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Nov. 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, folks, you have to think.
You just have to think with Bill Clinton watching all this, all these affairs going on in the military.
Bill Clinton's got to be kicking himself for dodging the draft.
I mean, look at, look at what he missed.
Hello, my friends.
Greetings to you from the ruins of the United States of America, Rush Limboy, and the excellence in broadcasting that we're coming to you from the heavily fortified, well-bunkered EIB Southern Command.
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It's all too easy, folks, to forget the human toll that this is taking on the people involved.
For example, Petraeus, now going to have to run for the presidency as a Democrat.
His chance as a Republican is shot.
But this is a resume enhancement.
You know what this is?
This is the real housewives of West Point.
This is what we are watching here.
And this Benghazi story, it finally has legs, lots of legs.
Have you seen him in Tampa?
Broadbeam, Broadbeam, Broadwell, whatever her name is.
You know, the one good thing, folks, about all of this is that a sex scandal might make some people finally hear about Benghazi.
Because the media is all over this.
It is a sex story that they just can't ignore.
And even the lowest of the low information voters might finally hear about what happened in Benghazi because of this.
That's why I said, you know, words and policy, we kind of exhausted it.
We're just going to have to wait for events to overtake the regime.
And who knows how this is going to play out?
But what a soap opera this is.
Real Housewives of West Point.
Next thing I expect to hear is that Paula Broadwell put on adult diapers, got in a car for 24 hours, and drove down to Tampa to find Jill Kelly.
I mean, it is hilarious.
Part of me is laughing at it.
And I'm like you, I'm incredulous at this.
Now we've got General Allen.
This is the guy we all saw in 60 Minutes a couple weeks before the election.
General Allen, we're going to get them.
Keep your shirt on.
The FBI doesn't.
The FBI agent that got all this started, he was infatuated with Jill Kelly.
This sex pot.
They're calling her a sex pot, this socialite sex pot in Tampa.
And this guy, the FBI, we were asking yesterday, how in the world, like I said to Snergly, I want you to call the FBI this afternoon and say you're being harassed by somebody in the Philippines, and you want an investigation to email and see what they do.
See if it happened.
Well, we found out how this happened.
Jill Kelly called the FBI agent that she knew they were buds.
There were some acquaintance.
He had sent her topless photos of himself.
She's also married.
So he got the investigation going.
Then people at the FBI said, you know, this guy is a little too close to this.
We're going to have to kick him out of the investigation while we conduct it.
And I'm looking, all of these traditions, all these institutions that used to define the backbone of this country, they're all becoming a joke.
Everything's becoming a joke.
Hurricane recovery in the Northeast.
The unions are keeping fresh water out.
The unions are keeping repair crews out.
The unions are causing all kinds of red tape that Obama promised wouldn't happen.
We haven't heard from Governor Christie since the election.
I don't know what he's doing.
But this story here with Petraeus and now General Allen, 20 to 30,000 documents that he was sending to the SexPot Socialite in Tampa.
One thing we know, nobody's had time to prosecute the war over there.
This Mullah Omar guy, I mean, what does the Taliban know?
That's the next thing to drop.
We're going to find out the Taliban's behind all this somehow.
I remember the FBI, I mean, the one thing that you could count on, these guys are, these are former Marines.
This kind of behavior from the FBI, there's no institution out there that we can trust that has not been politicized, that hasn't been corrupted, even the CIA.
And of course, Obama, by the way, Obama's doing a press conference to him.
I wonder how many reporters will ask him about all the binders filled with women in this administration.
So now we have, here's the latest, we have another top general involved, the general who replaced Petraeus in Afghanistan, the general who is supposed to be running the war in Afghanistan.
But why does anybody care?
Obama's already told us we're getting out in 2014, win or lose.
So what does it matter?
I remember General Allen on 60 Minutes that he was really ticked off for the way the war is being prosecuted.
He didn't specifically say rules of engagement and how limiting they are, but that's how I interpreted it.
Well, you got a commander-in-chief who basically is throwing in the towel in Afghanistan.
What's everybody supposed to do?
You can't fire on the bad guys if they're surrounded by women or if they are women.
Everybody's hands are tied, so they're seeking titillation elsewhere.
General John Allen being reported that he exchanged between 20,000 and 30,000 emails and pages of communication with the fourth woman here in the Real Housewives of West Point, Jill Kelly.
I don't want to prejudge this, folks, but it sure seems to me that we have way too many generals taking orders from their privates.
And there is not a whole lot of real generaling going on out there.
20, 30,000.
