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July 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Here's the audio sunbase.
This is Obama expressing the fact that uh Israel has legitimate concerns.
And this is the whole comment, and it's in context, and it is uh well, it's less earth-shattering to me than I first heard about it.
But of course, the key here is mind-boggling.
The key here is the last line of this.
It's uh 44 seconds, so you'll have to listen for 42 seconds to uh to get to what this is really all about.
Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran.
I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv.
And so I think there are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous.
Stop the tape!
Stop the tape.
See, they he I was led to believe that Obama was admitting the deal made them nervous.
It's he's not saying that the deal with Iran that he's made here gives Israel legitimate concerns.
What he's saying is you'll hear as we resume this in a minute, he's saying that Israel's concerns are legitimate right now because of Iran.
But as you will hear, he's fixing that.
Position in the world generally, and I've said this to Prime Minister Netanyahu, I've said it directly to the Israeli people.
But what I've also said is that all those threats are compounded if Iran gets a nuclear weapon.
And they're not gonna get a nuclear weapon because I just struck a deal with them where they're promising not to do nuclear.
He didn't say that, but he other people have had have said it.
I mean, every the regime's whole point here is we have a deal with Iran where they're not gonna get nukes.
So, yeah, Israel's got legitimate concerns, but uh it'd be even worse if they were gonna get a nuke.
Yeah, well, they're not gonna get a nuke because of me.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Now, the AP has already filed its first dispatch of the Obama uh victory lap here.
Here's the first big takeaway from the AP.
President Barack Obama says Iran accord is only option to avert Mid East nuclear race, which is preposterous.
That not only is it preposterous, it's insulting.
This has started a Mid East nuclear race.
Guess can you guess what the first alliance to be made as a result of this deal is the Israelis and the Saudi Arabians?
I know it's Saudi, I just I pronounce it like some in the region.
The Sa'udis and the Israelis.
Israel and Saudi Arabia have not a formal accord.
But believe me, Israel is not the only nation in the Middle East that doesn't like Iran.
The Saudis hate them, and the Saudis are worried the Iranians have designs in their oil fields and their refineries.
You know what Iran does not have a refinery in the whole country.
They they're one of the biggest oil producers in the world, and they have to export their crude and have it refined and brought back for gasoline for the mullahs.
Do the mullahs use gasoline?
Or do they still ride camels?
Well, I know, but they're they're big believers in the seventh century.
So I I know it's a bit of a facetious question.
Now Saudi Arabia and Egypt uh and other Sunni Arab countries in the region are going to demand that they be allowed to pursue nuclear weapons too.
Because Iran is not a good guy.
You see, that's what's missing in all this.
This really isn't complicated.
And the problem with Obama is he's treating the Iranians as good guys.
There's no concept that we're the good guys, and Iran's our enemy.
Why do the rest of these nations in the world want to luke up after Iran has been granted permission to?
You think this deal prevents Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and why the hell are the Saudi Arabians in the in the market now?
And why are the Egyptians in the market?
Why is every other Middle Eastern Sunni Arab nation in the market for nukes now?
Why would they be if the deal prevents the Iranians from going nuke?
The degree of frustration.
You cannot imagine.
Except those of you who think like I do, you know it, you can imagine it, but you it's just the whole I hope he fails thing.
I honestly.
When that when that blew up, when that caught fire, I mean, I expected it to catch fire on the left, just because it was me saying it.
But when I saw all these linguini-spined Republicans, we need to be very careful about the language we use.
Whatever Obama was doing, whoever he nominated, whatever he said, the linguini spined on our side, were going over racing to each other first in the microphone to praise what Obama was doing, so that nobody would think they were racists.
But I'm going to tell you again, because even Snerdley didn't believe me an hour ago when I made this assertion.
We had a caller who said, I thought you were a little overboard, Rush, when you said I hope he fails.
But now I know exactly what you meant.
I think Russia, if you were to go out and say today, I wish he had failed, you'd have so many people agreeing with you now.
And I said, I'm not sure.
But this guy said to me, I think Russia, even you underestimated, and that's I didn't, folks.
And I'm not just saying this to say it, and I'm not there's no reason to make this kind of stuff up.
I'm not surprised by any of this.
