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March 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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So yesterday, we had a local InfoBabe from Phoenix.
Name is Catherine Anaya.
And she let the cat out of the bag in a huge way.
She essentially said that when she talked to Jay Carney, Jay Carney said, oh yeah, reporters give me questions in advance.
I'm able to find the answers and then I give them the answers in advance.
And she reported this.
And a major hubbub resulted, wherein I said on this program about 12.30 yesterday, about halfway into the first hour, I said, I'm going to predict by 1 o'clock Eastern Time, maybe 2 o'clock, that this woman's mind will be made right.
They will pressure her and pressure her, and she will say that she got it wrong, that she misunderstood.
They are going to show her her career hanging in the balance on how she handles this.
Because they can't let this stand.
They cannot let it stand that there is this kind of not just cooperation, but coordination and collaboration between the drive-bys in the White House Press Corps and the regime.
The idea they submit their questions in advance so that Carney knows what they are and is able to get the answers and make it look like he's really brilliant when he may not have the slightest clue unless he gets the questions in advance.
Well, it turned out, and I wasn't the only one, of course, that knew this was going to happen.
There were maybe a couple of others.
So let's go back.
Let's review what she said the first time.
This was Wednesday night in Phoenix, KPHO TV, News at 5, Eyeball News.
She's speaking with the co-anchor Adam Longo, her name Catherine Anaya, about her interview with Obama.
It's local media day, big day for these local affiliate people.
I mean, it is a big day.
This is a day that's a highlight of their career, and it could be a day that gives them a big career bounce.
It is a huge thing.
And you go up there, you get four minutes with Obama.
Get an interview with Carney in the press office.
It's a huge deal.
She was so excited.
And her co-anchors said, So you were there all day, Catherine.
You started the day with key members of the president's staff.
Tell us about it.
We started here shortly after 8 o'clock with a coffee with Press Secretary Jay Carney.
And this was off the record.
He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well versed on every single day.
And then he also mentioned that a lot of times, unless it's something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually asked were the correspondents, they are provided to him in advance.
So then he knows what he's going to be answering.
And sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them because, of course, it helps when they're producing their reports for later on.
So that was very interesting.
Yeah, I'll bet it was.
Now, when you hear that, she didn't get anything wrong.
She didn't make anything up.
She's too excited to get it wrong, folks.
She wants to make an impression.
She's trying to impress these people.
It's the name of the game.
And she was very specific.
She did not get anything wrong.
And she said it was off the record.
Long list of items he has to be well versed on.
He mentioned a lot of times, unless it's breaking, the questions the reporters ask are provided to him in advance so that he knows what he has.
No, that's really cool.
Man, I wish we could do that in Phoenix.
That is really cool.
Well, this wasn't going to last.
Ed Henry Fox tweeted, hey, this is not true.
At least it's not true for me.
I never submit questions in advance.
Some people at Politico did the same.
But there wasn't a lot of publicly expressed outrage by other drive-bys.
And it was only a matter of time because they can't let this stand.
I believe her.
I think it totally.
I think these is why I don't want to repeat myself from yesterday, but Dylan Byers, the Politico, is all upset, and the media is all upset that Michelle didn't take any media with her to China.
And I said, they know you're not going to turn on them.
They can do anything they want.
They know they own you.
They have you in the palm of their hands.
You've already given away any independence that you might have thought you had.
You're on the team.
They know you're on the team.
And they also know that no matter how much they disrespect you, you're never going to turn on them.
He's the first black president.
He's a leftist.
He's a leader to Democrats.
You hate the Republicans.
You're never going to turn on Obama.
You're never going to turn on Michelle.
It doesn't matter.
So if she doesn't want you hassling her while she's with the Chikom's doing, who knows what tough toenails?
Because you're not going.
What are you going to do about it?
Write a little piece and talk about how they're not transparent.
Big whoop.
Think they care?
