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Nov. 2, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I want to grab a phone call here because uh we have a soldier on the phone from Davenport, Iowa, um, who um I happen, I I I this who well I would when I was in Afghanistan, he was there, and uh when I went to Kandahar, he was in the audience, and I'll never forget that.
This is Jeff in Davenport, Iowa.
Jeff, welcome.
It's great to have you on the program.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Megadetto is to you, sir.
You are a great American, and uh please don't ever stop what you're doing up for us.
Okay.
Yeah.
Uh you know, I first of all wanted to thank you for coming uh out there to Kandahar.
I was actually stationed at a little fire base in a place called Lashker Gah.
Uh, but I was able to be in Kandahar when you got there.
We knew uh a few days ahead, and uh I was able to get on a chopper and get out there, and you have no idea how much how much that meant to us, uh, sir.
So thank you very much for that.
Well, you know, it's the other way around.
You know, I I I wanted to do this trip specifically to be able to talk to you people over there, all of you uh I was gonna say you guys, but uh there were there were a lot of women in the audience as well, and the the audio uh the the number of people trooping in the wreck hall there, and that was a that's a nice rec hall in Kandahar, by the way.
Yeah, it is.
I mean that that that was a very, very nice rec call.
Popcorn machine was going and everything.
Uh but but crowd got bigger and bigger and bigger, and uh and I remember when the QA started.
I must have gone an hour and a half.
That must have been an hour and a half long, and then and then there was the uh uh anybody that wanted photographs or that sort of thing, stayed for it.
Mary Madeline was there, and it was just fabulous.
And the the the thing that it was meaningful to me, uh, and I and I remember saying this to to you uh to you guys and you people in that in that group that you know as I get older, I have a how old are you?
I'm 44, sir.
You're 44.
And how long you've been in?
I volunteered in 2002.
So are you reserves or are you uh I am, I'm National Guard, sir.
National Guard.
So I well, you volunteered uh to go over in 2002.
The the older I get see, I had the chance.
Uh I was 18, 19 in the late 60s, and I didn't do what you did.
And I had a chance and I didn't.
And as as I've gotten older, uh I I have my my awe for people who do what you do has just it continues to grow.
And the older the more mature I get, the more um solemn is my appreciation for what people like you do.
Uh because it's all volunteer, be it guard, be it you know, whatever else.
Uh there is no conscription, there's no draft, and and and you've volunteered to be over there, and I'm I came back and I told people I don't want to hear any more talk about poverty in this country.
I don't want to hear any more about how hard our lives are, how tough we have it.
Because the circumstances I saw in that country, uh and and uh the Kandahar base is a pretty nice base, it's a big base, but uh it's still it's not home.
It's uh you know what, Rush, people have absolutely no idea whatsoever.
And I I just I can't tell you how badly it hurts me and uh the people I was over there with the CS used as pawns right now by the Democrats.
I mean it's unbelievable.
We we are doing so much good over there, and uh it just seems like absolutely none of it's reported.
Uh you know, I'm a medical sergeant, and I went on many, many, many missions uh, you know, to provide care in remote villages, places where they'd never seen doctors.
Uh they'd never had medicines.
We did so much good over there, and uh, you know, I gave up 18 months with my own children.
I have four kids uh, you know, to serve in that mission, and uh I volunteered to go because it was the right thing to do, period.
And and because I love my country and what we have so much that uh I wanted to give some of that away to to those people over there.
But I I I cannot tell you that we there was no way for them to prepare us for what we saw over there.
It is poverty on a level that is just unbelievable.
People uh really cannot comprehend it.
It's un unreal.
Not only that, it's it by our standards, yeah, it's it's it's poverty, but uh but to them it's their way of life.
They've never they've never known anything better.
They and they very much appreciate your presence and our presence there.
Hope that we don't leave.
Heard that everywhere I went from uh from Afghanistan people.
But but anyway, I I'll never forget the the the uh that that that it was we we got there like three or four in the afternoon, and uh we're running really close on our schedule.
