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Sept. 9, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2005, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, my friends.
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It's Friday.
You know what that means.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And here's the telephone number, 800 282-2882.
Email address rush at EIBNet.com.
This is the day to expand the universe beyond that which interests me.
And by the way, I I this week I've not spoken about everything that interests me.
I've talked about the things that have been at the top of that list.
But on Friday, I mean you you feel free if you want to uh the NFL season starting, if you want to bring that up.
If you want to talk about the NFL worthless pregame show, you can bring that up.
Whatever.
800-282-2882 email address rush at EIB net.com.
I I want to be among the first to say something here.
Actually, I want to be among the first to say a couple things here.
I don't know I'm going to be the first, but I'm I know it's a short list.
Number one.
Uh the number of deaths.
The mayor of New Orleans, the honorable Ray Nagan, Ray Schoolbus Nagan, uh has been saying 10,000 deaths for how long.
Somebody help me out.
Mr. Sturdley, all of you, you've been listening to the news now.
I mean, I just I just I just want to know something.
There have been I don't care from where from media from state local officials, all these all these disaster experts.
What's the number of deaths?
What's the range that we've been hearing that it this could be?
Uh up to 10,000, and they've ordered 25,000 body bags to go in there.
And we were told, we were told all week, oh, it's gonna be oh, we get in there, these places flooded out, all these families and attics and so forth.
It's gonna it's gonna be horrible.
It's gonna be so horrible we can't show you the pictures.
Now they're showing us the pictures, by the way.
Couldn't do that after 9-11.
Of course we can do that now if we can pin it on Bush.
Well, my my point is this.
We um we haven't we haven't even reached 500 yet.
Now, don't misunderstand me on this.
You know, everybody wants to run around and talk about scandal.
It's a scandal.
Bush's lack of preparedness.
It's a scandal, Bush's lack of concern.
It's a scandal, Mike Brown being at FEMA.
It's a scandal.
Everything is a scandal.
Well, is anybody other than other than being very happy about it.
Is anybody gonna say anything if we don't get to even say 1,000 deaths?
I mean, how many how many of you have just gone to bed every night thinking this this disaster is the worst natural disaster in American history is going to wipe out more people.
It has wiped out more people than uh any other disaster.
And right now the the numbers um the the dead, the numbers of dead don't look like they're gonna get anywhere near what the uh all these dire predictions were.
Now, you could have you could have the makings of a scandal there.
And one of one of the reasons I say this is this all of these things reported before it was known.
It was reported, it was almost reported as fact.
Yeah, this is so bad.
Look at this.
The response was so slow, and that Bush doesn't care about black people, and that Bush wants black people to get 10,000 people are gonna die.
And as you know, our country believes what it sees.
The people of our country believe what they see on television.
They believe the pictures.
And so you you and and they and and they'll believe what they hear in conjunction with viewing those pictures.
So what if the death toll's not that high?
What if the death toll's not even in the top ten of natural disasters?
Will people then say, well, maybe we overreacted?
Maybe maybe the response effort was a little better than everybody thought, and maybe the evacuation went a little better than everybody thought.
Because I must tell you, uh, when I kept hearing these these astronomical death figures on this, uh, that's what focused my attention on uh on Mayor Ray school bus Nagan and uh and Governor Blanco.
I mean, they were in charge of getting people out of there before this happened, and if the death toll is going to be that high, uh, you know, that's that's that's significant.
Uh that's the largest natural disaster in the history of the country when we are supposedly more prepared than we've ever been to deal with these things.
Yet, what if the death toll doesn't even reach, as I say, the top ten?
Will people have to revise all these panic-oriented and uh uh just worst case scenarios that they trumpeted in sheer uh shrill voice?
Will somebody maybe have to say, hey, maybe it wasn't as bad as we thought it was gonna be.
Will anybody ever say that, do you think?
You don't think they'll say that, huh?
Well, I just want to put the thought in your head out there, folks.
We don't know what the death toll is going to be, and nobody has known what the death toll's gonna be when they were giving us all these dire predictions.
