{"id":332933,"date":"2020-01-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=332933"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:20:44","slug":"the-media-meltdown-over-irans-pathetic-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/01\/08\/the-media-meltdown-over-irans-pathetic-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Melts Down Over Iran\u2019s Pathetic Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to get some of the audio sound bites here of the some of the Drive-By Media that happened last night and this morning after Iran launched its impotent little salvo at a couple of bases in Iraq where Americans were stationed. We have a montage here — this is audio sound bite number 3. This is literally the Drive-By Media praising Iran for intentionally causing no casualties and saving the world from the madman, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Now, let me give you the timeline of this. Last night when Iran launches its missiles, which we all saw in cheap, standard definition video, we saw two launches and they were looping \u2019em, made to look like a constant barrage of launches, but it was just two, a cheap fireworks show. And so everybody in the media is in a state of panic. \u201cOh, my God. Oh, this is what we feared. The awesomely powerful, omnipotent Iranians are gonna wipe out America. Oh, my God. It\u2019s all Trump\u2019s fault. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.”<\/p>\n

Then we learn that the Iranians didn\u2019t hit anything, by design, that they were engaged in a face-saving maneuver designed to appease their own out-of-control wackos in their country, but they knew full well they didn\u2019t want any part of Donald Trump. They tipped us off that these missiles were aimed at nothing.<\/p>\n

So the Drive-Bys, when they learned that — there\u2019s that video right now, Snerdley. There it is. Well, that launch they didn\u2019t have last night. CNN\u2019s running the video that I\u2019m talking about. Cheap SD quality video that Iranian TV provided. At any rate, so now the Drive-Bys — yeah, our little montage here — go out of their way to praise Iran for restraint in purposely avoiding American targets so as to not provoke our madman president.<\/p>\n

RICHARD ENGEL: This was a calibrated response. We\u2019re still waiting to hear from President Trump. Is he going to come out and taunt the Iranians?<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: Was that intentional? By Iran, to not have there be American casualties? To provide an off-ramp?<\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Off ramp. Zero casualties. Does that afford the president of the United States an off ramp?<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: Iran deliberately missed. They have such highly precise missiles. We know that they can do this if they really want to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

JAMES CLAPPER: The administration, skated by another one. We may have dodged a bullet here.<\/p>\n

BRETT MCGURK: We kind of dodged a bullet.<\/p>\n

DEXTER FILKINS: If in fact they didn\u2019t kill any Americans, then we all got lucky.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: Who\u2019s going to give that message to the president? If he\u2019s listening tonight, God bless him, I hope you\u2019re trying to be your best self.<\/p>\n

MAX BOOT: I would hope that President Trump would take this opportunity.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It just never ends. The bad guys are the good guys. The bad guys have all the talent. The bad guys have all the precision. The bad guys hold all the cards. The bad guys are making a fool of our president. The bad guys, boy, I hope our president, oh, I hope he doesn\u2019t revert to his real self, says Fredo Cuomo.<\/p>\n

Let me give you some of the identities here. It was Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, who said Iran deliberately missed, they have such highly precise missiles, you know. We know they can do this if they really want to. Oh, yeah, see? The Iranians are unstoppable. We can\u2019t stop \u2019em. We can\u2019t beat \u2019em. The Iranians, man, we\u2019re lucky they were being so nice. We\u2019re lucky that the Iranians purposely missed, otherwise, oh, we don\u2019t even want to think about it.<\/p>\n

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These people cannot even conceive of the fact that we\u2019re the good guys and that we have the precision and that we have the ability to project power that the Iranians can only dream of. No, it\u2019s all from the standpoint that Iran holds the cards, Iran\u2019s running the show. James Clapper of the Trump-Russia coup effort, “Well, the administration skated by –” See, Trump is just an idiot, wandering around in the White House, doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on and he dodged a bullet because the goodness and the good graciousness of the Iranians.<\/p>\n

