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April 30, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here, folks.
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I'm actually glad this guy called.
This guy, he hung up.
He was uh guy named John from Chicago.
Snerdley told me he was really ticked off.
He um he wasn't very happy.
He was angry that I had linked Bill Clinton's immoral behavior with Monica Lewinsky with Jason Collins.
And folks, those of you who are regular listeners here know how to listen to this program and you understand context, and plus you're not knee jerk, you're intelligent, and you know exactly what I was saying.
But this guy, I I wonder this guy, John, is typical of practically every knee-jerk reactionary liberal listening to this program, either purposely misunderstood in order to call here and try to mischaracterize, or else didn't get it.
My point was very simple.
If a celebrity's private life is so important, why didn't we celebrate Clinton's serial adulteries and his sex with interns?
When Clinton's sex came along, as his sex life, and it was defended.
Nobody said it was immoral, John.
The people on the left said it was no big deal.
None of our business.
We shouldn't pay any attention to it.
Didn't affect Clinton's job, didn't affect his leadership, didn't distract him.
The sex pervert was Ken Starr.
Everybody concerned about whether or not Clinton had lied under oath about it to a grand jury was a sex pervert.
The Clinton team had a search and destroy mission, and they targeted anybody who tried to say that what Clinton did as president in the Oval Office was immoral.
The left would not admit that Clinton did anything wrong.
The left didn't say that what he did was immoral.
They said it wasn't any big deal.
And in fact, they said it wasn't even sex, if I remember.
That wasn't sex.
I never had sex a single time.
That woman, I didn't have that, that wasn't sex.
You can't say that sex.
All right, then what's the big deal?
My point, John, and the rest of you, is that Jason Collins comes out and we're supposed to take note and we're supposed to celebrate, and we're supposed to make a big deal of it, and we're supposed to say, what a great country, and we're supposed to all acknowledge this is the biggest thing that happened in America yesterday.
But when Bill Clinton engages in private sex, and people find it a little problematic, nothing to see here, shut up.
I think it's clear what I was doing.
I was pointing out the hypocrisy, as I always do on this program of the Democrats, the hypocrisy of the media, the hypocrisy of the left.
I wasn't equating anything other than media treatment.
Pure politics, John, and all the rest of you who wanted to hear me say what you thought and hoped I'd said, but I didn't say.
Pure politics, and Bill Roden gave up the ghost.
Bill Roden grabs soundbite number four.
Let him say it.
He's African American, he's a columnist at the New York Times, and Nora O'Donnell was terribly worried that Jason Collins may never work in the NBA again because it came out.
And because he's 36, and because he scores 1.1 points a game, because he's not a starter, because he played in six games last season.
Six.
The NBA has an 82-game regular schedule.
He played in six of them.
Well, Norrell O'Donnell, Very, very worried that Jason might not get a gig.
So unfair.
Right now, I think they're great because all of a sudden now it's become a political thing.
Where he may not have been had a job, but I think now it's almost like you know what, some team, I think David Stern is going to get involved in this.
He's got to be playing somewhere next year.
Got to be playing somewhere next year.
He got to be.
It's political.
Which was my only point, John.
I wasn't equating what Clinton did with what ever Jason Collins is.
I'm simply talking about the inconsistent, hypocritical media treatment of this.
And I'm just saying if if somebody's sex life is so defining and so important that it has to lead the news and be all over every internet website, then why wasn't Clinton's?
Why did they go to great lengths to hide that and to shut everybody up?
And everybody who wanted to talk about it was a sex pervert.
You people on the left, you know, you've had it too easy.
You get it every way you want it every time.
Well, you can't have it all three ways all the time.
At least not on this program.
Despite what you want.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Here's a montage.
Media was hyperventilating yesterday over the fact that Obama called Jason Collins.
And remember, there are a lot of things going on in this country.
North Korea is detaining a U.S. citizen.
We are still trying to track down who, what, when, where, why, and what does it mean for the future in Boston.
We have perhaps chemical weapons being used in Syria.
We've got the Iranians nuking up.
We have a cover-up going on involving the Benghazi consulate murders.
We've got a disaster being implemented in the name of Obamacare.
We've got people actually talking about amnesty for anywhere from 11 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country.
