{"id":15945,"date":"2012-04-16T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:11:47","slug":"after_years_of_cultural_rot_why_are_we_surprised_by_the_secret_service_scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/16\/after_years_of_cultural_rot_why_are_we_surprised_by_the_secret_service_scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Cultural Rot, Why are We Surprised by the Secret Service Scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let\u2019s cut to the chase, and let\u2019s get to the real question in the Secret Service hooker scandal in Colombia. What I want to know is, did those Colombian hookers have to pay for their own contraception, or are they covered under Obama\u2019s health care plan as it extends to the Secret Service agents? That\u2019s the question. That\u2019s what everybody ought to be asking. With the War on Women <\/a>being waged at full strength, how could that question not come up? How could that question not be asked? It wasn\u2019t asked by anybody on the Sunday shows. It hasn\u2019t been brought up by Hilary Rosen. It hasn\u2019t been brought up by Anita Dunn. I don\u2019t think\u2019s Obama brought it up, but is it not the most important question? Who pays for the hookers\u2019 contraception? <\/p>\n

Do you realize, this whole brouhaha is over $47? The hooker charged one of the Secret Service guys $47, that\u2019s what this is all about. That\u2019s what I heard. And Hillary is out there drinking and dancing on a Saturday night, and the tip that she left the servers at the nightclub where she was, was 40 bucks. So Hillary left a smaller tip than the Secret Service agents are paying Colombian hookers. And again, folks, we do not know if they had to buy their own birth control pills or other kinds of contraception. This we just do not know. I don\u2019t care what anybody says. I really don\u2019t. I\u2019m just glad to see that there\u2019s one person in government who\u2019s still stingy with the taxpayers\u2019 dollars, and I\u2019m talking about that Secret Service guy who got in and out of there for 47 bucks. (laughing) Ahem. Got in and out of there for $47. There\u2019s a part of me that says more power to the guy. We are a country in debt. This is a guy that\u2019s watching and counting his pennies. <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s that photo<\/a> of Hillary dancing in a pro-Cuban bar in Colombia. We don\u2019t know if she was dancing or if she was dodging “snipper” fire. Where did that happen, where she had to corkscrew land? Kosovo. She had to corkscrew land in there and had to dodge “snipper” fire. That\u2019s what the story said, folks. Do you know what a corkscrew is? Because of the threat of terrorist missiles, you have to — for people not familiar with flying, it can be a frightening thing. You\u2019re not going straight down, but your angle of descent is pretty steep, and you\u2019re corkscrewing to not make yourself a target. (interruption) Denver International? No, no. No. I know what you\u2019re talking about, airports that have dangerous approaches. I think Aspen is riskier than Denver. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, who do these Secret Service guys think they are, the GSA<\/a>? Can I get serious here for just a second? Everybody is asking, what or how can this happen? And in all candor, folks, how can people be surprised? Our institutions have been under cultural assault for I don\u2019t know how many years. Can I mention a name to you? Bill Clinton. The president of the United States had an intern in the Oval Office, and there was oral sex going on. Eliot Spitzer, Client No. 9, the governor of New York, and now he\u2019s on his second television show. Bill Clinton is the most popular, the most famous, and the wealthiest of all elected Democrats, well, that made his money in politics. Well, I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s true, but as Clinton will tell you, (imitating Clinton) “I don\u2019t need that tax cut because Hillary and I are rich now.” <\/line><\/p>\n

How old are these Secret Service guys? Let\u2019s look at their generation. They came from a generation — no, no, no. I\u2019m being serious here. They come from a generation where hooking up with somebody you barely know was the order of the day when they were young kids. And what is going on at the upper levels of our great institutions that are promoting historically traditional morality? All that\u2019s under assault everywhere you go. Did you see — it\u2019s not really related, but in a way it\u2019s telling — the story about all the people who tweeted, young people, who had no idea that the Titanic actually happened. They thought it was just a movie. Dawn, it\u2019s a lot of people. Well, figuratively young people, were shocked this weekend with the 100th anniversary. They said, “Hundredth anniversary? That movie was only out ten years ago.” <\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t know the Titanic actually happened. Well, what are they being taught, if they don\u2019t know that the Titanic actually happened? To them the Titanic was Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and I frankly don\u2019t even remember the story between the two so I can\u2019t go there. But then you have Obama partying in the White House like crazy with these state dinners and them being crashed by people that are getting past the Secret Service. Why didn\u2019t heads roll when that happened? How many times have people crashed White House events now? Is at least two? And now we\u2019ve learned, one of the Kennedy kids, oh, yeah, access to the White House, you gotta buy it. Big donors, lobbyists, that\u2019s who gets in there. That\u2019s why 31 guests at the last state dinner, which was for the Canadian prime minister, I believe, were big donors and lobbyists. Clinton started ball rolling, selling access with the White House coffees.<\/line><\/p>\n

