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Nov. 18, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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When you look at this, well, I can't show you anything.
No, no.
I have to tell you, this is a headline at CNN.
You ready?
GOP looks to seize national security advantage from Obama over ISIS.
What a perverted way to look at this.
Those mean Republicans, I can translate this headline for you, those mean Republicans, we have a legitimate humanitarian crisis and the Republicans, they're just trying to seize the national security advantage away from our dear president.
How reprobate of them.
How horrible of them.
Why, this is terrible.
These Republicans are just, they're just the worst.
How dare the Republicans try to seize anything from Obama?
And this is typical, by the way.
By the way, this is exactly what happens whenever Obama and the Democrats look bad.
The drive-bys come out with a story about how the Republicans are going to try to exploit it and how they will overplay their hands.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, the Republicans are going to do great damage to themselves in the country trying to exploit this and turn this to their political advantage.
And of course, Obama is never accused of doing anything politically.
Obama, Hillary, Bill Clinton, they're just consistently lauded as brilliant statesmen and brilliant political leaders.
I mean, where is the headline that says, Obama and Democrats lose American people over ISIS?
Where is the headline that says, Obama and Democrats appear out of touch with public opinion on ISIS?
Nope, it's always how those venal Republicans are trying to take advantage of our nice young historical president.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
It's great to have you, El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbow at EIBnet.com.
Here's a story in the Washington Post, and boy, are they mad at the Republicans.
Of course, the headline, Obama calls Republican rhetoric on Syrian refugees a potent recruitment tool for ISIS.
I can't think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate, Obama said during a news conference.
You see, we're making ISIS mad.
That's the last thing.
We don't want to make ISIS mad.
I mean, they're really going to get mad.
And when they really get mad, they're really going to start killing people.
It's going to really start adding up.
It's really going to get bad if we keep criticizing ISIS, if we keep blaming them.
That's why we've got to back off here.
And this is the same strategy the Democrats use on the Democrats, on the Republicans about them.
You better stop criticizing Obama.
You better stop it.
The moderates, the independents are going to abandon you, and they're going to run right back.
You better stop it.
And now the Republicans, you better stop criticizing ISIS or you're just going to end up recruiting more terrorists to them.
You better stop it.
And what it all means is, you better stop criticizing us, meaning Democrats.
You better not.
You better leave us alone.
Otherwise, all kinds of horrible hell is going to happen.
It's going to be your fault.
They're acting like France and the rest of Europe are not in the middle of a genuine hellhole.
They're acting like France and Europe every day is the same as any other day.
There's nothing extraordinary going on there right now.
Yet where is ISIS striking?
Look at, to me, opening the door to ISIS and being nice to ISIS and not criticizing ISIS even after Charlie Hebdo.
Remember, we put the brakes on.
We were told, be very careful.
We must not step over the bounds here.
You better open the floodgates to your countries, Europe.
You better let them in.
Otherwise, they're going to get really, really mad.
And if you ask me, Europe has thrown open the door.
Europe has thrown open the door to every country.
Have they not, Mr. Snurtley?
Would you agree, Dawn?
Would you agree?
I mean, this has been through for years.
Europe has thrown open the doors to every country, and it still didn't stop ISIS from doing what they did Friday night in Paris, did it?
I distinctly recall ISIS celebrating the Muslim invasion of Europe by saying that they would use it to infiltrate more of their foot soldiers.
It's another question.
The drive-bys in the Democrat Party, war on women, right?
Republicans conducting a war on women.
Part of that is that women are still laughed at and made fun of, and they're mocked, and they're not equally paid, and they're not helped with the housework and the usual rig of a role.
Where is the concern for all of the women in Syria who have been abandoned by these great, courageous refugees who are fleeing the country trying to get in here and Germany and France and everywhere else?
Where is the concern for the women?
72% of the refugees are male, able-bodied, military-age male.
Where is the concern for their wives and children?
And don't tell me they don't have any.
Where is the concern for the women?
Where is the concern for any Muslim woman, by the way, from the usual feminazi groups in this country?
Yeah, I think all this does add up.
I think, you know, I have, in response to questions, and I've gotten the question, I don't know how many times over 20 years, Rush, when's the country going to wake up?
Meaning, when are the people of this country going to finally realize what liberalism is doing to it?
