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Dec. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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You know, listening to this guy.
I'm sorry, listening to the president talking about censorship.
And his new pet phrase, that's not who we are.
About everything.
That's not who we are.
That's not who we are.
I don't know, folks.
I don't know how much more of this I can take.
I really don't.
I really don't.
This is sheer sophistry.
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So Obama.
He said Sony just made a mistake.
For what?
Caving to terrorists?
Obama just came to Cuba.
Cuba's a terrorist state in its own way.
The people we released are Cuban murderers.
Look, and then he then he started talking about, you know, we that wouldn't be who we are.
We what if what if we started uh self-censoring?
What if people stop making movies and stop saying thanks because they'd be afraid to defend somebody else?
We can't have that's not who we're what do you mean that's not who we half the people in this country are afraid to speak up.
Half of the people in this country are afraid to speak up out of fear of what something's gonna do to them.
Businesses are practically in some case afraid to open up because of the crap that they're gonna get from customers that may not agree with them or what have you.
There's a whole industry, the left has developed an entire industry of militant, quasi-violent censors.
You know, I don't like making any of this stuff personal because I can handle it.
The talk radio is among the most targeted.
Sony, sorry, I got no sympathy for you.
If you want to cater to the North Koreans, fine and dandy.
My friends, I've been doing this 25 years, and if you have been paying attention, you know how many attempts there have been made to get me to quote get my mind right.
It happens regularly.
There are all kinds of threats made and attempts to ruin me or to damage my business or what have you based on something I said that offended somebody.
Here's Obama.
That's not who we are.
We can't engage in self-censorship, we can't be afraid, we can't that's not who that's how the left survives is intimidating people that say things they don't agree with.
Obama's own party, Obama's own organization, move on.org, you whatever organizations, acorn you name it, whatever organizations running out of the White House, are built on intimidating opponents and silencing them.
Obama specializes in censorship.
Obama's friends specialize in censorship.
Obama's political allies, that's how they get done what they want to get.
They can't win in a debate of ideas.
They don't even want to go to the arena of ideas.
They don't want to debate.
They try to get rid of opposing views.
They don't want a level playing field, they don't want anybody else on the playing field.
And they engage in all kinds of of uh I mean despicable tactics to intimidate anybody and everybody who might even think or say one thing they disagree with.
They are the most intolerant bunch of petulant babies running around crying, but they are attempting to do real damage, and here he's up there daring to chastise people who cave to it when that's how he got where he is.
If the truth be known.
Yeah, we've got to make sure that uh we don't keep uh terrorism.
Uh what do you think he did seeking the IRS on on Catherine Engelbrecht and every other organization Tea Party try to get 501c3 fundraising status?
You think that was an intimidation?
Censorship, whatever you want to call it, they specialize in it.
In a way, it's kind of interesting to see them hoist on their own petard.
It's kind of interesting to see the way they react when it happens to them.
Sony being them.
The Norks being the equivalent of Acorn.
Except in this case, Acorn's not attacking conservatives, Acorn's attacking liberals.
And you see what a bunch of gutless wonders they are.
Caving.
Not only caving to North Korea, whoever the hackers are, but now caving to Al Sharpton.
In the midst of all this, the president stands up and says, This is not who we are, and that's not what we do, and it's not what we're gonna do.
From a man who's whose buddy Sololinski, his mentor, teaches these tactics, specializes in them.
And the American left today is one giant intimidation mafia.
And they use their buddies in the drive by media to do it as well.
I can't count the number of times that I have been misquoted, misrepresented, lied about, taken out of context, come under attack, attempted to be destroyed or what have you.
But I do not, I haven't changed, I have not altered one opinion I have about anything or anybody as a result of any of that.
And I and I I never would.
And I'm not I'm not asking for any gold star.
That's not my point here is you can resist this stuff.
I frankly don't understand people that don't.
