Aug. 23, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| Well, here we are, folks, back and uh and ready to go. | |
| We're loaded for bear. | |
| We're fit for action. | |
| It's the EIB network and Rush Limboy here on the uh Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, a thrill to be with you as always. | |
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| This is so funny today. | |
| It was so predictable. | |
| I've had so far three inquiries from mainstream media outlets, breathlessly wanting to know, are you going to be talking about Pat Robertson? | |
| And if you are, could you tell us when? | |
| Because we would like to roll tape on your comments. | |
| And I said to each of them, no, I'm not going to be talking about Pat Robertson. | |
| You nor anybody else in the mainstream media set the agenda on this program. | |
| It is just flat out amazing. | |
| That's this is they just they are just they just they grasping at straws out there. | |
| Anything they can do to try to discredit all of the right wing or the conservative movement in this country, but I said nope. | |
| As far as I'm concerned, the Pat Robertson story doesn't advance anything. | |
| I don't know what I don't even know what's news about it. | |
| And so you go get somebody else's comments. | |
| In the meantime, President Bush did have some comments about Cindy Sheehan mere moments ago. | |
| He's out there in the Great Northwest. | |
| He's got a speech, he's in Idaho somewhere, has a speech coming up there uh uh tomorrow. | |
| He had a little impromptu meeting with the press corps, and uh this is uh just a s a short segment of some of his comments in which he did reference Cindy Sheehan. | |
| I did meet with Cindy Sheehan. | |
| I strongly uh support her right to protest. | |
| There's a lot of people protesting. | |
| And there's a lot of points of view about uh the Iraq war, as you know, and Crawford last weekend there was people from both sides of the issue or from all sides of the issue, there to express their opinions. | |
| I sent uh Deputy Chief of Staff Hagen and National Security Advisor Hadley to meet with Miss Sheehan early on. | |
| She expressed her opinion. | |
| I disagree with it. | |
| I think immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake. | |
| I think those who advocate immediate withdrawal or from not only Iraq but the Middle East are advocating a policy that would weaken the United States. | |
| So I appreciate her right to protest. | |
| I understand her anguish. | |
| I met with a lot of families. | |
| She doesn't represent the view of a lot of the families I have met with. | |
| And I'll continue to meet with families. | |
| Now, this is long overdue. | |
| I I I have to tell you, and I I've mentioned this to you before on this uh on this program. | |
| David David Frum, let me echo him because he had, I think, a uh wise uh comment that the National Review Online blog yesterday, the corner. | |
| Uh everybody was waiting with bated breath for the president's speech yesterday. | |
| The president went out and uh spoke to the VFW. | |
| Uh and he's got another one coming this week. | |
| And every time he announces, like we we heard that this is going to be uh a major new offensive here and trying to explain the American people the policy in Iraq. | |
| And there's going to be five events upcoming soon uh starting this week. | |
| Well, what that does, it it creates a sort of breathless anticipation. | |
| Ooh, what's he gonna say? | |
| What's he gonna say? | |
| And everybody's looking for something new, and the president doesn't say anything new. | |
| He comes out and repeats what he has been saying. | |
| And I know what the I know what the purpose of that is. | |
| The purpose is drill home. | |
| I've got a plan. | |
| There is a policy, and here it is, and I've told you what it is from day one. | |
| But at the same time, when you announce uh uh five events coming up uh to once again explain the Iraq policy when there's nothing new there, uh it it's it it's greeted in a lot of quarters even by supporters as a whole hummer. | |
| Well, we've heard this before, and the uh you know the the the people that that support the president on this, like anything else, are looking for leadership. | |
| They're looking for uh something to rally around, particularly in response to all this criticism that he's been getting lately. | |
| Uh well, lately, uh forever. | |
| So this little bite on Sheehan today, uh I I think is is is as strong a language or a statement as I've ever heard him make, but it wasn't all that strong when he says, I think those that advocate immediate withdrawal from not only Iraq but the Middle East are advocating a policy that would weaken the U.S. Is there another way to say that? | |
