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Aug. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Six years.
Six years, ladies and gentlemen.
Finally.
Maybe after six years, some in the drive-by media are finally coming to realize.
No.
Some in the drive-by media finally coming to realize, as Jill Abrams would say, who Obama is.
Cookie!
Just thought of it grabbed me there.
Find me that Jill Abrams bite that we've been playing all week.
Let the broadcast engineer know when you have it.
Anyway, folks, uh, here we are.
Great to have you as we head on down the tracks to another full week of broadcast excellence.
The telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushpo at EIBNet.com.
The drive by's are shocked that Obama would go play golf.
The it's either the New York Daily News or the New York Post front cover has a picture of Obama literally minutes after that heartfelt statement on Jim Foley, by the way, not James Foley.
I mean, even the media's criticizing that.
Do you know that?
Obama using Jim Foley instead of his name James Foley.
Whenever you use that nickname abbreviation, it conveys familiarity, conveys that you might know the guy.
We don't know if Obama knew James Foley, but by calling him Jim Foley, it convinces a low information crowd.
And Obama and Jim Foley were friends.
But anyway, Obama finishes the really pathetic.
I mean, and that is a pretty much universal review, too.
Pathetic statement at a school, they they quickly hung a blue curtain to make it look like the White House.
The White House hung a blue curtain.
So Obama could come in, make a statement, and they minutes later, literally minutes, he's changed clothes, he's out in the golf course, and there's a picture of him in the driver's seat of the golf cart, just yucking it up and laughing and having the greatest time, and some in the drive-bys are throwing their hands up and admitting total shock that he would do this.
Maureen Dowd practically melting down today over this.
Let's let you hear.
What is the root of this, by the way?
I want to explore this in just a moment.
Because it's fascinating to listen to the drive-bys and the people who think they know Obama best.
You know what's really if they had just, and I know they never would, and I know they never will, if if the drive bys had just listened to me back in January of 2009, or at any time since,
if they had just taken a moment to not pay attention to who was saying what I said, but instead take note of what I said and actually consider it, they wouldn't be surprised today.
But because it was I, because it was me saying it, they automatically rejected it.
Because of their own prejudice and bias and bigotry.
They could have known they didn't have to have six years getting a can before they knew what they were dealing with here, but now it's six years later, and they just they can't believe.
Remember now what they thought of this guy?
Smarter than everybody else, as smart as they are.
It's right, they're all from the Ivy League.
So equally smart, equally sensitive, equally liberal, same world view.
And now the drive-bys are shocked that Obama doesn't appear to care about Jim Foley, really.
How can he really care about Jim Foley if he makes this statement and it was pretty weak?
I mean, even the drive-by, some of the drive-bys are parsing the statement.
I've got all this.
I'll share it with you as the program unfolds.
And considering that it's pretty weak, but they just had all these high hopes.
They bought into all of it because Obama's them.
And they are Obama.
Same generation, same worldview, same pedigree.
And they all care.
They're all terribly upset.
Why isn't Obama?
How can he do that?
How do we go on and play golf with these guys?
And they're writing about how his inner circle's getting even more inner.
And he's not including the drive-by as much anymore in what he does socially.
It's all tightening up with just his close sycophant buddies and so forth.
They're really disturbed by this.
And they're disturbed.
You know, this this they're also, this is kind of classic, too.
After, and this is a an admission, I think, that everybody involved knows that his remarks yesterday just were way off the mark about Jim Foley.
They released the news that they did a Jimmy Carter-style rescue effort that didn't work.
That they had this special ops plan to go in there and rescue Jim Foley and some of the others.
And when they got there, the hostages weren't there.
The intel, wait for it, the intel was bad.
You imagine if that had happened in a Bush White House.
And the excuse being bad intel, can you imagine what would happen even now?
Everybody's concluding that you don't divulge these secret operations.
Even the ones that work, you don't divulge.
Well, you can a little bit easier to do that, but certainly you don't acknowledge the ones that fail.
