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Sept. 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm uh holding here is something in my formerly nicotine stained fingers that um was posted at PJ Media.
That's a reputable blog outfit.
And it was posted on September 10th.
The headline, Jihadis threatened to burn U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
Jihadi groups in Egypt, including the Islamic Jihad Sunni group, the Al-Ghama Al-Islamiya have issued a statement threatening to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to the ground.
And we had a uh an Arabic website calling for the immediate release of Islamic jihadis uh who are imprisoned and detained in the U.S., including Guantanamo Bay.
The day before all this broke out, there was a threat on Arabic websites for the exact action that took place.
Somebody's gonna have to go get hold of that little spokes kid, Jay Carney, and tell him that it's not about the movie.
And I'm gonna tell you something else before we hit the open line Friday, jingle.
I haven't forgotten that.
The Muslim Brotherhood has as one of its objectives, the is the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the the uh the Morsi, the leader getting back the blind sheikh.
That is a demand that they have made that they are making.
They want the blind sheikh who've been in jail for 20 years.
They want him released, they're demanding that this is old.
This is one of the first things when this guy took office, even during his campaign, such as it was, during the so-called elections in Egypt, getting back the blind sheikh.
So the day before, PJ Media, reputable blog uh reputable blog outfit here, found an Arabic website where all of this was promised by jihadis the day before it all happened.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
And if a reputable American blog has it, you would think the CIA would have it.
And therefore it would have been in a presidential daily brief.
You would think all of this.
Even if the president didn't get briefed, he gets the PDB sophisticated consumer of intelligence, yada yada yada.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
That's the EIB Network and Rush Limbaugh here on Open Line Friday.
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No, I would not expect Mrs. Clinton's State Department to know as much as people at PJ Media.
That's the pajama.
I wouldn't expect her to, but the CIA.
Uh, I would uh I would hope so.
I you know what I think?
The more I think about this, I think rather than obey this New York Times story today, I shared it with you in the in the previous hour.
It is such a joke.
The New York Times story claiming Obama had had enough and he called Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president in Egypt and gave him the riot act, said you guys need to do a better job protecting our embassy, and that he only said they weren't an ally just to scare the Egyptians and the Egyptians snap too.
What a crock.
What's really going on here is the Muslim Brotherhood is proving their power.
The Muslim Brotherhood is telling us what for with all of this.
The idea, as the New York Times tried to do today, the idea that Barack Hussein Obama on the campaign trail is putting the fear of God in those people.
The American flag's on fire all over the Middle East, the Al-Qaeda flag is being raised, our ambassador to uh Libya is dead, and the New York Times tries to tell us that Obama has these guys on the run.
What an absolute Example of total media corruption.
No other way to describe it.
Total corruption.
And I remember too, it was reported that Morsey in this phone call, the New York Times reports where Obama called Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood Guy, Red and Riot Act.
It is it is said that Morrissey told Obama to prosecute the makers of this movie.
In the same phone call.
And that in that call, Obama apologized for the denigration of Islamic religious beliefs.
That was all reported.
This is this is such a crock.
It is all such a crook, which takes me to the polls.
One crock to the next croc.
There is a got this last night, Wall Street Journal NBC poll.
And it was depressing, folks.
It started.
You know what it was?
I don't have it right in front of me, but I remember it.
In essence, it said it's over in Virginia, Florida, and Ohio for Romney.
The latest NBC News, Washington Post poll has shown that President Obama has pulled ahead in these three swing states to the point that if Romney is to have any chance whatsoever, he's going to have to convince Obama voters to vote for him because the undecided's have already been up their minds.
So I got that, and I sent that around to my friends.
Did they react to that?
Yeah, they did react to that.
And I said, okay, I don't have the poll.
I don't have the breakdown, the samples or any of that stuff, but I said, I'm not buying this.
This doesn't make sense with anything that's going on.
Obama going up in the polls right now doesn't make sense, does it to you?
Does Obama closing out the election right now make sense to you?
Does Obama wrapping it up in Ohio, Florida, Virginia?
Does that make sense to you?
It doesn't to me.
Obama getting stronger in the polls right now doesn't make sense to me.
Well, Rasmussen's out today.
Their latest poll has Romney up three.
That's exactly right.
Latest Rass Muslim has Romney up three, and then there's this.
According to the real clear politics averages, Romney now leads the presidential race in Virginia for the first time since the beginning of the year.
They average every poll.
That's the RCP.
I happen to know that I'm a powerful influential member of the media, so I know what that means.
