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Sept. 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
We got a new group.
We have a new enemy that we just heard about in the last few hours.
The enemy is the Corazon group.
It's an offshoot of ISIS.
Maybe as bad as ISIS.
Could be worse than ISIS.
Could be ISIS's brothers.
They don't have any sisters because they're chauvinist pigs.
It's a new group.
The Coruscant group, which the U.S. military struck overnight in Syria, actively plotting.
We never heard of this group.
Well, we didn't.
I'm sure that the intel agencies have, obviously, actively plotting against a U.S. homeland target and Western targets.
Senior U.S. officials said Tuesday the threat was imminent.
And then in the next sentence, the U.S. military also struck ISIS targets in Syria.
ISIS is made to sound like a secondary target now.
And it could well be that there's a reasonable and finally an intelligent explanation for this because Obama, and by the way, hi folks, Rush Limbaugh, great to have you here.
Just wanted to steam full speed right into this.
A lot of people have been questioning why in the world are we telegraphing our strategery so far in advance.
For example, we've been told that today, last night today, is going to be the most intense of the air bombardment.
Well, if that's true, why tell them that?
I hope we're faking them out.
I hope that this is all being done as misdirection.
I hope at least if we're going to do this, we're going to do it with passion and seriousness in terms of achieving victory.
Because politics is driving this.
But I really hope, I mean, for the sake of our armed forces and us, I really hope that there is a serious component here to achieve victory.
So maybe we've known about this Coruscant group for a long time.
Nobody's made it public until the attack on them begins.
It says here, this is a CNN story.
The U.S. had very good information about the threat from the Coruscant group.
U.S. strikes against the group were planned in advance, not at the last minute.
So the military attacked a terror group in Syria that we haven't heard of before.
Again, it doesn't mean that they just discovered this.
It's just we haven't heard of this before.
In addition to being told that we've attacked this group, we're now told that this new group, the Coruscant group, poses an even more imminent threat to the U.S. than ISIS.
And in fact, the threat of this group is probably what triggered Obama to attack at this time.
If you read this whole CNN story, you find out that this Coruscan group is actually the focus.
And it is not ISIS that is responsible for the timing of this mission.
But over here, we have the political component, which is undeniable.
Three weeks ago, Obama didn't care.
Then the polls came out and showed how bad they were for him on issues like this.
And all of a sudden, we did a 180 reversal.
And now in the mix, they throw in this new group.
And again, they say the threat of this group, probably what triggered Obama to attack at this time.
Now, in addition to Congress being in recess, like it was when Obama attacked Libya, interesting timing.
Of course, the House Republicans are racing to the microphones to show and shout their support for the mission.
Because, of course, the Republican consultants are demanding that you guys do not be partisan here.
Don't be partisan ever, but especially not here.
The American people want all of us united behind our dear president.
And in normal times, that's usually what happens.
But did it happen during the five years of Iraq?
Did the Democrat Party join with the rest of us in the military and hope for Victor?
No, they didn't.
I'm not suggesting tit for tat here.
It's just a, there's so much hypocrisy.
In fact, folks, I have to tell you something.
Just when I thought I was out, just when I thought I was getting my mind right about this, just when I thought I was ready to finally dial up and connect and be part of this from the good old patriotism American standpoint, the hypocrisy has pulled me back in.
And so I started asking myself this morning as I was feverishly preparing the program today, will the media obsess over civilian casualties caused by us?
Well, if Israel were involved, that's the only thing they would cover, right?
And I just saw before and after pictures of ISIS installations that we've hit.
Now, I just saw them on television.
I haven't studied them in any more up-close manner than that.
There was a military person, I didn't get his name, and I didn't get his, I don't know if he's Air Force or Army.
I wasn't able to tell.
I had the sound off.
I was reading the closed captioning.
He was not identified.
And just like we got in previous Iraq war, we had before and after pictures of targets.
And the two that I saw were ISIS command and control centers and a communications center.
And in both instances, the after the attack pictures, there wasn't much damage done to the structure at large.
These were surgical.
