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Sept. 6, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you with us as the award-winning thrill-packed, ever exciting Rush Limbaugh program rolls on.
We are uh safely ensconced here at the EIB Southern Command where another tropical storm has just been named.
Well, no, it hasn't been named, Tropical Tropical Depression 16, but it's gonna be Tropical Storm Ophelia.
And it's right out there uh just south of Grand Bahama, Freeport out there, and it's uh forecast, they got they got tropical storm warnings from Jupiter, Florida, which is north of here, uh north all the way up to Titusville, maybe a little even farther.
It's it's not supposed to become a hurricane before landfall, according to forecast track, uh, but it will become a tropical storm before hitting the uh the uh northern east coast of uh of Florida.
We are watching it diligently here, as we always do.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
This was uh supposed to be announced today.
What I have to tell you, but I understand it was announced in my absence uh on Thursday or Friday.
Uh but here here are the deals on um or here are the details.
On um October the 18th in uh in New York at the uh what is now the is called a New Amsterdam Theater, the Lion King Theater, where the Lion King is playing on Tuesday night, October the 18th.
I am doing uh a one-man show, one-night one-man show on stage, and tickets went on sale at 10 o'clock this morning.
I think they're available at uh at Tick, yes, through Ticketmaster.
Uh all tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.
All tickets are $77.
Doing this in coordination with uh our New York affiliate, uh AM770 WABC.
Uh so the the um uh the event uh put together last week uh to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina will happen.
I'm I I'm sure it's October the 18th.
I've got the uh yeah, I've got it on my calendar, but I didn't open the calendar up.
And the fact sheet I have here in front of me, and I sometimes confuse dates, which is why I'm hedging on this, but it is October the 18th, and it is um be at it's at either at uh seven or eight o'clock at night.
I'm not sure which.
Just a minor detail because crowds will form early uh to uh to get in line.
But as I say, we're doing this to promote uh hurricane Katrina relief and to fund it.
And it's uh, you know, I I do these sparingly these days, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Sort of like the old Rush to Excellence tour that uh that we used to do.
It's about an hour and a half to two hours.
I mean it goes until I decide I've said enough.
Uh and when I when I feel like it's over, it's over.
Uh Sean Hannity will be there with uh he will he'll provide the introduction.
Uh and it's just gonna be a great night, a fun night, rush on Broadway.
Some people are gonna say rush on Broadway.
But no, it's Rush on Broadway, and uh especially thrilled to uh to be superseding a Lion King for one night.
Uh the animal rights people can be upset about this, no question about it.
But it's at the old New Amsterdam Theater.
Now they call it the Lion King Theater because the Lion King is playing there.
And it's Tuesday night, October 18th on Broadway in New York, uh, to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina Relief.
And tickets are on sale.
It went on sale at 10 o'clock this morning at uh at Ticketmaster.
And I knew this had leaked out.
7 p.m. hit the 7 o'clock, 7 o'clock hit the stage.
Um so adding the appropriate tardiness to probably be 7.15 uh before hit stage.
The people will be long seated uh regardless.
But the uh I I was out, I was out in Los Angeles over the uh over the weekend, and I I started uh hearing from people in Tennessee and other places, what you're doing a show on Broadway, how do I get tickets?
You know, and I did uh I didn't know it had been announced yet, so I didn't know really what to tell them.
So turns out it it was uh well I don't even know if it was announced, it was leaked.
It was leaked, uh whatever, but a leak is the same thing as an announcement.
So uh and it was a story about it in the New York Post today.
So just wanted to uh since it's me, I wanted to say something about this.
Uh so that's why I'm doing it now.
But note that we uh we waited until the third hour to do this, but it actually I should have let off the program with it because um it is obviously for for a uh tremendous charitable cause, and that is I mean, all the all the net proceeds, nobody's getting anything out of this, folks.
All the net proceeds will go to the um uh hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, and all tickets are 77 dollars.
What I think we ought to do, and it's too late to do this.
I think well, the first five rows ought to be a thousand or two thousand dollars.
Well, this is for hurricane relief.
Thousand or two thousand, but it's too late to do that because I'm sure the front rows are gone.
Uh by now, but if you want to go act fast, because uh the the capacity of the theater is eighteen hundred.
