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March 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks.
Oh, hang on.
I got a screw loose here.
Hang on.
No, no, no, not me.
It's a screw here in the microphone boom.
There we go.
How do those things get loose?
Why would somebody come in here and loosen the screw of the microphone?
But it was.
Anyway, folks, how are you?
Great to have you here as we uh kick off another full week of broadcast excellence.
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Okay, I watched the Oscars last night.
We're gonna get to the Ukraine business.
It's gonna be the focus here.
That happens to be the soap operas.
Actually, it's not the soap opera storyline.
This is Putin running rings around us.
And I there's no question what's going on here is Vladimir Putin's reassembling the Soviet Union.
And this is something I've got the soundbite.
I predicted this back in 2008.
And all the smart money in Washington inside the beltway, we've got these sound bites too.
They're shocked that Putin is trying to reassemble the Soviet Union.
They can't believe it.
Even Lurch, this guy, John Kerry, is shocked that Putin is actually conducting a ground war.
Listen to this, Carrie can I'm I think we've got this on the soundbite too.
Yeah, grab number uh number 17.
Let's just get this out of the way, because it's it's I think it's hilarious, and it is indicative of how.
Just outclassed we are.
Or are not we're clueless.
This generation of leaders is literally clueless about our enemies.
Remember something you were taught early on in this program.
The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things.
It's not to advance anybody's social agenda.
It's not a laboratory for the left's social ideas or playgrounds.
It is to kill people and break things.
And the second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules.
And if they violate an existing rule book, then so be it.
The aggressor sets the rules, and right now Putin is setting the rules.
You know, I looked it up, I went back and did some research in 1979 when the uh Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 7980.
They did it at Christmas time, when we were all distracted.
Putin goes into Ukraine after, by the way, colonizing Georgia.
They got Georgia back now.
Remember Shali Kashvili and uh South Ossetia?
Well, they've got Georgia back and they're marching now.
And when did Putin do it?
He sent the troops in during the Olympics that he hosted.
That NBC televised and the world was watching.
And then after that, he sent, he continued this buildup last night during the Oscars.
That is strategy.
When it it it and what it means to me is, in in just that regard, if Putin actually made strategic decisions based on the American people being distracted, it tells me that Putin believes that American public opinion still matters in terms of impacting American leadership.
And I know this is this is no small thing, folks.
Now Putin could be very wrong about the degree to which the American public impacts the regime, for example, in its own strategy, but he's he nevertheless is cognizant of it.
Just like any politician would be.
In fact, Putin, ready for this, postponed the telecast of the Olympics in his countries.
What?
The Oscars, what did I say?
The Olympics, yeah.
The Oscar.
He postponed the Oscar telecast Last night.
He didn't want his own population distracted.
He wanted his own population knowing full well what he was doing, and they wanted them celebrating him.
They didn't.
They weren't distracted.
We were.
And so now there's breaking news today.
Russia has reportedly set a surrender deadline for Ukrainian forces.
If if they don't get out of there by the if they if they don't get out of the Crimea by tomorrow, Russia is going to run in there and take it and kick their butts.
Now, interestingly, do you remember?
And I'm sorry to be all over the ballpark here, but this is a stream of consciousness thing, folks.
Do you remember in one of our early skirmishes with Saddam Hussein?
And by the way, another little sidebar.
George H.W. Bush always pronounced it Saddam because in that language, Saddam means dirty shoe shiner.
You know, those people have a thing about shoes.
You throw shoes at somebody's a profound insult.
It's actually pronounced Saddam Hussein, but he pronounced it Saddam because that means dirty, irrelevant low slime ball shoe shiner over there.
Just a little sidebar.
But remember in one of our earliest skirmishes with Saddam Hussein, remember what Governor Mario Cuomo suggested.
Come on, Snerdley.
You remember this?
Cuomo said, come on, let's just give him a few islands.
Just give him a few islands, let him have what he wants, and we can avoid war.
Well, I have it right here in the politico, ladies and gentlemen, the same thing.
The editorial board of the Washington, no, no, it's a political story.
The political story is suggesting let Putin have Crimea.
Well, yeah, among other things.
But just let him have Crimea.
Let him have it.
Don't oppose him.
Don't send Carrie over there.
Let Putin have.
It doesn't matter.
Putin's gonna go in by tomorrow and take Crimea anyway.
He needs a warm water port, but more importantly, there's another aspect to this that I don't know that you may have considered.