I am disappointed like you can't believe on so many levels.
I'm saddened on so many levels, but I'm not shocked over what Obama's done.
I am dismayed with the ease that he's had in doing it.
I am dismayed how many people didn't see it.
It is why I have, and you who are regular listeners know, it's why I have I have been.
I've been whining, I've been complaining about the fact that not enough people see things ideologically.
I I, in terms of being able to foretell what Obama was going to do, not specifically, but we knew health care, folks.
We played the sound bites of Obama promising union buddies of his what he was gonna do with national health care.
It was not hard to find out.
All you had to do was believe that he meant it.
We played those sound bites on this program.
We played all kinds of Osambites from Obama in the early 2000s.
And if you combine them with what is already known about radical leftists, they're all over the world.
You see what they do everywhere.
None of it was surprising to me.
I didn't underestimate any of it.
If I underestimated anything, is I underestimated the number of Americans who would oppose it.
I underestimated the number of Americans who wouldn't care.
I underestimated the number of Americans who didn't even see it.
And that's what was disappointing.
And some days it was crushing.
Because it was so obvious.
It's not because I have any particular talents and insight.
It's not because I'm smarter than anybody else.
I just I just know who liberals are, I know what they do, I know what their grand designs are.
How many times is you have to hear Obama apologizing for the country to put together what he's all about?
How many times do you the stimulus?
The whole, I mean, from the get-go, it was clear.
Close Guantanamo Bay, the whole Democrat Party argument, even before Obama get here about Iraq.
What the Democrat Party was trying to do to this country and George Bush and Iraq and so forth, even before Obama was elected.
None of it was hard to see.
Now again, I'm not claiming that I was able to make predictions on specificity.
I'm just telling you that I didn't underestimate Obama at all.
And I didn't when you know it starts making a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons.
I know what's going on here about his legacy, but I also know rooted in it that he doesn't think Iran's the bad guy.
See, if anybody is, we are.
If there's a nation on the face of the earth that owes the world an apology, according to him, it's us.
From the days of our founding forward, we have been an immoral, unjust, unfair nation exacerbated by the eight years of Reagan, eight years of Reagan, he's said this, made it even worse.
He openly spoke of his disgust for Reagan and his desire to reverse Reaganism.
He said it all of it.
None of it was hidden.
There is no hidden agenda.
He just didn't announce it on the campaign trail.
But all these places he did say it, we had the audio, we aired the audio all over the Jeremiah Wright, what do you not know there from Jeremiah Wright?
What do you have to overlook?
What do you have to pretend you didn't hear in order to ignore his relationship with Jeremiah Wright and who Jeremiah Wright is.
But in this Iran deal, there's the fact that they're not the bad guys is what's driving this.
And by the way, grab audio soundbite number one.
You want to hear what this is the kind of stuff that disappoints me.
Because Obama's a known quantity.
I mean, I know where Obama's going, I know what he's going to do, I know what he believes, and nobody's going to try to accomplish.
What's crushing, what's disappointing, depressing, maddening, frustrating, is when you learn how many doofuses in this country buy it.
That's the frustrating thing.
So here we have a soundbite this last night on eyeball 8 news in Washington, a program called the Capital Insider.
And uh the host of the program, not going to mention his name because it's not about ripping the host by name.
It's just this guy's typical.
What you're going to hear this guy say is SOP, standard operating procedure, and it describes the way Obama views the world to AT.
They are talking about the Iran deal and me.
And here's the bite.
I was listening to Rush Linball there saying, oh, but you know, we don't have instant access.
If we say we want to have a surprise inspection, they won't do it.
True, but then we wouldn't want that imposed upon us, neither would our friends in the UK.
So this instant access to nuclear weapon sites, I can understand that because if somebody says, hey, we want to see your site in ten minutes, I don't think we'd go for that either.
So you see, there's no concept of good guys or bad guys.
There's no concept of we hold the cards.
There's no concept of we are the world superpower, and here comes a rogue state sponsor of terrorism worldwide, they want nukes into this guy and to Obama.
Well, who are we to say they don't get him?
We wouldn't want this kind of treatment.
If somebody said they want to inspect our nuclear program, we're going to tell her to go pound sand, right?
Well, why can't they tell us to go pound sand?
