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Sept. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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You know, I knew this is going to happen.
I checked the email during the break, and there's some malcontents out there.
What are you doing wasting time on this football stuff when we've got this national ISIS national security threat and in Obama's speech and I could I'll I'll tell you what.
Until Obama says something about this, I don't know what there is to say.
I mean, we can we can get pretty close to predicting.
Like I said, this whole thing is political, folks.
Two weeks ago, he proudly stated we don't have a strategy.
He didn't care two weeks ago.
And prior to that, they were the JV team.
And prior to that, Iraq was settled and it was secure, and we can get out of there.
And prior to that, he participated with the Muslim Brotherhood and kicking off the Arab Spring.
I don't think, as far as Obama's concerned, I don't think he cares.
There's not that much wrong.
I don't think he looks at the U.S. as having any role in any of this around the world whatsoever.
It's one of the things that I firmly believe Obama was inculcated with, raised with, educated with the idea that the United States is not a superpower, has no business meddling in the affairs of other nations.
And in addition to that, Obama and people like him, he's by no means alone, believe that we deserve whatever comes our way in in certain circumstances, because we've caused this by overstepping our bounds and by acting as the world's policeman and acting as the world's superpower, and and and going in any country we want and taking out whatever we want.
You you um I I know that it's it's difficult for people to believe or to conceive that there are I mean, it's easy to believe there are people in the country that think that.
It's really hard to believe we've elected somebody that thinks that.
And particularly your average ordinary low information voter.
It just even if it does cross their minds, they'll reject it.
It's too scary to contemplate that we've elected somebody like that.
But it's it's the case.
So this speech tonight is happening because Obama's advisors and handlers have convinced him you better do this for political reasons, and you better come up with something to say.
We already got the truth from Obama two weeks ago when he said he didn't have a strategy.
It was a little over a year ago now, where Obama draws this red line in the sand for Bashar Assad in Syria.
One year ago, we were preparing, oh, we were never gonna do it, I'm convinced.
We were preparing to launch air strikes against Bashar Assad in Syria.
Because we believed that all the violence in Syria is being perpetrated by Basher.
That he was gassing his own people, wiping out his own people in the civil war.
Well, it turns out we were dead wrong in that assessment that in fact the so-called rebels in Syria fighting the government were in fact ISIS.
The old Al-Qaeda in Iraq moved over to ISIS ISIL, uh Islamic State, whatever you.
We were prepared a year ago, had we actually gone in under Obama's stated plan, we would have been assisting the very people he's gonna give a speech about tonight, claiming we're gonna wipe out.
So it's I don't know.
I uh for me, ladies and gentlemen, I uh it's it's tough to take a lot of this that he says uh seriously, as I know that he actually really, but it clearly is more of an annoyance.
And uh uh it's it gets in the way of what he really wants to do, which is engage in the Ongoing upheaval of American culture and the American society, the American demographic makeup.
I mean, that that's that's the real reason that Obama and his willing accomplices have sought power.
This other stuff, you know, that's the stuff all presidents have to do, make it look like we represent the United States superpower status around the world.
We're really not comfortable with it.
And that's why you get all these different statements that are seemingly all over the board that don't seem to be rooted into a set belief system or even policy system.
Now, Dick Cheney addressed behind closed doors, Republicans in Washington.
And the reason he did, I think he was invited, but one of the reasons why there are some House Republicans who are reluctant to take military action against ISIS, and they're afraid of being dragged into it and being blamed if it doesn't work.
And of course, for the Republicans you see, going back in there just revives Iraq, and the Republicans in large numbers believe that George W. Bush and the Iraq war are one of the reasons why they are hated by the people in this country and by the media.
And by the way, there's an interesting poll here I have in the Republicans ought to look at this because it's a it's a curious poll.
And it it clearly says that something like uh 70, 72 percent of voters do not have a favorable view of the Republican Party, but on the other hand, the same respondents say they're gonna vote for them in November.
It's it's a you can look at it if you wanted to do so in the right perspective as an ultimate, you take it as a positive.
