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<\/a><\/p>\nCALLER: Yeah. So the argument was that if the expression leads to incitement of violence and puts people in danger, it should not be allowed. So that pretty much sums up the liberal narrative apparent from the administration\u2019s reaction — and their haste to blame the film for the violence — and obviously from this op-ed. So they\u2019re arguing that condemnation and serious attempts to stop undue murder, destruction, and violence carried out by radicals is far less important than discouraging — and potentially enforcing exposure and condemnation of — that exact same violence and extremism.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. That is exactly right. But where does this lead? You know, frankly, there are gonna be some shortsighted people who say, “Yeah, yeah. You know what? I think it\u2019s like yelling, ‘Fire!\u2019 in a crowded theater, Rush. We ought to make sure that people don\u2019t offend the feelings of religious people.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what? If all you gotta do to have your speech curtailed is offend somebody and make \u2019em get violent…? (snorts)<\/p>\n
CALLER: So now the question really becomes: Who has more freedom of expression, us twenty-first century American citizens or Muslim extremists? And I think that from what\u2019s going on, the answer is that right now Muslims are freer to express themselves than we here in the United States in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n
RUSH: A brilliant point. Because under this op-ed\u2019s term, the point is: The Muslims can wreak havoc all they want.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But if we say something about it that they claim caused it, we can\u2019t speak anymore.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Our words are going to be deemed more injurious, risky, and harmful than their actions.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. A good analogy would be like the big brother\/little brother relationship, where the big brother must act older and responsible while the baby can do whatever he wants because he\u2019s the baby. The liberals don\u2019t see the radical Muslims as people who have a chance of ever controlling themselves in the absence of an outside enforcement. Yet they assert that we are the ones who must adjust to that. Honestly, I mean, that really takes away our freedom of expression and —<\/p>\n RUSH: Since you have obviously intellectually delved into this — and, by the way, if you don\u2019t have an answer to this, no problem, because I\u2019m hitting you with it without you having had any knowledge it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n RUSH: But you\u2019ve thought about it.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n RUSH: Why do you think the American left is, in fact, so tolerant of this? Why are they so tolerant of terrorism? Why do they want us to blame ourselves for it? What explains this, in your mind?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, sir, in my mind there are two aspects. Let\u2019s call it the positive aspect and the negative aspect. So the positive aspect is that they haven\u2019t seen it close up in their eyes. It hasn\u2019t happened to them. It hasn\u2019t happened to their family. The negative aspect is the core, the psychological core of liberalism, in my opinion. That is that liberals… By definition, the reason why they\u2019re liberals is because they like to preach to others. So even if the other people — you know, the normal, mainstream citizens — are not doing anything wrong, the liberals, because of this inherent feeling that they…<\/p>\n You know, because of this holier-than-thou feeling that they need to preach their beliefs to somebody else, they\u2019re going to look for something wrong; for something to criticize in the other people. Even though the mainstream citizens aren\u2019t doing anything wrong. And that\u2019s pretty much where it stems from, that even though the radical Muslims are committing egregious crimes, somebody here is condemning it and exposing it. And doing it in an insensitive way. Which, by definition, every exposure is. So instead of choosing to condemn and to fight against the real problem, which is pretty hard to do, instead they just take the way of preaching to the harmless, innocent citizen who is doing nothing but exposing evil.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, I have no doubt all that\u2019s true. I, however, have a different theory.<\/p>\n CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n RUSH: And it\u2019s not nearly as complicated as yours.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n RUSH: They have a common enemy, and the common enemy is American conservatives.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s very worrying. That\u2019s extremely worrying.<\/p>\n RUSH: I think they\u2019re both totalitarian. They believe in totalitarianism. They believe in the largest central command and control, commanding and telling everybody what they can and can\u2019t do. Where they can and can\u2019t go. What they can and can\u2019t eat. The similarities between the American left and militant Islam are shocking. We believe in freedom, and that doesn\u2019t go with either liberalism or Islam.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me read you this LA Times op-ed, which claims that freedom of speech probably does go too far when it involves Islam. I\u2019ll read the conclusion. “The point is…” I\u2019m quoting from it now. (ahem) “The point is to emphasize that US law makes a distinction between speech that is simply offensive and speech that is deliberately tailored to put lives and property at immediate risk.” Now, who talks that way? When\u2019s the last time, Snerdley, you thought of saying something so you could put lives and property at risk?