Dec. 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Hey, did you did you people know that uh that that Saddam, I'm sorry, uh Osama bin Laden supports the Kyoto theory, a protocol. | |
| I wonder the Libs love the guy. | |
| He's an environmentalist in addition to everything else. | |
| Greetings, welcome back. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
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| All right, um, try try this. | |
| We'll get the Saddam business here in just a second, but they got to mention this to you. | |
| The United Nations top elections official, Karina Perella, uh Perelli, was fired yesterday after complaints that she sexually harassed subordinates and presided over a department that permitted such abuses to flourish. | |
| Perelli, 48, notified by letter Tuesday morning, she was summarily dismissed without pay for engaging in sexual and professional harassment of her staff. | |
| UN officials changed the lock in her office, froze her email account, and barred her from entering UN headquarters at Turtle Bay without permission and without an escort. | |
| United Nations has never publicly detailed charges against the Uruguayan elections expert, but Stephanie Jujarik. | |
| The UN's chief spokesman said they include allegations of harassment, including sexual harassment and abuse of authority. | |
| He said that it's Stefane, sorry, not Stephanie. | |
| He said the United Nations feels very strongly about their veracity. | |
| Otherwise, we wouldn't have gone ahead with the case. | |
| So there's a picture of this babe, Karina Perelli, accompanying this story that's in the Washington Post. | |
| I will refrain from comment. | |
| But ladies and gentlemen, isn't it interesting here? | |
| The United Nations cites misconduct in firing its elections chief. | |
| They don't get rid of a single person. | |
| Well, one person. | |
| They got rid of one person in the oil for food program, right? | |
| But they didn't get rid of anybody who bribed or was bribed by Saddam. | |
| They didn't get rid of one person that took food out of the mouths of children. | |
| Well, they get rid of people for sexual harassment. | |
| Because they are politically correct and they have they are div they have diversity at the United Nations, and they're not going to offend people. | |
| And they're not going to allow their employees to offend people. | |
| Allow them to steal. | |
| Allow them to bribe and take bribes, but they're not going to allow them to engage in sexual harassment. | |
| The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven of his former Bath Party regime colleagues has resumed without Saddam in the courtroom. | |
| He is complaining about the conditions in which he's being held and how the trial is being conducted. | |
| Yesterday he told the judges to go to hell, vowing that he would not return to an unjust court. | |
| Now, when your basic argument is that Bush lied about the war, which is the Democrats' mantra today, the first thing you do is create a political stunt to distract the public and embarrass your enemies. | |
| Senator Harry Reid was the first to do that. | |
| Saddam Hussein, who has looked to American Democrats for guidance on how to avoid responsibility for his own misdeeds, has now followed suit. | |
| Senator Reed temporarily shut down the Senate from regular business, all for a few headlines and to embarrass the Republicans. | |
| And of course, it was all necessary to bring attention to the fact that Bush lied his way into an unjust war. | |
| Now Saddam is pulling a Harry Reed stunt and boycotting his trial, shutting down his trial, basically calling it an unjust trial. | |
| As I mentioned yesterday, there is no way that the word unjust exists. | |
| In Saddam Hussein's normal everyday lexicon or vocabulary, there's no such word. | |
| He doesn't use it. | |
| This is a Ramsey Clark word. | |
| This is a liberal word. | |
| The war is unjust. | |
| This is unjust. | |
| That's unjust. | |
| It's right out of their playbook. | |
| It's what they believe. | |
| And Saddam, I've I told you this is going to be happening. | |
| I predicted to you that if Saddam really wanted to get off on this trial, that he would emulate the Democrat strategy against Bush. | |
| That what he would say is that Bush has ruined his reputation. | |
| He never poisoned anybody, and he never murdered anybody. | |
| But now the whole world thinks he did because Bush lied. | |
| We all know that Bush lied because that's the position of the Democrats in the Senate and House in the United States of America. | |
| If I were Saddam, I would continue to cite those people. | |
| I would say the Democrats in the United States are leading the way. | |
| They know that the leadership of their own country lied to the American people. | |
| I deserve my country back. | |
