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Aug. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 30, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Glad to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh, America's Anchorman.
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There has been that break, as you know, in the 17th, uh 17th Street Canal Levy in New Orleans, now 200 feet wide, and it is slowly flooding the city.
Uh huge sandbags are being airlifted to try to stem the Russian water in that area.
The expectations are now that the water will not stop until it reaches lake level.
Uh, on the other side of the 17th Street Canal Levy.
So that break continues uh to be problematic.
Uh and it's uh that that lake level's pretty high.
You know the New Orleans sits pretty much uh in a bowl underneath it, so that's the latest catastrophe unfolding in uh in New Orleans.
Uh, just to elaborate here, the uh uh Cindy Sheehan circus, this this charade, this bus tour.
Uh we learned yesterday she's only going to be on the bus for the first two days out of Crawford until it gets to Tom Delay's office in Houston.
Then she's gonna get off the bus.
She's gonna run around making paid speeches and so forth.
But she apparently will protest a Blue Angels air show in Brunswick, Maine in September.
Bruce uh uh Gunyon of the uh Maine Veterans for Peace says that Cindy Sheehan will be the featured guest at a protest outside the Brunswick Naval Air Station on September the 10th.
Going to protest a Blue Angels air show.
If you stick with this group long enough, I guarantee you they're gonna implode and they're gonna embarrass everybody.
Well, they're not gonna embarrass everybody, but they're gonna embarrass a lot of people end up supporting them.
If you if you miss this today, there's a brand new ABC News Washington Post poll.
79% of the American people have been unmoved, unpersuaded uh by the Cindy Sheehan protest.
Now you might look at, well, Russia's still not good, 21% half.
Nah, folks, you have to understand what this was.
This was a latest mechanism on the part of the press to gin up a full-fledged majority of anti-Bush, anti-war in Iraq opinion for the sake of destroying the policy and undermining the effort there to win.
Now, here it is a total failure.
Now, you will find this poll result.
You'll find the data.
I don't know if it's on the ABC site, it should be, but it's also on the Washington Post site on their website.
They posted it at 7 o'clock this morning.
It's not in the Washington Post newspaper today.
Now, I don't know when they got the results of the poll.
I don't know if they had the results of the poll early enough to make morning editions of the paper today.
But let's say they did.
Let's say they got the data too late last night.
A paper had gone to bed and they couldn't.
Let's see if it's in the paper tomorrow.
Let's see if this poll is something they actually put in a paper, just leave on their website.
ABC did report it today on Good Morning America.
I want to go back.
I talked about this yesterday.
I want to go back to the story from New Scientist magazine, New Scientist.com.
Most published scientific research papers are wrong according to a new analysis.
Of course, that we're gonna re- have to rely on this new analysis to be right for this to be right.
Uh, but assuming that this new analysis, that this new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance, less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true, and this would hold for global warming research papers as well.
John uh John Ionidis, an epidemiologist at the University of Ionina School of Medicine in Greece, says that small sample sizes, poor study design, researcher bias, and selective reporting by media, along with other problems combined to make most research findings false.
But even large well-designed studies are not always right, meaning that scientists and the public have to be wary of reported findings.
So, I'm gonna keep this handy.
I'm gonna be referencing this for the rest of my career.
Well, I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm just I am gonna keep this handy.
Because now let's go to the story that I had from yesterday.
Told you I was going to be telling you about in detail today.
Headline from the Associated Press.
Coffee reported to be top source of healthy antioxidants.
Well, now that's just yesterday.
As you know, in the last 17 years, coffee has been blamed for practically every health malady there is because of caffeine and other deadly ingredients.
And you should not drink it.
You shouldn't drink coffee, you shouldn't drink more than one cup a day if you're gonna drink it, never more than two.
Otherwise you're gonna die.
Otherwise, something horrible is going to happen to you.
It's gonna stunt your growth, it's gonna promote hardening of the arteries, it's gonna be heart disease, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Then after four or five years of that being the norm, another study came out.
