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Dec. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, let me get this straight.
Now, the same people who faked the unemployment numbers before the election, the same people.
Remember the New York Post story, the same people that faked the job numbers before the election are telling us now that a whole bunch of new jobs are created and the unemployment rate 7%, right?
And we're just supposed to, we're just supposed to swallow that.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
Do you know that 41%?
What are they the new jobs that were created is uh some number a little bit north of 200,000?
Do you know that 41% of them are government jobs?
What do you do now?
If you didn't know, because I just told you, and who am I?
I'm the guy CNN International called the Vatican about yesterday.
You didn't know that.
CNN called the Vatican wanting a reaction.
The Vatican said no comment.
CNN, they uh the CN at the Vatican they probably said, Who?
And anyway, CNN International called the Vatican wanting a reaction to the attack on uh on Il Papa by Il Rushfo, which it wasn't an attack anyway.
I'm I was amused.
Hi folks, how are you?
It's Friday, Rush Limbaugh here toward the end of another busy broadcast week.
A thrill and a delight to have you with us.
Telephone numbers 800 282-288-2, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
You know, I wasn't.
What did it what did who?
Oh, I've uh Snerdley's asking me what did CNN International think was going to happen, that the Pope is gonna get on the phone.
No, they they called the Vatican press office.
I don't think they expected to get the Pope.
Um but I'm sure they wanted to get the press office of the press office that the Vatican might have had a statement or reaction, uh, either from the Pope or or from themselves.
But there was no comment.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, um, you know, I you can't escape media and what's going on here.
I and it's it's it's uh all very predictable.
And if you just landed from Mars and turned on the TV, you might be confused over who was Barack Obama and who was Nelson Mandela, based on the way it's being covered.
Well, just I'm just I'm just telling you.
Um the Washington Press Corps and even the White House are moving here at full speed to associate Barack Obama with Nelson Mandela.
Here, Grab Soundbite number three.
I mean, it's just gives you a taste of it here.
This is Scott Pelley on the CBS Evening News last night reporting on the death of Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela kept in his office a photograph of himself with another trailblazing president, the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama.
The photograph was taken when Mandela visited Washington in 2005, and Mr. Obama was then a brand new United States Senator from Illinois.
Forgive me, but if you are a low information voter and you're watching the CBS Evening News last night, you would come away with the impression that the important thing about Nelson Mandela's death was that he had looked up Barack Obama when he came to town and had a picture of Obama with him when he died.
Classic, folks.
Absolutely classic.
And the rest of the media, it's so predictable, it's not even worth spending a lot of time on it because you can see it as well as I. pictures.
It's like when Rosa Parks died, Obama made a bee line to the museum where the bus is that Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of and took a seat, sat where Rosa Parks sat, and then the White House took a picture, and was Obama looking out the window as though he too faced such horrible consequences and discrimination.
And uh well, I know it was arranged months and years uh in advance.
But um on Thursday, the aftermath of South African leader Nelson Mandela's death at age 95.
Obama's White House account tweeted a tribute to Mandela.
And what do you think the tribute was?
Honest to God, what do you think it was?
The White House tweeted a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
What do you think it was?
No, it was a picture of Obama in Mandela's prison cell on Robin I kid you not.
Just I know it's clear it really it is just I know it's it's just it's it's beneath.
You talk about you're talking about somebody walking around thinking everything is about him.
I I you know I've known people with healthy egos, and they're off putting, folks.
There's no question, I'm sure you've known them too.
But this the official White House tweet upon the death of Nelson Mandela's a picture of Obama in the jail cell.
After the jail cell has been closed and memorialized itself.
Just as Obama published a picture of himself sitting at the same seat in the same bus that Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus on.
You know, wait till Obama finds out the White House did this.
I'm sure he's going to be livid.
I'm sure when Obama finds out that somebody in the White House tweeted a picture of him in Mandela's jail cell on the day of Mandela's, I'm sure Obama.
Well, isn't that the isn't that the excuse?
Obama didn't know.
