(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But there\u2019s a good thing that happened. I understand it\u2019s raining very hard outside, which means that the Occupy people are finally getting a shower.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s been five years since I appeared here in New York in person like this. It\u2019s been too long. I remember I arrived here in 1988 from Sacramento, California, and I learned so many things when I got to this town. One of the things I encountered was reading, I think, the New York Post\u2019s Page Six. It was a story about edible panties. I remember saying, “I didn\u2019t know they had taste buds down there.”<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But I have been… I\u2019m trying to figure all this out. This whole Herman Cain thing when it started with these sexual harassment babes all popping up, and the original claim was, “He made ‘gestures that were not overtly sexual.'” One of the women said, “Yeah, well, he said that I came up to here on him.” (hand under his chin)<\/p>\n
(laughing)<\/p>\n
It was a lot different then than it is now, and I must tell you the “fun factor” in doing the program is harder to come by now than it was. I remember one of the first things that happened when I was in Sacramento. I use the philosophy of “illustrating absurdity by being absurd,” and I still do it when the situation warrants it. But I remember a minister in Ohio claimed that there was a satanic message in the Mr. Ed theme song and he wanted the TV show taken off the air. Now, I could say what I just said that the radio and be done with it, but I thought, “I\u2019m gonna have some fun with this. I\u2019m gonna actually illustrate how absurd and silly this Ohio minister is.” He said, “If you get the Mister Ed theme song and play it backwards, there\u2019s a Satanic message in it.”<\/p>\n
At the time I was doing the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Updates; Slim Whitman was my theme song, Una Paloma Blanca. A bunch of leftists were marching coast to coast against nuclear weapons. They were trying to get everybody to nuclear disarm. It was a big thing in the late eighties, mid-eighties, and I was making fun of them with the Slim Whitman tune. So I decided to illustrate the absurdity of the Ohio minister by finding a Satanic message in the Slim Whitman song. So I went to the production studio, and we found a way to do it. You can\u2019t play records backwards. There\u2019s no way to do this. So even if there was a Satanic message in the Mister Ed theme song, there\u2019s no way to hear it.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “And I have exposed you to this, and I am seriously thinking that I must resign. I\u2019m not going to tell you what happened or what it is, because I don\u2019t want to spread it any further.” Well, this created curiosity. People were wondering what happened; started calling the management of the radio station to get an explanation. I played it as though I was being forced to explain what this was all about. Next day I said, “I\u2019m under duress. Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m told I must tell what\u2019s happened here. I\u2019m very uncomfortable doing this, but there is an Ohio minister who found a Satanic message in the Mister Ed television show theme song, and it just got me to thinking. I play a lot of music on my program. I wanted to find out how widespread Satanic messages are in music.<\/p>\n
“And, ladies and gentlemen, I have found a Satanic message in a song I have played, and you have heard it. You have been subliminally affected by it, and I can\u2019t tell you how guilty I feel, how horrible I feel. I think if it\u2019s happened once, it could happen again even though I discovered it now. I don\u2019t know how I could go on.” So people would call and ask, “Well, what is it?” “I\u2019m not gonna tell you what it is; I\u2019m not gonna go any further than this. I\u2019ve been forced to tell you this much already.” We\u2019re day two of this now. Preachers, clergymen start calling the radio station, asking the general manager, “What is going on? People are calling me saying your station is playing the devil!” The general manager comes to me and says, “How long are you gonna go with this?” And I said, “The way it\u2019s going, I think I can get five days out of it.”<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
(sigh) “There\u2019s a Satanic message in it. Now, I know I\u2019ve not played the song backgrounds for you, but it\u2019s still there, and this Ohio minister said that you can hear it just like you can hear it in the Mister Ed theme.” People start calling, “You\u2019ve got to play it!” “I\u2019m going to, but I think you ought to be careful. Folks, you need to take great care in listening to this because…” To shorten this story, I played it. The song starts backwards — it sounds better that way than forwards — and about 30 seconds in, the message to be recorded through the harmonizer was this. (impression) “Beelzebub! Yes, it\u2019s me, the devil himself, lurking right here in the Slim Whitman record grooves! Tell me, how did you find this so easily? My disciples would be would be happy to know that you found us like this.<\/p>\n
(laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Well, since you found this, I gotta be heading on down the line. Waaaay down,” and I played the song back up and played the Satanic message three or four times, and I\u2019m thinking — this is day three now — “Okay, people are gonna finally realize I\u2019ve been poking fun of the Ohio minister. I took a little news story that long and got five days out of it,” and I\u2019m looking at my call screener who\u2019s got a look of panic on her face. I start taking calls, and, honest to God, folks, the first call says, “Uhh, I have every Slim Whitman record. What should I do?” I\u2019m going, “Oh, God.” It taught me something. I said, “If I were you, I\u2019d burn them. You never know.”<\/p>\n
“Really?” “Yes! Burn them.” A couple of more people called in, and they believed it, too. Now here I was thinking I\u2019ve got an invitation of Johnny Carson coming; this is going to establish me as really a great satirist and so forth, and people bought it. Until this last call. One guy calls up, “You know what? You can\u2019t fool me. I\u2019ve heard all of this. You think we\u2019re all a bunch of idiots out here. Let me tell you something: I have that record. Now, my turntable doesn\u2019t play backwards, but I can put the needle on the back end of that song and I have spun it backwards, and I have tried to find it, and it ain\u2019t there! You are lying to us.”<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He said, “1983.” I said, “Well, see, that\u2019s the problem. Your turntable was made before new disgronification circuitry.”<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “You mean I go buy a new turntable and I play that record backwards just like I\u2019m trying now, I\u2019ll hear it?” “Yes, sir.” Now, the reason I told you this is — and this is one of my greatest hits. This is something I\u2019ll never forget happening. There\u2019s another event like it as well. From Sacramento to New York, remember now this is the mid-eighties, the late eighties, and at that time the defense budget — I guess as it always is — was a hot topic, how much we\u2019re gonna spend on defense. And I have always been a big defense budget guy. I love the military. I just think these people…<\/p>\n
(sustained cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You realize those people volunteer to do what 99-and-a-half-percent of the country would not do.<\/p>\n
(cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I love them. The older I get, the more in awe I am of military people and what they\u2019ve done and what they do, particularly now that they volunteer to do it. But back in the mid-eighties there was this discussion of the defense budget, and one of the ways the left tries to stifle any debate about things is to say, “Well, you didn\u2019t serve in the military!” I get calls like that. “When you had a chance in Vietnam to kill commies, you didn\u2019t go, so you don\u2019t have to right to talk about it,” and I listened to this, and I\u2019d respond to them, and I\u2019d have fun with it, but after a while it got to really tick me off, this kind of thinking and talk.<\/p>\n
