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Dec. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It is time, my friends, never a dull moment.
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Rush Limbaugh, well known Hall of Fame broadcaster, I've been doing this for a long time.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
Friday.
And I guess I shouldn't let it get to me.
But I am steaming.
I am steaming over the son of a little pot bellied dictator.
Being able to determine what movies I can see.
What movies get me?
This is outrageous.
And the AP has a story saying that our options are limited.
Our options are limited.
Well, you talk about America's days as a superpower are effectively over.
If this is our attitude, the Associated Press suspicions at the Norks were behind a destructive hacking attack against Sony Pictures and a threat against Sony uh not Sony, but four different movie theater chains.
Suspicions are intensifying calls for tougher U.S. steps to cut North Korea's access to hard currency and to declare it once more as the state sponsor.
Well, that'll really scare them.
That's what we need.
That's what we let's get Marie Harf.
Let's get that little uh sorry, let's get the spokes babe over to state Marie Harf, and let's have her stand up at a press conference and declare once more that the Norks are a state sponsored terrorism, and then we'll watch Kim Jong-un quake in fear.
Right.
At first glance, says the AP, U.S. options for responding to the hacking attack are limited.
Bringing the shadowy hackers to justice appears a distant prosper, of course.
We're never gonna get to the bottom of it.
Meanwhile, if we were being consistent here, Sony executives would be in jail today.
If you remember last September, on uh the 11th of September, it was in Cairo, the State Department in our embassy in Cairo issued an apology for something that hadn't happened.
They issued a preemptive apology for a video made by Bakula Amasul Nosehair, whatever his name was that nobody had ever seen, but was thought to inspire anti-U.S.
violence part of Islamic jihadists if they did see it.
So we issue this apology in advance that that that was supposed to quell any protests by apologizing in advance.
We were admitting guilt, and hopefully the anti-American protesters in Cairo would stand down.
Well, we all know what happened, and Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice for weeks blamed this video.
And they said we cannot tolerate this.
We cannot tolerate these kinds of insults to decent people.
And so the filmmaker was in jail, and he continued to be blamed for everything that happened.
Ben Gazi, you name it, that poor little filmmaker in his little YouTube video nobody ever saw was blamed.
Well, hey, Sony made a movie.
It offended the North Koreans.
That's not who we are, right?
So by all rights, Sony executives ought to be in jail with Al Sharpton, the only one granted visiting rights.
I mean, if we're going to be consistent, we've offended the North Koreans, we've provoked the North Koreans.
Oh no, they might do something really mean to us, and we don't have any options, which means we ain't a superpower for very much longer.
And not only, ladies and gentlemen, I'm literally steaming over this, but I'm also steaming about something else.
Did you see where Al Sharpton met with that airhead uh sorry the head of the uh Sony Amy Pascal, is that a the She's the co-chairman of Sony Pictures.
Al Sharpton got 90 minutes with this woman yesterday.
Steven Spielberg could not get 90 minutes with this woman.
George Lucas could not get Clint Eastwood could not get a 90-minute meeting with the co-chair of Sony Pictures, but Al Sharpton and the National Action Network and the Traveling Entourage got 90 minutes.
And afterwards, Sharpton held a news conference.
And he said the jury's still out on whether Amy Pascal is racist or not.
After 90 minutes, the jury is still out.
Let's just hope it's not a grand jury that's still out.
If it's a grand jury that's still out, Sharpton's gonna take his lumps again.
What the jury is still out means Sharpton hasn't got the check yet.
And the check's probably gonna be in the tune of what does he owe the government four and a half million dollars?
Foreman is that's probably what the check is gonna be, maybe in installments, so that it's gonna be harder to track.
But anyway, the jury being out means that the Reverend Sharpton uh will take some time to determine whether or not Amy Pascal is racist or not.
In addition to that, if you want to talk about a country in decline, while I sadly laugh about this, Al Sharpton, who is a bona fide, certified purveyor of hoaxes and frauds, is an acknowledged tax cheat.
Al Sharpton announced that Sony has agreed to form a working group to address racism in Hollywood.