By the way, here's something for you to put in a hopper.
you ever want to have an affair and you want to do it with email but you don't want to get caught easily here's here's what Petraeus and Broadbeam excuse me I keep up Broadwell, what they did, they did not send the emails.
You know, when you stop and think about this, even here is the director of the CIA.
You would think there is a way for this guy to do anything he wants without anybody discovering it.
It's the CIA.
Instead, he's using a Gmail account.
That's Google.
Can you say hack?
Google has servers all over the country.
Nothing ever vanishes from Google.
You can delete it 13 million times on your computer.
Same thing with AOL.
Same thing with any of these email services.
You are not deleting anything when you delete it from your computer.
You're not even really deleting it from your hard drive.
But you certainly aren't deleting it from the Google servers.
Anyway, they knew that.
So what they did, Broadbeam and Petraeus, they set up the hit, Broadwell.
We used to call Hillary.
You know, there's a very rare animal in Arkansas.
It's called the broad beam, and it sounds like Hillary's laugh.
That's what anyway.
They set up a common folder.
Like, I don't know if any of you use Dropbox, but that's essentially what they were doing.
So they would compose their emails without email headers, without IP addresses, just the text, and they would deposit their communication to each other in a commonly held Dropbox with the same account so they could each access it.
This is a, I'm told this is a common tactic used by, honest to God, it's what I read, terrorists and teenagers.
It is what I read.
Terrorists and teenagers use this same technique that Petraeus and Broadwell were using.
I've blown it for the, I didn't blow it for the teenagers.
It's already out there.
I'm just happily repeating what's already out there.
Don't worry, teenagers will come up with something else.
So far ahead of us on this stuff, we can't imagine it anyway.
Anyway, somehow the FBI was clued in on this technique, and they found that common folder, which would be on another server somewhere.
And she had a her Broadwell was also a subscriber to Stratford.
You know what Stratfor is?
Strat4 is the private sector intelligence service that anybody can subscribe to.
A guy named George Friedman runs it.
Remember, they got hacked.
Strat4 got hacked and all of their account holders and passwords were hacked not long ago, including Broadwell's.
And her password was hacked along with her hashtag or hash password.
And you know what a hash password is?
What?
I don't believe that.
No, that's a hashtag.
You don't know what a hash password is.
I don't even know why I'm bothering asking you.
Okay, I'll give you an example of what a hash password is.
It's a password on both ends of a secure connection.
Like, let's say that you are a member of iCloud and you have your password, snerdly, whatever it is.
iCloud has another password that gets authenticated by them when they see yours that nobody can ever see.
And it is 13 to 15 characters or more with numbers and letters and spaces and symbols and all kinds of.
And there's no way you can find, but it was whoever hacked Stratford found Broadwell's hash password in addition to her regular.
So that might have been a way in here that they found out what was going on.
I mean, these things are all discoverable.
But we still go back to John Allen: 20 to 30,000 emails and pages of communication.
This is not a sex scandal, folks.
This is a why aren't you doing your job scandal?
And you know what's amazing to me, folks?
You know what's really amazing to me?
Our president didn't know a thing about any of this ever until last Thursday.
Not a thing.
Our president, we are so fortunate, ladies and gentlemen.
Between the Secret Service prostitution scandal, remember that?
Secret Service prostitution scandal, the real housewives of West Point, who has time for taximagadden and sequestration.
Oh, and the president didn't know about Fast and Furious.
Look at what our president is unaware of.
It's a good thing he didn't have anything to do with this.
It's a good thing Barack Obama is totally insulated, has total plausible deniability.
It's a good thing he knew nothing about Fast and Furious.
It's a good thing he knew nothing about Benghazi.
Four Americans were dead.
It's a good thing Obama's got no connection to the economy.
I mean, it's what we learned from the election.
Obama's got no connection to anything.
Obama money, he doesn't know anything.
He doesn't do anything.
He didn't do anything, but he cares.
Oh, well, I don't know.
They told Eric Cantor, and there's another member of Congress they told me.
They didn't tell Obama.
Well, Eric Holder knew since last summer.
But he didn't tell.
Apparently, there's a law.
Not a law.
No, it's not a law.
There is a policy in place since 2007.
You remember when Bush fired the attorney generals or the U.S. attorneys in all the states, and the Democrats went nuts?
There was an investigation of this, and there's some policy, not law, it's not in the U.S. Code, that presidents are not told of these kinds of investigations unless a certain threshold is reached.
I'm seeing that as an excuse for Obama as well.
And here's another thing.
I don't know if you've heard this.
Broadwell's co-author of the book is a reporter at the Washington Post.
That's right.
Her co-author, it's by Paula Broadwell with, and I forget his name.
I don't have his name at the top of my head right now.
