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Sept. 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I thought maybe today, folks, that I would use my opening monologue today to explain why I'm going to postpone my opening monologue and turn the contents over to the Russians so they can take my monologue and give it to people who might want to do things with it.
But then I decided, why should I go moderate like that?
I'm going to postpone my monologue.
So here we are.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
This is Wednesday, right?
This is unbelievable.
Yeah, because Snerdley stayed in bed the past couple of days.
So it's Wednesday.
Well, that's what he does on it.
No, actually, Snerdley was in Washington yesterday.
He told me he had a great time in Washington last night.
Snerdley's back.
Thanks to HR for doing a magnificent job of call screening.
You know, Snerdley, you should have seen this.
There were times I had two calls on hold yesterday.
Some days I actually had two calls to choose from.
It's something you could learn from.
I'm sorry, folks.
It's just a little inside baseball here.
Because, you know, the staff and me, we love each other.
And I'm actually, in their minds, I'm one of the staff.
So when I talk about the highly overrated staff, they always think I'm talking about myself, too.
It's what allows me to get away with it.
Anyway, telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, El Rushpo at EIBNet.com.
Boy, what an historic speech last night.
Probably the first time in history that a U.S. president gave a speech about not doing something.
Unless you want to count all of Obama's speeches about how he's going to fix the economy.
I guess those have been speeches about how he's not going to do anything either.
You realize what a laughing stock we are.
I mean, I've tried to convey this the past couple of days.
I just, I'm at a loss.
I really am, folks.
You know, me in words.
I'm at a loss to explain.
I mean, even the drive-bys, even this had to be so tough.
AP, they fact-check this thing.
Dismal.
The foreign press, of course, never holds anything back, and they're right on the money.
But even some of the domestic drive-bys are trying to, you know, their whole job is to position Obama in the best light possible.
And they're really finding this difficult to do because it is.
We've learned so much.
For example, from John Kerry, we've learned that size really does matter.
After all these years, I'm 62 years old.
I've finally now learned that size matters.
The day Before yesterday, John Kerry said the attack on Syria would be unbelievably small.
And you know why he said that?
Because his whole party is opposed to it.
The anti-war left, I don't know how they're shutting them up.
Well, I do.
They're, you know what?
This is the United States of whatever Obama wants, not America.
And the Democrat Party and the anti-war left and the American left, it's all about how can we protect Obama?
Because the one thing they do really well is they circle the wagons.
When any of them, Dan Rather, you name it, when any liberal is engaged in activity that is highly embarrassing and is going to reflect poorly on the movement, they circle the wagons and they prop up that failure and they elevate that failure.
They will not allow, and sometimes they'll throw the failure overboard and then bring them back, but they will not allow their movement to take a hit.
And I don't know how they did it, but they muzzled the congressional black Caucasians.
I mean, there's not a one of those people that wants to fire any weapons in the Middle East for whatever reason.
Nerve gas.
You know what was the magic word last night?
Children.
Children.
What disappeared?
Iran disappeared.
It did.
Yeah.
Iran disappeared.
Strangely, Iran, they tried.
I guess that was a.
What do you call it when you float something out?
There was a yeah, tribalon.
I guess Iran was a tribaloon.
It didn't work.
So back to the children.
Obama was and Pinprick, did you watch the speech, did you?
He sat there.
And because Kerry has said, as we learned, at size matters, the day before yesterday Kerry said the attack on Syria would be unbelievably small and that was to placate the anti-war left.
They didn't want any kind of attack.
So Kerry was no no no, it's not going to be any big very, very unbelievably small.
And then last night, Obama said the attack on Syria would not be a pinprick.
He and he was trying to sound really tough he said the United States military doesn't do pinpricks, the United States he.
What he tried to say was when the U.S. Military hits you, you know, it doesn't matter how big the attack, we don't do pinpricks.
He was undercutting his own secretary of state, whose gaffe it was, bailed him out of the mess and gave him a solution, which is a disaster.
Because you know what's happening to these chemical weapons, what are the odds, you know, because this deal is falling apart, Putin and the Syrians wait a minute.
We never agreed anybody going in there and counting these things and putting them somewhere under international guard?
We just said that Basher was going to get rid of them.
Where do you think these weapons are going now?
