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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Hi, folks.
	Great to have you here.
	It's already Wednesday as the fastest week in media rolls on.
	And I am your host, America's real anchorman, also known as the Doctor of Democracy and America's Truth Detector.
	Sitting here serving humanity just by being here.
	The telephone number, if you want to appear on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbow at eibnet.com.
	And everybody's talking about, well, not everybody's talking about, the chairman of the RNC wrote letters to CNN and NBC.
	You guys, we're not going to show up at your debates anymore if you do these mini-series on Hillary.
	I think you ought to send the letter, just take out the part about the mini-series on Hillary.
	We're not going to show up in your debates anymore.
	But they'll never do that.
	But that's what they should do.
	Anyway, the RNC, very much concerned about all these mini-series on Hillary.
	Last night, while everybody's worried about a mini-series on Hillary that hasn't happened, Obama showed up for what, the sixth time on the tonight show.
	Last night to show you how the country is changing in a very serious way.
	Last night was the first time since this massive upgraded terror warning was put into effect on Sunday.
	This was the first time the President of the United States spoke to the American people about this.
	We closed 21 embassies in the Middle East on Sunday for a full week.
	The President of the United States of America, the world's lone superpower, the president by reputation, by tradition, the leader of the free world.
	That's somewhat dubious now, but traditionally, that's how our presidents have been referred to and thought of.
	President of the United States went to a late-night comedy show for his first ever statements about this increased terror threat.
	A late-night comedy show.
	Now, nothing against late-night comedy shows.
	Don't misunderstand.
	I mean, I've had my own appearances and fun with Jay Leno.
	There's nothing wrong with late-night comedy shows, but this would not have happened with any prior president.
	Matters of such consequence, matters of such seriousness would have been dealt with in a far more serious and appropriate way and forum and time of day.
	And by virtue of appearing on a late-night comedy show, the president saw to it that these events, and it wasn't just the ramping up of the terror threat level or any of that.
	There were serious items on the agenda in our relationship with Russia, and all of it was treated as a joke.
	All of it was treated as unserious, Half-hearted.
	Nothing really to be concerned about.
	It's a diminishing thing that happened last night.
	The presidency was diminished last night.
	The country talk about being respected or loved people around the world.
	This was a very small thing that happened last night.
	Made the country look small, made the presidency look small.
	No, I don't think JFK went on Jack Parr to talk about the Cuban missile crisis.
	I was just thinking about that, but I don't think JFK did that.
	That might be too old, long ago for some of you youngsters out there.
	Jack Parr was the original Johnny Carson.
	I don't think JFK went on the Jack Parr show to talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	So the president goes to tonight's show to issue his first words on what is happening on so many fronts.
	Our microphones were there.
	You know, even with the president, when the president goes to a late-night show, let me tell you what happens.
	Before you do one of these shows, you talk to a pre-producer in advance of your appearance.
	And I'm sure this happened with the president as well, probably more so than with most guests.
	Because the guest becomes part of the show.
	The guest is not just an empty vessel sitting there waiting to react.
	The show gives the guest a gig.
	There's something that, you know, when you're a guest of one of these shows, you take a bit with you.
	Whatever it is, you're not just going there to be seen.
	You have a role to play.
	Either making the host look better, feeding off of the host, taking your own gig, taking over the show, whatever the guest wants to do.
	The pre-producer gets hold of every guest and they do the pre-interview.
	They find out what you want to talk about, what you don't want to talk about.
	Sometimes they talk about what you don't want to talk about, but that's another matter.
	Then the, and I guarantee you with the White House, this happened.
	I guarantee you, whoever the tonight show people talked to at the White House, there were ground rules.
	You will not bring this up, Jay.
	You will not bring that up.
	Whatever it is.
	I'm sure these kind of ground rules existed because after all, this is the president of the United States, and he's not just going to go somewhere and open himself up to anything on a late-night comedy show.
	He went there for a specific reason to accomplish specific things.
	And I don't know whether he thinks he did or not, but what he did was diminish the office of the presidency.
	He diminished the country.
	I just think it's a shame.
	At any rate, after this pre-interview is done, then the guest shows up.
	And whoever the pre-producer, the pre-event producer was, shows up and they review with you in the green room what you're going to talk about.
	Are you still comfortable with X, Y, and Z?
	And then they hit you with any surprises that they would like you to do that they didn't tell you about before you agreed to do the show.
	Now, I don't know if that happens with the president.
	But then after that, the host comes in and greets the guest in the green room, and they yuck it up, and they laugh about things, and they have just a short, general conversation about meaningless kind of stuff.
	And the host may assure the guest what's going to happen, how excited he is to have the guest, and all of that.
