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Nov. 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, now people are people are starting to ask, what are they trying to cover up here with this Petraeus thing?
That's the question, right?
Well, I'll tell you what I think.
I think what they're trying to cover up, and what they're trying to discredit is that Petraeus knows what happened there.
Let me go through some things here.
Uh very quickly, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Petraeus and Hillary Clinton briefed Congressman on this right after September 11th, behind closed doors.
That is the briefing that all of the congressmen complained about so loudly.
They said they were lied to.
Hillary and Petraeus both said it was the video.
Both said it was a spontaneous eruption.
And now they know that they were lied to.
That was a a closed door briefing right after September 11th.
Now, the defense always wants to discredit the star witness any prosecution.
Star witness any prosecution here would be Petraeus.
Now we were told, we were also told before last week that Petraeus was looking forward to testifying.
And then we find out that Petraeus personally investigated Benghazi.
He personally went to Libya.
ABC News has reported this.
In late October, Petraeus traveled to Libya to conduct his own review of the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the ambassador while in Tripoli.
Petraeus personally questioned the CIA station chief and other CIA personnel who were in Benghazi on September 11th when the attack occurred.
Petraeus' friend described his investigation as Petraeus' personal review of both the September 11th attack and the events that led up to it.
The trip was so secret and so recent, rather, that the CIA has told the Congressional Intelligence Committee that the trip report hasn't been completed.
And that's why they can't tell anybody what Petraeus found.
Petraeus hasn't finished his report, and now he never will.
Isn't that interesting?
Petraeus friend said to ABC News he was looking forward to testifying.
He wanted to be fully prepared, which is why he went over there.
Now Petraeus is telling friends he doesn't think he should testify.
Well, obviously.
Now we start asking, okay, who knew what when?
And they're being asked, or we're being asked to believe it, Obama didn't know anything about it till last Thursday.
That nobody of any import knew any of this until last Thursday.
So whatever's happening here with the release of the information he was having the affair, none of that could have had anything to do with Benghazi.
And it's silly of you to think so.
And none of that could have had anything to do with the election.
It's silly of you to think so.
But Petraeus went, he wrote his own report, he originally in closed door testimony, agreed with Mrs. Clinton.
He company line.
It was the video is a spontaneous attack.
He goes over there, he talks to look it.
Petraeus now knows what happened, and Petraeus was going to testify, and what he was going to testify was.
He was asked to be part of it.
Hillary Clinton was part of it, that it was a spontaneous protest that got out of hand that was caused by the video.
Pure and simple.
Now he knows that's not true.
That's that's what they're trying to cover up.
If there is a cover up going on, it is what Petraeus knows.
and what they are apparently succeeding in making sure he doesn't say.
Because after all this, he doesn't want to go testify.
And by the way, if he did, let me, folks, you understand the climate.
If he goes up there, if he testifies and he says the truth, can you imagine what the dogs of this administration are going to do to him and the media?
People like this value their reputations and their character and their integrity.
These are not the kind of people that want the media dumping all over them every day.
These are not the kind of people that want to even tempt that.
There are others like me who don't care.
But I'm really rare in that regard.
I'm really rare.
I couldn't care less, because I know I can't stop it.
But others think they can.
And they don't want to put up with it.
And Petraeus, ask you.
I mean, look at the Doomkoffs in this country now.
We got a guy who's a cult hero idol in Barack Obama's.
Here comes Petraeus.
After it's been revealed that Obama didn't know anything about it.
He was having this affair, and he is maybe giving away national security secrets, and this guy goes up and testifies against Obama.
You know what kind of excrement's gonna hit his fan?
Sour grapes trying to destroy our wonderful young president.
I just hear James Carville now.
This man is out to destroy our president.
Hey, he wants to give your kid cigarettes at the same time feeding you trans fat.
I can hear it.
I can tell you what they would do to Petraeus.
You know it and I know it.
And he apparently does too.
And for good measure, they throw the bay bin down in in in in Tampa.
They get the other general involved.
And so now we got all these generals taking orders from their privates.
No generaling getting done.
We've got a we got a little joke of a soap opera going on here.
The FBI raiding.
You think this is a raiding the home of a woman who just had an affair with a guy?
How does that happen?
It's all to make it look like something major breach may have happened here.
This is all in my humble, uninformed wild guess estimation.
This is all about sending Petraeus a message.
You want us raiding your house?
We say most people do not know the kind of people we're dealing with.
We simply do not know.
I mean, I do.
I mean, the kind of people leftists are.
You can take a look at the strewn carcasses of people who decided to try to fight this bunch.
and I'm speaking figuratively when I say carcasses.
Here's Jake Carney.
Let's go audio sum by 22 this afternoon in Washington, the White House press briefing.
And Jonathan Carrell of ABC News says this investigation, this has been going on for months.
