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June 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back.
It's great to have you here as always.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man.
A man you could and do totally trust.
I am also America's truth detector and a doctor of democracy.
Meeting and surpassing all audience performance expectations every day.
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I meant to start last hour, but I just got caught up in all this.
I want to make sure I passed on everything I had without too many interruptions.
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So John Brennan, the CIA director, testifies before Congress today.
That's under oath.
That's under oath.
Obama was not under oath yesterday.
Look, I uh folks, I I'm making a deal out of this because I don't know what's right anymore.
I don't know what's true anymore.
All we know is is what our eyes tell us.
We know that.
You mean isn't it isn't it true?
Didn't a lot of people vote for Obama for a lot of reasons.
One of the reasons people voted for Obama was they thought that doing so would end any idea that there was race or racism in this country.
If this country could elect an African American as president, and it couldn't be a racist country, and we'd get rid of that problem.
That a lot of people were hoping and praying that that's what Obama's election mean.
And that's all.
They weren't voting for Obama policy-wise, they weren't voting because Obama was pretty much running an empty canvas campaign based on feel good unity and all this.
There was another group of people, quite sizable that thought, okay, we're electing a guy named Barack Obama.
Maybe that might send a message to Islam that we're not a problem.
They don't need to be mad at us.
Well, how's that working?
I think in both instances, people that voted for Obama in both cases have been sorely disappointed.
But it was just yesterday.
If I got the time frame right, I when was yesterday Obama went out there to the speech?
Or was it Trump that we jipped?
Yeah, it was two days ago.
It was two days ago.
Here's what Obama said.
He said ISIL is under more.
This is the press conference where he ripped into Trump.
And everybody for getting mad at him for not using the phrase militant Islamic terrorism or extremist Islamic terrorism.
And Obama's getting all defensive.
Well, won't I use the term?
Well, because what is it supposed to beat them?
We go out there, we call them that name, they're gonna give up.
Is that what it means?
You know, totally missing the point.
The reason we want to hear you say is because we want to know you consider him an enemy too.
And it's obvious he doesn't.
He's got a romanticized version of Islam that does not include terrorism in it.
All these acts of terrorism are coming from non-players that are doing it in the name of Islam, but it isn't true.
They're not Islamists.
Well, that's what we're supposed to believe.
Anyway, here's what he said.
He was not under oath.
Brennan was.
ISIL is under more pressure than ever before.
ISIL continues to lose ground in Iraq.
All told ISIL has now lost nearly half the populated territory it once controlled in Iraq, and it'll lose more.
ISIL continues to lose ground in Syria as well.
As ISIL continues to lose territory, it also continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood.
As a result of our strikes against its oil infrastructure and supply lines.
We believe that we've cut ISIL's revenue from oil by millions of dollars per month.
Wasn't wait a second now.
What wait just a sec.
When did we start hitting their oil infrastructure?
Right, that's Donald Trump's responsible for that, right?
I mean, Obama purposely avoided it.
When Did we start hitting their oil infrastructure?
What is Obama appropriating that as his idea now?
Well, anyway, I don't want to get too off point here.
As a result of our strikes against the oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe that we've cut ISIL's revenue from oil by millions of dollars a month in destroying the storage sites where they keep their money.
We've deprived ISIL of many millions more.
Cutting off ISIL's money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it's critically important, and we are seeing the results.
Now, Director Brennan, mere hours ago, told the Senate that the U.S. has not reduced ISIS terror reach and capability a smidgen.
And Obama only started bombing ISIS oil installations when he was shamed into it largely by the Trumpster.
Obama was in fact saying that wouldn't matter.
We're not going to do that.
We're not going to destroy the oil.
The world needs the oil.
We need the oil for the global warming people to have somebody doing something to oppose.
John Brennan's out there saying that ISIL working to smuggle agents into the country, perhaps among refugee flows, or through legitimate means of travel.
