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May 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 1, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, I need to warn everybody right up front here at the top that this could be, no, it is, one of those days.
I don't know if it's going to bleed into the radio program, but this is fair warning if it does.
Nothing.
What time is it?
Nothing in the last 18 hours has gone right.
Nobody's telling me the truth about anything.
It has been an, I mean, it's just been an unmitigated disaster at home.
Power failures, UPS is failing, scorching, screeching tones all over the place.
No repair possible.
Generator power for eight hours last night.
14 different power failures, it seemed like.
And I'm just, I'm fit to be tied here over all this because fixes were supposed to be made.
And nobody's telling me the truth about anything.
And it's not just there, it's just all over.
So I'm just warning everybody.
I'm on the verge.
This is Mount Vesuvius time here.
Now, hopefully, this little bit of bleeding on you has helped to release the pressure from DeValve.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
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I'm going to tell you something.
This Obama character is showing everybody what low character in high office is all about.
This spike in a football two days in a row, now actually three over getting bin Laden.
There's only one guy.
There's only one guy who said we shouldn't go get bin Laden.
You know who it was?
It was Biden.
Vice President Biden.
I have the story.
It was an ABC News story, and it's from January 30th of 2012.
Joe Biden advised against the Osama bin Laden raid.
Not Mitt Romney, not John McCain, not Jimmy Carter, but Joe Biden is the only guy that said, don't go get bin Laden.
And Obama's out there ticking everybody off with this.
So, you know, we are our choices, folks.
Barack Hussein Obama chose to figuratively parade Osama bin Laden's dead body around the public square in an attempt to bring singular glory to himself.
How pathetic.
The guy they had to drag off the golf course.
Look at the UK Daily Mail.
There's all kinds of blog stories today, internet stories, with the picture of that great group of courageous heroes in the situation room watching the raid take place.
The only person in that room who looks like she's even emotionally involved at all is Mrs. Clinton.
She got her mouth covered by her hand.
Her eyes are wide open.
It's almost like she saw Bill come home at 6 o'clock at night for the first time in a long time.
She can't believe it.
Everybody else is just sitting there staring at Obama is slumped down.
He's sitting lower in his chair than anybody in the room.
They hustled him in from the golf course.
They put an I'm president jacket on him.
He's got his white golf shirt buttoned up to the top underneath it, and he's looking there.
And as I said, yes, Mr. President, this is a video feed of a military operation taking place that Mr. McRaven authorized two weeks ago that we decided just go ahead and do it is what that picture looks like.
And this is Obama's kickoff to his campaign for re-election.
Now, there is no better way to illustrate an utter lack of judgment and character than how the president is behaving.
This is shameful.
I mean, for two, what is it, maybe three days in a row now, suggesting that Romney would not have had the guts to pull the trigger and lying, well, taking as out of context as possible Romney's comments about getting bin Laden versus the entire war on terror.
A decade of courage, sacrifice, cooperation, coordination, investigation, brains, and discipline on the part of the U.S. military, the special ops,
the CIA interrogators, the entire intelligence community has been exploited now for the personal gain of one small man who had the easiest job in this long chain of command.
Of all the people involved in the war on terror, which this president was totally opposed to as a senator, this one guy had the easiest job of all of the people in this chain.
From the boots on the ground to the Intel people to the CIA interrogators.
You know, it's arguable, had Obama's policies regarding interrogation at Guantanamo Bay or at CIA Black Site secret prisons, had Obama's policies not been, or had Obama's policies been in force, we may not have ever gotten bin Laden.
That's the real irony here.
There was one man, there was a courier, one person who carried messages to and from Osama bin Laden from that luxurious hideout in Pakistan.
The identity of that courier was uncovered by CIA interrogators using enhanced techniques opposed by Obama.
It wasn't waterboarding.
I don't know what the techniques were.
Had it not been for the policies put in place by Bush-Cheney.
And by the way, it's impossible to talk about this honestly and not have it sound political.
I am doing my best to have this not sound political.
