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RUSH: Now, here\u2019s audio sound bites. This is Obama. He has to ask Greg Craig, the White House counsel, for help here, signing the closing of Gitmo executive order.<\/p>\n
CRAIG: We\u2019ll set up a process!<\/p>\n
OBAMA: We will be, uh, setting up a process whereby this is going to be taking place.<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, we are etching his words. We\u2019re chiseling his words in marble, since that\u2019s how CNN has portrayed the articulate pronouncements of President Obama. ‘By the way, Greg, what are we doing here? Separate executive order with respect to how we\u2019re going to dispose of the detainees. Is that what we\u2019re doing?\u2019 ‘We will set up a process! We\u2019ll set up a process. I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019ve also been asked not to be so critical \u2019til Obama really messes up. I know he just messed up, but I don\u2019t think some of the dingleberries in this country quite understand how he screwed up yet, and if I didn\u2019t tell \u2019em, they won\u2019t know. We\u2019re going to set up a process? Can I translate that? How would you translate that, ‘We\u2019re going to set up a process for dealing with the people that are there now\u2019? (interruption) That\u2019s exactly right: We don\u2019t have a clue what we\u2019re doing. This is the ‘we don\u2019t have a clue\u2019 executive order. We don\u2019t have a plan. We don\u2019t have a plan. We\u2019re going to take care of the plan during the next year. Political.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s one more audio sound bite from Obama. Now, this is just this morning at the White House in the Oval Orifice, and Obama here is on the task force that they\u2019re gonna use process to create to deal with the detainees that are going to end up being released from Guantanamo Bay. And once again, Greg Craig, the White House counsel, has to explain it to Obama in the midst of Obama\u2019s announcement here. Greg Craig, as you know, sometimes we don\u2019t know who he works for. Sometimes it\u2019s the American government; sometimes it\u2019s the Cuban government. I mean, he did represent the father (this means Castro) of the young Elian Gonzalez, who Janet Reno eventually saw to it was dispatched back to the slums and the authoritarian tyranny of Cuba. Here is Obama announcing what they\u2019re going to do with the detainees.<\/p>\n
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CRAIG: That\u2019s right. And detainee policy going forward.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: And detainee policy going forward so that we don\u2019t find ourselves in these kinds of situations, uh, in the future.<\/p>\n
CRAIG: And there is clear guidance for the military as well.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: And that we are providing clear guidance to our military in terms of having to do with it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Unbelievable here! What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to marvel at this? Am I supposed to sit here and marvel at how this new teamwork is taking place, about how the president is incorporating all these people? It sounds to me like… You know, folks, this is not much evidence to go on, but I\u2019m sure we could find the audio sound bites of me in the past saying, ‘You know, there\u2019s a part of me when I said I was conflicted about Obama, I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s going on. Does he just want to be president with everybody else doing all the work and he gets to just be the figurehead and play the big games?\u2019 I don\u2019t recall. Honestly, I don\u2019t recall. I\u2019m not saying it hasn\u2019t happened. But somebody help me out here. Have we ever seen a president announce an executive order and have to turn to his counsel to explain what the hell the executive order is?<\/p>\n
‘Cause it\u2019s his order! He\u2019s the president. It\u2019s his executive order, but then is it his executive order? ‘Is that correct, Greg? This task force is going to provide us with a series of recommendations? Is that correct, Greg?\u2019 ‘And detainee policy going forward,\u2019 and then Obama repeats it, ‘and detainee policy going forward so that we don\u2019t find ourselves in these kinds of situations in the future.\u2019 Then Craig interrupts without even being asked, ‘and there is clear guidance for the military as well.\u2019 And Obama says, ‘and we\u2019re providing clear guidance for our military in terms of how to deal with this.\u2019 What am I supposed to do? They shoulda just put it on the prompter. They absolutely shoulda just put it on the teleprompter, but then the press would report there was a teleprompter. It\u2019s his executive order. And with Greg Craig in there… Remember, Greg Craig also as he needed as Bill Clinton\u2019s lead attorney during the impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n
