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March 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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It really is striking to see the massive coordinated, almost panic-filled reaction to Ted Cruz suggesting that a program previously implemented be used again.
Everybody involved in the program denying it or acting like it was a big failure.
Don't associate us with it.
And what it was, it was discovered by the AP back on August 11th, or August scrolled out of view.
It's a 2011 report in August, and the AP found out that the CIA was assisting the NYPD in monitoring New York City Muslim neighborhoods.
It was this program started under George W. Bush, continued under Obama.
And since the CIA was involved, no wonder Obama wouldn't condemn Mayor Doomberg at the time the program was underway.
Now they're all, well, it didn't work, it didn't have anything to do with it.
But the the degree of coordinated opposition to Ted Cruz today for simply reminding everybody what was previously done.
It's stunning.
And you listen to these drive-by media people interviewing Ted Cruz, folks, the hatred they have for him is palpable.
You can practically touch that hatred as it comes out of their mouths when they question him, such as Nora O'Donnell.
I have news for you.
Why do they hate Ted Cruz so much?
Well, yeah, partly it's because he's conservative.
But why hate that?
It's more than it's threatening.
And I'm just going to tell you in the case of Ted Cruz, every damned one of these people knows full well that they are not in his league in terms of IQ, in terms of intelligence, in terms of talent and ability.
They can't compete with him.
So they ignore him.
They pretend he's not there.
When they do have him on to interview him, they usually resort to uh tactics of uh intimidation or putting him down or snark or some such thing to try to mask his intellectual superiority over.
They can't keep up.
They despise him.
He's a threat in that regard.
You combine the kind of raw native intelligence Cruz has with his heartfelt conservatism.
And you have personified what the left fears the most.
Therefore, what they hate, what they despise.
They know they'll never be able to corral Cruz, they'll never be able to control him.
They will never be able to impugn him intellectually, so they go after him on other ways.
They compare him to a preacher who doesn't give the money back.
They compare him to somebody who has no happinesses.
They can do anything they can to deride and run down his personality or individual characteristic quirks or what have you.
But they can't take him on on substance.
But this, this is even crazier.
This is simply the acknowledgement of a program previously put in place by a Republican administration and an NYPD mayor and continued under Obama and Mayor Doomberg.
And yet they act like Ted Cruz is proposing something that's never ever been done, and it's discriminatory, and it's painting all Islamists or all Muslims with a with a broad brush.
Boils down to we're not to attack Islam.
Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.
That's what Obama and everybody in the media apparently want us to believe.
Islam, no, no, no, no.
These guys, these ISIS, they're not, they're not Islamists.
Al Qaeda, they're not Islam.
They're just saying so.
No, no, no, even though, as has been pointed out time and time again, every one of these terror acts in every one of these groups proudly proclaims they're doing what they're doing because of and in honor of Islam.
Now, Andy McCarthy National Review Online posted a story back on the 14th of January this year, and the headline is Terror Threat Rises, De Blasio and the Islamists blind the NYPD.
Now, this story has to do with an ISIS attack in Jakarta that happened on January 13th.
ISIS claimed credit for it, killed at least two civilians, in addition to the five suicide terrorists.
And those attacks follow hard on the jihadist bombing earlier in Istanbul, which killed ten people.
These in turn come quickly after the jihad struck Philadelphia, San Bernardino, Cologne, and Paris.
The attacks are frequent.
And after every one, don't you dare say Islam had anything to do with it.
Don't you dare!
You don't paint with a brush.
That's not who we are.
This is not representative of our values or some such drivel.
And then there's the story.
President Obama somehow managed not to mention in his State of the Union show on Tuesday night back in January.
Federal authorities have apprehended an Iraqi refugee who turns out to be an ISIS supporter who was allegedly plotting to blow up malls in Houston.
Remember now, this is a dispatch from January.
The Justice Department says that the jihadist whose name happens to be Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardin Skyhook was coordinating with another Iraqi refugee living in California, Oz Mohammad Yunus Al-Jaieb.
Al-Jaieb is in custody in Sacramento, charged with making false statements in an international terrorism investigation.
He's a Palestinian born in Iraq.
He was accepted into the U.S. as a refugee in 2012.
He has traveled at least twice to Syria, where he joined affiliates of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in the fighting.
So the threat of jihadists embedded or radicalizing in our midst grows more pronounced every day.
