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Aug. 3, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #2
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This is Rush Limbaugh.
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And we come to you from the EIB Southern Command today, the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Well, the uh Supreme Court nominee, Judge John Roberts, uh submitted his uh Senate committee questionnaire response yesterday, is over a about a hundred pages long.
It was released by the Judiciary Committee uh late yesterday to provide his responses to a broad array of questions, including his work Histoire, uh political ties, and his views on judicial activism.
And this guy is brilliant.
He said, a sound judicial philosophy should reflect recognition of the fact that the judge operates within a system of rules developed over the years by other judges, equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.
He said that judges must be constantly aware that their role, while important, is limited.
Judges do not have a commission to solve society's problems as they see them, but simply to decide cases before them according to the rule of law.
Hope Yen is the AP reporter who put this story together.
And the the big news out of this uh report that he submitted his uh responses to the questionnaire, the big news to the libs is, hey, Roberts, Robert says he'll respect precedent.
Did you see that he says it in there?
He says I respect precedent, which means to the libs, he won't overturn Rovers' Wade.
He says it right there, he says he won't overturn Robert's weight.
Do you see it?
That's not what he's saying, but that's what they think he's saying.
Because that's all that matters to them.
And as Hope Yen writes at about the midpoint of her story, Robert's views on the subject are considered critical to gauging his position on overturning the landmark Roe v.
Wade abortion decision, a stance supported by conservative members on the court.
So that's all that matters to them.
Right in front of their faces is one of the most penetrating statements he could make about his judicial philosophy, and they don't even get it, apparently.
Judges do not have a commission to solve society's problems as they see them, but simply to decide cases before them according to the rule of law.
I'm going to tell you right now, Teddy Kennedy and Chuck Schumer and Leahy are going to zero in on that because that's exactly what they think judges are to do.
Judges are specifically to solve society's problems as they see them as liberals.
Judges are to be liberal and they are to use courts to solve society's problems according to the way liberals want them solved.
And Roberts has just said that's not what we do as judges.
So this is going to be interesting.
He's his rolling them here, folks.
He's simply rolling them while he at one point says that he's all in favor of uh precedent uh and so forth and so on.
Uh and he by the way, he doesn't say that precedent always stands, but the libs have just zeroed in on that.
So this it's gonna be fun to watch.
I think based on, and I just say it now, and subject to change, obviously, and it's it's early to say this, but I think what's gonna happen uh uh is that Judge Roberts really is going to run intellectual rings around these guys.
I don't even I don't even think it's gonna be a contest.
I I think I think that he is he's been through this once before.
Uh confirmation hearing's been before this committee for his uh current position on the D.C. Court of Appeals.
I just think he's gonna run rings around him.
So much so that they're not even gonna know it.
Uh and and they're gonna look like fools.
They're gonna keep penetrating, he's gonna have answered perfectly.
We'll just wait and see the hearing start on September 6th.
And I've got a great piece here of a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette named Reg Henry has written a piece uh entitled This Niceness of Roberts is unnerving.
I pick up the column in progress.
Another problem in opposing Judge Roberts Is that from all reports he's a genuinely nice guy, affable, cheerful, cheerful, sunny, and smart.
Did I say he was nice?
Whenever he goes for a walk in the park, puppy dogs strain their leashes wanting to rush up and nuzzle him.
Of course, he walks in a shaft of sunlight, even on rainy days.
Bluebirds seek to land on his head.
Why, he's so darn nice that bums in the park stop to give him money.
So touched are they by his modesty and cheerful demeanor.
I would humbly submit, writes Reg Henry, that we should take a closer look at this preternatural niceness.
It seems a little too nice to be nice.
His behavior raises serious questions about whether he is a sly conservative.
Because you see, to dunces like Reg Henry, a conservative can't be nice.
Conservative is mean-spirited, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
And all of these things lump together.
This is a genuinely nice guy, so nice this uh columnist is unnerved by it.
And Mr. Henry says, yeah, seems a little too nice to be nice.
His behavior raises serious questions about whether he is a sly conservative, and I say this, he writes, because I'm regularly in touch with true believers on the right.
