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Nov. 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney's out there saying that Obama won the election because he was focused on certain members of his base coalition.
He gave them extraordinary financial gifts from the government.
And then he worked very aggressively to turn them out to vote.
So Romney's not saying that Obama was Santa Claus.
Or have we heard that before?
And then Bobby Jendel said, no, that's not the way to go.
No, no, no.
So Bobby Jendel's cutting my Santa Claus bit out from under me.
It gets harder and harder here every day, I have to tell you.
But we've got that.
We got all kinds of stuff here today, folks.
Great to have you with us.
El Rushbo on Thursday.
And the telephone number, the program you want to be on is 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
We'll get to Santa Claus business because there's a very interesting story I want to discuss that is along the same lines.
Ron Paul gave his farewell to everybody address yesterday, and he said something fascinating.
He said, and I'm paraphrasing, I've got it here in the stack, and it deserves a lot of comment or analysis.
But he said, we have lost the ability to explain the value of freedom to people.
And I don't think that's what it is.
I don't think that's our problem, which I will explain in due course as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson's son, Jackson Jr. is saying he'll be glad to leave Congress.
He knows he's got to leave Congress, but he's not going to leave until he gets disability pay.
Disability is a new pension plan, even for crooked congressmen.
And Jesse Jackson Jr. says, yeah, sure, I'll leave, but not till I get my disability pay.
You give me that, and I'm out of here.
He learned from the best, folks.
I mean, why not shake down Congress?
Shake down everything else.
I got a note from a friend of mine.
Dear Rush, Obama says that he sent Susan Rice to the Sunday shows with the video story.
He said that in his press conference yesterday.
Basically, he's the one that sent Susan Rice up there, all those five Sunday morning shows, to explain that it was the video that led to all the military incursions in Benghazi.
Rush, why would he do that when he says he still hasn't completed the investigation as to what happened?
And why did he have Candy Crowley read the transcript about Obama calling it a terrorist event at the debate if he was telling Susan Rice something different?
It's a good question.
Because you remember when Candy Crowley teamed up with Obama in the second debate and allowed this misconception to be believed that Obama had called it a terror attack the day after Benghazi, it was five days later, Susan Rice is up there.
It's not what a terror attack.
It was a video.
So my friend here wants to know, why was Obama telling two different stories?
He says, we know why, and the media knows why.
So let the testimony under oath begin.
Don't.
The reason I'm reading this note to you here is don't get your hopes up for testimony under oath here.
I know that Senators McCain and Gramnesty are hell-bent on having a select committee, but I don't think there's a whole lot of energy for that anywhere else.
And by the way, the drive-bys have totally turned on Gramnesty and McCain now.
And they are angry white guys.
The two leading Republican advocates for immigration reform are now angry white guys.
F. Chuck Todd is livid that Lindsey Graham and McCain hijacked Obama's press conference yesterday.
Obama was going to go out there and he was going to talk about his plans for bipartisanship.
And he was going to go out there and he could talk about his plans for bridging the divide and working with the Republicans and getting things done.
And then these two yokels had to go out and call a press conference before our beloved president's press conference and they totally turned him into an angry guy and it's their fault.
It's their fault.
And that's why Obama got mad.
And F. Chuck at NBC is very, very upset.
We got all the soundbites in this coming up.
I'm just setting the table.
In the meantime, surprise, surprise, surprise, factory activity in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly contracted in November.
Isn't it amazing all of the revisions we get, particularly in economic news, after the election?
Factory activity contracts.
Who could have seen that coming?
See, we were told the economy was back.
In fact, I listened, I forget what I heard watching, listened yesterday, post-election analysis.
The reason why Romney's economic message really fell on deaf ears toward the end of the campaign was that the economy's back.
Everybody knew it.
Jobs are being created.
The unemployment rate was moderating.
And the American people felt good about the direction the country was going, and Romney didn't account for it.
So that's yesterday.
That's yesterday's analysis.
Economy coming back.
Well, factory activity has contracted.
And jobless claims are up 78,000 the week after the election.
The Department of Labor has announced that new jobless claims rose by a staggering 78,000 in the first week after the election, reaching a seasonally adjusted total of 439,000 just yesterday.
That's why I mentioned this.
Just yesterday, the drive-bys were telling us that one of the reasons the Romney campaign petered out is because the economy was roaring back.
Well, they didn't say roaring back, but they said everybody got the sense we're coming back, man.
We got jobs being created.
People think the country's headed in the right direction.
Unemployment number.
