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Feb. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 10, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Now hang on here just a second of winning on the uh printer on something else.
Does does Obama get a daily briefing on global warming?
Well, he said the other day that in that Vox interview that he doesn't like the presidential daily brief because it just it's a daily diary of death.
Meaning the presidential daily brief is a foreign policy summary and tells him, you know, what kind of activity is going on around the world, who's encroaching on who, who's posing a threat, who's killing who.
And I'm just wondering is global warming mentioned in the presidential daily brief, because the president's out there saying, as is the press secretary, that global warming is a greater threat than terrorism or ISIS or heck, even nuclear Iran is a great.
And I'm just wondering if this is a global warming must be part of the daily diary of death, right?
Well, it better be.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh again behind the golden EIB microphone telephone number 800 282882 in the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Look, folks, on this Hillary Clinton business, I have never in all of my years trying.
I do not feel confident that I have properly conveyed my thinking on Hillary Clinton.
Now, I have been wrong about her numerous times when I have predicted that she wouldn't run.
I thought she wouldn't run for the Senate in New York, and I was wrong.
And there have been maybe a couple of other things.
But the thing that has made me think about this is actually my reaction to the abject fear of the woman that I encounter everywhere I go.
I mean, I golf course, uh sit down and talk to people for Fox News, I don't care who it is, there is abject fear.
I mean, I can take you back to my house back in uh in 2007.
And we had a bunch of people in for the weekend.
And the the dinner time conversation, much of it got started when one of the guests asserted with a tone of abject fear and doom in his voice that there was a 75% chance Hillary Clinton was going to be elected president in 2008.
And it was like the dining room was turned into a funeral parlor.
And I didn't understand it.
I don't I of all the Democrat potential Democrat candidates, why is it?
When you mention Hillary Clinton, people on our side think it's over and what give up and think that there's nothing can stop her.
The fate of compliment.
Because when I objectively look at Hillary, I mean, I go back to when I first heard of her, which was the Clinton presidential campaign 1992.
I just I don't know.
I I I don't see raging competence.
I look at everything she got her hands on, in fact, during the Clinton year.
She bungled.
She bungled the politics of handling all the women that were coming forth and claiming they'd had affairs or relationships with Bill.
She sat idly by, knowing full well what her husband was doing, and didn't raise a finger.
She had to know that stuff was going on, and her role in it was to do whatever it took to cover it up.
Well, how did that work out for them?
They didn't they didn't cover it up.
It all became known.
Jennifer Flowers, you name it, Kathleen Willie, and then of course Monica Lewinsky, we were led to believe that Hillary was shocked and saddened and had no idea, and she might have been shocked that her husband was so stupid as to do it in the Oval Office, but she could not have been surprised he was doing it.
So there had to be another calculation there, and I know what it is.
The calculation was she gave up her life to move to Arkansas with him Because she figured she would get farther in life hitching herself to his wagon than striking out on her own.
And so the feminists have always thought she deserved special treatment because she gave herself up in order to follow this guy along and supposedly pave the way for him.
But all she did was stand aside when all the bimbo eruptions happened, she let him get away with it.
She tried to cover foot for him, and she did her best working with others on the staff to destroy the women.
And yet she's considered a great feminist.
Through a tray-of-pocket, never know what you got to find.
She's applauding that.
Then they gave her Hillary care.
One of the prices that she exacted for looking the other way.
Well, she didn't even do that.
One of the prices that she exacted for making sure Clinton was not harmed by all these dalliances with women, not his wife, was controlled over certain aspects of the Clinton agenda, and they gave her health care.
And she botched that.
Why, we alone on this radio program, there was there was no Fox News back then.
This is 1992, folks.
Well, this might have been 93 or 94.
I forget which.
Remember Hillary's bus tour?
We're going to go from Seattle to Washington, and she's going to drum up all this massive support for Hillary care, which was just a forerunner to Obamacare.
And it was just as draconian and it had just as many ingredients as Obamacare has that are simply repulsive.
It set up uh requirements for doctors that they, in order to go to medical school and be educated in the specialty they desired, if Hillary cared become law, they were going to have to promise, in order to be permitted to study that specially, they were gonna have to promise to let the government assign them their place of business where they were gonna live.
