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May 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 23, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, I haven't been watching it, but I just cookie just sent me a note saying it Obama is out ripping into Bush again.
And we are we're rolling on this, and we'll have it in due course.
But he is making a speech somewhere.
He's he's talking about Osama bin Laden and most of his top lieutenants are dead.
The threat has shifted and evolved from one that came to us on 9-11.
What in the world?
I'm just catching this.
I have no idea what this is about.
What is relevant about what's he talking?
Oh.
Okay, okay.
So he's explaining the drone policy, and this is i he wants to close gitmo, and this this is he's okay, okay.
Justifying closing club git now.
Gotcha.
Yeah, that old those Al-Qaeda guys, they're really done, right?
Like that guy in uh in England beheaded a guy and there was an Al-Qaeda.
You're just yeah, these were the meat cleavers and knives.
Let me I've got a soundbite about this.
Let me find it.
I wasn't gonna do this, so I gotta find it.
Uh yeah, grab uh grab uh let's start with uh number nine.
I wasn't gonna do this, but since he's out there saying it's over with and done with, and whatever the problem was, it was because of Bush.
Here is last night in London on ITV News, the unidentified terrorist who had just hacked a British soldier to death, spoke to a camera that caught the attack, and this is a portion of what the terrorists said.
We swear by the Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone.
We must fight them as they fight us.
An eye for an eye and a two for a tooth.
I apologize that women had to witness this today.
But in our lands, our women have to seem the same.
You people will never be safe.
Remove your governments, they don't care about you.
Were you able to hear that?
You were, okay.
Because I wasn't.
It's a good thing I have a transcriptor.
I wouldn't have known what the guy said.
He said, We swear by the Almighty Allah.
Allah Akbar.
We will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone.
We must fight them as they fight us.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
I apologize that women had to witness this today, but in our land, our women have to see the same.
You people will never be safe.
Remove your government.
They don't care about you.
Okay?
That's the murderer and a vowed member of Al-Qaeda.
So now we next go to Boris Johnson this morning in Woolwich, England, London Mayor speaking with reporters.
This is not a question now of uh blaming the religion of Islam.
It is certainly not a question of blaming any aspect of British foreign policy or what uh British R troops uh do in operations of war when they risk our lives uh on behalf of all of us.
Uh everybody can see that this is the fault for this lies exclusively wholly and entirely in the minds of those who were responsible for this crime, and they are going to be brought to justice.
Hey, got that, folks.
This is not a question.
Now we're blaming the religion of Islam.
Of course not.
Why would anybody think that?
The guy just out there proclaiming Islam.
He's out there praising Allah.
We will never stop fighting you.
We're gonna fight you as long as you fight us, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
Remove your government.
They don't care about you.
This guy is a lone wolf, said the mayor, Boris Johnson.
It's not a question of blaming the religion.
It's certainly not a question of blaming any aspect of British foreign policy.
Everybody can see that.
The fault of this lies exclusively hauling it entirely in the minds of those who are responsible for the crime.
Well, that's that's true, but you can't deny who they are.
Oh, yes, we can.
This is not Islam.
Don't anybody think this is Islam.
It is not is not Allah, it is not Islam.
It is not militant Islam, it is not Islam.
is not a religion.
The cops knew who he was.
I know.
He's I know.
This guy actually is a well-known Islamic radical.
He's been handing out radical pamphlets and so forth for uh for years.
I know, British born, you can hear that in his voice, British born.
So that takes us now to well known foreign policy specialist, Christian Amenpore, who works disguised as a journalist at CNN.
And last night she was on Anderson Cooper 225.
And Anderson Cooper said, okay, Christian, British authorities haven't seen this kind of attack before, have they?
The words that he's saying, this man who's been captured on cell phone video are almost exact replicas of what the 7-7 bombers said in their video that they left before they blew up the underground and the buses.
It's almost exact replica of what uh Jokar Sanaev wrote on that boat uh that he was found in, you know, at the end of that manhunt.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth.
But the question really is are these people part of a bigger conspiracy, a bigger Al-Qaeda?
And just about everybody that I've spoken to today says it does not look like that.
This was very, very low tech.
It seems to be homegrown, it seems to be lone wolf, if you like, even copycat kind of crime.
Right, right.
This is uh uh just mindless radicalized individuals that have nothing to do with the larger Al Qaeda.
And don't be an idiot and think so.
If you think they've got anything to do with the larger Al-Qaeda group, then you're a conspiratorial right-wing kook and a freak.
Don't think that.
