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CENTCOM, the Central Command has been hacked.
And ISIS and related groups taking credit for it.
They've hacked the Twitter, if I've got this right.
The Twitter and Facebook, for some reason, my Drudge page will not load today.
There's either something wrong with this server or there's more traffic than his farm can handle, which I've never known to exist.
Wait a minute.
ISIS hacks military.
Yep.
ISIS is claiming to hack Facebook and Twitter accounts of the Central Command.
And Josh Ernest said, yeah, well, we're taking this fairly seriously.
Really, pal?
You're taking this seriously?
Well, yeah, you know, it's just the social accounts.
It's just Twitter and Facebook.
Well, sadly, we have a whole lot of Americans who think everything said on Twitter and Facebook is the God gospel truth.
So there.
Do you ever think you would hear something like this?
ISIS.
We never heard of ISIS last year.
And then we never heard of the Coruscant group.
Obama just totally made that up.
Because Obama claimed that we had wiped out Al-Qaeda.
Obama claimed that we'd wiped out terrorism.
Obama claimed since he became elected, we've wiped him out.
And then Al-Qaeda kept reconstituting and kept mounting attacks.
And then ISIS came along.
And Obama says calling him the Corusc to try to make it look like there's some brand new offshoot that sprung up after we wiped him out.
And the fact is there is no Coruscant group.
They just made the name up.
And now ISIS has hacked the social media accounts of the United States Military Central Command in the way.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
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This is a story from the Associated Press.
And what the AP is doing here, the AP is pulling out all the stops to keep the House from passing a bill that would defund a few of the Department of Homeland Security departments that would carry out Obama's executive amnesty.
Die hard, House Conservatives bungled a coup against John Boehner, but now look like winners, pushing Republicans farther right.
Rather than punish and isolate those who opposed him as leader, Boehner surprised many on Friday by embracing an immigration plan that's tougher than lawmakers had expected.
It would block Obama's recent limits on deportations and undue protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
The House is heading toward a vote on this on Wednesday.
Now, so what is happening here, I think the AP is trying to publicly humiliate, embarrass, and shame Boehner By virtue of this story claiming that he has embraced the agenda of the radical right.
And they offer as proof that Boehner is embracing the agenda of the radical right in the House, that he's allowing this vote on Wednesday.
AP pulling out all the stops to keep the House from passing this bill.
And what this bill would do would defund a few of the Department of Homeland Security departments that would have to carry out Obama's executive amnesty.
Now, this has long been theorized as something that the House Republicans could do.
Just deny Obama the money for this department, that department.
If he wants to do an executive amnesty, he's going to need money in order to have these people naturalized, given amnesty taken care of.
And so the theory has been, okay, we'll just defund that department, we'll defund that department, that one over there, and he can't do it.
And the AP is livid, is livid that this might happen.
And so this story, I'm convinced, is an effort pulling up all the stops to keep the House from actually passing this bill.
And the way the AP is doing it, they're trying to shame Boehner publicly by claiming that he has been weakened.
Oh, yeah, instead of getting even with these guys that voted against him, instead of punishing these guys, and instead of sending him to the gallows, instead of sending him to the guillotine, Boehner is embracing them.
And by embracing them, he's becoming what they're trying to shame the guy.
This is exactly what the media does.
The media knows.
The media knows that establishment Republicans want to be in the click.
The media knows the established Republicans want to be loved by the media.
The media knows the establishment Republicans want to be part of the movement and shaking of what's going on in the Capitol.
And the media knows the best way to embarrass these guys is to classify them or characterize them as conservatives, as right-wingers.
Because that alone disqualifies you from membership in the upper echelons of the ruling class.
We're not going to let any conservatives in this bunch.
And so here's a story saying that Boehner, rather than being strong and rather than being responsible, and rather than treating these traitors who voted against him in a standard way, Boehner's embarrassed.
They're really trying to embarrass Boehner.
They're really trying to, I don't know to what extent this is true is the point.
But the AP says, as the rebellious hardliners celebrated, mainstream Republicans said that Boehner's decision probably portends firmly conservative approaches to other issues.
Really?
I would like for that to be the case.
Could somebody name one for me?
What other issues?
Boehner's already given away the power of the purse for the year.
They already did.
They already agreed to an omnibus spending bill that takes care of the funding of the government all the way through September.
What is there to do here?
