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May 5, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 5, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I tell you what, folks, a pretty gutsy call.
Ah, this is too much fun.
It's like those sitting duck games at the carnival.
It's a...
How are you, folks?
Great, great, great to have you at Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, the big voice on the right.
Yep, pretty gutsy call for Obama to visit Ground Zero.
He could be out celebrating Cinco de Mayo today.
But I'm sure that he thinks he's got the uh illegal alien vote already locked up.
You know, I was thinking about something today when I saw Obama's entourage arrive at Ground Zero at the firehouse, where he's having lunch.
By the way, I saw the menu.
I wonder if Muchel Obama knows.
Here's the menu.
He's having lunch right now with firefighters of Engine 54.
Eggplant Parmigiana and scallop shrimp pasta in cream sauce.
Cream sauce, ladies and gentlemen.
No doubt a violation of scripture from his wife.
Every time the guy leaves the house to eat, he chows down.
Has to get away from that watercress vinaigrette that they no doubt serve him inside the uh inside the White House.
I was thinking.
Remember Bill Clinton went over to Normandy on the whatever some anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
You remember this?
We had the videotape of this on uh Russia the TV show.
The lone battleship out on the horizon.
Cameras up atop the hill from Omaha Beach.
On Omaha Beach, a lone figure.
A lone figure strolled in solitude, in pensive thoughts.
All the cameras were trained on this lonesome, lonely figure as he trod the sand of Omaha Beach.
And then this lone figure stopped and paused, gazed down at the sand, then crouched, and began what appeared to be playing with the sand.
The cameras were alerted.
They zoomed in.
The shot did contain that lone battleship on the horizon.
And lo and behold, the lone figure, the president of the United States, was arranging some stones, some pretty big stones found on Omaha Beach in the shape of a cross.
It was later learned that there were no stones on Omaha Beach until the White House staff had put them there.
And that the whole thing had been staged.
So I'm wondering if something similar will happen today as President Obama trods the sacred soil, the sacred ground of Ground Zero.
What do you mean it already did?
No, no, no, no.
I know he's there.
I mean, but what's he gonna find?
He's strolling around an artifact that nobody else has seen since that day.
Something that everybody missed, something that'll pop up.
It is his first visit to Ground Zero.
It's his first visit, well, as president.
I think he was there in 2008 as a uh as a candidate, but I think it's his first visit there as a president.
Now uh if it's it's odd, folks, but all the headlines on the morning news shows today were still about bin Laden.
And the conflicting stories that continue to be told about that raid.
And now we're focusing on was he armed or not?
Wait till you hear Alan Dershowitz in the audio soundbite roster today.
It's important was he shot in the back, was he standing up, was he laying down?
We need to know these things.
Kooks on the left are ratcheting this legal thing up.
So all the headlines on the morning shows today were still about bin Laden and especially about Obama's latest gutsy decision that would be not to release the Bin Laden photos.
So you probably haven't heard that new unemployment claims have hit an eight-month high.
But I want to make sure that I, the big voice on the right, tell you that.
Unemployment claims are at an eight-month high, while a news media is focused on furthering the agenda of Barack Hussein Obama.
Now, just to put that in perspective, jobless claims have not been this high since Obama was told that bin Laden was living in that compound in Pakistan back in August.
Just to put this in perspective.
Thirdly, I mean, that's what better perspective can you say?
We're an all-time high, eight-month high in jobless benefits.
They haven't been this high since Obama was first told bin Laden was hiding in that compound in Pakistan back in August.
It's been that long.
Now, in the latest version of the current truth.
How many media tweaks have we had so far?
In the latest version of the current truth, it is now universally accepted bin Laden was unarmed.
The White House has given up on the suicide belt angle.
We had that yesterday.
It was suicide belt.
We had to shoot him because if he was not naked, they had to shoot him.
Because he could have a suicide belt on, right?
They've given up on the suicide belt angle.
It turns out that bin Laden didn't even have a box cutter.
Not even a box cutter, much less an AK-47 hidden under the diapers.
Or by the dialysis machine.