And these uh these events usually average five to seven thousand when we uh when we do them in in uh in other cities.
So eighteen hundred tickets, so even at seventy-seven dollars would probably go pretty fast, but ticket master, and you can do this online uh, or if you want a ticketmaster has a website, or you can uh you can go to a ticket master ticketmaster office.
I said we're gonna have audio sound bites, and we do, and I want to start with something that happened on CNN this morning.
Solid at O'Brien was talking to the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagan, and Nagan tells the story here of the friction that existed between President Bush and Kathleen Blanco.
And this is basically what the uh what the mayor said that he told them to do to get uh get past their impasse.
The president looked at me, I think he was a little surprised.
He said, No, you guys stay here.
We're going to another section of the plane, and we're gonna make a decision.
He called me in that office after that.
He said, Mr. Mayor, I offer two options to the governor.
I said, I don't I don't remember exactly what the two options.
I was ready to move today.
The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.
You're telling me the president told you the governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision?
Yes.
Regarding what?
Bringing troops in?
Whatever they had discussed, as far as what the chain, I was advocating a clear chain of command so that we could get resources flowing in the right place.
She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision.
It would have been great if we could have left Air Force One, walked outside and told the world that we had this all worked out.
It didn't happen.
And more people died.
All right, so this was obviously something that happened last week.
Now we know that President Bush called Kathleen Blanco on the Sunday before the storm hit and asked her to declare an emergency, and she dilly-dallied on that.
Apparently, when he got down there for the first time and wanted to talk to them, she wouldn't agree to some plan to put it into action uh until there was uh the 24 hours past that she could think about it.
Uh this, according to uh the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagan, this that you just heard aired on uh CNN this morning.
So later, Soledad O'Brien interviewed the governor, Kathleen Blanco, and Soledad said there's been much written about kind of a power tussle between you and uh President Bush uh and the mayor.
Uh specifically, the mayor was telling us about a flight on Air Force One, and he said that you and he and the president were all in a room, and finally you and the president went separately to have a meeting.
Twenty-four hours, is that right?
Was that what came out of that meeting on the tarmac with the president?
They gave me uh a very complicated proposition to look at.
It didn't help our effort in that instant moment.
I needed a little time to understand exactly what it meant.
We went forward, all of us, all the resources were there.
Nothing stopped.
We ended up um coming to terms and agreements, and I think that the effort's going great.
Well, you know, it's sort of hard to wade through all of this, but what there's one thing that's clear, is there not?
Mr. Snerdley, you want to take a wild stab here at what what is of of these two sound bites?
The mayor saying, Well, you know, the governor said she needed 24 hours in a bush took her in a room to get her to governor said, Well, it was too complicated.
I mean, I had to figure out what this was all about.
Uh-huh.
What does all this mean?
Mm-hmm.
Well, we don't know.
We we w okay, maybe we know that she held things up for 24 hours.
But what we also know is that the president was on the case a lot sooner than the mainstream press wants anybody to know he was on the case.
We also have to conclude from this that the president understands the locals are in charge of this.
And he was trying to get them to agree on something so we could get a plan into action, and he was having trouble.
The state and local people run the show.
The federal government, we have a constitution.
And the Constitution limits the power of the federal government.
Folks, you do not want.
Let me ask you a question.
All of you.
I don't care whether you live in Charlotte, you live in New York, you live in my hometown of Cape Girardo, you live.
If something like this happens, or some sort of catastrophe, some sort of terrorist attack, whatever it is, what are you going to do?
How many of you know what you are going to do?
Because it is your responsibility if you think that if something like this happens in your neighborhood, that you do nothing until the cavalry shows up, you are going to be in heap-dip trouble.
Hip deep trouble.
Little dyslexia there on the syllables, but you get the point.
It's incumbent on all of us to know what we're going to do in either circumstance.
We have forewarning or when we don't.
To sit around and wait for some authority is the wrong thing to do.
And this is it's becoming is becoming clearer and clearer to me that too many people sat around and waited.
In this case, we have a constitution.
You do not want the U.S. military rolling into your town at the first sign of trouble.
There is a constitution limiting the role of the federal government.
