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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 not kooky.
Tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff.
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 a deception, an operation of deception that we either are party to, lured into, or we are fooled by.
One of the three.
And Mr. Bdansky, and I read to you his resume, and it is impressive.
And all of this is at rushlimbaugh.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 Sarajevo in 1995 to provoke the airstrikes against the Serbs.
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, 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 said, he'd say things like, our forces there under the capable direction of General such and such Braithwaite Frattlewait.
Having our forces, they're massive success against the opposition.
The enemy won 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 tricked into launching airstrikes against the Serbs because we'd been convinced that the Serbs were wreaking havoc against the poor Bosnian Muslims when in fact the attacks had been provoked by forces sympathetic to the Bosnian Muslims to create this reaction of ours.
And the same thing is alleged to be happening here.
And Mr. Bdansky has written extensively about it.
So 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.
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 is 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, 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.
That son didn't play as a walk-on freshman.
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, 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 going to 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'd be there for the birth.
Okay, so Rex says that he got together with the other brain trust of the Jets.
Well, let me call him Brain Trust.
The other trust of the Jets.
They made their roster decisions Friday night.
Rex hightailed it down to see his son.
Family value.
Why is that bad?
Why is that not allowed?
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.
He 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.
And the media says, yeah, but Rex, you weren't around on Saturday to tell the players they'd been cut.
Coaches always do that.
And Rex said, no, sometimes the general manager does it, which is true.
But anyway, 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 know, Rex Ryan.
I have no brief for Rex Ryan.
He may as well be basher Assa as far as I'm going to.
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 orgasted.
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.
What's the difference?
And 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 going to 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 20 players in his roster were having their lives ruined.
He was partying with his son at son was in the locker room, but he was partying with fans in a tailgate while 20 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?
Or do you, what do you, what, what, what, who gave his 20 guys their shot?
Well, I bet.
Well, Rex was part of the decision that gave him their shot.
Yeah.
Rex, I don't understand the complaint either.
Unless there's not a woman involved here, so maybe that's the answer.
No, he's supposed to cut down day.
When you make that final cut, maybe I didn't make this quick.
The final cut is a big day.
I mean, it's a big decision.
You pair the roster because most teams are cutting 15 to 20 players.
But it's not like the first or second cutdown day, where you go from 90 to 85 or 90 to 80.
This is the final roster.
This is where you're telling 20 guys, 15 guys, Sayonara.
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 going to 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 the soccer game because it's just too busy.
And remember the soccer mom phenomena.
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 this, 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.
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 got to be very careful on this.
Very careful.
You'll know it, Snerdly.
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 apparently, I've got to get this right.
If your mother eats chicken, well, 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, men whose mothers ate chicken wings in manhood didn't fully develop after they were born.
Did you know that?
This is a story PETA's 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 peeni because of a chemical found in the bird's flesh.
I know, I'm not going there.
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 add something else to this, Rex Ryan.
Apparently, it's okay for Obama to go play spades with Reggie Love while 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 going to make sure that the Congress authorizes use of force to take out Assad and then goes and plays golf.
Anything he can do, Mr. Lembois, 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 Cutdown 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.
He could be a father if his wife were giving birth, but he can't be a father on Cutdown Day.
You know, 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 is 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 demented, and who will 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.
I don't dare.
I don't dare cite it.
Gosh.
Yeah, because there's no winning.
It's a popular journalist and blog.
And 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 settled and how unfair it is.
And I would love, but I don't dare because there's no way.
I'm telling you, folks, you know how I am purposely misunderstood and then slimed and misreported on.
But it's a great, great lesson.
It's a great lesson.
I mean, there's a...
What?
Journalists aren't really going after anybody in this story.
It's...
Let me just ask you a question.
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 elevate yourself.
You do better.
You want your kids to do better than you did.
And I've got to stop.
Look at.
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.
There's no win for me.
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 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 just told me how hard I've got to work.
So 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 all, you know, Bill Whittle, who I met in California, a great, really creative, conservative blogger and web speaker and so forth, he had a great point about pop culture.
He said, no matter where you look, you know, why are we losing elections?
I got to make this real quick five seconds.
He said, in every story, every story told in America, we are the villains.
Music, books, television, we are the villains.
I'm going to put this story in a time capsule, folks.
I'm going to put it in one of my computer programs that I have a use Evernote and Pocket.
I'm going to keep it in both.
And I'm going to have reminder reminders pegged to dates.
I'm going to time capsule this.
And when enough time has gone by, and this stuff is not so emotionally charged, I'm going to show you, because 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 going to 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 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.
You 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, and until that changes, this is what Andrew Breitbart was trying to do, change the pop culture.
Until that changes, the idea of a conservative dominance of the culture, it can't possibly happen.
And it works.
I mean, 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.
Everyone, we're portrayed as villains.
The bad guys are not the bad guys.
We are.
