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Oct. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
We have made it through yet another busy broadcast week.
I am your host.
The all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling.
Able to predict the future.
Maha Rushi here on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's how we wrap up the week.
You know, technically, open line Friday is supposed to be like a half day off for me.
Meaning.
The pressure is on the callers to carry their weight.
Monday through Thursday, I carry it all.
On Friday, we take a few more calls, which gives me some time off.
I mean, I'm here, but in order to do that, we relax restrictions on the callers and can talk about whatever you want, which takes pressure off the callers.
It never works out that way, though.
It's never worked out that well, I say never.
I can count on one hand the number of times it's actually worked as planned in 28 years.
Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800 282-288-2, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know me.
I I'm not comfortable doing this C I told you so stuff all the time.
I could do it every day.
I realize it offends people.
It's an off-putting character trait.
Know it all's coming on.
I told you, I told you, you know I told you no.
And I hate being perceived as that.
But this Hillary Clinton stuff, I have to remind you.
Beginning late last week and intensifying it on Monday and Tuesday, I warned you exactly what was going to happen.
And it is happening.
It doesn't mean that you should be less angry or disappointed because of course the the fix is in.
The fix was always in.
Nothing was ever going to happen to Mrs. Clinton in these Benghazi hearings.
What was always going to happen, the media was going to hype it, and hype it they did.
And everybody's anticipation would be raised, and in hopes that maybe for once justice would be meted out to a Clinton.
Because we all know what she did.
We all know she lied to the families of those four that were killed.
We all know that she lied publicly about what caused that attack.
We know she lied about caring about this.
We know she lied about her desire to do something about it.
We know she lied about everything, and we know why she lied.
She lied to protect Obama's re-elect chances.
Later that year in 2012, they lied about the cause of what happened in Benghazi in order to protect Obama because their theme for the convention and the campaign had already been established.
GM's alive, Bin Laden's dead.
They could not permit the public to perceive that terrorism was up and running and beating us anywhere after Obama was running around crowing about stopping it and killing bin Laden.
So she lied.
She lied to the American people, she lied to the families involved, and they lied, and Obama lied, and they kept lying for two weeks, and everybody knew.
And so everybody had expectations and hopes that this would finally be illuminated and illustrated, and maybe even Mrs. Clinton forced to admit it in the hearings that were yesterday.
And I, not relishing the role of being the cold shower of the bucket of cold water, attempted to warn you and anybody else who would listen that that is not what was going to happen.
And it was not because the Republicans wouldn't try.
It's because the Republicans, for the most part, just don't know how to do these Kinds of things.
They did try.
They did illustrate on a couple of occasions that Mrs. Clinton got caught in a massive lie.
They illustrated a bunch of improprieties, and they demonstrated that Hillary Clinton has zero character.
But none of it matters because of the way the media immediately began reporting it yesterday, last night, and into today.
Exactly, and anybody could have predicted, not just me, anybody could have predicted that what was going to happen, that no matter what happened in the hearing, short of Hillary Clinton admitting it and asking for forgiveness, what was going to happen was that she was going to be portrayed,
coming off that debate performance, which was also no big deal given the opponents, the opposition, she was going to be portrayed as having stood up to this political firing squad, the Republican Party.
They showered her with everything they've got.
And she triumphed.
And she is stronger than ever.
And she made mincemeat out of them, and it looked like the McCarthy hearing.
It was imminently predictable.
And that's exactly what's happening.
And accordingly, a lot of people feeling deflated, a lot of people feeling unhappy, depressed, sad, whatever, because they really, really thought, given the facts, that somebody was going to be held accountable.
But once again, when dealing with the Washington establishment, which is run in total by the Democrat Party and the American media, we find that facts are irrelevant.
Facts are to be obliterated and maneuvered and bent, shaped, flaked, and formed.
So the hope that Mrs. Clinton would finally be held accountable on a serious offense.
