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Oct. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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It's Friday, so let's roll, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open Line Friday.
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It doesn't have to be.
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Story from Breitbart here, John Kasich.
He's ripping critics of Obamacare for not understanding the Bible.
This was during an appearance this past Tuesday before the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
The Ohio governor, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, offered to buy Bibles for people who do not agree with his decision to increase the welfare state.
Kasich, as everybody knows, agreed to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion in Ohio.
And his defense of that is this.
He said, Look, look at Medicaid expansion.
Do you know how many people are yelling at me?
I go out to a venture people yell at me.
You know what I tell them?
I say there's a book.
It's got a new part and it's got an old part.
They put it together.
It's a remarkable book.
If you don't have one, I'll buy you one.
It talks about how we treat the poor.
Sometimes you just have to.
And so Kasich's implication here is that people who criticize Obamacare are ignorant about what it says about Obamacare in the Bible.
Now, admittedly, the Bible doesn't say anything about Obamacare.
But what is Obamacare?
Obamacare is the government taking over the health care system of an entire country and mandating who is going to pay for it, who is going to get it, who isn't going to get it, i.e.
the death panels.
What the penalties are if you don't abide by all of these rules, and Governor Kasich is insinuating here that all of this is in the Bible.
Because what all this really adds up to is charity and being good and nice and understanding of your fellow man.
What Obamacare does is uses the IRS and a number of other federal agencies to force upon people their behavior and acquiescence to this.
And Kasich is trying to tell people, yeah, it's right there in the Bible.
And see, this is this is where welfare equals charity.
And this is how charitable organizations have been swept up, almost hoovered up, into buying into big government welfare programs, because to them they think it equals charity.
But it isn't charity because it's all commandeered.
It's it's not freely given.
It's mandated.
And there are penalties if you if you don't pay up.
Governor Kasich uh said, he said, I had a conversation with one of the members of the legislature the other day, and I said, I respect the fact that you believe in small government.
I do too.
I also know that you're a person of faith.
Now, when you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he's probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small, but he is going to ask you what you did for the poor.
You better have a good answer.
So that's pretty explanatory.
Remember, Governor Kasich was part of the Republican freshman class that came in in 1994.
Well, they were elected 94, came in in 1995.
And Governor Kasich ran a budget committee.
I'll never forget the hearing where they actually took the vote on balancing the budget for the first time in 100,000 years or whatever it was, and he was being hooted and hollered out of the place by the Democrats.
And he sat there and he just took it, he let them get it out of their system.
He said, okay, we're going to do this, we're going to do this.
And ever since then, it's uh it's been like he I well, I don't I don't want to put I don't want to characterize it, well, I'm really not sure, but uh from from that point on Governor Kasich's conservatism sort of he'll get mad at this, but it it started evolving or changing a little bit.
And this is what happened.
You know, it's it's O'Sullivan's first law.
Any individual or group of people that are not actively conservative each and every minute of each and every day will eventually become liberal.
Speaking of speaking of video, Cookie, I want you to try to find something.
I should have mentioned this on Monday.
How many of you saw Homeland Sunday night?
The season premiere.
Season premiere of Homeland in one short video exchange.
Put the war on terror against militant Islam in the best perspective it has ever been stated.
The character Peter Quinn did it.
He was brought in after having returned from undercover work in Syria.
And all of these CIA executives are here to pick his brain and to tell him how he's wrong and get, you know, getting find holes in his story, and he's totally exasperated.
They want to send in a couple special forces teams to quiet this down or quiet that down.
And he basically says to us, you know, you haven't been over there and I have.
These people, since the seventh century, have been focused on one thing.
They read one thing.
It's all they read.
They don't read anything else, they don't talk about anything else, they're not interested in anything else, and that's all they're committed to.
And of course, he's talking about the Quran.
And they are committed to wiping out everybody who disagrees with them because they're infidels.
And he says, if you people in this room think that you're going to be able to send a couple of special forces teams here or there, or drop a bomb here or there, or do whatever to fight this, then I'm out of here because you haven't the slightest idea what we're up against.
I'm paraphrasing it, but I'm telling you, it was the most powerful, and kudos to the script writers of this show.
It's a Howard Gordon show.
