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Sept. 16, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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And of course, we're looking forward to talking to you today, but whatever you want to talk about doesn't have to be about the hurricane or the crack up of the Democratic Party, whatever.
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Now, what have we been talking about for the last half hour?
Last half hour for just joining us.
Read a piece on MSNBC.com by Howard Feynman.
Which tends to indicate that the Democrats in Washington, the media have just now figured out that there's a bunch of activists, they call them on their blogs, that are influencing the Washington Democrats, and that there's a problem here.
Well, I have been telling you of this problem for two years, and I've been detailing it and defining it for you, such as this activist bunch on the blogs.
There's really a bunch of left-wing fringe kooks in it.
They are slowly but surely taking over the party, as a caller earlier today pointed out, campaign finance reform made it much more difficult to give big sums of money to the party.
So these 527 groups sprang up, and that's where a lot of the money is going, and the money talks in politics.
So lo and behold, one of these blogs, by the way, is Michael Moore's blog.
One of these blogs that influences the Democrats is Michael Moore's blog.
And guess who's just posted there?
Cindy Sheehan.
Want to hear an excerpt?
No, no, no.
No.
This Howard Feynman piece said that the Democrats in Washington better realize that the new face of the Democrats is Cindy Sheehan or someone like her.
So here is what.
Here is what Ms. Sheehan has posted.
Excerpt of it, Michaelmore.com.
I don't care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow, or pink.
I don't care.
If a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan.
I don't care what flag a person salutes.
If a human being is hungry, then it's up to another human being to feed him or her.
George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all-around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse himself from power.
The only way America will become more secure is if we have a new administration that cares about Americans, even if they don't fall into the top two percent of the wealthiest.
Well, I don't need to characterize this kind of thinking, but I'm just telling you that now New Orleans is occupied, and we got to get troops out of there, and we gotta get rid of Bush.
Bush is not running for re-election, Cindy.
That's what makes this so cocky.
I ran into one of these types not long ago.
And by all outward appearances, you know, this is an educated, smart person.
And all it took was just bringing up Bush's name, and this person lost composure.
Rat tat tat, all of these insults, personal name-calling, just just some of it obscene.
And I put my hand up, I said, Well, well, hold hold it a second.
When do you do you care about winning elections?
You just gotta rid of Bush.
Gotta get rid of Bush.
Hate Bush.
Bush is stupid.
Bush is dumb.
Bush, Bush, Bush, getting back.
We gotta get rid of Bush.
I said, Well, he's not running anymore.
Get rid of Bush.
I don't care.
I is I stood there.
I was in stunned amazement.
Shouldn't have been, but I was.
But I mean, this is the kind of thing that the Democrats in Washington are now going to have to pay attention to.
And they're gonna have to start articulating this car.
Keep articulating this kind of drivel in order to keep the money flowing in from these contributors.
Flat out amazing.
Some of the good news coming out of uh New Orleans that's not being reported.
This is courtesy of Peter Hannaford at the American Spectator Online.org.
Tuesday evening, the first container ship docked at the port of New Orleans and began unloading.
This beat the port's predicted reopening by six months.
Port officials credited the success to cooperation between federal agencies, port staff, the dock workers' union, and the state police.
They now say the port will be operating at 80% of normal within three months.
That's good news for Midwest grain farmers who will soon be harvesting and exporting their crops.
FEMA is sending auditors to the region to monitor the torrent of federal money pouring in for rebuilding.
Given the history of government corruption in Louisiana, this is a good sign that your tax dollars will be at work instead of lining someone's pockets.
According to EPA tallies of the New Orleans metropolitan area's 12 drinking water plants, two in the suburbs and one in the city are now producing potable water, and several others are producing water that requires boiling.
The number of dead in New Orleans, while in the hundreds is far below the 10,000 predicted by Mayor Ray Nagan a week ago.
Significantly, in a speech to the Louisiana legislature Wednesday and broadcast statewide, Governor Kathleen Blanco accepted responsibility for any failures at the state level.
