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Sept. 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Just one more series of thoughts on the anniversary here of 9-11.
As I was saying, as far as I rudely interrupted, but they ended the first hour.
It wasn't long after 9-11, no matter where you went, every automobile had and was proudly flying an American flag somewhere, a bumper sticker, jewelry.
You couldn't find American flags anywhere.
The bumper stickers were just left and right.
There was a renewed patriotism that we hadn't seen in the country in a long, long time.
And remember, this is right after the Florida aftermath recount.
Bush is not yet hated and despised because of Iraq.
The media, the Democrats have not created hatred for Bush over the economy or any of the other things that were to come later.
There was just as far as the Democrats were concerned, they were livid.
They were outraged because they thought they had an election stolen from them by the U.S. Supreme Court.
And they thought Bush was illegitimate.
And 9-11 came along.
They tried to make fun of him for the way he acted in the classroom when he was informed while reading a book to a classroom of kids.
But in the aftermath, Bush handled this masterfully and with great leadership and toughness and resolve.
And the country was unified.
And there was patriotism.
Patriotism had broken out everywhere and it was being displayed.
You didn't have to hear anybody talk to know it existed.
They were flying flags.
They were using any symbol they could to express their pride.
Everybody in this country was.
Even the freeways of California, American flag after American flag.
It was a beautiful sight, by the way.
We were united as a country.
And it was patriotism everywhere.
Even amid all the sorrow, there was a great comfort in that.
And Bush's approval numbers were sky high.
And the Democrat Party was not enjoying any aspect of that.
Because remember, everything to them is politics.
Every event is first judged in its relationship to their agenda.
Every event.
Is it going to be bad?
Is it going to be good?
If it's bad, how can we convert it and make it good?
How can we use this to advance our agenda?
Or what do we have to do to make sure this doesn't slow down our agenda?
That's all they are.
They are the most partisan.
They are the most Political people, even in that time in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, 2001, when everybody was just totally absorbed and unified.
And this is unacceptable.
And I'm, folks, you don't have to take my word for it.
Hillary Clinton from her speech in response to 9-11.
Final paragraph: We will also stand united behind our president as he and his advisors plan the necessary actions to demonstrate America's resolve and commitment, not only to seek out the exact punishment on the perpetrators, but to make it very clear that not only those who harbor terrorists, but those who in any way aid or comfort them whatsoever will now face the wrath of our country.
And I hope that the message has gotten through to everywhere.
It needs to be heard.
You are either with America in our time of need or you are not.
I mean, the Democrats, they were all in on this at first.
They wanted in on this.
Then they said Bush's high approval numbers, and it wasn't long that they then started.
I made a prediction on this program and this nerdly say, how long do you think it's going to be before they start distancing themselves and Bush, separating, and start ripping him for a poor response or no response?
And in fact, the way that happened, you remember the attack on Tora Bora, where a number of people thought that we had killed bin Laden, the Tora Bora range in Afghanistan.
The weekend prior to that, the Democrats were all over television demanding that Bush do something.
They were calling Bush names.
They were claiming Bush was unqualified and incompetent.
He hadn't done anything to assuage what had happened to us or to answer it.
And they were humiliated because the next day, the attack in Tora Bora happened, and they looked silly.
There was a memo from James Carville and Stan Greenberg that Bush favorability was too high, had to be brought down in the midst of the 9-11 aftermath.
And the memo described how they needed to make Bush out to be a liar.
This was an internal memo intended for Democrat leaders and party members and so forth all over the country, primarily in Washington.
They were very worried that Bush's numbers were too high.
So they began distancing themselves from anything Bush.
Bush was the epitome of the patriotism, and he was talking tough about the terrorists, saying things like, you're either with us or against us.
And the Democrats, you can't talk that way.
That's embarrassing.
They started calling him a cowboy.
And I said before the break, patriotism is something that makes them nervous.
And I know some of you, well, you have a 24-year-old woman.
And I mean, I don't even have to shout that.
What do you mean?
This is what we mean when she says, patriots.
Look, I wish it weren't true, but it is.
U.S. News and World Report, July 20th, 2011.
Shock study.
U.S. flag only boosts the GOP.
Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes, and voting behavior, even though most don't believe it'll impact their politics.
This, according to a two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science, they had found that exposure to the American flag Changed behavior to pro-Republican or pro-conservative.
What's more, according to the three authors of the study from the University of Chicago, Cornell, and Hebrew University, the impact of the flag on people had staying power.
A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants' Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs.
The study found that a single exposure to a small American flag during deliberation about voting prior to a general election led to significant robust changes in participants' voting intentions.
How many times have you heard famous retired evening news anchors refuse to wear the American flag?
Brokaw refused, Peter Jennings refused, and rather because they couldn't show their patriotism.
That would be compromising their sacred principles as journalists.
So you may not want to believe me, but the Democrat Party and the American left has a problem with patriotism because they know it steers people away from them.
Patriots don't like Democrats have a problem with people who love America.
The liberal ideology is based on America is at fault.
America is to blame.
America is unjust.
America is immoral from its founding.
This is what animates Obama.
You know it as well as I do, folks.
And you 24-year-old women who think this is above and beyond the people, you know it too if you just sit down and admit it to yourself.
Who is the blame America first crowd?
Who is it that mocks the flag?
Who is it that mocks patriotism?
Who is it that makes fun of it and tries to slight it?
Remember Howard Dean in his campaign for the presidency, I forget what year, 2000 or 2004.
This flag doesn't just belong to Rush Limbaugh.
This flag belongs to me too, and it belongs to all of them.
We have that bite.
Is that what you said?
This is, I don't know what year, but it's one, last 12 years, Howard Dean running for the presidency.
Listen to this.
The flag of this country does not belong to Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back the flag, so it no longer belongs solely to Rush Limbaugh.
So don't get mad at me.
These are the people who know that instinctively they get defensive when this kind of thing comes up.
From that same article, it's more important to note that political ideology and party affiliation did not moderate these effects.
That is, both liberal and conservative participants were influenced by the flag and in the same direction, and that would be toward conservative movement.
Now, here we are 12 years later, after 9-11, and think about it.
12 years later, we are supporting Muslim terrorists in Syria.
Muslim terrorists who are threatening to kill Syrian Christians if they don't convert to Islam.
That's who our allies are.
Those are the rebels that Basher Assad is supposedly gassing.
So we're aligned with them because we're aligned against Assad.
They're threatening to kill Syrian Christians if they don't convert to Islam.
Obama refused to wear the U.S. flag until he was shamed into it.
Now, my point in all of this is we were united as a country after 9-11.
Bush's approval ratings were through the roof.
He gave two of the best speeches ever made by a president.
He went to the site at 9-11, stood next to the fireman, and comforted people and promised we'd get whoever did it.
Everybody was fired up.
He threw out the first pitch at the first game after 9-11 at Yankee Stadium.
And by the way, he wasn't wearing mom jeans and didn't look like a girl, 24 years old or otherwise, when he threw the first pitch.
Well, I mean, I remember Obama's first pitch at a Washington Nationals game.
It was not particularly a Bush was wearing full body armor while he tossed that first pitch.
And my point is that while all this is going on, the liberals are convening a forum, a symposium at the State Department, asking, what did we do to make them so mad?
Why do they, the militant Islamists, hate us?
And I think unbridled displays of love of country and patriotism makes liberals nervous.
These unscripted, uncensored displays of love and pride in our country make them nervous because it's the one thing they can't fake.
They try and you know they just don't feel it.
So they have to do something about it.
And they set about as their strategy, based on the Greenberg-Carville memo, to essentially destroy Bush.
And they succeeded, as we all know, and we're feeling the repercussions of it today.
They're not big fans of the military.
They're not comfortable with millions of people turning to God.
They're not comfortable with public displays of religion.
They have tried to erase the real meaning of Thanksgiving from the history books.
So a campaign was silently begun to the drive-bys and liberals to remove the images from TV that created all of this.
That's where I'm going with this.
I'm sorry it's taking me so long to get there.
But that's why we're not watching.
That's why we don't see the video of what happened on 9-11.
That's why.
That's why we don't see the video.
We don't want to run the risk of having that aftermath replicated.
