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June 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You know, so I stepped out of the room, which I normally do during the big top of the hour break.
And I walked back into the room and I got the monitors on here and I see the Chiron graphic at the bottom of the Fox News monitor.
And it says up there that investigators are still looking for a motive.
And America just looks at this and pulls it.
So what the hell are you still looking for a motive for?
It's another reason why Donald Trump has pulled off what he has pulled off here.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
It's great to have you as always, my friends.
Really, really delighted to be back.
Been looking forward to it since about my seventh day away.
No, no, no.
No, no, I was going to say I've been looking forward to it since my first day away.
But I figured I'd be realistic.
No, no, no.
I didn't get bored.
No, no, no.
But I just, I've been looking forward to getting back, and here we are.
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Still looking for a motive.
Investigators are still looking for a motive.
This just insults our intelligence.
It's like Obama.
You know, I watched a little bit more of Obama's little speech that was suspiciously timed to start right when my first program after vacation is starting.
I don't think it's a coincidence.
And something struck me.
And I think when I saw him go into this protracted two and a half minute segment on why it is irrelevant to call them militant Islamists and why he doesn't use the term because it doesn't have any strategic value.
You know what the guy sounded like?
Honest, and this is, I don't know.
It sounds to me like it's the way defense lawyers talk.
You know, when there's a suspect and you got a defense lawyer, well, there's no conclusive evidence here.
We're still looking for a motive.
You haven't found a right.
Obama comes every one of these things.
Every one of these events, Obama ends up sounding like defense lawyers speak on behalf of their clients.
He doesn't reflect the national mood about these things.
It's not even close.
And of course, everybody knows the reason he won't refer to the term, use the term Islamic, militant Islamists or whatever, because he has yet to admit that that's what we're up against.
And if he were to actually go out and use the term and identify who it is we're actually up, it would totally force a complete change in strategy.
You realize Obama's strategy in dealing with this has nothing to do with who these people are.
As far as he's concerned, they're just a bunch of militants that got hold of some guns.
As in Fast and Furious.
There's nothing, in his world, there's nothing that sets these people apart from any other band of bad guys or criminals.
And that's how he talks about them.
And that's what makes me suspicious.
There's clearly a difference.
These people announce their intentions.
They announce their objectives and then they go fulfill them.
They call in the middle of their murderous rampage.
They call 911 and tell everybody what they're doing and why.
And we still say we have no reason to suspect that there was anything behind.
We know an investigator still looking for a motive.
Obama comes out and it sounds like rather than condemning, he sees the need to deflect suspicion away from them.
That's the way it sounds to me.
It's just off, folks.
It just doesn't make any sense.
It never has made any sense.
America is assault.
9-11, and it's the same thing.
And it's not just Obama.
It's the whole Democrat Party.
Whenever something like this happens, we have to examine our own selves and ask ourselves why we have made them so mad.
Why have we done whatever it is we've done?
Why have we made the, why do they dislike us?
As though they're justified in this somehow.
And of course, the answer is, well, there's a bunch of right-wing Christians in America, and everybody knows what a bunch of bigots they are.
That's the Democrat Party's current explanation for every one of these attacks.
Or the NRA, which of course is part of the Christian establishment, if you will, has to be.
And meanwhile, everybody sees these things in the exact opposite way, knows full-fledged that we won't have to question anything.
We just have to listen to them.
They are doing what they said they were going to do.
And even that's not enough to conclude that we understand the motivation.
A couple of more Obama soundbites from the he was at the Treasury Department over there.
That's where he was with this impromptu speech or a piece.
I don't know what it was.
I don't think it was a presser.
I don't think he took any questions, right?
So just a statement on Orlando.
That's what it was.
He could have done that at 11 o'clock.
He could have done it at 10 o'clock.
He could have done it.
He could have done it at any time.
He chose a start time of 11:55, which is an automatic start time of 12.06.10, which is when this program starts.
Anyway, here's a couple of more laying into Trump, by the way.
Here's the first one.
We're starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we're fighting, where this can lead us.
We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from emigrating to America.
We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence.
Where does this stop?
The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer, they were all U.S. citizens.
Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently?
Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance?
Why does nobody see the fact that they're all American citizens as something to investigate?
It's a cover.
If they are sleepers or members of sleeper cells, certainly coming here at a young age, becoming acclimated, establishing yourself as somebody unworthy of suspicion or threat, you're ideal.
You can pass all kinds of inspection.
You can pass all kinds of investigation.
Yeah, he's a citizen.
Nothing to worry about here.
Why does nobody see this as part of the strategy?