And it limits the role of the federal government in the and and delineates the um uh the the rights the states have versus the federal government, and that's that's why there's this big argument when you get the Supreme Court confirmations over the Commerce Clause, because the U.S. Congress is using the Commerce Clause to make laws in states they have no right to make.
And the U.S. Supreme Court to now has overturned some of those laws, and that's why Ted Kennedy and the gang are upset and they call justices that do this conservative activists.
The Commerce Clause is being used to ban guns in schoolyards in in California.
Federal government has no power to do that unless you let it.
But if you're if you want the federal government trooping in at every moment, the federal government is by by the ver the nature of bureaucracies and other more hideous things, it's gonna end up taking control of a whole lot of things.
That's its nature.
It's it's a seat of power.
And so what the president was doing here sounds obvious to me, was refusing to run roughshod over these people.
Hey, mayor, governor, we got to figure out what we're gonna do here.
You're in the loop.
And apparently the mayor couldn't get in the loop.
Or the governor couldn't get in the loop.
The mayor says anyway.
So 24 hours went by before a plan, and I'll bet you after that 24 hours is when John Wayne arrived.
General Honore from whom we will hear next.
Sit tight, we'll be back after this.
By the way, folks, I I made a slight error a moment ago.
The next named tropical stormslash hurricane on the list is Ophelia, and I but that's not the whole name.
If it becomes a tropical storm, which is forecasted it'll be tropical storm, Ophelia Vandenhoovel.
So I wanted to be correct about that.
800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Press briefing yesterday with uh Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff and Lieutenant General Russell uh Honore.
Uh the Raging Cajun, who has been dubbed here John Wayne.
Unidentified reporter says a congressman said that the real problem he's seen is that despite the thorough job it's been done by the National Guard and the Coast Guard, the first responders that the problem has been the organization.
Uh they should be behind them, lending them support.
It has been fractured by too much red tape, it's delaying rescue operations, delaying evacuations.
He said there's a lack of unified chain of command, it's a lack of sense of urgency that the normal rules don't apply.
Yes.
I will take that on behalf of every first responder down there.
It's BS.
I will not diffuse where the Congressman may have gotten that from, or if he had a personal answer.
But I can tell you that's BS.
We we've got the 300 helicopters and some of the finest EMS workers in the world working on their new orange.
And they are making it happen.
Now, how does this stuff generate?
Well, I'll tell you what, it generates on these kooky left-wing websites.
I've I've been reading these websites about how the uh bottlenecks and there's too much, and there's not enough urgency, the sense of urgency.
Nobody really cares.
Subtone they're black, nobody really cares.
That's the the the the kooky left is putting that out.
Of course, then it finds its way to a mainstream reporter who then has to ask this question.
So you guys don't care enough.
There's really no sense of urgency down there.
You know, she doesn't say because they're black, but that's you know, that's where this stuff uh germinates and and percolates up from the uh from these websites.
And this guy was mad when he heard it.
He's he's gotten 20,000 people out of the convention center in one day when he showed up down there.
And he's got all these helicopters in the air.
Uh, you know, it it's one thing.
I mean, uh nothing can make these people happy or satisfied.
When there's nobody there, then that's Bush's fault.
Nobody cares.
When they get there, there doesn't seem to be a sense of emergency.
It must be because the people down there are poor and black and nobody really cares whether they die.
And then I have also seen stories, there are too many military now.
There are so many military that they're they're running into each other.
Uh it it is it is uh it's a shame.
But I mean, all these critics, nothing can make them happy.
And I'll tell you, they don't want to be happy.
They want this to fail.
They want this to end up looking bad so they can continue to point the fingers blame.
My friends, I I'm I'm gonna tell you what this is.
This this this hurricane and the recovery effort is just the next thing in line that the the left in this country has used to try to destroy the Bush presidency.
You can debate where it started, Florida 2000.
Then you can go to the uh I'm sure there are things before this, the the National Guard story four or five times with no new information.
Then we had the forge documents from Bill Burkett.
Then we got the 9-11 uh commission, we had Richard Clark and the Jersey girls, and we got then we got Cindy Sheehan and her story.
Uh and now Cindy Sheehan couldn't get arrested.
She couldn't.
I mean, if she wanted to get on TV today, she couldn't.
