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Sept. 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Neil Young's electric car breaks down, left helpless on California Highway.
Now, in fairness, all kinds of cars break down, but the electric cars said these things aren't supposed to happen.
Neil Young, a high profile proponent of cars powered by alternative fuels, was recently stranded on a highway when his own one million dollar biomass-powered hybrid car broke down.
Highway patrol officers found the Canadian rocker stranded on the side of a road near Donner's Summit, California.
That's way up there in the Sierra Nevada range.
That's way up there.
I wonder if altitude had anything can do with it.
One million dollar electric car.
One million dollar.
Ah, the elites are always going to have their progress.
And you are going to get blamed for destroying the planet.
But you can get salvation by agreeing to pay higher taxes so that they can afford their electric cars.
Great to have you back, folks.
Rushmore, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Audio soundbite time.
um, And I keep trying to steer away from the Syria business.
But you know, look at what's happened.
I don't want to review everything.
But Kerry makes this gaff.
Kerry says, well, you know what ought to happen is that Syria ought to just give up its weapons, just get rid of its chemical weapons, uh, international community and the Russians and police them and so forth, and immediately tried to walk it back.
It was so idiotic.
Even Kerry himself said that Assad would never do it, that he was just trying to make a point.
And then Putin said, you know what?
That's a brilliant idea.
We'll act like we're taking them an Assad's, oh, you know, I'll be glad to give them up.
Those weapons aren't getting out of there, folks.
Those those chemical weapons are not going to leave Syria.
But here we have Kerry and Obama are now proclaimed as geniuses.
Because of a gaffe.
A gaff that everybody is now characterizing as Obama policy that he formulated was with Putin last week.
Oh yeah.
I was talking to the Blader about this last week.
Uh and uh well, why didn't Kerry know that?
How come Kerry's you know being touted here as a big idiot committing this great gaff and everything?
The State Department tried to walk it back.
State Department said, no, no, Senator Kerry here, State Department Secretary.
He didn't mean this.
He was just talking.
Now it's the official policy.
And the end result is guess what?
Basher Assad stays in power and is free to resume conventional bombing of the rebels whose side I thought we were on in all this.
Yeah, the rebels, not really Al Qaeda, but the rebels, the women and children, the victims of the brutal athletes.
I thought that's whose side we were on.
We were trying to defend and protect them.
United States not gonna sit around idly and watch innocent women and children slaughtered like this.
We're gonna get rid of the guy doing it, and we're gonna stop it from happening.
We're told he's gonna get rid of his chemical weapons, but he claimed he never used them anyway.
And now the guy's back to with impunity bombing the rebels.
Now we're claiming victory and brilliance on the part of our own regime's leaders.
This is unreal.
The rebels are back to getting bombed with conventional weapons, and that's apparently fine.
We've cast them aside.
Assad gets to stay in power.
There will be no U.S. strike against him.
And Obama's out claiming credit, and here's how he did it last night on a news hour on PBS, Gwen Eiffel was interviewing Obama.
She said, uh John Kerry talked today about a limited, targeted, unbelievably small effort, Mr. President.
And now we're hearing news that Russia has a plan, a solution, perhaps which would allow Syria to take all of its weapons and put it under international control.
That was not, you know, she's doing the same thing the New York Times did.
It was a John Kerry gaff that Putin glomed on is claiming it for his the New York Times letting him have it.
this idea is so embarrassingly bad if it comes from us that the U.S. media happily is letting Putin claim the credit for it.
This is unreal, folks.
And then Obama is claiming credit because he talked to Putin about it last week.
Is that something that you've had any conversations at all with President Putin about when you were in St. Petersburg last week?
I did have those conversations.
This is a continuation of conversations I've had with President Putin for quite some time.
As I said to you the last time we spoke, this chemical weapons ban matters to us, to the United States.
I have instructed John Kerry to talk directly to uh the Russians and run this to ground.
And the Russians are laughing themselves, though, like we all are.
It ought to be Vladimir Putin addressing the nation tonight, not Obama.
It's Putin's idea.
Gwen Eiffel just said it.
New York Times just said it.
But we have the Reuters stories, and you know it.
It was Kerry's idea, a gaff that Putin glommed onto and Assad glommed on to Gwen Eifel, New York Times happily credit Putin with it, because if it's our idea, it's an idiotic move.
Putin's a great move.
Now Obama's, you just heard him.
Oh, yeah.
I talked to Vlad last week.
But he didn't tell anybody.
State Department didn't know about it.
Kerry didn't know about it, because when Kerry mentioned what now Obama says he's talking to Putin about, they tried to walk it back.