Now, of course, the White House is not giving up so easily on this.
They are now claiming that bin Laden, and I'm not kidding, this is how this continues to change.
They're now claiming that bin Laden was just about to lunge for a nearby AK-47 and some kind of a pistol, a Makarov pistol.
Which they say now we're in arm's length of bin Laden.
But but doesn't that give rise to some questions?
If an AK-47 was within arms reach, why hadn't Bin Laden already reached for it?
Even though it's a stealth copter, at some point you hear it.
And then you hear the gunfire, you hear somebody being shot, turns out it was your courier.
Why?
And you're on the third floor, the SEALs have to come all the way up from the ground floor to get you.
Why is that AK-47 still within arm's reach and not in hand?
And the media, of course, doesn't ask any of these questions because the media is not curious.
Media is simply a bunch of stenographers.
Furthermore, if there were guns close at hand, wouldn't that have been something to photograph?
To show us.
I mean, clearly, clearly, folks, um we'll spike the football over a picture of an AK-47 in a terrorist lair, right?
We won't spike the football over the death of bin Laden.
That's what Obama says on 60 Minutes.
No, no, no, no, we're not going to spike the football.
Mr. President, uh, we would not have been spiking the football over the death of bin Laden.
We would have been spiking the football in celebration of America.
In celebration of SEAL Team 6 and the entire group of people who pulled off the operation if there were to be a spiking of the football.
It would not have been a spiking of the football because of the death of bin Laden.
Now, wouldn't it have been good to show any photos of bin Laden's body and these weapons that were nearby?
For the record, the video footage that we have seen of the room shows no weapons.
The three guys that were that the Pakistanis took picture of.
And the Pakistan authorities claim that they have found none in the entire compound, no weapons, and we've not been told of the SEALs took any weapons from the compound.
But if they did, shouldn't we see them?
Just to back up the story.
I mean, what's wrong with pictures of weapons?
If we had a free and independent press, they might ask some of these questions.
But we don't.
Oh, give me a break of weapons antagonizing the uh the wrong people.
Here's a headline in the Washington Post today.
This is a story.
I guarantee you, if they saw this in the White House, they hate the opening of this story, the lead.
It's a story by Scott Wilson and Anne Kornblut.
And the headline in Bin Laden's victory echoes of the Bush years as President Obama celebrates the signature.
National security success of his tenure.
He has a long list of people to thank.
On that list, George W. Bush.
That's the opening paragraphs, right?
After the 9-11-2001 attacks, Bush waged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that have forged a military so skilled that it carried out a complicated covert raid with only a minor complication.
Public tolerance for military operations over the past decade has shifted to the degree that a mission carried out deep inside a sovereign country has raised little domestic protest and a detention and interrogation system.
That Obama once condemned as contrary to American values produced one early lead that years later brought U.S. forces to the high walled compound in a Badabad Pakistan and a fatal encounter with an unarmed Osama bin Laden.
That's the first three paragraphs of a Washington Post story today, which credits George Bush for everything.
But that's just the Washington Post.
Try this headline.
This is a puker.
And this is Ben Feller, the Associated Press.
Obama giving New York its moment of justice on bin Laden.
Everything is about Obama.
Obama giving New York its moment of justice on bin Laden.
The scary thing about this is this is really how the reporters of the AP and the rest of our so-called watchdog media actually view Obama.
That he is able single-handedly to give New York City its moment of justice just by showing up.
Obama giving New York its moment of justice on bin Laden.
Actually, uh, ladies and gentlemen, our warriors have done that.
Our military has given New York its moment of justice on bin Laden.
The warriors who signed up after 9-11, the same warriors who were attacked here at home for their interrogations, the same warriors attacked by John Kerry and Dick Turbin, the same CIA and intelligence services that were attacked by the liberals after we went into Iraq, the same people who were attacked by Obama, who based his campaign for president on degrading these warriors and their mission.
He based his campaign on degrading them, impugning them and their mission.
It is they who brought us to this point and this moment.
It is they who give New York its moment of justice on bin Laden.
It is not Obama.
