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Dec. 14, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Slash your Oh a slasher Santa.
I thought you said, have you seen the posters about slash your Santa?
There's a slasher Santa in New York.
Are we surprised?
That's the way you get away with the crime.
Go out and do it to Santa Claus.
Everybody hates Christmas in New York.
These liberal enclaves.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
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Well, New York Times out with a bogus story today that the forged ballots were pouring into Iraq.
Reuters, though, says nope, it's not true.
The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.
This is all a lie, said Lieutenant General Ahmed Al Khafaji, the chief of the U.S. trained force, which has responsibility for all of Iraq's borders.
I heard this yesterday.
I checked all the border crossings right away.
The borders are all closed anyway, he said to Reuters.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabor also denied the reports, which the New York Times ran prominently, quoting a single unnamed interior ministry source, and said it was an attempt to discredit the election process.
And of course, here we're faced with this dilemma.
Reuters says no, it didn't happen, and the New York Times says it did.
Who do you believe?
Neither of them are trustworthy.
Turns out in this case, Reuters is right in the New York Times was uh was was was totally bogus.
I was hoping for it to be true because if it were true, it means it's the Democrats were behind it.
This is a typical Democrat election ploy.
And I said I saw this last night.
So this ballot story is all phony.
The New York Times gives it prominent uh coverage.
Imagine, my friends, if the New York Times was in charge of pre-war intelligence.
I guess these people can't be trusted on anything.
I mean, honestly, folks, how how many how many more false stories from the media before there's unanimous disgust with these propagandists?
Now we trust the CIA to get intelligence right.
Oh, look, there's Mertha up there again.
This guy is on his 45th, 15 minutes of fame here.
And he's probably still talking about how the 80% of the Iraqis don't want us there.
These guys are the suffering dementia.
They they have to be.
At any rate.
Um we trust the CIA to get intelligence right.
All the elites trust the New York Times to get the news right, presumably.
Let's see to what extent they criticize the Times for its repeated lies and errors.
The elites.
Let's see if the elites will jump on the New York Times to being wrong about this.
Just as they jump on the CIA just as they jump on the president.
Will that happen?
Hell no.
But it ought to.
Let's give you a couple sound bites on this.
This was this morning on the CNN.
Miles O'Brien interviewing a member of the Multinational Corps of Iraq, U.S. Army Colonel Brian Stevenson, live.
And Miles O'Brien said, Colonel Brian Stevenson, one of the people charged with securing these elections.
Colonel, good to have you with us.
First of all, let's talk about these phony ballots.
What do you know about that truckload of ballots and the possibility there might have been others out there?
We received that port very early this morning, and as with any report like that, we'll uh get to the source and try and confirm whether or not it's true, which we have not been able to do yet.
So uh O'Brien says, Well, how how good were these counterfeits?
I mean, is there is there some concern uh they could easily be mistaken for real ballots?
Well, we haven't even confirmed that the story's even true, so uh we can't assess uh how valid the the ballots might be.
Oh, so you're you're personally unaware of the story.
We we've been reporting it.
Other news media have been reporting it.
You're not aware of it?
Oh, I'm very aware of it.
We just have no corroboration that it's true, and and we're trying to confirm and and do just what you uh mentioned is find out what are there in fact ballots there and and could they be used uh as counterfeits?
Uh again, we have a lot of uh steps in place to prevent that, even if it were to come through the country.
See now, what what what the colonel didn't say but said is that just because you are reporting it at CNN and the rest of the media doesn't mean it's true.
Now, as you heard, Miles O'Brien read the New York Times, it's gospel.
Asks this guy, well, these ballots coming in, they look forged.
We haven't even seen them yet.
Well, do you think they're pretty good looking forgeries?
No, we haven't seen it.
We haven't confirmed it's true.
Well, what do you think there are more that you haven't found?
Oh, no, we don't have to confirm it is true yet.
Well, what about the how many of them are there?
Well, we haven't confirmed that it's true yet.
Uh uh, but but we're reporting it in the media.
The media says it's happening.
Well, uh, we're trying to do what you're doing trying to confirm it is.
How many times did the guy have to say we haven't confirmed the story and yet every question was oriented around the fact the story's true?
