{"id":11381,"date":"2013-09-13T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:34:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:26:29","slug":"misunderstanding_american_exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/13\/misunderstanding_american_exceptionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstanding American Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve got audio sound bites of Donald Trump and Newt praising Putin\u2019s op-ed to the heavens.<\/p>\n

Trump is probably trying to buy property for a golf course, but Newt? You know, the Moscow Gentleman\u2019s Club may be what Trump\u2019s trying to arrange, but Newt is all dazzled because you would never have a Soviet leader quoting a pope. This is like Putin did in his op-ed. This is a major, major advancement. I swear, every day, folks, I don\u2019t know about you, but there days… It\u2019s not every day, but there are some days I just feel more and more distant from people that I think see the world the same way I do.<\/p>\n

That op-ed, by the way, that Putin wrote yesterday and American exceptionalism<\/a>, I made the point when I analyzed that, that Obama doesn\u2019t believe in American exceptionalism. He thinks like Putin. He thinks it\u2019s bragging. It\u2019s unseemly. It\u2019s arrogant and conceited. “We\u2019re no better than anybody else and there\u2019s no such thing.
\nAnd, lo and behold, I found a tweet. A friend of mine sent me a tweet from Peter Beinart, who\u2019s a well-known leftist.<\/p>\n

He worked to use the New Republic, I believe. He\u2019s out there, he\u2019s on Sunday shows, he\u2019s a guest on cable, and he tweeted the following: “At the end of his op-ed Putin said about American exceptionalism what many liberals feel but no American politician would say.” So Beinart is admitting the point that I made yesterday. The left agrees with Putin! There is no such thing as American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, that is a crucially important thing for people to know. I\u2019m not gonna go through the whole definition of American exceptionalism again, but these people don\u2019t even understand what it is, and because of their misconception, the American left is populated by people who really think that it\u2019s wrong to think there\u2019s anything special about the United States.<\/p>\n

When you have a growing number of people who think that, it does not bode well, because this country is exceptional, and you heard all the reasons for it yesterday. It\u2019s an exception to the rule of what life is like for most people on the planet. It\u2019s an exception to that, and for these people to not even understand it and not recognize it and want to agree with a former KGB agent on the fact there\u2019s nothing special about this country?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder what\u2019s happening to this country is happening to it, with these people in charge. They don\u2019t even think there\u2019s anything worth preserving here, and that\u2019s why they want to seek to transform it. They really do believe, “There\u2019s nothing special here. In fact, it\u2019s flawed. The founding of this country was unjust, and it was immoral and we\u2019re gonna go fix it.” So what\u2019s remarkable to me about this is not that a Russian leader, ex-communist leader is quoting the pope in all this.<\/p>\n

It is that he writes an op-ed chastising Americans and our president for thinking there\u2019s anything special about this country, and we have a rash of Americans running to agree with him! It\u2019s not a good sign. Grab five, six, and seven. Here\u2019s Trump, and this last night. He\u2019s at On the Record with Greta. She said, “Last night there was an op-ed in New York Times by Putin and right before On the Record started the news broke. So I\u2019m curious what you think. Do you think President Obama knew that this Putin op-ed was coming, or was this an end run on the president?”<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I\u2019ve read it a number of times. There are a lot of different ideas in there, a very well-written letter op-ed from the standpoint of Russia. It makes Putin look extremely diplomatic. It actually makes him sound very reasoned and very reasoning. And frankly, uhh, I don\u2019t know that he wrote the letter. Certainly there were his ideas, but the way it was crafted was very, very interesting, and it really is talking down to the president. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s true. That\u2019s true. There\u2019s no question. I even said the same thing in my own inimitable style, and it\u2019s “inimitable” by virtue of the fact that Trump doesn\u2019t sound like exactly like me when he said what I said. But that\u2019s exactly right. It\u2019s Putin talking down, Putin asserting the moral authority that the United States used to have. Here\u2019s the next.<\/p>\n

Van Susteren says, “Boehner said says he was insulted by some of the remarks in that op-ed. I assume it was the part where it talked about exceptionalism, that he was insulted by that. What I thought was extraordinary,” this is Greta talking to Trump,” is how Putin wanted to speak directly to the American people and bypass the president in addition to sort of the slaps that he made.”<\/p>\n

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TRUMP: It really makes him look like a great leader, frankly. And when he criticizes the president for using the term “American exceptionalism,” if you\u2019re in Russia, you don\u2019t want to hear that America is exceptional and if you\u2019re in many other countries — whether it\u2019s Germany or other places — you don\u2019t want to hear about American exceptionalism because you think you\u2019re exceptional. So I can see that being verily insulting to the world. Frankly, the way our country is being treated right now by Russia and Syria and lots of other places — and with all the mistakes we\u2019ve made over the years like Iraq and so many others — it\u2019s sort of a hard term to use.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not a hard term to use when you understand what it is! The thing is, the Russians do not think they\u2019re exceptional. The Germans can\u2019t possibly! Now, I\u2019m not putting them down by any stretch, and I\u2019m not building us up. You know, this term is so easily explained, and it\u2019s so easily understood, and I guess it\u2019s so easily misunderstood, with everybody thinking that it\u2019s a term of braggadocio, and it isn\u2019t. Here\u2019s Newt on Crossfire last night and his comments on Putin\u2019s op-ed in the New York Times.<\/p>\n


\nGINGRICH: It was a remarkable post-Soviet document, because he cites the pope. I mean, can you imagine Brezhnev or Khrushchev or Lenin or Stalin…? I mean, you want to know who lost the Cold War? The communists lost the Cold War.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s not a comment on the American exceptionalism, but “a remarkable post-Soviet document”? So many people seem to be so willing to — I don\u2019t know — award praise to people for whatever reason. I remember shortly after Obama was elected. He hadn\u2019t yet been immaculated, but it was between the election and the immaculation, and Obama announced somebody in his national security apparatus, some guy he was gonna put in there.<\/p>\n

Newt was all excited. “If you woulda told me that the election of a radical leftist Democrat like Barack Obama woulda resulted in da-da-da-da-da-da-da, I woulda told you you\u2019re crazy,” and that one appointment gave Newt the impression that Obama was gonna be much, much, much better than any of us thought. He wasn\u2019t gonna be anywhere near the radical that we all thought. It\u2019s like when Eric Holder was nominated to be attorney general.<\/p>\n

All these idiotic intellectual Republican legal people ran to the microphone. “Oh, what a great nomination! Eric Holder is one of the greatest guys that\u2019s ever come down the pike! Why, this changes our opinion of what the Obama presidency\u2019s gonna be.” It was a disaster. Again, it\u2019s all because all of these people rendering judgment refuse to look at this through the prism of ideology. The idea that Eric Holder was a sign that Obama was not gonna be a radical leftist president?<\/p>\n

How do you arrive at that? How do you get there? Okay, so just because Putin mentions the pope, and we\u2019re supposed to conclude that Russia\u2019s a much greater place today than it was then. Russia is our enemy. Russia is attempting to wrest control of the Middle East and ally with Iran. What is it that people don\u2019t get or that\u2019s so hard for \u2019em to get? I don\u2019t understand. In many of these instances, I just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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