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December 2, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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It's a day of mourning for the liberals.
They may not have the sense enough to know it, but deep in their hearts they're aware of it.
The U.S. economy generated 215,000 new jobs in November with widespread job gains, even during the uh hurricane Katrina and Wilma aftermaths.
This uh also included strong growth in construction as cleanup efforts in hurricane hit areas gathered pace, strong job gains in food services as well.
The unemployment rate unchanged at 5%.
Total unemployment is 142.6 million, and the civilian labor force, 150.2 million, were little in change little changed in uh November.
The employment population ratio also was little changed over the month.
62.8%, the labor force participation rate held at uh 66.1%.
So we have a hundred and fifty million people.
It's a hundred and fifty million workers, employees who will not know the slavery of welfare because our economy continues to do well.
The president went out to the Rose Garden today, suggested this earlier in the week.
Go out just like you did with the Iraq speech to Annapolis and do a little uh do a little uh pat of yourself on the back on uh on the economy.
So the president did that.
Great economic news.
The media doesn't want to report.
Our economy added 215,000 jobs for the month of November.
We've added nearly four and a half million new jobs in the last two and a half years.
Third quarter growth of this year was 4.3%.
That's in spite of the fact that we had uh hurricanes and high gasoline prices.
The unemployment rate is five percent, and that's lower than the average for the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
We have every reason to be optimistic about our economic future.
The foundation for growth is strong.
It's based upon low taxes and restrained government spending, legal reform, incentives for saving and investment.
Our ingenuity and know-how is vibrant.
This economy is in good shape.
Yeah, it is.
There's no and it has been for the uh for the longest time.
But let's go back, shall we?
Let's go back and let's see how wrong the Democrats were just a year ago during the presidential campaign.
Remember, they were saying it was the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.
We have the worst economy that we've had since Herbert Hoover was president.
People are hurting.
Three million Americans have lost their jobs.
It's the worst growth record in our country since World War II.
All right, these people were dead wrong then.
They have been wrong about most everything they have said for the last 15 or 20 years, and even beyond that.
They are wrong about Iraq.
They are cut-and-run quitters in Iraq.
They are defeatists, they are invested in it.
This guy Mertha, I've been thinking more and more about what he said about the Army being broken down and unable to deal with these carbons and so forth, and it just infuriates me.
It just infuriates me.
What are you looking at me this way for?
It just it just infuriates me.
He's up there going on and on and on about this, and he's he may as well be broadcasting this on uh on Al Jazeera.
They're gonna pick it up, talk about it.
Our troops hear it.
He's the biggest morale booster that uh that uh that the enemy has in Iraq.
So they were wrong in the economy, they were wrong on Iraq, they're wrong on uh taxes, they're wrong on national defense, they're wrong on the judiciary, they're wrong just about on everything.
And yet the media props them up, they prop themselves up, and it's amazing to watch.
Let's let's listen to some more audio.
Uh this is a montage back during the campaign.
These are the people that want us to trust them now on a rock.
Bush was right on the economy, they were wrong, he is right in Iraq too, and they will be proven wrong.
We've got Donna Brazil, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Gephart, uh, and Terry McCaulaff, all from recent months talking about the economy.
Tom Das will say to best.
The the best GDP is a JOB.
I say to the president, you have the worst record of job performance since Herbert Hoover.
Mr. President, where are the jobs?
Each month of Bush's presidency so far, the economy has lost an average of 73,000 jobs.
So you can't get a job.
It is not job creator.
What really matters most to middle class America, which is jobs.
The recovery remains not just jobless, but job loss.
You have the president's tax cutter, you can have a balanced budget and jobs, but you can't have both.
This president got a great big pitcher of lemonade, and he's busily turning it into a lemon economy.
Oh, I've been missing Gephardt so much.
I've been missing.
It's great to hear Little Dick's voice again as he as he pops back out from our archives.
And of course, that was Howard Dean, who has been now documented to be wrong with practically every syllable he utters.
You can have the president's tax cut, or you can have a balanced budget and jobs, but you can't have both.
Well, we've got both.
U.S. economy generated 215,000 new jobs in November, widespread job gains, the economy is just roaring and uh and and plugging right along.
Great piece today in the Wall Street Journal pouting pundits of pessimism.
During a quarter century of analyzing and forecasting the economy, this is by Brian Westbury, by the way.
