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RUSH: Matt Drudge has one of the funniest pictures on his home page, a picture that portrays something people my age actually had to do. The story is about the threats that have closed our embassies around the world for now a week, not just a day yesterday, but the whole week. The picture is a black and white from the fifties that shows a bunch of schoolkids under their desks to protect themselves in the event of a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

Which, of course, wouldn\u2019t have mattered a hill of beans if the Soviets had launched a nuclear attack. There\u2019s no desk in a school that\u2019s gonna protect anybody. But we all had those drills. I think that picture is a little bit of a goose, \u2019cause what do we have here? Every report on this says that there was a specific threat, and this threat was more precise and more ominous than even the chatter prior to 9\/11. <\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve got people from both parties out talking about this dire terrorist threat. It is huge. We\u2019re closing embassies everywhere, not just for a day, but for a week. It\u2019s twenty-one embassies and consulates in Allah knows how many countries. That doesn\u2019t sound specific to me. They say it\u2019s a specific threat, but closing 21 embassies doesn\u2019t sound too specific to me. Every report says it was a specific threat and we had to close down 21 embassies and consulates. <\/p>\n

“This is the worst threat the country has faced since 9\/11,” folks. So, naturally, Obama went off to Camp David for the weekend to celebrate his birthday and play golf for seven hours. That was the day 11 top officials at the White House met with Susan Rice to decide what to do about this horrible, specific, worst threat since 9\/11. Now, if we\u2019re closing down our embassies in the Middle East, doesn\u2019t it mean the terrorists have won? <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I\u2019m really wondering. I hate to, but I\u2019m really cynical. I know there are Republicans who I know that agree. Michael McCaul from Texas, member of the House, is out there saying the same thing Obama\u2019s saying. “It\u2019s the biggest threat!” How many times have we been here? (The financial crisis?) “Everything\u2019s gonna come to a screeching halt 24 hours if we don\u2019t do X!” Go back to October 11th, 2012, in Miami during a campaign event. <\/p>\n

Here is the president…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I said we\u2019d end the war in Afghanistan, and we are! <\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (cheers and applause) <\/p>\n

OBAMA: I said we\u2019d refocus on the people who actually attacked us on 9\/11, and today Al-Qaeda\u2019s on the run and Osama Bin Laden is dead.<\/p>\n

FOLLOWERS: (cheers and applause) <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I don\u2019t know, folks. It sounds like we\u2019re on the run. Seriously. It doesn\u2019t sound like Al-Qaeda is on the run. It sounds like we are. It sounds like we\u2019re the ones scared to death. We\u2019re the ones who shut down 21 embassies, not just for a day but for a week because of a specific threat — more credible, more ominous than anything since 9\/11. Here\u2019s Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) on Meet the Press yesterday. <\/p>\n

David Gregory said, “Senator Chambliss, Congressman Peter King said this Al-Qaeda threat is the most significant threat that we\u2019ve seen in years. What have you been told about it?”<\/p>\n

CHAMBLISS: There\u2019s an awful lot of chatter out there. Chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning that\u2019s going on, very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9\/11. We\u2019re hearing some kind of that same chatter, David, that we heard pre-11 leading up to anecdotes like that taking place by the terrorists.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, “leading up to anecdotes like taking place by the terrorists.” I don\u2019t even know what that means. But I think I know what he\u2019s saying here. What he\u2019s saying is — and he\u2019s on the committee, I think he\u2019s on the intelligence committee. He\u2019s saying, “Hey, these threats are real! These threats are huge. These threats, they\u2019re big, they\u2019re specific, and they\u2019re as big as all that chatter we were hearing pre-9\/11,” which we didn\u2019t listen to, by the way. <\/p>\n

Up next on Meet the Press, Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois. David Gregory says, “Senator Durbin, is this a big deal, or a big overreaction?”<\/p>\n

DURBIN: No, it\u2019s a big deal! Vice President Biden gave us a classified briefing this last week. We need to know and realize we\u2019re living in an increasingly dangerous world, and this specific threat that we\u2019ve been briefed on over and over again has reached a new level.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And on ABC\u2019s This Week, Peter King, congressman from New York…<\/p>\n

