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Sept. 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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We are back.
I am back.
And you're here.
The EIB Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
L. Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Folks, looking in in the midst of all this political tension, it's time for a little break.
We need to take a breather.
I mean, just for a just for a moment here.
You remember back it wasn't that long ago when when we at 2 if by tea, which remains the absolute best tasting iced tea in this country.
We had people make their own two if by tea commercials.
Videos, YouTube type videos that were put together by you in the audience.
We did this last year.
And there were people in New Hampshire that dressed up in colonial gear and did a 2 if by T rap R.A.P. I mean, some of the videos that we got, we we were jazzed by it, but I mean the creativity and the passion and the ambition that was in these videos was a clear indication of just who the people of this country really still are.
There's a bunch of people with creativity and ambition just waiting to be turned loose and unleashed.
And it was really fun.
And we did it, you know, just to see what we would get.
I mean, it's a startup.
We're looking for people to do commercials for us for free.
I was walking around, I was I was uh I was asking people, do you believe in free speech?
Oh, yeah.
Well, fine.
I got a commercial for my tea company I'd like you to do, no charge.
What are you talking?
Well, you said you believe in free speech.
No, I'm just having fun.
We really just wanted to see what what we would get, and we were bowled over with the amount of effort that people put into this and and the creativity and the production values that people put into creating these videos.
So what we've done, we've decided to combine that creativity with another phenomenon that happens with two if by tea.
Have you ever covered the label of a bottle?
You've been with some liberals and they're ripping me, or they don't like me and you know it.
Uh maybe my name hasn't come up, but you just know they don't like me, that you've got the tea.
You somehow want them to taste it because it's the best tea around.
You want to hear them say that they love the tea, and then you can't wait to show them the label.
You can't wait to show them whose tea it is, El Rushbow's.
While you do that, we get notes from people all the time, but this happens.
It emails, people go to the two if by tea website, tell us these stories.
So what we're gonna do, we combine that now into a YouTube contest for two if by tea.
And you can check it all out at the website.
It's on the homepage at two if by tea.com.
The YouTube contest is called You've Been Limbaugh.
We're actually created a name for this.
And it's a it's a takeoff on You've Been Punked.
And all the details are there.
All the requirements that you have to have to be eligible for one of your commercials to be judged in in the uh in a final countdown cut down as to which ones have a chance at winning.
But we're looking for humor.
But that that we're looking if if you want to do something serious, stately, uh patriotic, historical, uh, you can, but there are requirements.
How many times you gotta say two if by tea, even limbaugh, all that kind of thing.
There are requirements that you have to meet.
And I think we're doing 60-second time limits on these things.
I mean, you gotta folks, it might seem tough to say all you want to say in 60 seconds, but don't forget Shakespeare.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Any artist will tell you that what makes his work great is what you take out of it when you think there's no more you can Take out of it.
The continued editing.
It's like Andre Serrano.
Do you did you do you know that his exhibit is going back on display in New York at a new museum?
I read it just this morning.
Piss Christ.
Andre Serrano and his crucifix submerged in a jar of his own urine.
I'm sorry if it offends you, folks.
The name of the work of art.
It's the actual name of it.
It's going back on display at a New York museum.
A crucifix in a jar of his urine.
And he told me that what made it great was taking a little urine out, more than he thought was necessary.
Now I'm just kidding about that.
What's your question?
Well, Snurgley is withdrawn the question.
The um the fact is that it's going back on display.
It's been dormant for 20 years.
They're bringing it back.
Some of you, I'm sure have never even heard of it.
Anyway, just a little side uh note.
But don't be daunted by the by the 60 seconds.
Sixty seconds is plenty of time.
In fact, the more you say, and the more punch you put in it, the more punch it'll have in 60 seconds.
And all the details, all of the rules are explained right there on the homepage at 2ifbyt.com.
Uh we can't guarantee that you won't be arrested by the government for what you produce.
We would like to be able to guarantee that you won't be arrested, but given what happened to the video guy out in California, I can't guarantee it.
So remember you're producing your own video here at your own risk.
Uh I I can you just see it?
A two if by T, you've been limbought video being blamed for something by Obama.
Wait, we're not we're not gonna be responsible for any violence that your video causes or uh nor were and we're not gonna apologize either.
Wait, if your video that you produce for you've been limbed for two by if it causes violence, you are swimming alone.
You are on your own.
We're not apologizing for you to anybody anywhere.
So just go to the two it by tea website, it's all there, and all the rules are explained and the prizes uh and so forth.
