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Dec. 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, America's last unamnisted foreigner.
Honored to be with you today on America's uh most listened to radio show.
Uh as uh as the exquisitely culturally sensitive President Obama said about us undocumented types at that fundraiser last month.
Uh they mow our lawns, they make our beds, they clean out our bedpans, they host our number one radio show.
I uh I actually applied to clean out Obama's bed pan, but they're not hiring this week, so here I am.
Rush is out today, but he will return tomorrow for full strength, authentic all-American excellence in broadcasting through the end of the week.
We are live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
Had a bit of a panic about uh ten minutes ago.
Uh I plugged in a space heater and everything in the studio, because it's a bit chilly and bit chilly in here.
We don't really have uh the old central heating uh type deal yet up in this corner of the world.
I plugged so I plugged in a a twenty dollar space heater, and everything in the studio went out.
So that's the kind of uh technology we're operating uh with uh up here.
It's basically like Baghdad outside the green zone.
Um if uh i if the show suddenly dies if uh about thirteen minutes in, it's just because I plugged in the coffee park later, so s so uh be bear with me, I'll get myself the coffee and we'll be back on air once we've uh uh rejigged the fuse.
Um but don't worry, because Mr. Snerdley is running the show from uh New York City, and they do have reliable electric service uh down there, I am assured.
We're starting the week uh with a lot of news.
The siege by uh this week's Islamic Lunatic has ended.
Well, I say this week's, but it's Monday, so it's it's early days.
It could be it's like the number 17 bus.
There'll there'll be another twelve of them along by Wednesday.
Um but the hostages at the uh the the Lint Coffee Shop and Martin Place in Sydney are now freed.
Police storm the place uh within the last uh just a little over an hour ago, and uh and the Jihad Boy is pushing up virgins.
Um I know that I know that street well.
I don't think I've ever been to that particular coffee joint, but I've been to other ones on that street for my hazelnut jihadiato first thing in the morning, and you you come out of that coffee shop and you got the Commonwealth Bank headquarters just to your left, and the Royal Botanic Gardens just to your right, and one of Australia's biggest TV networks uh directly across the street, the Seven Network, which is ready to beam across the planet, your big black jihad flag and the terrified hostages forced to hold it up.
Um so this guy picked his target well.
Um and if you remember the shooting at the war memorial in Ottawa and the attack on the Canadian Parliament in October, that's really the equivalent of I guess the National Mall in Washington.
It's symbolic and it's historic.
And this Oz siege is the equivalent of seizing a bunch of hostages at Rockefeller Center in New York.
It's it's uh the commercial heart of the city.
It's um like like Rockefeller Center Martin places where they have the big Christmas tree that everyone comes to visit.
There, all the mums and dads take their kids and all that kind of stuff.
Um the the perp is a quote self-styled.
This appears to be the euphemism of the day now.
Self-styled Muslim cleric.
Don't worry, he's not an official Muslim cleric.
He hasn't got the paperwork, he hasn't got the big diploma from the Hot Shop Madrasa in Saudi Arabia.
He's a quote, self-styled Muslim cleric called Sheikh Haron.
Uh but don't worry, any moment now, as they do every time some ISIS guy chops off an American's head in Syria, President Obama and John Kerry will be assuring us that this is nothing to do with Islam, so uh no Islam to see here.
And uh Sheikh Haron seems like a well-adjusted sort, even by the standards of these Islamic lunatics.
His present girlfriend is currently charged with killing his wife, and he's been charged as an accessory to the murder of his wife.
And he's also facing more than forty sexual assault charges, uh, which I think is actually I think that's more than Bill Cosby, which is uh which is kind of im impressive.
So uh he he apparently his deal, he wasn't drugging them uh as uh Bill Cosby is alleged to have done, but he he he advertised himself as a spiritual healer.
Uh and then when they showed up uh to experience his spiritual healing techniques um mysterious parts of their clothing had to be removed and so forth.
So he's on 40 sexual assault charges.
He also was convicted for sending offensive letters to the families of dead servicemen who died in it.
He was opposed to the war in Afghanistan.
So if a soldier died in Afghanistan, he'd then send offensive letters to the widow and children.
