{"id":23355,"date":"2006-02-22T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:35:04","slug":"press_does_nuance_gymnastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Let\u2019s listen to some media analysis of this, and I referred to this earlier how, you know, I am often portrayed by the media and by the Democrats as a simple-minded simpleton, and you are mind-numbed robots. Why, ladies and gentlemen, I see only black and white, I don\u2019t see nuance. I don\u2019t see the gray areas. Everything is either right or wrong, good or bad, and that equals simpleton. They are the ones with the nuance. They, the elitists, are the smartest people in the world, and they\u2019re able to see things that mere mortals and plebes like you and I are incapable of seeing. What a 180 has taken place. Today, on the Today Show, the perky one, Katie Couric, apparently headed to the anchor chair at CBS, talking to Tim Russert about the ports. And Katie said, &#8220;We\u2019re hearing about two conflicting images of the UAE. One as an ally in our war against terror and another is a home to two of the 9\/11 hijackers. What depiction is accurate, Tim, or is it some kind of combination of the two?&#8221;<\/line><BR\/> RUSSERT: It\u2019s a combination. The fact is hijackers from September 11th did come from the UAE. On the other hand, they have helped US officials apprehend some Al-Qaeda officials. The president is saying to himself and the people around him, if I go before the world and say, &#8220;We\u2019re going to cut back on this deal because the UAE is an Arab country,&#8221; what is that going to mean? What is that going to mean to the future of our foreign policy? It\u2019s a more nuanced approach, frankly, that the Democrats are usually trying to argue. This time, the Democrats have the simple issue: We\u2019re for national security, Mr. President.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: It\u2019s going to come back and stab them in the back, because all of a sudden their whole modus operandi has been exploded. We don\u2019t have any enemies; the Democrats been trying to tell us that we don\u2019t need to be doing any of this; we don\u2019t need the Patriot Act; we don\u2019t need to have this NSA spying program; we don\u2019t need Abu Ghraib; we don\u2019t need these foreign prisons; we don\u2019t need any of the steps that we\u2019re taking because Bush is the one creating the terrorists. If we just stop Bush then, well, we\u2019re going to be safer. Now all of a sudden we\u2019ve got an enemy, and who do the Democrats zero in on? The United Arab Emirates. As I say, if the bin Laden family were buying the ports, then we\u2019d have a different take on this. But even Russert points out that, frankly, it\u2019s the president and of course me because there aren\u2019t too many people other than me and the president who are being nuanced on this, everybody else is just like relying on the simple. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>Of course, when he says, &#8220;The Democrats have the simple issue, we\u2019re for national security, Mr. President,&#8221; we also know that Democrats inexorably linked to unions, and the unions are very much frightened and scared about this deal and will have a major impact on how Democrats react to this. It\u2019s allowing them, their association with unions here, is allowing them to stand up under the banner of national security, which is really great. I just ask, &#8220;Why did it take them so long and how come they chose the United Arab Emirates as the enemy that they wanted to recognize as posing a grave threat to the country?&#8221; So the next question from Katie Couric, &#8220;What do you think about the Arab-American community claiming it\u2019s bias and bigotry that\u2019s driving this? And, in fact, President Bush suggested it as well when he compared all of a sudden Middle Eastern companies held to a different standard than a British company. Is there some truth to those claims?&#8221;<\/line><BR\/>RUSSERT: Well, the Arab community certainly believes that. And if you look at the numbers, Katie, there are about 360 ports in the United States. About 30% have terminals operated by foreign companies, including China, Singapore, Denmark. And so many Arab-Americans are saying, why us? Why is the UAE being singled out?<\/line><BR\/>COURIC: Right.<\/line><BR\/>RUSSERT: Democrats and Republicans and the Congress will counter, because it was a country that was directly involved in September 11th.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Let\u2019s go cut eight. That question about their involvement in 9\/11 was brought up to Rumsfeld yesterday during his briefing. And here is the exchange. It\u2019s an unidentified male reporter.<\/line><BR\/>REPORTER: Two of the 9\/11 hijackers were from the United Arab Emirates. It\u2019s an undercurrent.<\/line><BR\/>RUMSFELD: One ought not, in my view, hold the country of origin responsible for every citizen they may have at any given time, particularly when people have multiple passports.