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Sept. 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Really, the spokeskid just said that?
Is that right?
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So Jay Carney, the spokesman of the White House, just said he's highly offended that anyone would be critical of Obama saying that the deaths of those four Americans of the Libyan consulate are bumps in the road.
It's what he said.
It's what he said was on 60 Minutes Labs.
It's what he said.
Hell, all these things that happened, they're just bumps in the road.
Look, why does it always have to be me to say this?
Why is it always?
I guess it is my destiny.
But actually, in this, I'm not the only one to say this.
After Obama's little Rose Garden question, no, not enough question, his little appearance after the death of the ambassador, when he walked away and ignored the question, Mr. President, are we at war?
There were a number of people who observed that he was strikingly seemed unfazed.
It was just something he had to go out there and report and act solemn about.
But there didn't seem to be like a whole lot of emotional attachment to this.
This whole Benghazi thing is fallen apart now.
Everybody is jumping all over the White House.
Now, why did you guys lie about this for a week?
Why did you lie that that thing was a spontaneous eruption from a video when everybody knows that it was planned a couple, three days ago with hundreds of people involved?
Susan Rice made a fool of her.
She's only going out doing what Obama told her to do last Sunday on the Sunday shows.
Anyway, greetings, folks, and welcome back.
It's great to have you here.
It really is Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Study.
In fact, Mike, I'll tell you what.
Let's go back and get Soundbites 8 and 9 first.
I've changed my mind.
We put that montage together last week of all the hard-hitting questions Obama got at Univision from Jorge Ramos and Elena, Maria Elena Salinas.
And we're going to play it again.
And we're going to compare it with a montage of softballs that Steve Croft asked Obama last night.
So let's go back to the archives, to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Here is a montage of first time ever questions in four years that Obama got last Thursday, Coral Gables, at Univision.
Why wasn't your administration better prepared with more security at our embassy since September 11th?
Do you have information indicating that it was Iran or al-Qaeda was behind organizing the protests?
You had control of both chambers of Congress.
And yet you did not introduce immigration reform.
You did not keep your promise.
You promised that.
And a promise is a promise.
And with all due respect, you didn't keep that promise.
Mr. President, you have been the president who has made the largest number of deportations in history, more than 1.5 million so far.
You've separated many families.
Some of your critics say that it was just only to win the Hispanic vote.
Why didn't you do that earlier during your presidency?
What would you recommend to Latina women such I in order to be successful in my search for employment in the United States?
Do you think that after 65,000 deaths, it's time to change the strategy?
Can you consider that 65,000 deaths a failure and the policy should change?
That's why people have to die for this.
Shouldn't we?
Attorney General Eric Holder.
He should have known about that.
And if he didn't, Should you fire him?
So you have nothing to hide then.
Why are you not releasing papers?
Why don't we have very briefly independent investigation?
That is not the Justice Department.
What is your biggest failure?
Yeah.
Obama never gets those questions from the American media.
And by the way, his answers, we played those two, and they were mostly evasions or lies.
Now, here is Steve Croft last night, 60 minutes.
And it's all Obama said, Do you worry?
How do you feel?
Are you going to work with these nasty Republicans?
Just compare the line of questioning you just heard on Univision with what happened last night.
Mr. President, people are afraid for their jobs.
I know you know that.
Governor Romney has been portraying you as a nice guy.
You've got a stock market that's doing incredibly well.
Indeed, you've still got this unemployment, the jobs bill.
You haven't been able to get it through Congress.
How are you going to get the Republicans to agree to a tax increase?
Do you still believe after three years and this gridlock that we've had that somebody who claims to be an outsider can get things accomplished in Washington?
How much pressure have you been getting from Prime Minister Netanyahu to make up your mind to use military force in Iran?
You don't feel any pressure from Prime Minister Netanyahu in the middle of a campaign.
You don't feel any pressure?
Have recent events in the Middle East given you any pause about your support for the governments that have come to power following the Arab Spring?
Where do you go to kind of sort things out on your own?
And when do you find time to just be alone with your own thoughts?
Okay, so it was Oprah.
I just wanted you to hear the differences in the line of questioning.
Are you going to work with those Republicans?
You feel any pressure?
Your support for the governments that have come to power?
So let's go to what Obama said.