That was after he represented Castro and the father of Elian Gonzalez. Oh, this is… You know, I so want my president to do the right thing and for our country to succeed. This is not inspiring confidence. Is it? (interruption) What do you mean, ‘he hasn\u2019t found his voice yet\u2019? He hasn\u2019t found his voice? This is the most articulate president we have ever elected? I know that\u2019s what they said about Clinton when he screwed up in the first two years, ‘He\u2019s still looking for his voice, still searching.\u2019 All right. I don\u2019t want to make too big a deal out of it. I just don\u2019t recall a lawyer being in there, interrupting and being asked for guidance on what the president\u2019s executive order. All I can tell you, folks, is none of this that you heard has the slightest thing to do with United States security.<\/p>\n
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Have you people seen the movie Blazing Saddles? Some of you youngsters out there may not have seen Blazing Saddles, it\u2019s one of the funniest movies ever, it\u2019s by Mel Brooks. You should go out there — I know some of you tightwads don\u2019t buy movies — go out there and rent it. Mel Brooks plays a bunch of characters, and one of the characters he plays is Governor Le Petomane, and he\u2019s an absolute idiot. He\u2019s a figurehead. All he cares about is the showgirl in the back room and having some time with her after he finishes the so-called official duties. Harvey Korman plays Hedley Lamarr, the chief of staff who\u2019s constantly throwing official papers in front of Governor Le Petomane to sign. He signs it, heads back to the showgirl. And, in fact, the movie — well, never mind. I\u2019m not going to say more about it, but that\u2019s what I thought I was watching. It\u2019s his executive order. I still can\u2019t get over this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to go back and replay an audio sound bite. This is this morning in Washington, the Oval Office, President Obama signing an executive order calling for the closure of Club Gitmo within one year. Now, we will not have the chisel sounds. We\u2019ve already chiseled this bite in marble, so you will not hear them here.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: In order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo, uh, and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I hereby order. And we then we will then, uh, the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. We will be… Uhhh…. Umm…. Is there a separate executive order, Greg, with respect to how we\u2019re going to dispose of the detainees? Is that it, eh, uh, what we\u2019re doing?<\/p>\n
CRAIG: We\u2019ll set up a process!<\/p>\n
OBAMA: We will be setting up a process, uh, whereby this is going to be taking place.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Greg, is there going to be another executive order? What are you guys doing back there, did you write another executive order, or is this it? That\u2019s Greg Craig, the White House counsel who represented the father of Elian Gonzalez and Fidel Castro of Cuba. Also represented Bill Clinton in the impeachment hearings. I didn\u2019t play this to once again highlight Obama not knowing what\u2019s going on with his own executive order. What I did was to illustrate it\u2019s not very FDR-like, and I wanted to make mention of this for those in the Obama administration monitoring this program. What you did today, purely political, not oriented toward the security of this country. Do you people in New York feel safer now? I mean you may like your country a little more, but do you feel safer here? We\u2019re going to close a prison for terrorists in the interests of national security and justice? (laughing) And the foreign policy interests of the United States. Anyway, FDR would not do this. Remember, FDR put Japanese citizens in the internment camps! He did what he had to do in time of war to protect this country. This is not FDR-like. And I had to make that observation.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Apparently, ladies and gentlemen, I was not the only one to notice that Obama\u2019s executive orders that he signed today seemed to be executive orders he hadn\u2019t seen yet. He\u2019s asking Greg Craig, (paraphrasing) ‘What are we doing here, Greg?\u2019 Greg Craig says, ‘Here\u2019s what we\u2019re doing,\u2019 and Obama repeats it as though it\u2019s his own words. This afternoon on Fox News Channel Jon Scott talked to Democrat strategist Bob Beckel about Obama\u2019s signing of the executive orders today and the confusion with the media. Now, I don\u2019t know what confusion with the media there was, because I wasn\u2019t there, but here\u2019s the question that Jon Scott asked: ‘If you were running the media show at the White House, would you call somebody on the carpet? I mean you want the president to look presidential, right?\u2019<\/p>\n
