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Sept. 26, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2005, Monday, Hour #2
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Hey folks, great to have you back.
Great to have you with us, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence here from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, America's Anchorman, seated firmly in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
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We have been asked by the states of Texas and Louisiana.
Since we are part of the mass media here to get out this urgent message to those of you who fled your communities and your homes uh as Hurricane Rita approached, you, the residents who fled your communities and homes, are being urged not to return yet to your damaged homes or to your damaged communities.
Officials want you to stay with your relatives and friends and drive them crazy.
Don't return home.
There's nothing for you.
There's nothing there.
All you're gonna do is cause traffic jams.
Go ahead and stay with your friends, stay with your relatives, drive them crazy.
You know they'd like to get rid of you, but drive them.
Do your Thanksgiving now.
Little, I just I they just saw this.
Don't go home.
They want you to not return.
Um, and of course, that means you're gonna drive whoever you are staying with crazy and absolutely uh absolutely wacko.
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We've got more audio sound bites from the uh uh the uh anti-American war rally yesterday in Washington, D.C. Did you did you see any pictures of this, Mr. Did anybody in the sound of my voice here in the crew see the pictures?
I uh they they say 100,000.
I don't think so.
Even it doesn't matter.
It it was not it was not a wide-ranging rally, it was not that well attended.
It certainly wasn't any more people they've had for any other anti-war rallies in the previous three or four years.
But we do have two gems here from Mother Sheehan.
Here is the first of those two.
My good friends in the media aren't doing their jobs.
Most of our friends in Congress aren't doing their jobs.
George Bush certainly isn't doing his job.
But so you know what?
We have to do our jobs as Americans.
If nobody else will hold them accountable, we will do our job.
We'll be the checks and balances on this out of control criminal government.
Was that Cindy Sheehan or was it Hillary?
That sounded like that bite we have of Hillary Clinton screaming and growing nuts.
Here is uh Mother Sheehan now sending a message to Democrats who voted for the war.
She is coming after you.
We're going to Congress, and we're gonna ask them, how many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lives?
And we're gonna say shame on you.
Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.
Yes, my friend.
You know something?
This is key.
They all voted for it.
Not one of those Democrats, well, John Conyers and uh Cynthia McKinney, none of the others dared showed up to stand side by side with Mother Sheehan.
We got a great response to that uh parody song when we debuted that tune on Friday afternoon.
Everybody knows it's Cindy.
After Mother Sheehan finished her heartfelt uh speech at the Anti-American War Rally, the Reverend Vax uh strode to the microphones, compared her to Rosa Parks and Helen Keller.
Send the shin.
We thank you for being a witness in the great tradition of Frozen Parks.
Federal Hema and Helen Keller and Harriet Tubman.
We thank you for being a witness without guns and bombs, but rather with honor and integrity.
Your light challenges the darkness.
Your light is being seen and heat is being felt around the world.
Thank you, Send the Sheehan.
Oh, Reverend Jackson, it's a pretty dim bulb you're talking about there.
I mean, a lot of the bulbs in that chandelier are missing, much less not even turned on.
This is just hilarious.
It's it it it's it's like a it's like a parallel universe, and the parallel universe knows no bonds, ladies and gentlemen.
The global warming crowd still out there, despite the words of experts claiming that global warming was the direct cause of both these hurricanes that Max Mayfield was on CBS Slay the Nation with Bob Schefer yesterday.
Uh He's the uh director of the National Hurricane Center.
And Schaefer said, Do all these hurricanes, so many of them this year, uh, and this is more than we normally see.
Does it have any to do with what we're doing here on Earth?
In other words, is is this have something to do with global warming?
Bob, hurricanes and especially major hurricanes are cyclical.
We'll have a few decades of really active uh uh hurricanes and then uh inactive periods, followed by active periods again, and one of the best correlations we have is with the sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic.
If I could show this graph behind me here, uh, but this shows major hurricanes.
We had a lot of major hurricanes in the 50s and 60s, uh, not nearly as many in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, and then in 1995, it really peaked up, uh picked up again here.
Uh, as have the sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic.
So uh I think that this activity that we're in uh can be explained uh without invoking global warming.
