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Sept. 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Back we are, my friends, El Rushbo, serving humanity with talent, which is on loan from God, here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And I'm, folks, I've really got a I got a problem.
I got more than I can possibly squeeze in this hour, and I want to do all of it.
And I can't do a fourth hour today because I have a newsletter interview after the program.
So I'm just going to get started.
Before we get to the NFL stuff, there are some audio soundbites I want you to hear related to the Obama speech.
And last night, I didn't see this when it happened because I don't watch CNN, as you know.
But I got an email.
Oh, it's Catherine.
Catherine told me, you want it.
John McCain is destroying Jay Carney on CNN.
Did you not CNN hire Jay Carney?
See, I knew he wasn't going to go to Apple to be the head of PR.
They were putting that out there on all the tech blogs.
He wasn't going to do that.
So CNN has hired Carney.
So he's former Time magazine, and he goes to work for Biden and does so well there that he goes to the White House to be press secretary.
And now back to journalism.
You see how easy that is?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, he's not a journalist anymore.
He's an analyst, a commentator.
And I guess last night's one of his first nights, and they were talking about the speech and the status of forces.
And McCain, McCain, and we got to be honest, McCain ate the spokeskid for lunch and dinner.
So you have three soundbites.
McCain buried the poor guy.
Because the guy's up there, he's still, you know, he's from the White House, press secretary.
He's been up there lying for Obama enough that he really believes all that crap he had to go out there and say.
So he tries to stick with it, and Obama, or McCain just destroyed it.
It happened on Anderson Cooper, 33, who said, Senator McCain, you and I spoke just last week.
You said President Obama had no goal, no strategy when it came to destroying ISIS.
So why do you think he made the speech tonight?
What do you think of what you heard?
I'm astounded that Mr. Carney should say that the Free Syrian Army is now stronger.
If I could, sir, what I said is that we know a great deal more about Obama of the opposition.
We knew all about them then.
You just didn't choose to know.
I was there in Syria.
We knew them.
Come on, you guys are the ones.
It's your boss is the one that went the entire national security team wanted to arm and train them, that he turned them down, Mr. Carney, after Senator, facts are stubborn things, Mr. Carney.
And he made the unilateral decision to turn them down.
And the fact that they didn't leave a residual force in Iraq, overruling all of his military advisors, is the reason why we're facing ISIS today.
There you go.
By the way, that is an important point.
Every one of Obama's advisors, even his, even his looney-toon left-wing advisors told him that he had to leave a residual force in Iraq, even while telling his fringed lunatic base he was pulling out of there.
He overruled them all because he knew better.
Nope, I'm Barack Obama.
I know everything.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Nope.
Nope.
Not going to leave anybody there.
And he didn't.
And McCain is absolutely right about this.
After McCain says that Obama's decision not to leave a residual force is why we're facing ISIS today, Carney and McCain then continued, and Anderson Cooper tried to get in at part of this.
Senator, I can posit with great respect for you that we disagree on that and that you can't have the facts.
You don't have the facts, Mr. Carney.
That's the problem.
Senator, I understand that you present the facts that you believe are true based on the argument you've made.
I believe for a long time, sir, that we should leave troops in Iraq in perpetuity.
And that's just not what this president believes.
And that's, you know, obviously he was elected president to fulfill what he believed was right for our country and right for our national security.
That didn't change the right decision.
That means it's a bad decision.
I certainly understand where we are today.
JG.
It's not a matter of disagreement.
It's a matter of facts.
And you have yours wrong, and you have distorted it.
Now, this is new ground for McCain, because normally McCain is the first guy.
Is that what you think?
Okay, fine.
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, and it's great to debate you.
McCain normally doesn't tell somebody they're wrong because he's good at crossing the aisle.
You never tell people a crossing the aisle to shake their hands that they're wrong.
And he's a great aisle crosser.
He ran for office, if you remember, being better at crossing the aisle than anybody else is.