But we'll keep you on developments in that story as they occur.
He is now dead.
And I love this tweet from that 7 News network in Sydney.
It goes, police confirm live ammunition used in Martin Place.
If you want the difference between Sydney and American policing, that line does it.
Police confirm live ammunition used in Martin Place.
Yes, they stormed this coffee shop and they killed this guy.
And alas, they had to use live ammunition to do it.
a uh a very peaceful city it's like Ottawa it's a very open it's uh uh Australia's biggest city uh and like Ottawa it's a very open city it's not like that whole Washington closed down thing that they've uh they've got going on so if there's any more developments on that story we'll keep you in touch with them.
Have you been following these leaks from Sony?
This is a great story.
Last week, the big news was that all these Hollywood liberals, and not just any old Hollywood liberals, but women who've shattered the glass ceiling and fabulously talented gay producers were all doing these race jokes about Obama.
And actually, not even sophisticated race jokes, but about as crude and banal race jokes as you can imagine.
They're emailing back and forth all their little racist cracks about President Obama, because the woman who shattered the glass ceiling at Sony had to go to some tedious breakfast and interview him and wanted to know, all-star breakfast, all-star fundraiser, and wanted to know what she would say to him.
And they're doing all these jokes about maybe you could ask him if he wants to be in The Butler, which was Oprah's unwatchable movie about butler at the White House.
And it's funny and it's funny I'll tell you why it's funny that I'm I'm a free speech absolutist so I don't care about uh uh uh uh if Hollywood liberals want to make racist jokes go ahead do it.
But what it confirmed is that all these, like, bitchy little gay producers and female studio heads, they all recognize that things like the butler are unwatchable, affirmative action drivel that you're only making to get points with the identity group crowd.
Anyway, they all know that.
So that's what it betrayed.
And, of course, the Reverend Al Sharpton complained about it.
um uh and uh so he wants he wants the head of this female exec and the gay producer uh because he doesn't like them making racist jokes.
It's all right the gay producer could easily respond that uh Al Sharpton makes all these homophobic craps uh c cracks he said uh that that Africans had invented everything way before quote them Greek homos did and that's no obstacle to uh Al Sharpton can do all the Greek homo gags he wants and still get invited to the White House.
That's no obstacle to anything but but one of the one of them Greek homos uh responds by doing a few race cracks and he's got to be fired.
So that's that's and it's all good clean fire and there's no end of stories like that.
Today the New York Daily News reveals that David O'Russell the director of American Hustle is mocked in these Sony emails for feeling up his transgender niece.
He's got a niece who used to be a nephew and in transitioning from being a nephew to being a niece she had uh breast implants And uh the acclaimed director of the film American Hustle put his hand under her top and felt uh her new breasts.
And um uh and he also this guy it d it doesn't stop there.
This guy from Sony also uh brought Oscar winning actress Sally Field to a party and reduced her to tears.
Can you imagine that?
Sally Field.
Well, she was reduced to tears when she won that Oscar, wasn't it?
Well, she said, You like me, you really like me.
But anyway, she was reduced to tears by this American hustle director at some party, uh so I guess it's uh you don't like me, you really don't like me.
Uh but uh but that's all it's been about so far.
And then today in the papers in the New York Times, there's the revelation in these leaked Sony emails, uh that the ending of this new film, the interview, is being changed to avoid causing offense to Kim Jong un.
Uh basically, Sony is a Japanese corporation.
This film, the interview, uh uh is about uh two jokers who get a chance to interview Kim Jong un, and the CIA says, uh, while you're there, you've got to take him out.
And the guy goes, What do you mean?
Take him out for a drink?
And they explain, no, take him out, you gotta kill him.
And so the the idea is that there's a couple of your usual uh uh useless American stoner uh t trendy hipsters uh sent to North Korea to kill Kim Jong un.
That's the joke.
And the c North Koreans are unhappy about this and say it's an act of war, and the end apparently showed his exploding head flying all over the screen, and this is now being changed.
This has been toned down and may not even be seen in editions of the film Sewn Overseas.
So the whole Sony email lake leaks has now taken on a geopolitical things.