But I'm telling you they've got PTSD over Bush and Iraq and what the Democrats and the media did with that, and they've got shell shock over the fact they're still blamed for the economy, that Bush is and the Republican Party is.
So any idea of going back in there has a lot of Republicans recalcitrant and and and not willing to go.
And then they also have total confidence in the fact that Obama can end up having them blamed for whatever goes wrong.
They really believe this stuff.
They really are shell-shocked.
Plus, they've got other things they want to take care of, uh, which we'll get into before the program ends today.
So Cheney was invited to go in and talk to them to try to sell these reluctant House Republicans on buying into comprehensive action against ISIS.
And of course, Cheney is trying to tell them how this must be done, but it's all Obama's fault.
Now, Cheney, to nobody's surprise, is a believer in military action because it relates to American national security.
If you want to know one thing about Dick Cheney, the first thing you have to do is forget everything you think you believe about Cheney that you have been told by the drive-by media.
Dick Cheney is not Darth Vader.
Dick Cheney is not evil.
Dick Cheney's not even mean.
Dick Cheney is serious.
Dick Cheney is fearless, and he will say what many people won't.
But he is not evil.
He's not mean.
He's not a totalitarian authoritarian.
He's nothing like Darth Vader.
He has nothing in common with any of the images that have been built for him and about him by the drive-by media.
Dick Cheney is first and foremost an American patriot and cares, Besides his family, about one thing, and that is the security of this country and its people.
The security and safety of the people of the United States.
And Dick Cheney is unabashed in his view of the threats that we face.
Dick Cheney accepts those threats as real.
He does not accept those threats as real as an excuse to wage war.
Neither did Donald Rumsfeld.
Cheney's not a warmonger.
He does not profit from war.
He does not seek to profit from it.
He's strictly a patriot.
Now, if you don't know any of this, and if you happen to be a low information voter, you're going to believe the exact opposite about Dick Cheney.
I've always been amazed how they've been able to construct an image of this guy's Darth Vader.
Cheney doesn't say enough.
He never raises his voice.
He never calls anybody names.
Well, he did Patrick Lahey one day, but but Leahy deserved that.
He told Leahy to go, you know, F off.
And they walk into Capitol Bill.
Everybody loved that.
Because Leahy was taunting him and a bunch of garbage, trash talk, and Cheney is just, you know, told him what to do.
And some of the drive-by's heard it, and that contributed to the uh to the images, though nobody talks that way, of course, but Dick Cheney.
But Dick Cheney doesn't want to force you to come under the control of government.
Dick Cheney doesn't want to raise your taxes.
He doesn't want you to lose your job.
Dick Cheney is not all in favor of an expansionist growing government with power and more power over people.
Dick Cheney is a statesman.
He's he's given his uh his life to public service.
And he has devoted himself to national security.
And he does so seriously.
And he recognizes threats.
Very serious about threats.
It's fashionable in America today to downplay threats.
It's fashionable to disregard them.
It's fashionable in America today to react to, oh, come on, you're just being paranoid.
Hey, being paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
You can be paranoid all day long, and it can still be true that they're out to get you.
But it's fashionable to put down people who look at threats in the Middle East as real.
But Dick Cheney does he doesn't care.
Another thing that angers people about him is that he does not care what leftist media or Democrat politicians say about him.
If you want to know anything about Cheney, you just just know that he desperately cares about national security and he's very worried about it, I might add.
I don't know that I should use the word scared, but he is extremely concerned and worried about it, because he doesn't think the current leadership recognizes the threat, and in fact, maybe even worse than that.
And so he's simply trying to sound the alarm bell.
So he goes to the closed door session to meet Republicans in Washington, who, for whatever reasons they hold are also afraid to do anything because of politics, afraid they're gonna get tarred and feathered with going back into Iraq when that was such an albatross around their necks.
Well, what Dick Cheney spoke about behind closed doors, the House of Republicans was the need for military action in Iraq, which of course is a politically incorrect thing to say is needed.
Why, President Obama a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago, and all of last year.
