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July 8, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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Hey folks, great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh sitting here the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the distinguished one and only Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's anchorman, America's truth detector, and the doctor of democracy, all combined to one harmless, lovable little profit-making fuzzball.
It's Friday, let's go.
And the telephone number, if you ought to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
And DittoCam is up and running, and we'll be for the remainder of the program.
In case you miss the beginning of the program, we had a reference to Club Gitmo at our website by a blogger or a contributor, whatever, at Ariana Huffington's website, the Puffington Post.
And there's a woman's name, Deanne Stillman, I think.
And she was all upset at Club Gitmo stuff, folks.
She's upset that we're selling Club Gitmo gear.
She can't believe that we're making fun of torture.
And I responded, I said, we're making fun of people like you.
We're just, we're tweaking you, Dean.
We're throwing it right back in your faces because you're making so much a bigger deal out of this Gitmo and Abu Ghrab stuff than needs to be.
And most of the American people know it and want a way to just tell you what they think of your hand-wringing concern over all this.
We know what the menu is at Club Gitmo.
We learned today that the meals at Club Gitmo cost more than the meals that our soldiers get because they have to be blessed by a Muslim cleric and then flown in from the United States.
They've got prayer books and all this sort of stuff.
Anyway, she ended up by asking, Rush, what is your purpose-driven life?
What are you doing with the money from the sale of Club Gitmo gear?
See, I'm keeping it.
First, we have to pay expenses.
We've got to buy the stuff.
We took a big risk here.
We got an inventory of Club Gitmo gear.
We put it up for some way to know if people would want it or not.
So we have an inventory.
That's a startup cost.
Then we have shipping and handling.
Then we've got the broadband and the bandwidth necessary to accept orders and have people fill out forms to buy the stuff.
There's a lot of expenses here, Diane.
And then after all that, there's some profit, which we keep.
It's called capitalism.
And we pay, I shudder to think the amount of taxes we are paying on this profit.
And of course, I don't need to remind any of you of the charitable nature of this program and those of you who listen to it.
This is just absurd.
What am I supposed to do with the money?
Give it to Muslim clerics?
What am I supposed to do with it?
Give it to the soldiers?
I mean, we're keeping it.
It's a business idea of ours.
So anyway, we're all wearing our Club Gitmo gear today as a little message out there.
And the Club Gitmo gear continues to be for sale at rushlimbaugh.com.
And our Club Gitmo photo gallery is growing.
We've even added a couple shots of me today on the Ditto Cam to the Club Gitmo Photo Gallery wearing my Club Gitmo cap.
And people are sending their photos in from all over the country now.
In fact, there's a picture.
Guy wore his Club Gitmo shirt to the Clinton Library in Little Rock.
And, you know, we were, some people have expressed concern.
Rush, if you're urging people to wear this Club Gitmo stuff out where a bunch of liberals are, I mean, you could be inciting hate crimes against your listeners.
I'm not worried about that.
For example, the guy that went to the Clinton Library was nobody there.
Look at the picture.
The parking lot's totally empty.
It's in the middle of the day.
Maybe they've got a special parking lot for the massage parlor and section.
Oh, it is.
Snarly says at 2 a.m. The Clinton Library Massage Parlor in Little Rock is filled up.
Probably true.
Yeah, we're accepting your pictures there as well.
I had an interesting email a couple nights ago, and I saved this and the response to it for today, Open Line Friday, to share with you.
This woman is a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com.
She said, Rush, her name's Anita.
Rush, I'm a die-hard fan.
Though I was raised to support a woman's right to choose, since becoming a mother and listening to you over these many years, I've come to strongly believe that abortion's wrong.
But because I'm conservative and believe in property rights, I can't reconcile the government's involvement in the ultimate property right to your own body.
Can you help me?
So I thought about this, and I wrote her back.
I said, dear Anita, perhaps I can.
Our Declaration of Independence states that as free human beings, we are entitled to life, and I put that in all caps, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Declaration also says that these rights are inalienable and granted by our Creator, God.
