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Sept. 9, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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This show will undergo a temporary halt, ladies and gentlemen, until I can get my cigar lighter working.
It just it just petered on me.
I guess we can't hold up the show for this.
So greetings and welcome.
It's Rush Limboy, the EIB Network.
It's Friday.
You know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yeah.
We're up and running on the Ditto Cam, by the way.
Open line Friday.
It's uh your universe today, folks.
Monday through Thursday, we talk about the things that interest me, but on Friday, hubba hubba.
It's all up to you.
And people have been saying, hey, can we move on and talk about things other than a hurricane?
And I've told you there's a lot of lessons in this hurricane.
It's a lot of, and they in this hurricane story, there's a lot more here than just the hurricane.
But if you're one of those people and you want other things to be discussed, this is your chance.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIB Net at uh EIB net.com.
Uh Christine in Ohio, California.
I appreciate your call.
She was the last call before the uh last hour ended.
And she's, you know, you talk about all this rampant incompetence out there.
I mean, here you have here have Kofi Annan who who supervised now perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of the world, the UN oil for food program.
The Volcker Commission has pretty much established that Kofi would just hand it here to me.
Way to go, way to go, thanks much.
See if this works.
Here we go.
You got a whole box of these things in there?
Huh?
Good.
So Kofi Annan's sitting there presiding over the absolute worst scandal in America in world history.
The Volcker Commission pretty much establishing he was asleep at the wheel, and nobody, nobody.
The American left, nobody's demanding Kofi's head.
A little hint.
Neither is George W. Bush, by the way.
But I as I told as I told Christine, I had a conversation.
In fact, it was F. Lee and I were instant messaging this morning, and if Lee made the same point to me, and I said, you know, the problem is, uh, and this isn't in comparing this to Mike Brown must go.
Mike Brown must go.
Mike Brown is terrible.
He's horrible.
He must go.
By the way, the latest than that is.
I love this Churtoff guy.
Just do.
He doesn't care.
By the way, the reason Hillary's aiming at him is because she was on he he he was on the uh uh the the Watergate uh uh committee examining her husband and so forth.
So he's got a little personal animus going back and forth with Cherdoff.
But Cherdoff said, uh uh Brown's not been fired.
He's not been fired at all.
Brown's been sent back to Washington to hit up the big picture.
And then Cherdoff said for FEMA, is it even further?
Look, we can't just keep focusing on Katrina here.
We've got other natural disasters out there waiting a week, and he talked about this uh hurricane uh Ophelia Vandenhoovel that is percolating out there in the Atlantic, just off the coast of Florida.
It's starting to finally move northeast.
But here's the thing on this hurricane.
This hurricane is supposed to go out there and track a northeasterly direction here for three, four days, but there's a big uh high pressure ridge is gonna settle over the eastern United States, the southeastern U.S., and that's gonna provide a steering current, they think for Hurricane Ophelia Vandenhoovel.
This hurricane's then gonna do a loop.
It's gonna do a clockwise loop, and and they don't really know now where it's gonna go.
The models, the models here just look funniest hurricane model display I've ever seen.
I know where the websites are to find these things.
And it's you can't, they're so mingled and jungled you can't follow each track.
But the National Hurricane Center paid professionals to analyze these spaghetti models, has the track going pretty near Savannah, Georgia and up into South Carolina by midweek next week.
So it's gonna do one of these uh close to a 360 counterclock or clockwise 360 and move on in.
But it's so far out, depends on the strength of that high.
There's so many variables out there uh That they really don't know uh what what this is gonna do right now.
But anyway, Chertoff said that thing's out there and it's building strength out there, and we've gotta have, you know, uh we gotta have our guy at the at the helm back in Washington.
So Brown has not been fired, he's been sent back to Washington and oversee the big picture.
Um as Chernoff says, hey, we can't keep focusing all of our efforts on Katrina.
Now, I you wait till the media and the left get through with that statement.
Anyways to Kofi.
