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Sept. 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 17, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi again, great to have you with us, my friends, as it always is a thrill and delight for me and his opportunity to tell you what's up.
A phone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 in the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Just got some news here from the Associated Press.
They say no protest before the Benghazi attack.
It's according to a wounded Libyan guard.
No protest before the Benghazi attack.
Now what's interesting about it, the story says the guard interviewed Thursday in a hospital where he's being treated for five shrapnel wounds in one leg and two bullet wounds in the other, said the consulate area was quiet.
There wasn't a single ant outside, quote unquote, until 9 35 p.m. when about 125 armed men descended on the compound from all directions.
So that came out of nowhere.
No protests, nothing going on, not even ants or crickets, which cuts into the regime's line in the Obama administration's contention that there were protests going on about the YouTube clip.
Now, folks, I just mentioned to you, because this this will fit what I'm I'm trying clumsily to say here today.
And basically that the reason there's partisan divide exists in this country is not so much over issues.
I mean, clearly there are issue differences, but it's not policy that is the primary thing dividing people today.
That's that's a contention of mine, a relatively new realization.
But as a point of illustration.
Bill Marr's movie, I mean religious, religious, like ridiculous, religious, and it excoriates every religion.
And the last 20 minutes of it brutalizes Islam, laughs at it, makes fun of it.
And you probably don't a movie gross 13 million bucks.
Nobody knows.
Which is very important.
Nobody knows it.
It 13 million, so some people saw it, but apparently no Muslims went to see it.
Now let's contrast this with this YouTube video.
Because this whole thing, this whole thing in the Middle East.
Somebody contrived it and planned for it and set it up using highly influential or easily influenced poor people in the populations of these Islamic countries.
They didn't know about the YouTube video.
They didn't see it.
They didn't see Bill Mars movie.
If they'd seen Bill Mars' movie, they'd have raised holy hell about it.
The care gang would have gotten in action just like they did on the Danish or Dutch cartoons, whatever it was, but nobody saw it.
And nobody told them about it.
And they didn't see the YouTube video.
But wait, how do they know about that?
Well, somebody told them.
Who and why?
Who and why somebody wants this happening.
Somebody or some people wants this unrest over in the Middle East.
It is my contention that the primary reason for this, and I I can hear the howls of laughter, protest, disagreement when I say this.
And it may not be the only reason, but I am convinced that one of the reasons this unrest happened was so it could be blamed on someone who could be made to look like he's a conservative.
Because then what does it say about conservatism or people who are not liberal, that they're nuts, that they're kooks.
Nobody saw this video.
By the same token, Mr. Snurgley.
In the days leading up to our discovery that the president was having an affair and engaging in BJs with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office.
What happened?
There was a picture.
There was a picture released in one newspaper.
It was the Los Angeles Times.
And the picture was of what?
It was of Bill and Hillary Clinton dancing on a beach in the Caribbean, Virgin Island somewhere.
And furthermore, dancing on the beach, they're both in their swimsuits.
It was not a flattering picture.
And we learned later that there wasn't even any music.
The whole thing was staged.
That picture was released on the front page of the LA Times at the usual 6 a.m., 7 a.m. Eastern Time.
By the time the 2 p.m. press briefing came around.
The picture had been seen a couple places.
Mike McCurry, the press secretary, got a question about the picture, and he launched.
He was critical of the picture.
It was an invasion of privacy.
How dare anybody try to get that close to the president?
And nobody knew what he was talking about.
Because nobody had seen it.
But McCurry made sure everybody saw it.
And why did they want everybody to see it?
Because they knew the Lewinsky story was coming.
And they wanted to counter the Lewinsky story with a picture of a loving couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton on a beach in a Caribbean dancing as a counterweight or counterbalance to the Lewinsky story.
I'm telling you, everything the left does is a manipulation of us.
And they use the media, willing accomplices in the media to do this.
Well, by the same token, stop and think for a second now, folks.
Nobody in the Middle East has seen this YouTube clip, or not nearly enough people to cause what happened.
They were all told about it, though.
And they were told about it for a reason.
whoever told them wanted what's happening to happen.
Now, I don't mean somebody wanted an ambassador to be assassinated.
They wanted the protest.
Now you might be saying, Rush, why would Obama want this?