Say, oh, we kind of got it wrong about coffee.
It's not that bad.
It's not good for you, but it's not that bad.
It went through the whole thing with oat bran, and we've been we've been back and forth with so many things.
Here's the latest.
Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a study released on Sunday.
Of course, too much coffee can make people jittery and even raise cholesterol levers, so food experts stress moderation.
They still have to hearken back.
Hey, it's how can this be?
Provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, but in the next sentence, it can ruin your cholesterol.
The findings by Joe A. Vinson, a chemistry professor, University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, give a healthy boost to the warming beverage of coffee.
The point is people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages as opposed to what you might think Vincent said in a T uh telephone interview.
Antioxidants, which are thought to help battle cancer and provide other health benefits, are abundant in grains, tomatoes, and many other fruits and vegetables.
Vincent said he was researching tea and cocoa and other foods and decided to study coffee as well.
What his team did was analyze the antioxidant content of more than 100 different food items.
They then used the agriculture department data on typical food consumption patterns to calculate how much antioxidant each food contributes to a person's diet.
They concluded that the average adult consumes 1,299 milligrams of antioxidants daily from coffee.
The closest competitor was tea at 294 milligrams.
Rounding out the top five sources were bananas, dry beans, corn.
Uh the according to the agriculture department, the typical adult drinks 1.64 cups of coffee a day.
I heard just a couple years ago that raspberries or blueberries, the blueberries had the most antioxidants in them.
But the point is we now have this search research paper out that says all these scientific papers are wrong.
So you're like, well, what do we do, Rush?
Just drink the coffee.
What the hell, folks?
I mean, I the idea that coffee is going to shorten your life by a substantial amount of years, number of years, all of this is just this panic orientation, this doom and gloom preoccupation everybody has.
It's it's water, it's coffee.
And now it may have the highest number of antioxidants.
Wouldn't surprise me if Starbucks paid for this survey, wouldn't surprise me if Folgers paid for.
That's what the research paper said.
There's researcher bias, there's funding bias, you never know.
Who paid Mr. Vincent?
I'm not trying to disparage him.
I'm just taking the story that we had before it.
Now, if you think that eating chicken instead of beef is the healthy route for you to go.
Uh-uh-uh.
Because we are treated today by a story from the Chicago Sun Times.
Grilled chicken may be bad for you.
Slapping some chicken on the grill is synonymous with backyard barbecues in summer at its simplest.
That easy entree is loaded with the highest levels of cancer-causing substances called heterocyclic amines, or HCAs, according to a new report from the Cancer Project, an affiliate of the physician's committee for responsible medicine.
HCAs are carcinogens formed within meats during high temperature cooking, such as grilling and frying.
HCAs multiply the longer and hotter the meal is cooked.
The three and a half ounce boneless skinless chicken breast, grilled well done, contains 14,300 nanograms, or billionths a gram.
Do you realize what we're talking about here?
14,000 billionths of a gram.
Other grilled foods noted for alarmingly high HCA levels are steak, pork, and skin on salmon.
The federal government has not defined safe levels of HCA consumption.
There's such a fine line in what we're saying, just find some better alternatives, such as grilled veggie burgers.
Jennifer Riley, a registered dietitian and managing director of the cancer project.
Now you know when I first heard about this, this has to take me back to the late 80s.
Maybe when I was in Sacramento in the mid-80s I heard about this hamburgers were going to kill you.
Grilled on the grill, not in the frying pan.
On the grill, outdoor they're going to kill you because all these carcinogens come to life in there.
So now it's veggie burgers.
It just never stops these nannies.
Look at how prosperous we have become we've got people who make a living studying nanograms of HCA.
And then being given credence by media organizations when they put out their research suggesting eh don't don't drink that coffee don't eat the oat branch you just the level of of insecurity and paranoia apparently in this country is rampant.
A quick timeout we will be back and continue in just a moment.