| There is. | |
| There is another way of saying that. | |
| One way of saying that, those who are suggesting we get out are actually advocating for our defeat. | |
| And I'm not going to sit here and tolerate that. | |
| I'm not, I'm not going to preside over another American defeat. | |
| We are here to accomplish our mission and win it. | |
| I wish he would say things like that. | |
| I really do. | |
| He I I don't think people have an idea of just how much that would rally this country if he were to actually say things like, but he's he's just very, very cautious, and he's got this uh the this this pattern about him that he's he's uh he he doesn't want to be the one that is accused of rabble rousing. | |
| But let me let me take the occasion of this, because that that's as close as he's gonna get to saying what what what he actually said. | |
| Uh and he was also pretty pretty hard on Sihan, and I disagree with her. | |
| I understand her anguish. | |
| I met with a lot of uh families that she doesn't represent the view of. | |
| Uh is there another way of saying that? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, there she's one woman. | |
| She's one woman. | |
| And by the way, can I tell you something? | |
| Do you know you know what the best evidence, if I may make a brief digression here for a moment. | |
| Do you know what the best evidence is that the Sheehan thing is backfiring on the left? | |
| What is the mantra? | |
| Now the mantras, well, this is a sheehan's not the story. | |
| She, you mean Pat Robertson, Cindy Sheehan is saying some of the most outrageous things, and so are her supporters. | |
| And of course, they're not questioned. | |
| We have had people on radio in this country advocate the assassination of George W. Bush. | |
| It was greeted with a yawn and a ho-hum. | |
| We have had some of the most outrageous things said about Bush and about other Americans by the left on this uh in this country, and it just is totally ignored. | |
| And the thing, same thing is happening with Sheehan now. | |
| She is saying just some some things that are indefensible, and the left doesn't even try to defend them. | |
| Their mantra now, well, the story is not about Cindy Sheehan. | |
| This story is about George W. Bush. | |
| Frank Rich had a pathetic piece Sunday in the New York Times, and the ferret like Paul Krugman uh advanced the same notion. | |
| It's becoming a mantra out there. | |
| I mean, it really is. | |
| Well, the story's not about Sheehan, because I said the other day, you know, all you people interested in what everybody else is saying about Sheehan, why don't we examine what she's saying? | |
| You know, she's saying some absolutely asinine, ridiculous, indefensible things. | |
| Well, we'll Sunday Sheehan is not really a story. | |
| George W. Bush is a story. | |
| Classic, classic example of how things are backfiring on these people, and they're not gaining the ground on it that they wish they were. | |
| And so the president comes out today. | |
| I would have loved a little bit more uh forcefulness, I would have loved something a little bit more direct, such as, I am not going to preside over the defeat of this country. | |
| The people who are siding with Cindy Sheehan are advocating for the defeat of this country. | |
| There's a what was it want to make us weaker? | |
| What's the difference? | |
| Would weaken us? | |
| What's what's the difference? | |
| There's not much of a difference. | |
| And if he would say something like that, which I know, I know he's not gonna do, but if he did, folks, it would be such a rallying point and rally and cry that you you um you you wouldn't believe it because you know the president can have all the surrogates he wants out there. | |
| The president could have all the supporters saying X and saying Y and saying Z, but if he were to say one of these things, some of these things now and again, uh it it would um it'd go go a long way. | |
| But it leads me back what I what I interrupted myself saying, and when I digressed, uh all of these, all of these uh uh moments in the past where we have questioned the left and its uh its desire to see us victorious. | |
| Uh and the left always says, are you attacking my patriotism? | |
| You are attacking my patriotism, you can't attack my patriotism, and everybody's always backed down. | |
| And everybody's always said, no, no, no, no, I'm not attacking your patriotism. | |
| I'm questioning your judgment. | |
| Well, I think we it's time to stop dancing around this issue, folks, to tell you the truth. | |
| It's time for somebody to tell the people on the left, you damn right were questioning your patriotism. | |
| Quick time out, we'll be back after this. | |
