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Sept. 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yep.
It was Aenria Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, who announced that NBC and MSNBC were not going to air the tape of Obama talking about how big a socialist he is until it had been verified, until it had been authenticated, even though MSNBC had already aired it.
Now, the Washington Post had already confirmed from the White House that it was Obama on the tape.
Doesn't NBC have any reporters at the White House?
Is there nobody up there anymore when Savannah Guthrie went to the Today Show?
Is that no reporters up there?
A White House phone number?
Well, they're waiting on a voice print analysis from the Mother's Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood?
Hey, wait.
No, not until the Muslim Brotherhood tells us.
Yeah, it could have been the filmmaker that made that tape and to try to pass it off as Obama.
Speaking of that, let's go to audio soundbite number 16.
This is Obama last night on a late show with Letterman.
I still, with all this going on, Middle East in flames and our ambassador's dead, and there's Obama yucking it up.
He's talking about how much he weighs and he's talking about all this.
Really not presidential at all, celebrity of the United States type stuff, not president.
Anyway, Letterman said our ambassador and three others were killed in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
Is that an act of war, Mr. President?
Are we at war now?
What happens here?
Here's what happened.
You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who is extremely offensive.
Come on.
Video directed at Muhammad and Islam, making fun of the Prophet Muhammad.
This caused great offense in much of the Muslim world.
Come on, wait, stop it.
Stop it.
He's asked about Benghazi.
That's liberal.
Even the White House as now, Jay Carney, has had to admit that this was a premeditated attack.
It was planned days in advance.
Obama doesn't even know what his own White House is saying, or maybe he does and doesn't care.
But to blame this now on the shadowy character, cue this bite back up to the top.
Had a video released by somebody who lives here, a short of a shadowy character, extremely offensive video.
Oh, I forgot to tell him the question.
The question that Romney was asked, let me do that, or I'll forget it again.
Here's the question that Romney was asked that got the 47% response.
It's a male voice on the tape.
For the past three years, all everybody's been told is don't worry, we'll take care of it.
How are we going to do it in two months before the election to convince everybody that you got to take care of yourself?
That was the question Romney got.
And he's got a big donor here.
Somebody's given a lot of money.
And the guy's fed up.
Because when he says, don't worry, we'll take care of it.
That's the regime telling the American people, the White House Obama, don't worry about we'll take care of it.
And this guy wants to know how Romney's going to turn this around in two months.
How is Romney going to convince everybody you have to take care of yourself?
This donor wants to hear Romney talk about self-reliance.
This donor thinks that it's a winning subject.
This donor wants to know what Romney's going to do.
How in two months he's going to get people to start thinking the way people in this country have always thought since the days of the founding, self-reliance.
Remember, Romney was being asked, how are you going to convince people you need to take care of themselves?
And his answer came, 47% of them, according to polls, are not paying taxes.
They're content with the government taking care of them or what have you.
Only 33% of the 47% are getting the non-earned entitlements, welfare, food stamps, and so forth.
So this is why I just instinctively knew that this was a golden opportunity.
The question posed by, oh, folks, I meant to tell you this yesterday or comment on it.
And I just saw this guy's picture up on Fox.
The Muslim Brotherhood guy, President Morsi, from day one, after his election to the presidency, Egypt, he said number one objective is to have the U.S. release the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman.
And apparently, there was a report a couple days ago that a deal had been struck to release Rahman back to the Egyptians after the election.
Now, there's some denials that have gone back and forth.
But do you want to bet that if Obama wins, he does that?
I guarantee he'll do it.
You don't think so?
You don't think he'd return Omar Abdul Rahman after he wins the election when he has more flexibility?
Of course he will.
And he'll do it under the guise of furthering, normalizing relations with blob, just like the Brits, the Brit liberals gave up the Libyan guy.
There's no question I don't think Obama will make that deal.
Okay, here, go back to Audio Sound 16.
Play it again from the top.
Here's what happened.
