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Nov. 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, indeed.
America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
It's uh it's always an honor to be here.
Uh Rush returns Monday, but even in his absence, the tradition continues.
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Uh when I was here a few weeks ago, you may recall that Australian bloke who called up and was talking about cricket with me.
Uh just just just for a minute or two.
But it was enough.
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There are three big news stories today.
Uh the 10.2% uh unemployment rate that was announced just a couple of hours ago.
We're into double-digit unemployment.
Uh for most of the last twenty years.
Uh the French and the Germans have lived with uh double-digit unemployment as a more or less permanent feature of life.
I mean, the short version uh of the last quarter century is uh that the big uh European continental European economies uh missed out entirely on the 1980s Reagan Thatcher boom, uh, in part because they they did the sort of stuff that Barack Obama wants to do here, and one consequence of that is you get used to permanent double-digit unemployment.
So we'll talk about that uh later on and the consequences for the political landscape in the wake of what uh happened on Tuesday and the big Tea Party uh protests in in Washington yesterday.
Uh we'll also talk about government health care.
Because uh on Wednesday morning, uh Barack Obama and his pals really had a choice.
Uh they could have said, Look, we're well where where Clinton was in uh in nineteen uh ninety-four.
So are we gonna triangulate?
Are we going to try and govern as an Eisenhower Republican, which is what Clinton always says he tried to govern as.
Uh, or are we gonna shove this thing down the throats of the American people and take the hit whatever happens.
Uh we we'll accept we'll lose seats in uh the 2010 elections, uh, and we may even lose our majority, but it will be worth it because the long-term political realignment in this country uh from turning citizens into dependents uh by shoving government health care down their throats, uh essentially making government the pusher with citizens as junkies.
The payoff for that, the long-term payoff for that in the permanent realignment of American politics in a left-wing direction will be worth it for us.
So we'll talk about that later.
And we will also talk about uh the shooting at Fort Hood.
Uh another person died overnight.
That b uh that brings the fatalities to thirteen.
Uh there are dozens more who will live with the injuries they sustained uh for the rest of their lives.
And I think it's important here to understand what took place at Fort Hood.
It was not a tragedy, as far too many people called it, uh, including President Obama, uh, and I regret to say George W. Bush.
It was not a trag uh tragedy.
A tragedy would be if a hurricane sweeps in, uh, totals Fort Hood and kills and injures a lot of people in their wake.
This was this was not a tragedy.
Uh instead, I think it exposed the potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we've called since September 11th, the war on on terror.
Here you have soldiers, uh brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America's enemy abroad.
Uh they return to this country, and they're killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy.
That's to say, a man who believes in and supports uh everything the enemy does.
Uh this man is Nidal Malik Hassan.
He is a US Army major.
Uh as we learn more about him, we discover uh, for example, that he handed out Korans yesterday morning before he left his apartment, uh that he uh was yelling, Alahu Akbar, God is great, as he gunned down his victims, uh that although he was born in Virginia, uh at his mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, uh, when he was asked to list his nationality, he listed it as Palestinian.
He's not a Palestinian in the legal sense.
Uh he is a US citizen born and bred.
But he chose to identify himself as Palestinian on the uh form uh that he left at his mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Uh something has gone badly wrong here.
Something has gone very badly wrong.
Uh uh in the way this man was fast-tracked uh through medical school at taxpayer expense, trained as a military psychiatrist, fast-tracked to major, uh he he I gather it takes something like nine to ten years usually to make major in the U.S. military.
He got there, I think, in something like six or seven.
All the while people knew about uh his beliefs, his superior officer apparently had a conversation with him in which he expressed his admiration for uh domestic jihadists, that's to say, uh people who kill Americans,
not just in theaters of war like Iraq and Afghanistan, but kill American civilians here in the United States, uh, expressed admiration uh on websites, uh supposedly uh for uh suicide bombers whom he considered noble and heroic, and equivalent to the man uh who in a military in a U.S. Army unit who throws himself on a grenade to save his comrades.
By the way, that's not what a suicide bomber does.
A suicide bomber straps on uh the the semtex belt and gets on a bus or goes into a pizza parlor or goes into a nightclub uh and blows himself up and takes tons of civilians with him.
So he's not saving lives like uh the the guy throwing himself on the grenade to save his comrades, he's taking innocent lives.
