Hey folks, I had a quick, quick little broadcast question here for you.
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 pictures 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 his limb boss, was he playing spades or was he out playing golf?
You know what that would have been the reaction.
Well, guess what?
Obama's shadow, his body man, Reggie Love.
You know what this guy does?
You know what?
He's not a security guy.
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 an emotional, what do you call it?
He says he's going to bounce stuff off of.
He's supposed to be confident.
Yeah, he's basically a confidant.
But he's not a security guy.
Secret Service does that.
He doesn'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 Love's the guy saying, you're the best.
You're the best.
There's nobody better.
Reggie Love is the guy saying, trust your judgment, trust your instincts.
Reggie Love is out there keeping the president bucked up.
That's his role.
So they sent Reggie Love out there.
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 convinced that Reggie his objective here was to 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.
What he wanted to do was 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 July 18th.
It was just posted online yesterday, though.
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, but he was like, I'm not going to be down here.
I can't watch this entire thing.
So he, myself, Pete, Sousa, the White House photographer, Marvin, we must have played 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 going to 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 Reggie down there like with a deck of cards and like play spades?
Like, why do you have to do that?
But Reggie didn't intend that.
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 sound bite number six.
What does this sound like to you?
Most people were like down in the situation room, but he was like, I'm not, I can't, I'm not going to be down here.
I can't watch this entire thing.
So he, myself, Pete, Souza, the White House photographer, Marvin, we must have played 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 going to go down there.
What the hell?
Let's go play cards, Reggie.
Grab the photographer, the White House photographer.
Where did they have a White House photographer?
To wherever we went, it was the resident, the 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 elevator's right there off of diplomatic reception room.
Small elevator.
Anyway, it's very wood-paneled.
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 sounds like, you know, like Obama couldn't deal with it.
He's like, I'm not, I can't, I'm not going to 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, Nara O'Donnell and Charlie Rose at CBS.
15 games of spade.
Was a long raid that was carried out.
It took a long raid operation, and clearly the president, I think, needed to take a break.
But I think some people are going to take that headline out of context today.
I'll take out of that.
I want 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 he even played spades that day.
I wonder if they're playing hearts.
I wonder if when Benghazi, they're 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.
I think Reggie meant to say spades.
Okay, if that's what they played.
Probably didn't play to 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 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.
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 McCraven, the head of our Special Forces operations, as well as Leon Panetta.
There were big chunks of time in which all we were doing was just waiting.
And it was the longest 40 minutes 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.
Your deal.
Meaning with the cards.
Well, I don't know if TMZ is going to call him full of it because this doesn't involve Switzerland.
But, I mean, like they called Oprah full of it.
TMZ, leave this alone.
But these are 40 longest minutes of my life.
Like just playing cards.
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.
Gagged 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 in cards page 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, 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 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 went out and he played cards.
Reggie love.
Folks, I wonder, was Obama able to stay in the situation room for the entire rodeo clown crisis?
Do you think?
No, let me just say one thing.
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 at the right time and played golf.
I understand, folks.
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 of the package.
It's like if a woman has to tell you she's not a prostitute, what are the odds that she is?
Somebody has to, you know, you've heard people 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, gives 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 CYA.
They just, nobody had to tell us that the characters John Wayne played in movies 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, this don't quite know how to explain it, but it just, 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 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.
But there was not 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 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 I'm sorry.
If I have to be told how great somebody is, then I'm suspicious.
Must not be patently 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 2F by T 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 a 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 2F by T.
Now, we took our personal favorite, which was the raspberry tea, and we stacked that up against one of your formal rivals, Snapbull's Raspberry Tea, along with two other nationally known brands, Lipton and Nest Tea.
Okay.
Now, throughout the day, we conducted the test.
It was conducted, sir, impartially.
It was conducted fairly, and it was a wide range of people killed.
And it was really blind.
No, the labels were not visible.
Labels were not visible.
It was put into a blank cup, so nobody knew what they were drinking.
And there were two things that would surprise us about these results, Rush.
Number one were the results of the test.
Number two, and more surprising, was the reaction of the testers when we revealed the land.
Let me guess.
2F by T overwhelmingly was preferred.
It was picked as the best.
27 out of 28 people, sir, chose the 2F by T as the best.
And then, when your liberal family members found out.
It was not free, Rush.
When we lifted the box to reveal the tea, it was anger.
Here, hang on.
Hang on.
Don't go away.
Bill, I got to take a break, but I want you to hang on.
I'll be right back.
I want to hear this in detail.
And welcome back, El Rushbo, talent on the loan 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 4th 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 2F by T with three other brands, Snapple, Lipton, and Neste.
And so they put just blank cups, blank cups.
They covered the labels on the bottles.
In fact, they're probably going to use the bottles.