California did get their numbers in on time, but let's see, Ohio, no, no, no, Hawaii, Oregon, a couple other states didn't, so they guessed.
Two or three states didn't get their numbers in on time, so they guessed.
The highest numbers, are you ready for this?
Here we have jobless claims up 78,000 the week after election.
The highest number of new claims for unemployment came from Pennsylvania and Ohio, where there were thousands of layoffs in the construction, manufacturing, and automobile industries, but none of this was known until yesterday.
None of this was, actually, this morning is when it was released, none of this was known until after the election.
That's right.
So over the past year, in the weeks leading up to the election, jobless claims were said to be declining, dipping as low as $339,000, with the media proclaiming that they had reached the lowest level in more than four years.
But now, suddenly, the news seems far less rosy.
From the Department of Labor press release this morning, in the week ending November 10, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims of $439,000 and increases $78,000 from the previous week's revised figure of $361,000, a four-week moving average, $383,750.
Some of the new claims, especially in New Jersey, were due to Hurricane Sandy, but they were offset by a decline in claims filed in New York.
How's that possible?
There were fewer claims for unemployment in New York after Hurricane Sandy, but New Jersey took the hit.
How can that be?
Obama went in there and had the big confab with Chris Christie.
That was supposed to result in all kinds of Santa books.
The highest numbers, again, just to reiterate now, the highest numbers of new filings came from Pennsylvania and Ohio, where there were thousands of layoffs in the construction, manufacturing, and automobile industries.
No, no, you're right.
I didn't finish.
But let the testimony under oath begin.
What I was going to say is, I don't know outside of Gramnesty and McCain, I don't see any energy for select committee.
I got a note.
I must tell you, I got a note last night from the head honcho for a member of Congress.
What are these jobs?
It's not legislative aid, what's it?
Chief of staff, chief of staff, member of Congress.
Apparently, the leadership of the House has told the folks.
Now, don't throw anything at me.
According to the note that I got from Chief of Staff to a member of the House last night, the leadership of the House has said to the Republican caucus, we're just going to let Obama take the reins.
We're just going to let Obama lead for a while and see where it ends up before we decide what we need to do.
If that's accurate, I can tell you the House doesn't sound like they want to play ball on a select committee in Benghazi.
I don't know about Senator McConnell, who runs the Republicans in the Senate.
I don't know where he is on that idea.
I don't know if he's pro or con, but for all of you who think, for example, where is it?
Where is it?
Where is it?
Oh, this, folks, get ready here.
Get ready.
Eli Lake.
He has been doing great work, Daily Beast, uncovering what went on in Benghazi and who was saying what.
The agency's acting director.
For those of you who think that there's going to be bombshells with Petraeus testifying and all this, for all of you saying let the testimony under oath begin, I want you to remember for a while here, it is going to be the following is operative.
No dispute will be resolved In anything other than the Democrats' favor.
It's just where we are.
It's where we've been for, I don't know how long.
It's certainly what happens now.
Eli Lake says that the CIA's acting director, Michael Morrell, will testify today before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
And he's going to say that the CIA never requested any help during Menghazi.
He's going to say that the CIA never requested Europe-based special operation teams, specialized Marine platoons, or armed drones on the night of September 11th in Benghazi.
He's going to say, not only did we not tell anybody not to stand down to stand out, we didn't ask for any help.
I know you're thinking, wait a minute, I heard just the opposite.
You did.
Hang on, I'll get there in just a second.
I'm going to throw the details here.
According to a Pentagon timeline made public last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta prepared multiple military responses from the region at around midnight Benghazi time, more than two hours after the assault began.
Prepared multiple military responses to choose from.
Those orders included mobilizing two Marine platoons from Rota, Spain, to deploy to Tripoli and Benghazi.
He also ordered a special operations force training in Central Europe to deploy at an airbase in Italy, and another special operations team based in the U.S. also was prepared to deploy to Libya.
The CIA, however, requested none of that.
That's what's going to be testified to today.
Oh, yeah!
We had all kinds of assets ready to go.
We didn't ask for anything.
Now, here's what you're remembering that seems at variance with that.
This is a Jennifer Griffin story from Fox News, and it's October 26th.
Let me read to you from Jennifer Griffin's report.
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that three urgent requests from the CIA annex for military backup during the attack on the consulate were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command who also told the CIA operators to stand down.
See, your memory is right.
You heard it on Fox and you heard it here on October 26th that there were three urgent requests.
Fox News has learned from sources on the ground in Benghazi.
There were three urgent requests from the CIA annex.