| I deserve to be reinstalled. | |
| I deserve to be made president of Iraq again, and the Americans need to get out. | |
| This country was in far better shape when I was running it, and the Democrats are saying that in America, and they're right. | |
| Lo and behold, this little prediction of mine is beginning to show that there are elements of it that Ramsey Clark is beginning to incorporate. | |
| Let's go back to November 7, 2005, just so you can hear me saying this on my program. | |
| If I were Saddam Hussein, I would say, I have no hope for a fair trial. | |
| Bush is a liar. | |
| He lied about the reasons for and the need to invade my country, and I want it back. | |
| He hires liars. | |
| It is George Bush who should be impeached and convicted in his own country and then tried at The Hague in my place. | |
| Not me. | |
| Let's now go to Ramsey Clark, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room yesterday on CNN. | |
| Wolf, do you believe Saddam Hussein should be on trial at all? | |
| He should not be on trial in illegal court. | |
| He should not be on trial in a court that's not absolutely independent, where the judges are impartial, and where the procedure is fair and due process is accorded. | |
| And under those circumstances, I think a trial would be appropriate. | |
| Could be appropriate for a lot of other national leaders. | |
| I personally believe the attack on Iraq was a war of aggression. | |
| A war of aggression was found by the Nuremberg judgment to be the supreme international crime. | |
| It's clearly a violation of Article 2.4 of the UN Charter. | |
| Trying to keep peace. | |
| You can't threaten or assault the territorial integrity of another country or invade it. | |
| You see where this is going. | |
| My advice is being taken. | |
| Ramsay Clark listening to this. | |
| Ramsey Clark taking his uh his cues actually from the Democrats. | |
| He's simply saying in legal ease what the Democrats have been saying. | |
| The war is unjust, the war was illegal. | |
| This is not a fair trial, it's not a fair court. | |
| Saddam can't get a fair trial. | |
| He ought not be on trial. | |
| What shouldn't be happening? | |
| Ramsey Clark then continued, because Wolfe said, Well, do you believe President Bush should be charged with war crimes and should be on trial? | |
| Well, no, what a question. | |
| What a question! | |
| Can you believe the question? | |
| Do you think that Bush should be charged with war crimes and should be put on trial? | |
| And that's exactly what I also said that they would do in the Saddam defense, because Bush is the real criminal. | |
| Bush lied. | |
| Here's Ramsey Clark's answer. | |
| There's absolutely no doubt that a war of aggression is a high crime and misdemeanor. | |
| I don't see how any informed person could ever believe the Iraq Iraq was a threat. | |
| After ten years of sanctions, it killed a million and a half of their people after the Gulf War. | |
| After we claimed to have annihilated 80% of their military material, and the inspection, the UN inspection claimed to get uh 90% of the rest, needs to 2% of what they had in the beginning. | |
| The cutting here was brought to its knees. | |
| It was a helpless country when we struck it with shock and awe, and shock and awe is a synonym for terrorism. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Clark. | |
| I kid you not, folks. | |
| I'm t do I know these people? | |
| Do I know what they're gonna do? | |
| Ramsey Clark is picking up the exact line of rhetoric that the Democrats in this country, the American left saying Bush is the war criminal, Bush violated the law, Iraq didn't have a chance, Saddam wasn't that bad. | |
| He had been totally disarmed. | |
| We can't have any legal war conducted here. | |
| As such, Bush ought to be on trial. | |
| Because this is a high crime and disdemeanor, what Bush has done. | |
| This is an impeachable offense, the war on Iraq. | |
| Saddam Hussein is conducting his defense according to the rhetoric and the line used by the American Democrats. | |
| Saddam and Democrats partners together in world peace. | |
| Back after this, stay with us. | |
| Speaking of um speaking of the Saddam trial, ladies and gentlemen, where is this story? | |
| Story of the Washington Times today from Iraq. | |
| The question on people's minds in Iraq's largest Kurdish city as they watch the Saddam trial on TV is not whether He should be executed, but how and when. | |
| Some argue the ousted leader should be convicted and put to death immediately after the trial, which is being broadcast live on Kurdish TV. | |
| Others say don't rush it. | |
| Let it take years. | |
| Let it be an example of Middle East leaders what can happen to murderous dictators. | |
| If Saddam dies soon, the full horror will not emerge and people will forget quickly. | |
