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March 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so try this in the New York Times.
And I got a whole stack of this stuff.
I got a whole stack of this stuff, and I told you I warned everybody back on March the 3rd.
16 days ago.
I predicted it, I warned everyone.
It wasn't hard to do.
Many people could have made the prediction.
Few did.
And you'll hear it coming up.
But try this.
Benjamin Netanyahu's victory appears, this is the New York Times.
Benjamin Netanyahu's victory appears to have dashed any hopes that President Obama might have had for a way out of his tumultuous and often bitter relationship with the leader.
You kidding me?
So we are being told here in the New York Times that a foreign leader of an allied nation winning his own election justifies disrespect from the president of the United States.
That Benjamin Netanyahu winning is an act of insolence against our dear leader.
And next thing you know, Obama's going to be suggesting mandatory voting.
Oh, wait, he did.
You didn't know that?
He did in Cleveland.
Mandatory voting.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I've got stories like this all over the place.
Obama to punish Jews at United Nations for re-electing Netanyahu.
That is from foreign policy.
From the Weekly Standard, White House BB's election undermines Democratic ideals.
That is what they're telling the media at the White House that Netanyahu winning a free and open election in his own country undermines Democratic ideals.
Folks, I'm telling you, these we're on the precipice, I think of real danger here.
These next two years there are no impediments.
There's nothing stopping.
And I this stuff is really, really scary.
This is the stuff that Saturday night light skits are made of.
Except this is as real asn't it.
We have the leader of the free world, Barack Obama, the president of the United States, actually now planning on going to the United Nations to undermine our ally Israel in favor of our enemy Iran.
And I would dare say our other enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah.
This is unbelievable.
And the media right in there reporting this stuff.
How dare Netanyahu disrespect Obama like this by winning?
How dare he?
Who does he think he is winning his own election when everybody knows Obama did not want him to?
And so now that the people of Israel have elected Netanyahu, and of course there's racism.
Oh, yes, despite everybody in the Middle East is the same race.
They're all Semites.
I'm talking race.
They're all Semites.
I mean, how in the hell do you have racism?
In Israel when talking about the Israeli Arabs versus the Rabbi, they're all Semites for crying out loud.
Not saying the same religion, obviously, but this is uncanny.
From the political Israel's shield no more, Obama is so ticked off.
He's being so petulant, like a spoiled rotten little kid, he's vowing not to protect Israel anymore at the United Nations in the Security Council.
Because they had the audacity to re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu.
Obama is taking this as a personal slap in the face.
AP Netanyahu win dashes prospect for a thrall, a thaw with Obama.
So the only way American-Israeli relations were going to advance is if Netanyahu lost.
But Netanyahu won, and that is considered a personal insult, an act of insolence against Barack Hussein Oh.
And this weekly standard headline again, White House BB's election undermines Democrat Ideals.
We just had democracy on display in Israel.
That was a free and open democratic election.
But somehow, the wrong guy won, according to Obama and the United States administration, and therefore, since they didn't get the result they want, democratic ideals have been undermined.
I want to take you back March 3rd.
This is what I said.
This is after Netanyahu's speech.
And I predicted that Obama would react as a spoiled rotten little kid and would double down everything he's trying to do with Iran in a fit of peak, childish anger at Netanyahu for daring to accept Bader's invitation to speak to a joint session of Congress.
When Obama thinks he's been embarrassed, when Obama thinks he's been shown up, doubles down on revenge.
Oh, you don't like this deal?
Oh, you think I don't know what I'm doing?
Oh, you think that you can come to my country and tell me how it's gonna be?
Well, watch this.
And bamboo, fast track the deal and make it even worse than it is.
And it looks like that's exactly what's happening.
Obama is pledging to remove sanctions.
Get this.
Obama is suggesting that he's going to remove sanctions from Iran and put them on Israel.
I have it right here in my stack of stuff that the administration is considering sanctions on Israel.
