Posted on 05/14/2014 4:36:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The Nigerian officials say that the Boko Haram leader, Shekau, is dead. "Three weeks after hundreds of teenage girls were abducted while taking exams, it remains unclear how many girls were taken, who they are, who did it, at what time, and exactly how."
This story, I tell you, we spent a lot of time on this story yesterday, and the upshot of it was that Hillary and Obama and Kerry, the State Department, the United States government, is blaming the Nigerian government for this and that the purpose of the hashtag is to bring pressure on the Nigerian government.
It's a Christian government. Remember, now, American leftists believe -- and, by the way, this same theory holds on the release of these 36,000 really cutthroat prisoners that Obama has just okayed. This is a federal sanctioned prison break! And it's the same ideological thinking that allows or rather dictates that Obama let 36,000 illegals out of jail. It's the same ideological thinking that triumphs here in the Boko Haram story.
The Regime and leftists around the world believe that militant Islam is not militant because it is militant. It's been made militant by the United States and our policies in the Middle East, the Christian government of Nigerian, basically governments oppressing these poor people mired in poverty, and they are reacting with violent outbursts. That's the justification, the explanation for militant Islam, jihad, and groups like Al-Qaeda.
This story about the Boko Haram leader dead? Listen...
"Three weeks after hundreds of teenage girls were abducted while taking exams, it remains unclear how many girls were taken, who they are, who did it, at what time, and exactly how. On the same day that a man looking nearly identical to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video of 100 girls kidnapped by his group -- the official Nigerian response in the nation’s capital was to claim that Mr. Shekau is dead."
"Actually, the government's position is that Shekau has been dead for some time -- a position widely seen here as a form of counter-propaganda designed to dispirit Boko Haram members," by trying to tell 'em their leader is dead. Well, wouldn't they know, at least the ones in his close orb? "Nigerian authorities also said today that its security forces are 'interacting with experts ... all over the world' to find the girls.
"Yet they remained unable to say how many girls were missing: 'The federal government is setting up a committee' to find out the number, said one official in Abuja, Mike Omeri." Oh, that's one. They're gonna set up a committee. The Nigerian government's gonna set up a committee to find out how many girls are actually missing.
"Such lack of information a month into the kidnapping of the girls as they were taking exams, combined with claims of Shekau's death -- viewed with skepticism -- have fanned indignation at the government and brought ongoing protests." So you see how this is all shaking out now? Boko Haram are not the bad guys; they never have been.
Certainly in the eyes of Mrs. Clinton or John Kerry, Barack Obama, or official US government positions they are not the bad guy. The Nigerian government is. This story in the Christian Science Monitor here is implying that the Nigerian government is complicit in the kidnapping. If you read the whole thing, that's the point of this story.
Once again, Boko Haram are victims in their own way -- victims of government oppression, victims of who knows what -- and they're reacting in the only way they know how. And we must appease these people because they're nothing more than members of the oppressed around the world to whom the United States reaches out in solidarity. (interruption) "We gotta understand them." Exactly.
We have to understand why Boko Haram's mad.
We have to understand their rage. Folks, I know that you're probably not getting this take too many other places. You see the hashtag and Boko Haram is the bad guys and we're doing everything we can. That's the official US government position and the media position now, but that's not way it is. This story's a great example of how a lot of people in the Drive-Bys are blaming the Christian government and the Nigerian military instead of the terrorists.
A lot of this article -- and I'm not gonna read the whole thing to you. Just don't doubt me here. I've summarized it for you. Much of this article is spent throwing doubt... I'm not kidding. Are you ready for this? If you read the whole thing, you will finish asking yourself, "Well, maybe they weren't even really kidnapped." This article in the Christian Science Monitor throws doubt on whether they were even abducted.
They blame the government for letting the school be open, the school where they were, the implication the government might have been complicit in their abduction, if that in fact is what happened here. The fact that the leader of Boko Haram has claimed responsibility doesn't mean anything 'cause these guys always brag, and they're always wanting to be famous.
They're always trying to get credit for things they didn't do, so you gotta take what he says with a grain of salt -- especially since this guy, the leader of Boko Haram, is on record as having said, quote, "crazy things before." Here, let me give you a sample here from the article. Quote: "This is a man who threatened to kill former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from his hideout in northeastern Nigeria more than six months after she died," close quote.
So he's a Froot Loop, he's a nutcase, he's a wacko. We can't depend on anything he says. He's besides that. We've gotta understand why these people are mad. Here's the paragraph that ends the article: "At a protest this week in the capital, Abubakar Sani, a civil servant and a father, sat quietly on the sidelines while the crowd sang: 'All we are saying is 'Bring back our girls. Alive. Now.'