Um I was telling F. Lee Levin, factually, uh Christine, you know how California, you're absolutely right.
There is a great disparity here.
We don't make any move to get rid of Kofi.
Kofi's is uh uh uh uh incompetent.
You talk well, you what at the very being the most charitable we can about Kofi Annan he's incompetent.
That's being charitable.
So why are there no clamor?
Is there no clamor for his head?
What I told F. Lee today was, I said, the thing is that Kofi Annan doesn't impact anybody's life personally, and the UN doesn't either, really.
I mean, the UN is a boondoggle, it's a natural disaster itself.
It is a haven for murdering dictators and thugs to get legitimacy and to be called excellencies by Kofi Annan himself during the General Assembly meeting.
But uh nobody's life's impacted by Kofi Annan.
Nobody not directly, not that they know.
Kofi Ann is not even an American.
Kofi Anna had nothing to do with a hurricane, for example.
Uh and so it but the only thing you can do is is illustrate the hypocrisy of the left.
If they're worried about competence, why don't they really go after one of the biggest offenders in the world when it comes to scandals, and that's Kofi Annan.
And the reason is simple.
Getting rid of Kofi Annan, the two things, actually.
Kofi Annan's their buddy.
The UN is their friend because the UN hates Bush.
Any enemy of Bush is the friend of the Democrats.
Number two, uh they're not gonna make a move to um get rid of Kofi because getting rid of Kofi wouldn't harm Bush.
In fact, getting rid of Kofi might help Bush and it might help Bolton.
So uh there's no way, and yet you can you can certainly make the case there's all kinds of hypocrisy rampant out there running left and right.
Uh my friends, you might think you might think that uh watching the coverage and listening to the mainstream press, you might think that the media has succeeded.
Finally, in destroying the Bush presidency.
You might actually now be fearing if you don't believe it, you might actually believe that uh they've done it.
They've destroyed Bush.
They got the whole country uh aligned against him.
And finally, after all these years, since 2000, through all the efforts they've made, they've finally done it.
You probably you may feel destitute.
You may feel hopeless.
You might feel discouraged.
You might be thinking all of the efforts to defend this president and this presidency have now failed.
And not just because Brown resigned, just because the day-to-day coverage in the mainstream press, and many of you still think the mainstream press is the primary conveyor of influence in the country today.
So you're thinking it's over.
And I don't care anymore.
I can't I want to live like this anyway.
I don't want to have to get up every day and care about all this.
This is still America, and it's still gonna be America, and I'm just gonna go live my life and hell with it.
I don't care about it anymore.
I can't I can't devote this much energy to it when I can't do anything about it anyway.
I hate the left, I'm sick and tired of hating.
I'm I hate the media, and I'm sick and tired of hating.
I hate it, I got you.
I know you're saying all these things.
You get up every day, and you I don't even watch the news.
I just want to enjoy myself.
What's wrong with wanting to enjoy myself?
Why should I have to get up every day and be spitting mad at a bunch of people I think are trying to destroy the country?
How many of you are feeling that way today?
Or have felt that way in recent days.
And you conclude by saying, um, everybody now dislikes Bush or everybody hates Bush.
Well, that's not true.
Because it seems to me that if it's true that everybody dislikes Bush, there's one entity that doesn't.
Know who it is.
God.
Seems that everybody likes W except God.
Thank God loves George W. Bush.
And uh evidence of this you will continue to see as days unfold.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
We are back.
Rushlin bore the cutting edge of societal evolution.
You know, folks, speaking of of uh of uh all that we've been talking about today, I think I think the uh Reverend Dax uh has uh a hell of a lot of explaining to do himself.
The uh uh Reverend Dax has been the uh black leader uh for all of his adult life, and yet New Orleans was what it was before the Hurricane Katrina Vanden Hoovel even hit.
I mean, that's a disgrace, if you ask me.
See, if you don't start pointing his fingers at black, we can do this in a much more logical fashion than they're doing it at Bush.
