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Useful Idiots [Rush Limbaugh On Arafat/Middle East]
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April 1 2002 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 04/01/2002 10:01:22 PM PST by scratchgolfer

Have you ever heard of the term "useful idiots"? It's someone who spounts a movement's beliefs, even though the movement's leaders secretly know those beliefs are B.S.

The communists knew they were full of it, for example, but there were many "useful idiots" who actually believed what the communists were saying. Many of the communist movement's useful idiots still exist in the press.

PLO Dictator Yasser Arafat has useful idiots too, people who drone on with whatever rhetoric he comes up with - rhetoric we just had to pick apart on Monday's show. Here are some of the mindless slogans mouthed by Arafat's useful idiots - items of unthinking pap that keep these fools from realizing that their man is an obstacle to peace.

Useful Idiot: "How can Arafat call off terrorists when he's cornered?"

TRUTH: He hasn't been cornered for 32 years, has he? And he's uncornered enough to make so many calls he runs down his cell phone battery!

Useful Idiot: "Israel's military might hasn't worked."

TRUTH: No, Israel's patience hasn't worked, and their military hasn't been unleashed.

Useful Idiot: "Sharon and Arafat hate each other. Why can't they talk?"

TRUTH: Barak offered 90% of the country, and all his talk led to was the intifada!

Useful Idiot: "The Palestinians were thrown out of their homes."

TRUTH: When you hear "homes," the image of Palestinians sitting in their ranch houses barbecuing comes to mind. The truth is, the land erroneously called "occupied territory" was a desert. The Jewish people transformed it.

Folks, America and Israel have had presidents and prime ministers come and go from both parties, and nothing has changed. Yasser Arafat is the only constant in this crisis.

What more can be done? If none of the presidents or PMs were good enough to deal with Arafat of Palestine - a man the Palestinians never voted into office - maybe he's just been playing everyone for fools.

Despite what the wrongly named "peace activists" want so desperately to believe, Arafat doesn't want to be a great Arab statesman like Anwar Sadat. He wants the end of Jews, and the end of the Jewish State.

All the rest is just B.S., repeated by Arafat's useful idiots in the media and elsewhere.


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arafat; idiots; israel; rushlimbaugh
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1 posted on 04/01/2002 10:01:22 PM PST by scratchgolfer
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To: scratchgolfer
Damn...and I thought somebody had actually wrote a article on the 'real' useful idiot, Rush Limbaugh.
2 posted on 04/01/2002 10:15:09 PM PST by RCW2001
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To: scratchgolfer
Thanks for the post. I missed Rush today except for the last couple of minutes. It must have been a great program today. Rush is a treasure that freedom loving Americans should really appreciate. He is so "Right" most of the time.
3 posted on 04/01/2002 10:17:53 PM PST by bytesmith
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The last time I heard a "useful idiot", he was a TV Commentator and he kept spouting off about how "Our diversity is our strength." Naturally, it was a mantra without any proof to back it up....but it sure sounded good.
4 posted on 04/01/2002 10:22:33 PM PST by albee
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To: RCW2001
Damn...and I thought somebody had actually wrote a article on the 'real' useful idiot, Rush Limbaugh.

I think you mean had actually 'written' 'an article.' Rush - multimillionaire, advisor to Presidents, Conservative icon, American patriot, friend to Israel, all around brilliant man. The Maha Rushie.

5 posted on 04/01/2002 10:29:49 PM PST by veronica
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To: scratchgolfer
Rush is alright, but his time has come and gone. Now its a "Savage Nation".
6 posted on 04/01/2002 10:34:18 PM PST by Russell Scott
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To: veronica
The Maha Rushie.

I trust you were 'on your knees' roni, worshipping the 'Great Maha' as you were keying that.

Ahhh...yes, the 'sheeple', follow so blindly.

