Sept. 14, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Brian, I've I just decided I'm going to turn on the ditto cams of the bars are off now. | |
| So we will uh we'll start the feed uh to your computers at Rushlinbaugh.com now. | |
| And I mean if it if it holds up in about 45 seconds, you will have the feed. | |
| Any luck in there on the uh phone number for the legal defense fund of uh William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana. | |
| No luck. | |
| Still waiting a call back from the office of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, who um uh home was nearly destroyed, but but he was able to get there and rescue items from it uh during the rescue of citizens. | |
| Uh he lives in an affluent uh uptown neighborhood, Marengo Street. | |
| Uh ended up getting two trucks and a helicopter from the National Guard to take him in there. | |
| As it all turned out. | |
| Turns out these he's being targeted by the FBI, some other investigation unrelated to this, and he set up a legal offense fund. | |
| And I know there are a lot of things out there that we can contribute to, folks, but this would have to be at the top of a number of people's lists. | |
| The uh William Jefferson uh legal defense fund. | |
| Uh we have other stories uh still resonating here from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. | |
| We also have uh a synopsis and review of some of the highlights of yesterday with Judge Roberts before the Judiciary Committee. | |
| Uh there's really not a whole lot to say uh about it. | |
| Well, I think the main thing we've learned from the hearings is that the Democrats are even dumber than we than we could have imagined. | |
| Uh I mean, seriously, I mean it may be brutally unfair or mean-spirited to say, but this guy has run rings around them, and it's not even a matter of law. | |
| It's a matter of just plain old intellect and ego. | |
| It's a matter of humility. | |
| You could easily detect from Senator Kennedy and uh Senator Leahy, some of the and Senator Turbin, some of the uh uh the strategy here was simply one of confrontation. | |
| Uh ask a bunch of questions, and then when the nominee begins to answer, uh appear uninterested and keep going with the next question. | |
| And if you have to consult some notes, make sure you look at the notes that Ralph Nees sent you, uh, or people from uh from Nayrol. | |
| But what we've also learned here is that the Democrats have the same old playbook and they're using the same old strategy. | |
| They're using the Bork strategy here. | |
| Uh it is it's it's it and and those days, those days are over. | |
| Roberts is running circles around them. | |
| Uh uh they're gearing up for the next nominee. | |
| I think they've they've pretty much given up here other than some surprise memo that Turban says that uh says that he has uh that might cause an embarrassing moment. | |
| I do want to remind you it was at this stage of these hearings uh during the Clarence Thomas confirmation process that Anita Hill was dragged kicking and screaming against her will uh to the witness table to claim that he had sexually uh harassed her. | |
| But you know, the the the you you here as I said yesterday, here you have all these senators with all their staff members and all of these pieces of paper, prepared questions. | |
| If any trouble erupts, a staff member from behind will hand to Senator Ralph Nees talking points or Nayrol talking points or Nag talking points or whatever. | |
| In the meantime, you've got one man and one brain and no notes on the other side of the table. | |
| He knows his stuff. | |
| He's committing to nothing while seemingly committing to a lot. | |
| He's really just smart. | |
| He's just he's qualified. | |
| There's no question the man's qualified. | |
| And it's now apparent that the Democrats know it. | |
| Uh there's some quotes from uh uh various senators. | |
| Uh Schumer says, you know, I've been pleasantly surprised by some of the things you've said here today. | |
| I've really been pleasantly surprised. | |
| Biden's been referring to him as the next Chief Justice, or maybe it was Schumer that did that, but uh the question now is how many votes he's gonna get. | |
| Some people think he may get into the 90s. | |
| Uh we'll have to wait and see on that. | |
| But I just want to caution it isn't over yet. | |
| They've still got this afternoon to go with a Turban surprise memo, which is actually not a surprise because it was unearthed last night, and there's a lot of buzz created about it. | |
| More on that as the program unfolds. | |
