{"id":7318,"date":"2015-01-16T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:29:39","slug":"john_kerry_an_embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/16\/john_kerry_an_embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry: An Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/64120\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: John Kerry.  This is unbelievable.  My friends, I\u2019m embarrassed.  I\u2019m literally embarrassed.  John Kerry went over to France.  They\u2019re trying to make up for the fact that Obama didn\u2019t go and be part of the big rally over there, so they sent John Kerry over for some sort of press conference with the French and the French media and intended for the French people. They actually dragged in James Taylor and Kerry spoke French again, which is embarrassing enough in itself, and then James Taylor sang &#8220;You\u2019ve Got A Friend.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_101007\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/kerrytaylor.jpg\"\/><BR\/>I\u2019m embarrassed to be an American today. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>To have to take James Taylor over there, you know what\u2019s gonna happen?  John Bolton is gonna be a secretary of state someday we hope, and I can\u2019t wait \u2019til he goes someplace in the Middle East and takes along with him the famous crock group The Clash and they can sing Rock the Casbah, whatever.  And James Taylor (imitating Taylor), &#8220;Of course, I\u2019ll be happy to sing You\u2019ve Got A Friend.&#8221; He sang it and the French are sitting there listening to this.  Oh, my God, what a bunch of wusses, what a bunch of mush.  It\u2019s squishy.  And the militant Islamists all over the world cannot believe the good luck that they\u2019ve been handed.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay, the proof for those of you who thought it was a joke that John Kerry actually took James Taylor over to Paris to sing You\u2019ve Got a Friend to the French people and the French media in a press conference, it actually happened.  This is continued fallout from Obama not going and not sending anybody to the rally in Paris last weekend.  The fallout\u2019s huge.  So the State Department, Jean-Francois Kerry (who served in Vietnam, by the way), is trying to make amends.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Harf said, &#8220;Hey, we\u2019ve gone out of the way to be conciliatory, be nice to the French.  Why, John Kerry\u2019s even speaking French to them!&#8221; She actually says that, as though that is an indication of how much we care, and that we didn\u2019t mean to snub them. Our secretary of state is actually speaking to them in their native tongue.  James Taylor.  You\u2019ve Got a Friend.  Whatever.  Didn\u2019t he once have a relationship with Carole King way, way back? I\u2019m talking sixties and seventies. (interruption) Oh, no. He did have a relationship with Carly Simon, yeah.  I think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kuWEkUcS0lI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know that they were ever married, but I think there was a tough time. It\u2019s a long time ago. I don\u2019t remember. Wasn\u2019t a big fan at the time.  My first Tonight Show appearance with Jay Leno, James Taylor was scheduled to appear and canceled. The producer was real nice guy, Dave Berg, who\u2019s written a book, by the way, now about his time as a producer\/booker at the Tonight Show. Dave Berg said, &#8220;Look, James Taylor did not cancel because you\u2019re coming on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want you to know.  I don\u2019t want you think that.  James, he just had a schedule conflict, and he had to cancel at the last moment. But I don\u2019t want you to think it had anything to do with the fact that you\u2019re on the show,&#8221; which told me it was because I was on the show that James Taylor canceled. This is back in my naive days.  I\u2019m not even aware that I\u2019m hated and despised, yet.  (laughing)  Eye-opening things.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here we go, folks. Here we go.  This is this morning in Paris at Elysee Palace.  Secretary of State Jean-Francois Kerry held a joint press conference with the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and here is a portion of his opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p>KERRY: (haltingly) On the day of the living nightmare that began at Charlie Hebdo, I had a chance to share a few thoughts with you from back home in Washington.  Today I just&#8230; I really wanted to come here and share a hug with all of Paris.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Sheesh! (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>KERRY: I wanted to express to you personally the sheer horror and revulsion &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Oh, my God.<\/p>\n<p>KERRY:  &#8212; that all Americans felt for the cowardly and despicable act, the assault on innocent lives.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_101051\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" alt=\"large\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/KerryParis_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Ah, this is not really happening.  This is not really happening.  This represents some of the greatest plunge, descent in American strength, credibility, and respect.  It\u2019s exactly what I feared when they put some guy like Kerry in that job.  &#8220;I just, you know, really wanted to come here and share a hug with all of Paris.&#8221;  I\u2019d like to know where Henry Kissinger is today and how he\u2019s reacting to this.  Can you imagine Dr. Kissinger sitting wherever he is? He\u2019s probably at&#8230; Well, where would he be?  Where would he be?  Some restaurant still closing out lunch. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Le Cirque, probably. That\u2019s probably where he is, Le Cirque.  Maybe he\u2019s at Polo Bar saying, &#8220;Where else in the world could somebody like me become secretary of state? All I had to say was I wanted to come and give Israel a huge hug, and I could have a hero!&#8221;  Can you imagine what he\u2019s saying about this?  (Kerry impression) &#8220;I just&#8230; I wanted to come and share a hug with all of Paris.&#8221;  The sad thing is the audience probably thought it was great, meaningful, really sincere.  And then Kerry tortured them again with his French and introduced &#8212; it\u2019s not a joke &#8212; James Taylor to sing You\u2019ve Got a Friend.<\/p>\n<p>KERRY: (speaking French)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay.  The irony is that the French did call! They did call! If you listen to the lyrics of the song, the French did call and Obama wasn\u2019t there.  Obama said, &#8220;Screw you, I got the NFL on!&#8221; But, anyway, here\u2019s James Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>TAYLOR:  Winter, spring, summer of fall. All you\u2019ve got to do is call! Oh, I will be there &#8212; yes, I\u2019ll be there &#8212; you\u2019ve got a friend.<\/p>\n<p>FRENCH: (applause)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I haven\u2019t seen&#8230; Well, I did see a still shot.  I don\u2019t see any lighters, candles, cigarette lighters. I didn\u2019t see any.  I didn\u2019t.  I don\u2019t know that he sang long enough for them to begin swaying back and forth.  All I know is, &#8220;Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you gotta do is call.&#8221;  Well, they called, and President Obama stiffed \u2019em &#8212; and instead they get John Kerry speaking French with James Taylor. (interruption) Nobody had to convince James Taylor it\u2019s a good idea!<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_101052\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" alt=\"large\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/KerryParis2_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>He\u2019s a lib in good standing.  This is what counts for substance today.  Don\u2019t you get it?  He didn\u2019t have&#8230; (interruption) It\u2019s not embarrassing.  I guarantee you, this is gonna go down in Kerry\u2019s life and in James Taylor\u2019s life and probably some of the French people\u2019s lives over there. This is gonna end up being reported, written about in memoirs as one of the most meaningful days and moments in Anglo-French foreign policy history.  You watch! We have had such a descent from seriousness into the symbolic and the sublime. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>This is&#8230; I guarantee you, the good vibes these people were feeling after this? They think this really mattered today.  This is a revolutionary, new kind of foreign policy, smart power.  This was empathy, this was caring, this was an emotional demonstration of our commitment to each other. (interruption) Everybody was rolling over in their graves.  But I\u2019m just telling you, it\u2019s a new day.  I guarantee you when I read my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll bet you I could find any number of blogs this afternoon when I finish written by young people who think this one of the greatest days they have ever seen and they\u2019ll think more foreign policy ought to be like this, because this is real meaningful.  This is more than just some stiff diplomat standing up there talking.  This was the United States demonstrating how it really cares.  (interruption)  Don\u2019t rule it out.  Do not rule it out. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12902\">Obama with Jay-Z and Beyonce<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not rule it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, so I checked the e-mail during the break, and I got more disbelief.  Do you realize how frequently this is starting to happen?  You may not.  I do.  I will mention something happening in the news, and I\u2019ll check the e-mail later, people think I\u2019m making it up.  &#8220;Surely that didn\u2019t really happen.&#8221;  Like, &#8220;Surely Kerry didn\u2019t take James Taylor and sing &#8216;You Got a Friend\u2019 to the French to make up for not going to the rally.&#8221;  Yes.  We just had the evidence.  I pointed out that Marie Harf, who looks like Marie Harf, said (paraphrasing), &#8220;What do you mean we haven\u2019t been courteous to the French?  John Kerry spoke to them in French.  That shows how much we care.&#8221;  I checked the e-mail: &#8220;Come on, Rush, that couldn\u2019t possibly have happened.  Why do you keep making these things up?&#8221;  Play audio sound bite number nine.<\/p>\n<p>HARF:  Well, I wouldn\u2019t put it that way.  We have done a number of things to show solidarity with the French people since those awful attacks.  He is looking forward to being in Paris.  As you know, he has a long history with Paris, speaks French, spoke directly to the French people the day of the attacks. So I think tomorrow will be a very moving day and a one really for the US to stand by France.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That was last night on CNN\u2019s Situation Room when she gave us a harbinger of things to come when Kerry goes to Paris.  (imitating Harf) &#8220;He has a long history with Paris, speaks French, spoke directly to the French people the day of the attacks, see?  So I think tomorrow will be a very moving day.&#8221;  And I think to her this is real heavy stuff.  (interruption)  No, I don\u2019t think she knows what she sounds like.  No, no, no, no.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: John Kerry. This is unbelievable. My friends, I\u2019m embarrassed. I\u2019m literally embarrassed. John Kerry went over to France. 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