The second thing that I want to uh, and and by the way, some of you shifty little leftists out there, do not twist this into a headline limb approves of 1000.
Do not even try it.
Everybody listening to me knows full well what I've just said.
I am I am I prepared to celebrate that as good news based on what horrors were reported, what we were told we could expect because of X, Y, and Z. This person stunk, that does that agency stunk, this person didn't care.
They wanted all these people to die.
They blew up the dikes on purpose, they blew up the the levees on purpose, they steered the hurricane, global war, all of this, all of this, all this sheer insane lunacy designed to hype the horror that we all feel at this high death toll.
Well, if it's not that high.
First place, that is excellent news, but it also is other news.
And I'm just gonna be eager to see if that um if that other news uh will transpire.
The second thing I want to raise is this.
Uh what is the what is the somebody help me out here?
What is Governor Kathleen Blanco's race?
Okay, she's white.
What president President Bush is uh white, correct?
Uh in the face of this disaster in the aftermath, we have the civil rights leadership, we have the uh Reverend Dax, Al Sharp, hmm, and Oprah Winfrey all out there echoing the note that Bush uh doesn't, and then Kanye West, Bush doesn't like black people.
Bush doesn't like black people, and Bush uh doesn't care that they died.
Uh it doesn't care that that's why the response wasn't that fast, doesn't care about black people, doesn't care about poor people.
Okay.
And we've had the, of course, the house organs of the left, uh, the mainstream press repeating this.
Now, the governor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana is white, and the very same people, people of New Orleans who are poor and black, have been poor and black for how many generations in New Orleans, under the leadership of Democrats, most recently under the leadership of Kathleen Blanco.
At least that's longer than that, HR, it's like 60 years, but Kathleen Blanco's been governor, this is this is her first term, but but still, under a white governor, Louisiana, we had destitution, we had rampant crime, we had poverty, we had unemployment among the vast majority of the black population of New Orleans.
Now, what if I were to say Kathleen Blanco wanted these people to suffer?
She's white.
She doesn't like these people.
They put a for whatever reason, all of these unemployed and poor blacks, look what they're doing to her budget.
She'd have a lot of money for other things if you didn't have to support them.
In other words, You're probably appalled that I would even say, what do you mean?
Kathleen Blanco doesn't like black people.
Who do you Well, does it make any more sense to say that George Bush hates black people?
George Bush doesn't like black people.
George Bush wants black people to die.
George Bush wants black people to suffer.
He doesn't care about them or the poor.
Well, George Bush was uh in Texas and Washington and doing other things as president.
Meanwhile, a white governor presided over this mess long before the current mess took place.
Why is it not said that a governor who is white presiding over a community like New Orleans, part of her state, that is this rampant in poverty and crime and so forth.
Why does nobody say why she must not like those people?
She doesn't want to help them.
She doesn't want to do anything for them.
Why does nobody say that?
And why, when I say it, is it apparently shocking to a lot of people.
When it's not shocking at all.
If you're saying about George W. Bush.
Quick timeout, back in just a second.
Well, you've all heard the news.
I what I don't know is is how many uh radio stations on the EIB network preempted uh some or all of my opening monologue for this announcement that Mike Brown, the uh FEMA director, is uh being removed from the uh position of Katrina Relief is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge.
Uh some networks are reporting that he's gonna step down as in resign, but the associated press said no, he's just being sent back to Washington uh where he will he was the uh uh primary official overseeing the federal government's response to the disaster in Baton Rouge.
Uh the announcement uh the AP had this in.
I saw this just before top of the hour, and it was unconfirmed, so I didn't say anything about it.
I still don't know if he's actually been if he's resigned, if he's been fired, if it's just been sent back to Washington, they have somebody else set up to uh now be the face of FEMA uh down on uh on site.
Uh Vice Admiral uh guy named Alan, Thad Allen will replace Brown down in uh in Louisiana in Baton Rouge as the face of FEMA.
So again, I I don't know um I I do know I was preempted some places because I got some email.
Uh if so, that opening monologue, I do want to repeat it at some point before the program ends today, but let's go to the phones.
