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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 spokes kid just said that is that right?
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So uh 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 at the Libyan consulate are bumps on the road.
It's what he said.
It's what he said was on sixty minutes last.
It's what he said.
Well, all these things in hand are just bumps in the road.
Look at I why is it always have to be me to say this?
Why is it always I guess it is I 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 question, his little appearance after the death of 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 it was just something he had to go out there and 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 in a with hundreds of people involved?
Susan Rice uh made a fool of her.
She's only going out doing what Obama and everybody last Sunday on the on the Sunday shows.
Anyway, greetings, folks, and welcome back.
It's great to have you here.
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 some bites eight and nine first.
I've changed their mind.
We what we put that montage together last week of all the hard-hitting questions Obama got at Univision from uh Jorge Ramos and uh uh Irena Maria Irena Sarines.
And we're gonna play it again, and we're gonna 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 uh more security uh at our embassy since September 11?
Do you have information indicating that it was Iran or Al Qaeda was behind of or organizing the protests?
You had control of both chambers of Congress.
And yet you did not introduce uh 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 Uh uh history, more than one point five million so far.
Some of your critics to 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 sixty five thousand deaths it's time to change the strategy?
Can you consider that sixty-five thousand deaths a failure and the policy should change?
That's why people have to die.
Shouldn't you?
Attorney J. Eric Holder.
He should have known about that.
And if he didn't should you fire him?
So do you have nothing to hide then?
Why why are you not releasing papers?
Why don't we have uh very briefly independent investigation?
Uh that is not the Justice Department.
What is your biggest failure?
Yeah.
Uh the Obama never gets those questions in the American media.
And by the way his answers, we played those two, and they were mostly evasions or lies.
Now here is uh Steve Croft last night, sixty minutes.
Uh, and it's all Obama said, Do you worry?
How do you feel?
You um are you gonna work with these nasty Republicans?
Uh 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 the stock market that's doing incredibly well and 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 in 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?
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.
I ain't gonna work with those Republicans.
You feel any pressure?
Uh uh support for the governments that have come to power.
So let's go to what Obama said.
Question for Steve Crawford.
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 am gonna block out uh 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.
And...
*laughter*
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 uh 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.
Uh cutter.
Cutter.
No.
Uh Iraq?
No, no, not Iraq.
Uh Bahrain.
United Arab Emirates, uh Abu Dhabi.
Uh Iran.
Uh let's see.
Uh Dubai.
Ports deal, Dubai.
That's our close.
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 again.
Obama just did.
He just said inside her.
He can't he just learned.
He told the Univision guys, one of the 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 uh 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 about it.
And you don't bear any responsibility for that?
Oh, I think that, you know, uh, 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 w inlisting?
See, this is that this is the kind of talk that the the the left-wing cocktail party circuit swoons over.
This is the kind of talk that they think means really superior intelligence.
Yeah, Steve, I uh need to do a better job of um changing the tone of Washington.
Oh, The biggest disappointment I've had.
I haven't able to change the tone.
You mean when you accuse doctors of doing unnecessary surgery, call Romney a felon and maybe a murderer?
You 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 that's what Carney's all offended.
I'm terribly offended in 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, uh, 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.
Oh, yeah.
I think it's 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 uh their own governance.
Uh but uh I I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty pretty certain that uh there are gonna be bumps in the road because uh you know, in a lot of these places uh the one organizing principle uh has been Islam, uh 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 Roberts of CNN is over there in Teriri 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 who?
He's got nothing to do with this.
We're taking over the Obama tried to claim credit for this.
This was a democratic uprising.
He 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 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, if you think it's bad, but Sharia law, folks, it's not democratic.
It's not freedom.
It's not universal rights.
But I was pretty certain, continue to be pretty certain that they're gonna 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 anyway.
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 I hate to break 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's been Islam, the one part of society hasn't been completely crawled by gu does he want everything controlled by government?
He here he does.
I don't know if he's compla Well, how do you read it?
Right.
Okay, so that's what I'm saying.
So the only thing that hasn't been controlled is the he the thing that that hasn't been controlled by governments.
Islam and now it is.
And now now Islam's in control now.
Which is which is that's not a bad thing.
That's not a bad I 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.
Uh 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. Limba.
I'm very happy to talk to you.
Um 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?
Counter-terrorism.
Counter-terrorism.
And you were calling to thank me.
Yes.
Yes, for being uh the brain and the voice, um, and the the warrior for so many of us out here.
Um against Against the liberal media, the drive bys, the gullibles, the the people who seem to overpopulate um uh the country who uh it does seem that they overpopulate, doesn't it?
Yes.
It seems like we're in our own alien movie.
It certainly does, so sometimes I do think I'm in a foreign.
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 of it.
I watched it and I thought, I feel this way every day on earth.
Uh with my job just interacting and and and having to stay up to speed with what the media's uh uh doing.
You're very sweet and kind to tell me that.
I really um I appreciate it.
How long are you gonna be there studying?
Um well, a year maybe two.
Two if I can manage to find the funding to stay for a second year to write the theater.
What part of Israel are you going to?
Um 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 uh an amazing place.
For such limited square mileage, it is one of the most amazing places.
You go to Masada, Bethlehem, uh the the Western Wall, uh Temple Mount, uh the place is little Yad Vishem.
Uh it'll you should take some time and do that.
That'll that'll sober you up quickly, and it'll, by the way, reinforce your decision to go into counterterrorism.