That's one of the problems working at the CIA or in the clandestine services is that nobody will ever know what you do.
Nobody will never know your successes or ever know.
Nobody, and certainly they're never supposed to reveal the failed ops.
That's just unheard of.
And so why did the regime do it?
They did it to cover up for this pathetic reaction that Obama had yesterday.
And not just a pathetic reaction, they did it to cover up for the pathetic policy.
Overall.
Let's go to the audio soundbase.
You can hear what I'm talking about.
We have here a um it's a montage of media figures from last night and this morning, amazed at Obama's coldness.
President Obama condemned Islamic terrorists for the execution of their son.
And then it was back to golf.
By most people's account, by anyone who is rational, the White House seems to be tone-deaf.
A journalist was beheaded.
To see him giving these serious speeches and addressing serious matters and then immediately returning to vacation, it's jarring.
Cold and calculated.
He literally went straight from the podium to the first T. And I just can't relate to that indifference.
Wow, he's a cold son of a bitch.
Whoa!
That was our old buddy Joe Scarborough.
On uh MSNBC.
I could have told him, let's civil.
Well, I don't know if it's civil to call the president.
Depends on who it's always the case, thirdly, depends on who's doing it.
If a Democrat does it, yeah, it's civil.
And but but Scarborough's questionable.
Some days a Democrat, some days a Republican.
He had on his moderate Democrat cap yesterday, can get away with it.
After all, he's on MSNBC.
But if they listen to me, can we get somebody one?
I want to take you back October 16th of 2008.
This is before the election.
This, ladies and gentlemen, before Obama was elected the first time.
I didn't see cool.
I don't see elegant.
I see somebody not even really human.
I see somebody devoid of passion.
You can spin it in his favor, and you can say that he's cool under fire.
Or you could be more realistic and say he's cool only because he's cold.
And there's a big difference.
He's without feelings.
He's without passion.
He's a programmed robot.
This is me advising and informing everybody of my take on Obama.
October 16th, 2008.
That's what I mean.
If the drive-bys had just Bothered to listen to me.
They wouldn't be surprised today.
Because they're all out saying their own version of this, that Obama's cold, that he's detached, and that they're all surprised by it.
Here's Carl Rove, who says the White House made a bad decision to have Obama play golf.
That plays into the limbaugh theorem.
The White House made Obama play golf.
One of our guys is saying this.
So Obama finishes his speech, his remarks about Jim Foley, and then he looks at his Blackberry for instructions from the White House.
And on his Blackberry, it says, hit first T next.
Is that what happened?
The White House told Obama to go play golf.
Here's Carl Rove.
He made a statement regarding an attack upon Israel while he was uh vacationing in uh New England.
And uh this really caused President Bush to examine his behavior in a time of war, and it ultimately caused him to decide to give up golf for the balance of his presidency because he just couldn't square the gap between the visual gap between uh having to make statements like the statements that President Obama had to make and then being on the golf course.
Somebody made a mistake.
Somebody made a mistake.
It was Obama that who who who who really is out there telling Obama to go play golf.
Was there somebody saying, Mr. President, don't play golf?
But they weren't with the White House, but the White House was saying go play golf.
You see, and even that decision, Obama didn't really make it.
Or a charitable way of looking at it is that Obama says he's gonna go do X, and some adult, somewhere there says, okay, fine, or no, you better not.
And in the case of yesterday, the adult in the White House, uh, yeah, that's cool.
Go ahead.
And the White House made a mistake.
How is it that Obama escapes, even from people on our side?
How is it Obama escapes accountability and responsibility for his own actions?
The idea the White House told him to go play golf, I'm gonna make too big a deal of this, but it does feed into this notion that Obama really doesn't hold or have any accountability, not really responsible for what he does.
John Bolton was on uh Greta Van Susterin last night, the Fox News channel.
She said, What do you make of the breaking news tonight?
