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March 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Do you remember last week, folks, after the Brussels terror attack, I spent significant time here on the EIB network explaining to you just what it was about Brussels being attacked that so shocked, frightened, scared the left that Brussels, Belgium represents the potential utopia in Europe?
Little did I know how right I was.
You know, my instincts are always right on the money, but on this one, man, there's even much more, and I can't wait to get into it because what it is, is yet another lesson in a never-ending series of lessons on liberalism and the destructive nature it is.
Greetings.
Great to have you.
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And the email address, ilrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Hope you had a great Easter.
I hope you had a great weekend.
I had some time to recharge.
Voice is a little bit better today, so we're rocking and rolling and ready to go.
The New York Times, in a piece that ran, I guess it's today, who will become a terrorist?
Research yields few clues.
You believe this?
The New York Times has been looking into who it is that becomes terrorists, and there's no way to know.
There's no way to tell.
It's impossible to ascertain in advance who is going to become a terrorist.
Right here it is in the New York Times.
The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potent and potential terrorists.
But in San Bernardino last year, one of the attackers was a county health inspector who lived a life of apparent suburban normality.
And there are dozens of other young American men and women who've been arrested over the past year for trying to help the Islamic State.
Their backgrounds are so diverse that they defy a single profile.
Really?
They defy a single profile.
They defy a single profile.
They didn't have one thing in common.
The San Bernardino II, the Brussels Belgium brothers, the ISIS infiltrators, Americans that joined, not one thing in common.
Not one.
And even if there were, the New York Times wouldn't sit by and let them be profiled anyway.
I have never seen such a scapegoat story.
I have never seen, and this is such a brazen attempt to deflect focus and attention away from the obvious.
I mean, it's serious.
It's laughable at the same time, but it really makes you question the motivation here of the New York Times.
And then there's an interesting website that we came across called the Religionofpeace.com.
You know what this site does?
This site lists acts of terror and the number of people dead and wounded in list format, much like the drive-bys report casualties and warfare, much like the drive-bys report report the death count in any other criminal endeavor, but they never do it for terrorism.
You get newspaper stories, website publishes stories with the details contained within paragraphs, but you never see the death toll.
You never see the names, the counts, and the incidents, and they've done it here.
List of Islamic terror in the last 30 days.
Would you like the numbers?
Just to give you an idea, this is part of the list of the Islamic terror attacks that the religionofpeace.com website maintains.
During this time period, the past 30 days, there were 147 Islamic attacks in 25 countries in which 1,165 people were killed and 3,221 injured.
Now, how many of you thought that the only terror attack that took place in the last 30 days was Brussels?
Or maybe you heard about one in Jakarta, but no way do you think that there have been 147 of them.
And no way do you think that's happened in 25 different countries?
No way do you think that 1,165 people have been killed, 3,221 injured?
And we'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com, the religionofpeace.com/slash attacks slash attacks.aspx.
But it's, you know, our guys that are find it without me sending them a link.
And some of the countries, Pakistan, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq, Scotland, Syria, Iraq, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belgium.
And it goes on.
Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Middle Eastern countries for certain.
Philippines, Thailand, Syria, Canada, Egypt.
It's an astounding list.
And when you juxtapose this with the New York Times piece, who will become a terrorist research yields few clues?
I mean, it's stunning.
Okay, on to some other matter.
Before we get back to the Brussels piece, Amir Tahari had just a brilliant, brilliant column in the New York Post yesterday that need to impart some of the highlights from it, some of the excerpts from it, because it's, again, what do we do here every day?
I mean, in addition to being America's anchorman, I simply report the news, all of it, and give you, well, aspects of it and angles that you don't get in the drive-by media or maybe in any other place.
We don't do topics here.
We don't do causes.
We don't do guests.
We just do the news of the day related to how I can use it to inform people what I believe and what I believe to be right.
And I believe it liberalism and all of its offshoots.
Communism, socialism, you name it.
Fascism, yes, fascism is on the left with us in the circle.
It's not a straight line, of course.