You got the General Services Administration people making videos of how they are spending taxpayer dollars and getting away with it. And apparently they\u2019re not concerned that they\u2019re gonna get caught and punished. They\u2019re making videos about it. They\u2019re planning trips to Las Vegas where the business requires one hour of their time but it\u2019s a five-day trip. Here you have Michelle Obama taking her own Boeing 757 with the kids and the mother and the mother-in-law and whoever else to Martha\u2019s Vineyard four hours before her husband, the president, takes Air Force One, the 747, to Martha\u2019s Vineyard from Washington. From Washington to Martha\u2019s Vineyard, a 757 goes, and four hours later the president goes on his own plane. The first lady is vacationing like crazy. In fact, Obama even said that one of the reasons he was in Colombia was to scout out vacations for Michelle. Grab audio sound bite number one. Did you not hear this? This is Saturday morning in Cartagena at the CEO Summit of the Americas, and this is the portion of Obama\u2019s opening remarks.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I want to thank President Santos and the people of Colombia for the extraordinary hospitality in the beautiful city of Cartagena. We\u2019re having a wonderful time, and usually when I take these summit trips, part of my job is to scout out where I may want to bring Michelle back later for vacation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t have to take her. She\u2019ll go on her own, and we will pay for it. What is this scout out vacation locations? She\u2019ll find \u2019em on her own. Spain. Can Costa Rica be far behind? That\u2019s pretty hip now. Costa Rica is a hip place to go. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back. Last Thursday night St. Louis, KMOV-TV Eyeball News 4, St. Louis. The anchor, Larry Conners, was interviewing Obama during a discussion about the economy. This exchange occurred…<\/p>\n

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CONNERS: The economy is a big issue and concern for folks. I mean, the unemployment, trying to make ends meet, gas prices, food prices going up. Some of our viewers are complaining, they get frustrated, even angered, when they see the first family jetting around, different vacations and so forth, sometimes maybe they think under color of state business and that you\u2019re out of touch, that you don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re experiencing right now.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I don\u2019t know how many viewers you\u2019re talking about that say that —<\/p>\n

CONNERS: We do hear from some.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Yeah, I hear from all kinds of —<\/p>\n

CONNERS: I\u2019m sure you do.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — viewers about everything. But the fact of the matter is, I think if you look at my track record, I\u2019m raising a family here. When we travel, we gotta travel through Secret Service in Air Force One. That\u2019s not my choice. I think most folks understand how hard I work and how hard this administration\u2019s working on behalf of the American people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Okay. So vacation\u2019s a big deal with these people, and here he is making excuses. (By the way Hillary “snipper” fire was in Bosnia, it was not Afghanistan. She had to corkscrew land in Bosnia. It was not Afghanistan. I want to be as correct as I can be.) So does that answer explain Michelle in Spain with the entourage and the trips to Paris with the girls? Does that answer how hard they\u2019re all working? At any rate, I don\u2019t want to get off the beaten path. This Secret Service business: In a way, it\u2019s understandable. In a way. I know that a lot of Americans think that there are certain institutions that are just simply incorruptible. They think the Supreme Court is one. Congress used to be one.<\/p>\n

But the White House, Americans have this view. Everything\u2019s been corrupted now. And if you get serious for a moment, this — even if it was hookers, but — if there\u2019s something else that was going on and nobody wants to talk about? What are these…? You know, there\u2019s always the possibility of blackmail, with the hookers getting information. These people are on the ground before the president arrives. They\u2019re having a pre-arrival party. Suppose the hookers give \u2019em some drugs or loosen \u2019em up with liquor, and get some information on the president\u2019s arrival or security? Who knows? Now, I should point out when Bill Clinton was cavorting with Monica Lewinsky, remember what was said.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s just sex! It\u2019s nobody\u2019s business. It didn\u2019t get in the way of him doing his job. He was just as good a leader as he was before. It doesn\u2019t matter.” And people asked, “What about the possibility for blackmail? What if Lewinsky had turned out to be a foreign agent or whatever?” They said, “Doesn\u2019t matter. It was just sex!” Now, people are starting to talk about the possibility of blackmail with the hookers in Cartagena. (interruption) That\u2019s the point: They get trained. But when you have people who get past the Secret Service at the White House and heads don\u2019t roll?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, everybody laughs about it because of these party animals that were the crashers: That tall blonde and her husband, whatever. But there have been a couple of breaches. I think there was one other instance. But when heads don\u2019t roll, when there\u2019s no accountability, when nobody gets in trouble for it, what\u2019s the message that\u2019s sent? Now, there are some people asking, and you probably have been thinking this yourself: “What do you mean, ‘prostitutes\u2019? There\u2019s more going on here with these guys being sent home than prostitutes. They found something else out about \u2019em or whatever.”<\/p>\n

The Russian spy Anna Chapman was just sent home because it was theorized (it was thought) that she was having an intimate relationship with a ranking member of Obama\u2019s cabinet. Now, sex has always been around politics, as you know. I mean, there nothing new about sex scandals at all. And I\u2019m sure this is not the first time a Secret Service agent has had a, you know, little in-and-out with a prostitute somewhere along the line. But this many of them getting caught over $47 and an argument in the hall over 47 bucks? Who knows, the argument might have been about contraception, given that it\u2019s in the news. Who knows? But it\u2019s a sad thing. More and more of the institutions that everybody wants to have complete faith and trust in seem to be as corrupted as anything in your local community has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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