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Aug. 24, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
It's a media orgasm out there, folks.
It's a media orgasm.
Cindy Sheehan says she's coming back.
Oh yes.
But I have such great news for you on that and this whole business of the anti-war left.
I've been trying to tell you for the longest time it's going to hurt them.
And they are starting to realize that that's the case.
And how have I told you it's going to hurt them?
Because it's going to fracture the Democrat Party.
And one of the biggest potential victims of this is going to be Hillary Clinton.
You just sit there and I'm going to splain all this.
Greetings and welcome, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Tremendous to have you with us.
Here we are in the middle of the week, Wednesday at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We'll be here uh on the Ditto Camp for all three hours today.
It's up and running at uh at Rush Limbaugh.com.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
Before I get into the heavyweight stuff today, I got some lighthearted things that I well, I mean it's not totally lighthearted, but still I want to I want to run them by you and mention them to you.
It's sort of uh uh some of them border on f well what one of them just hilariously funny.
Uh the others uh have mild uh elements of humor.
But first off, it's hurricane.
It's headed here.
I just want to tell you what our plan is.
This hurry keep moving this forecast track south of uh of where we are here at the EIB Southern Command, the original forecast track, and this thing only sprung up yesterday.
It's the remnants of an old tropical depression way, way out there in the uh in the Atlantic that dissipated and somehow it's reformed out there in the Bahamas.
And uh their latest forecast has it striking coast, the Florida, Southern Florida, as a hurricane category one.
And if I looking at the forecast track right, and this is just a forecast, the uh point of impact will be a little bit south of Fort Lauderdale.
Uh, but that's just the forecast track.
Uh mostly a rain event, Mr. Snerdley, anywhere from five to fifteen inches of rain, depending on where you are in South Florida, uh because they say it could stall out over the peninsula before it heads on out to the uh the Gulf of Mexico.
Uh now normally uh ladies and gentlemen, when hurricanes uh are inbound to the EIB Southern Command, we decamp.
But uh uh we are not decamping.
This program will occur here on Friday.
Uh coming in for the staff is optional, but I will be here.
Uh well I I what it was I'm gonna be here.
I've all I've wanted, you know, I have decamped each time one of these things came, and uh and and I I want to stay here.
You know, I want to see one of these things.
I'm perfectly prepared for it.
We are we are uh uh prepared in any number of ways here.
At the uh what's that?
New York well, New York's prepared.
They'll be there, of course, uh as far away from it as you can possibly get and still be on the East Coast.
Uh easy for you to say up in New York that you'll be prepared.
But anyway, I I I I this this thing is uh there I tell the this this turn to the west of this hurricane is all dependent on the Bermuda High filling in.
There's a there's a there's a ridge of uh of high pressure that will steer a hurricane, you know, high pressure will overcome a low.
And there's a ridge of high pressure coming down the east coast, if you will.
It's got a weak area in it uh right now.
And if that weak area didn't get filled, this hurricane would just go on its current track and hit Jacksonville or something.
But they're expecting that ridge to fill in with additional high pressure, which but uh between now and tomorrow is gonna steer this thing almost due west.
And when it starts that turn west, if it does, uh then we'll have a better idea where on the South Florida Peninsula it's gonna impact.
But looks like it's gonna be mainly a uh uh a rain event.
The winds uh look to forecast the max winds uh uh gusting perhaps the 65 or uh or 70.
That's uh that's nothing.
That's all.
That's nothing.
That's that's all I'm episode of hanging in here and be tough.
Uh it'd be cool to be on the radio during a hurricane.
I cause hurricanes every day in the left anyway.
Why not be on the air in one while um while causing one at the same time?
So that's the uh that is the uh the the plan here.
Now, a couple other l little items here before we before we move on.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, uh, offered uh yesterday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
Um the the ever thoughtful and compassionate Marxist said we want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States.
He said this while on the uh the end of a visit to the communist paradise of Cuba, where everybody has health care and everybody gets educated.
Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing gasoline to only poor people.
The Venezuelan State Oil Company owns SitGo, which has 14,000 gas stations in the U.S. You could it could just give it away there.
