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Nov. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 16, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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You know, people ask me all the time a lot of things because I'm, well, I'm one of the world's foremost experts.
Rush, why is Trump at 42?
Why is Trump keep going up?
Let me ask you a question to explain that.
Can you name for me any Republicans besides Trump who are out slamming the policies of this administration?
I'm talking about in this specific instance, Trump is out there saying we've got to get ISIS.
We've got to find them, take them out, and I'll do it.
I started.
I'm the guy that said, take out the oil fields because that's where they're getting their money and so forth.
And this is not to disparage, look, I'm not trying to disparage Cruz or Rubio or any of these people.
But in the old days, it wouldn't have taken this long for the whole Republican Party to have speaker after speaker after speaker out there condemning just Obama's speech today.
I wouldn't be a lone voice ripping into this Obama speech is the point.
Now, the only thing that's happening in that regard is the following.
During that speech, Obama said, we've got all kinds of ways to vet these Syrian refugees.
It's not a problem.
And his deputy national security guy, Ben Rhodes, oh, yeah, yeah, not a problem.
We can vet these Syrian refugees.
It's not a problem whatsoever.
Well, Peter King of Long Island says, no, we don't have a database to compare me.
Michael McCall, who is Homeland Security Committee in the House, has just sent Obama a letter.
Said, look, we've talked to people at the FBI.
We've talked to people of Homeland Security.
We've talked to experts in the military.
We do not have.
Nobody has been able to tell me what process we have because there isn't one to vet any of these refugees.
So Michael McCall and Peter King are two people, and that's good.
This Obama speech today, folks, was a disaster.
It was, I don't know, it's frightening in certain ways.
I mean, to realize that we don't have anybody anywhere near finger on the button, much less somebody that we're afraid is going to hit it.
So we're going to have continued importation of refugees while we're being told that we've got the best vetting procedures in the sun, the sun, and we don't have any.
But anyway, I've got the soundbites coming up.
Trump condemning Obama and the regime, and there's nobody doing it quite the way.
Carly Fiorina had, I think, a Twitter post or some sort of maybe a Facebook post.
I'm not sure which.
Let's stick with the audio soundbites here as a means of expressing and explaining all this.
Here's Ted Cruz Saturday on Fox and Friends.
And Obama today in his speech responded, he didn't name them.
People he thought were just terrible, terrible, saying we should let the Christians in, but not the Muslims.
Just terrible.
And that's not who we are.
That's not America.
That's not the way we are compassion is not defined by religion.
Some such thing as that.
I think he was responding to Cruz and Rubio and maybe even Jeb.
Here's what Cruz said.
On the other hand, Christians who are being targeted for genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them.
But President Obama refuses to do that.
Yeah, that's what set him off.
That's no doubt what set off Obama.
There isn't much simpatico expressed for these beleaguered Christians, is there?
From this regime?
There isn't.
You hardly hear any mention of it whatsoever.
So Cruz talks about it in the context of who we're letting in refugee status-wise, and Obama blows a gasket.
Now, just so we can hear what the caller was talking about, we went back and got Shep Smith from Friday Night Fox News breaking news coverage of the ISIS attack on Paris.
So our caller from Phelan, California told us that Shep said that 9-11, a bunch of guys hijacking planes and flying under buildings, that's one thing.
But what happened in Paris?
That changed the world.
That's what he said to us, right?
Well, here's what we have Shep Smith saying during Fox News breaking news Friday night.
We know at this moment that the world as we know it has changed tonight.
For terrorists from far away did not cross an ocean with planes that they hijacked and have a one-time experience that changed everything we know.
In this case, there is a series of coordinated attacks that happened and continues to happen.
And actions unprecedented in modern history are taking place in Paris tonight.
Okay, so I see what the caller means.
Actions unprecedented in modern history are taking place in Paris tonight.
So 9-11 was, I mean, it was big.
You had some guys far across an ocean, hijacked planes, a one-time experience that changed everything we know.
In this case, a series of coordinated attacks.
Wasn't 9-11 a series of coordinated attacks?
Weren't there four?
And one was thwarted, but yet the passengers died.
A one-time experience that changed everything, 9-11.
