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RUSH: Once again, what are we faced with here today, folks? Once again, we\u2019re faced with trying to put in perspective what\u2019s being reported in the media about the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. You know, I have to say something. I don\u2019t know why this popped into my head right now, and I\u2019m gonna get in trouble for this. I know I\u2019m gonna get in trouble for it. The Red Sox game on Saturday, the Royals were in town, and you\u2019ve all heard about David Ortiz dropping the F-bomb in the pregame ceremony, being applauded for it. The FCC, that\u2019s fine with us; FCC, no problem. <\/p>\n

He grabbed the microphone and said, “This is our F-ing town.” The stadium\u2019s full. There are families there. I understand the raw emotion, and I guess I\u2019m a fuddy-duddy. I don\u2019t know. I think that\u2019s the kind of thing, it isn\u2019t gonna be long before the word\u2019s commonplace on television now. It\u2019s just another tiny little thing that leads to overall decay and decline. It\u2019s not a big deal, but just some little thing that gnaws at me here. Anyway, the broadcast today is going to feature putting things in perspective. <\/p>\n

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Oh, and a deep gratitude-felt thanks to Mark Steyn<\/a> for sitting in on Friday. I wanted to make sure, well, there have been members of the audience, Snerdley, who have thought me rude and impolite not to thank the guest hosts for coming in here and accepting our payment to — (laughing) — to do the program. <\/p>\n

We all owe a debt to a smoker. A guy in his house wanted to smoke a cigarette. His wife would not let him smoke the cigarette inside. So he went out in the backyard, and while he was smoking his cigarette he\u2019s looking at his boat. And he said, “There\u2019s something strange about that boat.” Something didn\u2019t look right. It was his boat, so he climbed up on his boat while he\u2019s out in the backyard smoking a cigarette, he unzips the protective winter cover that he has on his boat, and he sees the bleeding, half conscious Boston Marathon Muslim bomber. Remember that old saying, for the want of a nail the kingdom was lost, something like that? <\/p>\n

This guy wants a cigarette. We hate cigarettes. We hate smokers. But, if not for this guy being a smoker, if not for this guy being forced to the backyard to smoke his cigarette, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might still be in that boat bleeding out. He might not have been caught if it hadn\u2019t been for that smoker. Now, we don\u2019t know because the guy did get caught, and it\u2019s all downhill from there. I just wanted to let everybody know. “Mr. Limbaugh, you really enjoy this, don\u2019t you? You know that everybody hates smoking and you like smoking and so you just had to –” I\u2019m just pointing out what happened. I\u2019m happy the guy smoked. Smokers do a lot of good in this country, and they\u2019re a maligned group and I just wanted to single this guy out. <\/p>\n

Can we go back, ladies and gentlemen, to the audio sound bites. Last Tuesday on this program<\/a>, I want to replay for you a prediction that I made.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me ask you a question, again based on my observation in recent years. If you are a Muslim listening to this program, and it turns out that a Muslim did bomb the Boston Marathon, how do you feel? I dare say that, if you are a Muslim, you can be pretty certain, you can rest assured that everybody in the media will circle the wagons and say, “This is not because of Islam. This is a lone bad actor, lone wolf. This in no way says anything about Islam. It in no way says anything about Muslims. It\u2019s just a lone nut,” and they will remind us that the vast majority of people denounce this kind of terrorism, the vast majority of Muslims.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re a Muslim and it turns out to be a Muslim bomber, you will be in no way associated with it. Which is fair. However, folks, if you are a conservative out there today, and it turns out that whoever did this has either a real or imagined connection to conservatives? Everybody in the media will unite to denounce your whole group. There will not be the same treatment. If this turns out to be some crazy extremist, domestic terrorist, everybody thought to be in that guy\u2019s group is gonna be tarred and feathered as well. And, believe me, that\u2019s what they\u2019re all hoping for on the left. They are the ones saying so. They are the ones indicating that. Not me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: David Sirota at Salon was hoping the bomber was a white guy<\/a>. Because if it wasn\u2019t a white guy, it was gonna set back liberalism. Now I suppose this is gonna set back immigration, gonna set back gun control. I am reading so many liberals out there today who are saying, “Would somebody explain to me why the Senate did what they did?” The liberals are still frosted over the Senate vote on the background check gun legislation. They are still frosted. They\u2019re asking, “How could this happen? How could these senators do this? Would somebody please tell me, what would you say to the parents of the people who were killed in Boston?” I would tell them that the law that the Senate was debating wouldn\u2019ta stopped this. <\/p>\n

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These guys had their guns. They violated existing law to get them. They had already violated gun law. There isn\u2019t any new gun law that woulda stopped the Boston Marathon bombers from being armed. Did you hear President Obama\u2019s remarks on the Boston bombings? His heart was really in it when he was lecturing us about not rushing to judgment. He said, “That\u2019s why we take care not to rush to judgment. It\u2019s not about motivations or individuals, certainly not about entire groups of people.” Isn\u2019t that good of him to remind us of that? Kind of like the way he never rushed to judgment about George Zimmerman or the Boston cop. <\/p>\n

