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Sept. 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 7, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #2
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So say Rush, it's important.
You've got to repeat it.
You gotta do that again.
So I don't like to repeat things because uh keep it moving.
Now that's important.
You gotta repeat it.
So okay, I'll I'll repeat it, but I'm not gonna spend as much time as I did in the first hour.
But I guess it is important.
Greetings and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I am America's anchor man.
Ensconced here at the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
That's a phone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
And we uh all of you people on hold, I uh love you being there, and I appreciate your patience.
I'll get to you in a second segment of this hour.
We'll get started.
Uh email addresses rush at eIBNet.com is a poll out today, USA Today CNN Gallup.
609 adults taken September 5th through the 6th.
CNN has a story on the poll, but they don't highlight the big number in the poll.
They don't highlight the primary uh meaning of this poll.
I haven't been to USA Today's site in about an hour and a half, and I didn't see anything prior to that on their site.
But but basically this.
Only 13% say that George W. Bush is most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane.
Only 13% after a week plus of efforts once again by the association of left-wing kook fringe members in the mainstream media to once again destroy this presidency.
Only 13% say that George Bush is most responsible.
I maintain to you that that 13% is the same 13% that's been around hating Bush since 2000.
It's not growing.
That 13% is the kook fringe, the George Soros Moveon.org crowd, the Michael Moore uh uh uh brigade, whatever, the mainstream press.
That's it.
And it's not growing, folks, because you don't grow your movement.
You don't inspire anybody with hatred.
Nobody wants to be around hatred.
The thing that the mainstream press and these these these kooks on the left don't understand is this is a natural disaster, this is a hurricane.
People don't look at news like this through a political prism.
They don't see something like this say, oh wow, this is gonna be good for my guys or bad for my guys.
They don't see it, and they are repulsed by this kind of coverage.
I will guarantee you that as well.
They are not they're not sitting there looking at this the same way political junkies do.
And so much anymore, the mainstream press looks at everything through a political prism.
There isn't any reporting anymore.
Everything is political because the objective of the mainstream press in the far left is to destroy Bush.
And they're gonna get frustrated, in fact, they already are.
They're they're they're they're fit to be tied over this number, 13 percent.
Now you contrast this with a piece that's in the Washington Post today by Dan Balls.
Now, Ball's Peace, uh, B A L Z Ball's Peace obviously uh had to be filed before the results of the poll were known, makes my point though.
Dan Balls is a great reporter, uh, according to a lot of people.
In fact, ABC's The Note says that this is the piece today you have to read.
Of all pieces in the news in the uh in the Beltway culture today, the Dan Balls piece.
That's you've got to read it, it's a must-read.
And the headline of this piece is for Bush, a deepening divide.
Katrina crisis brings no repeat of 9-11 bipartisanship.
Well, now wait a minute.
Only 13% say Bush is most responsible?
If you want the other numbers, 18% said federal agencies are most responsible.
25% said state and local officials are most responsible.
38% said nobody's to blame.
Six percent had no opinion, and 29% said that top officials in the federal agencies responsible should be fired.
63% said they shouldn't.
So you very sensible outlook here on the part of the people poll.
They don't look at this politically, they don't think that this is anybody's fault.
And they don't sit here and make political calculations on the basis of recovery efforts.
But the mainstream press is, and you get this story from Dan Balls for Bush, a deepening divide.
There's no deepening divide.
There's a wished for, there's a hoped for deepening divide.
Katrina Crisis brings no repeat of 9-11 bipartisan.
How long did that 9-11 bipartisanship last?
A week.
How long did that take to fall apart and descend into pure politics?
We know that it didn't last long, and the left laments it's all Bush's fault.
Bush has reached out to the left more than any Republican president I can remember.
Letting Ted Kennedy write the education bill, consulting with Democrats on a Supreme Court nomination pick.
And that's just two examples.
There are countless others.
But it counts for nothing.
Balls' peace begins this way.
When terrorists struck on September 11th, 2001, Americans came together in grief and resolve rallying behind President Bush.
