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RUSH: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to Open Line Twilight Zone. Great to have you here. Yep. It was just an average American teenager walking along the street, Tennessee, Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez al-Sahib Skyhook. Just your average American teenager, had a gun he shouldn\u2019t have had, and you know what happened.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Yeah, we have no idea why. The media\u2019s pulling its hair out trying to figure why in the world would this average, ordinary blend-in-with-the-crowd, never-stop-him-in-a-lineup American teenager, Mohammed Youssuf Abdulazeez, what in the world could have motivated him to shoot five people. Why in the world would something like this happen? <\/p>\n

We have to be very, very careful here, my friends, not to rush to judgment. We have to move slower than the glaciers move to avoid bigotry, to avoid prejudice, to avoid racism, and obviously to avoid the truth. And that\u2019s what we must avoid at all costs, we must not find the truth, and if anybody does find the truth, they better not say it. <\/line><\/p>\n

How are you, folks? Great to have you here. Rush Limbaugh, once again wrapping up another week of brilliant broadcast excellence here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Telephone number is 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program. Open Line Friday, by the way, means when we go to phones, the program\u2019s all yours, whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy, but look, I know I say that. I need to add a caveat here because something happened last Friday, and I was on the verge of apologizing for it and I said to heck with it. <\/p>\n

Now, while I grant you the once-a-week opportunity to take this program in directions that I don\u2019t take it — I mean if you want to. By that I mean you can talk about things that I don\u2019t care about. But I\u2019m gonna tell you something, if I get bored I\u2019m not gonna sit here and run the risk of the audience getting bored, so while you can talk about things I don\u2019t care about, but if you bore me , I can\u2019t — I mean, I\u2019m the nicest host. (interruption) I am. (interruption) I am not changing the rules. I said if I don\u2019t care, I will pretend I care, fake it, but I\u2019m not gonna sit here and be bored. <\/p>\n

I mean, I\u2019m gonna giving everybody a chance. Don\u2019t misunderstand. There\u2019s no minimum time limit that people have in order to get to the point. But if I sit here get bored, look, if I\u2019m bored, then the audience will be board, and that\u2019s gonna be curtains for the caller, it\u2019s just that simple. I have to guard against Open Line Friday like any other freedom being abused, and I\u2019m in charge of what freedoms exist here and I\u2019m in charge of how much I will allow them to be abused. It\u2019s that simple. <\/p>\n

Okay, so Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez was identified as the shooter by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was shot to death in the rampage that killed four people, including a sailor critically wounded. The headline, this is the story from Reuters, scratching their heads there at Reuters. The headline: “Investigators Seek Motive Behind Tennessee Shooting Rampage.” Investigators on Friday sought to determine what in the world might have led a 24-year-old gunman, an average, ordinary American teenager, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez to open fire at a couple military offices in Chattanooga killing four Marines “in an attack officials said could be –” could be, must not jump to any hasty conclusions here “– an act of domestic terrorism.” Could be. <\/p>\n

And why does the media insist on calling terrorism perpetrated by Muslim extremists who could have come to the US, domestic terrorism. What is this domestic terrorism business? The suspect was imported here from Kuwait, probably as a refugee, which is one of the several ways he\u2019s like the Tsarnaev brothers, this bunch in Boston<\/a>. Are you kidding? They haven\u2019t found a motive. Haven\u2019t they ever seen the state flag of Tennessee? It reeks of the Confederacy. Seriously, I\u2019m just kidding, folks. Remember what I said, this is — he-he-he — Snerdley is looking at me. I\u2019m just trying to relate to the libs in the audience as they look for motivation here. <\/p>\n

It could be the guy\u2019s all upset about the Confederate flag still. It could be he\u2019s really upset about what happened in Charleston, South Carolina, looking for an outlet. Now, you would think that after all of the previous Muslim terror attacks, the authorities in the news media would start see a pattern. But they don\u2019t want to jump to any conclusions, and they don\u2019t want to move any faster than the glaciers move. They don\u2019t want to bring up Muslim terrorism until we\u2019ve gotten used to the idea that another four people have been killed. Nobody wants a backlash against Muslims. <\/p>\n