We took out a couple of, maybe four satellite dishes and what was said to be a communications array on top of a building.
The building itself remained totally intact, still standing.
And it looked like the only damage was that little pinprick, that surgical strike.
I mean, if you didn't know what you were looking at, you would think there wasn't any damage at all.
You had to have it pointed out to you.
And the same thing with the second command and control installation.
The damage that was done by our attack was minimal.
It really was minimal.
On, I mean, to the naked eye, without knowing what was in these installations, without knowing specifically what the targets were.
Now, the military guy did explain that.
And he was very proud showing his pictures.
Here you see the before picture, and here is after our F-22 Raptors went in there and raised Shock and August.
And I'm looking at them and I said, the damage to the naked eye is minimal.
But he pointed out that we took out rooftop communication arrays in one instance and a corner of a command and control center in another instance.
I mean, these were surgical strikes.
But you have to figure, given on where ISIS is and this new group, the coruscant, they have to be hiding with women and children, right?
I mean, they're cowards.
It's what they do.
They have to be hiding in mosques.
I mean, there wasn't a sign that said ISIS Command and Control Center, and it wasn't painted on the roof like a billboard.
So we just have to trust that they had ID'd the target with special forces and intel.
But Obama won't hit civilians.
You know, that's right.
Forget it's Obama.
There won't be any civilian casualties.
Exactly.
What am I thinking here?
See how easy it is to get caught up?
See how easy it is to lose focus of what you know?
There won't be any civilian casualties because Obama is running the operation.
Now, what coalition partners?
Snerdley just said the coalition partners might accidentally hit some civilian targets.
What coalition partners?
The UK not there.
Europe isn't there.
The Germans are there.
Who's there?
Turkey's not there.
Who's there?
Jordan's there?
Oh.
Jordan?
Oh, let's see.
Well, okay, so you're the United Arab Emirates.
What are they attacking in gold-plated F-22s?
Okay, so the United Arab Emirates.
You know, the United Arab Emirates, Snerdley's laughing at the United Arab Emirates, you can buy a 14-carat gold-plated iPhone 6 for $100,000 right now from the United Arab Emirates.
So that's why I asked if the F-22s are gold-plated.
Okay, so United, no, 16 gig, no, probably 128.
So the United Arab Emirates, you said Bahrain, Qatar, these are countries you could put on a thimble.
Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia is in the coalition?
That's crazy.
For Saudi Arabia to be in this coalition, they have to bomb themselves because they are the headquarters for all of this activity.
Well, I'm not looking.
This is one of the things.
There are more beheadings in Saudi Arabia in a month than ISIS has committed in its lifetime.
Wahhabi Islam has as its home Saudi Arabia.
If Saudi Arabia's in a coalition, they're not going to bomb themselves.
They should.
Okay, so we got Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan that are in the coalition.
Well, yeah, we'll probably get some civilian casualties there.
Will there be body counts?
This is things I started asking myself this morning.
As I was, I was, folks, the hypocrisy and my memory of the way previous wars have been covered.
They just suck me right in there.
Will there be body counts of American troops?
Well, I know there aren't any American boots on the ground.
Rudy Giuliani on TV says, it's going to have to be.
If we're serious about it, there's going to be boots on the ground.
Ours.
How many Qurans have been destroyed so far in the bombing?
Well, I mean, it was a relevant question at Club Gitmo when it opened.
Will there be any questions asked by the media about how much this war is costing us in treasure?
Treasure and money, will there be any of the – I'm just asking, will the media cover this?
The way they covered the five years of Iraq?
Will we be told that this airstrike campaign is out there creating brand new ISIS terrorists left and right as we were told the Iraq war was the best recruitment agent for terrorism that al-Qaeda ever had, right?
Does the bombing have to do with the November elections?
Will the media ask that question like they did during the Iraq campaign and the surge?
Just some of them observations.
Anyway, the new group, the Coruscant, is apparently the reason why we are doing this.
ISIS, the Corazon, it's K-A-K-H-O-R-A-S-A, and the Corazon group.
You know, like the Carlisle group, like leverage buyout kings.