This matches the previous day's statement by President Bush's that he takes responsibility for federal shortcomings.
He even went on to talk about what a friend at the people of Louisiana have in uh in George W. Bush.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have no ideas.
So there's good news, and of course, the gasoline refineries are up.
Liberals are upset that Bush is paying attention to the gasoline refineries.
You know actually, folks, we could just stand back and watch and they would self-destruct.
We can speed it up.
Obviously, we can stand back and watch.
What other thing before we go to the break, and I get back to phone calls and a um audio soundbite roster that we still have to go through.
I want to talk just briefly here about the notion of not quitting and not giving up and keeping your eye focused on whatever your objective is, because I think it has been for me personally, the last two weeks have been an object lesson in not giving up.
Let me ask you a question.
How many of you in the past two weeks, beginning with the pictures that we saw out of New Orleans, coupled with the media cacophony, with the overwhelming conclusion that Bush was finished, that his presidency was destroyed, that he was a lame duck who was effectively politically dead, and that these last three years wouldn't amount to nothing?
And as a result of the media having killed off the Bush presidency, you felt killed off.
You felt dead.
You felt, oh, woe is us.
You felt, oh my gosh.
The media still has the power to destroy a presidency.
I thought maybe we got to the point where that didn't happen.
They still have the power to destroy a presidency.
Uh how many of you wondered what it must be like to be George Bush to get up every day, and to know the kinds of outrageous things being said about you?
The way you're being made fun of, the way you're being laughed at, the way you're being discarded, the way you're being already pronounced as dead, stick a fork in you.
How many of you thought about what it's like to be him?
Well, yeah, President of the United States, most powerful man in the world.
But in your own personal lives, you know how upset you can get if a lot of people don't like you or make fun of you or have all your life or what have you.
How many of you put yourself in Bush's position?
I did.
You know, I I always do this kind of thing during times of um stress and large obstacles during times where it just seems like it's all gone, it's all over.
And I watch how People who could who could succumb to that handle themselves.
As I try to learn from it.
I watch how people who are constantly under attack and constantly under assault and constantly being lied about deal with it.
And how it affects them.
Does it change them?
Does it embitter them?
Does it cause them to lose focus on their jobs or their families or whatever else they must do in life that's important?
And I think what we've seen in the last two weeks is a great object lesson in things aren't really as they appear to be, oftentimes.
Bush wasn't really politically dead.
His presidency wasn't politically destroyed.
The last three years have not come and gone or will not come and go with absolutely no sign of any of the victories in the previous five.
And even years prior to that, if you count Senate and House races.
And how many people probably were hoping or fearing that Bush would just sort of wilt up and regress into a shell and so forth?
He didn't do that.
In the midst of all this destruction and loss of life that he saw that happened on his watch, he comes out of this appearing strong and resolved and the same person he was before it happened.
And the lesson that I draw from it that I think is worthy of being learned is have faith in yourself yourself.
Trust that what you think is right is right.
Don't be influenced by a maddened crowd.
Don't be influenced by traditional doomsayers and gloomsayers and fatalists, because they're always going to be out there and they're always going to be hoping other people fail, so they'll have friends in failure.
That success is the best revenge if that's what you're into, and that that is the way to really infuriate them even more, to constantly keep battling up and coming back, and not letting them define the terms of your life, or the terms of your job, or the terms of your happiness.
The media is attempting, and all the president's critics are attempting to redefine his life according to the way they want it to go for him.
And he simply says, nope, screw you.
I am who I am.
I like who I am, I'm comfortable in my skin, I know what I'm doing is right, and I'm going to keep doing it.
I think there's a b uh there's a huge lesson for every human being that's paid attention to this to uh to learn from this.
It's not just simply to say go out and be optimistic.
Uh you don't you don't avoid reality here.
You just understand who you are, and you understand that whatever these people are saying is not going to change who you are.
It might change the perception of some people about who you are.
It's not going to change who you are.