Hollywood, in a supposedly edgy comedy has now been told by its Japanese corporate parent uh to tone down uh the uh the offense caused uh to Kim Jong un in that film.
And I'll I'll tell you why that's relevant a little a little bit later.
Now the big story, the big story is basically everything that Rush said on Friday has happened.
If you were following the Cromnibus vote in the Cromnibus is now law, by the way, uh the United States Senate has passed it, and everything that Rush said about that on Friday uh came true over the weekend uh in the genius hands of our Republican senators.
We'll get into that and we will take all your calls straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein Inforush, on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hey, Mark Stein Infarush.
Uh the that situation in uh Sydney is still um unclear.
Uh unconfirmed reports say that two people are dead, including the gunman, which means that one hostage is dead.
Um think about that.
You died, you died because you went to a coffee shop in a peaceful, free, open Western society, uh and a refugee from Iran, a guy your country took in in 1996, uh, and he stood up there and he took his oath of allegiance,
and he he traveled uh and claimed to be a citizen of your country, and he's no different in law from anybody else, uh, and you die because you went to a coffee shop that you've gone to every morning uh uh every day.
Just uh i exactly the same thing, exactly the same thing has happened in Ottawa, exactly the same thing as happened up in up in Quebec.
And there's a uh when that uh soldier was run over by another one of these Islamic lunatics uh in October.
And uh there's a qu there's a question to ask, and it's the question we don't ask.
Every time Obama says this is nothing to do with Islam, every time John Kerry says it's nothing to do with Islam, every time the Sydney Morning Herald says um the Martin Place siege response tests our humanity.
We face an even more difficult test of our empathy as well.
How should we feel for the perpetrator uh and his family?
Uh so they've gone full Hillary Clinton, They're going the empathy route so far.
As I said, there are unconformed r unconfirmed reports now that uh two people are dead, so that's the gunman and somebody who was just doing nothing except going to a downtown coffee shop uh in the heart of a peaceful open Western society.
So we'll bring you any more details of that.
Now uh i the I I was listening to Rush on Friday and then I was following events over the weekend, and it it occurred to me uh that the easiest way to explain what's going on, uh Russia De Caller, who who asked him whether in fact uh the election do you remember the election?
Oh, it seems like years ago now, but in fact it was only a couple of weeks ago, uh the election a month ago, a month ago, the election, whether it was entirely meaningless.
And if you go to uh Rushlimbaugh.com and you become a Rush 247 subscriber, and while you're there, take out a subscription to the Limbaugh letter too.
I don't know whether you can get back issues.
I expect you can, but uh in and last month's issue they've got an interview.
Uh Rush interviews this guy called Mark Stein.
I don't know whether you know him, he's one of these snotty voiced foreigners uh who comes on the air and tells you everything that's wrong with your country.
It's kind of annoying.
But uh Rush interviews him, and this Stein guy says in the course of the interview, uh, we've lived through elections that made a difference.
Reagan's election in nineteen eighty made a difference because if Carter had won, the West would have managed to contrive to lose the Cold War.
As rotten and decrepit and on the verge of collapse as the Soviet Union was, a second Carter term and we would have lost the Cold War.
So that election mattered.
And Mrs. Thatcher's election in nineteen seventy-nine.
Had the Labour Party been re-elected then, that would have been the complete death of one of the oldest, most stable societies on earth.
So Mrs. Thatcher's election in nineteen seventy-nine mattered.
And if you lived through elections like that, like Reagan and Thatcher, the saddest thing is when you have an election that doesn't make a difference.
And that was the tragedy of 2010.
That's this guy, Mark Stein, being interviewed by Rush in the current Limbaugh Letter.
Uh in last month's Limbo letter, the November one.
But if you go and take out a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter, Rush Limbaugh.com, um you can uh you can uh get back issues.
I'm reasonably confident of that.
And uh and I was there, I was just plugging my book and Rush called it a must read book, but I'm I'm not even going to mention the name of the book because that little point I made there, we're talking about the book, we're talking about the difference between elections that matter and elections that don't.
And I said that in the end the tragedy of the twenty ten election was that it didn't matter, because uh the Obama administration just went uh ahead and did what it wanted to do anyway.