I am just seeing my first pictures of uh Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi on MSNBC.
It looks like the whole place has just been bomb.
I mean it Mr Sturdle says looks like Hurricane Andrew it it looks like it looks like a giant wrecking ball went through whatever we're watching out there.
Whether it's uh you know Biloxi or Gulfport it's just mind boggling.
Uh Cape Coral, Florida, Cody, hello and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi how are you doing, sir?
Uh I just have a just have a quick question.
Do you think that the latest ruling of the Supreme Court concerning imminent domain is going to have any kind of effect on the reconstruction process down there.
How do you mean?
Well I mean a lot of times a lot of times it was justified based upon you know urban areas or areas that aren't really that pleasing to the eye or might be kind of run down will justifiably allow the the state or a local municipality to let another developer come in and do it.
Well now these places in in New Orleans and Mississippi are completely flooded and devastated.
It might be an attractive way for new developers to come in and start lobbying for ways to get some really nice waterfront property.
Well, I understand why you'd ask the question.
As I think about it, I think it's way too premature.
One thing that does seem likely, and this is just a guess, but with so much destruction, you can't imagine things being rebuilt as they were.
Right.
You just can't.
I mean, they're not going to rebuild broken down areas of town as broken down areas of town.
Right.
So it'll be interesting to see.
I don't know if so much imminent domain will come into play.
Could, but I think it really is going to focus on what I was talking about yesterday.
When the rebuilding process begins, there'll be a lot of thought that's going to be put into it.
Okay.
We had this.
We had that.
Do we really need to rebuild this?
Do we need to rebuild it where it was?
There's also going to be a, you wait and see.
see the new code restrictions that are going to go into into effect on uh on whatever is rebuilt so that they can withstand a storm like this uh in the future so I I think it's likely that the uh the the physical appearance and the physical makeup of these of these communities will be drastically altered by the rebuilding process.
I mean it would be uh I think unusual to expect that everything would be rebuilt as it was even people who um uh are gonna stay and rebuild their homes who have lost them totally.
They're probably gonna build something different.
Um how much property they're gonna claim and and uh try to build on it, what deals are gonna be made.
Some people aren't gonna want to stay is what happens in situations like this.
So it's there's a lot to be uh ironed out, but they're not even near that stage yet.
Uh they're they're still in search and rescue uh efforts going on.
They don't know how many people are still alive and trapped in places and can't get out.
Uh you don't know how many more people uh who have perished that have to be uh discovered.
But when the when the rebuilding process begins, uh it'll it'll be an opportunity to uh rethink things and correct mistakes that existed in uh in in previous uh uh building uh decisions, such as location and style and type.
I mean it's things are gonna look much different, uh and it's only natural to conclude that they would.
Uh but whether or not eminent domain uh comes into play uh, especially in the sense that you mean it from kilo, the government going in and basically telling, okay, you used to live here, you don't anymore.
Um we're gonna sell your property to this guy, but I don't uh uh too way too soon to suggest that any of that uh is gonna happen.
All you hope for is that is that when that process begins that uh fairness and and and uh justice are present with every decision being made uh as to the effect on individuals and businesses uh as as they try to put their lives back together.
This is gonna be massive, though.
It's gonna be massive.
And while there may be uh uh some people are saying it's gonna be an interruption, perhaps slowdown in the economy because of this.
For example, uh Delta Airlines is the number one feeder for New Orleans.
They're not gonna be able to fly in it.
Airports under there are two airports in New Orleans, and they're both underwater.
Those airports aren't gonna be open for a while.
Uh when they reopen, you know, Delta's on the verge of bankruptcy.
They've been threatening it and talking about it, and the bankruptcy laws change in October.
And so if they're gonna do it, uh people expect them to do it before I think it's October 17th when the law goes into effect.
I'm not sure, but I think it's around there.
So you you you might have them, oh look, I mean, uh makes no sense for us here.
Look at how many, how many flights a day have been canceled here simply because they can't get in and out of New Orleans.
