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June 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I didn't see it.
Well, somebody told me that angrier Mitchell said she didn't have a chance to play the whole Romney clip.
Well, now that implies that she knew the whole Romney.
Did have time to play the whole Romney?
I want I that's just a first secondhand report.
Cookie tells me they're cutting it now and putting it together.
We'll have it in just a second.
I, folks, I um I still can't get over what happened.
In New York, a bunch of kindergarteners who were told they couldn't sing God Bless the USA in school because it was divisive, essentially, go to a playground to sing it, and a bunch of Democrat adults show up to heckle them.
And a Republican candidate for the Senate, Bob Turner, is there standing in solidarity with the kids, the kindergartners?
Stop and think of that for a moment.
We had people outraged at a reporter who was not heckling the president.
He asked him a question, but they accused him of heckling the president.
People outraged at this reporter for asking Obama a question, but there are no indications that anybody's outraged that adult Democrats heckling a bunch of kindergartner kids for singing a song about the United States.
And one of the according to the report, one of the protesters said the kids don't even know what they're singing.
So he's accusing the kids of being brainwashed.
They just got something you tell them to say.
It's ridiculous.
It's sad, it's sad.
You all are gonna burn in hell.
You're burning hell.
Shame on you, shame.
What are the adults?
That was the reaction to kids singing, God bless the USA.
Why in the world would that make anybody mad?
And the fact that it does tells us a whole lot.
And where is the outrage over this?
Another parent who was heckling the kids said, You Republicans come to a you go to Republican area, do that.
We don't want that here.
Go to Republican.
So what did we learn that the flag on the Fourth of July attracts only Republicans?
Wasn't that something that we learned coming out of Harvard?
Now we learn that God bless the USA is only something you sing in Republican areas of New York.
If you're gonna come to a Democrat area, you better not sing God bless God bless the USA.
I don't know, folks.
I don't know.
Somebody explained to me how the Democrats get the reputation of love, caring, compassionate, tolerant, and understanding.
When somebody explained to me how in the world these reprobate democrats somehow hold on to that image.
They are anything but kind.
They are anything but tolerant.
They are anything but open-minded.
They're anything but compassionate.
And all of this malarky about for the children.
Trying to heckle a bunch of grades, kindergarten kids who were who they were tacking children for crying out loud.
And these kids, by the way, the boys and girls began chanting USA USA in an attempt to drown out these protester adults.
Yeah, I guess Andrea Mitchell just did a composite of what Romney said, kind of like Obama did in his book.
Anyway, um try this from the Politico.com.
Barack Obama's group therapy.
President Barack Obama's campaign wants to turn Mitt Romney into the candidate of old straight white men.
read that to you again.
Obama's campaign wants to turn Mitt Romney into the candidate of old straight white men.
So does that mean you should vote for Obama because he's a young black gay man?
Well, I'm asking, what does this mean?
How's that worked out for him?
So Romney is to be tarred and feathered.
Romney is to be not supported, Romney's to be actively voted against because he's a candidate of old straight white men.
Well, what does that make Obama?
The candidate of young black gay men.
Again, where's the tolerance?
Where's the compassion?
Where's the openness?
Where is the understanding?
You know, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we spent a lot of time on the program talking about how we here and you there knew full well what was happening in Egypt.
That this Arab Spring was an absolute joke, that it was not an outbreak of democracy, that what happened was militant Islamism was sweeping the Middle East.
But we even had right wing intelligence at right wing conservative foreign policy people in Washington.
It was a wonderful thing to watch democracy in action.
Democracy was flowering in the Middle East.
Yes, we were succeeding in spreading democracy.
Yes, it was a wonder no, it's not what the Muslim Brotherhood was taking over the country of Egypt and sweeping throughout the region.
And now the media lamenting Obama's bad luck over this.
It had such problems, the Arab Spring.
And remember back in the day, Obama tried to take credit for the Arab Spring.
Obama was trying to say that what was happening in Egypt in Tariri Square, the protests were identical to what happened in this country in 2008.
People taking their country back.
People investing in hope and change, people investing in freedom and liberty and rebuilding America and love and all that.