Barack Obama and his party and the media are in full cover-up mode now.
Even worse, they're trying to take the credit or give credit where it doesn't belong.
Eric Holder, I don't know if you know this.
Eric Holder is still investigating CIA interrogators.
He is still trying to put CIA interrogators in jail.
He is still trying to turn them into convicted criminals.
Where's the outrage over this?
Obama still pushing a two-state solution with Israel and the Palestinians.
despite Hamas mourning, Bin Laden's killing.
Where's the outrage?
Your administration's policies don't merit praise and congratulations.
They weakened the country.
Nothing has changed about that.
The unemployment number at an eight-month high.
There's nothing about what Obama's doing that is improving the country.
It continues to weaken.
There's another sickening story somewhere in the stack of stuff that this mission and this gutsy call mean that there's no way ever again, any longer that any Republican presidential candidate can even hold a candidate Obama in foreign policy.
And I think even Mitch Daniels said so.
Somebody, what one of the Republican candidates said so.
Mitch Daniels has also praised Obama and Arnie Duncan over their education policies.
They've done great work and they need to be praised for it.
Well, sorry, folks, the administration's policies do not merit praise and congratulations.
They are weakening the country.
And Obama is making it more difficult for future presidents to be in a position to do what he did because everything that Obama has done, the policies that he's used here, he's undermining.
He's denying future presidents the same advantages used that he used thanks to Bush.
He hadn't learned a thing.
Says a lot that Bush is not there today, by the way.
And all this talk of unity, let me tell you what that's really about.
They want us to unify around Obama.
They want the country to unify around Obama, not the military, not the CIA, and not the American people.
But that's who we unite and rally around.
We unite and rally around the military, the CIA, the warriors, people made this happen.
Got to take a brief time out.
Yeah, here we go.
It was right.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, seen within the GOP as a credible voice on fiscal issues, bluntly acknowledged earlier this week to reporters that he was, quote, probably not, close quote, ready to debate Obama on foreign policy.
He was saying publicly about himself what other Republicans say privately about the entire field.
That's Charles Babbington in the Associated Press.
AP.
Mitch Daniels.
Yep.
He's probably not ready to debate Obama on foreign policy, and that's publicly stating what all the other Republican candidates privately agree to as well.
That's the AP.
And we'll be back.
Sit tight.
Don't go away.
You know who I might not want to be right now is Leon Panetta.
Virtually everything Leon Panetta has said since this whole incident was discovered has been refuted.
The latest regime puts out this picture of everybody in a situation room.
And we're all led to believe that they're watching the raid in real time.
That's what we, the American people, are led to believe.
And you've got Obama sitting there, and it's been observed that he I observed it myself as the big voice on the right.
He seemed very small, the smallest person in the room.
He's got on a golf shirt and a windbreaker.
Gates, one other guy, the only person in there with a tie on.
Hillary has her hand over her mouth, but she couldn't believe what she's seeing.
Her story today is no, no, no, no.
I wasn't upset at what I was seeing.
I was an allergy problem.
Well, it turns out they weren't watching anything.
Panetta has said that it went dark for 25 minutes.
The feed went black.
There was nothing there.
The picture in the situation room where they were intently watching every second of the raid.
Panetta says they weren't watching it.
Panetta said the picture was going to be released.
Picture's not going to be released.
I can't think of all the instances here where Panetta has the story's out that Panetta actually was instrumental in getting the decision made by Obama to do this.
Hillary Clinton said those were 38 of the most intense minutes.
She said of the raid on bin Laden's compound by the seals.
I have no idea what any of us were looking at at that particular millisecond when the picture was taken.
Well, Panetta does.
He said you were looking at a black screen.
The feed was there was 30 minutes, 25 or 30 minutes of it was missing.
They still can't get their story straight about about all of this.
Let me ask you those of you who are married.
Snerdley, you've been married, right?
You've been married.
All right.
Question for those of you who are married or have been.
If your spouse has three different...
Oh, gee, we'll have to get to this in just a second.
Rush Limbaugh the big voice on the right, the titular leader of the free world, a thinking man's thinker.