Everybody I've spoken to today, and I only know the smartest liberals, has said to me that it doesn't look like it's part of a bigger conspiracy, a bigger Al-Qaeda.
These are just copycat.
Lone wolves.
Radicalized domestic malcontents.
And don't worry, folks.
We we may have had a marathon bombing, little beheading here or there, but it isn't Al-Qaeda, because Obama defeated them.
Well, that's the storyline.
That's the narrative.
Obama defeated Al Qaeda.
So these guys, these are just the onesies and the twosies.
After this more than decade-long war against Al-Qaeda, by and large, massive attacks on the homeland, massive Al-Qaeda spectacular attacks, have not happened again since.
And intelligence experts always told us that what it was going to be would be Al-Qaeda affiliates and franchises, and also onesies and twosies.
That's exactly what people said.
And this is what we're seeing, whether it's Boston or here today.
Yeah, nothing to worry about, in other words.
Jokar Sanaev, same thing you said in the boat.
Same thing this guy, the hacker in uh in London.
Nothing to worry about here, nothing to see.
This is the onesies and the twosies.
They're uh not part of the larger Al-Qaeda, uh Al-Qaeda affiliates.
Obama defeated them.
Osama's dead.
It can't be those guys.
It's I mean, we're gonna close Club Gitmo.
Isn't any big deal.
Piers Morgan last night on CNN Piers Morgan Live.
They've all been using the same kind of rhetoric as well.
The uh the killer we saw on camera in London there talking in a very similar way to the way that Joe Hazanaev had talked when he scrawled in his handwritten words his mission statement on that boat where he was found the seven-seven bombers I remember in London using similar language.
It is a pattern now of random and yet possibly connected Al Qaeda-style groups.
I guess that's almost identical verbatim to what Christian Aminpore said.
Do you think somebody got a memo out?
How do you explain that?
Christian Amanpore and Piers Morgan both say for all intents and purposes, the identical thing.
Somebody sent a memo out.
Somebody is in charge of the narrative.
Somebody in the regime is in charge of the narrative, and the message is got look it.
It's onesies and twosies, it's individuals, it's nothing to see here.
It's not the larger Al-Qaeda, they're not a factor anymore.
Got took Benghazi, no, no, no.
Just a random video that uh that that caused all that.
You see a pattern here.
See a pattern.
Modern governments, liberal governments, be they British or American have lost control of this.
And nothing can be their fault.
Nothing can be because they have shrunken defense budgets.
They have been lazy in foreign policy.
Nothing can be their fault.
It's gotta be just things that nobody could predict.
Nobody could stop.
Nothing to see here.
Just the onesies and twosies.
It's nothing to do with Islam, and it's nothing.
You know, probably these guys were influenced by a bunch of rabid Christians who wanted tax exempt foundations at the IRS.
That'd probably what ticked them off.
You get right down to it.
All these random Al Qaeda terrorists, jokers and I have an o' probably just mad at the Christian coalition and mad at the Tea Party.
So if we could just, you know, get rid of the Tea Party, maybe these guys would stop hating us.
Grab some by 28.
We got one Obama here.
One thing about the uh the attack in Britain.
I don't know if you've heard this or not.
British soldiers have now been ordered to, in effect, stand down.
The UK telegraph is saying that because of the Woolwich attack, the beheading, troops are advised not to wear their uniforms outside their bases.
Defense sources said the order had been given that uniforms should not be worn by those traveling alone or on public transport as a common sense precaution immediately after the killing.
You want to talk about standing down.
This lone guy.
Somebody help me out.
I I'm not up to speed.
Did they capture the guy?
They they did capture him.
Oh, they killed him.
Okay.
So it's so they killed him, and the other guy was apprehended.
All right, I was gonna because if this guy's still running around.
It was just cell phone video, okay.
So they captured him.
But anyway, because of one guy, British military, have been told not to wear their uniforms.
Their uniforms are a target.
One guy, folks.
But this is not a big group, but not a big organiz.
Not Al Qaeda.
And it isn't Islam.
You talk about sending a signal to the terror.
This is the biggest win they can have.
The military, in order to be safe.
In order to be safe and secure, the British military has been told not to wear their uniform off the base.
Upside down.
Here is Al Qaeda's not I'm sorry, but this is Obama in Washington Day.
This is part of the press conference, and it or press conference, but he's making a speech, and it's still ongoing.
This is a part of it.
Today the core of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat.
Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us.
They did not direct the attacks in Benghazi or Boston.
Well, okay, cool.