Here's Major Garrett this morning on CBS this morning.
He had a report about Obama's plans for helping the Palestinians now that uh Netanyahu has said they're not gonna get their own state since he won re-election.
President Obama has ordered his top advisors to seek alternatives to direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
The leading option for the White House, and one that would amount to a significant reversal of American policy would be to allow the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution recognizing a Palestinian state.
The White House has worked with Israel in the past to block such maneuvers, arguing it would unnecessarily inflame Israeli political passions and undermine a fragile peace process.
Letting the United Nations Security Council proceed now appears to be a live option.
And there is no peace process.
There's a peace industry, but there is no peace process.
Actually, a process is what it is.
That's all it is.
It's a process.
Nothing ever happens in it except it processes itself.
It just keeps processing.
And the process keeps recycling.
It's become an industry.
But now Obama is gonna go to the United Nations Security Council to get Palestinian statehood, and he is going to block the Israeli vote opposed to it, overcome it with uh uh since since he he will he refuses to work with Netanyahu.
What it what this means is Netanyahu won, so we're done.
We're we're out of, we're finished working with Israel.
We just can't.
They're a bunch of racist pigs.
That's what Obama says.
That's what the regime is saying.
Well, they played the race card, accusing uh Netanyahu and the uh campaign of his playing the race card in order to win the election, which is patently absurd.
But since Netanyahu won, uh, we're through.
We're done.
Israel, it's been fun while it lasted, but we'll see you at the Security Council.
We actually, the United States of America now appears to be changing policy such a way that the objective is to undermine Israel and promote Iran and its related affiliates, Hamas, Hezbollah, Basher Al-Assad, Putin, whoever the hell else.
Ron Fournier took a break from being worried about Hillary and is now worried about Obama.
It's on CNN's New Day today during inside politics, and the question came from um uh Julie Pace.
The U.S. is vowed to uh use its veto power at the Security Council, vowed to block any efforts there, but now they're saying it's possible we could ease up and try to let them get statehood, the Palestinians that way, do it at the Security Council while undermining our ally Israel.
What do you think of that, Ron?
Israel's enemies, whatever you want to say about Bibi.
They're playing for keeps.
And the U.S. could be playing with fire if they're gonna play these kind of games in the U.N. I am not a big fan of BB.
I think the administration has every reason to be upset with him.
But somebody's got to be the adult in the room in this relationship.
And somebody's got to reach out and say, how do we put this back together and have peace talks again and have a decent relationship?
We can't have our White House acting just as petulant as BB.
How is BB acting pet?
What in the world is going on?
We're living in a twilight zone here.
BB's acting pet all he did was win an election.
Is this some grand act of insolence and disrespect?
No, look, I know what they're talking about, what what what they can't abide, and I'm not trying to hide behind it.
I'm not, I'm trying to ignore it.
I'll tell you what it is.
They think people like this, Fournier, the media, the Obama administration, they think that Netanyahu pulled out his Tea Party membership card and threw down the race card against the Arabs.
You might be saying, well, how uh how how do they do that?
Well, according to these people, the way BB played the race card was at the last minute, when the Poles made it look nip and tuck, when the Poles made it look like Netanyahu might lose.
I mean, the media made everybody think that Netanyahu was on his last legs, and that of course created in Netanyahu a sense of, well, I've got to put out all the stops.
So, in order to secure turnout of his base, he pledged that he would oppose a two-state solution with a Palestinian state because he understands that the two-state solution is not a two-state solution.
The Palestinians do not want two states.
The Palestinians want their state and bye-bye Israel.
There is no such thing as a two-state solution.
Israel, BB had to go along with this for years.
It's what the U.S. demanded.
You better be for a two-state solution or we're gonna deny you the money.
You better do this, you better do that.
And so they went along with it.
Netanyahu on the ostensibly, I mean, look at I think Obama and his buddies only have themselves to blame for this.