If our government does not stand for and protect these basic rights, which are the essence of our creation and humanity, then it will not protect any others.
In our history, we've had human beings, members of the Supreme Court, give us the disastrous Dred Scott decision, which established that we as human beings could consider certain of our fellow human beings as our property.
Dred Scott permitted whites in this country to own black slaves, but eventually this decision was struck down.
So, Anita, your child is not your personal property.
Your body may be, but your child isn't.
Your child is a distinct and individual human being that you help to create and produce.
And no one owns that child's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So she wrote back and she thanked me, says she hadn't looked at it that way.
She appreciated that perspective.
So I wanted to share that with you.
One of the reasons why is because here we've had the Supreme Court decisions on property rights, private property rights, and you can see how some people interpret all of these and extrapolate them to other issues and what may be the beginning of their education process.
So I thought it was a great question that she asked, and I was happy to be able to answer it for her.
Now for Marietta, Georgia, this is from a couple days ago, too.
Stack of stuff from a couple days ago before what happened in London.
A simple message greets students arriving at Marietta Haskrule.
The message is, Jesus loves you.
The words are inscribed on a bench located outside the school's cafeteria near the spot where SCRUL buses drop off and pick up the pupils.
Private donations from the school's PTA paid for the bench as part of a larger fundraising campaign more than four years ago at the Scruel, located on Dallas Highway just west of downtown Marietta.
While SCRUL officials say the bench has been in its current location for several years, one Marietta parent is now raising questions about the overly religious message it conveys.
David Bernkopf, a former CNN producer and media consultant whose son and daughter attend nearby A.L. Burris Elementary, said he recently noticed the bench and asked Marietta Scruel officials to look into the legality of having a religious message displayed at a public scruple.
He said, I saw it, I questioned it, and I asked him what their stance was on it.
The controversy comes just a week after the U.S. Supreme Court issued two different rulings relating to the displays of the Ten Commandments at courthouses in Kentucky and Texas.
So I don't know what they're going to do here.
This is outside.
This is a message outside on a bench.
But I have a solution to the problem.
I could imagine that David Bernkopp, former CNN producer and media consultant, is probably not the only person upset in Marietta, Georgia, that there's a bench outside the screw that says Jesus loves you.
There are probably a couple other people that are upset.
So just change it to Allah loves you.
You'll put on there, Allah loves you, and nobody will be able to change it.
Back after this, stay with us.
Some of the finest bumper music known to exist in the free or oppressed worlds.
Right here on the Rush Limbaugh program of the EIB Network, Charlotte, North Carolina.
This is Carrie.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Oh, my gosh.
I cannot believe I'm speaking to the big Rush Limbaugh.
This is a major thrill.
Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you very much.
I listen to you every day at work.
And I have to tell you this young lady that called you earlier that worked at the library with a bunch of liberals.
Yes.
I hope she's listening because I was at Target during the election.
And the pharmacist and his assistant were talking about how ridiculous Bush's policies were and how John Kerry was going to fix the country.
And I can't remember what it was, but that day on the show, you had talked about their topic and they were sitting there talking about it.
And I found it really funny.
I started snickering.
And the pharmacist came over and he said, do you have a problem?
I said, no, sir, except for you're wrong.
And I started laughing.
And he said, excuse me, what do you mean I'm wrong?
And I started pointing out to him and he said, well, where do you get your information?
I said, well, some of it, I just look it up on my own.
I said, oh, I listen to Rush Limbaugh.
He said, then that doesn't count if you listen to Limbaugh.
And I have one small piece, if you don't mind.
I have an eight-year-old son who goes to a private Christian school.
And during the election rush, now he was seven at the time.
And my husband is very political.
He's ex-Navy.
Our neighbors are ex-Army, ex-Marines.
So we're very conservative and Republicans.
And so my son, I picked him up one day from school, and he said, Mommy, I got into an argument at recess.
And I said, well, why was that?
He said, because, mommy, some of these kids said that John Kerry would make a burial president.
And I just informed them that they were so wrong.
I'm going at seven years old.
I'm raising the next limbaugh.
Good for both of you.
