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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, America's Truth Detector and the Doctor of Democracy amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic first and second-hand premium cigar smoke.
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If you want to be on the program, the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
There has been that break, as you know, in the 17th Street Canal levee in New Orleans, now 200 feet wide, and it is slowly flooding the city.
Huge sandbags are being airlifted to try to stem the rush of water in that area.
The expectations are now that the water will not stop until it reaches Lake Level on the other side of the 17th Street Canal Levee.
So that break continues to be problematic.
And that lake level is pretty high.
You know, the New Orleans sits pretty much in a bowl underneath it.
So that's the latest catastrophe unfolding in New Orleans.
Now, just to elaborate here, the Cindy Sheehan circus, this charade, this bus tour, 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 going to get off the bus.
She's going to run around making paid speeches and so forth.
But she apparently will protest a Blue Angels air show in Brunswick, Maine in September.
Bruce Gunyon of the 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.
It's going to protest a Blue Angels air show.
If you stick with this group long enough, I guarantee you they're going to implode and they're going to embarrass everybody.
Well, they're not going to embarrass everybody, but they're going to embarrass a lot of people, end up supporting them.
If you miss this today, there's a brand new ABC News Washington Post poll.
79% of the American people have been unmoved, unpersuaded 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 make it.
Let's see if it's in the paper tomorrow.
Let's see if this poll is something they actually put in the paper and 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, newscientist.com.
Most published scientific research papers are wrong according to a new analysis.
Of course, we have to rely on this new analysis to be right for this to be right.
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 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, combine 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 going to keep this handy.
I'm going to be referencing this for the rest of my career.
Well, I'm going to, I'm just, I am going to 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 it 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 going to drink it, never more than two.
Otherwise, you're going to die.
Otherwise, something horrible is going to happen to you.
It's going to stunt your growth.
It's going to promote hardening of the arteries.
It's going to promote heart disease, blah, Then after four or five years of that being the norm, another study came out.
You know, 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 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 harken back.
Hey, 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, Vinson said in a 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.
Vinson said he was researching tea in 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.
The Court of 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, blueberries had the most antioxidants in them.
But the point is, we now have this research paper out that says all these scientific papers are wrong.
What do we do, Rush?
Just drink the coffee.
What the hell, folks?
I mean, 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 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 it.
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 a healthy route for you to go, uh-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 Physicians 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.
A three and a half ounce boneless, skinless chicken breast, grilled well done, contains 14,300 nanograms or billionths of 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.
Yeah, that's such a fine line in what we're saying.
Just find some better alternatives, such as grilled veggie burgers, said Jennifer Riley, a registered dietician 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 drink that coffee, don't eat the oat brand, and don't even grill chicken now.
You just, the level 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 Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi on MSNBC.
It looks like the whole place has just been bombed.
Mr. Sterdley says it looks like Hurricane Andrew.
It looks like a giant wrecking ball went through whatever we're watching out there.
Whether it's Biloxi or Gulfport, it's just this is mind-boggling.
Cape Coral, Florida, Cody.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, how are you doing, sir?
I just have a quick question.
Do you think that the latest ruling by the Supreme Court concerning imminent donation 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.
We'll justifiably allow the state or a local municipality to let another developer come in and do it.
Well, now these places 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, you know, I understand why you'd ask the question.
As I think about it, I don't 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, sure.
So it'll be interesting to see.
I don't know if so much imminent domain will come into play.
It could, but I think it really is going to focus on what I was talking about yesterday.
When the rebuilding process begins, there will be a lot of thought that's going to be put into it.
Okay, we had this, they 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 the new code restrictions that are going to go into effect on whatever is rebuilt so that they can withstand a storm like this in the future.
I think it's likely that the physical appearance and the physical makeup of these communities will be drastically altered by the rebuilding process.
I mean, it would be unusual to expect that everything would be rebuilt as it was.
Even people who are going to stay and rebuild their homes, who have lost them totally, they're probably going to build something different.
How much property they're going to claim and try to build on or what deals are going to be made.
Some people aren't going to want to stay is what happens in situations like this.
So there's a lot to be ironed out, but they're not even near that stage yet.
They're still in search and rescue efforts going on.
You don't know how many people are still alive and trapped in places and can't get out.
You don't know how many more people who have perished that have to be discovered.
But when the rebuilding process begins, it'll be an opportunity to rethink things and correct mistakes that existed in previous building decisions, such as location and style and type.
I mean, things are going to look much different.
And it's only natural to conclude that they would.
But whether or not imminent domain comes into play, especially in the sense that you mean it's Kilo, the government going in and basically telling, okay, you used to live here, you don't anymore.
We're going to sell your property to this guy.
Way too soon to suggest that any of that is going to happen.
All you hope for is that when that process begins, that fairness and justice are present with every decision being made as to the effect on individuals and businesses as they try to put their lives back together.
This is going to be massive, though.
It's going to be massive.
And while there may be some people are saying there's going to be an interruption, perhaps slowdown in the economy because of this, for example, Delta Airlines is the number one feeder for New Orleans.
They're not going to be able to fly in it.
Airports under two airports in New Orleans, and they're both underwater.
Those airports aren't going to be open for a while.
When they reopen, 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 going to do it, people expect them to do it before it's October 17th when the law goes into effect.
I'm not sure, but I think it's around there.
So you might have them, look, I mean, it makes no sense for us here.
