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March 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Many of you in this audience think that we are losing America, that we are losing the country.
Many people outside this audience think the same thing.
Those of you who believe that have specific reasons for it.
It's not quackery.
It's not conspiracy theory related.
It's not kookism.
It's legitimate, careful analysis.
And I want to explain to you how Europe is losing itself.
I just want to close the sentence here.
Let's dot the I's and cross the T's on this and wrap this up so that you are able to put all this together because for everything happening in Europe, there's the United States counterpart.
The same thing is happening here.
They're years ahead of us, but the same things that happened there and are happening here are beginning, well, have been happening for a while.
They're intensifying here.
Even domestic, militant Islamic terror, which outside of 9-11, Fort Hood.
See, when you think of just a couple instances, you start thinking it's more and more.
But I want to go back first to this website, thereligionofpeace.com, which has a quite sensible and unique way of categorizing all the terror activity around the world in ways that the drive-by media do not report.
Something as simple as body counts, numbers of incidents, where they happened, the type of incident, what kind of terror attack was it in list form.
You don't have to read 750, 1,500, 2,000 words to get this.
It's just bam, bam, bam right there.
Here I told you the numbers for the last 30 days worldwide.
Last 30 days, 3,221 people injured, 1,165 people killed worldwide, just in the last 30 days.
I want to give you the number for last year.
27,596 people were killed last year to Islamic terrorism by Islamic terrorism around the world.
Do you know how many people Ebola killed?
Well, it's about 10,000 if you go to certain parts of Africa.
In 2015, there were 2,860 Islamic attacks in 53 countries.
27,596 people were killed.
Another 26,000 were injured in just 2015.
How many of you do those numbers surprise you?
Now, you might say, no, it doesn't surprise me.
Russia and all this stuff's all over.
But you haven't heard news accounts that would lead you to add that number or to get to that number by thinking of all the reports you've heard.
You can think of five or six major terror attacks that you heard about.
14 people killed here, 136 in Paris, but you haven't heard anywhere near enough news to lead you to believe that almost 28,000 people were killed by militant Islamic terrorism just last year.
And the reason for this is multifaceted.
There are many reasons, but Europe is making it easy by importing them.
Now, I want to go back to this woman, Federica Mogherini, who is the European Union foreign policy representative.
Think of her as Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
My point is that Federica Mogherini has many United States counterparts.
Many people think exactly as she does.
John Kerry thinks like she does.
Obama thinks like she does.
Hillary Clinton thinks like she does.
Joe Biden thinks like she does.
Take your pick.
Any prominent liberal Democrat thinks exactly like Federica Mogherini.
And what, again, does she believe?
She said 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.
She admits to looking at Islam as both a religion and a political party.
Its ideology makes it a political party.
Her mentality is what shapes and produces the situation in Western European societies.
So, what's happening in Brussels is no different than what's going on in Syria or Madrid or London or Paris.
She draws no distinctions whatsoever.
Now, what's interesting about her and her counterparts here in the United States is how absolutely blind, naive, and ignorant.
And that's in the best case scenario she is.
The Muslim Brotherhood has a guy named Sheikh Yusuf Kardawi, who is talked about in this column.
And Sheikh Kardawi has openly declared that Islam will conquer Europe and America.
He's written about it.
You can go read it today if you want.
And he illustrates how they're going to do it.
Today, he claims they're going to be able to do it peacefully by an aggressive version of proselytism, which is where you pressure the home country to adopt your beliefs, in this case, Sharia.
You just constantly pressure.
You do it using the host country's own political system.
You insist on fair treatment, equality.
You come in as a multicultural advocate, and you demand acceptance for what you believe under the existing laws of the country you're attempting to overtake.
Depends on what country.
In some countries, the Brotherhood promises and encourages suicide, terrorism, violence, and war.
But in places like Europe, we don't need to do that.
Any terror attack is an added bonus.
We're going to win by persuading them that we're just as legitimate as they are.
And with Federica Mogherini, they've succeeded.
And it looks like they've succeeded with Obama and John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.
They're just as legitimate a political party as anybody else.
They're just as legitimate a religion.