They're the ones who put out a bunch of foli phony polling data that made it look like Netanyahu was going to lose.
They're the ones that had all the media and all the polling data and all the news stories before the election saying it was essentially over, that Herzog was gonna win, that Netanyahu was going to lose.
So if you're Netanyahu and you're consuming the news like everybody else does, and you're seeing that you're losing in pre-election polls, you might lose the turnout.
What do you do?
You do what every politician in the world does.
You try to get out your base.
You try to turn out the vote.
So Netanyahu speaks from the heart and says, you know what, there isn't gonna be a Palestinian state if I'm re-elected.
He came to his senses.
There's no such thing as a two-state solution.
That is considered playing the race card.
And I know you're saying, wait a minute, Rush, how is Netanyahu avowing that there will not be a Palestinian state playing the race card?
Well, because you see, it's racist.
Not to let the poor Palestinians have their own country.
Yes, it's very, very racist.
Why?
No, because the Palestinians are the minority and they're people of color.
But wait, so are the Israelis, they're all Semites.
Yes, but you're not supposed to look at it that way.
You're supposed to see the Israelis as the white Koch brothers in Israel, and you're supposed to see the Palestinians as the blacks in Ferguson, Missouri.
That's the construct.
And so the Koch brothers pulled out all the stops and said they're gonna do everything they can to make sure the gentle giant doesn't get away with framing the cop, and that's playing the race card.
Because you see, Netanyahu had to fight what he was being told was gonna be a massive Arab turnout.
A lot of Arabs that live in Israel peacefully, they've got everything they want there.
I guarantee you, if you've never been to Israel, and if you go, the biggest shock you're gonna get, I pred you're gonna see so many Arabs walking around, and you're gonna, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I thought the Israelis hated the Arabs.
I thought, well, what, yeah.
Because you've been fed a bunch of lies about the nation of Israel and how it conducts itself.
There is an entire Arab quarter Jerusalem.
They run around, they're free as they can be.
They're more free.
The women, Arabs, female Arabs in Israel are more free than they are in other countries in the Middle East.
They have access to everything.
They're not denied, they're not discriminated against.
You'd be shocked.
If you're to get off the plane and start walking that country, driving that country, you'd be stunned, particularly in Jerusalem.
Anyway.
Netanyahu was accused of playing the race card by promising there wouldn't be a Palestinian state.
He was trying to counter what the media was telling him was going to be this massive Israeli Arab turnout at the polls.
One point seven million is the Arab population in Israel, and 50 to 75% of them voted in the last election, so it's a big turnout, so you've got to counter it.
And the Democrats, just like they're playing a race card in this stupid, what's her name, Lynch?
Loretta Lynch, the Democrats are playing the race card on her on the Republicans on her, claiming they're putting her nomination at the back of the bus.
She's the nominee to replace Holder.
And the Democrats are running around led by Dick Durbin claiming the Republicans are playing the race card here.
When in fact, not a single Democrat voted for Condoleez Rice for Secretary of State.
Not a one of them.
Yeah, and Durban led the fight against Janice Rogers Brown is a black conservative, but anyway, there's some theory that when you start throwing the race card on everything, it's a sign you're losing.
For the Democrats, it's worked.
And so they're trying to infect Israeli politics with American politics.
It's the regime doing this, accusing Netanyahu of the race card.
But anyway, bottom line is Netanyahu wins.
That's the end of our relationship with Israel.
That an act of insolence.
How dare they?
How dare they was Israelis disrespected dear leader?
Greetings.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge societal evolution.
Let me see if I get this straight.
The Obama administration and the American media can spend money and run campaign ads designed to turn out the Israeli Arab vote.
And that's not racist.
No, no, no, no.
That's perfectly fine.
But then Netanyahu coming along and his allies pointing out that Obama and the Democrats in the media have targeted the Arabs and therefore trying to get his own base to turn out.