The working group will include Sharpton's National Action Network, the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advance of the Liberal Colored People, and the Black Women's Roundtable.
That group will now have consultation rights with Sony on movies that Sony makes.
That group potentially will have veto power over how Sony portrays black life and black characters in its movies.
So in addition to Sony retiring Sharpton's tax debt, we now know what Sharpton got as his payoff for ministering to Ms. Pascal, because that's what you I mean, Clinton, you know, with Lewinsky and all that, he had to minister with the Reverend Jackson.
I'm sure they shared techniques.
But it was portrayed to us as a come to Jesus meeting.
Clinton admitting to Jackson where he had gone wrong and Jackson absolving Clinton of any wrongdoing, and then both of them sharing how to get away with it the next time.
Well, that's the same thing that happened here.
Al Sharpton ministering to Amy Pascal.
So Sharpton and his race baiting buddies are now going to be deciding apparently what movies get made in Hollywood and who makes those movies.
I can't wait for the real story of Tawana Brawley.
That will be that will be when we when we see that.
That's when we'll know what really happened here.
The real story of Tawana Brawley.
Oh, and of course, starring Beyonce.
And uh I don't know.
Who would they put in there as Steven Pagonis?
The cop that got hoaxed and defrauded.
Some evil white guy that Sharp it'll pick.
It'll turn him into the bad guy.
And of course, who will play Sharp Sharpton will play Sharpton?
Oh ho ho ho!
Then nobody else suitable.
That's a movie I'll bet.
The Sony execs, can you imagine an email exchange between Amy Pascal and Michael Linton, who is the CEO of Sony after this meeting.
Amy Pascal writes to Linton, okay, what do we do now?
And Linton says, You think Obama would like a movie?
The real story of Tawana Brawley.
Why don't you do that?
Amy Pascal says, great idea.
You think we can make good with Angelina Jolie by giving her a starring role in that movie.
Yeah, she could be Tawana Brawley.
Angelina Jolie as Tawana Brawley and everybody could get even with everybody else over whatever else needs to be gotten even with here.
But wait, folks, it gets better.
It gets better.
The Reverend Sharpton also said in this same 90-minute meeting that he took with Amy Pascal at Sony.
He said that he took her, Pascal and Sony.
Now get this.
Sharpton came out and said he took them to task for caving North Koreans.
And he told Sharpton came out, he said he gave them the business.
Sharpton came out, he ripped into them, he criticized them for caving to the Norks and for withdrawing the movie, the interview from theater.
I kid you not.
A movie company caving to Al Sharpton listens to Al Sharpton complain to them that they cave to the North Koreans.
But really, no, wait a minute.
Who can blame him?
I mean, the Norks are muscling in on his turf.
You know, only one group here gets to intimidate Hollywood, and it ain't gonna be Kim Jong-un.
It's gonna be Al Sharpton, the National Action Network and the Urban League and the King.
No, you can't.
Everything I've told you is true, folks.
This is not a parody, it's not satire, it's it's not an audition for CBS.
I don't want to do a show there.
You remember a quote that I made back when the Les Moonvest, who, by the way, may I make a prediction to you?
Les Moonvest, the current CBS CEO as ambassador to Cuba.
When we establish full diplomatic ties, when we build our embassy, Les Moonvest, ambassador to Cuba.
CNN make a note.
Bring that quote out when it happens.
See, and I'm quoting me all day today with various experts.
We have the soundbites coming up.
You know, Rush Limbaugh said, back when, yes, we're quoting Rush Limbaugh, these CNN people.
I like they can't believe that they're actually quoting me, but then they do, and they say, Yeah, remember when CBS hired uh Colbert?
Limbaugh said it was a direct attack on the heartland of a they're discussing that on CNN today, whether I was right about it.
Again, oh yeah, they dragged again.
Well, because last night was the last episode of the Colbert rapport.
And, you know, everybody's he's not, he's not political.
Come on, he made fun of him, so he's not a liberal guy.
You guys are all wrong.
Did you see the star-studded, never-ending guest list of celebrities that showed up to perform and sang and do all the last you can't find a moderate among them, much less a conservative.
Anyway, not a big deal.
Get to that in greater detail in just a moment.
