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May 7, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Ah, this is really good.
The one o'clock cigar happened to get lit an hour early, and it's really worth it.
Greetings, everyone, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Here we are, back at it again, three hours at the Excellence and Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a thrill and a delight to be with you.
The telephone numbers 800 28282 and the email address Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I had this story yesterday.
I didn't have a chance to get to it, because it didn't qualify being ranked near the top of the stack.
Bloomberg reported yesterday that uh former vice president Al Gore now has at least 200 million dollars in the bank.
That's how valuable losing the presidency can be.
Al Gore, New York magazine, in fact, is reporting Al Gore probably richer now than an evil white guy by the name of Romney.
Honestly, he creates a TV network that nobody watched and sells it to the terrorist.
We have 35 seconds before we hit the delay.
Should we let that go or should we?
Now let's take a vote here on this.
We get 30 seconds to decide whether to let that go or to beep it out.
What's that?
Right.
Okay.
Okay.
The vote is to leave it in.
Screw them.
Anyway, but oh, okay, well, we don't have time to bleep it now anyway, so it stays.
It hangs, it's out there.
He has his TV network.
Nobody watched, he sells it.
And uh is he's parlaying this global warming hoax into a huge fortune.
He really now is in the same category as Romney.
I just wonder how much money Al Gore gives to charity compared to uh Mitt Romney.
Obama's nominee to replace Chris Stevens as our ambassador to Libya is a woman named Deborah Kay Jones.
And she accepted.
She told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning that if she ever has any doubts about security as the ambassador to Libya, that she just pick up the phone and call Washington.
Now excuse me, but we have more on this coming up.
Isn't that sort of what happened the last time?
And nobody did anything about it.
Figuratively speaking, the 3 a.m. phone call and nobody did anything.
But she said she'd just pick up the phone and call Washington.
You see, where Obama played golf yesterday, he went out there and the media admitted that Obama's the highest handicapper in his forcement was with three Republican senators, Saxby Chambless, Bob Corker, two Republican senators.
I forget who the fourth was, but they tantamount admitted Obama was the worst golfer in the group.
Saxby Chambless had a hole in one.
Now that's not how you reach across the aisle, especially as somebody as thin-skinned as Obama.
I mean, this just goes here.
You invite Saxby Chambless.
Who let's face it, folks, if it weren't it'd be totally colorless if it weren't for his Vericose veins.
He's out there playing golf with Obama and Bob Corker.
And I mean, even Saxby Chambless, these Republicans will do anything to frustrate Obama.
They'd do anything to make Obama look bad.
A hole in one playing with Obama, which get which captured all the media attention.
Now Chamblus already planning to retire from the Senate next year, so they're probably won't be any uh any Personal retaliation.
Well, I wonder why is Obama playing golf with Republicans that does he not know any gay golfers.
Speaking of athletes, Forbes magazine says that Tim Tebow, they've named Tim Tebow as their top most influential athlete in 2013.
They didn't say whether Thibault was uh good influence or bad influence.
They just said he's the most influential athlete in America today.
And the Thibault's inactive.
He doesn't have a team right now.
But the other three people at the top of the list also don't have a team, they're also inactive.
Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, and Derek Jeter.
Can you believe they left Jason Collins off of this list?
Can you believe that the guy that came out who is getting more coverage than Benghazi?
You know what the two big stories are for the low information crowd today?
Chris Christie had the lap band surgery.
Didn't tell anybody about it.
The doctor went out to his place and did all the uh preliminary work.
He had the lap band surgery, supposedly has lost 40 pounds.
He's going to co-host the Today Show soon coming up.
And that and Jason Collins are the big news stories today.
Not Benghazi, where the hearings are starting tomorrow.
And uh a lot of other stuff.
In fact, let's get to Benghazi.
Let's pick up where we left off yesterday.
Let's go to the audio sound by starting at number nine.
Andrea Mitchell.
