Investigators are now looking at a trip that Mahmoud Yousf Sahib Abdulaziz took to Jordan as they look under every rock for the elusive motive of the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Yet to come on the program.
It's even worse than we thought.
The deal with Iran.
If possible, it's even worse than we thought.
What do you mean?
How can it be worse?
Try this.
Iran bans U.S. inspectors from all nuclear sites.
There's no 24 days.
There's no nothing.
We do not and cannot get inspectors into Iran.
How many of you people are aware that thanks to the new START treaty, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks?
That's what START stands for.
There's a new START treaty Obama signed with the Russians in 2009.
Do you know that as a result of that, the Russians have been inspecting our nuclear sites at will?
You didn't know that, I can tell.
The Russians have been visiting our nuclear sites at will.
We allow Russian inspectors into America to inspect our nuclear sites up to 18 times a year.
You know why?
Because Obama wants to denuke.
And he wants to show our enemies that we're good guys, that we're not the bad actors we used to be under the cowboy Bush and the cowboy Reagan.
That's right.
So Russian inspectors get into the U.S. 18 times a year at will with our cooperation.
But we have been banned from inspecting Iran nuclear sites.
That's just tip of the iceberg.
It's even worse than you thought.
And the Planned Parenthood is apologized for the tone of Dr. Nukatolla in that video.
They apologize for the tone.
She says she's a little arrogant.
She's a little, what would you say, arrogant in the video.
So they're apologizing for tone for her attitude, not for the harvesting of baby parts.
You know, Warren Buffett's donated $100 million to Planned Parenthood over the years.
He's getting his money's worth, that's for damn sure.
In addition, $100 million, they get all this taxpayer funding.
And they get other people donating to them.
And some people have done some research and they found out that he didn't give them $100 million all at once.
It's been over the years.
And as Buffett's donations are made, so does Planned Parenthood's extreme behavior occur.
It's almost like the money gives them even more liberty to engage in whatever, which obviously it would.
Anyway, before we get to all of that, and we just had the notice, the news from the Jakarta Post, that Obama wished Muslims happy Idul Fitri yesterday, celebrating the end of Ramadan.
If you missed the tail end of the previous hour, let me just go through very quickly.
U.S. President Obama and Michelle Obama conveyed greetings on behalf of the American people to Muslims who celebrate Idul Fitri, the end of Ramadan, in the U.S. and countries around the world.
It was an official notice from the White House yesterday, folks, which caused me to go back in time to the Groove Yard of Forgotten Soundbite references at rushlimbaugh.com.
And I found, because I knew this was there.
I had a vague memory, so I went back and I searched and I found it.
It's from the 20th of March this year.
And the headline at rushlimbaugh.com is, Obama Addresses His People in Iran.
And here's what this was about.
Now, keep in mind, Obama has just wished happy end of Ramadan to Muslims all over the world yesterday in the Jakarta news.
Back on March 20th, I said, you know, folks, the election in Israel, the victory, Benjamin Netanyahu, it really confounded Obama.
Do you know what Obama did?
Obama recorded a video address to the people of Iran after the Israeli election and blamed the hardliners in both of our countries.
Told the people of Iran it was hardliners in both of our countries for the mess that's going on in the Middle East.
You don't remember this?
This is from my program on March 20th, 2015, just this year.
After Netanyahu won the election, Obama addressed the people of Iran in a video presentation in which he blamed the hardliners of both countries, Israel and the United States, for the mess going on in the Middle East.
It's unprecedented.
And it was happy no ruse.
Do you remember that?
Okay, well, that was the no-ruse statement.
President Obama has used the no-ruse, N-O-W-R-U-Z.
President Obama has used the no ruse statement to speak directly to the people of Iran.
And what he did, he compared Iranian hardliners to Americans who are skeptical of his nuclear deal with Iran.
So here's the President of the United States speaking to the people of Iran.
He's in the process of arranging and negotiating a deal with the mullahs of Iran, which will give them nuclear weapons in 10 years, if we are to believe what we're being told about the deal.
Obama goes on TV in Iran to complain about American hardliners.
