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RUSH: The news out of Boston continues to roll out. More news about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and, you know, it\u2019s everywhere. We\u2019re trying to be a little unique on this program, but I am unique and so therefore it really doesn\u2019t matter what is discussed. ‘Cause until I\u2019ve talked about it you really haven\u2019t heard it, right? <\/p>\n

Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The media and the pundits are all wondering openly where the Tsarnaev brothers became radicalized. They\u2019re wringing their hands out there. They\u2019re trying desperately to figure it out. Where did they pick up their anti-America, anti-Christian notions? Did it happen in Chechnya? Did it happen in the home? Did it happen in America? Did it happen on the Internet? They\u2019re all trying to figure it out. <\/p>\n

Well, let me try this. One of the more disturbing interviews that I have heard was with a man in Cambridge who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This guy said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev often engaged in anti-American rants. It was common to hear this guy riff on what a rotten place America is. So they asked this guy, “Well, why didn\u2019t you ever say anything about it?” You know what this guy in Cambridge said? He said Tamerlan\u2019s rants are so commonplace in Cambridge, that he didn\u2019t think there was anything out of the ordinary. I believe it. Cambridge, of course, is the home of Harvard, and I made reference to this last Thursday when this was going down. <\/line><\/p>\n

Everybody back then, “How did they get radicalized, when did this happen?” What do you think education in America is today? We talk about it here all the time, the fact that America\u2019s a racist, sexist, bigoted country. That it\u2019s homophobic. That all of that was brought to this country by western Europeans when they came and displaced the Native Americans. The multiculturalists have taken care of the curricula in many levels of education here and teach that this country was founded immorally, unfairly, unjustly, and this is nothing new. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to leave this country to be taught how rotten it is. And everybody knows this. And, in fact, the people out there wringing their hands over this, they know it, too, and in many cases the people wringing their hands happen to have the same views as Tamerlan Tsarnaev did to one degree or another. I mean, I can turn on certain cable networks and hear an absolute disgust for this country, day in and day out. Where do you think our president got his views of this country? He, I guarantee you, has a chip on his shoulder about it. Why does he find a book by Saul Alinsky called Rules for Radicals so intriguing? <\/p>\n

Why did Obama want to become a community organizer? What\u2019s that all about? It\u2019s all about being rooted in the belief that this country isn\u2019t right; that this country needs to be fixed; that this country set up for a select future, and it was founded that way, it\u2019s been run that way, and the select few have been engineering things so that they get everything and we\u2019ve run around the world and we\u2019ve stolen everything that we\u2019ve wanted from around the world and the people around the world are poor while we\u2019ve gotten rich because we\u2019ve stolen it. I mean, this is commonplace. Then you add to that whatever this guy might hear in a mosque and it really isn\u2019t that hard to figure out where he got radicalized. <\/p>\n

But is that even the point, where? I mean, to a certain extent it could be. I think the fact that we\u2019re sowing the seeds of our own problems is a serious matter here. But the fact that people are becoming radicalized in this country is fact. Does anybody remember why legal immigration was dramatically reduced by Congress in the early 1920s? <\/p>\n

Folks, I\u2019ve told this story before, but not in a while. My grandfather lived to be 104. He was born in the 1890s. Before he died, when I would travel back home to Cape Girardeau and talk with him, he never listened to the radio program \u2019cause hearing was difficult and it was a difficult thing for him to do. So he would ask me, “What\u2019s happening on your radio show? What are people talking about?” This is in the early nineties, and I said, “Pop –” we all called him Pop — I said, “Pop, everybody out there is worked up over immigration. They\u2019re just beside themselves over what\u2019s happening to the country because of immigration.” <\/p>\n

He said, “You know, at the normal school,” which is what university was called when he went to it, Cape Girardeau in the early 1900s, he described for me the debate topic that he had to prepare for. In the early 1900s, resolved, immigration of eastern and western Europeans should be suspended because they\u2019re filthy, dirty, rotten, bringing crime and infestation and so forth is in the country. He said, “This is nothing new. This has been going on since before I was born, early era of my life, nothing new about it,” and he tried to tell me how these things are just cyclical and how nothing really changes. <\/p>\n

