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Dec. 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Well now, CNN says that the number of people killed at the Newtown Connecticut school is closer to thirty.
And a federal law enforcement official says that most of the dead are children.
And even as we speak, the drive-by media and the Democrats are attempting to politicize the issue to advance their own agenda.
This case probably an assault on the second amendment again.
And I guarantee you that they are unturning, overturning everything they can in their quest to be able to blame this on Republicans.
This to them is an opportunity.
At least to the Democrat media people that are tweeting and Facebooking on this, they excited about it.
Hell yeah, it's a golden opportunity.
It's sick.
Great to have you back, folks.
It's Friday, so let's roll on.
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Fox News is now confirming the Connecticut school shooter was a 20-year-old man.
No more is known as as of now.
So I mentioned to you the Washington Post, which every year seems to run this story or a version of it.
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective.
After a contentious closed door vote, the Senate Intelligence Committee, run by the Democrats, of course, approved a long-awaited report Thursday, concluding harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs.
Officials said a 6,000-page document not released to the public was adopted by Democrats over the objections of most of the Republicans on the committee.
The outcome reflects the level of partisan friction.
Of course, see, this is this is all part of just overturning everything that we think is good, just and right.
This is rewriting history on everything.
Subprime mortgages, tax cuts, and now enhanced interrogations.
It is what we are in the midst of.
The Democrat Party from the White House on down is heavily invested in rewriting the history of events so that the Republican Party and conservatism is to blame all the way back to the founding of the country for everything that is wrong.
And they focus on things that are fresh because people are aware of them.
Some prime mortgage torture, enhanced interrogation, tax cuts for the rich, profit.
But let's go back.
April 26th, CBS Evening News, they played a clip from um sixty minutes that followed later that week.
It was an interview that Leslie Stahl did with a former CIA interrogator Jose Rodriguez.
He'd written a book about his role as the lead interrogator, the 9-11 terrorists that were at Club Gitmo.
And we have two soundbites here.
Leslie Stahl said, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tough.
You had to pour that water more than a hundred and eighty times.
This is an individual who probably didn't give a rat's ass about having water poured on his face.
He never believed for one second you were going to kill him.
Let me just tell you, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would use his fingers to count the number of seconds because he knew that in all likelihood we would stop at ten.
So this doesn't sound like a person who is afraid of dying.
This is a discussion of waterboarding.
Jose Rodriguez administered it.
Leslie Stall then says, so what happens?
Does he break down?
Does he cry?
I mean, you're torturing him.
Does he fall apart?
He gets a good night's sleep.
He gets his insure.
By the way, he was uh very heavy when he came to us and uh he lost 50 pounds.
What his insure?
You mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?
Yes.
Dietary manipulation was part of these NART techniques.
So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation.
I mean, this is Orwellian stuff.
The United States doesn't do that.
Well, we do.
I love it.
That's my one of my all-time favorite sound bites.
What we do.
What we do.
And of course, she can't believe that we would make a mass murderer drink insure.
What?
His insure?
You mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?
And Jose Rodriguez with as much irony as he could muster.
Yes, dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.
Dire techniques insure keeps you alive.
Insure is for cancer patients who don't want to eat.
And so he's laughing at her.
She doesn't even know it.
Yes, dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.
So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation.
I mean, this Orwellian stuff, U.S. doesn't do that.
Well, we do.
But now the Washington Post has got this Senate report, it didn't work.
Who are you gonna believe?
The interrogator in his book?
It or or the Senate Democrats didn't work.
The Washington Post has an editorial today.
Um folks, I don't I uh this is the kind of stuff that it has happened in my lifetime that you used to get from the mainstream media.
This is the mainstream media, Washington Post speaking truth to power.
I I saw this today and I was I was shocked.
The headline of their editorial, Democrats Losing Their Balance on Entitlement Reform.
And what this is what, you know, we talk about random acts of journalism.
This is a random act of realistic analysis.
The Washington Post in this editorial actually mocks Obama and the Democrats for their hypocrisy at pretending to be appalled at entitlement reforms that they supported as recently as as last year.
