{"id":9864,"date":"2014-03-18T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-18T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:25:44","slug":"the_prankster_vs_the_gangster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/18\/the_prankster_vs_the_gangster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prankster vs. the Gangster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We said last week that this Ukraine situation was a showdown between ACORN and the KGB.<\/a> If you will recall, that is one of the ways I characterized it. But in view of the mocking that Obama is getting from the Russians, folks, they are openly laughing at our president. They are openly mocking Barack Obama! This was not supposed to happen, if you recall the campaign of 2008. In view of the mocking that Obama is getting from the Russians, this is also looking like the prankster versus the gangster. ‘Cause Putin\u2019s calling Obama a prankster with his sanctions. Obama\u2019s gonna sanction some individual Russians, so the Russians came and said, “Okay, well, we\u2019ll sanction you!” And they\u2019re mocking him. <\/p>\n

Now, one thing that you have to admit: They did not laugh at George W. Bush. You know, it\u2019s funny, folks, our news media claimed for years that the world viewed George Bush as a cowboy, a renegade, an out-of-control hayseed that did not have the respect of any nation around the world and we were being laughed at and joked about and made fun of. Well, they never laughed at George W. Bush. They never mocked George W. Bush. They may have wished he was dead, but they are laughing at Barack Obama, and they\u2019re laughing both at his face, to his face, and in his face. <\/line><\/p>\n

You remember back in 2008, when Obama ran on the promise of restoring America\u2019s prestige around the world. You know, come to think of it, that may have been the mother of all Limbaugh Theorem ploys. If you\u2019ll recall, I devised the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a> to explain how and why Obama was not blamed at all by the American people for this disastrous economy. It was I and I alone who came up with the explanation for this. I\u2019m not gonna bother you with the explanation; you know it, you are regular listeners. I dubbed this the Limbaugh Theorem. Well, okay, essentially it was that Obama was never seen literally governing. Even after being immaculated he continued to posture himself as always campaigning. <\/p>\n

He was always seen as opposed to what he was doing. And he was able to fool people into believing that he also opposed what was going on even though he was the one doing it. And of course he had the cooperation and help of the Drive-By Media. But I\u2019ll tell you, I think the mother of all Limbaugh Theorem<\/a> ploys was that 2008 presidential campaign where Obama promised to restore the prestige of the United States around the world, because increasing America\u2019s standing in the world was the last thing Obama and his team wanted to do. And if you have any doubt about that, just look around. <\/p>\n

<\/a>This cannot be accidental. There\u2019s just too much wreckage. There\u2019s just too much ineffectiveness. There\u2019s just too much apathy on the part of the president about things happening around the world for it to be anything other than purposeful. Everywhere you look. Thanks to the missing Malaysian airliner<\/a>, our media guardians pretty much succeeded in maintaining a blackout on the news about Putin\u2019s invasion and annexation of Ukraine. I think it\u2019s safe to say the low-information crowd doesn\u2019t know anything about that. And not just the low-information crowd<\/a>. There are a lot of Americans don\u2019t thing about it because all that\u2019s on the news is the missing airliner and whether or not supernatural forces have taken over; whether or not there\u2019s a new Bermuda Triangle in Malaysia. All of this. <\/p>\n

I have another simple explanation for this, by the way, coming up in a moment that I\u2019ll offer, and it\u2019s simple, and it\u2019s entirely plausible. And it\u2019s with the help of a former pilot. So all in due course. I can\u2019t do everything here in the opening monologue. But I will comment on things as they occur to me during the monologue. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, the coverage that the American people are getting about Ukraine, Obama being laughed at, it\u2019s really being obscured by the 24\/7 coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner, which has to be frustrating to Putin. I mean, look at how much money he has spent on plastic surgery, Botox injections, preparation for his star turn on the world stage. I mean, he\u2019s gone out there and he\u2019s fought with bears and he\u2019s gone fishing and hunting. He\u2019s taken the shirt off. He\u2019s got the Botox. He\u2019s been lifting weights, maybe taking steroids. He\u2019s been doing everything he can to look like an American superhero actor, and he can\u2019t buy 30 seconds of media time because we\u2019re focused on the Malaysian airliner. He\u2019s gotta be really mad. <\/p>\n

An angry KGB guy is something we don\u2019t want to deal with. A KGB guy in his natural state, bad enough, but now he\u2019s spent all this money being noticed for his big moment on the world stage, reassembling the Soviet Union, and nobody is seeing it, which means, folks, that he\u2019s going to have to amp it up. He\u2019s going to have to do even more to call attention to himself and get the media focused on him. Well, maybe he could find the plane and be done with it. Maybe Russian technology could be that which finds the plane, who knows. He\u2019s gotta do something. Obviously annexing Ukraine and Crimea, not enough. He could take over Poland. Hell, he could make a move on Germany. I mean, any number of things, but I\u2019m just telling you, Putin has spent a lot of time and a lot of money — well, the Olympics, all to get noticed and he can\u2019t bump this Malaysian airline off the front page. <\/line><\/p>\n

