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July 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Well, President Obama just uh just what did he do?
He uh he he he told Putin he better let in the investigators.
You better let in these international investigators.
What it just didn't, or else uh let them in there.
Uh same thing Hiddy said on uh on on Friday.
Uh so this is unacceptable, it's intolerable.
Uh what happened here called for other nations to ratchet up sanctions against Putin.
I don't know, folks.
It's it's it's hard not to be I it's hard not to be cynical here, but I I don't know how else to react to this.
I cannot, I can't I I could not in good conscience open this program today by saying to you, boy, you know what?
I'll tell you what, the president of the United States really told Putin the way it's gonna be, really sent shockwaves through Putin today, demanding that Putin come clean, fess up, let all of the people in to find out everything we need to know, get those bodies back.
He didn't do that.
He it did I can't tell you that that's what the president did.
He just continued what he said on Friday, and there was there was nothing behind whatever anybody might want to consider a threat, and I think for those people still having trouble understanding this.
You know, there's been a lot of people over the weekend that went back and and we have it here too, we'll have it for you coming up.
Uh, examine the way Ronaldus Magnus reacted when the Russians shot down the Korean airliner flight 007.
Uh contrasting that to the way um Obama has reacted to this, and I I think that the tough thing for people to uh understand or accept is that Obama does not think that this really is any of our business.
It wasn't an American Airlines that was fly that was shot down.
It was it was uh it happened over in Europe, and yeah, we'll do whatever we can to help the surviving families.
And we'll do whatever we can, but but in terms of of I I just don't think that President Obama considers the United States to have sufficient moral superiority or leadership to be able to tell anybody else what they should and shouldn't do.
That's my take on it anyway.
Let's go to the audio sound bites just to sort of halfway illustrate this.
Uh first up, grab somebody 23.
We want to go to CNN's newsroom today, just before Obama spoke about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
And I find this interesting here.
The chief international correspondent Christianomanpore interviewed Ukrainian president Petro Porochchenko.
And during the interview, Porochinko said he's getting tired of hearing these people called separatists.
Please, Christian, don't name the separatist.
There is no separatist there.
They are terrorists.
They're killing the innocent people.
And I think that they attempt to destroy the evidence.
They attempt to, yeah.
Yeah, and I've heard uh throughout the weekend, I've heard people talking about this.
Who don't know what a separatist is from a joiner.
They just hear the word bandied about on the media and oh, you're the separatist, or whatever.
What do you mean the separatist?
Who what separatists?
I was asking people, what separatists?
Well, you know.
No, no.
What are the separatists separating from?
And they had no idea they're just repeating.
And they're decent people, don't misunderstand.
I'm not talking about running in a pocket full of liberals.
Uh, But I think this guy has a good point that we cover up exactly what's going on here by referring to separatists, meaning they've got their own claim to independence and liberty and freedom, when this kind of behavior should never be tolerated and justified even within the confines of the rules of war during declared hostilities.
Now here's the president in Washington Day on the South Lawn of the White House.
He was scheduled to uh speak at 1050, showed up a little late.
As always, we have two sound bites.
Here's the first.
The separatists are removing evidence from the crash site.
All of which begs the question what exactly are they trying to hide?
Yeah.
Moreover, these Russian-backed separatists are removing bodies from the crash site.
Oftentimes without the care that we would normally expect from a tragedy like this.
This is an insult to those who've lost loved ones.
It's the kind of behavior that has no place in the community of nations.
Yeah, but that's it.
It has no place.
It's as uh this is uh this is without the care that we would normalize.
We're asking for the people who shot down 290 completely innocent people to exhibit care for the bodies after the tragedy.
What is that?
It's like Kerry.
My gosh, what a disaster this is.
And and and what a walking joke.
Secretary of this thehill.com.
Secretary say John Kerry said yesterday.
And he's gonna travel the Middle East to attempt to broker a ceasefire between the Israeli military and Hamas.
Kerry said on CNN, I believe the president's asking me to go over very shortly to work on the ceasefire.
What do you mean you don't know?
You think he's gonna ask you?
You think it's coming?