And he equates the American people who disagree with him to hardliners in Iran.
I mistakenly said Israel, it's Iran, who disagree with their government.
He compares Iranian hardliners to Americans who are skeptical of his deal.
So he compares American hardliners to American conservatives.
And we had the audio soundbite.
We played the soundbite of Obama from the video.
March 20th, 2015.
In fact, cooking, while we're doing the half-hour news art, go get that.
Should be relatively easy to find.
It was just months ago.
Rushlimbaugh.com, March 20th, 2015.
Obama addresses his people in Iran.
While she gets that, I didn't have time to tell her during the break.
I was doing other things.
I had to get a cookie.
No, I'm just kidding.
Here now the full three-minute bit.
Half-hour news hour, Fox News Channel, back in March of 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 Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, Yassin Omar, Manfu Asaidu, Adele Yahya, 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?
But here to help us untangle this mystery, please welcome international terrorism expert Dr. Franklin Robertson.
Welcome, Doctor.
Thank you.
I gotta tell you, you know what this case reminds me of, Doc?
A more successful bombing attack in London during July of 2005.
You mean the suicide bombings carried out by Mohammed Sadiq Kahan Shazir Tanwir, Abdullah Shazid Jamal, and Hazbib Hussein, Kurt?
I believe that was them, yes.
Now, weren't the two cases kind of similar?
Similar.
In what way?
I don't know.
Maybe both involve buses, subways, suicide bombers.
You know, Kurt, it's tempting to try to concoct these conspiracy theories to explain these incidents, but most of those just don't hold water.
But, I mean, it could be a conspiracy, couldn't it?
I mean, like last August when 10 people were arrested in London for trying to blow up those U.S. bomb airplanes, brothers?
Yes, yes.
You mean Ahmad, Abdul Ali, Tamvir Hussein, Umar Islam, Arafat Wahid Khan, Asad Alisa, Adam Khatib, Ibrahim Savan, Waheed Zama, Qasar Ali, and Oran Hussein?
Maybe it doesn't sound like that, yeah.
But Doctor, you can't tell me those guys didn't have anything in common.
I mean, besides a desire to blow things up.
Well, if you say so, Curtin, what might that be?
Okay, well, let's see.
Were they all young males?
No.
One was a woman.
All right, that's a dead end.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, how about this?
Were they all from the same hometown?
No.
They were all from different London suburbs.
Not so easy, is it, Kurt?
Did any of them have eating disorders?
Those can make you crazy.
Okay.
You're right.
Now, funny you should ask that because we just learned that none of them would eat pork.
Still don't know what that means yet.
Okay.
Well, how about this?
Were they all going by their original names?
No.
Kurt Omar Islam was born Brian Young, but he changed his name after he converted.
Converted to what?
Islam.
Oh, geez, another dead end.
Everybody knows Islam is a religion of peace.
Look, we've spent thousands of hours studying this, and frankly, we're stumped.
Well, Doc, you know, you're the expert, and I guess if there were something that linked Mukhtar Saeed Ibrahim, Ramzi Muhammad, Yassin Omar, Manfu Osaidu, Adel Yaqya, and Hussein Osman.
Or for that matter, Mohammed Sadiq Kahan, Shazi Tanwir, Abdul Shazid Jamal, and Hasbib Hussein.
Yeah, if they had anything linking them, you would have discovered it by now.
That's right.
No, we would have.
So in the meantime, why don't you just let the detective work be done by the detectives?
You got it.
Thanks for joining us.
That's how it aired.
That's the whole bit.
And as you heard, it's a parody 2007, and that has become the news of 2015.
What other man just got grab audio soundbite number 29 because I just referenced this.
White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest this afternoon, a White House briefing, a AP correspondent, Darlene Superville, said to Josh Ernest, is there any information emerging yet that points to a possible motive?
It's almost been 24 hours.
Is there any?
I can't get the half-hour news hour, but is there any information, Josh?
Do we have anything emerging that points to a possible motive for the shooting yesterday in Chattanooga?
I do not have an update on the status of their investigation.
I know that the FBI made clear yesterday that they're looking at a variety of possible motives, including the possibility of domestic terrorism.