Then nothing really to see here.
Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda did not direct the attacks in Benghazi.
It was an Al-Qaeda affiliated group, but Al Qaeda had nothing to do with it.
That's the limbaugh theorem.
The limbaugh theorem is now being applied by the president to Al Qaeda.
They did it, but they had nothing to do with it.
Benghazi.
In fact, Al Qaeda's so scared, they're on the run in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
They're on the run because they know they're on the path to defeat.
Benghazi.
Nothing to do with Al-Qaeda.
In fact, Al Qaeda's on the run.
We beat him.
We killed Osama.
Nothing to see here.
In fact, I don't even know why the president's doing such a long speech.
There's no need.
There is no threat.
Just close Club Git Mo and let that be it.
Craig in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Welcome to the EIB network, hi.
Hey, thanks, Rash.
quick question for you.
Yes, sir.
This is going to affect disaster elite now with this happening to the Republicans trying to get tax exemption.
Will it happen too to us who are in tornado states where these things happen quite frequently?
Is it going to affect us getting any relief or us getting money?
Now that this is all tied into whether you're not.
The president, has he not already ordered disaster relief for Oklahoma.
I don't think that there was a there was a time where people jokingly said that in fact I'll I'll be honest with you.
When the tornadoes hit Oklahoma, you know, Obama sued Arizona, for example.
So when the tornado hit Oklahoma, there's a part of me that that uh laughingly said, you know what, he'll deny him aid because it's it's a Romney state.
But no, he authorized the aid there.
I I understand your uh concern to the fact that you have the concern, the fact that you have a legitimate question about that is an indication in and of itself.
Um the Texas fires.
There was no help.
You know, in Texas had those wildfires, there was no federal help offered.
I think the sending in Tennessee.
So you mean your your question has a basis, a foundation.
With him always denying and having nothing to do with any policy or any type of relief.
I mean, I figured that he would just say he, you know, he's not in charge, whether we get the funds or not.
Well, I look I understand the question because he has denied aid in previous uh instances, but I think when the Oklahoma tornado hit, he was right there with the the uh the promise that disaster relief would be forthcoming.
The real story about that was Tom Coburn, the Republican senator said, Look, you know, I'm an Oklahoman, and it's my state, but we've got a law here that says all this stuff's got to be revenue neutral.
So if we're gonna spend money that we hadn't planned on spending for disaster relief here in Oklahoma, we're gonna have to find it somewhere in the budget.
It can't be new money.
He did stand up and and and say that.
Folks, let I want to make a point here.
Uh uh better get to this before time dwindles away.
I mentioned earlier in the program uh that two things.
Darrell Issa said yesterday he was going to recall Lois Lerner, but he hasn't yet actually recalled her.
Now his committee is in recess because of the Memorial Day holidays.
So there won't be any action on this the rest of this week or next.
It won't happen until they come back after the Memorial Day holiday, and I don't know when they come back from that.
But her lawyer is saying that they they haven't heard from ISA or anybody at the committee yet.
Now, ISA has said publicly that he's gonna recall her because her pleading the fifth was uh not legitimate.
Since she had answered questions and protested her innocence, then you can't do that, then claim the fifth.
You claim the fifth before you say anything.
And the distinguished professor at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz agreed she doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Remains to be seen whether she actually will be called.
The other thing that I mentioned was that I had heard, and it's out there in the news, that the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, was not all that hepped up to a Benghazi investigation by a congressional committee.
Now, the way that has manifested itself, the speaker has decided that there will be five House committees that will look into it because there are five committees who have a little jurisdiction here,
another committee has a little jurisdiction there, and another committee has some jurisdiction over here, and five, maybe six committee got intelligence, foreign affairs committee, judiciary, armed services, and oversight and government reform.
And that's ISA, and he's got his hands full with IRS.
And so instead of forming one committee to investigate Benghazi, what is rumored is that Boehner is going to have five committees doing it.
Now let me run a little quick test here.
Mr. Snerdley is a great guy to bounce things off of just a gauge reaction.
is your initial reaction to hearing that five committees are going to be looking into it?
Boehner?
Okay, Snerdley is saying that what this means is that Boehner really doesn't want anything done.
You get five committees, he's gonna be, this is just running out the clock.
Well, maybe that could be, that could be what happens.
But if you're gonna have five committees, why are you gonna have five committees?
That's the re that's the question.
What's your answer to that?
You got 20 seconds.
Why five committees?
Not some beyond slow it down.
What is the reason for five committees?
