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April 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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That's right, my friends.
I said it, and I'll say it again.
I can just hear Reverend Wright in sermon.
Obama's Chechens have come home to roost.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have your Rushland boss serving humanity.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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The Justice Department saying that statutory charges against Sanaev will authorize the death penalty or life in prison upon conviction because he is being charged with the use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property, which resulted in death.
Someone has just read the entire complaint.
There's no mention of the word Islam.
All the complaint seems to be based on the photographs, at least for the bombings.
They also have the hijacked driver's claim that the older brother told him that he did the bombing.
And remember, they let the carjack driver go because he wasn't an American.
Pressure cooker bombs are now weapons of mass destruction.
I don't know if there were any pressure cookers in Iraq.
What does that have to do with anything?
There were no reports of pressure cookers in Iraq when Bush was president.
This is new.
This is new, but the pressure cooker is now or can be used, let's say.
If used as it's designed, it's only a weapon of mass destruction or whatever's in it.
UK Daily Mail, Department of Homeland Security, dragging its feet on processing Boston bombing suspect Tamberland Zinaev's U.S. citizenship after a routine background check revealed that he'd been questioned by the FBI in 2011.
Tamberlin, 26, am I pronouncing the name right?
Or I haven't heard it pronounced.
Because I say I've been watching TV.
I'm just reading it.
Filed an application for citizenship six months ago, but immigration officials hadn't yet made a decision on his case at the time of the bombing.
Authorities knew the alleged bomber had a domestic violence charge on his record, but the fact that he had been grilled by federal agents is reportedly what threw up red flags, which halted the progress of his application.
It's not clear what the 26-year-old was told about why his application was facing delays.
Officials reported on Friday that the FBI interviewed the older Sanaev brother in January of 2011 at the request of the Russian government, which suspected that he had ties to Chechen terrorists.
They said this decision to delay his application proved his encounter with the FBI did not go unnoticed by the Department of Homeland Security.
So the question, how much did they know about this guy?
How much did they know?
So what will happen?
They had plenty.
This is my take on this.
It's a U.K. Daily Mail story.
They had plenty to be suspicious of the guy and to keep him on a watch list, but they didn't for some reason, which is tell you what's going to happen now.
We need a new government program.
We need more federal money and more federal power.
That's how you fix government programs that don't work.
You come up with a new one.
Get this from the administration press.
For President Barack Obama, one of his most wrenching White House weeks saw the fresh specter of terrorism and the first crushing political defeat of his new term and the more emotional side of a leader often criticized for appearing clinical or detached.
There was the challenge to reassure a nervous nation about threats at home and to keep the rest of his legislative goals on track after the Senate rejected gun control measures that had become his top priority.
That's a tough week, Obama said Friday.
It was a tough week for me.
Shortly after the authorities captured the second suspect in the marathon, the capture of the teenager, whose older brother was killed attempting to escape police, brought closure to Boston and the White House.
The White House.
This is another reason why I'm sorry.
I just, I can't.
It's all Obama all the time.
Every news story is through the prism of how does this help Obama?
Or, how does this hurt Obama?
Or, what does this mean for Obama's agenda?
Or something else to do with Obama.
It was a tough week for Obama.
For Obama, a testing, trying, emotional week.
People had their limbs blown off.
A child is dead.
And Obama had a tough week.
Wow.
By the way, the Times Square bomber also had a pressure cooker as one of his three weapons of mass destruction in his card.
Did you know that?
The Times Square bomber also had a pressure cooker as one of his three weapons of mass destruction in his card.
Now, the New York Times claimed the following: the application for citizenship, which Mr. Sinaev presented on September 5th, also prompted additional investigation of him this year by federal law enforcement agencies, according to the officials.
They declined to say how far that examination had progressed or what it covered.
So that is the New York Times is claiming the FBI continued to monitor Tamerlin Sunaev.
So how come he wasn't an immediate suspect, or at least subject, after the attack?
I don't know.
I don't want to start casting aspersions.
It's not the point.
I'm just reacting to the news, folks.
It's all I'm doing.
Every day I come here hoping, praying the news is going to be good about the economy, hoping and praying the news is going to be good about our culture, hoping and praying the news is going to be good about the nation's future, hoping and praying that the news is going to be good about all the challenges.
And every day, it's just more and more the same that I feel the need to defend to the audio soundbites.
Return Chris Cuomo.
This is Friday morning, CNN's newsroom.
This is during the manhunt for the marathon suspects.