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| Hi, welcome back. | |
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| Checking the email here during the break. | |
| Well, what are you what do you mean these people are now saying that the uh the this the story is not Cindy Sheehan, but that it is it is Bush. | |
| All right, let me give you some quotes. | |
| Cindy Sheehan actually sent a she posted on a website a message to Matt Drudge. | |
| Matt Drudge has been, you know, Matt Drudge has quoted some of the outrageous crazy things that Cindy Sheehan has said uh earlier this year, back in April in San Francisco. | |
| And uh and she she writes to Drudge, and she says that she's not the issue. | |
| That the disastrous war that's killing our sons and daughters is the issue. | |
| All right, there's number one, Frank Rich, as I mentioned on Sunday in the New York Times. | |
| The public knows that what matters this time is Casey Sheehan's story, not the mother who symbolizes it. | |
| And then the ferret like Paul Krugman was on ABC's This Week round table yesterday, and he said, And you know, this is not about Cindy Sheehan. | |
| This this is about what happens to the Bush narrative. | |
| So all of a sudden, she and her left-wing buddies are all insisting she's not the story, but you can't if if it the only way they can say that, or the only way they want to say it is if it's backfiring. | |
| Uh the if if if it it's anything and everything but Cindy Sheehan and what she has said, they're just trying to run away from that as fast as they can, because they understand that the vicious rhetoric that she and her friends have used is coming back to bite them in a big way. | |
| And so, no, this has never been about Cindy Sheehan. | |
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| This is about Bush. | |
| This is about Casey Sheehan. | |
| This is whatever else it is. | |
| It's not about Cindy Sheehan, uh, which means they don't want the attention focused on her. | |
| And they don't want to have to go to the trouble of uh of defending it. | |
| Now, let me let me extrapolate a little bit on this this whole question. | |
| You know it's been asked, and you know that it has been talked about. | |
| Uh somebody will say something that's uh uh offensive to a liberal and a liberal will fire, you challenging my patriotism. | |
| No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| Nobody's challenging your patriotism. | |
| We are just questioning your judgment. | |
| Well, you know, with what the president had to say today out in uh in Idaho, where he said uh those who advocate Cindy Sheehan's position advocate the weakening of America. | |
| That's if you it's hard to say that wanting to make this country weak is patriotic, is it not? | |
| Maybe it's time we stop dancing around the issue. | |
| Maybe it's time somebody says, yeah, yeah, we are questioning your patriotism. | |
| But don't get me wrong. | |
| You you have the right speaker mind. | |
| Remember, these people have had to redefine patriotism recently. | |
| Hillary Clinton defines patriotism these days as having the courage to speak out and criticize the president. | |
| That is their new definition of patriotism. | |
| Among others. | |
| You you people on the left can speak your mind all day long, but I'm going to question the workings of your mind as long as you speak. | |
| You have a right to come up with clever lines like I support the troops, but not the war. | |
| But we have the right to tell you that those are trick lines created by professional propagandist, not by your gut feeling. | |
| And the reason we know it's not a gut feeling is because once it's articulated, your whole movement then picks it up. | |
| It's nothing more than the latest facts talking points from whoever dreams up this stuff. | |
| You even have the right to attack the senseless phrase and use the senseless phrase the Bush attack machine. | |
| But you don't realize it's not Bush on the attack, it's your crowd. | |
| You are the machine attacking Bush, and there are people who are coming to Bush's defense. | |
| But the defense does not start things. | |
| Your offensive attack does. | |
| I mean, is there any more vicious attack machine, more ferocious than the New York Times? | |
| You got Maureen Dowd, you got Paul Krugman, the ferret-like uh columnist, you have Frank Rich. | |
| Uh, you've got the editorial page, and even worse, you've got the main news pages. | |
| And then you've got Al Reuters, Then you have Al Jazeera, and you have Al CNN, and then you have all MSNBC, you have all CNBC. | |
| I mean, is is it is it any wonder that is there is there any attack machine more ferocious than the New York Times-led mainstream media? | |
| What what what rogue? | |