Here at 800 282-2882, if you want to be on the uh on the program, you know, I'm thinking about the Bin Laden photos that will not be released.
Uh Snerdley just had a good point.
I and I remember when I was a kid, and I've seen them myself, you probably have too.
Back back in the days of Capone and Babyface Nelson, Dylan Journal, whenever J. Edgar Hoover wiped these guys out, whenever there was successful slaughter, I mean the pictures were all over the newspapers.
The blood, the guts, the gore, the pasta if it happened at a restaurant.
Wait, speaking of that, there were pictures of Paul Costellano on the street in front of Spark Steakhouse.
When Gotti rubbed him out, how did our parents ever survive the trauma, ladies and gentlemen?
How did our parents ever survive?
Look at the gore and the guts and the blood in Clint Eastwood movies.
Or any other set of movies.
Lordy, how have we ever survived?
I remember, folks, when I lived in Kansas City, which was uh 1979 to 1983, there was a local cable access host by the name of L Edge.
And every two weeks, L Edge ran a long form special on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at the Kansas City train station, and it had still shots of a bunch of mobsters being blown away.
And uh in fact, speaking of which, that that the St. Valentine's Day Massacre today would be, you know, a minor little gang skirmish.
But I mean it was huge back there.
But the point is there were all these pictures, still shots of blood, guts, and gore that L L Edge, I mean, he just he just loved showing everybody.
Well, no, it wasn't every two weeks, but it seemed like it.
It was his it was his favorite show.
I remember being on the radio and talking about who is LL Edge.
I mean, it's ran around this one of those guys that knows everybody in town, but nobody knows him.
And it was uh I'm just I'm just kidding.
Look, uh uh.
Yeah, wouldn't wouldn't gory photos of a dead terrorist, if we're talking about influence, wouldn't that maybe influence you into not ending up that way?
Well, I mean, this that's the counterpoint to this notion that it's a recruitment tool.
Oh, yeah, I want to end up like that.
Where do I sign up?
Where's Zawahiri?
I want to end up just like bin Laden.
Is that what the uh effect of the picture is going to be?
Now, if, as I was saying, you're gonna see you make the point that terrorism doesn't pay.
If your spouse has three different versions of a night out with the girls.
She's hiding something, right?
No question about it, right?
If your if your spouse has three different versions of a night out with the boys, he's hiding Something, probably.
Either that or he or she was so drunk they can't remember, and they have to make up different stories.
But probably they're hiding something.
Now, based on what everybody heard on this increasingly popular growing by leaps and bounds radio program yesterday, the reason the regime's story keeps changing is they don't want to say Obama ordered an assassination.
They really, for some reason, they're they're they're they're they're they're trying to well, the holder goes out there self-defense.
They're twisting themselves here in uh a lot of different ways.
But the fact is, if we pointed out yesterday, there was no way they were gonna take bin Laden alive.
Because that that would have put them in an impossible political position.
They're not gonna subject bin Laden to their own sissy fied policies.
They're not gonna send him over here.
They're not only gonna give him an ACLU lawyer, and they're not gonna promise him a trial.
They're not gonna do that to themselves.
They would not do that.
So apparently Obama was willing to pass up a possible treasure trove of information.
If Osama was taken alive.
The political calculation had to be certain here.
We found bin Laden.
He was available for a kill shot any number of ways.
He was defenseless.
We caught him totally by surprise.
It was important to say that Osama's death was the result of some contorted version of self-defense.
I mean, they tried out wearing a suicide vest under the pajamas.
They gave up on that, and they said now it's an AK-47 within arm's reach.
Now we've been told that uh bin Laden, excuse me, had been there for quite some time.
It's obvious the SEALs were there to kill him.
The Reuters story, I believe it was a kill mission.
Like we care.
But Obama cares, his base cares, he can't admit it.
So here's where we are.
No follow me on this.
He ordered an assassination, and he can't say it.
He put us on a path to socialized medicine, and he can't say it.
The stimulus bill was a slush fund for public sector unions.
He can't say it.
EPA regulations are backdoor cap and tax.