| Well, this doesn't jibe with a Democrat's defense of the uh of Saddam nor the the his own lawyer's defense. | |
| Uh who should we listen to the people over there or not? | |
| I'm I get confused. | |
| William Langdon, a retired Baltimore resident on a fixed income, has followed news about the high cost of heating oil this winter with some alarm. | |
| His elderly neighbor faced termination of her electrical power recently because she missed payments. | |
| He said that she simply could not afford to pay her bills. | |
| Many residents of Washington, the Northeast and the Midwest are worried about what promises to be a record-breaking heating season with costs nearly 40% higher than last year. | |
| Mr. Greenspan, the Federal Reserve and other economic leaders also are concerned that this winter's heating bills could pose a second energy shock to consumers and economy just recovering from the blow of record high gasoline prices. | |
| Now I have a little bit of a disconnect here. | |
| Somebody needs to help me out. | |
| If the gasoline price is coming down, it means what? | |
| It means the oil price is coming down. | |
| So the oil price is coming down. | |
| Everything refined from crude oil would likely come down. | |
| Why, Mr. Sterna? | |
| Why is this the evil oil com? | |
| Well, well, but but but yeah, but demand, but but the price is coming down. | |
| Gasoline's coming down. | |
| You're saying demand is that what demand is if demand is rising, the price would be going up. | |
| If the demand was rising, the price would be going up. | |
| That's the law of supply and demand. | |
| What's happen what's the price is going down. | |
| Gasoline prices are going down. | |
| Crude oil is going down. | |
| Yeah, well, why not in home heating oil? | |
| It's my question. | |
| Well, home heating oils, though, why why wouldn't home heating oil be going down? | |
| The demand is no different than ever. | |
| No, it's not. | |
| You've got the same number of homes this year, maybe even fewer, that use heating oil. | |
| What what what colder temperatures? | |
| It's global warming out there. | |
| What colder temperatures? | |
| Okay. | |
| Okay, all right, so it's got a little cold out in Denver. | |
| I know it's like one or two degrees out there, but they use uh don't use heating oil for the most part in Denver. | |
| We're talking here about the Northeast. | |
| At any rate, Mr. Greenspan said he expects consumers to be surprised when they see their heating bills this winter. | |
| The sharply higher energy costs are the result of major cuts in oil and gas production in Gulf of Mexico caused by Hurricane Katrina in August and Hurricane Rita in September that knocked out critical facilities. | |
| Natural gas is the fuel used in most home furnaces in the U.S., particularly in the Washington area. | |
| Gas from the Gulf provides 60% to 70% of the fuel used by uh Washington gas, which is a local company in the district. | |
| The shock may be somewhat less for those heating with oil or electricity. | |
| The Energy Information Administration yesterday estimated their costs will range from 6.5% to 21% higher, not 40% higher. | |
| Well, that's not as bad as 40%. | |
| I mean, the way the Washington, this is a cut. | |
| Heating bills are being cut. | |
| If if if they were expected to go, this is the way you people in the Northeast need to look at this. | |
| If two months ago you were told that your heating bills were going up 40%, but they're only going to go up 6.5% to 21%, you have got at least a 19% cut in your heating oil cost. | |
| It's time for you to celebrate. | |
| It's time for you to turn the thermostat up 75 or 80 because it's going to be cheaper. | |
| We've got a cut in the price. | |
| What do you mean, Rush? | |
| I'm paying six and a half to 21% more. | |
| No, you are, but you were going to pay 40%, see. | |
| So you but you so it you're not going to be spending 40%, you're only going to be spending between six and a half and twenty-one percent more on heating oil. | |
| You got to cut. | |
| You got a cut in the rate. | |
| You got a cut in your price. | |
| This is how Washington determines cuts, and I think the rest of us could learn well to live by it, at least attitudinally. | |
| If you people who use heating oil in Northeast could just tell yourself that your home heating oil costs have been cut and they're not going to be as expensive. | |
| Imagine how happier you'll be. | |
| Well, the Democrats tell us that we're cutting food stamps. | |
| And that we're cutting uh Whoa, whatever. | |
| We're cutting every social pro. | |
| We're cutting education. | |
| We're cutting, we're cut. | |
| But we're not. | |
| We're actually spending more. | |
| We're just maybe not going to spend as much as we had forecast, but we're going to spend more. | |