| What what scoundrel came up with the ridiculous line? | |
| Uh, tell the truth, Mr. President, all the news is not Rosie in Iraq. | |
| Who comes up with these lines? | |
| Tell the truth, Mr. President, all the news is not Rosie in Iraq. | |
| Well, I've heard Joe Biden use it. | |
| Of course, when Biden uses it, then it becomes uh, you know, fair game, and a lot of people on the left start using it. | |
| But may I ask a question? | |
| Just where is all that good news that we're being flooded with? | |
| When they say, tell the truth, Mr. President, all the news is not rosy in Iraq, would somebody tell me where the good news is? | |
| Can you name for me a war hero? | |
| Can you name for me a successful mission? | |
| Can you name for me an inspirational act of courage or a noble actor, a good deed that has taken place in Iraq? | |
| Just one that the mainstream media has reported on. | |
| Can you list any of the many signs of progress in country after country in the Middle East? | |
| You cannot. | |
| Because they are not reported. | |
| So where is this good news? | |
| Now, the mainstream media, I, you know, I don't question their patriotism either, has come up with a phrase. | |
| And the mainstream media's phrase is if it bleeds, it leads. | |
| Isn't that clever? | |
| They report bad news only, they'd explain it away with a slogan, if it bleeds, it leads. | |
| And if you listen to that, you hear what they're saying, not the phrase, the words. | |
| If it bleeds, it leads. | |
| Oh, we can only report bad news. | |
| Why? | |
| Well, we live by a law, a law set in concrete, a law more powerful than the Constitution. | |
| If it bleeds, it leads. | |
| All right, fine. | |
| Well, let's move on. | |
| You can't question what we do. | |
| We're the mainstream press, and we set the agenda here. | |
| Now, if this if this sounds contemptuous of the anti-war left, uh, you are misreading me a bit. | |
| I don't really feel anger. | |
| I feel sympathy. | |
| I I can I can believe in my country and I can believe in my president and the mission, and they can't. | |
| You know, I'd rather be me. | |
| I'd rather be on my side of this than I I ask this question every day. | |
| What must it be like for these people to get up every day and say, every waking hour ahead of me today, I will be spending in misery. | |
| And every waking hour today that I am in misery, I'm going to try to make as many other people miserable as I can. | |
| Because I am not happy, and I am not, I don't have any prospects of being happy. | |
| I'm an outcast, I'm a lost soul, I can't find a place in my country where I fit in, and so I'm gonna blame everybody else for it. | |
| And so trying to get noticed and trying to be relevant and trying to matter, we all want to matter. | |
| We all want to think our lives have some purpose. | |
| We all want to think our lives are meaningful, we decide to do that which calls attention to ourselves, and in this day and age, go out and write a book suggesting that President Bush should be assassinated. | |
| You will be praised as someone who engaged in a great literary effort that we should all learn from. | |
| Go out and produce a phony propaganda movie, and everybody will think, oh, this is a guy that we should have been listening to, and you will get some attention that you've been craving all your life that your mother may never have given you, I don't know what is the reason for it. | |
| But nevertheless, once you get the attention that you crave uh by saying things that the uh the attack media uh wants to hear, then you become um uh in your own mind important and relevant, and then thus you end up being exploited. | |
| And so when you start suggesting policies or outcomes that would result in the defeat of our country, and then people question your patriotism, and you say how dare you question my patriotism. | |
| Well, you know, there are people who are gonna start questioning your patriotism. | |
| And it's about time, and not your definition of patriotism. | |
| You can redefine all these terms so that you are exempt from the original meaning. | |
| You start saying, well, you know, they were patriotism, that's the precious right to dissent. | |
| I am being patriotic, I am criticizing my government, I'm criticizing my president, because that's what the founding fathers did. | |
| Why they criticized the king And they criticized Great Britain, and they found for themselves what they want. | |
| Yeah, but the all this falls apart is that you people have absolutely zilch in common with the founding fathers. | |
| The founding fathers were builders. | |
| The founding fathers were constructed. | |
| The founding fathers were people with a vision for the betterment of all. | |
