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Jan. 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, well, well, look at this.
Look at this.
Apparently Obama has heard all of the criticism from his friends.
Which we chronicled here in the first hour.
All of these Council on Foreign Relations types, these current former diplomats, all of them leftists, Openly writing of him Obama's incompetence, suggesting that he needs to brew him his entire foreign policy national security team that there's nobody in there qualified as embarrassment, and they're worried about security of the company, uh country, and they literally have.
This is Leslie Galvinist guy named Jim Patterson.
And they're going to be more piling on.
They're literally writing that they believe Obama is so in over his head he doesn't have slightest clue about American foreign policy.
I still I I I don't think these people are ever going to get it.
And if they do, they're never going to admit it.
He's not incompetent.
That's the thing.
He is not in this guy may be, in fact, one of the most skilled con men that's ever come down the pike.
One of the most accomplished, astute con men ever.
The idea that Obama's incompetent.
You have to purposely make the decisions he's made making.
It's not that you don't know the right thing to do.
These are conscious decisions.
It was a conscious decision to snub that event in France.
It's a conscious decision to legalize, formalize relationships with countries who've been traditionally enemies of this country, such as Cuba.
Who knows who else?
It isn't incompetence.
And I don't know how long it's going to take his buddies on the left to get there, but right now they're stuck in the idea, my God, we really fell for this guy.
We thought he spoke well, he was sophisticated, he was articulate.
But man, he doesn't know what he's doing.
He needs to fire everybody.
He needs to replace Valerie Jarrett, everybody in his apparatus security and and uh foreign policy just needs to broom them.
And these people suggesting this are not insignificant.
Now, it there could be some politics going on.
I mean, you would Leslie Gelb politically, would Leslie Gelb be inclined to support Hillary?
Well, he'd be inclined to support whoever Democrat nominee is.
Okay, so if it's her, she, yeah, he'll so but at this stage would Gelb think that it would be helpful to start ripping into Obama as a neophyte and an incompetent as a means of shielding Hillary from any association with this, and therefore any tarnish as her presidential campaign begins.
And that that's a possibility.
But in reading what these guys are writing, I don't doubt them.
I think I think I think they're genuinely worried.
I think they're genuinely scared.
And I think they really do think we've got a knucklehead in charge that doesn't know what to do and doesn't take it all seriously.
And I don't think that's the case at all.
I think it's all happening by designing.
It's all happening on purpose.
I don't see how it cannot be.
But anyway, this this is next sound bites Josh Ernest this afternoon at the White House press briefing.
You've got to hear this.
CNN, senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta, said to Josh Ernest, the press secretary, the president hasn't really spoken out publicly very much of what happened in Paris since last Friday.
If I'm not mistaken, he has not really said much of anything since last Friday.
And of course, we all know Josh, he didn't go there.
He didn't participate in the Unity rally.
Now, Josh, should we expect to hear Obama talk about this?
Any further?
Has he spoken out about it enough to think is it over with now?
The President has certainly uh, you know, as we saw over the course of last week when France was in the midst of responding to this crisis.
You saw that the president uh telephoned President Hollande.
The president spoke publicly on a couple of occasions.
The president also, I think, sent a pretty loud and clear message to the people of France.
Uh, when he traveled to the French embassy in Northwestern D.C. He's gotta be kissed last Thursday And appeared at the embassy and wrote a note.
Oh my God.
I don't believe it.
But also the support of the American people to the people of France.
Hey, look, Obamas went above and beyond Mr. Acosta.
You know, don't you know what he did?
Obama spoke publicly.
He telephoned President Hollande.
He sent a loud and clear message to the people of France when he went to the French embassy in Washington.
Man, that is this is embarrassing.
He said a really tough message to the people of France when he ventured to their agency.
I've been to their embassy.
I have smoked cigars in the French embassy.
And it is gorgeous.
It's not quite the Palace of Versailles, but there are obvious influence.
It is absolutely gorgeous.
Yeah, it was after a charity dinner that I attended.
It was back in the uh in the early 90s.
