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Feb. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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You see that?
You see that up there?
You see that?
CNN's going to injustice, not poverty, radicalizes youth.
That looks like Ted Koppel's daughter up there.
She back.
Where did she go?
That looks like Andrea Campel up there.
Not that it matters to anything, but it just does.
I was wondering where she went the other day.
Injustice, not poverty, radicalizes youth.
So somebody at CNN's disagreeing with Marie Harf and Obama.
But what's an injustice, not poverty?
I mean, isn't poverty an injustice in and of itself?
Well, you see how everybody's stretching themselves here and the pretzels that they're trying to get themselves into, all these different shapes, just to avoid saying that terrorists are evil?
What is it about the left and the inability they have to assign responsibility to those who are responsible for what they do?
What is it about the left that must blame majorities for every act undertaken by a minority?
Now, in this case, Islam is not a minority.
It's a huge group of people.
But still, it doesn't matter if it's street crime in Ferguson, Missouri.
It doesn't matter where it is.
It's never the fault of the criminal.
It's always the fault of the system to the left.
It's always the fault of the culture.
So in this case, it's injustice, not poverty, that is radicalizing young youth all over the world.
I have a question.
And it might be a horrible thing to say.
Isn't that what Rudy said?
And that's what everybody should be paying attention.
It might be a horrible thing to say.
But, no, seriously.
I mean, just taking Obama at his word here, and Marie Harf and the others at their word.
Is it going to take some unemployed people in this country engaging in acts of terror before Obama starts doing things to help the economy?
Well, no.
Now, wait a minute, folks.
Hey, I'm just doing a little comedy here.
You know, if this kind of thing happens on late night TV, they give them awards.
I'm just trying to do a little cutting commentary here, a little fake news.
What did Obama say?
See, when you make fun of conservatives, you get awards and they call you great and they call you indefensible and they call you, I mean, they call you indispensable.
But if you make fun of liberals, they're going to come for you and they're going to single you out and they're going to try to destroy you.
But you make fun of Republicans and conservatives and you're heroic and they give you all kinds of awards.
Did not Obama and did not Marie Harf say that we cannot kill our way out of this war.
We cannot kill enough ISIS people to defeat them.
That they need jobs.
That they are engaged in acts of terror.
And these are real acts.
They're burning people.
They're beheading people.
All of this because they don't have jobs, right?
That's what the regime is saying.
Okay, well, then doesn't it follow?
Is it going to take some unemployed people in this country doing acts of terror before Obama starts doing things to help the economy?
If acts of terror come about because of people being unemployed and they don't like being unemployed, they want jobs.
Well then, do we not have the solution to our economy here?
The unemployed could start doing acts of terror and finally the regime will listen to them.
I think that's pretty clever.
I think that's done.
That's a brilliant job of turning Obama's own logic around on it.
But you wait, that's going to be labeled as insensitive and uncaring and all these other things.
Than if I were a liberal comedian saying this kind of stuff.
Why, man, oh man, they'd think it's great.
Anyway, Rudy Giuliani, he did say, he walked this back earlier on Fox.
But he said, I do not believe, and I know it's a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe the president loves America.
He said this during a dinner last night, Manhattan.
It was at 21.
It was a dinner for Scott Walker.
It actually had a bunch of conservative Reaganite types.
Walker, it was his turn last night, the same group.
It was Stephen Moore, was one of the Steve Moore.
Grover, I think, Norquist, and there was one other that was there.
And then they've had one of these dinners for other potential Republican candidates.
Last night was Scott Walker's turn.
And it was at that dinner where Rudy made these comments.
He says, I know it's a horrible thing to say, but I don't believe the president loves America.
He doesn't love you and he doesn't love me.
He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.
Now, he's walked that back a little bit on Fox this morning by saying he just never hears the president talk about how he loves the country like he always heard Reagan talk about.
He always heard Clinton talk about how much they loved America, but he never hears Obama say it.
So let's go to the sound bites.
This is Rudy on Fox.
This morning, Clayton Morris is interviewing him and said, you said when I hear the president speak that I don't believe he expresses the love of America as much as he does criticism of America.
What do you mean, Mr. Mayor?
I'm not questioning his patriotism.
He's a patriot, I'm sure.
What I'm saying is that in his rhetoric, I very rarely hear him say the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America.
I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents.
And when it's not in the context of an overwhelming number of statements about the exceptionalism of America, it sounds like he's more of a critic than he is a supporter.
