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June 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, Fox News has got a story they're running right now that the majority of Americans still oppose Obamacare, and that's not going to change.
I think they said 33% of independents want Obamacare repealed.
That's not going to change.
It's only going to get worse.
It's an abject joke.
I mean, there's nothing to recommend it.
It does not have popular support.
It never has had.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, illrushbo at EIBNet.com.
The terrorists who attacked the U.S. Consulate and a CIA annex in Benghazi were using State Department cell phones.
Now, wait.
They were using cell phones seized from State Department personnel during the attacks.
Now, what does that mean?
It's bad enough that the attacks separated our people from their cell phones.
It's bad enough that the bad guys ended up with State Department cell phones and started using them.
But what does that mean?
It means that State Department personnel knew exactly what was going on when it was going on.
They had real-time evidence because the bad guys were using the State Department cell phone network.
U.S. spy agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders to report on the success of the operation.
This is a story from Brett Bayer and James Rosen and Fox News.
Now, the disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence that establishes that senior U.S. officials in the regime knew early on that Benghazi was a terror attack and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, which the regime claimed for several weeks after the action.
This is just the attacks.
This is just another slice of evidence that they knew at the time what this was.
This is another bit of evidence that the Obama administration was lying and doing so for weeks in the aftermath.
They were listening.
The terrorists had State Department cell phones and were reporting their success to their superiors.
We were monitoring that network.
Well, I don't know about can't track them down.
I don't know if they're still using State Department cell phones.
I don't know if they have the right chargers.
It could be using USB versus Lightning.
Who knows what the terrorists have in their tech arsenal.
But this is striking, folks.
This is, I mean, just another couple of exclamation points that illustrate the degree and purposefulness to which this regime was lying about everything having to do with Benghazi.
The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the regime knew early on, while like at the moment That Benghazi was a terrorist attack and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry.
In fact, I'll tell you what else.
This discovery, this revelation, explains how the CIA and other intelligence agencies knew in real time that it was a terror attack.
They knew it in real time.
The CIA.
And remember, the CIA was blamed for the early edits of the talking points, which made this a random protest.
In other words, folks, they didn't have to intercept and decode anything.
They were able to actually hear the terrorists talking to their terrorist leaders on their own phones.
And note something else.
This is something we've never known before.
This is a new revelation.
This is something that has been covered up.
Somehow it has been uncovered.
It has been revealed.
And it's further proof of why we need this House Select Committee to get out the facts of what happened in Benghazi.
And let me see if I can find it.
There's a story here about Mrs. Clinton.
I had it down in the stack because I planned on getting to this later.
But it's here it is.
It's a mediaite story.
Hillary Clinton released Gitmo detainees, not a threat to the U.S.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, of course, it has now been learned, was the person who came up with the idea of using the YouTube video to explain all this.
Somehow she found out that it existed and it was her idea.
Look, it was a State Department apology.
Don't forget in Cairo that got all this going, and she was the Secretary of State.
Do you remember this?
They put out this apology before anything had happened.
They blamed a video.
They apologized for a video before any protest in Cairo earlier in the day of the night of Benghazi had happened.
Everybody just assumes that if Hillary Clinton wants to be president, she's going to be president, even though it was denied her in 2008.
It's part and parcel of the inside the Beltway mindset that if she wants to be president, she's going to be president.
There's some sort of fear, there's some sort of they attach superhuman characteristics to Hillary and Bill.
And I've always said, you know, she's just like all the other guys.
She puts her pants on one leg at a time.
But this is even worse.
I don't think she's going to be able to outrun this Benghazi stuff.
By the time all this piles up, I don't think she's going to be able to escape it.
I don't think she's going to be able to be insulated from all of this.
Now, she said something in an interview with Cynthia McFadden of NBC News.
And she admitted, Obama admitted that some of the five Gitmo detainees released in the Bo Bergdahl deal could go back to targeting America.
But Hillary, in an interview with Cynthia McFadden, said that those five Taliban commanders are not a threat to the United States.
Now, I think this Might come back to haunt Mrs. Clinton.
This one little answer to this one little question to me is proof that this woman is neither smart nor competent.
This is the thing it's always gotten me ever since the Clintons first hit the scene.
