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May 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 19, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right, so now we know.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is official and the instincts of many, including mine, were correct.
The Arab Spring is an uprising of Middle Eastern nations against Israel.
And they have been aided and abetted by President Barack Obama of the United States of America.
That's what's going on, and that's what this speech was all about.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute.
Here's the money quote of the speech.
Came near the end of it.
This is what all of this was about.
The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine.
The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.
The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves and reach their potential in a sovereign and contiguous state.
Back to the 1967 borders.
So Israel is now surrounded by enemies.
I've been there.
You really can't grasp this until you go.
I mean, you can look at it on a map, but until you see how small Israel is and how surrounded it is, and then the demands that they give up even more.
Israel is a country at 1.9 miles wide.
Nine miles is all.
And these enemies which surround Israel now have major weapons.
And so according to President Obama, in a speech, Israel should give up its buffer areas like the Golan Heights.
And again, if you've been to Golan Heights, you can see the strategic importance.
You see everything from there, including who's coming at you.
Now, for me, I don't know how you can even think this way.
I don't know how.
And again, I say this, having been there and toured Israel for five days, I don't know how you can think this way when the Palestinians are committed to destroying Israel.
And it's not just the Palestinians.
Virtually every nation surrounding Israel is committed to its destruction.
What country in its right mind would make a deal with such an enemy?
Would we, would we go back to our 1848 borders?
Would we give the French areas of the Louisiana Purchase?
Would we do this?
What kind of president urges a country to destroy itself and submit its people to potential Juneist genocide?
And that's what Obama has just done.
Now, there is some scuttlebutt going on.
And it's only fair to mention this.
As you know, Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to Washington to meet with President Obama.
And the scuttlebutt is that as a bargaining chip, Netanyahu was considering using this offer of going back to the 67 borders with swaps.
I don't know if this is true, but it is a scuttlebutt is that in a certain set of circumstances, if the negotiations evolved in a certain way, that this would be something Netanyahu would propose.
Well, if that's true, he's lost it because Obama just gave it away.
Obama just used it himself.
If that was to be a bargaining chip, now I must have to tell you, don't understand how that would be a bargaining chip.
I don't know yet.
I'm going to have to try to learn this.
I don't know why Israel would offer to go back to the 67 borders.
But that's the scuttlebutt.
The scuttlebutt is that they might be willing to.
Netanyahu might be willing to offer such a thing.
All right, well, let's accept that the scuttlebutt's true.
He can't offer it any longer because Obama just took it.
So if that was true, if that was something in Netanyahu's arsenal, Obama just took it away from him.
Israel has no flexibility in this at all other than to say no.
So that, I mean, if, again, Obama just took away what could have been a bargaining chip the Israelis wanted to employ here.
So that's what this was all about.
That's what the Arab Spring is an uprising against Israel.
The President of the United States has implicitly recognized the ultimate goal of the Arab Spring, and that is the defeat of and the end of Israel.
And in this speech, President Obama got out in front of it.
President Obama is helping them in their goal.
That's real leadership, is it not?
Realizing what the Arab Spring is and moving the ball forward for them.
Just the other day, by the way, we saw Israel being attacked from all sides.
You remember that there was a day last week where Israel was under the gun from all three sides.
It was on the day of the anniversary of the founding of their nation, which the Arabs call that day a catastrophe.
Those are the demonstrators that impressed Obama, by the way.
Those are the demonstrators he cited today in his speech, the ones that were protesting Israel.
So Obama is implicitly recognizing the ultimate goal of the Arab Spring, the defeat of Israel.
He's trying to get out in front and help them achieve their goal.
The Arab Spring is an offensive against Israel, and this speech proves it.
Every new government in the Middle East will be anti-Israel.
I tell you what, folks, Obama really feeling his oats here from the Osama bin Laden assassination.
On the heels of that, he has sided with the Palestinians against Israel.
It's almost as if he had a Democrat-controlled Congress again, could jam legislation down our throats.
And yes, all the other stuff is true, too.
He did pledge all kinds of money.
He did promise to give away the store.
He pledged all kinds of new aid to help in this process.
So it's an amazing thing, the 1967 borders.
Give up the buffer zones.
The one thing, again, and I'm going to have to dig deep on this, and it's going to be tough for me to find this during the program.
I hope I can.
But I don't quite understand Israel offering this as a bargaining chip.
I don't know what they would get for it, but that's the scuttlebutt.
The scuttle-button is that Israel was going to offer this themselves.