You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character, who is an extremely offensive video directed at Muhammad and Islam making fun of the Prophet Muhammad.
This caused great offense in much of the Muslim world.
But what also happened was extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassies.
Now, he said that last night, folks, and his White House has admitted before he went and appeared on this show yesterday that they now know that the Benghazi attacks premeditated, that it was pre-planned two or three days in advance.
In other words, the video had nothing to do with it.
But he's continuing to lie about this.
The video had nothing to do with it.
So it's clear Obama thinks the majority of people watching Letterman are absolute dunces.
He thinks that they are absolute idiots.
And by the way, the Los Angeles Times has a story today, yesterday.
I kid you not on this.
There's a story, and I'm pretty sure it was the L.A. Times, that some experts just said, you know, maybe This ought not be free speech to criticize a religion.
It was the LA Times.
Maybe it ought not be free speech.
I'm telling you, we are headed in a totalitarian direction.
We are headed there.
This was, no, it wasn't Obama, it wasn't regime people.
It was academics, expert academics, some think tanks, some university somewhere.
Maybe criticizing religion really ought not be considered free speech.
If this is going to be the result, perhaps we should have limits criticizing Islam.
Now, here's Letterman asking, is this an act of war?
Remember when he went out and addressed the nation after the death of the ambassador, when he finished, first question from a reporter was, Mr. President, is this an act of war?
And he turned his back on the press corps and walked out.
He wouldn't answer his friends in the press corps, but he goes on a late-night comedy show and on a late-night comedy show with an absolute, absolutely vacant David Letterman.
There's so much air in that head that it's impossible to measure.
I'm telling you, genuine ignoramus.
Funny guy, but a genuine ignoramus.
And that's where Obama goes to answer the question.
Late night comedy show.
Ready to take on foreign policy with David Letterman and Paul Schaefer.
Still the music guy, right?
And he's obviously, he's not going to get any intellectual pushback from Letterman.
He's going to get fawning, anal poisoning is what he's going to get from Letterman.
And these are people that's where he goes to answer the question: is this an act of war?
And he didn't even answer it then.
He just blamed it on this shadowy character who does the video.
But then Letterman says, well, what do we do for heaven's sake?
Can you believe what do we do for heaven's sake?
And here's what Obama said.
The broader issue here is there's a lot of change that's taking place in the Middle East.
And we, as Americans, always stand on the side of democracy.
We want people to have opportunity to determine their own fates and their own destinies.
But the message we have to send, I think, to the Muslim world is that we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe.
So it's their job.
It's the job of Morsi.
It's the job of the Islamist supremacist protesters.
This is the big, tough Barack Obama who won't answer the White House press corps question on the, are we at war?
He goes to Letterman, genuine airhead, answers the question, doesn't answer the question, gets the question, and then courageously and bravely tells the Letterman audience that he's told those Muslims, look, pal, you have to protect us.
It is outsourcing.
Not only is it outsourcing, it's naive and silly.
Can you imagine a Churchill or even a Roosevelt, a Reagan, can you, an Eisenhower?
Eisenhower calls up Hitler.
Hey, look, we're hitting the beach here on D-Day.
It's up to your guys to take care of my people.
What is the world is this coming to?
Yeah.
I got to take a break here, my friends.
You be good.
Sit tight.
Much more straight ahead.
The news never stops, and therefore neither do we.
And back to the folks who go to Huntington, West Virginia.
Brandon, I'm glad you waited, sir.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hey, good to be your first-time caller.
A little nervous.
I want to get your take on something.
I'm watching the cheerleading show for Obama on Monday night, Brian Williams, the Nightland News.
And I'm watching this tape being played, and I'm thinking, man, they must be desperate.
I see this as an act of desperation.
I think the momentum must be going so much in the favor of Romney that they're pulling this out now rather than just before the election.
Well, I think I mentioned yesterday that I think that is a possibility.
I don't think they intended to use this in September.
I think they intended to drop this in October.
I think there are a number of things that are the way they're looking at this.