He can't say it.
He's a card-carrying member of the radical left.
He can't say it.
He has a leftist-inspired prejudice against the private sector.
He can't say it.
Bill Ayers was his good friend.
He can't say it.
He listened to every word in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.
He can't say it.
And he has a real problem with Israel, but he can't say it.
That is why Obama has so many lame, phony, nonsensical versions of answers to simple questions.
Because he can't say what's really going on.
He has to hide who he is and what he's doing.
That's all needs to be said.
He has to hide who he is and what he's doing.
And he is the most transparent president ever.
He has to hide who he is and what he's doing.
And that truth, that undeniable truth, is on display every day.
We how many versions are we on now?
In the aftermath here of uh of what happened.
Let me grab a quick phone call.
Is there a phone call worth taking up there snurly or just put a bunch of losers up?
Is there one worth taking when somebody we don't know?
Let's I get line one.
We're gonna try in Los Angeles.
Hi, Scott.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
Hey, I sent a picture through um, I was looking at the Reuters release of the pictures of the people killed in that raid.
Yeah.
And one of the guys is laying there, and underneath his right shoulder is the weapon that they must have used in the fire fight, and it appears to be a green squirt gun.
If you look at that photo over his right shoulder, there is a green squirt gun.
I I I don't have the pictures in front of me.
I looked at them yesterday afternoon.
I don't remember what it was squirt gun?
What's the joke here?
I just think that must be the weapon that Jay Carney was talking about that they were in the firefighting.
Oh, you th okay, okay.
But they pulled a squirt gun and our SEAL shot on him.
Well, I don't they probably had weapons in there.
The Pakistanis say they didn't find any uh any any weapons.
And there were kids in there, squirt guns.
Who knows?
I mean, kids lost soccer balls in that uh in that in that compound.
I mean you did.
They anyways.
Uh yeah, yeah.
Hey, my gun went over the wall.
Can I have my gun back, Mr. Osama?
Yeah, here's your gun back, kid.
Pow!
Here's three bucks for your soccer ball.
Don't come back.
Now that squirt gun, you were sitting here we're we're jocular mood today.
But no, you look at the picture.
I looked at it during the break.
What's odd is that that gun is bright green.
And it it it so it's clearly safe.
Nobody nobody would mistake it for the real thing.
It's a squirt gun.
It's a squirt gun in the hideout of world's foremost terrorist.
I don't know, just these are observations.
Hillary Clinton, by the way, she said, back to this picture.
I'm sorry, for this picture out.
Everybody watching the raid, Panetta says, nope, the raid went dark, the fiend went dark for 25 or 30 minutes.
Pictures got Hillary with her hand over her mouth.
Oh, no.
She says it's an allergy.
Hillary says a 38 most intense minutes.
What of her life?
38 most intense minutes of our now.
And keep in mind.
She'd been through labor.
And yet that black screen was 38 of the most intense minutes of her life.
She's she's been through labor.
She's had sex with Bill, presumably.
She's she well well, no, it wasn't 38 minutes, it was still intense.
She had um she s she sat she sat in that very room and watched Bill's Lewinsky deposition.
But this is the most intense 38 minutes of her life.
Now, folks, all of these uh all of these articles, it's amazing how this works.
And the lead article today, AP, all these articles that we're now seeing about how the bin Laden mission has made it impossible for any Republican candidate to ever match Obama's foreign policy achievements.
Never mind that before being elected president, Obama had zero experience in foreign policy, for that matter in anything else.
Even as a United States Senator, Obama never showed the slightest interest in foreign policy, apart from endlessly attacking all of the Bush foreign policies that he now embraces.
But just makes me a little suspicious.
All these coordinated stories.
Yeah, there's no way Republicans can't compete in foreign policy.
There's no way.
And then uh and and then Mitch Daniels out there saying that he's probably not ready to debate Obama on foreign policy.
Well, no, but the thing about it, his foreign policy is a disaster.
His foreign policy's been an unmitigated disaster from Iran to North Korea to Libya, where he's done well, it's only because he's following Bush's foreign policies to the letter.