<\/p>\n Anyway, that\u2019s what it says.<\/p>\n It goes on here about “speech that is deliberately tailored to put lives and property at immediate risk.” Well, who gets to sit in judgment of what kind of speech that is? Yeah, that\u2019s right! The government does. “Especially in the heightened volatility of today\u2019s Middle East, such provocation is certainly irresponsible — and reveals an ironic alliance of convenience between Christian extremists and the Islamist extremists they claim to hate.”<\/p>\n What do “Christian extremists” have to do with this?<\/p>\n Christian extremists?<\/p>\n Where are they? Who are they? They\u2019re not even in this story!<\/p>\n Ah, but you see? But, you see? I said this last week, or maybe it was earlier this week. The reason they\u2019re harping on this video… Remember that Obama PR skit that we did on Monday, the press conference? I\u2019m telling you, it was a week or two ahead of its time. Because the point we were trying to make in that skit is this filmmaker is a “Christian extremist,” and that makes him a conservative, and that\u2019s why Obama\u2019s harping on it. It\u2019s part of the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n Blaming this video<\/a> is blaming conservatives, as far as the presidential campaign\u2019s concerned. What the heck does a “Christian extremist” have to do with Middle Eastern terrorism? So the whole thing is, by bashing “Christian extremists.” I\u2019ll tell you, liberals… My old buddy, Andy McCarthy, has written a whole book on this, which is fascinating. It\u2019s on the ties between liberalism, socialism, leftism, and Islam. The similarities are scary. It\u2019s central command and control. No liberty or freedom.<\/p>\n It\u2019s everybody living under dictates: What you can eat, what you can drive, where you can drive, who can drive, who will live and die, who gets health care and who doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s scary stuff. I\u2019m telling you, the American left… Whenever, a terrorist outbreak happens, what\u2019s the first reaction anywhere from a Democrat? “Oh, my God! We gotta apologize. Oh, we have to appease them.”<\/p>\n Are they afraid of \u2019em? (interruption) Well, that\u2019s just BS. “We have to understand \u2019em. We have to understand their rage and find out why they hate us.” It\u2019s all part of blaming America. It\u2019s all part of blaming us. That\u2019s true. But it\u2019s almost as if there\u2019s cowardice, although I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what it is at all. I think that they really don\u2019t want… Folks, as I take a look at this, the Democrat Party and the American left doesn\u2019t want us to see terrorism for what it really is.<\/p>\n They want us to see it as some really rare occurrence that is radical and has nothing to do with mainstream anything. It doesn\u2019t happen that much. But to the extent that it does, it\u2019s because there are conservatives that these people don\u2019t like. If a… Let me put it this way. Answer this question with intellectual honesty: “If your average liberal had a choice to rid the world of Muslim extremism or American conservatism, what do you think the liberal would choose?”<\/p>\n And before you answer, try to remember what you\u2019ve been told about what\u2019s being taught in schools about who the real enemy is in America today. The real enemy is any Republican and any conservative, and for all the cliched reasons. By the same token, do teachers in schools rev their kids up to the dangers of militant Islam? “No way! We can\u2019t offend those people,” but you can offend American conservatives all day long. You give your average liberal a choice:<\/p>\n “Okay, tomorrow the world is going to be absent either militant Muslims or militant conservatives. Which do you choose?” They\u2019d vote us, folks, off the boat. I have no doubt about it, and I\u2019m not kidding or exaggerating. I think we represent a bigger threat to them because we stand for the exact opposite. They are in common on their controlling characteristics, domineering characteristics, their arrogance.<\/p>\n They want to control everything, everybody.<\/p>\n They want to be in control of things that people eat, drink, use, high-tech, all this. Liberals have to have control over people, largely based in the belief… Well, it\u2019s a raw thirst for power but it\u2019s also rooted in the fact they have contempt for people\u2019s ability to handle the rigors of life on their own. The Islamists want to do it just to keep this rigid moral code intact and fealty to the “Holy Qur\u2019an,” as President Obama pronounces it. And we are diametrically opposed to all of it.<\/p>\n We want freedom, individual responsibility, individuality, entrepreneurism. You make the best of life however you can. Equality of outcomes is not possible. They want sameness everywhere, even sameness in dress. It\u2019s really striking when you think about it, all the areas of similarity. It really is. When a terrorist act happens, what\u2019s the liberals\u2019 first reaction? Blame conservatives! <\/a>Dark Knight Rising? Tea Party! Gabby Giffords? Sarah Palin!<\/p>\n You name it.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushLATImesMilitantIslam.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>RUSH: Because it\u2019s a real basic question: Why in the world do they go so far out of their way to make sure these people aren\u2019t offended? I think it\u2019s because they, the American left, have a lot in common with militant Islam.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaCarter585MuslimBrotherhood.jpg\"\/)
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