All of these things are the most destructive forces under the banner of liberalism.
You could put under the banner of socialism or communism if you wanted.
I prefer liberalism.
Got to be careful though, because I don't want to keep people, oh, here goes Limbaugh get on liberalism and get bored.
I hope that doesn't happen because it's too crucial.
I'll give you an example.
Little bit of it.
There's a story today.
Somebody, it's the American Spectator somewhere.
If not that, I'll get it here in just a second.
Obamacare has been up and running six years.
A guy has recorded every lie about it Barack Obama has told.
From you get to keep your job and doctor and policy if you like it, premiums down $2,500, deductibles, they get lower, how much people are saving now, how many people have signed up.
Every lie that has been told for six years that hasn't been dealt with.
And it made me realize something.
You've got in the Republican campaign here, both Trump and Cruz, and maybe Kasich.
But you want to talk about grab audio soundbite.
Friday, I'm sure.
Sorry to prepare you for this one, but I just thought of this.
If I can find it real quick, Kasich, Kasich, Kasich, where did I put Kasich?
Yeah, grab soundbite number 13.
He has nothing to do with what I'm going to say here in a moment.
It's just when I said his name, it reminded me that, well, he's delusional.
But thing, I don't know if it's practiced purposeful delusion or if it's actual real delusion.
It's a meet the depressed yesterday, Chuck Todd, interviewing Kasich.
He said, Ted Cruz's campaigns repeatedly called for you to get out, saying a vote for you is a vote for Trump.
If you thought your position in this race strengthened Trump, would you get out?
Chuck, I'm beating Hillary by 11 points.
I'm the only one that can win in the fall.
And as you notice, the narrative over the last week has been, what is wrong with the party?
Kasich's the guy that can win the general.
Some people have said Kasich would be the best president.
I mean, get out for what?
If I'd have gotten out, Trump would be the nominee.
He would have won Ohio.
And frankly, we'll win some districts in Wisconsin.
We will move to Pennsylvania, where I'm basically in a statistical tie with Trump.
And when we go to New York and everywhere else, we're going to pick up delegates.
It's absurd.
It's absurd.
You know, if you really want, let them consolidate behind me because, frankly, I'm the one that can win in the fall, and I'm the one that can get the crossover votes.
Because the guy that's won one primary, his home state of Ohio, talking about how those two guys ought to get out and coalesce behind him.
He's the only guy that can win in the fall.
Now, is this just politics?
Is this just somebody trying to sound positive because that's what you do?
Or is this more serious than that?
Because one thing Kasich is doing is harming Cruz.
I mean, if you want to say he's harming Trump, fine, but remember the Cruz theory.
And by the way, speaking of the Cruz theory, Wisconsin, Wisconsin.
Who knew, whoever thought in this entire primary process that Wisconsin would be where we learn pretty much everything?
Wisconsin is on April 5th.
That's one week from tomorrow.
The Cruz theory has always been in a head-to-head race with Trump, he will trounce Trump because throughout the primary, Trump has gotten, take your pick, 30, 35, 37% of the vote.
And all of the other people who are not Trump add up to 65 to 70%.
The Cruz theory has been that that 65 to 70%, a good portion of it, will coalesce behind him.
And therefore, in a two-way race, he will trounce Trump.
Well, that's going to be, besides Kasich, Kasich makes this not totally pure because Kasich's going to get some votes.
But in Wisconsin, we're going to find out if that theory actually can hold up.
And the polling data right now, Cruz and Trump are separated by a point.
I think it's Trump 36, Cruz 35 in the polling.
And in L.A., I say L.A., California, California is getting close.
Nobody saw this.
What's the number in California?
Got to read a paragraph here to get the number.
LA Times poll, September.
Nope.
Now, Trump 37 up from 24.
Cruz is at 30.
And Kasich is at 12.
Trump had a much bigger lead in California, the point is than he does now.
Cruz is gaining ground there in its margin of error time in Wisconsin, according to the latest polling data.
