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March 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You got uh sound by twenty-four standing by.
That's good because that's what's coming.
Uh not yeah, not not 23, but it's a 24.
All right.
Here we are, folks, back at it.
Fast as three hours in media.
Feel like I'm just now starting.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address rushboard e IB net.com, and I promise we're gonna get to the phones in this hour as soon as I can.
I've just got to follow through on some of the commitments that I was uh talking about here now uh anyway.
Uh this whole idea of where we are now with with uh with Ukraine, and make no mistake about the Russians have have their own PR operation in this country, shaping events.
There's no question that they always have had, whether it's a Soviets or the Russians, they do.
But here's here's the the the truth of the matter is this, folks.
Forget this moral equivalence business, forget this idea that we're no different than the Soviets or the Russians, and that if they can go take Ukraine, why it's what we did in Iraq, you've got to reject that because we are not them.
We never have been.
There is not there are no similarities like the left would like you to believe.
It's one of the most damaging things that's been done in the name of education in this country, that that whole idea that that that we're no different, in fact that we are the destabilizing agent in the world, is is really damaging in terms of its effect on uh the American people and their understanding of these events.
Now we're at a point here in Ukraine where we're not gonna send military troops in there.
There's no we d we're just not gonna do it.
Those days are gone.
We aren't gonna do it.
We don't have a leadership committed to that anywhere, that it matters.
Uh Obama's doing his best to just basically in Afghanistan tread water and then get out of there, got out of Iraq.
Uh he likes to talk big and think he scares people, but they're just laughing at him.
Basher Al-Assad's laughing at him, Putin's laughing at him.
And they're laughing at us when that happens.
So you say, well, what do you do about it?
Well, there's a there's a it's a teachable moment.
If you don't want things like this happening, if you're gonna make an agreement with Ukraine like we did, if you're gonna sign an agreement that requires them to disarm and denuke, after we promise that something like this will not happen, we're we're guaranteeing their safety if they'll get rid of their military.
That's essentially what happened.
Clinton signed it, it was reaffirmed in 2009.
Why'd Putin do this?
Pure and simple.
Anybody with half an ability to be honest, will tell you that Vladimir Putin, since day one, has wanted to rebuild Soviet Union.
The idea that it was ever busted up in the first place just drives them crazy.
It's an insult, should never have happened, and they're gonna put it back together.
And the old Soviet Union, whatever they call it, is going to be the same aggressive monolith that it always was.
It's gonna be an aggressor nation.
It's going to be uh it's gonna attempt to be the lone superpower.
It's dangerous situation.
We're a great nation at risk in a dangerous world, folks.
Now the way you prevent this is the whole notion of deterrence.
Um why did the Iranians upon practically immediately upon the election of Ronaldus Magnus release, the 54 American hostages, because they feared what Reagan was going to do.
The left, knowing full well that that was the case, tried to construct the notion that Reagan had uh conducted a secret deal to hold those hostages through the election to make Carter look bad.
They even wrote a book about it, making the whole thing up.
It didn't happen.
If Putin didn't think he could get away with this, he wouldn't do it.
It's just that simple.
Why'd Putin think he get away with it?
Ever heard of Syria?
You ever heard of Barack Obama?
I mean, that's that's reason one.
Ever heard of John Kerry, you ever heard of Hillary Clinton?
He knows exactly who he's dealing with.
He didn't try any of this when George W. Bush was in the White House.
Did he?
Didn't try it once, didn't try any of this.
Well, Georgia and and uh actually it was a test case.
He he uh floated a trial balloon.
Look what happened.
He got it.
Pretty much got Georgia.
So they're back in the satellite.
You have a first-rate military, hoping you never have to use it.
But knowing that if you do, it will be victorious.
You build a B-2 bomber hoping you never have to use it, meaning you hope it deters bad guys from attacking us or any of our allies.
But if they do, we've got it and can clean their clocks with it.
That's the purpose of a world-class first-rate military.
It's number one is a deterrent.
All of this is just common sense.
Now, what does Kerry mean when he complains that this is a 21st century and Putin's acting like it's the 19th century?
