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June 9, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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Boy, the Michael Jackson jury is really working hard, aren't they?
About four and a half hours a day on this case.
Well, they go from 8.30 to 2.30, and then they get a bunch of breaks in there.
Got to love that California lifestyle.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, Open Line Friday on Thursday.
It's great to be with you.
Open Line Friday on Thursday today because I have a vacation day tomorrow.
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I have other stuff in the stacks of stuff here as well as audio soundbites.
Bob Geldof is the former ringleader of the boomtown rats and the organizer of the first Life Aid is doing another one, you may have heard.
And, you know, some people are starting to raise some questions about this.
I mean, they're valid questions.
Really, we're researching, by the way.
I've got working on this ever since Bush and Blair announced another $658 million to Africa yesterday.
I want to find out, just in the last 20 or 30 years, how much money we've actually sent to Africa through various arms.
Just our foreign age budget, how much that we send to the UN goes to Africa, all these different things.
I want to prove the point that just throwing money over there is not the answer.
It never is.
Look at our own situation with poverty, and theirs is 30,000 times worse, but look at our own.
We've never been able to eradicate poverty.
We've transferred in this country since the great sophi of Lyndon Johnson over $5 trillion, and maybe more than that now, to wipe out poverty.
It didn't.
Welfare reform did, where you try to attach some incentive.
But over there, we've got you don't have freedom.
I mean, you don't even know the money is getting to the people it's intended for.
It's not enough to say that you have corrupt governments over there.
You've got communist governments over there.
You've got middleton Islamic governments.
You've got governments like Mugabe.
You've got governments like existed with Mohammed Farah Adid Skyhook, the warlord in Somalia.
Ethiopia was a government-sponsored famine, and Geldorf didn't realize it till he actually went over there and followed some of the trucks around himself, and he found out it was the government that was denying all of this relief aid to the people.
It's typical of communist or tyrannical despot totalitarian governments.
They end up killing their own people.
But here's what we have learned so far.
And this is another thing.
It is so complex to try to figure out how much money the United States has given to Africa in any given period of time.
We have somebody on the inside at the government level that's working on this for us.
And the range on humanitarian and related aid this year, 3 to 19 billion.
Now, I know it's a huge range, but somewhere this year alone, between 3 and 19 billion has been sent from this country in one way or another to Africa.
It's so complex, getting a handle on it is going to take some days.
I find it interesting that it's going to take days to get it because not even the government knows without looking it up how much we are spending in Africa.
So Geldof is talking about his new Live 8, or I think whatever it is he's calling it.
And he's very, very sensitive now to this charge.
Hey, wait a minute.
You're throwing good money after bad here because there's another but a bunch of corrupt governments.
Geldof says that people are going to continue to die if world leaders use the excuse of corruption in Africa to stop them from helping the world's poor.
A Live 8 organizer demanded that leaders should get off the corruption thing and fulfill long-held promises to help the world's poor.
In response to George Bush's comments that political corruption in Africa has to be addressed before we start looking at aid to Africa, he said Africans are simply too poor to stay alive.
Anything that hits them that does not affect us, they die of.
Well, what look at Mr. Gildoff, I mean, I'm very sensitive to your argument.
We're trying to do just that in Iraq, and people on your side of the aisle are talking about what a waste it is.
Anywhere we go where we try to get rid of a corrupt government, try to get rid of oppression and tyranny, and the left used to be all for this.
So anytime we try to do this, the left in this country just ramps up and opposes it and tries to say that we're the ones who are corrupt.
There's no winning here.
Geldof said there are, of course, extremely corrupt governments in Africa, but there are very corrupt people in our part of the world.
The difference is that we are rich.
Okay, can I ask?
I'm going to ask the question.
I ask this question all the time.
It's a think piece.
You live in the United States of America.
You are an American.
Why is it that your country, with barely 230 years of existence, knows prosperity like no other country on earth ever has?
Countries that have been around, civilizations that have been around far longer than we have, I mean, can't hold a candle.
And I don't care what area you care to measure.
It doesn't matter.
There's not a country in the world or a civilization in the world that has produced the prosperity and the standard of living.
What are you laughing at, Mr. Snirdley?
What?
Okay, what's the liberal answer to the question?
Yeah, okay, well, fine.
The liberal is going to say because the Americans came and destroyed everything, right?
Right.
Well, let me tell you something.
You think they had toilets in Europe before we came along?
They didn't.
They still don't have toilets in Europe that make any sense, even after we're here.
