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Sept. 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So I just saw Carly Fiorina some appearance that she's making CNN covered it.
By the way, if you notice that thanks to Trump, Carly Fiorina is suddenly getting a lot more face time now.
You notice that.
Anyway, Carly Fiorina said, hey, it's not about the size of your plane.
*laughter*
Greetings, folks.
It's Friday, and you know what that means.
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Perhaps the biggest show business career risk.
Donald Trump quit celebrity apprentice to run for the presidency.
So we have another, we have another cheating scandal already alleged with the New England Patriots.
And I'm just going to tell you something.
For the Steelers to do this, this is so, so, so out of character for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The uh the tradition of the Steelers and their uh their stature, if you will.
There are tiers of stature in the NFL, just like any organization.
Steelers are in the top tier in terms of league-wide respect, respectability, uh, maturity, this kind of thing.
I mean, it's all about ownership and then all the way down to the uh executive management level.
And last night during the first half of the first quarter, I knew something was by the way.
I just want to tell you, the latest is that the Steelers coach's headphones are not working.
Now I knew something was up right before kickoff.
NBC had a camera on the Steelers sideline, and Rothlassberger had his helmet on, pointing at it, frowning, saying he couldn't hear.
He took his helmet off and walked over out of the picture somewhere on the bench, obviously where the communication system is dealt with.
He came back into the picture and he had his helmet back on and he's giving a thumbs up like he all of a sudden could hear it right before the game.
And I knew, I just I didn't know it was this, but I knew the Steelers were having trouble with their headphones.
The communication system.
And they they uh they're allowed to radio in to the quarterback uh for a certain number of seconds between plays, whatever they want.
They can be the next play, uh, which is usually what it is, and they test this frequently and constantly during pregame and so forth.
And the Steelers was not working.
So apparently what was happening is that the Steelers coach's headphone system was receiving the Patriots radio play-by-play broadcast.
And the Steelers coaches were unable to communicate with each other, and they were unable to communicate with Rottlesberger when he was on the field.
They were unable to send in play calls.
So they called an NFL official from the press box to come down to look at it because the phone system is the NFL's responsibility during a game.
It's not the home team's responsibility.
So here is the snafu.
What happened?
Some guy from the NFL comes down, looks at the situation, and supposedly gets it rectified.
But it wasn't rectified because the the Patriots claimed that they were having the same kind of problem in their headsets.
And it was learned, it was discovered later, and this must be for the Steelers to have done what they've done here to make this an official case on their website.
There must be they they must Believe this actually happened.
When the NFL guy went over to the this is the witness testimony provided by Steelers players.
The NFL guy walked over to the Patriot sideline to check out the phone systems there, everything was working fine.
When he leaves the Patriots sideline, once again, the Patriots play by play radio broadcast shows up in the Steelers coach's headsets.
And so the meaning of that is that even though it's a league controlled part of the game, coaches' headsets on both sidelines that the Patriots had found a way to monkey with it.
And the Steelers on their website have posted not only to go with head coach Mike Tomlin's comments post-game, they have posted thoughts on what happened last night, which is essentially an official allegation that there was purposeful tampering with the Steelers' headsets last night.
Now the Steelers organization would be, correct me if I'm wrong about this, those of you who cover the team regularly, but the Steelers organization to me would be one of the last to even involve itself in something like at least publicly.
If they were going to deal with this, they'd do it privately behind the scenes, and I'll make a spectacle of it.
Like what this shows, and everybody's trying to figure out why was the NFL, why was why was the Commissioner Goodell so insistent on this deflate gate thing with Brady?
Why were they why'd they throw everything in the kitchen sink at this?
And I'm telling you, it's because of a lingering belief on the part of many owners for many years that all is not on the up and up with the Patriots.
They haven't been able to catch them conclusively with proof.
So whatever this is the closest opportunity they had to nail the Patriots for all the past transgressions, including Spygate.
And it petered out, didn't go anywhere.
And for this to happen, you know, I was watching a game last night.
I was, I told Catherine, she know what I'd love to see.
I'd love to see the game stopped and the Steelers demand that the balls be measured.
You know, right in the middle of the first quarter.
I would just love to see this.
The only way to look at this stuff is to is to laugh at it.
And they went and talked to Belichick.
Belichick says, we're on to Buffalo.
I I don't know anything about technology.
Uh I just weren't working part of the time either.
It's no big deal.
So anyway, it's not going away.
And I'm just, you know, I could be wrong.