And he just flat out, Carney, you're wrong.
You're wrong.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You're just wrong.
And there's, let's see, there's one more here.
Cooper finally says, Jay, does the president believe at all if a residual force had been left in the ground in Iraq that we would not be in this situation now?
The alternative of leaving a permanent massive U.S. force on the ground in Iraq, not for 10 years, not for 20 years, but in perpetuity is simply not sustainable financially, and it's not consistent with what the American people think we should do.
Again, Mr. Carney mistakes the facts.
We had it won thanks to the surge.
It was won.
The victory was there.
And by the way, the Korean War, we left troops behind.
Bosnia, we left troops behind, not to fight, but be for a stabilizing force.
The fact that they didn't leave, that we weren't there before, is a direct result we are paying a very heavy price for.
And it doesn't mean in perpetuity, but it does mean to keep the situation stable, which we could have done.
Well, who cares if it does mean in perpetuity?
You have to do what you have to do to maintain the victory that you wanted to keep the peace.
Who cares if it's in perpetuity?
Whatever happened to doing what's necessary.
You know, these people put limits.
Oh, it's like this low-information voter that called me last hour, Lewis, is a nice guy.
But when I was telling him he was dead wrong about what he was thinking, and that, well, Lewis, whether you know it or not, somebody else is paying your health care.
Are you saying I'm not a good person?
No, I'm not saying you're not a good person.
Lewis, I'm not calling you a victim.
You are.
But why do you want to be a victim?
Go get what you want and be happy that you got it.
And by that, I meant earn it.
But the well, I don't want anybody to think that just go grab what you want.
People understood that.
The point is, who cares if it's in perform?
We're still in Germany for crying out loud.
We still have troops in Germany at bases near the Far East.
This is just absurd.
Anyway, McCain was right on the money, and Carney doesn't know what he's talking about.
Neither does Obama.
And this business that we're not going to have any boots on the ground.
Obama made a big deal last night.
They're going to be the American boots.
No American troops on the ground.
We're not sending combat troops back.
No, no, no, no.
Well, whose boots are they going to be?
Because this isn't going to be one without boots on the ground.
Somebody is going to have to have their boots on the ground.
And if it isn't us, whose boots are they going to be?
And are those boots occupied by capable people?
Anyway, let's see.
Let's see if this is.
Okay, Graham, somebody's eight, nine, and ten.
I referenced a couple of these earlier.
Let you hear them.
Up first is Mark Halperin.
Last night, Bloomberg TV special coverage of Obama's national address.
A co-host with him is John Heileman, who said to Mark Halperin, you think the president made his case tonight, Mark?
I thought that was a speech that was at times beautiful and touching and powerful and strong and human, but it does beg a lot of questions.
The world, including all of us, wished the president well in this challenge and taking it on.
I told you that there were going to be people that thought it was great, in large part because nobody had ever seen Obama speak that way.
You should find a couple excerpts of it snirdly, because he looked presidential.
What he said was in well, he wasn't running down America.
That's the point.
He sounded low information crowd.
He sounded like any other president would sound.
But here's Halperin.
Well, I thought it was at times beautiful and touching and powerful, strong and human.
What the hell does that mean?
It was human.
Is Obama a hippopotamus and we don't know?
Well, yes, I know he's a cold fish, but it sounded human.
What does that mean?
So I know what it means.
It's a way you use that word to make people think that you are human and that you're deep and that you're sensitive and that you feel and you have empathy and so forth.
Was human?
Well, good.
I had my doubts.
Tom Brokaw on the Today Show today had this to say about Obama's speech.
My guess is, Matt, that this move that he's making will define the rest of his presidency.
There are going to be a lot of other issues that we'll point out in the next two years.
But unless he succeeds here, or if he fails here, that will be the marker in his final two years.
Isn't it ironic, ladies and gentlemen, that the Obama presidency, the great anti-war, reluctant warrior, now depends on Iraq.