I mean, let's say you're an advertiser, and uh you decide to advertise on some radio show or TV show, and all of a sudden you are hit with supposed emails and tweets uh threatening you and telling you that if you stay in business with that TV or radio show that you're gonna lose all these customers.
And then you find out, you find out that all of those emails, all those tweets, those tens of thousands of tweets are being sent by Twitter robots that are manufactured by ten people.
When you learn that ten people are responsible for all of those thousands of threatening tweets and emails you get, why don't you have the ability just to say, okay, screw it, I'm not gonna be intimidated by this.
And that's what the left does.
They've got a whole bunch of these robot or botnet type operations using Twitter, and uh new advertiser will show up on a radio or TV show, conservative, and all of a sudden that advertiser gets inundated with complaints that are made to look like residents in the town where the business exists.
And you find out that in most cases the emails don't even come from the same state, and that they're being created by ten people.
It's fakery, it's totally fraudulent.
But I would think when you once you're the advertiser and you're told this and you learn this that you can say, screw it, okay, it's not even real.
I don't have all these, there aren't millions and thousands and hundreds of people protesting my deciding to advertise here or there.
It's not, but that's what they do in more ways than one to try to intimidate people.
And it's not just advertisers, it's everybody.
They intimidate cartoonists, they intimidate op-ed writers.
They threaten, they intimidate any number of ways, anybody that might say anything they disagree with, and now all of a sudden it happens to them, with a bunch of hackers, maybe from North Korea, saying we're offended, you better not play that movie, the interview.
We're greatly offended by it, and they cave to it.
And so now Obama's up.
I'm sure he's mad.
Their side's not supposed to cave.
They're the ones that make people cave.
And here comes Sony, his buddies out there caving to all this.
Hey, hey, that's not who we are.
That's not what we do.
I don't know, folks.
It just it it is um it's it's amazing to watch this, I think.
I it's extremely frustrating to hear Obama go on and on, and That's not that's not who we are.
He just said that we can't let people who make movies be intimidated.
Too late.
Sorry.
They already are.
They've just admitted it.
But how about Nakula Nakula?
Obama threw the guy in jail for making a video, not even a movie, a YouTube video.
Yep, we can't let people who make movies be intimidated.
You did it.
You blamed an entire disaster at one of our consulates on this poor guy and his video that nobody saw.
And he was intimidated.
He willingly went to jail just to get out of the line of fire.
This guy ends up in jail.
Obama puts in there and Obama's out there.
We can't let people who make movies be intimidated.
And then Obama, you know what?
He said, I wish Sony had spoken to me first.
I wish they'd have called me.
I'd have told them what to do.
What would you have done?
Given them help on how to cave without looking like you're caving.
What would you have told them?
The message of this administration is we can't stop cyber war.
We can't stop.
We have our opinions, our options are limited.
I got it right here.
Suspicions at North Korea behind a destructive hacking attack against Sony and a threat against movie theaters are intensifying calls for a tougher U.S. steps to cut that country's access to hard currency.
At first glance, U.S. options are limited.
That's from our own government.
Whoa.
Our option here is a little sliver of a country where over half the people are starving and eating dog, and at night it's dark because they don't have enough electricity to turn on the lights, and we are limited in options.
Well, that's right, Mr. Limbaugh because the North Koreans have a chord with the with uh if you call them the TICOM with the myth.
Oh, yeah, the Chinese.
That's right.
Yeah, now we really are afraid of the Chinese.
I just I I think that this is hypocrisy, the face of it.
And it ticks me off.
Caving the cyber terrorists, caving to Al Sharpton.
And then as good liberals wanting credit for understanding, and wanting credit for compassion, and wanting credit for understanding.
We're sorry we offended you.
We didn't mean to offend you.
That's not who we are.
Is throwing a guy in jail for making an anti-Mohammed movie who we are.
It is leftists like Obama and every other Democrat in this country who are hellbent on making us self-censor.
The purpose of their intimidation is precisely that, to get us to shut up.