| Well, by the same token. | |
| Yes, you're going to spend more for home heating oil this year, but less than it was originally forecast. | |
| So you got a deal. | |
| You got almost. | |
| Well, if you were going to pay 40, and let's say the worst case scenario happens, you only pay 21%. | |
| That's a 19% cut. | |
| I'd say if that would make me happy. | |
| That would make me, I would think I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be able to keep a thermostat 70 degrees at night and not have to get 15 blankets to put on my bed. | |
| Well, I have to turn it down to 55 or 60 in order to save fuel at night while I'm sleeping. | |
| I'd throw a party. | |
| Man, this is this is and plus when you when you add this, uh ladies and gentlemen, particularly those of you in New York, an oil company controlled by uh by Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan government has made its first delivery of cut price heating oil to the Bronx borough of New York City. | |
| The firm SitGo is uh supplying fuel to thousands of people in deprived areas in the cooperation with charities. | |
| The initiative started last month with the delivery of heating oil to Boston, thanks to Congressman Bill Delahunt, who went down there to Venezuela, had a personal meeting with Chavez and made the deal. | |
| It was announced in August by President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of President Bush, under the deal, sit go, Venezuela, said it would provide heating oil at a 40% discount to fill in tanks at properties owned by three nonprofit housing corporations in the Bronx. | |
| About 8,000 tenants, 75 buildings will benefit from this, according to the company and the corporations. | |
| Deliveries will continue through the winter months until April 1st. | |
| So, I mean, you couple, you couple the 40% discount from the Venezuelan government with the 19% reduction in what it was going to cost you two or three months ago in its fat city when it comes to heating oil. | |
| And God bless Hugo Chavez. | |
| God bless if it weren't for Hugo Chavez, who knows how many people would freeze to death this winter in the Bronx. | |
| My real question is why didn't he comp it? | |
| Why didn't he give it away? | |
| Why did he only reduce the price by 40%? | |
| I have another question. | |
| The Kennedy family has oil companies and they have oil wells. | |
| I know this in Richard Schweitzer's book, Peter Schweitzer's book. | |
| Why don't the Kennedy family join in with the Hugo Chavez and help the people of the Northeast out by reducing their heating bills even more. | |
| I mean, imagine if the Kennedys could come up with enough oil, heating oil this winter, so that the average price would only go up 4%. | |
| That would be a 36% cut in uh home heating oil prices. | |
| And what think of the boondoggle the Kennedy family can get out of this, PR wise and everything else. | |
| I guess it never occurs to them. | |
| Mention to you yesterday, folks, that there was testimony from Katrina victims, Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans before the House bipartisan committee to investigate the response to Hurricane Katrina, chaired by Christopher Shays. | |
| We have a montage of some of the testimony from from the residents, uh Diane Mama D. French, uh Patricia Thompson, Leah Hodges, and others. | |
| I came because the ism that's really bothering me the most is racism. | |
| I was on my front porch. | |
| I have witnesses that they bombed the walls of the levee. | |
| I'm still looking for dead people. | |
| If it was not poor African Americans who would be most affected by this, there wouldn't have been a plan in place. | |
| We were abandoned. | |
| City officials did nothing to protect us. | |
| My brother flagged out a police car and asked for help. | |
| They used racial slurs and dirty obscenity. | |
| They cursed him and threatened to blow his brains out. | |
| People were left to die, mostly poor, mostly people of color. | |
| When we stepped outside, guns were printed on us. | |
| I felt like we've been told to go outside In order to be killed. | |
| No one's gonna tell me it wasn't a race issue. | |
| I wake up in this horrible, horrible concentration camp. | |
| I'm gonna call it what it is. | |
| If I put a dress on a pig, a pig is still a pig. | |
| That's when the networks bumped out of coverage. | |
| Uh, folks, that's what I was watching yesterday. | |
| Now, I know the mayor down there's black. | |
| Uh most of the most of the city government is uh is is black, and this the circumstances stories we're getting here are happening uh when people were trying to get them out of their homes to save their lives. | |
| Uh it's uh horror stories from the Katrina survivors. | |
| We'll be back in just a moment. | |
