By the way, once again, folks, just to remind you, Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed credit.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen is Islamist extremists.
They're not extremists acting in the name of Islam.
I can't believe.
That's a little girl that's the State Department spokesman, Marie Harf.
And still, the regime will not call it what it is.
And I don't think, and I'm not trying to get anybody scared.
I'm not trying to frighten anybody.
I tell you, I don't think that, well, I think Obama knows.
I always have to exempt him when I'm going to talk about people's ignorances.
I don't think Obama's ignorant.
I think I still love Ralph Peters' characterization of Obama last Sunday.
He's still wearing the Che Guevara t-shirt that every kid in college wears, still buying into it.
But I don't think Obama's naive.
I don't think he's ignorant.
I think he knows exactly what he's doing.
And that scares me to no end.
But half these other people, I really think there's some people with their heads in the sand that don't think that militant Islam is really a real threat.
It's not a big deal.
We can appease them.
I don't think people realize what they're dealing with.
And when you have, I don't care if it's a problem or if it's an enemy or a task, an objective, if you will not first even be honest with yourself about what you face, you don't have a prayer.
If you're not even going to have the guts to do that, I don't care if it's, I don't know, final exams in college, the problem at work.
I don't care.
If you don't have the ability to honestly identify the problem, the threat, particularly your enemies, then you don't have a prayer against them.
And there are so many Americans who I think are of a mind to just wish the problem away or ignore the problem, pretend it isn't there and it won't be there.
There are Americans that, come on, that can't happen to us.
We're too big.
Come on.
They'd never try it against us.
They wouldn't stand a prayer and they know it.
And I think it's just the opposite.
I think our enemies think that we are riper than ever.
I think our enemies think we're weaker than ever.
I think our enemies think that we have raised a couple, three generations here that are not tough, that don't know hardship.
And I think they're willing to exploit it.
They could be wrong about that, but that's, I think they think it, and I think they're in the process of exploiting it.
And I think when they engage.
I mean, can you imagine these guys?
Can you imagine Ayman al-Zawahiri and the Brain Trust of this month sitting around in the caves or wherever they are?
And they listen to the State Department refusing to identify them.
In one sense, they probably get mad because these guys want everybody to know who they are, and they want everybody to know what they're doing.
That's part of the threat.
At the same time, they're looking at this and they can't believe how cowed they have people.
They really can't believe.
You've got Paris, you name it, any place doing battle with these people, willing to shut themselves down rather than face it.
And even when we face it, we put rules of engagement on our forces that make engaging them really just nothing more than an academic exercise.
Anyway, I just, I think all of this back and forth here about who these people are and, well, we better not offend them.
You can't do this cartoon stuff and all that.
It's just, you know, Obama says all the time, that's just not who we are.
Well, I'll tell you, all this cowardice and everything is, that's not who I remember us being either.
And I don't mean cowardice out there among you.
I'm talking about cowardice within the highest reaches of our government.
What is political correctness but fear?
In one sense, that's what it is.
You're afraid to hear things you don't want to hear.
You're afraid to hear things you disagree with.
And you couple the fear with this outsized sense of power and intimidation that you have, and you end up being authoritarian, statist, or what have you.
Anyway, there's all that coming up.
I promised we have three Boehner soundbites, and this is going to close the loop on this.
We spent the first hour talking about this and where it's all headed in terms of the House actually following through on their effort to defund Obama's executive orders on amnesty.
And I think they will.
I think the House is going to pass a bill.
I don't know what the Senate's going to do, but I know Obama's going to veto it.
And I know that that will then be the moment of truth.
That's when we're going to find out what the House Republican leadership is all about.
How hard they're willing to go after Obama vetoes it.
In other words, is all of this just for show for us?
Won't be long before we find out.
By us, I mean conservatives who keep electing Republicans, keep demanding that they finally get in gear and stop this stuff.
Are they just playing games with us?
Are they really now understand what we want and are prepared to act on it?
There's a lot of doubt about that.
But to close the loop on this, here's Boehner.
We have three sound bites debate today on immigration reform.
And Boehner gave a stem winder.
Here's the first of three bites.
What we're dealing with is a president who has ignored the people, has ignored the Constitution, and even his own past statements.
In fact, on at least 22 occasions, he said he did not have the authority to do what he has done.
