RUSH: One more, our old buddy Nic Robertson. Anytime we get a sound bite from Nic Robertson, I have to air it. Nic Robertson is a CNN reporter, international correspondent. A favorite Nic Robertson bite was during the Arab Spring when Egyptians were rioting. Obama was over here trying to claim credit for it, that the Egyptians had seen the Obama campaign and Egyptians were demanding, because of the inspiration from Obama, similar changes in Egypt. So if Obama thought that, so did CNN.<\/p>\n
They sent Nic Robertson over there to speak to random people in the street like Mustafa and Mohammed and so forth. And Nic is talking to these guys, and not a single one of them will credit Obama. In fact, they disparage him. “Obama? Obama\u2019s got nothing to do with what\u2019s going on. Obama is looking out for himself.” Nic Robertson is shattered with this. And at the end of talking to three guys (imitating Robertson), “And there you see it plain as day, very much support for Barack Obama and his desire for new jobs in Egypt.”<\/p>\n
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And you watch this in incredulity because there had been no support of Barack Obama. The people in Egypt didn\u2019t even factor him into what they were doing. But our old buddy Nic Robertson, it wasn\u2019t even about Egypt. It wasn\u2019t even about the people of Egypt fighting oppression or whatever. It was the Egyptians being inspired by Obama. It was such phoniness.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me go back into the phones. It\u2019s Open Line Friday. And we try to take quite a few on Friday. And it\u2019s been a while since we had one.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going to go to Los Angeles. Peter, great to have you. I really appreciate your patience. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Fine and dandy, thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. Good. I wanted to make a comment on the North Korea situation. My wife and my two daughters, who are college-aged kids, are in Korea right now. And I spoke to them the other day, I said, “Is there a lot of coverage on what\u2019s going on with Kim Jong-un?” And they\u2019re like, “Dad, there\u2019s no coverage. It\u2019s not even widely covered.” The perception that this guy\u2019s going to attack is so false, Rush. He is living the life of luxury and he is not going to be attacking anybody to jeopardize his life or his family\u2019s life or the people around him. He\u2019s doing this because he needs to show his people, basically rally his people around him. But one other thing, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: What I think Trump should do, and I think this would be the best thing that Trump ever did, is I think he should use this opportunity and use North Korea as an excuse to build up an arsenal of nuclear missiles pointed at the ChiComs, because I think that\u2019s the biggest threat to us, is the Chinese. And since we have these allies, I think what we should do is build up nuclear missile bases in South Korea, in Japan, and in the Philippines, and start pointing them at China and let\u2019s see how they react.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s a fascinating state craft theory. And I\u2019m not going to even attempt to react to that inside of 25 seconds. Let me process that and I\u2019ll get back to you on that. Maybe not on today\u2019s program, but I\u2019ll make a reminder here with Siri and that way I won\u2019t forget it. I got a whole bunch of thoughts running through my head here. Not enough time to mention what they are. But I appreciate the call. I do.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: If you\u2019ll indulge me, and for those new to the program have not heard this, you\u2019ve got to hear these Nic Robertson sound bites before we get to the one with Nic talking about Trump and Kim Jong-un and what he thinks of Trump. This is back in 2011, during the Arab Spring. This is right after Obama\u2019s big Cairo speech. The Arab Spring is beginning as a protest against Mubarak all over Egypt, and Obama is literally trying to take credit for it in speeches and public statement, saying that his campaign inspired this move to freedom in Egypt.<\/p>\n
So since Obama was saying it, CNN, the house organ, sent international correspondent Nic Robertson over there to get evidence that the people rioting and demanding liberation from Mubarak were indeed being inspired by Obama. (laughing) And it blew up in Nic Robertson\u2019s face. These remain in my all-time top five favorite sound bites. Here\u2019s the first one…<\/p>\n
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ROBERTSON: Achmed, you\u2019ve been here, down here on the Square for many days. The United States and the international community… You\u2019ve just listened to President Obama saying that America will support Egypt if it wants help and assistance, and hopes that there will be a good transition for jobs for the young people. What would be your message for President Obama?<\/p>\n
