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RUSH: Marco Rubio is back out there today, too, in addition to Senator Cruz. Rubio, a big speech today at the Hudson Institute, I guess you could say a conservative think tank organization in Washington. A little bit of an indictment here of the media and their reluctance to actually tell anybody anything important.<\/p>\n

RUBIO: It\u2019s a lot easier to say, for example, why do we give all this money to NATO and these other people that we\u2019re protecting do not. And it\u2019s easier to say that than to explain what would happen if you didn\u2019t. And so that doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t do it. I just think it takes time and, quite frankly, to be fair today\u2019s press that covers this process is not interested in covering any of that.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Now, what this is in reference to is Trump out there saying, “We gotta get out of NATO. We gotta think about getting out of NATO. These people at NATO contribute diddly-squat to their own defense and we can\u2019t afford it anymore. They don\u2019t treat us with any respect. We defend \u2019em. We send our kids off to die and get injured and so forth. They don\u2019t contribute to anything and then they get mad at us and they undermine us. The hell with it, we\u2019ll pull out.”<\/p>\n

And Rubio\u2019s point is, that\u2019s easy to say, that\u2019s easy to say and people rally to that, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, pull out, screw them.” It\u2019s a lot easier to say that than to actually explain why we do it. This is Rubio\u2019s opinion, obviously it\u2019s valuable. Why we do it, and, furthermore, what would happen if we actually did withdraw from NATO. The press is not interested in going there. The press is not interested in exposing or talking about that. And because of that, what\u2019s unsaid here, in Rubio\u2019s opinion, because of that, what isn\u2019t reported is how stupid Trump\u2019s opinion is, in Rubio\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n

Rubio clearly thinks it\u2019d be dumb to pull out of NATO, and telling people why would expose Trump and his lack of knowledge about it or his being incorrect about it. But the press, Rubio says, they\u2019re not interested in that. They just like the fireworks that come from covering these outrageous things and then going and asking people, “What do you think about what somebody here just said,” rather than telling people and explaining it. The reason they don\u2019t explain it is \u2019cause they don\u2019t know, either. I mean, the press, even though it was and it always has been a bunch of leftists, it did have people that were educated in their area of expertise.<\/p>\n

When you had a Supreme Court reporter like Lyle Denniston, the Baltimore Sun, I mean, the guy was forever gonna be opposed to every conservative nominee, but the court, he knew its history, it was his area of expertise. This is the point that Ben Rhodes was making about the White House press corps<\/a>, how easy it was to lie to them about the Iran nuke deal. All we had to tell \u2019em is what they wanted to hear. You got a bunch of 27-year-old idealists, not a Republican in the bunch, 72 reporters in the White House press corps, not a single Republican in the bunch, they\u2019re 27, their sum total of experience is covering political campaigns. So all we had to do was figure out what they wanted to hear and tell \u2019em that\u2019s what we were doing and that\u2019s what we got story-wise.<\/p>\n

And what they wanted to hear was that we\u2019re dealing with moderates in Iran. That the only reason that we\u2019re doing this Iranian nuke deal is because we found a group of moderate Iranian leaders defined as these are not the ayatollahs, these are not the mullahs, these are not the death-to-America crowd, and we\u2019re dealing with them, and they\u2019re responsible and that\u2019s why we can do the deal. He totally made it up. There aren\u2019t any moderates in Iran with whom you can make a deal. The moderates in Iran are probably in jail, or soon to be.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Iran is still run by these wacko extremists, and that\u2019s who we are making the Iran nuke deal with. But he was able to lie about it because the press corps doesn\u2019t know any better. They\u2019re not old enough to have accrued any experience anyway, or significant knowledge. And that\u2019s what Rubio is saying here. So Trump comes along and suggests we get out of NATO because it\u2019s another example of America being screwed. It\u2019s another example of American sovereignty being abused. It\u2019s another example of America paying for the world and not getting any respect back, so screw them. And we\u2019re losing American jobs anyway, and these European nations, they ought to be forced to defend themselves, why should we have to do it, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, you go Trump, you go Trump.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rubio says a responsible press would actually tell us what would happen, or at least go to somebody who disagrees with Trump and have them tell you, “Okay, here\u2019s what happens if we pull out of NATO.” He says that doesn\u2019t happen \u2019cause the media doesn\u2019t care about it. (interruption) I don\u2019t think Rubio sees a path to victory. I mean, he won one state. Oh, man, the long knives are out. Yeah, I\u2019m just telling you what Rubio said. You want to know what would happen if we pull out of NATO. Is that your question? What would happen if we pull out of NATO?<\/p>\n

The Third Reich has shown back up. You think the Third Reich is dormant in the Reichstag in Berlin? The Third Reich has been reborn. It\u2019s called militant Islam. And if you haven\u2019t noticed, it is overtaking Europe. We don\u2019t call it the Third Reich, but look it, militant Islam was aligned with Hitler back in the days of World War II, they had the same enemy: the Jews. They were aligned.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t call it the Third Reich, but what do you call the kind of torture these people do. Maybe ISIS doesn\u2019t have gas chambers, but they mass behead, they mass hang, they kidnap, they do all kinds of things. I mean, they have perfected torture. And nobody says a thing about it. Well, it\u2019s not true to say nobody says a thing about it, but there aren\u2019t any serious efforts to deal with it.<\/p>\n

If we pulled out of NATO with circumstances as they are, I think Rubio\u2019s point is and anybody else who agrees with him, if we pull out of NATO, then any remaining ability to protect Europe is gone. If we pull out and we announce we\u2019re pulling out and that we\u2019re no longer going to provide a military defense shield, well, then, it\u2019s full speed ahead. The season is wide open for the full conquest of Europe.<\/p>\n

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\nNow, the question would then be, what are we doing to stop it now? You know, what is NATO doing now? I make the case that NATO is one-sided, it\u2019s us, that we provide the military, that we provide the ammo, we provide the armaments, we provide the actual defense. And in many cases, there\u2019s one thing that\u2019s really true here, and that is that all of these Western European nations which Democrats in this country consider to be utopia, you know, these European socialist countries are considered to be nirvana, that\u2019s what we all want to be like.<\/p>\n

France, 14% unemployment, that\u2019s the norm, and massive welfare states. Why are they able to do that? Because they don\u2019t have to pay for their own defense. They don\u2019t have to fund. They don\u2019t have to have a defense budget per se. They\u2019ve got makeshift militaries. They do participate, like Denmark in the 9\/11 coalition, they had a small force that went over there and sent teletype, I don\u2019t know what they did, but they had a small force.<\/p>\n

These nations do have tiny, little militaries, but not enough to even defend themselves if they\u2019re under assault; that\u2019s us. There are people who think it\u2019s worth maintaining Europe as it is rather than have it be totally overrun. I\u2019m guessing that this is what Rubio means. He might mean something entirely differently so I shouldn\u2019t put words in his mouth. This is my wild guess interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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