And the bad news here is that we are in this active period, and the research mineral to tell us that it may last another 10 or 20 years.
Max Mayfield has been shouting this in the worthtops for the past three weeks because people have been asking him on all these appearances he does.
During these hurricanes, is this global warming?
Breathlessly wanting a yes.
Is this global warming?
Is this because Bush didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol?
I sound like a bunch of eager dogs out there haven't been fed and are waiting for the kennel ration.
And Mayfield's mentioned, no, it has nothing to do with it.
Look at the cycles.
Look at look at the powerful hurricanes we had in 1900, the 1930s, the 1950s, and on in.
Max Mayfield made the round Sunday, went to George Stephanopoulos' show.
Question, a lot of theorists believe we're at the front end of a 20-year cycle of ferocious hurricanes.
What do you think is causing it?
Well, we think the best uh correlation we have here is with the sea surface temperatures.
If I could just very briefly show you this, this shows the major hurricanes back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
A lot of major hurricanes, not nearly as many in the next 25 years, and then 1995, we started getting this increase.
So we think that this is just a normal cycle, and uh, you know, these cycles uh you know may last 10, 20, 30 years, and uh we could well be in another, well, we are in an active period that may last another 10 or 20 years.
Now, Mayfield's been saying this for three weeks, and so has William Gray, who is the Colorado State forecaster.
All of the hurricane meteorologist experts have been saying this.
Uh uh anybody want to make a bet that the mainstream press will still quote the experts far more loudly who say it is global warming.
This ought to be a dead issue now.
Here's the director of the national hurricanes.
It won't be global warming and z is as the cause of hurricanes will be the surviving story because global warming is in the media template.
The media template, America's evil.
America's too prosperous.
America is too large, too big as superpower.
America steals.
America uses an unfair share and portion of all the world's resources, and we've got to be causing this.
And so it's going to remain Barbara Streisand, just to give you an example, Drudge headlined this over the weekend.
Barbara Streisand, well-known meteorologist, well-known weather expert, well-known anti-war expert, well-known expert on social policy, well-known military expert, Barbara Streisand, says that these uh these back-to-back storms are proof positive that we have entered a new period of global warming.
We are in a global warming emergency state, and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense.
Making these statements on her website, she's upset that people don't see this.
But Drudge went and did some research and found a whole lot of uh Cat 5 hurricanes long before any expert started talking about global warming.
Barbara Barbara Streisand, by the way, interviewed by uh by Diane Sawyer here on all this.
But Diane Sawyer didn't remind Streisand that a Cat 5 hurricane struck the Bahamas with 160 mile an hour winds when Barbara Streisand was five years old in 1947.
When Barbara Streisand was eight years old, a category five hurricane named Dog, packing 185 mile an hour winds churned away in the Atlantic.
When Barbara Streisand was nine, a category five storm named Easy ripped the seas with 160 mile per hour sustained winds.
Barbara Streisand was 13 years old when Hurricane Janet hit Mexico with 150 mile per hour winds.
Streisand was celebrating her 16th birthday as Cleo formed with 140 mile an hour winds.
At 18, Barbara Streisand read news about Donna and Ethel.
Both hurricanes carried 140 mile an hour winds, and they formed nine days apart in 1960.
1961, when Barbara Streisand was 19, it happened again.
Two category five storms scared the world, Carla and Hattie.
Carla maxed out at 175 mile per hour winds the year Barbara Streisand made her TV debut on the Jack Parr show.
And who could forget Hurricane Camille, which smashed into the U.S. with 190 mile per hour wins, just as Funny Girl was garnering eight Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture and one for Barbara Streisander's best actress.
Up next on the weather warning watch, Dry Sand says to ABC there could be more droughts and more dust bowls.
You know, it's amazing to hear these facts.
She goes on Good Morning America, or wherever she appears with Diane Sawyer or anybody else, nobody counters her lunacy and idiocy with facts.
But the historical record on hurricanes is clear, and Max Mayfield's doing his best to shout it from the mountaintops.
The media does not want to hear it.
Instead, the words of such noted experts as Barbara Streisand triumph and prevail and receive louder amplification than those of the director of the National Hurricane Center.
Barbara Streisand, by the way, proves consistently one of my points, and that is most people's historical perspective begins with the day they were born.