And have you heard Islam?
It's nothing to do with terrorism.
Islam's the religion of peace.
So you combine all that, and here you have the Muslim Brotherhood guy, Sheikh Kardawi, actually writing and explaining how they're doing it in Europe and how they're going to not stop there and how they're going to keep coming.
The political goal is the conquest of Europe.
They're open about it.
Federica Mogherini could read it just as I have found it here.
You can read it.
It's been published on websites as news stories.
So the question, why would you want to give a seat at your political table to people whose political goal is to end everything you supposedly believe in so that they can then rule by Sharia or Islamic law?
Make no do not misunderstand.
This is exactly what the objective is.
And we're seeing it play out in Europe, and we see the reaction to it in Brussels and elsewhere in Europe.
We see how they cave to it and have been caving.
And all of these people caving have people just like them here in the United States.
But it's all made possible by liberalism, folks.
This is the bottom line here and the real thrust on the point that I'm trying to make is that multiculturalism and liberalism is on the march in this country to destroy or transform what has always been this distinct American culture.
And it contains many aspects.
I mean, you would look at hard work, paying off, limited government, any number of things are being thrown upside down or disbanded and gotten away with and done away with.
And so there's no way if these people succeed, there will not be an American culture to assimilate into.
And it's all happening under the guise of fairness.
It's all happening under the guise of equality and so forth.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense why anybody would passively sit by and let this happen.
It's been my question about liberalism for as long as I've been alive.
And the answers are scary.
They're either really stupid and naive and can't see what is right in front of their faces, or they share the belief that the United States is an immoral, unjust place and has been from the beginning and deserves this kind of overthrow, redefinition, transformation, whatever you want to call it.
And I rather think it's the latter, because I don't think they're so naive and ignorant they can't see this.
They see it and they're just not bothered by it.
Quick timeout.
Back with more after this.
Now, one of the things I say frequently on this program: if you listen here regularly, you're on the cutting edge of societal evolutionary.
What's going to happen?
I don't know how long it's going to take, a week, a month, a couple of months, but there's going to be something happen.
And what I just spent the first 45 minutes of this program talking about is going to become big news.
And you're going to see, I've heard that.
Oh, yeah, Rush talked about that.
It's the way this stuff always happens.
You mean, what is this?
I mean, the Republican campaigns are going on.
He's talking about terrorism because the objective here is to inform and get as many people up to speed on liberalism as the most destructive force in this country and world and what it's doing.
And we have a way of seeing our own future by watching Europe.
It's up to us whether we're going to go the same way or not.
But I just want to tell you, Snerdley just said to me, okay, you gave two possibilities for why people like Federica Mogherini in the European Union can look at Islam as an equal, co-equal political party and feel unthreatened by it.
You say that's either naive or purposeful.
How can it be?
Because who's the common enemy?
Who is, what is the biggest enemy of liberalism, folks?
Honestly, now, ask yourself, who do liberals consider to be their greatest threat?
It's us.
Conservatives.
Republicans in some cases.
It's not Islam.
It's not terrorism.
They think they can deal with that.
Obama can make deals with Iran.
He can make deals with the Ayatollah Hominy.
He can make deals with Hamas.
He can make deals with Hezbollah.
He's got to throw Israel overboard to do it, but so what?
Now go to Islam.
Militant Islam.
Who are their biggest enemies?
Christians.
Conservatives.
Right-wingers, whatever you, the left, which is Islam, militant Islam is on the left, just as the Democrat Party is take a look at their common political opponents or other kinds of, and it's us, folks.
This is the thing that a lot of people can't get to their heads.
And we had 9-11, we had Fort Hood.
Do you have Obama?
Obama will not condemn it.
Nobody in the Obama administration will condemn, well, not even utter the words, militant Islamic terrorism.
It will not be condemned.
We will be.
They'll go to the end of the earth to warn everybody about us, or whoever our political presidential nominee happens to be, or whoever our Speaker of the House happens to be, or whoever our popular media figures are.
The worst reprobates in the world, if you listen to these people, far worse things are said about me than Obama and his people ever say about Islamic terrorism and ditto Islamic terrorism and militant Islamists.