Uh what?
Can you go on your own?
Your Secretary of State, can you decide things are bad enough that you need to go?
And then he said, I mean, and this is our diplomacy.
And this is what I mean by I I think we've got people in positions of power and leadership who do not believe that the United States has any moral authority.
We're not better than anybody else.
We don't we're we're not leaders.
We've got our own problems.
We have treated people in ill-gotten ways ourselves.
We've discriminated, we've been mean, we've engaged in our own form of domestic.
So who are we to tell these people what they can't?
I think that's the mindset that many of our top leftist leaders have.
They're laden with guilt about this country, and because of that, they don't feel that they've got any moral authority to tell these other bad guys what they should and shouldn't do.
So they'll go out there and and they'll they'll beg or plead or suggest that these guys do the right thing, and that's it.
After that, they've done their duty.
They've spoken up on the right side of the issue.
Kerry said a ceasefire is the only answer.
He called on Hamas.
Are you ready for this?
Step up and show a level of reasonableness in negotiations.
This is the same guy when nations and groups who've been at war since the beginning of time continue to stay at war.
John Kerry's reaction is hey, this is a 21st century.
What are you gonna get with it?
This is not the way we do war in the 21st century.
You gotta I I don't know how to deal with you.
Now, you're this we just don't do.
We get conflict resolution 101, and we have a number of other things that I can throw at.
But what is war business?
You guys are gonna have to understand that this it's a 21st century.
What does this mean?
And so now Hamas demand be reasonable.
It's like Obama is asking the Russian terrorists to shot down.
Come on, you guys, be reasonable.
Let the families get to the bodies.
Be reasonable.
What are they doing?
Uh reaching out to their better instincts, trying to establish common bonds of humanity between us and the bad guys.
Kerry said, no country, no human being is comfortable with children being killed.
He said of Palestinian civilian deaths, but we're not comfortable with Israeli soldiers dying either.
Oh, thanks for throwing that in there.
So come on, Hamas, be reasonable.
I keep thinking of Hillary's reset and that cheap little plastic red button with Putin and I hate it.
You don't misunderstand.
I think I think Putin is KGB, and they're just laughing at all this.
Or they're smiling.
Lindsey Graham, uh Washington examiner, uh, yesterday, Lindsey Graham slams John Kerry for delusional defense of Obama foreign policy.
He's on um, I guess a TV show Sunday, and he uh he called Kerry's defense of Obama's foreign policy delusional and criticized the regime for not taking a tougher stance against Russia.
Uh Lindsey Graham says, scares me that Kerry believes the world's in such good shape.
America's the glue that holds the free world together, leading from behind's not working.
See, that's the I don't think they think that, folks.
Honestly, I don't think that this crop of leftists in the uh in the White House, the State Department, hell anywhere.
I don't think they believe such things as America is the glue that holds the free world.
I don't think they believe we have that moral authority.
I think the reason why Obama doesn't, it's not that he's not capable of it, it's not that he's a coward.
The reason he doesn't throw down the gauntlet to Putin, well, there are two reasons.
A, if he said or did anything even slightly more stringent than what he did today, then you have to back it up with some action.
And we know he's not going to do that.
I mean, if we're not going to take action against Benghazi, if we're not going to take action against Syria, if we're not going to take action against, we're not going to take action here.
So he's not going to say anything that would automatically be followed by action or leadership.
So the power of word.
Remember, these guys think their words change the world.
These guys believe that this is a world governed by the aggressive use of speeches.
When it is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
And force is going to be the speech every contest.
That's what we're up against.
They do not believe that we are the glue that holds the free world together.
Hell, we're just another oppressor nation, maybe to a lesser degree than some of these other people.
But we've, hey, you know, we have no business preaching to anybody.
We got our own problems.
They've even look at this bunch early on in the Obama administration, even admitted this to a Chicom government liaison.
We were upset about something that Chicoms were doing on the human rights issue, and one of our many ambassadors, there was a meeting in Washington.
I remember the uh the generics, but not the specifics, but the guy said to the to the to the Chicom, like, look, we've got no real reason to speak here.