What does he really mean when he's saying that?
Have you thought about that as I ask you to?
What does he really mean or believe?
Let's go to the audio sound bites and let's listen to him say it a couple of times.
This is today.
He went over to UK to Kiev in Ukraine.
He went over there and uh made some remarks.
And that's supposed to scare Putin and bring Putin around the 21st century.
Here is what our esteemed Secretary of State said.
Go to the UN.
Raise the issue in the Security Council.
Go to the OSCE.
Raise it one of the human rights organizations.
There are countless outlets that an organized, structured, decent world has struggled to put together to resolve these differences so we don't see a nation unilaterally invade another nation.
There's a better way for Russia to pursue its legitimate interests in Ukraine.
Russia can choose to comply with international law and honor its commitments under the Helsinki Final Act under the United Nations Charter.
Now what does that mean?
That A to me is so profoundly embarrassing, naive, and silly, that it illustrates precisely why people like this should never ever get this close to actual leadership and decision making in our government.
What Kerry is saying, hey, didn't you take the conflict resolution class?
You know, you should go shake his hand or say, we don't need to start beating people up and hitting people.
Why why don't you you could go to the UN, you could go there, and you can talk about it.
You could go to the uh the OSCE, you can a human rights organization, countless out any number of groups that you could go to.
You don't have to do that.
Why are you doing this?
You don't have to do this.
There's a better way.
If you want Ukraine, there's a better way.
Go, you know, go go go go ask the UN to give it to you, or go negotiate for it, or go, you know, but you don't you don't have to, you don't have to be mean about it.
What these these clowns believe, folks, this 21st century versus 19th century Falderall, do not doubt me.
John Kerry believes that war is over.
It is passe.
There's no purpose in it anymore.
We have other ways of revolve resolving conflicts.
We do not need to do this.
And then this is he's embarrassing us.
Putin is because there is no more war.
Doesn't he know that?
This is not right.
He shouldn't be doing this.
Senator Kerry, why don't you go down, find a leader of the Mexican drug cartel and talk to him about this?
Why don't you go down to Castro and say, you know, Fidel, we're here now.
You don't need to be putting your people in prisons anymore, man.
Come on, it's a 21st century.
Why don't you head over to the ChICOMs and tell them to lighten up on Tibet, Senator Kerry?
What there is absolutely no cognizance Of the realities of the world.
It was I, Il Rushbo, who profundedly wrote, Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
And if you dare look at history, you will find that that's always been the case.
Time and time and time and time again.
And there's no, you know, Barack Obama and John Kerry in their minds, maybe they're the smartest and most competent, most caring people ever lived, but they're not going to change that.
Well, I think it's I wouldn't compare him to Neville Chamberlain.
I just could, but I I just think this is so naive.
Here, grab Samai 25.
There's more of this.
He wasn't through complaining.
You know, you didn't you could have, you could have gone to Home Room, you could have talked to the principal, you know, you didn't you'd have to beat up that kid.
You'd have to do that.
Don't you know those days are over?
Why you you you could have, you know, you could have talked to your guidance counselor, you didn't have to do that.
Here's more.
If Russia does not choose to de-escalate, if it is not willing to work directly with the government of Ukraine as we hope they will be, then our partners will have absolutely no choice but to join us to continue to expand upon steps we have taken in recent days in order to isolate Russia politically, diplomatically, and economically.
The fact is uh this is the 21st century, and we should not see nations uh step backwards to behave in 19th or 20th century fashion.
There are ways to resolve these differences.
Great nations choose to do that appropriately.
You absolute buffoon.
You see, you don't have to it's we don't do it this way anymore, Vlad.
You know, you could have written a very stern letter to the New York Times and warned Ukraine.
Oh, sorry, Putin did that.
If you remember Putin, he he telegraphed this.
He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times.
They were happy to publish it.
Now, would you like to hear how this has been covered?
ABC News.
Here's the headline Obama and Kerry Lando one-to-punch on Putin.
One in a classroom, the other in Kiev.
So our media think that John Kerry is ruling the day.
John Kerry is telling Putin how it is.