Oh, Reg Henry, regularly in touch with true believers on the right.
They like to send me emails brimming with disgust and bile, but delivered with a happy sanctimonious air.
This talent for vileness has led me to form the impression, maybe erroneous, that to be a conservative is to be a bag of resentments held together by a feeble string.
Mr. Henry, are you blind?
Do you not see the kind of hateful, spiteful, childish rhetoric coming out of members of your party aimed at George W. Bush now for five years?
Or at Tom Delay, or at James Dobbs, or any of them.
If you look at many prominent right wingers, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Rick Santorum, you will find people who have raised snarling to a high art and seem to take pride in resembling the nether quarters of a horse.
Did he just call me a horse's ass?
He did.
I thought I was being rather nice in this column.
I'm quoting him accurately.
Yes, here we have this happy, nice fellow nominated for the Supreme Court.
Go figure.
Another thing that is mysterious is why Judge Roberts doesn't have more of a record.
Say what you like about most conservatives, but they never shut up.
Yes, I know he hasn't been on the bench very long, but that doesn't explain it.
Obviously, when he was a boy reading some book of moral instruction when the rest of us were reading Superman comics, he came across a proverb.
Still waters run deep.
The ancient wisdom suggests to us the virtue of keeping our big mouths shut.
If you're a quiet idiot, people will think you are wise.
If you're a quiet judge, the president will think you should be on the Supreme Court.
Judge Roberts is kept nice and silent, and those concerned about the direction of the court should not tolerate behavior that raises such questions.
If he gets on the court, he may bid all sorts of protections adieu in a very nice and polite way, not just for toads, but for workers and women, as any gal will tell you.
It's the nice ones who break your heart.
Now we got it.
We've got problems here.
This man has problems.
He is I've never heard of it.
This is the first time I've heard of him.
So I the first time I've ever read anything that he's written.
So I can't, I can't any I don't know, I don't know how to snarl, Mr. Sn.
That's the whole thing.
He says I snarl and I've made snarling a high art.
You ever see me snarl?
I'm in a ditto cam here a lot.
Have you ever view people ever seen me snarl?
I don't know how if I had to snarl, I wouldn't know what to do.
Now I'm not making this up.
I wouldn't know what how would I snarl?
Put up a you know mean face or something like that.
Or you mean like Howard Dean.
A quick timeout back after this.
Oh, yeah, some good times.
This is chic.
You know Nile Rogers, don't you?
Well, he liked me, Mr. Snurtley.
I love Nile Rogers' music.
Well back, uh Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Yeah, it was Ed Shao.
Ed Shao was the uh candidate, uh the Republican candidate for Senate 86, California that had a chance of beating Cranston.
It was 50.8 to 49.2% because a bunch of Republicans stayed home because Shaw was pro-choice.
Uh and and it's, you know, stay home.
I mean, it Shah would have been an infinitely better than Cranston.
I don't care whatever opinion you have of pro-choice.
It just it was sad day.
Because I had a chance to oust that guy, send him back home to Morgan Fairchild, who he was dating at the time, I believe.
I had a line about that back then.
I can't remember what it was.
At any rate, it'll it'll uh it'll come to me.
Let's go to uh Tony in Dayton.
Tony, welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hey Rush, how's it going?
Fine, sir, never better.
Hey, didn't you tell us a few years back not to gloat after winning the elections, you know?
Like you told us not to gloat after George Bush won, and now it seems like you're calling Democrats a bunch of losers and stuff.
Is this is this a bad strategy, you think?
I I I I'm laughing because I don't think I've been gloating.
I have been warning the Republicans that have been going to get their act straight that they're gonna start losing these elections uh it pretty soon here.
If they keep running as conservatives governing as moderates, uh they're gonna slit their own throats.
Um I was not gloating about anything.
I was simply pointing out how I was right that the Libs cannot tell you the truth about who they are, and they can't, they can't win as frauds.
They can't win, being honest who they are.
Uh one of the things I think we successfully uh did yesterday, folks, uh I uh if if we had not taken this issue up, and I don't say this kind of thing about myself much.
