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Dec. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I have to tell you, I love the CIA fighting back on this.
I love the CIA and their defenders fighting back on this.
I just watched a guy named Mitchell.
He was just unfoxed.
He's one of the apparently the architect of the interrogation program at Club Gitmo.
And Liz Cheney has been saying this.
A number of other people have been saying, wait a minute now, wait a minute.
We can't.
We can't use the enhanced interrogation techniques.
We cannot ask questions in an aggressive way of prisoners that we have uh captured in the battlefield, per se.
We can't waterboard, we can't deprive them of sleep.
We can't do any of that, because that's mean, and that's not us.
And that's beneath our values.
But Obama can order drone strikes and kill.
Obama can drop hellfire missiles into families because there's a supposed terrorist there and have all the collateral damage.
And the great thing about that is you don't have to question anybody when you kill them.
So you don't have to resort to techniques of enhanced interrogation.
You can just kill them.
But boy, oh boy, if we don't kill them and we start asking them questions, you can't mistreat them.
It's okay to kill them, but don't mistreat them.
It's okay to kill them, but don't waterboard them.
It's okay to kill them, but don't deprive them of sleep for 24 hours.
It's okay to kill them, but don't play a lot of pearl jam at them for two days.
I love the way they're fighting back on that.
And that by the way, that's exactly right.
It is a great way to illustrate exactly what's going on.
And the correct answer is that in the quest to defend and protect the country, both may have worthwhile purposes, the drone strikes and the interrogation techniques.
Anyway, folks, great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB.
Normally the CIA doesn't fight back.
Normally they just sit there and take it because there's nothing in it for them to fight back, because they can't detail their successes.
They cannot detail all the things they've done that work.
But now they are under a full-fledged assault by the Democrat Party and the American left in this country.
And I think it's great they're fighting back.
Normally they don't.
And it's it's been a policy of sit there and take it ever since the Frank Church committees in the Senate starting in the 1970s.
He was from Indiana, wasn't he?
Or Idaho, Frank Church, I forget where he was from.
But he was one of the uh one of the trail-blazing Democrats trying to take down the intelligence gathering apparatus of this country.
And uh he got he was uh had a lot of success in the process.
Ever since then, the CIA is kind of because they have to trudge up there and trudge up there and ask for money.
They they have to testify before various committees and so forth, explain themselves, justify their budgets and this kind of thing.
The latest controversy, or one of the controversies is who wrote the memo, and I love this.
Who wrote the memo?
Instructing everybody not to tell Colon Colonel Powell what was going on here, because if he found out what was going on in the dungeons of Club Gitmo, why he would be outraged.
Why he would blow a gasket and he would go public condemning the Bush administration.
And there's somebody running around claiming that he knows who said this and put it in an email, and Wolf Blitzers trying to get to the bottom of it.
Wolf Blitzer's gonna talk to Alberto Gonzalez trying to get to the bottom of they really want to find out who it was that was denying information to Colin Colonel Powell, the titular head of the Republican Party, by the way.
So there are a lot of things happening on this.
But the uh primary difference I see the CIA and its allies, if you will, fighting back.
One of them is Bob Carey, the former senator from uh Nebraska, former boy, you may remember as best as the former boyfriend of the actress Deborah Winger.
I regret having to write a piece that is critical of the Democrat members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Most of them are former colleagues and friends.
I hope they will remain friends after they read this.
For eight years I served on this committee.
Thanks to the 2005 and 2006 efforts of Senator McCain.
I do not have to wait to be certain our interrogation policies and procedures are aligned with our core values.
I also don't have to wait to know that we're fighting a war that's different than any in our past.
In the war against global jihadism, human intel and interrogation become more important, and I worry that the partisan nature of this report could make this kind of collection more difficult.
I do not need to read the report to know that the Democratic staff alone wrote it.
The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise the CIA was guilty and then had the singular purpose of trying to prove it.
When Congress created the intelligence committees in the 1970s, and Frank Church was one of the first chairmen, the purpose was for the people's representatives to stand above the fray and render balanced judgments about this most sensitive aspect of national security.
This committee departed from that high road and slipped into the same partisan mode that marks most of what happens on Crappetol Hill these days.
I, Bob Carey, have participated in two extensive investigations into intelligence failures.