Last night on the NBC Nightly News gave a report about the new hearings this week on the Benghazi attacks.
This, of course, the hearings will feature uh testimony by the whistleblowers who say essentially there was a cover-up of what uh really happened.
You'll hear Hillary in this bite.
And in fact, the whole thing is told through the prism of Hillary Clinton and how the Republicans are attacking her.
That's the focus of Andrea Mitchell's report here.
But it's uh I mean, it sounds like she's a hostage here, being forced to read this.
Republicans are gearing up for hearings this week with new State Department witnesses they say will undercut Hillary Clinton's explanation of what went wrong in Benghazi.
House Republicans have released an interview with Gregory Hicks at the time the deputy chief of mission.
Who said he called for military help from four more special forces operatives in Tripoli but was overruled.
For months, Republicans have charged cover-up.
Hillary Clinton took the blame, but also pushed back.
What difference at this point does it make?
It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.
But now House Republicans say they have State Department witnesses who can prove Clinton covered up.
There is an obvious political undercurrent.
Republicans are taking direct aim at Hillary Clinton, the country's most popular Democrat and a possible presidential contender.
Did it sound like Andrea's heart's in that?
I mean, it sounded like she's being forced to read this read.
Like they almost did this in a perfunctory way.
She didn't even have seem to have all that much sympathy for Hillary.
She was just reading it.
As an obvious political undercurrent, Republicans taking direct aim at Hillary Clinton, the country's most popular Democrat and a possible presidential...
She's more popular than Obama.
That's quite a statement.
This morning on Fox News Channel, Fox and Friends, a co-host Brian Kilmead, interviewed a former Secret Service agent, Dan Bongino.
And during a discussion about this new whistleblower testimony on the Benghazi attacks, Kilmeade said, okay, tomorrow there's going to be the testimony, and right away, those people that are coming forward and saying I requested more security, I requested we get some help.
We had assets in the area to help.
Uh once the attack started, it lasted between seven and nine hours, and the help never came.
And their credibility is being questioned today.
I mean, there's really no issue here.
There's only one of two possible scenarios that could have happened.
The first being this is the most incompetent administration in American history and just had no comprehension of the danger on the ground.
Or they did comprehend the danger on the ground and ignored it for political reasons.
Brian, there's no choice C. It's only A or B. That is it.
Talked about This yesterday, folks, we had a guy called this Dan Bongino, by the way, former Secret Service agent on Fox this morning.
We talked to him, we had a call yesterday.
And guys said, Rush, do they not care that four people died?
And I said, No, no, no, no.
They care.
It's not, they didn't want four people to die.
They just said there are things more important to them.
And this guy has it exactly right.
There are two and only two possible scenarios.
The first being that they're just incompetent and don't know what they're doing.
Or they did comprehend the danger on the ground and ignored it for political reasons.
Both of those are true.
You don't have to pick one or the other.
Both of those things are true.
And I'll just repeat this again, and people I think have a tough time of understanding this.
I wish people didn't, because this is the explanation.
They believe, folks, now, not all of them.
There's a you know, every group of leftists are going to have leaders, followers, dolts, dupes, useful idiots, the manipulators, they're all there.
It's not monolithic.
But when you get to people like Obama and everybody in his administration and the suck-ups who were there to make sure he only hears good news, they really believed, don't doubt me on this.
They really believed the world hated this country because of George W. Bush.
They really did.
They thought that the world and terrorists, our enemies, really hated us because of Iraq and because of Afghanistan.
And a certain number of them actually thought that the terrorists on 9-11 were justified because of our policies, that we do provoke these people.
They also believe that when Obama became president, all that hate would vanish.
And it would turn to love and respect once again for the United States.
They believe this stuff about themselves.
So, and then Obama goes to Cairo to try to cement that notion.
Okay, I'm here now, and you can love us again, and you can respect us again, and because we're not going to do anything to provoke you.