You ever been to Europe?
Use some of their toilets, even some of the finest hotels.
It's amazing.
That's just one example.
You want to drive around some of those little lawnmowers with two seats on them?
They call automobiles over there?
You want to go to a hospital over there?
You want, it boggles the mind.
It literally boggles the mind.
You want to go look at the agriculture over there.
You want to try to feed the world with European agriculture.
The Soviets wouldn't have been able to stay alive if we hadn't subsidized wheat sales to them all during the Cold War for crying out loud.
All they can do is put prisons on their property and put people in them.
I'm serious about this.
If these liberals want to come around and say we've exploited all the riches of the world, let them.
They couldn't be more wrong as they are wrong about virtually everything they believe in.
We spread our wealth.
We do everything we can to uplift people.
And it just burns me a new one to listen to people like Geldof and whoever else say we're not doing enough.
Nobody else is doing anything.
And the governments of those people that are not being fed always get somehow left out of the equation.
They never are held to account.
Only the United States is.
It's a typical liberal class envy argument.
And I've lost my patience for it.
Because it's just flat out crazy and it's wrong.
Now you ask yourself, there's an answer to my question.
Why is it we are human beings just like they are human beings in Africa?
We are human beings like they are human beings in China, in North Korea, wherever else.
Why is it that we have led the world in inventions?
Why is it that we lead the world in technology?
Why do we lead the world in standard of living?
There is a simple answer to it.
It's called freedom.
Human experience here is allowed to maximize or permitted whatever.
Our freedom allows human beings in this country to be the best they can be, to pursue excellence however they care to or design it.
People around the world just don't have the freedom that we do, and certainly they don't have it in Africa.
And I would think after all these years we have seen, I mean, these appeals to help Africa are legendary, and they've been around forever, and we respond to every one of them.
One of the most recent was Somalia.
And you know why we went into Somalia?
It's because the New York Times kept publishing pictures of little starving black kids with flies buzzing all around them.
And after a while, the American people said, we've got to do something.
We can't stand this.
I can't believe there are people living like Bamo.
So we go over there and with the intention of feeding those people.
And what happened?
The warlord that ran Mogadishu in Somalia took every bit of food that we sent over there and confiscated it in order to keep his people under control.
He had no interest in feeding his people.
That led us into a military confrontation.
And you all know what happened, Blackhawk Down.
Because we didn't have the guts to help the military have what they say they needed to defeat the guy once it came to that.
Now, the idea that we're not trying to help is crazy.
And the idea that a bunch of rock stars can have a concert in Philadelphia make a difference, they can make a difference in their own minds.
And everybody else will think they're big-hearted and compassionate, and they may well be.
But we've got to be realistic here about what is going to solve the problem.
Right now, people are talking about solving it, but what they really mean is, I want credit for caring.
And I can tell you how to do it.
And I can tell you how to do it.
And I can tell you how to spend your money.
And I can tell you how to spend yours.
Well, yeah, everybody can do that.
But until there's some systematic, genuine reform in the way those people live over there, it's going to be the same result.
I don't know why this is so hard to understand.
There are hundreds of years of history that demonstrate it.
So anyway, yeah, they're corrupt governments here in our part of the world, but we are richer than they are.
Well, why are we richer?
Our governments are rich because what?
Our people.
This government is said to be rich.
Yeah, well, it may be, but it isn't rich until it starts taxing people.
And it can't tax what's not earned.
And it can't tax what's not produced.
So yeah, if we're rich, it's because people here have the freedom to be rich and prosper and produce, which is something that doesn't exist in these totalitarian regimes.
And I resent this business of us being compared to those African governments like Mugabe and elsewhere in Zimbabwe because, well, everybody's corrupt.
Some are just richer than others.
This is such ignorance.
This is just, it's a classic illustration of liberal ignorance on parade.
Don't examine my results.
Don't examine the results.
I only want to be judged on my intentions.
Yeah, well, if we gave out stars for intentions, you liberals may deserve a couple gold ones here and there.
But when it comes to results, you get big F's.
Sorry, we can't give Fs anymore.
What is it?
Threes.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
All right, we are back having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I'll get to your phone calls here in just a second.
I have a story from the UK Times by Richard Beeston, the headline, why the West's billions may end up in the wrong hands.
The G8 summit could help to make poverty history for a number of African countries, but corruption remains a major worry.
Some of Africa's most corrupt and brutal regimes will benefit to the tune of billions of pounds from the agreement reached by Tony Blair and President Bush to write off the debts of the continent's poorest nations.