But when Hurricane Katrina hit last week, the opposite occurred, with Americans dividing along sharply partisan lines in their judgment of the president's and the federal government's response, and it did not happen, Dan.
It's what you wanted to happen.
It's what you see, it's what the television journalists see, it's what the news media reported, but you're not reporting anymore.
You are fulfilling an agenda.
You think this is what's going to happen, so you go out there and report it.
Or you want this to happen, so you report.
There is no deep political divide.
The political divide's no deeper now than it was before Katrina struck.
Cindy Sheehan did not change the political divide.
The political divide has been there since Florida 2000 because the Democrats can't accept losing their power that they had for 40 years.
The Democrats have collectively lost their minds with each passing year since 2001.
Now, as Dan Quayle once famously said, a mind's a terrible thing to lose.
And the Democrats are illustrating this in flying colors.
And the mainstream press is right there pushing them all over the cliff.
The starkly different verdicts on Bush's stewardship of the two biggest crises of his presidency underscore the deepening polarization of the electorate that has occurred on his watch.
That's just flat out B.S. in the words of the great general Russell Onore, that's just flat out B.S. Bush is winning elections with ever expanding margins.
The Republicans are winning elections with ever-expanding margins.
There's no truth to this.
It's absolutely absurd.
To his critics, Bush is now reaping what he has sown.
He's reaping what he's sown.
What I see is everybody's getting a $2,000 debit card.
We're throwing money into New Orleans left and right.
We've rescued 180,000 people, and we're going to rebuild the city.
What the hell's supposed to happen?
These opponents argue that Bush has favored confrontation over conciliation with the Democrats while favoring a set of policies aimed at deepening support among conservative base at the expense of ideas that might produce bipartisan consensus and broader approval among the who he doesn't care about his approval rating.
Cares about doing what's right.
Why is it?
This is a classic example of talking about recent days, recent weeks.
The left has this arrogant sense of supremacy about them.
Bush, as a conservative is a kook, is an oddball.
He's supposed to govern in a bipartisan way.
He's supposed to reach out and let the losers pretend they won.
He's supposed to reach out to the losers and say, I feel bad that you lost, but I'm going to let you run the show since even though I won.
Just to make you feel better, because that's what the press wants.
Losers lose.
Losers don't get to run the show in the American political system, but we're about to change that too.
All this focus on minority rights.
Pretty soon, if the left keeps losing, we're going to redefine majority and minority.
Minority means you have the power in America because this government was set up to protect the minority against the rights of the majority, and so we're going to pass a law saying the majority cannot rule.
That's where we're headed.
That's how asinine all of this is.
Now, Mr. Balls then goes on in the second half of the paragraph to spell out what the Republican version of Bush's performance is.
And in this paragraph, he attempts to set up the big partisan divide that's out there.
Whatever reality lies behind these mutual recriminations, the path from post-9-11 unity to the rancor and finger pointing in the aftermath of Katrina's fury charts a clear deterioration and political consensus in the U.S. No, it doesn't.
It represents panic, childishness, immaturity, and sore sportsmanship on the part of the left.
They started the finger pointing.
They've been finger pointing since 2001.
They have tried Bill Burkett.
They have tried Cindy Sheehan.
They tried the Jersey girls.
They've tried everything.
They tried Katrina, and it hasn't worked.
Cindy Sheehan's going to be soon showing up in her Birkin stocks on the outskirts of New Orleans, folks.
Hoping to get some airtime, some camera time, trying to give a little goose to this thing that's obviously not working.
Only 13% blame Bush.
If this is such a partisan charged atmosphere in the country, how come only 13% blame Bush?
And how come that's the same 13% that blame Bush no matter what The issue is it comes up.
Most Americans don't look at things through the prism of politics.
They save that for election years.
The mainstream press and the kooks on the left have decided that every event is an election event because they are obsessed with getting their power back and running the show in Washington, D.C., and they cannot come to grips with the fact that not only have they lost their losing in ever greater margins, and what they don't grasp is that what they're doing is distancing themselves even further from the mainstream population of this country.
