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RUSH: Listen to this. Last night, Charlie Rose, PBS. Remember, now, this is the sophisticated journalist and liberals\u2019 favorite show. For real sophistication, for real enlightenment, for real insight, for genuine, raw intelligence. Charlie Rose, PBS. That\u2019s where you go. Last night he spoke with New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, John Miller. He used to be at ABC News. It was John Miller who interviewed Osama bin Laden, and in which during that interview, Osama bin Laden told Miller that he had learned we are a paper tiger after we cowardly ran fast out of Somalia, the Black Hawk Down episode. <\/p>\n

So Charlie Rose, enlightened and sophisticated journalist, says to John Miller, “You said how they carried it out,” meaning the Friday night attack in Paris, “You said how they carried it out was simple, but it was a complex operation. What do we know about ISIS\u2019 intentions today?” Now, that is what passes as an insightful, brilliant question that you won\u2019t find anywhere else in American media. “What do we know?” If you watch Charlie Rose regularly that\u2019s a common question he asks. Tom Brokaw back in 2008, “What do we know about Barack Obama? What do we know about the books he\u2019s read?” What do we know about the poets that he admires? What do we know about what he thinks of Maya Angelou? That question is now heralded as beginning of brilliance. So he asks John Miller, “What do we know about ISIS\u2019 intentions today?” Listen to this.<\/p>\n

MILLER: ISIS is focused on taking and holding land and creating the caliphate, an Islamic State. The name is important to them. They could have called it a lot of things, but they called it the Islamic State because, Charlie, in the sophisticated marketing piece here, for you to go against ISIS, then you must be at war with the Islamic State, which translates in shorthand to you\u2019re at war with Islam. But the key here is, to your initial question of, “What is ISIS, where are they going with this” is, they weren\u2019t concerned with the outside world when they were just taking territory. Once the outside world, outraged by beheadings and kidnappings and murders that were televised said we\u2019re going to form a coalition, we\u2019re gonna do a concentrated bombing campaign, ISIS decided, well, the outside world needs to get a little dose of fear.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so ISIS was just concerned with taking over a little land, and then we started bombing and they got really mad at that. And their name is designed to trick us into calling them the Islamic State. See, it\u2019s our fault, we\u2019re stupid for falling for their tricks. The name is very important PR. We\u2019re using the name, calling them Islamists, but, see, the key here, they weren\u2019t concerned with the outside world when they were just taking territory. Once the outside world got mad by beheadings and kidnappings and murders that were televised and that we were gonna form a coalition against them, we\u2019re gonna do a concentrated bombing campaign, ISIS decided the outside world needs to get a little dose of fear. It\u2019s our fault, see. Because we were outraged and tried to stop them from killing innocent people, that made \u2019em really mad. If we hadn\u2019t done that, everything would be okay, Charlie. <\/p>\n

Yeah, what do we know about ISIS\u2019s intentions? Well, they\u2019re really made because we fought back. We shouldn\u2019t have done that, Charlie. They beheaded all these people because we fought back. We didn\u2019t show respect. It\u2019s our fault. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: David Remnick, another accredited, sophisticated, highly respected left-wing Democrat who is the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker. I call him a Democrat first and a journalist second because that\u2019s what he is. He was on Charlie Rose last night. Man, the brilliance on that show last night could have blown up your TV screen. It could have destroyed all the pixels. Charlie Rose said to David Remnick (imitating Rose), “The point of terrorism is to scare. What do we know about scaring people? It\u2019s to get attention and scare and hopefully to create a retaliation that will generate some support.” So Charlie Rose is asking Remnick, “Isn\u2019t their objective to trick us into responding, because when we respond, they win, because that creates new terrorists that want to join them.” That\u2019s what his question is. And here\u2019s the answer that he got.<\/p>\n

