All Episodes
Previous Next
Sept. 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
28:33
September 11, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back.
It's great to have your Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Another busy broadcast hour straight ahead.
Our telephone number, if you want to appear on the program, is 800 282-2882.
We have high expectations of our callers here.
Primary purpose for a caller is to make the host look good.
And that's not by gushing compliments.
That's not what that means.
It means by provoking inspiring the host to even greater heights.
Again, the number 800-282-2882, email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
We just played the soundbite of uh Jay Carney and John Carl of ABC News, who said, well, uh Obama asked for a delay in the vote in Congress on the congressional use of force authorization because he doesn't have the votes.
And uh spokesperson Jake Carney said, no, no, no, no, that's not why.
Just having to now lie to the reporters' faces, which is okay with the reporters for the most part, because it's all about saving Obama.
At any rate, Carney said, no, no, no, no.
You wanted to delay the vote now because we want to focus on the diplomacy.
And I said, wait a minute.
Kerry said it, Obama said it, the threat of U.S. force.
Now, when a Republican says this, they panic and start talking about dangerous, irresponsible Republicans with their fingers on a nuclear button.
But when they say it, it's okay.
And they say the threat of U.S. force, just a threat will get us where we want to go.
And now all of a sudden there won't be any threat.
And I'm reminded here that Vladimir Putin, who's really running this show now, set a condition that endangers the diplomatic initiative to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons.
Putin says it all depends on the U.S. and other nations renouncing the use of force against Assad's regime.
So what might be really going on here is that Putin is saying to Obama, look, your Secretary of State throws out this gaffe that sounded so good to us, we took it.
You guys tried to walk it back, but you failed, so now you've had to sign on to it and made it look like yours.
Fine.
I'm running this show now.
And if you want us to make sure that Basher gets rid of his chemical weapons, you have to renounce the use of force.
You better not.
If your Congress votes an authorization of force resolution, then this deals off the table.
It sadly, ladies and gentlemen, is I guess it's possible that the reason Obama asked for a delay in the vote on the use of force is because Putin says if that vote happens, then Basher's not going to give up his chemical weapons.
This is just unbelievable.
We are not the player in that region or anywhere else.
And that too, sadly, is part of the fundamental transformation of the United States of America that Obama spoke about five days before the election.
Now the plague.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Putin is the player, and we're being played, and that's exactly right.
That is exactly what is happening here.
Now, I want to close the loop on this patron.
Isn't that stunning?
I mean, it it if that is what really is going on, folks.
That put in in in in this instance, Putin is the marionette.
Yes, he's the puppet master.
We've got a guy with chemical weapons that we've huffed and puffed and said, You better get rid of them, or we're gonna kick your ass.
But we didn't want to really kick their ass.
We didn't want to do it.
We just threatened to do it.
And then by hook or by crook, John Kerry comes out with this.
Well, you know what would really be the best thing is if uh Assad just get rid of them.
Even Kerry said, we know he's not gonna do this, but that'd be the guest the best thing.
And Putin said, you know what?
That's a great idea.
We'll take that.
And Kerry tried to walk it back.
No, it didn't mean that.
Then Obama was forced to say, Oh yeah, this is my idea.
Vladimir and I talked about it last week.
To which the obvious response to that is, well, then why didn't Kerry know?
Why did Kerry think he was just speaking offhandedly here?
If that's been your policy with Vlad since last week.
Really it's it's the Keystone cops here.
I don't know how Putin.
I think he's every time I see a picture of him, he's got this stone face.
I don't know how he's doing it.
You've got to be Botox to keep from laughing.
I don't know how Putin is not laughing hysterically every time he's on TV.
I so it's got to be, he had to call Pelosi and say, How do you do it?
Or Kerry, how do you do it?
And they never smile.
So, well, Botox.
It freezes you right up there.
And the more you take, the longer it lasts.
But I want to close the loop on this patriotism because I've I know that that a lot of people it's very important thing, and when you start, you know, I'm not challenging the left's patriotism.
I'm what I'm trying to do is tell you that it's not yours and mine.
We had a caller.
What is patriotism?
Their patriotism, and that it's their words, folks.
I'm not making it up.
Their patriotism is having the guts to criticize the country.
Their patriotism is recognizing what's wrong with this country and saying so.
Their patriotism is dissenting when Republican presidents are in power.
That and that to them is honorable.
Patriotism is not about the greatness of America, it's about the flaws that they think exist and and a willingness to speak up about them and apologize for them.
That's really big.
That makes you a big person when you could admit your mistakes, except they're not theirs, did the founders.
And so I know that this makes people nervous.
Let me give you some examples of this.
You know, I've said that displays of force for the U.S. military make them nervous.
They don't like it.
They get very nervous.