And I've said it's not going to be one event, and we're certainly not going to be able to predict it.
It may be one event, but it's going to be part of a whole bunch of things.
And I think we may be in the middle of it here.
Trying to politicize terrorism and equate the Republican Party with it may be a bit of a stretch, even to convince the low-information crowd.
But that's what Obama and his minions are doing.
Now, back to the audio soundbites.
We're going to pick up here with, well, I'll let you hear John Kerry and his equivocation on the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo.
But yesterday's program, most of the first hour was devoted to the concept, my concept, my attempt to explain and illustrate to you how the American left, the worldwide left, the Democrat Party are trying to say that all of this is the fault of the United States.
That there are legitimate reasons they hate us.
And we have to understand why they're attacking us.
And we had better change our ways.
And that's part and parcel of why we should accept without question all these refugees.
I obviously can't repeat the whole first hour of yesterday's program, but a few reminders.
We were told our immigration policy is angering people all over the world, the Republicans, and various support for Israel, other various things.
We have to understand where the reason they're, man, they have a legitimate reason for hating us.
ISIS does.
So keep that in mind because that's a giant C. I told you so for soundbites coming up.
First, John Kerry yesterday in Paris outside the U.S. Embassy speaking to staff and families of the embassy about the terror attacks last Friday.
There's something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo.
And I think everybody would feel that.
There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even legitimacy in terms of not legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this or that.
This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate.
It wasn't to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong.
It was to terrorize people.
It was to attack everything that we do stand for.
Duh, what in the world does this man think day to day of all this?
I mean, here's an attempt.
He knew he misspoke when he said rationale.
The terror attacks, the ISIS Islamic attacks on Charlie Abduh.
Here's a guy, you know, well, we can understand that.
Remember, it's our fault, folks.
Don't forget they're doing what they're doing because it's our fault.
And we did cartoons and made fun of the prophet.
And we mustn't do that.
We must understand.
If we do that, they have a rationale for reaching out and attacking us.
And John Kerry's telling embassy staff in France and Paris, you better understand it.
There was a rationale for that, but this thing had happened Friday.
What?
That was just random.
That wasn't tied to anything.
This illustrates perfectly a total disconnect on the part of John Kerry from Islamic terrorism.
He doesn't understand it.
He hasn't the slightest idea about it.
Each attack is to be measured.
And in one, well, we can find rationale.
We can find legitimacy.
But that thing Friday night at the music concert, that's just horrible.
It's all horrible, Senator Kerry.
And it's all about the same thing.
If you're going to try to rationalize or legitimize Charlie Ebdo, then you better be prepared to legitimize what happened Friday night because it's the same reasons.
We're infidels, Senator Kerry.
We are infidels.
They read one book.
They read it all the time.
It's all they care about.
They want to go back to the seventh century.
They are medieval in their desires.
And anybody who doesn't agree with them is an infidel who has to be converted or killed, and that's it.
And it doesn't matter each individual instance whether there was a provocation or not because there always is a provocation.
We are infidels.
And it's really getting to the point now of personal offense to listen to these people try to tell us we better understand why we are responsible for this.
Because if they're serious about that, we've got one hope, and that's to convert.
I don't know about you.
I am fed up.
American citizen having to sit here and listen to my president, the Democrat Party, come up with various ways of blaming me and other Americans and telling me we have to understand because of what we've done why they're doing what they're doing.
And by the way, for those of you who haven't heard this, they also blame us when they hear us, like Bernie Sanders, they hear any of the Democrats run around and claim that we are responsible for climate change.
They pick that right up and they start attacking us for that and justifying what they are doing because we are destroying the great planet.
We are committing fraud and damage and climate change and all this.
They pick up the same refrains.
Listen to this.
Last night, Charlie Rose, PBS, remember now, this is the sophisticated journalist and liberals' favorite show for real sophistication, for real enlightenment, for real insight, for genuine raw intelligence.
Charlie Rose, PBS.
That's where you go.
And last night he spoke with New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, John Miller, used to be at ABC News.
It was John Miller who interviewed Osama bin Laden.
And in which during that interview, Osama bin Laden told Miller that he had learned we are a paper tiger if we cowardly ran fast out of Somalia, the Black Hawk Down episode.