And it was nothing greater than smoking cigars and having wine in the French embassy.
So Obama to go to this place is sending a strong message to the people of France.
This is embarrassing.
He called Olaon.
He went over to the French embassy in Northwestern DC, and then he wrote a note in a book there expressing condolence.
This is folks, this is just laughable.
So they're on the robes.
And this this guy can see it.
What is he gonna do?
My God, he hasn't done it.
He hasn't talked about it.
Hey, let me tell you, Obama's done more than most.
Let me see.
He cares.
He went to the French embassy.
And he went over and he wrote a note to the French people.
He called Hollande.
He spoke it up.
What more do you want?
Acosta.
That's just that's that's almost in the realm of my dog ate the homework.
That is childish.
The narcissism here, hey, I don't have to go there and be part of the rally.
I can go to the embassy and leave a note for the French people and do more.
And mean more than actually taking time to go to Paris.
All right.
The largest university press in the world has warned its authors not to mention pigs or pork in their books to avoid offending Muslims and Jews.
Jews.
When have Jews ever been offended by any of this?
Oxford University Press explained that their books must take into consideration other cultures of the world.
And they must avoid mentioning pigs or anything else, which could be perceived as pork.
Which means they can't talk about legislation in Washington.
Can't write, well, they don't do cookbooks.
The Oxford University Press doesn't do cookbooks anyway.
The move, uh, the move was revealed during a discussion on free speech.
You know, the news today's surreal.
It's just the Saudis who basically create the climate for ISIS to exist, are now building a fence to keep them out.
The Saudis, birthplace of Osama bin Lai.
And now that Oxford University Press.
And how about some of this other free speech stuff?
Where we limit what people can say, what magazines can publish, and re-immittal NBC News.
Offensive cartoons need to be banned in the name of free speech.
In the name of religious freedom.
You know what I ought to dig out here, what Thomas Jefferson said about religious freedom.
You know what I'm going to do that?
I have that here.
I went looked it up and I found it on purpose for just may have to wait till a break to find it because we go through a bunch of paper here in the stack here.
Religious freedom is one of the reasons this country exists.
Anyway, the move.
I just love this.
Oxford Unity University Press demanding that its authors stop referencing pigs and or pork was revealed during a discussion on free speech.
During BBC Four's Today, following the last terror attack in Paris.
Yeah, I got a letter here.
This is the presenter Jim Naughty, BBC for you.
I got a I got a letter here that was sent out by uh Oxford University Press to it to an author uh doing something for young people.
Among the things prohibited in the text that was commissioned by the Oxford University Press was the following pigs plus sausages or anything else, which could be perceived as pork is banned.
Now, if a respectable publisher tied to an academic institution is saying that you've got to write a book in which you cannot mention pigs, because some people might be offended, it's just ludicrous.
It's just a joke.
This is the BB4 presenter reacting.
The move was condemned by Muslim labor MP, Khalid Mahmoud, the Times reported.
He said, This is this is ludicrous.
That's absolute utter nonsense.
When people go too far, that actually brings the whole discussion into disrepute.
Well, the So here you have an Islamist thinking it's going too far.
BBC thinks it's going too far.
But these egghead academics, I mean, they think they're light years ahead of everybody.
Because, see, the key is not to offend anybody.
Get this.
Excuse the sniffles here.
I had a friend tell me daughters in medical school, trying to traveling around to figure out which medical school to go to.
Spending a couple days here, a couple days there.
And as such, it's running into other women that have attended other universities.
And not going to name the university, but uh my friend's daughter, pre-med, trying to figure out where to where to go, was encountered by a bunch of women from a Northeast university who are also traveling around and examining various med schools to choose one.
And didn't like where my friend's daughter was.
It was it was in the South and it was too closed.
She started to talk about how great it was at the other schools that she had looked at in the Northeast, where all the women's studies programs you could find, and all the women were totally liberated and free, and it ran around bald-headed with no bras and no shirts half time, just do whatever they wanted.
It was just great.
Now, my daughter's friend is in no way oriented in that direction.
And the uh this is the university setting now.
