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Aug. 13, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And welcome back.
Greetings to you once again.
Music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Rush Limboa joining you here together in the darkness.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-28.
It's 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
So yesterday on the program, I spent some time with in-depth and nuanced political analysis backed up by evidence.
The evidence from NBC News on Sunday and the Washington Post on Sunday and Monday.
The evidence was backing up the analysis that the media has decided that essentially, and I'm going to throw Obama overboard, but when we get through this year, and actually even now, it's time to look forward.
It's time to make sure that we have an untainted Democrat nominee who can win.
And in everybody's mind on the left, that person is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It was hers in 2008, don't you know?
She had been promised, she had been assured of a virtual coronation because of her sacrifice in moving to Arkansas and putting up with everything she's had to put up with, as Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
She did that.
She enabled Clinton to remain Clinton, Clinton to remain governor, Clinton remained president to be re-elected to overcome Monica Lewinsky to Bimbo eruptions.
Hillary made that possible by hanging in there.
Now Hillary was given things in the process, the chance to screw up health care, and to pick attorney generals like Janet El Reno and other botched choices.
But even at that, Hillary Clinton was the smartest woman in the world.
Bar none.
No contest, no question.
And after eight years of the stupid idiot, cowboy, George W. Bush, the country was once again ready for Democrat liberal brilliance.
And that was to be Hillary Clinton.
It was her election.
It was her nomination.
It was her coronation.
And then we all know what happened.
A younger African American came along and the powers that be in the Democrat Party did a side-by-side comparison.
And they threw in with the younger African American.
And Hillary Clinton was once again kicked to the curb.
But Hillary Clinton was a good soldier.
After losing the bitterly fought Democrat nomination fight.
Even after being supported by Operation Chaos here on the EIB network.
Hillary Clinton faced insurmountable campaign debt, and like all Democrats, she didn't want to use her money to repay it.
So along came Barack Obama.
Originally, Barack Obama wanted to offer her the vice presidency under the theory that you keep your enemies close.
He also wanted to nominate her as vice president so that she would always have to be loyal and could never do what she's doing now.
But he didn't nominate her.
He didn't ask her to be the vice president because he also didn't want Bill Clinton taking up residence in the White House.
He didn't want Bill Clinton running around with an open invitation to every Obama event.
If Hillary were the vice president, he'd have to deal with Bill, and he really doesn't like Bill.
really doesn't like Hillary, but he had to keep her close.
Because he didn't want her to do a Ted Kennedy as Ted Kennedy did to Jimmy Carter in 1980 and run against him in 2012.
So she made him Secretary of State.
But she did not, he did not actually turn the reins of foreign policy over to her.
He micromanaged it with his national security people, but it was made to look like she was in charge.
And it was an absolute total disaster from Benghazi to the Russian reset.
It was total ineptness, total incompetence on the part of both Obama and Hillary and everybody in her team.
Well, now the decision to make her Secretary of State and not vice president is coming home to roost.
If she were the vice president today, she couldn't do what she's doing.
She couldn't run out and trash.
She wouldn't have resigned as vice president.
But as Secretary of State, hell, been around the world three times.
What's left to see, I'm out of here.
And besides that, John Kerry wanted the job because he speaks French, wanted it on his resume.
It's a 21st century.
John Kerry knew how to bring peace to the world, and we're seeing it with our very own eyes now.
Yuck yuck.
So she's outside the tent now.
She's out there as the next Democrat nominee.
But she cannot win the Democrat nomination if she has seen part of the Obama administration because it's a disaster.
And the media knows it's a disaster.
They can see the approval numbers.
They see the latest NBC poll.
They see the latest Gallup poll.
They see CNN, Obama trending downward rapidly.
They cannot afford to have Hillary attached to that in any way.
Hillary can't be attached to it anyway.
She can't let that happen.
She's got to distance herself from Obama.
But still, not anger the extreme wacko Democrat base.
Obama's base, Elizabeth Warren's base.
Hillary has got to distance herself from Obama, but not distance herself from extreme liberalism.
And I think we had a soundbite I didn't get to yesterday.
It was Joe Trippie.
I don't need it, Cookie, I can tell people what he's going to say.
