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Aug. 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, I had a quick uh quick little broadcast question here for well, it's not a broadcast question, but it's a question during the broadcast.
I got a question for you.
Let's say it is the day after the regime announces, and they put the picture as Obama in the situation room.
Obama's got his official I'm president jacket on, and he's sitting in there, and there's Hillary and the Chief Joints, and they're all gazing at the TV monitors in the situation room.
And the news is announced that Obama killed Osama.
Just like it happened.
What do you think would have been the reaction if I the next day had said they can't fool me?
I don't believe he was in there for this.
He was probably out playing spades or on the golf course.
What do you think the reaction would have been?
The media would have been all over me for disrespecting our brave president who single-handedly ordered and supervised the capture and the killing and the burial of Osama bin Laden.
And here I am.
I can't say one good thing about Obama.
I can't grant him even one accomplishment.
I have to besmirch everything.
I'm asking is Limbosy, was he playing spades or was he out playing golf?
You know what that would have been the reaction.
Well, guess what?
Obama's uh uh uh shadow, his body man, Reggie Love.
You know what this guy does?
You know what?
He's not a security guy.
I everybody would love one of these guys.
Reggie Love makes sure Obama's luggage is where it's supposed to go.
You've got the White House butler who does the packing.
Reggie Love makes sure that everything that's supposed to happen to get Obama wherever he's supposed to be happens, and that whatever's supposed to be there when he gets there happens.
He's he's uh he's an emotional uh what do you call it?
Uh he's either to bounce stuff off of basically a confident uh but he's not a security guy.
Secret Service does that.
He didn't actually pack the luggage, the White House butler.
The butler does that.
Or whoever the butler assigns it to.
So at the time Reggie, wherever Obama is, Reggie Love is there.
And Reggie loves the guy saying, You're the best.
You're the best, you're there's nobody better.
Uh Reggie Love is the guy saying, trust your judgment, trust your instincts.
Reggie Reggie Love is out there keeping the president bucked up.
That's that's his role.
So they sent Reggie Love out there.
Uh uh I don't know what precipitated this.
But Reggie Love didn't speak all the while he was working for Obama.
He's not working for Obama.
There's a new Reggie.
There's a new body person.
I don't know who it is.
They sent Reggie out there, and I'm I'm convinced that Reggie's objective here was to uh remind everybody what a gutsy guy Obama is.
What a gutsy call Obama made.
And the trouble is that Reggie screwed up the gutsy call part because Reggie made it sound like Obama didn't care.
He's out there playing cards.
Well, what he wanted to do was was I'm I'm certain that they sent Reggie out there to solidify and emphasize Obama's empathy.
Let's listen to Reggie.
This actually was on uh July 18th.
It was just posted online yesterday, though.
But it was July 18th in Los Angeles at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA.
And Reggie Love is speaking to the students.
And it's just 15 seconds, but here's what he said.
Most people were like down in the situation room, and he was like, I'm not, I can't I'm not gonna be down here.
I can't watch it this entire thing.
And just so he, myself, Pete, Susa, the White House photographer, Marvin, we played we must have played 15 hands, 15 games of spades.
Now, I am sure that Reggie did not mean it to sound like Obama couldn't deal with what was going on in there, but that's the way he sounded.
Because he says most people were like down in the situation room, and he was like, I'm not, I can't, I'm not gonna be down there.
I can't watch this entire thing.
Why not?
It's your operation.
So Sama Bin Laden, why can't you watch like the whole thing?
Like, why do you have to send old Reggie down there like with a deck of cards and like play spades like?
Like, why do you have to do that?
But Reggie didn't intend that.
Reggie, Reggie didn't I'm sure that Reggie didn't intend to make it look like Obama didn't have the stomach for it.
I mean, like, what does this sound like to you?
Play it again.
Sam, audio soundbite number six.
What is this sound like to you?
Most people were like down in the situation room, but he was like, I'm not, I can't gonna be down here, I can't watch it, this entire thing, and just so he, myself, Pete Susa, the White House photographer, Marvin, we played we must have played 15 hands, 15 games of spades.