I have never seen anything like this, and neither have we.
No matter what happens, no matter what data are presented, no matter which way markets move, a pall of pessimism hangs over the economy.
It's amazing.
Everything is negative.
When bond yields rise, it's considered bad for the housing market and the consumer.
But if bond yields fall and the yield curve narrows toward inversion, that's bad too because an inverted yield curve could signal a recession.
If housing data weaken, as they did on Monday when existing home sales fell, well, that's a sign of a bursting housing bubble.
If housing data strengthened as they did on Tuesday when new home sales rose, oh that's negative because the Fed may raise rates further.
If foreigners buy our bonds, we're not saving enough ourselves.
If foreigners don't buy our bonds, interest rates could rise.
If wages go up, inflation is coming.
If wages go down, the economy's in trouble.
This onslaught of negative thinking is clearly having an impact.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, when attacks on the economy were in full force, 36% of Americans thought we were in recession.
One year later, even though unemployment has fallen from five and a half to five percent, and real GDP has expanded by 3.7%.
The number who think a recession's underway has climbed to 43%.
It's a real conundrum.
It's true, bad things have happened.
Katrina wiped out a major city, and many people are still displaced.
GMs announced massive layoffs, underfunded pension plans are being handed off to the government.
Oil, gasoline, and natural gas prices have soared.
Despite it all, the U.S. economy continues to flourish.
Can we look at some of these examples that uh Mr. Westbury gives here?
It's true, bad things have happened.
Katrina wiped out a major city, and many people are still displaced.
Okay, that's a category.
GMs announced massive layoffs.
That's a category.
Underfunded pension plans are being handed off to the government.
That's a category.
And oil, gasoline, and natural gas prices have soared, even though they're coming down now despite it all.
The U.S. economy continues to flourish.
Well, go back and look at all of these categories.
It's understandable that if you live in New Orleans, uh other devastated parts of the country Where Hurricane Katrina hit, yeah, you're gonna be wiped out.
And if you saw the pictures, as we all did, and if you heard the the the ongoing media drumbeat that FEMA didn't care, nobody cared, no aid got there, all these people died, New Orleans is destroyed, it's never gonna be again, the Saints aren't coming back, a toxic way.
What would you think?
Item number two, GMs announced massive layoffs.
This is something that I've noted as I have studied the economy.
GM always announces massive layoffs.
GM's been announcing massive layoffs for I don't know how long.
But while people are doing well in their own lives, they see this news.
Oh, my neighbor must not be doing well.
The economy can't be doing all that well.
People don't judge it anymore on a personal basis.
If they're doing well, well, I don't know about my neighbor down the street.
It's a it's a recent phenomenon.
But of course, if you're if you're out of work, if you've lost your job, I mean, what are you gonna think?
You're gonna think the economy's rotten.
We had a call from Michigan not long ago.
Everybody's out of work and everybody's a well, that probably accurately describes the attitude attitude, even though it's not factual, underfunded pension plans being handed off to the government.
Airlines, GM can't handle the payments to people who don't work for them anymore.
In a lot of these circumstances, you have certain you have situations where people are in a dependent mode.
They are not providing for themselves.
They've either lost their jobs and can't and haven't found one yet, they're in New Orleans and they're and uh, of course, that's a bone of contention is to I got an email, by the way.
I forgot to tell you people this, but I got an email uh from somebody in New Orleans who said, Rush, I heard that guy Ray, who called you the other day.
Let me tell you the dirty little secret.
He this is what he said in the email.
He said, Yep, the jobs are being begged for down here.
The people that people would hire are begging people.
Even Burger King, he said, is offering signing bonuses.
But he said that yeah, signing bonuses at a fast food joint.
Now, he said the dirty little secret is that there is so much FEMA money down here, there is so much free housing, there's so much aid, that there's no incentive to go back to work because you've got plenty if you just sit around.
Now, I don't I just it's just one little anecdotal email I got.
Uh, but nevertheless, you're gonna have if you go through all these categories to describe, yeah, bad things have happened.
You have people who are not participating in the economy.
They're out of work, their city was destroyed, their pensions have now been handed off to the federal government.
If you have a pension, you're in a dependent mode.
Uh but if you look at the sectors of the economy where people are working, which is ninety-five percent of it, things are roaring.
Uh it is it is amazing what this economy is doing, considering we had 9-11, considering that we've had these hurricanes and natural disasters.
