{"id":8475,"date":"2014-08-29T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:20:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-29T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:20:36","slug":"utter_chaos_from_command_central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/29\/utter_chaos_from_command_central\/","title":{"rendered":"Utter Chaos From Command Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/61822\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Today, White House press briefing, Josh Earnest, the press secretary, got a question from Jim Acosta at CNN.  Now, Acosta is apparently one of the biggest apologists for the Regime that you can find.  And here\u2019s his question.  Listen to this question, to the White House press secretary.  This was just mere moments ago, in the last hour. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that you came out so quickly and tried to explain what the president had to say suggests that what he said was not what he intended to say, or are you saying that the rest of us took it the wrong way?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>When is the last time you can recall, outside of this administration, a member of the press bending over backwards like this?  <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_95453\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaEarnestHagel.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Listen to this question again.  <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8481\">This is after Obama<\/a> said (imitating Obama), &#8220;Uh, you know what?  I was watching the news, and I was watching what some of you people are doing, and we don\u2019t have strategy for that.  We don\u2019t have a strategy.&#8221; <\/line><\/p>\n<p>(imitating Acosta) &#8220;Okay, so, Josh, you\u2019re out here so fast after that, answering questions, the fact that you came out so quickly, does it suggest that what he said was not what he intended to say?&#8221;  Would Sam Donaldson ever say that to a spokesman for Reagan, like Larry Speakes?  &#8220;Larry, did the president really not mean to say what he said. Did we take it wrong, Larry?  Is that what you\u2019re saying, did we take it the wrong way?&#8221;  And here\u2019s the answer from the press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>EARNEST:  The reaction that we had at the White House yesterday was not in response to the president\u2019s comments; it\u2019s in response to the way it was being reported.  We didn\u2019t listen to the president\u2019s news conference and go formulate a strategy for responding.  We listened to the president\u2019s news conference, watched your reporting, and recognized that if we wanted people to have a very clear understanding of what the president was trying to communicate, that we needed to engage you directly to do that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Meaning, you know, we can\u2019t leave it up to the president to tell you what he means.  After he does that, we have to come here the next day and tell you what you meant \u2019cause you people are obviously not smart enough to keep up with the president.  You\u2019re not quick enough. You\u2019re not with it enough. You really can\u2019t keep up with the guy. You don\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying so we have to come out the next day and explain it to you.  This is what Earnest was saying based on the question.  And what he was really saying here was, you know what?  We watched you guys reporting on the president saying we didn\u2019t have a strategy, and we realized that we had to come out here and correct what you guys were saying because you didn\u2019t understand what the president said. <\/p>\n<p>Now, folks, there\u2019s no way to misinterpret &#8220;We don\u2019t have a strategy.&#8221;  There\u2019s no way to misinterpret, &#8220;Well, you know, we got the best military in the world.  We could put \u2019em down here.  We\u2019re not gonna be able to get rid of \u2019em.  The Iraqis are gonna have to step up.&#8221;  So the press, so shocked, so dismayed by what they heard, desperate for some word from the White House today that it was them who were wrong and not the president saying something stupid.  And that\u2019s what Acosta is begging for.  Acosta is basically begging for the press secretary to tell him that the press core just got it wrong. &#8220;No, no, no, the president didn\u2019t say anything stupid like that.&#8221;  And the press is totally willing to accept that they are the idiots, if it means Obama not looking like an idiot. <\/p>\n<p>Jim Avila, ABC, then said, &#8220;Is there evidence from the TSA, from the FBI, CIA, NSA, that any of those people with western passports have been on planes or are on their way back to the US or are already in the US?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_95464\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/JoshErnest.jpg\"\/><BR\/>EARNEST:  The most detailed intelligence assessment that I can offer from here is that there is no evidence or indication right now that ISIL is actively plotting to attack the United States homeland.  That\u2019s true right now.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Really?  So there\u2019s no evidence and no indication right now that ISIL is actively plotting to attack the US homeland?  Well, let\u2019s go to back to August 21st, eight days ago in Washington at the Pentagon. The press secretary with Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense, and Martin Dempsey, General Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a Q&amp;A, and Jim Miklaszewski, NBC, says, &#8220;Secretary Hagel, is the calculation that ISIL presents a 911 level threat to the US?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HAGEL:  ISIL is as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen.  They\u2019re beyond just a terrorist group.  They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess.  They are tremendously well-funded.  Oh, this is beyond anything that that we\u2019ve seen. So we must prepare for everything, and the only way you do that is you take a cold, steely hard look at it and get ready.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So the press secretary today said:  Nah, nothing to sweat here, no sweat. There\u2019s no ISIL here. There\u2019s no possibility of an ISIL attack. They\u2019re not even plotting one on the homeland. <\/p>\n<p>Chuck Hagel:  This is the biggest threat we\u2019ve seen, and we should be getting ready to be attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Utter chaos.  Utter, total chaos emanating from command central, the Pentagon and the White House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Today, White House press briefing, Josh Earnest, the press secretary, got a question from Jim Acosta at CNN. Now, Acosta is apparently one of the biggest apologists for the Regime that you can find. And here\u2019s his question. Listen to this question, to the White House press secretary. 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