| Uh But barring some unknown uh shocking surprise, or even, and by the way, it doesn't have to be true, it just needs to be an allegation. | |
| Remember, folks, the left has perfected this stratagem. | |
| It's not the nature of the evidence that we're concerned with, Judge. | |
| It's the seriousness of the charge. | |
| The seriousness of the charge means we have to look deep. | |
| We have to take our time. | |
| We have to give these charges the respect and the responsibility. | |
| We as the representatives of the people bring to these lofty seats in this valid committee room. | |
| Barring some out-of-the-way off-the-wall allegation, this is essentially over. | |
| So, but we will talk about it in due course, but there are still, as I say, some aftermath, uh hurricane aftermath items, get this in Houston, a fight Tuesday morning. | |
| You know, figure this is gonna happen sooner or later. | |
| Turf wars. | |
| Essentially turf battles have sprung up amongst school kids in Houston, among evacuees from New Orleans, the the road team, if you will, and uh and the Houston uh area school kids, the home team. | |
| A fight Tuesday morning led to a riot between Houston and evacuated students from Louisiana attending a Southeast Houston Hass School, according to KPRC Channel 2. | |
| Officers with the Houston Police Department, the Houston Independent Scroll District said about 200 students were involved in the 8 a.m. fight at Jesse Jones High School. | |
| Uh the uh the HISD confirmed the the brawl was between Houston students and students evacuated from Louisiana because of Hurricane Katrina. | |
| One of the Jones kids tossed a soft drink can into the group of New Orleans kids, said the HISD spokesman. | |
| The confrontation about respect and which group of students control the school had been brewing for days, according to students and parents. | |
| We're trying to help them, and they're coming over here beating up our kids. | |
| I don't think it's fair, one parent said. | |
| So apparently the innocent childlike evacuees of New Orleans, transplanted to this school, uh but tried to take it over. | |
| And then the the whole argument of, hey, you ain't dissing me, uh, reared its head. | |
| And we know where that has its roots. | |
| That was one of the problems that happened in New Fallujah. | |
| Between the Detroit Pistons and Ron Art Test and the Indiana Pacers. | |
| This whole business of don't diss me, you have to respect me. | |
| Apparently the uh the road team from New Orleans came in here and tried to take over the school. | |
| And the the Houston team said, well, what do we got? | |
| So they threw a Coke can in there and it started uh a melee. | |
| And now the parents are upset. | |
| We're just trying to help these New Orleans kids, and they come in here and they try to take over the school and they're beating up our kids. | |
| When the fight cleared, three students had been injured and transported to a hospital. | |
| Six other students were arrested, and parents from both sides of the fight had to be cleared from the area. | |
| They got gangs in Houston, they got gangs in New Orleans, they all coincide right here in the school. | |
| I don't want anybody just blaming New Orleans people. | |
| Another parent told KPRC Channel 2. | |
| Okay, so everybody does it, and that's so we just need to excuse it. | |
| They got gangs in New Orleans, they got gangs in Houston. | |
| So we had a gang turf war in a Houston school. | |
| The Jones High School principal warned all students violence would not be tolerated on campus. | |
| School officials said the school day had pretty much ended by noon and were asking parents to pick up their kids. | |
| That's how you don't tolerate violence, you close the school. | |
| KPRC Channel 2 spoke with several parents of students from Louisiana who said they were not sure if they would allow their children to go back to class on a Wednesday because of safety concerns. | |
| We have three full-time police officers assigned here, and we've also asked for assistance from the Houston police department. | |
| Uh HISD officials said that more than 3,000 students from Louisiana are attending scrubs in the district, uh, and that up until this fight, the district had not experienced any trouble with the displaced students. | |
| So, well, it's what happens. | |
| I mean, you're gonna have these turf wars. | |
| Uh this alpha males are gonna move in and take over, try to take over, assert dominance, uh, and uh end up controlling the school. | |
| So well, you know, I was it okay. | |
| I I alright, all right, all right, all right. | |
| I'll go ahead and say it. | |
