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Nov. 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, how are you?
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limboy here serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly with zero mistakes.
And as usual, I have my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
There is our wonderful young president surveying.
Hurricane Sandy damage.
You know what he said?
Well, we're uh we're still we're still in recovery here.
Really?
Really, we're still in recovery.
Do you know what else?
Obama today.
Ladies and gentlemen, Obama has issued a proclamation declaring today to be America Recycles Day.
So he starts the day by declaring it America recycling.
And Diane Sawyer's having orgasms over this.
Recycling.
Recycling.
Yeah, they recycled after the tsunami in Japan.
Recycling.
So Obama starts the day off by proclaiming it to be America Recycles Day, and then now he's in New York surveying the damage where the streets are piled with mountains of recycled trash because New York City's recycling center is still closed.
Due to Hurricane Sandy.
Areas of Staten Island right now.
Going to be some long-term rebuilding that's required, Obama says.
Did they need him to show up from Washington to know that in Staten Island?
And there he is, he's got a teleprompter, and he's looking out above the audience, surveying the world and looking up to the heavens as he speaks.
Back now to the first term Obama.
So it's America Recycles Day as he stands amidst piles of trash.
Still accumulating because the city's recycling center is still closed due to Hurricane Sandy.
I just saw that the ding dong people.
Hostess.
They said they're gonna shut the whole thing down forever if the strike doesn't end today.
If you don't have any ding dongs, you may want to go get some because there may not be any more.
That's Twinkies, ding dongs, and whatever else they make.
And then there's this.
President Obama's election victory insured his affordable care act would uh remain the centerpiece of his first term in power, but that's left some business owners balking at the extra cost Obamacare will bring.
The uh guy named John Metz, who runs 40 Demi's restaurant, he also owns the Hurricane Grill and Wings franchise, has decided to offset the increased Obamacare costs by adding a 5% surcharge to every customer's bill, and he's gonna reduce his employees' hours.
And Metz said, well, I uh it's the only alternative I've got.
I I have to pass on the cost of the customer.
That's the only thing I can do, otherwise go out of business.
I may go out of business anyway, passing on the cost, but that's the only option I've got.
So this guy is gonna be the next target of angry leftist kids who start harassing him with emails and tweets and maybe protests and who knows what else, just like it's happening to John Schnauder, uh, who is the uh the Papa John's guy.
But by the way, that also is a great illustration of what's happening in our country.
It's a great illustration of why we've got to get the education system back.
John Schnauter is not the problem in this guy.
Papa John's is not the problem.
But who are Obama's armies protesting?
And why are they mad?
Because this guy lives in a 40,000 square foot house.
That's why they're mad.
He lives in a 40,000 square foot house.
Doesn't matter he built it himself, doesn't matter it came from nothing.
It doesn't matter that it's his and his life.
Doesn't matter that he's paid for it.
What matters is it's not fair.
What matters is it's he built debt on obscene profit.
People ought, you ought not profit from feeding people.
We all have to eat.
Profit when it comes to food is obscene.
People, people should sell food for exactly what it costs them.
This is what's this is the kind of stuff that's taught.
I know some of you think I'm exaggerating to make a not.
This is the kind of thing that's taught.
So now John Schneider and and uh a couple other restaurants, uh, the who was the uh Applebee's guy, they're now targets, just like the AGI people were, or AIG people were.
They're target, except Applebee's and Papa John's are not been bailed out.
They got where they are of their own volition.
Okay, and we told you the unemployment numbers.
Unemployment numbers uh 439,000.
Really, really up.
Jobless claims really up in Pennsylvania, Ohio.
We didn't know this before the election.
It just shazam, it just happened.
We just found out this morning that the unemployment compensation requests skyrocketed in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
And that's with three states not even reporting.
Just guessed.
But remember last week, oh yeah, the economy, it definitely signs are coming back.