I mean, you could just just uh you know, it's okay if go to a sit go station and your gas is free, long as you can prove you're poor.
Minor detail.
Uh the minor little detail.
The offer may sound attractive to Americans, it says here.
This is a Reuters story, All Reuters, uh, may sound attractive to Americans feeling pinched by soaring prices at the pump, but not to the U.S. government, which sees Chavez as a left-wing troublemaker in uh in Latin America.
Chavez and Castro all get this.
Chavez and Castro also offered to give poor Americans free health care and to train doctors free of charge.
And and uh, and and of course, CNN's excited about this, and uh we'll probably make this a cause celeb.
Here's a story.
This this is a classic example of how you have to be able to read the stitches on the fastball to be me.
Classic example of how you got to be able to read between the lines, folks.
Here's an ordinary news story that probably is not going to appear in too many papers.
It's an obituary, it's pretty dull and boring, but when you realize what's left out of this, you realize how the media works.
It's an AP story from Los Angeles.
Jack Herzig, a lawyer who played an instrumental role in gaining redress from the U.S. for the World War II internment of Japanese Americans has died.
He was 83.
His son-in-law says that Herzig died Sunday in Gardina, California from colon cancer.
Between 1942 and 1945, the federal government in turned more than 120,000 ethnic Japanese, most of whom were born in the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court, the 1944 case of uh Fred Y. Koromatsu versus the U.S. upheld the constitutionality of the decision to imprison Japanese Americans during the war.
Kormatsu had refused to report to an internment camp.
He was arrested, he was convicted of violating the order, and was sent to a camp in Utah.
Herzig and his wife, uh Eiko Yoshinaga Herzig in the 1980s uncovered documents in the National Archives and other repositories that showed government prosecutors suppressed, altered, and destroyed evidence during its prosecution of Koromatsu.
Okay, that's the story.
What's missing here?
Well, let's see.
Let's go in order.
Notice that nowhere in the news article do they mention that it was FDR that ordered the internments.
It says here between 42 and 45, the federal government.
Normally, if they were to be consistent, it would say the Roosevelt administration, in turned, more than blah, blah, blah.
And then it says here, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction.
Well, two things about this.
The governor of California at the time of the internment camps was none other than Earl Warren.
And the Supreme Court upheld all of it.
Three liberal icons and institutions did this.
Earl Warren, FDR, and the Supreme Court.
Three liberal icons and institutions responsible for the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps.
And nowhere in this story is that mentioned.
Now, years from now, when we are reading about Abu Ghrab and Gitmo, Club Gitmo, they will still be referring to the Bush administration and all the other names that they want to blame for this.
And finally, the NCAA has relented.
They will allow Florida State to use the Seminole's nickname in postseason play, removing the scrual from a list of those with American Indian nicknames that were restricted by a decision of the NCAA earlier this month.
They said at the NCAA they were going to recognize the relationship that Florida States long enjoyed with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which supports the university's use of the name.
Bernard Franklin, senior VP, NCAA in a statement said the staff review committee noted the unique relationship between the university and the Seminole Tribe of Florida as a significant factor.
The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe regarding when and how its name and imagery can be used must be respected even when others may not agree, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So they've relented here in one case.
This is not going to please the Oklahoma Seminole tribe, which is very upset about this.
But they've relented here in one case, which will open the floodgates for other schools to uh seek similar redress.
All right.
Also, later on today, we have audio of this.
A physician in Rochester.
Physician in Rochester is outraged at being called on the carpet for telling a patient she was obese and needed to lose weight.
The doctor's name's Dr. Terry Bennett.
And uh he says the complaint that the woman uh was insulted by ad his advice is baseless.
This guy has been called before Board of Medical Review for telling a patient she was obese and needed to lose weight.
We'll have the details.
Oh, yes, folks, it has the potential to be one of those kinds of days.
We also have a new uh move on.org, George Soros add about Cindy Sheehan.
All this coming up uh in mere moments.
Sit tight.
Cindy Sheehan had to leave Texas.
But you can remember Cindy with a limited edition commemorative plate.
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How far will George W. Bush go in pursuit of Iraqi oil?
