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Sept. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
There is a uh undeniable truth of life, ladies and gentlemen, written by me back in the 1980s.
I forget what number this is.
There were 35 undeniable truths of life.
And one of them is going to be one of the themes of the program today.
And that undeniable truth of life is ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
It is not words, doctors, nurses, clean water, environmental policy that has determined and will determine the shape of the world in the future.
As is always been the case.
And we have a NAMBAMBY Wimp in the White House leading us in exactly the opposite direction, and he's being made a fool of.
Greetings, folks, and welcome.
It's Rush Limboy, and we got a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Truth number six of the undeniable truths of life number 35, 35 total, number six, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
Now I can see some people frowning at that.
I'm looking at Wendy over there.
Wendy's frowning.
And I'm going to explain it, and I'm going to illustrate just exactly how how how dangerously at risk we are with the leadership of President Obama.
The uh National Post in Canada has published some comments that the French President Sarkozy made about Obama's United Nations speech that I have not seen anywhere else, and they are blistering.
They basically take Obama to task for being a sophomoric, uh uh wishy-washy, unrealistic boob.
Imagine being told that by a leader of France of all places.
We got a lot on the agenda today, folks are going to get started.
Listen to this from the Los Angeles Times.
In Canada, a move toward a private health care option.
In British Columbia, private clinics and surgical centers are capitalizing on patients who might otherwise pay for faster treatment in the U.S. The courts will consider their legality next month.
When the pain in Christina Woodkey's legs became so severe she could no longer hike her cross-country ski, she went to the local health clinic.
The Calgary, Canada resident was told she'd need to see a hip specialist.
Because the problem wasn't life-threatening, however, she'd have to wait about a year.
So wait she did.
This is in the Los Angeles Times.
In January, the hip doctor told her that a narrowing of the spine was compressing her nerves and causing the pain.
She needed a back specialist.
The appointment set for September 30th.
When I was given that date, I asked what I could expect to have surgery.
She's 72 years old, by the way.
They said, well, a year and a half after I'd seen the doctor is when I get the surgery.
I don't have insurance.
We're not allowed to have private health insurance in Canada.
It's not going to be easy to come up with the money, but I'm happy to say the pain is almost gone.
Hoping the capitalize on patients who might otherwise go to the U.S. for speedier care, but not for long, because Obama is going to create this exact circumstance in this country.
A network of technically illegal private clinics and surgical centers has sprung up in British Columbia, echoing a trend in Quebec.
So basically, we have back alley medical treatment in Canada on sale to people who want to pay for it themselves who don't want to wait to be treated with the National Health Care Service in Canada.
It's just, it's right in front of our eyes.
The death trap that awaits all of us.
I just wanted to mention this first.
President Clinton is back.
Now this Fox is hilarious.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is Sunday morning, NBC's Meet in the Press.
David Gregory said, Your wife famously talked about the vast right-wing conspiracy targeting you.
And that and they bought it.
They bought it.
As you look at the opposition on the right to President Obama, is the vast right-wing conspiracy still there?
Oh, you bet.
Sure it is.
It's not as strong as it was because America's changed demographically, but it's as virulent as it was.
I mean, they're saying things about him, you know, it's like when they accused me of murder and all that stuff they did.
But it's not really good for the Republicans of the country what's going on now.
I mean, they may be hardening President Obama.
They can take his numbers down, they can run his opposition up.
But fundamentally, he and his team have a positive agenda for America.
Their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail.
And that's not a prescription for a good America.
Seems that uh the president, former president, made a uh coded reference to me.
I think I'm on these people's minds all the time.
They cannot get me off of their mind.
Their agenda seems to be wanting them to fail.
Damn right it is.
You are damn right we want his agenda to fail.
We want it all to fail.
And we want it to fail in order to save the country, Mr. President.
You know, if I re Mr. President, if I were you, I would think about joining us.
Do you realize what this man's done to you and your wife?
Barack Obama has done what we tried to do for eight years, and that's make you irrelevant.
And make you a babbling, worthless force in the Democrat Party.
Nobody has ever been able to pull that off.
Obama did, and you're out there standing up and supporting him.
And I know at the first sign of genuine weakness, Hillary and Bill are going to be in there trying to undercut this guy as fast as we are.
But right now he's got to present this notion that they're all unified, and um the vast right-wing conspiracy is back.
Gregory said, Well, do you worry about a repeat of 1994 politically?