And in both of these efforts, the committee staff examined documents and interviewed all of the people involved.
The Senate's Intelligence Committee staff chose to interview nobody.
Their rationale was that some officers were under investigation, could not be made available.
That's not persuasive.
Most officers were never under investigation, and for those who were, the process ended by 2012.
And that is the real key.
Most of them were not under investigation, but Obama came into office promising his lunatic fringe base that he was going to prosecute these people.
I don't know if you remember that or not, but he did.
Obama and his underlings were all just as happy as they could be.
Well, they were going to prosecute these interrogatives.
They were gonna get to the butt.
It was all about continuing this effort to portray the Iraq war as a total failure.
It was unnecessary.
It was reprehensible what they were doing.
See, Democrat staffers lied, folks, about why they never spoke to a single person from the CIA.
And yet we're supposed to believe it's a CIA who's lying.
And the Democrat staffers, these young little angels, why they're all just telling the truth.
As Bob Carey writes, fairness should dictate that the examination of documents alone will not eliminate the need for interviews conducted by the investigators.
Isolated emails, memos, transcripts.
Well, they can look much different when there's no context or perspective provided by those who sent, received, or recorded them.
The worst consequences of a partisan report can be seen in this disturbing fact.
It contains no recommendations.
And you know that is such an excellent point.
There aren't any recommendations.
For all the fault finding, for all of the guilt, the committee doesn't make one recommendation about how to change, how to improve, how to do things better, because it isn't about that.
This is a pure political document of partisan political destruction.
Oh.
And it also has another objective, and that's to save the reputation of the incompetent Diane Feinstein.
NBC reporter sees Democrat Senate report rewriting history and settling scores.
This would be Richard Engel, I believe.
Let's see.
Anyway, it is yeah, Richard Engel, NBC reporter.
It's a clip from MSNBC.
We have banned them here.
But Richard Engel uh took this committee to task for its torture report.
He said, I think this is really about changing the narrative of American history.
Everybody in the world knew what was going on, including, by the way, the Senate, which is now pretending to be a bit of a babe in the woods.
This is a Democrat reporter for NBC News, who is calling out the Senate Democrats and the staff on this committee.
And the Senate report also is publicly saying that the intel had nothing to do with securing the location of Osama bin Laden.
And I don't want to beat this aspect of it to death.
I wouldn't even waterboard it if I could.
But this is a major claim in the Democrat report.
It's a flat out lie.
Which makes it a perfect example of the level of mendacity of the entire Democrat staffer report.
They're out there trying to publicly convince people that they got absolutely no worthwhile intel about how to find Osama bin Laden.
And that's just not true.
How did we know where he was?
We found out he had a courier.
We had intel people get that was part of the discovery we had.
I think it might have been Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the interrogation of him that we found about Osama's courier.
And enabled us to follow him.
Where bin Laden was living just a couple clicks down from a police station in Abadabad, or wherever it was in Pakistan.
Now moving on to other domestic items from Breitbart.com.
President Barack Obama thinks that Christians should use the Christmas season and the Bible to understand the importance of immigration reform.
Now you may not remember this, but last year at this time, Obama told us to use Christmas to understand and appreciate Obamacare.
So like a crisis, Obama never lets a holiday go to waste either.
He said during an immigration town hall in Nashville.
He said, if we are serious about the Christmas season, now is the time to reflect on those who are strangers in our midst and remember what it was like to be a stranger.
Who do you think Obama's talking about here?
Obama reminded the town hall attendees in Nashville that the Christmas season was about a soon-to-be mother and a husband of modest means who were looking for a place to stay, but that there was no room at the inn.
As I said the day that I announced these executive actions, that we were once strangers too.
And part of what my faith teaches me is to look upon the stranger as part of myself.
And so during this Christmas season, that's a good place to start.
So once again, the supposedly deeply devout Obama betrays his abject ignorance of Christianity, and in this case, the Christmas story.
Because as we have previously discussed, Mary and Joseph were not homeless.
You know, homeless advocates tried to make that claim some years ago.
Remember that?
Mary and Joseph or the modern equivalent of today's homeless.
That's exactly right.
And they were not illegal aliens.
They were not illegal immigrants.
They were not looking for amnesty anywhere.
They were not looking for forgiveness for illegally crossing a border.
