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Dec. 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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They're winding down the press conference out San Bernardino now.
The FBI guy just finished, and the important thing the FBI guy said was that they still don't have a motive.
And they're not yet prepared to call this terrorism.
He said the FBI has a very, very specific definition of terrorism, and they can't yet say that this incident fits that definition.
You know what was interesting?
I saw a lot of former FBI guys on TV last night.
And to a man, they all thought it was terrorism.
Now I'm not, I'm not drawing any conclusions.
I'm not in implying anything.
You can infer all you want.
I'm not implying anything.
I'm just observing here.
I thought Jim Calstrom, Jim Calstrom was on um Meghan Kelly show last night, and Kalstrom was great.
Kalstrom used to run the New York FBI office.
He is one of the founders of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
He is a Vietnam War veteran, the man is a genuine American hero.
I don't think I would be speaking out of school if I were to tell you Jimmy Calstrom is who bugged John Gotti's lair that enabled them to finally get a conviction.
It was Calstrom and his team that did that.
And he's out with Meghan Kelly last night, and he's like a lot of the rest of us, frustrated as heck, this before the name has been publicly announced.
And everybody knows this is what it is.
But he wasn't the only former FBI agent, field agent, executive as a bunch of them on TV last night, and to a man, they all said that this is doubtless an act of terror.
Now look, it's like Rudy Giuliani saying 14 people dead, innocent people in a building.
It was an act of terror.
There was no quid this this if this isn't terror, what is?
But the FBI's definition of terrorism as it relates to today, there has to be a I imagine it has to be an incontrovertible bunch of evidence that it's Islamic militant Islamic motivation for it to fit the definition of terrorism as it's discussed today.
But I mean, all these former FBI people last night claiming that it was in the current FBI saying we haven't we haven't determined yet.
We can't get to the motive.
And we'll tell you when we do.
So we'll continue to wait for the official declaration of what this was.
Meanwhile, 12 pipe bombs, 11 IEDs, 10 go on down to the 12 days of Christmas in this guy's garage.
Now I got some email, as I always do, check them during the break.
And understandably, my email inbox is being peppered by a bunch of leftists listening to the program who are taking issue with me for my opinion that the left actually knows that they are culpable here because of their panic-stricken efforts to blame all this on Republicans.
To blame all of this on prayer, to attack people who pray and and want solitude with God, to attack that.
Let me let me put this a different way.
If if if you're having trouble agreeing with me on this.
Could somebody explain to me how it is that the Republican Party or conservatism is responsible for what happened last night.
Because that's what the Democrats are saying.
And that's what the media tries to imply here and there, and that's what all of these leftist bloggers are pointing out.
Well, if you doubt me, within hours of the San Bernardino terror attack, elected Democrats and sympathizers in the drive-by media literally launched their own attack.
They launched an attack of anger and vitriol, but it wasn't directed at the PERP.
Have you noticed there was no anger whatsoever?
There was a deep desire for understanding.
There was a question of why.
But when it came to pointing fingers of blame, not at the PERP, not at anything the PERP might believe.
No, their anger was directed at the people who were expressing grief and concern through prayer.
The sitting U.S. Senator that attacked people is Chris Murphy from Connecticut.
He tweeted, your thoughts should be about steps to take to stop this carnage.
Your prayers should be for forgiveness if you do nothing again.
Would somebody explain to me how any of this is the fault of the Republican Party or the conservative movement or anybody that had nothing else to do with it.
The very attempt to make people think that this happened because of Republican Party policies or conservatism is sick.
But my friends, it is as great an indication as you could have that all of this is nothing more than what they think is a political opportunity to advance their agenda and take out their opposition.
I maintain to you that their quick action to step in here and start blaming Republicans and trying to blame it on Planned Parenthood or maybe the Tea Party or what have you is rooted in an understanding they have that they're the ones actually making these things possible.
They're the ones who offer and demand political correctness, no judgmentalism.
How about this?