And they run the media, so they're in charge of whether or not that video is shown.
And to this day, they make fun of people who are patriots.
They make fun of religious people.
It's never stopped.
Got to take a brief time out, and I promise when we get back, we will get to your phone calls because I know you have been eagerly waiting for your turn.
Now, we'll get to the Colorado story in due course before the program wraps for the day.
But first, to Detroit and Catherine, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi there.
Thank you.
You bet.
Well, I've been thinking much like you today about patriotism.
And I guess my question is based on your insight into the liberal condition, more than the outward signs of what they do, I want to know what do you think they feel when they say they are patriotic?
I know what I feel.
You know, it's a profound love of our country.
But what do you think they feel?
What is it to them if they say, I feel patriotic?
How is it different from what we feel?
Well, Hillary has defined it.
Patriotism is having the guts to admit your country's wrong.
Patriotism is the guts to realize when your country's made mistakes.
Patriotism is the right to dissent against your own country.
Patriotism is understanding where your country needs to improve.
Their patriotism is rooted in guilt.
They give themselves gold stars for being honest about what's wrong with this country.
And yet, that is the patriotism.
Admitting what's wrong and admitting it's flawed and then claiming to want to fix it.
Well, that's clearly a different feeling of patriotism than I have.
And I think it's clearly not based on love of country.
And it makes me wonder about: is that a dead issue for a future conservative presidential candidate?
Is patriotism off the table because Obama has transformed our country and patriotism no longer matters?
It's not.
The majority of this country are just the exact opposite.
The problem is that, as I was just saying, patriotism, outward displays, are made fun of.
They're mocked.
Late-night comedians or whoever in the pop culture, if anybody acts really patriotic or says something patriotic, they make fun of it as though it's corny, and they say, look, we all feel that.
There's nothing special.
You don't have anything on us.
You love your country.
We love America.
But they make fun of it.
It is corny.
It's not cool.
It's not hip.
But the basis of patriotism would be the decision that any leader would make on behalf of our country.
Precisely.
Yeah, that's what I think.
That's exactly right.
Here's the – I don't know about you, but I don't think America is perfect, but I also don't believe that imperfection is an ideological flaw that needs to be – let me put it – liberals think they can perfect everything.
They can perfect what's wrong with, say, racists, what's wrong with bigots, or they can fix what's wrong with America.
If it isn't perfect, there's something wrong with it.
And then they are needed.
That's their call to action, is when there isn't perfection.
It's all part of their utopian fantasy that there is perfection out there and that only they are capable of finding it, discovering it, and maintaining it.
It's rooted in the flaws and the things that are wrong and having the guts to admit it.
Whereas they look at us, our patriotism, they see us as blindly accepting whatever is wrong in this country and saying it's good, saying it's great.
They don't look at us as having the ability to discriminate or discern good or bad.
They just, they think it is a mistake to think just because it's America, it's good.
And just because it's American, it's great.
That to them is flawed thinking because the country is flawed.
It was ill-founded, if you will.
It was unjustly, unfairly constructed in their view.
So that's what Obama runs around apologizing for America for.
Bill Clinton did the same thing.
Why do you think they do that?
They really think the United States is the problem in the world, not the solution.
Holy cow!
I just was made aware of this.
Do you remember the name Elizabeth Obaghi?
The 26-year-old woman advising McCain and others, McCain and Carey, on the Syrian rebels.
We discussed her last week.
You remember now, I couldn't believe that a 26-year-old woman with that little experience was a prime advisor on our decision to ally with the rebels in Syria.
Well, guess what?
The Syria researcher who is Wall Street Journal op-ed piece cited by John Kerry and John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War because she lied about having a Ph.D.
The group announced today, the Institute for the Study of War has learned and confirmed that, contrary to her representations, Ms. Elizabeth O'Baghy, and it may be Obaggie, I don't know how it's pronounced, it's O apostrophe B-A-G-Y, that Ms. Elizabeth O'Baghy does not, in fact, have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University.
And the Institute for the Study of War has accordingly terminated Ms. Obaghi's employment effective immediately.
Obaggie told Politico's Kate Brannon in an interview Monday that she had submitted and defended her dissertation and was waiting for Georgetown to confer upon her degree.
