RUSH: Well, that was one heck of a Christmas break. And I\u2019ve been chomping at the bit to get back here. I\u2019ve had to revise my opinion of Twitter. Yes, I have. I\u2019ll explain it in a minute.<\/p>\n
So what happened? The president kills a well-known terrorist who is responsible for the death of hundreds of Americans, including uniformed military personnel, and the left melts down. The left has a breakdown. If anybody is puzzled by this, all you have to do is go back to when Trump came down the escalator on June 15th of 2016 and announced his slogan Make America Great Again. Remember how controversial that was?<\/p>\n
Make America Great Again, what\u2019s controversial about that? What in the world is controversial about America first? But it is to the American left. And therein lies the explanation for all this. Of course, I\u2019m gonna break it down into many, many details for you.<\/p>\n
Great to be back, folks. Happy to have you with us. The telephone number, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.<\/p>\n
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Twitter, in my mind, has become useful. Now, Snerdly and the gang on the other side of the glass are looking perplexed and puzzled because it is well known that I think of sewer and Twitter as inseparable. But Twitter is highly useful right now. Twitter is allowing the left and today\u2019s Democrats and the media to show normal people how freaking insane they are. Twitter has become worthwhile. It is incredible.<\/p>\n
As I watch this display, as I watch the left melt down over the death of a genuine enemy of the people of this country and side with an enemy nation over their own country and president, I wonder how many Americans, independents, what have you, who are on the fence see this and are shocked and surprised by it. I do because you never know the depth that the mainstream media succeeds in achieving in terms of persuading people.<\/p>\n
You might find this hard to believe, folks, but I have found over the course of my stellar, big broadcast career, I\u2019ve said things about — just take your pick. I\u2019ve said something and I\u2019ve pounded it for 10, 15 years. And people have heard it for 10, 15 years. And they hear it from somebody else. \u201cMy God, Rush must be right.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, everybody needs verification, or a lot of people need verification. Well, one of the missions of this program since its inception has been the attempt and the objective to inform everybody ideologically who the left is, who liberals are, what liberalism is, how it becomes indistinguishable from socialism. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And now, I mean, it\u2019s unmistakable who these people are, and they are the ones making it well known.<\/p>\n
Nobody has to tell anybody what the American left is or what the modern-day Democrat Party is because they are out there informing everybody. You see where Iran has announced it will no longer abide by the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Obama? Kind of like Bill Clinton announcing he\u2019s no longer gonna abide by his marriage vows. I mean, big deal. Anybody shocked, Iran — they never have abided by the — in fact, they may have because the terms of the deal freed them to go ahead and develop nuclear weapons, nuclear power and all of this.<\/p>\n
Look. Let me take a stab. I\u2019m late to this issue. The story\u2019s been around since late last week. Let me take a stab at explaining this. Oh, and, by the way, folks, I need to tell you, I have some kind of — it\u2019s a weird thing. I never had this before. A little respiratory cold. I don\u2019t have a stuffed nose or throat or any of that. It\u2019s kind of like asthma. I had asthma when I was a kid, shortness of breath. So if I speak a little slower, that\u2019s why. Don\u2019t be distracted by it. I\u2019ll try to not make it distracting.<\/p>\n
Why is the left being so blatant in their support for an enemy nation? Why is the left, why is the Democrat Party going out of its way to tell everybody that they actually prefer the mullahs in Iran and this dead terrorist, Qassem Soleimani. By the way, this guy — and I have the inside track on how they did it, which I will share with you — I mean, the military operation, I have the inside track on how this was done. It is amazing, and as ironic as it sounds, we may have to really, really praise the intelligence community for pulling this off.<\/p>\n
Now, why is the left beside themselves? I think — and there are many reasons for this, by the way, and all of them I\u2019ve discussed before, and in terms of what may be guiding this in a specific sense, I think as much as the case is the modern-day Democrats, it\u2019s about protecting the legacy of the Obama administration and Obama himself and the Obama foreign policy.<\/p>\n To many conservatives and many Republicans, Reagan is the president of all time, the president of presidents and no matter what kind of assaults or attacks on him they\u2019re going to be answered and defended. And I think to the left — you know, it used to be Clinton — I actually now think it\u2019s Obama — that must be protected above all things, must be shielded against all attempts. It was the Obama administration that ran the coup on Trump, and it went all the way to the Oval Office. There\u2019s no doubt in anybody\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n Pelosi, by the way, still hasn\u2019t sent the articles of impeachment over. Josh Hawley, senator from Missouri, says he\u2019s gonna offer a resolution to just dismiss the charges because she won\u2019t send the articles over, and nobody knows when she\u2019s gonna send \u2019em over. She\u2019s trying to, again, persuade people to reopen the case in the Senate for more witnesses. But I think she may be waiting for Durham.<\/p>\n She may be waiting for the Durham report, even if that\u2019s six months from now, and use the articles being sent to the Senate to blunt whatever bad news might be coming down the pike for the Democrats. Durham could be one thing predictable, could be something we don\u2019t know about. But let me explain this Obama business as a way of explaining how the left is imploding on this. You know, it has been fashionable…<\/p>\n Actually, it\u2019s not been fashionable to call them anti-American. But there\u2019s a reason I asked the question, “What in the world is so controversial about Make America Great Again?” Do you realize that phrase sent them into apoplexy? Make America Great Again or America First sends them into a nosedive, into a tizzy. What in the world…? To normal, decent, common citizen Americans, what in the world is controversial about that: Make America Great Again?