It doesn't make him look good.
Stop and think of who Obama is.
Arrogant, cocky.
He doesn't think people are going to blame him for this because he doesn't get blamed for anything.
The guy who did the video is getting all the blame.
The media joined right in.
Jay Carney joined right in.
The guy that and the guy was rounded up.
He was pulled out of his house at 1.30 in the morning by sheriff's deputies.
He was taken in, interviewed, supposedly parole violation or what have you.
It was left to no speculation whatsoever that this video caused all this.
We've all been manipulated.
And I'm telling you that the reason, my theory is the reason that this has happened.
This is a campaign aid.
This was designed part of the Obama campaign.
It does two things.
It makes this guy who did the move.
What is he?
He's a Coptic Christian.
What is he?
Intolerant.
What is he?
Making fun of Islamists.
What does he causing violence?
All of this following or filling in a cliche or a brand or an image.
The purpose of this is to make it impossible to support a guy like Romney because Romney's also a Mormon, but uh intolerant Republican, racist, sexist, big all of this stuff.
It's designed to suppress the Romney vote.
It's designed to dispirit the Romney vote.
It is designed to make liberals and Obama look like the compassionate, big hearted, understanding, tolerant.
They're the guys rounding up an American citizen for practicing his First Amendment rights.
This video, it's amazing.
It hasn't even been introduced to the public.
In fact, in ways that people have seen it, it's only been described.
It's only been described.
They made sure they got the stars of this movie on TV talking about how they were duped by this guy.
Then they're in tears.
They had no idea it was going to be a movie that made fun of Islam.
So this guy becomes Romney in the campaign.
This guy becomes the reason why you wouldn't want to vote against Obama.
That's the thinking.
This is the same way McCurry introduced that photo to Clinton's dancing right before the Monica scandal, something nobody had heard of.
And then they talk about what an invasion of privacy the whole thing was.
And in both instances, it's Hillary Clinton pulling the strings.
In this video, and in the picture of her and Clinton dancing on a beach down in the Caribbean.
And the second thing it does is divert people away from the dismal economy, divert people away from Obama's dismal presidency, his dismal accomplishments or lack thereof.
And then gives people an opportunity to talk about what disarray the Romney campaign is in.
Oh, and by the way, notice also.
All Romney had to do was make one statement, and guess what automatically fell in line?
Romney made the mistake.
Romney jumped the gun.
Romney shot before he aimed.
Romney embarrassed himself.
Romney spoke before he knew what was really going on.
Romney made the mistake and got further into ridiculous honesty.
There were people on MSNBC saying that Romney was to blame for the media not covering Obama's culpability in this.
If Romney had shut up, if Romney hadn't said anything, the media would have been forced to look at Obama's role in this.
But Romney was so outrageous and so egregious and so unprofessional and so unpresidential of what he did that he gave the media no choice but them to focus on him.
This is a huge what has happened here is a massive effort of manipulation.
Now the protests are real.
The violence is real.
The way that happens is that there are Islamists.
Look at they've got community agitators just like we do.
All that has to happen is in the mosques for some Imam start ripping an American who's made a video, making fun of the prophet.
They know what's going to happen.
Just like Obama in his day could have grabbed a bunch of people on a street corner in Chicago and gotten them all revved up about some steel mill and or just like Obama created Occupy Wall Street to go out and start defecating all over people's cars and Wall Street or whatever, just like they that was ginned up.
Now what they all have in common, Islamists are extreme liberals.
Obama's an extreme liberal.
They're all leftists.
They're all statists, they're all big government types who are threatened by individual liberty and freedom.
They are convinced all that matters is Obama's reelection to the extent that this episode turns people away from Romney or conservatives.
And remember what it's not about policy.
It's not that Obama's irresponsible foreign policy is imploding and that the United States is in greater danger in the Middle East.
That's not the conclusion drawn.
The conclusion drawn is look at how absolutely wacky and nutty and intolerant Republicans are.
That was, I think, one of the many purposes, the perp eye, if you will, of this whole episode.
So policy is irrelevant.
Perception is everything.
And they can manufacture the perception that they want.
When you are Obama, the Democrat Party, and you own the media, when the media is sending out fundraising forms for you on their Twitter accounts.
