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Aug. 18, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Now I'm gonna do something here that I have a policy of not doing.
And I want to explain the policy.
So that I hear from people all the time, Rush, did you hear what they said about you on X?
And they usually cite some cable network or cable show.
And normally I haven't heard about it because I don't watch them.
I gave up that uh watching these things long ago.
But I hear about it because I get emails from some of you.
And many of you uh why don't you respond?
Well, you can't let these people get away with this.
Why don't you folks?
Everybody takes shots at the guy at the top of the mountain.
If all I did, if if I've if I responded to these little ankle biters, these yipping little chihuahuas out there, it would be all I would do.
And all I would do would be elevate them in importance.
Uh there are mother other things to do here, far more important and dealing uh with a bunch of inconsequential wannabe power brokers.
But there are exceptions to everything.
And uh this has been going on all week, and I want to set the record straight once and for all.
Now, I don't expect this to work because the people who are making erroneous, fallacious lying comments about things I've said on this program, don't even listen to this program and don't even go to my website to find out what I say.
They rely on uh little pimple-faced kids that are working at wannabe websites, who excerpt this program and others, take them out of context, uh, and that's what they use as their source material.
Yesterday afternoon on uh Wolf Blitzer's new show, The Situation Room on CNN, the the forehead appeared.
Paul Bagala uh jumped to audio soundbite number three.
Let's let's start first with what the forehead had to say.
They were talking about the uh the Cindy Sheehan uh story, and Wolf said to the forehead, do you think Cindy Sheehan's going too far?
No, uh he has a perfect right.
She has the absolute moral authority.
She is a gold star mother.
She gave her son's life for her country.
And she has the most uh uh position, most pristine position to speak about these things.
I think the conservative activists that they talked about are overplaying this in a terrible way.
They could be having a legitimate debate over America's role in Iraq.
Some people think we should do more, some less.
It's an honest debate.
Instead, they're attacking her personally.
Rush Limbaugh, who is very close personally to George W. Bush and very close to the White House, has gone on his radio show and alleged that she's making this up.
He said, Oh, she's just like the guy who forged documents allegedly about President Bush in the National Card.
That's not true.
She's not making this up.
Her son actually died.
Uh now, is this not patently absurd on its face?
I'm making it up.
She doesn't have a son.
She doesn't have a son who died in Iraq.
Bagala will read this on some third-rate partisan website and will believe it.
Will not even check it out.
Wolf Blitzer said, You're making what up?
And Bigala came back with this.
You gotta ask Rush.
He's suggesting that that she's making it up that her son died.
I mean, he's but he's like, they're attacking her personally instead of attacking her position on the war.
You cannot ever win attacking gold star mother personally.
And babe you can, of course, also clueless, agreed with Bagala that you cannot attack uh a gold star mother personally.
Let's go back.
I'm gonna play for you the excerpt.
Um I got I got two excerpts here and then other comments.
Let's go back to August 12th on this program.
And when I first discussed Cindy She, I had not even discussed it prior to then, prior to that moment, because I think the woman is sympath.
I I think I think it's a sad situation all the way around what's happened to her and the influences that have been exerted on her and the and the and the and the and the way she is being used.
I think it's despicable on the part of the left the way they're doing it.
I avoided it, but I got a phone call about it.
I got a phone call about it.
The guy wanted to told me what he thought about Cindy Sheehan and wanted my reaction.
This is August 12th, and here's what I said.
I find it difficult to be critical of Cindy Sheehan.
I think she's she's a woman lost her son.
And I know that there have been a lot of people lose their kids in war.
And I don't care who they are, it's it's not easy.
And uh people deal with it in their own ways.
I I think the real shame here is her exploitation by the Democrats, by John Conyers.
John Conyers dragged her to his impeachment meeting over the Downing Street memos.
They have made her a star in her own mind, and this attention that she's getting, I'm sure, is helping to assuage her loss.
And it's just to me, it is a and the media is exploiting her like she is a genuine spontaneous eruption.