That's racist.
How can Netanyahu responding to what the Democrats are doing be considered racism and what the Democrats are doing not be racism?
This is getting, it's it's been out of hand for I don't know how long.
The Democrats throwing down the race card and getting away with it because there's too much fear.
And retaliating to it against it.
There's too much fear.
Everybody's frightened in the elected political class to do something about this.
But this is, it's long been out of hand.
It's perverse, it's destructive.
It isn't there's nothing positive or uplifting or inspiring about any of this.
Contrary to the claim, Democrat, but they're the ones that started all that.
They're the ones that targeted money and ads to turn out the Arab vote.
Never once did anybody think that was racist.
So Benjamin Netanyahu responds to it by pointing out the left is targeting the Arab vote and trying to get his base to turn out to counter that.
And all of a sudden, that becomes racism.
When there's it's all the same race.
The Middle East anyway.
It's all Semitic.
Anyway, I got to take a brief time out.
Thomas Loopy Friedman talking about this race, and it's sickening in a minute.
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Here's Thomas Loopy Friedman, the New York Times.
This really is absurd.
This is this is alternate universe.
This is two different worlds in which people live.
The idea that anybody, that that racism was a factor in the Israeli election.
The I The very idea is flat out absurd.
But you see, the Democrats can never lose on the merits.
No, no.
And Barack Obama can never actually be rejected by people, either here or in Israel.
No, no.
There has to be some explanation when he loses.
And it can't have anything to do with his policies.
It can't have anything to do with his meddling.
My guess is that a bunch of Israelis were fed up.
The American president, interloping in their country, trying to ambush an election, influence it.
For his own personal desires, not the United States' best interests, and certainly not Israel's.
Obama injected himself into that election for his own personal reasons, whatever the heck they are.
There had to be some Israeli backlash to that.
Probably not as much as you'd think, but there had to be some.
But it doesn't matter.
On any given day, the Democrats never lose.
Either have tricks played against them, somebody cheated, or the race card was used.
Or the war on women took an unexpected turn or some such thing.
And then their allies pick up the ball and run with it.
I want to ask you a question that I asked you yesterday.
Have you ever stopped to think of this whole Middle East peace process?
And remember it, that's all it is.
It's a process that never ends.
It's a process, process that recycles and repeats.
It's a chess game.
And the the game never is won or lost.
The pieces keep being moved around by different players.
Depending on the American administration and the Israeli Prime Minister.
And whoever's running the show at the PLO or Fatah or whatever they call themselves on any given day.
Hamas, Hezbollah, you name it.
The Middle East peace process is an industry into itself.
It's not designed to be resolved.
The Middle East peace process does not have an achievable objective.
We're all being lied to about this.
We're all being strung along.
We're all being roped in thinking for my whole life.
There's been no change in it.
When we're all roped into believing that there's a solution to this.
With words.
With the right people.
Doctors, nurses, clean water, whatever speeches you name it, there aren't any such solutions.
And there never are to conflict like this.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force, not by the aggressive use of process.
And this is made especially and abundantly clear in this case, because there is no such thing as a two-state solution.
I don't know how much time you out there as individuals pay attention to the Middle East peace process.
I wouldn't blame you if you didn't pay much attention at all, because it never changes.
It's the same thing.
The news and the Middle East peace process does not change from administration to administration, from person to person, from year to year.
Oh, you might have changes that appear to be different, like this two-state solution business, or when the Israelis finally decide to accept the idea of a Palestinian state.
But then whenever something like that, which some people wouldn't consider progress, is made, guess who undermines it?
Hello, Yasser Arafat.
Hello, whoever is running the show in negotiations against the Israelis.
Because they do not want a two-state solution.
There is no two-state solution.
There's a one-state solution.
The two-state solution actually means the end of Israel.
Go take a look at the Hezbollah charter.
Take a look at things stated by Yasser Arafat when he was around.
Doesn't matter who.