There's no way they can make it that bad for several reasons.
Number one, the country is more diverse and more interested in positive action.
Number two, they've seen this movie before because they had eight years under President Bush when the Republicans finally had the whole government, and they know the results were bad.
And number three, uh, the Democrats haven't taken on the gun lobby like I did, and they took 15 of our members out.
So I don't think uh it'll be whatever happens, it'll be manageable for the president.
Now, uh no, but I'll tell you what, health care numbers are the record low Rasmussen, 41% support.
The anger in this country, according to Rasmussen, is universal.
It's universal demographically, and it's rising.
Genuine anger at Obama at his policies at the state of the country and for the future.
And it's an unreported story because the state-controlled media doesn't see it.
And when they do see it, they laugh at it and mock it.
They think it's just a bunch of uh mobsters, a small, unruly mob.
They think that everybody is still in love with Obama.
Now they're starting to get a little edgy.
Howard Feynman's begging Obama to stay off of television now.
Um just saw the piece, haven't printed it out yet, just saw it before the program started.
Mr. President, please stay off TV is the headline from uh from Howard Feynman at uh at Newsweek.
Uh now let's go back one more sound bite.
Clinton Friday night on CNN, Anderson Cooper's 180.
Uh he said, Do you think things are more polarized now?
When you see the so-called Tea Party protests, when you see some of these raucous town hall meetings, and you hear Obama being called a Nazi, a socialist, isn't it just nastier now?
I mean, it was pretty tough against you when you were president.
Is it now?
Of course, there was no hate.
There was no acrimony.
Uh there was uh no polarization during the eight years of Bush.
Have you ever asked what eight years of hate produced?
You know, all during those eight years, I kept telling anybody who would listen.
The people of this country are simply not going to reward this kind of virulent rage, insane hatred.
But I was wrong.
The Democrats attacked Bush for eight years.
They said no to everything he proposed.
The things that they agreed with, they later turned around a life, they lied to him about it and acted like they never did supporting.
They used vile, disrespectful language.
They wrote books and made movies on how to assassinate George W. Bush.
And what did all that hate?
And what all those knows get them?
Well, it got him the House, it got him the Senate, and it got him the White House.
The hate worked.
I'm not suggesting anything by it.
I'm just making an observation.
Not suggesting that we hate, nor am I suggesting that we should.
Anyway, uh it was pretty tough against you, Mr. President, when you were president.
Is this just politics as usual?
The public is so tired of all this.
They want to just get together and go forward and have a solution.
The Congressional Republicans need to know that just saying no on everything and praying for the president to fail is not a good strategy.
We're not praying, uh, Mr. President.
We are working hard.
We're not praying for Obama to fail.
We are working and fighting as hard as we can to make sure that it happens.
So Clinton says the right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on the poor little experienced Obama.
Says their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail.
How typical.
How typical of Clinton.
You see how his mind works?
It's the way all liberal minds work, when they cannot force their weak ideas on us.
And they've got all the power.
We don't have one way to stop them with votes.
They've got these weak ideas when they can't even unify.
By the way, the public is so tired, they want us to get together.
That's what they thought Obama was going to bring.
They thought Obama was going to bring this, Mr. President, and he has created all of this part.
We are people, like I said on Jay Leno's show.
There are lots of people who are opening up their eyes to this is not what I voted for.
So they can't force their weak ideas on us.
What do they do?
They blame it on the evil and vast right wing conspiracy.
When the polling gets bad and state-controlled media start to catch on to their lies and misdeeds, and it's time to blame it all on the evil and vast right wing conspiracy.
Vast.
I love that word.
I love being part of a vast group that objects to fascism.
I love being the mistake beag of the vast right wing conspiracy, and I still am by virtue of being reanointed by President Clinton here, the mistake beag of the vast right wing conspiracy that objects to socialism and fascism.
So let's just review, shall we, ladies and gentlemen.
Despite having control of everything in the world, and a summer-long full court press to court support and go down to wine and dine, given grandly by the drive by Zeman, all of the support, not one negative word other than for the unruly mob at the at the town halls and the tea parties.
He has not stimulated our economy nor created jobs.
Have you seen the teen work, the young people, unemployment rate 52%?
And what's one of the crown jewels of the Democrat Party in the left?
The minimum wage.
The minimum wage goes up.
52% unemployment among young people.