The mainstream population of this country is repulsed watching this garbage on television that's going for news coverage and reading this drivel in newspaper that supposedly constitutes news coverage.
All it is is the singular expression of hatred for George W. Bush and conservatives to the point that it is silly.
Bush steered the hurricane in New Orleans so that blacks would die.
Bush caused the hurricane because he didn't do anything about global warming.
Bush led to the problems in the aftermath because he had all the National Guard over to rock.
Do you people that bring forth these ideas understand how ludicrous they sound to ordinary people?
Ordinary people see a hurricane as a weather event, a natural disaster.
They know we have no control over it.
They know no one's responsible for it.
They know no one created it, they know no one steered it.
There's no way a human being can be blamed for it.
Yet you attempt to persuade reasonable people they ought to blame somebody for the hurricane.
Then the aftermath.
And it's failing.
It's failing big time.
13% blame George W. Bush.
If there's a disconnect in this country, it's between the elites on the left and the average ordinary American in this country.
One doesn't understand the other and is quickly losing the ability to do so ever again.
Quick time.
Folks, it's a great lesson.
And when you become subsumed, consumed with hatred, you lose rationality.
You make an utter fool of yourself.
And you don't inspire anybody to join your team either.
Back after this, don't go away.
We're gonna have to call this a suicide watch, what the Democrats are doing here, folks.
There's no other way to describe this.
I mean, it's the Wellstone Memorial Times 10.
All right, here's here's the latest.
Uh Denny Hastert, evil Republican, and Bill Frist, evil Republican doctor, who, by the way, went down to treat victims in New Orleans while Howard Dean screeched and shouted about absolutely nothing from parts unknown, have agreed that there will be a joint House-Senate investigation of what went wrong in the Gulf Coast area with Hurricane Katrina.
Now, once again, this is all fine and dandy, but I want to know why these people get exemptions.
I want to know why they get to do the investing.
I want to know why it is that nobody ever looks at them.
They're the ones that come up with the laws that are followed.
They're the ones that come up with the spending plans, they're the ones that come up with the like Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton voted for a Homeland Security Bill, which was uh H.R. uh 505 government reform.
Dick Army sponsored it.
Senator Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton voted yes to establish the Department of Homeland Security and for other purposes, and part of this was the consolidation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency into the Homeland Security Department.
Mrs. Clinton yesterday goes down to Houston, flies back to Washington, says, I'm gonna bold move.
I'm gonna I'm gonna move that we pull FEMA out of the Homeland Security.
Yeah, right.
That's really bold.
That's really fabulous.
Well, she voted for doing it in the first place.
Now she she she acts like an innocent bystander like she had nothing to do with this.
They all get away with this.
But here's the piece de resistance.
In addition to the joint House Senate investigation, Dingy Harry, Senator Harry Reed demanded to know whether Bush's Texas vacation impeded the relief efforts, and he wants an investigation.
Senator Harry Reed wants to investigate whether Bush's vacation impeded relief Efforts.
And Nancy Pelosi, Miss America, assailed President Bush as oblivious in denial about the difficulties.
They obviously have seen the 13% poll number and are beside themselves and think, well, we're not hitting him hard enough.
You know what their model for this is in case you forget?
They they think that they are uh replicating the strategy employed by the Republicans when Clinton was in the White House.
They think that it was nonstop drumbeat of Clinton criticism every day, two or three different issues every day, and they think that that's what hurt Clinton, and that's what hurt the Democrats.
What they don't understand is that the criticism of Clinton wasn't gratuitous and it wasn't strategic, it was in reaction to shocking policy initiatives like nationalizing the health care system.
Hey, if you love bureaucracies, folks, you love the bureaucracies that did so well down there in uh in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
How about that running your health care, huh?
Huh?
Huh, Mrs. Clinton?
Eh.
Any comments?
So that's right, Dinji Harry.
I mean, you act like you're really a serious guy here.
We have an investigation in a Bush's vacation.
Here's Cynthia in St. Louis, as I promised we got to the phones.