Instead, this is what I mean.
Obama's sounding like a defense lawyer.
He's defending these guys and they're lashing out at Trump.
Trump's language had nothing to do with anything.
The shooter was very clear why he did what he did.
Now, let me tell you something.
There's another possibility here.
Who is it?
His wife or girlfriend or whatever says that he said he was gay.
Ex-wife said he was gay.
Okay.
And that he was a regular visitor to this gay nightclub, the pulse.
Okay?
What happens if the guy was rejected in there?
What happens if the guy's been going in there and been laughed at, laughed out of the joint, mistreated, made fun of?
Who knows what?
I mean, if you're looking for alternative motives, if you can't simply accept what's right in front of your face, I'm giving you another one, another possibility.
But in either case, the blame falls on the shooter who pulled the trigger.
So you get San Bernardino, you got Fort Hood, got Orlando.
Now, the Boston marathon bomb, the scenario, I don't know if they're citizens or not.
Were they citizens?
Right, they got in on visas.
A lot of these terror attacks on Obama's watch.
Okay, so you don't like that.
Okay, so they're just average ordinary American citizens.
They may be from Afghanistan.
They may be from Syria.
They may be from wherever.
They come here and they're young, and their parents are born and become American citizens at Sweetness and White and so forth.
And one day they get radicalized.
Yep.
And that's where America's to blame.
You see, the internet, America, whatever.
They get radicalized.
How'd they get radicalized?
How does it happen?
They come here, they're American citizens.
How do they get radicalized?
How does that happen?
Who would be responsible?
You think Trump's responsible for that?
Obama wants to tell us that Guantanamo Bay is responsible for that, or that photos of Abu Ghrab are responsible for that, or that conducting war on Osama bin Laden is received.
If you've noticed, everything we do to defeat this enemy is said to be responsible for the existence of the enemy.
It always comes back in their minds to being our fault.
And that's what I mean by Obama sounding like he's defending this and is more at home and more comfortable attacking people who have nothing to do with it.
Here is the next and final sound by Obama wasn't done.
You'll hear, I think, some anger here.
Do Republican officials actually agree with this?
Because that's not the America we want.
It doesn't reflect our Democratic ideals.
It won't make us more safe.
It won't make us less safe.
See?
Fueling ISIL's notion that the West hates Muslims, making young Muslims in this country and around the world feel like no matter what they do, they're going to be under suspicion and under attack.
It makes Muslim Americans feel like their government is betraying them.
It betrays the very values America stands for.
I don't know if when I hear this guy start talking about American values, I don't recognize a lot of them, honestly.
I don't know.
His values, to me, are not traceable to the founding.
His values that he's appropriating and claiming to be American values are the values of a bunch of people that really don't like this country, the American left, the Democrat Party, American progressives.
But did you hear this?
Do Republican officials actually agree with this?
Because that's not the America we want.
It doesn't reflect our Democrat ideals.
It won't make us more safe.
It'll make us less safe.
Fueling ISIL's notion the West hates Muslims is what makes young Muslims radical.
Oh, that see, it always comes back to us, folks.
A militant Islamist shot up a gay nightclub, and it's our fault.
It's Donald Trump's fault.
We are making them because of our bigotry and prejudice and our mean words.
Let me tell you something, Mr. President.
I don't care what Donald Trump is saying.
People are not dying because of it.
Donald Trump is just uttering words.
I am just uttering words.
And you want to make those words, you want people to believe those words are more dangerous than the bullets fired by the shooter in this case?
It's offensive.
Sit here and try to suggest that these words are what's inspiring these people to pick up arms and shoot us.
It's not.
This is why Obama can't admit why he will not use the term Islamist extremism or whatever.
Because he would have to abandon this notion that America is responsible for this.
He would have to abandon his entire strategy of dealing with these people.
And his strategy of dealing with them is there's nothing special about them.
Just a bunch of ragtag bad guys with guns like any other group of gangsters.
That's how he wants us to see them, how he sees them, how everybody else should see them.
He doesn't want it known.
Hence, sounds defensive.
Now, there's a story.
I don't know how many of you people steam this.
And I don't know how many of you are going to make a connection here.
But it's part of this notion that everybody's, the investigators are struggling to find a motive.
We can't find why would Mateen do what he did?
It just baffles us.
Well, there's a name you should know, Marcus Robertson.
This is from San Antonio.
Story sourced in San Antonio.
In the first hours after the terrorist massacre in Orlando, we kept hearing that Omar Mateen, Omar Siddiqui Mateen, had no criminal record, but he didn't need one, you see, because he knew Marcus Robertson.