New Orleans a feeder or a hub for uh other uh regional cities around there, so that's gonna have an economic impact.
Uh getting as a result of that the I-10 causeway across Link Pontra trains destroyed.
It's gone.
And Interstate Highway, I-10, see you later.
So the immediate concern is is going to be getting, first of all, everybody out of there until the worst is over, and then getting people back in, and then you know, all of the goods and services necessary to support uh a city, uh regardless how how large or small.
That's uh infrastructure is gonna have to have to be uh rebuilt and it'll be done in a makeshift way at uh at first.
But my point is this uh we're all seeing these pictures on TV.
For all this talk in the press about, do we have enough National Guard?
Bush sent so many National Guard to Iraq.
Do we do we do we have enough?
It may I I it did two things.
It infuriated me and it made me sick to listen to this last night.
Because this is the United States of America.
And it's gonna be more than just the National Guard that rally around here.
You're going to have charitable donations reach an all-time high.
You're gonna have people that are gonna go down there when the coast is clear and they're able to get in to help with the rebuilding efforts.
It's going to be a major beehive of economic activity, putting all of this back together, because it must be.
There will continue to be in New Orleans, and there will continue to be a Gulf Port and Biloxi, Mississippi.
There will continue to be Mobile, Alabama.
These places are going to continue to exist.
They're going to have to be rebuilt to one degree or another.
And you're going to have entrepreneurs from all over this country and good-hearted, good citizens from all over this country heading down there.
And they're going to do it for two reasons.
They're going to do it from the goodness of their heart, and they're going to do it for the entrepreneurial reasons.
And nobody ought to resent that.
It cannot be uh rebuilt at discount, although there will be uh uh some of that, and there's gonna be gouging along the way, uh always is in circumstances like this.
But that's not gonna be the norm.
The um uh the it's it's gonna be a while before this happens, but mark my words, the effort here to put everything back together down there, and it's gonna take years, uh, is going to be a miraculous illist illustrative example of the greatness of this country and the willingness when there's a disaster here, we all link arms and hands and go down and help.
One way or the other, this is going to be a national effort to rebuild uh this part of the country uh and as such economic activity will be stimulated and ultimately uh uh you know while the bad memories and the horrors will never be erased and forgotten there will be positives and there will be smiles and there will be happiness at the end of this as there always is in circumstances like this.
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Mechanicsville Virginia next here is Cheryl great to have you with us on the program.
Hi.
Hi Rush uh I just wanted to say this is about your grilled chicken story.
Yes ma'am I think you mentioned the physicians committee for responsible medicine.
I certainly did a bunch of wackos.
Yes well that's what I want to make sure that you knew that they were an animal rights group.
So I know I I I did not know that.
I didn't know that but but but what when I was reading about this story, when I was reading about this group, the first thought I had was physicians for science and the public interest.
A bunch of people aren't really doctors who are out there just trying to tell people what they should and shouldn't eat and they're just a bunch of uh liberal nanny busybodies and I have since been informed that uh the physicians committee for responsible medicine is a fanatical animal rights group that seeks to remove eggs milk meat and seafood from the American diet and they really have a recent focus on chicken.
They're really and that has to do with their uh their effort to uh to save eggs now Newsweek wrote a story about these clowns in uh in February 2004 and they among other things wrote less than five percent of the physicians committee for responsible medicine members are physicians.
Well that that makes sense because I used to give money to them I used to give um money to all those animal rights groups and PETA and everything and um I'm a vegetarian actually and um but as you know how you are well but wait are you you're not a militant vegetarian are you mean two kinds of vegetarians.
Well that's what I was getting ready to say you know how you are when you're younger a lot of times you're more radical about things and then as you get older you you chill and I think that's what happened to me now my vegetarianism is sort of just a personal thing and I don't care about converting others and you know pushing my beliefs on anybody I I feel like I want to eat what I want to eat and you eat what you want to eat.