<\/p>\n The answer is very simple. There are a lot of people in the Democrat Party that don\u2019t think America ever has been great, do not think America can be great (because of our founding), don\u2019t believe America deserves to be great and, in fact, thinks America\u2019s guilty — and they have now become the mainstream media of the Democrat Party. Madeleine Albright. Madeleine Albright is teaching at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n One of the things that she teaches students is that the United States is nothing but an accident of timing and events, that there\u2019s nothing special about the United States, that there certainly is nothing exceptional about the United States, that it was just an accident. It just happened, a confluence of events. People fleeing the dictatorship of the king in Great Britain, any number of other things. Forces beyond anybody\u2019s control brought these events together and a nation was created, but it\u2019s just an accident.<\/p>\n And, therefore, there\u2019s nothing really unique about it. There\u2019s nothing special about it. There\u2019s nothing noteworthy about it. Now, Madeleine Albright… You might also remember that when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union imploded, that Madeleine Albright was very alarmed that that left the United States as the only superpower in the world — and that was not good. Because, you see, the concept of America as the good guys does not exist in today\u2019s Democrat Party and the worldwide left.<\/p>\n Do not doubt me on this. There is no concept of America as the good guys. That\u2019s why Make America Great Again is so offensive to them. America is not the good guys. America needs to be cut down in size. America needs to be limited. America needs to be guarded against. So Madeleine Albright\u2019s out there teaching young skulls full of mush there\u2019s nothing special about America — it\u2019s just a coincidence, just an accident — and that the United States as a singular superpower is a destabilizing element in the world.<\/p>\n Okay, that brings us forward. She was secretary of state, among other things, for Bill Clinton. She has views which are common in the modern-day left, and they are common in the American government. They\u2019re common in the American establishment. That view, that America alone as a superpower is destabilizing is a view widely held in the civil service throughout the State Department. It\u2019s not an obscure view. It\u2019s not a minority view. It took me a long time to learn this, long time to believe it, long time to understand it, long time to accept it.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a tough thing to accept. You grow up in your own country, you take civics, you go to school when you\u2019re a young kid. You\u2019re taught about the founding of the country. You\u2019re aware of how unique and exceptional America is. Then you discover that people in your own government don\u2019t buy it, don\u2019t believe it, don\u2019t think it — in fact, think just the exact opposite? It\u2019s a tough thing to believe. A lot of people don\u2019t want to believe it.<\/p>\n A lot of people don\u2019t want to accept that in our own government, there are people who do not believe in the goodness of the United States, the concept of America as the good guys. But you\u2019re looking at it! In every bit of this opposition to what Trump has done, you\u2019re seeing it. If you don\u2019t want to believe me, do not deny what you\u2019re seeing, do not deny what you\u2019re reading. They hate that Trump did this for a host of reasons. They hate that Trump succeeded at it, in a political sense. They hate that Trump has done damage to the Obama foreign policy.<\/p>\n Now, the reason I mention Madeleine Albright was because Obama was of the same view. Do you know what Obama\u2019s policy in Iran was? Aside from giving them nukes. But what was the motivation for it? Obama had the same view of the Middle East that he and Madeleine Albright and all the rest of them have of the United States. The Middle East was destabilized when only Israel was an economic and military power. One of the reasons the Obama — and there are many.<\/p>\n One of the reasons the Obama administration entered into the Iran deal, one of the reasons that they engaged Iran, one of the reasons that Obama dropped off $150 billion in cash on the tarmac in Tehran — and don\u2019t think that some of it didn\u2019t get to Qassem Soleimani. A lot of it did. They knew who the guy was! The Obama people knew who the guy was. They were making deals with this guy. They knew exactly who he was. Obama believed that empowering Iran would stabilize the Middle East, provide a counterbalance to Israel.<\/p>\n Because once again, the Israelis are not seen as the good guys, even though they are a United States ally. And, by the way, there many reasons why people like Obama, Susan Rice and Madeleine Albright and all the rest would not see Israel as the good guys. There are religious reasons. They are geopolitical reasons, strategic reasons, racial reasons. I mean, there\u2019s all kinds of reasons for it. But regardless, Israel is the problem in the Middle East. The United States is the problem in the world at large.<\/p>\n So policies must be developed and implemented to blunt the bad-guy nature of the United States and the bad-guy nature of Israel. And so there\u2019s Obama and his administration funneling money to the mullahs, enabling them to modernize, going through the motions of sanctions which were not really sanctions. It wasn\u2019t until Trump came along that all of that changed and the American left looks at Donald Trump as many things.<\/p>\n But one of the things they see is an assault on Obama, an assault on Obama\u2019s foreign policy, an effort and an attempt to unravel and unwind it — and they\u2019re right. Trump is unwinding it, unraveling a horrible Middle Eastern policy from the Obama administration. I foretold this! I have a sound bite I want to play for you from the summer of 2018.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to go back to the audio sound bites. I\u2019ve got just enough time to squeeze this in. Audio sound bite number 17, July 23, 2018. I told everybody way back then how Trump\u2019s Iran policy was going to be different<\/a>.<\/p>\n BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n RUSH: The Drive-Bys are now obsessed for the moment with Trump and his all-caps tweets to President Rouhani of Iran who is continuing to shout, “Death to America!” here and “Death to America!” there, and Trump\u2019s had it. You know, Trump is not like other presidents who say, “Well, you know, that\u2019s just Iran and that\u2019s part of what we have to do being a superpower. 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I mean, the deep state IC. But this guy, the Revolutionary Guard that general Qassem Soleimani, his body is being flown back to Tehran in a cardboard box with his picture on it across three coach seats on an Iranian airline. The New York Post has the picture<\/a>. He\u2019s in a cardboard box. Of course there\u2019s not much of him left, just his finger with the ring on it. That\u2019s how he was identified. But still, and they\u2019ve got his picture on the cardboard box. But he was a bad dude, folks.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-111119-MAGA.jpg\")
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