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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, an AP story. I want to read you just a brief excerpt, because here\u2019s the headline: “Obama to Do What Rush Limbaugh Said He Wouldn\u2019t in Response to Russian Aggression.” The AP is thrilled. They\u2019re ecstatic. “Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh last week said President Barack Obama should push for harsher punishments for Russia over its aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“He argued Obama and his allies should kick Russia out of the G8 and International Monetary Fund, but predicted the president wouldn\u2019t push for such action. On Monday, the Washington Post reported Obama plans to urge world leaders to indefinitely suspend Russia from the G8,” and then this sentence: “It\u2019s unlikely the White House is taking foreign policy advice from the ‘king of talk radio,\u2019 but it appears that Limbaugh may have spoken too soon.”<\/p>\n

So I guess I\u2019m not an “entertainer” in this report. <\/p>\n

Obama, he can\u2019t… Oh, no way! No way would Obama be following advice I had given. No. What\u2019s going on here is that I “spoke too soon.” I went out on a limb, and Obama cut the limb right out from under me. What it was is a safe bet. Safe bet! He ended up doing something that I, frankly, am surprised he did. It\u2019s a suspension, by the way. It\u2019s not a removal. This is the thing, and AP needs to update this, because they have not been kicked out of the G8. They have been “suspended,” and it\u2019s a big difference. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here are a couple of Obama sound bites. He\u2019s at the Hague in the Netherlands. He was doing a joint press conference with the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte. No selfies taken. Rutte is a guy. During the Q&A, an unidentified reporter said, “Is this a done deal? Is there any doubt in your mind that Putin will return Crimea to where it belongs, according to the West, or is this diplomatic show of force basically just to prevent another land grab somewhere else by Putin?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: It\u2019s not a done deal in the sense that the international community by and large is not recognizing the annexation of Crimea. You know, obviously the facts are — on the ground are that the Russian military controls Crimea.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: But, you know, I think it would be dishonest to suggest that there\u2019s a simple solution to resolving what has already taken place in Crimea. Russia is still making a series of calculations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: And, again, those calculations will be impacted in part by how unified the United States and Europe are, and the international community is, in saying to Russia that this is not how in the twenty-first century we resolve disputes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There wasn\u2019t a dispute! Well, there is now, but here it is again, this twenty-first century, “This is not how we do things.” Well, he did it! There wasn\u2019t a dispute. Putin wanted Ukraine and Crimea. So he made a move on \u2019em. There wasn\u2019t any dispute. There wasn\u2019t any negotiation. So Putin goes and does it, and we\u2019re still stuck in the, “Hey, this is the twenty-first century. You can\u2019t do it that way,” after he did it. So then we\u2019re saying, “Okay, you know what? Well, we\u2019re gonna suspend you from the G8, Vlad. We\u2019re just gonna suspend you. You can\u2019t come anymore. We\u2019re not gonna let you in when we get together with the G8 anymore, Vlad.” <\/p>\n

So what Obama said here is that he was not going to recognize what Putin did, but that he admits that Putin did it. And he\u2019s not gonna reverse it, unless Putin decides to jump into the twenty-first century. Meanwhile, he\u2019s gonna try to stay in solidarity and unification with the Europeans in what they say about what Putin did, and if the Europeans will go along with suspending Putin from the G8. This is the full mention of G8 suspension from the Washington Post: “Ousted by G8, Russia determined to prove it can thrive without the West.<\/p>\n

You know why Putin thinks he can thrive without the West? It\u2019s all about natural gas, folks, and it\u2019s all about economics. Here\u2019s what has been happening. Here\u2019s what is happening. All of these silly Western European socialist Democracies have just bought in to this entire insane belief that economic progress is resulting in the destruction of the planet and the climate. That is what they believe. Economic progress, fueled by the engine of freedom, and the fuel for that engine is oil. There isn\u2019t a substitute for it. Oil and natural gas, there are no substitutes for it anywhere. Solar, wind, not even close. <\/p>\n

So here you have these pointy-headed intellectual theoreticians, these little socialists who think they\u2019re smarter than everybody else in the UK and in France and wherever else you go in the European Union, they have decided that they\u2019re going to be good people, and to show the world that they\u2019re good people, that they\u2019re good stewards. So they have gotten rid of as much of their fossil fuel energy production, and they have replaced it with the weather. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the European nations are fueling their economies with energy provided by the weather. <\/line>That is how you have to look at wind and solar. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, what happens if the sun\u2019s behind a cloud? Hell, what happens if the sun is shining brightly? It just isn\u2019t there yet. Ditto with wind. But Putin didn\u2019t do any of that. Putin is now in charge of all the natural gas lines that go through Ukraine, that service the silly socialist European democracies who don\u2019t have to spend any money defending themselves because we do that via NATO. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019re free to experiment with all of this totally insane liberal, feel-good gobbledygook. And they are now very dependent on Vladimir Putin for the natural gas that\u2019s going to heat their homes and power their various utility needs. So Putin is saying: I don\u2019t care, I don\u2019t need your G8. I\u2019ll be happy to have you guys be the G7, and I\u2019ll be the G1 asterisk. I don\u2019t care. ‘Cause you guys got nothing without me. <\/p>\n

He now owns the pipelines! But we\u2019re gonna suspend him from the G8, for a while. Vladimir Putin supplies more than 40% of the natural gas to Europe, so he has much more leverage over these silly western European Union socialist democracies than they have on him by threatening to suspend Russia from the G8. He\u2019ll just stick in the nineteenth century and run rings around these smarter than everybody else in the room pointy-heads that think they are the future in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Okay. Okay. So it wasn\u2019t the AP! Okay, I\u2019ll fix it! Jeez. Man, oh, man. I am not allowed even the slightest error. “Hey, you said, you said.” Most people are allowed to learn from their mistakes and grow. When I make one, it\u2019s like there goes everything I\u2019ve ever worked for. <\/line><\/p>\n

Greetings, welcome back, great to have you, El Rushbo, the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

It turns out it was not the AP for chiding me for saying Obama wouldn\u2019t do what he did; it was the TheBlaze.com. Okay, so big whoop. There, I fixed it. It\u2019s written here kind of crazy. It says TheBlaze.com update via the AP, then I come down and read this thing, says, “Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh last week said –” It turns out The Blaze wrote this, not the AP. (interruption) What? All right. Fine. All right. <\/p>\n

“Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh last week said President Barack Obama should push for harsher punishments for Russia over its aggression in Ukraine. He argued Obama and his allies should kick Russia out of the G8 and International Monetary Fund, but predicted the president wouldn\u00c2\u2019t push for such action. On Monday, the Washington Post reported Obama plans to urge world leaders to indefinitely suspend Russia from the G8.” This is what The Blaze wrote. “It\u00c2\u2019s unlikely the White House is taking foreign policy advice from the ‘king of talk radio,\u2019 but it appears that Limbaugh may have spoken too soon.” That\u2019s why I thought it was the AP writing this and not The Blaze. <\/p>\n

Well, let me just tell you something. As far as Obama doing something that I said he would never do, some people might say that that\u2019s one of the benefits of living rent-free inside his head. How about the possibility I use reverse psychology that gets him to do what I want done? I mean, I would never suggest such a thing. I\u2019m just putting out the idea. Suppose I\u2019m using reverse psychology, “You know what we ought to do? We ought to suspend Russia, kick \u2019em out of G8, but Obama will never do it.” Obama hears that, “Oh, yeah? Watch me.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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