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July 5, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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They make more sense than anything anybody else out there on the air happens to be saying.
And the reason is the views expressed by the host on this program are documented to be almost always right, 98.5% of the time.
This is a relentless pursuit of the truth every day here, folks, and we find it.
And you have to have courage to face the truth, especially if you're a liberal or you'll go nuts.
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Tropical Storm Dennis bearing down on Club Gitmo.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh this is uh one of these most unfortunate things.
Uh you know, the it it I'm worried about the tourism effect there at uh at Club Gitmo.
So many people around the world would love to be able to get into Club Gitmo.
It takes special qualifications, but with a hurricane, you know, it can it it affects terrorism wherever the hurricane's forecast to go.
This one dangerously close to Club Gitmo.
We're keeping a sharp eye on it.
We have such a vested interest in the place.
We've even opened a club gitmo photo gallery today at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We've set up a special uh email address, Club Git know at Rushlinbaugh uh com and you can send us your Club Gitmo t-shirt and gear photos.
We'd love to see you, because the idea came from the guy who called us in Cleveland last week and said he went into a Starbucks, uh, which everybody knows liberals hang around Starbucks to drink latte.
And uh he did he couldn't wait to go in there and and uh and uh you know buy a cup of coffee here with his club gitmo shirt.
It did irritate a bunch of liberals.
So we thought, why don't we just have those uh of you with Club Gitmo t-shirts and gear you know, get some pictures of yourselves out there.
Uh and not in the backyard, not at home, not with the family dogs, you know, not with uh any of that, but actually out amongst uh the citizenry.
And uh, you know, the more exciting the photo, the more likely it will be published on our website, rushlimbaugh.com in the brand new Club Gitmo photo gallery.
Let's see.
And the Club Gitmo stuff is still uh up there for sale as well.
The four t-shirts, the golf shirt, the uh the the cap, and the jihad Java coffee mug.
All still still available at the Club Gitmo gift shop.
What was that?
Oh, yeah, I knew Hank Stram.
Hank Stram passed away uh over the weekend, former uh great NFL coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and the New Orleans Saints.
Yeah, I got I I um first time I met Hank Stram was in an elevator in New York about 19 uh 1988.
He was still working for CBS, and I was in the Park of Meridian in a bunch of uh it was time for the the the uh preseason meetings of the CBS announce crew.
And uh Stram uh w got in an elevator and and I knew him.
I'd not met him before that he recognized me and we started talking.
He was uh said he was a big fan.
He was uh uh it's not 88, wait a minute, 89, something like that.
Regardless, he was just uh uh nice as he could be kind of guy.
They were all the CBS guys at the time were in town for their annual, they would go up to a lanes and have dinner and talk about the season, plan their production meetings and this sort of stuff.
And I think he was he might have been doing CBS radio with Jack Buck at that time.
I'm not sure.
No, he was he was uh he was uh one of a kind kind of coach.
I mean, the NFL Films was actually was a great organization anyway, NFL Films Steve Sable and his dead ed, but that that that tape uh that film of the Chiefs and the and the uh with Stram on the sideline uh talking about matriculating the ball down the field boys and so forth.
He was he was one of a kind guy.
I liked him.
I liked Hank Stram.
By the way, is f a federal prosecutor today has demanded that Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testify before grand jury investigating the leak of uh the CIA officer's identity, even though Time magazine has surrendered emails and other documents in the uh investigation.
The special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also opposed the request of Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller to be granted home detention instead of jail for refusing to reveal their sources.
Allowing the reporters Home confinement would make it easier for them to continue to defy a court order to testify, he said.
Special treatment for journalists may negate the coercive effect contemplated by federal law, Fitzgerald wrote in filings with the uh court.
Now he doesn't get to make the decision on this.
He he wrote this brief to the judge, but uh it's up to the judge to make this determination on home detention.
But in his brief, Fitzgerald wrote, Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality.
No one in America is.
So I just to share with you my point on this at the beginning of the program today.
I everybody's out there assuming now that Carl Rove was the source of the leak.
He may well be, but I find it hard to believe.