To get us to stop and think about what we're going to say, maybe not say it might offend somebody.
And the offended then might have a rally in town and say blow up a courthouse or something.
Oh, yeah.
So we we had better shut up.
Think Al Sharpton specializes in intimidation?
Yep.
Think he specializes in censorship?
is There's all kinds of censorship going on.
There's all kinds of intimidation going on against conservatives, against conservatives of the media.
Obama will not speak up against it ever.
He's in favor of it.
He teaches how it's done.
It's what community organizers do.
They're intimidators, they're agitators.
As you can tell, it ticks me off.
And let me give you an example of how it manifests itself.
Obama's executive amnesty, millions of illegal aliens.
Ramifications are now beginning to surface.
Tucson, Arizona police say that they are no longer going to enforce Arizona's landmark immigration law.
Among other things, the Arizona immigration law requires checking the immigration status of people they encounter in Routine law enforcement actions.
But now the police will only check immigration status if a person has a prior serious felony, has gang affiliations, or poses a national security threat.
The police chief said that it's it's no longer practical to try to enforce state law because immigration authorities don't respond.
Somebody state, the police chief says it's it doesn't make any sense.
It's not practical for us to enforce the law on immigration because federal immigration authorities don't respond.
For example, since July, his officers have called Border Patrol 11,000 times in the course of their daily duties, they've gotten 94 replies.
Since July, they call Border Patrol 11,000 times, 94 replies.
He said it's a futile effort to try to enforce the law that was just uh signed into law here in Arizona.
Now the chief here has been a vocal opponent of the law, and he understood that he was obligated to enforce it.
But then it got even worse when Obama granted unilateral amnesty.
Then all bets were off.
Then it was the immigration law was rendered pointless.
Because you know what, how about this?
How about a federal judge?
A federal judge intersects.
That law is unenforceable.
That law is unconscious.
State passes a law, federal judge comes and says, nope, no good.
So these people are throwing their hands up, not even enforcing the law they pass.
Why?
They're intimidated.
They're intimidated, and it doesn't do any good.
That's not who we are.
That's not who we are.
The President of the United States, who has a constitutional duty and swore an oath to uphold the law, instead uses his position to ignore laws that he and his party don't like.
And instead of using every constitutional weapon in their arsenal to fight, this gross abuse of presidential power, leaders of the opposition are also intimidated.
The Republican.
You want to talk about intimidated?
You want to talk about censorship?
The Republicans, in order to do what think they've got to parrot the policies of the Democrats, they've got to agree with, and maybe they do anyway.
Which I'm coming to believe is the actual case.
Merry Christmas, happy New Year, happy New Year's Eve to everybody from all of us here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
This is Gerald in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
I have one simple question that if I was ever at the debates, I would like to ask Hillary Clinton what happened to the approximately two to three million salary that her husband received while they were president.
Because I don't think she paid for a mortgage or made car payments, gas or electric bills, dry cleaning.
I don't recall anybody ever seen her shopping at Kruger or Publix.
So I don't know how she could be broke.
I'm wondering what happened to all that money that Bill made.
And I was wondering that some of it was paid to hush unknown bimbos, or did she lose it in the future market?
Well, no, I think if if if she were asked that question, if somebody and by the way, just a little heads up, it ain't gonna happen.
But if somebody did, my guess is that she would say, well, we had an unusually high legal bill brought on by the vast right-wing conspiracies baseless charges against my brave husband.
That's what she would say.
They that's what they did.
They claimed all their money went to legal bills.
Well, that was their own doing, right?
But Hillary, yeah, yeah.
Hillary Clinton has not driven a car since uh 1996.
Yeah, there was in a survey that the millennials were shocked.
Millennials was a survey of millennials, and they were shocked to learn two things about her.
She's 67, that to them is ancient, and that she hasn't driven a car since 1996.
And that shook them up.
