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Aug. 12, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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I think we'll probably start with soundbites two and three and just go in order from there.
All right.
Yes, I know I said that on the air.
I'm trying to let the audience in on how it happens here.
Everybody wants to know what goes on behind the scenes.
I thought I'd let them hear how I order up and choose the sound bites.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
The final hour of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network up and running on Friday.
And here is the telephone number.
And I am looking forward to talking to you.
800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
I'm going to give you a great example of an open line Friday question.
It didn't actually happen on a Friday.
It happened on Wednesday.
I forget the woman's name, but she was somewhere in Virginia, West Virginia.
She called and said, why are you so skeptical of all this environmental news?
Yeah, there was some environmental news out there, but not a whole lot, but I mean that day.
But she came in.
We took the call.
And you got a question.
You have a comment.
It doesn't have to be on Judge Roberts.
It doesn't have to be on the Cindy Sheehan or the big news of the day.
That's what Friday's all about.
It can be about something you think should have been discussed, but hasn't been.
Remember, Friday is the one day of the week where we will talk about things in this program I necessarily don't care about, but you do, and so that's why we will.
800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, NAROL has aborted, partially aborted, their ad.
I call it a partial birth abortion because it did run for a couple of days.
It did live before they killed it.
The reason they killed it was because they said that people were misconstruing it and the conservative pressure mounted.
And I did look around.
There wasn't one Democrat that condemned it, actually.
Pat Leahy said he didn't like these kinds of ads, but not one Democrat condemned it.
There were a couple of stories in the newspapers, editorials condemning it long after they should have.
But most of them just condemned it on the fact that it was not helpful.
Most of them said, pull the ad, NAROL.
I mean, it's not helping it.
It's not helping the cause.
And that's what Arlen Specter said.
It's setting back the cause.
Only E.J. Deion Jr. that I have encountered actually said, cancel the ad.
It's a lie.
Cancel the ad.
It's untrue.
The idea that it should be canceled because it was hurting the cause, though, was the primary reason that those who wanted it cancel on the left decided that it should be canceled.
Well, we unifiers that we are on this program are helping NAROL today.
The ad may have been canceled.
We are playing it free of charge, ladies and gentlemen, so as to help you more readily understand it.
NAROL is concerned that you didn't understand the ad, and we think that maybe more people need to hear this ad.
And so is a public service within broadcast time, not in commercial time, within broadcast time.
We are playing the ad free of charge as a public service to unify the country and help NAROL out here in having as many people as possible understand the ad.
I think that CNN's even pulled the ad.
And that's not helpful.
CNN was running it all along, but since NAROL pulled it, CNN has pulled it.
Well, we haven't.
We are continuing to run the ad as now.
This will be about the fifth time today that we have aired the ad as a public service to NAROL and America to further understanding.
Seven years ago, a bomb destroyed a woman's health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
When a bomb ripped from my clinic, I almost lost my life.
I will never be the same.
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber.
I'm determined to stop this ballot, so I'm speaking out.
Call your senators.
Tell them to oppose John Roberts.
America can't afford a justice whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.
Don't believe Rush Limbaugh or Factcheck.org when they debunk our ads.
Our ad ran on CNN, so it must be true.
Not only did Judge John Roberts defend an abortion clinic bomber, but Judge Roberts drove the bomber to the clinic himself.
Drove him and used his own cell phone to trigger the explosion.
Just like the terrorists in Iraq stop Judge Roberts from getting on the Supreme Court before he kills again.
Another classic illustration of the unifying aspects of this program and the fact that we harbor no grudges and that we are eager to help even those with whom we disagree be more properly understood.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity.
That is a great example of it here on the EIB network.
But my friends, the left, and I'm told that Landy Davis, what did Landy Davis say call it?
Where did he say this?
Oh, it's in the New York Times.
Well, Landy Davis said it's inaccurate, filled with innuendo, and shameless.
Ooh, they called it shameless.
Lanny Davis called it shameless.