But this case, series of coordinated attacks that happened and continue to happen, and actions unprecedented in modern history are taking place in Paris tonight.
I don't know, folks.
As I say, I'm fascinated by the way people think.
Can somebody tell me, and I honestly don't know, because I haven't read anything about it.
Is Obama, has the United States let in any Christians from the Middle East as refugees?
I mean, maybe, I don't know by accident or whatever, but clearly the focus is on Muslim refugees, Syrian and otherwise.
Yeah, I don't either.
I have not seen stories that we've allowed Christians from Iraq in.
Now, last month, James Comey, head of the FBI, said there was no way on earth to vet all the Syrian refugees.
So it's not just Peter King of Long Island.
It's not just Mike McCall, Michael McCall of Texas.
They have James Comey.
The FBI told Congress last month, quote, we can only query against that which we've collected.
And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database till the cows come home, but there'll be nothing show up because we have no record of them.
And this buttress is what Peter King was saying.
Peter King says there's no records of these people in Syria.
And we don't have any record of them.
If we don't have a record of them, then how in the world are we going to vet them?
And yet, here's Ben Rhodes as we now hit audio soundbite number five.
This is Obama's deputy national security advisor.
And it's on Fox News Sunday.
Chris Wallace says one of the attackers in the French slaughter was carrying a Syrian passport that seemed to indicate that he had been a refugee that had come into Europe along with the flood of migrants in October.
Given that, Mr. Rhodes, is President Obama reconsidering his plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year?
No, Chris, we're still planning to take in Syrian refugees.
We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees.
It involves our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all the available information.
How old is this guy?
That sounded like a student from Mizzou.
No, Chris, we're still planning to take in Syrian refugees.
We have very robust...
Play it again.
I don't need in person to play it again.
Sam, hit it.
No, Chris, we're still planning to take in Syrian refugees.
We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees.
It involves our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all the available information.
But there isn't any available information.
That's what James Comey is saying.
If we don't have them in the database, and we won't if they haven't done anything criminal, then there's no way we can vet them.
And as I said, the Syrian Hall of Records in Damascus, if it existed, we don't have access to it.
But if they haven't made any ripples, then the Syrian regime isn't going to know anything about them.
And if the Syrian regime is exporting them to conduct acts of terror, there isn't going to be anything on them.
And yet here's Ben Rhodes.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Why, hell yeah.
We have extensive interviews.
We're vetting them against all information.
Hell yes.
By the way, that 10,000 figure is wrong.
Obama wants 100,000 Syrian refugees alone every year.
The Daily Mail, the UK Daily Mail, one of the best newspapers in the world, has a story today reminding their readers of their reporter who was able to buy a fake Syrian passport that looks totally legit.
This is why really intelligent, responsible people are worried that Obama's totally outclassed here or something.
The idea that we've got this vetting procedure and that ISIS is contained and that even after this event, we got him on the run.
You know what Obama's big excuse in his press conference today was?
His big excuse was, well, you know, it's really, really hard.
It's hard to go after people who aren't afraid of dying.
If he said that once, he must have said it five times.
And what that was, was an excuse for not going and getting, hey, they don't care if we kill them, so it's not a big deal.
I mean, it's really tough to go after people who aren't afraid to die.
What does that mean?
Is he talking about the suicide bombers?
They're just the pawns and all this.
They're expecting the 73 virgins.
Hey, no, I'd better not.
That might be going too far.
On second thought, I have a legitimate question about the virgins.
No.
I do.
I do.
I really do.
Well, we've heard that one of the Syrian, one of the Paris terrorists is a woman.
Right?
Have you heard that?
Well, do you know what the question is?
I'm wondering what awaits them.
I think it's a legitimate question.
Just asking.
Ted Cruz, back to Cruz on Fox News Saturday.
Or Fox and Friends, I sorry, Fox and Friends weekend on Saturday morning.
John Scott said, Barack Obama won the presidency in part by recognizing that Americans were tired of war.
If you do succeed in winning the office, Cruz, does it mean application of military force toward ISIS?
I recognize that Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country.
He may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us, and they're getting stronger.
Every region on earth has gotten worse under the Obama-Clinton foreign policy.
