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Sept. 1, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
Great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
It's Rush Limbaugh, The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's anchorman tackling those things few have the courage to get near because they must be attacked.
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All right, I'm just going to keep going here as though the break didn't really stop anything.
The subject here is the media, well, the far-left fringe, and they're looking at what's happening in New Orleans as a Holocaust of the black people.
Some Democrat websites are now referring to this as a Holocaust.
And of course, you know, Holocausts, those are man-made.
Holocausts are caused by man.
It's almost like saying it's a genocide here.
And they're asking, why doesn't the mainstream press talk about this?
This piece by Jack Schaefer at slate.com wants to know why the media is not having the guts to talk about the fact that race and class are really what's on display here, that all the people that are hurt are black and they're poor.
I don't recall any reporter exploring the class issue directly by getting a paycheck-to-paycheck victim to explain that he couldn't risk leaving because if he lost his furniture and appliances and his pots and pans and his bedding and clothes to Katrina order looters, he'd have no way to replace them.
No insurance, no stable, large extended family that could lend him cash to get back on his feet, no middle-class job to return to after the storm.
Well, I got an email when I read this the first time from subscriber at Rush 24-7, Kathleen Miller, who said, you know, evidently the libs are able to get those same people to the polls to vote.
On election day, apparently it wasn't important enough to evacuate them to save their lives.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
You know, you cannot ignore who runs this city if you're going to start making these kinds of allegations.
If you're going to start demanding these kinds of or demanding this kind of attention, you better be prepared to go all the way with it.
So if you're going to say the press isn't responding or isn't reporting the nature of the survivors and the dead and that they are mostly black and mostly poor because there's an inert racism here and a fear of political correctness or whatever, well, let's explain why that might be.
67% of the population of New Orleans is black.
And so the odds are that the sufferers and the people harmed by this are going to be black.
And by the way, all these areas are wiped out.
The non-black population was just as devastated, but apparently they were able to get out.
And the black population wasn't able to get out.
Maybe New Orleans has a half-decent mass transit system and some of these people don't need cars.
But no, Rush, that's your score.
You're glossing over.
They can't afford cars.
Well, why is that?
Why can't they afford them?
What is it about New Orleans?
It doesn't pay.
It's a 67% black population.
Lots of black-run businesses.
Why is it they don't pay well, though?
You cannot just examine this from the context or through the prism of 1964 United States of America, which is what liberals tend to do.
Like I said, if it's race, they see this country as 1964 back to the 1800s.
If it's war, they see this country from 1965 to 1973, Vietnam.
If this, if they look at the economy, they see America in the 1930s, and they never modernize.
Nothing ever changes.
And why something never changes is never examined.
I just shared with you Thomas Lifson's piece from the American thinker, pointing out that by all rights, New Orleans ought to be the petroleum capital of this country.
They were first with the access to oil in the Gulf.
They have the Mississippi.
They've got the natural port down there, but Houston overtook them.
How is this possible?
Houston had to dredge a ditch from Houston to the Gulf of Mexico in order to get tankers in and out, and yet Houston is a bigger oil city than New Orleans.
Why is this?
There are reasons.
Houston is an entrepreneurial city.
Houston is not a welfare state mentality in its government.
New Orleans is.
This is not racial.
This is not a racial comment.
This is ideological.
And folks have been talking about this for 18 years.
There are, you know, we have arguments in this country.
What's the best way to provide for people?
We on this program believe capitalism and entrepreneurism, the best way to provide the greatest amount of prosperity for the greatest number of people.
The welfare state will never do that.
Socialism, to one degree or another, has failed everywhere it's been tried.
New Orleans has been run by liberal Democrat governments, people, for as long as I can remember.
And there's an entitlement mentality there.
You are never going to have a thriving city relying on handouts or on welfare payments, whatever you want to call them.
It's just not going to happen.
So you have to, if you're going to raise this issue, Mr. Schaefer, you've got to have to go all the way with it.
