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RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen, back now to the audio sound bites and the one and only Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But first I mentioned to you the propaganda reasons regarding why we should not have invited Mahmoud. Nobody should have invited him to speak in this country, because it just provides propaganda for his use back home in his controlled society. Now, here\u2019s an Associated Press writer in Tehran. Maybe it\u2019s a terrorist, for all I know. An AP terrorist writing in Tehran. Headline: ‘Iranians Criticize Columbia University\u2019s Combative Introduction for Ahmadinejad — Iranians on Tuesday called the combative introduction of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the head of Columbia University ‘shameful\u2019 and said the harsh words only added to their image of the United States as a bully. In a region where the tradition of hospitality outweighs personal opinions about people, many here\u2019 in Tehran… I\u2019m going to puke. In a region? You\u2019re talking about Iran here. ‘In a region where the tradition of hospitality outweighs personal opinions about people, many [in Tehran] thought Columbia University President Lee Bollinger\u2019s aggressive tone — including telling Ahmadinejad that he exhibited the signs of a ‘petty and cruel dictator\u2019 — was over the top. ‘The surprising point of the last night meeting is the behavior of the university president,\u2019 state-run radio reported, describing Bollinger\u2019s introduction as ‘full of insult, which was mostly Zionists\u2019 propaganda against Iran.\u2019 The chancellors of seven Iranian universities issued a letter on Tuesday to Bollinger saying his statements were ‘deeply shameful\u2019 and invited him to Iran\u2019 to see the truth. So not too many people are talking about Bollinger, but this AP terrorist — or reporter — in Tehran certainly is following the Iranian party line, is he not? I think it\u2019s a he. Who can tell? What\u2019s the name? Yeah, it\u2019s Nasser Karimi. You never know with some of these names. It sounds like it\u2019s a guy. Let\u2019s go to the audiotape here, the audio sound bites. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, responding to these, quote, unquote, ‘insults\u2019 leveled at him by Lee Bollinger.<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): I want to complain about… from the person who read this political statement against me. In Iran, tradition requires that when we demand a person to invite a speaker, we actually respect our students and the professors by allowing them to make their own judgment, and we don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessary before this speech is even given to come —<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (wild applause)<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): — in with a series of claims —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yay! Students are applauding the terrorist in their midst, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is fabulous. Now, I\u2019ve talked to several people, and I\u2019m a little bit surprised to tell you that some people think Mahmoud has a point. This is not polite, if you invite somebody, to this. Somebody said, ‘It was no different, Rush, than you getting invited on a TV show and they do a 30-minute setup of what a rotten SOB you are and make you come out after that. You wouldn\u2019t like that.\u2019 I said, ‘I wouldn\u2019t mind if they were telling the truth. Bollinger was telling the truth about old Mahmoud.\u2019 But some people said, ‘Still, it was a lot impolite to do this.\u2019 The question is: Why did Bollinger do it? Well, clearly, there are a lot reasons. One of them is money, obviously. The guy was threatened with [withdrawal of] money from alumni and boosters and others, plus there was incredible criticism from the right. I think what happened here was this little guy, Bollinger, just wanted some attention for his school. ‘Wow, this will really set me well with the liberal community, being open and tolerant of this little terrorist coming in here, because everybody knows that he hates Bush, and we hate Bush, and so have a little love-fest down here.\u2019<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t expect the reaction he got. So it was a CYA thing to go out there. But who cares? You know, who cares about the motivation? The bottom line is what Bollinger said, and it pulled the lid off of the jar that is housing the phoniness of the Democrat Party\u2019s belief about the war on terror. Still, to me, that was the major import of what happened. Screw what Ahmadinejad said. Whatever Bollinger said about him and about the Middle East and the United States\u2019 position, that, to me, was profound. This is a major university president. He is one of the leading liberal leaders of academe, and he just sold \u2019em out. I\u2019ll bet he\u2019s getting some grief privately. He\u2019s probably being applauded on the one hand not the other, but what was the cocktail party like last night for him? You know, the Drive-Bys ran the tape, and they missed the story. They ran the tape and they missed the story of it. Well… Yeah, they may have genuinely missed it or they may have purposely ignored it. Here is a question: An unidentified student said, ‘Iranian women are now denied basic human rights, and your government has imposed Draconian punishments, including execution on Iranian citizens who are homosexuals. Why are you doing these things?\u2019<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): In I-ran, we don\u2019t have homosexuals like in your country. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughing) <\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): We don\u2019t have that in our country! <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughing) <\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): In Iran —<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (Booing.) <\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don\u2019t know who\u2019s told you that we have it.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) And the students, who had previously applauded him, started laughing at him. Little Mahmoud became a laughingstock at Columbia University. You see? Without Democrat talking points to follow, he really doesn\u2019t know what to say in this country. He knows what to say about Hurricane Katrina. He knows what to say about Abu Ghraib. He knows what to say about ‘secret European prisons.\u2019 He knows what to say about Club Gitmo. Because all he has to do is listen to Democrats say it. But this question came out of the blue, because the Democrats in this country, of course, never rip homosexuals. So he was flying blind. He had to say, ‘I don\u2019t have that problem.\u2019 (Laughing.) ‘We don\u2019t have that phenomenon.\u2019 (Laughing.) So he was off message. He had no talking points furnished for him on that subject.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the Mahmoud comment on gays. The media is somewhat stymied, and Matthews last night on Hardball attempted to explain what Mahmoud meant.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: You know what he meant! We all know what he meant! There\u2019s no, uh… (smarmy laugh) There\u2019s no Provincetown.<\/p>\n