Uh, considering the gas prices, which are now really normalizing at a at a uh at a rapid rate.
So it remains a psychological thing, so much so that Mr. Westbury devotes a whole column to it here in the uh New York Times and comes to the conclusion, basically, that uh the pouting pundits of pessimism are responsible for this.
There's a there's a political axe to grind here, and of course the Democrats don't want you to think the economy is good.
Here's another example, and this is I'm not sure I even believe this, but if it's true, it is an it is a bit of evidence that would suggest the mainstream press has been uh successful again in trying to make the people of this country feel like absolute excrement.
And I think that's their job every day.
I get up and you watch the news, they want us to feel horrible.
They want to feel they want us to feel like the only difference between us and a bag of excrement is the bag.
Frankly, you know, I have the wherewithal to watch this stuff and withstand it.
But apparently, look at there's a Zogby poll out.
Now, this is just absurd.
Have you seen this?
Well, wait till you hear this.
Some 56% of U.S. consumers think Walmart is bad for America.
I kid you not, according to a Zogby International poll released yesterday by one of the retailers' most vocal critics.
The national poll conditioned by WakeUp Walmart.com, a union-funded group that has been pressuring Walmart to raise employee wages and benefits, surveyed 1,012 randomly chosen adults on their attitudes toward the world's biggest retailer, retailer.
Respondents were asked to choose which of two statements more closely fit their personal opinions.
The majority, 56%, pick this one.
I believe that Walmart is bad for America.
It may provide low prices, but these prices come with a high moral and economic cost for consumers.
Now I'm going to tell you, there that is absolute excrement itself.
That is be excrement.
I am you are not going to find the average American walking around saying that about Walmart.
Now you have this union group out there with their so-called random sample going out and posing that question.
This is a this is a dead end question.
Of course, you almost are morally compelled to say yes to that so that the interviewer doesn't think that you're a skunk in a scumbag.
And that's the way the question's set up.
Yes, I believe that Walmart's bad for America.
39% said Walmart is good for America.
It provides low prices and safe consumers' money every day.
Well, you know, people of this country have learned that if you say something like that, the press is going to think you're greedy and that you don't care.
It's it's asinine, but they're doing everything they can to portray the economy as in the tank, folks, and now even to the point touting a Zogby poll on how most people think Walmart's bad for America.
Come on.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout here.
We'll be back and continue.
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But uh, I want to continue on the uh on the soundbite roll here, because this next is just choice.
Talked about this yesterday, the uh media being all upset about the fact that the Pentagon reportedly buying space, buying stories, planting good news uh in the Iraqi media.
Uh and and of course, we can't have that.
Well, we can't have good news in the Iraqi media.
Well, who who who gave them the right to do that?
We can't go shaping and bending the news like that.
Media's got an idea the news out of Iraq's gonna be all bad.
The Pentagon says, hey, we're gonna look into it.
Now Congress, the Senate wants to investigate how this has all happened.
It's all they can do is investigate.
They don't have an agenda, they got nothing positive.
All they can do is demand investigations.
Let's go back to the Rose Garden, the president today speaking uh about the economy, final portion of his remarks.
Listen to what the first question is.
I'll continue to push for pro-growth economic policies, all aimed at making sure every American can realize the American dream.
Thank you very much.
What about the planting of paid propaganda in the Iraqi press, Mr. President?
What about the planting of paid propaganda in the Iraqi press, Mr. President?
All right, can we go back?
Does anybody remember the name Eason Jordan?
Remember Eason Jordan?
Eason Jordan was the Bureau chief.
Well, Bureau Chief is some executive position at CNN.
And they purposely did not report the bad news of Saddam Hussein because they wanted to keep their presence there.
They wanted to keep their bureau open.
And they were afraid that if they reported bad news, that Saddam would kick them out.
What was the point of staying if you weren't going to tell people the truth about what went on in Iraq?
Eason Jordan, on April 16, 2003, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the question, did the people who came to work for you, including the Iraqi nationals, know that it was dangerous work?
All the Iraqi people knew they lived in a tyrannical dictatorship that was ruled by terror.
I told a handful of stories in the New York Times.
There are hundreds of journalists who know similar stories that have said nothing.
And I don't know if they'll ever come forward now, given the grief that I've gotten for just telling some stories that were absolutely true.
And there were millions of Iraqi people who knew stories like this.