We love you.
And that's what it was on his world apology tour shortly after being immaculated.
So then when something like this in Benghazi happens, they're caught flat footed.
It doesn't jibe.
There really is a messianic complex at play here.
And they don't understand it when it happens.
So when the first thing that precipitated in their minds precipitated this was the protests in Cairo.
They think that's what got it all started.
And that was just a bunch of ragtag bunch of uh publicity seekers.
And they blamed that on the video.
And then Benghazi happened a few hours later, and they told themselves, it's just the same bunch of people doing what they were doing, but they were told otherwise by the people on the ground of Libya, and they didn't believe it.
They chose not to believe it.
And if they did believe it, if I'm wrong, then the incompetence explanation comes into play, and they simply didn't know what to do.
But you also cannot ignore the fact that at the time, we had killed bin Laden.
I'm sorry.
Obama had killed bin Laden, was bragging about it, and at the same time was saying that terrorism was over.
That Al-Qaeda was on the run.
We can go back and get you the soundbites if you want.
I mean, he was saying these kind of things.
So politically, after Obama killed Osama, after Al-Qaeda's on the run, after we've beat terrorism back and the world once again loves us, this can't be happening.
I mean, that's a that's a that's a direct repudiation of Obama.
These people supposed to love us now.
These people supposed to leave us alone now because we don't constitute a threat to them anymore, because Bush is gone.
They can't understand that these people hate America, Not because of George Bush.
They hate America because America's what it is.
But they believe, since they hated Bush, and they blame Bush, this is their hubris and ego, that everybody else did too.
And so when this happens, they're genuinely discombobulated.
But the most important thing to them always is their agenda.
And part of the agenda is protecting the good name of and the reputation of liberalism, socialism, whatever you want to call their ideology at all costs.
You want evidence of that?
Dan Rather.
Totally bogus, made up story on Bush and the National Guard.
What'd they do?
They circle the wagons around Dan Rather to protect him.
Now CBS let him go, but Brokaw Jennings had numerous awards dinners for Dan Rather.
They had to protect the news business.
They were not going to allow rather and what he did to soil the entire news business.
So they prop rather up as a means of propping up the news business, journalism, their view of it.
It's no different with Obama and his agenda.
When the agenda takes a hit, it can't be the agenda taking a hit.
It's got to be something else.
It was the video, it was the world hated Bush or what have you.
So this happens, and they were, oh my God, it happened.
They try to ignore it and hope it's not going to be bad.
And some of you might be said, well, why why not defend these people?
That would mean accepting that what was happening was an attack on the United States, and that simply couldn't be happening.
We were loved again.
The terrorists had been tamed.
That's it really is simple.
Something the most simple explanation is the most difficult to believe.
Now they continued lying about Benghazi for two reasons.
Not just to protect Obama's re-election and Obama's agenda, but the Democrat Party's winning in the future, which would mean 2016, which would mean Hillary.
Most of this, when you look back on it, 2020 hindsight, most of this is to protect Hillary.
Because that's where the real ineptitude was.
Obama farmed it all out to the State Department.
And that's where either the incompetent people running that shop, or the lack of comprehension of the danger on the ground combination of two, that's where it was really focused.
Take a brief time out as we continue here, the EIB network, El Rushbo back after this.
Don't go.
Dan Bangino, again on Fox this morning, killed me.
He's the former Secret Service agent who said, look at you either have an incompetent bunch or they didn't comprehend the danger on the ground in Benghazi and ignored it for political reasons.
It's either one of those two.
There's no third option.
And he's right.
So Kilmead said, well, then Secretary of Defense Leon Finetta said, it's not my job to put my guys into an unsettled situation, even if they are special forces.
What's your reaction to that?
Really?
Would they say the same thing for the president?
Don't worry, guys, stand down until we figure out what happened until a body's dragged out of there.
This is a disgrace.