A return to the 67 borders.
And again, even if that happened to be true, they can't now because Obama has just demanded it, not made it a bargaining chip.
Israel, I don't know what they hope to gain by this.
I remember in that trip, it was in the summer of 1993, five-day trip.
It was profoundly informative, moving, and educational.
I had a chance to talk with many of the leaders of the day, Rabin, Shimon Perez.
Some of this, I look back on it, it was funny.
I remember sitting in Shimon Perez' office.
He kept buckling and unbuckling his belt while seated.
Tried not to comment on it, tried not to even look like I noticed it.
But he had obviously been prepared on his homework as he kept ragging on Ronald Reagan and the trees.
Reagan had done great damage to the trees.
So I think he was jabbing me in a way, trying to get a rise.
But the belt buckle thing I never quite got.
When I had a chance to talk with Rabin, remember they were in the midst.
We didn't know it at the time we were there, but they were in the midst of secret discussions to give up even more of the country with Arafat.
These talks were going on, I think, in Germany, but while we were there, we didn't learn about this for a couple months, until a couple months later.
But even I asked Rabin, why are you all of a sudden willing to make deals with people who have sworn your extermination?
Intellectually, I don't understand it.
I said, is it because of your age and you've just, you've lived your entire life at war and you don't want that for your kids?
And he swore that's not what it was.
He said this was the time this had to be done to end hostilities.
The highlight was getting a three-hour tour of settlements in the West Bank on a bus with Ariel Sharon, who, of course, had no desire to give up anything.
And the people of the West Bank, we stopped at a couple houses in the West Bank, and the people there loved Ariel Sharon.
We had a Mossad briefing, a couple places, went up to the Golan Heights.
And that was kind of moving, too.
We had a little military installation in the Golan Heights.
And I remember asking a young 19-year-old member of the Israeli Defense Forces something along the lines of why, other than conscription, why do you do this?
And he said, I want you to look over there.
And he pointed in the direction.
See, that's Syria.
And it was, you know, a couple cornfields away.
I mean, it was right there is the point.
See, over there, that's Jordan.
They can see.
They can see the land representing every country that wants them wiped out.
And then he pointed down to the bottom of the hill.
He says, see, that's my house where my mom and dad and my sister live.
That's why I do this.
We're surrounded.
We're totally surrounded.
Okay, media tweak time, folks.
Media tweak of the day.
Don't tell anybody.
Time for the media tweak.
Given the mission, given the partial mission of Osama bin Laden, you have to know that there are places in the Middle East today who think it's just a shame he didn't live to see this day after this speech by an American president.
If he would have just hung on a couple of more weeks, they are no doubt saying at al-Qaeda camps, at Taliban camps, Sheikh bin Laden would have been so happy.
They're no doubt saying that after hearing this speech.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we'll get to the phones here in just a second.
But I have one little thing.
I did get a note here from someone familiar with the internal political workings of the state of Israel.
Rush, the 1967 borders as a basis for two states is not a big deal.
The vast majority of Israelis favor it or are at least politically reconciled to that.
That's not a big deal.
The real news in this speech is that Obama advocates a two-state deal without first settling the claims of the Palestinian refugees from 1948 to a right of return.
You're familiar with that term, Kurt.
The right of return means the 48 refugees, 1948 refugees, demand a return to their homes in pre-1967 Israel.
If that were part of any deal, that would, of course, destroy Israel as a Jewish state.
It'd be overrun.
And it's an extreme demand that nobody in Israel can or ever would accept.
And until the Palestinians agree, as they haven't, to relinquish this right, there can't be a deal.
There will not be two states unless the Palestinians give up on that.
And they haven't, and they won't.
And my old buddy here says, if Obama can't say that in public, he's being irresponsible or worse.
Now, I'm assuming here that all of this is pap.
This whole speech today is designed to be something other than what it came off being.
It just celebrates the Arab Spring aligning against Israel.
All of this.
There's no question about it.
But to have a genuine two-state existence, the right of return has to be dealt with, and it hasn't been.
It wasn't even mentioned.
And as such, to talk about a two-state solution without mentioning right of return is irresponsible.
So here you have grandstanding on the part of the president for his own personal political purposes without regard to really the results of anything on the ground in Israel.
It's not surprising.
It's not surprising Obama would hijack something that everybody thinks is of great major import.
It would hijack something that everybody thinks portends major change for the region, when in fact it doesn't at all.