You look at the common enemies.
For some reason, Obama and his crew do not look at Islam as a threat to their power.
Terrorism is a threat to their power, but they see that in us.
We are a threat to their power.
And we are.
We're trying to take it away from them.
We're trying to beat them in elections.
That's not allowed.
That will not happen.
We pose too big a threat to them.
But they can peacefully coexist with all these other people.
They're in the same place in the political prism.
They're both out there on the left.
Both have the same common enemy.
United States, great Satan.
Here in America, the left thinks we're unjust and immoral from the days of our founding.
Militant Islamists think we're immoral and unjust because we're infidels.
Remember, I've told you, you listen to the ex-president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmedine Izad.
You couldn't tell the difference of what he says about America than Joe Biden on the campaign trail or Obama.
They talk about this country in identical ways.
They talk about Republicans in identical ways.
We are their biggest threat, making us their central enemy.
The American left, Democrat Party, and liberalism worldwide.
Its enemy is conservatism.
Because conservatism, if ever it succeeded, really succeeded, would vastly shrink the source of power, wealth, and existence for all these people, and that is government.
Okay.
To the phones we go, people patiently waiting.
We are going to start in Iowa.
This is Jeremy.
Jeremy, great to have you on the program.
What is the name of the place you're calling from?
Postal is actually, I live out in the country.
Okay, but it looks like Decora, but I don't know how to pronounce it.
Well, that's just a big town where I live by, but it's.
All right.
So you're in Iowa.
Okay.
Yep, Iowa.
No, I was just wanted to tell you I'm a long time caller for second time or long-time listener, second time caller.
I'm kind of nervous, so bear with me.
But I've been listening to you as long as I can remember.
My earliest memories are listening to you.
And actually, a couple weeks ago, I had to shut you off because I just felt like you're becoming more of a mouthpiece for Trump than anything.
Nobody heard me.
No, wait a minute.
Nobody shuts me off.
You might have turned me.
I just turned you on today, Rush.
More than you're back than anything.
That's my point.
You're back.
But why did you turn it off?
Because I was just getting disgusted about everything it was about Trump, Trump, Trump.
And the day I heard that article you shared about that lady saying the reason you supported her was because he had a house down there.
And I've been thinking that all summer about, I figured it wasn't because he was conservative, because you knew him, you golfed with him.
And I could understand it.
I was thinking, well, maybe if I had somebody that I was friends with that I didn't agree with politically, but I knew I might support them over somebody else because maybe I'd have more of an influence over them.
Okay, hang on here.
Just a second, Jeremy.
Folks, if you're just joining it, he's referring to a soundbot I played about an hour ago.
In fact, it was Melinda Henneberger, who is the editor-in-chief at Roll Call.
And she was interviewed, I think, on CNN, and she said that she thinks that I support Trump because we both have houses in Palm Beach.
And you're telling me you actually that resonated with you?
Yeah, because you thought the same thing.
Yep.
And I was like, well, I've heard him say that he knows him for a while and he golfs with him.
And he's probably a nice guy.
And I was thinking that'd probably influence the guy a lot.
So I could resonate with you.
I can't believe how little you think of me and how shallow you think I am.
Well, I could understand it myself.
I was just trying to picture myself.
If I knew somebody who I was friends with, I might not agree with them, but they run for office the other day.
You know what you're getting confused at?
You think you hear me describing Trump when I'm actually trying to explain why Trump supporters support him?
Because I'm constantly hit with people who can't figure it out.
And I think for a certain type of Trump supporter, it makes perfect sense.
And I've gone to great lengths to try to explain to people who I think need to hear it, by the way, why people are supporting him.
But I've never said that I am.
I know.
You're inferring it.
But I can tell you this.
I certainly, and I used to live in New York too, and I never voted Democrat, and that's all that lived there.
And I knew Trump there, too.
And I knew Chuck Schumer.
I mean, I've met a lot of these people.
I haven't supported them.
Okay.
That's.
You know, other people, you want to hear some other theories like this?
You know, I know why you support Trump.
You know why, Russia?
Because Trump's you.