	And then the host leaves, show starts, and it all happens.
	We've got some audio sound bites that we'll treat you to from that.
	Do you remember this?
	This was July 24th, 2007.
	You probably don't remember this.
	This was during a presidential debate during the 08 campaign season.
	And this was a Democrat candidate debate.
	This was leading up to the Democrat primaries, the eight candidates vying to be the Democrat nominee.
	There were really just two of them by this time.
	It was Hillary and Barry Sotaro, Barack Obama.
	And it was on CNN.
	I've got the New York Times account of this.
	Anderson Cooper said, let's go to another YouTube video.
	They allowed viewers to send in YouTube video questions.
	And one of the YouTube video questions was in 1982, Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel, a trip that resulted in a peace agreement that's lasted ever since.
	In the spirit of that type of bold leadership, would you be willing to meet separately without precondition during the first year of your term in Washington or anywhere else with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?
	And then Anderson Cooper said, by the way, that YouTube guy, he's in our audience tonight, and the crime went right on YouTube.
	Senator Obama was asked to answer the question, and he said, I would.
	I would be willing to meet separately without precondition during the first year of my administration at Washington or anywhere else with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea.
	I would, said Obama.
	And the reason is the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of the Bush administration.
	It's ridiculous.
	So Obama said, hell yes, I'll talk to him.
	I'll talk to him anytime, anywhere.
	No preconditions.
	Iran, anybody.
	And yet it was Obama last night who canceled an upcoming summit meeting with Vladimir Putin.
	Because Putin and the Russians did something regarding Olympics in 2014 and homosexuality that Obama didn't like.
	By the way, Obama embarrassed himself last night.
	The Olympics that are going to be in Russia are the Winter Olympics.
	And Obama was talking about all the great athletes on the balance beams and in the swimming pool.
	And he forgot that it was the Winter Olympics, or maybe he never even knew and probably didn't care.
	And Obama continued.
	He said, now, Ronald Reagan, Democrat presidents like JFK, they constantly spoke to the Soviet Union at a time when Reagan called them an evil empire.
	The reason is because they understood that we may not trust them.
	They may pose an extraordinary danger, but we had the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward.
	Now, I think it's a disgrace that we haven't spoken to these countries that you mentioned.
	So Obama said, there's no way I'm going to be like Bush.
	There's no way I'm going to meet with all these people.
	I would never cancel.
	I would never not show up.
	I would be there.
	And now he's president and he got his little undies in a wad over the Russians and homosexuality pulled out of the summit.
	After saying these kind of hypocritical contradictions with Obama are frequent and often, and we'll tell you about them in this instance because he's the one that opened this.
	He's the one that went to a comedy show to talk about this.
	He's the one that announced about terror threats on a comedy show for the first time ever addressing the people of this country about recent events.
	So we'll come back with those soundbites, lots of other stuff too.
	We've got some carryovers from yesterday.
	I want to try to continue on.
	That is the general feeling of pessimism that has permeated the country, particularly among young people and women.
	I found out last night.
	Women are overwhelmingly pessimistic, too.
	And then we had the column that was by the national chairman of College Republicans, Alex Smith, that I didn't have a chance to fully analyze.
	And I said yesterday, I want to take my time with this because I don't want to be misreported, mistaken, misunderstood about it.
	So there's that.
	There's some other things too.
	Jeff Bezos, Washington Post continuing to have backup on some points I made yesterday.
	So we'll get to all that after our first obscene prophet timeout.
	Don't go away.
	This morning on CNN's newsroom, the fill-in anchor Anna Coren spoke with Jessica Yellen as the White House correspondent and said that message, this is Obama quitting the summit with the Russians because the Russians are not allowing gay athletes during the Olympics.
	Question then message that won't get across with the president's one-on-one with Putin because it's now not taking place.
	Obama canceled the summit with Putin, but will the U.S. still perhaps get this message across to Russia?
	So at CNN, they were very worried.
	Obama is canceling the summit with Putin because he doesn't like Putin's homophobia and Russia's homophobia.
	But CNN was worried that Russia wouldn't know that that's why Obama pulled out.
	And they were hoping that Obama would do the summit with Putin so that he could say to Putin to his face, I'm not going to meet with you tomorrow.
	I'm quitting here.
	We're not going to whatever, because you're a homophobe.
	And CNN's all concerned that Russia will not find out why Obama canceled because he also canceled the opportunity to tell Putin face to face.
	This is what Jessica Yellen said to that question.
	I think you'll hear the president say that in other venues and other occasions between now and the Olympics.