Marvin is Marvin Nicholson, and Marvin's the new Reggie.
I'm like, I can't watch this whole thing.
I'm not gonna go down there.
What the hell?
Let's go play cards, Reggie.
Grab the photographer, the White House photographer.
The White House photographer to wherever we went, it was the resident, I guess, dining room table in the residence.
A table, by the way, at which I have dined.
So that's where they're playing spades.
Second floor of the White House, right off the elevators, right there off of diplomatic reception room.
Small elevator.
Anyway, it's very it's beautiful, wood-paneled.
Uh great elevator operator.
Anyway.
This was supposed to make Obama sound, I'm convinced, empathetic.
So Reggie goes out and says that stuff, and it it sounds like, you know, like Obama couldn't deal with it.
He's like, I'm not, I can't, I'm not gonna be down there.
I can't watch this entire thing.
What do you mean?
You can't watch your operation, ostensibly.
Now remember, prior to this, we were told that Obama was on a golf course in the morning.
We're told that Valerie Jarrett had to grab him, Valerie and Hillary, the chicks, had to grab him off the golf course and practically lasso him to get him in there.
Because he had rejected the operation three different times or two different times.
So this obviously is not the way Reggie intended this.
And that's why the media is now circling the wagons that this was a brilliant thing.
This is all about staying focused.
This is all about doing whatever he has to do to keep his mind clear.
Here again, Nora O'Donnell and Charlie Rose at CBS.
Fifte games of spade.
It was a long raid that was carried out.
It took a long way to operation, and clearly the president, I think needed to take a break, but I think some people are gonna take that headline out of context today.
I take out of that.
I'm with the president to do whatever he needs to do to clear his mind so he can make the most effective decision he can.
Right.
That was clearly a tension-filled day.
Oh God.
Oh my God.
And if he couldn't stand to watch this, can you imagine Benghazi?
Can you imagine that day?
I wonder if they even played spades that day.
I wonder if it'd play in hearts.
I wonder if when Benghazi there playing poker, maybe they're playing basketball.
Maybe they're out there shooting hoops.
Maybe he and Reggie and Marvin are out shooting hoops.
But if he couldn't watch the whole bin Laden thing like, then like how could he watch the Benghazi operation?
Like, because that went on for seven hours.
They could play a few hundred games of spades.
You think Reggie meant to say spades?
Okay, if that's what they played.
Probably didn't play space, but he'd play hearts basketball during Benghazi.
But he's like he can't be for that whole thing.
So anyway, here's Charlie and Nora and Oh, yeah.
Oh, wow, this is brilliant.
Now I just imagine the day after they make this big announcement, that big picture, and I say, I don't believe this for a minute.
I think he's out playing spades.
I think he's out playing golf.
Can you imagine how they would come down on me?
Folks, it would have been, it would have been bloody.
I'd have walked out of here bleeding that day.
They wouldn't have waited till the cable shows that night to jump into my chili.
Here is Obama himself.
This is May 8th 2011 on 60 Minutes with Steve Croft, and he's asking Obama during the Bin Laden raid, what was the mood?
Now we know now that the mood was at the residence playing spades.
But Croft didn't know that.
The Croft thinks he's asking, what about the mood in the situation room?
We were able to monitor the situation in real time, getting reports back from Bill McCraben, the head of uh our special forces operations, as well as uh Leon Panetta.
There were big chunks of time in which all we were doing was just waiting.
And it was the longest 40 minutes uh of my life, with the possible exception of when Sasha got meningitis when she was three months old, and I was waiting for the doctor to tell me that she was all right.
It was a very tense situation.
Were you nervous?
Yes.
Oh.
It's your deal, Mr. President.
and Your deal.
Meaning with the cards.
Well, I don't know if TMZ is gonna call him full of it.
Because this doesn't involve Switzerland.
But I mean, like they called Oprah full of it.
Uh TMZ leave this alone.