I mean, he didn't know about the website not working.
He didn't know he didn't know a lot.
He didn't know anything.
I'm sure he didn't know the White House tweeted the fact that uh Obama was in Mandela's jail cell.
When Obama finds out, just like Obama, sure Obama didn't know they hired Van Jones until they had to get rid of him.
Obama didn't know that the healthcare website wasn't working, and he didn't know that you weren't going to be able to keep your doctor.
And he didn't know that a bunch of so many people have been lying to Obama, it's a shame the way they use him.
Didn't know he lived with his uncle.
That's exactly right.
He got screwed by his own uncle.
He didn't have any idea he was living with his uncle illegally in the country.
He didn't know.
And can you imagine how mad he got when he was told?
Now, can you imagine the media?
Limbaugh opened his show making the death of Mandela about Obama.
No.
Limbaugh opened his show reporting how Obama has made the death of Mandela about Obama.
You know, if if there had been a if I had been to Robin Island where Mandela was held, and if I had had a picture of myself taken in the jail cell, and on the death of Mandela the day he died, if I tweeted that out with me and what do you think the reaction will be?
Limbaugh attempting to capitalize and use the death of Nelson Mandela to promote himself.
How unseemly.
I know.
A lot of you think I'm on the edge here, and they say, Rush, let it go.
We're just having fun here, folks.
Lighten up.
That's what I always say.
Keep the faith.
And uh lighten up.
I mean, this it's unfortunate the White House tweeted this picture out with Obama in in Mandela's jail cell because it makes the president look narcissistic, and we know that's not the case.
So another aide has let the president down.
Well, wait a minute, maybe here's another picture.
Uh see, this is uh Obama post second selfie in tribute to Mandela.
Let's now here's Obama standing somewhere looking at a computer.
Uh oh.
Uh Obama's looking at pictures on a computer of him and Mandela.
Okay.
Well.
one of the, I think one of the most amazing things I ever heard Nelson Mandela say.
And we we had fun with Mandela.
It was in New York when he came to New York, uh, went to Yankee Stadium.
But I'll tell you, there are very few people that could have undergone what he went through and maintained any sense of dignity or optimism.
I most people who had been through what Mandela went through would have spent the rest of their life enraged and bitter and angry and would have tried to get even.
It's in fact, you might almost be able to make the point that there are people in this country who have not lived through horrible times who want to act like they have in order to occupy victim status.
But Mandela really did it.
One of the most amazing things that he said, I love profundities, and I particularly love short pointed philosophy.
Listen to this.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it'll kill your enemies.
Is that not great?
And it's great because it's exactly right.
Resentment doesn't do anybody.
It is a poison unto itself.
And you've seen people, you know, people, you've seen them who run around constantly filled with resentment or anger over the way they've been disrespected or mistreated.
And if they can't let go of it, you don't want to be around them.
You uh lose patience.
And you want to shout, let it go.
It's over with.
Move on.
And those who can't literally poison themselves to death.
And I think he was figuratively poisoned themselves to death.
So here's Nelson Mandela.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela actually lived through the indignities, the punishment, the discrimination, the horrors of the South African apartheid system came out of it.
You realize when he was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests, the white jailers from his Robin Island prison.
He literally did forgive everybody.
Twenty-seven years of the prime of his life.
And he said, resentment's like drinking poison.
And then hoping it'll kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela would not qualify as a civil rights leader in this country with that philosophy.
They can't let it go.
It's become too bug of business.
They will not let it go.
Mandela let it go.
It just amazing.
So Nelson Mandela, resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Who said this?
If they bring a knife into the fight, we bring a gun.
That's Obama.
Who said it's very rare that I come to an event where I'm like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.
That's the head of the regime.
That's Obama.
Who said we're gonna punish our enemies or we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.
That was Barack Obama.
Who said, we don't mind the Republicans joining us.
They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit and back.
No, Bull Connor didn't say that was Barack Obama.
Who said, I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
Maybe the President of the United States would be Barack Obama leader to regime.
