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March 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 1, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, self-absorption, codependency, blamelessness, and denial.
And even the good times, too.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Alrighty then.
Open line Friday.
Here we are.
We have arrived at the end of another busy broadcast week.
For some reason I was.
I don't know why, but I thought I get in here today, and this would be like days used to be here.
Just a normal day that there actually I don't know why I thought this.
I thought we're not gonna have a crisis today.
I know it's sequester day, but of course I was wrong.
In fact, I don't know, even right now, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you people are hearing the sound of my voice because I don't know how many of our affiliates are covering the president's press conference on the sequester.
He started it about a half hour ago and intentionally is running past 1206 and the start of this program.
And here's the dilemma.
I've got some real dynamite stuff here.
In fact, I have something that I don't think anybody remembers.
You will remember it when I get into it.
But I'm I'm asking myself.
They're carrying the president, I'd be wasting it.
Now I could do it once and then do it again for people who missed it, but I don't like repeating things, as you well know.
Or so what can I well I could just vamp and just talk about P. Diddy.
And low information news until the president's finished.
Did you know that P. Diddy admitted to being a bedwetter?
P. Diddley was actually a bedwetter, and this is news, and this is make it don't laugh in there.
Mr. Snerdley, it's it's giving other people self-esteem out there.
I mean, if P. Diddy can be a bedwetter.
Then so can no, because well, it may be.
Heck, who knows?
Sean Diddley Combs reveals he was a bedwetter as a kid.
So one thing I want to say is I grew up as a Kool-Aid kid, diddly said, admitting he never drank water.
I used to pour half a pound of sugar into the Kool-Aid.
Besides it having me bouncing off the walls, I used to be a bedwetter.
You know, let that soak in for a second, uh, folks.
I guess it is.
It's a uh it's a new thing for street cred.
Well, Al Al Roker admits pooping in his pants.
Look, this is what's gonna happen for the president finishes, folks.
I'm sorry, but I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna let this guy cover up what I've got to say here.
So just be Al Roker poops in his pants at the White House and it's proud of it.
Admits it.
Rachel, did you hear about that?
He admitted it.
On the Today Show, he admitted it.
Not once, but twice.
He's talked to people about it.
He's asked other people if they ever pooped in their pants.
It was because of his gastric bypass surgery.
He didn't mean to do it.
He couldn't stop it.
He couldn't get to the bathroom fast enough.
He's talking about this kind of stuff.
You this it not that long ago.
You wouldn't dare mention anything like that.
If you did, you'd be a laughing stock.
Well, Al Roker assumed hero status for having the guts and the courage to admit that he had the problem.
And now we got P. Diddley admitting here that he was a bedwetter.
As a kid, I tell you, folks, they are coming for Bob Woodward.
This is a sight to behold.
You know, yesterday, grab sound bite number one.
This is one of the many things I Said about Bob Woodward yesterday on this program.
I don't know, folks.
I don't know.
I'm just not sure that what we're dealing with here is a you're gonna have a dead horse in your bed tomorrow morning kind of threat.
I don't think that's what we're dealing.
I do think the White House are gonna take care of Woodward with a death panel down the road.
That's how they're gonna deal with this.
We'll never know.
Woodward's gonna get sick and a death panel will come in there and that'll be that.
No, no, no, they're not gonna be a drone with his name on it.
Just do it with a death panel.
Just handle this with a death panel.
Okay.
As is the usual case, I, Il Rushbow, make a joke about liberals.
Turns out it is not a joke.
At Buzzfeed, which is a website started by a guy who used to be at the politico.
At Buzzfeed, they've got a guy who is telling everybody that the real dirty secret in Washington is that everybody is just waiting for Woodward to die so that they can start dishing all the dirt on him that everybody knows.
Every he's 69, 70 years old, and they can't wait for Woodward to die.
Last night on current TV, that's uh former Al Gore TV, now Al Jazeera TV.
You want by the way.
Folks, be patient.
We're getting sequester, and I I've I've got a story from um 2012, during the presidential campaign in the debates about Obama and the sequester that I know everybody's forgotten about.
And it to me is just short of well, I was gonna say, in a real world, it'd be it would be a bombshell or close to it.
It won't be in this case, because I guarantee you, the way the low information voter is seeing Obama, they probably stop being able to keep up with him ten minutes into the press conference.
But all they know is, my gosh, he's trying and it's a Republican's fault.
He came out and he started this press conference today with a blatant lie.