REPORTERETTE: (giggling)<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: There\u2019s no place you can go if you\u2019re openly gay and enjoy freedom. There\u2019s no…locales. I mean, I was two years in Africa. I didn\u2019t see any gay hangouts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, uh, you won\u2019t see gay hangouts anywhere in the world of Islam. You ought to consider them a huge enemy out there, Chris. A lot of them couldn\u2019t go to locales if there were locales because they\u2019re killed. You know, they live in the shadows there. (interruption) Mr. Snerdley wants to know, ‘Why does Matthews assume to know what he meant?\u2019 You know, it\u2019s a famous rhetorical trick. If you start an answer to a question with, ‘Well, as we all know,\u2019 or, ‘As everybody knows.\u2019 That\u2019s a very clever rhetorical trick. Madeleine Albright uses it. A lot of lib Democrats use it when answering policy questions. ‘Well, as everybody knows…\u2019 That means it\u2019s decided. Everybody doesn\u2019t know what he meant. He might have actually meant, ‘We don\u2019t have any here because if we find \u2019em, we do something about it. We don\u2019t tolerate it. We don\u2019t have that phenomenon.\u2019 There\u2019s a tendency here to soft-sell this guy and not be honest about just the kind of regime he runs and the kind of terrorist that he is. Here\u2019s an even better example. Christiane Amanpour was on last night with Anderson Cooper on CNN. They are wondering, ‘Why does he say these things? Why does Mahmoud say these things?\u2019<\/p>\n

COOPER: To point-blank say that they don\u2019t have homosexuals in — in Iran is just — just ludicrous. <\/p>\n

AMANPOUR: It\u2019s bizarre!<\/p>\n

COOPER: Why does he do this? Why does he want to come here, make these speeches, make these remarks about the Holocaust? What is the audience he\u2019s trying to reach?<\/p>\n

AMANPOUR: His own hard-line audience, the ideologues are — who are still the fundamentalist, hard-line adherers to the revolution of 28 years ago. He believes that — that those who are angry with the United States because of the Iraq war, conversely admire him, because he stands up to the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here they are: ‘Why would he say these things? Why would he come here and do this?\u2019 They had such high hopes that Mahmoud would come and give a stem winder, a barnburner, ripping George W. Bush to shreds — and, instead, he embarrassed liberals by saying they don\u2019t have any homosexuals in Iran! Having homosexuals amongst you is the surest sign of enlightenment, but not to Mahmoud. ‘Why would he come say that? Why would he damage his case?\u2019 That\u2019s what they\u2019re wondering. Not the first time this has happened on CNN. We\u2019ll go back to August 1st of 2006, Anderson Cooper 360, is in northern Israel. He\u2019s on the Israel-Lebanon border interviewing New Yorker magazine\u2019s Jeffrey Goldberg. See if you remember this.<\/p>\n

