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Nov. 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Oh, folks, this is so great.
It is so exciting.
It hasn't happened very often here in the history of this program.
We are actually going to live through.
We are going to be alive when it happens.
We are going to, I mean, peace, we're going to see the big difference while the show is going on.
We will remember this day for the rest of our lives because peace is going to break out in the Middle East in 53 and a half minutes.
Roughly.
I have to account for the delay in our broadcast signal.
But that's right.
There's a ceasefire.
Folks, peace in our time, in the Middle East, right here, we're going to be able, I mean, at 1.59, there will be war.
And at 2.01, there will be peace.
And we will be able to see the difference.
The children will be safe, saved and safe.
But the vibe, the vibe that will vibrate all over the world from this.
It's never happened.
Man, it's the fastest three hours in the media, but this hour is going to be really slow in my eager anticipation because peace.
Now, there's just one little problem.
Let's grab somebody at 22.
This is Mrs. Clinton this afternoon in Cairo announcing all of this.
This is a critical moment for the region.
Egypt's new government is assuming the responsibility and leadership that has long made this country a cornerstone of regional stability and peace.
The United States welcomes the agreement today for a ceasefire in Gaza.
For it to hold, the rocket attacks must end.
A broader calm return.
But the rocket attacks are still happening.
You would expect that.
They don't have to stop.
Peace doesn't have to happen for another 50 minutes or so.
So between now and 2 o'clock, Hamas can fire all the ammo they want.
It's okay because we don't have peace yet.
But we're going to have peace at 2 o'clock.
I can't contain myself.
I got a note from a subscriber, rushlimbaugh.com, say, Rush, you're wrong about something.
Fox News is reporting that the ceasefire was already agreed to, but they had to wait to announce it for Hillary to arrive.
I missed that.
And now anybody can send me an email and say anything.
So I just, as a caveat.
But it's from a woman, and women don't lie.
Fox News reports that the ceasefire was already agreed to, but they had to wait for Hillary to arrive, which means there was a 24-hour delay, which allowed Hamas to kill the six spies in the streets of Gaza.
We talked about the first time, dragged them through the streets.
They dragged the body behind a motorcycle.
They blew up the bus in Tel Aviv.
So the ceasefire was announced, and then all hell continued to break out.
They had to wait for Hillary to show up.
So she says that Fox News is reporting the ceasefire was agreed to, but they had to wait for Hillary to show up to announce it.
So obviously, this is all done for Obama and Hillary to claim victory or to say that they did it.
And they did.
Folks, you have peace in 50 minutes and 35 seconds.
I fully expect CNN to have a countdown clock, just like they have an all-day countdown clock that in a debate or the, you know, whatever happening.
I don't know what they're going to call it, but we're going to be able to see the.
Do you realize how exciting this is?
Like, we're going to go to our top of the hour news break at 1.59 at war.
And 30 seconds after 2 o'clock, or even there will be no war.
There'll be peace.
And you and I will be able to say we were alive when it happened.
Marco Rubio, again, I want to apologize to all of you.
I had the Rubio story for the past two days, and because I had other priorities, things that I thought were a little bit more important, I kept moving it down the stack, and I didn't get to it either yesterday or the day before, and I should have because my instincts were correct, and it has blown up exactly as I thought it would.
And essentially, what's happening here is that Rubio is being romneyed.
Now, Rubio has a part of his stump speech where he says that socialism, quote, hasn't worked in 6,000 years of recorded history.
So, Rubio granted an interview to gentlemen's quarterly, GQ, and he was asked a question: How old do you think the earth is?
Now, many of you probably caught that the moment you heard about it or saw it.
But for those of you who didn't, let me tell you what the question is.
Yeah, and it's a question that's been asked of Obama.
It's a question that's been asked of a number of politicians.
It's not something exclusive to Rubio, but the intent is exclusive to Rubio.
I take you back to January of this year.
Mitt Romney and the Republican candidates were having a candidates' debate as part of the primary process.