KING: You know, we can\u2019t criticize them for doing too little with Benghazi and now criticize them for doing too much. I\u2019m giving them credit for saying they learned from Benghazi, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re firming up the embassies. But also, as far as this worldwide alert, I think it\u2019s absolutely warranted in this situation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, there. See? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A quick question, folks. How come nobody is blaming — there\u2019s an anti-Obama YouTube video out there. It\u2019s by a belly dancer in Egypt. It\u2019s anti-Obama. You look at all of the things. You got the NSA scandal. You got Benghazi, the phony Benghazi scandal, and we\u2019re learning so much about the efforts the regime made to keep that thing buttoned up and buttoned down, make sure nobody found out what that was really all about. And the guy who was blamed for that, the filmmaker on that, still in jail without bail somewhere. <\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve got two things. You\u2019ve got a little bit of a backlash against the NSA. The Russians granting Edward Snowden asylum, so he finally was able to leave the Moscow airport, and then this Benghazi thing — and again whatever backlash there is against Obamacare. Then all of a sudden here comes this monstrous terror threat that originally was gonna close our embassies on Sunday, but then it was so bad, and it was so anecdotal, and it was so credible, and it was — I mean, nothing compares to this until you go back to the same kind of chatter that we were hearing before 9\/11, so we gotta close the embassy for the whole week. It\u2019s just easy to not believe it anymore. It\u2019s just too easy to be cynical. <\/p>\n

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Now, there is a YouTube video. There\u2019s an anti-Obama YouTube video made by a belly dancer in Egypt. You haven\u2019t heard about it? It\u2019s gone viral. It attacks Obama for helping the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, why doesn\u2019t somebody blame that video for the fact that we have to close 21 embassies for a week? And it\u2019s a specific threat, so specific that we have to close 21 embassies and consulates to be prepared for it. <\/p>\n

Julie in Dayton, Ohio. I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Good. Hey, I just wanted to let you know, it is so refreshing to listen to you today, and I knew deep in my heart that you would open up with this conversation regarding the closing of the embassies, because my friends and I were talking about it over the weekend when the news —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it was either that or A-Rod.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, let\u2019s not go there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I am gonna go there. They told us over the weekend they were gonna announce the suspension at noon, right when this program started. They haven\u2019t announced. This is one of those moments — there\u2019s a phrase for this that I cannot utter on this program, but it involves the bathroom and doing something and getting out. You know, the country can\u2019t handle this pins and needles stuff, the Yankees can\u2019t handle it. Anyway, you wanted to talk about the terror threat. Please. I didn\u2019t mean to distract you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, that\u2019s fine, because I\u2019m a Reds fan, you know, and I don\u2019t care about A-Rod. But, no, what my friends and I were talking about was that right away we just thought that this was all phony, to be honest with you, that —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? Why did you and your friends think it was all phony?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think it\u2019s to distract the cover-up for Benghazi and to show that, “Oh, now, you know, we\u2019ve learned from this, and we\u2019re taking firmer action and Obama\u2019s doing things.” It\u2019s trying to make him look presidential and that he is doing something.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I understand that somebody might think this could make him look presidential. Now, to those of us that remember, Obama was such a munificent munificence that this kind of thing was never going to happen once he was president. There weren\u2019t gonna be terrorists. And I\u2019m not exaggerating. Obama was gonna show the people that hated us that there was no longer a reason to hate America, because Obama\u2019s election would have meant, or did mean that America had gotten rid of all of its mean guys, gotten rid of all of its mean people, gotten rid of the people that are cowboys and sending the military around to plunder and rape and pillage and steal. <\/p>\n

We had a guy who is gonna apologize for all of that past behavior on the part of the United States of America. We had a guy, they told us, he told us, Democrat Party told us, the media told us, we had a guy that was gonna unify the world. He was gonna unify the United States \u2019cause he was gonna be the first black president, that meant there would be no racism in America, it would be postracial. We had a guy who was so wonderful, so munificent that he was gonna end all arguments in America, was gonna end all disagreements, gonna end all partisanship, and the parties were gonna unite and get along and everything that was going to happen was going to happen in America\u2019s best interests, and there was not gonna be any more friction, all kinds of people in both directions crossing the aisle, we were gonna be postpartisan. <\/p>\n