We need a commander-in-chief who says we will defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
Well, we don't have it.
You know, this John Scott's question here, I think there's probably some truth to it.
He said Obama won the presidency in part by recognizing Americans were tired of war.
That's not what Americans are tired of.
Whether the American people knew it or not, they were tired of the daily, unending series of news stories about how we were losing.
That's what they got tired of.
Remember, the Democrat Party, which is the media, was doing everything they could to saddle the Bush administration with defeat in Iraq.
Everything, condemning every strategy, including the surge, before it happened, running stories about how everybody involved was lying.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Scooter Libby, I mean, you name it.
Petraeus.
They were doing everything.
Harry reads on TV.
This war is lost.
This war was lost a long time ago.
It was a successful anti-war campaign run by the Democrat Party and their agents in the media.
I mean, how many times do you want to read in the news that American military troops and Marines are terrorizing women and children in Fallujah?
How many times, and then when that report hits, you've got John Murtha and John Kerry standing up condemning the Marines.
That's what the American people got tired of.
The American people don't get tired of waging a war to defend the United States and its allies and winning.
The news media tired people out on the war.
The news media people, and on this, I have to say the Bush administration didn't do its job in making its own case.
That criticism was allowed to stand because the Bush administration said that they weren't going to get down in the mud with political critics because it was beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency.
So they allowed public opinion to be bent and shaped and flaked and formed by all this negative campaigning that the Democrat Party and the media was doing.
But I resent this assertion that the American people elected Obama because they're tired of war.
They're tired of losing.
They thought we were losing in Iraq.
They thought we were losing big time.
And they didn't understand what the point was.
If we're going to continue to throw assets and resources at it and lose, why do it?
Which is a commonsensical reaction.
Ted Cruz, Obama does not want to defend the country.
Taking in refugees is lunacy.
I'm telling you, people talk like this, you're going to see their poll numbers skyrocket.
Let me take a break.
We'll come back with more cruise and a couple of Donald Trump Rubio in on this and explain why.
You're just going to see, especially if Trump zeroes in on terrorism to go along with his stance here on illegal immigration and drops some of these personal attacks on people like Carson and so forth, his 42% could become 50 before long.
Ted Cruz, back to Fox and News, Fox and Friends Weekend on Saturday.
Tucker Carlson was sitting in as a co-host, said to Cruz, what do you think of the regime's policy of paying for Syrian refugees to come here in large numbers?
Should they be halted?
President Obama and Hillary Clinton's idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America is nothing less than lunacy.
One estimate was that 77% of those refugees were young men.
The director of national intelligence here in America has said of those refugees in Europe, it is clear that a significant number of them may well be ISIS terrorists.
It makes no sense whatsoever for us to be bringing in refugees who our intelligence cannot determine if they are terrorists here to kill us or not.
Those who are fleeing persecution should be resettled in the Middle East and majority Muslim countries.
Donald Trump during a campaign event Saturday in Beaumont, Texas.
What's going on is terrible.
And when you look at what happened in that case, it was just reported, one from Syria.
Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.
I mean, think of it, 250,000 people, and we all have heart, and we all want people taken care of and all of that.
But with the problems our country has, to take in 250,000 people, some of whom are going to have problems, big problems, is just insane.
We have to be insane.
Yeah, well, terrible.
Yeah, Obama's not insane, though.
I mean, that's the thing.
That's what's scary about this.
Insanity, we can explain it.
We can understand.
This is not insanity.
This is purposeful.
Trump, by the way, also has an answer for any of you scared of a possible terrorist threat from ISIS, frightened by the attacks in Paris.
He says, shut down the mosques.
He said, I would hate to do it, but it's something you're going to have to strongly consider.
You're going to have to watch and study the mosques because a lot of talking is going on at the mosques.
That 42% just became 45.
I don't care what you think.
There's nobody else saying that.
And people take this stuff far more seriously than establishment politicians seem to think, particularly more seriously than Obama does.
I can't tell you the number of times.
I mean, I know personal friends of the FBI who have, I mean, privately, they worry sick over what's happening.
Those are religious institutions, therefore religious freedom.
They worry sick about what's going on in there.