And out of the blue, George Stephanopoulos, no doubt in coordination with the regime, asked Romney a question about contraceptives and whether he would like to ban them.
It came out of nowhere prior to this debate.
And I don't think at any point in the campaign had the Republicans said anything about contraception.
Now, they were talking about abortion, but they weren't talking about contraception and certainly not banning it.
So, Romney looked totally shell-shocked when he got this question.
He didn't know what it was about, it related to nothing, it came out of nowhere.
And he answered it a couple of times in that vein.
George, he looked around.
Where's this coming from, George?
Nobody, and Stephanopoulos persisted and persisted because the game was to get Romney to just in the slightest way substantively address the question.
And Stephanopoulos finally says, Okay, well, what about the states?
Would you let the states?
Well, Romney said, Well, if you're going to have a discussion about banning contracy, yeah, that's not a federal issue, George.
Uh, president wouldn't have anything to do with it.
The states would be a place where that would happen.
But, George, nobody's talking about it.
It didn't matter that nobody was talking about it from that moment on.
That's what gave birth to the war on women.
A totally irrelevant, unrelated to anything question that Romney answered.
And therefore, Romney on record, the news could be written.
Romney says, X about contraception.
Doesn't matter what he said.
He's discussing it within the framework of Stephanopoulos's question of should it be banned and hello, war on women.
And that begot everything.
That one question begot.
Now, this question to Rubio is for the same reason, even though the question or a variation of it has also been asked of Obama and other politicians.
In fact, Rubio's answer and Obama's answer are pretty close.
Here is what Rubio said.
I'm not a scientist, man.
I can tell you what recorded history says.
I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute among theologians.
Like, it has nothing to do with the GDP, economic growth of the country.
The age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow.
I'm not a scientist.
I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that.
At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created.
And I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all.
I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that.
It's one of the great mysteries.
That answer, I don't know what you think of the answer, that answer has landed him in hot water in the Republican Party and in the media.
On CNN Tuesday, Jeb Bush Jr., the son of the former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush Jr. said that Rubio, quote, kind of gave a head-scratching type of answer.
We got to be a kind of pro-science, pro-technology party.
I think Marco Rubio is just that on the earth question.
I guess I have to read more closely in terms of getting a better understanding.
But yeah, that's a strange response, I guess.
There's a feature at the blog Hot Air.
It's written by a blogger by the name of Aleph Pundit.
It's quotes of the day.
The quotes of the day last night were all about Rubio's answer.
And they're all, for the most part, condemning Rubio's answer.
And Mark Halperin was on Scarborough's show and said this about Rubio's answer.
There's one area where the Democrats are just really far ahead of Republicans right now, science and technology.
It's doing this thing that Democrats failed to do in 2000 to stop George W. Bush, which is really, really early on using the left-wing freak show to define anybody who's thinking of running for president as quickly as possible in negative terms on Twitter, on cable, on the internet.
Now, they're all over this Rubio thing because they want to control his image in a negative way, and they did it.
They did it this cycle.
They went after Romney early.
It really hurt him, and they're doing it now.
What are they doing?
Why is Rubio's answer of 6,000 years of recorded history?
You've got to under...
And furthermore, you know, I'm to the point of convening a little confab, a weekend confab of all potential Republican candidates and giving them a short little preview of what they can expect from the media and how to deal with it and what media to avoid.
What is Rubio doing in a beginning to GQ?
They're the enemy.
Now, that's a side issue.
That's a side point.
But you see, ladies and gentlemen, the press is the Democrat Party, and they are out now to destroy Rubio.
He's the frontrunner.
Same way destroyed Palin.
The way they're doing it with this question, they're trying to paint Rubio as an extreme, right-wing, fundamentalist Christian wacko.
Now, he's a Catholic, but they are trying because the fundamentalist Christian right-wing, it is believed, do not care about science.
They're strictly biblical, and science can go take a hike.