CIA director also noted that ISIL's call for volunteers and followers to conduct so-called lone wolf attacks in their home countries working.
He called ISIS a "formidable adversary." He said the U.S.-led coalition has made progress combating the group over there, which had to surrender large swaths of territory.
I don't see folks, what do you call it ISIS?
What do you call it the Muslim Brotherhood?
Where do you call it Al-Qaeda?
Whether you call it Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Whatever you call it, they are on the march.
They are taking over Europe.
By way of terror and threats and intimidation.
And I'm not aware of any of these kind of terror attacks occurring before Obama became president.
But those instances are increasing here too.
We've had the Fort Hood massacre.
We've had the San Bernardino massacre.
We've had a bunch of attempts.
We've had this thing in Orlando.
And in the midst of all of it, we're not permitted to correctly identify it.
So I you know, you wonder who are we to believe?
You know, Brennan spoke under oath today describing this threat from ISIS, totally undercutting what Obama said, but then you realize it's budget time in Washington.
So who are we to believe?
And even that, whether we don't believe any.
We still know that these terror attacks are happening.
And we are learning very quickly that it doesn't seem to be much we can do about it beforehand.
We're not allowed to examine social media to find intelligence with these people tipping their hand, explaining what they're going to do or what they'd like to do, they're motivated.
We're not allowed to factor it in because we're not allowed to delve into Muslim communities.
Our investigative units like the FBI are not permitted to by statute.
So it's the strangest thing.
So much of life in America defies common sense.
So much that's happening now.
I can't you those of you who are, say, 50, 45, you can't imagine things like this happening when you were in your teens or your early twenties and your careers are just starting.
You can't imagine this kind of thing happening.
I have people say to me all the time, Rush, this has happened overnight.
One day I wake up and I find out that the things I believe are all of a sudden in the minority in this country.
When did this all happen?
You know, and it does appear to be that it had basically happened while we were sleeping.
We woke up in the midst of the Obama presidency, and everything seems to be turned upside down.
And it's being called progress or change for the better, or transformation, or what have you.
Meanwhile, there's more misery nationwide than you can shake a stick at.
There are more unemployed people that want to work than you can shake a stick at.
There are more people frozen in their standard of living.
They're not increasing their standard of living.
They're not adding to their wealth.
They're losing jobs, losing income.
The healthcare system's been blown to smithereens.
Don't know what you can trust there.
You know you can't afford it.
Even if you have a job, you're worried you're going to lose it.
If you have savings, you're worried somebody's going to take it, or you're going to have to tap into it before you intend it to, and it's going to be gone.
Meanwhile, you turn on the TV, you see a president's happier than he can be.
We see a president, we see the Democrat Party to think things have never been better.
While their supporters are continually enraged and angry and mad and taking it out on people, you wake up and find out that you were responsible because you're an American or Christian for what happened in Orlando.
You scratch your head and say, wait a minute, what?
People actually believe this.
They're not just saying it for political advantage to advance an agenda.
Some of these actually believe this stuff.
How do you deal with this kind of ignorance, stupidity, prejudice, bias, bigotry, which is all on the left in these examples I'm giving.
Here's a somewhat related story.
This is from a website called Intellectual Takeout.
Our show prep knows no bounds here.
Once we determine that something is not fake or satire, we'll go with it.
College kids can't discern between fact and opinion.
That's exactly right, and that's how they've been taught.
And it's not just recent students.
I think many in the media today don't know the difference between fact and opinion.
In many cases, opinion can be fact if it's the right opinion.
If you can't tell the difference between opinion and fact, then you are incapable of critical thinking, critical speech, critical writing.
Because that's not taught anymore.
No one's taught to have critical logical thinking.
You know why?
Logical thinking is going to produce opinions that some are going to call racist or sexist or bigoted or homophobic.
You're not permitted to be any of that, which means you have to throw logic out half the time.
And instead adopt whatever the politically correct view of something is, which by definition is not fact.
It's a huge problem.