And on all those items, we get zip zero nada out of Bill Clinton.
But Jason Collins goes to Facebook and says he's gay.
And that's when the president gets into gear.
That's when Barack Obama picked up the phone.
President Obama did call Jason Collins today and offer his support.
We've just learned that President Obama called Collins to offer his support and congratulations on his courage.
The president called Jason Collins to express his support and said he was impressed by his courage.
A phone call from the President of the United States.
President Obama called Jason Collins and congratulated him.
It was a conversation joined almost immediately by President Obama, who phoned Collins today to congratulate him.
Late today we learned that President Obama called Collins directly to express his support.
Now let's button this up, okay?
We've been talking about this for about an hour.
Let me button this up and explain this to you.
You probably already know it.
It makes a point that I have been emphasizing in recent days.
That point is that there really isn't any news anymore.
The media is not about news.
They don't stand on the street corner, see what's happening there, and then tell those of us who weren't there what happened.
The media today is an extension of the Democrat Party, and it exists to advance the Democrat Party's agenda, the worldwide left agenda, the Obama agenda.
That's what its purpose is.
And part and parcel of that is defeating us.
The left, when Bill Roden says it's Politics.
What's the politics?
The politics is defeating us, conservatives, republicans, whatever.
The politics is ramming it down our throats.
The politics is telling us to go to hell.
And that's what this is.
They've got an NBA player who came out and said he's gay.
And so the true motivation for this is to say to the conservatives of this country and the Republicans of this country, you are losing.
Your old fashioned beaver and cleaver, Donna Reed world is finished.
We have taken over.
Whatever we want is what's going to happen.
Whatever we say is what's going to happen.
And you old fashioned footy duddies, your day is done, and we couldn't be happier.
That's what the guy coming out as gay means, and that's it.
It's not even about him.
They couldn't care less about him.
When you get down to brass tax, this is nothing more than a grand opportunity for them to tell us you're losing.
Your version of morality is finished.
Your bigotry, your hatred, your homophobia.
Screw you.
We're running the show now.
Look at what's happening here.
You can't stop it.
That's what they're happy about.
That's why it leads the news.
Because the happiest moment for any liberal in any day is when they can laud their victories in their minds, their victories over us and our defeats over us.
And they look, believe me, as a professional athlete coming out as gay.
They think that is a huge defeat for us.
And a big win for them.
That's all this is.
That's what everything in the news is.
That's what the purpose of the White House correspondence is.
You know what the real purpose of the White House Correspondence Dinner?
That was nothing more than a victory party for the Obama campaign team.
That's all it was.
The White House Correspondence Dinner is yet another opportunity for them to ram it down our throats.
That's what makes them happy.
So that's what this is all about.
And when Bill Roden says it's become a political thing.
What else could it mean?
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Now, I real folks, I'm I'm I'm gonna step in it here.
I could easily not say this and avoid a lot of trouble, but I'm gonna go ahead and say it.
We're losing our language.
Words mean things.
And the way we're defining courage is kind of curious to me.
A pro-basketball player announcing that he likes to have sex with other men.
In my book, in a comparative sense, not courageous, when compared, say to a whistleblower trying to set the record straight about what happened in Benghazi.
Now that's courage because that's taking on the oppressive power structure of this entire country.
There are people, there are whistleblowers, there are people who are trying to blow the whistle of what happened in Benghazi.
We still don't have the answers.
We have a dead ambassador and three other Americans, and there has yet to be a satisfactory explanation.
How in the world did this happen?
All we've been told is that that some renegade filmmaker who's now in jail ginned up a lot of anger, and that caused.
We know that's not true.
Now, when you're trying to blow the whistle on an administration, that to me is courage.
To the audio sound bites.
Last night on Fox Special Report, their correspondent Adam Housley interviewed an unidentified special operator.
Face was blacked out, voice changed for the interview about the attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
And during the interview, the special operators said this about the attack.
I know for a fact that C-11, the UCOM CIF, was doing a training exercise, not in the in the region of Northern Africa, but in Europe.
And they had the ability to react and respond.
We had the ability to load out, get on birds, and fly there at a minimum stage.
C-10 had the ability to be there, in my opinion, four to six hours from their European theater to react.