Do you realize how many millions Americans would love to be able to say that?
But you just did.
Oh, I am so proud of my son.
He is so good.
But he has very definite opinions.
He does not listen just with us.
I mean, he listens to what we say.
He listens to you and, you know, the news and things.
And he makes his own opinion.
But, no, I just loved him with that pharmacist.
And that young lady called in.
I was going, oh, my gosh, Rush.
Yes, it works.
Laugh at them because then it draws them out.
It draws them up.
They don't know how to deal with it.
The one thing about liberals is they take themselves seriously.
The one thing about liberals, they cannot laugh at themselves, folks.
And if you can't laugh at yourself, you have a pretty straight-laced, straight-jacketed, dull and boring life.
If you can't laugh at yourself, you obviously get up miserable.
And we know this is probably the truth with most liberals.
I mean, I look at them.
I look at them.
I listen to them.
And what must getting up every day be like for these people?
To be so consumed with negative emotions as they are.
But when you're standing around listening to a bunch of liberals and you start laughing in their presence, you can't deal with it.
What are you laughing at?
You?
I can't believe what I'm hearing you say.
What do you mean?
Well, I mean, I'm just, this is, it's just hilarious.
That's all.
What am I saying?
What you just said.
I mean, do you really believe that?
Are you just trying to make people laugh?
And they'll be totally off.
And then you've got them set up.
And if you want to start arguing substantively, you can do it then from the power position.
Instead of reacting to what they say, you set the agenda and start talking.
And you'll find what I do, that within about 30 seconds, they'll be calling you names or insulting the places you get your information or what have you.
It can be fun, folks.
I mean, there's no reason to be intimidated by these people.
they're mental midgets.
They are...
Brian's grimacing when I say...
When I say mental midget, they don't know what they think they know.
And they've dialed back the learning process.
The new information is the greatest threat to a liberal.
New information, especially contradicts his template or his worldview, biggest threat, biggest problem in the world.
Don't want to hear it.
And so, but you know they're hearing it.
A lot of people make a mistake when talking to a liberal, too, of wanting to end the conversation with a liberal agreeing with you or giving ground or admitting that, yeah, maybe you have a point.
It's never going to happen.
Just like if you're waiting around for the big network newscast to finally start broadcasting in ways that you agree with, you're going to forever be disappointed.
If that's your success of conservatism winning, it's never going to happen.
And I found this the case with practically all forms of persuasion.
Nobody wants to admit that they've been persuaded of something unless you're their friend and you have a good relationship with them.
You'll never know how much influence you're having if you just ignore the reaction you're getting.
Most people are not going to want to let you know that you influenced them or persuaded them because they feel inferior when that can happen.
So you just say what you say, believe what you believe, laugh about what they think.
And then when it's over, you can rest confidently that you've done your best and that they're probably thinking about it.
And they're in calling their liberal friends.
You won't believe what some idiot just said to me.
And they'll be spreading it around.
But persuasion happens in all forms of way.
The best way I've ever found to persuade somebody is set up circumstances of an argument to which the answer is obvious and conclusive and let them come up with it themselves.
You know, rather than get in their face and say, let me tell you what is, is, let me tell you the way it is.
They're just going to rebel and recoil at that finger in their face.
But you just say, yeah, well, here's what I think and this is why and blah, and do it in a non-threatening manner.
And when you're all gone and you just don't know how many people you can influence that way, but it does, it does happen.
I admit persuading liberals is tough because they do have that shield protecting them that anything that just even reeks of a threat to their template bounces right off.
In fact, we probably could have a very successful anti-missile defense system if we would learn to make our anti-missile defense system after the liberal truth defense system.
Because I mean, whatever you fire at us is going to bounce off a whole bunch of times.
Here's Jay, Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, good afternoon.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
You bet.
You bet.
I think if people want a good example of a leader preparing his people, rallying the troops, getting them prepared for a disaster that they know is coming, one need only listen to Jeb Bush.
I just watched a live report of his where he was basically telling people, you know, Key West is being evacuated, Northern Keys, here's what you need to do to prepare.
