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March 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got to get serious here.
Once and for all, it's time to close the bomb show loophole.
Enough of these assault bombs.
There needs to be, we need to get serious about an assault bomb ban.
It's long overdue.
The evidence is right in front of us.
Doesn't anybody care?
What are we doing?
Greetings, my friends.
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So we've got Obama in Cuba saying to Raul Castro, you know what?
He's got a point.
We are a bunch of racist pigs, and we have done a bunch of human rights violations, and I think we've got to be open to criticism from...
He wouldn't listen to any criticism from me.
I will guarantee you that.
But from fellow traveler Raul Castro.
And then to say, hey, Raul, you and I, United States and Cuba, we have a lot in common.
We were both founded by the slave trade.
Little Raul is applauding, Raitan el Presidente, Raitan el President.
Then Obama says, you know what the greatest example of Cuba is?
We got the greatest example of Cuba right here in the United States.
It's called Miami.
Cuba built Miami.
I'm watching this.
I'm going, I don't believe what I'm hearing.
Except that I do.
Barack Hussein Obama welcoming Castro's constructive dialogue on America's shortcomings on race relations and poverty.
It's just incredible.
It's right out there for anybody and everybody to see.
That's the kind of story that everybody in America ought to be saying.
You know what?
Limbaugh was right.
All of you who doubted me.
And here's the mind-blowing headline of the day.
Ready for this one?
From the Politico.
It is a story having to do with the terrorist attack in Brussels.
Headline.
Why do they hate us so much?
I mean, if this is a headline that screams, Limbaugh's right.
Oh my God, when I heard that, when I see that, I think of Limbaugh.
Limbaugh's constantly reminding us that that's what the left thinks, that it's our fault.
What have we done to make them mad?
Remember after 9-11, State Department, I mean, within weeks, and not very many weeks, State Department convenes a seminar.
Why do they hate us?
What did we do to make them so mad?
In this case, we captured the Paris ringleader.
That ticked them off.
We captured the Paris ringleader.
They go out and they attack Brussels.
You know, the political story here, how the Brussels attacks strike at the heart of Europe and shake its political foundations.
And in the audio soundbites, we have people talking about how, oh, this is worse than Paris.
This is horrible.
Oh, this is bad.
Because this is where the European Union workers, this station, this depot, this is where European Union members, they commute through there.
This is where the creme de la creme of the European Union commute, live, work.
This was an attack, as Walid Farris says, an attack on the West.
This was not an attack on a slum.
It was not an attack on, it wasn't a random target.
It was a specific target.
And everybody in this country knows it.
And I'll tell you why they're upset, folks.
It's more than being upset at just the fact that there was a terrorist event with, what is it, 34 people dead?
So far, I'm climbing.
I mean, that's bad.
But the reason, I'm just telling you, just like I've told you, why do they hate us so much?
That's the attitude.
I'm right about all of this.
The reason this attack has shaken them to the core is that Europe is utopia.
Western European socialist democracies are utopia in their mind and in their belief systems.
Places like Brussels, well, I mean, that's where NATO is.
Why, that's where we do all the peace talks in Brussels.
I mean, that's where the European Union's headquarters, that's where anybody who counts, that's where all the elites, I mean, that's it.
That's where they live.
That's where they govern.
That's where they decide how other people are going to live.
That's where they do everything involving the European Union.
And this terrorist cell just struck at the heart of it.
And do not doubt me when I tell you that some people in this country, but around the world, the left, are shocked that this would be the target.
They believe, since they see Europe, particularly this area there in Brussels as the seat and the site of utopia, that the terrorists should be able to see this too.
The terrorists should, and that's why I had, why do they hate us so much?
Do they not see what good we're doing?
Why?
We're going out of, we won't call them what they are.
Our president will not call them terrorists.
We will not officially condemn Islam.
We will not officially condemn terrorism.
We're doing everything we can to show them that we don't blame them for anything, and they still do this to us.
Oh, my God.
They can't believe it.
They honestly believe conflict resolution 101.