You know who Marcus Robertson is?
I'll lay you a dollar to a donut.
None of you know who Marcus Robertson is.
Marcus Robertson is a former bodyguard to the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, who was the architect of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
Marcus Robertson, former bodyguard to the famous blind sheikh, is a suspect in more than one attack on police.
He is a robber of banks to fund his activities.
And one of his activities is an online ministry, the Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary.
It operates out of Orlando.
Omar Sadiki Mateen was a follower of the Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary and Marcus Robertson.
It's not a coincidence that this happened in Orlando, a law enforcement source told Fox News.
Marcus Robertson, also known as Abu Taba, he preaches against homosexuality.
He's been captured on wiretaps, urging and inciting his disciples to file false tax returns, identity theft, using the money to travel overseas for terror training in Central Asia and Northern Africa.
Didn't need a criminal record.
He just needed a mentor.
Seems like he had one.
Back in a second.
You ever notice that one Looney Tunes radical Islamist shooting up a gay nightclub?
No way, no way does that have anything to do with Islam.
No way.
You cannot make that connection.
You can lone wolf.
He's whatever.
But any time a non-Muslim shoots up a movie theater, do they not attempt to impugn all Christians, all conservatives, all Republicans as being represented by that guy?
But when a militant Islamist comes along, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, this has nothing to do with Islam, nothing to do whatsoever, no, no, this is a one-off, the guy's a lone wolf.
No, no, no, no, no.
We cannot make that connection.
Some wacko shoots up a movie theater in Colorado, and they try to link him to the Tea Party and any other Republican group they can find.
Here's Stephen Frederick, Maryland, as we head back to the phones.
I'm glad you waited, Steve.
Hello.
Well, thanks, Rush.
I appreciate you taking my call.
Yeah, long time listener, first-time caller.
Your comment about Barack sounding like a defense lawyer is right on, and I don't know if you picked up on the theme.
I had to listen to a little bit of his speech this afternoon, but he referred to this young man as being exposed to the propaganda and evil content of the internet.
He made no mention of shutting the internet down or making the internet illegal to stop that type of activity, but he's real quick to point to guns.
So, you know, again, he sounded very defensive, and I think it's a recent theme.
I believe he said something similar yesterday as well in another speech, and he talked about the internet.
Oh, yeah.
He said the guy was radicalized by the internet.
Right.
And again, he sounds like a defense lawyer because now it's the internet's fault that the young man was exposed to the evil content of the internet.
Yeah, that's a crock.
Let me tell you something.
They're already, I mean, the level of insanity on the sewers of the internet is already filled.
There would be assassinations every day if those people took up arms and started shooting people simply because of what they see on the internet.
It's a bogus excuse.
It's a bogus explanation.
It's just as bogus as it's the fault of guns.
Well, and if you check, you know, it's really interesting.
He is so anti-gun yet.
Every time he brings this up, check out Stru Mr. or Smith and Wesson's stock today.
Oh, or the retail sales, I know.
I know.
They skyrocket.
They go through the roof.
Well, Steve, I'm glad you called.
I'm really flattered and honored to have some concurrence in my take on this that Obama.
It just sounds defensive about this.
He really sounds defensive when things like this, especially this guy, Omar Mateen, Siddiqui, whatever, sounds defensive about this.
It's the guns.
It was the internet.
This guy was just an innocent flower living his life as an American citizen.
And then the internet.
And the NRA came along.
And the rest is history.
What a crock.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh would have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This idea that this is radical Islam anyway is we need to ask ourselves how many nations I think I read, I was just looking for the reference I have during the break and I didn't find it, so I'm relying here on my on my memory.
I think I have something here in the stack, and if this number is not right, it's close, that there are 11 Muslim nations where the penalty for homosexuality is death.
I can name three, Saudi Arabia, and they publicly execute homosexuality.
Iran is another.
Kuwait is another.
Qatar is another.
I don't know about Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
They're trying to do different things there.
But there are, it's standard.
It is statutory law.
It's not extremist.
It's what is.
You know, it's almost, I've curious, been curious about the feminazis, who don't seem to consider militant Islam a threat whatsoever, but we are.
We Republicans, we conservatives.
But in Islam, women are barely three-fifths of a human being.
Women can't do anything without their husbands.
If a woman drives a car without her husband's permission, she can be severely punished in public.
And you don't even want to think about an affair if that is uncovered.
I mean, that's death.
And yet, it is never referenced.
It's never met.
And I'm telling you again, this is why Obama does not identify who we're fighting.