I mean, we got people who have promised for 50 years to make sure these kinds of things don't happen to black people, and they're in charge of these circumstances where these things have happened, either running a state, running the city, or running evacuation plans.
Uh, you gotta hear this because you don't hear this.
You're gonna hear something you don't hear.
This happened while this program was on yesterday on CNN.
Nancy Pelosi, all set for what she thought was a softball interview with Ciara Phillips on CNN.
But it was anything but softball.
Kira Phillips first question.
I want to ask you as you stand here and continue to criticize the administration and criticize the director of FEMA.
I do want to tell you the White House coming forward today, Scott McClellan coming forward today, basically disputing your accounts of your meeting with the president.
I'm looking at it here, saying it, you said you urged the president to replace the embattled FEMA director because of the poor emergency response to Hurricane Katrina.
But McClellan says that that's that's not what you discussed with the president.
You were discussing other things with the president, and that things are being twisted here a bit.
Oh, that's absolutely not true.
Uh Mr. McClellan wasn't there, so he couldn't possibly know.
What happened was I said to the president, Mr. President, we can begin to help these uh victims of Katrina become whole again.
Uh first thing you can do is to replace Michael Brown as the head of FEMA, to which the president said, Why would I do that?
And I said, Because of what happened last week and the failure of FEMA uh to be the real link between the federal government and the people in need in our country, the social compact, to which the president said, What didn't go right last week?
That's what happened in the meeting.
I stand by that.
If the president thinks everything went right last week and he wants to keep Michael Brown there, then I think that's going to be a cost to the American people and lives and livelihood.
All right, well, we'll just keep an eye on this death toll, Miss Pelosi will find out.
But this went on.
Ms. Phillips then said, well, if we want to be historical there, and and and we want to go back in time, and we can go back to the Times Picky Unity investigation when reporters revealed time after time monies were asked for from all types of various politicians, politicians you work side by side with, laws that you yourself vote on, monies that should have gone to Louisiana to take care of the problems with regard to the flood control Phillips uh uh systems.
And then she kept going.
She said this to Pelosi.
I I think it's unfair that that FEMA is just singled out.
There are so many people responsible for what has happened in the state of Louisiana.
That is true, and I'm sorry that you think it's unfair.
But I don't.
I think it's unfair to the people who lost their family members, their lives, their livelihood, their homes, their opportunity.
Uh, and FEMA uh has is uh dead a poor job and had no chance.
It was what about all the I mean, please respond.
What about all the warnings from the Army Corps of Engineers years ago saying there's a problem with these levies, there's a problem with this city?
Kyra, if you want to make a case for the White House, you should go on their payroll.
I'm not making a case for the White House by all means, believe me.
So you here here you have the the what's fascinating about this is you have a CNN anchor who was simply reporting the news, simply asking a member of Congress, wait a minute, you worked with a bunch of people.
She's essentially saying, How do you get to be an innocent bystander here?
How is it, Miss Pelosi, you get to be an innocent bystander?
You can demand this person resign, that person be fired or what have you.
But you didn't listen to the warnings.
Nobody was listening to the warnings.
What about the Corps of Engineers?
And Pelosi got so frustrated, knowing full well she thought she was on a softball interview situation.
She says, in case you missed this, if you want to make a case for the White House, you should go on their payroll.
And Kira Phillips said, I'm not making a case for the White House, by all means believe me.
But they got on the same page by the end of this.
Phillips says, Well, I think everybody, not one person in the U.S. Um doesn't want to see this like happen again.
Nobody wants to see this happen again, Miss Pelosi.
And by and by all uh all due respect, nobody in this organization or any network is on the payroll of the Bush administration right now.
Everybody has been challenging every leader and every agency in this disaster because it's pathetic to see something like this happen in the United States and to see dead bodies still on the ground in on American soil.
It is absolutely pathetic.
So 30 bodies retrieved from the nursing home last night, 14 from Memorial Hospital.
Should have never happened.