We're still working on that, but we'll we're we're close.
Okay, audio soundbite time.
I want to speak of videos, you've got to do this.
We play this in the first hour.
70,000 taxpayer dollars have been spent to run a TV ad in Pakistan where the rioting continues.
What is it, 12 or 17 people dead?
No, they're rioting at movie theaters in Pakistan.
And the movie hadn't even been seen.
And this is an ad in Pakistan.
Bill Cl uh Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama apologizing to the people of Pakistan for the video.
Here's the audio of the ad.
Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.
We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.
But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence.
None.
Let me state very clearly, and I hope it is obvious that the United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video.
We absolutely reject its content and message.
America's commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation.
This to me is unbelievable.
The video is responsible for nothing.
Why again would you not want to hold the terrorists who did this, who killed our ambassador, hold them accountable instead of this guy with the video.
It is just this is an example of the incompetence on parade.
It's also an illustration of who they think their real enemy is.
And it's us, folks, as conservatives who pose a bigger threat to the ambitions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and terrorists do.
We stand in the way of their acquisition of power far more than the terrorists do.
That's how they look at it, and that's why they're trying to blame this guy all over the world in order to taint all of us.
Uh quick quick call here.
Very rarely do we do this, even on Open Line Friday.
You're going to grab a call, the opening monologue segment.
Sheila in Matoon, Illinois.
Great to have you, and I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Oh, right.
thank you so much for taking my call.
I have talked to you at the radio for years, but now I actually get a response.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Listen, Ro why I called was um this morning I was listening to Martha McCallum, and she was interviewing a reporter in Pakistan.
And of course they were using the video as their rationale.
But Martha Prester, after saying she thought it was off and the gal actually admitted that the film probably had not been seen but had been heard about.
Well Mike.
Wait, wait a wa wa wa wait just a second here.
Okay.
I need to ask you a question.
You were an eyewitness to this.
I I was listening, yes, I was watching.
Martha McCallum.
Yes, with Martha Callum.
I need to ask you because of that report at NBC last night.
Did Martha McCow was she attempting because that's Fox News?
Was she attempting to incite anybody or anything with this deeply probing question?
Was she berating this poor Pakistani woman?
Did you said she pressed her.
Did she affect the header grips against the wall and slapping her back and forth to get her to get the answer she wanted?
I she wasn't close enough.
The gal was in Pakistan.
Oh.
Okay.
Oh.
Well, here's what happened.
After after she pressed her, she admitted that, you know, that probably it had just been heard about that might have been causing the riots.
And my question was, well, who did they hear it from first?
Let's see.
Susan Rice, Jake Carney, Obama, Hillary Clinton.
Exactly.
So they haven't seen it, and the woman in Pakistan admitted that nobody's seen it.
All they've done is heard about it.
I'll tell you where I first heard about it was when the when the the Cairo assem uh uh um the uh uh uh embassy apologized.
W but to your point earlier, and I'm so glad I had a chance to hang on.
So were they w Carney, Rice, all are they informing or are they inciting?
That's my question.
Well, that is a brilliant because I'm gonna tell you what I think they're inciting.
I do and I think Obama incited at the Democrat convention.
When he starts bragging about killing bin Laden twenty-one times, I think they are inciting.
I think and Ted Coppel, if he had any guts, if he wants to talk about who's inciting who and what, he'd take a look at this administration and how all this activity in the Middle East, all this this this uprising is is is due to some video.
Who is you are exactly right.
Who's telling everybody about the and who is characterizing the video as something horrible?
And who's bragging about killing Bin Laden?
So Rush, in essence, I mean, this is gonna sound radical.
Who has blood on their hands?
Well, well, I mean, really.
Well, but I it it only sounds radical because you're asking the question on talk radio.
That's probably it.
And you know, I and it c another quickly, because I know I don't want to monopolize here.
It's taken me like twenty some years to get a hold of it.
You're not monopolizing, it's up to me.
You're you're still on because I want you to be.
I gotta light my cigar anyway, so go ahead.
Well, I and then another one, of course, it's that radical Fox News that I was watching.
However, the she was talking to Ryan Crocker, who was uh he's a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, I think.
Yeah.
And when she was talking to him again about the the video aspect and so forth, I thought he had a brilliant comment and it was very controlled, but he said, Simplistic explanation explanations of the Middle East are almost always wrong.
Yep.
So what is I mean I look it, I think what was Sheila, uh all of this, everything that's happening in this regard is part of the campaign.
