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Nov. 8, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 8, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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By the way, this guy we spoke of earlier, Jim Massey, the Marine that came back and lied about atrocities, follower of Cindy Sheehan.
I forgot to mention that, Coco, add that on the website.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushball and genuinely having here more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Probably an animal too.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Yeah, Coco, I want you to do this.
I want you to send in an XL and an L. Make sure that what we send Senator Harkin fits a T-shirt, Club Gitmo t-shirt, Clum Gitmo staff T-shirt.
Send him a Jihad Java coffee mug.
Send him some Club Gitmo soap on a rope.
And make sure, make sure to tell him in the note that he reports these gifts on his financial disclosure form and tell him what the retail value is of the gifts that we are sending to him in his office.
Senator Harkin doesn't like the fact that Armed Forces Radio personnel and audience members like my program and would actually like more of it.
Senator Harkin, what we ought to do here is just put the whole programming of Armed Forces Radio up to a vote of the military.
Let's see what kind of programming they want, Senator.
Let's see if they want to hear from your half-baked, bankrupt buddies who couldn't earn a penny if their lives depended on it in this business.
Harkin's nothing more than an average demagogue, wants to bully people who don't agree with him, seeks to control free speech.
He's a special pleader for a bankrupt, unlistenable left-wing radio network that has no ratings and has no income other than what it steals from boys and girls' clubs or what it can con from its few listeners into donating.
We have two more bites here of Senator Harkin from the floor of the Senate yesterday, once again talking about my program on the Armed Forces Radio Television Service and his next bite saying that our troops are so dumb, they may hear what I say, what I said about Abu Grab, and think it's okay to torture.
That's the sum total of this bite.
Vice President Cheney is fighting the McCain Amendment.
Well, maybe Vice President Cheney and Rush Limbaugh feel that way, but by gosh, I don't think too many other Americans do.
That's why we had a 90-9 vote here.
And yet, what do our Armed Forces personnel hear when they tune in the radio?
They hear Rush Limbaugh telling them, oh, it's a prank, a brilliant maneuver.
Good old American pornography.
That's what they're hearing.
Stop the tape again.
Stop the tape.
Once again, he's leaving out my Madonna line that the pictures of Abu Grab look no different than still shots of a Madonna video.
He refuses to mention that.
That's an insult to me.
He's insulting me now, leaving out my best lines because he probably, as I say, agrees with them and doesn't want anybody to think he's agreeing with me or that I'm right about it.
Troops to think.
What are they to think?
Are they to think, well, that's Rush Limbaugh, and that's what we hear, so therefore that must represent what the American people back home feel about this.
That maybe it wasn't so bad after all.
That's why we need some opposing views on Armed Forces Radio.
Do you know Armed Forces Radio carries all of NPR, all of NPR, one hour of me, all of NPR?
If he thinks that alternative views aren't there, and I've seen Armed Forces television, and I'm telling you what, folks, there's a lot of left-wing liberal news on the television network that the Armed Forces watch here and abroad.
Let's go back to October 29th, 2002.
Let's review one of Senator Harkin's classiest moments.
Here he is as the star speaker at the Wellstone Memorial/slash Democrat Pep Rally.
For Paul Wellstone, will you stand up and keep fighting for social and economic justice?
Say yes!
For Paul, for Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting for better wages for those who mop our floors and clean our bathrooms, for those who take care of our elderly, take care of our sick, teach our kids, and help our homeless?
Say yes!
For Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting for cleaner air and cleaner water, for a cleaner environment for our children and our future?
Say yes!
For Paul, for Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting for peace and understanding and to stop the exploitation of women and children around the world?
Say yes!
For Paul, for Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting to end discrimination based on race, gender, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation?
Say yes!
For Paul, for Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting for the poor, the homeless, and those left on the roadside of life?
Say yes!
Now, let's all get on that bus together, that green bus, that bus of hope, and let's keep it moving to a better America.
Keep, keep standing up, keep fighting, keep saying yes to justice, to hope, for people, for Paul, for Paul, for Paul.
Paul!
For Paul!