We know that it is happening.
We are tracking these clowns.
What a perfect time then for New York City to willfully blind itself to indicators of terrorism.
Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, on January 13th of this year, caved in a lawsuit brought by Islamic activists who demanded that the NYPD make like the White House and pretend that Islam had nothing to do with terrorism committed by Muslims who proclaim with immense scriptural support that they are acting on behalf of da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Islam.
But we're being told, no, no, no, no, no.
We must all pretend that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism committed by Muslims, who claim they are acting on behalf of Islam.
Among the concessions the city of New York made in caving in this lawsuit back in January, the NYPD will no longer be permitted to rely on radicalization in the West.
That is a report from 2007.
happen.
That was put together by studying actual terrorism cases.
Intelligence officers then outlined a pattern they had detected that could alert the cops to signs that an ostensibly ordinary person could be evolving into a jihadist.
The New York mayor caved in a lawsuit and promised that report would never again be consulted.
Again, radicalization in the West, a 2007 report which studied actual terrorism cases.
Patterns were found that could detect and alert police to signs that an apparently ordinary peace-loving individual could be a jihadist.
So that research was was cast aside.
The mayor promised not to use it.
And the basic surveillance involved was thrown out.
And the police were not allowed to any longer use any of that research back in January.
So what we have here, this is in Brussels happens, and a number of other acts of terror happen.
And Ted Cruz comes along.
You know what we need to re-implement this program where the NYPD was surveilling neighborhoods to find and isolate, identify examples of ordinary people that were in line, giving off indications they were they were prone to jihad.
And I got the reaction to Cruz is it defies common sense.
Trying to explain the I mean it's coming from everywhere coming from the mayor of New York, coming from the police commissioner, coming from Obama in Argentina, it's coming from Hillary Clinton, it's coming from everywhere.
And in the realm of common sense, you know, forget the politics of this, I guess it's hard to do that, but if you look at this as just straight out crime, and forget that there's a political, ideological, even religious component to it, just look at it as crime.
Look at some people are blowing up other people.
People are blowing up buildings, public buildings, and we are actively telling ourselves we cannot investigate.
We cannot do any research to find out who might be in line to do it next.
Because that somehow is violating somebody's human rights, civil rights, what have you?
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense that we are not permitted to use law enforcement to prevent future acts like this.
And the reason that we can't is because they are committed by one specific group of people that we will never publicly acknowledge or admit, are engaging in these.
It just doesn't compute.
This, by the way, just throw this on the pile of things that has a lot of people in this country wanting to throw Washington overboard.
Throw this on the pile of things that just doesn't make sense to average ordinary everyday people.
Because it doesn't make any sense one way or the other.
And there is no honesty when you when you ask people, why are you willing to not use the tools that you're involved?
Why is surveilling a neighborhood where known acts of terror could efferves?
Why is it well because we not our values?
Not who we are.
What do you mean not who we are?
What what are you afraid?
Are you afraid of these people?
Do you secretly support these people?
Do you uh you want their votes?
Well, what is it?
Why?
Why deny this?
Is it just political correctness?
Is that all it is, or is it fear?
Well, what I don't know.
Whatever it is, it makes no sense whatsoever.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Try this.
See, in the day, Chris Cuomo, don't forget this guy.
I'm telling you, I I am never, as long as I live, I'm going to forget the soundbite from this guy on Monday about communism.
Which is my, I can't, I still can't get over it.
Chris Cuomo asking somebody, isn't it about time that Castro's got their acting gear?
Don't they know that communism is about individual liberty and freedom and lifting everybody up equally?
Not.
Whatever he said, humiliating them or whatever.
But isn't it about lifting them up?
Is it communism about everybody being equal with great economic opportunity?
Does he really think that?
Is that what he's been taught communism is?
Anyway, he still has his job, so apparently nobody else was bothered by it.
And he's talking to uh former Islamic extremist and author, Majid Nawaz, and Michael Weiss, the uh senior editor of the Daily Beast about the attacks in Belgium.
And Cuomo said the French are quick to point out that Belgium is different.
Geography, population density, and it's farther behind than the French are in dealing with the homegrown terror threat.
Is that a fair criticism, Majid?
The security uh services are absolutely inundated.
There is too much to do.