COOPER: I think what\u2019s been lost in a lot of this coverage is just how anti-Semitic Hezbollah is in the rhetoric.<\/p>\n

GOLDBERG: It\u2019s absolutely fascinating, Anderson, the anti-Semitism. There are two things that are fascinating about it. One is how embedded in the core of Hezbollah ideology anti-Semitism is. And I don\u2019t mean anti-Israel thinking or anti-Zionism. I mean frank anti-Semitism. The other thing that\u2019s so interesting about it is how blunt they are and how frank they are about their anti-Semitism. They don\u2019t hide it. They don\u2019t try to mask it in any way. They state very openly to you when you ask their exact feelings about Jews, which are quite extreme.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This guy is stunned that an Islamist terrorist group would, A, be anti-Semitic, and then be so open about it when they speak. Why would they do this? It\u2019s really interesting, Anderson. There is a precedent here for CNN to be curious about why totalitarians, terrorists, and thugs admit how mean they are and how bigoted and prejudiced they are. Why would Mahmoud say there are no homosexuals in Iran? I\u2019ll tell you why I think he said it. I\u2019m going to be flat-out, dead-straight honest with you, folks. If you\u2019ve studied this, you know it\u2019s not permitted in Islam. It is not permitted. It\u2019s the worst thing you can be — second only to being a woman — in Islam, these guys\u2019 version of it anyway. Remember, I think even after Bollinger\u2019s introduction, he thought he would be able to control the event. You have to understand the mind-set. This guy is coming here thinking he\u2019s a hero. The Democrats won the election in \u201906. That\u2019s his party, Bin Laden\u2019s party. This guy, on 60 Minutes, talks about how America sucks: because of Katrina, because Abu Ghraib, because of Club Gitmo, because of secret European prisons. He parrots what he hears from American Democrats. He thinks he\u2019s on safe ground. He does not have to come here and rip this country to shreds because the Democrat Party is doing it for him. All he\u2019s gotta do is echo what they say. <\/p>\n

So he comes here and the media is fawning all over his arrival. You saw the motorcade that brought him in from JFK. I mean this little guy is getting all kinds of attention in this infidel country, and he thinks he\u2019s got us wrapped around his little finger. Part and parcel of that is the media fawning all over the guy. Wherever he goes, there\u2019s thousands of them outside, hours in advance of his arrival, and he\u2019s sitting there thinking, ‘Man, I\u2019ve got this one licked. These people, what a bunch of dupes they are.\u2019 He walks into Columbia yesterday all confident as he can be, and then here comes Bollinger\u2019s little broadside. I think it unnerved him a bit, but once that was over — and especially when he gets the applause in his opening remarks, ripping Bollinger for being impolite and rude — he\u2019s thinking, ‘All right, these people love me, and the Democrats won the election, and I\u2019m just saying what they say — and I\u2019m in a liberal enclave here. I mean, I\u2019m at a university. I\u2019m at Columbia University. They invited me.\u2019 He thinks he\u2019s on top of the world, folks. He\u2019s feeling his oats. This is a high. This is a huge rush. (No pun intended!) Then, all of a sudden, out of the blue, comes this question on homosexuality — and that he wants in the talking points, and he hadn\u2019t heard the Democrats talk about that, and he doesn\u2019t quite know what to say. So he comes out and he says, ‘Well, we don\u2019t have that problem. We don\u2019t have that phenomena. There are no homosexuals in Iran.\u2019<\/p>\n

What he was saying was, ‘It. Isn\u2019t. Permitted.\u2019 He didn\u2019t say, ‘When we discover them, we execute them.\u2019 He was just saying, ‘It isn\u2019t permitted.\u2019 Even when the audience laughed through his answer, he kept on with that line, because I think that was one of the few times in the address yesterday he was off script. He kept talking about how women are God\u2019s greatest creatures. We love women, and we love this, and we love that, and we hate war, and all these sorts of things — and everybody here is eating it up. Everything he says, everybody is just eating it up. So he gets this question that\u2019s not on the talking points. He hasn\u2019t prepped for it, and so he\u2019s left to think, ‘Okay, they love me. Tell \u2019em the truth. We don\u2019t have that phenomenon in this country,\u2019 because they don\u2019t permit it, and he gets laughed at and so forth, but he kept on with it. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any great mystery what he meant. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any great mystery that he was off his talking points. Look, I\u2019m not exaggerating about this. I am confident that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad goes to all these public appearances… Now, the UN will be different because that\u2019s going to be an audience of his peers in there, so he can launch in there.<\/p>\n