He was his soundbite yesterday was that Trippy thinks that Hillary may not understand yet just how far left the Democrat Party has actually moved.
the inside the Beltway Democrat Party, but the voters.
And his point was, she's going to have, it's going to be a real tough thing to do to distance herself from Obama and still satisfy the Democrat base because they are so far left that any distance at all, they are going to see as a betrayal.
Now, the fallacy in that, and when you hear that point, it sounds reasonable, but there's a fallacy in it.
And the fallacy is that Mrs. Clinton is not an extreme liberal.
She is.
She is every bit the extreme leftist that Obama is.
She and her husband both are.
They have crafted, however, entirely different images.
Bill Clinton is seen practically as a centrist with leftist tendencies.
Just a good old boy, yucking it up, having a good old time, really living life he can live the best he can, having the most fun in the world.
Loyal Democrat helping Democrats here, there, and everywhere.
That was always their game.
Bill had to get the votes, so he couldn't appear to be who he was.
Hillary, behind the scenes, was the extreme leftist that they both are.
Hillary picking the cabinet members, Hillary picking the nominees for this or that and the other thing.
So the idea that Hillary doesn't know how far left the Democrat Party's moved, I don't think's true.
It's right where the Democrat Party should be, according to her.
But I think Trippie had a point, however, because the Democrat Party has gone so far left.
Most Democrats are still happy with Obama.
At least the majority of them are.
His numbers are not as high as they were, obviously in 2008, 2009, but most Democrats still okay With Obama.
And she's got the task now of separating herself from all of this, that is, the Obama presidency.
But she can't go too far because the Democrat Party is extreme left.
Here comes the media.
Their job is to pull this off.
Their job is to give her credibility and back her up when she starts attacking Obama's foreign policy.
Because remember, it was hers.
She was every bit as incompetent as he is.
But they're trying to set it up now that she really didn't have that much power, Secretary of State.
The story that they're putting out is that Obama didn't really relinquish that.
She wasn't a figurehead, but it wasn't much more than that.
And so now the media is supporting her as she trashes the regime.
And in supporting her, the media appears to be throwing Obama overboard on a few things.
And there is evidence out there.
Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, we cited the evidence and showed it for you yesterday from NBC on Sunday Meet the Press when he even F. Chuck Todd David Gregory launched into Obama.
It wasn't to criticize Obama, it was to build up Hillary.
And the Washington Post, Dana Milbank.
Michael Goodwin in the New York Post today, Obamaism is dead and Hillary Clinton killed it.
Now, this is a story that's along the same lines.
This one does not praise Hillary.
Goodwin is not part of the left-wing media.
Obamaism is dead.
Hillary Clinton killed it.
It wasn't so much a mercy killing as an expedient one, but that's politics in the best sense.
She broke Democrat Omerta code by stating the obvious.
The president's policy of having America sit on the sidelines of a burning world is a disaster that threatens our national security.
And she did say that.
She said doing nothing is not a plan of action.
Doing nothing is not foreign policy.
The power of her argument is confirmed by a report that a very testy Obama called it horse manure.
Two congressional leaders and even David Axarod and Obama devote blasted her, proving that she scored a direct hit on the Chicago Mafia's central nervous system.
Next we move to J. Pod, John Pedoritz, also in the New York Post, hammering Obama, Hillary has only begun.
Memo to Vice or memo to President Obama, you should have made Hillary your Veep back in 2008.
She was the obvious choice, but you believe that you were strong enough without her.
Big mistake.
If she were VEP, she'd be inside the tent, and she couldn't be urinating all over you.
But she is outside the tent.
And so it is a big problem.
David Axelrod swipes at Hillary Clinton over Iraq.
Axelrod, longtime advisor to Obama, went to Twitter to slam Hillary in the wake of her comments, rejecting the core of Obama's self-described foreign policy principle.
In an interview with the Atlantic, this was this was the third big shoe to drop.
Hillary Clinton said the White House doctrine of don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.
To which I ask, well, is that plastic red reset button with Russia an organizing principle, Mrs. Clinton?
Now just to clarify, don't do stupid stuff means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision.
Read the tweet from Axelrod.
See, what's happening now?
They're going back to the first series of votes on the use of force authorization Bush sought to go into Iraq, and Hillary Voted yes both times.
That is how they are attacking her.
