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May 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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I just heard that.
There's a there's a little meeting going on, BB Netanyahu and Obama.
And when it started out, Netanyahu is speaking now.
I said, oh no.
Oh, I said, Netanyahu's having to eat the excrement sandwich.
Because he started out with all of Pep.
Boy, you're great.
Great to hear you're committed to Israel, Mr. Obama.
Great that you're committed to peace.
We're committed to peace.
Yeah, I just walked back in the room.
I had to go someplace where it's cool.
And then the break is happy.
That's what I heard.
And I'm thinking, well, this is what happens, you know, when uh country gets five billion dollars from us, you have to go in there and eat the excrement sandwich.
But then, but then BB said we cannot go back to the 1967 lines.
He said it in public.
He looked right in the camera, he looked at Obama and said, we cannot go back to the 1967 uh boundaries, the borders.
They don't take into account the changes that have taken place on the ground.
Israel cannot negotiate with a Palestine government that is backed by Hamas.
He's saying all this publicly with Obama sitting there.
The camera's not on Obama.
It's a tight shot of Bibi.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I am on the day before the rapture, I am sitting here thanking God.
Benjamin Netanyahu, we cannot negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas.
Hamas just attacked you, Mr. President, for getting rid of bin Laden.
Netanyahu is saying this to our young man child president.
We can't go back to the 67 borders.
So you strip everything else away here, folks.
And it's it's it's it's obvious to me who's coming off as the more serious man in uh in that room.
And I gotta tell you, I now I can't wait to see what the media does with Netanyahu.
I can't wait to see how the media characterizes this.
Uh will they say he showed profound disrespect?
That these comments should have never been made in public.
It would be fine to share these sentiments with President Obama in a private meeting, but to go public like this and to slap the president, and maybe they don't look at it that way.
Maybe they don't look at the president being slapped down here.
I maybe it isn't the president.
I got I gotta uh give myself some a wide birth here because right now I'm visual only and reading close captioning.
So it appears to me that that what Netanyahu is saying is essentially look that stuff you said yesterday, we really appreciate how you feel.
We can't do any of it.
Is that how it's coming across?
Um he says, we're we're we're not we're not gonna do any of that.
We uh we we can't.
Uh now he's talking about the Palestinian refugees.
He is not going to accept them.
He said that's not gonna happen.
Everybody knows it's not gonna happen.
So, and oh yeah, I have to be right.
Look at Obama.
Look at Obama.
He's sitting there as though BB is Paul Ryan at the healthcare.
Oh, ho, folks.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, mama.
Oh, yeah, cool this is.
Cool this is.
We're rolling tape on it.
And uh we'll have audio of this as soon as we can assemble it and put it together for you.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Obama hasn't said a word in four minutes now.
He is sitting there with his hand on his chin, and you it's covering his mouth.
And you can't tell if he's smiling.
Netanyahu has not stopped talking.
He's looking alternately at uh Obama and then at the cameras.
The U.S. and Israel may have differences here and there.
So um can't go back to the 67 borders.
They don't take into account the change that are taking place on the ground.
Israel cannot negotiate with the Palestinian government backed by Hamas.
Hamas just attacked you, Mr. President, for getting rid of bin Laden.
He said that.
Hamas is a terrorist organization.
We're not gonna negotiate with a terrorist organization.
A terrorist organization just attacked you, Mr. President.
And of course, unstated here is that yesterday you, Mr. President, aligned yourself with Hamas, which is a terrorist organization.
Obama, Obama has his hand up like Hillary had her hand in the situation room photo during the Bin Laden raid.
You know, when Hillary had her hand over her mouth with that wide look on her eyes.
But Obama does not have that expression.
Netanyahu says that the Palestinian leaders are going to have to choose between a pact with Hamas or peace with Israel.
Whoa, this is the gauntlet.
Folks, the gauntlet's being thrown down here.
Can BB run for the Republican nomination?
Would you people in Indiana support BB?
I'm just teasing, of course.
Obama's not going to say anything.
They ended this thing without Obama saying anything.
They cut out of it.
It's all.
Yeah.
He uh he did.
Obama did not say a word.
This thing just ended.
The last word was Netanyahu.
The only word was Netanyahu.
Well, Obama opened it up.
Okay.
So now we'll have folks.
I don't think there's any question that Obama's mad.
And let's not forget here, let's not forget something.
Remember, it wasn't uh maybe a couple years ago.
One or two years ago, there was a the Israeli delegation was in the White House having a meeting with Obama late in the afternoon, approaching dinner time, and the subject being discussed was Israeli settlements and new construction.