It's amazing.
And I just the low information voters just eat it all up.
Nothing you can do about it.
He came out and said the sequester is the baner's idea.
The sequester is the Republicans' idea.
Everybody in the media in that room knows that's not true now because Bob Woodward has reported it, and they know it themselves anyway.
Not one of them is challenging him on it, and not one of them will.
And he's using his usual straw dogs, every economist, all economists, the consensus of economists agree.
He's talking about all the people are going to suffer greatly, but that most people won't.
It's just as I say, it it I've I I've seldom seen a more self-absorbed codependent individual in utter denial.
We're dealing with somebody that in his mind is totally blameless.
He used the line again, look to the press.
I know you'd like me to just do this with a wave of my hand, but I'm not a dictator.
You know, I just I can't I can't tell John Boehner, I can't tell the Secret Service to close the door and tell Boehner he can't leave.
I can't do this myself.
I'm not a dictator.
I uh Boehner walks out on me.
And I I can't tell the Secret Service just close the door and let him and make sure he can't leave.
I'm not a dictator.
He is mentioning that with much greater frequency.
I thought we'd take maybe one or percent, one or two percent fewer calls today.
See if uh anybody notices a difference in a show.
Instead of tying half my brain behind my back to make it fair, forty-eight percent of my brain tied behind my back to make it fair.
See if anybody notices the uh the difference.
McDonald's, I understand, is uh selling one and a half percent fewer fries with each order.
No, no, I'm just joking.
They're not do Lord Gush calls to 911 now.
I'm not just kidding.
I totally made that up.
It was a poor joke.
Uh oh yeah, 911 911 will answer.
I mean, everybody associated with recording the details of a crisis is on duty.
Everybody that has anything to do with chronicling the crisis is on duty.
Yeah, yeah.
That's how they're gonna.
Obama's Obama is already astroturfing this man.
He said, in it he just finished.
And I'll take a break and we'll come back here, but I've finished this Woodward thing in here a minute, but he just he said he was confident that the Republicans would come around after they hear from all the people who were being negatively impacted.
He's confident of that.
He's confident that after the Republicans hear from all the people around the country that are losing their jobs and losing their paychecks that they'll come around.
Now we know that Obama is already bombarding Congress with organizing for action.
That's a new name of his campaign website.
They're astroturfing.
They're already tweeting.
They are spamming via email and Twitter.
They've got one person sending out thousands of messages using different accounts and many names, and they're spamming Congress right now.
It's artificial.
For every 10,000 messages they get, probably three people, ten people responsible for sending them.
That's Google taught them this.
Eric Schmidt and Google worked with the regime during the campaign to high tech them up.
So anyway.
Current TV, the young what I was gonna say, the GOP is helping Al Jazeera lobby the FCC for approval.
GOP lobbyists are helping Al Jazeera get FCC approval on the sale of Al Jazeera or current TV, Gore's Network Alger.
I read that right before the show started.
Because they're being paid.
Because they're being paid.
So anyway, the host here, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings, is talking with the host Cink Uger.
You're said Woodward is such a great microcosm of the media in Washington.
He went from challenging the government to being uh like a spokesperson for the establishment.
And that right there in a nutshell is exactly what happened to the Washington media between the 70s and now.
He does hold all these guys' secrets.
The reason Woodward doesn't feel totally threatened, because he knows the dirt about all these people too.
He's like a J. Edgar Hoover type, right?
I mean, there are people waiting for Woodward to die so they can dish stuff on him that they're too afraid to say now.
People are waiting for Woodward to die.
Like deep throat had to die for all the dirt to be dished.
People are waiting.
People don't like Woodward.
This is what we're hearing.
The media doesn't like him at all.
They resent him.
By the way, I believe this.
I now believe that instead of all this respect and awe and reverence for Woodward.
I think these people are just like anybody else in human nature.
They are jealous.
They're angry.
They think Woodward hasn't earned this status.
He doesn't really deserve it.
He wouldn't have been anything if it wouldn't have been for Ben Bradley allowing him to do the story and Catherine.
You know how people are around successful people.
The successful really didn't do it on their own.
They had help.
Somebody paved the way, somebody greased the skids.
And there's always resentment for people at the top.
There is always resentment.
And people run around saying they didn't do it on their own.
They're not that good.
It's the way people make themselves feel better.
So apparently, rather than this awe and reverence and respect for Woodward, there is the usual collection of human beings engaging in human nature.
They're jealous, they're envious.