Iraq's finished.
Major victory.
We got out of there.
Self-sufficient government, everything's honky-dory, and we vanquished Al-Qaeda.
I mean, that was the regime's line.
And in the midst of all that, here comes Cheney.
Nope, we got to go back.
We should never have left the way we did.
Very politically incorrect to say that.
Everybody wants to feel like Iraq is over And it was successful to the extent that it could be, and then we're gone.
Now Obama's gonna take us back in, and Cheney wants to go back in.
So with Obama major, major speech tonight about military action against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Cheney spoke to the assembled Republican Congressman about the situation in the Middle East at their weekly caucus meeting.
And while the Republican Cheney has been fiercely the Republican Party has been fiercely divided over foreign policy in recent years, again because of the aftermath of Iraq.
Cheney didn't wade into that debate.
He went straight to pillaring Obama in front of an audience that was paying rapt attention.
Now, according to Representative John Fleming of Louisiana, Dick Cheney told the Republicans behind closed doors that Obama, quote, has actually done things that have supported the Muslim Brotherhood.
He did.
That's not conjecture.
It's not theory.
He did the Arab Spring.
We got rid of Mubarak in Egypt.
We empowered the Muslim Brotherhood.
What were we told?
They're the peaceful Islamists.
The Brotherhood is the moderates.
The Brotherhood we can deal with.
The Brotherhood, yeah.
And we put them in there, and we send CNN's Nick Robertson over to Egypt to ask citizens, are you happy with what President Obama is doing?
Citizen Obama's mama.
But Cheney's exactly right.
We've done things to actually support the Muslim Brotherhood.
And the Muslim Brotherhood ruined Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood is Hamas.
They are Hezbollah.
They are very close to ISIS.
They're all related, and they're all part.
This Arab Spring is all about the new caliphate.
And the Muslim Brotherhood's right in there.
Cheney win and told a Republicans, hey, it's President Obama who has done things that have helped them accomplish this.
Cheney went on to name the Muslim Brotherhood as the beginning of all the Islamist groups that we're dealing with now, like Hamas and ISIS and Hezbollah.
In Fleming's account, Cheney said that by facilitating the Muslim Brotherhood, our policies have been exactly opposite to where they should be.
Peter King in New York echoed Fleming's description of what Cheney said.
And uh Peter King went out of his way to say, look, Cheney didn't criticize the Rand Paul types in the GOP, the isolationists.
But he called for comprehensive action that is even more aggressive in what Obama has in mind.
You gotta take a break.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead after this.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones.
We go to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
This is Chris.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Rosh.
Megaditos from Scott Walkers, Wisconsin.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I was calling because I have a feeling tonight it's just gonna be nothing but empty platitudes because the enemy that Obama's gonna be speaking about is not who he views as his true enemy.
And that his true enemy is really the constitution of this country and the American people.
The only time he ever goes out, the only time he has actions back his words are when he can take it out on the American people, whether it's Scott Frank, Obamacare, you have the border crisis, everything.
And it's just, you know, he's not gonna do this speech is gonna be nothing tonight.
Well, you know, you may have a point because I have a story here by Major Garrett, CBS White House correspondent.
Why should anyone watch Obama's ISIS speech?
I think Major's a little crabby here.
During the White House press briefing on Tuesday, Major Garrett questioned Obama's chief spokesman on why anybody should even bother to watch the major speech on ISIS.
Garrett said, you know, the audience wants to know how we're gonna win.
And a lot of people, that that's really what it boils down to.
George Patton.
Americans love a winner.
Americans love to win.
You don't lose.
We expect to win.
We expect to win every military conflict we enter.
And there are some people who have serious concerns that that is what Obama's interested in.
Obama winning.
I mean, what would that take?
Some people think this ISIS bunch is the new Nazis, the new Hitler, and so forth.
What would it take to beat these guys?
Didn't Obama say we can't?
In fact, he said that last couple, yeah, we're we're we we skirmish here, skirmish there, but we're never going to be able to wipe them out.