That the Pentagons released the information that they had a failed rescue mission, supposedly trying to get perhaps Jim Foley.
This is a stunning breach of security for the United States.
This is exactly the sort of thing that should remain completely confidential for 50 years because it tells people what we tried to do.
Number two, it's an admission of failure.
Number three, whoever it was we relied upon, whoever gave us the tip, and maybe dead already, this is not something you do.
Yes, it is, if you had to cover up for a previously committed error, which was a pathetic without passion.
Have you heard the reaction to Obama's speech?
Everybody's saying, like, I don't really feel anything.
Where's the anger?
Where's the passion?
Where's the where's the where's the empathy?
Where is it?
I'm sorry, folks, doesn't exist.
Narcissists are incapable.
You know, uh this notion of of passion and uh emotion and all that, with narcissists, it's a one-way street, and it's always incoming.
Narcissists don't have time to care about other people.
They're too busy wondering about everybody else caring about them.
They're too busy expecting everybody to be focused on them.
Narcissists can't possibly uh be effusive, emotive, by clinical definition.
Because they're too busy waiting and expecting love, adulation, and whatever else is important to them.
So if you if you go out and be who you are and it was universally panned, well then to show you care and to show you're up to speed and to show you tell the details of a failed attempt to rescue Them.
And that's supposed to convey your emotion.
That's supposed to show people how much you care.
That's supposed to send a signal that you think about people other than yourself.
But it's tactical error, as Bolton just described.
Here is uh, let's see.
It's a former deputy CIA director Mike Morrell on CBS this morning.
And the uh fill-in host said, What are you concerned ISIS might do inside the United States?
The short term concern is the Americans who have gone to fight with ISIS and the West Europeans that have gone to fight with ISIS could be trained and directed by ISIS to come to the United States to conduct small scale attacks.
If a ISIS member showed up in a mall in the United States tomorrow with an AK 47 and killed a number of Americans, I would not be surprised.
Over the long term, I worry that this group could present a 9-11 style threat.
That's Mike Morelli, he's a former CIA deputy director, and a lot of people are saying now ISIS worse than Al Qaeda, making a big deal out of the fact that the ISIS member who beheaded James Foley spoke with a British accent.
Hey, folks, Britain lost their immigration war a long time ago.
There is no Great Britain as your grandfather knew it.
You know, in Great Britain, the most popular name for newborn boys, the past three years, Mohammed Muhammad Muhammad.
Top three.
What does it tell you?
I'm telling you, Al Qaeda militant Islam have made profound inroads in the United Kingdom.
And they did it with the UK's essentially open borders immigration policy, which is rooted right there in political correctness.
A bunch of elites, a bunch of liberal socialist elites in the UK, smarter than everybody else, with enough white guilt to cover the entire planet, say, come on in to anybody, and they basically erased the border or the erased procedures.
He said goodbye to assimilation, and now everybody's shocked that the ISIS guy that was on the video that people watched spoke with a British accent.
And now they're calling this group of ISIS that hold held James Foley captive, the Beatles.
Because they all sound this guy's name was John, and he has a British accent.
So that's why Morrell is concerned.
Hey, if they've had success at converting British citizens to militant Islam, why couldn't that happen here?
It's a decent question.
I gotta take a break.
Uh Obama's worldview.
I want to comment on that when we get back because again, I'm fascinated.
I'm just fascinated to listen to people after six years catch up and finally figure it out and wonder why it took people, smart people.
Why did it take them six years to realize the obvious eight, six years ago?
Back in a sec.
I got a I got a funny note from a friend.
Hey, Rush, even if the drive-by is and even all these people, if they had listened to you six years ago, and if they heard everything you said, warning about Obama, they'd still vote for him again to do it all over again.
If they had it to do it again, they'd vote for him again still.
And that's probably true.
Ruling class elite liberals would probably vote for him again because just because they've just they're superior to everybody, no matter evidence to the contrary.
Now, folks, I want to get started here on uh a popular perception of Obama's worldview.