That she never was really opposed to Bush's Iraq policy.
That her policy on Iraq is no different than Bush's.
And the Clinton people, uh rather the Obama people are now forced into attacking Hillary so as to defend Obama.
Next up, Mrs. Clinton claims that arming the Syrian rebels was the same thing as supporting Al Qaeda.
Well, which it was.
But she didn't say anything at the time.
Now it's after the fact she's outside the tent and she's ripping into Obama's Syria policy.
But she has said both things.
She has supported Obama's policy and now opposes it.
So the question is Hillary lying then or is she lying now?
It could be that she was just dutifully towing the Obama line back in 2012.
2012 is when she spoke in support of Obama's drawing a red line and arming the rebels in Syria to take on Basher Assad.
Those rebels were ISIS.
We were supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, now called ISIS, in their battle against Assad, siding against Assad.
Hillary is now calling Obama out on all of this.
So last night, the couples appeared at a joint birthday party at the home of well-known Washington rack and tour Vernon Jordan at Martha's Vineyard.
And Hillary suggested, before they both arrived last night, that they hug it out.
Hillary Clinton called on President Obama yesterday to make sure he knows that sh that that nothing she said was an attempt to attack him when she recently discussed her views on foreign policy in the Atlantic.
Statement comes as Obama and Clinton due to cross paths, social gathering, Vernon Jordan's house, Martha's Vineyard.
So they just let's hug it out, which is conflict resolution 101.
So what Hillary is saying, look, Barack, I I gotta run for office here, and and I I I can't run as you.
And Obama's saying, no, I don't understand, and I don't approve of what you're doing.
I don't want any part of it.
Not long ago on CNN on a show called Wolf.
Wolf Blitzer, chief political analyst, CNN, spoke to Gloria Borger, also chief political analyst.
I guess she's the chief political analyst, I guess Wolf's the anchor.
And Wolf said the kind of criticism that in the last few days we've heard in that Atlantic interview that uh Hillary gave criticizing uh President Obama took me back to the days in 2008 when they were both running for the presidential nomination, Democrat Party, and I moderated several of those Democrat debates, Gloria, and you heard that friction and that tension.
It was real back then, Gloria.
What about it now?
It's still there.
I mean, remember the the moment in New Hampshire as well, you're likeable enough, Hillary, which backfired on uh then candidate Obama.
You know, this is the kind of thing when you take a policy dispute and you disparage the president and you kind of make it personal, which I would argue she did, it can backfire on you.
And I do believe that people in the White House are very upset about this.
This kind of an interview is something I don't think they expected, particularly with the wording she used.
That don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.
It's a little demeaning to the president.
Right, exactly it is, and they are upset about it in the White House, even though Hillary's camp called him and said, Look, that we we have to do this.
You understand it's all about keeping the White House two years from now.
And the Obama people, no, you don't rip.
The boy wonder, you just don't do there's no ever no justification for it.
You don't rip Obama.
Nobody Does not the Democrat Party.
It doesn't happen.
There's never any justification for it.
They're not happy about it.
But this is being done to promote Hillary, distance her from Obama.
This one thing he did say at a joint debate about Mrs. Clinton.
Hillary's likable enough.
It was, it didn't backfire.
Gloria Borg just said it get backfired on.
Well, how did it backfire?
He won, didn't he?
What do you mean it backfired?
What his poll numbers went down for a couple days?
Backfired.
And now this supposedly is going to backfire on her?
Wrong oh.
This isn't going to backfire on her.
This is all part of a two-year movement or campaign to get her nominated.
We continue with the audio sound bites.
This is Ben Rhodes, and he's the deputy national security advisor.
It's about the troops that we're sending to Iraq, and he's he's assuring AP, Julie Pace.
He's assuring her that these are not boots on the ground.
These 130 new ones.
No, no, no, no, no.
Not with respect to the humanitarian situation.
That is to get food, water, and emergency supplies to the population on this mountain.
And also as necessary to take airstrikes against ISIL as they threaten the people on that mountain.
These 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat rule in Iraq.
The key point here is that uh the U.S. forces, the role of U.S. forces is not one of re-entering combat on the ground.
Um it's how to provide humanitarian assistance uh to this affected population.