But these uh 40 longest minutes of my life, like playing cards with Reggie Love.
May 8th, 60 minutes.
Steve Croft reported the following about Obama on the raid on Osama and his compound.
To break the tension and to clear his head, he played some golf in the morning, waiting for the sun to go down in Pakistan.
Then he returned to the White House for the most critical 40 minutes of his presidency.
Oh, my God, this is so syrupy.
Gag me, really.
So playing golf in the morning, then he came back for the most critical 40 minutes of his presidency.
And playing golf in the morning and then card spades, Reggie Love and Marvin Nicholson, and the White House photographer.
Let's go back to the Democrat National Convention.
September 6th of 2012.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Vice President Bite Me.
Bravery resides in the heart of Barack Obama, and time and time again, I witnessed him summon it.
This man has courage in his soul, compassion in his heart, and a spine of steel.
And because of all the actions he took, because of the calls he made, because of the determination of American workers, and the unparalleled bravery of our special forces.
We can now proudly say what you've heard me say the last six months.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.
He was so he was he was so brave that he left the situation room and like he didn't want to spend all that time in there.
He couldn't do that.
He's gonna spend it.
He went out, he played cards.
Reggie Love.
Folks, I I wonder uh was Obama able to stay in the situation room through the entire rodeo clown crisis.
Do you think?
No, let me just say one thing.
I is I uh I know what some of you are saying.
Come on, Rush.
It all works out.
Because they said there was a lot of downtime.
He could have gone and played cards and come back and been in the situation with the right time and played golf and all.
That's I understand.
Folks, here's my here's my problem.
We are talking about the president of the United States.
When the vice president has to go out on the convention floor and start telling us how brave the guy is.
I'm sorry.
That's understood.
That's part and part that's part of package.
It's like if if if if a woman has to tell you she's not a prostitute, what what are the odds that she is?
Somebody has to deny you, you've heard people see deny a charge that hasn't been made.
This is just it's the same stuff that happened during the Clinton years.
All these sycophants, all the time sitting around telling stories how great, empathetic, brave, courageous, whatever the guy is, because it doesn't speak for itself.
And all these people covering for him, oh golly, playing cards.
Well, whatever he has to do to keep his mind shut.
Give me a break.
He didn't take it seriously.
And everybody understands this.
And they sent Reggie Love out there to try to cover it up and make it look like empathy, and he didn't pull it off.
And so now it's cover the wagons time or cover the uh CYA.
They just nobody had to tell us that the characters John Wayne played in movies was were brave and patriotic.
Certain things about people speak for themselves.
And these are all characteristics that we think we are electing when somebody's running for the office.
And it just don't quite know how to explain it, but it just it what it tells me is that if they have to tell us he's brave, there must be a question about it.
It must not speak for itself.
If they have to tell us that playing cards during the Bin Laden raid is a great way of keeping your mind sharp.
Something they know is not right about this.
And they're trying to square it.
And this kind of stuff happened all the time during the Clinton years.
But just I uh during the eight years of Reagan, he didn't have people working for him out there telling everybody how great he was and how empathetic he was, and how this or that he was.
I mean, you had media speculating on the fact he couldn't stay awake, or that's the but we d there was not this this never ending image and PR campaign constantly surrounding him, and there wasn't with George W. Bush.
Now you might be saying, well, we need that in this day and age rush because of people and their exposure to the media.
They have to be told.
They don't assume that these qualities exist.
I maintain they do.
If you're talking about you can tell a person whether a man or not.
You know manliness when you see it.
You know competence when you see it, you know leadership when you see it.
You may not be able to define it for people.
It's like Potter Stewart, the Supreme Court judge, justice, said, I may not be able to define pornography, but by God I know it when I see it.
You know compassion, you know toughness, you know manliness when you see it, you know cowardice when you see it.
And these people must think we don't see it.
And the Clinton people must have thought we didn't see it.
Because every day they had to drill it into us.
How great these guys are.
And uh I'm just I'm sorry, if I have to be told how great somebody is, then I'm suspicious.