Now I think what's going on here on the part of CNN, I haven't talked about this before, but last week, uh who was it?
I don't remember, I don't remember who it was C. I might have been Anna Security.
Somebody really jumped in somebody's chili.
Uh the report.
Oh, yeah, it was uh that was Miles O'Brien and Haley Barber, but I think a lot of a lot of a lot of CNN journalists have um have been going outside the bounds of just questioning and and they say, wait a minute.
To whatever government official they're talking to, it doesn't matter, state or federal, you blew this.
Who the hell are you to be passing a buck?
has been the tone of it.
And and they've been getting great reviews, is the point.
The blogs that analyze journalism have been saying, aha, this is what journalism ought to be.
Journalism's coming back.
Finally, journalism is shedding its fear of government officials, and journalism is coming back and finally showing what its real value and worth is to the to the country.
Are they are they they're replaying here they go?
The CNN right now is replaying the interview.
I just played the audio for you.
They're replaying it.
So it's getting a lot of it's getting a lot of comment.
And I and I I think what's was in normally the the the media in old days, they did think of their mission as to make sure the powerful were examined, powerful weren't gonna get away with anything, the powerful were going to be held accountable, and there was gonna be suspicion of everybody in power.
Well, as we know, for recent decades, Democrats in power are never questioned, and they are never suspected, and they're never queried.
They are applauded, they are celebrated, they are raised up.
I think CNN is probably getting a whole bunch of positive feedback because their reporters and anchors are going for the throat with any official they talk to.
And uh and and because of the reviews, uh they're they're turning some of their people loose there.
Uh so that was an example.
In this case, Nancy Pelosi was totally not expecting it, but the the questions that Kira Phillips asked her were just right on the money.
Who are you to criticize one agency?
You're up there with all these people, you saw all the money that wasn't being spent and wasted and sent down to these places.
How do you get to sit around and be an innocent bystander?
How do you get to do that?
And Pelosi's so non-plus.
Well, well, if you're with a White House payroll, why don't you just say so or some such thing?
Uh so anyway, uh this I I wanted to save this bite today Until after whatever happened with Mike Brown and the FEMA uh agency uh happened.
Uh and as we now know, Brown's been dispatched back to Washington to head up the big picture.
Because there are other natural disasters lurking out there, and uh and we must, we must prepare for them.
Uh the great thing about this business with Pelosi was when when Ciara Phillips wanted real answers, get she didn't have any.
Nancy Pelosi doesn't have any answers.
The liberals don't.
All they can do is whine, complain, and moan and point fingers.
So haven't heard this before on CNN.
I wanted you to hear it.
Open line Friday rolls on.
Rushly bought talent on loan from God and uh Gran Rapids, Michigan.
Hi, Cal, you are up next.
Hey, Russ, what a privilege.
What an honor.
Thanks.
Um earlier this summer, uh, President Bush put forth a proposal to convert some of these old uh uh and soon to be abandoned military bases into refineries.
Um and now that we've had an object lesson and to what happens when some of our refinery capacity is knocked out.
I mean, I think it's wise for President Bush to put forward this proposal forcefully and by executive order if necessary, because it's obviously critical to our uh economic uh vitality and future.
Um I well I I agree we need more refineries uh and I I'm all for the proposal to turn these ex-military bases into refineries, uh because it would mean jobs in these communities and so forth.
But I'm gonna take the occasion of your call to point something else out.
Anybody knows what happened to the price of oil and gasoline last week and this week came down.
Remember all of the warning, oh no, gas lines, gas joy, oh no, we're in deep do-do, all those refineries, all those oil derrick, oh no.
Um not hearing about any gas lines uh this week.
Uh the six dollar a gallon gas in Atlanta is his wa.
He's um uh refineries uh gearing back the damage much less than earlier thought to be.
Now, while that is good news, it can also be bad news.
Uh bad news in the sense that people say, see, we don't need to do any more to build it.