Bush hasn't been changed by any of this, and he's not going to allow himself to be changed by it, and a lot of successful people are just that way.
So I wanted to mention this because I think it's key.
And I could tell by some of the email that I've been getting that a lot of people have been dispirited and down in the dumps and all this simply because, once again, of a coordinated media assault, but after two weeks of it, the pattern keeps repeating, doesn't no matter where they think they've won, they end up being slapped right in the face.
I don't care whether it's Bill Burkett's forged documents or the 9-11 Commission, I don't care whether it's Cindy Sheehan.
They don't triumph.
Why aren't they triumphing?
Because they're not rooted in truth or honesty.
They're not rooted in anything other than their single vision focus and they're gonna need help.
They can't destroy somebody, you, me or Bush, without your help, or my help or Bush's help.
They can't do it on their own, and don't ever be fooled into thinking somebody can destroy you without you helping.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Yeah, it's gonna be real interesting to watch now that Cindy Sheehan has demanded that Bush pull the troops out of uh New Orleans and Iraq and end our occupation of New Orleans.
It'll be real interesting to see how many of the slavish media who thought that She was the second coming when she was camped outside in the ditch in Crawford, Texas.
Now line up with her on this.
We'll just see.
Here is Mike in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good to speak with you.
I was just wondering what your thoughts were on the Lions' chances against Chicago today.
And then, of course, playing at home in the Super Bowl.
Um, you know, this is this is a tough game.
I'm gonna have to go, I'm gonna have to go to the environmental wacko method to pick this game for you, Mike.
I'll I'll tell you why, because if if you look at the game strictly on football terms, the Lions, uh the Lions have not won two games in a row and I don't know how long, and the Bears have no defense.
So you've got you've got on paper, you've got nobody should win.
Uh both teams are so bad that neither one of them has the ability to beat the other.
But you can't say that because somebody is gonna win or somebody's gonna lose.
So you have to look at this game in the environmental wacko method.
The environmental wacko method, by the way, is a way of picking football games, NFL games, that involves the whole audience.
Admittedly, uh a lot of people are not sports fans, uh, but I am, and so they get mad at me for avoiding the issues when I simply talk football.
So I came up with the environmental wacko method uh to pick games to incorporate issues into the selection of victors each week in the NFL.
So what do we have here?
We got the Bears, and we have the Lions.
And the Lions is his key.
The Lions are playing at home.
It's a tough on the surface, it's tough pick.
I mean, animals.
Uh one animal has to lose here, and that's sad because animals, of course, if it were if it weren't for human beings, animals would really uh be a lot safer and a lot better off than they are.
The animals, of course, the animal kingdom, the animal rights crowd is is is convinced that we're destroying animals and not replenishing them.
We're we're we're we're wiping out whole species and so forth.
But you have to go deeper since how do you pit one animal against the other since all animals are equal?
Well, we know that all animals are not equal.
For example, a lion.
The lion is the king of the jungle, king of the jungle.
It's it's uh uh it's not disputed.
Uh you don't even find a bear in the jungle.
A bear won't get near the jungle because the bear knows the lion is there.
But there's something else.
The bears are actually performing a disservice to the animal world.
How is this, you say?
The bears, and I'm sure you've seen this yourself, the bears are allowing themselves to be debased by human beings, turning them into virtual caricatures, putting them in television commercials, and what do they do in these television commercials?
These bears basically go in and turn over cars.
They tear up cars trying to get to food inside the cars.
Well, where are these cars made?
Detroit.
Where do the lions live?
Detroit.
So using the environmental wacko method, you don't see any lions in television commercial.
You don't see lions being tamed by evil human beings.
You don't see television commercial with lions.
Oh, you when you see a lion on television, it's on some history channel or national geographic channel, and it is eating something.
It is eat I, in fact, I saw, I saw just the other, I was watching all these specials on Rome on the History Channel, and I saw lions eating Christians.
You have to go with the lions if you are using the environmental wacko method.
Not only are they untamable, they go out and kill these evil Christians.