And you recall that the Israelis thought President Obama was very rude.
He said, Look, I'm leaving.
I'm going to dinner.
I expect an answer from you in two hours when I come back.
Oh, yeah, that's why the Republicans can learn a lot from what BB just did.
Netanyahu.
I know him, which is why I say BB.
I've not played golf with BB, but I have smoked cigars with BB.
At a Manhattan hotel during his previous prime ministership.
And I tell you that there's a lot for the Republicans to learn here.
That's why I said could he run for the Republican nomination.
Is it uh is it possible?
So it just ended, and folks, you'll see pictures.
Obama sitting there.
For the longest time the camera was uh was tight on Netanyahu.
Then they backed off wide.
And Obama sitting there with that hand on his chin, looking at Netanyahu, like sort of daring him just to keep going.
And he uh didn't say a word.
When it was over, practically turned his back to the camera and all the networks just backed out of it.
So the here's here here's really the nuts and bolts of the central theme of the regime's policy yesterday, as articulated by Obama was a return to the 67 borders.
The next day, today, Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Offices.
We can't return to the 67 borders.
Too much has happened on the ground since we can't do that.
And we're not gonna negotiate with Hamas.
Yeah, Obama didn't sing it.
He just turned around and said, uh thanks, guys, to the press, and the press cut off.
Marvin Calb is on Fox now.
Even Marvin Caleb said this is stunning.
He said he has never heard Netanyahu speak so directly.
So as you know, as the kids say today, Obama just got schooled.
Barack Obama just got schooled, And so did the Republican presidential field just got schooled.
I'd have to say that Benjamin Netanyahu, now the front runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in Broadcasting Network, happy to have you along.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
There's a third thing that Netanyahu said, and it gets to the right of return that we have been discussing here on the EIB network.
He said we're not going to return to 67 borders.
He said we're not going to negotiate with a terrorist government, Hamas, and we are not going to allow Palestinians to resettle inside Israel.
Plain as day.
As easy to understand as one, two, three.
Now I thought, I thought that uh there were some people on our side of the aisle saying that Obama's proposal yesterday was same thing that Bush had proposed, and it wasn't.
We made that clear today.
George W. Bush in 2004 with a statement that was endorsed by both houses of Congress, saying that we would, the United States policy was not to return to the 1967 borders in Israel.
Now you've had, I've seen it, leftist commentators all over television today.
Well, what Obama said is no different than what's been U.S. policy.
It's always been policy to 67 borders.
It has not.
Again, the left lies.
We've got the letter from George W. Bush.
I read the appropriate excerpt.
Here it is again.
Pertinent text.
Bush's 2004 letter to then Prime Minister Ariadal Sharon.
As part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between the parties in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 in light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, i.e., changes on the ground.
It is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, also known as the pre-1967 borders.
It is not U.S. policy to accept the 1967 borders since 2004.
You know, I I this is very, very important here, what just happened.
Now I I have to um I have to ask a question.
Look at that picture of Obama looking at there's a still shot of Obama with that hand on his face, as I just described, and he is shooting daggers at Netanyahu.
He is shooting daggers of sheer and adulterated anger.
I'm sorry I can't show it to you.
But don't doubt me.
No, Obama didn't lay down the 1967 condition to get both sides to talk, and even if he did, it ain't gonna work because BB has just said they're not gonna talk with Hamas.
They're not gonna negotiate with a terrorist organization.
But here's here's another question.
You remember back during the Iran-Contra hearings, that is joint committee of House and Senate people.
And they were gonna get to the bottom of it.
I'm gonna find out who did what.
And the day came where they were going to have Ali North testify.
And Oliver North testified and ran rings around him.
And at the end of it, people were incredulous because they had granted Ollie immunity.
He granted immunity so that people will tell you the truth.
But the mistake they made was they granted the immunity without knowing what he was going to say.
They were so convinced that Ollie was gonna bury Reagan.
All they wanted was Reagan's head on a platter when it came to Iran-Contra.
They were so convinced that North was close enough that he would receive orders from Reagan that whatever North said it would bury Reagan.
The exact opposite happened.
They got no closer to Reagan.
North ran rings around them.
And I'm looking at this today, and I'm asking myself, why did Obama allow this to happen?
Obama just allowed himself to get slapped on national TV in front of the world.
Now BB was respectful, don't misunderstand.
That's what makes this even better.
How could Obama, after talking to BB, not know what he was going to say?
You're president of the United States.