Well, that's that's awesome.
I uh what interests you in counterterrorism?
9-11.
Uh yes, actually 9-11 affected me uh much more than I realized.
Um as the years go by, it's it's un I don't know what to say, unraveling maybe more and more and realizing just how much it affected me.
Well, I tell I wish you uh you want an iPad or computer take with you?
R sure hang on, hang on, Snurley, it just but snurly get what you need and tell me about it.
Hi folks, welcome back.
Yeah, I've just looked in the audio son by sure.
It's okay.
Cool, cool Hillary Admits, Hillary Admits um.
Okay.
Anyway, uh who's next?
Anne in Littleton, Colorado.
Glad you uh waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
It is such a great honor to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
Um I first tr I'm one of those that first knows exactly where I was when I first heard you.
I was um in a car riding with some friends to lunch when I worked um for mobile oil in the um in Dallas in the early nineties.
And um and then for the last ten 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.
I uh uh I I'm uh was this a paying job or a volunteer job?
No, it was an actual paying job.
I mean it was only part-time and and I was just I did it for ten years for a friend, but um it was kind of a time to quit.
I um I have uh You were just looking for the reason, and you said, you know what?
The reason 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 um uh that's we l we love you.
We're just so grateful.
Um I I just and I learn a lot.
You encourage me every day, and I learn a lot, and um and so now I'm making calls for um until the election I'm making calls for conservative Christian organization here in Colorado and uh trying to get people registered to vote.
That's not with Freedom Works, but with another organization.
It'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.
I that you you uh you're so kind to call tell me that.
And plus you worked for big oil.
I I I love mobile oil.
I had the best looking credit card with what uh uh aside from America 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 they're great people.
That's right.
They provide a lot of opportunity for a lot of people.
Yeah, and and they it was a great opportunity for me in in Dallas and and here in Denver and and then I worked for Occidental Petroleum in Siberia.
Wow.
Wow, Siberia.
But they actually hired me to get my husband.
Exp they they hired you w uh what did your husband do?
Um he was a uh family physician and they needed um in the early nineties when we went over there, they needed a doctor kind of to 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?
And he didn't he didn't know I wouldn't have gone without him.
We had just been married a few years at that point in time and Yeah.
So now you would go, but but back then you yeah.
In fact, he's as much older um than me as Catherine is younger than you.
And so, you know, and twenty-five years later.
Um anyway, it w it were it has worked out well.
Well, good.
I it's that's wonderful.
It's it's uh it's very nice of you to call and I appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
It's uh that's that's very flattering.
Quit your work in order to learn more.
And uh and to do that here.
Just in cross.
Thanks, thanks, Anne, very much.
Who's that?
Uh Janae, is any pronouncing it?
Janae, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, Rush Mega Ditto, Megadetto's from Iowa.
Thank you.
No problem.
Um I just want to tell you I was born in eighty-six and my dad raised me on you, So I'm a rush baby.
Rush baby here.
Anyway, um, well, bless his heart.
He 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.
Um, but anyway, so since his death, um, listening to you on the radio has really been a comfort for me.
Um, but anyway, sorry, I'm getting emotional.
Um, so it's just an honest pleasure to talk to you.
But my question is, um, what are they covering up for with this video?
Like I 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 you're crazy.
Why did they stick with it for a full week blaming the video?
Yes.
I'll tell you that there's probably a 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.
It's it's it they have they have knee-jerk reactions to things.
They have narratives and and uh oh things that it it they have that trigger them into believing things.
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 of campaign, saw an opportunity to link this filmmaker with with Romney.
Even though Romney's a Mormon, still he's a conservative, and this guy, the filmmaker's 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 I think w 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.
Uh and and so this this event comes along, and it's it's if you remember when Gabrielle Gifford's was shot, it was Sarah Palin.
When the Dark Knight Rises incident happened at Colorado, it was the Tea Party.
They they're like Pavlov's dog.
When an event like this happens, they 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 uh 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 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 I'm certain of it.
Okay, so then what do you think about the liberal movie coming out about bin Laden?
Um and how Obama killed him and how Obama's great for doing.
I th I think this is it is a 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 re-election on two things.
For four days.
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 forth.
I 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 uh with all this.
I don't know.
If if they still release this movie, I I just think it's gonna be just another button that we're gonna push before it retaliates back against us.
Look, the the way to the way to remember this, uh or to explain it, the way to explain the all these 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 what how can we change to make them stop attacking us?
And so when they start assigning blame like this, if if 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 re-election.
If health care still were not decided, if healthcare were still being debated, and the and 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 if that was the issue.
The issue happens to be Obama's re-election.
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 He did call this a bump of the road.
He doesn't know it.
He's not aware of it when he does it.
Um they think they they're on a different planet.
They're in a different world, have a whole different mindset about things.
You can't, and I seriously mean this, you can't really rationally explain them.
People go nuts trying to do that.
It's it's no different than mayor Mayor Doomberg, the Times Square Bomber.
That had to be a disgruntled American conservative, unhappy with Obamacare.
Whenever these domestic things happen, the the all they're they're they're looked at as an opportunity for the left to expand its power by by tying the right wing or conservatism to all of these disasters.
And what's fascinating is that 99 out of a hundred times conservatives have nothing to do with what happened.
If anything, it's it's 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, and nothing I can tell you right now.
Just sit tight.
Probably so.
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