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Sept. 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 7, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Get this, folks.
I understand that Air America is raising funds for the kids in the disaster area to help with their operating budget at Air America.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellency Broadcasting Network, fun, frolic, and frivolity for all, as well as the serious discussion of issues.
I am serious about this.
I made this suggestion in the last hour, and I want to cement this and drive it home.
In New Orleans and Louisiana, we've had liberal domination, liberal rule for 60 years, generation after generation.
We've had the first black president in the nation's history for eight years in the 90s.
We had the smartest and brightest first lady in the history of the country at the same time we had the first black president.
We had Democrat governors and Democrat mayors.
We've had two Democrat senators.
It's been all Democrat, all liberal all the time down there.
And yet, it's not what we've been told that liberalism provides.
There was certainly no racism.
I mean, there's no utopia.
There was no utopia.
Liberalism tells us to be fairness and equality and no racism and no bigotry, no hatred, no homophobia, nothing.
Everybody will be happy.
And yet, you need no affirmative action.
I mean, you need no racial set-asides because the population in New Orleans was 75-80% African-American.
And yet, look what we see.
Now, if we are going to seriously examine failures, do we need to examine the failure of Democrat Party liberalism?
Unchecked?
Unchecked, no opposition.
I mean, do whatever they wanted to do.
And look what it led to.
Look what it was before the hurricane.
Look at the amount of abject poverty.
We need a commission, an independent commission, to examine and investigate the failures of liberalism measured against liberalism's promises, particularly in the city of New Orleans and throughout much of the state of Louisiana.
Phone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
I just got an interesting email on the subscriber email account.
Mr. Limbaugh, I am a conservative Christian.
I have only listened to you a couple times in my life.
I do know who you are and how popular you are among Republicans.
I decided to listen to you today, hoping that maybe you would have some other information on what Barbara Bush was quoted saying about the victims of Katrina staying in Texas.
I only saw one reference to what Barbara Bush, I don't remember what it is.
Anybody on the other side of glass know what Barbara Bush said about people in Texas?
I don't remember what it was.
But nevertheless, next paragraph.
I was interested in what you spoke about today, how liberals use negativity at a time like this to gain support for their cause in attacking Bush.
Couldn't we show some integrity as conservatives and take the higher road, just like Bush has done with working with Democrats?
I guess it's your job to put down Democrats, but what if we pointed out how great it is that Clinton and former President Bush are working together to raise money for Katrina victims?
Can we do that without making a rude comment about Clinton?
I'd like to follow George W.'s example.
I'd like to think that we are better than being nasty to each other, but start showing a little respect.
And the other side can give a little, and it's easy to work together.
Well, it was all fine and nandy up to the last couple of fragments of the sentence there.
Because this is from June Howard in Santa Ana June.
Totally understand your sentiments and appreciate them, but that's not how it works.
By the way, I do not attack Democrats.
And I'm glad you wrote the letter.
If you're a new listener, I'm sure a lot of people are listening for the first few times today and in the last week or so.
And let me just remind you, June, I don't get up here every day and go through the news and say, ooh, it can attack that person, it can attack that.
I defend.
I defend the institutions and traditions that made the country great when I see them under assault and attack.
And I defend the people that I support when they are under assault and attack.
We have, in American history, we've tried it your way.
We had Republicans who constantly went along with the Democrats and turned the other cheek.
And when that happened, the Democrats had about 300 members in the House of Representatives, and the Republicans had barely over 100.
Numbers close to that.
We also had very few senators.
And it just doesn't quite work because the other side's not interested in getting along.
The other side's interested in domination and expulsion of the beliefs that we hold.
We have to fight for them.
Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe.
I'll say this.
George W. does turn the other cheek, but there's a reason that he can.
It's because he has a chorus of defenders in this country that will defend him when he doesn't have to.
And that is a key point, June, for you to under Julie, for you to understand.
If Bush did not have the team that defends him and stands up, he would have to do it himself or he wouldn't survive.
But since he does have this team, he can turn the other cheek and appear to be apolitical.
And it's a great luxury that he has in this regard that previous presidents on the Republican side have not had.
And so I can understand how you might, this being your first or second time listening, have questions about what goes on here.
But believe me, all of the methods that you have suggested have been tried.
This president himself has reached out across the aisle countless times to try to get along with the demon.
In fact, you know what I'm going to do?
Julie, I know you're out there.
Let's go back.
Just grab me a looking at the soundbite roster because I'm going to make a point.
I guess any one of these sound bites will work.