He was part of the 24 team.
Howard Gordon and Alex Ganza.
And I think this is season five of Homeland, if I'm not mistaken, and it's set in Berlin this year.
And it looks like it's going to be another barn burner of a season.
But this particular segment, and Cookie, it's in the first 20 minutes, if you can, if you can get hold of the uh episode.
I should have told her.
I just it just something in the Kasich story reminded me of this.
And otherwise I would have mentioned it to her earlier.
If we don't get to it today, we um we certainly will get to it next week, because you've got to hear this.
Because it's it's it it it in fact, this is exactly what somebody serious in our government ought to be saying and ought to be, if not saying, thinking.
Because it's just dead on what we're up against.
And it explains or expresses anyway the utter futility with the way we're going about dealing with it and stopping it.
And his point, you can't appease these people, you can't be nice, is that They're not interested in any of that.
They only read one thing.
They don't read what you're saying about them.
They don't read what you think about them.
They don't care.
They read one thing, and that's all they read, and that's all they have read since the seventh century.
It makes the point that they are committed to this like you don't know commitment.
Making the point that we are not committed in any way, shape, manner, or form to uh to stopping them.
Rolling Stone.
Now, I don't know why Rolling Stone's still in business.
The only reason they're still in business is because they're an accredited leftist publication.
This is the publication that was totally discredited for making up a story about campus rape at the University of Virginia.
It was a bunch of white fret boys out of control.
The whole story was made up.
It has been proven to have been made up.
And the defense of the story was, well, yeah, maybe, but we know it happens.
And so this story is a good eye-opener.
Rolling Stone's still out there publishing, still in business, is an illustration of how corrupt the entire left wing mainstream media has become and is.
But even at that...
This is a long piece.
But it is interesting and relevant because it treats Hillary Clinton honestly as a leftist publication.
The headline of this piece is there is no real Hillary Clinton.
And the subhead is, people are not meant to be relaunched as often as phones, but here we are.
And basically, this is a piece on how incompetent Hillary Clinton is, on how futile the effort is to make her president, how she's totally unsuited.
She's not real, she's not a human being, she can't come across as one.
She's a human being, but she does doesn't come across as one.
And she makes the point here that all these different restarts and relaunches, because they can't get it right.
And it's because what they're working with.
There's just nothing there that's genuine.
There isn't anything about Hillary Clinton that there is to get in touch with because all of that is withheld.
Here's a pull quote from the story.
There's almost no point in debating whether Hillary Clinton's a real person or a good candidate or even one with a certain axis of political aspirations if the next topic in the discussion is going to be something either totally imaginary or morally devoid to the point of insanity.
We don't need a real or a fake Hillary Clinton or to bother determining which one is which.
We're hardly even going to talk about the one we already have.
It goes it really makes the point.
Who is this woman?
After all of these years, why do they have to keep reintroducing her?
After all these decades, after all of this public living that she has done, why does she remain such a mystery?
And why can't the people in charge of her campaign, including her, just introduce her, have her launch her campaign, and have in other words, what I've always said, she doesn't connect, either with voters or with her audience or what have you.
She just doesn't.
She's aloof, even when she's near you on a stage or in a round table situation or a circle in the square, she still is this distant figure that you really don't trust and you don't know.
And the point of this story is that it's impossible for her to bridge those distances and that gap simply because of who she is.
She's just not genuine.
Everything about her is fabricated, calculated, fake or whatever, from situation to situation, day to day, story to story, dealing with the next scandal after the next scandal after the next scandal.
It really is a fascinating piece, the fact that it's in Rolling Stone.
I mean, It's nothing you don't know.
It's just the fact that it appears in an accredited leftist publication.
I'll tell you, it illustrates that there is quite a bit of unease.
More than they would let on about the Hillary candidacy.
And now you've got Biden, and he's, you know, the he's toying with the idea of getting in and really, really relying on the words of his dying son as the emotional kickstarter for the campaign.
You've got Bernie Sanders out there, and he's doing what he's doing.
Oh, you know how I I have made the point that the powers that'd be in the party are never really going to let Bernie Sanders be the nominee.
Because he means it.
He means all this anti-corporate stuff.
And the dirty little secret is the Democrat Party has become the party of the rich.
