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May 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 4, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, folks, if this weren't so serious, it would be hilariously funny.
The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, is telling anybody and everybody that the Times Square bomber had to be somebody unhappy with Obama's health care plan.
A Tea Partier.
And then after it was learned that, no, no, no, this guy's a Muslim extremist from Pakistan, and there's a lot more we know about the guy, then Bloomberg comes out and says, we're not going to tolerate any backlash against Middle Easterners or Muslims in New York City.
Of course, backlash against the Tea Party people was expected.
It was hoped for.
You have the entire Democrat Party, you have the entire United States legacy media hoping and praying that it was a domestic Republican Tea Party terrorist who listened to me that set that bomb in an SUV in Times Square.
That's where we are in the country.
I mean, everybody knows that what this guy, what's his name?
His name is Faisal Shahzad.
Everybody knows.
The mayor of New York should have known this.
Obama should have said this in his presser today.
Everybody knows this guy was upset over the new Arizona immigration law, and so he decided to blow up Times Square.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's the Rush Limb.
Why didn't they go for that instead of a Tea Party and the health care bill?
Bloomberg, you're an absolute blithering, embarrassing idiot.
If you're going to try to relate this to modern politics, tell us that this Muslim from Pakistan is upset over the Arizona law.
Healthcare is yesterday's news.
You are an absolute embarrassment.
The whole Democrat Party is an embarrassment.
The leftist movement in this country is an embarrassment.
And the media is so far gone that they're a joke, an absolute irresponsible joke.
You would not believe what they're trying to say about me and this oil spill.
Before they're through with this, it's going to be my fault.
Not Bush's, not Obama's, not BP's, but mine.
I got emails last night from people.
Rush, did you really say that oil and water mixed is fine and it's not okay?
We shouldn't do anything?
This is my NFL St. Louis Rams purchase all over again.
They're making up things I didn't say.
And of course, these absolute, I'm thinking of an anatomy and a human body I can use in a family open show to describe these absolute, total, worthless pieces of human debris at MSNBC.
And I'm in a great mood here, folks.
Don't misunderstand anything.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had our boot on the throat of Muslim extremists, just like we have our throat on BP, a company who is attempting to produce energy for us to improve our lifestyle and our economic output and our standard of living?
Oh no, we've got to keep a boot, a jack boot, on the throat of British petroleum.
We're going to blame them for everything when we have an obvious example here of predictable terrorism.
Can't, no, can't call it what it is.
Got to hold out.
Hope it was a Tea Party guy running amok.
Guess what?
Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat.
I wonder if his SUV had an Obama sticker on it.
Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat.
The original New York Times headline on this was, U.S. arrests SUV owner in Times Square case.
They then changed it, but that was their first headline.
U.S. arrests SUV owner.
Fine, so he's a Democrat.
I want to see the Obama sticker on this card.
Notice how quickly they got it out of Times Square before anybody could hop and maybe see Obama 2012 bumper sticker on the damn car.
And then this.
I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable.
Even Walter Cronkite's rolling over in his grave.
Not even Cronkite was this far gone.
Bomb suspect was family man in foreclosure.
Yes, my friends, not only was he a bedraggled immigrant.
He bought his SUV off of Craigslist for cash.
Well, where did he get the money?
If he's in foreclosure, I don't know if you've been watching television.
This place he's on foreclosure and looks like a looks like a tenement.
I don't know if he accessed Obama's foreclosure rescue plan, but he was foreclosed on.
And they said, oh, he and his family were just in terrible financial straits.
We find his family's in Pakistan.
They're not even here.
Family's not even here.
They're not questioning some of his neighbors and the place he was foreclosed on.
So this is a setup to blame Bush.
The rotten economy drove this guy nuts.
Folks, I mean, it is just, here's the truth right in front of our eyes.
These guys are going into more pretzel-like contortions to blame me for the oil slick, to blame me for the dead animals.
I mean, it's Obama's got the animus against animals.
Obama sat around for 12 days, didn't do anything.