But Julie, if you're just hanging, the rest of you hang with me here while I find the best way to illustrate this.
Let's go back to June 14th.
Let's start with cut five.
Let's go back to June 14th of 2004.
That was the day that Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's portraits were unveiled in the White House by President Bush.
And I on the air, after hearing President Bush's comments, said this.
Cookie, we're going to keep these soundbites handy.
And every time Hillary or Bill or somebody in their direct orb rips into Bush, we're going to play what Bush said about them at the unveiling of their portrait.
And we'll just let the side-by-side A-B juxtaposition speak for itself.
So here to review, here was President Bush speaking about Hillary Rodham Clinton on June 14th, 2004 at the White House.
From the earliest days of Could we try putting that in a different machine and see if it will work in a different machine?
In Park Ridge, Illinois, Hillary Rodham impressed her family and friends as a person of great ability and serious purpose.
At Maine Township High School South, at Wellesley College, and at Yale Law School, classmates saw her not just as an achiever, but as a role model and as a leader.
She inspires respect and loyalty from those who know her.
And it was a good day in both their lives when they met at the library at Yale Law School.
Hillary's commitment to public service continued when she left this house.
Listen, New York politics is serious business.
It's rough business.
It takes an extraordinary person to campaign and win the United States Senate.
She has proven herself more equal to the challenge.
And she takes an interesting spot in American history today, for she is the only sitting senator whose portrait hangs in the White House.
Now, Julie and the rest of you, this was the summer, June 14th of 2004.
Shortly after this, Bill Clinton was seen and heard in Europe campaigning for John Kerry and saying some absolutely despicable things about President Bush and his foreign policy.
He wouldn't dare say them in this country, so he went to foreign audiences in these Western socialist democracies.
He went to Great Britain.
He went to other places in Northern Europe and got standing ovations for ripping the Bush presidency and the Bush policy after this stunning display of grace on the part of President Bush.
Even after that, President Bush asked Senator or President Clinton to join his father, Bush 41, in tsunami relief.
This summer, Bush 41 invited the Clintons to vacation in Kinney Monkport.
Not just turning the other cheek, but reaching out example after example after example.
And yet, the Clintons continue to say disparaging things about George W. Bush, even while accepting his grace and gratitude, and even while accepting his invitations to return to prominence and fundraising efforts for the tsunami and Katrina.
This morning on Good Morning America, Charlie Gibson interviewing Hillary Clinton, Charlie said, doesn't Congress bear a good deal of the blame not only for putting FEMA in the Department of Homeland Security, but also for allowing the cuts in funds to fortify those levies year after year?
That's why I think we need an independent investigation.
The president has said he's going to look into it.
I think that can all be useful.
But at the end of the day, just like with 9-11, we need independent experts.
We need people with different kinds of experiences to take a hard look at everything that was done.
You know, it's been tough these last few years.
The primary priority of this administration domestically has been tax cuts.
And when tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country takes priority over everything, you're going to see some, you know, effects of that over the long run.
And, you know, Charlie, that's one of my larger concerns is that, you know, we need to put the American people first.
Oh, we're going to go back and recycle the 1993 campaign slogan here with Mrs. Clinton.
But Julie, do you see here?
In this bite, Good Morning America today, Mrs. Clinton reverts to form, attacks President Bush and his administration for tax cuts for the rich.
Those tax cuts have generated more revenue to the Treasury this year, reducing the deficit than anybody thought would happen because they've created new jobs.
They've expanded the economy.
The tax cuts worked.
But no amount of reaching out, no amount of grace, no amount of graciousness is going to cause these people to turn around and change who they are.
They are who they are, Julie.
And they are interested in only one thing, and they're going to sweep aside anybody who gets in their way.
Now, one more comment here before I have to go to the break.
Charlie Gibson, with an actual good question here.
Doesn't Congress bear a good deal of the blame, not only for putting FEMA in the Department of Homeland Security, but also for allowing the cuts in funds to fortify those levies year after year?
What do you mean allowing?
Congress authorized the Congress writes the legislation.
Julie, here's another glittering example for you.
Congress gets away with acting like innocent bystanders here.
Mrs. Clinton voted to put FEMA in the Department of Homeland Security.
She now wants an independent commission to examine what she did.
How silly is this?
We know what she did.
Why does Congress escape all of these investigations and all these commissions?
They're the ones that did this.
As to the money for the levies, there was a $17 billion plan put forth.
The Bush administration said, nope, going to pare that down to $2.3 billion.