But this guy has commented.
He says that he is shocked.
He says that he is amazed.
He had absolutely no idea any of this was going on with Broadwell and Petraeus.
Now, Broadwell is only his co-author.
Petraeus is only his subject.
Vernon Loeb, that's the guy.
And he says that he's shocked and amazed.
He had no clue.
So we've got the comments of Broadwell.
She told a reporter in February that despite the fact that the book gushes with praise for Petraeus, she's not in love with him.
She said to a reporter in France, I'm not in love with her co-author had no idea any of this was going on.
The guy who co-wrote the book had no clue, even though she's out there saying to people who've read the manuscript, no, no, no, I wasn't in love with him.
Now, it occurs to me that a writer for the Washington Post would not be able to tell that he was co-authoring a love letter to General Petraeus.
Isn't that the way mainstream media reporters normally report on appointees of the Democrat administration?
They know nothing about them.
And this was right in front of his face.
Then last night, minding my own business, I'm watching the Steelers, and I cannot understand the Pittsburgh Steelers made a JV team look like a Super Bowl contender last night.
The Kansas City says, I'm watching this.
And then there's a news flash that the FBI has raided the home of Broadwell.
But there was no national security.
We're told that nothing happened here.
We're told that, except her dad says this is about much more than what anybody knows, which would tend to indicate that she's told him some stuff it might be about.
So the FBI, after taking the guy who took his shirt off for Jill Kelly, is pulled off the case.
They raid Broadwell's home in Charlotte.
And they say, no, no, it's not a raid.
It's consensual, like everything else in this case.
Consensual invasion of Broadwell's house.
And they're taking computers out of there.
And they're taking large boxes of stuff out of there.
Now, in the meanwhile, folks, there's the poor, hapless filmmaker in jail for a year who's being blamed for what happened in Benghazi.
And I'm wondering if that's where Broadwell is headed.
In a cell next to the filmmaker.
By the way, folks, the New York Times is going out of its way today to make sure we understand that the shirtless FBI agent is a right-winger.
Oh, yeah.
Well, how could it be anything else in this current climate?
Here's what they write.
Well, because of his worldview, as an FBI official put it, he suspected a politically motivated cover-up to protect Obama.
That's why the shirtless FBI agent went ahead and authorized the investigation into Broadwell.
And the New York Times says that he, the FBI agent, this right-winger, suspected a politically motivated cover-up, Benghazi, obviously, to protect Obama.
So the shirtless FBI agent is a fair target to be mocked and made fun of in the media for having sent a shirtless photo to somebody he knew and with whom he had some kind of prior relationship.
The FBI spent more time in Broadwell's house in Charlotte, North Carolina, four hours than they did at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
Just to put this in perspective, they spent more time in Broadwell's house, Charlotte, North Carolina, than they did in Benghazi.
This Benghazi story has now become a story about sex and scandal about who?
The Benghazi story has all of a sudden become a sex scandal about Petraeus?
Who benefits from that?
Who is the one person in all of this reputed to be a Republican?
Petraeus.
And I only say that because people were touting Petraeus as a potential presidential candidate for the Republicans down the road.
I don't know what Broadwell is, but Broadwell goes on all these liberal TV shows seller books, so I have no clue.
But Petraeus was said to be a Republican, and now we've got Benghazi, and what's it all about?
Benghazi is a sex scandal involving Petraeus, benefiting Obama.
The issue, the real issue, is what did Obama know and do before, during, and after the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans?
That's what's important about this story.
I don't care what's in thousands of emails between Petraeus and this lady and other ladies, but now that big media is on the case, and not Obama's case, now they're following a sex scandal.
And that shields Obama about Benghazi.
We'll be back.
And welcome back, El Rushbo, here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
You know who else is potentially a big winner in this?
It's Anthony Weiner.
And Anthony Weiner gets tossed out for a couple of text photos and so forth.
I mean, he's a piker compared to what is going on here.
But while this is all going on, folks, while all of this is happening, while all of this sex scandal stuff, this salacious stuff's got the media all excited, there are real things happening out in the country.
A bunch of CEOs are in Washington.
These people are beside themselves.
They're having to hire outside consultants to pour through the Obamacare legislation and advise them, tell them what they have to do to comply.
And they are asking for some kind of relief.
You've got John Schnodder at Papa John's Peach at the Applebee's people and a number of other restaurant chains are saying, we have no choice.
If we're going to keep our products priced where they are, which is the price they've all determined is the most sensible for profit, stability, and affordability for customers, they're going to have to let some employees go or they're going to have to convert them to part-time something in order to stay status quo.
And if they can't stay status quo, if their prices skyrocket, their businesses suffer.