The worst of times, the best of times, all happen within everybody's lifetime.
Whatever's happening bad, it could never have been worse.
Why this is the end and Streisand is just an absolute pure dunce.
Not even in if if you if you told her, if you gave her, if you let her read, you put it in front of her, the historical record of violent, dangerous, loud category five hurricanes that predate her birth.
She would just ignore it.
She'd flip it away, flick it away, and say something about the fact that never has it been this bad or some such thing because it's all oriented folks on a blame America agenda.
Quick time.
And that that is the American left, and they want candidates to say this.
Like I told you last week, they want their candidates to be talking this way.
That's one of the reasons all these activists are saying and doing what they're saying.
They want it echoed by the people they want to vote for.
Back after this.
Hi, Edward back.
Great to have you.
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Here is Jeff in Brooklyn.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I just want to say I really am worried that this administration might be in trouble.
You're worried that the administration might be in trouble.
Yeah, I think looking at the recent poll numbers and looking at the turnout on Saturday versus the turnout on Sunday.
And I just came back from Middle America, the Midwest, and I think the the news of the nation has shifted dramatically over the past month and a half.
Yeah.
And I I just I think there's gonna come a point where America's gonna take a make or break attitude about this administration.
And I think if if President Bush wants anything accomplished in the rest of his second term, he needs to get out in front of this.
Uh second term he's to what?
I can't.
I'm sorry.
I think if he wants to continue progressing his second term agenda, he needs to get out in front of all this.
Needs to get out in front of it, you're saying.
Let's take your premise.
Let's say uh uh what what is your premise?
By the way, they they that the anti-war protesters uh on Saturday were in greater number than the uh than the uh the pro-America supporters were.
So the the anti up the anti-American war supporters Saturday were in greater number than the pro-America supporters on Sunday.
This represents a shift of thinking, and uh the American people don't feel uh what is it they don't feel?
Well, I think they're feeling less secure about the war in Iraq.
I think they're feeling less secure in personal safety and about our able our ability as Americans to respond to any disaster.
Um living in New York, I heard all after Katrina was my gosh, what if we had to quarantine New York City because of the biological attack?
We couldn't do it.
And I think Middle America has looked at what happened at Katrina, looked at the ongoing mess in Iraq, and the poll numbers, even Fox News Opinion Dynamic Poll has been a very good idea.
So what do you think the American people are going to do?
Well, I I think they'll send a clear message coming the 06 midterms.
I think Republicans like Hagel will be in.
I think Democrats like Hillary will be out.
I I know a lot of Democrats aren't going to vote for Hillary if she still supports the war.
Yeah.
That's what I think too.
I think I think I think you may be on to something here, Jeff.
Yes.
I I I I I think I think you really may be on the American people uh are all feeling less secure.
I think the American people are fed up with Bush.
I think the American people are fed up with Hillary.
I think the American people are fed up with Bill Clinton, too.
Uh, and and I think are now are you are you did you go to the uh anti-American war rally on Saturday?
Yes, I did.
You did.
Uh did you did your protest or did you go as a spectator?
I I went a little bit as both, to be honest with you.
In 04, I voted for Bush because I felt you don't change horses in midstream.
Why not?
Why we should impeach the guy?
If it's this bad, we country can't stand this, Jeff.
This is a thing.
We can't keep going like this.
Well, America, you're right.
The American people are quaking in their boots.
They don't feel secure after these two hurricanes.
They don't feel secure after Abu Ghraib.
They don't feel secure after Gitmo.
They don't feel secure after Iraq.
They don't feel secure after the shuttle program's gone to hell.
They don't feel secure because we can't stop AIDS, we can't stop cancer, we can't stop anything.
We can't do anything right, Jeff.
And it's about time we got rid of the whole bunch of them, and just get rid of somebody else in there that knows what they're doing.
We need to take over this country and make it ours now.
I 100% with you on that one.
I knew you would be.
You know, and here in New York, you know, the New York Senate right.
We need great people like Chuck Hagel.
We need Cindy Sheehan to have a more prominent role in setting American foreign policy, Jeff.
She's got it.
She understands it.
So does Jesse Jack, so does Cynthia McKinney.