All the way.
Bush coordinated the 9-11 attack with bin Laden to create a pretext to invade Iraq.
Iraq.
Bush murdered Sheehan's son Casey to create a distraction from his real pursuit, Iraqi oil.
And right now, George Bush is building an internment camp in Iraq.
The size of Sacramento.
Just so he can deport all the citizens of Vacoville, California to Iraq, starting with Cindy Sheehan.
So if you want to stop George Bush from going all the way, sell your house and donate now to Moveon.org.
That far by George Soros and Gullible Friends of Cindy Sheehan.
To add insult to injury, Bush is meeting with military families today.
But not Cindy Sheehan.
As he said yesterday, if following her advice, the country will get weaker.
We will weaken our position.
We dealt with that all yesterday.
All right, now, folks, listen up here.
Um I I uh I don't go to great lengths to stay optimistic because I'm naturally that way.
But I do sometimes get frustrated at the doom and gloom fatalism that I am confronted with on a daily basis here.
Uh, not only in the mainstream media, but sometimes in people who call who go wobbling get weak need.
I understand it, uh, but it's it's just all the more important uh to to stay upbeaten positive throughout this whole Cindy Sheehan business.
And throughout the whole anti-war movement, and through going back to the 9-11 Commission, all the whole the whole campaign year of 2004.
I made the statement to you on a number of occasions, uh, much of different ways, uh, to a bunch of different and varying degrees, that all this was hurting the Democrats.
That the Democrats don't have any sort of a plan.
They are obsessed with seething, hatred, and rage.
It doesn't get anybody anywhere.
It causes you to be irrational.
You remember all this.
In fact, last night, last night I I had uh dinner with some friends, and one of them happens to be uh uh educated and and and informed And a very, very intelligent woman.
But you bring up the subject of Bush, and it it's amazing the transformation takes place.
And I I conduct little test last night.
I said, I said, so and so.
I want to really help you out here.
Because all it took was just mentioning Sheehan's name, and here came, you know, a never-ending litany of hatred things for Bush.
So I said, let me try to help you out here.
Do you understand something?
Bush is not on the ballot.
Bush is not running for anything anymore.
I don't care.
I hate this man.
I want him impeached.
I want him destroyed.
I said, do you care more about that than you do winning elections?
I don't care about winning election.
We've got to do something.
He stole the election in 2000.
He was appointed president in 2000.
It's horrible.
He's got the debold election machines up there and all.
And she even thinks that Catherine Harris is on the board of D Bold now.
I I I kid you not this is an upper crust, stylish, educated woman.
Now I am telling you.
This this these are these people.
I was sitting there trying to help her out, get trying to get her focused on hey, if you want to really get power back, and if you want to run the show, forget Bush.
He has nothing to do with.
He's not running any didn't matter.
Destroying Bush is the number one goal.
And I'm I'm telling you, this it's not working.
It isn't gonna work, and it hasn't worked.
And now this anti-war movement has come along, and despite the best efforts, a wait till you hear there's a there's a there's an op-ed in the LA Times today.
That's one of the biggest laughers I've run across yet, and it's coming up here in mere moments.
But all of this anti-war stuff and all this focus on Cindy Sheehan is doing nothing to Bush.
It's not hurting the Republican Party nearly as much as it is damaging the Democratic Party because it's dividing them.
It's divide all of a sudden here, they've got this huge anti-war move.
Well, it's not all of a sudden, but this anti-war fraction of their party or faction is growing and growing and growing, and this this faction is taking out the DLC.
Remember, we got this Daily Cost Looney Toon who says he has his secret plan to take out the Democrat leadership council because they're too mainstream.
And we got the move on.org people threatening Howard Dean and a Democratic National Committee.
And you've got all these Democrats who won't show up and be anywhere near these people.
Not near with Cindy Sheehan.
You won't that you I mean, you've got the usual suspects.
You've got Maxie Waters down there, but she's not running for anything other than what she is.
John Conyers, he's not going to be anything other than what he is, a wacko from Michigan, Maxine's a wacko from California.
They got Sheila Jackson Lee down there looking for the Mars rover in the Cindy Sheehan ditch.
