{"id":244185,"date":"2017-08-11T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=244185"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:00:36","slug":"fox-friends-plays-my-north-korea-commentary-for-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/11\/fox-friends-plays-my-north-korea-commentary-for-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox & Friends Plays My North Korea Commentary for the President"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You\u2019ve gotta hear this, folks, two sound bites. Fox & Friends this morning played this bite of me from yesterday\u2019s show.<\/a><\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: They have \u201cbeen worried about Trump going off script for months — and now members of Congress are worried that his blunt and provocative warning to North Korea could lead to war.\u201d What does this mean? It means that wimpism has taken over the Washington establishment, that wussism and wimpism and pajama boyism has taken over. North Korea is a zit on the butt of a pig and there\u2019s no reason to be afraid of it. Would we run around acting afraid of a zit on a pig? \u201cMr. Limbaugh, they\u2019ve got nuclear weapons!\u201d Yet they can\u2019t hit the side of a barn yet, for crying out loud! …<\/p>\n

What are we supposed to do, just sit here and wait until the real one is airborne and hope that being gentle and compassionate and unprovocative will stop this lunatic from doing what he\u2019s doing? Is that what we\u2019re to believe here? We adopt the Obama pajama boy method here? That\u2019s how the North Koreans and Iranians got their nukes, is this pajama boy liberalism way of life! \u201cWe must show them mutual respect.\u201d What did Hillary say? We must respect our enemies, and we must try to get inside their head and try to relate to them, blah, blah, blah, and that\u2019s called \u201csmart power.\u201d No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s called how to lose.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: They played that sound bite on Fox, which means the president saw it because he watches that show. So if he starts talking about zits on pigs, then we\u2019ll know. Here\u2019s the reaction. We have Pete Hegseth and Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt reacting to that sound bite.<\/p>\n

HEGSETH: It\u2019s true. Well said, Rush.<\/p>\n

DOOCY: You\u2019ve got Rush talking about — keep in mind, North Korea said by the middle of the month they\u2019re going to try to shoot four intermediate-range missiles around Guam. And as Rush just pointed out right there, at this point they can\u2019t hit the broadside of a barn.<\/p>\n

EARHARDT: We\u2019re sorry to make you think about a zit for breakfast. But it was so good, that sound bite, we had to play it.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: That was the reference of a “zit on the butt of a pig,” as an apt description of North Korea. We\u2019re going to have people running around acting scared to death of it? You know what the ChiCom said, the ChiComs via their state newspaper? It\u2019s kind of confusing. The ChiComs said (summarized), “If the Norks launch, then United States, you\u2019ve got an open road to do whatever you want to do. But if you start, if you launch first,” the ChiCom newspaper said, “We\u2019re going to have to defend our buddies and allies,” and I think that\u2019s a crock. If we start it, they\u2019re going to side with the Norks? I think they\u2019d like to get rid of the Norks once and for all like everybody would, frankly.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this North Korea thing with the ChiComs — and this is the ChiCom state newspaper. What the state newspaper said is ostensibly the official position of the ChiCom government. That is how it is portrayed, and I\u2019m not going to dispute it. I\u2019ll just take it for what it is. This position that is articulated here is actually a new position for the ChiComs, and it\u2019s actually — some would say it\u2019s an improvement.<\/p>\n

The former ChiCom position on North Korea was: If you end up hitting North Korea, no matter how it happens… If North Korea starts it — like if they launch a missile at Guam or Hawaii and you reply — we\u2019re going to side with North Korea. That\u2019s what the Chinese have always said to us. This statement yesterday is, therefore, new and represents, shall we say, an upgraded policy — ChiCom North Korea Version 2.0. In this policy they say, if the North Koreans are the first to act, then you, United States, have a free road, a free rein.<\/p>\n

You can reply however you want. But the warning was, if you start it — if you launch the attack first — be advised that we, the ChiComs, will rush to the defense of our allies, the North Koreans. Now, folks, I don\u2019t know anything anymore than anybody else does. As you know, I see things not through the prism of conventional wisdom in Washington diplomacy-speak but what seems like common sense to me. Common sense to me says that the ChiComs — with their investment in our national debt alone and the trading status, the trade relationship that we have with China.<\/p>\n

I mean, just to give you one product (and this is just one): The iPhone. If iPhone manufacturing were removed from China, the unemployment hit to the Chinese government would be staggering. And they\u2019re not going to risk that. No way. They\u2019re not going to risk the money that\u2019s involved, just in that one relationship. And there are countless others. You know how many tech products, gismos and gadgets are manufactured in China because it\u2019s where the supply chain is. It\u2019s not just cheap labor. It\u2019s the whole ball of wax. There\u2019s all kinds of reasons.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Chinese aren\u2019t going to put this at risk over Kim Jong-un! Now, they have to say they will. There\u2019s this talk that the reason the ChiComs like North Korea is that it\u2019s a buffer, because then you have South Korea — which, of course, is an American ally. Some would say a stronghold. The U.S. military has a presence there in South Korea. North Korea actually borders China on the northeast. The diplomats and the wizard of smart at the state department, for example (and they\u2019re automatically accepted as wizards of smart by the media) say that the North Korea area acts as a buffer, a buffer between the ChiComs and such.<\/p>\n

Buffers? Buffers in this day and age? A buffer for what? What, North Korea occupying the land it occupies is somehow going to limit American troops marching into China for crying out loud? That\u2019s not going to happen. That\u2019s not how warfare is going to take place today. All this thinking about the value that North Korea has for China? They don\u2019t have any value. I mean, I think North Korea does export some coal. There\u2019s no question that ChiComs need coal, but there will be other places to get it because Obama single-handedly failed to destroy the America coal industry; Trump is bringing it back.<\/p>\n

But the Norks are primarily net importers. They\u2019ve got nothing, including lights on in the dark. I mean, they\u2019re that backward. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen the nighttime global picture with city lights on all over the world. You can see the population centers of the world in this picture. You get to North Korea and it\u2019s dark. There is one little speck of light, which is probably the spotlight outside Kim Jong-un\u2019s apartment scanning the sky looking for incoming weapons. That\u2019s about it — and, of course, the liquor cabinet light. The guy has to have his liquor cabinet lit up so he can find his way to it all day and all night. But aside from that, no lights on.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing… The ChiComs are simply not… I don\u2019t believe this. That\u2019s what their newspaper says, but push comes to shove — and I\u2019m not expecting us to be the first to launch here either; don\u2019t misunderstand here. I just regard diplo-speak as a necessary but impractical reality. “Once action begins…” Once action happens, all this diplomacy that\u2019s passed back and forth for decades becomes inoperative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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