Brett in Akron, your next on open line Friday.
Hello.
Megatives, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
What do you think about the uh Patriots this season?
Do you think they're gonna go for uh three Super Bowl win?
I think it's it's you know, three-peeding is hard.
It's that's uh I don't think it's ever been done.
Uh uh now the Buffalo Bills got there four four years in a row, but never won one.
Uh which it's an amazing feat to get there.
I mean, the Patriots gonna have to get there in order to to three Pete.
And that's uh that's the question.
It's a little too soon to say.
I don't know how the AFC uh is uh is going to shape up, but uh right now I the Patriots I I wouldn't I wouldn't bet against them.
I mean, look what happened.
They they the Oakland Raiders were said to be the most uh improved team in the league in the offseason.
They may well that they made the smartest moves.
They went out there, got Randy Moss, they got Lamont Jordan from the Jits, as O.J. Simpson used to call them, the Jits, and uh uh that'd be Jets for those of you in Rio Linda.
And they made some other moves.
That's a pretty good draft choices, but they took Terry uh Carrie Collins totally out of his uh passing rhythm last night.
They did it with an with a new defensive coordinator.
They don't have an offensive coordinator replacing Charlie Weiss.
Uh Belichick basically doing it.
They don't have the heart and soul of their defense, as he's called Teddy Brucey.
Um they didn't look like they'd lost much to me last night.
I don't know, they didn't look like they'd lost anything.
And if you read the papers today, the Patriots think they played a lousy game.
Tom Brady was quoted as saying he saw some ugly football out there last night.
He wasn't talking about the uh the Raiders.
I I wouldn't count them out.
You can't you cannot two things about the Patriots.
The Patriots have the ideal philosophy in the front office.
They don't let sentiment cause them to hold on to players beyond their peak years, beyond their worth.
They get rid of them.
Thanks much.
Here's your ring.
Hope you have a great rest of your life.
And they move on and keep the team rebuilding.
And the second thing, they've built a culture of winning in that franchise.
There's just a whole, you know, I once told the story about talking to Danny Ainge when he was with the Phoenix Suns.
And they're going into playoffs up against the Bulls.
He said, we're a young team.
I don't know that we have enough guys who actually know how to win.
So the Patriots know how to win.
And they appear to be operating on all cylinders.
Nashua, New Hampshire.
And Judy, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi.
Yes, hi.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
What is the problem here?
Yes, we are going and rolling.
This is Open Line Friday.
Yes, yes.
My husband works for FEMA.
Yes.
And I just wanted to voice my opinion that, you know, a lot of what is being said about FEMA and FEMA's operation I don't know from the very top but what I do know is that my husband and the other men and women with FEMA are out there working their tails off right now and I think what a lot of people don't know is one of the FEMA people were killed on route to Louisiana.
We buried him last Friday, and I haven't heard anything said about that.
Well, you have to understand, if you don't, let me clue you in.
You probably do, but right now, the American left has what they've wanted since 9-11.
They got the next disaster.
And they are going to do, you know, they're aiming at FEMA, but don't take it personally.
They're aiming at Bush.
FEMA is just the root.
And their whole effort, as I said earlier, quoting a column written by Rick Moran, they are dancing on the graves of the dead in New Orleans.
They are excited that this happened.
They are happy this happened for their political opportunity.
And so FEMA is the logical choice because FEMA, even though they're not a first response team, how many people know what FEMA does anyway?
The media can define FEMA however it wants, and they're defining FEMA as a worthless bureaucracy that is peopled by a bunch of bureaucrats that don't know what they're doing and have no training in this.
And so that's what people believe.
I mean, how many people run around talking about FEMA every day before something like this happens?
You know, I just, I think it's, you're just one of many victims here of an armed and dangerous left.
I don't care who they destroy.
Judy, whoever's in the path that protects Bush, they don't care who they destroy to get to Bush.
And FEMA, Mike Brown happen to be people in the way now.
And they'll go somewhere else if necessary, all the while protecting their own side from any culpability in this.