And all right, in addition, uh, ladies and gentlemen from the French news agency, Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak has okayed the call-up of 30,000 reserve soldiers as the campaign the campaign, they're launching rockets in Tel Aviv, the suburbs now.
So that is starting to spiral up and get big.
Uh Syria and uh Israel, and of course that will involve Hezbollah and Hamas.
But everything's okay.
It's uh it's it's cool because the economy's coming back.
Everything's fine.
Okay, Paula Broadwell.
Two things.
Peace by Alison Yarrow.
Uh this is in the Daily Beast, I believe.
It is A Scarlet Letter, the Monica Lewinskying of Paula Broadwell.
When powerful men stray, the press continues to ogle and shame the women they do it with.
The more things change, one of the world's most powerful men stepped out in his marriage, yet much of the public attention and opprobrium has focused on the far less powerful woman who was drawn to him.
This, according to media critics and other observers on Tuesday, several comparing the coverage of Petraeus and Broadwell to that of the next line's not there.
Much of the coverage of Broadwell gives the impression that she's the bad woman, the slut, manipulative, conniving, a claimer.
This woman, that's how they she's upset.
Alison Yarrow is upset that this is how in certain quarters Broadwell is being portrayed.
Now Snerdley loves stories involving sex and uh women.
Do you have you seen this?
Have you seen a lot of stories caricaturing or characterizing Broadwell as as the bad woman manipulating, conniving taking advantage of the powerful guy, social climber.
So you are seeing those stories.
Okay, okay.
Almost none of the coverage of the scandal involving both Petraeus and John Allen has connected the behavior of the military's two most decorated leaders with the wave of sexual assault and harassment scandals that plague the U.S. military elsewhere.
These guys are getting a pass.
Okay, they had an affair.
That's what happens in the military.
They get assigned overseas, they're called uh geographical bachelors.
It's expected.
Just shared that piece with you.
Instead, much of the coverage is focused on Broadwell's fashion sense and the tone of her arms.
By the way, that happens to be true.
You know, she was on Imus promoting her book, and I'm saying, you know, your arms look like my wife's arms.
You work out a lot, you didn't you run on my wife to your arms are really like your arms.
She said, can we get back to the book?
So she uh took it back, but she enjoyed it, I mean appeared to enjoyed it.
She favored sleeveless outfits that showed off toned muscular arms, reported her hometown paper, the Charlotte Observer.
Unnamed Petraeus AIDS called her immune to the notion of modesty.
You want you want to talk about a highbrow insult?
Unnamed Petraeus AIDS are telling people in the media that she is immune to the notion of modesty.
This was in Afghanistan.
Excuse me.
They were saying of her in Afghanistan, she was immune to the no.
For those of you in real Linda, what this means is.
She was all over the guy.
And didn't care who saw it and didn't care what anybody thought.
She spent time with Petraeus there while writing his biography.
And and oh, the writer here also says, and there's starting to be criticisms of how she's not a historian.
She's not a PhD, she's not an accomplished writer.
So why did she get so this this woman's Alison Yarrow, she's upset because Broadwell's being portrayed as a as a floozy.
But now there's another side.
Kira Phillips, InfoBabe Anchor Edit CNN, who, by the way, is married to John Roberts at Fox.
Kira Phillips knows Petraeus, and apparently has talked to Petraeus recently.
And this morning on Headline News Morning Express with Robin Mead, Ciara Phillips reported on Petraeus since his resignation.
He's taking it really hard.
He knows he made a big mistake, and he does uh want to move forward, making things work with his family.
He doesn't want to throw 37 years out the window with his wife.
I have never known him to be a flirtatious person.
I have never known him to be inappropriate.
And I think that was why this was so shocking on many levels.
I think it's important that we need to hear from Paula Broadwell.
We still have not heard from her.
I do know that people within his inner circle have described her to be an aggressive woman, someone who, quote, unquote, works for magic.
Well, you heard that, but it's important to hear from Broadwell.
