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June 15, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, yes, yes, just going here through the stacks looking for something interesting to me.
Here's one.
Yes, greetings and welcome back, folks.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said yesterday that he will force another vote to end a filibuster of John Bolton at the end of this week.
He said, What's bothering me a little bit now is that every time we sort of make a step forward, the demands grow and numbers of names being looked at, uh shifting goalposts in terms of background information.
It makes me think that it isn't really whether or not Bolton could be a good ambassador representing us as we address the challenges uh uh uh that uh we face at the U.N., but that there's something beyond that.
The Democrats said that they first made their request for two pieces of information about Bolton two months ago.
Uh and Senator Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, and is uh said his impression from yesterday's weekly luncheon of Senate Democrats was that they are united enough to continue to block Mr. Bolton.
Uh if there was a vote this afternoon and asking my guest, my guess is that cloture would not be invoked, meaning they wouldn't be able to uh kill the uh filibuster.
Now Dodd also said that contrary to Frist's claim, Democrats actually have altered their request.
They no longer were seeking to view ten foreign communications intelligence intercepts, but have asked Bolton to submit a list of 36 names to see if they appear in the communications.
They also have dropped entirely a qu a request from Senator Barbara Boxer to see a list of clients from an outside consultant, Mr. Bolton has hired during his time as under-secretary of state for uh arms control and international security.
So people, what's what how's this gonna end up now?
Will there be a compromise on the number of names or the number of intercepts uh that the uh the the Senate Democrats get to see?
Uh and of course they'll uh uh look at this.
It it appears that the Democrats are going to the mat on Bolton now, uh I think partially because of the the uh the deal that uh the on the judges, the gang of 14 deal, uh and they are intent on keeping the whole concept of uh of a uh filibuster alive.
So Frist is scheduled a vote for Thursday or Friday on this, and it's anybody's guess right now what will happen.
I think keep forcing the votes.
It's it's clear that the Democrats continue to uh exist in their obstruction mode, and what they're attempting to do is just make sure that these whole eight years of the Bush administration are in effect uh irrelevant.
Didn't happen.
Uh, and at worst illegitimate.
And I think that's their uh their strategy here.
For you property owners, uh and those of you concerned about property rights, we have yet another outrageous example of just how far the left and the environmentalist wackos have gone.
Cave bugs now have more protection under the law than humans.
Plans by developers in Travis County, Texas, to build office, apartment, and retail complexes were snuffed out on Monday when the Supreme Court of GDF Realty Investments versus Gail Norton, the Secretary of the Interior.
The plaintiffs had gone to court claiming that the 1973 Endangered Species Act that prevented them from building was wrongly applied in this case because the cave bugs are found only in Texas and have no impact on interstate commerce.
It's neither interstate nor is it commerce, said Paul Caminer of the Washington Legal Foundation, explaining why property rights advocates felt the Constitution's commerce clause should have prohibited use of the Endangered Species Act in this case.
No matter how ineffective the act has been, and so far it hasn't saved a single species, by the way, environmentalist wackos hold dear to it.
It's obvious that radicals have hijacked the movement.
Their objective is to block anything that promotes commerce and capitalism, increases profits, allows for the conspicuous consumption of resources, creates wealth, fosters independence from government, and perhaps above all protects the rights of landowners to pursue any or all of the above.
That's what motivates the militant environmentalist wackos today.
Carl Marx said the distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of private property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.
Of course, efforts to save endangered species are more acceptable than a campaign to abolish bourgeois property.
An official policy to strip people of their possessions doesn't hold the same appeal as protecting the handsome Florida Black Panther or even cave bugs.
This is the investors' business daily writing, by the way.
Not that we want to color every environmentalist red, nor do we wish to demean sincere attempts to prevent the fouling of the earth and wanton disruption of uh animal and plant life.
Nobody, including the companies most demonized by the green lobby, is so blind and rapacious.
What we resent is the movement's economic foolishness and prevailing attitude that all life is equal in importance.
We've heard too many times that man's just another beast of the field, no more magnificent than a serpent that crawls on its belly.
Now we learn that man is no better than tiny bugs that dwell in limestone sinkholes.
So cave bugs have stopped an apartment and retail development uh complex in Travis County, Texas.
Also, you know it's very hot in the Northeast.
New York is sweltering.
Big big heat wave up there.
You know what?
I well, it's hot in some other parts of the country, but of course it's June.
These things happen.