I can't remember the last time I heard a leader that was confident.
Now, if you recall, last year we pretty much got our butts kicked on a frequent basis.
Yes, I remember quite well.
Yeah.
And honest to God, I think it caught the administration here off guard.
Okay, it was just like, okay, what's next?
Okay, here comes another one.
And a lot of people criticized Jeb last year and the administration as well.
Everybody.
I mean, power companies, you know, being sued and stuff.
Everybody got caught with their pants down.
This year, no.
It's like, okay, people, you know what's coming.
We've been through this before.
Okay, let's do it this time.
Let's not be stupid about it.
Let's go ahead and do what we got to do.
You know, it helps that there is a major hurricane in July.
It's been, what, 92 since we had one like that?
This thing is heading to beeline for Pensacola.
So yesterday, the state was declared a national disaster already.
Natural conflict.
Yeah, but you know, I want to say something about it.
You know, the first hurricane, what was it, Charlie, last year was supposed to hit Tampa.
And it careened inland a little sooner and wiped out Punta Gorda.
So don't, I mean, I mean, one of the problems was the warning system led that, you know, people believe that track.
They believe the center line and the hurricane track.
And if they're not in the center line, they tend to let down their guard a little bit.
And the Hurricane Center tried to change the warning graphs in the offseason.
I mean, it wasn't getting to the people.
A lot of people got caught surprised by that one when it did.
Well, but no, as far as the hurricane graphs are concerned, people didn't want to change.
They didn't want it changed.
The Hurricane Center tried to come up with a graphic that would be, you know, didn't have a center line in it.
It was just going to have the cone of potential landfall either side of the center line.
And people wanted that center line in there.
So it's back.
Now, I know this thing has been on schedule to make a beeline for Pensacola ever since they began tracking it.
And it may, it may.
But it could also veer off.
I mean, we're watching it here.
We are prepared to evacuate even before the show is over, folks, if it takes a sudden turn.
We don't think it's going to do that because the further Northwest it goes, the more drastic a turn it would have to make to hit us.
But nevertheless, I think anybody would do a better job this year, not to put Jeb down, but after four hurricanes last year, it's quite natural.
The first one that hits this year, they're not going to make any mistakes or bones about it.
Get out of the way, split the scene.
You know what happened last year.
And everybody learned some experience, and it is good.
Back in just a sec.
Florida Governor Jeb Bush has just indeed declared a state of emergency for the state of Florida in preparation for the onslaught of the forthcoming Category 4 Hurricane Dennis.
I have made up my mind I am staying.
I've fled these storms.
I fled all four of them last year.
And I want to see what one's like.
Compound did really well during Hurricane Cat 3, no damage.
It's rated for Cat 5 durability.
And we've got a generator over there.
The only problem was that we lost some power here at the broadcast complex.
So it wouldn't have been able to do the program.
But we've taken steps to avoid that.
So if there aren't enough, if there aren't too many trees in the road, I'd have to charter a helicopter maybe to get here and land on the roof.
This one's not supposed to hit us.
The worst that we're supposed to experience from this is tropical depression winds, which are up to 39 miles an hour, which I maintain happen frequently here in the middle of thunderstorms and all of that.
So it is supposed to be a wet weekend.
But over on the west coast of Florida, they're going to get more rain and the brunts of this.
And if it stays on track, it's zeroing in for Pensacola right now if it stays on the forecast track.
But I've noticed, I have noticed, because I've got about 15 hurricane tracking websites out there, and they've moved that track ever so slightly west at 11 o'clock last night and again at 5 o'clock this morning, ever so slightly west.
Now, I'm monitoring the satellite imagery now, and you could put the forecast points on the satellite photo and run the loop, and you can see the eye of the hurricane.
It looks to me just a little east of their track line right now, but not enough.
And it could be, you know, these things wobble as they go.
So, and I'm not a professional meteorologist, so I'm not offering this as an official interpretation of anything.
It appears to be on the forecast track that they've had all along, you know, plus or minus very few miles of variance.
They've got this one down, I think, pretty close.