I'm glad you waited, Cynthia.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Um, I heard on Fox News this morning that the mayor of New Orleans produced a DVD that was to be sent to all the residents so that they would know what to do in case of an emergency.
First of all, how poor are these people?
They all have DVD players.
Number two, I dare say that uh I think my my sympathy from now on is gonna go to the communities like mine who are absorbing most of this welfare riff raff, not the working people, because now the gangs uniformed and non that were busted up in New Orleans are gonna be in our communities.
That's just great.
I love that.
And what are they talking about rebuilding this open septic tank called New Orleans?
I would think that uh all the greenies in the EPA would be dead set against that.
After all, it's a natural wetland.
The whole thing is preposterous.
It clearly demonstrates the hypocrisy and not only the hypocrisy of the left, but the idiocy of the right to fall into the trap and play along with it and give everything away to people who don't deserve it.
Hey, Cynthia, let me ask you a couple questions then.
Uh what do you think about the two thousand dollar debit card to uh the victims of the hurricane?
Well, I'll tell you what, Rush.
Um, I just lost my job that I had year for years because um I speak out against Democrats and I work in courthouses and Bush's fault.
Oh, yeah.
Bush is thought you lost your job.
The the Democrats fabricated charges against me, and while I'm doing fine because I saved and prepared for such a day, I would love to have a two thousand dollar debit card right now.
These people have hit the jackpot.
This is more than they've ever had.
You can't say they've hit the You can't say they've hit the jackpot.
Now, don't sit Cynthia.
Rush.
They have not in our they have not hit the jackpot.
Rush, right now they're sitting in limbo, but when it's all said and done, they're gonna have new trailers, new apartments, new communities.
They don't want to the thugs don't want to go back to New Orleans.
They plundered everything there is there.
They're gonna do it to us now.
That's who we are.
That's that's the American people.
We're not gonna sit here and tolerate this kind of suffering.
That's who we are.
This is nothing unique.
By the way, I don't want to ruin your day here, but try this.
Three truckloads of fashion clothing seized by government agents for violating import quotas arrived at the uh astronaut in Houston today, so that hurricane Katrina refugees can uh can put it to use.
U.S. customs and border protection delivered about 100,000 items of uh of designer summer clothing with an estimated value of 2.3 million and said that much more is on the way to evacuees elsewhere.
How much of it do you think will get traded for crack?
Cynthia, why are you so bitter?
I'm bitter rushed because I grew up a Democrat, being sold a bill of goods, how the Democrat Party was for the little guy, and it was all a lie.
They're socialists.
All they want to do is take from working people, the people they supposed that they wanted to protect, and give it all to non-working people.
And I'm absolutely sick of it.
I mean, not to mention the rest of their crazy foreign policy uh philosophies and their views on abortion and homosexual marriage.
They're all liars, they're all hypocrites, and I'm really getting upset that the Republicans aren't standing up to them and saying, no, this is not rational.
This is crazy.
Sure, we don't want to leave him down there drowning.
Let's lift him up, put him in a shelter, not in fancy hotels, find shelters for them.
We're not We're not putting them up in fancy hotels.
Superdome is not you wouldn't want to live in the superdome.
No, you're right.
I wouldn't want to live in the superdome, but I wouldn't mind having some of the new housing that they're talking about spending money on.
Well, what is that?
Habitat for humanity?
Jimmy Carter's gonna go pound some nails or something.
Uh houses and boxes that's not.
You know, this is Cynthia, this is this is what we do.
Uh uh, you know, the families of those who lost their lives on 9-11 got an average payout of uh what was it, 1.9 million dollars.
Some families got as much as ten or twelve million dollars.
The average payout was 1.9 million.
This is uh but what if what if the Katrina victims start demanding that?
You know, we've set a precedent here with 9-11.
Hold on to your back pockets.
Hi, we're back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
An interesting story of all places today in the Los Angeles Times.
Displaced residents of New Orleans, especially the poorest blacks who were hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina, are pondering whether they will try to return to a town the tour guide's often overlooked, one that has suffered decades of crime, corruption, and grinding poverty.