John Kerry is embarrassing Putin.
John Kerry is wagging his finger at Putin.
He's telling Putin the way it's gonna be.com, almost as leftist as Salon.com.
Headline why Obama got Russia wrong and Romney got it right.
To peer into the conservative media and blogosphere as it covers Russia's invasion of Crimea is to risk a fatal dose of shading Freude.
There are reports about how Sarah Palin totally called that Putin would invade Ukraine, and about how Mitt Romney was unfairly mocked for calling Russia the greatest geopolitical threat to the U.S. About Hillary Clinton's reset button gaff.
Even the liberal New Republic has admitted that Romney was right about the Russians and their ambitions.
And he was.
We have to admit it.
Why did Obama blow it?
And here's what they say.
Why did Obama blow it?
Romney was right.
Why was Obama wrong?
Because he was willfully blurring the distinction between geopolitical and other sorts of threats.
Obama was playing to the cheap seats.
Low information voters.
Voters don't fear Russia Or particularly care about its movements over there.
They do care.
Voters do care a lot about terrorism.
And Obama would use any chance he had in 2012 to remind voters that he killed bin Laden.
So what Mr. Weigel, the Dave Weigel will do.
What Weigel is saying here is that in that debate, Romney just in in terms of the real world cleaned the stage with Obama by correctly pointing out that the biggest geopolitical threat we face at the time was Russia.
And Obama is mocking it and making fun of Romney, and this guy's point is that he did it simply to play to low information voters.
It was his election to win, and the way he went about it, that trumped any sort of policy.
And this guy, Weigel is not the only one.
Suddenly, most of the left-wing media are now reporting and seeing that Romney was the guy who had it right and that Obama was the stooge who was the useful idiot playing to his low information voters.
They always admit this stuff after the fact when it's too late for anything to be done about it, or it's too late for it to be meaningful in terms of impacting an election.
They knew then what Romney was right.
They knew then that Obama was simply playing to the low information voters out there.
And that's what he's doing now.
That's what ABC is doing.
Romney.
They tell Putin what for.
They're out there reporting that Kerry just took Putin to school.
This is dangerously wrong.
This is dangerously incompetent.
And I'll tell you how else Obama's playing to the low information voter.
He and Kerry are out there promising one billion dollars in loan guarantees to Ukraine.
Well, it gets their vote when you promise them free health care and a cell phone and unemployment compensation extensions and whatever other benefit you're giving them, food stamps.
Hey, Obama, he cares about Ukraine.
Don't say he's just, he just gave him a billion dollars.
That's all that's for.
That's all they know how to do, folks.
All they know how to do is pander to the lowest common denominator in this country.
That's all they know how to do.
Actually dealing with a real world problem, either here or anywhere else in the world, they are clueless, and these last five years illustrate that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
I've been waiting for an opportunity to point something out.
This may be it, but it may not be it.
And if I bring it up, I may just confuse people, which is not my purpose.
But let me try it.
Let me ask a simple question.
Cable news.
Pick a night, pick a day, any day of the week, month, or year.
There is one group of people you will never see discussing what they do.
One group of people never show up to be analysts, never submit to questioning about what they do.
There's one group of people that have not allowed what they do to be cartoonized.
I'll let you think about that group and who it may be as I take this brief time out.
I better hustle and get to the phones because it's been an hour, maybe longer.
Yeah, since that seminar caller.
Here's uh here's Don in Chicago.
Hi, Don.
I really appreciate your patience.
Thank you for waiting.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
I was in the Ukraine about 12 years ago, about four years after the communists pulled out and left those people literally high and dry.
We were in a uh helping build a church in a uh small town.
And uh it was in a collective farming area.
They literally left the farm sitting in the field.
And here we are five years later, and uh the people were doing nothing.
Nothing.
They were just standing around doing nothing.
And we said, Why aren't you working?
They said, we don't know what to do.
There's no one here to tell us what to do.
And we realized right then and there that the only way this country was gonna come back and demand their freedom and earn it was it was gonna be the next generation.
And here we are about twelve years later, and those kids that wanted to know all about America, they'd never seen an American.