And 27 out of 28 family members chose 2F by T 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 2F by T was the winner and we ran out of time.
So you're up.
What happened?
Well, we had about 50 people gathered around the table, Rush, and my wife lifted up the box to reveal the 2F by T.
And it was met with anger, rage, yelling, cursing.
I had a beer dumped on my head.
We had watermelon rinds 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.
Rush, it 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 changed the locations, that we had the same tea behind every box, that we switched the results.
It was everything except acknowledging that the results were what they were.
This is unbelievable.
This is unlikely.
Now, Rush, it gets better.
So a couple people, my brother, who was hosting the party, 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, 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, die-hard 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 2F by T.
And we actually watched over the course of the next couple minutes something happen 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 of 2F by T.
And I'm happy to report, Rush, that by the end of the day, every single bottle of 2F by T 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 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 actually envisioning this happen as you tell the story.
I can see the rage.
I can see the key lime pie squish in your wife's face.
I can see them protesting.
I can see them demanding it be removed.
And what was funny, Rush, was that even once the bottles were removed, 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.
The moral of the story here, Rush, is that maybe the 2F by T 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 got to be something unprecedented.
Now, I'm just wondering, they probably, I mean, they ended up all liking it, right?
I mean, that was deduced at the beginning.
The 27 out of 28, then they all, it was 28 or 28 after a while.
Do you think that these liberals will surreptitiously buy it themselves now?
We had that discussion, Rush, and it'll be interesting to see.
We're going to keep an eye on it.
Well, I'll tell you what, I'll do.
We've got these tumblers, these Turvist tumblers, these 12-ounce tumblers that I love.
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 a new stash coming in, and 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.
I feel like I ought to buy your wife a key lime pie.
But I tell you what, Bill, this is so great.
You got to keep an eye on our website because you may, with this call, you may end up qualifying as our Patriot of the Month.
We have it, the 2FBT.com website.
We honor an American citizen every month, the Patriot of the Month.
And it's a very, very complicated selection process.
But 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.
And I may send you some of those too.
What I need you to do is hang on.
I'm going to put you on hold.
And Mr. Snerdley is going to get all the vital shipping information from you.
And he's going to give that to me.
And I'm going to turn it over to the 2F by T people over there that take care of this.
I'm going to get you a care package out.
Thank you very much, sir.
Because 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.
T is so good, it doesn't need a label.
I'm thinking about that.
Think of the, 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.
A microcosm in that one family get-together on the 4th 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.
I can't keep a straight face with this.
Marty, in Stafford, Virginia, I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hey, Maha Rashi.
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.
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.
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 ignored.
Wait, where was this?
At Mizzou.
Yeah, I know, but where?
During the graduation ceremony?
Oh, yes, sir.
But where?
On the gowns?
Where was the sign?
On the caps.
On the caps, I'm sorry.
On the caps during graduation to F. Bush.
Yes, sir.
So you could see it from the stands.
You know, a nice little bullet.
And let me guess, the administration of the 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 anything to say about it.
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri didn't have anything to say about it.
Right.
Matt Blunt, who was a Republican, right?
I mean, you know.
So it just shows this Obama's skin color is not the issue.
It is how thin it is.
This president cannot take any criticism and he cannot lead if they are sending these clowns to sensitivity training.
That's like the re-education camps that the CHICOMs have.
Oh, yes, sir.
Have you ever seen the movie The Inner Circle with Tom Hulse?
And it's set during the Stalin era.
And 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 system, she looks at him and she says, don't worry, Uncle, I won't tell anyone.
And that's just kind of how the feeling is for me right now in this country.
Yeah, I know.
And, sir, we lived in Russia for two years.
So I just, I see how those people had it.
Tell me, when did you live in Russia?
We were there from 2002 till 2004.
Well, they were on the road to capitalism.
Oh, yeah, but you just saw how bad the system had been for those people, the elderly begging on the streets.
Well, that'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 reminded me of the absolute lunacy that takes place in a country when the militant Islamists go crazy over a cartoon featuring Muhammad.
Oh, you hit the nail on the head.
This is exactly.
This is the left in this country behaving exactly like these militant Islamists do.
Yep, exactly.
But he has 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 liner else.
You know, your story about the graduation, and there were books and movies on assassinating Bush and so forth.
It really is a one-way street.
All these 25 years, I mean, okay, at what point is this going to bottom out?
And we're going to rebound from it.
At what point is everybody going to say, unacceptable?
This is just, and we're nowhere near it.
You know, I'm naively been hoping for all these years that at some point we'd reach a bottom and begin to 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 the standards, it's not just double standards.
It's 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 politically correct, that's what it's all about.
But it is, in fact, also how thin his skin is.
This guy just can't take it.
You know, the country being royal over something like this, people losing their jobs forever, being suspended forever, sensitivity training.
Do 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.