These people are trying to get us to listen, and it bothers me that the American people have have cotton in their ears.
They're not hearing anything, Jeff.
I don't think they have cotton in the ear when you look at Bush's popularity rating at 37%.
They seem to be hearing something.
I don't care about Bush.
Bush isn't running for anything anymore.
Why don't why do you want to focus on the attention on Bush for?
He Bush can't steal any more elections, Jeff.
It's time to forget about Bush.
We got to look forward here.
We got to look forward.
Here's the thing.
We gotta be worried about Cheney.
Don't you understand?
He went in and he had surgery.
Cheney could have died.
He could have chosen to die, but Cheney wants to live.
Why do you think he wants to live?
Because he wants to take over.
Cheney's gonna be the Republican nominee.
He wanted to get that aneurysm out of his knee so he could live.
Cheney and Halliburton, Jeff, that's what everybody's got to notice.
That's what we got to focus on.
You see who's rebuilding New Orleans.
It's Halliburton, not the poor who got kicked out of there.
You see what's all those poor people in New Orleans are Democrats.
Where do they think they are?
Louisiana's no longer a Democrat state.
You see what Bush is doing to court?
He just got a guy that may overturn Roe vs.
Wade as Chief Justice.
The vote's gonna be Thursday.
Bush is a Fox man.
While while he's doing all this stuff to make us feel less secure, he's getting what he wants.
We're still in Iraq.
And we're not coming home from Iraq, and we're still torturing people at Abu Grab and Club Gitmo.
And he's taken over the Supreme Court, and he's kicked the poor people out of New Orleans.
And Mary Landry is not going to be able to get re-elected down there because those people aren't coming back because of the Latinos are going to rebuild the place.
Jeff, you gotta wake up.
It's not more than it's it's about a lot more than just George W. Bush.
You gotta spread the word here, men.
Now get on it.
Come on.
Don't be so dense.
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Our buddies at Newsmax have an interesting story.
If one of the media's favorite independent disaster experts looks familiar to you as he bashes and trashes the Bush administration for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina, that's because he is.
Since Katrina devastated New Orleans nearly a month ago, Dr. Erwin Redliner, uh, maybe Red Leaner, I'm not sure he pronounces it, head of something called the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, has been the subject of nearly two dozen TV interviews and media reports, including appearances on the Today Show, World News Tonight, Primetime Live, as well as several pit stops at CNN in between.
Despite his nonpartisan credentials as a pediatric expert at Columbia University, Redliner doesn't seem particularly shy when it comes to playing the Katrina Blame game.
Said we've spent billions of dollars since 9-11 on preparedness, he complained to the face of CNN the other night, Aaron Brown.
There's been no accountability whatsoever.
I've been working in public health for 30 years.
I've never seen so much work with so little accountability and so little to show for it.
It's actually stunning.
Erwin Redliner continued the blame a few days later on the Today Show.
He told the Perky one, Katie Currick, we have a lot of soul searching to do about what's happened over these last four years, especially since 9-11.
Of course, neither the face of CNN Aaron Brown, nor Katie Courick, nor any of the other hosts who gave Dr. Redliner a platform to point fingers at the White House bothered to mention his ties to the Clinton administration, where he served as pediatric spinmeister in chief during the Elian Gonzalez fiasco.
Back then, Dr. Erwin Redliner was wearing a different hat as founder of something called the Children's Health Fund.
This guy gets around.
He's got the he's got the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, and he's also got the Children's Health Fund.
Invoking his expertise in child psychology, the future hurricane disaster expert created a media fire storm by announcing that the six-year-old Cuban boat boy, Elion Gonzalez, was being abused by the Miami relatives who took him in after his mother died trying to get him to America.
Redliner said in a letter to the Clinton Immigration and Naturalization Service that was released to the press, Elian Gonzalez is now in a state of imminent danger to his physical and emotional well-being in a home that I consider to be psychologically abusive.
Appearing with Katie Currick after the family released a videotape showing Elian Gonzalez proclaiming his desire not to be returned to Cuba.
Dr. Erwin Redliner announced, I think the child's being extremely manipulated.
In fact, videotape looks exactly like we might see in a hostage situation.
We think the child needs to be rescued from there.
