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Aug. 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 27, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Don't panic.
I'm here.
I'm still gonna get things in order here.
Greetings, my friends.
I don't care about Carnane.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network 800-282-288-2.
If you would like to be on the uh on the program today, the uh email address El Rushbo at EIB net.com.
So I got this email from from a friend who thinks I'm really off base on judging Obama on foreign policy.
And the it's it's about Syria and Obama draws the red line and Syria apparently has crossed it, and the media doing everything they can to cover the gaff.
Um meanwhile, the rest of the world is watching, and I don't think there's any other way to conclude.
The rest of the world, and I know this is probably going to offend some people.
I know it's going to offend people in the media.
If you ask me, if you if you look at if you if you look at what happened to Libya, if you look at closing 23 embassies,
if you if you look at now Syria, it is obvious to me that the people who are our enemies, the Iranians, throw them in the they've got to realize that the guy in the White House, I don't want to use the word patsy, but boy, it's close.
And the thing about this, the Syria argument, you know, I made the point earlier in Soundbites that Obama and Kerry and all these Democrats are a bunch of hypocrites.
So back in 2002, they were all accusing Bush of going into Iraq as a distraction because the recession was occurring and the economy was not that good and coming out of 9-11, and they were trying to paint the uh picture of Bush as an incompetent buffoon, stupid, dangerous, uh reckless cowboy.
And claiming that that uh uh Bush didn't have any idea what he was doing.
It was very, very dangerous.
Well what was really happening back then in 2002 was that Bush did everything these guys are not doing in Syria.
He went to the UN, he got a coalition, uh he put together uh uh partners in this whole degree, went to Congress and got a a uh use of force authorization.
None of that has happened here.
None of it.
In fact, in 2002, there were two use of force authorizations, because the first one, the Democrats didn't all vote the right way on it.
Public sentiment in 2002 was uh by a vast majority in favor of retaliating for 9-11, and even Iraq didn't start till 2003, but Bush was selling it in speech after speech, and the American public supported it.
Well, the Democrats thought they were gonna win the 22 or 2002 midterms by opposing it all.
They found out they were on the wrong side.
The Wellstone Memorial backfired on them and they lost big in the 2002 midterms, and they wanted a do-over on the use of force authorization, and they got it so that they could be on record as being on the same side as the American people.
And even after that, they didn't take long before they were trying to destroy Bush on lying to them and misleading them, not just about weapons of mass destruction, but on everything.
They were ticked off about the Florida aftermath, the recount from the 2000 election.
They were eps at Supreme Court for stopping the recount.
They thought Gore should have been president.
They were just livid.
I mean, they were so mad they were they were insane to one degree or another.
And their hatred for Bush was boundless.
But yet they still wanted to be on the right side of that use of force authorization.
So Bush gave them a do-over, gave them the second vote, and they voted for it, and it was after that that they then, including Hillary, they all started acting like they didn't sign it or that they were lied to, and that Bush didn't tell them they were he were he was gonna do any of this.
It was just amazing.
And now they are doing, or at least making noise about going into Syria because of Assad crossed the red line here with chemical weapons.
There's no coalition, there's no involvement of Congress, there's none of the stuff they demanded of Bush.
There's none of the stuff stuff that Bush did on his own leading into Iraq.
So I've been pointing out the hypocrisies.
I got a note from a friend saying, wait a minute, Rush.
Back in 2002, when Obama's a state senator in Illinois making this anti-Bush speech, an anti-Iraq speech, he really didn't know the way the world worked.
He couldn't really have been a hypocrite.
And I thought, now wait, that's I'm having trouble buying that.
I I did not think that Obama or the Democrats were anywhere near that naive.
Remember now, this is after 9-11.
This is after Al-Qaeda, which is militant Islam.
I say, how in the world can these guys be?
Particularly Obama be that.
Ignorant of the way the world works.
I mean, look at where he'd been educated and all that.
So my friend refuses to stand down on this.
And I get this note.
Ah, printed out the wrong one.
Let me see here.
Here it is.
I don't want to screw up with your accuracy rating on your opinion audit, but I think Obama didn't know how the world works or who he was dealing with back in the early 2000s.
He didn't have any professional experience in foreign affairs.
Being a child in Indonesia or having a Pakistani roommate doesn't count.
What he did have was an anti-imperialist America worldview shaped by his professors, most notably Edward Saeed of Columbia, the Black Liberation Church, and European elites, all of which David Axarod translated into political tools.