I never very rarely, rarely talk about my own power here because I'm not really even cognizant of it.
I I don't I don't I really am not.
I don't do things for the simple exercise of power, but I do think this.
That had we not made a big deal yesterday about how they were going to make this a bellwether, that there would have been a whole lot more gloating today from the Democrats today about how they had won and about how this is bad news.
But we s we positioned it in such a way yesterday so that no matter what happened, the Republicans win because you had two Republicans on the on the on the ticket.
I mean, the way the way Hackett was running the race, he was running as a hawk on Iraq, a friend of George W. Bush's.
He was running not as a liberal Democrat.
So, you know, uh I'm no, this is not gloating.
This is this is accurate analysis of what happened.
You are referring to 2002, when I was on NBC's election night coverage, and this was the big big midterm elections after the Wellstone Memorial to the Democrats totally tanked.
And uh you and Brokaw, he was he was uh and and Russert were the hosts of the election night coverage, and they were all stunned at what had happened because they all believed that the 2000 election was a fraud and that the Democrats are gonna get it all back in 2002, and they lost even more.
And uh the first thing Brokaw said, what what what was your reaction is don't gloat about this, let's go ahead and get up tomorrow and start governing.
Uh uh, you know, because that's the the thing to do.
You know, you it's it's like when you score a touchdown, don't act like you've never been in the end zone before.
Just give the ball back to the referee and go back and get ready to score again.
Don't act like it's some new thing.
And that's all I meant by don't gloat.
Don't act like, whoa, whoa, look at what we did.
Well, we can't believe we did this.
Well, look at us.
No, I don't want to act that way.
I want to act like we're used to winning.
We expect to win, and then we go govern.
Just uh just that simple.
Josh in um in Iowa.
Is it Algona, Iowa?
Is that how you for now?
Yeah, thank you for the call, sir.
Hey, thanks, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
You may I just I wanted to talk about uh the vacation that Bush has taken.
Yes.
Uh I think he needs to stay more focused on uh he needs to stay more focused on uh warranty.
He doesn't need to be taking fifteen vacations, you know, since he's been last elected.
And I respect you with everything.
I just I just I don't think he needs to be taking another another vacation.
I'm going to surprise you a little bit on this, I think.
Okay.
I have two thoughts about this.
The first thought is that uh whenever Republicans in the White House, whenever he goes on vacation, the Democrats make a big deal of it, and the media, and they talk about how he's taking all this time off.
And the fact is the president's on call 24 hours a day, no matter where he is.
And I uh and and you know, Reagan took some time off, Clinton took some time off, but they always make a big deal of it when Republicans take time off.
However, that having been said, we're in the midst of a war in Iraq.
There are a number of other things going on.
We got the Supreme Court nomination coming up.
This is, to me, uh, I don't, I don't begrudge the president going on vacation, but I do think being out of Washington for a month is not a good appearance.
I do think it's a little excessive.
Not that he's on vacation, but to stay away from Washington and all that for a month.
Uh even though the Congress isn't there, fine, let the Congress not be there.
I understand the reality of the situation is that nothing happens in that town in August, and nothing's going to get going until September when uh normalcy uh resumes, a Labor Day break is over, and uh the football season starts and that sort of thing.
But there is, I think, a sensitivity to appearances here that uh uh might be aided uh with some public appearances during this month.
And I can see across the glass that Mr. Snerdley disagrees with me.
Uh, don't don't I'm not I'm not capitulating to what I see in the press, and I'm not capitulating to our friendly liberal here from Algona, Iowa.
Uh I'm I'm I'm just you know, and I don't care how often he goes on vacation.
Because they never do go on vacation.
They're never on, but presidents are 24-7, folks.
There's no such thing.
He j I just happen to know the president's not a big fan of Washington.
And but if you were a Republican, would you want to be there?
I don't go there.
You know, I can totally, and he loves his ranch and he loves Texas.
And he loves home.
He loves being in home.
And uh so I I understand all this, but I think a month straight just opens him up for this kind of stuff.