| I'm not I just uh Snerdley has a point. | |
| When you when you look at all this, folks, whose fault is this really? | |
| It's Bush's. | |
| Bush, he knows, he knew what the attitude of these New Orleans people was going to be when they survived uh his attempt to kill them. | |
| He knew they were going to be loaded for bear, and he knew that this attempt to send them to Houston was just to get more Democrat votes, turned Republican in his state, and they're not falling for it. | |
| And so everybody knows that Bush is behind this whole move. | |
| If Bush would have just sent the National Guard in there or FEMA, and had them stationed in the hallways at this at this school, this would have never happened. | |
| But of course, Bush wasn't thinking. | |
| Bush doesn't care. | |
| He just wants to fly over the city in photo ops, try to cover up the evidence of the levy being blown up while he's at it, and then go off to the UN to talk to those thugs up there about terrorism and so forth, all these things, and they're just, you know, more Bush lies. | |
| It's it's despicable. | |
| Uh we'll be back in just a second. | |
| We're back, folks. | |
| I have just learned a little bit more about the uh the William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana Legal Defense Fund. | |
| But first, uh I I have been waiting to uh share this with you until we got into the uh intense discussion of the uh of the uh Supreme Court hearings of Judge Roberts. | |
| But I uh the way things are going here, I want to get this out there before I forget to share this with you. | |
| A portion of the hearings, you know, the networks have been cutting out of these hearings. | |
| It's if you watch CNN, uh, or Fox, doesn't matter, but they've got their analysts, and every once in a while they'll leave the hearings uh and go to their round table analysts to tell the audience what they just saw. | |
| Uh and at those points the the hearings continue. | |
| And here is some questioning from Senator Kennedy that somehow escaped uh mass distribution coverage by cable networks. | |
| Judge Roberts, uh again I ask you uh in light of Hurricane Katrina, if uh two people were drowning, which would you say? | |
| The young African American male or the uh white female who worked on your campaign and was trapped in your car. | |
| And uh don't evade the uh round pack. | |
| Which one of you did this? | |
| Stop laughing. | |
| It's not funny this time. | |
| Mr. Chairman, I'd uh like to be excused to find my uh the uh reading glasses. | |
| Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have El Rushbow serving humanity on the excellence in broadcasting network. | |
| Apparently the uh legal defense fund here for uh uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, has not yet been set up. | |
| And this no, it's Bush's fault. | |
| Now here I have the story. | |
| This is from last Friday on the New Orleans Times Picky Yoon's website, which is NOLA.com. | |
| Representative William Jefferson, Democrat New Orleans, under federal investigation for his role in promoting telecommunications businesses in Africa, uh has filed papers to form a legal defense fund. | |
| The fund can accept contributions and offers of pro bono legal help. | |
| Donations are limited to $5,000 per individual or organization, which saddens me because I was planning on contributing more. | |
| Uh the federal investigation has included raids on the homes in affluent neighborhoods of New Orleans of Democrat William Jefferson and Washington, D.C. Uh his accountant's office has been raided. | |
| The Maryland home of the vice president of Nigeria uh has been raided. | |
| The Maryland home of the vice president of Nigeria. | |
| The Washington Post reported that agents found oh ho ho ho ho ho ho folks, listen to this. | |
| The Washington Post reported that agents, FBI agents found a substantial sum of cash in a freezer, and that the probe is part of a sting operation that began almost a year ago. | |
| They found a substantial sum of cash in a freezer. | |
| Now we don't know in which of the two affluent homes of Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana, this freezer of cash was found. | |
| We can ask a question if it was found in the freezer of the New Orleans upscale neighborhood home. | |
| And uh the Congressman uh William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana was seen taking a box the size of a refrigerator out of the home over the uh over the uh weekend here in the Katrina aftermath. | |
| Well, it gets interesting. | |
