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May 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 10, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to have you with us.
El Rushbow.
On Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
All right, one big exciting busy broadcast hour remains of Open Line Friday.
I gotta tell you, you people have been fabulous on the phones today.
It's always a good sign.
Once you get the first good call, they seem to flow.
And I just I think you people are the absolute best.
There can be no better audience in all of media than all of you.
Great to have you.
Telephone number 80082-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So an IRS that has to apologize for a bunch of political low life low level.
Employees in Cincinnati for targeting Tea Party and Patriot in the names of tax exempt groups and giving them trouble and hassling them.
IRS apologized for that today.
Yeah, this is the same bunch that's going to administer Obamacare fines in a fair and apolitical way.
Right.
Ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned uh on a prior moment in the program that the president of Libya is a relevant player in this Benghazi stuff.
And I want to get to that now.
And after this is going to be it, and aside from your phone calls, we're going to move on to other things.
If you still want to weigh on an Is Feel Free, of course, Open Line Friday.
I want to go back to me, the archives, the grooveyard of forgotten favorites of this program back to September 17th last year, just five days.
And yeah, this is kind of patting myself on the back, I'll admit it.
But today the drive-by media is all agog with what they have learned about all the talking points being rewritten and re-edited twelve times.
And they've come to the realization that the regime is covering something up.
And I just want to remind you, and it's one thing to sit here and say, well, you remember, you knew all this back when it happened because I was telling you about it.
I want to go back and demonstrate that.
We have to just two sound bites I want to play from this program on September 17th of last year, five days after the attack in Benghazi.
Last Thursday and Friday were sitting here making jokes as the regime pitifully and pathetically tries to blame an outbreak of violence all around the Middle East on this guy on a YouTube video that nobody saw other than twelve people at a screening in June.
And of course, Mrs. Clinton's out there trumpeting this.
Jay Carney said, of course, there's no protest against the U.S. or U.S. policies.
It's simply the video.
And it's it was ridiculous.
It was laughably ridiculous.
Then we learned that the president of Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood guy, Mr. Morsey, had commanded Obama to dissuade people from criticizing Islam.
Then this guy gets rounded up.
All he did was exercise his First Amendment rights.
That's all he did.
Now they rounded him on the pretext that uh is a parole violation or something connected to parole because he was convicted of bank fraud.
But the fact you know, this I thought of that picture of Elion Gonzalez and the and the armed agents storming in that little house down in a little Havana with Janet El Reno downstairs outside waiting to take the kid back to Cuba.
But this was far worse after the after the sheriff's office brought the guy in, Nakula, the filmmaker, was interviewed by federal parole officers.
Agents of the regime.
They exercise that that's police state power.
That's brown shirt stuff, folks.
And it was all for the photo op.
It was all to further this absurd lie.
That what happened last Tuesday, 9-11, or Monday, in the Middle East had nothing to do with 9-11, had nothing to do with Obama.
It had nothing to do with the United States.
It had nothing to do with Nylon and Islam.
It had to do with this idiot who made his little video.
That's just a portion of the program that day, where we laid out what was known and the warnings, and the realization that the State Department knew, even before the attacks, that Al Qaeda, Ansar Al-Sharia was planning an attack.
Later in the program, after we played the Susan Wright soundbites, the Susan Rice soundbite to TV five times blaming the video.
I pointed this out because the president of Libya ended up being cut off at the knees by Obama and the administration.
The Libyan president is saying the exact opposite.
The Libyan president is saying it was premeditated.
There were 400 people.
They had rockets, mortars, grenades, rocket propel grenades.
They had stuff that you don't just pick up off the street or in your closet.
It was premeditated.
It was set up, and it was designed to get that ambassador.
It was designed to.
It was designed to precisely because what we did in taking out Qaddafi, which Hillary was out laughing about and bragging about.
And so Snurdy said, why'd they send her out here?
Why'd they send her out a look like an idiot?
She her purpose, her purpose is not to be judged against the Libyan president.
Her purpose is to continue with the narrative that it's this video, and the guy that produced it that did all this, and that's why she keeps sticking with this spontaneous business.
