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Aug. 4, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I don't believe that.
Fox has got a graphic up that says the Muslim role in the global war on terror.
That is a discussion topic, as though that's open for the Muslim role in the war on terror.
Which reminds me, folks, I am fed up with these videotapes from these insane terrorists like Zawahiri today.
I'm fed up with watching this stuff.
Who cares?
You might say, what the all is going on?
Greetings.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So here we go again.
Osama's number two lackey.
Tapes an inflammatory video, ships it off to Al Jazeera TV, gets beamed around the world, gets analyzed all over the place.
Look, he's outside.
Look, his shirt doesn't have one wrinkle, I heard somebody say.
Look!
Why, he looks healthy and he's wearing a different color headdress.
Big deal, folks.
So here we have a guy who will not even appear before his own people.
A guy who doesn't have the guts to show up in public.
At least Castro will do that.
At least Kim Il Jung or whatever his name will do that.
But this clown won't, and and and uh and bin Laden won't.
Say ship off these videos to Al Jazeera gets beamed all over the world in flaming terrorist cells, embarrassing moderate Muslims and unnerving peace-loving people everywhere.
And of course, it gives the cable nets something to focus on for 48 hours.
And of course, now it's Tony Blair's fault.
Tony Blair's at SOB and America, you're next, as though we don't know.
We're gonna get a poll.
Here's Zawahiri's got a tape out.
The next thing you know, Bill Schneider at CNN will do a poll.
Do you agree with Amon Zawahiri?
That is Tony Blair's fault.
And of course the result will be, yeah, 42% blame Blair and agree with Zawahiri.
This whole cycle is just it's it's maddening.
I'm fed up.
This is permitted propaganda.
And it's all done under the guise of news.
We should have just bombed Al Jazeera out of existence.
Oh no, Rush, you can't do that.
If you shut down Al Jira, the terrorists win.
No, you wackos.
You shut down Al Jazeera, the winner will be us.
The good guys.
What's so hard to figure out about this?
As I say, any leader, quote unquote, who does not appear live before his people ought not get airtime on television.
It's just that you know, this it's like this guy may as well be an uh an alien that landed and has got the world in his grips, and every time he speaks, the world goes, oh no, are we safe for a while?
Zawahiri's got a video out.
Oh no!
Big deal.
Folks, it really does it boggle.
I mean, Saddam appeared before his people.
Castro does it, Kim Ilthug, whatever his name is, appears before his people.
Bush does it.
Sometimes the Democrats appear before their people.
You know, no live appearances, no TV time.
What it ought to be the rule.
Well, really, I'm I know this may sound funny to you, but I'm not trying to be funny about it.
We ought why we why we constantly want to be on the defensive.
Oh no.
Zawahiri's got a new tape.
He's threatening Britain again and the United States, and Bill Schneider's gonna take a poll and find that 42% of Americans agree with him.
Uh if you here's the the thing is, if you if you don't have the guts to appear in public, you are either a craven coward or a special effect.
And that's all this guy is, is a special effect.
Yeah, and it it starts this uh this this unending media cycle is just I'm sorry, folks.
It just it just makes me mad.
Look, folks, we need your help out there.
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation needs your help.
As you know, uh 21 Marines dead in Iraq this week, a majority of them from Ohio.
Uh one of the longtime uh charities that this program has been uh happily and and proudly associated with, I mean, for almost probably 15 or 16 years, is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
A Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is uh is headed up by some great friends of mine, and they are all they're all Marines.
And I I can assure you, 99% of the money that uh they they collect gets dispersed.
It's uh this is uh this is 100% an act of uh of charity.
And what they do, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation supplies money and uh and other uh assistance, primarily in the form of education scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action.
21 Marines were killed from Ohio, incidentally, uh this week in in Baghdad.
And the uh at times the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation uh uh uh helps uh members from other services when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred in the uh World Trade Center.
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They uh they really are doing the Lord's work here, and that your help is really needed.
I mean this is this is 21 Marines in one week.
And if you have some spare change lying around, I have a uh uh an address for you.
Uh we're gonna post the link here at our website as well, which will have the uh phone number in the uh in the mailing address you can use if you'd like to make a donation.
It's the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, uh PO Box 37 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, 07046.
That's P.O. Box 37, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, 07046.
I'm not gonna give out phone.
If I gave out the phone number, uh it's uh is 877 a toll-free number.
It is.
I'm not sure if this is a donation number or not.