And again, in terms of the uh kinetic actions that are being taken, uh, those are in the form of airstrikes.
Right, and they're not gonna be part of kinetic action.
Uh just like we said in Vietnam.
These are just advisors.
They're not boots on the ground.
They're not gonna be pulling the trigger on anybody.
Couple of things here.
What is kinetic action?
There's no war here.
We don't have these boots, they're not on the ground.
This is engaging kinetic action.
That is how Obama described what we did to take out Mo Mark Gaddafi.
It wasn't a war, it was kinetic action.
Do you think Qaddafi could tell a difference?
Hey, Balmar, the U.S. has just declared warrant.
No, don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
This is just kinetic action.
No hotum to come.
Really?
There's a difference in kinetic action or war.
Well, that's what the regime is saying.
Make up all these new words to describe what they're doing, which is the same old stuff.
By the way, didn't Eric Holder tell us criticism of Obama is racist.
Well, does that mean that Hillary is racist?
He's out there ripping into his foreign policy, a sit on your ass do nothing.
And it uh uh she's being critical of him.
Any criticism of Obama is racist.
That's right.
It's not the first time we've heard that about the Clintons.
And then the White House is turning around attacking Hillary.
Is that sexism?
And then and then isn't all of this misogynistic once you if you strip away everything happening here.
There's a whole bunch of isms going on here.
Is Obama afraid of strong women?
I don't think so.
I think he's surrounded by strong women.
I think I think this is the most chickified regime that we've ever had.
His lawyers are uh I had a story long time ago.
Uh four prominent Obama advisors are all women prosecutors, former prosecutors and so forth.
We got Susan Rice in there, you got Valerie Jarrett runs the whole show, got Samantha Power.
And she does that woman not constantly look constipated in pain.
She constantly looks like she's in pain.
She's got this pain frown look on her face.
Oh, oh my God.
Oh, no.
Then she's at the UN.
I don't know if I could blame.
I guess he can't blame her, but no, I do.
I think this is this is a chickified.
Yeah, I mean.
All I mean by that is that they're they're more powerful women.
I don't think he's afraid of them at all.
Well, maybe he is, and that's why they're there.
I I don't know.
Lee in Phoenix, as we head back to the phones, I'm really glad you waited.
How are you?
Good morning, sir.
How are you?
Ditto's to you.
Um, you always clarify everything, so I was really curious.
And by the way, thank you for telling it like it is, and for the kids' books, especially.
Thank you, sir, very much.
The the planet is on fire right now.
And Obama and Clinton lie to us by opening their mouths.
So I'm trying to understand something.
Robin Williams decides of his own volition, a guy living in Tiburon, who's got everything.
I mean, Tibron, do you know Tiburon?
You know California.
I've been to Tiburon, I'm sorry.
So the home starts at seven figures, and the income starts at at least six if you want to be a maid.
So he can't afford the mortgage.
He can't afford the lifestyle.
His divorces of his own volition, obviously, the two of them suck the life out of him.
And he makes fun of every conservative on the planet.
And everybody feels terrible for him, and that's all we want to talk about right now.
Lauren Bacall passes away at 89.
Last week the woman was doing voiceovers.
Bogey passed away, what, 40 years ago, 50 years ago?
She's put everybody in the ground, but Robin Williams is in the most important.
And he chose to take his own life.
Can you put that in and clarify that in perspective for me, sir?
Well, I think I can.
Um Robin Williams uh was so big, he was so beloved, even though he was not a uh is not thought of as a political comedian, he didn't make a whole lot of political jokes, they say.
Actually, he he did.
But he did make a lot of he was he was looking, he was like John Stewart.
He was well known as one of them.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
And so there's a I think all of these people had a personal connection.
He was of their generation, is that Lauren McCall.
Most of them never saw her work.
Most of them think that she's just there because Bogie was there and and uh the if it maybe if Lauren McCall had passed away with no other celebrity deaths nearby, there would have been a little bit more attention paid to it.
But I I totally understand this.
Yeah.
I I Robin Williams is having a tough time.
He has to sell his Napa ranch for 30 million.
Well, I don't feel awful for it.
I don't know that he ever sold it.
I know that it's up to sale.
He's not a good thing.
You know, look, all of this stuff all of this stuff on the money is relative.