When the media is running poll for you, doctoring polls, shifting polls.
No.
I don't think it's over.
No, no, no, no.
Because they're not a majority.
That's why they have to do that.
The reason they're having to manipulate everything is because they are a woeful minority.
The liberals in this country.
I think it's gonna backfire on him.
I'm just explaining to you what's gonna what why they're doing.
They it all comes under the umbrella.
They can't be who they really are.
They have to lie about who we are.
They can't be honest about their real policy.
Nobody would vote for them.
I've been about 25% of the country.
Everything about them is perception, manipulation, and lies.
Everything.
Everything's wag the dog.
Everything is a structured deception.
Gallup has a new survey out here.
A majority of Americans, 54% continue to believe the government is trying to do too many things.
That should be left to individuals and businesses.
I guarantee you the regime sees this and they get fifty.
This ought to be 54% the other way.
Bottom line, a majority of people in Gallup still think the government's too big and is doing too much.
We haven't lost this.
Don't misunderstand here, folks.
I'm telling you how you're being manipulated to believing you've got no chance, that Romney has no chance, that you're unhip and that you're uncool.
That's why we continue to get stories.
Mitt Romney's horrible week, Mitt Romney's horrible day, Mitt Romney's horrible dinner.
Mint Romney's horrible fitful lack of sleep last night.
Mitt Romney's this Mitt Romney, it's all structured.
It is all manufactured.
Nothing that has to do with liberalism or the Democrat Party is grounded in reality.
If it were, they wouldn't get but 30% of the vote.
I have to take a break.
But I'm not through.
That's still we're gonna take some phone calls too.
I have to do this, so don't go away.
Welcome back.
By the way, folks, furthering my point, the regime sent out on the Sunday shows yesterday Susan Rice.
Susan Rice is the uh what is she?
She's the ambassador to uh you and the uh UN ambassador.
They never bring Susan Rice out.
What the hell are they bringing Susan Rice out for?
And why would Susan Rice go out and basically embarrass herself the way she did, at least embarrass herself in the context of common sense.
Why would she do it?
Well, I'm gonna explain it all, but I gotta get some phones.
We just got to.
I've only taken one call today, and that, my friends, is not right.
That's intolerant of other people's views.
Uh so uh Bill in in Louis, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, Russ, just up the river from Cape Girardo.
That's right.
How are you doing, sir?
I'm doing uh pretty fair compared to uh what the hell's going on in Washington.
Um I got a comment.
All right.
It might rub some people the wrong way.
And frankly, I don't care if it does or not.
But these people are running nothing but one big movie in front of the American people.
It's all set up for Obama to become the peacemaker.
And then these poor people that were in that embassy that were killed, and for them to make an example and stand there in front of them when they do not give a damn about them at all.
To make a show out of that.
Where are they when the coffins come home from Afghanistan?
Where are these people?
They don't even allow the media at uh those arrivals.
Well, correct.
You know, I mean, you got Romney.
We need Romney, we need his administration.
I think what you're gonna see races are done in furlongs, as you know, because you're from Missouri.
Yeah.
And uh I think what you're gonna see is a whip in the horse for Obama right out of the gate.
You're gonna see him fade, and Romney's gonna come around the third turn like secretary at the Belmont Stakes.
Well, that's gonna be saying a ser secretariat ran away from everybody by almost a thirty-nine links, sir.
Yeah, you think that's what's gonna happen here?
Yes, I do.
I believe it.
Um there's a lot more conservatives than people believe.
And when you refer to the administration in Washington as the regime.
Yep.
You are exactly right.
I know.
Um we talk about Romney attacking his policy.
What policy?
All he's done is put up a big iceberg called socialized medicine, which I spent four years of my life in the Marine Corps to prevent.
And we're the Titanic and we're heading to it.
Now all Romney has to do is break out the communist manifesto and does Capital.
And he can attack Barack Obama from every angle, I think Romney and his running mate are holding back a little bit and waiting for the opportunity.
Well, you know about that.
Um they turned Ryan loose last week.
I've been wondering where Ryan was.
Ryan went over to a couple think tanks and let loose.
And I started thinking to myself, please let him stay loose.
Just don't put let Ryan be Ryan.
Send him out there and let him go to town.
I hope they um I hope they do.
