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Sept. 23, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Well, the uh obviously Bush and Rolve screwed up.
The ninth ward in uh New Orleans flooding again.
But there's nobody there.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network on Friday.
Now from Sunny, South Florida.
It's the winner of his fourth National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Award.
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Yes, uh.
I was informed last night by courier that I had indeed won my fourth Marconi Award, the National Association of Broadcasters uh Marconi Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year.
And I've been getting um I get very congratulatory emails all uh all morning.
What, Rush?
Only four.
Uh and of course, uh that's a good point.
Umly four in uh in seventeen years.
But you see, you have to understand that you you're not allowed to win in consecutive years.
You're not even allowed to be nominated in uh in uh in consecutive years.
Uh but nevertheless I want to thank uh the people who vote on this are the radio stations.
Uh and that's why the radio station uh uh management, the executives there, and that's why I appreciate this.
It's you know that the um the the not too many people to think really, only about twenty-two million of you uh in the I mean the the it wouldn't be possible without all of you, and of course the radio stations that uh uh have carried this program for all these years.
I will never ever uh take these stations for granted.
It's it's uh it's a partnership that I've always enjoyed, and I've it continues to humble me all of this.
So I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I I do appreciate it.
There was some small uh uh small assistance provided by the staff as always in these kinds of things.
There are some people way, way, way, way, way behind the scenes that do a little.
Uh and I want to I want to recognize them uh as well.
Uh now moving on to our busy broadcast, hurricane plugging toward the Louisiana, Texas border.
Uh Texas is now evacuating uh uh Lufkin, Texas.
They expect Port Arthur to be flooded uh as well, which is where a lot of refining capacity is.
That's the Port Arthur is uh uh Port Arthur, isn't that where Janice Joplin uh is from?
I think Port Arthur and Jimmy Johnson, the uh former coach of the of the uh uh Miami Dolphins, uh Miami Hurricanes and the Dallas Cowboys.
He did coach the Dolphins as well, now with Fox Sports.
I think they're both from Port Arthur, if I'm if I'm not mistaken.
Uh it it uh well well uh well there the the lot of there is a jet fuel terminal there.
Uh it's gonna screw up that screw it up, it's it's just gonna cause uh supply problems for a while and distribution problems if it does get hit as bad as uh as everybody is suggested.
Governor Bush uh already warning Floridians not to panic uh that there might be some shortages here because what as there were last time because the uh the pipelines from that region, and by the way, make no mistake about it, Texas is the petroleum capital of the country.
Uh we're gonna if this hurricane, it's it's down to a category three now, by the way, uh which is still powerful, but the problem is not that.
The problem is that the forecast models all say it's gonna stall once it hits land, it's let's stall but really, really slow down.
Some parts of Texas may get 25 inches of rain, they're saying 16 hours of hurricane force winds.
It's bad enough when these things roll through at twelve or fifteen miles an hour, but when they roll through and then stall over you.
Uh ever hurry if you've never been in a hurricane.
The best way to describe being in a category three or four, even a two, the best way to describe it, so that you under just the just the noise, just the noise, is do this.
Imagine that you are on the tarmac at any airport, and a Boeing 747 with its brakes on revs all four engines to max power.
And then stand there and endure that for as long as you think the hurricane it that's how loud it is.
And the noise of these things for people that have never been through them is one of the most shocking things and unexpected things that happens as well as the destruction.
Interesting story today.
This is from the uh Associated Press, interestingly enough.
Scientists, you cannot modify hurricanes.
Some wacko in Europe is now saying that that this hurricane proves global warming, and uh it's just it's becoming laughable.
But this story has a fascinating fact in it.
Let me read to you just a part of the story.
Uh sounds like a good idea, sounds like a great idea.
Let's just blast hurricanes like Rita and Katrina out of the sky before they hurt more people, or at least let's weaken these storms and steer them away from the cities.
Atmospheric scientists say it's wishful thinking that we could destroy or even influence something as big and powerful as a hurricane.