It's not about and this is the great disgust.
This is the great indictment of Barack Obama.
All of this is really being manipulated and used as a campaign issue.
It's not even about foreign policy.
That doesn't that's playing second fiddle to the value all of this has in the campaign.
American foreign policy playing second fiddle, secondary, tertiary status to Obama's campaign.
That's that's the real disgusting thing about this.
Well, you're great.
You joined the parade of absolutely fabulous callers that uh that we've had this week, and I thank you.
That's Sheila Mattoon, Illinois.
We gotta go.
Thanks, Sheila.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Okay, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh Cutting Edge.
Moving forward audio sound by number sixteen.
I like this next summer.
This is Ann Romney.
And she is responding to the David Brookses and the Bill Crystals and the Peggy Noonans.
All of these sideline commentators who are telling Mitt how to do it, telling him what he's doing wrong.
When he shouldn't speak up and when he should speak up and how he's campaigned and what it's doing and so forth.
And she's uh a lot of people are irritated.
Michelle Malkin had a great, great rant on this the other night on Hannity.
She called it chin pullers.
So they're pulling their chins, thinking deeply about all the cosmic ways that Romney's blowing the election and so forth.
And there are a lot of people, it's you know it's one thing to be ripped and criticized by the Democrats, but I mean you sideline armchair generals there.
Can it dial it back here?
This is well, let Ann Romney say she this is I think very well said.
Stop it.
This is hard.
You want to try it?
Get in the ring.
This is hard.
And you know, it's an important thing that we're doing right now, and it's an important election.
And it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is, and how lucky we are to have someone with missed qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.
And she's right, she's blasting these establishment types sitting here at their keyboards and their think tanks.
Uh what she's basically saying, we are trying to save the country here.
This is not just the next election in the schedule.
We're trying to save the country here.
He's drawing huge crowds, and his this there was a dinner last night at a hundred thousand dollars a couple here, just as the crow flies thirdly.
It was only four miles north of my oceanside uh retreat.
And it was overflow.
And it was a cocktail party uh prior to that.
And Sarasota, the crowds that Romney's drawing are huge.
You just never hear about it.
You don't see it.
But they are huge.
Tom in Colbert, Oklahoma.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing?
Hey, listen, I I got a comment about Lee Iacoka, and I don't understand why we don't hear more about what he did for Chrysler a few years back with no government money, no stimulus, no nothing.
He picked him up from nowhere and put him right back on the map.
You know, one of the American people at that don't remember that.
He did, he paid it all back.
Yeah, everybody did.
We didn't have any government takeover, we didn't have any gun putting leaders in there to company like GM.
Where's Bob?
Yeah, and you know what after that happened.
He was uh uh a role model for a lot of it.
There was a real man.
There was a guy who took out the loan and paid it back and saved the car company the process.
That's my point.
Everybody's run around like Bob Beckle acting like Obama's done something by saving GM.
He's done nothing.
You had a regular man's job and went out and did it for this.
You are absolutely right.
The guy in the mom jeans, you can't even throw out a real first pitch in a baseball game, save GM.
What a crock by spending other people's money and then screwing the bondholders over in the process and giving it to the auto workers, save GM, my tush.
That's as it that is an excellent point.
It's not paid back now.
It's not gonna get paid back.
They tried to get out of it, GM, and they won't even let them because they want the ownership because they're out processing all the jobs to China.
I mean, I don't know where the American people are at.
But let me say this about one more thing, and then I'll get off the air.
I want to tell you about this leading from behind that he does, and you love this.
Take a quarterback.
He goes out on the field.
He tells the guys in the hole, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna run up to the line of scrimmage here.
You're gonna you're gonna snap the ball to me, John, and we're gonna stand up, we're gonna let him run all over our butts, and then we'll figure out what they'll I'll lead you from behind.
Well, after they get about two plays of this, the team goes back mutant he's quarterbacks down the field, says, go lead, buddy.
You know what I'm saying?
That's what Obama does.
There's no leadership in him.
That's exactly.
That is true too.
There isn't any leader.
In fact, there's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington.
There's a there's a void of leadership.
I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst uh across the country, Tom, is that there's there doesn't appear to be any leadership anywhere.
Just a bunch of followers and a people afraid of what the media are gonna say about them or afraid of what other people are gonna think about them rather than rolling up their sleeves and just doing it.
That's right.
And and here's the one last thing.
I one more thing, please.
You just said that was the last thing.
Lee, I know that, but I lied.