I look, I hate to be a cynic, but with these people it's practically impossible, and I would wager seriously that whatever chemical weapons that Basher Assad might have are now on their way to Hezbollah.
They're just being moved off site, but to an ally.
You know, we got no way of finding out, we've got no way of knowing, we haven't got any confirmation of the, the contents, if you will, of Basher's arsenal.
These guys just don't give away their weapons.
They'll say they're going to give away their weapons.
These are bad people.
These are liars.
Basher's got allies.
He'll send them down to Hezbollah.
The Russians might even provide the transportation.
Meanwhile, we're all here happy as clams, giving ourselves pats on the back, giving speeches about what we're not going to do, and that even if we did it, it wouldn't be a pin prick.
I just, I sit here and I'm, I literally don't have the words to describe the various ways in which this regime is being perceived.
And while all this is going on, we've got more information for you today about Obamacare and more people losing their jobs because of it.
There was a great, oh, folks, the outcome on guns in Colorado.
This is overwhelming.
And I have to tell you, I didn't see anything from the Republican Party in there.
I saw the NRA and a couple of other groups, but I didn't see the Republican Party in there fighting this.
This is Colorado.
This is where they've had a massive disaster.
A couple of them with guns.
And you would think, as a liberal state, you would think if any state was going to support legislation to take guns away from people, this would be it.
But it didn't work.
It was overthrown.
Two Democrats voted out of office.
This is huge, what happened to Colorado.
I can't wait to give you the details of that.
It is also 9-11, the anniversary of 9-11.
And I've been watching it on television today.
And I don't know about you, I can't help but be stirred and profoundly moved.
And I think, like everybody, I was remembering where I was, which happened to be in the air.
I had taken off, I think around 8 o'clock, for Omaha.
It was the last Warren Buffett charity golf tournament.
It was my second or third year to be invited to play in it.
And I was at the time experiencing very severe hearing loss, and I had not yet lost enough hearing that would permit me to qualify for cochlear implant surgery.
So I was getting by with hearing aids, and they just weren't doing the trick.
I mean, I was able to hear noise, but I wasn't able to comprehend speech very well.
So I guess about an hour, an hour and a half into the flight, pilot comes back and says the World Trade Center has been hit, and we have to set down.
Air traffic controls ordered every aircraft in the sky to be down in 45 minutes.
At the time, I didn't have satellite TV on the airplanes.
I had no idea what any of this meant.
And the details were scant.
World Trade Center has been hit.
I didn't know once or twice, didn't know the details.
All I know is that we had to sit down.
45 minutes did not give us enough time to get back home.
The nearest airport to home that we could get to in that 45 minutes was a small airport about an hour from here up in North Florida.
So we landed, rented a car, drove back, and I can't understand what's being said on the radio.
As we're driving, I'm heading back here to the studio, but I don't, I've got people trying to tell me, but I can't hear it.
I can't, I'm not, I couldn't understand nothing on the radio.
And the people with me in the car were trying to explain it to me, but it was just really tough.
I was able to understand enough that was really bad.
The fact that we were ordered down out of the sky and everybody else was too, was an indication was very, very bad.
And it finally rolled in here at around 2:30, 2:30, 2.45, maybe a half hour, 20 minutes left in the program.
And that is the first time when I got in here, it was the first time I'd seen pictures.
So it was, I don't know, five hours after it had happened.
And I was like, I mean, I'm shocked.
I had every emotion, anger, sorrow, sadness, disbelief, curiosity, everything.
All these emotions firing off instantly.
And I sat down here and I was trying to make sense of it.
Did the last 20 minutes of the program from the guest host that day?
And that, by the way, was the day I decided to go ahead and spring for satellite TV on the aircraft on EIB-1 in 2001, 9-11, 2001.
So got home and was able, turn on television, see, and then able to start reading what all had happened.
And they kept showing video of the planes as it became available hitting the tower.
The plane that hit the Pentagon, you couldn't even see it.
You just saw a flash and then an explosion.
Even at super slow mo, you couldn't see the plane that hit the Pentagon.
But you could certainly see the planes hit the World Trade Center.
And then the towers came down.
All of that.
I'm sure you remember it too.
And the next morning, I'm driving into work here, and I'm driving on the Ocean Coast Road.
It's the Atlantic Ocean on the left, and it's just after dawn.
Couldn't sleep much.
Driving in here, this is absolutely beautiful dawn here.