You could be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.
Steve Doocy then next said, well, you know, that kind of goes along with what the president wrote yesterday in the L.A. Times, which we quoted to you moments ago.
He's talking about ISIS, which, as we all know, are Islamic terrorists, but he won't say Islamic.
But he said they have legitimate concerns that put yourself in their shoes.
And Ducey's right.
He did.
He said they've got grievances, legitimate grievances, and we must try to understand them.
What I question about the president maybe is even broader than that he doesn't express a love of America enough, which I don't think he does.
I think he talks more about criticism rather than about what an exceptional country we are.
At least I don't feel that from him.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't feel that.
I don't also believe he expresses the love of Western civilization that he should, or an understanding of Western civilization, or what Western civilization has brought to the world.
Its false should be the footnote, and the headline should be, what a wonderful country we are.
Right.
So he continues now here to clarify.
And I think he's saying what a lot of people think about Obama.
I mean, he does.
He's known for apologizing for America.
He's known for acknowledging what he believes to be our mistakes that justify other people's actions against us.
And he's also enunciated American mistakes as a mechanism for us not having the right to criticize anybody else.
There was a human rights seminar in the United States recently.
It was a couple years ago.
And it was during the time that the state of Arizona was trying to pass its own immigration law because Obama was not enforcing federal immigration law.
So Arizona passed its own law, and some State Department guy stood up and he actually said to a CHICOM diplomat, look, it's kind of tough for me to come here and criticize you, the CHICOMs, for your human rights violations when we have our own human rights violations problems ourselves.
And he was talking about Arizona's immigration law.
So the point is that Obama cites and his regime cites America's faults as an excuse for not citing the faults of other nations.
And it's this behavior on Obama's part that makes people think he's got a chip on his shoulder about this.
And I don't think there's any doubt about that.
It's in a way he was raised.
So anyway, this dinner last night was, I said it was in honor of Scott Walker.
What it is, I wish I could remember the third host, Steve Moore, who's formerly Wall Street Journal and formerly Club for Growth.
He's a Reaganite, it's Art Laffer.
It was Art Laffer and Grover Norquist and Steve Moore.
They were the three hosts, but there were a lot of Reaganite-type conservatives there.
It was at 21, and Scott Walker was invited to come in, and there was a roundtable discussion, and I'm sure that he underwent some sort of a quasi-interview process, as a lot of other Republican candidates will at the same dinner.
And Rudy was one of the attendees.
And Rudy, I think, actually spoke.
So Scott Walker was on CNBC this morning on their program Squawkbox.
Becky Quick said, you were at this dinner last night where Rudy spoke, and you were sitting just a few chairs away when he said that he didn't believe the president loves America.
He wasn't brought up the way you and I were brought up.
What did you think of what Mayor Giuliani said?
The mayor can speak for himself.
I'm not going to comment on what the president thinks or not.
He can speak for himself.
I'll tell you, I love America, and I think there are plenty of people, Democrat, Republican, Independent, everyone in between, who love this country.
I think we should talk about ways that we love this country and that we feel passionately about America, whether it's about making sure everyone can succeed and live the American dream.
Did you agree with those comments?
Were you offended by those comments?
What was your reaction when you heard them?
I'm in New York.
I'm used to people saying things.
In New York, I'm used to people saying it.
Okay, that's Scott Walker.
Now let's move to 21.
Here is Ted Cruz.
And he was on with Megan Kelly last night.
She said, you know what the president's argument is on this, which is there's no reason to admit that we're in a holy war because that gives the terrorists what they want.
And he's worried about alienating those Muslim countries right now are willing to stand up and fight ISIS, like Jordan.
So does it undermine our global effort of the coalition he's trying to build to pit the world against Islam, even the radical form of Islam?
What undermines the global effort is for the president of the United States to be an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists, to analogize it to the crusades from 700 years ago.
President al-Sisi in Cairo gave a speech that was courageous when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists.
And President Al-Sisi is a Muslim.
And he said, we Muslims need to stand up together against these radical terrorists who are perverting our faith and turning it into a mandate for murder.
Why don't we see the President of the United States demonstrating that same courage just to speak the truth about the face of evil we're facing right now?
And that's Ted Cruz last night with Megan Kelly on Fox.
A brief commercial time out here, my friends, back to your phone calls.
After this, don't go away.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations.