The co-anchor Aaron Burnett, co-anchor Chris Kumo, interviewed Eric Mercado, a former classmate of Sinaev.
Aaron Burnett said, you said that you had a conversation with him where you recall that terrorism actually came up.
It was along the lines of, you know, terrorism is, when justified, you know, isn't necessarily, you know, a bad thing, which, you know, kind of red flag in your head.
He was having a conversation with a friend and said terrorism is not necessarily a bad thing.
Right, when justified.
I didn't give any context to it.
Do you remember something that made that okay for him to say?
Not anything that would lead me to believe that he would believe it is okay.
I can't really say.
I just know that that was the conversation that was had.
And in that conversation, obviously, my friends were kind of alerted, like, you know, well, but people say, you know, things all the time, and it's never, you know, take it out of context.
It is a conversation at the time.
And you don't believe anybody's going to be a terrorist because of those comments.
No, no, you wouldn't.
Nobody would ever make that connection.
So this guy said, yeah, I had a conversation with you about terrorism, about how when justified, it's not a bad thing.
It's kind of a red flag in your head when he said that.
Yeah.
Chris Cuomo said he was having a conversation with a friend and said terrorism's not necessarily a bad thing.
Yeah, yeah, when justified.
Cuomo said, what does that mean?
Well, you know, people talk about stuff.
We kids, we talk about stuff all the time.
Nobody'd ever think he really was going to do anything.
He just thought it was okay.
How many people do you know that think terrorism is okay?
Seriously, how many of you know anybody in a conversation that's a friend of yours?
I think terrorism is fine when it's, you know, in the right context, justified terrorism, yeah, not necessarily a bad thing.
How many of you know anybody who thinks that or say, I don't know anybody.
Very, very interesting.
Sunday morning on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace interviewed Representative Peter King, Republican New York, said, you've said political correctness be damned, we have to do more effective surveillance inside the Muslim community.
Yeah, listen, the threat is coming from within the Muslim community in these cases in New York.
That's why Commissioner Kelly has a thousand police officers out in the community.
Unfortunately, he gets smeared by the New York Times and the Associated Press.
But the fact is, we've stopped 16 plots in New York because we know that al-Qaeda has shifted its tactics.
99% of the Muslims are outstanding Americans.
The fact is, that's where the threat is coming from.
Diane Feinstein was also on the program very, very, very uncomfortable with that.
And she implies here that King shouldn't even be discussing this on TV.
With respect to whether we are doing enough in the Muslim community, I think we should take a look at that.
But I don't think we need to go and develop some real disdain and hatred on television about it.
I must say, I don't think that's what Congressman King was saying.
He was saying, that's where the threat's coming from.
We have to address the threat.
Well, this came at this point from two individuals.
That's what we really do know.
We do not know what their connections are.
We don't know, folks, what their connections are.
And we're really not doing the right thing here.
We're speaking with disdain and hatred on television.
Let's.
Well, he wasn't saying that.
He was just saying that the threat is coming from Muslims.
Well, we don't know what the connections are.
Senate Intelligence Committee.
Diane Feinstein.
Gun Control Committee.
Guns may have played a secondary role in the Newtown shooting.
Islam might have played a secondary role in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Friday night, ABC special report coverage of the manhunt for Jokar Sennaev.
Co-anchor Diane Sawyer talked with the senior Justice Department correspondent for ABC News, Pierre Thomas.
This is beyond any drama that can be written, Pierre.
And again, when we hear that he is in custody, what does that mean?
Well, that means that law enforcement officials have taken him.
He is in police custody, Diane.
That was news.
That was news that we hear, Pierre, he is in custody.
What does that mean?
Well, Diane, it means that law enforcement officials have taken him.
He's in police custody.
What does that mean, Pierre?
Well, the cops have him.
He's in custody.
Do you mean the cops have the children?
No, no.
He's in police custody.
There are no children.
Let's go back to March 14th of 2011.
ABC's World News tonight.
Diane Sawyer touring a shelter for refugees in Japan.
This is a shelter.
Some of these people are here for days.
And look, it's recycling.
Organized for recycling.
Plastic, combustible barnable, canes.
Pierre, what is recycling?
What does that mean, Pierre?
We'll be back, Volga.
Talent on loan from God.
Hi, folks.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I wonder if Diane Feinstein has any problems having disdain and hatred for gun owners, NRA members.
You know, folks, here's.
Look at.
I said at the beginning of the program, this isn't easy because the consensus in this country, I'm sure, consensus, but clearly people are listening to what the media is saying and they're eating it up and they're swallowing it and everything's cool.
