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Sept. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, I am.
I just had somebody tell me I'm on.
I'm always on.
I have to be.
And happy to be on.
And greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Before I get into some of this other stuff, I want to go back and tell you a little bit about Joseph Badansky, whose piece I cited today.
I ran across it this morning in show prep.
It dovetailed with a couple of emails I received on Saturday from friends that I discounted, by the way.
I thought it sounded too um not kookies.
I discarded it.
Then I see this piece, and then I learn that this is the same deception that was practiced in 1995.
The same deception that was used in Sarajevo, 1995 to provoke airstrikes against the Serbs for the benefit of the Bosnian Muslims.
In both cases, Muslims are involved.
In both cases, Democrat Party presidents are involved.
In both cases, Muslims conduct the deception, an operation of deception that we either are party to, lured into, or we are fooled by.
One of the three.
And Mr. Bedansky, and I read to you his resume, and it's impressive.
And all of this is at Rush Limbaugh.com, the article.
If you want to, you can read about him on Wikipedia, which I don't want to repeat myself.
I've got too much here left to do, but he's highly credible, has written about this extensively, particularly what happened back in uh Sarajevo, 1995 to provoke the airstrikes against the Serbs.
I mean, we're right in there, NATO.
I'll never forget.
It was a U.S. operation made to look like NATO operation.
Wesley Clark ran the thing for a while.
And they had this spokesman that went out there and gave daily or sometimes multiple updates a day on progress.
And I'll never forget, you know, I mimic people.
Certain things I hear about the way people speak amuse me.
And this guy, his name was Jamie something or other, and he'd go to the microphones.
And he would be extolling the virtues of all the different commanders in all the different theaters of operation.
And he he said things like, forces under the capable direction of General such and such briefly, throttle it, having forciously a massive success against the opposition, the enemy and on and on and on.
You know, this was Clinton acting big time just like Obama is huffing and puffing here, and it was a deception.
We were we were tricked into launching airstrikes against the Serbs because we had uh we'd been convinced that the Serbs were wreaking havoc against the uh the poor Bosnian Muslims when in fact the attacks have been provoked by forces sympathetic to the Bosnian Muslims to create this reactor of ours.
And the same thing is alleged to be happening here, and Mr. Bdansky has written extensively about it.
So it's it's not the first time, and there are things in common.
Democrat presidents, Muslims, and I'm not saying, again, I want to be very clear, I'm not saying that Basher Assad's a good guy.
Because he's brutal.
He's not an angel by any stretch of the imagination.
Now, some other things in the news that I just I want to comment on.
Rex Ryan, the coach of the New York Jets.
No, not out yet.
The media's trying.
The media is trying to get Rex fired.
There's no question about it.
They love Rex one day, they hate him today.
But Friday and Saturday In the NFL were important days.
By Saturday at 6 p.m., every NFL team had to get their roster down to 53 players.
And they had to cut, and in many cases, teams had to cut as many as 20 players by 6 p.m.
Saturday.
Well, old Rex left town on Saturday.
Rex has a son named Seth, who's a walk-on freshman at Clemson.
And old Rex, he hung around for the decision-making process on Friday night as the Jets decided which players on their roster they were going to cut.
And in Saturday, he hightailed it down to Clemson, South Carolina to watch his son play.
Although his son didn't play.
Meaning he didn't have a scholarship.
He walked on and made the team.
The media, the media is beside itself.
The media demanding that Rex Ryan defend himself, taking time off to attend the Clemson game where his son might have played.
And I read this and I said, now wait a second.
If Rex's wife were giving birth and Rex punted and went to the hospital, they'd be praising Rex.
Family values and all that.
I mean, in that where we are, the NFL, if you're a player, if you're a coach, and your wife is having a baby, you better get the hell out of the hospital, or they're gonna destroy you.
If it means missing a game on Sunday, you better get to the hospital for the birth.
If it means missing a practice, you better get to the hospital.
Right?
That's where we are.
Your wife has a baby, you're in the NFL, you go to the hospital, you be there for the birth.
Okay, so Rex says that he got together with the uh the other brain trust of the Jets.
Well, uh, let me go on Brain Trust, the other trust of the Jets.
They made their roster decisions Friday night, and Rex Rex hightailed it down to see his son.
Family value.
Why is that bad?
Why is that not allowed?
Why is they're saying that Rex obviously doesn't care.
They're saying that Rex obviously doesn't run the team anymore.
They're saying that Rex obviously doesn't care, doesn't run the team, he's a lame duck.
He didn't even care enough to hang around on roster cut day.
Rex says, I was here.
We made the decisions on Friday night.