I knew this was the big question to me has always been when all this stuff normalizes, how many of these poor people that were living in the just the bowels of poverty in that town are gonna go back there.
How many are gonna go back?
Katrina had a tremendous impact on the black people who lived here, said Lance Hill, director of a diversity training program at Tulane.
The city was tough on a lot of them even before the hurricane.
A lot of them were already unemployed or had minimum wage jobs.
Many of them were renters.
They don't have anything to come back to, and a lot of them are just not going to come back.
Before the storm, most Americans knew New Orleans is a blend of old Southern elegance and bourbon street decadence.
The aftermath, however, is highlighted a primarily black city, where one-third of African Americans live below the poverty line.
What's not stated here is that this city has been run by Democrats for 60 years, as has the state.
Many of those hit most severely by the storm are not sure that they want to go back.
Thomas Laland, a 60-year-old black man said, I don't have any money for gas.
As the flood rose chest high last week, he waited from his submerged apartment of the ninth ward to the Superdome, where he and thousands of people, nearly all of them black, waited for days without food, water, or security.
Lalande escaped to a Baton Rouge shelter, and for now he has no plans of going back.
So what for?
I don't have nothing back there.
And where some saw grim images and shattered futures, the city's most destitute saw rare opportunity.
Actually, some people were a little better off after the storm, said a 26-year-old man who spoke on condition of anonymity as he took groceries out of a looted store last week.
I had gotten to the end of my rope.
Now I got a little something.
This is this is this is pardon me a minute, my friends.
My nose is running here.
That is just what this guy's a looter.
They just quoted a looter in the LA Times.
Actually, some people were a little better off after the storm.
I'd gotten to the end of my rope.
Now I got a little something.
But even middle class blacks are reconsidering their futures.
Herman and Christie Tate, devotees of the city's music and culture said they've already have calls out several different cities.
Herman 44, the head maintenance manager at Dillard University, and Christie 37, an accounting supervisor at an evil pharmaceutical firm.
They had a house and cars, but always thought they might have done better out of New Orleans.
Family kept us here, they said.
And I love this history of this place, the culture, birthplace of jazz, the food, the parties.
Can have a good time here.
So we stayed.
We allowed ourselves to have a second class status to Southern white folks.
But now Herman Tate said his elderly fatherly is missing, or father is missing.
We're looking at Houston, I said we're looking at LA.
He said.
Anyway, the story is all about how people aren't going to go back there.
There's nothing there for them.
Well, now, you know, I'm I I have to profess uh little uh curiosity or confusion over this because I thought liberal Democrats built these utopias.
I I I I thought they built these places that they ran, and uh boy, it was universal happiness and uh total equality, and everybody was uh, you know, hunky dory.
And now you find out that the wards of the state don't want to go back.
Many of the wards of the state don't want to go back.
One guy had to admit that he's better off after looting.
Storm actually gave him some economic opportunity that wasn't there beforehand.
Well while we are uh while we're on this, I'm looking for a story here.
Uh Michael Novak, who's a brilliant, brilliant man, and a friend of mine has written a piece that's on uh National Review Online today.
Aha, my friends, my formerly nicotine stained fingers have just grasped it.
Novak's piece today is entitled A Fuller Picture, beginning to understand what we are seeing in New Orleans.
There's been something askew in the reporting from New Orleans that's bothered me for a week now.
Finally I went to took a look at the 2000 census data on New Orleans, and a lot became clearer.
Now, according to the census, the population of New Orleans in 2000 was 485,000, of whom 326,000 were black.
136,000 were white.
The remaining 10,000 or so were each Asian and Hispanic.
Now, if 75 to 80% of the population evacuated the city safely before the storm, as everybody's reporting, that means that far more than half the block uh black population got out of there safely before the storm slammed into the city.
And even if all those who did not evacuate were black, and we know that's manifestly not true, even if all those who did not evacuate were black.
Twenty-five percent of the total population is only 121,000.
20% is 96,000.
By far the majority of blacks in New Orleans, who numbered as the storm began, some 326,000, evacuated in advance.