Well, there's a there was a piece of Stephen Hayward at Power Line.
Found a uh a piece in the New York Times, written by Thomas B. Edsul.
When did this was a few days ago?
I must have been when I was out sick.
How did Democrats become favorites of the rich?
See, folks, don't doubt me.
I mean, even the New York Times, and they're worried about it.
That's why the Times is writing about it.
Times writes about these things to warn the Democrats.
You guys have better be on the lookout.
It's becoming quite noticeable that you guys are the party of the rich.
Democrats now depend as much on affluent voters as on low-income voters.
Democrats represent a majority of the richest congressional districts.
And the party's elected officials are more responsive to the policy agenda of the well-to-do than the average voter.
The party and its candidates have come to rely on the elite, one-tenth of one percent of the voting age population for a full 25% of their financial backing, and on large donors of another quarter.
Stop and think about that.
The party, the Democrats and its candidates have come to rely on the elite one-tenth of one percent of the voting age population for 25% of their donations.
In this respect, the Democrat Party, its elected officials have come to resemble their Republican counterparts far more than the public focus on polarization would lead you to expect.
The current popularity of Bernie Sanders and his presidential candidacy, notwithstanding, the mainstream of the Democrat Party supports centrist positions ranging from expanded free trade to stricter control of government budget, time limits, welfare for the poor.
The Democrat Party has in many respects become the party of deregulated markets for the rich.
See, it it it don't doubt me on this, folks.
It's becoming patently obvious to everybody.
The New York Times, they're not writing about this with great excitement and pride.
They are very, very, very, very much worried.
And they're trying to warn the Democrats that they're about to give up this identity they have with the little guy and the blue-collar people and all of that.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, we got that homeland clip and cookies cleaning it up a bit a bit with some obscenities in there cleaning up just a little bit.
We'll have it shortly.
Here is Rocco in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
Hey Rocco, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, you sound good.
Thank you.
I'm glad to hear that, because I you if you could hear me as I do, it wouldn't be good.
My voice, we have great audio processing here, but I'm telling you, it's very, very weak today.
So I'm glad it doesn't sound that way.
Rush, I'd like to take advantage of this open line Friday to talk about something not so political, because as you always point out, everything's political.
But uh I I'm not watching any more NFL games to the end of the month, or at least until I stop seeing all this peak.
I can't take it anymore.
Really bothering you.
Yes, Rush, it's bothering me.
It's and it's just part of a larger I'm I'm I'm really tired of watching and listening to every minority under the sun uh put their grievance out there for me to have to, you know, shove down my throat.
Well, the reason they do is because that's how they advance.
If they portray themselves as victims of you and others in the majority, then they're gonna get what they want.
All they have to do is claim they're offended.
Now, the NFL in this pink business, uh, you know, it's an it's it's an attempt to attract women as fans, as paying customers.
It's an attempt to show solidarity.
Thing is, there are a lot of cancers out there, and there are a lot of cancers that are more deadly than breast cancer.
So this was an obviously, that's why you can't take the politics out of things.
I mean, this is obviously specifically chosen for a specific marketing read.
And it's a whole month, the whole month of October.
I mean, you're not going to be watching the NFL here.
It's only October 9th.
So you've got 22 more days, three weeks of NFL football that you're going to have to uh boycott.
Hey, Rush.
What if they were to take all the money they spend?
And I can imagine how many uniforms, how many, all the paraphernalia that they have to turn pink, okay, take that revenue and donate it to breast cancer research.
Well, what they'll tell you is that all of that pink that you see translates to sales of the items, licensed merchandise, um, on NFL websites, team websites, and in retail outlets where NFL gear is sold.
I'm even down to the point with the pink uh bow on the football.
So they'll tell you that's promoting sales of these units, and that's where they'll tell you the dollars go.
Anyway, I'm I am hearing more references to the pink being annoying this year than any prior season.
Stay with the phones because it's open line Friday.
David San Angelo, Texas.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Mr. Limbaugh.
Sir.
I can't I cannot believe I'm actually talking to you after all this time.
Well, here you are.
I'm glad you made it through.
Uh, me too.
Uh, quick and to the point, uh, Mitt Romney, Speaker of the House.