Okay, you got this joint thing planned, but if you get wind that that Netanyahu is going to go out and say these kind of things, creating that facial reaction, that visual reaction on your part, you cancel it.
And you come up with some explanation.
Whatever explanation, the cancellation ends up being not nearly as bad as what happened.
This looks like Obama had no control over the events.
Or else it looked like the same thing.
He was so arrogant, he was so cock certain that Netanyahu had to go along with whatever Obama proposed, because he's Obama.
He's the first black president.
He's the president of the world.
Everybody loves Obama.
BB's gonna have to automatically cower.
Maybe BB in their private meeting didn't say these things.
Maybe it's a total sandbag.
I don't know, but you're president of the United States and you don't allow yourself to get sandbagged this way.
And he did.
Obama did.
I'm stunned at this.
Where's the staff?
Even if Obama's too young and idealistic and impressed with himself, where is an adult around here warning it's you know, Mr. President, you don't want this to happen.
Well, I'll be eager for you people to see this later on today if you haven't yet, when you get yourself near to a television is when you see Netanyahu and Obama.
You'll see a true leader and you'll see a lightweight.
In direct side-by-side contrast.
A true leader and a lightweight.
You know, Netanyahu said, hey, Israel is my responsibility.
He didn't say it's not yours to Obama, but the implication was clear.
Now the meeting prior to this presser, this little joint presser they had here, it wasn't a presser, the appearance.
Meeting went on more than an hour than was uh that was scheduled.
So I would assume that Netanyahu had a lot of things to say to uh to Obama.
Anyway, let's go to the phones.
Open line Friday will go to Joe and Thomasville, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
I would like to address schools and education very quickly.
And um I can say this.
If any of you gentlemen or your gentleman listeners did, you would be verbally castrated by my species and uh the press.
So I'm going to say it, and I am not afraid to.
If you will trace back about 30 years and see the beginning of placements of my species, women, as principals, vice principals, chancellors, etc., you will start to see the creation of what I call the Touchy Feely generation.
No child left behind, every child's equal, therefore teach to the lowest denomination.
That's an oxymoron in itself.
Takes a village to satisfy my husband, that's kind of now when no, and uh now I'm a 70-year-old weta of uh Vietnam veteran.
I've worked two jobs.
I don't want your feminist uh blasting you because I'm saying this.
Oh, she was a stay-at-home mom.
Uh-uh, worked two jobs, broke the glass ceiling in the trucking industry, which was totally male dominated.
So I don't need to hear any of that trap.
But that's why you're seeing the young adults living at home now, because a lot of our young parents were brought up in this situation in this education situation.
Okay, so it's I've we've discussed it on the program before, and I'm still whole.
Uh that is the chicken of America.
Chicken America's happened in education, chicken of America has happened in television news.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
When you say touchy feely, uh everybody knows what you mean.
Instant gratification, Russ.
That's why these people, the younger ones looking for jobs, can't find them.
They are not going to work like we did, like I did, like my husband did.
They're not going to do it.
Why?
Because they haven't been taught to do it.
It's because they've been taught it should be handed to them.
Well, it's it's because they've told their uh Umini doesn't stink.
Uh that you know, Thomas Jefferson was right.
We all are created equal, but you gotta take that out a little further.
We don't all have the same IQ, or we'd all be Isaac Newton's, or we would be Albert Einstein's, or we would be Rush Limbaugh.
That's right.
There aren't too many of those.
We ask you a question.
Have you have you do you watch the TV show Justified Money Chance?
Justified.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, I haven't.
Oh.
Should I?
You remind me of one of my favorite characters in the show.
Oh, I hope that's good.
Well, uh, if I don't preface it right, you might not take it as a compliment, just uh because the woman is a criminal.
But that's not why she's not gonna make your best shot.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's I'm not hitting you with anything here.
I'm it this woman runs an entire crime family enterprises in the hills of Kentucky.
She runs it.
And when you said that you took over trucking in a male-dominated business, this is a parallel.
Not that trucking is a criminal.
Forget the criminal aspect of the.
Well, there were some criminals.
No, forget I'm sure there were.
I'm sure there were but but forget the criminal aspect of it.
Um this character was portrayed by an uh uh actress named Margot Martindale, and it was she just flawless in this role, just superb in this role.
Hang on.
I can't let you go away misunderstanding what I'm saying here.
So hang on, we'll be back in a second.
Okay, we got the BB sound bites here.
We're gonna play them for you here, coming back in just a second.
But uh I I figured it out.
I figured I had answered my own question.