We haven't heard from her.
I know that people within his inner circle described her to be aggressive, and then back to Alison Yarrow.
It is said that she is immune to the notion of modesty.
Petraeus people, hey, I'll tell you what, they're doing the Bill Clinton here, a modified Clinton.
Drag a dollar bill through a trailer park, and what do you end up with?
Paula Jones.
So now Petraeus is this mild-mannered, innocent victim, minding his own business, and this aggressive female came along and worked her magic on him.
Two women, two totally different views.
One, long knives are out for for Broadwell, and uh the other one, the other woman, the long knives are out for society in general.
I don't know.
Um the official program observer, Mr. Snerdley is asking if it's permissible to admit that men are in fact susceptible to such magic.
Um would you what would word would you use besides magic to convey what was happening here?
Because they don't really mean magic.
They she seduced him.
She uh she uh course men are susceptible to seduction.
Some are immune to it, but some are anyway.
Yeah, of course that happens, but the bottom line, that's not what this is about.
What this is about is a female info babe on CNN trashing broadbeam and another woman over at the uh Broadwell and the uh uh Alison Morette, whatever name is she Alice Yarrow, she is all angry at society for looking at Broadwell this way.
And I folks, i I don't care what camp you're in, but if you want to see where this treatment began, just go look at how Bill Clinton dealt with the Bimbos.
What did they do?
They trashed every one of those women.
They trashed them from Jennifer Flowers to Kathleen Willie to Juan Eve Broderick to Paula Jones to Monica and those that we didn't know.
That's how they did it.
And who are they?
That's your hero.
That's your Bill Clinton from your enlightened, tolerant, compassionate Democrat Party.
That's who's teaching these lessons.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
No, no, no, you're missing a point.
Nobody is starving.
Snurdly.
Anyway, folks, that what happened with Broadwell here, this is not a war on women.
You must no no, it's not a war on women, because uh uh uh Democrats are trashing her.
You have Democrat media, babe.
You got obviously a liberal writer here at Daily Well, maybe not Daily Beast.
Yeah, Daily Beast, yeah, odds are liberals.
So what they're doing to Broadwell, that's not a war on women.
If it were during the campaign, maybe in a re no, but even then, no, that's not a war on women.
And somebody's 29 to 30.
Uh I just I want to give you an example here, folks, of just get used to this.
There's nothing you can do about it.
It's going to happen until events, not words, not policy, until events take over, and something at the second term jinx takes place.
Just get used to this.
So Obama proclaims it.
Uh National Recycle Day gets up, gets to Air Force One, goes to New York, and what's the purpose?
To claim credit for fixing what happened in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Today is Obama going to New York and accepting accolades for the recovery.
And here's how it works.
This first off is the governor of Nueva Ork, Andrew Kumo.
Mr. President, thank you to you.
Because you have exemplified the spirit of partnership and the spirit of community.
I was personally amazed and touched by your phone calls and attention, even during times that were very, very busy.
You were there for us.
You were there for New York, and we thank you, Mr. President.
I just told Snerdley, but this is coming up.
He said, Well, what about what are the people starving?
Uh no, there aren't any people starving, and there are no shortage of gasoline anymore, and there aren't any lines for gasoline, and everybody's back in their homes, everybody got power.
Well, they do.
It's over, and and Obama fixed it, and it's officially over because as far as the media is concerned, as far as people don't live in New York, it's over.
And Obama fixed.
Here's Andrew Cuomo, thank you for saving New York.
That's what he means.
Thank you for saving New York.
So it's fixed.
As far as people who don't live in New York are concerned, Obama did it.
Even in the middle of that campaign, when he clearly had things much more important to him, he took time out to call and call and call Governor Cuomo.
And Governor Cuomo was amazed.
Personally amazed and touched by all the attention.
So President Obama has saved New York, and it was Obama's turn to speak.
And of course, he accepted the accolades and then told everybody what it all really means.