So we can handle even a hurricane going through there and ripping up those refiners.
We got back online there pretty quick.
Um that that would be unfortunate.
He can't do this by executive order, but uh uh I just I'm you know what I marvel at I marvel at the resiliency of this nation and its people.
I marvel at it.
I uh is thank God dear people who don't listen when a bunch of voices gather together start shouting, we're done, it's hopeless, it's over.
Thank God they're people who don't listen to them.
Because we got the gasoline situation straightened out.
We uh uh and I'm sure part of the one of the reasons uh that helped is the government rescinded temporarily these idiotic forty different formulations necessary so that gasoline can now travel travel from state to state uh without having to worry about these different formulations required for different air pollution circumstances.
But whatever.
Um the situation uh worked, uh the the plan here worked, and as I always say, it's the people of this country who make it work.
People make this country work, and thank goodness they are more resilient and optimistic and positive than the doomsayers and naysayers that uh that populate uh the people with the public megaphones.
Uh let me gr grab um well, Nathan in Greenville, South Carolina.
I'm glad you called.
You're next.
I want to go up to line one next after Nathan.
Hi, Nathan, welcome.
Hey Rush, thank you.
I I I wanted to call to thank you, sir.
Um called a little over six months ago to uh get some advice on how to maybe turn my wife away from the dark side and have her start seeing the light and the truth.
And uh you gave me some very good advice.
Um I have to do that.
What did I tell what did I what for for everybody's memory and mine too, what did I tell you to do?
Well, the main thing was um uh we had reached the conclusion that I had become a little heated when I was speaking to her about my beliefs, and you had told me to uh to present my side of the argument uh very calmly, to let her speak and have her say and wait until she was finished speaking before I started laughing at her, yeah.
That's right.
Just and not to bombard her with uh the information, but to try to show it to her in a loving manner.
Because you had said that uh, you know, the ultimate goal here is that you know there was disharmony and disaccord with uh with us both being on different sides of the fence, and we were gonna try to mend that.
And I have started seeing some great success.
Um I even called her last week listening to uh talk radio on the station when she came home.
I got back in the car.
She had uh she had the uh station on while you were on, my friend, and um just talking to her and and and waiting until she's finished with her side of the argument and then giving her mine and then to have my wife to say, hmm.
Well, that makes that kind of makes sense.
I mean, for my wife to say that kind of makes sense is a that's like a touchdown for me.
I mean, I'm Hey, I hear you, pal.
I hear you save her that one.
And it's it's it's mostly listening to you and listening to the way that you talk to people who have uh different opinions that you're looking I'm glad it all worked out.
Here's I now remember this, and here's here's the specifics of what I told you, and I I want to repeat this to other people because it works with it well, it's not not not that it works.
This is the only way you can deal with liberals because of who they are and why they are liberals.
Have uh I'm sure that many of you who are conservative in this audience, thanks very much, Nathan, for the for the call, I appreciate it.
I am certain that many of you in uh in your in your daily lives encounter liberals.
I'm sure that you hear them articulate things that just do not connect.
The dots don't connect.
The the logic sensors of the brain are as far apart as they can be when you listen to these people.
And you sit there, you wonder how how can this be?
Uh it it it boggles the mind.
Even after you present them with with what you know to be logical, rational thought, followed by an inescapable conclusion.
And I still don't get it.
And not that they're mean or nasty, I'm not talking about those kinds.
The the the reason is, and I've this is what I've encountered over the um course of my life.
The reason in most instances for this is that they don't mean this to sound insulting, but liberals have not arrived at their world view as a result of intellectual examination and thought.
They have gotten there either by growing up uh with with parents and families that way, and I just inculcated the beliefs in them, those beliefs then reinforced uh by a series of uh of college academics and professors and graduate students and so forth.
And forget I don't want to take time going into the reasons for all this.
Most most of the reasons liberals think the way they think is to make themselves feel better about everybody else and to feel good about themselves.
Uh so the process of getting through to one is not listen to me, let this get through your head.