And I'm telling you, what's coming out of these universities in these classrooms and these lunatic professors, women's studies, it doesn't matter.
Male professors, too, are just literally insane.
I think it's it's the the Citadel has become a legitimate, insane asylum.
For example, at this one school, I'm not the Northeastern Medical School.
Um, this was not a school regulation, it was just in the students, the women's studies students.
You no longer can call your boyfriend a boyfriend.
It's demeaning.
It's limiting, and it's just gauge.
You can only refer to your boyfriend or girlfriend as your partner.
And if you don't do that, then they come down on you.
So my friends got this opportunity to run around med school, those are bald-headed Amazons, who think it's just cool as it can be.
And I tell you what's coming out of these institutions of higher learning.
It's getting to the point now your kid may have a better chance not showing up at one of these things and not spending any serious time.
Uh oh, you love this.
Jeb Bush.
Jeb Bush thinking of running for the uh for the presidency.
Washington Examiner has the story.
Uh, emerging Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush kicking off a West Coast fundraising effort is opening the door to criticism from skeptical conservatives by attending an event hosted by a former moderate GOP senator who blasted the party for giving in to the Christian rights agenda.
Do you know who this might be?
My home state.
Senator John Danforth.
Former Senator John Danforth, one of a group of former Republican lawmakers who have criticized the GOP for shifting focus to a Christian social agenda.
In advance of the country club fundraiser for Bush's right to rise pack.
Critics distributed a 2005 op-ed that Dan Forth wrote for the New York Times, in which he slapped the Republican Party for moving away from fighting deficits to opposing gay marriage.
And he accused the Republican Party becoming a political arm of Christians.
This is not new for him.
That's not the point.
Dan Forth has been on this this anti-Christian Association Republican Party thing for a long time.
But that that's the first West Coast fundraiser Jeb would attend.
After Jeb has said, I'm gonna win this nomination.
I'm gonna win this nomination without having to pander to the conservative base.
I mean, you watch me.
That's my task.
And it can be done.
We can do a smart politics.
So we'll see.
Quick timeout, my friends.
Uh brief it will be.
We'll come back and get started with more of your phone calls.
Sit time.
Oh, Ann Hollywood in a tizzy today over the all but shut out movie Selma in Oscar nominations.
It's not pretty.
It isn't pretty.
Northern Mississippi is next.
This is Bob.
I'm glad you called out there.
Bob welcome up here.
EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's an extreme pleasure to talk to you today.
Thank you much.
I appreciate that.
Uh, you were talking at the beginning of the show about Oprah being snubbed in the Oscars.
Big time.
You made me remember me back to the color purple.
And I told Mr. Sturdley that I thought there were no Oscar nominations for Color Purple, but there were nine.
And but they were all shut out.
Everybody lost.
Yeah, no, nobody won it.
No whoopie, no Steven Spielberg.
So I think we need to have an investigation as why the.
Well, you know what is?
I'm gonna tell you something.
I think it's very, very curious, because uh, folks, old Bob, uh calling up in here, is absolutely right.
The color purple, nine nominations, snubbed.
Oprah Winfrey shocked the world.
It literally shocked the world.
Everybody thought, Oprah?
I mean, it's the Oprah.
And this was before she'd lost the weight a bunch of times.
The Oprah in her real essence.
Zip.
And then Selma.
Story here from Brightbart.com.
Race hoax backlash.
Selma earns only two Oscar nominations.
I mean, the color purple got nine.
This thing had two.
Oprah Winfrey's Selma took a pretty harsh beating this morning as nominations were announced for the 87th annual epidemic awards.
The civil rights drama was blanked in every major category, including best actor, director, screen play, cinematography, and score.
Selma did win what can only be interpreted as an also ran best picture nomination, something it almost certainly would not have if the Academy had not expanded its number of nominations past five, which happened a few years ago.
I mean, this is really an insult article.
A race hoax backslash, Selma earns only two Oscar nominations.
The story goes on to say that one of them probably wouldn't even happen if they hadn't expanded a number of potential winners from five to nine.