Now this is courage.
Now I know some of you liberals say, not courage, that's the coward.
He's a coward with the limbo.
He won't put his faith on TV, he will not let anybody see with the hide behind a mess.
That's not courage.
This guy is daring to speak out.
And he knows that if the regime really wants to, they can find out who he is.
Mr. Newcastrati, if you don't think this is courage, you don't know what courage is.
Four Americans dead, an ambassador.
Unnecessarily.
And there was no effort to help them.
And we haven't been told why yet.
And the news from the regime still is nothing to see here.
Adam Housley then asked this special operator, unidentified.
They would have been there before the second attack then.
Four to six hours, they could have got there before the second attack.
They would have been there before the second attack.
They would have been there at a minimum to provide a quick reaction force that could facilitate their exfil out of the uh problem uh situation.
Nobody knew how it was going to develop.
And you hear a whole bunch of people and a whole bunch of advisors say, hey, we wouldn't have sent them there because you know the security was an unknown situation.
At a minimum, you send forces there to facilitate the ex-fill or medical injuries.
We could have said a C-130 of Benghazi to provide medical evacuation for the injured.
That's exactly right.
Since when does the U.S. military not go someplace because it's dangerous?
You embarrass them.
Well, it was uh no winds.
I couldn't send the military too dangerous.
There was uh people shooting guns at that thing.
We couldn't send a military in there.
And here's somebody said, we could have got we could at least send a medical evacuation there.
Send a C-130 with medical personnel to evacuate the injured, we could have at least done that, and we could have disguised that as an operational task force.
Housley and said, So you you say many connected to Benghazi feel threatened and are afraid to talk.
So far, confidential sources have fed some information, but nobody's come forward publicly on camera until now.
The problem is, you know, you got guys in my position, you got guys in special operations community who were still active and still involved, and they would be decapitated if if they came forward with information that could affect high-level commanders.
And yet this guy is doing it.
Now that to me is courage.
And may I remind everyone, Barack Obama never made a single phone call about Benghazi.
After he was first briefed on this at five o'clock, what we have been told is that he told Hillary and Leon Panetta, okay, you guys handle it.
And he's off the grid until eight hours later.
That's the real question.
Nobody knows where Obama was.
He was off the grid.
He was not reachable, or at least as far as the people involved, telling you, don't try.
I'm nobody knows what he's doing.
What if it eventuated he was out shooting hoops?
Just didn't want to be bothered.
What if he just got playing basketball?
Maybe somewhere on a driving range or putting or whatever.
And just didn't want to be bothered.
Told Hillary and Panetta, you guys handle it.
He didn't make one phone call, folks.
He didn't make a single phone call to find out when everything started falling apart, he didn't know.
Under orders not to be told.
But as Scott Pelley pointed out, President Barack Obama yesterday phonens, the first player in the NBA to ever publicly come out and announce he was gay.
Not one phone call on Benghazi.
Now I could be snarky, and I could say maybe if some of the personnel in Ghazi had been gay, maybe he would have called, been more involved.
But I don't really want to say that.
I'm saying I could.
I got an opportunity to have said that really made a point, but that's really not what we're talking about here.
We're losing our language in all kinds of ways.
People doing courageous things are ignored or laughed at or impugned, insulted, and others who aren't engaging in courage are heralded as the bravest among us.
It's actually a sad thing.
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Martina Navretilova last night was on Piers Morgan Live on the CNN.
And she was uh talking about Jason Collins.
The NBA's Washington Wizards announcement that he is gay.
And Piers Morgan said, must have brought back a lot of memories for you, Martina, but under very different circumstances.
Yeah, slightly different.
I didn't get a phone call from Ronald Reagan.
You know, when I came out, of course, that was 32 years ago, and times are much different than the press was roasting me.
It was not a pretty side.
And Reagan didn't call her.
See?
Reagan didn't care.
Here's Mark in Tallahassee.
Mark, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you for taking a chance on uh allow me excellence in broadcasting.
I have a question for you, being the astute political uh commentator that you are.
Could you explain to me why uh Tiger Woods has not gotten a congratulatory phone call when his sexual orientation came out?
That's promiscuity.
Um I'm not sure I understand this.