Even as the prime minister returned triumphant from Washington with a deal that could salvage his hopes of making Africa the centerpiece of this year's G8 summit, the continent's woes record, or woeful record on human rights, corruption, and good government was already casting a shadow over his plans.
Ethiopian police shot and killed 22 demonstrators in central Addis Ababa yesterday for protesting against fraud in recent elections.
Hospitals in the capital said that a further 100 were injured.
The violence was blamed on the government of Melis Zinawi, a member of Mr. Blair's Commission for Africa, the body entrusted with promoting the continent's recovery.
There were also renewed fears that Ethiopia may be about to embark on a new round in their bloody battle for control of disputed areas along their border.
This whole story describes the same situation in African country after African country after African country, Mozambique, Ghana, Guinea, Chad, and you don't even have to talk about Zimbabwe, where we're going to forgive this debt where the value of that is billions, and you wait.
Just see how much relieving the debt in these countries is going to benefit the people who live there.
I'm going to tell you right now, flat out zero.
Diddly squat because you're still going to be left with the same governments.
But at the end of the day, Tony Blair and everybody's going to be able to say, look at how we cared.
Look at our generosity.
Look at what we did.
In the meantime, you want to talk about innovation.
Everybody says we have a healthcare crisis in America.
We have 30 million uninsured, 42 million uninsured, 150,000 uninsured, whatever it is.
Worst healthcare system in the world, right here in the United States of America, right?
It's just, it's horrible because not enough people have insurance, right?
We hear this all the time.
Well, Costco, Costco, the wholesale outfit, the low-cost bulk supplier of breakfast cereal, motor oil, and diamond rings, is adding health insurance to its warehouse shelves.
In a pilot program to be launched next month in Southern California, Costco will offer family and individual coverage to its customers who pay $100 a year for executive membership, company officials said.
The insurance is aimed at people such as contractors, waiters, and students who are self-employed and cannot sign up for plans at work.
Hubba hubba.
So here you have the American free market system making moves to enable those who can't afford insurance because they're self-employed for one way or another to get in on the deal.
And note, it isn't the government.
And I wouldn't be surprised if some government agency, when they hear about this, is, wait a minute, who do you think you are?
And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the insurance company insurance company is probably part of this, but nevertheless, you wait.
We'll just see.
Esteban in Orlando, Florida, you're next on Open Line Friday on Thursday.
Hello.
Hey, hey, how you doing, Rog?
I'm fine.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, Rog.
First of all, I want to congratulate you because when you talk about Cuba, you're one of the few people that really know what's going on over there.
And I really, deep inside me, I really appreciate that.
You really express what's going on over there.
And, you know, I came to this country in a province called PDP when I was 12 years old, and you were talking about freedom.
I found freedom here.
And everything I owe, everything I have, I owe to this country.
And I'm very grateful about it.
And I'm telling you, this is the biggest country in the world.
I know you appreciate your saying that, too.
And the thing that always strikes me is that people like Esteban here, who are immigrants, legal immigrants, we get calls all the time from people that used to live in the former Soviet bloc.
They have an appreciation for this country that some who were born here either can't have or don't have.
You just take it for granted.
take for granted what you're born to.
But people who've struggled to get here have a, I think, a deeper appreciation for it.
But my friends, all is not well here in paradise, United States of America.
Actually, this story has nothing to do with the United States.
Well, no, yes, it does.
Yes, it does.
I'm sorry.
Let me just read you the story.
The dateline Johannesburg.
That's in South Africa.
Almost 1,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises die daily in fishing nets, and urgent changes are needed in trawling methods to save nine populations under immediate threat, said the World Wildlife Fund today.
Its report, which the World Wildlife Fund says is the first assessment of the situation by leading marine scientists, points to the accidental catching of fish and other things in gear as one of the gravest global threats to marine mammals.
Almost a thousand whales, dolphins, and porpoises die every day in nets and fishing gear.
That's one every two minutes.
A dolphin, a porpoise, a whale dies every two minutes around the world because of you fishermen.
The report says the population of these threatened creatures could recover with changes to fishing gear combined with other conservation methods.
Between 1993 and 2003, fisheries in the U.S. introduced changes, such as modifications of fishing gear that reduced the catch here to one-third of its previous levels.
So if you read deep enough in the story, you find out it's not our fault.
It's the rest of the world which hasn't followed our lead in reducing this tragedy.
I know I'm sitting here thinking the same thing.