Uh they they have happened before.
I was just going to make that point.
Uh I I got a flash email from a friend yesterday.
Boy, aren't they you going to be in New York anytime soon?
I said, no.
Well, good, because I mean it may be 100-105 there.
So?
What's odd about that?
I have been in New York not last year, but three of the previous four years in June.
And there have been days over the weekend where it got to 95 and 100 degrees in June.
I know because I was in a member guest golf tournament of a wingfoot walking and playing in it.
It's not uncommon.
1988, when I moved, yeah, when I moved to New York, I started work at WABC on July 4th, 1988.
Gorgeous weekend.
I got there on the night of July 2nd.
Had Sunday, July 3rd to learn the town.
Started on the air on July 4th.
In fact, that was the day we shot down one of Saddam's jet liners.
Remember that?
I think it was one of, well, maybe it was an Iranian gentleman.
Yeah, we saw shot down one of Iran's jetliners as an accident.
And uh it looked to us, watching on television like the Iranians had put mannequins in the river and in the wreckage to make it look like more people were killed than uh than were on board a plane.
Anyway, about a week after I arrived, uh and for six weeks thereafter, there was a heat wave in New York unlike any I have ever experienced in my life anywhere.
I I don't I live in Florida now.
There has never been a heat wave here like those six weeks.
It was it w it would rain and it felt like a hot shower.
The humidity was just stifling.
I I can't I can't describe to you folks, it was it was there hadn't been one like it since, not for that length of time.
It never ended.
And I remember there was this weather guy uh at WABC, his name Keith.
What would you remember his last name, uh, Mr. Snertley Ke Ke Keith Keith Who?
It would say it out loud so I can Keith Eichner.
Keith Eichner.
And uh I'd go to him every day, say, Keith, what what what is this?
And I've never experienced heat like that.
I just come from Sacramento where it gets to 110 in the daytime sometimes, but it'll go down to 55 at night on the same day.
This was just depressive.
And he said, you just wait, just just wait, just wait.
First couple of weeks in August, we'll get the autumnal blast.
I said, what's the autumnal blast?
He said, you'll get a coal front that goes through here and it'll tell us all that autumn is coming.
Lo and behold, second week in August.
Here came the autumnal blast.
I bought his coffee every day after after that.
Uh because he was right.
Every August in New York, I wait for the autumnal blast.
The idea it's hot and the reason the New York Times has a story here about how oppressively hot it is for the students.
Science projects went awry yesterday with Petri dishes sprouting bacteria that were supposed to grow only incubators.
Teachers assigned the essay topic, why we should have air conditioning.
Others set three-second time limits at water fountains.
Still others spritzed their students with water and handed out ice in little cups.
At the Clinton School for Writers and Artists in Chelsea, Julie Patz, the principal secretary, took classroom temperatures in room 506 at reached 103.
She said, I have children who are passing out.
This isn't education.
Yes, it is.
This is what happens when you get hot.
Downstairs in the sweltering auditorium of public school 11, an 11-year-old in matching pink t-shirt and dress didn't feel like singing Shining Star by Earth, Wind and Fire, one of the rehearsal songs for her graduation on fire on Friday, wiping sweat from under her left eye, her lower lip quivering, she said, I don't feel like doing anything.
In New Jersey, suburban school districts, including Maplewood Summit and Glen Rock, have been sending children home early.
The District of Columbia closed its 147 public schools yesterday at 1230, sending 63,000 students home.
What is this is such a great time to be in school?
You don't have to learn anything and you can pass.
You don't even have to learn how to read and you can pass.
They close school when snow is in the forecast, and when the temperature gets above 95, they close everything down and send you home.
None of this ever happened when I was in school.
I don't think I was born at the wrong time.
I wouldn't want to change anything, but this this has to be a great time to be in school, folks.
I mean, it just does.
Back after this, stay with us.
Back we are.
I got an idea.
We got a night from a drive-by caller, no less.
Drive-by caller is a guy with a great point, but can't hang on.
The drive-by caller suggests that when it gets really hot in New York and New Jersey schools, we just send the kids to Gitmo.
It's air-conditioned at Gitmo.
Not only that, look at the increased quality of lunch they will get at Gitmo, as opposed to what they're getting in their schoolrooms and lunch rooms in New York and New Jersey.
Well, HR says vegetables are torture to kids.
Let me let me tell you something.
Well, no, wait a minute, Mr. Snodley.