Four days after his TV uh Today show appearance, Dr. Redliner got his wish when a machine gun-toting federal SWAT team stormed Ellion's home and kidnapped him after tear gassing his uh his family.
Uh the day after the raid, Dr. Redliner's concerns about hostage taking and psychological abuse seemed to have miraculously evaporated.
He said, I'm actually very happy.
I think this was a very safe return.
Nobody got hurt.
It was immediately followed by a very joyful reunion with his father.
Redliner's role as a White House propagandist in the Elyon case drew fire from his peers, with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons complaining in a letter to the Attorney General, Janet Il Reno, describing Redliner as a well-known pediatrician with long-standing political ties to President Clinton and the First Lady.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons said, We are appalled that the Department of Justice and the INS may have relied on the armchair diagnosis of an administration operative in making their decision to go ahead with a frightening raid in the dark.
Well, here he is, Dr. Erwin Redliner, has been welcomed back by the U.S. media now in his uh new role as the head of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, talking about how horrible the Bush administration has done in the aftermath of 9-11 and uh Hurricane Katrina.
It's folks, it it it really is.
I I I uh again, I'm I'm running out of words to describe what what I think is is this this.
I I guess I guess Howard Feynman's right.
The mainstream press is just a political party.
It's just a political party.
It's not about news.
It's about packaging events in a way to advance an agenda.
You know, and I, you know, several media people will maintain steadfastly this is not the case.
They really do think they're doing the Lord's work.
They think they are guaranteeing our own survival with their with their work because they have constitutional significance, having been mentioned in the First Amendment.
I don't I don't think half of them or more in the well, that's too big a number.
There are a lot of them in that business that have no clue what they're really doing and how their minds have been trained to go ahead and advance this agenda.
They are part of a political party and and to go out, it it it's it's just like when this phony group with a fax machine and a logo in Chicago sent out sent out press releases announcing that they were changing the order of the primary food groups.
And the mainstream press just went with it.
And the AMA said, Who is this group?
We haven't we haven't officially sanctioned any changes in the food groups.
What the hell is this?
So they finally did some work, found it just a bunch of activists with a fax machine.
It created a logo, sent out something looking official, and the mainstream press bought it hook, line and sinker.
Now, you know, where's the natural curiosity?
Where's all where all these characteristics you think go with being a reporter?
They don't exist.
They just it really doesn't exist.
Katie Corrick, I mean these people are just they're they're they're stooges.
They're stooges, and in their own minds, they are elitists and a cut above everybody else.
It it is it's just it's it's just a fascinating thing here to watch to be able to deconstruct this every day and to watch these people implode in the process and not realize what is happening to them.
Mike, in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Hello, sir.
Hey there, Rush.
Good afternoon, Megadinos.
Thank you, sir.
I am a Washington, D.C. tour guide, and uh my business was impeded by the marches on Saturday.
First of all, uh I'm not aware that uh there was anything going on yesterday other than the IMF demonstrators.
Um I will tell you though, that the numbers on the mall are always inflated.
It's kind of self-serving on the part of the park service to overinflate these numbers.
Uh I didn't see a hundred thousand people.
Maybe I saw a couple of thousand people on both sides.
But if I told your screener, uh the thing that just it just made me sick of my stomach was to look at some of these placards that people are carrying.
Um I'm a Vietnam veteran.
I remember, you know, make love not war.
I remember all that sentiment, but this was just uh had nothing to do with the war in Iraq.
It was a hate fest.
There was just it look at let me it was a hate fail.
I'm I've I tell I've told people earlier who these people are.
They're no different than the multiculturalists in this country.
These are the these are these are life's losers.
These are life's failures.
These are the people that have failed to amount to anything in in our country, in our society, and uh in this land of opportunity.
They're they're they're oddballs, freaks, kooks, weirdos.
And they know it.
And they don't like being thought of that way, and they don't like thinking of themselves that way.
They want to matter.
They want to give themselves a sense of meaning.
Their lives have to have meaning, a sense of importance.
So they come up with all these things to stand for, and they think it makes them superior, morally superior to everybody else, to oppose all this killing and all this unnecessary pillaging and all these unjust wars and all this stuff.
But these are these are these are really just a bunch of losers.
