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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Jeff in Minneapolis. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Stay-at-home-of-seven dittos to you. Question for you: Which is the greater threat do you think, liberalism or terrorism?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s an interesting question.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “What is the greater threat, liberalism or terrorism?”<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: See, both of them — both liberals and terrorists — have a lot in common. The one thing that they hate the most is freedom. The one thing that orients them toward their ideology is their opposition to freedom. You look at this suburban business. You look at the Obama and the suburbs<\/a>. What really bugs him about it, as well as the financial aspect of it, is the freedom that people have to go back and forth that the wealth that they have earned provides them. A leftist and a terrorist — a leftist and a totalitarian — are one and the same. Anything that stands in the way of my freedom stands in the way of the American way of life. So I think when you ask me, you\u2019re obviously bouncing off what I have said about the liberals looking at us as the greatest threat to their way of life.<\/p>\n CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s not inconsistent. We stand for freedom. That\u2019s their biggest bugaboo. Freedom is what makes people different. Freedom and liberty is what allows different outcomes from person to person to person. It\u2019s freedom that allows exceptionalism, freedom that permits greatness, freedom that results in differences. Well, if you look at Sharia law in Islam, they want everybody to live identically: Same rules, same way, same outcomes in life.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t hear anything I say repeated by Western European socialists or Vladimir Putin. But I hear a lot of similarities when I listen to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticize this country. It could be Harry Reid, could be Barack Obama. I don\u2019t understand how in the world Americans could have, as their archenemies, people who believe in freedom, liberty — us, conservatives! But it is the greatest threat. There cannot be freedom, as founded in this country, and liberalism.<\/p>\n They cannot coincide.<\/p>\n Liberals are all about domination, control, power. Look at the health care plan! You\u2019re not gonna have any choices. You\u2019re not gonna have any liberty in it once they finish implementing the whole thing. Look at Obama if he gets his way on this suburban stuff. If he gets his way on green energy. The standard fossil fuel energy that permits freedom and liberty to drive and travel and whatever? It\u2019s gonna be severely limited because the cost of that stuff is gonna skyrocket, and there will not be plentiful green energy.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t any!<\/p>\n The commonalities, the things they have in common, the things that they agree and are similar. A leftist is a leftist wherever you find them. Totalitarianism, liberalism, it\u2019s all a derivative of the same ideology. I was thinking about this, actually, in this context. I was thinking back to the 1980s before the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union represented, as Reagan called it, “the evil empire.”<\/p>\n In this country, the Democrat Party did not want to hear one word of criticism of the Soviet Union. If you were anti-communist, they made fun of you. They mocked you. “Ah, communists are nothing to be afraid of. Communists don\u2019t exist anymore!” The Soviet Union was their dream. I mean, they loved Mikhail Gorbachev and hated Ronald Reagan! This isn\u2019t anything new. They hated Reagan!<\/p>\n But for Gorbachev, they were groupies. And before Gorbachev, Uri Andropov and before that Brezhnev. Didn\u2019t matter. And then before that, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Look how they salivate over Castro and Hugo Chavez. Is Castro a terrorist? Does he have political prisoners? Does he put people in jail, shoot \u2019em on sight, whatever? Of course! Now, the Democrat Party here doesn\u2019t do that. They don\u2019t shoot people on sight and there are not political prisons, but the same attitude — the same fear of freedom — exists.<\/p>\n Liberty is something they\u2019ve gotta tamp down.<\/p>\n They can\u2019t co-exist with free people. It can\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n There can\u2019t be liberalism in that way.<\/p>\n There has to be an attempt to meld and force everybody into the same mold.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I have to say, though, folks, terrorism is the greatest threat, because we can still defeat liberals without violence. So terrorism still, of course, represents a greater threat than the Democrat Party. We can handle them without violence. So far.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Of course I recognized it as a trick question. Of course I recognized it as a trick! A guy called me and wanted to know, “Well, do you look at liberals as a greater threat to the American way of life than terrorists?” It was a trick, right? He was trying to trick the host. Look, that\u2019s why I launched into an unassailable explanation of freedom, folks. It\u2019s so simple. You hear the Democrats talk about pro-choice. There\u2019s no such thing! They don\u2019t believe in choice.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the exercise of choice that ticks them off.<\/p>\n But if you wanted me to take the question seriously, responding to the trick, I\u2019ll do it very simply: Terrorism still remains the greater threat. Terrorism and liberalism, despite the similarities in ideology — similarities in ideology; not practice, but ideology — there\u2019s no question that terrorism is the greater threat of the two. Because we could still defeat liberals without having to resort to violence.<\/p>\n We\u2019re never gonna be able to beat the terrorists in a nonviolent way.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushFreedom.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>So I don\u2019t care who they are, be they American Democrats or jihadists or militant Islamists. Wherever there are leftists, we face an enemy. I don\u2019t care what their citizenship is, pure and simple. If you believe in America as founded… (interruption) Well, if they don\u2019t like it, you know what they should do? They should go read a book written by my buddy Andy McCarthy<\/a>. It\u2019s a book that documents, chronicles the peaceful and similar coexistence between militant Islamists and American liberals.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>That just isn\u2019t gonna happen. But in this vein, I just want to point out: Folks, look, our ambassador is dead, three other Americans are dead in Benghazi, and who does Obama blame? An American! <\/a>A guy who filmed a video that nobody saw, including the attackers. And, by the way, the truth of this is now well known. Every day there\u2019s more information about who knew what when regarding that attack in Benghazi.<\/p>\n