We're never going to be able to eradicate them, he said.
I remember that because what if we'd had that attitude about the Nazis?
That's right.
That's exactly right.
Okay, in advance of Obama's speech tonight, let's go back, shall we?
Because that's true.
It was uh well, it at a minimum of two weeks ago, where Obama said of ISIS that we're not going to be able to wipe them out.
We could do eliminate them here or there, a skirmish here, there, but we're never gonna be able to wipe them out.
I was I was dumbfounded by that because I remember asking you when that happened, what if we had had that attitude about any of the enemies we've had?
The Nazis, what if we'd had that attitude about Imperial Japan in World War II after Pearl Harbor?
And it is true, the American people expect to win.
And by the way, folks, this group ISIS, they're here.
They're here.
They are recruiting in prisons and have been for a while.
They are flooding our wide open border in the southern parts of the country.
There are malcontent Americans who are being pitched and are signing up for ISIS.
Ditto in Great Britain.
They are practicing underwear bombs, they're practicing shoe bombs, they're practicing disrupting airplanes, they're practicing, they're rehearsing, they're here.
Dick Cheney's right, this is serious.
The American people expect to win whenever we engage in battle, conflict.
And there is this real undercurrent of concern that Obama is not focused on winning and said he didn't think we could wipe them out.
Which leads people to question, does he want to wipe them out?
It's only a natural thing for some people to ask.
Obama did facilitate the Muslim Brotherhood.
They were the moderates, they were the good guys.
Obama went over and made a speech in Cairo, and everything was going to be cool.
Remember that?
We were going to have a new relationship, but the militant Islamists are going to find a way to forge a relationship with moderate Muslims, and they were going to join us in a massive effort to minimize the radicals and so forth, and the exact opposite has happened.
And our last caller had a point.
Last caller from Green Bay had a point.
And I've observed this many times.
Wouldn't it be great if Obama got as mad as people attempting to harm the country as he does at Republicans or conservatives or Tea Party groups or what have you.
But I don't think that there's any question that...
Let me put it this way.
It's not that difficult to conclude when you listen to Obama.
And it's not just Obama.
It could be John Kerry.
It could be Hillary.
It could be any number of Democrats.
When they start talking about the Tea Party or conservative, they get animated and it is...
It is sheer disgust, and they do not disguise it, but they do not talk of our real enemies that way.
Because we don't want to make them mad.
We well, no, no, no.
We're going to appease them.
we're going to show them.
See, Obama believes that one of the reasons they hate us is that they're justified in hating us.
Because of our allied relationship with Israel and because of our superpower status.
Because we've, they really do believe that we have created poverty all over the world by virtue of our superpower status and theft.
And so there's a there's a there's a part of these leftists that think we kind of, you know, we're responsible for this.
I don't know it goes so far as to say we deserve it, but it when you say that we're responsible, okay, well, then we've got to expect some of this stuff.
I mean, we're responsible for making them mad.
And if you think that's odd, I take you back to 9-11, and within a month of 9-11, the State Department's convening a panel discussion on what did we do to anger them?
Why don't they like us?
Meaning Al-Qaeda.
So the left is always going to blame America.
They always have blamed America.
But at the same time, they really believe that with Obama now we got somebody who can relate to them, talk to them, and talk them down and convince them we no longer mean them any harm.
And that, of course, was silly and it's blown up in their face.
And if you happen to have a messianic complex and actually believe that just your life, your presence, your existence, can end evil and bad guys.
Well, when it doesn't, what kind of shell shock are you in?
And you might iterate a denial.
So now we're in a situation where Obama's gonna go out and make a speech tonight that he probably really doesn't believe in because in his off moments where he's not guarded, he'll tell us what he really thinks.
Well, I don't think we can wipe him out.
We can skirmish here, skirmish there, we can take care of them.
But I don't think we can permanent.
I don't have a strategy.
I really don't.
So now we got a speech tonight where all that's gone and really cares.
But the other side, the American people expect to win.
And there are some doubts.
Now, Obama hasn't said this yet.