But that's about it.
They don't have any presidential candidates down there.
Hillary won't get near these people, and neither will Evan Bayer Mark Warner.
And I am telling you, the anti-war people's taking uh crowd is taking note of this.
And Hillary's not going to be able to do something to unify these.
No, no, none of them are.
I don't think, I think this fundamental or elementar, elementary, I should say, in the anti-war movement is this irrational, inexplicable personal hate for one human being.
And that's all that matters to them.
It's literally all that matters to them.
And you can go crazy trying to explain it or understand it.
It's it's it's more than just they think the election got stolen.
It's it's a whole host of things, and that's why it is irrational and and and so deep.
So we come now to today's news, which uh is simply evidence of what I have been trying to tell you.
And the two elements that I want to focus on first both come from the uh Los Angeles Times.
Uh, well, the second one's not so much about this, but it's it's a great illustration, nevertheless.
The headline is that Kevin Drum, and he is a writer for the Washington Monthly.
And the LA Times has picked up his piece on the op-ed page today.
And his headline here, it's all about face.
That's hyphenated.
It's all about face for the Democrats.
The Summers polls show that one-third of Americans favor an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, and nearly two-thirds support withdrawal within the next year.
In the face of such numbers, the conventional wisdom predicts disaster at the polls for Republicans in the 2006 midterms.
Uh, conservative insider Grover Norquist put it recently.
If Iraq is in the rear view mirror in the 06 elections, the Republicans will do fine, but it's still in a windshield, there are problems.
Is this really good news for Democrats?
Maybe, but a growing disconnect between the party's establishment hawks and an increasingly anti-war base could foretell an even bigger crack up on the Democratic than Republican side.
And I still show me an establishment hawk in the Democratic Party, outside of Joe Lieberman.
Now they may have voted for the resolution to go to Iraq and for war, but they did it out of fear.
They did it during the 2002 midterms after demanding a new debate, so they get their names all over it because they were scared to death that they were going to get held accountable because everybody back then was realizing what a dangerous guy Saddam was and how it was important to get rid of him and all that.
But establishment hawks on the Democrats' side.
There aren't too many.
I can't think of uh too many off top of my head.
Anyway, I gotta I gotta take a brief break here.
This was just to hook you and tease you.
Um we'll come back and get into all the rest of this here in mere moments.
Won't be long.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rushlin boy here and the uh excellence in broadcasting network doing what I was born to do, serving as America's anchor man.
All right, now back to this piece.
Kevin Drum uh for the Washington Monthly is an op-ed today in the LA Times.
Is all of this good news for the Democrats, but maybe but a growing disconnect between the party's establishment hawks and an increasingly anti-war base could foretell an even bigger crack up on the Democratic than the Republican side.
So far, none of the best known faces of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, have joined those clamoring for an end to the fighting, and they haven't gone anywhere near Crawford.
In fact, Hillary went so far away from Crawford she went to Alaska.
She went to Alaska with McCain while sheehan was in the ditch, making it physically impossible to even respond to a desperation call to show up.
And in fact, as Mr. Drum writes, the foreign policy establishment of the Democratic Party is lined up with President Bush in favor of staying the course.
Needless to say, an inter uh internacene war between its hawks and doves is the last thing the beleaguered Democrat Party needs.
For their part, members of the anti-war left have an easy role.
They should continue to push establishment Democrats to support withdrawal from Iraq, but they should also make it clear that no one will be punished for doing so, regardless of their past support for the war.
However angry they are, the doves can best serve their cause by not demanding tortured explanations and tearful apologies.
This is a desperate plea.
Here's this guy, Kevin Drummond is trying to advise these irrational kooks on the left what to do so as not to destroy the party.
The Hawks, he says in the Democratic side, have a much harder job.
They're the ones who need to publicly change their position, an act that carries the risk of being tarred forever with the dreaded label that killed Kerry.
Flip flopper.
Besides, mainstream Democratic politicians and their advisors genuinely think immediate withdrawal is a bad idea.
It likely would plunge Iraq into a savage civil war.
Then there's this.