Victory in Iraq, according to Tom Brokoff, for a historically dubbed successful presidency.
Is that not sweet irony or is that not sweet irony?
It ain't going to be Obamacare.
It ain't going to be the jobs.
It ain't going to be the economy.
It ain't going to be amnesty.
It's going to be Iraq.
Can you imagine the humiliation that the left and the kook fringe base of the Democrat Party feels when they hear that?
And here's Sandy Bergler, who is making the point that I tried to make at the beginning of the program.
He's on Bloomberg TV, John Heilman and Halperin.
And Heileman said, Sandy Bergler was, what was he?
Secretary of State?
That's right.
He's National Security Advisor for Clint.
That's right.
Sandy Bergler.
And we call him burglar because he went to the National Archives and stole stuff in preparation of his testimony about, what was it, Lewinsky?
Or was it 9-11?
9-11 Commission before he said, he stole something in the national.
He stuffed it in his socks.
You remember that?
And they said, oh, no, no, no.
That's just Sandy.
He puts stuff in his socks in his office all the time.
You should have seen Sandy's desk.
You couldn't even see the disk.
Sandy's such a mess.
Oh, no.
Sandy wouldn't steal anything.
He's constantly running around with a piece of paper in his socks.
That's what Clinton said.
Anyway, that's who this is.
And the question, a few days ago, you were quoted, Mr. Bergler, as saying that you thought the president may have done himself a little bit of a disservice by not being clearer and not being more resolute up until this point.
Do you think that he is now on the right track?
I thought this was a very strong speech.
This is the president who's leading from the front, not from behind.
A president who welcomed the responsibilities of American leadership.
We've not heard that from him before.
Stop and think of it.
Stop and think of it.
Here's a rock rib Democrat, Sandy Bergler, National Security Advisor Clinton.
What did he just say here?
This is a president who welcomed the responsibilities of American leadership.
We have not heard that from him before.
It's year six, folks.
It's year six, and we got Democrats saying it's the first time that we've heard Obama welcome the responsibilities of American leadership.
So, see, we haven't been imagining things.
And we haven't been making it up when we've been telling everybody that he's an apologist for America and he doesn't think we have exceptionalism.
He doesn't think that we're deserving of superpower status.
Yeah, it was prior to his testimony before the 9-11 Commission.
Sandy Burglar National Archives stole some stuff, put it in his socks.
And Bill Clinton said, hey, Sandy put stuff in his socks all the time when he worked for me.
That's nothing.
He's not a thief.
He wouldn't know how to steal anything.
Hell.
Okay, well, why is he putting things in his socks?
Well, he runs out of pockets to put things in.
You know, Sandy's just one.
He's seen these guys.
They're just constantly rumpled and their hair is all out of whack and their pockets are halfway out and so forth and they're missing belt loop.
That's Sandy.
He's just so disorganized.
And this guy's our national security.
Oh, yeah, but I'll tell you what this guy starts talking about throughout.
So, I mean, you got to pay attention to what he says.
No question, but I'm telling you, don't think anything about him walking out of there with stuff in his socks.
That happened all the time.
Okay?
Okay.
And we will take a brief time out.
Don't go away.
One more audio sound by the Obama stuff.
And then to the NFL.
Do you know that, speaking of that, you know who Ted Robinson is?
Well, you do.
You just don't.
Ted Robinson is the radio play-by-play voice of the San Francisco Fortiners.
Yeah, he got suspended.
He got suspended for two games.
The Fortiners announced it on their website with a PR statement.
He made something like Janae Palmer shouldn't have married Ray Rice, was an idiot or whatever.
I mean, it's getting to the point now, folks.
It's being absurd.
Suspending a play-by-play guy, I just saw, I don't know the details, some player for the Indiana Pacers has just had to apologize for something he tweeted.
And what he said was, and I just saw it for a brief moment, so there may be more to it than this, but he said, hey, look, if some woman is spitting at you and hitting you, you got a man up, homie.
