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March 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Well, I see Obama's visiting the United States.
Again, at least this week.
It's very nice.
He's been gone so much he couldn't get in the Oval Office.
You see this?
They locked him out.
He's walking around the uh Rose Garden entrance, trying to get a couple doors.
No, seriously, it's locked out, and the excuse given was they didn't know he was coming in.
How do you not know that the president is not coming in?
Jeez.
Hiya, folks, how are you?
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French have shot down a Libyan jet, which is news.
The French finally found somebody they can beat up on.
Folks, I gotta warn you, I'm I'm I'm I'm uh I'm kinetic today.
I am I'm I've got all kinds of kinetic action.
People won't leave me alone.
I barely had time for show prep today.
Oh, just I mean, I'm I'm sitting here, I'm already frazzled.
I feel like I feel after three hours of this program, and we just now started.
So people um, you people out there in the media lady waiting for your tweak, there might be 25 of them today.
My uh I'm irritated, my guard is down, so who knows what's gonna happen out there.
But now, kinetic um activity.
We're not we're not at war.
We are engaged in kinetic activity.
Here we have a headline is from the uh the DC examiner.
In the last few days, the Obama regime ha officials frequently face the question is the fighting in Libya a war.
And from military officers to White House spokesmen up to the president himself, the answer's been no.
Well, okay then.
Well, what is it?
In a briefing on board Air Force One yesterday, the deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes took a crack at the answer.
Well, I think what we're doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals.
By the way, you hear that Boehner sent Obama a letter.
I gotta I have a copy of the letter.
But little side note to you, Republicans, could you do something about this?
As long as you're gonna submit these as PDF files, 95% of people are not gonna be able to read your stuff.
Just put it up on the website.
Don't make them download a PDF.
Anyway, I've got it.
It's a good letter from Boehner, but I wonder why he sent it to Obama.
Why didn't he send it to NATO?
Or the UN.
I mean, he wants answers.
Dayner, why are we there?
What's the purpose of it?
Why send that to Obama?
Anyway, uh, this guy, the Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes took a crack at an answer.
So I think what we're doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is uh protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone.
Obviously, that involves kinetic military action, particularly on the front end.
This is pathetic.
Um literally genuinely pathetic.
Kinetic military action, particularly on the front end.
Kinetic simply means motion.
That's all it means.
Depending on movement for its effect of relating to or resulting from motion.
So now we got kinetic military action, and here's the defense secretary.
This is uh let's grab some by five.
This is Robert Gates.
Tuesday in Moscow.
And he spoke with reporters, and this is what he said about the war in Libya.
I think as we are successful in suppressing uh the uh air defenses, the level of kinetic activity should decline.
I assume in the next few days.
I swear, this is this is this is this is surreal.
KMA kinetic military activity has replaced WTF.
I which is winning the future is what I'm sure you thought it was something else.
Kick my ass replaced replaced.
What the kinetic military.
Okay, so I guess we're to assume it's not a protest anymore.
It's a kinetic assembling action.
It's not a riot.
It's kinetic thuggery action.
It's not a vacation.
It's kinetic leisure action.
It's not golf.
It's kinetic ball striking action.
It's not dancing.
It's kinetic food or foot action.
It's it's not sex.
It's kinetic Lewinski.
It's not.
I'm not drunk.
I've been engaging in kinetic adult beverage action.
It's not an election, it's kinetic voting.
Action.
It's not radio, it's kinetic limbaugh action.
Whatever.
I it's just kinetic means motion.
Military means armed forces.
Action means motion.
Kinetic action, moving motion.
And these are the smartest people in the world.
Well, they the reason they can't say it is because they don't want to say what it really is.
We all know what it is in there, but they don't want to say it.
They don't want to go on record as saying what this really is.
Because they're actually trying to pretend it isn't anything.
Let's let's we put something here together, uh, ladies and gentlemen, audio-wise.
It's 3 a.m.
We're back now to audio soundbite number four.
3 a.m.
Hillary Clinton answering the phone.
It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep.