| You have nothing in common with the founding fathers. | |
| You have more in common with Ramsey Clark and the rest of the gee we hate America crowd than you'll ever have with the Founding Fathers. | |
| And yet you want your actions to be considered patriotic, and you don't want to be criticized for not being patriotic. | |
| And of course, so everybody can be politically correct. | |
| I'm not questioning your patriotism. | |
| I'm really not. | |
| I mean I'm just questioning your judgment. | |
| Well, time to take off the gloves. | |
| It is time to start honestly considering the patriotism of some of those on the American left. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| That's right, my friends. | |
| More fun than a human being should be allowed to have. | |
| All right. | |
| For the longest time I have been listening to the mainstream press and their allies on the left demand that George W. Bush apologize. | |
| Apologize for anything. | |
| Apologize for a mistake, apologize for the war, apologize for this, apologize for that. | |
| Now we have families of the war dead massing in a ditch in Crawford, Texas, demanding that Bush apologize and demand that Bush pull out of Iraq and demanding that Bush take action will guarantee that we lose this conflict. | |
| For all of you families of war dead who are angry at George W. Bush, let me tell you who you ought to be demanding, apologize to you, and that is President Bill Clinton. | |
| President Bill Clinton, his complete and utter failure to take out Osama bin Laden when he had three opportunities. | |
| His complete and utter failure to even take terrorism seriously during his administration. | |
| His complete and utter failure to deal with Saddam Hussein back in 1998, when he was sounding the identical warning bells of weapons of mass destruction that we heard from George W. Bush shortly after September 11th, 2001. | |
| If you want an apology from anyone, and if this country is gonna waste its time asking for apologies all over the place, let's start with President Bill Clinton, because he left a mess for George W. Bush to inherit. | |
| And George W. Bush has had the guts to do something about it, whereas the previous administration didn't have the guts to do anything about anything serious. | |
| You have all these politicians on television now, like Hegel and Biden, who also want us to cut and run. | |
| They voted to go to war. | |
| Now they complain about every aspect of the war as they follow the polls and calculate how to work the media to their presumed political advantage. | |
| It's not an accident that both Hegel and Biden want to be president and both hope to use this war and their effort to tear down our progress to propel themselves into the White House. | |
| But their motives are never questioned. | |
| Cindy Sheehan's motives are never questioned. | |
| None of the critics of the war and their motives are ever questioned. | |
| They're treated as honest and objective third parties, wanting what's best for the nation as they as they advance themselves by undermining the president and yes, our armed forces. | |
| That's exactly what's going on here. | |
| No critical questions, no critical analysis is ever aimed at any of these critics. | |
| They are treated as honest and objective third parties. | |
| If we need more troops in Iraq than Hegel and Biden should have introduced legislation years ago authorizing increased levels of recruitment. | |
| And troops. | |
| If we need more troops, where is the leadership? | |
| They're in the Senate. | |
| If they really believe this, then take action that will allow us to recruit more and send more over to Iraq. | |
| If there wasn't enough armor, they should have used their positions in the Senate to ensure that there was. | |
| Don't these senators have responsibility for anything? | |
| Are they just potted plants? | |
| They just sitting around, get to react to whatever without ever having To take any action so that they can't be criticized. | |
| All they are is on the armchair and air quarterbacks, and they're using 2020 hindsight. | |
| And as long as their criticism is aimed at the war effort and aimed at the president, why look at the credibility that they are given? | |
| They determine budgets, though, folks. | |
| They determine tax levels. | |
| They determine spending. | |
| It is Congress that determines all of this. | |
| The president hasn't vetoed what they wanted one time. | |
| There hasn't been one presidential veto. | |
| Whatever these guys want when it comes to tax levels or spending or budgets or pork, they get it. | |
| And somehow it always ends up at the feet of George W. Bush. | |
| The president can make recommendations. | |