You saw it happen there in the Coliseum.
But the Bears, supposedly big and tough, but a bunch of human liberal TV producers can come along and turn them into walking jokes.
The bear, all it's good for is tearing up a car and stealing a bag of potato chips that's inside.
They don't have a press, especially when they're tearing up cars made.
Where the lions live.
So, Mike, take the lions, lay the points, and you'll be home free.
Patrick in Las Vegas, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Howdy, Rash.
Didn't from Lost Lages, Nevada.
Thanks very much.
Um I'm just talking about the uh Pledge of Allegiance issue.
Yeah.
The I was an intern for a sen for Senator Instant a few years ago when it first happened.
And I just heard a whole outrage about how ridiculous it is that they called the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
Now this time around, I haven't heard hardly anything about it.
And I was just wondering what your opinion on it was.
Well, don't don't worry about this.
This this is not gonna th there's there's not gonna be a political alignment uh in favor of this uh of this atheist kook.
Uh Democrats aren't gonna want to get anywhere near this.
Democrats that have spoken about it already think this is not good.
It just hasn't risen to the top because we're in a news cycle here that's pretty dominant with uh with other stories.
And people spent their emotion on this when this happened three years ago.
Uh don't think the emotion's still not there.
You let this thing get get forward, let it let it keep moving, and uh you will be satisfied at the uh at the outrage that you see.
Mark my words.
I got a question.
Did I say in the environmental wacko pick that the Bears have a lousy defense?
Well, that's a nice screw the I guess I've got a couple emails that said that I the Bears have no offense.
There's zero offense.
They've got a pretty good defense.
And the caller said that the game was in Detroit.
I think the game's in Chicago, but uh it it doesn't change the pick.
Uh I thought the caller said the game was in Detroit.
I frankly haven't looked at the schedule uh for that game, and I'm so but it it doesn't change the nature of the pick.
The environmental wacko pick stands.
Uh you you picked the lions on this.
All right, here's uh here's Rick in Fort Collins, Colorado.
This is the home of Dan's Bake Sale.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
New Orleans ditto to you, Rush.
Thank you.
You know, I've been online a lot looking at WWL.com, the New Orleans uh TV station website.
It's giving some of the best coverage of how good the city is doing.
It's marvelous how they're recovering.
I grew up in New Orleans, I lived through all the big ones.
Betsy, Hilda, and Camille.
Betsy did the same thing New Orleans.
It wiped it out pretty much in the low-lying areas, but where we were above sea level, it was okay.
And Mayor Nagan, he's made mistakes, but he's really come around.
He has declared to the governor that the criminal element that was removed from the city, uh forcibly by evacuation or evacuated on their own, will not be allowed back in the city if they plan to keep up with their criminal activities.
You know, it's a good point.
I'm glad you noticed it.
As host of the program, I too have this story from the WWL Channel 4.com website.
And let me let me read some of this to you.
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagan issued a warning to the criminals and drug gangs who used to dominate certain parts of the city Thursday, saying they aren't wanted back.
I told the governor today that for the first time in a long time the city of New Orleans is crime free and drug free, and we want to keep it that way.
He said any criminals expected to return to business as usual in New Orleans will be in for a rude awakening.
Our police officers have even a stronger bond to this community than before, and they aren't taking any crap, said the mayor.
He said, in addition, there are Army members, National Guard, and other special services to ensure order.
He detailed a list of ammo that they were carrying.
He said that there were even some bazookas reserved for some people.
Negan said that anybody who thinks they can return and resume their criminal activity would have a rude awakening.
I will be eager to see the reaction to this by the Cindy Sheehan left.
Yes, a question, Mr. Snerdley has a question about this.
Mm-hmm.
Uh well, I uh Mr. Quest Snurley's question is what stopped them from getting the uh criminals uh before the hurricane.
I could only sit here and guess as your esteemed host, that since nobody saw it, it didn't really exist.
I mean, outside the city, nobody saw it.