But the Bush-Cheney policies of enhanced interrogation and the conduct of the war on terror in general led to the identity of the courier and his location, which led to Obama's location, Osama's location.
And if Obama's policies had been in place, that was an honest, what are you, Faux PA, Freudian and so on?
If Obama's policies, as articulated during the Iraq War, all of his opposition to Petraeus, his opposition to enhanced techniques, interrogation, his opposition, had his policies been in place, we would not probably have gotten bin Laden.
That's the irony here.
So the guy with the easiest job and the least qualified in any room he walks into is now beating his chest and spiking the football.
And furthermore, and criticizing the very policies that he opposed.
And now running around and saying that Romney is gutless and wouldn't have had the guts to pull the trigger had he been in Obama.
And furthermore, do you think?
Got a great story here, by the way.
ABC News, a Republican focus group, a Democrat focus group organization, went out and talked to Walmart moms.
And Walmart moms don't care about this.
Now, Walmart moms, according to this story, are a very important voting bloc.
They are of a certain age.
They are of a certain income level.
They have a certain number of kids, and there are a lot of them.
And they don't care.
Only 11% of them, I think, is going to care about this.
They all care about the economy.
And so the story from ABC is how none of this Obama stuff on bin Laden is going to penetrate and get through to them because they don't care.
It's how he's blowing it.
But it's all he's got to hang his hat on.
Because he can't run around and convince these Walmart moms that the economy is going to get better if we just keep doing what we're doing.
They know it isn't.
So Obama's out there basically.
He is trying, folks, to call himself or have us think of him as a hero for doing something that if Bush or Cheney had done, Obama probably would have called them war criminals.
That's another real irony.
If Bush and Cheney had found Osama bin Laden and he was exactly where he was, and they sent the seals in there, and they got him exactly the way they did, and then there were no pictures, and then bin Laden was buried at sea, and there's no real evidence other than we got to take everybody's word for it.
Obama and Pelosi and Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton and a whole bunch of them would be accusing Bush and Cheney of lying for political purposes.
They didn't even get bin Laden.
Where's the proof?
And they would accuse him if it did happen to being war criminals.
The ironies here are multiple and frequent.
To give the go-ahead, to take out an unsuspecting terrorist with the best SEAL team America has.
That's what Obama wants the credit for.
And he wasn't even the man in charge of the actual operation.
That was a guy named McRaven.
We had the details of that story for you yesterday.
But Obama can't help it.
He's a narcissist.
World revolves around him, as you know.
And so he has to put the spotlight on himself, which is wrong.
This is like a guy who gives money to charity only for the press release that accompanies it and maybe gets his name on the medical building that they name after him for giving them money.
A guy that does everything for public consumption, does everything for public notice, for public approval, not because of the genuineness of the act.
Remember, my friends, it was a few years ago, 2008, one week prior to the election, Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw spent an entire show telling each other how they didn't know who the guy they couldn't wait to be president was.
Do you know anything about him?
I don't know what books he's read.
I don't know who his mentors are.
That's a good question.
It's an important question.
And who are the people and his industry?
Well, we don't know, Charlie.
Was an hour of we don't know who Obama is, but boy, it's going to be historical if we elect him.
Well, now we know who Barack Obama is.
Insecure is at least one thing.
Some people on the left say that Obama's likable, cool.
I've always thought he was cold.
And I, El Rushbo, I'm on record saying that early on.
Yeah, Obama would be running around saying, Osama wasn't Mirandized.
You sent the SEALs in there and he didn't read his rights.
That's what they'd be doing.
That's what Occupy Wall Street would be doing.
I see desperation here.
Sad desperation with unlimited funds and enablers doing everything they can to make him feel good about himself.
That's what's going on here.
And I'll tell you, folks, you know this as well as I do.
Needy and selfish are not attractive features.
Needy and selfish.
I don't know about you.
Needy, selfish, and complaining are off-putting to me.
I don't know how to deal with it.
I really, people complain, and Obama's always complaining.