Dereliction of duty, incompetence, irresponsibility involving the death of four Americans in a terror attack in a country she was taking credit for liberating.
If anything seemed like a slam dunk, it was this.
And yet, all it is is another in a long line of the Clintons not just slithering out, but triumphing and able to rewrite history.
To the point now that some leftist publications are blaming George W. Bush and the Republicans for Benghazi.
All of it predictable, all of it predicted by me.
Yet people are still depressed and down at the and I understand it.
I mean, am I, even though I predicted it, even though I knew it was coming, it doesn't mean I'm sitting here unaffected by it.
I'm just as ticked off as you are.
And as frustrated as anybody else is about it.
And like you, I keep waiting in a firm belief that there's going to be something somewhere that's going to right all of these wrongs.
You know, I actually think it's my devoted devout faith in God that makes me believe these things.
That justice will eventually triumph and prevail.
And someone said, that's so naive.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
The bad guys get away with all the time.
God's there, God's not, doesn't matter.
What do you mean?
I don't know.
I'm just telling you at some point, maybe not even in my lifetime.
But the perps are going to get theirs.
It sustains me.
But the other half of it is the only reason, not the only, but the primary reason why they're able to rewrite history like this is because of the relative ignorance and arguable stupidity of way too many of our citizens who have been ill-educated, miseducated, uneducated.
We now have more stories out there than I can count, telling us there was nothing at all newsworthy in the hearing yesterday.
There was nothing that happened that is worth your knowing.
There is nothing that happened that is worth us, the drive-by media telling you.
It was as usual the Republicans trying to get another political notch in their belts and failing publicly, valiantly and miserably is the way it's being portrayed even now.
And I'm just letting you know I'm just frustrated as you are, even though I predicted it.
Even though every you know, I ought to be sitting here crowing.
Ought to be admonishing everybody who's disappointed.
What do you mean disappointed?
I told you this is going to happen.
This is the script was written.
But I don't because I know you knew it.
You knew, you were hoping, though, that predictions would be wrong and that something like this, maybe this event would be the one – Where some doubt would be cast on the veracity, the honesty, the integrity, the character of Mrs. Clinton.
I'm not kidding.
The only place I can find in the drive-by media which is remotely accurate reporting this is the Wall Street Journal.
And some days they're not part of the drive-by's.
On immigration, they are.
Immigration, they may as well join the drive-bys.
But on certain things, they do remain their conservative identity.
And in this Wall Street Journal, two or three different pieces, just excoriating a Democrats, excoriating Mrs. Clinton, excoriating the press.
But everywhere else, even conservative media that rips what happened, leads off with, man, was she good.
Oh, did Hillary put on it?
She was restrained.
She was mature.
I about puked.
And I don't remember where I read it when I read some conservative pundit blog website praising her stamina for being able to withstand this all-out assault for 11 hours.
Her stamina.
She's a natural born liar.
What stamina?
Thank you.
When telling the truth is the effort and what takes work, yesterday was a piece of cake.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away backward.
Now let me repeat it.
I know how frustrating it is, folks.
Believe me.
She lied.
She lied under oath yesterday.
She has been lying since 9-11, 2012.
She lied to protect Barack Obama and his election chances in 2012.
She lied in consort with Barack Obama.
And she lied in order to protect her own presidential chances in 2016.
We know she lied.
We know why she lied.
We know the motives.
We know the machinations of it.
We know how it all went down.
We know she even lied to the families of the four who were killed when she greeted them at the casket ceremony.
How cold must you be?
Continued to lie.
Have you heard, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, story from the UK Guardian, nearly 70 hostages facing imminent mass execution have been rescued from an Islamic state jail in a raid by Kurdish troops and U.S. special forces in northern Iraq.
The operation took place yesterday.
It led to the first American combat death in Iraq since 2011.
Oh, you didn't know about this?
Oh, you didn't.
You probably thought we don't have the ability to do this anymore because we didn't do it in Benghazi.