And that is with the uptick in fracking taking place in America.
That means that there is vast new production of oil.
All and all wells and fossil fuels.
Now, what does that mean to Putin?
Well, that's competition.
Putin needs Ukraine because there's something seven or eight Russian natural gas pipelines go through there on the way to selling this stuff to Western Europe.
So in all of this, there's so many elements here.
There's economics, there's money, and there is always that.
And then there is the KGB, which never went away, and it's now coming back to life and a reassembling of the Soviet Union.
We also have the ChICOMs and the Japanese on the verge of a massive military conflict as well.
I mean, it is, folks, things are blowing up like nutcases over there.
And we just do not have the personnel in the State Department or the Department of Defense or in the White House to adequately deal with this because we don't have people that really think any of this matters.
All that matters to people like Obama is fixing what he thinks is wrong with this country when it comes to social justice and racial discrimination and illegal immigration and amnesty and health care and all that.
That's all that matters is fixing what's wrong with this country.
Now here is Grab Subite number seven.
This is Lurch.
He was on with Stephanopoulos yesterday.
Stephanopoulos said to Senator Kerry, well, Secretary of State, it's a laugher.
Stepanopoulos said, look, we we got these reports now, Russian forces surrounding Ukrainian military bases in the Crimea.
Ukraine's prime minister says we're on the brink of a disaster.
Is he right?
What has already happened is uh a brazen act of aggression in violation of international law and violation of the UN charter and violation of the Helsinki Final Act, in violation of the 1997 Ukraine-Russia basing agreement.
Russia has uh engaged in uh a military act of aggression against another country.
And it has huge risks, George.
It's a 19th century act in the 21st century.
Yeah, and then when he went over to Face the Nation, he used much which one did you watch?
Face the Nation or Oh, is it was he on there too?
Well, when he went over to Face the Nation, he said, you just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.
Hey, Lurch Putin just did.
So he's there.
So while Putin is invading using 19th century tactics, John Kerry is on American television saying you don't do that.
And he's citing all of these agreements, the UN charter, international law, the Helsinki final act.
You know what all that stuff is worth to those people?
You know what Putin thinks of that stuff?
He doesn't care.
These are old Soviet communists.
Putin has been salivating over reassembling the Soviet Union, and we've got this is, if if it weren't so serious, it would be laughably pathetic.
Because as I remind you, in any conflict, I don't care if it's a bully on the schoolyard, I don't care if it's a National Football League, Major League Baseball, or anywhere, the aggressor sets the rules.
And whatever the aggressor does are the rules.
And you throw the rule book out.
But we're sitting there, we're offended why he can't do this.
Why they is violating the Helsinki final act.
Why he's in violation of the 1997 Ukraine-Russia basing agreement.
Yeah, big whoop.
So he's out there condemning.
Oh, that's really big.
That's what we always do.
We condemn and we deplore.
And then we start shouting at the United Nations.
And Kerry brandished the threat of economic sanctions.
You don't just in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.
Well, Mr. Secretary Putin just did.
Reminiscent, by the way, of Genghis Khan, with whom Kerry apparently is intimately familiar.
Genghis Khan, this is reminiscent of Germany.
Neville Chamberlain, you name it, reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the 20th century, reminiscent of world history.
You can look it up in the undeniable truths of life written by me, 1987.
One of the 24 or one of the 25 undeniable rules of life is ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
It always has been, and it always will be.
And no matter how you analyze that, if you want to look at the current conflict between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, A, who's setting the rules?
Democrats.
They're the aggressors, right?
Wouldn't you also say that politics here is the aggressive use of force?
The Democrats use, not military in this case, but they are pushing and pushing, and what are we doing?
Letting them have what they want, i.e.
the Crimea, hoping they'll go away.
So now, in the political, there it is.
Go ahead, let Putin have the Crimea.
He'll be happy with that, and this will all be over.
So Obama yucks it up, whatever he's doing, drawing lines, carries out there expressing shock and dismay that in the 21st century, somebody would actually invade with ground forces.
Essentially the world to disqualify that aggression.
I mean, it is just pathetic, folks.
It really is dangerous at the same time.
If somebody at 18, Stephanopoulos, after Lurch talked about how he just doesn't dig this, this 19th-century tactic in a 21st century.
By the way, you notice also that Putin does this just days after we happily announce our intention to downsize our boots on the ground military to World War II levels.
Why?
Because this kind of stuff isn't going to happen anymore.