I want to go to audio soundbites.
I've been talking about this since the program began.
And this next segment of audio soundbites is a combination of the press and liberals blaming the bombing in London on our involvement in Iraq.
This morning on the Today Show, Matt Oauer talked with Tim Russert.
And Matt Oauer said, so Prime Minister Blair is facing a national crisis, a terror attack in his own soil.
The group that claimed responsibility has said this is punishment for Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What's the backlash going to be considering the fact that there was enormous opposition to the war in Iraq among the people in Great Britain?
This is the key question, Matt.
Remember what happened in Madrid in 2004?
The voters of Spain changed governments and withdrew from participation in Iraq.
Tony Blair's challenge is the same as George Bush's, and that is to try to convince the people of their country that this would happen even more times but for the involvement in Iraq.
Link Iraq to the war on terror.
Well, okay, I don't know how much persuading and convincing is needed.
These attacks occurred before we went into Iraq.
9-11 happened before we went into Iraq.
You might be able to make the case about Spain, but wasn't Spain attacked again after their change of government?
Didn't they have a little smaller terrorist attack after that?
My memory is that they did.
The Brits have had all kinds of terror.
I've got a story here, and I just shoved it to the bottom of the stack because it was just too long to go through.
But the number of attacks that the Brits, terror attacks, IRA attacks, other kind of terrorist attacks that they have endured in the last five years is numerous.
So I frankly, I don't think we're going to see the madridization of Great Britain.
I think it's going to be just the opposite.
I think, just as I've always said, you people called me shortly after 9-11 when the Democrats, well, it wasn't shortly after, when the Democrats finally started to deviate from a unified country and started trying to make political gain out of the 9-11 attack and then when the Iraq war started.
I remember a number of you people calling, Russia, if we're hit again, is it really going to hurt Bush?
And I said, look at this logically.
You've got one guy basically saying, we've got to get these people.
We've got to take it to them.
And we're not going to waver.
We're not going to quiver.
We are going to fight these people wherever they go and we're going to wipe them out versus another group of people that's wringing their hands and going, oh, I don't know.
Maybe we shouldn't do this.
It's only going to bring us more terrorism.
And then you've got people now trying to pretty much erase 9-11 from everybody's memory.
Who do you think would benefit from another attack?
I don't think the people of this country are going to sit around and blame another attack on the fact that we're at war with these people.
I think they'd be more afraid of turning over the country to people whose idea is to basically run and hide and try to make appeasement deals with these people.
I think it's a no-brainer.
Next question from Matt Wauer.
Well, when you've just come through an election, Tim, and you won re-election with the smallest proportion of popular vote for any British government ever, and a lot of the reason for that was Iraq.
Are there going to be more calls for Tony Blair to get out of Iraq?
Absolutely.
And popularity polls, Matt, this morning show that people believe that this is a result of Britain and the U.S. involvement in Iraq.
Popularity polls.
Polls taken the next day.
We'll see, ladies and gentlemen, as time goes on.
But I'm I don't.
Of course, Mr. Snirdley asked me yesterday, is this going to finally bring the Libs rest?
Hell no.
This is only going to stoke the Libs fire.
They're going to keep saying the same thing.
They're going to use this as a C.
I told you so.
But the Libs are losing.
They've tried everything.
Abu Grab Gitmo.
They've tried everything to gin up an anti-war opinion of people in this country, and they have failed to do that, folks.
I don't care what polling data they cite, they have failed to do it.
And I don't think I've learned what Blair said.
I heard what the mayor, Ken Livingston, said, and what he said yesterday was just fabulous.
That's not the voice of appeasement speaking from Ken Livingston yesterday.
Speaking of Ken Livingston, though, he has a nickname.
His nickname is Ken the Red, and there's a reason for it.
This is a story from the cyber news service.
Terrorism experts have long warned that Islamists espousing violence enjoy a haven in London, an assertion that has come into sharp focus again with yesterday's bombings.
For years, Britain tolerated the presence of high-profile and outspoken Islamic clerics whose fiery sermons frequently extolled jihad against the West.