Well, okay, so I got to give him credit along with E.J. Deion Jr. in the Washington Post.
Most of the left's in, eh, pull it, it's not working.
Sort of like get Torricelli out of the race, he's going to lose.
Poll numbers are too bad.
That scandal, get him out of not because he's a lousy candidate.
But ladies and gentlemen, lest you think that this ends the scurrilous attacks on Judge Roberts, uh-uh, uh-uh, you would be wrong.
We have, let's see, an AP story here and an AP story here.
First AP story from Washington.
If confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge John Roberts will join a court with powers over Americans' lives that stretch from Middle America's bedrooms to the president's oval orifice.
Such power has given heartburn to some Americans who think the court has gone out of its way to find expansive new meanings in the Constitution's words and implications.
Stephen Wormiel, expert on the Supreme Court at American University's Washington College of Law, I don't know if it's the most powerful court on earth, but certainly it is the most powerful in terms of the role that it plays in government compared with many other countries.
The U.S., he said, is among the few places with a constitution that amounts to a broad set of principles in which details need to be filled in by a set of judges.
And then there are very few other places, if any, that rest that responsibility in an independent, unaccountable judiciary that has life tenure and doesn't really have to answer to the voters or to the other branches of government.
All right.
Let's move on now to Melvin I. Yurofsky, who is a constitutional history professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
In no other country, said Melvin I. Yurofsky, is judicial review used as frequently as the Supreme Court does, and also unique as the acceptance of that power by the people.
Judicial Review is Marbury versus Madison basically.
Judicial Review is the Supreme Court saying, hey, that's constitutional.
Hey, that's not.
And that we're the final authorities.
That's judicial review.
The 1954 Brown versus Board of Education, Topeka ruling that ordered states not to have separate school systems for black and white children is one.
Another is Roe versus Wade, in which the court found a constitutional right for privacy.
In 1962, the court said in Engel versus Vitale that schools violated the Constitution by having pupils recite prayers, as many schools did until then.
Those kinds of opinions distress conservatives like Rick Santorum.
Really?
Okay, so you see where this story is headed.
This story is headed that the conservatives, they didn't like Brown versus Board of Education.
And they didn't like Roe versus Wade.
And they didn't like this.
I have never in my life heard a conservative complain about Brown versus Board of Education.
The idea that this reporter, William Mann, would attempt to insinuate or state directly that Rick Santorum and other conservatives are upset that schools were integrated. is crazy.
If there's anybody that's into desegregation today, it's the militant civil rights movement in this country.
They want black universities.
They want black fraternities.
They want black sororities.
They want black.
They demand it in these institutions.
And then when they get in there, they want to segregate because they still claim it's things separate and unequal and not fair.
But the segregationists today are not predominantly these conservatives.
There aren't any segregationists among conservatives today.
The idea that conservatives oppose Brown versus Board of Education is insulting.
And yet that remains a template and a mindset of people on the left simply because just as conservatives are homophobes, so are they racists and sexists and bigots.
And that is the uninformed template that a lot of people on the left simply use instead of thinking when describing conservatives.
Still, the Supreme Court retains the trust and certainly the attention of most Americans despite those racist conservatives.
Well, it doesn't say despite those racist conservatives.
I threw it in there because I know that's what he meant to imply.
Now, Judge Roberts may be clear on bombing abortion clinics, folks.
He may have passed that test, but he hates Jews.
Yes, that's this story from Michael Blood in the Associated Press.
As a Reagan White House lawyer, John Roberts urged the administration to dodge a proposal from the family of Raoul Wallenberg to pressure the Soviets on what they knew about the Swedish diplomats' disappearance at the end of World War II.
Documents housed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that will be a library for those of you in Riolinda.
Administration to invoke the 19th century in late 83, the family's lawyer, the Wallenberg's family lawyer, urged the Reagan administration to invoke a 19th century law giving the president the power to use such means necessary and proper to seek the release of citizens seized by foreign governments.