It's like the homeless statistics.
Okay, so now it's established.
A thousand porpoises, dolphins, and whales die every day.
And I'll bet you it won't be until tomorrow that this, well, they're out of school.
Next September, whenever, public school system, that will be one of the lead items taught.
A thousand fishies die every day, two every minute.
Think about that, Brian.
Two every minute.
A lot of people die every day, natural causes, auto accidents.
A lot of people die every day, but of course, they're not caught in nets and all hung by fishermen.
What I'd like to know is this.
How many dolphins die every day in the ocean just because they die?
How many die because they get old age or whatever?
How many porpoises die?
How many whales die just because they die?
They don't live forever, do they?
Saw a story the other day.
They're actually starting to work with tools, these dolphins.
I guess they're growing hands.
I didn't know that either.
This is something interesting from Bloomberg News.
Canada's highest court struck down a Quebec law that bars people from buying private insurance to pay their own medical expenses and bypass the province's public health system.
This opens the way for creation of private clinics in Canada.
It does.
It opens the it paves the way for creation of private that you're going to let people buy their own private insurance, pay their own medical expenses.
Canada's highest court struck down a Quebec law that bars people.
The law currently bars people from buying their own private insurance to pay their own medical expenses, and that law has been struck down.
The Supreme Court ruling said the evidence in this case shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread and that in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists.
This is the health care Mrs. Clinton wants to bring us.
This is the health care that the Liberal Democrats want to bring us.
The Canadian health care system, the single payer system, they want to some portion of it always got to go all the way through the government at every angle.
And if there was ever a decision in the world, talk about international law that has some impact here, this is it on medical savings accounts.
Oh, screw it, Mr. Sterdley.
I don't care.
You're sitting there, you know, you're sitting there.
Snirdley is shouting at me in the IFB what all the liberal arguments are going to be.
But the rich will be the only ones that can afford it.
That's not going to be the case.
Medical savings accounts.
That's my whole point.
Medical savings.
And the case is being made here for medical savings accounts in this country with this ruling out of Canada.
The court is admitting that their healthcare system is an absolute abomination and a failure.
People are dying because of it.
Hubba-hubba.
Not that they're dying.
I mean, it's a good ruling.
David in San Pedro, California.
Hi, and welcome to the program.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I'm not going to say mega dittos because I like you for different reasons than any of your other callers.
All right.
And I'm not gay.
Well, you know what mega dittos means?
Yes.
What?
It means that I'm agreeing.
I'm concurring with everyone else that's complimented you.
No, I'm glad you asked because that's not what it means.
Oh, okay.
No, Dittos goes back to the very early days of this program.
Dittos means I love the show and please don't stop doing it.
Don't go anywhere.
Dittos has nothing to do with people.
Oh, okay.
Well, all right, Dittos.
So you can give me Dittos because I'm sure you don't want the show to go away.
Hey, I thought I'd start with some levity.
I overheard, someone overheard Howard Dean saying, how about we ensure Election Day always falls on a Saturday?
Little joke I made up while I was on hold.
I had just a comment and also a question about an email that you read on the air yesterday about the Kiva, which is the Native Americans sweat lodge.
Yeah, there was a college student sent me a note that his professor described one that he went to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that was not just second-hand information, but third-hand information that you were sharing and kind of joined in with, it seemed like kind of poking fun at her saying that this guy must be a nut if he's doing stuff like that.
Oh, let me reset the table here.
Now, don't blame the college student.
Don't blame me.
I never heard of this.
He was just telling me that his professor, after making the class identify themselves, it's first day of school.
Here's who we all are.
This is what we're hoping to do.
Teacher said, let me tell you a little bit about me.
And he described he went to this thing for four hours in a sweat hut.
And it didn't come out in four hours.
And if they had to excrete bodily fluids, they just did it inside there.
Now, is this some official ceremony that I'm informed about?
I've got two different ones.
And it depends on what tribe you're involved with, but that's a total bastardized rendition of what's supposed to actually go on.
Well, these are Native American functions.
It's a Native American ritual.
Oh, it's a wonderful spiritual part of their culture.
That was totally different than my experience.
And I know from what you read in the email that that was not a – because you had said that it's supposed to – like from the email, it said, see, now this is third-hand information, though, because the teacher – I mean, in the email, you said that they had gone three feet above the ground.
It's supposed to be dug down into Mother Earth.
Well, maybe the teacher got fooled and didn't go to what he thought he was going to.
I don't know.