So I have no doubt that Catherine Anaya was telling the truth.
Well, now, the UK Daily Mail, a headline, my mistake, and I own up to it.
Phoenix reporter reverses course says Jay Carney doesn't get daily briefing questions in advance.
The Phoenix reporter, the center of a quick-drying controversy, admitted she got the whole thing wrong.
Phoenix news anchor Catherine Anaya reported that in an off-the-record meeting, Carney had told a handful of local TV reporters, the White House correspondents, tell him before briefings what they're going to be asking.
But by mid-afternoon, just shortly after I predicted it would happen, Fresh off a Washington to Phoenix flight, when she got back home, she walked parts of her story back in an email to the Daily Mail online in the UK.
She insisted that she herself was asked to submit a question in advance for Carney on Wednesday afternoon.
As a local journalist, I had no issue providing my proposed question in advance, she told the Daily Mail online, as I wanted to make sure it was an appropriate question for a national briefing.
I wanted to make sure it was appropriate for Mr. Carney.
Do you mind submitting my question in advance because I wanted his approval?
I wanted to make sure my question was appropriate.
I wanted to make sure I wasn't asking him to comment on something that might violate national security.
I wanted to make sure I wasn't asking him a tough question.
It might be embarrassing.
I wanted his approval.
Oh, my lord, these are they probably talk this stuff now.
Who knows?
Anyway, we have her now.
What's it?
Yes, back on her own air.
Phoenix, back on CBS5 Eyeball News at 10, KPHO TV, Catherine Anaya.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a hostage video.
I was speaking off the cuff and unscripted, and in the process, I made two major mistakes.
I reported an off-the-record conversation, and what I reported was not accurate.
I took a conversation about the preparation for a press briefing, and I muddied it with my own experience of wanting to provide a question for the press briefing.
I incorrectly applied the process to everyone.
That was wrong, and it was bad reporting.
The White House never asked for my questions in advance and never instructed me on what to ask.
I did not attribute or report factually last night, and for that, I deeply apologize.
Man, did they make her wow?
They made her basically say she is the most unqualified, incompetent reporter ever to set foot in the White House.
She had to walk the plank.
I mean, if I didn't know better, it'd be two Al-Qaeda guys standing next to her holding long knives.
Man.
So her excuse now is she admits she submitted her question in advance because she wanted Carney's approval.
And the mistake she made was thinking that that's how everybody in the White House press corps did.
That's right.
She just assumed that's what everybody did.
So she retracted and she apologized and she admitted to being a horrible journalist.
The White House never asked for my questions in advance, never instructed me on what to ask.
I did not attribute or report factually last night.
For that, I deeply apologize.
Man, oh, this is worse than what I thought they were going to make her do.
It's just, I haven't seen the video.
All I have is the audio.
I would love to get a body language expert, watch it, and try to find any signals about her being tortured.
Was there any torture used to secure this confession?
That's a legitimate question.
These people have seen torture, like at Abu Ghraib.
Did they make her do anything?
Was she waterboarded?
Yeah, did they waterboard?
Did they threaten her family?
Anaya, did they threaten deportation?
What did they do to get this confession?
And then we move on to Cheryl Atkinson, now known as the rights favorite reporter at CBS.
Cheryl Atkinson, of course, resigned CBS, TV, CBS News.
And she did an interview with Philadelphia.
Yeah, Talk Radio in Philadelphia.
And responding to comments regarding Catherine Onaya, the Phoenix reporter, Cheryl Atkinson said, I wouldn't be surprised if sometimes there is that level of cooperation with some questions.
I mean, if I need something answered from the White House and they won't tell me, what I would do is call our White House correspondent, Bill Plant, whoever it might be.
The White House correspondents are always friendlier with the press secretary than us reporters.
So the White House correspondent, Bill Plant, whoever it is, might ask Jay Carney or one of his people about an issue and they'll be told, ask that briefing, ask that at the briefing and I'll answer it.