And the excuse for that was, well, you know, we only controlled one house of the legislature, so we couldn't really do anything.
Uh okay, what's the excuse this time?
It's it's only a month later.
We haven't actually sat the new Congress.
We're still in the lame duck session.
And already the Republican Party leadership, as Rush said on Friday, is telling us that this election didn't matter.
This election didn't matter.
This Cromnibus junk passed in the lame duck session.
Now, perhaps uh as you as some of you, if you're listening with the volume cranked high up uh and you got the big speakers and everything, you might be able to just detect the wisp of a foreign accent in there.
So if you're an American and you've done all your civics courses, uh can you come uh can you can you come and explain to me uh by what legitimate means a lame duck Congress?
What that means is that a bunch of the guys there have been rejected by the electorate.
The electorate has said, no thanks, pal, you're done, we don't want you.
And uh the first order of business for the new Republican leadership that will be taking over control of Congress in January is to let the still fifty-fifty Republican House, Democrat, Senate, determine the level of spending for half of your term of control.
The Republicans basically just gave away in the lame duck session, uh control of spending for half of the legislative term uh for which they will have been elected in in this Cromnibus bill.
And what's in this Crombus bill?
Well, it's the usual thing.
It's thousands of pages.
On page sixteen hundred, There's something in there.
Everyone thinks it's a continuing resolution.
It's to do with funding the government so that uh so so that all those indispensable services uh don't uh seize up and the government gets shut down.
On page sixteen hundred, I think it is, there's some special favors in there, nothing to do with government spending uh for Blue Cross Blue Shield.
John Boehner, last time round Obama said the twenty ten election didn't matter.
This time round, the Republican Party, the Republican Party, is telling its voters that the twenty fourteen election didn't matter.
That's the problem with what happened this weekend.
Say what you like about Santa Claus when but when he makes a list, he at least checks it twice.
That's more than the Republican Party did with that Cromnibus thing uh they passed over the weekend.
Mark Stein in for rush.
Rush will return tomorrow.
Let us go to Rama in uh Fairfax, California.
Rama, you are live on America's Number One Radio Show.
Great to have you with us.
Okay, thanks for taking my call, Mark.
Uh my comment is I think the the movie is is not at all good about North Korea that shows some kind of uh assassination attempt on the leader of their country.
Uh if the if they made a movie about one of our leaders being uh being assassinated, we wouldn't like it.
I think we should give them the same respect, and this is definitely in the interest of world peace not to make that movie.
Uh did did you see that film they made uh about the assassination of George W. Bush while Bush was president?
That was made by Americans uh and it won some prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
I'm not against anybody being assassinated, even if they're a bad person.
I think that we we we need to respect each other's right to live, and it's I'm re I'm against that movie.
Uh so you agree with the uh movie being toned down to avoid offending Kim Jong un.
I think they should go even farther than that.
I think they sh if there are movies that are made they should be friendly and and about love and peace, not about uh about violence of any kind.
Do you know uh uh uh that people are starving in North Korea?
Millions of people are held in d you d do you know what a concentration camp is, Rama?
Maybe you there are wrong things happening in all countries.
That doesn't mean it's good to affect No, no, no, no, no, Rama, Rama, Rama.
You've gone full moral equivalence now.
Right.
Are there concentr let's put America out of it?
Are there concentration camps in Canada?
Are there concentration camps in Sweden?
Are there concentration camps in Slovenia?
There are two million people over in American jails, and they're not being treated well here either.
They get three squares a day in American jails.
They're not being treated well.
I know a lot of them.
No, no, no, no, wait.
They're not they're not starving to death.
They're not they're not behind and beaten.
So your your your position on you you've gone now full moral equivalence that everyone is bad, so who are we to judge?
Right?
No, I'm not saying that.
I'm saying we shouldn't make violent movies about people who this isn't helping the world get better.
The the world can only get better if we care about each other and understand each other, not if we try and hurt each other.
First issue first issue of Captain America in number one, uh I think the the first issue in which Captain America appeared during the Second World War, and actually this was before America entered the Second World War.