Yeah, so that's, and then also my experience, because I served a mission for the Mormon Church in Finland, and that's where the sauna originated.
Oh, yes.
The Kiva, the sweat lodge for Native Americans, is one's not hotter than the other, and they're both just as relaxed.
But the one with the Native Americans is much more of a spiritual experience.
You're supposed to look around 360 degrees before you go down into the Kiva, because once you come back out, the world has changed.
And there's four different phases where you focus on four different groups of people to forgive them.
And it was a really positive experience for me.
We're encouraged to go to the bathroom before you go in there.
But if you've got to go, you can leave after one of the sessions is complete.
Just four different sessions, four different groups of people you're supposed to focus on to forgive back to back.
And I can hold my bladder for four hours.
I mean, big deal.
We weren't encouraged on each other.
And it was a positive experience.
What about your bowels?
Can you hold your bowels for four hours?
Well, I would just say don't knock it until you try it.
Well, I'm not going to try it.
But I'm just, I just read the email.
I'm glad you're calling to correct this if it was incorrect data.
But I think this all goes back to the teacher.
The student was just describing what the teacher said.
It might have been, you know, it sounds like the teacher could have been Ward Churchill because he thinks he's an Indian, but he's not.
And so he might have been going to a pretend ceremony, a sweat lodge.
Who knows?
You just don't know.
But I'm sorry your sensibilities were offended by this.
And I'm sorry if anybody else's were offended by this.
But I mean, this is just a college professor instructing his kids in a class what he did.
So we're just passing it on here, folks.
Moving on because time dwindles.
Frank in Melbourne, Florida.
You are next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Blogger and podcaster Dittos from someone's been listening to you more than half his life.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that very much.
Now, what I called in about is I had the opportunity to talk to Bob Geldoff this Monday with a bunch of other bloggers, both right and left, where I'm right-wing, of course.
And we all came in, well, as right-wingers all came in very skeptical.
We saw this Live A stuff, you know, a bunch of rockers, you know, increase aid and things, and it seemed like this would be some hippie stuff.
But he actually was very reasonable, very knowledgeable, and hit a lot of exact same points you were just saying earlier.
He was talking about, you know, he brought up Adam Smith.
He wanted free trade.
He want, you know, stop the corrupt government.
What he was asking us for is our political influence to help get these things done.
But he's very positive about Americans, about the American spirit, and also he had positive things to say about Bush.
It wasn't anything like, you know, let's just feel good about ourselves and throw some money at them.
Well, that's good to hear.
Good to hear.
Did he say how the Live 8 concert was going to accomplish free trade?
To be honest, he didn't talk much about the Live 8 concert.
I'm not really sure.
I think it was mentioned that he isn't really playing on any more concerts.
Maybe he's seen those aren't as much used.
But I didn't know much going into this, but I was expecting the exact thing.
We got to get in there, move, and make money and help the Africans.
But, of course, it was all about helping the Africans.
But he had an actual plan which surprised a lot of us, and it made sense.
A lot of it was lowering trade barriers and getting free trade in Africa.
You know, these rock stars, they can fool us.
These are people of considerable depth.
Well, I actually had no idea who he was.
I didn't know he was a rock star or anything until afterwards.
I guess he's before my time.
The Boomtown Rats, they were part of the MTV generation.
They were one of the first, one of the early groups that had videos played on MTV, and that's how people, at least outside of Great Britain, knew about them.
Yeah.
We've got a Boomtown Rats tune somewhere in our lives.
We'll see if we can find us who the Boomtown Rats are.
What's the title of the tune, Mike?
Do you know it off the top of your head?
I can't think.
We'll try to find it, though.
We've got it cataloged.
Up all night, up all day, whatever.
Up all night, doo doo doot.
Yeah, up all night.
We'll see if we can find it just to give you a flavor of Bob Geldorf and the Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.
I got to take a quick time out here.
Thanks so much for the call.
We'll be back in just a second.
Don't go.
Who?
That has a lot of self-respect would name themselves a band after a bunch of rats.
And we are back and we have found in our grooveyard of forgotten favorites, Up All Night by Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.
Now, I have to say, those of you listening via podcast, as you know, we cannot legally include music in the download here.
So the audience on the radio will hear the song.
I'm thinking, what can we do here for you podcasters?
And we have a mix minus here so that whatever I say can be separated from the music.
I might sing along with it for you podcasters just to give you a sample of what the radio audience heard.
Here it is.
Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.
That's pretty much it, lyric-wise.