They wanted to know all about it, and we told them what it was like.
Those would be the would be the ones that would take this country back and they're gonna fight for it.
This is exactly Don, you're exactly right.
I'm so glad that you were patient and held on, because it's a brilliant point.
And let me tell you when when this happened in the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union fell apart, I never forget this.
Soviet Union fell apart, the Berlin Wall came down, and everybody was all right, freedom.
And then the Russian people didn't know what to do.
They were nothing more than animals in the zoo that had been fed regularly.
They didn't know how to feed themselves.
They didn't know how to produce.
They didn't know any.
And you know what happened then?
The U.S. media found experts who had traveled to the former Soviet Union.
And the media went over there, Tom broke on.
You know what they said?
They said that freedom is not for everybody.
Freedom just isn't for everybody.
Look at these poor people.
They've got freedom and they're worse off than ever.
Some people are just better off under communism.
That's 1989, 1990, not that long ago when that was happening.
And Don here's exactly right.
Same thing happened in Ukraine.
I mean, it did happen.
They were they they got under out from out of the sphere and he didn't know what to do.
But now this generation doesn't want any part of slavery and is demanding their freedom.
He's right.
All right, well, while we're away in the break, CNN is reporting that Russia is test firing long-range ICBM missiles.
So they had their their foreign policy reporter called John Kerry.
And they asked John Kerry, what do you think of they did, folks.
They're they're test firing long-range ICBMs.
And Kerry said, This is the 21st century, doesn't Putin he can go on Google and find out what happens when you test fire a missile.
He doesn't have to launch a missile to find out what happens.
The UN could tell him we could probably call somebody at at Harvard if he really wants to know what happens when you test fire a missile.
He didn't have to do that.
Oh, by the way, Russia has fired warning shots in Crimea.
That was not supposed to happen.
There was supposed to have been a ceasefire.
Putin said he was pulling back.
Why would he lie?
Why would Putin tell us that he's pulling back and then launch missiles?
This is unacceptable.
This is the 21st century, and he's doing things that we did in the 19th century.
He's so Reagan.
He is so Reagan.
Why does Putin we've got rid of Reagan?
We got rid of what this is the 21st century.
This is this is this we're living in a Saturday night life skit.
We are smack dab in the middle of a parody.
Grab somebody at 26.
Today in Washington at the Powell elementary school.
That's where President Obama was.
They had a press conference.
It was originally to talk about his 2015 budget proposal.
What the hell is he doing in an elementary school proposing his budget?
Well answers itself.
He spoke about the Russia-Ukraine situation, and uh a reporter asked him during the Q ⁇ A, do you have any response to President Putin's press conference morning?
If is Chancellor Merkel right that he's lost touch with reality.
The way that some of this has been reported, uh that uh this suggestion somehow that the Russian actions uh have been clever strategically.
I actually Think that this has not been a sign of of strength, but uh rather is a reflection that countries near Russia have deep concerns and suspicions about this kind of meddling, and if anything, it will push many countries further away from Russia.
I swear.
So he says here that um he's he's he's he's heard all his buddies in the media say that Putin's outsmarting him.
We don't like it.
And this kind of action, this is not gonna help.
This is uh this is just driving people further away from me.
I think Putin cares about that.
He knows full well what he's doing here.
He is demonstrating that nobody's gonna stop him, is what he's doing.
I think John Kerry ought to go to Moscow.
And he ought to grab those fake Vietnam war medals and throw them over some fence at the Kremlin to show them he really means business, to show them that he is damn serious about this 21st versus 19th century business.
How about this stupid question?
Is Chancellor Merkel right that Putin's lost touch with reality?
I'll tell you who's gonna have two feet in reality is this administration.
Here's uh one more QA.
Obama continued his answer on uh Merkel right that Putin's lost touch with reality.
We stand on uh the side of history that I think more and more people around the world deeply believe in.
Uh the principle that a sovereign people and independent people are able to make their own decisions about their own lives.
And you know, Mr. Putin can throw a lot of words out there, but the facts on the ground indicate that right now he's not abiding by that principle.