This is what Mrs. Clinton's talking about.
The New York Times and other liberal organizations editorialized against the $2.3 billion.
It was a boondoggle.
It was a waste of money.
We needed the money for other purposes.
Now the same liberals are upset that Bush cut the $2.3 billion.
Congress cut the money to $2.3 billion.
Congress spends the money.
Congress authorizes expenditures.
Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee is where every money bill gets started in this country.
Congress does all this.
Congress voted to put FEMA into Homeland Security.
Congress voted to create the Homeland Security.
Mrs. Clinton voted for it.
It's as though she had no role in it.
She now needs an independent commission to come investigate her.
She can't tell us herself what she did and why.
No, we need it.
And we need an independent commission like 9-11.
That's a boondoggle if you want to see a boondoggle.
Abel Danger anybody?
Three more people have come forward in case you didn't notice it during all this, but three more have, well, I think it's another come forward, three total or four total now, have come forward to say, yep, we were doing it.
We found Mohammed Ada and so forth.
And it's being lost in all this Katrina coverage.
Abel Danger is still percolating out there.
9-11 Commission didn't get to the bottom of anything.
9-11 Commission was a vehicle for attacking George W. Bush.
And that's exactly what Mrs. Clinton wants in this commission, a vehicle, independent, quote unquote, which will have half Democrats and half Republicans to examine the failures of George W. Bush.
And Harry Reid now saying he wants a commission investigation into whether or not Bush's vacation led to his tardiness in responding.
So it's a nice idea to try to turn the other cheek and reach out.
Bush has tried it, and you see the reaction he gets.
It doesn't help him.
It doesn't accomplish anything.
And if he didn't have this chorus of defenders behind him, then he might be gone by now.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
The all-service radio program rush limb ball.
We've found the comments that Barbara Bush made, and here's basically what they are.
She said they're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
Speaking of the victims from New Orleans in the Astrodome, they're underprivileged anyway, so this is working well for them.
Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston, Mrs. Bush said late on Monday after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome.
What I'm hearing is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas.
Everybody's so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
Okay, so people had a cow over that, but can I just take you back?
By the way, this story says is an AP story.
This is what convinces people that the Bushes are out-of-touch patricians and country club Republicans.
But I just remind you, I had this story from the Los Angeles Times today.
Displaced residents of New Orleans are pondering whether they'll even go back to a town that the tour guides often overlooked, one that has suffered decades of crime, corruption, and grinding poverty.
Katrina had a tremendous impact on the black people who lived here, said Lance Hill of Tulane University.
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 were renters.
They have nothing to come back to.
A lot of them are just not going to come back.
Sounds pretty much like what Barbara Bush has said.
And there are some quotes from New Orleans residents, Thomas Lalonde, a 60-year-old black man.
I didn't have any money for gas.
That's why I had to leave.
He's no plans for going back.
What for?
I don't have nothing back there.
And some even said, look, a 26-year-old man who spoke on condition of anonymity as he took groceries out of a looted store last week said, hey, some people were a little better off after the storm.
I'd gotten to the end of my rope.
Now I've got a little something.
How is this any different than what Barbara Bush said?
Barbara Bush, she just heard these people saying the same things they're saying to the L.A. Times.
And yet everybody had a cow.
There's a big problem here with political correctness in this country.
You can't be honest about certain things.
You just can't do it.
It's best, it's best.
Just shut up.
Don't cause any waves.
Don't ripple the waters.
Don't do it.
Just bite your tongue.
Can't be honest.
I'm sure that she's walking around talking to people in the Astrodome.
Would you rather be in the Astrodome or be in New Orleans right now?
And when you finally see pictures of where you were and you remember what it was when you were there, why would you say you want to go back?
At any rate, it's for Harry Reid.
Harry Reid wants an investigation into whether George W. Bush's vacation led to tardiness in the relief effort.
Senator Reed, if you want to investigate Bush's vacation, why not investigate whether the people of Louisiana were well served by Mary Landrew?
Why not investigate the legislation she introduced over the years?
Not to simply increase spending on the levies, but whether she proposed spending billions to build a levy system that would withstand a category five.
You want to investigate Bush?
Let's investigate Congress and let's invest.
I'm serious.
Let's investigate liberal Democrats in New Orleans who for 60 years have run the show and we're told that liberalism creates a utopia.
And I don't think I'm looking at a utopia.
We need an investigation to find out where liberalism went wrong.
Hey, a question.
I'm going to throw a think piece out there for you.
