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July 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to Open Line Twilight Zone.
Great to have you here.
Yep, it was just an average American teenager walking along a street, Tennessee, Mahmood, Yusuf Abdulaziz.
Al Sahib Skyhook, just your average American teenager, had a gun, shouldn't a head, and you know what happened.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yeah, we have no idea why.
The media is pulling its hair out, trying to feel why in the world would this average ordinary blend in with the crowd and never spot them in a lineup.
American teenager Mohammed Yousse Abdullahiz.
What in the world could have motivated him to shoot five people?
Why in the world would something like this happen?
And we have to be very, very careful here, my friends, not to rush to judgment.
We must move slower than the glaciers move.
To avoid bigotry, to avoid prejudice, to avoid racism, and obviously to avoid the truth.
And that's what we must avoid.
At all costs, we must not find the truth.
And if anybody does find the truth, they better not say it.
How are you, folks?
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, once again, wrapping up another week of brilliant broadcast excellence here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 if you're gonna be on the program.
Open line Friday, by the way, means we go to the phones, the program's all yours.
Whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy.
But look, I I know I say that.
I I need to add a caveat here because something happened last Friday, and I was on the verge of apologizing for, and I said to heck with it.
Now, while I grant you the once a week opportunity to take this program in directions that I don't take it.
I mean, if you want to.
I mean, by that I mean you can talk about things that I don't care about.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
If I get bored, I'm not gonna sit here and run the risk of the audience getting bored.
So you might be, you better.
Well, you can talk about things I don't care about, but if you bore me, I can't I'm I mean, I'm nice to so I am I am not changing the rules.
I said, if I don't care, I will pretend I care.
I will fake it.
But I'm not gonna sit here and be bored.
I mean, I'm gonna give everybody a chance.
Don't misunderstand.
There's no there's no minimum time limit that people have in order to get to the point.
That's not but if I sit here and get bored, look if I'm bored in the audience will be bored.
That's gonna be curtains for the caller.
It's just that simple.
I mean, I have to guard against open line Friday like any other freedom being abused, and I'm in charge of what freedoms exist here, and I'm in charge of how much I will allow them to be abused.
It's that simple.
Okay, so it was Mahmoud Yusuf, I'm sorry, Yousuf.
Uh Abdulaziz.
Identified as the shooter by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He was shot to death in the rampage that injured three people, including a sailor critically wounded.
The headline, this is a story from Reuters scratching their heads there at Reuters.
Headline, investigators seek a motive behind Tennessee's shooting rampage.
Uh, investigators on Friday sought to determine what in the world might have led a 24-year-old gunman, an average ordinary American teenager, Mahmoud Youssef Abdullahiz, to open fire at a couple of military offices in Chattanooga,
killing four Marines in an attack, officials said could be, could Be, must not jump to any hasty conclusions here, an act of domestic terrorism.
Could be.
And why does the media insist on calling terrorism perpetrated by Muslim extremists who could have come to the U.S. domestic terrorism?
What is this domestic terrorism business?
Suspect was imported here from Kuwait, probably as a refugee.
Which is one of the several ways he's like the Sena brothers, this uh this bunch in um in in Boston.
Are you kidding?
They haven't found a motive.
Haven't they ever seen the state flag of Tennessee?
It reeks of the Confederacy.
Now, seriously, I'm just kidding, folks.
Remember when I said this is nerdly looking at me.
I'm just trying to relate to the libs in the audience as they look for motivation here.
It could be the guy's all upset about the Confederate flag still.
Could be upset he's really upset what happened in Charleston, South Carolina looking for an outlet.
Now you would think that after all of the previous Muslim terror attacks, the authorities in the news media would start to see a pattern.
But they don't want to jump to any conclusions and they don't want to move any faster than the glaciers move.
They don't want to bring up Muslim terrorism until we've gotten used to the idea that another four people have been killed.
Nobody wants a backlash against Muslims.
I was thinking about this morning.
I want to put this in perspective.
