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May 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, honored to be here live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
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I was talking about uh how I was uh stunned by this side of people sleeping on the concourse at O'Hare because uh the lines to get into Homeland Security are now so long at O'Hare in Chicago uh that they their flights left and the airport had to provide them with cots to sleep on the floor overnight.
There's a lot of this kind of stuff uh about uh Manchester United uh twenty minutes before kickoff they found a supposed bomb in the toilet.
Manchester United for red blooded Americans is an English football team by w which which uh uh you chaps call uh soccer, I believe.
Uh Manchester United uh they had to c scrap the match twenty minutes before kickoff uh because a bomb was found in the toilets.
It wasn't in fact a bomb, it was a fake bomb that had been accidentally left there during a terror exercise in the stadium at Old Trafford in Manchester earlier this week.
So s so it's like, yeah, you don't have to worry about this.
This is an official an official bomb uh because th they've been practicing what might happen in a terrorist strike on Manchester United, and they accidentally, while they were practicing the terrorist strike on Manchester United, the exercise went terrific.
It just went fabulous.
It went it was perfect.
The exercise was incredible, it was brilliant, it was wonderfully timed, everything went well, except they accidentally left the bomb in the toilets at the end of the exercise.
So twenty minutes before the big match for Manchester United, uh they have to cancel it and all these thousands of fads go home, they're all out of pocket, the match is scrapped, millions of pounds uh lost.
It's set to cost Manchester United three million pounds.
Uh as club sources admitted the idiot who left the fake bomb behind is in for a right kicking, as uh as they put it.
Uh this is the this is the state of the world now.
The th as I said in i i last hour, the terrorists have won.
The terrorists have won.
They've changed the way we live.
We now take it as read uh that the big security state has the right to do this to us, to take hours of our time.
Even if you're a minimum wage guy, you know, you're a minimum wage.
What what what does Bernie want to make the minimum wage?
Fifteen bucks.
Uh even if you're a minimum wage worker, if you've got to spend three hours trying to get uh through to the secure zone at O'Hare Airport, that's forty-five dollars of your life that the big security state has taken away from you.
If you pay for a big d ticket to this uh Manchester United game, uh uh th this just the the theatre of terrorism.
It doesn't have to be a real bomb now.
At this rate, the terrorists don't have to blow up anything.
We're just gonna go broke uh uh chasing phantoms.
And and this well, you we're s we're secure from what, Mr. Snardley?
We're secure from what?
This is this is again the way uh I would suggest on the reason we have Trump Bill Bill Crystal has said, I really like Bill Crystal.
He's an he's an when I don't know him well, but when you meet him, he's an awfully nice chap and delightful company and all the rest of it.
But Bill is looking at this the wrong way.
Uh Trump is the expression of dissatisfaction uh at I would say two elements of American life and and and Western life more broadly.
And I would say the first one is this.
Um the immigration, the immigration issue.
Uh most people don't uh see the need for millions and millions of low skilled immigrants pouring into the country all the time.
They simply don't accept the bipartisan consensus on that.
Um and they would like the Republican Party, they think in a two-party system where one party, the Democrats, are shrewd enough to import voters.
The other party ought to be shrewd enough uh to get on side with its base and defend the integrity of American borders and a realist approach uh to the security challenges that face us.
Uh For example, if you take Europe, the continent of Europe.
Americans always talk about Europe as if it's one country.
Oh, I'm going to Europe.
Have you seen what's happening in Europe?
They got a lot of trouble in Europe.
But in fact, it's broken up into dozens of countries.
And uh the rate at which bombs go off and people get killed is uh roughly uh an a uh proportional to the number of uh the size of the Islamic community in that country.
That is a fact.
It's an unfortunate fact, but it's a fact.
So that in Paris, Paris, France has the uh uh highest uh uh num proportionate number of Muslims in Europe, so you have all that bloodbath in Paris.
You have the Charlie Hebdo guys being gunned down because a significant number of people in the French state no longer believe in free speech.