Democrats with long memories know perfectly well what uh that that similar demands for withdrawal during the Vietnam War wrecked the party's reputation on national security issues for a generation.
I think it's not over.
Their reputation on national security is pretty sullied, and it hasn't it hasn't undergone in my lifetime any sort of rehabilitation.
Nobody trusts these people with national security.
And the more the face of the Democratic Party is Cindy Sheehan and that band of squatters down there, the e the less the odds are they're gonna be able to rehab this reputation of weak on national security.
So then there's this.
What's a mainstream Democrat to do?
Have the courage to break ranks and advocate the course that's probably the most sensible anyway, a gradual phased withdrawal based on specified interim goals and a hard end date two years from now.
There are many reasons such a public stance makes sense.
First, a firm deadline would concentrate the minds of Iraqi politicians and force them to take the training of their own security forces more seriously.
This is Go ahead, advise this.
I hope they take you up on this.
I hope more Democrats do come out for a specific deadline.
This is absurd.
I'm telling you, folks, there's a crack up.
Even the people trying to put this party back together don't get it.
Even the ones that think of themselves as mainstream and reasonable, trying to get these two warring factions of the party back together, offering the wrong advice.
Second, there's good reason to think the insurgency is at least partly motivated by a belief that Washington plans to occupy Iraq forever.
What what good reason?
The insurgency is motivated by defeating us.
The insurgency is motivated by getting us out of there.
The insurgency is coming from Syria and Iran.
The idea that we give a firm date to get out is going to make them like us more and less inclined to battle is in that sense they may be right to sit around and wait for us to leave and then overrun the country.
And there you would have the first real similarity from Vietnam to Iraq.
But get this third military recruitment is in serious trouble, and it's unlikely we can maintain our current troop levels in Iraq much past 2006.
Well, uh, this is just flat out wrong.
We had the story yesterday.
You go to my website and check it out.
Recruitment levels are way above what expectations are in every branch, including the reserves.
This is a big myth that the media has put out there that people aren't signing up in the midst of the Sheehan squatters in the ditch at Crawford, in the midst of all the coming of age of these anti-war leftists.
The military is exceeding its recruitment expectation.
What does that tell you?
Well, the anti-war left will tell you that somehow Bush is going into the homes of these people and convincing their parents to send them off to war.
Because that's what everybody is.
My son was sent by Bush to die.
Bush murdered my son.
No, they're volunteering to go.
It's still an all-volunteer force.
So this assertion is uh is is patently wrong.
So uh just another another illustration here of how they're starting to sweat bullets on the Democrats side.
Now the media can stay focused on Pat Robertson all they want, and the media can try to think this represents some kind of discredit to the uh to the right wing, but they're missing the boat.
You ever noticed is isn't it interesting, ladies and gentlemen, that major events are never seen by the mainstream press as impacting Democrats.
A major event is always analyzed, what will the effect be on the Republicans?
What will the effect be on George W. Bush?
What will the effect be on Limbaugh?
What will the effect be on talk radio?
What will happen to the right wing blogosphere?
Nobody i it the Sheehan story is a great example.
The whole focus on the Sheehan story, what is this doing to Bush?
And that's why the story is there in the first place.
The whole reason she's being exploited by the press and by the left is to do damage to Bush.
And in the process, these people blind as bats are totally missing the damage they are doing to themselves.
Well, I've been telling you about this damage they've been doing to themselves for a long time, and it's coming to pass.
And I will tell you this, this fissure, and this guy refers to Kevin Drum, this fissure that is a that is existing now and getting bigger in the Democratic Party over these anti-war kooks and the fringe leftists who are becoming in their minds the mainstream.
And by the way, if you doubt that they are, whenever it's fundraising time, you will hear people like Senator Boxer and Senator Leahy say things that sound just like the other words that come out of these people's mouths, and that's designed to show them we're all on the same page so these people send money when it comes to policy when it comes to joining hands and singing Kumbaya, you cannot find an elected Democrat of stature anywhere near Crawford, Texas.
Particularly Hillary Clinton.
And if you think that Hillary Clinton moderating to the center is gonna fool Republicans, think of it because they're you're falling again for this same old thing that the media does.