On September 11th, 2001, nearly 3,000 people died because of 19 Islamic terrorists hijacking airplanes and crashing them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania.
The majority of the hijackers were Saudi Arabian, but they were all Al Qaeda and they were all Islamic terrorists.
And it seems to me that from the moment that happened, we have been bending over backwards to apologize to Muslims.
Seems like we have been bending over backwards to be in denial about what happened and who did it.
And I'll never forget that the State Department, shortly after 9-11, I mean within two weeks, had a seminar.
I mean, an actual real serious seminar, and the title of the seminar, What Have We Done to Make Them Hate Us.
And so it's almost as if at the top levels of our government, and maybe not even just the top levels, but perhaps all the way through our government.
It's almost as though there is an opinion that we deserved it, and we had better change if we don't want them to do it again.
Everything seems 180 degrees out of phase.
The moment 9-11 happened, well, you know, give a day or two for it to settle in, but seems like practically immediately afterwards, we started apologizing the Muslims.
We started trying to assure them that we had nothing against them.
That we it's never made any sense to me.
I mean, if 9-11 had never happened, then some of this stuff might make sense.
But 9-11 did happen.
3,000 Americans died.
There have been further attempts.
Other Americans have died at the hand of Islamic terrorism around the world.
And following each incident, it seems our primary concern is not making the perpetrators of these acts angry.
It makes no sense to me.
It never has made any sense to me in the immediate aftermath of 9 11.
why in the world are we so defensive?
Why are we so worried about Muslim backlash if we dare tell the truth about who's perpetrating these acts of terror?
It defies common sense.
Now there might be explanations for it that you could come up with that that would fit the liberal mind and mindset, but I it that doesn't make any common sense.
I can't think of any other period of time where...
I mean, after after World War II, after Pearl Harbor.
Did we run around the country and the world assuring everybody that, hey, hey, you know, the Japanese, uh, we have we have no quarrel with the Japanese.
After the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, did we act at all the way we act now after an act of Islamic terrorism?
We don't know the motive.
We can't figure out why they would have done it.
We have to be careful that we do not level unfair, inaccurate allegations.
We have to make sure that there's not an anti.
Were we worried about an anti-Japanese backlash after Pearl Harbor?
Well, I know.
FDR intern, I know that.
That's the point.
I'm not, I'm not advocating FDR like behaviors or policy, but I it just doesn't make any sense here.
I don't care.
Fort Hood, it's workplace violence.
No, no, no, nothing to see here.
No matter it all seems to be our fault, or at least after each of these events, it's us that have to feel guilty.
It's we who have to ask ourselves, what are we doing to cause this?
It doesn't make any sense.
And it was before Obama even got to Washington for before Obama was elected president.
This goes back to 9-11.
This goes back to after the immediate aftermath of 9-11, George W. Bush as president.
Reaction that we've uh, and I'm not blaming Bush, don't misunderstand, but Bush's State Department did that seminar and a number of others like it.
It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Not only are we in denial about who's doing what, we're looking for reasons under the rubric of motivation that would further excuse their actions, and then end up somehow blaming the United States for doing things either in the present or in the past that somehow justify this kind of thing.
One of these, one of these Marines that was shot dead, was awarded the not one, actually, but two purple hearts in combat fighting for the United States overseas.
These guys volunteer, they go through rigorous training.
We send them, we deploy them to the most dangerous places on earth to protect us, and we bring them home, and we don't even let them protect themselves with their own firearms.
These are highly trained, particularly Marines, these are rifle experts, but they clearly are trained in the use possession of firearms.
Military people, it just it burns me.
We send them to these hell holes where there's actual military combat combat and declared hostilities, and they come home here and get killed while in circumstances of complete and total innocence.
And then you look further at the silly rules of engagement that we put them under while they're in combat In these areas of declared hostilities, and that's absurd.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, I'll show you what I mean.
We have a montage here of the drive-bys, and this is Fox News, it's CNN.