This is not the consulate, but it's just down the road, maybe a mile away.
From the CIA annex, they wanted military backup.
Three urgent requests during the attack on the consulate.
And they were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command who also told the CIA operators to stand down rather than help.
You heard all that.
You heard right.
Your memory's right.
There were requests for assistance.
And Fox reported this on October 26th, citing sources there.
And the requests were not only denied, remember, everybody was told to stand down.
And that's when Tyrone and the boys went over anyway and violated orders to assist.
Your memory is right.
You remember what you heard.
You remember what's been reported.
Former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty, were part of a small team who were at the CIA annex about a mile away.
When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to inform their higher-ups, to tell them what they were hearing.
They were told to stand down.
Woods, Doherty, at least two others ignored those orders, made their way to the consulate anyway.
They requested help three times.
They were ordered to stand down.
CIA acting director testimony today, we didn't ask for help during Benghazi.
So let the testimony begin under oath, and it's going to contradict everything you think you've heard.
Everything you think you know, it's going to contradict Jake Tapper.
I think it was on Hannity somewhere last night.
He's got a book out, ABC reporter.
He said, well, the reason we didn't report on Benghazi before the election is Republicans were lying about it.
So there was nothing to report.
I mean, they were telling stuff that wasn't true.
Report what they were saying was lies.
So we pretty much just, there wasn't anything to report there.
I'm paraphrasing what Jacob said.
I got to take a break here, folks.
We'll be back after this.
By the way, we got competing reports.
There are a bunch of not a bunch.
I think in the soundbites.
I think it's a woman going after Broadwell.
And in my stack here, I have a piece that worries about what's happening to Broadwell.
Yeah, Allison Yarrow.
I don't know what this is in.
H.R., what?
November Allison Yarrow.
Anyway, Scarlet Letter, the Monica Lewinsky of Paula Brova.
So Broadwell's either being ripped by women or defended by women.
We'll have details today.
Speaking of Broadwell, just as a reminder, in her Denver lecture, remember where she talked about the CIA prison.
That was on October 26th, and she's out there in Denver.
She's making a speech somewhere, making a speech somewhere, and she talks about the fact that it might have been due to the fact that there were a couple of Libyan prisoners being held in the annex.
And that's classified data.
Nobody had said anything.
We're supposed to not be doing blackout prisons anymore, secret prisons.
Obama's supposed to have wiped that out.
No more renditions.
And at the same speech, Broadwell confirmed that the CIA annex in Libya had requested reinforcements and could have reinforced the consulate and the annex that were under attack.
So Broadwell, who was dating, sorry, having an affair with Petraeus.
And by the way, there's some people thinking, did that affair really end four weeks ago?
Some people saw her two weeks ago, said she looked radiant and happy and talking about the next Petraeus book.
So her affair might either still be going on or certainly didn't end four months ago.
Maybe it ended not that long ago.
But she said the CIA annex requested reinforcements.
The CIA acting director is testifying today that that never happened.
Fox News reported the CIA requested.
Your memory on this is right.
Hang on there a second, folks.
Remind me at 1 p.m. not to forget the Ron Paul Freedom story.
Okay, good.
We're back.
El Rushboat.
I was talking to Siri on my iPhone.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
The way, folks, if the acting CIA director is going to testify today that the CIA was not asked for any assistance, and that's what the story says.
That they didn't ask.
Eli Lake, who's been on this story from the beginning, the Daily Beast, is that the CIA director, if he's going to say under oath, we didn't ask for help during Benghazi, he is totally contradicting the Fox News report of October 26th.
But I just want to put something in your hopper.
If the acting CIA director is going to say we didn't ask for help during the Benghazi attack, what are the odds that Petraeus is going to say, you know what, I was wrong about that video?
This thing was due to al-Qaeda and it was a terror attack.
And we knew that at the moment it was happening.
What are the odds he's going to say that?
If the acting CIA director, well, we didn't ask for any help.
I mean, that kind of falls right in line with the fact that it wasn't a terror attack.
It was a video.
It was spontaneous combustion related to a protest.
Look, I know, it seems like it seems like every high-value, vaunted institution and tradition in this country has just been corrupted.
That as Americans, we can't count on anything anymore.
You can't count on the honesty of people.
You can't count on the honor, the integrity, and therefore the institutions that they serve and populate.
We don't know who to believe anymore on anything.
Seems like the bad guys get away with everything.
The good guys are considered the bad guys.
The good guys, the heroes, are considered the problem, the trouble.
