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RUSH: It\u2019s surreal. We are a worldwide joke and everybody knows it but us. You know, what\u2019s happened on this Syria thing? Have you kept up with this? This is a Saturday Night Live skit! I will try to make this understandable. It\u2019s what we do here, my friends: Make the complex understandable. This is not easy to say, but I\u2019m telling you: In the eyes of the world, this country has to be a laughingstock. It has to be a joke, and most of the people of this country don\u2019t even know it. They\u2019re absorbed with Miley Cyrus or what have you. <\/p>\n

So basically John Kerry, in typical John Kerry fashion, misspeaks. He commits a major gaffe. He attempted to walk the gaffe back. He attempted to take it back. He attempted to recall the gaffe. The Russians, Vladimir Putin, and Bashar Assad, leapt on the gaffe and took it — and the John Kerry gaffe has become the official policy of the United States in Syria with Obama and the media now claiming credit for a brilliant strategy! This is the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a> on display. <\/p>\n

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We have an absolute joke of a secretary of state making an incompetent comment that is so bad for us that the Russians and Assad glom on to it and say they accept it. Kerry tries to walk it back. They say, “No, no, no! We\u2019re going with this.” Obama then says, “We can take this,” and then he quotes Reagan. He says, “All we gotta do here is ‘trust and verify\u2019 that the Syrians actually abide by their agreement with this gaffe.” The media, in the meanwhile, mobilized at full speed to make it look like this whole thing was a strategic initiative orchestrated by Obama, brilliantly and flawlessly executed after being brilliantly conceived. <\/p>\n

What we have here essentially is Kerry saying something stupid and realizing it and trying to walk it back. Now, let me see if I can give you the details, and I\u2019ve got stories here that are time-stamped. I time-stamp them, for me. If you think I\u2019m the only one in the media thinking this, The Politico has a piece today<\/a>: “The United States of Weakness,” but it\u2019s not what you think. It\u2019s not Obama\u2019s problem. The reason we are weak is because the media is so fractured. <\/p>\n

The American people can no longer sit down at 6:30 every night and watch one of three networks and find out what happened that day. That\u2019s why so many people are watching Miley Cyrus or Bachelor\/Bachelorette, or Dancing With the Stars, or Miley Cyrus again, or whatever. They don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening, and Politico laments that not even a presidential speech now can permeate the rest of the media noise so that even a brilliant president like Obama has a tough time reaching all the people. <\/p>\n

And then they find a way somehow — I kid you not — to blame Bush for that. It really is surreal. Now, folks, I don\u2019t mean to beat this to death, but I\u2019m gonna try to explain this. As I say, I have included time stamps here on these articles that I put together, as much for myself as to be able to relate to you, to show the timeline. It\u2019s a great example of the Limbaugh Theorem because it shows how the media help Obama get away with the most outrageous claims. <\/line><\/p>\n

The latest Syria development began with what was an obvious gaffe from John Kerry, which he immediately tried to walk back, and then he even called the Russians to tell them it was a gaffe! The State Department issued several statements confirming that it was a gaffe. But, lo and behold, Vladimir Putin has jumped on the gaffe, and he\u2019s taken Kerry\u2019s offer, and now the White House and their media minions that promote them have realized that this could provide a way out for Obama without ever having to strike Syria. <\/p>\n

So now it\u2019s not a gaffe.<\/p>\n

Now it becomes brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed statecraft by Obama and Kerry. And everything Kerry and the State Department said about it being a gaffe and trying to walk it back or recall it is immediately forgotten. Furthermore, we are now told by Obama and his media minions that this option is something Obama has been discussing with Putin for some time, apparently in secret. Keep in mind that Kerry said it was a gaffe. He was scared to death when the Syrians and Russians accepted it. <\/p>\n

Byron York — you know, we follow Byron here occasionally. Yes, I\u2019ll get to the gaffe here in just a second. That is fundamental. But I want to explain something first. Byron York at the DC Examiner<\/a> claims that this policy proposal, the Kerry gaffe, was actually proposed as a quasi-joke by the comedian Albert Brooks on Twitter, and he finds the Twitter post of Albert Brooks, and it is almost verbatim what Kerry said. <\/p>\n