Question for Steve Croft.
You don't feel any pressure, Prime Minister Netanyahu, in the middle of the campaign to try to change your policy?
You don't feel any pressure at all?
When it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American people.
And I'm going to block out any noise that's out there.
Now, I feel an obligation, not pressure, but obligation, to make sure that we're in close consultation with the Israelis on these issues because it affects them deeply.
They're one of our closest allies in the region.
What's the question?
That's what I'm wondering.
Who are our other allies in the region?
Israel.
He said Egypt's not an ally, so I don't know who it leaves.
Well, he had to go do a backtrack on that.
Who, let's see, Jordan?
Saudi Arabia, one of our closest allies in the Middle East.
Could be in Syria.
Maybe Libya now.
No, not Libya yet.
No, it'll be a while.
Qatar.
Qatar.
No.
Iraq?
No, no, not Iraq.
Bahrain.
United Arab Emirates.
Abu Dhabi.
Iran.
Let's see.
Dubai.
Ports deal.
Dubai.
One of our closest allies in the region.
Here's the next one, the question.
You still believe after three years in this gridlock that we've had that somebody who claims to be an outsider get things.
Obama just did.
He just said, insider, he can't, he just learned.
He told the Univision guys, one of the other words is you can't change Washington from inside.
All right.
So Croft says, you still believe after three years, gridlock, that we've had somebody who claims to be an outsider, which is what Obama's trying to do now, can get things accomplished in Washington.
You know, if you ask me what's my biggest disappointment, is that we haven't changed the tone in Washington as much as we've got.
And you don't bear any responsibility for that?
Well, I think that, you know, as president, I bear responsibility for everything to some degree.
And one of the things I've realized over the last two years is that that only happens if I'm enlisting the American people much more aggressively than I did the first two years.
What is in enlisting?
See, this is the kind of talk that the left-wing cocktail party circuit swoons over.
This is the kind of talk that they think means really superior intelligence.
Yeah, Steve, I need to do a better job of changing the tone in Washington.
The biggest disappointment I've had, I haven't been able to change the tone.
You mean when you accuse doctors of doing unnecessary surgery, call Romney a felon and maybe a murderer, I wonder why you haven't been able to change the tone in Washington.
And then Buck stops here to some degree.
Did you catch that one, Rachel?
Buck stops here to some degree.
Well, yeah, I bear responsibility for everything to some degree.
Romney's responsible for some and Bush for the rest of it.
And then this is the bump in the road quote, and this is what Carney's all offended.
I'm terribly offended that anybody would be critical of Obama saying the deaths of those four Americans are bumps in the road.
Question, have the events that took place in the Middle East, the recent events in the Middle East, given you any pause about your support for the governments that have come to power following the Arab Spring?
Well, I said even at the time that this is going to be a rocky path.
The question presumes that somehow we could have stopped this wave of change.
I think it was absolutely the right thing for us to do to align ourselves with democracy, universal rights, a notion that people have to be able to participate in their own governance.
But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam, the one part of society that hasn't been controlled completely by the government.
That is low.
Folks, that 39 seconds is dynamite.
All of that is low.
Let's go to the top here.
It says, the question presumes that somehow we could have stopped this wave of change.
Mr. President, you fueled it.
You wanted credit for it.
Nick Robertson of CNN is over there in Tariri Square asking all these rioters, are you happy with what President Obama has said about young people getting jobs?
What is your opinion?
What would you say to President Obama?
And these guys are like, who?
He's got nothing to do with this.
We're taking over.
Obama tried to claim credit for this.
This was a Democratic uprising.
He said that this was happening in the image of his 08 campaign.
He tried to get in front of this and make it look like he, the Messiah, had inspired what was going on.
And now he dares say that the question presumes we could have stopped this?
He didn't want to stop this.
He was all for the Arab Spring.
I'm reminded of the Stalin quote, a million dead, that's a statistic.
Four dead, that's just a bump in the road.
Okay, so presume somehow we could have stopped this.
Absolutely the right thing for us to do to align ourselves with democracy, universal rights.
That's not what we have.
The Muslim Brotherhood is not democracy.
It's not universal rights.
It's Sharia.
And Morsi has said so.
I don't care whether you think about this or not, but Sharia law, folks, is not democratic.