Now we know the story was bogus.
Now, I can tell you, I asked the question, to what extent will they criticize the New York Times for its repeated lies and errors?
They won't.
We know the answer.
They'll say, well, no one died.
But when Bush lied, people died.
But no one died when the New York Times lied.
That's not the test.
If a surgeon screws up an operation and no one died, that's not a defense.
If a lawyer screwed up on a capital murder case and his clients convicted, that's not an excuse for the lawyer's conduct in uh in all cases.
I mean, but it it the bottom line here is that the New York Times will come under no criticism from the very people who believe them and were misled by it and embarrassed themselves all morning by reporting this stuff.
I want to go back to one thing the president said in his speech about morale and how when the Democrats and these uh these critics, and what did he uh he referred to them as irresponsible, irresponsible comments coming from the critics, and he means Democrats.
He said these irresponsible comments have a deleterious effect on morale.
You might remember that it uh wasn't long ago, a couple weeks ago, week ago, I got an email from um uh the commander of the 447th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron, basically the air traffic control group at Baghdad International, the military air traffic control crew.
I got a I got uh an email from uh a man known as Taz, who is their is their commander.
And the email talked about how their morale was way up and they they they appreciate all of the support that they are getting from uh all of you here at home.
And uh and Taz told this funny story about how they had this French-made uh refrigerator uh i in the in the in the control tower.
And as the thing cycled on, you know, refrigerators after they cool down, then they shut off, and when the temperature inside gets too high, they they come on and start cooling the contents now.
When this thing came on, started recycling the cool, it emitted all kinds of noises.
And when the air traffic controllers in the Baghdad control tower would key their microphones to talk to military flights, these noises could be heard, and at first everybody thought that the signal was being jammed, that people were toying around, and they figured out eventually it was the it was the refrigerator made in France.
So the crew took the refrigerator out on a catwalk outside a control tower, just threw it overboard.
And it landed 200 feet down there and it exploded.
And now they were without a refrigerator in a control tower.
They had all these contents in there, and it looked like it had all become yogurt when it exploded, and they hadn't gone down to inspect it yet.
They made sure nobody was down there to get hit by it, but they dumped it overboard.
I read that email on the air, and I've gotten another email from the commander, the air traffic control squadron at Baghdad International.
Mr. Limbaugh.
Words from Halliburton regarding the death of our Baghdad control tower refrigerator made in France.
Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root executives told me here that they're going to try to get us a new fridge for the Baghdad control tower.
This one's going to be American made.
So apparently the story of the faulty French-made refrigerator to Baghdad control tower was heard, and Halliburton is going to provide them with a new American-made refrigerator.
Taz writes, I know it'll stand proudly in our tower cab and it'll stand proud, and I know it won't produce a loud and annoying chronic squeal like our former old dilapidator refrigerator made in France did.
And I know it won't suck the electrical power out of our tower radios whenever it powers itself on, like the old refrigerator made in France did.
And I know it won't have any adverse impacts on the safety of coalition air operations like the made in France refrigerator did.
But I will be sure the water condensation drip tube from our new American refrigerator doesn't create any puddles inside my tower cab like the French made refrigerator did.
is I just hate it, Mr. Limbaugh, when you have to splash through puddles of refrigerator water on the way to the air control tower microphones.
And I don't want to have to explain refrigerator water puddles to my chain of command.
I'll ensure my senior NCOs appropriately route the drip tube of our new fridge outside the control tower windows.
We'll do our best to respect the grave of our former refrigerator made in France.
That's the fridge I wrote you about earlier.
That's the fridge that cartwheeled all the way down after being launched from our control tower's catwalk.
It exploded on impact on the pavement two hundred feet below.
But it's still there.
We're afraid to touch it.
We try not to look at it.
But it's resting peacefully in its grave now.
However, every once in a while a pack of protected wild dogs comes along and sniffs around that refrigerator.
But military necessity will take priority, and the correct decision regarding a drip tube of our new American-made refrigerator will be made.
We'll analyze the ballistics of the water as it drips from the new fridge, and we'll try not to allow the condensation line drip tube water from our new fridge to desecrate the grave of our former refrigerator made in France.
We will send you a picture when we get the new fridge in the Baghdad International Airport Control Tower from Halliburton.