What Bush left him, the mess that was worse than anybody knew, whatever it is.
I don't know how to deal with people who complain.
I don't know what to say to them.
I don't know whether to be sympathetic because that doesn't accomplish anything.
I don't know what to do when people start whining and moaning and complaining about stuff because it never gets anything done.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know how to deal with it.
Needy, selfish, whining, complaining, not attractive.
And when they are being traits exhibited by people in positions of responsibility, it's not attractive.
So, you know, the old adage, when your opponent is in the process of destroying himself, you get out of the way and let it happen.
It's an old adage here on talk radio.
The caller's making a fool of himself.
Get out of the way.
Let it happen.
There's another version.
When your opponent is drowning, throw him an anvil.
I kind of like that one.
Your opponent is drowning, throw him an anvil.
What?
Look at who's upset with Obama.
The SEALs are publicly quoting, being quoted.
They're speaking for attribution of how upset they are about this.
That's unprecedented.
Active duty, as well as former, are talking about how unseemly this is to be used as political footballs.
His solicitor general, this virility guy from Columbia, nobody's smarter, of course, because he went to Columbia.
This guy has made a fool of himself and the regime at the Supreme Court during oral arguments twice, once at Obamacare, once as the regime sues Arizona.
And his performance up there is characterized by the left, has been embarrassing and humiliating, and he's caused panic among fine minds like Thomas Lupi Friedman and Jeffrey Toobin.
That's a shame when you make those guys feel uncomfortable because their lives are not most meant to be lived uncomfortably.
They are left-wing journalists.
And in the midst of all this, the president is joking about eating dogs.
Pit bulls at the White House correspondents are joking about eating dogs.
His new campaign theme, Forward, everybody thinks that, oh, he's stealing it from MSNBC.
No, he's stealing it from the Marxists.
Forward is a Marxist-socialist creation.
Obama's waging a war on women that's blown up in his face.
A la Hillary Rosen and Ann Romney.
And we've learned that he underpays women in the White House, more women laid off during his term.
Hillary Rosen set up to fail.
The economy continues to slip.
Food stamp recipients continue to rise.
And meanwhile, Obama's out there with Jimmy Fallon slowjamming the news while talking about eating dogs, bragging about getting bin Laden when he was on the golf course.
From my standpoint, it's anvil time.
Throw the guy the anvil.
You know, have it arrive out there around November on Election Day?
What does Romney do?
What's Romney supposed to do?
Romney has got, well, I've got to take a break.
And we are back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, here already Tuesday.
It is Tuesday, right?
Already Tuesday, the fastest week in media.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
By the way, weren't we told?
Yeah, I'm going to tell you what Romney ought to do in just a second.
General campaign advice worth what it costs him.
Weren't we told that we needed to close down Club Gitmo because it was a recruitment tool for the terrorists?
That's right.
And who was it that told us that?
Why?
None other than Senator Barack Obama and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
So we had to shut down Club Gitmo.
Weren't we told that using enhanced interrogation is a recruitment tool for the terrorists?
And that's what we were doing.
And of course, that means we were helping terrorists recruit members.
Weren't we told we had to bury Osama bin Laden at sea because his grave might be used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.
So we couldn't allow him to be martyred in that way.
And weren't we told, ladies and gentlemen, that the government could not release the photos of the body of Osama bin Laden because the photos would be used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.
Yeah, we were told, just like the liberals, in every instance of a crime, if we go after the perpetrator, it's going to make the perpetrator and his friends even madder.
We don't want to do that.
So we don't want to celebrate victory over these guys.
Don't want to put them in Club Gitmo.
It's just going to make them madder, make them more committed.
They're going to recruit more terrorists, right?
Well, isn't Obama's campaign ad, where he brags about killing Osama, a recruiting tool for terrorists?
Using his own definition, isn't his endless crowing about killing bin Laden a recruiting tool?
Isn't dancing on bin Laden's grave and beating his chest and going, like Tarzan did, a recruiting tool?
So are some recruiting tools for terrorists worse than others?