They were trying to take credit for what was happening.
Obama goes over and make this big Cairo speech.
How'd that work out for him?
We're losing the region.
Last night PBS Charlie Rose spoke with the Hoover Institute's senior fellow Fwad Ajami about the election in Egypt.
Charlie Rose says, so where are we in terms of Tariri Square?
Where is the revolution today?
And remember, these guys, Charlie Rose, they're talking about the democracy revolution.
The freedom revolution, because these knuckleheads thought that's what was happening at the time.
The revolution has taken on, of course, an Islamic coloring.
This is true.
Pretty much what's happening.
So the Muslim Brotherhood has kidnapped the revolution?
I don't think so.
It's morphed into the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
The people in Tahir Square are lamenting that the two top candidates did not come from Tahir Square.
Well, too bad for Tahir Square.
As one young Egyptian writer said, Tahir Square is not Cairo, and Cairo is not Egypt.
Well, then Washington's not Washington.
What the hell does any of this mean?
You know, I like Fwata Jami.
Fuada Jami.
What the hell kind of double speak is this?
Did you?
I know you heard it.
I'm just I'm just incredulous here.
So, Charlie, the Muslim Brotherhood has kidnapped the revolution.
The Mot Charlie, the Muslim Brotherhood was the revolution.
The mg.
You know how frustrating it is.
To look and see the sky's blue and to have a bunch of idiots think that it's yellow.
Because that's what we're talking about here.
So the Muslim Brotherhood kidnapped the revolution.
Charlie, did you actually think that these long-haired maggots-infested dope smoking types in Tariri Square were actually going to take over Egypt?
When the military ran the place?
Did they actually think the guy standing in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square was going to take over China.
Well, so the Muslim Brotherhood is kidnapped the revolution?
Johnny, I don't think so, Charlie.
I don't.
Well, it's morphed into the Egyptian revolution.
I don't think so.
No, it's morphed into the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
The people in Tariri Square are lamenting that two top candidates did not come from who expected that they would.
All right, last night, same show, Charlie Rose, this time speaking with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about the elections in Egypt.
Charlie Rose said, often we hear we don't know what's gonna come to power in Libya.
We don't know what's going to come to power in Syria after Assad, and I frankly still don't know who Obama is.
And I talked to Tom Brokov the other day, and he still doesn't know who Obama is.
Now, whenever this day happens, are we going through something now with Tunisia and now Egypt?
An evolutionary process of sort of a people like the Muslim Brotherhood in power, and they may change them as much as they change the what?
Does anybody watching the show know what they're talking about?
I don't forget the question.
I don't understand the question, but let's listen to the answer anyway.
The Obama administration has made a big bet uh on this process of democracy uh and empowerment working uh in the long run to for for U.S. interests.
You'd have to say this is a really bumpy process.
No kidding.
Egypt is the best example, but most countries show the same thing.
That shouldn't really be surprising in terms of really horrific outcomes.
But why are you?
Well, I hear people in the administration describe it.
We're kind of holding on for the ride here.
Obama's been very clear that he doesn't want to write the script for this uh Arab uh revolution.
Even if he could, which is doubtful, he couldn't do it anyway.
But uh the U.S. is being uh reticent, is being sometimes cautious.
Folks, I don't know.
These are the best and brightest, these are the brightest and smartest, and I'm at blockheads.
First, yeah, classic intellectual speak.
Well, he uh Obama and administration uh big big, big, big bet on this uh uh process of uh the democracy, the empowerment, uh we're working for U.S. interests, but long run.
Who knows, Charlie, what's gonna happen.
But um clearly Obama would like to be able to charge the outcome, but he can't.
He really doesn't have anything to say with it.
We're everybody had our hopes up there's gonna be a big democratic movement so forth.
We didn't know what we were talking about, Charlie.
Nobody knew we're biggest bunch of fools they ever can't.
I don't know why I'm on your show, Charlie.
I don't know, folks.
Look it.
I know what's worth laughing at, and I'm laughing, but it's it's also I'm I'm incredulous.
These are smart people.
Okay.
Still holding out hope, still holding out ho hope that the Muslim Brotherhood is gonna be a democratic organization in the mold of Obama.