Only because of world events, not because of prejudice.
More Trump at the Beaumont, Texas campaign event.
When you look at Paris, you know, the toughest gun laws in the world, Paris.
You can say what you want, but if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry, it would have been a much, much different situation.
I don't know.
It was a concert.
It was a musical.
It was a nightclub.
Young people just out for a Friday night.
That's who we're targeted.
Anyway, we'll be back.
Here is Eric in Wilmington, Delaware.
You're next, sir.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Yeah, I'm just going to make a point.
What we need is a church or another Chamberlain.
But unlike Chamberlain, who was misguided and thought Britain was a justified country, we have Obama who thinks we're an unjust country.
And he's trying to undo all the things he thinks we've done in the past, the last 60 years by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, trying to get Egypt overthrown, supporting the Iranians, and so forth and so on.
And you don't hear a speech like Chamberlain, the blood, sweat, and tears speech, saying that we'll fight them on the beaches, in the air, and nothing less than victory.
And we just missed that today because we have a president that thinks we're an unjust country.
That's exactly right.
I think that is as well stated, next to what I've said, of course, as I've ever heard anybody say it.
And factually, everything that Eric says there is right.
If you wanted a fire in Brimstone, if you just wanted some confidence so we can beat this guy's back, if you wanted some confidence that the U.S. is not going to permit this, you did not get it today.
You didn't get anywhere near it.
You didn't get close to it.
You got appeasement.
You got accommodation.
You got intellectual warnings that that kind of thinking, America winning and victory, those are so antiquated and they don't mean it.
They're just slogans.
By the way, I remembered the first time I heard Obama say that, and it was about Afghanistan when he was talking about extending our stay in Afghanistan in 2009.
That is when Obama said that we were saddled or some such thing with this concept of victory, that that was setting us back.
It was a distraction.
He didn't like all this talk of winning.
I knew, I knew he had said it before.
I knew I'd heard it before.
And today, he said, this whole notion of America winning, victory, and so forth, it's just sloganeering.
It doesn't mean anything, and it's not helpful.
Now, stop and think of that.
Can you imagine any wartime leader worth his salt, not even just saying it, thinking it?
There is no Churchill in the Democrat Party, and that's who's running this country.
There is no Churchill.
And the caller's point, at least Chamberlain, he was a bumbling fool, but he had the best of intentions.
We can't even assign the best intentions to our current leadership because you look at what he's done.
The Arab Spring was indeed an attempt to get the Muslim Brotherhood running the show.
It turned out that it bombed out.
But you look at who we're allying with.
You know, go back and grab soundbite number one from today.
This is the first soundbite of the day.
And if you're just joining us or if you missed the first soundbite, you've got to hear this.
Waleed Farris, who is a Middle East analyst.
He was on Fox today, and he answered the question, why don't we do anything about these guys?
Why aren't we doing anything about ISIS?
That's the question, particularly after Obama's speech today.
There was nothing in his speech today that gave anybody any confidence whatsoever that he even cares to do anything about ISIS.
He was basically saying there's not much we can do.
We got him on the run anyway.
We haven't contained.
He said that last Thursday.
He said, but there's not much you can do with people who are willing to die.
And so everybody's saying, well, what's the strategy then?
And Waleed Farris had the answer.
Actually, we can, and actually we should.
But the president has a different strategy.
He's getting a lot of pressure by the Iranians.
Otherwise, he should have long time ago allied himself, partnered with Arab moderate forces such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, UAE.
They are fighting terrorism very much and very well in Yemen, in Sinai, in Libya, elsewhere.
But the reason that he's not going to these moderate Arab forces and asking them on the ground to be boots on the ground is because the Iranians are pressuring him, because the Syrian regime is pressuring him.
They don't want those areas, those Sunni areas to be liberated by Sunni madras because they won't have access to them.
That's the bottom line of it.
What he's saying here, and I think it makes perfect sense.
He's saying where there is sectarian violence, you've got Sunnis and Shias.
And as long as those battles are going on in either any countries that we're involved with in the Middle East, we're not going to get involved.
Sunni and Shia, civil war, sectarian violence, we don't know what we're going to get replaced, even if we take one side out.