First, the Reuters story<\/a>. Let\u2019s just start here in order. This is 7:22 a.m. yesterday. “Secretary of State John Kerry was making a rhetorical comment when he said on Monday that Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad would not hand over his country\u2019s chemical weapons. Kerry told a news briefing on Monday that Assad could avoid a military strike by turning over all his chemical weapons within a week but added that Assad was not about to do that.<\/p>\n

“‘Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used,\u2019 a US State Department spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.” Albert Brooks — I kid you not — according to Byron York, made a joke on Twitter: “Why don\u2019t we just tell Assad to give up his chemical weapons, and let the international community or the Russians hold \u2019em?” <\/p>\n

So Kerry ran with it, claiming that it was just a rhetorical comment. It was not serious. Of course, Putin glommed right on to it. “That\u2019s a great idea! Assad will give up his chemical weapons, and we\u2019ll control \u2019em.” When that happened, when Kerry\u2019s rhetorical gaffe… His “stream of consciousness” is what the State Department is trying to say it was. When the Russians accepted it, that was panic because Kerry just had diarrhea of the mouth. He was just thinking out loud. <\/p>\n

He was trying to sound smart. It was typical John Kerry trying to sound like a smart guy, trying to sound like a European. You know, he imitates Europeans all the time. He\u2019d love to be one. He told a news briefing on Monday that Assad could avoid a military strike by turning over all of his chemical weapons within a week. He was just talking like you might sit around with some friends and talk about what a friend of yours might do to avoid problems at work. He\u2019s speculating.<\/p>\n

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Secretaries of state don\u2019t do this, except insecure ones that are just obsessed with everybody knowing how smart they are, and it was so bad… Again, folks, yesterday morning — just a little over 22 hours ago, probably 26 hours ago now — Kerry suggested (summarized), “You know, Assad could avoid all this if he just turn over all those chemical weapons to the international community, the United Nations, Russia, and let me them handle it. Take \u2019em out of Assad\u2019s hands. Yeah, that\u2019d be the right thing to do!”<\/p>\n

The State Department said, “Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used.” The State Department then said, “His point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons,” and yet that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019ve agreed to do! Folks, I can\u2019t keep a straight face. <\/p>\n

So now this has become, in the media, a brilliant Obama strategy that he was discussing with Putin in secret long ago. But again, I can\u2019t emphasize enough: Kerry just kind of threw it out there as a stream-of-consciousness thought. The State Department was so scared Kerry said that, that they tried to walk it back. “No, no! It was just a rhetorical exercise. He was just speaking. He didn\u2019t mean anything. He knows this isn\u2019t gonna happen,” and yet here it\u2019s happened. This is the Keystone Cops. <\/p>\n

This is a bunch of rumbling, bumbling… I don\u2019t know how to describe it. That\u2019s just one story. Then here at 4:15 yesterday afternoon, also from Reuters, headline: “Kerry Tells Russia His Syria Comments were Not Meant as a Proposal.” Now, keep in mind that what Kerry said is now the official policy. It is the policy of this government. All day yesterday, Kerry and the State Department are trying to walk it back because it was a gaffe. <\/p>\n

So Reuters\u2019 headline, 7:22 yesterday morning, “Kerry Speaking Rhetorically Over Syria Turning in Weapons,” and then same day, yesterday afternoon, “Kerry Tells Russia His Syria Comments were Not Meant as a Proposal.” Here\u2019s the lede to the story. “Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov his comments about Syria averting a US military strike by turning over its chemical weapons within a week were rhetorical and not meant to be a proposal, a senior US Official said on Monday.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Kerry also voiced ‘serious skepticism\u2019 when Lavrov offered to explore the idea, saying that the United States would take a look at any serious proposal, but this could not be a reason to slow the White House\u2019s efforts to secure congressional authorization to use force against Syria…” From AP, 6:26 last night, two hours after the Reuters story: “Obama, Putin Talked About Securing Syria Chemical Weapons.” So it turns out this was the plan all along. At least that\u2019s what the media wants us to believe. <\/p>\n