	This is, I would say, one of the defining issues of his presidency is his push for expanded rights for gays and lesbians, not just here, but around the world.
	So I am confident that he will continue to press this message.
	Right.
	Now, so let's go to tonight's show last night.
	Jay Leno said something that shocked me about Russia, Mr. President.
	I'm surprised that this isn't a huge story.
	Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law in Russia.
	I mean, this seems like Germany.
	Let's round up the Jews.
	Let's round up the gays.
	Let's round up the blacks.
	I mean, it starts with that.
	Why is not more of the world outraged at this, Mr. President?
	I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them.
	Putin and Russia have a big stake in making sure the Olympics work, and I think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently.
	Now, he got overwhelming applause.
	We edited the applause, but Obama was applauded.
	This is why I think he canceled the summit.
	Remember, everything's a campaign.
	I think Obama was continuing his quest for campaign donations from gays.
	Now, not that I don't think he doesn't mean it, but I do have to wonder.
	Let's go back and look at what he said.
	I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays and lesbians and transgendered persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them.
	No patience for countries like that.
	You mean like Saudi Arabia?
	You mean like Yemen?
	You mean like Abu Dhabi?
	You mean like, well, any Muslim country?
	And it's not just about the way they treat gays and lesbians and transgenders, the way they treat women.
	No patience for them either.
	I mean, I don't hear the president condemning any of those countries that he claims to have no patience for.
	The Limbaugh Theorem was on display big time last night.
	Sit tight, my friends.
	We're back.
	Don't go away.
	And we're back.
	El Rushbo, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
	Happy to have you with us.
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	Jay Leno last night said, were you surprised that Russia granted Snowden asylum?
	I was disappointed.
	There have been times where they slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality.
	And what I consistently say to them and what I say to President Putin is that's the past.
	And we've got to think about the future.
	And there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to cooperate more effectively than we do.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Now, meanwhile, Russia can practically fight us on the ground in Iraq.
	They can practically build a nuclear bomb for Iran.
	They can demand that we give up our missile defense for ourselves and our allies.
	And they can support murderous thugs like Bashur al-Assad in Syria.
	But don't let them diss the gays.
	Then we're really going to get mad at them.
	They can do all this other stuff.
	They can sabotage us in Iran.
	They can help the Iranians build a nuclear war.
	They can do anything on the world stage that sabotages the United States all they want.
	And we just got a ho-hum reaction.
	But don't let them diss the gays because that'll get Obama up on his hind legs every time.
	Because they donate to the Democrat Party.
	These other countries don't.
	The Iranians don't donate to the Democrat Party, although they're close.
	Bashur al-Assad doesn't donate to the Democrat Party.
	And the other Russian allies, the Cubans, they don't donate to the Democrat Party, but the gays and transgenders and the lesbians do.
	It's amazing what it is about people and countries and so forth that irritate Obama.
	This is strictly currying favor.
	All of this on a late-night comedy show, all of this totally unserious, totally beneath the dignity and the station of the office of the presidency.
	That's one of the disturbing things about this.
	In fact, let's go back and remember, this is March 26, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea.
	There was a nuclear security summit.
	Obama and the outgoing Russian president, little short guy, Dmitry Medvedev, they held a meeting at the end of the meeting.
	Remember this?
	The microphone was live.
	And the microphone caught this exchange between Obama and Dimitri.
	This is my last question, yeah.
	And after my election, I have all talked about it.
	I transmit this information to the Vladimir and the Stanley.
	Were you all able to understand that?
	Let me...
	The camera clicks out.
	Obama said to Medvedev, this is my last election.
	And Medvedev said, Yeah, yeah, space for you.
	Yeah.
	And Obama said, Look, after my election, I have more flexibility.
	Yeah.
	And Medvedev said, Yeah, yeah, I understand.
	I transmit this information to Vladimir.
	And I stand with you.
	I have told Vladimir to be patient.
	He will have patience with you because you will have more flexibility after the election.
	And Obama said, yep, that's about it.
	Just hang in there with me.
	So the Russians hung in there, so respectful of Obama, so awed, so dazzled, so fearful of Obama, that they basically tell one of Obama's great constituencies that they cannot participate in the Olympics.
	And Obama has a cow.
	This is the soundbite where Obama gets the Olympics wrong.
	Jay Leno says something that shocked me about Russia, Mr. President.
	I'm surprised this isn't.
	Wait a minute.
	Is that the yeah, oh, wait a minute, wrong one.
	Do we just play 21?
	Yeah, it's the setup is the same thing.
	It's never mind.
	Okay, here's the sound.
	Soundbite's right.
	Paul, I was reading a setup for the same one for the previous soundbite.