And the story is it's so bad it will take them years to find a place in the economy with decent paying jobs because there are many people ahead of them looking with more experience, and when things do kick it back in gear and get up and running, uh, those will be the people that are hired first, not these young people.
Why the AP even has a story today on you know all these tax increases on the rich are now working in New York and they're not working in New Jersey.
I couldn't believe this story.
It even mentions me.
Anyway, that's just part of what's coming up.
So he hadn't stimulated the economy.
He has not created any jobs, all because of us, all because of the vast right wing conspiracy.
That's what Clinton's out there saying.
The economy is in the tank, no jobs, all because of us.
He can't get his health care legislation passed all because of us.
The vast and evil right wing conspiracy.
He can't figure out if he should commit more troops to Afghanistan because of us.
The vast right wing conspiracy.
He can't talk tough with Iran.
He can't stop Iran from nuking up.
All he wants to do is really, really talk to him the next.
It's all our fault.
It's all the fault of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
He cannot stand up to any nutcase.
Iran, Russia, Venezuela, the Norx, because of us.
The vast right wing conspiracy.
Oh, and not only, I guess I should mention this, not only are we evil and vast, but we are racist.
The evil, vast, racist right wing conspiracy is what they have tried to tag on us.
They're blaming all of their failures just like they always do on us.
When we are powerless to stop them.
If they unify, which they'll have to do against the will of the American people, If they unify, nobody can stop them.
Until perhaps the 2010 elections.
And I think President Clinton's a little optimistic over what the results of the 2010 elections would be.
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On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limboy, yes, my friends, I am talking about that very same vast right wing conspiracy that arranged for Monica Lewinsky to be hired as an intern at the White House.
And then arranged for Monica Lewinsky to take a pizza into the Oval Office.
And then the same vast right-wing conspiracy that unzipped President Clinton's pants and enabled all of those Lewinskys to take place in the first place.
Yes, that's the vast right-wing conspiracy to which I refer.
And remember the vast right-wing conspiracy created by Hillary to distract people's attention away from the unzipped pants and the pizza and the Lewinskies in the Oval Office.
Pure and simple.
You see what happened in Germany, the German and the German election?
Angela Merkel.
But don't you just love real women in power?
I love real women in power.
She won in Germany and she got enough of a mandate for tax cuts and a labor revamp.
Which gives our international-minded president two paths to follow.
He could either follow Germany on the right or follow Venezuela and Iran on the left.
He could go for more growth of the economy or more growth of tyranny.
Shouldn't be a tough choice.
But Obama doesn't make tough choices, folks.
He votes president.
Obama makes speeches.
Pure and simple.
I mentioned that Sarkozy mocked Obama at the UN Security Council.
And I have here, I'm holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
I'm going to show you this on the ditto can.
It's a PDF file of a headline from the National Post in Canada last week.
And I'll just, it's got a picture of Obama and a picture of Sarkozy.
And it's a it's full page, nuclear loggerheads.
And they quote Obama.
We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.
Sarkozy, President Obama dreams of a world without weapons, but right in front of us, two countries are doing the exact opposite.
Sarkozy smacked down Obama.
Here's the cover.
You will not, I'm sure you the people on the ditto cam that you will not see this in any state-controlled media in the United States.
You won't even see it reported.
Well, we're gonna I sent the PDF file up to Coco at the website.
He's gonna put it up there.
Ahmedinizad, by the way, is is uh is continuing to make fun of Obama and censure his remarks, but more on that in just a second.
The French president Sarkozy, stronger than the American president.
Here's what Sarkozy said in total.
President Obama dreams of a world without weapons, but right in front of us, two countries are doing the exact opposite.
Iran since 2005 has flouted five Security Council resolutions.
North Korea has been defying council resolution since 1993.
I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community?
More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map, Sarkozy said.
He even implied that Obama's resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.
If we have courage to impose sanctions together, it'll lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons.
Sarkozy has previously called the U.S. President's disarmament crusade naive.
And it is.
Remember, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force turning to the Washington Post today, Farid Zakaria.
He's also an editor at Newsweek, and I think he still has his own CNN show, but they have so small an audience, I don't know if anybody ever sees it.
His Washington Post piece from today, Obama the Gambler, betting that Machismo is not foreign policy.
In other words, Farid Zakaria is betting that undeniable truth of life number six, the world is governed by the aggressive use of force is untrue.
He says in this piece that we on the right have a phony realism.
Obama's speech was part of a calculated strategy.