Boehner's agreement to nudge his caucus rightward, especially on immigration, could cause headaches for Republican president.
Oh, now they're really piling on at the AP.
This is really mean, folks.
Now they're going to blame Boehner for damaging any potential Republican White House win.
Because any potentially Republican White House win, don't you know, must feature Republicans for amnesty.
If the Republican candidate for president is against amnesty, he doesn't have a prayer.
AP knows it.
Democrat Party knows it.
Well, they say it.
So there's a whole lot of attempted shaming going on in this article.
They're dumping big time on Boehner.
Boehner's gutless.
He's now embracing these traitors that voted against him.
And now he's allowing this vote on Wednesday that would deny Obama money for that department or this department, thwarting his effort at amnesty.
And this is going to destroy Republican presidential chances before they even get started.
This is a humdinger of a story, folks.
I tell you.
Boehner's agreement to nudge his caucus rightward could cause headaches for Republican presidential candidates needing Hispanic votes.
See, right there it is.
Republicans can't win the White House without Hispanic votes, and they can't get Hispanic votes unless they're for amnesty and help Obama.
So in other words, Republicans can't get Hispanic votes unless they do exactly what Obama does.
And when they do that, for some reason, the Hispanics are going to just run right away from the Democrat Party and right into the Republican Party.
And we all know the media wants that to happen, right?
The AP wants the Republican to get elected next year.
They want the president to be held by a Republican, right?
And the Democrats want that too, right?
It will also complicate life for Senate Republicans.
Oh, man, that's really being pious.
So Boehner has destroyed himself.
Now he's destroying the Republican presidential nominees.
And now he's going to damage the Senate.
What does it say about that?
It will also complicate life for Senate Republicans who now hold a majority but generally cannot pass bills without at least six Democrat votes thanks to filibuster powers.
Wow.
So our buddies at the AP are even trying to get Senate Republicans to stop the House.
And they're blaming Boehner.
This is really – you know, as hard as all these Republicans have worked in Washington to sidle up to the drive-by media and to the establishment makers and so forth, here's one little vote on Wednesday.
and the AP is out to destroy Boehner and make sure that he gets blamed for everything that goes wrong in the Republican Party now.
At issue is a $39.7 billion spending bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded beyond February.
So that's the one area that was not funded all the way through September.
The House version would block Obama's November order granting temporary relief from deportation to about 4 million immigrants who were in the country illegally.
Most have been here at least five years and have children who are citizens or legal permanent residents.
It's fascinating to watch all this shake out.
And in the meantime, need to track down the truth.
By the way, I should point out, Josh Ernest, just to show you how extensive this pylon is, Josh Ernest led off today's daily briefing by using the Paris attack as a reason to push back against Republican efforts to use this DHS bill to block Obama's amnesty.
That apparently is real.
That there is going to be a vote Wednesday, and it is going to be on denying various departments of the Homeland Security to be funded, which would make it hard for Obama to grant his executive amnesty.
That is going to happen.
And they're blaming Boehner for that.
They're blaming Boehner for losing the White House before it even gets going.
They're blaming Boehner for screwing the Senate up.
And now Ernest goes out there, opens the press briefing, which is all about militant Islam and why Obama's not in Paris and all that, saying we need to use this as a reason to push back against Republican efforts to use this bill to block Obama's amnesty.
And his theory is: we can't have that.
We need a show of unity right now.
You can't be passing legislation to defund what our president wants to do while all this is going on in Paris.
Potato should end at the water's edge and all that.
This is kind of fun to watch, actually.
In the meantime, a brief time out.
Be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
Sit tight.
And back to the phones we go.
This is John in Dayton, Ohio.
John, I appreciate your patience.
Happy birthday.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
My wife and I have been supporters and dedicated listeners to you for over 20 years.
Thank you very much, sir.
Really do appreciate that.
Well, I have a comment, though.
Yeah.
In for the run-up to the 2012 election, you beat up on some of the candidates so badly that, especially Hunt Romney, that I think that you and some of the others affected the election.
And I think you're starting to do the same thing again here for the 2016 election as well.
And I'll just, I say, you know, try to be a little more positive toward our candidates.
You can be critical, but not too prejudicial.
We need to win the election in 2016, no matter who our candidate is, Rush.
So those are my comments.
Wait a minute.
Let me just take these in order because your memory on this may differ from mine.
But I don't, what did I do to harm Romney, particularly in the general, in the general, the primary.