They abandoned such a quest years ago after more than 20 years of inconclusive government-sponsored research.
The vanity, the vanity of thinking that we could anyway.
What are we going to do?
Go out there and seed the clouds?
What are we going to do?
Go on.
I there was one experiment.
They thought they'd put some pellets uh into a hurricane that would soak up all the moisture and basically kill it.
And they they they tried that.
That didn't nothing work.
Can I tell you why?
Researchers say that hurricanes would dwarf any measure we take.
For example, Hurricane Rita measures about 400 miles across.
Now listen to this.
According to the Center for Atmospheric Research, the heat energy alone, the heat energy released by a hurricane equals 50 to 200 trillion watts of power, or about the same amount of energy released by exploding a 10 megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes.
The idea that we lowly mammals think that we would have anything to say about this hurricane, any hurricane, creating one, stopping one, steering one, weakening one, is absolutely laughable.
People have they they get look at the used to seeing these things on television now on a weather map, but it'll just look in fact it looks like just a flat piece of cloud rolling across the ocean.
We never see any pictures of the eye of it.
Well, you see pictures of the eye, we never see any pictures out at sea of what that hurricane's.
Can you imagine the power stop this thing when it is 500 miles away from coastline, it's still causing eight foot waves, 400, 500 miles away.
Now stop and think of what it must take.
A body of water like the Gulf of Mexico.
Imagine what you would have to do to stir that up to cause that.
And then is there anything we could do short of a nuclear bomb to do it?
And according to this, it'd take a bunch of them to create the same kind of power this hurricane's putting out consistently.
Uh it's it it when you if you really stop and think about all this, it's just it it boggles the mind to think that we human beings would have any power whatsoever over these storms.
And then when you extrapolate that kind of reality and realization to global warming, it gets even more ridiculous as you as you ponder it.
I mean, I I live uh on the on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, down here in Florida, and folks, there are still, there's not a hurricane out there.
Well, there is.
I tell you that there's a there's a low pressure area, this Hurricane Philippe, and it's way out there.
It is way, way out there.
This this hurricane Rita that got nowhere near here.
The surfers were out having a ball for a full week.
The waves were huge.
And there it was no but that's the power to stir up something as big as the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico.
Uh is is again, it's like a trillion dollars.
It's incomprehen incomprehensible.
Do you know how long, if you wanted to count from one to one trillion, how long it would take you if you made one, if you counted once every second?
Take you 31 years.
People have no concept of size.
They have no sometimes it's not their fault.
It's just some of these things are impossible to uh even conceive.
A quick time out.
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All right, and a couple things.
I'm still not I I I and it's not it's it's nobody's fault but mine, because I what let me tell you what I was doing last night.
I I was I I was working feverishly in more ways than one, preparing this program.
The television's always on, but it's it's uh it's off to my right.
I don't see the television when I'm facing the uh the computer, and I never have the sound on because it's just it's irritating to me.
I watch television with closed captioning.
So I don't hear what is said.
So occasionally when I was in the middle of working, I'd take a glance to the right, and it's eight o'clock, nine o'clock at night.
And I'd look, I'd I'd look to the right at the screen, and I had MSNBC on, I had Fox on.
I had uh uh CNN, I'd be going back and forth.
I think at this point I was looking at at uh MSNBC, and they're still going on and on and on and on and on about all these traffic problems in Houston, and they got video tape.
Now it's eight o'clock at night.
Uh I know that's 7 o'clock central time, but it's almost dark at 7 o'clock everywhere now.
And I'm looking at it, and they're playing tape, obviously from the middle of the day, the broiling sun with half of those interstate highways still not open yet.
And then a traffic jam uh on the lanes that were open.
And doing a big story on the incompetence of the local leaders down there, the mayor and the governor for not opening all those lanes.
So I again I don't have the sound up, but I'm I'm looking at the pictures.
Isn't this misleading?
Why don't you show us live pictures now?