I was thinking about this this morning. I want to put this in perspective. On September 11th, 2001 nearly 3,000 people died because of 19 Islamic terrorists hijacking airplanes and crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania. The majority of the hijackers were Saudi Arabian, but they were all Al-Qaeda, and they were all Islamic terrorists. It seems to me that from the moment that happened, we have been bending over backwards to apologize to Muslims. It seems like we have been bending over backwards to be in denial about what happened and who did it. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll never forget that the State Department, shortly after 9\/11, I mean within two weeks, had a seminar, I mean an actual real serious seminar, and the title of the seminar, “What have we done to make them hate us?” It\u2019s almost as if, at the top levels of our government, and maybe not even just the top levels, but perhaps all the way through our government, it\u2019s almost as though there is an opinion that we deserved it, and we had better change if we don\u2019t want them to do it again. <\/p>\n

Everything seems 180 degrees out of phase. The moment 9\/11 happened, well, give a day or two for it to settle in, but it seems like practically immediately afterwards we started apologizing to Muslims, we started trying to assure them that we had nothing against them. It\u2019s never made any sense to me. I mean, if 9\/11 had never happened, then some of this stuff might make sense. But 9\/11 did happen, 3,000 Americans died. There have been further attempts. Other Americans have died at the hand of Islamic terrorism around the world. And following each incident, it seems our primary concern is not making the perpetrators of these acts angry. <\/p>\n

<\/a>It makes no sense to me. It never has made any sense to me, in the immediate aftermath of 9\/11, why in the world are we so defensive? Why are we so worried about Muslim backlash if we dare tell the truth about who\u2019s perpetrating these acts of terror. It defies common sense. Now, there might be explanations for it that you could come up with that would fit the liberal mind and mind-set, but it doesn\u2019t make any common sense. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t think of any other period of time where — I mean, after World War II, after Pearl Harbor, did we run around the country and the world assuring everybody that, “Hey, hey, you know, the Japanese, we have no quarrel with the Japanese.” After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, did we act at all the way we act now after an act of Islamic terrorism? <\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t know the motive. We can\u2019t figure out why they would have done it! We have to be careful that we do not level unfair, inaccurate allegations. We have to make sure that there\u2019s not an anti-Muslim backlash!” Were we worried about an anti-Japanese backlash after Pearl Harbor? (interruption) Well, I know, FDR interred people. I know that. That\u2019s the point. I\u2019m not advocating FDR-like behaviors or policy, but it just doesn\u2019t make any sense here. I don\u2019t care what it is, we hear that.<\/p>\n

“Fort Hood? That\u2019s workplace violence! No, no, no, nothing to see here.” It all seems to be our fault, or at least after each of these events it\u2019s us that have to feel guilty. It\u2019s we who have to ask ourselves, “What are we doing to cause this?” It doesn\u2019t make any sense! It was before Obama even got to Washington, folks, before Obama was elected president. This goes back 9\/11. This goes back to the immediate aftermath of 9\/11. George W. Bush was president, and reaction that we\u2019ve…<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not blaming, Bush. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But Bush\u2019s State Department did that seminar and a number of others like it. It doesn\u2019t make any sense to me. Not only are we in denial about who\u2019s doing what, we\u2019re looking for reasons under the rubric of motivation that would further excuse their actions and then end up somehow blaming the United States for doing things either in the present or in the past that somehow justify this kind of thing. <\/p>\n

One of these Marines that was shot dead was awarded not one but actually with two Purple Hearts in combat fighting for the United States overseas. These guys volunteer. They go through rigorous training. We send them, we deploy them to the most dangerous places on earth to protect us to protect us and we bring \u2019em home and we don\u2019t even let them protect themselves with their own firearms! <\/p>\n

These are highly trained people, particularly Marines. These are rifle experts. They clearly are trained in the use and possession of firearms. We have these silly gun-free zones everywhere! Military people… It just burns me! We send them to these hellholes where there\u2019s actual military combat and declared hostilities, and they come home here and get killed while in circumstances of complete and total innocence. <\/p>\n