And then he got a Nobel Prize for not doing anything.
So he must have thought that he was on to something.
Okay, that let me ask you all a question.
When Obama got that, I know we're talking about ego here and trying to translate it and analyze it.
When Obama got that peace prize for not having done anything, when he got the Nobel Peace Prize basically on the cum, the Nobel Committee gave him the peace prize because they assumed that he was the Prince of Peace and that the world was going to become a place of peace just because he lived.
Now, my question to you is, do you think Obama really bought that?
Do you think Obama in his real world?
Let me put it this way.
If I I have enough humility that if I were president but I hadn't done anything yet, and the Nobel Committee gave me a peace prize, I would know that something's not right here.
I wouldn't take it seriously because I haven't done anything.
Do you think that Barack Obama is so lost in this messianic complex that he got the Nobel Peace Prize and really thought it was because of some great achievement?
Or does did he know that he's pulling a fastball on everybody?
Did he know?
But did he sit there and is he sitting in private laughing with Axarod?
Can you believe how we got these people Buffalo?
Look at what they did.
They gave me the peace prize, they haven't done diddly squat yet.
Or is he sitting there demanding an axarod and everybody kiss his feet?
Look at how great and wonderful I am.
I got the peace prize because they know how great a man I am.
Which is it.
I do too.
I think he knew he'd bamboozled everybody.
I think it's I think he's sitting there.
I think he's laughing himself silly with it, feeling very good about it.
If it's if it's the other, if he's actually hasn't done diddly squat other than get elected, all he's done is replace Bush, who everybody in the world hated.
All he's done is replace Bush.
All he did was get elected.
If he's actually sitting There thinking that, you know, his stuff doesn't stink.
If he's thinking that then we're dealing with a really well, well, that is.
That is a good way.
I probably wouldn't have accepted it.
He did.
So I don't know.
But here's the rest of this email.
What Obama had was an anti-imperialist America worldview, shaped by his professors, most notably Edward Said of Columbia, the Black Liberation Church, Reverend Wright, and European elites, which David Aksarod translated into political tools.
Then Obama gets a Nobel Prize.
So he must have thought he was on to something.
Unfortunately, the radical Muslims of the Middle East, who are expert America watchers, what they saw was a puffed up patsey.
So he ends up getting Libya, Egypt, the Iranian nuclear program, the growth of Al-Qaeda.
Now he's got Syria, and whatever else comes next.
In other words, the radical Muslims of the Middle East are looking at a buffoon.
And while Obama is up there strutting him stuff, strutting stuff and flexing his muscles.
We get the debacle in Egypt.
The debacle in Libya.
We get the Iranians marching without any roadblocks toward a nuclear weapons program.
Now Al-Qaeda is growing left and right.
We're shutting down 21-23 embassies, and now Syria may have used chemical weapons.
And whatever comes next.
And my friend says here the best thing that Obama could do to fix this mess would be to invite Bush and Cheney to the White House for consultations.
If he really wants to get out of this.
So the point here for my friend is this guy doesn't know what he's doing.
He has the slightest clue.
He doesn't realize how bad al-Qaeda is.
He doesn't realize what a threat and what a danger militant Islam is.
And so when he was criticizing Bush in 2002, he didn't know what he was talking about.
This is the point.
He didn't know what he was doing.
He thought.
He wasn't just being political.
And so the point is now that Obama has learned the way of the world.
And he's sitting in the Oval Office.
He's in a little bit of shock because all of this is new to him.
He didn't know that militant Islam was capable of this.
He didn't.
This is the point.
He didn't know that they would do this stuff.
He didn't know that he would disrespect him like this.
I mean, he went and gave the Cairo speech.
Anyway, all this is about the fact that I've got a guy trying to protect my accuracy rating by saying, don't accuse Obama being hypocritical in 2002.
He wasn't.
He didn't know how the world worked then.
And I just find that really hard to believe.
I think the Democrats know exactly how the world works.
They just think America is the problem in it.
And Obama was clearly taught that.
I mean, all these liberal Democrats think that America is the problem.
If it weren't for us and previous Republican presidents, then there wouldn't be an Al-Qaeda.
They think this way.
There wouldn't be a bunch of communists that want to ri uh uh uh take us down.
There wouldn't be any enemies, wouldn't be people don't like us, but these Republican warmongers who like sending the military every which way, look at what Obama's done.