And yet he gets credit for being ahead of major change when nothing really is going to happen.
Talk about meddling in another country's affairs.
You know, I?
I don't know.
I'm, I don't live in Israel, obviously i'm.
I keep hearing here the 67 borders not a big deal to Israelis.
To me it seems like suicide.
But what do I know?
I'm not an Israeli and I don't live here.
Back to the phones.
We'll shake all this out.
We'll get to the well we don't have.
What is our foreign policy?
What is Obama's for?
It's called the Re-elect 2012 Barack Obama.
That's what a foreign policy, this whole thing and I should have mentioned this at the top because it's true of everything that's doing now foreign policy, domestic or what have you.
You have to look at all this through the prism of the Obama re-elect effort, and that's our foreign policy.
Is Re-elect Obama?
It's not so much.
What our foreign policy is is.
They believe in the power of speeches to win votes.
They believe in the uh, aggressive use of speeches, pure and simple.
He knows full well that by tomorrow, everybody's going to have forgotten the nuts and bolts of what he said, that Israel's not going to go to the 67 borders because the Palestinians are not going to cave on the right to return.
So nothing's really going to change, except he's going to have made one hell of a good speech that the media will be able to go back to and say it was thoughtful, it was sincere, it was serious.
All that rotgut, it's all designed, everything's designed, to make Obama look good snurdly.
You know that.
Here's uh.
Here's uh, Gil in Philadelphia.
Great to have you on the program EIB Network.
Hi hello Rush, it's good to speak with you, thank you, I have.
I have a very sincere question for you, Rush.
Okay, i've been listening to you for a long time.
I'm a i'm a devotee fan.
We've spoken several times before.
My question is, how do you do it?
How do you sit there day after day?
It's one thing.
When the, the Moveon.org or the media or someone else gets it wrong, I mean I understand their motive.
I mean they're a bunch of idiots anyway.
And then they're, and they're liars, like you have so often taught us, right.
But how do you, how do you take it when, when we, your devoted lawyer listeners, those who really get it call you and accuse you of of saying things you've never said, having been in UN news you've never had and and everybody seems to know better how to run your show than you do wait, what happened what?
What made you have this reaction?
Well I, I mean I I, I listen to it all the time.
I mean last week you had that one moment, or is it two weeks ago?
The woman calls in and she's telling you how you lost it and and, and I forget what her issue was.
You've gone soft or something, or you're not.
Oh, I know what it was.
You're not taking the Obama to the cleaners the way you should remember.
Yeah yeah, and and and.
Now today, I mean I love these people.
These are my fellow dittoheads.
Oh, you're talking about the guy who accused me.
I should stop the satire, because stupid liberals don't get it.
They believe it.
Yeah, I mean this.
I'll explain this.
You want an answer to her.
She wants to know how I deal with it, how I take it, and i'll um, i'll easily explain this.
We come back from the break.
Thanks, Gil.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate the call.
Ever back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Okay, what was your question?
How do I?
How do?
How do I take it day after day?
You know, I get this question in one form or another somewhat often.
Usually the question comes in the form, how do you deal with all of the baseless lying, misinterpreted criticism of you?
And her point was, look, it's one thing when it comes from the left, moveon.org, the mainstream media, which purposely trying to discredit you.
But how do you take it when supposed loyal listeners take you to task?
You know, one thing she didn't say, but she was going to say, because she told snurdly she's going to say it, that there's nobody more clear and articulate about what I believe than I am.
I mean, from start to stop, when I tell you why I think something, you don't have any questions left.
You might disagree with me, but you don't have any questions about why I think what I think.
And few people even have that question.
That's why sometimes I hold back, because when I say something about something, there's not much left to be said about it, hence no reason for callers.
It is frustrating at times, ladies and gentlemen, to be such a noted communicator, a heralded communicator.
It is frustrating when some people don't hear something that's right in front of them.
But I know why it happens.
This has really been an educational thing for me, not just this program, but throughout the whole course of my life, how people talk across one another.
Some people are totally emotionally invested in a subject when I'm invested in it intellectually.
I live in Rielville.
Most people don't live in Rielville, literalville.
Most people don't really want to go there.
So she was reacting primarily.
The first caller of the day was, you know, you got to stop the satire because liberals are believing you.
When you talk about how Obama ought to implement in the Middle East all these great policies here of job loss, rampant inflation, and so forth, you got to stop that because these liberals think you're even agreeing with them.
Well, but no, I do ask myself, how can somebody hear me quote unquote, they know I don't like Obama.