During difficult times like this, we're reminded that we're bound together.
And we have to look out for each other.
And a lot of the things that seem important, the petty differences melt away, and we focus on what binds us together, and that we as Americans are going to stand with each other in their hour of need.
We are going to make sure that we stay here as long as people need that immediate help.
That's FEMA's primary task.
He's not staying.
And FEMA's office was closed because of weather.
But it doesn't matter because it's all fixed.
See, the exact opposite of reality is what's true.
It's fixed.
And it it was and this this, by the way, is a P to Christie.
See, this is what happens when a Republican totally prostitutes himself.
See how easy things happen.
See how well we get along.
We work together.
That's the spirit of America.
Republicans forgetting who they are.
That's so.
It's done.
FEMA's there to clean up any straggling stuff, but uh for the most part, we move on now to the next miracle.
For which Obama will be dutifully thanked.
I feel I I feel so bad.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen for the official program observer, Mr. Snerdley.
He he's literally shouting at me through my IFB.
What about the people own me power in New York and they're dumping it off on the power company and they're not telling anybody that the state owns the power?
So, snertly, you're missing the point.
There isn't anybody without power.
That's the whole point.
Obama saved New York.
As far as viewers outside the tri-state area, everybody's got power.
And Brian said, Well, what about all those houses in the South Jersey shortness?
They've been fixed.
That's why you're not seeing it on TV.
They've been fixed.
Well, how come they're not showing us the damage?
Because it's been fixed.
How many times do I have to say this?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to get to the sound bites I was gonna open the program with.
And that, my friend, the essence of show prep.
Here I'm I'm finally getting to what I intended to start with.
But other things came up requiring my attention and focus.
In addition to my fertile mind firing on all cylinders, therefore reacting to myself.
We're gonna start.
This this is about Benghazi.
This is the Benghazi timeline, and and and you know, why what didn't happen did happen in Verseweisome.
Last night appears Morgan tonight, Jacob Tapper, he's got a new book out, and that's why he's appearing on other networks.
He was asked about the mainstream media reporting on Benghazi, why they didn't talk about it during the campaign and all that.
And Piers Morgan says, McCain would have us believe that it may well just have been the narrative for the White House running for election.
Uh we're defeating Al Qaeda.
Uh and you guys in the media, we in the media, we just we didn't want to upset the narrative.
Why didn't you talk about that story?
As somebody who was uh covering the Benghazi story uh in the months leading up to the election, it was so politicized with uh the White House and the administration in a defensive crouch because they thought every word they said would be twisted and unfairly attacked, and they didn't obviously want to interfere with a positive narrative about Al Qaeda and Republicans uh putting out conspiracy theories, um, some of them not rooted in any facts or evidence, that it was tough to report on this.
So Jake Tapper at ABC is saying it was tough for us to report because the Republicans were lying about it, and the Democrats, the White House didn't want their narrative upset.
And we know that and that he admits it here.
They didn't want to interfere with a positive narrative about Al Qaeda.
Jake, look, I'm sorry.
I uh what I I'm I'm gathering myself here.
If if I were doing your job and I know that Al-Qaeda's not on the run, that Al-Qaeda launched the attack, that Al Qaeda is growing in Northern Africa, and the White House has a narrative that Al-Qaeda's on the run.
I kind of report that the White House is wrong.
But you seem to be saying here that the the White House wasn't commenting because they were afraid everything would be twisted and unfairly used to get them against them, and they didn't want to interfere with a positive narrative about Al Qaeda.
You let them dictate the narrative to you?
Or am I misunderstanding what he's saying here?
It sounds like he's saying the Republicans couldn't be trusted with what they're saying, so we're not gonna talk about that.
And the White House didn't want their narrative that Al Qaeda is on the run upset, so we left it alone.
Am I interpreting that right?
That's that's why we put it in the roster.