Yeah, but after that, everything's forgotten.
And then we ended up supporting Romney wholeheartedly against Obama once it was decided.
I don't think you're, I know you know that 4 million Republicans didn't vote in 2012 that did in 2008.
And I'm flattered you think they might have been influenced stay home because of criticism of Romney they might have heard here.
I don't think people need me to tell them things about Republicans to be unhappy with.
I think there's genuine dissatisfaction throughout the Republican base with a lot of what's going on in the Republican Party.
They don't need me to tell them.
Well, but they responded for the election this last year to bring in a majority of senators and a strong House.
So there's something working now.
Well, see, here's the thing.
You're talking about the election in November?
Yes.
Okay, the Republican voters that turned out and voted in that election are already being told that their votes and their desires are going to be ignored.
They're already being told in one way or another by people in Washington, the Republican Party, the consultant class, that they're not really going to get, we're going to move and do what we want to do.
And they're not going to stop Obama.
They're not about stopping Obama.
And that's what this election was all about.
Well, but Boehner already is going to put up a vote a bill that is stronger than anybody expected out of him.
Well, I have to admit, I have to admit that there is some truth to that.
I don't I'm a little bit surprised by it at the same time, but we'll see.
It's one thing to propose.
We'll see how much it's supported as it starts heading through the legislative process.
But I guess I'm all asking of you is be careful what you say about our candidates because one of them will be running against a Democrat, and we want Republicans to win.
Well, about that, let me just, there are a lot of Republicans, well, I shouldn't say a lot.
I don't know what the number is.
But there are a significant, there is a significant percentage of Republican voters who don't want those candidates to win.
They're tired of it.
Because those candidates don't win.
Those candidates don't win, and those candidates usually make no bones about the fact that they don't support the base of the party.
You know, I'm not doing any of this.
The people that listen to this program are independent thinkers.
They're not Pied Pipers waiting for me to tell them what to think, just like you.
You've been listening 20 years, and if anything, I may validate what you already believe, but I doubt you withhold your vote or your opinion until hearing what mine is.
You act independently.
But 4 million Republicans didn't vote.
And it wasn't me telling them to stay home.
I was as shocked as anybody when I found out they stayed home.
Because I'm like you.
I thought the imperative was to beat Obama at all costs.
That was the only opportunity we really were going to have to stop and repeal some of this stuff.
And I thought that mattered more than anything.
But there are some Republican voters who are really angry, who feel entirely betrayed.
Their money has been asked for, and their money has been given, and their money has been taken, and they have not been satisfied.
There's a, as I said, I don't know what the percentage is, but, and let's not forget these candidates themselves are out saying unflattering things about these voters.
You never hear the Democrats running down their own base.
You would never hear a Democrat potential nominee saying, yeah, my objective here is to win this without the Warren vote.
My objective is to win this without the Clinton vote.
My objective is to win this without the Bill Marvin.
You never hear them saying they don't want to win their base, but our candidates are out saying that.
It doesn't take me reminding them.
I mean, they hear it.
So, besides, we call it, as we see it here.
And if you think that I want to see Hillary Clinton elect, and by the way, you know, this has come up again.
I forget which cable news network.
Now, it's been over 25 years I've been doing this program.
And I saw yet again last week somebody said, it was Chris Matthews.
It was Chris Matthews who said once again that I am happiest when the Republicans lose.
Because if the Republicans win, I don't have a show.
I got nothing to complain about.
He actually believes, some of these people have actually contorted themselves into the oddest positions of believing that I actually want the Democrats to win so that I will have something to talk about.
They cannot get it through their heads that my first, second, third, fourth only concern is the country.
My program is going to succeed no matter who wins elections.
It isn't about that.
But that's how they think.
Hey, just one more thing about that, too, folks.
How many times have we heard Republican establishment people say the era of Reagan is over?
How many people have we heard say, we got to move on?
We can't think about Reagan anymore.
That's a trap.
The days of Reagan are the old days.
We got to move on.
Do you ever hear the Democrats?
Now, the Democrats say, We got to move on from FDR.
We got to move on from LBJ.
We got to move on from the great society.
We got to move on for the war on power.
You never hear them say that.
They never dedicate their own like that.
And I'm telling you, when you say the era of Reagan is over and we've got to move on from Reagan, you don't need me around to get people mad about that.
They're fully capable of it on their own.