Outward displays of patriotism because they know we had the story earlier about you show people the flag.
It moves them away from Democrats.
It moves them away from liberalism, and they know it.
Now, I've told this story before, but I'm gonna I'm gonna repeat it.
The first Super Bowl I attended in person was in San Diego, and it was a Packers against the Broncos.
And it was at what I think then was Jack Murphy state, the Murph.
And I was seated in an end zone with uh a guy named Ed Titojan, who was a member of the SWAT team, the Sacramento Police Department.
And we were guests of some uh local Sacramento business people, and we had tickets to the tailgate, the NFL tailgate party, and went and did all it was great, great day.
And we get to the stadium, we get to our seats in the end zone, and we're in the closed, obviously, the closed section, the stadium's open at the opposite end zone.
And the pregame is going to feature a flyby of U.S. military jets.
And I've never seen one of those, so I was looking forward to it.
And beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky.
Herb Alpert is playing the national anthem with trumpet.
And the way this is supposed to happen, that the very moment that Alpert hits the last note of the anthem, the jets are supposed to fly over in formation really low and the roar of the aircraft and um, you know that that is just uncontained patriotism.
So I'm sitting there and I'm scouring the skies while herb, well I'm standing, and I'm scouring the skies while Herb Alpert's playing the ant, and I'm looking for the Jets because somebody's got to coordinate this.
So I'm I'm looking out there and I finally see them.
And uh I assume what would be the equivalent of their downwind leg.
They're flying parallel to the stadium.
Then they turn base, and if they were landing, then they the final, which means they're heading right for the stadium, right to the open end of the end zone.
And Herb Alpert gets to the end of the anthem before they arrive.
So he has to hold the note.
And he holds the note, and he holds this guy had breath control like I couldn't believe.
The last note just went on and on in the crowd, you can't contain them.
They're on their feet already, and they are screaming, and those jets fly over, and folks, I can't tell you how I felt when Ed I started, I turned to Ed, who was sitting to my right, and I started pounding his shoulder.
And I started shouting things that can you believe that?
I don't believe what I just saw.
I couldn't wait to get home and see if it on TV what it sounded like, and it's nothing on T. You don't get anywhere near on TV, the sound of those jets flying.
It just and I'm I'm shouting it to Tosh, and I'm shouting it to Tosh and there's all kinds of people around, and I shouted to him, and I said, How in the world can you see that and be a Democrat?
And there were two people sitting in front of me that turned around and were just shooting me daggers.
So they must have been Democrats.
But that's the way I felt even back then.
This is 1985 or 86, whatever year it was that the Packers played the Broncos in the Super Bowl.
And then, if you remember when Bill Clinton won in 1992, they had a week-long celebration of festivities on the Washington Mall leading up to Clinton's inauguration.
And they had, I think Aretha Franklin show up one day as she sang, We shall overcome.
And they had somebody else show up and they were singing about getting out of jail.
And every song was about how we're being let out of prison.
As though these people had been living tortured lives under Reagan and Bush.
And finally a Democrat had been elected.
They've been turned loose to be whoever they are.
And there was a flyby.
Flyover.
And when the flyover happened, Ron Silver, who at that time Hollywood actor was a Democrat, got mad.
And he turned to somebody and he said, What the hell are they doing here?
Meaning, what the hey?
This is a Democrat inauguration.
What the hell's the military doing here?
And somebody said to him, Ron, those are our jets now.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
So I'm very comfortable in saying that these patriotic differences are real.
And that real patriotism, as you and I know it, is mocked and made fun of.
And I'm all of this, folks, I'm sorry it's taken me so long in a scattershot way today, but all of this is to explain why we don't see anymore full-fledged video of what happened on 9-11, 2001.
Because that kind of patriotism the left does not want that brought back to life.
It threatens them.
They're far more comfortable with a patriotism that finds fault and blame with America, not a patriotism that celebrates the greatness of America.
They don't think it's great.
And it won't be great until they get full control of it and fix the flaws.
And that's all the racism and bigotry and homophobia and environmental wackoism and all that.
Okay.
Till they get in power, fix all of that, there won't be any reason for real love of country.
Nothing.
Too much wrong with this country right now to love it.
And people that do are dangerous.
That's that's that's their patriotism.
Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
Uh Snergley wants to explain why Apple didn't market cheaply.
Look, I don't mean it to sound that way, but Apple has never made their high-end gear for moderate to low income people.
That's just not how they've marketed.
Now, yeah, iPods, yeah, and things like that, but but their computers are always been high priced.
They've always had a business model of high profit margin.
And the reason it's just their business model.
The reason why there's not a cheap phone is that they're not into market share.
They don't want to just sell the phone.
