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RUSH: According to a report that I saw earlier today, we are not going to let this terrible peeing scandal stop us from negotiating the Taliban\u2019s takeover in Afghanistan. Some people are starting to call this Urinegate. “Taliban Says Marine Tape Will not Hurt Afghanistan Talks.” Now, what does that say? You go back to the Bush years, we had the Abu Ghraib pictures and, “Oh, no, my God, that\u2019s the end of the US military. Oh, what a horrible country. Oh, gee, what a great terrorist recruitment tool. Oh, Abu Ghraib, that stupid Bush, oh, no, how horrible.” Remember that? Remember when I said, “Ah, it looks like a fraternity hazing prank.” But, oh, they got all over me on that. And the left used that to try to destroy the military and its credibility and the mission. You remember.<\/p>\n
All of a sudden you have something that, if they wanted to, the left could exploit as another Abu Ghraib. That goes without saying, Abu Ghraib blamed on Bush, why isn\u2019t this blamed on Obama? Nothing can go wrong. This will be blamed on the individuals, not Obama. When a president is Republican, everything that the government does is blamed on him. But the more important question here, the Taliban, those, according to the story, was their people who were dead who were the urinatees. And the Taliban says that that tape is not gonna hurt anything, we\u2019re not bothered by that. I\u2019m simply asking, what does that tell you? (interruption) No. It doesn\u2019t tell us that they\u2019re tired of being hit by drones.<\/p>\n
It tells us that they\u2019re winning and they\u2019re close and if they start raising hell about this, it\u2019s gonna delay the ultimate. Karzai is out there saying one thing or another. A senior member of the Afghan government\u2019s High Peace Council said, “Such action will leave a very, very bad impact on peace efforts.” But the Taliban says, ah, not gonna hurt anything here. Taliban must think they\u2019re close to winning. Taliban must think they\u2019re pretty close to taking over Afghanistan. There are peace talks going on, and the Taliban must think that we\u2019re pretty close to surrendering it to \u2019em and getting out, and they don\u2019t want this to come along and stop that process and delay. That\u2019s how I interpret it. This would be my wild guess.<\/p>\n
Obviously Urinegate will not interrupt the process of turning the country over to the Taliban. If they wanted to they could go after Obama. They could be out there saying that Panetta should resign. Where is CODEPINK? Where are all these anti-war groups? Where are these people who hate the military compared to way they were around at Abu Ghraib? You remember the fake stories about flushing a Koran down the toilet from Michael Isikoff. They wanted to frog march Bush and Cheney into jail over Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib was on the front page of the New York Times above the fold, get this, for 32 straight days. Urinegate, ah, what\u2019s the big deal? No big deal. We can\u2019t even pinpoint when it happened. We\u2019ll deal with it internally. Panetta gets away with talking about how outraged he is. He won\u2019t put up with it. Okay, fine, that\u2019s all we need to hear, let\u2019s move on, nothing to see here.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Prince Frederick, Maryland. Gloria, thank you so much for waiting. Nice to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. (giggling) I\u2019m so ecstatic to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I just want to let you know I love you, but I thought earlier — maybe I misunderstood — that you had compared Abu Ghraib to what went on with these four kids, these four Marines; and I was going to give you a dusting on it, but I think… (giggling) I don\u2019t know. Maybe I misunderstood you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, no, I didn\u2019t. I talked about them in the same sentence but I didn\u2019t. No. I did not equate them.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Other than in the way they\u2019re being reacted to.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I know. I\u2019m so mad. I just don\u2019t want these kids to suffer anything. I don\u2019t care if they get a little slap on their hands, but they did nothing wrong. These troglodytes deserved more than just a little whiz on \u2019em, and it really just boggles my brain that these —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, my understanding is — and this is from the father of two Marines who has written about this. He wrote about it last night. His name is Michael Ledeen, a friend of mine, and he says that they did break rules; that this is not something that is taught, recommended, or what have you. The thing is, everybody knows it happens on both sides. There is a famous picture of George Patton urinating in the Ryan river before making a march on Hitler. We know this stuff happens. We know they do it and worse. What happened here was videotaping this and putting it out there. We know this. This is war, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We all know they have to take whizzes, like you said.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggling) Exactly. And what they failed to mention is what the Taliban do to these poor villagers and their women and their children when they go into \u2019em. Why don\u2019t they show those atrocities, and we\u2019re worried about our guys taking a little leak on these Taliban?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Because… In fact, you know something? This is actually a good point. Do you remember, after Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo…? Now, just stick with me on this. After Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo, all we heard about from Obama himself (while he\u2019s a candidate) and all the other Democrats was how this is not America. “This is destroying our values! This is why the world hates us.” Remember all that talk about American values? Where is that now? Why aren\u2019t the same Democrats concerned about the hit to American values with this? All of is so political and it\u2019s always so political. The differences in the way stories like this are covered are so obvious. I was watching a show. I tell you… In fact, if you haven\u2019t seen this show, you should watch this.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a scene in this show where the male lead is a POW captured for seven years in a Iraq (I don\u2019t want to take too much \u2019cause it\u2019s a spoiler), but during the seven years of his captivity they routinely portrayed the guard urinating on him. My point is we all know this kind of stuff happens — and when people start saying, “Oh, how horrible! This is outrageous,” and she\u2019s right: This is nothing compared to what happens to the innocent women and children of the Taliban, how they hide behind them and so forth and subject them to the drones (the drone attacks), which is what this show\u2019s about, interestingly.<\/p>\n But you really ought to watch. It\u2019s 12 episodes. The last episode\u2019s an hour and a half. The others are anywhere from 52 minutes to an hour, and there are no commercials in \u2019em, and I didn\u2019t know about it \u2019til it was almost over. Joel Surnow… Well, I did, but I didn\u2019t pay enough attention. Joel said to me (I was out playing golf in California), “Have you seen Howard-o\u2019s new show?” “No.” It\u2019s Homeland on Showtime.” “Oh, okay,” and I hit my next shot and I forgot about it; and then somebody sent me an e-mail or somebody told me about it, and I said, “Wait a minute, I\u2019ve heard of this,” and I remembered, “It\u2019s Howard-o\u2019s show!” So I started watching and Kathryn and I started watching it.<\/p>\n![\"original\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/51PbRKO3MOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>It\u2019s a show called Homeland<\/a>. It\u2019s on — well, it was on — Showtime. It\u2019s still available. Showtime On Demand. If your cable company provides it — I know that DirecTV does. (interruption) Comcast? Okay, Comcast has Showtime On Demand. It was 12 episodes, and it ran last fall into December, and it was cocreated by Howard Gordon, who was the show runner for 24, Joel Surnow\u2019s good buddy (and Howard\u2019s got a couple novels that he\u2019s also written). It\u2019s an excellent show. It stars Claire Danes as a CIA agent, and it\u2019s got a pretty good cast. Mandy Patinkin is her superior and it\u2019s really good. I liked it. It\u2019s a terrific show.<\/p>\n