You can't stop at 1964 and just assume that this is all happening because a bunch of racists somewhere are behind this.
But actually, that's not what they're saying.
Because when they look at this, they see America in 1964 and what they're doing is indicting our society.
The whole purpose of this story for Mr. Schaefer and these stories on these lower-level websites that hopefully they think will percolate to the mainstream press is to eventually indict the American way of life, to indict the American culture, to indict the American society as inherently unfair and racist.
How can a genuinely good country like we think America is allowed this to happen?
That's the mindset.
It is though there are some people who want this to happen and who don't care that it does happen when they see it.
They don't care that people are suffering if they're black.
They don't care if they die if they're black.
That's how the left, many of them, view this country.
And so the purpose of this is not to really indict Bush.
That's secondary.
The purpose is not to indict any individual.
The purpose of this is to call into question the whole concept of American society.
America is a racist country.
We're no different now than we were in 1964.
We're no different now than we were in the antebellum days.
We're no different than we were during the days of slavery.
John Roberts is going to be on the Supreme Court and he's got Confederate sympathies.
You see what I mean?
Let me continue with this piece.
This sort of, well, let me do this first.
What accounts for the broadcasters' timidity in pointing out these things?
I saw only a couple of black faces anchoring or co-anchoring.
I didn't see any black faces reporting from New Orleans.
So, okay, the reporters are racist.
Or maybe they're afraid.
It's safe to assume that the reluctance to talk about race on the air was a mostly white thing.
That would tend to imply that white people don't enjoy discussing the subject, but they do as long as they get to call another white person racist.
My guess is that Caucasian broadcasters refrain, refrain from extemporizing about race on the air mostly because they fear having an Al Campanas moment.
Campanas, who went on Nightline managing the general manager of Los Angeles Dodgers at the time, said that blacks just didn't have the intellectual skills to be in top management.
It's the only thing like that he'd ever said.
I mean, Campanas led the league in hiring minorities, Latin Americans and blacks.
He was offering to get into fights with anybody who disrespected Jackie Robinson.
But he made that one statement on Nightline, and it ruined him.
And Coppel even gave him a chance to back out of it, and he did because it's what he believed.
And bam.
Everybody's afraid of a Jimmy the Greek moment.
And some are afraid of a rush limbo moment.
You don't even have to make a racial comment to have all kinds of hell visited upon you, as I myself know.
You don't need to make a racial comment whatsoever.
And all I did, in fact, I did nothing different than what Mr. Schaefer, in a sense, is doing here.
I questioned the sports media and why they were not critical of somebody I thought was not worthy at the time of all the praise they were handing out.
This guy is wondering why the white media today is not pointing out certain things that he sees.
This sort of latent racism, as we resume the piece by Mr. Schaefer, this sort of latent racism or something more potent may lurk in the hearts of many white people who end up on TV as it does in the hearts of many who watch.
Or even if they're completely clean of racism's taint, anchors and reporters fear they'll suffer a career-stopping campanus moment by blurting something poorly thought out or something that gets misconstrued.
Better, most think, to avoid discussing race at all, unless someone with impeccable race credentials appears to supervise and indemnify everybody from potentially damaging charges of racism.
Race remains largely untouchable for TV because broadcasters sense that they can't make an error without destroying careers.
And that's a true pity.
If the subject were a little less taboo, one of last night's anchors could have asked a reporter, can you explain to our viewers, who by now have surely noticed why 99% of the New Orleans evacuees we're seeing are African American?
I suppose our viewers have noticed, too, that the provocative looting footage we're airing and re-airing seems to depict mostly African Americans.
If the reporter on the ground couldn't answer the question, a researcher could have nexused the New Orleans Times-Pikioun five-parter from 2002 Washing Away, which reported if the city's 100,000 residents without private transportation were likely to be stranded by a big storm.
In other words, what's happening is what was expected to happen.
The poor didn't get out in time.
Okay, Mr. Schaefer, who runs the city?