It's CNN, it's CNN, it's CNN, it's CNN.
It was all over MSNBC too, but we have a band there.
And Al Jazeera, they can't figure out why it happened.
Now the search for motive.
Too soon to know the motive.
The motive for the attacks unknown.
Any sign of a motive.
We do not yet know the motive at this point.
They're desperately trying to figure out what the motive might have been.
This individual, we don't know the motive, Mohammed Yusuf Abdulaziz.
Investigators are already looking into the suspected shooter's background to identify some motive.
The trail so far has not revealed much.
You all remember a comedy show that was produced by a friend of mine, Joel Cerno, that ran on the Fox News channel.
It was called a half-hour news hour.
And on the pilot episode of that show, and it was a 30-minute satire news program, that the liberals have copied, and they've got their own version of it now, just on Comedy Central, just like a lot of what's on Comedy Central is a ripoff of my television show.
So has the left ripped off the half hour news hour, retitled it, and done it under the umbrella of liberalism.
They had a routine, they had a bit exactly like this.
Except they exaggerate it.
The perpetrator's name consisted of six Abdul's Mahmood's Youssefs and the other six name name.
And the bit was the reporter for the half hour news hour was talking to the local officials after the crime had taken place and kept mentioning this guy's full name, six names.
Are you telling me that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah?
You have no idea why this crime took place.
No, we haven't the slightest idea.
And with each question, each time the question was asked, the man's full name, it was made up, of course, but these six.
Well, this is we're the joke has come to life, and it's real.
The joke on that show, the half hour news, or we might even have.
I don't know if on our grooveyard of forgotten favorite archives of audio sound bites.
We might even have that.
And we might even have it cataloged.
We might even be able to pull that out of the archives even before the end of the program, making no promises, but it would be good if if we had it, I could show you, play it for you rather than describe it.
But it's this to a T. No idea why.
Can't figure it out.
No apparent motive.
I mean, we're in the dark here.
We're clueless.
You have any ideas?
Because we can't see a reason whatsoever, just an average ordinary American teenager.
CNN, Tom Fuentes.
This is on Jake Tapper's show last night.
Guest host John Berman says, We uh no, I've got to take a break here.
I thought I had a minute more than I have.
We'll be right back with this, so don't go.
Look, I was trying to avoid saying it, but I'm just gonna go ahead and say the words that I was looking for.
I was dancing around.
Why did we start sucking up the Muslims after 9-11?
That is the thing.
That's the thing that struck me.
That's exactly what it was with the State Department seminar, what did we do to make them hate us?
There began an immediate effort not to offend the people who had just killed 3,000 of us.
And I have never understood it.
I don't understand it today.
Well, that's not true.
I do understand it, and that's make it it makes it even more maddening.
I do understand it.
Because I understand liberalism.
So 3,000 of us are killed by virtue of an al-Qaeda attack, and the first thing we do is suck up to them.
Anyway, you gotta hear this sound by the at CNN.
Again, John Berman filling in for Jake Tapper.
He's talking to former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes about the Chattanooga Tennessee attacks.
Berman says we have the name of the shooter.
The name is Mahmoud Yusuf Abdullah Aziz.
Now, obviously, that appears to be a Muslim.
Really, John?
First clue, bud.
Appears to be.
Alleged.
I tell you, he's an alleged Muslim.
That's it.
It's an alleged Muslim.
It's good journalism as an alleged Muslim.
Mahmoud Youssef Abdullahiz.
But that's all we know, Tom.
And now that we have the name, the key questions are what after that.
I know that what the name sounds like, but we don't know that it's a Muslim name.
We know it's an Arabic name.
We don't know what this individual was believing in, and that's what they're going to be trying to determine.
So you just heard a CNN analyst, a former Phi director, FBI director, Tom Fuentes, saying, Well, I know what the name sounds like, but we don't know that it's a Muslim name.
We know that it's an Arabic name, but we don't know that it's a Muslim name.
Gotta be very, very, very careful here.