So Wisconsin is going to be, even with Kasich in the race, if Cruz can beat Trump there, then there will be something to his theory of a two-man race, and Cruz will triumph because of the anti-Trump vote being so statistically, supposedly polling the otherwise large in the GOP primaries.
Now, what I was going to say before the Kasich soundbite, this guy's written his piece in Obamacare, chronicling every lie that Obama has told.
And I think it's the kind of stuff that needs to be in this campaign.
What do we hear in this campaign about Obamacare from both candidates?
Again, I don't know what Kasich is saying about it.
And that's it.
Exactly right.
Cruz says on day one, I will repeal Obamacare.
And Trump says that he'll get around to it at some point too.
And then that's it.
And everybody goes, yay!
I don't know how many people, it's six years old Obamacare is now.
And with every passing month, the tentacles of this intricately woven web of deceit called Obamacare become more deeply embedded in the fabric of our society as an entitlement, as something a lot of people think is a freebie.
And it's great to say I'm going to repeal Obamacare, but that just signals it to people who already know what Obamacare is.
I know Republican primary, most Republican voters already get it.
But I think, remember, the ultimate opponent in this race is going to be whoever the Democrats throw up.
That doesn't, whoever the Democrats nominate, we're going to throw up after the Democrats nominate somebody.
And whoever is their nominee, they are going to be the ultimate enemy, the ultimate political enemy, the opponent here, and therefore explaining why we're going to repeal Obamacare.
Candidates might think, I don't have time to waste on that.
There are too many other issues that I've got to detail.
I've got to explain myself on.
Look at the riches that Obamacare offers to any candidate as a way of defining himself and defining what he believes, a way of explaining the horrors of liberalism by explaining why I'm going to repeal Obamacare.
And go into some of these and, you know, do not spare any information on how many lies have been told about it in order to get it passed, how many lies are being told now to make it look much better than it is.
Yeah, you're going to repeal it.
A lot of people brought to the campaign that were not involved months ago who hear you say, I'm going to repeal Obamacare.
They may not know why.
They may think it's okay to repeal it.
They may not.
There's some Democrats being brought into the Republican primary by Trump.
Who knows what they think about Obamacare?
But my point is, it couldn't hurt to explain why you're going to repeal it, because when you get into that, you are defining what we're running against.
And it's the essence of it.
You're defining what has gone wrong in this country, what has gone, and continues to, and that is liberalism.
And that takes me back to the Amir Tahari piece in the New York Post yesterday.
That liberalism, liberalism, multiculturalism is what led to Brussels.
And even now, there are people in Brussels and people in the European Union trying to blame it on right-wing xenophobia.
In other words, people in Brussels and Europe are trying to blame people like you and me, folks.
You know why?
Because we're so racist and bigoted against militant Islamists that we are so xenophobic, we're making them mad and we are hurting their feelings.
And this is how they're lashing out.
That's not why Brussels happened.
Brussels happened because Europe gave up its sovereignty.
Europe stopped controlling its borders.
Europe let in all manner of immigrants, but never required any of them assimilate.
Belgium is a classic illustration and example.
Belgium was a country that was established out of three different peoples, three different languages, as a buffer between Germany and France.
It never did really have a cultural identity.
Well, it did.
That's the point.
It did have the basics of one, and it's vanished now as immigrants are not required in any of these European countries.
Denmark changing in this score, by the way, to assimilate and become a member of the culture of the country that you're immigrating to.
Got to take a break.
Hang on.
Say, folks, I heard it is California that Trump's 36, Cruz 35.
Wisconsin has Trump 32, Cruz 30.
Both margin of error.
Both Trump has lost significant ground in both places in recent weeks.
But the California number is what it's an LA Times poll.
Maybe it's a field poll in the LA Times, but everybody's shocked by it because Cruz had such Trump had such a double-digit lead.
Well, he's had double-digit leads most everywhere.
Wisconsin, however, the place to next focus.
And quickly, to the what, Hillary?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You know, the FBI is going to talk to Hillary now, we're told.