They're resentful.
And they're also afraid of him.
But when he dies, they can't wait to dish.
And here is a story at the website Gawker.
Now, Gawker, in some people's minds, I happen to like the Gawker guys.
I think they're funny.
They hate me.
They literally despise me.
They're largely a bunch of gay guys.
And they routinely laugh at and make fun of me.
I just laugh.
I I just I don't know.
I just like the Gawkers.
It's strange.
I can't really explain.
It's not that I really like them.
It's just, you know, I understand their game.
But a lot of people think the Gawker guys are the biggest dirtbag website on the media.
A lot of people think that about Gawker.
Now, that's not me, but I'm just telling you, and the Gawker website has a piece, Goodbye Bob, and it is a long piece.
And they're slum sliming Bob Woodward here as unreliable.
All of these things I just described to you, all these things about human nature, there's resentment, this dislike, this hatred.
And the picture they've got they've photoshopped Woodward on Meet the Press.
Here, let me zoom in.
I'm going to zoom in the diddle cam and show you.
Hang on a minute, folks, while I zoom in.
They got the Photoshop Woodward here and made him out.
This is at the Gauger website.
This is how they've got him.
Can you see that?
Do I need to zoom in a little tighter?
I can zoom in.
That's Ed Gawker making a clear.
You just, I mean, can you imagine a month ago anybody portraying Bob Woodward that way?
That's the Gawker website.
That's the Photoshop of his uh to be Bozo the Clown.
Big clown nose, white face, sad red lips, and so forth.
So it's fascinating to watch all this.
So I tell a joke yesterday.
Well, they'll take care of Woodward at death panels, and lo and behold, in less than 24 hours, the media admits that they everybody in there can't wait for him to die so they can dish the dirt on the guy.
Okay, Obama has finished, and I want to get to this sequester story that we remembered, and we went back to our archives last October.
Do you remember that Obama in the uh in the heat of the presidential campaign, and during the period of time the presidential debates were going on, Obama granted an interview to the Des Moines Register and then put a hold on it.
Granted an interview and then refused to let them run it.
This, of course, created a lot of curiosity.
What's in this?
And I thought something about that kept gnawing at me.
There was something in that that would be relevant to what we're doing today.
And lo and behold, there is.
Now, two weeks before the election, Obama went on TV in the last presidential debate, October 22nd.
And basically, he lied.
He said that he didn't want the sequester to happen.
This was in a debate with Romney.
I'm sure you remember this as I refresh your synapses, as it were.
He didn't want the sequester to happen.
And he said, in fact, it wouldn't happen.
And he accused the Republicans of creating the sequester.
And when you go back and look at this interview that he gave to the Des Moines Register, that's how you know that he's lying somewhere.
He either lied to the Des Moines Register or he lied in the presidential debate.
In the debate, again, October 22nd, 2012, Obama said he didn't want the sequester and it wouldn't happen.
The very next day, October 23rd, 2012, is when Obama gave an interview to the editors of the Des Moines Register.
And in that interview, I want to quote what Obama said.
The good news is that there's going to be a forcing mechanism to deal with what is the central ideological argument in Washington right now, and that is how much government do we have and how do we pay for it.
And I want you to listen to what comes next.
This is in quotes.
So when you combine the Bush tax cuts expiring and the sequester in place, we're going to be in a position where I believe in the first six months, we're going to solve that big piece of business.
It'll be messy, it won't be pleasant.
I'm absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of a grand bargain.
He was counting on the sequester being reality.
Now, I overstated it when I said bombshell.
It's bombshell to me, but I realize it didn't do anybody else, and it certainly isn't to anybody that matters, and the people that matter, are the people we're trying to persuade.
The people that matter the low information voters, and I so I probably gave this a bit too much weight.
Although for you and me, this is hugely important and uh worth a lot, because it does establish that what we think about Obama is actually true.
So I want to go through this again because it's it's fundamental to understand that the press conference today and everything he said leading up to this is just it isn't true.
It's it's I don't know.
I it's narcissistic, it's it's self-indulgent, uh blameless.
I I've I've never seen this kind of self-absorption.
I I I've this this what it's uncanny.
This president stands up there today and he enjoys folks reciting the kind of pain Americans are going to feel.
Now he does it in a way that blames the Republicans for it.
He's not he's the leader of the country.
He is supposed to be doing things to prevent all of this.
And yet not only is he not doing things to prevent it, he is encouraging these kinds of hurtful, harmful things to happen, so he can blame the Republicans for it.