What is the picture of your country that you form while listening to that?
And what is this?
Will you stand up for Paul and keep fighting for better wages for those who mop our floors and clean our bathrooms?
Who pays them, Senator?
Mop our floors, clean our bathrooms for those who take care of our elderly.
I thought most people clean their own bathrooms.
Who's he talking about here?
At any rate, that's Senator Harkin from the now famous Wellstone Memorial, also a Democrat pep rally, October 29th, 2002.
And they genuinely thought after that Pep rally they had won the 2002 election.
They thought they're going to take back the House.
They're going to take back the Senate.
Got more audio now.
James Inhoff, senator from Oklahoma, decided to get in on this debate about the Armed Forces radio television service.
Inhoff strikes back at Harkin.
Here's a portion of what he had to say.
It's the individual radio station that establishes the programming based on its audience's preferences.
The stations decide what programming is in greatest demand.
Now, worldwide, the second largest audience request is to play all three hours of Rush Limbaugh.
Only one hour is currently made available through the AFRTS.
However, some stations choose not to carry his program at all, even though, even for the one-hour availability, that's their choice to make based on the troop feedback.
Now, you might say at this point that if the troop feedback is they want all three hours and some stations don't play any and the most that any stations play is one hour, then if any change should be made in terms of determining and complying with the market, it should be that.
Yeah, exactly.
The troops want more of me.
I'm the second most requested show they want.
They want all three hours.
And Dung Heap Harkin is not interested in giving the troops what they want.
He's just a bully.
He wants propaganda himself.
He wants a failing liberal radio organization that cannot find an audience of any substance anywhere to be granted and given an audience, even though there's very little preference for it on the Armed Forces Radio Television Service.
Inhoff said this in his remarks as well.
Now, Senator Harkin and his charts would have you believe that the only program on the radio is Rush Limbaugh.
But what about the 24 hours of national public radio?
Furthermore, Rush Limbaugh currently represents only 3% of the weekly scheduled program.
That's 3%.
3%.
I don't know why they're so worried about just 3%.
I do.
I do.
3% of this program is more influential than 24 hours of NPR.
I do.
They don't want any percent of this program reaching anybody if they have anything to say about it.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
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Okay, we're back.
I forgot one bite here.
We have Hellman Dorgan, Byron Dorgan from, I guess he's South Dakota?
North Dakota.
He's North Dakota.
Maybe North Dakota.
And after James Inhoff from Oklahoma said that there are 24 hours of NPR on Armed Forces Radio, I'm only 3% of the programming.
Dorgan stood up and said this.
I assume it's a joke, but I can't be sure because I've heard it more than once.
My colleague from Oklahoma says, well, Rush Limbaugh is balanced by national public radio.
How you could actually make that assertion without openly laughing is hard for me to understand.
That surely must be a joke.
National public radio doesn't counterbalance right-wing talk.
National public radio, if there is something in this country that is fair and balanced, I believe that's it.
National public radio isn't about political programming on the right or the left.
And there, folks, you have it.
I am sure that Senator Dorgan firmly believes that.
When you get into the heart and soul of a genuine liberal, their air of superiority and entitlement is such that they are not even ideologues.
Liberalism is not an ideology.
It's just what is, is as natural as water and air and anything else is what's kooky, extreme, and dangerous.
You need water and air to live.
And if somebody's going to come along and pollute the water and air with conservatism, why that's extreme.
He can listen to NPR and he will not think that he's listening to liberal balanced news commentary or what have you.
We just got this guy, Tomlinson, was just forced out of the Board of Public Broadcasting, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting Board, because he was trying to get some conservative programming on NPR and PBS.
They just forced him out.
PBS, NPR, totally liberal.
And all you have to do is take a look at their reaction anytime somebody suggests actually putting some conservative programming on either network.
Look, for crying out loud, this man who's lost his mind lately, Bill Moyers.
Senator Dorgan, do you really mean to tell me that Bill Moyers does not have a slant ideologically and that it's not to the left?
But that's a great illustration.
I'm sure Dorgan's being honest about he doesn't think NPR is liberal.