So if somebody wanted to go in and become a specialist, say in uh toenail fungus, and the government was gonna say, okay, fine, but you're gonna have to live in Buffalo to do it.
I mean, that was part and parcel of Hillary care.
Anyway, she had this bus tour, and we blew that up on this radio show.
We mocked it, we laughed at it, we made fun of it, we had people grieving her along the way with signs.
It was supposed to be a massive sweeping up of public opinion in favor of uh national health care.
And instead, that blew up I'm you know, the the notion that the woman is invincible and she did the smartest woman in the world, all of this concocted.
All of it was manufactured, none of it based on substance.
And then after the Monica thing hit, she goes on the Today Show and blames uh that whole event on a vast right-wing conspiracy, which was silly.
Now, it's not not to say that some people didn't buy it and the media glommed onto it because anything they could do to protect Clinton they would do.
But I don't know.
I I don't understand the fear of any of them.
Not just, but but I don't understand why there is fear of Hillary and there isn't fear of John Kerry.
I don't understand why there's fear on our side.
I don't understand why there's fear of Hillary, but there isn't fear of Elizabeth Warren.
It seems if you're gonna be afraid of them, be afraid of all of them.
They all stamp the same thing.
They're all big government socialists.
They all do not like the country as founded.
They all want to fundamentally transform it like Obama.
And then you add the other elements to uh to Hillary, and I'm I remain befuddled.
Um I'm you know, sometimes I question it because there's so many people I know that are literally I mean, maybe scared to death is a bit of an exaggeration, but they think she's unbeatable.
I'm not I'm not talking about Republicans in the establishment or or people that I'm not talking about elected Republicans, I'm talking about fellow media people and and just friends of mine in all range of business and income level, the abject fear, I just don't understand it.
It seems to me that it wouldn't be that difficult to illustrate the areas of incompetence and fraud that Hillary Clinton embodies.
Now we got these rumors that she's out there, she's she's uh out of sight.
Um by the way, the one thing I was not joking when I had that previous caller, her numbers, her approval numbers do skyrocket the less she has seen and heard.
That's another thing.
I mean, how how good can she be if when she shows up and starts speaking, her numbers go down?
But it's the way it is.
So there's all kinds of reasons or theories being advanced to explain why Hillary is out of sight and can't be found.
So you heard the one advanced by the caller.
Well, Rush, you know, she's getting work done, as in uh plastic surgery face job.
Now, I must admit, because I remember I'm sure many of you were shouting at the radio, I was the one who first asked the question, does America, and I by the way, in setting this up or reminding you about it, I did this from the standpoint of compassion.
I asked this question not as a critic or opponent of Mrs. Clinton.
I forget what was going at the time, but at the time she was being what I thought was kind of like what Janet Reno was unfairly attacked.
I forget what it was about, but I do know that I I came to her defense and and I was I was being compassionate.
I asked the question, does America want to watch a woman of Mrs. Clinton's age age before their eyes in office.
The media picked up on that and made make big hay out of it and treated it as a serious question, I was kind of surprised.
But they did.
They treated it as a serious question and began looking at it.
And obviously, the Clinton camp considers it a serious question.
But now you notice something else that our caller said, and I was very precise in this.
I thought the caller had said that she could look better in the caller.
No, no, no, should, the caller said she should look better.
And there are people who believe that.
People who believe that Mrs. Clinton has not spent enough time nearly on just her own personal appearance that she doesn't need a whole lot of work, but she needs to do something.
But the Republican candidate more than likely is going to be somebody younger than she is, and therefore is going to appear younger and uh more vibrant and more energetic and so forth.
See, when I when I think of Hillary Clinton, I think of somebody who is old.
I think of somebody whose ideas are old.
I think she's been around so long that there can't possibly be any of the kind of mystique that accompanied Obama, who arrived as a basic unknown, and he was so unknown that voters could basically make of him whatever they wanted him to be, the old empty canvas argument.
You can't, she's not going to be able to rely on that.
I I look at her as old and tired.
She was a failure as Secretary of State.
I I just I'm I don't know how else to explain this.
But I also know that I am in a real small minority among people whose business is getting people elected, or whose business is consulting those who get people elected.
They all are scared to death that she's invincible and inevitable.
And I just don't get it.
See, I would even think that on my side is what happened in 2008.