That because this leak occurred, this whole story goes back to 2003.
And if if journalists Matt Cooper and all those now chiming up claiming they've known all along it was Rove.
Well, if they knew this for sure during the 2004 presidential campaign, don't you think that they would have leaked it then?
Why keep that secret?
I mean, here they're out there forging documents at CBS to try to create a false story to get Bush out of office, and here they've got supposedly irrefutable evidence that Carl Rove committed a criminal act by leaking the name of the CIA agent Valerie Plame, and they keep that secret.
That's that's just uh That's a tough one to believe here, folks, because that that could have been a huge factor in the presidential campaign of 2004.
So we'll find out in due course, I suppose.
You know, John John Kerry.
There's there's a you know, the question uh if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, uh, does it make a noise?
If John Kerry speaks and a hundred people hear it, has he said anything.
He sent out an email to his quote unquote supporters on the 4th of July.
And I have right here, my friend, because I'm a powerful, influential member of the media.
I have in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a copy of this email to his friends.
Dear Otis.
The Fourth of July is a time for family fun and fireworks.
But something happened today that ought to remind everybody what this holiday really symbolizes.
The freedom that makes America great.
That's exactly what hangs in the balance now that Sandra Day O'Connor is resigned from the Supreme Court.
This is no small deal.
Over and over, she was the justice who cast a critical vote in five, four cases, deciding the most important issues in our nation.
Here's our bottom line for the John Kerry.com community heading into the holiday weekend.
We can never let her be replaced by a justice who does not respect the right to privacy in Roe v.
Wade.
So here we are on the 4th of July.
John Kerry sends out this most important email to his buddies, and it's about protecting Roe vs.
Wade.
That's what Independence Day meant to John Kerry.
So this weekend, as you enjoy the fourth, take a minute to think about what it means.
Come back on Tuesday morning ready to fight for our freedom, like I did in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and at the Battle of the Bulge.
And I was at Omaha Beach in Ponduhoe.
It's all at stake now.
We need to come together more than ever.
Get ready.
John Carey.
And the nation yawned.
Just as you are yawning now.
Quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
Fourth of July independence message to supporters, Roe versus Wade.
You gotta love these people.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us, folks.
House uh minority leader Nancy Pelosi filed delinquent reports Friday for three trips that she accepted from outside sponsors that were worth $8,580 and occurred as long as seven years ago, according to copies of the documents.
Now I'm sure that she filed this on Friday, hoping this story wouldn't run.
She hoped this would get lost in the Fourth of July down news cycle.
But uh Washington Post held on to it.
The filing is among hundreds of revisions from members of both parties who have amended missing or incomplete reports as scrutiny of lawmaker travel has uh intensified.
The most expensive trip was not reported on Pelosi's annual financial disclosure statement or on the travel disclosure form that is required within thirty days of a uh of a trip.
Committee members have shown no appetite for taking up all those cases.
This is the ethics committee we're talking about, and are considering an amnesty for reporting violations, although not for serious matters, such as accepting a trip from a lobbyist.
The data from Political Moneyline calculates that members of Congress have received more than 18 million dollars in travel from private organizations in the past five years, with Democrats taking 3,458 trips, Republicans taking 2,666.
Let's go back to April, shall we?
Since Ms. Pelosi on Friday tried to sneak in these three reports, so nobody would know about it.
Go back to April when uh Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry held a press conference to smear Tom DeLay.
And they got testy when the questions turned to their own actions.
A reporter said to Pelosi, the uh the NRCC got to the room actually before you did, and basically said, Well, those who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones, a list of articles about your PAC and some other things, Senator Reed.
They also brought up a 2003 LA Times article about your family in Nevada.
Are you two living in glass houses here?
It's an interesting tact uh when you have such an incredible array of charges against you.
And in fact, on a repeated basis, the ethics committee has spoken out about that behavior to try to turn the attention someplace else.
But the issue is here, the ethical fitness of Tom Delay to be the majority leader of the House, and if the members, the Republican members find that standard one that is acceptable to them.
You might want to institute a new standard to be the leader of your party in the House, and that is a simple IQ test.
and Harry Reid said that uh this was about delay.