Except they're going through us for permission.
They are willingly participating in negotiations to be granted permission to do a nuclear program.
We had that power, or we did.
But where does that power come from?
These people on the left do not even think that's legit.
The idea that the United States is a leader of the free world, no, who says?
What gives us the presumptive right to assume that role?
Why do we think we're any better than anybody else?
And it isn't about being better than anybody else.
It's about being the lone outpost of freedom, codified in founding documents and governing documents of the country.
We are the place in the world was established where human beings are free from the moment they're born till the day they die.
We are the nation that stands for that, guarantees that, ensures that for our people.
In the process, whenever we find other people around the world who are having their freedom denied, we defend their freedom too.
It's part of defending our own.
We build up allies around the world who have our values and believe, as we do, about the nature of humanity and freedom.
We form alliances with them.
We have enemies who do not agree that this is how you should treat people that live in your country.
The Iranians do not believe in freedom the way we do.
The Iranians believe in terrorism.
They believe in Sharia law, but the last thing they believe in is the same kind of constitutional Republican freedom we have in the United States of America.
We are the good guys.
But not to this guy and not to Obama.
We don't have the right.
It's not a question of having the right.
We have a responsibility.
Our government, whoever runs it, has a responsibility to the American people to ensure our freedom, our safety, our defense.
They swear an oath to do this.
They do not swear an oath to cut this country down to size.
They do not swear an oath to make this country remake it in their own image.
They swear an oath to defend and protect the Constitution rather than shred it.
They take an oath to defend and protect the freedom of the United States of America and people around the world who are our allies.
Because if we won't defend our own freedom, then nobody in the world is going to have any at some point.
If we are not seen as the good guys in a sense of responsibility, not size, this is where this whole argument of American exceptionalism has been bastardized.
People like this guy on TV in Washington think American exceptionalism is us saying that we are better people.
And it's not.
American exceptionalism is the root of the word.
We are the exception to the way most people in the world have had to live since the beginning of time.
Under tyranny, bondage, and what have you.
We are the lone exception.
It's why everybody on earth wants to come to this country, even today.
We are the good guys, but we're not being governed by people who see this country as the good guys.
We're being governed by people that see it exactly like this guy does.
Well, I mean, we wouldn't want to onspot instant inspection of anything we're doing.
The history of the U.S. nuclear program dates back to World War II.
And as usual, the Germans were on a r uh rapid pace with heavy water and all kinds of experimentation to get to nuclear first.
And we got their scientists.
Now we did create this whole Nuclear the Manhattan Project with secret and private because of the power.
But we did so with the eye, we're the good guys.
That's what's missing, it's what's lost.
It's not even contemplated.
We're now no different than the rogue state that's the state sponsor of terrorism.
We're on the same moral plane as far as people like this guy on TV in Washington and Obama and the Democrat Party today are concerned.
And we head back to the phones.
This is Mary in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
I'm glad you called and uh thank you for your patience.
Hi.
Hi, Rosh.
Um, thanks for taking my call.
First of all, I want to thank you for um speaking the truth with such great humor.
I really do appreciate it.
Hey, I've been trying to get through to you for a while, and it's always about the same thing.
The Catholic Church, the Catholic hierarchy, and your response to it to certain issues.
And today was another example where I think you're almost more Catholic than some of the Catholic priests I know, and I know I have to tone that down a bit and say maybe braver than a lot of the Catholic priests I know, because you you're right out there on the sanctity of life, and you're consistent, and you do not miss words.
Um I'm a Catholic.
I don't question that you know the Catholic Church and the hierarchy value human life and the sanctity of human life, but we do not get it all the time from the pulpit.
And I tell some of the priests I know, turn into Rush.
Tune into Rush.
He's talking about abortion.
He's he's right out there.
He doesn't mince words, and he's consistent, he's consistent, he's consistent.
And um I greatly appreciate that.
Well, thank you.
Uh thank thanks very much.
Are you serious when you say that you detect uh what's the word?
You think the Catholic from the pulpit, the priests are not as uh vocal on on life as they have been?
Is that what you're saying?
Well, you know, uh yes.
I'll I'll say yes, not across the board.
I love my priests, I love the Catholic Church.
It's the only game in town from where I'm a devout Catholic.
