Posted on 11/22/2015 12:14:38 PM PST by Kaslin
This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Sunday," November 22, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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WALLACE: Rush Limbaugh on Obama and the Republican response, next.
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WALLACE: A look outside the Beltway at snow in Oskaloosa, Iowa, as the political season heats up just 70 days before the first in the nation's caucuses.
Well, love him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh is the king of conservative talk radio. 20 million people listen to him each week on close to 600 stations across the country. He's also written a new children's book called "Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner." Rush Limbaugh joins us now from his EIV Studios in Florida, and Rush, welcome back to Fox News Sunday.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, TALK SHOW HOST: It's great to be with you, Chris, it really is. And by the way, everybody who listens to me loves me. There's no hate. It's a great, great, great misnomer.
WALLACE: I know, but there are some people who don't listen to you. Those are the ones I was talking about. Anyway--
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WALLACE: Thank you for that. I want to start with a new song that you played on your show Friday, from a group you called Barack Hussein O and Jihadi Singers. Here is a clip.
LIMBAUGH: That's exactly right.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): ISIS is all right with me, ISIS has been contained, oh yes. ISIS is just all right with me, ISIS the JV team.
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WALLACE: You were rocking along as we were playing it. I know it's a parody, but I'm sure one with a point. What are you saying about President Obama's strategy toward ISIS?
LIMBAUGH: I don't think he's got a strategy that deals with ISIS. I think Obama's strategy -- best I've been able to learn, and I've looked really hard at this -- it seems to me that Obama is linked to Iran and Syria in this. The sectarian violence throughout the Middle East is his excuse for not doing anything about it. Iran capitalizes on all of this chaos and crisis.
Chris, look, I don't like saying any of this, but it's obvious Obama is very sensitive to Iran's needs and is trying to satisfy them. We have lifted the sanctions. They've got $150 billion they didn't have. They are on the way to get a nuclear weapon, all because of Barack Hussein O, and I think his dealing with ISIS is inept, and incompetent, and nonexistent.
WALLACE: All right. So what would you do? How would you destroy ISIS?
LIMBAUGH: Well, in the first place, I would -- I would get some people around me and listen to them. I would get some people around me who are experts in dealing with groups like this.
For one thing, I would do, Chris, I would hit their oil. I would hit their oil depots and I would hit their oil tankers. We're not. You know why we're not? Because we have rules of engagement. The administration says well, some of the drivers might be civilians, and we can't go there. And there might be some civilians at the actual oil depots and oil wells that they've taken over. That's their primary source of revenue. I would hit that and I wouldn't care.
You know, Chris, the world is governed by the aggressive use of force, and the purpose of war and the purpose of militaries is to kill people and break things. That's how you win. And you keep doing that until the other side says, I'm sorry, and surrenders.
Barack Obama's No. 1 enemy is the Republican Party, and the conservative movement. You see he gets animated, he does not need cue cards, he does not teleprompter when he starts ripping into them, but when you get ISIS on the board or anything in the Middle East, very cautious, very precise, very don't want to offend them, don't want to make them mad.
WALLACE: Let me pick up on that.
LIMBAUGH: I think it's very dangerous. Chris, I think it's really dangerous. I think the country is in more danger than people know.
WALLACE: Let me pick up on that, because I know you were struck, like a lot of people were, by President Obama's news conference at the G-20 summit in Turkey on Monday, in which he seemed to be more upset with Republicans who want to limit Syrian refugees coming into the country than he was with the ISIS terrorists who slaughtered people in Paris. Here is the president on both of those issues.
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OBAMA: The terrible events in Paris were obvious a terrible and sickening setback.
When I hear political leaders suggesting there would be a religious test? That's shameful. That's not American.
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WALLACE: Rush, what do you think is going on here?