I'm sure you've heard this by now that the neighbors saw all of these Middle Eastern men late at night accepting all of these massively large packages.
And they were being delivered into the garage of this home, but they didn't tell the cops, because they didn't want anybody to think that they were racist.
They didn't want the cops or the neighbors to think that they were anti-Muslim.
They didn't want anybody to think that they were bigots.
So they shut up.
The lesson here is when you see a bunch of boxes being delivered to a garage after midnight to a home populated by four Middle Eastern guys call the cops.
But no, no, that's, that's, that's That is profiling.
That's sick.
You can't do that.
Well, this is what they for this is why I maintain that events like this, if we're going to start pointing fingers of blame here, I'm going to point my fingers right back at them because they are the ones that are freezing people into inaction.
They're the ones scaring people into shutting up and being silent when threats are spotted.
When potential incidents like this are detected.
And I think they know it.
I think they are fully aware that their own perverted ideological beliefs.
I'm talking about the American left, their own perverted beliefs make all of this easier to happen in this country.
California Democrat Adam Schiff went to CNN.
He lamb-based fellow lawmakers for their moment of silence for the victims.
He said, This has become a ritual in the House.
I would much rather have moments of action than moments of silence on the House floor.
Then the New York Daily News front page.
God isn't Fixing this.
Harry Reed declared the NRA is to blame.
They are at fault as a quasi militant wing of the Republican Party.
So it's pretty clear to me.
When we're talking about the Democrat Party and the American left, the enemy is the Republican Party.
The enemy is the concern, exactly as I've told you.
We as conservatives pose a greater threat to them than guys like this shooter.
We pose a greater threat to them than all of militant Islam because, in their view, we're the ones trying to take their power away by defeating them in elections.
We are the ones they fear because we're the ones telling everybody else in the country the truth about them.
They don't like an opposition.
They don't like there being an opposition.
So you tell me, folks, if you think I'm a little broad here in my assertion, would you explain to me how in the world a Republican Party has anything to do with this?
Or the conservative movement, and don't spout gun control at me.
Any commonsensical person, you could have the strongest gun control laws in the country, which California might have already.
And you are not going to stop people from arming up this way.
You can have all the background checks in the world, but you're never going to stop people who want 12 pipe bombs in their garage from getting them.
What's the latest gun show you went to to get a pipe bomb, by the way?
What's the latest gun shop?
Can you go into Walmart, Sam's Club and say, give me 12 IEDs?
Here's my Amex card.
Can you do that?
You can't.
The idea that gun control is going to fix this is absurd.
Well, of course we're having a we are having a gun violence epidemic.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
Why don't I understand that?
Okay, well, um, we have a gun violence epidemic.
Well, who's using the guns?
Well, I'm damn well gonna ask that.
And I'm gonna, why are they using the guns?
Who are the people committing these acts of violence and why do you realize that more people were shot in Chicago over the weekend than yesterday in San Bernardino?
Not supposed to say that, am I?
Not supposed to say more people shot in Chicago over the weekend than last night, yesterday, San Bernardino.
Where is the demand and the call for gun control in Chicago?
So I'm just saying.
CNN had a guest last night that I was I don't know if this guy's gonna ever be invited back.
His name was uh what is his name?
What is this Gilliam, I think, or Gillam.
Well, wait, this is a different story.
There's two stories about CNN.
Um, this one is the CNN guest who said the San Bernardino office holiday party may have been offensive to a Muslim, as though that makes it understandable.
John Kerry rationale.
Yeah.
See, here, by the way, this perp had more perks at work than you and I are ever gonna get.
This guy was allowed to go home as many times a day as he wanted to to pray.
He was allowed to take a month off with pay to go to Saudi Arabia or wherever he wanted to go.
This place bent over backwards to accommodate every aspect of this guy's religion and paid him at the same time.
And yet we're supposed to think that he was livid and outraged.
They have a holiday party.
It's a Christmas party for one thing.
They have a Christmas party, and here the CNN guess, well, you know, they had this holiday party there.