And then you look further at the silly rules of engagement that we put them under while they\u2019re in combat in these areas of declared hostilities, and that\u2019s absurd. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites; I\u2019ll show you what I mean. We have a montage here of the Drive-Bys. This is Fox News, it\u2019s CNN, it\u2019s CNN, it\u2019s CNN, it\u2019s CNN, it\u2019s CNN. It was all over MSNBC, too (but we have a ban there), and Al Jazeera. They can\u2019t figure out why it happened!<\/p>\n

SHEPARD SMITH: (music) Now the search for motive.<\/line><\/p>\n

DON LEMON: (music) …too soon to know the motive.<\/p>\n

LESTER HOLT: The motive for the attacks unknown.<\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: Any sign of a motive?<\/p>\n

PAUL CRUICKSHANK: We do not yet know the motive at this point.<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: They\u2019re desperately trying to figure out what the motive might have been.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: This individual, we don\u2019t yet know the motive, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.<\/p>\n

JOIE CHEN: Investigators are already looking into the suspected shooter\u2019s background to identify some motive. The trail so far has not revealed much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You all remember a comedy show that was produced by a friend of mine Joel Surnow that ran on the Fox News Channel. It was called The 1\/2 Hour News Hour, and on the pilot episode of that show… It was a 30-minute satire news program that the liberals have copied and they\u2019ve got their own version of it now on Comedy Central just like a lot of what is on Comedy Central is a rip-off of my television show. So has the left ripped off The 1\/2 Hour News Hour, retitled it, and done it under the umbrella of liberalism. <\/p>\n

They had a routine. They had a bit exactly like this, except they exaggerated. The perpetrator\u2019s name consisted of six Abduls, Mahmouds, Yousefs. He had a six-name name. The bit was the reporter for the 1\/2 Hour News Hour was talking to the local officials after the crime had taken place and kept mentioning this guy\u2019s full name, six names, “Are you telling me that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you have no idea why this crime took place?” “No, we haven\u2019t the slightest idea.” <\/p>\n

And with each question, each time the question was asked the man\u2019s full name. It was made up, of course, with the six names. The joke has come to life and it\u2019s real! The joke on that show, The 1\/2 Hour News Hour… We might even have it. I don\u2019t know if in our Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorite archives of audio sound bites, we might even have that, and we might even have it cataloged, we might even be able to pull that out of the archives even before the end of the program. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m making no promises, but it would be good if we had it and I could show you, play it for you rather than describe it. But it\u2019s this to a T. “No idea why! Can\u2019t figure it out. No apparent motive. I mean, we\u2019re in the dark here we\u2019re clueless. Do you have any ideas? ‘Cause we can\u2019t see a reason what so ever. He\u2019s just an average, ordinary American teenager.” <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Look, I was trying to avoid saying it, but I\u2019m just gonna go ahead and say it. The word that I was looking for — I was dancing around — is why did we start sucking up to Muslims after 9\/11? That is the thing. That\u2019s the thing that struck me, that\u2019s exactly what it was, with the State Department seminar, “What did we do to make them hate us?” there began an immediate effort not to offend the people who had just killed 3,000 of us. I have never understood it; I don\u2019t understand it today. <\/p>\n

Well, the that\u2019s not true. I do understand it, and that make makes it even more maddening. I do not understand it, because I understand liberalism. Three thousand of us are killed by virtue of an Al-Qaeda attack, and the first thing we do is suck up to them. Anyway, you gotta hear this sound bite at CNN. Again, John Berman is filling in for Jake Tapper. He\u2019s talking to former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes about the Chatanooga, Tennessee, attacks. <\/p>\n

Berman says, “We have the name of the shooter. The name is [Mahmoud] Youssuf Abdulazeez. Obviously it appears to be a Muslim.” Really, John? What\u2019s your first clue, Bud? “Appears to be… Alleged…” I tell you, he\u2019s an alleged Muslim. That\u2019s right, he\u2019s an alleged Muslim. That\u2019s good journalism” He\u2019s an alleged muscles. “Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez, but that\u2019s all we know, Tom, and now that we have the name, the key questions are what after that?”<\/p>\n