If she's so invincible, if she's so inevitable, how could it Have been that an unknown, relatively unknown, skinny black guy, coming out of 160 days in the Senate could blow her out.
And it would have been a blowout were it not for Operation Chaos.
That was my effort, and you helped, of course, to prolong her candidacy.
Operation Chaos, for those of you who were not listening back in 2008, the Republican nominee had already been chosen.
It was Senator McCain.
So there was no excitement left in the Republican primary process.
The only primary action was on the Democrat side.
And in this audience, who cares?
I mean, this is a, I mean, they care, but the daily goings on in the Democrat primary are not what people primarily expected me to be talking about in this program.
So in order to create interest in it, I had to find a way to involve this program and the audience in that Democrat primary.
And the chief objective was to keep it going.
The last thing we needed was for Obama to get the nomination in March.
And for McCain to have already had it, I mean, that would have been sheer boredom from March all the way through the conventions or until the conventions.
So what I did was conceive and order Operation Chaos deployed.
Operation Chaos was Republicans were ordered and instructed, well, it was suggested by me that Republicans in open primary states left on the Democrat calendar, since the Republican nominee had already been chosen and their votes for that didn't matter,
that they cross over and vote for Hillary in the remaining states from March through June, in order to keep her candidacy alive, just so there'd be something exciting to talk about.
And maybe upset the Apple cart a bit.
And Operation Chaos was deployed and it was effective.
It was so effective that there was a George Clooney movie that was made about a year later, and one third of the movie was about politics focused on Operation Chaos and the Democrat Party's paranoia of it.
So anyway, 2008, inevitable, invincible, and look.
It didn't take much, but eventually all the Democrats pledged to her, fled and joined up with Obama.
So why this inevitability?
I still tell you, I don't get it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The the uh the the George Clinton uh the Clooney movie was the Ides of March.
It's about Democrat politics, and the uh the first third of the movie is about Operation Chaos.
They don't mention my name, they just talk about Operation Chaos is and how upsetting it was.
But look, go back to 2008.
I mean, everybody says, okay, look, the young, skinny black guy is gonna trump the middle-age to elderly white woman in terms of who's got the most grievances, who's more down for the struggle, who makes the bigger minority candidate, blah, blah, blah.
It wasn't about that.
That race, 2008, everybody was, it was Hillary's, it was hers, it was payback for all the stuff she had done to enable her husband.
And I'm just telling you, if if if the Democrat Party had been committed to Hillary in 2000, which we were told they were, how in the world was it possible that Barack Obama comes along and steals it from her anyway?
My theory is that the Democrat Party must not have wanted Hillary all that much.
I mean, I'm not saying that they don't want her, but I'm just that that 2008 was a lock.
It was hers.
It was almost written down, Mrs. Clinton, this is yours.
It's your turn, this is due you, we owe you for everything you've done for the party by looking the other way when your husband was out sleeping with all these other women and lying before the grand jury, you made that all possible by hanging with him, and so now it's your turn.
But they didn't work very hard to make it hers.
The minute Obama shows up, remember all the puff piece media stories on Obama?
And I say, what's this?
The drive-bys or people abandoning Hillary Clinton in droves within a month of Obama showing up.
Here's Josh Ernest, the White House press secretary, uh, press Secretary today of the uh daily briefing, Jonathan Carl of ABC News said, is the President saying, as he seems to be implying here, the threat of climate change is greater than the threat of terrorism, Josh.
There are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the impact, the direct impact on their lives of climate change or on the spread of a disease than on terrorism.
So the answer is yes, the president thinks that climate change is a greater threat to terror.
And you're talking about the direct daily impact uh of these kinds of challenges on the daily lives of Americans.
Stop the particular American What the hell?
What daily impact, what dramatic changes in people's lives is brought on by global warming.
What is unemployment because of global warming?
Is the fact that people can't get health insurance?
Is that because of global warming?
Is it people been converting from full-time to part time?
That because of global?
What the hell is he talking about?
Name one impact.
Daily impact on people's lives brought about by climate change.
What?
People are sweating more?
Tell that to the people in Boston.
This is absurd.
But I opened the program making a joke because of this very thing.
I mean, I make a joke about it, and less than three hours later they come out and admit it.
Back to the audio sound bites here.
This is Bob Beckle uh last night on the five on Fox.