Mary and Joseph were only in Bethlehem because you had to pay your taxes in person then.
And so they made the trip to Bethlehem.
And they forgot to guarantee the reservation with their American Express card.
And so there was no room At the inn.
And so they had to seek out a place to stay in an unconventional location, and they found a manger.
And you know the rest of the story.
But to hear Barack Obama tell it, they're the modern equivalents of young children coming all the way up 45 days on a train from Central America.
They were not strangers, by the way, either.
They were not strangers in a strange land.
Joseph was born in Bethlehem.
Did you know that?
That's why he had to go back there to pay his taxes.
It was the law.
It's about 79 miles from Bethlehem to Nazareth.
And Obama said, I think the good book says, you know, don't throw stones in glass houses.
Well, that's not from the Bible either.
I'm sorry, folks.
It's an English proverb mentioned by Chaucer.
Round 1385.
5.
But I would go further.
I would say people who live in glass houses shouldn't live in glass houses.
So here's Obama out just trying to do whatever he can to draw moral equivalence, illegal aliens, to Mary and Joseph of the Christmas story, in order to justify whatever is happening with his executive amnesty program.
And then he went on and he taunted.
He said, Don't worry about it.
Future president, he's not going to overturn my amnesty.
He's not going to get rid of it.
A future president's not going to do that.
And then Obama said, you know what?
It might not even be five million.
I just might go all in.
I just might grant non-deportation status to every illegal here.
And I guarantee you, the next president is not going to undermine me.
The next president's not going to reverse this.
Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.
And then Obama told uh Latinos that immigration policy and the shift will not hurt them later on.
I'll explain that after we come back from a brief time out here at the EIP network, and more of your phone calls are coming up, too.
Here's Mitch in Port here on Michigan.
As we head back to the phones, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megadidos Rush from the most hated man minority in America.
I'm a uh I'm a pastor in a pulpit.
I'm the son of a police officer.
I am a longtime listener and the father of a military police officer at Gitmo.
Oh my God.
Do you have any friends?
I'm not sure anymore.
Yeah, I hear you.
So um you were talking about all the stuff and what's going on now at Gitmo.
My son just deployed out.
He got a uh a nine-month vacation down to Club Gitmo, and uh all he had to do to prepare for it was mustard gas and and you know, getting beat up and some spray and hazmat suits.
And and what's amazing is what a lot of people don't know is down there in his training, he's not to raise his voice.
He can't call them prisoners, they're detainees.
They all have their Xboxes, cable boxes, while outside while he's guarding, they have listening devices and they have to be careful of every word they say because the government, Big Dad, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
No, no, no.
The government has reporting devices all over the place.
Oh, the government has listening devices so as to find interrogators in violation of the of the behavior code.
They have to watch everything they say.
Our guard, my son is an MP, has to be careful of every word that's being recorded that he says all over the place while these guys sit in club yet mo with cable boxes and flat screen TVs.
Well, how do they get those?
Well, uh, apparently it's been the replacement for the waterboarding.
Oh, flat screen TVs.
They have it they haven't made down there, so he's been my son's been trained in uh not raising his voice, his sensitivity training, his own.
Now, okay, I I I believe all that.
But are you you you're telling me they've got flat screen TVs in their cells?
He said they have cable boxes, cable TV, and all of that set up in their cells.
In their cells.
That that was in his training that he just finished up, and in route even as we speak.
And they probably get to watch the Al-Qaeda network.
I'm not too sure about that.
Well, there is one.
I mean, I don't know if it's on television.
Clearly the Al-Qaeda people have a streaming network.
I mean, they've got sites and stuff.
Um flat screens in the cells.
It seems a little backwards, but when even when he was in Afghanistan at Badram guarding, he he had a prisoner, I'm sorry, a detainee, excuse me.
We don't want to break the ROE.
Stole his uh grabbed a hold of one of the keys to the handcuffs.
And so he was raising his voice to the guy saying you need to do this.
Well, he complained, and uh that went to my son's commander, my son got bucked a rank for a month for raising his voice at the detainee, trying to get the key back.
Now, come on, you've got to be kidding me.
I if I can make this up, I'd you know, hey, this is the kind of stuff that I don't think people understand.
You get docked a rank for raising a he got bucked a rank for mistreating the detainee by raising his voice at allowed him.