Nelson Mandela resentment is like drinking poison.
and in hoping it will kill your enemies.
As a New York Times story, Obama's path was shaped by Mandela's story.
From the article, without Nelson Mandela, there might never have been a President Obama.
I think that's just a crock.
It would be no different than if they said without Barack Obama, there would never have been a Nelson Mandela.
What is it with these?
Why can't individual achievement stand on its own?
This without Mandela, there might not have been an Obama.
I'll tell you who's putting the stand.
It's Obama doing everything and anything he can to link himself to Mandela.
And the Clintons are the same thing.
We've got a nickname for them, the funeral crashers.
I mean, they'll show up anywhere where there's a camera.
And uh but I just this this kind of stuff, uh the drive-by's, I'm telling you, they're they're doing everything they can to make the news of Mandela's death all about Obama.
Now, if you're Obama, speaking quite honestly here, folks, I mean, who could blame Obama for thinking everything is about him?
The media makes everything about him.
Did you hear what Chris Matthews said?
Chris Matthews finally got the tingle in his leg interview with Obama, and they kicked a bunch of ballet kids out of the Washington American University rehearsal hall in order to do the interview.
Now that's another thing.
I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
If if George W. Bush was scheduled to do an interview with somebody, they George W. Bush would not allow a rehearsal for young girls practicing ballet or whatever to be canceled or kicked out for him.
He would have gone somewhere else.
But Obama and Chris Matthews are due in there, so let's get rid of the kids.
The kids had to move, take their rehearsal somewhere else.
And Chris Matthews said it was great.
He came amongst us.
Obama came amongst us.
He actually walked amongst us.
It's creepy.
But if you're Obama and you on the receiving end of this kind of coverage, I mean, you might be excused for thinking that you are the most important person in the world, and that everything is about you.
Because this slavish drive-by media makes everything about Obama.
New York Times, Obama's path shaped by Mandela's story.
Washington Post, Mandela's cause shaped Obama's political awakening.
What a.
You know who shaped Obama's political awakening?
I gotta be real careful because if you start getting into Mandela's politics, I mean, what was the African National Congress after all?
They were communists.
I mean, there's they they were.
Well, there's always a reason.
There, there was a reason.
I but I don't even want to go there.
But it it's it's true, but I mean to say that.
This is just this is the kind of this is the soap opera.
This is exactly what this.
This is the Washington soap opera.
This is the hero and I tell you, folks, it that that characterization of my buddy Andy McCarthy came up with, just perfect to describe.
There is no news.
There is no meeting, it is the daily soap, the daily suspense and the building up of heroes and so forth.
Politico, Barack Obama and Mandela.
Inspiration.
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Let's listen to the uh uh Reverend Jacks on um uh special report Brett Bear last night.
The uh Reverend Dax from the monochrome coalition, Brett Bears said, What do you think today?
The U.S. uh politicians here could learn from Nelson Mandela.
And do you think there's something that could translate today?
Those who engage in voter suppression are antithetical to the beliefs of Mr. Mandela's believers with an open free fare process where you put the pictures on the ballot so you can see who you're voting for.
But then his unfinished business, that is to say, in South Africa today and America, we're free but not equal.
The disparity gap, north and south gaps, are greater than the east-west gaps were based upon race.
Two few have so much, and two men have so little.
That is unfinished business.
Well, can you believe he's asked a question about what we could learn from Mandela and we get this East West North South divide business?
And voter suppression.
Shep Smith, gonna be soundbite number one.
Shep Smith, we got time here earlier.
Shep Smith basically said yesterday afternoon the death of Mandela would meant the temporary suspension of the soap opera.
There is a race to define and own the narrative, the political narrative that is that of this nation.
It has changed hands repeatedly over the past few months.
And the quest for ownership of the narrative is now going to take a short break.
And the world and the nation are better for it.
Leave your narrative at the doorstep and let's celebrate a great man of the world.
Do you understand what you just heard?
You just heard a leading anchor admit that there's no news.