RCP real clear politics, rolling averages.
They average all the prominent polls out there, and Romney's pulled ahead in Virginia for the first time.
On the same day, NBC Wall Street Journal puts their poll out saying it's over for Romney in Virginia.
The real clear politics poll also shows that Obama's numbers have been sliding steadily in Florida.
So what is this?
Well, we know what this is.
It's NBC Wall Street Journal using polling data to suppress our votes to dispirit us to depress us.
So let's go to the horse's mouth on this.
F. Chuck Todd of NBC News.
Last night on the NBC Nightly News.
That poll had come out, Brian Williams speaking with F. Chuck Todd.
And Brian said, we have uh we have new post-political convention polling numbers that we're uh debuting here on the nightly news tonight, show some interesting movement in the battleground states out there, Chuck.
What's it uh what's it show, old buddy O'Powell?
Let's actually start in the state of Virginia where Mitt Romney was today.
There in the state of Virginia, the president at 49% of five-point lead in Ohio, another crucial state on the road to 270 electoral votes.
The president actually hits 50 percent, a seven-point lead.
And then let me take you down to the state of Florida.
The president has opened up a five-point lead for the first time since we've been testing in these state polls.
The right track is over 40 percent.
As you know, that is an important number engaging whether a president can win re-election.
The fact that there is suddenly an improvement in how people feel the direction of the country is going.
Some Democrats have been telling me that's the Clinton bump, referring to Bill Clinton's speech.
Are we really supposed to believe that that the country are we really supposed to believe that that's how people think?
Bill Clinton gives a speech and all of a sudden people in the country think we're moving in the right direction while all of this is going on.
This is like they try to tell us why the stock market moves.
Warren Buffett goes out there and burps, uh oh, market down 100 points.
They don't know what they're talking about, wishful thinking, dreaming, or what have you.
But you hear the results that F. Chuck recited there.
Why it's over for Romney in these places.
Because of the Clinton speech.
Yep.
The Clinton speech, the Clinton bump.
We're moving in the right.
Thing is, these people believe this garbage.
In their little bubble, the world they live in, they believe this.
They believe that Clinton has that power.
One speech can make everybody in this country think the country's direction is now going in the right way.
I swear, it's more than corruption.
This is absolute stupidity.
Thank you.
I wish I had another word for it.
It's just insulting.
Banal.
But wait a second.
Now let's let's move to this morning.
Let's let's stay with NBC.
We're going to CNBC on their squawk box show.
And guess who's back?
F. Chuck Todd.
F. Chuck's back, and they're having a discussion about this poll.
And Joe Kernan says F. Chuck, what a what about the polling itself?
Is it better?
You remember Dukakis was up 17, Gallup had Mondale up.
You look at all these things, and you have to wait till November 6th to get the real poll, and he's right.
That's these people that do polls, that's the poll they care about.
The one the week before the election, because that's when everybody remembers.
These polls are used for whatever agenda these people are on.
So anyway, Joe Kernan says to F. Chuck.
Chuck, what about these polls?
I mean, Cock is up 17.
Mondale beating Reagan.
What are we talking about here, F. Chuck?
I'm going to steal a line from Charlie Cook, a political analyst, and he says, Technology has done a lot of things.
Technology has not improved polling.
Look, I am concerned about the state of polling in general.
Whoa!
Whoa, hold it in just a second.
F. Chuck just got the best news he could have gotten.
F. Chuck and the rest of the media are Democrats with bylines.
They're collaborators.
That's all they are.
They come from the same fraternities.
They go to the same schools.
You know, I meant to get to that yesterday, and I'm gonna I didn't get to it, and I'm not gonna have time today, I don't think.
I need to make a note.
This is great piece about how the Ivy League shapes and forms all these people in government in media.
It just fab it confirms a theory of mine.
Anyway, F. Chuck has just been given the best news he could have gotten as an as a guy in the tank for Obama.
Why how how can you not be happy?
Virginia, it's over.
Ohio, it's over.
Florida, it's over.
Romney has no prayer.
If this poll's right, Romney's it's finished, it's over.
And F. Chuck is on the CNBC today saying he's worried about polling.
He worried about technology.
Doesn't uh doesn't think that technology is improved polling.
What that means is that they don't call cell phones.
They call landlines.
And the only people have land lines are the kind of people who have never heard of cell phones.
So you can imagine the kind of data they're getting.
So F. Chuck is essentially telling us here, but he doesn't trust his own polls data.