ACHMED: We don\u2019t know, actually, who he supports. He serves for his own purposes, and the Egyptian people serve for our freedom and democracy. Any democratic country should see for the people, not for its own purposes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) Stop and think of the arrogance of the question. Here the people of Egypt are in an uprising for whatever. They think it\u2019s their freedom. And CNN sends a guy over there to make the story about Obama! “What would be your message for President Obama as he asks for jobs for the people?” It was just… Folks, it was just too classic and it was infuriating, laughingly infuriating. It was sickening, so predictable. So Nic bombs out there with, with Achmed, and so now it\u2019s time to move on to Mustapha.<\/p>\n
ROBERTSON: Mustapha is joining me now. We just heard President Obama say that he wants to extend, eh, support and assistance to Egypt and Egyptians if they want any, and he hopes that there are more jobs for the young people in the future. What\u2019s your message for President Obama?<\/p>\n
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MUSTAPHA: Well, my message to President Obama is just, “We started this revolution without any outside help, and we are going to finish it also without any outside help.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) Okay, so he\u2019s 0-for-2. “What\u2019s your message for President Obama?” “Well, we started this without any outside help. He didn\u2019t do diddly squat, and he\u2019s not even on our minds here.” So now Nic, sticking with Mustafa, not giving up, giving it one more old college try.<\/p>\n
ROBERTSON: Are you pleased that President Obama has come out, however, now and said he supports this change and supports the people and supports the young people and \u2014 and what they\u2019ve done?<\/p>\n
MUSTAPHA: Well, actually President Obama\u2019s views were kind of conflicting during the last week, but now he\u2019s saying that he\u2019s supporting the change.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) “Actually Obama\u2019s views have kind of conflicted. No, Nic, we\u2019re actually not pleased that Obama has come out and supporting change for Egypt.” So, it\u2019s time for the wrap-up now. It\u2019s time for Nic Robertson at CNN to tell the CNN audience what they just saw.<\/p>\n
ROBERTSON: The view from here is one of very happy to now hear that President Obama has swung behind the people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) It wasn\u2019t the message at all. “The view from here is one of very happy to now hear that President Obama has swung behind the people,” as though he wasn\u2019t behind them, but now he\u2019s swung behind them. Just classic. So here now is Nic Robertson, present day, late yesterday afternoon, CNN\u2019s Newsroom. The anchor Brooke Baldwin, the infobabe there, was speaking with Nic Robertson. He\u2019s written an op-ed comparing Khadafy to Kim Jong-un (laughing), an op-ed to Kim Jong-un. And so Brooke Baldwin said, “Let me ask you about your opinion piece, Kim Jong-un and how he\u2019s thinking about what happened to Khadafy.”<\/p>\n
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ROBERTSON: Come the Arab Spring 2011, and this is after Moammar Khadafy has decided to give up his nuclear weapons, to be rehabilitated into the international community. When I was talking to his son and his advisors, they could not believe that the West would go against Moammar Khadafy because they thought they had trust because they thought they had done what the West wanted. So, if you\u2019re Kim right now sitting there looking at Khadafy\u2019s experience, you have to be thinking, “How am I going to trust the West? Khadafy did what they wanted; he handed over his weapons program after he was trusted. You know, he was killed by his own people!” That has to be going through Kim\u2019s mind as well. So the Khadafy experience i-i-is not one that\u2019s going to work well in Kim\u2019s mind for coming to the table to talk.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me translate this for you. Nic Robertson is trying to tell you that Kim Jong-un would not be so stupid as to do a deal with Trump, because he sees what happened to Khadafy. Khadafy was killed by his own people — Khadafy after cooperating with who, folks? That would be Hillary. Khadafy after cooperating with Hillary was gunned down, mowed down, and Hillary moves in, takes over the country, and starts bragging about it. And Nic is saying he wouldn\u2019t be that stupid.<\/p>\n
Essentially, what Nic Robertson is saying is: “The United States cannot be trusted, and Kim Jong-un — young, aspiring dictator of the poor people of North Korea — understands this. Kim Jong-un understands the United States can\u2019t be trusted because of what he knows they did to Khadafy and he will therefore never ever make a deal and he shouldn\u2019t.” It\u2019s more of the same sickness of the United States of America media siding with a murderous genocidal young dictator over its own president — in this case, Donald Trump — so poisoned by hatred are these people. Now that takes me back to our last caller\u2019s question.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s got a couple of kids, students, in South Korea.<\/p>\n
And he asked them: “So are you on race\u2019s edge over there, everybody up to a fevered pitch?”<\/p>\n