And that's the way I am about it.
So you uh you so okay then you're not militant because the militant vegetarians are those people trying to force vegetarianism on everybody.
No I mean the process they make up BS like this physicians committee for responsible medicine is done.
Well I and I don't know that it's not true what they're saying.
Maybe it is true but I just wanted you to know you know how you were saying about the the coffee report it could have been sponsored by Folgers.
Well when you said physicians committee for responsible medicine I thought oh well I know them that's an animal rights group you know and I thought that you should know.
Well I appreciate that I I'm but you know the the the this the interesting thing about the story is I read it from the Chicago Sun Times.
It's in the Chicago Sun Times today and they treat this as they're a as though this is a responsible uh accredited medical bunch of people medical group uh uh at least in the in the section of the story I have it doesn't refer to them as uh uh an animal rights group whatsoever and it just goes to show even though Newsweek ran uh uh apparently an expose of these people in February of 2004, it it just it shows how easy it is to scam the mainstream press if you come from the right place.
If you come from a position of liberal activism, you are automatically credible without having been checked.
Uh according to many in the in the uh in the so-called mainstream press, uh by the same token, if you uh if you're an activist group and you uh your orientation comes from the right, you're automatically a suspect.
And even when evidence can be found to confirm that you are who you say you are and nothing more and nothing less, you are still a suspect, simply because you're conservative.
Liberals are never suspected of anything.
They're just you know God's gift to humanity.
Uh and that that is how this this kind of um propaganda ends up being cast as medical news and health news in uh major newspapers around the country.
Eric in Nashville, Tennessee.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey Russ, how are you?
Good, sir.
Thanks much.
Good.
Uh, you know, the reason I'm calling is your National Guard montage in the first hour uh really.
Let's go back and play that.
I want to go back since you're referencing this, and I've referenced it a couple times.
Hold your comment here, and let's go back and play it so people know what we're talking about, okay?
This is a montage of Larry King, uh, Paul Azan, Wendell Goller at Fox, and Lester Holt.
You know, understand that yesterday I was joking around about all these left-wing websites and how they are eager to to to blame this hurricane on Bush and eager to blame the lack of recovery and relief help on Bush because all the National Guard is over in Iraq.
And lo and behold, the mainstream press, some of their outlets have picked that whole story up as though it's germinated by a responsible bunch of people and run with it.
And here's a montage of how it came up on CNN, CNN, and NBC last night.
We have adequate National Guard members, because I know you have a lot of National Guard forces in Iraq.
With so many National Guard troops involved in Iraq, thousands of civilian volunteers are now stepping up to the plate.
Critics have warned the National Guard deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have left states with too few troops to respond to emergencies.
Interesting to note that of the eleven thousand National Guard members in Louisiana, about three thousand are currently deployed in Iraq.
Yeah, that means 8,000 are still in Louisiana.
We've dealt with this ever since this montage, and that's what Eric here is calling about.
Now go ahead and make your point, Eric.
Thanks for waiting for that.
Yeah, I was just gonna say that you listen to the liberals now and they're all upset that National Guard is in war zones all over the world and and we can't function here in a hurricane unless the National Guard's here.
But a year ago they considered the National Guard a haven for draft dodgers and weekend warriors and rich kids like George Bush who are trying to dodge trouble, and you know, a year later all of a sudden they're heroes and we can't do without them.
And it just points out their hypocrisy.
It's an excellent point.
An excellent point, not just one year ago, but two.
This Bush National Guard story was was around for many years.
And yep, the National Guard wasn't filled with serious people.
The National Guard, you're right, just a haven for draft dodgers and so forth.
Uh but even at that, i then when we have the National Guard in Iraq, the National Guard's in Iraq, and they're still disparaged when they're in Iraq.
They're still disparaged.
We are murderers.
Cindy Sheehan and her gang are out there saying Bush is murdering people.
How's he doing it?
Well, he's using the American military, part of which is the National Guard.