Just, it's an amazing sight to see.
Folks, they've been geared up for this, I'm convinced, since 9-11.
They have been waiting for the next disaster, and when it didn't happen, they were trying to concoct them and create them.
As I said, a 9-11 commission, you know, reliving 9-11 and trying to blame the whole thing happening on Bush.
And every ancillary event associated with 9-11, the Jersey girls, then Bill Burkett and the National Guard, Cindy Sheehan.
It's all part of the same effort.
This thing happens, and it was totally unexpected, but they've been ready for it anyway.
It's a disaster.
They've been magnifying the death toll.
They've been magnifying the horror.
They've been amplifying everything they can about this and all pointing fingers of blame at Washington, D.C. The thing that's amazing about this is that, okay, Mike Brown, the FEMA director, is either stepping down or being sent back to Washington or what have you.
But still, no member of Congress has offered to resign.
The mayor hasn't offered to resign.
The governor has not offered to resign.
Somehow, a guy who wasn't even there, an agency that wasn't even...
even there is the first fall guy in this I'm just telling you folks if if it there's there It looks like this may not be anywhere near as bad as they were all promising us it was going to be.
Particularly in terms of the number of deaths, we we may end up way short of the 10,000 deaths.
That's great news.
Don't misunderstand.
But in promoting 10,000 deaths, that was all part of making this the worst disaster in American history.
And guess who's running the country's George Bush and he doesn't care, blah, blah, blah?
Well, let me tell you something.
The people that were on the case down there in the face of all of this, somehow getting a total pass.
None of them have resigned.
And they were on the scene, and they had responsibilities and evacuation orders that they didn't uh uh execute properly, and so uh they get a total pass, as is Congress.
Back in a moment.
I know.
And thank you.
Appreciate you having us with us here on the EIB network.
I I want to I want to expand a little bit on the question again.
I'm sorry to repeat this for those of you who heard it, but I don't know how many were uh uh uh did not hear it because we might have been preempted with the breathless announcement that Mike Brown is being replaced.
He's going back to Washington.
Hooray for us.
Mike Brown is gone.
Mike Brown, the evil horse trainer, Mike Brown from FEMA, he's gone.
Yay.
Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Is this helping anybody?
Mike, I have no brief for Mike Brown, I don't even know him.
I'm just talking about what is the sense?
Okay, Mike Brown's gone.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Anyone any better off in Houston?
Anybody any better off in New Orleans today?
Anybody any better off because Mike Brown's gone?
It's it's sort of like telling the uh middle class the poor, I'm gonna raise the taxes on the rich and expect them to be happy about it.
Okay, so the richest taxes get raised.
Does that equal more money for the middle class and the poor?
Nope.
So why are they to be feel good about it?
Because they're supposed to feel good that somebody else is miserable.
All right, so what what good sending Mike Brown anywhere?
Well, he deserves it.
He's incompetent.
Great.
Is that gonna help with a situation here?
It's sort of like my mother, you know, I was a smart aleck.
My mother every night said, You better eat everything on your plate.
There are kids starving in China.
So one night I said to her, You telling me, Mom, that if I eat everything on the plate, the starving kids in China are gonna start rubbing their bellies and go, ah, I feel better now.
You smart aleck, don't you sass me.
He said, My mom wasn't even a liberal.
Uh uh was he mean to his subordinate?
You mean like Bolton?
Was Mike Brown mean to his subordinates?
I I Mike Brown vied on his rhythmie.
We hate Mike Brown.
Mike Brown's gotta go.
The reason Mike Brown had to go is because that's how we prove Bush is incompetent.
You know, uh if I were Bush, I would have stood up and said, not only is Mike Brown not going to redine or retire, I'm sending him to Governor Blanco's office to direct operations out of her office.
And furthermore, guess who I nominate to the Supreme Court?
Michael Luddig.
Now what are you gonna do about it, Dems?
And next thing we're gonna do, we're gonna have hearings.
And we're gonna find out we're gonna have the hast and frist hearings, and we're gonna find out about if the Democrats don't want to show up to the hearings, fine and handy.