FUENTES: I know that what the name sounds like, but we don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a Muslim name. We know it\u2019s an Arabic name. We don\u2019t know what this individual was believing in, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna be trying to determine.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So you just heard a CNN analyst, a former Fibbie director — FBI director — Tom Fuentes saying (summarized), “Well, I know what the name sounds like, but we don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a Muslim name. We know that it\u2019s an Arabic name, but we don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a Muslim name. Gotta be very, very, very careful here that we don\u2019t take this too far. Might make \u2019em even madder!”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We stick with the audio sound bites because now, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to be treated to an audio sound bite from none other — dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! — Brian Ross of ABC News. <\/p>\n

Now, as a brief reminder, Brian Ross heads up the investigative journalism unit at ABC News, and at one of the recent mass shootings in Colorado, Brian Ross went on Good Morning America with a news alert claiming that the shooter was likely a member of the Tea Party in Colorado. The name of the shooter had been released and Brian Ross, the first thing he did upon hearing the name of the kid that shot up the movie theater, was find a roster of members of a Tea Party group in Colorado and see if he could find the guy\u2019s name. <\/p>\n

And you know what? <\/p>\n

He found a name exactly like the shooter\u2019s! <\/p>\n

So he successfully engineered a news bulletin, a news alert, breaking news on Good Morning America, at which he informed the world that the shooter was of the same name as a prominent member of the Colorado Tea Party! It turned out to be not true. It\u2019s two different people. But first thing he did — the instinct, the desire — of all the probabilities Brian Ross went to the Internet and tried to find this guy\u2019s name on a roster of members of the Tea Party. So on Good Morning America today Brian Ross, investigative journalist extraordinaire<\/a>, was talking about Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez.<\/p>\n

ROSS: Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait, but he and his family have lived in the US since 1992.<\/line><\/p>\n

MAN: He was just a typical American kid in high school.<\/p>\n

ROSS: But in his high school senior yearbook, Abdulazeez wrote, “My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?” And a local newspaper in 2010 quoted Abdulazeez\u2019s sister saying she had been harassed at school because of her Muslim faith. But from outward appearances, Abdulazeez did not appear to be a loser angry at America. Something clearly changed in Abdulazeez\u2019 life since then.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, maybe he was distressed that the Aurora, Colorado, shooter wasn\u2019t in the Tea Party, Brian. Or maybe he\u2019s upset at what he learned the Confederate flag stands for. Maybe he\u2019s upset at some other outrage committed by the United States of America at some point in his life. Because, clearly, Brian, you and your buddies in the Drive-By Media have certainly given people like this a list of reasons to hate this country.<\/p>\n

Because all you\u2019ve done is try to list and make news out of every transgression you think this country\u2019s guilty of. And not just you, Brian, but a majority of teachers in this country have no doubt filled their students, young skulls full of mush all with a budge of garbage about the atrocities committed by this country. It has real-world consequences. These libs is sit up there, they talk about hatred, they talk about bigotry and racism and they level these allegations and accusations at the United States of America, and these young kids in these class rooms, they hear this stuff! <\/p>\n

These libs might be just flapping their gums and trying to score their points, these young kids hear this stuff. They\u2019re driven crazy, they\u2019re driven mad, they\u2019re driven insane, they\u2019re driven angry. Who knows what happens? I for one know that this stuff does not happen in a vacuum, and it\u2019s not gonna take long to find the motive. The reason it\u2019s taking so long to find the motive is because what they\u2019re actually doing is looking for a cover-up of the motive. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, even the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, went out there and he\u2019s sort of chuckling at some of the questions because he thinks they\u2019re originating from right wingers, conservatives. He\u2019s sort of chuckling (imitating Earnest), “You know, Islamic terrorism, it\u2019s on the list of possibilities we\u2019re looking at.” But he didn\u2019t indicate it was at the top of the list. So ABC News runs a report, just a typical American kid in high school. Yeah. Don\u2019t you know, we have a lot of American high school kids named Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez.<\/p>\n