Why hasn't Tiger Woods gotten a congratulator congratulatory phone call from the president?
Yes, sir.
When his sexual orientation came, you're saying his sexual orientation is promiscuity?
Yes, sir.
And why did he get a phone call?
Why this is uh that came out on one of the things.
Okay, I'll look at I'll I'll answer the question.
You know, this is folks, this is a great example of snerdly taking a call, trying to stir things up.
This is this is snerdly trying to whip me into a frenzy.
Tell you what, here's the answer to this question.
The reason Obama didn't call Tiger Woods, the reason why we were supposed to shut up about Bill Clinton is that sexual promiscuity in the heterosexual community is there's nothing politically to be gained by advancing it.
The The militant gay community is a lot of money.
They donate almost exclusively to the Democrat Party.
In fact, I expected Obama today to open that presser with Jason Collins.
And I wouldn't have been surprised if he would have said we need to name April 29th Jason Collins Day.
Because to somebody Obama, it's all about money.
It's all about generating campaign contribution, which he's doing.
They still have their campaign organization up and running.
Again, the limbaugh theorem.
But there's no political advantage in promiscuity yet.
And so the Democrats can't make any hay out of uh out of that.
They haven't gotten to their point where they want to defend that or promote that.
Other than, you know, here again we're drawn back to Clinton.
Now, what when when Clinton, you would clearly have to say it was promiscuous.
And this was my point earlier when Clinton's story came up.
Nothing to see here.
Don't talk about it.
If you're interested in this, you're pervert, that affect his job.
Well, they just sex and everybody does it.
All of these things were advanced to defend Clinton, but more than that, those were not, and look at this a crucial point.
Those were not just defenses of Clinton, those were attacks.
The left looks at people like you and me as Victorians, as Quakers, as Puritans, as really old fashioned, everybody's a virginal to get married types.
They think that's what we want to inflict on everybody.
They think we want to wipe out sex.
They think we want to ban it.
They think we want to ban alcohol, everything.
That's what they think.
They think that we are judgmental of everything they do.
And so any time any renegade activity that they think really offends us happens, they are happy when whoever it is gets away with it, or when whoever engages in it is not condemned for it.
Everything with them is political.
Everything.
We're all priests.
I don't know how else to describe it.
They think that we're all sitting around wearing chastity belts and taking notes and taking names on people having sex and cursing and all that, and that we're going to report straight to God on it so that these people all go to hell.
Besides, Obama didn't have to call Tiger Woods.
He'd play golf with him.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away.
There's a story today.
Along the lines of what we've been discussing here.
There's a story about a female student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who dressed up as the Pope.
Except she would neck it in EKKID, necked from the waist down.
Isn't that cute?
She was handing out condoms.
And she had shaved her nether regions in the shape of a cross.
They don't know nether regions in real lindo.
That's why I can say this.
That's diversity.
That's tolerance.
But what it's meant to do is shock and repulse you and me for being so backward and judgmental in our thinking.
It's from the CBS Pittsburgh affiliate, KDKA, eyeball news too, CMU Carnegie Mellon University parade controversy over naked woman dressed as Pope.
Students at Carnegie Mellon say it's freedom of expression.
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh calls it inappropriate and disrespectful.
It was an annual art screw parade.
Female student dressed up as the Pope, necked from the waist down while she passed out condoms.
Shaved her in other regions in the shape of a cross.
All of that, all that's just in our face.
That's all that is, because we are so old fashioned.
We're boring dry balls.
And we don't want anybody to have any fun.
They couldn't be further from the truth.
But that's that's that's why all this stuff is done.
And all of it's considered a victory.
Political victory over us.
Here's Nick in Port St. Lucy, Florida.
Hi, Nick.
Great to have you on.
I'm fine, sir.
How are you?
Great, thanks.
On television today, the president was speaking about the sequester at his news conference.
And uh one of the things he had used as a reason why he's not getting the job done, he said, These guys in Congress, you elected them.
You know, they're not getting it done.
So, you know, basically uh I can't get it done.
A true executive would sit down, lead them to decide, and say, okay, everybody, we've got five options on the table, pick two.
And everybody who's elected from the states should represent the states, so they should know how their states feel and should be able to sit down and vote.
But the president has to sit down, and his job is to say, let's get this done.