How is it the White House didn't have any idea of this until the day after the election, and Congress only a few days after that?
How in the world can Petraeus be doing all this with thousands of doctrines, all this stuff that we've learned, Jay, and the White House didn't know about this until the day after the election?
I would refer you to the FBI.
They have, as I understand it, protocols in place for when they notify the legislative and executive branches of investigations.
And it is simply a fact that the White House was not aware of uh the situation regarding General Petraeus until Wednesday.
Uh and the situation regarding General Allen until Friday.
So the FBI is the place to go in terms of uh explanation of the protocols they follow.
Okay, cool.
We'll go to the FBI.
Knock on the door.
Oh, uh uh Mr. FBI guy, hi.
Uh, White House says that uh you knew all this, didn't tell them.
Yep, yep, absolutely right.
Oh, Jay Carney said what'd he say?
He said that you knew and didn't that's exactly right.
What else did he say?
Well, he said that it was a video.
That's exactly right.
Who runs the FBI for crying out loud?
Go talk.
He tells you go talk to the FBI.
This is the same guy who said for two weeks it is a video.
Everybody knows that it was the video that caused this.
Jay Carney, the same guy.
Go talk to the FBI.
Go talk to my chief of staff, go talk to the CIA, they'll tell you.
Of course they will.
Who runs all this?
It's pretty obvious to me what's going on out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay.
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A reporter said to said to Jay Carney when Carney said, no, the president didn't know about this until the day after the election for the Petraeus thing.
A reporter said, Do you understand how people would think this is utterly bizarre?
Who thinks it's utterly bizarre?
I don't think anybody thinks it's bizarre.
Not where Obama's concerned.
Nobody thinks anything's odd about Obama.
I haven't yet seen any election returns that tell me that.
People question what Obama says.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Lavorney in Hiltonville, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi there.
Um I'm just I'm with you.
I you know, we haven't seen a whole lot um from the media or from the Obama administration that's proven to be trustworthy.
And um I I feel like they're discrediting our generals and um which would be very credible witnesses on Benghazi, and also distracting the uh the rest of us from finding, you know, in uh in the city.
Yeah, they've turned Benghazi into a sex scandal.
They they've turned Benghazi into an episode of the real housewives of West Plant.
I'm not kidding.
We've we've got four dead Americans, we have an absolute dereliction of duty and responsibility, it's been turned into a sex scandal.
And your question is, how in the world is it that reprobates like in our media and elsewhere can can discredit a general Petraeus?
Correct.
Right?
That's what you're wondering.
How how is it they're so easily able to tear these people down?
Well, Petraeus did have the affair.
There's no taking that back.
I mean, he's admitted it.
That doesn't negate his expertise and his knowledge on Benghazi, however.
Uh well, no, not in a uh pristine world, but in this world where he becomes Obama's enemy by virtue of what he knows, and Obama's friends have all these papers and microphones and television cameras.
And somebody like Petraeus is very much concerned about his media image.
Uh they own him.
So much for the Constitution in defending it.
Yeah, that's I don't think anybody, I don't think anybody thinks the Constitution won't survive over this.
They're not looking at it that way.
Uh look, I understand what you're saying.
I I you're frustrated.
How how easy is it they take our people out?
It's just they they target somebody, take them out, and they do, they get away with it.
People who couldn't wear Petraeus' shoes, take him out.
Whereas Bill Clinton does this, and he's a hero.
Bill Clinton does this, they destroy a young woman's life.
Bill Clinton's a hero.
Bill Clinton lies under oath to a grand jury's a hero.
He's the hero of the Democrat Party.
I know exactly what you're saying.
Bill Clinton does this, and Ken Starr is the enemy.
Bill Clinton does this and worse.
I mean, this was a consensual affair.
Clinton was sexually harassing a 19-year-old.
And who knows how many other women.
And what they do, they go out and portray Ken Starr, some sex-crazed pervert.
The whole Democrat Party media complex.
Here you've got Petraeus in an activity that far less uh damaging than Bill Clinton, and he's got to be destroyed.
Bill Clinton has to be saved.
Or any Democrat, any Democrat that gets involved in a mess like this has to be saved.
I understand what you're saying.
I don't I look.
If I had to answer, we would not be losing.
Patty, somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
What a privilege.
Um you made my day.
I've been very, very upset since this election.
But basically what I wanted to talk about was um I worked in the system for 15 years, and believe me, back then it was in mentality.
People lived off of it.
They gamed everything.
You couldn't change the mindset.
There's too many programs and goodies that it worked against you.
Um probably in the late 80s is when I found you, which, by the way, I got written up all the time when I tried to listen to you because you were a sexist racist and just brought me a lot of trouble, but it also gave me peace of mind to know that there was somebody out there that was.
See, look at that.
You got written up just I got written up for listening to you.
