Here is Rush Limbaugh’s take:
CALLER: Nice to talk to you, Rush. Listen, I just wonder if you would give us your take on these riots that have taken over France and what it says about the demise of their beloved socialism over there.
RUSH: Well, this thing started out innocently enough. It started out as just some gangs trying to steal car parts. There are, I think 20 suburbs of Paris, 20 small cities near Paris, where this activity is going on. Four of them, I believe, where this activity is intense. It started out with just a bunch of people stealing car parts and these are really poor neighborhoods. These are really downtrodden -- typical neighborhoods you get in socialism. They're just really poor, and the cops never go in there. The cops never go into these areas to stop any of the crime. Well, the people that do abide by the law in these neighborhoods finally had enough, and one lady gets on the phone, watching some car thief do his little number out there, and she called the cops. Well, you call the cops, the cops came in, and the people who have been getting away with crime in these areas unopposed got offended that anybody would dare send authority in after them, and that started all these riots. And the French at first said, "Well, it's just a bunch of hooligans and we're not going to let these people violate the laws of this republic. We're going to enforce the laws of this republic." And the rioters said, "Oh, yeah?" And they ratcheted up the rioting and they started burning things and blowing up cars and everything else.
So the French military, or the French government, sent in special ops teams. I didn't even know the French had special ops. Why do the French have special ops? Why do they have special ops? They apparently do. They sent 400 cops in with military-style gear, and they couldn't stop it. De Villepin, the poet, what is he, the Prime Minister, and Chirac, what is he, the president? Yeah, so the president and vice president, they both cancelled foreign trips to deal with this crisis. What has come to be learned about the population here that's going berserk is that it is like 80% Muslim and most of it is from Algeria. Most of them are Algerians, and most of them, as Amir Taheri said today in the New York Post, from black nations in Africa. Most of them are Muslim and they don't believe in French socialism. They don't believe in this great idyllic peaceful coexistence with the French because they don't believe in socialism. They believe that Islam ought to rule France. I'll tell you what this is. This is a result of arrogance and hubris on the part of the French for thinking their system is the best in the world, and anybody that came to it could be tamed and would live side by side with one another in a wonderful experiment to show how humanity can get along. They also thought they were buying insurance by not helping us out against Saddam in Iraq. That's a huge lesson here. That's what they're scratching their heads about. De Villepin probably wants to go to these neighborhoods, "Don't you know I put my life on the line at the United Nations Security Council?" And Chirac too. It doesn't matter. All they did was show what a bunch of weak people they are. They showed how easily malleable they are.
We all know why they did what they did at the Security Council. They had all kinds of financial dealings with Saddam. Not just the oil for food program, but other things going on as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the French are involved in this whole Joe Wilson story somehow, involving these forged documents about yellow cake and Niger. There are too many forged documents going around in this whole story, and it wouldn't surprise me if the French, trying to stop us from doing anything in Iraq, would set Bush up with this phony story and a bunch of forged documents. I don't know this. I'm just guessing. But I don't think the French -- let me put this as a negative. I think the French are as dirty in this as anybody can be, and they're getting their just desserts here. I'm not experiencing schadenfreude over this, because this is going to happen everywhere these people are not stood up to. The bottom line is, today France, yesterday Madrid, today France. Where next? Well, wherever nobody wants to stand up to them and wherever a nation of people thinks, "We can purchase goodwill by hating the United States," is going to find themselves in the same circumstance as happening now. At the root of this, by the way, I should point out, is the lax immigration problem that the French have. See, what was happening, these people were dribbling in, in small groups, and the French said, "This is good, they're able to assimilate into our fine, upstanding, superior culture." Well, they started immigrating in much greater numbers and then they said to hell with assimilating, "We're going to live in France as we lived in Algeria. We're good just going to move Algeria to France," and the same thing is going on in Great Britain and that's why immigration, among many other reasons, is such a key issue here.