The 67% black population has elected a black mayor for years.
I mean, you've got to, I just, see, the thing that gets me about that, he sees all these things that I don't see.
He's looking to be critical in the area of race.
He doesn't see human misery.
He sees black misery.
There's plenty of human misery.
The people that we're not seeing on TV are as miserable in their own way as these people are.
And these people continually say that it's others than them who are racist, but they're the ones who constantly notice first who somebody or what somebody's skin color is or what their gender is.
They claim to be clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and all this, and yet they're the ones that first notice all these differences among us.
And then they take what they've noticed and transfer the notice to people that have not made a big deal out of it and call them racists.
Or in this case, they're just scared.
They don't have the guts to bring it up.
Well, race in this circumstance, folks, is a poisonous weapon, and it's why the liberals are now gravitating to it.
They're blaming the media for not having the guts to mention race here, which is the attempt to get them to open up and take the lead on how this is an unfairly damaging circumstance to people of color.
The mayor is black.
Over half the city is black.
That's nobody's fault.
It's statistically given that the crime will be committed by the residents, the majority of which are black.
That's not arguable.
When 100,000 people, so said, remain and they are all black and the looters come from those who remain, how can it be any other way?
I don't get the point, I mean, it's just more liberal hand-wringing from an age-old page of their playbook.
And what they're doing right now, folks, with this Mr. Schaefer piece begging, cajoling the mainstream press to pick up on this, they're arguing among themselves at this point.
Even David Brooks, New York Times, the last line in his column today, take a close look at the people you see wandering, devastated around New Orleans.
They are predominantly black and poor.
The political disturbances are still to come.
Everybody got wiped out in New Orleans, folks.
What the hell is this?
Everybody got wiped out.
Everybody's wiped out.
Yet they still try to outdo one another, milking the anguish, hoping someone notices.
It's the cheapest and darkest side of journalism because, as I said, they are attempting to indict our society.
What I see down there, contrary to what Mr. Schaefer sees, I see people of all races helping each other.
I see people of all religions trying to help each other.
I see all kinds of businesses gathering and trying to help each other.
But here's the bottom line.
The New York Times and all these liberal elites, they are the least capable of understanding the American character at a time like this, my friends.
And it also demonstrates what little they bring to the table in our society.
What good is this story on all of this now?
There is human suffering, and there are efforts to alleviate it as quickly and as possible.
People of color are not being left behind while others are being chosen and placed in front of the line.
The rescuers know no difference.
They are all colors.
They are all sexes.
They are all religions.
So we've got armchair quarterbacks who never offer solutions, who only complain and whine, now trying to drive a further wedge between all of us in an attempt to indict the American society and the American culture.
We are no good.
We stink because we are a racist culture.
Not all, but most of the organizations on the ground are religious.
The others are military.
I have seen American flags hanging from trees and from rooftops.
This is just obscene for this kind of attention to be drawn to this now.
The volunteers, the military, law enforcement, politicians of both parties are not doing everything possible to address this disaster because all these people are racist.
Is that what we're to believe?
All of these suffering black people that you see are being allowed to suffer because all of the people involved in helping them are racists?
Is that the suggestion?
They were allowed to suffer in the first place because somebody's racist and they don't earn enough money and don't have cars and can't get out.
Somebody else has to be racist in order for this circumstance to exist.
Is the suggestion that millions and millions and millions of dollars are not being poured into this region now because the people there are black?
I see all kinds of relief efforts going on.
I see the U.S. military.
There's the U.S. military racist as well.
You see, my friends, this is the liberal mindset.
I look at this and I see a nation once again as we were after 9-11, rallying to the aid of our fellow citizens and doing it the best we can given the limitations we face.
The armchair critics in the media, some on our side too, but mostly on the left, can't help but revert to see this country from 1800 to 1964 and do their best to indict this whole country as no good and racist and wonder why the U.S. media isn't on that case.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
You know, Mr. Schaefer, Jack Schaefer of Slate Magazine, whose article I just excerted for you here, slate.com.