At the time, some believe that Wallenberg, an honorary U.S. citizen, was languishing in a Soviet prison.
The Soviets said he died in 1947.
President Reagan previously had called on the Soviets to account for Wallenberg, who is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Hitler's death camps.
But Roberts, Roberts, Roberts advised the White House to sidestep the proposal to use the old law for leverage with the Soviets.
The family's lawyer, Morris Wolfe, called Roberts' conclusion appalling.
The Reagan administration had a unique opportunity to rescue Raoul Wallenberg at that very moment.
I had credible evidence that Wallenberg was alive and well at the time, said Wolf.
Roberts took not only an expedient response, but a cowardly response, Wolf said in an interview.
So now Roberts is an anti-Semite.
Judge Roberts has gone from blowing up abortion clinics to being an anti-Semite.
Next, he's going to be a racist.
Next, he's going to be a homophobe.
Next, he's going to be, who cares?
He's going to be a sexist.
He's going to be a white supremacist.
Who knows?
Because the template that the left uses when they think of conservatives is going to get exploited throughout this coverage and throughout this treat.
So they've bombed out when he blew up abortion clinics, bombed out that he hates little girls with French fries, bombed out on a whole host of things.
Now he hates Jews.
And he advised Reagan to forego any effort to try to rescue a Jewish man, citizen of the United States.
Advised Reagan that using a 19th century law to pressure the Soviets on Wallenberg was not good.
But Mark Stern, general counsel of the American Jewish Congress, said Roberts' memo was responsible given questions about applicability of the law to the Wallenberg case.
Anything that's done for Wallenberg is all for the good, Stern said, but Roberts was a lawyer for the president.
He took a reasonable position, and I can't fault him.
In a November 7, 83 letter, Wolf told Reagan that Wallenberg's status as an honorary citizen allowed the president to pursue new action with the Soviets.
Under the 1868 law, a president is required to seek the release of any citizen who has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by any foreign government.
Roberts, in his January 25th, 5th, 84 memo to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, Fred Fielding, recommended essentially dodging the question of whether the century-old law could be put to use on behalf of the missing diplomat.
Among his concerns, Roberts feared the law would not stand up in court.
At one point, however, he acknowledged it might apply to the Wallenberg case, deriding a State Department analyst who said it did not.
So he is anti-Semitic.
Work with Fred Fielding.
Right.
Well, I don't know, Mr. Snurdley.
The question was just asked, how come a century-old campaign finance law didn't apply to Al Gore?
Can't raise money out of your office.
I don't know.
I'm just telling you here that they're pulling out all the stops and it fits the template of these bigots, these prejudicial leftists who just have this view of conservatives.
And Roberts, because he's got to be, he's got to be anti-Semitic.
He's got to blow up abortion clinics.
He's got to be racist.
He's going to be a bigot.
And he's got to be a homophobic, too.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Hey, it's happy birthday time.
Fidel Castro turns 79 tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.
And I want you to listen to how Reuters writes the story.
Cuban President Fidel Castro turns 79 Saturday with no plans for retirement at the helm of the Western Hemisphere's only communist state.
The world's longest-serving head of government is busy repairing Cuba's battered socialist economy.
Repairing it?
He caught what happened.
He caused it.
He caused it, folks.
I thought I lost my audio feed for a second.
That's why I said what happened, because everything went dark.
Everything went silent.
Everything went, in an audio sense, everything went black.
But nevertheless, he is busy repairing Cuba's battered socialist economy.
This is on a par with Time magazine's long ago cover.
Fidel Castro and his lovely island paradise.
Can he put it back together, some such thing?
Castro says he is perfecting the egalitarian society he began to build after he and his bearded guerrillas ousted U.S.-backed dictator Batista.
His stamina undiminished, the aging leader continues to give marathon four to five hour speeches denouncing U.S. imperialist aggression to staunch supporters who sing the Marxist international anthem when he is done.
Castro's bitterest enemies, mainly right-wing exiles living in Miami.