They know I disagree with Obama.
They hear me praising Obama policies which are destroying the country and they think I'm advocating it.
See, to me, the problem is not with me.
It's not up to me to explain that.
It's up to the dunderheads who don't get it.
They're the ones who need to be questioned.
And for me to be told that I got to stop doing satire, I'm not going to dumb down this program.
I have one of the things I've always had and utilize every day in this microphone is a profound respect for this audience.
I never talk down.
I don't assume that you don't know anything.
I don't assume you can't understand anything.
If I can understand it, you certainly can, as long as you've got me explaining it to you.
So if I know some people are never going to get satire.
That's the point of it.
The real fun in satire is the irritation that takes place.
The real fun of satire is pulling it over on somebody.
The parodies of satires, I just, I absolutely love it.
We don't dumb down here.
We smarten up.
But it's, I don't take any of this stuff personally anymore.
You can't.
It used to bother me long, long time ago.
But oh, yeah, I know people say talent on the loan from God.
People actually think I am telling other people that I think I am God.
Who's next?
Where are we going?
Larry in Clearwater, Florida.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Major deal is Rush.
It's a pleasure and an honor to finally be speaking with you.
Been a long time listener.
Thank you, sir.
And before going on, my comment on the president's speech earlier, I'd just like to pretty much talk about what you just talked about right now, about people don't understand the way you portray yourself.
I listen to you a lot at work.
I sometimes have the radio, and people come in and they say, who are you listening to?
Rush Limbaugh, and the first word's out of their mouth, or he's an idiot or something like that.
I always ask why.
And they can never tell me.
It's always name-calling.
They can't articulate a stance.
They don't listen.
They just have heard me described and they take comfort in that.
They don't want to know.
They really wouldn't dare listen because they don't want their little worldview shocked.
Exactly.
And they always accuse me of just being blind and fouling when in reality, they're the one that's blind in my life.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
Brainwashed.
That's entirely correct.
And it is the media.
And I can say that as a victim, well, kind of a victim myself, for lack of a better description, as a child, for the longest time, I thought I was a Democrat because of all the television I watched.
I used to watch shows like Family Ties, which has strong liberal meanings that Republicans are just nothing but evil, money-grummy.
They like to kill baby seals and all that stuff.
And for the longest time, I bought into that until I took a government class and they gave you those little questions about issues.
And I realized that I'm an evil Republican.
And it's amazing how much people just, the subliminal messaging that's going through.
Most people are sheep.
Most people are sheep.
Most people are not independent thinkers.
This is why indoctrination in the school system works.
You are probably somewhat unique in that you came to a realization on your own that what you thought you were, you weren't.
And you had the courage to admit it to yourself, which I'm sure kind of threw your world upside down for a while because you had a lifetime of beliefs that you now say to yourself, gosh, I've been wrong.
And nobody wants to be wrong.
So you're pretty rare in that regard.
A dirty little secret, folks, and you're not going to understand this.
You're not going to understand this.
I don't want everybody understanding me.
That's right.
I don't want everybody understanding.
There wouldn't be a lot of fun in that.
Now, I'm not, I don't want to be misunderstood by a vast majority of people.
But I don't want everybody, because there's a lot of put on here, Snirdly.
I mean, the last thing, you know, thank God that there are people who get the parody and who are entertained by it.
For example, look at one of the greatest lessons in this that I can offer happened within the last two weeks.
Barack Obama single-handedly killed Osama bin Laden.
I'm listening to the speech on that Sunday night where Obama, I me my 35 or 45 times.
His plan, and I'm watching the media reports, only Obama thought of every contingency.
The military guys in the room were not smart enough to think of all the contingencies.
Only Obama was able.
Only Obama knew the pitfalls of every choice.
Only Obama knew we only had one shot at this.
They wanted everybody to believe this.
So I start the program the next day, saying it pretty much just like I said it to you just now.
To me, it is self-evident that it's ridiculous.
It is self-evident that that is pure sophistry.
That a guy who doesn't know the butt end of a gun is the only guy in a room of five-star, four-star military people and top-door intel people to know how to run an operation at a safe house in Pakistan.
But that's what they were telling us to believe.
So I decided to go right along with it.
And I made sure that my voice was as wet with dripping sarcasm as I could make it.
And then the cherry on the top, the icing on the cake, the hand-dipped chocolate on top, the Sherry's berries.
I said, thank God for President Obama.