Remember what happened to Martha Stewart?
She got sent to prison for lying to the FBI, not for anything else that she did.
Melinda Henneberger, who used to be at Time magazine, is now where she's editor-in-chief at Roll Call.
She was on America's election headquarters on the Fox News channel, Eric Sean, interviewing her.
And here's her reason.
Here's her explanation for why I support Trump.
I have wondered if part of the reason isn't that a lot of the very popular national talk radio people like Rush Limbaugh live in Florida, have places in Florida, just as Trump does.
That's just a theory.
I don't know that to be the case.
But in Wisconsin, they have really lashed out at Trump as well.
What in the world?
That's it.
Zip it.
What in the world?
So, first place, I haven't announced support for Trump or anybody.
But even if I had, because I have a house here, like Trump does, that's the editor-in-chief at Roll Call.
Are you kidding?
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I want to get into this Amir Tahari column at Rand New York Post yesterday.
Headline: Brussels is what happens when liberals do not push immigrants to integrate.
But that headline doesn't even cover the main thrust of this piece.
I'm going to do something very rare.
I'm going to tell you what this column says before reading the excerpts.
I'm going to give you just a bit of analysis because it's a long piece.
It prints out, and I'm not going to read the whole thing.
It prints out to over nine pages.
It's a very, very in-depth piece.
It is a brilliant column.
Mr. Tahari even focuses, even gets the fundamental problem.
It's not just that you cannot have peace if you import and immigrate a bunch of assimilation-resistant, ideologically driven people.
It's not enough.
You can't, in other words, if that's all you do, you still have a fighting chance to save your country.
If you're going to openly allow to emigrate people to your country who are not going to assimilate, and we've been doing that, we have not been requiring assimilation.
That's a stark difference between the immigration of today and the immigration prior to 1986.
Immigration prior to 1986, all the way up to the late 1800s and in 1965, assimilation was why they came.
They wanted to become Americans.
They wanted to be part of what was a distinct and unique American culture that contained elements of the American dream, which didn't exist anywhere else in the world.
Yes, they might have lived together, formed basic neighborhoods, the Italian, the Irish, and they kept their identities, but they became Americans, proudly so.
They learned English.
For example, they did everything they could to let everybody know they were Americans.
And that hasn't been happening since 1986.
The immigration since, there hasn't been, we've been doing the opposite of assimilation.
We've been allowing immigrants to maintain their natural language and printing signs and everything in public in three or four different as many languages as necessary.
We have not required, we have not forced immigrants to learn English.
And without that, there is no way they can become part of the American culture.
But the second half of this is the left, the Democrat Party, however you want to characterize it, their war, the war that they are conducting on the values and principles that have defined America is erasing the culture anyway.
It's a two-pronged problem.
And this is fundamental to understand what happened to Brussels.
You know, the 19 hijackers, many of them headquartered in Brussels, some in Hamburg.
Brussels has long been a terrorist safe haven.
This column goes on to explain why.
But the point here is that liberalism, by Obama's own admission, his objective is to fundamentally transform America.
That means erase the institutions, traditions that have defined our greatness, the culture.
Erase it and replace it.
And we're in the process of doing it now.
You see what's happening in North Carolina and Georgia just recently.
Transgender bathrooms and the NFL, so forth, threatens these states economically.
That if you pass legislation that requires men to use the men's room and women to use the women's room, we're not going to bring the Super Bowl.
I mean, there is an all-out war on the American culture, and it's been going on for a long time, and it's brought to you by the Democrat Party.
It's brought to you by the left.
So when you combine immigration that is not required to assimilate because you're in the process of destroying the culture anyway, well, hello, that's exactly what happened to Brussels and is what is happening in the United States.
The left's war on our principles and values is erasing the culture this country was founded with.
It's erasing the culture you would want immigrants to assimilate into.
It's being done purposefully.
Belgium should not even exist.
Belgium has never been a real country, which I will explain in a moment.
It was created in the post-war era as a buffer between Germany and France.