And uh and we got there three or four in the afternoon, I think it was set up to start at three o'clock, we were just a little bit late.
We got in there and and uh during the QA, what what what amazed me, and you might remember this during the QA, I started getting political questions from uh from people, and there were a lot of Democrat soldiers in that group.
There were.
There really were.
And and they they came out and they were they were uh they weren't afraid to ask my opinion on things.
And the thing that you know, I I've I worried, okay.
Look at I'm not over here to discuss politics with them.
I'm over this is an appreciation tour.
I mean, I'm I want to hear I I want I wanted to tell everybody that you're not forgotten.
And just because the media is not doing stories on you doesn't mean that people in the country have forgotten, and I've you've forgotten you.
You when you get back and you go through the airports, people are going to give you standing ovations when you go off the airplane and walk through the terminal.
The fact that the the the media is not in Afghanistan, in fact I said this the fact they're not there covering what you're doing is a sure sign that what you're doing is good job because there's nothing going wrong.
There's no reason for the media to be here and cover your actions.
But the Q it QA, they want to know about social security, they wanted to know about a uh a number of things, and I I had some pretty spirited uh uh questions from from Democrats, uh uh Democrat soldiers in the in the crowd.
But I never got I never got the impression from any of those Democrat soldiers that they resented being there because they had all volunteered.
I never got the impression from those who were obviously Democrats that they were upset with the policy that sent them there.
Now, you probably know them better than I do, but they had a full opportunity to tell me they were upset with it because they knew I'd be going home and and and it was a wide open afternoon.
I mean, there was no restrictions on me, the military let me say what I wanted to say, and there was no restrictions on you guys in the audience.
And I I didn't the reason I bring this up is because Harry Reid yesterday, before he shut down the Senate, said he knows a Democrat soldier.
He says they're not all Republican, and he knows a Democrat soldier.
He knows a Democrat soldier.
And this Democrat soldier doesn't like it, is miserable over there, thinks the military is basically phoning it in.
Uh and and I didn't encounter that at all.
Well, you know what?
It's it's like that woman that they called in earlier.
I guarantee you we we knew every single day why we were there.
There was no doubt in anyone's mind why we were there, and and and we all felt good about what we were doing.
And and yeah, it was dangerous, uh, quite a bit dangerous, you know, a lot of times.
But again, we were doing so much good uh for the people, and that was the underlying theme behind every single thing that we did.
We understood the mission, we knew why we were there, and we just simply went out and did it.
You know, and uh we we were able to get your website on our uh through our satellite onto our computers, and that was uh we would just rush for that website every night uh to get your updates because we didn't have access to any other real news uh over there.
Yeah, I know I saw the television.
You had CNN, you had CNN delivered.
Some some of the places I went had CNN and Fox.
But I'm sure if you whatever, you're watching the the mainstream U.S. media, you're not getting accurate picture of the American people's opinion of what you're doing, I'll guarantee you that.
Exactly.
And uh, you know, I used your website as a matter of fact to uh convert somebody who was very much a liberal democrat when we came over there.
I I converted him to uh to being a conservative Republican and then talked him into going to the college that I went to in Davenport, uh Iowa here with me.
He was from uh California, and he's now living here with me.
And uh he's actually got involved in a in a couple of uh political campaigns.
So you had a hand in that, too.
Oh, God love you.
You're doing the Lord's work over there, in addition to saving Afghanistan, you're saving Liberal Democrats.
That's right.
Well, it's that's good for you.
Well, hey, Jeff, thanks for the call.
I I I appreciate it.
It's good it's great to hear from you.
I it's an honor to talk to you, sir.
Oh, thank you.
I I will I I will never forget that week uh in Afghanistan.
The one place we didn't get to was Bagram uh Air Force Base, the C 130 that we, in fact, we left Kandahar the next day for uh Bagram Air Force Base, which is not far from uh where we were based.
But uh uh there was a problem with the number four engine, and uh they had to kill it, and we spent some time in the air trying to re-I'm up at a cockpit, because this is all cool to me.