This is a comedy of errors.
We really have the Keystone cops.
We've got we are b dominated and governed by sheer incompetence here.
And everybody involved knows it, and they're in a CYA mode.
Except it's not theirs.
Nobody else is circling the wagons around here.
David Rodham Gurgen, the architect of conventional wisdom in Washington.
Last night CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 questioned David Gurgen.
You have uh you worked in a lot of different regimes in the White House.
What do you make of the selling of this that uh they've been going on by the administration?
It's pretty awful.
Pretty awful.
Uh, you know, he's a very strong.
Also meaning mismanaged, mishandled?
Yes.
We don't know what the administration is trying to do.
It's been zigzagging.
And I think it's chances of winning in the Senate and the House, especially in the House have been badly damaged by the lack of consistency and a clear message.
I I think there's surprise in many quarters at how willing the administration is to delay things over this offer from Russia and Syria.
Here we have an offer from two of the most unsavory leaders in the world.
I'm surprised there hasn't been sort of a clear, let's be very, very skeptical before we uh embrace a plan to come from Assad and Putin.
It doesn't come from Assad and Putin.
It came from Albert Brooks, a comedian last Friday on Twitter.
And then Kerry picked it up.
I don't know if he got it from Brooks or not, but it's a Kerry idea that Putin and Assad are getting credit for.
Now we're getting stories, oh yeah.
Uh Assad's gonna take us and show us where his stockpiles are, and the inpectors are gonna get in there and they're gonna watch us remove the weapons.
I can anybody say Saddam Hussein.
David Rodham Gurgen here's right on the money.
What are we doing?
We're gonna we're gonna trust these guys?
Yeah, we will because it makes Obama look smart.
And that's all that matters here.
All that matters, protecting Obama, covering for Obama.
Jonathan Carl, random act of journalism amid all this hyperventilating.
Jonathan Carl came out this morning and reported some truth on uh Good Morning America.
He is talking with Robin Roberts here.
The more the White House has made the case on this, the more it has lost support in Congress.
I am told right now that the president would lose not only in the House, but in the Senate as well on this vote.
He referred to it the Russians being a lifeline.
Is it possible that they can step in here?
Uh it's possible, but I gotta tell you there is a lot of skepticism here in another interview.
The president said that he was taking the Russian offer with a grain of salt.
So, yes, a possibility, but not an overabundance of hope in this proposal right now.
There wasn't a Russian offer.
Taking the Russian offer with a grain of salt.
Oh, no, they've they've taken the whole salt shaker now.
They've bought it hook, line, and sinker.
My old buddy is back, Vitali Churkin.
I told you about him last week from the Vladimir Posner era of Soviet officials, Soviet, not Russian, Soviet officials that uh came to America and blended right in with us.
Vitali Chirkin was back at home last night on PBS on the news hour.
He's being interviewed by Judy Woodruff.
And he's now the Russian ambassador to the United Nations.
But he's done everything there.
I mean, he was chief aide to Gorbachev.
He was uh head on show to uh Boris Yeltsin.
He's been, I mean, no matter what has happened to the Soviet Union or Russia, Vitali Churkin has been in the inner circle of all of it.
The fact that Vitali Churk is still around means to me it's still the Soviet Union, in all intents and purposes.
So Judy Woodruff said, why should Americans not see this, Mr. Chirkin, as just a stalling tactic?
Why why would the American government, U.S. government, see this as a serious move that could change the situation within a matter of days?
Because it is a serious move, and it is a response to what uh the Secretary of State of the United States said, and of course, uh it can be disregarded or it can be somehow interpreted in a negative way, and the United States can go ahead and uh uh do this military strike, which would uh uh eliminate any chances for a political settlement, which could have catastrophic consequences for Syria, and which would make that uh war uh another American war, like uh Vietnam and Iraq used to be.
In such situations, the China shop rule applies.
You broke it, uh, you bought it.
He's invoking the words of Colin Colonel Powell, our former Secretary of State, warning us about Iraq.
You break it, you own it.
Ah, these guys are good.
These guys are so Americanized.
They are good.
So Judy Woodruff then said to uh Vitali Churkin, well, look, Secretary Kerry has said that any strike would be unbelievably small.
So what's the big deal?
Why don't you guys just let us do our little unbelievably small strike?
Secretary Kerry has said any strike would be, in his words, quote, unbelievably small.
Well, if I don't believe it's possible.
I mean, it's the fact of it is going to be unbelievably big.
The current uh initiative of the Russian Federation would allow the United States to avoid uh all the dramatic consequences, which uh might be there.
