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July 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Israeli and Palestinian slash Hamas conflict has just reached a new level of seriousness.
With the low information voters finally getting clued in, there is now a hashtag on Twitter.
Can the end of this war be far behind?
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB microphone, as I am each and every day here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As always, really just happy to be here with you.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a hashtag.
Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies is the new hashtag.
And as such, we can expect peace to break out any moment.
Now, I understand some of you.
Rush, why are you so cynical about people getting involved and showing how much they care and trying to help?
Why are you so, I know these are the questions that some people ask.
To me, those are embarrassing questions.
They're embarrassing questions to have to answer.
No, no, they're not embarrassing to have to answer.
Well, they are in a way, but it's embarrassing that they're asked.
But just this is what is becoming of what used to be serious thought.
I mean, this hashtag is a direct product or direct result of what has been said to be education throughout our public school system.
You know, conflict resolution 101.
Can't we all just get along?
Can't we all just be friends?
It is the it's at the root of it is the failure to accept and failure to believe that there are bad guys.
And at the root of it is this ridiculous assumption that we're all the same, that we're all equal, that we all have equal amounts of goodness, and we all have equal amounts of badness.
And if we can just get the excessive badness out of what are essentially good people, then everything will be fine.
And so we can shame the bad people with a hashtag on Twitter.
And it doesn't work that way.
It never has worked that way.
It is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
It's not a world governed by words, doctors, clean water speeches, or what have you.
Now, I understand some people are just doing this because they want to get in on the story, want to be involved.
But some people actually think that it's going to matter.
And that's another aspect of it, is that everybody, and this is understandable psychologically, everybody is searching for meaning in their lives.
The left uses that to great effect.
Global warming debate, you name it.
Tell people they're destroying something that they can redeem themselves with proper political ideological behavior.
And bamo, you've got instant supporters.
So speaking of the first popularly known hashtag to resolve a conflict, of course, was the Boko harem kidnapping of all of those girls in Nigeria.
I have an update here.
In the three months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian screw girls, 11 of their parents have died.
According to town residents, the town where the girls were kidnapped, Chibok, is cut off by militants who've been attacking villages in the region.
The hashtag apparently, well, they're mocking the hashtag over at Boko Harem.
We had that audio soundbite from a little while ago where the leader of Boko Harem is laughing at Good Luck Jonathan, the leader of Nigeria, and at the hashtag campaign, if you will, in general.
So in the three months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of their parents have died.
Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to the Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kotakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists.
At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure, and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction 100 days ago of over 200 girls.
So not only did the hashtag not get the girls back, the hashtag bring back our girls made famous by Muchal Obama, no effect.
And now there's one for the Israeli-Middle East conflict.
And what's happening over there is an outrage.
Again, we have the unwillingness on the part of this administration, by the way, and countless others, to recognize the good guys and the bad guys, and unwillingness to recognize that we have a long-standing ally.
This administration seeks to blame our ally for the problem.
And if you understand liberalism, it makes perfect sense.
Why?
Forget the details of the region, which just add icing on the cake.
To understand this administration's lack of support for Israel, all you have to do is take a look at the Middle East and try to find who a leftist would think the victims are.
Because the victims are always what dominate everything.
The victims are on whom and around whom policy will be based.
Well, in the Middle East, there is a singular power, and that is Israel.
And as such, they are the automatic oppressors.
As liberalism looks at things, the victims are the poor Palestinians in Hamas, and all they are doing is trying to protect themselves against this vicious, all-powerful, unfriendly invader known as Israel.
The left will always side with the victims, and they will always try to manufacture victims.
And in that scenario, victims are incapable of committing acts of evil because all they are doing is defending themselves.
All they're doing is responding to vicious, aggressive attacks by the evil power, the majority, if you will.
And so in this case, it would be Israel.
There's a total ignoring of what is driving this.
And it is nothing more complicated than anti-Semitism.
And it has been around since long before this conflict began.
There is no solution in this context, the conflict that can be found by any government policy from the United States originated by any liberal Democrat.
It's simply not worldly possible because they will not even admit what the root problem is.
They will not assign good guy and bad guy status to the combatants.
In both instances, they're both bad guys, but the real bad guys, Hamas, the Palestinians, you name it, they get a break.
They'll cut some slack because they're poorer and they're less educated and they're the chose.
They're the ones that we all need to care about because they're the ones that are being oppressed.
They're the disadvantaged.
They're the ones that are being mistreated, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so whatever they do to defend themselves or get what they want, it's understandable.