I think it was nineteen forty.
It showed him slugging Hitler.
Hitler, you remember that he was the Kim Jong-un of of the Third Reich.
He was a foreign head of state.
Do you think it was inappropriate uh to to have a comic book uh showing an American superhero taking out Hitler?
Yeah, I don't think I think it's ugly to do violence to anybody, even if the person's unhappy.
Wait, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Now Rama, Rama, I understand you're a pacifist, okay?
So you don't believe I'm a realist.
No, wait a minute.
No, you're re your realism is unreal.
So okay, let's say let's extend that further.
It's wrong to do violence to anybody.
Do you think the Australian police were right to put a bullet in this guy in the Sydney coffee shop an hour ago?
They're not right, and the guy that was holding the hostages wasn't right.
They're both wrong.
They're both angry, unhappy people.
Okay, so let's uh let's say Rama, you you you go into a coffee shop and one of these guys comes in and takes a bunch of people hostage.
What do you get what are you gonna do?
You're gonna put a flower in his gun?
What are you gonna do?
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Hopefully hopefully it doesn't happen to me and hopefully It just happened this morning to a bunch it's just happened this morning to a bunch of people who just went to a coffee shop uh and some guy tried to kill them.
Kim Jong un Kim Jong un, who uh, you know, is regarded as the kind of goofball dictator over here is a has actually killed, killed, murdered.
How many people does he have to kill before you get off your dime and say he's not entitled to the res Now I agree with you, Rama.
It would be a mistake to make a film in which Seth Rogan has to go and murder you.
That would be unfair to you.
But when you're a mass murderer, why can't you make a film about taking out a mass murderer?
Because it's ugly to kill people, even if they're wrong people.
My God.
So did you agree with killing Osama bin Laden?
No, I don't agree with killing anybody.
I want everybody to have a chance to live and be happy on this planet.
Right.
And and so that means that means then the way that works is that uh is that Osama bin Laden kills three thousand people in the World Trade Center, and you say, well, that's a tough break for them.
Uh hope it doesn't happen to my office building, but I'm not gonna lift a finger to do anything about the guy who did that.
Osama bin Laden shouldn't have killed anybody, but we shouldn't kill people either.
We're both wrong.
Everybody that's violent is doing something ugly, and I'm against it.
And and what do you think the outcome is of that is gonna be?
Well, of everybody being happy, we're gonna have a better world.
Actually, you're not.
You're gonna have a huge pile of corpses, Rama.
No, that's you're gonna have a huge pile of corpses, because what that means is that what that means is that you basically have uh Osama bin Laden kills a bunch of people, and you saying if you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair at him.
Okay?
And then he kills a bunch more people, and you uh and and uh you you sing all we are saying is give peace a chance.
And then he kills a bunch more people, and you sing feed the world, don't they know it's Christmas at him?
And suddenly you notice that actually the streets have emptied out, and there's not a lot of people left to kill, and there's no one left to kill but you and you're gonna be the guy in the coffee shop, the last coffee shop that some uh lunatic hasn't taken hostage, uh and you're the one who's gonna be dead, Rama.
I think you're wrong.
I think if we go on the way we're going now, there's not going to be anybody left.
If we keep getting more and more violent, that's what's gonna happen.
We need to become So there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
Is that what you're saying?
I'm s not everybody loves each other, but it's a good thing if we could love each other.
Yeah, but it nobody is ever gonna like don't you don't this is uh d did you agree with Hillary Clinton's remark about empathizing with enemies.
I I'm not real cre I don't I'm not a real big Hillary Clinton fan, but I I I think that Hillary Clinton is some of the things she says sounds good, but I'm not sure if she really means nothing.
No, no, here's the problem though.
When Hillary Clinton claims to be able to empathize with people who want you dead, you dead.
You see, you see humanity, we're all the same.
There's no difference between you, uh some muller in Waziristan, Kim Jong un in Pyongyang, uh Adolf Hitler in the Reichstag, uh we're all built from the same flawed human claim, and Rama and Adolf and Kim and the Mullers all deserve equal respect.
And that's fine, but the trouble is they don't think like that.
They want to kill you just because you're you.