Because a lot of people, there's a lot of people I have uh run across in the throes of show prep, are pulling their hair out and wringing their hands, trying to figure out why Obama doesn't do anything,
doesn't really really take action to deal with these really bad, evil people and the threats that they pose.
And I'm not gonna have time to complete this in-depth analysis before the next obscene profit timeout.
But let me give you a heads up.
Let me give you the umbrella under which everything else falls.
To understand this, to understand this, and be able to answer this question asked by many in frustration.
You have to understand what Obama has always believed.
And that is the United States is the problem in the world.
He was raised, educated, and believes in his own self.
That the United States is the reason the world is the way it is.
We are never the solution.
We are the problem.
Therefore, as he encounters really bad, rotten people, this wasn't supposed to happen in his own mind.
This was not supposed to happen after he was elected.
Because the smart people of the world would realize finally somebody who agrees with them about America is leading America.
And that's tune in to any cable news network that you want.
Read any drive-by website or newspaper that you want.
And you will not have one problem coming across people shocked, surprised, angry, outraged, what have you, that President Obama, A delivered a passionless,
almost wrote because he had to, set of remarks on the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley, and then in ten minutes is spotted, not in his coat and tie, obviously.
He has shed the White House uniform, and he is in golf togs, and he's out there in the driver's seat of the presidential golf cart, and he is laughing and yucking it up, and there are people who are wringing their hands trying to understand this.
Some are wringing their hands in futility, some in rage, some in curiosity, but all in frustration.
And they're all asking the same question.
How in the hell do you do this?
Doesn't he understand the optics of this?
Even if he doesn't care, he's supposed to act like it after the speech, you don't go to the golf course, you go back to work, and the next picture people see of you is in the office somewhere with your sleeves rolled up and you're on the phone or whatever, but it's not on the golf course.
And it this, by the way, is what feeds and fuels the opinion of some that Obama has checked out, that he doesn't care, that it's over, that he just putting in the time, really doesn't care about any of this.
So in an effort to explain, and I'm not going to justify it, but as one who's not surprised by it, there are a couple of alternatives.
There are a couple of different ways to explain this.
And one is what I got started on was uh interrupted by the break.
Stop and remember now how Obama was raised, and how he was educated, and what he believes in his soul anyway.
And this is a common view held by many on the left.
You've heard it expressed in a number of different ways.
The United States is the problem in the world.
The United States is the reason there is anger.
The United States is responsible for the Palestinian Israeli conflict.
U.S. is responsible for why there was a Soviet Union and a Russia.
U.S. is responsible for all of this.
U.S. responsible for Hugo Chavez.
Because we, as the lone superpower, undeserving of that status because how did we acquire it?
We stole from everybody in the world.
And then we dictated to everybody in the world.
And we told people how it was going to be, and we demanded they do this And that, or else they weren't going to get anything from us, including military or economic assistance.
And people on the left view the United States military as the focus of evil in the modern world because it was the military that would enabled the U.S. to project all this superpower.
And they've resented it.
They don't like it.
They don't think we're any better than anybody else.
We got no business telling anybody else what to do or how to do it.
We got no business even being concerned about other people.
none of our affairs.
And the fact that we've meddled everywhere is the reason, the justified reason, that we are hated and despised.
And so it boils down to a belief deeply held with these people the U.S. is the problem in the world.
Well, let's flash back to the campaign of 2008.
And if you recall, you remember Obama as part of his campaign is promising that those days will end with the election of himself, the election of Barack Obama, the world will finally realize that the United States has elected a citizen of the world, not an American president.
The people of the world will realize, because Obama made his speech in Berlin and he made speeches all over the world before he was elected, that he understands and agrees with all of these despots that the U.S. is the problem.
And because of this newfound commonality among our enemies with our new president, that our enemies would stand down, the enemies would see that we're no longer a threat and no longer a problem, because the United States has just elected somebody who agrees with the world's despots that we have been the problem and not the solution.