You can't get through to people who are not capable of reasoning.
Being incapable of reasoning is the equivalent of having a closed mind, which is one thing.
But when the people with closed minds think they're the ones with open minds, the problem is compounded.
We are not teaching critical logical thinking.
We're treat we're teaching obedience to the leftist agenda.
We are programming and indoctrinating and propagandizing students, and we are purposely instructing them not to think on their own.
That becomes punishable.
That means varying and staring away from the ordained, and you are not permitted to do this.
You must remain a true follower.
And this has been going on for so long.
You can't get through to people.
You can't reason with them.
They can hear the facts that you ought to use.
You can present to them with total truth.
Things that destroy everything they believe, and it won't get through.
It becomes a threat.
They've been taught to have closed minds and such what you say doesn't do anything but panic them.
And then they want nothing to do with you, and then if it gets really bad, they try to shut you up.
Or have the institutions of the university shut you up.
Whatever, you're you're become a threat.
You're saying things that they're not permitted to think that they've been told are whatever, and you have you're the problem.
Here's the way the story begins.
By this point in the year, most half scroll seniors have walked across the stage and grabbed their diploma.
Many parents sit proudly by during the process, sniffing back tears and saying, I can't believe they're already going to college.
I can't believe it.
Other parents are saying, I thought that they would never come.
The kids are leaving, thank God.
It takes all kinds.
Well, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that graduates may not be ready, as the parents, teachers, or even students think they are.
They may not even be close, despite the fact they got a diploma.
And this is one of the findings from a national curriculum survey released by the ACT.
The ACT explains that the survey serves to ask educators about what they teach or don't teach in their courses and how important they feel various topics in their discipline are for students to be successful in these and future courses.
The section on English language arts, particularly interesting.
ACT asks asks teachers in the fields of English history and other social sciences to name the reading skills most important to students' success in class, an overwhelming number of K through 12 and college instructors listed the following five areas as most important.
One, determining central IT ideas.
Number two, identify important details.
Number three, drawing conclusions and making inferences.
Number four, evaluating evidence and/or support for an author's claim, and five, distinguishing among fact, opinion, and reason judgment.
But as many college instructors were quick to discover, high school graduates are ill-prepared.
They have no idea what any of that is.
Most startling was the fact that only 18% of college instructors rated their first-year students as well-prepared in the area of distinguishing among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment.
That is a problem.
And that is on purpose.
That is the result of the leftist control of public education, creating mind-numbed, dumbed-down propaganda receptacles.
Okay, we're gonna get your phones when we come back after this next obscene profit break.
So don't go away.
Okay, we're gonna start on the phones with uh with Fred in Syracuse.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
It's an honor, honor to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
So uh I'm 24, recently got into politics.
Um, before that in high school, I had no care about it.
Um been listening to you for about two years.
Uh strongly believe in what you say.
Um so the thing going on right now, and what I believe is why Muslims are getting so offended is because we're classifying ISIS and the terrorist attack as jihad and Islamic religion.
I do believe if we were to stick to ISIS and not put them into the group of a religion, it would not only satisfy the Muslim, but it would also make a lot of the other people satisfied.
But I want to ask you if just to someone explain this to me.
Sorry I'm nervous here, but somebody explained this to me.
If there's a group of farmers and farmers started attacking, random people had start attacking random watch.
Would the farmers that were innocent not being you would think?
I think a cell phone connection problem.
Well, but in your where to start with this.
Look Fred's line dropped.
Is that what his name?
Fred, you took his name down.
Okay.
Fred, I I trust you're still out there.
You're a very nice young man.
You're 24 years old.
And it is uh an opportunity.
You have presented me a golden opportunity to react to and explain the answers I have to your observations and questions.
You said you're 24 years old.
And I've only got 45 seconds here, Fred, so I'm vamping here.
I can't say everything I want to say in 45 seconds, but I can set it up.
Uh Fred, they are not attacking us because of anything to do with what we say about them.
