All Episodes
Previous Next
Oct. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:51
October 19, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh patience here, just permit me a brief aside.
You people, you people at uh at at Weather Underground, fix the storm app.
The storm app won't load on anybody's devices today.
You got to do something.
It's got to be a server-side problem, you got to fix it.
It's too important, and it's a great app.
It's one of the greatest weather apps.
There's a lot of great weather apps out there.
I don't mean to impute any others.
But it all of us had stopped loading on all five of my devices.
I restarted, I did everything, and then I checked with other people, same thing.
Okay, that's out of the way.
Greetings, folks, great to have you, Rush Limb.
Well, we get action on things like that.
We get it fixed.
Great to have you here, folks.
Another full week of broadcast excellence at 800-282-2882 in the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Okay, uh Donald Trump.
George W. Bush, not saying he did it, but it happened when he was president in 9-11, and so the media has picked that up and say, hey, if uh if if uh George W. Bush had nothing to do with 9-11, and how in the world did Hillary have to do with Benghazi?
Leave it to me.
I'll show you how none of that is analogous.
It is one of the biggest false analogies out there.
We'll deal with it, and I'd be really eager to talk to you Trumpsters about the new direction the Trump campaign seems to be heading here.
Uh I know it's an attempt to dump on Jeb by dumping on W, but there are some other things.
And meanwhile, the the Republican establishment is if what we read to be believed, they are now in full fledged undisguised panic because they are now totally convinced that not only is Trump in it for real, that he could win it.
And this is not something they have heretofore faced head-on.
I mean, it's always been a possibility out there, but they would tell themselves uh, you know, the back of the bar, it's gonna happen, don't worry about it.
This is something while we haven't figured out what he's doing, but he's not gonna stay in it.
How they think he is.
I think he's in it for the duration and that he could win the nomination.
Thank you.
Uh, and that he could win the White House.
I mean, they think he can go all the way now.
In the meantime, uh, Mrs. Clinton, ladies and by the way, when did Hillary start wearing a wig?
Just what I said.
When did she start wearing a wig?
Oh, well, all right.
I'm just asking.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, regular listeners, this program should know.
I have been saying lately, in fact, I've been saying for many, many moons here, that I refuse to get sucked in to the daily drive-by media soap opera.
I just refuse it.
And it's hard to do.
I mean, I as somebody whose uh job based on what's happening out there, I have to interact with the mainstream media each and every day.
And it's if if it's even tough for me to resist the the subliminal lure into the daily soap opera, the narrative over any number of things.
I can imagine how hard it is for laymen and just average ordinary news consumers.
But what we have going on today and leading up to Thursday is a just a clear example of what I'm talking about.
Starting late last week and through this past weekend, we have seen a textbook example of how the drive-by is establish a narrative that may or may not exist, may or may not be true, all for the express purposes of setting up a big explosion that they want to create when the whole thing is over.
Almost every news broadcast, every news site, every talking head show has been breathlessly anticipating Hillary's testimony before the House Benghazi committee on Thursday.
And they are all pretending that it is gonna be some kind of historic showdown.
And when I say breathlessly, I mean it.
They are all just anticipating this, and they're sucking everybody in because they want you to believe that it's gonna be fireworks.
I'm telling you, this is exactly what they did with Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony during the Lewinsky case.
It is it's a textbook case.
It's exactly the same.
They got everybody all hyped up about the testimony itself before it happened.
Then after the testimony, they leaked that Clinton had lost it.
That there was a question about Monica Lewinsky and cigars, and Clinton just lost it.
But we had to wait a couple weeks before they released the video.
The day they released the video, the news channels broomed everything, every news channel to show the entire video of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.
And there was nothing.
There was a question about cigars in Lewinsky, but all that happened was Clinton's eyes got big for split second.
That was it.
Totally set up.
Meanwhile, everybody had to watch the testimony and got an entirely different take because they were been looking for Clinton to blow up, and they keep looking and listening, paying really close attention.
He didn't blow up.
It was one of the most well played tricks.
The Clinton White House throughout their eight years, and they're doing a modified version of it here, with Hillary and her Benghazi testimony coming up on Thursday.
It's probably going to be as much of a showdown as the House hearing on Planned Parenthood was.
How many of you were expecting fireworks on that?
Raise your hand.
Practically all of you.
How many of you have been expecting fireworks on Hillary's email stories and haven't seen anything to show for it?