Obama ought to be way ahead.
All the money is spent.
They think they've destroyed Romney in ads, and they think Romney's saying dumb stuff.
And now Republican consultants are out trashing Romney.
Christy Peggy Noonan, you have Michael Gerson.
You have who else?
Mark McKennon and no labels guy.
They're all everybody.
The entire Republican established told us that Romney is the only guy that could win, are out beating him up from one end of the field to the next.
I think Obama, with all this going on, how come Romney's still ahead in the swing station?
How come I'm only one point up?
So I think they did drop it.
And I think also this Middle East thing, Ambassador Kill, they had to distract, and they have to continue to distract attention from the economy as well.
So I think you're on to something.
It just means that Jimmy Carter's grandson is going to have to stay in the basement and start hunting stuff down because this was supposed to be his big get.
And they grab audio of somebody 22.
We have Jimmy Carter IV here.
Somebody's 22, 23.
This last night, Anderson Cooper 19, he interviewed Democrat activist James E. Carter IV.
And talking about this video of Romney at the fundraiser, Anderson Cooper said, How did you discover the video?
I do searches, you know, regular searches just to keep up with what's being posted, just with generic search terms, Romney and Republican, for instance.
There's a few more that I use, but it was just on one of those searches that it came up.
How about that?
Who knew?
Just search Romney and Republican and you get this video.
This popped up.
And our old buddy Brian Ross, the ABC investigative reporter who was convinced the Tea Party killed the people in the theater at the Dark Knight Rises or whatever.
He said, you know, it's illegal to record people in Florida if they don't know they're being recorded.
But that doesn't matter since it's Romney.
We're not going to make a big deal of it.
But just so you know, we know it's against the law, but we're not going to pursue Jimmy Carter IV because he's a Democrat and we're Democrats and we're all in this to destroy Romney and conservatives anyway.
So we'll look the other way.
But I just want you to know that we do know it's illegal.
But who's going to do anything to us?
Nobody.
So screw you.
Now back to Jimmy Carter IV.
Anderson Cooper.
Well, did you tell your grandfather that this story was coming out?
Did your grandfather, the ex-president Jimmy Carter, give you any advice in any way?
Did you only tell him afterwards?
I told him after.
He knows what I've been doing.
I understand he sent you an email once you sent him this story.
What did he say?
Yes, he said, James, that's extraordinary.
Congratulations.
Extraordinary.
And that's pretty, I was pretty proud of that.
I put that in the top five of email responses.
I've got.
Okay.
Jimmy Carter to Fort, the grandson, big achievement.
Top five emails, one from his grandfather, congratulating him on the correct search terms on Google.
No, it doesn't.
Peanut does not fall far from the plant.
Okay, who's next?
Dan Overland.
Is Overland Park, Kansas, or Overland, Kansas?
Where are you?
Overland Park, Kansas.
Overland Park.
I used to live there in a shack.
Well, I know that.
And you know, back when you wrote your first book, The Way Things Ought to Be, I found out that you were headed towards KCI.
That was before you were contributing to the health and wealth of the private corporate jet world.
You landed on a, I don't know which airline, but I figured out you were coming.
Met you at the airport.
You so graciously signed that book for me, and it sits at my bed ever since.
So thank you for your kindness, and I love the book, and you've been a hero of mine for a long time.
You're more than well.
Thank you very much for reminding me of that.
Yeah, I remember that trip.
Do you?
Yes.
I don't think another soul in the airport knew you were headed there but me because I sat down and tried to figure out exactly how the heck he would get there.
It worked.
It worked.
You got very creative on your part, very industrious of you to be able to figure that out.
Well, yeah.
Because we blocktail numbers, all kinds of things.
Yep, yep.
Anyway, I called today, Rush, to give you a little bit of a taste of what it's like.
You and I both are the exact same age, 61 years old, to be 61 years old, to be a self-contractor all your life, to provide for your life and have a nice middle-class home, a middle-class life, a middle-class wife, middle-class children, and in about late 2009, watch your career fade to black.