Here's the last couple of lines of his piece.
What I wouldn't pay to hear a Fox anchor ask, say, Bob, why are these African Americans so poor to begin with?
Mr. Schaefer, I will again answer this for you.
So you won't have to suffer through watching fox.
The reason that they are so poor is the local government's mindset.
It's real simple, mr Schafer, it's the entitlement mentality versus the entrepreneurial mentality.
I would be beating a dead horse.
To recall Thomas Liftson's comparison, Houston and New Orleans it's not put, just not, not.
Not to put New Orleans down, I mean, i'm not being critic, i'm just pointing out what is there.
You know, the Libs and the conservatives in this country uh, have a big argument going about what's the best way to to provide the most for the most, and we believe it's entrepreneurial capitalism.
We believe that that's the simple, best way to more prosperity for more people.
Liberals don't like that because there is a disparity.
Some don't do as well as others, some don't have ambitions, some don't have the same abilities, some don't have access to whatever they need education, what have you?
And so the welfare state was meant to come over and pick up the slack.
Well, the left believes that until everybody's equal, nothing's fair.
But the left never tries to elevate as New Orleans is an example the left never tries to elevate those at the bottom so that they become more close to the people at the top.
What the left has sought to do over all these years is punish those at the top.
We've got to increase taxes on the rich.
We have more regulations on success.
We need we need to punish success, be it in a classroom with outcome-based education, or be it with a tax code or whatever.
So what we do is try to take those at the top and bring them down a little bit so they know a little misery, so they get closer to what life is like for those who don't do quite as well.
And then you come up with what I call the liberal definition of equality, spreading miserably, misery equally.
Uh, i've never understood this.
The why not try to take those people at the bottom and teach them and expose them to their own potential?
You know they're not realizing their own potential sitting around as wards of a welfare state.
What kind of compassion is it that actually has people living in those conditions?
Why is it that we only want to continue that and call that compassion, rather than teaching them how to escape it?
Conservatives define compassion by counting the number of people no longer in those circumstances.
Liberals count compassion by the ever-rising budgets to sustain them in squalor or relative squalor.
So there's your answer, mr Schaefer, if you didn't hear it, I hope somebody passes it on to you now.
You don't have to watch FOX, I know you don't like.
Just heard that uh, the prime minister of France uh, what's his first name Developin?
What's his first name Dominique?
Dominique Developin has offered to send troops to the uh, French Quarter.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, i'm just, i'm just kidding.
We, it's never mind, you know i'm.
I'm looking at this uh uh this this, the leftist attempt to cover this disaster and i'm struck, what, what makes all this racial stuff so ironic?
When you look at judge Roberts and his nomination Supreme Court, what does the left say?
The left said he's going to turn back the clock on civil rights, which read racism uh, women's rights uh, whatever turn.
Who is it that turns back the clock?
It's our friends on the left.
So here we've got a natural disaster, and they all of a sudden see America in the 1800s up to 1964 where race is concerned.
They are the ones that turned back the clock.
We don't even know how many people have died yet, folks, let alone their races.
How sick is this to bring this stuff up now?
We don't even know the death toll.
And it's going to be a lot higher than anybody's guessing, my thinking is.
Last week, this idiot on this Daily Kook website wrote something about how many of our troops were killed in Iraq came from Blue States.
You see that?
Actually did a piece on how many troops killed in Iraq are from Blue States.
The point was, well, we're patriotic people.
Look at it, or maybe Bush is sending troops comprised of Blue Staters to die.
I don't know.
It's so cookie.
It was wrong to boot.
It was totally inaccurately portrayed.
But the point is that the libs just show how inhumane and cold-hearted they are.
It's just more hate America liberalism.
And even in this disaster, we have to get a point of view out.
The left has to get a point of view out about how dirty, rotten, and corrupt and racist American society and culture is at large.
One other thing here before I go back to the phones.