Must not be technically obvious.
Bill in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, thank you for taking my call.
It's a privilege to speak with you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Rush, my wife and I are big two if by key fans, and I wanted to share a quick story with you that I think you'll appreciate.
Oh, cool.
I come from a large family, mostly liberals, and each year we have a get together on July 4th.
Now every family is assigned task for the get together.
This year we were in the entertainment group.
So we decided that we were going to conduct the classic blind case test using the two F by tea.
Now we took our personal favorite, which was the Raspberry Tea.
Yeah.
And we stacked that up against uh one of your formal rivals, Snapple's Raspberry Tea.
Right.
Uh along with two other nationally known brands, Lipton and Nest Tea.
Okay.
Now throughout the day we conducted the test, it was conducted, sir, uh impartially, it was conducted fairly, and it was a wide range of people.
And it was really blind.
No, the labels were not visible.
Labels were not visible, it was put into a uh blank cup, so nobody knew what they were drinking.
Um and there were two things that were surprised us about these results, Rush.
Number one were the results of the test.
Number two, and more surprising, uh, was the reaction of the testers when they revealed the win.
Let me guess, two if by tea overwhelmingly was preferred.
It was it was picked as the best.
Twenty-seven out of twenty-eight people, sir, chose the two F by T as the best.
And then when your liberal family members found out it was not pretty rush.
Um when we listed the box when we lifted the box to reveal the tea, um, it was anger, room.
Hang on, hang on.
Don't go away.
Bill, I gotta take a break, but I but I want you to uh I want you to hang on.
I'll be r I'll be right back.
I I want to hear this in detail.
And welcome back, El Rushbow talent on the lawn from God.
This is great.
We got Bill from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Bill, let me reset the stage.
His family gets together every July 4th.
A lot of liberals in the family.
They each have a responsibility to make the Fourth of July celebration fun and entertaining.
Everybody has a various chore to do.
And what he decided to do was do a blind taste testing of a raspberry two if by tea with three other brands Snapple, Lipton, and Nest T. And so they put uh this blank cups, these blank cups, they covered the labels on the bottles, and fixed the price using the bottles, and twenty-seven out of twenty-eight family members chose two if by tea as the best tasting.
Now he was just about to tell us what the reaction because it's a liberal family, when they found out that two if by tea was the winner, and we ran out of time.
So you're up.
What happened?
Well, we had about fifty people gathered around the table rush, and uh my wife lifted up the box to reveal the two if by tea, and uh it was met with anger, rage, yelling, cursing.
I had a beer dumped on my head, we had watermelon rhymes that were tossed at us.
My wife had a piece of key lime pie that was smashed in her face.
Now, wait a second.
Did this all of this really?
This sounds like real anger, though.
Russia gets better.
It was absolute rage.
Now, in classic liberal character, rather than acknowledging the results of the test, the immediate response was that we cheated and that we rigged the test, that we that we changed the locations, that we had the same tea behind every box, that we that we switched the results.
Um it was everything except acknowledging that the results were what they were.
This is unbelievable.
This is this is no Rush it gets better.
So uh a couple people, my my brother who was hosting the party, uh, instructed us that we needed to remove the tea from his property.
He did not want the tea to be on his property.
You're kidding!
Did your wife did somebody actually throw a piece of key lime pie in your wife's face?
No, it wasn't thrown rush, it was taken and smushed.
Okay, well, but same difference.
It really happened.
It really happened.
Now, here's where it's kind of changed, Rush.
A couple people now, uh, with with the view of the iced teas now available went back and tried the tea again, and our results started to be validated, and rush diehard liberals, people who hate you and everything You stand for,
then started to come to the defense of, not you personally, sir, but come to the defense of the two F by T. And we actually watched over the course of the next couple minutes, something happened with liberals that we've never seen happen before.
They actually compromised.
There was a group of people who wanted the tea removed, a group of people who wanted the tea to stay.
So they actually came to an agreement that your tea was going to be allowed to stay at the party under one condition.
