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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 little meeting going on, Bibi, Netanyahu, and Obama.
And when it started out, Netanyahu is speaking now.
I said, oh, no.
Oh, no.
I said, Netanyahu's having to eat the excrement sandwich.
Because he started out with all of Pap.
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.
I just walked back in the room.
I had to go someplace where it's cool.
And then they're breaking top of the arts.
I got back in here, and that's what I heard.
And I'm thinking, well, this is what happens, you know, when the country gets $5 billion from us.
You have to go in there and eat the excrement sandwich.
But then, but then, Bibi 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 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 is 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 obvious to me who's coming off as the more serious man in that room.
And I got to 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.
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.
Maybe it isn't the president.
I got to give myself a wide berth here because right now I'm visual only and reading closed captioning.
So it appears to me 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?
It says, we're not going to go into that.
We can't.
Now he's talking about the Palestinian refugees.
He is not going to accept them.
He said, that's not going to happen.
Everybody knows it's not going to 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, folks.
Oh, mama.
Oh, cool this is.
Cool this is.
We're rolling tape on it.
And 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 it's covering his mouth and you can't tell if he's smiling.
Netanyahu has not stopped talking.
He's looking alternately at Obama and then at the cameras.
The U.S. and Israel may have differences here and there.
So can't go back to the 67 borders.
They don't take into account the change that have taken 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 are not going to 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 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 Bibi run for the Republican nomination?
Would you people in Indiana support Bibi?
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 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 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 Bibi.
I've not played golf with Bibi, but I have smoked cigars with Bibi 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 possible?
So it just ended.
And folks, you'll see pictures.
Obama sitting there.
For the longest time, the camera was tight on Netanyahu.
Then they backed off wide.
And Obama's sitting there with that hand on his chin, looking at Netanyahu, like sort of daring him just to keep going.
And he 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 here's really the nuts and bolts.
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 Office says, 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 going to negotiate with Hamas.
No, Obama didn't sing it.
He just turned around and said, thanks, guys, to the press.
And the press cut off.
Marvin Kalb is on Fox now.
Even Marvin Kalb said this is stunning.
He said he has never heard Netanyahu speak so directly.
So 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 frontrunner 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.
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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 1, 2, 3.
Now, I thought that there were some people on our side of the aisle saying that Obama's proposal yesterday was the 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 at the 67 border.
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 Ariel 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, this is very, very Important here, what just happened.
Now, I have to, 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 unadulterated 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 going to work because Bibi has just said they're not going to talk with Hamas.
They're not going to negotiate with a terrorist organization.
But here's another question.
You remember back during the Iran-Contra hearings, at this joint committee of House and Senate people.
They never going to get to the bottom of it.
They're going to find out who did what.
And the day came where they were going to have Ollie 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.
You grant 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 going to 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, Beebe was respectful.
Don't misunderstand.
That's what makes this even better.
How could Obama, after talking to Bibi, 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 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, but Bibi's going to have to automatically cower.
Maybe Bibi 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 adultery warning?
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.
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 scheduled.
So I would assume that Netanyahu had a lot of things to say to Obama.
Anyway, let's go to the phones.
Open Line Friday.
We'll 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 I can say this, if any of you gentlemen or your gentleman listeners did, you would be verbally castrated by my species and 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.
It takes a village to satisfy my husband.
That kind of thing.
No.
And now I'm a 70-year-old widow of a Vietnam veteran.
I've worked two jobs.
I don't want your feminists 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.
Okay, so we've discussed it on the program before, and I'm still whole.
That is the chickification of America.
The chickification of America has happened in education.
Chickification of America has happened in television news.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
When you say touchy-feely, 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 because they've told their umini doesn't stink.
You know, Thomas Jefferson was right.
We all are created equal, but you've got to take that out a little further.
We don't all have the same IQ, or we'd all be Isaac Newtons, or we would be Albert Einstein's, or we would be Rush Slimballs.
That's right.
There aren't too many of those.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you watch the TV show Justified Money Chance?
Justified.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, I haven't.
Should I?
You remind me of one of my favorite characters in the show.
Oh, I hope that's good.
Well, if I don't preface it right, you might not take it as a compliment just because the woman is a criminal.
No, that's not why she's going to get your best shot.
No, no, no.
I'm not hitting you with anything here.
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 it.
Well, there were some criminals.
No, forget.
I'm sure there were.
I'm sure there were.