In this case, if we take out ISIS, we don't know what we're going to get.
We don't know who's going to step up and replace them.
What an attitude.
What about nobody?
What about when you vanquish them?
What about when you defeat them?
No, there's always going to be some terrorist Muslim faction or sectarian unit that'll stand up.
Maybe somebody deal with that one too when it happens.
But the real news in his answer was that it's the Iranians who want a Middle East they can control.
And it is with the Iranians that Obama is sympathetic.
And the Syrians.
So while Leed Ferris is on Fox today saying, if you want to know why Obama gave this speech today, and if you want to know why Obama has no interest in wiping out ISIS, it's because Iranians love ISIS.
ISIS is keeping the entire region destabilized.
And the Iranians want it destabilized so they can control it.
And if you say, well, that doesn't make any sense, it doesn't.
Obama just lifted sanctions on the Iranians, so they have $150 billion to go fund terrorism or buy replacement airliners for their faltering national airline.
We just gave them the green light to go ahead with their nuclear weapons program.
You think they are not going to run the Middle East once they have the leverage of a nuclear weapon to threaten people with?
That's who Obama has sided with.
Now, he doesn't explain why.
He just explains that it's Syria and the Iranians with whom Obama has decided to sidle up.
We can fill in the blanks on that.
So our caller correctly lays out the fact that, well, look, we've got a president who thinks America is unjust, who thinks America is responsible for the mess in the Middle East, because, unsaid, by the way, our allied status with Israel.
And we made the miss.
And it's our fault.
America is unjust and immoral.
And we don't have the leadership morality here in order to tell the rest of the world how to live and what to do or defend freedom or do what's that.
It's not our job anymore.
It's not our role.
We're not qualified.
It's all part of cutting the U.S. down to size, punishing us for all these transgressions that we have committed around the world since our founding.
And it does appear that this is the mindset of this regime.
It's the mindset of every community organizer out there, every left-wing radical in this country, the United States, is to blame for practically everything that has gone wrong domestically and internationally.
Little did people know they were electing one of those guys back in 2008.
Back in a sec, folks.
You know, here's the thing about this Obama press conference today.
He really is saying there's nothing we can do.
And he said, I haven't heard any better options.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan?
Can you imagine Churchill?
Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher saying, I haven't heard any better options?
I haven't heard anybody else better idea.
I mean, I'm willing to listen to any idea we got out there.
They're from Republicans, of course, because they're crazy.
But other than that, I haven't heard any ideas.
You got any better options?
I'm not going to put boots on the ground because that means you're going to stay there forever.
So what are you going to do?
He basically said, and he was bragging about it, no plans to change his strategy because there isn't anything we can do.
That's what he was saying.
That's why people are so shocked.
There isn't anything we can do.
And I think he really thinks it.
Well, coupled with there isn't really anything he wants to do.
And at the Democrat debate, climate change was a bigger.
They didn't even want to talk about this at the Democrat debate.
They got mad when the moderator brought this.
That debate was so boring and so nothing.
It ended seven minutes early because they all ran out of things to say.
And you didn't know that?
And a small seven minutes early because they ran out of things and there was nothing left.
They didn't want to talk about foreign policy much.
To the extent that it came up, Bernie Sanders' climate change is the reason all this terrorism is happening because the terrorists are too hot where they live because they're climate.
They're moving to cooler places, which is Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Germany.
He meant it.
And now they're complaining at W.B. Blabbermaus Schultz because the audience was so tiny, eight and a half million people on a Saturday night.
They should be lucky that few people saw this.
But they're mad.
They're mad that there's only two or three debates, that they're on Saturday night when nobody's going to see them.
What they're really mad, but they're, well, this is, they think they're going to win simply because they've succeeded in driving up opposition and hatred for Republicans.
They really don't think they have to go out and win anything.
Don't doubt.
I'm talking about the Democrats.
They think they're going to win by default because they have so poisoned the minds of Americans about Republicans, I guarantee you.
That's it, folks.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time for today.
Off to a rousing start for yet another great busy broadcast week.
And we'll be back here and see you tomorrow, Revved and Ready.
Thanks always for being with us.
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