We must take time to understand the rage.
Never mind the fact that Palestinian and Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, you name it, militant jihadist leaders were trained.
They were collaborated with by the Nazis.
They held something in common.
The hatred of the Jews.
The Nazis aligned back in the 40s, 30s, and 40s with anti-Jewish interests in the Middle East.
There is no solution to this problem.
In fact, the quote-unquote closest we've ever come, Bill Clinton, in a moment of desperation, gave Yasser Arafat, when he was alive, virtually everything Arafat was demanding.
Not virtual.
Almost everything that Arafat was demanding, Clinton gave it.
You know what Arafat did?
He moved the goalposts.
No, no, and added new demands.
Why?
He didn't want a resolution.
He didn't want there to be any solution to this, just like the race industry in America does not want there to be an end of the so-called racism that defines, in their view, the United States.
None of the major causes advanced by the left or claim to be important are causes they really ever want to solve.
And it's the same thing with the Palestinians and the Hamas.
There's no solution to this except the death of every Jew they can see and find.
Short of that, there's going to be consistent, never-ending, all day, all night, 24-7, 365 war.
That is the natural state.
That is what is normal for the enemies of Israel in the Middle East.
Peace to them is simply a momentary lull, usually in the midst of resounding defeat, where they have to take a timeout, retreat, regroup, rearm, come up with new plans, and then start it up all over again.
Peace to the Israelis is what peace is to you and me.
The absence of war, the absence of conflict, the absence of threat, presence of justice.
That's what the Israelis seek.
It's not what the Palestinians seek.
There's no two-state solution.
There is no mutual accommodation because there's nothing held in common here.
For the longest time in analyzing this so-called peace process, intellectually, it's always amazed me.
It seems so clear to me, and it doesn't matter.
Administration after administration, Secretary of State after Secretary of State, doesn't matter.
We get the same application of policy.
We want to sit down and get the combatants at the table, have negotiations, have chats, do whatever.
It never changes.
In any conflict, there must be a winner, and there must be a loser.
And until such time as that happens, none of this is going to end.
I've always asked myself why do not we just let Israel win?
What is wrong with this?
They are our ally.
They don't seek to eliminate all Arabs from the face of the earth.
They don't seek to march every Arab they can find into the Mediterranean.
They don't seek to bomb every Arabian capital off the map.
That is the objective of their enemies, though, where the Jews are concerned.
But this is a war, and you don't end wars with peace talks.
Take any war in the past, for example, World War II, how did it end?
Well, in Japan, it ended when we dropped a couple nuclear weapons, and that made the Japanese surrender.
And that's when there were negotiations.
And during those negotiations, we told them how it was going to be.
We won.
Ditto VE Day in Europe, victory in Europe.
We defined the terms of victory militarily.
In both instances, civilian targets were exactly what was sought.
That's how you won.
Civilian casualty, bombing Dresden, bombing Berlin.
There wasn't any such thing as precision surgical strikes.
The two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, population, general population targets.
That's what war is.
It's horrible.
Once you find yourself in it, there are definite things you do to win, definite things you do to lose.
But you do not win a war by having peace conferences.
You don't have victory attached to peace talks.
You don't negotiate.
You don't send a hapless Secretary of State all over the world trying to convince the two parties to do whatever it is he or his boss want.
It's just a fruitless, useless, wasteful exercise.
I am 63 years old.
The Middle East peace process is as old as I am.
It's as old as you are.
There hasn't been anything substantially changed in my lifetime in terms of the nature of the disagreement.
Because the nature of the disagreement is anti-Semitism.
Isn't it amazing?
People around the world will point fingers and blame at anti-Semites everywhere they can find them, except where it is concentrated and focused in the Middle East.
Then you can't even find the word coming out of their mouths.
And that's because the anti-Semites in this case happen to be the poor, hapless victims of an all-powerful, evil neighbor seeking to impose its will on the region is the perverted view that at least this administration has.
Got to take a brief time out.
There's lots to do on the busy broadcast today, folks.
Yo, sit tight.
We'll be back.
Continue and resume right where we left off after this.
Let me read to you just a brief excerpt from a piece on All This Today, National Review Online by my friend Andy McCarthy.
Right now, there's a tremendous opportunity to demolish Hamas.
That would be a good thing.
It would be a good thing for everybody.
These are jihadists.
These are people that strap bombs on their babies and send them into public bus stations and so blow ourselves up.