But what if we hear something like this tonight?
I make the following pledge no boots on the ground, no civilian casualties, an attorney for anyone captured, we won't fire first.
This is this has been our foreign policy.
We're treating all of this.
I mean, we what did Holder do?
We we launched a criminal investigation into some terrorist the other day.
This was the week before I left on much needed vacation.
There was some dastardly terror.
Oh, is the beheading?
Yes, we launched a criminal investigation.
That's exactly that's what we did.
We're gonna indict whoever beheaded.
The two journalists, if we can find out who did it.
We're not treating it as an act of war.
We're not treating it, and this is not exclusive to Obama.
This goes back to the Clinton years.
Remember what Robert Gates wrote about Obama in his book, Robert Gates, defense secretary for George W. Bush, and he was uh held over, served as defense secretary for Obama for a while.
By early 2011, writes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he, Gates, had concluded that President Obama doesn't believe in his own Afghanistan strategy and doesn't consider the war to even be his.
That's quite telling this is Gates.
He was there.
He was defense secretary.
And in his book, he wrote that by 2011, this is three years ago, Gates had concluded Obama didn't even believe in his own strategy and didn't think the war was, it was Bush's.
So's all this.
Guarantee you.
All of this in Obama's mind, the Democrats' minds, the media's, this is Bush failing to finish the job.
Never mind that Obama proclaimed victory and proclaimed the job as finished and took credit for finishing it.
What's going to happen here is this is all necessary because of Bush.
Bush didn't finish it.
Bush was uh angered the Muslim community, Bush, uh cowboy Bush and going into Iraq when It wasn't necessary, and we're paying a price.
That's what a lot of people expect the line to be.
Gates offers a catalog of various meetings based in part on notes that he and his aides made at the time, including an exchange between Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that he called remarkable.
Gates wrote the following.
Hillary told a president that her opposition to the 2007 surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary.
The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political.
To hear the two of them making these admissions and in front of me was as surprising as it was dismaying.
I'm sure it was dismaying.
Why can't everybody see?
I get so frustrated.
I must admit, I get frustrated.
Why are we, folks, you and me?
Why are we the only ones that see the political angle in everything Obama or Hillary or the modern-day Democrat Party does?
Here's Gates.
He's a defense secretary.
This is this is remarkable.
Hillary and Obama are sitting around chatting with each other.
And Hillary tells Obama, I oppose the surge in 2007.
That's Bush.
I opposed it for political reasons because I had to deal with you, Obama in the Iowa primary.
I had to try to get to the I couldn't appear to be a war hawk.
I couldn't appear to be a warmonger or a hawk because you're running as a dub, so I had to go, I had to move left.
And then Obama said that his opposition to the Iraq surge had been political too.
And yet these two people want us to believe they're some of the gravest statesmen that we've ever had.
Everything is a political calculator.
And this speech tonight is.
They're not alone.
Don't misunderstand.
But they're given credit for things of much loftier.
And they're not.
They don't deserve that credit.
They're not great statesmen.
They are political calculators.
Everything is PR, buzz, image, whatever.
I think in large part because they know in their hearts that what they believe is not in the majority of thinking in this country, particularly when it comes to military matters and national security.
Most Americans don't blame ourselves.
Most Americans don't think we are responsible for al-Qaeda existing, nor ISIS, nor Saddam Hussein, nor Iran.
We don't think we're to blame for it.
We don't blame our relationship with Israel for it.
These people do.
They know they're never going to go very far politically saying that.
So they calculate what they need to do politically to get the support of their kook fringe base.
And then rely on the media to create images of great seriousness and statesmanship, uh intelligence and foresight, and all this gunk that they don't possess in reality.
And eventually they run full speed into reality, which is what is happening to Obama.
Mr. Buzz, Mr. PR, Mr. Political Calculation has run flat up against reality.
And the reality is his presence doesn't mean a diddly squat thing to these people.
And the reality is that his presence makes in their minds their job even easier.
Because the reality that he's run up against is that they realize he's in a Pizer.