They think by not calling it terrorism, and I'm talking about the media, I'm talking to Obama, his State Department, anybody on the left, by not calling it terrorism, by not criticizing Islam, by going after people who do, by reclassifying acts of terror in this country as workplace violence,
by bending over backwards to not condemn, to not criticize Islam and Islamic terrorism.
They believe that sends the signal, hey, you don't have a problem with us.
You don't need to attack us.
We're not the bad guys.
We're not going to criticize you.
We're not going to condemn you.
And yet they hit us anyway.
And in fact, folks, it is this pansy attitude of not calling them what they are, not describing their acts of terror as acts of terror, by refusing to admit openly who they are and what they are, by refusing to seriously try to stop them.
They see nothing but weakness.
They're not the kind of people that sit around and say, you know what, this Obama guy, he could be our friend.
Hey, you notice he won't let his State Department call us what we are.
Yeah, he's providing cover for us.
We need to leave him alone.
These European Union guys, they're even worse than Obama.
The European leftist socialists have gone out of their way.
They've opened their country's borders.
They have said, come on in, build mosques, whatever you want to do.
We love you.
Please don't hurt us.
Bam!
Another assault bomb goes off.
Meanwhile, at American Airports, 89-year-old grandma is being forced to strip down to her skivvies to find out if she has any combustible shampoo in her travel bag.
Trump comes along.
I close the borders.
We got to call him what it is.
They say, he's dangerous.
Oh, my God, he's dangerous.
He's going to cause.
Wait a minute.
It's already happening.
How can Trump cause it if it's already happening?
So, all of this generated 52 seconds of the president's attention today in La Habana.
And it's La Habana, if you know what you're talking about.
It's not HAV.
Havana is for the uneducated and the unaware.
It's H-A-B, A-N-A, La Habana.
And Obama is in La Habana.
I saw a picture of him sitting on the beach looking out there at, well, it had to be the Caribbean.
And it was in the New York Times, or maybe it was the Atlantic or something.
And the picture is supposed to convey Obama in deep thoughts as he contemplates the next phase, this brilliant foreign policy, while in Cuba, welcoming the Castros' constructive dialogue on America's shortcomings on race relations and poverty.
And this is by no means the first time.
In the first term of Obama, we had some clown at the State Department.
I forget the specific events, but we'd done something and the CHICOMs got ticked off at us and said, hey, you got no right to talk to us about human rights violations.
And some Obama regime official went out to say, you know what?
The THICOMs are right.
Really, we don't have the right to talk to them about human rights violations because we have a history of them ourselves.
And so, in addition to that, Obama talks about the commonality, Cuba, United States, and the slave trade being involved in the founding of both countries.
In the case of Cuba, it'd be Spanish slave trade.
Castro is a Spanish name.
Castro could be a descendant of one of the original slave owners that Obama's out there shaking hands with and celebrating, for all we know.
Yep.
There's Obama in Cuba talking about how Cuba, like America, was colonized by Europeans, by slave owners.
Everything that I have tried to warn people about regarding the way Obama sees this country, he continues to demonstrate, and he did so boldly in CUA.
He didn't even try to camouflage it.
He's out there.
He's obviously carrying around an impression and opinion of this country is not very high, folks.
And he does.
I think this guy is totally at home with the people like the Castros and other powerful dictatorial types.
There's an air of commonality there.
And the commonality is a shared experience of discrimination by the great evil, the United States of America.
That's what Obama and many of the people that support him and the Cubans have in common.
They have both lived their lives fighting the evil that is the United States of America.
In the case of Cuba, it is the blockade, supposedly.
And in the case of Obama, it is slavery.
And who knows whatever the heck else grievances there are.
Did you know that Brussels is also where the world court is?
These guys blew up the world court.
Well, I mean, it blew up the world court, but that's where it is.
The point is, Brussels.
See, I can pivot from subject to subject just like Trump and not lose my place.
In fact, where do you think he got it from?
But that's another story.
Fact of the matter is, Europe is nirvana to the left.
Europe is the model.
That's what we should be attempting to become.
The equality, the fairness, the sophistication, the eruditeness, the cleverness.
Europe is the new utopia.
That's what, and how could these guys attack our utopia and not see it for what it is?