That's right.
You just let us go in and take out the chemical weapons, that came from us in the first place.
The only reason Assad has those weapons is because we gave them to him.
So we're going to take them back for the while, and you can look and you won't find them.
And then after the gun, Assad is still there, and we will take the weapons and put them back in there, and we'll continue to assault the rebels, and you have been long gone.
And we have stuck on you again.
And we are back.
And we head back to the funds.
Frank in Long Valley, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Great.
Great to talk to you, Russell.
So let me get this straight.
The Syria crisis has been solved.
World policy has been set, United States foreign policy has been set because a reporter asked a question.
That's the only reason we're here right now.
The State Department didn't come out and make this statement.
The White House didn't come out and make this statement.
If a reporter didn't ask a question, John Kerry would not have said what he said.
No one in the State Department, no one in the White House, no one in the Department of Defense, no one in the National Security Office was smart enough to ask a question and say, hey, is there another solution to this besides bombing Syria?
It had a reporter asked a question.
Putin shouldn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.
The woman that asked the question should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is this is it's so scary.
It's scary that these people are in charge of protecting us and our children's lives.
It's to the point now where it's past, it's past his competence.
It's at the point now where this guy's gonna go on television tonight and talk about the red line that he drew that then that he said that he then said he didn't draw, that he now did draw, is the pressure why they took this deal.
And no one sits here and understands what's going on.
The reporter should be Harold tonight.
She should be talking to us tonight.
I know you said Putin should be, but it's a reporter.
How d how are you so smart to ask that question of the Secretary of State?
That's what I want to know.
Well, look, and I can't I can't dispute you, um, because you're right, and and the president is gonna go on TV tonight, and he is gonna claim miraculous powers, that he brought this all to a screeching halt.
Uh and it's all gonna be untrue.
You're right.
It it it's uh you know, Kerry got this question, he goes this rhetorical, well, you know what, but what they could do is and that becomes the policy because Putin sees a way of winning this thing and beating Obama and the United States to the punch and takes it,
and we have no choice but then to glob onto it and go along with it, because remember, Frank, the only objective here is protecting, saving, promoting, and making look good Obama.
That's all this has ever been about.
Ever since he drew that red line, and ever since this chemical weapons stuff started being alleged, and and he started demanding that it be stopped, and so all that mattered was that he looked good when it was all over, and that's what the objective has been here.
So Obama's gonna claim that it was his show of force, his gutsy call that made Kerry make his gaff.
And I I you know the what do you think about it?
Half the country is gonna know this.
Half the country is gonna be watching this tonight in shock and disbelief, and they're gonna be beating their heads up against walls and cannot believe that this is happening.
Other half of the country is gonna be dazzled and wowed and thinking they're in the presence of a messianic figure.
Uh uh and that's gonna just boggle all of our minds.
Meanwhile, Edward Snowden had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I was too, of course, you know.
The year Al Gore got it, I was nominated for the Peace Prize.
And I thought I was had done more for peace and equal rights and freedom and liberty and so forth than uh Gore did, but he had that fake movie about global warming and so forth.
Swedish sociology professors nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that awarding the former NSA employee would correct the Nobel's mistake in giving the award to Obama.
Obviously, college professors in Sweden are different than American college professors.
I mean, he got the Nobel Peace Prize on the cum.
Can you imagine this gonna now be said that this justifies him winning it?
When, as Frank said, the reporter who asked the question that inspired the brilliance.
Forthcoming from uh from John Kerry.
Bridget in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Ash.
What an honor today.
Great to have you.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Whatever they're doing with their posturing, I think the American people have spoken.
I'm just grateful that we're not gonna move forward unilaterally.
And what we need to do now is pressure the international community to get involved.
We need to get the United Nations, we need to send the people that know how to talk to the world.
And we c w why should we we can't afford this for our economy?
We have twenty-two million people out of work.
Well now, this is an interesting take.
Uh you're obviously an eternal optimist, and you're looking at this regardless how it happened, it's a good thing, because now we no longer have to be devoted to Syria's distracted by Syria, spending any money on Syria, spending any time any any American troops or get back to solving the problems here domestically.
Not necessarily.
I think it's very serious over there.
I just don't think we should do it alone.
I think we should put pressure on the international community.
And we're still moral people.
We still don't want chemical weapons to be killing families, but people could get hold on a minute.
If you watch Obama tonight, we did do it alone.
I don't believe for a second.
I think he's been acting without support from people, and I think the American people came forward hugely.
I'm actually very encouraged, and the representatives are listening to them.