| He can sign bills or veto them, but they are supposed to present him with the legislation and they have. | |
| Any bum off the street can comment after the fact or embrace and exploit some setback in any armed conflict. | |
| Washington, Lincoln, FDR, they all had their detractors. | |
| They all had their Hegels and they all had their Bidens, but you don't remember them because history dismisses them as the irrelevant naysayers that they are. | |
| You will not go find in the library great war protesters in American history. | |
| You will find in the library great American victories and the generals who engineered them. | |
| You will not find books written as testaments to the greatness of people like Hegel, nor Biden, nor any of these other little chihuahuas yipping at the heels of the one man with the guts to try to do something about it, inheriting a mess left over from a douth knew nothing administration for eight years, which is focused solely on orgies and good times, disguised as state dinners at the White House. | |
| And in the end, the same thing is going to happen here. | |
| Let me give you a name. | |
| You remember George McClellan? | |
| General George McClellan. | |
| He never had enough troops. | |
| He never had enough equipment. | |
| No situation was ever the right situation to attack Lee and the Confederacy. | |
| He was always complaining. | |
| He didn't have what it took, so Lincoln finally said, You're out of here, buddy. | |
| He canned him. | |
| That's what we have in these politicians today. | |
| They're all McClellans. | |
| None of them are Lincolns. | |
| None of them have the guts to say, this is what I've got, this is my mission, and I'm going to go with it. | |
| We can't count on these people during dire times if our lives depended on it because we know who they are. | |
| They're the ones identifying themselves. | |
| Now McClellan, for a time, was extremely popular after Lincoln canned him. | |
| He was nominated by the Democrat Party to run for president. | |
| And for much of the campaign, Lincoln was the underdog and was expected to actually lose. | |
| McClellan did win his home state of New Jersey and almost won New York and Connecticut. | |
| Lincoln and the Union suffered some very serious military setbacks. | |
| You want to go look at a tough war. | |
| You want to go look at a war that we almost lost, and everybody go look at the civil war for crying out loud. | |
| Where's everybody's historical perspective? | |
| There were draft riots in New York City. | |
| Lincoln was accused of being a dictator by some when he suspended the writ of habeas corpus. | |
| Only Congress can do that under the Constitution, but Lincoln did it. | |
| He locked up some Maryland legislators who were sympathetic to the South. | |
| He even deported an Ohio Congressman who was running for governor of Ohio because he had given a speech sympathetic to the Confederacy. | |
| Lincoln did all this. | |
| What would they say of Lincoln today? | |
| Fascist Nazi, there'd be books on how to assassinate Lincoln, and guess what? | |
| He was. | |
| Of course, now what do we have? | |
| We have Bush being accused of undermining our civil liberties. | |
| And of course, Bush has done none of this. | |
| Bush is timid. | |
| Bush is such an unlikely recipient of some of the hateful, mean-spirited criticism that it's hard psychologically to understand it. | |
| He's not even close to one of these people that undermines our civil liberties. | |
| The point is, folks, that you need some historical context for what's going on. | |
| Politicians and critics like Hegel and Biden pop up at and McCain now and then, not on the war, but other things. | |
| They pop at every major turning point in our history, and they are in the end irrelevant. | |
| They are forgotten. | |
| And if they run for president, Hegel or Biden, they're gonna lose big. | |
| They won't even get out of the primaries. | |
| It's just it's it's it's a pattern. | |
| It's a pattern that's repeated constantly in American history. | |
| The journalists, the Media just as result motivated as these politicians are. | |
| Their idea of reporting today is to run to the scene of an accident, or in this case a car bomb. | |
| The uh they're attracted to the sound of explosions the way bees are attracted to honey. | |
| And you have to ask yourself, if what they're reporting is accurate, the daily mayhem and all these casualties, then why do the Iraqi people stand for it? | |
| Why hasn't the population risen up and turned on our forces? | |
| Why hasn't the civil war erupted? | |
| I mentioned all this yesterday to you. | |
| If the terrorists are having such a grand time, if the insurgency is so successful, where, my friends, are the average Iraqis joining them? | |
| Where is the insurgency growing bigger and bigger? | |