It might have been offensive to a Muslim gunman.
Really?
And so that might explain this.
And that takes us back to John Kerry.
You said, well, Charlie Ebdo, you know, is a rationale for that.
Really, what was it?
Well, Charlie Hebdo published all those cartoons of the prophet, made fun of the prophet.
You can't do that.
John Kerry said.
He had to walk that Back.
Criminologist Casey Jordan, Ms. Casey Jordan, was called on by Don Lemon, the CNN host.
It was in the 11 p.m. Eastern hour last night.
And Lemon began by suggesting that the disgruntled employee, Saeed Farhook, appeared to have Arabic or Middle Eastern names, but the key is that from the beginning, everything that was reported about him going into this conference room where there was a holiday party, which may have been offensive to him.
Now some people want to give CNN chops or having a guest on to make that point that a Muslim went jihad during a Christmas party.
Um not many in the media are are hyping on that because that does kind of make the guy look a little deranged.
And they don't want the guy to look deranged.
They want the guy to have a reason for this.
This is the left the why do you think they haven't found a motive?
The left is desperate to find some way to explain this.
Well, I know we've got pipe bombs at home in case we're offended.
This is all absurd, the the idea that it was workplace violence, but the point is the left is looking for something.
Motive-wise, that will make this understandable, so that we don't have to be critical of Islam.
Make no mistake they're looking for I gotta take another quick timeout here, folks.
Yeah, I know I haven't even gotten to the sound bites on this are fabulous too from the drive by some last night.
So still a lot to work in.
The effort will be ongoing.
Sit tight, do not go away.
Be right.
Okay, let's head back to the phones because a lot of people have been on hold for a long time, patiently waiting.
This is Charles in Wheeling, West Virginia.
It's great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Rush, it's great to talk to you.
I've been a listener since 1988.
This is the first time I think I've had a worthy call.
You're a wifer.
He's a wifer, folks.
I've been here since I am a I am a lifer.
I absolutely am.
Um, anyways, my my point is that we have made it so unacceptable in this society to report what we would consider to be uh odd or um odd uh Muslim behavior.
And what happens here, if we see odd Muslim behavior in fact, it's radicalized, the president won't even admit it.
We have a climate out there where you have neighbors who see odd behavior and feel embarrassed to report it.
Why?
The political climate is what's uh is what is what is permitting that.
When you have the when you have our president who won't let them out.
Now let's let's say if the pre if President Obama would take the position, we have an issue out there.
We have an issue with radicalized Islam.
If you see anything, please report it.
It could be very important.
And if it's if if it isn't radicalized and everything's fine, nothing will happen.
Nothing will happen to them, nothing will happen to you.
But it disturbs me that we have neighbors who indicated they saw that there was odd behavior, but in order to remain politically correct, they want it, they remain quiet.
Now, what happens if they had in fact reported it?
Well, uh, it's a good question.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Let's say they watch American TV.
Let's say they used to watch the TV show 24.
There have been many instances on a lot of TV shows where people who reported Muslims and ended up being wrong about it were tarred, feathered, held up for ridicule.
Television is a very powerful influence.
There have been, I can't name any off the top of my head here, but you're asking the question, I'm giving you a possible answer why people would shut up.
Why people would not report it, because they've seen on TV what happened to people who did, and they were wrong.
And I tell you, I have been, I've noticed, I'm sure you have too, ever since 9-11, there have been a lot of shows about terrorism, and I would venture to say half of them have been devoted to bigoted Americans who overreacted according to the show and according to the writers and producers of the show,
and started thinking that every Islamic person they Saw was a terrorist and called the cops, they found out they were wrong, and in many cases the Islamic people in these TV shows cure cancer.
Or they solve some other great social problem.
I mean, the perversion that can take place in mainstream pop culture here.
And remember who runs that?
Same political people run that as run the Democrat Party as run Washington today.
So there's a reason those people felt afraid to tell law enforcement what they saw.
