{"id":234590,"date":"2017-05-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=234590"},"modified":"2017-05-24T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:24:35","slug":"our-new-normal-pattern-of-reaction-to-terror-attacks-is-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/23\/our-new-normal-pattern-of-reaction-to-terror-attacks-is-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Our “New Normal” Reaction to Terror Is Unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So it\u2019s become a pattern. It\u2019s obviously a pattern, and nobody\u2019s really doing anything about it. We have a terror attack. Everybody expresses their shock and their outrage and their anger and their sorrows and their sympathies and their surprise, and then it repeats. We\u2019re into a pattern here. It\u2019s almost like this is the new norm. This is just something that we\u2019re gonna have to put up with from now on because it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s any effort to stop it. And whenever anybody attempts to mount a serious effort to stop it, they\u2019re slapped down.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019re slapped down by judges or they\u2019re slapped down by politically correct anal retentives all over the world. You remember John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, once said when he was secretary of state, telling everybody in America (paraphrasing), “You know, just chill, just chill. Terrorism is a nuisance. It\u2019s not a big deal<\/a>. Yes, it\u2019s mass murder, but it\u2019s not happening every day. It\u2019s just a nuisance. We\u2019re just gonna have to learn to put up with it.” And that was the attitude. We can\u2019t even agree that it\u2019s radical Islamic extremists that are doing this.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I want to get into this in a little bit more detail, but I had to make that observation, because I, frankly, folks, I don\u2019t like this pattern. You know what this pattern is? The pattern is, a terror event happens — in this case, 22 people dead and some children — and all of the serious and compassionate people run to the nearest camera, and they run to the nearest microphone. And they express their sorrow and their compassion and their shock. And that\u2019s it. Mission accomplished. “Look at me, I care. Look at me, I have compassion. I care. Look at me, I\u2019m a good person. I recognize that this is not good. But that\u2019s as far as I\u2019m gonna go.”<\/p>\n

And then it happens again, the same people come out, and also in the process of this pattern repeating itself, we have lies and misstatements as to who\u2019s responsible for it. Part of the pattern is, “Let\u2019s not be hasty. Let\u2019s not prejudge.” What do you mean, prejudge? We know who the terrorist is here. His name is Salman Abedi Mohammed Salman Skyhook. I guess that\u2019s why it took 24 hours to figure out who he is. ISIS claiming credit. What do you mean, prejudge?<\/p>\n

No, we\u2019re not supposed to prejudge, and we are not supposed to have a backlash. Must guard against the backlash. Must make sure that we try to find common ground. There isn\u2019t any common ground with these people. So it\u2019s, to me, very frustrating. It is a pattern that repeats, and the people that react to it are doing so for image and branding, running to cameras and microphones to be seen as knowledgeable, aware, caring, and concerned and compassionate. And then we drop it and get back to trying to impeach Trump.<\/p>\n

In fact, CNN had trouble letting go of the impeach Trump story last night. Did you know this? CNN was fighting with itself over even covering the terror attack, because it would take away from the ongoing effort to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The terror stuff that I have today is mostly idiotic reactions to it. As I said at the opening of the program, it\u2019s gotten to the point that this is a pattern. Terrorism happens and everybody says, “Oh, it\u2019s so horrible,” and they pray, and they express sympathy for the victims and their families; then they go away. Nobody does anything about it.<\/p>\n

\"\"If anybody seriously tries to, they\u2019re condemned as an Islamophobe or what have you. So it appears to me that, as far as governing bodies are concerned in Europe and here in the United States, it\u2019s like John Kerry said, “Hey, the best the best way to look at terrorism is as a nuisance. It\u2019s just there. It\u2019s a crime that\u2019s just always gonna be with us. It\u2019s a bit more drastic than some crimes, but there\u2019s nothing we can do about it. The American people are just gonna have to come to grips with it, that it is a nuisance of modern life.” That\u2019s essentially what John Kerry said when he was Obama\u2019s secretary of state.<\/p>\n

And it reminded me of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who famously coined the phrase “defining deviancy down.” What that means is that as a society continues to fail in dealing with criminal behavior, aberrant behavior, and gets tired of fighting it, you just declare, “It\u2019s normal,” and you move on. And in the process, you\u2019re defining deviancy down. You are normalizing more and more reprobate behavior. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing with terrorism if it\u2019s to become an accepted nuisance, because they\u2019re committed and we can\u2019t stop \u2019em.<\/p>\n

To this day, we do not properly acknowledge what this is about. I mean, this idiot Richard Clarke — who has not succeeded in fighting terrorism through I don\u2019t know how many years of presidential advisory positions — is out there again today saying that terrorism is the result of poverty and hopelessness and anger at American policy. It\u2019s just absolutely offensive and ridiculous. That\u2019s not what terrorism is about. Terrorism is an ideology. It is commanded by the imams and in the Koran. It\u2019s not because of poverty!<\/p>\n

\"\"We try to Americanize these things and we say, “Well, poverty in America creates crime! People need money. They need food.” It\u2019s not what this is about. If we\u2019re not even gonna be honest in assessing it and if we\u2019re gonna start using terms like “moderate Islamist,” we\u2019re defeated. We may as well just look at this as an ongoing presence in our lives that is a nuisance. And some of them are gonna be really bad, like 9\/11; others are not gonna be as bad (only 22 are gonna get killed like in the U.K.), but because of our openness and our society and our criminal justice system, we cannot stop people before they commit crimes.<\/p>\n

And we cannot engage in anti-Islamic phobia, because that is prejudging a religion, and we can\u2019t do that. So we can\u2019t stop it. To stop it is to be bigoted and prejudiced. To even correctly identify it is to be bigoted and prejudiced. So what other option is there than to just accept it and try to not put yourself in locations and positions where it is statistically likely to happen? Which, by the way, those places are increasing. Now it\u2019s rockand pop concerts, sporting events, airplanes, office buildings — offices, such as San Bernardino — or in the military in a barracks.<\/p>\n

I mean, these are places we\u2019re just gonna have to avoid going forward if we accept that this is an ongoing presence in our lives. And note who it is, the kind of people that tell us these things: Establishmentarians and rich people who are never, ever gonna be touched by it — or very rarely. At least they\u2019re not gonna live with it. It\u2019s like illegal immigration: They\u2019re never gonna live with the effects of this stuff. They\u2019re always insulated by position, power, walls, what have you, where they get to pontificate and theorize and opine to the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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