That's a nonsense statement.
You should be embarrassed.
Former Secret Service agent, talking about Leon Panetta, who did say, it's not my job to put my guys into an unsettled situation, even if they are special forces.
Look, folks, it is now abundantly clear this regime wasn't going to do anything about Benghazi.
Before they learned how bad it was, in the middle of it, and when they learned how bad it was, they still weren't going to do anything about it.
Well, my God.
Panetta essentially said, you know, the bad guys are firing guns over there.
There's bullets Flying around.
I'm not going to put my special ops guys in the middle of that.
What are they trained for?
What's the purpose?
So Bangino's right.
Okay, so we just let the dead bodies pile up and then we put them in there.
It's breathtaking.
Speaking go around the world here, folks, under Mrs. Clinton's tenure.
Iran.
North Korea threatening us.
Russia.
You remember that silly red reset button that she had with Putin?
To reset relations with Russia, and she even had the translation of the word reset wrong during that ceremony.
Now the Russians are flying threatening missions near Alaska with their nuclear bombers.
They're taunting us fearlessly, I might add.
All of the regime's excuses for Benghazi moil down to this.
What's all a hubbub about, they're asking?
Nobody could have gotten there on time.
We couldn't have gotten the special ops in there on time.
We couldn't have gotten anybody else in there on time.
Hey, regime people, you had people on the ground who went over there to try to save lives even after being told to stand down.
This idea, their excuses literally do boil down to the fact that nobody could have gotten there on time.
If four people died, three people died trying to save the ambassador.
Three people were they were there that were told to stand down.
Former SEALs, told to stand down, and yet they're they're offering this excuse, nobody could have gotten there in time.
There are lots of problems with that excuse.
One of them is, as I say, there were already people there who were willing to put their lives on the line, and did.
In addition, at the time of the request, nobody knew how long this attack was going to continue.
What do you mean we couldn't get anybody there in time?
And thing went on for nine hours.
Of course we could have gotten people there from Italy.
Besides as Greg Hicks, one of the whistleblowers and others have pointed out, jet fighters could have made it to Benghazi pretty quickly, and their presence might have been enough to scatter the attackers.
Just their presence.
In any case, what would have been the harm in sending in special ops?
Even if they had been too late.
Why do we even have rapid response teams?
If they can't reach someplace in the Middle East within eight hours of the anniversary of 9-11, and if it's one of our consulates.
So these excuses.
These excuses are made for a sympathetic media which is looking for anything they think they can sell.
Well, nobody could have gotten there on time.
Everybody was really working really hard.
Really?
How about Obama's priorities?
He didn't make any calls during this attack on the consulate.
Nobody yet knows where he was.
For what is it?
Five or six hours?
The last anybody heard from Obama was at 5 p.m. on that day.
He didn't make any calls.
He didn't ask anybody to fill him in on anything, but he can't wait to call Jason Collins.
Oh yeah.
Oh, he's all over calling Jason Collins.
And he calls anybody else that he thinks the right is sticking it to.
So he can be shown standing up for them.
But when it comes to making a call of inquiry to stand up for his own military personnel at a consulate, he was nowhere to be found.
Now at some point, folks, this stuff catches up with the president.
At some point, even amongst low information people, this kind of stuff, these little things start catching up.
And it's obvious that Obama's priorities are disastrous.
It could well be that Obama himself is among the low information voters.
He could be one of them.
It's like Mr. Bangino said, where's the competence?
I haven't seen a lot of competence.
Frankly.
If you want to know the truth.
Obama has yet to demonstrate that he is particularly smart or competent and things that matter.
He certainly doesn't learn from history or his own mistakes.
I mean, how smart do you have to be?
How informed do you have to be to be a committed leftist?
You don't have to be smart at all.
You have to be a follower.
How informed do you have to be all you do is follow a certain course stubbornly, nothing else matters.
Liberalism is not an intellectual pursuit.