And I'm sure that they eventually will come forward as soon as they feel like they won't uh be punished for doing so.
But I think the outrage over the over truth telling is really misplaced and misguided, and it will discourage people from coming forward to tell stories that they could not tell until that regime was gone.
Yeah, but what good was your presence there if you were if you were burying those stories, if you were spiking them?
You had to hold on to your bureau, had to if why are you worried about your bureau if you know Saddam's gonna be gone someday, you can go back in anyway.
So here's a CNN executive who wrote a piece in the New York Times admitting all this, that he had to cover up bad news and not report it in order to keep the Bureau there.
And he's he's went on TV to say it was very virtuous.
And there were a lot of journalists that did the same thing.
Well, those journalists are absolutely worthless then.
They're worthless.
If they're not going to tell us the truth, this is why you end up having to plant good stories around because you can't count on the mainstream press, tell the whole story.
It's not what they report just, folks, it's also what they leave out.
And Mr. Jordan eventually got pressured into leaving CNN after another ill-fated admission that he made at this World Economic Forum in uh Im Davos, Switzerland, about which I will remind you when we return.
Stay with us.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Happy holidays, and welcome back to Open Line Friday.
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It's just like yesterday.
I don't know if if you if you even heard this, but there was supposedly video.
I was driving home last had a late, late, late day, yes.
I was driving home and I put on Fox News and a car radio.
And I'm listening to Shepard Smith talk about this video from Ramadi.
The Ramadi was overrun.
There was supposedly videotape that showed a terrorist the insurgents were in total control of Ramadi.
They were running around the streets, you know, beating people up and shooting people, and nobody there, no American presence to stop it.
AP ran the story.
It's not true.
It wasn't true.
And Shep alluded to the fact that they didn't trust the video at Fox, but he said, we're going to play it anyway.
We're not quite sure of the legitimacy of this.
But it wasn't true.
The news that we get in this country, we all know what it's bent and shaped to do.
It is it is designed to discourage, it's designed to deflate people's attitudes and opinions and optimism.
We know that the the this economic news is a classic example.
It's been nothing but good for two years.
Bam, it's the worst economy we've ever had.
The Democrats say it gets amplified.
Now you got Eason Jordan, who admitted in the New York Times that they that they did not report stories of the brutality of the Saddam regime, because it would have meant being kicked out of Baghdad.
And by a way, it was going to be very dangerous for their employees there if they did report that stuff.
So the point is it was it whatever we got out of there was worthless.
But that is missed, genuinely intellectually missed.
Mr. Jordan thinked that he did a heroic thing by saving his employees, but the news that he put out from over there was worthless and meaningless.
It wasn't long after they went over to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and started shooting from the hip while behind the microphone and saying, oh yeah, we know that the uh uh U.S. military is under orders to kill journalists.
And uh Barney Frank was there, he said, whoa, I need evidence of that.
If you're just gonna say I need evidence, then there wasn't any evidence.
And then he had then he resigned from CNN.
Now, these are the guys that consider themselves the paragons of virtue, and make no mistake.
The news is what they think you need to know.
It's not what happened that you need to know, it's what happened that they think you need to know.
And what they think you need to know is that Bush sucks, that Run Rumsfeld stinks, that Rice is nothing more than a step and fetch it slave, and that Colin Powell was the only hope this administration had, and that we gotta get rid of these people, and we got to put Democrats.
That's what they that whatever news orients through that template, that universal reality of theirs, then that's what they're gonna report.
For example.
For example, try the I saw this headline today, and all I could do was laugh.
This is just Vietnam War Intelligence deliberately skewed secret study says.
The National Security Agency has released hundreds of pages of long secret documents on the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which played a critical role in significantly expanding the American commitment to the Vietnam War.
The material posted on the Internet overnight on Wednesday included one of the largest collections of secret intercepted communications ever made available.
Based on the assertion that such an attack had occurred, Lyndon Johnson ordered airstrikes on North Vietnam and Congress passed a broad resolution authorizing military action.
The historian, Robert Hanyak, wrote the article in an internal publication.
It was classified top secret despite the fact it dealt with events in 1964.
Word of his findings leaked to historians outside the National Security Agency who requested the article under the Freedom of Information Act.
In his in his 2000 work, uh 2001 article, an elaborate piece of detective work, it says here, Mr. Hanyuk wrote that 90% of the intercepts of North Vietnamese communications relevant to the supposed August 4th, 1964 attack were omitted from the major agency documents going to policymakers.
