{"id":215254,"date":"2016-12-23T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/23\/the_history_of_the_80s_repeats_itself_left_freaks_out_over_nuclear_arms_race\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T18:55:58","slug":"the_history_of_the_80s_repeats_itself_left_freaks_out_over_nuclear_arms_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/23\/the_history_of_the_80s_repeats_itself_left_freaks_out_over_nuclear_arms_race\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the \u201980s Repeats Itself: Left Freaks Out Over Nuclear Arms Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, folks, I\u2019ve always said that I wanted to get older.  I have always been of the opinion that no matter how old I was that people older than I was had more freedom, had more success, were thus enjoying life more.  And it\u2019s true.  I mean, there are other benefits to it now, though.  One of the real benefits — and this is something that you think is not gonna matter when you\u2019re younger \u2019cause you think you know everything and whatever you learn from there on out is just gonna buttress what you already know.<\/p>\n

However, there is nothing aside from aging, living more, getting older that can substitute for experience.  And so I am able to bring to you a unique perspective not found in most media, certainly not the Drive-By Media, anywhere where the practitioners of the art are under 35, maybe 40.  And what I\u2019m talking about is the new onset panic over what appears to be a desired nuclear arms race by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

I am watching the history of the eighties begin to repeat itself.  For those of you that were not old enough in the eighties when Reagan was president, or for those of you not yet born, do not doubt me.  What is happening here as the result of one Trump comment on the nuclear arms race involving Putin and Sean Spicer, it is identical, the left is, to the way they were panicked and afraid and just basically unhinged back in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, the threat, according to the left, was Reagan.  Reagan was a dunce, an idiot, a cowboy, and he cracked jokes about bombing the Soviet Union, and he hated communism and he thought that it ought to be done away with. And so the learned people in our country and in the U.K. and what then became the European Union, all believed that the savior, the salvation, the lone hope to avoid a nuclear holocaust was whoever was running the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

And of course those guys kept dying.  And that led to the ascension to the Kremlin throne of Mikhail Gorbachev, and he literally became Christ-like to the left in terms of his lone ability to make sure that Reagan didn\u2019t blow up the world.  We had Hollywood celebrity children that would go on the then Phil Donahue show and literally break down in hysterical tears telling everybody that they had no idea what it was like to grow up with the threat of nuclear holocaust hanging over them every day.<\/p>\n

I remember one such program featuring Laura Dern and Phil Donahue trying to comfort her but the tears required 15 boxes of Kleenex.  And it\u2019s all starting to repeat here.  It\u2019s amazing.  And this is the benefit of my having worked in that period of time in this business, and have lived through it.  And thus am able to provide for you context and understanding and once again what we do best here, and that is dissect and break down the left, deconstruct liberalism, and explain to you what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

It is the big news of the day.  And we have to lift our ban on whatever happens at PMSNBC because that\u2019s really where some of this began.  Sean Spicer is the new White House press secretary.  He was out there today, he was on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, whose father, by the way, was Zbig, Zbigniew Brzezinski.  He was the national security adviser for Jimmy Carter during Carter\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

Mika Brzezinski\u2019s dad was the first person Jimmy Carter spoke to every day of his presidency.  Got the daily brief, but Zbig was in there.  Whenever Carter got to the Oval Office, Zbig was in there waiting.  He was this primo adviser on all the international stuff, the foreign policy and itinerant nuclear issues and so forth.  And what happened was that Spicer was talking about what Trump meant with his tweet about an arms race.<\/p>\n

They went to a commercial break, and Trump called Spicer and said, “Put Mika the on phone.” So Spicer put Mika on the phone during a commercial break at MSNBC, and that\u2019s when Trump said, “Let there be an arm\u2019s race.”  And she about lost it.  She came back from the break panicked, and now the rest of the media today is in meltdown, because presidents are not supposed to call one person in a commercial break and talk to \u2019em, this isn\u2019t how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

And the media all morning since this happened has been having roundtable discussions on how Spicer doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing and Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. I was watching Judith Miller on Fox (paraphrasing), “We have a constitutional role, and I don\u2019t care what he thinks, he just can\u2019t erase it, he can\u2019t wipe us out. So he better know, we\u2019re gonna be here, he\u2019s gonna be there, but he better know, we\u2019re gonna be here.  I just can\u2019t wait for this \u2019cause they can\u2019t compete with this.<\/p>\n