Before he became president, on March 31st, 2008, the president said, and I quote, I take the Constitution very seriously.
The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with the president trying to not go through Congress at all.
And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president.
Right.
That seems talking about Bush.
And Boehner's right about that.
But folks, it's what I said before the break at the top of the hour.
If you're going to sit around and imagine, okay, what would the Republicans be mad at?
I would get rid of this anger at my own base.
There's no future in lashing out at your own.
But what I'd be mad at, separation of powers is one of the primary safeguards built into the Constitution to protect it.
I'm going to have to develop this further.
The other thing is this call I mentioned that I had a couple of months ago who asked me, Rush, what's kept the Constitution alive so far?
Just the honor system?
And what the caller meant was, has it just been the willingness of people in power to observe it, to not defy it?
And not entirely.
There's been all kinds of liberal Democrats who would have loved to broom the whole thing.
But in terms of presidents, Obama is a first in terms of the degree and consistency and extent of his flaunting the Constitution.
The separation of powers is the number one safeguard.
The arguments within all three branches of the quest, founders knew human nature.
They knew that Congress would want to get as much power away from the president as they could, vice versa, that the president wanted to get as much power away from Congress.
And the founders thought that each branch would religiously and jealously guard its own power.
They would not sit by and let a president tinkle on the Constitution.
They would not sit by.
The founders had a very profound confidence that members of the Congress would not just sit around and let a president take away their power.
And the fight over that power would be one of the things preserving the Constitution because it would be a fundamental aspect of it being fought over, i.e., separation of powers.
By the same token, the founders believed that presidents wouldn't sit by and let Congress thwart their power, that they would be in fighting for their power, defending their power, and seeking more.
And this ongoing battle, which was rooted in each branch protecting its own power, is what would preserve the Constitution, because separation of power is at the heart of it.
Well, what's happened here in the last six years is Congress has basically vanished.
They have let Obama do all this.
And after Obama has engaged in all of these extra-constitutional duties, all these executive orders, you know what?
You know what the biggest threat to the Constitution going right now is not Obama.
Not in a direct way.
The biggest threat to the Constitution is this bureaucracy in Washington, all of these regulatory agencies that have just sprung up, having been created by Obama or various presidents, sometimes acts of Congress, and they are free to write up regulations and laws on people without going through Congress.
You talk about bastardizing the Constitution and you talk about ripping the whole concept of separation of powers to shreds.
This is one of the greatest threats going.
I mean, and you have the EPA and you name it, just automatically decreeing what farmers can and can't do on their own property as just one small example.
It's not that the Constitution is being violated every time one of those agencies done something like that.
And it's happening thousands of times.
And it's being done by design.
It's one of the fastest ways around the Constitution.
And you couch it in regulatory review and making it safer for the people and protecting the people.
And so they'll look the other way.
And hell, half of them don't even know that these regulatory agencies are violating the Constitution just on the basis they exist.
And it's all by design.
I had a guy say to me, he said, Rush, you ever spent any time in Washington?
I mean, actually really spent any time there.
I said, yeah.
He said, well, the next time you go, you know, Washington is a multifaceted city.
But he said, it's amazing to me.
The places where legitimate constitutional power exists, the Capitol Building, the White House, Pentagon, State Department, you name it.
Many of these buildings are beautiful.
They are well crafted.
They have a purpose.
They're not overly large.
They're not built in Pentagon.
They have a character to them, and they are representative of a respected government.
You look at where these regulatory agencies are, and they are in the ugly-est buildings with no character, and they're basically hiding in plain sight.
They're supposed to be so unnoticeable that you don't care what's going on inside there.
And I had never had it portrayed to me that way.
And he said it's even visible to that extent what's happened to Washington.
And I understood what he was talking about.
Anyway, here's the second Boehner bite.
I keep distracting myself, not distracting, diverting, but always getting back to the main thrust.
On October 25th, 2010, the president said, and I quote, I am president.
I am not king.
I can't do these things just by myself.
I can't just make up the laws by myself.
On March 28th, 2011, the president said, and I quote, America is a nation of laws, which means that I, as president, am obligated to enforce the law.
On April 20th, 2011, the president said, and I quote, I can't solve this problem by myself.
I just can't do it by myself.
