{"id":11643,"date":"2013-08-15T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:52:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-15T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:52:28","slug":"the_obama_regime_bungled_egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/15\/the_obama_regime_bungled_egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Regime Bungled Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, let\u2019s go to Egypt and get this out of the way before we get to the health care Stack, ladies and gentlemen. Grab sound bite number four, because back in February of 2011, when this whole thing started, I made a point, or I made an observation. And I want to play for you what I said. I\u2019ll set it up by saying that I said, “It\u2019s the second revolution that counts.” What is happening now, in other words. The first revolution more often than not doesn\u2019t survive. So what you really have to pay attention to is the second revolution. Now, after everybody blows up, gets mad at the status quo, and there\u2019s a move made to oust — in this case it was Hosni Mubarak and they put Morsi in there, the Muslim Brotherhood. Then of course he\u2019s gone. <\/p>\n

So the second revolution is what\u2019s taking place now, and it is bloody. There are hundreds of people dying. And this I think is something that the regime missed. They were all for this first revolution. And, remember, they tried to make that first revolution in Egypt look like it was an outgrowth of the Obama campaign in 2008. Yes, that campaign was so magnificent, it was so wonderful, hope and change, everything was gonna be better. This was simply the Egyptians being inspired by Obama and doing their own version of hope and change. And the administration tried to glom onto this. <\/p>\n

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Our buddy Nic Robertson at CNN, still some my all-time top ten favorite audio sound bites<\/a>. I will never forget these as long as I live. Here are the Egyptians, they\u2019re trying to overthrow Mubarak, and CNN sends a reporter over there to Tahrir Square to ask people to comment on how important and relevant to this Obama is and how happy they are with Obama for making their revolution possible, And they all said, “Obama\u2019s got nothing to do with this.” <\/p>\n

The CNN reporter basically had to tie up all these reports at the end, “And there you hear it, people here in Tahrir Square, very happy with President Obama.” It wasn\u2019t about Obama, but the regime is trying to make it about Obama. And that first revolution is falling apart as we speak. So we\u2019re gonna work backwards. Let\u2019s go back, I want to play that sound bite for you, me, February 10th, 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: It\u2019s the second revolution that counts. So I don\u2019t know whoever\u2019s behind this, if they don\u2019t survive, and the military\u2019s aligned with them, if they don\u2019t survive this, is it the Muslim Brotherhood waiting in line to then overthrow whatever happens here? And it may take years for all this to play out. We don\u2019t really know. Despite the efforts of our media. I know what they want. What do they want? They want, by tonight, by the evening news tonight, the US media wants to be able to say that Barack Obama has transformed Egypt into a democracy of-peace-loving people and that their economy is going great, that the joblessness numbers are going down. They want to be able to wrap this up in a pretty little bow and say Egypt\u2019s fixed by the evening news, certainly by the Sunday shows on Sunday. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re all angling for. But there hasn\u2019t been any consistency from the White House on what their message is and what their position here is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so Morsi\u2019s gone and hundreds of people are dying, and the second revolution is taking place. The guys that took over first, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, his wing of it, anyway, got tossed out by the military, who run the show there. And now you\u2019ve got a second one taking place. And the Washington Post headline today: “Egypt Erupts as Security Forces Attack Morsi Supporters — Before the July 3 coup in Egypt, the Obama administration privately warned the armed forces against ousting the government of Mohamed Morsi, pointing to US legislation that requires the cutoff of aid to any country where the army plays a ‘decisive role.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

So, with Morsi, the regime had who they wanted in place, but there was a problem. The Egyptian people didn\u2019t. There was a revolution of sorts. The Muslim Brotherhood stealthfully, by the way, went in there and hijacked it, and they installed Morsi and put Mubarak on trial and put him in prison, and the media went over and made it look like peace has broken out, democracy\u2019s broken out, economic growth is happening and unemployment is falling and it\u2019s all happening because of Obama. And then the whole thing got blown up when the Egyptian people said, “Wait a minute, none of this is any good for us,” and it\u2019s bye-bye Morsi, Obama\u2019s chosen leader. <\/p>\n

And now all hell is breaking loose on the streets. And the Washington Post editorial here says, “Because of those decisions, the Obama administration is complicit in the new and horrifyingly bloody crackdown launched Wednesday by the de facto regime against tens of thousands of protesters who had camped out in two Cairo squares.” Now, when this editorial was written, 278 people were reported killed. It\u2019s over 500 now, including many women and children. <\/p>\n

“Chaos erupted around Egypt as angry mobs stormed Christian churches, which went largely unprotected by security forces. … The Obama administration duly protested the latest crackdown, just as it previously urged the miltary not to use force against the demonstrations and to release Mr. Morsi and other political prisoners. The military\u00c2\u2019s disregard for these appeals was logical and predictable: Washington had already demonstrated that its warnings were not credible.”<\/p>\n