Michael Goodwin in the New York Post yesterday wrote: “After the capture of the second Boston bombing suspect, President Obama gave a Friday-night speech to praise private citizens and law-enforcement officials. He called the bombers ‘terrorists\u2019 and said, ‘They failed because the people of Boston refused to be intimidated. They failed because, as Americans, we refused to be terrorized.\u2019 Good, strong stuff — before he ruined it. Obama\u00c2\u2019s uplifting tone suddenly shifted into peevish scold as he warned against a rush to judgment ‘about the motivations of these individuals\u2019 or ‘entire groups of people.\u2019 He continued: ‘One of the things that makes America the greatest nation on Earth … is that we welcome people from all around the world — people of every faith, every ethnicity, from every corner of the globe.'”<\/p>\n

Is that really what\u2019s made us great? Multiculturalism, diversity, that\u2019s what he means. Is that really what made this country great, or is it freedom, is it our founding, is it the Declaration of Independence? Is it American history that\u2019s made us great? What, open borders has made us great? Have to get a plug in for immigration reform. “‘People of every faith, every ethnicity, from every corner of the globe. So as we continue to learn more about why and how this tragedy happened, let\u00c2\u2019s make sure that we sustain that spirit.\u2019 My immediate reaction was loud and unprintable. Reading the transcript in the light of day didn\u00c2\u2019t help. To put it kindly, the president is stuck in deep denial. Shadow-boxing against the truth, he can\u00c2\u2019t bring himself to say ‘Muslim terrorists.\u2019 To do so would, in his mind, feed a stereotype and fuel innate American prejudice. So reality must be avoided and important facts omitted about the extraordinary events in Boston.”<\/p>\n

And that was my point in the sound bite. Live in denial, barely say the word “Muslim” here. Lone wolves, not tied to anybody. The Chechen president says (paraphrasing), “These guys were raised in America. If you want to find the problem, look at how they were educated.” He may have a point, but let\u2019s listen to some sound bites, bouncing off my prediction what the media would do if the bomber turned out to be Muslim. We\u2019ll start with Friday morning. ABC special report coverage of the manhunt. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, bomber number two, Diane Sawyer interviewing the suspect\u2019s neighbor Larry Aaronson. Aaronson gives his reaction when he first saw the photos released by the authorities.<\/p>\n

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AARONSON: This morning around three or four o\u2019clock in the morning when the pictures of him became clearer and clearer, you know, on the television, and on the Internet, I said, “My God, that looks like Dzhokhar. That looks just like Dzhokhar.” You know, said, “Oh, it can\u2019t be, can\u2019t possibly be.” And people said to me, “Why didn\u2019t you call police and say something?” And I said, “Because I\u2019m not sending the police out to some lovely Islamic kid who looks like this kid and have everybody go hound him down like they did to that poor Saudi kid.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Turned out he was the culprit. (imitating Aaronson) “I\u2019m not gonna send the cops. This is a nice guy. I know this guy. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s this guy. It looks just like him, I\u2019m not gonna send the cops out to some lovely Islamic kid who looks like this. I\u2019m not gonna do that, have him hounded like the Saudi kid was.” CNN Friday morning, Starting Point, special report on the manhunt, Jake Tapper, CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem have this exchange about it all.<\/p>\n

TAPPER: It certainly seems as though these individuals are, uh, Islamic terrorists.<\/p>\n

KAYYEM: Well, yes. But – but that\u00c2\u2019s – those are two separate words at this stage. Because I think after 9\/11 we have this fear of tying a, you know, Muslim with terrorism. We shouldn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep. I hate to do, “I told you so,” but this was not a tough prediction. Knew this was gonna happen. You know how tough it was there for Jake? (imitating Tapper) “It certainly seems as though these individuals are — ah — ah, darn it, ah, jeez, ah, can\u2019t believe it. Ah, I can\u2019t believe I have to say it, oh, my, it looks like they\u2019re Islamic terrorists.” Last Friday morning, CBS special report on the manhunt, coanchor Gayle King talking with Charlie Rose and Scott Pelley. Gayle King says, “News this morning, the suspects are from Chechnya. That\u2019s what everybody\u2019s been talking about.”<\/p>\n

PELLEY: Chechnya is a province of the former Soviet Union, province of Russia, which is a predominantly Muslim province. But we also understand, as Bob Orr was reporting to us earlier, that these young men apparently had been in the United States for some time.<\/p>\n

ROSE: And were legal residents.<\/p>\n

PELLEY: Apparently, one of these young men has been here at least five years, so what is the connection to Chechnya? Is there a political or religious connection to Chechnya? I think we won\u2019t know for a while.<\/p>\n

KING: No, they\u2019re being described as totally assimilated.<\/p>\n

ROSE: One of the questions is whether they became radicalized after they got here, that, in fact, they did not arrive in the United States with the intent of committing terrorist acts, but something happened.<\/p>\n

PELLEY: That\u2019s right. At least one of them said that he had no friends in the United States, even after all of these years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, so he\u2019s a lone wolf. You can\u2019t blame — there\u2019s nothing to see here. Tom Brokaw is blaming US drones for motivating the bombers. Has anybody seen any evidence of that? Brokaw was on Meet the Press yesterday, and he said, “I think we also have to examine the use of drones that the United States is involved in, and there are a lot of civilians, innocently killed in a drone attack, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.” He said, “We have to work a lot harder at motivation here. What prompts a young man to come to this country and still feel alienated from it and to go back to Russia and do whatever he did? I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve examined that enough. There\u2019s a enormous rage against what they see in that part of the world as a presumptuousness of the United States.” <\/p>\n