Well, not about him and Nancy Pelosi and and uh uh or any of Dingy Harry's uh sons.
Uh reporter said, Senator Senator Reed, do you like being pulled into this uh House dispute, so to speak?
The problems that Tom Delay has are problems of his own making.
And the whatever the organization is said got here before us, they can do whatever they want to do to try to take the focus away from Tom Delay.
But I think the American people, including the people from his congressional district, are looking at Tom Delay, not Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
Yeah, and yeah, meanwhile, you guys keep amending your financial records.
Nancy Pelosi on Friday again filing delinquent reports for three trips.
She accepted from outside sponsors worth $8,580, occurring as long as seven years ago.
David in Roseburg, Oregon.
We go back to the phones now, and you're up, sir.
Hello and welcome.
Rush, I'm a uh lifelong Republican.
In fact, I've been for 28 years an activist in the party in in Oregon.
Most recently a paid staff person in the effort to help re-elect the president this last summer.
But I've got to tell you something, my friend.
Bush is not going to nominate a conservative, let alone is one going to get confirmed.
He's not even going to nominate one.
Evidence of that is Bill Pryor, one of his most recent appointments to the Federal Appeals Court, who is a moderate at on his best day.
And what Rush was responsible for prosecuting Moore in Alabama, Justice Chief Justice Moore, you know, who said he was going to stand with the Chief Justice and then turn around and prosecuted him.
If that isn't a quid pro quo, and the fact that his name's even in a hat for the Supreme Court is terrifying.
But I I've got one of the I wasn't.
I know, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I don't I don't think Pryor's name is in the hat for the Supreme Court.
It may be on a long list.
I've I've not seen it, but it may not be rushed, but the point is that's the kind of person the president's going to appoint.
He's a moderate.
And Arlen Spector is something that Bush could have dealt with.
Come on, come on.
Come on.
No, you come on.
Bill Pryor is not a moderate.
Bill Pryor was opposed and filibustered by the You're basing it on the Roy Moore decision when he was attorney general of Alabama, and he had to follow the law there.
No, you're not going to be able to do that.
This is not a little bit of a big thing.
He had to follow the law there.
This guy has been raked over the coals.
He refused to take his family to Disney Day, Disneyland on gay day, wanted to go somewhere else.
They held that against him, said he was against gay rights and this sort of stuff.
You know, Rush, have it your way on Bill Pryor.
But let me tell you something.
Arlen Spector is another case in point.
We know who Bush Is and I again I'm telling you, I'm the lifelong Republican.
I'm not some democratic pack here that's on the show to attack the president, but you got to get the blinders off, my friend.
Arlen Spector was running against Toomey in Pennsylvania, and Bush went out and campaigned for the most liberal man in the U.S. Senate, Arlan Specter.
How do you explain that?
Uh, don't explain it.
I remember talk I remember he's also raising money for Link Chafey.
You know, Rush, and and and the here's here's the best answer I can give you.
There are two things that went into that tradition and the number of Republicans in the Senate.
They were trying to get as many Republicans in the Senate, that's why he's standing by Chafey.
It's just that it's the vote count.
It's I know on the surface doesn't make any sense, but I think you're looking at the wrong things here.
I mean, there are a lot of us that have, you know, individual complaints about President Bush, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't uh if you look at the the appellate nominees that he has sent up and then resent up after they were filibustered and thought to be gone.
You cannot say that he has not set up conservatives and hard, you know, full-fledged down the middle conservatives.
And the and the idea that you want to throw Bill Pryor in this list because of the Roy Moore ruling, I think is a little short-sighted on your part here.
I we don't know what he's gonna do until the uh appointment is actually made.
But he's been good on the circuit appointments and the uh and the appellate judge appointments, and he's prevailed.
He's got he's got these guys on the bench.
He's got away, uh David, I I I appreciate the phone call.
I don't think anybody has blinders off here.
I think you do sound like a Democrat who's accusing me of being an administration apologist.
And uh believe me, I just I spent I don't know how many minutes today ripping into Senator Spector.