As recently as last year, the government allowed a visit by Yusuf al-Qardawi, an Egyptian cleric who has publicly voiced support for suicide bombers.
London's left-wing mayor Ken Livingston, who has called Al-Qaradawi a man of peace, welcomed him as an honored guest.
In 2000, another cleric told the Cybercast News Service, we will use your democracy to destroy your democracy.
And that's obvious that they think they can do that.
But regardless, if you heard Livingston yesterday, and if you've heard Blair, I don't think turning tail and running is going to be the primary way they deal with this.
Let's move on to hardball.
MSNBC last night, Dana Priest, a reporter at for the Washington Post, Chris Matthews said, the old problem of Rumsfeld and metrics, metrics, how do we measure them?
If these people did this horror today, say 20 of them, all in their early 20s, that meant that they were in their mid-teens five years ago.
They're growing.
They're growing.
They're not Al-Qaeda then.
That's right.
In other words, we keep saying we're going to capture them like they're an ethnic group.
We're going to capture all the bad guys when, in fact, they're growing.
They're becoming.
If the metrics is a numbers-based one, you're not winning here.
I mean, yes, you've taken out 75% of what was al-Qaeda before, but Iraq and other, for other reasons, a lot more young people in Europe are joking.
This is just, I'm beside myself with this.
These are supposedly educated, learned, informed people who are writing stories for newspapers.
Once again, the template.
Iraq is causing the creation of more and more terrorists.
Folks, it would be happening whether Iraq had happened or not.
This was going on before we went into Iraq.
I mean, if we're going to say we've got to get out of Iraq, why don't these people finally come up and say, we got to get out of Israel too?
We've got to abandon them because that's certainly an element of this.
But you never hear these learned journalists say we need to abandon Israel.
Israel, probably, our relationship with Israel steams up these Islamists more than what we're doing in Iraq does, although Iraq scares them.
But the fact is that you've got these mullahs and these mosques.
We talked about it yesterday that take these young kids from the moment they're able to listen and learn and they inculcate them with all this hate.
They turn them into absolute weapons.
The way to look at terrorists is that they are just weapons in the enemy's arsenal, particularly if it's a suicide bomber.
Suicide bomber is just a weapon.
It's no longer a human being, folks.
It's a weapon.
And you take the weapons out when you can.
Now, here we have these learned people blaming our entrance to Iraq for all the birth of new terrorists.
Why, if it weren't for that, why these kids wouldn't be growing up as terrorists?
Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are always going to be four-year-old young Arab boys that are going to be taken into these mosques and implicated.
It's been going on for 30 years.
How did it happen to bin Laden?
How does it happen to any of them?
The people that are doing this are in the mosques.
They are the mullahs, the imams, and all these clerics.
And they may make up 1% or 2% of all of the Islamic religion, but that adds up to 13 to 20 million people that can end up having their minds polluted this way.
And then they have kids, and the process keeps going.
The way you deal with this, long-term is the only way, is what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, building, attempting to build societies where this kind of hateful education doesn't happen.
And then these places become show places compared to the rest of the Middle East.
And people look at the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan and say, I want that for myself.
Now, this is going to take time.
And these people are smart enough to understand this.
But they've got this template.
I hate to keep using the word, but they've got this template.
Iraq, Bush lied, nothing to do with war on terror.
Therefore, Iraq is causing terrorism.
And I don't care what network you watch, that's the template.
Those are the attitudes of the guests that they get.
It's the sameness, it's the predictability of these people that literally humors me and amazes me.
But at the same time, I know, even though they're liberals, they're not, in terms of IQ, they're not stupid.
They just have this template is so strong.
The prism through which they look is so powerful that nothing other than their own worldview can ever penetrate.
And it gets to the point where what they say is not even commonsensical.
Here, one more question and answer.
After this previous one, Matthew said, well, can you pick them at a time of your choosing and say, we'll meet you in Iraq, let's fight?
Does it really work that way?
And I'm dead serious here.
Can we attract them over there like flypaper and get them to go over there and fight them there?
