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RUSH: I got an e-mail folks. Get this, from a gentleman in Ohio who\u2019s really bummed out by the rescue of the captain of the Maersk Alabama. You\u2019ll recall that on this program last week, we had a couple of audio sound bites from the commander of the USS Cole, it had a hole blown in it when it was docked at a port in Yemen. The commander of the USS Cole praised the Somali merchant marine organizers as having a brilliant business model. His point was that they\u2019re not terrorists, they\u2019re criminals. They\u2019ve got a great, great business model, that they go out there and they hijack ships, and they demand a ransom, and they\u2019ve been getting the ransom, and it was praised as a brilliant business model. I got an e-mail from Ohio, from this guy, he\u2019s very upset about this now because he was prepared to go into the pirate business. He had heard what a great business it is; he had heard a US naval commander praising the business model. So he had gone out and he had invested in pirate uniforms.<\/p>\n

He even tried to get hold of Johnny Depp for some advice, and he was gonna go get some dinghies and just park \u2019em out there in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of the southeast United States, just going to start hijacking ships and demanding ransom \u2019cause it was a great business model. But now that President Obama has bravely interceded here and thrown the business model for a loop — and he\u2019s outta work. And he was really inspired by this comment this week that the pirates are running a great business model, he\u2019s gonna start his own pirate operation out of Ohio. But it\u2019s all down the drain, so to speak, because of the operation. So another entrepreneur cut short by the Obama administration, ladies and gentlemen. We do have sound bites here from the second in command, Chief Mate Shane Murphy of the Maersk Alabama. He was at Mombasa port in East Kenya, and he said this about America and the Somali merchant marine organizers.<\/p>\n

MURPHY: We\u2019d like to implore President Obama to use all of his resources and increase the commitment to ending the Somali pirate scourge. Right now there are ships still being taken, right now, as we\u2019re standing here. And at sea, it\u2019s a global community. It doesn\u2019t come down to nations. There\u2019s a whole world out there at sea that we live together, we look out for each other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, second mate here, the second in command not happy with just one pirate vessel being dealt with. He is imploring President Obama to use all of his resources to increase the commitment to ending the pirate scourge, which a naval officer last week claimed was a good business model. Here\u2019s more from Shane Murphy.<\/p>\n

MURPHY: America has to be at the forefront of this. It\u2019s time for us to step in and put an end to this crisis. It\u2019s a crisis. Wake up. This crew was lucky to be out with every one of us alive. We\u2019re not going to be that lucky again. And just for the record, we never had to fight to take our ship back. We never surrendered our ship. We fought to save the captured shipmates that were still aboard. But we never gave up. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shane Murphy, second in command of the Maersk Alabama. Now, tell me, does he sound euphoric? He doesn\u2019t sound all that happy about what has happened here. His attitude about this does not jibe with the way the Drive-By Media has been reporting this, that it was a brilliant rescue, that only Obama could have done it, that only Obama could have ordered it, that only Obama could have strategized this. And yet here is Mr. Murphy suggesting that there\u2019s still a crisis out there. But President Obama, go back to sound bite 19. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: As we work to ensure America\u2019s safety out on the seas, I want to discuss what we\u2019re doing to restore economic security —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. That\u2019s all we need to hear. Safety on the seas, it\u2019s being restored, it\u2019s being secured. But the second in command here on the ship Maersk Alabama, no, no, no, there\u2019s still a crisis out there. It\u2019s a good thing that he\u2019s not in the US military or he could be brought up on charges of treason, he\u2019s dissing our brilliant and brave commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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