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Oct. 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 1, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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CNN is running breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, terribly upset over there.
Putin and Russia are dropping more bombs on Syria.
Breaking news.
Putin, Russia, dropping more bombs on Syria.
Will we ever see a headline, Obama, United States, dropping bombs on whatever?
Anyway, the reason is this is all considered an affront to Obama.
The American media, the drive-bys think that Putin is trying to embarrass Obama by telling that they're going to do one thing and then doing another.
And in fact, it's kind of funny.
We have conflicting stories about the exact events we described yesterday.
From the Wall Street Journal.
Headline's all you need here.
Russian airstrikes in Syria targeted CIA-backed rebels.
U.S. officials say it's exactly what I happen to report yesterday.
Everybody thought that Putin was going to go out there and start attacking ISIS.
And instead, Putin attacked U.S. allies, moderate rebels, moderate rebels in Syria.
And yet, Washington Post, Russia vehemently defends Syrian airstrikes and denies targeting U.S.-backed rebels.
So what are we supposed to do here?
The Wall Street Journal says that American officials says that Putin did indeed strike these U.S.-backed rebels, and Russia is denying it.
And now they're dropping more bombs today.
The attack continues, and it is considered to be an affront to Obama.
Now, John Kerry, Mike, I'm sorry, grab sound by number six.
This is out of order as far as the engineer just told him.
This is just embarrassing.
This is our reaction to it.
The Secretary of State, last night in New York City, UN, John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam at a joint press conference with the Russian foreign minister, whose name is Sergei Lavrov.
Now, this goes by fast.
It's only 15 seconds.
Here's Lurch.
We agreed on the imperative of as soon as possible, perhaps even as soon as tomorrow, but as soon as possible, having a military-to-military deconfliction discussion.
That is our Secretary of State saying that he agreed with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, that they agreed it was an imperative either as soon as possible, even today, but if not today, as soon as possible, to have a military-to-military deconfliction discussion.
Yesterday, he said we had to deconflict the situation.
Last night, he said it was a deconfliction discussion.
What he means is, you know, we've got to stop this conflict.
So apparently there's some sort of newfangled conflict resolution going on here called de-confliction.
And you know that Sergei Lavrov just happens to be laughing behind Kerry's face with him.
Anybody would be.
You know what they're saying?
These guys think they're so smart.
They think they're running rings around us.
These are the smartest the USA has to offer and they're a bunch of bird brains.
Meanwhile, Putin and Russia, they are continuing the assaults and they are hitting not ISIS.
They are attacking rebels in Syria who happen to be our allies.
Now in the midst of all this, I mentioned that Netanyahu went to the General Assembly today to address it.
And it was powerful.
Half the place walked out.
The American delegation stayed, however.
But half of the UN General Assembly delegation was not in the building.
And it's really amazing.
Netanyahu is a courageous and brave guy.
He said what he said.
And he just stared at the Star Wars cantina scene in front of him, which is what the audience at the UN is.
And there was a moment in his speech.
His theme was that they were not going to sit in silence any longer when genocidal or wild genocidal regimes nuke up.
It was a direct statement at Iran.
And in the midst of the U.S. and the P5 plus 1 nations deal with Iran that guarantees the MANUC at some point down the line, could be next month, could be 10 years.
It's widely unknown, but it's feared that it's sooner than later.
Netanyahu said, we're not going to sit silent, and we're not going to allow it to happen.
And at one point in his speech, he stood there and said nothing for 44 seconds.
He had a 44-second moment of silence.
His speech excoriating members of the UN General Assembly for supporting the deal with Iran, saying it makes war more likely.
But it was during an intense 44-second moment of silence that Netanyahu's condemnation of the UN was heard loudest.
Netanyahu said that the response from the UN to Iran's threats against Israel had been utter silence, deafening silence, before staring down the attendees for nearly a minute without saying a word.
Do you know how uncomfortable that makes people?