Kardashian.
But now one of my all-time favorite series of sound bites, our old buddy CNN reporter Nick Robertson.
We're gonna go back to the grooveyard of Forgotten hits the sound bites in our archive, February 11th of 2011, a year and a half ago.
Live in Cairo, Egypt, during the democratic uprising, the supposed democratic uprising, the Arab Spring in its formative days.
And CNN international correspondent Nick Robertson is talking to a man identified as Ahmed, and they have this little discussion about the Egyptian anti-government protests.
United States and international community just listened to President Obama say that America will support Egypt if it won't help and assistance and hopes that there'll be a good transition for jobs for the young people.
What would your message be for President Obama?
We don't know actually who is abroad.
Yeah, uh and the Egyptian people seems for our feet on democracy.
Any uh country, uh people.
All right.
Okay, so Nick Roberts, so here we are in the middle of Tariri Square, these people putting their lives on the line for what they think is democracy and asking.
What do you think of Obama?
It's essentially what Nick Roberts said.
What do you think of Obama?
Uh Obama hopes there'll be a good transition, jobs for the young people.
He hadn't been able to have jobs for people in America.
Maybe you'll have jobs here in Egypt.
What do you think of President Obama?
Well, we don't know actually who he supports.
He serves for his own purposes.
So basically the guy said, Obama.
I don't see him here.
Well, you ask him better.
So Nick moves on to Mustafa.
And here's how that went.
Ms. Harper's joining me now.
President Obama say that he wants to extend support and assistance to Egypt, to the Egyptians, if they want, and he hopes that there are more jobs for the young people in the future.
What's your message for President Obama?
Well, my message for Britain Alan is just we started this revolution without any outside help.
And we are going to finish it also without any outside help.
I just wonder why they don't have 56 people watching and seeing us in the middle of Tariri Square.
There's a freedom uprising, they think.
What do you think of?
What is your message for Obama?
Who's in the White House telling Bibi Netanyahu to wait while he goes up and have popsicles with his daughters?
What is your message for Obama?
This is on the mind of the CNM reporter.
And of course, Mustafa said, well, my message to Obama is we started this revolution without him, and we're going to finish it without him.
Who is he?
So Nick realizes here he's on the verge of losing this.
The whole thing is to make this about Obama.
So he makes one final stab at it.
Are you pleased that President Obama has come out, however, now and said he supports this change and supports the people and supports the young people and what they've done?
Well, actually, Brenda Lana views were kind of conflicting during the last week.
But now he's saying that he's supporting the change.
Am I the only one here?
I think this is rich.
Nick Robertson CNN in the middle of a freedom uprising in Egypt, and all that matters to him is what these people think of Obama.
And he can't get them to say that they love Obama, and they can't.
He can't get them to credit Obama for it, so he says, Well, are you pleased that President Obama has come out?
However, he supports this change.
Well, Obama's views were kind of conflicting.
So it's time for the wrap-up now.
It's time for Nick Robertson at CNN to tell their viewers what they just saw.
Here's how he did it.
A view from here is one.
I'm very happy to now to hear that President Obama has swung behind the people.
The view from here is one of very happy people to know hear that Obama has swung.
Not one person said they gave a rat's rear end about Obama.
The view from here.
Oh, this is too good.
Okay, Jimmy Carter.
This gets even better here, folks.
Jimmy Carter just tweeted via his Carter Center, quote, I'm deeply troubled by the undemocratic turn that Egypt's transition has taken.
Deeply troubled.
Jimmy, time to head back and pound some nails.
It's not working, buddy.
Uh deeply troubled the uh undemocratic turn Egypt's transition has taken.
In other words, Carter is furious that the Egyptian military might be keeping the Muslim Brotherhood from seizing power after their very successful coup.
Let me ask you a question, folks.
What country that has undergone an Arab Spring is now more pro-American than they were before the American Spring.
What country that's had an Arab Spring is more pro-American now than it was before?
The answer is zip zero none.
Not one.
By the way, what is it?
The latest twist in this, Mubarak's ex-prime minister is now claiming he won.