So after I moved to New York, somehow the subject comes up, and during the call exactly like this I decided to try a different tack. I said, “You know what, sir? You have a point. You know, I come from a small town in Missouri. My dad was a powerful man in that town, a town of 25,000 people. My family, we ran that town. I told my dad back in 1960, I said, ‘Dad, I — I — I really don\u2019t want to go Vietnam.\u2019 So he went down to the draft board, he wrote them a $3,000 check, and I got a 4F.” That happened to be the very end of the program, I\u2019m thinking (arm pump), “Another home run. I have just illustrated their absurdity. I have had it with these people up to here (hand over his head). Not here (hand under his chin), but here (hand over his head).<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I can\u2019t repeat verbatim.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Son, what the hell did you say?” So I told him. He said, “Don\u2019t you understand? They believe you, son. You can\u2019t do that! Your audience believes you. You can\u2019t do that,” and the rest of the family from Tennessee, Illinois, they were all calling my dad, suggesting that I be taken off the radio. I was destroying the family name and reputation. “We don\u2019t pay off draft boards,” they were saying. How many of you believe it, by the way? It\u2019s so absurd! Go write the draft board a check for three grand? I know it\u2019s the kind of thing the Democrats do, but we don\u2019t do it!<\/p>\n
(wild applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I would never suggest to go do it. I\u2019m look out here, now, and some of you believe it happened! I can see some of your faces. Some of you look like you\u2019re stunned that you paid money to come here tonight after you heard this.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, no. It didn\u2019t happen, but these two things were really educational, informative thing for me about the audience and my credibility and the fact that people do believe me. They take me seriously, which, by the way, it\u2019s a valuable thing, and it\u2019s something I treasure. It is key, by the way, to my success the relationship that I\u2019ve had with you all and everybody in the audience. But my point of all of this is, when I do show prep today — and I wondered if I should have admitted this. I wanted to tell this story, and I thought long and hard whether I should actually admit this to you tonight when I came out here, because it… (sigh) You know, it\u2019s something I might not say on the radio. When I prepped the show today, that Ohio minister thing just hit me like that (snapping fingers). Even though it\u2019s the late eighties, mid-eighties, Ronald Reagan\u2019s second term — and the media hated Reagan so the times were politically intense — the country wasn\u2019t on the brink then. It is now. I can\u2019t get past the fact that if this guy in the White House gets four more years, you and I are not gonna recognize the country we grew up in. It\u2019s that serious to me.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And I know that humor is a great way to deal with things, and sometimes using humor can even be persuasive. But there\u2019s not a whole lot that seems funny to me right now. I mean, sure, you can make fun of Michelle getting booed at NASCAR.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
WOMAN: We love you, Rush!<\/p>\n
(wild applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, I\u2019m probably stunning you because there\u2019s still a lot of fun and the fun factor on the radio show is there, but (sigh) it\u2019s a fine line here to me. I remember my dad telling me in 1963, so I was 12 years old and John Kennedy had just been elected. My dad said to my brother and me, “If you boys aren\u2019t careful, you\u2019re gonna end up slaves.” To him that meant communism was going to take over. The Great Depression, World War II, Khrushchev banging the shoe were the most formative events of his life, and he took it all very seriously; and my brother and I just laughed at him, just like when he talked about the Depression. “Ah, Dad, Dad, that\u2019s when you ere growing up. We\u2019re never gonna have anything like that,” and here we are.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not in a Great Depression, but for some people it is — for way too many Americans it is. This is not the country that I grew up in. It\u2019s not too late to save it, but for me, it\u2019s become… I\u2019ve been doing this 23 years, and I get up every day and I prep the program, and it\u2019s never been more important to me than it is today, in all these years; and there\u2019s a part of me… I\u2019ve done very well. I\u2019ve had more success than I deserve; I have been blessed. And, folks, it rips my heart out to have it happen when so many others in the country are going through what they\u2019re going through. I wish… You know, we\u2019re all conservatives, and we love people, and we want everybody to do well. We want the best for everybody! We don\u2019t care if…<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: We don\u2019t care what their race is or their sexual orientation or their gender. We want a great country. We want people out there trying to be the best they can be. We want people getting up every day and pursuing excellence and pursuing self-interest, because that\u2019s what makes everybody the best they can be and to whatever degree they want to be. Now we\u2019ve got a president and an administration — this is from the New York Times. This is a major thing. Monday, yesterday, in the New York Times, the Obama regime has decided that in order to get reelected, they\u2019re just gonna forget “working white Americans.” They\u2019re gonna throw them out of the coalition. They can\u2019t win going after that group. They think they\u2019ve lost working white Americans. So their group now is that bunch across the street, the Occupy people, the losers in life who have this entitlement mentality —<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t interpret it this way. They do, but I\u2019m not interpreting it that way. When they talk about they have decided to just sacrifice the votes of “working people,” what does that tell you? What does that tell you their design is? What does that tell you the agenda is? This is a president and an administration… (sigh) I\u2019ll tell you another story. A friend of mine — I wish I could tell you his name, but I can\u2019t, because he came to me privately Saturday night. I got up Saturday morning, and there\u2019s a text on my phone. “You have time for a visit tonight between five and seven from an old friend?”<\/p>\n
I said, “Sure.” I texted back, “Come on by.” You would know this guy. You would know who he is. He\u2019s not a political person. He\u2019s not known in political circles at all, not by the people who know him. He is involved but he\u2019s not known that way. He came by right on time and was near tears telling me how worried he is about the country and he told me some things that I was surprised to hear from him. He really started railing on President Obama. He said, “This Obama\u2019s destroyed the country. I\u2019m so worried,” and then he finally got to it and my antennae went up. He said, “(Sigh). We\u2019ve gotta find some people who can put it all aside, work together, and solve these problems;” and I looked at him, and I looked at him and I said, “No.”<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I said, “The last thing we need to do is work with them. What we need to do is beat \u2019em. We need to defeat them.”<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
(wild cheering and applause)<\/p>\n
“RUSH: I want to defeat them!”<\/p>\n
(wild cheering and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I said, “Listen to yourself!”<\/p>\n
(cheers)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I said, “Listen to yourself.” The things he was telling me about Obama — the things that you say to each other, the things that we all feel, the things that we\u2019re all afraid of — this guy\u2019s not interested in. Like one of the things that came up was the super committee.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He said, “You know, we just gotta find a way…”<\/p>\n