But there's a phone in the White House, and it's ready.
This morning I spoke with the Japanese foreign minister.
Something's happening in the world.
Also this morning, I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the bombing in Jerusalem.
Your vote will decide who answers that call.
Whether it's someone who already knows the world's leaders.
Knows the military.
The UN Security Council resolution's goal is to protect the Libyan people, and our military action is therefore focused.
Someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world.
And finally, with respect to Yemen.
It's 3 a.m.
and your children are safe and asleep.
Who do you want answering the phone?
I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message.
She's been answering the phone.
She's been Obama's been in Rio.
He's been wherever he's been.
Now locked out of the White House.
Locked out of the White House.
I um I just I love it.
Here's let's go back.
Let's keep it our audio soundbite roll today, folks, is delicious.
Here's an Obama montage of March the third and March 21st.
This is a short little montage of Obama talking about U.S. policy toward Qaddafi.
Colonel Gaddafi needs to step down from power and leave.
It is U.S. policy that Gaddafi needs to go.
Omar Gaddafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave.
Of course, they've also said, no, he doesn't have to leave.
He if he if he ends up remaining, he better let people say bad things about him.
So up next, a hilarious roster of sound bites.
First, a deputy national security advisor saying that regime change is not our mission.
After you just heard this montage of Obama saying Qaddafi needs to step down, Qaddafi needs to go.
That's our policy.
Qaddafi's lost legitimacy.
This is Dennis McDonough.
Last night, Wolf Blitzer's CNN, the situation room.
We're not setting out with a policy of regime change here.
We set out a very defined goal here, which is we'd shape the environment and enable Our international partners to take over the no-fly zone.
Wolf Blitzer is apoplectic.
He can't believe this because he's heard the uh regime say, he's heard Obama say Qaddafi's got to go, he's got to go, he's got to go a number of times.
And here now is the deputy national security advisor, McDonough saying, Well, we're not setting out with a policy of regime change.
Wolf says, Well, how many times has the president said over the past few weeks that Qaddafi has to go?
Well, I haven't uh counted Wolf, maybe you have, but I've seen well, I take your word for it as I always do.
But doesn't that mean regime change if Gaddafi must go?
You asked to whether it was an acceptable outcome.
And what we've said is we've set out a very specific goal for our forces.
We have turned back uh the forces from Benghazi, and we are on the verge now of being able to hand over the conduct of the no-fly zone to our allies.
Okay, it's a non-answer.
Wolf doesn't like it.
He asks again, but he still gets no answer.
But must Qaddafi go.
Well, that's gonna be a determination for the Libyan people to make.
But the president says he must go.
Well, the pre, you know, I'm not gonna improve on that good answer that the president gave on this question yesterday, which I know you uh watched and uh which was obviously part of his uh press conference.
Is that U.S. policy still that Qaddafi must go?
Well, the president did outline exactly what our our policy view is.
He said Qaddafi must go.
Yeah.
Jeez.
We're listening.
We're listening to the deputy national security advisor, Dennis McDonough.
And this is friendly media.
Wolf blitzer bending over backwards, just all you gotta do here, Dennis, is echo what the president said.
All you gotta do is say, yeah, it's regime change, that's what we're doing.
But he won't say it.
And now, folks, we enter Abbott and Costello territory.
Listen to this.
I don't want to be a pest, but if the policy is Qaddafi must go, I assume that means regime change, but you just said the policy was not regime change.
We're not pursuing regime change as a result of this military effort.
That's uh that's been quite clear since the president addressed it with the American people.
But you are pursuing regime change separate from the military effort, is that correct?
Well, we're gonna bring a whole range of assets and efforts and resources to this uh to this important policy, Wolf, but it's not gonna be solely a military effort.
When was the last time a news anchor ever apologized to say George W. Bush or anybody else in his regime for being a pest.
Look, I don't mean to be a pest here, but if the policy is Qaddafi must go, I assume it means regime change.
Now the interesting outflow from this, I mean, you and I all really are not surprised.
Let's be honest.
We have known since before the election that we're dealing with a neophyte.