Every day, this is Alyssa in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so excited to get a chance to talk to you today.
I'm actually a Rush baby, so I'm a lifelong student at the Lindbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
But the main reason I'm calling today is I believe I have the real reason that liberals like Marie Harf want to spread jobs and capitalism to ISIS.
Back when I was in college a couple years ago, I had a professor who was my sociology professor.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Capitalism?
Yes, capitalism.
Marie Harf wants to spread capitalism.
You can spread in a liberal mind.
You can spread jobs without capitalism.
True.
You think she wants to spread capitalism to ISIS?
Yes.
The reason I think this is because my sociology professor, who actually was a communist, she told us that the real reason that communism has never been a successful form of government in the world is because it first must grow out of a capitalist society.
And that's their whole reason that it actually hasn't worked.
And so by spreading capitalism or jobs to ISIS, people like Marie Harf would be creating a fertile ground for what they would see as a chance for a true socialist society to rise up in the future.
Okay, so I want to retrace this step by step.
You had an admitted communist professorette.
What was it, was it sociology, did you say?
Yes, sir.
It was sociology 101.
And she said that the reason that communism hasn't worked is because it must spring from capitalism.
Yes, basically, we have to overthrow a capitalist society in order for true communism to actually work.
Did she mean that you can't start from ground zero and build a communist society?
You have to first build a capitalist society where there's wealth and where there's income and where there is prosperity, and then the communists take it over and equalize it and make it fair.
Exactly.
I guess no one else in the class agreed with her point, but.
Well, how many other communists were there in the class?
No one took her side, so I'm...
Well, that doesn't necessarily mean, it doesn't, I mean, you've got plenty of communists who eschew capitalism at any cost.
I can imagine you have some communist students in there.
What university?
What school?
It was a technical college.
I had actually gone back for the second time to get my veterinary technician degree.
Oh, technical college.
You had an admitted communist in a technical veterinary college.
See, they're everywhere, folks.
You can't stop.
But my point is, I can imagine you could have students by definition are going to be young people.
And I imagine many of them.
What are you?
Capitalism?
Hold on that.
We're going to go communism right out of the bat.
We're not going to mess with capitalism.
And they might have thought she was all wet because of that.
But her point was, it's interesting if this is what she means.
She must have been admitting that capitalism by or communism by itself cannot create anything worth taking over.
It cannot create wealth.
It cannot create a burgeoning and growing economy.
It cannot create jobs.
Somebody else has to do that.
Then the communists go in and take it over on the basis that the end result of capitalism is inequity, unfairness, inequality, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia.
And then the communists go in and promise to equalize all of that and get rid of all the injustice.
And that was her point, right?
Right.
Yeah, that was her point.
Well, then that would explain the ongoing effort to communize the United States.
I mean, we are having the essence of capitalism in the world.
And they have done it in Hong Kong.
The Chikams, I don't know, to whatever extent.
I mean, your professor may be onto something more than people might realize.
Well, she was telling you the reason it hasn't worked yet is precisely because of that.
Right.
Right.
And that was, you know, Solinsky's argument, too.
He was trying to create a communist society out of the United States.
Right.
So, what better platform to do it, unfortunately?
Well, and the way they go about it, I mean, here's capitalism, and it creates differences.
I mean, everybody, by definition, some people are going to do better than others because some people care more, some people are smarter, some people have more talent doing things, some people are more ambitious.
And of course, communists don't like that.
The outcome is the same.
So the inequality and the unfairness, and of course, the requisite racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia would mean communists can come over and appeal to the youth of the capitalist society on the basis of how unjust all this unfairness and inequality is and promise to fix it and create the utopia.
And in the process, you destroy capitalism, proving, therefore, that communism is superior.
That's probably her thought process.
But it didn't rope you in.
You now think that that's what Marie Harth is thinking, that before they can socialize or communize ISIS, they have to make them a capitalist economy.
Right, in order for them to actually be able to grow anything out of it.
Right.
What would you say if you look at ISIS now or al-Qaeda or any terrorist organization, and if you had to attach an ideological label or an ideology to them, what would you call them?
Radical Islam, definitely.
I actually studied the Korean in college for my undergrad.
You studied the Holy Quran in college.
I did.
That was quite a few years back for my undergrad in English.
But yeah, I had to take a whole course on it.
And it was actually a pretty good course.
It was fairly unbiased.