We'll have them anyway.
If you don't show up, we know why you don't show up.
It's because you're afraid what an honest investigational turn up about the real incompetence here that's to be found on your side of the aisle, down in that state of Louisiana.
That's what I would say.
But no, we have to whimper around and respond so we don't anger the press and anger the left and so forth.
Guess this is why I'm not cut out to be an elected official.
But I want to expand a little bit here.
Oh, and just to repeat one more time.
Kathleen Blanco, white, correct?
George Bush, white, correct?
At least according to the pictures I see.
Majority of the residents of New Orleans, black, right?
According to the census and the pictures I see, right?
Yes.
Okay, hurricane comes.
Most of the damage is taken.
Well, most of the suffering that we are shown is being incurred by black people in New Orleans, who are said to be poor, who are said to be um black, and about whom it is said Bush is happy.
This is happening.
Bush wants he doesn't care about black people.
Kanye West and the rest of the civil rights leadership echoes this.
And why?
Well, because Bush is white.
Okay, what if I were to say to you, um, you know, Kathleen Blanco has been running a state here, she's in her first term.
You had a bunch of white governors throughout the state, uh, throughout the state's history, and you've had the population in New Orleans what it is for a long time.
And you had the poverty in New Orleans among that population what it is for a long time.
I think Kathleen Blanco hates black people.
I don't think she cares about black people.
And I don't think Huey Long cared.
I don't think Edward Edwards cared about black people.
You know why?
Because he didn't do one damn thing to help them out.
He sat there, she sat there, all these people sat there while the black people in New Orleans suffered away in poverty as part of the entitlement state.
I must conclude they don't like black people.
Oh, that's outrageous.
You say, well, why is it any more outrageous than saying George W. Bush is not even in Louisiana?
Hates black people.
They're the ones that have something to do about it.
They're the ones promising black people to elevate them out of those circumstances.
Take them to the mountaintop.
That just didn't pull up.
Must be because they don't like black people.
Must be because they actually want black people to suffer.
Maybe it's because they're they are racists.
Maybe they're racists.
Maybe what you have in the case of Kathleen Blanco is really Peter Botta.
Does the name ring a bell, folks?
Peter Botta.
He was the um leader of South Africa who refused to let Nelson Mandela out of jail.
He went to the end of his career trying to uphold apartheid.
Yeah.
P.W. Botta, Pieter Botta.
Um we looks like we got some apartheid in Louisiana.
You got you got at least white governors, you got poor blacks never getting out of those circumstances.
Uh in fact, you don't have even much being done about the rampant crime that was going on down there.
We keep hear hearing it got worse.
Maybe, maybe all these white governors in Louisiana didn't want to do anything about the crime because they wanted a black population to kill itself off.
Maybe that's really what's going on here.
Does this make any more sense to you than what the left is saying about George W. Bush?
I told you, Mr. Snurley, I was going to say something that might get me in heat big doo-doo.
But I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to put a you know an A B picture for you, A B side-by-side comparison.
You have white governors, you have black people in New Orleans, destitute, crime-ridden for years, for generations, nothing done about it.
Nobody ever said during that, maybe those people just don't like the blacks down there.
Maybe they just don't like them.
And they're not doing much about the crime.
That's black on black crime.
Who cares?
Who cares?
So says the mayor, the governor rather of New Orleans.
Well, of course now you're offended by this and you're outright.
Rush, how dare you say that?
Is this not exactly what they're saying about George W. Bush?
My point is, why is it believable about Bush to some people, yet totally offensive and outrageous when you say this about Kathleen Blanco or Edwin Edwards or Huey Long?
Hmm?
Well, you know the answer to this.
I'm just I'm just I'm just trying to force you to think about this in a different way.
One more thing here before we go back to the uh to the phones.
The the death count, the death toll.
We've been told we're gonna expect 10,000 deaths.
Before that, it was thousands and thousands.
For that, some people use it could be the worst in American history.
Keep shirts on, folks.
This is a bad one, it's gonna be bad out there.
We get in there, we see what these floodwaters are holding and covering up.