This is journalistic malpractice. It\u2019s embarrassing. It is as transparent as it can be. “President Barack Obama says he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about a potential plan for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons to international control. Syria has welcomed an idea floated Monday for it to hand over chemical weapons for destruction to avoid a US military strike. The public proposal from Russia followed what seemed to be an offhand remark…” (laughing)<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t offhand at all. It turns out it was a typical, brilliantly nuanced strategy! That\u2019s what they want us all to believe. It\u2019s unreal, folks. Here\u2019s the Albert Brooks. On Friday night Brooks sent out a Syria joke: “Russia and the US could unite for one week…” This is a tweet. “Russia and the US could unite for one week, go into Syria, remove the chemicals, and let them continue fighting,” and that\u2019s what\u2019s happened. That was Brooks on Friday night. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the first known published remark of this strategy: A joke from a comedian. So a comedian has set US foreign policy — and, by the way, folks, the fighting can continue. Assad, having agreed to this, has resumed bombing the rebels in Damascus suburbs with conventional weapons, which is apparently fine. He doesn\u2019t get in trouble for that. As long as you kill people with standard, ordinary, everyday bombs and cherry bombs and fireworks and dynamite, that\u2019s cool. <\/p>\n

You use chemical weapons and you\u2019re gonna really tick off John Kerry and Barack Obama. So they\u2019re gonna really move in there and do something. So the attack, whatever this all was started by… Everybody in our government thinking that Assad\u2019s a bad guy, has taken out his own people, these blessed rebels, and he had to be stopped \u2019cause he\u2019s using weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons. So Albert Brooks proposes a joke — and, by the way, said let the fighting continue.<\/p>\n

You know, “take the chemical weapons away and let \u2019em continue fighting and may the best man win,” and that is our policy! And the media\u2019s trying to make it look like that\u2019s what it was all along. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019ll start here at number one. Folks, they\u2019re so excited. Kerry\u2019s… (sigh) Well, it is stupidity, and I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s stupid about it is, Obama even quotes Reagan, “Trust but verify.” The Russians are involved here?<\/p>\n

The Russians and Assad are promising to get rid of chemical weapons, and that\u2019s it? We accept it? Course we do! Of course we do, because the media\u2019s on Obama\u2019s side! They can make it look like Obama\u2019s a force of nature and Obama\u2019s very presence scared the heck out of Assad and Putin, and Assad and Putin ran in there and they grabbed those chemical weapons and they got \u2019em out of Syria, all because they\u2019re so afraid of Obama.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the way this is being portrayed. Here\u2019s a media montage. Listen and soak it all in, folks.<\/p>\n

DIANE SAWYER: What a turn of events today.<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: This proposal from John Kerry, things have changed in the past few hours it seems.<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: The Russians, perhaps seeking a way out of the crisis, jumped on it.<\/p>\n

JESSICA YELLIN: The John Kerry goof this morning which may have actually been a goof that saves the President.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: An offhanded remark. A goof.<\/p>\n

JOHN KING: (b-roll noise) A goof, a mess-up. I\u2019ve never seen a day like this.<\/p>\n

STEPHANIE CUTTER: This is a great development! We could potentially avert a military action! Something worked!<\/p>\n

MARTHA RADDATZ: If he can get some sort of breakthrough here with Syria, they don\u2019t have to strike.<\/p>\n

VAN JONES: A god comes down from the machine and just fixes everything. Deus ex machina. The gaffe that saves the world!<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: Diplomatic, national security win for the US, right? The president would have to deserve a lot of credit.<\/line><\/p>\n

ANDREW SULLIVAN: Just a fantastic end result for the president!<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: If this works, it is genius!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t know how much longer I can do this. I don\u2019t know how much longer I can subject myself to this every day and stay sane. I really, really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, do you realize what\u2019s happening? Somebody has finally taken John Kerry seriously at one of the most inopportune times for United States. It just illustrates that all of this always has been about nothing but Obama. It\u2019s not about the rebels. It\u2019s not about saving lives. It\u2019s not about compassion. It\u2019s not about this, these dreaded chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction. Obama, in the heat of a presidential campaign, draws a red line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He says, “Not while I\u2019m here,” and nobody listened to him, and nobody paid him any mind because he doesn\u2019t scare anybody. The US is demonstrably now, either in reality or simply because of who runs it, too weak to do anything about it around the world. We\u2019re not going to, and everybody knows it. The first chance Obama had to slither out of a commitment to use force, he took it. A John Kerry mistake. A John Kerry gaffe. <\/p>\n

Like white on rice, they attached themselves to this, and now the media\u2019s in the process — even though acknowledging that Kerry committed a gaffe — of talking about how genius it was. “You know, even when Kerry is stupid, he\u2019s a genius. Even when we liberals make goofs, we are geniuses. We are so smart,” and then it was learned that Obama, smarter than everybody, had be talking about this with Putin behind the scenes for weeks and nobody knew. We\u2019re being asked to believe this. <\/p>\n