Uh Brussels is twenty-five percent Muslim.
So you have subway stations and you have airports attacked, because that community uh provides uh enough of a comfort zone for people who want to blow up and destroy the infidel uh to move about in.
On the other hand, you have a place like Poland, which has uh statistically an irrelevant number of Muslims, so nothing gets blown up in Poland.
So there is there is some kind of correlation between the rate of Muslim immigration and uh and the amount of bombs going off in your society.
So when Donald Trump says uh Rush quoted me on this a few weeks ago.
I said it, I think I said it on TV somewhere.
When Donald Trump says we should have a moratorium on uh immigration from uh Muslim countries, he sound to the average person that sounds a lot less nutty uh than John Kerry standing up as they're still swabbing the streets in in Paris of blood.
John Kerry standing up in Paris and saying uh this has nothing to do with Islam, or Barack Obama saying this is nothing to do with Islam, or Paul Ryan saying that's not who we are.
That's not who we are.
You know, uh a prudent state uh has to take security measures seriously, uh, or you look at that three-hour delay at O'Hare and people sleeping overnight on the concourse uh and think how long that's gonna be uh without a change in policy in two, four, five, ten years' time.
That's a long way to go.
I was in fairness, you know, I was uh I was talking about the sclerosis of uh the Republic, the way everything seems to be seizing up.
And I suppose I ought to put in a good word for American innovation, because I see this headline from CBS News uh the on the first US penis transplant, which uh uh happened in uh uh Boston.
It happened in Massachusetts.
Uh Massachusetts Hospital has performed the first penis successful US penis transplant.
I don't know how it is, I guess uh all around the world.
Maybe people listening to this show in Uzbekistan are saying, those Americans, we have been uh transplanting our penises for years.
I bet in Yemen, you know, Yemen they have a lot of workplace accidents where the uh jihadist suicide bombers accidentally prematurely self-detonate before they get out to blow up the train station.
So they've got another need for penis transplants in Yemen and Raziristan.
But anyway, there's apparently been the first successful penis transplant in uh Massachusetts.
Uh I don't know uh I don't know m uh many details about that.
I don't know, was it uh was it Mitt Romney?
Did he uh transplant his penis to Bensas to run third party?
I don't know.
Uh I will try and get more details as uh as they uh come out.
But it's uh it of course it raises a lot of questions with uh health care um I gather with uh Obamacare that uh they uh they'll only uh if you've got an Obamacare plan, uh they only cover the first uh three inches.
But on the other hand, with Blue Cross uh Blue Shield, you've got like a nine-inch deductible.
So it's all it's swings and roundabouts on these things.
But anyway, there's the first US penis transplant.
That is about the only good news of the day completed in a Boston hospital.
Uh I don't know.
There's a lot of it going around.
I don't know.
How's uh how's Caitlin Jenner doing these days?
Rush was talking about uh detransitioning the other day, so I don't guess hers will be coming up any day soon.
Um, there we are.
Uh That's uh that's uh breaking news on the medical innovation front.
To go back to go back to that healthcare situation, though, those guys laughing it up.
I would urge you, if you can find that Charlie Rose clip on PBS.
What's fascinating to me is these two twelve year old speechwriters for Barack Obama, they're laughing.
One of them comes up and go, Oh, don't give me credit.
It's the other guy who came up with the if you like your health, uh if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
And they're laughing, and Charlie Rose is laughing.
They're laughing uh at the ease with which and maybe maybe they haven't rationalized it, but that's actually what they're doing.
They're laughing at the ease with which they were able to put one over on the American people.
To the point where health care in this country is completely wrecked now.
It's neither public nor private.
It's some hideous monstrosity that's neither that's got the worst elements of both systems.
Uh so you're you're uh you you you no longer have the universal access of a public system, uh but nor do you uh do you have the freedom and customer choice of a private system.
It's the worst of both worlds.