The Washington Post editors even admit in this editorial that Obamacare is going to drive up the debt.
You know, back in the day, they used to pretend it was gonna save trillions of dollars.
The Washington Post was part of the drive-by media apparatus that said, Obama's right, you get to keep your doctor, you keep your plan, and your premiums going on $2,500.
The Washington Post reported that.
During the time it was being sold, they were right in there helping out.
Now, all of a sudden, they're saying the exact opposite.
Obamacare is going to drive up the debt.
Nobody's going to save money on premiums.
And it isn't going to save trillions of dollars.
But the most interesting thing here is buried way down in the third to last paragraph.
The third to last paragraph.
Is that Democrats want to soak the rich, the Republicans want to slash the poor.
But here's the problem.
There's no way for either of them to solve this problem without affecting the middle class, which in the end will have to pay more and accept something less than what's been promised.
Honestly, that is what they they rip into this whole fiscal clip as being nothing but a cartoon.
And that's exactly right.
It is a manufactured cartoon.
Republicans want to cut taxes for the rich and Obama wants to help the middle class.
And they're saying that is a bunch, that's a crock.
They admit that both sides know that the only way this is ever going to, and the way it's going to end up is the middle class is going to have tax increases.
Along with everybody else.
It's not just the rich who are going to have tax increases.
It's everybody.
Well this is why this whole fiscal clift is so boring to me actually because I know how this is going to end up.
I know how it's always going to end up the budget never gets cut.
There will not be any entitlement reform because neither party really is willing to go to the mat for that.
We're not there yet.
It's still just a posturing position for both parties.
Democrats oppose it.
In the case of the Democrats they will never ever willingly voluntarily cut entitlement spending.
The only way they're going to that's going to happen is if they're dragged kicking and screaming and when they have no choice the Republicans will reach a point where they really mean it.
But this whole thing it is it is a cartoon because we know how it's going to end up and one of the techniques the Republicans say well we'll let Obama have what he wants to really get tough in the next debt limit fight.
In fact you may have heard that well you know we're kind of got our hands tied now but you wait till February when Obama wants to raise a debt limit that's when we're going to drop the hammer the hammer never gets dropped taxes go up entitlement spending goes up the debt's going to go up there's nothing in place to change that.
particularly with Obama and the Democrats having won the election.
There's nothing that's going to change that.
So to get involved in all of this, I'll call it the cartoon, the daily participation by everybody in the media reporting breathlessly, the minute-by-minute transformation, the minute-by-minute occurrences.
The template today is, do you know that Boehner and Obama have been meeting privately for a bunch of days in a row?
Did you know that?
And nobody knows.
knows what they're agreeing to or disagreeing to nobody knows what they're concocting.
That's that's the news today that Boehner and Obama are meeting privately and nobody else knows what's going on it's one of these things I say if they're going to have a recession I'm not participating that's that's how I am I've gotten so cynical about all this I just and it's hard to do it but I've I religiously fight every day to avoid being caught up in the media bubble.
Now for me what that means is ignoring the New York Times and ignoring the Washington Post and ignoring CNN MSNBC ABC CBS NBC because they're all the same.
You get the same news from the same networks the same papers same quotes same analysts same opinions same analysis same thing.
And it's every day they're all doing the same thing.
Every day they're all talking about the latest whatever development and it's really hard not to get caught up in it because the New York Times sets the news template for the day for everybody else whatever's in the Times is what the rest of them used to follow as the news of the day and I don't join the crowd on anything but sometimes it's hard to avoid getting caught up in it.
Sometimes a news story is reported in such a way you can't ignore it, have to talk about it.
But this is one of those been there, done that's.
How many budget deals?
How many debt limit deals?
How many crises?
How many end of the year got to get it done or else disaster happens?
And since we don't have a budget and haven't had one three years, every budgetary item is a crisis and disaster.
By design, as it turns out, are the Democrats.
Because every crisis and everything.
every disaster the architects get what they want Tarp GM bailout stimulus bill, whatever.
If we don't do it, the financial system of the world is going to collapse.
Okay, okay, here take it.
We don't do it, General Motors, and we're not going to have a car.