REMNICK: I was talking over the weekend with somebody who studies ISIS full time at Princeton. And he said look, this signals — this comes within a couple of days after one of the main ISIS figures is taken out by an air strike. It\u2019s not lost on ISIS that Rakka can be taken at any moment if people are only willing to flatten it, and God willing we\u2019re not willing to just indiscriminately flatten something. The fact that much more of these operations are being exported abroad is not necessarily a sign of strength.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you know anybody, couple guys sitting around talking to each other who talk that way? (imitating Remnick) “I was talking over the weekend,” yes, somebody who studies ISIS now full time, Princeton, Princeton, yes, automatic credibility, Princeton, ISIS, you see. You don\u2019t know anybody, I do. And he said, “Look, look, look, look, look, this signals, this comes within a couple days after one of the main ISIS figures is taken out by an air strike. An air strike, yeah, it\u2019s not lost on ISIS.” Sip, sip from the cocktail. “It\u2019s not lost on ISIS that Rakka can be taken at any moment if people are only willing to flatten it.” <\/p>\n

Now, the French just went in there and took a big hit on Rakka. Did you hear what he said next? “God willing we\u2019re not willing to just indiscriminately flatten something.” Oh, God willing, we don\u2019t go take out Rakka. It\u2019s their headquarters, folks. Essentially it\u2019s ISIS\u2019 headquarters. Here\u2019s Remnick saying, “God willing, we won\u2019t do that. Oh, my God, Charlie, can you imagine? Charlie, get an extra cigarette, I don\u2019t know if I can deal with it. Charlie, oh, my God, God willing, God willing. We\u2019re not willing to just indiscriminately flatten something. Oh, my God, that\u2019s not who we are. Americans don\u2019t just flatten things except fat women when they sit on — other than that, we don\u2019t flatten things. Oh, my God, can\u2019t think of it. The fact that there\u2019s much more of these operations being exported abroad, it\u2019s not necessarily sign of strength, Charlie. No, no. ISIS, attack after attack, no, Charlie, it doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re getting stronger. Ho-ho-ho no way, God, oh, I hope we don\u2019t go to flatten their headquarters. I\u2019m an expert at Princeton, studies \u2019em full time, this is not good, this is not good, they\u2019re roping us right in.” Charlie is so mesmerized, so dazzled here by the intellectual, he can\u2019t even say anything, so Remnick has to continue on his own.<\/p>\n

<\/a>REMNICK: The legacy of the Iraq war that hangs over the American consciousness and certainly —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Why didn\u2019t I know the Iraq war! Of course the Iraq war is why they did it. Oh. If I only knew somebody at Princeton.<\/p>\n

REMNICK: — hangs over the consciousness of President Obama, who was elected not to repeat the mistakes and catastrophes initiated by the Bush administration. It turns out that the most consequential speech in the last, I don\u2019t know, ten years, 12 years, well, more, is Barack Obama being invited to a tiny rally in downtown Chicago on the eve of the Iraq war. He\u2019s a state senator coming from Hyde Park, it\u2019s like a state senator from Greenwich Village, or Berkeley or something. And he gets up and gives his speech about, I\u2019m not against all wars, just stupid wars.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, my God, folks, I think I have to go to a break. I can\u2019t add anything. The legacy the Iraq war that hangs over — These guys are discussing ISIS. These guys, in case you forgot, Charlie said the point of terrorism is to scare and hopefully create a retaliation that will then generate some support. So Charlie wants Remnick to say, yeah, any attempt to retaliate they like it because that means they get more recruits. And Remnick ends up blaming Bush for all this, and then says the best speech he\u2019s ever heard, I don\u2019t know, last ten years, most consequential speech, Charlie. Ten years, 12 years, Obama, tiny rally, downtown Chicago, the eve of the Iraq war, Hyde Park, it\u2019s like Greenwich Village, Charlie, yeah, yeah, like Berkeley. Right, Charlie, good, good, good Charlie, yeah. He gets up, he gives a speech, “I\u2019m not against all wars, just stupid wars.” And, my God, did we all have an orgasm Charlie, \u2019cause that just captures how smart we all are. Can you believe it? Okay, well, we can\u2019t bomb the stuff out of \u2019em, no, no, we can\u2019t, we can\u2019t. Oh, God willing we wouldn\u2019t hit Rakka. <\/p>\n

No wonder these people are so happy with Obama. The self-absorption, the self-impressed, I\u2019m so smart, and people I know are smart, and you\u2019re almost smart as we are, Charlie. I mean, you know when to shut up. Princeton. ISIS expert. You know, next time I\u2019m gonna start talking to people this way. See what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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