I said, “Let me tell you…” I\u2019ll call him Zeke, that way he\u2019ll never be known who he is. “Zeke, don\u2019t you understand, the super committee was designed to fail? It was never intended to succeed.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, no, no!”<\/p>\n
“No, there weren\u2019t any good people on the committee. If there were good people on the committee, they would have done something about it. The purpose of that thing is to make sure nothing got done. Obama\u2019s invested $1 billion for a reelection campaign rooted in a do-nothing Congress. There\u2019s no way the Democrats are going to let anything come out of that committee. If the Republicans had agreed to a massive tax increase, they wouldn\u2019t have agreed to it!”<\/p>\n
“Oh, no!”<\/p>\n
“Yes. Damn straight.”<\/p>\n
You mean even if the Republicans had agreed to a tax increase…?”<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m telling you, the last thing they were gonna get out of this super committee was any kind of a deal. Obama\u2019s investing too much money. He cannot run on his record. There\u2019s not one thing Barack Obama has done that he can say, ‘Elect me for more of this.\u2019 Nobody wants more of it.”<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I take it back. I take it back. Here\u2019s the rub. It\u2019s a sad thing. There are a lot of people that do want more of it. The people across the street, people down at Occupy this, Occupy this, Occupy that. They want more of it. Do you believe the number of people on food stamps in this country\u2019s up by 50% in the last three years? It\u2019s in the 40 millions of people on food stamps? We now have breakfast at school, we have lunch at school, and now dinner at school. You know what? My parents have both passed away. I lost a great resource when my dad died. I would love to have him alive and say, “Dad, guess what they\u2019re doing in Memphis? School dinner!” What is the normal reaction? “School dinner? What is home for? What are parents for?”<\/p>\n
(cheers)<\/p>\n
RUSH: What is this? Of course, in Memphis the media writes the story as, “Oh, how wonderful this is!” They have the violins playing. “School dinner!” All it is is a sop to the SEIU, the unions. They run the cafeterias. It\u2019s all union jobs, and all that is is a money laundering operation for the Democrats. The stimulus bill?<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Finally, now, after almost two and a half years, the vaunted Congressional Budget Office finally admits that Obama\u2019s Porkulus bill will be an ultimate drag on the economy. No kidding? That\u2019s very much, 2-1\/2 years after it\u2019s over — and you know where all the money went? The money went to state employees and other federal employees. It didn\u2019t go to “shovel-ready jobs.” I get so frustrated with people\u2019s stupidity. So we spend $800, $900 billion on rebuilding the roads, rebuilding the bridges, schools, all this wonderful sounding crap that doesn\u2019t need to be done. Nothing happens. All we do is make sure teachers and so forth and firemen don\u2019t get laid off because they\u2019re union people and they pay dues which goes back to the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
And then after that doesn\u2019t work, Obama comes back for $60 billion more to rebuild roads, bridges and people go, “What is this? We tried it once.” Well, we didn\u2019t try it. We\u2019ve authorized this money, and it didn\u2019t work, and we don\u2019t have the money in the first place to be spending on any spending on any of this. So, I say that people don\u2019t want any more of it, but clearly a lot of Americans do. Now, I don\u2019t believe that we have reached the tipping point. A lot of people do. It\u2019s very easy to be seduced by negativism and pessimism. I think human beings are naturally inclined to pessimism; otherwise you wouldn\u2019t find people making millions of dollars writing books on how to think positively.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: How to Think Negatively and Destroy Your Life doesn\u2019t exist, either. People already know how to do that. But the Power of Positive Thinking, people spend millions of dollars buying this stuff. So it\u2019s very easy to get taken in by a media… See, I believe at the end of the day and people like us identified as conservatives — I don\u2019t believe it; I know it. In terms of the people of the country, we are the majority in terms of the thinking, the way we live our lives, but it\u2019s not reflected anywhere. You watch any of the network news shows, all we are is laughed at and made fun of, impugned, and all of the cultural rot that\u2019s out there is built up as what\u2019s normal because our opponents don\u2019t want any value judgments whatsoever.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t want any assessment of what\u2019s right or wrong; they want situational morality. They don\u2019t want to have to be told that the way they\u2019re living is anything other than normal. So we can easily get caught up in this notion that we\u2019re shrinking, that the people who really want to save the country and save it from the direction we\u2019re going is a small minority; we don\u2019t have a chance. But I just look at the 2010 midterm elections. It was a shellacking, and it\u2019s —<\/p>\n
(cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street exists for one reason, and that\u2019s because there is no spontaneous love and adoration for Barack Obama anymore. So they have to create it, and they have to make it look like it\u2019s spontaneous. They\u2019re so jealous of the Tea Party, I can\u2019t tell you.<\/p>\n
(cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: They are soooo jealous. They can\u2019t stand it!<\/p>\n
(cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And now they\u2019re out there telling themselves that the Tea Party is fading away, that the Tea Party doesn\u2019t have any interest anymore, the Tea Party\u2019s not rallying. “We don\u2019t see \u2019em. Occupy Wall Street\u2019s taken over!” What they don\u2019t understand is that the Tea Party\u2019s not really a party, and it doesn\u2019t have meetings per se, and there\u2019s no single organizational leader. It\u2019s just us.<\/p>\n
WOMAN: Yes!<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And who are we? Well, most of the Tea Party people, a good percentage of them, are people that have never, ever been formally involved in politics at all. They just got fed up. They were shocked, scared, stunned to see what was happening to the country with all this mindless spending. All the debt being run up, they know what it means. They know what it means for the future of themselves and their kids and their grandkids, and it isn\u2019t good — and so they started going to town hall meeting wanting to be heard for the first time; and because it was spontaneous, and because it\u2019s genuine, and because it was real, Obama and the Democrats in the media are scared to death of it because they have to manufacture that emotion. They had it. They had it in 2008 with all this “I\u2019m gonna lower the seas and we\u2019re gonna raise the sky, whatever messianic stuff was.”<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But that\u2019s all gone now. There is no magic, now. There\u2019s no messiah. So we have an amazing circumstance. We now have two pollsters — Pat Caddell, who worked for Jimmy Carter; and Doug Schoen, who worked for Clinton — writing column after column now begging Obama not to run.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Make way for Hillary, they say. Their theory is that Obama can\u2019t win, that he probably doesn\u2019t even want to, that he\u2019s not interested. They think he\u2019s bored, but they did it the wrong way. They insulted him. Obama\u2019s a narcissist. You don\u2019t go to a narcissist and say, “You\u2019ve blown it. You\u2019re inconsequential, you\u2019re incompetent, you\u2019re a boob. You have screwed it up so bad, you\u2019ve gotta leave.” You don\u2019t tell a narcissist that. What you do is you write a column and you say, “You know what? This job\u2019s beneath you, Barack. This president thing is so beneath you. I mean, you gotta work with these numskulls in Congress? You can\u2019t get anything done in this — and we\u2019re not a China, we\u2019re not a dictatorship yet! You\u2019re really wasting your time.<\/p>\n