Because my friends, I'm here to tell you.
And you know it as well as I know it.
If Chuck Todd believed his latest poll, you couldn't have kept him in his chair today.
He'd have had on the birthday hat, they'd have had a band in there running around the balloons that have been blown up, and they would be having a party on the CNBC set.
It's over.
Our poll says so.
No way.
I mean, the poll actually says that the only way Romney could win is to convince Obama voters to vote for him.
The undecided have already made the.
And yet F. Chuck on CNBC quoting Charlie Cook.
He says technology is not improved polling.
I'm concerned about Chuck Todd in the face of his own poll says he's concerned.
Means he doesn't believe it, folks.
If I may cut to the chase.
I think what we heard here is F. Chuck Todd saying he doesn't believe he's on Paul.
And his actions indicate that because there's no celebration here.
There might have been a hint of it last night with Brian Williams on the nightly news, but there wasn't any this morning on CNBC.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
So I checked email during the break.
Rush, why?
Why is Chuck Todd to why are these people?
Let me explain it very simply, folks.
The media, I'm just very quickly doesn't take very long.
Media used to have a monopoly.
They don't have a monopoly anymore.
They know it, and their sphere of influence is deteriorating.
You may not think so, but it is.
A couple of weeks ago during the Democrat convention.
And when Hannity mentioned, you know, you guys used to have a monopoly.
Brokaw lit up, big smile.
Oh yeah, did we ever?
So they're bothered.
They don't have so what they're doing, all of these polls and everything, they are trying to prove to themselves and to everybody else that they are the gatekeepers.
They are the one yes, I've got CNN.
What do you ask me?
Do I have CNN?
I do.
Libya victims remains returned to U.S. ambassador.
What is that?
The presidential podium.
Holy smokes.
They're trying to prove that they are the gatekeepers.
They're trying to prove to themselves and to everybody else that they're the ones that have the power to make people and break people.
They're the one.
They have more power than you do.
They're more powerful than your vote.
They're losing their sphere of influence gradually, and they're trying to tell themselves and prove to themselves and you that they might no longer have their monopoly, but they still control things.
That's what they're doing.
Okay, CNN, the cameras are there.
There's that the presidential podium is between four hears.
There are four ambulances.
They're waiting on the arrival of the bodies from Libya.
And the doors to the back of the hearses are open.
The graphic at the bottom of the screen, Libya victims remains returned to U.S. And I guess they they got Obama off the campaign trail.
Wait, wait wait a second.
Clinton?
Are those the caskets on the Those are the caskets?
Okay, that's just the those are the baits.
Those are the pedestals.
Okay.
It's an Andrews Air Force Base.
So here they come.
Holy smokes.
Obama, Biden, and Hillary are walking in as I speak, a solemn procession leading the way.
I guess that's the ambassador's wife, my guess.
Obama, Biden, and Hillary, and they're going to do a obviously a show.
I've never seen this before.
I I thought this didn't h I I thought correct.
They're going to politicize this.
They are politicizing the death of the ambassador.
And the other three.
They're turning it into a political show.
I thought we didn't do this anymore.
I thought cameras weren't allowed.
And at Dover when military people arrive.
You remember how the uh news media screamed bloody murder when Bush used a two-second photo of 9-11 in an ad.
How did they convince Obama to come off the campaign trail?
You know, say they have that folks, the fact he's doing this means that NBC, Washington, or Wall Street Journal poll is full of it.
This means they've got Pollock, they are in trouble.
They have to pull Obama off the fundraising and bring him out here to greet the return of the bodies and have a show or a ceremony.
I'm trying to think.
Uh if this has happened before.
Like this.
What when the challenger exploded.
Um Reagan didn't.
He went to a memorial, but he didn't go to this.
They didn't have one of these.
I'm trying to think.
I don't want to get caught short on this.
There have been presidents have gone to funerals, right?
And they've gone to memorials.
But I don't recall...
It's being called a ceremony to honor Libyan victims.
To ensure that there's no question, ceremony.
Uh and now the Okay, so they're they're disloading the caskets now.
I don't know.
Couldn't they have just shown an empty chair for Obama?
Here they B network and open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity.
It is a ceremony.
I guess this happens uh when ambassadors are slain.
Normally just the Secretary of State participates, but uh obviously this is being politicized.
My guess is polling.
Well, I don't even gotta go there.
I this is undignified enough as it is.
I all I could remember just earlier this week, the media establishing this narrative that Romney was it was just really beneath him to politics this.