I don't know what more you want.
Robert in coming Georgia, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, uh Rush.
Um you had spoken earlier uh today about uh someone needs to tell the Ted Kennedys and the Dick Durbins of the world that they've lost and that they need to just sit down, and the president has rights and he has rights to nominate his uh own uh judges and that they need to do their work.
And that person is Bill Frist.
And Bill Frist needs to step up.
He needs to redeem himself and he needs to lead.
The Democrats know that they have uh lost the White House and the House of Representatives.
They know they're losing uh the mainstream media and the country, and their two last bastions are the Senate and the courts, and they're tied together, and Bill Frisk needs to step up and lead.
Well, I uh uh and I hear what you're saying, and I I've I've said the same thing myself.
I'm not I'm not disagreeing with you about this.
Let me clarify I I don't when I say Democrats shut up, I don't expect them to shut up.
I I I am I am uh actually, I think to be specific, I'm advocating that somebody, and probably agreeing with you when you mentioned Frisk, somebody stepped forward and pound home that they lost, that they're losers, that they don't get to set the agenda, they don't get to pick the nominees, you get to do that when you win elections until that, shut up.
Just zip it.
And uh, however that is said in the Senate and by whom, I'm all for it.
The problem is that if Frist goes out and says it, I'll guarantee you within two minutes, Chuck Hagel, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain will be at a microphone condemning this kind of language, condemning this kind of behavior, condemning this kind of uh uh partisanship that doesn't uh uh promote the collegiality and the and the the gag-me goodwill of the Senate uh and all that.
Uh but uh let's, you know, uh we can we can sit here all day long and and complain and moan.
I I had somebody tell me when when uh Justice O'Connor retired uh frist went to the well of the Senate to uh make some comments about her, and I got I got a bunch of email notes.
Well, there if if Bill Frist has president election operations, he's blowing it with this.
All he's doing is reading the bio and offering uh offering praise.
And I said, nobody's watching this.
You know, this is just to get it into the record.
This is not the time to go out there and start hitting the pedal to the melt.
We haven't even got a nominee named.
They said, Oh, a lot of people are watching.
The media is watching, he's uh if he if he wants to show presidential timber, this is the opportunity and the time to do it.
Uh I don't know what his presidential aspirations are.
I I I all I all I know is that he's committed to uh to getting the president's uh nominees confirmed and getting them all up and down votes.
But that that's what I said at the beginning of the program.
What we're doing uh uh because it's required is to react to the lunatic, insane comments of made by the left from Ralph Nees to Gloria Steinem to the Nags to uh Ted Kennedy and all that.
Uh if if they are this agitated with just a return, wait till the nominees named, you know, then it's going to be thermonuclear war.
And I just think, you know, we're going to get the thermonuclear war in time.
Let's, you know, let's not pretend it's here now.
It'll be a couple weeks.
Snerdly doing a slow burn over that caller from Oregon who told me to take my blinders off.
You know, you gotta learn not to get so agitated by these callers.
I I'm reminded here I had to suspend you for 45 seconds because you started yelling at them when they were on the phone when you were screening.
I know you were in there yelling at him.
I can see it.
He was yelling at the caller when he was talking to me while I was cool, calm, collected, and reasonable and just dealing with it substantively.
What's what's ironically uh what's ironic about these guys that tell me to take the blinders off is that they're the ones wearing them.
Blinders are usually what one issue people have on.
Single issue people.
And uh Bill Pryor, as far as he's concerned, is not qualified because he uh he went after Judge Moore of the Ten Commandments case in uh in Alabama.
And I remember that case well.
I mean, the the the ruling came down from the court, the attorney general of Alabama had no choice.
Um at any rate, uh you know, we love Nina Easton here, uh, folks at the EIB Network.
Nina is the uh is the Bureau Chief of the Boston Globe in uh Washington.
She's uh occasionally a participant in the round table on Fox, uh Britt Hume's uh show uh at six o'clock Eastern time.
And uh we always get a big kick out of Nina.
I mean we had uh remember when that reporter, I guess his name Michael Cranish, wrote the official bio of John Kerry and was also uh reporter of the Globe.
