{"id":30117,"date":"2008-08-13T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:30:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:30:11","slug":"why_president_bush_went_to_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/13\/why_president_bush_went_to_china\/","title":{"rendered":"Why President Bush Went to China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: We\u2019ll go to Baltimore. This is Marsha. Marsha, it\u2019s one of my all-time favorite top ten female names. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, nice to talk to you, Rush, nice to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I wanted to tell you that I think it\u2019s disgraceful that President Bush went to communist China, and why couldn\u2019t he have a line in the sand saying no? You know, that\u2019s an awfully repressive —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a second, wait a second, I kind of disagree with this. Why should we send our athletes, then? If the president isn\u2019t going to go, if we\u2019re going to say it\u2019s inappropriate for the president to go, and, by the way, the trip was deductible. He had some meetings with Hu Jintao, and you never know what was discussed there, but I mean if we\u2019re not going to send the president, we gotta not send the team, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you want to look at it that way. However, the Germans sent a team and the chancellor didn\u2019t go. She didn\u2019t go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. I forgot. I forgot. We\u2019re supposed to be imitating the Europeans. You have a good point. That\u2019s right. And Sarkozy didn\u2019t go. Sarkozy\u2019s world savior number two behind Obama because he\u2019s over there solving the crisis after Obama told him to solve it in Georgia.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s just that they suffer so much there. It\u2019s such a repressive — their faces are like stone —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I know exactly what you\u2019re saying. Let me get serious. I\u2019m kind of in a jocular mood. This is the second night in a row I\u2019ve had no more than three hours sleep and you know —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, don\u2019t apologize. I\u2019m thinking of making it a routine. My mind seems to work faster and I\u2019m always in a funny little giddy mood. But this is really serious. We have the dressing up here. I know what you\u2019re getting at, and you\u2019re worried that the president is, and our presence is, sanctioning this. We have the dressing up of an oppressive regime to make it look like something it\u2019s not. That opening ceremony and all the happy-go-lucky funny and happy little Chinese children running around, they don\u2019t show you what\u2019s going on in Tibet; they don\u2019t show you the political prisoners; they don\u2019t tell you what they\u2019re doing to the Falun Gong, and we have to sit there and listen to the syrupy, soap opera lingo from the NBC commentators telling us what a wonderful place it is. The ChiComs are pulling off something here for people that don\u2019t know history. They\u2019re doing exactly what Hitler wanted to do with the Olympics he had in 1936, and that\u2019s put a face on his regime that is 180 degrees out of phase with reality. And that\u2019s what the ChiComs are doing as well. By the way, I was very gratified, I read George Will today. He saw that opening ceremony the exact same way I did: totalitarian sameness.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The elimination of the individual, the elimination of even individual identities. Nothing but 15,000 identically dressed, identically performing, synchronized performances, identical looking people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, it\u2019s totally believable.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s sad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019ve learned how to use our media. Mr. Snerdley, our program observer has a question. Do you mind if I ask him a question, Marsha?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s the question, Snerdley? Now, see, Marsha, Snerdley is very upset with you, he wanted me to pass on to you, ‘What, we\u2019re supposed to pull out like Carter did and not go to the Moscow Olympics?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, this is my opinion. I don\u2019t know — you\u2019ve kind of jumbled my thoughts a little bit, but I felt that President Bush shouldn\u2019t have gone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s too late now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He did go and you can\u2019t throw him out of office because that\u2019s going to happen constitutionally.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there\u2019s really nothing you can do but feel bad about it and that\u2019s not productive.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. But what can we do about communist China? Just pretend it doesn\u2019t exist or what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they own most of our debt, we are engaging them in a lot of economic activity. In fact, China is an interesting case study because the Chinese are doing their best to maintain their oppressive regime while at the same time importing as much capitalism as they can. They have no choice but than to do that. Communism cannot keep those leaders in power, and that population of a billion people fed. It just can\u2019t do it, unless they start building walls around the country and start killing people that try to get out of there, which they do, by the way. They oppress religions that they disagree with. They don\u2019t like any religion except communist, the state is the religion. But Hu Jintao, the premier and the leading ChiCom, has a daunting challenge. Like every leader, he wants to stay in office, he wants to stay in power, and he cannot have a citizenry that revolts. Now, they take care of a lot of this in the school system, like the national anthem, the hymn to the motherland that was sung. Those people are raised — this is the big problem that some Americans have with our public school system here, although on a smaller scale — every Chinese child is raised to believe that their god is the state and that their provider and guarantor is the state. They worship the state. When people don\u2019t worship the state and are renegades, that\u2019s when the tanks run them down in Tiananmen Square and that sort of thing, and that hasn\u2019t changed, you just don\u2019t see it as much. <\/p>\n