And yet a U.S. Army major uh posts on a website uh that uh that the that these suicide bombers are noble and heroic, and he's apparently investigated for it, but uh but but the bureaucracy seems to think though this is just uh th this just adds to the general vibrant multicultural diversity of uh of life at uh at the base.
That this is that uh that being in effect objectively on the side of the enemy at a time of war is really just like a kind of alternative lifestyle choice, and there's no reason to make a big deal about it.
Uh this this uh speaks to something uh very disturbing uh at the heart of uh a uh uh generally politically correct culture uh and how it responds, not just to the military uh challenges posed in Afghanistan and Iraq, but to the broader ideological challenge.
Uh thirteen people are dead, and they should not be dead.
Uh they should not have been killed in these circumstances.
And as happened on nine-11, uh, it is not just a tragedy, it is also a failure.
Uh it is a failure properly to understand what we're up against and uh to uh produce uh eight years after 9-11 a strategy uh for the ideological challenge uh that uh that uh people who believe as Major Hassan believes, he's still alive, by the way, he wasn't killed.
He's in he's uh in a uh hospital getting the best military uh g mess medical treatment available, and at some point, I suppose he will wind up in a courtroom trying to explain and to justify what he does.
But at the moment, the only people who are trying to explain and justify what he does are the American media whose behavior pattern in these things is always exactly the same.
You uh and it doesn't matter whether you go back to, for example, uh the shooter at uh Los Angeles Airport, six months to the day after September 11th, if you go back to the Washington Sniper just uh uh few weeks after September 11th, uh then we had uh reams of experts on CNN uh coming up night after night saying, well, this has all the patterns of an angry white male loner, probably some kind of vigilante hunter.
Uh you we w we were picturing guys in plaid, guys in plaid, some crazy psycho right wing nut uh angry white male.
Of course, it turns not out not to be.
It turns out to be a man called John Allan Mohammed and a sidekick, uh who drew elaborate drawings showing the planes going into the Twin Towers and again with Alahu Akbar.
But by the time all that came out, the the media had moved on.
They d they didn't care.
The the the minute it turned out they were completely wrong that it wasn't the lone male white wacko, uh, then everything else was sort of airbrushed out and the story went away.
Uh same thing here.
The th the news story now is post-traumatic stress disorder.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now, uh d if you're not familiar with this phrase, this normally refers to guys who are in war zones and come back and they've seen horrible things and they're haunted by this horrible things.
This guy uh was not in a war zone.
He hadn't been deployed anywhere yet.
He was apparently uh objecting to being deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq uh uh in the weeks ahead.
So right there, in talking about post-traumatic stress disorder, uh the media already have in effect changed the definition of that phrase.
This guy, Major Hassan, is the first victim of pre-post-traumatic stress disorder.
He hasn't been anywhere near a combat zone, he hasn't been anywhere near a war zone.
He's been in Texas and he's been in Washington and he's been in Maryland.
He's managed to pick up the first sighted case of pre-post-traumatic stress disorder from Maryland and Texas.
Uh so right there, in order to make this fit their preconceptions, the media have changed beyond any useful meaning uh the definition of this phrase post-traumatic stress disorder.
This is from this was posted this morning by Newsweek, Newsweek magazine.
Is Fort Hood a Harbinger?
Nidal Malik Hassan may be a symptom of a military on the brink.
This is by Andrew Baest of uh Newsweek, and he knew uh everything about Major Hassan's background uh this morning when this went up.
What if Thursday's atrocious slaughter only signals that the worst is yet to come?
Details remain murky, but at least thirteen are dead and thirty wounded in a killing spree that may momentarily remind us of a reality that most Americans can readily forget.
Soldiers and their families are living and bending under a harrowing and unrelenting stress that will not let up any time soon.
And the U.S. military could well be reaching a breaking point as the president decides to send more troops to Afghanistan.
It's hard to draw too many conclusions right now.
But we do know this.
Thursday night authorities shot and then apprehended the lone suspect, Major Nadal Malik Hassan.
It makes one wonder, though, how much any kind of lockdown will either get at the root causes of soldier stresses or better prepare them for more battle.
And on it goes.
On it goes.
As if this guy, he's out he's been out there in the Hindu Kush, he's been in Kandahar, he's been up against the Taliban, he's seen horrible things, and it has driven him off the rails.
That that is not who this.
Do you know this this piece in Newsweek is actually sick?