It's a slow process of simply showing another world view.
It's simply that is based in thought.
The route to conversion from liberal to conservative, the key to this, to unlock that is found in opening up their minds to thought first, not feelings, or because most of the time a liberal cannot explain to you why they think what they think.
They can tell you exactly what they think.
They can't tell you why, and they certainly couldn't persuade you to agree with them.
What they end up doing is somehow telling you that you don't know what you're talking about, that you are an ism, uh you're a racism, you're a you're you're uh you're a homophobe, whatever the cliches are.
That that's that's how they they deal with it.
But uh over time, eyes can be opened, and the key to this, the key to it, particularly when dealing with spouses.
The key to it is they have to arrive at whatever new thought or conclusion themselves.
They will not accept it if you talk them into it.
You can't do it.
When liberals spouse it, you can't do it.
The conclusion has to come to them.
And that takes time.
You can only try to open their eyes and unlock the key that turns the thought process on in the brain.
And once that happens, once you succeed in that, and you do this in small doses, say something that you know is going to be provocative, not offensively provocative, but something that they've never even thought of.
Some some angle of a typical conservative liberal argument they've never even thought of, and then walk away, leave it.
You may have no sign at that point that the mind is worrying, but it is.
And at some point, like it happened here with Nathan.
One day his wife is listening to me.
And he doesn't even know it until he discovers it by accident.
But he succeeded with this, not because he drilled anything into her head, not because he pounded her, not because he said, sit down at least.
Took time, six months.
And once a liberal starts thinking, that's when the odds are greatest.
That a um, if not a conversion, that a, hmm, I haven't thought of that before.
I never even I never even looked at it that way before.
Understand that.
You haven't really looked at it.
You've grown up with templates.
You've looked at things through prisons, and that's how you see everything.
And they've they purposely shield themselves from thought.
And remember, most of it is designed to make themselves feel better than everybody else and good about themselves.
Here's uh here's Naomi in Burlington, Illinois.
Hi, Naomi.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
And uh thanks for taking my call.
I wanted to talk to you about the sadness and the tragedy of the nursing home patients who died.
Um, I really feel that Ray Naglin needs to be held fully accountable for that.
Um I have worked in long-term care for ten years.
I'm currently in a corporate position, had that nursing home, had thought that evacuation was necessary, those patients would have been evacuated.
You're not even talking about a type of evacuation from a hospital level.
You know, you're not dealing with the acuity level.
You're dealing those patients could have been transferred by ambulance, by medicar.
Um, a lot of facilities have bans that those patients could have been taken out of.
Um, and those deaths were totally unnecessary.
You're looking at a population that really next to children are totally at the need of those around them.
And to me, I really feel that he and Blanco really need to be held accountable for their deaths.
Well, let me let me I've got I've got two shocking things to tell you, one before the break and one after.
Uh UPI.
Uh in a recent story, let me let me just read to it from you.
This is uh police chief of Gretna, Louisiana.
And he admits in this story that he closed off one of the major arteries out of New Orleans on Monday before the hurricane hit.
Arthur Lawson, chief of the city of Gretna Police Department, confirmed to UPI, yeah, we shut down the bridge.
He added that his jurisdiction had uh been a closed and secure location since before the storm hit.
All our people had evacuated and we locked the city down.
The bridge in question, the crescent city connection, is the major artery heading west out of New Orleans across the Mississippi River.
He added that the uh the small town, which you called a bedroom community for the city of New Orleans, Gretna would have been overwhelmed by the influx of people had they not shut the bridge.
There was no food, water, or shelter in Gretna.
We didn't have the wherewithal to deal with these people.
If we had opened that bridge, our city would have looked like New Orleans does now, looted, burned, and pillaged.
So uh uh there were a lot of decisions here made at the local level, uh, folks, and some of these decisions impeded people getting out, not impeded, pres prevented them from uh from getting out.
But on the other hand, how do you blame this chief for not wanting his town to turn into New Orleans?