Majority of the people that got out of New Orleans were black.
Uh even they lost much, maybe everything, but at least they were not caught in the roiling water.
Secondly, I've heard ever since reading about Huey Long of the 1930s that Louisiana is one of the most corrupt and dependency-prone states in the Union.
Of all the cities in the South, New Orleans seems the most welfare-oriented, least entrepreneurial, most state-dependent, and least economically dynamic.
More than any other Southern city, it is old South rather than New South.
That, of course, is part of its charm.
It refuses the modern bustle, but says slow down be easy.
It lulls, it charms seduces.
And it's also the prototypical old-time welfare state city.
The census report shows uh what that means in vivid detail.
In 2000, there were only 25,000 two-parent families in New Orleans with children under 18.
By contrast, there were more than 26,000 female householders with children under 18 and no husband present.
In other words, slightly more mothers all alone with children than married couple mothers.
Again, here in a liberal socialist utopia.
In addition, there were more than 18,000 householders who were more than 65 years old and living alone.
Of these, most would normally be female.
Now, if you add together the 26,000 female householders with children under 18 and no husband present, and the 18,000 householders more than 65 years old and living alone, you have an estimated 40,000 female-headed households.
That explains the pictures we're seeing on TV, which are overwhelmingly female, most often with young children.
The chances of persons in this demographic being employed full-time year-round with a good income are not high.
The chances of them living in poverty and without an automobile are exceedingly high.
In the future, city planners ought to carefully count in advance the numbers of persons who fall in this demographic when they formulate evacuation plans.
Michael, it won't do any good.
They formulate plans, they don't execute them.
It's one of the problems.
He says uh the younger mothers among them have been abandoned by those they should have been able to count on, the males in their lives.
The over 65s in urban areas are likely to be totally dependent on social security and other government benefits without private pensions or homeownership of their own.
In emergencies such persons need someone else take care of them.
It's wrong to throw them at this point solely on their own resources.
Some will be able to manage that but by no means all is this not what our eyes are showing us among those who failed to evacuate in time to be sure thousands of those taking refuge are men and there are some are married couples, some are white, Hispanic and Asian.
More research could show that my own hypothesis and even visual observations are wrong, but the census data helps explain to me what my eyes are seeing.
Another question that bothers me I would also really like to know what happened to the better off blacks and whites of New Orleans who escaped before the storm hit.
How many have lost their homes?
How many have loved ones still unaccounted for what are things now like in those lovely suburbs around New Orleans not it's not only those who did not evacuate in time that seem to have suffered horribly.
I'd love to see more reporting about the middle class and sympathy for them, too.
They are Katrina's victims as well.
Is it possible that many of them will not receive the insurance payments they're counting on in order to get their lives started up again at a level not too far below where they were before the storm hit?
Have they taken a permanent hit?
How many will cope with that?
The poor may suffer worst of all, but they are not the only ones to taste bitter ashes in times of calamity and to find their souls tested.
Those of the middle class who worked hard maybe even work their way out of poverty played by the rules set aside some resources for times of trouble also deserve help especially just at the exact moment when everything they made so many sacrifices to attain has been taken from them.
It was just then, by the way, that Job was tried.
So might we all be.
Michael Novak, National Review Online, just trying to make sense of what the pictures on TV are saying to him.
So he went to the census stats and said, yep, what we're seeing all makes sense.
Yes, Mr. Stardley, Mr. Stardley has a question from the class.
Yes, what is the question?
Well, apparently not.
Apparently not.
Not only did the Clinton economic boom not reach down to New Orleans, apparently no economic boom reached down to New Orleans.
And we know that plenty of federal dollars went to New Orleans.
We know that plenty of state dollars went to New Orleans.
We've just recounted earlier in the program all the money that's been allocated to build levies and refurbish them and so forth that was spent on other things that didn't get there.
It is an interesting question.
bemoan uh the the uh the woe of poverty stricken New Orleans residents but somehow fail to mention who it is that's been promising to take care of them all these many generations as I say most people would think with Democrats running the show for generations for at least 60 years not only in the state but the city well you'd have a utopia down there wouldn't you and you wouldn't need any affirmative action down there because the great majority of the population is black.