I I my company has the misfortune uh to be insured by Blue Cross Blue Shield, who are like they're in they're they're in the witness protection program, so they change their name every few months.
In in uh the i in New Hampshire when they entered the witness protection program, uh what they call they're called Anthem, is that right?
Anthem.
So they're calling themselves Anthem.
Uh but then in Vermont they call themselves something else and Massachusetts something else, because they've entered the witness protection program.
Uh but Blue Cross Blue Shield sent me a thing saying, Oh, we've uh and they send you 47 pieces of mail every week.
And forty-five of them are irrelevant.
So you get into the habit of not opening them because they're just junk.
And then the 46th is one, they sent one to my son the other day saying they'd accidentally given his social security number and released all his personal details to some hacker.
Uh so some guy now is uh gonna get a hernia operation uh on uh on my son's tab.
Uh and then they sent one that's the 46th piece.
The 47th piece of mail they sent the other day, say, Oh, uh we've just renewed you for another year.
Uh uh we've changed the uh we changed the conditions of your plan.
You now have a $20,000 deductible.
And well, who needs insurance if you've got a $20,000 deductible?
You know, if you were in Switzerland, that would be enough for three fatal illnesses.
You could die three times over with long chronic diseases for $20,000 deductible in Switzerland.
So who the hell needs insurance?
So we had to get it changed and we got it uh into some uh fancy schmancy plan that's only got a, you know, what's the deductible now?
Is it a uh are we uh are we below five figures?
We've got a below five figure deductible?
No?
What is it?
What is it?
Go on, I'll take a guess.
This is like the prices right.
Uh what is it, 12,000 deductible, nine thousand?
Oh, we've got oh, we're down to a three thousand dollar.
Oh, we got a platinum plan.
Oh, right.
Well, uh, yeah, we've got a oh wow, yeah.
Oh, put me down for a penis transplant this afternoon.
I I'm gonna take advantage of that before they change the terms.
Mark Stein in Farush, we'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Ferrush on America's number one radio show.
While we're talking about innovation, I was uh I was talking about the first uh US penis transplant which took place in uh Massachusetts.
I believe the Republican Party's on up there is uh on the waiting list for one.
Um we now have uh more innovative news.
A Washington law firm, Baker and Hostetler.
I I'm actually in a lawsuit with them at the moment.
Uh they're representing one of my co-defendants uh on the thing.
But they they have apparently started using the first robot lawyer, uh, which is uh will use the AI lawyer Ross uh in its bankruptcy division.
So if you're going bankrupt, and many of us are these days, you can now go to a lawyer and they will assign you a robot lawyer.
If you're scared of lawyers and you're scared of robots, they've now got a robot lawyer.
Objection, your honour.
Uh, and this is at this firm, Baker and Hostetler, uh, who happen to be uh counsel uh for one of my co-defendants in an interminable climate change case That I would depress me too much to mention right now.
Let's go to John in Alcoa, Tennessee.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Mr. Stein.
I was curious to uh get your opinion on which do you think is worse for the party.
The never Trumpers who uh say that they're just gonna outright vote for Hillary, the people who are so called conservative Republicans uh that have switched loyalties or the people who just back off and say they're not even gonna vote in this election so they can wipe their hands clean if uh if Hillary should win.
Well, I don't know that their hands will be that clean if Hillary wins.
Um the the never Trump uh movement, which which is is waning by the day simply because of the reality of the facts on the ground, that most of the state Republican parties uh are now uh living with uh the results of the primary system and have decided to.
And so there's a few holdouts like uh Mike Murphy, the guy who blew a hundred million dollars of his donors' money getting Jeb to two point eight percent in Iowa and is now going back to them to ask them to fund a third party run, which will have the effect of delivering the White House to Hillary.
And then, as you said, on the uh on the other side of it, you've got people who are just outright voting for her straight up, like I mentioned PJ O'Rourke, my fellow granite stator three hours south of me, and uh Max Boot, who was my editor at the Wall Street Journal, uh and various people who said, Well, we've looked at Hillary and we've looked at Trump and they've made the argument th that uh the PGO Rourke does that Hillary is a disaster within conventional political norms.