Yeah, but Rex, you weren't around on Saturday to tell the players they'd been cut.
Coaches always do that.
And Rex, and no, sometimes the general manager does it, which is true, but anyway, my it's not a big deal, but to me it's a little bit of hypocrisy.
Now, if Rex, let me ask this.
Let's say Rex's daughter was on the Clemson field hockey team, and Rex had left the Jets on Saturday to go watch his daughter, would they be okay with it?
No, no, I'm asking this seriously.
My staff, laughing on the other side of the glass here.
Well, no, no, no.
I don't look, I don't know, Rex Ryan.
I have no brief for Rex Ryan.
He may as well be basher assa as far as I'm gonna.
It's not the point.
My point is an NFL person leaves the team to go be there when his baby's born, and they just, oh, they orgasm, it's so wonderful, it's so great, it's the greatest thing.
It's real family values.
I always thought staying and earning a paycheck and providing for the family was the family value contribution of the man, but you know, that's that's 1700s kind of stuff, apparently.
Um what's the difference in Rex?
It's cut down Saturday.
There's not even a practice.
It's not even a game.
So Rex goes to his son, and the media make it a bit well, his son wasn't even gonna play.
And oh, I left something out very Rex tailgated.
Rex put on a Clemson t-shirt and was tailgating with fans.
He was partying, in other words.
Rex was partying while twenty players in his roster were having their lives ruined.
He was partying with his son at Well, not his son was in the locker room, but he was partying with fans in a tailgate while twenty of his players are being cut, maybe never ever again to earn money in the NFL.
What a heartless, cold SOB Rex Ryan is.
I don't understand the difference.
Would somebody explain to me the difference?
What do you gave this 20 guys their shot?
Well, but well, Rex was part of the decision that gave them their shot, yeah.
Rex get I don't understand the complaint either.
Unless there's there's not a woman involved here, so maybe that's the answer.
No, he's supposed cut down day.
When you make that final cut, maybe I didn't make this quick.
The final cut is a big I mean it's it's a big decision.
You pair the rock, because you're c most teams are cutting 15 to 20 players.
So you so but it's not like the first or second cutdown day where you go from 90 to 85 or at 90 to 80.
This is the final roster.
This is where you're telling twenty guys, fifteen guys, Sayanara.
And it is said by people in the media that this for pro-personnel management people in the corporate structure of an NFL team, this next to the draft, this is the biggest day of the year.
And Rex wasn't there.
Rex punted to go down and tailgate at a college football game.
But he didn't.
We went down there.
It was his son's first game.
Son's first game in uniform for Clemson.
Walk-on freshman.
Didn't play, the odds were that he wasn't gonna play.
But how often do we hear you know, parents just don't have time for their kids anymore.
They don't go to their little league games, they don't go to soccer games, because it's just too busy.
And remember the soccer mom phenomenon.
Mom picked up the slack because dad was a reprobate predator.
Dad didn't have time for his kids, dad was just getting drunk or whatever, hitting on other women while poor mom was picking up all the kids and taking them to soccer practice after picking them up after school, after fixing them lunch and breakfast and after doing it, after getting them their condoms and their cigarettes for sex that night, then she took them to the soccer game, and dad's out doing whatever he's doing with the guys.
So here's Rex doing his family values thing, getting creamed for it in the New York media.
I just if you can get praised for leaving the team to go to the hospital while your wife is giving birth, why do you get savaged for leaving the team to go watch your son play his first college football game?
He didn't play, but you never know he might have.
I had this story last week, and I didn't have a chance to get to it.
Maybe I can find it.
It's a story about I gotta be very careful on this.
Very careful.
You'll know it, Snerdley.
You saw it was in your stack.
It's this thing about what happens to you if you eat chicken, if your mother eats chicken while she's pregnant.
And it apparently uh I gotta get this right.
If your mother eats chicken, well, you're it has a penis size, and I can't remember if it's smaller or larger.
If your mother eats chicken, I'm looking for the story.
That one fascinated me too.
Here it is.
It's a people for the ethical treatment of animals story.
Eating chicken during pregnancy may affect child's penis size.
And it's a CBS story.
Eating chicken parts, or more specifically chicken wings.
Did you know that?
Eating chicken wings could shrink your baby's man parts.
At least that's what PETA is alleging in advance of the National Buffalo Wing Festival.
They're upset that people are eating buffalo wings and That football's coming up, and so they're trying to scare people.
Well, you know, uh men whose mothers uh ate chicken wings uh manhood uh didn't fully develop after they were born.
Did you know that?
This is the story Pete is putting out.