Just the kind of day it was up in New York that a little warmer, but in terms of blue sky, sunshine, clear, it was a beautiful day.
The ocean was calm.
I'm driving.
It was serene.
I was one of the few driving around.
And I remember looking out over the ocean out the car window, driving, and I'm just trying to imagine why anybody would want to do what they did.
I know that sounds naive because I know the answer.
I mean, when I ask myself questions about why bad people do bad things, I know the answers.
And I have, you know, why various people think the way that I know the answers.
It's still, however, still, I have a capacity to be shocked and surprised by it.
And just the look of that day, the day after, down here where we were, there was no indication, no matter where you looked, that anything that had happened in New York had happened, obviously.
But you couldn't escape the fact that it did.
Pictures in your mind, in my mind, as I'm driving in, looking out over this beautiful sea, sun coming up.
And as details kept pouring in, started learning more and more about who these people were and what happened and how it happened and what could have maybe prevented it, then all different sets of emotions start taking over.
Then I, in the course of the next few weeks, learned that I knew people who lost people, family members and friends at the World Trade Center.
They are still not the same.
Marriages broke up because of it.
Families were never the same.
And I remember every day there's Mayor Giuliani and Bernard Carrick and everybody standing there on TV giving the latest updates, saying we're never going to allow the terrorists to shut this country down and so over.
And I said, I hope that's true.
I hope every holiday, we don't, I hope every 9-11 anniversary don't shut this country down in remembrance because that's what they tried to do.
But I'm watching TV today, and there was something I didn't see.
I saw the memorials.
I saw all the people.
I saw the prayers.
I saw the laying of reeds.
I saw all that.
I didn't see one second of videotape of what happened on that day.
Not one.
I guess it's the powers that be too traumatic.
The American people can't deal with it even yet, which I think is a grave mistake.
I have to take a break.
We'll be back and continue in just a moment.
And then, as I was saying, it wasn't long after 9-11 that the State Department convened a symposium, a forum of learned scholars from all over America.
And the subject or the title of the forum, I'm paraphrasing, is why do they hate us?
They had a symposium on what it was that we, the United States, did that caused the 9-11 hijackers to take out the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and their other presumed target, the White House of the Capitol.
What did we do?
Why did they hate us?
Why?
Was it maybe our fault?
And I had, even in the midst of something like 9-11, the Blame America First crowd Tried to dominate the post-event policymaking and everything else.
Why do you suppose, ladies and gentlemen, that there have been, and there never are, really, it's not just this anniversary, any anniversary since 9-11.
The networks do not replay video footage of the World Trade Center being hit.
They did.
MSNBC did.
Oh, the Today Show did it.
Okay, well, then I stand corrected.
The Today Show did it.
But it's an exception to the rule.
And you know why they don't do it?
Theoretically, supposedly.
Well, it's still so traumatic.
There's no reason to subject the American people.
This reminders.
I disagree with that profoundly.
I think you've heard the phrase, never forget.
I think it applies here.
I don't think people should ever be allowed to forget what happened and who did it.
And by the way, I'll go so far as to say that in some circles, in our media, the decision not to play videotape of that day is precisely to, I don't want to say protect, that's not the word, but to downplay who did it.
It's not that they seek to blame America.
I'm not saying that.
They seek to downplay who did it.
They might even consider it racist to do so.
Anybody who is a person of color, if you're white, if you're a liberal, you can be accused of racism if you just speak honestly about certain things.
They might not wish to go there.
They might obviously be leftists and don't want it concluded by a majority of people that the United States was not to blame.
I kid you not about that.
I think, not only do I think that we should not shut down the country on 9-11, which is what they were trying to do, I think everybody ought to go to work.
The memoriams, all you want, but don't shut down the country.
That's what they were trying to do.
Don't stop elections, which they did in New York on that day.
And I think people need to be reminded, lest they forget.
And there clearly, there's some people who wouldn't mind if people forgot.
Now, there's a rally in Washington today.
Two million bikers.
Two million bikers.
A large rally to commemorate 9-11 is roaring through the Washington area.
2,000 bikers with the group 2 million bikers to D.C. are snarling traffic on the Beltway with a ride honoring the victims of the 9-11 terror attacks and the members of the military call to serve after the attacks.
On their Facebook page, in all caps, the group said that they will stand by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, adding that they are against any fundamental transformation of America.