The good guys, the heroes are the people we got to mock and make fun of and do something about.
Conrad Black, who, full disclosure, is a friend of mine.
He served jail time for a corporate scandal involving his company, Hollinger, long drawn-out trial and case.
Apparently, he was accused of defrauding.
He's written a book about the experience.
He's got a column at National Review today.
And I read, it's called Rendezvous with Disaster.
It's about where the country's headed and where we've been and how we got here.
It's quite depressing, but if you read it, if you listen to me read it, which I'm going to try to do today, you're going to agree with a lot of it.
So, October 26th, Jennifer Griffin at Fox.
And by the way, subsequent reports have only added to this.
And it's not just Jennifer Griffin, it's Eli Lake as well.
October 26th, this nation was told only by Fox that there were requests for help, that they were denied, and then there were orders to stand down.
There were actual orders from the CIA or from the White House and do not offer assistance.
But our Navy SEALs went over there and defied orders anyway.
By the way, lending credence to the Fox report, the SEAL Who died in the mortar attack?
He had a laser device and he was lighting up the mortar location that the terrorists were using to fire on the consulate.
The only reason he did that, he assumed that there was going to be a laser-guided bomb fired at the target he was illuminating.
He thought for some reason that there was air support up there.
All he ended up doing was illuminating himself.
And the mortar installation fired on him and killed him.
So these guys, according to what we heard, violated orders anyway, three separate orders to stand down.
They went over and helped.
It's in their nature.
They're seals.
They got there.
For some reason, they thought, I mean, why would Tyrone light up the target with a laser?
Nothing he can do by himself.
All he can do is point it out.
He lasers the target, the mortar installation.
Somewhere up above is a laser-guided bomb that's going to hit that target as long as he keeps it painted.
But the bomb wasn't fired.
Instead, mortar installation fired on him.
This is such a convoluted thing.
And now, despite all of that, the CIA acting director testifies today.
No, we never asked for any help.
So I just want to point out: if the CIA director is going to testify under oath that they never asked for any help, don't get your hopes up for Petraeus going in and changing his original testimony that it was about the video.
I don't know.
And by the way, saying this yesterday resulted in a call from an angry fan of this show, a guy from Crofton, Maryland.
He just livid at me.
This is a 40-year American hero that you're accusing of going to sell out.
I mean, he's got 40 more years of service than you do.
He's a big fan of mine.
He was livid.
He was livid at me because I had such little faith in people of honor and integrity.
We'll see.
We will see.
I'll give you another example.
We got this note here, or this piece.
It's in the Daily Beast, a scarlet letter, the Monica Lewinsky ng of Paula Broadwell.
When powerful men stray, the press continues to ogle and shame the women they do it with, writes Allison Yarrow.
And this whole story got me to thinking about how the country's changed in terms of simple things like humor.
What used to be harmless, clever humor today is heard by the people who've been educated in the last 30, 35 years.
Today causes legitimate anger and indignation and charges of cruelty and insensitivity and bigotry or sexism or what have you.
Been doing a lot of thinking about this.
I really think that we've got to adopt a very, very long game if we're going to recapture the country.
And we have to do what the left did.
And I don't know how yet, but we are going to have to recapture the public education of this country.
Because that, folks, is where decent, honorable, really good, normal people like Mitt Romney end up being thought of as despicable human beings.
It is through 30 or more years of public education run totally by liberals and the way they have characterized their opponents that has – I mean, I see it every day.
As you know, I'm a big technophile, and I read every tech blog there is, particularly those related to Apple.
And all of these people contributing and writing and posting these blogs are under 30, and they live in a different world than I do, and they live in a different world than I grew up in.
The things that they just assume are true.
There is no doubt whatsoever that we are destroying the planet with global warming.
No doubt.
They can't even conceive of what you and I both know to be the truth.
And that is the whole global warming thing is a hoax.
They do not even think it's a political issue.
They do not realize that everything they believe in has been totally corrupted by politics.
What they think is science is nothing more than corruption by the left, but they don't know any better.
It's what they've been exposed to from as early on in their lives as their brains were capable of learning anything.
And that happens to be the kind of thinking that populates the entertainment culture and so forth.
I really think that the solution to our problems is not really political.
I think conservatives are seen by young people and the left and the pop culture the way they are, not because of what these people have been taught about conservatism.
It's purely cultural.
They don't know ideology.
They don't know liberal versus conservative.
They've not been told, for example, that Romney is a skunk or whatever because he is a conservative.
It goes far deeper than that.
So the battle that we face is not really an ideological one.