Trying to restart the engine, couldn't have to go back, had to wait for the C 130, which is about six or seven hours, and by that time the schedule was blown, and Bagram was the one place that uh wanted to get to and didn't get to, so there's a reason to go back.
Quick timeout, we'll be back, continuing mere moments on the EIB network.
Well, we all know, ladies and gentlemen, Tom Delay won his case yesterday and gets a new judge in his uh Ronnie Earle persecution trial down there in uh in Texas.
Uh now the next thing I'm gonna do is try to change the venue.
What you may not know is some of the things that Ronnie Earl said in his closing arguments in this trial that were designed to persuade the uh the uh uh the judge here and leaving the original judge on the case.
Today's Austin American statesman says Ronnie Earl argued that removing judges under these circumstances could lead to a country split into Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds.
Reports were that even Democrats in the courtroom were scratching their heads at this one.
This is from the same man who compared the role corporate money plays in campaign finance to terrorism.
Uh that's in this big bide documentary.
Uh Earl also reportedly attacked Tom Delay for the intimidation of judges in his uh closing argument.
That probably means that Earl was alluding to liberal criticism of delay after Delay took issue with the manner in which federal judges interpreted the law passed by Congress regarding Terry Shivo.
Uh but nevertheless uh this this statement had no place in the courtroom.
Delay intimidating judges.
This this reference is a public policy debate.
If if he's if he's actually talking about delay trying to intimidate judges with whatever he was saying in the Shivo case, uh then he's he's making it clear, Earl is this doofus, that he's got delay on trial for politics.
He's charge delay because of political differences.
Guy's an idiot.
This if if Ronnie Earl keeps talking, his case is gonna get thrown out.
And I hope he keeps talking because the more he talks, the more he tells everybody what Democrats are up to these days.
Politicizing policy differences or criminalizing uh policy differences.
Here's Bob in Wilmington, Delaware.
Bob, glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Wanted to ask you a question.
Yeah.
Uh the question is I think the um Democrats will have a next step.
I'm trying to learn from you in terms of anticipating where the puck's going to be.
Um in Bolton they said he was a sleaze, and then they said, well, give us secret documents.
And when the government when the White House wouldn't turn over secret documents, they said that proves he's a sleaze.
I think they're gonna do in this case, Harry Reid's going to ask for secret documents between now and the 14th that they knows the White House can't deliver and say, see, they lied to us about the war.
What do you think?
Uh I they may try it.
I I don't care.
Let them try it.
That whatever they try is gonna bamboozle them.
It's gonna backfire on them.
What they they can tr they can try to construct their alternative reality for everybody else to live in, but nobody's gonna choose to join them in it, other than their kooks who already have.
It can be documented from here.
A month of Sundays, that there was no lying about intelligence by the Bush administration.
There was no manipulation of it because the same intelligence was used in 98 and 99, quoted by Democrats as saying we gotta go get Saddam.
He's too dangerous.
This is it's it's all pointless.
But what since you bring this up, I've referenced this twice on this program.
Let me go ahead and do this.
So we're gonna post this on the website.
Back in April, actually late March, the Silberman Rob Commission issued its report, which looked into the questions, Specific questions raised about manipulating intelligence, pre-war intelligence to get us into a war on a false pretense or lies.
We've already had a commission look into this.
The Silberman Rob Commission.
Let me just give you a summary of this from early April.
Yesterday's report to the president by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. regarding weapons of mass destruction, also known as the Silberman Report, make it clear that these allegations are false.
Here are some specific findings from the report.
Many observers of the intelligence community have expressed concern that intelligence community judgments concerning Iraq's purported WMD programs may have been warped by inappropriate political pressure.
Well, the Commission has found no evidence of politicization of the intelligence community's assessments concerning Iraq's reported WMD programs.
No analytical judgments were changed in response to political pressure to reach a particular conclusion.
That is from Intelligence Capabilities Commission report, pages 187 to 188.
Here's another summary.
We looked very closely at that question, the administration pressuring intelligence analysts.