I've been a little bit bummed out by this constant use of the word refugee.
So I went, I actually looked it up.
You can do that if you went.
Well, public schools may teach about dictionaries.
I'm not sure anymore, but you can look it up in one.
And here's the, by the way, the etymology of the word, the root of it, it's French.
It's a French word.
But a refugee is one who flees, especially a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
That's what a refugee is.
That's the real definition of a refugee.
These are not refugees.
Yeah, they're seeing refuge.
But they're not refugees as the term has come to be used.
All right, to the phones, Norma in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Nice to have you on the program with us.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted to let you know that this is a personal story, that what's happening in New Orleans affects all races and all colors.
My sister, who is a 37-year-old educated white woman, is stuck there in the French quarter, and there are no idea of when they will be able to get out of there.
They had a bus that was contracted by the hotel.
They had to pay $75 a seat to get on that bus to get out of there when there's a mandatory evacuation anyhow.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
When was this?
When was 75?
They charged it 75.
Wait a minute.
The hotel was charging 75 bucks to get out?
Yes, it was.
They waited four hours for the bus, and then they got word that the bus had been confiscated, that they would not be able to get out of the city.
They were going to bus all these travelers to Houston International Airport, and then all of this blew up.
So they had to recheck into the hotel where the conditions are deplorable.
The smell is disgusting with no air conditioning, toilets are overflowing, little water, little food.
This morning, the hotel decides the 300 guests are going to make the two-mile trek to the convention center.
I have not heard from her since.
All I want to do is have my sister rescue, just like everybody else that is there.
And I don't understand why the efforts are so slow and so unorganized to get these people out of there.
Well, what do you suspect is the answer?
How would you be doing it?
Well, if I had my own way, I would drive down there and get her myself.
Well, but you can't.
The set's point.
You can't drive it.
It's a flooded out area.
What would you, I mean, I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
I think the best way to deal with this, we all see these people gathered around a superdome.
And why don't you drop some water?
In fact, let me tell you what my thought has been.
I used to work for a baseball team, and my job, my office was at the stadium, Kansas City Royals, now called Kaufman Park.
And the concessionaire is right next to the Chiefs stadium, Arrowhead, and the concessionaire has its operations underneath the parking lot between the two stadiums.
And there's always, there's always food, ice, water, somewhere in that concessionaire complex because you're going to have fans coming in.
The concession stands have to be open.
Now, the Superdome.
We're coming up on football season done.
The college football season is supposed to start this weekend.
The Saints home opener is September 18th.
I have been wondering, all right, there has to be a concessionaire hub, center hub of operations that's on the site of the Superdome.
It has to be underneath it around somewhere.
You can't truck that stuff in on the game on the day of the games.
That stuff has to be there.
I'm wondering if there aren't bottles of water or something.
Now, I don't know, whatever that the concessionaire there would have to sell.
In fact, when I heard people were originally going into the Superdome, I wondered if they'd open the concession stands just to have food.
I never heard a word.
I think they closed them.
I don't think there was any of that.
So I have been wondering all along, where is all the stuff?
Did they evacuate?
Did they take that stuff out of there before the hurricane came to protect it from perishing?
Or did they not, like everybody else thought that they could withstand it?
It's a superdome after all.
There had to have been, I'm thinking, there had to have been a huge cache of non-perishable food.
Now, maybe some of it wasn't prepared.
And a lot of it wasn't prepared, but you've got snacks.
I mean, you've got potato chips and this sort of thing.
You've got certainly have water and cans of soda pop or whatever.
Maybe you don't.
Maybe they all come out of a fountain now.
I'm not certain, but there had to.
I just wondered why nobody has asked about this because a stadium has got to have a tremendous amount of food and beverage.
It's not getting to the people, though.
Well, it may not be there.
I don't know.
It may not be there.
I'm like you, but I don't know what I would do when you've got 30,000 people standing outside and all they can do is try to get buses in there.