Obama obviously thought he was talking to a Republican, and he thought BB was going to be like your average Republican to sit there and take it and try to be nice and not say anything and let Obama get away with it all.
Now the next thing we gotta do, folks.
We have to find a birth certificate for Netanyahu in Hawaii.
We've got to be able to establish that he was born in this country.
Now he went to high school, he went to school in Philadelphia.
Netanyahu spent some time at a high school in Philadelphia along with his uh brother.
And Netanyahu, well familiar with the United States.
His father was a professor here for a whise combat vet.
Uh he's faced a lot more in five minutes than Obama has in his uh entire life.
And I'm sure, I'm sure Obama thought dealing with a Republican or uh uh General Motors executive or you know, whoever he generally gets his way with.
But he met somebody that he uh is finally provoked enough in uh in Netanyahu that he's not gonna push over.
You're not gonna push around.
Israel is not I mean, Israel's a country of Holocaust survivors.
Tough, smart people, you're not gonna push them over.
You gotta push over uh Netanyahu.
If Israel wanted to, they could blow every one of their neighbors off the face of the earth.
If they wanted to.
They have the ability to do it.
Go to the audio sound button.
Here is uh first off Obama at the White House.
They're sitting in front of fireplace there in the oval orifice.
We discussed in depth uh the principles that I laid out yesterday.
The belief that uh our ultimate goal has to be uh a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous functioning uh and effective Palestinian state.
Uh obviously there are some differences between us and the precise formulations and language.
Uh and that's gonna happen between friends.
Okay, so there you uh please allow me to characterize it my way.
Arrogance.
Well, we discussed the principles I laid out yesterday.
We discussed the principles that I laid out yesterday.
The belief that the ultimate goal is to secure Israel, blah, blah, blah.
And next up was uh Benjamin Netanyahu.
I think for there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities.
The first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines.
Because these uh these lines are indefensible because they don't take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have uh taken place over the last 44 years.
Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide.
It was half the width of the Washington Beltway.
And these were not the boundaries of peace.
They were the boundaries of repeated wars because the attack on Israel was so attractive from it.
So we can't go back to those indefensible lines, and we're gonna have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan.
I discussed this with the President.
I think that we understand that Israel has certain security requirements that will have to come into place in any deal that we make.
Now, not much of that is not much that has anything to do with the principles Obama laid down yesterday.
Yeah, we're gonna get back to Joe and Thomas of North Carolina just a second.
I Joe, hang on.
I've just we just got the sound bites, and I want people to hear these.
So we can't go back 67 lines.
Events on the ground changes, demographic changes, the lines don't make any sense, they can't be defended.
These were not the boundaries of peace.
Folks, look at Obama had his lunch handed to him here.
I'm not sure that he knows exactly how much.
He knows he knows he was dissed in his view.
You know, in his parlance he was dissed.
I don't know that he knows.
Just how this rebuke was.
Here's more of Netanyahu.
Israel cannot negotiate with a Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas.
Hamas, as the President said, is a terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction.
It's fired thousands of rockets on our cities, on our children.
And Hamas has just attacked you, Mr. President, and the United States for ridding the world of bin Laden.
So Israel obviously cannot be asked to negotiate with a government that is backed by the Palestinian version of Al-Qaeda.
I think President Abbas has a simple choice.
He has to decide if he negotiates or keeps his pact with Hamas or makes peace with Israel.
And I I can only express what I said to you just now that I hope he makes the choice, the right choice of choosing peace with Israel.
I mean, this is a profound rebuke.
Look, you got we're not gonna negotiate with the with our version of Al-Qaeda.
You wouldn't.
I mean, they just they just attacked you, Mr. President, for taking out bin Laden.
We're not gonna negotiate with a terrorist organization.
But Obama Well, we discussed the principles that I laid out yesterday.
The belief in mutual assured.
The rebuke continued Bimi's third point, right of return.
The third reality is that the Palestinian refugee problem will have to be resolved in the context of a Palestinian state, but certainly not in the borders of Israel.
The Arab attack in 1948 on Israel resulted in two refugee problems.
Palestinian refugee problem and Jewish refugees, roughly the same number who were expelled from Arab lands.
Now, tiny Israel absorbed the Jewish refugees, but the vast Arab world refused to absorb the Palestinian refugees.
Now, 63 years later, the Palestinians come to us and they say to Israel, accept the grandchildren, really, and the great grandchildren of these refugees, thereby wiping out Israel's future as a Jewish state.
So it's not going to happen.
Everybody knows it's not going to happen.
