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 Obama's incompetence, suggesting that he needs to broom his entire foreign policy, national security team, that there's nobody in there qualified.
This is embarrassment, and they're worried about security of the country.
And they literally have, this is Leslie Gelb and this 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 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 conmen that's ever come down the pike.
One of the most accomplished, astute conmen ever.
The idea that Obama's incompetent, you have to purposely make the decisions he's 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 that have 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 foreign policy just needs to broom them.
And these people suggesting this are not insignificant.
Now, 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, yeah, he'll.
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's a possibility.
But in reading what these guys are writing, I don't doubt them.
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.
Like it's all happening by designing.
It's all happening on purpose.
I don't see how it cannot be.
But anyway, this is next soundbites, 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 or is it over with now?
The president has certainly, 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 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 when he traveled to the French embassy in northwestern D.C. last Thursday and appeared at the embassy and wrote a note expressing but also the support of the American people to the people of France.
Hey, look, Obama's went above and beyond, Mr. Acosta.
Don't you know what he did?
Obama spoke publicly.
He telephoned President Hollande.
He said 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 influences.
It is absolutely gorgeous.
Yeah, it was after a charity dinner that I attended.
It was back 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 Holand.
He went over to the French embassy in northwestern D.C.
And then he wrote a note in a book there expressing condolence.
Folks, this is just laughable.
So they're on the ropes.
And this guy from CNN, what is he going to 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 tell you, he cares.
He went to the French embassy, and he went over and he wrote a note to the French people.
He called Holand.
He spoke in that poet.
What more do you want, Acosta?
That's just, 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, the move was revealed during a discussion on free speech.
You know, the news today is 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 Laden, and now the 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 Rhea Mitchell, NBC News, and 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 a little break to find it because we'll 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 University Press demanding that its authors stop referencing pigs and or pork was revealed during a discussion on free speech during BBC4's Today following the last terror attack in Paris.
Yeah, I got a letter here.
This is the presenter, Jim Naughty, BBC4.
I got a letter here that was sent out by Oxford University Press to an author 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 ludicrous.
That's absolute utter nonsense.
When people go too far, that actually brings the whole discussion into disrepute.
Well, 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.
Sisters talk about universities.
I just, excuse the snipples here.
I had a friend, her daughter's in medical school, traveling around, figuring 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 I'm not going to name a university, but my friend's daughter, pre-med, trying to figure out where to go, was encountered by a bunch of women from a Northeast university who were also traveling around and examining various med schools, choose one, and didn't like where my friend's daughter was.
It was in the South and it was too closed.
She started to talk about how great it was that the other schools that she had looked at in the Northeast were all the women's studies programs that 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 the time to do whatever they wanted.
It was just great.
Now, my daughter's friend is in no way oriented in that direction.
And this is the university setting now.
And I'm telling you, what's coming out of these universities and these classrooms and these lunatic professors, women's studies, it doesn't matter.
Male professors, too, are just literally insane.
I think the Citadel has become a legitimate, insane asylum.
For example, at this one school, the Northeastern Medical School, this was not a school regulation.
Of this and the students, the women studies students.
You no longer can call your boyfriend a boyfriend.
It's demeaning.
It's limiting.
And it's just gauche.
You can only refer 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 with a bunch of bald-headed Amazons who think it's as 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.
Oh, you'll love this.
Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush thinking of running for the presidency.
Washington Examiner has the story.
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.
Take a stab at it.
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 PAC, 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 of becoming a political arm of Christians.
This is not new for him.
That's not the point.
It's not new.
Dan Forth has been on this anti-Christian Association Republican Party thing for a long time.
But that's the first West Coast fundraiser Jeb would attend after Jeb has said, I'm going to win this nomination.
I'm going to win this nomination without having to pander to the conservative base.
I mean, watch me.
That's my task.
And it can be done.
We can do it with smart politics.
So we'll see.
Quick timeout, my friends.
Brief, it will be.
We'll come back and get started with more of your phone calls.
Sit tight.
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 on up here, EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's an extreme pleasure to talk to you today.
Thank you much.
I appreciate that.
You were talking at the beginning of the show about Oprah being snubbed in the Oscars.
Big time.
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.
But they were all shut out.
Everybody lost.
Yeah, nobody won a bit.
No Whoopee, no Steven Spielberg.
So I think we need to have an investigation in this file.
Well, you know what it is?
I'm going to tell you something.
I think it's very, very curious because folks old Bob 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?
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 Breitbart.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, screenplay, 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 have even happened if they hadn't expanded a number of potential winners from five to nine.
I mean, this is slicing 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.
Do you remember that?