They are not telling the truth about how this woman has been shepherded by Joe Wilson.
There are pictures of her with Joseph Wilson, yes, a Valerie Plame fame.
She has shown up at all these anti-war rallies.
She was an anti-war mother before any of this began to happen.
And of course, speaking of Valerie Plane, I think the Valerie Flame story, uh, Valerie Plame story flamed out, and they had to have something come up replace it, just like Richard Clark failed, and he flamed out, and then the Jersey girls flamed out.
And now uh after that, Valerie Plane flamed out.
They have nothing on Rolves, so they gotta fill the vacuum.
It's right out of the playbook.
They gotta fill the vacuum.
Bill Burkett, it's all part of the same playbook.
It's all part of the same strategy employed by the left.
But there you heard August 12th.
I think she's a woman who lost her son.
I don't care who they are, it's not easy.
Okay, so there it is, August 12th.
I find this patently absurd.
This is even necessary.
Now, here is a here's a bite from August the 15th, three days later.
And this is the bite that I contend is being taken out of context because I first said on August 12th, and in an ensuing days, acknowledged she lost her son, talked about it, was even sympathetic, and then went on to make the point that all she is is an opportunity like Bill Burkett was an opportunity to bash Bush, like the Jersey girls are an opportunity to bash Bush.
Like Valerie Plame is an opportunity to bash Bush and bash Rove, like the Jersey girls were.
She's just the next in line.
And here's what I said on August 15th.
The fact that they are too eager.
I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett.
Her story is nothing more than forged documents.
There's nothing about it that's real.
In including the mainstream media is gloming onto it.
It's not real.
It's the tape.
That is what is being taken out of context.
When they I say Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett, her story is nothing more than forged documents.
There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's gloming onto it, meaning the whole thing is staged.
The whole event is staged.
I have just said three days earlier, and every day hence, that she lost her son.
And anybody who cares to research my website, listen to this program knows it.
To then put out a message that I think she's lying about her son, even being alive, that she didn't have a son, and she didn't have a son that died in Iraq.
Shows the desperation and the depths to which the people on the left will go to discredit people like me who they consider are their enemies because they cannot beat us in the arena of ideas.
They cannot answer what I am saying about Cindy Sheehan.
They cannot answer what my accusations about the way she's being used are.
They don't deal even go there, so they dare even go there, so they have to try to discredit me.
In the eyes of people who may not listen to this program or other people in the media who are supposedly reporters, who are supposedly curious, who supposedly would want to get to the bottom of something.
If something like that's really being said, find out about it, but no, just accept what happens to be written in other places on the on the world wide web.
The real interesting thing to me is these people are totally ignoring what Cindy Sheehan is saying.
She is apparently their story.
She is their God gift that's just been handed to them to keep the Bush bash up and in rhythm, and they ignore what she is saying.
And they want to focus on everybody who's criticizing the whole element of movement that surrounds the Cindy Sheehan story.
And to me, they're missing all of that on purpose.
They don't want any uh scrutiny of what sheehan's saying.
That's why they come up with this asinine, indefensible phrase that she has absolute moral authority because she lost a son in Iraq.
She can criticize anybody and lie and say whatever she wants, as can her supporters.
But nobody can call attention to her lies or the pro the way she's being used because she has absolute moral authority.
Is that what we've come to now?
You lose a son or a daughter in a rock, and you are insulated from criticism and you have a license to lie.
As long as you're doing it about George W. Bush.
What is this absolute moral authority business?
These people are tattering, folks.
They're there's they're shredding.
They're coming apart intellectually, emotionally, and every which way.
They have no substance whatsoever that butstresses them, that backs them up.
They're standing in quicksand, as I've always been saying, and they know it.
And they're lashing out.
The thing that's that's got them upset is that they're that the Sheehan is not working.
It's not affecting anything.
It's not changing public opinion.
It is not affecting Bush's policy one way or another, one iota.
And so they just continue to get more extreme and outrageous and try to discredit the critics.
