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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 Swimball program rolls on.
We are safely ensconced here at the EIB Southern Command where another tropical storm has just been named.
Well, no, it hasn't been named, Tropical Depression 16, but it's going to be Tropical Storm Ophelia.
And it's right out there just south of Grand Bahama, Freeport out there.
They got tropical storm warnings from Jupiter, Florida, which is north of here, north all the way up to Titusville, maybe a little even farther.
It's not supposed to become a hurricane before landfall, according to forecast track, but it will become a tropical storm before hitting the northern east coast 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 EIBnet.com.
This was supposed to be announced today, what I have to tell you, but I understand it was announced in my absence on Thursday or Friday.
But here are the deals on, or here are the details.
On October the 18th in New York at what is now called a New Amsterdam theater, the Lion King Theater, where the Lion King is playing on Tuesday night, October the 18th.
I am doing 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 Ticketmaster.
All tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.
All tickets are $77.
Doing this in coordination with our New York affiliate, AM770W ABC.
So the event put together last week to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina will happen.
I'm sure it's October the 18th.
I've got the, 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 going to be either at 7 or 8 o'clock at night.
I'm not sure which.
Just a minor detail because crowds will form early to get in line.
But as I say, we're doing this to promote Hurricane Katrina relief and to fund it.
And it's, you know, I do these sparingly these days, ladies and gentlemen, sort of like the old Rush to Excellence tour 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.
And when I feel like it's over, it's over.
Sean Hannity will be there with, he'll provide the introduction.
And it's just going to be a great night, a fun night, Rush on Broadway.
Some people are going to say, Rush on Broadway?
But no, it's Rush on Broadway.
And we're especially thrilled to be superseding a Lion King for one night.
The animal rights people are going to be upset about this, no question about it.
But it's 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 to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina relief.
And tickets are on sale.
It went on sale at 10 o'clock this morning at Ticketmaster.
And I knew this had leaked out.
7 p.m. hit the stage, 7 o'clock, 7 o'clock hit the stage.
So adding the appropriate tardiness, probably 7.15 before hit stage.
People will be long-seated regardless.
But I was out in Los Angeles over the weekend, and I started hearing from people in Tennessee and other places, what?
You're doing a show on Broadway.
How do I get tickets?
And I didn't know it had been announced yet, so I didn't know really what to tell them.
So turns out it was, I don't even know if it was announced or it was leaked.
It was leaked, whatever, but a leak is the same thing as an announcement.
So, and there's a story about it in the New York Post today.
So, just wanted to, since it's me, I wanted to say something about this.
So, that's why I'm doing it now.
But note that we waited till the third hour to do this, but it actually, I should have let off the program with it because it is obviously for a tremendous charitable cause.
And that is, I mean, all the net proceeds, nobody's getting anything out of this, folks.
All the net proceeds will go to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, and all tickets are $77.
What I think we ought to do, and it's too late to do this.
I think the first five rows ought to be $1,000 or $2,000.
Well, this is for hurricane relief.
$1,000 or $2,000, but it's too late to do that because I'm sure the front rows are gone by now.
But if you want to go act fast, because the capacity of the theater is 1,800.
And these events usually average 5,000 to 7,000 when we do them in other cities.
So 1,800 tickets, even at $77, will probably go pretty fast.
But Ticketmaster, and you can do this online or if you want, Ticketmaster has a website, or you can go to a Ticketmaster office.
I said we're going to have audio soundbites, and we do.
And I want to start with something that happened on CNN this morning.
Soledad 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 mayor said that he told them to do to 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 going to 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 remember exactly what there was.
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 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.
The governor said no.
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 until there was the 24 hours passed that she could think about it.
This, according to the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagan, this that you just heard aired on 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 President Bush and the mayor.
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.
24 hours, is that right?
Was that what came out of that meeting on the tarmac with the president?
They gave me 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 coming to terms and agreements.
And I think that the effort's going great.
Well, it's sort of hard to wade through all of this, but there's one thing that's clear.
Is there not?
Mr. Snurdley, you want to take a wild stab here at what?
What is of these two soundbites?
The mayor saying, well, you know, the governor said she needed 24 hours.
Now Bush took her in a room.
And the governor said, well, it was too complicated.
I mean, I had to figure out what this was all about.
What does all this mean?
Well, we don't know.
Okay, maybe we know that she held things up for 24 hours.
But what we also know is, 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 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 and delineates the rights the states have versus the federal government.
And that's why there's a big argument when you get to 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 a gang are upset.
And they call justices that do this conservative activists.
The Commerce Clause is being used to ban guns in schoolyards in California.
Federal government has no power to do that unless you let it.
But if you want the federal government trooping in at every moment, the federal government is by the nature of bureaucracies and other more hideous things, it's going to end up taking control of a whole lot of things.
That's its nature.