And where science may say that the earth is billions of years old, and that the evolutionary relative to man might be hundreds of thousands of years old, they believe the earth itself is 10,000 years old, and everything else is bunk.
The global warming debate is also set up to cast Republicans as anti-science.
The problem is that science has been politicized by the left, and science isn't science anymore.
Science is no different than illegal immigration in terms of the media's technique.
The media is trying to get Republicans to abandon their base.
So they love it when all of our Republican candidates say, you know what, we got to relax our view on immigration, or we got to relax our view on abortion.
That is designed to have every Republican frontrunner screw up and anger his base to the point that they will never trust him and never vote for him.
That's all this is.
And the science question, all these science questions are designed to illustrate to the same kind of people that bought everything Obama and the media were saying about Bush and about Romney, that Rubio is a dangerous fundamentalist Christian who really wants to deny you your abortion, who wants to deny you your contraception, who wants to morally judge you.
He hates gay marriage.
They'll never make the allegation per se, but this is the image that they have crafted of fundamentalist Christians.
Of the Christian right, the pro-life, whatever you want to call them.
They are the most rich, and they're stupid, by the way, in addition to narrow and restrictive and so forth.
So this question, how old do you think the earth is, is a trap question.
From the get-go, this question is designed to put Rubio on the defensive, to define him as something that he's not, to destroy any chance he has or harm, any chance he has of linking solidly with the Republican base.
They're already, folks, trying to take out Republican frontrunners four years from now.
What are we doing?
We're trying to figure out how to make them like us again.
We're trying to figure out how to get them to stop criticizing us.
So we'll relax what we say on abortion or immigration or what have you.
6,000 years of recorded history may be true.
Doesn't say a thing about how long or how old the earth is or anything.
See, Rubio's answer is not even relevant.
All he had to do was answer it, and he's cooked.
As far as these people are concerned, you want to hear Obama's answer to the question?
Obama got the question.
He was speaking at the Compassion Forum, Messiah College, in Grantham, Pennsylvania, on April 13th of 2008.
Question: Senator, if one of your daughters asked you, Daddy, did God really create the world in six days?
What would you say?
Obama said, What I've said to him is that I believe that God created the universe and that six days in the Bible may not be six days as we understand it.
It may not be 24-hour days.
And that's what I believe.
I know there's always a debate between those who read the Bible literally and those who don't, and I think it's a legitimate debate.
Within the Christian community of which I'm a part, my belief is that the story that the Bible tells about God creating this magnificent earth on which we live, it's essentially true, fundamentally true.
The Bible's true.
Now, whether it happened exactly as we might understand it, reading a text of the Bible, I don't presume to know.
The answer is almost identical to Rubio's, but Obama is never going to be thought of as a fundamentalist right-wing Christian who's anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-gay marriage, anti, you know, whatever people want to do.
But Rubio is.
Rubio, there's always a double standard here.
And now, predictably and disappointingly, a bunch of conservative media people are also jumping all over Rubio for being a nitwit and an idiot, not understanding the relationship between science and politics and science and religion.
The age of the earth is the ultimate gotcha question for any Christian Republican politician.
6,000 years of recorded history is actually true.
Recorded history.
I've got to take a break.
Don't go away.
We're coming back.
And your phone calls are coming up.
Look, the answer to this question is very simple.
Senator Rubio, how old do you think the earth is?
I agree with President Obama.
I agree with President Obama said.
It's that simple because Obama and Rubio said nothing different.
Also, note the different ways the questions were asked.
The question brought up to Obama was very gentle and about his daughters at a religious forum.
Mr. President, if one of your lovely daughters came and said, Danny, Danny, how long did it take God to build the earth?
Obama gives his answer.
He's a wonderful father.
He's an educated Christian.
Oh, the wonderful guy.
Rubio was asked by a snarky, typical leftist reporter at the snarky GQ.
So just how old do you think the earth is?
I agree with Obama.
I agree with what President Obama said about this.
Next question.