“This job is so beneath you, you gotta move to the IM! Look what happens at the Sofitel if you\u2019re at the IMF. Move on. Play basketball whenever you want to play basketball, maybe move to the United Nations. Look what happens to those guys. You can do any number of things.” That\u2019s the way you have to do it. I told \u2019em this. I said, “If you really want to get rid of Obama, you\u2019ve got to do it that way. You can\u2019t tell him he\u2019s blown it. He\u2019s just gonna firm up and say, “Oh, yeah? Watch this,” and he\u2019s just gonna destroy it even more. But they want him out. The smart Democrats — and there are some. … Very few.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But there are some Democrats who realize that he\u2019s not only damaging the country, he is destroying the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He is, folks. That alone is not enough because, as you know, they\u2019ve stocked the judiciary and bureaucracy with career liberals who are gonna be there no matter what happens to the party for a long time. That\u2019s always been their election insurance. Somebody said to me the other day, “Well, don\u2019t you consider it a great victory that Barney Frank\u2019s seat is now wide open.”<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I loved…<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, almost 90 years ago to the day Margaret Sanger was arrested on this stage? Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood. Do you know what she was arrested for? “Discussing contraception among a mixed sexual audience.” My, how times have changed.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: She was arrested for that. That\u2019s what makes me think of Barney Frank.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anyway, I loved Barney\u2019s press conference the other day. He said (impression), “I just…”<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (chuckles) “I just — I just — I can\u2019t — I can\u2019t abandon the fisheries.” Can\u2019t abandon the fisheries?<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (chuckles) Now, that\u2019s 17 Democrats in the House that are just outright retiring. Barney\u2019s quitting…<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Barney\u2019s quitting because of redistricting, and he\u2019s never had to really campaign for his office. They\u2019ve reduced Massachusetts districts from ten to nine. This 2010, I\u2019m telling you, the Democrats took a shellacking, but the media doesn\u2019t portray it this way, so it\u2019s not really widely understood. You know, we have to tell ourselves each and every day that we are the majority, that we are the ones who are dominant.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Because if you don\u2019t tell yourself that, you\u2019re not going to believe it. It doesn\u2019t matter where you go, you\u2019ve got… (sigh) I have to be real careful here. I don\u2019t know who\u2019s in the audience. Pretty much anywhere you go in the media — anywhere now — you are going to find dominant liberalism somewhere. It\u2019s just there, and it\u2019s depressing to people. It can wipe away the good feelings of victory. It can do a lot of damage. You have to constantly work at it. Me, too. That might surprise you, but if you watch enough of it, and you get a completely different picture of what is actually going on in the country. Obama\u2019s approval number, for example, is now exactly where Jimmy Carter\u2019s was.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But do you see that reflected anywhere? You might see it reported, but when George Bush had these numbers, Wolf Blitzer could barely keep his pants up reporting it!<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He was going on and on and on counting it down. “Here we are, it\u2019s five o\u2019clock at CNN, and Bush\u2019s approval numbers are down in the high thirties! It\u2019s 5:10 at CNN, and George Bush\u2019s approval…” They whisper Barack Obama\u2019s numbers are down and then they do the next 30 minutes on, “What does Obama have to do to come back? What can Obama do?” I saw Chris Matthews and that famous interview now, shouting at the TV. He says, “You know what? I\u2019m really worried, Barack! What are you gonna do in the second term? He hasn\u2019t told us.” What is this “us”? “What are you gonna do about deficit reduction? What are you gonna do about spending? What are you gonna do about health care?” I\u2019m watching this in incredulity. What are you gonna do about spending? Chris, more of it! What do you mean he\u2019s gonna do about deficit control? Nothing! He wants more deficit. He wants more spending. He wants more debt. The whole Democrat Party does. They want as many people depending on them as possible.<\/p>\n
They have a whole…<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is why I told my friend, “There\u2019s no compromising with these people. (applause)(Unintelligible). You pick any name on that super committee. I don\u2019t even remember all that were there, but this guy, my friend, asked, “What about John Kerry?” I said, “You gotta be kidding me!”<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “John Kerry? You came by here on a Saturday before dinner to tell me that you think…?”<\/p>\n
“Well, it\u2019s gonna have to be somebody like you.”<\/p>\n
I said, “You know what? Did somebody send you here? Because they know that I like and respect you, did somebody send you here and tell you to say this? Because if they did, you\u2019re being used.” I said, “What would you do? Let\u2019s say I called you and said I want to come by and see you, and I came to your house and I said, ‘You know, Zeke, I\u2019m really worried about the country. I\u2019m so worried,'” and he almost started crying, folks, when he was telling me this. “‘I\u2019m so worried about the country. (groans) This Obama\u2019s just an utter disaster. We\u2019re gonna have to find a way to work with him.'” I said, “Zeke, why don\u2019t you go talk to Pat Buchanan and find out what you can agree with him about. Now, telling Zeke to go talk to Pat Buchanan is like telling the Ohio minister, you know?<\/p>\n
He looked at me, “What do you mean?”<\/p>\n
I said, “That\u2019s what you\u2019re asking me to do. Why is it me? Why do I have to compromise what I believe, when I firmly believe that every problem we\u2019re having is traceable to Barack Obama, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer —<\/p>\n
(wild cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: — the Democrat Party and half of the Republican Party?” It\u2019s not just…<\/p>\n
(sustained cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And, by the way, I said to him, “It\u2019s not just the Democrats. We\u2019ve got a problem in the Republican establishment, too.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: We have plenty of big-government, establishment Republicans who are perfectly satisfied with the status quo who view their only job as winning an election so they are in charge of the money, so they have the committee chairmanships. Folks, this really is true. I am 60, and strangely enough, I\u2019m still learning. I know many people think I know everything by now, but I am still learning.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I can\u2019t tell you what a shock it was. (sigh) It wasn\u2019t that long ago. Ten years ago? I was shocked to learn that not every Republican\u2019s on the same team. I know there are RINOs. I don\u2019t mean the RINOs. I know the RINOs are liberal Republicans, but I was stunned. I mean, we have people that call themselves “conservatives” in the media. Uh, they\u2019re not on my team. I look at what they write and what they say, and they\u2019re not interested in the same things I am. They make fun of a lot of people I believe in, a lot of things I believe in. I said, “Well, okay, what? Well, they live in Washington. Okay, that\u2019s interesting. They\u2019re part of the Beltway. Interesting. Establishment. It\u2019s a whole culture there. Government\u2019s the center of everybody\u2019s life. Huge amounts of money.