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 going to 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 Honoré, from whom we will hear next.
Sit tight.
We'll be back after this.
By the way, folks, I made a slight error a moment ago.
The next named tropical storm slash hurricane on the list is Ophelia, but that's not the whole name.
If it becomes a tropical storm, which is forecasted, it'll be Tropical Storm Ophelia van den Hoovel.
So I wanted to be correct about that.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Press briefing yesterday with Homeland Security Chief Michael Cherdoff and Lieutenant General Russell Honoré, 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 that's been done by the National Guard and the Coast Guard, the first responders that the problem has been the organization.
They should be behind them lending them support.
It's 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.
That's B.S.
I will take that on behalf of every first responder down there.
It's BS.
I will not defuse where the congressman may have gotten that from or if he had a personal answer.
But I can tell you that's BS.
We've got the 300 helicopters and some of the finest EMS workers in the world working down there in New Orleans and they're 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 been reading these websites about how they're bottlenecks and there's too much and there's not enough urgency.
This sense of urgency, nobody really cares.
Subtone, they're black.
Nobody really cares.
That's 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 germinates and percolates up from these websites.
And this guy was mad when he heard it.
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.
You know, it's one thing.
I mean, 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've also seen stories, there are too many military now.
There are too many military that they're running into each other.
It is 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'm going to tell you what this is.
This hurricane and the recovery effort is just the next thing in line that 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, and I'm sure there are things before this, the National Guard story four or five times with no new information.
Then we have the forged documents from Bill Burkett.
Then we got the 9-11 Commission.
We had Richard Clark and the Jersey girls.
And then we got Cindy Sheehan and her story.
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 took the media's bait, hook, line, and sinker, some of them did, and started ripping on Bush and ripping on the federal government for not caring enough and not doing this and not doing that and so forth and so on.
And I know why.
They're just worried about their own image.
You know, they want to be thought of as independent and not part of the right wing, even though they are because they have so many associates and friends that are part of the D.C. media and 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.
Has this been on television?
Okay, rather than paraphrase this, let me find it here in the stack so that I can just read it to you directly.
The bottom line is that the ABC News Washington Post poll 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 not succeeded.
They have failed.
And I guess that's the reason why you have not seen this plastered all over the media in various places.
Well, I thought I had it near the top of the stack here.
I'll find it during the break and pass it on to you.
Quickly, Verlin in Dresden, Tennessee, 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 New York to see you there, do that show.
That'd be quite interesting.
It's going to be a good time.
They always are.
You talk about time flying on this program.
You ought to see how fast time goes by at one of these things.
Well, I just hope no leotards are involved.
But look, I just want to make a couple of points to back up what you've been saying about the city officials of New Orleans as well as the people.
I'm from St. Tammany Parish.
That's the parish north of Orleans Parish across Lake Pontrain.
And I grew up there.
I was there.
I left there yesterday.
I went over there to pick up a family to bring them back where I'm at in Tennessee.
But just to give you, I want to point out some demographics about that place, about that area.
It gives you a better understanding of what happened.
St. Tammany Parish over the last 20 or 30 years has been a lot of people.
Tell you what.
Hey, hey, hey, Verlin, here.
Hang on just a second.
I got a break coming up in 10 seconds.
And so let me just, you start over right at that point.
Okay.
And I'm finding something here that's going to back up what you say because I know what you're going to get into.
It's pretty good.
So sit tight, folks.
I'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 going to start so we'd have some uninterrupted time here.
Okay.
So the St. Tammany Parish is mostly made up of Republicans.
It's a large majority of Republicans.
And so many of them have moved from Orleans Parish through the years.
And what happened after the storm?
St. Tammany Parish immediately went into action.
They were cleaning up and they had plans in place.
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 contrasts there of situations.
And I just came from St. Tammany 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 this shows you the mentality difference.
Well, I know it's a hard thing to say.
Folks, he's really bouncing off something I said in the first hour of the program and trying to confirm it with his anecdotal evidence.
And I want to be honest with this is not easy stuff to say because there's genuine suffering here.
But what I said at the top of the program was that among the obvious things to me is the utter failure of the entitlement mentality.
I mean, here are people for generations that have been voting for people that have been promising them X, Y, and Z and assuring them that you're going to protect them and take care of them.
However, the government promises to do that.
And governments just cannot do certain things.
And it's clear here that you've got so many things on display.
The mainstream press is going to ignore them all.
But you've got the utter failure, for lack of a better term, or the welfare state.
You've got an utter failure of the socialistic concept of, 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 Republican-run areas, but one of the complaints and one of the charges the left always makes is that the rich don't care about the poor.
The rich, well, and the 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 levies to be broken and all so that it would flood.
I mean, it's getting absurd out there.
But here you have people who have been promising, I've been saying 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.