You know, sometimes we a mistake happens here at the EIB network.
A computer doesn't fire off an element of sound or microphone switch doesn't work and it ends up that there is silence here.
And we, highly trained broadcast specialists, refer to that as dead air.
And I have never been afraid of dead air.
I think dead air is one of the biggest attention getters in the world.
Five seconds of dead air never hurt anybody.
Have you ever seen what happens if you're watching television and something happens to a picture and it goes black?
What happens?
Everybody straightens up.
Everybody focuses their attention on the screen and waits for it to get fixed.
Everybody, even people only casually watching, will have their attention riveted.
Well, I, again, highly trained broadcast specialists, strategically used dead air.
I don't get to use it as much as I used to.
You know why?
Because some of our affiliate stations have computers that are essentially running commercials and what other sound elements there are during commercial breaks.
And they are programmed to fire up anything if there's more than two seconds of silence because it is assumed that something's wrong.
Now, when I do dead air, I like to do five full seconds of it.
But three will do.
Three seconds will do.
Five seconds is optimum. See what I mean?
Now, some of you whose stations are computerized, we've got a commercial running right now because I triggered the automation unit with that much dead air.
Netanyahu did 44 seconds of this while staring at these people.
He was, he was not, no, that's what I mean.
He was glaring at him.
He was staring at him.
He's not smiling.
And it makes you fidgety.
It makes you nerd because you know that he is speaking right to you when he's not saying a word, when he's just described something that's unacceptable and stops and stares at you.
It can be as effective as any words that you utter.
Now, naturally, we can't play the 44 seconds of silence here.
But that's why I spent some time here to describe it.
Let's go to the Netanyahu soundbites.
Here is the first of three.
Last month, Khamenei once again made his genocidal intentions clear.
Before Iran's top clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, he spoke about Israel, home to over 6 million Jews.
He pledged, quote, there will be no Israel in 25 years, end quote.
70 years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran's rulers promised to destroy my country, murder my people, and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here, has been absolutely nothing.
Utter silence, deafening silence.
That is when he allowed 45 seconds to go by without saying a word.
At that moment, he stood mute for 45 seconds when he resumed speaking.
It's not easy to oppose something that is embraced by the greatest powers in the world.
Believe me, it would be far easier to remain silent.
But throughout our history, the Jewish people have learned the heavy price of silence.
And as the prime minister of the Jewish state, as someone who knows that history, I refuse to be silent.
We edited the applause, but it went on.
Actually, I was kind of surprised by how much applause there was.
Netanyahu's hated at this place.
He's literally despised at this place.
Now, half of the people that despise him were not there.
They boycotted and didn't show up.
But I think it goes to tell you something: that Israel, Netanyahu, our number one ally in that region, is despised and hated.
And yet, Iranian speakers can get up, or Hugo Chavez, when he was alive, get up standing ovations, raucous standing ovations, because the United Nations is a joke of an organization and has been for a long time.
It's aimed at fleecing the U.S. is essentially its purpose now.
And here's the final bite we have from Netanyahu, where he says they're not going to allow Iran to get nukes, no matter what anybody else is doing or saying.
Not being passive means speaking up about those dangers.
We have, we are, we will.
Not being passive also means defending ourselves against those dangers.
We have, we are, and we will.
Israel will not allow Iran to break in, to sneak in, or to walk into the nuclear weapons club.
I know that preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons remains the official policy of the international community.
But no one should question Israel's determination to defend itself against those who seek our destruction.
See, this is why people have problems.
What he said here is exactly right.
I know that preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons remains the official policy of the international community.
It may well represent the policy, but it's not the reality.
Everybody knows that's paying attention here what has happened.
People are running around saying, we just did a deal.
I'm the first president in American history, world history, to ever stop the bad guys from getting a nuke.
I, Barack Hussein, when the fact of the matter is, in order to get them to sign anything, he had to promise and assure that they will get a nuke down the road.