She she called HR and said that Cranish was not a compromised journalist, and we we uh we corrected the record as she had uh said it, said it to us.
She has a piece today here in the uh Boston Globe that is just it's just rich.
Uh the headline of the story with anti-poverty call, evangelicals seek new tone.
The subhead is Respond to Concerns on Negative Image.
Okay, so you um you born-again right-wingers out there, brace yourselves for this, because this is what the mainstream press thinks you're up to now.
Uh concerned that the nation's incendiary culture wars have taken a toll on their image.
Christian conservatives are joining liberals in calling for more government spending to combat global poverty and are urging fellow evangelicals to remember that their primary calling is a personal ministry, not politics.
The national I realize many of you are in shock over this, learning what you're doing, but let me read on.
The National Association of Evangelicals, a conservative group mostly known for its opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, joined other religious leaders meeting in London last week to urge those attending the upcoming Group of Eight Summit in Scotland to dramatically increase aid and trade benefits to impoverished nations.
The Reverend Richard Cesick, or Sizek, I'm not sure how he pronounces it, said we are lending our voice to this cause in a way we've never done before.
That call was made just days after the Southern Baptist Convention agreed to end a boycott of the Walt Disney Company over its gay family days at the theme parks, also to forego a proposed boycott of carnival cruise lines over gay cruises, display more understanding toward gays, and present a gentler face to the world with a campaign to baptize one million people by September 2006.
Southern Baptists seem to have been known in recent years for what we're against, said James T. Draper Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention's publishing arm.
The perception is that we are mean and negative.
Evangelicals, whether liberal or conservative, have always been deeply involved in poverty and relief work as well as human rights.
So what's the story then?
With anti-poverty call, evangelicals seek new tone, but evangelicals have always been deeply involved in poverty.
Well, what's the story?
I in fact, uh With anti-poverty call, evangelicals seek new tone.
The the I guess the implication here is that at one time you evangelicals were pro-poverty.
You were for poverty.
You were advocating poverty.
You were out there trying to spread poverty, and now you've seen the error of your ways.
And you're coming out against poverty.
Because you don't like the image of being pro-poverty.
The pro-poverty image made people think that you were mean and that you didn't care.
And so you've all banded together and you've gone over to the G8 summit to make sure everybody knows now that evangelicals are against poverty.
See, I think what causes a story to get, and I said we love Nina Easton.
Don't misunderstand me here.
What stories causes stories like this to get written is a template out there that conservatives in general have.
It's like this first caller we had today, this wacko Carl from uh Redlands, California.
That uh conservatives equal cold-hearted mean-spiritedness and don't care about suffering or any of that when it's the opposite.
Of course, we like to count compassion uh by or define compassion by counting in a people no longer need assistance because they can fend for themselves.
Along the same lines here, feminist author Gloria Steinem today, or yesterday actually joined about 200 protesters.
You know, 200 protesters, if I put them together, don't even make the news.
Two hundred protesters that's sponsored by the uh the mother of the nags, and woe and behold, stop the presses.
We've got a news story here.
So the mother of the nags, Gloria Steinem, joined about 200 protesters to demand the closure of Club Gitmo, saying that holding prisoners indefinitely without charging them violates the values upon which the U.S. was founded.
I don't think she knows what those values are, because if she did, she would be trying to maintain the integrity of the U.S. Constitution.
Steinem compared Club Gitmo to the kind of autocratic rule early colonists were trying to flee.
Here we go again.
They came to escape the very things, detention without due process, bias, a religious government that we protest today.
Ever heard of high taxes.
So uh once again, 200 people, and they were in New York, or in New York protesting Club Gitmo.
Um, and it's just a bunch of hasbins.
It's the same usual suspects that have been marching in protests for the last 40 years, but now there's so few of them left that the biggest number they can put together is 200.
From Topeka, Kansas State lawmakers missed a Friday deadline imposed by the Kansas Supreme Court to increase spending on public schools, but the legislature was working overnight to break the deadlock.
It seems uh to me that we're in a standoff, said Republican House Speaker Doug Mays.