I really I uh you know, folks, we know that we've got challenges on our side on the Republican Party, but this.
Well, what we we do not need to be running around saying, okay, we like Mitch Daniels because his conservatism isn't combative.
And Mitch Daniels pipes up and says, yeah, that's right.
Well, I'm not ready to debate Obama and foreign policy.
I'm not, I'm no more near pfff.
What?
Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot?
Why do we let these people set the premise?
And then where are you at?
What are you shaking your head for in there?
Well, he said it.
He said it.
Well, the AP says he said it.
We always need a caveat.
It is AP.
And maybe he didn't say it.
You know, it's entirely possible that Daniels did not say this the way the AP is reporting it.
We have to hold that out as a possibility.
But there's something truly hilarious here.
a Democrat is running against a Republican with foreign policy credentials they tell us that all politics is local the the the the uh template is that when it comes to foreign policy the Democrats can't hold a candle to any Republican that's the way it's always because they're a bunch of doves.
And now all of a sudden, because of this mission, Obama's untouchable.
Republicans don't dare even debate him on foreign policy.
And now we need to change the tune of this template.
And you look at Obama's poll numbers on his handling of the economy, and we're gonna get hung up here on whether or not we're ready to debate the guy on foreign policy.
There's a piece by E.J. Dion Jr. in the Washington Post where he says that the bin Laden raid changes everything, that nobody will ever be able to think of uh Obama the same way that proves Obama's not afraid of using military force.
He's just against dumb wars, like Bush's.
And we've got we've got what's her name, the plagiarist.
Um Doris Curns Goodwin.
She was on TV today.
Uh it's hilarious.
We'll play you the soundbikes.
We'll read you E. J.D. on some of the pebblum coming out of these people's mouths about Obama.
It's predictable.
It's all predictable because the left circling the wagons around Obama.
It's all about Obama.
It's not about America, it's not about the troops, not about the SEALs, it's all about Obama.
Bakersfield, California, quickly back to the phones.
This Mike.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Uh the first time callers, part-time listener.
Uh always appreciate your show.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh background, I'm a former special forces and uh SWAT cop, retired now.
And so I had mindset training from on both subjects.
Can you tell us what special forces uh unit you were a division you were were you?
I was down in the Dominican Republic in 66.
Okay, great.
Um the um the the mindset for for special forces, of course, is mission first.
And and you don't send SEALs and special forces uh SEAL six, especially special forces out on them, bring them back alive mission.
Uh that's what everybody knows so I would say that if the orders were put to them as bringing back dead or alive, their priority was dead.
The only way he'd come back alive is if he walked out in front of TV cameras in his shorts with his hands in the air, then they might have brought him back alive.
Right.
Other than that, they knew what their mission was, and that was to get him no matter what.
Their criteria, of course, would have been uh primarily, is there any chance that if we try to bring him back alive we'll fail?
And if the answer was even a slight possibility that they would that they would, then they would of course take him out immediately.
And the circumstances would be such that uh that uh like I say, they could find him naked in a room began for his life, and if he was alone and they'd just say, yeah, remember 9 11 and take the wheel.
Naked and pleading for his life, they pull a trigger to double tap and then put the squirt gun in his hand after the fact.
I mean, the mission was to get him.
I don't think there's any question because the regime's now twisting itself in all kinds of ways to say that wasn't because they you know look what did Obama campaign against?
He campaigned against exactly this kind of policy, and exactly this kind of mission.
So I. I am glad that the news media and the rest of the Democrats are finally giving President Bush the respect he deserves for his excellent foreign policy in keeping this country safe.
Because whether they know it or not, that's what they are doing.
Uh we got two more versions of what happened.
Only one killed in bin Laden raid was armed.
Uh and where's the other one is uh only one killed, and uh Obama bin Laden raiders encountered false door, found small arsenal in compound.
Did you have you heard that?
Small arsenal, including the squirt gun.
You know, uh folks, no serious the Obama of the 2008 campaign would have been bin Laden's human shield.
That's how things have changed here.
Make no mistake about and I've got to take a quick time out.
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