, and the long-term ramifications of it. What it really was all about and why Obama was so bad? I had to answer.<\/p>\n<p>And it was none of these fake excuses that his lapdogs are coming up with to explain it and justify it. The answer\u2019s very simple: He was out of his league. He\u2019s got no answer when somebody confronts him truthfully and factually in the arena of ideas. His ideas don\u2019t cut it. His ideas can\u2019t compete with ours. He can\u2019t be honest about what he\u2019s really going to do, so he has to sit there and lie about what Romney\u2019s plans are.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14369\"><img id=\"eZObject_67884\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushBlastMediaMontage.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all he could do. He had nowhere to go. Now, they can say he\u2019s gonna come out and get more aggressive in the next debate. He\u2019s not gonna take it anymore. He\u2019s gonna come out and he\u2019s gonna confront Romney. He might, but he\u2019s still going to have nothing but lies in his arsenal. He\u2019s not gonna have a success track. He\u2019s not gonna have a good record.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not gonna have highlights that he can point to and say, &#8220;You want more of this?&#8221; Romney\u2019s gonna have the facts at his disposal. Romney\u2019s going to have the solutions to our problems at his disposal. And he\u2019ll be talking to a guy who\u2019s the architect of this current economic malaise, failure, misery, whatever you want to call it. So whatever attitude Obama adopts, he will have nowhere to go in the arena of ideas, \u2019cause his don\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>If he was stupefied&#8230; <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14371\">The latest liberal excuse is, &#8220;Romney was telling so many lies<\/a> that Obama had a brain freeze! He couldn\u2019t keep up with it. He didn\u2019t know which one to reply to because he kept forgetting them because there were so many.&#8221; That\u2019s BS. It was the first time in his life, probably, Obama had been confronted with the truth about people who disagree with what he thinks. They still don\u2019t know what hit them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpAOwJvTOio\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They manufacture lies and false premises and alternative universes, and they live in them. And they end up in shock when they are confronted with reality. Algore said the problem with Obama is he was too high. Others said nope, he was too mellow. (Well, the attitude, too high.) I had people telling me he was on Valium. I had people telling me Obama was on Valium because he\u2019s suffering anxiety and they rolled the dice; they gave him some Valium.<\/p>\n<p>A headline by a guy in the New York Times, Charles Blow, called him &#8220;President Xanax.&#8221; Xanax is in the same family as Valium, I guess. It\u2019s sedative or whatever. There are actually people who believe Obama was on Valium because he\u2019s so, so wired and so anxious. They had to tamp that down, and they just gave him too much. Which takes us to the 47%. The libs say, &#8220;Why didn\u2019t you go after Romney on the 47%? He told lies. He told people he doesn\u2019t care about them. He hopes they fail and die, 47% of them! Why didn\u2019t you use it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14369\">The media was really upset.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_67886\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama47VidDebate.jpg\"\/><BR\/>They set him up, they thought.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Well, I have the answer. I told you yesterday, and they have confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I told you yesterday. The 47%, they\u2019re lying about it. They don\u2019t want to confront Romney with it where he can refute it. They\u2019ve made up a lie about what Romney means about the 47%. It\u2019s for ads only. Really. Here\u2019s Ben LaBolt. He was on <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14367\">Wolf Blitzer\u2019s <\/a>Situation Room last night, and Blitzer said, &#8220;Romney\u2019s 47% remark, we didn\u2019t hear any of that from the president at the debate. Why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_67893\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Labolt.jpg\"\/><BR\/>LABOLT: The 47% remark was the remark heard, eh, across the country and around the world, and, uhh, we\u2019ve got advertisements up on the air right now. I think that\u2019s most effective when you told it from Mitt Romney in his own words writing off half the population, uh, saying that they\u2019re victims, saying that they won\u2019t take personal responsibility for their lives.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_67881\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. (translated) &#8220;We\u2019re only gonna put it in ads, Wolf! See that\u2019s the trick. If we accuse Romney of it, then he can come back about how that\u2019s not what he meant and blow Obama out of the water again.&#8221; You see, ladies and gentlemen, Obama thinks that the fantasy creations of Romney that he and his campaign have made are real, and that the guy he debated was unreal. They believe this stuff! They believe Romney hates 47% of the people. They believe Romney wants them to wither away and die.<\/p>\n<p>They believe Romney doesn\u2019t care. Snerdley says, &#8220;You can\u2019t believe they\u2019re really think that.&#8221; I damn well do mean it! They believe these caricatures. It\u2019s the same thing as us. They believe that\u2019s who we are as conservatives. So what did Obama do? The day after the debate, at his first rally (Obama impression), &#8220;That wasn\u2019t the real Mitt Romney! That wasn\u2019t Mitt Romney last night. That &#8212; that &#8212; that wasn\u2019t the Mitt Romney we all know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the real Mitt Romney is not real; the one they make up is the real one.<\/p>\n<p>The exit polls count; the real votes don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you, this is a sick bunch of people. But that\u2019s why they didn\u2019t use the 47%: Because they don\u2019t want to give Romney a chance to rebut it. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Folks, it is absolutely true. They create these caricatures and false images, notions of conservatives. In this case of Romney, but all of us. They do. The left does. They don\u2019t take time to know us or understand us ideologically. It\u2019s beneath them! We\u2019re just a small fringe bunch of kook freaks. They actually believe what they say. When Romney says 47%, they actually believe what they say about Romney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He doesn\u2019t care about 47% of the people. He doesn\u2019t care! They can just shrivel up and die as far as Romney\u2019s concerned.&#8221; Then Romney shows up, is entirely different than their caricature, and they can\u2019t deal with it. And the next day Obama goes out and says (impression), &#8220;That wasn\u2019t the real Romney last night! That &#8212; that wasn\u2019t the Mitt Romney we all know.&#8221; Let me tell you: The Obama in the debate is the real Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>You want to start talking real?<\/p>\n<p>You take the teleprompter away, you take the speechwriters away, you take the aides and all kinds of assistance away &#8212; and you leave the guy naked with just himself and his brain &#8212; and that\u2019s the real Barack Obama. It was also the real Mitt Romney, who is real every day, just as I and you are real every day. We are not manufactured. We don\u2019t have PR people. We don\u2019t have manufactured images or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>Romney is who he is. He\u2019s been that way his whole life.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is the creature of creation, the caricature of something that he\u2019s not, that was exposed as exactly the fraud that he is in that debate. Obama thinks that his fantasies of Romney are real and the guy he debated isn\u2019t. But it\u2019s the real Obama that we saw. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, the 47% comment. I want to go back to the debate for a second because I had a brilliant take on it yesterday. Everybody\u2019s now admitting that I had a brilliant take. 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