If you just look at Brussels with those 100 fighters have gone to join, imagine all of their siblings, all of their cousins, all of their neighbors and friends.
And imagine how many people that is just in the city of Brussels to monitor the global jihadist insurgency has hit home in Europe, but this was the eighth of seven other attacks in the month of March alone across the world.
There's two in Pakistan, two in Turkey, one in Mali, one in Nigeria, and one in the Ivory Coast.
This is something which is unprecedented.
Yeah, people better wake up here.
Europe is overwhelmed, is what this guy is saying.
An invasion has taken place.
ISIS is not just attacking in Syria or in Iraq.
ISIS has moved to the West.
ISIS hit ISIS hit the seat of the European Union.
ISIS in this attack basically blew up utopia.
As far as the left is concerned.
Brussels, Belgium, Europe, European Union, utopia.
And ISIS hit them, and they're not going to stop there.
And this CNN terror expert, Europe inundated with third and fourth generation jihadis.
Why do you think that is?
How did that happen, by the way?
Can anybody say open borders?
Can anybody say we must not discriminate?
Can anybody say this is not our values?
Can anybody say we must not be judgmental?
Can anybody say anything the average American leftist says?
Here's Michael Weiss, this is a Daily Beast guy, reacting to that.
It's not just a generational thing.
They have established connections, friendships, acquaintances with all manner of veteran jihadis.
These people have been living in Europe for decades.
And now they have these third and fourth generation knock-on jihadis rising to the fore.
And don't forget the first point made in the sound bites.
Too many of them to monitor.
There are too many of them to keep track of.
Belgium is not equipped.
It's utopia, but it's not equipped.
Paris, maybe a little bit more equipped, but what good did it do them?
Here's David, Palm Springs, California.
What's up?
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
I wanted I'm a retired psychologist, and in your first hour this morning, I wanted to compliment you on your identification of the psychological motivations of these entrenched politicians.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
You mean the the Republican establishment guys?
Those and the liberals as well.
Because it really is a process that they have to go through after years and years of convincing themselves that they aren't doing it out of self-interest.
They're doing it to serve the interest of the public.
They self-hypnotize themselves into believing that delusion.
Well, it's exactly right.
The point that I made, if I if I recall what you're specifically referring to was that it's personal to them.
This is about losing a precious personal position of power, prestige, security, income, what have you.
That's disguised as caring about people, the system, what have it's purely personal, and they fear losing it.
It absolutely is.
If I can expand on it a little bit, I've been uh Yeah, I would love to hear this because I've got to take a quick break if you can hang on through the break.
But I'm fascinated because here we have a professional, a professional mind analyzer telling me that I nailed it.
So, yeah, I want to hear this.
Yeah, we happily rejoined David, a retired psychologist in Palm Springs, California, who is calling to congratulate me on my analysis of the motivations behind the Republican and Democrat establishment.
Uh you said it was profound.
What exactly did I did I say that uh engendered this reaction from you?
Well, you described how they have to get up in the morning, every morning and remind themselves of how great they are.
And how relevant.
How important how they matter to themselves.
They tell them that they matter.
Yes.
They're opinion makers.
They shape outcomes.
That's what they tell themselves each and every day.
Right.
Now, in order to maintain that self-delusion, they have to engage in behaviors that I call spiritual vampires.
Oh, for spiritual vampires.
Yes.
I think picture a couple of these people when you put it that way.
And there's two worlds that are important to them, the material world and the intellectual arena.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
And Trump represents competence in the material world, and Cruz represents competence in the intellectual world.
And they are threatened by both.
Is that what you're saying?
And they have to suck the energy, their their spirit, out of them.
Interesting.
Wait, who's sucking the energy out of who?
The spiritual vampires.
Ah.
Right.
Of the two, the intellectual world is more threatening to the left than the material world.
The material world can be controlled with taxes and regulations and other kinds of trade-offs.
But the intellectual world attacks the Ivory Towers.
Look at how the intellectuals have taken over the uh colleges and universities.
They can't stand an argument that they can't rebute or rebut.
It doesn't exist is the way they happen to deal with it.
There is no there is no election.
They have to attack Cruz personally and decredit his credibility.
Well, Cruz, I I I remember what you're reacting to now, and I was I was wrong.
My my first um perception of what you're reacting to was wrong.
You're reacting to the way I characterize the fear of Cruz that manifests in people.