He doesn't think CBS, NBC, CNN, he doesn't think they're liberal either.
They're just what is.
Here's Carl in Redding, California.
Hi, Carl.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello, Rush.
It's a real shame that you can't take what you, you know, what you dish out all the time.
If there's ever a hate monger in this whole deal, it's you.
What do you mean can't take what I want?
Whoa, What do you mean can't take what I dish out?
Me, an idiot.
Every senator or every Democrat senator or congressman you talk about, you give them funny names.
You know, sir, you're like a lot of people on the left.
You think I get up here every day and go through the news and try to figure out who I can attack.
And that's not what happens.
I was minding my own business yesterday.
I wasn't bothering Senator Harkin.
All of a sudden, he goes to the floor of the U.S. Senate and starts uttering a bunch of drivel.
And then he misrepresents and takes totally out of context what I say.
So I'm taking the occasion here to respond to him, and I'm doing a little fun while at the same time hitting back.
I am defending myself, sir.
I am not attacking anybody.
But I can take it.
After 18 years, you don't think I can take it?
After 18 years of you people trying to get rid of me one way or another, and I'm still here, and you can't even get your lowly little radio network an audience.
You think I can't take it?
No, actually, you can take it.
And you're actually going to take over.
See, because your kind of talk just permeates everything now.
Well, who's making that decision?
Nobody's forcing anybody to listen to it.
They're making the choice of their own free will, which must mean the audience is idiots.
Well, I listen all the time.
I think you're the funniest guy on radio.
I wouldn't replace you with anybody.
You are hilarious.
Now I'm getting confused.
No, no, no.
See, I go to the Don Corleone school of keep your friends close and your enemies close.
Oh, I see.
But you're also worried that I'm going to take over everything.
Oh, absolutely.
and you'll put guys like me in jail.
You're...
You know, I mean, all you have to do...
Put guys like you in jail?
Sir, another thing you've got 180 degrees backwards.
If anybody's trying to put anybody in jail, it's you people trying to put me in jail.
Against them.
Yes, sir, Rebob, sir.
And Tom DeLay in jail.
And you want Bush in jail.
And you want Libby in jail.
And absolutely.
You don't want you in jail either.
I pray for you, gentlemen.
But I'll tell you, Rush, you've got to, you know, at one point in time, do you believe that we could get along?
I mean, as conservatives and liberals, do you ever believe we're going to get along with the kind of talk that you have?
Yes.
I've proven that can happen.
You wouldn't believe a number of liberals that love me.
Oh, I'm sure you're a very personal level of a doctor.
Sir, sir, I'm not trying to...
You're just a little twisted in your politics.
I am not trying to alienate people here.
I...
I'm not trying to create enemies.
I'm trying to become, I'm trying to, as I've told you, I'm not retiring until every American agrees with me.
And you're getting close because you're conflicted.
You're afraid I'm going to take over, and yet you are going to help me do that by listening every day because I'm hilarious.
Hello?
I mean, you seem to be so panicked by liberals.
You hate what Tom Harkin is doing.
You hate when he says, no, you don't clean your toilet.
No, sir.
And you finally pay the person that does minimum wage.
Carl, Carl, listen to me.
I'm honored.
Do you understand?
Do you understand what an honor it is to be a kid from Missouri, from the southeast swamps of Missouri, to be the subject of floor debate for a day and a half on the United States Senate?
I'm not panicked by what Tom Harkin's doing, and I don't even, I don't hate Tom Harkin.
I don't hate anybody.
You are the Ellsworth Tewy of our generation.
You are the what? Ellsworth.
Have you ever read Han Rand?
I still, I can't understand what this guy is saying.
Have you ever read Ann Rand?
I'm the Ann.
Oh, Ayn Rand.
I'm the Ayn Rand of our generation.
Yes.
Ayn Rand.
And you are her character, Ellsworth Toohey.
He didn't have it.
I fit whatever hole they want to plug me into.
I'm either going to put them all in jail, I'm going to control a country, or I'm Ayn Rand now, or whatever.
I'm the character, Ellsworth Toohey.