Yeah, it's all my fault because they make up things I said about oil and water, no big deal.
Ocean will take care of it naturally, which it will in time, not advocating doing nothing about it.
Isn't it, here, listen to Bloomberg.
Listen to Bloomberg.
This is last night, CBS Evening News, with Katie Coric demonstrating her IQ of a pencil eraser.
If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that.
Somebody homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something.
It could be anything.
We now know that this guy in Times Square, right outside Schubert Alley, who changed his shirt, took his shirt off, we now know he did it because it was hot.
It wasn't because he was a tea party guy trying to furtively get away just hot.
He just took off his, had two shirts on, took the outer layer off.
Imagine that.
On a hot day in New York City near Schubert Alley.
And he was white.
He was white.
Oh, it fit the template.
It fit the template.
Oh, yeah, I was a tea party guy gone.
No, no, now we find out it's Pakistani national American citizen foreclosed on a Democrat upset at the Arizona immigration law.
You know, I still say Bloomberg should have said that.
He's going to try to attach this.
Well, he lives in Connecticut.
He couldn't have voted for Bloomberg.
His place up there is in Bridgeport, a place foreclosed on.
Of course, it's a Democrat.
Who knows how many times he voted and where?
You know, I would love if this guy was a member of Acorn.
At the end of the day, ACORN and Al-Qaeda, maybe the Taliban.
Oh, I mean, that's doing what they're doing.
Here's now, after Bloomberg learns that it was not a mentally deranged person with a political agenda that didn't like the health care bill, this morning at a Midtown firehouse, his honor said this.
I want to make clear that we will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers.
All of us live in this city, and among any group, there's always a few bad apples.
But the people that live in this city are proud of the fact that this is the city that gives everybody from every place in the world an opportunity, no matter what religion they practice, no matter where they or their parents came from.
Okay, so we're not tolerating any bias or backlash against Middle Easterners or Pakistanis or Muslim New Yorkers.
If it had been a Tea Party, why, any vigilante who wanted to go into action would have been applauded had it been an old lady.
Meanwhile, you got to ask yourself a question.
I'm going to get to this in just a second.
How many of you, how many of you go to the airport and have to go through all of these security things?
You have to get there an hour and a half early.
This clown got right on a United Emirates jet right as it was about to leave, hightailing it from the city out to JFK.
How did this guy get those security filters?
Oh, probably because we can't profile people like that.
We can only profile Tea Party people going through security checkpoints at airports.
Obama.
Oh, folks.
Listen to this.
This is an AP news analysis.
There's no byline on this.
Unpredictable and tough to solve.
The stack of problems on President Obama's desk is growing unwieldy.
It's presenting him with a tough juggling act.
Two wars, a financial crisis, the lingering high unemployment that he caused.
They didn't say that I did.
An exhausting battle over health care that he caused.
He didn't say that I did.
And that's just the start.
Now throw in an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused by Rush Limbaugh and an attempted car bombing in Times Square that we wanted to be caused by the Tea Party.
And there are other pressing matters such as dealing with the increasing menace of Iran's nuclear program, which we're really not worried about.
Trying to get Middle East peace process back on track, but the Jews won't listen to us.
Searching for new Supreme Court justice.
We want three women on there to hold up the women vote and trying to persuade Congress to approve the most sweeping rewrite of financial rules in 70 years so we can finish a job of wrecking the economy that the 9-11 terrorists started.
And Obama is striving to juggle these problems while he and his party brace for potentially big midterm election losses in November.
Safe to say, there's a lot on the president's plate, said Robert Gibbs daily press briefing yesterday.
Obviously, stating the obvious, all modern presidents get bombarded with multiple problems, and they have to learn to multitask.
But Obama seems to be getting more than his share.
Oh, no, it's not fair.
It's not fair to the APC.
Poor Barry has a tough job and in no-win situations.
Get this.
This is Stephen Hess, who is a dinosaur.
The guy's got to be a million years old in the Brookings Institute before there was a Brookings Institution.