But when he\u2019s talking to American citizens, he thinks he\u2019s talking to people that also hate George W. Bush and love Democrats and love him, because that\u2019s all he\u2019s doing: saying the same things that they\u2019re saying. He knows that his comments about wiping Israel off the map don\u2019t get reported widely here. He knows that his comments about attacking the United States and denying the Holocaust don\u2019t get widely reported here. He knows the American media is on his side. So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s controversial at all to try to detect what he meant, nor is it a mystery why he said it. He\u2019s proud of the fact they don\u2019t permit homosexuals in Iran! He\u2019s proud of it, and that\u2019s what allowed him to continue on undaunted through the laughter of the students. By the way, in none of the Iranian media that I\u2019ve seen (and I haven\u2019t by any means seen all of it) that whole exchange has not been reported, even by this AP terrorist or the Iranian state-run news service. There\u2019s no reference to what he said about homosexuals at all, and they have a closed society over there, so you don\u2019t know how much of the actual presentation the Iranian people have actually seen, because I\u2019m sure whatever they\u2019ve seen has been carved up and edited with a fine-tooth comb. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got two more Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sound bites. It wasn\u2019t just Columbia University that welcomed Mahmoud with open arms. The Drive-Bys rolled out the red carpet for him, too, at the National Press Club, and he assured them here that threatening war with Iran is just a propaganda tool of Bush. He got a question here from the Press Club\u2019s president, Jerry Zremski. Zremski said, ‘Bernard Kouchner, the new French foreign minister, recently said the world would prepare for war with Iran if negotiations fail. Is Iran willing to go to war with the West to protect the Iranian nuclear program?\u2019<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): We think that the talk of war is basically a propaganda tool. Why is there a need for war? People who talk about it have to bring a legal reason for going to war. Why should they threaten another country? Why should they create more insecurity? I think officials who talk this kind of talk should really be pressured and warned to know what to say and when not to say something. They cannot endanger world security, and if they haven\u2019t learned a lesson, then the international community has to tell them how to learn that lesson.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This from the guy who twice a week threatens to blow Israel off the map, and about once a month to attack us. (Laughing.) But the Drive-Bys love this, folks, because it\u2019s aiming right at Bush. The next question from Zremski, ‘Well, here in the US we have very long presidential campaigns. It would prompt an American reporter to ask, ‘Do you plan on running for reelection?” (laughing) It\u2019s like asking Saddam Hussein if he was going to run for reelection in two years!<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): What do you think?<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. I think I\u2019ll listen to what you have to say. That smile would seem to indicate…<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD (via translator): Well, I want to see what you have to say for once, too.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: (Giggling.) I have no opinions on Iranian politics.<\/p>\n

AHMADINEJAD: The press, if Iran and became — as a candidate again. Because every day you\u2019ll be — you\u2019ll have news about peace, good news coming.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) Why do I feel like I\u2019m in this movie Mars Attacks? Like this guy is a little Martian, ‘Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!\u2019 You know how they talked in that movie? ‘Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!\u2019 This little translator here sounds like a valley girl. All right. Anyway, Andrea Mitchell now, to sum up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is on MSNBC this morning with Joe Scarborough, who said to her yesterday, ‘Quite a speech up at Columbia. Is the president of Iran going to be able to top that one today when he speaks before the General Assembly?\u2019<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: This is a very, very clever politician. He is clearly reaching out to the larger Muslim world, to anti-US sentiment. He is trying to undermine US policy, and particularly the Bush administration policy which, as you know, is very controversial, and instead of focusing on his own problems at home, appeal to, uh, a large sentiment around the world which is responsive to the plight of the Palestinian people, and, which especially the way he articulates it, is very hostile to Israel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s a brilliant politician, very clever, clearly reaching out to the larger Muslim world! Yes, Bush is ‘controversial.\u2019 This guy is clever, and smart, and brilliant. Bush\u2019s policies are controversial. Thank you, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. Let me ask you, folks, a serious question here about Mahmoud saying that they don\u2019t have ‘the phenomenon\u2019 of homosexuality in Iran. Are any of you observing — and if you are observing, are you surprised or amazed — how that one question and answer has become the question and answer that everybody in the Drive-By Media is talking about and analyzing? You know, he says that they love women in Iran. Women are stoned to death in Iran every day, and for nothing more than looking the wrong way or glancing the wrong way — and, of course, also if they don\u2019t have the proper attire. The homosexual thing in Iran is probably not a big deal because they don\u2019t permit it, but the idea that that has been the one thing everybody here is focusing on leads me to believe that Israel might be able to actually turn world opinion to its side. If Israel would simply come out and be as pro-homosexual as possible, with as many people as possible living in homosexual relationships publicly and out of the closet, why, American academe would love \u2019em, and be hard-pressed to criticize them. <\/p>\n