People closer to the team than I am could could maybe correct me on this, but I think for the Steelers from the top, not just the head coach, I mean, this stuff doesn't happen on our website without ownership approving of it.
There's got to be league wide.
Anger, disgust, whatever, uh, with the Patriots on a on a whole bunch of levels.
So now we've got what are they calling it?
Headset gate, headphone gate.
Anyway, uh, I knew, just wanted to tell you I knew I went when Rothlassberger was having trouble with his helmet in the pregame, and they were talking about something totally unrelated to this.
It's just my highly trained eye.
I am so observant.
That's what that's what happens when you're the mayor of Realville.
You notice everything.
And you hear everything.
Well, as much as I can here, what I do hear, I hear everything, including between the lines.
And I see everything beyond what is visible.
I can tell you, sideline pregame, Steelers were having trouble with their communications.
Slam dunk.
So when I read about this this morning getting up, heard about a little bit last night.
Uh I was not surprised.
Well, okay, um, despite the best efforts of who knows how many people the inexplicable has happened.
On the day before, the 14th anniversary of 9-11, the United States Senate sustained the Iranian nuclear deal,
freeing Barack Hussein Obama to lift sanctions on the Iranian regime, which will for the most part immediately provide them with between 100 and 150 billion dollars could now be said that the United States Senate and we would not be inaccurate to emphasize Senate Democrats although the Republicans are as complicit.
This is just it's inexplicable.
The whole thing is inexplicable.
There is so much that doesn't make any sense anymore.
So much in our politics that's happening every day that doesn't make sense to people anymore.
And no matter how artful you are at explaining it it still doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense because it appears that we've lost patriots it appears our government is not filled with patriots anymore.
That's what's inexplicable.
Or you can come up with, well, the donors are insisting this.
Or, well, there's just a bunch of elites, you know, and they've got their own private reasons for wanting to do whatever they do.
Or, well, they don't care anymore about average ordinary Americans.
That's what happens with elites.
The higher they climb the ladder in politics, by definition, the farther away they get from the people they represent.
They lose touch.
It's okay, fine.
It still doesn't explain this.
I mean, you can explain the Trump phenomenon.
You can explain a lot.
But you can't make sense of the United States president and the United States Senate assisting the world's leading terrorist regime securing nuclear weapons.
You can't explain that.
I couldn't explain it to anybody if I tried.
not in a way that makes any sense.
what happened you can give them all the possibilities but after that people still going to say well why I what what what why would anybody want the Iranians to have a nuke okay well the first part of that quote why would Obama want that that's who's driving this okay so why would Obama want the Iranians to have a nuke?
Well you can answer the question any number of ways which I have but it's not going to satisfy anybody because at the end of the day they're still going to get nukes and it mustn't make sense it doesn't make any kind of common sense whatsoever if you come from a position where the United States has the moral authority to be the good guys if you believe that this doesn't make any sense okay so why does Obama want Iran to have nukes?
Well, you can say a low-information voter asked the question, well, Obama thinks that we don't have the right to tell anybody they can or can't have nukes.
It's not our job.
Just because we're a big country and a large economy doesn't give us the right to tell people what they can and can't do.
Oh, oh, well, I might agree with that.
You do?
You don't think that there's good and evil in the world and that we are on the good side and that evil must be stopped, evil must be opposed?
Even if you don't think that, do you think evil must be aided?
Do you think evil must be assisted?
Even if you believe, as today's leftists and Democrats want you to believe, that there's nothing special about America and that we have no right to tell any other country what they can and can't do, fine.
Do you still agree with the concept that we are assisting evil in acquiring weapons?
Do you agree?
Do you find any problem at all, have a problem at all with the fact that we are helping, we are assisting?
Do you have a genuinely evil regime acquire the deadliest weapons known to man?
Do you have a problem with that?
It's one thing for you to believe we have no right to tell them they can or can.
can't for you low information voters and young people by the way it wasn't that long ago where the United States was looked to by everybody in the world as the moral authority the United States was looked at as the leader of the good guys.
The United States was and exemplified the good guys to free people and people yearning to be free all over the world.
That's the position we held.
And not because it was ordained, because we earned it.
We had achieved it because of the people we are.
Kind of country we have.
So now what's happened, even if other nations do not want the Iranians to succeed in ultimately producing a nuclear weapon, we have pledged to assist Iran in opposing any other nation that might take action to stop Iraq We have literally made it possible for the Iranian regime to eventually become a full-fledged nuclear
weapon nation.
And it's inexplicable.