	This is the example of Obama talking about how upset he is and how great the contributions gay athletes are to the Olympics, but he gets the wrong Olympics here.
	They're athletes.
	They're there to compete.
	And if Russia wants to uphold the Olympic spirit, then every judgment should be made on the track or in the swimming pool or on the balance beam.
	And people's sexual orientation shouldn't have anything to do with it.
	Right now, right now, except it's the Winter Olympics.
	It's Lindsay Vaughan on the ski slopes with Tiger Woods jet parked nearby in case she blows out her knee.
	But it isn't lithe, willowy, winnowy gymnasts on a balance beam or in the pool.
	That's the summer Olympics, and those are going to be in Rio, which has a major kidnapping problem.
	A bunch of Olympic teams will probably suffer various kidnapping victims down there.
	You know, that's a whole other story, but Rio is, you know, they got the World Cup coming up there before the Olympics in 2016.
	And I saw something the other day that they're nowhere near ready and able to accommodate even the World Cup.
	So this appearance last night, by the way, Obama also, folks, he had a number of fault pause.
	He didn't just get the Olympics thing wrong.
	He told Leno that he wants to deepen the ports on the Gulf Coast, like in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida.
	Except they don't have any ports on the Gulf Coast there because they aren't on the Gulf Coast.
	The Gulf Coast is Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.
	And Obama said, told Leno he wants to deepen the ports on the Gulf Coast, like Charleston, South Carolina, that's the Atlantic Ocean.
	Savannah, Georgia, that's the Atlantic Ocean.
	Jacksonville, Florida, that's the Atlantic Ocean.
	Now, these could just be examples of verbal dyslexia.
	I mean, we all know that Obama knows that Jacksonville and Savannah and Charleston aren't.
	Well, I think we know that he knows they're not in the Gulf.
	But anyway, they were misstatements.
	Got the wrong Olympics, wrong geography.
	And where's Obama's persuasive powers?
	How can Putin sit there and say he's going to have zero flexibility on gays when it's something that matters deeply and profoundly to Obama?
	So anyway, it was an unserious statement, unserious appearance.
	It made a mockery of what are serious world events.
	In fact, there's a story that just ran on what it is that constituted a reason for this massive shutdown of our embassies.
	And apparently the regime, Eli Lake and another writer have the story at the Daily Beast.
	And the only way they could get this is if the regime leaked it.
	The only way the who else knows this?
	Who else knows what happened?
	I mean, sure, you've got people at the NSA and CIA, but that's the regime.
	And basically, what they've had was Ayman al-Zawahiri is now apparently much more active than even Bin Laden was.
	He was bin Laden's number two.
	Apparently, these guys had, terrorists had a conference call of like 20 of them.
	20, 22 terrorists, conference call around a virtual conference table, like a board of directors of a corporation.
	And they planned all this murder and mayhem and terrorism.
	And we overheard the call.
	And so now, and we've leaked that.
	So now Zawahiri and his other fellow members of the board of terrorists, Inc. now know not to use that form of communication again because it's been compromised.
	Why in the world leak this?
	I'll tell you why leak it.
	They leak it so as to make Obama look big and competent and tough and make this administration look like nobody's going to get anything past them.
	These are really tough guys, the Obama administration, and they really take terrorism seriously.
	So we've shut down 21 embassies for a week, and we now know the explicit reason why, because we leaked it.
	So Zawahiri, just to repeat, is on a conference call with the other members of the board, essentially.
	I mean, look at this as a corporation.
	And they're planning these various assaults and techniques.
	Whoever's listening to them, man, this is serious stuff.
	This is bigger or as big as what we heard prior to 9-11.
	So they announced the closing of the embassies, and then while Obama's telling us he's got Al-Qaeda on the run, we leak the actual details of that call, which gives up, tells these terrorists, Zawahiri and the others, not to use whatever form of communication they were using because it's been compromised.
	So now they're going to go do something else that we can't follow.
	Why in the world would you do this?
	Why would you leak this?
	Isn't it enough to say that the chatter was serious and it's causing grave, potentially grave consequences?
	We have to shut the embassies.
	Now, naturally, people are going to say, why?
	What?
	What happened?
	What happened?
	What's going on?
	Well, we can't tell you.
	Okay, you want to know why?
	Here's what happened.
	We accepted a phone call, series of phone calls, video calls, whatever it was.
	Zawahiri and his gang now know not to do it that way again because it's been compromised.
	So rather than leave it untouched and able to tap into any and every time, perhaps, that Zawahiri gets on the phone with his buddies, we've shut that down.
	It just doesn't make any sense unless they're a couple steps ahead of us on this, which I would hope, but I don't have a lot of confidence.
