{"id":37546,"date":"2011-02-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:05:12","slug":"media_jubilant_over_egypt_coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/11\/media_jubilant_over_egypt_coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Jubilant Over Egypt Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I haven\u2019t seen the media this happy since Grant Park, election night 2008. They\u2019re not reporting. The media is cheering. They wouldn\u2019t have minded if there\u2019d have been a bloody civil war over there outta all of this. And, of course, like Vice President Bite Me says, they have no skin in the game, meaning if they were wrong about all this, they go back to their safe Western homes, they leave the chaos to others, the essence of the definition of Drive-By Media. The president of our country, who is not resigning and not turning over the country to the military, which is what\u2019s happened in Egypt, it\u2019s a military coupe, they\u2019re calling it a soft coup, and our media loves it, our media loves the military running Egypt. Now, President Obama is scheduled to speak at 1:30 today. Our understanding is that that may be delayed just a bit. The White House is racing to build a fake pyramid backdrop.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pharaoh Obama gonna claim credit for all of this. They were so humiliated and embarrassed yesterday. Folks, all day long during yesterday\u2019s program — and I even alluded to this, we didn\u2019t know what was going on — all day long, ‘Mubarak to speak in moments; Mubarak to step down.\u2019 The press was humiliated yesterday. They were angry, and so was Obama. And Panetta, running, talking about, ‘Yeah, he\u2019s going to leave. I saw it on CNN.\u2019 And we got Clapper, ‘Muslim Brotherhood? No problem. Peace-loving bunch. They\u2019re a totally secular group.\u2019 Obama goes out there, makes that 1:30 in the afternoon speech yesterday trying to make this event in Egypt the first step of his 2012 reelection effort: change, youth, and none of it happened, of course. <\/p>\n

So everybody — media, Obama — just ticked off. You don\u2019t mess with our media. You don\u2019t mislead our guys like that. You don\u2019t make our media look like a bunch of schlubs. I haven\u2019t seen them this happy. They always rip into me, saying, ‘Well, Limbaugh, just does what he does for ratings.\u2019 How come nobody ever talks about what they do for ratings? We\u2019re led to believe they don\u2019t care about ratings. They face a higher calling. You talk about anti-Mubarak forces, but they refuse to tell us who these anti-Mubarak forces are. Who are the anti-Mubarak forces? Oh, and, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, an interesting little story here. <\/p>\n

This is from the New York Times: ‘Iran\u2019s authorities have increased pressure on the country\u2019s political opposition days before a rally proposed by opposition leaders in support of the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.\u2019 The mullahs and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are telling the opposition in Iran, ‘You shut up. You don\u2019t go out there, you don\u2019t form these protests. You better not do what they did in Tunisia. You better not do what they did in Egypt.\u2019 What will Obama say to that opposition? What will the American regime say to the opposition of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran? They want to hold a rally inspired by Egypt and Tunisia. Will Obama give a speech? Will he urge them on? Will he support them? Will the United States media go from Egypt to Tehran and advocate and agitate for opposition uprising to overthrow the mullahs and Ahmadinejad? Will there be any consistency? <\/p>\n

We know one thing. Any uprising in Iran damn well would be democratic. The uprising in Iran is a democratic uprising. The people over there are fed up. That has been going on since 2009, well prior to 2009, but 2009 was the most recent where we didn\u2019t do anything. So we\u2019re gonna selectively choose. We will selectively choose who it is that we support demanding democracy. Will the regime, will Obama at 1:30 chide Ahmadinejad and the mullahs for telling the uprising in Iran to shut up, stand down, you better not do it. If Obama can\u2019t find a way to make what\u2019s bubbling up in Iran useful for his campaign he\u2019ll stop it, thereby proving there\u2019s no consistency, there\u2019s no symmetry to it. This is pure cherry-pick. <\/p>\n

Guardian, UK: ‘US and World Wrongfooted by Mubarak as White House Tries to Keep Up.\u2019 Now, this is a story published, of course, before Mubarak turned over the country to the military. And now it\u2019s gonna be interesting to see what will happen. This is the first phase. The second revolution, what will that be? Right now the military, in what the media is approvingly calling a soft coup, will the military engage now in a military dictatorship or will they pave the way for some democratically elected replacement for Mubarak? Before all that happened, the UK Guardian, this is no conservative publication, it\u2019s a big liberal rag: ”US and World Wrongfooted by Mubarak as White House Tries to Keep Up\u2019 — the Egyptian president has exposed Obama\u2019s inability to decisively influence the country,\u2019 and they ask what about the Cairo speech? And of course this is true. <\/p>\n

You can say what happened today happened, and there are conflicting stories. Robert Gibbs says we didn\u2019t talk to them before this happened today. By the way, this is Gibbs\u2019 last day as the White House press secretary. He said we didn\u2019t talk to them, but Jake Tapper has a story and says, ‘Oh, yeah, we were talking to \u2019em last night.\u2019 So we don\u2019t know what the true story is about that. But from the UK Guardian: ‘Mubarak\u2019s response offers further evidence of the US\u2019s slow decline from its status as superpower to a position where it is unable to decisively influence events in Egypt, in spite of that country being one of the biggest recipients of US military aid.\u2019 That\u2019s the UK Guardian, and they love Obama big time. <\/p>\n

By the way, Oprah came out and made a statement on television. I don\u2019t know if she realizes how she painted Obama as weak and ineffective. I\u2019ll get to that as the program unfolds. Lots of stuff to do here today, folks, trying to squeeze it all in here in three hours of our Open Line Friday. <\/p>\n