Whereas Trump for PJ O'Rourke is just a leap into the unknown.
So he's decided he's a Republican who's going to be voting for Hillary Clinton.
And in a sense, I think that that that given that it's a two party system in America, there's only two people on the ballot who have a prospect of being president uh when all the numbers are counted.
Then in a in a sense it's a more principled position to say uh instead of pretending to be part of some never Trump principled I don't want to dirty my hands thing, uh to do what PGO Rourke is doing and just saying I'm going over to the other side like that, boom, I'm done, I'm out of here, I'm voting Democrat.
Because it's not uh as I've said on this show before, John, you know, in in other countries parties ebb and flow and come and go, and there's all kinds of parties for all kinds of positions.
And in in the last Canadian election last year, uh, where the Conservative Prime Minister called an election.
Uh it it was a uh in the course of the couple of months of the campaign, in the midpoint it looked as if it was going to be the new Democrat socialist guy who's going to be Prime Minister, and then the Conservatives came back again and the socialist guy fell back, and then in the end it went to the liberal guy, Justin Trudeau.
Uh but any one of those three people could have come up uh at the end of it, at the end of the day as as prime minister.
In in France or in uh uh which is a presidential system too, they have a runoff.
But here there's only two parties, and there's only two names, and there's only two people who are gonna be president, Hillary or Trump.
So pick your poison, as as Lindsay Graham said of uh Trump or Cruz.
It's a choice between being shot or being poisoned.
And that's what for a lot of people for what a a lot of people in November you're gonna be facing.
Uh but you can't run a third party system uh and have any uh a third party candidate and have anything happen other than delivering the White House to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That's that will be the that will be what Bill Crystal achieves if he goes ahead with this, which I don't think he will.
Uh and so in a sense, the the PGO Rourke types we had this last time round.
They never like there's always a certain number of people who never like the candidate.
Uh last time round there were all these Obamacons.
Do you remember them?
Christopher Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley, voted for Obama because he thought he had this uh uh temperament that was presidential, and he they thought he was a moderate.
Uh and there were all kinds of people who who thought that Obama uh was uh made a lot more sense than that hothead McCain.
And it'll be exactly the same, uh it'll be exactly the same this time round.
And in a sense, that's the principal Position.
The problem here, the problem here is that uh under the rules of the Republican nomin this is a for for us foreigners, this is a not cricket situation.
Under the rules of the nominating process, this guy won.
You may not like him, and you may not like the rules, but it's not cricket to then say we're going to ignore the result of the competition and ignore the rules and we're going to find some way around them.
And that's why John Kasich and Ben Sass, in the end, they won't get mixed up with this thing.
They're not going to go there.
Because under the rules, he won.
And that's that.
Yes, Rush is at a charity golf tournament today.
He's immensely generous with his time like that.
And uh he enjoys it, of course, but it's he's also doing uh good stuff to raise money for charity, real charity too, not the Clinton Foundation diarrhea in Africa racket.
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Bill Clinton, according to Mrs. Bill Clinton, who's running for president.
Bill Clinton, who is going to be America's first gentleman, uh said in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky yesterday that uh she was asked what her husband's role would be in a future Clinton administration, and she says she plans to put the former president in charge of economic revitalization.
Uh because he knows how to do it, Mrs. Clinton told the crowd at an outdoor rally.
So uh this again is to me is the corruption of the Republic.
First lady is not an office.
It's not a job.
It's just someone who happens to be married to whoever the president is.
And it's become a kind of a job in that uh th you get provided with a small staff, which you shouldn't be provided with, you should have a social secretary if that and and the rest shouldn't be there.
It's not a job.
It's not an elected position, it's not a government position, it's just someone who happened to say I do to the guy who got elected.
Uh that's all it is.