They walk down the street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, all the time, and they\u2019re looking for uniformed military personnel, and they\u2019re carrying guns in federal gun-free zones. Yeah, average American teenager. They found an entry in his high school senior yearbook about how his name causes national security alerts. You see what this country does to these young kids, folks. See what your country is doing? You see what the bigotry and racism of your country is doing to these young, innocent minds? Poor Mahmoud, he\u2019s just going to school and finds out that his name causes national security alerts and then asks other people, what does your name do? <\/p>\n

And then they find a local newspaper quoting the sister of Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez saying she had been harassed because of her Muslim faith. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold it a minute. Hold it just a minute. Go back to audio sound bite number two, Tom Fuentes, former FBI director. Play it again, Sam. <\/p>\n

FUENTES: I know that what the name sounds like, but we don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a Muslim name. We know it\u2019s an Arabic name. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Here in Brian Ross\u2019 report… an ABC correspondent says the sister of Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez says she\u2019s been harassed at school because of her Muslim faith. Well, the former FBI director doesn\u2019t know that. The former FBI director: no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we cannot rush to judgement on this. It\u2019s obviously an Arabic name, but we cannot be sure it\u2019s a Muslim name. But ABC found out because they talked to the aggrieved sister. <\/p>\n

So what we have here are a young man and woman, the Abdulazeezes, and we find that they are sad because they\u2019re feeling discriminated against because their name puts them on a watch list or some such thing, and you see now the beginnings, ladies and gentlemen, of how the left is going to present to us a motive that they are then supposed to say, “You know what? We can understand this act of rage. Look what we have done to this young man, simply because of his name. We discriminated against him and made him feel like his name is a national security alert, and then his sister has felt the same shame.” This is what\u2019s happening out there, folks. You keep a sharp eye, see how long it takes for this to develop.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we go to upstate New York, Bob, great to have you. EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, greetings. Okay, I got three quick things. Number one, if President Obama is such a good Muslim, does he make Michelle and his daughters wear burqas?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a Muslim. He says he\u2019s a Christian.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, number two, they call it domestic terrorism because it\u2019s our fault. We\u2019re responsible for it along with global warming and world hunger.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean that\u2019s what they mean by it. Okay. What\u2019s number three?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Number three. This Tennessee shooting could not have come at a more opportune time to prove that the Muslims cannot be appeased. Obama gave Iran everything they wanted to appease them, and the very next day they\u2019re killing us.<\/p>\n

\"large\"RUSH: Is Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez Iranian?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: It doesn\u2019t matter. They have no country. They told us —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — we\u2019re not fighting a country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. They are fighting an ideology. I understand. I get your point there about all of this suck-up has not stopped any of it. That\u2019s my point earlier in the program. Call it whatever you want to call it, we\u2019re sucking up, and it isn\u2019t stopping any of it. What do you call a State Department doing a seminar a couple of months after 9\/11 entitled, “Why do they hate us or what have we done to make them hate us? What have we done to cause this?” <\/p>\n

By the way, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, spoke to a schoolmate of Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez. She asked the schoolmate, “Well, does Mahmoud enjoy hunting and other small-town Tennessee activities?” And the schoolmate doesn\u2019t know, “What, what, what, what?” And Andrea Mitchell said, “Were guns a big part of social activities of young Mahmoud?” And schoolmate said, “What are you talking about?” Look, is this kid a typical Southerner?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have been mispronouncing the name of the alleged, we-don\u2019t-know-why-he-did-it shooter in Chattanooga because I\u2019ve got a news story that has it wrong. Yep, I\u2019ve got a news story here from Reuters that spells it Mahmoud, and it\u2019s actually Mohammed. So, you know, I have not been purposely butchering or making fun of the name. I have an incorrect source here. It\u2019s Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez.<\/p>\n

So I got two out of three, but again it\u2019s ultimately my fault. I will take the blame. Mahmoud\/Mohammed. I have an excuse, but I\u2019m not gonna lay it off on the Drive-Bys. I don\u2019t expect them to be right anyway, so it\u2019s my mistake for not checking in the second place. Anyway just to repeat this because I had to hurry this through the break previously, Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) got hold of a former classmate of Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez and started asking the schoolmate what kind of things young Mohammed likes to do. <\/p>\n