And whatever it was, whether it was television, whether it was exposure to the news, whether it was things they've read, they have been conditioned to believe that seeing what you see and thinking what's obvious makes you guilty of bigotry and racism or what have you.
And people don't want to deal with the allegation.
That's right, a man, a legend, away a life.
Let me um let me declare something here, folks, in terms of gun control.
Don't doubt me.
There isn't a gun control law or any proposed gun control law that would have prevented what happened yesterday in San Bernardino from happening.
All the gun control laws that the left has proposed, even confiscating guns would not have stopped what happened.
If you want to get caught up in this gun control business, be very, very careful.
Because you could go all the way, and you can you could support in a theoretical hypothetical exercise here.
You could say, I support getting rid of every gun is confiscating every gun, go to every house, get everybody's gun.
If you could even do that, which you won't be able to do, but if you could, you would not have stopped what happened last night.
And that's the bottom line.
You know why?
Because those people would not have been, they wouldn't have given up their guns.
They would have opened fire first or found someplace to hide them.
They're criminals.
They're jihadists.
They don't obey the law.
That's what's wrong with this entire gun control movement.
And it what illustrates it for something that it's true.
It is not about controlling guns, it's about controlling us.
The left and this insane desire of theirs to get guns out of everybody's hands is not about getting guns out of everybody's hands.
It's about controlling you.
It's about further enriching the empowerment of government.
It's nothing to do with gun safety or any of this, like every other leftist issue.
It's always a camouflage for what they really are trying to achieve.
But you could go find your most radical gun control proposal made by your most radical leftist Democrat in any state or in the United States Congress, and you will not find a gun control law, either one that exists or one that's been proposed that would have stopped what happened in San Bernardino.
It's the truth, it's just the way it is.
You can reject it if you want.
I mean, you can say I don't know what I'm talking about, or that I'm trying to svengolly you and convince you of things that are untrue, but I've got there's nothing in it for me to convince you of things that aren't by lying to you.
I there's there's no long-term good in that.
I have no reason to want to lie to you.
You're already being lied to.
Way too many people are lying to you all too often.
You're lying to you all too often.
But it doesn't happen here.
Authorities search Redland's home tied to suspect Saeed Farhook.
That's CBS.
LA Times, San Bernardino shooting suspect traveled to Saudi Arabia, was married, appeared to be living American dream co-workers there.
Saeed Farhouk, hired without any discrimination, was allowed to leave his work numerous times a day.
He was allowed to go home and pray and then come back with pay many times a day.
They had just given him a baby shower.
His fellow employees killed by him and his wife had been given a baby shower.
The LA Times says he was living a dream life here in America.
He had all the freedom.
He had more perks at work than his fellow employees had.
And it was all to accommodate his religion so that the employers there would never be accused of being discriminatory or prejudiced or bigoted.
So if he needed to go home five times a day to pray, sure he'd have had it.
And he makes a big story here about how he had all of this wonderful stuff, his beautiful wife, new baby, great job, wonderful friends, and they're asking us ringing it, what could have gone wrong?
What happened?
CNN now running a little Chiron graphic at the bottom of their screen.
Suspect male shooter apparently radicalized.
So they're getting closer at CNN to admitting what went on here.
But see, even he, he started out as a good guy.
Yeah, great guy came here twenty years old.
Ended up being radicalized, so he's not really at fault.
We gotta go find the people that radicalized him.
You know what that opens up, don't you?
You better be very I'm not gonna predict it, but I'm gonna tell you I won't be surprised.
If we see somewhere in the media, could be uh very oddball extreme, far off corner of the media.
But we're gonna see somewhere where he was a perfectly fine upstanding American citizen and then heard a speech by Ted Cruz or heard something made by a speech made by some Republican and just ticked him off and radicalized him.
Mark my words.
It may not be something the mainstream media comes up with.
But it is perfectly obvious and clear to me that if they can, they are going to try to blame conservatism or the Republican Party for this.
They've already begun.