Something like that.
So now he's having to apologize.
I didn't get his name.
You know, I know you told me.
But Ted Robinson, I mean, Ted Robinson, you know him, but you don't know him.
He used to do Sunday afternoon NBC football.
He used to do Notre Dame for, I think, for a season or two.
He does Pac-10.
It's just getting ridiculous.
The NFL has found Robert Mueller, former FBI.
See, the big question now is, somebody in law enforcement is saying that somebody in the NFL, they saw that inside the elevator video.
Goodell, the commissioner, and the owner of the Ravens are all saying, we never saw this before Monday.
And somebody in law enforcement, somebody at the NFL saw it because we sent it to them.
So now the NFL has established an independent investigation of itself.
And they've hired the former FBI director Robert Mueller to do the investigation, to find out who at the NFL accepted delivery of that inside-the-elevator video and saw it.
And the sports drive-bys are very alarmed by the selection of Mueller.
They don't think he's independent.
You know why?
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because Robert Mueller works for a law firm that helped the NFL negotiate their most recent rights deal with DirecTV for NFL Sunday Ticket.
So the sports drive-bys are saying, Mueller's not independent.
His bread is buttered by the NFL and his law firm.
So we can't expect an honest result from him.
So the sports drive-bys are asking for Paul Tagliabu to be brought in to do it.
Goodell's former, well, the former commissioner.
And the reason they want, folks, the long knives are out for Goodell everywhere.
The reason the sports drive-bys want Tagliabu, you remember when Goodell handed out all of those suspensions to the Saints for the bounty program, that defensive coordinator that was banned for a year, and the head coach, Sean Payne, even though he had nothing to do with it, he was banned, and those players got banned, and they're still seething about this in New Orleans.
Well, when Goodell did that, Tagliabu went public and said he thought Goodell blew it.
So the sports drive-bys want Tagliabu to come in and do this investigation.
They're just hoping that there's evidence Goodell lied.
I'm telling you, I can see this from a mile away.
They just, ah, folks, it's absurd.
Yeah, that's right.
I just remembered.
I promised everybody I was going to tell them what fun it would be to look at the upcoming military incursion in Syria and Iraq as a lib would look at it.
See, I got so many things banging around the inside of my cranial cavity.
But it could be fun to talk like a lib.
Okay, so the libs have learned what?
No, no, we'll get back to the NFL here.
Just a jiffy.
The libs have learned what?
I mean, after being driven insane with hatred for five years over the Iraq War, what have they learned?
They learned last night that to save his presidency, he's got to go back in the car.
And he's going to do it with drones and highly trained Iraqi boots on the ground.
So how's the left going to look at this?
Well, a good liberal, the first thing a good liberal want to know is what is the carbon footprint of our military operation going to be?
And is it worth the climate change interruption or climate destruction that this is going to cause?
And are there any endangered species?
I know it's desert, but are there any endangered species?
Like maybe an albino sand rodent that might end up being wiped out in this operation.
We must be very careful.
And then a good lib would ask if the UN has signed off on this.
Will there be U.N. peacekeepers, blue-helmeted people?
Has Obama taken steps to ensure that a sufficient number of gays and lesbians, transgenders, and women will be involved in the operation in order to make it inclusive and diversified?
And what about the name of the military operation?
Operation Pinprick, Operation No Boots on the Ground, Operation Passes the Global Test.
Operation Inclusive.
Operation You Didn't Build Debt.
Because I think, you know, if Obama is going to sully the reputation of the Democrat Party with another war, he at least ought to do it with sensitivity and compassion and make sure the force is diversified and all that.
Okay, here we go.
Last night, ABC News Nightline.
Who is it?
Well, I don't know who's doing the interviewing here, but they had a guest, Ontario Neal, who is the president of the National Association of Gals, the NAGS.
And this is the, let's see, we got two soundbites.
This is the first.
It's number 18.