The Obama regime is going to propose in their in their the budget coming up that we get the military back down, boots on the ground, ground force commitment capability, World War II levels.
Just days after we announced it.
Here goes Putin.
And why are we doing it?
Well, because this kind of stuff isn't going to happen anymore.
Not with lasers and outer space drones and uh the NSA and all of our abilities that we have to sneak and listen and spy on people.
These conventional infantry wars, they're not going to happen anymore.
So we don't need to have that kind of military force.
We need more food stamps.
We need more unemployment compensation extensions.
We don't we don't need that kind of.
So shortly thereafter, there goes Vlad.
And let's not forget.
Obama telling Dmitry Medvedev.
Just tell Putin to hang in there be tough when it comes to us getting rid of our nukes because I'll have more flexibility after we win.
Yeah, stop doing missile defense.
We're going to tear that down.
We're going to we're going to reduce our nuclear warhead stockpile just to show the world that we're good guys, nice people and so forth, and that we don't intend anybody harm.
And admitting in the process that we have been the problem all along.
The United States is the destabilizing agent.
This is what Obama believes.
The U.S. and its military has always been.
This is what the left believes, what's the Democratic Party of today believes?
The U.S. is the destabilizing agent of the world.
So we got to show the world we no longer want to destabilize.
So, hey Vlad, you want Crimea?
Take it.
Stefanopoulos and Kerry continue to talk.
And I just want to list this because I just want to hear what other inanities come out of Lurch's mouth.
Do you have any indication at all that President Putin is taking heed of what President Obama is saying?
Well, they just had the conversation yesterday.
And the president invited him to engage with the government.
The most important thing to remember here is this is not or should not be East-West, Russia, United States, Russia versus Europe.
This is about the people of Ukraine.
We ought to be able to work this out through the diplomatic process.
If Russia chooses not to, there will be serious repercussions.
Yeah, like what?
Sanctions.
Got to take a break, my friends.
Just just barely scratching the surface here, just giving you an overview of what's possible today.
So you want to know how tough we're getting on this?
We have breaking news here from Reuters.
Ready for this?
Breaking news from the Obama White House.
The United States will no longer.
We're not going to do it.
We're not going to send a presidential delegation to the upcoming Para Olympic Games in Sochi to protest the Ukraine situation.
So the gloves are off, folks.
No presidential delegation to the Paralympic Games in Sochi.
Well, did you hear that uh what was it?
Uh the White House put out a photo of Obama talking on the phone with Vlad.
And Obama's Sleeves were rolled up.
And that was that was done to make it look like Obama was really working hard.
I mean, really taking it seriously.
Sleeves rolled up while on the phone with Putin.
Putin probably had his shirt off practicing Tai Chi.
While he was talking to Obama, here's more lurch.
Try this, folks.
We can squeeze this in.
This is the reset.
This is David Gregory Meet the Press is the reset with Russia dead.
Well, I I I don't know what you mean by the reset.
The reset in relations of this administration.
I know, but long ago we've entered into a different phase with Russia.
I don't think this is a moment to be proclaiming one thing or the other.
You know what?
That was about you know, Hillary went over there when she became Secretary of State with this giant plastic red reset button, reset relations with the with the Russians.
And I don't know what do you mean reset?
No, no, that was long ago.
We've been at a different phase now.
Kerry totally caught up, no clue what he was answering.
Yeah, actually, it looks there's three, four, and five now.
I don't know what I'm gonna get back to six.
Anyway.
The most talked about radio talk shows in the country.
Snerdley, I need to ask you, all of you a question.
I I really, you know, it's an important point.
Putin, let me let me review this.
As I went back, I don't know why, just that this something struck me.
When Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, the eyebrows guy, for those of you low information, Peter.
He was an old Soviet boss, 70s.
He's uh he's the guy that ran rings around Jimmy Carter.
Anyway, Brezhnev, when they invaded Afghanistan in 1980, which didn't end well, but that's another story.
When they invaded, they did it at Christmas, thinking that nobody would be paying attention, and that nobody would care even if they did all of a sudden pay attention.
It's Christmas.
It's Afghanistan.
Who cares this Soviets?
But not long after people did care.
And Putin then uses the Olympics and the Oscars as a distraction, not of Obama and Kerry, but of the American people.
Now that tells me that Putin still thinks, or at least is taking into consideration that public opinion still impacts American leadership.
And I think if you're an old KGB boss, that would be a very well that would constitute your formative thinking.