But now that it's been seen, and it will not be tolerated, and Mayor Nagan actually and him also saying, hey, look, he didn't say this, but he did say he did you read between the lines.
Let me let me get the story, let me get the story back.
I put it in the bottom of the stack figuring I was already through with it.
I told the governor today that for the first time in a long time the city of New Orleans is crime free and drug free.
How is that?
They have been swept away.
They are gone.
And what he's saying is this hurricane actually performed a service.
It got rid of the criminal element of this town, and we are not letting them back in here.
And we know who they are, and we've got some bazookas reserved for them.
So that's what I think he's saying.
Nobody well, they're they're they're voters, but hey, you know, the it you gotta roll a dice somewhere.
Uh if if you run this place, and uh they'll get their voters.
I mean, look at the Democrats still gonna run this place.
Uh in fact, I I I fully expect that.
Let's just to pick a number.
Let's say that uh of the 182,000 evacuees.
Let's say that a 100,000 of them don't move back.
Okay, so theoretically, we'll just assume they're all registered voters, because even if they're not, they are.
We'll just assume that that uh those hundred thousand people don't come back and they were registered.
So you'd think on the surface that New Orleans is now the hundred thousand voters.
And it'd be all mostly Democrats.
Uh at some point, the Democrats are going to say, you know, it isn't fair that our base was displaced, not because the people chose to leave, but because a hurricane that Bush directed here forced them out.
So we think that we ought to allow these people to vote absentee, even though they've established residency, say in Houston or Utah or wherever, that they be allowed to vote absentee in New Orleans and therefore be Louisiana and New Orleans vote.
I you you laugh now, make a note of this.
This is September 16th.
You make a note of this by the time the next election comes up, and you see if something like this isn't proposed, if in fact it's true that uh a significant number of these former residents don't move back.
Let's go back to the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
I want to go back to Chris Matthews in Hardball last night.
He was talking with Evan Thomas of Newsweek.
If you remember Evan Thomas of Newsweek was one of the guys who said that the uh mainstream media would give uh John Kerry at least a 15-point head start uh in polls and in election returns, that the media coverage that Kerry was going to get would be worth 15 points to him.
So he's a guest last night.
Matthews says to him, you know, the people who sympathize with those people down there, meaning the residents of New Orleans tend to be Democrats.
Those who may not be sympathizing with them are Republicans.
The president may try to change that tonight.
You know, a lot of people aren't really upset about that.
I think people resent the idea that the president was somehow racist.
I mean, if you the charge, which is made uh certainly on the left, and by a lot of people, that that somehow he he overlooked the poor blacks of New Orleans.
That people, a lot of voters resent that charge and think that's just not true.
I think it's probably it's not true, but but but that that I think accounts for some of those numbers.
It doesn't.
It does this is the point.
We had this the survey results, uh, poll results and analysis that James Taranto did at Opinionjournal.com, and nine out of ten uh Americans, non-black Americans, don't think race was a part of this.
And that's why Evan Thomas is right when he says that people resent the idea that the president was somehow racist.
Uh and and that uh voters resent that.
They do.
This is that that has not worked.
I don't care what they want to attribute these poll numbers to, it is not because the charge of racism has worked.
But Matthews doesn't like that.
Matthews disagrees with that.
Suppose we digitalize the faces of all the people who are in that crowd at the convention center out in the street begging for help, and all those people turned out to be white people by some digital manipulation.
Do you think the country would have had a different reaction to those people's plight than the fact that they were all black?
You think the country would have had the same reaction if they were all white people?
I think so, yeah.
I do.
Well, I don't.
So Matthews is presuming to say that this is a racist country.
That there would have been a totally different reaction if those people were right.
The thing that's lost here is what reaction?
What are we doing?
Who went down there to rescue people as quickly as they could get in?
See, there's a false premise that underlies this whole thing.
And the false premise is that there are still 10,000 or 20,000 dead.
And that they're all black.
And that they're dead because Bush is racist.
And the government's racist.