Every member of the commission was sensitive to the number of questions that have been raised with respect to the what we'll call politicization or however you want to describe it.
And we examined every single instance that had been referred to in print or otherwise to see if there was any occasion where a member of the administration or anybody else had asked an analyst or anybody else associated with the intelligence community to change a position that they were taking or whether they felt there was any undue influence.
And we found absolutely no instance.
Chuck Robb, co-chairman, commission on the intelligence capabilities of the United States regarding weapons of mass destruction from a press conference, March 31st of this year.
That's what he said.
From page nine, the overview of the report.
The intelligence community's Iraq assessments were riddled with errors.
Contrary to what some defenders of the intelligence community have since asserted, these errors were not the result of a few harried months in 2002.
Most of the fundamental errors were made and communicated to policymakers well before the now famous National Intelligence briefing of October 2002, and were not corrected in the months between the NIE and the start of the war.
They were not isolated or random failings.
Iraq had been an intelligence challenge at the forefront of U.S. attention for over a decade.
It was a known adversary that had already fought one war with the U.S. and seemed increasingly likely to fight another.
But after ten years of effort, the intelligence community still had no good intelligence on the status of Iraq's weapons programs.
This is from the report overview page nine.
No matter where you look, in this report, you will find no evidence.
In fact, you will find assertions by Chuck Robb and Lawrence Silberman, the co-chairman of this committee, that there was no manipulation of the intelligence, that there nobody lied about it, that nobody asked for any undue influence or brought any undue influence on the analysts to change it.
This accusation was going around about Cheney for the longest time.
That's why they looked into this.
Folks, this is just this is just more evidence on the pile here.
What's happening with the Senate and the and Dingy Harry shutting it down yesterday is strictly related to I it's it's unbelievable.
It is literally unbelievable.
They were so intent that this special counsel was going to return an indictment that would lead to the investigation of lies about weapons of mass destruction that they went ahead and created that reality and started living it.
They started planning winning elections on it.
Then no indictment of such comes forth, and they are devastated and they can't deal with reality, so they continue living in their false reality.
It all goes back to what I've been saying.
They had control of the government for 40 years.
They lost it.
It's theirs by birthright.
They're entitled to it.
Nobody else is.
When they lost control in 94, haven't been able to get it back, they don't understand it.
They think the people are stupid, voters are stupid, or else they're being fooled.
They believe in conspiracy theories.
No rational explanation exists for this as far as they're concerned.
I mean, their owning government is something so natural.
It's like we all need to drink water.
Liberals run government.
We all need water.
And when there's no water, when there's no government, there has to be a conspiracy.
Has to be so serious of conspiracies to explain this.
Can't be their fault.
Can't be they've lost touch.
If the truth be known, they even resent having to be elected.
They arranged elections for so many years that they were mere formalities.
But now they lose them, and so something's wrong, but not with them.
The elections being stolen, voting machines malfunction, tampered with, votes not counted, whatever.
But no matter where you look, this case they're trying to make will not stand up no matter what.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing to what they claim.
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You want more evidence of a liberal and media crackup.
In an editorial, arguing for diversity on the U.S. Supreme Court after the nomination of Sam Alito, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel suggested that Justice Clarence Thomas does not count as a black.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.
This is not a weekend penny saber.
This is the newspaper in Milwaukee.
The Daily Newspaper's editorial board lamenting the choice of a man to replace Sandra Day O'Connor opined in losing a woman the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman, and a black man who deserves an asterisk, because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America.
The papers said that the elito nomination is troubling because it's liable to divide America, and it lessens the extent to which the court mirrors the nation's rich diversity.
Let me tell you something.
I know that the people at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel listen to this program.
There are several reporters there that have written about this program, and I'm going to tell you, you people are doing one of the greatest services that we could hope to have done.
You are cracking up right along with the rest of the left.
You will go out and you'll write stories about Bill Clinton as the first black president, and you will think that you are being brilliant, and you will think that you're being clever.
You take an African American, Clarence Thomas, and you say he's not black, he doesn't qualify because he doesn't represent the views of the blacks in this country.