I mean, it is.
It's about all you can remember when you've been up all night.
Up bolt.
This must be a tough tune to remember the lyrics to when you're performing in concert.
Up all night.
BALL NIGHT!
You have to admit it's got a great bass line.
I mean, there's no question about that.
You like this song, Mr. Snurdly?
It is not Mr. Sturdly's song.
All right, that's enough.
That's the Boomtown Rats.
That's Bob Geldof.
It's from the early 80s, and it is up all night.
A story from the Philadelphia Inquirer by Susan Snyder.
In what could be a unique move nationally, the Philadelphia School District will require every Haskruel student to take a separate course in African and African-American history in order to graduate, beginning with this September's freshman class.
Now, can I make two observations?
One observation is that the Department of Education or somebody has sent out a directive, and they want on or around September 17th for every school in America to teach the Constitution.
And there are school districts objecting.
And they're objecting, you can't tell us what to do.
There's an act out there, and it says we then have to shape our curriculum based on you.
Uh-uh.
School lunch plan, bud.
If the federal government's paying for your school lunch program, they can tell you what you have to teach anywhere.
But imagine they're opposing teaching the Constitution on one day.
I mean, if you have to tell the schools to teach the Constitution one day, is the implication that they're not teaching it at all?
And based on little knowledge there is about the Constitution, we'd seem to conclude that it's not being taught very much.
But yet here in Philadelphia, every Haskruel student will be required to take separate courses in African and African-American history in order to graduate.
Both national and local officials said yesterday that they knew of no other district requiring such a course, particularly one focused on African history for graduation.
But the School Reform Commission voted unanimously in February to offer courses in both areas at every Haskruel and said it would consider making one or both courses a graduation requirement.
Now, I saw the other day also, maybe today, that, yes, it's today.
What is it?
The fastest growing minority in America is Latinos, Hispanics.
41 million Hispanics, Latinos in the country, the largest minority in the country.
So I'm asking the school district of Philadelphia, what about Hispanic history?
What about not just Hispanic history, but Mexican history and Spanish history?
You can't talk about Mexico without talking about Spain.
So you got to have Spanish history, you got to have Mexican history, and then you got to talk about American Hispanic history.
Now, what about all the other races and ethnicities?
What about Irish history?
What about Italian history?
Don't tell, Snurdley says all that other stuff's covered under world history.
Yeah, it's all covered under generic history, huh?
Okay, Bob in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
You mentioned Kerry early in the show.
Is the Kerry story about it?
He's still refusing to turn over records.
Well, no, I mentioned something else about Kerry that they'd asked him about Howard Dean, and he said that he had approved of Howard Dean before he disapproved of him.
But the Kerry story on the records is that since you bring it up, he's trying to fake everybody out.
He did not get his Form 180 records released that show his naval records.
He didn't do that.
He has not come forth with that.
The records that he released only gave his grades from Yale, and he's hoping that this satisfied everybody.
He still has not come forth and signed what's necessary to produce his records in the Navy.
And that's what everybody's curious about.
So that's the summation of that.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Close it out right after this.
Stay with us.
Let's go to Walnut Creek, California.
This is Chris.
I'm glad you waited.
Sir, welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega homeschooling dittos to you.
Thank you.
Hey, the reason I'm calling is I wondered what you thought about the Twin Towers 2 design that Trump has been trumpeting lately.
I love the Trump design.
I love the Trump design.
I think it makes more sense than anything anybody out there has come up with.
And it better be done fast because if you read the Wall Street Journal this week, Deborah Burlingame had a column.
She's the wife of one of the pilots that was killed in the 9-11 attacks.
And a bunch of leftists in this country are trying to get a hold of that area and basically turn it into an anti-American place, blaming us for what happened for our hatred and the stuff that we spread around the world.
We'll get a handle on that.
But no, the Trump, build it back exactly as it was, but a couple of feet or three feet higher, which is essentially what Trump's design for the two towers is.
And it's simple.
Just do it.
You know, everybody wants to be the smartest person in the room.
Everybody wants to be the most creative, just the most creative and responsible thing to do to build it back.
I think Trump's idea is right on the money.
All right, folks, that's it.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time for today.
Walter Williams will be here tomorrow.
See you back on Monday.
Have a full week of broadcast excellence all next week.
Bush says he's thinking about closing Gitmo.
Rumsfeld says, no, we're not.
We better not.
The worst victory we can hand the terrorists in the media would be to shut it down.
Keep it open, Mr. President.
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