We have known that we're dealing with somebody not qualified for the job.
We have known that the people he would choose to be around him are also not qualified.
Now I knew it.
We've all suspected.
We look at you and I both, we all knew that everything we were told about Barack Obama, his qualifications, his uniqueness, it was all spin.
It was all BS.
None of us are shocked.
We listen to this and we cringe because this is serious stuff, and it's the Keystone Cubs.
This is the three stooges, this is Abbott and Costello.
This is Saturday Night Live, except it's not.
There are real missiles and real bombs being dropped on real people by a guy who got a Nobel Peace Prize on the cum, who now says he's not gonna give it back.
The interesting outflow is what the leftist reaction is.
And I have uh I have a good friend, New York City, who likes to listen to public radio up there.
And he was astounded by what he heard on public radio this morning.
Virtually every caller was criticizing Obama as though he were Bush.
We are occupying Libya.
We are establishing a base in Libya for U.S. action.
Uh we are in there for oil.
All of these criticisms from the audience Of this far left, public radio station in New York ripping into Obama and throughout the country.
The American kook left and some of the mainstream left, just if it's it's a thin line there between the kook left and the mainstream left, pretty much all have the same reaction.
They they drank the Kool-Aid.
They're the ones who thought that this was all messianic.
They believed Obama when he said he's going to close Gitmore, we're going to get out of a rock, we're going to get out of the world, we're going to punish ourselves, we're going to apologize to the world for being the rot gut nation of the world.
They are the ones who are surprised.
They are the ones in a state of shock.
You and I, this is what troubles us, have known all along that we're dealing with a man child here who has literally no qualifications, no experience, no track record, and according to Donald Trump now, no birth certificate.
Trump was on the view yesterday.
Trump is performing a valuable service here.
He is attempting to help Obama out of a jam.
You can't say that Trump is a kook right-wing birther.
Trump realizes the problem that Obama faces here with credibility, is giving him a chance here to establish some credibility to produce the birth certificate.
Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters were appalled and aghast at this yesterday with their mouths open, which is not unusual, that Trump would go down this road.
But while we sit here, we laugh at the kinetic military action, regime change, no regime.
While we laugh at people in the media doing their best to prop up what they know is a mistake.
I mean, face it, folks.
We're being governed by a giant mistake.
One of the biggest mistakes that's ever been made in an election in this country.
We are in the midst of it.
They know it too, but their interests are covering it up, papering it over, and trying to offer advice via their questions, solutions via their uh interviews and their media exposure and uh and so forth.
Yet Trump's not the kind of guy to comb over difficulties.
If he's going to bring this up about this birth certificate, you know that it's serious.
You know, Trump's not a fly-by-night kind of guy.
So we sit here and laugh, but this is tragic.
It's it's tragic and it's dangerous because genuine illegitimacy and incompetence and lack of qualification is on parade each and every day, and this being locked out of the Oval Office while hilarious is one of the most accurate metaphors for where we are with this regime and where it is.
How do you not know the president's coming in?
That was the excuse they gave.
Well, a white house didn't always come in.
What was he still at the Mayan ruins with the family?
What do you mean he didn't know?
Look at look at MSNBC right now.
Have you seen this video?
A riot at a Burger King in Panama City, Florida.
A woman gets up on the counter in a bikini and starts throwing napkins and stuff during spring break, and a whole thing calls away.
That's the Obama base.
That's you are you've got to see.
Drudge has the link up on his page.
Uh but I did the networks are playing it.
It's an utter riot.
It looked like Serena Williams up there in the latest TV ad in uh in the McKinney going absolutely nuts, and the place erupts burger king.
We don't know if they were out of something.
We don't know if 911 was called, we have no idea.
That's how they handle it in Port St. Lucy.
Now, folks, this business of Obama being locked out of the uh out of the Oval Office.
There is a precedent.
Remember the uh the esteemed, the renowned Harvard professor Skip Gates, Returned home from Burger King or someplace and was locked out of his own house and was slinking around trying to get in there.