Obama was telling the world the United States is willing to be cooperative to rejoin international institutions to adhere to treaties, but in return, other countries will have to s to help uh solve some of the world's common problems.
You just can't kick us around anymore.
Obama's approach has already produced remarkable results.
It sure as hell has.
More on that, not any of them any good.
So we got a drive-by caller from Cincinnati, eh, Snerdley.
Drive-by caller from Cincinnati.
Tom didn't didn't want to stay on the phone to ask me this, just wanted you to pass it on to me.
What do I think of the Bengals now?
Hey, you people in Cincinnati, in my little office pool, I predicted the Bingles to win the game yesterday.
I also predicted the Lions to beat the Redskins.
I picked the Forderners to beat the Vikings.
And if it weren't for Brett Farbrett Farbbrett Farv Brett Favre, I'd have had all three upsets picked.
And I still lost the pool.
There were so many obvious winners yesterday.
But I I got I picked the Bengals to beat Steelers.
There's something wrong in Pittsburgh.
I picked Detroit to uh to beat the Redskins because everybody talks about the porous Lions pass defense, but the Redskin rushed defense.
I mean, 6.3 yards per carry they gave the leading rusher before he got hurt for the Lions.
So and the Forderners would have, you know, if it weren't for that, you know, Brett Farbrett Favre, then uh, you know, I don't know.
I'd have had I know it was great, I know it was great.
I mean, I've I watched it.
But still, folks, do you remember, just to show you how far we've come, do you remember Ronald Reagan's theory on the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan's theory on the Cold War was we win, they lose.
That's a quote, and that was it.
Mr. President, what do you think of the Cold War?
We win, they lose.
And he was, he was despised for that by the left and the Democrat Party.
Whoa, you can't talk like that.
That's only going to destabilize the situation.
But he was right.
No compromise with bullies, no compromise with liars, no compromise with thugs.
Now, what is Obama's theory on dealing with the world's bullies, liars, and thugs?
Meaningful dialogue.
No concept of victory.
What is Obama's concept of victory in Afghanistan?
He doesn't have a concept of victory.
He's waiting to decide what to do with the uh request for more troops in Afghanistan.
And while the Iranians are launching more missiles that can reach Israel, and they've got that new Newton nutcase leader who says, here's the thing about Iran that you have to understand.
If they do get nukes, if that day comes, folks, they are led by a bunch of religious fanatics who believe in the acopalypse, apocalypse, and if they can bring it about, they will.
It's all about the 12th Imam.
That's their version of the Messiah.
And there has to be so much world chaos before the 12th Imam will show up.
And Ahmedini Zad is telling us exactly what his intentions are.
Now I want to know when did Obama first learn about that second nuclear site and how long did he keep it secret from everybody?
How long has he known about it?
Best word I've gotten is he found out about it long time ago.
And uh and decide and look at he even surrendered the stage talking about that.
There's Ahmadinezad at the UN in New York, talking about whatever he was talking about, and Obama is on the stage with an embarrassed-looking Gordon Brown and Sarkozy in Pittsburgh at the G20.
Meanwhile, while all this is going on, Obama makes a supposedly last-minute decision to fly to Copenhagen, Denmark, with the lovely and gracious Michelle My Bell to make a pitch for the Olympics in Chicago.
The Olympics that Chicago doesn't want.
Chicago television station ran a story.
Not a big story.
Hey, Chicago doesn't want the Olympics.
We don't want the hassle.
We don't want this.
We don't want that.
And they got it suppressed.
They called a news director at the Fox TV station Chicago and they said, don't run that anymore.
And he didn't.
If they'd have shut up, nobody would have ever known about it.
They made a big deal about it.
Now everybody knows that somebody in Chicago got the TV station to not run the report.
I don't believe, by the way, that Obama never intended to go to Copenhagen.
I think it was always part of the plan.
Remember with him, it's about me, me, me, me, me.
And this focuses attention on him.
Oh, I got to go to Copenhagen, save the day.
While he's going to Copenhagen to try to get the Olympics into Chicago in 2016.
We have Ahmedini's not doing what he's doing, what the situation in Afghanistan.
Look at Farid Zakaria.
Betting that McKizmo is not foreign policy.
Betting that my undeniable truth of life, the world is governed by the aggressive use of force.
That is undeniable.
He's betting that it's untrue.
Listen to this.
There is a phony realism brandished on the right these days that says no one will ever cooperate with America.