Al Sharpton let it be known in his press conference after the meeting with Amy Pascal that he is going to have a role in deciding what movies Sony can and can't make and can and can't show.
Not some damn North Koreans who aren't even down for the struggle.
I am not making any of this up.
Sharpton said, and I quote, we discussed that there was a serious and dangerous precedent that has been established where anonymous hackers can intimidate, intimidate the actual life in America.
And that role is reserved for civil rights activists like Sharpton and Jackson, and they're not gonna give it up to the North Koreans.
So yeah, he did.
He hit Sony for caving to the North Koreans while Sony was caving to him.
You can't make this stuff.
Now, in the meantime, George Clooney is out there.
He sent a letter around and a petition he wanted everybody in Hollywood to sign it saying, hell no, we're not gonna buckle the pressure.
Hell no, we're not gonna do what the North Korean and not one person would sign, not one Hollywood, not one Hollywood person would sign Clooney's letter.
And so the drive-bys are running around, they're just a gog.
They can't believe what a real man Clooney is.
The only man in Hollywood with the guts to stand up to the Norks, and they're praising him to the hilt and so forth.
And this, of course, after his wife was named woman of the year for marrying him.
Her singular achievement, Marrying George Clooney made her the most fascinating person in the world last Friday with Barbara Walters.
We really are out of options.
We do not have any options.
Our options are limited, ladies and gentlemen.
So it's this is going to be a gangbuster barn burner day.
Not all good news for the left.
All of this is good news for the left.
At the end of the day, it's all good news, but some isn't.
The FCC yesterday ruled that the name Redskins is not profane and is not obscene, and therefore the FCC is not going to tell any television stations that they cannot air that name.
The FCC has no, they they really have no uh power over networks at large, their powers over licensed stations, but networks own them in many cases.
But it was a formal ruling.
The FCC rejected calls to yank the broadcast licenses of, in this case, it was a radio station owned by the owner of the Redskins, Daniel Snyder.
And the and the reason, get this.
Dan Snyder owns a Redskins, and he owns a radio station, and this group demanded the FCC suspend his license for excessively using the name Redskins on his own radio station, talking about his own football team.
And we're just lucky we dodged a bullet.
Can you imagine if the FCC would have said okay and yanked the license?
We're not far from something like that happening.
The idea the FCC did not yank the license is news.
Now, in the old days, this would be the equivalent of an airliner landing safely.
It would never make the news.
The fact the FCC decided not to yank the license is precisely news today.
Because the opposite in many people's minds is much more likely to happen.
An Obama-led agency using dictatorial powers to deny a free market enterprise its own free market freedom.
Quick time out, my friends.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, your host was on the news quite a bit since we were last together.
Last night on PBS Charlie Rose, New York Times columnist Tommy Loopy Friedman was the guest.
And this is really inane.
I mean, when you when you if you if you listen to this, keep in mind who won the November elections, and by how much.
Charlie Rose says, Mr. Friedman, Mr. Thomas Loopy Friedman, do you think that the politics on Cuba may change?
I mean, you look at some of the early reaction on the Republican side to Cuba, Marco Rubio, even Jeb Bush.
They're both from Florida, but how long, you know, is that party going to be dragged around by the base?
Really, Charlie, in my next life.
I want to be part of the base.
The base has all the fun, okay?
Let's look at just the Cuban American issue.
Two-thirds of Cuban Americans, they read in the poll this morning, support this.
Because it's a new generation.
They don't carry the feelings, very legitimate feelings of their parents having been exiled forcibly in some cases.
So I think ultimately you've got to pay attention to that.
You can't just be responding to what Rush Limbaugh is stoking up in the base.
Too many times we start the day by saying, Oh, where's the base?
Where's the base?
Okay.
Well, I think a lot of what the last election about was real disgust with that.
No, what real disgust with what?
The last election?
The real disgust was with the base.
How does that fit?
The base is who engineered this election victory for the Republicans.
The base and a cross section of American people at large engineered this massive landslide defeat for the Democrats.
What is this loopy guy talking about?
The last election, a real disgust with the base.