An ever-observant Cambridge cop saw it, walked in, essentially arrested Gates, and we needed a beer summit to uh sort this all out.
So it's just it's a good thing.
Obama's not been in the country much lately.
It's a good thing he was recognized.
Can you imagine if the president of the United States had been arrested trying to get in the Oval Office?
Didn't have a key, obviously.
Can you imagine what would have happened?
They had to run around, they had to find out.
Well, who locked him out of here?
And wouldn't it have been hilarious if it had been Biden?
Anyway, um Gallup Paul is out, and lowest approval for military action in a long, long time.
Obama and Libya.
Details and much more coming right up.
No reason to think about it.
We do the thinking for you here at the EIB network as we redefine hip on the radio.
You can look this up.
There's a word out there.
We're going to talk about kinetic military action as a word out there.
Bizarre word called Obamulate.
You can look it up.
It's a verb.
It means to walk about, to wander hither and thither.
Look it up.
It's OBAMU L A T E Obamulate.
That's what is happening out there.
The 47% of Americans approving of the action against Libya is lower than when Gallup has uh has found when asking about approval of other U.S. military campaigns in the last four decades, said Gallup's analysis of the poll.
This compares to the 90% approval rating Americans gave George H. W or George W. Bush October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the 83% approval they gave George H. W. Bush's January 93 bombing of military targets in Iraq,
the 76% approval they gave President George W. Bush's March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the 71% approval that they gave Ronaldus Magnus' 1996 bombing of Libya, and the 66% approval that they gave Bill Clinton's August 98 missile strikes on Sudan and Afghan, where he bombed some Tylenol factories.
Now, before Obama's intervention in Libya, the least popular military intervention polled by Gallup in recent decades was Clinton's 1999 intervention in the Balkan conflict over Kosovo.
In a survey conducted April 30th to May 2nd, 1999, only 51% of Americans approved of that military action.
Obama, 47% of Americans approve of the action against Libya.
Lower than what Gallup has found in the past four decades.
Now, to be fair, Gallup called it military action in their questions.
They did not poll the American people on kinetic military action.
And we think it's only fair to point out that stipulation.
We don't know if the results would have been different had Gallup asked if the American people favor the kinetic military action in Libya or not.
But you have to want he's not made the case.
Obama's not made the case for this.
He doesn't even seem to care whether the American people support this.
We all know, or a large number of us, Suspect that the chaos, the plundering, the decline of this country's purposeful, that there is a strategic reason for it.
We think we know what it is.
We think we know That Obama has been raised by people who didn't like the country.
He doesn't like the country as it was founded, views this as an opportunity to get even with this country.
A lot of us believe this.
That does not mean that he's also not incompetent at the same time.
This is incompetence on parade.
It is a joke.
This is an international joke.
And if there were a media that did its job, everyone in this country would be aware of just what a joke this regime is perceived to be, particularly as it relates to this action that this regime has taken.
Sturdly, I'm not lying to Obamulate is in the Oxford English dictionary.
You think I make it up here?
Look, I can understand you would think I'd make up the word Obamulate.
I didn't.
I would love to be able to tell you I did.
I would love to be able to tell you that it's not the dictionary.
It's I made it up, and it means to wander hither and thither aimlessly through life, blah, blah.
I didn't make it up.
Obamulate.
O, B, A, M, U, L, A, T, E. Maybe Bill O'Reilly will make it his word for the night.
Well, unless he doesn't want to be perceived as being critical of the of the president.
As I said earlier, Obama's not going to give back his Nobel Peace Prize.
Tuesday in El Salvador.
The CNN Espanyol correspondent Juan Carlos Lopez interviewed Obama.
Juan Carlos Lopez said, Do you see a continuation when a Nobel Peace Prize winner authorizes the use of force on the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, a war that you opposed?
There's some already calling for you to give the award back.
I'm accustomed to this contradiction of being both a commander-in-chief, but also somebody who aspires to peace.
The situation here is entirely focused on making sure that the Libyan people can live out their own aspirations.
We're not invading a country.
We are not acting alone.