And you don't have to do anything.
They don't distinguish between you and Donald Rumsfeld.
They look at Rama and Rumsfeld and they see the same thing.
Uh and so the fact that you're there holding a daisy up and ra and Rumsfeld is already cocking his gun makes no difference to them.
You and Rumsfeld, Rama, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rama, they can't tell the difference.
But I can tell the difference.
Yeah, well, that's not going to be any consolation to you when you're uh when you're a corpse.
They don't distinguish.
The the f this this is this is the this is this is the point here.
Kim Jong un uh doesn't care about w uh uh about you.
He's happy to kill you.
He's happy to kill his own people.
He's happy to kill his own people on an extraordinary scale.
Uh You know, once upon a time, Rama, uh, peace activists like you took the words uh uh said after the Second World War and which appear uh in the Holocaust memorials never again seriously, to mean that you were never gonna allow mass murder and concentration camps ever again.
And you got mass murder and concentration camps right now in North Korea, and there are arguments to be made for saying whether it's in America's national interest to go and uh take this guy out or whatever.
You can make those interests, but you're saying it's beyond that.
You can't even make a movie mocking the guy as a worthless piece of human garbage and using him as the punchline for an assassination comedy.
You object to that, Rama.
Nobody's a worthless piece of garbage.
Well, everybody has the potential to be a beautiful human being, they just haven't realized it yet.
When do you think Kim Jong-un is going to realize it, Rama?
He's friends with Dennis Rodman.
Rod.
Israel So you think that Dennis Rodman, a dupe, a Patsy, is gonna be the one who explain who who turns Kim Joggard into a beautiful human being.
By the way, is Dennis Rodman your idea of a beautiful human being?
I I never met him, but he's I think I think he's made friends with with the leader.
I think that's a beautiful thing.
If they if they're friends, that's good.
Right.
So would you be in favour of Justin Bieber uh making uh friends with Iranian mullahs?
I'm I'm in favour of everybody being friends with everybody.
That's the best.
Would you be in favour of Miley Cyrus uh going over to see the Ayatollah Hamee and maybe uh twerking for him so that he might become a beautiful human being.
No, everybody ca everybody has a potential to be beautiful.
Everyone is beautiful in his own way, even if he's starving millions of people to death, Rama.
That's great to know.
What a heyone is beautiful.
Thanks for your call, Ron.
Everyone is beautiful.
Starving people to death in concentration camps.
This is Mark Stein in Farush.
We'll have more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the uh excellence in broadcasting uh network.
Um Rama objected to uh this forthcoming film in which uh uh two kind of uh dweeby hipster stoner type, actually fellows who sound in large part uh not unlike Rama uh get an interview with Kim Jogard, and then are told by the CIA that they they have to kill him.
And uh Rama, in fairness, when I asked him about the movie that won the awards at the Toronto Film Festival about killing George W. Bush, um said he objected to that too.
There was a whole actually there was a whole uh genre of Bush assassination porn by Americans.
Americans uh it's it's offensive uh for Americans to make a movie about killing Kim Jong-un, but for Americans to make a movie about killing George W. Bush, uh a novel, uh what was that fella uh he wrote he wrote a novel uh a nov uh a novella about killing uh George W. Bush.
Uh uh uh I went into Barnes and Noble the other day, and they've got a uh a novel there uh by uh uh a lady I used to work with at the Spectator in London called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
So you can make you can write books, you can make films f fantasizing luridly about putting a bullet through Bush's brain or Margaret Thatcher's brain, but if you want to do it through Kim Jong-un's, then uh the head of Sony will prevail on you to tone down the ending, and actually not to show the ending at all to the to the film that's shown to the rest of the world.
And just to tie it back to what happened in Sydney this morning, where there's already the where we've already reached uh the the stage at which people are warning that there might be a backlash against Muslims.
Uh and you know this, it's like the Fort Hood.
People people are sad about the dead people at Fort Hood for twenty minutes, and then they start worrying about the real the real danger here, which is that people uh might there might be a backlash against Muslims.
Because no matter how many people they kill, Muslims are always the real victims here.
So after the Fort Hood thing, because oh, there might be a backlash against Muslims.