The political objective is to have this guy, this Coptic Christian, that nobody's ever seen.
Now, the Libyan president, if you recall, Greg Hicks, during his testimony before the committee, was asked what he thought when he heard Susan Rice's assertions that it was the video.
This obscure video made by this Coptic Christian that had everybody in the Middle East all worked up and is what caused the attack in Benghazi.
And Hicks said that it was jaw-dropping, jaw dropping, and that he could not believe it, that he was embarrassed for our country.
Now, let me tell you why he was embarrassed.
It wasn't just that this answer was so absurd.
It wasn't just that this excuse was so ridiculous.
Remember, Greg Hicks and the State Department people are there for a reason.
Theirs is diplomacy.
They are there to build successful relationships with their host country.
And it turns out that the Libyan president is in comparative terms, a moderate Muslim.
He is not a jihadist.
At least as analyzed by people I know who are experts in this, that the Libyan president is a Sunni Muslim.
He is from Benghazi.
He lived for decades in the United States.
He was among Gaddafi's most prominent enemies.
He's said to be a liberal in the classic sense.
He supports free elections and free speech, as well as equality among citizens and between the sexes.
And he has been the target of multiple assassination attempts by other Islamists.
The most recent one in January.
So in truth, the Libyan president, the guy that replaced Gaddafi, his name is uh Magaref, or Magarif, as it's spelled, and he is exactly the kind of ally that the policy that took us into Iraq seeks to have a moderate Islamist who
is open to democracy and democratic institutions, free elections, free speech.
Remember, one of the reasons we went into Iraq was to build democracy there and to have it as a as a as an outpost of democracy that might then have tentacles that would influence the rest of that region.
Well, this guy is that.
By reputation, this guy is that.
And we just cut him off at the knees.
And so when Hicks said that it his jaw dropped, and he found what Susan Rice said embarrassing.
It was because they were calling him the guy a liar.
They were undercutting what could have been and should be an ally in that region.
This guy is the reason we got rid of Qaddafi.
He's the antithesis of Qaddafi.
And he did say he contradicted Susan Rice on every point.
No, this was Al-Qaeda.
This was an attack that was premeditated.
They had 400 people involved in it.
They had rockets, mortars, grenades, rocket pelled grenades.
They had stuff that you don't just pick up off the street or in a catalog for a random protest.
This was a serious military action.
And he was out saying this the day of and the days after.
And Hillary and Obama and Susan Rice are effectively calling him a Nimrod and a liar.
Because this guy, the Libyan president was in the videos, got nothing to do with this.
He was trying to help us, trying to warn everybody the truth.
And they basically threw him over the board or under the bus.
And that's why Hicks said his jaw dropped.
Because in his world, this guy, this Libyan president is exactly the kind of guy we want to forge relationships in that part of the world.
And he saw his administration throwing this guy overboard.
And that's why he was embarrassed.
And that's why he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
In addition to the absolute folly of what she was saying about it being a video.
Back to the phones now, open line Friday.
Paula in Roanoke, Virginia.
Thank you for calling.
Thanks for waiting.
Great to have you here.
Thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I have an observation on the Benghazi thing.
I know you wanted to move on, but this is where Mr. Schnerdley put me.
No, no, you get with callers on Friday.
Whatever you want to talk about, honky dory.
All right, thanks.
I have an observation in that.
I believe the administration played the affair card on General Petraeus.
They didn't fire him.
They just demoted him.
And they still have their thumb on him.
Well, you miss it's interesting because Petraeus did not sign off on these talking points.
At the CIA, he was he was uh as as far as I've been able to determine uh Petraeus was not at all part and parcel of this.
And I guess your theory is that that somebody there leaked the knowledge of his affair so as to shut him up.
Yeah.
I think they've known about it for quite some time.
Oh, gosh, everybody have ahead of nobody.
She's a journalist for crying out loud.
There are photos.
A lot of people knew about it.
Yep.
Well, it's entirely possible.
It is it is clear that the uh that the regime uh was now covering this up.
Look, this this Libyan president, folks, was more honest about what happened in Benghazi than our own administration.