Okay, okay, here, bail them out.
If we don't do it for crying out, well, we go over the cliff and defense spending gets cut and entitlements b okay, okay, do it.
And that's how it happens.
I take a break.
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Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Hi, Don, great to have you.
Welcome.
Hello, Mr. Rushbow.
Merry Christmas, and God bless you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You're welcome.
Um I'm calling uh about the um the soundbite that was played from Sheila Jackson Lee regarding entitlements are not handouts, they are earned.
Yes, I had that sound bite even here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
I gotta register sound by twenty-five on our roster today.
I don't have a problem with people that have paid into um government programs like Social Security or Medicare like my mother-in-law, who lives in the with my wife and I, because she's seventy-six years old, she has earned her social security and her Medicare benefits, but I have a problem with people who receive other benefits such as um quest cards or food stamps.
I was explaining to Mr. Snerdley that I work in a local store.
It's my part-time job.
My wife and I both work full and part-time, and she and I have both commented recently that people will try and use food stamps to pay for purchases that the food stamps were not originally intended, such as cigarettes, uh candy, soda.
There was a big scandal here a couple of months ago.
One of our local stores um run on a corner market, um, was pretty much shut down and had their license take away taken away because they were selling uh liquor and cigarettes and people were using their food stamps to So what business, what what business is it of yours or mine what they use the money for.
Well, I mean, who are we to sit here and judge?
I happen to be working two jobs, and my wife happens to be working two jobs and your problem to pay for these people that are really not getting not doing anything to earn the benefits that they're receiving, you know.
Um how cold hearted can you get?
I well what do you mean?
That if you're working two jobs, that's your problem.
You're the sucker.
I love your sense of humor, Mr. Limbaugh.
I I have to thank you because I've been listening to your program for several months, and my father was a union worker and I was raised to be a conservative democrat.
How did that happen?
Uh it wasn't easy, but I put myself through college and you know, I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1988 was the first time that I voted, and with everything that's been happening over the past year with the state of the economy, the state of the country in Benghazi, I stopped listening to normal news and started listening to you, and I'm very appreciative that there is someone like you out there that can help enlighten people like me.
Thank you very much.
I'm thrilled there are people like you who um accept it and believe it, because it's true.
I just uh uh you know, this this here's but let's play Sheila Jackson with.
We got to squeeze this in.
This is what she said uh on the House floor.
This was Wednesday.
There is no way, Mr. Speaker, that we should raise the eligibility age for Medicare, that we should not think carefully about how we approach uh the reform of Medicaid, and that we don't tell the American people that Social Security is solvent.
So I would say move quickly to pass uh the middle class tax cuts that would be for all of Americans a hundred percent, up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and let's think about moving into twenty thirteen how we make this economy better by looking carefully at how we reform entitlements that are not handouts, but they are earned.
Right.
So that's that's a comment you're addressing and And you think some of these entitlements are earned, like social security.
Problem the problem with that, Dan or Don, is that we've got to the point now where people are being paid much more than they paid in.
We and we we reached that tipping point some years ago.
I'd agree.
It b it bothers me because I know as a consumer myself, you know, any time I use a credit card or something, I receive a statement that tells me where I made my purchases.
I can find out from the company exactly what I purchased.
And it bothers me, especially in the state of Wisconsin, these cards look exactly like a credit card.
Yeah.
Well, they are.
And there might be some way of tracking the kind of purchases these people make.
Don, let me, you're still getting the bill.
It's just you don't see that one.
But they're using the card and you're paying for it, which you know will be back.
Okay, we are back.
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Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from the running to be the next Secretary of State.
The thing is, she was never nominated.
I think this whole thing has been a giant distraction.
I think Obama's wanted somebody else in there all along.
Now, I could be wrong about that, and she may have really wanted it.
But now she became a liability.
If in fact it was legitimate, if he wanted her and if she wanted it.
They've told her to go pound sand now, and that's purely because of Benghazi.
They simply do not want any hearings on Benghazi, and they wouldn't be able to avoid it if she's up there as Secretary of State.