According to a letter from PETA to the founder of the festival, the latest scientific evidence, part of global warming, by the way, is this same research.
The latest scientific evidence shows that sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have smaller peanut because of a chemical found in the bird's flesh.
I know I'm not going there.
I'm just I'm not, don't even don't even.
We're going to commercial break.
Sit tight, don't just hit it.
Now let me let me add something else to this Rex Ryan, but apparently it's okay for Obama to go play spades with Reggie Love.
Well, we're taking out bin Laden.
Oh, yeah.
Anything he needs to do to keep his mind sharp.
It's a lot of stress being president.
Obama can go play golf anytime he can say to hell with a red line, I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure that the Congress authorizes use of force to take out our side, and then goes and plays golf.
Anything he can do, Mr. Limbr, to take the pressure of the job off of his mind so that his mind stays sharp.
That's just fine with us.
Right.
So the president can play spades, can go play golf, do whatever he wants to do.
Rex Ryan goes down to Clemson on cut down day, and he ought to be fired.
Because he doesn't care.
Because he's a lame duck.
He's not running the show.
This proves it.
I guess Rex isn't allowed to be a father on cutdown day.
I guess he could be a father if his wife were giving birth, but he can't be a father on cutdown day.
You know, if if I were the media, I'd be thinking it's time to applaud Rex.
There are 20 players he just saved from Alzheimer's, ALS, concussions, and life altering injuries, which is what they say the NFL's about now.
So here's 20 guys, because Rex Ryan.
Because Rex Rex he was involved in the process of cutting them.
So here's 20 guys who will not get concussions, who will not get ALS, who will not get Parkinson's, who won't become uh demented, uh, and uh who'll live after the age of 44.
Well, I'm sorry, but that's what they say the NFL does to people now.
I've got another story here.
I don't dare.
I don't dare cite it.
Gosh, I yeah, because there's no there's no winning.
It's a popular journalist and blog, and if it what it is, if I were to do it, it's one of the best lessons in what journalism has become, which is about players whose lives have been ended because they played football.
It's about that lawsuit that's settled and how unfair it is.
And I would love, but I don't dare, because there's no w I I'm telling you folks, you know how I am purposely misunderstood and then slimed and misreported on.
But it's it's a great, great lesson.
It's a great lesson.
I mean, there's what?
Uh journalists aren't really going after anybody in this story.
It's let me just ask you a question.
Um if you ran into a guy, anywhere, anywhere, healthy or not, who really, really wanted to provide for his family.
Would you think that's unique and worthy of extra effort for the guy?
I wouldn't either.
I mean, I think that's What all men do.
It's what you're supposed to do.
You're supposed to go to work.
You provide for your family.
You you you elevate yourself.
You do better.
You you want your kids to do better than you did.
And I've got to stop.
Look it.
You're going to have to trust me on this.
No, no, no.
It's not that he can't do it because he's playing for it's I should not have brought this up because I'm not, I'm not there's there's no win for me.
I'm just I'm just telling you.
I don't know what I'm telling you.
I can't tell you.
It's very mean of me to be doing this.
It's really frustrating.
I know I shouldn't have brought it up.
Maybe in six months, or maybe I could rework this.
But it's it's it's about it's about somebody working for a guy who, you know, when I found out he wants to provide for his family, that kept me awake at night.
That that just told me how hard I've got to work.
I said, what in the world is unique about it?
But it's how people's emotions are tugged and pulled and ripped apart by journalism today.
And it it it all, you know, uh Bill Whittle, who I uh met in California, great really creative conservative uh blogger and and web speaker and so forth.
He had a great point about pop culture.
He said, no matter where you look, you know, what why are we losing elections?
I gotta make this real quick five seconds.
He said, in every story, every story told in America, we're the villains.
Music, books, television, we are the villains.
I tell you, I'm gonna I'm gonna put this story in a time capsule, folks.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna put it in one of my computer programs that I have a uh I use Evernote and Pocket.
I'm I'm gonna keep it in both, and I'm gonna have reminder uh reminders pegged to dates.
I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna time capsule this.
And when enough time has gone by, uh, and this stuff is not so emotionally charged.
I'm I'm gonna show you.
It's really unfair what I did to you.
Tease you with this and then not do it.
And I really don't mean to do that.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna drag this out at some point, because this is a classic example of how the left uses journalism to advance their causes without using facts, in fact, lying about things.
It's just from the beginning, the end of this thing.
And it's the reason it's relevant, John Kerry goes on TV Friday, and not one fact, nothing but this emotional stuff.
And it works.
And of course, conservatism isn't emotional.
Conservatism is of the mind and it is of the heart.
