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<\/p>\nRUSH: Yeah, I wish you all could have been there. I really do. We solved all the world\u2019s problems. Let\u2019s see. It started Wednesday night, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. In three-and-a-half days, we solved the world\u2019s problem. It was the annual “Spring Fling” at my fashionable oceanside estate. I would love to tell you who was there, but it\u2019s like Vegas: What happens there stays there and who shows up always leaves in total secrecy. But, boy, it was tremendous fun. Three-and-a-half straight days of some of the finest intellectual stimulation I\u2019ve had in a long time, three-and-a-half straight days peppered with rounds of golf every day, fine dinners and breakfasts. <\/p>\n
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So just a great time. It\u2019s always a great time, the annual “Spring Fling.” This is like the seventh one. And I know I\u2019m probably teasing you by telling you all of this and not being able to divulge the attendees. You\u2019d know them all, and none of them were from the world of politics per se. A couple people from news media, some from the sports media, some from sports executive suites, some from the world of authorship and novel writing. Ah, it was just a great time. It always is. Even had an NFL owner drop by for a couple of days, so it was just a hoot. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ll find a way to work in all the things that we discussed, the brilliant points that were made. I can\u2019t tell you who was there because of privacy and promises and so forth. Well, I\u2019ll tell you one. Vince Flynn was there with his lovely wife, Lisa. Vince is happy to be known to go anywhere. So he was there. One of the attendees said… You know, we\u2019re looking at the news. We talk about the news that happens during the day at dinner each night, and one of the attendees said, “Can you believe this?” and then offered a point of view, and then said, “The problem is, you can\u2019t say it.” <\/p>\n
I said, “I can! What do you mean, ‘You can\u2019t say it\u2019?”<\/p>\n
“No, no, no. You can\u2019t say that.”<\/p>\n
“Well, I\u2019ve said it before. I\u2019ve just not said it in the words you\u2019ve just it said, but I\u2019ve said it a lot.”<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you how I\u2019ve said it. During the 2008 campaign, you remember Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started a rant against this country that sounded just like anything out of the mouth of Joe Biden. I remember saying, “If I were Joe Biden, or any other Democrat saying what I\u2019m saying about the United States, and I heard it echoed by one of America\u2019s enemies, I\u2019d be embarrassed. And these people don\u2019t care!” I don\u2019t remember the specific things that Biden was saying that were being echoed by Ahmadinejad. In fact, the question is really: Who\u2019s copying who? You know, your average Democrat runs around, runs down America, criticizes America, and then Ahmadinejad says the same thing; who said it first? <\/p>\n
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Is it Biden copying Ahmadinejad or verse vice-a? Well, what reminds me of it is there\u2019s this story from Mediaite, which is a blog that covers television. It\u2019s from April 23rd, so it\u2019s from yesterday. “Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said he supports President Obama.” Well, of course he does! He\u2019s an environmentalist wacko, a communist. (interruption) Don\u2019t give me this “former” communist stuff. (interruption) Which one? What? Gorbachev. “During a speech to advanced placement students at Von Steuben High School…” Where the heck is Von Steuben High School? “During a speech to advanced placement students, these…”<\/p>\n
I guess these are the students one grade above vo-tech. “During a speech to…” (chuckles) Slap me upside the face for saying that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Von Steuben high school is in North Park, Chicago. “During a speech to advanced placement students at Von Steuben High School former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev…” You know, I will never forget something. My mind is fertile today, folks. (It always is when I\u2019ve been gone for a while.) I\u2019ll never forget back when Frank Sesno worked at CNN and Gorbachev was still running the Soviet Union, and there was a G7 meeting coming up in Europe somewhere (I believe it was France) and Gorbachev called everybody said, “Hey, I\u2019m coming.” Everybody laughed because the Soviet Union was never a major economic power, but Gorbachev said he was gonna go. <\/p>\n
So that stopped everything. It was news bulletins all over everywhere: Flash, bulletin, breaking news, whatever it was called back then. I was watching Frank Sesno on CNN beside himself. “MikHAIL GorbaCHOFF! MikHAIL GorbaCHOFF says he\u2019s coming to the G7! MikHAIL GorbaCHOFF!” and ever since I\u2019ve heard him pronounce “MikHAIL GorbaCHOFF!” I find it hard not to say “MikHAIL GorbaCHOFF!” when I\u2019m talking about Gorbachev. Of course, I\u2019m also the guy that invented the word “Gorbasm” to describe the way Frank Sesno was reacting to “MikHAIL GorbaCHOFF!” coming to the G7, thereby making it a G7.2. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: “During a speech to the advanced placement students at Von Steuben High School in North Park, Chicago, former president Mikhail Gorbachev made a strong statement of approval for President Obama. ‘Of course,\u2019 he said, ‘Of course there are many people who don\u2019t like what the president is doing, but in my opinion, it\u2019s very good. My opinion of him is very favorable. I will support him.'” Well! There you have it. So you could say that America\u2019s enemies all support Barack Obama. <\/p>\n
We know that the Iranians want Obama reelected, do we not? <\/p>\n
We know that the Muslim Brotherhood wants Obama reelected, do we not? <\/p>\n
We know that Hezbollah, they want Obama reelected. <\/p>\n
We know that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro want Obama reelected. <\/p>\n
Who are these guys? They\u2019re America\u2019s enemies. At the “Spring Fling,” my guy said, “You can\u2019t say that. You can\u2019t say that!” Well, I\u2019ve it said it in other words. So why not just say again? It\u2019s undeniable. Now Snerdley\u2019s all worried I\u2019m gonna get in trouble over this. But it\u2019s not one of these things that\u2019s up for debate. I mean, Gorbachev didn\u2019t say, “I\u2019m thinking of supporting Obama.” He said, “I like him. My opinion of him very favorable, I will support him.” And Gorbachev said, “I think you Americans need your own perestroika.” <\/p>\n
“During his address Gorbachev recalled an anecdote about a talk he gave to 12,000 university students prior to the 2008 election. At that event there were a couple of students who were particularly persistent on Election Day in how Gorbachev should advise them to vote. ‘When they asked this question,\u2019 Gorbachev said, ‘I don\u2019t want to teach you because often America teaches others how they should live. “If I give you advice,” I said, “that would be a risk.”‘” So here\u2019s Gorbachev slamming us. It\u2019s the same old thing. We\u2019ve been telling everybody what to do. We\u2019re a superpower \u2019cause we\u2019ve been running around keeping everybody under our thumb. We\u2019ve been ordering everybody what to do.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>We\u2019ve been stealing their resources, their oil, their minerals, their diamonds, their algae and converting it into our own stuff — and becoming an illegitimate and immoral and unjust superpower. But then Gorbachev said, “Nevertheless, I did say, ‘I think you Americans need your own perestroika.'” Snerdley, do you remember there was “glasnost” and “perestroika”? Do you remember the difference in the two? (interruption) Snerdley\u2019s memory says that “glasnost” was “openness,” that the Russians, the Soviets are supposed to be open with us. How did you just define “perestroika”? (interruption) Okay. “Perestroika,” Snerdley says, is that we were supposed to be bipartisan with the communists. Perestroika was, if I recall right — and I usually do, Snerdley. Perestroika was Gorbachev\u2019s attempt to parcel out freedom but hold onto communism. Perestroika was limited freedom.<\/p>\n