We have a limited task, a focused task, and we've saved lives as a consequence.
And you know, I think the American people don't see any contradiction in somebody who cares about peace, also wanting to make sure that people aren't butchered because of uh dictator who wants to cling to power.
Uh Iran, Mr. President, North Korea, Mr. President Syria, Mr. President.
Darfur.
Mr. President.
Here we have a story.
This is from Reuters.
Syrian forces killed six people on Wednesday in an attack on protesters in a mosque complex in the southern city of diarrhea.
A later opened fire on hundreds of youths marching in solidarity.
Witnesses said, at least four youths were killed when the security forces intercepted them at the northern entrance of diarrhea.
Their bodies were seen at a clinic in the city.
There were unconfirmed reports that dozens more bodies were taken to Tafas hospital outside the city of diarrhea.
Why aren't we in Syria?
This story's not getting much play, obviously, but why aren't we going into Syria?
We have a dictator there butch butchering people in the city of diarrhea.
Or however it's pronounced.
It's what it looked like to me when I first read it.
I'm not in the mood to get into phonetic pronunciations today, folks.
Let's get...
Well, I mean, there's con we we got all kinds of contradictions coming out of the regime.
Certainly Obama has accepted the dream from his father that the U.S. is a colonial imperialist country.
So Obama has to go out of the way to look like he's doing the things that colonial imperialist countries do, and he's doing it in an incompetent way.
Could there be a strategy here in looking incompetent?
Could there be a reason behind appearing to be unqualified?
Here is the leader of the United States of America making this country look like a joke.
The leader of this country is making himself look like an incompetent boob, but maybe he's willing to do that in order to make the country look like that as well.
Who can say?
All I know is I don't like speculating about things like that.
Here's Obama on the exit strategy.
This is Tuesday in El Salvador on Univision TV during an interview with uh correspondent.
This is what Obama said about the war against Libya.
The exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment.
We'll still be in a support role.
We'll still be providing uh jamming and and uh intelligence and other uh assets that are unique to us.
Jamming and intelligence and other assets unique to us.
This is the guy who's taken every opportunity he can to rip and destroy the intelligence gathering operations of this country, and now he calls them unique, along with our jamming ability.
You've got to be kidding.
The exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense that we're gonna be pulling back from our much more active kinetic military efforts to shape the environment.
Last night on the last word on PMS NBC, the Gus, a guest, uh Huffing and Puffington Post, senior political editor Howard Feynman, and we assume that Howard is being paid, some at the HuffPo are not, had a discussion on Obama's performance on Libya, and Howard Feynman said this.
Yes, there's the humanitarian mission, but he's got to put this in a larger context because what the American people expect of Barack Obama, what he was elected for was a sense of coherence and vision and diligence and intellectual coherence.
That we haven't quite seen.
You ever stop to think, Mr. Feynman, seriously, you know I love you.
You ever stop to think he never had any?
I wonder if people who look at Obama and say, where is this guy that we knew?
Where is this guy we all love?
Where is this guy?
I wonder if they ever stop to think that maybe this guy never was what we thought he was.
Maybe this guy never was what we told people he was.
Coherence?
Vision, diligence, intellectual coherence.
Fine and dandy if there's evidence of it.
What you need far more evidence than just being able to read a teleprompter.
So I think we have a guy here that a lot of people they just projected.
Here's what we want a president to be, particularly coming off that stupid idiot cowboy.
George W. Bush, who embarrassed us every time he opened his mouth.
Well, David Brooks looks at Obama sitting across from him, sees a sharp crease in his pants, has an orgasm and says, aha, this guy is gonna be president.
A good one, too, just based on that.
Scary, scary stuff.
These people are serious.
What they told us about Obama, what they thought about Obama, what they wanted us to believe.
What are we to believe?
Is this just raging incompetence, or is this purposeful?
Humiliation and embarrassment of the United States of America.
What is it?
Snerdley, question.
Have you heard anybody in the regime officially define the Obama doctrine?
Anybody heard it?