Yeah, of course he's not abiding by that principle.
Of course he's not.
He's a communist.
You ought to know that at least.
Mr. President.
Don Rumsfeld was on Greta van Sestrin last night.
This is audio soundbite number six as we skip number five.
And she said the Washington Post editorial board uh had an editorial, and they say that uh Obama's foreign policy is a fantasy.
I shared the details of that with you earlier, and she asked Rumsfeld for his reaction.
It is U.S. weakness that has shaken the world.
The administration lacked a foreign policy.
They lack a strategy.
They're managing our economy, modeling in on Europe, which is a failed model, and it's sending the signal out across the globe that the United States is not gonna be there for them, that the United States is in decline.
Damn right.
We're under a purposeful decline.
We are what the Obama is here to manage the decline, and if I'm not mistaken, I think he said it.
Or something close to it.
Hold it.
Yeah, Hegel said it would say, Yeah, we're gonna manage the decline.
Hey, you know what?
It's a 21st century, and we don't need a conventional military anymore.
So we're going to pare it down to World War II size.
Oh, man.
Let's listen to Putin.
Putin was in uh in Moscow this morning, yelled at press conference to talk about the uh Russia-Ukraine situation, and this I don't know, for some reason, amuses me.
Putin now says that they are fighting Nazis in the Ukraine.
You have neo-Nazis, anti-Semitic uh Nazis and anti-Semits in some parts of uh Ukraine, including Kiev.
Uh citizens of Russian-speaking citizens of East and South of Ukraine are worried about if they bequest used for help.
The right for ourselves to take all measures to protect the rights of these people and to reconsider it quite legitimate.
So they got uh fighting uh the Nazis and neo-Nazis uh in the Ukraine.
And by the way, again, when you when you gear everything you do to the American low information voter, if you're gonna say you're targeting Nazis, There's nobody that supports the Nazis.
So if you, if you're gonna go in and say that there are Nazis and neo-Nazis in there, it's gonna be hard to oppose you.
Because nobody, there's nobody in the world that likes the Nazis.
So Putin now he's f Nazis and I know he's toying with everybody, and here's our old buddy Vitali Churkin.
Now, Vitali Chirkin was uh in the Soviet hierarchy all during the 80s.
He's on night line with Ted Koppel all the time.
He he lived in Alexandria, he worked at the Soviet embassy.
He sounded American, except for the yeast in his hair, he looked American.
And he was my all-time favorite Russian Soviet propagandist.
I loved Vitali Churkin.
I even interviewed him once.
And he was uh in New York City at the UN.
He's he's now Russian ambassador to the UN.
Isn't it amazing?
The former head honcho in the communist regime is still a head honcho in the Russian regime.
Anyway, he addressed an emergency session of the UN Security Council, and this is a portion of what he said.
The center of Kiev in many towns in Western Ukraine have been taken over by arms national radicals under extremist, anti-Russian, and anti-Semitic uh slogans being used.
Oh, yeah, see, the Nazis and the neo-Nazis are in there, and they're using anti-Semitic slogans.
And so we gotta go in there and root them out because the people in Ukraine are asking us to come in and get rid of the Nazis and the neo-Nazis.
So let's go now, CNN situation room.
Wolf Blitzer is just they're coming apart at the seams over this.
Civil war is breaking out at CNN.
In this bite, Christiana Munpoor will scold Wolf Blitzer for repeating the Vitali Churchin propaganda.
Propaganda that you just heard Vitali Churkin utter and Putin, that they're in there fighting anti-Semites, Nazis, and neo-Nazis.
Here's the bite.
You heard Vitali Chirkin, the Russian ambassador to the UN Security Council saying earlier today that at fault for all of this are what he called fascists and anti-Semites in Ukraine right now to be considered.
That's what Vitali Churkin he may have done.
That's what he said.
But that is the Russian position.
He may have done that.
That's what I was pointing at.
Are you telling me?
Are you saying that the entire pro-European Ukrainians are anti-Sovent?
That is what the Russians are.
Now that is so instructive.
That right there is so instructive.