But it's become a kind of job uh because under the uh the the the kind of um monarchical uh tendency, uh it's taken on a pseudo-monarchical character.
So you have uh now they have a staff of twenty-two, which is completely ridiculous, and uh they're expected to to uh do things.
And normally they have a an interest, like Laura Bush had early childhood education.
But that's not gonna be enough for Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton, according to Mrs. Clinton, is gonna be in charge of revitalizing the economy.
Uh this is what I meant by the corruption of the Republic.
This is absolute this guy had his law license taken away because he lied under oath.
This guy has been credibly accused of rape uh uh with Juanita Broderick.
He uh and young people don't know anything about this.
The the the all the so-called young voters uh who uh uh uh enthusiastic for Bernie.
They don't know about what Bill was doing in the nineties.
They don't know that when Kathleen Willie came to see him uh on the day her husband committed suicide, uh that he grabbed her breasts.
They don't know that he dropped her his pants to Paula Jones.
They don't know uh that he said to Juanita Broderick uh you might want to put some ice on that.
And they don't know the stuff he's been doing since he left office, like these twenty-six flights, these uh twenty-six flights according to the flight logs uh of the Lolita Express owned by the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
They don't know any about they don't know anything about this.
They don't uh Democrats aren't particularly interested in the hundred million dollars that he's taken uh his foundation has taken uh from these uh shifty governments uh in the Arabian Peninsula.
They don't know that he's taken m his charity gives money to companies owned by his current girlfriend or recent girlfriend, it's hard to keep up with this guy.
Um but uh th that's who's gonna be coming back as the nation's first first gentleman if Hillary Clinton wins in November.
Bill Clinton will be in charge of revitalizing the economy.
As I said, let's take it as red that everybody hates each other.
The reason we're in this situation here is because uh the the Republican Party grew complacent about uh the uh uh uh the gap between the people who run it in Washington and the base.
Uh if you look at if you look at the uh the the Democrat Party has its idiosyncrasies.
It's like little weird things.
It's it's like suddenly something nobody's ever heard of, like transgendered bathrooms, is suddenly the biggest issue in the land.
It's uh in the Democrat Party, uh the importance of the issue is inversely proportional to the number of people affected by it.
But that works well for them.
They take care of their interest groups.
I uh on the Republican side, the gap between the base and the people running the party, the people running the think tanks, the people running the magazines, uh widened to the part point where on two key issues it became unbridgeable.
And uh n not to repeat what I said last year incessantly, but I said the thing the thing then which was obvious that if you don't like Trump, you should steal his issues.
The fact is we have all this argument about who's conservative.
Oh, Trump isn't conservative.
Trump isn't conservative.
He's he's not actually interested in political philosophies, not in the least bit interested in political philosophies, couldn't care less.
So he's not conservative.
On my issue, freedom of speech, he's not good at all.
He's he's uh his his inclination is always to sue, his inclination is always to demand that people shut down or be shut down, he's terrible on that.
Uh but nobody cares about freedom of speech uh except uh me and uh a few it's a boutique issue.
It's not a first order issue for for the average uh the average voter.
Uh whereas Paul Ryan uh became unconservative on a first order issue.
Paul Ryan, who's a nice uh perfectly nice fellow, but who couldn't win a debate against Joe Biden.
Paul Ryan uh is basically an open borders guy.
Uh Lindsay Graham, who who wants to have uh is in favor of this insanely uh schizophrenic policy whereby he's in in favor of intervening with boots on the ground in every crummy uh imploded failed state around the planet, but at the same time he wants America's doors to be open so that anybody from the planet can come here.
Those are two contradictory positions.
Uh if America's national security is such that we have to intervene all over the planet, then we shouldn't be letting people uh just wander into the country to blow up San Diego.
Those two issues, those two issues, uh the gap between the leadership of the party uh uh uh and the base widened and became unbridgeable.