But here\u2019s something interesting: The rebels in Syria are opposed to this. I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. “Syrian opposition…” That would be the rebels. “Syrian Rebels Against New Kerry Plan to Avoid Strike.” Says right here “The Syrian political opposition is dead set against the brand-new Obama [regime] policy to pursue a new diplomatic negotiation with Russia in an effort to avoid a military strike on Syria..”<\/p>\n

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Now, wait a minute, now. I thought we were aligned with the rebels. I thought that we were trying to protect the rebels. Now the rebels are getting the excrement kicked out of \u2019em because Assad\u2019s going back to suing standard conventional weapons — which, apparently, is okay. We have no problem with that. Obama didn\u2019t say not to use those. So I guess our alliance with the rebels is out the window, too. Poof! Up in smoke, as it were. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I have a question. We all know — well, those of you in this audience know — that there\u2019s some question as to who actually has been using the chemical weapons in Syria. There\u2019s credible evidence… In fact, there\u2019s more today here in the Stack of Stuff and the audio sound bites. There\u2019s more evidence today that the rebels were using the chemical weapons. This is not to say that Assad doesn\u2019t have any, but he may not be the only one possessing them.<\/p>\n

Assad has claimed all along that he never fired them, he never used them. That has been his position. So Kerry comes along thinking out loud, “Well, you know what we could do? Syria could give those weapons to Russia, and get \u2019em out of the country, and let the fighting continue, and get the weapons at least out of the country.” We immediately realized how stupid it was. I mean, to bring Russia into this? To give chemical weapons to Russian supervision and to trust them that the weapons are being taken out of Syria? <\/p>\n

Anyway, the State Department started walking it back. “Nah, it was just a rhetorical exercise. Secretary Kerry really didn\u2019t mean it. It was a goof.” So the media said it was a goof, but Assad and Putin said, “We accept it! We want it!” They raise their hands. “We accept it! We accept it!” So Assad, who claims he didn\u2019t even use them, has given them up. The rebels, who others are saying with credibility also used them, are not giving them up. So let\u2019s say…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good week for this to happen here. This is all about making Obama look good, folks. You have to understand this. It\u2019s not about anything else, and the way this has transpired proves it and the way the media is covering it proves it. It\u2019s all about yanking Obama out of a mess, a huge one. But now his address to the nation tonight is gonna be totally different than what he was gonna go out and try to prepare everybody for a strike, and then Kerry…<\/p>\n

This is kind of like Biden, you know, letting it out there that the regime supports gay marriage right before the Democrat convention. Obama had to go out and fix it, \u2019cause up to that point Obama wasn\u2019t supporting gay marriage, and Biden went out there and did it and led Obama into it. It may have been by design. Who knows? This wasn\u2019t. This was a Kerry gaffe. But let\u2019s say Assad does give up his weapons. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna happen. I think the bottom line is Assad\u2019s not gonna give anything up.<\/p>\n

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But the Russians are gonna say, “Yes, he did! We\u2019ve got \u2019em and the international community has \u2019em,” and whoever the version of Hans Blix is these days will say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah! They gave up their chemical weapons.” Then what happens when somebody uses them again? Assad will say, “Da-da-da! I don\u2019t have \u2019em! I gave \u2019em way. I mean. It must be these rebels using them.” (laughing) Jeez. Oh, my Lord. Sorry. “Oh, my aching head.”<\/p>\n

Another story her from Reuters: “Syria accepted a Russian…” This is today. This is at 9:30 this morning. Time-stamping everything \u2019cause it\u2019s crucial. “Syria accepted a Russian proposal on Tuesday to give up chemical weapons and win a reprieve from US military strikes,” dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut “while its jets returned to the sky to bomb rebel positions in Damascus for the first time since the West threatened force.'”<\/p>\n

So Obama… (laughing) I\u2019m sorry to laugh at this. There\u2019s nothing funny about it. It\u2019s not funny for the people living through this. So Assad says, “Oh, yeah! I\u2019ll gladly give up my chemicals. I\u2019m not even firing \u2019em off anyway. I\u2019m not using \u2019em. You can have \u2019em for a week, whatever. Putin will be glad to take \u2019em off my hands. We\u2019ll get \u2019em back by Christmas. What the hell? No big deal.” So everybody assumes chemical weapons are gonna leave Syria.<\/p>\n