Wait till they learn how she enabled Bill and the babes.
Wait till they learn that.
If they're if they're troubled by the fact that she's old at 67, and I had what what what pictures are they looking at?
Why was that a surprise?
Was my question.
No offense intended.
I mean.
But that's what uh that's what that's what they said.
By the way, how many of you have seen the movie Team America World Police?
You like that movie.
This is an animated movie, uh Marionette animated movie, and it's about a super secret group of American young super agents that are designed to take out Kim Jong-il in North Korea.
And Kim Jong-il recruits Aurik Barwin.
And this program makes that very clear, Alec Baldwin.
Aurik Borwin is used by Kim Jong-il as a propagandist, and all of Hollywood comes over as Kim Jong-il's trying to get a nuclear weapon or whatever it is.
And this movie, I'm telling you, I watched it because Snerdly sang its praises.
And it's sick in places.
It is literally sick.
Uh bodily fluid excretions feature prominently.
Anyway, Paramount has banned the showing of that movie now.
Because of the Norks.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge, societal evolution.
All right, we're let's do uh sort of an A B side-by-side comparison.
Obama now and Obama then.
This is Obama this afternoon at the press conference where Major Garrett was just captured taking single still shot pictures of Obama while he wasn't asking questions.
I guess he's fanboy.
Or maybe CBS cut back on cameraman to pay Colbert, and maybe another correspondence have to provide a pictures too.
Who knows?
Anyway, Obama's up there and and he uh got a question from an unidentified info babe who said, Did Sony make the right move in in pulling the movie, or does that set a dangerous precedent, dear leader?
We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.
Well, we do because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don't like or news reports that they don't like.
Or even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don't want to offend the sensibilities of somebody whose sensibilities probably need to be offended.
That's not who we are.
That's not what America's about.
I wish uh they'd spoken to me first.
Jesus, pardon me.
See, uh I'm at my wits and this not who we are.
I wish they spoke to me first.
I have all the answers.
What is this?
We can't engage in self-censorship because they don't want to offend the sensibilities of somebody's sensibilities that probably need to be offended.
You try, you try doing any satire or parody of anybody on the left, and nobody from Obama on down is going to come along and applaud your First Amendment right to do it.
They're gonna try to destroy you for doing it.
Self-censorship is exactly what Obama and other leftists like him want.
They want you afraid to speak up.
They want that.
That's exactly how they win.
Is having you afraid of being ratted out, have you afraid of being overheard, or have you afraid simply to say what you really believe just on basic principle?
They want you afraid to do that.
Here he's coming along.
We can't have that.
His party survives on that technique.
But even at that, you heard this.
We can't have this self-censorship.
We can't allow people to do this.
We can't not make movies just because it's going to offend somebody.
But back on September 25th of 2012, he said this.
In every country, there are those who find different religious beliefs threatening.
In every culture, those who love freedom for themselves must ask themselves how much they're willing to tolerate freedom for others.
That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks.
Sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.
Now I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video.
And I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity.
It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well.
Right.
And they put the guy in jail.
Where is the tolerance for this poor guy?
Nobody even saw this guy's little video.
You know, even back within the first two weeks of being immaculated.
Obama held a meeting with the joint congressional leadership of the White House, two weeks after being immaculated.
And he told John Boehner, you can't keep listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done.
And that was reported, by the way.
That's how I knew about it.
But he openly said, right to Bahner's face, and the other Republicans there too.
You just you just can't listen to Limbaugh.
That's not how things get.
No, you've got to stop doing that.
Is that was that trying to intimidate them, censor me, censor them, not.
And and not long after that, Boehner came down here where he has fundraising trip, played golf, and he stopped by the orifice here.
And we talked about that.
And he looked at me, he said, Yeah, I can't figure out why he was doing that.
I don't know why.
Why he said that.
Well, what the what's the point telling us to stop listening to you?
Which kind of took me aback.