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So I began to check the history of this for myself, and it is true. Legal immigration in the early 1920s was dramatically reduced by Congress, not opened up, dramatically reduced. And do you know why? Does anybody remember why? Because of all the bombings and the general terrorism from anarchists and communists and other radical eastern and southern Europeans. It was so common, it became a cliche in the movies of that period. The radical with the bowling ball-like black bomb with the burning fuse. So we have a history in this country of this kind of thing happening before, just from different areas of the world and our immigration being dramatically reduced because of it. <\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019re in a different era now. Now we want to vastly expand it. The more intelligent you are, the more educated you are, the harder it is to get into America. Go figure. But it is. So there are dramatic similarities, while at the same time dramatic differences in the way the country is approaching the problem. I think this is crucial. I think it is extremely important. You have a guy in Cambridge — we had a audio sound bite from a guy yesterday who said that, well, yeah, he heard all this terrorism stuff coming out of the mouths of the Tsarnaev brothers, but he didn\u2019t say anything because, well, you know, “I don\u2019t want anybody dumping on these guys, they\u2019re Muslims. This country\u2019s biased against Muslims, I don\u2019t want to add to it.”<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s another guy who heard these guys ranting about how much they hate this country and what their plans are and what they\u2019d love to happen and so forth, but I\u2019m not gonna tell anybody because these guys are Muslims and this country\u2019s biased against Muslims. Where did he pick that idea up do you think? That we\u2019re biased and prejudiced against Muslims? He\u2019s not gonna tell the authorities about it. Here\u2019s another guy in Cambridge who knew Tamerlan and said that he often engaged in anti-American rants and didn\u2019t do anything about it because it was so commonplace that he didn\u2019t think it was anything out of the ordinary. Everybody in Cambridge talks this way. Everybody\u2019s a radical. Everybody\u2019s a revolutionary. Everybody\u2019s got a beef. <\/p>\n

So there was nothing special about it. And we\u2019re now being told that the FBI did not know about Tamerlan\u2019s trip to Russia because his name was misspelled on the passenger list. Tamerlan left America, went to Russia. The old man Tsarnaev in Dagestan applies for political asylum. 60 Minutes did a piece on this many, many, many moons ago. If you want to get into this country, it\u2019s easy. Just claim or request political asylum, i.e., you are fleeing political persecution, and you\u2019re granted it. It\u2019s almost automatic. You get off the airplane at JFK, you walk through Customs and claim that you want asylum and they grant it to you and you\u2019re turned loose and they don\u2019t even track you. You\u2019re seldom followed, kept track of. <\/p>\n

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So old man Tsarnaev applies for and is granted political asylum because things are so rotten in Dagestan, and six months after having been granted political asylum, he heads back to Dagestan. He\u2019s still there. So people are now thinking, maybe one of the techniques of radical Islamists is citizenship. Political asylum, automatic entry into the country, don\u2019t have to worry about the southern border, get in here, claim political asylum, and then start your path to citizenship that way. Old man Tsarnaev got political asylum and then went back. This horrible place, politically oppressing him, he went back to and stayed there. Now, why? <\/p>\n

Why would somebody come here to apply for political asylum, have it granted, and then go back to the place that\u2019s so horrible they wanted to leave? And Tamerlan went back to visit him. Which is the point. We\u2019re being told now the FBI didn\u2019t know about his trip to Russia — Dagestan, Chechnya — because his name was misspelled in the passenger list. How can you misspell your name on a flight? Don\u2019t you have to produce a photo ID for security? Stop and think of what we\u2019re being told. We lost track of this guy because of the misspelling of a name, and we\u2019re being told it isn\u2019t gonna be a big problem to legalize 11 million, or whatever the number is, of illegal immigrants. We\u2019re also told the FBI wasn\u2019t allowed to keep tabs on him after they questioned him. He told them he wasn\u2019t a terrorist so they weren\u2019t able to keep tabs on him. <\/p>\n

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Well, he said he wasn\u2019t a terrorist. Who would admit being a terrorist? Well, I don\u2019t know, but this guy didn\u2019t. So we\u2019re told the FBI wasn\u2019t allowed to keep tabs on him. I don\u2019t know why Dzhokhar didn\u2019t try that. He could have avoided all kinds trouble; just tell \u2019em you\u2019re not a terrorist. It\u2019s even better than saying you\u2019re just under the influence of your big brother. You notice also that the news media are doing to Dzhokhar what they did to Trayvon Martin. They\u2019re regularly showing a photo of Dzhokhar that was taken when he was about 14. Soft, angelic, nice little boy, harmless, cute, big lovable eyes. <\/p>\n

Not at all what he looks like today. Whenever we\u2019re shown Osama Bin Laden, it\u2019s in his shepherd pose with his walking stick, walking through the mountains or wherever. But the news media seem to be making him look like an innocent little angel who was totally willing to drive over his own beloved brother to try to get away with his killing spree.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The latest theme, by the way, from the Boston bombing brothers is that they couldn\u2019t possibly have any connections with a larger conspiracy. Nope, just a couple of radicalized kids, happen to be Muslims, but they\u2019re not connected in any way with a larger conspiracy. Why would anybody believe that? After all, again, Tamerlan did go and stay in Dagestan. Dagestan, you have to understand, Dagestan, Chechnya, these are basically countries run by thugs and gangs. That\u2019s why Putin hates \u2019em. Putin would wipe \u2019em out if he could. These guys are rebels, revolutionaries. They hate the Russians. Putin hates these guys. Dagestan is a hotbed of Muslim terrorists. <\/p>\n