I mean, they really do look at America as the problem in the world.
We look at America as the solution.
And I just have a tough time buying into this uh this notion that Obama was a neophyte back in 2002 as a state centered in Illinois.
And I mean, how do you how do you I I can't intellectually understand how you don't know and have a true grasp on who America's enemies are.
Now, I can totally understand somebody not thinking our enemies are our enemies.
But I can't understand them somebody not knowing that they're Bad guys.
That's just an interesting discussion point.
I've got to take a brief time out.
You uh sit tight, and we will continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
Okay, so now we add to this mix.
We add to the Syrians crossing the red line.
We have ABC dutifully say, well, uh really don't know what that means.
Obama wasn't really specific about what the red line was.
He wasn't specific about what happens when you cross the red line, what the consequences would be.
He wasn't specific about how you cross the red line.
So they're doing everything they can to protect him.
He's got the Martin Luther King thing tomorrow, the 50th anniversary.
That's going to be all about Obama.
I mean, everything.
We we're we're whether we're dealing with a deceitful, arrogant whatever, or uh a incompetent boob.
Whichever is the case, it is clear that the forces of the ruling class, uh, for lack of a better term, whatever they're doing, it i it's protecting Obama at at all costs.
This thing tomorrow all about what Obama is going to make of it and what it's going to say about Obama and what's Obama gonna do at the 50th, and he's gonna focus on the budget battle.
He's gonna take the occasion to attack the wealthy in the context of race and the economy, because at that event tomorrow, it'll be permissible to do so.
So that's a mess.
We've got the red line in Syria, we've got the debacle in Egypt and Libya and so now the the Iranians are once again, and they telegraph their intentions.
The Iranians are threatening the Israelis.
And I we've got I don't think we have any adults in the room.
Samantha Power, as the as the UN, whatever she is, this is a this is a bad joke at a really dangerous time.
And still, while all this is going on, the focus of attention on the domestic side is whatever it takes to protect Obama, whatever it takes to advance Obama, whatever it takes to make sure whatever happens doesn't hurt Obama.
To hell with what happens to people in Syria, to hell what happens to people in Egypt or Libya, the hell of what happens with our ambassadors, the hell what happens to the American people.
We've got to make sure that it doesn't hurt Obama.
Here's Kate, Carson City, Nevada.
Hi, Kate.
Glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, hello, Rush.
How are you doing?
I am Kate in from Fairfield.
So I'm your first Kate.
Oh, came along.
Well, welcome back.
Great to have you here again.
Well, thank you, dear.
Listen, I I am so angry, and I know this isn't about Syria, and I I just want to say real quickly, you're right.
Obama has known what he's doing from way back in the eighties and nineties, and don't end don't let anybody say otherwise.
But that's not what I called about.
I called because I read this morning that the Spokane police chief said that Shorty Dalton, the 88-year-old World War II veteran who was killed and beaten to death last week.
Yeah.
It was really his fault.
They they b they're blaming Shorty.
They said, our I've got to read you his quote because I am so angry about this.
Our information is that the individual fought back, and that may have made this, you know, a worse situation.
So they're blaming the victim.
Now, Trayvon Martin, oh no.
Oh no.
But Shorty Dalton, oh yes.
Yes, he shouldn't have fought back.
It was his fault.
He enraged these teams by fighting back.
Yeah, I saw that.
I saw that.
I I think I've I've seen that a lot in rape cases, you know, where the women end up getting blamed because they they resisted.
They should have just taken it, it'd have been okay.
You know, you let that excuse be offered in a rape and you look what they call you.
You let that excuse be offered George Zimmerman protecting himself and find out what happens.
Well, exactly.
But she's right, folks, that it w there are officials, not not just radical uh people that that visit websites, officials saying that this poor old eighty, what was he, eighty-three eight years old.
Eighty-eight years old.
He i i he might be alive if he hadn't fought back.
He just made him matter.
He just made him angrier.
Right.
And it was his fault because he enraged the teens.
One of whom had been involved with basketball, by the way.
These sweet boys.
So yeah, I see Shorty, if he'd have just accepted his whoop ass.
Exactly.
If he'd have just handed it over.
Everything would have been fine.
Yeah, handed over except the Whoopaz.
And everything and Rachel, Rachel Gentel would have been happy.
She likes whoop ass.