Whoa, warn you it's gonna be bad so bad we can't show you the pictures.
Well, the death toll so far has uh don't think risen to 700.
Good news.
This is excellent, excellent news.
But wait a minute.
Is there a scandal here somewhere?
Is there a scandal in all this reporting of what might be, could be, and might likely happen?
That is reported in conjunction with all the failures of everybody to save all these lives?
Well, what happens if all these lives weren't lost?
And what happens if all the efforts to save these lives actually proved to be pretty good?
Compared to what we were told it was gonna be.
Is there not maybe a scandal there?
In fact, is this whole story of the incompetence of the federal government and state government?
Is it maybe a bit overblown because we're such in a highly charged partisan atmosphere led by the left that they have been salivating to destroy Bush ever since 9-11?
Well, ever since Florida 2000.
Well, here are some numbers.
The uh the earthquake the hurricane 1928, so-called Okeechobee storm, which made landfall at Palm Beach, Florida, killed an estimated 2500 people.
There was the Great Labor Day Hurricane of September 1935.
It's a cat five described at the time as the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall in the U.S. It ravaged the Florida Keys, killing 423 people.
Both of these occurred before global warming.
I just want to remind you, both of these occurred before global warming and they occurred before Bush.
BB.
Or BWB before W. Bush.
Then we had the tri-state tornado, so-called 1925 that struck Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in March of that year.
That's considered the most violent single uh tornado in U.S. history that killed six hundred and eighty-nine people.
The death toll so far in Hurricane Katrina is less than the tornado of 1925.
So I'm I'm just putting some numbers out here and sharing my thoughts with you as the Well, I know there was the the Galveston hurricane that killed over uh two thousand people as well.
Uh there are we're gonna you're you it's it's likely that we may not we may not make the top ten all-time disasters here with Hurricane Katrina after being told for over a week now that it's the worst.
Potentially the worst.
We'll be back in a moment.
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Let's go to St. Louis as we continue on the phones today and open line for Oh, by the way, the uh Ditto Cam, I just uh just just flipped it on, it'll be on for the remainder of the program at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Uh Reggie, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Oh no, you're more than welcome, Mr. Limbaugh.
Please bear with me, sir.
Sure.
Sure.
Uh I'm a student in Washington University of St. Louis, and I've been following as much as I could outside of studies what's going on in uh New Orleans.
And uh it kind of got to me as well to hear uh the red herring of race uh play when it came to this incident as as it was played.
I myself don't think that the president harvest any racial animosity toward African Americans, Mexicans, or anyone else for that matter.
But I don't think that we could uh pre uh uh just wholesale discount that factor when it comes to the response and the bureaucracy.
And by by that I mean uh five whole days.
Uh that I think was uh the impetus towards a lot of those cries, other than those who simply uh wanted to harpoon uh the president uh for whatever reason.
Okay, let me make sure I understand.
You think that because the response took five days, uh, or you you think because the victims were black, you we have to consider that as a as a factor in why it took five days for the response to get there.
Yes, sir, but it has nothing to do with the president personally.
Uh he himself uh appointed people and it's up to them to get out their def and do their jobs, and if they don't, we can't Well if it's if it's not him then, I mean if somebody, you know, everybody can see these pictures.
And by the way, there are a couple mitigating things here.
For example, we have learned this week, and you you I know you're student and you're busy, but we've learned this week uh the Red Cross, for example, at the Superdome in the Convention Center, had pallets and truckloads of water and food, and the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, which is part of the governor's office, said nope, we're not letting you deliver it there.
We don't want to attract more people to these places, we want to get them out.
So if you take food and water in there, it's just gonna be a magnet to attracting people.
So it was a a state agency that told the Red Cross, you can't take stuff to the Superdome and to the uh in the convention center.
Yes, sir, and that goes widely unreported.
Uh they showed footage of the kitchen of the kitchen's uh plural and pathway facilities.
And uh, I mean, it was apparent.
Well, but oh, but my my question to you is what was was there i if if if Bush is not racist, but there is a racial component.