But because it was not a real country, meaning there were not native inhabitants of a singular nationality and culture, it easily became a European version of what they have in the Middle East, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, an ungoverned territory.
It has no real sovereign to speak of, no dominant home culture.
You wouldn't be very wrong if you said it was stateless.
Afghanistan is stateless.
This is why Al-Qaeda wanted to go in there.
When there's no state, when there's no official sovereign regime, it's easy to go in and establish your own.
So they create a Potemkin country of Belgium, not really supposed to be a nation.
It was a buffer zone between Germany and France.
But even worse, they attacked the idea of nationhood itself when they established it, convinced that Hitler rose because he was too much, there was too much German patriotism for Germany even.
So, I mean, you know, that story.
It's like saying we should never have access to fire.
Because despite that there are millions of life-saving, life-creating, life-generating good things fire makes possible.
Look at what happens if it's done irresponsibly.
So we're going to outlaw fire.
Well, this is the kind of thinking the left engages in, and it's what they have done in creating and establishing the so-called nation of Belgium.
So over time, what do they destroy nationalism with?
The left.
How do they attack nationalism?
We're under attack here.
You know, when you hear attacks on nationalism or populism, it's trying to make a bugaboo out of people who put their own country first.
That's braggadocio.
That's xenophobia.
That's racism.
You're not supposed to put your own country first.
That's selfish.
We're supposed to be citizens of the world, don't you understand?
And we're no better and no different than anybody else.
And that's Obamaism.
So the concept, the concept of Europe and the closely related system of socialism there to undermine cultural and economic connections to one's own nation.
So you have, in Europe now, you have a continent of people who've been taught not to believe in anything and not to be attached to their nations.
They've done that with open borders, wanton immigration, with no assimilation.
The attack on nationalism has not just been here, it's all over Europe, and they've swallowed it.
They embraced it.
They thought it was great multiculturalism.
They thought they were saying that they were great people, that they were non-discriminatory, that they were open to one and all, and they literally allowed their own identities to be dissolved.
And now they're in the process of being swallowed, overrun, and taken over.
You have a continent of people who have been taught not to believe in anything, not to be attached to their own nations.
And because something always beats nothing, they're being overrun by a bunch of seventh century zealots, militant Islamists, and they've let it happen.
Belgium, a classic illustration and example of how.
Get into details in a moment after we take another obscene prophet timeout.
Lots of other stuff coming up today, too, but this is crucial because, folks, it's happening here.
Whether it is a job that could be completed here as it has been in Europe, too close to call, but it's really, really frightening.
And I don't think enough people see it for what it is and the way it is.
So we'll make an effort to stab at it when we get back.
Well, I just got an email from a friend who said that what I'm doing is a lost cause because you are incapable of understanding my point.
A friend of mine just said, practically verbatim in his email, you are attempting to explain fire to fish.
Meaning, if you all are fish, there's no fire isn't possible in your environment.
And here I am trying to explain it.
So is this too esoteric?
Are you incapable of understanding my point here of how, in fact, millet Islamist combined with left, the left and its attempted destruction of our culture is making us a sitting duck?
Let me give it a shot.
Let me keep it, because I think even you may be fish, but if there's anybody that could explain fire to fish, it's me.
And they're all nodding their heads in agreement in there.
Brussels is what happens when liberals do not push immigrants to integrate.
But again, that's just half the problem.
The other half of the problem is that liberals are destroying cultures, native, distinct, honorable national cultures everywhere under the name of multiculturalism.
Mean there's nothing to assimilate to.
On Tuesday, when Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels, the European Union's foreign policy representative, representative, the Italian Federica Mogherini, happened to be on an official visit to Jordan.
Fighting back tears, she cut short a news conference saying, It's a very sad day for Europe, what happened here in Belgium.
Europe and its capital are suffering the same pain the Middle East is known and knows every single day, be it Syria, be it elsewhere.
Brussels, by the way, is the capital of the European Union.
That's why it's the future utopia for a lot of people.