And we don't take this too far.
Might make them even.
Greetings and welcome back.
It's open line Twilight Zone, Rush Limbaugh here at 800 282-2882.
I know the ditto cam is not on yet.
The reason it isn't is because I've zoomed in real tight because I want to show you something.
And admittedly, it's going to be very hard for you to see, so I'm gonna have to tell you that we'll have the actual photo of what I'm gonna show you here on the ditto cam up at Rush Limbaugh.com.
What it is.
Liberalism perfectly illustrated in one picture.
Are you ready?
And again, for those of you listening in the radio without access to uh Rush 247, our website and the Ditto Camdure with us here, and I'll describe this.
And I'm so good at that that you'll practically be able to envision this with just my description alone.
But you will be able to go to RushLimbaugh.com and see it.
All right, here goes the switch, and there is the picture.
You are looking at a window of the place that was shot up by Mahmood Abdullahiz Sahib Skyhook, who's we don't even know we don't know what that means when we're Muslim, we have no idea motive.
We uh we uh just an average American teenager strolling along a street in Chattanooga and decided to light the place up, and we can't figure out why the hell he would do it.
Still looking, we've got to make sure we don't rush to judgment on this.
What you're looking at are 23 separate bullet holes.
But in the upper, as you're looking at this, the upper right hand corner of the picture, there is a warning sign with a gun inside a circle with a red line drawn through it.
What that sign says is federal installation firearms prohibited in this facility.
Federal installation.
This is where the Marines were shot.
Federal installation, firearms prohibited in this installation, surrounded by 23 holes in the glass, the window.
As a result of being fired on by Mahmood Yusuf Abdulaziz.
Gee, we wonder who he really is.
We don't even know if that's a Muslim name, Mr. Snerdley, so be careful that your bigotry is kept and checked in there.
Okay, now going to turn the ditto cam off since you've seen that and zoom back out to our normal display.
Many of you have expressed a desire to see a constant close-up on me so that you can see the band on my cigars, so that you might be able to determine what it is I'm smoking.
No.
I take the bands off anyway, because you know what?
They're putting the bands up too high on these cigars anyway, and I don't want my I don't want to feel the band in my mouth, so I take the bands off.
Used to be they put them down lower on the cigar, but now they put them up higher.
Okay, turn it back on.
There we are.
Well, you just saw liberalism explained in one picture.
We stick with the audio sound Bites because now, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to be treated to an audio soundbite from none other than Brian Ross of ABC News.
Now, as a brief reminder, Brian Ross, ABC News, he heads up the investigative journalism unit at ABC News.
And at one of the recent mass shootings in Colorado, Brian Ross went on Good Morning America with a news alert, claiming that the shooter was likely a member of the Tea Party in Colorado.
The name of the shooter has had been released.
Brian Ross, first thing he did.
Upon hearing the name of the kid that shot up the movie theater, I think it was a movie.
It might have been a school, forget which.
The first thing Brian Ross did find a roster of members of a Tea Party group in Colorado and see if he could find the guy's name.
And he, you know what?
He found a name exactly like the shooters.
And so he successfully engineered a news bulletin, a news alert, breaking news on Good Morning America, at which he informed the world that the shooter was of the same name as a prominent member of the Colorado Tea Party.
Turned out to be not true.
Two different people.
But the first thing he did, that's the first thing, the instinct, the desire, of all the possibilities, Brian Ross went to the internet and tried to find this guy's name on a roster of members of the Tea Party.
So on Good Morning America today, Brian Ross, investigative journalist extraordinaire, talking about Mahmood Yusuf Abdulaziz.
Abdullah Aziz was born in Kuwait, but he and his family have lived in the U.S. since 1992.
He was just a typical American kid in high school.
But in his high school senior U book, Abdulaziz wrote, My name causes national security alerts.
What does yours do?
And a local newspaper in 2010 quoted Abdullah Z's sister as saying she had been harassed at school because of her Muslim faith.
