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RUSH: We start in Chicago. This is Don. It\u2019s your turn, sir. You\u2019re up first. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, 28-day dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, last night the president honored, and rightfully so, that Army Ranger, and it was very touching and moving, but at the same time during the speech he dishonored that man by telling Congress that if they brought a bill to his desk with sanctions in it against Iran, he would veto it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And my son just got out of the Marine Corps, and his best buddy was an ordnance disposal guy, and he\u2019s been to Afghanistan four times, and 95% of those bombs that blew that poor kid up were from Iran. This president doesn\u2019t know how to punish our enemies. He wants to embrace them. It\u2019s dishonoring to our men.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, this is a tough thing. You\u2019re right. The Iranians supply the IEDs, they supply the roadside bombs. They did it in Iraq as well. The Iranian situation is really convoluted and strange. I mean, the president made it sound to me last night like he got \u2019em talked into dropping their bomb program. I wonder how many other people heard it that way. When he started talking about Iran, he said (paraphrasing), “Look, they\u2019re not gonna make their bombs. They\u2019re not gonna do centrifuges. We took care of that. So if anybody comes up with a bill to sanction the Iranians, they\u2019re gonna have to go through me. I\u2019m gonna veto. No more sanctions on the Iranians.”<\/p>\n

The Iranians haven\u2019t given up on building a nuclear bomb. What in the world is he telling this for? Why in the world tell people that? Of course, then the answer is obvious, it\u2019s one lie after another. It\u2019s just this giant disconnect. When it comes to the soldier, that was such a touching moment last night. Every time that young man was on camera, I couldn\u2019t take my eyes off of him. I knew what he\u2019d been through, the nature of his injuries and the rehab process, all the surgeries and everything. I don\u2019t know, folks. I probably shouldn\u2019t — so conflicted about this. “Don\u2019t use the guy, please.” <\/p>\n

I know he\u2019s sitting up there next to the first lady, and I know that this has been standard since Reagan put the guy that rescued people from the plane crash on the Potomac. It\u2019s become standard operating procedure. By the way, I think Obama set the record with the number of people that he called out in the gallery up there. Gee whiz. But this tweet from the NBC political editor about this, Mark Murray is his name. Let me read this to you again: “Obama\u00c2\u2019s ending on Remsburg wasn\u00c2\u2019t just a story about America — it also was a story about Obama. Nothing has ever come easy.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I knew that the Drive-Bys in the media were gonna make this all about Obama. They did leading up to it. Everything is always about Obama. Can he save his presidency? Can he get his poll numbers back? Can Obama make us love him again? Can Obama help us convince the American people he\u2019s the greatest thing since sliced bread, all of that, I know that\u2019s what it\u2019s about. But to impose himself on this man\u2019s story? He didn\u2019t, actually, unless you want to go that far and maybe think Obama did that for that reason, but this guy from NBC clearly took the opportunity of Remsburg, the Army Ranger, his story, to equate Obama to it? It was a story about Obama, nothing has ever come easy? <\/p>\n

Folks, this is a member of the media. This is how they see the guy. This is what this guy\u2019s takeaway he hopes is on the part of a lot of people. The uplifting part of it was that was the genuine applause line all night long, that event. That was the only time there was genuine applause, it was sustained, it was sincere, it was affectionate, it was real, in a chamber where not very much else was real last night. It actually was uplifting to see it from a national standpoint, from a positive attitude about America standpoint. Don, I appreciate the call. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jesse in Orlando, Florida. Hi, Jess. Glad you called. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. I wanted to make a point. I think the whole story with the Ranger gives us some insight into Obama\u2019s worldview.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every time he has military guys up there, he doesn\u2019t really celebrate their heroism or doesn\u2019t tell us that this guy killed all these bad guys or saved his mate or anything. He puts them up there \u2019cause the guy\u2019s a victim, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s celebrating.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me play devil\u2019s advocate with you and see how steadfastly you can maintain your case here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So your point is that he\u2019s just parading them up to show the evils and what can happen to people who join the military, and he\u2019s not proud of it — and, furthermore, when he talks about this man\u2019s recovery and so forth, he\u2019s not praising the military. He\u2019s not praising any of it. He\u2019s praising maybe the guy, maybe the Ranger, but his whole point here is to is, “Look at this poor guy!<\/p>\n

“Look what we did to this poor guy, and look what we caused to happen to this poor man, and look at what this poor man had to do to survive what we as Americans sent him off to do,” instead of saying that, what you would prefer him say is, “This man is a hero because of X.” He saved whatever number of lives, killed so many enemy, served so many deployments or what have you. Your point is that everyone cites the achievements of these guys, and he only points to the pain they\u2019ve suffered?<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Well, correct, and I wouldn\u2019t say in this point, “demagoguing the military,” but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s capable of praising the achievements. All I think he sees is victims, and that\u2019s why this guy was brought up there. You would never see him bring up a guy who wasn\u2019t injured, who did all these heroic things. He only sees victims.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true, but what about this? Another devil\u2019s advocate question. Maybe Obama had him up there as a testament to perseverance and overcoming obstacles, severe injuries, left for dead, found face down in a stream of water. He was barely breathing when found, was not thought capable of living, and yet here he is with us tonight because the man is great and strength of character is profound, and he worked hard and he overcame obstacles, and he is with us tonight.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, I could see how you could think that but, again, I think that he\u2019s subtly trying to tell Americans that, you know, your success is out of your hands, and again, we are paraded victims in front of us. We\u2019re not paraded folks that have achieved great things because they\u2019ve achieved great things. An example of this would be television shows on TV nowadays are always about the boss coming and learning from the little people, you know, it\u2019s not the little people learning from the boss how to be great. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. What is that show?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Undercover Boss?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Undercover Boss. Oh, yeah, and so the boss is this detached, distant —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — doesn\u2019t know diddly-squat until he actually does the work and then he learns from the underlings how to really do the work because he\u2019s incompetent, doesn\u2019t know anything, he shouldn\u2019t even be in the job, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, all of society tells us that success is out of your hands.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And what happened to the great days where you can make anything for yourself if you work hard and are smart, et cetera?<\/line>