I don't think it's gonna have a major effect on anybody.
It's not gonna have an effect on elections, not gonna have an effect on anything uh down the road, but uh, you know, it is it's it it does make it a big target uh for guys like Josh from Algona, Iowa.
Josh, it doesn't mean anything.
Uh and it's it's not gonna help, it's not gonna help the left to make up stories here to talk about how Bush doesn't take his job seriously and goes on vacation, because I defy you to find Ted Kennedy in town this month, and I defy you to find Chuck Schumer or any of these other leaders of the Democrats in town this month.
Uh, but that also to me uh represents a bit of an opportunity.
I want to go back to Judge Roberts here for just a second because this column I just read by Jed uh was it Reg Henry referred to toads, and I had these two stories the last couple days and didn't get to them.
One is for the AP Toad case may reveal Robert's philosophy.
Appeals court vote may show inclination towards states' rights.
And then there's another story here.
This is uh from the Raleigh News Observer, a headline, Hapless Toads.
It's an editorial.
Uh Supreme Court nominee Judge Roberts' legal views could spell trouble for protection of the nation's rare animals and plants.
So we know what Reg Henry does.
He reads uh, you know, his prescribed list of liberal publications and then goes and inserts little references to them.
This AP story, a toad may offer insight into John Roberts' legal philosophy.
The Supreme Court nominee voted against the toad in a 2003 case testing the powers of the federal government.
The vote suggests that he may be inclined to support state or local interests on issues from civil rights to pollution control if confirmed to the high court.
So what?
How can he voted against a frog, folks, and the libs are gonna try to hold that against him?
He voted Can I tell you people something about frogs and related animals?
I woke up this morning, time to feed the cat.
I'm walking into where I feed the cat, and you know what I noticed on the floor dead?
A lizard.
And I love little lizards.
They're my buddies, they eat insects.
But my cat in the middle of night found his lizard.
It was history.
What am I supposed to do?
Punish the cat?
So now we're gonna punish a judge because he votes against a frog.
The libs are desperate and will grasp at anything to show this man is anti-government in his truth.
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This is this is somewhat surprising.
Well, it may be surprising to you.
It's not surprising to me.
Uh the uh Board of American Society of Journalists and Authors, the ASJA, has voted unanimously to reverse their earlier decision to give its annual conscience in media award to the jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
The group's First Amendment committee had narrowly voted to give her the prize for her dedication to protecting sources.
But the full board has now voted to overturn that decision based on its opinion of her entire career and even her current actions in the plain CIA leak case cast doubt on her credentials for this award.
The media turning on Judy Miller.
What does this mean?
I think I know.
I think I know.
Ariana Huffington, whose name I strive not to mention on this program, has a hapless little blog out there called the Huff Post or some such thing.
And over the weekend, Ariana unloaded on Judy Miller.
Now I tell you though, the libs don't like Judy Miller because she was the reporter at the New York Times who uh made the case for the existence of weapons of mass destruction.
That's probably what's at the root of this.
She made the case for weapons of mass destruction.
That embarrassed the old gray lady, the New York Times, because she relied on a source that apparently was a fraud.
And so they've really never gotten over for that.
And send them people think she actually took the jail sentence to try to regain her stature within the media world.
And so it looked like it had worked.
They gave her out this award to her, but no, nope, nope, nope, not going to do that.
The reason is I think there's some people now beginning to wonder just what who is her source?
Who is she protecting?
It's not Rove.
And is she in there to protect herself rather than a source?
And uh if and there's some people, uh not me.
I mean, well, I'm one of them, obviously, but some people on the left and in the media are now beginning to that maybe she's not in there to protect just the source, but herself and her paper from something embarrassing.
So, bam, they yanked the award away from them.
Well, and did you did you hear this?
While she's in jail, her husband goes on some celebrity cruise.
Did you hear about that?
Yeah, it was last week when I was gone.
This guy's on there's some cruise that celebrities go on, but just with themselves.
Some silver arrow boat goes somewhere in a Mediterranean or something like that.
And uh big story came out about how his wife sitting away rocks in jail.