How would you know in Milwaukee?
How would you know what the vast majority you were making assumptions here, but beyond that?
Where did you people go to school?
Who taught you that the Supreme Court is supposed to represent the diversity of the population?
Who taught you that that's the purpose of the Supreme Court?
You actually believe that only blacks, the correct ones, can represent other blacks, only women can represent women, only Catholics can represent cat well, screw the Catholics, we ought to get rid of all of them, and the Christians too.
You really believe this?
This is what this is what passes.
My friends, for enlightened journalism, and important community participation from the editorial board of the Milwaukee urinal.
Sentinel.
For I mean ten years ago this would have enraged me.
I would have been pounding the despair.
This just makes me smile.
They are all losing it.
They are telling us who they really are.
This is so wonderful.
For the longest time they've been able to mask themselves as the smartest people in the room, the elites above everyone else smarter than everyone else.
Moderates, we're not ideologues.
We see the truth through all the fog.
Now we find out you're just a bunch of common, ordinary, everyday run amuck liberals.
You're just a bunch of huge, uninformed, ill-educated, bigoted leftists.
Is what you are.
You are intolerant.
You are mean spirited.
You are extremist, and you are out of the mainstream.
All of the things that you think everybody else in the country is but you.
And yet you are coming to define it.
Sticking with this topic, so to speak.
Washington Post today has a column by the brilliant Ariudite and one of a kind David Ignatius.
The headline of his column is Meet the New Elite.
Maybe we hear this.
With the nomination of Princeton and Yale law grad Sam Alito to the Supreme Court, I'm beginning to sense a theme in the Bush administration's rocky second term.
We are witnessing the rise of the Republican A students.
The preppy frat boy is gradually assembling a government of GOP meritocrats.
Merit Ocrats, for those of you in Rio Linda.
The preppy frat boy, George W. Bush.
So we're gonna go back to the original per uh way he was characterized too, huh?
He's just a partying frat boy, not a serious bone in his body.
And now all of a sudden, he's re he's he's surrounding himself with a Republican A students.
So what are we now complaining about how smart the nominees are?
Alito is a pedigreed member of America's new aristocracy of brains, as you could hope to find.
After Princeton and Yale, he punched all the right tickets, circuit court clerk, assistant U.S. attorney, assistant to the Solicitor General, Office of the Legal Counsel of the Justice Department, U.S. attorney, and then a spot as an appellate judge.
What, Mr. Ignatius, you have an inferiority complex here?
What's wrong with any of this?
Would this even be written about a Bill Clinton nominee who went to Yale, who went to Princeton?
I mean, the President's new court nominee follows his supremely credentialed choice for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, then made the grand tour of elite law jobs as a Supreme Court clerk, associate White House counsel, and deputy solicitor general.
What was striking during Roberts' confirmation process was that all of Washington's other A students, Republican and Democratic, seemed to know and like him.
I don't know what you mean by other A students.
There weren't any Democrat A students on the Judiciary Committee.
This guy was running intellectual rings around him, and so will Alito.
You can argue that this is excellence by default, and that the president's first instincts were shown in the nomination of Harriet Myers.
But Myers herself was no slouch in the in the R some department with a trailblazing role as the first female.
It goes on and on and on.
Once upon a time, conservatives instinctively mistrusted the A students who had won all the merit badges.
That sort of government by R some was a was a phenomenon of the old patrician Democratic elite.
They sailed out of Harvard and Yale and into government with the self-confidence born of good grades and a network of mentors.
He fails.
It's classic.
He does not understand conservatives.
No liberal will ever understand conservatives.
He thinks there's no difference between a conservative A student and a liberal A student.
The difference between a conservative A student and a liberal A student is the difference between a conservative and a liberal.
And the grade doesn't matter.
So remember what were some of the outrageous Roberts Oh, he didn't grow up on a neighborhood with blacks and Jews.
Jews.
And he had never known hardship in his life.
He couldn't relate to the poor.
The poor.
And now Alito's so smart he can't relate to anybody.