Bill, God bless you for your service to this great country.
I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
And uh from uh your lips to God's ears.
And we will be back.
So I checked the email.
Predictable.
Rush.
You really want us to believe that that was a giant wag the dog?
You remember Wag the Dog never really happened.
I didn't call this a wag the dog.
What happened over there really happened?
Another email said, How in the world do you think all those pictures of burning the American flag and so forth end up helping Obama?
I said, I'm not telling you they do.
I'm telling you the people that run this country think a whole different way.
They believe they're in 2008.
Obama's still a messiah.
Do you think Obama's really worried about this?
He's campaigning.
When he made a statement about the dead ambassador, you couldn't tell that he really had much emotion about it.
He's not acting like this bothers him at all.
He's acting like somebody who knew it was gonna happen, has got it all calculated.
May ask you a question.
Very simple question.
President of Egypt, president of Libya, Mahmoud Achmedinizad in Iran, they rather have as president of the United States, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.
You know they've got a preference.
You know, every foreign leader has a preference in our election, every one of them.
Who do these guys think they got the best chance with?
Isn't that kind of obvious?
So if you're gonna structure something, get your rabble all worked up.
By the way, the Muslim Brotherhood benefits like crazy from this.
They're leftists, folks.
They thrive on chaos like this.
They deal with their population just like Obama does with ours.
The great heroes solve the problems, put it all back together, fix it, what have you.
So I'm just telling you that none of this is out of the realm of of possibility for me.
I think we've been manipulating this whole because nobody has seen this video.
Nobody's seen it.
The people who are rioting and protests have not seen it.
Let me read to you from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.
The organizers, well, the community organizers, The community organizers' first job is to create the Issues or problems.
The organizer must first rub raw the resentment of the people of the community.
Fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression.
The organizer must search out controversy and issues rather than avoid them, for unless there's controversy, people are not concerned enough to act.
An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.
What?
It's not a policy discussion.
This is how you whip people into a frenzy.
Over there it happens in the mosques.
It didn't happen on YouTube.
It happened with the full cooperation.
I know some of you think it's out of Russia, I don't know.
I can't necessarily expect accept that.
I'm uh maybe tough.
I'm just I'm I'm telling you, don't doubt me.
When have I been wrong?
Twenty-four years in matters like this.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Susan Rice, the U.N. ambassador, our ambassador to the U.N., Jacob Tapper, ABC this week interviewed her.
He said, What's the latest you can tell us on uh who these attackers were at the embassy or at the consulate in Benghazi?
Libya, for those of you in Rio Linda.
We're hearing that the Libyans have arrested people.
They're saying it's some people involved were outside the country.
There may have been even some al-Qaeda types.
What what's the latest information, Madam Ambassador?
It was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what had transpired in Cairo.
In Cairo, as you know a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.
We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to, or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo.
And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by uh some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that, as you know, in the wake of the revolution in Libya are quite common and accessible, and it then evolved from there.
The only problem here is that the Libyan president is saying the exact opposite.
The Libyan president is saying it was premeditated.
There were 400 people.
They had rockets, mortars, grenades, uh rocket propel grenades.
They had stuff that you don't just pick up off the street or in your closet.
It was premeditated.
It was set up, and it was designed to get that ambassador.
It was designed to.
It was designed to precisely because what we did in taking out Gaddafi.
Which Hillary was out laughing about and bragging about.
And so Snurdy said, Why'd they send her out here?
Why'd they send her out a look like an idiot?
She her purpose.
Her purpose is not to be judged against the Libyan president.
Her purpose is to continue with the narrative that it's this video and the guy that produced it that did all this, and that's why she keeps sticking with this spontaneous business.
The political objective is to have this guy, this Coptic Christian that nobody's ever seen.
It's a mind-boggling thing when you stop and think about it.
Somebody's nobody's seen it, nobody sees this guy, nobody knows this guy.
All of this created by this one hapless little individual.
Meanwhile, Bill Maher and others who've made movies that have really laughed at, made fun of impugned Islam nothing.
Because the rabble in uh in Benghazi and Cairo weren't told about Bill Maher's movie.
These people don't just go to movie theaters, folks.
And many of them aren't allowed to have television.
And if they do, it's totally state controlled, and you don't get YouTube on it.