They like hedge funds, the Corazon group.
Not to be confused with the Carlisle group.
Not to be confused with Blackstone.
Corazon operatives were coming closer to the end of their planning, and so we had to move fast.
The U.S. hoped for an element of surprise by mixing strikes against the Corazon group with strikes against ISIS targets.
Corazon's existence was only publicly acknowledged last week when the U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said that it was operating in both Iraq and Syria with a focus on exporting terror to the West.
There is potentially yet another threat to the homeland.
Yes, he told an intelligence conference in Washington last week when he first mentioned this group.
CENTCOM's statement spoke of action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests by al-Qaeda veterans in Corazon, who had established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks.
So the U.S. attacked a terror group in Syria that we haven't heard about before.
And we're told that they now pose an even more imminent threat to us than ISIS.
So that's what we have learned today.
In addition, residents of Kirkuk in Iraq said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, has backed down from its decision to ban smoking and has thus allowed selling cigarettes in areas that it controls south and west of the province.
Do you know about this?
They had banned cigarette smoking because it doesn't comport with Islam.
But now they have backtracked and they have rescinded their smoking ban because it was hurting their popularity.
They've moderated on their smoking ban.
So in order to get more recruits, you can smoke now if you want to join ISIS.
This makes ISIS less draconian about smoking than former Mayor Bloomberg.
How about that?
If you join ISIS, you can smoke at will.
If you go to New York City, you can't.
If you get caught, you're in deep doo-doo because did you hear what Bloomberg did?
Did you hear how he stepped in it?
Oh, let me find this.
New York Magazine, Michael Bloomberg, speaking this morning at the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit.
He only participates in things that have his name on them these days.
He said that he was going back to his company.
He took a leave of absence in Bloomberg while he was mayor.
But he's going back to the Bloomberg investment and media and brokerage and whatever else they do company because, wait for it.
Quote, the alternative in my case is staying home and talking to my girlfriend about feelings.
Now, his girlfriend is Diana Taylor, and they have been boyfriend and girlfriend for many, many moons.
And the guy said, look, it's either stay home and talk about feelings with my girlfriend or, and he named her, he said Diana, or go back to work.
He said, if that doesn't get you back to work, I don't know what would.
The alternative in my...
This is the only thing, the only thing Michael Bloomberg has ever said that even is remotely funny.
Okay, coming up later, details on this, but I wanted to let you know, I was watching Steve Bashoti do his press conference at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
He's the owner of the Ravens.
And somebody actually asked him in the press conference, are you prepared to be forced to sell your team?
And I sat up, I said, what?
And apparently there's a Forbes story saying that there are, depending on what happens here, who lied, who knew what went about the video in the elevator, Ray Rice, that Bishoti may be forced to sell his team as though he's no different than Donald Sterling.
And Bashoti said, hey, you know, if they force me to sell it, then I guess I'll sell it.
I don't really work that hard as owner.
I have other people to do that, so it's not going to be a big voice.
I can't believe forced to sell his team.
We have more on this as the program unfolds.
But this is just, all of this stuff is just getting so far out.
There's this unbridled attack on capitalism coming from the politically correct crowd.
Everybody seems afraid to stand up to these people, whoever they are.
I still, you know, I mentioned this once before.
I don't know anybody who believes in political correctness.
I'm sure they're out there.
Everybody I know is constantly criticizing it, laughing at it, lamenting it, making fun of it.
But they must be out there in great numbers.
I just don't know who the spokesman is for the PC movement.
But whenever some event happens, the media acts like there is this giant cadre of people all in agreement on the politically correct view of whatever issue it is.
And they are demanding that people divest, give up, be forced to sell all of their assets as punishment for violating the PC code.
Who are these people?
Really, ask yourself, how many people do you know who actually admit to being politically correct, advocate it, and try to force it on you?
Now, there might be individual idiots.
There might be individual people at work who say and do things and demand like you, you know, put down that playboy.
That's sexism.
You are bullying me.
That kind of thing.
But the media doesn't know who they are.
It's something that has intrigued me for a while.