And most of the leadership has now uh gone quiet on that issue, and the people who are chafing at what's happened are mostly the uh the the intellectual class in the Republican Party, the people who are running the think tanks and the political magazines and uh uh writers such as P. J. O'Rourke and so forth,
and they have decided that uh in PJ's case they're gonna vote for Hillary Clinton, and uh in the case of Bill Crystal that they're gonna find somebody uh that they can run as a third party candidate.
I don't understand how you can in good conscience ask John Kaseg, who lost, who lost, who who only won Ohio.
I he he he came second in Vermont and he did quite I th where did he come in New Hampshire?
Did he come second in New Hampshire?
I think he did, you know, but but by the rules of the game he lost.
And and that's just the fact of the that's just the fact of life.
They had the Eurovision Song Contest in Europe, which is where ABBA came from.
Uh and apart from ABBA, pretty much everything that's come out of the Eurovision Song Contest is lousy.
You have these continental pop acts singing la la la, boom bang a bang, ding ding-a-dong, ridiculous songs, uh sung in this uh pathetic version of sort of uh kind of rock and roll English.
Yahya baby mit the rock and roll.
Uh uh they have this they have this weird thing.
Who was it?
Ukraine won yesterday with the song about the Crimea, a pop song about the Crimea.
That's great.
Be coming to a radio station near you in about thirty years' time if you're unlucky.
Uh there's no point they had the competition, this stupid Ukrainian song about the Crimea Crimea won and that's it.
Under the rules of the Eurovision song contest, Ukraine of the creators of the best pop song on the planet.
Likewise the Republican nominating process, which was designed explicitly to prevent crazy guys like Ron Paul hijacking the process again, has now delivered it up to Donald Trump.
They created a process designed to enable a Mitt Romney Jeb Bush candidate to win easily to win about twenty minutes after the close of polls in New Hampshire.
And instead it dragged on for another couple of months and wound up going to a reality show guy with uh with strange hair.
That nevertheless is what happened.
He is the Ukrainian pop star of the Republican Party's Eurovision song contest and you have to live with the result because either he's gonna be the president or Hillary's gonna be the president.
So pick which one of those you like.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Hey Mark Stein in for Rush let's go uh to Linda calling from uh Marshall North Carolina reeling under the transgendered bathroom boycott of the world but Linda is bearing up great to have you with us on the show today, Linda.
Hi Mark it's nice to talk to you.
I always enjoy you when you're filling for rush.
Thanks, thanks a lot.
What what's what's on your mind today?
Well my question to you is um George let me just make a a point.
I think this is all a diversion that the administration um this HBQ bill I believe it's a big diversion.
I think there's more going on there's a cover up I think this whole thing with Ben Rhodes um Obama lying.
Um you were just talking about Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying.
You know what is going on here?
There's uh we're we're worried about where point zero three percent of the population is gonna relieve themselves it's ridiculous.
It's just it's bad it's skeptical you mention well yeah and it is ridiculous that the Attorney General of the United States is apparently the national uh bathroom commissar um but you you uh mentioned Ben Rhodes who's the Obama foreign policy guru uh who was the subject of that piece in the New York Times.
Rush was talking about him last week.
And he was doing the same thing that the the speech writers were doing with Charlie Rose when they were yucking it up about those uh those rubes fell for the if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor line.
Uh th the uh the Ben Rhodes thing was he he was basically laughing it up at how gullible the press was over the Iranian situation.
And uh that's uh and and you're wondering why I mean in a sense what's happened is uh they've all turned round and clobbered uh the guy Samuels who wrote that piece for sort of giving the game away uh where Ben Rhodes was sneering about these twenty seven year old reporters who don't report anything.
They've never been anywhere.
They haven't been you know foreign correspondents in uh in Tokyo or the jungles of Papua so they don't actually know anything about the places they're writing about.
So increasingly they're just uh printing the Obama spin on on the Iranian situation rather than actually looking at uh the nature of the Iranian regime.