Well, if that was a strategy, it's so poorly executed.
No one was prepared for the insurgency.
But if the strategy that he's implying, the strategy was to go to Iraq to be the flypaper that would attract terrorists, that's not what happened.
They came and the U.S. military was unprepared for them.
So it's a rationale now, but it certainly was not a strategy to do.
Who cares?
War has so many unpredictable turns.
Who cares?
Just because somebody didn't anticipate to your satisfaction what was going to happen, what do we do?
Quit?
Get out?
Move on?
Fire Bush, impeach?
What do we do?
How do we deal with the reality that we face, which is what we're doing?
and doing it quite well, as a matter of fact.
These people, folks, are just, they are hopeless.
They are literally hopeless.
I've got to run.
Quick break.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
I want to share with you just to get this out there, which are rumors.
So I'll just go this from the get-go upfront rumors, but supposedly President Bush lands this afternoon around 4.50 back from the G8, and shortly thereafter, the resignation of Chief Justice Rehnquist is to be announced.
And then the debate will begin, all right, well, who do we fill first, Rehnquist or O'Connor?
Probably Rehnquist since O'Connor said she'll sit on until her replacement is confirmed.
The additional thing that's now starting to flit around out there is that John Paul Stevens will announce his resignation by the end of the year.
So the White House ostensibly now preparing for three vacancies.
You know, one vacancy is enough to throw the Libs for Loops.
Can you imagine two at one time?
And if there's anything true about the Stevens resignation or retirement, I mean, if all three happened within the same period of time, what would the Libs do?
They'd have to change definition of retirement.
They say, well, when you announce your retirement, it's not effective for two years, or in this case, until 2008, whatever.
This is fascinating to watch how they would deal with that.
All right.
I got to play these two soundbites for you.
I want to go back first off Karl Rove and what he said about Libs and the way they reacted to 9-11.
But before I do that, I've got to set this up with Wesley Clark was on the Fox News channel today with host Greg Jarrett, and he was talking about the action that took place in London yesterday.
So here's Rove first, and then without me saying a word, Mike, I just want you to bam-bam right into Wesley Clark after the Rove bite.
Here they are.
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9-11 and the attacks and prepared for war.
Liberals saw the savagery of the 9-11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding to our attackers.
This needs to be a discussion about religion, about God, about the Quran, and about what God expects of his men and women and children on earth.
And it's going to have to be argued out within Islam.
Those of us who are not Islamic are not going to be able to participate directly in this dialogue.
But we've got to hope it occurs and we've got to give support and encouragement to those who believe as we do that there's just no excuse for murdering innocent people.
That's all it is.
It's a crime.
It's horrible and it's got to be stopped.
I submit to you that Karl Rove was 120% right.
Here's Ashley Wilts wanting to convene basically a therapy session and saying that this is murder.
It's all it is.
It's a crime.
They need to be indicted and they need to be tried.
He doesn't think it's an act of war.
He doesn't see it in any way and he wants to have a meeting.
It's a crime and he wants to have a meeting.
He wants all these terrorists to get together with other terrorists and start talking to themselves about the Quran.
We, of course, can't be there, folks.
And I know a lot of people said to me, Rush, why is Hales hiring all these liberals?
Do you have to ask when he's hiring Wesley Clark?
I mean, folks, this is a brilliant move, having this guy out there as a spokesman for liberals.
We'll be back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Quickly, folks, this is what Lawrence Eagleberger says we ought to do.
Well, what I'm about to say will probably not be commonly agreed upon.
I cannot understand why we can't at least move against those who house these terrorists.
I mean by that, if Syria is slipping people into Iraq, why don't we do something in Syria?
Iran, the same sort of way.
When these people are hidden somewhere, but are taken care of by people, we ought at least to be able to go after the people that take care of them.
But, you know, this is war, and I don't understand why it's not proper to go after those who mother the people that do these sorts of things.
Amen, bro.
Amen.
You all have a great weekend, and we'll be back here on Monday, ready to wrap it all up again to the EIB network.
Great to be with you today, and look forward to Monday.
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