Is that what he said?
Well, have a great day, Rush.
Carl, you have made it that way.
I want to thank you so much.
I love getting calls like this.
I just sent Tom Harkin a gift.
I just sent him a Club Getmo t-shirt, Club Getmo Soap on a Rope, Club Getmo staff t-shirt, or Club Getmo golf shirt.
I have no animus for Tom Harkin.
What you are hearing, sir, and you've got to remember the context.
I get up every day and I see the people and the institutions that I treasure and cherish being attacked.
And I defend them.
And one of the ways I defend is to go after the credibility of those doing the attacking.
If Senator Harkin wants to lie about having been in Vietnam when he was in Japan, let him go ahead, but I'm going to point it out.
If Senator Harkin wants to take my quotes about Abu Grab out of context, let him go ahead.
I will put them in context.
If Senator Harkin wants to try to bully the Armed Forces Radio Network into either carrying less of me or make them carry programs that nobody wants, let him go ahead.
But I'm going to respond.
I'm going to characterize what I think he's doing.
Now, some people on the left genuinely make me mad.
More often than not, it's people in the media.
And what you heard, in which I describe media members as idiots, is following this guy, Jimmy Massey's stories about all the abuse he saw in Baghdad and Iraq as a member of the Marines.
St. Louis Post Dispatch with a story today admitting that every story Jimmy Massey told was a lie.
We now know that Jimmy Massey was part of the Cindy Sheehan anti-war movement.
He's a liar through and through.
And he says somebody told him to tell all this.
Well, the press ran these stories, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story today is all about how can this happen?
How come the press didn't even check these stories out?
The headline, how could these stories have appeared in the press?
It's a laugh.
How could they appear in the press?
They wanted them to appear.
The press wanted to believe Jimmy's story.
They didn't want to check it out, find out it wasn't true.
What the news is these days is what the press wants to happen rather than what is happening.
And yeah, that makes me mad.
They have a constitutional role in this country.
The only business that's so designated by the founding fathers.
And they're abusing it to the max.
And it makes me livid.
I do not retract that at all.
We'll be back in just a second.
Are they still debating it?
They came back.
They're still debating it even now.
The channel up there wants C-SPAN 2.
Oh my God, he still is.
He's got charts and graphs now that he's still talking about.
Senator Harkin is.
The political content of AFRTS radio programming.
Okay, let's jip a little bit of it.
Let's just do it.
Hey just yielded the floor.
Never mind.
Let's see.
It's over with.
We got in there too late.
But it's probably more of the same.
Let's a little James Inhoff here.
Here's two.
And on his own time, if the senator from Iowa knows of any time it has not been adhered to, I'd be glad to listen.
Secondly, if this criteria of having to be syndicated, number one, and number two, at least a 1 million listeners, which has been the policy all along, if he questions that this should be the policy or believes it should be in the future, I would be glad to change my amendment just to say that it should be based on those two criteria.
Bring Inhoff down a minute.
Here's what's happening.
The AFRTS has a rule that if we're going to put programming up there, it's got to be national programming.
You've got to have at least a million listeners.
Folks, that doesn't get close to national programming.
But even so, Harkin wants to change that.
Now, why?
It's because the libs he wants to put up there don't reach the threshold.
And Inhoff's saying, ah, if you want to change that, we can talk about that.
Let's go back to Inhoff now.
Others might have different interpretations.
But in my interpretation, most of them are conservative.
But when the time came when Franken and Ed Schultz reached the 1 million, all of a sudden they were programmed.
They were on the program.
It just further demonstrates that it's something that has worked in the state.
That's right.
Take him down.
Take a minute.
I know what he's talking about now, and these guys are long-winded.
What he's saying is that some liberals have reached that 1 million threshold, but the stations, there are 33 AFRTS stations that are not carrying them.
They don't want them.
They're not carrying it.
So Harkin's upset, even though they're offered, these stations aren't carrying them.
So what this is all about is mandating that some of this other programming be carried, even though it's not wanted by the people who run the radio stations of the Armed Forces Radio Network that make this programming available.