So Charlie Rose, enlightened and sophisticated journalist, says to John Miller, you said how they carried it out.
I mean, the Friday night attack in Paris.
You said how they carried it out was simple, but it was a complex operation.
What do we know about ISIS's intentions today?
Now, that is what passes as an insightful, brilliant question that you won't find anywhere else in American media.
What do we know?
If you watch Charlie Rose regularly, that's a common question he asks Tom Broco back in 2008.
What do we know about Barack Obama?
What do we know about the books he's read?
What do we know about the poets that he admires?
What do we know about what he thinks of Maya Angelou?
What do we know about that?
Question is now heralded as the beginning of brilliance.
So he asks John Miller, what do we know about ISIS's intentions today?
Listen to this.
ISIS is focused on taking and holding land and creating the caliphate in the Islamic State.
The name is important to them.
They could have called it a lot of things, but they called it the Islamic State because, Charlie, in the sophisticated marketing piece here, for you to go against ISIS, then you must be at war with the Islamic State, which translates in shorthand to you're at war with Islam.
But the key here is to your initial question of what is ISIS, where are they going with this is they weren't concerned with the outside world when they were just taking territory.
Once the outside world, outraged by beheadings and kidnappings and murders that were televised, said we're going to form a coalition, we're going to do a concentrated bombing campaign, ISIS decided, well, the outside world needs to get a little dose of fear.
Okay, so ISIS was just concerned with taking over a little land.
And then we started bombing them.
And they got really mad at that.
And their name is designed to trick us into calling them the Islamic States.
It's our fault.
We're stupid for all of their tricks.
Their name is very important, PR.
We're using the name.
We're calling them Islamists.
But see, the key here, they weren't concerned with the outside world, but they were just taking territory.
Once the outside world got mad by beheadings and kidnappings and murders that were televised, and that we were going to form a coalition against them, that we're going to do a concentrated bombing campaign, ISIS decided, well, the outside world needs to get a little dose of fear.
It's our fault, see?
Because we were outraged and tried to stop them from killing innocent people.
That made them really mad.
If we hadn't done that, everything would be okay, Charlie.
Yep.
What do we know about ISIS' intentions today?
Well, they're really mad because we fought back.
We should have done that, Charlie.
We really, really did have them.
Well, they beat them because we got mad at them.
They beheaded all these people because we fought back.
We didn't show respect.
Yeah, it's our fault again.
There's more.
I have to take another break.
I can't believe it.
Seems like it's all I'm doing here, but I got to do it.
I got a couple more soundbites from well-known liberal media people who say the worst thing we can do right now is retaliate.
Proving my point.
But before we get to those, I got to get back to the phones because we really have a lot of good calls here.
People have been patiently waiting, and I really appreciate that.
Here's Judith in Toms River, New Jersey.
Thank you for your patience.
Hi.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you today?
I'm great.
Thank you.
I'm a longtime listener, first-time caller.
And it seems to me that our president has a credibility issue.
Prior to the attacks on Friday, he vehemently stated that ISIS is contained, and then we all know what happened that evening.
And yesterday, he maligned and berated conservatives and made fun of us and mocked us for our security concerns with comments like, we're afraid of women and children.
Yet in the raid this morning in Paris, one of the suicide bombers was just, in fact, that, a woman.
And I really, truly believe our country has a right to protect itself no matter what the rest of the world thinks or says.
It's our country.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
And you've nailed President Obama here.
Again, this is a total domestic political opportunity for Obama.
That's what this is.
Some of the things Obama's saying, like, these are the Republicans, afraid to death of three-year-old orphans in the media.
I mean, that's great.
They think they can handle these terrorists.
And that comment alone would outrage you.
But if you understand it, and you do, you have an incident in Paris where 129 people are killed.
Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, immediately converts that into a domestic political issue.
And now you're probably saying, oh, come on, Rush, can't you go one half hour without blaming Obama?
That's not what it is.
Folks, I'm not going to sit here and ignore the truth.
What in the world does the Republican Party have to do with what happened in Paris Friday night?
Would somebody explain that to me?
If you're going to, you're the president and you're going to lash out on anybody.
Why are you going to lash out at Republicans?
Simply because they happen to be part of the majority thinking something needs to be done in response to this?
That something needs to happen as a result of this?