"'It's something that can happen to anybody,' said Sani. 'It's necessary that we come out and demonstrate so the government will know how we feel.'" So you see, in the eyes of a parent, it is the government. They are protesting the government and demanding that the government return "our girls." Score another victory for the Obama Regime. Score another victory for the State Department.
The Islamic militants are getting a pass.
The Christian Nigerian government is getting the blame.
And the Boko Haram leader is so ragtag, so out of it, that he threatened to kill Margaret Thatcher six months after she had died. "These people, we have to understand their rage. They are oppressed by this government; that's why we didn't declare them a terrorist group." So against all that we got this hashtag out there, #BringBackOurGirls, which is designed to ratchet up emotion and to make the people that get behind the hashtag think that caring and emotion are all it takes; that's all you have to do.
And in liberalism, it is.
That's all you have to do.
All you have to do is care.
Well, you don't even have to care. You just have to say you do; it can be as symbolic as you want it to be.
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RUSH: Okay. I don't think the hashtag has worked as intended, and you know why? Because all over the Drive-By Media are stories now that are written to defend Hillary, to defend John Kerry, to defend Obama, and to defend the government for not declaring Boko Haram -- or "Har-ahm" (I'm gonna say "Hair-um" just 'cause I just like it better) -- a terrorist group.
So this is about so much more than that silly hashtag, and that was my point from the get-go. The hashtag doesn't even begin to cover this. But it does. For a lot of people it's the beginning and end of it. But here, Dana Milbank, in the Washington Post. "Birth of a Scandal: Blaming Hillary Clinton for Nigerian Kidnappings."
It quotes a bunch of people, including me and Megyn Kelly on Fox and former congressman Allen West and what we've said about this -- how unfair it is and how shortsighted it is -- and blaming Hillary. Then there's these two paragraphs. "[W]hile the rest of humanity reacts with revulsion, American conservatives have searched for ways to blame the kidnappings on" Hillary.
No, we haven't. What we're... (laughing) Jeez!
We're trying to make sure that the blame gets apportioned to the right people. All we're asking is why in the world is a terrorist group not so designated? Why does this administration want to appease militant Islam? That's the only question we're asking. I don't think Hillary had anything to do with the kidnapping here, but at the same time I don't think the Nigerian government did.
It's clear what's going on here.
There's an attempt to appease yet another militant Islamic group and another effort to blame the Nigerian government. By the way, I'm looking. I'm trying to find this. Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, oh, within the past month, how outraged our State Department got and our president got at the president of Uganda because he announced very strict policies on homosexuality, which did not and do not comport with the enlightened, advanced view of homosexuality found here?
We dumped all over that guy in Uganda, and this guy backtracked and whatever. We creamed this guy. Now, Snerdley tells me that Nigeria did the same thing at the same time, in January. In fact, they were first. They were before Uganda, and the president of Uganda is this guy named Goodluck Jonathan. (That's not a salutation. That is his name.)
In January (I'm looking for the backup here), the Nigerian government also came up with some policies on homosexuality which were not approved of here. A few short months later, all of a sudden the Nigerian government is this bad bunch of people that are responsible for a bunch of girls getting kidnapped, and they're trying to lay it off on this poor terrorist group that we didn't even call a terrorist group.
So it may appear that there is some payback going on here. Until I can say that definitively I'll hold off on it but it remains a possibility. We're doing the research even now to confirm the fact that Nigeria was into some of what we would consider to be anti-gay policies back in January. So anyway, Dana Milbank writes, "[W]hile the rest of humanity reacts with revulsion, American conservatives have searched for ways to blame the kidnappings on" Hillary.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. We, too, are revulsed. We're revulsed twice. We conservatives... I'll choose to speak for most of them. We conservatives are revulsed by the acts of Al-Qaeda and militant Islam wherever. We're also revulsed by the appeasement of this Regime of militant Islam, and we're also revulsed at the lack of substance in the hashtag policy to get them back.
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Barack Haram.
Bad/offensive video?
Liberals ALSO think Snail Darters are more important than children in the womb.
(there should be a bounty on liberals.)
#BringBackChristianGirls
BokObama.
Sounds like American libs want non-islamic Nigerians to “check their privelege.”
#BringBackRuleOfLaw
John French Kerry: Why ban Procol Harum? I used to listen to them all the time when I was in Vietnam.
#AbortObamaElectConservatives2014
Well I sort of identify obammy with Boko Haram.
Come from the same line of souls.
Liberals think? I find that hard to believe.
It’s kinda hard for them to, with their pea-sized brains.
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