This whole image construct of Mrs. Clinton is the smartest woman in the world and the most competent, and really she will be the best president this country's had in a long time if we could ever get her elected.
And she's just brilliant and she's smart and she's worldly.
And I've never seen the evidence of it.
It's a buzz campaign.
It's a PR campaign.
It's been a PR campaign since her days at Wellesley and particularly since she married Bill, but particularly since they arrived in Washington.
It's not rooted in any substance, is the point.
You know, me, Mayor of Realville, I believe in substance, real achievement, not buzz and PR.
And Hillary is buzz and PR.
And it just amazes me the number of people on our side.
I'm talking about Republicans in Washington who just eat it up.
They buy it.
And they do so because they're afraid, I think.
But it's answers like this that make, and this is by no means the first.
She committed another gaffe.
She's being interviewed in Illinois the other day, and she mentions Abraham Lincoln's a senator.
He wasn't.
In the context, she was, she just, and they said, well, it's just a gaff.
No, it wasn't a gaff.
She's just not as smart, brilliant on top of that as everybody thinks that she is.
There's no reason to be afraid of this woman, is my point.
Unless you're married to her.
Then all bets are off.
But just in the political sense, why in the world be afraid of her?
Now, this answer: those five guys are not a threat.
I mean, here's Mrs. Clinton.
I ain't no way tired.
Come on, this is somebody brilliant and smart.
You know, you put her up against an absolutely objective media, and they make embarrassing reactions to that attempt of hers to sound black at Selma.
I ain't no ways tired.
Whatever she does, it says.
The vast right-wing conspiracy stuff.
These five guys, oh, and then keep remembering these things.
Started shouting, I think we did this something that is date bring us again.
We are not going to be combined that great that we can.
This is Williams that we're listening to here.
Seriously, folks, I've always questioned this conventional wisdom that we're dealing here with somebody that's so.
No, I'm not.
I'm questioning this assertion that she's the smartest woman in the world, that she's a form.
Wait a second.
Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.
Who says that this is the most accomplished woman in American history?
That precisely.
Her resume says them.
First lady, Secretary of State, Senator of New York, all of that, she's the most what?
Most accomplished woman in the history of America.
Well, you know, there's an obvious retort to that, but I got nothing to gain by saying it.
And I don't want to get distracted by it either.
But look, let me just state very simply, I don't buy the PR, which is, I think, over half of the legend.
It's a legend.
It's a myth.
It's exactly what we were talking about.
John Kennedy said, you know, the biggest, the lie is not the most damaging thing.
It's the myth.
The myth perpetuates so many untruths and falsifications.
And she is one.
It's a legend in the media's eyes, a legend in the Democrats' eyes.
Anyway, this statement is just further evidence.
These five guys are not a threat to the United States.
They're a threat to the safety and security of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It's up to those two countries to make the decision once and for all that these are threats to them.
So I think that we may be kind of missing the bigger picture here.
We want to get an American home whether they fell off the ship because they were drunk or they were pushed or they jumped.
We try to rescue everybody.
Wait a minute.
Couldn't you, why slam Bergdahl that way?
Nobody claimed he was drunk today.
Nobody claimed he fell off a ship, did they?
Well, anyway, so they're not a threat to the USA.
While we have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tell me something.
Mrs. Clinton, did Osama bin Laden concoct 9-11 from Watergate?
Where was he when he did that?
Where was he when it happened?
Where was he when it was concocted?
Shalid Sheikh Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, where was he?
Where were any of these people before 9-11 happened?
None of them were here.
These five are free to go back and concoct and manipulate and plan and train.
And as long as we have Americans on station anywhere in the world, how do you say they are not a threat to the United States?
I know she's saying it to try to diminish the idea they've been released.
Come on, it's not a big deal.
These five schlubs, they're not going to threaten us for the mighty United States.
These five guys, it's time for Pakistan and Afghanistan to pull their own weight anyway and worry about these guys.
Sorry, that's not how the world works.
We just did replenish the enemy.
These are not insignificant guys.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll get back to your phone calls when we return.
Sit tight.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I might have gotten a little bit too histrionic there, folks.
I don't mean, I really don't mean to be attacking Mrs. Clinton personally.
I just don't buy the hype.
I never have bought the hype.
It's all I'm saying.
I think the evidence is clear.
The hype is just that.