If you want, please send an EIB sticker and photo and I'll slap it on the front door.
That's the opposite side of the drip tube.
This is from Taz, the commander of the air traffic control squadron at Baghdad International.
Sounds to me like morale um doing okay.
I wanted to share that with you because it's it's hilarious.
You can visualize these guys tossing their French refrigerator 200 feet overboard, and it's still there.
Nobody's had the guts to go down and move it or touch it.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Okay, time to go to the phones.
We'll start in Redlands, California.
Matt, I'm glad you waited, sir.
I appreciate your patience and hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that things are going much better in Iraq than the Democrats and the liberal media wants us to know.
Now everybody admits that both the northern and southern parts of Iraq are pretty secure and stable.
And everybody knows that most of the problems in Iraq are coming from some of the Sunnis in central Iraq.
The good news is that the Sunni resistance cannot succeed because it doesn't enjoy popular support from the average Sunnis.
And this will be proven by the fact that millions of Sunnis will go to the polls tomorrow at the risk of their own lives in order in order to vote for democracy.
Right, which they didn't do early on.
They were they were intimidated or some of them did.
But as time has gone on, more and more of them want to get in on the process because they see that it's real and they see it's happening, and this is the way, the best way they're going to have a voice in the future of Iraq is if they participate in it.
Exactly.
This is the only way that the average Sunni can participate and have a life for themselves.
There's no other way for Sunnis to have a chance to win.
Let's even imagine a few years from now that let's say a Democrat was elected president and the United States cut and run.
Even if the United States left, the Sunnis would still be destroyed by eighty percent uh uh Shiite and Kurd majority.
They could not uh win a civil war against the Kurds and the Shiites, the Sunnis would be destroyed.
So the Sunni resistance has no hope for winning through violence.
Their only hope is through what they're gonna do tomorrow, which is coming out in droves voting.
I have to ask on behalf of the audience, who are you in terms of your knowledge base on this and and from where does your confidence uh arise?
Well, um you're just an informed citizen or you yeah, I majored in history and um religious studies, and I just follow politics real closely, and I'm just a student of history.
And one of the things I've learned from history is that um when you're facing uh a really evil force, whether that be the Nazis, whether that be the communist, the one thing that never works is uh appeasement.
The one thing that doesn't work is just turning the other cheek.
When you're when you're deal that will work like Gandhi in India, Gandhi was able to succeed by freeing uh the Indians from the British through nonviolence.
That's because he was dealing with the British, a higher evolved culture, a more uh civilized culture.
Nonviolence will work when you're working with uh pe more peaceful culture like the British.
But when you're dealing with the Nazis, uh communists, These fascists, uh terrorists, uh the insurgents, these Sunni crazies.
Then you have to use more violence, and you have to use more aggression.
But the good news is the Sunnis, I think the average Sunni realizes that they have no way to succeed unless they get into the political process, come out to vote.
There's no way that the Sunnis.
Well, let me let me let me ask you this, though.
You you know that there are people agitating for a civil war.
Iran's trying to impact this, even Democrats in this country hoping there's a civil war.
Where does that play into this?
Well, the thing, I think the average Sunni is going to realize that it's in their best interest not to support a civil war, because let's face it, most of Iraq is pretty secure, the North and the South.
And the average Sunni, they know they cannot win a civil war.
How can they defeat the United States, the Kurds, the Shiites in the South?
How can they win a civil war?
They will be defeated.
Even if the United States left, the Sunnis could not defeat the Kurds in the North and the Shiites in the South.
The Sunnis only hope for a peaceful better life is through a peaceful getting involved in the political process peacefully.
They cannot win a war through violence.
That's why they're going to come out and vote.
Because I think the Sunni people realize their only hope is through voting and the democratic process and peaceful um activities.
What do you think?
Well, well, I uh you you are more informed on I than uh than this, uh but it it your your scenario fits my my uh my limited understanding of this.
My only concern is when you say that uh no one group can be the other, uh beat the other in a civil war.
Um you have Iran uh lingering there on the border, and if they choose sides, um they have the ability to make any side they choose cause real trouble.
Uh and so, you know, whether it be the Sunnis or the Shiites, uh uh I know one of those choices would be very odd, but you never know.