LIMBAUGH: In that press conference, from those sound bites you just played, he also said that he doesn't believe in all this sloganeering like providing leadership and winning. That's not -- the first time I heard him say that was in reference to Afghanistan in 2009. He said, yes, when I hear victory, talk of victory, I think of poor Hirohito being dragged onto the battleship Missouri to sign surrender papers. He's not serious, Chris. There are legitimate questions about what and who he thinks pose threats to this country and who our real enemies are. And I'm sorry, the American people, looking at the latest polling data, he's got his worst marks ever on dealing with terrorism. People are scared. We have got these refugees coming in, and nobody is confident we can vet them. And yet we're told, don't be a bigot, don't be a racist, don't be a xenophobe. We're none of those things. And nobody who is worried about this, is. They love America. They are concerned about our security. They don't think this administration is, or at least we're not seeing any signs of it.
WALLACE: We do have a history, though, in this country, not only for matters of religious persecution, but also people fleeing violence in their country, of taking them in as refugees. How would you handle the Syrian refugees, Rush?
LIMBAUGH: Well, you know, I would pause it. I would put a pause on it right now, and I would again -- I don't profess to be an expert in everything. I'm an expert in a lot of things, Chris, but not everything. And in this case, I would get some people who can tell me how best to do this.
We paused refugees being allowed to enter the country in 2011, you know who did it? Barack Hussein O. There was a six-month pause on Iraqi refugees for the very same reason people are worried about the Syrian refugees today.
Look, I have friends who are Syrians. I play golf with them. They're great people. This is not about that. It's not about bigotry or racism or anti-ethnics or against certain nationalities. It's about the defense and protection of the United States of America and our Constitution, which is what is the primary job of the president of the United States. And again, he just doesn't seem to be oriented in that direction or interested in it.
It's almost as though he thinks that we've committed all these crimes since our founding, unjust and immoral, and it's time for payback, it's time for us to find out what the rest of the world goes through every day. It's time for us to bite the bullet. I think it's really troubling. I'm having to bite my lip here what I really think. (inaudible).
WALLACE: Well, what do you really think?
LIMBAUGH: I think we are a great nation at risk in a dangerous world, and the people leading the country today don't see that. They see us as the problem, not the solution. They think that we are responsible for some of these problems. They'll fall back and blame George W. Bush for what's going on. ISIS didn't exist when Bush left offices.
WALLACE: Let's do a lightning round. Get your quick reactions to some of the people running-- I know you like this.
LIMBAUGH: Oh, lightning round! Yes, sir!
WALLACE: Running for president for 2016. First of all, Donald Trump.
LIMBAUGH: Uh, Donald Trump is I think doing a great service. He is showing that you do not have to fear attacks from the media. Republicans do not have to fear attacks from the media. He's showing you do not have to fear being political correct or violating political correctness.
WALLACE: Ben Carson.
LIMBAUGH: One of the most decent human beings in this country. One of the finest men. I've met him. The things he has done, places he's come from, he's just one of the most decent human beings--
WALLACE: Equipped to be president?
LIMBAUGH: And I cringe when I see that they're trying to destroy him. OK, next name.
WALLACE: Equipped to be president?
LIMBAUGH: Ben Carson equipped to be president? Um -- probably not at this stage, but any of these Republicans running would be better than Hillary or better than anything we've got now, so on that, based on that comparison, yes. I would vote for him if it was up to him and Hillary, absolutely, without a doubt.
WALLACE: Ted Cruz.
LIMBAUGH: Brilliant, and conservative through and through. Trustworthy, strong, confident, leader, and somebody in whom you can totally depend.
WALLACE: Jeb Bush?
LIMBAUGH: Jeb Bush, I don't think he really wants to do this. I'm watching, and I don't see passion, I don't see fire. It's as though people in his camp want him to do it because they want to get back in power. I just don't see Jeb with all that energy that says I need this, the country needs me, I can't wait to do this. I just don't see any of that.
WALLACE: Finally, Hillary Clinton.
LIMBAUGH: I just think corruption. When I think of the Clintons, I think corruption, and skirting the edges, don't trust them, and certainly don't think the country would be in the best hands possible if either of them got back in power.
WALLACE: Finally, you have put out another in your series of children's books. This one is called "Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner," in which you and your talking horse Liberty and some middle school students go back to talk to the founding fathers. And once again it is a New York Times best-seller. This is a passion of yours, isn't it?