I mean, it this is slice and dice here.
After being snubbed for a number of other awards, Selma's poor showing at the Oscars was also no surprise.
The film has faced withering criticism for its defamatory depiction of President Lyndon Johnson.
Selma portrays Johnson as Martin Luther King's chief antagonist when history proves that he was the civil rights leader's partner when it came to encouraging the March in Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
And this isn't the first time Winfrey has found herself involved in a scandal surrounding false charges of racism.
Why, just last year, her racial drama The Butler was found lacking in historical accuracy.
The powerful media titan, that would be the Oprah, also launched what many believed was a false charge of racism against a helpless Swiss store clerk.
You remember that?
Oprah went into a fashionable store in Switzerland.
It was a f uh uh recognizable brand.
I just can't remember what it was.
It was handbags or something.
And the clerk didn't recognize the Oprah.
And thought that the Oprah was in the wrong store.
Could simply not afford items in that store and said something to that effect.
And the Oprah went up and made a big deal out of this, subtly.
It was masterful the way she did it.
Made it look like others were actually doing it.
And then there was a peacemaking, a piece of pipe smoking, and all was well, but I have a theory behind all this.
And Roger Ebert, he got he got shut out too.
Okay, before I give you my theory as to why Oprah keeps getting snubbed at the Oscars and why Roger Ebert got snubby.
Roger Ebert, folks.
You would be amazed at the number of young journalists who think Roger Ebert is the end.
Does that shock you, Mr. Snerdley?
I mean, you probably never thought about it, right?
Roger Liebert did his TV show at Gene Siskel, reviews, movies, so Roger Ebert to young, either faux journalists, aspiring journalists, bloggers, Roger Ebert, to some of these young leftists, is it.
And I'm telling you, they're gonna be devastated that he got shut out.
It's a it was a documentary made about his life called My Life, I think his name is his book, Life Itself.
Anyway.
Well, I have a theory, but I'm gonna get to the theory in just a second, but I got I've got some um it it's it's the class system.
Oprah and Ebert are downstairs people.
They're the media.
The actors, the stars, the real stars, the producers of dress, they're upstairs, the directors.
They're not gonna give the media, media people Oscars.
Oprah's show is where you go to promote your movie or book, and they're not gonna give somebody some pretend actor and Oscar.
They're not gonna corrupt these awards by giving it to somebody in the media or a critic for crack.
A critic were gonna give an Oscar to something about a critic to hell with these people are some of the most class conscious people in the world.
You know what I mean by downstairs people.
The servants.
Damn right, that has to be what it is.
He has nothing to do with race.
It has nothing to do.
Oprah will think it is, because you know, Oprah, everybody bows down.
But the Oscar voters never have.
And the Oscar voters made up of actors.
I can just see these people sitting around wherever they live.
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, talking amongst themselves.
Do they really think we're gonna get some critic on a syndicated TV show out of Chicago on Oscar?
What do they think we do here?
I don't care that he battled courageously against King.
It was our critic for crying out loud.
Media.
What are they gonna give these people?
Oscar?
They're not even in our business.
They wish they were in our business.
They're on a fringe of our business.
They have us in for guests.
They uh they go to openings with us, and they really want to be us, but they're not us.
They're media.
We're not gonna give them any award here.
What the and it it seems to have been the case.
The best you can do is to be asked to host the Oscar telecast.
But even then, you're downstairs and they're upstairs.
That's my take on it anyway.
Now here.
Big box office.
Well, that's simple.
Snurd, why do big box office movies never win?
Something that has broad appeal, where all demographics, all age groups, including conservatives and young people like it can't possibly have been artistically any good.
Real art has to make people mad.
The fewer people that see it, the more artistic it is.
How do you why do you why do you of course it's elitist.
How about all these documentaries on PBS that win awards, and nobody's ever seen them?
Precisely because you have something with broader like this program.
This program's looked down at look at who's the audience.
Average Americans.
Yet MSNBC with no audience, still respected because of who watches it.
The 25 or 30 people who watch it are big time political players.
So it matters.