Here's the here's the latest that we've learned about Cindy Sheehan.
This is from a um a speech that she made during a rally at San Francisco State University, April 27th, 2005.
I can't repeat all of this because it's it's it's profane and obscene.
She said, We're not waging a war on terror in this country.
We're waging a war of terror.
The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush.
He's got absolute moral authority, so you can't, you can't, you can't question that, folks.
Sheehan is demanding a second meeting with Bush.
She said, We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now.
That country is contaminated.
It'll be contaminated for practically eternity now.
We can't question this.
She has absolute moral authority.
They're a bunch of bleeping hypocrites, and we need to, we we just need to rise up, Sheehan said of the Bush administration.
If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his BS, and she said the word, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he's spreading freedom and democracy.
Does he think every person he kills make a rock makes Iraq more free?
The whole world is damaged.
Our humanity is damaged.
If he thinks that it's so important for Iraq to have a U.S. imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party animal girls.
They need to go to this war.
And of course the left thinks that's a brilliant analogy.
Aren't you willing to send your own children?
Or if you're not willing to go die yourself, then you bring the rest of our kids home.
Now it's despicable what they're blanking doing.
This is Cindy Shable.
We can't, we we can't question.
She has absolute moral authority.
Nobody focuses on what she's saying.
They don't dare.
All they do is tell you she's an out-of-sorts mom who desperately wants to meet with Bush.
But Bush is so mean and insensitive and he doesn't care, and he's avoiding her because he's afraid of her.
But when you get into the specifics of this, they hope they don't hold up and they can't handle it, and so they have to start lying about people like me and discrediting people like me, but they fail each time they do it because they're lying.
Their whole movement, they're all of their efforts are based on lies.
They can't even be honest about who they are.
They can't be honest about what their plans for the country are.
They can't be honest about anything, folks, because if they were, they'd be finished for good.
Quick timeout, we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
What's this?
Bringing more bumper music from home, uh Mamon.
Yeah, I knew that.
Even though I've lost my hearing, I can I know when I'm hearing music I've not heard before.
Greetings and welcome back.
El Rushball here, talent on loan from God.
Let's grab a phone call.
My adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
Hi, Leo.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
Just fine, Leo.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, I just wanted to comment on uh this situation um with Miss Sheehan.
Um Miss Sheehan can speak for herself, but uh Terry Shivo couldn't.
And I'm just saying the politicians will use this, political groups will use any issue that a grieving parent has, depending on which side of the uh political aisle they're on.
And this is this is not much different than what uh happened with Terry Shival.
It's just being used, but don't blame the mother for her grief and that her mindset might be to use any group that she can use to get her back.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
Wait a second.
Here we here we go with more left-wing moral equivalents.
I thought you people thought that she was dead anyway.
I thought Terry Terry Shival was dead and word wasn't worth any of this.
I mean, this is this is absurd.
This is a this is classic.
I make a point that you can't defend, and you have to come up with Shivo, and then you say, don't be critical of of what's her face.
She hand in her grief.
What does she get this immunity?
Where in the world does she come up with this immunity?
You didn't give Shivo the immunity.
You didn't have any compassion for Terry Shivo whatsoever.
You can't cite to me the number of times Republicans do this kind of thing.
I'll tell you the major difference, Leo.
When the Republicans tried to defend the life of Terry Shivo, the media didn't join them.
And the media didn't promote them.
And the media didn't give them moral authority.
The media was with the Democrats and the rest of you liberals opposing any opportunity to find out if Terry Schibo had a life that was worth living.
You couldn't care less.
You wanted to condemn that woman.
She may as well have been dead.
You call here and want to draw some kind of comparative analogy to the two things.
You know damn well, if you have any shred of intellectual honesty in you, that this is a whole this whole Sheehan thing is a setup.
And if you'll listen to me carefully, I have not criticized Sheehan.
I have criticized the media for exploiting her.
I have been crystal clear on this.