And the country's racist because it doesn't care about these people.
Well, there aren't even 1,000 dead.
And the rescue workers we all saw were...
white, black, whatever, but all the people they rescued were black.
It was just and we also know we have the story of Congressman William Jefferson, who was able to commandeer military vehicles to go to his house in the middle of the rescue so he could get personal effects out of his house while the rescue was going on.
So it's classic.
I mean, it's classic, folks.
It's what I tell you.
They in the moment, in the current cycle, in this case with Chris Matthews, uh colored by the prism that he looks through, which is that Republicans are racist, that the country's basically racist.
And I think the older the liberal Democrat is, the more he's going to think that.
You you you would be surprised how many of these uh 55 plus uh year-old Democrats, 50-year-old plus Democrats whose lives were shaped with a civil rights movement.
And they Northeast Democrat, Northeast Democrats, okay, Northeastern Liberal Democrats.
Yeah, okay.
But they they still think that this is 1964, and we haven't passed the Civil Rights Act.
And even if we have passed it, the country hates it.
And we still need affirmative action.
There hasn't been any racial progress whatsoever in these people's lives or mines, and uh, and so that's how they continue to look at the country.
Same thing they look at it economically.
They uh they see soup lines.
They see 1930s, uh post-depression soup lines when they look at the U.S. economy.
They look at a war in Iraq, they see Vietnam.
They look at a Republican president, they see Richard Nixon.
They live in the cycle.
They live in the moment, they miss the deeper currents flowing through our culture.
Be right back, don't go away.
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Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from a God.
Yeah, we are here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It is open line Friday.
This is Murray in Lensburg, Illinois.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Uh Diddles Rush from uh 13-year listener.
Thank you.
Sponsored supporter, yeah.
In fact, saving up for a slut comfort bed right now.
So it's fabulous to hear, sir.
Thank you.
Rush, I was wondering in light of uh Katrina and its aftermath, a little bit concerned about your safety and was wondering if you were going to change your policy as far as uh riding out hurricanes from here on out.
Yeah, I have uh I've thought about this policy.
Uh uh the uh the here I was we had Katrina heading uh for us before it uh actually went south of us, but it was the the original track for Katrina was to hit uh down in Boca a little further south, which is uh 30 miles from the EIB Southern Command.
So I figured, well, that's gonna put us close to the Northern Eye Wall, and it's a her it's a category one.
And last year, uh I did okay at my humble abode uh with two category threes that hit 30 miles north.
All I had was landscaping damage.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means some trees fell.
So I thought I'm gonna ride this thing out.
I can't take my cat.
Cat doesn't travel where saw stay well with us there with a little cat.
And uh and I was sort of disappointed when the thing started firing blanks.
It rained for about an hour and the winds were 40 miles an hour, and then it darted southwest.
Uh I was prepared to ride that one out when it but if if i i it's and I don't know, category one, uh dead hit, no.
If they if I think a dead aim category eye wall hitting where I am at category one or anything, I'm gone.
I mean, that's that's the bottom line.
Hello?
Yes, uh, I'm sorry, Ross.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I was wondering.
I thought maybe you might have a hurricane shelter or something.
Well, you know, my my compound is heavily fortified, and uh it's it's I am told, I have been promised by those who built it that it can withstand 150 mile an hour winds.
Uh not to say there won't be any damage uh outside, but I've told, but I don't want to be in one.
I I don't after having seen all this, I I have no idea to be in the middle of it, especially if it's slow moving, doesn't go anywhere for a while.
Uh so but no, if it's if it's category four or five, I'm gone days in advance of get getting anywhere near here.
Uh category one um uh have to have to be uh uh uh a dead hit, and then you don't even know because the food can change track at the last minute and uh and and either hit you dead on when you don't think it's going to or miss you when you think it's going to.
So the the smart thing is to scram.
But I must say that that where I live, they did not order a mandatory evacuation.
Now, if they order a mandatory evacuation, I do two things.
I take into account, okay, who are the people ordering the mandatory evacuation?