	Brief time out, my friend, sit-tight.
	El Rushbo, back after this.
	Don't go away.
	Fastest week in media, Rush Limbaugh, a Wednesday afternoon in the Eastern time zone, Wednesday morning in much of the country as well, Dayton, Ohio.
	As we go to the phones, hi, Bob.
	Great to have you on the program today.
	Hello.
	Thank you very much.
	I love your tea.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Since you break that up, I got to share with you an email.
	Right here it is.
	We got an email from one of our customers, and it says, Rush Catherine received my tea shipment yesterday.
	This would be, it was yesterday.
	And the FedEx driver said that they have delivered so many cases of 2FIT since your special last week that they thought some sort of fraud was happening.
	It was really fun.
	We just wanted you to know because the FedEx driver said that we've been doing nothing but delivering 2F5.
	Folks, I can't, the volume of tea we went through last week on this special that we ran is just incredible.
	And the FedEx drivers, some of them thought that a warehouse theft had taken place because there was so much of it.
	And I thought it was, it's a great story.
	This is one of ours from Carson City, Nevada.
	So Bob, I'm glad that you like it too.
	Thank you.
	Well, my driver said that why don't I just order a case or two at a time?
	I ordered 10 at a time.
	That makes sense to me.
	Well, my real reason for calling is back during the Kennedy administration, I was in an Army security agency associated with NSA.
	We intercepted a message from Moscow to northern Russia that had all the contents of the 26 ships that left northern Russia for Cuba.
	Now, hang on, slow down.
	Slow down just a second.
	I want to, this is fascinating to me.
	So this would be 1961-62.
	62.
	September 62.
	And you intercepted a message from Moscow to where Northern Russia that had the contents of all 26 ships that left one of them.
	Several ICBMs and several intermediate missiles.
	Right.
	Now, before we get to that, what was the intercept?
	What kind of communication did you intercept?
	Well, they come up on Morse code, go to teletype.
	And the guy came up on Morse code and went to teletype, but he forgot to put his scrambler on, and he transmitted for a minute and a half in the clear.
	He stops, shuts down, comes back up, puts his scrambler on, and retransmits the first minute and a half in code.
	But he was using Morse code.
	It was not voice.
	No, he comes up in Morse code and then went to teletype.
	But what at the NSA or wherever you were, what kind of equipment did you have to have, and what kind of communication did you have to monitor to get this?
	Was it a radio communication of some kind?
	Yes, radio.
	You pull it off a radio, and it's all transmitted across the airways, but it was teletype back then, was the main form of the communication.
	They'd just come up in Morse code, establish their connection, and then they'd turn their scrambler on and transmit.
	And we used to listen to them all the time.
	And it did take a long time to get the first minute and a half in the clearing.
	It was real easy.
	Bob, I know this a long time ago.
	Pardon my swearing, folks.
	I'm frustrated.
	He can't hear me.
	I'm trying to ask him questions, and I've got time vanishing.
	Bob, does the long time ago, but are you divulging any secrets here?
	I only had to keep them for 20 years.
	Really?
	You only had to keep a secret for 20 years.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Well, obviously.
	Okay, so you intercept this message.
	You had the contents of the 26 ships.
	And what did you want to add to that?
	Well, President Kennedy knew exactly what was on board those ships headed for Cuba.
	Knew exactly.
	Blockade up.
	He stood up and would not allow anything to get to Cuba, period.
	Are you comparing him to Obama?
	Is that what this is?
	Yeah, Kennedy kept his mouth shut, didn't tell anybody what he had, and stood up and did.
	Oh, okay, okay.
	As opposed to Obama leaking everything that we're finding out.
	Well, why in the heck would you tell the world that SEAL Team 6 took out Obama?
	Keep your mouth shut.
	Don't tell anybody that you did it and let it go.
	Because Obama targeted on those guys.
	Obama feels the need to brag about this stuff.
	Obama wants everybody to know that he did it.
	Well, don't you know that Obama's bigger than the country, Bob?
	It's like standing there and taking the embassies, the people out of the embassies.
	Why take the people out?
	Why not put more people in there and surprise them when they come in that, oh, I thought there was only going to be three or four, and here we got 100.
	Yeah, well, I can understand why you'd be mad about this, having worked as you did.
	Now, what Kennedy did with the information, that's a whole other story, again, I'm not going to get into now because of the constraints of time.
	But your point is he didn't tell everybody what we knew, as Obama is.
	Okay, we come back.
	There have been more people way in on Jeff Bezos and his purchase of the Washington Post and a number of power brokers have confirmed a bunch of things that I said yesterday.

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