An Islamist president, in this case of Libya, was more honest than our own administration about what happened in Benghazi.
In fact, was trying to help us.
This guy was telling us what we were up against and what had happened.
And he has to sit around and watch all this bunk being spread.
Now imagine if you're This guy.
He's been installed, elected to replace Gaddafi.
He's, believe me, don't doubt me on this.
He's exactly the kind of Muslim leader the democracy project had in mind when we go in and get rid of Saddam Hussein and we try to democratize Iraq.
The guy that runs Libya is exactly what we had in mind.
Free elections, free speech, all that kind of stuff.
And I think he appreciated what we had done in ridding that country of Qaddafi.
So he's he he's he's trying to help us.
And he has to watch this absolute ridiculous display of deceit, this intricately woven web of deceit by Obama and Susan Rice and whoever else was involved in this.
and I think the guy would just be scratching his head livid.
Let's move on.
As I said, there are other things out there.
New York Daily News today.
The New York City Council is going to discuss allowing non-citizens to vote in city elections.
Yesterday, non-citizen immigrant voting will return to New York City's political agenda, the City Council Committee on Immigration and the Committee on Government Relations will hold a joint hearing on non-citizen permanent resident voting in municipal elections.
Council Immigration Committee Chair Daniel Draum is leading the council's effort along with government relations committee chair Gail Brewer.
Proponents of immigrant voting say that they have a veto-proof majority of council members who favor the proposal.
So even if the mayor, Michael Doomberg, vetoes the bill, they claim they've got the votes to override his veto.
Meanwhile, we are supposed to believe that the illegals given amnesty under the gang aid plan will have to wait 13 years to vote.
Now why will that be?
If the city council in New York can grant voting rights to non-citizens, then how long is it going to take for the rest of these newly legalized 11 million to vote?
Believe me, that'll be the first.
You know what?
I can tell you what's going to happen.
You can too.
Let's hypothetically imagine amnesty happens tomorrow.
Tomorrow's the day.
Tomorrow's the day that we're going to legalize pathway to citizenship, whatever.
And as part of the bill, it says that these people have to wait 13 years to vote.
Not tomorrow's Saturday.
The next day, the Sunday shows, Chuck Schumer will be a guest on one of the shows, or maybe make the rounds of all of them.
And he'll practically be crying.
How unfair it is that these people have to wait now to be involved in the political system that governs their lives.
How fair is that?
We've just made them citizens, or we've just cleared them on the pathway to citizenship.
And now we're insulting them.
And now we're telling them they can't vote for 13 years.
Where is our compassion?
Where are our hearts?
What kind of country are we?
I can I can hear it now.
So even if the bill does say they have to wait 13 years, two days after amnesty, all the crocodile tears.
It's not fair, it's not fair that they can't vote.
It just it isn't fair.
Have you heard about this?
This is uh story from the Daily Caller.
Northwestern University has got themselves in a bit of a trouble, uh a bit of trouble.
Apparently, somebody decided to tell students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo By engaging in racially offensive activities.
And the racially insensitive activities that were suggested everybody avoid were eating tacos and drinking tequila and wearing sombreros.
That's right.
On Cinco de Mayo, the students at Northwestern were told don't offend the Mexicans.
And and if you if you order tacos, if you're seen eating tacos or drinking tequila shots or wearing a sombrero, you are offending Mexicans.
Don't do it.
Well, this offended the Mexican students who said, What the hell?
We love tacos.
We want to eat tacos.
We love tequila.
And we very much cherish our sombreros.
But the university said that Mexican themed parties are culturally insensitive and offensive and detrimental to the community if there is tequila and tacos and wearing sombreros.
And the Mexican students said, you know, I'd like to say I proudly embrace my tacos.
I proudly embrace my tequila and sombreros.
This is Ruben Antonio Marcos, a Northwestern student said in a statement, to me, they are a key part of my childhood, growing up in Monterey Meico.
Another student who grew up in Mexico called the letter over the top.
What do you mean I can't have tacos?
It doesn't offend me.
But the PC crowd at Northwestern thought that it would.
So they it's ridiculous.