Here is Bob in Coronado, California.
Bob, I'm glad you waited.
You're up next.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I think I think we're ignoring a major contributing factor in the development of these homegrown terrorists.
And I think it relates directly how we're gonna uh treat or vet um refugees coming in from Syria.
And that is our solution uh to the problem for these people, and we think we're doing it in a kind manner, but we're moving them into poor neighborhoods, we give them food stamps, a small welfare check, maybe some support for their children.
And then why do we expect these people to do better and not become disenfranchised like the people do in our cities who become violent, uh, who are disenfranchised, who uh rebel and commit murder.
To me, the parallel between what's happens over time to our youth in the cities is very similar to these people.
They don't have a chance because we're we're providing them with a perfect recipe for failure, and that's our social welfare system.
Um which we think is an act of is an act of kindness, but it's just the opposite.
Well, let me let me think about that.
Uh this guy does not fit that profile.
This guy had a good job.
This guy was not living on government benefits, he might have had somebody was not living on government benefits.
He had a great job at perks out the wazoo.
He had a fairly nice neighborhood where his house was.
Uh California, not a bad place to be, given the rest of the world and where he probably came from.
Uh, and yet he ends up still unappreciative.
I mean, your whole point goes to does it not that no matter what we do for them, they don't appreciate it.
Whether it's put them in the welfare system so they get a little here and a little there, a little there, or whether we welcome them in and tell them how much we love them and warn them to be vigilant for any Republicans they might meet.
Be very vigilant, running into conservatives, you're gonna be very careful, you don't get too close to them.
But other than that, have fun here in America.
We know the Democrat Party wants their votes.
We know the Democrat Party believes the best way to get votes is to buy them, to play Santa Claus, to put them on the welfare rolls, to provide for them justice just enough so they get by, but that doesn't make them prosperous.
They must always remain in need.
That's the Democrat Party philosophy.
Give them just enough to keep them in need, but to keep them alive.
And then remind them every day that the reason they exist is because the Democrat Party's making it possible.
And these other guys, these Republicans, they want to kick you out of country.
We're glad you're here.
Here, have this EBT card.
Here, go get some food stamps and do whatever you want with it.
We're the ones providing it for you.
But just enough to keep them alive, but not nearly enough to make them prosperous.
So his theory is that that eventually causes massive frustration.
There's no way to do better.
There's no way to bounce out of that circumstance.
So they turn inward, they get mad, and they lash out.
That might apply to people who arrive here with uh with I don't know what you would call pure motives or what have you.
But I don't think any of it matters to people who come here for the express purpose of someday engaging in behavior like this that happened in San Bernardino yesterday.
I don't think any of that matters.
But furthermore, I don't think you can talk them out of it by being nice to them.
Let's say that the Democrats realize that the risk they're taking, that we're importing here a bunch of Syrian refugees, and let's say they will agree and acknowledge that a small percentage of them could actually be ISIS or future terrorists.
The Democrats believed Obama believed it.
Obama believed that him being president would cause the enemy to stand down.
Obama believed that him being in the White House was enough to tell our enemies they no longer needed to hate us.
That's one of the pretexts on which he was elected.
His campaign was I can make the world love us again.
Well, don't think the Democrats don't think the same thing.
Yeah, we might have some ISIS coming in here, but we are gonna disarm them.
We're gonna show them we don't intend them any harm.
We're gonna show them we love them.
We're gonna show them we don't discriminate.
We're gonna show them the Republicans are the enemy.
We're gonna show them that we love them and protect them and take care of them.
And my point is, you can't convert somebody away from jihad by being nice to them.
And my point is, you can't convert somebody away from jihad.
I was in Las Vegas recently, and it was observed, you know, there's a lot of people here.
This would be a great, great target, and I said it'll never happen.
Why?
Because this is where all the jihadists come to find out what they hate about America.
This is this is where they come.
The 9-11 hijackers spent the last weekend of their lives out there learning why they hate.
Oh, they did.