See, Cuba is a gulag run by an autocrat who impoverished Cuba's 11 million people, but we can't trust them because they are right-wing exiles.
But Fidel is busy repairing Cuba's battered socialist economy with undiminished stamina.
You'll note, by the way, that Dick Durbin did not call him the leader of a gulag when he was comparing our interrogators at Club Gitmo.
Bob in Fort Collins, Colorado, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Rod.
Hey, you say you're stunned that it's on page eight?
I'm angered by it.
For months upon months, I get to hear about the bug-eyed bride.
I get to hear about Valerie Plain and Natalie Holloway.
I can't find anybody talking about Avil Danger.
I know.
Page nine of the Washington Post, page, I don't know, whatever of the New York Times.
It's not there.
Websites are not putting it prominently.
Some of the bloggers are talking about it.
The New York Sun is making it a front-page story.
New York Post had a great piece today by Deborah Oren, but you're right.
The exempt media, as some bloggers call it, the mainstream media, simply uninterested, not talking.
And I'll tell you why, because they know it's damning.
If this were about the Bush administration, that's all you'd be seeing out there, Bob.
Absolutely.
But how much of our money went towards this 9-11 whitewash commission to what?
To point the finger at nobody?
They ignored it.
Totally ignored it because they had an agenda going in.
They had an agenda on this, and it was to make themselves look good, give themselves the power of coming up with the solutions to terrorism.
The whole 9-11 Commission was a joke.
Look, it's like I said, folks, and I'm going to repeat this.
It's like I said at the beginning of this program, I never once had any respect for this commission, and I never took it seriously because it's like every other Washington, D.C. Blue Ribbon Commission.
A bunch of ex-politicians, formerly elected officials who are brought back to town because of their so-called stature as moderates or no longer in office.
They're given expense accounts for big dinners and big hotel suites and so forth.
And they come back and they pontificate.
And their basic job is to make themselves look like statesmen.
Their basic job is to make themselves look good.
But in the bottom line, the final analysis, they don't advance the ball one yard.
Nothing gets done.
It is the epitome of worthless bureaucracy guided by mindless ego.
We will be back after this.
Play has been temporarily suspended and stopped at the PGA Championship in Springfield, New Jersey at Baldus Roll Country Club.
A tree limb has fallen on a member of the media.
And for cracked it, just for no reason, the tree was just sitting there.
It was minding its own business, and this limb just cracked.
And the member of the media said to be okay, although they are now carting member of the media, he's a cameraman or something.
Boom opera, boom opera, yeah, cameraman, a camera boom operator carting him off now for precautionary reasons on a stretcher.
I move into a cart and get him out of there.
But there was no lightning.
Nothing happened.
It just ended.
It's the hole that Tiger Woods is playing.
He just hit his T-shot in the water at a par three.
So he's putting for bogey, which will put him three over the cut line if he makes it.
Cut line minus three or plus three.
Tiger is at plus five even now.
One more thing about these blue ribbon panels, folks.
9-11 Commission, base closure, whatever it is.
And like Bill Clinton said, I want you to listen to me.
I must say this one more time.
I'm serious about this.
In addition to the members of these committees, these commissions, having as their number one goal to make themselves look good, score big expense accounts and all that, and pad their reputations, there's another almost equally important objective they all have.
Whether it's Republican or Democrat, the objective is to protect the political class in Washington from any fallout on something like this.
It is to make sure the blame goes to people that can't do anything about it.
Maybe the blame goes to people you've never heard of.
Maybe the blame goes to people that are never even going to be punished.
But hell's bells if anybody in power is going to take the hit for stuff like this.
And I don't care if it's Bush or Clinton, whoever, these blue ribbon panels exist for one reason and has to cover up and to protect anybody that might genuinely be harmed in any kind of such a scandal.
Pure and simple, that's what these blue ribbon panels are all about.
Make no mistake about it.
Nancy in Santa Maria, California.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Rush?
Yes, I'm fine.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Sorry, I couldn't hear you there for a second.