Whether you've got whatever they said his net worth was, what I say, 150 million or something, whether he's whether you've got fifty thousand dollars or or fifty million, if you lose it all, it's still gone.
And that's still a pressure-packed situation.
Um but he made his choice.
You mean the divorces?
The divorces, yes.
And and to go in the in the garage of the house or whatever.
I mean, I think they're really being ugly about how and where and the belt and whatnot.
He made a choice, leave the man alone.
That's what he decided to do.
But with the planet on fire, I don't mean to be mean.
I know the guy was funny, and I own several of his movies.
Tremendous movie collector.
See, to you, to you, the planet on fire is uh the Middle East, our foreign policy, immigration, the disintegration of country.
To the to the pop culture media, the world is on fire because Robin Williams is gone.
They should listen to Levin.
Well, Levin would wake their puppies up.
What are you saying?
You know, between you and Levin, it's just the the truth comes out.
They can't handle it.
Mark Levin tells it just like you.
They can't a little more legal ease, basically, but they can't handle.
That's the point.
This this it's all fantasy world for them.
This is this it's a make-believe world that they're concocting.
It's what could be, it's what was.
It's like Camelot, in a way.
And they're just very sad that that that it's uh that it's that it's gone.
Uh and to them, the world's on fire because look at I I read the quote to you from Russell Brand.
He's another actor.
And and his take on this Is if the world is so screwed up that Robin Williams doesn't want to live in it, what does that say for the rest of us?
See, his point is Robin Williams may be smarter than all of us.
Because if this world is so messed up that not even Robin Williams wants to live in it, then that's kind of an indication, I think, of the of the of the mindset.
Um Lauren McCall also was in her day, she was a radical leftist, but but she's 89.
You know, the 89-year-olds do die.
And the people you're talking about reporting on that are nowhere near 89.
Somebody 89 passing away is well, natural causes is what happens.
But suicide, oh no!
Oh God, what do we do to call?
No, what does it say about?
Oh no, it's oh no.
And uh, you know, another genius has left the world.
And they feel abandoned.
In uh in in many cases.
Anyway, Lee, I appreciate the call, and so does Levin, and we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Yeah, Vernon Jordan was the one who found her a job.
If you could just have found her a boyfriend.
But he found her a job.
And I'm confused.
I think I thought the hug in this birthday party, whatever, whatever's going on at Vernon Jordan's house at the Vineyard.
I thought it was last night, but I guess it's tonight, or was it last night?
Which is it?
It's tonight, okay.
They haven't hugged yet.
You know, there's a there's a golf course on the Vineyard that I have played.
It's called The Vineyard, Vineyard Golf Club.
I've been there.
First time I went in, I actually thought about putting chaff on EIB 1 in case I was attacked on final approach, just to, you know, maybe get the surface to air missiles attacking the chaff and not me.
But apparently Obama went there to play golf today, yesterday.
New York Post has a story, and everybody there in the restaurant on the golf course, everybody there was searched and wanted.
And they were offended by it.
They didn't like it.
Now, Obama went out and shook everybody's hands and so forth after that, but apparently it was a disruption, which it always is.
Uh, let's see.
That's it, Vernon.
Do I have time for I really, you know, I don't have time to get this call, and I really we need to get her number.
And if we can't talk to her tomorrow, maybe she'll let us call her on open line Friday.
We have a nice woman from New Mexico who, I'll just tell you what it says up here.
It says, You saved her life after 9-11, she lost her father, and very serious injury that put her in a wheelchair, and she says here she was about to give up.
But the positive message on this program changed her mind.
And I had a minute here, but that wasn't going to be enough time.
So I think Snerdley just nodded at me that she's agreed to let us call her tomorrow.
So we'll do that.
That'd be the fair thing to do.
One minute certainly wouldn't have been enough time for that.
So we'll do that.
Take a brief time out now, be right back.
As always, folks, I want to thank you sincerely from the bottom.
My sizable beating heart.
Boo boom.
Greatly appreciate your being here each and every day.
Makes it all worth it.
I mean, I can still do this if you weren't there.
No, I couldn't, actually.
I mean, I could pull it off.
It wouldn't make any sense if you weren't there.
And so we're happy that you are.
And we'll look forward to tomorrow.
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