So that is a part of their ongoing investigation.
But I will allow the investigators themselves to provide you with an update when they're able to.
The president indicated yesterday that he wanted to try to keep the American public informed as much as possible in a timely fashion on this ongoing investigation, and I'm confident that our investigators will do exactly that.
Right.
So it's domestic terrorism.
It's down on the list.
It's a possibility.
Certainly not the top of the list of potential motives here.
Might be domestic terrorism as opposed to terrorism.
See, you have the difference, folks.
Domestic terrorism and regular terrorism.
There's a big difference.
Domestic terrorism, nothing to see here.
And it might even be that.
So take a brief time out here as Open Line Twilight Zone rolls on.
Don't go away.
Your telephone calls are coming up El Quicko.
But I've got the soundbite, maybe two of them here.
Back on, it was actually March 19th that the president addressed the people of Iran during the Iranian New Year, which is Naruz.
And here's, when you hear this, this is why I went back.
It's incidental that I found Obama wishing Muslims happy end of Ramadan yesterday.
And by the way, that was in the Jakarta news.
I mean, I'm not making this stuff up.
Yesterday, while all this going on in Chattanooga, Obama and Michelle are wishing Muslims happy end of Ramadan on behalf of the American people.
Well, back in March, after the Israeli elections, Obama addressed the Iranian people on video.
Hello, to everyone celebrating Naruz across the United States and in countries around the world.
Naruz Mubarak.
This year we had the best opportunity in decades to pursue a different future between our countries.
Just over a year ago, we reached an initial understanding regarding Iran's nuclear program.
I believe that our countries should be able to resolve this issue peacefully with diplomacy.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons.
And President Rouhani has said that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon.
Then why do a deal?
If the Ayatollah Hominy has issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons, which, by the way, cannot be independently confirmed, we've searched.
We've searched everywhere.
We cannot find this fatwa.
Normally, fatwas, you can't miss them.
Fatwas are a big deal.
We can't find a fatwa.
Democrat Party has a fatwa against me, but we can't find a fatwa from the Ayatollah Hominy against nukes.
But if he's issued one, and Obama said he has, then why do a deal?
You mean, are there hardliners in Iran who can upgrade the program with nuclear weapons and the Ayatollah wouldn't know?
And not just the Ayatollah.
President Rouani also said that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon.
So why do a deal?
Why lift the sanctions?
And then there's the next bite in which Obama compares hardliners in Iran to hardliners in America.
The days and weeks ahead will be critical.
Our negotiations have made progress, but gaps remain.
And there are people in both our countries and beyond who oppose a diplomatic resolution.
My message to you, the people of Iran, is that together we have to speak up for the future we seek.
It's up to all of us, Iranians and Americans, to seize this moment and the possibilities that can bloom in this new season.
Thank you.
And Naruzatan Peruz.
Okay, so we've got Naruz Mubarak and Naruzatan Peruz.
Does anybody remember a president ever before Obama saying happy whatever to Muslims all over the world in their holidays?
I don't remember Bush doing that.
He might have.
You know, Bush was with his outreach to Iraq.
There might have been addresses to the Iraqi people in which, but I just don't remember it.
It seems like I don't remember it in 57 states either.
But this is just ever since Obama's become president addressing the Iranian people and Naruz Mubarak and Naruzatan Peruz.
And yeah, we got hardliners here just like you have hardliners.
But we don't listen to them here and you don't listen to them there.
Together, we're going to come together and make a deal, even though the ITO homey has issued a fat law against nuclear weapons.
What in the world is going on here?
The president addresses his people, the Iranians, to everybody celebrating Nauruz across the United States.
Did we let people out of school for Naruz?
Is Naruz a three-day holiday in America that I'm also missing and nobody's telling me about?
Is it you think it is in some cities?
Well, okay, that's just going to be another three-day weekend I've been screwed out of, for I don't know how many years we've been celebrating Naruz and nobody told me.
So what cities do you think it might be a holiday?
De Blasio City in New York, you mean like De Bornistan?