I'm gonna have to check.
Uh they do have the number on the website, but I don't know if this number is set up to handle a nationwide full of phone calls or not.
And if I give the number out, uh it's just gonna lead to busy signals in a lot of places, and I don't know.
I uh if it's a toll-free number, I'm sure it's a donation number, but you can get it off the website, and I'll sneak it in here a couple times as the program unfolds.
We've got the link up at Rushlinbaugh.com right now, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation again at P.O. Box 37, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, 07046.
And again, um they need your help.
Uh 21 Marines dead, and these uh these these uh former Marines, well, once a Marine, always a Marine.
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Have you seen the Drudge page?
Have you s this is uh I I uh I'm not I guess nothing surprises me anymore but the tastelessness of this.
Drudge has uh has uncovered uh uh well, as he writes here a plot in the New York Times newsroom to look into the adoption records of the children of John Roberts, the Supreme Court nominee.
The uh the Times has investigative reporter Glenn Justice hot on the case to investigate adoption records of Judge Roberts' two young children, Josie H. 5 and Jack age 4.
Uh Judge Roberts and his wife Jane adopted the children when they were each infants.
Both children were adopted from Latin America.
An insider at the New York Times claims a look into the adoption records of part of the paper's standard background check.
Roberts uh, as you know, young son Jack delighted millions of Americans during his father's uh nomination announcement when he wouldn't stop dancing while the president and his father spoke to a national TV audience.
The uh Washington Post style section previously had published a story criticizing the outfits that Mrs. Roberts had them wear at the announcement ceremony.
Remember that?
Yeah, they said the kid was wearing the saddle shoes that they they they claim that the uh uh well I don't know if the post did this, but some reporters claimed that the uh the Roberts dressed their children up as uh the Kennedys, dressed uh JFK uh Jr.
Uh had him looking just like JFK Jr.
Some said that uh Mrs. Roberts uh showed up in a in a Jackie Kennedy Dallas 1963 colored outfit.
Uh uh they've they've looked into her background, his wife, uh and her work and so forth, as they attempt to over uh turn over any kind of dirt they can on this uh on this man.
The uh top official in Washington with knowledge of the New York Times plans to do an investigative piece on the adoption records of John Roberts' two kids, said trying to pry into the lives of the Roberts family like this is despicable.
Children's lives ought to be off limits.
At times is putting politics over fundamental decency.
Uh one top Republican official, when told of the situation was incredulous.
This can't possibly be true.
Yes, it can.
When are you Republicans gonna learn that anything is true and possible with the Democrats today because they are in a state of desperate panic?
So now the adoption records of John Roberts' two kids are being looked into by the uh by the New York Times.
The Los Angeles Times has a story on Roberts today, which is uh has as its purpose uh undermining him with conservative groups.
I'll have the details when we come back.
Stay with us.
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Listen to this.
I knew this was this is the kind of stuff I was talking about.
We've got uh the the uh Arab expert uh from CNN, Octavia uh Nasser talking about this latest tape from this coward thug, Amon Al-Zawahiri.
Very interesting.
Again, it's interesting to hear from these people uh because you know, you think that on the run, you look at that video and you you you don't see a man uh who's wearing wretched clothes or dirty clothes.
He looks pretty neat, uh clean, as if he's he's living in a in a comfortable environment, getting his clothes even pressed and cleaned.
Uh and look at him.
He he's a bit threatening.
So what?
So now we're gonna have raving reviews of the startorial splendor of the number two man to bin Laden.
Who is a coward?
Why don't you say, Octavia, he's a coward.
He will not appear in public.
If it weren't for Al Jazeera, the tapes wouldn't get out anywhere.
Somebody has to know where these tapes are made.
Anyway, back to this John Roberts business.
Uh, you know, it is to me, folks, it is not stunning.
I know a lot of Republicans are stunned, but I think the days of being stunned uh should be behind us.
I don't think anything should surprise us.
This is desperation time.
This is the Supreme Court.
This is the ruling body of government as far as the left is concerned.
And they are scared to death of this guy.
They're scared to death of any Bush nominee getting on this court.
So now the New York Times looking in and in big, big deep investigations, not in the paper today.
Uh just got a heads up here that it's in the works.
And amazingly, the reporter doing the story confirmed it to Drudge.
He confirmed it.
And so you've got the the New York Times looking into the adoption records of John Roberts' two adopted children who are five and four.
So uh we'll wait to see what the story says.