And I must confess, I think the solution will be found in ideology.
But I must confess, I think I've been a little wrong.
I have waxed eloquent here on this program.
I have longed for the day where people understand what liberalism is ideologically.
I have begged the Republican Party to campaign on ideology and to explain to people what liberalism is by pointing liberals out.
You want to see liberalism look at Detroit.
You want to see liberalism look at California.
You want to see liberalism look at Cuba.
You want to see liberalism look at Venezuela.
Now, the Republicans haven't done it.
Don't know why, don't care right now.
But the young people do look at Cuba and they lionize Shea Guevara.
They wear his t-shirts.
They look at Cuba.
They don't see any big problem there.
They don't know.
Even if they did know.
My only point here is I'm just scratching the surface on this, by the way.
So I'm speaking off the top of my head here.
But I really think that the way this is going to have to be attacked and dealt with is not to set politics aside.
I'm not saying that none of this is political, but it's a cultural problem we face.
The reason conservatives have been so maligned and are so maligned, the reason people who don't know us think of us the way they do is not because they understand politics.
It's a cultural thing.
You could say cool versus uncool, hip versus unhip.
But they've been brainwashed.
They have been, and I don't mean that in a communist way.
I'm just telling you, they have been indoctrinated.
And you can find evidence of it everywhere.
I mean, one of the things, for example, that I get in the most trouble on this show for.
Is it that what I say is really controversial?
No.
It is they haven't the slightest understanding of a traditional sense of humor.
You see, you don't laugh at what they believe.
It's just not done.
And people who do that are considered reprobates or what have you.
But most of the things that I get in quote-unquote trouble for, you know, I'll say something here, it gets all over the media, and people say, you need to apologize.
That's an outrageous, you mean-spirited.
And you who listen every day know, full, all we're doing here is entertaining.
We're just having fun.
They don't get it.
They do not understand.
For example, I'll give you one of my favorite examples.
I love stereotypical humor, but you can't do that anymore.
Stereotypical humor, top of my head, mother-in-law joke.
You know what a real dichotomy is?
Your new Cadillac you see driving off the cliff, but your mother-in-law's in it.
So, geez, is it good or bad?
You tell that joke today seriously, and these people are going to be out of their gourd.
They don't see one thing stereotypically humorous about it.
They just think it's entirely insensitive and mean-spirited and anti-woman.
And that's cultural, not political.
You couple this with the fact that they're preternaturally arrogant and cocky with what they think.
So it's going to be a daunting task.
I'll give you another example.
Mitt Romney, his campaign.
I guess dovetails what I want to say about Ron Paul.
I got to take a break here.
I'm getting ahead of myself.
Don't go away, folks.
We'll be right back.
Hi.
How are you?
Great to have you back.
Welcome back, Rushland Boy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I'll give you, this is not the greatest example in the world, but it is one.
Look at the Bond movie.
Skyfall had the largest opening of any Bond movie ever.
And I love the Bond series.
I just bought every one of them on Blu-ray.
I had love of them all.
But the entire original concept of Bond is gone.
Dr. No, Goldfinger from Russia with Love, the early Bond movies were all about Ian Fleming's, of course, creatures, Spectre, Thresh, Thrush.
They were all variants of the Soviet Union.
Bond was always fighting totalitarian regimes.
Whatever they were called, they were people that controlled, murdered, imprisoned, tortured, whatever, other people, and wanted total domination of the world.
Now, that's vanished decades ago.
And now, the villains in Bond movies are almost always evil capitalists.
Just a minor little thing, you might think.
But most of the villains are evil capitalists.
I'm watching a four-part series that's airing on the BBC, Channel 4, right now, called Metal Block on the name.
But it is about a corrupt American oil company.
Basically, it's about big business destroying and polluting Great Britain.
Anti-capitalism is a theme throughout our pop culture.
Captain Planet, Ted Turner's little Saturday morning cartoon show.
Captain Planet, cartoon character that saved little kids from evil corporations, which, of course, were polluting and destroying the planet.
Now, we keep thinking, oh, that's okay, that's okay.
Decency will eventually triumph.
We'll get so decadent.
You know, while all of this decay has occurred, and I'm guilty of this myself, I keep thinking year after year that eventually the decadence is going to bottom out and decency will triumph.
But it won't.
Decency will not triumph on its own.
It has to be fought for and then, after one, maintained.
Same thing with freedom.
Freedom has to be fought for.
It will not triumph all by itself.
You got to take a break here, my friend.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead.
We barely really even scratch the surface.
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