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Feb. 12, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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The FBI, since this has come up, the FBI is admitting they are not going to be able to track all of the Americans joining ISIS.
It's that many.
Now, why would this be happening?
How many Americans?
No, I'm not saying it's unique.
Don't.
Don't misunderstand me.
I mean, we've had, we have the Communist Party USA.
We've had skinhead Nazis and all that.
But how many, World War II, how many Americans joined Hitler?
Do you happen to know off the top of your head?
Does anybody happen to know off the top of your head?
How many Americans joined?
How many Americans joined the Imperial Army of Japan?
Well, you would think it's negligible.
Clearly, every war has defectors.
Every war has spies.
But I think there's something that's caught up with us.
By the way, it's not new that liberals have been controlling college campuses and classrooms for decades now.
And it's not new that they have been preaching the evils of the United States.
But clearly, something's happened.
And I don't think there's any doubt about it.
It's just common sense.
You take a young bunch of skulls full of mush who think of themselves as good people, a population as large as ours, we're going to have people from all different types.
We're going to have do-gooders.
We're going to have nurturers.
We're going to have John Wayne types.
We're going to have, you name it.
We're going to have the emotionally fragile.
We're going to have those that are guilt-laden just at their own existence.
We have enough cracked up people.
By the time an artful series of liberal propagandists, professors, teachers get hold of them, they can make these people literally filled with rage and anger at their own country or make them sick and motivate them to do something.
My only point is, is that it makes perfect sense to me, logical sense, that if you have a bunch of young skulls full of mush who don't know that their skull is full of mush, by the way, they think they're smarter than everybody else.
Certainly they think they're more sensitive than everybody else.
And they are bombarded on television.
They're bombarded in movies.
Some of them are bombarded with lyrics and songs.
You name it how rotten the cops are, how racist this, that, or the other thing is, how mean-spirited and racist and bigoted Republicans are.
Or in general, what a reprobate country this one is.
It stands to reason that some of those kids, after hearing it non-stop everywhere they go and not believing when they hear people try to counter them or talk them out of it, it stands to reason people are going to sign up with ISIS thinking that they are the good guys.
I mean, after all, after 9-11, what happened right here with George Bush in the White House?
Our State Department convened a seminar, the subject of which was, what did we do to make them mad?
The premise of which was, it could well be our fault.
Okay, let's say some eager beaver college professor who's got his own grudge against the United States or series of grudges gets hold of that and starts telling his young skulls full of mush in class that whoever blew up the World Trade Centers had a legitimate beef with the American foreign policy and could be nothing more than our continued relationship with Israel.
Then you throw in that the Jews might have been involved in blowing up the world trades.
I mean, you've heard some of this crap.
The poet laureate of New Jersey was running around spewing that dribble.
I mean, you don't have to work hard to find this stuff, folks.
You do not have to climb under rocks and go into caves to hear what a bunch of rotten things this country's done.
You can hear it right out of the mouth of the president of the United States.
You can hear it out of the mouth of practically every Democrat candidate for president.
It really struck me in the 2012 campaign when I'm listening to Democrats talk about this country in support of Obama and his re-election not sounding much different than Mahmoud Ahmedin Izad, the little dictator of the president of Iran.
And I mentioned it at the time.
Speaking about this, I checked the email during the break.
I got a couple of people that are shocked.
Americans join ISIS?
They can't believe it.
Why would Americans beheading Americans?
They are savages.
Why would Americans be joining ISIS?
So I'm endeavoring to explain to people who can't understand how that could be, how it rather is not that hard to understand.
On the one hand, over here, you have standard instruction, which is greatest country on earth, freedom, liberty for all.
Beacon, shining city on a hill, greatest country ever.
They grow up and they hear this.
Their parents are wherever.
They see the national anthem before sporting events, flags everywhere.
But then over here, on the other hand, they have these authority figures, maybe their own parents, maybe a kindergarten teacher.
I don't know, maybe a junior high, middle school, whatever.
Finally, get to college, you hear the other story, the other side of it.
This is a racist country founded on the backs of slaves.
This country is not a legitimate superpower.
It's wealth derived from the plunder of stolen goods, resources, and properties as our imperialistic governments have spread around the world and taken what we wanted.
