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I’m not so sure about that. Below are the pertinent parts of the transcript from Rush’s site. After hearing him today and reading this, I still don’t think he was being facetious. Furthermore #29 doesn’t address this at all. Maybe you meant #27.

“Except Putin threw a change-up curveball and didn’t attack ISIS. No, no, no. This is where it gets really, really interesting. They didn’t bomb any ISIS targets. Instead, Putin and Russia bombed “moderate” rebels that are our allies. (laughing) I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh. Russia targeted “moderate” rebels that are supposed to be our allies fighting ISIS, and all this time we welcomed them in, under the premise that they’re gonna join us in hitting ISIS targets.”

“Putin comes in, but he doesn’t hit ISIS targets. He hits our allies, the so-called moderate rebels. There are now unconfirmed reports that Russia hit a CIA-vetted moderate Syrian rebel group that was receiving US anti-tank missiles. So instead of Russia targeting ISIS, which they led everybody to believe they were gonna do and which we welcomed them to do, they hit a moderate rebel group that the CIA had vetted and told Obama they’re us, they’re our allies, they’re good people, we can partner up with ‘em. That’s who Russia hit.”

“So the Russians hit these moderate rebels because they, the moderate rebels, want to bring down Assad even more than they want to defeat ISIS. And Putin does not want to get rid of Assad. And nor does Iran want to get rid of Assad. So while we thought Russia was coming in to bomb ISIS, and we’re creating the illusion or operating under the illusion that we are doing the same thing, they hit our allies.”

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“RUSH: Well, that’s exactly what they’re doing, Secretary. They’re attacking targets where our allies are operating, not ISIL. So if Russia’s recent actions, we’re prepared to welcome them. Our people are clueless here, sadly, is what it seems like and don’t know how to react to this. So the best they can do is to go out and act like Russia is following through on what it said it was gonna do. This whole statement from Kerry sounds like it’s predicated on his belief that they’re hitting ISIS. First half of this statement, he thinks they’re hitting ISIS.”