So you wouldn't need any racial set-asides.
I'm at a loss, my friends, to understand the problem.
Back in a moment.
Talent.
Talent on loan from God.
L. Rush Ball, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Folks, the more I think about this, the more bamboozled I become, the more confused, the more disoriented I get.
I really don't understand it.
They had a black president for eight years.
They had a first black president for eight years.
We had the smartest, brightest first lady in history.
We had two Democrat senators, a Democrat governor.
We had generation after generation after generation of liberal rule.
in Louisiana and New Orleans coupled with the first black president uh for eight years uh in the 90s and yet the situation is what it was.
I mean, by all accounts, New Orleans should have been a utopia.
Should have been the example, the shining light for the rest of us to follow.
Liberals were totally running the show.
Democrat liberals totally running the show.
Nobody stopped them.
We need a commission.
We need a commission to examine the failure of liberalism in New Orleans and Louisiana.
I am demanding a commission today.
I am demanding an independent commission to find out just what the hell went wrong with liberalism, which I have been told is utopia, which I have been told is the epitome of fairness and equality.
It is the epitome of all its just and right and proper.
That there's no hatred, bigotry, or racism anywhere in liberalism, that there is no negativity whatsoever to be found.
It's a total utopia, and yet it was a disaster.
It was an absolute disaster.
Maybe we need this commission.
Maybe we need this commission to examine was liberalism on vacation for the last 60 years in New Orleans.
And in the great state of Louisiana.
A 60-plus year vacation.
How in the world can this misery be, folks?
Need a commission.
We need all these commissions, folks.
We don't need Congress.
We've had commissions to close bases, commissions to review Social Security, Commissioner Review 9-11.
Now a commission for this disaster.
And we need a commission to examine the failure of liberalism in Louisiana.
And I mean, this is a major failure of a major political party, is it not?
Right before our very eyes.
We need a commission.
This is Renee in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hi, Renee.
I'm glad you called.
Hi, Rush.
I am completely beyond angered at your collar, Cynthia.
I thought there'd be some people angry at that.
Oh my good.
They've hit the jackpot.
I mean, they've seen their babies die, their mothers die, their fathers die.
It is for a week a cried at the television station.
I cannot imagine being there.
Can can she put herself in their situation for one minute?
Well, I agree with you.
I thought I thought it was a statement was a little excessive, a little over the top, not very useful.
Not at all.
Not at all.
But the liberals tell us we need to understand people who make extreme statements, like Bush's Hitler, uh Bush wanted to kill blacks.
We we need like Bush should be assassinated.
There have been books written that we've been told that we should we should examine uh this kind of thinking and not be so quick to reject it.
Not be so uh knee-jerk as it were.
So maybe we should examine uh what what Cynthia had to say and and uh try to find out maybe if there's some lesson to be learned there.
Maybe a lesson, but all you have to learn is humanity.
Uh that's it.
Well, um she's angry.
Would you agree?
She's well, I know, but we need we need to understand her rage.
What about I'm right?
That's what we're that's what we're told about Cindy.
She had we must understand, we must have empathy.
We must try to understand why she's so upset and mad.
We must understand why Cynthia is so raging mad.
I mean, and by by the way, this this story from the uh LA Times indicates that many people in New Orleans think their lives have been uh, you know, those that survived their that they don't want to go back.
I mean, they're looking at brighter days by not returning there.
That's not hitting the jackpot.
Uh don't confuse that, but uh, you know, if I may be serious for a moment, uh I want to take you back to the first day of this before the levees even broke.
And I just want to remind you what I said.
This is gonna be horrible and it's gonna be a mess for a long time, but this place is gonna get rebuilt.
Economic activity will focus down there and things will happen.
Uh I don't know how long it's gonna take, but city is gonna be rebuilt, uh, and it will it will uh it will have its population.
The question is, who's gonna live there?
And why would the wards of the state who were treated the way they why would they go back there in the common sense?
Why would it be back?
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