And I think it's time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly.
It's not going to happen.
This is unprecedented.
Gosh, folks, I can't tell you.
This is orgasmic.
So simply stated.
It's not going to happen.
It just isn't going to happen.
And everybody knows it's not going to happen.
He just said, in effect, your speech yesterday was just a bunch of worthless words.
Your speech yesterday was just a bunch of pap.
You know this isn't going to happen.
Everybody knows this isn't going to happen.
By the end of the Jewish state, if we had the grandchildren of these refugees...
Flowing into our country.
It's not going to happen.
Just isn't going to happen.
By the way, Nethanyahu also went to Harvard and MIT.
And I'm telling you in his life, he's done more than five minutes than Obama has done in his whole career.
Finally, Netanyahu's last remark.
Now it falls on my shoulders as the Prime Minister of Israel.
At a time of extraordinary instability and uncertainty in the Middle East.
To work with you to fashion a peace of will ensure Israel's security and will not jeopardize its survival.
I take this responsibility with pride, but with great humility.
Because, as I told you in our conversation, we don't have a lot of margin for error.
And because Mr. President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance.
Folks, I'm going to tell you something.
Benjamin Netanyahu is lecturing Obama like a school child.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
This was a total rebuke.
And he was telling the world the facts as plainly spoken.
It's not going to happen.
It's just not going to happen.
Falls on my shoulders as Prime Minister of Israel.
Work with you to fashion a piece.
Fat chance we've got working with you.
Because he's on the other Obamas for the other side.
Obama's for the Palestinians.
Okay, now back to uh Joe and Thomas from North Carolina.
I'm sorry to make you sit through that, but I got the question.
I don't mind at all.
The sound bites just bear out my uh theme that I was presenting to you between uh the prime minister of Israel and uh this Obama person we have as uh president.
There you see the difference in environment, education.
I know Harvard's the same for both, but it depends on your form of entitlement.
It depends on being taught manners.
Manners are taught in school and at home.
You know, anybody can be a good orator, go to a few Dale Carnegie courses.
I mean, you know that you that's all well in the case.
Well hell, just reading a teleprompter in Obama's case.
I'm sorry.
It's just reading a teleprompter in Obama's not even good oratory.
Who in the world is is writing this man's speeches.
Yeah.
But anyway, I uh I do think if the young parents will do their research, if they will just take a day off, even if it has to be without pay, it will be worth it, or a half a day or a lunch hour, and go and see what Well, maybe it doesn't need to be the young parents because they're being taught the same thing.
They need to get involved and see what our children are being taught.
Because they aren't being taught.
That's they're being indoctrinated, it's exactly right.
Our son uh had a political science professor at uh one of the universities, who was uh you couldn't mention a Republican president's name in his class, or he would give you a failing grade.
Well, his dad and I drove the 400 miles and had a little meeting with the professor.
Uh I'm sure our son was thoroughly embarrassed at the time, but I didn't really give a Yeah, we know.
Uh, you know, so um I told him to keep his opinions to himself.
So for uh uh my son's graduation, I had him give that particular or his dad did, a type of uh uh Nixon speeches.
Well, God bless you.
You know, God bless you.
Now look, before you go here, I uh I don't I don't want you to be insulted here.
The the the character I'm talking about this television show justified, she was in season two, which just ended.
So it's not on anymore.
Uh it's in hiatus till season three, obviously.
It's on uh what is it's it's on FX.
They have DVDs of it.
Uh you can get it off Apple TV, probably Netflix, if if you care.
But the character is Mags Bennett, played by Margot Martindale.
She's uh described as the Tony Soprano of Harlan County.
Uh she's just a no nonsense, but forget the fact I don't want anybody here.
I'm not insulting this woman as a criminal.
Mags Bennett is uh you know runs a credible enterprise, but that's not the relationship.
No sense.
Just no nonsense.
And you'll love this character.
You'll love the character Mags Bennett.
You just maybe her best acting job that she's ever.
I've not seen everything Margot Martindale's been in, but this is just it's over the top superb.
And I gotta go.
Joe, thanks very much for the call.
I appreciate it.
We will return with more after this.
Okay, we're back to wrap it up.
A great week of broadcast excellence here on Open Line Friday.
It really was amazing what we saw in this hour.
Benjamin Netanyahu with so many lessons for so many people, illustrating so much.
What a really young amateur we have in the White House.
Obama was taken to school today.
The Republican Party was shown all they have to do.
And it doesn't involve shouting, and it doesn't involve pointing fingers.
It just involves telling the truth.
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