But we don't play tricks on people's emotions to loop them in.
We don't deceive people or use deceit.
We use the power of the idea.
And it's like Bill Whittle said, and he was citing family guy as his example, but it could be any pop culture media.
He could have a book, it could be a TV show or a movie.
And his point was that in every one of these things, particularly the popular ones, the villain is always a Republican or conservative, or something associated with Republican and conservative, like a big business oil company or whatever.
And his point was as long, and until that changes, this is what Andrew Breitbart was trying to do.
Change the pop culture.
So until that changes the uh the the idea of of a you know conservative dominance of the culture, it can't possibly happen.
And it works.
I mean, the the the the silly idea, 24-year-old woman afraid of me, is a classic illustration of villainry being used in pop culture media to great effect.
And we all are, every one of we're portrayed as villains.
The bad guys are not the bad guys.
We are.
In all of these.
We either bad guys or laughing stocks, you know, one of the uh one of the two.
It does remain a focal point of necessary change.
John and Peoria, Illinois, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, yeah, Rush.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad you waited, John.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
You know, the amount of disinformation is just unbelievable.
You really don't realize it.
I mean, I realize after serving in Iraq, you really can't believe maybe a third of what you see on TV and less what you read.
But anyway, to my point, externally said, you know, why did the infidels again have to go 4,000 miles to take care of a whole Muslim problem?
Why don't we use the same format that we used in Afghanistan?
We had less than 150 special forces, our special forces people and we're air traffic controllers attached to units, the Northern Alliance.
Well, you get the Turkeys from the north, you get the uh Saudis and the Jordanians from the South, and basically we give them air cover, we destroy any tanks, we can we can watch their movements and let the Muslims fight the Muslims.
Is that I mean why why isn't that even them and brought up?
Well, um what do the infidels have to take care of again?
I mean, they hate us anyway, so closely, so why are they calling us to do their dirty work?
So i i y you're asking in Syria.
Since you've got Basher is a Muslim and Al Qaeda's Muslims, you know, what are we getting involved for?
We just let them hash it out.
Well, not hash it out, but my point is is you know we are always the problem.
We're no matter what we do, we're we're portrayed as the evil people, the infidels, you know, and it's Oh, oh.
So why don't we just say, okay, well, listen, you really want to get you assume that we gotta get rid of Assad now, the physician that used nerve gas.
Well, you know, this is a good point.
Even after what we did for the Bosnian Muslims, you think it bought us anything with them?
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Because as kaffirs as exactly what they're doing now and which they continue to do.
So why why do we even we say basically you form your own equivalent of NAO.
You got a guy in your backyard that's using chemical weapons, you know, weapons of mass destruction at WM Work.
You guys gotta take care of we'll use special forces, we'll give you the cover.
You can go in there, and I can guarantee you insulin there's a base less than a hundred miles north of Syria and Turkey that we got.
It's a huge base.
I can tell you there's units of the third and fifth special forces there already.
Just use them and attach them, embed them into the Turkey army, which is organized.
The Jordanadian, you know, the F-16s from Syria could be very good.
Why don't we just use that?
I don't know.
Uh instead of what?
Instead of our troops.
Basically, we we can put just minimal amount of the.
Well, I don't think we're gonna use our troops.
I think we're gonna send in cruise missiles for a couple of missiles, uh, take thirty minutes and then claim victory.
But that's not gonna get it rid of supposedly the bad problem.
That doesn't no, no, getting rid of the problem, not the point.
The point is the picture of Obama and the situation ordering the launch of the missiles.
Then we got video tape B-roll of missiles being launched.
Not the it's just any missiles being launched, and we get video B-roll of explosions.
Uh and then we get the story about how Obama is a great military commander and the problem solved.
And we showed them.
We don't send anybody in there.
The whole thing is going to be in in the media, the whole thing's gonna be a story.
It's gonna be a smoke and mirror story.
And we're gonna have photoshopped stills of uh dead Al Qaeda, this kind of stuff.
Uh if if we do this.
But I don't think we're gonna I don't even think we're gonna send in a SEAL team.
And I I hope the heck we don't, given.
And I hope, I really hope that somebody doesn't produce a video between now and whenever we do this, and make them really mad in Syria.
You imagine what Assad would do if some joker in America makes a video making fun of him.
Ugh, I don't even want to think about it.
Rich in white planes, Welcome to EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Um the drive-by media and anybody who follows politics should have the same reaction to Obama saying he was going to consult Congress as the shock reaction everyone had to Molly Cyrus that are pornographic performers at the VMA awards.
This guy never consults Congress for anything and declares openly, you know, how he's going to go around Congress and do, you know, what he wants to do.