Doing so is the only chance of breaking the Palestinian jihadist will.
I mean, you want to stop this, don't we?
We all claim to want to end terrorism.
We want to end it as much as we can.
The Palestinians claim to have, well, there are three things the Palestinians need to concede if there is to be peace, quote-unquote peace.
They must accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, which they do not right now.
They must renounce terrorism.
They call it resistance, but they must renounce it.
And they must abandon this silly right of return demand.
That's the definition of peace.
If you can come up with a speech or a set of talks or negotiations to convince Hamas to do that, then have at it.
Ostensibly, it's what Kerry and Obama are trying to do.
Although I don't think they are.
I think they look at those demands as excessive and unrealistic.
It is Israel that must concede.
It is Israel that must give up more land.
It's Israel that must back off.
It's Israel that must stop killing civilians.
It's Israel that must stop provoking.
But if you really want peace, this is what the Palestinian concessions must be.
If you want a two-state solution, which is what everybody claims they want, there's only one way to get it.
There's only one way to get a two-state solution, and that is the jihad has to be defeated.
Like happens in any war.
The bad guys have to lose.
And so, get out of the way.
Let Israel win.
And why do we have to keep reminding people that that means siding with our ally?
That is such an embarrassing thing for this administration to admit that Israel's an ally and side with them?
No, no, no.
Can't do that.
The worst thing that could happen right now is what John Kerry is seeking, and that's a ceasefire.
Because ceasefires, that's peace to Hamas.
That's when they regroup.
That's when they rearm.
That's when they form new plans before Israel has destroyed the chance for all of that to happen.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Ha!
How are you?
Rushland boy here in the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Soon to be starting our 27th year.
27 is unheard of.
In this business, that is unheard of.
It's rare in a lot of places.
And it just, you know, some days it just all seems like yesterday.
And then other days, I'm cognizant of how much time has gone by.
It's just amazing.
I think all of you have been there this time.
Well, many of you came in during various stages.
You were born and grew up.
Some of you are rush babies from the very beginning.
Others are new arrivals, but there's a core of you that have been there since day one.
It's just the most amazing thing.
Anyway, we'll get to your phone calls here as the program unfolds.
Just let me tell you one thing.
There's a lot going on.
I had no intention of even opening up with the Israeli-Palestinian thing today.
People ask me frequently at five minutes before showtime, what are you going to lead with?
It happened yesterday.
I got to know.
What are you going to lead with?
I don't know yet.
They said, well, you better figure it out because you're up in 10 minutes.
And, you know, it's got everything here ready to go.
It's just whatever strikes my fancy when the microphone goes on.
And right before the program started, I'm watching CNN and I see about this hashtag campaign.
Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.
And I saw for crying out loud.
Is this for real?
And CNN spending serious time on it as though it matters.
And so I said, well, okay, I do what I do every day.
I get up.
I look at the things I believe in under assault and seek to defend them.
The people I believe in under assault and seek to defend them.
Or when I am confronted with abject stupidity that makes me frightened for the future of the country, I deal with it.
And this hashtag stuff, on one hand, it's laughably funny.
On the other hand, these people vote.
On the other hand, they are impacted, affected, moved, influenced, persuaded by things that are just absolutely stupid.
And this idea, and social media, for many people, social media is the only thing that gives their lives meaning.
They have some measure of fame, they think, because they have followers, or they have friends, or what have you, or they have people that retweet them.
And so there's a psychological component, and whatever they can do to cause favorable reaction, hashtag, who's going to be critical of a hashtag?
Well, count on me.
Throw cold water on all this meaningless emotional investment like the Boko Haramex.
So that's why I'm spending time on today because I saw that hashtag thing.
And the hashtag, these hashtag things, I don't know, they grate on me.
They irritate me.
And the people that believe in them irritate me.
I don't know why.
I guess I get frustrated at the stupidity.
And I hope and pray that they're not as stupid as they seem.
But I look at election results and I'm not encouraged.
So just a couple more things on this, and we'll move on to something else I predicted back on January 16, 2009.
I predicted, as you well know, on that date, well, I said I hoped Obama failed.
But in that same monologue, I also predicted that Obama would divide this country like never before.
That prediction I haven't recalled to too many people's attention, but there's a poll out today showing just how divided we are, more divided today than when Obama was immulated.
So I went back to the archives and I got soundbite where I predicted.
So that's coming up.
The wrap-up here of the latest with Israel and Palestine, Obama has decided to send $47 million in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
It might be useful to review why the Gaza Strip matters.