The Republican Party had numerous tools at its disposal to stop this and chose not to use them.
Republican Party treated this as though it were another budget bill.
Or another potential government shutdown.
But this isn't.
This isn't just another bill.
This isn't just another temporary stop gap to make sure social security checks continue to flow.
This is about validating and awarding a terrorist regime, the leading sponsor of terror in the world, and assisting them, helping them to acquire nuclear weapons.
Now some may say, even some well-intentioned people might say, but we can't stop them.
There's nothing we can do.
It's going to happen anyway.
Rush, we might as well do this in a way where we have some involvement, don't you think?
No.
Not if the involvement is that we're helping.
Not if the involvement is that we're assisting, not if the involvement essentially is we are making it possible.
And then paying them in the process.
Plus, who says it's inevitable they're going to get a nuclear war?
Who says that?
That's that's that's caving immediately.
That is that's giving in.
That's not even representative of an attitude of fighting it and opposing it.
Anyway, no matter what you come up with to explain this to people who don't understand, you can't make them understand it.
Because it makes no sense.
And then when you add the Republicans to this mix, and you start trying to explain to people why the Republican leadership did not use the tools at their disposal to stop it, then you really can't make sense of it.
And none of it makes any sense.
There's not a single person out there that can answer these questions for us anywhere, on TV in a column, and make all of us go, oh, oh, okay.
Well, now I understand it.
That person, that reason doesn't exist.
Because this is inexplicable.
Here's Bob Corker, a co-author of the now famous Corker Cardin bill, which essentially what the Corker Bill did was reverse the treaty process and suggested, it didn't suggest it change by statute.
It said the Iranian deal, all Obama had to do was get 34 votes.
A treaty requires 67.
The Corker Bill said he only needs to get 64 votes.
The president is in violation of the law here.
Look, I'm sorry for screaming.
This is really frustrating.
You just don't know.
The Republicans had the law on their side.
They would not have even had to get political.
They had the law on their side.
A law Obama had signed.
He did not fully comply with the Corker Bill.
He did not fully divulge all the details of the Iranian nuclear deal by a time certain.
So the 60-day review process never started.
This is just a total capitulation and giveaway.
And here's Bob Corker.
He was On CNN's wolf yesterday afternoon, Blitzer said, so what do you hope to achieve now that 42 Democrats are clearly with the president more than enough to sustain a presidential veto?
Look, I wish we could have, you know, stopped it.
I really do think it's bad for our country.
I'm disappointed we haven't been successful, but we have been successful in illuminating the many flaws.
And we've done so in a bipartisan way.
What the you've you've you've illuminated the flaws, and you've done it in a bipartisan way.
That is what's important here.
I wish we could have stopped.
No, you don't.
No, you don't really wish you could have stopped it.
You could have.
You could have stopped it using your own.
I don't, folks, it's inexplicable.
I'm not going to get red in the face over this.
It's it's just inexplicable.
Now, this is the 14th anniversary of 9-11, and this is a this is a day that's for many, it's also inexplicable.
It happened 14 years ago.
I have one friend who lost a son on that day.
I guess I'm um I don't know, fortunate's not not the word, but he's the only person I know who lost family that day.
He also lost another son in an unrelated event, a traffic accident.
But for 14 years, my friend has been harboring a rage and an anger that again is rooted in the unexplainable.
And this confusion has done nothing but ratchet up.
Since 9-11 happened, what my friend has seen, and I know it because he shares the emotion, and I'm sure he's not alone.
What he's seen is the people responsible for it and their allies end up being courted by the United States.
All this time, they have expected, well, maybe not recently, but in the immediate years after, there was a natural expectation that the people behind this act would pay for it.
Not just Osama bin Laden, but that the entire way of thinking that led to this kind of behavior and attitude against the U.S. would be treated as an enemy and dealt with accordingly, as we have dealt with enemies previous.
Japan and Pearl Harbor, as an example.
There has been none of that, or very little.
There have been excursions into Afghanistan, and bin Laden is dead after ten or eleven years or twelve, whatever number it was.
But today we are helping a militant Islamic regime acquire nuclear weapons.
We have made deals with militant Islamic regimes in the Middle East.
We've chosen the wrong side repeatedly.
And there is now a massive invasion of the thinking and the type of people responsible for the death of his son all over Europe.
And he sees the leadership of his own country not at odds with any of it, and he doesn't understand it.
And he never will.
He can't explain the rage.
It's so...
Stinging and the anger.
But the one of the worst results for him is the loss of faith in his own country to do something about it.