You know, I guess given who's running the show and given their perception of who the real bad guys are, and that we've got to prove we're not bad guys and maintain our values, and I guess this isn't that hard to believe.
But it is.
Say, folks, somebody just sent me a note claiming they heard something about a Christmas tree ornament uh during a commercial.
Let me tell you what it is.
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And we have uh we've made a golden EIB Christmas tree ornament.
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I had it over.
Ah, I've got it right here in the box.
I'm gonna for those of you watching on the Diddle Cam, I'll I'll pull it out of here.
It really looks cool on the tree.
Hold it up there.
It's I'm not gonna I can't zoom in because I don't have a hand for you, but hold up something black background.
I still can't see where anyway.
Go to Rush Limbaugh.com and you'll see it.
And you will you'll see what it looks like.
But it's the golden EIB microphone and the boom and my signature.
And it's uh it's a nice looking thing, and it's new.
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It makes it a really nice gift.
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You are part of the EIB family, and every year when you put this on your tree, you make the EIB network part of your family celebration.
So I've been remiss in not mentioning this, and I I just got a email from somebody, hey, I want one of those.
What is it?
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Now I want to go to audio soundbite here just for three things.
Diane Feinstein got a little testy with uh with Wolf Blitzer, because Wolf suggested that she might be putting Americans in danger with this report of hers.
And it was in the situation room last night.
Wolf Blitzer said, was it worth it?
Dify to release this report today, if in fact American lives, whether diplomats, military personnel, civilians are going to be in danger.
You've done a good job, certainly, of hyping the warnings.
Is it possible that something would happen?
Yes.
But it's possible that something happens even without this.
But if Americans are killed as a result of this report, and they tell you that, I assume you would feel guilty about that.
I would feel very badly, of course.
I mean, what do you think, Wolf Blitzer?
I mean, CN is doing this these days.
You are really hyping it to a point.
Obviously, they're gonna take 96 hours before the report came out to secure all our facilities.
Well, how big of okay, so we're knowingly releasing an incendiary partisan document that is gonna put people's lives at risk.
And so we're gonna give them 96 hours to batten down the hatches before we release it.
They're gonna take 96 hours before the report comes out to secure all of our facilities.
The very idea you're gonna do something that requires this above and beyond whatever measures we're already taking, it's outrageous.
This is outrageous.
This is outrageous.
Say it without screaming.
For crime ninthly sake.
And even Wolf Blitzer here.
I don't know, an out-of-body experience.
And Dyfy wasn't used to it.
You heard that.
I would feel very badly, of course.
I mean, what do you think, Wolf Blitzer?
Well, then why are you doing it, Dai Fi Feinstein?
Anyway, so they kept they kept going at it here.
You and I are friends, we've known each other for a long time.
CNN is not releasing those statements.
We're just reporting what the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are telling law enforcement and military personnel around the world.
That's the their words, not ours.
Right, Senator?
I just wanted to point out that this is.
You have pointed it out, Wolf.
Three times.
Let's go to the question.
You know, it here here again, okay.
So Wolf points it out, then he asks for forgiveness.
Essentially, hey, hey, Dai Fi, hey, we're just reporting what the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are telling law enforcement and military is their words not ours.
Please don't hit me again.
Yeah, yeah, we're friends, Dai Fi, my guy.
You're just reporting what these other people say is not our words, it's not our words, and our words.
Well, you've only reported it three times, you little fool.
What do you expect me to say to you?
Well, anyway, all of this, ladies and gentlemen, literally shocked Britt Hume.
And the fact that it shocked Britt Hume is a little surprising to me, but it shocked Britt Hume.
Yet the Beltway establishment is is slow to realize just who the modern Democrat Party really is.
This is the Kelly file last night.
And Megan Kelly said of Britt Hume, is this some sort of orthodoxy that it's just too tempting to rejoice in the sins if you view this as a sin that America has committed by summon this country any chance to do it'll be exploited?
Look, Diane Feinstein is a highly respected member of the Senate, and with good reason.
She's been one of the Senate's grown-ups, uh respected on both sides of the aisle for many years now.
This is unlike her, uh, Diane Feinstein we've known.
This does feed into party orthodoxy about the evils of the CIA and and all the rest of it.