| Legal documents indicate that one area of the uh inquiry centers on whether Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, violated a nineteen ninety-seven act that bars payments or attempted payments of cash or other items of value to a foreign official. | |
| So you can see what the sting is here. | |
| You've got the vice president of Nigeria has a home in Maryland, and it apparently here the the theory of law enforcement is that uh William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana might have been preparing to funnel some of that cash to the vice president of Nigeria for a uh telecommunications business in in uh in Africa. | |
| Uh the the uh uh well, I don't want to speculate. | |
| I mean, we we don't know about law enforcement these things. | |
| I'm just gonna stick with the story. | |
| The papers established the legal fund uh establishing the legal fund lacked the required signature from the funds trustees. | |
| So it hasn't been set up yet. | |
| The funds trustee is Walter Wilkerson. | |
| Uh uh William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, explained in a letter to the House Resources Center that the papers and required signature were shipped from New Orleans, but they haven't yet arrived in Washington because of Hurricane Katrina, which is of course George Bush's fault. | |
| I guess George Bush didn't care enough to stop the hurricane from having these effects, including shutting down the post offices. | |
| So that's why there's no number for the legal defense fund, Mr. Snerdler. | |
| They haven't set it up yet because the papers to set it up have not yet made it to Washington because Bush caused Hurricane Katrina. | |
| Here's uh here's here's Reed in Memphis, Tennessee. | |
| Hi, Reed. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Hey, Rush, how are you doing? | |
| Uh, never better. | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Yeah, thank you. | |
| I grew up in the New Orleans area in Miller. | |
| Look, I'm gonna hold it just uh I oh, ho, ho, oh, just a second. | |
| I've noticed something lately on this program, and it's not your fault, uh, Reed, or any of you people on the phone's fault. | |
| It's our phone system. | |
| But I'm gonna pull a John Roberts here. | |
| If you're gonna ask me how I'm doing, I demand the right to answer before you keep on. | |
| Otherwise, you ask if you ask me how I'm doing and you don't care, you're just gonna keep on talking. | |
| I'm gonna assume that you care since you're asking me. | |
| Of course. | |
| Since I answer the question, we end up talking over each other, and then conversation doesn't occur. | |
| So the answer is I'm never better. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Rush, I grew up in the New Orleans area in Jefferson Parish in Mediterrae and drove across the 17th Street Canal uh most of my life, especially going to college at University of New Orleans. | |
| And I wanted to rebut uh Minister Farrakhan and Kanye West and uh uh Reverend Jackson and all who say that uh the city of New Orleans is uh racially engineered and that the flood was purposely caused to flood them. | |
| What lies directly east of the 17th Street Canal and east of the break in the canal on the New Orleans side is first the New Orleans Marina, and the first casualty of the storm was the Southern Yacht Club. | |
| Well, wait a second. | |
| Reed, read, right? | |
| Uh what I'm hearing, it was not a um uh uh what did you just call it the canal? | |
| It was the levee. | |
| Well, actually the 17th Street Canal does not have so much have the have a levee as it has a flood wall. | |
| And directly on the New Orleans side of that is very affluent uh neighborhoods around the marina, condoms. | |
| Well, is this what is this what is this what Calypso Louis was talking about? | |
| Is he talking about this particular levee? | |
| Yes, sir, he is. | |
| Okay. | |
| He's talking he's talking about the levee that uh had a twenty-five-foot break in it that uh he thinks was dynamited. | |
| No, a twenty-five-foot crater. | |
| He must he must be very happy it was dynamited uh first to flood uh affluent uh Lake Vista neighborhood. | |
| That's the home of the jazz music musician uh uh uh Pete Fountain. | |
| And the waters rushed past all those affluent neighborhoods before they got to the uh the neighborhood that he seems so concerned about. | |
| I appreciate your these are all minor details. | |
| The fact of the matter is that after the bomb blew up the levee, there were black homes flooded, weren't there not? | |
| Eventually, but uh the uh the upper the upscale neighborhoods by the lake were flooded first and are still underwater. | |