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s huge power to be in control of all of that money, however you wish to use it or however you wish to siphon it for yourself,” which, as we know, happens. So it\u2019s not just the Democrats, but ideologically it is. Finally, I told my friend — and this was hard for me. I\u2019m not a, by choice, confrontational person. I generally let \u2019em say what they want to say and try not to ruffle feathers, particularly among friends — you know, the whole politics-religion thing. But this guy, I\u2019m still not sure. I\u2019m still wondering if he was sent, \u2019cause he works with people from across the political spectrum. He\u2019s not a political guy. But this happens now and then; people do approach me. I sometimes think if I, in the last ten years, had switched to become a liberal, how rich I\u2019d be.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Don\u2019t worry. I wouldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I said, “Here\u2019s the problem as I see it, and there really is no other way to look at this right now. I\u2019m just gonna tell you what you said to me. You came here and you are worried about the country,” and he was crying. He was worried, and everybody that has any concern for this country knows damn well something is dramatically, terribly wrong. This is not how this country\u2019s supposed to operate. We don\u2019t have presidents that run around apologizing for the country. We don\u2019t have presidents that tell the ChiComs that we are lazy. We don\u2019t have this. It\u2019s not the kind of country. We don\u2019t have presidents that don\u2019t believe in America, that don\u2019t believe in American exceptionalism. This is a first, and people instinctively know this is just not right.<\/p>\n
WOMAN: No!<\/p>\n
RUSH: But at the same time, at the same time, he\u2019s the president and people can\u2019t also get their arms around the fact that we\u2019ve elected somebody like this. So you have to be very careful when you tell people, if you believe what I believe, when you tell \u2019em these things. This guy, I said (sigh), “Our problem is not that we don\u2019t get along. Our problem is not that people aren\u2019t compromising. My party is full of \u2019em. We nominated, in 2008, a guy who loved (McCain impression) ‘To walk across the aisle.\u2019 Where did it get us? The media loved this guy until he got our nomination; then they set out to destroy him. We\u2019ve given you our best compromisers, Zeke, and all you do is destroy them, too.”<\/p>\n
He said, “What do you mean?”<\/p>\n
I said, “I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t mean to be including you in this, but the Democrats are not desirous, Zeke, of compromising with me. They want to destroy me. They\u2019ve been trying for 20 years. They want to destroy all of us professionally. If that doesn\u2019t work, they\u2019ll try to do it insulting our character. Doesn\u2019t matter. But,” I said, “Zeke, don\u2019t worry,” \u2019cause he asked me, “Do you worry about your safety sometimes talking like this?” I said, “No. I tried to kill myself once, and I failed. It can\u2019t be done.” (laughter) He chuckled. I said, “Zeke, this is a battle of ideology, and that\u2019s your problem. You don\u2019t want to be considered an ideologue. You want to be thought of as open-minded. You agree with some of the things people on the right are saying and then you agree with some people on the left. You want to be seen as an open-minded, centrist, moderate who sees the best of both sides.<\/p>\n
“Except, Zeke, you don\u2019t see anything good on my side. You\u2019ve come to me telling me I need to compromise. You don\u2019t see anything bad on their side. I\u2019m here to tell you that if this country is to be saved, and by that I mean if this country is to be preserved as founded.” Folks, there\u2019s always gonna be an America; don\u2019t misunderstand. But is it gonna be the America of a constitutional founding that we\u2019ve all grown up with and expect or is it gonna be a European socialist quasi-democracy? I mean, that\u2019s the option that we face here. I said, “Zeke, if…” Oh, I\u2019m leaving out something very crucial. He\u2019s scared to death about Europe.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s telling me, “(Sigh) Rush, I\u2019ll tell you, if one of those countries goes, it\u2019s gonna be a bad thing for us.”<\/p>\n
I said, “What do you mean, ‘if one of them goes\u2019? The Italians can\u2019t pay the bonds that they sold. Who would have ever thought — do you believe this? — that Poland is asking Germany to bail \u2019em out? Who would ever have believed that would happen in our lifetimes?”<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Zeke, if these people that you want me to compromise with aren\u2019t stopped, we are Greece! We\u2019re gonna be Italy or we\u2019re gonna be Spain — and the thing is, this is where our president wants to take us!”<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: “What is so hard to understand about this?”<\/p>\n
“Ahem. Do… do you really…? Do you really think this?”<\/p>\n
I said, “Yes! I wouldn\u2019t have said this to you or things like you hadn\u2019t called me, but you came by here with a sob story about how we\u2019ve gotta compromise, and I know that you think I\u2019m the one that ought to do it. But I don\u2019t want to compromise. I don\u2019t see anything worth compromising with. I see only something that needs to be defeated. This is an ideological battle. This is freedom versus socialism. This is freedom versus tyranny, and the tyranny is represented by Obama and the Democrats.”<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
He said, “Well, do you think the Republicans are all good?”<\/p>\n
“No, no, no! Republicans aren\u2019t innocent. There are a bunch of Republicans too stupid to see what\u2019s going on who would probably agree with you that I need to compromise.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t want you to think that…”<\/p>\n
He said, “But you sound so sure of yourself.”<\/p>\n
“I damn well am! How can you not be? How could you come here and tell me about Europe and tell me you\u2019re fearful for the country and you don\u2019t like Obama and then tell me that I\u2019ve gotta compromise? How can you do this?” I said, “In your heart you have to know or you wouldn\u2019ta come here at all, unless you\u2019re making it all up,” which he wasn\u2019t. We got a guy who claims he\u2019s focusing like a laser on jobs and he wants to create jobs.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Would somebody show me the evidence?<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He has no desire to create jobs. He profits, he benefits from chaos. He says to the Occupy people, “I ran for you.” Or, “You\u2019re my people,” whatever he said to \u2019em. That\u2019s what he seeks. You know, you and I, I\u2019m going to assume that most of you in this room agree with me on this. If you don\u2019t, you will before it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And for those of you that don\u2019t agree or don\u2019t understand, let me tell you what my motivation is. My motivation is not to defeat anybody. My motivation is not to win. It\u2019s pure. I think I speak for most of the people in this room. We have an absolute, profound, overawed love and respect for this country and the way it was founded, pure and simple.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And we don\u2019t hate anybody. We want everybody to prosper and do well. I hate to tell you this, too. I am so naive. I genuinely really am naive. But I can\u2019t for the life of me understand — and I\u2019ve tried to — I\u2019ve done the intellectual exercises; I\u2019ve tried imagining being in other people\u2019s shoes. I can\u2019t understand people hating this country, people born here hating the country. It doesn\u2019t compute. I don\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve heard all the, “Well, we established slavery.” No, we wrote a Constitution that got rid of it. We lost 500,000 citizens getting rid of slavery. We\u2019re the country that\u2019s gotten rid of it, we went to war with ourselves over it. We feed the world; we clothe the world; but yet there are people — and I know why they\u2019re taught this, the Occupy crowd, they go to school, they\u2019re taught this sometimes starting in junior high, sometimes the Saturday morning cartoons. Ted Turner\u2019s Captain Planet was all about how corporations are polluting the planet because they want everybody to die. We actually have numskulls who think that corporations exist to kill their customers.