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Does the name Marc Rich mean anything to you? Marc Rich, pardoned by President Clinton, has been involved in a lot of nefarious criminal activities, used to be an American citizen. Does it make sense that countries that don\u2019t want to deal with Marc Rich are going to say we can\u2019t trust you Americans, look at Marc Rich? By the way, I might add that the Democrats have been doing their best to alienate as many foreign countries from President Bush as possible. They\u2019ve been traveling to Saudi Arabia. You know, if somebody wants to look at who\u2019s really posing a security risk, look no further than Al Gore, who goes over to Saudi Arabia last week, still this has not been reported on the mainstream press, and starts telling lies to an Arab audience, and he was doing it for payment, about the horrible treatment that Arabs are receiving in this country. Rounding them up wholesale, putting them in prison, not charging them, and they\u2019re never to be heard from again, and on the cusp, typical Al Gore, less than a week after he makes the speech, here we are announcing a deal to sell these six ports to the United Arab Emirates! <\/line><BR\/> What a blowhard idiot! He may not be an idiot in terms of speaking because his audience back here in the country, the left-wing kooks that are going to determine the next Democratic presidential nominee, may love it. But the fact is, with the cartoon controversy and these riots all over the world, and there\u2019s Gore out there saying that we are rounding up Arabs in this country wholesale and sequestering them without legal protection, without any charges, it\u2019s just absurd. And you\u2019ve got Clinton basically going overseas and saying, &#8220;I\u2019ll tell you what, we ought not be publishing any of these pictures of the cartoons, Prophet Mohammed and so forth, I think the press ought to be more responsible about this.&#8221; <\/line><BR\/>So he\u2019s coming out against freedom of the press, but these guys and Jimmy Carter have been going around the world, ripping the United States and its policy on the war on terror, ripping the United States and its policy on the war in Iraq, ripping George W. Bush personally and so forth, all for their own personal gain. You think that\u2019s not whipping up a bunch of anti-American frenzy over there when an ex-president and an ex-vice president do this kind of thing? You know, I think it\u2019s helpful to have a little perspective here.<\/line><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><BR\/>It was only mere moments ago, ladies and gentlemen, that I asked you if I was not correct when I said that one of your primary fears when you first heard the deal was that you conjured up a mental image of turban-wearing Arabs running the cranes and so forth, thinking that the United Arab Emirates would import their own people as employees and so forth. Yes, you did, Snerdley, that was exactly one of the fears that you had and a lot of people did, too. I was right about this and to show you just how knee-jerk reaction and simple-minded the media is, I have just a little question here for you, five seconds, you have to listen fast here and this is from Martha Raddatz to Scott McClellan, the White House briefing today, she is an ABC News reporterette.<\/line><BR\/>RADDATZ: Scott, could we just go back to the hiring, so who\u2019s running the forklifts? I mean, do we have any control over that?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Good Lord, here is the mainstream &#8212; this is ABC, for three days it has been announced on this program, it\u2019s been findable, discoverable everywhere, the longshoreman union will continue to be the union. The forklifts are going to be run by the forklift operators of today. The jobs are going to be held by the people who have the jobs today. The only thing that\u2019s going to change are the people writing the checks. And she doesn\u2019t know it. And McClellan has probably answered the question already twice by the time she gets to it again, and says, &#8220;Can we just go back to the hiring, who\u2019s running the forklift?&#8221; I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s spawning that question. She obviously has the same mental picture; she has the same mental picture. And so, at any rate, again, more evidence &#8212; I just know these people. I just know them. It is scary. If they knew how well I know them, they would be haunted<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n<paragraph\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s listen to some media analysis of this, and I referred to this earlier how, you know, I am often portrayed by the media and by the Democrats as a simple-minded simpleton, and you are mind-numbed robots. Why, ladies and gentlemen, I see only black and white, I don\u2019t see nuance. I don\u2019t see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Press Does Nuance Gymnastics - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Let\u2019s listen to some media analysis of this, and I referred to this earlier how, you know, I am often portrayed by the media and by the Democrats as a simple-minded simpleton, and you are mind-numbed robots. Why, ladies and gentlemen, I see only black and white, I don\u2019t see nuance. I don\u2019t see [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/\",\"name\":\"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-19T06:35:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-19T06:35:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: Let\u2019s listen to some media analysis of this, and I referred to this earlier how, you know, I am often portrayed by the media and by the Democrats as a simple-minded simpleton, and you are mind-numbed robots. Why, ladies and gentlemen, I see only black and white, I don\u2019t see nuance. I don\u2019t see [&hellip;]","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/","name":"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-05-19T06:35:04+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-19T06:35:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/02\/22\/press_does_nuance_gymnastics\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Press Does Nuance Gymnastics"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}