Well, I must ask, who has talked about a fundamental transformation of America?
Oh, wait, we know that.
That would be Barack Obama.
Five days before his election to the presidency back in 2008, Barack Obama told America we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
Now, most low-information people heard that, and they were clueless.
They didn't have the slightest understanding what he was talking about.
They thought he meant get us out of Iraq and make sure there was no more pyramid building in prisons in Iraq and closing Klub Ghitmo and making the world love us and getting rid of Bush and all of that other stuff.
They had no idea that fundamentally transforming the United States of America meant turning the Constitution of the United States on its head.
They had no idea that transforming the United States of America meant getting rid of capitalism and replacing it with socialism.
They had no idea that it meant co-opting one-sixth of the U.S. economy by the government, the healthcare business.
They had no idea what Obama was promising.
They thought they knew, but they didn't.
Some of them may now not even know, but the bikers in D.C. know and knew.
They tried to get a last-minute permit to close some intersections near monuments on Capitol Hill, but the National Park Service denied that request.
There is another rally that's been planned, of course, that this is an attempt to counter.
So I don't know what your memories of 9-11 are.
It varies from person to person.
There's a in a lot of people, there's a general apathy.
Yeah, it happened.
Okay, over with in the past.
Not going to happen again.
It was a one-off.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's not a harbinger.
It wasn't a harbinger.
It doesn't portend anything else.
Other people look at it as just at the time the latest in a series of attacks by the same people.
This one just the largest, but there had been similar attacks, one on the World Trade Center in 1993, attacks on American institutions all over the world.
It was just one year ago.
We now have to distinguish between 9-11, 2000, what, two years ago, and 9-11, 2011.
And that was Benghazi.
And we still don't know what happened there.
And we're still in the process.
Some are still trying to cover up what really happened in Benghazi.
And you believe that it's been...
What was that?
Did that happen?
When did the Benghazi happen?
These years, did it happen in 2012 or 2011?
Yeah, yeah, just one year.
I can't believe it seems like Romney and all the rest of us were demanding that Romney talk about this in the debates.
It seems like two years ago.
This year, I don't know, but this year, parts of it seem to have just skated by and other parts of it seem to be dragging by.
It seems like Benghazi was two years ago.
And just now the one-year anniversary of Benghazi today.
It's been a year.
No suspects have been arrested.
No suspects have even been questioned.
Reportedly, Obama and the Libyan government don't want to risk angering the local terrorists in the area, Especially when he was on the brink of going to war to help their allies in Syria.
Yes, I exactly mean that.
It's part and parcel of the way the left deals with thugs, criminals, bad guys.
Don't want to make them madder than they already are.
Don't want to do that.
Obama and the Libyan government as well didn't want to risk angering local terrorists, might cause more trouble if we tried to pursue those and make case for those who had committed the atrocities a year ago.
I have a piece.
Let me find it here.
Obama's speech last night.
The magic word was children.
Got to do this for the children.
Children was the magic word in Obama's speech.
And about 9:30 last night, I was made aware of a post at life news.com.
This is going to offend some of you.
Obama was talking about chemical weapons being used on children.
Now, that just is unacceptable.
It's okay if conventional weapons, apparently, are used on children because they are being used on children now.
I mean, Basher's back to using conventional bombs and bullets and everything else, but it's okay because he's not using the evil chemical weapons.
We fixed that.
No, I'm not making it up.
The minute the Russians in Syria took Kerry's gaffe as a deal that they would get rid of chemical weapons, the bombing began.
The renewed bombing began against the rebels, whoever they are in Syria with conventional weapons.
Basher started kicking them again.
Apparently, that's okay.
It doesn't matter.
But you start using chemical weapons.
Well, that's another thing.
But I got a post to this from Katie McCann, Lifenews.com.
Thousands of children die in America every day from another chemical weapon.
RU486 is a chemical weapon that basically restarts the menstrual process in a pregnant woman shutting down the uterus and starves the baby to death.
And it is the, you can expect this, LifeNews.com.
Obama's talking about 429 children that were killed in a chemical weapons attack.
And people, yeah, well, horrible.
There's no question.
But what about the 1.3 million children here every year?
And let's not forget Barack Obama is the guy who voted time and time again as a state senator in Illinois for infanticide.
You know that story.
