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RUSH: Kim Jong-il is now Kim Jong-dead, and the news media is making a business fuss over how the North Korean media and the people on the street have been weeping at the sad news. Of course they wept in the Soviet Union when Stalin died, too. And they\u2019ll weep when Obama dies, and even the prisoners in the gulags wept when Stalin died. Tear gas will do that to you. North Korea is nothing more than one giant Soviet gulag. <\/p>\n
Listen to this media montage.<\/p>\n
MEADE: Smart and ruthless.<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: Diplomats who dealt with him describe Kim as shrewd and calculating.<\/p>\n
SCARBOROUGH: In a demented sort of way, brilliant.<\/p>\n
HAAS: Tactically brilliant.<\/p>\n
RADCHENKO: A very cunning person and very smart person.<\/p>\n
MITCHELL: Was profoundly important around the world. I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeleine Albright.<\/p>\n
Bush was the devil. George W. Bush was stupid, and he was the devil. He was the devil incarnate and Kim Jong-il, now Kim Jong-dead, very cunning, very smart person, profoundly important around the world. “I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeleine Albright.” Speaking of Madeleine Albright, here she is, a montage of her on Kim Jong-il, now Kim Jong-dead, between 2003-2006.<\/p>\n
ALBRIGHT: He said that he would really have loved to have been a movie director. He knew a lot about American movies and had suggestions for Oscar nominations and, you know, he also liked American sports, he liked Michael Jordan. It was possible to talk with him. He\u2019s not a nut. I think that\u2019s the main kind of point. I think that it\u2019s important actually not to make fun. He wanted me to e-mail with him. I think the thing that\u2019s interesting, Larry, is I do not believe that he\u2019s crazy. I know a lot of people have said that. I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s a montage of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talking about Kim Jong-il, now Kim Jong-dead. He was a murdering tyrant. His people are among the poorest in the world and he\u2019s spoken of here in reverent terms. The best thing he had going for him, as far as these people are concerned, was he\u2019s not a Republican, he wasn\u2019t a conservative. Hitler and Stalin both loved American movies, too. This guy loved Michael Jordan. Wow, there\u2019s really a lot to recommend him. Bachmann and Perry are stupid. Kim Jong-il, not a nut, it would be a mistake to say that he\u2019s a nut.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The new Kim Jong in Korea, Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-il is gonna be succeeded by his 20-something-year-old son, actually pronounced like youngin\u2019, Kim Jong-un. (interruption) Un-what? Of course, the only question now is whether or not Obama will try to take credit for Kim Jong-il\u2019s death to try to drive up his poll numbers. Folks, I wouldn\u2019t put it past him. He killed Bin Laden and, before it\u2019s all said and done, it might well be that something like a poisoned cognac, we know that Kim Jong-il liked cognac and cigars, maybe the CIA planted the poison on one of the Cuban cigars Kim Jong-il puffed on and that was all she wrote. <\/p>\n
It is said here that the people of North Korea are really taking the news hard, the death of Kim Jong-il, who is now Kim Jong-dead. The people of North Korea are said to have gone on a hunger strike except nobody can tell the difference. They started their hunger strike several years ago, just to show their grief in advance. That\u2019s how loyal they were to Kim Jong-il. They\u2019ve been starving for years in advance of his death, so it could be said that they went on a hunger strike in sadness. Some reporters are saying that with North Korea State-Controlled Media, Kim Jong-il probably never heard a single word of criticism in his entire life. They got the State-Controlled Media. Another thing he has in common with Obama, at least in the media. <\/p>\n
Speaking of Obama, as we are here, it\u2019s a shame Kim Jong-il died before Obama ever got a chance to bow down to him or to even apologize to him. It\u2019s the one guy that Obama didn\u2019t get to apologize to or bow down to. How did our State Department ever let that happen? We had to know that Kim Jong-il was soon to be Kim Jong-dead. How did our State Department not finagle a way for Obama to go over there and bow to Kim Jong-il, or at least apologize? Obama did promise — I\u2019m not making this up — Obama did promise that he would meet with Kim Jong-il during one of the 2008 debates. Maybe Kim died holding his breath waiting for that to happen. Hope not. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: I have this piece here from the BBC on the death of Kim Jong-dead, and I just want to read this to you. “Millions of North Koreans were ‘engulfed in indescribable sadness,\u2019 the KCNA state news agency said, as people wept openly in Pyongyang.” It\u2019s what every dictator dreams of, by the way. Every dictator dreams of this kind of coverage. The news agency “described one of his sons, Kim Jong-un, as the ‘great successor\u2019 whom North Koreans should unite behind. Pyongyang\u2019s neighbors are on alert amid fears of instability in the poor and isolated nuclear-armed nation.<\/p>\n
“Fears were compounded by unconfirmed reports from South Korean news agency Yonhap that the North had test-fired a missile off its eastern coast before the announcement of Kim Jong-il\u2019s death was made. Unnamed government officials in Seoul were quoted as saying they did not believe the launch was linked to the announcement. The South Korean defense ministry has declined to comment. Following news of Mr. Kim\u2019s death, South Korea put its armed forces on high alert. … Mr. Kim\u2019s death was announced in an emotional statement on national television. The announcer, wearing black, struggled to keep back the tears as she said he had died of physical and mental overwork.” He thought too much, and he worked too much. <\/p>\n