| The insurgency, in fact, has to supply itself from Syria and Iran. | |
| It can't count on Native Iraqis. | |
| These are not native Iraqis. | |
| And the Native Iraqis are busy trying to come up with a constitution, and that's even being impugned. | |
| And the media celebrating every delay as though it's a moment of failure. | |
| And then they ask us, how dare you question our patriotism? | |
| What is it about American policy you so oppose that you seek its defeat? | |
| What is it about the reality of things on the ground in Iraq that you cannot see? | |
| The Iraqis are not joining against us. | |
| The Iraqis are with us. | |
| The Iraqis are not signing up with the insurgency. | |
| And the insurgency is not winning in Iraq. | |
| The only place the insurgency, the terrorists are winning, is in this country with the American left and with the American media. | |
| Why do all these Iraqis vote? | |
| Why have hundreds of thousands of Iraqis joined the Iraqi military and the police forces? | |
| Iraq is a country of 25 million people. | |
| It's about the land mass of California. | |
| We are not getting a true picture of what's happening there. | |
| We're getting a picture of what the liberal media wants us to see. | |
| And we have a right here. | |
| We have a right to ask these media corporations and conglomerates what standards they use to report a story. | |
| What are their objectives? | |
| How do they determine what is or is not news? | |
| How do they determine who will report these stories? | |
| Do these reporters even have the backgrounds or experience to tell us anything? | |
| Who cares what Pat Robertson says? | |
| Somebody tell me what that relates to at all in terms of what's going on now, except in terms of the mainstream press and their desire to discredit anybody and any way they can the entire conservative movement because they are scared to death of it. | |
| Because the conservative movement has upset their apple cart and destroyed their monopoly. | |
| Well, they don't set the agenda on this program because I don't trust their reporting. | |
| I know what their objectives are. | |
| I know how they determine what is or is not news. | |
| I know how they determine who will report these stories. | |
| And I know that they have not the backgrounds or experiences to be telling us anything, nor preaching to us from this vaunted position of perfection and morality. | |
| They don't have the experiences nor the character to tell everybody else how to live their lives, whose quality and who isn't. | |
| And yet they've set themselves up as the arbiters of all of this. | |
| But I remind you of this funny as hell story of the newspaper editor over in western Florida, someplace, I think is Tampa, but I can't recall, who received all these emails from readers upset that the newspaper wasn't reporting any of the good news in Iraq. | |
| And so she called the AP because they got all their Iraq news from the AP. | |
| So she called the AP president. | |
| What's going on? | |
| I've got I've got emails here that say 3100 schools have opened it. | |
| So is this true? | |
| A reporter asking another reporter if something is true. | |
| A reporter sitting behind a desk, calling another reporter sitting behind a desk, asking if something is true. | |
| I thought reporters didn't sit behind desks. | |
| I thought reporters went out there and found out what was going on so they could tell others who weren't there what happened. | |
| But no, that is not what happens. | |
| Every story has its its premise and its conclusion written before it is ever undertaken. | |
| Particularly when it comes to the story of the Iraq war. | |
| My point is the light of truth and scrutiny needs to shine on the mainstream media as well as they are the self-appointed editors of current events. | |
| Since they have set themselves up as the arbiter of what's current and what's not and what's relevant and what's not and what's news and what's not, then we need to know who these people are. | |
| We need to know what their backgrounds are. | |
| Where do they come from? | |
| What gives them this lofted perch? | |
| What earned it for them? | |
| Simply being hired. | |
| Fact of the matter is, and is becoming more and more obvious every day, the mainstream media appears to be little more than the national inquirer, always looking for the most sensational events, always looking for the most outrageous, whether it has anything to do with the truth or not. | |
| They are looking for the larger story, and if something that pops up contradicts the agenda, it is ignored. | |
| Over 1,800 brave men and women have lost their lives in Iraq. | |
| The nation knows the name of only one of the parents. | |