No pun intended, but that's what happened.
What career were you in?
I was project manager, a really good project manager in the large-scale telecommunications market.
We sold enterprise systems to large corporations and installed them.
And I was a project manager that...
What happened?
What happened?
The telecommunications market changed that fast?
Or it went south?
It was slowly going south, but all of a sudden, when everybody knew that the stakes were being set in front of them to block them, the question used to be, man, what's the latest technology as we sat across the boardroom table?
What's the latest stuff we can buy?
What can we do with voicemail?
What can we do with integrating voicemail with your email?
Tell me all about it.
We're ready to go.
Let's upgrade to the next version.
It became the IT guy would look at the corporate head and say, sir, we sure could upgrade this.
We sure could upgrade that.
And he'd look right back at him and say, do we have dial town?
Yes, sir.
Are we answering calls?
Yes, sir.
Are we recording calls?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
That's it.
Until something good, until something bad happens, that's where we are.
So you stopped expanding.
Pardon?
Yeah, you stopped expanding.
That's, I don't know.
I'm sorry to hear stories like this.
I really am.
Thanks much for the call.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, look at here.
Muslim cleric rips Bible at riot outside U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
During the demonstration, which was held in front of the American Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, a Muslim cleric named Abu Islam tore and burned the Holy Bible.
Well, that's it.
Now, you know, the Christians are going to burn buildings down now.
That's it.
Christian riots are going to.
Oh, wait, never mind.
That didn't happen.
My fears are ill-placed.
Ron in Cincinnati, thanks for your patience.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
It's an honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
All right.
Hey, a couple of real quick things ahead of my main point.
If James Carter IV can spell drudge, he's going to learn that his video is now debunked.
Mother Jones is acknowledging missing some critical points of it.
Two minutes.
Exactly right.
Two minutes.
Second point, to call David Letterman a buffoon is an insult to all buffoons, sir.
I know what you're trying to say.
Yeah.
Third point, and this is the big one.
Do you recall about a month ago, a little bit more than a month ago, when Michelle Bachman was from her intelligence committee perk, she was raising concerns about State Department security clearances as it relates to Uma, Weiner's wife.
No, no, Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma.
There you go.
Huma Weiner.
So anyway, she raised some very serious concerns.
She was only able to get five members of the House to get behind her.
And now we're looking at what's going on in the Middle East.
The Middle East is on fire.
I heard what she said back then, and my congressman, I'm in Ohio 1, which is southern Ohio Hamilton County.
We're considered ground zero for this coming election, sir.
My congressman sits on an important committee.
He's a subcommittee chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
He just got back from Cairo or from Egypt and a couple of other places over there.
So I sent him a message and I asked him to get behind Michelle Bachman.
Didn't hear back from him.
Come to today, and boy, she is, I mean, we look back and she's prophetic.
But here's my biggest concern, Rush.
We're seeing the Middle East on fire.
We've seen absolutely nothing here in the United States.
We know they're here.
When are they, I mean, what potentially is up their sleeve?
And my contention or my concern is, what about an Election Day surprise?
Think if they hit, if they had terrorist activity on Election Day in southern Ohio, Florida.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't worry about it because I think what the regime is going to do is they're going to find every video out there and every offensive filmmaker and round them up and make sure that any future videos won't be released.
And if that happens, then there won't be any uprisings here or anywhere else in the Muslim world.
Everybody knows it's the video.
And if the regime can get a handle on all of them that are out there, and they think they have, I feel pretty good about it.
I don't think there's going to be a problem.
I'm hopeful.
I'm optimistic, but we need to be vigilant, sir, and you're...
Well, a lot of people say we have to, but we've been closing down universities.
UT, University of Texas, Austin, we had to evacuate.
We had a couple of others.
Several schools have had to clear their campaign, and it hasn't gotten a whole lot of press.
But again, it was all because of the video.
Now we got the video.
We got that shadowy character.
A big cis, Janon Depotano, has this under control.