You know, we've got the, we've got essentially the O'Connor vacancy has shown up again because now John Roberts is actually the Rehnquist vacancy.
So when should Bush nominate his next Supreme Court justice?
Should he nominate the Supreme Court justice this week?
So, you know, the Roberts hears me again on Monday.
Should he announce them during the Roberts hearings?
When should President Bush announce whoever his pick is?
And we can talk about the pick, but the hearings are going to gin up on Monday.
And Leahy is just Schumer.
By the way, Dick Durbin, I should point, Dick Durbin has been appointed the attack dog when it comes to Roberts.
And Schumer will be next in line, but they'll all be doing it.
But now all Roberts was pretty much a fait accompli, but now all bets are off.
Now he's for chief.
Oh, we need to know even more.
We need to dig even deeper.
Well, my point is, can the Democrats come up with anything different on two nominees at once?
You've heard of the old technique, flood the zone.
Should Bush flood the zone and throw another nominee right at these guys while they're in the middle of the Roberts hearings?
Absolutely.
I mean, these senators are in town to work.
You know, it's funny to listen to Leahy and all these, we have the soundbite.
Listen to these Leahy.
Why was there no water?
Why was there no food drop?
Where were you?
You're a member of the U.S. government.
Where were you?
Under his apple tree, reading about John Roberts, getting ready for the hearings.
Where were all these guys lamenting?
Where's Harry Reid?
Once a vacation investigation of George W. Bush.
Where was Harry Reid?
Where were any of these people doing anything?
They're nothing but complainers and whiners.
They don't solve problems.
And New Orleans is a classic illustration.
You will not solve problems.
You put liberals in charge of them.
Here's Marcia in Peoria, Illinois.
Welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Megha Dittos from Peoria slash Wiggins, Mississippi.
Rush.
Thank you very much.
I just have to get this off my chest, and I'll be fast.
I'm tired of the complete coverage of New Orleans getting all the news when a lot of their problems could have been avoided by just implementing the evacuation plan and the people that are in Pas Christian and Wavelen and Biloxi and Gulfport, that was not avoidable.
That was hurricane damage, not levee damage.
By the way, speaking of that, I want to address your question here and just explain to you why New Orleans is getting the brunt of the coverage.
I don't know if you've heard this or not.
This actually, this news was made on Monday, and I just found out about this last night.
A loose barge, tell me if you've heard this, a loose barge may have caused a large breach in the east side of the Industrial Canal flood wall that accelerated Hurricane Katrina's rising floodwaters in the lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish.
This, according to Al Naomi, Army Corps of Engineer project manager, he said the barge was found on the land side of the flood wall, leading corps officials to believe it could have crashed through the wall and sent a huge amount of water already pouring over the top of the wall into the neighborhoods immediately down the river.
Have you heard about this before now?
Yes.
I have.
Last night was the first I've heard that a runaway barge might have caused some of this, some of this damage.
I heard they thought that might have been what remember the rumor that it was dynamited?
Oh, no, no, no.
I didn't mean that.
No.
Oh, no, no.
I've heard the rumor that they dynamited the levees to kill black people.
Because Bush wanted black people to die.
That's right.
Well, they think the barge hitting the levee was the explosion that they heard.
So you heard that somebody aimed at barge at the levee and then caused...
Well, yeah.
But...
But back to the question is, are we not getting coverage over in the other area of Mississippi because we're not 75% black and we're perceived to have money?
Therefore, Rick Leventhal has been just about the only one on Fox that has about five minutes out of every hour on that area.
There was some coverage of the shelters in Louisiana, but there hasn't been a whole lot of coverage of the damage.
I just think you have to understand television.
The pictures out of New Orleans are far more compelling.
I know the damage in Biloxi and Gulfport is total.
Sure.
But you don't have pictures of the human suffering.
You've got inanimate objects destroyed.
But in New Orleans, you've got these people wading around in this murky water.
You've got the looters.
You've got the crowds outside of the superdome.
You have the total depiction of misery.
All the cameras have to do is aim at it.
You didn't see this in these other areas so much because the people weren't there.
They got out.
Sure.
Sure.
So, I mean, I mean, there are reasons why this is.
You're right to raise the question.
I don't know that because most of the residents in the communities you mentioned were not black and got out.
Are they less interested?
It'd be interesting to level that charge at them the way they make the same charge in reverse at George Bush, that he didn't rush into New Orleans because he wanted black people to die.
Every time I hear this, I literally do get enraged.
I literally get enraged.