I want to know if the problem's been fixed.
So I finally at nine o'clock, I switch over to Fox to Hannity and Combs, and guess I saw some live pictures.
Actually saw tail lights on the cars.
It was night, that's what I should have seen.
It looked to me some of the lanes have been opened.
So I'm watching all afternoon and I'm listening, reading some of the closed captioning, and the biggest everybody's just crying over spilt milk and trying to once again drum up all of this incompetence because of the uh lack of ability of getting people out of Houston.
And I recall what I said yesterday.
We're not made for this.
We don't make the interstate highway system to evacuate two million people, all going in the same direction.
It's just not possible.
And by the by the time you put that many people on a on a highway system, no matter how large, you cannot ignore the fact that the normal ebb and flow of life is going to happen.
You're gonna have people have to go to the bathroom, you have people get sick, you're gonna have crying kids, you're gonna but it but the the infrastructure that's necessary to deal with all these things is not there in your car or on the highway as you're stuck.
So the the idea that this can go smooth as clockwork, and that when it doesn't, I uh it boggles the mind, the standard.
I would love to see some of these experts in the media go do this stuff themselves.
I'd like it's easy for these people to sit here in moral judgment and competence judgment on everybody.
Let them go try this.
Now, uh one of the problems I think they had was you've got that, you got a huge long interstate system, and it's it's not just as easy as pie to say, okay, the other lanes and the uh southbound direction, we're gonna open them up.
You gotta go to every on ramp on the southbound side, and you gotta block it.
If you get one or two cars heading the wrong way against an army of people going the other way, you've got a huge big problem.
So you it just Well, they should have done this at first.
Well, they never they never told the whole city to evacuate.
They never if they would have, there's a way of doing it.
Do you remember when you were in Scrual?
Or for those of you who have been to uh weddings, uh just been to them.
We're not talking about if you've been the bride and groom.
But you know how they they uh get people out of a church at a wedding or wherever the wherever it takes place.
They do it by rows.
In school, when I was in school, uh grade school and so forth, we had all these drills for if the Russians uh ever nuked us.
And the exit plan at at my school was those closest to the disaster move first.
And when they're out of the way, then you move people behind them, and so you got a steady stream.
Now, I don't know if they did that in Houston, but the the technique then would have been, okay, this part of town you leave, and the next part of town you leave at this point in time.
The problem with that is you'd have all kinds of people cheating the system, trying to get in line early.
So it would it they doing the best they can.
Uh, and yet here and and and and it's and they're doing it well in advance.
The the idea that we can take a city, two million people, put them on an interstate highway system, and have a normal everyday come as you go day in America on that highway.
Whose expectations are these?
It's a bunch of people that have no connection to the real world.
It's a bunch of people that are insulated and who expect that government's gonna be flawless each and every time it operates.
And then when a Republican is in charge of a government, whether it's the federal government, a state government, a city government, it doesn't work, bam okay they come.
If we'd only had some compassionate liberal running the show, why none of this would have happened.
It just it just offends my sensibilities.
And it offended my sensibilities all night last night as I'm watching television or running videotape of daylight problems, trying to pass it off as though it's still going on.
Now, I haven't had a whole lot of time to watch this morning.
Have you are those traffic tie-ups still taking place?
Are they still big long traffic jams?
Some okay, so it's it's not as bad, and that's why I'm not seeing as much of it on TV.
Because it's not as bad as it was.
We had this horrible accident with that school bus.
How many how many senior citizens on that bus?
Twenty four forty-five on the bus and twenty nine.
It just blew up.
They think it was uh somebody on board had an oxygen uh uh tank to help them breathe.
Uh and something some fire started, bam, that was it.
Uh you think, how in the world can that happen?
Well, how in the world can it happen?
You know, if if um if uh if we were just now arriving, if we were Adam and Eve.
No, let me forget Adam and Eve.
If God wanted to create the world today, the EPA would not let him put oxygen on the planet because it's so dangerous.