And once again, the fact that you can't respond to what's right in front of your face and going right into your head via your ears is proof positive to me that you guys are actually on the defensive while you think you're on the offensive and scoring points out here.
This is this is this is just breathtaking to watch and to listen to this.
Give me another example besides Shaivo.
Where in the world are these efforts that Republicans use to come up with citizens that are out there telling lies about other people and having it promoted.
Uh, you know, it's it's just it's absurd.
If you want to talk about the difference here, uh look at the people that you champion.
Look at the causes that you champion.
You're basically just championing an amb anti-Bush cause in the case of Cindy Sheehan.
Condemning little kids like Elian Gonzalez to go back to Soviet uh inspired gulag in Cuba.
Uh, and you and you want the mantle of compassion and big-heartedness, you guys think you deserve this.
It's like I said the other day, this country's got a big big challenge ahead, and that's keeping you people from ever ending up in positions of leadership running this country.
Suzanne in Bloomfield, New Jersey, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
You know, I just wanted to really quick say that as a fan of the show, when I hear the lies about you in the mainstream media, it doesn't make me mad.
It just makes me smile because it just it just proves to me once again, over and over, every single time, that lies and deception are all they have.
Never, never once have I heard anything that was that was attempting to represent your position that was accurate.
And people that listen to the show should just sit back and think it's funny and say, see, all they've got are.
You know, I have the same attitude you do 99% of the time.
I think it's just a testament to the effectiveness of this program, quite frankly, when they have to go lying about it and distorting it.
And I sit back and smile, and I, you know, I was telling some people last night, I said, you know, what the the current the current media stories are that I am somehow fading away now.
The arrival of liberal talk radio has caused the uh the the bloom to come off the limball rose.
And yet you cannot read a major newspaper or watch a cable news network without my name being mentioned.
And I am the gold standard for apparently what the right wing thinks and says, and they have to lie about what I'm saying.
Just a testament to my effectiveness, is how I look at it, but I can also understand people watching this getting fed up at it.
Um so now and then it it is time to respond to some of it, especially something as egregious as this as being accused of saying she's lying about having a son uh who didn't die in Iraq.
I mean, at some point you you can't let circle things stand, uh, and you pick your spots as I just did.
Thanks for the call.
Doing what I was born to do.
Host this program, and you are doing what you were born to do.
You were born to listen, and sometimes call.
It's a fabulous combination.
Listen, you want to hear some more lunacy about this?
This is this is Richard Dreyfus, the actor.
Yip, yep, yip yep, yahoo.
Yes.
And he was in California at a protest supporting uh Cindy Sheehan, and here is a a small portion, it's all you needed to hear to get the gist of it.
No one should come for my son and tell my son to go and kill someone or put himself in harm's way unless I understand and agree to the need.
Hey, Richard, what do you what do you think is going on out there?
The draft you think people are stealing into your backyard under cover of darkness and knocking on your door when nobody's home going in and stealing your son?
What a blithering idiot.
You know, uh it it this is this is a and they these people think they're brilliant and they think they're making these these these sentimental and very serious deep thoughts and points, and they just don't get it.
They don't see how they're perceived, they continue to just make absolute idiots of themselves.
Now, this morning, back to CNN, uh they on their morning show, uh uh Miles O'Brien talked to Debbie Argel Bastian.
Her son uh Air Force Captain Derek Argel died in Iraq.
The question was, what concerns did you have when you heard that your son's name was on one of those crosses?
Uh, not down at Crawford, uh different location, but a similar kind of thing.
What what were your concerns about that?
My son, Derek, fully believed that everyone has the right to protest and and express their opinion.
But our family very much objects to the fact that, you know, after my son's death, that his name be used in this way, he would never have participated in any sort of an anti-war protest.
And it's our understanding that there is a name on the cross on a cross in Crawford, Texas as well.
Uh, it came up on a website.
Uh, my son was very much in favor of President Bush and the Bush administration, and had great respect for him as commander-in-chief.