They do get that.
You wouldn't believe how much programming there is to choose from.
It's more than just a 24-hour day.
There's cooking programs.
There's animal programs, pet programs, all kinds of stuff, because not everybody's active duty or military combat, rather, and some of them are stationed around the world where there are no combat zones.
There's all kinds of programming up there, and the stations cannot possibly carry all that's offered.
It makes it even more incredible that of the programs that are desired, the number two most requested change in Armed Forces radio is for all three hours of this program, and none of the libs are being requested in a sufficient number to rate in the top ten.
So Harkin's trying to change the rules to force some of this stuff to be listened on the basis of balance.
Let's go to Germany.
Augie is a soldier in Germany on the phone.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You stole my thunder earlier.
We get one hour of Rush Limbaugh here.
In the meantime, I have to listen to hours of NPR.
I have to sit through the nauseating voice of George Stephanopoulos.
And when I come home in the evenings, I have to listen to you, Sean Hannity, and other conservatives on the internet.
I was just listening to you on the internet.
It's 8.30 in the evening here.
And that's when I have to get my conservative radio.
Because NPR, AFRTS is only feeding us one hour of you.
True, and it's the first hour, so none of today's show will be heard on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
But you've heard it on my website and over the Internet, so you will be able to spread the word to people about what Harkin's doing.
And by the way, all of this will be on the website for other people in the Armed Forces as we update it tonight, and they'll be able to read the transcript of the show today and listen to the sound bites of Senator Harkin and my reaction to them.
Hey, Rush, the bottom line is we want more conservative talk show.
Even if it's, you know, if it's all three hours of you, great.
But we want more, not less.
I would say that the reason why if we left this up to a vote, a military vote, we'd get more.
Because I'd say at least 70% of the military votes conservative.
And that's why the Democrats will never have to let it go to a vote.
Exactly.
Well, that's why they tried to disenfranchise in the Florida 2000 recount absentee military votes.
They knew those votes would be for Bush.
Well, the bottom line is, Rush, what Harkin is saying is absolutely outrageous.
We want more conservative talk show hosts, less NPR.
We're nauseated by it.
It's anti-military, and we're tired of it.
Well, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Guts, you've got guts calling and saying this, and we appreciate it.
We honor your service.
Thank you so much.
That's Augie in Germany.
Here's Gary in Roanoke, Indiana.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, thanks, Rush.
I just want to let you know, I was in the service in the Air Force from 94 to 98 and stationed in Okinawa, Japan, and we relied on you for the voice of sanity for our one hour that we got in our missile shop there in Okinawa and then in Kuwait when we were stationed over there when President Clinton decided to shoot the missiles off into Pakistan and such.
Don't forget Baghdad.
And Baghdad.
On a Saturday night killing a janitor.
You don't have to tell me I was standing in the chow hall when he brought his face on the TV and announced what he was doing.
We watched him go overhead.
So we all kind of wondered when we'd come home and when it would be done.
Obviously, he didn't help us much.
Well, I appreciate that, Gary.
Thank you very much.
This is warming my heart, and it's humbling me at the same time.
It always has.
This is Gail in Landrum, South Carolina.
You're next.
Welcome.
Oh, hi, Rush.
I'm just so tickled to speak to you.
You're my hero.
Thank you.
I want to say thank you.
You have changed my life.
I've listened to you for about a year and a half now.
I never cared about politics till I heard you.
And you've just changed my life, and I want to say thanks.
Well, I appreciate that.
You've made me aware of so many things that I had no idea about.
See, this is why this is how we're taking over the country, folks.
This is why the liberals are getting afraid.
People who never cared about this stuff now find it interesting.
And a dumbed-down population is a population the liberals can control.
You know what, Rush?
I've become a new junkie since I discovered you.
Hang on, just hang on.
Gail, hang on.
Bring Harkin up.
He's talking about my homoeroticism comment.
Nine.
To say, no, what happened at Abu Ghreb does not represent good old American pornography that Rush Limbaugh says.
Mention the Madonna line.
Come on, mention it.
Objects to Howard Stern.
Fine.