Remember what Charlie Wrangell said yesterday?
Charlie Wrangle deserves his own talking points thrown right back at him.
You know, imagine Charlie Wrangle saying this, as brave Southerners, police officers, firemen, civil servants, National Guard and volunteers who risk their lives in New Orleans and Alabama and Mississippi.
Where are the sons and daughters of the administration?
Why isn't there a draft?
If the rescuers could have found decent jobs, they wouldn't have to risk their lives rescuing people in this hurricane.
They're only there because they can't remember Charlie Wrangle wanted a draft.
He wanted to draft troops because the sons and daughters of the rich, the sons and daughters of Washington elites were not in Iraq and were not in the military, and that's why he said he wanted a draft.
Well, now here we have the very same people he's talking about, and they form the rescue line.
They make up the rescue uh personnel uh for the area impacted by the hurricane.
So if Charlie Wrangle were to be consistent, he would be out there complaining about who is in the rescue services.
Where are the sons and daughters of the administration trooping down there to help?
Why is there a draft to make sure somebody's gonna do this grunt work?
And then he could say if these rescuers could have found decent jobs, they wouldn't have to risk their lives.
They wouldn't have to be sent over down to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, in order to do this work.
That's that's the way to throw Charlie Wrangles' words right back at him.
And of course, look at the way the media is treating it.
The media is treating the rescue workers as heroes and uh uh heroines.
Uh they're getting all kinds of profiles but the rescue workers, the military in Iraq, maligned, besmirched, criticized, called murderers.
But not down in Louisiana.
Oh no, the rescue workers they're the greatest gift we've got.
They're doing the doing the Lord's work.
Now let's let's see what they say about the National Guard and looters.
Let's just see if the Liberals will be as upset with the looters in Mississippi and New Orleans as they were with the looters in Iraq.
Remember all the looters that were going when we first went in there and everyone saying why aren't they shooting?
Why are they shooting at kill you can't have looters?
Let's see if they are as critical.
Because I'll guarantee you what's going to happen.
Law enforcement is going to see people looting and they're not going to do much about it because they're going to be looting food.
They already doing it okay they're going to be looting whatever food they can get from a grocery store quick shop that hasn't been totally flooded.
They're going to be looting food.
I will bet you that and they're letting it happen?
Letting it okay when that happened in Iraq we were all treated why don't you shoot them on site you can't allow this kind of thing.
It's it's it's an interesting juxtaposition that the the analogy is is uh not perfect.
It's got some flaws in it.
I admit this.
But it's just interesting, as Eric's pointed out, you know, depending on circumstances, the National Guard is either worthless and a bunch of phonies, or else it's God's gift to humanity.
The same people making the judgment.
When the Guard's doing the same thing, it always does.
It just happens to be doing it here instead of Iraq.
When the Guard does what it does in Iraq along with the rest of the military, they suck.
and their tools of a murderer.
their tools of lies but when they're doing good works here why they're heroes it's just more hypocrisy that keeps cropping up and we would be remiss not to point this out.
Great call Eric thanks much we will be right back.
Don't go away folks stay with us other questions for those of you on the left I mean because we want you to be consistent.
This is one of the problems we have with you it's hard to keep up with you.
You bounce all over the place.
So we know what you think about Iraq we know what you think of the National Guard being there.
We know what you think of the military being there we know you think that we are occupying with the military Iraq well what are we going to be doing in New Orleans and Biloxi and Gulfport and other places we're going to be occupying them right they're going to be uniformed American military there.
So the question you need to be asking you lefties, if you're going to be consistent, how long will we be occupying New Orleans Gulfport and Biloxi?
Another question you might want to ask this would be a good one for John Kerry to raise where are our allies how come we have to go this mission alone why isn't there anybody helping us in fact along those lines I think Japan has offered to release some of its strategic petroleum reserves to help us in this situation and obviously this is all about oil.