And if you say buses are being confiscated by the gangs or what have you, then you say, hey, why can't they bring a pallet of bottled water in there and drop that?
I don't know.
I really don't have the answers to these questions.
We all ask them.
It's four days.
It's four days now.
I'm with you on this, and I don't understand why some of that stuff isn't there.
But we're all involved in it.
This is a personal story.
I'm worried sick about my sister, and I don't know where to go because all of the attention is on the Superdome.
None of it is on all these other stranded travelers who are sitting there who, if they got them out of there, they wouldn't even need the food and water that could go to these other people who live in this region.
Well, what you're illustrating is that it's far more than just the Superdome, and it's far more than just what we're seeing.
And what we're seeing, of course, is the largest.
I mean, the pictures of the destruction are number one, number two of the masses of people at the Superdome.
That's also a powerful picture.
And you get individual stories there.
Look, I have friends that live in New Orleans who are wiped out.
Well, they live across the lake in Lake Ponchatrain, but they're wiped out.
Fortunately, they've gone to Washington for a vacation.
But I don't know.
I haven't spoken to them since an email from them on Monday.
They can't go back there.
Their car's totaled.
It was the airport at the New Orleans airport.
This is the fish god who has a tilapia farm up on the north side of Lake Ponchatrain.
I believe it's on the north side.
You got to cross the causeway to get to it.
But it's gone.
The suffering here, and these are not wealthy people.
These are not people that have a bank account of thousands of dollars to rebuild immediately when they get in, my friend.
They're not any different than some of these other people that have been wiped out.
This idea that it's only affecting, harshly, only harshly affecting the poor and African-American population.
That's just obscene.
Everybody got wiped out here.
Everybody got wiped out.
And it's right now to me, it's just plain old human misery.
And everybody has questions about the rescue effort and doesn't understand why certain things aren't happening.
I unfortunately don't have the answers for you.
I'm like you, I've got questions.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
All right.
We're going to join the President, who's in the Oval Office now with Presidents Clinton and Bush 41 in a joint appearance.
Let's listen for a while.
Order.
And I thank them for their good work.
Government agencies are working with faith-based and community groups to find shelters for thousands of displaced persons.
And finally, we're moving forward with a comprehensive recovery strategy.
We're working hard to restore electric power, repair transportation infrastructure, restart energy production, and of course, strategize as to how to provide housing for these folks.
I met with Chairman Greenspan at lunch, as well as the economic team, to evaluate the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
We particularly spent a lot of time talking about the damage done to our energy infrastructure and its effect on the availability and price of gasoline.
Good.
In our judgment, we view this storm as a temporary disruption that is being addressed by the government and by the private sector.
Good.
We've taken immediate steps to address the issue.
The Secretary of Energy is approving loans of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The EPA has provided a temporary nationwide waiver for fuel requirements so supplies of gasoline can move more easily within our country and so that we can attract more gasoline from overseas.
We're also working with energy companies to repair and reactivate major refineries and pipelines.
The good folks must understand that major refineries have been shut down, which means it's going to be hard to get gasoline to some markets.
We're working to help these pipelines get up and running.
Pipelines carry refined product.
And so we're working with the majors, major oil companies, to get the colonial pipeline so they can carry the products of the major oil companies, the refined products.
Right now, the colonial pipeline, which is a major pipeline serving the East Coast, is back in operation but only at 50% capacity.
We anticipate that as the days go by, more and more of that capacity will be restored.
Other major pipelines are coming back online.
But as I said, we're going to have a temporary disruption of gasoline product.
Another challenge we face is that the downed pipelines are causing the need to transport gasoline to needed markets by ship.
Under current law, shipping between American ports can only take place on American ships.
And there are currently not enough American ships to move the oil and gasoline to where it's needed.
So today I've instructed Secretary of Homeland Security Chairman Chertoff to temporarily waive this requirement so foreign ships can also help distribute oil and gasoline to where it's needed.
Look at all these regulations that get in the way.