The New York Times says, hey, standard operating procedures.
That's what our normal vetting process here.
A normal vetting process.
Then you go to the you go to the Los Angeles Times today.
Roberts donated help to gay rights case.
This is an attempt here.
The LA Times uh to use gays as a wedge against Roberts by angering those in the so-called religious right.
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. worked behind the scenes.
Behind the scenes for gay rights activists, and his legal expertise helped them persuade the Supreme Court to issue a landmark 1996 ruling protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation.
Then a lawyer specializing in appellate work, Roberts, the conservative Roberts, it says in the LA Times story, helped represent the gay rights activists as part of his law firm's pro bono work.
He didn't write the legal briefs or argue the case before the Supreme Court, but he was instrumental in reviewing filings and preparing oral arguments.
This, according to several lawyers intimately involved in the case.
Gay rights activists at the time described the court's 6-3 ruling as the movement's most important.
Well, you know what this ruling was?
This was the uh the rule, I think it was Roomer versus Evans.
And this was a ballot.
The people in co in Colorado had voted to uh uh prohibit the inclusion of sexual orientation in civil rights laws.
The people of Colorado had voted this way, and Romer versus Evans reversed the people of Colorado.
And this is the case that Roberts worked on, uh pro bono with the gay community or gay activists, and the Times says his work was uh valuable.
Romer versus Evans, that case barred the enforcement of a Colorado ballot initiative that was passed by citizens of Colorado, which prohibited the inclusion of sexual orientation and civil rights laws.
The Supreme Court decision was 6-3, Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority uh opinion, and they ruled that uh Romer versus Evans violated or that the the the ballot initiative violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
Now it's interesting to note that this decision, Romer versus Evans, then led to the next decision, Lawrence versus Texas.
That was the case in which the Supreme Court reversed a prior decision called Bowers versus Hardwick.
By the way, so much for upholding precedent, because here you go the Supreme Court overturning the duly elected people of uh of Colorado and their duly elected ballot initiative.
And here's the Supreme Court overturning itself, Bowers versus Hardwick, via Lawrence versus Texas, and they held in Lawrence versus Texas that same-sex sodomy is also protected by the 14th Amendment.
Both these cases, Romer versus Evans and Lawrence versus Texas, are considered to be the building blocks that the Supreme Court will eventually use to strike down state laws that limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
And this is being done through the misuse of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
So these two cases, uh court watchers all agree that the court, you know, they take steps and these are two steps along the path to finally striking down the notion that marriage is strictly a heterosexual affair and it could be between uh the anybody I guess you could marry the horse that you made love to out there in a stud form out in uh state of Washington we talked about yesterday as long as a horse enjoyed the sex afterwards it's getting it's getting insane but the Los Angeles Times story is running its story today
making it look like none of this would have happened that Romer versus Evans in Colorado wouldn't happen without the pro bono work of John Roberts the uh the president's uh nominee.
Now there's no question this is going to upset uh people on the right there's no question that this and the the the the the the the people on the right are going to say wait a minute wait a minute the guy's doing pro bono work and and helping gay activists and people are going to say see this is what happens when you get caught up in the in the DC culture.
This is what happens when you get caught up in the Washington establishment and culture you want to be seen as enlightened and so forth.
Roberts for his part says he doesn't really remember this he doesn't uh uh he he he he he didn't write anything he didn't didn't go before um uh the court itself didn't try the case uh and uh it's interesting that it was pro bono because his what's his name is law firm uh I'm having a metal block on the name of the law firm it's a big huge firm that got offices in New York uh as well but it's well known that you can pass on pro bono work.
I mean, law firms like their lawyers to take it, but you can pass on which case comes up if you don't do pro bono in that case.
But he took this and says that he is not really cognizant, doesn't really remember it.
Hogan & Hartson is the law firm.
And the case was one of several that Roberts worked on, pro bono, at Hogan & Hartson.
And they expect their partners at this firm to volunteer time in community service.
In his answers to the Senate questionnaire, Roberts talked generally about his volunteer work.
My pro bono legal activities were not restricted to providing services for the disadvantaged, he wrote, explaining that he often donated behind-the-scenes time and expertise on projects.
Roberts'work, this is now the L.A. Times, again, from which I'm reading.
Roberts'work on behalf of gay rights activists, whose cause is anathema to many conservatives, appears to illustrate his allegiance to the credo of the legal profession to zealously represent the interests of the client, whoever it might be.