Plain and simple.
Look, bottom line, it's time to stop being afraid of these people.
Eric Cantor was afraid of him.
And look what happened.
Okay, Mary in Richmond, Virginia.
Hi.
We've got a lot of Virginia people last couple days.
How are you, Mary?
Great to have you on the program.
Thanks, Rosh.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I'm calling you from the very heart, the precincts that elected David Bratt.
And I think I speak for at least a lot of our friends on the reason we transferred our loyalty from Cantor to David Bratt.
It's because he is a principled candidate.
He's also extremely articulate in his professorial background.
He communicates big concepts in simple terms.
I have heard that about him.
In fact, I heard one of his students yesterday say something we do here, that he makes the complex understandable.
He breaks down complicated things and makes them understandable for people.
And that's big.
Anybody can do that, particularly matters of economics.
Well, for instance, he communicated why how China and India are able to feed billions of people.
It's because they are moving toward a free market economy.
But what happened with my husband and me is we went to a small neighborhood meet and greet for David Bratt because I've known Eric Cantor for decades and was, you know, saw no real reason to switch my vote.
But when I met David Bratt person to person and saw what a principled candidate he is, I also saw at the same time how unprincipled Eric Cantor was to spread lies about him.
So it not only made me mad, but it also motivated me.
I called, you know, probably a dozen, maybe 15 friends and said, look, you need to take a look at this man.
We have switched our loyalty.
You may want to do the same.
And these are the people.
This is a highly educated area, professional people, strong families, strong churches.
These are people that are responsible citizens.
And they recognize what was being done, that Eric Cantor was losing sight of the victory.
He used to be a principled candidate.
And he just sort of, I think his advisors, their hatred for Tea Party, by the way, it's not really the Tea Party that can take credit in terms of the formal use of the word.
It was people like us who recognized this is a candidate we can be.
That's true.
The Tea Party, the quote-unquote, there are Tea Party organizations, and none of them were in there.
Right.
They didn't go in there.
They didn't think he had a chance.
None of them contacted us about him.
It was meeting it.
He did the hard work.
Well, this is, look, this proves my point all along.
Ideas and substance have consequences, and you reacted to that.
You reacted to principle.
You reacted to substance.
You reacted to ideas.
And I think this is totally understandable.
And I think it's just an indication of a wave that is on tap for November for incumbents of both parties.
If they are perceived to be effete, elite, snobbish, unconcerned, if they in any way condescend to voters, they're going to pay the price for it.
And reaction to this runs a gamut.
You have Republican consultants say, this wasn't about immigration, and this is just a one-off, and this doesn't mean anything.
Then you have me saying that it was about immigration and a whole bunch of other things, too, and a lot of them about what Mary said.
Even Ron Fournier, the National Journal, he thinks that the defeat, the Cantor defeat, may signal a populist revolution.
He thinks that the Democrats and the Republicans both ought to be paying very close attention and be honest with themselves about what happened here.
And if they're not, they're going to get swept out too.
And we're back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, Carolyn Willow Park, Texas, glad that you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Oh, it's such a pleasure to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you.
What I was calling about was last night I was watching Fox News, and I got really depressed seeing all the Iraq situation there.
My daughter-in-law's brother, excuse me, only brother was killed in Iraq in 2008, and it was just devastating for her family.
It is.
And so I just feel like, you know, maybe Corey's life was in vain because of what we're seeing.
Obama just threw it away.
And what everything that Bush had done, and Bush had done some good things.
He wasn't perfect, but he did some good things.
And I just, I'm just, and that coupled with the border situation with all those children, it's just, it was just a lot to take last night.
I can imagine how you feel about this.
And when you hear that the Iraqis have made a request for us to provide some air support to repel some of the al-Qaeda attempts to overrun cities and we turn them down, what do you think?
What's your reaction to it?
Oh, well, I was thinking of that last night.
If we would just send in some jets and, you know, take care of them like we did in Baghdad.
It didn't take very long.
Don't put any more boots on the ground.
But I mean, it can't be, we can't just allow them to take over that country again and undo everything that was done through 4,500 young men and women lost their lives.
Look, grab Soundbites 25 and 26.
We've got Obama on this.
Carolyn, I don't know what is going to happen.
I stand by what I said in the first hour, that this administration looks at everything politically.