The overwhelming body of reports, if used, would have told the story that no attack had happened, he wrote.
So a conscious effort ensued to demonstrate that an attack had occurred.
Basically 90% of the evidence was against the Gulf of Tonkin and was excluded.
Uh and of course they want to now draw similarity.
It's keeping this thought alive that Bush lied.
That Bush lied, and governments lie when they're in the LBJ.
Oh, but it was LBJ didn't lie.
LBJ got flummoxed too.
It was those evil spies back then.
It was the evil NSA guys back then.
They hoodwinked our great president LBJ and made him do something he wouldn't have known because they cooked up the intelligence they gave him.
But in this case, Bush lied.
Never mind that 99% of the world intelligence agencies and the UN and everybody else believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
The world knows they had weapons of mass destruction, and a lot of the world's not convinced that it still isn't somewhere.
The AP gets in on the act here, another war, another set of faulty intelligence findings behind it.
Forty years before the U.S. invaded Iraq, believing Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, it widened a war in Vietnam, apparently convinced the enemy had launched an unprovoked attack on two U.S. Navy destroyers.
So the AP is equating Vietnam to Iraq.
But the difference here is that the Vietnam intelligence was knowingly whitewashed on the Gulf of Tonkin.
It was knowingly whitewashed.
That did not happen in this case.
There have been three separate investigations that have concluded nobody whitewashed or jury rigged the intelligence.
This is nothing more than an attempt to uh drive home the point that Bush lied.
Now the reason this is coming back, and although it never went away, is because the Democrats are falling apart on Iraq.
They are literally falling apart.
They don't have a coherent position.
John Kerry is making the biggest ass of himself.
I thought I didn't think he had any room left to do it, but he's doing it.
He had an utterly incoherent statement coming out of the White House yesterday.
You probably have heard the video tape of it, the audio tape of it by now.
He basically contradicted himself inside of 15 seconds.
He talked about one thing he suggested in a speech he gave back in October and said that would be unrealistic, that we need to stay there a little longer.
Everybody in Democratic Party's laughing at Hillary Clinton.
Hollywood's laughing at Hillary Clinton.
She's trying to triangulate everything.
She won't come out and take a stand about what she really, really believes.
You've got John Mertha and the Democrats basically portraying themselves as quitters, cut and run.
Our military can't hack it.
Our military is a bunch of wusses.
Our military is broken down.
Our military is living hand to mouth.
Our military can't deal with car bombers and assassins.
That's the message of the Democratic Party.
Here comes the press to buckle them back up.
Hey, guess what?
Guess what we just learned.
Skewed faulty intelligence, Gulf of Tonkin.
See, just like happened here.
The effort to equate Vietnam and Iraq, because that's the glory days, and I encourage them to keep doing it.
Every attempt the Democrats have and make to go back and relive the Vietnam days, I am happy for them.
If they think those are their glory days, then let's encourage them.
As I've been telling you all week, McGovern was their candidate in 72.
He lost in a landslide, sounding just like the leading voices of the Democratic Party today, Nancy Pelosi, you name it.
They're all over the place.
They can't agree on anything.
They go out and say one thing when it comes time to vote it, they won't vote it.
Because they don't have the guts.
That's why they can't be trusted to lead the country during times like this.
But yet they think this is somehow going to cause the people to hate Bush so much and hate Republicans so much and not trust them so much that they're going to throw the Democrats back in power.
The problem is the country hears what the Democrats are saying in this.
Listen, we put together a little tune here.
Paul Shanklin put this together overnight, and it kind of illustrates where the Democrats are.
That's it.
Paul Shanklinist Ted Kennedy with a Democrat.
Amen, chorus.
We do run.
By the way, grab John Kerry, too.
While we're on this, here's John Kerry.
We aired this yesterday, and this is this is the best way to illustrate what any Democrat is saying.
I don't care if it's Mertha, if it's if it's Kerry, if it's Pelosi, this is what they essentially are saying.
I love both of those.
By the way, uh, folks.
Back to the CNN and Easton Jorson Jordan business.
I am reminded the press didn't just suppress the bad news in Iraq.
They actually reported Saddam's propaganda.
They supported uh reported his propaganda and his lies.
They just didn't bury things.
Here's an example.