And if you remember, everybody in the mainstream media for about 10 minutes believed it.
For the 10 minutes the next day, half a day, whatever it was.
My God, even Limbaugh realizes.
Even Limbaugh said, thank God for Obama.
They bought it.
I was dripping wet with sarcasm.
So the question is, okay, why did they believe it?
They have to know intellectually that I'm opposed to Obama and everything, but yet somehow, somehow, the reason is they wanted to, they want everybody to think of Obama the way they do.
And so all I had to do was use the words.
Didn't matter my tone.
It didn't matter my attitude, just the words.
Oh, yeah.
And when I really doubled down on gutsy, because that was their chosen word to describe what Obama did, they bought it.
They bought it because they wanted to.
All these things I incorporate, I use when planning various ways to treat various discussions, subjects, and topics and so forth.
And so, folks, it's fun.
When I say, I don't want everybody understanding me, like Snerdley cocked his head at me like a curious little puppy in there.
What do you mean by that?
I loved the fact that the media bought it for a half day.
I love his fun.
And then it was probably two hours in the third hour of the program.
The first people to get that they'd been had was people athill.com.
Took them two hours.
And it was somebody else who called HR.
I forget some, it might have been some other website.
You know, I'm reading here what Limbaugh said, but this doesn't sound right.
I want it.
I need to hear this.
So we made the audio clip available to this reporter.
And once he heard it, he got it.
And he started chastising his brethren for falling for it.
But they fell for it because they wanted to.
They wanted everybody to think the same way that they did.
Sit-tight folks were coming back.
Lots more straight ahead.
And Newt Gingrich at the top of the hour.
A group seeking to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has succeeded in getting the controversial measure on the November ballot.
meaning that voters will be asked to weigh in on what until now has been a private family matter.
City elections officials confirmed yesterday that the initiative had received enough signatures to appear on the ballot, getting more than 7,700 valid signatures from city residents.
Initiatives must receive at least 7,168 signatures to qualify for the ballot.
Now, if the No Cirque measure passes, circumcision would be prohibited among males under the age of 18.
The practice would become a misdemeanor offense, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 or up to one year in jail.
There would be no religious exemptions.
The initiative appears to be the first of its kind in the country to actually make it to this stage.
Boy, folks, there is such a lesson here.
I first heard of this bunch in Sacramento in 1984.
No CERC, the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
That's their acronym, No Circ.
Dawn, they had videotapes.
They had pamphlets and stuff.
You could go into the office and get materials to show to friends at parties and so forth as they were attempting to drum up support for this.
And I just remember thinking, who in the world are you sitting around one day and you come up with this as a cause?
I know it's a big country and there's a lot of people and it takes all kinds.
I remember, and they had some president.
No CERC had a president.
I forget the guy's name.
And I would have loved to talk to the guy and ask him, at what age were you when you realized that you wanted to be president of No Circ?
I mean, were you five?
Were you six?
And your parents said, little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Well, no, I really, I really, really care about circumcision, Dad.
I want to start a group called the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
Because I want to stamp it out, Dad.
I really want to make a difference.
How does this happen?
How do people end up where they end up?
But what's the lesson here?
1984, this is 2011.
They have been working on this for 25 years.
Once they get an idea, folks, it doesn't just shrivel up and die and go away.
They do not ever let go of their ideas.
They're patient and they just keep rising up, marching on down the tracks.
If you work long enough, hard enough, your dreams can come true too.
It's just the thing that people dream about.
Can you imagine dreaming of, can you imagine the cocktail parties?
Can you imagine the fundraisers?
Can you imagine the conversations these people have at their fundraisers?
Yeah, I just, well, yeah, if they pull it off in November, that's another thing.
It's San Francisco after all.
That's entirely possible.
Well, that's the point.
What 18-year-old wants to do it when you can remember it?
Who's going to wait till 19 to do it?
Legally.
The president of Brazil, ladies and gentlemen, has offered to drop all taxes to guarantee that Foxconn will build a factory there where iPads and iPhones will be manufactured.
Faced with the ongoing PR crisis of suicides and alleged human rights violations of its Chinese contractors, Foxconn looking increasingly, or it's looking like Apple might shift a sizable portion of their iPad production to Brazil.
Foxconn's the factory.
450,000 employees.
450,000 employees at Foxconn.
And so the Brazilians, they want the business, and they're offering no taxes to Foxconn.
Imagine how you cut taxes to promote job creation.
Wow, a novel idea, is it not?
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