So there's no win-win here.
And these CEOs are being harassed by extremist liberals via Twitter and Facebook and direct email.
They're being threatened because of their public statements of what changes they might have to make in the way they run their businesses.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
These major CEOs in town, they want to meet with Obama and they want to have a chat about this because they don't know what they're going to have to do to comply.
Nobody can understand the legislation.
And Obama doesn't know what's in it.
And the bottom line about it, he doesn't care what's in it.
Mr. Limbaugh, how in the world can you say that the president will do it?
Because he doesn't care about the details.
All Obama is interested in is the following.
That after a certain number of years of this mass confusion, the only solution will be single payer.
Whatever hell happens between now and then is the price to pay for it.
We are headed to single-payer health care, the government being the payer, the government being the determining factor in virtually everything.
Now, the states have to start setting up these exchanges.
The federal exchanges, the states have to do it, where people will go and buy their insurance or pay their fine for not doing so.
The deadline was originally November 16th, but the regime has relaxed that.
Some of these deadlines have been moved to next year, early next year, I think February, because there's not enough time now.
And the regime wants to appear flexible.
Now, it's easy for me to say, sitting here behind the golden EIB microphone, if I was a Republican governor, I would say no.
I'm not setting up an exchange.
I'm not going to do it because the federal government cannot.
It's a quirk in the law.
Now, they could go back and fix this, I suppose.
But as the law currently exists, the federal government cannot set up the exchanges in the state.
Somebody, some staff member, whoever wrote this thing, made an error.
Believe me, there are errors in this thing that nobody even knows exist yet.
It's 2,700 pages.
One of the reasons it's 2,700 pages is that virtually every special interest group was given treatment.
It is an absolute jigsaw puzzle nightmare.
And where it's going to end up is single payer by design, by design.
And there's no, I mean, we didn't win the Senate, so there's no rolling this back.
There could be some fun.
There could be some delays if the governors refuse to set up the exchanges.
Now, as far as citizens are concerned, the exchange will be A federal office building somewhere with a phone number.
And you'll call and you'll find out what you have to do to be legal and have your insurance and how much it's going to cost you and what the fine options are.
Or you can go there and stand in line like you do at the DMV.
And I venture to say that over half the population has no idea what's in store for them.
But there will be no recourse now.
And so the resulting confusion, and don't think Obama knows the details of this.
He doesn't care.
I mean, he was running around saying, you babble, keep your job.
Hey, keep your doctor, you like your duck, keep your duck.
You didn't build that.
And if you like your policy, you keep your policy.
You can't.
None of that's true.
He was either lying through his teeth about it or he doesn't know.
It doesn't matter which, but there's equal weight on the he doesn't know.
Obama's not a roll-up-the-sleeves detail guy.
He says, I want affordable health care for all Americans.
Democrats, Pelosi, and Reed start writing the bill with whoever, and that's it.
Obama's done goes plays golf.
The intricate details don't matter, but the CEOs, the people who have to deal with it, are hiring outside consultants to help them stay in compliance, to stay legal.
They're also asking for a delay in eliminating tax cuts or the current tax rates.
Meanwhile, Bill Crystal on our side, go ahead, let's just raise taxes on the rich to hell with it.
Got all these liberal Democrats, Wall Street, and Hollywood people.
Let's go ahead and raise their taxes supporting Democrats anyway.
The bottom line is that hurts the country.
You can't take money out of the private sector and have the private sector grow.
All it's going to grow is government, Santa Claus.
And a growing percentage of our population would just as soon vote itself a lifestyle it doesn't care to make the effort to earn.
And Obama knows it and is willing to play off of it.
All kinds of things like this are going to be popping, too.
This is out of Ohio.
And of course, there was no way this news was going to hit before the election.
Ohio families receiving food stamps, and there's a ton of them because we learned yesterday that the food stamp rolls grew at a record pace from July to August.
We've already got 47 million Americans on food stamps and growing.
We have the regime advertising in Mexico on Mexican radio soap operas for food stamps in America, how to access them, how to get them.
We have the Republican Party joining with the Democrats on importing a whole bunch of new low-income people, which will end up Democrat voters.
So the Republican Party is wittingly or unwittingly participating in the importation of more Democrats who will be granted a pathway to citizenship and who will be shown how to vote and access food stamps.
But here in Ohio, Ohio families receiving food stamps could get an unwelcome surprise come January: $50 less every month in assistance.
For the 869,000 households enrolled in the food stamp program for the poorest Ohioans, that could amount to $520 million annually out of the grocery budget, the aggregate combined grocery spending.
Food stamp benefits cut by $50 every month starting in January.