So it would be fun to turn it back on the media.
Hey, are you guys ignored in Mississippi because most of those people got out of there safely and are white and there's no big news to you?
Just to see what they would say to it.
But I think the pictures out of New Orleans is far more compelling, and I think that's why they're there.
And God bless you for what you do.
Well, that's very kind of you to say.
I appreciate that.
Well, we appreciate you.
Thanks, Marsha.
Here's Scott in Raleigh, North Carolina.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hey, I thought it interesting that ABC, the same network that you had such trouble with by making some comments about a particular quarterback, is the same network that is allowing Kanye West to come and be a part of their NFL kickoff thing Thursday night.
And he totally, I mean, I think it's pretty much slandered the president of the United States.
And hey, he's still welcome to come.
Why is you make a comment that wasn't nearly as off-base or totally wacko?
And you're just, you get all that heat.
Don't you, I see why you got out of the TV business, Rush.
You know, I must confess to having the same thought.
Kanye West, I saw what he said on NBC Friday night.
Bush doesn't care about black people dying or whatever it was.
NBC cut that out of the West Coast feed.
They cut it out of the West Coast feed.
I'm kind of glad that they did.
If that had aired live in certain parts of the West Coast, who knows what it might have sparked out there.
So they cut it out.
But Kanye West has now been, he's got this image of cleaning up rap that he doesn't he, Mr. Snirdley.
He's sort of a sort of, well, I've heard Kanye West is one of these Mr. Clean guys.
He's going in and he's getting all over the rappers for being anti-gay and anti-female and basically what they're doing.
And yet he goes on this NBC telethon fundraiser and the thing that nobody talks about, how much money did the guy cost him?
He's up there saying all these vile things about George W. Bush.
How many people say the hell with this show and turn it off and don't contribute any money?
Then after that, MTV and Black Entertainment Television announced that they've hired Kanye West for more telethons this weekend, and they're going to give him even more time to speak.
Then we learn that he was invited to be on the NFL's big kickoff show Thursday night at 8 o'clock.
You know, the NFL season starts tomorrow night.
The New England Patriots hosting the Oakland Raiders.
And Kanye West is the Rolling Stones.
And they do this big music blowout thing for an hour before the game starts.
And the NFL made it a point that Kanye West is our guy.
Kanye West is on our team.
Kanye West will be part of the pregame show on Thursday night.
And I must confess, I did flash back to that ESPN incident and I said, hmm, Kanye West, NFL, okay, Rush Limbaugh, NFL, person on grata.
And I thought, it's just what it is.
But your observations about the television business are pretty poignant, Scott, and I appreciate your call.
Here is Don in Clarkston, Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
Don in Clarkston, Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
Good afternoon, Rush.
I thought no attack ever fed a hungry child.
I love it.
If I'm not mistaken, sir, wasn't Senator Leahy on vacation the same time was British?
Yes, under the apple tree, reading about John up in Vermont there, reading about John Roberts, getting ready to try to destroy his career.
Patrick Leahy for being on vacation while this was going on as well.
Well, I'll tell you what, I'm going to get something else first, but let's go to Leahy.
Let's go to, let's see, where's finding Leahy?
Leahy is audio soundbite number.
It's a montage, actually.
Thanks for the call, Don.
By the way, let me specify what he's talking about.
During the debates, 96, Clinton versus Dole, Dole let in with some minor little criticism of Clinton, and Clinton came back and said, no attack ever fed a hungry child.
And so what Don here is saying, hey, all these Democrats, all these attacks on Bush, he's not feeding any hungry people down there.
Great, great point.
Here is Patrick Leahy, a montage of Patrick Leahy and Jim Moran, a Democrat congressman from Virginia.
And I think we've got Miss America.
Yes, Nancy Pelosi, all complaining about Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Why the hell couldn't a truckload of water, a truckload of medicine, a busload of physicians, people who could bring help and care and hope to the people, why couldn't they get through?
Whether it's because we're not used to seeing poverty so visible or the results of institutional racism so stark.
Oh, come on.
Because of just pure incompetence.
It was criminal to abandon thousands and thousands of men and women, mothers and children, grandparents to rot and the squalor of complete government neglect.
Stop the tape for just a damn second.
Who ran that city?
Who runs that city?
Why are we seeing poverty so visible?
Why is there any poverty in a liberal Democrat-run utopia, Congressman Moran?
Where, pray tell, is the racism in a city that is 80% black?
Where is the stark racism?
And what were these people doing?