The world was going to love us because all of our bad people had been defeated and sent away, and Obama, this new person of the world, unlike anyone we had ever seen, all of this was stated, folks. Everything I\u2019m telling you is what some people in this country thought, this that I\u2019m telling you is the impression that was given. No more racism, no more partisanship, total unity, Obama was going to make the world love us again. We\u2019re gonna close all of the terrorist prisons. We were going to stop torturing people. We weren\u2019t gonna have any enemies anymore, and that Obama was going, and did, to apologize for all of the past transgressions.<\/p>\n

Finally, after 200 and some odd years, America had finally gotten it right, and there weren\u2019t gonna be any terrorists. There was not gonna be any need to look at the United States as an enemy. And even after he was inaugurated Obama then goes to Cairo and makes a big speech in the Middle East basically telling his audience in Cairo and in the Middle East all of this. And then there was the Arab Spring, which Obama tried to capture and take control of and make it look like it was an outgrowth of his own campaign and his own presidency. <\/p>\n

People in Egypt decided to get rid of their George W. Bush, Hosni Mubarak, they threw him out of there, had all these rallies in Tahrir Square<\/a>. CNN sent Nic Robertson over there to ask the protestors how much they loved President Obama and how much they were willing to praise Obama for making it happen, how much Obama was responsible for their new freedom and their new economy and all their new jobs. This is it, folks. This is how this man was presented to us. This is how this man, Obama, was presented to the world. It\u2019s how he presented himself. <\/p>\n

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And so how can this be happening? How could what happened in Benghazi happen? There wasn\u2019t supposed to be any more terrorism. There weren\u2019t supposed to be any people looking at us as the enemy. We were supposed to be loved again. We were supposed to be respected again and really loved and respected once we had a decent secretary of state out there, Hillary Clinton followed by John Kerry. The American media and the Democrat Party told us that they were the solution and the answer to everything. And they certainly gave off the impression that the terrorists were not gonna be mad at us anymore, that they would not have any reason to attack us. And yet terrorism continued, Obama expanded wars, this country supposedly loved and adored because Obama was president, isn\u2019t. Terrorism\u2019s ramping up. <\/p>\n

Obama says, after he kills bin Laden, that Al-Qaeda\u2019s on the run. It\u2019s the United States on the run. It\u2019s the United States closing 21 embassies. This is an absolute embarrassment, if you ask me, what this country bought. What the voters of this country bought and fell for and elected is an absolute embarrassment. It\u2019s a common-sense embarrassment. We actually had people telling us that all that I just described to you wasn\u2019t going to happen because of the almost messianic-like existence and aura of Barack Obama. So how come none of it\u2019s played out the way Obama said? How come it\u2019s gotten worse? <\/p>\n

How can this closing of 21 embassies, how can it even be happening? I mean, we\u2019re out there, and we brought freedom to Egypt, the Arab Spring, and we did it. It was Obama\u2019s campaign that inspired Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood to get rid of that SOB, Mubarak. It doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s worked out. The people of Egypt, “You know what? We don\u2019t like this guy, Morsi,” threw him out, the military threw him out. Obama was trying to take credit for all of this. <\/p>\n

The cynicism? Let me tell you something about this. The cynicism is easy. But, folks, this is really bad. This is really, really dangerous. The United States is a great nation at risk in a dangerous world. We always have been. I cringe. Look at what has happened to the foreign policy establishment of this country. Look at the Justice Department, what has happened and what it\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

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You may not know this. This is an ancillary issue, and I know you\u2019re gonna get mad when I mention the magic word Apple, but you may not know this. Apple just lost a trial against the Justice Department on their e-book store. As a result of this, the Justice Department has demanded — they have submitted a motion to a judge — that they be allowed to supervise and run Apple\u2019s App Store and iTunes for 10 years, because Apple has so cheated and screwed people. <\/p>\n