What is the racial component say in in in the Red Cross being told you can't go in there because we don't want uh that stuff to become a magnet and draw other people to this area we want to try to get them out of.
Uh that in itself, uh I think the race was more than likely not over but subconscious and in the response time and as you said, in the fact that uh supplies were denied, and they weren't denied by uh President Bush.
They were denied by local bureaucrats.
And as far as the uh Mayor Nagan goes, uh for for years, uh, and I'm sure up under his term as well, the the part uh drug uh problem in New Orleans.
I mean, you very well can't find a well paying job if you can't urinate in the cup cleanly.
Uh there are a lot of uh surrounding factors that go along with poverty that people aren't addressing.
Uh yeah, okay, excellent point.
Why aren't they addressing them?
Well, it's it's easy not to.
Uh I myself sit in class with a young man, uh he's roughly twenty one years old, and every problem he has is uh, according to him, some white guy's fault.
And I asked him, uh, does he have a job?
No.
Is he registered to vote?
No.
Uh what what uh amount of that he creates does he pay?
And it's all on his mom and dad.
And I asked him, Well, who in the hell stopping you from getting a job?
Who the hell stopping you from voting?
Uh my grandmother left this earth at ninety-six years old.
She put nine kids through Tuskegee scrubbing floors for the President of Bourne's Jewish hospital.
And never once was my family taught that we were owed anything.
We were all taught to be individuals had to strive.
And uh that is sadly lacking.
That is why Bill Cosby caught hell.
And uh that is why a lot more um African Americans and uh liberty minded uh Anglo Saxons in this country gonna catch hell in the future.
Yeah, it used to be said that only African Americans could say things like you've just said, but Bill Cosby shows you can't.
Oh well, Bill Cosby, sir, uh I must say uh Bill Cosby hasn't said anything that I haven't heard uh growing up from age from age three years old.
Uh and it's out there.
But um the the the the quote liberal left uh are are the um if I like to call them plantation overseers, they would lose their minds of African Americans, strive to have something of their own, because hell, where would they go?
Where would they get a job?
Where where can they where can they fan the flames of uh victimization?
They they they lose out.
Is exactly right.
So like the race industry uh ends if Jesse Jackson has nothing else to do, and Jesse Jackson would have nothing else to do if uh uh uh if he didn't have people to uh make victims of.
So it's a vicious cycle.
So I see what you're saying now.
You're saying there is a racial element here, but it's an element that nobody's got the guts to talk about.
Yes, sir, and uh it has to be addressed if we're gonna move forward.
I mean, it it has to be.
Well, Reggie, I uh uh I'm grateful that you called.
I uh I appreciate what are you majoring in at Washington U. Uh physical therapy, sir.
Physical therapy.
Well, best to you, and uh please stay in touch.
You're you're uh you're an enlightened guy to speak to.
We've all enjoyed hearing from you.
No, take care and uh have a good day.
All the best.
We'll be back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
Christine in uh Ohi, California.
I'm glad you called your next on open line Friday.
We have one minute.
Make it count.
You got it, Rush.
First thing to say it's a privilege to follow Reggie's call.
What a great guy.
What a great guy.
Listen, I've been hearing you talk about re calls to resignation.
I've been hearing the liberals go on and on and on with their blame game and the politicalization of this whole disaster.
I hear Nancy Pelosi call for for George Bush's head because the buck stops with him.
But I hear Paul Volcler Paul Volker's report come in about Kofi Annan being the head of the UN and that he had it up the worst fiasco of the oil firm.
Yeah, you know, I was and I don't hear anybody calling for his resignation.
And there's a reason why I was talking, I was talking to a friend of mine about this very thing.
He was making the very point to me that you just made.
And uh I don't have time.
I'll uh right now because we're gonna go to the break here at the top of the hour, but uh keep keep your keep your radio on, Christine.
I will deal with this, explain this to you.
You're absolutely right.
Don't don't misunderstand.
You're you're absolutely right.
What I want to do is explain this hypocrisy uh on the part of the left when we uh when we come back.
Stay with it.
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