Yeah.
I believe that he would be a wonderful speaker.
I called this when I heard Bahner was backing out.
I told my mother about it.
He's ethical, he's honest, you can't bull rush this guy.
We know what the media is going to do to him.
Right.
When he comes out and uh they're gonna call him a loser, they're gonna call him a has been, yada yada yada.
But he would be ethical.
I don't I don't see how anybody can't see that, but of course I'm not a I'm not a liberal.
Well, I mean, nobody nobody now wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
You have forgotten.
Mitt Romney stood idly by why a man, while a man and his employees' wife died, and Romney didn't care.
And Romney didn't pay his taxes for 10 years, and Romney put the family dog on the roof of the station wagon, a family vacation for two weeks, where it got thirsty and sweaty.
Well, the heat and everything else.
Romney is a mean guy, doesn't pay his taxes, and he's he's he's heartless.
Woman died.
Well, bypass.
What's that?
Well, bypass all that, but he's still a good guy.
No, just what the media said about him last time.
Yeah, they cruised, they tried to crucify him.
They and they'll do it again.
They didn't try.
They did.
You're right.
I mean, the bottom line is that they that they did.
You know, by the way, Paul Ryan's name uh surfaced in this uh in this what do you want to call this, this fight, this quest, this uh whatever it was.
And then it was looking like Ryan might have a chance at this at Speaker of the House.
Now, some people would not have been happy about it because uh, hey, it's gotten tough there.
A lot of people think Paul Ryan has sold out.
His origin Yeah, but he may be thinking about it, but his chance just went up in smoke because he got the coveted endorsement of Luis Gutierters.
Now, Luis Gutiérrez, for those of you who don't know, Luis Gutierrez is Mr. Amnesty in the House.
He's a Democrat from Chicago.
And he's already, he's been out, he'd been greasing the skids for Obama's executive amnesty for well almost a year now.
He's been making the uh preparatory uh uh getting the preparatory work done.
He's one of the biggest supporters of amnesty for illegals in the country.
He is militant on it.
He's been vocal, he's been demanding it.
He's even getting on Obama's case for dragging his feet about it.
So Paul Ryan's name gets floated as in the mix and run, hey, and you know what?
Paul's I might yeah, this could happen.
I might want to do this.
Then it starts getting some uh momentum.
And here comes Luis Gutiérrez.
Oh, man.
Paul Ryan, that's exactly what this place needs.
Thud.
Thud.
Dude, you said...
That's the last thing he needs is the endorsement of Luis Scoot the Edis.
Can we let's take this a different direction?
You know, in addition to this race for the speakership going on, there's also a presidential primary taking place.
And leaders of the presidential primary have about as much in common with the people in the establishment of wantabee speaker as you and I have with the Bosnians.
So given that Trump and Carson and Fiorina are in the top tier of Republican prisoners or candidates.
What happens in the House?
What is it that happens in the House that strengthens, say Trump?
What would be something that would help the Trump campaign in this House speaker race?
No, no, no, the exact time.
How about what I'm hearing now is is that Boehner may stay on longer than what he said, given the problems they're having coming up with a credible replacement.
Well, the more Boehner stays, and what does Boehner represent to people?
Status quo, no good, gotta get off of this.
Boehner represents the problem.
That gives Trump added strength.
It helps Trump solidify what he's running against within his own party and elsewhere.
It gives Trump the opportunity and Fiorina and Carson at the same time.
It helps them further identify as not members of this club in Washington that can't shoot straight.
If, on the other hand, the House speakership would happen to go to, say, conservative uh outsider member, the conservative caucus, I don't know that would necessarily hurt Trump, but could you agree that in terms of the Republican presidential campaign, a milk toast speaker helps them?
Or am I suffering still the ravages of this virus and not thinking straight?
I may have a point, right?
I could be wrong about this.
You know, I'm I'm I should have added a caveat to this program, and that is anything I say today, I get a chance to withdraw on Monday.
No, I don't take cold medicine because it doesn't work.
Once they got rid of Zycam, that's the only thing that worked for me.
And once they got rid of those swabs, I uh NyQuilette stuff just I just feel drugged up for for long after the stuff is supposed to stop working.
So no, I just deal with it.