Uh this is more encouraging to meet and since the two thousand ten elections.
Wait a minute, what what is you what you you're encouraged, the representatives are listening since what do you think is happening out there?
The people came forward and spoke.
I mean, if you were listening to Cannon and I was listening all weekend, all of them were saying the American people back home are not behind us.
And now he's backpattling whatever their political propaganda thing is.
Um he can't go for it.
He he'd probably get impeached if he went for it.
Well, are you but you you're talking about Syria?
Yes.
I don't think there's any question.
I mean, even the Hollywood left was beside itself.
But they had been muzzled.
The Congressional Black Caucasians, anti war, had been muzzled.
Everybody wanted to come, but that's all irrelevant now.
That's moot.
There isn't gonna be an American strike.
Unbelievably small or otherwise.
The problem solved.
Obama fixed it.
It's done.
Those mean weapons are gonna be removed from Syria, and the rebels are not going to be burned to death anymore.
Instead, they're just gonna be bombed and shot to death.
But they're not gonna they're not gonna have chemical weapons used against them.
So it's over.
There's only reason to throw parties.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
L Rushbow on the cutting edge of societal evolution, a reporter who asked Carrie the question that elicited the gaff is Margaret Brennan from CBS.
CBS.
Uh just a little side note here for I don't care about the iOS six Golden Master.
That's a year old.
Just a little aside there, folks.
Steve in uh in Fruitland, Maryland.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network hive.
Rush.
Mega Dr. From the Hub of Del Marva and the land of ple pleasant living.
Uh I had a point I wanted to make, and I wanted to give you a special thank you too when I get done with that, but didn't what uh Ed Asner say about Obama prove exactly what you said about Dunan McNabb.
Well let's say Asner said that he didn't want to be critical of Obama because he didn't want to be thought of as anti-black.
Isn't that exactly the same thing?
Well, what I what I said about McNabb was that he got special treatment from the media because they didn't want to be critical of a black quarterback.
Right.
So you're saying that what Ed Asner said about Obama is pretty much what I said about McNabb, except Ed Asner's getting all kinds of accolades and credit for it.
Oh yeah.
And you know, the let's not forget that Ed Nazar played uh an editor on TV.
He did.
He was a journalist.
He was a journalist on TV.
Ezner said he didn't want to feel anti-black.
And uh a part and partial of that was he didn't want anybody thinking that he was anti-black.
Yeah.
But the the thank you I wanted to give you was every year you talk about Normandy.
About D Day.
My father my father hit the hit the beach at daybreak on D Day.
And in fact, for twenty-five years after he was there, he still had Strapnel coming out of him.
Was was your dad at Omaha Beach?
Yes, sir.
Wow.
First.
And you have you been there?
You know, I haven't.
I'd like to go someday.
I'll I'll t I'll tell you a little story.
We were stationed in Germany.
He was a career military.
We were stationed in Germany in the early sixties.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was I think I was like twelve years old.
I'm the same age as you are.
And I said to him one day, I said, I said, Dad, I said, Don't you want to go to Normandy while we're this close?
And he looked at me real seriously.
He said, Son, he said, I spent enough time there.
I said, Okay.
I never brought it up again.
I I you know i um you know what happened there, obviously, and I c I could that had to be a traumatic prospect for him to go back there.
I mean even even though the ultimate outcome there was victory, that that that was a day that the survived nobody want to relive that.
I didn't he never talked about it.
Never.
Well, you know, my dad, my dad flew um P 51s in World War II and the what was called the China Burma Theater.
And my my brother and I would ask him about his experiences.
He would not tell us how many enemy planes he shot down.
He wouldn't even tell us that he did that.
That's what you did in the P 51.
I mean, you you you weren't joyriding in one of those.
He wouldn't talk about it, and and neither would any of his friends in our little town when they came back.
I mean were growing up in the 50s, World War II, not that long.
He they they they wouldn't talk about it, just like your dad.
They didn't brag about it.
They didn't they didn't want to share any details other than they spoke of the of the horror of it.
Sometimes we used to watch that.
Remember that show combat?
We used to watch that together.
Yeah.
And he just sat there and just laughed.
Boy, what a bunch of baloney.
I mean, yeah, but what about did you what about saving Private Ryan?
Have you seen that?
No, he he already passed before then.
My brother and I went to see that.
My brother was an inlet, he's passed away now, too.
We went to the matinee.
It is.
We were about the only ones in the theater, my brother and I. Well, it's said that that's been the most accurate reproduction of what it was like.
Yeah.