You were Trump before Trump was.
Yeah, Rush.
And when you first started, you were just as irreverent.
You're doing just like Trump.
And when you look at Trump, you're kind of flattered because you see somebody getting away with what the press wouldn't let you get away with.
And you see somebody who's doing what you did.
I've heard that.
I have heard the seduced you playing golf.
I know what happened.
You went out and you played golf and he loved you.
He told you how great you were.
And it's all it took, right?
I've heard every one of these theories.
I have not heard the theory that we both have houses in Palm Beach.
I'd not heard that theory.
But, Jeremy, I'm glad I take it all in.
I digest it.
I process it.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
But I want to assure you, I'm not that shallow.
It was just last Friday that I was taking heat on this program for being pro-Cruise.
How many Trump callers did we have raking me over to Coles Friday?
Two or three callers.
I can't believe you're selling out Trump.
You're so into cruise and cruise.
You're going to win.
I heard it all over the place.
And now today, I'm getting it.
Yeah, well, so Trump, I know why you're in Trump.
I thought, yeah, because you live in the same place.
I thought that.
I thought that.
Okay.
By the way, may as well get this out of the way.
I mentioned this last week.
I'm going to mention it again.
Back in January, back in January, Donald Trump warned everybody about what was happening in Europe, and he specified Belgium in terms of out-of-control, militant, Islamic supremacism.
He was going on and on.
And the New York Times did a story mocking him, laughing at him, making fun of him, saying he didn't know what he was talking about.
This is classic, a guy running for president who has no foreign policy knowledge whatsoever, just rattling off a bunch of stuff, trying to sound smart, but he doesn't know anything.
And who's laughing now?
Even James Taranto, we admire James Taranto terrifically.
He's best of the web today, the Wall Street Journal, their blog.
And he was one of the people way back when, kind of laughing and joking about Trump, warning everybody about out-to-control Islam in Europe.
And particularly, Trump cited Belgium.
Taranto is not a Trump fan, but he did relate the truth of something Trump said, as reported with scorn by the New York Times.
Asked by the Fox business network anchor Maria Barciaromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the country.
Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate, to assimilate.
Trump said there's something going on, Maria.
Go to Brussels.
Go to Paris.
Go to different places.
There's something going on and it's not good.
Where they want Sharia law, where they want this, they want that.
You know, there has to be some assimilation.
There isn't any.
There is something bad going on.
And he started warming up to his theme.
He added that Brussels was in a particularly dire state.
He said, you go to Brussels.
I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago.
So beautiful.
Everything's so beautiful, like living in a hellhole right now.
And it is.
Because one of the things they've done throughout Europe, but Belgium especially, yeah, they've allowed all kinds of Muslims to immigrate, but they have segregated them into their own areas, like France has done outside Paris.
There are separate enclaves where various immigration or immigrants live, and some of them are so dangerous that cops won't even go there.
They've just seeded the areas and affect their ghettos.
And that's one difference here.
That has not happened here.
They're not required to live among each other in less than normal conditions.
But that's what Belgium has done because they basically imported these people for labor and the multicultural reasons as well.
And he said the same thing about Paris.
He said, Paris is not this romantic, beautiful place you think it is.
It's not what it was 20 years ago.
And the New York Times headline, Donald Trump finds new city to insult Brussels.
This is back in January.
So I'm not, I mentioned this to you because it's news.
It happens to be the truth.
And I'm going to tell you this.
Like I just said, in a month, maybe two weeks, two months, something's going to happen.
And everything I talked about, where'd I hear that?
That's right.
Oh, Rush brought this up way, way back at the end of March.
That's what being on the cutting edge means, listening to this program.
Back to the phones, Aaron in Lul.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
You said that just right.
Lyd is Lowell.
And I'm Triple Mega Dittos, been listening to you since the early 90s.
And I'm a little insulted.
And I'm a lot insulted, actually.
And I just wanted you to tell your friend, please, whoever your friend he or she is.
And actually, since you let me on, you and Mr. Sterling, I will tell your friend, do not insult this audience in that we don't understand what's going on.