Do you believe that the people on food stamps expect that?
I don't.
You see, because of the way the federal government calculates utility expenses for people getting the benefit, a mild winter nationwide last year and a lower price for natural gas, many families could experience a significant cut in aid, say those familiar with the program.
Recipients will get a letter, well, they should, from the State Department of Job and Family Services in Ohio this month explaining the change.
Meanwhile, food banks and others that distribute food assistance are bracing for increased demand.
You better keep Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of there, because in New York, they cannot give food to the homeless because it hasn't been tested for fat and salt content.
And I kid you not.
By the way, that is not a joke.
Snurdy.
That's who they are.
You don't believe it?
It is perfectly sensible that Michael Bloomberg would prevent food being given to poor people because the trans fat and salt content hasn't been approved.
Doesn't matter.
That could kill them, in his view, giving them poisoned food like that.
That's who we're dealing with.
Look, I mentioned a statistic.
Look, I'm just grabbing this out of the air here because I want to do it before I forget it.
Because it dovetails with the fact that Republicans are in a panic here deciding to now work with Democrats on bringing more Democrats into the country, more low-income Democrats, illegal immigration, more low-income, this outreach business.
I want to give you some numbers that I mentioned late last week.
1984, Ronald Reagan elected president with 37%.
By the way, I don't care how far back you go, no Republican has ever received more than 40% of the Hispanic vote, no matter what they've done, no matter what they said, no matter what their policies were.
No Republican has ever received more than 40% of the Hispanic vote.
It's systemic.
It votes Democrat, and they vote not based on immigration at all.
And here's the proof.
1984, Rinaldus Magnus wins in a landslide.
And in 84, Rinaldus Magnus got 37% of the Hispanic vote.
Two years later, Reagan signed into law amnesty for 3 million illegals called Simpson-Mazzoli.
Now, according to the wizards in the Republican consultancy class, that should have meant droves of Hispanics voting for the next Republican in 1988.
Reagan got 37%.
Amnesty, we showed the Hispanics we love them, we cherish them, we care about them.
We granted them amnesty, citizenship, 3.7-odd million of them.
In 1986, the next presidential election is George H.W. Bush in 1988.
The percentage of the Hispanic vote that he got two years after amnesty was 30%.
84, Reagan, 37% Hispanic vote.
Two years later, Amnesty, which is supposed to really make us loved and adored and really supported the polls.
And two more years, 1988, George H.W. Bush loses 7% of the Hispanic vote from Reagan's 84 total.
So after Amnesty.
Now, you might not be able to claim that Amnesty lost it, but it certainly didn't get us any more votes.
We lost.
How do the Wizards at Smart on the Republican side explain this?
I want to hear the explanation for this.
Again, very quickly, I know numbers are tough to follow on radio.
84, Reagan, 37% Hispanic vote in a landslide.
Two years later, he grants amnesty to 3 million illegals.
In two more years, George H.W. Bush only gets 30% of the Hispanic vote.
Two years after Amnesty, the Republicans lose 7% of the Hispanic vote they had in the prior election.
So where is this empirical evidence that reaching out, granting amnesty or a pathway to whatever, there isn't any evidence that it accomplishes what the Republicans dreaming that it will accomplish.
I'm going to take a break here a little long.
Don't go away.
Back with much more after this.
Amberbach El Rushbo here, the cutting edge of societal evolution, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have a little live audience for the program today.
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You might remember we gave away a golf vacation for the lucky winner and three friends.
So a gentleman and his wife and their two sons, their twins here, great conservatives in northern New Jersey, just north of where the Sopranos were.
They played Trump yesterday.
They've been over at the Breakers and they're having the time of their lives watching this program unfold before their very eyes and ears.
Meanwhile, folks, while all this Benghazi sex of the real housewives of West Point is going on out there, President Obama is meeting today.
He's got an official meeting to say, you know what who?
A bunch of leftist radical groups.
Today, Barack Obama is meeting with labor leaders and progressive activists to discuss the fiscal cliff strategy.
He's meeting with labor union leaders and leftist activists to discuss what to do about the coming fiscal cliff.
And of course, the advice he's going to get is let's go over it.
Let's go over the cliff because they think the only people going to get hurt going over to Cliff are the rich who deserve to get hurt because they have so stolen everything from everybody since the country was founded.
Okay, that's it, folks.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is in the can on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, the virtual museum at Rush Limbaugh.
No, no, no, the food stamp thing in Ohio.
You watch.
They'll be blamed on Republicans.
The food stamp cuts in Ohio next year, Republicans.
You want to bet?
Republicans, they're to blame.
You watch.
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