She had an op-ed on August 30th in the Wall Street Journal called On the Front Lines of Syria's Civil War.
And it was cited by both Kerry and McCain last week.
Kerry read from the piece last Tuesday to Kerry, who was being questioned.
McCain called it an important op-ed by Dr. Elizabeth O'Baghy.
The next day, Kerry brought up the piece before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, described it as a very interesting article, and recommended members read it.
But the piece had come under fire for misrepresenting her affiliations.
Originally, the Yop-Ed only listed O'Baghy, 26, as a senior analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, later adding a clarification that disclosed her connection to Syrian rebel advocacy group.
That wasn't immediately known.
She had ties to the rebels in Syria.
She's writing an op-ed at age 26.
And these she has to be attractive.
That's the only explanation for this.
It's got to be.
These old farts, she has to be attractive.
We're looking at two Jurassic Park dinosaur senators, the Secretary of State, taking the advice of a 26-year-old who's what is this?
This is like the fake journalist that we've had at the Washington Post.
Now we've got a fake scholar.
And turns out she has been a primary advisor to members of our government on a lying with the rebels in Syria who are at this moment threatening to kill Christians if they don't convert to Islam.
Oh, apostrophe, B-A-G-Y.
Elizabeth O'Baghy.
We mentioned last week that this woman, Obaggie, told the New York Times a few months ago that the rebels were very sectarian, very religious, that is, extremists.
She'd been all over the ballpark.
This woman apparently, well, I will just leave it at she's not who she represented herself as being.
But how does that even explain?
What are these guys doing taking advisor advice from someone so young who now is lying about her scholarship and didn't properly represent her ties to one of the factions in the uprising in Syria?
Well, actually, you know, it's true that The same guys that John Kerry is the guy who takes Albert Brooks's joke tweet last Friday and uses it, and it becomes a gaffe that ends up becoming U.S. policy.
You didn't hear this.
No, no, you didn't hear that.
Kerry, the reason why we're doing what we're doing in Syria, the reason why these chemical weapons are, because Kerry was just speaking rhetorically, because he said, you know, the Syrians never do this.
Well, what they ought to really do is just give up their chemical weapons.
The international community.
And all of a sudden, Vladimir Putin said, you know, it's a great idea.
And Assad said, you know what?
We'll do that.
And Kerry said, no, no, I was just kidding.
I mean, I was just speaking rhetorically.
The State Department said, he didn't really mean that.
He was just speaking rhetorically.
But it was too late.
They said, that's a great idea.
So then Obama and Kerry do a 180 and make it look like it was their policy all along.
So a gaffe made by Kerry, stolen from a comedian who put it on Twitter on Friday, Albert Brooks, becomes U.S. policy.
So this now, this is a comedy of errors.
Elizabeth O'Baggy is a fraud.
And she has been the primary influence, or a primary influence in our policy.
It's just, at least with John Kerry and McCain, the State Department and the Senate, this is just, I don't know, is it mind-boggling?
Literally, literally mind-boggling.
Here, grab somebody 24.
This afternoon in Washington, the White House, the spokeskid, Jay Carney, held a daily press briefing.
And Obama has delayed the vote in Congress on the use of force authorization.
Why this is even still going on is just purely for show.
But Obama has delayed it.
And John Carl, I mean, the spokes kid is in an unenviable position.
He's now got a lie right to the media face.
And they'll, of course, accept it, amplify it.
Here is the little QA between Jonathan Carl and Jay Carney.
You could have gotten that vote from Congress.
It helps the diplomacy.
The president asked for a delay in that vote because he didn't have the votes.
The president asked for a delay in that vote because we were exploring a diplomatic avenue.
And members of Congress are interested also in exploring that diplomatic avenue, as you've seen in some of the actions that they've taken with regards to potential resolutions.
The president thought that was an appropriate thing to do.
Yeah, they're going to have the vote there.
We don't want the vote of force.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
He didn't cancel the vote because he didn't have the votes, which he doesn't have the votes.
No, he canceled it because they're working on diplomacy now.
Wait a minute.
I thought the very threat of U.S. force brought our enemies to their knees.
Apparently not now.