And yet everybody runs around and applauds the deal.
First president ever to stop nuclear proliferation.
Just the exact opposite.
And this is why people have developed such a distrust and an animus toward politics, because it insults people's intelligence.
And it furthermore becomes clear that the ultimate aim of politics for many is personal glory, personal achievement, personal accolades, which is fine and dandy, except that's not what politics professes to be about.
Quick timeout, my friends.
We'll be back with more after this.
And we have another school shooting, ladies and gentlemen.
Community college in Oregon reports of 10 people dead.
And I am pretty sure that this is a gun-free zone.
It's Oregon, it has to be.
Another shooting being reported in a school where weapons are prohibited.
So we know the drill here.
We pretty much know what the drive-bys are going to try to ascertain as soon as they can.
And even before they're able to ascertain the identity of and whatever there is to learn about the shooter, there will probably be some speculation, as you well know.
Even though it is Oregon, Oregon has some bitter clingers in there, too, you know.
So be vigilant, keep a sharp eye back to the phones.
Cody in Oregon, in Portland, it's great to have you on the program.
Welcome, sir.
Hi.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
I'm very well.
Thank you.
Hey, I was calling about your Rush Revere books.
I have a daughter who's in kindergarten.
I've been waiting quite a while to be able to buy her some of these Rush Revere books.
And I want to see if that's actually an age group that would work for her to read these books, considering her age.
It's as young as five.
Well, can't she read?
What at all?
She can't read, but I read books to her every night.
And, you know, I try to pick ones that I enjoy as well.
And I definitely know I want to go through these books.
In that case, I'm going to be very self-serving here.
I'll be honestly self-serving.
I don't think you can start soon enough on the subject matter here.
And if you're, did you say it's your daughter?
Yes, my daughter.
If your daughter likes hearing you read to her, it can't hurt to try.
Do you have any of the Rush Revere books?
No, I have not bought any yet.
Okay, well, let me buy the package for her kindergarten class.
It is a private school, so.
Okay, well, let me do this.
When we finish here, this will be a good test.
If you'll stay in touch with us on this, what will happen is, after the phone call is over here, stay on the phone.
Mr. Snerton will get an address for you.
We'll FedEx you or UPS will FedEx overnight some books.
And I'm going to send you the audio versions on CD that I have recorded.
I read them.
Perfect.
So when you get tired of reading, you can pop a CD in.
But you read one to her and see if she likes it.
I have a sneaking suspicion because of the talking horse and the personality and the character of this horse that she's going to love it.
But I don't think she does listen to the show with me, so in the car, I could even throw those audio.
See, my instincts were right on the money, even though I didn't know.
And I'm serious on the subject matter.
I mean, the reason for doing these books is because we all believe in the importance of teaching the history of this country.
It's so special.
It's so miraculous.
It's so important.
It's just such a wonderful story that we want everybody to know it.
And it isn't being taught as much today as it was when I was growing up.
So it's simply...
That's why we sacrifice and we put her in private school and we get her an education that we feel is going to teach that to her.
Well, I would be honored.
I'd be happy to send you some books out and some of the audio CDs.
And then you read to her and see if she likes it.
My guess is that she's going to.
Oh, I agree.
I just, I didn't know.
You know, I see, I read on the website and it says, you know, between nine and older, and I'm thinking, I can't wait any longer.
I want to read these books.
And all of us to her.
No, I totally understand.
I understand the impatience here.
We have to put that up because the books are written for a reading level of 10 to 13.
But that's not to say that somebody younger who knows how to read can't read them and enjoy them because we get emails from all age groups of people who are reading the books and enjoying them.
And we're getting pictures.
And clearly, many of the pictures that we're getting of young readers, they're seven, eight years old, and they're holding the books up.
Their parents are either reading the books to them or they themselves are going through the book themselves.
But that 10 to 13 or 8 to 10 range is to be honest with parents about the reading level that the books are written at.