Any day, there's just a story.
And whoever dominates it writes it.
The narrative is the soap opera.
And it goes back and forth.
And now let's be big people and put it aside and celebrate a great man of the world outside the and then the Reverend Jackson goes right back to the narrative.
You know, I hate to be the one.
No, actually, I don't hate to be the one.
I'm actually kind of excited to be the guy to tell Jesse Jackson something.
The Reverend Jackson, after after you heard Shep Smith.
Can you listen to this again?
Play play stop by number one again.
This is this is the Fox News anchor.
He's uh he's not in charge of breaking news.
He's the breaking news anchor.
And they bring Herollo in.
Well, they you know what?
They didn't bring Herole.
Did you see Harolo?
That's really strange.
Hmm.
Well, anyway, uh I want you to listen because Shep Smith, in his he's he's an anchor, and he's explaining exactly how what you think is news is presented every day.
There's no news, it's a narrative, and a battle for control over it.
Now stop and think of this for a second.
Because Shep's not alone.
I don't mean to be harping on Shep, he just happened to reveal the truth here.
You have the Democrats, Republicans, and Liberals concerned, whoever is competing to dominate the news.
The journalists know it.
Shep is admitting that journalists know it.
They're trying to get our attention.
They're trying to be the ones to influence the way we report what's going on.
Some days someone wins, some days someone lose.
Nowhere in this is there any allusion to the fact that what journalists do is simply tell us what happened that we don't know.
There's all this rigmarole about a narrative.
And who controls it?
This explains why the drive-by is when Bill Clinton or whoever on the Democrat Party lies through their teeth, they don't care.
They marvel at how good Clinton lied.
And they talk about how easily they were swayed and how easily Clinton was able to control the narrative.
There's not even a pretense here of reporting, quote unquote, the news.
Listen to it again.
There is a race to define and own the narrative, the political narrative that is that of this It has changed hands repeatedly over the past few months.
And the quest for ownership of the narrative is now going to take a short break.
And the world and the nation are better for it.
Leave your narrative at the doorstep and let's celebrate a great man of the world.
She ignore the narrative.
As a reporter, why don't all of you just ignore the narrative?
If you know what they're doing, if you know how they're trying to dominate the narrative, and it goes back and forth.
What is this?
Put the narrative aside.
Nelson Mandela has become the narrative.
And how Obama is Mandela Jr.
And how they might even be related in some such way.
And how one couldn't have gotten where they got without the other.
It's absurd, but this is that has become the narrative.
And they all eagerly glom onto it.
You know what they don't get?
I can guarantee you what they don't.
What they don't get is that the vast majority of people in the country are not interested in this the way they are reporting it.
They're not interested.
When Nelson Mandela dies, people are not told, oh, wow, wonder how that affect Obama.
Oh, you know, Obama wouldn't have been what he was without Mandela.
Oh, gosh, I wonder if Mandela thought of Obama before he died.
That is not how the people of this country react to something like this.
And that's what these people talking about the narrative, do not get.
The egos are so out of control that everybody thinks that every news story is about them or the people they admire, in this case, Obama.
Here, Wolf Blitzer.
Last night in the situation room, Wolf Blitzer had in Farid Zakaria GPS.
I guess Farid had his location device with him.
He calls himself Farid Zicarius GPS.
When you're with him, I guess you always know where you are.
And they're talking about the impact of the uh passing of Nelson Mandela.
And this is classic.
Listen to Wolf here.
Is it overly naive to hope and pray that maybe the death of Nelson Mandela will inspire some of those world leaders out there right now to do the right thing to recognize that bloodshed and warfare is not going to achieve much, that their peaceful relations perhaps can better be achieved through dialogue and discussion and hard work as opposed to war.
It is naive, Wolf, and you probably know that as well.
Well, there's a great foot down for you.
So Wolf says, look at it is it naive of me to think that doctors, nurses, and clean water are going to do a better job than guns and bullets.
And Zakaria says, yep, yep, it's naive, Wolf.