How many of you expected to see fireworks when Lois Lerner was brought before the House and the IRS?
And John Coskin and the IRS direct just ask yourself.
How many times have you been led to believe that whatever's going to happen before some Senator House committee is about to happen, it's gonna be big, and nothing has happened.
So intelligence guided by experience tells us that we are being set up once again for the same nothing to happen on Thursday.
It is going to be a giant nothing burger.
The Democrats will waste as much time as possible praising Hillary for her cervix.
Yes, I meant that.
You think I meant to say service, right?
No.
They're gonna praise her for being a woman.
It's a big deal now.
She's a victim.
It's a reason she's running, be the first woman, so they're gonna praise her cervix.
What else is there when you're talking about that to praise?
They can't mention the Whig.
So they'll praise her service.
Okay, okay, I'll say service.
Just to smooth it over.
And the Republicans.
Seriously, do you really, really expect anything to happen on that side of the aisle?
How many times have you expected something big to happen on that side of the aisle only to have been let down?
Don't misunderstand.
I'd love to be wrong about this.
I would love for there to be a showdown.
I would love for there to be some fireworks.
I would love for her to be called out on this.
I would love for her to be exposed on all of this, but I just using the past as a guideline.
I'm not expecting it.
And coupled with the media hyping it as something that's gonna be big, it's gonna be major, it's got to be fireworks.
So the Republicans will praise her for her cervix, or Democrats will praise her for her cervix, the Republicans will ask innocuous questions in order to not be blamed for beating up on her.
So that's the main reason the Republicans don't do anything, is because they don't want the Democrats and the media accusing them of hitting the girl.
I don't care how much feminism advances, not a thing is gonna change in that regard.
You're never gonna be able to figuratively hit the girl.
In other words, the girl is never gonna be able to be treated just like a guy.
You can hit the guy.
You get the guy with hey, you can say, you know, a guy hadn't paid his taxes in ten years.
And that guy, when he was president of company and an employee's wife died, that guy didn't care.
That guy, he put his dog on the roof of the family station wagon for a vacation.
Can't say that about Hillary.
You can't say that about the girl.
The Republicans, even if we had advanced to This mythical place of total equality.
The Republicans still wouldn't go after Hillary for fear, out of fear of what the Democrats on the committee will say about them and what the media will say.
They'll be afraid of igniting the war on women meme.
They will be afraid of angering the independents.
This has all been telegraphed.
The Republican establishment's already told us what they fear about conservatives, what they fear about the Trump campaigns is that it's angering the independents, going to risk the Republicans' chance to win the White House.
There's another the Republicans, I guess they could ask questions that are so far in the weeds that only the most hardcore Benghazi wonks will even know what they're talking about.
The difference, the difference now is that all this drama of a showdown and how this is what it's all for.
And this is going to be hyped up with each day.
They started, as I say, over the weekend, hyping this hearing on Thursday.
Mrs. Clinton's out there, she's ready.
What's she gonna do?
She's just gonna tell the truth.
That's all she's got on her side.
That's all she has to do.
I'm eager, she says.
I can't wait to go tell them the truth about Vanguard.
I can't wait to tell them about my emails.
The media's hyping this.
Can Hillary survive it?
Will Hillary survive it?
Will the Republicans be out for the long nights?
All of this when it's all over.
And nothing happens.
That's the point of all this.
The drive-bys will be able to on Benghazi once and for all pronounce it over with nothing there.
After all this hype, after all this time, after all the attention the conservative media and conservative blogosphere has given Benghazi.
And after all of the efforts that have been made to get to the bottom of it.
After the hearings on Thursday with no fireworks, the drive-by's of the Democrats will be able to say, see, there was never anything to this.
Can we move on now?
Can we finally put Benghazi behind us?
Can you extremists please let it go?
That will be the theme on Friday.
Maybe even Thursday, late afternoon or evening after the hearings.
And the low information crowd, the target of all of this, will believe them because they saw the hearings on TV, and there was nothing to see other than Mrs. Clinton's wig.
That was the only thing different.
There was nothing to see.
There weren't any fireworks, nobody scored any points.
Mrs. Clinton didn't admit anything.
She didn't stand seriously accused of anything.
Hillary answered all of their questions.
She was as cooperative as anybody could possibly be, and that's how they sweep this away.