But forget the criminal aspect of it.
This character was portrayed by an actress named Margot Martindale, and she's 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 going to play them for you here coming back in just a second.
But I figured it out.
I figured I 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 got to 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 brother.
And Netanyahu, well familiar with the United States, his father was a professor here for a while as a combat vet.
He's faced a lot more in five minutes than Obama has in his entire life.
And I'm sure Obama thought dealing with a Republican or a General Motors executive or whoever he generally gets his way with.
But he met somebody that he is finally provoked enough in Netanyahu that he's not going to push over.
He's not going to push around.
Israel is not.
I mean, Israel is a country of Holocaust survivors.
They're their offspring.
Tough, smart people.
You're not going to push them over.
You're going to push over 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.
Let's go to the audio soundbite.
Here is first off Obama at the White House.
They're sitting in front of fireplace there in the oval orifice.
We discussed in depth the principles that I laid out yesterday, the belief that our ultimate goal has to be a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous, functioning, and effective Palestinian state.
Obviously, there are some differences between us in the precise formulations and language, and that's going to happen between friends.
Okay, so there you 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 the security of the old, blah, blah, blah.
And next up was 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 lines are indefensible, because they don't take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years.
Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide, 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 going to 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 anything to do with the principles Obama laid down yesterday.
Yeah, we're going to get back to Joe and Thomas, North Carolina, just a second.
Joe, hang on.
We just got the sunbites 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 was dissed in his view.
In his parlance, he was dissed.
I don't know that he knows just how profound 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 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.
This is a profound rebuke.
Look, Hugam, we're not going to negotiate with our version of al-Qaeda.
You wouldn't.
I mean, they just attacked you, Mr. President, for taking out bin Laden.
We're not going to negotiate with a terrorist organization.
But Obama, well, we discussed the principles that I laid out, Justin.
Belief in mutual assurance.
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.
That's 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 it isn't going to happen.
Everybody knows this isn't going to happen.
It'd be the end of the Jewish state if we had the grandchildren of these refugees flowing into our country.
It's not going to happen.
It just isn't going to happen.
By the way, Netanyahu also went to Harvard and MIT.
And I'm telling you, in his life, he's done more in 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 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.
History will not give.
Folks, I'm going to tell you something.
Benjamin Netanyahu is lecturing Obama like a schoolchild.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
This was a total rebuke.
And he was telling the world the facts as plainly spoken, with no diplomatic lingo used here.
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 peace.
Fat chance we've got working with you because he's on the other.
Obama's for the other side.
Obama's for the Palestinians.
Okay, now back to Joe and Thomas from North Carolina.
I'm sorry to make you sit through that, but I got to.
I don't mind at all.
The sound bites just bear out my theme that I was presenting to you between the Prime Minister of Israel and this Obama person we have as 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's all welling.
Well, hell, just reading a teleprompter in Obama's case.
I'm sorry.
It's just reading a teleprompter in Obama.
It's not even good oratory.
Who in the world is writing this man's speeches?
But anyway, 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.
They're being indoctrinated.
It's exactly.
Being indoctrinated, and most of our professors, our son had a political science professor at one of the universities who was, 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.
I'm sure our son was thoroughly embarrassed at the time, but I didn't really give a you know, so I told him to keep his opinions to himself.
So for my son's graduation, I had him give that particular, or his dad did, a tape of Nixon's speeches.
Well, God bless you.
You know, God bless you.
Now, look, before you go here, I don't want you to be insulted here.
The character I'm talking about, this television show justified she was in season two, which just ended.
So it's not on anymore.
It's in hiatus till season three, obviously.
It's on what networks?
It's on FX.
They have DVDs of it.
You can get it off Apple TV, probably Netflix, if you care.
But the character is Mags Bennett, played by Margot Martindale.
She's described as the Tony Soprano of Harlan County.
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 runs a criminal enterprise, but that's not the relation.
No nonsense.
Just no nonsense.
And you'll love this character.
You'll love the character, Mags Bennett.
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 got to 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.
Benjamin Netanyahu was fearless, stood up to a president that nobody to date has had the courage to stand up to.
And I guarantee you the people heard this, and when you see it, it'll have a double impact on you.
You'll be wishing this guy could seek the Republican nomination.
It was just an amazing contrast in terms of experience, status, solid credentials.
It was wonderful to see.
B.B. Netanyahu.
We'll see you on Monday.
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