Boehner went through 22 of these things.
Took five minutes to go through all of these examples that he gave.
Now, it's nothing you don't know.
What sets this apart is we've never heard Boehner talk this way.
We've never heard, not in public, not on the floor of the House, we've never heard the House or Senate Republican leadership go after Obama this way.
Maybe a little 25-second soundbite here in a news story about something else, but this kind of, I don't want to call it an attack, but yeah, why not?
This kind of focused attack, we haven't seen.
Now, here's the thing about this.
You can cite all this stuff all day long, but unless you're willing to put some kind of action behind it, they have the ability to stop this, is the point.
The Constitution, it is built in.
These three branches have the ability to stop the usurpation of their power by other branches.
And the House has in so many ways telegraphed that they're not going to employ any of them.
They took impeachment off the table.
You notice Boehner's not saying any of this stuff during the campaign.
Now it's coming up as the beginnings of his implementation of executive amnesty come into view.
Here's the final Boehner soundbite from his floor speech today.
To think that the president of the United States actually studied constitutional law is one thing.
He didn't just learn constitutional law, he taught it as well.
But now his actions suggest that he's forgotten what these words even mean.
He's not forgotten.
It's enough.
By their votes last November, the people made clear that they wanted more accountability from this president.
There we go.
And by our votes here today, we will heed their will and we will keep our oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
There it is, folks.
There it is.
That is what many people think is simply throwing you a bone.
They've never talked this way before.
They just, and many people, I have to just repeat myself for the sake of it.
Many people saw this, heard this, and got all excited.
Maybe they're finally starting to listen.
And then, as I shared, I don't have to repeat myself, but there are people looking into this and claim this is all just for show, just for us, that this is not really descriptive of their attitude.
They're just saying this, that they know Obama is going to veto their bill.
And then after that, supposedly a conservative conservative review already says they've got a story and they feel betrayed.
They gave Obama a bunch of praise a couple days ago, the same day AP came out and noted what they noted.
But they are saying that they have knowledge now that Obama – why do I keep interchanging these guys?
I mean, there's got to be something subliminal here.
Boehner, Boehner has his guys already working on bills that will fund Obama's executive amnesty after Obama vetoes the bill that was being debated on the floor of the House today.
Time will tell.
We'll not have to wait long.
It'll be in February.
Sit tight.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Don't try this at home.
It looks and sounds easy, but it isn't.
And back to the phones, Gainesville, Florida.
This is Kim.
Welcome.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
You know, Kim is one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
I'm so excited.
It really is.
Thank you.
You bet.
Hey, I hope this story makes you smile as much as it did me yesterday.
I was driving my eighth-grade daughter home from school, and it's midterm week for the eighth graders.
And she was talking about her U.S. history exam.
And so I was asking her how it went and everything.
And she said, well, you know, Mom, last night when I was studying, she said I was going through the book and I was going through my notes, and I picked up Rush Limbaugh's book, and she said, I was reading it to study.
And I said, and I kind of looked at her.
I said, are you serious?
And she said, yeah.
And guess what, Mom?
It helped.
And I said, that's awesome.
I said, tell me how it helped.
And part of the exam was an essay that they had to write from the perspective of a Massachusetts resident during the Revolutionary War.
Oh, cool.
And she said, so I could write this, she said, as if I were there because I sort of was.
Doesn't that just make you get chill bumps?
It does.
It absolutely does.
I couldn't believe it.
I was so proud of her.
She said there were things in the book that she read that they did not teach her in school.
You know, you know, we're hearing a lot of that from even adults who are reading the books and they're saying, hosh, I didn't know this about this or that aspect of American history.
That made me so happy.
I had to let you know.
Thank you so much for what you've done.
I hope you don't stop writing.
No, no, no, thank you.
I can't tell you.
I mean, that is, I mean, music to my ears.
You know, we have many hopes and dreams with this book series.
First and foremost is actually teaching love for America, respect for it, and countering all this, the hate and the criticism.
There's reasons to really love and appreciate this country.
And so many of these things aren't being taught anymore.
That's number one.
Number two, bring families together, have kids and their parents or grandkids.
Grandparents read these books together, have them explained, discussed.
But that is the idea of a book has come in handy and helped her pass a test.
Yep.