This guy is demonstrating levels of mental illness that are actually getting up there with with uh with some of the guys that uh Major Hassan as an army psychiatrist was was treating.
When you're when you're so determined not to look into the eye of what happened here, when you're so determined not to address the reality of who Major Hassan is and what he believes, that you're prepared to write this drivel uh uh positing the man as a victim of uh post-traumatic stress disorder, then you, I'm afraid, are getting dang your it's not the the U.S. Army is at breaking point, the American media are at breaking point.
This is a th this is a sign of mass insanity.
Uh the coverage of this story has has been not only dishonest, uh but actually profoundly disturbing uh in what it says uh about how uh American citizens can trust their media uh to to to tell them the truth about what is what is going on at this time.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein Inforush on Open Line Friday, lots more straight ahead.
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In other words, you stick Rush on Fox News Sunday, and uh uh Fox News Sunday got its best ever numbers in the entire year.
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Talking about this uh these shootings at Fort Hood, we owe it to the dead.
This would have been a a great day for the Taliban or Al Qaeda if it had happened in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Thirteen uh Americans dead and dozens more wounded.
And the least we can do uh when it happens not in Afghanistan or Iraq, but at home uh is address honestly the motivations and the impulses uh that that underpin the attack.
The FBI very curious statement this.
The FBI announced almost uh within the first hour that this was not terrorism, that there was no terrorism angle.
Well what is it?
What is it then?
Uh I suppose they mean by that that this man is not a registered member of a known terrorist group.
They they went through his pockets and they didn't find his membership card for the Texas branch of Al-Qaeda.
That's a preposterous and reductive uh definition of terrorism.
No, he wasn't a member of uh Al Qaeda.
Uh he was a member of the uh United States Army.
But the same uh anger and the same pathologies that drive the members of Al Qaeda also happened to drive uh the uh this U.S. Army major in what he did.
Uh and that sh that should be of huge concern.
Huge concern to us.
Uh uh when you listen to the way he uh conducted his affairs, uh the way he was cheerfully quite open about uh his opposition, not just his opposition uh to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also uh his support for domestic jihadists and suicide Bombers.
Uh people say, well, why didn't he set off any red flags?
Yes, of course, he raised all kinds of red flags.
But at the same time, uh a broad culture of political correctness is conditioned reflexively to lower those red flags.
To say, oh, well, yes, you know, yes, he the he maybe looks on about this little differently than I do, uh, but don't worry, it's nothing to worry about.
Thirteen people are dead uh because it was decided all the way along the line that this was nothing to worry about.
Uh and that actually is something to worry about.
The the way we take the multicultural airbrush uh to blur uh and obfuscate what should be uh what uh what is actually the critical the critical front line of the ideological battle uh against the pathologist driving our enemies.
Uh Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
We'll talk about that and we'll talk about lots more straight ahead on Open Line Friday from the EIB network.
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Uh uh over at uh over at uh National Public Radio earlier, apparently, uh they were saying we know he took his faith seriously, but we can't say that that was the issue.
This this is what it's gonna be now uh uh on on Major Hassan.
It will just be one of those things.
Crazy, could happen to anyone.
Pre-post-traumatic stress disorder.
Uh the guy just suddenly snaps.
He he was worried about being sent into a war zone, because uh after all, he's not he's not really a soldier.
He's uh he he's a doctor, and he was stressed out about it.
Uh and so even though he's not really a soldier, he seems to uh know his way around uh two handguns uh pretty pretty pretty good, well enough to go in and and and get off 45 shots uh and take down the best part of four dozen people.
But we can't say uh we we we we we can't say that this this was about anything other than just some freakish combination of circumstances entirely unconnected uh to Islam uh or to his support uh for the enemy uh in in uh in America's uh in America's wars.
Uh th this is this is the way it's been now.
I think the first one was July the fourth, two thousand and two, and that's when this guy went crazy, uh supposedly.
Again, uh a Muslim of uh uh a Muslim male uh fired up the L L counter, ticket counter at Los Angeles Airport, uh killed people.
Uh all in the run-up to it, uh th th the suspicions was that again it was the lone white male.
Even though it's like the the Fourth of July, uh he was shooting up the L Al ticket counter, and people professed themselves mystified as to uh I think it was the famous New York Times headline where uh it was something like officials puzzled about motive of airport gunmen.