And uh drive-by's are trying to explain Obama and the reason why he's downplaying there is no terrorism, they're just some folks doing a random shooting.
That's what he said in the box interview.
There's some random shootings, the folks are just get involved.
He will not say terrorists, he will not call it terrorism.
And here's Bob Beckles' explanation for why.
You know what I've finally figured out about this, I think, is that I think Obama grew up among Muslims.
I think he was very strongly affected by Muslims.
I think in his dream of dreams, he hopes that these guys aren't really Muslims, and he doesn't want to call them Muslims Muslims because he really does like Muslims.
Here's a guy that was very much affected by Muslims in his life.
Uh he had friends who are Muslims.
I think he just doesn't want to make himself believe that there could be a nasty goop.
Okay.
And what what is Beckle saying?
Well, okay, let's let's parse it, shall we?
Bob Beckle said, you know what, I finally figured out about this.
I think Obama grew up among Muslims.
I think he was very strongly affected by Muslims.
I think in his dream of dreams, he hopes these guys aren't really Muslims.
The hell with the dreams.
What about real life?
Are you?
Well, and he doesn't want to call them Muslims because he really likes Muslims.
And he can't, he doesn't know Muslims that act like this.
I mean, here's a guy very much affected by Muslims in his life.
He had friends who were Muslims.
I think he just doesn't want to make himself believe that they could be a nasty group.
You think there's any more to it than that?
What do you?
Well, he was uh he said he's very grew up among Muslims.
He was strongly affected by Muslims, dream of dreams, he thinks these guys aren't really Muslims.
There's also the fact that there's a lot of them, and he just may not want to make them mad.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but isn't a duck.
That's just that's that's Beckel's explanation here.
Beckles figure finally figured it out.
He just can't believe.
He's president and I say he just can't believe that these guys are Islamists, and can't believe they're Muslims.
He knows Muslims, and they don't do this.
Back to Brian Williams.
I t The soundbite rostered.
I've done my best to diversify the program, folks.
But I mean, Brian Williams is all over the drive-by's.
Here's Lester Holt, who is sitting in for Williams in the anchor chair.
We want to take just a moment to tell you where Brian is tonight in a message to his colleagues over the weekend.
Brian told us he's taking several days off this broadcast amid questions over how he recalled certain stories he covered in a career script covering the news.
Brian told us it's clear he's become too much a part of the news.
He'll be off while this issue is dealt with.
I just I did this this is this is I don't know.
I just to take a moment tell you where Brian is tonight, like the NBC audience is sitting on the edge of their chairs wondering where Brian is.
Here's where Brian is.
Uh in a message to his colleagues over the weekend, Brian told us he's taking several days off this broadcast amid questions over how he recalled certain stories he covered.
That's not what's going on here.
You know, I just remembered I wasn't on that Chinook.
I didn't show up for an hour after it was shot down, and I wasn't on the one that was shot.
You know, I just now remembered that.
With the help of some military veterans at Stars and Stripes, who were on the helicopter too and also didn't see me.
Uh Jeff Greenfield had an interesting thought.
But before we play for you what Jeff Greenfield's thought is, let me replay for you something I said on this program yesterday.
You know what's going to happen?
There's going to be rehab for lying.
And uh some enterprising entrepreneur is going to open up.
A liar's rehab center.
Pathological lying rehab center.
Jeff Greenfield CNN last night in this day and age, the anchor has to be something other than a deliverer of gravitas.
He has to be a vivid personality.
If the stories that are now being looked at reveal more fabulism, exaggeration, lies, whatever the right word is, he can't survive.
I don't mean to be flipped, but if Brian were like a rock star, and if Oprah Winfrey or Barbara Walters were still around, he could go and confess to an addiction for exaggerating.
He could go into a clinic for four weeks and come out purified.
I don't think for a journalist that's possible.
Do I know these people?
Or do I know these people?
Yes, you know, might Oprah come out and do a special.
Might she return for a special for Brian Williams to show up and confess and essentially attend a one-hour rehab session?
I think Oprah still has some tears left in her.
She could pull this off.
Maybe Barbara Walters and Oprah co-host it.
One from each network.
Larry King decided to get in on this.
This was uh where was this?
This was on the uh syndicated entertainment magazine show, The Insider.
Correspondent Michael Yo spoke with uh TV host Larry King about the Brian Williams scandal.