But in terms of the ability to enjoy them, I think anybody will.
We're even hearing from adults who do.
So hang on here, Cody, and Mr. Snurdley will get your address so that we can send you a little care package out and put the theory to test.
Seriously, you know, we are hearing from parents, teachers from all over the country asking us when the next Rush Revere book is coming.
And I can't describe for you how exciting it is to get emails like that and requests.
Is there going to be another one, Mr. Limbaugh?
Is there going to be another one?
Parents, grandparents want to know.
It's really, it's a mission here for us to try to teach young people how lucky we all are to be Americans.
So the next book is coming.
It's in pre-order now, Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner.
And it's, you know what, I'm going to tell you something, folks.
There's more history chocked into this book.
I'm not going to say any more.
I don't want to give it away.
It's Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner.
It's available now everywhere you get books online for pre-order.
Amazon, Barnes ⁇ Noble, Books a Million, you name it.
It's on sale in the stores on October 27th.
For those two or three of you that are unfamiliar with the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans children's book series, we don't just present history as a timeline of facts that people have to memorize or not, not memorize.
What we do here, we write these books in such a way that the reader actually experiences history and is transported back to the events in time that we are writing about so that they are actually there.
They're part of it.
They go back.
Time traveled with the Liberty, the talking horse takes everybody back, and they live these moments and they talk to and interact with all of these exceptional people in America's history, America's past.
And they get to ask them questions and they participate as though they are residents of that era while they time travel.
And they can see how one event leads to another.
And so the reader actually becomes part of the story, remains distant from it and has to try to remember it.
And that's the effort that we're making with the way the books are constructed here is to actually take the reader back in time to make them part of the story.
So there's no memorization required.
We tell them true stories that are exceptional and they're incredible.
Forever impressioned on their young minds.
That's the effort.
Here's Peter, Palm Beach County, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hello, sir.
I'm sorry.
I got a little caught off guard here.
Great to speak with you.
I'll get right to the point.
I didn't mean to make you nervous.
I know I've been in your shoes.
You're sitting out there.
You're waiting.
And finally somebody says you're next.
And then it happens.
And there it is.
And you freeze up.
You choke.
I know, I did.
But that's why we're patient and tongue.
Exactly right.
We have, in the past, in America, done bombing in the Middle East.
And the media in this country could not wait to put on the 6 o'clock news, 6.30 news, the collateral damage of people who were injured by that bombing.
I have yet, with 28 or more bombing raids done by the Russians in the last couple of days, I have yet to see any footage of any collateral damage done by the Russians.
And if this doesn't crystallize in the American people's mind, how biased our media is, it should.
You know, this is an excellent point.
Your collateral damage, do you know when that began?
You know what?
There was a single incident that triggered this.
It's not that it hadn't happened before this, but a single event gave this whole concept of collateral damage to U.S. military action or U.S. allies military action a brand new focus, purpose, and life, as far as the media was concerned.
It was that picture of a Vietnamese little girl running away from having been napalmed, her village or whatever.
It might have been a Time magazine picture that was spread all over TV.
But it can be traced back to the Vietnam War collateral damage, how mean, how evil, how rotten.
And it began this, begat this whole concept of surgical strikes.
I agree, Rush, but where is the media's so-called even-handedness?
Why do we not see certainly the Russians have there's been some collateral damage, and so far I have not seen one minute of it on television.
Well, look, your point is exactly on the money.
There's no motive for the media to make the Russians look like bad guys.
But there is for us.
Exactly.
Yes.
Exactly right.
You know, I was reading about World War II last night.
It's strange that you called about this.
I was reading about Hitler and his plans to defeat Great Britain and how he blew it and how close Germany came to conquering Britain.
But because of communications problems back in that era, Hitler did not know how successful an air campaign by the Luftwaffe against the RAF had been.
And the strategy for the Germans was to totally take Britain by the air.
They were not going to use ground troops whatsoever.
