{"id":214170,"date":"2016-08-09T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/09\/hillary_s_congratulatory_olympic_tweet\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:17:47","slug":"hillary_s_congratulatory_olympic_tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/09\/hillary_s_congratulatory_olympic_tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary\u2019s Congratulatory Olympic Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/72616\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<section xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/image\/\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/xhtml\/\" xmlns:custom=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/custom\/\">\n<p>RUSH: So of all the things, I\u2019m sitting here, it\u2019s mere moments ago, I\u2019m running a little bit behind in getting things organized, and Mr. Snerdley runs in and asks me if I watched the Olympics last night.&nbsp; I said, &#8220;No, I didn\u2019t watch the Olympics.&nbsp; What are you doing watching the Olympics?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s turning into a reality show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;What?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it\u2019s turning into a reality show.&nbsp; They may save their ratings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Man, it\u2019s great.&nbsp; Our team is taunting the other teams.&#8221;&nbsp; Apparently the Russians have this babe that was doping left and right, got caught on it, and our female swimmers are taunting the hell out of her.&nbsp; It\u2019s great.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Cool.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Rio, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first American Muslim athlete to compete while wearing a hijab. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OrRSHnH2Ra\">pic.twitter.com\/OrRSHnH2Ra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/762675570937298944\">August 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then there\u2019s some Chinese guy that we\u2019re taunting. He\u2019s got shark teeth so we\u2019re making all kinds of fun of this guy.&nbsp; And we\u2019re winning gold medals and so forth.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I said, &#8220;Wow.&#8221;&nbsp; The only thing I knew about the Olympics &#8212; can I tell you the only thing I\u2019ve heard about \u2019em?&nbsp; Did you see where Hillary Clinton praised a fencer on the US Olympic team for being the first to wear a hijab?&nbsp; Or hijab, I don\u2019t know the correct way to pronounce it.&nbsp; You didn\u2019t see that?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton praised a fencer on the US Olympic team for being the first to wear a hijab.&nbsp; She tweeted a photo of her with this comment:&nbsp; &#8220;In Rio, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first American Muslim athlete to compete while wearing a hijab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126027\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Olympics-Thrasher-and-Muhammad-w_-Hillary-Tweet.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">For crying out loud, did she win?&nbsp; So that\u2019s what Hillary\u2019s tweeting, that\u2019s the most memorable thing that\u2019s happened. Of all the things that have happened at the Olympics, that\u2019s what Hillary wants to tweet out?&nbsp; &#8220;In Rio, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first American Muslim athlete to compete while wearing a hijab.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, just an hour or so after Hillary\u2019s tweet Ms. Muhammad lost her first match and was eliminated.&nbsp; So she\u2019s the first American Muslim athlete to compete while wearing a hijab who lost at her competition.&nbsp; Why celebrate a woman wearing something that\u2019s been forced on her by a religion?&nbsp; A religion run by men.&nbsp; Is that impolitic to say?&nbsp; It is accurate, but, you know, I may be skirting on the edge there with that comment.&nbsp; I will admit this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But what in the world?&nbsp; Maybe &#8220;celebrate&#8221; is the wrong word, but why call attention, why honor, why talk about what a great thing it is, a woman is wearing something that\u2019s forced on her by her religion?&nbsp; She may actively agree to do it, don\u2019t misunderstand, but it\u2019s a religion run by men that subjugates and subordinates women.&nbsp; You know, the contradictions in American liberalism and socialism are just overwhelming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, American socialism features American feminism, and yet look at how it bows down to other religions which really mistreat and disrespect women.&nbsp; Does that not register with anybody else?&nbsp; Or is it something you\u2019re not supposed to say?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note also this.&nbsp; Hillary Clinton did not tweet congratulations to the first gold medal winner at the Olympics, the first American gold medal winner.&nbsp; You know who that was?&nbsp; You do?&nbsp; You\u2019ve been watching?&nbsp; That\u2019s right.&nbsp; It happened to be an American woman who won the gold for marksmanship.&nbsp; For those of you in Rio Linda, it means shooting.&nbsp; It was a rifle.&nbsp; She won a marksmanship gold medal, the first gold medal of the games.&nbsp; An American won it.&nbsp; Did Hillary send any kind of a recognition tweet?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Didn\u2019t even probably occur to her. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; The American Muslim fencer, Ibtihaj Muhammad &#8212; the first Muslim-American to wear a hijab and so celebrated by Hillary Clinton &#8212; said she &#8220;&#8216;doesn\u2019t feel safe\u2019 due to anti-Muslim sentiment&#8221; in the country. She says Trump makes her nervous.&nbsp; She was born in New Jersey, and &#8220;said the US is at a point where it needs to change its dialogue following incidents like Donald Trump [commenting on] the Democrat National Conference,&#8221; and throughout his campaign. &nbsp;And she\u2019s very, very nervous here living in America wearing the hijab, the first Olympic athlete to do so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126074\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" alt=\"large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/586843500_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">She lost her first match as a fencer.&nbsp; Hillary Clinton tweeted out how honored she was, this first American athlete to wear a hijab.&nbsp; So traditionally American, Hillary wanted to acknowledge it &#8212; while ignoring the first Olympic gold medal winner: A woman marksman who blew everybody\u2019s lights out with a rifle.&nbsp; Well, the target.&nbsp; She didn\u2019t hit anybody.&nbsp; I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. You can\u2019t&#8230; You have to be so careful of what you say these days.&nbsp; Our Olympic marksman didn\u2019t hit anybody.&nbsp; She hit the target. &nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So of all the things, I\u2019m sitting here, it\u2019s mere moments ago, I\u2019m running a little bit behind in getting things organized, and Mr. Snerdley runs in and asks me if I watched the Olympics last night.&nbsp; I said, &#8220;No, I didn\u2019t watch the Olympics.&nbsp; What are you doing watching the Olympics?&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;It\u2019s turning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hillary&#039;s Congratulatory Olympic Tweet - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/09\/hillary_s_congratulatory_olympic_tweet\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hillary&#039;s Congratulatory Olympic Tweet - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: So of all the things, I\u2019m sitting here, it\u2019s mere moments ago, I\u2019m running a little bit behind in getting things organized, and Mr. Snerdley runs in and asks me if I watched the Olympics last night.&nbsp; 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