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Obama does not scare anybody, except us. The only people Barack Obama scares are the American people. But he doesn\u2019t scare the Egyptian military. He doesn\u2019t scare Bashar Assad. He doesn\u2019t scare the guy Recep, Ucep, Icep, Tarid Erdogan, whatever his name is, in Turkey. He doesn\u2019t frighten the ChiComs. Obviously Vladimir Putin is not all that concerned about Obama. And why would they be? During the bin Laden raid, Obama\u2019s playing spades, according to Reggie Love, his body guy. <\/p>\n

Now, before that we were told Obama was out playing golf on the day that bin Laden raid took place. Remember, Valerie Jarrett had to drag him in there and put his presidential jacket on for the photo-op in the Situation Room. And now Reggie Love has been sent out to say that Obama was playing spades or playing cards. And so the media is reduced to explaining this. Charlie Rose and the boys on CBS (paraphrasing), “Well, you know, he\u2019s really stressed, and whatever he can do to focus, why, we must support this, and we must understand if during the bin Laden raid, the president has to go play spades with Reggie Love and some people, who are we to judge?” <\/p>\n

You know, if Bush was playing golf or playing cards or taking a hike or whatever when this was going on, my God, folks, it\u2019s irresponsible. So we don\u2019t know what was going on. We don\u2019t know if he was playing golf. We don\u2019t know if he was playing cards, maybe both. What we do know is that whatever he was doing, he wasn\u2019t in the Situation Room, which made it look like to the people around the world he didn\u2019t care and that he doesn\u2019t care now. So all of this is happening despite the best efforts of the regime to control it. <\/p>\n

One bite before we go to break. John Kerry yesterday at the State Department, audio sound bite number five, very quick, but it makes my point.<\/p>\n

KERRY: The promise of the 2011 revolution has simply never been fully realized. And the final outcome of that revolution is not yet decided. It will be shaped in the hours ahead, in the days ahead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep. Well, told you that back in 2011. The second revolution is what counts, the second revolution. That\u2019s what you keep an eye on. Here\u2019s Kerry admitting it. The promise of the 2011 revolution never been fully realized. The final outcome of that revolution\u2019s yet to be decided. That\u2019s exactly right. And these guys have no say in it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Massillon, Ohio. John, thanks for the call, sir. You\u2019re up first today. It\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is an honor to talk to you, Rush, and I remember the first time in the Air Force two old-timers were listening to the radio and I said, “Well, what\u2019s up Joe, what\u2019s up Frank?” They said, “We\u2019re gonna listen to Rush.” Paul Harvey just ended, and I hear da-da-da-da-da-da, I said, “Hey, I\u2019m from Akron, you guys, that\u2019s not Rush, that\u2019s The Pretenders. Man, I know that.” They go, “No, no, Rush Limbaugh.” And ever since I heard you, I found out I\u2019m a conservative. I didn\u2019t know what I was. I thought I was a liberal, you know, pretty open-minded guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, welcome home.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you very much. What\u2019s pressing my wife and I is when we see the news and we see 525 souls dead in Egypt and we don\u2019t want to make joke of it, I turned to my wife and said, “I wonder what movie set them off.” The 525, Rush, we can\u2019t even fathom that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, I understand. It\u2019s 525 people and it\u2019s Egypt, they\u2019re an ally. They\u2019ve been an ally.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And it\u2019s not a news story. They\u2019re real people. It\u2019s not just people on the news. They\u2019re real people. And I\u2019m wondering what\u2019s going on, and we hear news story after news story. I have to quit watching the news, Rush, because it\u2019s not about red state, blue state, left or right, Democrat, Republican. It\u2019s about right or wrong. And my wife and I of 30 years —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — we want to see good win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not about that. Your instincts are right, but if I may just correct you in a very minor way. You turn on the American media today, and I don\u2019t care what the story, it\u2019s about Obama. And it\u2019s usually about shielding Obama, promoting Obama. They\u2019ve got a lot riding on Obama. So Egypt, 525 dead, it cannot be allowed to harm Obama, whatever else, that\u2019s the objective. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The media\u2019s handling of the story in Egypt, in addition to protecting Obama with this, because, you know, Obama sided here with the Brotherhood, which isn\u2019t new. But there\u2019s another thing. You know, Obama\u2019s not running again, and if he decides to relinquish the office, that means there will be an election in 2016. And if Obama decides to relinquish the office, one of the Democrats seeking it next time will be Hillary, and they\u2019re also trying to protect her in this story, because she was an absolute disaster as a secretary of state, as she\u2019s pretty much been, I don\u2019t want to say disaster, but she\u2019s one of these people, you\u2019ve known them, never really accomplished a whole lot, but the PR surrounding her is just over the top. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of investment in Hillary, and the Democrats want to keep this going. They wouldn\u2019t mind her being the next nominee because you\u2019ll have the first woman, and more criticism insulated, any criticism will be sexism. It will be a great way to keep the Republicans frightened into not criticizing anything, particularly during the campaign. So the news coverage, in addition to protecting Obama, is also about insulating Hillary as secretary of state from any of this disaster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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