Everybody would have been happy.
Where does this come from, though?
Where does this this uh where where's this uh taught that uh something bad is let it go?
Because it can never be the perp's fault, see.
There's always got to be an unless the perp is George Zimmerman rush.
Then it's the Purp's fault.
If George Zimmerman kills Trayvon Martin, then it's not.
Are you saying that there's a racial component to this, Kate?
Is that Oh god forbid.
God forgive me.
Am I saying that on to 20 million people?
Yes, I am.
That's a serious charge out there, Kate.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I'm sure Obama knows where I live, but that's okay.
Well, look, I gotta go.
But it's always it's always fun to hear from you.
This is one of my first callers back in the Sacramento days in the uh mid-80s.
We will be back.
Okay, so we got a little bit of an update here.
Spokane police have indicated that Shorty Belton enraged his attackers when he tried to fend him off, which prompted them to beat him up with big heavy flashlights to the point he was bleeding from every part of his head.
The Spokane police chief Frank Straub said that uh our information is that the individual fought back, and uh that may have made this, you know, uh a worse uh situation.
Other witnesses have said that Shorty Belton was waiting for a female friend outside the Eagles Ice Arena so that she would not have to walk home alone.
So he was being beat up, defended himself, and that led to his death.
Because he was really asking for it, really asking for it by waiting to walk a female friend home, and then when he got beaten up, he defended himself.
And that incited deadly use of force on the part of his attackers.
In other news, the district attorney in the Chris Lane murder case has uh declared that race was not a factor, so there will not be hate crime charges.
Chris Lane is the Australian baseball player in Oklahoma, who was shot, killed because a couple of guys said they were bored.
Racist tweets didn't mean anything.
The fact that uh one of the perps tweeted how much he hated white people, nothing to see here.
It uh didn't matter.
So the DA in that part of Oklahoma says the race was not a factor.
There will be no hate crime charges.
I wonder if Eric Holder called that DA and Well, I don't know.
I mean, DA is not a federal.
Well, I know.
What does that matter?
It's true.
But isn't that interesting?
No hate crime.
No hate crime.
So you I guess if if you want to murder somebody, just say you were bored and oh, there's obviously no hate there.
Fine.
And no racial oh, fine, they were just bored.
I'll tell you, this this stuff is it's it's not it's not gonna just sit there and percolate and do nothing.
This there are going to be consequences to this kind of stuff.
I don't know when, what, or how, but you heard our last caller.
This stuff is not just being processed, dealt with, and ignored out there.
Here's Sally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hey, Sally, great to have you here.
Hi, Russ.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh, I'm calling in regard to the conversation you were having about Mike Adams from the UNC system because around the time that well, a little after he discovered or wrote about what happened in the UNC system, I was a student in the UNC system, different school, same propaganda.
Well, he's at he's at Wilmington.
What what campus did you attend?
I don't really want to stay, but I believe that they all have the same problem because it's a good one.
Oh, they do.
They do.
I was just curious from a conversational standpoint.
Yeah, it was in it was in the UNC system.
There aren't very many.
But uh I was in a moral philosophy class, and I didn't know when I signed up for that class that it was taught by a lesbian activist.
And one of the things that professors are using, and this should be a good warning to parents, they're now using all the media at their fingertips.
So right away I noticed we had six movie days where we were required to go watch movies.
And one of them showed Demi Moore giving herself an abortion on the kitchen table and she hemmers to death.
Of course, this was a pro abortion movie.
We watched a lot of other we watched factory farming movies, we watched gay rights movies about Stonewall, but I would warn parents that even though the textbooks nowadays are alarming, you should see the online resources that are on these online programs, and students have to have an ID to log on to read the materials that are assigned.
That's where they put the real propaganda.
Well, the point about this is it's not isolated.
It's all over the place.
Absolutely.
At these universities where this curriculum exists, it's not some out-of-the-way class.
It it's it's uh what did you say, moral philosophy was your class?
It was called contemporary moral philosophy, and it was very upsetting because I went back as an adult and I expected to learn academic material.
I thought people were going to be encouraged to use critical thinking skills.
I was very disappointed from a tuition and taxpayer standpoint to learn it was a one-way street that went to the left.
Well, yeah, so you went back as an adult.
Yes.
Did you go to class all the time?
Never missed.
I was paying all that money.
It was very important to make a good grade.