In addition to all the other materials she had to study.
You made my day.
Can I tell you one more thing?
Yeah, of course.
There are students in her school that will not pledge the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag in the morning because they say it's brainwashing.
And my daughter is disgusted.
This is eighth grade?
This is eighth grade.
Yep, eighth grade.
I was 12 or 13 or four to eighth grade.
How old is your daughter?
She's 13.
13, yeah, it's about okay, it hasn't changed.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
I'm reading the first book myself, and I'm enjoying it as well.
You know, this is my point.
The Pledge of Allegiance is considered propaganda.
That's what they're being told.
These kids weren't born thinking that stuff.
Who's putting this crap in their heads?
Maybe their parents, maybe the schools.
But to think the Pledge of Allegiance is propaganda?
If they think that's propaganda, what are they believing that is the truth?
Anyway, Kim, I can't thank you enough.
I appreciate your call.
Well, thanks so much.
We'll be back, folks.
Sit tight.
Much more straight ahead.
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Breaking news.
You remember why it was shortly after Obama got back from Hawaii last week, went on this brief public speaking tour and just raved about the economy.
You remember that?
We had the soundbite.
I remember he's roared on and on about all the jobs and all the activity and all the people that now have health care that didn't.
I mean, he painted a picture of utopia.
And it just happened to be that every issue he had tackled had begun now to pay off.
And finally, after six hard years, it had all come together.
And man, we're just swimming in it.
Man, we are in fat city.
I mean, we are up in there and it is just marvelous.
And then he goes away.
And we're faced with some real news, such as the Commerce Department reports retail sales saw a 0.9% decline in December.
Now, December, for you atheists and all that, that happens to be Christmas.
And let's face it, the thing you atheists and others hate most about Christmas is that you think it's capitalism on display.
It's massive sales.
It's smiling people.
It's people running around, engaging in commerce, spending money that they have earned in most cases, buying things, buying people's family members' presents, and all kinds of things.
And it is capitalism on display.
And manufacturers are trying to meet the demand.
Retail outlets are trying to meet the demand and increase the demand.
And consumers are trying to get the best deals they can.
And Obama told him, man, it was just zooming out.
And then we find out the Commerce Department says retail sales saw a 0.9% decline.
Decline in December.
And then you stop to realize that many retail businesses make at least half of their annual income during Christmas.
Not all, but some do.
And then we learned that this decline in retail sales in December was the biggest drop since January of 2014.
And it was steeper than Wall Street expected.
Excluding the automobile segment, sales fell 1%, the biggest drop since March of 2009.
Economists expected sales in the segment to hold steady.
Experts, the economists, were wrong again.
And then there's this from Breitbart News.
In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths outnumber business births.
Jim Clifton, the chairman CEO of Gallup, says for the past six years, since 2008, what happened in 2008?
What happened the past six years?
In the past six years, employer business startups have fallen below the business failure rate, spurring what he calls an underground earthquake that only stands to worsen as lagging U.S. census data becomes available, meaning it's even worse than what we have now.
Let me put this in real world terms: more American businesses are dying than are starting.
That's never, I mean, that's, folks, that is so out of proportion.
That's so out of scale of what normally happens.
He said, let's get one thing clear.
This economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends of American businesses.
This is the CEO of Gallup.
Popular left-wing polling group.
And here they are saying the economy is truly never coming back.
Well, we were just told that it is back.
And we've been hearing that it's back for weeks now.
Some cases, we've been hearing the economy is back for two years.
The drive-bys, the regime, they all keep talking about this recovery.
And they've been talking about the recovery for the past two years.
And Obama goes out last week and he sings this song.
He sings this song about how things are smoking.
Man, it's just great.
I remember the little soundbite that we played.
And now Gallup says this economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends.
Now, you and I all know, see, this is the thing.
We know this is true.
We may not know that specific fact, but we sense this.
93, 92.8 million, 92.8 million Americans not working, labor force participation rate.
Full-time employees in many places being reduced to 30 hours a week so the businesses do not have to provide health care.
There is no evidence that we have a growing economy.
One of the things that's helping in some segments, hurting others, is the falling oil price.
It's great for consumers.
But on the other hand, the theory behind this is that the Saudis are doing it.
Not even OPEC, just the Saudis.
