{"id":14589,"date":"2012-09-13T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:19:15","slug":"regime_brags_obama_is_so_smart_he_doesn_t_need_intelligence_briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/13\/regime_brags_obama_is_so_smart_he_doesn_t_need_intelligence_briefings\/","title":{"rendered":"Regime Brags: Obama is So Smart, He Doesn\u2019t Need Intelligence Briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Marc Thiessen, opinion writer, Washington Post: “Obama Alone: This President Does Not Need Intel Briefers.” Wait \u2019til you hear this spin. We\u2019ve already got Obama walking back a major gaffe, this statement that Egypt is not an ally<\/a>. They have been since 1989. Regardless the Muslim Brotherhood situation now, they\u2019ve always been an ally. Folks, they\u2019ve had to walk that back now. This is a major gaffe, and even foreign policy media people know this, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re walking this back, because there are some people who are not in the media laying down for this one. <\/p>\n

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Now, another complaint about Obama is he hadn\u2019t been briefed, right? We\u2019ve heard this in the last couple days, that he misses a lot of intelligence briefings. So the White House has to do something about that. Here we are in the midst of a total collapse of foreign policy and the news comes out that he hasn\u2019t attended but half of his intelligence briefings. That\u2019s a problem. That is a real problem. So the White House has gone into spin mode, and what they\u2019re now telling the media is, he doesn\u2019t have to go to the briefings because he reads the brief every day. It\u2019s the first thing delivered to him in the residence. He reads the daily brief. He doesn\u2019t need to be briefed in person by his experts. He reads it and moves on. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same guy that I just quoted in the story about walking back the gaffe on Egypt being an ally, a guy named Vietor, Tommy Vietor. And what this guy said is stunning. He said a president doesn\u2019t need briefers. He can forgo his daily intelligence meeting because he\u2019s “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s smarter than the briefers. This is what the White House has put out. Tommy Vietor, White House spokesman, trying to explain Obama not attending actual intelligence briefings, said he is “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.” And, “Truly sophisticated consumers of intelligence don\u00c2\u2019t see it as a sign of weakness to ‘be briefed\u2019 by the experts.” This is what Mr. Thiessen is writing. What do you mean sophisticated consumers? <\/p>\n

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Every president\u2019s a sophisticated consumer, but they don\u2019t think that it\u2019s a sign of weakness to be briefed by the experts. These people are trying to say that Obama\u2019s smarter than everybody else that\u2019s working for him. And he said it, by the way, during his convention. (imitating Obama) “I know more than my political director does. I know more than my intelligence people.” He really does think of himself this way. So that\u2019s the spin from the White House to explain his lack of attendance at an intelligence briefing. He doesn\u2019t need to. He reads \u2019em. He\u2019s smarter than the briefers, and he\u2019s among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet, while he\u2019s on the campaign trail. They obviously think it\u2019ll help putting this out. This is damage control. Yeah, they think it\u2019ll help. <\/p>\n

They still think that everybody else still thinks of Obama the way they looked at him in 2008: smartest guy around, nobody ever been in politics like this before, great uniter, this messianic stuff, they still buy it. They\u2019re still trying to promote it. This whole campaign\u2019s based on that. This whole campaign\u2019s based on the fact Obama hadn\u2019t really been president yet. He\u2019s been too busy fixing a mess he had nothing to do with. Breathtaking. <\/p>\n

You know, I have to say something here, folks. And then we\u2019re gonna go to the phones. And I myself have asked this question, too. You\u2019ve heard me ask it. A lot of people on our side, before all this stuff popped up, “How in the world is Romney not running away with this?” And the reason for the question is, the economy\u2019s in a tatter. This guy is obviously woefully inept and incompetent. Everything he does makes it worse. The economy is just in horrible shape with no sign whatsoever of getting better. How in the world is he still in this? Remember that question? <\/line><\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s a better question to ask that puts this in better perspective. Why isn\u2019t Obama up 20 points in the polls right now? That\u2019s the real question. The Federal Reserve is propping up Barack Obama. The media is propping up Barack Obama like they haven\u2019t propped up a candidate ever. Hollywood is propping up Barack Obama. Bill Clinton is propping up Barack Obama. Michelle (My Belle) Obama is propping up Barack Obama. Everybody, every institution, academia, propping up Barack Obama. Why isn\u2019t he up 20 points with all of this assistance, all of this propping up? <\/p>\n

The fact is the polls now say this election is close. The polls say it\u2019s up for grabs again. Whatever convention bounce there was is gone. The real question is not why isn\u2019t Romney up 15 or 20. The real question, how is Romney so close, given all the forces aligned and arrayed against him? And by same token, how is it that Obama is not 20 points ahead? Can you imagine if our candidate had this kind of assistance? The media being totally in the tank and every story, not just being favorable about you, but every story also attempting to destroy the opponent. If we had Hollywood on our side, E Entertainment TV on our side, MTV on our side, all the late night comics on our side, everything in pop culture on our side for our candidate, and if we weren\u2019t up by 20 points, we would be shocked. We wouldn\u2019t know what to do with that anyway. <\/p>\n

But it, I think, illustrates the question, “How is Romney still in this, given all that?” And therein lies a reason why you should be optimistic. Because with all these forces arrayed against Romney, he should have been taken out by now. I\u2019m talking about in polls. Romney should be so far down as to be at a place where he couldn\u2019t recover, with all of this. All this opposition, all this propping up of Obama, and yet, where they\u2019re worried and where they\u2019re scared is in the White House. Where they\u2019re worried and where they\u2019re scared is in the Obama campaign. Now, throw this foreign policy mess on the top of it and we may have a tipping point here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re just sharing with you Marc Thiessen\u2019s piece in the Washington Post (that would be “Warsh-ington Post” for those of you in Rio Linda), in which White House is putting out the idea that Obama is the most sophisticated consumer of intelligence ever, and he doesn\u2019t need to be briefed by his intelligence experts. He reads the brief every day. He\u2019s more briefed, he\u2019s more knowledgeable than anybody else about it, and he\u2019s the most sophisticated consumer of this stuff. So he doesn\u2019t need to actually see people.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Well, along those lines, Michael Lewis, the famed author (Blind Side was one of his books) was on with Charlie Rose last night. He\u2019s got a piece on Obama coming out in Vanity Fair, and Charlie Rose said (satirized), “Tell me, Michael, Tom Brokaw and I were talking. We really don\u2019t know the guy. We don\u2019t know what books he reads. We don\u2019t know his mentors are. It\u2019s been five years, Michael, and we were just talking the other day about how we still don\u2019t know who the guy is. Tell me, how does his mind work?”<\/p>\n

LEWIS: He\u2019s bright. He\u2019s obviously bright. It\u2019s interesting to see some of his abilities –because he\u2019s a person of kind of high abilities — in that office because the office is beyond anybody\u2019s abilities. There\u2019s no way you are anything but the amateur in the room on most subjects. You\u2019ve got these experts coming at you. And I think his mind is good enough that he might, at some times (snickers), deceive himself in thinking that he\u2019s always the smartest person in the room.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Gasp!) He thinks he\u2019s the smartest person in the room; he\u2019s deceiving himself by thinking he\u2019s the smartest person in the room. Hasn\u2019t that always been something I\u2019ve said about him? But here again is the assumption: “Oh, he\u2019s smart! Oh, oh, oh, Charlie! Oh! He has high abilities. He\u2019s bright, obviously bright, Charlie!” Where\u2019s the evidence? Would somebody show me the evidence of this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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