And that means the Republicans become the critics, the focus?
What do we have to do with it?
That's how he converts it to a domestic political issue.
Don't doubt me, folks.
Right.
All right, stand by audio soundbites seven and eight.
Oh, look at that.
Maybe nine and ten.
I'm in nine and ten.
Cookie didn't put the sound bites with me, and I'm at the top this time.
So I didn't.
Hey, David Remnick, another accredited, sophisticated, highly respected left-wing Democrat who is the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker.
I call him a Democrat first and a journalist second because that's what he is.
And he was on Charlie Rose last night.
Man, the brilliance on that show last night could have blown up your TV screen.
It could have destroyed all the pixels.
Charlie Rose said to David Remnick, the point of terrorism is to scare.
What do we know about scaring people?
It's to get attention and scare and hopefully to create a retaliation that will generate some support.
So Charlie Rose is asking Remnick, isn't their objective to trick us into responding?
Because when we respond, they win because that creates new terrorists that want to join them.
Isn't that how it is?
That's what his question is.
And here's the answer that he got.
I was talking over the weekend with somebody who studies ISIS now full-time at Princeton.
And he said, look, this signals, this comes within a couple of days after one of the main ISIS figures is taken out by an airstrike.
It's not lost on ISIS that Raqqa can be taken at any moment if people were only willing to flatten it.
And God willing, we're not willing to just indiscriminately flatten something.
The fact that much more of these operations are being exported abroad is not necessarily a sign of strength.
Do you know anybody, a couple guys sitting around talking to each other who talk that way?
I was talking over the weekend.
Yes.
Somebody who studies ISIS now, full-time.
Princeton.
Princeton.
Yes.
Automatic credibility.
Princeton, ISIS, you see.
You don't know anybody.
I do.
And he said, look, look, look, look.
This signals.
This comes within a couple of days after one of the main ISIS figures is taken out by an airstrike.
An airstrike, yeah.
It's not lost on ISIS.
Sip-sip from the cocktail.
It's not lost on ISIS that Raqqa can be taken at any moment if people are only willing to flatten it.
Now, the French just went in there and took a big hit on Raqqa.
Did you hear what he said next?
God willing, we're not willing to just indiscriminately flatten something.
Oh, God willing we don't go take out Raqqa.
It's their headquarters, folks.
Essentially, it's ISIS headquarters.
Here's Remnick saying, God willing, we won't do that.
Oh, my God, Charlie, can you imagine?
Charlie got an extra cigarette.
I don't know if I can deal with it.
Charlie.
Oh, my God.
God willing.
God willing.
We're not willing to just indiscriminately flatten something.
Oh, my God.
It's not who we are.
Americans don't just flatten things except fat women when they sit on something.
But other than that, we don't flatten things, Charlie.
Oh, my God.
I can't think of it.
The fact that there's much more of these operations being exported abroad, it's not necessarily a sign of strength, Charlie.
No, no.
ISIS attack after attack.
No, Charlie, it doesn't mean they're getting stronger.
Oh, no way.
And God, oh, I hope we don't go flat in their headquarters.
I didn't have an expert at Princeton.
I'm talking to him.
He says, oh, it's studies them full-time.
He says, look, this is not good.
This is not good.
Well, they're roping us right in.
Charlie is so mesmerized, so dazzled here by the intellect, he can't even say anything.
So Remnick has to continue on his own.
The legacy of the Iraq war that hangs over the American situation.
Stop the tapes.
Why didn't I know the Iraq war?
Of course the Iraq War is why they did it.
Oh.
If I only knew somebody at Princeton.
Certainly hangs over the consciousness of President Obama, who was elected not to repeat the mistakes and catastrophes initiated by the Bush administration.
It turns out that the most consequential speech in the last, I don't know, 10 years.
12 years.
Well, more.
Is Barack Obama being invited to a tiny rally in downtown Chicago on the eve of the Iraq War?
He's a state senator coming from Hyde Park, which like state senator from Greenwich Village or Berkeley or something.
And he gets up and gives this speech about, I'm not against all wars, just stupid wars.
Oh my God.
Folks, I think I have to go to a break.
I can't add anything.
The legacy of the Iraq war that hangs over.
These guys are discussing ISIS.