Stephen Hess, things are coming at Obama fast.
And many are things.
It's very hard for him to act.
I mean, they're not win-win propositions.
Obama, in a sense, didn't create any of these situations, but the public, as they do with all presidents, holds him responsible for all of them.
If only that were true.
He did create a whole bunch of them, and they are beginning to hold him responsible.
And yet we've got all these soft stories.
Poor Obama.
His agenda to destroy America as founded is so delayed because of all these distractions, like a car bomb and like an environmental disaster and like the Iranians nuking up.
Couldn't these people understand what Obama's doing and just stand down for four years and wait to cause this trouble to the Republicans have the White House again?
Do they have no sensitivity?
Do they not understand the ally they have in the White House and Barack Obama?
If they just stand aside, the country'd be destroyed faster than they could do it themselves.
And the press is so concerned.
He's got so much on his plate.
And folks, Obama this morning had a scheduled meeting at the Business Council, and he didn't want to talk about this car bombing.
had to.
I want you to notice the short shrift he gives this in these two soundbites.
Well, we don't, there are two soundbites.
These two sounds, after these two, he then said, now the reason you're here is jobs.
He has totally changed his laser-like focus back on jobs today.
Here is first of two soundbites.
Obama speaking about the attempted car bombing of Times Square, New York City, portion of what he said.
This incident is another sobering reminder of the times in which we live.
Around the world and here at home, there are those who would attack our citizens and who would slaughter innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of their murderous agenda.
They will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of life.
But once again, an attempted attack has been failed.
Yeah, but damn it, we're going to keep that boot on the throat of the British petroleum people.
We're going to keep that boot right.
There's like Salazar said.
Because that's who we really have an animus for.
Then Obama continued.
It has failed because ordinary citizens were vigilant and reported suspicious activity to the authorities.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape and recue that.
It has failed because ordinary citizens were vigilant and reported suspicious activities to the authorities.
Yeah, so the lesson here, if you see it, say something, except if you see it in Arizona.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to Audio Soundbite 6, because this is fascinating, too.
Here's Obama praising ordinary citizens being vigilant, reporting suspicious activity to the authorities.
This is a T-shirt vendor.
A T-shirt vendor.
Now, a couple things about this.
What if the T-shirt guy had been wrong?
What if the T-shirt vendor had pointed this guy out and it was not correct?
He was completely innocent.
Would the T-shirt guy then be facing charges of profiling as in a hate crime?
Because, you know, alternately, what if Shahzad were an illegal alien, maybe even from Mexico?
If the police had questioned him about the car, could they ask for ID?
And if he didn't have any, would they have let him go?
Because New York's sanctuary city, and it was just last week that this idiot, Bloomberg, had welcomed all the illegals in Arizona to New York.
So if any of them had shown up and a cop stopped them, well, your mayor sent out an all-points bulletin for us to show up here, and we showed up here.
But the truth of the matter is, and not to besmirch the t-shirt vendor or the ordinary citizen, but the reason this bomb didn't go off is because this idiot didn't realize that we're not on 24-hour time here.
He set the thing to go off at 7 p.m. instead of 7 a.m. instead of 7 p.m.
If he had set the clock right, the bomb might have gone off.
Since we haven't adopted European time standards, this guy screwed up.
Since we have not adopted the way the rest of the Europeans do things, he made the mistake of setting his timer clock wrong.
Here's Obama again with this soundbite.
It has failed because ordinary citizens were vigilant and reported suspicious activity to the authorities.
It failed because these authorities, local, state, and federal, acted quickly and did what they're trained to do.
And the bomb didn't go to the bottom of the city personally.
Some of the citizens and law enforcement officers whose quick thinking may have saved hundreds of lives.
And this suspect has been apprehended because of close and effective coordination at every level, including our Joint Terrorism Task Force and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Well, look, folks, I can only tell you what the rest of the drive-bys are reporting.
And CNN reported this morning, Gene Missouri Reported that CNN said it was not a strategy to pull Shahzad off the Emirates airline plane at the very last minute.