Name is Ahmed Shafiq.
Ahmed Shafiq claiming that he's the real winner in Egypt's presidential race.
Here's Andrea Mitchell, NBC News explaining what happened with the Mitt Romney tape.
There's been a lot of discussion overnight about a conversation you and I had yesterday.
We ran clips of Mitt Romney in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, talking about his trip to Owawa.
Well, the RNC and the campaign both reached out to us saying that Romney had more to say about that visit about federal bureaucracy and innovation in the private sector.
We didn't get a chance to play that, so here it is now.
Then I I was at Wawa's.
I wanted to order a sandwich.
You press a little touch tone keypad, alright?
You just touch that.
And you know, it's the sandwich because you touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier.
There's your sandwich.
It's amazing.
People in the private sector have learned how to compete.
It's time to bring some competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and have a respond to the customers, which are you.
And now on to that other subject, immigration.
Oh, so that's it.
That that oh.
That was it.
They just didn't have time to play the whole thing, and that's it.
Had time to laugh.
I mean, they had the whole thing, they just have time to play one hour show.
They didn't have time to play the whole thing.
No, they didn't have time to apologize.
They had to move on to immigration.
And now on to the other subs of immigration.
That's it.
Wow.
That is pathetic.
That is laughable.
They got caught and they're now trying to minimize the damage.
By the way, she still didn't play the intro to Romney's remarks, which was the context for the anecdote.
She still didn't play the part about the doctor.
The optometrist who can't get paid because of the bureaucracy of Medicare.
Vladimir Putin appeared to lecture Obama yesterday.
Media not happy.
That and your phone calls are coming up as well as much more here on the Rush Limbaugh program is the EIB Network 800 282-2882 when we get back.
I'll tell you this MSNBC, uh, folks.
A total laughing stock.
An absolute pathetic joke.
They didn't have time.
They didn't have time to play the whole Romney tape.
So they had to edit it to make Romney look bad and then laugh at him.
MSNBC has nothing but time on its hands.
And she still didn't play the intro to Romney's remarks, which was the context for his anecdote.
The whole point, what Romney said, and I mentioned this to you at the top of the hour of the program, the whole point was that it took 33 pages of forms to change your address with the government.
That's Romney was talking about an optometrist.
He couldn't get paid.
He was running through all kinds of bureaucratic nightmares, and he was comparing this to the efficiency of a sandwich ordering scanner at Barbara Walter's store.
Huawa's.
And he was talking about the private sector and how it does things much better because of competition.
It's more efficient and it's cheaper.
And they edit all of that to make Romney look like he doesn't know what a scanner is.
It is journalistic malpractice.
And yet we sit around and we laugh at and we and at this reporter for daring to ask Obama a question trying to drum him out of the business.
And we ho-hum.
MSNBC.
Now this Putin business.
We're gonna get the phone calls here in just a second, but I got this this Obama and Putin thing in New York Times.
This is not good.
According to the New York Times, Putin and Obama spent a couple hours talking together, and it does not seem to have been very friendly.
The New York Times says that Putin appeared afterward with Obama before reporters in a grim tableau that seemed to bespeak the frustration on both sides.
And during the few minutes it took their handlers to usher reporters out of the room after their prepared remarks.
The two leaders remained seated side by side, staring straight ahead with none of the interaction or small talk that leaders usually engage in before the cameras.
During the meeting, American officials said that Mr. Putin spent considerable time pointing to what the Russians view as failed examples of political transition in Egypt and Libya, as well as their concern that the West, that's us, doesn't have a credible plan.
So Putin was basically telling Obama you're a failure.
Putin was telling President Kardashian, you're a boob.
You can't even manage things in Egypt.
You can't manage things in the Middle East.
You're an absolute disgrace.
But there were no open microphones.
All of this has been assessed because of body language.
So yesterday and last night, we put together a montage here of NBC's uh F. Chuck Todd, Jennifer Griffin at Fox, Jacob Tapper ABC, Lou Dobbs, Ed Rollins, John King, Dan Low, a whole bunch of people, obsessed with Putin's body language.
Most striking about the public meeting.
The two leaders apparent body language.
