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Dec. 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'll tell you, folks, it's a sick world out there.
It is just an absolutely depraved and sick world out there.
It's so depraved and sick, I don't know if I can tell you about it.
Well, here, no, I'm not, I'll save it.
I'll save it.
I'm not going to start the show with this.
It's just this.
It would be better to start the show with the soap opera.
Can you believe it?
This is a great illustration of how the soap opera script works.
Great illustration of how the drive-bys, who are the script writers for the daily soap opera that is supposedly the news, happens.
And it all involves Obama shaking the hand of the dictator, Raul Castro, at the memorial for Nelson Mandela.
You know, there's a bigger story, I think, than this, because I frankly, I don't think, and I'm just guessing here, but I don't think Obama really knew who this guy was.
I mean, he knows who Raul Castro is.
But if you know other things about the way Obama's been behaving over, even taking selfies, we got pictures.
We got pictures of Obama taking selfies with himself and David Cameron and Queen somebody from Switzerland or whatever, with Michelle Mybel looking on.
Well, no, she's not looking on.
She looks irritated.
Here, let me turn the ditto cam off.
I'll just show you.
Let me zoom in on this.
You probably see this on the website later on.
Let me zoom in a little tighter here, folks.
Hang on just a second.
This is a, we don't have a union here, so I do everything myself, which is fine.
Don't, don't.
Hang on, let's see.
Close enough here.
Yeah, that'll do.
That'll do for private sector work.
Okay, Ditto Cam coming on.
There we go.
Now, while this picture is taken, somebody's speaking at the Nelson Mandela Memorial.
That is Obama taking a picture of himself with his Blackberry.
That's David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain.
And the blonde in the middle being squeezed, actually being gazed at, objectifyingly, if you ask me, is, I don't know, Switzerland, Netherlands, someplace where the leaders are blonde.
And look at Michelle.
She's not paying any attention to this.
She's just gazing forward.
Whoever is speaking.
Can you believe it?
Obama taking selfies at the Nelson Mandela Memorial.
Okay, I'm going to turn off the Ditto Cam and change the zoom on it so that I can turn it back on for the rest of you to watch me.
All right, Ditto Cam back on.
But the drive-bys, folks, are literally having orgasms over Obama shaking the hand of Raul Castro.
And let's go to the audio soundbite to illustrate.
And again, this is exactly how the soap.
This is not news.
They want it to be news and do anything to distract anybody from Obamacare.
And don't worry, we have not fallen prey to that.
In fact, I had it in the stack yesterday, and I didn't have a chance to get to it, but I'm going to today.
Colin Powell, the titular head of the Republican Party's come out for socialized medicine.
Nationalized, socialized, some people call it single payer.
Okay.
First up is Chris Cuomo.
This is on CNN's New Day Today.
And they're covering the Nelson Mandela Memorial Service.
And they're following Obama as he climbed on the stage before he spoke.
And there are other dignitaries, dictators, communists, and others up there on the platform.
And Obama greets them all.
And as he goes down the rope line, so it's not a rope line, but he's greeting everybody, he runs into Raul Castro, and he shakes his hand.
He shakes his hand like he shook everybody else's hand.
Now, there are a lot of people trying to say, aha, aha.
See, that just proves that Obama is a socialist.
We don't need him shaking Raul Castro's hand to know this.
We don't need him acting friendly with Raul Castro to know who Obama is.
If this was year one, this would be a big deal.
If this was the first year when Obama's doing this, big deal.
But this is year five.
We're almost starting year six.
We already know this.
We already know he admires these guys, envies their power.
He's working on that.
But you got to hear the drive-bys.
You just have to hear the audio-verbal orgasms here.
We're walking around and talking to security officials.
Castro, he's shaking hands with spells.
Castro, as Christian points out, President Obama just shook hands with Raul Castro from Cuba.
What does that say?
This is a moment of reconciliation for Mandela.
And President Obama is doing the diplomatic thing.
He's not just going to walk by and ignore these people who are there.
And they're all in a line.
He's kissing now the U.N. Secretary General, President Zuma.
This is a man, and it is so true.
He brought people together in life, and he continues to bring people together in death.
Do you hear this?
That was Christiana Monpor.
It was Chris Cuomo and the international CNN international correspondent Robin Kernow.
And they are literally beside themselves with thrills and excitement.
Nelson Mandela bringing fellow communists together.
Even in death, Mandela is uniting the communist world.
Well, what?
What?
I mean, Raul Castro is a communist.
My God, there are political, there's an American citizen that's been in a Cuban dungeon for four months now.
This is one reason why people are upset.