It would totally, it would totally upset, it would blow up the entire Democrat progressive strategy of defeating us to properly, to correctly identify what we're up against.
Obama's running around there saying, I don't know how calling them whatever we want to call them is going to change the way they fight.
It's not about them.
Here's another thing.
This is, I've got to blow this up.
I've been hearing about this since Abu Grab, since those pictures from Abu Grab, the prison in Iraq.
And in Club Gitmo, we have been told, we've been lectured over and over again that innocent Muslims, minding their own business, hear what is said.
They see the pictures from Abu Ghrab.
They learn of the existence of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and that alone turns them into terrorists.
And meaning that they're sitting around minding their own business, happy as clams, and then they hear what we are saying, and they go nuts.
Let me ask you something.
Do you care?
Do any of us care what they happen to be saying about us?
It has nothing to do with what we think of them, who they are, what they profess.
But my point is, only the Democrats, only a bunch of progressives could actually try to make people think that average, ordinary, normal people can become mass murderers because of things that are said about them.
It just doesn't work that way.
And I will guarantee you this.
The head honchos of Islam, take your favorite imam, take your favorite mullah, take your favorite terrorist leader.
They don't give a rat's rear end what we say about them.
They don't need it.
They already despise us because we are infidels.
It doesn't matter to them.
Their feelings don't get hurt.
Their anger does not get enhanced because it's irrelevant.
And yet that's what Obama and the Democrat Party want everybody to believe is that we're responsible for all this because of the way we talk about them and the way we treat them.
And we put them in prisons and it's just absurd.
But it's strategic Because it is obvious, and Obama made it abundantly clear today, that identifying this enemy, honestly, he's not going to do.
That's what that whole little two-minute bit was about, making fun of somebody who calls them militants.
I'm not going to do that.
Why would I do that?
It's pointless.
It makes no sense.
It wouldn't help us strategically in any way.
He had to lay down the marker because he's not going to change his strategy.
Couldn't afford to.
Cannot afford to.
Did you see this?
I don't know what you've seen, what you haven't seen in my absence.
When was this?
It's just yesterday.
You may not have seen it.
It's from Breitbart News.
Black Planned Parenthood activists blame Orlando terror attack on toxic masculinity.
Did Stein discuss this yesterday?
All right.
Planned parenthood black community blaming toxic masculinity for the horrific shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
The black community of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which says it works to protect and advance the sexual and reproductive rights of African Americans, tweeted about the or tweeted that the Orlando massacre committed by Omar Mateen was caused by toxic masculinity and a global culture of imperialist homophobia.
Yeah, you know what?
It was the masculine police who finally killed the shooter.
It was the masculine police who finally got people still alive out of that club after the masculine police stormed it.
The masculine police thought that the shooter had a bomb in there, but they still went in anyway.
The toxic masculinity group saved the day.
Was this club in a gun-free zone in Orlando?
I don't know.
Just asking because how many people were in this club?
Obviously, none of them were armed.
If somebody had been armed in there, this would have been a lot less of an incident than it was.
See how that works, too.
Here's Ken, Livonia, Michigan.
We head back to the phones.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yeah, Rush, I had to call in because I'm very concerned that our elected officials refuse to correctly identify who our threat is, who our enemy is.
Now, I've read the Quran from Rush cover to cover.
I've examined very thoroughly the teachings of Muhammad.
I've examined the history of Muhammad from his day until today.
And Rush, it's the truth to say this.
When we examine the behavior of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, even the governments of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and many others, these people are in harmony with Muhammad.
These people are doing exactly what Muhammad did.
These people are doing exactly what the Quran teaches.
So these people are not radicals, Rush.
We have to use the correct terminology.
These people are devout.
These people are faithful.
These people are true followers of Muhammad.
If Muhammad was alive today, he would be very happy with these people.
And so, Rush, it is a lie to say Islam is a religion of peace because for 1,400 years, Rush, there has been no shred of evidence to show that they are what they claim.
I'm going to tell my story again.
I apologize in advance for those of you who have heard this.
It is redundant, but I need to back up what Ken here is saying because some of you might think, who is this guy?
Anybody call a talk show claim they read the Koran.
Limbos, let this guy get away with blaspheming a great religion.
So let me back it up here.
You all by now know of our good friend Andrew McCarthy.
You've seen him probably on Fox a lot.
He writes at National Review and a lot of other places.
But he used to be a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Manhattan.
He was, He and a partner were the lead prosecutors in the trial of the blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, who was the mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993.
Short story, stick with me.
McCarthy, as part of his trial prep, decided to read the Quran.