I think a lot of people object to the obscenities.
He just got through criticizing me for so-called obscenity.
Now he's wanting Stern on the network now.
What we're talking about here is not taking somebody out there.
We're just talking about ideas and discussion and debate.
It seems to me that what we want are more ideas and more discussion and more debate.
Right.
I think our debate here is pretty darn good, as a matter of fact.
Well, why don't they have that on Armed Forces Radio?
I keep saying Armed Forces.
That's because you're my age.
American Forces Radio rather than just this one-sided type of thing.
It's neat ones.
Okay, that's enough.
That's it.
Because grab audio soundbite number three.
He's repeating what he said yesterday.
For those of you who just tuned in, it's better to play the whole bite because he's essentially just did he just quote me as saying right before.
Oh, oh, he's I did he say it while we were up and I just missed it before okay before we jipped Harkin, he actually said, he quoted me as saying what is good for al-Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party.
And he's livid about that.
You know, this is good stuff.
They're finally being exposed to this.
They don't listen to this program, and it's good that they're hearing all this, but he's taking it all out of context and presenting it all out of context, which is fine.
I don't care.
I just wish he'd quote me accurately about Madonna because that's the only left out.
Here's the bite.
You heard him just a moment ago referring to my comparing Abu Ghraib to pornography and so forth.
This is what he said.
Here's what Rush Limbaugh had to say about Abu Gharib.
He called it a fraternity prank.
He dubbed the humiliation of inmates a brilliant maneuver, no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation at Yale.
He described the images of torture as, again, a quote from Rush Limbaugh.
Pictures of homoeroticism that look like standard good old American pornography.
That's Rush Limbaugh talking to our troops 100% of the time.
Stop the tape, all right?
See, what I'm doing is poking fun at liberals who find no problem with this kind of picture being shown to kids in this country.
They are perfectly fine with no limits on the internet when it comes to pornography or magazines and pornography, and whether it's homoerotic or not.
In fact, the more homoerotic it is, the more enlightened we all are.
The less judgmental we all are.
We're all different, but we're all the same.
We're all human beings, common humanity.
And so for people who have no objection to pornography in this country, I simply make the comparison by saying, hey, it's just a little homoeroticism in these Abu Ghrab pictures.
They don't mind it here.
Now they mind it.
Yeah, they get mad when our enemies are victims of this kind of pornography, when our enemies are, but when American women and children are victimized by pornography, they never say a word.
ACLU steps up and says, you can't deny this freedom of speech and so forth.
Let's move on to cut four.
This is, well, no, let's finish cut three because he stays on the subject.
He said of the pictures at Abu Gharib, and again, this is a quote from Rush Limbaugh, if you take these pictures and bring them back and have them taken in an American city and put on an American website, they might win a video award from the pornography industry.
I ask, does this represent the views and attitudes of the average American citizen?
No, sir.
It represents the average views of American liberals.
I was not advocating this be done.
What I was suggesting that your opposition to this is phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll.
You are simply upset.
You're trying to take advantage of every opportunity you can to get rid of George W. Bush and defeat any Republican you can in the next election, and you're taking military matters and our troops and trying to demoralize them in your quest.
He clearly does not understand.
Of course the average American does not like pornography.
That was my whole point.
But you bring it back to this country and you won't find Senator Harkin or any of his buddies condemning it.
But they will condemn it if it happens to our enemies in a prison, people who want to blow this country up.
Here now is the final cut.
And he said apparently, still talking about the same stuff, this is all from yesterday.
And rather than jip this and have to spend 30 minutes getting it all, we've got it confined from yesterday or condensed.
And this is the last bite.
Vice President Cheney is fighting the McCain Amendment.
Well, maybe Vice President Cheney and Rush Limbaugh feel that way, but by gosh, I don't think too many other Americans do.
That's why we had a 90 to 9 vote here.
And yet, what do our Armed Forces personnel hear when they tune in the radio?
They hear Rush Limbaugh telling them, oh, it's a prank.
A brilliant maneuver.
Good old American pornography.
That's what they're hearing.