Now, given Obama's narcissism and hubris, I don't doubt that he really believes all of this.
He certainly has been taught this.
Every Ivy League student is taught this.
He was raised, people in his homes in Hawaii and wherever else he lived told him these kinds of things.
They inculcated him with a whole bunch of stuff like this, including racial matters, economic matters, foreign policy.
He got the full dose of all of it.
And Obama has believed the United States is guilty of a whole bunch of stuff.
Guilty of slavery, guilty of racism, guilty of mean-spiritedness to the Native Americans.
We're just, folks, I cannot emphasize, and I really can't say it too often just how much this is taught to young people in our public school system today.
It certainly was inculcated to Obama.
It was pounded into him.
I mean, I think he arrived at school believing these things.
It just was rubber stamped.
I'm not saying that he has mind and doesn't have a mind of his own that has been robotically stamped.
I don't mean I think he's who he is.
Okay, so if somebody with this kind of uh ego and hubris narcissism who believes this stuff and is really running for office on the basis, I mean, when he makes that acceptance speech, I think it was in Minneapolis.
He said the world's gonna start healing, the planet's gonna start healing, the sea levels are gonna stop rising, and he believes this stuff to an extent.
There's no doubt in my mind he believes United States is the problem.
George Bush, warmonger problem, gave the United States a bad name.
All of these presidents like gave the U.S. a bad name.
We had no business being Iraq, none whatsoever.
We really at the end of the day had no business going to Afghanistan either because we were responsible for what they did to us, because we have been singling them out in our policy with Israel.
And we have forced poverty on these poor people by our economic policy, foreign policy.
We've we've made people poor, we've stolen their resources.
Remember now the guiding dominating emotion or identifying characteristic of a liberalist guilt, mindless, bottomless, endless guilt.
And it is guilt over the superpower status, guilt at prosperity, guilt and opportunity, guilt over freedom, guilt at the differences here from everywhere else in the world.
It's not fair.
It really boils down to something like that.
So you got a guy who's grown up believing this was elected campaigning on it.
And who knows, may have actually believed that all of what he said was going to happen the moment he was immaculated and began serving his term.
I think a case could be made that Obama actually thought the bad guys would stand down.
That Al-Qaeda would realize we're no longer a threat.
This is the 21st century.
Obama brought that up in his speech yesterday.
You don't behead people of 21st century.
This is not how we do things.
I think everybody would agree.
What in the world is that?
What is this obsession when this is not how you do things in the 21st century when it clearly is how things are happening in the 21st century?
And this avoidance of reality has to be rooted in some kind of shock to the system.
So just playing with this.
What if Obama really believed?
Now I'm talking really believed, religiously deeply believed.
In this nonsense, the U.S. is the problem, has always been the problem, but that his election was finally going to end all of this hatred aimed at the U.S. And that our enemies and the bad guys would stand down because now they have somebody in the office of the presidency who understands the problems of America and agrees with them about these problems.
And so with Obama, there were less of a threat.
Just imagine if he really believed that.
Can you imagine the shock?
Imagine it...
Take your favorite guy who thinks he is God's gift to women and gets rejected by some woman he's really attracted to.
His world is blown apart, right?
Now that's a small example.
But you blow this up and you put it on a world stage, if Obama really believed, that his existence was unique and special, that he had a gift.
It could well be, and some of the drive-bys are even theorizing this, folks.
I can't claim exclusive credit for this bit of analysis.
Some of the drive-by, they're doing it in fear.
Oh my God, what if he is shocked so much he's paralyzed?
What if he just can't believe that his being president hasn't changed these guys?
Bad guys, our enemies.
What?
So he's just checked out.
So he he can't deal with it.
This is rejection beyond any you can imagine.
This is rejecting rejection that you can't even pretend to understand.
The world was going to once again love Obama, which meant love the United States.
And not only have our enemies not gone away, they are ratcheting it up, and they are doing it in ways that embarrass Obama.