No, the real disgust with the base is with people like you, Mr. Friedman, and the Republican leadership and the Democrat establishment.
They are the ones with problems for the Republican base.
You got to pay attention to that, Charlie.
It can't just be responding to what Rush Limbaugh is stoking up in the they're not.
The base is being urinated on.
The base is not yanking anybody around by the chain.
These guys, I tell you, they are so cloistered, and they're so caught up in the daily soap opera script, the narrative, what if that they are they're 180 degrees out of phase what is really happening, and they are considered the brightest among us.
Brief time out, my friends, back in a jiffy.
I want to expand on a little point that I made yesterday about what it is that really has the Sony executives scared outside of Al Sharpton.
And make no mistake, they are scared of Al Sharpton.
We may laugh at it, and we would be right to laugh at it, but I'm telling you, it is a great indicator of where we are now.
The executives at Sony particularly is Amy Pascal, but I'm sure all of them are scared to death of Al Sharpton.
They're scared to death of what Sharpton could mean to their business.
Stop and think about that for a second.
But aside from that, one of the things that's really driving the fear at Sony, I believe, I could be wrong, doubt it, but I think one of the major fears is the private information being revealed in person-to-person emails, such as what this producer Scott Rudin thinks of Angelina Jolie and how Amy Pascal answers.
And what Amy Pascal thinks of whoever else.
I mean, it's it it is it's high school on parade.
Remember in high school, the big click, whether you were in it or not, there was something you noticed.
Between class, members of the clique were passing notes to each other in the hallway on the way to the next class.
If you weren't in the clique, you wanted to be in on a click so you could get the note.
And if you were in the click and got the note, then you were even if you if if you were only one of two or three people sharing the note, then you were at the really high point of the click.
Well, those notes are the equivalent of this email in the in the big click, and and everybody's seeing now.
And we're finding out that these great humanitarians are nothing of the sort.
And we're finding out that these colorblind, great lead-by-example liberals are nothing of the kind.
They're not colorblind at all.
They're just as racial and racist as anybody else they criticize are.
We find out they mock President Obama because of his race.
They make fun of black actors.
They make fun of what they think are talentless actors.
They rip and criticize massive ego, no talent actors, hello, Angelina Jolie, in these emails.
And I really believe that it is the it's the threat of even more of those being released that has these Sony executives in a dither.
I really, really do.
And I think there's evidence to support this.
Have you noticed, ladies and gentlemen, that the entertainment luminati from the Oprah on Up or Down, depending on where you place her, are all suggesting.
They're coming out their very best adult voices and their most mature attitudes.
And they are tisk tisking the media for even publishing the content of these emails.
And they are quietly to loudly, too forcefully to pleadingly asking, begging, demanding, suggesting to the media that they not publish.
The details of these emails discovered via the hack.
Because it's just beneath us.
Oh yes.
No one needs to know this.
None of these emails would have been written had the people involved known that everybody was going to read them, and therefore they're not really anybody else's business.
Tisk.
You in the media shouldn't be writing and publishing these emails because it's just it's just why helping the hackers.
It's helping those who are threatening our dear friends in the Hollywood community at Sony and so forth.
Now, isn't that telling too?
I mean, the very same people, you know, who are who are hellbent on finding every bit of information on their political enemies they can and then disseminating it, and then using it and then trying to destroy people, are now saying, uh-uh, not us, not us, don't reveal our private community.
No, no, no, no.
The media is, I they shouldn't be helping the hackers by doing this.
Is really nobody.
This is so beneath who we are.
Yeah, right.
So I'm sorry, this is the big fear.
If you ask me, and it's at its root, it's it's high school.
And the the thing is that all of these people who are groveled over and coddled are finding out what people really think of them.
And the low information voter and movie buyer, box office attendees, they are finding out what their bosses think of these people, and vice versa.
And that the idea we shouldn't be publishing, no, no, no, no.
This is terrible.
This is so in it's it's irrelevant what is happening in these emails.
So they don't want anything known about them.
These are the same people, ladies and gentlemen, that are doing everything they can.
Let me let me let's run a little spearmint here, if you will.
Just thinking of a little thought spearmint.