You know that drill.
I ran this one by some people at New Rush.
You know, you don't want to mention that.
So why not?
Well, that's just, that's, that's just, it's going to offend some people, you know.
I know it probably does offend people.
It happens to be true.
This concern for the children is awfully selective.
Anyway, let's take a break.
We'll do it.
And we'll come back and start in with your phone calls and start mixing it all up here, folks, when we get back.
Ha!
How are you?
It's great to have you back, my friends.
Always a thrill and a delight to be with you, El Rushbo and the EIB network.
What?
Oh, yeah.
You know, this is still number one at Amazon.com and pre-orders for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, time travel adventures.
I don't know what to say.
I really don't know what's number one in pre-order.
What do you mean, number one and number two?
Well, the audio book was at number two.
I think it slipped down to five or some such thing, but that's okay because October 29th when the book comes out, that the audio book, you know, we post a little video behind the scenes.
This is 39 seconds of it.
We posted it at Facebook just of me doing a short portion of it.
Pardon Sniffles.
And this is something I'd not done.
I had not done ever professionally for something like this, an interpretive reading of a story with dialogue, with different vocal inflections and accents and so forth.
And it was thus a challenge.
And folks, I got to be honest, at my age and with my degree of professionalism and the heights that I have achieved, there aren't too many challenges left in this business for me.
I mean, I've conquered everything.
I've done TV, all that, but I had never done this.
And so I was jazzed.
It was fun.
It's really strange.
It had three nights to do this.
And I was, when I finished, I was puffed out, proud.
I was really giving myself out of boy because I felt this was really good.
I'm used to that on this show.
You know, when I walk out of here at the end of the radio show every day, I think, how could I have done better?
What can I fix tomorrow?
This kind of thing.
I don't walk out of it.
When I finished this thing, it was like, wow, all right, because I hadn't done it before.
It was exciting.
It's good.
People are going to like that.
But it slipped to number five.
But as I said, I'm not worried about that because it's going to be number one once it hits.
But the pre-order list includes books that are on sale.
And I don't know.
You never know what to expect with something like this.
What?
No way.
No way.
Snerdley just asked me, well, you don't think you're going to sell 2 million?
I said, I don't know.
That's the point.
He said, well, your first two did.
Yeah, totally different market back.
There wasn't any.
There weren't any real conservative manifesto books.
And I was the only conservative national media figure at the time.
It was almost I had a monopoly back then.
But now it's a whole different market.
I have no idea.
That's why I'm generally, I'm so pleasantly surprised and proud.
I can't tell you.
Catherine is too.
Yeah, October 29th.
Rush Revere.
And we've brought to life, you know, me as Rush Revere, the cute little icon on the 2F by T bottle.
Anyway.
Anyway, I'm not through.
I thought I was through, but I'm not through sharing with you reminiscing about post-9-11 because the and I raised the question: why do the networks no longer show the video?
What happened that day?
And there are political reasons, folks.
This is some people don't want to hear that.
I'm sorry, but when you're talking about today's media, the Democrat, everything they do or every decision they make is political.
And go back and look at the aftermath of 9-11.
Let me see if I can remind you of some things.
I found myself in L.A. not long after it.
I can't tell.
Every car I saw had an American flag waving on it.
Everywhere you went in the immediate aftermath, you saw American flags and automobiles.
You couldn't buy them.
They were sold out.
Jewelry featuring the American flag was made.
There were bumper stickers that were slapped on people's cars.
That event caused a huge outpouring of patriotism all over this country.
And do you remember how unified this country was in the aftermath of 9-11?
I will never forget.
Folks, go back to the archives and I can find it.
I remember predicting on this program how long it would be before the Democrat Party started taking issue with Bush over not retaliating.
The one thing that was happening, the country was unified.
There was this outpouring of patriotism and that, remember now, Bush, at the time this happened, was hated.
This wasn't long after the Florida recount aftermath.
They were just livid.
They thought the election had been stolen from, the presidency had been stolen.
And here comes this attack and Bush's handling of it afterwards was masterful.
They saw this massive unity, massive outpouring of patriotism, which frightens Democrats.
Well, if you—I've got to take a break.
Boy, I wish I could finish my point on that.
And I will hear it.
U.S. News and World Report, July 20th, 2011, headline shock study.
U.S. flag only boosts GOP.
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