And so, like you're always saying how everything he does is political.
This this is no different.
It's obvious Obama is just trying to involve the Republicans in the House so he can blame them later for the corner he paid himself into.
And if I were Boehner and the Republicans, I'd tell Obama it's your bed, you made it, now you sleep in it.
Yeah, but let me tell you that the pressure is on the Republicans.
I read to you a pull quote from a Wall Street Journal column today.
That's a Republican paper on the editorial page anyway.
And they're saying that they're telling the Republicans in Congress, look, you've got to put aside whatever you think about Obama.
And you gotta put aside whether or not you're helping Obama politically.
You gotta do what's right for America.
And that means support the use of force.
You cannot oppose the president.
And let me tell you something.
Rich old buddy old Palam too.
The Republicans in Washington are so cowed.
They are so convinced that if they oppose Obama on anything, that they're gonna lose everything.
That's why they go amnesty.
It's amazing what's happened.
But unlike you, why not draw a distinction?
Why I uh this not just this, amnesty, you name it, uh health care, Obamacare, now this.
But you know, even his supporters had the same reaction you had.
They know he's been going around the Republicans, they know he's been using executive orders, they know that he doesn't want to include them.
They know in fact they love him for that.
They love Obama for ignoring Congress.
They love Obama for just sticking it to the Republicans every time he does it, and then to come along and stop in the middle of the game and bring them into it.
It ruined Labor Day in the Hamptons.
I'm telling you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just looking for sound bites here.
Hang on, I can lose uh it was um well no, I can't find number four.
Uh hang on, folks.
I'm sorry, I've been looking, I can't.
Can't find it.
Anyway, uh two suspects have been arrested in Florida for allegedly stealing the identities of several celebrities, including well-known actors and political figures.
The pair is accused of committing fraud using the celebrity's social security numbers, allegedly having credit card issuers send them new cards and then transferring over $70,000 into their own bank accounts.
I happen to know a lot of celebrities.
And I happen to know a lot of people who think they are celebrities, but who really aren't.
And you know what they all think?
They think that their names are so well known that nobody would ever try identity theft on them, and that even if somebody did, the bank or the credit card company wouldn't be fooled by it because they would know.
And what they they're not known.
I mean, they're just they're numbers.
And I a lot of people, a lot of people think, I don't know if you're one and a lot of people think that all this stuff about identity theft can't happen to you because you're too well known uh at your bank or your credit card company or whatever, and believe me, that isn't the case.
The chairman of the Federal Reserve had his identity stolen, folks.
Ben Bernanke.
And now this story about celebrities and actors and political figures.
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Here's Steve in uh Madison, Wisconsin.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you.
Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm about the same age you are.
I'm kind of curious as to why we aren't looking a little bit farther back into history.
You know, we're the same age, we come from the Vietnam era, and I'm really seeing a lot of parallels between the administration now what Lyndon Bane Johnson did.
I mean, we have a great society with Obamacare.
And the other thing I'm saying is all of a sudden we're gonna go into a country that we're really not welcome in, and uh well, what a minute, go into a country.
How about another?
Well, yes, another country in Libya.
Olivia, Afghanistan.
Why do we just randomly go into another country and throw a bunch of bombs on you?
You know, we got all the outrage from the children that have been hurt and gas and Yeah, because of human rights violations, which we do not tolerate.
Exactly.
And where is the outrage from the people in this country when we're gonna go into a country again, lob a bunch of napalm down on them and do just what we did in Vietnam?
Do the same thing they're doing.
What the heck?
Where's the outrage?
Uh well.
You and I are all I've been asking that since about 1993.
Yes.
And history is going to prove to us once again what's gonna happen tomorrow.
We're gonna lose.
No, the reason I'm I'm hesitating here is we may lose, but nobody's gonna know it, because that's never going to be a story if Obama's involved.
Exactly.
We don't it just isn't gonna be a story, and that's even doubly worse, though we could end up really having in the low information crowd, you know, Hollywood making a big movie on Obama the hero of Syria.
No, while we end up actually being humiliated in the process.
Um this is that that's that's not I can lose.
I can't I can't see that story.
Even if it happened, I can't see the story.
It's not you know, there might be a way out of this for Basher Assad, and that is to join the communist party.
Democrats will not go after a communist.
John Kerry tried to stop all aid to the Contras or to prop up the communist government in Nicaragua.
Uh, And it wasn't just John Kerry, it was uh all the Democrats.
And Basher Assad would somehow start quoting Marx and aligning himself with uh that way of thinking.
It it would give Obama and his bunch pause.
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