They make a political calculation on every event, every school shooting, every hurricane, I don't care what it is.
Everything is going to be related to the advancement of their agenda or damaging what they think the Republican agenda is.
And I'm here to tell you, in an election year, I really, can you see, any of you see Obama committing even one jet to Iraq?
You realize what his base, the code pinks, the Michael Moores, they're already mad at the guy because they don't think he's moved far enough left fast enough.
And they're already mad at him because he hasn't closed Gitmo.
And they're already mad at him because he expanded Afghanistan for a while.
And they're already mad at him because Obamacare doesn't work.
And that was their utopian panacea.
If he sends one jet over there, but I stand by what I said in the first hour, as far as Obama and the Democrats are concerned, hanging.
In fact, I can prove this to you.
Let me make the assertion again and then prove it.
The assertion that I'm making is that if Obama and the Democrats can further cement the notion that Iraq was a total mistake made by Bush and the Republicans, they will do it.
If they can discredit Cheney and everybody involved, Rumsfeld, Bush, they can do that by letting Iraq fall.
That's a big political home run for them.
You have to be honest with yourselves about them, though.
That's why I said in the first hour, it takes courage to admit the truth about liberalism and liberals.
And they are, let me put it this way, they're not disappointed at military failure.
They're not disappointed at all.
But if this strikes you as a bit harsh, may I remind you of their behavior while we were in Iraq for the last three years?
Moveon.org, CodePink, you name it, Obama, John Kerry, John Murtha, every day were doing everything they could to discredit the war effort in Iraq.
All it took was one allegation that Marines say in Haditha were raping and terrorizing women and children.
And out went Jack Murthy and John Kerry to believe it and condemn these Marines before there had been any investigation.
They couldn't wait.
General Petraeus is going to show up and testify.
This is where Mrs. Clinton said, before she'd even heard him say a word, that she was going to have to suspend her willing disbelief in order because he was going to lie.
And the moveon.org people ran an ad, General Betraeus.
Oh, can I get a little, I don't want to lose my train of thought, and I promise you I won't.
One of the people responsible for that ad is married to a Obama administration official.
His name is Jesse Lee or Jesse Hill, I forget which.
He's in charge of media outreach to progressives on the internet and so forth.
And his wife is now also at the Obama administration, and she was behind the Betraeus ad.
She has just lodged a formal request of the Washington Post that they fire George Will because he wrote a column she doesn't like reading about rape and sexual abuse on campus.
So a member of the Obama administration, somebody married to an Obama regime member, is out petitioning the Washington Post to fire George Will.
That's who these people are.
They do not believe in free speech institutionally.
They do not believe in it.
They want to shut you down if you say things or write things that they don't want to read or hear about.
These are the same people that were doing everything they could to saddle George W. Bush with a loss in Iraq.
Be honest with yourselves and remember the last three years of the Bush term, second term, every day the body counts, the allegations of terrorism committed by our Marines, the effort to discredit every aspect of the war, the effort to make it look like we shouldn't have gone to Bush's motives were unpure.
They were just personal because Saddam had once tried to kill his father.
So it's not a stretch to assert and to believe that the Democrats don't have a problem with the American military losing, particularly if they can saddle the defeat around the Republicans.
Well, I hate to tell you, but if Iraq falls, whose fault has it always been?
It's always been Bush's.
It's one of these things that poor Obama inherited.
Oh, it's so bad, and it was so much worse.
It was like the economy.
It was so much worse than what Obama was told.
And it was so bad.
It took him much longer to fix these things than he planned.
And it was all Bush's fault if Iraq falls, if Afghanistan falls.
I'm telling you that Obama and his media acolytes are going to blame it all on Bush, and they're going to do it because they think it advances their political agenda.
So it is by no means a stretch to make this allegation.
Now, let's listen to Obama.
Grab somebody 25.
This meeting of the White House after a meeting with the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Q ⁇ A with the media, reporters said, are you considering drone strikes or any further action to stop insurgents in Iraq?
My team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them.
I don't rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria, for that matter.
It's fair to say that in our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term, immediate things that need to be done militarily.
And, you know, our national security team is looking at all the options, but this should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government.
All right.
As usual, everything Obama said before the word but is meaningless.
Let me explain.