They want to answer the question in front of everybody.
They do know it's coming and they'll call on you if they know you have a question they want to answer.
There is that kind of coordination sometimes, Cheryl Atkinson says.
I wouldn't be shocked if there's sometimes more coordination.
But I don't think it's everybody on every briefing every day.
In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not.
But I think people would be surprised at the level of cooperation reporters have in general with politicians.
Well, we wouldn't be surprised here.
I've thought this game has been rigged for a long, long time.
And we know that they're not even reporters anymore.
They're not even journalists.
They're actors, or they are otherwise Democrats assigned to the journalism area, the journalism sector.
Some Democrats are assigned to a cabinet secretary.
Some Democrats are assigned to congressional liaison or aide.
Some Democrats are assigned to post in the regime.
Other Democrats are assigned journalism school and then the media.
And that's how it works.
And they go back and forth through revolving doors.
One day a reporter will, the other day, Richard Stingel, I had the soundbites I didn't get to him.
The guy who used to run Time magazines, now working for John Kerry, spokesman.
And he had a couple of soundbites with he was just praising John Kerry like it was rock star groupie kind of stuff.
So there is no journalistic independence anymore between Democrats and the media.
White House, Senate, House, you never, it doesn't matter.
But boy, did they make this babe take the walk.
Whoa.
Can you imagine what they told her?
Can you imagine how?
Can you imagine how scared she must have been when they got through telling her what was going to happen if she didn't fix this?
You like Phoenix?
Because you may be spending the rest of your life there and maybe not even in the media.
You ever heard of Nina Oshkosh Appleton?
Whiskey.
Have you ever heard of that market?
Because we may have a spot for you there.
Nothing wrong.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just picking a smaller.
Actually, you should be flattered that I know the Nina Oshkosh Appleton market.
The reason I do was I was once offered a job there when I was leaving Pittsburgh.
F. Chuck Todd, everybody dumping on CNN now.
F. Chuck Todd on his MSNBC show yesterday.
So what is this?
Every time I look at CN, I see breaking news, and yet there's nothing to report.
When did nothing become breaking news?
I said, Chuck, look at your own network.
Have you ever looked at your own crawl?
But it's starting, they're starting now to eat each other over this Malaysian jet story.
Oh, by the way, the automobile transport ship finally got to the area where they had those two pieces of wreckage, and they can't find anything.
And you know why?
Some wizard of smart, I actually have it in the stack here.
I'm not kidding on this, folks.
I never thought of this.
The guy said we might not find it.
The degree, the debris, the wreckage might sink.
I imagine that.
I had not thought I thought this stuff would float until our rescue people got there and then sink.
There's also apparently a UK satellite outfit spotted this wreckage within 48 hours of the crash.
And I don't know if they told anybody immediately, or maybe they told Malaysia, and Malaysia sat on it.
And now the SATCON feeds, hey, it's not our problem.
What you do with our data is up to you.
It's not our job.
We find the data.
We saw what we thought could have been wreckage and we told people, we're done.
You mean you don't care?
It's not our job.
It's Malaysia.
We provide you with the data, what you do.
I mean, they're turning cannibal out there.
All these people.
Because there's nothing to report, folks.
Snerdley, I was just told you have a crush on Savannah Guthrie.
You have a crush on Savannah Guthrie.
Then the Today Show.
I thought it was a CNN babe you once had a crush on until you actually listened to her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not.
Anyway, Savannah Guthrie, longtime NBC, a White House correspondent and went over to MSNBC to do a show with F. Chuck Todd.
She married, yeah, I think they got married.
She's four months pregnant.
She got married to Michael Feldman, a Clinton Gore political operative.
She married a guy.
She's the NBC Infobabe on the Today Show.
She married this guy, the founder of a Democrat PR lobbying firm.