This goes back to Clinton and Arafat.
The Gaza Strip used to be run, owned, operated, occupied by Israel.
And it was one of the many slices of territory that a previous Democrat administration forced Israel to give up.
And they say, give it up.
It's a hellhole anyway.
You don't want to be there.
Nobody does.
Give it to the Palestinians and let them run it.
Give them their own little plot of the land.
Let them run it.
No, no, no.
You can't do that.
They're going to use that as a staging base for attacks on Israel.
That's exactly what has happened.
The Gaza Strip is not an example of what a great culture and society can be built if the Israelis will just get out of the way.
That was the dream.
Let them demonstrate how they can build sewers and hospitals and show the world what they're capable of.
It didn't happen.
It's a military staging because they're bad guys.
In this conflict, they're the bad guys.
From our standpoint, now, you know, we have a certain set of values and morals, and we have allies, and we believe in certain things, and those people don't.
And if they take military action against us, they become bad guys.
If they don't want to just peacefully coexist in their own cocoon, and they want to come out of the cocoon, they want to try to kill and punish people who disagree with them, they determine the rules.
They become the aggressors, and they become the bad guys.
Our people don't see it that way.
So Barack Obama has just sent or has agreed to send $47 million in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
You know why?
Because the Israelis, the Israelis are being really mean.
You're killing people in Gaza Strip.
That's what John Kerry was trying to sound sarcastic about when he was overheard Sunday on a Fox microphone mocking the Israelis' pinpoint operations.
The Israelis are not allowed a single humanitarian or civilian casualty.
Hamas lives and dies on them.
Hamas, the Palestinian authority, you name it, the Islamic Jihad, is all about civilian casualty, specifically Jewish, Israeli civilian casualty.
But that's understandable because they're the oppressed minority.
They're the weaker.
It's not fair that they shouldn't be as powerful as Israel.
And so whatever they do in the face of this big thrift in this evil, mean, bigger country, well, we just have to understand it.
That's the perverted thinking that leftist education has inculcated in the minds of a bunch of Americans.
So the Israelis, one civilian happens to get killed in an Israeli response.
Gaza is where they're launching rockets into Israel, one of the places Israel responds.
And of course, the Palestinians arrange for civilians to be killed by putting them in their military targets, converting mosques to military installations, taking over civilian neighborhoods and turning them into military compounds.
It's impossible not to have civilian casualties because Hamas sets it up.
And when it happens, Israel becomes the bad guy.
And here comes Obama riding to the rescue of $47 million humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip because the Israelis, The Israelis are not being surgical enough in their strikes.
And my point is that Obama's actions tell us exactly who he is.
$47 million, not to the Gaza Strip, to the Palestinian Authority.
Then what does he do?
Then he closes the Israeli airport.
First for 24 hours, and now it's been extended.
You want to isolate a country?
Keep people from going there.
You want to isolate a country, make it look like if you fly there, you're going to get shot out of the sky.
By who?
The Palestinians?
So we're going to let them, we may as well give them a medal.
Hamas may as well get a medal here.
They have succeeded.
This is exactly one of the goals of terrorism.
You frighten your enemies into living normal lives.
So here comes the United States right on schedule, banning American airline flights.
Not American airlines, all American airlines, United Delta, you name it, can't go in there.
Can't land in Tel Aviv.
I get shut down.
By who?
Who's shooting at civilian airliners?
Well, it's happening in Ukraine.
Would Hamas do this?
Well, how come they're not the bad guys then?
How come nobody's condemning them?
Why is it Israel's fault that American airlines can't go into Tel Aviv now?
Israel is making it unsafe.
Israel is threatening it by trying to defend itself.
It's absurd.
So here's $47 million for humanitarian aid to Palestinian Authority.
It's a slush fund, make no mistake.
We close the Israeli airport in Tel Aviv.
Obama reaches out to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, but he will not work with Republicans on shoring up our southern border.
He will not work with a Republican governor in the state of Arizona to do the same thing, but he'll gladly send his emissaries to sit down and work with the Palestinian Authority.
Obama pledges more flexibility, bending to the demands of Russia.
That doesn't bother him.
Whatever the Russians do, well, we'll be flexible.
You know, we've got a deal here and there.
He'll shut down conservative organizations through the vote, other Tea Party groups trying to exercise their free speech and assembly rights here at Omi 6, the IRS.
Obama treats American citizens, certain American citizens, as a greater enemy than any foreign domestic threat we or our allies face.