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And, by the way, the president is one of these people.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: The president and people who think like him don\u2019t think of America as exceptional because they think America is a crime; they think America is immoral. They think that America became a superpower and an exceptional place by stealing other people\u2019s stuff. We stole their oil. We stole their — what else did we steal?<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: We stole their corn. We conquered them and we imprisoned them with imperialist — they believe this. By the way, have you ever sat alone — this is an amazing thing to me, too — have you ever asked yourself how it is that in less than 250 years a single population of under 300 million people so dominated the planet for good. There are populations, countries, civilizations that have been around thousands of years. Our DNA is no different than theirs. We\u2019re not inherently smarter; we\u2019re not a special species; there\u2019s nothing different about us. The only thing that\u2019s different — well, not the only thing, but it\u2019s where we live. Where we grow up.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
Now, but that doesn\u2019t explain, how can this happen? I mean, the ancient Romans did some good stuff. But look at the advancement in the world in the standard of living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alone because of the United States. How did this happen? What makes this happen? What makes it possible? There\u2019s a reason for it. Freedom. If I were Obama, I\u2019d say, “How foolish can you be, freedom, what\u2019s that worth?” Freedom is actually a large part of it, a major part of it. But it was also the founding of the country. It was the concept, the entire set of principles, the belief in humanity that went into our founding. It\u2019s right there in our Declaration, it says it all. “We are all endowed by our Creator.” Ergo, there\u2019s a God.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019re all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life — ooh, that\u2019s a problem for Molly Yard.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Now, I ask you, which ideological movement today advances the concept of life? It ain\u2019t liberalism. Which ideology advances the concept of liberty? It ain\u2019t liberalism. In other words, it\u2019s not the Democrat Party. And which movement is advancing the whole notion of the pursuit of happiness? Well, it ain\u2019t them. They are never happy. Have you ever seen \u2019em smile?<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Really, the founding of this country is a miracle. You and I know it. What is American exceptionalism? Everybody has their own definition. I\u2019ll tell you what mine is. The rule for human beings since the creation of time, since the creation of the planet, the normal, standard operating procedure has been tyranny, dungeons, oppression, poverty. The vast majority of the people who have ever lived in the world have been imprisoned or dictated toward, lived under tyranny, been poor. It\u2019s been the standard. The exception to that has been the United States. The exception to what life was like for most every human being has been the United States of America. That\u2019s one definition of American exceptionalism. It\u2019s not that we\u2019re better than anybody else. This is what Obama and the Democrats don\u2019t like. They think we\u2019re saying we\u2019re better people. No, no, no, no. We\u2019re luckier. We have a country that was founded by brilliant people who understood that we are blessed by God.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: The whole notion of hating the country, I know it exists, I know there are people out there who hate this country, don\u2019t like it. Intellectually it doesn\u2019t compute, and it saddens me to no end, but I know that they believe that this is a country that has stolen from every other country, that we have raped and pillaged and that we have conquered and that we have murdered and all this. No concept, no understanding, \u2019cause they\u2019re not taught of the wonderful things this country has done for the rest of the world, the standard of living that we brought to ourselves and people around the world. And at some point, you have to say, I\u2019m not gonna waste my time trying to persuade \u2019em anymore. I\u2019m just gonna try to see to it that those people remain few in number and can\u2019t win elections. Because it really comes down to that.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: For me, it\u2019s an ideological battle. I think this is one of the problems I have with the Republican presidential candidates. I really think that if there was one of them who would simply, proudly, cheerfully, happily, confidently extol conservatism morning and night, no stopping this person.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Newt right now is the next, as I was saying earlier, the new “not Romney.” Look, this is true. No matter what poll you look at, 70 to 75% of Republican voters don\u2019t want Romney, yet Romney is leading everywhere. Now, it\u2019s a fascinating thing to me, and it looks like, if you had to say so sitting here right now, given everything we know, it looks like Romney\u2019s gonna be the nominee. But 70% of the Republicans don\u2019t want that to be the case. So how can this be? How can this happen? Well, some of the vagaries of politics can\u2019t be taken out of this: money, time. Romney has lost enough elections to learn how to win them. He\u2019s been at this a long, long time. He\u2019s very polished. Those things matter. Politics is a business. It has a ladder of success, like every other business has. And everybody says, “We need outsiders.” It\u2019s tough because it\u2019s a business. There are certain requirements that politics has for success, and it\u2019s tough for somebody that\u2019s never done it before to move in and know how to do it and survive, prosper, triumph and get to the top. That\u2019s why it\u2019s made up of people who are trying it two, three, and four times. Now, Newt, I got a note today from a friend, “Rush, you heard your show today?” No. “Mark Steyn was really brutal.”<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
(disturbance and booing protester)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) Now, when you see that, I wonder why am I paying thousands of dollars for security?<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
(yelling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I have a cochlear implant and I can\u2019t hear what they\u2019re saying, but it\u2019s a sad thing. These are people threatened by the truth. It really is unfortunate. These are the people that think you owe them everything. These are people who have some kind of an entitlement mentality, and this is what they\u2019ve been taught. This is what the education system has done to them. It\u2019s festered their resentments. Everybody wants to matter; everybody wants to be something; everybody wants to have relevance; and they know they don\u2019t. And so they try to disrupt the things that are working. Now, I look at the Occupy crowd down there, and they\u2019ve all got iPhones or computers. How do they think that stuff happened? They\u2019re out there protesting the very people and things and system that made it possible for them to have those things. Where do they think this stuff comes from?<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have people like this call the radio program sometimes, and all they\u2019re doing is reading scripts from the latest George Soros e-mail or from the latest left-wing website.