They want people to buy the phone to also have money to buy apps and to buy accessories, and then to buy the next phone, then maybe buy a computer.
They don't want people having to take out a loan to buy a phone.
That market's covered.
The feature phone bit, they just that's that's not.
Well, they all Samsung does, uh uh HTC does, Windows phones, Nokia.
Apples, this is that they're not biased.
It's a business model.
After they sell you the phone, they want you to have enough disposable income to use it and download their apps and spend money there and so forth and get it and get they want you in their ecosystem.
They want you to buy a Mac and then uh airport base station, and they they they they want you in their ecosystem.
So, Microsoft buying Nokia, Microsoft, I gotta tell you something.
Microsoft.
You know, one of the great misconceptions about Microsoft, Microsoft was never a company of innovation.
Microsoft became multi-gazillionaires by licensing MS DOS.
And they very Gates was brilliant in in making it that every PC sold, he got a take.
And he got he made sure that MS DOS was on everyone sold with a take and Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer until this DOJ suit.
But product innovation is not something they've ever done.
And when they tried Windows Phone, Zoom, I mean, they they're just and the mobile segment is just totally passed them by.
They never have been a product innovating company.
They've they've been I mean, they didn't even really write DOS.
They bought DOS, they bought and then and then re Gates refashioned it.
But Gates's genius was in contract negotiations, essentially.
He was smart tech guy.
I'm not don't misunderstand, but they're they um and they still do quite well, given the market share of PCs, but that business is slowing down dramatically, but they've never been a product innovator.
They just came out with their own tablet called the Surface.
And I think they're at the point now where they will pay you to take one out of the store.
Okay, it's time we got into this today.
Let's go to Fort Collins, Colorado.
Hi, Debbie.
I'm glad you called your next on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I have got an awesome example of outstanding African patriotism.
And it's that recall effort that we did a smackdown on last night.
And I'm telling you, Rush, it was the grassroots.
It was the activists, the patriots.
It had nothing to do with the GOP.
You know, this is exactly right.
I I looked, and I don't uh I don't see any evidence the Republican Party had much to do with what happened in Colorado at all here.
They were MIA.
They were absolutely MIA, and people were fed up with that constant unconstitutional legislation that we had coming out of that capital, and they said enough, we're gonna take action into our own hands.
Well, I think it's great.
Folks, let me explain what happened, what Debbie's talking about.
Two Democrat lawmakers, state lawmakers who had supported tighter gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings that have been kicked out of office in a recall election that was promoted by the National Rifle Association and grassroots activists.
And that is an AP paragraph, Debbie.
Now they had to get that, but it's absolutely, it is absolutely true.
The AP and the rest of the media thought that these two gun control advocates would survive this.
And they were celebrating these guys as heroes and so forth.
And they cannot believe what has happened.
You can you can feel the tears when you print this AP story out, the writer dripping his tears on the page, because they just can't believe it.
This is a liberal state.
If there was ever an opportunity to get rid of guns, you had two of these mass shootings, you have a liberal state, and what this shows, once again, this country is made up of hard working, decent patriots for using that word today, and not going and not willing to sit idly by and watch their constitution taken away from them or unalterably changed on them.
Rush, these people made thousands of phone calls.
They walked thousands of doors in Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
People would drive hours just to get into these districts to help out to show that we are sick to death of this overreach of the government.
We had guys, the guys out in Pueblo uh that started the Angela Haron recall, a Palmer's.
A guy borrowed money from his grandmother to start this recall when we were told by the GOP that this was not an yesterday.
Exactly.
She's exactly right, folks.
Is it seven days or is it eight days?
Seven days.
Number one.
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Is it seven or eight days?
We're at number one now.
When do we announce this?
Last Tuesdays.
This is eight days.
It's eight days at number one in the pre-orders for my next book.
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
This is unbelievable.
Thank you again, folks.
It's a it's uh it's a humbling humble Aw, Snerdley, a lot of people.
A lot of people have seen the cover, Snerdly, because they've gone to our website, they've gone to two of my T website, they've gone to Amazon they ward.
A lot of people have seen the cover.
All right, I'll show the covering Ditto Cam here again in just a minute.
I want to do that, I want to close the loop here on what happened in Colorado.
Because folks, this is, you know, you're all looking for signs.
Everybody's looking for signs.
This is it.
This is Colorado, this is grassroots.
This is a majority.
This is people unwilling to sit by, and if they don't have any political leadership to get behind, they will take matters into their own hands and do it.
And in our previous caller who said the grassroots made all this, she was exactly right.
Two Democrat state lawmakers who backed tighter gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings have been kicked out of office.
State Senate or Senate President John Morris lost by 343 votes Tuesday in a swing district in the Republican stronghold of Colorado Springs.