You'll say, take a look at the Iranian Caliphate.
I mean, you'll you'll you'll no matter where you go, the objective is wiping out the Jewish state.
It doesn't exist anymore, and neither do the people who at present live in it.
That's the objective.
That's the only objective.
There is no desire to live side by side.
In peace and tranquility, in mutual respect, and all of that.
There is no such possibility resulting from negotiations.
Just never going to happen.
And I dare say the people involved in it know it.
But the Middle East peace process has become a career.
The Middle East peace process is something that when you're 15, you just say, you know, I want to work there.
I want to work there for life.
I want to become a diplomat, work at the Middle East peace process.
I want to be a career appointee to the Middle East peace process.
So that I'm there no matter who the American administration is, president is.
This whole thing is a joke.
What makes it a obviate the two-state solution?
Well, the demand for right of return.
Right of return is incumbent on a two-state solution.
Right of return means that anybody who wants to call themselves a Palestinian anywhere in the world has the right to come back to whatever they designate as the Palestinian state.
And by the way, the Palestinian state is going to be what Israel is now, or there's never going to be a deal.
And who's going to make that deal?
Who in Israel is going to negotiate the end of the nation?
You know, now that I ask that, I can see that that could happen if you elect the wrong Israeli leftists.
Israeli leftists are the equivalent of the current Republican leadership in this country.
Just as the current Republican leadership scared to death of the Democrats, scared to death of the media.
The Israeli left is scared to death of Iran.
And everything you hear about the Republican leadership not criticizing Obama, we don't want to provoke him.
We don't want to make him mad.
We don't want to anger the independents.
We don't want to turn away the independent.
We don't want to know.
We don't want anybody getting mad at us.
We don't want the media criticizing us.
Same thing.
The Israeli left, same way, except their objective is placating Iran.
They're neophytes who believe that these people can be appeased.
The right of return eliminates any possibility of a two-state solution or existence.
Besides that, none of the militant Arab population wants a state of Israel.
So all this is academic, is my point.
Obama inserts himself in this process.
He makes it in the actually in the internal affairs of Israel.
He inserts himself personally and professionally, throws down this notion of the race card, he starts the whole thing with the race card.
BB responds to it, and then BB's accused is the only one of playing the race card.
But I just I need to ask you, do you ever wonder why the Democrat party in this country, whoever, be it Bill Clinton, be it Barack Obama, be it John Kerry, I don't care, be it Diane Feinstein, I don't care.
Pick one.
Why are their allies, the Palestinians?
And why are the Israelis, which is the ally of the United States, why are the Israelis tied, at least at present with Netanyahu as the prime minister to the conservative or Republican Party.
Why is that?
That's more understandable.
Shared values, foreign and domestic, same world view, same Western civilization roots.
But why, no matter what Democrat you mention, no matter what Democrats ever in the White House or whatever Democrat Secretary of State, whatever Democrat ends up anywhere, why are they always sympatico with the Palestinians?
And there is an answer to the question.
And without going into it in great detail, it's no more complicated.
I mean, there is ideology involved.
There is a there's a common ground.
leftists will find their friends anywhere around the world.
They do not have to be American, they do not have to be domestic in any way.
But aside from the ideology commonalities, their ideological commonalities, and there are some between the Palestinians and the Democrat Party.
When I say Hamas Hezbollah, there's another reason for it.
And that is they feel sorry for him.
They feel sorry for him like they feel sorry for the African American population in America.
They actually look at the Palestinians and they see a bunch of people worthy of pity.
Oh, these poor guys, look at them.
Nobody wants them.
They're outcasts.
They can't get along with anybody.
And they look at the Israelis, is the big evil white, even though they're not majority.
Israel is the equivalent of the biggest enemy that the Democrats can muster in American conservatism or in the American Republican Party.
And it's really no more complicated than that.
Well, it is, actually, because there is ideological common ground as well between the enemies of Israel and a Democrat Party in this country.
