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June 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rushland Boss, serving humanity, executing and performing all assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
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Great to have you here, folks, as always.
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You see, the stock market was up nearly 270 points yesterday.
How did this happen, folks?
How does it stock market came back?
Futures are up 100 points.
Sky isn't falling.
Wizards of Smart said that the world's financial markets are going to go to hell all because of the Brexit vote.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Everything happens predictably, except when the doom and gloom sets in.
They want you to believe it's permanent and it's all over.
And sadly, it works.
It creates cumulatively this overwhelming attitude of doom and gloom that the establishment and the left predicts and creates every time they don't get their way.
And that's when it happens.
Whenever they don't get their way, when they lose an election, when they lose something that's very dear and close to them, it's the end of the world.
And there's no stopping it.
And then nobody pays attention to the rebound.
Nobody stops to explain to people that panic is the order of the day in each and every day.
And it's generally ginned up and it's all part of the daily soap opera script that's written by the establishment to keep everybody unsettled and off guard.
It's just, it's becoming increasingly difficult in this country to be upbeat and positive, even for people naturally inclined that way, because the daily bombardment that you get from what is called the news media is designed to poke every positive belief people have and blow it up.
Even things that have no impact on you, even things that have no impact on you and effect on you are presented in such a way to make you think, well, even if it doesn't affect me, it's hurting somebody.
It's so big out there.
And in some sense, I mean, it's in a real sense.
I mean, there is some that's bad, but it's largely manufactured by them.
My point is, it's just getting harder and harder and harder to have an upbeat, positive outlook because they bombard us each and every day with things.
But the stock market's coming back.
There really isn't going to be any significant change attitudinally or in real terms with improvement until this bunch is defeated and gone.
It really isn't, folks.
As long as people on the left, and to an even lesser extent, as long as establishment elite people continue to run the show wherever you are, you're not going to be happy.
They're going to let you be happy.
They have to keep you upset.
They have to keep you on edge.
They have to keep a little bit of chaos going.
That's how you end up saying, would you fix it for me?
Would you fix it?
Would you make me feel better?
Whatever it takes.
And that's how you end up surrendering ever so slowly a little of your freedom here and a little of your freedom there for happiness, for security, for consistency, whatever it might be.
And this is a great example of it.
Stock market plunges 500 or 600 points after the Brexit vote.
Oh my God, look what these idiot people have done.
And the next story is for how many trillions of dollars of wealth have been lost.
Now here comes the market roaring back.
NASDAQ's up 72 today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back.
It's all coming back.
It always does.
Everything is cyclical.
But there isn't any accompanying upbeat news today about any of it.
No, the drumbeat is continually focused on what you need to be upset about and depressed about today.
Believe me, you don't need any help with that.
You're living it.
You know full-fledged what's wrong and you know full-fledged who's behind it.
Now, I want to expand on a point that I made in the first hour of the program about Turkey and ISIS.
I found it fascinating that ISIS, if it is ISIS and everybody thinks it is, hit Turkey because Turkey has been one of the biggest allies ISIS could have ever had.
Are you aware of that?
You're not?
Now, that's interesting because you are a news junkie like I am and you're not aware of this.
Well, let me run through some things for you.
Turkey Was a helpful ally in ISIS ongoing war in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey has been helping ISIS in their destabilization efforts throughout the region.
Turkey allowed the oil trucks that are owned and operated by ISIS to cross Turkish borders so that ISIS oil can be sold.
That is how the ISIS leadership, that's how the ISIS movement is being funded in part, which is a point Trump has made.
What the hell?
Why don't we own that oil?
We're the ones that liberated it.
Why didn't we take it?
Why aren't we in charge?
Why is ISIS at it?
We need to blow up their depots.
We need to blow up their trucks.
And everybody goes, oh my God, the guy's dangerous.
Oh, my God, we can't allow it.
But Turkey has been assisting ISIS in a wide variety of ways.
At times, Turkey has denied us the use of their airspace in Iraq and in other theaters of the war.