But this UK Guardian piece, the only thing Obama has been successful at is pushing ‘the US\u2019s slow decline from its status as superpower,\u2019 which is from the standpoint of the regime a success. Well, don\u2019t look at me. This is the president who\u2019s run around and told the world that the US economy will never again be the leader of the free world\u2019s economy, US consumers will not be any longer. Intelligence agencies look like fools. The president looks like a fool. I\u2019ve been scribbling notes here in chronological order, some of it now irrelevant, just to share with you as the events unfolded. But it\u2019s no wonder the news media is so upset about Mubarak misleading the people. That\u2019s the media\u2019s job and he took over. You know, Mubarak led everybody to believe he\u2019s leaving last night. And all these networks, I don\u2019t care, newspapers, magazines, TV networks, they all were saying, ‘In moments, in moments Mubarak will make a speech and leave.\u2019 He didn\u2019t. And, in fact, he said last night in his speech, ‘We\u2019re not gonna be pushed around here.\u2019 I believe that\u2019s why he hung on. I think if we had just shut up he\u2019d-a gone. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s Obama out there using this as a campaign aid for 2012. Mubarak\u2019s a proud guy. He\u2019s not gonna sit there and make it look like he\u2019s a puppet, so he goes and makes this speech, ‘To hell with it, we\u2019re not gonna be pushed around,\u2019 purposely to humiliate the media and the regime. So the media is ticked off, upset, Mubarak misleading the people. After all, that\u2019s the media\u2019s job and he did a good job of it, almost as good job as they do. Here\u2019s a little audio sound bite. As I say, it\u2019s like they\u2019re back in Grant Park in Chicago. CNN Newsroom is the show. This morning live in Tahrir Square, which is actually a circle, correspondent Arwa Damon reported about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepping down.<\/p>\n

DAMON: I cannot even begin to describe the atmosphere here. The crowd has gone absolutely insane! Hysterical with enjoyment, chanting, ‘God is great,\u2019 chanting, ‘We are all Egyptians.\u2019 Jim, this is the unthinkable that has been accomplished here. Demonstrations that began over Facebook and Twitter taking on a life of their own, brings down one of the best-known dictators in the Middle East. This is such a moment for Egypt, and not just for Egypt, for the entire region.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good Lord, take a breath! That\u2019s just an example of the cheerleading, the excitement, the happiness. She\u2019s happier about this than the Republicans losing the House in 2006. And they were deliriously happy about that. I mean, to give you an indication, they were all-in on this. They had no skin in the game, but the media\u2019s totally invested in the outcome of events here. I\u2019m just gonna say one more thing about this crowd, and all this talk about a democratic uprising popularized by social network sites, Facebook and so forth. I have had time to read all kinds of stuff about this group. I don\u2019t want to call it a mob, the protester bunch. And, folks, they\u2019re all leftists. They\u2019re feminists. They\u2019re avowed socialist, leftist, communists, environmentalists. I don\u2019t believe that this is just spontaneity. I think this is classic. This is rent-a-mob. I don\u2019t doubt that there are genuine grievances felt by some of the people in this group, but this is not a spontaneous, gee, nobody knew this was coming moment. This is the result of organizing. This is just classic community organizing in Egypt. That\u2019s why Obama\u2019s trying to connect himself to it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s Open Line Friday. We get to the phones. The content of the program\u2019s all yours. Whatever you want to talk about\u2019s fine. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. And the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I\u2019ll bet you if we looked, I\u2019ll bet you if we scanned every audio and video feed we have, we could find some members of the worldwide media, I might even include some American media people in here shouting ‘Allahu Akbar, God is great!\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t be surprised. It\u2019s embarrassing. It literally is embarrassing. And, of course, you know, all hell is gonna still break loose here. This is a military coup. This is not at the end. There\u2019s something left to come after this, but when that happens the media is gonna be long gone, back to their homes, their big cars and so forth, and moving on to the next story that they can totally disrupt, thereby defining Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

<\/a>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, if you\u2019ve been paying any attention, you probably think that these people in Egypt are salt of the earth. I mean, these are the greatest people. They\u2019ve been living under the boots of Mubarak and these thugs, and it\u2019s a great democratic uprising, and it\u2019s about time. Who are they? Well, Investor\u2019s Business Daily has a Pew poll: ‘What Egyptians Really Want,\u2019 and it\u2019s kind of interesting. Here\u2019s some highlights from the Pew poll: <\/p>\n

&bull; 49% of Egyptians say Islam plays only a ‘small role\u2019 in public affairs under President Hosni Mubarak, while 95% prefer the religion play a ‘large role in politics.” They\u2019re unhappy. Islam is not a prominent enough factor in their politics. <\/line>&bull; 84% favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim faith.<\/line> These are the people, the group that you see protesting. <\/line>&bull; 82% support stoning adulterers. <\/line>&bull; 77% think thieves should have their hands cut off. <\/line>&bull; 54% support a law segregating women from men in the workplace. <\/line>&bull; 54% believe suicide bombings that kill civilians can be justified. <\/line>&bull; Nearly half support the terrorist group Hamas. <\/line>&bull; 30% have a favorable opinion of Hezbollah. <\/line>&bull; 20% maintain positive views of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. <\/line>&bull; 82% of Egyptians dislike the US — the highest unfavorable rating among the 18 Muslim nations Pew surveyed.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, all this I gleaned from an editorial at Investors.com, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, they summarize the Pew poll. So that\u2019s who it is that we are talking about with their democratic uprising. Now free with the soft military coup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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