Let's go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Here's uh Steve in Dallas.
Steve, I'm uh I'm glad you waited.
Thanks for the call.
Great to have you on the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Hey, I really appreciate your program and uh I'm really excited I got through to talk to you today.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, I'm hoping you can help me out with something here.
The Clintons, nobody understands them better than you.
So what what did the Clintons have to gain by getting associated with this administration?
The Hillary Clinton never had to accept the Secretary of State job, and Bill Clinton didn't need to give a speech for him at the Democratic National Committee.
And I've always considered them to be more political than ideological.
And in 2016, if she's their nominee for president, how in the heck does she expect to get elected with all of this with being associated with this administration?
They're gonna hang this around her neck, especially all this Arab stuff.
So I Well, um they didn't ex this current stuff this week they didn't expect to happen.
Let's let's go back to the beginning of your question.
Why would she accept Secretary of State?
Uh off top of my head.
I th the real question is why did Obama want her?
These two families do not like each other.
You are right about that.
The Clintons and the Obamas, there's no love lost there.
But it's the party, man.
The party comes before everything.
If if the Clintons do anything that appears to damage the party, then they're damaging themselves down the road.
There was also the there were no wait, this there was also Hillary's campaign debt.
And I think there was a deal to pay off her debt if she would take this gig or some gig in the administration.
It was major debt that she had from her uh from her campaign.
This also keeps her close.
It keeps her in the news, it keeps her name out there as a member of the administration.
And remember, at when this thing all started, we're dealing this is the Messiah's administration.
You It's easy to ask now, but you go back to January 2009, the first year, this bunch was loved and adored by everybody but me.
They couldn't do anything wrong.
It was the place to be in Washington.
Even during the primary, Bill Clinton said it was a fantasy, and she said he wasn't ready to take the three o'clock call, which is evidenced by what just happened.
Right.
Right.
And they and they threw down the race card on Clinton, and he's been holding a grudge.
Look at Clinton, I think, has already tried to sabotage Obama by praising Bain Capital, praising Romney's qualifications, praising private equity.
But then when they call him and asked him to keynote the convention, he almost can't say no.
And then when he does it.
One thing about Clinton, he can't, I don't think he can help doing a good speech.
He is a full bred 100% through and through politician.
That speech Clinton gave at the Democrat convention was a classic political convention speech.
It's timeless, a hundred years.
There was nobody else's speech at that convention that was anywhere near as perfect as Bill Clinton's was within the context of a party, its convention, uh, its purpose.
Uh it it it covered every base, and I think he can do those in his sleep.
Do you think they regret it now?
Well, I have no way of knowing.
You mean because it might have helped Obama?
Well, no, I'm just saying, do you think they regret being part of this administration knowing how it's gonna probably I look it?
I don't think these people live in that world where they regret things.
If uh if they did, he wouldn't show his face.
I mean, this is a guy's been accused of rape credibly, he's been disbarred, he's been impeached.
Uh he lied.
Uh grand jury, uh his reputation as one of a womanizer.
Uh I I don't I don't I don't think I don't think these people live in the world where they regret anything.
They don't they don't these people don't beat themselves up.
They don't they don't they're not that introspective.
If they do anything, they tell themselves how great they are.
That's that that's the world they live in.
You know, here's the thing.
Uh people ask me, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna not use me here, because that's that would be like a better way to do it.
When I was before doing this show in Sacramento, went to Washington, and did some interviews, which I don't normally do, but that was the reason I went.
Uh they sent me.
And I I interviewed a bunch of people, George Will.
Now, the question back then, that was before I had had any measurable success.
My success track was just beginning.
It was local, and it was the first time I'd ever experienced any, but it wasn't anything to speak of at the time.
It was for me it was great because of the first time it had happened after so many years in radio.
So I always, whenever I had a chance to talk to people who were the best at what they did, and just profoundly successful.
I asked every one of them if they stopped.
And to think about it.
I asked George Will, when the family's gone to bed at night, you're the only one up.
You sit down with adult beverage, and do you think about how important you've become to people?
I asked Bill Buckley this.
I've asked practically everybody.
And I don't think there's an exception to it.
Every one of us, no, I I I I've too busy worrying about what I got to do tomorrow.
I don't live in the past, I don't pat myself on the back, I don't do this.
And then the the best expression of it I heard yesterday, there was an excerpt of an interview with Roger Ailes on Fox.
Bill Hammer did the interview.
I guess it's part of a longer interview coming up.