Apparently, Emirates Airlines had contacted authorities to tell them that Shahzad made a last-minute reservation with cash when he was already on his way to the airport.
So this guy's on his way to the airport.
All he's got's cash.
He calls Emirates Airlines, makes a reservation from New York to Dubai.
But the jetway had already been retracted.
The plane was getting ready to take off.
It was on the tarmac taxiing out by the time the authorities got to the airport.
So it wasn't the intention to wait till the last minute to monitor this guy's contacts.
It was another stroke of good luck, like this idiot setting his timer clock wrong by 12 hours.
So, you know, you might, well, why did Emirates Airlines call the authorities?
And Gene Missouri was not clear on that, but it seems to have been shortly after Shahzad made the reservation, since it was a bit unusual, probably in cash and probably quite expensive.
Gene Missouri CNN also said the authorities were already tailing Shahzad, but they didn't know where he was going, which is weird since she then went on to make it sound like they must have lost him.
Otherwise, why would they have cut it so close?
Why would they have needed the tip from the airlines in order to find the guy?
So, I mean, that to me really is an important question.
This guy calls Emirate Airlines.
He makes a last-minute reservation within half hour, an hour before the planes to push back.
They give him a seat, and then they call the authorities.
The authorities, according to CNN, had lost the guy.
They knew he was going somewhere, didn't know where.
So we've had two really fortunate instances of luck here.
One, the guy didn't know how to set an alarm clock, an American alarm clock.
It was off by 12 hours.
And Emirates Airlines calling the authorities to let us know that he was there.
Now, there's a lot more on this, folks.
That we've put together here.
This guy, for example, was foreclosed on.
One of the there have been some people arrested in Afghanistan here, maybe eight of them.
One of them is a Pakistani national who met Shahzad or met with him in July of 2009.
So there's a, you know, I think we look at this and when you put everything here together, it's clear as a bell.
We've got the Fort Hood shooter.
We have I'm going to go through this list of things in the next segment.
But the wanton effort that we are making to avoid facts on these things, the wanton effort that authorities are making and elected officials are making to not even consider the most likely suspects, but instead to use the media to cast aspersions on Republicans who happen to be members of a Tea Party operation, led by Bill Clinton and Obama,
predicting this kind of thing two weeks ago, and it would be done by anti-government zealots in the Republican Party who listened to talk radio.
There has been no such thing occur.
Yet we have this, and we still have Mayor Bloomberg and all of the media actually disappointed that this guy was Middle Eastern Pakistani and was not a Tea Party guy listening to talk radio.
Ha, welcome back.
That's all, folks.
I guarantee what's happening right now.
Bloomberg and Obama have dispatched their quote-unquote authorities to find the radio that Faisal Shahbaz was listening to, or Shahzad was listening to.
Hoping and praying it's turned to AM77WABC in New York.
They're probably going through his library right now to find out what books the guy has read, hoping for one by Mark Levin or me or Sean Hannibal or Glenn Beck.
They're obviously checking Faisal Shahzad's computer for what websites he has bookmarks, such as rushlimbaugh.com.
By the way, this clown Shahzad was using a disposable cell phone.
That and how he tried to cover his tracks, like filing off the VIN number of his car, doesn't sound like he was that amateurish to me.
They're trying to portray this guy as a bungling idiot.
And it doesn't sound like it to me.
CNN reported about a half hour ago or so that a 9mm gun and clips were found in Shahzad's car.
Also, 15 bags of fertilizer was found outside his Bridgeport residence, which had been foreclosed on, 15 pounds or bags of it.
CNN also reported that his roommates are being questioned.
So apparently, Shahzad was not living with his family, and he was not in dire economic straits because the Bush administration had foreclosed on him.
And of course, the family was not with him at the airport.
He was not a family man.
It is amazing to me the efforts that the media are going to to cast this guy as the exact opposite of what he is while they still hope and pray that they'll find evidence he was inspired by the Tea Party.