A local Dagestan police source reported claims that Tamerlan met at least six times with an underground militant there. But, anyway, forget about the technical knowledge that it would take to make kind of a devices they had. Where\u2019d they get the money? Where\u2019d they get the money for their cars, for their clothes, Tamerlan\u2019s trip to Russia? As I said yesterday, I\u2019m somebody who pays for everything I do and everything I have, and I wonder… these guys didn\u2019t have jobs. Where did they get the money for all of this? The guy is bragging about his Mercedes and Porsche. Where\u2019d they get the money? And why do we want to be so eager, what\u2019s the point in lying to ourselves in telling us that no one was helping them? Just \u2019cause Dzhokhar said so? <\/p>\n

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The AP has a story. “Two U.S. officials say preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests the suspects in the Boston Marathon attack were motivated by their religious views but were apparently not tied to any Islamic terrorist groups. The two brothers, from southern Russia, practiced Islam. The U.S. officials spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.” Yet they were. Preliminary evidence. Bombers motivated by religion but acted alone. Why are we so eager — you know, political correctness has reared its head here. We have a story we hope is true. Official Washington has a story and hopes it\u2019s true. And of course the libs are out there, they were panicked over the fact that the terrorists were not white. <\/p>\n

Quick audio sound bite. We have a montage here of the Drive-By Media trying to take the edge off of this by referring to Dzhokhar as just a kid, same thing they\u2019re doing with the photo of this guy.<\/p>\n

JULIA IOFFE: This kid seemed to be out of place in Boston. He seemed to be alienated.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: He\u00c2\u2019s 19 years old, he\u00c2\u2019s still a kid, he\u00c2\u2019s still a teenager.<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE ROMANS: It\u2019s not as if you look at this kid and his background, and see hardship that could have turned his heart hard.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: He was a seemingly normal college kid.<\/p>\n

DEBORAH FEYERICK: Remember, this is a kid who is on a ventilator.<\/p>\n

JESSICA STERN: Why is it that one kid is susceptible and not another.<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: All-American kid, smoked pot, went to parties. Totally normal kid.<\/p>\n

DR. DREW PINSKY: What seems to be a normal kid in high school on the wrestling team to being radicalized.<\/p>\n

DAVID REMNICK: This is a mixed up kid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, just a mixed up kid, totally normal American kid, out there smoking pot, watching YouTube, driving around in his Porsche, not liking America, totally normal kid, nothing to see here. Very sad, in fact. This poor kid, he\u2019s got a tube down his throat. Just a normal college kid. This kid\u2019s on a ventilator. My God, we need to feel sorry for him. Why do we do this? Why in the world do we do this? Why do we take what we know is truth and reality and try to hide from it? How does that help anything? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want you to stop and think here for a minute, folks, what the media is telling us about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He\u2019s just a normal college kid. Does that not bother anybody? A normal college kid is capable of putting together a pressure cooker bomb, setting it to explode at the Boston Marathon, injuring hundreds, and killing a few people. Normal college kid. This is how this stuff ends up getting bastardized. This is how we end up not thinking ill of bad people. <\/p>\n

Normal college kids do not do this. Radical college kids do this. And, by the way, this guy\u2019s not a kid. The boy he killed is a kid. This guy is 19 years old. He\u2019s not a kid, and he\u2019s not a normal kid. He smokes marijuana, watches YouTube videos, sits around with his brother talking about how much he hates America. Yeah, just a normal kid. Then he goes and makes a couple of bombs and blows up the Boston Marathon. Yeah, just a normal kid. I\u2019m sorry, that offends me. That offends my sensibility. He\u2019s not a normal kid. There\u2019s nothing normal about this, and we don\u2019t want it to be normal. <\/p>\n

Daniel Patrick Moynihan: defining deviancy down. When a culture is unable to stop a deviant activity or a criminal activity or a perverted activity, they simply say, “Well, this is the new normal,” and you move on. Defining deviancy down. Ah, normal college kid. Can\u2019t believe he would do this. He\u2019s not a normal kid. He\u2019s not a kid. He is a terrorist. “Mr. Limbaugh, he said that he wasn\u2019t a terrorist.” Yeah, I know, he said he wasn\u2019t, so that\u2019s what we go on. Alan Dershowitz, the famed law professor at Harvard, the famed practicing lawyer defended Claus von Bulow, who was accused of murdering his wife Sunny von Bulow, said, “I don\u2019t understand the way some people on the left glorify American terrorists.” <\/p>\n