The ultimate objective is to just eliminate them as a viable political opposition, but he benefits politically, career-wise, he benefits from this pain.
He benefits from it so long as people blame everybody but him.
So we're getting the opposite of leadership.
There is no real concern for people and their lives.
That's fiend.
So let me go through this again.
In the debate on October 22nd, 2012, Obama said, and he was responding, by the way, to criticism from Romney.
Romney was saying in the debate that American national security is at risk if the defense cuts are triggered in early January, and then because of the sequester.
And Obama responded, first of all, the sequester's not something I proposed, it's something that Congress proposed.
And then he said it will not happen.
Well, we all know he did propose it.
That doesn't matter.
That's what you and I have got to learn to accept.
It doesn't matter to anybody that he proposed it, but you and I, for our own sanity.
It does matter in that regard.
It does matter that we know and can tell people that he's lying about this.
He proposed the sequester, and Woodward reported that, And that's one of the two reasons why Woodward taken to the woodshed, so to speak, by the regime.
And after saying, first of all, the sequester will not happen, not something I proposed, it's something Congress proposed, he said, it will not happen.
And then he went on to claim further, it will not happen.
The budget that we're talking about is not reducing our military spending, it's maintaining it.
The very next day, folks, Obama did that interview with the editors of the Des Moines Register, and he told them a completely different story.
And in that interview, he praised the sequester.
And he said that the sequester, in combination with the end of the Bush tax cuts, would be the equivalent of the grand bargain he'd been offering the Republicans when it came to the fiscal cliff at the end of the year.
The grand bargain is what they've always wanted.
Big sweeping agreement that dealt with many things that would repel our nation forward without having to go through another crisis in 90 days.
The grand bargain.
Well, the real grand bargain was eluding him because the Republicans are not cooperating.
So Obama told the editors at the Des Moines Register, and I again, let me just set this up.
In the debate, October 22nd, he denied that he had anything to do with the sequester, and then he assured people, and I remember seeing this in the debate, he assured people sequester will not happen.
Very important that you remember that.
Next day, interview editors, Des Moines Register.
By the way, and this is the when it was learned that he would not let them print this.
And remember the editors of the Des Moines Register were agonizing over this.
Should they accede to the president's wishes?
Stay in his good graces, or should they follow their journalistic instincts and print it anyway?
They had news there.
And this went on for a week, if I recall.
And people were saying, well, why even do the interview if you're not going to have it published?
Why grant the interview if you're not going to publish what the president says?
We all know the answer to that.
The press is going to circle the wagons, protect Obama as they would any of themselves.
So in the debate, I had nothing to do with sequester, and it isn't going to happen.
The next day, October 23rd, in the interview of the Des Moines Register editors, Obama said, quote, the good news is that there's going to be a forcing mechanism to deal with what is the central ideological argument in Washington right now, and that is how much government do we have and how do we pay for it?
So, and this is the this is the money part of the quote when you combine the Bush tax cuts expiring, the sequester in place, we're going to be in a position where I believe in the first six months, we're going to solve that big piece of business.
It'll probably be messy.
It won't be pleasant, but I'm absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I've been offering to the Republicans for a very long time.
Now Obama demanded that the Des Poine Register not publish this interview.
The reason was that it was thought at the time that Obama was embarrassed by having openly begged them to endorse his re-election.
And people were wondering maybe they weren't going to endorse him.
And he had begged them, and maybe that's what maybe it was an anti-Obama piece coming and he was trying to keep hidden.
But now we know what it was.
The reason why Obama didn't want this interview published.
And I don't know why he told them what he told them, but one sidedist can't both these things can't be true.
One of these has to be a lie.
Either what he said in the debate's a lie or what he told the Des Moines Register is a lie.
I happen to think that he meant what he said to the Des Moines Register, grand margin he wants.
So he tells these editors, look, we're going to have the Bush tax cuts expire.
That's more revenue.
And then the sequester is going to be in place.
That's big defense cuts.
Oh man, I'm in fat city.
That's my grand bargain.
So not only did he want the sequester last October in an interview, he was counting it as a good thing and selling it as a good thing to people he thought were friendly journalists.
Now you contrast that with anything you've heard him say the last month, the last two weeks.
This sequester is Armageddon.
This sequester is the worst thing could ever happen.
It's Republicans' idea, it's Boehner's idea.
This sequester means no cops, no firefighters.