You're uh you're a softy, Wolf, and you probably know it.
But I just marvel at this.
I I the willful suspension of reality and the total losing of oneself into nothingness.
Is it overly naive to hope and pray that maybe the death of Mandela will inspire some of those world leaders out there?
Do the right thing.
Recognize that bloodshed and warfare is not going to achieve much.
Like who?
You think Hamas is going to sit there and say, you know what, we're going to give up terrorism.
Mandela died.
And the mullahs in Iran.
You know what?
We're going to, we're going to stop sponsoring terrorism all over the.
How about Eamon Al Zawathiri of Al Qaeda?
You know what, Nelson Mandela died.
And I now realize that my IEDs and blowing up buildings and shooting airplanes out of the sky.
That's not the way to go.
Nelson Mandela died.
And I'm now going to start talking to people.
What?
The fact of the matter is that this is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
It always has been.
It always will be.
Thank you.
And the reason for that is that there are bad, mean, evil people out there.
They will always govern and be in control of the way they are dealt with.
The world is governed by the aggressive use of force, meaning we're sitting here peacefully minding our own business.
And on 9-11, three airplanes or four airplanes are hijacked, two of them go into World Trade Center.
That is the aggressive use of force.
That governs the way we react.
We were minding our own business and not bothering anybody.
Now they don't think that.
They think our support of Israel is in itself an aggressive act.
But you're not going to change it.
Sit around and wring your hands and hope for all of this.
It teaches people unrealistic things.
It gives people a an unrealistic hope.
And yet it further distances them.
Young people, especially from reality.
A reality that they need to learn as they grow and assume their own role in the world as adults and perhaps leaders down the road.
Now the pacifists in this audience, when they hear me say ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force, will take it out of context and say that I want to start nuking and bombing everybody.
And I'm, as you heard me give the example, I'm not.
We are a defensive nation.
We do not conquer other countries.
We do not attempt to control, subjugate, subordinate other people.
We liberate.
World War I, World War II, we were the last to get into it.
But what happened?
Adolf Hitler, aggressive use of force.
The Empire of Japan, aggressive use of force.
The world's governed by it.
It always has been.
And you can wish it away, and you can ask for Reed's to carry a ZPS, GPS all day long about it.
But nothing is ever going to change that.
Human beings are what they are.
And there are a bunch of bad, mean, evil people out there.
Even after they've taken conflict resolution 101.
Oh, yeah, I was gonna tell you something, and I I got got off on a tangent.
I'm happy to, you know, the the Reverend Jackson was asked about the meaning of the death of Nelson and Mandela, and he said, Well, the meaning is we still have voter suppression in the United States.
Uh east and west, north and south, up and down, left and right.
We got voter suppression everywhere.
The haves have too much and the have nots have too little, and that's still unfinished business.
Yeah, what was the question?
He said, Well, what do you think about the death of Mandela?
Well, that's right, we got too much voter suppression.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, somebody needs to tell a Reverend Jackson, I'm happy to be the one to do it.
South Africa, otherwise known in the media as South Africa, South Africa, requires that all citizens over the age of 16 must always be in possession of an identity document.
I e when you are stopped in South Africa, you must have your papers.
Besides filling out a long application and paying a fee, you have to submit the following documents to get your identity document.
You have to submit two photographs, two recent photographs, head and shoulder, measuring 40 millimeters by 30 millimeters, with the applicant's name and ID number written on the reverse side.
You need certified copy of the applicant's old ID book or birth certificate, a copy of the marriage certificate, divorce decree, spouse's in other words, every citizen 16 and older in South Africa is required to have a photo ID,
which the uh Reverend Jackson claims leads to voter suppression in the United States.
How are we to resolve this dilemma?
You think you think the Reverend Jackson knows this?
He probably does.
One of these things he'll conveniently cast aside and forget.
But he does know it.
Well, on second thought, maybe he doesn't.
But I'm telling you it's true.
Everybody 16 or over, has to have a photo ID on their person at all times in South Africa.