I mean, there are literally Americans in prison in Cuba, and Obama's got no business shaking the guy's hand.
Now, some of you might disagree with me when I say that I don't think Obama really knew who he was.
I don't.
What I do think is that Obama's not sending a message to anybody here.
This is just, he's too focused on himself.
When he goes through the rope line, he's asking himself what these people think of him.
He's not impressed with any of these people.
He doesn't get a thrill shaking Raul Castro's hand.
He's hoping Castro gets a thrill shaking his hand.
You got to remember that Obama's a narcissist.
He does not look at himself as somebody who's got to impress these guys.
He is thinking they envy him.
He is thinking they all want to be who he is.
He is thinking that they are in servitude to him.
So he runs into Raul Castro.
Raul Castro's what?
A dumpy little guy that runs a cheap little island communist nation.
Obama's not interested in that.
He's got the whole U.S. to transform.
So I think people look at this the wrong way.
But the media is just excited.
I heard a commentator on Fox, Jemmu somebody.
Oh, you know, Bill, our two great countries are separated by 90 miles of water.
That's it, Bill.
And there are families who have been disunited because of the 90 miles of water.
And what this handshake represents, Bill, is perhaps the first steps in these families being united across the 90 miles of water.
I mean, the media is beside themselves with thrills and excitement.
Can you imagine if Fidel had been there?
Folks, if it had been Fidel and not Raul, I mean, I don't know that these people would have been able to keep their clothes on on the media.
I mean, it would have been, it would have been, I wish it would have been Fidel.
But it was just his stand-in.
It was just Raul.
Okay, so that's Chris Cuomo.
Were you able to understand what Christiana Manpur was saying?
I mean, she was literally, I haven't heard her this excited since we lost the Iraq War in her mind.
Well, I've got to listen to this again.
This is, it says this moment of reconciliation for Mandela and Obama, the diplomatic thing.
I just put this out there again, and then we'll follow it up with John King, who's warning everybody that there are going to be people like me trying to make a big deal out of this.
Walking around and talking to security officials.
Castro, he's shaking hands, Ms. Bolton.
Castro, as Christian points out, President Obama just shook hands with Paul Castro from Cuba.
What does that say?
It says that this is a moment of reconciliation for Mandela, and President Obama is doing the diplomatic thing.
He's not just going to walk by and ignore these people who are there, and they're all in a line.
He's kissing now the U.N. Secretary General, President Suma.
This is a man, and it is so true, who brought people together in life, and he continues to bring people together in death.
Christiana Manpur said, it says that this is a moment of reconciliation for Mandela.
How in the hell is that possible?
Mandela is dead.
Obama is shaking the hand of Raul Castro.
How is that a moment of reconciliation for Mandela?
Oh, Mandela in death is uniting Obama and a fellow communist in public?
And this is progress?
You know, it's one thing for Obama to do this, and I'm not making excuses for him.
I just, I think, I think when Obama just gets up there on the stage, starts shaking everybody's hand.
Remember, folks, he's taking selfies.
He's thinking about himself.
He's looking at this old guy, Raul, and he's not thinking, hmm, should I shake this guy's hand or not?
How's it going to look?
He's looking at it.
Everybody wants to shake my hand.
Everybody wants to be me.
I'm the big dog here.
They're the ones that are going to get all the accolades having met me back in their homes.
It is insulting, yeah, but I don't think that he doesn't care.
Folks, this is his stage.
I mean, this whole week is about Barack Obama.
You understand?
That's really what this all means.
That's what the soap opera script is.
It's not the death of Mandela anymore.
This is about Barack Obama assuming Mandela's place as a great whatever on the world stage.
That's what the soap opera is.
The whole week here is about Obama.
It's not about Mandela anymore.
Here's John King.
Now, this is also same show, CNN.
John King anticipating that some jerk out there might dare criticize Obama for doing this.
This is a moment of reconciliation.
It's a moment of tribute to a great man.
And it was not a time to make a political statement, so you shake hands out of respect for the moment and move on.
Will President Obama get some criticism for that brief handshake and that very, very brief greeting or conversation?
Yes, he will.
Comes with the territory.
Somebody will decide that was a horrible thing.
I think the president is showing respect for the moment.
So you see, if you were on the verge of being a jerk and being critical of Obama, you better not.
You better pull it back right now because he was just caught up in the moment.
He had to be polite.
It doesn't mean anything.
It comes with the territory.
The president was simply showing respect for the moment.
No, he wasn't.
He was receiving in his mind the accolades of the moment.
Now we go back to Christiana Manpour.
Some gospel singer was bringing down the house.
That's the next thing that happened here in a memorial.