He says the war on terror is over.
He forbids the use of the phrase war on terror.
We can't even call what happened to Forehood terrorism.
No way, that was workplace violence.
We cannot call what happened in Benghazi terrorism.
That has to be foreign engagement or some such thing.
We can't even identify, and this is also that we didn't provoke the bad guys.
So things arguably are getting worse, and people worried about all this happening inside our borders.
And here's Obama playing golf, smiling and laughing, acting like he doesn't take it seriously, couldn't care less, not good optics.
Some in the drive-by is speculating that, and it may well be have some credence, that he's shocked into paralysis.
You see, just his very presence was supposed to be so dynamic that it would end.
Because you see, got to keep in mind, U.S. was always the reason for all this trouble.
The U.S. was the reason.
And even now, with Obama as president, it still is.
That wasn't what was expected.
Oh, no, now what do we do?
That's what everybody's worried about.
We got somebody who didn't know what to do because he had no clue starting out.
Time to start on the phones.
We go to Fulton, Illinois.
This is Dan.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thanks for the call so much.
Hey, Rush.
You know, the drive-by is they're only upset and outraged because this was a media person, a journalist that was beheaded.
This would have been a uh a Christian missionary.
They they wouldn't even be reporting on it.
I don't know.
Um that's that's kind of iffy.
If ISIS had released a video, and if that video had gone viral, um, I think it would have still it would have been covered.
Now, you may be right.
The media in that case may have ended up blaming the Christian for being in that position.
Exactly.
Uh the media I think you can hear it in their tone because they they accentuate the the name, you know, journalist or or uh uh media person.
That's what they're upset about with Obama.
It's on look, they've they've got uh an organization called, and I'm I'm not gonna get this right.
It's been a long time since I've heard this organization referred to.
Peter Jennings used to be a uh a ranking member, that it was the Committee for the Protection of Journalists or some such thing.
And I remember when I first heard about it.
So what what is this Committee for the Protection of Journalists?
And it was an organization of journalists who wanted to raise awareness to the very dangers they face in trying to bring the truth to the people from the war-torn, ravaged places of the world.
I know it was the committee for the something or other of uh of journalists, and it was a big deal.
So, and they they are very self-absorbed.
I don't disagree with you on that aspect.
I mean, uh the media loves nothing more than talking about themselves, and they love nothing more than talking about what they do and how they do it.
I mean, every network has got a media analysis show where they're supposedly supposed to be acting like ombudsmen and report on the mistakes the media's making.
But all of it is just self-praise.
They love it.
So I don't think it's any any uh uh mystery about that.
By the way, speaking of uh Christians and being beheaded, so well, not being beheaded, but the Ebola patient.
Uh Brantley, Doug Brantley, I forget his first name, but he's cured.
He was uh released from Emory Hospital in Atlanta today.
And he had a press conference, and I we haven't seen this in a long time.
Yeah, Committee to Protect Journalists was the name of the uh is the name of the organization.
I don't know what they do, and I don't know who's supposed to protect them.
I I I'm not a member, uh obviously.
I wouldn't qualify for protection.
Should I claim to be a journalist, I'd become target.
Anyway, uh Mr. Brantley in his press conference today.
We've not seen this.
We have not seen someone in public, so totally devoted to God and Christianity.
You know, in a long time, in a lot of years.
And it was unabashed.
It it was, I mean, that this was Christian missionary 101.
It was fearless, Meaning he wasn't afraid of cat calls that he might get from school teachers for being too.
Did you hear that somebody, I forget where this was, Alabama somewhere?
Or some southern state, a student sneezed, another student across the classroom said, Bless you, and the teacher kicked the student out.
Because we're not gonna have godly talk in school.
It violates people's constitutional rights.
I'm not kidding you.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
I'm up against it on time.
Don't go away.
It was in Tennessee.
High school student claimed she was suspended for saying, bless you, after a classmate sneezed.
Teacher said, We're not gonna have godly talk in here.
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