There is no other record of Roberts being involved in gay rights cases that would suggest his position on such issues.
He has stressed, however, that a client's views are not necessarily shared by the lawyer who argues on his or her behalf.
I can confirm that any number of ways.
And so it would be interesting to see what now transpires fantastically.
from this, because on the same day we have two stories.
Well we got one story and one story in the works, but we know about the story in the works.
Story in the works is a New York Times conducting an in-depth standard, they say.
Standard investigation into the adoption records of Judge Roberts' two children.
And the LA Times the same day exposing Judge Roberts as a closet supporter of the gay rights movement.
In hopes of driving a wedge between the James Dobsons and the Pat Robertsons and the so-called religious right out there.
And it's I'm just going to tell you it is going to cause some angst among uh among certain groups of people who are always constantly worried about the next suitor or Kennedy.
So you've just been warned.
I'm just passing along the information here folks will be back and isn't it fun today Dawn?
And we are back it's El Rush most serving humanity.
This is the one and only excellence in uh in broadcasting network uh looking bad out there for Raphael Palmero.
Now got to be called back up uh before Congress they're going to look into potential perjury the perjury uh when he appeared in March right March 17th somebody said they would have to be able to establish he was using steroids prior to March 17th.
Anything he says uh or did after March 17th he would not be uh they couldn't go after him on perjury uh but Bob Terrell what do you want Ms. Sterley you're looking like you have a questionable just make sure it's not tinged with sex.
There's nothing about sex in the Palmero story.
Well that's even Sterley says I I thought nobody prosecuted for perjury you don't understand Mr. Snerdley.
This man's name is not Clinton and this guy went up there and he wagged his finger at him did it remind you of anything by the way did it when he wagged his finger up there at the member as a I must say this one more time and I want y'all listen I never had sex with that woman Miss Lewinsky not a single time.
Never.
And I never asked anybody to lie.
Right, Janet?
Look at what went all in the 90s.
Look at all of that went on.
It's just we have the steroid ball going on all through the 90s.
We had lying to everybody.
But these guys, these Republicans, OK, you don't come up here.
Wag your finger at us, big boy.
You don't come up here and do that.
So they're going to call him back up to Tom Davis said, yeah, perjury.
We seldom go after this, but we'd look like
idiots if we didn't do anything in this case uh Palmero I feel bad I don't know I just feel bad for the guy he's that this is this is you you where's the brain where is the brain you go up there and you wag your finger and you say I am never done it I have never ever I'm not going to do it never you can kill him put me on your committee to solve the problem and then lo and behold he tests positive like a couple months ago in the Major League Baseball had his 3,000
hits coming up and they didn't know what to do and so they they wanted him to get to 300 hits before they made the announcement they run this ad in USA Today congratulating him on it knowing full well he had tested positive this is all being appealed.
Then he says on Monday, in a conference call when it all came out, he said, well, I don't know how this happened.
It was accidental.
They find out that the steroid that he tested positive for, stolen ozone or something, is not in a supplement.
It's a very powerful steroid.
You just have to.
It doesn't compute.
Nobody can be this stupid.
Nobody can be this stupid.
And he's not stupid from everything I've heard.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I want to give you a shout out to the audience.
give you a new telephone number to call in on I have just been informed that our standard 800 line is down and we have come up with another number and it's uh you're gonna have to write this down.
It's uh numbers 866 437 8343.
Now this is just going to be temporary until we get the other number back.
You know, we ought to change.
We ought to get a new number anyway.
800 talk rush or some such thing.
Well, it doesn't matter.
It's still toll-free.
We're not going to charge you for the call, folks.
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Is that number working now, uh, Brett?
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It's busy.
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Uh Paul Hackett uh out in Ohio continues talking.
Continues talking.
Uh this is from National Review Online and the corner.
This is a little blurb submitted there by Tim Graham.
In one of those congratulations on your loss interviews on the radical left Pacifica network, Paul Hackett keeps finding that Bush and conservatives are unAmerican.
I thought liberals hated that word.
Here's the uh the question.
Amy Goodman is uh is interviewing Paul Hackett.
She says, You've called George Bush the greatest threat to this country.
Why?
Hackett.
I think that any president, be he or she, Democrat or Republican, who cultivates a sense that political dissent is unpatriotic is dangerous.
And I believe that this administration's cultivated forgive me, I'm so tired, has cultivated a sense that political dissent is unpatriotic and that's completely unamerican.