In all of these, we're either bad guys or laughing stocks, you know, one of the two.
It does remain a focal point of necessary change.
John and Peoria, Illinois, we head back to the phones.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
Good to talk to you again.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad you waved it, John.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
You know, the amount of disinformation is just unbelievable.
You really don't realize it.
I mean, I realized 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 do the infidels again have to go 4,000 miles to take care of a quote 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 Saudis and the Jordanians from the South.
And basically, we give them air cover.
We destroy any tanks.
We can watch their movements and let the Muslims fight the Muslims.
Yeah, I see.
Is that, I mean, why hasn't that even been brought up?
Well, why do the infidels have to take care of you?
I mean, they hate us anyway, supposedly, so why do they call them to do their dirty work?
So you're asking in Syria if since you've got Basher as a Muslim and Al-Qaeda is Muslim, 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.
No matter what we do, we're portrayed as the evil people, the infidels, you know, and it's all.
So why don't we just say, okay, well, listen, you really want to get, you assume that we've got to get rid of Assad now, the physician that used Nerve Gap.
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 cofir as leaders, they're fabulous, which is exactly what they're doing now and which they continue to do.
So why do we even we say basically you form your own equivalent of NATO.
You got a guy in your backyard that's using chemical weapons, you know, weapons of mass destruction that WM work.
You guys got to take care of it.
We'll send you special forces.
We'll give you the cut.
You can go in there and I can guarantee you, insulin, there's a base less than 100 miles north of Syria and Turkey that we got.
It's a huge base.
I can tell you there's units of the 3rd and 5th Special Forces there already.
Just use them and attach them and bed 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.
Instead of what?
Instead of our troops, basically, we can put just minimal amounts.
I don't think we're going to use our troops.
I think we're going to send in cruise missiles for a couple of missiles, take 30 minutes, and then claim victory.
But that's not going to get it rid of supposedly the bad problem.
No, no, getting rid of the problem, not the point.
The point is the picture of Obama in the situation ordering the launch of the missiles.
Then we got videotaped B-roll of missiles being launched.
Not these, just any missiles being launched.
So we got video B-roll of explosions.
And then we got the story about how Obama is a great military commander and the problem solved.
And we showed them.
We're not going to send anybody in there.
The whole thing is going to be in the media.
The whole thing is going to be a story.
It's going to be a smoke and mirror story.
And we're going to have photoshopped stills of dead al-Qaeda, this kind of stuff.
So if we do this.
But I don't think we're going to.
I don't even think we're going to send in a SEAL team.
And 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.
I don't even want to think about it.
Rich in White Plains, welcome to EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
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 at her 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 what he wants to do.
And so, like you're always saying how everything he does is political, 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 painted 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, the pressure is on the Republicans.
I read to you a pool quote from a Wall Street Journal column today.
That's a Republican paper, the editorial page anyway.
And they're saying that they're telling the Republicans in Congress, look, you got to put aside whatever you think about Obama.
You got to put aside whether or not you're helping Obama politically.
You got to 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 pal, I'm telling you, Republicans in Washington are so cowed.
They are so convinced that if they oppose Obama on anything, that they're going to lose everything.
That's why they go amnesty.
It's amazing what's happened.
But unlike you, why not draw a distinction?
Not just this, amnesty, you name it.
Health care, Obamacare, now this.
But 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 kind of damn.
Well, no, I can't find number four.
Hang on, folks.
I'm sorry.
I can't.
Can't find it.
Anyway, 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 A lot of people, a lot of people think, I don't know if you're one of them, a lot of people think that all this stuff about identity theft can't happen to you because you're too well known 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.
Look, nobody is immune from this.
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Here's Steve in 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 and what Lyndon Bain Johnson did.
I mean, we have a great society with Obamacare.
And the other thing I'm seeing is all of a sudden we're going to go into a country that we're really not welcome in and what do you mean?
Go into a country.
How about another country like Libya, Afghanistan?
Why do we just randomly go into another country and throw a bunch of bombs on?
You know, we got all the outrage from the children that have been hurt and gassed and 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 going to 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?
Well, I've been asking that since about 1993.
Yes.
And history is going to prove to us once again what's going to happen tomorrow.
No.
Well, the reason I'm hesitating here is we may lose, but nobody's going to know it because that's never going to be a story if Obama's involved.
Exactly.
It just isn't going to be a story.
And that's even doubly worse.
So we could end up really having in the low information crowd, you know, Hollywood making a big movie and Obama the hero of Syria, you know, while we end up actually being humiliated in the process.
This is this is that that's not lose.
I can't see that story.
Even if it happened, I can't see the story.
Just 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 country so that to prop up the communist government in Nicaragua.
And it wasn't just John Kerry, it was all the Democrats.
And Basher Assad would somehow start quoting Marx and aligning himself with that way of thinking.
It would give Obama and his bunch pause.
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