Is there a way we can learn to figure this out?
You know what Ray Kroc said, the great capitalist and founder of McDonald's.
He said, when your opponent's drowning, you don't throw them an anvil.
You put a garden hose in their mouth and turn it on.
That's what he said.
That's what Ray Kroc said.
The guys over at Burger King are drowning.
Here's a garden hose right in the oral cavity.
Bam, you turn it on.
Romney is, you know, Romney's quick response, he said, come look, will you get off of this, President Obama?
We got to get serious.
I like the Romney rapid response here.
But the overall general campaign, Romney is going to have, this is where people are nervous about Romney, I think.
This is what he's going to have to do.
This is an election about two visions of America.
What Jimmy Carter line?
Who said that?
Romney said even Jimmy Carter would make the go.
Well, yeah, but Carter's helicopter would have crashed into some desert if he did it.
So I didn't put it.
I tell you what, I was more impressed.
Jajah Huffington.
And she was as plain spoken as she didn't need a translator.
Jajah Huffington thinks that what Obama's doing with Osama bin Laden is despicable.
That's her word.
That's what Jajah thinks.
And she's so well-spoken and so passionate on this.
You did not need a translator to understand that she was saying despicable.
You couldn't understand it yourself.
Yeah, Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter, if I had a son who grew up to be president, he'd look a little like Obama.
And he would complete my second term.
Jimmy Carter.
The Democrats don't even like Jimmy Carter.
The upper echelon, because Carter was running around conducting foreign policy on his own after the Nixon funeral, trying to get the Nobel Peace Prize to become relevant.
Habitat for Humanity wasn't working for him.
This election, as I was saying before, rudely being interrupted, but everybody thinks they can do this better than I do.
This election is about, I warned you people, it has a potential to be a rough day here.
Well, and I'm such a nice guy that when I have to get tough, I get guilty.
Okay.
Anyway, this is an election not about an economy.
This is an election about two visions of the country.
And Romney, he can run against Obama's economy and he can run against various specific Obama programs, issues that have failed and so forth.
But this is where people, this is where it's ideological.
This is a right versus left.
You've got Obama, it's clear.
I mean, what did he say?
He wanted to transform America.
That's what I was.
Fundamentally transform America.
What does that mean to you?
What is fundamentally transformed?
Like, I've shared with you, I know, I'm confident.
When I say I don't really know, but I'm confident that this guy has not liked this country from the days that it was founded.
Doesn't like the way it was founded.
Chip on his shoulder about it.
He has said in Osawatomi, Kansas, America as founded has never worked.
Capitalism essentially never worked.
He views his presidency as the first one in 200 plus years to have a chance to fix the flaws inherent in this nation's founding.
They don't, Obama and his crowd don't like the Constitution.
Romney is going to have to point out that this election is not about just defeating Obama, but it's about holding back the hordes.
It's about turning back the tide of the worldwide left that wants to essentially get rid of capitalism, individualism, rugged individual liberty, whatever, and replace it with a command and control central authority that they run.
I don't know if Romney believes that, or not believe that, I don't know if he thinks that.
I know, because he's told me that he fundamentally disagrees with Obama, what Obama's trying to do, and its effect on his kids and grandkids, Romney's.
I know that he's got a big problem with Obama, but does he know that there are a gazillion other Obamas waiting in the wings?
And that even if Obama's defeated, there are going to be a bunch of little Obamas still populating the bureaucracy over the EPA and stuff.
It's going to be, this is an ideological battle.
And that's what the Tea Party is all about, and that's what conservatism is.
It's about saving America, preserving this country as founded.
It's not just about defeating Obama.
That's, of course, required.
But the campaign to do so has got to be much more in-depth than that.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is yesterday afternoon at the White House, Obama, the Japanese prime minister, with a joint press conference.
And there was a question from the Chicago Tribune, Washington Bureau Chief Christy Parsons.
Here's the question.
We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the killing of bin Laden.
I'm wondering if you would share some thoughts on that anniversary.