“No, no. There\u2019s no coverage whatsoever of what\u2019s going on. No coverage.”<\/p>\n
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No coverage, whatsoever, ladies and gentlemen, of this rabble rousing that\u2019s going on. His theory is this Kim Jong-un in his own personal life is living large. He\u2019s living well. And there\u2019s no way he\u2019s going to do anything to interrupt the flow of Scotch and tequila and whatever else he\u2019s got coming his way. He\u2019s not going to do anything to interrupt all of the creature comforts that he has. He\u2019s just huffing and puffing because he wants to impress people or his own people or what have you, and that is a prevailing opinion.<\/p>\n
How did this get started? I need to ask you again how this got started. I know, look, Kim\u2019s been launching his little podunks. They haven\u2019t hit anything. And he\u2019s talking big. And he\u2019s saying Guam\u2019s in our crosshairs. What really got this started, a Washington Post piece on Tuesday, which was a lying sack of excrement story that we just learned that Kim Jong-un had succeeded in miniaturizing 60 nuclear warheads for his missiles.<\/p>\n
And in fact that story is months old. It\u2019s more than months old. The story is four years old, and it dates back to the Obama administration. All of this happened during the Obama Administration, where there wasn\u2019t one news story expressing concern, alarm, fear, while this little dictator is ramping up.<\/p>\n
While he\u2019s miniaturizing his warheads so they\u2019ll fit inside their missiles, it\u2019s all happening with the assistance of the Obama state department, there\u2019s not a single story of concern. It\u2019s a four-year-old news story that the Post runs as breaking news on Tuesday morning. It creates this air of inevitability that little Kim is going to launch, and it\u2019s where we are. I\u2019ll tell you, all of this is just irresponsible. Now, as to the frame of mind, I think it\u2019s a mistake, always a mistake to apply, like what our last caller did, we consider ourselves to be rational people.<\/p>\n
So we assume or we are inclined to analyze others with the same rationality. And this guy isn\u2019t. We cannot transfer or project our own rationality and world view to something like this. He can\u2019t possibly have the same world view we do. He can\u2019t possibly have the same concerns we do. He\u2019s got an entirely different — We don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s mentally stable and all there. But according to our media he is. In fact, according to Madeline Albright or Susan Rice, he\u2019s very wise.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not crazy. Trump is the crazy one. Right? Trump is the wild card. Trump is the guy we\u2019re worried is going to be sleep walking trying to punch a button. And this guy, to the extent, folks, our people here are on edge and provoked into being this way, it\u2019s the media is doing this. The North Koreans are behaving no differently than they always have. This guy and his father and grandfather; they\u2019ve always launched missiles trying to be tough guys.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s nothing really new here other than the way the media is covering this and trying to tell the rest of the world that Trump is the guy making all this instability possible because he\u2019s not right, not fit. It\u2019s precariously dangerous. (interruption) What\u2019s that? What\u2019s the what now? You mean North Korea? Sooner or later we\u2019ll have to deal with them. Well, it\u2019s another prevailing thought process. “Well, some day we\u2019re going to have to deal with these guys, some day.”<\/p>\n
Have we dealt with the Russians and their nukes? Oh, give me a break. The Soviets threatened us each and every day with it. The Soviets were expanding all over. Define, deal with it. You mean take them out, stop them, prevent them? Who else that has nuclear weapons have we stopped and prevented? Zilch, zero, nobody. All we\u2019ve done since Obama is expand the nuclear club. We have these faux arms reduction treaties, seminars, summits and so forth, but those are irrelevant.<\/p>\n
Once you have an arsenal that can take out your enemy, it doesn\u2019t matter how many times you do it because it only takes one launch. The parity in this kind of stuff, it became a phony negotiating point anyway. Why do we have to deal with it? Who says we have to deal with it at some point? We only have to deal with it if the guy launches. And if we think this guy is unstable, he\u2019s going to launch, then, yeah, we deal with it.<\/p>\n
Do we think the Pakistanis are going to launch? If we do, we have to deal with it. If we think Russians, Putin is, we\u2019ve got to deal with it. I know nobody in India or Pakistan is threatening to launch, but they\u2019ve got the capability. And in Pakistan you wouldn\u2019t describe it as stable. And what happens if al-Qaeda or ISIS gets their hands on some of this stuff, miniaturizes it in a suitcase? That still remains a huge threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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