{"id":9582,"date":"2014-04-16T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-16T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:21:56","slug":"what_s_he_thinking_joe_biden_tells_boston_bombing_survivors_it_was_worth_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/04\/16\/what_s_he_thinking_joe_biden_tells_boston_bombing_survivors_it_was_worth_it\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s He Thinking? Joe Biden Tells Boston Bombing Survivors, “It Was Worth It”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Less than a minute into his speech at the Boston Marathon bombing memorial yesterday… By the way, Obama went out there and spoke, too. Do you know he never used the words “terrorism” or “militant Islamist” or anything of the nature about what it was? He just called it a “tragedy.” But the real fun began when the vice president stood up there. <\/p>\n

Less than a minute into his speech, Vice President Biden went tragically off script and told the crowd of survivors, “It was worth it.” You want to hear? It\u2019s only 14 seconds. We\u2019re gonna have to replay this. I\u2019m sure the shock here is such that we\u2019ll have to play it a couple of times.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Let me say, uh, to, uh, those, uh, quote, “survivors,” my God, you have survived, and you have soared. It was worth… It was worth it!<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (stunned silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said it twice. What in the world could he be thinking here? I mean, I can easily translate this. I know exactly what he was thinking. I\u2019ll tell you in a minute. But stop and think of this. You\u2019ve got these survivors out there. People died. Things were blown to smithereens. The Boston Marathon was tarnished forever. Every time they run the race now, there\u2019s gonna be this fear, “Is it gonna happen again?”<\/line><\/p>\n

Some clown showed up yesterday with this fake rice cooker. (He must be from Cuba. They gave away rice cookers down there one year.) The rice cooker is one of the latest weapons of destruction used by our terrorist friends. So they\u2019re always gonna have that in the back of their mind there, and the vice president tells them, “It was worth it.” How in the world…? What in the world…?<\/p>\n

If you do not understand liberals, you will not understand how somebody could say something like that. I guarantee you that when Biden said that, he thought he was being as empathetic as possible. He was being brilliant. He was praising them. He was complimenting them. He was telling them how tough they are. “It was worth it! Losing that member of your family, it was worth it.” <\/p>\n

“What was worth it? What\u2019s the value here? What was worth what?” people are asking. <\/p>\n

But in his mind, he was addressing the toughness. He was complimenting the toughness of the people. “It was worth it to show that we can handle these people. It was worth it to show that we at the Regime could help you through this. It was worth it to demonstrate that these people who committed this tragedy (don\u2019t say “terrorism”) can\u2019t get away with it. It was worth it so that we could show you how qualified, competent, and good we are. <\/p>\n

“It was worth. It was absolutely worth it.” You talk about insensitive and out of touch? It just boggles the mind. Listen to it again. He went off script, here. He\u2019s trying… I know this guy. He\u2019s trying to be really sensitive. He\u2019s really in touch. He\u2019s really empathetic, really feels everybody\u2019s pain, and he wants to praise \u2019em. They\u2019re the toughest people in the world; it was worth it. Here he is saying it again…<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Let me say, uh, to, uh, those, uh, quote, “survivors,” my God, you have survived, and you have soared. It was worth… It was worth it!<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (stunned silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: He went on to say, “I mean this sincerely. Just to hear each of you speak, you are truly, truly inspiring. It was worth it. I mean this sincerely. Just to hear each of you, it was worth it,” to find out how good you were. It was worth it to find out how strong you are. It was worth it to find out how strong we are. The audience, of course, sat there in stunned silence.<\/p>\n

And after a moment of stunned silence, Biden then said, “I\u2019ve never heard anything so beautiful than what all of you just said.” They didn\u2019t say anything. “I\u2019ve never heard anything more beautiful than what you\u2019ve just said.” Of course, the Democrats say, “That\u2019s just Joe being Joe. Ah, it was just Joe being Joe.” Let Bush or Cheney show up at this thing and tell \u2019em it was worth it and you see what would happen then.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s fascinating, by the way, to take a look here, folks, at how the left reacts. I call \u2019em the left-wing first responders. Whenever Biden steps in it or Obama or any Democrat makes a mess of things and causes an emergency, then you have the first responders (i.e., the Drive-By Media) come out and deal with the carnage and try to recast it. In this case, the Regime\u2019s first responder was the Atlantic.com website, rushing to Biden\u2019s defense. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Here\u2019s what they said: “We, like most viewers of the speech, assumed Biden was (poorly) talking about coming to the event, rather than the bombings themselves. Despite getting flagged by a Fox News reporter, the quote didn\u2019t even make it into the news channel\u2019s write-up of the tribute. ” Of course not! Of course. That\u2019s what the first responders do, is they keep it out of the news. But we, ladies and gentlemen, found it. We\u2019re not gonna shield you from it. <\/p>\n

So the Drive-By first responders\u2019 emergency services personnel arrive on the scene, and clean up the mess that Biden makes. “Oh, no, he wasn\u2019t talking about the bombing being worth it! No, no, no, no, no. He was talking about it was worth it attending the event, that everybody in the audience attending the event was worth it.” Okay. Well, let\u2019s listen again. What is a “quote, ‘survivor,'” by the way? <\/p>\n

He says, “Let me say to those, quote, ‘survivors\u2019 …” What is that? Why do you have to put quotes around “survivors”? They either did or they didn\u2019t. It\u2019s like my buddy Phil Mushnick\u2019s latest column in New York Post, talking about how the media is trying to really ratchet up emotions the way we report crime — the “grisly” murder scene, for example.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s grisly about it? My favorite was the “stray bullet.” Somebody got hit by a “stray bullet,” yeah. The bullet was just marching along and decided to change directions and hit somebody. What is a stray bullet? Anyway, here\u2019s Biden, “quote, ‘survivors.'” Let me listen to this again. <\/p>\n

BIDEN: Let me say, uh, to, uh, those, uh, quote, “survivors,” my God, you have survived, and you have soared. It was worth… It was worth it!<\/line><\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (stunned silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: The first responders say he was talking about attending the event. “You, quote, ‘survivors,\u2019 it was worth it. It was worth it to come listen to me speak. It was worth it to come hear the president.” I don\u2019t know. The thing is, these are the people that get all the credit for tolerance and compassion and feelings. Another example: Biden gets away with this. This is a major, major gaffe. <\/p>\n

But yet, “He didn\u2019t mean to! His intentions are good. His intentions are honorable. He didn\u2019t mean to be stupid. He didn\u2019t mean to insult any. So it\u2019s okay, whatever he did, because he didn\u2019t mean to do it. We know he\u2019s a good man.” So according to the Atlantic, if the survivors hadn\u2019t given good speeches it wouldn\u2019t have been worth it for Biden to come. He listened to some survivors make the speeches. <\/p>\n

“Oh, quote, ‘survivors,\u2019 my God you survived. It was worth it. It was worth it.” <\/p>\n

I guess it was worth coming to hear the survivors speak. But if they hadn\u2019t given good speeches, it wouldn\u2019t have been worth it for anybody to show up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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