Uh I I just I think that I these kind of things, unfortunately, when you start moving these large numbers of people, they happen in here with the blame game starts.
And look at this.
Here that it just here they go again.
The Associated Press, no way out, many poor stuck in Houston.
Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city.
If only someone would pick up the phone.
I'd done call for a shelter, a done call for help.
There ain't none.
No one answers, she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check caching store that had just run out of its main commodity, which would be money for those of you in Rio Linda.
Everyone just says, get out, get out.
Well, I've got no way of getting out, and now I got no money.
Hurricane Rita breathing down Houston's neck.
Those with cars were stuck in gridlock trying to get out.
Those like Skinner, poor and with a broken down car were simply stuck, and they were fuming at being abandoned.
All the banks are closed, and I just got off work, said Thomas Viser, holding his sweaty paycheck as he too tried to get inside the store, or more than a hundred people, all of them black or Hispanic, fretted in line.
This is crazy.
How are you supposed to evacuate a hurricane if you don't have money?
Answer me that.
It's a good question.
Cash is king out there.
Cash is king, especially if poor people don't have credit cards, cash is it.
Without cash, you can't you can't get along.
But uh last I saw the government's not running the check caching store.
So uh but but but yeah, here we go again.
It's the poor, the poor are stuck in Houston.
It's the same, same page, same template, same news cycle, same exact view of things.
Thank you, media.
And finally, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not sure that this actually happened.
I because I'm I didn't hear about this until I read my old buddies at Newsmax today.
President Bush fired back at ex-President Clinton yesterday, saying that the uh weak U.S. response to terrorist attacks that took place mostly during the Clinton administration Encouraged Al-Qaeda to launch the 9-11 attacks.
The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the attack on the USS coal.
The terrorists concluded we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves, so they attacked us.
Bush's decision to invoke Clinton's poor record on terrorism comes just five days after the ex-president slammed Bush for attacking Iraq without just cause.
So I have you seen this anywhere.
I have not seen this anywhere.
But the president did this after getting an update on the war on terror at the Pentagon.
It must have been of his statement yesterday that he made with Rumsfeld and all those guys at the Pentagon.
More on this when we come back, but I have to take a quick break.
So sit tight.
We'll be right back.
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I am happy President Bush is firing back at Bill Clinton.
I wish he'd do it more and more often.
No reason Clinton should get away with revising history and act like he had nothing to do with anything.
In fact, he's out there saying we foil a lot of terrorist attacks out there, you know, back in 90s.
We you haven't heard about it because we'd be giving away secrets, but we uh it's a man's just a delusional.
Um give you a little heads up here.
We've got Mrs. Clinton who's in our news twice today.
She appeared uh yesterday uh at a congressional black caucus event.
Uh and I guess the biggest news to come out of the Congressional Black Caucus event is uh is Charlie Wrangle saying that George Bush is our bull Connor.
Uh I'm sorry.
I I I can't I can't help but laugh.
I I I think that actually these Democrats are beginning to listen to me.
I I think I think more and more of them are getting uh the message.
Be who you are.
Say what you think.
Go out there and let it fly.
Stop, stop, stop trying to be moderate.
Stop trying to mask and camouflage who you are.
Now, uh, to be honest, Wrangle has never held back, but he is getting more and more extreme.
Uh he's getting further and further out there.
We have the audio of that.
Uh Mrs. Clinton also in the news, actually, three times.
Uh apparently the village voice has, and I just got this, and I don't have I haven't had time to read it, but apparently the village voice has a story on uh Mrs. Clinton's conversation with uh Cindy Sheehan.
Uh, and if that's indeed what this story is, uh, it came in after the program started.
I will fill you in on it.
Mrs. Clinton also contradicted herself uh tremendously in announcing her no vote on uh on John Roberts.
So all of that uh and a whole lot more coming up on the program.
