{"id":223574,"date":"2017-02-28T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223574"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:31:15","slug":"how-can-anyone-think-trump-is-an-anti-semite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/28\/how-can-anyone-think-trump-is-an-anti-semite\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can Anyone Think Trump Is an Anti-Semite?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Michael in Richmond, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush. I appreciate you taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Any time, sir. Any time.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: So during your first hour I was listening to you, and this question kind of formulated in my mind. At least to me, in my opinion, it proves that the mainstream media does have an agenda. So you were talking about how when the president… Well, let me start over. Every time the president or his administration talks about illegal voting, the mainstream media goes apoplectic and asks for proof. However, when Democrats and others talk about Russian hacking — alleged Russian hacking or whatever you want to call it — the mainstream media never asks for proof.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is an excellent observation. In fact, as they know there is not any and run the story anyway, and they include that in there. They include, “So far, officials have not been able to find any direct evidence of any linkage between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.” It\u2019s always like in paragraph 15 or 20 (chuckling), and yet Trump comes out and says that illegals are voting? (laughing) “Prove it! Where\u2019s the evidence?” That\u2019s exactly right. Exactly right.<\/p>\n

This is Ilana next in Palo Alto, California, where Stanford is. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled cell connection) Hi. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. I just wanted to say I am a Jewish Republican, a conservative. I\u2019m a huge Trump supporter. And, you know, in the last… Since Trump was elected, I guess, there have been about five to six waves of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and (unintelligible) —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and Jewish day schools —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and yesterday there were another twenty, including in Palo Alto, and I happened to be driving by to see little children escorted out with their stuff pushed on carts. And it\u2019s so sad. And, you know, I guess the press is only interested when Trump is president, and the liberals choose… You know, my left-wing coreligionists are only interested in anti-Semitism while Trump is in office, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I guess I want to say that this is terrorism. It\u2019s terrorism, and, you know, if it was another group (beep) — if it was another minority group — I feel like media, Hollywood, would be all over it, and I want Trump to speak out. I want the FBI to be investigating and find this out because it\u2019s very scary, you know, for our children and everyone. And, you know, I work hard as a Jewish conservative. I work hard. I\u2019m a big activist. You know, I would love if the FBI would get involved. You know, prosecute these people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, one of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons — including me — was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t understand it. I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, supporting Palestinians. I\u2019ve never understood it, until I spoke once to a man named Norman Podhoretz, and he said to me, “Many of you refer to liberal Jews that way. They\u2019re not Jews. They are liberals. Liberalism is what is first and foremost in their identity. The fact that they are Jews is not paramount or prominent.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s secondary — and, in many cases, even tertiary — to their identity.” Now, you look at Trump. Tell me something here, Ilana. Why in the world do you think Trump is being blamed as an anti-Semite after all he\u2019s done during the campaign and since to defend Israel, to be on the good side of the prime minister of Israel, to oppose the Iran nuclear deal — which is very, very bad for Israel down the road? Trump\u2019s done nothing but be a great friend of Israel, and yet he\u2019s being tagged with anti-Semitism here. It doesn\u2019t make any intellectual sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. No, it doesn\u2019t. I think most of these Jews, you\u2019re right. They\u2019re not Jews. If you look down the road, their grandchildren are not gonna be Jews. They use it like a badge like someone saying, hey, I can make a Jewish joke, I have a Jewish friend, you know? Trump is the biggest supporter of Israel for sure. I think he\u2019ll go down in history as being the biggest supporter of Israel. And I think Jews think that if they stand with the left, I mean these liberal Jews, I don\u2019t even want to call them liberal Jews. I think they\u2019re left wing. If they stand with the left, they think that they\u2019ll be protected and they were the biggest advocates against the refugee ban. And, I mean, who is a bigger target in Europe right now regarding —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: None of this makes any common sense, because anti-Semitism is rampant again in Europe. And yet the Jewish people you\u2019re talking about here in America, the Jewish liberals, it doesn\u2019t seem to be a factor in them determining what side of issues they\u2019re gonna fall down on. You know, I still don\u2019t get the ease with which so many, like Hollywood politicos, can come down on Israel and rip Israel, just because Netanyahu happens to be conservative.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve asked all kinds of people about it, too, and there isn\u2019t — Podhoretz is the best answer I\u2019ve gotten, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s all-inclusive. It\u2019s a mystery. But you do have to be careful when you start —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And I think they replace their Judaism with liberalism, and they\u2019re very passionate about it, and it\u2019s ridiculous. But I wish, you know, every day I see Facebook posts suggestion, “Oh, you see, you see this is happening during Trump.” Anti-Semitism on colleges, the BDS and, you know, they\u2019re shouting down Israel\u2019s supporters on campus, that\u2019s been happening all through Obama\u2019s years, and nothing\u2019s been done about it. And as soon as Trump\u2019s president all of a sudden there\u2019s been anti-Semitism in the U.S. for 20 days, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: If there was ever a legitimate argument, it was that aimed at Obama. And you\u2019re right. This is my point. It\u2019s Podhoretz\u2019s point. The loyalty is to the ideology, not the religion. And that\u2019s what so many people have difficulty understanding. I know you get it. Look, Ilana, I\u2019m flattered that you\u2019re out there. Great to hear from you in Palo Alto. I gotta go, though. I\u2019m way behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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