I don't think there is any common cold or fever medicine out there flu.
I mean, this is it's not a well, whatever it's it's it's a virus.
There's no cure for it.
You just have to endure it.
And any medicine that suppresses the symptoms, they don't work on me.
So as a result, I may not be 100% focused here, even though I think I've so I'm gonna I'm gonna assert now on that the the privilege of revising and extending my remarks on Monday, anything I say today.
I'm sure you people will uh will understand.
Who's next?
John in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Real privilege to talk to you.
Hey, thanks a lot for the Russian rever books.
Just want to let you know how much my kids enjoyed reading.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Very appreciate that.
No problem.
Get to the point.
Listen, I'm down here in the second district here in North Carolina that Renee Elmer's represents.
Um it's a strange coincidence that he seems to be all of a sudden getting tangled up here with the heart and all the allegations that uh seem to be coming out about some kind of a lucid affair, all of which you know we have no idea of knowing if that's true or not.
Uh look the bottom line is she's not a conservative, she doesn't support conservative values here in this district, and quite frankly, she never has.
Oh, wait, you wait, well, well, hold it just a second, though.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Didn't Renee Elmer's seek office on the premise that she was a conservative and was going to stop Obamacare and was going to implement all these conservative ideas.
No, you're absolutely right.
And it's it's again, it's the typical patent switch that we see with a lot of these you know professionalized political class.
Okay, so she camp she campaigned as a conservative, but she never has been, as you say.
No, and and you just look through the voting record.
It's it's quite frank.
I mean, you know, you can look at conservative review, they ranked are very low and uh justifiably so and you know, and she doesn't really do a great job supporting the military community here either.
But you still hope the rumors are not true.
No, of course not.
And you know, nobody wants to see that because uh, you know, to the second point a couple years ago when she came out here to work back because it was our senior leaders, like she she does pretty regularly.
Um some of them were severely reprimanded for some inappropriate email comments.
And it was it was locker room here, and it was in bad taste, but you know, these guys are held to a higher standard, and and their careers were ruined over over things like this, allocated like this.
So it's it's just that the political hypocrisy, you know, again, is is beyond belief, and and it's in our own house.
Yeah, and because this kind of stuff on the Democrat side's a resume enhancement.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you know, great point, but uh, but again, you know, we need to do a better job at the local level meeting these people and and making sure that we're waiting.
Wait a minute.
How you now that's a good point.
How are you supposed to when somebody comes to you and convinces you that they are conservative and that they're gonna stop Obama whenever they can, and they're gonna go represent the views and the values of the district.
What are you supposed to base the fact that they're lying to you on?
Well, you've got to look at the established record.
I mean, none of these people just show up and run for office.
They all start at some local level.
And and so that's a great point, too.
You know, we have to get involved at the local level.
You're talking city council, county commissioner, yeah.
But look, let me focus the question.
Why was Renee Elmers believed you said people need to do a better job vetting?
Well, you're assuming you're talking about the voters.
What did they miss?
Was it was it there to spot that she wasn't what she said she was?
Um there are, yeah.
So when you look at her background, when you look at what she was doing in the private sector, you know, she's a very she's got a nursing background, and she's very involved in the medical industry uh here in the county.
And um, you know, you can tell by the the the clauses that she supported that I mean that she wasn't going to advance any of these agendas that were very important to us.
Um you really just you gotta dig deep and you gotta look, and you gotta read local news reports, local articles.
I mean, the stuff is out there, you just gotta look.
Okay.
All right, was your your claim it was there to know.
And so this is on the voters, then the voters screwed up.
They should have known that she was lying.
That's um I I can see that point of view.
I mean, I a lot of people do think voters are stupid.
Uh American people in general are stupid.
Um gullibility and stupid are two different things.
Believing what you want to believe.
And look, I don't know how she sold it.
I don't know, but apparently it was enough to get elected a number of times.
On this business of the affair.
No, not on this business of the affair.
They're really, you know, until this is what it is or what it isn't, we've got enough.
I have the audio soundbite from Homeland that I uh that I hyped moments ago.
We'll get to that right after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, Friday, grab audio soundbite number 43.
This is Showtime's homeland on Sunday night.
It premiered at 9 p.m.