And there was something in the, up until the, for the vast majority of the time, in this air campaign launched by Hitler, the Luftwaffe and the Germans, military targets were the sole targets.
Air Force bases, manufacturing factories of Britain was producing 470 spitfires a month.
They were just ramping up industrial like crazy.
And Germany was trying to bomb airports and coastal regions, but they were all military targets.
And ostensibly, one German bomber went off course and mistakenly dropped bombs on London.
And that so infuriated Churchill that he retaliated with bombing runs on Dresden and other cities in Germany, and the war took on the complexion of civilian casualties.
And eventually it was determined by civilian casualties.
World War II was largely, not totally, but in many ways, victory was achieved by virtue of civilian casualties and targets rather than military targets.
Now, there were some people that think that the German bombing of London was not accidental or not inadvertent.
But before it happened, it had not happened before.
The Germans had strictly bombed military targets.
My point is, it begat an entirely different kind of conflict and war where civilians were the targets.
And there was no such thing as collateral damage because every civilian, the hearts of cities happened to be the targets.
And that was commonplace in both the Russian front with Germany and the U.S. and the Allies against Germany on the other side of Europe.
And here we are today, where if there is one casualty in any conflict with either the United States or one of its allies that involves a civilian, why you would think that we are the absolute dregs, the worst shreds of human debris to walk the planet.
Now we have surgical strikes.
And of course, in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, the Hezbollah can launch rockets at Israelis in the centers of population centers all day long, and the media doesn't care a whit about it.
Hezbollah can put citizens in its mosques and put citizens in its military headquarters and disguise them as houses or disguise houses as military headquarters so that Israeli targets happen to hit them.
And then here comes the complaint that the Israelis are targeting citizens.
And here goes the media jumping all over the Israelis for doing it.
Just as the caller says, it's a two-way street.
Well, actually, it's a one-way street.
The reason they're not in Syria trying to measure civilian casualties or collateral damage is because there's no reason to portray Russia as the bad guy.
That doesn't help Obama yet.
If it does, if it's found that it could somehow aid Obama, you'll see it, Peter.
You will see Photoshop video.
You'll see Photoshop still shots in any number of ways.
If it becomes advantageous to either Obama or the Democrat Party in terms of the presidential race, for that kind of thing to be covered and reported, they'll do it.
That's an excellent point.
Right now, there isn't any of that.
And of course, there has to be some collateral damage.
I appreciate the call, Peter.
Brief timeout, folks.
We'll be back with much more in mere moments.
Time is dwindling away here, but just this headline.
And it's a Breitbart story.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans $100 million campaign against conservatives.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, you heard me right, plans $100 million campaign against conservatives.
The chamber will take the lead, planning to spend $100 million in 2016, a large portion of which is to be devoted to defeating conservatives in Republican primaries.
Now, this is just like the unions, folks.
The chamber is using our money against us.
This describes exactly how the chamber plans to kill off conservatives in order to bring a massive flood of foreign labor, blue and white collar, into the country to depress wages.
Even H-1B visas are resulting in immigrants, qualified immigrants, great people, but they're being paid much less.
That's why Zuckerberg wants them, for example.
And so here you have an organization long thought to be Republican and conservative, pro-business, anti-government.
Not anymore.
Either they've been taken over by a bunch of libs or they've just been corrupted.
But they plan on spending $100 million to defeat Republican conservatives in primary elections next year.
And I would assume in general elections as well.
By the way, Vladimir Putin is out saying that there are erroneous reports of Russian collateral damage.
In fact, Putin is saying that he saw the reports before the bombing even started.
It's in Russia today.
We look at everything, folks, here in terms of show prep.
Sadly, folks, that's it.
We're out of time today, but Open Line Friday tomorrow.
Oh, yeah.
Never know what's going to happen.
Talk about unpredictable.
So thank you for being with us as always and look forward to tomorrow, 21 hours from now.
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