You know as well as I do this stuff is taught by people who really believe it, sick though they may be.
So I'm just telling you, it's not that hard.
It's not that big a stretch to understand that some idealistic young people would go over there and join ISIS or whoever, thinking that they're on the side of right, that they're on the side of justice.
It's easy, isn't it?
Look at how easy it is for some people to be made to believe that their country has committed all these atrocious criminal acts over the years that need to be addressed and corrected.
What other component?
You say there's another component?
Uh-uh.
Oh.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Right.
Well, no, I should mention that.
That's not verboten.
No, no, it's, it's not, no, it's not, no, that's not, it's actually true.
If you, if you, I left out a category of agitator.
And I guess I ought to be fair and spread it around.
I mean, there's no question that this kind of stuff's taught on campus at some of them are finest by reputation institutions.
I mean, this is this stuff is rote instruction in the Ivy League.
Some of the women's studies courses alone deal with the evil perpetrated in the world by a patriarchal United States of America.
Men.
It's not just the U.S. that behaved in this oppressive way.
It was a bunch of U.S. men who did it.
But there is another factor, and that is immigration.
We have had for the longest time essentially an open borders policy.
And there could be any number of immigrants to the country who are here for the express purpose of undermining it in this way.
And they have kids who are automatically citizens when they're born here.
And it could be that.
But there's all kinds of ways to explain this is the point.
And if I can get in a little shameless plug, and I will admit it's a shameless plug.
This is why Catherine and I are spending so much time putting together this series of books for young people on American history to try to counter at the youngest impressionable age we can reach some of the bilge and dribble that is being taught as truth and history to young people.
I don't want young people growing up hating this country and thinking this country is not what it is.
I don't want them growing up.
We're not an oppressor nation.
It's offensive to me to even have to describe it that way.
We're a legitimate superpower.
We don't steal.
We liberate.
We don't conquer.
There aren't any foreign countries under our control.
We're not colonialists.
Anyway, speaking of colonialism, Conrad Black, member of the House of Lords, has written a book.
I forget the title of which.
It might not have been a book.
It might have been an op-ed piece.
I think it was a book or a rather long article.
And he took a great risk in pointing out how many of the countries that were under British colonial control were actually far better advanced and much better off during that period than they are now since they have gained their independence.
And that was a gutsy thing.
You're just not supposed to say that.
But he did.
And it got circulated within his circle of people.
It's a small circle of the super smart and highly intellectual.
But it was not echoed anywhere.
It stood alone, but it was there and people referenced it.
But the point is there could be any number of explanations for this that shouldn't be surprising why Americans would join ISIS.
Apparently, the bottom line is it's so many, the FBI is admitting they can't keep control of it now.
They have no idea.
They can't even give us an accurate number, much less keep them all under surveillance at any given moment.
Okay, grab soundbite number 25.
This is this afternoon on Philadelphia on WPVI-TV Eyeball News Action News at noon.
They have a correspondent named David Henry when I did a man on the street report interviewing people about the news that the Democrat convention's coming to Philadelphia, which I said earlier today.
That doesn't make any sense.
You have the Declaration of Energy.
You have the Constitution written in Philadelphia.
Why in the world would Democrats want to go there?
No, no, no.
That's not where you go to change it.
You go there to honor it, and they don't.
Obama uses our Constitution as, well, scrap paper.
As I said, it's like ISIS deciding to hold their midsummer convention in Bethlehem.
This just doesn't make any sense.
So anyway, they go out there and they do a man on the street interview, and it's about 41 seconds.
And the last dude they talk to, I've got a picture of the dude.
He's a hipster, and he's a fan of this program.
This is a big source of pride for a lot of Philadelphians.
A lot of people love this city, love living in the city.
And when they heard the news, except for one person we talked to, they were all ecstatic about it.
I think that's terrific.
It will be great.
I think it'll be good for the city.
Bring in money, give us some publicity.
I think it's high time Philly gets some more attention.
You know, we have been, even look at the city.
It's kind of looking really old.
So we need a facelift.
It's good for Philadelphia to be recognized as a major city.
I don't like it.
You don't like it now?
Why wouldn't you like that?