The fact that you think so betrays your age.
It's quite understandable.
You you've been raised among people who righteously indignant or care very much about what people think of.
These people couldn't care less about any of that.
It's not about and your farmer example is is easily used here to explain even further.
So don't go away here, Fred.
It may not be nice, but it's coming.
I'm gonna take this little time answering this question because I think uh it'd be easy to say no, you're wrong, uh, they don't hate us because of what we say about them.
But I think it's an opportunity.
Uh Fred was 24 years old, he's been listening for two years.
Prior to that, he was apolitical, didn't care about it through high school, parts of college.
He said that it wasn't anything that interested him.
Um I don't know why.
I didn't ask him.
There wasn't much time.
I could guess that there was too much conflict and there are no resolutions, and he got tired of I think it's what most people find problematic with politics.
There's no solutions.
This is ongoing, never-ending arguments, name-calling, finger pointing, and there's you know nobody ever ends up agreeing on anything.
And even when the Republicans are try to agree with the Democrats, even in pleased, they still are hated.
But now he's 24, now he's getting into it.
He's something happened, he caught this program, and now he is really into it.
He heard Obama's speech.
You know, maybe it makes sense, he said.
If we stop calling them names, maybe they won't dislike us as much.
And he gave an analogy.
You know, what if a bunch of renegade farmers are running around committing crimes and we started castigating all farmers as a bunch of extremists.
Well, uh, in that analogy, the people conducting the acts of terror are not the ones supposedly offended by being called names.
They continue to live peacefully and so forth.
They may be steaming and burning.
But look, I don't want even get distracted by that.
Bottom line, Fred.
I know that because of your age, you have been raised to believe that, and you because you've experienced it, people getting mad and wanting revenge, uh, end up hating people because of name-calling or bullying or some other such thing, and you're projecting.
And you're assuming that we're all people, we're all human beings, there's no difference, and we're calling them names.
We get people on a radio, we got people in politics, and we're calling these people names.
Of course they're gonna get mad.
And some of the unstable ones out there are actually attacking us because we're calling them names.
And if we just stop calling them names, then everything would be okay.
You're projecting the way you would act, maybe, or the way you've been taught people will react, or maybe to what you've seen, but you're projecting your own personal worldview onto people that you don't understand.
And the fact is that it's not just us.
Militant Islamists are on the march around the world, Fred, and it is because their religious beliefs tell them that infidels are not to be tolerated, and we are infidels.
We are a Judeo-Christian country as we were founded, and as such, we're non-believers.
We are non-believers in the teachings of Muhammad.
We are forever enemies.
Because of that, if we if if we changed our attitudes and started complimenting them, how nice it wouldn't change a thing about them.
It wouldn't, it wouldn't make ISIS go away, it wouldn't make al Qaeda go away.
It wouldn't make Hezbollah go away, it wouldn't make Hamas go away, wouldn't make the Palestinian authority go away.
They exist.
It's just like the race industry, Fred.
If racism actually did end tomorrow, the race industry wouldn't accept it and permit it.
There's too much money to be made.
There's too much fame to be acquired.
There is much to be gained by having an enemy.
And then being representative for the victims.
It's a serious overall problem.
But in the in the main here, and just the concentrated answer to your question.
If you want to find out why we are being attacked, it is in the Quran.
And it has nothing to do with insulting them.
It has nothing to do with say calling them names.
It has nothing to do with anything to do with that.
Now folks, the reason I wanted to take time with this is because I'm sure that if you're 1824 in that range, uh that's what life has become.
Stop calling people names, stop insulting them, and they'll stop bullying you, or they'll be nice to you or what have you, and you end up projecting that on that belief on every other population group throughout the world.
And the thing is, there are ideological things to learn about militant Islamists.
Sharia law is what it is, Fred.
Sharia law is every bit as important to them as the Constitution is to us.
And it doesn't matter if we never call them another name.
If we don't accept Sharia, well, they're never going to go away until we do.