U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday, wait for it, that beginning with the 2014, 2015 federal student aid form, the Department of Education will for the first time collect income from a dependent student's legal parents,
regardless of the parents' marital status or gender if those parents live together.
The new form eliminates the terms father and mother.
Did you hear me?
The new student aid form, Department of Education beginning in 2014-2015, eliminates mother and father.
Instead, it is parent one and parent two.
Well, if parent three and four there and they live together, you can put parent three and four.
What I would suggest is just put down government.
Because who are these people's parents anyway anymore?
So just in time for Mother's Day, after you've called 1-800 Flowers.com and ordered the special deal, the Department of Education is removing any mention of mother or father from their applications for student aid.
And you know why?
You know what this is.
Give me a wild guess.
Why are they doing it?
Snerdley, you give me a uh give me a wild guess.
Yes.
The LGBT, the bacon lettuce tomato crowd, that is exactly right.
The this is a great, how can I say it?
It's a great step forward for the civil right to be gay.
And it helps kids get used to the idea of the federal government being the real parents.
Parent one and parent two.
No mother, no father.
Those words will no longer be on the federal government student aid form.
Is that not wonderful?
Is that is that not progress?
Here's Bob in Cleveland.
Bob High, great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, good afternoon.
Yeah, just received uh, well, how's on all the case of the blueberry two of my tea I ordered?
It doesn't get any better in this.
And since it's Friday on the boss today, one more point on Benghazi.
I'm not sure uh what's more depressing, knowing that there's more than 50 low information, ignorant voters there, or knowing that this regime they actually denigrate the honor of these people because the very ignorance is perpetrated by the deceptive device of stories that this regime puts out, and then they use that same ignorance against the very people they serve, they say they serve.
Is they denigrate their honor by doing this?
I wish people understood and knew the abhorrence in this.
Yeah, I'm I'm the same way.
I uh I wonder in the middle of this story now, how many people this this is my question.
How many, and we're talking low information.
How many of them get it, and then how many care?
Of those who get it, that's just that's that's just the first step.
And there may be a lot of them who get it.
Yeah, the regime covered up, yeah, the regime lied.
Yep, they told a fib about the video.
But then how many of them care?
How many of them think that means it?
How many of them think that's a big deal?
Because Jody Arius is getting sentenced on May 15th.
But as they watch the decline of this, they can't help but turn around and start to open up and realize.
The decline of what?
Uh our all our values, our nation, our money.
What do you mean the decline of values?
They they see their values triumphing.
Authority is being obliterated, right and wrong is being obliterated.
What what's like the difference between good versus evil?
Evil always looks good at the onset at the beginning.
But it always turns negative.
Well, you don't even call it good versus evil.
Right versus wrong, uh smooth sailing versus trouble.
Trouble is always more adventurous, and trouble is always more exciting.
Getting away with it's even better.
Especially when you can ram it down the throats of those people who are offended by it.
Well, that just goes to show you the nature of the very people that are perpetrating it, which is in this regime.
I think it's abhorrent.
I agree with you.
I'm glad your voice is out there letting people know all of this.
Amazing.
I appreciate it.
You you said when you started your call that while you were on hold, you received your delivery of blueberry two if by tea?
Amen.
I tell you, this stuff's good.
Well, I guess one every two weeks or so.
If I can keep it away from my wife, I get more than two bottles.
Wait a minute.
A case lasts you two weeks.
No, not really.
I was gonna say.
I can't I can't put you on my monthly income.
You know what?
You know what people do?
If you really want to hide it, hide the stuff behind the vegetables in the refrigerator.
Nobody will find it.
But if you put it behind the mayonnaise or the ketchup or whatever else, they'll they'll see it right away.
But hide it behind the vegetables where nobody's gonna look in and and you nobody will steal it.
Then I feel guilty not telling her I have it.
Well, let me tell you what I'm gonna do.
Since uh how long did you have to wait?
You know, we're our shipping is pretty good.
You shouldn't have it.
When did you order it?
Uh three days ago.
See.
Normally I get it next day, two days.
This time took just a little longer.
Right.
And what did you pay for that shipping?
Uh I think it was free shipping.