What are you lefties going to say if the oil rigs in the Gulf are brought back to operations before some cities are rebuilt are you then going to accuse Bush of caring nothing about the citizens of the Gulf Coast but caring only about oil for Halliburton and these oil companies are you going to understand that oil is the fuel of the engine of democracy here.
And by the way let's not call these looters looters.
Let's call them insurgents let's call them refugees let's let's call them people fighting for their lives let's I mean we just want you to be consistent.
I got a great post here also from the redstate.org blog dear lease uh less than decent left we interrupt your previously scheduled shrieking of blame Bush Hitler, and we can blame this all on global warming to bring you this much needed dose of reality.
We don't want to ruin your little view of the world, but America's corporate giants are stepping up in a big way to help those in need.
Here's just a quick summary.
Ford Motor Company is allowing customers affected by the hurricane to defer payments for the next two months, penalty-free.
For those with pets, PETCO is holding a national fundraiser through their stores, asking customers to round up their purchase to help these critters in need.
Anheuser Bush sending more than 300,000 cans of clean drinking water.
Lowe's is not only matching customer donations to the American Red Cross up to one million dollars, they're on the case with trucks and supplies.
The company that the left loves to hate is taking the lead.
Walmart, as I mentioned earlier in the program, already gave one million dollars to the Salvation Army, is using all 3800 stores to raise money, is sending trucks and trucks of supplies, many of which they don't even account for as we speak, and four, they have already gotten a store in Kenner, Louisiana, open for supplies.
Kenner is right outside New Orleans.
Walmart, to the disparagement of the left and the eternal anger of the left, which hates Walmart, already has a store open in Kenner, Louisiana.
But right now, in conference rooms and offices across the country, executives are meeting not to discuss whether or not to help, but how much to help, and how to effectively help those in need.
And global domination, finding out where every lefty in the country is so that John Ashcroft's unfinished projects can finally be completed.
Yes, my friends, you on the left with your silly small little world view, miss the real story, as you always do, that is the United States of America during times like this.
Your infantile thinking trying to find a way to blame this on George W. Bush, sitting around whining and moaning while you, the people that you target as the enemies of this country are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work and helping out is one of the greatest illustrations of who you have become that I could that I could think of.
Again, this is came from Redstate.org, uh great blog, a quick timeout, back with more in just a second.
Stay with us.
Now that is an unbelievable sight.
Fox got some new video out of New Orleans.
Boats looking as though they're on brown, dirty, muddy water, but they aren't.
They're on pieces of wood that used to be houses.
It looks like mulch.
It really does.
It looks like the mulch that you'd put in your garden.
Uh Don in Kent, Washington, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
You know this hand wringing by the media over the supposed lack of National Guard troops is silly.
I know, it's absurd.
It's just it's it's absurd.
It's ill-timed and it's unfortunate.
Well, state governors have the ability to enter into uh interstate agreements to borrow troops and equipment uh if an emergency overwhelms their ability to respond to something.
You know, we do that up here in the Pacific Northwest every year prior to the forest fire season.
You know, I'm certain the governor of Louisiana uh could have or would have uh done the same thing uh with Texas and Arkansas, if need be, and probably have.
Yeah, I uh you know you're right about that.
Uh as you were talking, and as you were mentioning it, I was I was I was uh reflecting on the fact that of our previous caller's point that uh uh the National Guard uh all of a sudden the work they're doing here, boy, they're heroes, they're great guys, and we don't have enough of them.
But uh but over in Iraq, they're just they're just tools of Halliburton and by the way, where's Halliburton?
How come Halliburton hadn't done anything to help here?
How come Halliburton hadn't promised to help?
They'll probably uh hear uh complaints about that from the from the left.
That's that's a good point.
In fact, uh I'll never forget.
Just to just illustrate uh Don's point.
Remember during the 92 presidential campaign, uh uh we had a war hero, World War II war hero, George H. W. Bush, running for re-election against Bill Clinton, who was a known anti-war protester.
And people were asking him, what what what experience do you bring here?
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