The Saudis are trying to destroy the fracking industry.
Saudis are threatened with the fracking, you know, but because of fracking, because of horizontal drilling.
That's what fracking is, shale oil and horizontal drilling.
Because of that, the U.S. has more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia.
The problem is that $50 a barrel oil will not support getting it.
The costs of getting oil via horizontal drilling or fracking is a little bit more than the sale price, which is what the Saudis are trying to accomplish.
Saudis are saying, we'll bite the bullet for a while.
I mean, how many new airplanes do we need?
How much more gold do we need?
How many rooms in the palace do we need?
How many more princelings do we need to underwrite?
You know, how much more luxury do we have?
We got everything we want.
We've got a whole country.
We're sitting in it, so we'll bite the dust for a while.
And maybe hurt some of our other competitors too and take them out.
But we are really there to try to destroy the U.S. with this.
Our friends, the Saudis.
Truth be known, Saudi Arabia is the center of the birth of all of this militant, militant jihad.
Wahhabiism.
It's all there.
The 9-11 hijackers were, for the most part, Saudi.
Our friends, the Saudis, the Saudis know this.
The king of Saudi Arabia funds and has funded many presidential libraries over the years.
Not fully, but significantly.
I have no doubt.
Anyway, the price of oil means the price of gasoline is coming down, and that's a huge benefit for disposable income for the American people.
But it's putting pressure on domestic oil industries, as always does.
Good economic news is bad for somebody, and that's always the case.
Challenges everywhere.
But on the consumer side, it's great.
And I have full sympathy with consumers on this.
The oil price has been.
I remember when I was just 18 or 19, maybe 16 or 7, forget what it was.
The first gas lines.
When I grew up, gasoline was 28 cents a gallon, and it had wars.
Gas wars, you could find gas for 25, 24.
Gas stations on the corner opposite, same block would have gas wars at 28 cents.
It was nothing.
It was $5 to fill up a tank.
And I remember the first so-called shortage.
There never was a shortage.
There was just an import blockade or a contrived shortage.
There was never a shortage of oil in the world market.
There was never a shortage of gasoline.
There was just a shortage made available.
But the shock of gasoline overnight, 28, 29 cents to 50 cents, that percentage increase, that changed people's disposable incomes dramatically overnight.
Well, the same effect is happening on the way down.
You've been paying $3,350, and all of a sudden it's $2.
It's a huge difference, but it's hard on the domestic producers.
They need a certain price for it to be profitable to go get it.
We've shut, I don't know how many wells, we literally back in the 70s, and they shuttered, just we clogged them and shut them down in Texas and Louisiana.
Shut them down forever.
The domestic industry took a big hit, the ebb and flow of the market.
Thing is, the market's always right.
The market always works.
But now there's all kinds of external pressure, like the Saudis, trying to destroy fracking.
Now, oil prices today, they're down dramatically, but they are what they were in 2006.
The thing is, fracking has already had an impact.
I mean, the gasoline price isn't all that low.
It's just much lower than it has been.
It's about what it was in 2006.
Once again, you can track the rising oil price with the arrival of Obama.
You can track the rising cost of living with the arrival of Obama.
But isn't it interesting to note that food prices and other products prices are not coming down commensurate with the oil price?
I mean, we hear when the oil price goes up, gasoline price goes up, diesel price goes up.
Yeah, wait till you see what the head of lettuce is going to cost you.
Because it takes gasoline, Rush, takes diesel.
Get that head of lettuce into the store.
Nothing we can do about it.
Somehow, when the oil price goes down, the gasoline price goes down, the head of lettuce price doesn't.
Interesting how that works.
That's because there's this guy behind the curtain that's determining these prices.
Fox News is on the case on that.
Got a quick timeout.
Don't go away, folks.
Be right back.
Sit tight.
Back to the phones.
They go.
This is Robert Natlanta.
Welcome, sir.
Delight to have you here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, great to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
I have a question that requires a brief setup, my friend.
Yeah, go ahead.
You have described the Obama administration's calculated attempts to finally parse the actions of Muslim terrorists as ones being wholly separate from Islam.
That's exactly right.
However, Obama, and for that matter, Democrats and the mainstream media do precisely the opposite with Republicans as a whole.
That is, all Republicans are racist.