We've got our own problems.
We have created our own uh messes here, but I mean, they do believe this.
That, and and if you doubt that if you don't believe me, just hearken back to how these people hate the concept of American exceptionalism.
It's the same.
Then Lindsey Graham rebuked Kerry for calling or for failing to call Putin the thug that he is.
As Kerry made several appearances on Sunday morning news shows, Lindsey Graham said that Kerry gave the most ridiculous, delusional summary of American foreign policy I could imagine.
Of course, it is ridiculous and delusional because underpinning it is the belief that we've got no business telling anybody what's what.
We've got no business condemning anybody else for what they do, or backing it up.
Ladies and at the bottom of this piece, Lindsey Graham practically channels something we said on this program back on March 6th at the start of the Ukrainian invasion.
Lindsey Graham said, There's a battle of wills between a KGB colonel and the community organizer, and the colonel is winning.
Now I want to take, well, here's what I say.
I don't know that Lindsey Graham listened the program, but back on August, I'm sorry, April.
The March 6th of 2014, I said, so what we've got here in the Ukraine, we have the KGB, Putin.
We have a top KGB, not former because no one ever leaves the KGB.
We have a top KGB officer, Vladimir Putin versus a failed community organizer, Barack Obama.
Who do you think is going to come out and top on this?
It's the KGB versus Acorn.
So what we're witnessing, it's what Ukraine is.
Back in March is the way I characterize it.
Lindsey Graham did yesterday.
The battle of wills between the KGB colonel and the community organizer and the colonel is.
He had to have heard that in this program.
He had to.
Who else would come up with this?
Here's the second Obamabite just to dot the I crossed the T. We know that Russia has armed them with military equipment and weapons, including anti-aircraft weapons.
Key separatist leaders are Russian citizens.
So given its direct influence over the separatists, Russia, and President Putin in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation.
That is the least that they can do.
Oh, and Putin shakes and quakes in his boots.
So, given the direct influence over the separatists, Russia and President Putin has direct responsibility to make them cooperate with the investigation.
The least they can do is cooperate with it.
Wishes were not the case, folks.
I wish this were not circumstances under which all this happens and is analyzed and reported, but it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Porochinko has a point.
Calling these Russian invaders, these associates of Putin, calling them separatists is as dishonest as calling these illegal alien kids migrants.
It's that kind of distortion.
Thank you.
But I wonder what what finally woke Obama up because all of this has been known about the Russians in Ukraine ever since this all started.
This, I mean, yeah, it's an it's it's a shock and it's an outrage that they'd shoot down a civilian airplane, but that's who these people are.
You know, up until now, President Obama's practically been saying that both sides are at fault in the Ukraine, and this is exactly how conflict resolution experts deal with.
Everybody's at fault.
Everybody's guilty.
Some are more guilty than others, but everybody's guilty, and can't we all just get along?
We understand that neither of us and none of us are perfect, and we're all equal, and everything's fine.
He's acted like this is uh a real separatist movement, that the Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine had a legitimate gripe because everybody does, he thinks.
Everybody's got a legitimate gripe, but nobody's got any moral authority, nobody's got any superiority, nobody's got a monopoly on right in uh in their world.
So the Russian speakers in Ukraine had a legitimate gripe.
And for Kerry, and I got some emails during the break, Mr. Snerdley, predictably so.
These kind of emails depress me, but they're also a great opportunity.
Mr. Limbaugh, what's wrong with acting reasonable?
What's wrong with the Secretary of State asking people to behave reasonably?
That makes perfect sense.
Why not do that?
Well, let me give it a go.
In order for Hamas to behave reasonably, you have to redefine reason.
In Hamas's world, war is the constant, and peace is the lull While you regroup.
In Israel, peace is an objective for the rest of time.
An end of war with victory and the presence of justice.
But that's not how Hamas views the world.
It's not how a jihadist rules the world or looks at it.
They look at life as war.
They train for it, they raise their kids for it.
Their entire existence is battle after battle after battle after battle, war after war after war, and it never ends.
The Hamas charter pledges that it will destroy Israel by violent jihad.