The label that was bearing your name and your image was to be removed from the bottle.
So my wife and I took the next 15 minutes or so to remove the labels off of the last, I think it was 24 bottles, uh, of two of by tea.
And I'm happy to report, Rush, that by the end of the day, every single bottle of two of by tea was gone.
And so were the labels.
And so were the labels.
We actually saved the labels.
I think we're going to use them with Christmas cards this year.
This is this is the greatest story I have heard yet.
This story is so over the top, and the thing is, I'm laughing myself silly because I'm I'm actually envisioning this happen as you tell the story.
I can see the rage.
I can see the key lime pie squishing your wife's face.
I can see them protesting.
I can I can see them demanding it be removed.
Uh uh And what was funny, Rush was that even once the bottles were removed, we we were surprised at the end of the day that all the tea was gone because we didn't see that many people drinking it, even with the labels removed.
And what my wife was able to ascertain after was that people were drinking it covertly, even with the label removed.
People were still pouring it from the bottle into a generic cup, probably so other people wouldn't know.
So the moral of the story here, Rush, is that maybe the two if by tea will do something that even you and all your greatness have not been able to do, and that's get liberals to actually compromise.
Well, I know that's that's that's got to be something unprecedented.
Now I'm just wondering, uh they probably I mean, they ended up all liking it, right?
I mean, I think that was that was deduced at the beginning.
The 27 out of 28, then they all it was 28 for 28 after a while.
Do you think that these liberals will surreptitiously buy it themselves now?
We we had that discussion, Rush, and uh it'll be interesting to see.
We're gonna keep an eye on it.
Well, I tell you what I'll do.
I this this call I we we we've got these tumblers, these turvis tumblers, these 12 ounce tumblers that I love.
I just I I use them exclusively at home.
And they've got the Rush Revere 2F by T character on one side and revered rush on the other.
And we can't keep them in stock.
And we've got we've got a new stash coming in, and I I want to send you four of these.
I mean, it's the least I could, and then I want to send you a couple cases of raspberry.
Um I feel like I ought to buy your wife a key lime pie.
Um this is just but I tell you what, Bill, this is so great.
You you gotta keep an eye on our uh website because you may, with this call, you may end up qualifying as our patriot of the month.
We have at the two of by tea.com website.
We uh we we honor an American citizen every month, the patriot of the month.
And it's uh it's a very, very complicated selection process.
Uh but we've got we've got gift certificates coming out soon, Bill, which would be ideal here for your liberal family members who may not be able to pull a trigger and actually buy it themselves.
But you've got gift certificates here that you can perhaps arrange for them to get.
I may send you some of those too.
What what I need you to do is hang on, I'm gonna put you on hold, and Mr. Snerdley is gonna get all the vital shipping information from you.
And he's gonna give that to me, and I'm gonna turn it over to the two of by tea people Over there that are that that take care of this.
I'm gonna get you a care package out.
Thank you very much, sir.
Because this is a this is it's a fabulous.
This is the funniest story I have heard yet.
That Bill, whatever you do, don't hang up.
Mr. Snerdley will be right with you, and we will be right back.
So don't go away.
We got a new marketing strategy.
A tea's so good, it doesn't need a label.
I mean, I I'm thinking about that.
Think of the his his liberal family members literally got mad.
Then they demanded that it be removed.
Then they refused to see the label.
They didn't want any part.
It it it a microcosm in that one family get together on the Fourth of July, a literal microcosm.
And the compromise is they'll be happy to drink the tea as long as there's not a visual reminder of whose it is.
Unbelievable.
This is unbelievable.
I can't...
That is I just I can't keep a straight face with this.
Uh Marty in in Stafford, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hey Maharashi, what a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
My sister Ruth told me to listen to your show back in 1998, and I'm so glad she did.
Um this Bruha over the Obama, the rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair brought back memories of when we attended our son's graduation from the University of Missouri, Columbia in May 2005.
Uh some of the graduates used masking tape to spell out F blank blank blank Bush.
And they spelled out the entire F word with grandparents and children in attendance.
