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No Moral Equivalence (Rush Limbaugh)
Rush Limbaugh Radio Show ^ | May 12, 2004 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 05/12/2004 3:30:24 PM PDT by BMC1

What is the compulsion so many Americans have to want to draw these lines of equivalence between us and this human debris?

Let me address your specific example. We're in a war. We have insurgents like this al-Sadr fellow and his terrorist cohorts and they've taken over a town and they've taken prisoner of the kids you're talking about, and they're hiding behind them. They are cowards. We are not there to murder. We are not there to maim and kill children. We are not there to burn down their homes or their schools and weren't. We are rebuilding their schools. We are rebuilding their hospitals. Their schools are open, their hospitals are functioning, the electricity is back with more wattage and power and functionality than it ever had under Saddam. The U.S. military does not target civilians, the U.S. military does not target children, the U.S. military does not seek them out for wanton murder and call it war.

So when I see those images, yeah, and I haven't, but I know they exist. I don't sit around and beat my chest over it and say, "Ho-ho, look what the mighty United States of America did." I blame the people who are responsible for it, and that is the cowards who are using those children as shields and using their women as shields and it frustrates me to no end that you don't also see this. You know who these people are. It is not a mystery. They are not good, there's nothing good about them. They are perverted, they are demented, they are pure trash human debris. They have declared war on us. They treat their own kids far worse than anything that might happen to them as a result of the United States riding to their rescue. These are the people that strapped bombs on their own kids and send them out to be blown up, and they lie to them, and they say, "Do this and you'll get to heaven. You'll meet Allah," or whatever it is they tell them. They are willing to kill their own kids to save their own lives. They are nothing. They have no value. They are not be respected. They are not to be protected. They are not to be understood. They are to be eliminated.

They do not bring anything decent to their own country, to their own people, to their own families, to their own population. They bring destruction. They bring death. They bring misery. They bring poverty. We, the United States of America, and the people of this country, banded together via our elected officials and our money are attempting to save these people from their own so-called leaders.

In the process, unfortunate things happen, but it is not our aim. It is not our purpose. It is not our desire. We do not put these kids on television and do to them what was done to Nick Berg, and then ask CBS to broadcast it to the Arab world. And the idea that you can call here and try to establish some degree of similarity offends the living hell out of me, Cliff.

Go ahead and vote for John Kerry. Go ahead and vote for your favorite Democrats, and go ahead and open the borders to the people that murdered Nick Berg and let 'em come on in because we're not going to have the guts to stand up to them because we're too busy feeling guilty that we're just like them. And you, Cliff, are going to be among the first to go. Because you're going to think they're going to understand you. And they're going to look at you as an absolute dupe and an idiot, useful or otherwise, and you're gone. You need to be thanking God there are people who have the vision and the courage to see this for what it is and are willing to put their lives on the line to protect ignorant people and people who are otherwise doing other things and don't care what's going on, to protect them so they can go ahead and live their lives as blissfully as they choose.

We do not need to be stringing people up who are trying to bring decency and freedom to other peoples in the world and make examples of them and say they're no different than al-Sadr, al-Qaeda, Zarqawi, whoever it is was in these pictures that murdered Nick Berg. I'll never understand the way you think, Cliff. But what I've realized is there's no talking you out of it. I don't even know if there's any shaming you. How you can even call here after having known what's on that video and dare say that there is some similarity to what we, the people of the United States believe and do, to what was done to Nick Berg in that video, makes me as repulsed and angry and fearful as I was when I watched the video.

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TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraqipow; nickberg; nomoralequivalence; rush
Rush's reply to Cliff a liberal caller
1 posted on 05/12/2004 3:30:25 PM PDT by BMC1
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To: BMC1
this moral equivalence game is also being played by Drudge and the news media is being lead to some extent by him.
2 posted on 05/12/2004 3:32:03 PM PDT by gilliam
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To: BMC1
I've never heard Rush so angry with a caller -- Rush just unloaded both barrels at the guy. It was very unlike him. (Don't get me wrong -- the guy deserved it.)