So it would appear that Shahzad's family are still back in Pakistan, though nobody in the news media seems much interested in them.
Now, let's go through some things here, shall we, folks?
For every problem, there is not a solution, but there is a villain, unless Islamic extremists are involved.
Let me repeat that.
As far as this regime is concerned, for every problem, there is not a solution, but there is a villain unless Muslim terrorists are involved.
For example, the lesson here.
If you see something, say something.
Unless you see it in Arizona, then shut up.
Fruit of the loom bomber.
Fort Hood Muslim jihadist.
The Arkansas military recruiting center attack.
The Times Square attempted bombing, possibly by a Muslim extremist.
The regime has downplayed the significance of all of these events when the rest of the country knew exactly what was going on.
The regime, fashionably late to the party, no rush to judgment there because these events don't advance their agenda.
The fruital loom bomber, the Fort Hood Muslim jihadist, the Arkansas Military Recruiting Center attack, and the Times Square attempted bombing do not advance Obama's agenda.
And so we'd have to do everything we can to, yeah, acknowledge it, but then sweep it away when it doesn't fit our agenda.
In this case, the agenda is Republicans did it.
Angry, old, white Republicans who are showing up at tea parties, who are upset at health care and taxes in Arizona.
That's what they wanted.
That's what Obama wanted.
That's what the regime wanted, the media desperately hoping for it.
They didn't get it.
So it's time to move on now.
Fruit of the Loom Bomber doesn't advance the agenda.
Fort Hood, Muslim jihadist, doesn't advance the agenda.
Arkansas Military Recruiting Center attack doesn't advance the agenda.
Nor does this thing in Times Square.
The regime loves villains unless Islamic extremists are involved.
That's the one time that the regime does not go out of its way to find a villain.
Ditto, the press.
Domestic terrorism, especially by Muslim terrorists, is apparently an unwanted distraction to be swept under the rug, if possible.
Here are the real problems facing Obama as he looks at it and he defines it.
Toyotas, act now.
Stop driving them.
We're going to find them out of existence.
Buy General Motors at Chrysler.
Insurance premiums going up due to increasing costs.
Act now.
Blast the insurance companies and get Obamacare passed.
Wall Street, big bonuses, attack now for a problem Democrats caused and get the Dodd bill passed.
British Petroleum, another domestic enemy.
Just like Wall Street, a domestic enemy.
Just like Toyota, a domestic enemy.
Just like insurance companies, domestic enemies.
Just like Walmart, domestic enemy.
Got to act now.
We got to villainize.
We have to demonize.
We have to move our agenda items based on our demonizing of these domestic problems.
British Petroleum.
Keep the boot on their throat.
Distract from the regime's incompetence in responding to the oil spill.
Limbaugh, attack now.
Associate Limbaugh with things he has nothing to do with.
Put words in Limbaugh's mouth he never said before Limbaugh derails our agenda.
Obama's agenda is not ours, folks.
Look at the polling data and you will see it.
The Obama agenda is not ours.
Our problems, your problems, my problems, everybody's problems are their opportunities to advance their agenda, not to fix what is obviously broken.
So for every problem, every problem that surfaces that the AP can write an analysis and wring their hands.
Oh, it's so sad.
It's so unfortunate.
No president has ever been faced with these kinds of no-win situations.
For every problem, there's not a solution.
No, there's not a solution in the Gulf.
There's a villain, British Petroleum.
There's not a solution to Wall Street.
There's a villain.
Goldman Sachs et al.
And there's a savior, Chris Dodd, in the financial regulatory reform bill.
Toyotas?
No, no, no.
We have a safety problem there.
We've got an opportunity.
We've got a villain.
Frog march them up to Congress.
Put them on trial in front of Henry Waxman and the boys.
The regime will get you one way or the other.
For every problem, no solution.
Only a villain.
Except when Muslim terrorists are involved.
And then it's a distraction.
So let's review, shall we?
Ladies and gentlemen, where are we at this moment?
The lesson of the Times Square attack.