Chris Cuomo. \u201cWho\u2019s gonna give that message to the president?\u201d Meaning the Iranians have launched missiles, like Trump doesn\u2019t know. Fredo\u2019s telling the world the Iranians launched. Trump doesn\u2019t know. Fredo\u2019s worried who\u2019s gonna tell Trump. God bless Trump. I hope he\u2019s trying to be his best self-tonight. Here\u2019s more Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. Sound bites 20 and 21. This was today, NBC.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: By saying that, again, as he has said for years, that in the Iran nuclear deal, that he provided \u2014 that the Obama administration provided $150 billion, that\u2019s just not factually correct, that was unfreezing the frozen Iranian assets that have been frozen since 1979 when they took the hostages, the 52 hostages and took over our U.S. embassy. So the Iran nuclear deal did allow Iran to get back its own assets, and that\u2019s a lot of the money that he is describing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Is this not a difference without a distinction? We had put sanctions on Iran since 1979. They took 52 hostages. And what\u2019s Obama do? Obama comes along and pretty much apologizes and unfreezes the assets and then delivers the cash to the Tehran International airport on a pallet. We saw it. It was Obama who delivered the cash. They want to split hairs over whether or not it was our money or the Iranians\u2019 money.<\/p>\n

But regardless, they cannot permit any criticism of Obama. And so that\u2019s what Trump did today. Trump blamed all of this — he said these missiles, these missiles launched on our targets last night were paid for with money from our previous administration. And that\u2019s Obama. And it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

In what sane world does a president of the United States deliver $1.8 billion in cash? That\u2019s what Obama did all throughout his effort to appease — and then sign the stupid nuclear deal with Iran, which today Trump urged the ChiComs and the Russians to also get out of. And what do you bet they will? Chuck Todd, NBC, also distressed that Trump blamed Obama in his speech today, claiming that Obama made it possible financially for Iran to launch the missiles last night.<\/p>\n

TODD: They did, and he took it. Ummm, but he didn\u2019t want to look like he took it. You know, we\u2019re glossing over that. The sitting president of the United States (snickering) accusing essentially the previous president of helping to finance, uh, Iranian weapons is — is — is quite remarkable that he\u2019s willing to push the envelope like that with the office — with this office. I mean, I guess at this point we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that he does these things anymore. It\u2019s still (snickers) a remarkable thing that he actually did it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah? What is remarkable, Chuck? Is it remarkable that Obama did it and that Trump is pointing it out? Should Trump just not mention these kinds of things? Is that the way it works, that current presidents do not say critical things of their predecessors? These guys still can\u2019t figure out that they\u2019re dealing with somebody entirely outside their sphere. They\u2019re dealing with somebody, Donald Trump, outside their bubble — and they don\u2019t even now know how to process it. They live in a constant state of disbelief, being offended.<\/p>\n

“How dare he say that about Obama!”<\/p>\n

But it all happened. It all happened. I don\u2019t care whether it was Iranian money that had been frozen and unfrozen. I don\u2019t care if it was our money. Obama delivered it, and why did Obama deliver it? Why was Obama trying to appease Iran? Because of a failed philosophy about how to deal with enemies, and that philosophy — through many previous administrations, not just Obama\u2019s — was rooted in the belief that it\u2019s all the United States\u2019 fault. And if it\u2019s not our fault, it\u2019s certainly within our power to control.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re so big and so powerful, and that alone frightens and intimidates and provokes.” So we\u2019ve had a succession of administrations and a constant civil service corps — State Department ambassadorial corps — who have believed that the United States, by virtue of our achievements and existence, is a destabilizing force in the rest of the world. And we\u2019ve got a president who doesn\u2019t think that, thinks the exact opposite — and this is what that looks like.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just watched this loon Clapper on CNN (imitating Clapper), “Well, we don\u2019t know the possibility that Iran might want proxies on terror attacks. Could be tomorrow. Could be next week. Could be later this year. I think it\u2019s a mistake to assume that anything Trump\u2019s done made us safer.”<\/p>\n

And then the infobabe anchor. “Yes. That\u2019s not been said enough. That\u2019s right on, Mr. Clapper.”<\/p>\n

“Thank you. Thank you. I talk to Brennan constantly about how we hate Trump, posing great, great threats, Steele dossier and all that.”<\/p>\n