Here is Christiana Manpore who actually cares what people think of the people of Ukraine, and she's chiding Blitzer for repeating what Vitali Churkin said and blitzing.
Well, he said it!
He said it.
Wolf, do you actually believe I'm just telling you what Vitali Churkin said?
He said it, he said it.
See, so there's a natural sympathy for Vitali Churkin, former Soviet Union, whatever he says is.
And you can you can extrapolate that.
Well, well, you know, uh Barack Obama said, he just said there's no questioning it.
There is no there is no curiosity about it.
They're just and Kristiana Munpoor is chiding blitzer here for repeating it.
I'm just repeating what he said.
It's what he said.
He said it.
We're a news journalist here.
We're reporting what he said.
He said, but Wolf, do you actually believe?
Come on.
And this continued.
It wasn't quite through.
Am I saying that?
No, I'm not.
But I am saying that that's what Vitali Churkin said in the United States.
Right, and we have to be very careful.
No, no, I heard it.
I heard it.
We just as a network have to be really careful not to lump the entire pro-European Ukrainians into what some may well be, which are nationalistic and extremists.
All I'm saying is what Vitali Churkin said.
He said it, he said it.
I'm telling what Vitali Chirkin said, he said it said it's.
Okay, so he said it.
Big whoop.
What is happening here?
There are a bunch of wacko conspiracy theories that are behind this.
Uh it's it's amazing how how sticky they are.
I mean, people actually gloming on to this.
These uh these these conspiracy theories about there being a bunch of Nazis and neo-Nazis in Ukraine uh threatening Russia uh and and all this.
Here's Vladimir Posner.
I gotta play here right out of the Vitali Churkin school.
Vladimir Posner, old buddy Phil Danahue's best friend shines his shoes and all that.
And he's on CNN this morning with Chris Cuomo.
Why don't we all take a deep breath, count to 10, and then talk about this without all the passions involved.
What worries people here is that in this new government, which is relatively not legitimate, but Putin has said that we will deal with that government even though we don't really consider it legitimate.
There are a lot of very right wing, ultranationalist, and even somewhat fascist, very anti-Semitic people.
They have a very loud voice.
And that worries a lot of people.
So you see how this has played a very loud right wing anti-Semitic Nazi neo-Nazis, and Putin is the good guy running in there to defend Mother Russia.
And all that from these right wingers.
I just is Rumsfeld's right, there's a vacuum because we have taken a hike on the world stage.
From the UK telegraph, Russia Today hosts who criticized Kremlin has been sent to Crimea.
Russian state-funded TV presenter, this isn't a Russian TV info, babe, an anchorette, in an anti-Kremlin tirade, was sent to Crimea to get a better understanding of the situation on the ground.
So a a Diane Sawyer.
Well, actually, she looks like uh she looks like uh Susan Luci.
But anyway, she she let the Kremlin have it, and they sent her to Ukraine to get her mind right.
Now that doesn't sound very 21st century to me.
That sounds awfully 19th century, even 18th century to me.
Putin sent this babe, and she's a looker.
Sent this babe to Crimea to get a better understanding of the situation on the ground.
I'm gonna explain tomorrow that one group of people never ever on TV, never ever allowing what they do to be trivialized, sullied, made cartoon of his judges.
And I want you to think what would happen if after every Supreme Court decision, say three or four Supreme Court justices showed up on Fox News to debate Bob Beckle and Juan Williams and who else about it.
Imagine what we would end up thinking of them.
Everybody it is there's a much larger point that I want to make with this.
And uh that'll help.
I'll do that tomorrow.
Certainly, I promise by the end of the week.
But I just spend some time thinking about that.
Where you think I might take it.
Teachable moment here.
It's about how everything of importance has just been dumbed down to a formulaic shout fist on television.
But the judges do not permit their work to be looked at like that.
They don't participate in it anyway.
They never show up to defend what they do or explain it to anybody.
I actually don't think Putin meant to say Nazis.
I could be wrong about this.
I think he meant to say Tea Party and just couldn't remember.
The Tea Party elements in uh in Ukraine.
And since he forgot to just call them Nazis.
Typical leftist move.
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