After the London tube bombings, oh there might be a backlash against Muslims.
Uh after the Boston Marathon, oh, there might be a backlash against Muslims.
Uh And there never is, and there never is.
But they've already moved on to that stage, and someone has launched a campaign.
Brave lady in Sydney has launched a campaign to show that she's not afraid to ride a bus with a woman in a hijab as her way of showing solidarity with Australia's Muslims before this big mythical backlash descends on them.
Because no matter how many people they kill, Muslims are always the real victims.
And you think, so you think if you're in Hollywood, you want to make an edgy comedy.
And you can make an edgy comedy, say, about taking out Ayatollah Khameni in Iran.
Because that actually would be in America's strategic interest, uh, that you go there, uh, you destroy the Iranian leadership in some way that leads the people to rise up and get rid of them, and uh Iran returns to the ranks of civilized nations, and uh they're not interested in nuclear bomb anymore.
You can make that, but that like that's a bit too edgy, too edgy.
And so instead you have this Kim Jong-un figure, because North Korea is like the comedy dictatorship.
It's like i i it's it's it's the dictatorship you can make jokes about because it's not uh it doesn't involve any complicated uh uh issues of uh race and religion and all the rest of it.
It's just a fun the funny dictatorship.
And so they made Team America world police a few years ago, uh and now they were gonna make another little edgy comedy, an edgy comedy, and you never make an edgy comedy about Islam, because that's too edgy.
Because they'll come and blow up your studio.
So you don't want to do that.
You don't want to do that.
Uh you don't want to make an edgy comedy about Mullers, you don't want to make an edgy comedy about ISIS.
Wouldn't that be great?
An edgy comedy, an edgy hipster comedy about ISIS, about some doofus who gets uh uh to uh go and sign up to fight for ISIS uh and be head his way around the uh the Middle East and you make some edgy comedy about that, uh taking out the ISIS leader.
No, no, no, no, that's too edgy.
Uh that's too edgy.
They'll be waiting for you at the premier and all the starry people at the premier who come to your premier, all your Miley Cyruses and your Cameron Diazes, they'll all be blown up at the premier.
So that's too edgy.
So you pick the safe, the safe dictatorship, the one everybody jokes about.
Because uh Kim Jong-un, uh his nuclear missile is called the No Dong.
That's what a laugh he is.
It's comedy gold.
It's dropping off the trees.
His missile is called no dong.
Uh it's comedy goal, it's there for the taking.
Uh uh uh i i despite having a missile called no dong, uh his principal export, apart from nuclear technology is knock-off Viagra.
It's comedy goal, this dictatorship.
So you can make don't make your edgy comedy about Islam.
That's way too edgy, man.
Uh way, way too edgy.
Uh, but just make it about the comedy dictatorship.
And we forget that Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony, which is a Japanese company, and in Japan, they don't find a nuclear North Korea s quite so funny.
You'd be surprised how that happens.
Americans might not find the idea of uh a nuclear uh Cuba quite so funny.
Uh and it concentrates the mind.
And so they uh the Japanese corporate parents says, oh no, no, no, that may sound just edgy enough for you uh big liberals in Hollywood.
It's the guys it's it's the dictators it's safe to make jokes about, but it doesn't sound quite so safe to us.
And these Sony email leaks uh are in a way as fascinating as the wiki leaks in what they reveal uh about the the decayed culture uh and and and the kind of people who actually determine what it is we watch when we go to the multiplex uh on a Friday evening.
Mark Stein in Farush will take lots more of your calls straight ahead.
Did you see this story in Saturday's New York Times?
Washington, when former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida quietly visited Senator John McCain in his Capitol Hill office this fall, discussion turned to a subject of increasing interest to Mr. Bush.
How to run for president without pandering to the party's conservative base.
Yeah, you know, I I certainly got the impression from what happened uh over the weekend uh with this cromnibus thing that there is way too much pandering to the party's conservative base.
Um I I I said earlier the 2010 election uh turned out not to matter.
The 2014 election turned out not to matter, and now all the geniuses in the Republican Party establishment are figuring out a way to make the 2016 election uh not matter.
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