And Turkey has been an off-and-on ally, quote unquote.
You know, as Obama's drawn red lines and then moved the red line.
Turkey has wanted to present themselves as an ally of ours.
But make no mistake about it.
President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation.
That's where he wants to go.
He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, 100% Islamist.
So what's ISIS doing hitting him?
What's ISIS doing blowing up the Anaturk airport in Istanbul?
Now, the reason I ask this is because our short-sighted, incompetent leadership in this country actually tells us that we can prevent more terrorist attacks against us if we would become more tolerant of them.
Do they not?
We cannot call them Islamist terrorists.
We cannot call them radical Islamist extremists.
We cannot even say that they engage in terrorism.
We have gone to the realm of impracticality and impossibility to avoid offending these people.
Or worse, whatever might be going on.
But regardless, Obama and his State Department and even the Defense Department are bending over backwards to give these people the benefit of the doubt.
Whenever there's a terror attack, it's not.
Whenever ISIS does it or militant Islam does it, no, they didn't.
We do seminars trying to examine what we have done to cause them to hate us so much.
And if they hit Turkey, if they hit the Istanbul airport, the Attorney airport in Istanbul, in a country where the president is trying to make the country on the road to becoming a full-fledged Sharia, then how in the world is the strategy Obama and Hillary employ going to be effective at all in stopping them here?
And you know what their strategy is?
Take away your guns.
So we have the latest attack, which is the attack on the gay club in Orlando.
And no, we're not going to call him.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He was radicalized by the internet.
He was an American citizen, and he was a fine young man until he got radicalized by that out of control internet.
Islam had nothing to do with it, militant or otherwise.
No, no, no.
The religion of peace, they don't do these kinds of things.
Instead, we need to take your guns away.
That's the Obama and Hillary solution to these things.
Oh, yeah, and not saying radical Islam.
Oh, yeah, and not saying radical Islamic terrorism.
Oh, yeah, doing all that.
That's going to really by closing Club Gitmo.
Yeah, we closed Club Gitmo.
We apologize for the photos that we took at Abu Ghraib.
That's supposed to dial them back.
Really?
Well, if they blew up an airport in Istanbul in a country with a leader who believes entirely in Sharia law, then how in the world can we stop them?
I mean, using the same philosophies and strategies Obama and Hillary have put into place.
It's obviously it's a joke.
They don't know what they're doing.
Well, I take it back.
Obama knows what he's doing.
And maybe Hillary, too.
But the point is, what they want us to believe they think they're doing is totally ineffective.
It doesn't have a prayer of working.
And with Obama and Hillary, you know, Hillary's out there saying we need smart diplomacy.
We do smart power.
And that means empathizing with our enemy, understanding their grievances, like we understand the grievances of homosexuals, like we've understand the grievances of African Americans.
We must learn to understand the grievances of ISIS.
Why?
Because ultimately, everything's our fault.
Everybody who hates us has legitimate reasons for hating us, according to Obama and Hillary.
We've been too big for our britches.
We've been too rich.
And our riches came from theft and colonialism, not from genuine accomplishment and achievement.
You didn't build that.
I go through these things.
I get internally.
My blood's boiling here as I remind myself of what these people tell us.
And I remind myself how they think about us.
If Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot placate ISIS, how are we ever going to be able to?
And placate them is clearly what John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, and Barack Hussein O and Hillary Clinton think is the only thing we should have to do is placate them.
Because we're at fault, see our attitude all these years, our braggadocious pomposity, our overly confident, bigger than the rest of the world attitude.
It's justified all these attacks on us.
So we've got to find a way to placate them, let them know that it's a new day in America where our current leadership does not hate them and in fact agrees with them on many of their grievances about the United States.
And that's supposed to mollify them.
It's supposed to tame them.
It is supposed to cause them to stop attacking us.
It hasn't.
We've had an attack, a major attack, every year of Obama's regime.
I guess they're telling us the truth.
ISIS and Al-Qaeda and whoever else, that is, the only way they stop is after we convert.