He was an uh Egyptian Muslim who killed Jews on America's national holiday, uh and we must be very careful not to not to jump to uh any conclusions.
Uh I remember saying at the time uh uh how how quick do you think people would be jumping to conclusions if a white male on Martin Luther King Day went down to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and and shot it up.
How many nanoseconds do you think it would take uh before b before the uh the media would be uh connecting the dots on on that one?
Uh uh suppose it was uh Judy Garland's birthday and I went down and shot up my local gay bathhouse.
How long do you think it would take Frank Rich in the New York Times to be connecting the dots on uh on on uh American right wing homophobia on that one?
Well now here we are, seven years later, and we have a U.S. Army major who uh who was giving presentations, giving presentations uh at Walter Reed on how uh infidels should convert to Islam and and nobody and everyone professes themselves to be mystified as to why he would then suddenly shoot up uh thirteen
of his comrades fatally and and injure dozens more.
Uh this this is not a tragedy.
This is like nine-11, uh a failure, a failure uh of of key systems and institutions uh to identify something central uh t to the war that America is waging.
And you can't think of it just as a question of military operations about sending planes, uh sending in tanks.
It's not like that.
You win every war by by throttling the ideology that is behind that war.
Uh uh Americans didn't have to have this pointed out sixty-five years ago.
They knew that it wasn't just a question of an American plane taking out a German plane or an American tank uh blowing up a Japanese tank.
They knew that in the end uh they were th that at the end of the day the w Japanese militarism itself and that culture, that imperial militarist culture had to be throttled.
They knew that Nazism itself could not survive in the post uh war order.
And and something has gone badly wrong when you have a U.S. Army major essentially saying the same kind of things that the enemy says, but he's saying it to his uh to his comrades, he's saying it to his superiors, and people are thinking, well, you know, it's a free country, that's his right.
What's the big deal about it?
Let us go to Jeff in Richmond, Virginia.
Jeff, uh you're on the Rush Limbaugh show with Mark Stein.
Good to have you with us.
Uh, thank you for taking my call.
As a veteran, this whole situation just uh it just pisses me off on every level there is possibly.
I mean, if this isn't a case of domestic terrorism, then what the hell fits the definition?
I mean, if it was let's say a twisted sick individual or white supremacist or something along those lines that did it, it would be playing on loop on CNN, probably for the next week at least.
But you know, as a veteran, and also things like we can't call it the war on terror.
We can't say terrorism, it's man-made disaster.
Right.
But the same people that dig and dig to come to this individual's defense that did this in Fort Hood, they're the same people that paint with the biggest damn brush they can the words white right wing extremism.
Yep.
Every chance they get just for a different opinion.
So you know, for other Americans, we can go ahead and paint that evil description, oh well, that's just uh possible right wing extremist.
But you get something like this and oh no, no, that's that's an exception.
That's different.
He he's the victim.
He was picked on.
Yeah, imagine if uh as this guy did yesterday morning, handing out uh the Quran to his neighbors.
Imagine if uh a fella had been handing out Bibles to his uh neighbors on the morning before he he goes and kills a bunch of people.
Uh d do you think the media would be regarding that as some peripheral detail of no relevance to his motivation?
Right.
It's uh it's all agenda-driven, their agenda.
I mean, how about we do this?
Just call it what it is.
You know, right or wrong, I don't care, but America's gotta wake up because I mean, sooner or later you gotta understand that i it is what it is.
And it's just it's just getting phenomenal in my mind, you know, especially as a veteran.
I mean, it don't just affect the military.
This affects us as a nation.
And people still just I don't know.
Just fumble around with the whole this is a dangerous ideology.
Yeah, and and as you say, this is actually the very definition of terrorism.
Uh that th th that this is someone who is it's a much it's it's actually a much more advantageous structure than, for example, Soviet agents had in the Cold War.
In the in the Cold War, if you had some guy in Texas, he reported he'd have to report to a control officer in Dallas or somewhere who would have some guy connected with the Soviet embassy in Washington who would be plugged into what the KGB were saying in Moscow.
It's actually much more advantageous if you if you just have people in which you plant the seed, the seed, and uh and they just kind of i uh spontaneously combust that they uh the the s th that you have a uh uh a potentially huge numbers of freelance jihadists just out there who suddenly uh get the jihad fever and decide that today's the day uh that they're gonna they're gonna go to paradise and see Allah and they're gonna take a big bunch of infidels with them.