What's the effect of this going to be on the Republicans?
The media doesn't say, you know, this woman is a great trickster.
We know she's a big lib, but look at how she's playing it.
She's moving to the center, she's even got some pro-lifers thinking that she's got some newfound heart about abortion.
Why, what's the effect of this gonna be on the right wing?
Could Hillary could Hillary fracture the right wing?
Could Hillary perhaps make this move successfully?
It's always, always judged with the impact on the Republicans, but nobody dares look at the impact on the Democrats.
So I'm telling you.
Right here and now, That the more Hillary Clinton distances herself from the anti-war left, they are the money people.
They're the ones with the energy in that party.
They're the ones with the passion.
They're the ones that go out and hang around ditches.
They're the ones that go out and try to screw up the voting system by registering four and five times as dead people and other people.
They're the ones trying to win elections every which way they can.
And if they don't see the people getting the party nod or the party leadership respecting them, reacting to them, and enacting what they believe.
You know, you talk about single-issue voters on the Republicans.
I'm telling you, the big missed story in the mainstream press, because you know, you don't see the forest when you're in the trees.
They're missing the impact of all this on themselves.
They're missing the impact of this on their own party.
Because the purpose, as I say, the purpose is to create all this.
None of this Sheehan stuff is real.
Here I go again.
By that I mean, Cindy Sheehan could show up in a ditch by herself, and were the media not there to make a big deal of it, nobody would know she's there.
So when I say that this is this is a an anti-war movement that is born in the image of Woodstock.
No, no, no.
They're trying to recreate all of this.
They're trying to recreate a massive anti-war movement.
If it were genuine, you'd have hundreds of thousands of people down there by now.
And you would have bus caravans going down, but if you don't see it, they are they are begging people to show up.
They are, you know, the rent of mobs are being recruited from basically left-wing colleges and institutions of California to show up in uh in Texas.
It's not something that has happened spontaneously.
The whole thing is a creation.
The whole thing is a media planned event with amplification designed to make it look like it's huge, bigger than it is, and naturally occurring.
And because they're engaged in this, and their expressed agenda purpose is to destroy Bush, which is all they have on their minds, because their expressed agenda is to harm Bush and the war effort and to cause the American uh military to lose, they don't see the impact on themselves.
And the media is not doing a good job for them by amplifying their cause in the context of let's destroy Bush and then let's examine the effect of all this on Bush.
You know, it would be like if if um if somebody, and this is probably happened, I know it's happened, uh, somebody causes an accident, some kind of accident somewhere, and then stands by and watches the impact of the accident on people and then tries to pass some the whole thing off as, well, this I was minding my own business, and look at what happened here.
Same thing here.
This whole thing has a cause and effect purpose.
They've been desperately searching for a Cindy Sheehan ever since the National Guard story and all these things in succession that have failed.
And so, and they're still in the same playbook and the same page.
So Miss Sheehan is uh is the latest foil.
She's the latest uh target.
She's the latest guinea pig, uh, if you will.
And all the while they have hope and uh and and and dreams that uh they're destroying Bush here, they see not at all what it's doing to them.
And they and they clearly don't see what it's doing to their potential presidential nominees who want no part of it.
So I think the big story here, folks, is the damage all this is doing to the Democrats, damage that's unseen by the people who are causing it because they're not looking at it.
They're not looking at themselves.
And as you know, when you're in trouble, when you got problems, you better examine your own role in them if you want to honestly fix them.
And this is something the American left still cannot bring itself to do.
Their arrogance and their superiority is such that they're never wrong, they can never be blamed, they never do anything or say anything wrong.
It must be some trick.
It must be a voting machine.
It must be, it must be a Supreme Court appointing Bush.
It must be something out of our control that's causing us to lose, because it can't be us.
We're the chosen ones.
Well, let them keep thinking this.
Don't worry about it.
Sit back, laugh at it, applaud it, urge them on.
It's like I always say, somebody wants to make a fool of themselves, somebody wants to destroy themselves, get out of the way.
Let them.
Hang on, folks, it gets even better.
Gets even better out there.
We stay with the Los Angeles Times.