You think they said happy Nauruz in Dear Bornistan?
well all I know is I never I never heard of it and I don't know if we let kids out of school for it do you do do you it's New Year's it's Iranian New Year like is there this big thing in Times Square that nobody knows because it happens in March
I never knew any of this stuff we never had presidents doing any of this stuff talking to leaders the people who are imprisoned by state sponsors of terrorism Giving them credibility and human circumstance.
Snertley, you were right.
New York City public schools to have Muslim holidays off.
CNN story back on March 4th of this year, like a week before Obama addressed the Iranian people to wish them happy Naruz Mubarak.
New York City public screws will now observe two Muslim holidays.
Officials announced Wednesday, making the nation's biggest district one of the few to put Islamic holy days on the calendar.
There will be no class for the end of Ramadan, Ehud Bititri, or whatever it is.
And what is the other one?
What is the other one?
End of Ramadan will become a holiday for those in summer school starting in 2016.
And I guess it's Nauruz.
The new year is the second.
So you're right, New York City.
Happy Nauruz.
And are you ready for this?
You may have heard this already, but I just want to pass it on.
Remember, the Aurora shooter at the movie theater, the Dark Knight premiere.
The guy Brian Ross thought had to be a tea party.
Remember that?
Well, his name is James Holmes.
You know what he's done?
In prison, he's converted to Islam.
Nothing to see here, really.
He's converted to Islam.
James Holmes, a gunman behind the Dark Knight Massacre, Colorado last July, has reportedly turned Muslim and prays five times a day.
The killer showed off a lengthy, thick beard during a court appearance earlier this month, and a prison source has claimed it's a symbol of his newfound faith.
The source said that Holmes has turned to Islam as a way of justifying his horrific murder spree.
Did you hear that?
You want me to read that to you again?
The source said that Holmes has turned to Islam as a way of justifying his horrific murder spree in an Aurora, Colorado cinema on July 20th that left 12 dead and 58 people wounded.
He has brainwashed himself into believing he was on his own personal jihad.
He converts to Islam to justify what he did.
And we're looking for a motive in Chattanooga.
And this is the guy that Brian Williams tried to tell us was a member of the Tea Party within moments of it happening.
Look, if I don't get to the phones, I'm never going to get it to him today because this stuff just keeps on coming.
Folks, do you realize I have, well, I was going to say none of what I have in show prep I've actually gotten to today, but only about 10% of it has been prepped, programmed.
The rest of it's happened after the program began.
So all of stuff I prepped, and it's great stuff, it's just waiting there to be spoken.
But if I don't get to the phones now, I never will.
And I'm not going to get it all in no matter what I do.
So we'll start in St. Louis.
I'm glad you waited, Roz.
I really appreciate your patience.
Welcome to Open Line Twilight Zone.
Well, Rush, I'm glad to talk to you.
He is precious.
When I told him I was a Jewish Republican, he said, you're going on first.
As a matter of fact, I with you years ago when Clinton was in.
And I said, I'm a Jewish Republican.
You said, I didn't know there were any.
I said, well, now you know there's one.
And that's when Sidney Blumenthal was going on.
You know what, Rush?
We could talk for six hours and not get all of it in.
I bet we could talk for six hours and I wouldn't say much.
Okay.
Well, I'm trying to get it in.
Okay, here's how the day started.
Terry, I wake up in the morning to watch the news to be sure we're still alive.
John Kerry, did you hear him by any chance?
Aggravated.
Yes, I did, but which to which are you specifically referring?
Okay, John Kerry this morning was speaking about how wonderful he, you know, they accomplished this Iran situation, okay?
And he had the nerve rush, and you will remember this.
Maybe some of the younger people won't.
He had the nerve to talk about when he came back from Vietnam.
He's kidding you.
That's why I make a joke of John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, because he always tells us.
I know.
And he said, I promised myself I wouldn't, if there was anything I could do, I would never let there be another war.
That's how I woke up.
Then we see Pelosi.
Remember what she said about Obamacare?
We have to sign it, and then we'll know what's in it.
And she's there holding some papers, and she apparently read this all within an hour and a half, the Iran thing.