Just for listening to me.
Yes, yes, I was told I wasn't allowed to listen to you because it was it was sexist and it was racist, and I was trying to help the people that you were trying to put on.
Who wrote you up?
Oh, supervisors and in government, believe me.
You can't argue with stupid Is that what you meant when you said you're part of the system you work for the government?
Yes, and supervisors that would write you up.
I can see how this whole Benghazi thing's going because incompetence rises to the top that doesn't have a prayer.
Your only prayer is to get out.
Well, see, she thinks country's lost.
She thinks it's lost, and every time you turn around, more money is going to people who are sitting around.
Yep.
Thanks much for the call.
Okay, looking at uh looking at what works or what has worked in the uh in the past.
Perhaps, ladies and gentlemen, Jenna Petraeus could ask his wife who's not happy right now, we've heard she's very upset, but maybe ask her to go on the Today Show in an interview with Matt Wauer, and claim that her husband is the victim of a vast conspiracy against him.
You can say right wing or left wing or whatever, you'll say vast conspiracy against him.
And then I think what Petraeus and his wife need to do is immediately hop down to the Virgin Islands.
There's plenty of beautiful beaches down there, and get a photographer with a long-range lens of Petraeus and his wife in their swimming attire, dancing on the beach.
You give that picture to the LA Times or the New York Times, and you tell them the picture was taken years ago.
No, not just a couple couple of months ago.
And you uh you you put that picture out.
I mean, these are the things that have worked in the past.
And then you hire uh a spokesman to go out and start trashing whoever it is that is investigating you.
In this case, the FBI, a bunch of sex perverts.
Uh I mean, they're sending people shirts, shirtless pictures, they're they're uh raiding people's homes, zealous sex perverts.
Uh and and and so forth.
And then, you know, tell Broadwell that she's got a stained dress to throw it away.
This is not discovered, and who knows what could happen.
It worked once.
It worked big time for a former president.
I mean, something that's worked once could theoretically work again.
Who um here's uh here's Mark in um Liso Vejo, California.
Hi.
Rush, it's such a pleasure to speak to you.
You know, I'm really glad to hear this.
I expected after the election, people say, What's the point of talking to you?
And you guys are you're always so nice.
You tell me how great it is to talk to me.
And I figured what I was gonna hear was what's the point of talking to you anymore?
No.
Anyway, I'm glad you're here.
What what's up?
It's about um continuing on.
And um can you put me a mason jar?
And my last name may be that, and uh put a little wax on it and preserve me for four more years.
Um you look at the generals that are involved in a scandal in the United States.
Why aren't the women being...
Why aren't the women being what?
Well, the wood the women need to be this is what's wrong with the Republican Party.
We got a guy here who wants to savage innocent women for this when it's evil white men who perpetrated this is why we're losing the Hispanic vote.
No.
What I mean is you have a um general's assistant who hasn't resigned, he's resigned.
She hasn't resigned.
There's another woman involved, and why isn't the press investigating all of this down to the bottom of the earth saying what is the women's part in this?
What I want to know, I mean, those are valid questions.
What I want to know is why is the investigation of General Allen being made public?
Whatever happened to the FBI's sacred protocols.
Why why why is the Allen investigation having uh been been made public now?
Um there's a lot of uh there's there's a lot of questions.
But see, your take on this is exactly why the Republican consultants are telling us that we're in trouble.
All you want to do is blame the women.
You call you to blame the wheel.
You know how that's gonna make women feel?
Do you you think Gloria Steinemerson is gonna ever vote for us if you're gonna keep talking like that?
Powerful men get in trouble, and you call here and you want to blame the underling women.
That's why we're not getting the Hispanic vote, by the way.
Underly.
Well, that's just I'm you know, I gotta be careful because you know, as as humorous as there are people in this country, people believe I mean that, and they're gonna you know I can just see it tomorrow.
Limbaugh agrees Republican treatment of women is a problem.
I can just I can just see it.
Because just because I'm having a little sarcastic fun with this caller who still doesn't know what hit him, by the way.
No, no, that's not what I'm saying.
He was speaking so slowly, I had to save the call.
I had to do something with it.
But you watched somebody will say Limbo admitted it, he admitted he admitted the Republicans don't like women, he admitted it.
That'll happen.
Because people on the left are humorless, particularly things about them, but they do not.
They just uh where are the husbands of the two women?
Well, interestingly, they're both doctors.
Uh one is a surgical radiologist, that would be Broadbeam's uh uh Broadwell's husband, and then you have Jill Kelly's husband is this is a cancer doctor.
And the uh the question is, where are they, aside from cuckolded?
I assume that they are with that's that's when your wife cheats on you.
What are you thinking?
It's some obscene term because cuck holding instead of holding you to look it up there on your uh iPad.
At any rate, I assume that these husbands are pretty devastated.