Nick Robertson, CNN, in Baghdad, American morning, October 14, 2002.
Iraqi reverence for President Saddam Hussein is rarely more expressive than when their leader calls a referendum.
To paint for the president for this special day is important, explains artist Abdul.
It shows our love to him.
Uh amid even bolder demonstrations of devotion to the Iraqi leader, students at Baghdad's fine arts school, too young to vote, and the last referendum in 1995 appear eager to vote now.
Now that is pure propaganda.
That is CNN running pure propaganda for Saddam Hussein.
Now they have the guts, the audacity to be upset over what is the planning of true good news in Iraq.
The crime is it has to be planted.
The crime is that accurate good news has to be planted.
Here's another one.
This was uh Reuters reporter Nadim Ludki.
October 15, 2002, dispatch from Baghdad.
Defiant Iraqis lined up to show their support for Saddam Hussein Tuesday as Western powers were deadlocked over how to deal with the veteran leader they say threatens world security.
Iraqis were in a festive mood as they turned out to vote in a presidential referendum.
Saddam is sure to win.
Yeah, got 99% of the vote.
The one percent that didn't vote are in a probably prison and dead by now.
Uh it's just it's talk about propaganda.
We get propaganda in the news every day.
Propaganda from the Democratic Party.
The New York Times is the Democratic National Committee Times, AP, UPI, well, not UPI, but AP, the Washington Post, all these all these networks.
They're simply slaves to the Democratic Party.
They're simply a giant collective house organ.
And the news in Iraq is propaganda.
The news on the economy, propaganda.
It's not factual.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
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One of my all-time favorite disco tunes here.
Uh dropped a bomb on me.
I think it's a Daz band.
Welcome back.
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You know, liberals kept demanding and keep demanding an exit strategy.
The true exit strategy that they should be looking for is their own.
They need an exit strategy from their own quagmire.
You got Pelosi changing what she says from week to week.
Then you have Democrats distancing themselves from what Pelosi's saying.
Then Mertha comes out and says something outrageous, and Pelosi, first of all, well, I'm not sure about that.
Even though she and him, she and he put together that stunt themselves, then she does agree with him, then she doesn't agree with him.
Carey comes out, contradicts himself inside of four sentences yesterday outside the White House, and some Democrats, like Stenny Hoyer said, This is crazy.
We can't pull out now.
The Democrats are the ones in a quagmire here, folks, and it's it's it is delightful to see.
I'm happy to point it out to you.
Janice in Smithfield, Utah.
You're up first today on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Uh Merry Christmas, diddles to your rush.
Thank you.
Um, I don't see what the big deal is with this planting good news and all that.
Isn't this isn't it basically the same thing that we did with Radio Free Europe and Voice of America or whatever that we're still doing?
I mean, it's the same kind of principle, isn't it?
Yeah, except that we are paying people.
We are paying people.
We're writing stories for journalists and we're paying them to plant the stories and so forth.
It's well, doesn't the government pay for radio free Europe and that kind of thing?
Well, the taxpayers paid for it, yes.
No, your point is well taken.
I don't think I I think this is another example of a huge disconnect between the mainstream press and the American people.
American people know we're at war.
They want to win.
The American people are sick and tired of all the bad news coming out of here when they learn that the bad news isn't accurate.
And it's uh it it's really frustrating.
Look at folks, the die was cast when members of the press refused to put on an American flag lapel after 9-11 because it would cloud their objectivity and perhaps portray to some viewers that wearing the American flag lapel would indicate they had chosen sides.
What more can you say after after something like that?
It's just is this it's it's it's more of the implosion that is going on uh on the left in the left in this country, and it's gonna keep happening.
I gotta run because of time constraints.
We will be right back.
Stay with us.
Okay, I had to get this stuff off my chest, folks.
I know it's open line Freddy.
I'll make it up to you because I'll get into your phone calls in the next day.
I gotta tell you, uh, we've had a full board, and uh we only had one call that wanted to talk about all this stuff.
So I know people need a break from this now and then, but there are ongoing daily developments that you need to be kept abreast of, and some of this stuff is just outrageous.
Uh, Chuck Wrangle and Mertha now accusing the uh Pentagon of paying people to re-enlist.
Wrangle said, No, we're paying them 30 grand.
Mirtha's up to 150 grand.
We're paying people now to re-enlist.
Uh they're quitters, they want to cut and run.
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