LIMBAUGH: It is. I never thought I would have children as an audience, I wished I could, but they're not going to listen to talk radio. But these books tap into their imagination, they fulfill children's desires to dream, and they're taken right to these moments in history, and they are part of them, rather than these events being recited to them as facts that they have to remember. They are taken there. They talk to or they read conversations that the people in the books are having with founding fathers, and it's -- it's written for that age group 8 to 10, maybe up to 12, and we're just thrilled and so grateful at the response these books are getting.
WALLACE: Well, look -- everybody--
LIMBAUGH: And I'm grateful for you to mentioning them, too.
WALLACE: Well, everybody would like to have a time-traveling horse. I mean, and named Liberty no less. Rush, good luck with the book.
LIMBAUGH: That's a smart-aleck and talks back, too. My favorite character in the book.
WALLACE: I don't want a smart-aleck talking horse, but anyway, thank you for joining us, good luck with the book, happy Thanksgiving to you and Catherine. Always good to talk with you, Rush.
LIMBAUGH: Thank you, Chris. And folks, you just watched the fastest 11 minutes in TV. See you next time we do this, Chris.
WALLACE: You bet.
Limbaugh did Trump an injustice in the lightening round while raving about his boy, Cruz. I can’t believe he tries to say he doesn’t have a dog in this fight.
Obama is linked to Iran and Syria in this. The sectarian violence throughout the Middle East is his excuse for not doing anything about it. Iran capitalizes on all of this chaos and crisis.
with lots of flowery talk .....as is the wont of most politicos . those who have never heard the bullet’s zing or the rpg’s whoosh-bam!
America needs to be led by warriors , not by lawyers and/or feckless politicians .
We doom ourselves , by the people we elect , or allow to be elected . Prepare yourselves for the time when all of this silliness is a thing of the past .
He would arm Mexicans to fight off ISIS.
Rubio?
He’d talk to them. They should use that speech pattern in to tire manuals.
‘Oh he’s so good. He’s so conservative. He speaks so well’
People are so duped by him. He’s worse that Paul Ryan who at lest has principals - to work hard for his lobbyists constitution, wether people be damned and to cover all that up pretending to be a republican
But Rubio is just for sale. Well he might have a loyalty to illegal immigrants. Of any type as long as they’re illegal. But he’d tgrow them under the bus for the right price
How would President Trump fight the war on IS? A lot like Putin—only on steroids.
With an army of unvetted illegal alien police officers!
His he held back. So be it. As Trump continues to win he’ll be there for him. No big deal.
“...with lots of flowery talk ...”
That is all the girlish Rubio is, talk, but when you are special as he thinks he is, that is all you need. I get so fed up with his fake passion.
You're being a little hard on tire manuals, doncha think? ;') Rubio has values, and will tell anyone who speaks Spanish exactly what those values are. He's strictly an our-people ethnic politician.
Rubio should have a “for sale” sign around his neck.
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LIMBAUGH: Uh, Donald Trump is I think doing a great service. He is showing that you do not have to fear attacks from the media. Republicans do not have to fear attacks from the media. He's showing you do not have to fear being political correct or violating political correctness.
He was not raving. He was saying Any of our candidates is better than what the rats have to offer, and that is factual.
You are falling into the rat's and the drive-by media's trap with out recognizing it.
Wake up and open your eyes
How would President Rubio wage the war on terror?
He would fast talk it to death.
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that etc.
He will not get my vote in the primary, that's for sure. I will most likely though vote for him in the general election if He gets the nomination, and than we will see how he does with all his promises.
If he does not keep them I will tell you 'I told you so"
Doesn’t Rush think Trump’s conservative. I felt like his comments were like commending someone for opening the conversation once they’ve been deemed the loser.
And he did rave about Cruz, solid conservative, honest, trustworthy, whatever. I’m only referring to lightening round here.
Rubio is a snake.
All 1 percent of us think that here. The 99 percent of Republican voters don’t think that. Of course that is what makes us so special.
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