Her support group has abandoned her because she's not the story.
There's a much bigger one now, the hurricane and its aftermath and the effort to once again destroy the Bush presidency.
Now, I was aware of this over the weekend, and I was confident it wasn't going to work because nothing else has worked.
The thing that bothered me the most about it was when I was reading some right wing websites how they decided to get in on the action.
They they they they took the media's bait, hook, line, and sinker, some of them did, and started ripping on Bush and ripping on uh the federal government for not caring enough and not doing this and not doing that and so forth and so on.
Uh and I know why, they're just worried about their own image.
Uh you know, they they don't they they they want to be thought of as independent and uh and and not part of the right wing, even though they are because they have so many associates and friends that are part of the DC media and uh other establishment culture.
But then here came the ABC News Washington Poll.
I guess I ought to ask you if you've heard about this.
Uh uh has this been on television.
Uh okay.
Well, rather than paraphrase this, let me uh find it here in the stack so that uh I can just read it to you directly.
But the bottom line is is that the ABC News Washington Post poll uh makes it clear that the president is not being targeted or blamed primarily by the people of this country, that they are spreading it around and so forth.
The bottom line is that the efforts here to tar and feather Bush over this have uh have not succeeded.
They have failed, and the uh I guess that's the reason why you have not seen this uh plastered all over the media in uh in various places.
Well, I thought I had it near the top of the stack here.
I'll find it during the break and uh and uh and and pass it on to you quickly.
Uh Verlin in Dresden, Tennessee, uh from Slidell, Louisiana, it says here, welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
And I wish I could go to the Broadway to uh to New York to see you there, do that show.
Uh that'd be quite quite interesting.
It's gonna be a good time.
They always are.
They always you talk about time flying on this program.
You ought to you ought to see how fast time goes by at one of these things.
Well, I just hope no leotards are involved.
Uh look, I just want to make a couple of points.
Um uh to back up what you've been saying about the city officials of New Orleans and um and as well as the people.
Uh I'm from St. Tammany Parish.
Uh that's the parish uh north of Orleans Parish across Lake Ponchatrain.
And uh I grew up there.
Uh I was there.
Uh I left there yesterday.
I went over there to uh pick up uh family to bring them back where I'm at in Tennessee.
But uh uh just to give you I want to point out some demographics about that place, about that area, and it it gets gives you a better understanding of what happened.
Uh new uh St. Tammy Parish over the last twenty or thirty years has been.
Hey, hey, hey, uh Rurland Harry, hang on just a second, I got a break coming up in ten seconds.
And so let me just you you uh start over right at that point.
Okay.
Um and I'm gonna I'm finding something here that's gonna back up what you say.
Uh because I know what you're gonna get into.
It's it's pretty good.
So sit tight, folks, we'll be back here in just a second.
Don't go away.
A man a legend, a way of life.
Verlin and Dresden, we're back to you now, sir.
Okay, start where you were gonna start, so we'd have some uninterrupted time here.
Okay.
Uh the uh so the so the St. Tammy Parish is mostly made up of uh of Republicans, it's a large majority of Republicans, and most of uh so many of them have moved from Orleans Parish through the years.
And uh what happened after the storm, St. Tammy Parish immediately went into action.
They were cleaning up and uh they had plans in place.
Uh even amongst the chaos, there was organization because people had the mentality of what can I give to alleviate the situation, as opposed to Orleans Parish that is now overwhelmingly made up of Democrats and people with a mentality that says, okay, what can everyone else contribute to relieve my situation?
And so you have two different uh contrasts there of situations.
And uh I just came from St. Tammy Parish and things are going great.
It was a lot of destruction, but they're cleaning up, they're getting over it because people are putting in and giving.
And uh, you know, this shows you the mentality difference.
Well, I I know it's a hard thing to say, folks.
I I want uh he's he's really bouncing off something I said in the first hour of the program.
Um and trying to confirm it with his anecdotal evidence.
Uh and I I want to be honest with this is not easy stuff to say.
Uh because there's genuine suffering here.
But what I said at the top of the program was that uh among the obvious things to me is the utter failure of the entitlement mentality.
I mean, here here are people for generations have been voting for people that have been promising them X, Y, and Z and assuring them that uh you're gonna protect them and take care of them.