BECKEL: Yeah, I suspect that this is gonna lead to a discussion here with a few people. Look, for people who pulled off — just think about what they pulled off at the Democratic National Convention, I mean these are pros, and they\u2019re gonna — they can\u2019t make little mistakes, \u2019cause we\u2019re going to talk about it. So I suspect that there\u2019s going to be a few heads that are going to roll and I also suspect you\u2019re not going to see many missteps after this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s talking about here. I don\u2019t know what the misstep with the media was, unless it is Obama not knowing what his executive orders said. But maybe media there was a media screw-up in there, maybe people didn\u2019t get in there, I have no clue what this is about. I hope to find out. It was a media issue yesterday. This says it\u2019s about the executive order. (interruption) Well, I know about that, the controversy yesterday was the White House released photos of the finger and Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office, and the Drive-Bys are upset, they didn\u2019t run the picture because they want their own photographers in there and they weren\u2019t allowed in their to take their own. They had to run the White House picture. Of course the Drive-Bys, occasionally they\u2019ll stand up for themselves, even when it\u2019s Obama, ‘We\u2019re not going to run your propaganda. We didn\u2019t take the picture. It\u2019s a White House picture. We want our own picture. We run the propaganda around here. We want our cameras in there to record the propaganda.\u2019 Well, he cut his finger off, didn\u2019t he, or do something? He cut his little finger off to show toughness or something. He cut it and didn\u2019t get it looked at and it was getting ugly looking out there, had to go chop it off, in a show of great toughness. Yeah, like the Yakuza guys, like the Japanese Mafia. Exactly, Snerdley, exactly.<\/p>\n
So I don\u2019t think Beckel here is talking about — I think we still are the only ones talking about the fact that Obama had no idea what executive orders he was signing and what they said.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, the White House press briefing is still going on. Robert Gibbs, this is the first official press briefing, and this guy, by the way, the media sang this guy\u2019s praises during the campaign. ‘This Robert Gibbs, whoa, he\u2019s going to be the best secretary of the press that we\u2019ve ever had up there, this guy knows his stuff, he knows what he\u2019s doing.\u2019 Here\u2019s just a sample of what\u2019s happened up there. Boiled down Q&A, Major Garrett of Fox News to Robert Gibbs. Question: ‘So if we capture Osama Bin Laden, we have to use only the Army Field Manual guidelines for interrogations? Because when he announced the closing of Gitmo today, the Army Field Manual will be the only source used for interrogations.\u2019 Robert Gibbs, who is said to run rings around every other press secretary, said, well, let me check with Greg Craig for guidance on that for you. That\u2019s a little bit of my pay grade. He didn\u2019t say that, but here\u2019s the thing about that. That is a great question. If, when we capture Osama Bin Laden, which Obama\u2019s vowed to do, then where will we put him?<\/p>\n
So many people wish they were me. So many people talking in my ear in the midst of brilliant analysis, forcing me to stop and make a point that was about to roll off my tongue anyway. Obama has said in the past that capturing Bin Laden was the only definition of success. However, after he won the election and during the transition, he said, (paraphrasing) ‘Well, he\u2019s sorta disfigured out there, he\u2019s not really that big a factor. Capturing him is no longer our definition of success.\u2019 I mentioned that back when it happened, I did the sigh and the ho-hum and will any of the human beings disguised as amoebas understand it? Point is, if we have a chance to capture him, Snerdley, we\u2019re going to. If some Meals on Wheels program in Afghanistan happened to run in to Osama, we\u2019re going to capture him. Maybe the Meals on Wheels program won\u2019t capture him, maybe the homeless outreach program — I don\u2019t know. Whoever captures him, if we capture him, where are we going to try him? And where we going to put him? ‘Cause all this stuff is being shut down.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: No, Snerdley, Robert Gibbs was not part of the Bee Gees. It was Gibb. It was Robin. It was Maurice and Barry Gibb. No S on there. They lived in Miami for a while, and they had a brother Andy who had a couple of hits. He unfortunately died. Gibb. This guy does not look like a Bee Gee. This is the best press secretary, this is the sharpest press secretary, this guy is going to run rings around McClellan, he\u2019s going to run rings around Tony Snow, this guy is going to run rings around Dana Perino, this guy was sharp during the campaign. What about capturing Obama? ‘Oh, gotta consult with Greg on that.\u2019<\/p>\n