What Apple has done is not pay a lot of lobbyists. What Apple has done is not pay a lot of politicians. What Apple has done is not sent a lot of money to Washington. Microsoft didn\u2019t, but Microsoft never faced what Apple is facing. The Justice Department\u2019s gone to court and has literally demanded the right to oversee every aspect of Apple\u2019s operations on the assumption that they are cheating and screwing everybody.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s another story. It just happened to pop into my mind. My focus here is that we have a bunch of rank amateur leftists who have no practical experience in the real world. Their life experience is the faculty lounge, sitting around sipping cocktails, theorizing with each other about what great utopian lives they could create if they were in power. All of their prejudices and biases are against capitalism, against liberty, against freedom.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they blame for the problems in the world. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they blame for the problems in this country: Freedom, liberty, capitalism, and free markets. Then they create these-half-baked lies that this country\u2019s hated and despised, while people around the world are still willing to die for the chance to live here. So they set Obama up as this great utopian leader, this great guy with all the answers, and the world is going to practically melt at his feet in love and adoration! So how can any of this be happening? <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another aspect of this that\u2019s dangerous. <\/p>\n

The very fact that there are so many people who are cynical about this, the very fact that there are so many Americans who think they\u2019re being lied to about a terror threat, is a really dangerous thing. It is an unhealthy thing for the country. It is the surest sign of the wanton lack of respect for this country that has swept all across this country. This threat may be real. Everything we\u2019re being told could be real. We could be facing something somewhere as bad or worse than 9\/11 — and I dare say, the majority of Americans think it\u2019s a lie. <\/p>\n

What does that tell you that what most Americans think of the people who are telling them about this threat? <\/p>\n

They\u2019re liars, too. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Douglas, somewhere Pennsylvania. This is the trucker, and I\u2019m really glad that you waited, Douglas. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled cell connection) Hi, how you doing? Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m a long-time listener, but from what I have heard, I\u2019m definitely a fan already.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. If you could, could you speak a little slower? I\u2019m having trouble understanding you. You\u2019re on a cell phone, and it\u2019s tougher for me to comprehend speech there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I apologize about that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, it\u2019s not your problem, it\u2019s mine. But if you just slow down, it will help.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right, well, here\u2019s my issue with today\u2019s conversation. You say that… I lost you there. Oh, here we go. You say that you have a problem with closing of the embassies because they\u2019re following after these terrorist threats that you believe are or are not real. Yet in the same thought you say that the terrorist threats that we were getting prior to 911 we didn\u2019t follow and that the nation is angry about that. Now, you can\u2019t have it both ways. You can\u2019t have your cake and eat it, too. Either you\u2019re angry that they\u2019re following up on these threats or you\u2019re not angry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think what you\u2019re asking me — or maybe, maybe you\u2019re even going whole hog and accusing me of being a hypocrite.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, in a way I would accuse you of not being a hypocrite, but also having… Obviously, I know that from listening that you\u2019re a hypocrite. But, I mean, if these terrorist threats are real, then you would think that those individuals that are —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me explain this. This is gonna be a teachable moment here. Your call and your question are good. You probably have a Samsung phone which is why it\u2019s not good, the call, but the question is good. (See, I can play the game, too. I can do my tech biases just like those clowns do.) Ahem. Now, here\u2019s what Douglas the trucker is saying. He\u2019s saying that I\u2019m being a little skeptical.<\/p>\n

When the regime says that they\u2019ve got this threat, specific threat that closed down 21 embassies and consulates, and it\u2019s worse than anything that we\u2019ve had since 911, he thinks that I\u2019m pooh-poohing it. Yet he thinks I\u2019ve also gotten on government for not doing enough with what they knew before 9\/11 to prevent it from happening. So he is suggesting that I ought to be supporting what I\u2019m hearing.<\/p>\n

Because the government this time is telling us in advance, and they\u2019re taking action to stop it or deal with it, which didn\u2019t happen before 9\/11 — and, as such, I\u2019m being a little hypocritical about this. Now, to put this in perspective, I\u2019m not saying anything. I\u2019m reacting to what I\u2019m being told by people in our government, and it\u2019s not isolated. We\u2019re being told things by a regime which has told us things in the past. <\/p>\n