She then mused about the role that Islam may have played in the tragedy, dismissing the idea of a clash between Islam and the West.
Islam said, Federica Mogherini, Islam holds a place in our Western societies.
Islam belongs to Europe.
I'm not afraid to say that political Islam should be part of the picture.
Hey, why don't you just sign the death warrant, Ms. Mogherini?
Because that, she's classic.
She illustrates the problem.
She refuses to see it for what it is.
It's as justified as the Social Democrats, as the Tories, the Whigs.
It doesn't matter.
They're as justified as anybody else.
Islam holds a place in our Western societies.
Islam is a religion for crying out loud, guided by an ideology.
Her statement offers an insight into the mentality that has helped produce the situation in Western European societies where fear is woven into the fabric of daily life.
It's a world of illusions and false identities.
In Mogherini's world, the sufferings of Syrians caused by a savage regime is on the same par as the sufferings of inhabitants of European capital cities like Madrid, London, Paris, and now Brussels that have come under attack from jihadists who kill at random.
In that world, political Islam, far from being an adversary dedicated to your destruction, becomes part of the family.
That's exactly what they've done.
But Ms. Mogherini fails to see the logical conclusion of her analysis, which is this.
If Islam is no longer religion, if Islam is just another political party, then why shouldn't it be subjected to the same treatment, including criticism, as any other political party or ideology?
And if it poses a present and clear danger, face outright suppression.
In other words, they want it both ways.
One day it's a religion and you can't touch it.
It's the religion of peace.
The next day it's a legitimate political party.
Except we can't criticize it because that would be racist or bigoted or what have you.
So what happened in Brussels was a co-production by two sick ideologies.
The first one is Islam-ism in its many versions.
And whatever version you talk about could be Khomeiniism, Talibanism, Wahhabiism in Saudi Arabia.
It will remain firmly in place until it implodes under the weight of its own contradictions, like the Soviet Union did, or until it's defeated in a war, as was the case with Nazi Germany and imperialist Japan.
But the other producer, the other co-producer in this disaster, the mushy and politically correct liberal ideology that has seduced segments of opinion in Western democracies, it can and must be combated by all those who wish to protect the democrat system in an increasingly dangerous world.
It started in the 60s in Brussels when the post-war boom created a shortage of workers.
There are three different languages spoken in Belgium.
They were put together on a map.
Lines were drawn, buffer between Germany and France.
And the French-speaking Walloons decided they didn't have enough workers to compete with the other two.
Germany is another language that's spoken.
So they began to allow immigration from all parts of the Middle East, much as Angela Merkel said at the beginning of this current phase.
opening the border to anybody from Syria, anywhere in the Middle East, opening to let them come in because there's a shortage of workers.
The birth rate replacement level is below normal.
They need an expanding labor force, and Germany is not producing enough people to fill it.
So open the borders.
She's paying the price for it now, but that's what happened in Belgium way back when.
And who flooded the zone, so to speak?
And they have been given political credibility.
Meanwhile, liberalism, socialism, the European Western social democratic model, is doing the same thing the left is doing in this country, attacking the fundamental nationality and culture of each individual country, trying to erase it and replace it with whatever they dream their utopia to be.
So there's nothing to assimilate to.
So borders are opened one and all to come in and be who they were rather than assimilate.
And it's bye-bye country.
Be it Belgium, be it the United Kingdom, be it Denmark.
Take your pick.
Be it the United States.
It's underway here, too.
So there you go, fish.
I just tried to tell you about fire.
Light the match.
And by the way, Tony Blair, who is the Barack Obama of the United Kingdom, he's a bit more likable guy, but Tony Blair, the Obama of the UK.
Tony Blair says Brussels, the terror attacks in Brussels, follows from flabby liberalism that can't prevent terrorism, can't stop it.
And little does he know how right he is.
He's actually agreeing and affirming what Amir Tahari has written in the New York Post.
He says it in different ways.
The point is, it's not an isolated view.
By the way, fish have seen blowtorches.
Oil rigs.
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