| Cindy Sheehan. | |
| I ask you what kind of reporting is that. | |
| Over 1,800 brave men and women have lost their lives, and the people of the United States know the name of one parent. | |
| Cindy Sheehan. | |
| Quick timeout. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Let's grab some phone calls here, my friends, while I chill out for a moment. | |
| San Angelo, Texas. | |
| You gotta be going there to get there. | |
| Otherwise you'll never find it. | |
| Russ, welcome to the program. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Rush, you are so on target today, it's not even funny. | |
| I'm on target every day, but I appreciate your comment. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Well, as a uh son and grandson of a World War I and World War II vet and a veteran myself, my son serving in Iraq. | |
| I tell you, we really get the impression that conservatives root for America and the military, regardless, who's in charge. | |
| Liberals only seem to root for America and the military when a Democrat's in charge. | |
| An example I give you is Bill Clinton. | |
| You know, conservatives rooted for us, you know, in Bosnia. | |
| Uh, we're in Mogadishu. | |
| But I tell you, when the tables return the conservatives are in charge of the country, liberals will root against us in a heartbeat if it means for them. | |
| That is exactly right. | |
| Every one of these leftists are running out there saying, hey, we support the troops, but not the mission. | |
| You notice those on the right, we never have to come up with these sorry little silly phrases to excuse what we're saying that we mean. | |
| For example, during Bosnia, we never criticize the troops. | |
| We didn't we didn't hope for defeat in Bosnia, and we certainly didn't hope for defeat in Mogadishu. | |
| We hoped that Bill Clinton was serious in 1998 when he finally was going to deal with bin Laden. | |
| He wasn't serious. | |
| When the left is running wars, it's bad enough as it is. | |
| But when that's happening, they don't have to worry about a lack of support from conservatives. | |
| They don't have to worry about conservatives running around protesting and trying to undermine the policy of the United States of America. | |
| That's an excellent point out there, Russ. | |
| Go to LaCrosse, Wisconsin. | |
| Hello, Mike, your next. | |
| Welcome. | |
| Nice to have you. | |
| Hey Rush, how's it going? | |
| Good, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um, I uh September 12th, I signed up for the Marine Corps after September 11th, and uh went over there February 2003 all the way to September. | |
| And for us to pull out, for these people who are concerned about the people who passed away, for us to pull out is a total disrespect in what they fought for, what they believed in, and what true Americans wanted. | |
| If we were to back down during the war 1812, World War I, World War II word America be now. | |
| All right, well, let me ask you a question, folks, about this, because I think Mike is on to something here. | |
| He's an Iraq veteran, and the president said this the other day. | |
| If we pull out without accomplishing a mission, uh the uh efforts of all those who have died become worthless and are not honored. | |
| Um, and the the left's the left still advocates us doing this. | |
| Um perhaps it is that the left would like the military dishonored. | |
| I have said on this program long ago, I've said it many times, that the left in this country actually enjoys military defeats. | |
| Because it allows them to then say, see, the military and the military-industrial complex is not the answer to peace. | |
| It's not the way to accomplish things and get things done. | |
| They're not at all disappointed with military defeats, and I know this will offend them and outrage them simply because it's the truth. | |
| You're not supposed to tell the truth about these people, otherwise you're guilty of attacking them. | |
| The fact of the matter is it is the truth, and you have to ask yourself why. | |
| Well, we know why, because they tell us in so many other things that they say. | |
| They do consider the military the focus of evil of the modern world. | |
| When these people say, why? | |
| Why are we doing to cause these terrorist attacks? | |
| They already think it's our fault. | |
| So any time the military takes it on the chin, uh there's not all that much sadness on the left, and maybe some of just the opposite. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Well the libs are coming out of the woodwork lining up to um uh try to respond to what I said I knew that'd be the case. | |
| We can flush these people out, folks, without very much effort. |
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