Snerdley says you can't send kids down to Gitmo because they pray down there and you got a separation of church and state.
This is my point all along.
Gitmo is a place that sounds like a great Christian retreat, great religious retreat.
Every religious practice on earth is respected there.
Every religious practice on earth is allowed to be practiced, and the and the uh items necessary to fully engage in worship are provided free of charge by Gitmo.
Whatever your religious needs are, if you're there, they will be taken care of, and the taxpayer of the United States is going to pay for it.
So, I mean, but but we we could we could segregate the students from prayer if it would be too harmful.
We can let terrorist prisoners pray all they want, but not school kids.
Hell's bells, folks, not on our watch.
That isn't gonna happen.
So we send the school kids down there to air-conditioned gitmo.
Coco, I want you to make a point about this on our brochure that Gitmo is air conditioned, that the school, that the food down there is even better than what American taxpayers provide their own kids in lunch.
And I want you to make it clear that every religious practice on earth is respected there with the worship tools necessary, provided free of charge.
Unless you're an American school student, and then you wouldn't go there.
Rush, what are you saying?
It's a prison.
Really?
I'll tell you when I was in school, I felt like I was more in prison than these guys at Gitmo are.
I couldn't get out of the classroom.
All I could do is look out the window and see where I wish I was, but I couldn't go there.
I was being made to do a bunch of garbage I didn't want to do, like paste and draw.
Anyway, uh it's it's it's a it's a good thought.
It's it's a great comparison, is it not?
The food at Gitmo.
Hell, the food at Gitmo is better than what our own soldiers eat.
Steve in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome.
This is working me up.
Uh nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, how how are you doing, Rush?
Long time.
Yes, thanks, N great to have you here first time.
Well I just I was wondering why in the world they didn't get smart like uh we did in Jacksonville, Florida and uh start letting our kids out at the end of May instead.
Well I'll tell you why.
I will tell you why.
I had there's a story somewhere here in the stack.
I it's not I don't think it's about heat.
It's about um some administrators not the answer is they got to go enough days to qualify for federal money.
It used to be 180 days when I had to go 180 days before to that's why they took attendance and that's why the truant officers used to patrol town looking for the hoods and the ne'er do wells that were skipping school.
And uh so that that they they don't close school in May.
They'd have to start school in August and guess what?
Really hot as hell in August too.
Well well that's true too but you actually do start school in August they get a month for Christmas they get three weeks spring break.
Right.
But but like you said, you know you have the August uh autumn blast that they have up there in New York so I mean the temperatures start going down a little bit.
Yeah I'm saying New York I'm you know what I just I I'm sorry I I made an error and when I make an error I correct it right at the outset uh New York does not start school in August they started after Labor Day that's because the season in the Hamptons doesn't end on Labor Day and the parents aren't back.
So um that that that that's and as it's not going to change.
That's why they're not going to start school in August because the parents have to come back from the Hamptons uh or elsewhere and the parents don't want to come back from the Hamptons.
Nobody wants to be in Manhattan any august in August especially when you had a place out there in the Hampton.
So that's why they go to school and do uh into June.
It is sort of late June 15th still be in school.
Right.
Well it it is late.
I know we had that problem in Virginia when I lived there for a while and uh you know I've railed on and railed on about changing the time and they did the same thing as New York start until after Labor Day.
Well I I'd say here's what I think I I think there there actually is a solution to this.
We've been hearing all along that kids are that the that what is it the circadian rhythms uh are forcing it just the kids have to get up too early.
School starts too soon they get to school they're groggy they don't take time to eat breakfast they're not doing their best learning I think school needs to start like at um oh midnight eleven p.m school gets out six a mot time to hit some clubs still before they close at least go to breakfast you know in New York you can go to a bar at 6 a.m especially if it's near a broadcast center that's 24 hours because the overnight crew gets off work at 6 a.m and they go have their booze then I mean no
no no I'm not being critical they do that the that's that's the end of their day they go have their uh after dinner cocktail or after work cocktail have dinner go to bed at 10 o'clock in the morning or what have you uh but I mean it too hot at night how could that possibly be?
And since kids are night owls because of the circadian rhythms uh start school late at night let them have all day to you know do whatever go go to the Hamptons in the daytime with their parents uh and and and swim and surf and so forth and dodge sharks.
Rick in uh Colorado Springs welcome to the program nice to have you with us mega thin air ditto and greetings from 6,041 feet Rush.