She's a founding partner, managing director of the Glover Park Group, which is the communications firm started in 2001 by Dee Dee Myers and Joe Lockhart.
No, there's my just another element of proof.
So here you have an anchor, a newsreader, a host on the Today Show marrying a Democrat strategist.
It's just that whole town is incestuous that way.
And by the way, no, I don't care.
I'm just pointing it out.
You can marry who you want, especially now.
In fact, we're getting to the point you can marry what you want before too long.
We've got the actual audio of Cheryl Atkinson on our Philadelphia Radio affiliate coming up.
Oh, this is great.
I don't know what to do with it, but this is great.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers five printed pages of a Microsoft Word document that is supposedly a summary of the report circulating in the Kremlin today about what happened to the Malaysian airline flight.
And the sources for this report that the Kremlin has are the CHICOMs.
So ChiCom sources have prepared an analysis of what happened to the jet, and this is what Putin has.
This is what I'm told.
And in a nutshell, the U.S. captured the plane and diverted it to Diego Garcia because there's a passenger and cargo aboard that we want.
And that that's where it is.
Here's a new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the main intelligence director to the general staff, the GRU, which is the new KGB, states that Aero Defense Forces experts remain puzzled as to why the United States Navy captured and then diverted a Malaysia Airlines civilian aircraft from its intended flight path to their vast and highly secretive Indian Ocean base located on the Diego Garcia at hole.
And then it goes, I haven't read all five pages, got this halfway into the break.
But this is supposedly now what.
Wait till CNN gets hold of this.
It's official.
It's official looking, and it is made to appear as though this is what Putin believes.
This is what's circulating in the KGB, that the Navy somehow captured that airplane, diverted it, sent it to Diego Garcia, which didn't have to hide it there.
Diego Garcia's, I mean, it's a small thing, but we've got a base there.
You can see it from satellite.
So it's just another twist.
Let me grab a call.
We always try to go to the phones early on Open Line Friday.
Richard, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Listen, am I the only one that thinks that Putin might be running a train that's completely off the tracks and that we're dealing with a megalomaniac and a madman with some of the things that he does?
Why don't they get a panel of experts like they have for this airline of every shape and size to analyze this guy and profile him?
The things that he does seems to me to be so unconventional, whether he's on a horse with no shirt or any of the other things that he's done, is a statement in itself.
You know.
And this guy, I don't think, would care if he launched anything to end the world because he'd be in a bunker, and he'd think that he was the man that went out in history, did the most damage, and he'll go down with the ship.
What is different about Putin from any other Russian or Soviet leader?
I've never seen anyone except Khrushchev put anybody in a box like he has.
What do you mean?
What I'm saying is the aggression that he has hasn't come out of the Soviet Union since they invaded Hungary in 1956.
Oh, yes, it has.
Khrushchev showing up at the United Nations, banging the shoe, promising and threatening to enslave every American.
But that was with the Cuban missile crisis, nothing came of it.
I'm talking about the aggression.
I'm not talking about the thumping of the chest of what we might do or how bellicose they are.
This guy is actually acting upon things that haven't been done since 1956.
As far as history serves me, I could be wrong.
All right, so you think Clinton's ⁇ you think Putin's insane.
Off the rails is dangerously imbalanced, and he might do something really, really bad militarily, destroy the world.
Or he doesn't care because he'll be down with the ship.
He looks at it as probably, you know, the highlight of his career as far as he can.
Does anybody think that that possibility exists?
What do you think?
I think Putin is like every other Russian Soviet leader.
He's a communist.
He's built on and devoted to expansionism.
He wants to reestablish and rebuild the glory of the Soviet Union.
He wants to cut every enemy down to size so that they're not an enemy.
I think the guy, I think the guy's actually, he may be loony, I don't know, but I think he's also strategically brilliant.
You know, I hear all these people talking.
Here's Putin running around fighting alligators and throwing his shirt off.
He's only playing to the U.S. low-information media.