We had four people pinned down.
We had four people, one of whom thought that help was on the way.
We had four people pinned down in a terror attack we knew in advance was going to happen.
That Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama and the media continue to lie about.
Yesterday it was said that nothing could have been done.
The help, the military was too far away, that Mrs. Clinton couldn't find a way to communicate with the ambassador.
She can talk to Huma Abaddon any time she wanted.
She could talk to Sidney Blumenthal.
They could reach her via email.
Chris Stevens, the ambassador, couldn't.
He's begging for backup.
He's begging for more security before the event, and all he get was nothing.
No response whatsoever.
And let me reiterate why.
The reason why no help was given.
The reason why no military assistance came, the reason why no rescue effort was mounted was because Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could not admit that terrorism was taking place.
To send in the Marines to send in a rescue unit to respond in any way would be to admit that Obama had not vanquished terrorists.
And how can you do that anyway when Obama's off the grid and can't give the order?
And Hillary Clinton's at home.
And nobody can reach her.
So Obama and Hillary are off the grid during the attack.
No help.
Requests for additional security before the attack by the ambassador were unanswered.
The reason is to protect Barack Obama's re-election in 2012.
They had already, again, decided on a campaign theme.
There was no more terrorism.
Or the threat was dramatically reduced because Barack Obama had killed O Osama bin Laden.
And if we had responded, why that would indicate that there must still be terrorism going on, that we are still encountering it.
So they blame a video and they claim it was a spontaneous protest of ragtag angry Islamists over a video.
And because it was spontaneous in Ragtag, there were not any military assets anywhere near, and it just sorry we couldn't do anything.
An active decision was made not to do anything to protect the political fortunes of the president and his Secretary of State, who had her own political desires that she was protecting.
Another thing, another reason why we couldn't send in a rescue squad, Hillary was the architect of overthrowing Qaddafi.
Libya was at peace.
As far as the American people were concerned, Libya was at peace.
There couldn't be a breakout of hostilities.
There couldn't be any terrorism.
Obama killed bin Laden, had vanquished Al Qaeda, and Hillary had overthrown Qaddafi.
They could not do a single thing politically to acknowledge that they had screwed up and were blatantly royally incompetent of four people dead.
Meanwhile, we mount a rescue operation, special forces, rescuing Iraqi hostages, facing imminent execution by ISIS.
And we're talking 70 people, nearly 70 Iraqi hostages facing imminent mass execution, were rescued from an Islamic state jail in a raid by Kurdish troops and U.S. Special Forces in northern Iraq yesterday,
pre-dawn raid, targeted a school near the northern town of Halwijah that was believed to have been used as a base by senior military commanders of ISIS.
The Pentagon forcefully defended U.S. involvement in the mission amid questions of whether it violated the administration's policy of no boots on the ground.
So there were even some pacifist pansies who complained about this rescue effort.
And the Pentagon forcefully defended what they did.
While being asked if it violated Obama's policy of no boots on the ground.
Apparently the no boots on the policy, ground politics didn't matter.
When we want to rescue 70 Iraqi hostages, we can do it.
When we want to rescue 70 hostages being held by ISIS, we can do it, and we did it.
Four Americans are pinned down in Benghazi by Al-Qaeda terrorists in an attack that was known to be a terrorist attack in an attack that was known before it was launched, that it was going to happen.
And for 11 hours yesterday, Mrs. Clinton using great stamina, as I saw, reported in some conservative blog.
11 hours, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, presumptive Democrat nominee, explained why we couldn't rescue four Americans.
It was not possible.
Yes, we could have, and yes, we can, and yes, we did in Iraq.
All right, so my life Friday, El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
No, no, Fox News.
Fox News and others said that yoga.
Which I I'm sorry, I can't see it.
Yoga helped Hillary Clinton maintain her stamina through the Benghazi hearings.
I can't envision it.
I Hillary Clinton doing yoga.