Folks, they are ticked off that Trump in a 140-character tweet can literally overwhelm and erase whatever they\u2019re doing in 750 to a thousand words or however many they vomit on TV.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ve got news besides that.  We have Joe Biden — it is amazing now that the Democrats have lost — oh, by the way, Putin not making any — he\u2019s out there saying the Democrats were gonna lose and he knew the Democrats were gonna lose and that they deserved to lose, and Putin\u2019s out there saying that they\u2019re sore losers.  That\u2019s got \u2019em even more ticked.  That Putin happens to like Trump.  That\u2019s got \u2019em scared to death.<\/p>\n

You ought to see Nate Silver, the FiveThirtyEight, the pollster guru.  He\u2019s got a chart of the only people that would survive a nuclear blast.  It was one red state. (laughing)  I mean, this is hysteria.  Oops.  It\u2019s impossible have everything within arm\u2019s reach here.  Okay.  Headline: “Nate Silver\u2019s Post-‘Nuclear Holocaust\u2019 Electoral Map Goes Viral.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>This is too much fun!  You know, I\u2019ve been through it.  That\u2019s what I was trying to tell you, I\u2019ve been through all of this.  Every liberal crackup there has been.  That liberal crackup on JetBlue yesterday with Ivanka Trump<\/a>, it\u2019s a liberal crackup.  Can you imagine if somebody had done that to Chelsea Clinton?  If Chelsea Clinton had deigned to fly coach and been on there with Marc Mezvinsky, can you imagine somebody getting on JetBlue and making a scene out of the fact that Chelsea was there, can you imagine what the media would be doing with that.<\/p>\n

Oh, I shudder to.  Or if one of the Obama girls had been on the plane and somebody said, “What are they doing here?  I refuse to get on this airplane. Why don\u2019t they get off.”  Can you imagine what the media would do with that.<\/p>\n

“Nate Silver\u2019s Post-‘Nuclear Holocaust\u2019 Electoral Map Goes Viral<\/a>.” (laughing)<\/p>\n

So you know the liberals to whom Silver is godlike, they\u2019re reading this, they\u2019re posting it, they\u2019re passing it around\/ Drudge even has a story where it\u2019s liberals who are stocking up on canned goods and nonperishable items \u2019cause they think we\u2019re gonna die next week. Before climate change gets us, now nuclear warfare is gonna get us.<\/p>\n

They are inconsolable.  They thought they had at least 30 years \u2019til climate change wiped us out.  Now it could be tomorrow because Trump wants a new nuclear arms race. Folks, I\u2019m gonna put all this in perspective and I\u2019m gonna explain to you how Trump has beaten Putin here in this.  Putin\u2019s already backing down from this.  I\u2019ll get to that in just a minute, but this is just too much fun.  There are actually two states, Mr. Snerdley, two states on the electoral map. “If only people who weren\u2019t burnt to a crisp in the nuclear holocaust voted,” that is the title of the chart.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so glad I didn\u2019t take this week off.  I can\u2019t tell you.  “Here\u2019s what the electoral map would look like if only people who were not burnt to a crisp in the nuclear holocaust voted,” and the two states are red states.  They are Alaska and Wyoming, the only place voters would survive in a Trump nuclear war with Putin.  Phil Donahue may come out of retirement for this!  Vladimir Posner may come back from the Soviet Union and guest host with him.  There were a lot of people that got rich and really famous during the first nuclear arms race.  And they might be tempted to come back and do it all again.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  By the way, folks, let me make an observation to you.  Has the media once, have they once been concerned about a nuclear arms race with Iran?  They\u2019ve not, have they?  I mean, the president of the United States has actually negotiated a deal that permits the state sponsor of terrorism, largest state sponsor of terrorism acknowledged by everybody in the world, Iran, to ramp up and get nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Is the media, is the Democrat Party, anybody worried about that nuclear arms?  No way, because Obama\u2019s involved and we don\u2019t dare criticize Obama because Obama\u2019s smarter than all the rest of us.  What Trump is doing is shutting down the expansion of nuclear weapons that Putin is engaging in because of Obama!  Obama has unilaterally chosen to disarm or reduce our nuclear arsenal without getting appropriate concessions from Putin or anybody else while ramping up the Iranian nuclear program.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll explain this to you, but the upshot of this is that Putin has blinked in response to what Trump said about, “Let\u2019s have an arms race” because Putin knows they lost the last one.  They can\u2019t keep up with us.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, one of the reasons the media is so amped up today is what Sean Spicer said. He was on Fox News last night on the Megyn Kelly show without Megyn Kelly.  It was being host by Sandra Smith.  And Sean Spicer last night said that Trump is gonna hold the media accountable and he\u2019s gonna correct the record.<\/p>\n