Look at how many flights have they have been canceled here simply because they can't get in and out of New Orleans.
New Orleans, a feeder or a hub for other regional cities around there.
So that's going to have an economic impact.
As a result of that, the I-10 causeway, a cross-linked poncho train, is destroyed.
It's gone.
And Interstate Highway, I-10.
See you later.
So the immediate concern 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 a city, regardless how large or small.
Infrastructure is going to have to be rebuilt and it'll be done in a makeshift way at first.
But my point is this.
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 have enough?
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 going to 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 going to have people that are going to 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 in 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.
This cannot be rebuilt for free.
It cannot be rebuilt at discount, although there will be some of that.
And there's going to be gouging along the way.
Always is in circumstances like this.
But that's not going to be the norm.
It's going to be a while before this happens.
But mark my words, the effort here to put everything back together down there, and it's going to take years, is going to be a miraculous, 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 this part of the country.
And as such, economic activity will be stimulated.
And ultimately, 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.
Your highly trained broadcast specialist, utilizing talent on loan from God.
Mechanicsville, Virginia, next.
Here is Cheryl.
Great to have you with us on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
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.
You know, I did not know that.
I didn't know that.
But when I was reading about this story, when I was reading about this group, the first thought I had was physicians for science in the public interest.
A bunch of people who 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 liberal nanny busybodies.
And I have since been informed that 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.
And that has to do with their effort to save eggs.
Now, Newsweek wrote a story about these clowns in February 2004.
And they, among other things, wrote, less than 5% of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine members are physicians.
Well, that makes sense because I used to give money to them.
I used to give money to all those animal rights groups and PETA and everything.
And I'm a vegetarian, actually.
But you know how you are.
Well, but wait, you're not a militant vegetarian, are you?
There are 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 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 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 okay, then you're not militant because the militant vegetarians are those people that are trying to force vegetarianism on everybody.
No.
I mean, they make up BS like this Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has done.
Well, 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 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.
And I thought that you should know.
Well, I appreciate that.
But 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 though this is a responsible, accredited medical bunch of people, medical group, at least in the section of the story I have.
It doesn't refer to them as an animal rights group whatsoever.
And it just goes to show, even though Newsweek ran apparently an expose of these people in February of 2004, 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, according to many in the so-called mainstream press.
By the same token, if you're an activist group and 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 God's gift to humanity.
And that is how this kind of propaganda ends up being cast as medical news and health news in major newspapers around the country.
Eric in Nashville, Tennessee.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Good, sir.
Thanks much.
Good.
You know, the reason I'm calling is your National Guard montage in the first hour.
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, Paula Zahn, 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 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 11,000 National Guard members in Louisiana, about 3,000 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 going to 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 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 around for many years.
And yep, the National Guard, it wasn't filled with serious people.
The National Guard, you're right, just a haven for draft Dodgers and so forth.
But even at that, 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 Wrangell deserves his own talking points thrown right back at him.
You know, imagine Charlie Wrangell saying this, as brave southerners, police officers, firemen, civil servants, National Guard and volunteers who risked 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 Wrangell 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 personnel for the area impacted by the hurricane.
So if Charlie Wrangell 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 going to 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 the way to throw Charlie Wrangell's words right back at him.
And of course, look at the way the media is treating it.
media is treating the rescue workers as heroes and heroines.
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 Lord's work.
Now, 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 they were saying, why aren't they shooting?
Why are they shooting at you?
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're already doing it.
Okay, they're going to be looting whatever food they can get from a grocery store or 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?
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 an interesting juxtaposition.
The analogy is not perfect.
It's got some flaws in it.
I admit this.
But it's just interesting as this, 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 as a stead of Iraq.
When Guard does what it does in Iraq along with the rest of the military, they suck.
And they're tools of a murderer.
And they're 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.
Hi, welcome back.
Other questions for those of you on the left?
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 call them people fighting for their lives.
I mean, we just want you to be consistent.
I got a great post here also from the RedState.org blog.
Dear Lise 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-Busch 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 $1 million, 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 $1 million to the Salvation Army, is using all 3,800 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 worldview 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 think of.
Again, this came from redstate.org.
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.
Don and 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 absurd.
It's ill-timed, and it's unfortunate.
Well, state governors have the ability to enter into interstate agreements to borrow troops and equipment 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 could have or would have done the same thing with Texas and Arkansas if need be and probably have.
Yeah, you know, you're right about that.
As you were talking and as you were mentioning it, I was reflecting on the fact that of our previous caller's point that the National Guard, all of a sudden, the work they're doing here, boy, they're heroes, they're great guys.
We don't have enough of them.
But over in Iraq, they're just tools of Halliburton.
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 hear complaints about that from the left.
That's a good point.
In fact, I'll never forget, just to illustrate Don's point, remember during the 92 presidential campaign, 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 experience do you bring here?
You have stated you load the military and that you, you know, Colonel Holmes' letter and all this.
And Clinton cited as his experience and as a resume enhancer that he had once had to call up the Arkansas National Guard to quell a riot somewhere.
So he had military experience.
So the point is that the left will clearly rely on the National Guard as legitimate military when it suits their purposes.
But Don's right.
They'll be borrowed and they'll be transferred.
That's why I say it's going to be a national effort here.
It already is a national effort to rebuild, rescue, provide relief.
It's all going to be one huge, giant, great American effort, and it's going to make everybody proud.
Well, most everybody.
Wait and see.
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