{"id":379253,"date":"2021-01-19T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=379253"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:32:40","slug":"thomas-loopy-friedman-compares-trump-to-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/01\/19\/thomas-loopy-friedman-compares-trump-to-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas “Loopy” Friedman Compares Trump to Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We have often shared with you the near-lunatic rantings and ravings of the New York Times columnist Thomas “Loopy” Friedman. We have a couple more from last night. CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 195. “Loopy” Friedman was on as a guest, and Anderson Cooper said, “Hey, ‘Loopy,\u2019 what does it say that the FBI feels the need to vet 25,000 National Guard troops to make sure there\u2019s no internal threat?”<\/p>\n

They\u2019re scared. They want you to think they\u2019re scared. They want you to think that the National Guard really has been infiltrated, that Trump loyalists are in there, that QAnon\u2019s in there, and they\u2019re gonna wreak havoc, and it could blow up the whole inauguration. “What can we do, Thomas? What does it say the FBI feels the need to vet the National Guard people on duty?”<\/p>\n

\"\"FRIEDMAN: Ideas don\u2019t just win. They require power to win. You know, bin Laden was powerful. And what we\u2019re gonna need here is Republicans, conservatives, to take on these ideas. There\u2019s got to be a war of ideas within conservatism to actually root this out. And it\u2019s gonna take a real war of ideas within the conservative movement. The Liz Cheneys. We have to defend them, we have to protect them, we have to enable them, because they are taking the risks. They\u2019re the Muslims, the democrats who took a risk and took on bin Laden and his ideas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Holy smokes. Folks, are you following this? You are no different than the people in radical Islam looking up to bin Laden. Trump is bin Laden, Trump is ISIS, and Thomas “Loopy” Friedman has been fighting these people his whole life. He understands that there needs to be a war of ideas within the conservative movement and Liz Cheney has to be defended.<\/p>\n

We gotta protect these radical conservatives — we have to enable \u2019em — \u2019cause they\u2019re taking a risk, just like Muslims who denounced bin Laden. Any of these people denouncing Trump, we gotta give \u2019em cover. So he\u2019s calling for a war within conservatism. He says that the left must back conservatives that fight Trump just like Muslims who were against bin Laden, and the next bite, I want you to listen to him describe the American media.<\/p>\n

FRIEDMAN: Rupert Murdoch, Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg. What the hell are you people doing? What do we have to do to get the you to realize that these ideas have been mainlined into people now so far, so deep that we\u2019ve had to check the National Guard to see who has been infected or not. The liberal press — you, I — we\u2019ve been mobilized. We are so mobilized against Trump. And if everyone\u2019s just been just on total edge, we\u2019ve got to all calm down. We\u2019ve also got to understand the stakes. If you are purveying conspiracy theories, you are an enemy of the nation — and if I see you on the street, if I see you at a conference, I am going to call you out.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oooh, man, am I frightened. I might be called out by Thomas Friedman! What could that mean for my career? What could it mean for yours, to be called out by Thomas “Loopy” Friedman? So what he\u2019s doing here in that bite, he is justifying the way the liberal media has been mobilized against Trump.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s justifying what the media has taken on as its responsibility and to hell with objectivity. To hell with fairness. None of that. No. Trump is so bad and his supporters are so bad, we have to destroy them no matter how we do it and no matter what we do. That\u2019s our new calling. To hell with journalistic principles. To hell with fairness. To hell with any of that. These people pose a very real threat. And we gotta take \u2019em out however we do it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s asking Rupert Murdoch — that\u2019s Fox News — Sheryl Sandberg and Zuckerberg of Facebook, where the hell are you people? Why aren\u2019t you on the same page as Thomas “Loopy” Friedman? Why don\u2019t you get it? What do we have to do to get you to realize these ideas have been mainlined into people now?<\/p>\n

\"\"So again, folks, it\u2019s the same thing they\u2019ve been saying since this program began. Since August of 1988 you in this audience are nothing more than mind-numbed robots. You are incapable of thinking for yourself. You do not know what to think or do or how to vote until you get your ideas from me. You don\u2019t know who to vote for, you don\u2019t know how to talk, you don\u2019t know how to say things until you get marching orders from me.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been attempting to establish that as a norm, as a reality since August 1st of 1988. They have failed miserably. The audience has continued to grow and is continuing to grow at geometric proportions. But they have convinced a whole lot of American leftists not to even try the program. They have convinced people that this is just mind-numbed robotville for a number of years. It hasn\u2019t stopped our audience growth, but it has limited it, I have to admit.<\/p>\n

So for 30 what, 31, 32 years they have been attempting to destroy the reputation of this program by destroying the reputation of people that listen to it, by destroying the reputation of the host. That would be me. And they have failed. But they\u2019ve not given up. You heard “Loopy” Friedman say that it remains the number one objective, that they must continue to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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