But in all of this, force Steve Bashati to sell his team, and nobody thinks that is overboard.
We have some audio soundbites coming in of military personnel and media types talking about the attack, the shock and awe that began on ISIS and the Corazon's group.
Not to be confused with Corazon Aquino, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, before we get to that and my thoughts, Rush, can we win?
Do you think?
Do you think airstrikes will work in this instance when they didn't work in Iraq?
All those answers upcoming as the program unfolds.
But we've got Charlie from Adrian, Michigan on the phone.
I want to start there.
Charlie, thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Well, it's a pleasure to be on Dittos and all that it implies.
I just was amazed that the NFL owner has to might have to sell his ownership because of something he didn't personally do, but maybe he didn't do enough as the top of his organization to prevent.
Whereas Bill Clinton sexually assaults an intern in the White House and isn't held accountable.
He's impeached, but the Senate wouldn't remove him.
No, he's a big star now in the Democrat Party.
And that poor woman's life was basically ruined.
And it's just amazing that that's what we've come down to with political correctness now.
You want to see something interesting, Charlie?
Go to the American Spectator.
Oh, wait, is it the American Spectator?
Is it the, oh, hang on just a second.
Let me real quick here.
Is it the American Spectator?
Jeffrey writes for two places now.
And I don't know where this ran.
Hang on just a second.
It's one of two places.
It's either the American Spectator.
I've just got a text copy.
I don't have it from the link.
Jeffrey Lord writes for the American Spectator and Newsbusters.
And he has a piece about all of the cases, the instances of domestic violence committed by journalists.
Because he got a little tired of the moral preening.
He's watching all of this moral preening from journalists about how horrible and ugly what Ray Rice did was and how Ray Rice has got to be sent to the coal mines now.
And anybody who had anything to do with Ray Rice should be banished from football.
And this never-ending, holier-than-now, pure as the wind-driven snow attack on everybody involved in this.
So Jeffrey said, you know what?
I wonder how many of these guys reporting on this and demanding X, Y, and Z be done have themselves been involved in domestic abuse cases.
And he found right off the bat 10 or 12 of them, a couple at ESPN, a couple at CBS New York.
And his story names them and the specifics of their cases.
And I'm sorry, I just have the text version, the copy.
And I don't know at which place he writes this thing got posted.
Let me see if it's real quick here in the note.
My guess is the American Spectator in this case, because I think his stuff for newsbusters is on the weekend.
I'll find out.
I just can't do that right now.
I have to wait till after the break.
But in addition, you know, Charlie, to your point, Forbes is who raised the possibility that Bishotti might be forced to sell his team.
And the headline of the Forbes blurb, it's a small piece.
The Baltimore Ravens may become the NFL's L.A. Clippers.
And here's a little snippet from the article.
Will the Baltimore Ravens become the Los Angeles Clippers?
That is, will the NFL force Steve Bishotti to sell his football team like the NBA forced Sterling to sell his basketball team?
Perhaps if a stathing investigation by ESPN's outside the lines holds up.
So what you have here, the media thinks they've taken out one owner.
Remember what journalism is.
It has many facets.
But I remember talking to people about this years and years ago, about the average resume for advancement that a good journalist puts together.
And somewhere on that resume will be, I did a story which destroyed X. Some big-time leader in the small town where I was working or some corporate CEO or whatever.
It used to be, you take somebody out, somebody with a lot of power, you take them out somehow with a story you've done, and that's career advancement for you in journalism.
Well, Nixon, of course, was the biggie.
He took down a president.
Now they got rid of Sterling, and so it's copycat time.
Well, maybe we should next go after Bishotti, the owner of the Ravens.
Now, the Forbes piece, that little snippet that I just read you, the idea that Steve Bishotti would be forced to sell his team seems to hang on whether Bishotti tried to get leniency from the authorities and the NFL for Ray Rice early on, beginning last February, when everybody knew what happened inside the elevator but hadn't seen it.
And if it is, according to Forbes, if Bishoti is seen to have conspired with law enforcement, just as you would with one of your kids, how many of you have had kids run a red light or maybe blew one-tenth of a point over the legal limit on alcohol?