Then you contrast this to other areas where there's a, like I was giving the contrast between Houston and New Orleans in terms of, you know, by all rights, New Orleans ought to be the petroleum capital of this country, but Houston is.
And Houston had to dig a 90-mile ditch, had to dredge a 90-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 New Orleans was there first, and New Orleans was first with oil in the Gulf.
And yet Houston's taken over.
And you can compare the way governments are run and the way individuals live to find the answers to why that difference exists.
And it's just the way it is.
One of the things I think it'd probably be accurate to point out, we all see this suffering on the 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?
What a violent city it had become?
We never saw it.
Not on television.
Was it reported?
But it's why some people have left New Orleans.
I know people who've left it for the reason it's not a safe city in certain parts.
And all this does, all this is just it just robs people of their potential.
When you tell them that they don't have what it takes to make the decisions in life necessary to prosper, that you'll do it for them.
You are shortchanging them.
You are penalizing them.
You're actually preventing them from realizing their own potential.
And if you look, a lot of liberalism is a condescending arrogance.
You don't have what it takes.
You don't have what it takes to make the right decision.
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 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, National Review Online on one of their blogs, The Corner, from September the 1st, this is an email to Rich Lowry, who's the editor at National Review.
He said, Mr. Lowry, I teach history at a small liberal arts denominated college in central Louisiana, and I 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 thought you might find the following interesting and useful.
Regarding the levee 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 levee 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 is 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.
But you have separate governing boards for every levee 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.
And it found that Americans were not as offended as the media was offended 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.
Now, 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 that's over the weekend.
I wasn't worried about this stuff.
I still think it constitutes more of the left's self-destruction.
I think all these pictures show us and show a lot more people a different view than what you would think is being shown by virtue of what's on the mainstream press.
And now about the levees.
I got this from Powerline.
It's another great blog out there.
And it was also on Free Republic.
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.
Now, if you've been paying attention, 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 upgrade the levees and do a lot of work in the Mississippi Delta.
would have taken 10 years.
And even if it had been approved, the work would not anywhere be near ready, wouldn't have prevented the 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?
Oh, you heard that one.
Oh, you heard.
Okay.
So you heard about this big $14 billion 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 boondoggle on the Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences.
Earlier this year, the New York Times editorialized against the $2.7 billion 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, they agreed with Bush.
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 honored to be the 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, are you there still?
Yeah, still here.
Oh, all right.
Yeah, I was thinking, wow, you said you weren't going to leave Florida because your cat doesn't travel well, and it was going to be like a two level.
Let me take over here because I know what you're trying to say.
Hurricane Katrina was originally aimed 30 miles south of us.
Hurricane Katrina was supposed to hit 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 areas southwest of Miami.
And I said at the time that I was not leaving this hurricane.
I wanted to hang around.
My cat didn't travel.
And let me just tell you, Dan, this is the first hurricane I have not fled.
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 a voluntary evacuation for where I live, mandatory evacuation beginning about 20 miles south.
But I decided not to leave since the authorities did not issue a mandatory evacuation because I was monitoring this thing.
And 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, I'm out of here.
And I'm out of here days in advance.
So, but see, here's what really is happening here is this guy from Wyoming is trying to say, 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 tell you this, Dan.
I'll even say that.
If the hurricane had hit me head on, and if the hurricane had been a category one and the state had been pretty bad, as bad in my area as it was in South Florida, south of where I live, 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.
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 an entitlement mentality.
So, you know, it's you can, you can try to draw your analogy all day long, but this is typical of what liberals do.
Rather than argue with me or discuss with me the substance of what I said, old Dan here wants to try to discredit me and make me a hypocrite, 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.
Nice bold attempt out there, Dan, but work harder next time.
David in Albany, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
How are you?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Megadidas to you, and thanks for all you're doing because I'm just back from Malif myself 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 of either Pierce Brosnan or Sean Ten or Jesse Jackson or 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 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 handicaps, looking for teams in peril.
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 in movies these days.
But you are absolutely right.
I know your crews down there have been working 24-7 in a lot of cases.
We're not working beyond the normal rest and breaking points.
But it's just a – look at – don't try not to take it personally, David.
It's just – It's just the latest political opportunity for the people you mentioned.
The Jesse Jacksons and the Pierce Bremen.
Who are these?
Pierce Brosnan.
Sean Penn goes down and his boat springs a leak.
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 are you going to rescue with that?
I mean, he was down there for a photo op.
Oh, I know.
He was down there 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?
The picture of Sean Penn is of him bailing out his rescue boat.
Because it sprung a leak.
And Ari is criticizing you guys.
I don't blame you.
Back here in just a second.
Well, I got to about 25% of the stack of stuff today, folks.
So we've got John Roberts and a bunch of stuff to talk about tomorrow and whatever else happens in this hurricane story.
And we will be here and make sense of it all as we do each and every day.
See you then.
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