And and so they're they're of course they're angry.
They they they live in a country with uh uh boundless prosperity and opportunity.
The richest country in the history of the world, and they see themselves as non-factors.
They see themselves as people who haven't been able to get anywhere.
So they want to, and they and they've they're being led by a bunch of people who know just how to twist them and turn them and manipulate them.
People who have a true agenda.
I mean, one of the organizations that put this thing together is actually a member of the communist party, and it's got it's a it's a it's a bunch of people that have a deep appreciation for Stalinism.
And so they have gone out and they've recruited all these people who are wandering aimlessly through life looking you know for something desperately to do.
They think they're contributing in their mattering, and uh they're easy prey.
And and that Cindy Sheehan's a classic example.
Cindy Sheehan doesn't have the sense to come in out of the rain.
Cindy Sheehan doesn't have the IQ of a pencil eraser.
She has been elevated as the front person for this group because she evokes sympathy.
She is in no more no more way of leading a movement than the neighborhood mouse that goes from house to house in your neighborhood looking for cheese is leading a movement.
It's just it's it's uh it just it's funny as it can be, but it's also sad at the same time because these are people who haven't amounted a diddly squat who desperately want to matter, and they are being led and inculcated, manipulated and and and promoted in uh in ways by by people who actually do have an agenda, actually do have an anti-American agenda.
Uh and it it surfaces during Republican administrations, but it's always there.
And it's it's so you're gonna see the the most outrageous signs are simply you might as well put notice me on the sign.
Whatever sign says, more outrageous the better, notice me.
I want my son on TV.
I want my friends to see me.
I want them to see I matter.
I want them to see I came here that I care that I'm morally superior to them.
Uh it's uh and of course uh aiding and abetting them are the mainstream media in their quest uh to embarrass and harm the Bush administration and their quest to make this look more and more as though it represents mainstream thinking uh in this country, which of course it it doesn't, and it never has.
And you get right down to what it let's give them their number of a hundred thousand.
Let's just give them the number.
Let's say that there were a hundred thousand there.
If this is a building movement, if this is a movement that's really picking up steam, really picking up momentum, really captivating a lot of minds and hearts out there, then there should have been five hundred thousand to a million people there, with as much media attention as they've gotten free, as much recruitment attention and effort as they have gotten, as much savage reporting on George W. Bush and the war on Iraq as there has been.
There should have been five to ten times whatever number of people were there on Saturday, but there weren't.
There were no more people there than were there at the first anti-war rally four years ago, no more than were there at the anti-war rally three years ago or two years ago or wherever.
Just uh you know, sad bunch of people.
You you you you one way to understand this is, and I'm always asked this question, who is it among this healthy and vibrant and thriving population that has time to take a month off from what they're doing to protest anything.
Who's got that kind of time?
Life's losers have that kind of time, but nobody else does.
Quick time out, we'll be back.
Stay with us.
Little side note to the uh subscribers, those of you out there saying, Turn on the ditto cam.
It's been on for about 40 minutes and it's working fine.
So if there's a problem, it's on your end, you're probably using Windows.
Uh the other thing that I would like to correct, uh last week, uh it's amazing.
I I am just not allowed to make a mistake.
I mean, even an unintentional, I'm just not allowed to make one.
Everybody ever people that make make mistakes, that's good, that's good.
Learn from this, you'll grow from it.
I make a mistake.
You stupid fool idiot.
Why can't you get it?
And and uh there's just no tolerance when I make a mistake.
Last year I said it would take 31 years to count from one to one trillion.
And it's 31,000 years.
It no kidding, 31 that's how big a trillion is.
It take you 31,000 years.
You couldn't do it.
You could not in however many lifetimes count from one to one trillion, counting one number every second.
Take you 31,000 years to get there.
And our Federal budget is 2.6 of them.
Yes.
Yes, and it's full of cuts.
Yes, and we're cold hearted and cruel.
Yes, we're not spending nearly enough on poor people, or anybody else for that matter.
Almost, I guess, 75, 80,000 years to count that much.
Here's uh Robert in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.
Hello, sir, you're next.
Oh, hi, Rush.
I was actually in Washington uh on Saturday for the big march.
Yeah.