Don't believe that the cast or class system in this country doesn't exist.
It exists in the ruling class, I mean in droves.
And it exists in the entertainment industry.
It exists in in in in books, movies, literary, literature, it's everywhere.
Why do you think Danton Abbey is so damn popular?
Because these people are watching themselves.
Make no mistake about it.
All right, now audio soundbite time.
Uh this is about the uh the Oprah uh snub.
This on Good Morning America Today, the co-host Robin Roberts speaking with People Magazine editor Jess Cagle, who will also never win an Oscar.
Are you kidding me?
Some of the people?
Hell, they're sick of us.
They sit around kissing our butts on Oscar night as we walk past them on the red carpet.
They're gonna win an Oscar.
Screw that.
We'll be nice to them for a couple of minutes, but they're a bunch of yokels.
We use them.
Same thing with e-entertainment TV.
One guy has made the jump, Greg Kinnear.
Greg Kinnear went from the e-Entertainment Network and hosting one of those shows to an actor.
Greg Kinnear, one guy that's done it.
Uh okay.
Anyway, Jess Jess Cagle, she's the um, I think it's the she.
Hell, I don't know.
We'll have to listen to find out.
Um, editor Jess Cagle and correspondent Chris Connolly.
They drag this guy out every now and then.
He'll show up on ESPN, he'll show up in Good Morning America, he'll show up, usually where there are women, uh, start asking questions.
Robin Roberts says, so what jumps out at you, I guess as the uh nominations have been announced.
This is the People Magazine editor here.
I'm disappointed that the director of Selma, Ava DiVernay, did not get nominated, because she would have been the very first African American woman to be nominated in the directing category.
And it was because David O'Yellowwo for Selma was also not nominated.
This is a completely white 20 acting nominees.
It's an all-white group.
It's the second whitewash in the last uh ten years or something.
Oh folks, I'm telling you, the civil rights movement is the reason more Hollywood people are leftists than anything that you could name.
And I if I had the time, I would sit here and explain it to you.
But don't just don't doubt me.
That's why most of them are leftists.
A lot of them in sports, too.
Civil rights movement.
And it's become things it never was in their minds.
Many of them are not even there.
Uh, including these two people that are, oh, yes, a whitewash.
My God, you're 20, 20 acting nominees, all white?
Nobody in Selma?
And the director didn't get it?
Why should the director have got because it was the first African American director.
That's reason enough, you see.
Well there, you know what the reason, if there is legitimacy to that, you know why the director didn't get because they got the portrayal of LBJ wrong.
And the director is being accused of being behind getting that portrayal wrong.
I don't I haven't seen the movie.
I don't know if their portrayal of J of uh LBJ is wrong or not.
I have no clue.
All I know is they're running around saying that LBJ was smeared.
Well, if so, it would have been the director who did that, in part.
That would be why the director didn't get a nod.
But these white liberals, it's gotta be race.
Because all the nominees are white.
It has to be race, you see.
But then the retort that I thought Obama was gonna fix this.
And I thought this what Oprah stood for, was overcoming this stuff.
CNN was also lamenting the snub.
The uh actor who played Martin Luther King in this movie, Selma also snubbed, and he should have gotten a nomination because it's Martin Luther King's birthday.
Well, okay.
This is CNN's new day.
This is the early morning uh it's the counterpart to Good Morning America.
Michaela Pereira speaking with Entertainment Tonight correspondent Nishelle Turner about the Academy Award nominations, and this was part of the back and forth.
Bradley Cooper seemingly knocking David O'Yellowwo out of the best actor race here because David O'Yellow did not get a nomination this morning for his role as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma.
Fittingly, it is Dr. King's birthday today as well.
What does one have to do with the other?
Well, he should have gotten nominated today because they're announcing a nomination on the birthday of Martin Luther King, and the actor portraying King in the movie Selma got snubbed.
And she said right here.
Fittingly, it was Dr. King's birthday today, and the CNN InfoBabe, Michaela Peru.
Ooh, as that was a big snub.
Big controversy.
But I'm telling you, I'm telling you, folks.