How do you blame him?
I mean, it's tough.
Quick time out, we'll be back in just a second.
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Okay, so the new FEMA guy's already on a hot seat.
They're asking him questions he doesn't know the answers to.
He just got there, so he's well, I don't know that yet.
I just got here.
I'll have some member of the staff answer the question.
Of course, the illusion, not the illusion, the impression is uh is is it continues to be presented that FEMA is disorganized and doesn't know what they're doing.
Folks, can I ask you a question?
It's the federal government.
It is a bureaucracy.
Would somebody tell me where is the expectation of excellence?
Where does it, where does that come from?
The only federal quote-unquote bureaucracy that I think daily achieves excellence is a U.S. military.
And that's because it's not really a bureaucracy.
It has a strict chain of command that is followed.
I uh I'm I'm I'm somewhat appalled that all these people expect perfection from the federal government.
Well, you did take government.
No, no, no, no, no.
I believe in the constitutional form of government that we have, and I think, you know, it's it's it's uh it's got it's got its limits and limitations.
We've built such a huge bureaucracy.
I don't know why the expectation is that it should handle things flawlessly.
If you look at the four hurricanes in Florida last year, I'm gonna tell you what, folks, you can say what you want about Governor Bush, you libs and so forth, but you didn't have any of these problems in Florida last year with four hurricanes.
You didn't have anything like this.
You didn't hear about whether FEMA was on time or not.
Did you?
You didn't have any crime rampant like this?
You didn't have anything like this at all?
Uh I've made my point.
I've running out of time, and I gotta share this with you.
I have friends, as I have told you, who live near the New Orleans era.
They used to live in New Orleans, but they didn't like it anymore, so they left.
And they set their business up outside of New Orleans on the other side of Lake Poncha train.
Their business has survived.
They uh don't have any phones, and they have to leave town to read their email.
But their business, uh, they just they have they lost a couple of panes in their in their greenhouse.
Uh but their business was not destroyed and it wasn't flooded, and their employees are all safe, so they're very fortunate.
I finally heard from them uh last night.
Dear Rush, we made a quick run to Baton Rouge to check our email as we are still out of electricity and internet.
We timed our drive to hear some of your show as it uh here airs on the Baton Rouge station.
Uh we heard one hour of your remarks in Murray Landrew and the Landrew family.
They were great.
But Rush, there are a few sad stories that the media isn't reporting.
As you may have heard, police captain Paul Accardo, a well-known spokesman for the New Orleans police department, committed suicide.
What the news media have failed to report is that the reason he committed suicide is that he returned home from hours of rescue efforts to find his wife and children had been raped, killed, and mutilated.
Hospitals are being broken into here for drugs.
Nurses are being raped and hospitals destroyed.
There was a flotilla of about 300 boats sent to New Orleans to aid in the rescue.
The boats were not allowed to launch as it was not safe.
The rescuees were shooting at the rescuers.
We have also heard that Charmaine Neville, a local celebrity part of the Neville family, uh, was also violated as she participated in the rescue efforts.
Uh other parishes, St. Bernard and others, probably 90% white, and both are still 100% underwater.
The notion that uh no effort was made to uh to spare blacks while all the white neighborhoods were just not true.
We are uh very fortunate we'll be okay.
We'll be up and running by next week.
Uh our phones are still finicky, the cell phones are not working.
It was great to hear your show for the first time in weeks.
It was actually the best medicine for us.
By the way, Kathy's nephew is a New Orleans cop.
He's been shot at, and he's shot back.
Same thing with a good friend in the fire department at the New Orleans Airport.
We have a lot of stories to tell you, mostly unfortunately, very sad.
Quick timeout, folks, back in just a second.
The odds are this stuff's still gonna backfire on the Democrats like Chuck Schumer trying to raise money at the same time.
Uh raising outrage over the Katrina relief efforts.
Hope you have a great weekend of the NFL opener.
See you Monday, folks.
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