Liberalism isn't taught intellectually.
Liberals who manipulate others into following them don't do so intellectually.
There's no great.
I've often said that liberalism is the easiest, most gutless choice anybody can make.
Liberalism is faux compassion, faux concern, faux caring, and hatred of conservatives.
And that's it.
It's like global warming.
Facts do not matter.
In fact, facts get in the way of liberalism.
Facts blow liberalism to smithereens.
That's why they can't be discussed.
Global warming.
Facts don't matter.
It's a hoax, but it is it's a vehicle to advance the agenda.
That's all it is.
Facts be damned.
Endless spending.
Endless deficits.
You just pretend they don't matter.
Just pretend they're not a factor.
I'm not saying he's not an ideologue.
I'm just saying that.
You know, these people on the left, they love to talk about how brilliant and smart and elitist they are, and how dumb and stupid and slow headed people like George W. Bush are.
I have yet to see this vast intellect demonstrated on the part of the leftists.
They do stupid things.
I've often said if liberalism equals intelligence and smart, we're going to have to redefine smart.
How smart is anything Obama's doing?
Where is the smart in his health care reform bill?
Where is smart intelligence in his stimulus spending, which doesn't stimulate anything but government growth?
None of what he's doing is smart.
Committed leftist.
Nothing else matters.
Nothing that he's doing is working by his own definition.
He claims he wants to create jobs.
He's not doing one thing that results in that.
He's doing the exact opposite.
And yet people on the media and the media and people on the left marvel at Obama's superior intellect, and they tell us he's so smart the job bores it.
And I said that about Hillary, smartest woman in the world.
Somebody give me the evidence of the intelligence of these people.
Benghazi.
What was smart about any of this?
I tell you, folks, I think we are surrounded by myths, storytelling, image making, posturing, spin, you name it.
And it's all oriented around how vastly intellectually superior they are to all of us.
Obama would be lost in a world of self-reliance.
Obama would be lost in a world Of free enterprise resents it too much.
And yet 30, 40% of the people in this country think that there's only one guy qualified to fix what's wrong in healthcare, Barack Obama.
What experience does he have?
Ditto anything else.
Yet all of the people in these various industries who are expert, who've spent their lives at it, who've been educated, routinely work in it, such as oil retail, what they don't know diddly squat.
Obama has all the answers.
Obama and the Liberal Democrats, they've got all the answers.
What was smart about Hillary's testimony in Benghazi?
What difference does it make now?
Yeah, the Hillary Clinton.
Smartest woman in the world, they said back in the 90s.
Yes, there's a vast right wing conspiracy that arranged for Monica Lewinsky to be hired.
And a vast right wing conspiracy which manipulated Monica Lewinsky into pizza delivery at the Oval Office.
A vast right wing conspiracy resulted in somebody pulling down my husband's zipper.
A vast right wing conspiracy sent my husband and Monica Lewinsky after the pizza delivery into a study or a bathroom off the Oval Office.
She said this.
Effectively.
On the Today Show.
Where this isn't smart.
But which temper tantrum?
What?
She didn't not hear she didn't shut down the criticism.
You mean when she said what difference does it make now?
I don't as far as I'm concerned.
I think maybe shut down the hearing.
You know, it's a different thing when you want to talk about Republicans in Congress being intimidated by liberals.
How smart's that?
It might be.
What difference do they make now?
And if that works in shutting our guys up, it's not Hillary's.
I mean, that doesn't matter.
Who what difference it make now?
Four people are dead.
What difference does it make?
Okay, let's just cancel these hearings coming up.
Uh Washington Post, special ops halted from responding to Benghazi, U.S. diplomat says.
As the very weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under the uh the attack on September 11th, 2012.
A deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli, 600 miles away, sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of force that he said might have averted a second attack on a nearby CIA complex.
This the Washington Post is saying it this way.