American liberalism is much the same outlook in terms of where all benefits, wants, and needs, should come from. They should not come from individual labor. They should come from the government mandating that everybody get an equal share of all these things, and only then will we be a perfect nation. But Hu Jintao cannot run his entire country that way. There are a billion people. That requires a lot of commerce, a lot of jobs, he\u2019s gotta have people working. His biggest challenge is finding and creating 25 million new jobs a year and keeping them out of the cities. He\u2019s gotta find jobs out in the countryside in the hinterlands and keep them out of the cities. The cities are packed and overcrowded, polluted, and if those people come to the cities for work, then there\u2019s even more strain on the energy policies and the production. They wouldn\u2019t be able to keep up with it. So he\u2019s got huge problems. So he\u2019s missing capitalism in with the oppressive regime. The Russians failed at this with glasnost and perestroika. But the ChiComs have done it a little bit wiser. They have invested in the United States. They have bought a lot of our Treasury bill debt, and they have a little power over us in that way, and they\u2019re at the same time ginning up their military, and they\u2019re forming alliances with people that are our sworn enemies, primarily Iran and Middle Eastern countries, and they are sort of a buffer between us and North Korea as well. But if it came down to it they would side with the North Koreans over us — and if it comes down to Taiwan — (laughing) you know, I\u2019ll give you an example here to think of. The ChiComs are certainly watching what\u2019s happening with the Russian and Georgian situation. They have a similar situation with Taiwan. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve wanted Taiwan back ever since the forties. It\u2019s nothing, it\u2019s a tiny little island compared to the mainland of China, but it represents renegades. It represents people who fled the mainland with Chiang Kai-shek, and want no part of communism. We have a treaty with Formosa, Taiwan, to defend them if the ChiComs attack. You better understand the ChiComs are no doubt watching how the rest of the world reacts to the Russian aggression in Georgia, and if they see that the United States, nor anybody else, is gonna do anything about that other than shout a bunch of words and send in a bunch of food and medicine, then they\u2019re going to make the calculation at some point they\u2019re going to be able to get away with taking Taiwan back. If they do it, it will not be because they need it for anything strategically. They\u2019re going to take it because they don\u2019t want people who are Chinese who are not communists who are living in freedom so near to the coastline of China. It\u2019s a bugaboo with them, it\u2019s going to always be, and they\u2019re going to at some point in the future, they are going to try to take it back just on principle. <\/p>\n

So we can\u2019t disengage from China. We can\u2019t get ourselves out of the world. I remember the 1984 presidential campaign with Gary Hart(pence) and Walter Mondull. I was watching the debate with the guys one night, and they were arguing who would get us out of the world first. Mondull said, ‘I\u2019ll get us on out of South Africa,\u2019 and Hart(pence) would try to upstage with getting out of some country. We cannot disengage from the world. We just can\u2019t do it. So the situation is what it is and we have to make the best of the fact that capitalism is finding its way into China and hope that that has some undermining effect of the repressive regime down the road. But that\u2019s something that human intelligence and other operations can foment and help. That\u2019s what we\u2019re actually trying to do with Iran, that\u2019s a very friendly population toward the United States and it\u2019s why we\u2019re not committing military action there because they don\u2019t want to anger the population there holding out hope that somebody will come to their rescue and take them away are from the footprints of the mullahs. Marsha, thanks for the call. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Vincent in Cranston, Rhode Island. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, how you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega New England Patriots dittooooos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My comment was on a call a while ago about why the president appeared in China. I mean, you can\u2019t do something out of general love for your country anymore, people just don\u2019t believe it? I don\u2019t — I don\u2019t understand that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean president went over there because he loves America, loves —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the athletes, and wanted to show support? I, frankly, got the biggest kick out of watching Bush over there, just as an average fan waving his little flag and posing. He posed with all the athletes; he posed with the teams. He especially went down there and got very up close to the women\u2019s beach volleyball team. He knew where to go. He got photographed with the swimmers and so forth, and he\u2019s in the stands. He\u2019s not in some skybox. He\u2019s with his wife and one of his daughters. Now, you know there were Secret Service around, but you couldn\u2019t see \u2019em. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They just looked like they were fans. He was smiling, pointing at them. He\u2019s waving.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The interview that they aired, he sounded phenomenal. He just knew exactly what to say. You know, he just sounded like (garbled)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is that the interview with Bob Costas?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, how many race questions did Costas ask? That\u2019s his favorite subject.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) It was… I just remember that he answered. Everything he said was just, you know, right on point, which is phenomenal. <\/p>\n

RUSH: It was good. I saw he was asked about the situation over in Georgia —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and what he\u2019s doing with Hu Jintao and the ChiCom leadership.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, Vincent, I\u2019m glad you waited to make that point because it is interesting. I did get a kick out of it. He\u2019s a big sports fan anyway, but he just looked like he was really, really having a good time. Those pictures, I\u2019m sure, were part and parcel of inspiring the audience as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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