This is this is class lines being drawn.
Same thing with Ebert.
This is uh where's this from?
Breitbart.
Oscar Nom Shaker, Academy Snubs Roger Ebert documentary.
If Roger Ebert's friends and family thought his legacy would be capped off with an Oscar win for life itself, the documentary about the famous film critics life and career.
A bucket of cold water was felt by all after Thursday's announcement of this year's Oscar nominations.
To almost everyone's surprise, life itself did not even earn a nomination for best documentary.
Not a single nomination for anything.
Life itself is helmed by Steve James, the director of Hoop Dreams, 1994 documentary that Ebert relentlessly championed.
Life itself is based on Ebert's autobiography's same name.
Ebert, who passed away after a harrowing cancer battle of 2013, participated in the documentary, as did Ebert's wife, Chaz.
Ebert was a film critic, a journalist, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, but he wasn't an actor.
He wasn't upstairs in Hollywood, and it never had a prayer.
The day they start giving Oscars to the media, the day they start giving Oscars to documentaries or movies about media people, that's the day you're going to see a Hollywood revolt.
Do not doubt me.
And by the way, if I'm being overheard saying any of this, you can count on my being labeled the biggest idiot, stupid, don't know what I'm talking about, guy, by the end of the day, proving that I will have nailed it.
One more sound bite.
This is kind of add insult to injury.
Here we just had Ebert snubbed, Selma snubbed, Oprah snubbed, the actor who played Martin Luther King snubbed.
Here is at the Samuel Golden Theater, Cheryl Boone, the Academy president, announcing the Academy Award nominees for cinematography.
And here they are.
For achievement in cinematography, the nominees are Emmanuel Lebeske for Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.
Robert Yeoman for the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Lukash Yall, and Re Shard Lensowski for Ida.
Dick Poop.
Dick Pope for Mr. Turner.
Dick Poop.
She kind of mispronounced it there.
Dick Poop.
Dick Poop.
Might as well have said Banana Hammock.
Dick Poop.
Dick Pope for Mr. Turner.
Did you see the Grand Budapest Hotel?
Did you?
Yeah, I uh I watched it.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked at the nominations.
I could never be one of these people.
I'm shocked.
I I couldn't get through it.
It just bored me.
It's a it's almost like a cartoon with humans in it.
The sets look like they're cartoons.
I don't know.
It's being said to be great art.
And I watched it with great answers.
I love hotels.
Stories in hotels are fascinating.
Murder mysteries and stuff in hotels.
And this has got some convoluted story about some old ladies' paintings being ripped off of the best I remember it.
But I don't know.
Seemed like 1920s, 30s music.
it seemed like a 1920s or 30s movie colorized and audio dubbed in.
Well, what do I know?
I'm just a customer.
Alright, we got a uh little bit of news here from uh the Religion of Peace.
Religion of Peace news uh from Reuters 2 reported dead in a Belgian counter-terrorism raid.
At least two people were killed when uh Belgian counterterrorist cops raided an apartment used by suspected religion of peace activists.
Uh so it's uh local media described a coordinated national operation related to last week's attacks in Paris.
Now, in a uh in a report that could not be immediately confirmed, the website of L'AMUspaper quoted an unidentified police officer saying, We have averted a Belgian Charles Hebdoo here.
The uh two killed were members of the Religion of Peace and were said to be terrorists.
They were planning to carry out large-scale attacks in Belgium, and they reportedly had links to ISIS, which uh as Obama, the junior varsity.
Remember that?
You have to worry about ISIS.
Come on to the junior varsity.
ISIS Corazon Group.
That's my the Coruscant.
They just they just make a name up.
Like the disgruntator.
That's it, folks.
Open line Friday.
They're still out of toilet paper in Venezuela.
I know I was going to talk about that today.
This relates to the Pope.
It was a bunch of bishops in Venezuela, asking the Pope to shut up about socialism, essentially, because it doesn't work.
They have no toilet paper down there.
But alas, I didn't get to it.
Tomorrow, open line Friday, I'll try again.
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