All Republicans are homophobes.
All Republicans want to push grandma over the cliff.
So, Rush, the question is, when will Obama start treating Muslims like Republicans and tell them to stop clinging to their guns and Quran?
You know, it's an interesting question.
I mean, I love the way that you're illustrating the point.
All Republicans are engaging in a war on women.
All it took was one answer for Mitt Romney to debate, and the Republicans have a war on women.
Meanwhile, if there's anybody conducting a war on women, it's Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Muslims.
This is true.
The militant Islamists.
And yet the Republicans are the ones accused of it.
So you're exactly right.
I'm going to grab a soundbite here to illustrate.
Thanks, Robert.
Excellent point.
I'm grabbing one of these Marie Harf things with me here.
There's three.
I don't have time to read all these to figure out which one it is I want.
But Marie Harf is out there saying that it is extremism in the name of Islam.
She is not calling it Islamist extremism.
She was asked about it.
It's number nine.
Here it is.
Okay, this is the CNN's New Day this morning.
Chris Kumo is interviewing her.
He said, hey, if the concern is to insulate moderate Muslims being lumped in with the bad Muslims, Muslims who pervert the faith, bastardize it for their own reasons, do you think it feeds the paranoia of Islam when you ignore that these men and women identify themselves as Muslims?
Well, we're not ignoring that.
And we have worked very closely with the Muslim community in the United States, in France, and encouraged moderate Muslim voices to stand up and say, this is not our religion.
They are not acting in the name of Islam.
So no one's ignoring the fact that these terrorists claim to be acting in the name of their faith.
What we're saying is that's a perversion of their faith.
That is not what Islam represents.
And more than what we call them, what we're focused on is how you fight them, how you hold them accountable, and how you prevent this from happening again.
And you haven't the slightest clue, madam, because you're not telling yourself the truth about who you're dealing with.
And that sound bite is exhibit one.
Listen to what she said here.
No, we're not ignoring that.
We've worked very closely with the Muslim community in the U.S., in France, and we've encouraged moderate Muslim voices to stand up and say, where are they?
This is not our religion.
They're not acting in the name of Islam.
What we're going to have here, just have it yesterday down somewhere in Texas.
There's going to be an annual convention of Muslims, and the purpose of which is to protect the image and name of the Prophet in the midst of all this.
And these are supposedly the moderate, but where are they?
If Marie Harf and the State Department's engaging with these people and demanding they stand, they never do.
And we're told that the reason they don't is because they're scared too.
But folks, all I can do is quote my friend Andrew McCarthy, who is, you know the story.
He was the prosecutor, the lead government prosecutor against the blind sheikh.
And very briefly, in his prep, in his preparation, here's the blind sheikh who had authorized bombing of the Lincoln tunnel and the bridges and all this.
Omar Abdel-Rahman is his name.
And so Andy has written about this, numerous essays, books.
In prepping, he became an expert on Islam.
He read the Quran.
He wanted to find out where this guy was a kook.
He wanted to find out where this guy's beliefs were ridiculous and extremist so he could cite them.
And he was shocked.
Guy's mainstream.
He wasn't extreme.
Obar Abdel Rahman was a mainstream Muslim.
And Andy is blue in the face trying to tell people this.
He makes himself available for Fox interviews.
He'll go anywhere.
It's amazing the number of people who will not accept it.
And here you have Marie Harf.
Well, this is not our religion.
They're not acting in the name of Islam.
But those people never stand up and say so, even though she's talking to them.
So no one's ignoring the fact that these terrorists claim to be acting in the name of their faith.
So you see, they're not.
In the State Department's eyes, they're not militant Islamists.
They are extremists acting in the name of Islam.
And that's why we're not going to call them Islamist extremists.
Now, you could nitpick and say, what the heck's the difference?
But that is missing the point.
These people are purposely trying to obfuscate.
For some reason, they do not want to face the truth, deal with the truth, identify the truth, or even admit that they know the truth.
This girl is 33 years old, and she's ranking in the State Department.
I mean, this is just.
We're focused on how you fight them, how you hold them accountable, how you prevent this from happening.
You're really having a lot of success at all that.
I must say.
Middle school students in Alabama have been asked to bring in cans to fight school shooters like cans of pork and beans, like cans of peas.