Here, folks, if you haven\u2019t it heard I\u2019m sorry to belabor this, grab sound bite 31. This sound bite is what has prevented me from getting to any other sound bites today. I think I\u2019m the only one here who has caught this. I\u2019m sure there will be others as the day goes on. This is Barack Obama, this is the president of the United States announcing his — capital H, capital I, capital S — his executive order this morning.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: In order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo, uh, and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I hereby order. And we then we will then provide, uh, the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than, uh, one year from now. We will be… Uhhh…. Ummm…. Is there a separate executive order, Greg, with respect to how we\u2019re going to dispose of the detainees? Is that it, eh, uh, what we\u2019re doing?<\/p>\n
CRAIG: We\u2019ll set up a process!<\/p>\n
OBAMA: What we\u2019re doing here is to set up a special interagency task force on detainee disposition. They are going to provide me with information in terms of how we are able to deal in the disposition of some of the detainees that may be currently in Guantanamo that we cannot transfer to other countries, who could pose a serious danger to the United States, uh, but we cannot try because of various problems related to evidence, uh, in a Article 3 court. So this task force is going to provide us with, uh, a series of recommendations on that. Is that correct, Greg?<\/p>\n
CRAIG: That\u2019s right. And detainee policy going forward.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: And detainee policy going forward so that we don\u2019t find ourselves in these kinds of situations, uh, in the future.<\/p>\n
CRAIG: And there is clear guidance for the military as well.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: And that we are providing clear guidance to our military in terms of how to deal with it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m speechless. I\u2019m just dumbfounded. Two executive orders in a row, he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in them, gotta turn to Craig Greg. Craig tells him and Obama repeats it as though nobody can hear it. See, I thought Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. He\u2019s supposed to be smarter than Greg Craig. He taught constitutional law up there at the University of Chicago, right next door to Bill Ayers. Yeah, you would think he\u2019d be pretty good at this legal stuff. He\u2019s an author. He wrote his own books. Ahem. He didn\u2019t know what was in at least two of his executive orders today. What am I supposed to do? Am I not supposed to mention this? ‘Give him a chance, Rush. Wait \u2019til he really screws up. Give him a chance. We all want the country to succeed.\u2019 Well, Obama\u2019s policies succeeding do not mean success for the country, and that\u2019s the bottom line. I want Obama\u2019s policies to fail. That will equal success for the country. So, see, the process here, the process was always the issue, so they say they\u2019re going to shut Guantanamo in a year, and they don\u2019t tell us the process, cause they don\u2019t have a plan!<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll believe they close it in a year when they do anyway. But doesn\u2019t matter folks because I have adapted as the epitome of capitalism, the government has thrown me a curveball and I have adapted. I haven\u2019t asked for a bailout, I haven\u2019t gone to a lawyer, I haven\u2019t filed suit. I have simply ordered my marketing managers of the EIB merchandise store to come up with a new line of Club Gitmo merchandise, a new logo, a swimming pool with a diving board — water and a board — and a new tag line on each piece of merchandise: ‘When America Was Safe.\u2019 We\u2019re working on that new merchandise line even now, a teachable moment.<\/p>\n
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GARRETT: Just so the American people have an understanding: if, for example, US Forces were to capture Osama Bin Laden or someone less well known but of operational significance, are they to understand, the American people, that the field manual only will be the interrogation method used to interrogate a target as valuable potentially as Osama Bin Laden, or someone of that operational significance?<\/p>\n
GIBBS: Let me get some guidance from, uhhhhh, from Greg and members of the NSC.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Translation: ‘I don\u2019t know. They haven\u2019t told me. Obama doesn\u2019t know either. I gotta go ask Greg Craig. We\u2019ll have Greg Craig get back to you on this.\u2019 I mean, Obama didn\u2019t even know. He had to ask Greg Craig during the ceremony. ‘What you are asking me for? How do you expect me to know if Obama didn\u2019t know?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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