And and it's the sa exactly what they were doing with the healthcare business.
They're actually they measure political success in how brilliantly they can sell these lies to first of all the media and then to the public.
And that's what ties Ben Rhodes and those two twelve year old speech writers together.
But you think this ought to be a bigger deal, Linda.
Oh I do.
I definitely do.
I yes I definitely do.
Get on you know we have to get a heads out of the toilet you talk about the Clinton Foundation.
They speak about diarrhea in Africa.
Well what are we speaking about here?
There's all these uh it's all a big distraction, divert and amplify.
And I I uh I think we know there's a lot more people you talk about Trump and um how he really speaks to people who are just disgusted.
He's speaking out to the you know the frustration and disgust that people see you see this happening, and you're you're shaking your head.
You talk to your neighbors and they think of the same thing, and they're saying, why is this not a bigger deal?
Turn on the regular regular TV, you don't hear anything about it, you know, it just starts being censored.
It's scary.
No, the the uh and and I think there is a general uh w what's interesting is the way they all play this game in which uh and Ben Rhodes is was brilliant at that, where the Iranian nuclear threat, which is what it is.
It's it's about crazy guys who don't respect the norms of prudent states, even uh uh like uh the Soviet Union.
Nobody had to worry about the Soviets seizing the US embassy.
Nobody had to worry uh about the Cubans seizing the U.S. interest section in Havana.
The Iranians aren't like that.
They uh they uh issue mob hits on novelists uh like Salman Rushdie and they seize embassies and they blow up community centers in Argentina, they don't carry on like a normal state.
And supposedly we're asked to believe that the people now in charge of Iran, when they go nuclear, they will behave the same with the same prudence that the Soviets or the Chinese behave with when they go nuclear.
And if they're wrong on that, you know, in other words, if someone dies as a result of all the clever finessing that Ben Rhodes and Barack Obama does.
If if there's if we wake up one morning and there's a mushroom cloud on TV somewhere in the Middle East or somewhere else, because of the fecklessness of Ben Rhodes, the idea that it's all sophisticated and it's all political spin and uh and that all that matters is putting one over on the other guys, and that it's all it's all just beltway talk, and there isn't actually a real place in Iran where real people are developing real bombs.
This idea that it's just the Washington shadow play that counts.
If you listen to the way Ben Rhodes and those twelve-year-old speechwriters on the Charlie Rose talk show uh were speaking, it's actually a sign of decadence.
Um they're not dealing with anything real, they're just dealing with kind of artful perception and clever lines, like some like some kind of late-night sorority debate in which you come up with some devastating witticism uh that that that that impresses everybody in the room.
But it has no real world meaning that concerns you.
And the real world meaning of Obamacare, uh where there are uh millions of people who are having to pay more and more, more, more, more for worse, worse, worse health care every year, or the real world meaning of the Iran deal, which is that you're empowering a millenarian state that does not respect the most basic norms of state relations.
None of that matters to the because these guys are so clever.
They've got such clever lines, and the rubes just fall for them, and that's all that matters.
And the real world consequences of that, Linda, uh, will be hung around this administration's neck, and history will not look kindly on them.
Thanks for your call.
Uh, we got lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I think Hillary may finally have secured the nomination.
Uh Burlington College in Vermont has just announced that it will close for good next week because it's unable to recover from the crushing weight of debt run up by Bernie Sanders' wife, the college's former president Jane Sanders.
So uh Jane Sanders was the president of Burlington College, uh and she takes the Bernie view of life and she spend, spend, spend.
There's no spending that's too high enough for her, and uh and uh she has uh now uh delivered such a crushing amount of debt to Burlington College in Burlington, Vermont, uh that the college is going to close next week.
By the way, look for that.
If Bernie is inaugurated as president next January, look for the entire United States government to have a grand close down final weekend going out of business sale uh round about May the twenty-seventh next year.
That's Jane Sanders.
Uh Bernie Sanders' wife did it to Burlington College for Bod.
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