And so what are our troops to think?
What are they to think?
Are they to think, well, that's Rush Limbaugh, and that's what we hear, so therefore that must represent what the American people back home feel about this.
That maybe it wasn't so bad after all.
That's why we need some opposing views on our part.
In this bite, Senator Harkin reveals just how stupid he thinks the armed forces are.
How idiotic and dumbed down, dim-bulbed the members of the military are to not understand it as he doesn't understand it.
Brilliant, good old American pornography, as though I'm supporting American pornography.
At any rate.
Okay, they're voting on it now, so we'll get the tally if they finish before the program's over.
But the point here is, ladies and gentlemen, of all of the hours on this program that I have spoken in unabashed support, that I have expressed total admiration and love for members of the U.S. military, of all the hours over the 17 plus years of this program, this is all Senator Harkin can go get to make his case.
And again, the truly offensive thing is they left out my Madonna line.
As I said, if you look at these Abu Grab pictures, it's no different than what you see if you watch MTV in an average Madonna video.
That offends me.
He's going to quote me and mention what I said.
Say it all, Senator.
Back after this.
Let's go to Queens.
Charlie, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey.
How's it going?
Good, sir.
Took me 15 months to get through to you.
I love your show.
I disagree with what that guy called you, trying to call your character.
You know, you make me laugh.
I drive all day in the airport.
You changed my vote when I was going to vote for Kerry.
And I think you're a brilliant mind.
So you must intimidate them if they're on the floor talking about you.
Oh, there's no question.
It's a high honor here.
I don't mean to be being a dead horse here, but I'm just telling you, my dad would not believe this.
I mean, I'm sitting here saying they say they're too busy to have hearings on the next Supreme Court nominee.
They spent a day and a half on me and my radio program.
You know, they are clearly Harkin is illustrating his fears, he's showing his fears.
These people operating through the prism of fear through practically everything they're doing lately.
Appreciate that.
Randy in Dubuque, Iowa, you're next, sir.
This is Tom Harkin State.
Welcome and welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, Mega Ditto is here from Flyover Country.
You bet.
Hey, I've been listening to you for about 15 years, and this is awesome.
I finally get to talk to the greatest patriot of our time.
Thanks a lot for everything you do, Rush.
You're welcome, sir.
Thank you very much.
I just had a suggestion.
You know, I was deployed with the National Guard in 2003 there in Egypt.
I didn't get to go to Iraq.
Our guys are getting redeployed now for Iraq.
And the thing that kept us going was being able to listen to you, go to Rush 24-7, and I'll tell you what, I think what you ought to do is maybe start an Adopt a Soldier program and let people come in and buy a year's subscription and send it overseas to a soldier that would like to listen to you.
You know that is.
That is an interesting idea.
We're going to adopt a soldier program, discount the price a little bit, and make subscriptions to my website available to all of these people over there, given whatever might happen here with Armed Forces Radio.
That is an excellent idea out there, Randy.
I appreciate that.
Must take a brief time out.
We'll consider that in a break and rejoin you momentarily.
Well, they're voting in the Senate.
Looks like they're not going to be finished before the program ends.
We do know that Senator Maria Cantwell voted against me.
Senator Kennedy voted against me.
You got to hope that there are enough Republicans in town that they can win this and get 51 at least.
Snerdley said, you know, it'd be interesting to see how Susan Collins and Olympia Snow and Link Chafee vote.
And then he said, but the real one will be McCain.
See how McCain votes on this.
That will be interesting to see.
They're just voting on the amendment, right?
On the radio ombudsman amendment, not on the final spending on the, I think that's what's going on.
The whole defense budget will go from $421 to $490-something is what I just saw on the screen.
And there's a bunch of amendments.
I think they're voting on this amendment now, not the whole authorization.
So we will not be able to give you the final tally today, folks.
We'll have it for you tomorrow and on the website tonight when we learn what it is.
It's been a sheer thrill.
It's been a joy being with you today, and it will be tomorrow, too, because we'll be back and we will do it all over again then.
Thanks so much for being with us today, and we will look forward to tomorrow.
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