| Okay, we go back to the phones and and uh people still want to weigh in on uh on John Kerry, who I forgot to mention today, once served in Vietnam. | |
| Uh, ladies and gentlemen, this is David in Santa Monica. | |
| Nice to have you on the program, sir. | |
| Welcome. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| How are you? | |
| Just fine. | |
| Yeah, I went back and looked at uh SwiftVets.com and wanted to see the Swiftboat ads to see if there's any similarities between what he was accused of going being back in the 70s with a as a Vietnam vet and what he is today and what he's saying about our troops in Iraq today, and the swift boat vets vets are vindicated. | |
| Exactly what they said he was as a uh uh soldier and as a um Vietnam veteran and as an American. | |
| Probably not to be true. | |
| He would have been a terrible president. | |
| And he also, if you will go back and watch these ads, talk about their experience being troops while John Kerry was undermining their operations in Vietnam and how much that devastated them, demoralized them, and helped the North Vietnamese. | |
| And how they view this, you know, 35 years later. | |
| And to put that into context of today, what he's doing today, what Howard Dean is doing today, the rest of his people are doing today to our troops today, shamelessly undermining the cause, shamelessly demoralizing our troops and our cause is absolutely unbelievable. | |
| Um, you know, I I'm I'm I'm like you. | |
| I sometimes look at what they say and do, and I say, that's unbelievable. | |
| And then I stop myself and say, no, it's not. | |
| It is totally believable, and not only that, it's understandable. | |
| I don't know if you've had a chance to listen to the whole program today, but if you didn't uh uh make sure you go to Rush Limbaugh.com this afternoon, this evening when we update it and listen and read the discussion that we had after uh analyzing the Washington Post piece today about how the Democrats are having trouble staying unified and that they got all kinds of internal problems on this, and you will see that the Democrats are trying to come up with an Iraq strategy that allows them flexibility to change their position on a day-to-day basis as it helps them. | |
| Their Iraq strategy is nothing about this country, it's nothing about the troops, it's nothing about victory, it's everything about defeat, which to them is victory. | |
| So when you say that they are shamelessly demoralizing the troops and our cause unbelievable, it's not unbelievable. | |
| You just went back to the Swiftboat site and you looked at all of Carries consistent as he can be. | |
| I was I was I was telling somebody last night, uh, you know, laughing about this comment uh the response to my look at what did we do when we played Kerry's comments from Face the Nation. | |
| What did we do? | |
| We simply played his words. | |
| We simply rebroadcast what he said. | |
| Simply rebroadcast what he said, and then we went back and got the audio from 1971, April of 71, testifying before the Senate. | |
| When he invents this laundry list of atrocities, supposedly committed by Vietnam troops, USGIs in Vietnam. | |
| He never saw it, he never witnessed it. | |
| He included himself in those who committed the atrocities because that would make him even bigger because now he was having a change of heart and he was repenting. | |
| But it was all made up. | |
| And it was all made up to disparage and impugn the honor and the reputation and the image of the American uniform military person in Vietnam. | |
| It was all about advancing his budding political career as a Democrat and as a liberal in Boston. | |
| And then later on, a U.S. Senator. | |
| He's being totally consistent with this remark that he made on Face the Nation on Sunday. | |
| We simply play it back, and he has a cow. | |
| He calls Melman a political hack for repeating what Kerry said and referred to me as a donut-eating draft dodger. | |
| And as I have pointed out all day, I don't eat donuts. | |
| I tried it once with ketchup. | |
| It doesn't work. | |
| I eat Boston cream puffs. | |
| Spit most of them out. | |
| But that's what I eat. | |
| If I'm going to eat pastries. | |
| Boston cream puffs. | |
| But that's his response. | |
| Well, you have to say you have to ask yourself, what is this response? | |
| He doesn't defend what he says. | |
| He doesn't try to explain it. | |
| He gets mad that we cited it, and that's what he got mad at the Swiftboat vets for. | |
| He got mad at the Swiftboat vets for simply recycling things he'd already said. | |
| For recycling things he had already done. | |
| You're not supposed to do that. | |
| John Kerry is an elitist, smarter than anybody else in the world, Democrat and liberal. | |
| We are honored to be in his president's weak presence. | |
| We are never to question him. | |