Oh, that's simple.
The reason there are five committees is because there are five egos.
Oh, yeah, five people want television time.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back and explain this when we get back.
Okay, before I want to finish, before I finish with this Boehner business, I want to go back to the caller we had who uh asked me if I thought Obama might not come through with aid for Oklahoma, or where he lived in uh Poplar Bluff, Missouri because of politics.
And I checked email during the break.
And a person said, you know, that guy made more sense than I think you were acknowledging.
He said, you go to New York, New Jersey area, and you will find that Staten Island has gotten the least aid to recover from Hurricane Sandy.
It's a Republican borough.
And the point was made that Obama's modus operandi punishment.
Obama punishes enemies.
He punishes people who don't support him.
And there is, there are the examples of the Texas wildfires and the floods in Tennessee, where there wasn't any disaster relief.
Requests were made for uh what's the term?
Um call it a uh disaster area, I forget him.
Disaster zone or something, it didn't do that, that was denied and so forth.
And it it reminded me, you know, when Sheldon White House, the senator from Rhode Island, who apologized for this later, but his first instinctive comment after the tornado in Oklahoma was to bash the people there and blame them as polluters and deniers for causing all of the destruction weather-wise in his area of the country.
Remember that?
I mean, it was really folks, it was it was sick what Sheldon Whitehouse.
He was this, he was essentially blaming Republicans in Oklahoma for the weather.
Destructive weather.
You polluters and you deniers, you come here and you want money from us.
Well, you're causing us to spend money with your own disasters that you're causing because you don't believe in global warming, and you're therefore preventing us from doing about climate change, and therefore the storms that are hitting us are destructive.
And it was so over the top that even he had to apologize, but it was the first thing he said, it was instinctive, and in fact, it's probably what he really believes.
These people find it hard to believe when I say this.
The reaction, particularly among low information voters, that just can't be.
Sheldon White House was blaming Republicans for the weather.
Now I am here to tell you that he meant it.
Even though he apologized later, he meant it, they, the liberals, folks, when when they say these things, that you hear them as really over the top and wacko extreme.
They believe this stuff.
They believe global warming is real and it's caused by excessive capitalism, excessive profit, oil, all these horrible things.
And anybody who supports capitalism oil is guilty of preventing them, the do-gooders, from stopping global warming, which is the root cause of all this.
So he goes out there and blames the Republicans in Oklahoma for the destructive weather in Rhode Island and Connecticut and New York and New Jersey.
He means it.
As a liberal, that's what he really thinks.
To you and me, this is radical lunaticism.
It is their mainstream guiding light.
And I'm not exaggerating at all.
It's another reason why I often say there's we have nothing in common with them politically.
There is no overlapping commonality where we can find areas to be bipartisan with these people.
There just isn't.
And so the question, would Obama, because his his his modus operandi he punishes this guy, he is obsessed with his own messianic status, and people that don't buy into it and don't support him, they're gonna pay for that one way or the other.
Look at who his enemies, look who he's going after.
AP Fox, whatever.
The people that he's targeting mention me all the time.
And I'm not exactly known as an Obamaite.
So he says that there will be aid forthcoming for Oklahoma, but let's actually wait and see.
Will it be little and late?
As it is in Staten Island.
Of all the places where Hurricane Sandy hit Staten Island's gotten the least amount of assistance.
And it's a Republican borough.
And the Republican GM owned dealerships, they were the ones shut down.
He does punish his opponents, carries grudges, and all of that.
So it's entirely possible.
His modus operandi is to eliminate, eliminate opposition.
Anyway, the the the Boehner business, these committees, now the Daily Caller is reporting that Speaker Boehner has publicly said that he is against the establishment of a single select committee to look into Benghazi.
He thinks that the best course for looking into it is to let the five committees already investigating it to continue to do their work.
Now you got five committees, that means you've got five committee chairmen, and we've got house elections coming up next year.
Means we've got five egos, five committee chairmen who want to be on TV, who want to be seen leading their committees investigations into Benghazi.
So if you have five different committees looking into Benghazi at the same time, with little areas of overlap here, how much can you really get done in terms of uncovering what happened?
Now, you can get a lot done in the world of optics.
You've got five different sets of hearings.
You've got C-SPAN out there.
All of it, at some point, will be televised.
Some of you may have to watch it on the website, C-SPAN 5, C-SPAN 6, whatever.
It will all be televised.
And therefore there will be video that the committee chairman can get and put in commercials for their re-elections.
But here's one of the potential downsides to this.