Now you can say, yeah, well, we captured the people involved in Club Gitmo and all that.
And that's true.
All of that is true.
But this is not about eye for an eye vengeance or punishment, at least for my friend.
He just doesn't understand why the people who killed his son are viewed as people we need to fear and accommodate and appease.
He just doesn't understand it, never will.
And it makes the loss of his son even more senseless than it was the day it happened.
It's sheer torture.
For those of us who did not lose family or friends.
It's much the same, but it's it's obviously not as intense because it isn't as personal, but it's deep.
It really is deep.
There's so much that doesn't make any sense.
There's so much that cannot be logically explained.
As I said when trying to understand why we are enabling the Iranians to speed up and secure their possession of nuclear weapons.
There isn't somebody, there isn't some brainiac, there isn't some brilliant person somewhere that could be called on that has the answer that would make all of us go, oh, oh, okay.
Now I get it.
Now it makes sense.
It doesn't exist.
And for my friend, there is no such explanation for what happened to his son.
And beyond that, there's no explanation for why.
So little has been done about it.
He's never going to get over it.
Nobody ever could.
It's just that devastating.
When you add all of these other things that just don't make sense, it becomes a constant torture.
When you allow yourself or permit yourself to think about it, and it's hard not to, obviously.
Now we've got this massive invasion of Islamic people fleeing perfectly fine countries, Turkey and others in the Middle East.
They're fleeing Syria, we're told in other places, but it's not just Syria.
And they're not stopping along the way in places that are perfectly safe and economically secure.
They're continuing to march to Europe.
Germany, Sweden, you name it, where the benefits are the higher, are the highest.
But get this.
This is a story of the UK independent.
Saudi Arabia offers Germany 200 mosques, one for every 100 refugees who arrived last weekend.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for Western Europe by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany.
According to the Frankfurter Zeitung, which quoted a report in the Lebanese newspaper, Al Dyer, Saudi Arabia would build one mosque for every 100 refugees who entered Germany in extraordinary numbers last week.
Well, how kind of them.
Saudi Arabia doesn't need them.
Saudi Arabia is already an Islamic or Muslim country, doesn't need these people.
And it doesn't want them, just like no Middle Eastern country wants the Palestinians.
Amid a history of competition between the Gulf States and the Iranian Allied nations, there is a deep fear that allowing an influx of Syrian refugees could also let in Syrians loyal to Basher al-Assad.
Right, because Mr. Assad and his followers are Shiite, Whereas the Saudis are Sunni.
In fact, over 74% of the rest of the population of Syria is Sunni, who are unhappy with having a Shiite government, which is the real cause of the so-called civil war in Syria, not climate change.
And then there's a companion story here, also from the UK Telegraph.
Islamic extremists are trying to recruit Syrian refugees in Germany.
Islamic extremists in Germany are trying to recruit Syrian refugees to their cause.
The warning came as one of Germany's best known Islamist preachers published a list of suggestions for his followers on how to best approach refugees.
Saudi Arabia thinks it's doing Germany a favor here.
Offering to build 200 mosques.
And there's Angela Merkel.
Inexplicably.
Hey, thank you.
We can't wait for these people to get here.
We're going to take 800,000 this year, and we're going to take 500,000 next year, and every year from here on up because we need the bodies.
We don't have enough people being born in our country to sustain our population and our economy.
These are the people who were behind 9-11.
At least to people who lost family and friends, that's how it appears, and it's inexplicable.
It doesn't make any sense.
Barack Obama has ordered 10,000 additional Syrians, refugees, admitted into the United States.
Here's Rudy Giuliani.
This is this morning on Fox & Friends.
Brian Kilmead said, what's your message today, Mr. Former Mayor?
My message is don't get fooled by the fact that there's a museum, that this is over.
We usually build museums for historical things, like at Pearl Harbor.
That's over.
There are our friends now, all those countries.
These people are not our friends.
Right now we are in more danger and more denial than we were in before September 11th.
Sure.
The facts are even more compelling than they were on September 10th of 2001.
How this administration can ignore the lessons of history.
I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, but it's not just this administration anymore.
The proper way to characterize this is how is it that official Washington can ignore the lessons of history?
And you can't explain that.
There is no answer that anybody will understand.
I mean, not a sane answer.
The truth might scare the hell out of everybody.
We're never going to hear the truth.
We're going to get gobbledygook explanations.
Well, you know, we can't be at war with two-thirds of the world's population.
There's no history, no future than that.
What we have to do is show them we meeting them no harm.