| We don't have the intelligence to question him. | |
| We don't have the intelligence to understand the deep nuance of his brilliance. | |
| So he's righteously indignant and offended that we repeated what he said. | |
| It's it's patently obvious the man expects to get away with no reaction, no analysis of his comments. | |
| He's a former presidential candidate. | |
| He's a hopeful future presidential candidate. | |
| He is a United States Senator, and yet he considers himself to be above scrutiny. | |
| We aren't to scrutinize John Kerry. | |
| We are to bow down. | |
| We barely are to look at him. | |
| Only a precious few of us can even look at him. | |
| We're to bow down as he goes by. | |
| We are to ooh and awe in deep reverence at the brilliance of his utterings. | |
| The guy is an arrogant, conceited, snob, folks. | |
| But he can't defend what he says. | |
| He doesn't even try. | |
| He lashes out in schoolyard mentality lingo at people who simply recited what he said. | |
| The notion, the notion that these people are on the side of the troops is dispelled by this current debate. | |
| They want you to think so when Kerry says, uh, troop safety. | |
| We're uh I'm not gonna listen decorated veteran, uh, uh decorated veteran, uh Melaman and Limbo. | |
| I wouldn't know a thing about troop safety. | |
| The troops are in a danger business. | |
| Troop safety is not the mission. | |
| Victory is the mission, but it is not the Democrats' mission. | |
| So none of what Carrie said is surprising to me. | |
| It's very, very consistent. | |
| Democrats are invested in defeat. | |
| The Democrats are hoping and praying, trying to secure defeat. | |
| How in the world can they turn around at any point and say they are invested in the troops? | |
| Troops' job is victory. | |
| Here's Paw Tucket, Rhode Island and Tom. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Nice to have you with us. | |
| Thanks, Rush. | |
| Mega Conservative 10th Mountain Division Somalia veteran ditto, sir. | |
| Oh, thank you, sir. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Same to you. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Say same to you. | |
| Merry Christmas to you too. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Uh my point is I wanted to make an addition to I don't want to see what happened in Somalia, happened in Iraq. | |
| Uh we are winning this war. | |
| We continue to win this war. | |
| You're the only person I ever hear bring up the point about. | |
| We've lost 3,000 civilians in an hour on September eleventh. | |
| We've lost less volunteer warriors in four years of combat. | |
| Can you hear me, sir? | |
| Yeah, that's that's right. | |
| I'm sorry, I'm on a cell phone and I'm crying out. | |
| You can hear me though? | |
| Oh, I hear you fine. | |
| Under those cell phones, they got a delay on them, and so we're hearing everything you're saying. | |
| I just don't want to respond too quickly because I'm not sure when you're finished, and I don't want to be talking over you. | |
| All right, thank you for that, sir. | |
| And also, uh I have nephews that are still in the military. | |
| I have one that's in Korea right now. | |
| That's doing a 13-month rotation there. | |
| And so when you hear all this from the Democrats, when you hear all this from John Kerry and so forth, how do you feel? | |
| I mean, John Kerry thinks that most Americans agree with him. | |
| Makes my blood boil. | |
| Why? | |
| Why? | |
| Because I'm a veteran. | |
| I volunteered to serve this country, and I saw combat and I saw what happens when we caught and run. | |
| And I hear people like him that claim to be a hero. | |
| He's no hero. | |
| I don't guess you voted for him then. | |
| You kid, right? | |
| No, sir, I didn't. | |
| Well, Tom, I I I appreciate the call. | |
| Talk Paul Tuckett, Rhode Island. | |
| I mean, they got ties to Boston, the minor league franchises in Paul Tucket. | |
| The red For the red side, it's still there, right? | |
| Yes, it is, sir. | |
| Paul Tuckett's still the uh the uh the triple A franchise for the Boston Red Sox. | |
| So there's a tie there. | |
| Here's Michelle in Langley, Virginia. | |
| You all know what's in Langley, Virginia. | |
| Michelle, welcome to the program. | |
| Hi, Russ. | |
| I just want to say, first of all, the first time I heard you speak was in New Orleans, I think in eighty-eight, eighty-seven or eighty-eight when I was in high school, and I've been a listener ever since. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| That would have been uh probably might have been the fall of eighty eight or the spring of eighty-nine. | |
| You were at the Sanger Theater or somewhere, I think, and you had a rapper opening up for you. | |
| Oh, that was much like yeah, that was uh that was the Doug, what was that guy's name? | |