Audio soundbite number 18 in 3-2-1.
I just think that he can't credibly commit to make the deep, the thoroughgoing and deep changes that clearly need to be made in the NFL.
We need someone independent to go in, do a top-to-bottom investigation of the entire NFL and get at the root of the NFL's violence against women problem.
See, the NFL has a root, and its root is a violence against women problem.
It's big, folks.
And the NAGs want an independent investigator to get to the bottom.
They don't trust Mueller or Mueller, however, they don't trust him.
Would they trust Al Sharpton?
Tagley Abu's got ties to the NFL.
Can't send him in there.
How about Al Sharpton?
Fresh off of Ferguson with credibility.
How about a Department of Justice investigates civil rights violations of all now?
We're talking civil rights violation of the NFL.
Now we get into all the women's civil rights have been violated by players and owners and management.
Cheerleaders include everything, everybody.
Not just women have been beaten up.
Cheerleaders have been injured, you know, doing things they shouldn't have to do to please the fans.
This is clothes on or off, doesn't matter.
We have one more sound bite here from the president of the NAGS, the National Association of Gals.
There are over 50 incidents of domestic violence by NFL personnel on Roger Goodell's watch.
Under Roger Goodell's leadership, the NFL's pattern and practice has been to sweep all of this under the rug.
It wasn't when Roger Goodell saw the video that he took action against Ray Rice.
It was when millions of NFL fans saw the video.
That's when Goodell and the Ravens took action against Ray Rice.
Am I missing something?
Or did Goodell, was he in the elevator?
Did he hit Ray Rice's wife, too?
He didn't?
Well, I would have never known.
Finally, Drew Brees, the quarterback New Orleans Saints.
Now, these guys at the Saints, they have no love lost for Goodell.
They think this bounty investigation was just over the top and the penalties that were handed out were way too severe, and that the penalties actually cost the Saints a chance at winning a championship.
And the bounty program was pregame words that were not matched by on-field action.
Yeah, you had a coach urging players to go for the outside ACL.
Defensive coordinator Greg Williams is going to outside ACL.
Put your helmet on the outside.
That means take out the guy's knee.
But it never happened in the game.
So the guy was suspended for a year for words.
The bounty program supposedly a bunch of players and Drees, Brew Dries has Drew Breeze has never been happy about this.
So yesterday in New Orleans at the Saints practice facility, press conference QA reporters said, should the commissioner be held accountable for his actions in the Ray Rice case?
We're all held accountable for actions as players.
Certainly every owner should be held accountable for their actions.
The commissioner should be held accountable for his actions.
I don't know the full story.
I don't know who all does.
But I think that's what's trying to be found out here.
But everyone deserves to be held accountable for their actions because certainly that's the expectation for players.
Right.
So you can see where this is shaping up.
So they appoint Robert Mueller to investigate, and it's to be completely independent.
But then the league announced that they're going to have a couple of owners oversee the independent investigator.
The drive-bys in the sports world don't like this.
The two owners that are going to oversee the independent investigation are John Mara of the New Jersey Giants and Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And they're going to oversee it and make sure that it's independent.
I must tell you, folks, I got up today and I started doing show prep.
And I was trying to find news about football in all the places that I go to find news about football.
But I couldn't find any.
At those websites and publications, all I saw is a bunch of legal and cultural news.
And a bunch of really wound-up people demanding commissioner be fired, suspended, impeached, or what have you.
It's incredible.
And what I'm seeing here, the NFL, I'm seeing the institution that enables thousands of young African Americans to become millionaires under assault from white liberals, male and female, everywhere.
The National Football League creates a lot of wealth for a league that is 79, 80% African American.
You hear a bunch of white liberals now have this institution, this game, in their crosshairs.
The feminazis, the sports writer media, who also depend on the NFL for their livelihood.
You have the drive-by media.
You have TMZ and Harvey Levin, the new Walter Cronkite for the low-information crowd.