But an example, right to life Sunday.
Every year in in our calendar, we have a right to light Sunday.
And I'll talk to my sisters and my mothers and my brothers said the priests actually get up and talk about abortion.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
And my my 21-year-old son said to me, I'm I'm getting too rushed, he goes, good luck.
And there's a lot of pushback um from kids that age on this.
But anyway, he said, Well, the priests and the bishops and have to be more politic.
And I said, Well, because they have to deal, you know, with it with with the parishioners.
And I was like, well, no, no, it's not supposed to work that way.
I mean, if anything, yeah, I know, but it does.
Your sons are right.
And um it's politics, it's money, it's all of the above.
And um, there is a great right to life movement in the country.
I'm not saying there's not, but uh I have uh 19 and 21 year old sons, and I say to the priest, if they do not hear it in the pulpit, where are they gonna hear it besides Rush?
Because it's everybody look, everybody needs money.
And if the people that donate money don't want to hear about it, then you might not talk about it if you're the church.
I'm gonna tell you something, folks, it's even worse.
Obama is loving this Iran stuff.
I've been catching a little bit of this press conference, he is eating this stuff up.
He's talking about how much he loves this Iran debate.
He's getting so worked up here, he's even starting to ask himself his own questions when he doesn't get the questions he wants from the press, which I understand by the way, I do that too, because they never do ask me what I want to talk about.
But wait till you hear the sound bite coming up.
But this guy's defending Iran.
He's defending Iran today in all of this.
I've not seen him ever defend America like he's defending Iran in these questions and answers today.
And then where is it with John Kerry?
Yeah, I got that just a second.
So Major Garrett at the uh victory lap for Obama on Iran today, says there are four Americans in Iran, three of them held on trumped up charges according to your administration, and one with whereabouts unknown.
Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this nation, the strength of this nation unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?
I gotta give you credit, Major, for how you craft those uh those questions.
The notion that I'm content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails, Major, that's nonsense.
And you should know better.
I've met with the families of some of those folks.
Nobody's content.
And our diplomats and our teams are working diligently to try to get them out.
Now, if the question is why we did not tie the negotiations to their release, think about the logic that that creates.
Suddenly Iran realizes, you know what?
Maybe we can get additional concessions out of the Americans by holding these individuals.
Well, what the what do you mean get additional concessions?
I didn't think there were any concessions.
You know, if you ask me, just in a couple of little soundbites we played today, sounds like Obama stepped in it a couple times here today and may not know it.
And of course, he can only be accused of stepped in it if people listening to it get that.
And the media won't.
Suddenly Iran realized, you know what?
Maybe we get more concessions out of the Americans, but hold on, is it more concessions?
Is that not a tantamount admission that they've gotten concessions?
We should have been getting the concessions.
They are the ones who can't get nuclear with us in the way.
We are the ones who can stop them from going there.
They need concessions from what is we granted them concessions?
And by the way, has anybody heard of Bo Bergdahl?
Here Obama gets angry, he lectures Major Garrett and says it's a bad idea to let Iran think they can get concessions for hostages.
Well, what about Bo Bergdahl?
We gave up five or six bad guys in exchange for one of our deserters.
And speaking of which, bad idea to let Iran think they can get concessions elections.
There's one other point here on the tip of my tongue.
It's a good point too about this.
It's hypocrisy.
Sigh.
Something like Guantanamo Bay was on the tip of my tongue, but I mean this guy is stepping in it here.
Suddenly Iran realizes may we get additional concessions out of the Americans by holding these.
Oh, I know what it was.
Didn't Obama just change the negotiation?
Parents, families can now pay ransom?
To kidnappers?
Like ISIS.
What the hell is that gonna do?
Cause more kidnapping.
You can say goodbye to we don't negotiate with terrorists.
Now let me move on to Kerry because I've been uh intent on sharing this with you.
What do you think the purpose of the Iran nuclear program was?
Or the negotiation.
What's the purpose of the Iran deal?
Just off the top of your head, what do you think the purpose of it is?
Is it to deny Iran nuclear weapons?
Is it to limit their ability to get them in a certain period of time?
Is it to make sure that we can monitor everything they do from day to day so that they don't get away with secretly creating something and annihilate the world?