Yeah, how reasonable is that?
That to them is reasonable.
They hate the Jews.
They hate Christians.
They think the Jews are the biggest bunch of mess that the world has ever known.
And then the only way to fix the world is to get rid of all the Jews.
And that to them is reasonable.
So let's start there, Senator Kerry or Secretary Kerry.
That's their definition of reasonable, and their view of the world is constant war with little interruptions called peace, where they regroup.
But if that's where you're coming from, that your charter is to destroy Israel by violence.
What could possibly be more reasonable than to wage violent jihad against Israel?
That's exactly reasonable, Mr. Secretary.
The unreasonable, irrational guys, are the carries and the Obamas and the Hillaries who keep getting surprised when violent people act violently.
They are continually surprised when the bad guys are the bad guys and they don't get reformed and they stay bad guys.
They think violence can only be caused with a Tea Party.
I gotta take a brief time out.
And I've got an audio soundbite that almost alludes to that.
The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
And folks, now we know why Obama felt obligated to speak about the Ukraine situation today, yet again.
There is a story in the New York Times a couple of days ago, which would have been Saturday, sticking to his travel plans, comma, at risk of looking bad.
As I say it's the Washington Times, as smoke billowed from the downed Malaysian jet liner in the fields of eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
President Obama pressed ahead with his schedule.
A cheeseburger with fries at the charcoal pit in Delaware, a speech about infrastructure and two splashy fundraisers in New York City.
The potential for jarring.
Split screen imagery was clear.
Reports of charred bodies and a ground-to-where missile attack from Eastern Europe dominated screens, while photographers snapped pictures of a grinning Mr. Obama holding a baby at the restaurant.
The presidential motorcade was later filmed pulling up to Trump Place apartments, the Riverside Avenue venue for his first fundraiser.
And yet, White House aides said no consideration was given to abandoning the president's long-planned schedule.
Even during the hour-long flight from Delaware to New York, when words suddenly arrived that Israel had begun a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
It's really a good idea to return to the White House just for show, when the situation can be handled responsibly from the roads, said Jennifer Palmieri, the White House communications director.
Abrupt changes to his schedule can have the unintended consequence of unduly alarming the American people or creating a false sense of Christ.
Yeah, who would want to do that?
So we're going to stick to the schedule of cheeseburger fries and two fundraisers after the Israelis invade the Gaza Strip and the smoke still billows from the down wreckage of the Malaysian jet because to go back to the White House would scare the American people.
To go back to the White House and deal with it would frighten the American people.
It might create a false sense of crisis.
And there's clearly no crisis here.
Do you see a crisis?
Obama's having a cheeseburger and fries.
Crisis, what crisis?
You see a crisis.
Two fundraisers?
Crisis, what crisis?
So why do we want to create the idea that there's a crisis here?
Nothing out of the norm.
Now, if it were Bush, who had the nerve to go to his ranch after Katrina, which probably remains the biggest crime of the 21st century so far, then of course the New York Times coverage would be different.
But but at least I think now.
Even the New York Times here starting to complain that Obama's constant vacationing is making him look bad.
Right there in the headline, sticking to his travel plans at risk of looking bad.
See that you and I ignore the New York Times, but they don't.
It is their Bible.
So if you jet off to two Democrat fundraisers in Manhattan, well, in New York City, after just hearing from Putin himself about the Malaysian jet lighter being shot down.
And then later in the story, the Times, you know, covers their basis.
Bush and Reagan did the same thing or worse.
But nevertheless, they're worried.
All of the leftists, all the Democrats.
I mean, they are profoundly worried over the sum total of all of this.
And since they live and die by the photo op, they live and die by image.
PR buzz.
They are especially worried about how it all looks to uh to people.
Now, how about this story?
This is again, this is the uh it's a Washington Post in Russia.
Everybody loves Putin.
Do you know?
There's a Gallup poll.
The Russian people and Putin's job approvals at 83%, that's up 30%, 30 points from last year.
83% of Russians approve of Putin's job performance.
Now, I realize that some cynics can say, well, yeah, but what if they say they disapprove?