And later in the interview, he says, Well, I think everybody by now knows I'm pro-choice.
And I think that that's the only choice.
I mean, the very simple way I explain that is I don't need Washington, D.C. coming into my personal life, telling me, you know, how to live my personal life or dictating to my wife what choices she make with her doctor.
Not only is that un-American, it's contrary to the Republican Party, as best known by perhaps Barry Goldwater.
Now, this is all fine and dandy, except where was all this during the campaign?
It was absent.
He was saying this stuff to national media all over the campaign, but for those of you in local media in Ohio's second district, Paul Hackett was acting like he was the best friend George Bush ever had when it came to the subject of the Iraq War.
And you want to laugh, you want to hear a laugh.
I have a soundbite here from yesterday's afternoon, yesterday afternoon's inside politics on CNN.
Uh this is a package by their senior political analyst William Schneider on the Ohio congressional election, centering around Democrat Paul Hackett.
Listen to this.
The Republican won.
Barely, which is why the Democrats are celebrating.
The losers have more to celebrate than the winners.
Ohio's second congressional district is one of the reddest districts in the country.
64% for Bush last year.
But when the Republican margin slips to 52%, the GOP could have a problem.
The Democrat Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran, was running as a critic of President Bush's war policy.
Suddenly, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.
Bill.
You're going to need to find a new job.
No, you won't.
You're on CNN.
Never mind.
What you just said here is totally untrue.
He was doing just the opposite of this bill.
He was running as a hawk on Vietnam in local media.
He was not running as a critic of President Bush's war policy.
He was doing just the opposite.
Especially after Hackett attacked President Bush personally.
Republicans expected to see a backlash against Hackett.
It didn't happen.
You expect lower turnout in a midsummer special election.
But the GOP lost almost five times as many votes as the Democrats.
Why?
here's a clue the latest national gallup poll shows only forty eight percent of americans with a favorable personal opinion of bush down from sixty percent last november That's the lowest personal rating Bush has ever gotten.
Could one special election be a sign of trouble ahead for Republicans?
Hey, Bill, yeah, yeah, keep thinking it.
And I want all you other Democrats to keep thinking it.
It's irrelevant.
When are you guys going to figure out Bush is not on the ballot next time you run for office, either in 06 or 08?
Bill, you're supposedly a brilliant political analyst.
Why don't you go take a look at what the local Republican party's doing in Ohio and maybe look into that being a factor in suppressed turnout?
Maybe it is that the whole point of this election was that the Democrats are better getting their turnout out because what they did was just continue to preach hate.
And the Republicans, this is, by the way, standard turnout for a for a special election, but Mr. Schneider misses the whole point here, as are many in the national media.
Just continuing to look at this as a victory.
It's a moral win.
It shows the Republicans are in deep trouble.
No district is safe.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's amazing to behold this, ladies and gentlemen.
And it continues and the and you can I've got other stories in the stack of stuff here about this, some other things people are saying, and it's just it continues to be the twilight zone.
It really does like everything here is in a parallel universe.
It's it's uh it's surreal.
False Church Virginia.
Kevin, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, big deals.
Uh quick question for you.
Heard that uh listening to your show that you were kind of upset about the the airing of the Osama tapes and that sort of thing.
I share that uh sentiment as well.
What is your thoughts about the uh ABC network airing the uh the Chechen terrorists and that interview with that?
Do you think the Russians had a right response?
Uh kicking ABC out of the out of the Russian Federation.
Uh well they did yeah, they they they they what they did was decline ABC access now to uh to Russian news.
Um, okay, here here's my instinctive reaction.
Anytime the mainstream media gets kicked out of anywhere, I like it.
All right.
I'm just I I just do.
I'm just sorry.
I but then people say, but Rush, but Russ, it's a free press.
You can't have you can't have big governments declining uh networks that get coverage.
I know, I know, but it's just sweet justice.
When these networks are out there promoting the enemies of states, I know it's uh it's a it's a tough call.
Uh, but the Russians or the Russians, I mean Vladimir Putin is his KGB, folks.
This is what they do.
You cross the KGB, and you lose your news clearance.
And uh when you cross Putin, when you cross the Russian government, you're crossing the KGB.
Uh in in terms of a in terms of a mentality.
Um, but you know, going and uh I the the whole notion that uh and how many how many of you have seen there is I had this story yesterday.
Um, or maybe it's in the stack today, but there are more and more pieces talking about the romantic appeal that terrorists have for us.