Uh, but I must admit some of this stuff came in late, and I'm I'm not really fully informed on it to be able to add Lib off the top of my head, so I'll have to take care of that at a break.
In the meantime, Louisiana's lawmakers have submitted a 250 billion dollar wish list.
They did this yesterday, submitted it to the U.S. Congress, asking the federal government to cover everything from rebuilding communities to killing mosquitoes and paying homeowners' mortgages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana Senator Mary Cute baby fat Mary Landrew, a Democrat and a Republican, David Vitter, Republicans in on this too, presented the 250 billion dollar package.
It's 180 billion dollars in spending, and the rest in tax breaks and other revenue reductions just for Louisiana.
Said Mary cute little baby fat Landrew, this is an unprecedented national disaster, a national tragedy, and it's going to take an unprecedented response.
Well, you know, Mary, I must tell you, I had, when I saw this last night, I had an immediate angry gut reaction to this.
And I'll tell you why.
I think that many of these politicians, the state, city, the very well, the and the gov the the uh the governor's office, the homeland security office there, we know so many examples of where these politicians misdirected money they were given in the first place.
And they've got nothing but a rash of incompetent leaders and people running that whole state.
Now now I see that they want us not to try to help these people get off the mat, but they want to stick us with a bill for everything possible.
You know, it's one thing to help people get a get us get a leg up and get started rebuilding, but to do everything and here they can 250 billion.
They're requesting more for their state alone than has been even talked about being authorized.
And this is gonna backfire on these people.
Their timing couldn't be worse.
Here they are on the verge of another hurricane about to wipe out Texas, which bailed New Orleans out big time.
New Orleans took those, or Texas took those evacuees, the Texas government, the people of Texas opened their arms, opened their homes, opened their wallets, did all kinds of as have a number of people.
One billion dollars so far in private sector donations.
And on the verge on the uh uh a day, two or three days before another hurricane wrecks Texas.
These people get their request in.
These people have to get this request in before this next hurricane hits, so they're first in the queue.
I mean, it's one thing to offer help, but it's offensive to demand it.
You know, they we've been doing fine.
We're offering all kinds of help.
The American people are willing to bend over backwards.
Now here come these people demanding it, all of it.
That greats.
And they're acting like it's owed to them.
This this Landrew comment, this is unprecedented, a national tragedy.
It's going to take an unprecedented response.
The entitlement mentality lives and thrives in Louisiana now.
You know, we've had three weeks here of wringing our hands and all woe is them, and we feel so bad for them, and we all do.
But now here comes the greed.
And now here come the demands.
And now here come the expectations.
I wonder how much has been spent already, not just by the feds and charity, but the billions in contributions of food, clothing, medicine, time, and other resources, volunteer hours, how much has already been spent?
250 billion dollars, that's close to 10% of the entire federal budget.
I think the military has spent a fortune too.
Then uh uh uh uh Paul Azan's show last night on on uh on CNN uh had a story where the the the New Orleans cops are running around looting recently abandoned apartment houses.
Uh uh uh the the police department down there at that time last night when I heard the story had not reacted or responded, other than to say there's two sides to every story.
But I mean has anybody asked, has anybody I'll I'll ask.
I'm good at asking.
Has anybody asked how much the state of Louisiana is gonna pay?
Anyone asked how much state taxes might be increased to pay for this?
Why don't we just nationalize the state?
Why don't that let's we may as well just nationalize Louisiana is what we're being asked to do, just nationalize it and call it Washington Gulf Shores instead of Washington, D.C., Washington Gulf Shore just nationalize the whole state.
I mean, propose this hours before the next hurricane, they want to get in the queue.
But it doesn't show much compassion, does it?
I mean, the very state and city that helped them is now about to get slammed, maybe even worse, and they introduce this bill while people are literally running for their survival.
This Mary Landrew, folks, this is a cute little baby fat Mary Landrew doing this, leading the charge here.
She's out there, and if Bush doesn't do it, she'd probably threaten to punch him out again.
We've poured billions into their levy system.