However, the government promises to do that, and the governments just cannot do uh certain things.
And the uh uh it's it's clear here uh uh that the you've you've got so many things on display, the mainstream press going to ignore them all, but you've got the utter failure uh for lack of a better term of the welfare state.
You you've got an utter failure of the socialistic concept of uh I mean this is a democrat-run city, a democrat run state, and you've got rampant poverty.
Now I'm not saying it doesn't exist in uh in Republican-run areas, but one of the complaints, one of the charges the left always makes is that the rich don't care about the poor.
The rich well and a Republicans don't care about the poor.
And of course it's gotten absurd now that Bush wanted black people to die.
Bush ordered the levees uh to be broken and also that would flood.
I mean it's getting absurd out there.
Uh but here you have people who have been promising, I've been saying that but but their their ideological identity is we care about our underclass, we care about our poor, we take care of other people don't.
Well, it doesn't look like that.
It sure doesn't look like that.
And you contrast this to other areas where where where there's uh like I was giving the contrast between Houston and uh and New Orleans in terms of you know, by all rights, New Orleans ought to be the the petroleum capital of this country.
But Houston isn't Houston had to dig a ninety-mile ditch, had to dredge a ninety-mile ditch so that oil tankers could get from the Gulf up to Houston or close to it, for Houston to become the capital when all that was built by nature for New Orleans, and uh New Orleans was there first, and New Orleans was first with oil um in the Gulf, and yet uh Houston's taken over, and you can you can compare uh the way governments are run and the way individuals live to find the answers to why that uh difference exists.
And it's it's just the way it is.
Uh the the one of the things I think it'd probably be accurate to point out, we we all see the suffering um on the uh television last week, but you know how much suffering was going on in New Orleans, you know how much poverty was in New Orleans before this hurricane hit.
We just never saw it.
Do you know how much violence goes on in New Orleans?
How what a violent city it had become.
We never saw it, not on television.
Was it reported?
Uh But it's uh it's it's why some people have left New Orleans.
I know people who've left it for uh the reason it's not a safe city in s in certain parts.
Uh and all this does, all this is just it just robs people of their potential when you when you tell them that they don't have what it takes to make the decisions in life necessary to prosper, uh, that you'll do it for them.
Uh you are short-changing them.
You are penalizing them.
You're you're you're you're actually preventing them from realizing their own potential.
Uh and if you if you look, you know, a lot of liberalism is a condescending uh arrogance.
You don't have what it takes.
You don't have what it takes to make the right decision.
You do you won't use your money the right way.
That's why we need to tax it and spend it for you, so it'll be it'll be sent to the right places.
I mean, this is a general overall view of how the left views humanity in general, particularly the elitist left.
And they tell themselves in all this that they're exercising caution.
Well, you know, these plebs, they don't really know what to do.
We will care for them.
Well, you see that they can't and they don't.
Now, along the lines here with what Verlin was saying, uh National Review Online on one of their blogs, The Corner, uh, from September the first.
This is an email to uh Rich Lowry, who's the editor at National Review.
He said, Mr. Lowry, I teach history at a small liberal arts domin denominated college in central Louisiana, and I uh spend a lot of time at National Review Online every day.
Among the classes I teach is one on Louisiana politics and government.
And I I thought you uh might find the following interesting and useful.
Regarding the levy system in New Orleans, one can't truly understand how lucky the city was just to have the system that was in place without understanding the truly Byzantine structure of New Orleans politics, which requires separate governing boards for each levy that is built.
Rather, one agency that is in charge of flood prevention, there are scores of them.
Instead of one, there's scores.
Building in redundancies would have required more boards, which would have lessened the political power of those on the existing boards.
I seriously doubt that even now after this catastrophe that we in Louisiana will see this system change because the structure's mandated by the Louisiana Constitution.
Any change requires not just statewide approval, but must also be approved by a majority of voters in Orleans parish.
Given how many local politicians whose fiefdoms would disappear, that won't happen.
And so we will see this disaster occur again and again.
So I didn't even know this.
Uh but you have uh separate governing boards for every levy that is built.
And that's why there hasn't been redundancy, because that would delineate or dilute the power of the existing boards.
Here's the data on the poll.