Russia and China have their own interests.
Any attempt to find common ground is naive.
We're not against finding common ground.
Farid.
We just recognize who our enemies are, and we don't want to lose to them.
And we understand what their intentions are because they're saying so.
So while Farid Zakaria, and I'll tell you what he's doing, Farid's money's uh New World Order types, loves the UN, wants to be accepted by all the global organizations, probably already is, probably already a member of all these groups.
It's just a it's a special interest column for him.
Listen to these headlines.
Iran conducts third round of missile tests.
Could reach Israel.
Revolutionary guards begin war games in Iran.
Venezuela exploring uranium deposits with Russia.
China to display upgraded missiles in parade.
India raises nuclear stakes, can make high-yield weapons now.
And we've got Obama saying we must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.
We have a sophomoric, naive, leftist radical little child who we have elected president, who actually has such an ego that he thinks this is all about him, that he's president of the world.
His presence is going to magically result in all of these utopian, unrealistic dreams.
That these panty wastes on the left have harbored their entire lives.
And now we've got people like Farid Zakaria saying, hey, you know what?
That's a good move.
So let's move to Saturday.
Iranian news from over the weekend.
Obama remarks mocked by Ahmadini Zad.
Iran's president has criticized Obama and blasted his British and French counterparts for their recent comments on Tehran's nuclear program.
Mr. Sarkozy, Mr. Brown's statements lack any real credibility from our viewpoint, what they say is not of much value.
If they have the guts, they should involve problems they face in France and Britain.
Who exactly are they to decide about others around the world?
This is why he agrees with Obama.
Obama basically said it's not our job anymore to decide these things.
We can't leave the free world.
No one nation is going to have dominion over another.
It isn't going to happen.
And Ahmedini's not said, that's right.
President Obama agrees with me.
And he agrees with Kim Il Kim Jognell.
He agrees with Hugo Chavez.
So I said Friday, you have these thugs parroting Obama talking points, running around saying our new president agrees with them.
So after this story runs in Iranian news from the Associated Press.
President, this is this is uh after.
The next this is the next morning.
This is Obama's Saturday morning radio address.
President Obama is offering Iran a serious, meaningful dialogue over its disputed nuclear program while warning Tehran of grave consequences From a united global front.
Iran's leaders must now choose.
They can live up to their responsibilities and achieve integration with the community of nations, or they will face increased pressure and isolation and deny opportunity to their own people, Obama said in his radio and internet address Saturday.
My offer of a serious, meaningful dialogue to resolve this issue remains open, Obama said, urging Ahmadini to take action to demonstrate its peaceful intentions.
This man, God help us, is the leader of the free world, who doesn't even stand up for freedom.
Who does not even stand up for it?
He does not stand up for the oppressed peoples of the world, such as those in Iran who would like to get rid of their oppressive regime.
First president in the history of the United States that does not stand for our own ideals around the world.
The first president in U.S. history who looks at the United States as evil and unjust and immoral until he came along.
Meanwhile, from CNN, Tehran's new uranium enrichment plant will be operational soon and will blind the eyes of the enemies, said Iran's semi-official news agency on Saturday, God willing, this plant will be put into operation soon and will blind the eyes of the enemies, said the senior official in a written statement.
This written official heads the office of the country's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Yes, so by all means let the serious, meaningful dialogue with this bunch of lunatics begin.
Let the magic and the power and the charisma of the one's personality single-handedly disarm this bunch of lunatic nutcases.
When you attach a religious fanaticism to the possession of nuclear weapons, you have a situation that is untenable.
But Obama doesn't believe that ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force, nor does Farid Zakaria.
Here again the headlines Iran conducts third round of missile tests, could reach Israel, revolutionary guards begin war games, Venezuela exploring uranium deposits with Russia, China to display upgraded missiles in parade, India raises nuclear stakes, can make high-yield weapons, and it's all the fault of us.
The evil vast right wing conspiracy.
You know what our biggest accomplishment was?
The evil vast right wing conspiracy got hold of some of Bill Clinton's seam and put it on that blue dress that Monica Lewinsky was wearing.
That was the single biggest achievement that we ever had here in the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Continuing along the same line, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force while our president is a panty waste.
Speechmaker, from a delighted, by the way, Associated Press, Moamer Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez are strengthening their relationship and finding common ground as two radical former military men who both want to challenge the imperialism of wealthy nations and aspire to speak for many poor nations.