It was his impression that Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheikh, who was advocating blowing up the Lincoln Tunnel and any number of other strategic sites in New York City, World Trade Center, had to be a nut.
He had to be loony.
He had to be an absolute wacko.
So he set out to find out how this guy differed from the Quran.
He was looking for any advantage he could in the trial.
Wanted to get a conviction, wanted to put the guy away, which he did.
And he's written about this in a couple of books, in a number of columns.
He finished the Quran and he was chilled because he found out that Omar Abdel Rahman was not a kook.
He was not out of the mainstream of Islam.
He was the mainstream.
It was a brutal realization and awakening.
It was like everybody else.
You figure people that blow up buildings and want to murder mass numbers of people.
That's just not.
No matter where you go in the world, that's not normal.
That has to be aberrational.
That has to be extreme.
It has to be way, way out of the mainstream.
McCarthy found it's not.
And he's been telling people about this, writing about this, mentioning this.
He's got a much better version of the story.
I'm time constrained here, but he's told this story since 1995.
How many years is that?
And still, it's considered a bastardized interpretation.
The telling of the story is still necessary.
And if you tell it the wrong place at the wrong time, here comes care following you as close as they can get to you.
Anyway, I take a break, but I'm glad you called Ken.
Thanks much.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Fox News has apparently confirmed that the gunman's wife or ex-wife knew the guy planned to hit the nightclub and didn't do anything about it.
Fox News confirms that the wife of Orlando massacre gunman Omar Mateen.
Why do they leave out Siddiqui?
Siddiqui is my favorite name of the three.
Siddiqui.
You could say Siddiqui.
They never put it in the story.
They always say Omar Mateen.
I'm going to throw the Siddiqui in there.
Wife of the Orlando massacre gunman Omar Siddiqui Mateen knew of his plans to kill patrons in the plus nightclub and did nothing about it.
By the way, there are 10 countries where homosexuality is punished by death.
They are Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, or Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
Not Saudi.
It's not Saudi.
It's not the house of Saud.
It's the house of Saud.
It's Saudi Arabia.
It bugs me to hear people say Saudi Arabia.
It's Saudi.
And it's not even, it's named after a guy named Saud.
He's so egotistical.
He named the whole country after himself.
Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates, which would include Dubai, and remember the ports of Dubai.
And Abu Dhabi.
So there's 10 of them.
The Emirates, they got one country, but there's three there.
I've been there.
Do you know in Dubai, shortly after I left, it was a way station on my way into Afghanistan for a troop visit.
Shortly after I left, there was a British couple that were put in jail just kissing, just kissing on the beach, kissing on the beach.
They were put in jail in front of their hotel, put in jail for a year until the British diplomatic corps had got them out.
Just kissing.
PDA, public display of affection.
What?
Wait, no, wait, wait, wait.
I knew there was some.
Did you see this, the Daily Caller?
London's Muslim mayor bans sexy women in advertisements.
Now let me tell you, the nags are going to love this.
This is exactly what they've been aiming for since the late 60s.
Sadiq Khan, London's first Muslim mayor, announced yesterday that body shaming advertisements will no longer be allowed in London's public transport.
Remember now, this is just the beginning.
These people never solve problems, this stuff.
They just create new ways to deny liberty and freedom.
He said, as the father of two teenage girls, I'm extremely concerned about this kind of advertising, which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies.
It's high time it came to an end.
The mayor added that nobody should feel pressurized while they travel on the tube or the bus into unrealistic expectations surrounding their bodies.
And I want to send a clear message to the advertising industry about this.
Advertisements, recently, advertisements featuring bikini-clad models in the British city of Birmingham were spray-painted over.
Birmingham has a high Muslim population.
Now, can you imagine this happening in New York City?
No, no.
I want you to imagine that this is all happening.
And I want you to imagine that the new mayor of New York, whenever, is a Muslim.
And he has decided that not only are all the billboards and all the bus cards and all the taxi cabs and all the stuff in the subways too provocative because of the way women are portrayed, he's going to ban it.
No more beautiful women, no more scantily clad.
You got to be average, frumpy, or whatever, or you don't get to appear.
And then says, you know what?
We're going to move on to the magazines.
I mean, if it's body shaming, if we've got to protect people from feeling embarrassed about themselves, we've got to go to one.
And then we're going to, no movie filmed in New York will be permitted.
It's going to happen at some point if it's happening in London.
Mayoral decree.
Just happening.
By the way, the ex-wife, Omar Mateen Siddiqui, claims the FBI told her not to tell anybody her husband was gay.
Why would the FBI do that?
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