Thank you, sir great to have you on the program.
Hey uh I just noticed there's one thing you're missing here from the uh Club Gitmo.
Yeah what's that?
Uh what about entertainment?
What kind of plans do you have for that?
Uh I don't know about entertainment at Club Gitmo.
Uh I I because the the people that are at Club Gitmore they don't like that kind of stuff.
The people that's that that's sacrilegious and I'll start playing musical instruments and dancing around and so forth.
Club well they look the guy know the night before the hijackers, uh, hijacking the guys are in the bars and they even went to Vegas, but that was just to get a taste of what they hated to give them motivation to go destroy it.
Uh it's not because I mean they lived here for two or three years, they never adapted to the culture.
They live down here in Florida.
It's where they're a lot of them went to flight school, only about a half hour or so from here.
Um anyway, uh we'll I gotta run, folks.
We're sadly out of time here.
We'll ponder the entertainment at Gitmo problem and be back in a moment.
Trying to do that, make the complex understandable.
And to Chicago, Don.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Twenty-eight-day ditto's rush.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I was wondering if you heard what my joke of a senator did on the floor of the Senate yesterday.
It's conveniently near the end of the day when practically no one was around.
He compared the treatment of the prisoners in Guantanamo to uh Pol Pot, to uh the gulag, to Nazis.
You know, he just threw everything in the kitchen sink, and my son's a Marine, and uh yeah, I can't believe that he is he is making speeches like this defending the people that want to kill my son as well as all his uh friends and uh cohorts in the Marine Corps.
Uh I did not hear that.
I did not hear, and I haven't seen that anywhere, that Durban actually compared what we're doing in Gitmo to the regime of pole pot.
On the floor of the Senate, near the end of the day yesterday.
I heard on the radio this morning, and uh, it took me it took me hours to get through to his office because it started a fire storm uh in Washington.
It it's disgusting.
He's crossed the line, he's insane.
We gotta try to find that.
I uh this is the first uh first I've heard of it.
And I that that if if that's look, I don't I'm I'm not disputing you when I say what I'm gonna say next.
I'm uh I must say it this way.
If that's true, does not not give you an insight into what these people's perspective is and what their objective is.
Don't forget what I've always told you, the template, Vietnam.
We're evil.
We're no just like the environmentalists think that we're no different than cave bugs, we're no better than cave bugs, we're no better than rats or anything else like that.
We're all one here.
All living breathing organisms are at one.
I guess to people like Senator Durbin, if that's true, there's no difference in us and tyrannical despot dictators and mass murderers.
That we're no different than that.
And that's how we're being perceived around the world.
Now anybody with half a brain knows that those comparisons are false.
So why say it?
The reason you say it, you keep getting more and more extreme in your pronouncements is you don't think people are getting it.
You don't think people are hearing you.
You don't think people understand what you're saying.
So you keep going a little bit further across the line each time you open your mouth.
But to compare us to uh Dick Dur uh to compare us to Pole Pot.
Uh we have researchers on this as we speak.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, attempting to uh come up with this.
Don Don, are you still there by any chance?
Yes, I am, sir.
What time of day would this happen?
You know, uh I heard about it first thing this morning on the way to work.
Um, you didn't hear it yourself.
Oh, yes, I did.
I probably heard the tape.
Ingram had it on this morning, but apparently uh it was near the end of the business day in the Senate, so I don't know what time that would be.
And he was practically, from what I understand, standing on the floor by himself talking to practically no one.
But there it was there, she had it on tape, and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
And it's that kind of rhetoric that costs our boys their lives.
Well, that's I just I called his office and told him he's a traitor.
He's nothing short of a traitor.
You know, there's no question that kind of stuff gets gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
Uh, and and you can imagine bin Laden and Mullah Omar sitting around and uh uh imagining, you know, just laughing themselves silly uh and uh over what their allies, the Democrats uh in the Senate happen to be saying.
Okay, we're uh we've found it, and the text is being eel emailed to me even as we speak.
Uh unfortunately I may not have a chance to grab it uh until the next break.
Uh, but I will I will uh get to it as soon as I can.
Here I uh the da da da da A related education story.
This is not the story about keeping school open to make sure you qualify for federal money, but it is related to that.
From Santa Anna, California, a Haskruel principal asked teachers to reconsider the grades of failing students, failing seniors, to help the school meet federal requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.