| Minor detail. | |
| The fact is that the the uh uh bomb dynamite, whatever it is that Calypso Louie has solid evidence for uh destroyed black homes is uh indisputable. | |
| And uh Bush did it. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Uh telephone number is 800 282-2882. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Uh ladies and gentlemen, I I want to return to one aspect of the uh story I just shared with you about uh uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, uh, who uh is uh involved a little bit of a mess here uh that we've been talking about all day. | |
| I don't want to recount all the details that would take too long. | |
| They will be on uh my website later today. | |
| But the latest story that I quoted from from the uh New Orleans Times Picky Yoon uh mentioned that uh uh the Washington Post reported that FBI agents found a substantial sum of cash in a freezer uh in one of the homes of uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and that the FBI investigation is all part of a sting operation began almost a year ago. | |
| And I just once again uh I guess my antenna are not up high enough. | |
| I just glossed all over this. | |
| Uh but the question needs to be asked what what's wrong with putting cash in a freezer. | |
| Where is the law in this country says you can't put cash in a freezer? | |
| What's wrong with that? | |
| Especially when you know that the president's gonna cause a hurricane and destroy your neighborhood or try to. | |
| I mean, and besides that, it makes far more sense uh than putting uh cash in an oven. | |
| I mean, where do you where do you think we get the phrase cold cash? | |
| Everybody puts cold cash because it cashed in in the freezer. | |
| That's how it got its name, cold cash. | |
| Only idiots would put cash in an oven. | |
| Because you never know when the maid would come along and turn it on. | |
| And then your cash should be uh up in smoke, up in flames. | |
| But you can't destroy cash in a freezer. | |
| Uh let's let me let me go to line three. | |
| Um Cyrus has been waiting for a long time from uh Foothill Ranch, California. | |
| Hi Cyrus, I'm glad you called and welcome to the program. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| I just wanted to get your take on these uh charges or indictments handed down to the nursing homeowners there in Louisiana. | |
| Uh well, I have a number of things. | |
| You mean the 39 people that were um uh discovered, the n the the bodies that were discovered in this nursing home that nobody knew about? | |
| Yeah, the 34. | |
| 34 bodies. | |
| Um yeah, I uh but my first thought on that was that they're gonna have to revise the body count down because these deaths are not attributable to Bush. | |
| Uh and the body count, of course, the death toll is directly attributable to uh Bush. | |
| Bush killed those people, but obviously Bush didn't kill these people uh because they were neglected, no attempt was made to get them out. | |
| This involuntary homicide, I think is the uh charge, correct? | |
| Uh I'm really not sure. | |
| I think that's what it was. | |
| I think it was involuntary uh homicide. | |
| Uh and the uh the the apparently the temperature got to be 106 in there. | |
| Now I may be confusing this with the hospital. | |
| That was forty yeah, the hospitals were forty-five people were found. | |
| This is a different case, these thirty-four. | |
| Um I I in a in a in a disaster like this, and the people couldn't get uh any rescue uh efforts for these uh residents of the nursing home to get out of there. | |
| I don't know, this is uh this is a toughie. | |
| You may be able to lay this one at the feet of Bush. | |
| Isn't that what you're thinking? | |
| What was I thinking? | |
| Yeah, I'm uh are you thinking in along those lines? | |
| No, not at all. | |
| In fact, uh I just found it kind of peculiar, or the irony of it when the attorney general is quoted as saying that it was just pathetic because uh they were asked if they wanted to move these patients, uh uh and they did not. | |
| Um it just seems like they're being indicted for either not having an evacuation plan or not following one. | |
| And to be quite honest with you, when I first heard the story, I thought they were talking about the mayor and the governor of Louisiana. | |
| And uh I had pictures of the submerged school buses And everything and an evacuation plan defined there that wasn't being followed. | |
| Well, uh, you know, we know that they didn't do anything wrong now. | |
| There's been uh there's been enough investigation now that the mayor and the governor gave it their best shot. | |