And I'm sitting there with my brother, after about the first ten minutes, I looked at him, I said, you know, we're we'll be lucky to be here.
Well, I'm a Steve, I'm gonna tell you something.
If you ever have a chance to go there, you uh you should.
We uh this was really moving.
Uh and and I went we went to the cemetery, the American cemetery, hallowed ground, and it's uh it's a quietest place that you've ever been.
And it w Omaha Beach went to Poin Duh, where you know the Rangers climbed up the mountains.
But you especially, if you ever find yourself in in uh Europe in in either Britain or France, you should go just see where your dad was and what happened.
I I know you know about it, but there's nothing nothing like seeing it, Steve.
It that beach is huge.
The beach is huge, Steve.
You you would not uh the the ground they had to cover even before they got to and the German guns were able to hit them, they were it's just incredible what what what those men did in that invasion.
You did the the true American greatness exceptionalism, it's just I'm in awe of it.
Uh more so as I as I get older.
But I'm I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
That's a uh I hadn't even made that comparison that uh that you did.
And I appreciate it.
Quick time out, folks, we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
I hate to do this to you here, folks, but I've got this uh I got this Obamacare news.
Here we go.
First up from Fox Business, the headline business owners may face a 100 per day penalty under Obamacare.
Small business owners who thought they were off the hook for Obamacare regulations until 2015 may be in for an expensive wake-up call next month.
Beginning October one, any business with at least one employee and five hundred thousand dollars in annual revenue must notify all employees by letter about the Affordable Care Act's exchanges, or face up to a one hundred dollar a day fine.
So if you have an employee at your small business, you've got to send this guy a letter, or this person, informing them about the Obamacare health care exchanges.
The requirement applies to any business regulated under the Fair Labor Standards Act, regardless of size.
Going forward, letters are to be distributed to any new hires within 14 days of their starting date.
So just one more aspect of Obamacare that nobody knows anything about And has been unfortunately overlooked until now.
So in all of this, what turns out to be fake hysteria over a non-existent war in Syria.
And that's where this has ended up, hasn't it?
Fake hysteria over a non-existent war in Syria where the rebels continue to get beat up with conventional weapons.
They continue to die.
Assad is waging warfare against the rebels with conventional weapons.
Now nobody's doing a thing.
Assad stays in power.
So we have a fake war with a bunch of hysteria.
And while that's happening, we learn of a $100 a day fine for any business beginning October 1st that doesn't send its employees a letter telling them about the exchanges.
Now why would this be the case?
Because they want everybody on these exchanges as quick as they can.
That's how they're going to get the tentacles of this thing deep into our culture and society, cementing the idea of an entitlement, making it harder to repeal it.
That's what this is about.
One employee.
It's steep fine if you don't send the letter.
You may have heard that IBM and other employers are pulling out of coverage for their retired employees.
Please.
It's retired employees.
The old people.
IBM, you heard they're canceling health insurance for employees, and it was another uh another outfit.
Forget the name of the company that they were also eliminating health coverage, health insurance for their employees, certain employees, it turns out retired employees.
So it is the seasoned retired older people.
They are being eliminated.
They are going to be redirected to the exchanges.
Uh and subjected to the eventual death panels.
What is this?
Oh, from the LA Times.
Consumers could be surprised at tax time due to federal health law.
Here's another one.
While the fake war and the fake hysteria has been going on for a couple of days in Syria, some families may end up owing the government a sizable refund if they accept government help on buying health insurance next year under Obamacare.
You heard right.
Some families may end up owing the government a refund if they accept governmental help buying health insurance.
A study published Monday in Health Affairs magazine estimates 38% of families that qualify for federal premium subsidies might have to repay some portion if changes in their household income aren't reported to the government.
How many people are going to even know this?
You got to report change in your household income.
Well, that'll happen on my tax written.
No, no.
Separate, separate form.
And if you if you don't do that, you might have your subsidy taken away, and at which point you will owe the government a refund after they've helped you buy health insurance.
I'm not making this up, folks.
This is what's been going on out there during the hysteria about the fake war in Syria, recently averted by a gaff uttered by John Carey's Time Warner and IBM.
Time Warner said they were going to cancel health insurance, some of their employees turns out retired employees.
Breaking news from the Associated Press.
Vladimir Putin now says that the plan for Syria to turn over chemical weapons will only work if the U.S. agrees not to use force.
AP actually posted this first.
Carrie says Syria should go further than declaring chemical weapons, signing treaty, and so forth.
So now we're really getting brave out there, folks.
Really demanding all these things.
We'll see how it plays out.
And we'll be back here tomorrow.
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