And here I come along challenging it all.
You must just have to be so contrary all the time if they're limbo mutton.
You just have to be so contrary.
You just can't give it a spirit of things like the rest of America celebrating everything happening.
It's very good.
The theftful prosecution and capturing the thing.
You have to.
I just don't know.
Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
Anyway, my point is here that the media Sure, they are showing a lack of curiosity about these suspects.
And they're just doing everything they can to make it look like what's obvious isn't.
I, on the other hand, have some questions.
How did they afford such fancy cars?
I mean, these guys are driving Porsches and Mercedes.
How do you afford trips to Russia for six months and the fancy clothes?
How do you afford all this stuff?
That kind of stuff is interesting to me.
As somebody who pays for everything I have and dude, that is interesting to me.
I don't have a range of people give me things or arrange things for me.
I don't accept stuff like that when it's offered.
It's never offered, but if it were, I wouldn't accept it.
I don't want to be obligated.
I wonder about those things.
I'm curious.
As a consumer of news, I'd kind of like to know how these guys are running afford these kinds of cars.
Neither of them had a job.
Best I can tell.
Do you know where they had a job?
Have you read anything about jobs that they had?
Their father's supposed to be a garage mechanic, and he's not even here.
He's in Dagestan.
The whole family came here on asylum because their lives were at risk in Dagestan, yet they went back to Dagestan.
The older brother went back to Dagestan for six months just for the fun of it.
He wasn't radicalized there.
Listen to Obama.
Graham's about number 10.
Very quickly, Friday night, Obama at the White House.
Obviously, tonight there are still many unanswered questions.
Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence?
Now, see, this is where I am ripe for getting in trouble.
Why is it so strange to believe that young kids could be radicalized in America?
You got former bombers as professors in New York and Chicago.
You have radical leftist professors who think this country's guilty, teaching kids every day about what's wrong with this country, about how unfair this country's been, how unjust, how immoral this country is since its founding.
What in the world do we think elite education is in this country?
When you have a study of high-school textbooks, nine different textbooks, the longest reference to Abraham Lincoln is one paragraph, but all kinds of references to the horrors of slavery and evil Republican presidents, how great Bill Clinton is.
Why is it so?
How did Obama become what he is?
Who taught Obama that America is so wrong?
Who raised Obama to believe that America needs to be radically transformed?
Well, we don't know that they were taught conflict resolution.
The odds are they might have been, but they probably laughed all the way through that class.
Can you imagine these guys in a conflict resolution 101 course?
Now, you are not supposed to resolve differences with violence.
You are to find your combatant and talk about it and find wonderful things you have in common.
Here's Matt, Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thanks much.
Hey, I'd just like to point out, you know, as you mentioned a while ago, that the Boston bomber, you know, is not going to be tried as an enemy combatant.
The reason that was given was because he's a U.S. citizen.
Now, you can't have this both ways.
I'd just like to point out the hypocrisy in the fact that this is the same president that says he reserves the right to kill U.S. citizens with drones if he thinks that they're dangerous.
And agree with the drone statement, agree with or not, and agree with that, you know, trying the bomber as a U.S. citizen or an enemy combatant or not.
The hypocrisy of the two statements is so blatantly obvious, I just don't understand why people aren't catching on to this.
We are talking about a 19-year-old child.
19-year-old children.
You want this kid to get droned?
No, I don't want him to get droned, but hey, if the president says just joking.
Go ahead.
Sorry to interrupt.
Yeah, I mean, it's just that the president, his reasoning is he's a U.S. citizen, so he has rights.
Well, what about the rights of these people that the president would kill with a drone?
Look, the president does not believe in military tribunals.
The military doesn't believe in that.
The president does not believe in it either.
The Fort Hood guy is not workplace violence.
This is going to be a civilian trial.
Being mirandized means you don't have to answer any questions.
No, can't waterboard him.
Can't waterboard him.
Not that we would anyway.
What would the world think?
And that's exactly the point.
You've got to ask why.
Why the flip-flopping on this issue?
Why one way with drones and another way with a person who is obviously a terrorist?
Whatever reasoning behind his actions.
Well, because he's already been.
This is not the only drone is a way to get somebody you can't otherwise get.
We've got this guy, and they weren't going to drone Boston.
And you've got to be real careful.
We don't know that he's a terrorist yet.
You see, that hasn't been established or proven.
No, he's still a suspect, right?
He's an alleged bomber.
And he's 19, and as other people say, you know, it's probably because his brother couldn't get citizenship that, you know, whatever his reasons were, he made a choice.