Well, my team's working around the clock.
We've got to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them.
I don't rule out anything because Iraq, Syria.
It's fair to say that in our consultations, there are going to be some short-term, immediate things that need to be done.
And, you know, our national security team will look at all the options.
But, but, but what came next?
This should be a wake-up call for the Iraqi government.
Translation, they're on their own.
What do you mean, a wake-up call for the Iraqi government?
When did they fall asleep?
They haven't had time to go to sleep.
What does this mean, a wake-up call for the Iraqi government?
What it means is they're on their own.
And the rest of this was just for media consumption and reportage.
The regime is considering action to save blah, blah.
Thinking about it, working very hard, consultation with the Iraq.
That's what the low-information crowd's supposed to hear.
It's what Michael Moore and Code Pink and the rest are supposed to ignore.
The real meat is after the word, but.
This should be a wake-up call for the Iraqi government, meaning they're on their own.
These things are not easy for me to say, folks, but I'm not here to come up short.
And it's, to me, inescapable.
Just look at the Democrats' behavior while the Iraq war was ongoing.
Now, some of you might say, but wait, Rush, and I remember you even saying they would love to saddle Bush with the defeat, but if they take over in this war still going on, they do not want the defeat to happen on their watch.
Well, remember, Obama's already claimed victory for the war.
We played the soundbite.
2011, Obama took credit.
The Iraq war was won, and he took credit for it.
Now, this is new stuff.
And I guarantee you, like everything else, it's going to be blamed on Bush.
Obama fixed this.
This is something that was fixed.
It was done.
Now the Iraqis have done something.
And those Iraqis are Bush's people.
Nouri Al-Maliki, he was there with Bush.
Chalabi, these are all Bush's people.
I know how this is going to play out.
And I know that everything they do is political.
I also know that I have to do this.
Let me remind you, ladies and gentlemen, of something that Joe Biden said on Larry King Alive.
And I don't have the date, but it was when Larry King was still alive.
Well, when he was on CNN.
When he was, yeah.
Here's what Biden said.
I think he's talking about Iraq.
You'll remember this when I read this to you.
I think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration.
You're going to see a stable government, Iraq.
I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society.
They've been deciding to use the political process instead of guns to settle their differences.
Joe Biden.
Stand up, Chuck.
God love you, Chuck.
Stand up and let him sit.
Come on, Chuck.
Stand up.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God, forgive me.
Oh, God bless.
Everybody stand up for Chuck because Chuck was in a wheelchair.
I'll get the exact date of this, but this is after Obama had claimed credit for victory in Iraq.
Biden goes on Larry King Alive.
I think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration.
You are going to see a stable government in Iraq.
I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society.
They've been deciding to use the political process instead of guns to settle it.
See, they were even ripping Bush then.
We're going to do this right.
We're going to do this with words.
We're going to do this with negotiation.
We're going to do this with doctors and nurses and clean water and compassion and health care and education.
All that rot gut that they talk about all the time.
Now, Nouri Al-Maliki is begging for an F-15.
One F-15 to drop some bombs.
Who's next?
Santos, Yuba City, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Blueberry Sweeten 205T Dittos.
If us, considering this information that Brett Baer just revealed about the attackers in Benghazi using the cell phones of Benghazi employees, our constant employees, are those conversations recorded or are there transcripts available, do you think?
Or are those things?
I understand.
Oh, God.
There's no question they were recorded.
NSA records everything.
Well, I know they record the metadata, which is the phone number-to-phone number type numbers.
I'm just curious.
This would put to bed the assertion that the attack was more than just a video.
I'm sure somebody.
Somebody's heard it because the details of what they were saying were recorded.
So whether they're, I'm sure that there are transcripts.
I'm sure that there are.
Not that we're ever going to see them, but I'm sure that there are.
And by the way, Santos, I appreciate the call.
He talked about he loves blueberry tea.
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Don't go away.
That's it, my friends.
Another exciting excursion.
Well, we got one hour to go, but another exciting excursion.
This hour is in the cannons on the way to the Libbaugh Broadcast Museum, which you can see at rushlimbaugh.com.
We still have some light-hearted stuff here in the stack of stuff that I was originally going to start with today, but I decided to shelve it.
So we'll get to that, and lots more coming up in our big finale hour.
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