It's not freedom.
It's not universal rights.
But I was pretty certain, continue to be pretty certain, that there are going to be bumps in the road because, yeah, just like, well, we took him out of context when he said, you didn't build it.
You didn't make that hip.
Now we're taking him out of context when what's the bump of the road?
Benghazi?
What happened to Benghazi?
Ambassador and Dead?
Three others dead.
Bump of the road.
Carney, I'm offended anybody.
Yeah.
Well, this guy speaks.
He's so smart, too, really.
So smart.
You didn't build that.
You didn't make that hip.
Bumps in the road.
And then in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam.
The one part of a society hasn't been controlled completely by the government?
Who is the Muslim Brotherhood but Islam?
Mr. President, I hate to break it through you, but Islam has just come to power in Egypt in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The one thing I don't know, is he complaining about this or is he happy when he says the organizing principle has been Islam.
The one part of society hasn't been completely curled by.
Does he want everything controlled by government?
Here he does.
I don't know if he's complain.
Well, how do you read it?
Right?
Okay, so that's what I'm saying.
He said, the only thing that hasn't been controlled is that hasn't been controlled by governments, Islam, and now it is.
And now Islam's in control now, which is that's not a bad thing.
That's not a bad thing.
That's what this means to me.
But that's just me.
That's just me.
Okay, let's take a brief time out here, my friends.
Sit tight.
There's much more straight ahead.
Plus, your phone calls, as always, are possible.
Here's Emmy, Minneapolis.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you for waving.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm very happy to talk to you.
I've got nothing profound to say.
It's just that I am leaving for graduate school in Israel on Saturday, and it was very important to me to say hello to you and thank you before I leave.
Really?
Graduate school in Israel?
Yes.
What in?
Counterterrorism.
Counterterrorism.
And you are calling to thank me.
Yes.
Yes, for being the brain and the voice and the warrior for so many of us out here against the liberal media, the drive-bys, the gullibles, the people who seem to overpopulate the country.
It does seem that they overpopulate, doesn't it?
Yes.
Yeah.
It seems like we're in our own alien movie.
It certainly does.
Sometimes I do think I'm in a foreign place.
I watched Prometheus the other night.
I got it on pay-per-view.
Have you seen that movie?
I haven't.
Well, it's Ridley Scott's.
It's the prequel to all the alien movies.
I watched it, and I thought, I feel this way every day on Earth with my job just interacting and having to stay up to speed with what the media is doing.
You're very sweet and kind to tell me that.
I really appreciate it.
How long are you going to be there studying?
Well, a year, maybe two.
Two, if I can manage to find the funding to stay for a second year to write this.
What part of Israel are you going to?
It's called Herzlia, and it's about, I would say, maybe seven or eight miles northeast of Tel Aviv.
Oh, okay, cool.
Have you been there before?
I never have.
I'm just taking the plunge.
Well, it is an amazing place.
For such limited square mileage, it is one of the most amazing places.
You go to Masada, Bethlehem, the Western Wall, Temple Mount, places, Yad Vishem.
You should take some time and do that.
That'll sober you up quickly.
And it'll, by the way, reinforce your decision to go into counterterrorism.
Well, that's awesome.
What interests you in counterterrorism?
9-11?
Yes, actually, 9-11 affected me much more than I realized.
As the years go by, it's on, I don't know what to say, unraveling maybe more and more and realizing just how much it affected me.
Well, well, I wish you want an iPad or computer take with you?
Sure, hang on, hang on.
Schnerli, just get what you need and tell me about it.
Hi, folks.
Welcome back.
Yeah, I'm just looking at the audio, somebody sure wasn't came.
Cool, cool.
Hilary admits, Hillary Admits.
Okay.
Anyway, who's next?
Ann in Littleton, Colorado.
Glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
It is such a great honor to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
I'm one of those that first knows exactly where I was when I first heard you.
I was in a car riding with some friends to lunch when I worked for Mobile Oil in Dallas in the early 90s.
And then for the last 10 years, I've worked for our church preschool.
And part of the reason I quit recently was so I can listen to you five days a week and become a student of the Limbaugh Institute.
You quit your job to listen to the program to further your education?
I did.
I don't know what to say.
Was this a paying job or a volunteer job?