| We had this this this Doug Rice. | |
| Yeah, we had uh we had this musical guy follow he's a white rapper, and he was following us around, and he was the opening uh entertainment now and again for some of these uh for some of these shows. | |
| Uh we had this great rap song called Womb to the Tomb. | |
| Uh huh. | |
| Um and so forth. | |
| Yeah, I remember that, and that was a fun, fun night in New Orleans. | |
| Oh, it was awesome. | |
| And I tell you what, someone has got to tell the American public, because they don't seem to know that there are white people that live there too. | |
| Every time I hear the cut that you displayed, or see the coverage on the news, I just it breaks my heart. | |
| It totally breaks my heart. | |
| I mean, I'm in Virginia now because my husband's in the Air Force, but my sister was displaced. | |
| I told her to take my nephew, come to Virginia with me. | |
| And when we were in the Red Cross and she was getting her assistance, they asked me if I need counseling. | |
| Because I was so heartbroken because my hometown is destroyed. | |
| You know, I have friends who opened businesses six weeks before the hurricane that were affected. | |
| I have a sister that was supposed to graduate from Moyola University and had to transfer to Baton Rouge. | |
| I mean, Michelle, let me ask you a question. | |
| Why do you think I guess you're reacting to the montage of comments before the House uh committee yesterday on Katrina and so forth? | |
| Why do you think so many people down there think that race was a factor when the vast majority of the local government is black, majority of the police force was black, um, and and practically all Democrat mean what where where are the elements of racism there? | |
| I mean it's I mean they're so ignorant. | |
| It's not like we're going to destroy a major port just because there are some poor people in the city, which there are poor people in every city, and they happen to be black. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| It's like but you know, uh Calypso Lewis was running around not long after Katrina's saying he had witnesses who told him that he knew the levees were blown up and exploded for the purposes of uh destroying black neighborhoods at the expense of white neighborhoods. | |
| And there were other Kakamami theories. | |
| Um we we've now heard them repeated in testimony before a U.S. congressional committee that it was all racist. | |
| Now, some of this is talking about FEMA, and but a lot of it's aimed at the Bush administration. | |
| But the immediate aftermath, you some of these talk conversations that these uh witnesses are talking about, clearly guns being brandished, FEMA doesn't carry guns. | |
| That has to be the local police force. | |
| They were dealing with looting or some uh according to the pictures we got from uh the networks that were down there. | |
| Um we also know that local people were trying to evacuate people out of their homes because they feared for their lives. | |
| Um but we've had all this said down there now, and and the and the these people, regardless, they believe it, they they believe that this whole thing was racial. | |
| I don't see how that could be. | |
| Someone needs to tell uh Calypso Lewis that they took some other people of other races out in the process too, and other people were affected. | |
| I mean, there were people having to commute to two to that age every time. | |
| You f you forget that the the line is that the wealthy and white got out and that the poor and black didn't. | |
| And then we saw the pictures of the submerged school buses, the 400 school buses that were not used to evacuate. | |
| And we wondered why that was. | |
| We wondered why the evacuation plan was not put into action. | |
| We wondered why the attempt to blame the federal government for this. | |
| Well, we understood it. | |
| I mean, it was a the politics was played for the from this from from practically the second day when the TV cameras got in there. | |
| And unfortunately, uh, you know, race is part of Democratic Party politics. | |
| Race is a you know, it's in the top five of the of the cards and issues that they will play uh in an attempt. | |
| And that the thing about the Democratic Party these days is they're out of power. | |
| You have to understand They feel entitled to it. | |
| As a Democrat as a liberal, you feel like the government is yours. | |
| You're born to it. | |
| It's your entitlement. | |
| Running things and telling people how to live their lives is your birthright. | |
| And they have been out of power since 1994 in the House of Representatives, and they can't deal with it. | |
| And they're not blaming themselves for doing anything wrong. | |
| They're blaming everything else. | |