So it looks like the old white guy network in the Senate is gonna nominate John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, and Senator McCain is all for John Kerry.
Do you know their buddies?
McCain is in favor of Kerry being Secretary of State.
Somebody the other day suggested, maybe it was just today that that there'd be a a bipartisan compromise and and nominate Colin Powell to be Secretary of State again.
What would be bipartisan about that?
He's not a Republican.
He says he is, but he's not.
But I have read, I've got the story here in the stack, that if John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, is nominated, that the Swift Boat guys are going to maybe gear back up and oppose it.
Wouldn't that be great?
Oh my gosh, but the left would just flip.
It was Newt that suggested Colin Powell.
That's right.
It was Newt that suggested Colin Powell, it's a bipartisan compromise.
Oh, the shooter's name in Newtown, Connecticut, reported to be Ryan Lanza.
He was twenty-four.
That's now been confirmed.
Uh he is dead.
Shooter's deadness, uh reportedly a second a potential second shooter, but uh shooter name is Ryan Lanza 24.
Anyway, Swiftboat guys gear up.
Wait, I have a sound bite of Susan Rice throwing Hillary under the bus.
But I'm waiting for one other sound bite before we get to it.
Okay, Susan Rice.
Last night on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
He played a a portion of her interview or his interview with uh uh Susan Rice, and then he asked her why was it you that Sunday morning?
Why did they send you out there to every Sunday show, five of them?
Of all the people in the government, why did the U.S. ambassador to the UN get sent out to all those shows answering questions about the attack in Benghazi?
Secretary Clinton uh had originally been asked by most of the networks uh to go on.
She had had an incredibly grueling week uh dealing with the protests around the the Middle East and and North Africa.
I was asked, I was willing to do so.
It wasn't what I had planned For that weekend originally, but um I don't regret doing that.
Did you hear what she just said there?
She said they asked her to go because Hillary was tired.
Hillary Clinton had originally been asked by most of the networks to go on.
It was Obama who shut it down.
Obama wanted Susan Rice out there.
He wanted somebody far away from the story telling this lie that it was the video that led to the unrest.
Somebody close to it would have had a little bit tougher time with any credibility telling a lie.
But you get Susan Rice, she's distanced.
She is the UN ambassador.
Got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department.
She got no representation at the consulate or Benghazi.
Sent her out there.
And so Brian Winslow, why why why send you?
Well, you know, Hillary, she originally was asked, but she really had a grueling week.
I mean dealing with protests in the Middle East and in North Africa, she was really tired, and that reminded me of this.
Let us say with one voice.
The words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
I don't feel no way tired, and yet she was too tired and beleaguered to head out there on the Sunday shows to explain what happened to Benghazi.
So Hillary, I do feel in some ways tarred.
And that's your leading Democrat presidential court a candidate for uh 2016.
She's been tired for how many weeks now.
Hillary has been tired for how many weeks before, so she can't go on and explain it's been two and a half months.
Has she been too tired to talk about Benghazi?
Brief timeout, much more straight ahead after this.
Yes, yes, yes, back we are.
El Rushbaugh and Open Line Friday, the shooter.
Um I'm seeing it two different places, either twenty years old or twenty-four years old, but his name is Ryan Lanza.
And his mother worked at the school in Newtown, Connecticut.
His mother is among the dead, and CBS News is reporting that Ryan Lanza apparently targeted his mother and her classroom.
Most of the shooting occurred in that one classroom.
His mother's among the dead.
And the numbers about this is sort of closer to 30 people are dead now.
Oh, President Obama can speak at 315 this afternoon.
So twenty four twenty-year-old Ryan Lanza.
His mother worked at the school.
Shooting took place primarily in her classroom.
She's among the dead.
And I think news keeps trickling out about it, and as we get relevant, salient news will pass it on.
Here is Kelly in West uh Winchester, Virginia.
Hi, great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure.
I have two things I wanted to say.
Uh Snowdley wants me to get to the first one first, and the second one is an analogy with my daughter about punishing the successful.
But the first part is I want the Super Bowl to be on Saturday instead of Sunday.
Wait a minute.
What was your woman?