And the key to it is the buildup, which really is nothing more than establishing expectations.
Now there are some vulnerabilities for Mrs. Clinton, notwithstanding.
This is something you have to hear.
You have to hear this to believe it.
You can't read about it and get the flavor.
You have to hear it.
You don't have to see it.
I can paint the visual picture for you.
Mrs. Clinton is being interviewed by Jacob Tepper.
On CNN, this happened last Friday.
It was during a discussion about the controversy surrounding her private email server.
Remember, this is just shortly after the Democrat debate where she supposedly skunked the field.
She supposedly mopped that stage with all those other Democrats, and now it's just her.
Oh, except Bernie Sanders is the guy who rose in the polls after the debate, not Hillary.
Did you know that?
Hillary did not gain any ground after the debate where she just skunked everybody.
Nope, that was old Bernard.
Bernard Sanders up in the polls.
Details coming up.
So anyway, here's here Jake Tapper and Hillary talking about the discussion, the uh the private email server.
And and Jacob is basically asking her her reaction to some people of what they've said about it.
I know Bernie Sanders said that, quote, the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
But there are a lot of people who are not.
Well including FBI officials looking into whether National Security was compromised because of this server.
That was it.
I mean, that's all she just laughed.
She just laughed at it all, which is a Hillary technique.
That that, by the way, is the Arkansas broadbeam.
Back in the 90s, when we first encountered this cackle, we identified its source, and that is to be found in in uh Arkansas wilderness areas.
The Arkansas Broadbeam is the is the species here that utters this.
Here it listen to the complete sound bite again.
And she's just her effort just laugh it off.
It isn't serious.
And of course, she doesn't say a word.
This is this is it.
This is in Toto.
I know Bernie Sanders said that, quote, the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
But there are a lot of people who are not.
Well, uh including FBI officials looking into whether national security was compromised because of this server.
And it was all okay with Jake Tapper.
He didn't care.
She just skipped there laughing and didn't answer.
And we I told Cookie, look, let's roll off the cackle.
Let's loop it, just have it, because there's any number of ways we'll be able to use this.
*laughter*
So don't be surprised if you all right, okay.
Okay.
Then if if she does something like that during the hit, I doubt it, but if she gets a question you don't want to answer, starts laughing as a way of diffusing it, and the low information crowd sees that.
This does not look good.
If you see this, you know, hearing it is even better.
Because you're not distracted being you see.
It's just her sitting there with Jake Tapper.
Now she went to Hoover, Alabama, Alabama Democrat conference on Saturday, and spoke.
President, thanks to a lot of you in this room.
I remember after that election in 92, him saying to me, it's so much worse than they told us.
The debt of our country had been quadrupled in the prior 12 years.
The deficits had exploded, and so he had to roll up his sleeves and work hard.
And at the end of eight years, we had 23 million new jobs, incomes were rising at the top, the middle, working folks, poor people.
And we ended up with a balanced budget and a surplus.
So she once again invokes the I no way tar.
She goes down to the South and she starts speaking of this Southern draw.
Look, I could nuke the substance of this.
This is classic.
This is what every Democrat that assumes the White House says.
You know what, they didn't tell us how bad it really was.
And what she's talking about here, Clinton had promised for you low information people.
Bill Clinton promised a middle class tax cut throughout the 92 presidential campaign.
I mean, it was a linchpin.
It was a tent pole.
It was one of the main things.
And he was going to do a middle class tax cut.
Three months after he was inaugurated, press conference.
You know what?
I dug in there and I worked as hard as I ever have my life.
They didn't tell us how bad this was.
They didn't tell deficits twice as bad in national debt.
I'm sorry, folks.
I worked as hard as I rolled up the sleeves, but I just can't see it.
We just don't have the money for middle class tax cut.
We just can't do it.
Let me tell you a couple other things coming up on the program today.
Mary Mapes and Dan Rather running around promoting their movie.
This is an object lesson in the drive-by media.
And it is an ongoing effort.
This is another installation, uh, and an ongoing effort of mine to try to explain, teach, inform as many people as possible how the so-called news is made, what it is and how it gets reported.
My reason for this is to create doubt.
I uh my my effort here is to create doubt and distrust of the things people hear from the drive-by media in any number of ways, by illustrating their bias, their ideological penchants, their uh hatred and opposition for Republicans and conservatives, But also illustrating how they make the sausage, how they do it.