Even if you don't have a strategy, why in the name of Sam Hill say so publicly?
After a beheading of an American journalist.
So this is the guy who made a political admitted to Hillary to made a political calculation about supporting the surge.
Well, Hillary admits the same thing to him.
This is the guy who's going to address the nation about ISIS.
A commander-in-chief willing to send America's best into harm's way for political reasons or to keep them out of a necessary fight, if need be, for political reasons.
His political needs.
It should be a heck of a speech, folks.
Heck of a speech.
Back we are, L. Rushbow and the cutting edge of societal evolution.
This is um this is Gary in Helen, Georgia.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, you're right.
As a 20-some odd year listener, I just want to tell you that you I truly consider you a friend of mine, and just want to thank you for all the knowledge and enjoyment you give me over the years.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I genuinely truly appreciate that.
Well, look, I was getting back to the NFL, if that's okay.
Fine and nandy.
Well, you know, you mentioned like the film Nazis in the sports media, who you've taught us were more liberal than the drive of want to maybe take down the NFL or knock them back a peg or two, and got me to thinking about how ingrained football is throughout America.
Like small town America, I mean, the whole town turns out for football on Friday nights.
And you know, you've got five and six-year-old little boys and girls who want to be football players and cheerleaders and hoping to get to play Friday night football one day, and then college is all about football on Saturdays.
So I just see it hard for them to knock it down a peg when it's so ingrained in our country.
Well, it is that.
There's no question, and I don't I've I've said from the get-go that I don't think that they're going to be ultimately successful.
Uh certainly not in my lifetime, but that doesn't mean that they're they're gonna go away, and it doesn't mean they're not going to keep trying.
Now, they they haven't taken out after high school football yet, and they haven't taken out after college football yet, right?
Now they're focused on the NFL because that's the money, and that's big TV, that's big audience, that's where they can get noticed, where their attentions can uh be reported and get noticed.
They also have a sympathetic media that is very eager to participate in whatever cultural revolution the left wants to occur here.
And so unwittingly, the sports media is facilitating this.
They don't have to get rid of the game to drive people away from it.
You know, we don't really pay that much attention to it, though.
And when just like uh uh they say that uh oh um well I lost my thought there.
Um we just want to go to the games and have fun, and we don't just sit there and listen to what's right, I know, I know exactly what you're saying out there, Gary.
You probably one day thought that all you wanted to do was drive your SUV when you needed to go to grocery store at a Costco or whatever, and you woke up one day and found out you were destroying the planet, Gary.
Well, I am driving a diesel pickup, so same thing.
Same thing with your pickup.
What the hell are you putting in the back of that pickup?
You got shotguns in there you're going to shoot innocent animals with?
You're always going to be a target, Gary.
Particularly you, you're in the South.
You're a hayseed hick.
You probably go to church on Sunday.
Oh, you're a target.
I even collect money sometimes on Sundays.
Oh, well, uh so you know that this takes place.
Um, as I say, they don't have to eliminate the game or to get it banned in order to have success.
All they have to do is get a concession here or a concession there from a high school athletic association or a the NCAA or the uh or the NFL.
And if they slowly but surely can convince enough parents that their little boys are going to be brain damaged for life if they play this game.
There, and they're going to.
They're they're they.
Football, why does football pose a threat to the left?
This is a question that must be asked and answered.
Well, that's one thing.
It's too patriotic.
It's, I mean, it is it's it's merit-based teamwork.
There isn't any affirmative action in it.
There aren't any equalization plans or processes that take place other than the draft.
The American flag is on full display before every game, usually at least half the field, if not the whole field, for the national anthem.
And it's Barbaric and it's violent.
And now, now the players stalk and beat up and harass women.
That's what it is.
It's also independence, uh, and it's got a lot of money.
It's a target on so many levels.
I'm sure you can think of many things.
Twenty-five, thirty years ago, you said they'll never be able to take this down.
This is too much a part of the fabric of our country.
And now those things are gone.
Football may not be immune.
I know it's gonna be tough, but we got more.
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