It's coming from everywhere.
The only guy happy in the NFL right now is Dan Snyder because people have forgotten he hasn't changed the name from Redskins to something else.
But they'll get back to that after they get rid of Goodell and execute Ray Rice, whatever they're going to do to him.
And Goodell, you want some irony here?
Roger Goodell is maybe the most politically correct commissioner of all time, certainly of the NFL.
Roger Goodell is the most politically correct commissioner of all time, and he is under assault.
And you know why?
Roger Goodell is trying to protect the National Football League, his game, from the cultural rot and the university system that supplies players to his league.
Goodell knows what's up.
He's trying to save this league and do everything he can while at the same time making players wear pink every October, do everything as politically correct as he can, and still they want his scalp.
The owners, I'm convinced, are clueless.
The owners didn't know four years ago what was headed their way, and they may not really quite understand yet what's really happening to their league.
And that's why it's not amazing.
You could see this coming years ago, about the time the left started going nuts about con.
Well, that's what I mean.
Okay, I saw it coming four years ago.
You could see when the left started going nuts about concussions.
And then the Redskins.
And then a player commits suicide.
It had to be from playing the game.
Had to be from playing the game.
Game causes suicides.
It's not hard to see where this is going.
The nags get mad about it, even though we do all of October for them.
I can't wait to see what we do next, October.
Next month, if it's as pink as it's been, what's it going to be next month?
Because they have to really show the fans that they love women and don't think they should be beat up in elevators in New Jersey casinos.
So they have to make a big statement next month.
In the meantime, can anybody name for me the players of the week from week one?
To the phones to Ariel in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I'm really glad you waited.
Thank you for your patience.
Hello.
Hello.
One thing, just to really, you know, just really quickly, because I got to do something here really quick, you know.
But I was wondering, where is it?
Right here.
Do you think ISIS will attack?
Either if it's today or sometime in the near future, personally, I don't really think today because, you know, it's kind of one doesn't really match really what time they usually would attack.
Well, last night, President Obama said there's no credible intelligence that they are going to attack our homeland.
And that's good enough for me.
Excuse me.
No, I have no idea.
That's the point.
Nobody knows.
We supposedly have people that do know, our intel community.
I don't know.
I think this, Ariel, I think they will eventually, many times, whenever they think they can get away with it, I think they'll try it.
And I think they're preparing now, crossing the border.
We have to be thinking this way.
Be foolish not to.
But I don't, but today specifically, I don't think they're going to do anything on a day we would expect it to happen like today.
Just be my guess.
But you got to be prepared for anything.
They mean it.
They're dead serious about their intentions where we are concerned.
One more quickly, Janet Phoenix.
I'm glad you called.
Great to hear you.
Oh, Rush, what a pleasure it is to talk to you.
Thank you.
You know, I was telling your screen, I'll make this quick because I know you're almost through here.
I was telling your screener there were two reasons for calling.
One was, even though I voted for Bill Clinton twice, when you do your Bill Clinton, I just find myself practically rolling on the floor.
I want to let you know.
That is so entertaining.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Now, the other issue is a little more serious.
Do you recall how desperately Obama tried to get into Syria about a year ago so that he couldn't?
No, he didn't.
See, I'm glad you Obama drew a red line last year and dared Assad to cross it and didn't back it up, didn't do it.
A year ago, we were about to make the mistake of going in and essentially arming ISIS.
We were wrong in assuming that Assad was gassing people in Syria.
He wasn't.
It was ISIS.
But we didn't.
That was close.
That was almost a disaster.
And it's a good thing that we didn't.
Now, the Iraqi army is going to go into Syria, I guess.
We'll just have to wait and see.
Boots on the ground.
Somebody's boots are going to be there.
Obama promised ain't going to be our boots because we're not going back to Iraq, even though we are.
Folks, there's a football event tonight where they're actually going to play the game.
Pittsburgh Steelers at the Baltimore Ravens.
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