The Sheriff's Department, L.A., the FBI, the CIA, Interpol, all the people used to go after Don King.
Now, focusing on the video guy and his buddies.
By the way, you know, the video guy is denying that he did the video.
Nakula is denying.
Well, no, wait a minute.
Nakula is denying that he did it, but Obama convicted him on Letterman last night.
Really?
Really?
The president of the United States, talking to an absolutely clueless David Letterman, convicted the filmmaker who is denying it.
You know, Today Show, Ron, you'll appreciate this.
The Today Show today was running a banner all morning long.
You know what the banner said?
Poetic Justice, Jimmy Carter's grandson, helped expose Romney Video.
I kid you not.
Poetic Justice, Jimmy Carter's grandson helped expose Romney Video.
Now, what that's all about is that Jimmy Carter IV said that what he really liked about this is there's a chance here to get even with all these people who have been blaming his dad for being such a rotten president or his grandfather for being such a rotten president.
So at some point, I mean, you have to laugh at this, but really, it's not funny.
NBC is, I don't know how to put it.
It's not just NBC.
But I think they've not even any pretense of journalism there anymore.
There's not even any pretense of news gathering or news reporting.
Yeah, Nikul is saying he was deceived.
He's not the ultimate bad guy.
Chicago Tribune, U.S. activists, says he was deceived over anti-Muslim films from Reuters.
An American Coptic Christian activist whose California TV facility was used to make an anti-Islamic film that touched off protests.
I mean, where you go, it's just, it's in the Nexus database.
These, these simpletons, these are the most closed-minded, small-minded, simple-minded people in the news business I've ever run across.
Anyway, he's denying it now.
He had nothing to do with it.
Even he was deceived.
Right.
Jimmy Carter's grandson, even with me.
What do you mean, Jimmy Carter's grand?
No, Jimmy Carter's grandson, NBC, said poetic justice, got even with Romney.
Well, yes, I did.
I said that Obama is going to be Jimmy Carter's second term, but the banner doesn't say anything about me.
It says about Romney.
Yeah, but, well, I did.
The back and forth, the side-by-side comparison, so forth.
I don't know.
You may have a point about that.
Has Romney ever really criticized Jimmy Carter?
It's right.
Romney, it may be me that they're gunning for him.
Who's next?
Donna?
Donna in Green Bay.
It's great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Really appreciate your time.
You bet.
In fact, I'm after work today.
We'll be going down to my local victory center to be volunteering on the campaign.
I see going down.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Went in for a bumper sticker, became a volunteer.
My kids said to me, why, Mom?
You've never been involved before.
I said, I've never had a reason to until now.
I said, our founding fathers fought for something.
We have to preserve it.
My question, too, is: no one has mentioned that President Carter's grandson is also one of the unemployed.
Yeah, most people are.
He is unemployed, and so apparently he's got a lot of time to sit and do this kind of work.
But is he out there making a full-time job to be out there pounding pavement to find work?
How is he feeling four years of this?
Well, I think if you ask Jimmy Carter IV, he'd probably say it's hard work.
He's sitting down there in the basement or wherever, and he's putting in search terms at Google.
And it's hard work.
You've got to come up with the right words.
You have to come up with the right dividers.
You've got to know where to say Romney and video or Romney's video or video and Romney or Romney and no video.
There's any number of ways you could go wrong and not find this.
It takes real talent.
And a lot, a lot.
Well, he's feeling a great sense of achievement and accomplishment here.
And he's helping to avenge that, right?
His grandfather.
So I don't know that he would agree with you he's unemployed.
He just isn't being paid.
But he's working, working very, very hard.
He's very proud of himself.
And he'll probably be invited to the next Democrat convention, too.
No, my iPhones appear to be lost.
I can't find them anywhere.
I can't find any evidence they exist.
So that's my next project when I leave here.
I've been looking the whole show.
I do it all, folks.
Multitasking, extraordinary.
And we'll be back tomorrow and do it all over again.
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