Everybody.
What would happen if such a thing were proposed here?
Ha!
And what would happen if somebody said, in the name and in honor of the death of Nelson Mandela, every American shall now have and be required to have over the age of 16 a photo ID on their person at all times.
What would be the reaction?
This is too much fun here, folks.
Look at I know.
Here's the bottom line.
I was I was talking earlier about how the media does not have the slightest idea the way the American people reacting the way they're covering this.
You know what's on most people's minds?
Let me take a stab at some things.
You know what most people are concerned about and worried about today?
That they might lose or have lost their health insurance.
And if so, how much it's going to cost to replace it.
They are literally scared to death and worried stiff over it.
A lot of people in this country, despite the jobs numbers, are really, really worried that they're not going to be able to find work.
A lot of millennials, I've got a whole stack here about Obama and Poles and how he's losing support from practically every group said to be responsible for his election.
Hispanics, he is down huge in Hispanics.
Millennials, he's down huge.
He's down in support from women in huge numbers, despite the death of Nelson Mandela.
And it's because people have come to grips now.
You know what?
Let's put this the limbaugh theorem isn't active.
I think people see through it now.
I don't think Obama's getting away with the limbaugh theorem anymore.
I don't think he's getting away with no accountability.
I don't think he's getting away with, I didn't know that.
Oh, really?
Website didn't work?
I wasn't a word.
I don't think he's getting away with 20 different jobs seminars where he tells people he is really upset about the unemployment numbers and it's really working.
I think people are now beginning to tie President Obama.
Link him to all of these messes.
And so while the media goes nuts today about the death of Mandela, in the real world, in this country, people are scared to death.
They don't have jobs and they're not seeing an opportunity for one.
And certainly high paying, they're scared to death, not just for themselves, but their kids.
They know they're going to get an insurance cancellation letter.
They know it's coming.
Some already have.
They're scared to death.
Food prices are skyrocketing.
They're closing coal mines.
Everything's getting more expensive.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, in Obamacare, I've got it in the stack here, your fire department might have to close over an argument over how the IRS is going to qualify or classify volunteer firemen.
If volunteer firemen are classified as employees and thus subject to Obamacare rules, your fire department might have to let go a whole bunch of volunteers.
And some of them might be first responders on the EMS truck.
All because of Obamacare.
Young people are scared to death or worried the NSA is following them all over the place via their cell phones.
Real Americans are very much worried about the IRS has planned for them, based on what they've heard so far about the IRS targeting the Tea Party.
People are worried not only going to lose their health insurance, but to replace it, the premiums are going to double.
And the deductible is going to triple.
You see what's happening to the public education system.
I mean, there are real things happening to real people in this country that are devastating and frightening.
And that's what people in this country are concerned with today.
Okay.
And they are not moved by a picture of Obama in Nelson Mandela's jail cell.
Or on the bus that Rosa Parks wrote.
Bob in Huron, Ohio.
Let me grab a quick phone call here before the break.
Hi, Bob.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh yeah, I uh responded or reacted immediately when I heard that Obama was going to have a uh comment to make on TV last night that I felt he was probably going to uh try to uh jump into the reflected glory of Nelson Mandela.
And I was hoping that the comparisons between the two leaders would also include a comparison of their honesty, uh their integrity, their humility, and their genuine concern for the uh the welfare of those that they uh that they lead.
And as you've watched the news, has Mandela measured up to Obama.
I think the other way around.
I think Obama doesn't measure up to Mandela.
Well, I know, I know, but I'm talking about as you watch the news.
Did Mandela measure up to the standards set by Obama?
That's the question.
Another exciting hour.
Busy broadcast excellences in the can, folks, but we got two more of them.
We got more of your phone calls, and we've got all that stuff I alluded to.
You got a polling data, the Obamacare stack.
I've got some great, and so it's open line Friday is for I've got some great fan mail that characters in the uh in the great book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims have received, that I want to share with you too, because they these things these kids write just to melt your heart.
We'll be back.
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