You know, the homosexuality on the American left is a political issue — and, of course, liberals make everything about them. So when Ahmadinejad gives his answer, ‘We don\u2019t have any homosexuals in Iran. We don\u2019t have that phenomenon,\u2019 they think: ‘How could you say that? How could you say that!\u2019 By the way, how long will it be…? I make this prediction today, or I ask this question: How long will it be before some liberal or Democrat somewhere says, ‘You know, Ahmadinejad sounded a lot like right-wing Republicans, Falwell and Robertson, when he was talking about no homosexuals in Iran.\u2019 How long will it be before we hear that? But the real story is the plight of women in Iran. This gay thing has captivated the media here. Now, as to Ahmadinejad\u2019s answer to, is he going to run again, what he was really saying… You have to be able to see the stitches on a curveball, see the stitches on a slider here. Not just the stitches on a fastball. You gotta be able to see the stitches on a curveball — and I can. Now, what Mahmoud was really saying is, ‘Of course I\u2019m running! I\u2019ll be running as a Democrat. I\u2019m running on a peace agenda. My fundraiser, Mr. Hsu, is in some problems right now. He\u2019s a little busy, but I\u2019m sure I will trump every one of my opponents in fundraising, and perhaps I will even be allowed to appear on your Oprah show if she wears a burqa, and I\u2019ll be glad to make my candidacy available to the American media running as a Democrat from Tehran.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Leah in Providence, Rhode Island, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. First-time caller. I love your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, your question about why the Drive-By liberal media focused more on the homosexual remark: The reason that they did that, then they\u2019d have to really admit some of the other telling remarks that this megalomaniac made. One of them was that he admitted how Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons on his people, killed hundreds of thousands of them, and then he made mention of a reporter that works at the United Nations that is a deformed survivor of this hideous chemical warfare. And the liberals out there are the ones calling President Bush a liar, that he never had chemical war — chemical, biological accident or, God forbid, even seeking nuclear capabilities. And I thought that was very telling. And the second remark that the nut made about kind of equating the Holocaust to physics, when he was talking about science, and going on and on about science should be free of ideology and it should be pure: Maybe he should have told that to the four Iranian doctors that trained in Iran that tried to blow up the airport in Scotland.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019re right. He\u2019s not getting that kind of scrutiny because that\u2019s not what the interest of the Drive-By Media and the leftists in his visit is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s a celebrity. This is pop culture news coverage. He is an exciting and intriguing figure to them because they think he hates Bush, and he can\u2019t be all bad if he hates Bush.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because Ahmadinejad fits the mold. The Democrats\u2019 line — and we know it is a total lie — but the Democrats\u2019 line the last four years, (sniveling lib impression) ‘I am so depressed about what the world thinks of my country and Bush has ruined our reputation in the world, and Bush has ruined our status, and I am so upset because I wanted to be admired as an American, and we\u2019re a laughingstock now, and they hate us.\u2019 So here comes Ahmadinejad, spouting his hateful rhetoric toward America, they say, ‘See, see? This happened because of George W. Bush, Mr. Limbaugh, this happened because of Bush. And this is why we must get rid of Bush, we should impeach Bush now, and Cheney, and Halliburton, too, because Ahmadinejad would not hate us if it weren\u2019t that.\u2019 That\u2019s what they think. So he fits their little narrative, if you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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