And then when you add to that, how many Republicans in the Senate run around impugning Ted Cruz?
You know how many people love Ted Cruz?
You know how many people Republican base would love to see him be elected president?
And they know it, and that's why they're running around running Ted Cruz down.
When's the last time you heard a Democrat run down Elizabeth Warren?
My only point is: it doesn't take me or anybody else, the radio or TV to get people mad at the Republican establishment.
They are handling them all on their own.
Now, one thing, I have a story here from our buddies at Newsbusters.
This is Brent Bozell's website that monitors what happens out there in the drive-by media and reports on it for people interested.
And apparently, I didn't see this because I don't watch the Sunday shows, and this was not on the soundbite roster today.
James Carville was on this week yesterday, and he said Ted Cruz is the most talented and fearless Republican politician he has seen in 30 years.
Carville said, I think Ted Cruz is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I've seen in the last 30 years.
I further think that he's going to run for president and he's going to create something.
I'm not sitting here saying he's going to win, and I think Senator Demet is right.
I've listened to excerpts of his speech in South Carolina.
Ted Cruz touches every button, and this guy has no fear.
He just keeps plowing ahead, and he's going to be something to watch.
Now, the bit about Cruz being fearless, do not doubt that, and do not diminish the importance of that, particularly as Carville notes it here.
They will always tell us one way or the other who they are worried about.
Carville wasn't finished.
He said, a lot of Republicans feel this way, George.
And you hear this a lot.
If we only got somebody who was articulate and was for what we're for, we could win elections.
And we get these McCains and these Romneys and these squishy guys that can't do anything.
Well, there's one thing this guy is not.
He ain't squishy, not in the least.
Now, this tells, you know, Carville is in a polling unit with Stan Greenberg.
And part of what Carville does is to try to keep his finger on the pulse, primarily to help Democrats deal with it.
Now, I happen to know that everything he says here is accurate about Ted Cruz.
I don't know whether he's got it in his own polling data, but what I'm assuring you of here, he's not making it up.
There are a lot of Republicans who are craving leadership right now.
You know how many Republican conservatives there are in this country who would just kill for a candidate who could articulate conservatism the same way they do it?
I said last week, and I'm going to repeat it here again: if such a candidate came along that could art a leadership elected politician, elected office type politician, not a commentator, not a pundit, not a radio or TV person, I'm talking about somebody in elective politics who can come along and can articulate conservatism as the average American understands it.
This guy could win in a landslide.
These people have been waiting for years for somebody to come along and simply say what they already know to be true.
Somebody to simply articulate what they already think and what they already feel.
And they resent being told that what they think and what they feel is extremist and dangerous and is tiny, minority, and so forth.
Because they aren't.
They are the backbone of America.
They're the ones that make America work.
They're the ones that are totally invested in saving this country as founded.
And they have nobody in elected politics who talks like they believe.
They have nobody saying things they believe in.
And the candidates that come the closest to it always get their universal support.
And if a candidate can, this is what Carville's afraid of.
And make no mistake about this, that Carville is concerned.
He said that Ted Cruz is the most fearless Republican since Reagan.
You can look it up.
You can see it on YouTube.
He was on this week with Nidge Brinkley yesterday.
And he knows.
They all know, folks.
They all know.
All these liberal Democrats know they are a minority.
They all know.
That's why they work so consistently to destroy their opposition in image and perception.
They have to get people voting against their opposition because they're never going to win if all that's happening is people are voting for them.
There aren't enough of those.
Liberalism is still a minority viewpoint in this country.
You just don't know it because the media and pop culture is all liberal.
That the drive-by media, the pop culture, music, TV, books, they're not writing and talking and doing TV shows about average ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things every day.
They don't make the news.
They don't star in TV shows.
They don't record songs.
They don't write books.
But everybody knows they're there.
And that's why they are the constant targets of ridicule and impugn and destruction.
And Ted Cruz has been the target of more of this than anybody in elective politics in a long time.
And he has not wavered from it at all.
And that is respected.
But if it's not Cruz, if it could be somebody else, somebody that comes along and can simply articulate with passion and all the usual good cheer, then by that everybody means optimism of the things people already in this country believe.
Obama doesn't do it.
People in this country don't believe what Obama's selling.
They might have in 2008.
They don't anymore.
The only thing Democrats can do is destroy the people they fear.
All they can do is impugn the philosophies that they fear.