And they already showed how they screw that up by not appropriating or spending the money correctly, it's been appropriated.
Now that levy in the ninth ward is breached again.
I think some others uh uh have as well.
People are down there who haven't been home in three weeks trying to fix all this stuff, and it's all okay, what what what needs to happen?
What do you owe us now?
Uh so at any rate, folks, I I had I had to get this, uh I had to get this off my chest because I saw this last night, and I said, this sounds like a demand.
This sounds like a demand.
I mean, it's it's it's it's one thing to, you know, in the middle of uh a whole bunch of compassion and and already talk of 200 billion dollars uh for all this, and we're not even talking about Mississippi yet.
We're not even talking Mississippi.
So I had to throw this in.
Christy in Westfield, Massachusetts.
It's nice to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
It's great to get to talk to you.
I enjoy listening to your show, and I've learned so much by listening.
But you know what this reminds me of this whole hurricane thing.
And I I understand that you know the weathermen can tell where it's gonna hit down and all that.
But I kind of feel like it's almost like the 9-11 anthrax scare when everyone was buying out all the water at the stores and the duct tape and the plastic and that's just kind of what it seems like the media's doing.
It's trying to make people paranoid.
That's that's my feeling on that.
Maybe I'm wrong for feeling that way, but it seems that way to me.
Um you know, I understand what you're saying.
You're in Westfield, Massachusetts.
You're not you're not facing down one of these things.
And there's no question that we are a nation now of 24-7 media, and that means hype, and you throw the pictures in.
Uh and then you you you add to that uh I'll I'll guarantee you, folks.
I didn't I didn't say this at the time, but back two days ago when everybody's, oh my God, it's a monster.
Why?
They may have to create a new category for this thing.
Category five won't hold it.
We already got 200 mile an hour winds.
Well, half a Texas may be blown away in Mabel, and all that's been going on.
It's category five, 185 mile an hour winds.
I could have told you it ain't gonna hit as a category five.
It's gonna weaken as it gets there.
It's gonna hit as a category three.
Yesterday they thought it was gonna hit as a category four.
I've been looking at the temperatures of the Gulf.
It's and it may it may strengthen one more time before it gets there, but um uh the the it takes a lot of energy to maintain a cat five.
That's why there are very few that have hit the United States.
Not very many cat fives in the whole history of recorded hurricanes, have many been cat fives.
And uh like Andrew was a game.
Andrew, Andrew, I get it was a cat five.
Uh where I live is probably 75 miles from where Andrew hit in Homestead, Florida.
Nobody even knew there was a hurricane around up here.
It was small.
It was a small maybe some rain.
Not in Miami.
Miami, which is barely twenty miles north.
Hardly any damage to speak of.
But Homestead, the place where the eye hit was devastated.
That was a small five.
They're they're hard to maintain.
Um but well, I'm getting off the beaten path.
The fact is that all the hype, you people have seen the pictures of New Orleans.
It's understandable that there would be a mass exodus out of Houston.
And I I think it is based on what happened in New Orleans.
I think it's absolutely proper to err on the side of caution here and get people out of there.
Nothing better than to get back home and find you still have everything.
Rather than to stay there.
Nothing better than for these people to be wrong here.
If if they're wrong and if it becomes a smaller hurricane, if it ends up taking a jag somewhere at the end of the day that goes somewhere it's unexpected, and if there are people that start complaining and moaning at the weather forecasters for not getting it right and causing all this evacuation, that's when to get mad.
Because nobody can predict with science what's going to happen.
The smart thing to do when you see something this big coming is scram.
Smart thing to especially after what you've seen one of these can do just three weeks ago.
So I I I I don't think this is kind of like the anthrax uh problem.
I think this is a genuine uh uh call it panic, I don't know, but this is genuine emergency preparedness, five days in advance.
I think all uh all things considered, uh with as many people as we're talking about as large an area having to get out of there.
I think it's going pretty well.