And uh I had a different reaction to it than than you uh did.
Of course, I was there, but uh but I I stood in front of those crosses at Camp Casey, and I got you know, and I got choked up.
You know, that was the first time I was touched in that way.
Yeah.
Seeing in their boots there, and and one of the guys from our area was killed in Iraq, where I live.
Yeah.
And I met Cindy Sheehan.
Uh you did at the end.
Yeah.
You got wait a minute, you actually met her?
I met her.
Uh I was on my way out.
Uh and she was there and uh cool, man.
Well, I mean, I didn't expect to see her on uh at that just accept that makes it even better.
I mean, that had to be one of the Greatest things to actually meet her.
Well, she was very open.
She uh, you know, did just she gave me uh a hug.
She didn't know who I was.
Uh that had to feel great.
I mean, that love and compassion had to be flowing.
Well, well, I think, you know, she was I'm feeling it from you, man.
I'm feeling it from you.
I'm feeling like I'm there.
Well, it was it was a very uh uh she's I mean she didn't know who I was.
So, you know, to be that open, and I could have been Well, you were there, that's all it took for her.
She knew.
Yeah.
Well, I I uh I I felt she was honest.
I felt she is uh tr just speaking the truth, which is the most powerful, which is not enough of that in this country either.
It scares people.
It really uh well it does.
It can the truth can scare people.
There's no question about that.
But it doesn't it shouldn't stop us from saying the truth.
No.
And I and I think they were actually underreported.
I think the police said that they that that they had achieved their hundred thousand.
But I stood there for two hours and watched.
Yeah, it's the cops.
What do you expect from the cops?
I mean it's uh it's it's it's the administration, the capital police or I mean they're they're not of course they're gonna underestimate it.
Yeah, I think there was probably two hundred, and I mean that they believe there was two over two hundred thousand, which which would make sense to me.
But that's even that's yeah, that's it.
That's that's even better.
That's great.
That's just fabulous.
Yeah, there was let me can I tell you there was a sign that it was the shirt they gave out or some group.
It said, make levies not war.
Oh, man.
I'll tell you creativity is all on that side now.
I have to admit that.
Well make levies make levies not war.
Instead and and said we're blowing them up.
We're blow I mean, we're blowing them up.
We're calypso Louie, a m minister Farrakhan.
We're blowing up these levies.
Did he say that?
He said it.
He said it in Memphis on Friday.
It was at Memphis TV station.
Yeah, he said he said he found the evidence of the explosives.
I don't believe that.
But but I but I but I believe we Well, I think I'd get in gear if I were you.
I mean, that's a serious charge.
Our priority.
Well, I mean if if we're gonna make levies not how can we make levies are gonna blow 'em up.
What are we doing?
We can make the levies tomorrow and if if Cheney or somebody decides to blow 'em up again, what are we gonna do?
Yeah, I don't I don't know.
What good's the sign if we're not gonna go down there and actually mean it.
Farrakhan was wrong.
In my opinion.
And uh so I I think that's nonsense.
But can we afford to take the chance that he's wrong?
I mean, that's the thing.
Well, we He's sticking it out there pretty low.
I mean, it you know, that that's a pretty audacious charge for it not to be true.
You gotta have evidence you're gonna say something like that.
Blew up the levies for that's that's like saying Bush sent the troops over to Iraq to get killed.
He's saying nothing different to what was said for the anti-war rally in a in a in a I mean can in context.
I mean, Bush is a murderer, Bush is this, it's all fits.
We blow up the levies, we're sending kids to a rock to die.
Well, Cindy, she handed the white crosses.
Look at you cried.
Yeah.
Interesting.
She said that one of the rationales that Bush uses to keep the war going was that people died, and so we have to keep fighting to honor those who died.
Right.
And she said that's the craziest logic because if if you've gotten someone killed, the last thing you want to do is get someone else killed or killed.
Unless unless, and this is where, you know, you and I are smart enough to figure this out, unless your objective is to kill 'em.
That's where she hands on to this.
And people ought to listen to her.
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Cindy Sheehan was arrested today uh while protesting outside the White House.
There aren't a whole lot of details, but I will have whatever we have, or whatever we can learn in the interim when we get back from this break at the top of the hour.
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