Now, I do appreciate you, Russ, giving it, and it helps to have your voice to, you know, giving that a voice and simplifying and clarifying what we know what's going on, that the left is dismantling our identity.
And really, do Muslims have to forsake their identity at all?
No, not one bit.
I don't see anyone saying the burqas are outdated and the hajibs need to go.
But we do know what's going on.
Well, look, I appreciate what she's talking.
I got an email from a friend of mine about an hour ago, in fact, who said my addressing the subject here of immigration assimilation and liberal destruction of cultures in Belgium was like me trying to explain fire to fish, meaning this audience, fish, don't know what fire is, and your audience have no clue.
And he was trying to be helpful.
You're engaged in a lost cause.
So, by the way, he's an elected official, I should tell you.
It is a he, and he is an elected official.
What does that tell you, Aaron?
He must not know your audience because, I mean, and I'm sure that there are some low information conservatives out there, but it's not this audience.
So, I think he needs or she needs to call you back and apologize for us.
I didn't take it personally, and I don't, I think he was just trying to say, look, it's a nice effort, but this is not why people listen to you.
Here's the thing.
No, here's the thing about that.
Every day, almost, it's not every day, almost every day.
I look at what I have here, and I ask myself, like, I really care about this, this Belgium, all of this, because it comes under the umbrella of liberalism and what it is destroying.
And we, the United States, are in the process of being destroyed by liberal.
I firmly believe it, and I'm trying to alert as many people as possible to it as I have my whole career.
So, I have a story like this that I'm really passionate about.
And I do, I ask myself, can I make anybody care about this?
I mean, they're listening to the radio not to be bored.
Is this going to be too esoteric?
I ask myself that all the time.
And you know what I always do?
Just like you, I always come down on the side of the audience, wants to hear it.
It's up to me to make it interesting.
And if I think I can, then I'll do it.
Because I think you're totally capable of getting it.
Yeah, I do.
I think you should talk more about it.
I don't know why anyone feels like the United States has to be like Europe.
I don't know why anyone feels like we need to be that.
We're in a totally different place in the world and geographically.
And there's no reason why we should be open and porous.
And I just don't know why.
Well, it is an interesting.
What is it about Europe that the left so romanticizes?
It's some things, it's trains.
They think trains are just the coolest thing.
They're sophisticated.
They're not polluting.
There's no individuals driving trains.
You've got everybody grouped and everybody's on a train and they're controllable and you control density.
You control transportation.
It's just, it's cleaner.
It's far more sophisticated.
I think dreamy-eyed leftists in this country basically have a negative view of this country because of all of the freedom and what that has meant in terms of real diversity.
Liberal diversity is skin color.
To you and me, diversity is the differences in individuals.
What interests them, what motivates them, what they choose to do, how much they put into it.
They look at diversity as skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or what have you.
They look at Europe and they romanticize that that's closer to their utopia than anything here is.
And it's probably a multifaceted answer as to what it is that's attractive to them.
But there's no question they do think Europe is far more sophisticated.
They don't spend much on defense.
They don't really waste a lot of money.
Great welfare states.
I guess they think they're predicated on equality and sameness and all these wonderful, impossible outcomes.
But it's probably more hideous than that.
But you're absolutely right.
There's a fascination with it.
Right.
And we run rings around Europe.
Why should we sit here and allow ourselves to be subordinated and reduced?
I mean, Europe, even you combine all those countries in the European Union and you don't have a superpower.
And individually, you're nowhere near as they can't even defend themselves anymore.
But for some reason, they're considered more enlightened, more sophisticated, wiser.
I actually think that part of it, and you can see it in the way the European Union is constructed, the way it's built, I'm talking about the governmental organization, the actual governing body, the European Union, not the nation states, but the I think there is a fascination on the left with aristocracy.
The upper classes, the all-knowing, the betters, the superiors running everything because the peasants and the serfs, not smart enough, not wise enough, not educated enough, nowhere near sophisticated, and never will be.
And therefore, we can't leave anything of importance up to them.
And if you look, you can see it.
Hollywood, every now and then, will make movies or TV shows about the British aristocracy.
