{"id":228862,"date":"2017-04-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228862"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:39:45","slug":"rush-tv-review-liberal-lunacy-took-over-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/10\/rush-tv-review-liberal-lunacy-took-over-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush TV Review: Liberal Lunacy Took Over Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I know I\u2019ve asked this question before but I don\u2019t remember the answer. Anybody in there still watching Homeland on Showtime? Did you watch it last night? So I\u2019m not — well, I\u2019m gonna talk about this, and if you haven\u2019t seen it yet you should turn the radio off. I\u2019ll give you ample warning. ‘Cause I\u2019m not gonna wait \u2019til I think everybody\u2019s watched the finale. Finale was last night. Up or down?<\/p>\n

Up? You are kidding me. You\u2019re kidding me. Up? Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness, I can\u2019t believe it. This just proves how more important than ever my take on this is, because you like it? Ho! She doesn\u2019t like their mocking of the conspiracy kook radio guy. That\u2019s not even the half of it. Okay, so that\u2019s good. That\u2019s good. This means that people do not see what they need to see watching this show.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, some of the critics watching Homeland have — there\u2019s a big story at NewsBusters featuring an interview with the cast<\/a>. What everybody thinks has happened in Homeland is that after six years of naming Islamofascists as the bad guys, that Americans have become the bad guys. And that\u2019s only half the story. That\u2019s only half of what they\u2019ve done on Homeland. This is amazing. And I\u2019ll get to it in due course.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends, and welcome it is great to have you. Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

You know what? It would be unfair. Here I\u2019ve just teased this and then to lay it off. I don\u2019t do that. So I\u2019m gonna talk about it. I\u2019m gonna give you 30 seconds. If you watch Homeland this season, the finale was last night, if you DVR it and haven\u2019t seen it and you don\u2019t want to know what happened and if you don\u2019t want to be told how to think about what happened, then you don\u2019t want to be listening for the next couple of minutes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna give you a countdown from five, and then after that, if you\u2019re still here — I mean, you can complain all you want, but your complaints will fall on deaf ears because you have been warned. Ready? Five, four, three, two, one. If you are still listening and you haven\u2019t seen the Homeland finale, you cannot get mad at me now for spoiler alerting, or for spoiling.<\/p>\n

Now, the first, what was it, season six or five last night? Season six. Doesn\u2019t matter. All of the prior seasons of Homeland have focused on militant Islam, militant Islamic terrorism as the dire threat facing the United States. And it has depicted quite accurately the militant Islamic threat, the terrorism threat. It has explored the CIA and its ways of dealing with this, presidents, entire intelligence community.<\/p>\n

It has been quite up front about the threat posed and the techniques used and the efforts engaged in to beat it and to stop it. And, along the way, there have been some very nasty stories in the entertainment press about Homeland as being biased and anti-Muslim, just as there were in the tail-end years of the Fox series 24. And 24 was a great show. Everybody loved 24. I think 24 lasted eight years, Kiefer Sutherland. And Howard Gordon, who was one of the producers of 24, is likewise one of the producers of Homeland.<\/p>\n

Now, during the 24 series period of time, toward the tail end of it there was a very caustic piece written and published by Jane Mayer in New York Magazine, either New York or The New Yorker, I forget which, in which she essentially blamed 24 for the torture that was occurring at Guantanamo Bay and at Club Gitmo as well as Abu Ghraib in Iraq. She wrote a caustic piece, and it was just one of a few that others had written too about how 24 was horrible because it seemed to sanction torture, and it depicted torture. It was un-American.<\/p>\n

And there were even some stories that said 24 was giving the CIA torture ideas. And I remember when the story was being written and Jane Mayer was interviewing people, people at 24 were not that concerned about it because it was press and all press is good. But it ended up doing some limited damage, but it was part of other damage that was going on out there, trying say that the program was biased against militant Islam and it was unfair. You know the drill.<\/p>\n

So Homeland starts, and it has the same focus, but it doesn\u2019t focus on a counterterrorism unit. It focuses on the CIA and the bad guys, and it\u2019s quite good. And it does this for five years. Then this season, everything changed. I remember when the first episode aired, I came to the Golden EIB Microphone, I said, “How many of you people watched this last night and are not fuming, spitting mad?” Because Carrie Mathison, the Claire Danes figure, who was the only one who never wavered in the fight against militant Islamic terror — some of the others went soft — she was never anything less than a hundred percent and she now has joined a foundation defending Islamists against attacks, phony allegations of engaging in terrorism.<\/p>\n

In other words, she\u2019s gone from trying to capture them and stop acts of terror to defending those who do it, overnight. So what am I watching here. I said I don\u2019t want to prejudge, just the first episode. There was also something else in the first episode. This season began in January, which means that filming was going on all last summer and into the fall, and this season\u2019s Homeland takes place entirely between Election Day and Inauguration Day, of a new president, a woman.<\/p>\n

This new president is amazingly Trump-like in that the intelligence community hates her. The intelligence community is trying to undermine her. The intelligence community is working with that kook conspiracy theorist radio, TV guy. The CIA is working with him to plant stories, and they even get it right about all the bots on Twitter, all these things that make it look like hundreds of thousands of people are tweeting when only five or six people are, fake names, they get that right.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But this president is portrayed as a lying cheat trying to capitalize on her dead son who died with valor in Iraq. But it turns out, according to the CIA, that he was a coward running from the fire, he left his buddies to die. It wasn\u2019t true, but they made it all up trying to destroy her. She is anti-intel communities. She doesn\u2019t want anything to do with them. She doesn\u2019t trust them. And they know this, so they have their sights set on destroying her. And last night they tried to assassinate her.<\/p>\n