So Tapper, Tapper says, well, why is the U.S. so impotent in dealing with this?
President Obama pledged to repair America's relationships with the Muslim world.
Why does the U.S. Seem so impotent.
And why is the U.S. even less popular today in some of these Muslim and Arab countries than it was four years ago?
Jake, we're not impotent.
We're not even less popular to challenge that assessment.
I don't know on what basis you make that judgment, but let me know.
It just seems that the U.S. government is powerless as this mails from Iraq.
U.S. government is powerless.
Well, he's right.
By the way, I uh uh I think Obama and these guys are totally miscalculating.
They're misreading the American people.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying they're winning with this.
I'm just telling you what they're doing.
I'm not trying to depress you.
I'm not trying to dispirit you.
That's what they're trying to do.
I think we're a laughing stock over there.
I think we're looked at as malleable as silly putty.
I don't think there's any fear of us.
We pull out of Iraq, we've announced we're getting out of Afghanistan.
Obama's apologized for the country, bowed down to the King of Saudi Arabia.
What the hell are they going to be afraid of?
So anyway.
After Tapper said that we're powerless and impotent, they wrapped up their little chat.
What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi, and many other parts of the region.
Tunisia cartoon was a result, a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting.
Let's look at what's happened.
It's quite the opposite of being impotent.
We have worked with the government in Egypt.
President Obama picked up the phone and talked to President Morsi.
President Morsi has been out repeatedly and said that he condemns this violence.
He's called off and his people have called off any further demonstrations and have made very clear that this has to stop.
Really?
Really?
Just because we said something over here.
The New York Times story on Friday, Obama called Morsi.
He was really ticked off, and Morsi was scared to death.
Yeah, Obama read them to Riot Act.
Ha ha ha ha.
So let me ask you a question.
Who would win in the Miss Alternate Universe pageant?
This babe or Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz?
Miss Alternate Universe pageant.
Not Miss Universe, Miss Alternate Universe.
Blaming the video again.
Blaming the video.
On Sunday, they're still blaming the video.
And the point of blaming the video.
You might say, God, they're stupid.
Who's buying this?
They are trying to solidify their base.
Again, the video equals Republicans.
The video equals conservatives, intolerant, all these things that they try to keep hammering home to people about the brand that is conservatism or republicanism.
That's exactly that's why she's willing to make a fool of herself.
Pure and I you know, we ran this press conference from Obama at the beginning of the program.
And I really think it may be a week ahead of its time.
I mean, there was some brilliant stuff in there, but unless you have a foundation and context of understanding, some of it may go over your head.
But that's me, ahead of the gang.
Always on the cutting edge, sometimes way too far out there.
Hey, get this.
I think this is from the uh from the politico.
Campaign launches people of faith for Obama.
Get the Obama campaign is launching a new outreach effort directed at religious voters via a new web video uploaded to YouTube today.
Obama made an argument for faith in this video in the public square.
Faith in the public square talked about how it guided his presidency.
Isn't that a coincidence?
Why Obama has put up a pro-religious video today on YouTube about faith in the public square and how it guided his presidency.
Faith isn't just a footnote in our nation's story.
It reinforces the very essence of America.
So after focusing Everybody in this country on a YouTube video for a week.
Guess who puts one up now?
But who do we believe?
The president of Libya says it wasn't spontaneous.
The president of Libya said there wasn't any video.
The people here didn't know anything about a video.
Susan Rice said, Oh, yeah, yeah, it was a video.
Now they're trying to say this whole thing in Libya was spontaneous.
Now, follow me.
Well, we had no idea it was coming.
Isn't that what spontaneous means?
Spontaneous means we had no idea it's coming.
Well, I have a story in a stack here as they're sending more spies to Libya to help find the perps here.
Now, wouldn't that point to a foreign policy failure that came to fruition of all days 9-11?
If if if this was spontaneous, but it happened on 9-11, how the hell could we not have been suspicious or prepared for something?
Folks, I'm telling you, we are being manipulated like never before on all of this.
And the Libyan president has more credibility than Susan Rice.
The Libyan president is probably telling the truth, and Obama and his regime are not.
What does that tell you?
Okay, folks, that's it.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast moments, but there will always be more.
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