You know, I see people, I've seen, you know, I've never been to one of those things, but I've seen TV shows and I've seen video of people doing yoga.
I'm sorry, I can't see Hillary Clinton in the class.
I just wouldn't want to.
Um either.
Uh Spandex, what, Leah?
I just think sausage.
I can't just can't.
So I guess maybe she was doing yoga the night of Benghazi in order to have the stamina to endure that.
Why would she need yoga anyway?
She should be able to do this with ease.
All she did was pass the buck, which she and her husband have been doing since they arrived on the national scene.
That's right, she had to keep her temper in check.
And she almost didn't a couple of times.
But that's what it yes, she was reserved.
She maintains her stamina and so forth and so on.
But of course, the only reason she needed to maintain her stamina, the only reason she needed to maintain her comportment, her temperament, because those mean Republicans were going for a gotcha moment.
I heard Eliza Cummings say so.
Elijah Cummings, you know what he said to Hillary?
He said, I don't know what we're trying to do to you.
He's talking to her.
Elijah Cummings.
By the way, Hillary went up and thanked the Democrats during a break for having her back.
I am not exaggerating when I tell you I think the Clinton campaign wrote the questions the Democrats in that committee asked her.
But Elijah Cummings, I don't know.
I I don't what are we trying to do to you?
I can't believe what I am witnessing.
These Republicans, all they're doing is searching for a gotcha moment.
And Mrs. Clinton, they cut and she's nodding her head, way to go.
And so you had a bunch of Democrats yesterday auditioning for positions of authority in her upcoming administration, led by Elijah Cummings.
So here I am today.
I I get up at the usual time, and I go through the usual morning preparation.
I get leave the house, head on in here to work, sit down, get a cup of coffee, cigar, get everything ready to go, and I fire up the computer.
The last time I looked at the computer was probably 1.30 in the morning.
So I've done a lot of show prep up till then.
I fired up one of the first things I went to today was the Drudge page, and I see a headline that Gloria Steinem is blaming me.
What is it?
Uh yeah.
Steinem blames Limbaugh for ruining the word feminism.
I stared at that, and I stared at that.
I didn't click on it yet.
I stared at it.
And finally I said, yes.
Then I clicked on the link.
And it's to CBS this morning.
Apparently, Gloria Steinem, former Playboy Playmate.
You wonder why they stopped publishing the magazine, the pictures.
Gloria Steinem was on CBS this morning promoting, I guess she's got a new book out on feminism.
And during the QA with Nora O'Donnell, Nora O'Donnell said, you know, there's still some real issues at stake, Miss Steinem.
I want to start with this.
Meryl Streep, who stars in the movie Suffragette as Emily Pankhurst.
She says, Meryl Streep says that she doesn't even consider herself a feminist.
She says she considers herself a humanist.
Why is it the feminist label do you think still has that negative stigma to it?
The word feminism has been turned into a bad word by Rush Limbaugh, who talks about feminizes every day.
But if people just go to the dictionary and discover that it means a person, male or female, who believes in the full equality of women and men, then they do subscribe to it.
And it is a majority now, which it didn't used to be.
Right.
So once again, your host, the harmless, lovable little fuzzball, Rush Limbaugh, now blamed for destroying a word, ruining a word, ruining the definition of a word, feminism.
By the her definition is not even close to the way the feminazes use the entire feminist movement.
It was based in leftist ideology.
It was based on men are predators and men are evil and men are men.
It was it was designed to create a war between and against men and women.
And all I did was expose it.
That word feminazi, they have never gotten over.
They have, because that word actually better explained what they were all about.
It rang so true.
Take a break, be back after this, don't go.
The modern era.
Modern incarnation of feminism can be traced back to the late 1960s, and really began to intensify in the early 70s.
modern incarnation.
I'm in a number of different eras of feminism, the suffrage era.
But this era that started in the late 60s and early 70s was one rooted in total anger.
And remains rooted in total anger.