| Uh they used all the resources and they were lied to by the federal government. | |
| They depended on uh on a on a federal uh assistance plan that never got there, never showed up. | |
| We all know why. | |
| Uh because New Orleans nobody cares about it. | |
| It's a bunch of poor people and uh they vote Democrat anyway, so what the hell. | |
| Uh we had a woman who spoke very eloquently about this very fact yesterday and was Donna Schumer uh from uh uh where was she South South Windsor, Connecticut. | |
| Uh she she changed my mind on this. | |
| And uh I I I think uh the the these these uh nursing homeowners uh had they at least made an effort to get these people out of there, they probably would have escaped any charge since they just uh just fled. | |
| The out for them is to say, well, uh the the promised rescue efforts and the assistance that we needed never showed up. | |
| And of course now everybody knows why that is uh the it was it was Bush's fault. | |
| Joe in Santa Rosa, California. | |
| Welcome to the program, sir. | |
| Nice to have you with us. | |
| Hubba Hoba Rush. | |
| I'm good for 25 bucks to the William Jefferson Defense Fund just for comedic value. | |
| Now I guess we know uh what the school buses were full of, uh the few they had running. | |
| That's not why I called. | |
| I know you do this stuff for free because you love your job and you're a blessed man. | |
| On loan from God. | |
| But I was leaving home this morning to go play hoops with some buddies, and I keep my TV on because there's no one at home. | |
| And uh I recognize the mayor's voice just like I do my mother's, and as I'm leaving out the front door, I hear his voice, and I stop for a second and I'm quoting him as best I can. | |
| Here's what I heard the mayor of New Orleans say. | |
| I'm the mayor of New Orleans, and it's my responsibility to guard this city, and we're contemplating filing for bankruptcy because our coffers are empty. | |
| Now, I don't have a college degree, but I got a feeling a billion dollars a day for the last ten days goes a pretty long way, but he's contemplating filing for bankruptcy. | |
| If this wasn't so tragic, it'd be comedic. | |
| I think it's calling to verify what I heard was correct. | |
| No, no. | |
| Yeah, we this is actually he said this during the day uh yesterday, and I I I uh uh have been aware of this since before the program started. | |
| You heard it correct. | |
| He he says New Orleans is bankrupt. | |
| And uh before we lay leave, and uh I'll hear uh your opinion off the air, but Snerdley deserves a raise, and I want to put on an oorah to my brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
| I'm proud of you guys, give up good work. | |
| I'll listen to your air. | |
| Opinion off the air. | |
| Joe, thanks for the call. | |
| Santa Rosa uh appreciate that very much. | |
| Uh Santa Rosa is uh where Mark Feltz family lives. | |
| So we know about Santa Rosa. | |
| Uh at any deep throat. | |
| We know about we know about Santa Rosa. | |
| At any rate, um it's interesting. | |
| The French quarter is gonna be oh what what are the news? | |
| They're they're they're open by the end of the week. | |
| Hotels gonna be opening for business by the end of the week. | |
| You know, I I want to take you back, folks. | |
| I want to take you back to the Monday before the the uh the levees broke, or whatever it was. | |
| And I I was on this program talking about all the doom and gloom and so forth, and I said, you wait. | |
| The the rebuilding effort here is gonna s is gonna shock people. | |
| You know, everybody's acting like New Orleans is dead and done forever. | |
| And it's and I said it we're you uh well I just went through a list of things, reminding everybody about the uh the can-do spirit of America. | |
| And this is all in the context of the people who make the country work. | |
| And they're gonna be down there and they're gonna be doing what they can to rebuild and salvage what they can. | |
| And they're gonna they're just like everybody else. | |
| They're gonna want to return to normalcy as quickly as they can. | |
| And so you've got some hotels opening, you've got the French quarter opening up uh by the end of the week. | |
| The airport, the airport for commercial traffic, first analysis, was going to be closed for two months. | |
| And it was going to be basically a triage and morgue set up to deal with the tens of thousands of bodies, which by the way, Governor Blanco's still upset that nobody can find. | |
| But now the airport's open today. | |