Why are these guys, why are they not attacking trader parks for crying out?
Why are they attacking what we think is wonderful and beautiful?
And they're asking themselves, why do they hate us so much?
Political.
I'm not kidding.
There it is.
You can see it, Ditto Cam.
Why do they hate us so much?
How the Brussels attacks strike at the heart of Europe and shake its political foundations.
All it means is, how in the hell do these guys not get it?
Meaning, this is the left talking to the terrorists.
I do not get it.
This is utopia.
This is where we all live together equally and free.
Why do they not see the goodness in us?
Why do they hate us so much?
We understand them hating Trump.
We understand them hating Cruz.
We understand them hating American talk radio.
But why do they hate us?
The American left is confused.
Anyway, folks, audio soundbites on a lot of this.
We have Obama.
We have Cruz reacting to Obama.
And Trump at APAC.
The drive-bys are beside themselves with glee that Trump used a teleprompter.
See what that means?
That means that Trump, when he has to get serious, somebody will write down what he is supposed to say.
And then he goes out and says they love the teleprompter.
That's what all good establishment guys use.
A teleprompter is an establishment signature.
You can't be in the establishment and not use one.
And by the way, I had, did you know that Trump met with these Republicans yesterday?
There was 14 of them or 20 of them.
What was it?
Newt was one of them.
Newt came out and talked about it last night.
I watched it.
I did.
And Newt came out, and just some of the things Newt was saying that Trump, we wanted to tell him how Washington works.
He wanted to tell him how he's going to get to Washington if he's elected, you know, how things work.
I said, oh, no.
Oh, no.
That's, no, that's, that's, that's, that's not.
I said to myself, I hope I'm overreacting to this.
And maybe Newt doesn't mean it this way.
And I thought maybe later I'm right that Newt didn't mean it that way, because then Newt got a question from somebody.
It might have been, I don't know who he's talking to.
It might have been O Baxter, O'Reilly.
I can't remember.
But anyway, Newt said, no, no, I would not presume, I wouldn't, I wouldn't presume to give Trump advice.
He hasn't done a single thing I would have done.
I wouldn't presume to tell him he's doing far better than I ever did in any of this.
So it was, it was O'Reilly.
Okay, all right.
So that was all right.
Well, a brief time out here, folks.
You hang in there, beat tough time.
Oh, Brett Baer had a pretty revealing interview with Kasich last night.
And Brett Baer ended up being, and I don't want to characterize him incorrectly here, but he was grilling Kasich about how this convention is going to work, how it's going to skip over Trump and skip over Cruz and pick the guy who's won one state.
And it appeared that Mr. Baer was a little frustrated, couldn't quite get through to Kasich when he was asking.
You'll hear all of that and whatever else I haven't even dreamed up to talk about coming up when we start after we get back.
I had a story that I didn't get to yesterday, so I saved it for today.
And I may not be able to squeeze this in today either.
It was in the Washington Post: why smart people are better off with fewer friends.
The smarter you are, the fewer friends you have, because most people are not smart.
And smart people, the smarter you are, the more readily able you are to be by yourself and be totally happy and satisfied.
And it's a research study of 15,000 different people.
And I had it yesterday, and I tended to get to it.
My voice wasn't with me yesterday, folks.
It's always a distraction when I'm hoarse, and I was hoarse yesterday.
Hillary Clinton, here we go.
Here we go.
This is exactly what happens.
Hillary Clinton, U.S. response to Brussels must be consistent with our values.
You know, nothing offends me more, and that's saying something, than to hear people like Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton or Barack Obama talking about American values.
Because their definition of American values, I don't recognize.
And they always taught, whenever there is an attack, whenever the bad guys hit the good guys, whenever the bad guys kill the good guys, we must measure our response.
Our response must be consistent with our values.
What values?
What values is she talking about?
She acknowledged that Americans have a right to be frightened after San Bernardino, but that experienced military leaders say techniques like waterboarding are not effective.
We do not need to resort to torture.
Terrorists are not stupid.
We've got to work this through consistent with our values.