Uh but this guy, this guy gave all the warning signs, and it's always it's always the it's always the same way now.
The more warning signs you give off, the more uh the politically correct culture says, Oh, I don't know about that.
It's like the flying imams in Minneapolis.
Remember the flying im imams?
Uh they were the ones who were who were objecting to the war, asking for the seatbelt extenders, even though they didn't require them, uh, and were praying loudly uh on a US Airways flight, having been at this thing in Minneapolis.
And after they were removed from the plane after Homeland Security had been called, the uh the flying imams then sued uh U.S. Airways and a whole bunch of people.
And although that case was eventually won, you think if you're a U.S. Airway stewardess now, whatever you call them.
You can't call them stewardess, is it sexist or uh fly flight, flight attendant.
That's that's the that's the way.
I was gonna say uh the cabin service crew, but there isn't really cabin service on US Airways, is there?
No, no.
Now I like um the British uh expression, trolley dollies, but I expect that is I expect that might be a wee bit sexist too.
Anyway, the trolley dollies.
You imagine if you're like a U.S. Airways trolley dolly, and uh and uh I'm not saying uh or even one of those uh those nice young men they have on the US Airways.
I don't want to be sexist about this.
But you think about the next time you see some behavior that's suspicious.
Guys praying, uh they're doing goofy things, uh they're uh they're talking about Saddam Hussein, all the all the things that the flying imams did.
And you think to yourself, do I call Homeland Security?
No, I'm gonna be tied up in sensitivity training hell for the next six months.
Maybe it's better just to forget about it, to ignore it.
And that is that that is becoming the problem now, that we're conditioned to ignore it.
And that was the same story on September eleventh.
Everything those plotters did stood out.
They weren't geniuses.
They didn't assimilate and integrate and merge into the background.
Uh they did a lot of strange things that that should have raised red flags, except that we are now conditioned not to see the red flags because we don't want to be stuck in sensitivity training hell uh for the next uh for the next six months.
And that is a problem.
That is an institutional problem that we have to solve, or there are going to be more incidents like this, and there are going to be more people killed, killed.
Because a an obvious wacko, an obvious wacko, uh can get this far into the heart of a U.S. military base and everybody thinks, oh, well, what's what's the big deal about it?
One of the victims, one of the victims yesterday was a pregnant woman, was a pregnant woman.
You know, it's it's a it's it's wrong that any of them died.
It's wrong that any of them died.
Uh it would have been wrong, it would have been a terrible thing if a guy had somehow shot up the gate, got past the gate, got in there and gunned these people down.
It would have been a terrible thing.
But it's worse when it's a man who is uh trained by US taxpayers, advanced at uh U.S. military expense, uh fast tracked to U.S. major, and planted in the heart uh uh of a US Army post uh when he obviously, when he very obviously uh is not just uh anti-war, as many Americans are, but objectively on the side of the enemy.
That is a catastrophic failure.
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I like this quote uh from Martha Rabba Raditz at ABC uh in her story on Fort Hood uh last night.
Uh as for the suspect, Nadal Hassan, as one officer's wife told me, I wish his name was Smith, unquote.
You know, there's something very bizarre about this kind of reaction because uh what this what this woman is saying is actually saying, I wish my nice multicultural illusions uh would not be disturbed by harsh reality.
Uh and if they won't get disturbed by a body count like this, then th then in essence our culture is doomed.
Is doomed because nothing can penetrate the soft, fluffy marf marshmallow illusions.
Let's go to Sean in Yuma, Arizona.
Sean, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Good to have you with us.
This coverage is really irritating me.
I'm 22 years retired marine.
I got a son in the army who's done two tours in Iraq, and the media's claiming this kid's got PTSD.
He didn't spend one minute in combat.
No, he got PTSD from Maryland.
You know, it can do that to you.
Yeah, Walter Reed Hospital, he has spent one minute in combat, has never i it's just garbage.
You're taking away from what these w from what the people in Iraq and Afghanistan have been doing the last eight years and putting No, what he did was complete garbage.
He was a jihadist.
I don't care what anybody says.
I told my wife yesterday when I first saw the story on the news.
I told her I bet you a hundred dollars he's got a Muslim name.
I told her I didn't want to feel that way, but that's what I felt.
And as soon as it came up, I knew, and I knew what the reaction was going to be in the press.