Uh media people, leftist Democrats, even some of the Republican establishment.
And it's because they know they're not in his league.
So they don't even want to get on the same playing field he's on.
They can't try to keep him off their playing field.
Uh they don't enter his, so they relegate him into some other uh area where he is some kook, uh he's perceived as uh you know a minister that doesn't give the money back, or some some such denigrating caricature in order to deal with him, because that's the only way they can.
I mean, you can watch the guy in a debate.
I mean, when it I don't care if it's substance, when he has an off-night, he's on a different league than these guys.
When Cruz has an off-night policy-wise, he's running rings around him.
Knowledge-wise, he's running rings around him.
Solutions-wise, he's running rings around him.
But they can't they can't ever they can't take him on on a in a level playing field that is his because that disparity and their feebleness would be on display.
So rather than acknowledge any of that and go there, they ignore him, report on him from afar, characterize him as some real unique cook that has nothing in common with very many Americans.
It's it's it's my made the point last Friday.
Here's a guy that, despite all of these obstacles, has nevertheless owned and occupied second place in the Republican primaries for quite a while now.
And it's the I think a fundamental aspect of Cruz that causes all this is his conservatism.
Do not doubt that for a minute.
When it comes particularly to uh leftists and Democrats, And even some Republicans, it's the conservatism that Cruz knows.
The conservatism that he is.
The conservatism that he can explain.
Not uh in in a uh tangential way, but he can explain it by proposing solutions.
I mean, that's the most threatening form of conservatism there is.
A common sense solu whatever problem you have, whatever issue you're discussing, he has the ability to articulate the conservative solution to it, and thereby define conservatism.
But he's not defining conservatism.
He's just engaging in here's what we need to do to fix it.
This is what would work.
And people's yeah, yeah.
Except they've got horns coming out of his head.
So when he says these brilliant things, people don't pay as close attention because they've succeeded in characterizing Cruz as well.
Freak, kook, what whatever it is, those are my words, but you whatever your impression of the way they've characterized him would work as well.
And that's that's what they do to every competent, threatening conservatism.
Never take them on on substance.
Don't ever because they can't.
Like look like Nora O'Donnell in the soundbite we played earlier on this surveilling uh neighborhoods with the NYPD.
You mean that being aware?
You mean that no.
Well, let me tell you something.
You mean it's it's always designed as a disparaging put down of uh of sorts.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, David.
Thanks much.
Sean in Houston is next, and it's great to have you with us.
I appreciate your patience.
What's up?
What's happening?
What's up, Rush?
How are you doing today?
I'm a longtime listener, first time call.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
Just got calling because I really do think that Kasich is uh wasting all of our time.
Um he needs to get out of this race uh immediately.
I think he is spoiling it for Cruz and uh he just uh he just in my opinion, he's either got really big weavos or he is dumb.
Really big waivos.
First I've heard of that.
What why do you why do you think that uh he is hanging in?
Well, I think that he is hanging in because like I said, he he he really has no idea what the American people want and what they don't want, and they do not want him, that is for sure.
And uh he just obviously, you know, maybe ten years ago we would have wanted someone like him, but he is wasting everybody's time.
He's wasting this process, this election is so important right now.
And for him to be in it and doing what he is doing, he knows dang well that he is spoiling this for all.
Well, then wait a minute.
I I I guarantee him to you that in his mind this is all about him, see.
This is important to him.
He said the other day the Republican Party owes him for everything he's done for the party.
They apart they the Republican Party owes him for staying in this thing and denying Trump the outright victory in terms of delegates.
I mean, he's routinely talking about how remarkable what he has done.
He comes as the son of a mailman from McKeyes Rocks, Pennsylvania, to where he is now running for president of the United States.
It's about him.
It's a remarkable story, and he needs to stay in to see where this remarkable story ends up.
How sad.
I mean, honestly, he he uh yeah, sure, he did some great things for Ohio, no doubt about it.
We all we're very grateful for that.
But like we we we all want, obviously we want outside Trump or Cruz.
Uh Trump is not somebody who you want.
Obviously, anyone who is a real conservative like myself knows that he is not a conservative.
Let's get real here.
Cruz is a real conservative.
He is somebody who I have actually supported for a long time before he was a senator, before he started running for senator.
This man knows what he's talking about.