Their body language suggested the gaps in their positions had not been bridged, and the relationship may not have been reset.
The body language between President Obama and Putin.
If you watch the body language there.
You can see the body language.
Looking at that body language, the body language tells a lot of the story here.
Just the body language.
If you looked at that body language between Presidents Putin and Obama in Mexico today at the G twenty summit, it was not pretty indeed.
All end up saying the same stuff.
body language, uh, uh, gravitas.
Why don't they all end up saying the same, No matter what network you tune to, they all say the same thing.
Transition is what Obama was demanding, and Putin just told Obama all of his transitions have failed.
What these people don't realize, Obama's gonna have more flexibility with his body language after the election if he wins.
And that's got to be another thing that upsets Obama because he told Medvedev, tell Putin I'm gonna have a lot more flexibility after November when I win.
Putin apparently don't want to wait for that.
He wants flexibility from Obama now.
He's not getting it.
So he lectured him.
And our guys in the media.
It just doesn't look it.
It's not been a bad week for Obama.
It's not been a bad two weeks.
We're not coming on a bad month for Obama.
So in Los Cabos.
You ever been there, Snertley?
Been to Los Cabos.
You've been to Cabo Wabble?
It is a great place now.
A lot of fun.
Honeymoon.
In uh in Los Cabos.
Anyway.
During the daily press briefing, deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes spoke.
And this is what he said about the issue of body language during Obama's meeting with uh Putin.
This isn't the first uh body language gate that we've had uh with the Russians.
When we were in Doville, uh President Medvedev, who President Obama has a great personal relationship with, and one that I think uh would we would describe as a friendship.
There was a similar report that there was this body language and must be a huge problem.
You know, these are business-like conversations uh between the United States government and the Russian government.
You know, so uh they're candid and business-like.
That tends to be the demeanor of the Russians.
Right.
Okay.
Good friends with Medvedev.
That's good to know.
And Doville, body language.
I don't believe this.
So this morning on CBS this morning, co-host Charlie Rose speak with Chief White House correspondent Nora O'Donnell about Obama's meeting with Putin.
Charlie said, What do we know?
After all the body language, what do we know about Putin and Obama?
The two men barely looked at each other.
You could just feel sort of the tension between them.
And the body language really represented how far apart the two leaders remain on the issue of Syria.
Interestingly, apparently President Obama got a bit of a lecture from Putin about some other failed transitions that are going on around the world.
Oh, that's what we thought.
That's what the New York Times says that Putin lectured our boy President out.
What a wonder what the Obama supporters, David Brooks, who admired Obama's crease in his slacks.
Wonder what he thinks of Putin uh lecturing our president.
President Obama got a bit of a lecture.
Doesn't sound good.
Doesn't it sound like Obama was in charge?
To the phones we go, as promised.
Jacksonville, Florida, Kenneth, really glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network, hi.
Hi.
The point I wanted to make is that when you deport a young man who was brought over here illegally by his parents as a child, you're punishing the wrong person.
He didn't commit the crime his parents did.
This would be very similar to uh prosecuting a hostage for participating in the crime of a hostage taker.
Well, so you I understand your point.
Uh so you're saying let the kids come in.
I didn't say let them come in.
I said once they're here, the crime has been committed already.
Don't go after the uh person that didn't commit the crime.
Go after the person that did commit the crime.
Okay, so if we do that, if we go after the people that quote unquote committed the crime, then we're separating parents from their kids if we send the parents home, which nobody's gonna go for.
Well, there uh if you uh if the child is very young, that's true.
But if the if this is someone that has uh graduated from high school and or served in the military or something like that, he's it's time for him to separate from his family anyway.
Oh I gotta take a break on no that we don't do that in America anymore.
We don't.
It was obvious that Obama had no grabbitas standing next to Putin.
Go check out any picture you want between Putin and George W. Bush, and you will never see Putin lecturing Bush.
You will never see a picture with rotten body language for Bush.
You'll never see a picture as they start talking about um um how how deferential Bush looked and how angry Putin you will not see that.
You will not hear that description.
But I have to tell you, folks, I cannot believe how unfeeling and cold hearted our last caller was.