CIA characters in this show for the first five seasons that everybody liked and respected, have turned into exactly what we\u2019re being told the intelligence community thinks of Trump. The parallels here are uncanny because this show this had been written before Trump won the election, and the show had to be filmed before Trump\u2019s transition began, maybe they shot a couple of episodes or edited some, but it\u2019s amazing how prescient this was in terms of the new president winning, an outsider president. This one, however, is a woman, not Trump, but everything else is pretty much the same.<\/p>\n

Nobody in the establishment likes her. Nobody in the establishment thinks she knows what she\u2019s doing. Everybody in the establishment thinks she has to be undermined. Her staff is halfway clueless to what\u2019s going on. She\u2019s not clueless to it, but she is not quite sure how to deal with it. Here\u2019s the upshot of it. Show begins with all of these characters now being — well, the prime character being sympathetic to Islamic terrorism and terrorists and defending them, particularly those who may end up being falsely accused. It\u2019s a total 180.<\/p>\n

Last night a plot is hatched to assassinate the new president from within, a rogue general working with the CIA. This character that is a conspiracy theorist TV host is working with the CIA to plant lies and falsehoods about her and telling everybody that she\u2019s authoritarian, gonna be a dictator, everybody\u2019s gonna be in dungeons if she\u2019s not stopped. You have no human rights, no freedom, the world will never be the same. Identical, just identical to what stories were about Trump.<\/p>\n

The assassination attempt fails, narrowly fails. She barely escapes with the help of the Claire Danes figure, and Peter Quinn, but I haven\u2019t mentioned him yet. He\u2019s an entirely — it would take me too long to mention — one of the primary characters, a CIA Agent who\u2019s been a hero for five years is killed last night in the effort to save the new president from the assassination from within, in her hotel. She has not been inaugurated yet. She\u2019s in her hotel, they take her up to the hotel, they try to assassinate her.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rogue elements of the CIA, in fact, blew up a building in New York City and tried to blame Islamists for it when in fact it was the CIA that did it. I mean, it\u2019s exactly what the left would like you to believe is happening today. It\u2019s uncanny. At any rate, she survives the assassination attempt, and she sends Carrie Mathison out to tell all of her cabinet heads and advisers that everything\u2019s fine, we\u2019re gonna round up whoever was involved in this and deal with it, but it\u2019s business as usual.<\/p>\n

So Carrie goes home, tries to get her kid back. CIA has arranged for her to lose her kid in the process of all this, and so she\u2019s gotta get it back from family services. And this new president, on being inaugurated, sends her own private police force to round up every political enemy and put them in jail. Saul Berenson, prime character all six seasons of Homeland is pulled out of his car at gunpoint and send to the gulag. The president\u2019s cabinet is wrapped up at gunpoint and sent to the gulag.<\/p>\n

And the closing shot — well, the second-to-last closing shot is of this new president sitting alone in the Oval Office, a darkened Oval Office, and the camera\u2019s pulling away and she has a sneering smile on her face as she sits there knowing full well that her cops are jailing every political opponent that she had, not just those that tried to assassinate her. That you could understand. But I mean literally everybody, except the TV guy. He survives \u2019cause that would be a little bit risky.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve seen stories about this season of Homeland that talk about how the big thing to note here is how it\u2019s gone from proper understanding of militant Islamic terrorism to sympathy, you missed what this is really all about. This show, whether it intended to or not, as I say the filming schedule, they couldn\u2019t have known when they began who was gonna be elected. Now, they obviously knew and maybe could do some edits in a couple of episodes, I don\u2019t know. But to me it is clear Hollywood liberals — and it\u2019s not just in this show. They believe what they believe and they\u2019re putting together programming based on these beliefs, and so this show made it perfectly clear that the new president, which may as well be Trump except in this show she\u2019s a woman, it\u2019s just uncanny.<\/p>\n

Everything that you\u2019ve heard that they think Trump\u2019s gonna do — jail his enemies, deny human rights, all this — this president is doing. And the parallels, the intel community hates her and is trying to undermine her just like the intel community hates Trump, trying to undermine him. In this show the new president wins and the intel community gets thrown in jail, which is the big fear the left has. It\u2019s irrational that Trump is some fascist dictator that\u2019s gonna round everybody up who opposes him and put him in jail. But they believe it, folks. This is not just entertainment. They believe this stuff. That\u2019s what makes them who they are.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re starting to make their beliefs, they\u2019re showing up in scripts in these comedies and dramas that show up on TV, and it\u2019s very subtle. I imagine many of you who saw it last night listening to me talk about it, well, I hope you all picked up on it. I hope I\u2019m not the only one that saw what this really is. This is an effort, whether it was intended to or not, but I don\u2019t know how it couldn\u2019t have been, to tell every other liberal, yeah, we did a show here showing exactly what we\u2019re up against here with this new President Trump. He\u2019s gonna put in jail every one of us that doesn\u2019t like him. He could end up working with these conspiracy kooks. You just never know.<\/p>\n