But Senator Angela Giron lost by a bigger margin in a largely blue-collar district that favors Democrats.
And I'm I've not heard her name pronounced.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right.
G-I-R-O-N.
I don't, I'm not uninformed on this.
I've just not heard her name pronounced.
I know more than you do about it.
I just haven't heard her name pronounced.
Now, here's the thing about this.
Excuse me, this is so typical.
When the AP and the rest of the media thought these two gun control advocates were going to win.
They were celebrated as heroes.
They were great people.
They were saving America from this out-of-control gun culture.
But now that they've been defeated and by pretty wide margins.
AP says here in the sixth paragraph, the recalls were seen as the latest chapter in the national debate over gun rights, and for some a warning to lawmakers in swing states who might contemplate gun restrictions in the future.
But the vote also exposed divisions between the growing urban and suburban areas and more rural areas in a state where support for guns hasn't really been a partisan issue.
Oh really?
So it has no big deal.
Support for guns really hadn't been a partisan.
Look at the media tried to make a national hero out of Angelo Yaron.
Am I pronouncing what what is you nobody knows.
Okay.
Excuse me.
They tried to make a national hero out of her because she is Hispanic.
She is Hispanic and she is from what they thought was a safe, heavily Democrat Hispanic district.
But she lost by an even wider margin than the other state Senator John Worse uh Morse, sorry.
Now some of you Republican consultants and strategists, you might want to take note here that an issue was de what was won by running against an Hispanic Democrat.
The grassroots in Colorado did not seek to be somewhat like this woman and win people over with good hearts and all that kind of stuff.
They went out there and they identified what she was trying to do and stood for they opposed her in Colorado and they won.
Okay my friends here you go.
There you have it if you're watching on the ditto cam, there it is.
There is the cover of the upcoming bestseller written by me, Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims Time travel adventures Certainly says that I'm not showing the cover enough.
So there it is.
Well, okay, but if I move it up, people won't see me.
All right, there it is.
There the whole thing is.
There is the cover of the book.
That is Rush Revere, official icon of 2ifbyt.com.
It is.
It really is cool.
And we're number one on the pre-orders at Amazon for what they say a week now, seven days.
But it was yesterday that we, pardon us, Nibbles, made the announcement.
So I'm going to turn the ditto cam off now since I'm too zeroed in.
brave pilgrims time travel adventures with exceptional Americans the book is to teach what isn't being taught to kids in a really fun truthful and dare I say patriotic way.
Very proud of this folks uh and I again I'm overwhelmed with all our gratitude for all of you.
Here's uh Lisa Orange County California I'm really glad you waited great to have you on the program hi.
Hi Rush thank you so much for being able to talk to you again.
I I have a few comments about the president's speech last night but I first wanted to thank you for the attention and time that you've devoted today to remembering 9-11.
My husband's a captain with United he happens to be laying over right now in New York so I remember often that day well you're I appreciate your your kind words thank you.
Yeah well I appreciate your time devoted to it.
My comments kind of are prefaced by Ed Asner's uh comments that you brought up yes uh last week about being afraid to be criticized criticizing Obama because he he doesn't want to be seen as anti-black he doesn't want to feel anti-black doesn't want to oh doesn't want to feel anti-black that's interesting and you know and I think but by your he I'm sure the other is true too he doesn't want people to think he is but he doesn't want to feel anti-black.
Right.
And you know I was thinking about um comment that he made last night but you know when if you're a conservative white and you didn't vote for Obama you're considered racist.
If you're a conservative black and you didn't vote for Obama you're considered an Uncle Tom if you're a liberal white that voted for Obama you're you voted out of white white guilt to somehow right along and um you know well either that or you're enlightened yes exactly yeah and and Last night he compared conservatives as being committed to our military might and liberals believe in freedom and dignity for all people.
Obama is just infinitely underqualified for this position.
And I I feel with Biden and Kerry and Obama, I I feel like clones of Baghdad Bob are running the country right now.
Well, you're right.
And I'll tell you what, but you know something?
It's it's he's underqualified, unqualified, or what have you.
But precisely because of what bothers Ed Asner, we can't really say so.
And we can't even be honest in a critique.
Because that would be just unfair.
Given all that's happened.
It would just be unfair.
We have to be very tolerant and open-minded.
That that defines it for the uh for the left.
Anyway, Lisa, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
I had a media montage.
I never had a chance to get to it today, but the the drive-bys are overjoyed by the uh by the birth of the first named hurricane.
They just so excited.
Here it is, September, they finally got a hurricane, except it's way out there in the Cape Verde Islands, and the closest it's gonna get to us is Rwanda.
And they just they're beside them, so they got a hurricane, but it isn't gonna destroy anything.
And so they're so sad and happy.
▲
Export Selection