And while the gospel singer was bringing down the house, Christiana Manpour comes back to describe the moment when Obama shook Raul Castro's hand as joy and described the whole service as just a warm-up act for Obama.
Listen.
And President Obama couldn't be getting a better warm-up act.
I know.
Look at this.
The whole crowd.
American gospel singer Kurt Franklin, who just brought this stadium to its feet.
The South African crowd dominantly was just going crazy to the silence of Kurt Franklin.
It just seems like we're in the middle of a pop concert half a party, but it's a funeral.
It's a memorial service.
This truly is what today is about.
This moment really captured the joy.
You know, this is the funeral crashers is what this is.
It is a party.
These people are taking the occasion of Mandela's death.
It's the Wellstone Memorial.
They're taking the occasion of the death of Mandela and they're using it in essentially discarding him to change and turn the focus all on to them.
And if you doubt me, you heard it.
First words out of Christiana Manpour's mouth.
And President Obama couldn't be getting a better warm-up act.
We're talking about a memorial service for a great man in these people's minds, a great man who has just died and needs to be memorialized.
And what is it?
It's a warm-up act for Obama.
And Raul Castro, the unwitting dude, was part of the warm-up act.
It is.
Fuck, it's the wedding crashers, funeral crashers.
It's the Wellstone Memorial all over you.
But it's all about Barack Obama assuming the mantle of world leftist leadership.
That is what it is.
This is a second inauguration, if you will.
Obama now, the conscience of the world.
The torch has been passed, whether Mandela knew it or not.
The torch has been passed from Mandela to Obama.
And the memorial service, in the words of the great international correspondent Christian Amanpour, a warm-up act for Obama.
Folks, there is no doubt that I'm right.
Obama, it's not a big deal shaking Raul Castro's hand in any way, shape, matter, or form.
I don't think he even recognized him.
If he would have recognized, if he would have known who Raul Castro was, he would have bowed, like he always does to world leaders.
He just shook the chump's hand and moved on.
He didn't know who he was.
So I wouldn't make any big deal about this.
If he'd have bowed to him, well, then it'd be a whole different matter.
But he just shook the chump's hand and moved on.
The blonde, by the way, in the selfie is the prime minister of Denmark.
Her name is Helly Thorning-Schmidt.
And she is being objectifyingly gazed upon in yet another selfie.
Obama has got his hand on her shoulder.
I don't have a picture with me right now, but Obama, David Cameron's talking to her, Obama's got his hand on her left shoulder, and Michelle is looking at that with a blank expression on her face.
But that's who the blonde was.
Alan Gross is the name of the American that Castro has been holding in prison since 2009.
He's an old white guy, so it doesn't matter to anybody, but that's who he is.
He's been in, he's an American, been in a Castro dungeon for four years.
And there are people that are literally ticked off about the handshake because of that.
But again, folks, I don't think Frowl Castro, I mean, it's a dumpy little chumpy looking guy.
Obama just, you got to understand, he's a narcissist.
It's all about him.
It's a warm-up act.
The death of Mandela, a warm-up act, as proclaimed by Christiana Monpor.
Obama's not up there thinking, oh, gee, should I shake hands with this communist pig or not?
It's not even, it doesn't even cross.
If he'd have bowed, whole different thing.
Listen to Brian Williams, NBC, news on the Today show today.
He's talking with Savannah Guthrie, who said, this is an unprecedented meeting of world leaders.
For a moment, it made for strange bedfellows, Brian.
We saw President Obama shake the hand of Cuba's leader, Raul Castro.
Tell us what the mood has been like in the ceremony.
Let's not be overly nice about this.
That dignitary section has some criminals, some thieves, some kings, some presidents, a lot of different types of people.
And there has been a lot written and said about where to seat them.
The president's handshake with Raul Castro was one of the better moments.
The crowd's reception for Robert Mugabe was interesting.
So again, what would Nelson Mandela say to all of them and say to all of this?
Most of the speakers have urged the crowd, go on, behave like him, live like him, be infused with his spirit going forward, and maybe we could get someplace.
Don't you love this?
Well, you know, it's not be overly nice about this.
That dignitary's actually got some criminals, got some thieves, some kings, some presidents.
Now, in which category there are they talking about Clinton?
I'll take a brief time out.
If I may, and I can because it's who I am and it's my program.
If I may be serious for just a brief moment, for those of you who are relatively young in the audience, may find it hard to believe this, but there was a day not that long ago where I don't care what party he came from, no president would join this collection of people for whatever occasion going on in South Africa.
There was a day where the United States and its president would not deign to associate with the likes of Brian Williams, right, with the likes of some of the people on that stage.