And I also wanted to mention that your likely opponent said anybody would have made that call, even Jimmy Carter.
So I am curious, what would you say about that?
And Mr. Prime Minister, I wonder if you could reflect from an international perspective.
If the U.S. is playing it right in marking this anniversary, if you might advise against excessive setup.
Now, does somebody want to try to tell me that that's not a setup?
Somebody want to tell me that's not a planted question?
What are we just lost satellite on DVR one?
That means I probably had 14 power failures at home just in the last 10 minutes.
Got rugged weather out there.
We've got 45 mile an hour sustained winds out there on the beach.
After the second power failure last night, I found out that Florida Power and Light was out trying to get branches off of power lines.
I initially blamed them, but then it kept happening long after they left.
So it couldn't have been them.
Anyway, here's Obama answering that setup, planted question.
Listen to this.
I hardly think that you've seen any excessive celebration taking place here.
As far as my personal role and what other folks would do, I just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden.
I said that I'd go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did.
If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it.
Pakistan.
You know, this is such an obvious attempt here to take what Romney said out of context.
It was during a Republican debate, I believe.
And what Romney essentially said was that he disagreed with the Democrats that the definition of the war on terror was whether or not we got one man, bin Laden.
And the overall war on terror, the money spent, would be much better spent on the broader conflict than throwing millions and gazillions of whatever into getting one guy.
And the reason Romney said it is because Democrats like Obama since 2004, 2005 have been claiming Bush failed in the war on terror because they didn't get bin Laden.
You find it interesting.
A year after bin Laden is found and taken out, Obama last week announces the end of the war on terror.
Snerdley did not know that.
He'd been so busy screaming calls, he hadn't heard that.
But we had clearly been told last week by the regime the war on terror was over.
And the next day, there was a story front page one of the newspapers about another drone strike and drone policy.
Why are we still flying drones if the war on terror is over?
And why is al-Qaeda still killing people?
And why is the Muslim Brotherhood here and doing what they're doing in Egypt and wanting permission to have sex with their dead wives for six hours after she dies?
If the war on terror is over.
And the war on terror is over because the Democrats always defined it as Osama bin Laden being killed.
This is infant.
This is childish immaturity, that answer that Obama gave.
Well, anybody just go look at the record.
Take a look at people's previous statements in terms of what they thought was appropriate to go into Pakistan.
It's Pakistan.
It's the way Americans say it.
Pakistan.
You're tired of hearing Pakistan every damn day.
Here's the story, and there's much more to it than was reported about the war on terror is over.
It was from the National Journal last week, and here's what the story said.
The war on terror is over.
One senior State Department official who works on issues told me, this is whoever wrote this piece, now that we have killed most of al-Qaeda, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression.
What the hell is that?
That's the Arab Spring.
We got a State Department official, say, Arab Spring.
That's a legitimate means of expression.
People who once might have gone into Al-Qaeda see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.
This is a State Department official in explaining why the war on terror was over.
Now that we've killed most of al-Qaeda, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, that's the Arab Spring.
People who once might have gone into Al-Qaeda see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism, which is the Muslim Brotherhood.
So the war on terror is over.
Got bin Laden.
That's what this State Department official is saying.
He's saying the Arab Spring has ended the war on terror.
When he says, people who once might have gone into Al-Qaeda see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.
In other words, we have made it so that these Muslim extremists can gain power without even having to fight for it.
Just join the Muslim Brotherhood.
They don't have to go and join al-Qaeda now, become terrorists.
The Arab Spring has made it possible for Muslim extremists to gain power without even having to fight for it.
That's, well, I mean, they had to do their little revolution.
I had CNN's Nick Robertson out there in the square interviewing guys about how important Obama's role was.
But that's it.
That's the Obama administration.
The war on terror is over.
They got Obama, got Osama, and Al-Qaeda's dead, and the Muslim Brotherhood is alive.
And that's why it's over.
But we're still going to fly some drones just because we have the fuel.
That's exactly right.