Eastern, and it's now Showtime on Demand.
It's on Showtime Anytime, it's on the Showtime app.
It's pretty much anywhere you want to watch it now.
And he's uh he's in a meeting of CIA analysts and executives.
He's just come back undercover from Syria.
And F. Murray Abraham is the character that is speaking to him.
Well, no, it's actually F. Murray Abrams is boss, but it's a different, it's a different uh character speaking to him.
And the question he's asked is, is our strategy working?
Is our strategy working?
What strategy?
Tell me what the strategy is.
I'll tell you if it's working.
See, that right there is a problem because they have a strategy.
They're gathering right now in Raqqa by the tens of thousands.
Hidden in the civilian population, cleaning their weapons, and they know exactly why they're there.
Why is that?
They call it the end times.
What do you think the beheadings are about?
The crucifixions in Deer Hefer, the revival of slavery.
You think they make this sh up?
It's all in the book.
They're fing book.
The only book they ever read.
They read it all the time.
They never stop.
They're there for one reason and one reason only.
To die for the caliphate and usher in a world without infidels.
That's their strategy.
And it's been that way since the seventh century.
So do you really think that a few special forces teams are gonna put a dent in that?
Well, what would you do?
You offer me a promotion?
I'm offering you a hypothetical.
Two hundred thousand American troops on the ground indefinitely to provide security and support for an equal number of doctors and elementary school teachers.
Well, that's not going to happen.
Then I better get back there.
What else?
What else would make a difference?
Hit reset.
Meaning what?
Meaning pound Raqqa into a parking lot.
Hit reset, meaning pound Raqqa.
Raqqa's a fictional city here.
It's it's serious.
This is meant to.
You know, it's amazing.
This this season premiered Sunday night.
It was written months ago.
Filming on this episode probably started.
Let's see, this is airs in the first of October.
They didn't start filming this till September.
So they there was enough ISIS in the news that they could safely build the opening episode around this theme, even though the episode centered in Berlin.
You know, I I wondered when this season began, how much more can do they have here?
What have they not explored?
And I was pleasantly surprised with the opening episode.
This is there's really, really, really a lot of good television on right now.
You know what?
A lot of it is suffering because they're losing ground on how to calculate who's watching.
If you just go by Nielsen numbers, it looks like television viewing, and TV viewing may be down, but people watching shows is not down.
They're watching it different ways, other than on conventional TV screens in the family sedan, family living room, or what have you they're watching on their on their devices and so forth.
And they're watching it delayed, streamed, or what have you.
And there's just incredible content out there right now.
Um the homeland is one of these shows.
I want you to listen to this again.
This goes by pretty fast here.
Um, but the the whole thing uh uh he's brought in, he's on the ground serious and he's being out.
Okay, is what we're doing fighting ISIS working?
Is our strategy working?
Is our strategy working?
What strategy?
Tell me what the strategy is, I'll tell you if it's working.
See, that right there is the problem because they have a strategy.
They're gathering right now in Raqqa by the tens of thousands, hidden in the civilian population, cleaning their weapons, and they know exactly why they're there.
Why is that?
They call it the end times.
What do you think the beheadings are about?
The crucifixions in Deer Hafer, the revival of slavery.
You think they make this up?
It's all in the book.
They're fing book.
The only book they ever read, they read it all the time, they never stop.
They're there for one reason and one reason only to die for the caliphate and usher in a world without infidels.
That's their strategy, and it's been that way since the seventh century.
So do you really think that a few special forces teams are gonna put a dent in that?
Well, what would you do?
You offer me a promotion?
I'm offering you a hypothetical.
Two hundred thousand American troops on the ground indefinitely to provide security and support for an equal number of doctors and elementary school teachers.
Well, that's not going to happen.
Then I better get back there.
What else?
What else would make a difference?
Hit reset.
Meaning what?
Meaning pound Raqqa into a parking lot.
The point of this exchange was to illustrate that here we got a guy on the ground undercover who knows exactly what's going on, is brought back to report on how our strategy is working and tells him we don't have one.
And it illustrates that's a TV show.
And in the point in the TV show, the writers, the point they're making in this show is that our people in charge of defeating and stopping all of this have not even yet admitted what we're up against.
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