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RUSH:  Well, I just listened to a little bit of Obama.  I guess he\u2019s getting near the end of his — wherever he is, somewhere in Washington, and he\u2019s making some speech about this.  You know what he just said?  Cookie, whatever you\u2019re doing drop it and just give me the last two minutes of what Obama just said.  Whatever you\u2019re doing.  As quickly as you can. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gotta paraphrase this.  Obama says something along the lines of (imitating Obama), “Throughout all of this, my critics, my friends on the other side of the aisle have been saying that I\u2019m not taking any of this seriously \u2019cause I refuse to use the label, ‘radical Islam.'” And after saying that, he started asking questions.  He said (paraphrasing), “Is calling them ‘radical Islamists,\u2019 is it gonna change their strategy?  Is it gonna make them cower in fear?  Is it gonna make them run away?  Does it increase our odds of beating them by calling them ‘radical Islamists\u2019?  What difference does this label make?” <\/p>\n

And he\u2019s missing the entire point of it, obviously on purpose.  Now he\u2019s trying to say it doesn\u2019t matter what they are because they are perverting a great religion, and he\u2019s working with Islamist leaders all over the world to try to rein in these radical Islamists who are perverting this great religion. And then he says that ISIS numbers are the lowest they have been in two and a half years, that we are practically on the verge of wiping them out.  I\u2019m paraphrasing. <\/line><\/p>\n

And then he goes back to this label business. (imitating Obama) “I hate to tell my friends on the other side the aisle, but calling them ‘radical Islamist\u2019 is not gonna make them go away.  I mean, I don\u2019t know what they think is gonna happen.”  He is entirely missing the point of why people are raising the issue that neither he nor anybody in his Regime will actually identify what we are up against. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that using a label to describe them will affect them.  It\u2019s that people have a legitimate question of whether or not Obama opposes them.  Or, rather, if they\u2019re just the latest enemy of the day, that there\u2019s nothing unique about them, they\u2019re just your average anti-American protest militant group that happens to be pretty brutal.  People are trying to decide, people are trying to determine if our president is serious about this.  That\u2019s what this all means.  And he, of course, is skirting all around that. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about this label as being pointless in terms of strategy, pointless in terms of it being intimidating. Just \u2019cause we call \u2019em radical Islamists, it doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gonna lay down their arms, doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gonna start crying, doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gonna retreat. And just because we call \u2019em radical Islamists does not make our effort any stronger, does not make our weapons any more powerful, it doesn\u2019t make our strategy any better. So I don\u2019t get the point, he says, I don\u2019t get the point, what difference does it make? <\/p>\n

Now, is he being honest or is this more Obama cluelessness?  We never had any problem calling the Nazis Nazis, right?  We weren\u2019t worried about what they might think.  And, by the way, the Nazis were perverting a great ideology:  socialism.  I\u2019m being facetious, but the left thinks socialism\u2019s the greatest thing on earth, and the Nazis were socialists, in addition to everything else they did. <\/p>\n

Could we not say the Nazis were perverting a great ideology?  And we still call them the Nazis.  We call \u2019em worse than that.  We didn\u2019t shy away from naming our enemies in the Pacific theater. The Japanese.  There were other names used.  They\u2019re not acceptable anymore.  No, no.  Now we have to get up every day and see that Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. <\/line><\/p>\n

And there are no militant Islamists.  No, no, it\u2019s a right-wing creation.  It\u2019s designed to get these right-wingers who do nothing but listen to Rush Limbaugh in the VFW halls all worked up into a frenzy.  That\u2019s Obama and his vision of America at this time of day every day.  A bunch of Republican drunkards at the VFW hall reliving old war stories and ripping into militant Islam while listening to Rush Limbaugh.  Bitter clingers. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s been clear about how extremist groups are perverting Islam.  I\u2019m sorry.  But they\u2019re not.  They\u2019re doing Islam.  They are practicing Islam.  This is no perversion.  Now, again, is that Obama being clueless, or is this Obama trying to keep the peace? Is this Obama trying to be politically correct, or does Obama really just not know what he\u2019s talking about?  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I have the Obama sound bite.  Have you noticed, by the way, that Obama really, really, really gets concerned about offending religious people?  Oh, yeah, he really, really bothered out there about offending Islamists.  He doesn\u2019t seem concerned about Christianity.  He is a Christian.  If he is get upset about attacks on Christianity, he never comes out defends Christianity. He never, ever comes out, corrects the record about things his party says about Christians.  No, he echoes them.  So it\u2019s clear that Obama is right at home denigrating certain religions, and he\u2019ll go to the end of the day to defend others. <\/p>\n

Just saying.<\/p>\n

Here is Obama from 20 minutes ago.  I paraphrased it.  This is a couple of minutes here of Obama talking about why he doesn\u2019t use the label “radical Islamist.”<\/p>\n