And then now I'm watching Ernest, Josh Ernest, in a press conference.
Yes.
And he is talking about all the people who had countries who had no problem with this.
It's only Israel.
You know that.
And he said, Saudi Britain, they signed on France.
Well, you know, they are not being told by Iran death for Italy.
Yes, they are.
Everybody is.
Iran's targeting everybody.
The Saudis have not signed on.
That's not true.
Now, the Saudis may be publicly saying whatever, but the Saudis have formed an accord with the Islamis.
This is going to spawn a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
The Saudi Arabians are huge enemies of the Iranians.
They're not buds.
They're not friends.
This is Sunni versus Shiite, and I'm telling you it's big.
But the Saudis are not on board with the French.
Look, everybody's scared to death.
Everybody's sucking up, including our State Department.
Now, what I have here about John Kerry is an AP story in which Kerry says that there was not one meeting that took place during all of these nuclear talks in which the U.S. did not raise the issue of four Americans still held captive by Tehran.
Well, now, wait a minute.
In a press conference earlier this week, Obama told us we couldn't tie these four hostages to this deal because then the Iranians would realize that they could get even more concessions from us.
Remember that?
So Obama's out there saying, we didn't bring these guys up.
It's a separate thing going on.
Here's Kerry saying, there wasn't a day that went by.
There wasn't a negotiating session.
It didn't happen without me bringing up these four guys.
They're lying through their teeth.
The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
All of this is a hodgepodge mismirage.
It's just, it's gobbledygook.
Kerry added the issue, the four American hostages, was discussed during his last meeting with his Iranian counterpart, the foreign minister Javad Zarif.
I mean, how about Kerry's portrayal of the last meeting that they ended up crying together?
At that moment, they realized the monumental achievement they had both participated in.
So, on the one hand, Obama says, no, we couldn't bring up those four guys in terms of these talks because then the Iranians have demanded even more concessions.
And if we'd have granted concessions, then they just take more.
I thought they were our friends now.
I thought they were our buddies.
I thought we had a new level of trust.
What is this?
They might take four more hostages and demand more concessions.
And don't forget the soundbite we just played from March, where Obama, wishing the Iranian people in a video greeting, happy no-ruse, Mabarik, says that Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a fat law against nuclear weapons in Iran, that there will never be any, which, of course, why do a deal?
And here's Kerry with whatever he's mumbling about.
And then there's this from the New York Times.
You ready for this?
More than 100 former American ambassadors wrote to President Obama yesterday praising the nuclear deal reached with Iran this week as a landmark agreement that could be effective in halting Tehran's development of a nuclear weapon.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Obama in March said that the Ayatollah Khamenei told him that he's got a fatwa against nuclear weapons.
Irani said there's not going to be any nuclear weapons.
And these diplomats, 100 eggheads, 100 duped eggheads, just like the pro-global warming hoaxers.
I guess we have a consensus here, don't we?
I guess it's settled.
Yes, we have 100 diplomats praising the deal.
Just like in the case of man-made global warming.
So I guess the Iran deal is now settled science.
100 experts have told us so.
That's right.
And now they're urging Congress to support it.
The letter, whose signers include diplomats named by presidents of both parties, says, if properly implemented, this comprehensive and rigorously negotiated agreement can be an effective instrument in arresting Iran's nuclear program and preventing the spread of nuclear weapons in the volatile and vitally important region of the Middle East.
They wrote that they recognize the deal is not perfect.
It's not risk-free.
But we believe that without it, the risks to the security of the U.S. and our friends and allies would be far greater.
How so?
The Iranians swear they're not pursuing nuclear weapons, even without the fatwa from the Ayatollah Hominy.
They say they're not pursuing nuclear weapons.
And nobody can find that fatwa.
I just want to remind you that everybody's looked and looked and looked for this fatwa from hominy, and nobody can find it.
Just amazing.
It just is amazing.
So these former diplomats praising the deal, without it, we'd be up the creek without a paddle.
While at the same time, we're being told that there's a fatwa against this stuff.
And Elliot Abrams did not sign on to this.