That's the kind of people.
It's no different than Al Armander's at the EPA.
We're going to crucify any successful oil and gas company.
That's who these, yes, Mr. Snurdly, he's aghast at the naivete and the rose-colored glasses.
That's exactly who will populate every agency, bureau, cabinet department.
That's who they are.
They're nothing but idealist, utopian theorists.
No, this is, well, the State Department.
Yeah, that's right.
That's who's there?
Led by Mrs. Clinton.
Another Relinskyite.
Now, Romney was on CBS this morning, Charlie Rose.
See, here's how it works.
Obama says Romney wouldn't even have pull a trigger.
Okay, so that becomes the narrative.
Romney wouldn't have pulled a trigger.
So now we've got to go get Romney and say, why won't you pull a trigger?
Not will you, but why won't you?
Obama has established, we believe Obama, you wouldn't pull a trigger.
You wouldn't go get Obama.
Why not?
It's like our parody of James Carville going on Larry King saying Ken Starr's from Mars.
And rather say, you're an idiot, Carville.
Larry King in our parody says, Ken Starr, are you really from Mars?
How did you get here?
So Obama says Romney wouldn't pull a trigger.
Now Charlie Rose dutifully says, why wouldn't you pull a trigger?
How would you characterize that, Ed?
You believe it was a politicization of the president's decision.
It was unfair, should not have been done.
He has every right to take credit that ordered that attack.
At the same time, I think it was very disappointing for the president to try and make this a political item by suggesting that I wouldn't have ordered such a raid.
Of course I would have.
Any thinking American would have ordered exactly the same thing, but of course you give the president the credit for the fact that he did so.
No!
This is what you got to stop.
That's not going to get you a single vote.
But of course we're going to give the president.
No, no, no, no, no.
The president got his credit a year ago.
You stay on message here.
You throw the anvil.
Okay.
So Charlie Rose wasn't through.
Charlie Rose.
Well, how do you know you would have?
How do you know you would have pulled a trigger?
You're Mitt Romney.
You have a Swiss bank account.
You look like you grew up in the 50s and still live then.
And your wife, ha, what makes you think you'd pull it?
I'm making it up, but that's what's in his mind.
How do you know you would have pulled a trigger?
How do you know you would have pulled a trigger?
I mean, because within that room at the time of the decision, evidently people who were there say there was an argument not to do it.
And it may have come from the Secretary of Defense, even the Secretary of State, but the only guy didn't want to do it in that room was Biden, and he wasn't, yeah, he was in the room.
So here's Romney's answer to how do you know you would have pulled a trigger?
The idea to try and politicize this is really disappointing.
Let's not make the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden a politically divisive event.
There are plenty of differences between President Obama and myself, but let's not make up ones based on, well, he might not have done this.
It's disappointing, and it's unfortunate.
And I think it's taking an event that really brought America together that was the culmination of a lot of work by a lot of people, an enormous sacrifice, and some people who put their lives very much in the line.
Let's not use this as a political football.
And that's what the president is doing and his campaign team.
I think them taking credit for the right decision is entirely appropriate.
I think trying to attack me on that basis is disappointing and the wrong course.
Remember the 2008 presidential campaign?
There was a very prominent person who didn't think Obama would be able to pull a trigger, and that was Mrs. Clinton.
Remember her 3 a.m. phone call ad?
Who do you want answering the phone at 3 a.m.?
We all said Hillary, so you can tell Bill how to get home.
But that was a good ad.
Who do you want answering the phone at 3 a.m.?
And all the reports on this say Obama, the go decision had been in the works for two weeks, that it took a little while to lobby him to actually make the or give the order to go on this.
Has FedEx shown up yet?
That's typical, too.
All right.
Well, two exciting broadcast hours remain.
The first one went by.
Lickety split.
War on terror is not over, by the way.
The men had planned to use two improvised explosive devices to destroy the Brecksville Northfield High-Level Bridge, which crosses from Brecksville, Ohio to Sygamore Hills.
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