We'll take a break and be back after this.
Stay with us.
All right.
I wanted you to hear this soundbite.
Uh this is uh President Busham yesterday at the Pentagon after uh uh meeting with Rumsfeld and Rice and a number of uh people over there, he made a statement right as this program was starting yesterday at twelve noon on the uh on the war on terror.
And this is uh where he takes his swipe at President Clinton, although he doesn't mention Clinton by name, and he doesn't say that he's saying this in response to anything it's previously, but he leaves that to be understood.
Uh so it doesn't quite have quite the impact in UMPA.
The LA Times has run a story on this, but uh it doesn't it doesn't have the uh impact in um pot would have had had uh President Bush said, Now I heard President Clinton say the other day that blah blah blah.
Well, let me tell you the facts.
He didn't say that, he just said this.
The terrorist are response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings of the marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the USS Coal.
The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves.
And so they attacked us.
Now the terrorists are testing our will and resolve in Iraq.
If we fail that test, the consequences for the safety and security of the American people would be enormous.
Our withdrawal from Iraq would allow the terrorists to claim an historic victory over the United States.
It would leave our enemies emboldened and allow men like Zarkawi and Bin Lan to dominate the Middle East and launch more attacks on America and other free nations.
All right, so that's good as far as it goes.
It's true.
Everything he said is true there.
Uh, but it it it uh uh it requires that that be positioned uh as a response to President Clinton and his very uh uh childish, self-absorbed, narcissistic, immature uh pathological comments on Stephanopoulos' show last Sunday about how everything going wrong today is George W. Bush's fault.
Uh Bush here taking the high road and leaving it to interpretation of others uh to be able to understand exactly what he's saying.
Pat in Fort Lauderdale, you're next on the EIB Network Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how's it going?
Fine, thank you, sir.
250 billion dillos.
Um the question I have is uh if the flood insurance is already being paid for by the federal government, why aren't you know, it sounds to me like they're double dipping it in Louisiana.
Double dipping, quadruple dipping, quintuple dipping.
They've all looked the money that they've been given over the years to fix these very problems never got spent on that money.
Come on.
Flood insurance?
Let me tell you what's gonna happen with flood insurance.
Have any of you have you ever calm down, Rush?
It's just a radio program.
Uh let me tell you what's gonna happen.
We've all seen in Mississippi and in Louisiana, we've seen homes destroyed by water.
Now the insurance company, people think they had flood insurance, but wait till the insurance companies get there.
Insurance company, well, you got to prove that that water came down the wall and not through the door.
If that water came through the door, that's not the flood insurance you've got.
If that water came down the ceiling, it could have been a pipe, and we didn't ensure that.
Flood insurance, my don't make me laugh.
I can't.
All right, the uh ditto camizon.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't believe what I just saw.
I where was Bush?
He was somewhere he's going to Texas.
President Bush is going to Texas uh to investigate preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Rita.
And so the press is asking questions.
It's I guess a little press event because he made a statement, and there's some stuck on stupid reporters.
And these reporters stuck on stupid.
Mr. President, Mr. President, don't you think you're you and your underwriters will get in the way if you go to Texas now?
You're stuck on stupid, you ding bats.
You're the same people that got on his case for not showing up in advance down in New Orleans.
Now he's going in advance and say you accuse him of getting in the way.
Bush looked at him and laughed.
Guarantee you I'm not gonna be in the way.
And I'll tell you why he's not gonna be in a way is because he's gonna be at the Northern Command monitoring events because the military's running a lot of this show is being coordinated for the Northern Command inside that mountain in Colorado.
But he's gonna go to Texas to check it out, make sure the preparations are there, because everybody complained he didn't care enough to go before Hurricane Katrina.
Now these same little nincompoop, narcissistic, self-absorbed, immature little kids called the press corps, meant the president mint the president.
Don't you think, don't you think you'll get in the way you and your entourage?
I I am this close to obscenities.
It's a good thing this hour is over.
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