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RUSH: All right, we\u2019re going to talk about this Iranian situation. Did I call this or did I call this? I totally called this and I\u2019m stunned. We\u2019ve got audio sound bites from the Drive-By Media comparing Iran to Florida 2000. I mean it\u2019s just stunning. Everybody who knows anything about Iran and is willing to be honest admits that the mullahs pick the presidential candidates and then they pick which one is going to win, pure and simple, and that was always going to be Ahmadinejad, pure and simple. Now, we had Obama on Friday talking about, well, we\u2019ve created this great robust debate over there, my Cairo speech, man, it\u2019s really great and now there are people rioting in the streets, the libs want you to believe that Obama caused that. That\u2019s not true. The people that live in Iran, we\u2019ve been hearing about this for years, the unrest in the general Iranian population and in a run-up to Iran going nuke, people have said, particularly Michael Ledeen, who was one of the most profound Iranian scholars writing about this has been asking for us, the United States, as a policy to help overthrow the regime by buttressing the anti-regime population in Iran, not militarily, obviously Obama\u2019s going to try to take credit for this, but this unrest has been simmering in Iran for quite a while. Not that it matters, though. I mean, you line \u2019em up and you shoot \u2019em and do whatever you want. I mean we\u2019re dealing here with a totalitarian regime. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Try this. This is from the New York Times on June 13th, on Saturday. This is a pull quote. The story is on the Iranian elections: ‘Both Sides Claim Victory in Presidential Election in Iran.\u2019 But listen to this quote because it seems, ladies and gentlemen, that Iranian journalists are not any different than American journalists. ‘As voting began on Friday morning, journalists gathered to watch Ayatollah Khamenei cast his vote in a mosque near his home in southern Tehran. Just after 8 a.m., a set of brown curtains opened and the leader emerged, a gaunt 69-year-old with clunky glasses and a long white beard, with a black turban on his head and a black clerical gown draped around him. The journalists, mostly Iranians, gasped and then chanted a religious blessing.\u2019 I read that, and I said, my gosh, these Iranian Drive-Bys are no different. I mean, Iranian State-Run Media is no different than American State-Run Media. The journalists, when they saw the supreme leader, gasped and then chanted a religious blessing. <\/p>\n

Now, you wonder the journalists who react this way to the Ayatollah Khamenei, you wonder what they\u2019re reporting in the unrest now and how they\u2019re — (laughing) — by the way, it\u2019s the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network. Great to have you with us. Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. If you want to see or hear how predictable and how irrelevant State-Run Media is, we have a montage here from Saturday and Sunday, a bunch of different media people and scholars discussing the Iranian election. A lot of people here comparing it to Florida 2000.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: What can we expect as far as accuracy, because we have our own problems, Florida in 2000.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: Like Florida 2000.<\/p>\n

KARIM SADJADPOUR: What\u2019s happening now is similar to what took place in Florida in 2000.<\/p>\n

RACHEL MADDOW: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his main opponent have declared victory. Florida 2000 anyone? <\/p>\n

WARREN BALLENTINE: I think the White House shouldn\u2019t say anything, and the reason being is because of what happened in 2000 when Bush stole the election. Who are we to judge Iran?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Warren Ballentine, the last voice that you heard. I never heard of him, but he\u2019s out there. So the White House shouldn\u2019t say anything. The reason being is because of what happened in 2000 when Bush stole the election, who are we to judge Iran? So predictable and so embarrassing. These people do not understand that there isn\u2019t freedom in Iran. You know, there were 495 presidential candidates to start this whole process all picked by the mullahs. All the candidates are picked! There\u2019s no primary, it\u2019s a joke. The vote count was irrelevant. I don\u2019t know whether they had to stack it, whether they lied about it, they wanted Ahmadinejad, and believe me, the reason they stayed with Ahmadinejad is precisely to spit in the face of Obama and his Cairo speech, folks. Let\u2019s be honest about it. <\/p>\n

While Obama is out there trying to take credit for all this new robust democracy, the mullahs said (raspberry) you. You wonder if Obama had any impact on the election on Friday when he went out there and basically assumed the position that the challenger was going to win. If he woulda shut up I wonder what woulda happened. But since he goes out there and starts taking credit, you know, these mullahs are autocrats, they\u2019re dictators, they\u2019re not going to listen to some upstart young know-it-all, start proclaiming relevance and importance in the outcome of their election. Here is last night\u2019s CNN\u2019s Newsroom. The anchor, Don Lemon, spoke with senior international producer Samson Desta in Iran about the election, and the anchor said, ‘Look, do you get the sense this is going to escalate, that the protests are going to continue, or are you seeing a sense of calm now? Are they backing down, or is this backing off at all?\u2019<\/p>\n