I said, Well, Mr. Speaker, what he was hoping would happen is that just one of you Republicans, just one.
All it would take is one.
Just one of you would leave the White House and go to the microphones they have set up out there in the driveway and agree with him.
He was hoping that that's how you would define crossing the aisle and bipartisan.
He was hoping even you, Mr. Speaker.
This is what I told Boehner.
He was hoping you go out there and say we're not going to listen to Rush Limbaugh anymore.
That's what he wanted you to do.
That's what he was hoping you would do.
And Boehner said, Well, so he thinks that's ever going to happen.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
Let's we've got some sound bites.
I've been promising him here on this whole Sony thing that are really quite delectable.
I want to get started on them here.
First is a montage.
As I mentioned, George Clooney.
Uh and let me be honest about us.
I don't know George Clooney at all.
But something about Clooney I like, not his politics, but there's something about Clooney.
Clooney to me is our ear as Carrie Grant.
And I like Cary Grant.
I don't know anything about Kerry Grant either.
But but Clooney, when he's working, I mean, some he does like the Edmund Armoral movie and some of the other stuff.
But Clooney doesn't offend me.
I uh for whatever reason.
I Clooney is a likable guy to me.
Just being bluntly open and honest here.
And he sent a letter out.
A petition type letter, asking everybody in Hollywood to sign it, opposing caving to North Korea.
He sent a letter out essentially wanting everybody to back Sony up to stand together with Sony opposed to the hackers opposed to North Korea.
He didn't get one signature.
Not one signal from an actor, from a key grip, from a director, from a producer.
He didn't get one signature.
But the drive-bys loved it.
The drive-bys thought, wow, Clooney's outraged, and Clooney is courageous, and we love it.
And so we have a montage here of uh of an actor, George Clooney, who was married to Barbara Walters' most fascinating person of the year, with their comments on Clooney's petition.
Actor George Clooney took aim at Hollywood's elite.
George Clooney is outraged.
George Clooney is firing back.
George Clooney is speaking out.
George Clooney wrote a letter.
George Clooney, who lashed out calling it terrorism.
George Clooney seems to be a singular voice saying what he's saying.
I think what George Clooney said is right.
Clooney's exactly right.
That was Juan Williams.
You don't need the names there.
It's CNN and Fox.
and And Joe Scarborough was in there as uh as well.
And Chris Rock, well-known comedian, who it should be Chris Rock, need to remind you, says that he's not going to do stand-up on college campus anymore.
Because the kids don't find anything funny.
You want to talk about intimidated and sent students on college campus will not laugh anymore because they're afraid they're offend somebody.
You know, Chris Rock says, my job is to crack offensive jokes.
And I'm not going to do it on college campaign more because nobody there laughs at it.
Because they're too worried that their laughter would offend people.
But this is such a pretty good lesson on Hollywood liberals, too.
When the going gets tough, they fold like a cheap tent.
This is the New York Times Talks Forum.
Media columnist David Carr speaking to Chris Rock, and he said, You were you surprised that the normally courageous, fair-minded citizens of Hollywood did not stand up and stand with their brothers at Sony.
I mean, this whole thing is just scary, man.
Somebody, you know, your emails and it's your private stuff, and I don't know.
I mean, the whole town's scared.
Everybody's got to be scared.
No one knows what to, you know.
Nobody knows what to do.
Nobody knows what to do.
Nobody knows what to do, man.
The whole town is scared, dude.
We haven't the slightest idea what to do.
His weird man.
This is folding like a cheap tent.
Suit or what have you.
Then his personal email, nobody know what to do.
And I think that's true.
There's not a single soul out there knows what to do.
You know why?
Because nobody's focused on what to do.
Everybody's focused on what somebody's going to think of them if they do anything.
Because the whole town's built on buzz.
The whole town's built on image.
The whole town's built on perception.
The media can make you, the media can break you.
So there's fear of being broken by the media.