\"large\"By the way, Mohammed\u2019s family, they\u2019re apparently well to do. Big house, swimming pool. Anyway, Andrea Mitchell said, “Well, did Mohammed enjoy hunting and other small-town Tennessee activities?” Yeah, hunting. “Small-town Tennessee activity.” Like John Kerry went into, I think, Kentucky. “Is this where I get me a hunting license,” during the campaign in 2004. Remember that? “Is this where I get me a hunting license?” The classmate she asked the question kind of cocked his head.<\/line><\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.” Andrea Mitchell said, “You know! Were guns a big part of activities, social or other activity?” The interviewee said, “What?” And Andrea Mitchell kept prodding him (shouting), “Did he hunt! Did he shoot! Did he have a pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window! Is he a typical Southerner!” Well, she didn\u2019t add that. I actually made that last part up. But that\u2019s what she meant. She did say, “Did he hunt? Did he shoot? Was that just part of small-town Tennessee activity?”<\/p>\n

She tried to lay this off on Southern conservative culture. We sit here and laugh at it, but Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) is laying out the possibility here that this kid, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, was inspired to do what he did because of Southern (which is conservative) culture. That\u2019s what… (interruption) Apparently his parents are well to do. (interruption) Well, it\u2019s a big house. Who knows? (interruption) I don\u2019t know what the mortgage is. (interruption) Well, no, no. No, no. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, maybe it\u2019s income inequality. But if his family has a lot of money, it would be guilt over the fact they have a lot of money and some of the other hayseeds, the hicks Tennessee don\u2019t. I don\u2019t know. But she might as well just have said, “Does he have any Confederate flag decals anywhere? Have you ever seen him with a Confederate flag anywhere?” Look, you laugh, but I\u2019m telling you that\u2019s what she\u2019s stepping up here with this question.<\/p>\n

Why ask if Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez was a product of small-town Tennessee activities and culture? ‘Cause you know what Andrea Mitchell thinks of those. Small-town Tennessee? Southern, conservative, hunt, guns, shoot things! Mike McCaul, who is a member of Congress from Texas, chairman of Homeland Security, was on CNN with Wolf this afternoon and made this statement…<\/p>\n

MCCAUL: I just got off the phone with the FBI, had a very good briefing with them. I can tell you this: They have opened this case now as a terrorism case, which is very significant. Right now, his communication devices, they\u2019re on the airplane as I speak going to Washington. My assumption is based on my experience, both as a federal prosecutor and as chairman of Homeland Security, and that is: We\u2019ve seen touch of this traffic. There are too many warning signs. The targets are identity to the targets called by ISIS to attack, so my judgment and my experience is this was an ISIS-inspired attack.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not waiting for Josh Earnest and the Regime to finish their investigation to figure it out. He\u2019s putting things together things that he knows and has seen as both a prosecutor and chairman of Homeland Security, ISIS-inspired attack. He said, “We\u2019ve seen too much of this traffic. Too many of the warning signs.” Meanwhile, Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) is trying to lay the blame on Southern culture, and other Drive-Bys are doing similar work.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to make it look like the last thing this guy is is an Islamic terrorist. “Nah! (scoffing) That couldn\u2019t possibly be. I mean, we don\u2019t have any alleged motivation yet that would tie it to that. There\u2019s nothing to see here. We don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s a Muslim! Not even sure! Arab, maybe, but we don\u2019t know he\u2019s a Muslim. You\u2019re a bunch of racists jumping to these conclusions. We\u2019re looking at this responsibly. It was probably, you know, the Dukes of Hazzard! We\u2019re gonna find out if he watched that show, and number other things here. We\u2019ll get to the bottom of this.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Mike McCaul again. He\u2019s from Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to Open Line Twilight Zone. Great to have you here. Yep. It was just an average American teenager walking along the street, Tennessee, Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez al-Sahib Skyhook. Just your average American teenager, had a gun he shouldn\u2019t have had, and you know what happened. 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