He's responsible.
He needs to pay for it.
And I don't care if he's tried in the military court.
I just don't understand why some people say, you know, the president says, hey, if I feel like that person's a threat, I can drone him.
But this guy that I know is a threat, because we have him in custody now, we're going to let this play out in the civil courts.
It's just craziness.
Yeah, I understand.
But he is here in America, which we can drone Americans here.
But he's in custody.
There's no reason to drone the cops in order to get this guy.
That's what you'd have to do.
I understand the point of hypocrisy that you are making.
By the way, it's an interesting little side note here.
The Times Square bomber had just been granted his citizenship when he drove the van into Times Square.
He had just gotten his U.S. citizenship before his attack, too.
Now, maybe it's just a coincidence.
Or maybe they do this to try to get civilian trials so they can use the publicity to continue the jihad.
Remember, initially, we were going to execute Mohammed Sheikh Skyhook.
What was the guy?
What am I thinking of?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
We're going to execute him.
And he wanted to be executed.
All of a sudden, no, we're going to do a civilian trial.
And Obama couldn't wait for it, and Eric Holder couldn't wait for it.
And it's going to cost $200 million a year for security alone in that trial.
He was looking forward to the trial because he would have an unfettered opportunity to bash this country in an American courtroom in New York City, and there's nothing could stop him.
And every citizen, what in the world, Eric Holder, are you thinking?
And they must want this to happen.
But the reasoning we were given was, this will show the world how fair we are.
This will show the world we're not afraid of what these people say about it.
This will show the world that we are fair and non-judgmental and not racist, exist, big, and homophobic.
This will show the world that they can trust.
What the hell?
And a brief obscene prophet timeout.
Back with more after this.
Here is Jeff in Greenwood, Indiana.
Thank you for your patience, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Oh, great and powerful Maha Rushdie.
What an honor it is to talk to you.
It's great to have you here.
Yeah, it really is.
Earlier you talked about, you talked a little bit about where these guys come from.
Well, you know, the definition of the difference between a liberal and a conservative is a liberal, when sharing things about a great country with people from another country, will point out that he recognizes what's wrong with it, whereas a conservative will point out what is great about it.
Well, that's what happens when these young guys live in this area, which is a liberal hotbed, all they hear all their lives, even from the people who are supposed to love this country.
It's what a horrible place it is and what's wrong with it.
So it's no wonder they turn out to be, as you call it, become radicalized by our own nation.
They do.
They hang around people that don't like America.
They get inspired or influenced by it somehow.
And it's no wonder.
You know, they look at, folks, Boston's a hubbub of liberal, elite intellectual thought, all the universities there.
And if you end up around the wrong people long enough, and you're young enough and impressionable enough, then that kind of thing can happen.
It is an interesting point about the difference in liberals and conservatives.
Liberals will tell you what's wrong with the country from the founding.
Conservatives will tell you what's wrong with the country because of liberals while telling you what's great about the country.
If the liberals would move out of the way.
Let's see, Ann in Kinston, North Carolina.
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's a great privilege.
Thank you so much.
You bet.
I just got really tickled when you were talking about Earth Day.
I was 10 years old in 1970, and it scared the pure fire out of me that there was going to be an ice age, and I worried about how my daddy was going to pay for the heat, and what were we going to do?
Were there going to be icebergs and all this?
And I have laughed and laughed about that for years, thinking about that with my kids and telling them that this global warming stuff is just the same people with a new story.
Right, so they scared the daylights out of you when you were 10.
How long did it, how old were you when you finally figured out that you need not be frightened by that stuff anyway?
Well, I guess I was probably 20 years old, and I thought, well, I wonder what ever happened to the Ice Age.
I guess it didn't happen, you know, 10 years later.
And I just thought, well, that was a bunch of silly stuff.
And I thought, you know, I remember the Life magazine and Time magazine.
They had all these things for kids to read in school, propaganda.
And it just, you know, I think 1979, you know, 10 years later, Newsweek actually did a cover on the coming ice age after they had joined the global warming fear, uh, fear-mongering just 10 years earlier.
Anyway, well, that's great.
I'm glad, I'm glad that you called.
It's great to hear from you.
I got to take a brief time out.
We'll be right back, my friends.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast moments, but we will be back.
The barbecue note, Meet Mitch.
It's a barbecue, best barbecue you ever had.
It's this guy's hobby, M-E-A-T Mitch.
MeetMitch.com.
Anyway, you have a good one, folks, and we'll be back here tomorrow.
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