That's what they say.
That's what the only way this stops is when the infidels convert.
And, well, that's not happening.
So what's going to have to do?
We're not going to convert.
If this nation ever goes Sharia, it's going to be because of the aggressive use of force.
You know, I take that back.
There is a segment of this population already that would surrender.
I have no doubt that there's a segment of the population that would surrender rather than fight it.
But we're not yet anywhere near a majority of Americans with that attitude.
Okay, got to take a break.
We'll continue when we get back.
Don't go away.
Okay, I want to get started on the phones.
I still have a lot of detail on Trump and Clinton and polling data.
The Quinnipiac poll is out.
And there's an NBC Wall Street Journal poll, and they're not telling you the meat in that poll.
And I'm telling you, aside from Hillary's lead in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll, that's the only thing in that poll that is decent or good for her.
Everything else is a near disaster.
And F. Chuck Todd of NBC News realizes it and made reference to it.
The Quinnipiac poll has Trump and Hillary neck and neck.
And the uptake of their poll is that nobody likes any of them.
That the American public largely dissatisfied with both candidates.
Now, that is going to be far more damaging to Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.
That's going to be far more worrying to the Democrat Party than anything in the news on Trump is because Hillary Clinton is supposed to be immune to all of that.
She's been around so long now and so trusted, so experienced.
There shouldn't be any doubt about Hillary Clinton.
But then, of course, Bernie Sanders exposed quite a lot of it.
And I'm telling you this.
The Democrats do not doubt me on this.
They are not happy that Elizabeth Warren generates more excitement than Hillary does.
That's not the way it's supposed to be.
They don't, you know, they want Elizabeth Warren.
They don't want her on the VP ticket.
They don't want to waste her that way.
And they don't want somebody on the ticket that's going to be more exciting, draw bigger crowds, and overshadow Hillary to boot.
So, you know, all this polling data out there, the way it's being analyzed for you, it's designed to depress you again and think it's already over, like this Nate Silver story, but it isn't, folks.
By a long shot.
Now, we'll get to all that in detail, but it's time to start delving into people who have been on hold for a while.
We're going to start in New York City.
Andy, great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
So I was calling regarding the recent comments with ISIS bombing Turkey.
I strongly believe that it was because of their view on gay rights.
If you remember, a little less than two weeks ago, ISIS threatened to bomb Turkey because of their gay pride parade and they had to cancel it.
You really think this might be a factor?
Fascinating.
I strongly believe that because if you look at their relationship with ISIS, it's for the oil, just like America is Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has no similar views to America on anything, including gay rights.
And the only reason why they have a relationship is for the oil.
Okay, wait, wait, I'm having trouble understanding you.
The first thing I'm confused about, did you say that Turkey had a gay rights parade?
They were going to, yes.
Turkey was going to have a gay rights parade.
Okay.
And they went ahead with it, and this ticked off ISIS.
No, it got canceled because ISIS threatened them a little less than two weeks ago.
I believe it was on the 17th of June.
Okay.
Or so.
ABC then reported that they canceled it because of the threat from ISIS.
Okay.
Now, you transition to oil from that.
Run me through that again a little slower.
Yes.
Turkey thinks.
It's not your problem.
I just didn't hear you.
Andy, it's not your problem.
I just didn't hear you.
I need to say it one more time.
Sure, no problem.
I believe that Turkey has a relationship with ISIS because they could get oil for a much lower price.
Correct?
That's correct.
And they have allowed ISIS to roll their trucks across borders.
They've facilitated ISIS use of oil as a revenue generation operation.
Yes, exactly right.
100%.
So I believe that the only reason why ISIS would be bombing Turkey is because of their view currently on gay rights.
Well, I must confess, I totally missed the story that there was going to be a gay rights parade in Turkey.
I wonder where I was when that hit.
That's why I'm pausing here because I totally missed that.
So I'm going to have to dig up the story and inform myself on it.
Not that I don't believe you.
Don't misunderstand.
But let's just go with this.
So Turkey, where was it going to be?