That's the lead paragraph.
Sounds very approving to me from state-controlled AP Gaddafi's strengthening relationship with Chavez.
Gaddafi, who was making his first visit to Latin America, said the two regions should unite to wield more influence and form a defense alliance and NATO for the South, calling it Sato.
Those who were betting on NATO, we now say to them that we're going to bet on Sato, Gaddafi said during the summit.
We're going to have our treaty too.
And from the New York Times, this was yesterday, Scott Shane, that name should ring a bell.
Rethinking our terrorist fears.
Eight years after 9-11, the specter of terrorism still haunts the U.S. Just last week, FBI agents were working double time to unravel the alarming case of a Denver airport shuttle driver accused of training with explosives in Pakistan, buying bomb-making chemicals in Dallas.
A young Jordanian was charged with trying to blow up a skyscraper in Springfield, Illinois.
A prison parole was arrested for trying to attack the local federal building.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration struggled To decide whether sending many more troops to Afghanistan would be the best way to forestall a future attack.
But important as they were, those news reports masked a surprising and a perhaps heartening long-term trend.
Many students of terrorism believe that in important ways Al Qaeda and its ideology of global jihad are in a pronounced decline, with its central leadership thrown off balance, as operatives are increasingly picked off by missiles and manhunts, and more important, with its tactics this wait a second here.
Wait just a second.
This is the same New York Times that told us that everything we were doing in the war on terror was a waste, it was a bust.
We had no business being in Iraq.
Afghanistan, eh, really shouldn't be there either.
Just capture Bin Laden's.
Now all of a sudden, they say we're succeeding or did succeed so well that Al Qaeda is so fractured and disoriented that there's no reason to fear terror attacks.
That's what the sum total of this story is.
We really have an unrealistic fear of future terrorist attacks.
And there are quotes from terrorism experts in this.
Now, this, again, to remind you, this was written.
It's yesterday's New York Times, written by the same New York Times national security expert Scott Shane, the same reporter who saw nothing wrong in leaking the name of the CIA interrogator who questioned Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
So the New York Times on September 27, 2009, tells us that there's really no reason to fear terror attacks anymore.
That leaders have been picked off.
They're in a state of disarray.
Can I take you back to the New York Times July 10th, 2001?
Headline, The Declining Terrorist Threat.
Two months before 9-11.
Two months before 9-11.
Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism.
They seem to believe that terrorism is a greatest threat to the U.S. and that it's becoming more widespread and illethal.
And they are likely to think the U.S. is the most popular target.
And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism.
But none of these beliefs are based in fact, wrote the New York Times on July 10th, 2001.
In fact, while many crimes are committed against Americans abroad as at home, politically inspired terrorism as opposed to more ordinary criminality, motivated by simple greed, is not as common as most people may think.
So two months before 9-11, the same worthless newspaper wrote about the declining terror threat and the sheer paranoia of the American people.
And the bigotry of the American people in judging most terrorists to be Islamists.
Now, if history is any precedent, we ought to be preparing for another terror attack.
As the New York Times has today or yesterday said, we need to rethink our terror fears.
There's really no reason to fear terror attacks anymore.
Those guys have been, we've picked off their leaders now.
I guess George Bush did that.
They're gonna credit it now.
There were just five the this guy's downplaying them.
In the story today, he's downplaying these five attempts.
Now he's downplay- Oh, there was this chump change of amateurs.
We really need to rethink this.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
and And we have seen rise to prominence.
The literal naivete, the dangerous naivety of a utopian-inspired left.
That basically has as its world perspective and experience, academia and theory and philosophy, coupled with an arrogance and a conceit that is personified by President Obama that says they are the really smart people in the world, and only when they are leading the nation will the rest of the world, which is all smarter than we are, too.
Only when the real true elites are leading this country will the rest of the world's bad guys realize that the United States has turned a corner and is no longer a threat to them.
And they can stand down and join us in this weapon-free worldwide utopia.
That is the summation of where we are in this country, of course, aided And abetted by the same kind of academic philosophical naivete in the state-run media.
We'll be back.
And we learn from 60 Minutes last night that the commander in Afghanistan, General McChrystal, has talked to President Obama once.
Once in 70 days.
Once.
George Bush, I happen to know this personally, George Bush talked to the generals on the ground in Iraq weekly, sometimes daily.
Obama has spoken to McChrystal once.
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