They can't survive a debate in the arena of ideas, and they can't survive an election where if everybody had to be voting only for something and not this election that just happened, this election that just happened was a total anti-Democrat Party, anti-Barack Obama vote.
There's not a Republican leader out there people were voting for.
Not yet.
There wasn't a Republican agenda people were voting for because the Republicans didn't have one.
Now, as I say, individual Republican candidates did, running for the Senate, running against Obama here.
But once again, it was against Obama.
This election was clearly, totally anti.
Of the people who showed up, totally anti.
Now, I know it was not a presidential turnout, and as such, the Democrat presidential turnout base didn't show up in as great a number as they always doesn't matter to me.
This can happen during a presidential year.
I know all these people are going to line up and tell you it can't.
Well, Rush, you look at the electoral college and we've lost New York.
We lost California.
We lose Texas.
It's over.
Russia doesn't matter.
That's what they want you to believe, that it doesn't matter.
They don't want you even worrying about voting.
They want you thinking it's hopeless.
They want you thinking you don't have a prayer.
The Republicans don't have a prayer.
The deck is too stacked against you.
The media, you'll never overcome the media.
The Hollywood, you'll never overcome Hollywood.
They want you pessimistic about this.
That's why anybody that comes along who shows any promise at articulating conservatism in any way that's infectious, they set out and try to destroy and impugn media people included in this one, not just people in elected politics.
They have to.
That's the first order of business for them.
But now they've got Republicans believing that the only way they can win is to do what?
Do what Obama's doing, grant amnesty to Hispanics.
Really?
That's not what people in this country are clamoring for.
So the Republicans are going to win by siphoning off some Hispanic votes from Obama here and some African-American votes from the Democrats over there and some women votes from whoever over there.
Suicide mission.
Absolute suicide mission.
Yet that is what appears to be the believed-in stratagem of the Republican leadership.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
I just saw the clock.
Time's zipping by.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Also had somebody send me a note saying, hey, Rush, those 4 million Republicans that sat home in 2012, I don't know how many of them it is, but I talked to a bunch of people who thought the election was in the bag.
And that's why they didn't vote.
They thought Romney was going to win in a landslide, and they didn't bother showing up to vote.
Now, I've not heard any analysis of the electorate that stayed home in terms of that percentage reflecting that point of view.
I suppose it could be true of some, but I don't know too many people who wanted to take the chance.
Some people don't.
To some people, voting is hard.
You have to get up and go there.
You stand in line.
If you haven't registered, you have to do that.
You have to deal with people.
It's like in the DMS.
Some people, it's just too big a hassle.
Don't doubt me on this.
Anyway, here's Frank in Nashville.
Hey, Frank, welcome.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Pleasure to be on.
Quick thanks.
to return to the Islamic terrorist question and the president's reluctance to use those terms.
And the reason I think we have to look beyond 2016, I think the reason he takes these approaches and weakened approaches to Iran and to Cuba and negotiations and so many other things that he does, he's looking at his role in the world in 2016.
I think he wants to be the rest of the world's go-to guy for their dealings with the U.S.
And who better to have in that role than a former president who knows so much about us to begin with, our strengths and our weaknesses.
So he's going to be a young man still in.
Wait a minute.
What do you mean?
He wants to be the go-to guy to strongarm the U.S. after how would people use him to get it up?
What do you mean?
Give me an example of what you're talking about.
Let's say Turkey wants to.
I didn't say strong-arm, though, Rush.
I didn't say strongar.
I did say he wanted to be the go-to guy.
He would like to be the middleman to negotiate between Iran and the U.S. on nuclear arms.
Oh, I see.
Barack Obama the wonderful.
He's just left the White House.
He's the guy.
You want an entree to the United States for Obama's the guy you got to go to.
That's right.
And he doesn't want to offend them too much now so that he can play that role for them later.
And who better than he?
He knows our strengths and weaknesses.
And so it just.
I'm going to have to.
I'm going to have to.
I'm out of time.
We've come to screeching all because of the clock.
But I'm going to have to think about this.
I love the way people think.
I hadn't thought about this.
I'll devote some time to it.
Well, that's it, folks.
That's it for today.
A busy broadcast day comes to a screeching halt.
Well, for you, I continue working on tomorrow's program.
Show prep never stops.
Life is show prep.
We will be back tomorrow and do it all over again, fully revved up.