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RUSH: All right, folks, I need to issue a warning or make an explanation here. This is a totally — I don\u2019t know what, biorhythms, karma, I don\u2019t know what it is, but nothing about this day is making sense to me. I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019m actually conscious and awake, living in a dream here. (interruption) No, no, no. I don\u2019t know how to explain this. But in the news today, I\u2019ve got all kinds of people saying this and that. None of what anybody thinks is interesting is interesting to me. And the stuff that does interest me, I\u2019m still not sure why it does. So this is going to be very, very weird today because I look at the stacks of stuff here and maybe in five stacks I got three things here I really care about. The rest of it is, ‘Okay I gotta do a service here and get involved in this because this is news that needs to be discussed, analyzed as only I can,\u2019 but it\u2019s tough to explain here. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t care about it. It\u2019s that I\u2019m confused. I\u2019ve got all kinds of people all fired up about all kinds of stuff and I can\u2019t for the life of me understand why. (interruption) No, Snerdley, I do get confused at times. It\u2019s just that I never admit it. Here I am admitting it. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Rush Limbaugh here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, telephone number is 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you an example. There\u2019s a column today in the New York Daily News. Michael Daly wondering why we have not been told the names of the customs officers that pulled Nosehair Shadegg, whatever his name is, off the airplane, Faisal Shahzad. We\u2019ve met the T-shirt vendor, we\u2019ve met the cops, we\u2019ve met everybody, this guy is wondering why we haven\u2019t met the customs guys. I couldn\u2019t care less why we haven\u2019t met the customs guys, I don\u2019t understand why anybody cares about it. The only thing I can come up with is that the administration is trying to say they were on the case from moment one, when they weren\u2019t, that really blind luck is all that enabled us to get hold of this guy for his bomb not to go off, and maybe they\u2019re not introducing us to the customs guys because doing so would focus on how little the administration actually did. But that\u2019s not news. This administration looks at all of this as an annoyance. Anything that gets in the way of advancing the transformation of American society and the transformation of our economy is simply an inconvenience to them. Terrorism is an inconvenience, Afghanistan\u2019s an inconvenience, they really rather not have to deal with it and when they do deal with it they\u2019d rather not have to talk about it. They just want to take credit for everything when it goes right, when they had nothing to do with it. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an LA Times story that we would never see if a Republican were in the White House. Now, let me put this in perspective. This oil spill in the Gulf, the media, the administration and their allies have been talking about this as an apocalyptic disaster, right? It\u2019s bad. It is horrible. It is, oh, my God, this is going to destroy so many things, what are we going to do? Here\u2019s the LA Times headline: ‘Oil Spill Seen as Energy Opportunity for Obama.\u2019 Now, you and I all know that he does look at every crisis as an opportunity to expand his power and to grow the government, there\u2019s no question about it, but here you have the media actually pointing out that in an encouraging way. ‘The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico could give the president new momentum for his stalled climate bill, environmentalists say. ‘He needs a response which is as big as the spill is,\u2019 said Wesley Warren, program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>So here you have a bunch of environmentalist wackos who are supposedly distraught and just beside themselves over the ecological disaster here and the destruction and they see an opportunity for Obama to advance more legislation to give him more power and control and expand the federal government. They\u2019re exposing their agenda right before our very eyes. They\u2019re not doing anything to hide it here, and the media falling right in line with this. We\u2019ve had 11 deaths here, but let\u2019s say 9\/11 happens again and the media says, ‘This is a great opportunity for Obama to burnish his skills as an anti-jihad, pro-American president,\u2019 or what have you. Maybe one of the things that\u2019s bothering me today is that I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m in my country. Remember that piece we had the other day where somebody said, ‘I finally figured out how I feel like a foreign force is occupying our country, none of it seems comfortable or familiar.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a story out there that yesterday, Cinco De Mayo, some American school kids wearing T-shirts or clothes with the American flag were sent home. Can you imagine on the Fourth of July if a bunch of Hispanic students show up at an American high school wearing a Mexican flag they\u2019d be sent home? No, I\u2019m not kidding, they were sent home, three or four students were sent home or told to change clothes because on Cinco De Mayo they were wearing a T-shirt with the American flag on it. Now, you know damn well that on July 4th, there\u2019s no school on July 4th but if on July 4th some Hispanic student showed up somewhere with a Mexican flag, do you think they\u2019d be sent away or sent home? No. So we\u2019ve got this tragedy out here in the Gulf, and everybody\u2019s looking at it as an opportunity for Obama to advance more power and legislation to control the country. Nobody\u2019s concerned about the effects of the spill. Some of the media are taking great steps here to blame Dick Cheney for this. So what we\u2019re learning here is that when there is genuine destruction, they don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re illustrating and telling us without a doubt what the real agenda is here. ‘Oh, yeah, we got a big spill out there, we got a massive explosion, why, this is going to really help. Maybe we can cement the idea of no more oil wells, no more drilling by Americans anywhere around the world, especially in our own territory, and an opportunity for Obama to get new momentum for his stalled climate bill.