The ABC News Washington Post poll.
Uh and it found that Americans were not as offended as the media was offended uh by President Bush.
In a poll most likely to be played down by both the Washington Post and ABC News, the sponsors of the polls, it shows that far fewer take George W. Bush personally to task for the hurricane, and public anger about the response is less widespread than some critics would suggest.
This is not what you would assume from the media's coverage.
Two-thirds in this ABC News Washington Post poll say the federal government should have been better prepared to deal with a storm this size, and three-quarters say that state and local governments in the affected areas likewise were insufficiently prepared.
But according to the media, the federal government, Bush in particular, deserve the bulk of the criticism.
When asked about Bush specifically, the poll found 55% say Bush does not deserve a significant level of personal blame for problems in the federal response to the crisis.
So I that's over the weekend I wasn't worried about this stuff.
I just I I still think it constitutes more of the left's self-destruction.
I think all these pictures show us show a lot more people a different view than uh what you would think is being shown uh by the uh by virtue of what's on the uh mainstream press.
And now about the levies.
I got this from Power Line.
It's a it's another great blog out there, and uh it was also on Free Republic.
Uh Freepers are doing great work on all this.
The New York Times is leading the shameless Bush and Republican bashing with respect to the response to Hurricane Katrina.
One of its themes is that Congress didn't pay enough attention to flood control in the Gulf.
But Donald Luskin reminds us of this bit of wisdom from the New York Times editorial page earlier this year.
If you've been paying attention, uh, and I don't know how long you can before you just have to find something else to do with all this on television 24-7.
But there has been talk that the Bush administration was presented with this massive $14 billion plan to uh upgrade the levees and do a lot of work in the Mississippi Delta.
It would have taken ten years, and even if it had been approved, the work would not anywhere be near ready, wouldn't have prevented the uh levees from breaking, but at least somebody would have cared and done something.
And everybody's been walking around, although the Bush vetoed it or reduced it, didn't veto it, but the Bush administration cut the funding from 14 billion to 2.3 billion.
Right?
You heard oh you heard that one.
Oh, you heard okay, so you heard about this big 14 billion dollar plan that Bush slashed to 2.3 billion.
Okay, well, good.
If you've heard that, then listen to this.
Here's the New York Times editorial page earlier this year.
Anyone who cares about responsible budgeting and the health of America's rivers and wetlands should pay attention to a bill now before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
The bill would shovel 17 billion, I guess it's 17 billion, to the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects.
This at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs.
Among these projects is a 2.7 million dollar boondoggle on the Mississippi River that is twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences.
Earlier this year, the New York Times editorialized against the 2.7 billion dollar program.
They called it a boondoggle.
Because they said it twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences.
So they put this plan together.
New York Times had this agency look at ah, this thing's a it'll never work.
It's a boondoggle money down the drain, so to speak.
They end up saying this is a bad piece of legislation.
Earlier this year, the New York Times did the they agreed with Bush.
This is in fact, Bush authorized the $2.7 billion, and the New York Times was against a penny of it being authorized.
But now, after the fact, guess who's forgotten?
The New York Times forgot what they editorialized earlier this year, and the rest of the sycophants in the media which follow the New York Times apparently don't know this at all because now Bush is a skin flint for not appropriating the whole 17 billion.
We'll be back in just a second.
I guess we are performing a much needed public service here today, folks, and I'm I'm honored to be the uh purveyor of such information to you.
Quick time out, don't go away.
Okay, we're back, and we got broadcast excellence rolling on here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Dan in Wheatland, Wyoming.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Yes.
Um are you there still?
Yeah, still here.
Oh, all right.
Um yeah, I was thinking, wow, you uh said you weren't gonna leave Florida because your cat doesn't travel well.
And it was gonna be like a two.
Uh okay.
Let me take over here because I know what you're trying to say.
Hurricane Katrina was originally aimed uh 30 miles south of us.
Uh Hurricane Katrina was supposed to hit uh Boca, Fort Lauderdale.
It actually hit a little south of that and went on and kept turning southwest and ended up ravaging Miami and even worse uh areas uh southwest of Miami.
And I said at the time that I was not leaving uh this hurricane.
I wanted to hang around.