And you like the Super Bowl?
Well is that when your husband beats you?
No, my husband's a Steelers fan, so Super Bowl's really only important when the Steelers are in it.
But we always have a party.
Oh.
The party goes late.
Monday.
Oh, and you gotta go to work on Monday.
And everybody kind of moves far away and they're drinking and and it would just be so much easier if it was on a Saturday.
How do you feel about that?
Well, you know, I have wondered why they don't turn the Super Bowl into a three-day holiday with Monday, some sort of a holiday.
Maybe combine it with President's Day.
You know how to get this done?
How?
Combine it with the ski industry.
The ski industry is a powerful lobby.
If you want to know why there is President's Day in February, the ski industry lobbied heavily Congress for a three-day holiday to encourage patronage at ski lodges on Mondays.
You have the ski industry involved with the NFL.
You might be able to keep the game on Sunday and make the Monday follow is call it some holiday weekend.
Um look at with the way our society is headed, more and more people not working anyway.
What's the harm?
Uh one of the advantages in moving the game to Saturday, though, is that fewer players who get caught the night before the game of prostitutes.
Because it's been proven that players frequent prostitutes more on Saturday night than Friday.
I never thought of that.
Well, that's it's not a lot of people have gotten into it to that degree, like I have.
But I understand totally.
You know, I I go to the Super Bowl sound.
I'm not going to this year's, but I, you know, uh to have to come back to work the next day to leaving the Super Bowl late, getting back three or four o'clock in the morning.
I totally understand what you're talking about.
Well, maybe you can put some pressure.
Um, you know, you don't want to move the game up in the afternoon.
That would take away from the festive party atmosphere and nature of the of the day.
You want to keep the game at six o'clock Eastern, maybe even seven.
Uh seven o'clock Eastern start.
Yep.
Uh so yeah, I I'm I understand exactly what you're talking about.
Well, the second thing I like to do is I just don't think they're ever going to move it to Saturday.
The Saturday is just not a day that's associated with the NFL.
Sunday or Monday is.
Well, the second thing I wanted to mention was an analogy that I talked to my daughter about about punishing the successful.
It had to do with her grades, which she straight A. And I said, Well, to make it fair to everyone, what if they asked you to donate part of your grades and maybe get a B. You know, that works.
And give the kids that got a D. That way of relating it to kids works.
I have had professors tell me that they have suggested that to their students.
She didn't like the idea.
Of course not, because it was her work.
It was her work that produced the A. Exactly.
I tried to get her to listen to you.
We we we get you in there in the car between Justin Buber and the Zach Brown band, but I'm I'm trying to get her there.
Well, God bless you.
I think that is uh uh that's smart.
As I say, I know a lot of college professors have actually proposed that and uh and it works.
Look, I've got another idea on the Super Bowl.
The Monday after the Super Bowl.
Oh, this is e I this is a way to do it.
We create a new, not so much holiday, but National Day of Awareness.
The Monday following the Super Bowl is National Concussion and Brain Injury Day.
I mean, if we're gonna have the NFL players the whole month of October wear pink to show solidarity with uh uh uh breath breast cancer awareness.
What is the biggest problem plaguing the NFL?
Concussions, brain injuries, uh it's leading to suicides and murders.
National concussion, brain injury awareness day, the Monday following the Super Bowl.
And you'd have of course you take off work.
You did you take off work and and and and you contemplate concussions and brain injuries, particularly of those who had just suffered them in the game the day before.
Is that not brilliant?
Is that not that's a way to do this?
I mean, you kill two birds bad choice of words, but you would accomplish everything the league is about.
You the three days of a of a weekend holiday, a Monday after the game, so the partying can go on with no limits on Sunday.
Have to worry about working Monday, and then Monday's devoted to public consciousness raising on concussions and brain injury.
By the way, speaking to that, the New York Post has a story today claiming to know what the argument about between Javon Belcher and his the mother of his child was about.
Apparently the argument was over paternity.
The New York Post is saying that he might not have been the father of that chow, and that he found out or something and bl and had trouble dealing with it.
Anyway, I gotta go because of time constraints.
Back after this.
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