Do they get shot?
I mean, after all, he's the KGB.
But he is stirring a nationalist pride in uh in Russia.
He's trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union, is what Putin is doing.
And of course, we, United States, do not view ourselves as having any right to comment on that one way or the other.
I mean, it's Putin's business.
None of ours.
We we don't.
What right do we have to tell Putin he can't do that?
What right do we have?
Now, sadly, I think a lot of people agree with that in modern day America.
We we've had how many generations have grown up being taught, educated, tempered, treated to the whole notion of moral equivalence.
Which, the way it's currently taught, is that the United States know better than anybody else, and we have no right to tell anybody else what to do, and we have no business being concerned what happens in the rest of the world.
none of our business.
It's sort of an extension of the old saw that we can't be the world's policemen.
See, this is one of the many areas that I think we drastically need a re-education program for the American people, particularly young people.
It's because what we're talking about is precisely what this country was in the world.
Precisely the kind of position this country occupied in the world.
And it wasn't just that we demanded it.
It wasn't that we were tyrants and ran around the world and demanded that everybody else respect us and treat us as the world's superpower and bow down and kiss our feet and look at we uh we didn't demand any of that.
It happened.
It happened naturally.
It happened because we were, without doubt and without question, from most of the people in the world, the beacon of liberty and freedom.
We did indeed have the moral authority to defend freedom and to liberate the oppressed anywhere in the world we found it necessary, particularly if our own national interest were at stake.
We had all of that.
It was a result of the natural outgrowth of this country's greatness.
We have never been led by tyrants that went around demanding that we be treated as kings and queens by the rest of the world.
It just, and we never were treated as kings and queens, but the amount of respect that was that was felt that the rest of the world and fear for this country was real and it was genuine and it was born of reality.
It was something that had been earned by virtue of our dominance for good.
We fed the world, we clothed the world, we taught and educated the world.
We were the place in the world that the oppressed looked to assistance, for help for being bailed out.
It was just it's just the way it was, and it was a direct result of our natural expansion and growth as a free society that held certain values and truths close.
It was it was the very essence of goodness and decency that was triumphing.
And in recent decades, we've had an outgrowth of the point of view that none of that was warranted, that in fact we were oppressors, that in fact we were imperialistic, and that we did send our military out around the world,
and we did put our jackbooted thugs on the necks of smaller countries and demand that they do what we wanted or else.
And that there was nothing inherently better about us.
The only thing that gave us this superiority was our military and our weapons of destruction and our ability to wantonly murder people.
And this view became more and more popular because it's frankly, it's easier.
And one can sound very humble by saying, oh, I'm no big deal.
Come on, you know, we're we're no, no, no.
I'm not, I'm just some average ordinary guy running around.
Well, I'm not a bit we as a nation have people that think that if we behave that way, that we somehow establish commonality with everybody else, and that we're better people, and we just, you know, we're we're we admit that uh we're no different anybody.
We're no better, and we got no right to tell anybody else what to do, how to do it.
And it's it's gonna be a tough thing to re-educate people on.
Well, because it's A, people are going to consider it to be bragging if they're not if if they're not properly instructed on the whole notion of geostrategy, geopolitics, the uh America's place in the world and why that's important.
His push for globalism is much the same thing.
This push for globalism is really a disguised attempt to diminish the United States.
This massive effort to link all the nations of the world as one through the United Nations is essentially an effort to cut the United States down to an appropriate size so that A, it isn't any bigger or better, and that nobody in this country thinks that it is.
In fact, we could be a lot worse.
You know what?
We can learn a lot from other parts of it, like Europe.
We can learn a lot from other parts of it.
Imagine, if you will, this kind of attitude, this kind of leadership, all during the 70s and 80s, when the Soviet Union was in fact a realpower, at least militarily.
Imagine not having leaders who believed that the Soviet Union was an immoral insult.
Imagine not having leaders who thought the Soviet Union was a threat to free human beings everywhere.
And that something had to be done about it.
Imagine the Berlin Wall never coming down.
Imagine there still being an East and West Germany.