I'm not sure where we go from here.
The Kansas Supreme Court earlier this month directed legislators to provide another 143 million dollars in education funding by July 1st.
But a lot of Republicans believe the court exceeded its constitutional authority.
They may have been trying to link a school financing bill with a proposed amendment to the state constitution to limit the court's power in funding.
Democrats and a few moderate Republicans have uh have balked at this.
It's going to be interesting to watch this and basically have a standoff up there, folks, or out there, and and uh here you have another rogue court demanding a legislature to do something.
Imagine if the Kansas Supreme Court said you buy you better come up with a law authorizing gay marriage.
That's what happened in uh in Massachusetts for Phoenix.
The Arizona State Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Tucson newspaper could not be held liable for publishing a letter that urged people to kill Muslims to retaliate for the death of American soldiers in Iraq.
It was a five to nothing ruling.
Five to zip.
Arizona Supreme Court found unanimously the Tucson citizen was protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and could not be sued for printing the letter in December 2003.
The opinion reversed.
A lower court judge.
The lawsuit was filed by Ali W. Elathy and Wali Udin S. Abdul Rahim.
Stemmed from a three-paragraph letter in the paper that called for quick retaliation for soldiers' deaths.
The letters said, whenever there's an assassination Or another atrocity, we should proceed to the closest mosque and execute five of the first Muslims we encounter.
After all is a holy war, and although such procedure is not fair or just it might end the horror.
They let her caused an uproar in Tucson and uh and prompted uh uh there's a name here, uh the editor and publisher, Michael Chihack of the paper to issue an apology for uh for printing it.
So um this case might interest uh Matthew Cooper and Judy Miller uh in Arizona.
Here is uh Frank in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I'm glad you on the phone, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Uh Mr. Rimbo, yeah, first time caller.
Yes, sir.
Congratulations.
Uh you are a very great man.
First of all, I want to congratulate you for letting uh getting some sense into some short memory Americans who don't know what we are going through.
Appreciate that.
But the prime thing here is uh the empowerment of Africans.
We don't need the kind of help you're giving us.
How long have you given us the uh the the help?
And what what kind of results have you seen?
How much money is be is touched in Switzerland or in American banks and all that from these dictators?
Can you be able to help uh Africans get uh retrieve these some money before you give uh extra money?
I mean, this is the whole thing.
What African country are you from?
From Kenya.
From Kenya, okay.
And Kenyans are not lazy.
We don't want free handouts.
We are hard working people.
Well, you you may not, but Bono and Bob Geldoff do.
Oh well, but uh, you know, they they don't know they don't understand.
Uh you know, we all that we want is good leadership, leadership that is is uh accountable, and people will be able to be empowered through that.
And we are not saying we don't want we don't need aid, uh definitely we have uh uh a disease which is inflicted upon us.
Uh that's aid.
Okay, what when uh Frank, when you say you need empowerment, what what does that mean?
How would you define it?
Empowering the the farmers, empowering the uh the the the people it's more than so you want you want capitalism, you want freedom.
Of course.
Yes, okay.
That's what empowerment means.
Yeah.
You know, freedom, and of course being being able to do as much as you can where you when you have the talent.
We have a lot of talent.
But a lot of these talents are just must by free handouts, which uh end up with uh with a few individuals.
I mean, that's not uh I know.
Look, when you give money to dictators, socialist leaders, guess who it enriches?
Yes, and and and uh America should lead by example.
That is we are having a very great president.
Well, but uh we lead by example by showing what actually uh that uh the governments there should be responsible, it should be accountable.
Here's the problem.
Here's the problem.
In and and it's I think it's it's not just an American problem, it's a worldwide problem.
And it's typified by uh by live eight.
The solution to a problem is not on the table for examination.
We're not supposed to examine solutions because all this is about is good intentions.
This is about rewarding people who say they care.
This is about rewarding people who see a problem and identify it and say, oh, that's horrible.
These are people that get the Nobel Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize for Poverty or the Nobel Prize for you know rock concerts or whatever they give them out for now.