What city?
Truthfully, I don't remember, but it was an ABC article from June 17th.
Okay.
Well, we'll find it.
But ISIS threatened them.
ISIS threatened them, and they canceled the gay pride parade.
Correct.
And that could, because they have a great relationship with oil.
Your point is because they have a great relationship with oil.
It has to be the promise or the attempt to do the gay pride parade, which has irritated ISIS and has led to the attack.
That's what you think it is.
Correct.
If you see the news every day, they're throwing gays off roof.
They're attacking other countries because of their views.
I mean, what other reason could you come up with?
Well, it's a good question because Erdogan is sympathetic to Sharia law.
That's why you gave me pause here.
Sharia law is totally intolerant of homosexuality.
It's not permissible.
So thanks for the heads up.
Okay.
I had a little time here to inform myself.
Our first caller from New York City said that Turkey was going to have a gay pride parade back on June 17th.
Andy, the caller.
And the way he said it made me think that it was an officially sanctioned gay pride parade in Turkey.
And I got caught short because it doesn't make any sense.
Recep Tayap Erdogan is hurling Turkey toward Sharia law.
He's not going to permit something like that to happen.
So I was confused.
Turkey historically, and this is going back to Ataturk, the guy for whom the airport is named.
He was the first leader of Turkey, and he was a Muslim that wanted to modernize and have a nation that was compatible with the modern world rather than have a seventh century Islamic state governing Turkey.
And that's what he was known for.
That's what his reputation was.
There have been a few.
I think Sisi in Egypt was the same.
And he's not, they're not altogether happy with him either.
Turkey has, since the days of Ataturk, it has been a relatively, what's the modern.
It is an Islamic country, but you would not associate it with, say, some town or city run by somebody like bin Laden or some of the Saudi Arabian sheikhs or some such thing.
Anyway, but Erdogan was changing that.
Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.
Now, I want to tell you a little story just to set this up.
My troop visit to Afghanistan was 2003, I believe.
It was in February.
The years kind of run together.
Doesn't matter when it was.
Toward the end of the visit, we were supposed to go to Bagram.
Our base of operations was Kabul.
I was with State Department contingent U.S. AID, Agency for International Development.
And we were supposed to take a C-130 to Kabul.
It was a mechanical.
We were unable to leave.
So they ushered us into the military headquarters in Kabul where the coalition forces command was.
And the commander of the coalition air forces at that time running the war in Afghanistan was from Turkey.
He spoke English.
And he hosted us for, I guess, an hour.
And I really, really liked this guy.
He was very open about their strategy and what they were doing.
And he addressed the fact that somebody from an Islamic country was leading the coalition against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
But I remember about this guy, even got his contact information.
Practically every point that he made, he preceded with a quote from the Prophet.
Even when he was talking about his daughter, who was soon to be getting married, everything was preceded by, and he had the nicest, most engaging smile.
He was in full uniform.
And he would look at us, and he was eyeing us suspiciously at times as he said this, but he would talk about, he'd give us a quote from the Prophet and then make his point and talk about how his command was loyal to the teachings of the Prophet.
And in no way did I get the sense I was dealing with any kind of a radical whatsoever, which I was very thankful for because the guy was commanding coalition air forces and air operations in the battle against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
So it had to be 2003 because the Iraq war was going on.
Because I remember at the troop visit portions of the trip, many of the troops kept asking, how come we're not getting covered here?
You know, we got great success stories to tell here.
And all we see on the news is what's going on in Iraq.
And I endeavored to answer the question.
I said, well, the media doesn't want to show success.
Remember, George W. Bush is president, so they don't want to show success anywhere.
That's why they're focusing on Iraq.
Anyway, so back now to Terra.
The point is, quoting this guy to you, you would find him as mainstream a human being as you can find anywhere.
And he was Turkish.
So Turkey has not been a died-in-the-wool Islamist extremist country like you associate outlets run by ISIS or the Saudis or Qatar or even the Taliban or Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was bin Laden's second in command.
