Reagan Knocked Down That Wall

RUSH: The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is going on right now. It’s dark over there in Germany. I have a story here from the State-Controlled Associated Press: ‘Merkel Thanks Gorbachev on Berlin Wall Anniversary.’ Now, let’s be clear about something. ‘Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm!’ was invited to go and said (imitating Obama) ‘Mmm, mmm, mmm, ain’t going! Got to bowl, gotta play golf, got a concert in the House, got a date night, gotta celebrate health care. I ain’t going. I don’t believe in freedom, anyway. That wall, we communists, we don’t celebrate our failures. Let Gorbachev handle it. Besides, I don’t want to go over there and be upstaged by Ronald Reagan.’ I have not found any reporting yet — I’m not saying she didn’t do it, but I’ve not found any reporting yet that says Merkel mentions Reagan. Now, she did back on November 4th in a speech. She said, ‘Ronald Reagan far earlier than others saw and recognized the sign of the times when standing at the Brandenburg Gate in ’87. He said, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate, tear down this wall.’ This appeal to something that never will be forgotten,’ Merkel said. This appeal? So Gorbachev is over there and by the way, he’s out there making news. He’s now comparing the climate change effort here, militant environmentalism has now replaced the Cold War. And nations have to come together to solve that problem.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The twentie anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
is going on right now. It's dark over there in Germany,
and I have a story here from the State Control
Associated Press. Merkel thanks Gorbachev on Berlin Wall anniversary. Now,
let's be clear about something. Barak Hussain Obama was invited

(00:20):
to go and said, ain't going. Got a bowl, gotta
play golf, got a concert in the house, got a
date night, Um, gotta celebrate healthcare. Ain't going. I don't
believe in freedom anyway. At Wall. We communists, We don't
celebrate our failures. Let Gorbachev handle it. Besides, I don't
want to go over there and then be upstaged by

(00:40):
Ronald Reagan. But I have not found any reporting yet.
I'm not saying she didn't do it, but I have
not found any reporting yet that says Merkel mentions Reagan.
Now she did back on November four in the speech,
she said, Ronald Reagan, far earlier than others saw and
recognize the sign of the times, when stand in the

(01:00):
Brandenburg Gate in eight seventies and Mr Gorbachoff opened this gate,
tear down this wall. Uh, this appeal is something that
will never be forgotten. Uh, mercles this appeal. So Gorba
chops over there, and gorbachofs by the way, he's out
there making news. Uh, he's now comparing the climate change
effort here Middleton and mind Medalism is now replaced the

(01:20):
Cold War. Uh, it's it's that's and and nations have
to come together, Uh to solve that problem. How do you?
How do you have a twentieth anniversary of the fall
of the Berlin Wall? And not mentioned Ranalda's magnus here
listened to son of the story. Chancellor Angela Merkel and

(01:42):
former Soviet leader Miko Gorbert Choff crossed the former fortified
border on Monday, two cheers of Gorby Gorby as a
throng of grateful Germans recalled the night twenty years ago
the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom
and unity. What gorbach Off over there and helped blow
it up? Wasn't Gorbachoff the guy desperately trying to keep

(02:06):
that wall up? Within moments so they confused announcement on
November that East Germany was lifting travel restrictions, hundreds of
people streamed into the enclave that was West Berlin. Marketing
did they cheer Gorby Gorby Gorby then. No, they didn't
cheer Gorby Gorby Gorby then, and you know why, because

(02:26):
they hadn't yet done the revisionist history to say all
it was all gorbage. Also, about twenty years has passed
and Gorbachoff gets all the credit. She lauded garbage Off,
with whom she shared an umbrella amid a crush of
hundreds eager for a glimpse of the man many can
still consider a hero for his role in pushing reform

(02:48):
in the Silva Union. At last time I looked, there
was a story last week and some people say, you
know what, this freedom thing in Russia is not working.
It hasn't worked out. We got to go back to
what So apparently whatever Gorbaschoff led Russia too is not working.
And he's still fet it here as a as a

(03:08):
big hero for his role uh in pushing reform in
the Soviet his role for crying out loud folks. Uh,
We all on this program and this audience know the truth.
Lady Thatcher has has said the truth. And it's quite simple.

(03:32):
The Soviets were defeated because they could not keep up.
They were a bankrupt third world nation with a first
world military, pure and simple. Get this headline here in
the New York Times. The legacy of nineteen eighty nine
still up for debate, meaning the Berlin Wall coming down. Uh,
the historical legacy nine when the Berlin Wall fell in

(03:53):
a Cold War thought, is as political as the upheavals
of that decisive year. Um more details on that as
the As the program unfolds, well, well, well, President Obama
is addressing the assembled multitudes in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate.