No, it was an actual paying job.
I mean, it was only part-time.
And I was just, I did it for 10 years for a friend, but it was kind of time to quit.
You were just looking for the reason, and you said, you know what?
The reason's there.
I can be more productive at home learning than here at the preschool hanging around with the little kids.
That's right.
I can totally relate.
Gee, that's.
We love you.
We're just so grateful.
I just, and I learn a lot.
You encourage me every day, and I learn a lot.
And so now I'm making calls for Until the election, I'm making calls for a conservative Christian organization here in Colorado and trying to get people registered to vote.
Not with Freedom Works, but with another organization.
That's okay.
So you really haven't quit working.
You just shifted your focus.
Right.
Until the election, this is what I'm doing.
Well, God bless you.
You were so kind to call and tell me that.
And plus, you work for big oil.
I love mobile oil.
I had the best-looking credit card.
Aside from American Express, mobile oil was the first credit card I ever had.
Mobile was great to me.
I'm sure.
They were big oil.
They're great people.
That's right.
They provide a lot of opportunity for a lot of people.
Yeah, and it was a great opportunity for me in Dallas and here in Denver.
And then I worked for Occidental Petroleum in Siberia.
Wow.
Wow.
Siberia.
But they actually hired me to get my husband.
They hired you.
What did your husband do?
He was a family physician, and they needed, in the early 90s when we went over there, they needed a doctor kind of to help out the Western staff.
So Occidental Petroleum hired you.
Would you have gone without your husband?
I don't think they would have hired me without my husband as a female engineer.
Right.
But I mean, the point is, what if you'd taken the job?
I wouldn't have gone without him.
We had just been married a few years at that point in time.
Yeah.
So now you would go, but back then, yeah.
In fact, he's as much older than me as Catherine is younger than you.
And so, you know, and 25 years later, anyway, it has worked out well.
Well, good.
That's wonderful.
It's very nice of you to call, and I appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
That's very flattering.
Quit your work in order to learn more and to do that here.
Justin Crowd.
Thanks, Anne, very much.
Who's that?
Janae, is that you pronounce it?
Janae, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Oh, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
Mega Ditto's from Iowa.
Thank you.
No problem.
I just want to tell you, I was born in 86, and my dad raised me on you, so I'm a rush baby.
Rush baby here.
Anyway, well, bless his heart.
He passed away three years ago from cancer.
I'm just glad you didn't outgrow.
I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm just glad you didn't outgrow it.
Kind of emotional.
I'm sorry.
But anyway, so since his death, listening to you on the radio has really been a comfort for me.
But anyway, sorry, I'm getting emotional.
So it's just an honest pleasure to talk to you.
But my question is, what are they covering up for with this video?
Like, my absolute first time calling you, listen to you all the time, my first time calling because I'm really upset and I want to know what they're covering up for with all this talk about the video.
It obviously can't be about this video.
So your question, why did they stick with it for a full week blaming the video?
Yes.
I'll tell you, there's probably a bunch of reasons.
But here's what I think they were trying to do.
You have to understand how these people think, how they really are.
They have knee-jerk reactions to things.
They have narratives and things that they have that triggered them into believing these.
So here you had.
What was the filmmaker?
He was Christian.
What does that mean to a liberal?
It means extreme right-wing uh freak uh, extremist.
What have you?
I think that the first thing they tried to do was turn this into an election or a campaign issue, rather than a national security or foreign policy issue.
I think when this happened, somebody in the White House, either the administration or campaign, saw an opportunity to link this filmmaker with Romney.
Even though Romney's a Mormon, still he's a conservative, and this guy, the filmmaker, is a conservative.
And what were they doing?
This guy making fun of the Prophet, make fun of Islam and so forth.
I think there was an effort here to turn this into a campaign issue.
And also, I think they would love nothing more than to be able to clamp down on free speech.
They would love nothing more than, it's like Fast and Furious.
They would love nothing more than to take guns away from people.
And so this event comes along.
If you remember when Gabrielle Giffords was shot, it was Sarah Palin.
When the Dark Knight Rises incident happened at Colorado, it was the Tea Party.
They're like Pavlov's dog.
When an event like this happens, they knee-jerk.
They go immediately to the, it's a Republican's fault.
It's the conservatives' fault.