| So for commercial traffic, the original date was much later. | |
| Then they revised it to September 19th. | |
| Uh Well, this is September the 14th, and uh it's it's it's open today for commercial traffic. | |
| So I think saying the city is bankrupt uh to answer your question is nothing more than the mayor attempting to continue this picture he's painted of utter total devastation. | |
| Uh the and as far as the you know you raise an interesting point about the the relief money that's uh been appropriated by Congress and it'll end up being at least a hundred billion or more. | |
| Uh there's still a question of who who gets that. | |
| You know, and I and I I think partially, I'm I'm this just a surmise here, but I think the mayor claiming bankruptcy is almost a request, give me the money. | |
| Give the city of New Orleans the money. | |
| Because when you folks, you you know how you di if you study these things, if if you if you've been interested in politics for any length of time at all, you know that it's all about money. | |
| Follow the money, and you will answer almost every question you have about political issues. | |
| So there is this endless train of money that's gonna come into the state and the city, and there is jockeying right now in that state for who is going to be in charge of receiving it and distributing it, because that's where the power of politics lies. | |
| And New Orleans particularly has been an entitlement state, a welfare state. | |
| This is how they have survived, and you know, having this government get hold of the funds and then parcel them out as they wish. | |
| We know that all kinds of money was allocated for the Corps of Engineers for flood projects and levy control, and it never got spent on any of that. | |
| We don't know where it went. | |
| We'll never find out where it went. | |
| We only know that it didn't go uh for the purposes it was intended. | |
| So, hey, we're bankrupt here in New Orleans is perhaps a plea to uh send some of that aid money in the form of cash to the city because hey, we've been devastated here by this hurricane. | |
| We we've got to get we've got to get up and running real fast here. | |
| So it's hard not to be cynical about this. | |
| Uh and at the same time, be sympathetic and understand that there are obviously a lot of financial problems. | |
| We don't know what the status of banks is, we don't know what the status of the bank records are. | |
| We don't know what the status of the uh the city's accounts uh happen to be, uh whether they were backed up anywhere off site, all these unknowable uh questions uh th that still haven't been answered. | |
| So saying we're bankrupt may simply mean I can't get my hands on any money. | |
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| We'll be back after this. | |
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| Standby audio soundbite number four. | |
| Uh, Mr. Broadcast Engineer just got a flash email from North Carolina. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, dear Rush, as I write this, it is already several hours after lunchtime, and no aid has arrived to help North Carolina residents deal with Hurricane Ophelia Vandenhuebel. | |
| No matter how many choppers I shoot at, none will land and give me supplies. | |
| I have resorted to eating one of my co-workers who, while not actually dead, has a nasty cold. | |
| Please pass along my frustration to the rest of America and urge Bush to sign that Kyoto Protocol so this hurricane will stop. | |
| Sincerely, James Wall in Raleigh, North Carolina. | |
| Here is uh Moses in Charlotte, North Carolina. | |
| Hi, Moses. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Russ, thanks for taking my call. | |
| I want to defend uh Farrakhan's statement. | |
| You have to remember that he was he specifically said that he was given the information by a very reliable source. | |
| Okay, hang on. | |
| Hey, hey, Moses, let's go back and play what Farrakhan said, because I did this in the last hour, and I want people to know what you're talking about. | |
| Uh uh Minister Farrakhan uh was in uh Charlotte, North Carolina, where Moses is calling from, and he spoke to a rally in support for his millions more march. | |
| And this this was Tuesday, this was yesterday. | |
| This is what uh uh Minister Farrakhan said. | |
| From a very reliable source that under that levy, there was a 25 foot hole which suggested that it may have been blown up. | |
| So that the water would destroy the black part of town and where the rights live, it would be dry. | |
| I'm sure that some good is being done. | |
| But not really enough to answer the cry. | |