Derek was a special escort for Mrs. Bush when she made her trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, and for the president and for the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
And it's just inappropriate not to ask the families.
I don't care about the families.
That's the whole point.
They don't care a whit about the families, folks.
They don't care about Cindy Sheehan's son.
And they don't really care about her.
They care about the opportunity.
They care about the op.
You know who these people are.
They are just plain miserable and unhappy.
They get up every day and they're miserable.
They only make themselves feel good by sharing their misery with others and spreading it around.
They are made to feel good when they make other people feel miserable.
They have to go out and lie, as this woman has pointed out, and appropriate members of their so-called protests that would not choose to be if they had a voice.
And a little side note.
What is this about crosses?
I thought these people were against religious symbols being posted anywhere on public land.
And yet, here they come when they want to bash Bush and want to take the opportunity here to try to move the bar a little bit and gin up anti-war support in America.
Why, what do they do?
They go out and use a bunch of crosses and act like they're religious.
And act like this is solemn.
Well, you put a cross in your yard or you erect a nativity scene in these people's neighborhood, and you see what happens to it.
I mean, the hypocrisy and the the shame here off the charts.
Last night, Christopher Hitchens, this was sort of funny, was a hardball, Nora O'Donnell, she of the bathwater that you probably would drink, uh, was co-hosting for Chris Matthews.
And uh Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, who has written about this the folly of this whole argument that people who lose sons and daughters in war have some sort of moral authority.
He fired both barrels last night.
Howard Feynman was also on the panel along with uh along with Nora O'Donnell, and it was plain, and I we can't show you this because this is audio, but when when when Hitchens launched into some of his his comments about Cindy Sheehan, you could see the blank looks of stunned, shock, and surprise on the faces of Nora O'Donnell and Feynman.
It was like they either they can't believe he's saying this or they didn't know this about Sheehan.
I supposedly assume that it's the latter.
Here's the first question.
Cindy Sheehan been camped outside Bush's ranch now, demanding a meeting with the president saying she won't leave till that happens.
Christopher, you think that this represents or that she represents some sort of tipping point in public opinion in America?
Certainly not.
She's just today lied about the statement that she made several times before to the effect that her son was killed in a war run by a secret Jewish cabal within the administration.
She now says she didn't make that statement.
She did make that statement.
So as well as being a hysterical, paranoid ideologist, or at least being manipulated by people who are turned this into camp fruit bat, camp not back.
She's decided not to have the courage, or maybe the cowardice of her own conviction.
She went, she now says she didn't make a statement that she definitely did.
And you that's the when when they when they talked when Hitchen's mentioned the fact that she's accused a secret Jewish cabal of running the war.
That's when everybody else is on the panel faces fell.
Like, we didn't know that.
We didn't, of course you don't know that.
You're reporters.
You don't know diddly squat.
You reporters couldn't have any less knowledge if you were trying to be ignorant about things.
I don't know where it is you get your information, but it's all over the place.
It's at countless places on the internet, for example, that you apparently never go.
I think news has become something more something nothing other, actually, than a giant gotta watch.
First word is circle.
Second word begins with a J. They're sitting around talking to each other.
They're sitting around trying to impress each other, and they all think the same thing.
They all say the same thing.
They're trying to say it in more creative, different ways, and they're all trying to get to the head of the class by being the one that moves the ball forward.
There's so much out.
That's why they're losing audience.
There's so much news that they don't even know.
They come to the Sheehan story, she's the latest Jersey girl's the latest Bill Burkett.
She is infallible.
She has moral authority.
You can't criticize her.
And of course, nothing she says is to be held against her because she is in the throes of grief.
How dare you, Christopher, say this?
And so what do they do?
They end up embarrassing themselves.
They end up being uninformed, unaware, and more than that, uncaring when they find out that there are some bits of information contradictory to what they are saying.
One more bite.
O'Donnell says, So, you you think there's gonna be a huge backlash against Cindy Sheehan?
Well, I think there should be.
I think our profession should stop acting as a megaphone.