Separ I mean, I mean, we don't do that in America.
We just don't do that.
He said it it's it's time for him to separate from his family anyway.
What cold hearted thinking on the part of our caller?
I'm shocked we have anybody in the audience who thinks that way.
Now you want to know the dirty little secret, though.
Seriously.
Seriously.
Can't send home the kids they didn't commit the crime.
Okay, send home the adults.
Do you think they'll leave their kids here?
No.
I'm j it's just a think piece.
Just a think piece.
Let's talk about the little crumb cruncher kids.
You think if you deport, he said the people committed the crime.
If they're here illegally, the adults, if we send them home, if we deport them, won't they take their children with them?
Other than the 18-year-olds for whom it's time to separate anyway.
Then what are they going to do for health care?
Their parents gone used to be able to stay on the policy till they were 26.
Seriously, if you send the parents home, the odds are the youngsters will go with them.
But then you leave it up to them.
I know, I know it's not gonna happen.
Everybody sympathizes with the policy.
But see, that's where everybody's getting caught up in this and making the wrong judgment.
This is not a matter of fault.
It's a matter of law and policy.
And if we're gonna if we're gonna strictly look at it as a matter of fault, then no one could ever be deforded, deported.
Certainly no child ever could be.
And when you look at it as a matter of who's at fault, then you're involving the heart strings and the emotion and the pulls and the tugs and everything, and it's gonna go by the wayside.
And law and policy are going to be subordinated to Whose fault is it?
And then law and policy will not matter.
So what's basically happened, you could say here that Obama just waved his magic wand, created at least another 800,000 anchor babies.
You wanted to look at it that way.
Here's Olga.
Olga in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
It is certainly a thrill.
Thank you very much.
Well, I just wanted to make two points on the immigration issue.
Um, as I sat and listened to Obama on Friday and saw him passionately say that this was the right thing to do.
I thought to myself when he was finished, if it was truly the right thing to do.
I am a Hispanic, by the way.
If it is truly the right thing to do for the Hispanic community, why would he not have done it the right way and gone through Congress to do it?
But then afterwards I thought, well, no, wait, wait, no, no, there's an answer to that because Congress had already defeated it.
You know what I think?
I gotta be very careful here.
Well, I think Obama knows the outcome of the Arizona Supreme Court case.
Well, and you think that's one of the reasons why this happened now.
Because your question, if it's the right thing to do, why now?
Why wouldn't it the right thing to do six months ago, two years ago?
Why wasn't it the right thing to do the first day he came in office?
Well, especially since he made a promise in 2008 in an interview to UNIVCELING saying that he would have a bill to Congress within the first year that he supported on this very topic, and he did nothing when he had both houses.
But my other point was that the having to come back and renew it every two years.
I don't I I thought about it and thought, I wonder if he did that on purpose too, so that Hispanic population or community would have to need him and would then vote for him because every two years you have to go back and renew it.
And so there is that catch where, oh, well, we need him.
Yeah, exactly.
I think you're exactly right.
I wouldn't dispute that.
I would only call your attention to the fact that it was I don't know how many years ago, two or three years ago, that he publicly stated to La Raza, I think it was, look, back off.
I can't just change the law.
I I I I'm my hands are tied.
I can't I can't go above and beyond the Constitution.
Well, that was then and this is now.
And now he's found the way to do it with the timing for it.
And I still think that they're loading this stuff up, you know, trying to coalesce his base and stuff.
I think this is all happening here, folks, way too soon in this campaign.
It's it's a sign of panic.
I don't think that there's any question about that.
And I wouldn't be surprised if he knows the outcome of the Supreme Court Arizona immigration case.
Just guessing, I know nothing.
Nobody does.
I just a wild, wild guess.
And this is to preempt bad news that's coming on that front.
Olga, thanks for the call.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
I'm glad you good thinking, and I'm happy to have you in the audience.
Hey, folks, this is not John McCain's presidential campaign.
From the AP.
Mid Romney has declined to condemn his supporters who are heckling Obama.
Says U.S. politics has a long history of heckling, and if my if my hecklers want to heckle Obama, I'm down with it.
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