His gay's name is Epstein, Jason Epstein, I think, and he's a reputed editor.
Um never heard of him until all this, but reputed editor in lib circles.
And he was out there cruising on this boat and just living it up and having a grand time.
There were eyewitnesses to his having a grand time with his wife rots away in jail.
And uh uh so then they had to do uh a dance, a PR dance, and oh no, no, no.
Jason, he didn't want to go on a trip, but he went and talked to Judy, and Judy said, No, we've had this trip plan.
I want you to go.
Oh, he said, okay, honey, it's a honeydew.
The cruise was a honeydew.
So he he honeydoed right out onto the boat and went on the cruise while Judy Rotts in jail.
Just a little side uh note.
Uh let me give me give me line five.
We've got a liberal on the phone.
We always put them up first.
Hello, Eric in Columbus, Ohio.
Nice to have you.
Hey, Russ, you need uh need to apologize, man.
I I can't believe you did what you did to Hackett yesterday.
Um it's just reprehensible, calling him a staff puke and spending an hour on the show clearly indicates that the Republicans are in trouble and they are in trouble in Ohio.
And I was on the ground and saw it.
Um, I'm having a little trouble here.
You say they're in trouble and trouble in Ohio, and you were on the ground and saw it.
Yeah, sure enough.
I talked to Republicans that voted for Hackett, and uh you know, you absolutely not did Hackett didn't hide behind any false pretenses.
He called the president of the United States an SOB and a chicken hawk, much like yourself.
Um and to call him a staff, you just really need to apologize.
But wait, now wait a second.
Wait a second.
I'm not gonna be able to do it.
Did you call him a staff puke?
Yeah, I called him a staff puke.
I'll call him a student.
You had better go talk to people in the military if you want to know what staff puke means.
They call each other that.
Do you know what?
Do you know what Marines call each other?
They call him grunts.
What if I'd have called him a grunt yesterday?
You clueless liberals would have thought I was assuming a lot of things and insulting him.
Staff puke is a the term has been used by other military people to me.
He's a staff puke.
Because that's what a Navy officer was telling me on the phone.
We get the seminar callers are out there reading all this off the websites because I saw this last night.
So now this what's this guy doing?
Is he blaming me?
I s I ought to apologize because of me yesterday, Hackett lost.
Is that what he's trying to say?
Republicans were in trouble, and then they brought me in to squash Hackett.
It's nice to know that despite all the things they write about how I am a loser, how I've lost it, how I'm fading away.
They still blame me for their losses.
I'll be glad to take the credit.
You know what?
You know what, Eric?
It was my intention to defeat this guy yesterday.
And you know why, Eric?
Because he's a fraud.
I haven't lied about one thing in my life about my history, my past.
This guy was a fraud throughout this campaign.
He's an ultra-liberal.
He is a man who thinks the president is a is the most dangerous guy in the world.
He's called him an SOB and he runs a campaign ad trying to make himself out to be Bush's best buddy and one of Bush's biggest supporters.
The guy couldn't run as an honest liberal.
That guy couldn't run on his real platform, raising taxes, and weakening this country, growing the government.
He wouldn't dare run on that.
The lesson you need to take away for this, Eric, is you guys can't win as frauds, and you cannot win being honest about who you are.
You got and if if I'll tell you something else, if a radio talk show host, and this is I love this, can beat you guys, you are in deep doo-doo.
But you're gonna have to get your story straight.
I'm either fading away, I'm on decline, and I don't matter anymore, or I'm responsible for your defeats.
Which is it?
Here's Manny in Orange County, California.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush make a mega ditto, and uh quite an honor.
First time caller, but longtime listener.
I am just fired up over the way the president uh sent Bolton to the U.N. He scored not only a touchdown, but he spiked the ball right in the damn face and showed him what true leadership is all about.
Yes, yesterday was another example, and we're gonna do the same thing with Roberts.
I think that's a case.
I'm glad to hear you're fired up out there.
I like to hear confidence in people.
I don't like to hear people on defensive, on the defensive.