In this case, the benefit was if they could pull that off, that it would hurt Romney because it would make people afraid of voting for Romney because this is the kind of people that want Romney elected.
These are the kind of people that would end up running the government, running the country, wackos and freaks and kooks like this.
The thing that they don't realize when they do that, and I don't think they do, is that in the process, Janae, they were exonerating al-Qaeda.
They were exonerating terrorism.
Here's an opportunity on the anniversary of 9-11.
You have this incident happen, four Americans dead in an obvious terror attack.
And they wanted to exonerate that.
They wanted to see to it that those people that actually did this did not get the blame.
They wanted to shift the blame for their own domestic political benefit.
I'm certain of it.
Okay, so then what do you think about the liberal movie coming out about bin Laden?
And how Obama killed him and how Obama's great for doing it.
I think this is, well, it's not just the movie.
The Democrat Convention, Obama, they mentioned 21 times at that convention that Obama killed Osama, that Obama's, Osama's dead, GM's alive.
And don't forget, in Egypt, before Benghazi happens, at the protests at our embassy in Egypt, all these al-Qaeda guys, all these terrorists who are protesting outside our embassy are shouting, we're all Osama's, Obama.
I think he was the one fueling this.
I think Obama's the one spiking the football, taunting them, whether he knew it or not.
This movie, if you go back to their convention, they staked Obama's reelection on two things for four days.
Osama's dead and GM's alive.
Those were the two themes for four or three days at that convention.
So the movie fits right in with the theme.
They don't even think, they don't even think that it, because in their minds, they're not capable of being responsible for violence like this.
They're not capable.
They're the good people, passionate but nonviolent.
They're pacifists and so on.
I think they are a totally screwed up bunch.
However, I don't mean to portray them as innocently ignorant.
They are purposefully deceitful with all this.
I don't know.
If they still release this movie, I just think it's going to be just another button that we're going to push before it retaliates back against us.
Look, the way to remember this or to explain it, the way to explain, always blame America.
First, if you're a leftist, something like this, always blame America.
It can't be the terrorists' fault.
We had to do something to make them mad.
In this case, the video.
That has to be it.
The way they think.
It's always our fault.
After 9-11 happens, liberals in the State Department wanted to convene a forum on why do they hate us.
It's our fault.
What did we do to make them mad?
Is it our support for Israel?
Is it whatever?
What have we?
How can we change to make them stop attacking us?
And so when they start assigning blame like this, if they get past, okay, it's always America's fault, then who in America?
And it's always going to be a Republican or a conservative.
And the next reason for this is that it was a crisis to exploit for the purposes of the campaign.
Solving it, getting to the bottom of it, the effect on U.S. foreign policy didn't matter.
The only thing that mattered was the impact it had on Obama and what he wants at the moment, which is his reelection.
If healthcare still were not decided, if healthcare were still being debated and this incident had happened, they would find a way to link the filmmaker in some fashion or other to people who oppose Obamacare to try to discredit those who are against Obama if that was the issue.
The issue happens to be Obama's reelection.
So whatever happens is going to be reacted to and positioned within that framework.
I know these people.
I know these people.
I know them better than they know themselves.
I know what they're going to do every time an event happens.
That's why Obama, he did call this a bump of the road.
He doesn't know it.
He's not aware of it when he does it.
They think they're on a different planet.
They're in a different world.
They have a whole different mindset about things.
You can't, and I seriously mean this, you can't really rationally explain them.
And people go nuts trying to do that.
It's no different than Mayor Doomberg, the Times Square bomber.
It had to be a disgruntled American conservative unhappy with Obamacare.
Whenever these domestic things happen, they're looked at as an opportunity for the left to expand its power by tying the right wing or conservatism to all of these disasters.
And what's fascinating is that 99 out of 100 times, conservatives have nothing to do with what happened.
If anything, it's mad liberals acting out.
Well, we're off to a rousing start, folks.
And we have four more days to go in this busy, busy broadcast week and busy broadcast season.
You know, Obama met with 13 world leaders last year during UN time.
This week, he's meeting with none.
Zero world leaders.
He's probably told them all: sit tight.
I'll have a lot more flexibility after the election.
There's nothing I can tell you right now.
Just sit tight.
Probably so.
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