It was about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing, and Ailes was Nixon's media guy at the time, and the interview was about that.
And there were pictures.
Hemmer was showing pictures of Ailes with Nixon in the Oval Office, talking about the media at that time of the day and how they were dealing with the possibilities of what could go wrong and maybe lose these astronauts, how to arrange the phone call.
Remember, Nixon called these guys on the moon.
And Ailes staged it so that Nixon sitting in his office on the split screen looked like he was looking at Neil Armstrong, who's on the right side of the screen, the split screen.
And Hemmer said, You have been, and he ran Bush 41's campaign.
He was the media guy there, consultant, what have you.
Probably one of the last real conservative consultants we've had.
And Hemmer asked him, you've been at the focal point of real history in this country, your whole career.
You there you are with Nixon, there you are with Bush 41 throughout Ailes' role at the 92 convention for Bush was to tell him jokes to keep him up happy, focused, uh confident and so forth.
He played all kinds of roles at Random Media.
Yeah, in 1992 he was doing that.
Um, no, no, 92 he'd gotten out.
He was there as a friend in '92.
He was not official.
He had gotten out of it by then.
But he had worked with Nixon, David Frost, a bunch of people, and Hemer's question was essentially mine.
Do you ever stop and think all of these great things that you've done or that the moments in in American history that that you've been a part of?
And Ailes said, and just like everybody I've ever asked this question, he got a frown on his face.
He shook his head, he said, No, I never attached myself to that aspect.
I was just doing what I did.
And I was just trying to do it the best I could.
It's not till those events are long gone that you look back on them and whatever emotional attachment you have that you live.
If if you marvel at it or you feel pride, uh you feel good about it.
But he said the time it's happening, you do you're you're it's like being in the forest.
You're there, you don't see the trees, you know you're there.
You don't have to look, oh wow, there's trees.
He's too busy doing what he had to do.
He didn't attach, I've never heard it put better.
I didn't attach myself to the historical nature of what was happening because who knew I was just doing it.
Well, this is really a long, long way of telling, I think the Clintons and the Obamas do attach themselves to the historical aspect of what they're doing, and I think they get caught up in it, and that's the reason that they do it.
They're not just doing what they're doing, and they'll look at it later.
They are doing it precisely to get caught up in it so that they can tell themselves how wonderful they are and how great they are and how special they are.
So when you ask me, do the Clintons have any regrets, they don't know what that is.
You gotta have a conscience to have regrets.
They do attach themselves.
And it it all goes to the reason why you do something.
Some people, most people who are considered great, that was not their goal.
I want to be great.
They wanted to accomplish something.
They wanted to invent something or create a service, or they wanted to perform better than anybody else had ever done it, but they never said, I want to be great.
I want to be famous.
This bunch, I want to be great.
I want to be thought of as great.
Even if I'm not, I want to be thought of as great.
These people are pure surface.
There's no depth to them whatsoever.
And I firmly believe that.
I don't think there's any depth.
That's why explain so much once you understand that.
That's why they can run around and say, how in the world could this happen?
Why we've we closed Ebu Grab and we told them that we hate conservatives and they're genuinely mystified.
How could this happen?
How could they totally absorb also with what people think of them?
So anyway, that's the long answer to the question that the Clintons have regret.
No, everything's a calculation.
Everything.
I couldn't live that way.
I literally especially a calculation for media coverage, a calculation for media treatment, a calculation for public perception, a calculation.
I couldn't live that way.
I wouldn't want to.
But everybody whose success is a direct result of media treatment or media coverage must live that way, must.
Must live with those kinds of calculations.
Reagan didn't.
Reagan didn't care.
He had a mission.
His goal was accomplishing things.
And there were three of them beat the communists, lower taxes, rebuild the military.
That's what he set out to do.
What is can anybody name those things for Obama?
I can.
I can, but they are tied to his personality.
Everything's a calculation.
I gotta take a break, folks.
I just saw the clock sit tight.
We'll be back after this.
You know, I I didn't hear this.
I am told that Mrs. Clinton, when she spoke.
The second hand.
I'm told that Mrs. Clinton actually referred to the video again.
Did she do that in this server?
What I'm told is that she said that the rage and violence is over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with.
Did she say that at this thing?
She did.
I can't believe they're still apologizing or deflecting.
Probably both.
There's a tweet from a Pittsburgh newspaper reporter saying that the protesters I spoke with at the embassy, they've not seen the film.
They haven't heard Hillary condemn it.
The film is not a factor.
They're still using it as an excuse.
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