Cat didn't travel and um let me just uh tell you uh Dan, this is the first hurricane I have not fled.
Uh there was no evacuation order given for this hurricane.
The town where I live did not even put shutters up on the public buildings.
There was uh the there was a voluntary evacuation for where I live, mandatory evacuation beginning about twenty miles south.
Uh but uh I uh I decided not to leave since the authorities uh uh did not issue a a mandatory evacuation.
Plus, I was monitoring this thing, and it was not, it was not going to be out over water long enough to become a category two or three.
It barely became a one when it hit.
If there's a mandatory evacuation, as there have been an I'm out of here.
And I'm out of here days in advance.
So see, here's what what really is happening here is this guy from Wyoming is trying to say you you people shouldn't listen to a thing I'm saying about the people of New Orleans and the evacuation plan, because when there was a hurricane headed my way, I didn't leave.
So forth and so on.
I'll I'll I'll tell you this, uh, Dan.
I'll I'll I'll I'll even say that if if the hurricane had hit me head on.
And if the hurricane had uh had had been a category one and the city had been pretty bad, as bad in my area as it was in South South Florida, south south of where I live.
Uh you know what I know?
I know that I'd be the last person they'd look for.
People where I live would be the last people they would look for.
And you know why?
Because they would assume I got whatever it takes to get myself out of there or what have you.
Uh they would they would they would go to other areas first.
And since I know this, Dan, the last thing I would be doing is going on television and complaining about where's my president and where's George W. Bush and why didn't Bush get somebody down here to get me out.
I literally don't well I can't say that.
I do understand that thinking.
I just I do not have uh uh an entitlement mentality.
Uh so you know it's you can you can try to draw your analogy all day long, but this is typical of what of what liberals do.
Rather than argue with me or discuss with me the substance of what I said, old Dan here once try to discredit me and make me a hypocrite.
Uh which again is typical because it just represents and illustrates the left does not want to discuss the issue when we are right.
They want to discredit us because they have no answer for us.
So they have to try to discredit us.
Uh nice bold attempt out there, Dan, but work harder next time.
Uh David in Albany, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
How are you?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Mega did this to you, and thanks for all you're doing, because uh just back from Malief myself, uh doing some flights myself, and it's really demoralizing to get back and you get on the net or you listen to the news, and someone by the likes they've either Pierce Brosnan or Sean Pen or Jesse Jackson, whoever, down there badmouthing the enormous effort.
When we flew into New Orleans, we could hear on the discreet channels the amazing amount of effort going out, especially by the guys flying Helos.
You know, Rush, I can't I I can't even comprehend it.
These guys are literally going door to door with helicopters, hanging guys down to go knock on doors, looking for people that are that are known handicapped, looking for people that are in peril.
You know, you know why?
I'll tell you why.
It's because they see this done in movies, except they don't see it.
They see people hanging out of supersonic jets or falling out of supersonic jets and surviving.
This looks like child's play compared to what's, you know, in movies these days.
This but you are absolutely right.
I know your crews down there have been working 24-7 in a lot of cases.
And working beyond uh beyond the normal rest and breaking points.
Uh but it's just a pol look at look at don't don't try not to take it personally, David.
It's just it's just the latest political opportunity for the people you mentioned.
Uh the Jesse Jacksons and the Pierce Brumn.
Who are these Pierce Brosnettes?
Sean Penn goes down and his boat springs a leak.
You know, who the who the hell is he to talk?
Sean Penn has an enormous amount of money that I know of, being the actor that he is, and he goes down there with a single boat and an entourage so big that someone has to yell at him, hey, who you gonna rescue with that?
I mean, he was down there for a photo op.
Oh, I know.
He was done it for well, no, he was wearing a flak jacket, too, but he went and tried to rescue his boat sprung a leak.
Did you hear about that?
He was the picture of Sean Penn is of him bailing out his rescue boat.
Because it uh it sprung a leak, and Ari is criticizing you guys.
I I don't blame you.
Back here in just a second.
Well, I got to about uh 25% of the stack of stuff today, folks.
So uh we've got John Roberts and a bunch of stuff to talk about tomorrow and uh whatever else happens uh in this hurricane story, and we will be here and make sense of it all as we do each and every day.
See ya then.
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