Limbaugh Unloads On State Department’s ‘Embarrassing’ ISIS Comments

“I feel like I'm still watching the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary show…”

On his radio show Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh unloaded on State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf’s “outrageous, just embarrassing” comments about the “long-term” solution to ISIS being to “find them jobs.”

Limbaugh began the segment by quoting Harf from her Monday interview on MSNBC with Chris Matthews in which she cited a "lack of job opportunities" as one of the "root causes" of terrorism and said, "We cannot kill our way out of his war."

Saying her comments sounded more like an SNL skit than reality, Limbaugh noted that even host Chris Matthews "thought he was listening to a lunatic." Despite the “outrageous” nature of her remarks, however, Limbaugh argued that Harf is just a typical product of leftist education—as is her boss, Jen Psaki:

Now, this is exactly what I mean when I talk about young skulls full of mush being corrupted at the academe, at university, at colleges, institutions of higher learning. This woman is an absolute throwback to 1960s, feel-good liberalism that is senseless. It's chickified, it denies reality, and this is the number two spokeswoman at the State Department. Her boss is not very much more cogent.

If lack of jobs really is the problem, he added, the Obama administration is clearly unequipped to handle it anyhow:

Marie, you can't even do that in this country. We have 92.5 million Americans not even working in this country, and you are clueless about how to change that. Now all of a sudden we're in a war, and we're not gonna win this by killing? Do you know what the purpose of armies is? It's to kill people and break things. Wars are not won with doctors and nurses and clean water and good vibes and jobs and all of this typical, nonsensical, worthless, touchy-feely, gooey, syrupy, sticky liberalism. This embodies everything that this Regime refuses to acknowledge that these people are militant Islamists

Later in the program, Limbaugh said that Harf’s argument went straight to the major ideological flaw of the left: emotion trumps common sense, theory trumps reality:

It's the triumph of emotion over common sense that's epitomized in the Obama campaign as, "We are ones we've been waiting for! Yeah, the Soviets, they got close, but they just ran out of money and they had to deal with Reagan. And the Chinese communists? They're getting closer. And Castro? Best health care system in the world!" They think that despite socialism having never worked, communism having never worked. It's never brought about the utopia that they claim to believe in. It's never brought about the human perfection they claim to believe in. Yet they believe every generation of leftists is the generation to make it happen. There is no rationality to any of this.

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