I don't like to hear people uh reacting and so I want to I want people to be aggressive.
I want people to be fired up and optimistic about things.
Everybody in my orb, I want them to be that way.
I don't like this.
Oh, what do you think is gonna happen next?
What do you think they're gonna say next?
What are we gonna do if they say that?
I don't want to hear it.
I don't even want to deal with it in any facet.
Speaking of Bolton.
Uh interesting story from the Associated Press by our old buddy Edith Letterer.
We love Edith here at the uh EIB network.
John Bolton presented his credentials Tuesday as ambassador to the UN, a job which will challenge him to work with diplomats from 190 nations in a place he's called irrelevant.
Uh that's a nice objective lead.
Glad to be here, uh, the controversial diplomat told Cope.
You libs don't get it.
You sit out there and you call this guy a bully and you call him controversial and you call him confrontational.
You are endorsing him at this organization.
This is an organization of thugs and dictators.
Half of the members of this place hate this country.
And we're sending up a guy who's not going to bend over and grab the ankles for him anymore.
And the Democrats, by the very way they're describing this guy, are making that very case for John Bolton.
This is a huge rope dope, but the best parts of this story are found later on.
Here's a quote from Germany's UN ambassador, Gunter Pluger.
He will be one of the key players because the United States is a largest contributor and a great power in the Security Council.
There are conflicting views on nearly every issue that's in our plate for the for the reform, and the largest player in the UN, of course, plays a key role.
Chile's UN ambassador Haroldo Munoz said no one should make prejudgments on reputation.
One must do it on the merit of the facts.
We'll do that when we see what happens here.
Denmark's UN ambassador Ellen Marguerith Loge said he's a colleague like any other.
It doesn't sound to me like Bolton was uh snubbed on his first day, folks.
Does it to you?
The Libs and the Democrats and the media all said that he'd go up there and be snubbed because he didn't have the approval of Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin.
I'll guarantee you those guys are looked at as pawns, laughing stocks, and useful idiots by our enemies at the United Nations, and they know that Bolton is not one of them.
He was far from snubbed up there, even by Kofi Annan.
Nobody snubbed Bolton up there yesterday.
So all this hyperbole and all this rigamarole leading up to this was just a bunch of hot gas, as uh much of what's coming from the uh left today is.
A quick time out, my friends.
Be patient.
We'll be back with much more.
Wait till you hear this story out of Cleveland.
This is it's about the space repair today, a complex repair mission on the space shuttle.
Wait till you hear.
Just wait till you hear this story.
It is so believable coming from today's left.
Back after this.
Okay, well what have we learned here today, folks?
We've learned a lot of things by uh by reading uh what liberals write and by listening to what they've said on the phone today.
We've learned, according to Reg Henry, uh the who by the way called homeless people bums in that column.
Uh Reg Henry in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
Uh John Roberts is too nice.
Uh the liberals all think John Bolton is too mean.
Who we supposed to get?
If Bolton's too mean and Roberts is too nice, we've also heard from liberals today.
We have learned that I, America's anchor man, should apologize for calling a Democrat congressional candidate a staff puke.
While at the same time, the same liberals say that the Democrat congressional candidate who is the staff puke should win election for calling the president of the United States of America an SOB chicken hawk, who makes the stupidest remarks of any president he's ever heard and is the most dangerous person in the world.
You liberals understand why we are just laughing our asses off at you.
Uh Chuck and Dayton, uh, you're next.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Russ, it is a privilege to talk to you.
I was cracking up with that uh guy from Columbus complaining and saying that you need to apologize.
I couldn't believe it.
Let me tell you about let me give you let me before I know you're going to explain this because you're in the Air Force, right?
Yes.
But but I I I want to explain how this happened.
Just because it's out there on these dem websites.
We're getting seminar callers.
They've been given their marching orders, so to speak.
It started yesterday afternoon on a couple of their blogs that spread to the to their to their whatever they their their uh well their the where they the chat rooms.
I had this naval officer on the phone from Houston yesterday.