They would find another way.
But the President of the United States would not participate in any action or ceremony which caused the United States to shrink in self-respect, importance, size, what have you.
The days not long ago, that would have been the case.
It's a different world now.
It's a changed world.
And we live in a world where the United States is largely guilty and responsible for all of the criminals and thieves and thugs in the world.
And we live in an era where the United States is due for a bunch of come downs because we've been unfairly and illegally and immorally making ourselves a superpower all of these years.
So now it's proper that we be seated with personages of less than high repute because we are responsible for them.
That's the prevailing opinion of the left.
Anything that causes the United States to shine less bright, anything that causes the United States to diminish in capacity and respect is fine with them.
And this clearly does that.
It's not the handshake.
It's the overall behavior.
It's the posing for selfies, taking selfies.
It's Christiana Manpork calls this a warm-up act for Obama, but the fact is that's exactly how he sees this event.
This event is.
If you go back and look at Obama's two books, he barely mentions Nelson Mandela, barely mentions apartheid.
They didn't matter to him in his two autobiographies.
This is simply the latest episode to be marketed, to be used.
And that's what's happening.
And in the process of this, it's not the handshake with Roe Castro.
It's the deigning to appear to be no different than these people.
No different than the thugs and the thieves and the criminals that are among the dignitaries at this event.
It's the willingness to make the United States appear no different.
And I'm just telling you, those of you who are relatively young, there's a day not too long ago where another way would have been found for the President of the United States to attend these, I don't know what you want to call it, festivities, ceremonies, memorials, what have you.
And I think this just illustrates the great plunge that our country is in the midst of.
We are being led off the cliff.
We're not so much falling off of it, although we have enough people in this country willing to go over the side on their own by voting for Democrats and so forth.
But for the most part, we're being led over the cliff.
And this is actually a very sad sight to see.
However, being who I am, could not help but see the abject humor in this with the absolute, I've never seen such slavish.
What's the word?
I mean, this is, it's kiss ass.
I've never seen this kind of, the media just, they can't help themselves.
This is just, it's too big.
Because what this represents is the opportunity for Obama to take over from Mandela, who was the world in these people's minds.
So this is Obama's final step now, official final step onto the world stage.
It's an Obama victory on the world stage.
This represents another giant step in the transformation of the United States away from the way it was founded and make it more or less like and no different than any other country on the planet because who are we nothing special?
We don't have any business being better or different than anybody else.
It's about time we had ourselves chopped down to size.
About time we got our comeuppance.
We have a president willing to oversee this.
Now, some might be saying, what the hell is Raul Castro doing there in the first place?
How do communist thugs, criminals, thieves, dictators end up there?
Well, an honest answer to the question may be something that is impolitic to say at this time.
So let me just remind you that Nelson Mandela loved Fidel Castro.
He loved Cuba.
In fact, I will read to you a quote from Mandela.
Long live the Cuban Revolution, he said.
Long live Comrade Fidel Castro.
Cuban internationalists have done so much for African independence, African freedom, African justice.
We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist campaign designed to destroy the advances of the Cuban Revolution.
We too want to control our destiny.
There can be no surrender.
It is a case of freedom or death.
The Cuban Revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people.
Mandela said that back in 1991.
That was on the 38th anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution, Friday, July 26, 1991.
He loved it.
Look at, people forget this, but do you remember the Cubans sent soldiers to Angola back in the 90s?
The 90s was a tumultuous decade for all of sub-Saharan Africa.
It wasn't for Meryl Streep.
I mean, she did a movie out of Africa with the African accent down Pat pretty good.
But for everybody else, it was a tumultuous decade.
Now, if you're going to sign on to the Cuban revolution, what else are you signing on to?
You're signing on.
When Mandela speaks here of the Cuban internationalists have done so much for African independence and freedom and justice.
And we admire the sacrifices of Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist campaign designed to destroy the revolution.
he can only be talking about the United States of America there.
And in fact, I do not have the quote right in front of me, but about the time Mandela was uttering these platitudes for Cuba, he at the same time was highly critical of this country.
If I can paraphrase, he attacked human rights in this country and impugned the United States as having made no gains and done nothing important in the area of human rights.
That's why all of this that's taking place is for those of us who remember different days and different leadership, different caliber of leaders, this is kind of pathetic, actually, to watch this.
And so all we can do is just have the fun with it that the media is offering, because they're turning this into a joke.
I mean, to call something the Warm-Up Act for Obama.
I mean, stop it.
Think of the disrespect all the way around that is that statement.
Stated with unbridled, uncontainable excitement by an anchorette infobabe from CNN Christiana Manpur.