I would assume these husbands are trying to hold it together and and make some sense of this.
Uh I don't know.
Haven't the uh uh heard that Petraeus is what?
Oh, oh, Patrace's wife is very angry.
Holly is very I don't know.
Snerdley, it you I I in in years past I I I could confidently answer the question, yes, these husbands are livid.
But with men today, um I I really don't know.
They're probably blaming themselves and asking for forgiveness, and who knows what the hell.
I don't know.
I don't know anymore.
Thirty years ago, I could have told you what these guys are doing.
Today, I don't know how they've been educated.
I don't know how they've been sensitized.
I don't know uh if they've been chickafied.
I really I don't know who who runs a show and the relationship.
I can't tell you what they're doing.
I don't know if they're mad or not.
I don't know if they're feeling sorry for themselves, I don't know if they're thinking of leaving, walking out, or if they're gutting it up and putting us back together, I'm gonna win my woman back.
I don't know what they're doing.
We haven't heard.
No idea whatsoever.
NBC Universal is laying off about 450 people, or roughly one and a half percent of its workforce of about 30,000 in a round of belt tightening that began in September.
And this is Obama's network.
I mean, this network has been overrun by leftists.
It has.
Not just MSNBC, I mean a whole shooting match has been taken over by the leftists.
And I want to see now, you know, when when when when John Schneider, Papa John says I gotta lay some people off or convert them to part-time, and when the Applebee guy does the same thing, they are hit on by leftist harassers.
Email, Twitter.
People are working up protest and anger again.
I want to see if these same leftists boycott their Hollywood buddies.
Like they're saying boycott Papa John's a boycott boycott what they're I wonder, Peyton Manning will tell John Schneider take a hike.
Well, I don't know how Manning votes on stuff.
Once Manning hears that the company is endorsing is gonna be cutting people health care, who knows what's gonna happen out there.
I don't know.
Thirty years I could have told you, but I don't know why I folks, I'm the last guy to tell you what quote unquote any man is gonna do or say in any situation anymore.
Thirty years ago, yeah.
I could have told you.
But as of now, I am clueless.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Let's reverse things.
Let's say that the Democrats lost this election big, and along with it, let's say they were going to lose health care.
Do you think for a minute that Chuck Schumer would be out there saying, well, the Republicans won and uh it's a law of the land.
You know as well as I do, because we've lived through it.
Even when they lose, they act like they won.
When they lose, the first thing they do, for example, is go out and say, Well, you're not gonna have any conservative nominees Supreme Court.
We're not gonna let you put any people out of the mainstream.
Wait a minute, you just lost.
Shut up.
They don't shut up.
They act like they won, but they certainly are not gonna they when the left loses elections, they do not play like they lost.
They make the Republicans who win the elections fight for everything they get after that.
We're just laying down.
And we need to lose this election by that much, especially when you look at the turnout and a number we this was not a schwacking landslide.
People want to make it out to be.
Anyway, uh here's uh Debbie and Dayton.
Debbie.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program, huh?
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
Um, I just wanted to go over some things.
I've been doing some research all evening on this whole thing with General Petraeus.
And um the the woman, the Jill Kelly, I don't know.
The news media doesn't seem to be saying anything about it.
It to me it's not just a sex scandal.
Um, my family is military.
You don't have social liaisons that go in on military bases that aren't connected with the military.
And if people would just look into her and her husband, all of the companies that they have that have no profit to them.
They have a lot of holding companies and Yeah, but the story is that Jill Kelly is just friends with all these people, and she's got some she's a socialite.
So she socializes.
I don't really believe that.
Um because all the information I found on her, her and her husband, I mean, like uh some of the people that they're involved with all seem to be connected with Centcom that have to do with Afghanistan and Iraq.
Uh one of them is Vice Admiral Robert Harward, and then she was with Petraeus.
Well, what do you think?
What do you get?
I've got uh less than a minute.
What are you getting at?
I don't I feel like that the military, especially the people that had any connection with uh probably the Bush administration are being set up so that they can each be taken down for whatever reason.
I'm not really sure how it's connected to Bengals.
You mean all these I wait all the generals are being taken down?
Yeah, I think they will be because now it shows where this Jill has hired Judy Smith and Abby Lowell to defend her.
She's sort of go uh going to go in hiding.
Her and her husband have a mansion in Tampa, Florida.
They just happened to relocate five years ago down by McDill Air Force Base.
Right, but they're now they're bankrupt and they're under foreclosure, is the uh the latest news on uh on them in in that regard.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know about that.
I I don't know if it's tough to get close to officers and generals when you're a socialite.
I I just don't know.
I didn't think about that.
I'll have to ponder it further.
Yeah, all of this is a distraction from what went on in Mengaz.
We've turned the death of four Americans into a sex scandal.
That that's what's offensive about this.
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