The preceeding segment was very powerful as well -- when Rush talked in detail about his reaction to the murder of Berg.
3 posted on 05/12/2004 3:38:32 PM PDT by 68skylark (.)
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To: BMC1
People forget that there once were Americans who apologized for the deeds of the Nazi regime. Today these are few and far between. There were Americans who apologized for Stalin. Those are far more numerous and they are largely the same ones who apologize for the Aran terrorists. So moral eqivalence is only an attitude. There are noi Nazi sympathisizers today, or only a few. because the Nazis had the nerve to make war on the Soviet Union. There are many Arab sympathizers, even though they spout the same hatred of the Jews, because they suffered under the same "imperialism" that Stalin also opposed. So, at bottom, the Arabists are people who think that American capitalism is evil and that we, as its benficiaries, deserve any evil thing that happens to us.
4 posted on 05/12/2004 3:39:02 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: BMC1
Go ahead and vote for John Kerry.

This was one of the most casutic lines I've ever heard Rush say -- the strong emotion really came from his heart.

5 posted on 05/12/2004 3:40:58 PM PDT by 68skylark (.)
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To: RobbyS
I think you're right -- good points. And during the Civil War there were a lot of people (i.e. northern Democrats) who rooted for the south and who took grim delight in Union setbacks. These so-called Copperheads would even sing "Dixie" to celebrate Union losses. They sound just like Democrats today.

During the Revolution, there were lots of people hoping for an English victory.

Dissent (and treachery) are nothing new in war. We've had it before and we'll have it in the future as well. It won't stop us from winning.
6 posted on 05/12/2004 3:44:52 PM PDT by 68skylark (.)
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To: BMC1
Caught that segment. He said it best.
7 posted on 05/12/2004 3:45:20 PM PDT by Eastbound
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To: BMC1; All
Crosslink:

-The Berg Beheading- some links--

8 posted on 05/12/2004 3:45:42 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the TrackBall into the Sunset...)
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To: BMC1
BUMP AND DOUBLE BUMP!!!!!!!

Rush rocks as always.
9 posted on 05/12/2004 3:48:16 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: 68skylark
To reinforce your point about the Civil War, we forget that Grant would not have won the presidency in 1868 had no reconstruction governments controlled the southern vote. Seymour, a Copperhead, came close to winning, revealing how closely northern opinion was divided by the war.
10 posted on 05/12/2004 3:57:40 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: BMC1
Either CLIFF gets around alot or there are seminar callers out in droves today. I have listened to some of Laura Ingraham, Rusty Humphries, Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Sean Hannity as well as Rush. On each program (save Sean) their was a CLIFF, spewing his anti-American venom. We are truly in trouble in this nation, when the BEHEADING of an AMERICAN CITIZEN is equated to prison infractions and the unintended consequences of warfare.
11 posted on 05/12/2004 4:09:12 PM PDT by PISANO (We MUST annihilate the enemy and we must do it NOW!)
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To: BMC1
Excellent!
12 posted on 05/12/2004 4:11:12 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: BMC1
Bump.
13 posted on 05/12/2004 4:15:41 PM PDT by k2blader (Nick Berg's murder is the equivalent of abortion.)
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To: RobbyS
I'm glad the south has now come around to the right side of the political spectrum since then. And I'm glad to be a part of it too (speaking as someone who lives in Indiana, our northernmost southern state).
14 posted on 05/12/2004 4:21:06 PM PDT by 68skylark (.)
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To: BMC1
Rush in one of his most kick-ass moments. I like what one might call the "unleaded" version of Rush we've been getting lately. The transcript and audio of this call and answer is at:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051204/content/truth_detector_2.guest.html

for non-members. Of-course won't be there long.

Limbaugh, as the Prez said last fall, is a great American. He knows when it's time to get mad, and this is sure as hell a time to be very mad indeed.
15 posted on 05/12/2004 4:40:41 PM PDT by Merciful_Friend
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To: Merciful_Friend
"unleaded" version of Rush

hee hee. I'm just listening now over Rush 24/7. I had to start it over again so I could bring up the dittocam 'cause I knew our boy was on a roll and I like to watch when he goes ballistic like that.

Great response. It's going to get emailed around a lot, I'm sure.

16 posted on 05/12/2004 8:27:32 PM PDT by radiohead (Over toning the opponent since 2003)
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