I got some Obama blood in me too, see?
But here's how this goes.
Uh American leaders are born, the leaders everywhere are born.
They're not made.
I don't care what anybody says.
And if you don't think so, you take a leader, and he may not ever become a leader in this country.
He has the potential, but if he is a leader and he becomes leader, he'll lead.
A guy like Obama who's put into a leadership role because he thinks his leader will fail just like he does when the pressure's down.
That's why nothing is happening in the Middle East and North Africa right now, because he's trying to lead from behind, and all he's trying to do is wait around to see what'll happen.
What is this in there later?
Well, what is this lead from behind business anyway?
I don't know.
I was leading from behind.
Because they were leading from behind, you know.
I mean, I don't know what the hell leading from behind is, but I just have to think of it on his term the best I can.
Well, Obama's a community organizer, and uh uh Sol Olinski said that organizers are not leaders by definition, and I got that right.
Monica Lewinsky.
It is reported is going to do the real tell all book this time for twelve million dollars.
I have it here from a national inquirer, Monica Lewinsky, is set to reveal shocking new secrets about her affair with President Clinton in a bombshell twelve million dollar tell all.
What?
What affair?
What do you mean, what affair?
You don't think there was an affair.
She thinks it was an affair.
She thinks Clinton loved her.
That that she's going to tell all the apparently there were orgies and and stuff.
Apparently, there's more than just uh occasional Lewinsky in the study.
Apparently there's more than that.
For years, Monica tried to protect Bill out of a misplaced sense of loyalty, a close pal told the inquirer, but she no longer feels that way, and her memoir is his worst nightmare.
Monica already has several publishers interested in her book, which will reveal graphic, never before known details of her sleazy sex twists with Derschlieckmeister.
While Monica revealed some details in her 1999 biography, she never got into explicit descriptions of her encounters with Clinton.
Now she's finally set to tell all.
I mean, there is talk about a secret abortion.
Uh orgies.
But it's the inquirer.
However, the inquirer had it all on John Edwards.
The inquirer had it all on on on the Breck Girl.
Dawn's in there cannot believe a fair, give me a break a fair.
She's gonna have as many autobiographies as Obama.
Was he up to two?
He's up to two.
He'll have a third when this is all over.
If it ever is all over.
Fairlawn, Ohio.
Barnes, great to have you.
Open line Friday.
Hello, sir.
It's great to talk to you, Russ.
Thank you very much.
I've been uh listening to you since uh 1989 and haven't stopped listening to you since.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
Thank you so much.
I came up in the sixties, uh uh from Chicago.
I came up in the uh sixties and we had black pride with the songs of um uh the great songs of the sixties from Motown and and I went to all black school in Chicago, graduated from an all black school, and from that point we d uh we created a uh Afro American group in high school to start learning the blacks about being pride, taking care of for the women to take care of their bodies and stuff and be proud of themselves.
We listened to James Brown.
Yeah.
And from that point, I went to Gramlin at the time, Gremlin was a college in Louisiana.
We went there and we uh got in the we formed a group called the Yuri Group, which is Swahili for Freedom.
And there we supported Well, what was the name of the group?
Uh you hear U H U R A. You pronounce the U.S. Oh, Uhura, you okay.
Exactly.
And uh we supported trailer chisel.
We helped Gramlin at the time, Gremlin wasn't uh Gremlin was more like a Toso Uncle Tom school, but we helped Gramlin get black courses to teach blacks to be proud of themselves.
From that I came back and we helped uh Harold Washington become the first black mayor of Chicago.
And later, after helping Hare, I realized 'cause I was always conservative.
I came back from my mother and father who worked hard, they took care of their families.
Then in the uh seventies and eighties, I realized that the Democratic Party, because I was a Democrat at the time.
I became a register uh registered Republican in eighty-nine when I would listen to you.
Yeah.
I realized the Democratic Party was the biggest culprit on destroying the black race.
At that time I was kind of brainwashed.
I just felt that it black pride democratic parties for the blacks, but it wasn't.
I realized that as long as they kept blacks on welfare, uh kept blacks on drugs, they didn't kept the black people stayed on drugs, they didn't get it Wait, wait, let me explain you need to explain how that happened.
Uh the Democrats and uh society itself.
Uh how how how did how did they keep blacks on welfare and on drugs?
I mean I I'm I'm not disagreeing with you.
I just wanna how does that actually happen.
Well, it happens from it starts with uh no education.
They never uh blacks all of a sudden stop when they stopped the war, the draft in 72, when they stopped the draft.