| Okay, Moses, so that's what he said, and I wanted people to hear that before your comment. | |
| Now go. | |
| Right. | |
| When I heard uh that statement, it confirmed something from uh 1990 when I was in New Orleans for um I was there for about six months. | |
| Uh the Army Corps of Engineers had been working on that levy, but there was yet no work taking place. | |
| And so to hear him say what he said, I know how Lewis speaks. | |
| When he said the words dynamited, you have to understand that he said that he got that information from a reliable source. | |
| He has to protect the sources, so some things have to be turned around in order to protect who your source is. | |
| But ultimately what he's saying is that the levy was tampered with in order to, and you said it yourself, that uh Louisiana is a welfare state, uh, especially New Orleans. | |
| And who receives government uh uh resources and in New Orleans more African Americans receive government resources more than any other uh uh I guess faction there in New Orleans. | |
| Well, that now wait, in New Orleans that's true, but nationwide it's not. | |
| The largest uh percentage of welfare recipients is white, but in New Orleans, you're right. | |
| You get it where you can get it, you save money where you can get it. | |
| I'm telling you this thing, uh if what he's saying about that 25-foot hole in the levy, if if he's correct in what he's saying, then that was going on uh since 1990. | |
| Uh 1991. | |
| No, wait, wait, wait. | |
| I'm uh the the 25-foot hole was found after the levy broke, which implies that it had been blown up. | |
| I don't know this dates back to 1990, but I still get your point. | |
| The point is that the Bush administration wanted to uh simply get rid of a bunch of people costing it a lot of money in the form of welfare payments. | |
| Uh now see now now now you're getting into you're making a mistake Kanye West made. | |
| You need to aim lower. | |
| You need to look at the governor of that of that state. | |
| That's the one who had everything to benefit. | |
| I mean, if if your budget, most of your the your resources are going to this African American community, which you figure in your mind is not productive, you know, it's a weight on your budget. | |
| You know, how are you gonna fix this problem? | |
| And and as far as the dynamite thing, I don't know about that, but I I can say that I know that there was work going on in that levy um from some other people um that I had to be dealing with. | |
| So that hole could have existed that amount of time, and the flood waters could have just came in at any part in time, and no one could would have been blamed for it. | |
| It just would have been a mistake, and they would have gotten their aid, but the only thing is that the But Ferr look, Farrakhan didn't say the hole was responsible for it, he said it was blown up. | |
| Now, like I said, he has to protect his source. | |
| He he had of course he's gonna say blown up because the person that uh actually told him the information about that hole being in the levy, they didn't tell him blown up, but he has to say blown up in an effort to show that he's trying to protect his you may have a point, Moses, because if you're aiming here at Governor Blanco being responsible for this levy breach because she said she didn't want the military in there. | |
| She didn't want the National Guard. | |
| She didn't want those good people going in there, and she was talking about resources at the same time. | |
| So it it it it you uh uh I I don't I think you're making more sense than uh Minister Farrakhan made. | |
| Look at look at where her responsibilities are. | |
| Now her her responsibilities are in Houston, they're in Charlotte, they're in Utah, they're all over the United States, but in New Orleans, and when New Orleans is built, she will not have to deal with that pr uh economic problem. | |
| That's right, because they're not gonna rebuild slums, are they? | |
| Oh, hell no. | |
| Of course not. | |
| They're not gonna rebuild slums for people to come back to that uh okay. | |
| Moses, I'm I'm glad you called. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| Uh we all are. | |
| It's it's hard to believe Bush may not have had a hand in this, but but uh he makes a good point. | |
| We'll be back in just a moment. | |
| You know, Moses may even have more of a point. | |
| The governor of Louisiana at the time that 25 foot hole was apparently dug under the levee was the uh Democrat Edwin Edwards, who is white. | |
| White. |
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