While the chemical weapons are on the way out, Assad resumes attacking the rebels who side we\u2019re supposedly on. So the rebels are getting the excrement kicked out of \u2019em again in the Damascus suburbs, Assad has launched the attacks, and nobody cares. All that matters is Obama said, “No chemical weapons,” and there are no chemical weapons. “See? See how good he is? See how messiah he is? See how powerful he is? See how brilliant he is? See how respected he is? See how tough he is? See how strong he is?”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what all this is about. Meanwhile, the people whose side we claim to be on are getting killed in renewed action, and Assad is doing it with impunity \u2019cause he gave up his chemical weapons. Again, he claimed all along he never used them. So if they do show up, if they\u2019re used again at some point in the future, he\u2019s got an out. “Don\u2019t look at me! I gave them to Putin. The UN\u2019s got control of mine. I don\u2019t have any of those things. I got rid of \u2019em. Obama scared the hell out of me. I got rid of \u2019em.” <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Kerry. You gotta here this. <\/p>\n

This is this morning. He\u2019s testifying at the House Armed Services Committee on proposed military strikes in Syria over chemical weapons use. Kerry is proud of his gaffe. Now, again, folks, let me give you the time stamp. Sorry to be repetitive here. Yesterday morning at 7:20, Kerry was “speaking rhetorically” over Syria turning in weapons. As soon as Kerry made this gaffe, the State Department ran out and said it was a gaffe, that he didn\u2019t mean it. He was just making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and the unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons. <\/p>\n

He never thought he would do it. That\u2019s what he said, and Assad picked up on it with Putin and so now they\u2019ve got a gaffe on their hands. Then at 4:15 yesterday afternoon Kerry tells Russia his Syria comments were “not meant as a proposal.” So Kerry makes a gaffe and tries to walk it back. He then called the Russians and told them it was a gaffe, he didn\u2019t mean it. He said it\u2019s not a serious proposal. Then the State Department issued several statements confirming it was a gaffe and not serious and he didn\u2019t mean it.<\/p>\n

But then Putin jumped on it, and now it has become genius!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Kerry testifying this morning…<\/p>\n

KERRY: Make no mistake. Make no mistake about why this idea has any potential legs at all, and why it is that the Russians have reached out to the Syrians and why the Syrians have initially suggested they might be interested. It\u2019s the credible threat of force that has been on the table for these last weeks that has, for the first time, brought this regime to even acknowledge that they have a chemical weapons arsenal! It is only because of the threat of force that we are discussing today, and that threat is more compelling if Congress stands with the commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So here\u2019s Kerry, an anti-war American if there ever was one, who does not like the use of force. When any other president has threatened the use of force, Kerry has been critical of them, as being a “bully” and threatening to “impose” the United States policies on the lesser nations of the world. He has been critical forever of the threatened use of force. Now here he is giving the threatened use of force all the credit for Assad basically turning into a coward and caving and giving up. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s admitting for the first time that he had chemical weapons. Did he really? You realize, there isn\u2019t gonna be anything backing this up. We\u2019re gonna accept the word of Assad and Putin that this removal of chemical weapons from Syria has occurred. These liberals, they believe their own mumbo jumbo. Their arrogance and their conceit leads them to think that everybody believes what they say, and is scared of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

So now it was the Obama implied threat of force. Well, just what kind of threat was it? Let\u2019s go back. Obama said (summarized), “It isn\u2019t gonna be much. A couple of missiles, maybe take a half hour. We never threatened major military action. We did just the opposite.” Kerry kept calling it “incredibly small.” We didn\u2019t threaten anything. We kept trying to tell the world… I remember making the point yesterday. It\u2019s what liberals do. <\/p>\n

“Oh, no! We\u2019re not like Bush. We\u2019re not gonna be irresponsible.” The spokeskid, Jay Carney, said, “We\u2019re not gonna be irresponsible. We\u2019re not gonna be like Bush. We\u2019re not gonna go in there and do Shock and Awe. We\u2019re not gonna go in there just start leveling country. No, no, no!” They started talking about how small the hit would be. Yet today, they want to tell us Assad\u2019s quaking in his boots, scared to death over the threatened use of force. The sad thing is, this is not good, either. The sad thing here is, everybody involved here is probably laughing themselves silly like we all are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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