From that point, I had I had graduated from college.
From that point, I seen that the Democrats would come and campaign, they'll get the blacks to vote democratic, they started lying, and the blacks started selling drugs more in the 70s.
Why would they want that, though?
Why would they want to um do damage to the black family and and and create drug addiction among black people?
Uh the because they wanted the votes.
They wanted to vote starting.
So this is they create dependency, is that what you mean?
This is how they exactly.
Exactly.
And it's been going on err since the mid-sixties, and I seen it for I seen it in the seventies and the eighties all the way to the day.
They felt that the black people was going to be dependent on the Democratic Party.
So black pride morphed into black victimhood.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And that's why the Democratic Party get about 95% of the black votes, because they didn't care if the blacks stayed on drugs, have abortion.
They felt as long as the blacks didn't get no education, they they wouldn't worry about the blacks uh moving up and moving into good neighborhoods.
Well, keep the bad schools open, that's for sure.
exactly keep the best schools open it uh...
in everything they didn't know organization like uh...
derby league in double a cp the black caucus jesse jackson They was there to make sure that the blacks kept voting democratic.
And it's still the same way.
Now that's true.
I I uh I know the deal.
Um and this it first became a w uh I first became made aware of it during the the fight over Clarence Thomas nomination Supreme Court.
Paul Weirick took me aside.
So let me tell you what's going on.
So the what's going on, the the the civil rights coalition has its seat of power, the Democrat Party, and it's it's got to do a bunch of things in order to keep that seat and one is turn out the black population voting Democrat and and the biggest threat, the biggest threat to that is to show an independent African American rising to the top who's not a liberal Democrat, who didn't use affirmative action, who didn't get propelled there by the Democrat Party.
That was the biggest threat to the existing civil rights coalitions.
Clarence Thomas is going to be the most powerful black man in the country if he made it the Supreme Court.
And that's how it was explained to me that he had to be destroyed.
Because it it uh it would upset way too much that had already been put in place to keep people like Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nees at people from the American way and all these civil rights people at their positions of power and value at the Democrat Party.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Well, so what what what happened to you?
I mean, you fell out of this.
Uh yes.
Well, I was always conservative.
Um, how could you have always been conservative when you're involved in the black pride movement?
Uh because uh my my family was born in the South.
They was born in the South, and at the time it was a family.
The blacks had families, you support each other.
Then my family moved to Chicago when I was young, when I was three years old.
And so I came from the old school where you had parents and mothers and fathers who who stayed together.
And and they develop a family.
Isn't that a shame the old school?
Yeah, we had together, we had fun, we believed in Christ.
That's a shame.
The old schools are parents stayed together.
They stayed together.
Uh or at least there were two adults in the household.
Yeah.
We went to uh we went to church every Sunday.
We believe uh we believed in morality.
We believe in doing our uh our fellow uh people right now.
Well, what do you think we're headed for?
I mean, I I've got about a minute max I've got left here.
Where are we where are we now?
Obama running for re-election, second term, here it is, right in front of us.
Uh yes, and that's the it's sad because I've been I'm in a Tea Party in Ohio, and I'm doing everything I can to help defeat uh Barack.
Wait a second.
You are in the Tea Party in Ohio?
In Ohio, yes.
Have any union thugs come along and try to beat you up?
Uh uh they be acting up, but we haven't uh I haven't came across him yet, but we uh I don't care what the president is.
If this president is so bad, I don't care what nationality he is, he's one of the worst presidents besides Jimmy Carter.
Yeah.
And it's hurting uh hurting uh blacks all over and uh it's had twenty twenty-seven abortions in the black race.
I know.
It's incompetence, too.
It's it's it's well look, I'm I'm really uh I'm glad you called, Barnes.
I um I appreciate it.
Really you know what?
Um I'm uh I've got I've got an engraved EIB iPad here, and I'm gonna send you one if you don't well, even if you do, I'll send you one, you give it away if you if you've already got one.
Hang on, Snerdley's gonna get your address.
We can send it out to you, maybe even for Saturday delivery.
Don't go away.
Let me give you some facts here.
Republican voter registration is outstripping Democrat registration in the border states, and this is according to uh news report a couple of weeks ago.
In fact, folks, Republican registration is up nearly record highs, and Democrats are near record lows in terms of new registration, despite what you're hearing out there.
That is the reality on the ground.
Yoko Ono.
A new peace grant has been awarded to a group called the No, this can't vagina riot, except substitute the P-word.
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