Thomas Jefferson was the first of our founders to write about this.
Been dealing with this since the Barbary Pirates.
Yes.
Way back in the 1800s, well, the 18th century.
And it's, I think what I mentioned a moment ago about young people not being able to distinguish between fact and opinion.
I have just presented fact.
If he thinks it's my opinion, well, you know what you're talking about.
That's not the way the world works.
I'm not saying he is his attitude, but the odds of getting through to people are becoming smaller and smaller, particularly in something like this.
And it doesn't help, by the way.
After 9-11, when the State Department condemns convenes a seminar, why do they hate us?
I mean, when so many Americans are running around, you can't really blame Fred the sense.
He sees Orlando happen and then reads the New York Times or hears about it where conservatives get blamed, and gun control gets blamed, or bullies get blamed, Christians get blamed.
The answer, well, why don't you stop saying bad things about them and it'll be okay.
How many people do you think voted for Obama thinking that if he was elected it it would demonstrate that the world were no longer racist and it would end racial strife?
And all it's done has gotten worse since uh Obama was elected.
Fred, the bottom line is this.
When talking about geopolitics, we're talking about national security.
We have enemies that we have to deal with, and they're going to have to be defeated, or we are.
And it doesn't come down to not calling them names.
It doesn't come down to being polite.
Doesn't come down to any of that.
It is far deeper and much more grave than something simple as changing the way you talk about people.
They're not doing anything because they feel insulted.
They're following the edicts and the instructions of their religion, pure and simple.
Here's Josh in Brick, New Jersey.
You're next.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, thank you for taking my call, Russia.
Yes, sir.
Um, you referenced before about how the Obama administration is basically going, spending more resources, targeting people that are going after Muslims than the actual Muslim extremists itself.
And I think the answer is very simple.
Obama has said very clearly that he views these uh Islamic um terrorists as you know, they just happen to get extreme information off the internet as if it's a computer virus that can happen to me, can happen to you, can happen to anyone.
Doesn't really represent an ideology.
But the people that don't like Muslims, they're bigots, and they really represent an ideology that have to be defeated.
Uh that's just how I see it.
From I you you've you've got a point.
If I understood what you're saying, you're saying that Obama's saying that militant Islamic extremists, there's nothing really Muslim about them or Islamic.
They're just being radicalized.
We're we gotta forgive them, we've got to accommodate, gotta explain them.
But the people that oppose them, they are really the problem.
These are bigots, these are racists, these are Islamophobes, and we've got to stop them.
Is that what your point is?
Exactly.
And he even said that they became radicalized over information on the internet, as if it was just uh Right.
That's when Hillary's saying, I don't know how you'd build a wall to keep the internet out.
There's a I don't know, willful denial.
What folks, I tell you, I uh when I found out about this counter uh the CVE program today that I let off uh discussing countering violent extremism, when I when I read through that and I learned about it, I I told a friend, you know, I may not be able to talk about this today, because this has me so enraged I might say things here that would get me in deep trouble.
Because it doesn't make any sense.
I just have to tell you flat out to tell the FBI you can't investigate Muslim communities when going after potential terrorism, because there isn't any in those communities, because Muslims and Islam's a religion of peace, and the terrorists are not really Islam or Muslim, they're bastardizing it.
And the only way the FBI can actually learn legally learn anything about those communities is if an appointed representative of that community shares the information with the FBI, such as in one of these appointed entities is the Muslim Brotherhood.
So if, say the neighborhood watch commander in a Muslim neighborhood senses that something might be happening with one of the people that lives there, he can call the FBI and tell them, hey, there's some good something going on, but the FBI cannot learn it on its own.
It cannot investigate it on its own.
And that's federal law, as we sit here today.
That's the the San Bernardino terrorists broadcast their intention all over social media.
FBI under law had to ignore it.
Ditto, the Orlando terrorist.
In the aftermath, we learned that he was all over the internet telling people his anger what was enraging him and what his intentions were.