Actually, don't submit to a request for an interview from GQ.
But if you're going to do that, understand what the purpose is, is to take you out.
You know, I learned a long ago, these journalists don't care what you think.
You can't impress them.
You can't change their minds.
And you cannot use their forum to reach out to their audience.
It will not be permitted.
What do our candidates gain by talking to George Stephanopoulos?
It'd be like being interviewed by Carville or Stan Greed.
What is there to gain?
You ever notice the libs when they appear on Fox?
How do they do it?
They're snarky.
They're argumentative.
They don't accept.
They're not trying to reach out to conservative audience at all.
Got to take a break.
in a second.
One thing, folks, about ceasefires in the Middle East, whoever calls for them is losing.
And generally, ceasefire is to benefit Hamas.
Hamas is getting creamed here again.
Don't forget Hamas, they're also allies of the Iranians.
And the fact that, I mean, they said early on, they launched all this, the Hamas forces did Missile attacks into Israel.
The Israelis responded and took out the Hamas said their Osama bin Laden, their leader.
So we had a ceasefire declared.
Peace coming up here in 26 minutes.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
And traditionally, ceasefires in this region are for the losing side, which is always Hamas or the Palestinians to rearm, to reorganize.
It's the purpose of them.
To stop the Israelis' successful operations.
By the way, our emailer was correct.
Here's the Jennifer Griffin story.
A report on the ceasefire actually being reached 24 hours ago.
They had to wait for Hillary to show up.
It's interesting to note that Hamas and Egypt were ready to agree to this ceasefire agreement exactly 24 hours ago.
But remember, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was still en route to Tel Aviv.
She still had yet to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This delayed the ceasefire by a complete 24 hours.
It's not clear what she gained in the process in terms of what Hamas and the Egyptians are agreeing to that they weren't ready to agree to 24 hours ago.
That's not it.
What did she get?
It's not clear what she gained.
What she gained in the process is that the ceasefire didn't happen until she got there.
Who cares what the truth is?
The percent.
I saw it on TV.
She shows up, and then the ceasefire happens.
And that's what happened.
No rush.
The ceasefire was 24 hours.
No, it wasn't.
I saw it on TV.
Hillary Clinton shows up and announced a ceasefire.
The ceasefire happened because of Hillary, not because of Hamas in Egypt.
Yes, it did rush.
That's what Jennifer Griffin just said.
That Hamas and Egypt were ready to agree to ceasefire 24 hours ago.
Yeah, that's true because they were losing, but that didn't happen.
I saw it on television.
Hillary Clinton shows up and announced ceasefire, and that's what it is.
In fact, the ceasefire.
And here is, as we go to the phones, Ryan in Illinois.
I'm really glad you're waiting, sir.
Welcome to the Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
Oh, my God.
How are you doing, Rush?
It is an honor, an absolute privilege, and happy Thanksgiving to you, sir.
Thank you very much, and ditto to you.
All right, sorry about this.
I had to hop out of my car because I can't hang out in my car because there's a camera, and it might be kind of windy, so I apologize.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear fine.
Excellent.
Look, I can't hear anybody.
I have to read what you're saying.
You just go ahead and talk.
Okay.
Give me a little background about me.
I'm 26.
I'm a male.
I live in Illinois.
I don't want to give away exactly where I live because I'm afraid I might lose my job because Big Brother's always watching.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
You would lose your job just for appearing on this program because of what you're going to say.
I personally believe so.
Maybe not true.
But I believe I could.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Wow.
This is East Germany.
Yeah.
The caller's afraid to be known.
Yep.
Well, then you're very brave, sir, to take the chance.
Thank you, sir.
You bet.
Moving forward, the reason why I'm calling is actually because of my roommate.
He's a 28-year-old African-American who I've been living with now for two months.
Before I jump into that, I'd like to start with my background.
I'm a success story that you and I would both agree with.
I grew up, obviously, in a middle-class family, worked my way up.