He's making himself look harmless.
He's making himself look like he's a cool dude.
He's not coming across the old Soviet Union guys with the giant eyebrows, the never-smiling, standing in front of a parade of missiles every May.
He doesn't do any of that.
He's just running around rebuilding the Soviet Union and making it look like he's a cool dude.
And he's got all of his buddies, these Russian billionaires now own basketball teams in the NBA.
They own the coolest, biggest yachts.
They are big friends with Paul Allen and Microsoft.
I think what Putin's doing is actually kind of brilliant.
He's just, he's lulling everybody in this country.
I mean, there's a poll out.
I just saw it on Fox that the vast majority of Americans don't care what Putin is doing in the Crimea or in Ukraine.
None of our business.
Leave him alone.
They're not threatened by the guy at all.
And I think that's pretty brilliant on his part, given what he's doing and what he's attempting to do.
These guys, they invaded Afghanistan.
I mean, that was more recent than Hungary.
You said 1956.
They invaded Afghanistan.
They were threatening to nuke their own satellite countries if they didn't stay.
Brezhnev was famous for that.
But I think Putin is a student of the American media and knows exactly how to play to it.
And I think he knows exactly.
He's running around with no shirt and making himself look like a hunk while our president is wearing mom jeans and can't even throw a baseball in the first pitch at a Washington Nationals game that doesn't embarrass everybody.
I think he knows exactly what he's doing.
He knows that in this country, masculinity is being stripped away.
Masculinity is eroding.
Masculinity is being impugned, laughed at, made fun of.
What's he doing?
He's looking like a real man.
He's looking like a real guy.
Now, I think the shirt off is I think he's miscalculating there.
I don't think most people react to him the way he's hoping that they will with that.
But nevertheless, he is succeeding in drawing a contrast between himself and our Alinskyite in the White House.
Whether he's off the rails, I think this is a wild guess.
I don't know the man.
My guess is he wants to rule as much of the world while he's alive.
I don't think he's got suicidal tendencies at all.
It's been blowing up the world and living in his bunker.
He wants to run it.
This is the problem.
See, folks, when I say something, nothing left to be said.
Caller was speechless when I finished.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to take every word out of him.
He was going to leave him in awe.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, missing jet liners, plunging economic realities, and even the good times.
I think Vladimir Putin is on the move now because he knows that he has limited time.
He's never going to have This lack of opposition to what he's doing in the United States.
He's got three years, and I think he's going to try to make the most of it.
Because I think he has accurately assessed the two things.
I think he's accurately assessed the apathy toward him by the American people.
And I think he's properly assessed the mettle of this regime and administration.
And he has concluded that there's no impetus here to stop him.
No serious impetus to stop him.
He doesn't know who's going to be elected next, but he knows he's got a little under three years here.
And I've got, by the way, there's a story at thehill.com today.
I've got it here in the stack that reports are that Putin is indeed.
Here it is by Christina Wong in theHill.com away from the conflict in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin quietly seeking a foothold in Latin America, military officials warn.
To the alarm of lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Putin has begun sending Navy ships and long-range bombers to the region, Latin America, for the first time in years.
Russia's defense minister says the country's planning bases in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
And last week, Putin's national security team met to discuss increasing military ties in the region.
A Democrat senator from Indiana, Joe Donnelly, said they're on the march.
This at a Senate hearing earlier this month.
The Russians are working the scenes where we can't work, and they're doing a pretty good job.
General James Kelly, commander, U.S. Southern Command, said there has been a noticeable uptick in Russian power projection and security force personnel in Latin America.
It's not a secret what Putin's doing.
Nicaragua, former client state.
Venezuela, wide open.
Massive student revolution taking place, 57% unemployment.
There is non-existent economy.
It's made to order.
And it's in the top 10 oil-producing, it is one of the top 10 oil-producing nations in the world.
It's just sitting there.