Hell, the Botox injections alone, folks. I mean, even when you have the government to pay for it, it still is a lot of money. He\u2019s up to Pelosi\u2019s spending levels by now, I would think. But then again, Putin of all people should understand. I mean, just like in his country, our news media know that their primary job is to protect the Regime. He understands this. He understands the media here\u2019s job is to protect the Regime, and it\u2019s much better to devote wall-to-wall coverage on a story nobody has a shred of information about than having to report on Obama\u2019s obvious humiliation at the hands of comrade Putin. But I\u2019ve got stories and they\u2019re laughing at him. They\u2019re laughing at our president. <\/p>\n

ABC News<\/a>: “Russian Deputy PM Laughs at Obama\u2019s Sanctions — Russia\u00c2\u2019s deputy prime minister laughed off President Obama\u00c2\u2019s sanction against him today asking ‘Comrade @BarackObama\u2019 if ‘some prankster\u2019 came up with the list. The [Regime] hit 11 Russian and Ukrainian officials with sanctions today as punishment for Russia\u2019s support of Crimea\u2019s referendum.<\/p>\n

“Among them: Aides to President Vladimir Putin, a top government official, senior lawmakers, Crimean officials, the ousted president of Ukraine, and a Ukrainian politician and businessman allegedly tied to violence against protesters in Kiev.” All have been sanctioned by the Regime. What does that mean? How do you sanction an individual? I guess you tell \u2019em, “You\u2019re sanctioned!” <\/p>\n

In some worlds, “sanction” means a contract on you and you\u2019re dead. That\u2019s not what Obama means. What, he\u2019s freezing their assets? Is he freezing their bank accounts? What is he doing? It\u2019s a minor detail in this story that our media guardians are ignoring, but I, El Rushbo, discovered it. Buried in the bottom of the ABC story, we find this.<\/p>\n

Quote: “US officials said that, among the sanctioned individuals were the ‘key ideologists and architects\u2019 of Russia\u2019s Ukraine policy, while adding that some of the Russian officials were included in the list for their role in curbing ‘human rights and liberties\u2019 in Russia.” In other words, some of the Russians are being sanctioned because they have said mean things about homosexuals. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what that means. The real reason Obama is sanctioning these people — you have to dig deep in the story — is because Obama is unhappy with what the Russians have had to say about men who sleep with men, and women who sleep with women, which some people find less objectionable. I leave it up to others to make those judgments. But now we understand.<\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, one of the people listed by ABC as being sanctioned is Elena Mizulina, “A senior lawmaker, she is considered one of the Kremlin\u2019s morality enforcers in the parliament. She is perhaps best known as the co-author of last year\u2019s homosexual ‘propaganda\u2019 law[,] which sparked outrage overseas.” That\u2019s a real reason Obama is imposing sanctions. He\u2019s not even doing it because of Ukraine and Crimea. <\/p>\n

Not that it matters to people. But it\u2019s another example of Obama mocking that the Drive-Bys seem to be ignoring, although Thomas “Loopy” Friedman in the New York Times has been made aware of it and is worried that Obama is looking weak in this circumstance. So we\u2019ve got this ABC story about the Russians basically think Obama is a joke. The Daily Beast: “Russia Will Sanction US Senators.”<\/p>\n

Now, if Putin is doing this kind of nonsense in response to Obama\u2019s nonsense, it\u2019s only because it\u2019s another way to mock and show his unbridled contempt for Obama. And, by the way, I should point out, ladies and gentlemen, that Mikhail Gorbachev has chosen sides in this battle. Now, you know as well as I do that the American left loves Mikhail Gorbachev. He was the savior.<\/line><\/p>\n

It was Gorbachev that saved the world from the cowboy Reagan. It was Gorbachev that brought sanity, glasnost, perestroika, freedom to the world — and stopped the evil cowboy, Ronald Reagan, from nuking the world. They even gave Gorbachev a portion of the Presidio to start some environmentalist wacko, 501(c)(3) out there. It\u2019s the Green Cross or some such thing. Mikhail Gorbachev has thrown in with Putin. <\/p>\n

He, too, Mikhail Gorbachev, is mocking our president. Meanwhile, the AP reports <\/a>that Putin has “approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea.” So while all of this is going on, Putin continues on his expansionist role. Here\u2019s the deal about Gorbachev. “Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, however, hailed Crimea\u2019s vote to join Russia as a ‘happy event.\u2019 …<\/p>\n

“Gorbachev, in remarks carried Tuesday by online newspaper … said Crimea\u2019s vote offered residents the freedom of choice and justly reflected their will. The referendum showed that ‘people really wanted to return to Russia\u2019 … Gorbachev added that the Crimean referendum set an example for people in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, who also should decide their fate.”<\/p>\n

So the hero of the left, a guy that the left thinks would be cozying up to our president, Obama — a man who single-handedly, in their view, ended the Cold War, that Gorbachev — has signed on with Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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