Well, I'm like a Rush Limbaugh fan, and I just don't really deal with any of the politics or anything.
This being Philadelphia, there's always got to be a ziger.
Why wouldn't you like it?
Well, you know, I'm like a Rush Limbaugh fan.
I just don't like really dealing with any of their politics or anything, meaning a Democrat.
So they went and they found a Limbaugh fan to pour cold water on the whole notion that the, his name is, I didn't have his name here.
The reporter there is a guy named David Henry.
But I've got a picture of the dude, and he's a hipster.
So whoever he is, we've just added to his fame.
You know what's going to happen?
You people in Philadelphia, like I'm listening to all these people, I think it's terrific.
It'll be great.
He'll be good for the city, bring in money, give us some publicity.
The Eagles do that.
The Eagles in the Phillies give you publicity.
Donovan McNabb, how can you be, I mean, after that, what more do you need?
Then I think it's high time Philly gets some more attention.
You know, we've been, look at this city.
It's kind of very old.
We deface them.
What about Rocky?
How much more attention can Philadelphia get than Rocky?
I'll tell you what's going to happen because it happened in New York.
They're going to sweep the homeless wherever this convention center is, wherever they put this thing.
They will spruce that area up.
If you want to benefit from the financial impact of the Democrat convention, try to identify where it's going to be.
Go buy some property there.
They'll probably pay you to kick you off of it.
Or if you can find residential, it'll go up in value because they're going to clean all of the riffraff and the clutter out of there so that the cameras do not show any of it every night of the convention.
They did it twice in New York.
Did it twice.
That was funny.
We were right there, Madison Square Garden, for the Democrat convention in 1992.
And we had Lobianco go out there and actually serve them grape Kool-Aid, like they served at the Jim Jones cult As the delegates, as they walked in, we found the C-SPAN camera.
The C-SPAN camera was showing this.
And we wanted the C-SPAN camera was hidden in some shrubbery.
Sent Lobiako out to find that so that we would always be on camera because you couldn't always tell where the camera itself actually was.
Anyway, back to the phone.
Southwest Oklahoma.
Larry, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk with you again after all these years since I left Allentown.
Thank you, sir.
And I still have the ties.
Thank you for those.
I appreciate them.
You bet.
Yeah, we own Allentown.
That's what's important.
We own Allentown.
We've owned Allentown ever since this program went on the air.
Oh, I know.
I know.
You're in Oklahoma now, but you remember the days that we owned Allentown.
Well, yes, yes.
We made a bet, and you paid off honorably, and I appreciate that.
You bet.
I still have the ties.
There you go.
See?
Anyway, I have been trying to understand the endgame that Obama has for the Middle East, and I believe he has one.
I don't think he's just going at it haphazardly.
You know, as well as I do, even better, I'm sure, everything that this president has done over the past six years and hasn't done in the Middle East, from pulling out of Iraq, dropping sanctions, negotiating with Iran, what he did in Egypt, Libya, and now Afghanistan, surrendered and left three embassies.
And now what he's doing with Israel as well.
And I asked myself a question: who is the ultimate benefactor in all of this?
You know, I want to come up with one answer, and that's nuclear-powered Iran.
When that happens, they control that entire region.
And then he can pull completely out of the Middle East, no U.S. soldiers, no embassies, complete evacuation, and leave it under the control of Iran.
Let me.
And I think the Democrats would love that.
Let me comment.
Oh, you do.
You think the Democrats would love a nuclear Iran controlling the Middle East?
I believe.
Well, look what he did to the Senate when they talked about having sanctions just on standby in case these talks fail, which they're going to.
But I think the far left, knowing that we have our military out, we're downsizing our military to below what it was pre-World War II anyway.
Why not?
Well, did you know, just to throw a little hot water on this, not cold water, a little hot water, did you happen to know that Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran?
Yes, sir, I do.
You can look that up on Wikipedia.
Yeah, well, sometimes Wikipedia lies, but in this case, they got it right.
They got it right on this one.
Now, this isn't.
And I still wonder, remember in 2012 when Barack sent the message to Pootie Put that he'd have more flexibility after the election?
Yeah.
What's that about?
Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, armed nuclear warheads is what everybody thought that was about.