I played basketball, got a Division I scholarship, worked my butt off to graduate.
Took about a year and a half to get a real job, and now I'm working for that same job.
And I'm also a director of a basketball program as well.
So I've really moved my way up with basketball, with my job, and I'm just working my butt off to get where I am.
So thank you.
Kudos to you for what you're doing.
You know, in days past and years past, your story would actually be inspirational and relevant.
But a lot of people hearing you talk about it don't know what you mean by work, and they can't understand a year and a half to get what you want.
Thank God.
They're thinking you maybe don't get it, but continue with the story.
Okay.
Well, the real reason why I'm calling is because I deal with a lot of people of other race, I'd say, like African American, Mexican, because I usually date women that are not white.
And I'm usually going out with people all the time.
I go to everybody.
But I'll listen to politics and I'll put my two cents in.
And I definitely talk about what you talk about.
But I have a feeling we've lost the women between 20 and 27 or 28, personally.
I have not met a woman, besides one of my ex-girlfriends, that would, you know, that would not vote Obama, obviously.
And no matter how I talk to them, it's impossible.
Now, I could be completely naive.
Wait, wait, hold.
I'm really having trouble following this.
You said we've lost the women between 2027, 28, but you have not met a woman who would not vote Obama.
Okay, okay.
Not vote Obama.
Personally.
Now, I could be naive.
It could just be where I'm at, but it's a reoccurring theme every single weekend.
Every single weekend, every single woman that you date votes Obama.
Yes.
Have you tried dating a married woman?
Yes.
No, I haven't.
No.
Yeah, so.
And then, you know, I started rooming with my new roommate.
He was very black-oriented.
You know, he always talked about Obama this, Obama that, which is fine.
You know, I can deal with it.
I can sit back there.
But, you know, I didn't sit back.
I started chipping in his ear.
You know, not aggressively.
You know, I just started telling him how it really is.
All the people I've talked to have never even heard of Benghazi, first of all.
I had to explain Bighazi to him.
I had to play Bighazi to all of his friends.
Nobody had an idea what's going on.
Nobody has an idea.
They're all on autopilot.
Unbelievable.
Nobody has an idea.
Including the single women that you're dating.
Yes.
They didn't know about Benghazi.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Doesn't surprise me.
It's not being reported in the media that they watch.
It really isn't.
In fact, Tom Friedman, New York Times, it's not even a story.
It's a distraction.
Not even a scandal.
It's not even a scandal.
It's just a distraction.
Yep.
Yep.
And they've heard about Petraeus.
They know Petraeus over Benghazi, which, I guess, makes sense.
Well, of course they know Petraeus.
He dated his biographer.
That's cool.
Yep.
Yep.
So getting back to my roommate, I chipped me away in his ear about, you know, what's going on with the politics.
And he literally made me cry the day after election.
I was 26-year-old male.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm a male.
Wait, wait.
Tell me, just cut to the chase.
How did he make you cry?
Why?
He told me in front of all of his friends that he voted Robbie.
He told me I came out and said it.
Oh, because you did get through to him.
I got through to him, Rush.
And that made you feel good, I'll bet.
That made me feel unbelievable.
And it made you feel optimistic.
It made me feel like our country is not lost, Rush.
Long term, I don't think it is.
At the moment, we are outnumbered, but in the long-term term, we're not.
Yeah.
So that's really the reason why I called was because of him.
He gave me the strength to call you up and have a reason to call you and say thank you so much for everything.
Well, I'm glad that you got through.
I really appreciate your patience in waiting.
He's been holding on since Monday, folks.
We'll be back after this.
It looks like Jesse Jackson Jr. got his pension because he's announced his retirement.
He said he wasn't going to go until he got his full pension and disability.
So he must have got that because he's announced that he's going to resign from the House of Representatives.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, in addition to Hillary securing the credit for the ceasefire, you know what else I think she gets?
A get out of Benghazi jail card free.