Well, folks, you just don\u2019t say that to the media.  It\u2019s the media that\u2019s going to hold Trump accountable.  It\u2019s the media that is going to speak truth to power.  It is the media that\u2019s gonna determine who gets good coverage and bad, and here comes Spicer, the new White House press secretary, and he says that Trump is gonna hold the media accountable and he\u2019s going to correct the record.  So they are like everyone else on the left, they really don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming their way.  They\u2019re starting to get an idea of it.  They don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

They still think they\u2019re dealing with an idiot.  They still think they\u2019re dealing with a boob.  They think they\u2019re dealing with a dimwit that doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing and they\u2019re eventually gonna be able to outsmart him, and he is outsmarting them I can\u2019t count how many times a day.  He\u2019s running rings around them and they haven\u2019t figured it out yet.  And they don\u2019t know anything other than the current model that they\u2019ve used and lived in for their entire lives.<\/p>\n

The know inside-the-Beltway model. They know the establishment model. They know how the rules of the game are set up.  Elected officials defer to the media and do everything they can to make the media happy.  They grant access.  If the media rips \u2019em a new one, they just deal with it and move on and they try to be nicer to the media, and none of that applies. But they think that\u2019s how the game is still played, that\u2019s how the game should be played, and Trump had better, he had better play that way or we\u2019re gonna destroy the guy.  They\u2019re not saying that publicly, but this is what they\u2019re planning.<\/p>\n

What they haven\u2019t recalled is that they\u2019ve been trying to destroy Donald Trump for over a year and a half and they have not been able to do it.  They have no idea how to separate Trump\u2019s base supporters from him.  They have no idea how to do it.  What they have forgotten is that they had nothing to do with making Trump popular, so they can\u2019t destroy him.  The media can only break you if they make you, and the media has not made Donald Trump.  It\u2019s quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

Now, on this nuclear business.  I\u2019m gonna give you the overall here and then we\u2019re gonna double back and get into the detail of it.  Trump, Putin, and fake news.  Essentially what happened here, the New York Times, after being all excited, because thinking they were making inroads, Trump doing stupid things, like the Carrier deal is stupid, we shouldn\u2019t make too big a deal out of that, and the Air Force One deal is stupid, the Lockheed deal scrapping the F-30, Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

By the way, have you ever heard — I didn\u2019t mention this yesterday.  This Boeing cave-in on Air Force One, do you realize what the CEO — they\u2019re gonna make two of them now for under four billion.  The original order was for one Air Force One at $4 billion, and after Trump got engaged on this and challenged the way Washington does things — the pay line, if you will, in Washington, Congress appropriates money after lobbyists are involved and after defense contractors are involved.<\/p>\n

The cost of overall projects just escalates and escalates and escalates so that everybody who has had anything to do with somebody getting elected or staying elected gets a piece of the pie.  And this is how donors and lobbyists and others are paid back, is with your tax dollars.  Well, Trump is saying, “To heck with that.  I don\u2019t want lobbyists.  Lobbyists are not gonna be part of what my administration does.  We\u2019re not gonna do business the way we\u2019ve always done it.  And so now we\u2019re gonna get two brand-new Boeing 747-800s outfitted to be Air Force One for under $4 billion, two of them!”<\/p>\n

Well, you might call it buy one, get one free, but it\u2019s a far cry from the original deal, which was one of them for four billion and counting, and all it took, all it took was some push-back!  That\u2019s all it took.  Doing what everybody else says,  “Well, we can\u2019t do it that way.  I mean, this is the way we do it.  This is the budget process. This is the appropriations process. You can\u2019t do it that way.”  And now it\u2019s being demonstrated that of course it can be done a different way and much more sensibly.<\/p>\n

So the New York Times, “Vladimir Putin, Unsurprised by Trump\u2019s Remarks, Says Russia Wants No Nuclear Arms Race<\/a> — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Friday that a statement by Donald J. Trump, the American president-elect, that the United States should expand its nuclear capabilities was not a surprise because he had said the same thing during the election campaign.”<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites and put this in perspective. I gave you the end of story first, and that is Putin backing down.  You have to remember that in context here, Obama has been — you may not know this because the media has not really reported it.  But Obama has been steadily decreasing our nuclear arsenal.  At one time it was reported, but he has been unilaterally — he hasn\u2019t been requiring any other nuclear state to downsize theirs.<\/p>\n

In fact, that open mic incident following or just right before the 2012 presidential election where Barack Obama was caught talking to Dmitry Medvedev with the open mic and where he said (paraphrasing), “Look, tell Vlad I\u2019ll have a lot more flexibility on this after I win reelection, I\u2019ll have more flexibility after the election.”  Putin was pressuring Obama to make good on his promises to reduce our nuclear stock.  And Obama said, “You tell him be patient, I\u2019ll have more flexibility after I win.”<\/p>\n