And it's always in an admiring, longing way.
I really think it has to do, in part, with this belief in a superior class system made up of elites.
And you are elite by birth.
You are elite by training.
You are elite by education.
Therefore, they control.
You are elite by wealth, but new wealth is not automatically entered.
New wealth is frowned upon because it was derived via work.
You know, it wasn't that long ago, I'm talking about 80 years, it wasn't that long ago that in Great Britain, golf professionals were not permitted to play at membership country clubs.
You know why?
Working class.
They were beneath the best in the game were not permitted to play because they were working class.
And I think if you listen to liberals and the way they talk about, they use socialist terms to describe the workers.
I have always resented government referring and politicians referring to the people who make this country as workers.
I'll never forget Fidel Castro.
You remember when Ilan Gonzalez was sent back to Cuba and Castro sent his father here to make a big tear-jerking appeal to get his son back.
His kid's mother had died escaping Cuba, drowned in the Atlantic on the way, and they made a big deal about getting Ilian.
And Fidel said of, I think his name was Miguel Genson, but whatever the father's name was, Fidel said, he's a good worker.
He does wonderful, great work, and he's a good worker for the regime or whatever.
But this term worker is demeaning.
It categorizes people in a class sense.
That's why I resent the use of the word.
But I believe that their fascination with Europe is rooted in aristocracy and their secret belief and desire that they are or can be or want to be aristocrats in the age-old sense of the word.
Back after the communism and Marxism, they're really about class warfare.
And it's almost a love-hate relationship.
Communism and socialism are rooted in the resentment of the upper classes, the aristocracy.
And yet, it's only a certain kind of upper class that they don't like.
But if you look at the American left today, it's almost like they idolize European aristocrats and want to consider themselves part of that club in a sense.
But you know how five-year-old kids look at Disney World, Disneyland, this is make-believe place.
And it's just a fact.
However a kid looks at Disneyland, make-believe, it's whatever you want it to be.
It's just so much fun.
You got fairies and you got dancing mouses, mice, you've got great rides.
It's just total, total fantasy.
You never worry about what it costs.
You're five, you're 10.
You couldn't care.
That's how leftists look at Europe.
It's a fantasy land and they're able to make it whatever they want it to be.
And they tell themselves Europe is filled with superior people and far more sophistication and intelligence and what have you.
And here it is a resentment of the lower classes that's driving America.
It's both.
I mean, no question that This anti-establishment mentality in the pub, which is huge, is anti-political class and so forth.
But at the same time, those people, the political elites in this country, actually look down their noses at the people and vote for them in many ways.
So it goes both ways.
Anyway, here's Maureen in Omaha.
Maureen, I'm glad you called.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm calling in regards to the topic of assimilation that you've been discussing.
Yes.
I was a Peace Corps volunteer who was sent to the Middle East for two years.
I lived in the Sultanate of Oman, which is next to Yemen in Saudi Arabia.
However, before our group of Peace Corps volunteers could begin our working in the host country for two years, we had to have three months of intensive Arabic language studies daily and also cultural studies like how not to offend the people in the Middle East that we would be working at, you know, certain things like that.
And it just strikes me as odd that, you know, here's an American Peace Corps volunteer agency that requires that of all Peace Corps volunteers.
I'm sure it's the same today.
Well, sure it is, but I get your point.
But you were guests.
You know, you were not immigrating to live there and hatch a takeover as immigrants in this country are dreaming.
I mean, immigrants are immigrants.
You were visiting, and I understand it would not have been proper for Peace Corps volunteers to go to, say, Oman and say, you are going to learn our language or we're not coming.
They would have said, stay away.
We don't want you anyway.
It's just an idea.
JFK's making himself look good.
Stay away.
But you did great work in the Peace Corps, and your point about assimilating is exactly right.
It's based in respect.
It's based in tradition and so forth, and good manners.
But that's none of that's applicable here.
We're talking about something entirely different.
You know, why aren't there all kinds of people saying I sound like I'm in the tank for Kasich?
I mean, I got people all over saying I'm in the tank for Cruz and are never listening, or I'm in a tank for Trump and never going to listen again.
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