A former White House National Security Council director under George W. Bush criticized Obama for consenting to Iranian demands.
Said Elliot Abrams, you know, it's ironic that after Wendy Sherman told us about how Kerry and Zarif had tears in their eyes thinking about all they had accomplished together, we learned that the Islamic Republic will not allow a single American inspector, Abrams said, referring to Kerry and Zawif, the Iran foreign minister.
No member of the P5 plus 1 negotiating team will be allowed.
U.S. or Iran bans U.S. inspectors from all nuclear sites.
That's the headline from the Washington Free Beacon and its other places today.
Not only is there no anytime, anywhere verification, we were told that if we wanted to inspect, a process requiring 24 days kicks in.
And at the end of the 24 days, it's still up to the Iranians.
Turns out, folks, that our inspectors have been banned for good, forever.
Meanwhile, Russian inspectors come to the United States 18 times a year to look at our nuclear arsenal.
It's in the latest start agreement that Obama negotiated in 2009.
I'm actually sitting here, you know, I'm asking myself, am I dreaming or am I actually conscious and awake and doing this show today?
Well, in the interest of full disclosure here, let me read to you a couple of headlines.
George Bush wishes Muslims well on Feasts of the Sacrifice.
December 2008, George W. Bush wished Muslims around the world well as they celebrate the Muslim feast of Aid al-Ada.
It's all Ramadan related.
It was in This Is in the UK Telegraph, by the way.
Didn't know it.
And then a presidential statement from the office of the press secretary in the White House, December 5th, 2002.
Just 15 months after 9-11, President George W. Bush commemorates Aid al-Fitr, again, Ramadan.
So Bush did.
I don't know.
Now, he didn't make videos for the Iranian people or Jakarta people, but they issued statements.
They didn't, I mean, they weren't trumpeted like Obama's are, but they happened.
So it just leads me to a different conclusion.
All of this suck up, which is what this is, I mean, 15 months after 9-11, and we're wishing this.
That's the kind of stuff I was talking about in the first hour that I have never, ever since 9-11 happened.
It seems like from the moment after we lost 3,000 people, we started sucking up to the people that did it.
It has never made sense to me.
I've never understood the strategy behind it.
Unless the strategy comes from a position of fear.
Please don't do it again.
We're sorry.
Whatever we've done to irritate you, we ask forgiveness.
I don't understand it otherwise.
I know we didn't beg the forgiveness of the Japanese after they hit us at Pearl Harbor.
I know we never asked Hitler to forgive us for whatever or anybody else that we face as an enemy.
This is all new to me since 9-11.
But despite all the suckup, it apparently hasn't worked.
They're still trying to kill us.
All this reach out, all this, hey, we love you.
Hey, happy holidays.
Hey, happy Naruse, seeing the Chum gang, whatever.
It's not working.
So why do it?
What's the point?
Get the votes of the moderates?
The independents?
I don't understand it.
Angela in Northern Virginia, I'm glad you called your next open line Twilight Zone.
Hi.
Good afternoon, everybody.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm calling because I am concerned about the president and his visit to the federal prison addressing low-level victimless crimes.
And the only people that can talk about victimless crimes are people who don't understand or simply don't care about the type of violent environment that the so-called victimless criminal create.
The burglaries, the robberies, the prostitution, the neighbors living with drug traffic all day, all night, all into the wee hours of the morning.
And these are normally women, single women with children, that have to endure that type of dangerous and frightening environment.
And so, you know, it's the same old okey-doke, crumbs-off-the-king-table political BS that he runs to black people all the time.
If he was really interested, he would do something like something that would rebuild the family, like commuting the— Well, you know something that— That is an excellent point.
Of all the people to reach out to to try to inspire and find common ground, why the prison population?
I mean, if you want to reach out, there's all kinds of other people with genuine ability to inspire others other than the prison population.
I don't know, folks.
Okay, two down and one to go.
Busy broadcast hours here, Open Line Friday.
Yeah, we still have a lot to do here, folks.
Plus, your phone calls, since it's Open Line Friday.
So hang in there and be tough.
The Planned Parenthood stuff, the latest on that, and it's unreal.