When I heard him get up in front of uh the public and speak, he actually really meant what he was saying.
And I I could I really knew this man was gonna go into Washington.
Yeah, see, that's this is the that's what I was just it's a good point.
So I'm just trying to explain.
The fact that he is that clear, understand, that's what's threatening about him.
Um and many other aspects too.
Look, Sean, I appreciate the call.
I do.
I one thing I wanted to mention here, I I'm I talked about this at the top of the program, and because of the way things have fallen out today, I haven't gotten to this, but I want to mention these, because it's only Wednesday, so we have a couple couple of weeks, a couple of days in the rest of the this week to get to them.
There are two or three stories I have here from the pessimists in the media who think this is over.
This election is over and it's over for the Republican Party, and it doesn't matter what happens.
It's either way.
Trump wins, gets a nomination, loses the white.
It doesn't it's over.
Trump wins, nomination, wins the White House.
It's over for the Republican Party.
Uh Jonah Goldberg has a piece today.
Nominating Donald Trump will end the Republican Party as we know it.
So will not nominating Donald Trump and the Republican Party as we know it.
Now, without getting into details and sharing with you excerpts, this is exactly what I was trying to explain in the opening hour of the program today when I was doing my best to explain to you establishment opposition to Trump, that it is personal.
The people I'm talking about, uh imagine they're supermen and this is all kryptonite to them.
Everything happening threatens them with a diet of nothing but kryptonite.
Their power, their prestige, their positions, their futures, their present, their reputations as opinion makers, their reputations as relevant people who matter in terms of Washington and policy and what all of that is threatened.
Those people's positions exist because there is a Republican Party that is controlled and run by people like them and them.
And when you see a column nominating Donald Trump will end the Republican Party as we know it, so will not nominating him ruin the Republican Party or end it as we know it.
The translation of that, if you if you take that personally, if you if you'll if you apply this personally to people whose very existence, stature, security, financial and otherwise, depends not only on the party existing, but them being in positions of power defining and controlling it.
You understand how desperate things are for them.
My only point is that it's personal.
When you see people I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton before I vote for Trump, oh Hillary Clinton before I vote for Ted Cruz.
When you hear Republicans saying that, you realize it's not about the country.
It's not about what's best for the country.
It's about what's best for them.
It's about holding on to whatever it is they think they've got.
And I must take a brief time out.
Back after this, don't go away.
Philip in Sarasota, Florida.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Russ, longtime listener, first-time caller.
Appreciate that.
All right.
So uh you mentioned earlier in the show about Heidi Cruz, how Trump had uh responded to the ad about his wife saying that he threatened to uh expose Heidi Cruz.
Well he's gonna spill the beans uh on Heidi Cruz.
If Lion Ted wasn't if you need to look out, then uh he was gonna spill the beans on on Heidi Cruz, right?
Right, right.
And uh well, I think you know what's behind a lot of the Trump support and lack of support for Cruz by people who would identify themselves as Republicans, there are a lot of conspiracy-minded people in this country on both sides of the pol uh the political spectrum, even though they aren't all outspoken, and that I believe is in large part the cause of Trump's support and the lack of support for uh Cruz.
And Trump knows this and that his supporters think this.
That's exactly why he threatened to spill the beans on Heidi, which for those of the listeners who don't know, she's a VP of Goldman Sachs, which was the single largest contributor to both parties in the 2012 general election.
So people think that he's just part of the establishment, that he's just uh a part of it.
This, you know, this is a big threat in the world.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, are you saying that because Trump knows that she was a VP of Goldman Sachs, that he can convince his supporters that she's some part of uh part of some conspiracy, or are you saying she is part of some conspiracy?
I'm saying that Trump knows that this is a threat of consciousness that a lot of people follow because, you know, on the angles of the internet, YouTube, and such, this is the kind of material you see if you look up this stuff.
And a lot of people are swallowing this.
Yeah.
Um, and believing it, too.
You know, in some cases two different things.
Swallowing it and believing it are two different things.
And uh yeah, I meant to say that.
Think about it.
I know I know it's all kind folks, conspiracy theories.
You you you know every one of them is a talk host.
Believe me.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
The uh the the Melania Trump ad was not from Trump uh from Cruz, it was from uh PAC Make America Awesome.
Former Romney staffer, I think.
Randy.
Anyway, folks, see you tomorrow.
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