And it it it we've been doing this.
I I saw the statistic earlier this weekend.
Five hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars in the last 40 years from the United States alone to Africa.
Uh it has not solved the problem.
We've had live aid, we've had live eight, we've had debt forgiveness, all these things.
It is not solved the problem because there's no reform going on.
It's just it's just throwing money after bad things.
And it's it's no different country to country, uh nation to nation, continent to continent, person to person.
You just have no appreciation for what's given to you.
You only appreciate it when you've worked for it and earned it.
If you don't have the freedom to do that, uh then you don't really have a chance to, you know, experience emancipation.
But sadly, what what's at work here is that most people have defined feeling good by virtue of applauding effort and examining intentions.
If we actually if we actually examined results, then nobody ought to feel good because the results are not there.
There have been a d dismal, dismal failure.
Uh for forty years, no matter what.
And the same efforts under the same pretenses take place, and yet they happen every generation.
So people that, wow, this is unique.
This is new.
Look at these people who care.
We have people that make trips to Africa, and they say, I saw these horrible things.
We must do something.
That's a person of compassion.
We should listen to what they have to say.
Well, we've been at people traveling over there for decades, coming back saying the same thing, and we've been responding to it.
And we still have this.
It's you know what I equate it to.
It's sort of like the African American population in this country.
For 50 years, they've been complaining about X, Y, and Z. And the Democrats have been saying, we'll fix it for you, vote for us.
Yet every campaign, Democratic leaders, black leaders comparing about complaining about the same things.
And you finally say, wait a minute.
You guys have been promising all this stuff.
We're still complaining after 50 years.
There hasn't been any significant improvement, at least not that we see, even though there is.
In this case, there's been tremendous improvement.
Um, and yet it's denied.
It's it's it's really it's really convoluted.
I don't know what solution to it is.
Because the the way people are made to feel better and successful about it is not tied to success.
It's tied to intentions and big hearts and caring and all that, and that's easy.
Back after this, stay with us.
Okay, back to the phones quickly.
Uh Irwin in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Hi, Erwin, welcome.
Nice to have you with us today.
Thanks for taking my call.
First time calling you, and you do a great job.
You really you really hit things right in the net right on the uh right on the head of the nail.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, you know, uh Africa is a European problem.
They were there from basically the 1880s to the 1960s, taking all the wealth, the diamonds, the menrows out of there.
They leave it in a disaster.
And they expect us to come in and straighten it out.
Exactly right.
This is their doing.
Exactly right.
Matter of fact, you can go back to uh World War One when the French went back into Vietnam into Vietnam.
Exactly right.
Now you get the UN peacekeepers over there engaging in uh in uh sex crimes.
Yeah, and this is ridiculous that the Europeans they suck all the wealth out.
Well, but the problem is, and and look where it got them.
It got them 14% unemployment.
It got them, it got them economic stagnation.
They couldn't do anything about Africa if their lives depended on it.
That's why it always falls to us.
This is what continually amazes me.
You've got this continent that is got myriad problems.
You had all these socialist nations prop up socialist leaders in Africa, which resulted in genocide and other horrors.
The model.
This is one of these things that drives me absolute batty.
The model to turn around economic stagnation is right under everybody's nose.
The United States is Oh no!
Oh no, we can't impose our values on people.
Well, we're already the nation's superpower.
That would be colonizing.
We can't do that.
So we can go ahead, we can impose more socialism on them, and that means we can impose more poverty and suffering on them, but we can't fix it.
We're the model.
Why in the world there's any other model in the world to help people be free and prosperous?
I don't know why in the world well, I do know, but it just defies common sense that the model to fix people that are in messes and trouble is socialism.
When you can't find one instance of where it's ever worked, and yet the model that feeds, supports, clothes, and leads the world is right everybody's nose.
Can't do because of fear.
They fear that any other country that receives our help in our own image is going to become us, an ally of us.
And remember, the reason this country is feared, folks, is because you are free and able to determine the events of this country.
The elites don't run this country, and that's what this court fight is really all about, and what the Democrats refusing to concede defeat at the ballot box is all about.
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