Now, here, uh F. Chuck Todd, NBC on the Today Show today, very upset.
Very upset.
President Obama thought he was going to be using his first post-election press conference to make his case on the fiscal cliff, and also to show a new reaching out to Republicans.
Instead, he found himself on the receiving end of criticisms from not one but two former presidential rivals.
You see, it was supposed to be such a great press conference.
Obama was was going to go out, he's going to do his first post-election presser, and he was going to reach out to the Republicans, and we were going to talk about the cliff, and we're going to be one and and McCain and Graham blew it.
They ruined it for him by attacking Susan Rice.
And the whole Benghazi thing.
And that takes us to Gloria Borger on CNN's Anderson Cooper last night.
One thing that struck me is that the president talked about going after her because she's, quote, an easy target.
Well, what does that mean?
Is it because she's a woman?
Is it because she was the only one out there using the information that she had?
It's interesting to me.
I'm not quite sure what the president was talking about.
Now here you have this, by the way, a great illustration of how our education system is just off the tracks.
In everything going on in this story involving Susan Rice, who is our UN ambassador, here is a major news correspondent getting all in a tizzy because she thinks that the ambassador is a woman is the reason she's being insulted.
Nothing to do with the substance of anything that happened here.
Is it because she's a woman?
I thought we'd I don't understand what he said.
Well, wait, wait, what is she a target?
She's a woman.
Who thinks this way?
Well, I'll tell you who thinks this way.
People that have been publicly educated or who are doing the educating for the last 50 years think this way.
Everything is identity politics.
That's all that matters.
Not the substance of any story.
I can tell you exactly why the president called her an easy target.
He sent her out to lie.
Every liar is an easy target, Gloria.
So she goes on five Sunday morning shows and tells lies.
That makes her an easy target.
The real thing that you should have caught, Gloria, was that Obama was undercutting himself.
He was admitting with that comment and a couple of others that he sent her out to lie.
That's the story.
I don't want people jumping on her.
She simply went out at the behest of the White House with the best intelligence that we had at the time.
And I sent her out to tell a story.
Okay.
Pure and simple.
It's not complicated.
Dana Bash.
CNN Anderson Cooper last night, same show.
I talked to a good Democratic source here asking, do you think if she is nominated, you could overcome a filibuster?
The answer was yes, and I'd have to tell you this that this source said if anybody wants to watch two old white guys, speaking, of course, of Graham and McCain, beat up on a black woman, I'll sell tickets to that.
So there's politics all around here.
There you go.
So you got Lindsay Graham and McCain, and these are two pro-immigration allies of Obama.
And they want a select committee to look into what happened to four dead Americans.
And what's the focus of the story with Dana Bash?
Two old rich Republican white guys beating up at a black woman.
Folks, I know this is happening within our political arena, but this is another example of what I mean about our culture off trail.
And guess who it is that's noticing race?
Guess who it is that's creating myths and predicting all kinds of hell because of race.
It's a leftist.
It's the it's the Democrat.
McCain and Graham aren't going after her because she's black.
They're going after because she was sent up there to lie.
There are four dead Americans.
The substance of the story, Jake Tapper, not interested.
Dana Bash seeing it, not interested.
Uh what's her face?
Just play uh.
Gloria Borger, uninterested.
No, instead, let's find the ways in which we can skewer Republicans on this.
Yeah, I saw I talked to a really big Democrat source who said I could sell tickets to two old white guys beating up on a black woman.
It's not.
What this we we watched a whole lot of old white guys beat up on Janice Rogers Brown.
We've watched a whole lot of white guys beat up on any number of African Americans.
Condoleezza Rice, Mia Love, Mia Love in Utah, beat up by a bunch of white old guys.
Happen to be Democrats.
Anyway, that's that's not the way to argue this.
I mean, to point out that these people are hypocrites is not uh we've been doing it 25 years, we're not gaining any ground.