And us getting rid of ours.
That Obama told Putin.
Well, he didn't tell Putin.
He told Dmitry Medvedev to tell Putin.
He said, you tell Vlad that I'll have more flexibility after the election.
They were talking about nuclear warheads.
Well, look, Larry, I appreciate the call.
He raises some interesting points here, particularly his description of what has happened in the Middle East since Obama has assumed power in the White House.
Let's review that and talk about it to the nuclear-armed Iran when we get back.
Okay, it's a fascinating concept.
I can't deny what the guy said.
What he said is right on the money.
Even up to a nuclear Iran.
I mentioned, we interviewed Dr. Thomas Sowell in a newsletter, Limbaugh letter, two issues ago.
It might be in the current issue now.
I forget which.
But I asked him about a nuclear Iran, and he openly, without any hesitation, said that one of the things that worries him the most right now is not domestic policy, although a lot of it does.
A nuclear Iran is one of the most worrisome things of Dr. Thomas Sowell.
And I asked him why.
He said, well, suppose they attack?
Suppose nuclear Iran, you know they'll take out Israel.
Suppose they take out Chicago or launch a hit on any major U.S. city.
I said, well, nobody wants that.
He said, Obama will surrender.
He really told me he was afraid that Barack Obama would surrender rather than launch a retaliatory strike.
And I have to tell you, that had never crossed my mind.
You know, I've thought of all kinds of possibilities resulting from a nuclear Iran, even an attack on the U.S.
I never once considered the U.S. president would surrender.
But Dr. Sowell thought it was a reasonable expectation, given who Obama is.
But if you look at what's happened in the Middle East since Obama has become president, you start in Egypt, and we took out Mubarak and put in Obama's buddies, the Muslim Brotherhood, and they got taken out in a fit of rage and anger.
Then the Arab Spring came up.
Basically, the Middle East is falling apart.
ISIS and al-Qaeda are on the prowl.
Obama has proudly pulled us out of Iraq, pulled out all troops.
There was nothing left to maintain the victory that had been attained there.
There was no remaining U.S. presence.
And now Syria is out of control, and you've got Turkey and Russia joining forces with Bashar Assad and all of the enemies of Israel.
And the negotiations that are taking place with Iran, I hate to say our caller is right.
Obama has really gotten ticked off at Congress when they have sought to increase sanctions against Iran for any misbehavior or breaking of any promises made.
The last significant story I saw on nuclear Iran, the Iranians were begging the U.S. to finally get back to the table, get a deal, begging us to come back.
They're so close to a deal, begging us to come back.
Couple that with, Obama has said many times, echoing Ron Paul, by the way, who are we to say a country can't have nuclear weapons?
What would we have said to somebody who told us we couldn't?
We'd have told him, go pound sand.
Well, who are we to tell Iran they can't have nukes?
Now, Obama will say in public he's opposed to it, but remember, Obama lied through his teeth on gay marriage, as Axelrod has now admitted.
Axarot has admitted that Obama was never opposed to gay marriage.
He just said so to get elected.
He's openly admitted it.
That Obama did not have a change of heart.
He did not have an evolution of thought.
He didn't change his mind on gay marriage.
He's been for it from the get-go.
He just knew that he couldn't get elected in 2008 saying so.
Plus, there was also the desire on the part of the regime to advance Obama's religion as Christian.
And so he had to play the whole gay marriage thing close to the vest.
Okay, well, if we know, if it's been admitted that Obama lied to us about gay marriage, then when Obama says, who are we to say that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, and this is the guy in charge of negotiating with them?
It is a scary thought.
And make no bones, if they get one, they will say so.
They will not keep that a closely guarded secret for strategic reasons.
They will proudly and happily announce it.
At which point they will be required to prove it.
And I'm sure they'll come up with interesting ways of doing that.
But if that day ever does come, then the idea that they have the ultimate control over the Middle East makes perfect sense.
And if they demand that we pull out and stop our support of Israel or else, and if they demand that all armed forces leave Saudi Arabia and Qatar and United Arab Emirates, anywhere we have a military installation designed to protect allies over there, if they tell us to close it down or else.
So it is a very scary thought, and all under the question of what is the end game of Obama's Middle Eastern policy.