All right, so the um the the traditionally aged students in the class was it both m uh men and women in the class?
Yes.
Well, what how did how did they react to all this?
That is a very good question, and it is you cannot challenge the professor, especially in front of everyone.
It will adversely affect your grade.
But the sad thing for young, impressionable students is that they believe these people are expert in experts in their fields and they respect them and they eat it up a lot a lot, not everyone, but most of them eat it up and respect what they're saying because they promote it as the intellectual viewpoint, and any other viewpoint is considered ignorant.
Right.
And the teacher's an authority figure, and you don't challenge it, or the professor, whatever.
Yes.
Well So you survived it though.
I did, but uh I went nine years just taking one class at a time because I had other responsibilities, and I was so alarmed by this that the last two years I was a student, I pulled my son out of public school and homeschooled him the last three years so that he could learn the truth from the Bible before he went to college and heard all of this.
Because then he was allowed to think critically and to make a decision in form decision.
Oh, the last thing they teach is thinking.
There's no such thing as as as critical thinking or any other kind of thinking.
It is an un it's an indoctrination.
It is an indoctrination.
The most ironic thing is the tea the lesbian activist I had taught about bullying, and she is quite honestly the biggest bully I ever met in my life.
Not surprised.
Yes.
I have encountered uh some of those myself over the years.
It was very difficult, but parents.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
But parents need to see what their children are studying what and what they're paying for.
Well, that's kinda I I I wonder how many of them don't really know.
Well, usually the kid moves away and is not even in the same town or many times, and and if the kid is, I mean, it's not considered an adult.
Yeah, even you know, I d I I made an attempt at college.
Now I lived at home, granted, but um my parents wanted to know what I was learning.
They wanted to know what I was being taught.
Uh, and I assume that still happens.
I assume that parents still want to know what their kids are learning.
Maybe the kids lie to them, or maybe parents don't ask anymore.
I don't know.
And sometimes if the college student knows that parents are going to disagree, they don't want to bring it up and start that whole conversation.
Well, anyway, you just said something, though, that you you you you said you want your kids to know the Bible before they uh go away.
Yes, and I did not know the Bible until this lesbian activist professor drove me to learn it.
I grew up in church, my whole life.
So this lesbian activist turned you into a Bible thumper.
Yes, exactly.
But uh truth corresponds to reality, and she began with the good part argument.
As far as this lesbo professor is concerned, people like you, and you're stinking morality are the problem.
And you've got no right to tell people what morality is because yours comes from the Bible, ick.
And that's their reaction to it.
That's exactly what they're fighting.
That's the most hated book in academia.
It is.
There's no question about it.
Well, look, Sally, I appreciate the call.
You're very brave.
Very, very brave at all.
Thank you.
Thank you for taking my call.
I think you're very brave.
Well.
Thanks much.
It's great to talk to you.
We'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Look, folks, the point of all this is.
I mean, you you might think that this feminist uh curriculum is way out there and on the fringes.
It isn't.
There's a reason why young people think what they think.
They are taught it.
In many cases, what they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.
We looked up, based on the last call.
I looked up the course description.
Contemporary moral and social problems.
A detailed examination of one or more of the following contemporary issues: environmental ethics, animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, pornography, racism, sexism, public versus private morality.
And the money quote from the description of the class that that last caller took is this.
A detailed examination of one or more of the following contemporary issues.
Environmental ethics, animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, pornography, racism, sexism, public versus public or private morality.
That's what's on tap in a course called Morality Something or Other.
It's nothing but left-wing activism.
It's all it is.
It's nothing but the left wing radical left-wing agenda.
In this case, the feminist agenda.
And it's disguised as something a student or a parent sees that, oh, you got a course on morality, that's good, son.
Why, gosh, I hope you learn something in that course.
And they do.
If you wonder why people learn things or why that why they believe what they believe, particularly young people, they're being taught it.
They're being exposed to it.
And they're and they're hearing about it from people they respect, teachers, professors, authority figures, experts in the field.
Tenured professors.
And now then they end up twerking.
And then they don't understand why anybody's upset about it.
I mean, after all, they saw a film strip and they probably acted it out in class with the feminine professor.
Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
Another exciting broadcast excursion into excellence, or vice versa, is now over, but it never really ends.
We just take a break now and then.
This one's 21 hours, and it will be back tomorrow.
Same time, same station, revved up and ready to go.
Really, thanks so much for being here, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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