If you're KGB boss, 70s and 80s, in the height of the Cold War, uh public opinion was always anti-Soviet, and that that public opinion elected Ronald Reagan, who brought about the end of Soviet communism in the Berlin Wall.
So somebody like Putin would be, because of formative experiences when he was rising to power, very much aware of the power of American public opinion.
So he times his invasion of Ukraine to correspond with the Olympics, and he took another big step last night, yesterday, while everybody here is focused on the Oscars and the Academy awards.
The Russian invasion of Afghanistan was also in response to a pro-Russian puppet government having been toppled.
Now I don't know that American public opinion is anywhere near as powerful in impacting American leadership.
In fact, American public opinion is opposed to every Obama policy, and yet every Obama policy is being implemented and is growing.
Despite American public opinion, you and I probably are of the belief that American public opinion, when it comes to anything to do with foreign policy, is asleep.
What do you think the odds are that I don't know, half or more of the people that watched the Olympics last night don't care about what's going on in Ukraine anyway?
And especially in terms of how it might affect them or the United States.
How many Americans do you really think care?
How many Americans do you think have any consideration for what this means for us?
And let me go further.
How many Americans, because I can assure you that back in the 70s and 80s, the American public was at fever pitch.
The American public was highly tuned in to Soviet sponsored communism.
You know, all through the 80s with what went on in Nicaragua and the Contra Revolution and the Bolden Amendment, and it was vicious, and the American public was on board with Reagan throughout much of this, other than when you know when the Iran Contra thing hit later in his second term.
But my point is the American public was much concerned.
They were very informed, and they had definite awareness of what Soviet expansionism meant.
And they knew that it wasn't good.
They knew it had to be stopped.
They supported it every time a president wanted it to be stopped, including in Vietnam at the outset.
Now contrast it to today.
I'm just asking because the open that I did in the previous half hour of this program.
I wonder how many people heard it who might not have been looking at this in any way.
Not you, folks.
When I say people are hurt it, I've always exclude you from the low information crowd.
I always know that people listen to this program who are not fans.
People listen to this program who don't like me.
People listen to this program who don't like me and want reasons every day to keep disliking me.
And it's those people I'm talking about.
I mean, how many of those people, how many people in general think this is no big deal?
Come on.
And it and and how many Americans really are not aware that we have almost total incompetence at the highest levels of our foreign policy establishment now within the regime.
There might be some bright people at DOD, might be some bright people State Department.
I'm talking about regime personnel and leaders.
And I the answer to the question scares me.
Do you realize, folks, how absolutely literally idiotic it is for the American Secretary of State to start whining about, they can't do that?
You can't, you can't fight a 21st century war in a 19th-century tactic?
You can't do that, you can't violate you understand the absolute childish naivety that must exist for that worldview.
And this is our Secretary of State.
And this one is no better than the previous one, Mrs. Clinton.
She was totally unqualified for that job.
And Kerry is totally unqualified.
He's got the gig because he wanted it.
It's payback time, and he's always fashioned himself as somebody who ought to run the State Department because he can speak French.
He thinks he's a man of the world.
He's clueless.
All of these people are clueless.
They have, I don't think, I don't think they're willing to even admit to themselves that what Putin is really trying to do is reconstitute the Soviet Union.
How many of these people are living in their delusional fantasy world that Obama is still the Messiah of 2008, loved, adored, and respected by the people of the world and world leaders who used to be our enemies when these when these dangerous, reckless cowboy Republicans were in office.
These are scary, scary times.
And one of these days, Putin is going to figure out that American public opinion does not have the same impact today that it had back in the 70s and 80s.
He's going to figure out if he doesn't already know that American public opinion's been dumbed down and refocused.
And America's now focused on should we be penalizing 15 yards or kick him out of a game for using the N-word in the NFL.
The American people are focused on can gay couples buy a cake from a non-gay baker or not.
I mean, it at some point genuine in fact you've probably heard this by now.
Sarah Palin, back in 2008, predicted and warned that Russia was going to take Ukraine.
She was laughed at.
She was mocked and made fun of, because of course that was the narrative, Sarah Palin.
And she never said she was an expert, Soviet Union, because she could see it from her backyard.
Tina Fay said that in a comedy sketch.
Palin never said it, yet it was attributed to her.
Romney.
I'll never I remember this in a presidential debate like it was yesterday.
Sit down, probably second debate.
Romney is warning of the Soviet of Russia as our number one geopolitical enemy.