Since Hillary brokered the ceasefire, we can't really bring the hammer down on her on Benghazi.
It just wouldn't look fair.
You know, the Republicans do have a single woman.
This guy's right.
And the polling data all shows that single women vote Democrat.
They are insecure, and government's there for them, Obama and all that.
I mean, it is what it is.
And why is this?
Certainly, you're not going to like this.
That's because men just won't commit to relationships.
If men would marry them, these women would turn conservative.
Some of them, probably a majority of them would.
It may be to save the country, men are going to have to marry these women.
I don't know the kind of women.
No, I'm just, that doesn't matter.
I was just saying it, but in order to, you know, rather than the Republican Party run around, okay, well, you know, we got our own brand of contraception.
We got our own brand of pill here.
You know, try ours.
And we're, you know, instead of doing all that, just propose marriage and have a family and 2.8 kids and have the traditional nuclear security blanket.
It may be something American men, we may have to call on them.
Save a country.
Here's Doug in Tampa as we do Open Line Friday and Wednesday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, pleasure to speak to you.
And it's kind of ironic you put it that way.
It seems like maybe Romney, being a Mormon, might be a good person that could marry more than one of all things.
But seriously, thank you for having me on, sir.
Oh, man, you bet, man.
It's wonderful to have you.
I appreciate everything you do, and happy Thanksgiving to you.
Yeah, same to you.
I'm going to have three Thanksgivings.
Oh, yeah.
Well, good for you.
You deserve it.
You deserve it.
Three different families.
You pay for it as a 1% or two, so we appreciate it.
That's true.
My point being, and I know your answer now is kind of, you know, we should be more conservative, be more proud of it.
But I think the fact that Rubio and Romney both have to tiptoe around the question about the age of the earth and any type of religious type of question like that, I think that just kind of proves that maybe we pander a little more to the right of religious right than what we should.
I mean, I'm sounding like a bad Catholic right now, but I really think that what is pandering?
Well, I don't mean not answering questions the way that they would not like it to hear.
How do you know he didn't answer it the way he intended to?
Well, I'm a Rubio guy, and I think that Obama's answer, as into, well, we don't know maybe the time of days.
Rubio's answer is the same answer.
Not really, because it is.
He tiptoes around it.
He tiptoes around it.
And it's all perception.
He may actually think that way, but when it comes out, because you're right, the media is going to set you up that all the time.
I submit to you that Rubio tiptoeing around it is not pandering to the Christian right, but rather it's understanding that the reporter's got a loaded gun pointed to his head.
See, not pandering to the right.
He's trying to save his career with the stupid question from the stupid reporter.
Pure and simple.
That's a setup for the get-go.
He knows that.
I'm sure he knows that.
This is exactly what they want.
They want conservative Republicans to renounce the Christian right.
They are dying for that to happen.
They can't wait for it to happen.
And not for any reason other than they know that it would do great damage for any Republican candidate in his relationship with base voters.
This is raw, pure politics.
You take any candidate's base of support away from him, and there's no way he wins anything.
And if they can take the base out, if they can build a huge amount of doubt about Rubio in the base, and why are they doing it?
Because they're scared of him.
Folks, it's why I told you from the get-go, they were scared to death of Sarah Palin.
And they're actually trying to do to Rubio what they did to Palin.
And that's why I got so angry when Republicans started beating up on Palin and agreeing with all this that she was stupid or an idiot because they fell for it.
They fell right in line with the effort to destroy her politically.
And that's what they're trying to do to Rubio.
And he doesn't need any Republicans joining in in the firing squad.
We'll take a break and be back.
Don't go away.
Folks, let me just say, on this question of how old is the earth, Obama's the guy that's got some explaining to do, not Rubio.
But if you're going to ask these two guys, Rubio and Obama, how old is the earth?
Doesn't Obama know, wasn't he there when it all started?
He knows.
He knows when the sea level started receding or rising, whatever they did.
He knows what happened.
And he just tosses the question up and they blame Rubio.
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