Until I published her real political opinions in Slate yesterday, she had to answer no more questions than how does it feel?
Okay?
I object.
I shouldn't have had to do that.
I said this woman is mouthing the most sinister piffle from Michael Moore and David Duke.
She should be held responsible for what she thinks.
Christopher, what makes you think your pals on the left are gonna do this?
She's too valuable to discredit.
Why doing what you suggest would be to blow her up and to blow up the whole opportunity?
We cause her to flame out.
They can't afford that.
They gotta get Bush somehow.
They've got to move the ball.
They've got to create all this anti-war sentiment.
She's the latest vehicle to do so.
There is a backlash, and it's already happening.
Talked about it yesterday.
And the backlash is being caused by saturation coverage.
The American people are fed up with it.
They don't want to hear it, not in that context.
I'm sure this audience loves hearing all this nuked to smithereens as it should be and put in its proper context and perspective, but they don't want to hear the media's idolatry.
They don't want to hear the media talking about this woman as God's gift to humanity in America and she should run for office.
It's not what the American people want to hear.
The American people don't want us to lose the war in Iraq.
The American people don't want us to be dishonored.
The American people don't think a Jewish cabal is running anything.
The American people don't think this is a war about oil.
If this were a war for oil, you know how easy it would be, ladies and gentlemen, for George Bush to get oil.
We're in Qatar, right?
We got an air basic guitar, and that's where the the uh actual theater of operations being run.
We just claim it.
We just say Qatar is ours.
I'm sorry, cutter, for those of you in the mainstream press.
Cutter is ours.
What what are the what what are the imams and the uh and the and the uh and the and the leaders of uh of Qatar gonna do?
We just take the same in Kuwait.
Hey Kuwait, you know we bailed you out of the fire enough time, we're taking your oil.
And wouldn't have to go to war at all to get it.
It's so patently absurd.
The intellectual absurdity of all these arguments never once analyzed, thought of, or challenged by the people who are indeed acting as the megaphone.
And that's why they're losing their credibility left and right, and that's why, in the face of genuine, legitimate criticism, such as from me or Hitchens, they have to then resort by discrediting the critic, lying about the critic, taking things that the critic didn't said, amplifying them as lies to try to distort the message of truth that is being said.
And it's it's been their line of attack with me for 15 years.
And uh, of course, we'd have to say, based on election results and uh other obvious factors that their effort to nail me has failed every which way from Sunday that they've tried, and it will fail here as it always has in the last, say, 10 to 15 years.
The jig's up for these guys, and they just don't know it.
Uh maybe they do, and they're trying to stop it and forestall it, uh, that which causes them to get even more extreme uh and and just continue to shout the same things, uh, figuring we're too stupid to figure it out, and that's how they cause the backlash.
Quick time out, we'll be back and continue in just a moment.
Rush Limbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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Uh, not only am I a real radio announcer, I am America's anchor man and America's truth detector.
And uh for those of you listening in the last hour of the program yesterday, we had a very moving call from a mother who's lost a son's Debbie at Indianapolis, lost a son in Iraq.
She was responding to this whole shee-han uh uh fiasco.
I'm gonna replay that for you in mere moments.
But before that, just a couple of things.
I have since learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the latest, the the latest uh uh explanation by some on the left for the Sheehan fiasco is hey, so this this is the president's Swift boat moment.
Oh, really?
That's how the left looks at this at payback time?
The Swift boat vets for truth uh to carry this is this is what she handed.
Well, there's a big difference.
The Swift boat vets for truth were telling the truth, and they didn't get one shred of mainstream media coverage.
Cindy Sheehan is so deranged and all over the ballpark that she's been exploited so many ways and so many times she can't remember who she's told what when.
And the mainstream media is simply providing her a megaphone, ignoring what she's saying.
No comparison once again.
You want to talk about smears?
From our good friends of the Associated Press, like many towns across America, the exclusive Lakefront community where Supreme Court nominee John Roberts grew up during the racially turbulent 60s and 70s, once banned the sale of homes to non-whites and Jews, Jews.