There's something about insurgents, there's something about rebels, there's something about freedom fighters that we just love.
There's something that we identify with about these.
Now that's perverted and sick.
But if that's the kind of thinking that's guiding these exposes on these on, and you know that we've had various elements in the American media compare the uh Mukhtar Al-Sadr uh faction and all the other insurgents in Iraq to our founding fathers.
Uh uh you've seen that.
Uh I I can I can understand in a KGB-like mentality that you'd close off a network that gave aid and comfort to uh uh terrorist enemies uh of yours.
But you know, it's just it's uh it's a fascinating thing to watch.
The uh I I think the crack up and the breakup and the destruction of the whole left, uh a whole spectrum of media, academia, intelligentsia, uh Democratic Party, it's just it's happening right before America vaporizing themselves.
I gotta go quick time out.
Remember new phone number today temporarily.
Uh yeah, it was Anne Apple Baum.
That's an Apple Baum in the uh in the Washington Post yesterday.
Uh insurgents are sexy.
Insurgents, get me that story.
Go go to their archives and get me the and and I because it'll you get you guys can get it to me faster than I can find it in stack here behind me.
Uh new phone number today is temporary 866-437-8343.
That's 866-437-8343.
We'll be right back.
All right, for what an hour this is.
What what what an hour this is.
Uh this this news here, uh ladies and gentlemen, is just breaking.
Commander Eileen Collins, one of the astronauts up there in the shuttle discovery, um, has has says she has seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth, and she warned today that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.
She said, sometimes you can see how there is erosion and you can see how there is deforestation.
It's very widespread in some parts of the world.
So we got a shuttle astronaut up there claiming all this environmental destruction.
What I'm does she have before and after maps?
Does she have before and after pictures or something up there?
Clear-cutting?
Environmental destruction and uh an erosion?
I this is the first I've heard that erosion has been caused by us.
You know, did we create the Grand Canyon?
I still have a tough time believing that erosion created the thing, to be honest with you.
I mean, I'm I mean, we've I it's just an absurd hour here, folks, and let's add to it.
We have here now, I'm holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
An Applebaum of the uh Washington Post yesterday in a column, The Discreet Charm of the Terrorist Cause.
Now I'm on this rant, and I'll admit that it's a rant because I'm fed up with seeing these tapes of Zawahiri, a gutless coward who won't show up and speak before his own people, but he'll hide behind a videotape that's publicized by Al Jazeera, which should have been bombed off the map long ago in a serious war on terror, it would have been.
Since the bombing attacks in London last month, a welter of columnist writers, talking heads, and ordinary people have puzzled over the mystery of British Muslims, one in four of whom recently told pollsters that they sympathize with the July 7th suicide bombers.
The idea that British Muslims whose parents received asylum, found jobs and made lives in Britain could be so deeply affected by the oppression of Muslims in countries that they've never visited seems incomprehensible.
The notion that events in distant deserts should lead to middle class inhabitants of London or leads to admire terrorists seems inexplicable, but why should this phenomenon be so incomprehensible or inexplicable, at least to Americans?
We did, after all, uh, once tolerate similar similar phenomenon ourselves.
I'm talking about the sympathy for the Irish Republican army that persisted for decades in some Irish American communities and is only now fading away.
Oh, so we we had a a we had a sexy type attraction to the IRA here, like Britain Muslim support for Muslim extremist terrorism, Irish American support for Irish terrorism came in many forms.
There were Irish Americans who wave the Irish flag once a year on St. Patty's Day and admired the IRA's cause, but felt queasy about the methods.
Now I can see there's one major difference.
The Irish terrorists were setting off their bombs across the ocean and not in New York or Boston.
The range of Americans who were unbothered by this sort of thing was surprisingly wide.
Some were members of Congress, such as Republican Peter King.
Her whole point here, she says, isn't really about Northern Irish politics, however, but about the extraordinarily powerful appeal of foreign revolutionary idealistic violence to the inhabitants of otherwise peaceful societies.
Yeah, we've always had leftists admiring these people, leftists admiring Shea Guevara, leftists admiring Fidel Castro.
We've probably got some leftists admiring bin Laden.
But to say that Americans or anybody else civilized considers this sexy, for whom are you making the case?
I remember, folks, uh temporarily a different phone number for you to call to uh appear before millions on this program.
It's 866-437-8343, 866-437-8343.
We will be back.
There are other things, believe it or not, uh happening out there.
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