And Obama is sitting there and mocking him and laughing at him and making fun of him like he can't believe what he just heard.
And everybody knows it's Al-Qaeda.
Obama's a Obama's is not.
And look at what's happening here.
All the people who've been insulted as dumb and stupid and idiotic and don't know what they're talking about, are being borne out.
There were people, leave myself out of this.
There were people eight years ago warning that Putin existed to rebuild the Soviet Union.
The Washington establishment hemmed and hawed and huffed and puffed and laughed.
Said nothing could be further for further than the truth.
The best and the brightest had no clue.
And we now face these are these are troubling.
Now, by the way, Russia and the Chai Kams are aligning.
They have discovered geopolitical interests that meld together.
And one of those geopolitical interests is opposition to us.
Then you've got the ChICOMs and the Japanese on the verge of a major conflict.
I don't think anybody, I think too many people are uh uh aware of that.
So it it are heavyweight times.
And we got a lot of people dazed and confused, and just in addition to dazed and confused, entirely misinformed.
They happen to be our leaders at the moment.
Anyway, another brief time out, ladies, there are other things.
I was gonna mention some casual things about the uh Academy Awards, because I did watch them.
Show prep.
And interesting observation, by the way.
I'll share all that with you.
We'll be right back.
I watched the whole thing, folks.
I watched, I I I watched it all.
I watched the Oscar for best colored shoestrings, whatever, whatever award.
Watched it all.
Not one conservative or Republican name was even mentioned.
Much less bashed or made fun of.
Not one.
It was an entirely but very subtle, for the most part.
There were exceptions where it was in your face, but mostly very subtle political night.
It always is.
Everything to the left is political.
And it was filled with self-satisfaction and pats on the back and how important they all are, and how compassionate giving, caring.
Oh, you know, all of those adjectives they reserve exclusively to themselves and their goodness and their kindness and their decency.
And all of that.
And it was it was hokey in parts with uh Ellen DeGeneres passing out pizza to the first three rows and taking selfies and so forth and all that.
But I think they were there there was no demonstrable political preaching from anybody, even well, not anybody.
Zip Zero Nata.
And the closest was a joke that DeGeneres made in her monologue to open the program audio soundbite number three.
Here we go.
Anything can happen.
So many different possibilities.
Possibility number one, twelve years a slave wins best picture.
Possibility number two, you're all racists.
Remember now, all good comedy must be rated there rooted in truth.
And this is what they all, if that movie didn't win, you there's no way that movie was not gonna win.
If it was the only thing that movie won, it was gonna win best picture.
There was no way.
It didn't matter if it was good or bad.
I haven't seen it.
It was going to win.
It had the magic word in the title, slave.
And here was the announcement by Will Smith some three and a half hours later.
And the Oscar goes to 12 years of slave.
Oh, yes, we're such good people.
But but folks, why was no conservative name mentioned?
Why was no Republican name mentioned?
Why was there no bashing of any conservative or Republican?
Anyone in there on the other side of the glass want to take a stab at answering the question?
Nobody wants to take a stab.
See, they know that I have the answer.
Oh no, there's all kinds of targets.
They just didn't see it necessary to hit anybody.
That's they didn't they the reason no Republican or conservative was bashed is because they didn't think it was necessary.
And why isn't it necessary?
Because they think they're winning everything.
They were all they're they're happy.
That group last night was very happy.
That was a very satisfied, happy group of people last night.
They were not angry about anything.
They were not fit to be tied over things.
They weren't bashing political opponents.
I mean, they're sitting on top of the world.
They think they're winning and winning big.
There was only one moment where they were confused.
Only one moment where the assembled gathering didn't quite know what to do, and that was Matthew McConaughey winning best actor for his role in the Dallas Buyers Club.
It's who he thanked that had them confused and nervous.
First off, I want to thank God.
Because that's who I look up to.
He's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand.
Um he has shown me that uh it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.
Um, in the words of the late Charlie Lawton, who said, When you got God, you got a friend, and that friend is you.
That was the only time that they didn't quite know what to do.
That was it.
Charlie Lott with his Charles Lott, witness for the prosecution.
McConaughey's acceptance speech is actually kind of interesting.
Um His life philosophy.
But anyway, that was it, folks.
I don't have time to get into it because I gotta take another obscene profit break here.
That's what.
McConaughey says he says three things every day.
He gets up, has somebody to look up to, that's God.
Something to look forward to, and something to chase.
Every day, those three things.
God is who he looks up to.
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