7 posted on 04/01/2002 10:38:56 PM PST by RCW2001
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To whom/what do you kneel? Charlie Reese and The Palestine Chronicle? LOL...
8 posted on 04/01/2002 10:45:50 PM PST by veronica
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To: scratchgolfer
I didn't listen to Rush today - so I can't speak for him being your useful idiot(usually he is not-but we all have our faults), but you are right on the $$ with your comments.

Israel's patience hasn't worked, and their military hasn't been unleashed

When it is, along with the power of the Almighty....that should convert some folk. Additionally what amazes me is that we, sitting here away from most of the daily terrorism, have come to the end of our patience. Whereas the Israelis are STILL showing restraint. Agreed it's time to kick behind, but isn't it amazing that in the face of daily bloody existance Israel hasn't just totally gone off?

9 posted on 04/01/2002 10:46:54 PM PST by kickme
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To: Russell Scott
I thought it was Sean Hannity that was the new peerless leader.

Rush is still the man. I still Love Rush the most "always dance
with the one what brung ya son" .

I am so glad so many conservative voices are speaking 24/7.

10 posted on 04/01/2002 10:50:03 PM PST by BellStar
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To: bytesmith
bttt
11 posted on 04/01/2002 10:54:00 PM PST by xvb
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To: scratchgolfer
Rush is intransigent defending Israel since the Passover massacre. She could have no better friend in America than Rush Limbaugh. Thank goodness for his golden EIB microphone.
12 posted on 04/01/2002 10:58:32 PM PST by The Westerner
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To: kickme
"Useful Idiots" is the title of the essay, which was written by Mr. Limbaugh. He defines useful idiots as ones who spout the common myths and misconceptions listed in the essay.
13 posted on 04/01/2002 11:01:23 PM PST by scratchgolfer
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To: veronica
To whom/what do you kneel? Charlie Reese and The Palestine Chronicle? LOL...

Roni...I "kneel" to "All" of the articles that 'no one else' dares to post due to the 'rath' of you and your ilk on this forum.

Thankfully, the owner of this forum also values a free airing of "all" that is being published in the mainstream media...for public debate.

I'm confident that if you could have your way...THAT would not be so.

14 posted on 04/01/2002 11:32:49 PM PST by RCW2001
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To: veronica
you go girl
15 posted on 04/02/2002 3:43:12 AM PST by teeman8r
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To: RCW2001
Very (un)clever. Rush is exactly right on this. In retrospect, the best strategy would have been to send an assassination team after any one of a list of top Pale leaders every time a bomb went off. If you can't get #1, take #2, and so on.

Within a year or so, I guarantee you that most of the bombings would stop, and the Arafats of the world would be desperately trying to see that nobody else became a "martyr," lest they become "martyrs" themselves.

This is a war between one group that wants to live in a certain territory (Israel) and another that wants to live in the same territory (the Pales) but who also INSISTS that the first group be exterminated. No negotiation with these thugs.

16 posted on 04/02/2002 3:51:39 AM PST by LS
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To: RCW2001
Last night on O'Really I heard a useful idiot named Pat Buchanan blame the Israelis for oppressing the poor Palestinians --
17 posted on 04/02/2002 3:53:20 AM PST by Woodkirk
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To: RCW2001
Damn...and I thought somebody had actually wrote a article on the 'real' useful idiot, Rush Limbaugh.

_______________________________

Nope, that's you dude. The Islamic shill who trolls the internet for material that makes Israel look bad. And will post anything you find on this forum.

18 posted on 04/02/2002 3:55:55 AM PST by dennisw
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Roni...I "kneel" to "All" of the articles that 'no one else' dares to post due to the 'rath' of you and your ilk on this forum...

It's 'wrath'.

19 posted on 04/02/2002 4:46:04 AM PST by veronica
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To: RCW2001
"Ahhh...yes, the 'sheeple', follow so blindly"

Simply getting lost from the herd does not infer brain development, or independence.

Have you any independent thoughts with which to dazzle us, or; have you done nothing more than gotten lost?

20 posted on 04/02/2002 6:24:10 AM PST by laotzu
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