And this object lesson, as Mary Mapes and Dan Rather run around promoting their movie Truth, is classic.
It is a variation of the creation of this strategy.
Well, there may not be any evidence, but that doesn't matter because the seriousness of the charge requires and mandates an investigation.
Wait a minute, there ain't any evidence for.
Doesn't matter, they say.
The seriousness of the charge.
What charge?
Well, that Clarence Thomas harassed Anita Hill.
There's any evidence for it.
Doesn't matter.
It's a serious charge, and we must look into it.
We must ask the question.
And this is how they permit themselves to have open season on their opponents.
So there's that.
There's something really fascinating too about the JFK assassination.
Not about who did it, because we know that, but something else.
All of that and more coming up.
Hey, how are you?
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Libblot.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Okay, Donald Trump.
Okay, Trumpsters, I need to know what you're thinking here.
Donald Trump said that he had to say it, that 9-11 happened while George W. Bush was president.
He wished it didn't, but it did.
And the implication was clear that 9-11, if you're going to start blaming politicians for things that happen when they're in office, then how do you not blame George W. Bush for 9-11?
And then Democrats immediately picked that up and applauded Mr. Trump and said exactly right.
So if the Republicans are not going to acknowledge that George W. Bush was to blame and was responsible for 9-11, well then how in the world can Hillary Clinton be blamed for what happened in Benghazi?
And to show you how effective I think that's so bogus, I think that's so full of holes they get Swiss cheese, but I ran it by a lot of people over the weekend, and they think it makes sense.
And frankly, I have been shocked at how easy it has been.
It really is mind-boggling.
It has been easy to talk to people who voted for it, supported Bush, say, well, yeah, you know what?
If we're going to blame Hillary for Benghazi, I guess we do be credible.
We got to say that Bush had some role in 9-11.
I mean.
And I I was I'm incredulous.
I'm literally incredulous when I hear this.
And Jake Tamper, by the way, asked Jeb Bush this very question.
If George W. Bush wasn't responsible for 9-11, how do you blame Hillary for Benghazi?
That was on State of the Union, the CNN Sunday show.
And Jeb's answer, frankly, was hard to discern.
Let me take a stab at this by asking Jake Tamper and any of you who might think that this is a valid analogous comparison.
Because this is it's so clear what's going on here.
There is it, this is all part of the setup here for the Thursday hearings, folks.
I mean, is it patently ridiculous to suggest that Hillary Clinton should get a pass because we gave George W. Bush a pass on 9-11?
And that's what Jake Tapper's basically asking Jeb.
So let me ask some questions here.
Do you remember all of those times that George W. Bush mocked and made fun of and stonewalled all those 9-11 investigations?
Do you remember how he refused to participate with the 9-11 Commission?
Do you remember how he went to the media and had them cover for him and made it look like he had nothing to do with it?
Do you remember how they blamed a video for inciting the anger in the Muslim community that led to 9-11?
You remember all of that happening, right?
No, you don't remember it happening because none of it did.
George Bush did not mock or stonewall the 9-11 investigations.
Hillary Clinton still is doing that in Benghazi.
Did George W. Bush lie to the families of people who died in 9-11?
You remember him doing that, right?
I mean, it was well known that Bush was out there as he was giving aid and comfort.
He was blaming a video.
Or the Minnesota FBI or somebody for the fact that 9-11 had happened.
Remember that, right?
He was blaming everybody else.
No, you don't remember that because it didn't happen.
Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama are who did that.
They lied to the families of the dead in Benghazi.
They lied about why they were murdered, and they tried to scapegoat this videographer, this real wacko that made some YouTube video that nobody had seen.
Do you remember Bush at some point during the 9-11 committee and the commission and their public hearings?
Do you remember Bush being asked about it and him saying, What difference does it matter now anyway?
What difference does it make?
You don't remember that, do you?
Because George W. Bush never said that.
That was Hillary Clinton that said that.
It was Hillary Clinton who screeched out, at this point, what difference does it make?
How her ambassador was killed and three others.
You remember when the 3,000 Americans who were murdered begged President Bush for protection against terrorist threats?
Ah, you don't because that didn't happen either.
But there's even more.
And I'm really curious about this comparison of how it's come up here.
This is akin, you know, Jake Tapper has pulled a George Stephanopoulosan war on women here, folks.
Yes.