He was on the FBI watch list.
They didn't do anything about it.
People say, why not?
Now we know they're not allowed to.
The guy called the Washington Post in the middle of the act.
He calls 911, he calls the Washington Post.
When I heard that, and it still happened.
He calls 9-1-1 in the middle of his rampage.
Well, when you discover this, when you learn this, wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense.
There's no amount, he's talking about critical thinking.
There's no amount of logic that explains any of this to me.
And I seriously, I thought about when I when I came across the information actually last night and into this mornings, I I weighed whether or not to even get started talking about it.
Because I had to put a muzzle on myself.
It's so senseless.
It it doesn't seem that you can assign this to willful blindness.
It doesn't seem that you can assign this to willful ignorance.
Something like this does not you can't you can't categorize this as good intentions gone awry.
It has never made sense to me.
Every time there is a terror attack, I don't care if it's in Paris.
I don't care if it was in Belgium.
I don't care if it's San Bernardino or Orlando.
What's the first thing we hear from authorities?
Do not rush to judgment.
We must guard against a backlash against Muslims.
That has I can't tell you how often I have been profoundly suspicious of that.
It makes no sense.
There isn't a backlash.
We aren't committing acts of terror against Muslim communities in this country.
It just doesn't happen.
I can't think of a single instance.
It's the other way around.
And every time we're told you better better watch out.
We can't afford any backlash here.
It's just none of it makes any sense.
On the surface, it will be back.
This Obama, this is from Tuesday afternoon.
We we've heard the CIA director today, John Brennan, testify under oath before a Senate committee that ISIS is as big and bad as ever, and that they're infiltrating America via our refugee program and immigration, and that we should be very concerned.
And this is exactly opposite what Obama said two days ago.
So again, I ask, who are we to believe?
And I I I mean that look, I uh the CI directors under oath.
The CIA director just threw Obama under the bus.
But it's budget time in Washington at the same time.
And the CIA has many budgets, including the black budget that nobody ever sees.
Got all kinds of money in it for black ops that nobody ever sees that we never know.
But it still has to be appropriated.
Here we have the first of two.
This is Obama at the Treasury Department.
This is from the press conference where he got all defensive about people accusing him of never using the term militant Islamic extremism or terrorism.
All told ISIL has now lost nearly half of the populated territory that it once controlled in Iraq, and it will lose more.
ISIL continues to lose ground in Syria as well.
Assisted by our special operations forces, the coalition of local forces is now pressuring the key town of Manbich, which means the news is tightening around ISIL in Raqqa as well.
Well, all well and good, but it's not what we were told today by the CIA directors.
next one.
Our coalition continues to be on offense.
ISIL is on defense, and it's now been a full year since ISIL has been able to mount a major successful offensive operation in either Syria or Iraq.
As ISIL continues to lose territory, it also continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood.
As a result of our strikes against its oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe that we've cut ISIL's revenue from oil by millions of dollars per month.
And destroying the storage sites where they keep their cash, we've deprived ISIL of many millions more.
Cutting off ISIL's money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it is critically important.
And we're seeing the results.
Don't be distracted by the details.
Because those details could be true, but it it it and and ISIL could still be inspiring attacks here.
The point is, the President's intention, after uh Orlando was to comfort the nation, say, look, this stuff don't be concerned about it.
It's we're we're beating them.
I mean, they're lashing out.
These are last gasps.
But on the other hand, they continue to happen.
Regardless what ISIL's strength or weakness is, acts of terror continue to happen.
We somehow don't seem able to stop.
So these efforts to calm everybody and comfort, I mean, it just, and then the CIA director goes out there and directly contradicts this.
It's not good.
You think I forgot?
I did not forget.
We've got a couple stories involving Donald Trump coming up.
That only one of them has to do.
Well, they both have to do with a campaign, but one of them a little bit far from the campaign.
So don't go away, folks.
That's next, and back to your calls after that.
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