Do I respect them?
And then I act on that.
Um, no, but when I say fortified, I don't mean weapons.
I mean, let me say I I have a heavily reinforced compound.
Do I have any bazookas I was just asked?
And no, that's not what I meant when I said heavily fortified.
Besides, I didn't know that a bazooka did anything to a hurricane.
Here's Pat in Elgin, Nebraska.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Uh, I'd like to make a point.
Um I want uh everyone to know how right Barbara Bush was when she made a remark about this may bode well for some of the people down in New Orleans.
Right, because they'll want to stay in Texas.
Texas is a nice place.
And she got all kinds of grief for that.
You're right.
Oh, unmerciful.
I felt sorry for her because well, she didn't deserve what she got, but uh she was right.
Just like our president will be too.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you have.
I'm I'm glad you have the uh faith.
What, Mr. Snurley?
What is uh uh the the well uh Mr. Snerdley says I don't know how anybody could have defended that comment at the time.
Uh uh look, Barbara Bush has never held back.
She's she's she said what she's turns out she's right.
I mean, she was she a lot of people are gonna stay.
Uh uh the the I mean the the here many evacuees plan to settle in Houston, Washington Post.
It's got two different stories on it.
Gonna stay in Houston.
That's all she said was that Houston's a nice place.
And that Texas will welcome and uh welcome and this folks, uh, grab audio sign by 16 and 18.
You got it, I got two Clinton soundbites on today's show today, and uh and you have to hear this.
Matt Wauer was talking to him.
Were you surprised four years after 9-11, so much time, energy, and money spent on preparedness that we seem so ill-prepared to handle a catastrophe in a major city?
Listen to the whole thing here.
I think handling the aftermath of a natural disaster is different than preventing a terrorist attack.
I actually believe that the federal government has been quite good about that in spite of the breakdowns that led up to 9-11.
There were any number of terrorist attacks prevented in the 1990s, and there have been uh a lot of terrorists at the end of the day.
Oh, that's all you gotta hear.
What what were they?
Where were my God, we had a spate of terrorist attacks that occurred in the nineties.
We had the Cobard Towers, we had these embassy bombings.
We had the World Trade Center that uh they blew up in 1993.
What is he talking about?
That's what I mean.
He's trying to just redo history here, rewrite it, give himself a legacy.
A lot of terrorist attacks prevented in the 90s.
Now, I've also told you how Clinton cannot stop bragging about how rich he has become.
Wower said to him, uh, if you will, with the price tag that we're seeing, Iraq 200 billion, a rebuilding of the Gov States uh estimated to be the same thing, gas prices.
If you were president today, what sacrifices would you ask the American people to make to pay those bills?
Well, I would uh repeal the tax cuts for upper income people.
I I I myself have gotten four tax cuts while young Americans have gone out to risk their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan while we've had this massive uh natural disaster.
We run up this huge deficit, and we turn around.
How are we getting how are we covering this money?
We are borrowing the money from China, Japan.
Right, that's it.
That's that that's enough.
He just I have had four tax cuts, Matt.
Four tax I'm rich enough.
I'm part of this two percent now that gets all these tax cuts, and I've had these tax cuts and uh don't need them.
That's just a back door wave saying, I'm richer than you are.
Everybody knows that people were class don't talk about these kinds of things.
Clinton just can't can't Help himself.
And uh then, of course, there's nothing stopping him from uh taking the tax cut and giving it back.
He can do that.
I wonder if he has.
We'll be back.
In case you missed it at the beginning of the program, the Clinton Global Initiative today, Tony Blair, uh pulled Great Britain out of the Kyoto Protocol.
Ha ha ha.
He can't kill it by himself.
I mean, the European Union has to do that, but hey, he said, look, we're not going to sign on to something that stunts our growth.
This is idiotic.
Nobody else will either.
Folks, you have a wonderful weekend out there.
And we'll be keeping track of things and be back and greet you at the same time noon Eastern on Monday.
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