And the caller's question was always the good question: who benefits if A happens or B happens?
Who's the beneficiary if, say, Iran gets a nuke?
Who is the beneficiary of Israel triumphing over its enemies?
Who benefits if the Palestinians triumph?
So it's and the easy answer to the question, we say, what's Obama's endgame?
He doesn't have a policy.
Look at ISIS.
He doesn't have a policy.
We have no strategy.
What is it?
Strategic patience?
We don't have a policy.
He announces that we're going to clean their clocks yesterday, but then tells us what we're not going to do in the process of cleaning their clocks.
He tells us we're going to beat them and we're going to take them out, but here's what we're not going to do.
And everything he says we're not going to do is what we'd have to do to take them out.
So it is scary thoughts.
No, Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran.
I'm not saying anything else.
I'm just saying she was born in Iran.
That's all.
What do you mean?
What does that mean?
It just doesn't mean anything.
She was born in Iran.
So was Christiana Manpour, I think.
So what?
What does it mean?
I think she was.
There were a lot of people that were born in Iran.
There's some actresses that I've seen on 24 that were born in Iran.
What does it mean?
I wasn't saying anything by it.
I was just asking the caller if he knew it, and he did.
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I've been doing this a long time, ladies and gentlemen, and plan on doing it an even longer time because it's still fun.
More fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Danny in Miami, I'm glad you waited.
It's your turn here on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Rush, it's definitely a pleasure to speak to you, sir.
I got a couple of points.
And one of them is basically echoing what you said.
I actually believe the Democrats are, they feel like they are going to win the election, that they will, you know, that it's not for them to lose it.
They're going to actually win it.
I think it's more of the Republicans.
Can they win it?
And I'm actually concerned.
I'm afraid, especially with the name Clinton, that people are just going to vote for that name.
My feeling is in order for us to win this election, I think whoever the candidate is for the Republicans, they have to speak directly to the African-American population, to the camera, saying this is for the African-American population, that we're here for you, because the Democrats continue to make it feel like we don't care about the African-American population, which is far from true.
I think that we should also, the candidates should be able to go to the minority districts and stuff and have their town hall meetings there, not only in the rich areas, but as well as the minority areas, both Hispanics and African Americans.
And that's the only way we're going to win this election.
Well, you know what's going to happen?
And by the way, I don't disagree with you here.
In fact, your first point that the Republican nominee or the candidates in general are going to find a way to address minority community, you may have a point with that.
I just don't know how they do it.
You remember the Wellstone Memorial?
Yes.
Republican, he was a senator, Democrat, white senator.
This isn't even racial, but Republican senators went to the Wellstone Memorial.
They thought it was a memorial.
It wasn't.
It was a political rally for the Democrats.
They were booed.
They had stuff thrown at them.
They had to leave, Danny, for a memorial that had tens of thousands of people, hundreds of people.
It was like a basketball arena kind of place.
They had to leave it because they were so disrespected.
All they thought they were doing was showing up to pay respects to a colleague who'd been killed in a plane crash.
Correct.
So I can imagine if, say, Republican candidate A schedules a meeting in African community, part of town or area, and let Al Sharp and the guys get hold of it and have a bunch of people show up and shout them down so they can't even be heard and shout, racist, bigot, and start throwing things at them like that.
How can they even get a fair hearing when you know the left is going to stack the deck and make it look like they're not even not respected by even one attendee?
Well, I understand that.
But one of the things is if you, you know, and you're right.
I mean, if they go to a town hall meeting to a minority area, who knows what's going to end up happening?
But at least on camera, every time they're speaking, not just to all Americans, but they should literally pinpoint to the African American and the Hispanic community because to me, just like my wife, my wife knows that I love her, but she wants to hear it.
Danny, Danny, I got to go.
I'm out of time.
Get his phone number for tomorrow.
I want to continue this because this is something I'm fascinated by.
We'll be back.
Okay, folks, did you get his number out there?
Okay, fine.
Danny, we'll try to get back and connect with him tomorrow because it's Open Line Friday.
And we'll do another one in honor of Brian Williams tomorrow.
Make it up.
Call it lie about whatever you want.
See if you can sell it.
Make it happen.
See you then.
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