And it was anger, primarily at certain other women.
Feminism.
Ask Paula Jones about that.
Ask any of the women abused by Bill Clinton, where was the now gang?
The now gang did not, they're supposedly protecting women against rape and male abuse and behavior like this.
And here you have one of the serial female abusers in Bill Clinton and the now gang, the Nags, my affectionate name for the National Association of Gals, everywhere they could, every chance they had defended Bill Clinton.
If you happen to be a conservative woman, you were not, for all intents and purposes, of any interest to the National Organization for Women.
They were a strictly left-wing bunch.
In 1980, I wrote a local newspaper column, Sacramento, California, one day at Writer's Block, I just a weekly column.
And I had writer's block.
I just I couldn't get started on a piece.
So I started jotting down sentence thoughts and philosophy.
And when I got to 30, I'm saying, you know what, I'm pretty close to a column here.
So I kept going until I got 750 words, which was about 35 truths, and that's how the 35 undeniable truths of life were born.
And number 24 established me as one of America's scholarly thinkers at the moment it was first heard.
Feminism was established.
In part to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of that was so right on and so true that the reaction to it from the feminists was volcanic.
They dropped and lost any sense of humor about everything.
They were they were nothing but a bunch of libs, is all it was is a another manufactured special interest group of liberalism designed to distract people into thinking it was about equality and civil rights for a maligned victim group, women, when in fact all it was was one of the many constituents of the Democrat Party, one of the many disparate groups of the leftist coalition that makes up the Democrat Party.
And they all pushed the same thing the expansive government, the loss of individual liberty and freedom via the expansive government.
Use of government to enforce behavior on people, in this case the feminist thought needed to be punished, which happened to be men, and conservative women.
So that's how it all began, and that's why Gloria Steinem says I have destroyed the word.
Feminism.
Always get a phone call the first hour on open line Friday, and Elizabeth, you're it.
Thank you for waiting, too.
Hi.
Hi there.
You know, the only way we are going to beat Hillary Clinton is at the ballot box.
And you're absolutely right when you say they seem to control the whole th they've got a lock on D.C. on Washington, D.C. They control all the backroom stuff that's going on in that town.
But I still don't think they control every single American citizen.
And we are going to have to find a Republican opponent for her that number one is fearless and will go after her and not be afraid to do it.
Is there any how we're going to take her out is at the ballot box?
Well, I don't disagree with that at all.
You're right about the beltway instead of who runs the town.
Um, and you're also right that they don't yet control the American people.
That's why I think, and I look, this is this is uh I'm exaggerating some here, I'm not gonna acknowledge.
But if you ever asked yourself, these people control everything that goes on in Washington.
Donor class, they get everything they want out of the elected officials.
What is the one thing standing in the way of the inside the beltway crowd getting everything they want?
What is the one thing that stands in the way?
Just a there's no wrong answer, because it it's just a pop quiz.
There's probably a number of legitimate answers to this, but I've I'm thinking of one.
I would say i it's the American people.
Right.
And but what do the American people do that poses the problem?
I don't know.
You're saying it's elections.
It's the the one thing they can't control is elections.
That's right.
Do you not think these people resent the hell out of having to spend all this money campaigning and resent the hell out of having to get elected and go through this entire process?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
They that's the worst part of the whole job for them.
Right.
Exactly.
Just to many of them.
It's and it's the one thing they can't control.
So they do everything they can to control it.
And that's why there are various elements of uh fraud in the electoral process and so forth.
But uh no, you uh is there is there somebody you see out there?
I'm not gonna try to pin you down here, Elizabeth, but uh is there somebody running now that you think fits them all to who you need we need to beat Hillary?
You know, 20 seconds.
I think there are a handful.
And and you know, I always get back, I always come back to the same point, which is whoever gets that Republican nomination has my vote.
Okay.
Well, that's a great avoidance of a question.
You're qualified to be in politics.
And we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday.
Ill Rushbow behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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