That's that's what I did, actually.
I bet my assistant, uh not my wife, but uh I I bet her a I think it was just fifty bucks.
And uh my then colleague, Richard Roper of uh Ebert and Roper at the movies at the Chicago Sun Times, uh mocked this uh and said all these right wing wackos like uh Stein and Anne Coulter and all the rest of it, uh they they are so bitterly disappointed that this man is not a terrorist.
The Washington sniper was a terrorist.
He killed people in the name of his terrorist uh Islamic ideology.
And that is the same thing uh that this guy did too.
He he gunned down his comrades at Fort Hood in the name of uh in in the i in support of a terrorist cause.
This is an act of domestic terrorism.
Yeah, he pulled he did with a terrorist act, plain and simple.
That is the definition of terrorism.
Yeah, and and and you're right, though, that uh the the minute it starts, as you said, he's a jihadist.
The trouble with these things is the jihadist is always the victim.
Uh that's the way the media say, Oh now, oh, you know, he he was worried about having to deploy to Iraq uh uh and or Afghanistan.
So now so now uh we have re redefined uh uh post traumatic stress disorder to mean something that it d uh it doesn't mean.
It doesn't mean.
Uh this would justify anybody killing anybody, even if they'd just done ten minutes worth of training.
Not to take away from what uh any of the other people supports personnel in combat zones.
Here he's a doctor.
He's gonna be what we call in the rear with the gear.
He was not going to see combat.
And the infrastructure man, he was not an alchemist, he was not a combat arms MOS.
No.
It's just total garbage.
And it it really irritates me.
No, and and and I think most of us understand whether there was a story in the uh I was in London a couple of days ago.
There's there's a story in the Daily Telegraph uh about a young man, I think a Scots uh fellow uh from uh from Scotland who found himself on some uh godless ridge uh in uh out on the Hindu Kush uh a couple of weeks ago uh and had to fix his bayonet and run it through uh the the g the bad guys uh coming straight at him.
You can understand why that that would cause you problems when you you you get back uh to uh Glasgow or Edinburgh and you just uh wandering around the neighborhood and everyone else just wants to go and have a hamburger or go and have a couple of pints of beer.
You can might have a hard time adjusting.
But as you say, this guy was gonna be he wasn't gonna be in a combat zone.
He was g he was gonna be a doctor.
He was gonna be a doctor uh in Iraq or Afghanistan.
And and whatever mental issues Major Hassan has pale compared to the mass insanity that is being peddled uh by uh CNN and ABC and these other people whoa, we can't who can't possibly say that Islam had anything to do with it.
This this is a kind of uh mass mental illness that is uh uh uh afflicting uh the U.S. media.
Lots more on this straight ahead.
Mark Stein Inforush, 1800-282-2882.
The Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Stein in for Rush, Rush back Monday.
You know, one thing I've learned uh by the way, is you should never make uh a joke uh that that uh liberal progressives will adopt for real.
I remember uh I used to uh joke about uh calling illegal immigrants undocumented Americans, and then Harry Reed, God bless him, actually used the phrase for real on the floor of the United States Senate.
It's the same thing.
I was joking earlier about pre-post-traumatic stress disorder.
Uh uh a a a uh uh uh an anchor on National Public Radio apparently used that phrase for real that said, Oh, this almost seems to be a phenomenon you could call pre-traumatic stress disorder.
Pre-traumatic stress disorder.
That is they would rather they would rather consider Major Hassan a victim of pre-traumatic stress disorder uh than confront the reality uh uh of of uh of what's uh going on here.
I don't know, will pre-traumatic stress disorder get uh get covered by Obamacare?
Will that be the one thing?
I would imagine it will.
You won't be able to get if you break your leg, you're on your own.
But if you go in there and you say, Oh, I've I've got pre-traumatic stress disorder, uh, they'll take that very seriously.
You'll be covered up to the uh up to the hilt for uh up to the hilt for that.
I have just one question, by the way, for the US military bureaucracy.
All this stuff about uh about uh about Major Hassan was relatively well known when we he was still Captain Hassan.
Why was he promoted to major in May in defiance of all this evidence?
In defiance of his track record, in defiance of this behavior?
Who promoted him to major in May and why?
There are a lot of questions uh out there that it's that it's gonna be important to get the answers to because real people are dead uh because of this screw up.
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