And as such, they have had in Istanbul since, what is it?
They've had a gay pride parade in June since 2003.
Now, here's the thing.
Turkey did not sponsor it.
It was not a promotion by the government of Turkey.
It was just permitted.
So when our caller, Andy, said, you know, I'm a literalist mayor of Rielville, when he said Turkey had a gay pride parade scheduled on June 17th, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that doesn't work because Erdogan is trying to go Sharia.
Well, as my digging in the commercial break turned up, the gay pride parade was scheduled.
They've had one every June since 2003.
They were going to have another one this past June, this month.
But it was denied.
The Turkish government shut this one down.
Now, this parade in the past in Turkey has attracted 100,000 people, but Turkey banned it this year.
Now, that makes sense with what Erdogan, the head honcho in Turkey, is trying to do.
A French news agency reported authorities in Turkey's commercial capital banned the 2016 Istanbul Pride Parade, citing security concerns.
This year's Gay Pride Parade, which is held either on the last weekend of June or the 1st in July, occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The timing offended a number of conservative Turks.
Isn't it always conservatives who are offended?
Anyway, the timing offended a number of conservative Turks in a country where the rising tide of Islamism has been testing the Republic's constitutional secularism.
Turkey has been a secular Islamic country for the long, but I'm telling you, Erdogan is on a fast track to changing that.
It was 2005.
I was in Afghanistan.
February 2005.
So to close the loop on this, the caller's theory was that ISIS hit the Istanbul airport because of the gay pride parade.
Well, that's been going on since 2003, and it was canceled this year.
They were forbidden.
Whoever sponsored it was forbidden from doing so this year.
They even arrested a couple from Germany.
I think a couple other people who tried to participate, tried to do a parade even though it had been banned.
Those people ended up getting arrested.
So I don't know what ISIS would be upset.
You know, when we get right down to it, what difference does it make why they did it?
I'm not trying to parrot Hillary here.
Why are we looking for justification?
Is there any?
Is my point.
There's no justification for blowing up and killing innocent people at an airport.
So why are we looking for the reason?
Well, there might be some geopolitical education to be gleaned here from learning the reason, but not if you're looking to justify it, not if you're looking for some reason.
Oh, that's why they did it.
Okay.
No, no, that doesn't, that should never be the attitude.
Innocent people never deserve to die, no matter what, in a circumstance like this.
I actually think if you want to start, if you want to start looking for explanations for this, you've got to start including the Kurds and Israel in this equation.
Not gay pride parades or any of that.
I think this is, it goes much deeper than that, in terms of explaining why this.
It doesn't make sense that Turkey cancels, bans the gay pride parade for the first time since 2003, and then ISIS hits now.
There's got to be something else going on here.
And there is.
And we'll take a brief time out and resume right after this, so don't go away.
Here's Dale in Madison, Wisconsin, back to the phones where we go.
Great to have you.
Thank you for calling.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Begadidos.
I was very surprised to find that there were almost no stories linking the deal that Turkey made with Israel to normalize diplomatic relations after a six-year really rocky spell to this attack on the Istanbul airport.
It seems the deal was signed mere hours before the attack happened, and I'm sure this was done in retaliation.
Well, you may have a point here.
And I think the relationship, the diplomatic relationship that Turkey just arranged with Israel is a factor, and so is the Kurds.
Turkey may dislike the Kurds more than anybody, and ISIS is in conflict with them there as well.
But let me remind all of you of a similar Set of circumstances that always puzzled me when they happened.
Osama bin Laden is Saudi, family, very wealthy, architects in a number of things.
He is, while he's alive and running al-Qaeda, committing acts of terror and designing them all over the world, he's in exile from Saudi Arabia and launching attacks on Saudi Arabia.
And I remember when that first happened, I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism.
Wahhabi.
Islam is extreme and violent.
I mean, these are the people that execute gays.
These are the people that stone women who show their face in public.
You don't hear much about it, but it happens.
They still behead people who commit what in this country are average, ordinary, everyday crimes, like theft and so forth.