DESTA: A number of students came up to me today and said that they want to appeal to President Obama. They said, is he going to accept this result because if he does then we are doomed. So a lot of appeals to Obama in the international community today from university students.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot of people are asking Obama to speak and he\u2019s not speaking now, he\u2019s not said a word about it. Would you please speak up, there are people waiting! Now, when the result is in and it\u2019s not what he wanted he\u2019s not going to speak out because he\u2019s probably taking this as rejection and they\u2019re figuring out how to position this. In terms of the question, the timing, is it quieting down? Now they\u2019re firing shots over there. The latest I saw a minute ago. Shots are being fired into the crowds now. Just like Florida, just like Florida 2000 and probably some of the people armed are journalists. I\u2019m kidding. Just like Florida 2000, they\u2019re firing on people who are rioting in the streets. And where was the rioting in the streets in Florida 2000, by the way? Richard Engel this morning on MSNBC, question, ‘It\u2019s a paper ballot election. Now, there have been accusations of fraud.\u2019 Can you explain this to us, O wizard?<\/p>\n

ENGEL: There were about 35 to 40 million votes cast. Originally state television said 35 million, then Ahmadinejad said about 40 million votes cast in a country of 70 million. That\u2019s a lot of ballots. These are paper ballots that you put your thumbprint on or fingerprint on, fold them up and stuff into a box, and there were so many people turning out to vote, they were leaving the voting stations at nine, ten o\u2019clock at night and then just a few hours later state TV announced that Ahmadinejad had won, and there were no computers, there were no records, it was just folded pieces of paper in a box, and that\u2019s very quick to count.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are these people really this idiotic? Are they really this naive? It didn\u2019t matter! Ahmadinejad was going to win. The whole election is no different than when Saddam Hussein got 98% of the vote the last time he stood for election. They\u2019re naive. They\u2019re stupid. They are not informed. Sarah Palin knows more of the ways of the world than the media covering her. Let\u2019s go back to last Friday morning in Washington, the White House. When the Iranians leaked the news that something big was happening, the voter turnout, why, look, it\u2019s higher than ever, why, the challenger is doing well, but here they sucked Obama right to the microphone and he said this.<\/line><\/line>OBAMA: We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran. And obviously after the speech that I made in Cairo, we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change. And ultimately, the election is for the Iranians to decide. But just as has been true in Lebanon, what can be true in Iran as well is that you\u2019re seeing people looking at new possibilities and whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact that there\u2019s been a robust debate hopefully will help advance our ability to engage them in new ways.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: There hasn\u2019t been a debate. His remarks on Friday look even more foolish today than they did on Friday. And I, El Rushbo, knew how foolish they were on Friday the moment I heard them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mike Pence, CNN\u2019s State of the Union yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

PENCE: We need to take a half step back from this administration\u2019s, uh, olive branch and apology approach to enemies and countries that have been hostile to the United States of America and our allies, particularly with regard to Iran. I\u2019m hoping before the end of the day today the president of the United States will speak a word of support for Mr. Mousavi and for the dissidents and the reformers within Iran. I think now is a great moment for this administration and the United States to reach out, express support, look for ways that we can encourage that demonstration within Iran and I\u2019m hoping the president will do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He hasn\u2019t said a word he\u2019s been out lying to the doctors at the AMA, or misleading them. Can we go back? The much maligned George W. Bush in his second inaugural address…<\/p>\n

BUSH: All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. Democratic reformers facing repression, prison, or exile can know America sees you for who you are: the future leaders of your free country. The leaders of governments with long habits of control need to know: To serve your people, you must learn to trust them. Start on this journey of progress and justice, and America will walk at your side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He didn\u2019t say ‘I\u2019 one time. People since Sunday have been urging Obama to say something about this. George Bush did. ‘The idiot,\u2019 ‘the dummkopf.\u2019 That was George Bush\u2019s second inaugural. The date, by the way, was January 20th, 2005, in Washington, DC. There has been a quasi-administration reaction from Joe Biden on Meet the Press yesterday. Question: ‘You don\u2019t want to recognize Ahmadinejad as the president at this stage?\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Well, uh, uh, I\u2019m not… Look, that\u2019s — that\u2019s what they\u2019re announcing. We have to accept that for the time being, and — but there\u2019s an awful lot of question about, uh, how this election was run and we\u2019ll see. I mean, we\u2019re just waiting to see. We don\u2019t have enough… We don\u2019t have enough facts to know, to make a firm judgment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He cannot bring himself to say he stands with the people of Iran who want freedom. They can\u2019t. (sigh) This is just a dangerous bunch of people that are running this whole show, domestically, internationally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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