| They're blaming Bush and they're blaming voting machines and they're blaming Chad's hanging Chads, they're blaming everything but themselves. | |
| But yet, when you have New Orleans and Louisiana, you have basically a state that's been run by liberal Democrats for years, a town that's been run by liberal Democrats for years, and yet the attempt was made to blame Republicans, essentially, for whatever went wrong down there, and the Bush administration particularly. | |
| And one of the things that was paramountly obvious to me in the aftermath, if you take liberals at their word, and I realize I'm skating on thin ice with some of you in New Orleans here. | |
| But if you if you take liberals at their word, and if you if you agree with them that liberalism is a utopia, that liberalism is a panacea. | |
| If if the country could just implement as much liberalism as possible, why there wouldn't be any racism, and there wouldn't be any poverty, and there wouldn't be any misery, and there wouldn't be any unemployment, and there wouldn't be any of these horrors that we heard run rampant in New Orleans. | |
| And yet New Orleans has been run by liberal Democrats for all these years. | |
| New Orleans should have been that shining liberal city on a hill. | |
| New Orleans should have been a beacon. | |
| New Orleans should have been the example for the rest of the country. | |
| How great things can be under liberal government. | |
| Instead, at the in the aftermath of the hurricane, we get all these horror stories down there of how horrible, how bad, how insensitive, how inhumane. | |
| And you ask yourself, well, who ran the place? | |
| And I you just have to say that it it liberalism does not fulfill its promises. | |
| Listen to the people that live there. | |
| Listen to them testify. | |
| Whether you agree with them or not, they're miserable. | |
| They're angry, they're unhappy, and yet they've been governed and dominated by liberals for most of their lives. | |
| I take from this it doesn't work. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Slidell, Louisiana, the New Orleans area. | |
| Sherry, you're next. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| Hello, Rush. | |
| Oh, I'm so nervous. | |
| My heart's beating out of my chest. | |
| So I'm gonna try to relax. | |
| I am so angry about that person on CNN. | |
| Where do they parade these people from? | |
| I live less than 30 miles from the city. | |
| My area looks like a bomb went up, but we stayed. | |
| We have 60,000 more people now that live in my area from St. Bernard. | |
| That looks like a bomb went up over there, too. | |
| Sherry, Sherry, I want to warn you if you continue any further. | |
| The New Orleans Times picky until run a story saying you don't know what you're talking about. | |
| Oh, well, honey, let me tell you all about it. | |
| We just want to warn you. | |
| They'll run a story about you and me and say you don't know what you're talking about. | |
| Well, they will. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| I don't give a rat but what they think. | |
| I wrote this thing out myself. | |
| It was not pleasant. | |
| By no means. | |
| I mean, less than a mile from my house. | |
| It was like a bomb went off over there. | |
| But we're just picking up the pieces and moving on. | |
| Well, do you you think you were spared because you're white? | |
| Well, I mean, you weren't spared. | |
| It didn't make no difference what color you are. | |
| It really did it didn't matter. | |
| I mean, I know the hurricane was a liberal, Katrina Vandenhoovel. | |
| The hurricane itself was a liberal. | |
| Oh, it was a liberal? | |
| Well, I'm a I'm a very proud Republican, and let me tell you, it didn't really care. | |
| Ah, well, there's the see, you don't get it. | |
| You're a Republican. | |
| You have to be a Democrat to understand this. | |
| See, here's the way it works. | |
| You can have a local government that's all Democrat, all liberal, and a state government that's the same, but that's just like your brother and sister. | |
| But the federal government under Bush, yeah. | |
| A bunch of racist pigs, concentration camp people. | |
| And that's mommy and daddy. | |
| And mommy and daddy have more power than brother and sister. | |
| And so that's how you get from A to B when you have that mindset. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| Congratulations, appreciate your stick to it enough down there. | |
| I'm glad you were able to get through. | |
| Quick timeout, we'll be back in just a second. | |
| A passenger who um said he had a bomb has been shot by an air marshal on American Airlines jet on the ground in Miami. | |
| Guess the 9 11 Commission was wrong. | |
| Sounds like we are a little bit prepared for these kinds of things, huh? |
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