He's just the smartest guy in the room, too smart.
We should be suspicious of this.
President Bush, despite his own and over and Yale pedigree, still does a surprisingly good job of sounding like an outsider.
Am I crazy, or Does he speak with more of a Texas accent today than when he took office?
But when you look at the people he's nominated for key posts, it's the GOP nomenclatura.
This particular group is lopsidedly white and male, and like most collections of meritocrats, too little shaped by the hard scrabble America that politicians like to celebrate.
But they will give Bush some bottom and balance in his second term.
So I guess he's not really worried because Bush is still a dunce.
Bush is still an idiot.
Bush can still sound like one at any rate.
But we never hear about all of Clinton's white lilywhinees, far more in the Clinton administration than in the Bush administration.
This is just more evidence of a huge disconnect and a group of people the left totally off balance.
Just a week ago they thought they owned it.
A week ago they thought they were going to get it all back.
A week ago they were settling in on plans to impeach Bush.
Now, after one week, an end run that they cannot explain and could not see has rendered them once again in the throes of depression.
I must take a brief break here, my friends, and be back and continue in mere moments.
Stay with us.
Well, isn't this just fun?
Apparently now the uh day two of the assault on Bush and uh needing to be impeached and lying about weapons of mass destruction, dingy Harry and uh Nancy Pelosi have sent a letter to George W. Bush demanding answers at the independent council investigation and suggesting that Carl Rolv needs to be fired or dismissed.
The Democrats are now conducting a press conference uh to speak about Iraq.
There's Senator Christopher Dodd.
I saw I saw Barbara Boxer uh walk in uh with him, and they once again start this press conference with but mere moments remaining in this program.
Here's Matt and Clayton, Ohio.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush, make a buckeye ditto.
Thank you, sir.
I uh I uh would assert that the uh the Democrats and the left is is missing the point that the one who lied was Saddam Hussein.
I believe that uh the UN's resolution said that Saddam had to prove that he had disarmed.
And to my understanding, he never proved that he disarmed.
The one who lied was was Saddam, not Bush.
Yep.
I know, I know.
We have to rehash this, we can do it all day long after 9-11 preemptive uh uh strikes against potential enemies authorized by members of Congress and the Senate, these people that signed the resolution.
Uh uh Saddam was not forthcoming.
He wanted the Arab world to think that he was the big guy that's gonna take down the United States and take him on, and he blue he thought that this bluff would uh would turn us away because it had in the past.
He had been able to bluff Bill Clinton.
He does that Al Qaeda had been able to bluff Clinton out of Somalia.
Uh and he had a he found he was dealing with a different character in um in George W. Bush.
So that's an interesting way to put it.
Uh if anybody lied about weapons of mass destruction, it was Saddam.
But I somebody that there was a back of my mind all day.
There was a BBC story sometime last year in 2004, featured Spencer Abraham.
And Spencer Abraham, uh energy secretary or something at the time, was admitting that 1.77 million something or other of your of radioactive material had been found.
And uh and that would it in Iraq, and it was uh it was good that we had captured this stuff, because uh had it had it uh found its way in the hands of terrorists, it would be uh problematic, obviously.
We found some radioac radioactive uh material in Iraq and quite a sizable amount of it.
Uh this is Yeah, okay, yeah, I have a vague memory of it, but we'll we'll um Yeah, yeah, there's some yeah, there was a bunch of stuff found at yellow, there was stuff found in Rotterdam shipped from Iraq.
And there's all I mean it this is this is it's like the Twilight Zone here, folks.
I'm I'm sorry to have to keep stuttering and stammering around all this, but this is it's like dealing with kids, and I've never dealt with kids, thankfully.
Uh when they lie to you, and you know they're lying.
I mean, I I it just it just what do you say?
It's just it's huh.
I I I it's just impossible to comprehend this.
Well, it's not impossible to comprehend it.
It it is just stunning to me to see all of this actually be attempted.
It's it's when you're looking at people that are deranged, when you're looking at people that are truly pathological, when you're looking at a an emotional psychological meltdown, and it's happening right in front of you, right before your very eyes.
