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RUSH: Seth in Castleford, Idaho, I\u2019m glad you called. Thank you for waiting, too. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Calling from God\u2019s country where we\u2019re harvesting the amber waves of grain.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I like that. Harvesting the amber waves of grain. I like that. Thank you for the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, it\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you, to talk to somebody like you who\u2019s created so much logical critical thought in our society. You know, it\u2019s really a pleasure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I don\u2019t get to talk to people like me, like you do, unless I talk to myself, and I don\u2019t do that. So I appreciate and understand how important that is to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right, well, my point is to the embassy closings. My interpretation of what the Democrats and many of our lawmakers are doing is, they\u2019re more concerned about job security rather than national security. I think that this embassy closing is a way for them to reestablish the narrative that they lost during Benghazi, by taking credit for nothing happening, and ignoring when something actually happens.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. I\u2019m not sure I follow you. I think you\u2019re on the cusp here of a good point, but I\u2019m not sure I follow. How is it they\u2019re taking credit for nothing happening in Benghazi? Something clearly did happen in Benghazi, and it\u2019s not good<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: No, I think that what they\u2019re gonna end up doing with this embassy closing if nothing happens, is they will take credit for nothing happening like they protected us from this problem that they\u2019ve created —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh. I\u2019ve got you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — rather than, at the same time, calling Benghazi a “phony scandal” that something actually did happen and they\u2019re trying to completely ignore it. I think that they were losing the narrative between, you know, people hammering it like you and some of these people were hammering the narrative that it actually was a tragedy in our society, and by them creating this problem and taking credibility for nothing happening —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so here we have, folks… Seth, thanks. I really appreciate the call. Here we have more cynicism. Here\u2019s a guy who thinks this shutdown of 21 embassies is simply so when nothing happens, they can all claim credit for shutting down a major threat \u2019cause they\u2019ve told us, “This is a bigger threat — certainly as big, the chatter is as big as what we got before 9\/11.” Well, that was the worst one, 9\/11. We haven\u2019t had anything like that in this country, 48 states ever before. Right. Right. <\/p>\n

So here we have this massive possibility, and we close the embassies, and the Obama regime rolls up its sleeves and gets busy working on it. And then if nothing happens, they say, “See how good we were? We are competent! You can rely on us.” You remember how the Drive-By Media used to claim that George W. Bush used terrorist threats to distract us from other problems? <\/p>\n

Do you remember how the mainstream media, the Drive-Bys used to accuse Bush of among terror events in order to make himself look tough, in order to make himself look smart, in order to make himself and his administration look competent? Remember how the media used to accuse Bush of fabricating terror events as a distraction? It\u2019s basically what Seth is saying here Obama is doing.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s saying that what they\u2019re really aiming at is being able to say when this all ends up, if nothing happens, they prevented another Benghazi. Except that Benghazi was a “phony scandal.” I have another view about this. If that\u2019s true, if this is all just political and propaganda and optics — which, if I were to learn that\u2019s the case, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised. I think this bunch politicizes everything. I think everything\u2019s a photo-op. <\/p>\n

I think everything\u2019s part of an agenda to strengthen Obama and his hold, his reputation, everything. I don\u2019t think — and this is, by the way, intelligence guided by experience. I don\u2019t think Obama takes all this stuff seriously anyway, or Benghazi wouldn\u2019t happen the way it did. By the way, do you remember…? I haven\u2019t talked about it yet but there\u2019s a story that hit yesterday that the first criminal charges have been filed against a terrorist or two responsible for Benghazi? <\/p>\n

So the regime is treating this as a criminal act, not an act of war. They file charges, criminal charges against the Benghazi terrorist leader? Crime? This is always the way the left has preferred to look at terrorism. It\u2019s a criminal act. It isn\u2019t an act of war. I just don\u2019t think they take it that seriously, and I say that only because of the way they dealt with Benghazi and attempted to describe Benghazi as a… I mean, four Americans died. <\/p>\n

This is a reprehensible thing that happened, because it was unnecessary. It could have, A, been prevented, or we could have at least engaged and limited some of the damage. We didn\u2019t do anything, for whatever reasons. We\u2019ve gone through all those possibilities. The bottom line is, I just get the sense that this bunch really doesn\u2019t take it all that seriously. Terrorism is really not a big deal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something they don\u2019t think they\u2019re ever gonna be able to defeat. It\u2019s random pockets of lunatics here and lunatics there, and they\u2019ll just treat \u2019em as criminals and so forth. In the meantime, we\u2019ll use it to spy on Americans, ramp up whatever we need to with the NSA and whatever. They\u2019ll use it to expand their powers, but treating it seriously in a way to actually deal with it? I just don\u2019t get that sense. So I understand the cynicism that a caller like Seth has about this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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