Just three miles from the nearly all-white community of Long Beach, two days of looting and vandalism erupted when Roberts was 15, barely intruding on the Mayberry-like community that was largely insulated from the racial strife of that area.
And Jews.
Oh, I get it.
There was another attempt to say that Roberts, there was a story earlier this week that Roberts, he really is doesn't, he doesn't have what it takes to be a Supreme Court justice because his life was too easy.
He hasn't had it hard enough.
And now he lived in an all-white neighborhood.
No blacks, no Jews.
Well, let's see.
Teddy Kennedy grew up in an all-white neighborhood, didn't he?
Hillary Clinton grew up in an all-white neighborhood.
John Kerry grew up in an all-white neighborhood.
How many other prominent Democrats grew up in far better circumstances than Long Beach, California in all white neighborhoods?
And by the way, Clarence Thomas grew up in an all-black neighborhood, and I don't remember him getting any credit for that from the same people who said that John Roberts grew up in a neighborhood with no blacks and Jews.
Jews.
Once again, they can't deal with the substance of John Roberts, folks.
So they have to employ the same type of smear that they use and try against every conservative.
Well, we don't hear about all of the Lily White neighbors of Ted Kennedy.
Or John Kerry or Hillary Clinton.
Or Patrick Lee.
How would Howard Dean?
He was the governor of the whitest state in the country.
Here's the call from Debbie yesterday.
Listen to this.
This is Debbie in Indianapolis, named after Indians, and is the headquarters of the NCAA.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, we come from a super mega Ditto's household.
And when my 13-year-old was born, she said ditto before she could say mom.
I am a mom, by the way, but stand for the future of America.
Absolutely.
I'm a mom, which stands for mother of a marine.
And I'm looking for a bumper sticker that says, your son got an A in college, my son got a purple heart in Iraq.
His vehicle ran over a landmine twice in one day.
And we always we talk about if something was happened to my son, I would never dishonor him.
I'm sorry, I'm going to get emotional at this.
I would never dishonor his actions by doing what this woman's doing.
My son volunteered to join Marines when he was 18 years, one month and 10 days old on September 12th.
He announced he was joining the Marines after he saw the Twin Towers fall.
When his first orders to Iraq were canceled, he told us that Bush better not pull out before I got there.
He knew it was something that needed done.
He's going back for his second tour next month.
What's doing is not only dishonoring her son, she's dishonoring mine.
Uh Debbie, I I can't I can't thank you enough for calling.
Uh, and I I can't thank you enough for uh doing another thing.
Uh you have just spoken for the vast majority of Americans in your call.
You have just echoed exactly what they think.
God bless you.
Thanks so much for the call.
I hope so.
Thank you.
You have trust me on this.
You are far more a voice, a representative voice of the people of this country, than any of the rabble-rousing malcontents that are being given airtime in a failed attempt to destroy the policy by the mainstream press.
Trust me.
It it hurts me that she's sending the message, but it seems like her son died for nothing.
He didn't die for nothing.
He died in the United States Armed Forces.
There is nothing more honorable than that.
These these kids volunteered.
They were not yanked from their cradle by an evil government to send them someplace they didn't want to go.
My son knew on September 12th he was going over.
My son knew what was in store for him, and my son stepped up to the plate.
The caller you had on Monday, he was talking about, gee, how come the senators' kids aren't volunteering if the war's so great?
We're not going to talk about if the war's so great.
Let's talk about these kids who are great who stepped up to the plate and said, you know what?
I need to do something about this.
There's something bigger than me out there.
Exactly right.
Debbie, thank you again.
You just heard it.
Debbie in Indianapolis, the voice of this country.
Hey, you like what you've heard so far?
Sit tight.
We've only just started we haven't even gotten to Able Danger yet, and we haven't gotten to much about John Roberts yet.
We we've still got lots of mountains here to climb and a lot of dragons to slay.
And we'll keep going when we come back.
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