What if experiment?
I mean, spearmint for those in real linda.
What if this play along with me here?
What if instead of mocking Kim Jong-un, what if Sony had made a movie mocking our dear leader, Barack Hussein Oh?
What if Seth Rogan and James Franco and the whole cast of the interview happened to star in a movie that mocked Obama?
Now let's not even include, I mean, the the interview is about the CIA asking two uh journalists to assassinate Kim Jong-un.
Let's take that out of, of course.
Our pretend movie in our thought experiment here.
Let's just say Sony going to be doing a movie mocking Obama.
Do you think that George Clooney would be writing people emails saying, do not object to this?
We are artists.
This is free speech.
We must allow the creative community its outlet.
We must permit people to make the movies of their dreams and desires, and it is not our business to censor them.
Do you think that there would be calls from all over the place to pull a movie that mocked Obama?
Do you think there would be pressure brought to bear on movie theaters not to exhibit, i.e., show a movie that mocked Obama?
Would there be threats?
Maybe from some of the same people incensed over what the North Koreans are doing.
Can you imagine the same people angry at Sony for caving to the North Koreans?
You think that they would be angry at Sony for caving on a movie mocking Obama?
Nope, they'd be supportive of that.
They would be leading the charge to make Sony cave.
If there's a movie mocking Obama, you know as well as I do that this same bunch from Oprah on down or up, whoever, would be all over Sony to pull that movie and not show it anywhere and not put it on the web, not make it available to torrent sites, not make it available for sale, no video on demand, no nothing.
Same people demanding that we not cave to North Korea would be demanding that Sony cave to Obama.
And I mention this thought spearment only to illustrate the uh the hypocrisy of what's going on.
Now, but it doesn't change one thing.
It really is outrageous.
I mean, it it is it is supreme cowardice to do this.
And by the way, the FBI has made it official now.
The FBI says that this is a North Korean hack.
Now the hackers, whoever they are, have issued a letter.
They sent an email to the executives at Sony, praising them for withdrawing the movie, the interview.
I have in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers here, I have a copy of the email, the hackers sent to Sony.
It reads in part, it is, and I'm going to read it as it's written.
It is very wise that you have made a decision to cancel a release of the interview.
It'll be very useful for you.
We still have you sensitive and private data.
We ensure the security of your data unless you make additional trouble.
The email then demands that Sony continue to cooperate with further demands from the hackers, or else they will release more data.
Specifically, the hackers demand that all traces of the movie be wiped from the face of the internet.
They say, now we want you never let the movie released, distributed, or leaked in any form of, for instance, DVD or piracy.
And we want everything related to the movie, including its trailers as well as its full version, down from any website hosting them immediately.
So see, you you you you you cower and you cave to terrorists, cyber or otherwise, and they just keep coming at you with more demands.
And now, now that Sony's done the right thing, now that Sony's caved, now that Sony's not going to play the movie, now that Sony is not going to put it in the theaters, the theaters aren't going to run it, the hackers are back with more threats.
We will release even more of your secure data if you do not do what we ask.
And there's no limits on what they can demand now, since Sony has caved.
America as a superpower.
You know how you can tell that America is a superpower, maybe in his last days, is by looking at the way.
Here we have a bunch of hackers.
I don't know if it's North Koreans or whoever, a bunch of hackers have brought a major movie studio owned by one of the world's largest technology firms, Sony, to its knees.
And the State Department and other officials of the U.S. government admitting openly our options to deal with this are limited.
Now, if you happen to be the mullahs in North uh in Iran looking at this, if you happen to be uh Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, he happened to be anybody.
Imagine you're the Castro brothers, and you see a picture of Obama sniffing a Cuban cigar at a White House party last night, Wednesday night, I'm sorry, and then you see the government saying, Oh my god, this is why I got into government.
That's what Marine Hart said.
This is why I did it.
This is the reason I wanted to get the government do such productive things, is opening up relations with Cuba.
And the regime talking about inviting Castro, what in the world would you think you couldn't get away with the United States.
And we still have two more years of this.
This Cuba thing, it's just the tip of the iceberg, as I warned effectively mere days ago.