Uh it's it's it's hard to describe.
I don't feel sorry for him.
No, no, no, it's not that.
It's it's it's almost like I don't believe it.
That's what makes it the twilight zones.
It's almost like I'm dreaming.
These people cannot be this stupid.
They just I think this is hubris and arrogance and and believing they still set the agenda and can control whatever the American people read, see, and hear.
Uh it's like so much of reality has just passed them by and escapes them.
And you wonder how that's possible.
As one who's immersed totally in reality, I'm folks.
I never fantasize.
I never play the what if game.
I'd never tell myself things are other than what they are.
And I guess that's one of the problems I'm having here.
It is it is truly mentally unhealthy.
It's just kids do this.
You pretend.
You run around when you're five years old in the backyard thinking that you're little Joe on bonanza.
You know, after a couple of months of it, they send you off to person that wears a little white coat to help you deal with it.
You really think you're little Joe?
Yeah, I watch the show every night.
I'm little Joe on Bonanza.
I want to be called Little Joe.
Uh there was a kid in school, thought he was little Joe of Bonanza.
Everybody's worried about it.
That's what I'm looking at here.
Greg in Boston.
Uh, hello, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Rush, it's my distinct pleasure to be on the air with you.
I've waited ten years for this moment.
Thank you, Chad.
You're an inspiration.
It's you know what's laughable is that Clarence Thomas is being called not mainstream.
I find that absolutely laughable considering the fact you had a very, very eloquent gentleman, black gentleman from North Carolina on your show about a month ago that hit the nail on the head.
And this is what scares the left the most.
That blacks are leaving the Democrat plantation.
Case in point, mainstream blacks rush are overwhelmingly pro-life.
They're anti-homosexual marriage.
They're pro-death penalty, they're pro-Christian uh conservative family values.
They're pro-Social Security reform, because as you know, the people who get screwed the most with the current system are black males with the shortest life expectancy.
They are extremely pro-school vouchers, unlike the Democrat constituencies and uh primary constituency, the NEA, who just put it on the box.
Hold it here.
I would I'd love to believe you on this, but the election returns just don't show it.
Well, but Rush, you got more the uh blacks voted more for Bush in 2004 than they did in 2000.
It's trending positively, is it not?
Yeah, but it's yeah, but it's still it's still ninety percent uh that that vote for Democrats.
I I look I understand exactly what you're saying, and and and I uh I know that the the uh element of the black population that believes as you described is there, and I know it's sizable, but they're still outnumbered.
That's not the point.
The point is, you know, here you have the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel engaging in blatant bigotry, blatant racism.
Clarence Thomas isn't black enough.
He doesn't think like a black person.
So you have a bunch of white liberals in a newsroom in an editorial board, typical people that run the white plantation telling blacks how they have to think.
Telling blacks how they have to act.
If they want to be supported by upper level whites, you gotta think X. You gotta agree with us.
You basically got to be a liberal socialist.
And if you're off to plantation, man, you may as well not even be black as far as we're concerned.
You're an enemy.
Now that's the you've got these upper elitist snobs who are trying to tell everybody else who the racist extremists are, who themselves are the most condescending, insulting, arrogant bunch of people you could ever run into in the political spectrum, demanding that blacks think a certain way.
This is Stalinist, folks, demanding that people act and think a certain way, or you're going to get punished.
That is stalinist.
You are an enemy of the state.
Clarence Tony Thomas is an enemy of the liberal state because he mind is not right.
His mind under control.
And so he's not really black.
Well, I can't say what I want to say to these people in Milwaukee, but if I ever see them personally, I'll be sure and pass it on the way I want to.
Back after this.
Yeah, here it is.
We'll put this on the website.
We'll link to it.
It's uh July 2004.
U.S. has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month.
That would be June of 2004.
It's the BBC UK edition on their website.
Spencer Abraham called the operation a major achievement.
Out of time.
Lots to do.
See you tomorrow.
Cheerio.
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