What was Senator Leahy doing?
None of these people have raised a finger to do a single thing to help anybody.
What were they doing?
Typical liberal Democrats sit around, point fingers of blame, whine and complain and moan.
But when it comes to solving problems, don't expect that.
You let them get control of problems.
The problem's only going to get worse.
A final bit from this montage is Nancy Pelosi.
There has to be an immediate, rigorous, and harsh determination of accountability for this criminal neglect.
Well, the buck stops at the president's desk.
The president said he's going to lead the investigation into what went wrong.
He needs to look only in the mirror.
And we'll take a break and be right back.
Stay with us, folks.
I want to list this montage again, folks, and I want to take you back in time, remind you of some things.
We'll start with Leahy.
We'll go through Moran.
I don't need to hear Pulsi, Pelosi again, but it's Moran I want to focus on.
But here is that montage.
Why the hell couldn't a truckload of water, a truckload of medicine, a busload of physicians, people who could bring help and care and hope to the people, why couldn't they get through?
Whether it's because we're not used to seeing poverty so visible or the results of institutional racism so stark, or because of just pure incompetence, it was criminal to abandon thousands and thousands of men and women, mothers and children, grandparents to rot in the squalor of complete government neglect.
There has to be an immediate, rigorous, and harsh determination of accountability for this criminal neglect.
Stop the tape.
Does this not demonstrate, folks, how impotent members of Congress are and how irrelevant they are?
Sit around, point fingers of blame.
I tell you what we need to know, Congressman.
Congressman Pelosi, Congressman Moran, Senator Leahy, we need to know right now, before any future disaster hits the nation, your solution to any future hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes for every town, every country, and state in America.
Let's see it now before they occur.
I want to see the plan.
You guys have all the answers?
Let's see them.
As for Congressman Moran, let's go back to the Washington Post, March 16th, 2003.
After the worst week of his often tumultuous 20 years in politics, a tearful and weary U.S. Representative Jim Moran returned yesterday to the Northern Virginians who know him best, trying yet again to reestablish himself with voters after suggesting that Jews were pushing the nation into war with Iraq.
At a pancake breakfast fundraiser in Alexandria for his brother, the seven-term congressman addressed a crowd of more than 200 through a quivering voice, trying to quell the intense criticism he provoked with his remarks and in effect launching what promises to be a painful effort to win re-election next year.
Moran's appearance was the latest chapter in a personal and political saga that has alternately transfixed and repulsed his 8th district constituents and his Capitol Hill colleagues.
Through Moran's legal and ethical entanglements, his contentious divorce, and physical run-ins with a child and a House colleague, voters have stuck by the burly, combative figure with a Boston Irish lilt.
Would you like to know what that run-in was with the child?
The child was, I believe, eight years old.
The child was black.
Congressman Moran thought the child was attempting to steal his car.
Congressman Moran struck the child.
Would it be safe to say that Congressman Moran beat the child?
Congressman Moran, would it be safe to say that?
He grabbed him.
Okay.
Okay, so he saw this eight-year-old kid.
He grabbed the kid, picked him up, took him into some local rec center, threw him down, said, this kid was trying to steal my car.
He was not.
The kid was totally innocent of anything.
Must be racism that would make a white man think that a black standing near his car was thinking of stealing it, wouldn't you think?
What would make somebody think that an innocent eight-year-old boy standing next to your car constituted a theft or an attempt at theft?
It must be racism, Congressman Moran.
So after saying that the Jews got us into war at Iraq, and after this incident, Congressmoran was on the ropes, and the Washington Post was impressed with his ability to handle it all.
Literally sick.
And this is the man who we now turn to for inspirational, spiritual, and moral guidance in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Not on this show, folks.
From now on, anytime a Senator Leahy or a Congressman Windbag starts bellyaching about something they are not doing one thing to alleviate, next time they do this, before any future disaster hits the nation, let's hear your solution.
Be it a terrorist attack, be it a hurricane, an earthquake, a tornado for every town and country and state in this country.
Let's see it now, Congressman Moran.
What the hell is your plan?
What are you going to do?
Congress needs to be held to account.
If everybody else is going to be, they should not be granted exempt status.
They should not be allowed to act as bystanders when they have a role and had a role to play in all this themselves.
You know, I'm just thinking, I haven't heard the Democrats this mad in a long time.
They weren't this mad after 9-11.
They really weren't, folks.
Yeah, it's interesting to watch.
And I can understand why their whole philosophy and ideology is on display here as an utter and total failure.
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