Oprah went into a fashionable store in Switzerland.
It was a 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 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 peace pipe smoking, and all was well.
But I have a theory behind all this.
And Roger Ebert, 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 Ebert even did his TV show at Gene Sisco, 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 going to be devastated that he got shut out.
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 about.
I'm going to get to the theory in just a second, but I've got some.
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 drift.
They're upstairs.
The directors.
They're not going to give the media, media people, Oscars.
Oprah show is where you go to promote your movie or book.
And they're not going to give somebody some pretend actor an Oscar.
They're not going to corrupt these awards by giving it to somebody in the media or a critic for cry.
A critic?
We're going to 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.
It 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 going to 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 it.
It was our critic for crying out loud.
Media.
They're going to give these people Oscar?
They're not even in our business.
They wish they were in our business.
They're on the fringe of our business.
They have us in for guests.
They go to openings with us and they really want to be us, but they're not us.
They're media.
We're not going to give them any award here.
And 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.
Snarl, 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 the audience?
Average Americans.
Yet, MSNBC with no audience, still respected because of who watches it.
The 25 or 30 people that watch it are big-time political players.
So it matters.
Don't believe that the caste 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 books, movies, literary literature.
It's everywhere.
Why do you think Downton Abbey is so damn popular?
Because these people are watching themselves.
Make no mistake about it.
All right, now, audio soundbite time.
This is about the Oprah snub.
This on Good Morning America Today, the co-host Robin Roberts speaking with People magazine editor Jess Kagle, who will also never win an Oscar.
Are you kidding me?
Somebody, 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 going to 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 E-Entertainment Network and hosting one of those shows to an actor.
Greg Kinnear, one guy that's done it.
Okay, anyway, Jess Kagle, she's the, I think it's she.
Hell, I don't know.
We'll have to listen to find out.
Editor Jess Kagle 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 and start asking questions.
Robin Roberts says, so what jumps out at you, I guess, as the nominations have been announced.
This is the People magazine editor here.
I'm disappointed that the director of Selma, Ava DuVernay, 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'Yellow 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 10 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 if I had the time, I would sit here and explain it to you.
But 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, including these two people that are, oh, yeah, it's 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 it?
Because it was the first African-American director.
That's reason enough, you see.
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 haven't seen the movie.
I don't know if their portrayal of 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 got to be race because all the nominees are white.
It has to be race, you see.
But then the retort said, I thought Obama was going to fix this.
And I thought this is what Oprah stood for, was overcoming this stuff.
CNN was also lamenting the snub.
The 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, it's the counterpart to Good Morning America.
Michaela Pereira speaking with Entertainment Tonight correspondent Nichelle Turner about the Academy Award nominations.
And this was part of the back and forth.
Bradley Cooper seemingly knocking David Oyellowo out of the best actor race here because David Oyellowo did not get a nomination this morning for his role as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma.
Finningly, 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 class lines being drawn.
Same thing with Ebert.
This is, where's this from?
Breitwart.
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, same name.
Ebert, who passed away after a harrowing cancer battle 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 Lebeski for Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, Robert Yeoman for the Grand Budapest Hotel, Lukash Yah, and Reeshard Lenchowski for Ida.
Dick Poop.
Dick Pope for Mr. Turner.
Dick Poop.
She kind of mispronounced it there.
Dick Poop.
Might as well have said Banana Hammock.
Dick Poop.
Ah, Dick Pope for Mr. Turner.
Did you see the Grand Budapest Hotel?
Yeah, I watched it.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked at the nominations.
I could never be one of these people.
I'm shocked.
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 interest.
I love hotels.
Stories in hotels are fascinating.
Murder mysteries and all that stuff in hotels.
And this has got some convoluted story about some old lady's paintings being ripped off, the best I remember it.
But I don't know.
It seemed like 1920s, 30s music.
It seemed like a 1920s or 30s movie colorized and audio-dubbed in.
But what do I know?
I'm just a customer.
All right, we got a little bit of news here from the Religion of Peace.
Religion of Peace news from Reuters 2 reported dead in a Belgian counterterrorism raid.
At least two people were killed when Belgian counterterrorist cops raided an apartment used by suspected religion of peace activists.
Local media described a coordinated national operation related to last week's attacks in Paris.
Now, in a report that could not be immediately confirmed, the website of La Mill newspaper quoted an unidentified police officer saying, we have averted a Belgian Charlhebdu here.
The 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 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 for the Corazon.
They just make a name up.
Like the disgruntificator.
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's a bunch of bishops in Venezuela asking the Pope to shut up about socialism, essentially, because it doesn't work.