But from outward appearances, Abdulaziz did not appear to be a loser, angry at America.
Something clearly changed in Abdullah Z's life since then.
Well, maybe he was distressed that the Aurora Colorado shooter wasn't in the Tea Party, Brian.
Or maybe he's upset at what he learned the Confederate flag stands for.
Maybe he's upset at some other outrage committed by the United States of America at some point in his life.
Because clearly, Brian, you and your buddies in the drive-by media have certainly given people like this a list of reasons why they hate this country, because all you've done is try to list and make news out of every transgression you think this country's guilty of.
And not just you, Brian, but every teacher in this well, a majority of teachers in this country have no doubt filled their students' young skulls full of mush, all with a bunch of garbage about the atrocities committed by this country.
It has real-world consequences.
These libs sit up there and they talk about hatred, they talk about bigotry and racism, and they level these allegations and accusations of the United States of America, and these young kids in these classes, they hear this stuff.
These libs might be just flapping their gums and trying to score their points.
These young kids hear this stuff.
They're driven crazy.
They're driven mad, they're driven insane, they're driven angry.
Who knows what happens?
I know one, this stuff does not happen in a vacuum, and it's not going to take long to find the motive.
The reason it's taking so long to find the motive is because what they're actually doing is looking for a cover-up of the motive.
I mean, even the White House press secretary, Josh Ernest went out there.
He's sort of chuckling at some of the questions because he thinks they're originating from right-wingers and conservatives.
So he's kind of chuckling and says, Yeah, well, you know, uh Islamic terrorism, it's on the list of possibilities we're looking at.
But he didn't indicate it was at the top of the list.
So ABC News runs a report, just a typical American kid in high school.
Yeah.
Don't you know?
We have a lot of American high school kids named Mahmood Yusuf Abdulaziz.
And they walk down the street in Chattanooga, Tennessee all the time.
And they're looking for uniform military personnel.
And they're carrying guns in federal gun-free zones.
Yeah, the average American teenager.
And they found an entry in his high school senior year book about how his name causes national security.
See what this country does to these young kids, folks.
You see what your country is doing.
You see what the bigotry and racism of your country is doing to these young, innocent minds.
Poor Mahmoud, he's just going to school and finds out that his name causes national security alerts, and then asks other people what does your name do.
And then they find a local newspaper quoting the sister of Mahmoud Yusuf Abdulaziz, saying she had been harassed because of her Muslim faith.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it a minute.
Hold it just a minute.
Go back to audio soundbite number number two.
Tom Fuentes, former FBI director.
Play it again, Sam.
I know that what the name sounds like, but we don't know that it's a Muslim name.
We know that it's an Arabic name.
Not the tape.
Here in Brian Ross's report, Brian Benefield, the ABC correspondent, says the sister of Mahmoud Yusuf Abdullaziz says she'd been harassed at screw because of her Muslim faith.
Well, the former FBI director doesn't know that.
The former FBI director says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We cannot rush to judgment on this.
It's obviously an Arabic name, but we cannot be sure that it's a Muslim name.
But ABC found out because they talked to the aggrieved sister.
So what we have here are a young man and woman, the Abdulaziz.
And we find that they are sad because they're feeling discriminated against because their name puts them on a watch list or some such thing.
And you see now the beginnings, ladies and gentlemen, of how the left is going to present to us a motive that we are then supposed to say, you know what?
We can understand this act of rage.
Look what we have done to this young man.
Simply because of his name.
We discriminated against him and made him feel like his name is a national security alert.
And then his sister has felt the same shame.
This is what's happening out there, folks.
You keep a sharp eye.
We'll see how long it takes for this to develop.
As I knew we could.
We have went back, we've gone back to the archives, the grooveyard of forgotten sound bites.
And we have from 2007 the opening of the bit that parodies exactly what's happening in the drive-by media this moment, today and last night.
This is on the Fox News Channel's half-hour news hour.
By the way, I starred in a number of episodes of this program.