Got to take a break, folks.
Much more straight ahead here on the EIB network.
Don't go.
So I got an email.
Dear Rush, I know you're an Apple fan.
Why is Apple stock dropping so fast today?
I'll tell you why I think for you high finance people.
Yesterday, as you know, Apple introduced two phones, the 5S, which is their top-of-the-line flagship, and the 5C.
And that's the one that has the plastic polycarbonate backing.
Never made one like that before.
Well, not in the modern era.
The first ones were that way.
But with all these bright colors, they're five different colors.
For six months, the tech media and the financial media has been predicting this phone, even by name.
They got wind of it, the 5C.
And they've been predicting it as a cheap phone that would be priced so that poor people in emerging markets like the ChiComs would be able to afford it.
Because the tech media and the Wall Street people think that Apple's market share isn't big enough.
And they think Apple agrees with them.
So they think Apple was making a cheap phone or a cheaper phone as it would be priced so that poor people could afford it.
And then more people would buy Apple phones and then their market should be up.
And so yesterday, Apple introduced the phones and his phone ain't cheap.
It's not even mid-range.
It's in the high level of prices of phones.
It's not just $100 less than their flagship 5S.
And I'll tell you, it's interesting.
The Apple people have known what has been said about this phone for six months and they let it stand.
They let everybody think that they were coming out with a cheap phone.
And then when the phone was announced, it isn't.
And so people are selling Apple off today.
And you might ask yourself, why didn't they, for six months, they've known what the market's expectations were.
Why didn't they, behind the scenes, correct it and say, hey, this phone is not going to be what you think?
We're not building this phone to expand our market share.
We've got something else in mind with it.
You know, Apple, they march their own drummer.
They don't care.
I mean, you've got a CEO here who really, the stock price is, I mean, obviously it's a concern, but not like other CEOs.
They do not do what they do for the stock price.
They do it for other things.
Do it for themselves.
But I think that's the reason.
Because so many of these, but these at the same time, these people that think Apple ought to be going for market share, I'll tell you what would happen.
If Apple did come out with a cheap phone yesterday, it wouldn't be long before the same people were complaining that Apple's profit margins were down.
Because Apple's in a position right now where they can't win with a tech media or high finance.
That's my answer.
Hope it helps.
Now, I got a couple more patriotism stories because I'm not through closing this loop.
Because a lot of you are probably still offended that I'm drawing a distinction between the way liberals and Democrats look at patriotism and the way we do.
And I've just got more evidence for my contention.
And I'll get to that, but I've also got to get some more phone calls in here.
So we'll go back to the phones in Dayton, Ohio.
This is Julie.
And I'm really glad you waited.
Thank you for your patience.
Hi.
Hi.
Thank you, Rash.
Proud to be an American patriot.
Thank you.
Yes, unlike Michelle Obama, my whole life, I have been proud of this country.
There you go.
There you go.
There's another example right there.
Exactly.
Well said.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You know, this morning I woke up and a couple things I thought of as I was getting ready for work.
I thought about George Bush, another true American patriot who did not care about polling numbers.
And I just, I wondered what he was thinking of on this day.
And then I also had the news on, and I kept wanting to see some of the past footage.
And I think it is so important to show that footage to the American people of what we endured on 9-11.
And there is a song called, I can't remember the country artist, but it's called, Have You Forgotten?
And if you could play that on your show today, it's such a great song because in the song, it says they should show that footage every day.
So because people need to remember.
I know.
We've talked about it.
They should show it.
And we've been through the reasons that they don't.
And one of the reasons is because it would revitalize possibly patriotism, which is something they just, they're made uncomfortable by it, folks.
They just are.
The left is made uncomfortable by outward displays of patriotism and the flying of the flag and all that.
You know, there's something that I don't think very many people have seen ever.
They've shown video footage.
But do you ever recall seeing footage of people jumping out of the World Trade Center towers to avoid dying by fire?
They don't show that.
And there is footage of that.
That brings you back to life real fast when you're plunging from 50, 70, 80 stories to flames.
I mean, it was horrible.
You know what?
Wall Street will never understand and tech media, Apple does not market to poor people.
They're not interested in it.
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