I was just calling to let you know that I've been listening to your show for about a year.
I've known about you for a long time through my older brother and sister.
And I've learned a lot.
I'm not really politically, usually politics kind of bore me.
Yeah.
But you've really shined a light, and especially the Bush campaign and the Bush administration.
I don't know them.
I've never met them.
But they seem like really great people.
And I'm sorry, I'm just really nervous about that.
Well, I understand.
Let me see if I can help out here.
You'd heard about the program for a long time.
You didn't listen.
Is that because you were bored with politics?
Well, no, I'm sorry.
I was usually at a job where I couldn't listen to the radio or anything.
Well, that's no excuse.
A lot of people listen to the program with radios.
They do it on headphones and they do it during coffee breaks.
That's true.
That's true.
Well, now I'm at a job where I have my own little radio by my desk and nobody bothers me.
So now I have no excuses to listen to it.
But my brother had, I guess he heard you, but way back when you first started on the radio and everything.
And then he told my sister, and then my sister told me.
Okay, so you finally started listening.
Whatever it took, you finally started listening.
What was it that you liked?
I mean, you obviously kept listening.
You've been listening for a year now.
It was actually during the presidential campaign.
I heard a lot about Kerry that it was amazing what I would listen to you about the Kerry campaign.
And then, you know, I'd go home and listen to the news.
And I'm like, well, that's not the way it was or what it was.
So I learned a lot.
We score big during presidential campaigns.
We always have that.
I appreciate that, Nancy.
Are you a member of my website by any chance?
No, I'm not.
I get on your website, but I can't go any further than that.
Do you use a computer?
Yeah, I do at home.
I do.
Okay, well, so you don't have any club Gitmo gear?
No, I don't.
Oh, that's unacceptable.
So here's what I want to do.
Well, you deserve it.
I want to just give you a little prize here.
I want you to stay on hold, and hopefully a nice man will pick up the phone and get the information necessary to make you a complimentary member at Rush 24-7.
We'll send you a complimentary subscription of my newsletter, the largest and most widely read political newsletter in America today.
And we'll send you a couple of items from the Club Gitmo gift shop.
I really appreciate that.
And I just want to say one more thing that I really like and enjoy listening to all the callers.
You handle everybody.
You're so calm and cool.
And no matter how, you know, when they call in and they seem like they want to start an argument with you, but you know how to put them in their place in a nice way.
Well, I've often said, I'm glad you noticed that.
I've often said that I am the politest host in America in this kind of a program.
I invite people to call.
I'm not going to berate them when they call unless they lose it first.
And then, of course, you fight fire with fire, but most people are very fine.
My comportment with callers is directly proportional to their attitude with me.
But it's hard for a lot of people to believe this, but I'm a nice guy.
And I'm glad you noticed.
I appreciate it very much, Nancy.
Welcome aboard.
Bob in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
I just wanted to call, and I've heard about this Abel Danger thing basically through you on the radio.
I'm no big fan, but this really got my blood pressure up, and I just can't believe it.
If this is true that they knew about this a year, a year before it happened, and nobody passed information on I'm ex-military, somebody's got to hang for this.
This just isn't right.
There's no better way to say it than that.
Somebody needs to get fired.
We don't know who.
We don't know what, but this is unacceptable.
If this was because of my president, then, I mean, if it, you know, those questions need to be asked.
Who knew what?
And when did they know it?
Well, that's what Kurt Weldon's saying.
I want to say this to you.
When you say you're president, I know you mean Clinton since you said that you're a Democrat.
But I want to re-emphasize what I said to you just a moment ago about these blue ribbon panels.
If the Republican had a bit of president, the panel's purpose would have been to cover it up.
Now, the Democrats and the 9-11 Commission did their best to steer this by virtue of innuendo to Bush.
But there was no direct accusation other than Richard Clark and so forth.
I think if this information that's out there now pointed right at Bush, you probably would see a little bit more news coverage of this, probably a lot more news coverage of it than you're seeing now, because the Clinton administration had as its goal to create a legacy and write one, and they've had help from the mainstream press.