How many of you have had a kid traffic wreck?
And you'd pulled every string you could to avoid charges that might be permanent, whatever.
I mean, you did what you could.
Maybe you couldn't do anything.
You don't know anybody.
But how many people would try to do it for a family member?
Not to escape a lesson being taught, but it's just a natural thing.
So here's what they're what they're trying to say is that Bishotti might have conspired with his cohorts to convince law enforcement New Jersey to go lenient on Ray Rice.
And if he did, then that is tisk, tisk, tisk a no-no.
And he must be forced to sell his team if he conspired to try to do that.
Now, ESPN had this bombshell of a story that was released a couple hours after Goodell's conference on Friday outside the lines.
And they are claiming in that report that Bishotti did indeed conspire to have law enforcement and the NFL look the other way on Ray Rice, minimal punishment, so that one of his best players could remain on the field and playing because they're paying him a big, big number, big dollar.
Now, the Ravens have said a lot of errors in the ESPN piece, and there are some.
For example, the story says that in the opening game of the NFL season, that a player was over at Rice's house watching the game with him.
Except the player wasn't at Rice's house.
He's on the Indianapolis Colts roster.
The player ESPN cited as being at Ray Rice's house, watching the game with him, was actually playing for the Indianapolis Colts.
There are a couple of other errors like that.
Now, those are errors that are not germane to the main thrust of the focus.
But if a lot of those pile up, then the Ravens say, hey, you can't trust anything in this story.
Look at how many errors there are.
And there's a lot of curiosity about the timing.
Because what happened?
ESPN spent 11 days putting that bombshell report together.
And then they called the commissioner and the Baltimore Ravens and gave them 90 minutes to respond to it before releasing it.
On a Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock, which is document dump time.
You release stuff on Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
You want it to not be seen.
So, ESPN saying, no, no, no, we didn't do any of that.
We just waited for when the story was ready and we let it go.
So, why didn't you get 11 days working on it?
Why did you only give the people your smear reporting on here?
Why'd you only give them an hour and a half to comment?
So, at any rate, that's where all this is now.
And after all this, I'm watching this whole notion that Bashati might be forced to sell his team.
And this is what happens when there's no pushback on whoever these invisible little politically correct nerds are out there, these anti-capitalist, just miserable, unhappy people, whatever, to try to spread their misery across the country to everybody else.
This is what happens when there's no pushback.
Big-time capitalists do not push back.
Big-time capitalists do not push back.
They're frightened to defend themselves.
And I was watching Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel.
He was on this week needs David Brinkley.
And it was back during the first term at Clinton.
It was when Clinton had announced a maximum of $1 million corporate salary that could be deducted as a business expense.
And Andy Grove made a lot of money at Intel as the CEO.
So they asked him, Andy, what do you think of this new law here?
It's going to make most of your salary not tax deductible as the administration attempts to limit how much you can earn.
He wouldn't talk about, he said to whoever asked him the question.
It must have been George William.
George, I'm not going to, these silly little concerns here, how much money I'm.
They won't talk about it.
They will not defend themselves.
They will not push back.
It's thought to be unseemly.
So they sit there and they take the abuse.
Nobody else defends them either, especially now they're under assault.
All of capitalism is.
New constitution of global warming as Occupy Global now, which is simply a new name and a new cover story for the anti-capitalism of their movement.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll continue much more, as always, on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
The Jeffrey Lord piece, when journalists commit domestic violence, is at the AmericanSpectator.
Is it.com?
It's yeah.
Nope, Americanspectator.org.
I'm sure that Coco at rushlimbaugh.com will put the link to Jeffrey's piece at our homepage at rushlimbaugh.com.
It's the American Spectator when journalists commit domestic violence.
Here's Tom in Columbus.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thank you.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Maybe you can help me.
I'm usually up on stuff, but I think I missed something.
Can you give me the list, the laundry list of diplomatic sanctions that Obama did before going to war?
Because I'm sure I must have missed it.
The left, and that's always the big mantra.