It means no first responders at all, means no military, means no military workers.
We got to keep an aircraft carrier in port.
Uh no meat inspections.
I mean, you know the list.
But last October in the Des Moines Register, Obama was calculating life with the sequester, and he was counting the ways it would be good.
No one on the media has called him on this.
I don't know.
I told Snerdley today, I wonder if the people at the Des Moines Register even remember that they have this interview.
And if they don't remember, and now they do, I wonder if they'll go back and reference their interview in context with the debate on the sequester as it's taking place today.
Because we've got Jekyll and Hyde going on here.
Now I'll tell you what I think.
I think Obama wants the sequester from day one.
I think he wants new taxes.
I I folks, there's a thing I learned about health care today.
Some of you in small business may have already known it.
You know, the requirement, the cutoff for having to provide health care insurance for your employees, is a business where there are 50 employees.
It turns out, let's say that you are a small businessman and you own three little businesses, and you've decided, okay, I'm going to keep every one of those businesses under 50 employees so that I don't have to do mandated health insurance coverage.
Guess what?
For the purposes of Obamacare, your three small businesses, or four, however many you have, can be added.
So if you got 10 employees in one, twenty five employees in another, and seventeen employees in another, guess what?
You're over the limit of 50 because as far as Obamacare is concerned, your businesses are counted as one when they add up your employees.
Now you thought every business has its own tax ID number.
Every business has its own tax report.
Every business has its own separate entity.
But when it comes to Obamacare, no, no, no, if you've got three or more business or two, and the total number of employees you have is over 50, then you are subject to the requirements in Obamacare, even if your businesses do not have 50 employees individually.
This has never been done before.
And there are small business people now just learning this.
So my theory here is I think Obama's loving this.
I think he's wanted the sequester all along.
He knows he gets away with blaming the Republicans for it and for everything else.
This explains why Obama vowed to veto any effort to avert the sequester.
And don't forget, yesterday and the day before the Senate, in an effort to tie Obama to the sequester, actually passed a bill that would give him total authority on what to Cut in the sequester would give him, in effect, dictatorial power over what to cut.
Obama promised to veto it.
And a lot of media analysts are misunderstanding why.
A lot of media analysts are saying this just shows that Obama's not serious, and they couldn't be more wrong.
Obama is dead serious.
The strategy here is not to govern.
He is very serious about not governing.
He's not cavalier, he's not lazy.
He's executing a strategy meant to give him both the House and the Senate.
That's why he has vetoed any attempt to avert the sequester.
He has vetoed an attempt to give him total authority over spending cuts.
Because none of this is going to be his fault.
He's not going to attach his name to it.
He's not going to do anything that will help anybody shift the blame from the Republicans to him.
Okay.
We know now Obama has gotten everything he wanted.
He got his tax increases and he got the sequester.
He still wants to blame the Republicans for it.
This is the limbaugh theorem personified.
This is it right here.
He's got everything he wants, and he didn't do any of it.
The Republicans are doing all this dirty mean stuff.
I gotta take a break as I'm way long.
Sit tight, we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Making the complex understandable.
Rush Limbaugh, explaining the limbaugh theorem.
Even while others continue to struggle to grasp it, even though it's as simple as pie.
Here is President Obama from the press conference this morning, and this is blaming the Republicans for all of this.
Let's be clear.
None of this is necessary.
It's happening because a choice that Republicans in Congress have made.
They've allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit.
As recently as yesterday, they decided to protect special interest tax breaks for the well-off and the well-connected.
And they think that that's apparently more important than protecting our military or middle-class families from the pain of these cuts.
I mean, folks, that's pathological.
That's self-absorbed...
None of that's true.
We got a brief time out.
We'll come back, and it's open line Friday, and that means that we try to take more phone calls than uh we do Monday through Thursday.
Already blown that, at least the first hour, always try to take at least one call in the first hour, and I've blown that.
But we got a lot to do here today.
It's not going to be this normal, just crisis free afternoon or day.
We're loaded here, and we'll come back with all the rest of it after this.
No, we barely scratched the surface here.
But I do uh we've got more on Bob Woodward and and what the media really think of the guy inside the beltway.
I don't know.
I'm fascinated by this stuff.
Human nature fascinates me, and and now we're learning, even people think that Watergate never even really happened.
Some the some of the stuff at the Gawker story on Woodward is that we can't even trust that Woodward got that right.
That that Ben Bradley is the guy that we needed to ask if really it was reported as truthful.
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