{"id":15140,"date":"2012-07-16T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:13:02","slug":"has_it_really_come_to_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/16\/has_it_really_come_to_this\/","title":{"rendered":"Has It Really Come to This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I don\u2019t believe this. I\u2019m sitting here in stunned bewilderment, and I guess I shouldn\u2019t be. I have this silly notion that our nation is going to progress each and every day, that we\u2019re gonna get better. I don\u2019t mean economically. I\u2019m talking about sophistication, things that work in political campaigns. I guess I\u2019m gonna have to lower my expectations. And the problem with lowering expectations is that I\u2019m perpetually disappointed. And if I don\u2019t watch it, I\u2019m perpetually depressed. The idea that Mitt Romney is a felon is still active. It\u2019s still the centerpiece of the Obama campaign. That Mitt Romney is a felon<\/a>. Here you\u2019ve got Barack Obama who veritably grew up with them. His house financed by one. His campaign announced in the home of another felon, the guy that tried to blow up the Pentagon, Bill Ayers. <\/p>\n

Obama is surrounded by dubious characters his entire life. His home is financed by a felon and the regime is still putting out that Romney was a felon based on when he left Bain. Here is the biggest milquetoast white bread guy that\u2019s ever run for president, who might not be able to define felony if you asked him, is how far away from one he is. And Jack Welch and his lovely and gracious wife Susie have a column out today in the Wall Street Journal. I can understand it if this was in People or if it was on TMZ or if they did a special commentary on the E! Entertainment network, but in the Wall Street Journal, the Bible of American business newspapers. <\/line><\/a>I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. “It\u2019s True: Corporations Are People.” We have come to this, ladies and gentlemen. Jack Welch, renowned CEO extraordinaire in his day, General Electric, has to write a piece in the Wall Street Journal guaranteeing that the people who need to see it will not, that corporations are people. We are that far gone that we have to explain this. It has come to this. This is no different than the Wall Street Journal running a piece explaining to their readers what the stock market is. “Here\u2019s a new party trick,” is how the Welch column begins. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Want to be accused of being a member of a satanic cult? Like to be called the kind of person who would steal candy from a child, or harm a puppy and start a forest fire — all in the same day? Do you want to be described as evil, heartless and stupid? Then just do this: Offhandedly mention in public that you agree with Mitt Romney — and that, yeah, you think corporations are people. Oh, how that notion sets some people right off their rockers! Take, for instance, the scene last month when senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston: ‘Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people,\u2019 she pronounced. ‘People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference.\u2019 The audience went wild.” <\/p>\n

They did. Welch is right about this. If you find yourself in a pack of liberals, all you have to say is corporations are people, and you might cause two or three heart attacks. And if you\u2019re devoted to the cause do not call EMT when the heart attacks happen, let \u2019em die. Just kidding. It works. You tell a bunch of liberals that corporations are people, they go nuts. Now, folks, in the Wall Street Journal. This means that the Wall Street Journal must conclude that some of its readers don\u2019t know that corporations are people. This is akin to explaining to a 55-year-old that one and one equals two. Yes, after a lifetime of confusion, we can finally tell you factually one and one equals two. Yes, corporations are people. This depresses me. We\u2019ve come to this. Take the politics out of it. This embarrasses me to read this. I can\u2019t imagine how embarrassed Jack Welch was to write this. <\/p>\n

“Of course corporations are people. What else would they be? Buildings don\u2019t hire people.” Duh. Really? Yeah, last time I interviewed with that building it didn\u2019t do me any good. I interviewed with that desk and I could not get a response whatsoever. Yeah, and then I went and I talked to the White House. And the White House put out a statement. The White House isn\u2019t people. It\u2019s just a building. If corporations aren\u2019t people, how the hell can the White House be people? How can Congress be people? It\u2019s a building, and a bunch of rotten stuff goes on in there. The Senate. That\u2019s not a bunch of people. It\u2019s a building. But I like the White House is not people. <\/p>\n

This is the Wall Street Journal where Jack Welch is informing readers that buildings don\u2019t hire people. I wonder how many Wall Street Journal readers will go, “Wow, I never looked at it that way before.” “Buildings don\u2019t hire people. Buildings don\u2019t design cars that run on electricity.” Yeah, buildings are smarter than that. “Buildings don\u2019t discover DNA-based drug therapies that target cancer cells in ways our parents could never imagine. Buildings don\u2019t show up at a customer\u2019s factory and say, ‘We won\u2019t leave until we solve your inventory problem.\u2019 Buildings don\u2019t encourage their employees to mentor inner-city kids in math and science. Buildings don\u2019t fund homeless shelters in Boston or health clinics in Rwanda. People do. Corporations are people working together toward a shared goal, just as hospitals, schools, farms, restaurants, ballparks and museums are.”<\/p>\n

No, no, no, no. The Pittsburgh Steelers did not beat the St. Louis Rams. Heinz Field beat the Edward Jones Dome. (laughing) Folks, it\u2019s depressing. I mean, Romney\u2019s a felon? This is absurd. We could chalk it up, maybe, to a slow summer. If you want to look at it the optimistic way, the Obama campaign\u2019s got nothing. They\u2019ve literally got nothing, if this all they\u2019ve got. But, they\u2019re getting mileage outta nothing like nobody I\u2019ve ever seen. At least in the media, which I know is less popular.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, if corporations are not people, then why are people blaming Romney for what happened at Bain Capital? Bain Capital\u2019s a corporation. Bain Capital, therefore, is not people. Romney is a people. He\u2019s a person. How can Romney be blamed if corporations are not people. No, no, no, I\u2019m serious. I\u2019m trying to make a point, and I don\u2019t think that I\u2019m exaggerating. I find this to be pure sophistry. It\u2019s a indication of how pathetic the Obama campaign is, and it\u2019s a double indication of how pathetic Obama\u2019s supporters are, and of course the piece de resistance sound bites, Obama\u2019s out there parroting Elizabeth Warren that successful people did not do it themself. <\/p>\n