Again, an op-ed piece by Pat Morrison with two T's, Pat Morrison with two T. This is unbelievable.
Looking for wisdom in the wrong places, when I first saw this, I said, uh oh, the LA Times is starting to get it.
LA Times are going to write a piece saying, wait a minute, Sheehan's the wrong person for us.
That's not quite true.
Who died and left Cindy Sheehan in charge?
Well, you read that and think, uh oh, LA Times, what's happened out there?
But stick with me on this.
Who died and left Cindy Sheehan in charge?
Not her son Casey.
When he was killed in Iraq, he left only a bereaved, bereft mother.
We put her in charge.
The press.
The politicians.
The people.
We put her in charge, not just of her own message and her mission, which is all she has asked for.
But we cranked up her voice to equal volume with the man she's calling out, the president himself, George W. Bush.
Uh I'm I'm I'm tempted to we put her in charge.
The press?
Yeah, the politician, the people.
Stop at the press.
The press put her in charge.
Pure and simple.
This thing, it it gets it it gets it crazier as you as you read it.
We are the TV bloviators who prefer talking head chatter to the shoe leather work of reporting.
The only shoe leather some of us on the job is walking from the limo to the makeup chair.
We are the craven politicians who let some muttered Dolorosa do their dirty work of challenging the Bush administration's war policy and deliver the message that something is wrong in Baghdad and Crawford and Washington.
And we are all those Americans who like their information celebritized, who want news to be cast like a movie with stock characters.
The uh determined leader, the foreign villain, the mom.
We take a Cindy Sheehan who has an honest argument to make for herself, and people who may hear her and agree, we punish her for speaking out by investing her with the mantle of omniscience.
Who's punishing her?
Who's exploiting her?
Who's putting her in this position that all of a sudden now we write and say she's not qualified for?
Who is it that's putting words in her mouth?
Who is making her something larger than she is?
And to somehow say she is exempt from the whole process herself.
She's nothing but a tool, she's had no role in it.
You know, uh Sheehan, who who just knows that she's against the war because her boy died there and doesn't want that to happen to anyone else.
Well, is that all she knows?
She'd been out there saying that Bush is a murderer.
She's been out there saying Bush ought to be put on trial in an international court.
She's been saying that America has been slaughtering people for 200 years, that we spread death and disease around the world, that we have nuclearized the whole world.
She is not just said that she's against the war because her son died there.
This woman had an agenda, ladies and gentlemen.
This spring, Ted Nugent screamed to the NRI NRA crowd to show you how radical I am.
I want carjackers dead.
I want rapists dead, I want burglars dead, I want child molesters dead, I want the bad guys dead.
No court case, no parole, no early release.
Is the NRA advocating the gas chamber for burglars?
And summary execution for carjackers, not if it wants to be taken seriously.
If I heard it from Larry Craig, Idaho Senator and NRA board member, I'd worry, but not from Ted Nugent.
Shee-han gets so now we're gonna compare Sheehan to to that kind of rant from Ted Nugent, except the difference is uh Ms. Morrison, that when she says it, everybody on her side believes it.
Everybody believes that she's an oracle now.
She has been made an oracle, not by the people.
And not by a bunch of bloviators, but rather by the media.
The media has made her the oracle.
Cindy Sheehan's was a voice we had not heard.
When she said her piece, I think she'll just want to take off the microphone and go home, and I hope we'll let her.
If nothing else, Sheehan has shown us what we need to do.
We need to stop making bigger TV sets and start making bigger leaders.
Uh Pat, we've heard all this since before 9-11.
We've heard all of it since 9-11.
This is nothing more than blame America first, and I've heard these people my whole life.
Cindy Sheehan's was a voice we had not heard.
We heard Cindy Sheehan's voice in Bill Burkett.
We heard Cindy Sheehan's voice in the Jersey Girls.
We heard Cindy Sheehan's voice with Richard Clark.
We heard Cindy Oh, yeah, gotta take a break.
Sorry, folks.
Even when I'm on a roll, I run out of time.
All right, sit tight.
First hours in the camp, but we're gonna be right back.
Pick it up right where we left off.
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