Rush: Obama groping flyers to punish them for voting GOP
Joe Kovacs
PALM BEACH, Fla. – As national outrage continues over what many consider to be overly intrusive security measures at America's airports, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh says the reason the revealing scans and patdowns are taking place now is because the Obama administration is intentionally punishing Americans over the recent midterm elections.
"They're not happy with you people. They're not happy with what you did on Election Day, and this how you're gonna pay for it," the top-rated host said on his program today.
"It's who they are, and people are becoming more and more aware of it now that the election results of Nov. 2 indicate that, and they're just predictably circling the wagons and they're gonna punish you even more for the way you didn't vote, [and] the way you did vote."
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Republicans enjoyed a tidal wave of success earlier this month, taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives, winning six U.S. Senate seats and seven governorships. That doesn't include a record 680 seats going to Republicans in state legislatures, and 19 legislatures switching from Democrat to GOP control.
Limbaugh says it's because of that political tsunami that Americans are now being subject to radiation scanning that turns flyers into nude avatars, and those who refuse the scan become subjects of patdown searches that involve touching the genitals of men, women and children.
Limbaugh explained the rationale of Obama and the Department of Homeland Security:
"The American people are the ones who are guilty. The American people are the suspects. The American people are the ones who need to be controlled. Now this is not gonna be contained at airports, folks. Obama and the Department of Homeland Security are promising to start searching subways and buses and trains and people on them.
"And these are the same people trying to force everybody into public transportation. These are liberals. None of this is accidental. None of this is for the betterment of anybody but them. This is all about control and illustrating power to control. That's what this. And when they say, 'If you don't like being patted down, don't fly,' remember that's your government talking to you."
A commercial pilot called into the show to discuss the new security measures, and pointed out the pointlessness of aviators going through the screening when they could merely crash a plane at will.
Limbaugh concurred, noting: "What kind of logic is it where you're gonna put the pilots through this? And they can pass with flying colors. And if somebody's bought you off or if somebody's kidnapped your daughter, whatever it is, if you want to fly that plane into the ground, you can do it."
The pilot responded, "I've come to the conclusion they're using us an example. If they can put us through that kind of treatment, then what foot does a passenger have to stand on that they have to be put through it?"
Limbaugh called Americans' backlash against the heightened measures "a miniature revolt," and said, "There's a simple way to stop this stuff. It's called profiling. We're not doing what's simple here. The solutions are simple, they're just hard for some people to stomach."
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Nov. 17, 2010