Oh, it couldn't be better.
It's a great warm-up act for Obama.
The whole thing is about Obama.
Which is, I don't care what anybody says, a gigantic disrespect to Nelson Mandela.
Again, Mandela's name is mentioned twice in dreams of my father and apartheid once or twice.
It was never, Mandela nor apartheid were not a big deal to Obama.
It was way over there.
His grievances were all American.
His anger, his rage was all aimed at America.
Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly going to take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.
Here's a Nelson Mandela quote on the United States.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
They don't care for human beings.
Nelson Mandela, who is being honored this week with a week-long memorial service.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
They don't care for human beings.
Want to hear more?
People of Asia and Africa have seen through the slanderous campaign conducted by the USA against the socialist countries.
They know that their independence is threatened not by any of the countries in the socialist camp, but by the USA, who has surrounded their continent with military bases.
The communist bogey is an American stunt to distract the attention of the people of Africa from the real issue facing them, namely American imperialism.
And so Nelson Mandela was no different than anybody else on the left, anywhere in the world.
America was imperialist and it was imposing itself and it was opposing communism as a stunt.
Nelson Mandela came from the African National Congress, which was communist and Soviet-sponsored.
And then Reagan, a number of American leaders in the 80s said so, and that was unforgivable.
And it was in that context that Mandela was speaking.
Communist bogey, an American stunt to distract the attention of the people of Africa.
So Mandela was saying, Look, the people of America, the American leadership, is trying to tell us to be where the communists are taking over our countries, but it's not the communists that are the problem.
It's America that's the problem.
And then he goes and hails the Castro brothers.
Here's more Mandela on Cuba.
There's one place where Fidel Castro's Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest, and that is in its love for human rights and liberty.
I mean, what are we to do with this?
This week, we have to let it go.
That's it.
Back after this.
Hey, folks, you know, these little buddies of mine that I follow on the tech blogs, they are livid.
They are so mad they can't believe it when they found out that the NSA is targeting their video games and their computer games.
That's it.
It may be the last straw.
There's a lot of gamers in the high-tech world, and we have found out that the NSA has gone online and is playing these games with people spying on them, ostensibly to nab terrorists.
But the NSA, it has been discovered that Edward Snowden released the data.
Edward Snowden released this information, and the tech bloggers are beside themselves.
You know, everybody has their own tipping point.
Obama can nationalize health care and all that.
They don't care.
They're 23 years old.
But now their games are being monkeyed with, and they're not happy.
When they found out it was bad enough, the NSA spying on everybody, they thought that wouldn't happen.
Obama's a big civil libertarian.
The Democrats wouldn't do that.
That was strike one.
Now the NSA is posing as contestants as they play these video games and computer games.
And they've got beating everybody, got everybody's high scores, and it's just, folks, they're just livid.
And the NSA admits it.
And I'll tell you something else.
Right in the Washington Post, AIDS advocates say that drug coverage in some marketplace plans is inadequate.
Now, this is a little story that's not getting a lot of attention, but this is it.
You know, it was the porn industry that determined whether Betamax or VHS was going to be the dominant home videotape system.
And it was the porn industry that chose Blu-ray over HD DVD.
The porn industry determines a lot that you don't know about in the high-tech world.
And the AIDS community, which is represented by massive leftist gay activist donors and fundraisers, if they are going to be out there speaking out against Obamacare, that could be momentous.
I mean, it's one thing for Joe Sixpack and Oshkosh not to like it, but for a bunch of huge Obama-supporting fundraisers and donors to be upset with the drug package and the drug packages, guess what?
You're going to end up probably having to buy your own drugs under Obamacare.
Now, I'm kind of torn on that because I think that ought to be the case anyway.
I think everybody ought to be paying for their own prescriptions.
The idea that everybody else should pay for your prescriptions, that's just one of the problems.
But nevertheless, what I think doesn't matter, a lot of Americans have become accustomed to the idea that they are not supposed to pay for their prescriptions, that their insurance company will, or the health plan will, or whatever.
And it is being learned now as part of Obamacare that there's much less coverage for drugs, prescriptions.
And people are livid about this.
There's all kinds of things happening, effervescing out there beneath the surface that are about to boil over that are not getting a lot of attention.
They're in the news, but they're not getting a lot of attention because the warm-up act for Obama on the world stage of leadership is taking place in South Africa right now.
And that's by design, by the way.
I mean, the regime is taking great advantage of the events in South Africa, replacing on the front page the bad news about Obamacare.
But here on the EIB network, you will continue to hear about all the continuing fallout of Obamacare.
We've got it coming up.
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