People ask me how I stay optimistic. I said, “Well, I\u2019ve got a couple of reasons for it.” Because I\u2019m not naturally optimistic. Most people aren\u2019t. And especially in times like this. But I look at the things that have happened to me in my life. I quit college after a semester. I hated it. I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was eight years old. I hated school. I despised it. It was prison. It was conformity. It was what everybody else had to do. I\u2019d go to school and I\u2019d panic over having to paste two pieces of paper together. I\u2019d look out the window and I would see the repair vehicles driving by or whatever, and it was like, “Gosh, what is it like to be out there?” I just hated it. And getting ready for school every morning my mother had the radio on, and the guy on the radio was having fun. He was enjoying things. He sounded like he was happy to be up. I wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I was miserable that I had to go to school. So I ended up getting a part-time radio job when I was 15 at a local radio station, and they couldn\u2019t keep me out of it. I skipped my senior year in high school a consecutive four weeks, and I got it excused.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I got the absence excused. My mother took my car away from me when she found out was skipping ballroom dance in college. I hated it. I despised it. I didn\u2019t like it at any point. I flunked speech twice —<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: — because I didn\u2019t outline them. I gave all the speeches and I showed up, but they said, “You didn\u2019t outline them.” I said, “What is this, outline 101 or speech? I\u2019m doing the speeches.” “You\u2019re not conforming to the class the way it\u2019s supposed to be.” So my father thought that he was a failure as a father because I quit school. He sat me down — remember, now, he was born in 1918. The formative experience of his life was the Great Depression, World War II, and during the Great Depression if you didn\u2019t have a college education, you didn\u2019t have a prayer, and he was just scared to death. You see people even today, athletes primarily, after an event, they\u2019ve been the star, being interviewed, “Yep, and I\u2019m the first in my family to go to college.” And everybody claps. I\u2019m the first in mine not to.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And I\u2019m the only one in mine not to. So I hear my father say to me, “Son, if you do this, you\u2019re gonna lose all your friends. They\u2019re gonna surpass you intellectually and socially. They won\u2019t have anything in common with you, and they won\u2019t care to be around you. They\u2019re gonna go on to school and you\u2019re gonna be a bum. You won\u2019t find a decent girl to marry. After all, son” — imagine this, this day and age — “what woman wants to marry a man who can\u2019t support her?” If I could have only told him what awaited me in the seventies when feminism hit. So he told me all these things, and he was dead serious. And he had hearing loss. So all of my years on the radio he couldn\u2019t hear me. He had to listen to my mother tell him what was going on in my career. But it didn\u2019t mean anything to him. Radio was the lowest rung of the show biz ladder. “Television, if you\u2019re gonna do media, television, Walter Cronkite.” Oh, jeez.<\/p>\n
(laughter)<\/p>\n
RUSH: My grandfather, too. “Do you think you\u2019ll ever meet Walter Cronkite?” “I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not that –” I mean, at the time I\u2019m playing Donny Osmond records as a disc jockey on the radio. But I loved it, I loved radio, and that\u2019s all I wanted to do. And I knew it\u2019s what I was best at. I quit once I got fired for like the fifth time, and I said, “Okay, I\u2019m too old, 28, too old to be a deejay.” I went to work for a baseball team in sales, Kansas City Royals, sales and marketing, and the first three years it was great. But then after that it was corporate structure, conformity. I learned that I wasn\u2019t made for it. So I quit, went back to radio, and for the first time started spoken word format rather than playing music. I wanted to find out once and for all if I can be the reason people will listen to the radio, so I\u2019m not gonna do any guests, I\u2019m not gonna talk about carrot cake recipes during holiday season or any of this other gunk. I\u2019m gonna do what I want to do, what I think is interesting, I\u2019m gonna roll the dice, and I did, and this is the result; this worked.<\/p>\n
(cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You might think I lost my place. That\u2019s why I\u2019m optimistic. The reason I\u2019m optimistic, look at what I get to do every day. I get to go on the radio every day and I get to talk to you and 25 million other people about what\u2019s happening in the country. I get to tell myself that I have a chance, I have a shot at shaping public opinion every day. How could you not be optimistic with that? “Well, Rush, what do you do when the Democrats win?” Well, you can\u2019t win everything. I don\u2019t define success that way. I\u2019m just saying that\u2019s how I stay optimistic. Success in radio is real simple: You attract the largest audience you can, you hold it for as long as you can, so you can charge confiscatory advertising rates.<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And I managed to do that, too. But I\u2019m optimistic because I have faith in the American people. Even in the 2008 election, I was like a lot of you: “Oh, my gosh, is this the end? Have we reached the tipping point where we have a number of people that are gonna fall for this kind of thing, that actually believe this kind of person that we\u2019ve never seen in politics before, that\u2019s so unique and so forth.” And I came to understand that what that was really all about was that people were just so fed up. The media had succeeded in creating all kinds of hatred for George W. Bush. And Karl Rove admits it, a big mistake, they never fought back, they never defended themselves. So the people that voted for \u2019em and invested in them never felt defended. They attacked Bush, attacked the people that voted for and supported him, and they didn\u2019t respond to it. They didn\u2019t want to sully the office, he said.<\/p>\n