Or they'll chop off a hand or some such thing.
And they do it publicly in Saudi Arabia.
And so I asked myself, why in the world is Al-Qaeda attacking them?
They would attack, they would make attempts to damage the oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
They attacked military barracks in Saudi Arabia where Americans happen to be housed.
So some people said, well, maybe it's because of the Saudi relationship with the United States.
And that became one of the many explanations for why al-Qaeda, which was bin Laden and Zawahiri from Egypt, why they go.
But it still made no sense.
Until you realize, so why is ISIS hitting Turkey?
Could be something similar.
Because what often happens with these Islamist regimes, there are differing philosophies in terms of how fast to go in getting to where everybody wants to end up, which is Sharia.
I mean, that is the ultimate objective for all of these places.
But they have different strategies on the speed with which they're going to get there.
And the strategies involved in foreign policy.
For example, Saudi Arabia cannot go pedal to the metal on the way towards Sharia, even though some might say they're bare, because they have a relationship with the United States that must continue.
And they can't make that relationship difficult for the U.S. So they moderate and therefore they proceed.
I'm using this as an example, not maybe based in reality, but it's a good example.
So in this case, in my example, Saudi Arabia might proceed toward Sharia slower than Al-Qaeda wants.
Al-Qaeda wants pedal of the metal, nothing else in focus.
We're heading to Sharia, and the Saudis might not be going there fast enough.
So Al-Qaeda hits them.
The Muslim Brotherhood has this gradualist plan, if you will, to get to Sharia.
And part of the effort is to make common cause with the more radical jihadists so that there is a sort of peace.
Because even among Islam, you've got enemies, as we have seen here with ISIS, if it was ISIS hitting Ataturk airport, and Al-Qaeda hitting Saudi Arabia.
So they calculate that the jihadists, the pedal of the metal crowd, the bin Ladens of the world, will be grateful for the help, even if it isn't happening at the rapid pace the militant jihadis want it to.
But what happens, always happens is that the al-Qaedas of the world grow impatient with the plotters.
Now, in this case, Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be considered a gradualist.
He is not decreeing Shalia, Sharia, as the law of the land tomorrow.
He's making gradual steps to descularize the country so it's not a shock to everyone, doesn't cause all kinds of panic in the Western world, in the Europe world.
And ISIS might be growing impatient, even though they've been allied over oil and Syria.
ISIS could be growing impatient.
Then they see the deal with Israel and they say, the hell with this.
And then they finally realize, and this is what always happens.
ISIS turns on Turkey like al-Qaeda turned on Saudi Arabia because when the end of the day is reached, ISIS says to hell with them running Turkey.
We want to run it.
Why should we sit around and let Erdogan take his time getting where we want him to go?
We're just going to take over and we're going to run Turkey.
And Al-Qaeda said to hell with what the royal family is doing.
And that was really true.
Bin Laden had it in for the Saudi royal family and people couldn't understand that.
They thought they were making common cause.
They're all Arabs.
What is this?
And it was all about the pace at which everybody was proceeding toward max Sharia, max militant Islamic extremism.
So if that's what has happened here in Turkey, it would have nothing to do with a gay pride parade, although that might be a little ancillary item that would fuel the energy.
But it just could well be that ISIS is fed up with Erdogan's lack of pace.
And one thing that I don't know if people have come to grips with yet is just how serious ISIS is.
Just how serious militant Islamists are about Sharia.
There is no compromise.
There is no halfway.
There is no mutual cohabitation plan.
It's either all or nothing.
And if you resist, then they're going to hit you.
And that's the world in which we live today.
And that's why so many of us are so scared to death that we have a leadership that either doesn't see it or does see it and doesn't care or doesn't take it seriously or what have you.
But if you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello, that's life in America today.
And we will be back.
So Coco up at the website just sends me a note.
It says, hey, isn't all this discussion of why they blew up the airport akin to asking what was the alligator thinking when it grabbed the little boy?
It's, I get the point, but there are understandable reasons.
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