But yeah, unfortunately, we learned in that class that Muhammad was actually, they're a bit of a warmonger.
I might get in trouble for saying some of this.
But he would actually change portions of the Quran in order to incite war on different countries.
That's actually what we learned.
Well, look, I've not read the Holy Quran, as Calypso Louis says.
But I know some people who have.
I know some people who've read it, covered it cover a couple of times, highly intelligent people.
And they all tell me that what we see is in the Quran, that this is not unusual, that it is not, what's the term, An indiscriminate offshoot or offset that this is all in there.
I haven't read it.
People I know who have say this.
That's why there's such a dichotomy or dilemma, actually, for me on this.
But I appreciate the call, Alyssa, very much.
Thank you.
Be back in a sec, folks.
Now, CNN may not have known it, but they were right on the money.
At the top of the hour, they had a graphic Chiron on the screen which said that injustice, not lack of jobs, leads to terrorism.
They may have been more right than they know, probably were more right than they know.
Because I had a note from an expert on Islam who has explained to me that that's exactly what Islamists believe.
In Islam, justice is Sharia.
Consequently, where there is no Sharia, there has to be injustice.
Injustice is where there's no Sharia.
And the point of violent jihad is not wanton killing.
The point of jihad is to impose Sharia.
That is to correct the injustice of non-Islamic society.
To Islamists, Islamic law is what corrects injustice.
And so, whether they knew it or not, CNN was right on the money with this.
But injustice from the perspective of the jihadist.
Let's say you're an Islamist, not necessarily a violent jihadist, but you're somebody who wants to see Sharia law imposed everywhere.
And that is what an Islamist is.
If you listen to what Obama said during this summit, from the perspective of an Islamist, it makes perfect sense.
Injustice is the cause of terrorism, because injustice is the lack of Sharia.
And the objective of the terrorist is to impose Sharia.
So the Islamists who were paying attention to Obama understood perfectly what he meant.
Those who don't understand the meaning of Sharia and Islam and how they go together will hear Obama talking about injustice and think that he is saying that they have a legitimate grievance and that's why they are committing these atrocities.
And they do from their standpoint.
Their religion requires Sharia.
Wherever there is not Sharia, there is injustice.
The religion is the beginning and end of everything.
It's all that matters to an Islamist.
And if Islam requires Sharia and there isn't Sharia, then there's injustice.
Not injustice in the sense that it's used in this country, injustice because there's no jobs, injustice because there's no increase in income, injustice because discrimination against people based on skin color, gender.
That's not it.
Injustice in Islam is no Sharia.
Therefore, in their religion, all of this is entirely justified and it's even required.
And the violence is not for the express purpose of wanton killing.
It is to impose Sharia.
The punishment for injustice, the punishment for infidels, i.e., no Sharia, is death.
And that's what's going on.
And Obama, in his explanation of all of this, the Islamists around the world watching him would have understood exactly what he meant.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You can analyze that yourself all you want.
You'll come to the right conclusion.
You know our old buddy Nick Searcy.
Nick Searcy, famous, world-famous actor, played U.S. Marshal.
Justified, just finished shooting.
Final season, they've wrapped it.
Nick Searcy was a scout for the Oakland A's in Moneyball.
I mean, he has been in all kinds of Nick Searce.
Nick Searcy is one of us.
He used to be.
Well, now that Justified has finished shooting, Nick Searcy has renounced conservatism.
Well, he's looking for work now in Hollywood.
And so he's posted on Facebook.
He started with a tweet.
Now he's posted a following on Facebook.
Now that Justified has finished shooting, and I am free to pursue other projects.
I would just like to say to all the producers in Hollywood, I was just kidding about all that anti-Democrat stuff I posted.
Barack Obama is not only the greatest president in American history, possibly the greatest human being who has ever lived.
I applaud every single thing he's ever done, and I now see the error of my ways and support every policy he has ever and will ever propose.
My agents are standing by for your call.
Nick Searcey.
Well, you're not buying it in there?
Snirdly's not buying it.
must know Nick pretty well then.
I know he's fearless and he's got his own.
He does have a Twitter ID and he's fearless there.
But this is classically funny.
I mean, this is just in their face.
You know, Nick sent me some of his cigars over there.
I got them last week.
Autograph box of Nick Searcy cigars and a couple of them.
Yeah, he's got his own line of cigars over there.
It's its own band and label on the things, too.
Yeah, it's great.