Here's F. Chuck Todd on the Today Show today, the uh co-host Mount Wower said, uh, they gotta come up with something public and visible.
Otherwise, they have no way of warning off people who want to try something like this in the future.
Just not acceptable, F. Chuck.
That's why uh frankly, I think they're a little bit stumped on how to respond.
I think that's why you got that phrase proportional response, which is code for we haven't figured out how to respond to this yet.
It's kind of like Obama and ISIS.
Uh we don't have a strategy yet.
What's the difference?
Well, they don't know what to do.
Chris Rock just said it.
And on CNN's New Day, well-known plagiarist, uh uh well-known alleged plagiarist, Farid Zakaria, and his GPS device showed up, and they they co-host uh Michaela.
You notice that new name?
Women at Michael with an A on the end of it?
You pronounce it Michaela.
Well, anyway, Michaela Pereira spoke with Fare Jacaria GPS host, Fare Jacari and GPS, about the U.S. response to the Sony cyber attack, and Michaela Pereira said, Should the United States do a retaliatory hack?
This is kind of like Don Levinson did a black hole, swallowed that plane.
Should we do should we do a retaliatory hack or a counter sort of?
That's verbatim, the question.
Should we do a retaliatory hack or a counter sort of?
And this is what the alleged plagiarist, Fareed Zakaria, GBS, said.
If there were a way to shut down that unit in the North Korean military that does this, that's an 1,800-man unit in the North Korean military.
That must be connected to the world, probably through Chinese servers.
We will have to have a very serious conversation with Beijing and say, you have got to let us do this and assist us in doing this.
Okay, so Farid Jacarius ZPS understands that the North Koreans have 800 man unit using Chicom servers.
So he wants us to beg the Chicoms for permission to retaliate.
That's what he said here.
We will have a very serious conversation with Beijing in the world.
And say that you have got to let us do this and assist us in doing this.
What's your question?
Do you have a question?
What do you mean?
Who do well, I guess we could hack their nuclear program and hack their nuclear test program.
I don't know.
The CNN people, they want retaliatory acts.
Well, we think okay, they hacked us, let's hack them back.
Let's just hack them.
I thought we did hack them when we sent Dennis Rodman over there, but apparently that's not what that was a you gotta hear this.
Mark Potter, NBC Nightly News last night.
They're all excited about the embargo being lifted because now, now finally, all those 1957 Chevies and Fords are gonna be able to be repaired.
Our tour guide is Armando Pruna, who makes his living driving tourists around Havana in his fully restored 1956 Chevy Bel Air.
Around the bin along the harbor, we come upon Havana's Central Park, where the owners of these vintage American cars have used Cuban ingenuity for years to keep them running.
The trade embargo has kept them from buying American parts since 1961.
They all hope that changes soon.
Buying American parts in Cuba, would that be a good day for you?
Would you like that?
Yeah, I like to very much.
And what do you say?
President Obama is very much responsible for you being able to drive your Yes, we love President Obama here in Havana.
We live for Obama.
We wish Obama would come and get rid of Castro or join Castro, but we love Obama.
These people don't stop.
So they haven't been able, other than using Cuban ingenuity to repair their 57 Chevies because of the embargo.
You can't find a part for a 57 Chevy anywhere in the world.
Because the U.S. embargo.
I mean, that's the s the the idiocy.
That attaches it's our fault.
Folks, it's our fault.
That's what the Cubans is.
It's backwards.
People still driving 1957 cars because of us.
Not a communist regime.
Not lack of freedom.
No, it's our fault.
Same story, never ends, but we have to.
We're out of time here.
Busy broadcast Friday has come to a screeching halt.
But hope you have a great weekend, folks.
We will be here on Monday.
You can count on it.
Something for you to look forward to, in addition to everything else.
All of the reporters Obama called on in a press conference were infobabes.
All women, no men.
Guess there's a war on men, the White House.
Where's the outrage?
See you Monday, folks.
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