Sort of like Dinesh D'Souza's movie, America Imagine the World Without Her.
I mean, that's where we're headed.
And you can see it, folks.
You can you you can see this kind of worldview reflected in every speech Obama gives or carry or whatever, whether it's Israel and Hamas, or it's the downed Malaysian jetliner, or it's Benghazi, or it's Syria, or I don't have time.
I don't it's none of my business.
I'm not I'm I'm no better than Putin.
I got no business telling Putin what to do other than tell him what I think he ought to do, but that's far as I'm gonna go, and I got a fundraiser to attend some cheeseburgers to eat.
It it is a direct outgrowth of this whole notion of moral equivalence.
That it's not that we're not better than anybody else, it's that we're just as bad.
It's always an accent on the negative.
The moral equivalence crowd always seeks to emphasize the negative aspects of America as they attempt to justify or establish that we're no better.
We're just as bad as these guys are.
Who is to say we're any better?
But that's always a uh uh bit of attention focused on the negative because they understand human nature, negative is easy.
Everybody can be negative, everybody knows how to be a pessimist.
Doesn't take any effort whatsoever, so you appeal to that.
And uh you score.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
How are you?
It's L Rushball Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, chaos, down civilian airliners, all of it, including the good times.
Here on the one and only excellence in broadcasting, the other way, here's Robbie in Panama City, Florida.
Hi, Robbie, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, I appreciate you taking my call as a first-time caller.
How are you doing, Robbie?
I'm doing good, my friend.
Good.
Hey, I just wanted to make a comment.
I don't I don't agree with some things you say, and I agree with a lot of things you say.
But I think we we got a little bit too much criticism for our president over this down Malaysian airline that we know was shot down.
That's all we know from last week that it was shot down.
Well, but we know who did it.
Well, you know, we we can ask we can uh pinpoint who'd done it, you know, or think we know who done it, but we ain't even got our FBI or NCIS or anybody on the ground.
The national community hadn't got anybody on the ground.
I mean, it's just a little too early to be criticizing the president, you know, starting one hour after the plane went down.
Uh no, I don't need to start one hour after the plane went down.
I think the uh the very fact that we don't have any why by the way, wait, Robbie, hold it.
What just you just said something that I just went almost went right by me?
Why should we send the FBI or NCIS over there?
Because we had an American on the plane.
Well, we're 23 Americans on a plane, but mostly Dutch people that were mostly uh people in the Netherlands on the plane.
It didn't happen here.
What is it?
Why is it our business in the FBI and CIS over there?
Well, they're they sending them over there.
Apparently, somebody's requested our our assistance, and so naturally we're gonna send the best of what we got over there to help with this investigation.
But uh, it's just too early, within hours, Rush.
Um, the the news media, some on the news media was criticized the president for not commenting more than 30 seconds while he was out making his, you know, let me ask you this, Robbie.
Why did he go out today and do it again?
Why if if he if he commented on Friday and everything's hunky-dory, why did he go out and do a mulligan today?
Your Democrat presidents get mulligans and do-overs.
Yeah, he's getting do-overs because the the American people expect it.
No, he went out today because he blew it so bad on Friday.
And you know why he blew it on Friday?
He didn't even act like he cared.
Do you remember what he said, Robbie?
He said it looks like it might be a terrible tragedy.
Hey, it's great to be in Delaware where Joe Biden is from.
It appeared to be totally disconnected, uncaring, and the dreaded insensitive.
Yeah, I'll give you that.
Yeah, he he was.
He was.
But this being in another country, and they hadn't even got control of that part of the country, Ukraine.
To where, you know, we expect an you know hard facts from our president as far as what caused this crash and what we're gonna do and stuff.
It's too early in the ball game for him.
No, I'll tell you what.
Hang on, Robbie.
I'm gonna play a tape for you from Ronald Reagan after Korean jetliner went down before we knew anything.
I mean, it's a Soviet today.
We knew far less on that than we did on this.
You you you'll hear the difference.
I keep right back, don't go.
That's it, my friends.
Another exciting hour of broadcast excellence is in the can, but you hang tough because we come back.
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