So the first thing they think of, the first thing when something like Brussels happens, the first thing Hillary Clinton feels compelled to go out and say is to warn us that we better not waterboard again.
We'd better not behave like they do.
We'd better not compromise our values in fighting these people.
We had better remember who we are.
Who are we?
A bunch of wusses in your world?
Asking why do they hate us so much?
Asking what did we do to make them mad?
And then not having the guts and the honesty to answer that correctly?
They hate us so much because we are not of the same religion as they are.
Pure and simple.
It's no more complicated than that.
And we're back, El Rushbo, here at the EIB network.
And the fastest three hours in the media.
A couple things here, folks, before we get the audio soundbites.
I'm still sitting here not really believing what I heard yesterday from Chris Cuomo, that soundbite about communism, in which he said that when are these guys going to communism has got to work to promote individual liberty and upward economic mobility for everybody.
And I still can't get over this.
That was such an eye-opener for me.
How people have been lied to for, I don't know how many years by university professors, probably throughout the education level, about what communism is.
You know, the truth about communism, if it's told, nobody can end up supporting it if people actually knew what it is.
And yet, legions, hundreds of thousands, millions of Americans have starry eyes about communism.
And I finally figured out why they're being lied to about what it is.
Communism is actually portrayed as the route to utopia.
And I forgive me for being so naive as to believe that the truth of communism was being taught.
And that's why I couldn't believe how so many young people bought into it.
The evidence all over the world of what communism is.
I mean, ISIS, communism, it's all the same stuff.
Terrorism, it's all the same stuff.
It comes from the same ideological mindset.
And there's nothing about ISIS trying to elevate people, freedom, and equality and sameness.
But yet, so guys like Chris Cuomo have been sitting around here for 30, 40, 50 years asking when's Castro going to make this work?
Because communism is about elevating people, not about dispiriting them, not demoralizing them, but it's elevating everybody's equal, everybody's same thing, great economic futures.
When is it going to happen?
Isn't that the point of communism?
He actually asked that question on the air.
Yes.
Isn't that the point of communist?
Whoa.
I still can't get over it.
Second thing, I've got to address this.
Forgive me, it won't take long.
I spent some time yesterday and a couple days prior to that talking about the new software for the iPhones and the iPads, iOS 9.3, and I was talking about a feature called Night Shift that takes the blue light out of the computer display at night, which blue light replicates daylight, which makes your brain think you're still in the daylight, makes it tougher to fall asleep.
So they've, this is scientific research, so they've come up with a feature called Night Shift that takes the blue gradually out of the display as the night goes on.
It's warmer versus cooler, and the screen actually becomes a little red or yellow, depending on how much blue you take out.
It's adjustable.
And I said that you can either schedule it or have it automatically come on and off at sunset.
Come on, sunrise, it comes off.
And I've got people emailing, hey, Rush, that option isn't on my phone.
I don't see sunrise or sunset.
I can only.
There's a reason for that.
And I would not do this if I hadn't been inundated with questions about it.
In order for the sunrise, sunset option to show up on your device, you have to have location services turned on.
If you don't, that won't display.
And I know a lot of people keep location services turned off so that whoever can't track you.
So that the NSA, so that the CFR, so that the FBI, whoever can't get through the day without knowing what you're doing, you turn off location services.
And there's one other setting.
You have to have your time zone settings turned on, deep, deep, deep into the location services settings.
But that's the primary reason.
It's not a bug.
If you've got location services turned off, the sunrise, sunset, off-on option will not display.
Okay, to the audio soundbites, we go.
Barack Obama in La Habama addressing the people of Cuba.
And during his remarks, he talked about the terror attack in Belgium for about 52 seconds.
We have 30 of those seconds here.
The thoughts and the prayers of the American people are with the people of Belgium, and we stand in solidarity with them in condemning these outrageous attacks against innocent people.
We will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally, Belgium, in bringing to justice those who are responsible.
No, we won't.
And this is yet another reminder that the world must unite.
Oh, no.
We must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terror.
I'm sorry, folks, but that's a croc.
The problem is not lack of unity.
What, we're supposed to find a way to unify with ISIS?
We're supposed to unite with criminals and terrorists.