So the war in Iraq, people got tired of that, and hope and change. And what did Obama run, by the way? He was gonna bring everybody together, have unity. America\u2019s gonna be loved again; the world isn\u2019t gonna hate us; we\u2019re gonna lower the sea levels; we\u2019re gonna get green energy. Yes, we\u2019re gonna have energy that\u2019s never gonna pollute, and furthermore, nobody\u2019s ever gonna die, because I\u2019m gonna have a health care plan that\u2019s not gonna cost anybody anything and the premiums are going to go down, and nobody\u2019s gonna get sick. And if they do get sick, they\u2019re gonna get cured, it\u2019s not gonna cost anybody anything except the rich, and we\u2019re gonna have utopia. People said, “I\u2019m up for it.” But they don\u2019t think that anymore. If they still did I wouldn\u2019t be as optimistic as I am. But the Obama coalition is gone. The people, including the “yutes” of America that so blindly supported him, they\u2019re gone. All he\u2019s got left is this ragtag bunch out there that wouldn\u2019t know a job if it slapped \u2019em in the face.<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: There are probably some people in the audience, “How can he be so mean?” Not mean. It\u2019s the truth. But you have — do not doubt me on this — this New York Times story on Monday, the Obama campaign writing off white working voters. Now, in the past, in the past, folks, that\u2019s always meant union people. In Democrat terminology, in their lexicon, you know as well as I do when they talk about working people, they mean unions. You know, everywhere there\u2019s a mess in this country you\u2019re just gonna find a union.<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
And what that tells me is that they really think their only chance of victory is appealing to this intellectual elite of artists, actors, singers, you know, the backbone of America, the real brilliant, the Kardashians of the world. And then of course the university professors. But after that, they\u2019re going the minority dependent route. And this story, by the way, singled out Hispanics as a group that they\u2019re going after. That means they need as many nonworking dependent people as possible that they can blame the Republicans for, which is what\u2019s happening. We all know — two and a half years ago if we wanted to — we know what we have to do today. If we had as a national policy job creation, you and I know exactly what we would do. We\u2019d do it tomorrow, we would unleash the job creators, and in six months the trend would be like this, you couldn\u2019t stop it. We\u2019d all know what to do.<\/p>\n
This bunch will not do it no matter what the cost, no matter what the purpose, because it\u2019s not their objective. “What do we do, Rush?” It\u2019s very simple. Try this. This is just one thing, one of many things that we could do. The regime is wasting, what, $1.8 trillion a year, that\u2019s how much we\u2019re spending that we don\u2019t have, $1.8 trillion. Now, the amount of revenue taken in each year by the income tax and a couple other taxes is around two trillion. So let\u2019s just cancel all income taxes and a couple others for a full year. Let\u2019s let the people keep the money instead of sending it to Washington for deficit spending. That\u2019s one thing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Obama actually said, “You know, the Republicans are talking about reducing regulations on businesses to create jobs. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about.” Well, we do. If you take the shackles off of people — what do they want people to do, hire? Obama thinks you get people to hire by promising them a tax deduction. Here\u2019s his deal. Obama says, “Small business, I\u2019ll give you a $2500 tax credit for every veteran you hire.” We love veterans, but why not everybody you hire? Number two, businesses don\u2019t hire for that reason. They don\u2019t hire for tax breaks. They hire \u2019cause they\u2019ve got work that needs to be done. And right now there\u2019s no work that needs to be done.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, a small business guy is gonna say, “Okay, I gotta go hire somebody, it\u2019s gonna cost me minimum 50 grand by the time I throw in health care and other benefits, and I\u2019m gonna get $2500 back for this?” Doesn\u2019t compute. It\u2019s not how you stimulate job growth. But a statist, somebody that\u2019s entirely ignorant and disdainful of capitalism like Obama and his buddies, will look at it exactly that way. You have the Reagan years, the model there of tax reduction, creating more taxpayers, more revenue. What to do to create jobs is simple, and it breaks my heart to hear that this is the new normal. I mean the labor secretary, the former labor secretary, Robert B. Reich.<\/p>\n
(audience: chhhhhhhhh)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) I was just waiting for somebody to do that. For those of you that don\u2019t know, Robert Reich is the former labor secretary for Clinton and a former lecturer at Harvard, and he used to have a commentary on the MacNeil\/Lehrer NewsHour, and at the end of his commentary, in order to give himself stature and try to have a signature about himself, “This is Robert B. Reichhhh.” So, you know, I love impersonating people and the key to that is exaggeration. So whenever I mention his name, I like to say Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.<\/p>\n
(applause)<\/p>\n
The fun factor is not gone, but it matters a tremendous amount to me. And I take it as seriously as I ever have. Maybe more so than ever. And I just want you to know in all of this that I am so thankful that you all are in the audience and that you\u2019ve done for me what you have. I have people tell me frequently what I\u2019ve done or how the radio program means so much to them, and I appreciate that. But, in all candor — I say this every chance I get — no matter what my radio program has meant to you, if it\u2019s meant anything, pales in comparison to what you have meant and do mean to me and my life and my family\u2019s life and my success. I pinch myself every day with the good fortune that\u2019s happened to me. And it\u2019s all due to people like you who are not only in the audience, but you admit it when asked.<\/p>\n
(laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: So thank you again from the bottom of my heart. I want you to again accept my apologies for starting late, but it was the weather and a number of other things, and I promised everybody I\u2019d have everybody outta here by nine o\u2019clock, and it\u2019s 9:35, but that\u2019s because we started late. So, folks, thank you so much. This has been fantastic. I love you more than I can possibly say. Thank you all very much.<\/p>\n
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