But it is very hard to explain Diane Feinstein's behavior here.
I find it striking.
Okay.
I gotta be very careful, because they'll ask me back on Fox News Sunday to explain myself if I friends, Romans, countrymen.
So it comes as a shock.
Uh Diane Feinstein's who she is.
I know she's always been a partisan.
She has been one of the most this is the this is the I remember George H. W. Bush telling me that he thought he could work with Tom Foley.
He admitted to me that George Mitchell, most partisan guy in town, but Foley, we can work with Foley is a good guy.
I'm sitting there in disbelief listening to it.
And it was shortly after that, read my lips, no new taxes went by the wayside.
But come Diana Feinstein, you remember her campaign with uh the the guy used to be the husband of Ariana Huffington, he turned gay because of married to her.
What happened?
I what was it?
Michael Huffington.
Remember, he he ran for the Senate, and she's out there her organ calling him a uh uh uh anti-Semite, all kinds of stuff, and he's tracking her all over town, going into parties, trying to get her to stop and stop lying about him, and and she wouldn't do so.
But she's always been a partisan Democrat.
Uh anyway.
So there are people inside Beltway that are literally shocked Dai Fi is doing what she's doing.
And you and I aren't.
Why is that?
And no, I'm busy Sunday.
I'm I'm not gonna be anywhere near they can put a camera.
We have another PC politically correct controversy in the National Football League.
And we go to the audio sound bites.
This is Monday in Cincinnati.
The coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, Marvin Lewis, answering a question from an unidentified sports drive by.
Question coach.
Does the Browns quarterback uncertainty impact your preparation in any way this week?
That doesn't impact you at all.
You gotta go defend the offense, you don't defend the player.
Did you catch that?
Did you hear what he said?
You need me to read that back.
You heard right.
The coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, Marvin Lewis, was asked essentially, okay, look, you can play in the Browns.
Neither can they have Brian Hoyer be quarterback or Johnny Manzel, Johnny Football.
And a reporter, the sports drive-by wanted to know if that changed this indecision on a Browns part who a QB's gonna be, change the way the Bengals are going to prepare.
And Marvin Lewis said, It doesn't impact you at all.
You gotta defend the offense.
You don't defend a player, particularly a midget.
Meaning Johnny Football.
Johnny Football is white, so he's a white midget.
Marvin Lewis, the coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, is African American.
So there's not a race component here.
No, it's not.
It doesn't go in that direction.
So this controversy ended up being discussed on the NBC Sports Network.
And they had on there Mike Florio, who runs the NBC Sports Talk website, John Clayton of ESPN, Bumani Jones of ESPN, Michael Smith of ESPN, Stephen A. Smith of ESPN, Skip Bayless of ESPN, all talking about Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis calling Johnny Football a midget.
Midget, a term offensive to little people of the world.
The very horrible statement of using the word, well, when you're dealing with a midget.
That's horrible.
Little people, they're the ones that you kind of disrespect.
This is a politically incorrect what they consider to be an offensive term.
It was incendiary.
It was insensitive.
You don't sit there and, you know, call folks midgets.
You don't do that.
It's wrong for him to do it.
It was wrong.
And it can't be defended.
Marvin Lewis's flip, dismissive, arrogant comment was wrong on so many levels.
That term is offensive to many little people.
I hope it's offensive to all little people.
So you see, the sports drive.
If you if you had any doubt, by the way, about how far political correctness has gone and how permeated our sports culture, especially sports media.
That soundbite's all you have to hear.
No, no, no, no.
Little people are perfectly fine.
Hey, little guy, hey little man, hey little dude.
Fine and dandy.
Hey, midget, not acceptable.
Now, if Marvin Lewis has said, even if the QB is a dwarf, that would have been offensive, too.
Because obviously dwarfs don't play in the NFL.
They only act on Boston legal.
But they don't play in the NFL.
So the sports drive by is just they just pretzeled themselves into all kinds of different shapes of outrage here.
Now I don't know if little people are protesting.
Marvin Lewis apologized and apparently doubled down on it and got it trying to apologize, made it worse, one understand.
I know there's tears of sadness that uh comments about now as the realization the program is over for the day, settles in.
And then smiles break out with the realization that we're back to do it all over again tomorrow.
Thank you so much as always for being with us today, my friends.
Have a good one.
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