If you've got five committees looking into something that Obama has done.
Can you just see the media and the Democrats screaming about overkill and Obama hatred and extremism?
So you have an opportunity here with five committees looking into this for the media to stop looking into what happened in Benghazi and instead change their focus into Republican overkill.
Look at these guys.
Look at these Republicans.
Five committees.
This is harassment.
They're not trying to get to the bottom of this.
This is just Obama hatred.
These Republicans are just so despicable.
They're deceitful.
All they're doing is trying to destroy our president.
Five committees, one would do it, but they've got five committees.
They just all they want to do is hammer our president.
Look at these Republicans.
Look at what they're doing.
He's trying to milk this for their own personal gain, trying to destroy our president, not even worry about getting to the bottom of what's going on, what really happened to Benghazi.
That I don't know that that would happen, but it's set up for them if they wanted to report it that way, it'd be easy.
Republican overkill.
They just want to get Obama.
That's all they care about.
They don't care about what get really went down in Benghazi.
You know it, and I know it.
So that's one of the potential downsides, having five committees rather than one select committee.
And then you've got the politics of it, where these five committee chairmen, maybe it's six, I don't know, but whatever it's five or six.
Uh all seen facilitating their own re-election efforts.
National emergency, Snerdly, that was a term I was looking for.
Not disaster zone, but uh national emergency, and they did that in uh all these places, but they didn't do it in Texas for the wildfires and in in uh Tennessee.
Okay.
Now finally, I've I'm glad I got the Bahner stuff in.
I was afraid I'd keep going and get distracted and not get to it till tomorrow.
I hate doing that.
So I feel good about that.
We'll be back in just a minute.
Stay with us.
You know, this is this is laughable.
He is still talking.
How many times does it how many hours, minutes does it take to say we beat them, they don't exist, and we're closing club gitmo.
How long does it take to say that?
In fact, get this.
You gotta hear this.
He's at the National Defense University, and he's talking about his regime's counterterrorism policy.
If this sounds like the transcript reads, uh well, just listen, let's let's see if it does.
It is a hard fact that U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian casualties.
Yep.
A risk that exists in every war.
Yep.
For the families of those civilians, no words or legal construct can justify their loss.
Send them money for me and those in my chain of command.
Those deaths will haunt us as long as we live.
Send them money.
Just as we are haunted by the civilian casualties that have occurred throughout conventional fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I get yeah, what is essentially apologizing for civilian casualties we've inflicted around the world in the war on terror.
Hey, while while you're at it, why don't you apologize for Hiroshima Nagasaki?
I know he tried to.
Why don't you go for it?
Just do it.
Apologize for that.
And uh apologize to Mexico.
Well, for the war where we took California from them.
And then apologize to the South.
No, he wouldn't do that.
Apologize to the North.
No, we wouldn't do that.
Apologize to the Indians.
That's apologize to Native Americans for Manhattan 24 bucks.
Well, I'm giving you every example where the wars that we won were determined by civilian death.
Back in the days when you won wars, that's how you defined winning.
That's when your opponents sued for peace.
When we bombed Germany, we were bombing civilians.
Hiroshima Nagasaki, we were bombing civilians.
Mr. Lombaugh, that's really cold-hearted and but it's true, Mr. New Castradi.
That's the way it was.
Here's a list.
Obama denies Texas federal disaster aid.
FEMA denies disaster relief to Claremont County.
FEMA denies Texas disaster relief for wildfires.
Obama denies Florida disaster relief.
Obama denying disaster relief to red states?
Question mark.
FEMA denies federal disaster aid to Oklahoma again.
That's August 26th, last year.
FEMA, Obama denies funds to GOP leaning Virginia.
These are Google searches.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Seven.
Just the first seven.
Obama denies federal disaster aid to X. So it's a legitimate question.
Will Oklahoma actually get their money?
I'm going to say it again.
I loved it.
The media then there, Anderson Cooper could not believe.
Shep Smith could not believe it in 24 hours they'd already started rebuilding.
They couldn't believe that the Oklahomans weren't just sitting around waiting for the government to show up.
They were sitting around feeling sorry for themselves.
Couldn't believe that they were just sitting around waiting for somebody to do something.
Literally, they were stunned that Oklahoma had already started to rebuild and that they were giving thanks to God for surviving it and so forth.
Backbone of the country, folks.
I just listened to Obama a little bit.
He doesn't sound haunted to me.
He just got protested by somebody, but I couldn't understand what she was saying.
We'll have all that tomorrow.
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