And we just ignore it.
Wait, where was this?
At Mizzou.
Yeah, I know, but where?
During the graduation ceremony, and oh yes, sir.
But where?
On the on the gowns on the where where was the sign that the caps on the caps, I'm sorry.
On the on the caps during graduation, F. Bush.
Yes, sir.
So you could see it from the stands.
You know, a nice little bullet um And let me guess.
The administration University of Missouri didn't have a problem with it.
No, not at all.
Nothing was said.
No diplomas were held back, no apologies demanded.
Nothing because making fun of President Bush was pretty much the national pastime.
So the governor of Missouri didn't have any say about it.
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri didn't say about it.
Right.
Matt Blunt, who was a Republican, right?
I mean, you know.
So um it just shows this Obama's skin color is not the issue.
It is how thin it is.
This this president cannot take any criticism and he cannot lead.
If they are sending these clowns to sensitivity training, that just like the re-education camps that the Chicoms have.
Oh, yes, sir.
Have you ever seen the movie The Inner Circle with Tom Holz?
And it's set during the Stalin era.
And he he is um he's a believer in Stalin, and he's just an everyday guy.
And he accidentally spills his tea or coffee on the newspaper with Stalin's picture, and his niece, who has been brought up in the in the system, she looks at him and she says, Don't worry, Uncle, I won't tell anyone.
And that's just kind of how you know the feeling is for me right now in this country.
Yeah, I know.
I and sir, we lived in Russia for two years.
So I just I see how those people had it.
Um, when did you live in Russia?
We were there from two thousand two till two thousand four.
Well, they were they were they were on the road to capitalism.
Oh, yeah, but you just saw what you know how bad the system had been for those people.
The elderly begging on the streets.
Well, yeah, it's an interesting point that you make.
It's not the color of his skin, it's how thin it is.
You know, that is really true.
Not just his, but every one of his supporters.
They can't take a joke, they can't take a punch.
Really, this this reminded me of the absolute lunacy that takes place in a country where uh w when the militant Islamists go crazy over a cartoon featuring Mohammed.
Oh, you hit the nail on the head.
This is exactly this is ex the left in this country behaving exactly like these militant Islamists do.
Yep.
Exactly.
But he is got a thin skin.
You don't criticize this guy.
He's above it.
You don't laugh at him, you don't make jokes about him.
You do nothing but revere and respect him.
Here's a guy, he's a constitutional scholar, so smart we can't see his grades.
Yep.
Yep, toe the line or else.
Well, uh, you know your story about the graduation.
And there were uh books and movies on assassinating Bush and so forth.
Um it it it really is a one-way stream.
All these 25 years, I mean, well, okay, at what point is this going to bottom out?
And and we're gonna rebound from it.
At what point is everybody gonna say uh unacceptable.
This is just and we've we're nowhere near it.
You know, I've I'm you know naively been hoping for all these years that at some point we'd reach a bottom and and begin to uh start to rebound from it.
But we're not.
There is no bottom.
There is no gutter.
We haven't reached it yet, as far as the left is concerned.
And it's uh the the standards is not just double standards, it's uh much worse than that.
But I really, Marty, your comment is profound.
That it's not his skin color, it's how thin it is.
Although it is the skin color at the root of it.
As far as his supporters and the uh politically correct, that's what it's all about.
But it is in fact also how thin skin is.
This guy just can't take it.
You know, the country being royal over something like this, people being people losing their their jobs forever, being suspended forever since sensitivity training.
You realize most presidents would call a halt to this.
They'd go out at a press conference or issue a statement and say, can we everybody calm down here?
The president would be bigger than this.
And the president would make it look like this is much ado about nothing.
And this guy soaks it up.
This guy acts like he thinks it's entirely warranted that this clown's life should be ruined because of this.
No doubt.
Marty, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
That's it for today, folks.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time.
But there's more tomorrow.
Open line Friday, and we'll see you then.
Thanks, as always, very much for being with us today.
Can't wait till tomorrow.
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