\u2019 Now, if you have to say that Obama needs new momentum, you\u2019re admitting he doesn\u2019t have any. So a crisis that is doing great harm to this country and the people of this country is looked at as an opportunity, for the president of the United States to capitalize on a disaster to advance an agenda. So it really doesn\u2019t matter to me why I don\u2019t know the names of the customs guys that took the jihadist off the plane. And when we have American kids with an American flag on Cinco De Mayo kicked out of school, it doesn\u2019t really matter to me who the customs guys are or a lot of other things. I\u2019ve got the stuff in the stack here, and we\u2019re going to get to all of it. Some of it\u2019s funny, some of it\u2019s hilarious, some of it is eye opening. <\/p>\n

‘While Oil Slick Spread, Interior Department Chief of Staff Rafted with Wife on ‘Work-Focused\u2019 Trip in Grand Canyon.\u2019 This is ABC News\u2019 Jake Tapper. ‘Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico…\u2019 and they were on this at day one, don\u2019t forget, they say the Coast Guard was there. The Coast Guard is down there every day. The fact that they show up doesn\u2019t mean Obama called anyone. Obama didn\u2019t do anything for 12 days. And after 12 days, they\u2019re surveying this, ‘How can we turn this to our advantage? How can we turn damage, destruction, loss of animal life, loss of economic opportunity for Gulf fishermen, how can we turn this into a political opportunity for the president of the United States? That\u2019s what\u2019s got everybody salivating in the media, all excited, maybe Obama can rebound here, maybe we got the climate bill back on track, cap and trade, yeah, all based on a hoax. <\/p>\n

‘Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior chief of staff Tom Strickland was in the Grand Canyon with his wife last week participating in activities that included white-water rafting, ABC News has learned. Other leaders of the Interior Department were focused on the Gulf, joined by other agencies and literally thousands of other employees. But Strickland\u2019s participation in a trip that administration officials insisted was ‘work-focused\u2019 raised eyebrows among other Obama administration officials and even within even his own department, sources told ABC News.\u2019 The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day. See, this stuff is just an annoyance to them or an opportunity. They\u2019re either on ski trips or they\u2019re rafting in the Grand Canyon, ‘work related.\u2019 <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I was just making a point here about the customs officials. I know exactly what\u2019s going on here. They want bureaucrat heroes. They want to fight the perception that government employees aren\u2019t of any use. Remember, that\u2019s one of the things that Clinton said, that the right is trying to criminalize government employees, remember? He\u2019s out there doing all this. So these customs and border protection guys are heroes — that\u2019s what the administration wants to convey — for doing their jobs. Now, you know, I run into customs people all the time, and 99.9% of them are salt of the earth, some of the greatest people I\u2019ve ever run into. So the administration trying to keep these names under wraps is precisely because they\u2019re trying to downplay the fact that the Obama administration had nothing to do with foiling the plot. They were the last to arrive at the party. That\u2019s why. It\u2019s very simple. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Another Emirates Airline flight, ladies and gentlemen, has been called back to the gate at JFK airport because of a security concern. Sources tell NBC Eyeball News ‘that Emirates flight 204 was ready to take off for Dubai when it was told to return to the gate. Customs and border protection blocked the plane from taxi on the runway and there are reports the flight was asked to return because a passenger on board is on the federal no-fly list.\u2019 This must be the white male in his forties that they found on videotape in Times Square on Saturday. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ve been looking for this guy. By the way, a lot of people said, ‘Rush, look at the smiling picture of this jihadist. They always put the smiling picture of this guy, Shahzad, on there. Where\u2019s his mug shot?\u2019 Federal mug shots are not permitted to be broadcast. Federal mug shots are not released. I asked Andy McCarthy that question this morning. The answer is a federal charge is a serious thing, it can be damaging to your reputation. They don\u2019t release mug shots. That\u2019s why we\u2019re seeing the smiling family man shot of — (interruption) well, state charges. But it\u2019s a DOJ thing, it\u2019s a long-standing thing. They don\u2019t release federal mug shots, other than at trial after conviction, is what I was told. So another Emirates jet stopped prior to takeoff at JFK because somebody on board was on the no-fly list. Now, this guy has been on the no-fly list since 2009. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s this forties white male guy that was changing his shirt that they have been desperately looking for to hang this crime on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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