What is the deal?
Does anybody know?
Well, I want you to listen to John Kerry, by the way, served in Vietnam.
What he says it is.
Quote, most importantly, this agreement addresses Iran's potential pathway to fizzle material for a bomb, exactly as we said it would, with appropriate limitations and transparency in order to assure the world of the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.
Let me explain how it will accomplish that goal.
So from the Secretary of State, we have just been told that the purpose here of doing a deal with the Iranians on nuclear weapons is to assure the world of the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.
John Kerry and Barack Obama have thus decided that Iran's quest is peaceful.
And so we needed a deal with them to assure the world that Iran's quest is peaceful, and that the nature of their program will be peaceful.
And then Kerry went on to say, I want to explain to you exactly how our deal with Iran will accomplish that goal.
And he says to start, the participants have agreed Iran will not produce or require either highly enriched uranium or weapons of great plutonium for at least the next 15 years.
Now see, I was thinking all along that the purpose of striking a deal with Iran was to keep an untrustworthy terrorist nation in check.
I thought the whole purpose here was to make sure that Iran couldn't nuke up and use nuclear weapons in their terrorism.
Because we've not done a thing to prevent them from being terrorist sponsors.
We haven't done nothing about that in this deal.
So I thought we were, you know, as the good guys were going to be inspecting and riding her.
Now we already learned yesterday that there are no any time anywhere inspections, verifications, on that.
It's a 24-day process, it's bogus, it's the whole thing is a disaster.
This this this statement from John Kerry sounds like the brain-dead utterance of a zombie on the walking dead.
Or worse than that, it sounds like a hostage video.
For crying out loud, the purpose of the deal is to assure the world of the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, and let me show you exactly how this deal will accomplish that goal.
I'll tell you, folks are being governed by fools.
And worse.
From the Washington Free Beacon headline, U.S. will teach Iran how to thwart nuclear threats.
The United States and other world powers will help to teach Iran how to thwart and detect threats to its nuclear program according to the parameters of a deal reached Tuesday to reign in Iran's nuclear program.
In other words, we are going to teach Iran how to thwart nuclear attacks, how to protect themselves.
Say from Israel, for example.
Or the Saudis.
Or from us, yes.
Under the terms of the deal that provides Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
Iran and global powers will cooperate to help teach Iran how to manage its nuclear infrastructure, which will remain intact under the deal.
In what is being viewed as a new development, European countries, potentially the U.S. agreed to quote, cooperate with Iran on the implementation of nuclear security guidelines and best practices.
According to a copy of the agreement furnished by both the Russians and the Iranians, and it's also in the English version.
It's in there.
We're gonna teach the Iranians how to stop anybody from sabotaging them.
It's in the deal, folks.
It's that's not arguable.
It's there.
Judy, Colorado Springs, and I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
I am so thrilled to talk to you.
Mr. Snerdlee told me I could weigh in on the Planned Parenthood Chop Shop if I promise to be aid, so that's right.
I just want to point out some more of the left hypocrisy even now.
They're saying it's just a clump of cells, just fetal tissue, but their menu lists kidneys and livers into organs.
Rush, you have touched on such a raw nerve here.
And I thank you for this.
And I really think it's a winning issue for the right.
People don't know what they've been doing all these years.
Yeah, the question is to the people that don't know, but yet who remain pro-choice.
Will this move them at all?
Um, or will it move people ambivalent to uh be a little bit more uh politically oriented opposed to this kind of stuff?
This is what we what we don't know.
But I just want to warn you something, Judy.
The country is so uh polarized right now, and people on the left, call them Democrats or liberals or whatever, they really do hate us, Judy.
They hate us more than they hate the Iranians.
They hate us because we're threats to their existence, to their power.
They think that we're threats.
And they're gonna look at this as a victim.
They do not want us winning anything.
They will do anything to keep that from happening, including lie, ignore, or what have you.
So but the truth is the truth.
You're exactly right.
Planned parenthood is a human chop shop.
What a great way to characterize it.
For some reason it feels like Thursday to me, but it's not.
So that's good news.
That means there are two more busy broadcast days remaining in a week.
Barn burners, no doubt, they will be.
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Because if you miss it, there's no way you can catch it anywhere else.
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