So, you know, diplomatic sanctions, diplomatic sanctions first, last resort war.
So I must have missed something.
So can you give me a laundry list?
You didn't miss anything.
There are no diplomatic sanctions on ISIS because ISIS isn't a state.
They're just a terror group trying to become a state.
That's what their attempt to take over both the Rocket Series about.
Right, but they took over all those areas, and they're talking about they're the richest terrorist group in the history of the world because of all these oil wells they own.
That's because they've stolen the oil.
They've stolen the oil.
They're not importing anything from.
We're not exporting to ISIS, and nobody else is either.
They're stealing everything and murdering people to get it.
That's what's, you know, the left says that Iraq was about oil, blood for oil.
We didn't get any of the oil.
We purposely, stupidly, didn't take any of the oil just to show people.
There were no diplomatic sanctions to ISIS.
No, there were no diplomatic sanctions tonight.
There's not even a coalition.
I mean, there is, but for come on, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates.
I mean, well, how hard would it be to just blow up all their oil wells?
Well, we wouldn't.
Because they don't get any money.
But that's not what we're.
We want to kill them.
We're not going to take out the oil.
Well, then, surely Obama is rook knocking and warning the areas that he's bombing because we know how Israel did that.
No, no.
No, no, we're not doing that.
Because Obama wouldn't strike women and children anyway.
It won't happen.
We discussed this earlier in the program.
There will be no civilian casualties.
You have to worry about it.
Even if there are, there won't be any.
We won't hear about them.
We're going to have the most surgical military operation in history when this thing's all over.
In fact, we're going to have, I'll predict you, we're going to have the first in world history, the first major victory with air power alone.
All the generals, all the military experts, even Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, you can't wipe these guys out without a ground operation.
You just can't do it.
You've got to take what they have away from them.
You just can't bomb them into smithereens.
And this has been the standard procedure for warfare from the beginning of time.
It has always been the infantry, ground troops, which take territory, seize it, and secure surrenders and so forth.
Did who say no?
He said we couldn't wipe them out.
Obama said we can't wipe them out because they're like cockroaches.
He didn't say cockroaches, but it's impossible to wipe them out because they, you know, the first bomb they move to another location.
So they're always going to be there.
But the point is, I'm just, given the way the media has reported on Obama so far, I won't be surprised if this is the first time in world warfare history.
This is Obama's first war, folks.
You have any doubt it's going to be the most successful war this country has ever conducted?
Well, here I get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing war so well, showing how well it can be done with as few civilian casualties and in as rapid a period of time.
He might get another Nobel Peace Prize after this war is over.
No ground forces.
We're going to have, it's going to be the biggest victory the U.S. ever had.
The media has their way with this.
You better prepare yourselves for this, folks.
I could be wrong.
I could be wrong.
But I just don't see him doing a body count.
I don't see him reporting on casualties, civilian.
I don't see Obama and America being treated by the media the way Israel is in these things.
So I'm saying, I mean, somewhat facetiously, I don't want there to be any confusion that when this is all over and the media writes the story, that Obama will have proven a world history timeline of military experts wrong because he's so much smarter and so much more talented and so much more capable.
Obama knew when everybody else doubted it, you could win a war with air power alone.
You watch.
And new annals in warfare will be taught at all of the war colleges.
As General Obama might even give himself a star, you know, when this is over, or the Nobel Committee might.
You never know.
Grab soundbite number seven.
Let's listen to very quickly media montage of the operations so far.
The U.S. launching airstrikes against ISIS targets for the first time in Syria and not alone.
Five Arab nations that participated in this raid.
I mean, an extraordinary coalition.
Five Arab countries that were joining in the United States.
That is something that is huge.
The key part is these five Arab nations.
Five Arab allies who participated in some ways in these strikes.
For the first time, Arab allies in the region.
It's a remarkable diplomatic achievement.
There are five Arab nations supporting U.S. airstrikes.
So many Arab states were willing to take part.
This is unreal.
Bush had 25 or 30, and they said he was a cowboy going it alone.
He's got five Arabs.
Listen to this.
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