To point out that they are the one I I I don't know how yet, but we're we're gonna have to find a new way of countering this stuff because I've been pointing out the hypocrisy, the phoniness of these people for 25 years, and it's not is not I mean it wins converts, but what what what?
You know, a thousand a week, uh five hundred whatever.
It's we're we're not having mass conversions take place here.
But this is outrageous.
To see McCain and Graham's uh wanting a select committee to look into why four Americans are dead, and nothing was done about it, and what do they see?
Two white guys who want to attack a white a black woman.
Um this, of course, will freeze any Republican activity.
Just the allegation of this kind of racism.
I don't think it will with Grimm.
I I think Graham's loaded for bear here for some reason.
I I haven't seen him this way since the Clinton impeachment.
I haven't seen him this way.
I mean, he is loaded for bear.
McCain seemed kind of ticked off too.
And Kelly I's a white woman, by the way, in the mix, they don't mention.
Uh somebody 13, here's McCain, uh, and he's talking about the attack on the consulate in Benghaza and Obama's response.
The President of the United States did not tell the American people the truth about the attacks that took four brave Americans' lives that went on for seven hours for which we were totally unprepared.
Mr. President, four brave Americans died.
It has now been eight weeks.
The American people have received nothing but contradictory statements from all levels of our government.
So what is this?
This is an old white guy going after a young black guy.
This is McCain going after our young black president.
More racism, you see.
I'll sell tickets of that too.
And one more before we go to the break.
This morning the Today Show, Matt Wower interviewing McCain.
He said, You uh come out here, you said I'll do everything in my power to block Ambassador Rice from being confirmed as Secretary of State.
Might you not learn something over the next day or so that might open your eyes and change your opinion?
What how can you be so bigoted and rigid and racist?
He didn't say that, but that's implied.
I learned something the day that it happened.
I know that people don't come to spontaneous demonstrations with rockets and mortars and rocket propel grenades and mortars and heavy weapons.
I knew that at the time.
In fact, I was on vaccination and said that at the time.
And for the president of the United States for two weeks afterwards to deny that that was the case is either a cover-up or it is incompetence, either one of the two.
Well, this angry white guy doubling down, attacking our poor black president.
Wow.
You see the template emerging here.
I gotta take a time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
By the way, for you in uh in New Jersey, where the uh problems from Hurricane Sandy have been fixed.
Governor Christie has announced that it seems very sad about it, but your property tax will increase in New Jersey.
He has announced that as part of the recovery, property taxes will go up in New Jersey, and I think they are the highest in the country in New Jersey.
I don't know how they can be higher than mine, but I don't want to make it personal.
Also, um this template, this narrative.
They forget that Kelly Ayott, a white woman, is also skeptical of Susan Rice.
But Obama sends her up there.
He's easy target because she's lying.
Uh and James Claiburn, Congressman from South Carolina, Congressional Black Caucasians, told Chris Matthews on Hardball that it's very sad that senators are scapegoating this African American woman.
My question is, should uh African American women be judged by a lower standard when it comes telling the truth?
Should they be?
So I think sadly, yes, we will relax standards for every minority because of the uh absolute excrement life in this country has been for them.
That's the way they think.
That's the way the left thinks.
This country's been so demonstrably unfair to minorities that, yeah, we'll lower the standard.
We'll have we'll lower our expectations, which is called soft bigotry, by the way.
Soft bigotry of low expectations.
We're not gonna expect much of them.
Uh and don't forget it was that sexist McCain that nominated a woman to be his VP.
Jake Tapper is tweeting the following.
Folks, Mr. Limbo's not accurately representing what I said on CNN last night.
I don't, I'm not trying to get wrong what he said.
I am never want to be wrong.
I'm I'm not purposely mischaracterizing what he said.
I'm simply interpreting what I thought he said last night.
Boston Globe headline, Paula Broadwell fell short of aims at Harvard.
So now they're dumping more on her.
We'll be back tomorrow.
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