That's exactly right.
Free shipping the next day or two days.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, right here, the latest greatest item in our two if by tea store, the uh the El Rushboat tumbler.
It's the revered rush on one side and rush revere, the two if by T logo icon on the other side.
Sixteen ounce tumbler, perfect for consuming two if by tea or anything, hot or cold.
Ice does not melt, and the glass does not drip, and it's perfect for the microwave, uh, and the dishwasher gets and y the tea will taste even better in these babies.
It sounds slightly better than the tea.
Well, it depends uh the tea that it's the best of both.
Yes, it is.
It's the best of both.
So look, I want you to hold on because um I'm gonna I'm gonna get your shipping address again.
Um, snerdily they have it, and I'm gonna send you a couple of tumblers and another case.
Oh, man, right.
Thank you very much.
You bet it's my pleasure.
So don't go away, Bob, uh, and Snurgy will be right with you.
We gotta take a quick time out.
We'll be back with more after this.
Don't go away.
Dylan Byers at the Politico is reporting that the regime this afternoon Held an off the record briefing with reporters on Benghazi.
No idea what was said at the briefing, obviously, because it's off the record.
But I think we can make a pretty educated guess what's going on.
The regime is telling these reporters that ABC got it wrong, that Susan Rice had it right.
I guarantee you that the regime is trying to head this off at the past by rallying and rounding up.
Their self, uh they're their accomplices in the media.
No question about it.
Speaking of which, this is interesting.
CNN this afternoon said that they were standing by for Jay Carney and a White House press briefing to address the latest Benghazi news at 145 this afternoon.
What we're monitoring here mainly is this expected White House briefing where administration spokesman Jay Carney is expected to address new questions being raised about the Benghazi attack.
How was it handled?
Did we know there was an attack coming, or was it random?
These iterations of talking points, some 12 iterations.
Why so many?
What do they mean?
Was this about putting politics over what happened to the real people there on the ground?
Those are hard questions.
When he comes up to take them, we will bring it to you live.
Wow.
Was this about putting politics over what happened to the real people on the ground?
Wow, the real people.
Anyway, Carney was supposed to come out at 145 and answer these questions.
It is now 249, and Carney has not appeared.
And the White House just announced that he will appear at 3.15 Eastern.
Translation, Jay Carney will appear in the White House press briefing room to answer these questions 15 minutes after Rush Limbaugh goes off the air.
Okay.
Originally scheduled for 145, now moved to 315.
Now this uh this off the record briefing with reporters.
Obviously, there'd be some reporters not there.
I wonder if they might be offended.
They can't bring everybody in for this off-the-record briefing.
So the people not there, I wonder if they're going to be offended.
I'll tell you what's happening, folks.
They are preparing for a Friday afternoon document dump.
The old theory being drop your documents, the end of the day on Friday when there's no news.
And even if there is, the low information people are already drunk in advance of the weekend, and they're not paying attention to anything, uh, and you get away with it.
Here's Chuck in Walton, Kentucky.
Hi, Chuck.
Uh welcome to Open Line Friday.
I've got about a minute, but I still wanted to get to you.
Megadiddos Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes.
I was telling Bo that uh it just seems like every uh every type of uh group or anything that stands for responsibility, you know, accountability, anything that's right and justice, and even Christianity for that matter, you know, any uh founding groups that represent for our traditional values is under assault by this administration.
It's all damage control, you know, because it just seems like the left-wing media has made this guy incapable of error.
Let me tell you something.
I am I I I my dream is that everybody become aware of what's happening the way you are.
And you understand it, every institution or person who is in any way conservative or traditional is indeed going to be attacked if they become a threat.
The individuals or the institutions will be, and the media will jump right in because the objective is twofold protect Obama, but also defeat us.
And that is a prime motivation.
And I think if more people understand that, then more people will then be able to disregard and disbelieve the lying criticism that results.
Well, that's it, my friends.
Another excursion into Open Line Friday, Broadcast Excellencies Histoire.
But you have a great weekend, and we'll be back on Monday, revved and ready, to tell you what happened.
And as always, an added bonus: what to think about what happened.
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