Is anybody heard the Obama doctrine?
Well, I haven't.
However, Angria Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, has the Obama doctrine.
Uh last night on PMS NBC with Chris Matthews during a discussion about the war against Libya.
Chris Matthews said, Look, is there a doctrine here?
My leg's not tingling, Andrew, and I want my leg to tingle.
I hadn't tingled in a while.
Tell me, is there a is there on Obama doctrine?
Is Is there a vision thing going on here?
It's emerging.
Basically, what he says is when you have a catastrophe that you can avert, and the benefits outweigh the costs, and you have international or multilateral support, go for it.
You cannot stand idly by.
That's what I would call the Obama doctrine.
Well, why why didn't we think of this?
So simple.
You have a catastrophe.
And you can avert benefits outweigh the costs.
International, multilateral support, go for it.
You can't stand idly by.
You go for kinetic military action.
That's that's that's that's what the that's that's the that's the doctrine.
You go for it.
You cannot stand idly by.
That's what I call the Obama doctrine.
Left to the media to explain and define.
Well, is the catastrophe of a nuclear Iran avertible?
Can we avert that, Andrea?
What's the cost-benefit analysis of preventing a nuclear Iran?
You know what?
I would much rather hear Sarah Palin define the Obama doctrine.
And I'll bet you Sarah Palin would do a much better job of analyzing the Obama doctrine than Andrea and Mitchell, NBC News Washington, because basically it's just it's WTF, the Obama doctrine.
All right, to the phones to Atlanta.
We're gonna start.
Don, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Um Hillary and uh President Obama have both stated this week that Gaddafi has lost his legitimacy to govern.
Since when is a dictator who forced his way into power 40 years ago or at any time, um, and basically is a thug over the people, since when are they ever legitimate?
Well, it's a great, great question.
I, however, have the answer for you.
I want to really need to know.
Well, Qaddafi became illegitimate when he dared to do what he's doing while a Democrat is in the White House.
It's okay to do this kind of stuff when there's a Republican in there to demonstrate that they're weak or whatever, but to do this, this is a this is a slap in the face at Brother Obama.
To do this, uh that's that's why he's illegitimate.
He has failed to recognize the primacy supremacy of Obama here.
To engage in this kind of action after the Nobel Peace Prize winner sits in the Oval Office.
Yeah.
I I figure that uh if he can lose his legitimacy, then uh uh illegitimate child should become be able to become legitimate at some point, some way.
Well, that's half the Democrat Party.
Let me ask you this.
What about Fidel Castro?
He's still legitimate to these guys.
Uh Hujentao, he's still legitimate.
Uh uh uh Mahmood Ahmedidizad, still legitimate.
Yeah.
Uh uh uh Hugo Chavez, he's still legitimate.
What did Qaddafi do to lose his legitimacy?
I rest my case.
Dale Inventura, California.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, good day, Rush.
Uh, my question regards what Speaker Boehner sent the questions to the president.
I think a better question would be that since we have heard reports that the rebels in Libya are Al-Qaeda as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, if there's credibility to the reports, and being in that area, I believe it probably is.
Why would the president order air strikes in support of Al Qaeda when we have a declared war in two other countries over there at the same time against Al-Qaeda?
Would that not be considered either incompetent or giving aid to the enemy?
Well, I'd side on the incompetent side of this.
Um if you want to have a serious discussion of what motivates Democrat presidents to deploy the military, you know, they they are I think by design reluctant to ever do so.
Just really don't like it.
And when they do it, it's for PR reasons.
Uh it is to bail themselves out, is to prove them at sissies or what have you.
And so I don't think they even thought about who the rebel.
The rebels are just people protesting against these, and The cameras show us rebels and protesting like they did in Egypt, and voila, you got a bunch of people.
It's a democracy movement.
So the PR stage is set.
The regime thinks they've got to act because they are democrats.
They stand for the little guy.
Voila, that's all I care about.
I don't know.
They don't either.
Starting a million conversations.
Is Barack Obama purposely making the United States look inept and incompetent and appear as a worldwide joke?
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