These guys, in case you forgot, Charlie said the point of terrorism is to scare and hopefully create a retaliation that will then generate some support.
So Charlie wants Remnick to say, yeah, any attempt to retaliate, and they like it because that means they get more recruits.
And Remnick ends up blaming Bush for all this and then stating the best speech that he's ever heard.
I don't know, last 10 years, most consequential speech, Charlie.
10 years, 12 years.
Obama.
Tiny rally, downtown Chicago.
The eve of the Iraq War.
Hyde Park is like Greenwich Village.
Charlie's.
Yeah, yeah, like Berkeley.
Right, Charlie.
Good, good, good, Charlie.
Berkeley.
And he gets up and he gives his speech.
I'm not against all wars, just stupid wars.
And my God, did we all have an orgasm, Charlie?
Because that just captures how smart we all are.
Oh.
Can you believe it?
Okay, well, we can't bomb the stuff out of him.
No, no, we can't.
We can't.
God willing, we wouldn't hit Raqqa.
No wonder these people are so happy with Obama there.
The self-absorption, the self-impressed.
I'm so smart.
And the people I know are smart.
And you're almost as smart as we are, Charlie.
I mean, you know what to shut up.
Princeton.
Princeton.
I was talking to the guy in Princeton, yeah, this ISIS expert.
I just, you know, next time I'm, I'm going to start talking to people this way.
I'm going to see what happens.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is from the cyber.
No.
This is one news now, whatever that is.
Or it's AP.
Associated Press, French President François Holland says that any places where people are glorifying terrorism are going to be shut down.
But that's not the half of it.
Wait till Obama hears about this.
And this socialist is going to be a quasi-Republican by the time Obama gets finished with him.
You ready?
A bill to extend France's state of emergency for three months in the wake of last Friday's Islamic terror attacks that killed 129 people includes a measure that enables French authorities to close any association or gathering and notably includes mosques and community groups.
Oh my God, Obama dealt a dual blow here that would encourage people to carry out terrorist acts.
Anything, any place that might encourage terrorism, the French are going to shut it down.
Mosques and community groups.
Can you say Alinsky?
The bill is to be debated by both houses of parliament tomorrow and Friday, expected to be voted on by the end of the week.
How long will it be before Obama calls this guy a bigot, short-sighted, starts making fun of him, and says this is not the way to go?
Closing down.
See, the frogs have awakened.
The French, it's an affectionate term by the frogs, they've awakened here.
This is the perpetual surrender group.
We always made fun of them.
They're not going to let two or three of these go by.
This is now Charlie Hebdo first, this is second, and this is it.
It's not going to please Obama.
It's going to isolate him even more.
So you got Olan, you got Putin, you got Trump, you got Cruz, and then Obama on an island by himself out there on the Azores.
Here's Miles in Du Bois, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
How are you doing?
Very good.
Very good.
Are you flattered that I knew how to pronounce the town you live?
Most hosts would have said Dubois, but I know it's not Du Bois.
It's Du Bois.
It's French.
It's Du Bois.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, first-time caller.
Listened to you for a long time.
I really believe what you're doing.
Thank you very much.
Our governor, that's what I wanted to really raise hell about.
He's been trying to.
I'm a friend with a senator and a representative from this area, and this governor opened the doors to the refugees.
I do not believe in that.
Well, so do Governor Colorado.
Tom?
Governor Colorado said to any state you don't want them, we'll take them.
Tom Ford, you know, he's tried to shove other stuff down our throats, and I do not believe in it.
Why do you seriously think he's doing it, Miles?
Well, I think it's, you know what side he's on.
And I live in rural Pennsylvania.
And that's, he's just, he's followed Obama and Hillary's, their side.
He wants the big cities that we have, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh.
That's what he's doing.
He is agreeing to accept future Democrat voters.
That's what this is.
Plus, in his mind, I'm sure he gets the monopoly on compassion and caring, which would be a big deal to him.
I would posit that it's party loyalty as much as anything else.
But boy, you're not alone in the club of people that think this is a dangerous thing going on.
Thank you once again being with us today, folks.
I really, really do appreciate it.
It's a terrific opportunity.
I never do take for granted.
Look forward to it each and every day as I am already looking forward to tomorrow.
It's a mere 21 hours from now.
So be here.
Do not want you to miss it.
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