But all that aside, these panels have as a role to protect official Washington, who's ever there.
Somebody in official Washington.
I agree with you.
And what I don't understand is, you know, if this would have been Bush, my senators would be all over the screen right now.
I mean, we would have had Mr. Durbin, we would have had Mr. Kennedy all asking for a special session of Congress.
Bring everybody in from vacation.
Let's open it up.
Let's find out what happened.
I just can't believe it.
Well, I hear you.
But, you know, this is a it's well, you, let me, let me suggest this to you because you say that I'm the only place you're hearing about this.
Do you use a computer, Bob?
Yes.
You do?
Are you, well, you're probably not a member of my website, are you?
No.
Well, no, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I can't listen to you too much.
My blood pressure gets too high.
Okay.
I understand it, but something about this got to you.
Well, something about this got to you.
And it should because 9-11 was bipartisan.
9-11 was the biggest catastrophe that's ever happened to the United States on one day.
It was bigger than Pearl Harbor.
I mean, this is bigger than a president or anyone else.
Exactly.
And if it's being covered up for whatever reason, we need to know.
So here's what I want to do.
I'm going to make an offer to you.
You don't have to accept it.
Stay on the phone.
And I'm going to have a guy come on.
I'm going to give you a means.
I'll make you a comp member of my website for a year.
You don't have to go there except this one time if you don't want to.
But I want you to go there because we're going to have a whole section about 6 o'clock tonight.
We update the site between 5.30 and 6 every night to reflect the contents of each day's show.
And it's going to have all of the material that I have cited today and yesterday that you have heard.
You'll be able to read it yourself.
You will be able to dig into it yourself.
All the things Kurt Weldon has said, Deborah Orrin in the New York Post today, the New York Sun will have links to all of these stories, and you can read it for yourself.
And I guarantee you, when you do, you'll be more outraged and angry than you are now.
But I wish you to accept my offer and become a comp member just for a year.
And if you only look at it tonight, although I have confidence that once you see it, you'll want to check it every day.
But regardless, take a look at it and read this stuff yourself because it's not front page anywhere.
It's not Lead Story Network News.
You won't find it being discussed on even Fox.
I mean, it's being discussed on Fox, but try to find it on their website.
You don't.
You don't find it on Drudge.
You don't find it on CNN.
You don't find it anywhere because the Washington culture includes the media.
And until I don't know what it's going to take to break this, but it will.
This is going to keep percolating, and the 9-11 Commission is going to find itself in some deep doo-doo here.
But accept the offer.
Go to the website this afternoon or tonight.
Read this stuff for yourself.
And it'll give you an idea where you can keep reading as the information is updated because you'll find out the papers and the websites that are paying attention to this.
And there are quite a few of them doing it.
It's just not in the mainstream media where you're not seeing much of this.
Bob, thanks for the call.
Hang on.
The guy will get to you in just a minute with instructions.
We'll be back after this.
Open Line Friday continues with Rush Limbaugh and Talent on loan from God.
By the way, I just heard from Coco at rushlimbaugh.com.
We have successfully rescued the video of the NAROL ad.
As you know, we've been playing the audio in this program.
So our rescue has proved fruitful twice.
So we will be able to play for you or have available for you to watch the NAROL ad all through the weekend at rushlimbaugh.com, even though they have withdrawn the ad.
We're just trying to help them out here since they've withdrawn it.
We want to further your understanding of what they were trying to say and make sure their message gets out.
This is Cheryl in Baltimore.
You're next, and it's great to have you with us.
Rush, it is such an honor to speak with you.
I cannot believe I got through today, and I'm actually going to get to talk to you.
My birthday is on Sunday, and to me, this is a huge birthday present for me.
I've been listening to your show for years.
I think that you are amazing.
I'm obviously gushing here, but it's not that I always agree with you, but I think your program is always on target, entertaining, and a great way to bring out the issues in this country.