This regime is engaged in a number of policies that are opening up the privacy of Americans to any kind of penetrative ability the government has. This administration has shown a desire and a knack for distracting people away from things that might be harmful or damaging to them politically. This administration, when the last terror attack happened, did not take it seriously.<\/p>\n

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They tried to blame it on a guy making a phantom video that nobody ever saw, and now the guy who tells us — the president who tells us — this the worst threat since 9\/11, went out and played golf that day for seven hours, and left a bunch of underlings in charge here. What I\u2019m trying to express here, Thomas, is a way to explain why people might not trust the government — and believe me, there are a lot of cynics who don\u2019t believe this. <\/p>\n

In the first place, this is a “specific” threat. If it\u2019s specific, why are you closing 21 embassies? If it\u2019s specific… I mean, specific means specific. You\u2019ve got it nail down. Specific means you know where, you know who, you know what. At least that\u2019s the assumption that people make. The first note was, “We\u2019re gonna close the embassies for a day,” yesterday, Sunday. Now all of a sudden it\u2019s all week. <\/p>\n

Now we got people from both parties going on TV and saying, “Well, the chatter here is about like what we had before 9\/11. It\u2019s maybe the most credible stuff and the most dangerous stuff since 9\/11,” and it comes at a time where this administration is trying to cover up what happened in Benghazi. So it\u2019s not happening in a vacuum — and the people telling us this, Thomas, are not clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m simply putting all this in a flow, in a contextual flow to explain why there is a lot of cynicism, because it\u2019s not good. It\u2019s not good to have people doubting the warnings, \u2019cause this could be real. This threat could be exactly as we\u2019re being told, it could be dire, and we got people out thinking the government\u2019s lying to them about it. It\u2019s because of things that have happened.<\/p>\n

This administration has told people who they are now. <\/p>\n

This administration has behavior patterns and objectives. This is an administration which has done everything to distance itself from everything that\u2019s happened that\u2019s gone wrong in this country, Thomas. We have a president who to this day, after 4-1\/2 years, still isn\u2019t accountable. He still isn\u2019t responsible. He is still on the campaign trail, still trying to make people think that nothing that\u2019s happened is his fault, that nothing that\u2019s happened he\u2019s got anything to do with. <\/line><\/p>\n

So we have a president whose distant and removed and not responsible for anything and not accountable, who was in charge of when a terrible terrorist incident happened. Four Americans died. For three weeks, he and everybody in his regime blamed it on a filmmaker. The NSA is in the process here of trying to penetrate virtual every citizen and have access, and there\u2019s a lot of push-back on that.<\/p>\n

So there are a lot of things happening that the regime would like to distract people\u2019s attention away from. This is also the same bunch of people that told us in 2008 that we had a financial crisis so bad that if we didn\u2019t with it in 24 hours — if we didn\u2019t bail out all these financial interests in 24 hours — the world economy was gonna collapse. So, Thomas, my point is that at least once a week the government of this country tells us, the population, that we have an imminent crisis. <\/p>\n

We have a life-changing crisis facing us. <\/p>\n

We have something that could be a matter of life or death! <\/p>\n

We have something that could mean the end of the US economy. We have something that could mean the end of the country, maybe the end of the world. I mean, this is how they approach us every week, Thomas. Every week! It\u2019s a political strategy of the Democrat Party to create never-ending crises after crisis after crisis after crisis. The American people are a ball of nerves.<\/p>\n

Or they simply refuse to believe it because they don\u2019t have a large enough emotional reservoir to stay that worried for that long. So they get cynical. They say, “We don\u2019t believe it,” because 90% of what this government tells us is gonna happen doesn\u2019t happen. Jobs don\u2019t get created, health care costs don\u2019t come down, the economy doesn\u2019t grow. None of what this administration tells us actually happens — and the things that do happen, they deny. <\/p>\n

So my only point in all this was to try to explain to people why there\u2019s so much distrust and so much cynicism and how that isn\u2019t good. This is a great nation at risk in a really dangerous world, and we have people playing games with that. It\u2019s really unfortunate \u2019cause this could be real. It could be real, and most Americans are simply laughing and thinking that it\u2019s nothing more than another political move by the administration to distract everybody\u2019s attention away from things that are going wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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