Obama praising average ordinary citizens.
You see something, say something.
Unless you see it in Arizona, then you shut up.
All of a sudden now, after two quick references to this this morning, Obama can't wait to turn his laser-like focus on jobs.
Audio soundbite number seven, right after he'd just spent about 50 seconds reassuring us that nothing had happened and nothing will happen, everything's okay in New York, Obama then said that.
I've said since the very beginning of my administration, we can't just rebuild the economy to where it was.
We're going to have to rebuild it stronger than before.
We've got to rebuild it on a new foundation of lasting growth.
We have to tackle structural problems from education to energy, from our financial system to our healthcare system, from our trade imbalance to our fiscal imbalance.
Stop this.
I can't handle that.
Stop it.
Stop it.
If he's elected, if he's re-elected in 2012, he's going to be saying the same thing six years from now.
He's going to say we need a laser-like focus on lasting growth.
We need to tackle our structural problems from education to, even after six years of doing nothing, six years of being in charge, he's going to still say the same things because there are no solutions.
There's only tumult and chaos.
There is the desire for you to think they care, the desire for you to think that they are moving and taking action on this.
Well, it's been almost a year and a half, and every one of these things he cites has only gotten worse.
And yet he keeps promising a laser-like focus.
Here's the next soundbite.
Government will do those things for the public good that private industry won't.
So here comes the demonization again.
Government can build the infrastructure that allows products and services to reach customers.
Government can create incentives and clean energy, for example, that promote innovation and exports.
These things are public goods that no business, no individual is going to provide on their own, but that create a favorable environment in which everybody, companies across the country, can open and expand.
Yeah, right, because see, private individuals, private industry, cheats, rotten lowdown skunks, government, angelic and good.
Government can do all these things.
Private citizens won't.
No, no, private citizens are not charitable.
They're selfish, greedy pigs, and they're stealing from the rightful owners of the country.
Only government can stop that from happening.
Only government can fix oil spills.
Only government can clean up after a hurricane.
Only government can clean up an economic mess.
The way I look at it, it's all getting worse.
Because we got a guy with a five-minute career here who, I don't care what room he walks into, is the least qualified to do anything.
So he can't wait to turn his laser-like focus on jobs.
If only, my friends, we had our boot on the throat of terrorism and the rest of the enemies who are trying to destroy our country instead of our own international cartels, which are trying to produce energy so that we can all improve our lifestyles and our standard of living.
If Shahzad, I'm just reviewing this thing to close it up here before we go to the break.
If Shahzad, Faisal Shahzad, was foreclosed on, where did he get the money to fly back to Pakistan?
It was cash.
Where did he get the money to buy the 15 bags of fertilizer, the gun, and a bunch of clips?
So he flies home to Pakistan.
He comes back five minutes later, the money to rent or even buy a house in Bridgehampton.
Then he paid $1,300 or $1,800, don't know what it was, for this SUV on Craigslist.
Where's he getting this money?
How come he's a bungling, just little idiot, couldn't even set an alarm clock straight?
Where'd he get the money to buy the propane, the rest of the supplies?
Where'd he get the money to put gasoline in the SUV?
We all know what that costs.
We don't even know where he worked, if anywhere.
Then we have the mayor telling the perky Katie Couric, oh yeah, no doubt some kook, domestic, homegrown, probably upset, healthcare bill.
Yeah, bet you 25 cents.
We all owe 25 cents from the guy.
We're owed it because, and he can afford it.
Then he comes out and says, all right, fine.
It wasn't who I wanted it to be, but we're not going to tolerate any backlash against Muslim New Yorkers.
Few bad apples among any groups.
He cited New York's long history of accepting cultures from around the world, except try going there and being a conservative and see how you're respected.
Bias against teabaggers, Tea Party people.
Bias against people opposed to enforcing the law on immigration.
Bias against people who oppose this abomination of a healthcare bill.
That's perfectly acceptable.
The media can be biased for 24 hours, 12 hours, in predicting who was the criminal here.