They and they went all of it.
They went bought the prostitutes, they went in and played gamble, they did it all to find out how ugly the great Satan is.
They wanted to get a little living in before they got in the cockpits.
You can't be nice to them is my point.
You can't persuade them, convert them by showing them what nice people we are.
By promising them all these great intentions.
And I do believe the Democrats think they can do that.
I know Obama does.
I know Obama believed.
At least he said so.
I think Obama really believed that they hated us because of Bush.
I think Obama believed that all the terrorists that they hate America because of Bush and Reagan, Republicans, what have you, but that he, as president could show there was no longer a reason to hate the United States.
I mean, he campaigned on that pretext.
Or concept.
Anyway, up against it on time again, folks.
It just keeps rolling on, so be back.
Don't go away.
Well, well, well, well, CNN of all places.
Listen to this.
CNN's in commercial break now, but this is what they just reported.
Officials in San Bernardino say that the shooter apparently was radicalized after being in touch with terror subjects.
Said Rizwan is the middle name now.
Said Rizwan Farouk.
One half of the couple behind the San Bernardino shooting massacre was apparently radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism.
This, according to law enforcement officials today.
Farhook's apparent radicalization contributed to his role in the mass shooting with his wife, Tashin Malik, of 14 people Wednesday during a holiday party for the San Bernardino County Health Department, where Farouk worked.
So uh CNN is getting close here to reporting that the law enforcement people they're talking to say, yeah, this guy, he was a nice, normal, red-blooded American, whatever, and then he got radicalized.
He's ended up talking to some of these international terror people.
And they inspired him to go on this spree, where this is what they are setting up.
But then CNN added this.
Still, it wasn't necessarily the only driver behind the carnage, as workplace grievances may have also played a role.
President Barack Obama hinted as much Thursday when he said that the attackers may have had mixed motives.
So in all candor, the both things, these two things can both be true.
But workplace violence does not erase the terror component.
That's what they're going to try to do here.
So CNN is inching closer and closer and closer to reporting that the guy was a radical Islamist jihadist.
And he had been made that way by talking to a bunch of international terror suspects.
But that wasn't the only contributing factor.
He was ticked off over something that happened at work, as Obama said.
So they're balancing the scales here.
Workplace violence versus jihad.
In the world of common sense, both can be true.
But one does not cancel out the other.
And that's what the left is going to try to do.
Yep.
We don't we don't know what it was that happened at the Christmas party that defended the guy.
That to me seems like the biggest wild guess of this whole bunch.
This whole thing.
I mean, the stories before that are what a wonderful job the guy had.
I just detailed it for you.
The guy had time off multiple times a day to go home and pray.
He was able to get a month off of pay to Saudi Arabia or whatever.
He just purchased a $300,000 house.
He was making $60,000, $75,000 a year or what have you.
Now all of a sudden something goes Bazonko at a holiday party.
What do you bet?
If anything did, it was the holiday party itself.
If anything did, it was the holiday party itself.
In which case, look, I'm not trying to be a purveyor here of pessimism.
I'm just thinking ahead.
I know how these people operate.
I know how the left thinks, and I know what their ultimate aims are.
Let's just pretend for a moment.
Let's say that they eventually conclude here that yeah, he was radicalized, and yeah, he was a jihadist.
But at the same time, he may not have done anything if something happened hadn't worked to really tick him off.
What was that?
Well, obviously.
He's a Muslim and he was forced to go to a Christmas party.
So how will the left suggest we fix that?
Cancel Christmas parties.
Cancel holiday parties.
Cancel public displays, including parties of Christmas, so as not to antagonize and make the workplace more dangerous.
Don't doubt me.
If you don't think that could happen, you have not been paying attention.
When we get back, I want to swerve into other things.
The presidential campaign being one, Ted Cruz has said that if he's elected president, he will appoint Donald Trump to build the wall.
The southern border, as part of the immigration policy, Cruz said that he will appoint Trump if he's elected president to handle the wall.
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