And you're about to fall for it if you think this has some legitimacy.
When 9-11 happened, do you realize that Bush didn't even have his full administration in office because of the Florida recount aftermath?
Do you remember that George W. Bush kept a lot of Bill Clinton people in position in a show of bipartisanship after he was inaugurated to show good faith, trying to smooth over the rough feelings because of the Florida recount.
Remember that.
I mean, it it it's it's hard to come up with a uh an analogy here that makes any kind of sense whatsoever.
What we have learned about 9-11, uh, most of the mistakes that were made happened during the Bill Clinton administration, which is another reason why this comparison has been brought up.
Hillary Clinton is running for president.
They've got to clear the decks in 9-11 because she's got this Benghazi albatross hanging around her neck.
So the best way to clear her of Benghazi is to blame Bush for 9-11 out of the blue.
But I'm going to give you two names that I would put at the top of any list of people responsible for 9-11.
One of them is Bill Clinton, the other one is Jamie Gorellick.
You remember the name Jamie Gorellic?
Jamie Gorellick was a Clinton acolyte, and she served in many different positions, advisory and appointed in the Clinton administration, and one of those was at the Department of Justice.
It was Jamie Gorellick who constructed the wall.
The wall was a series of laws and statutes that prevented the FBI from sharing intel with the CIA and vice versa.
And they did this because they had decided they wanted to prosecute terrorist threats and incidents.
They wanted to prosecute them in courts of law rather than consider them to be acts of war.
Because the Clinton administration was trying to show politically that it had calmed the world down and that there were fewer wars and fewer incidents, that Clinton was a man of peace, and so they were indicting all these people.
At the time there was an indictment out for bin Laden even.
So Gorelli constructs this wall which prevents intel from being Shared.
So you had an FBI employee in Minnesota who discovered any number of things about some of the hijackers, and she wasn't allowed to tell the CIA.
The CIA wasn't permitted to know it.
Information about the hijackers taking flying lessons, but not being interested in learning how to land the airplane.
That was unable to be shared.
But this effort, and Trump's in on it.
I mean, Trump Trump's got this whole thing started of blaming Bush for 9-11.
So that we could what?
Be intellectually safe when we try to blame Mrs. Clinton for Benghazi.
Remember, the whole point of this is to absolve Mrs. Clinton of Benghazi, particularly with those hearings coming Thursday that everybody is hoping for fireworks.
Jamie Gorelic was Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general.
And this wall that she created was called a Gorelic Wall, was imposed under Bill Clinton, prevented the CIA and other intel agencies from sharing their information with the FBI.
And then there was the National Security Director Richard, what was his name?
The white-haired guy.
No, not Armitage.
He's over at he's CIA.
He's at the Department of State.
No, no, no.
This is a White House Richard, Richard Clark, Richard Clark is in on this Clinton administration and continue to advise the Bush administration.
I mean, but this is really, really and I'm sorry, Jeb just did not do a good job dealing with it.
He tried.
It's just...
I don't know.
Sometimes Jeb finds himself in a struggle, you know, with...
Well, he...
Anyway, he tried.
And he tried it being a nice guy.
The establishment is convinced they have to be nice.
They have to come off as nice, they have to look nice.
They can't be confrontational.
He can't even get mad.
If they do, they're going to scare the independence, and we're never going to win anything.
So that that they're shackled by restraint.
They can't even use the language fully because it might tick off whoever these idiot independents are that we think are going to elect the next Republican president.
But I don't know.
The Benghazi's situation is nothing at all to do with 9-11.
In fact, because of 9-11, Benghazi should not have happened because of what we learned about 9-11.
George W. Bush hadn't been in office long enough to have any of his policies in play to have been fully briefed, as I say.
He hadn't fully stocked or appointed all the positions in his administration, and he held over some Democrats under Clinton regime in a show of good faith.
Yeah, I gotta take a break.
I see the clock there.
Sit tight, uh folks, for coming back.
We got more hang by the did you know, did you know?
I love this.
You could jog 50 miles a week and not lose a pound.
Yep, it's true.
In fact, if you're not careful jogging 50 miles a week, you could gain weight.
The point it point is it's not an automatic waistline reducer.
More old wives' tales, more old scuttle butt put out by dubious scientists.
Anyway, sit tight, my friends.
We got uh more straight ahead when we get back.