That's pretty forward stuff.
Straightforward stuff.
If you ask me.
All right, brief timeout once again here at the EIB network.
We'll back after this.
Don't go away.
Hey, if anybody out there in the audience happens to be from the Sullivan Group's opinion auditing firm, you need to take account of this.
One of my undeniable truths of life written in an afternoon, in an idle afternoon, while seeking a columns topic.
I needed to write a column for a local newspaper, and I had writer's blocks.
I started jotting down one-sentence beliefs, hoping to inspire an idea for 750 words.
And after I got to about 200 words, I said, you know what?
This would be a good column.
So I just kept jotting down things I thought that were universally true.
And one of them was the modern environmentalism, a modern environmentalist movement has become the new home of communism.
This was Right around the time that the Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union glasnost perestroika bombing out, Gorbachev was not going to be able to hold on.
Reagan was going to emerge triumphant, and the spotted owl was the cause of the day for the militant environmentalist.
And Earth First was out there sabotaging forests and timber companies and everything.
And I simply said that the modern environmentalist movement is the new home of wayward communists.
And it is.
But looky here, the Daily Caller just posted 130 environmental groups call for an end to capitalism.
And environmentalist wackos have declared that global warming cannot be stopped without ending the capitalist system, saying that cap and trade systems and conservation efforts are false solutions.
So all of you who have cut back from an SUV to a lawnmower or to a golf cart or some sort of new hybrid vehicle, all of you who are going without what you used to use because you want to save the planet, guess what?
It doesn't matter.
Guess what?
It's not enough.
Guess what?
It won't work.
The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current capitalist system.
Reads the final draft of the Margarita Declaration, presented at a conference including about 130 environmentalist wacko groups.
To combat climate change, it is necessary to change the system, says the Margarita Declaration.
Environmentalist wackos met in the oil-producing socialist country of Venezuela as part of a United Nations-backed event to increase civil engagement in the lead-up to a major climate conference.
I know you here's the thing: here's what you can't hear it, but my trusty aide-de-camp and loyal chief of staff, H.R. Kit Carson, is by the way screening calls today because Snerdley so enjoyed the spiritual retreat last Friday.
He's gone back for three days this week.
And HR just said to me, You know, I remember when you said that way back then that environmental movement was a new home of communism.
And he had just started, he just came from the mailroom for Proud Homeowner Magazine or some such thing.
What was the name of the magazine you worked at?
Yeah, practical homeowner, not proud, practical homeowner.
And he came to the mailroom there and started dealing with the overwhelming number of phone calls and mail requests that we were getting when the program was new.
And he never didn't know who I was.
Listening to me the first week, his mind was, who is this guy?
You know, he's an actor from Wisconsin.
And saying, whoa.
And when I claim that modern environmentalist wackos, the leftist environment, the peace movement, that communism was their new home, that's who'd filled the gap in the Soviet Union.
He said, you've got to be crazy.
You can't say that.
That's too broad.
Every environmental group.
So he's now seeing 130 environmental groups call for an end to capitalism.
And then they come out 27 years later and say it.
It's not that they just concluded this at 27.
This is who they've been for 27 years.
So once again, but HR, just so you, I know, I know full well.
I have, I have a good amount of empathy, which you need to be a successful broadcast host like I am, because you need to be able to understand how the audience reacts to things.
You have to be able in your mind's eye to see it.
And I know that's going to be the reaction a lot of people have.
I don't say it to shock people.
I say it because it's true.
I say it because I believe it, and I'm not interested in sugarcoating things.
And I realize that something even if other people did believe, they would never say because they're not confident that they're right.
That's the difference.
I was.
I have no doubt.
I know these people.
I know who they are.
I know what makes them tick.
So it was not hard for me to say.
Well, I know that it's something that you're not average, but a lot of people are going to, ah, that's just, that's too much for me to sign on to.
But they'll hold it in reserve.
And now 27 years later, here's the proof.
130 environmentalist groups call for an end to capitalism.
Whoa.
Now, I could just leave it for people.
You know, I think Rush said that 27 years ago, but I don't trust people to remember that far back.
So I just want to take a moment here to remind you and the auditors at the Sullivan Group Opinion Auditing Unit.
Make sure they throw this one in the calculations.
Many in the sports media are trying to destroy Tony Dungy.
It continues.
Trey Gowdy doing great damage to the IRS commissioner John Koskinen.
My prediction that Obama would further divide America.
January 16th, 2009.
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