It's open line Friday, Rush Linbaugh, and we'll get to your phone calls here in just a second.
A couple of more sound bites first.
This is uh yesterday, late in the afternoon on CNN.
Uh Brooke Baldwin, who happens to be Chuck Barkley's favorite info babe at CNN.
You know how I know that.
It's because she is the one who gets all the interviews with Chuck.
Yep.
So that's on assuming that that Charles Barclay favorite info babe is Brooke Baldwin, CNN.
So yesterday afternoon, she's talking with the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
There's nothing to do with Barclay.
I'm just identifying who she is for you here.
And she's quoting me in asking him a question, and she can't believe that she's quoting me.
So she says it twice as as because obviously she thinks her audience will be appalled that she's quoting me.
So here's just real fast here, 17 seconds.
Let me quote here, Rush Limbaugh.
Let me quote Rush Limbaugh, and this is what uh he said.
This is what he said after the Cuba announcement.
It's quote just the beginning.
This is just a teaser, an appetizer for what is on tap the next two years.
What else might we see?
I wonder, did they have to give her a bonus for reading that off the prompter?
Because it's clear that Brooke Baldwin didn't really want to have to quote me there.
Let me quote here Rush Limbaugh.
Let me quote Rush Limbaugh.
And this is what he said.
This I'm not quoting Rush Limbaugh here.
You believe it.
And listen, look what Rush Limbaugh said after the Cuban, and then they quote me, it's perfectly reasonable.
Just the beginning.
This is just a teaser, an appetizer for what's on tap the next two years.
What else might we see?
Doug Brinkley with the answer.
A rejection of the Keystone Pipeline.
He'll maybe come an environmental hero for doing it because it's one of the big issues of our time.
Traveling, cutting deals with China.
He is going to be also an executive power president signing things, big national monuments in the West.
You're going to see his environmental record, both with climate and here at home be really upgraded on his list of priorities.
Sounds like Brinkley already knows what Obama's going to do.
Brinkley's an historian.
Presidential historian deals with what presidents do after the fact, but he knows what Obama's going to do.
Now she presents this quote of mine, and Doug Brinkley didn't think it's odd.
He was eager.
He couldn't wait to answer that question.
He couldn't wait to react to that.
Oh, yeah, man, like Obama is going to reject the Keystone Pipeline.
Yeah, man.
And he's going to become an environmental hero for doing it.
Because it's one of the big issues of our time.
Traveling could have cut deal with China.
By the way, the latest is that the Chicoms assisted the Norks in the hack of Sony.
Yes, Rebob.
So Doug Brinkley, apparently, these next two years, in addition to whatever else, Obama is just gonna wreck the energy industry.
While he make well, that's what's gonna happen if Obama's energy agenda wrecks the existing energy industry in this country.
So if Obama's gonna implement his energy ideas by definition, that's why Brinkley's so excited here.
Oh yeah, man, Keystone plank line.
Yeah, man, we're gonna keep oil out of this country.
Yeah, man, we're gonna make sure it doesn't get here and pollute.
Yeah, and that's just the beginning, man.
And then he's gonna use executive power, and he's gonna do real national monuments in the West, Brooke.
Oh, it's gonna be so cool.
National Monuments in the West.
Of what?
Him.
Put himself up at Mount Rushmore.
Maybe change the name from Mount Rushmore because it has my name in it.
We can't have that.
Mount Obama.
And then find somebody to engrave his likeness.
What national monuments here are we talking about?
His environmental record, both with climate and here at home.
Really upgraded on his list of priorities.
Okay, I intended to get a phone call in here, but it's just as well that I didn't, because the first call wants advice on a career in politics.
And I can't well do that in a couple of minutes.
So that's that's Robin on Idaho Falls.
So we'll get to a lot of your calls today, given it it's open on Friday, and that's the purpose.
Be back.
Continue after this.
All right, my friends, the first hour of the broadcast is in the can here, but we haven't even really scratched the surface on reactions to Sony caving to the North Koreans.
We got some really funny, great sound bites coming up on this, as well as, of course, my commentary added in.
And uh, still some sound bites featuring your beloved host in the news.
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