Hours later, according to excerpts of the account by the U.S. diplomat Gregory Hicks, American officials in the Libyan capital sought permission to deploy four U.S. special operations troops to Benghazi aboard a Libyan military aircraft the next morning.
Troops were told to stand down.
So special ops halted from responding.
Well, not bore you, I'm not going to waste time telling you why all this happened.
I just did.
John Balton says that the Benghazi scandal could be the final hinge point that brings down the regime.
He said this to Newsmax.
This could be the hinge point.
It's that serious for.
I don't know that it's going to bring him down.
I don't.
Too soon to say on that.
But I I guarantee you, none of this was supposed to happen.
The video, the filmmaker, all of that was supposed to prevent this from happening.
Everybody was supposed to be satisfied and accepting of that explanation, and we move on.
After we Had dutily performed the memorial ceremony for the ambassador and the three other Americans who died after the liberals had shown everybody how much they care and how sad they were.
We're supposed to feel sorry and uh satisfied that they did their best and then we move on.
And what's happening this week with the whistleblowers wasn't supposed to happen.
But it is.
Now there's a reason, I think it's Reason Magazine is it has a uh has a piece.
Hillary Clinton, well, let me I've got to take a break.
I'm just looking at the clock.
Let me take a break.
I'll come back and continue in just a second, folks.
Don't go away, L Rushbow, the EIB network.
Right back.
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Now, about John Bolton thinking this could be the hinge point that would bring down the uh the regime.
Folks, you don't bring down a regime unless the media gets on board, and I don't see that happening.
I don't see ABC, CBS, NBC getting on board with some movement to take this regime out like they tried with Reagan and Iran Contra, like they succeeded with Nixon.
There were plenty of reasons to try to take the Clinton administration out after Lewinsky.
There were talks, calls for his resignation, but the the media didn't do a circle of wagons.
They're gonna do that here.
In fact, I just got an email during the break.
Rush, how long are the Democrats gonna try to protect Hillary on this?
You would think by now, Rush, they might be sick and tired of trying to pull Hillary's bacon out of the fire.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh I'm I'm here to tell you that nowhere in the Democrat Party is there any thought of throwing Hillary Clinton under the bus.
Nowhere in the Democrat Party is anybody tired of pulling her bacon out of the fire.
The Democrats do not throw their own people overboard.
Democrats who fail end up with more stature than they had during whatever success they might have enjoyed.
They don't throw their people overboard like we do.
They don't they don't discard their people.
The idea that Hillary is becoming baggage, an embarrassment might bring down the reason.
No, no, no, no.
Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president.
She's gonna be the first female president, and she's gonna have the same insurance policies that Obama has as the first black president, i.e., you can't criticize her, or we'll call you a sexist and a bigot.
And that's how they are dreaming of continuing to advance their agenda with no opposition.
They're not worried about Hillary being baggage.
All they're trying to do is continue with Obama's philosophies of eliminating all opposition.
They just don't do it.
They just don't throw people overboard.
They don't throw people under the bus.
Mrs. Clinton is still owed.
And I'll guarantee you, the energy right now, at this moment in the Democrat Party is trying to find a way to embarrass these whistleblowers.
The focus right now is how to destroy these people coming forth who would harm Hillary.
That's how they look at it.
They're going to throw Obama overboard.
They're not going to throw Hillary overboard and pull her bacon out of the fire and that kind of thing.
You can't look at these people and analyze them with the same rational way you look at Any other group, business, population, what have you.
They they don't behave in the rational way that you analyze yourself and other people.
They are devoted.
They're true believers.
And they're not going to give us anything.
They're not going to give us a victory on anything.
And then you imagine what a victory would be to throw Hillary overboard?
Forget that, folks.
It ain't gonna happen.
That's it for the first busy broadcast hour of our excursion to broadcast excellence today.
But you sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back.
There's much more straight ahead.
In well, I'll save it till I have time to really get into it.
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