Today's action will further help us move gasoline to accommodate the demands of the American citizens.
So to fuel it up, we're going to be able to make sure that we've been taking will help address the problem of availability, but it's not going to solve it.
Americans should be prudent in their use of energy during the course of the next few weeks.
Don't buy gas if you don't need it.
This recovery is going to be a long process.
It's going to take a lot of hard work and patience and resolve.
It's also going to require a lot of money.
And the federal government will do its part.
That means we will.
But the private sector needs to do its part as well.
We will do that, too.
And that's why I've asked Presidents Bush and Clinton to lead a nationwide fundraising effort to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
In the days ahead, the former presidents will ask Americans to open their hearts and their wallets to help those in need.
And they're going to talk to large corporations and small businesses and individual citizens across the nation.
They're already doing it.
The contributions will benefit the relief organizations that are doing vital work on the ground.
We're going to take a look and make sure that the money raised is money needed.
Right now, if our fellow citizens want to help, they ought to give a cash donation to the Red Cross, which they can find at a phone number 1-800-HELPNOW.
I was so proud of the efforts that President Clinton and President Bush did to help the victims of the tsunami relief.
Our country marveled at their capacity to rally our citizens and to work together.
And once again, I've asked them to work to help the needs of those who hurt.
And once again, I'm confident that the American people will respond.
I know this is an agonizing time, or we all know this is an agonizing time for the people of the Gulf Coast.
I ask their continued patience that recovery operations unfold.
I can assure them that their thoughts and prayers of the entire nation are with them and their loved ones.
I'm also confident that when it's all said and done, the efforts to rebuild the great city of New Orleans and to rebuild those communities in Mississippi and to help the folks in Alabama will make this nation a stronger place.
May God bless you all.
There you have it.
That's President Bush announcing a tsunami-like effort here with Presidents Clinton and Bush 41, his father.
So this is all good.
I just marvel at all these regulations making my point.
All these regulations that we have to temporarily suspend in order to make things more free-flowing and smooth.
There's a lesson here, folks.
There's so many lessons to be learned here.
At any rate, I'm close to having to take a break, and I'm going to do that.
I need to tell you, folks, I've got a sudden trip that I have to take tonight, and I will not be here tomorrow.
We've got a tape show on Labor Day, but Roger Hedgecock has agreed to host the program to us.
No big deal.
Something has come up I have to deal with.
And I will not be here tomorrow, but we'll be back on Tuesday.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
I get this.
CNN is reporting that a New Orleans hospital has halted patient evacuations after coming under sniper fire.
This, according to a doctor who witnessed the incident.
The doctor witnessed the sniper fire has ceased patient evacuations from a New Orleans hospital.
Here's Larry in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Yes, sir.
Glad you called.
Thanks, Ross.
Just a minor comment.
You mentioned that it would be good if the Superdome would have stocks of food and water for the people that were there.
I used to be the CEO of the company that handles the Superdome and also the Coughlin Stadiums in Kansas City that you're so familiar with.
And generally, we don't have food and beverage come into the facilities until about five days before a game.
And therefore, they'd be delivered around September the 10th or the 15th for that opening game in New Orleans.
So there would have been very limited food in the Superdome.
Okay, well, that explains it.
In Kansas City, I know that they've got that stuff there constantly year-round.
Well, actually, from January through March, they don't have March through April.
They don't have much there, but baseball games are every day.
That's not the case in the Superdome.
That's correct.
I didn't know if there was a college game, though, scheduled before the Saints opener, which is not till the 18th.
No, sir, it wasn't scheduled until later in September.
All right.
All right.
Appreciate that, Scott.
Or Larry.
So there's the concession answer for those of you wondering about circumstances with concession stocks at the Super Bowl, Super Dome.
We are out of busy broadcast time.
Once again, I have to leave immediately here.
It's not an emergency.
Something has come up that I must deal with and takes me out of town.
Roger Hedgecock will be here tomorrow.
I'll look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, folks.
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