No, it's not.
Which ones are you doing?
Bob, which ones are you doing?
Mary, which ones are you taking?
No, no, no, no, no.
That's the presidents used to do that kind of thing.
That's not what the sequester was supposed to happen, and it was supposed to be devastating, and the message was supposed to be sent that the government cannot ever experience even a dime's worth of a budget cut because the sequester happened, disaster didn't happen.
So the regime decided to take matters into their own hands, and they cancel the White House tours, almost cancel the White House Easter egg roll, and they started monkeying around with with the uh the flight controllers, traffic controllers to effect flight delays.
They had to take specific action to punish the American people, specific action to cause this havoc.
Obama did want to solve this.
He wants this to happen, Nick.
Yeah, I I agree.
This president's just the Republicans blamed for it.
He doesn't want any fingerprints on it.
And that's why he said what he said to him.
Well, I I agree with you a hundred percent.
I think that this president really gets excited on non-consequential matters.
Things that don't have any consequences, where he can all of a sudden spring to life and talk about somebody's homosexuality.
Who cares?
Who cares?
Nobody does.
They think we do.
Right.
But he uses this as a uh push the agenda forward.
Yeah, when you say inconsequential, moving flight controllers around to create traffic delays in the air traffic control.
That had consequences.
But he a lot he he permitted that to happen, or uh adjusted that to happen.
When I'm saying non-consequential, if he sits if he doesn't do the the budget, it's not consequence because of him, his budget, it's well, the Congress, you elected these people.
It's their fault.
No, they're not doing their job.
I can't do anything.
That's exactly right.
You you have just explained in your own way the limbaugh theorem.
Which is a whatever happens, you got nothing to do with it.
It's not his policies.
He's trying to stop all this.
He's trying to make the planes fly on time, land and arrive on time.
He's he desperately wants those White House tours back open again.
He does but you elected these these jerks in Congress and they're screwing everything up and he's working real hard to try to fix it, but they're just a bunch of blockheads.
The uh the limbaugh theorem was proved in Obama's press conference today.
Eve even the politico noticed.
Even the political, the political Obama on why he wouldn't veto FAA bill.
Quote GOP would have blamed me for flight delays.
So he said the reason he didn't do anything about it because he didn't want to get blamed.
The Republic is going to blame me, so why should I do anything?
Limbaugh theorem.
His fingerprints can't appear on the he cannot appear to be governing.
He cannot appear to have ownership over any thing going wrong in the country.
That's why he answered the question as you spelled out.
This is AJ San Francisco.
AJ, thank you for holding.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yes, I have a question, Russia.
And you said that if the GOP passed the immigration law at the end of the GOP, they'd be dead.
Marco Rubio is a true conservative, and basically we should still support him.
So my question to you is how can we support somebody who is sponsoring a bill that will kill the GLP?
Well, I I don't think that's what he thinks he's doing.
Uh number one, and I you know, you're putting me in a bit of a binder because I I'll just tell you, I I think I think Senator Rubio is a little naive on the immigration stuff, and I also know that this bill is not intended to pass.
You cannot take that out of the equation.
I'll t I'll tell you something else.
I'm glad you actually got through here, AJ.
I know you thought it was stumped the host day, but you've actually you're gonna help me look really good here, which is the purpose of a caller anyway.
Marco Rubio has so artfully positioned himself on this bill.
It's a gang of eight.
He controls four of them.
Marco Rubio has it within his power to make or break this bill.
Because the Democrats and Chuck Yu Schumer have allowed him to become the face of it.
He has a really really he's he's played this, I think, artfully well.
He's got he's got an opportunity here to demand everything he wants on this and to hold out if he doesn't get it.
Now he's got to do that.
But I think he's in a in a catbird seat if he wants it.
I'm not I'm not saying he does.
I don't know that he's looking at it this way.
This is my interpretation of this from afar, but I think he's in a in a in a pretty decent situation.
The reason I say he's a force look like there's no question this guy is one of the few real conservatives in elected office today, folks.
There's no question about that.
you Marco Rubio has said repeatedly, I've said he's a good person.
He only wants what he thinks is the best for our country.
I don't question secret motives, intentions of the of any deceptive kind where he's concerned.
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