Right, right.
Doesn't make any sense.
You can't make sense.
Folks, that's not saying I don't have not saying I don't have answers.
I have I can answer any question you have about this.
I can give you 15,000 reasons why Mitch McConnell or Republicans did not oppose this.
But that's not the answers that I have are not going to satisfy.
They're not going to make any sense compared to the weight of the seriousness of the situation.
They're not going to make any sense.
There are answers.
There are explanations, but they don't make any sense.
And then we have this.
You wonder why all this matters.
Well, we have a video here.
This was created by a conservative group, the Young America's Foundation.
They filmed this at George Mason University in Virginia.
It shows students, college students, 18, 19, 20, 21, expressing confusion after being asked the question, why was America attacked on 9-11?
Now, this is something that you think everybody in America would know.
It took decades for people to not know what Pearl Harbor meant.
It took decades for people not for enough generations to be born, and for enough time to pass.
It took decades to be able to walk around the country and find a significant number of people who had no idea what had happened At Pearl Harbor.
That was 1941.
Pearl Harbor Day was still actively celebrated and understood by vast majority of this population as recently as 20 years ago.
Here we are 14 years from 9-11, and this is what Young America's Foundation found on campus at George Mason University.
Why was America attacked on 9-11?
Why were we attacked on 9-11?
That's a good question.
I should know more, but I don't.
Why did they attack us on 9-11?
If I'm being perfectly honest, I'm not 100% sure.
Probably Bush did something bad.
I'm not quite sure, to be honest.
They were mad at us for some.
I don't know.
Or uh interventionist foreign policy.
There was an issue over money or oil.
You put us into war over there over money and gas, and it just didn't turn out right.
I hear a lot about it being religious, but I think that that's covering up economics.
They blame George W. Bush, folks.
You know, since there seems to be a theme that has evolved of the inexplicable, there's no explanation that makes sense.
Try this headline.
This is from The Hill.com.
Poll.
Clinton, best candidate to defend U.S. from hackers.
I'm not kidding.
Despite the ongoing controversy, swirling around Hillary Clinton's personal email setup while Secretary of State, voters still believe Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to protect the country from cyber attacks.
That's according to a new poll from Wakefield research and encryption firm PKWare.
According to a survey of 1,000 registered voters, 42% think that Clinton is the White House hopeful most qualified to defend U.S. networks from hackers.
She's the most cheated on woman in America.
She's the most hacked woman in America, and these idiots in it.
Sorry.
And these great American citizens in this look at how they've been fooled.
Holy smokes.
And by the way, you can't blame this on the drive-by's.
The drive-by's have not covered this up.
The drive-bys have been part of the drip drip drip drip drip.
Every day a new little story on the controversy and all that.
Anyway, let me get a phone.
We always try to go to the phones in the first hour on Open Line Friday.
It's Thomas in Fairfax, Virginia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Roch.
I love to listen to your show.
I I would just like to point out one of actually two things.
Um I don't know if a lot of people are aware of this, but when in the in the modern world, when somebody wants to set up power, uh nuclear power, they use thorium now.
They don't use uranium.
Thorium is uh many times more efficient, and you can use it on much smaller footprint.
Almost all of the virtually all of the new power plants being made throughout the world are thorium, they're not uranium.
So given that fact, the fact that the Iranians are using uranium is the only reason they're using it, it's the only reason anybody used it in the past was for nuclear weapons.
Given that information, why are we stuck on stupid with Obama giving into this, thinking, oh well, we're just doing this because they want power when we know this.
This is that that's something.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Wait a minute.
If if if this could be explained, very simply by simply saying Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, uh, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton are stupid, then I can understand it.
If that's why this has happened, because they're stupid, then that's all I need to know.
I just don't think that's the explanation.
I don't either.
I think there's either money involved or there's somebody blackmailing somebody.
This doesn't make any sense.
No sense.
Well, about blackmail.
I mean, that's possible, but there's no question there's money.
There's no question whatsoever there's money involved.
It's it's doubtless.
Well, I'd love to be in on that deal, then.
Well, just keep a sharp eye.
If a couple years after he leaves office, Obama's net worth is between 300 and 400 million or like Clinton's is.
Well, you can start thinking about how does that happen?
You wanna hear something else?
Try that try this headline.
Also from the Hill dot com.
Study.
All male marine units outperform squads of women.
Really?
All male marine units outperformed squads with women?
Is that right?
Next thing you know, they're gonna be telling us that men and women are born different, too.
Holy smokes, who knew?
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