As president of the United States, as myself, it was a lot of fun.
But anyway, this is from the pilot episode, episode number one.
It's 2007.
Six men have just been charged with conspiracy to murder in connection with a plot to blow up buses and subway cars in London during the summer of 2005.
The six would-be suicide bombers charged are Mukhtar Said Abraham, Ramsey Mohammed, Yasin Omar, Manfu Asaidu, Adele Yachya, and Hussein Osman.
Since their capture, the big question for Scotland Yard has been what exactly is it that links these six individuals.
What common denominator motivated this seemingly random group of young men?
It is puzzling, isn't it?
The bit went on, and these names were repeated often and often as other experts were asked to find the common ground between the six perps.
And every expert in the police and in government couldn't find anything these people had in common.
It's a random bunch of people that were blowing up the subways in London in 2005.
Well, you want to hear it again?
Laughing at it in there.
So here it is again, but remember now this went on.
This is just 32 seconds.
This was but a three-minute bit.
And it went on with uh the mail anchor asking official after official.
All six names in every question.
And every official, I don't have any idea.
We're looking, we're really looking, and we can't find anything these guys have in common.
We can't find anything that links them.
So we we really we don't know why they're doing what they're doing.
Six men have just been charged with conspiracy to murder in connection with a plot to blow up buses and subway cars in London during the summer of 2005.
The six would-be suicide bombers charged are Mukhtar Said Abraham, Ramzi Mohammed, Yasin Omar, Manfu Asaidu, Adele Yachya, and Hussein Osman.
Since their capture, the big question for Scotland Yard has been what exactly is it that links these six individuals?
What common denominator motivated this seemingly random group of young men?
It is puzzling, isn't it?
Yes, it was very puzzling.
So that was parody in 2007, eight years ago.
Today it's the news.
Today it is the news.
You may not have heard this because this story is from the Jakarta Post.
Quick, where's Jakarta?
Do you know where Jakarta is?
Indonesia.
Good.
Here's the headline.
Obama wishes Muslims happy Idul Fitri.
U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Muchel, my Belle Obama, have conveyed greetings to Muslims who celebrate Idul Fitri in the U.S. and in countries around the world.
Now, if you've never heard of Idul Fitri, it's what the Muslims in Indonesia call the conclusion of Ramadan.
So the president issued happy Ramadan at the beginning.
And at the end, this story was published yesterday, folks.
Yesterday, President Obama and Muchel My Bell Obama wishing Muslims happy Idul Fitri.
Actual statement, the American people join Michelle and me as we extend our Did you know that you and I extended our gratitude and appreciation, celebratory, whatever these people are present in our name did that.
Did you know that?
American people join Michelle and me as we extend our best wishes to you and the people of your country as you celebrate Idul Fitri.
President said in a statement released to the press on Thursday.
Obama said that during Ramadan, Muslims around the world, including the strong and vibrant American Muslim community, had striven to get closer to God through a spiritual renewal and acts of devotion.
Excuse me.
He said that Idul Fitri was an occasion to spend time with loved ones and to help those who are less fortunate and contemplate the wisdom and peace that comes with faith.
*cough*
Excuse me.
It has also been a time during which the president's continuing a statement here.
It has also been a time during which the rituals of fasting and prayer remind us of the values we all share and of our common humanity, said Obama.
Fasting for the Obamas equals skipping lunch and then having a lavish dinner.
May this coming year bring you joy, prosperity, and well-being.
A huid Mubarak.
Or Idulfitri.
Just yesterday.
That's the presidential message to Muslims in Jakarta, Indonesia, and other countries that celebrate Ramadan.
Reminded me of something that I went back and found from earlier this year on my own website, but I don't have time for it now, but it's coming, so don't miss it and don't go away.
Okay, yeah, we have the we have the entire bit from the half-hour news hour.
And it's about just a little over three minutes.
We have the entire bit.
We'll have it for you in the monologue segment of the next hour, as parody in 2007 is the news of today.
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