Saddleback Haskrull principal Esther Jones sent teachers a memo on Thursday, this would be uh last week, asking them to reconsider the grades of 98 students, saying, please review your records for these students and determine if they would merit a grade of D instead of failure.
She added that the school needed 95% of its seniors to graduate to meet federal requirements.
In fact, the school needs a graduation rate of 82.8% and will graduate uh uh nearly 84% of its 500 seniors on Wednesday.
Uh Jones did not return calls for comment.
And I read this story today in the midst of show prep, and I uh I know what's I know what's gonna happen with this.
What's gonna happen is that this is see the no child left behind act is not right.
It's it's causing us problems.
We're we're we're being forced to pass students that don't pass in order to meet the requirements.
No, wait, no, no, no.
You're supposed to educate them so they do pass on their own.
That that's the point.
It's not yes, but this is causing this is causing too much pressure, and we uh we're we did we just can't operate this way.
So this is once once again, the No Child Left Behind Act is going to get blamed here as the reason these kids are failing, rather than the education they're getting or their own lack of study and uh application, what have you.
All right, uh from the American thinker.
In fact, one of our favorite websites, by the way, it is a blog.
Uh-da-da-da-da-da-da.
See, here is I guess this is Durban comments on the uh on the Senate floor.
On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far, the temperature was so cold in the room that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold.
On another occasion, the air conditioner had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees.
The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him.
He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night.
On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand in foot in a fetal position on a tile floor.
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, poll pot or others that had no concern for human beings.
Sadly, it's not the case.
This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Uh you know.
I I'm just stunned.
I I am I'm literally just stunned.
Let me read to you the description again here.
On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far, and the temperature was so cold in the room that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold.
On another occasion, the air conditioner had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees.
The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him.
He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night.
On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the floor.
The tile floor.
And then that is compared to the Nazis.
The Soviets in their gulags and Pol Pot.
Now, whatever this was, this detainee in a hot and cold room and being forced to listen to music, that was not the Nazis.
The Nazis gassed people.
The Nazis mass murdered people.
The Nazis committed all kinds of atrocities.
The Nazis would attract attach electrodes to genitals.
The Nazis used electrical shock.
The Nazis were literally brutal.
We have nothing in common with them.
The Soviets in their gulags.
The Soviets killed over 1.7 million people in their gulags alone.
Many of their gulags were in Siberia, where it's often below zero on a daily basis.
That's not Guantanamo Bay and not what we did.
And Pol Pot.
Pol Pot was a mass murderer of his own citizens.
Over two million Cambodians mass murdered by Pol Pot.
Now I don't care.
Whatever you think of this description of what happened to this one detainee.
One story.
We've got one story of one detainee.
Here we got one story over there, another story over there.
We have maybe five instances of problems with the Koran.
And on the basis of these anecdotal stories, we're gonna cart the Democratic Senator Dick Durbin is gonna start comparing us to Pol Pot and the Nazis and the Soviets in their gulags.
Whatever happened to this detainee, he is alive.
He experienced a little discomfort.
Rap music, rap mute.
We remember when we forced uh well, Pineapple grapefruit face, Noriega, out of the uh the uh out of he was hiding out down there in Panama?
We blared rock music at him 24-7 to try to drive him nuts.
The other day I saw a reference that we were blaring Christina Aguilera music uh at detainees to drive them nuts.
Uh and now rap music to drive to call that torture.
I mean, compared to the torture of the Nazis, the Soviets in their gulags and Pol Pot, there is definitely a sense of proportion and perspective missing here.
And to draw these comparisons uh and to try to convince the American people that that's what their country is and what their government is doing.
Why, I mean, this is Durban ought to be a shame.
This is just this is absurd.
It is absolutely absurd.
Take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
It was 7.16 last night on the floor of the Senate, and Dick Durbin was speaking.
If I read this to you and didn't tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Paul Potter others that had no concern for human beings.
Sadly, that's not the case.
This was the action of Americans, you know, in treatment of our their own prisoners.
Senator, I'm embarrassed for you.
I'm embarrassed that you are an American.
I'm embarrassed that you're an American senator.
You know, it it's the United States Senator.
This this is just over the top for you to draw this analogy in this.
Senator Durbin, do you know how hot it is in Iraq right now?
Where our troops are wearing all that body armor?
It's a hundred and thirty degrees, Senator.
It's 130 degrees in Iraq.
It's 130 degrees around the country where a lot of our troops are working.
It's freezing in parts of the world where our troops are working.