Smart.
Uh let it die down, maybe it'll go away.
I don't know how to make an excuse.
I've never had it happen to me, thank God.
Never had it happen to you?
What about you never did it?
Never it happened to me.
Somebody put a thought in my mind and I didn't know about it, and then I spoke it.
Thank God it never happened to me.
Let it let it die down, maybe it'll go away.
I don't know how to make an excuse.
I never had it happen to me.
John Stewart last night auditioning for the NBC nightly news gig.
I am happy.
Finally, someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq war.
Finally.
Now, I might not necessarily be the first person you'd want held accountable on that list.
But never again will Brian Williams mislead this great nation about being shot at in a war we probably wouldn't have ended up in if the media had applied this level of scurvy to the actual fing war.
Right.
Uh they had to love that at NBC News.
This is the guy they tried to hire for Meet the Depressed.
And by the way, he went on to excoriate Williams.
I mean, after he applied for the job there, he then went, he just he just ripped Williams a new one, time and time again.
Last night on uh on Comedy Central.
But did I also not tell you that this was ultimately going to be blamed on George W. Bush?
Because if it weren't for Bush, we wouldn't have been in Iraq.
Now, Brian hasn't played that card yet.
But it's still in his deck.
I know, I know.
John Stewart's about three days late with that joke.
But the people that only watch John Stewart uh don't know that.
Now I have to take another brief time out.
Uh coming up, one more sound.
Let me look at some.
Yeah, one more sound but you it uh infobabe anguish.
Info babe anguish and infobe at CNN.
Really distressed about all this.
And uh more after we get back, don't go away.
Infobabe Anguish, Brooke Baldwin, who we like.
We like Brooke Baldwin here at uh at the EIB network.
Uh she's Charles Barclay's favorite infobabe.
And she was on CNN yesterday afternoon talking with Travis Triton, correspondent for Stars and Stripes, about his interview with Brian Williams, and she played the clip of Williams saying that he assumed that all the airframes were hit because they all went down, and then they had this little chit-chat.
So I'm clear, when you're talking to him five days ago and you have him on the phone, and I hear you that you're pressing him, but still in this phone conversation before this big public apology on nightly, he is telling you his helicopter was hit and it went down.
Yes.
Ugh just as a journalist, it's just tough to take all this in first and foremost.
We know that he's now as managing editor of the show.
He's removed himself.
NBC's doing an internal investigation, and it seems to me at the time, I mean, this is before I think probably anyone in NBC, perhaps even including Brian Williams, knew how big of a deal this would be.
How could you not know how big of a deal this was be?
Uh what what internal investigation?
Are they looking for other examples?
Anywhere it is Info Babe Anguish there.
It's tough.
It's tough on journalists everywhere to see this.
Because everybody knows it happens, but not everybody gets caught.
That's the problem.
Here's David in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
One call left to squeeze it in.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Oh my gosh, Rush.
It's so exciting.
How are you doing?
Well, thank you very much.
Well, thanks for all you do for our country.
You're a fantastic patriot.
Um, you know, one of the things I I've been looking at here for a long time is any time you have a Democrat administration, you know you're gonna have little no foreign policy, they're setting the U.S. up for war, scandal, scandal, gate gate, and Hollywood facade, you know, etc.
Uh and but the problem is the the damage is done.
Uh, you know, and and you said a lot of time that uh the conservatives have won, you know, from the national letter level down to the dog catcher.
Well, the fix is gargantulin.
We have to fix all catcher right back on up.
I I know that that that it seems daunting.
I know exactly.
I I got a uh a little note over the weekend, uh Sunday afternoon.
A friend said, you know, I'm going to the news.
And I said it's hopeless.
It doesn't matter.
Every day there's a new assault, five or ten different assaults on this country in the culture, one way or another.
And it doesn't seem like it's ever going to be possible to even stay even much less roll some of this stuff back.
I know.
I know how it feels, but uh it's it is it is daunting.
But we've been here before, and we can roll it back.
We have to.
Number of people, more millions than you can possibly know, invested in doing just that.
And sadly, we've reached that moment that we reach every day, signaling the end of today's busy, busy broadcast.
However, I am not somewhere trying to figure out what happened to me.
I know exactly where I'm gonna be, and that's right back here tomorrow.
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