Now, in the old days, when the United States mattered, when we had adults, and I'm not exaggerating, we would have CIA agents and others, we would be attempting to forge an allied relationship with the malcontents in Venezuela.
And the same thing in Cuba.
But now we're living under a regime that's just said the Monroe Doctrine no longer applies, which means anybody from any part of the world can come into our hemisphere, take whatever they want.
We're not going to really do anything to stop them.
Putin's on the march.
He's got three years with these guys.
Here's another thing you have to remember.
Sometimes hard to keep this in mind, but it's very important.
For people like Putin or whoever, the mullahs in Iran, for Bashar Assad, for anybody, any of these tyrants, they have not truly accepted that we have become a paper tiger.
Their history with the United States, they're definitely afraid of us because of our past.
We did, we have won every war we've gotten into, whether we were once started it or not.
kicked butt everywhere we've been challenged and we have spread liberty and freedom and there has been no stopping us.
Superpower, we're it and they remember it.
So even though we now have a president unlike we've ever had before, we've never had this kind of active pacifist, if you will.
So they see what they're dealing with now.
But they also, because of their own intelligence guided by experience, they know what this country is capable of.
They're rolling the dice that this country just isn't interested anymore as it used to be in such things as superpower status, external threats.
We're more concerned with whether or not gay marriage is respected around the world.
We're more concerned with whether or not civil rights, as leftist activists define it, are happening around the world.
We're more concerned with these silly social things, the way they look at them.
You know, Putin's looking around saying, these people really, really going to legalize pots is going to make it even easier for us.
So it's outwardly, Putin, I think, is looking at this like he knows he's got three years with Obama, and that's a green light for him.
But every one of these guys, Putin, Ahmedine Yizad, whoever, they know what this country is capable of simply because of what we've done in the past.
And they, you know, once something has been, it can easily be again.
And they will always have very near the front of their mind that if the American people are sufficiently rallied, sufficiently threatened, sufficiently angered, that they will at some point come out of their stupor and rise up and say enough is enough.
That's their experience with us.
But as long as the current regime is in the Oval Office and running things, they think they've got clear sailing, but they're always going to be guarded about how they go about it.
They can't afford to be totally confident that we are seriously squandering superpower status.
They cannot ever act confidently on that.
They can look at what the reality is day to day and act on that, but we simply have the biggest military in the world, and we can simply, if we want to, we can project power everywhere in the world more than they can.
And so they have to keep that in check.
But in the meantime, that's another thing.
Well, we haven't done it yet, but if Putin can say, oh, Obama wants to cut the military down to World War II science, how can I help?
Now, the regime will tell you that they want to cut the military back down to World War II because we don't need this conventional ⁇ it's the 21st century, remember.
Why our enemies are not supposed to invade with people.
It's supposed to be done with computers and war games.
So we don't need a conventional infantry boots on the ground force anymore.
And we don't need all these fighter planes and bombers because the video games have shown us we can do this all with missiles and somewhere.
So we don't need all that.
Meanwhile, Putin and the rest of these people, particularly the Chikoms, the Chikoms have over a billion people in their population.
That's a heck of an army if they wanted to try to assemble it.
It's a lot of, I mean, they could incur severe casualties and not even feel it.
In fact, it might help them, in fact, to incur severe casualties on a conventional battlefield.
So this stuff is serious.
It's intricate.
And remember, we have people leading our country who do not, A, they don't remember America victorious.
And they don't, they're, how to put it, they don't remember it in their own lives, but they can, of course, read the history, but they resent a powerful and successful America militarily.
And don't think Putin and these people don't know this, and don't think they'll fully exploit it.
Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, our own hemisphere.
Right there it is.
Democrats on Senate committees warning what Putin is preparing to do.
It's right there.
I love it.
I love it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger went to Google.
Google is a smoke-free environment.
And he pulled out a giant Monte Cristo and lit up right under the sign saying no smoking.
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