On the actual day of 9-11, people in the two towers, the World Trade Center, they called George Bush and asked for help.
You remember that, don't you?
You remember the big news.
All the people in the towers called Bush begging for help, and he said, uh, sorry, uh, I'm not up.
Sorry.
Uh well, that's what happened in 9-11.
That's what happened to Benghazi.
Benghazi at the annex and a station, CIA station, they were requesting help all over the place.
They wanted help from Italy, they wanted help from installations, they called Washington, they wanted all kinds, it was denied.
Now, be fair, Trump is resting his assertion on 9-11 that it was lax immigration that allowed the 9-11 hijackers into the country.
No.
Uh No question, that's probably true.
However, Bush was not president when they got in the country.
I mean, they'd made numerous trips in and out of the country.
Bush hadn't been in the White House long enough for there had been any impact whatsoever.
Now, Trump could say, well, but he wouldn't have changed anything because we know he's for comprehensive reform.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's still a stretch.
So in Trump's case, I think it's a it's a vehicle for spreading his continuing to focus the attention on his number one issue, which is uh immigration, illegal immigration.
But this is kind of weird.
I mean, the the whole Benghazi situation.
Here, let me grab a call.
This this next this first call here will actually get to the nub of that.
This is Carol in Lake County, uh, Ohio.
Uh great to have you up first today on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
All I want to know from this uh investigation and questioning up Hillary Clinton is where were all those people who should have been in charge of containing all that murder in mayhem that was going on, it was rampaging for seven grueling hours.
And during that time, there was no response about that's could have been a nuclear attack.
Now here's what we know.
What we know is that Obama went off the grid.
He was unreachable for those seven hours, or a good portion of them.
And that's what off the grid means.
And beyond that, I don't has it been established so he knows where he was?
If it if it has, I've forgotten it.
Never.
But what he did was the question.
He left Hillary and Leon Panetta in charge.
If I'm recalling this right.
I don't even remember the hearing that.
You don't remember.
Oh, well, I I do remember hearing that at some point.
He he told Hillary or Panetta that they were in charge of something to keep him posted or whatever, and then he went out.
And I mean, the the joke assumptions were that he's out playing basketball with Reggie Love.
Who gave the stand down orders is what I want to know.
Uh well, they were given because there were specific requests made.
You know, the best proof of that, by the way, one of the one of the American soldiers that was killed actually raced to the scene and lit up via via laser where one of the enemy installations was that was firing on everybody.
And the reason he did, he was trying to paint their location for an American bomb to be dropped on them.
He thought that there were assets in the sky that he was lighting up the target for.
And in doing so, he exposed his own positions, how he ended up getting killed.
And everybody said he wouldn't have done that if he didn't think that there was assets in the sky or were assets in the sky that were going to bomb that installation he was lighting up.
But once he lasered it, he gave up his own location.
And it's it's uh well, this whole thing's been a uh a sore spot, and the efforts by the Democrats and the media to deflect this are legion.
And I mean, remember Susan Rice went on every Sunday show shortly thereafter and blamed it on this video.
And Mr. Obama, Ms. Clinton cut a television commercial, an ad that ran in Pakistan, blaming this video for when everybody knew it wasn't.
They knew before it happened that it was going to happen.
They knew it was going to be a terror attack, that it was not the result of protests that got out of control over in Cairo.
Remember, folks, our embassy in Cairo put out an apology before anything had ever happened.
They put out an apology an official apology from the U.S. State Department embassy in Cairo.
They put out an apology apologizing for this video.
And the story at the time was, yeah, we're trying to prevent any protests.
We're trying to prevent violence.
And it was just the exact opposite.
Here they are apologizing for something nobody knew anything about.
It was almost an invitation to the protesters, quote Unquote to uh begin their activities.
Now, this is a really sordid, sordid element in American history, and particularly of uh this administration, but your questions are very valid.
Who was in charge?
Where was Obama?
Why was the distress call not answered?
Who gave the stand-down orders?
Uh we're expecting all that to be revealed on Thursday.
That's why it's so hot to trot here, and it isn't gonna happen.
Did you hear about the Harvard debate team losing a debate to a bunch of prison inmates?
I have had that story in a snack for two weeks, intending to comment on it.
I'm gonna get to it today, along with the upcoming object lesson on the media and how they make the sausage using Mary Mapes and Dan Ranter, maybe even something else.
▲
Export Selection