The naval officer was was uh was all upset about some of the things that that Paul Hackett has said since coming back from Iraq and leaving the Marines, and I pointed out to the naval officer, he's not in the Marines anymore.
He can say whatever he wants to say.
And the guy said, Yeah, but you just don't.
Once you've been in the Marines, once you've been in the military, you have respect and so forth and so on.
And I I had noticed in a Washington Post story that the Washington Post requ referred to him as a civilian officer.
So I asked the naval officer on the phone from Houston, what's a what's a what's a civilian officer?
And he explained it to me.
And I is it a combat role.
He said, he said, no, it's not a combat role.
He worked with combat, they said, but but it's all integral, but he's not a combat officer.
I said, oh, but I remembered a call I had had from a military gun army man at Fort Bragg who had called somebody who works in the office there, a staff puke on the phone here.
So I said, Oh, it's a staff puke.
And he said, Yeah.
And that that is what launched all of this, Chuck.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, well, well, I'm a staff puke.
I'm a I'm a senior enlisted member of my commander's staff, and we're also called staff weenies.
Uh, One of my colleagues is called a manservant.
So, you know, we just get called all kinds of things, and we just take it in his stripe.
You call each other all kinds of things.
The military jargon is its own lexicon.
Yes.
I mean, I I'm getting notes from guys who are in Vietnam who were known as R E M Fs, and I can't tell you what it it it's it's uh uh I can't translate that for you.
That's right.
My brother's a Marine, I call him a jarhead, you know.
And he calls me a uh fly boy.
You know, we just that those are just terms of endearment we use.
So this guy, obviously in Columbus, he he has no clue about the military life.
I've been in 25 years, and these are things that you know, we've had these kind of terms throughout my whole career, but based on what your position is.
Well, not only are Marines called jar heads, they're called grunts.
Uh-huh.
If I if I if I'd have called a guy a grunt, can you uh imagine what the guys on the Democrat websites would have thought of that?
I appreciate the call out there, Chuck.
Uh thanks, uh thanks uh so much.
Uh do I have time to do this?
Uh no, I don't have time to do this to do this justice.
I'm sorry for teasing you with this.
I've got this story out of Cleveland uh regarding the uh this this amazing repair mission that uh took place today at the space shuttle.
This this just you you gotta hear this, folks.
It's just it's it's um it's delicious.
And I I don't know if you've heard this, but American um America Coming Together has uh disbanded.
This is the George Soros group, 200 million dollars they spent in the election of 2004.
Uh they had so many donors of a million dollars or more, they had George Soros at 20 million, Stephen Bing at 12 million.
They spent 200 million dollars, they still lost the election, and the reason is that they didn't get any new votes.
They they didn't they didn't persuade any non-democrat voters to vote Democrat, and uh they've disbanded.
This is Harold Dickey's group, and this is this it was a group that had uh uh because of Ickeys being there, it had Hillary's impramater all over it, but it's gone south.
And and and one of the reasons is that some of these big donors say, okay, fine, we gave you all this money, but where are the results?
And there aren't any, and they just aren't willing to give any more money uh to uh this group.
So uh the George Soros Americans coming together group officially disbanded.
You couple this with the AFL CIO union implosion uh with the Teamsters uh taking a hike.
Uh you liberals understand why we are laughing our asses off at you.
Hey, let's go to uh Louisville, Kentucky, and Bobby.
Hi, sir.
Welcome to the program.
How are you doing, Rush?
Uh big uh young white overtaxed conservative dittoes.
Thank you.
I just heard uh the new Soros uh commercial, uh Smar and Judge Roberts.
And apparently he has uh taken away a 12-year-old girl's civil rights by not letting her eat French fries on the subway.
And he is also from Germany, just like the Pope.
And uh basically what I got out of it was insinuation that he was a Nazi of some type, and that uh President Bush needed to nominate a more mainstream judge such as uh Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Yeah, this is a Soros ad you said.
I thought his group just broke up.
We're gonna have to look into this.
And it's it was sponsored by Soros and the Hollywood Friends of Nancy Pelosi.
And I'm so soros, the Soros group to Americans coming together, just disbanded.
I'll look into it.
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