And I just want you to know that if you weren't out there broadcasting your message every day, the liberal media would be running ramshod on this country.
And thank God for you, Rush Limbaugh.
I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
I'm here today to tell you that I'm one of your biggest fans.
I appreciate that more than you know.
Thank you so much.
And I agree.
As I know you would, because you have one of the best senses of humor I've ever heard on the airwaves.
I mean, I was listening to your parodies from yesterday's show, and I'm serious.
I was laughing out loud from them.
You're just, you're so funny, and you're so on target.
And, you know, I'm not a ditto head.
I'm not always in line with your positions.
But just thank God for you.
I'm telling you, the liberal media is out of control.
Let me tell somebody, you are a ditto head.
No, no, no, you don't know this.
A ditto head is not somebody who agrees with me all the time.
A ditto head likes and loves the program and hopes it never goes away.
That's what ditto's means.
And for sure, I am one because you are fabulous.
And one of the things that I wanted to bring out to the program is that I'm a Democrat in the state of Maryland where everybody in the state, I think it's like 80% Democratic.
And we finally got a Republican governor.
And one of the reasons we got a Republican governor who is, his name is Bob Ehrlich.
He's a rising star, is because he just, he appeals to people on a personal level.
And I voted for him.
I love him.
I'd love to see him be in a second term.
One of the things about him is that he knows how to bridge partisan gaps.
Well, he's not doing such a great job with our legislature, unfortunately, but a lot of the people here, even though they're registered Democrats, they're in line with his position on things.
In line with the way he sees government should be run.
You know, a lot of Republican principles I'm starting to get in line with, even though I'm still registered as a Democrat.
So with that said, one of the things I'm having a problem with is the Republican position on abortion.
Now, Bob Ehrlich, he has a political position on it, which is that he does not feel that Roe versus Wade should be repealed.
His personal position is that he doesn't believe in abortion.
What is the question?
Okay, the question is, with the Republicans' line on abortion and this whole discussion about Roe versus Wade, and believe me, this definitely falls into the John Roberts nomination because apparently this is the sticking point with everybody.
I'm having a problem reconciling the Republican position that with limited government, and that really seems to be the Republican position.
All right, let me explain this to you.
This is, I'm glad you called, and I'm going to answer.
I want you to listen very carefully.
This question comes up periodically.
Rush, aren't the Republicans sort of contradictory?
The limited government, and then they want to get inside everybody's bedroom.
It's not, that is a leftist argument to try to diffuse confidence among conservatives about the issue.
Let me tell you about the limited government is not at all applicable here.
Our founding documents include the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence was written before the Constitution.
The Declaration formed a basis for which the Constitution, along with the Federalist Papers, would be written.
And in the Declaration, you will find the phrase, all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The framers and the signers of the Declaration of Independence were affirming with the Declaration that it was the position of the United States that we were all created equal with unalienable rights, among them life, capitalized,
emphasized, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, which means that the government was going to ensure that life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness were guaranteed because those are rights granted to us by our creator, our creator.
Unalienable rights.
We are all created equal.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
They were saying that's the essence of our creation as human beings.
The yearning to be free includes having life, having liberty, and the right to pursue happiness.
If the government does not protect life, if the government does not take a position protecting life, who will?
Our founders and framers said that's the role of the government.
Put out of your mind this notion of limited government.
There is no right to abortion in our founding documents.
There is no right to kill babies anywhere in the founding documents.
It has been found by a bunch of liberal judges, but it's not there.
It's just the exact opposite.
It's not limited or big government.
It's simply the role of government to ensure that our created rights are protected.
And among them are life.
It's that simple.
We'll be back.
Don't have time for another call, but I do have a guy up from San Luis Obispo, a retired Navy chaplain, who says that Cindy Sheehan's grief is inappropriate, that it's unlike any grief he has ever seen.
She's being exploited by everybody on the left, and I think she's probably enjoying it at the same time.
Hope you have a great weekend here, folks.
We'll see you back on Monday.
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