How does that work?
It's yet another reminder the world must unite.
They talk about a worthless, pointless reaction to this.
That's not what the world has to do to stop this.
The world has to get serious and wipe these people out.
But no, we must come together.
We must unite.
We must stop the conflict.
We must stop being critical of one another.
We must work together.
We must represent our values.
We must do everything we can to show that we, what?
It's a bunch of goddamn gook.
Yet another reminder, the world must unite.
So terrorism's happening because what?
There are disagreements in Belgium?
What are the disagreements in Belgium that caused these clowns to blow up what they blew up?
No, no, no.
Folks, I'm dead serious.
This is irresponsible.
If Obama were a lawyer, this is close to malpractice.
This is irresponsible.
This doesn't even get anywhere near dealing with what really happened.
I saw a debate on TV today, and it was, I forget, Joe Trippey, the former Howard Dean campaign consultant, accredited member of the establishment.
And the question was: should Obama leave Cuba and come back to the United States in light of the attack?
And I guess show us unity.
They got to come together, right?
So should Obama leave Cuba, come back here.
And Trippy said, no, no, no, no, you don't.
This is too important a deal down there.
Well, what about flying off to Europe?
Should Obama fly off to Europe and show you.
And Trippy said, yeah, now that makes sense.
I said, what am I watching here?
It makes sense for Obama to go to Europe at some point and do what?
Stand with them and show them that we care.
That we're thinking and that we're praying with the people of Belgium and that we're standing in solidarity with them.
And it's yet another example, another reason.
Reminder, the world must unite.
We must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith.
And fighting.
The only people I know of that don't want to fight terrorism, Mr. President, are you?
What do you mean, come together to fight terrorism?
Show a little leadership on it.
You won't even call it what it is.
You will not even use the words radical Islam.
You will not say radical Islamic terrorism.
You will not say militant Islamic terrorism.
You won't even use the words.
Who's not united in opposing this?
Who's out there?
Who are these laggards that will not join the effort to oppose ISIS?
Who's he talking about?
But see, it all sounds so good.
To the modern, educated American, that sounds so wonderful.
It sounds so caring, and it sounds so sensitive.
And it sounds really, really connected and really, really in touch.
Because, yeah, man, we should all come together.
That's great.
We should come together.
We should unite.
That's the problem.
There's too much hatred in the world.
There's too much racism.
There's too much bigotry.
Yeah, we need to end all that.
That's what we need to do.
And that'll send a message.
You know, uniting and ending racism and ending bigotry and fighting climate change.
That'll show them.
That'll send a message, these terrorists.
That'll show them more serious and that'll scare them and that'll make them stand down.
When they see that we're serious about wiping out terrorism, racism and bigotry, and we're serious about fighting climate change.
That's what they're saying.
That, in a nutshell, is what Obama and his gang on the left are telling us to do.
It's irresponsible.
And it's not even relevant.
It's the kind of stuff these guys, wherever they are now, see this on TV and they just laugh.
And I'll tell you what else.
They're probably trying to hatch another attack since he only gave them 52 seconds.
That's not enough of his attention.
Here's more from my boy Mays to stay on the roll here.
Back to Cuba and Barack Obama now apologizing to Cuba for the way we have exerted control over the island paradise.
Havana is only 90 miles from Florida.
But to get here, we had to travel a great distance over barriers of history and ideology, barriers of pain and separation.
The blue waters beneath Air Force One once carried American battleships to this island to liberate, but also to exert control over Cuba.
The Cuban Revolution took place the same year that my father came to the United States from Kenya.
The Bay of Pigs took place the year that I was born.
One constant was the conflict between the United States and Cuba.
What does that have to do with anything?
To bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.
What does the fact that he was born the year of the Bay of Pigs got to do with anything?
But do you see this?
Cuba is what it is.
It's this backwards sewer of a place because of us.
Because of us and our battleships.
Because of us and our authoritarianism.
Because of us and our exertion of control.
It's because of us.
And now we must acknowledge this.
We must agree that we are to blame.
Exactly what the Castros want everybody to believe.
And not quite through Wuzzy.