Elected officials can lead that charge.
Media repeats it.
Then they can act disappointed.
It wasn't a Tea Party guy that set the bomb in the SUV.
Don't be surprised, ladies and gentlemen.
In fact, let me put it this way.
Bloomberg was out there betting everybody 25 cents that it was a Tea Party person upset with a healthcare bill.
Stupid fool.
If you're going to cite a current political issue, you should have said the guy's upset with the Arizona immigration bill.
Healthcare's long gone.
So I will bet, I will bet 25 cents the media jumps on the mortgage angle and tries to justify this guy's radicalism because of being ruined by the Bush housing meltdown because he was foreclosed on.
And that's what alienated him against this guy.
Yeah, poor immigrant.
He came here for a better life despite knowing what was stacked against him.
His Middle Eastern heritage, but he loved America so much that he came here.
And he ends up buying a tenement up there in Bridgeport.
And it was foreclosed on because the Bush housing bubble happened.
No one, anybody would go nuts and try to blow up Times Square.
That's what the media will say.
I'll bet you, in fact, they'll say this poor guy was tricked into a mortgage he couldn't afford.
I'll bet you they'll say that.
Yes, he was tricked by evil Wall Street bankers into a mortgage he couldn't afford.
Why, I could go on and on and on.
I bet you I could even make myself feel sorry for the guy before the show is over.
My friends, the media, the media doing their level best here to make this a cause to raise the concern for domestic terrorism.
Look how they're stressing that this gentleman is an American citizen.
So they're describing him in this order.
One American citizen, two from Connecticut, three an SUV owner, and oh yeah, four, he's back and forth from Pakistan and might have known a Taliban guy we thought we killed.
But it doesn't matter.
He has an SUV.
As soon as we find out what radio station he listens to, yeah, then we'll have the guy.
CNN, Unreal this morning on American morning, Jim Acosta, Phil Inhos, said this about Faisal Fahzad.
If it can be confirmed that his house was foreclosed on in recent years, one would have to imagine that that brought a lot of pressure and a lot of heartache on that family.
Did I not tell you I had not dug this deep into the roster yet?
And Cookie says, you've got what you're saying.
They have done it.
It's down by number 10.
So I looked at it during the break.
It is number 10.
His family's not even here.
They're in Pakistan.
So foreclosed on.
It could have driven anybody nuts.
Anybody foreclosed on would go get an SUV on Craigslist, put a bunch of bombs in it, and then screw up setting the alarm clock by 12 hours.
Blow up Times Square.
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And as a loyal listener of this program, you get a fantastic deal.
A dozen assorted roses.
I've had these here now for nine days.
And they just now start to look like they've been here a couple days.
Just amazing.
A dozen roses, $19.99, plus shipping, free glass vase.
A dozen of them.
Assorted colors.
You can double the order.
Get two dozen roses plus chocolate troubles.
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ProFlower people sent me these things nine, maybe it's 10 days in here because this is Tuesday.
It's been over the week.
Yeah, easily 10 days.
I sniffed them this morning.
They still smell like roses.
What's so funny about that, Larry?
I sniff flowers.
I like their, I got gardenias up by my front sidewalk.
I sniff the gardenias every day.
I'm waiting for pro flowers to have a special on gardenias.
Go to rushproflowers.com, place your order today for Mother's Day.
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Order today and score points, folks.
I have not forgotten about the oil slick.
I have, you know, here I've just done probably one of the best hours in the last two years of this program.
It's nerdlings.
You're going to mention the oil slick.
And what about Arizona?
You know, that's still percolating out there.
The turtles, I know, it's lights out for the turtles.
I mean, it's really bad for the turtles over there.
But, you know, it's a good thing that I don't require feedback.
It's a good thing, folks, that I can sustain myself.
I know when I've done a good job.
Don't need anybody else telling me because it never happens.
Well, what are you going to do that?
If you're aware that Greece is about to implode, Rush, have you seen the snark?
I know everything.
It's a three-hour show, and we're going to get to it.
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