Anyway, here's Josh in Urbana, Ohio.
Josh, I'm glad that you waited.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
You know, I just wanted to call and just wanted to thank you for spreading the truth.
That rarely happens anymore these days.
And I appreciate that.
But I also wanted to just call and share me and my family's experience with your book, The Brave Pilgrims, and basically what we do.
And it's so hard with work and school and sports to find time to just sit down and get some family time.
And a good way we found is we just each night, each one of us read a chapter out loud and we all listen to it.
And we actually just finished the book last night.
And my 12-year-old son, he read the last chapter.
And it was a great book.
And I just wanted to thank you for writing those in words.
That is awesome.
How many people in the family participate in this round-robin reading project?
Well, I actually, I have three children, but my oldest son is a U.S. Army soldier, so he's not home right now.
But me and my wife and my youngest son, Nathaniel, he's 12, and Cheyenne, my daughter, she's 14.
So the four of you read to each other.
This is exactly, look, Josh, this is exactly what we envisioned would happen with these books.
We envisioned parents and maybe grandparents actually reading either the books to the kids or with them.
And the kids asking, or yeah, asking questions the adults might have the answers to above and beyond what's in the books.
And we just envisioned families sitting around discussing this stuff because we were hoping what would happen is that people would see and learn things in the books that they didn't know because they haven't been taught properly in the schools for so long.
Yeah, that's very true.
They love Liberty too, just so they love liberty.
Well, so what about you going to do the same thing with the other two books?
Yeah, yeah, I haven't purchased them yet, but I'm in the process and they can't wait.
We just finished it last night, and they seemed a little sad that it was done.
So we're going to get the other two, and we're going to continue it on.
There's no question they'd be sad, but they know there's two more to come, right?
Yeah, yeah, I already told them that there was more and that we were going to get them and we were going to read them.
But I just wanted to call you and thank you for writing them because they're awesome and it's so hard to get quality family time and this is a really good way for us to do that.
I'm telling you.
I can't, I'm not, this is exactly what literally we dreamed would happen.
I know it sounds old-fashioned and like Norman Rockwellish, but this is we actually envisioned families doing this with the books.
And you have, I can see it happening.
You've created a great picture.
Now, you know, I want to send you the other two.
But in addition to that, I want to send you CDs of all three.
So if either of you get tired reading on a particular night, you can pop the CD to whatever chapter you're in and listen to me read it to you.
Well, that would be awesome, Rush.
You don't have to do that, but that is greatly appreciated.
Okay, then I won't.
No, you know, we're going to get them nonetheless.
No, I'm just kidding.
Go ahead and get them and donate them to the school or something because I'm going to send you these two.
Okay.
So if you'll hang on, don't hang up.
Snurdley needs to get the address.
Make sure it's a FedEx address so that we can get the books out and the audio version.
And Josh, I cannot thank you enough.
That is just, it's heartmelting is what it is for us.
And we really appreciate it.
We'll be back, folks, much more after this.
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As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campaign, an argument is taking shape, and that is arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults.
Lawmakers in 10 states are pushing legislation that would permit the carrying of guns on campus.
And they're hoping the National Spotlight on Sexual Assault will help them win passage of these measures.
State Representative Dennis Bexley of Florida said, if you've got a person that's raped because you wouldn't let them carry a firearm to defend themselves, I think you're responsible.
The sponsor of the Bill in Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore said in a telephone interview, if these young, hot little girls on campus have a gun, I wonder how many men will want to assault them.
Sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in the head.
Hot little girls?
This from a female assemblyman in Nevada.
See, this is great.
The left tells everybody there's a culture of rape all over the campus, all over American universities.
It's happening.
It's just, it's terrible out there.
And people react to that.
Really?
It's a culture of rape.
Well, we've got to get the women guns.
And the left says, We didn't mean that.
Well, now, wait a minute, which is it?
You have a culture of rape and you're not allowing these women to protect themselves, or is it not that bad?
And the left can't say, well, it's not really that bad because they've got this, they've got too much tied up in the whole thing.
I just, I think this is, is just, it's perfect.
And it illustrates, again, how the left just does not factor the dynamic reaction to the things they say, the legislation they pass, or the things that they, the things that they do.
We're out of here for today, folks, but we've got Open Line Friday on tap next.
We'll be back in 21 hours revved up and ready to go, as always.
So be thinking about what it is outside the box you might want to talk about.
We'll see you then.
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