Let's now hear about the similarities between the United States and CUA.
Because in many ways, the United States and Cuba are like two brothers who've been estranged for many years.
Even as we share the same blood.
We both live in a new world, colonized by Europeans.
There you go.
Cuba, like the United States, was built in part by slaves brought here from Africa.
Like the United States, the Cuban people can trace their heritage to both slaves and slave owners.
Does anybody still want to try to tell me I'm wrong here about who this guy is and what it is that informs him and motivates him?
Can anybody deny this guy is walking around with a giant chip on his shoulder about this country's very existence from the days of its founding?
Castro's Cuba is a communist dungeon.
It is an economic, political, human disaster.
And we have just heard about all the similarities and the moral equivalence and how the same bunch of reprobates that settled Cuba settled the United States.
The same bunch of racist pigs, the same bunch of slave owners and slave traders.
The same bunch of colonizers, colonialists founded both countries.
That's why we are no better than they are.
That's just sick, folks.
It's just terribly sad.
We'll be back.
You know, folks, Cuba, Cuba would still be a colony of Spain if it weren't for what?
Anybody know?
Cuba would still be a colony of Spain if it weren't for who?
Yes, that.
Us!
We fought a war to liberate Cuba from Spain.
Anybody know the name Teddy Roosevelt?
Spanish-American, very good Snerdley once again chimes in, swerving into the right answer.
Spanish-American war, Teddy Roosevelt, San Juan Hill.
CUA would still be a colony of Spain.
Well, I don't know if it'd still be, but they owe their liberation and freedom to us.
We did it.
This really, this Obama stuff, it is, it's, I don't know how to characterize it.
It's just offensive.
It's irresponsible.
It is ignorant.
What is this?
What is this desire he has to find all of this sameness, all of this commonality with communist thug countries?
What is it about Hugo Chavez and people like him that people like Obama think are great people?
The same thing happened there.
Obama goes down to Venezuela, shakes hands with Hugo Chavez, embraces him, smiles big, bunch of books going back and forth, signed autograph.
What is the fascination these guys have?
Well, I mean, I know the answer.
I'm asking it.
Rhetorically.
To the phone, Shannon in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
I want to talk about what you said about Hillary Clinton earlier, her comments on the terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Oh, yes.
And you called her response, I think you said woofy, and you talked about how it was wrong for her to condemn waterboarding, like directly after a terrorist attack.
It's pointless.
And I would really like you to expand more on your definition of American values.
And I then have a conversation about what American values are, especially in relation to terrorist attacks.
Well, everybody knows what mine are.
And what are your, what do you think America should do?
What are our proper values here in responding to a terror attack?
I think that we as a country, we have a lot of great qualities.
And people generally want to, even though there's different, a lot of people have different opinions, people generally want goodness and peace.
And so I think that we should take all of our good values and morals and not duke down to what terrorist country does.
What goes on, suicide bombings, and any, really any terrorist attack, you can get a consensus that it's a horrible thing.
It's horrible.
There's people talking about it.
Right, right.
Tell me, what in the world does U.S. have to do with any of it?
Where are we culpable or responsible?
Where is it in all of this that somehow it is us who have to prove ourselves to people?
We didn't blow up the place.
We don't do that.
Except liberal Democrats do it here in America.
I'm sorry, folks, I slipped.
It does happen here with protesters in the 60s bank buildings blew up.
It does happen here.
Really, your first reaction to this is we'd better not waterboard anybody.
No, that's what I have been driving all day.
And so I was hearing your reaction and wanted to talk about American values.
Here's the bottom.
Bottom line, Shannon, if we leave it up to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, this isn't going to stop.
It's going to keep on happening.
There's not going to be any end to it because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are going to find a way to make us somehow culpable and responsible.
The headline, why do they hate us so much?
What have we done to make them so mad?
It's not our problem.
We don't deserve it.
We are not responsible for this.
We have to shut it down.
No, no, no, there's an explanation for it.
Our young lady that called in the last segment, 21 years old, that generation has been raised to believe that all conflict is injustice, all conflict.
Even if we join it, that makes us guilty of it.
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