But in large part it's really no more complicated than the evil tyranny of a majority.
And the poor helpless put upon, discriminated against minority and people of color.
And as such, the Democrats look upon these minorities not with respect, they look upon them with pity.
And the bigotry of low expectations.
They're people that can't do anything on their own.
They're people who can't survive on their own.
They're poor people, they're just incompetent and inept.
And they need a champion.
They need somebody speaking up for them.
They need somebody defending them.
The Democrats rush to the cause, make themselves look big and magnanimous, and there's something magic about always opposing the majority.
Even when you're it.
You disguise the fact that you're in the majority, you blame others for being the majority, and you rip them to shreds every day just because they are.
And just because they're majority, they're intrinsically corrupt.
They're automatically cheating, they're automatically corrupt, they're automatically ingrates because they are the majority.
And as such, they're incapable of being sympathized.
They're incapable of anybody having empathy for them because they're just evil.
And in the liberal worldview, it does not really require any more detail than that, but there is.
There are other reasons to explain why the Democrat Party, the American left is sympatico with the enemies of Israel.
But I gotta take a timeout now, my friends, as the time keeps just ticking on by, but we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Here's Thomas Lupe Friedman.
This is last night on CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front.
Her question was, you wrote today, Sir Thomas, that Benjamin Netanyahu went for the gutter with the comment to supporters that Arab voters were coming out to vote in huge numbers.
Would you please explain that to us, Mr. Freeman?
How can that be Netanyahu going for the gutter?
Netanyahu, to save himself, took votes from even farther right parties.
And now he is saddled with the way he did that, this kind of race baiting, and at the same time with throwing out the window of his election bus, the whole notion of a two-state solution.
The people who are happiest tonight, who are high-fiving and toasting themselves with endless Allahu Akbars, is the Iranian regime in Tehran.
Iran wants a one state solution.
So there is a constant grinding between Israeli settlers and Palestinians.
Nothing makes Iran happier than Israel opting for a one-state solution.
Ladies and gentlemen, I I I that is just flat out wrong.
It is dangerously wrong.
It is arrogantly misinformed.
And this guy is the Bible to everybody who reads the New York Times.
There's a foreign policy, Thomas Friedman is the Bible.
And this is dangerously, embarrassingly, every bit of it wrong.
There never will be a two-state solution if people are living in dreamland.
They have no concept of the dynamics of anything that they do, just like when they raise taxes.
They don't understand when people are able to avoid it.
They don't understand when people try to find ways not to pay the new taxes.
There's never going to be a two-state solution because the Palestinians do not want that.
And how anybody with even one half the IQ of a pencil eraser doesn't understand that is literally beyond me.
And then we hear this this other bromide here.
Well, he took votes from even further right.
So they were registered to vote, so what where they came from?
What makes them so evil that they are further right?
What what what how does that matter?
Where does further right equal evil?
Except in this man's upside down world.
But that's not even the point.
The race baiting?
The race baiting, if anybody race baited, it's Barack Obama and whoever ran that campaign for him over there.
They are the ones who pointed out the need to turn out the Arab Israeli vote.
And by the way, what is racist about that?
There is no racism in this.
Only in the convoluted, upside-down world of liberalism can people of the same race be somehow tagged as racial minorities.
It's inexplicable.
So race baiting when the first people did it were people that are freedmen's allies.
The first thing they run all these fraudulent polls telling everybody not who's going to lose.
Well, that's no different than turning out minority votes in this country.
The opposition party is going to do something to counter it.
It's called free and open elections.
It's called campaigning.
Except when the left comments on it somehow, if you don't just sit there and let them beat you, if you don't just sit there and give up and let them beat you, you're engaging in racism.
It's sick.
Well, another exciting hour of broadcast excellence in the can and on the way over, hermetically sealed to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, the virtual museum at Rush Limbaugh.com.
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