(04:14):
He's on a giant screens over there. I don't know
if it's taped or if he's live. Whatever it was,
he had the god echo in there. He had the
godlike echo in there. Here comes Merkle. She's approaching the

(04:35):
ponym of Hillary. Just finished it. Pouring rain over there.
So they have these uh, poor people holding umbrellas for
these dignitaries who are out there speaking. Obama said, the
work of freedom is never over. He left out a word,
the work of ending freedom is never over at anyway.

(04:56):
Welcome back Rush Limbaugh here the E I B Network
and the Limbo Institute War Advanced Conservative Studies Today does
mark the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall starting to
come down. It was midnight twenty years ago that East
Germans were allowed to travel past the wall from East
Berlin to West Berlin and exercise their freedoms. When Ronald

(05:18):
Reagan demanded of Gorbatrop, Mr Reagan teared down. Mr gorbat
tear down this wall. It came true two years later
on this date. President Reagan, all but forgotten, it seems
in media coverage of this event, was not alone in
his belief in the importance and power of freedom. The
Heritage Foundation was right there all along, reinforcing the policy

(05:42):
of military superiority and ideological confrontation with the communist Soviet
Evil Empire. The Heritage Foundation played a huge role in
that intellectual conversation, still does so. The Heritage Foundation was
intimately involved in several Reagan administration policies. It's when they
really came of age, and that's when I first heard

(06:05):
about them. And that's one of the many reasons why
I am a member of the Heritage Foundation. Is the
reason that you should and and need to be a
member yourself, because become a member today and in the
twentieth anniversary of this historic day truly meaningful, just go
online to ask heritage dot org. Ask heritage dot org

(06:26):
is where you'll find tons of information. Over a half
a million like minded conservatives are members there. They are
the keepers of the conservative flame inside the Beltway. They
are relentless. Ask heritage dot org. Mike stand by there
an audio sun by thirteen and are talking about the
anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, and they

(06:50):
are leaving Ronald this magnus out of this uh praising
garbage off over there. Let's go back June twelve in
West Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate. The advance of human
liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There
is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable,

(07:12):
that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek
prosperity for the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, if you
seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr Garbaschof, open

(07:34):
this gate, Mr Garbutchev, tear down this wall, and the
wall came down, and Gorbchof gets the credit for nikayle
Segeevitch Gorbachev, that's the credit. And Hillary Clinton was our
official representative over there. And then Obama. I don't know

(07:57):
if he was on tape or live, but he was
on the screens with the odd like reverb. What he said, Hey,
here's Obama here, the godlike echo audio saw by number
thirty eight. You gotta hear this. This is Obama's his
address to the Berlin Walls celebration. And I don't know
again if it's live or if it was on tape,
but they played it on the big screens over there.

(08:17):
It's not people and the people here on this anniversary.
I'm sorry. I stay there today, friends, respect to the
ex always remembered and cherished sceps tape. Here Just a second, Mike,

(08:45):
did you add any reverb to this? Did you take
journalistic license to annemy reverb? Well, so, what they must
have done. They must have taken the audio feed from
the speakers at the ceremony rather than a direct line
audio feed or else. Obama recorded it that way. But

(09:06):
you know he has a tendency to do that, of
of putting his voice in in rever about there. I
just wanted to do to hear that. Okay, I gotta
hear this one more. Obama in his echo fied address
at the Brandenburg Gate. Today, he mentions John Kennedy, he

(09:27):
mentions himself. He does not mention Reynolds Magnus, the man
who made this happen. Even as we celebrate these values,
even as we marked this day, we know the work
of freedom is never finished. In a Berlin under siege,
President Kennedy said, freedom is indivisible, and when one man

(09:47):
is enslaved, all are not free. Few would have foreseen
on that day that a United Germany would be led
by a woman from Brandenburg, or that their American ally
would be led by a man of African descent. But
human destiny is what human beings make of it. You
had nothing to do with it. The fall of the
Berlin Wall had nothing to do with somebody from Africa

(10:09):
being elected president of the United States or some woman
from Brandenburg becoming the Chancellor of Germany. It was not
about that I want to take all these events. Here's oh,
look at what happens when we all work together. We
didn't all work together. The Soviets resisted it. Eric Haneger

(10:30):
resisted it. The whole Soviet Empire resisted it. They had
no choice. In the end, there was only one guy
who American liberals said, it was silly to suggest we
could ever defeat the Soviets. We had to stay friendly
with him. One man and one woman, Margaret Thatcher. How
in hell you don't mention her either. But that's Obama.

(10:54):
Everything is about him.