It's hotter in Iraq than it is in a cell at Gitmo, where we have a terrorist who wants to blow up Americans and we're trying to get information from them.
This is just we don't deserve to win this war as long as we have people like Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate.
We don't deserve to win it.
We don't deserve to win it when we got Durbin and his colleagues like Pat Lahey doing everything they can to undermine it.
We don't deserve to win it.
We're not a great enough country.
We're spawning people like this that idiots in Illinois elect us into the Senate.
We don't deserve to win it.
We deserve to lose this war.
If we're gonna be led by such idiocy and such ignorance as this, we deserve to lose it, folks.
There's a price to pay for having this kind of thinking at the highest levels of government.
Nancy in Casper, Wyoming.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rice.
Hi.
Oh, I'm outraged by this.
Well, you were on the phone with that Other caller.
I got through to Durbin's office and I called him a traitor, and I don't know if I can say this on the air, but I called him a sick SOB and I said that he should resign.
This is absolutely outrageous.
Um the left wing loony left the loony left this country is just an embarrassment.
Well, they're more than an embarrassment, they're an ab they're they're an obstacle.
They they are.
They have become a danger.
They have they've they they've become, you know, we've got we've got these international enemies we're fighting.
We apparently have some domestic problems that we have to deal with as well, and they're epitomized here by this kind of thinking by Senator Durbin.
Well, it it's all left over from the the radicals of the 60s and now their offspring.
No.
Exactly right.
But it's you know, you have to have such hate.
You have to have such hatred and seething rage in your heart for your own country to be able to save this.
I don't understand this because I have such love for our military and our country My brother did two terms in Nom, and I'm not talking John Kerry terms, tours, I'm talking full tours.
And our our military is they're awesome, and they're the most unbelievable military in the history of the world.
And uh, you know, that you mentioned something about the heat in Iraq right now.
Yeah, it gets to be 130 degrees, and you know, uh they're they're just making uh they're just an embarrassment.
This is just so upsetting to me.
Well, I'll I'll I'll tell you what.
The uh uh you say you don't understand it.
Let me try to explain it to you.
This is what you get when you have a political party that's so obsessed with hatred for the sitting president that they'll do anything they can to beat him, that they'll do anything to get their power back.
I mean, this is what you have.
This is the epitome of it.
Ken in Miami, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
Mega all roads lead to Travis County cave bug dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
I just called to tell you we already know about the entertainment that they offer at Gitmo.
Puppet shows and women invading your personal space.
He gets a great idea.
There already is entertainment at Gitmo.
They do have puppet shows down there, and they are the scantily clad women, uh, or women in general that uh that and pictures.
Pictures of scantily clad women that uh invade your personal space.
And you don't have to go anywhere.
They bring it to you at Gitmo.
You just usually have 40 bucks in Detroit, uh 80 bucks in New York to just a cover charge just to get in for this kind of stuff.
But at Gitmo, they bring it to you.
Excellent idea.
We also thought that this might be uh uh something uh, you know, you need acts coming in and out of there.
It's a resort, uh, and so you have to have bands and so forth, entertainers to come in to entertain the uh the the vacationers.
How about this?
Senator Kennedy could go down with uh with uh uh uh what's his name, Christopher Dodd, uh, and lead the the the revelers in uh Itzy Bitsy Spider and uh and other uh select suit tools.
Anyway, quick break, gotta go be back right this uh right after this and wrap it up.
We uh we are reminded here, ladies and gentlemen, of uh of another public uh utterance of sheer ignorance and uh lack of uh what a sensitivity, shall we say, by this great liberal Dick Durbin.
He told a joke uh about Abraham Lincoln.
It was the the opening of the Lincoln Museum, the opening of the Lincoln Museum.
Dick Durbin says, you know, a lot of people thought that Abraham Lincoln was Jewish.
Yeah!
Ha ha!
A lot of people thought Lincoln was Jewish, yeah.
You know why?
Because he was first name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple.
And you know, we we commented on it when he told the joke.
We also commented on how outside of local media in Chicago and Illinois, nobody cared.
Pat Buchanan tells a joke like that, and what do you think would be the result?
So regardless, yeah, there's a double standard, but it doesn't hide the fact that this man is an embarrassment to the United States Senate uh and his own country with this kind of comparison.
And he's only serving to rally the opponents of his party with it.
That's what they don't understand, not persuading anybody else.
Have a great Wednesday, folks.
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