The last thing that Iran wants is a democratic government regime on its border.
The last thing Syria wants is that.
The last thing any of these nations over there want is that.
Saudis as well.
Yeah, I think so.
And there's been all this talk and talk about civil war, but I really think that if there was going to be a civil war, it would have happened by now.
I mean, the bottom line is.
Let me tell you, like I said earlier, a civil war, it could happen.
If you have, if one of these factions ends up being like the Democratic Party in this country, trying to divide that country on race and gender and income and gets into radical egalitarianism, they start trying to to to engender all kinds of you can get you could end up with one.
We had one.
We had a civil war after our the idea that there might there shouldn't be one, these people on the left in this country demanding perfection, and they demand it in practically every aspect of life, and it's not possible.
It simply isn't possible.
There may be a civil war, depends.
But the the you know, the fact that it hasn't happened now is uh is a good sign.
And even if there is a civil war, uh it doesn't mean failure.
It didn't mean failure for us.
It didn't mean all is lost.
We just we just have people agitating for defeat in this country.
You got people all over the world agitating for defeat, and they are liberal socialists who have a contempt for freedom and democracy.
They want elitist rule.
And the and and it's it's uh in this country and everywhere else that they can foment it.
Um I you know, I I just I look at all this, and I think I I don't understand the people who are invested in defeat and negativism and doom and gloom.
Uh American history, world history is such that uh that attitude doesn't propel you anywhere.
Uh I mean, if even if you look at the tyrannical regimes, look at Saddam, or look at Mao, or look at Stalin, any the last thing they were was negative about what they believed.
I mean, they were very positive that they loved, they loved killing millions.
Every positive attitude about it.
Now, I don't I'm not trying to sound contradictory here, but attitudinally, achievement is not the result of doom and gloom negativism and pessimism.
It never is.
And so these people agitating for it uh quite obvious uh uh in in their in their desires and and and uh where their hopes and dreams actually lie, and it's not with U.S. victory.
One quick note here before we have to go to the break.
This is a Chicago Tribune story.
As Iraq, just listen to the first paragraph.
As Iraq moves toward crucial legislative elections on Thursday, homegrown Iraqi insurgent groups are reaching out to the United States in the hope of launching a dialogue that would draw them into the political process and end their Two and a half year rebellion.
This, according to U.S. officials and Iraqis close to the insurgency.
Insurgents who see themselves fighting for an Iraqi nationalist cause are looking for ways to distance themselves from the religious radicals and the hardcore Bathists who have dominated the insurgency in the public eye with a view to establishing a foothold in Iraq's political landscape.
This is exactly what the guy from Redlands, California, is saying.
They want to get in on the action.
These homegrown Iraqi insurgency groups are reaching out in the hopes of launching a dialogue that'll make them mainstream.
The news coming out of there continues to improve day to day, which you would never know about unless you listen to programs like this.
The saga continues, and your taxes just went up.
Yes, they did, folks.
Congress will not address the growing reach of the alternative minimum tax this year that will leave more than 15 million of you people subject to the alternative minimum tax for the first time next year.
Senator Frist told reporters Tuesday that legislation addressing the ATM, or I'm sorry, AMT, will not be completed this year.
Lawmakers can act next year to make retroactive changes that ensure taxpayers don't pay more in 2006, but millions will start the new year in the grasp, fifteen million of you people in the grasp of the alternative minimum tax.
As you may know, the alternative minimum tax was designed to stop the wealthy from avoiding all taxation.
But because it hasn't been modified, and it was it goes back to what, 1971?
61 or 69.
Is it six?
I think it's it's a long time.
It's 30 years ago.
It goes back 30 years, things have changed in 30 years.
Snaring millionaires 30 years ago snares average Americans today.
You may not believe this.
A lot of them.
But Congress is too busy debating how we are barbaric and torture.
We torture people, we are barbaric, and we are debating.
We don't have time to confirm a Supreme Court justice, or we don't have time to deal with the alternative minimum tax.
They keep trying to patch this thing, but the most recent patch holding back the tax from hitting these 15 million additional people expires December 31st.
What that means is that nearly 19 million individuals and families can expect to pay the alternative minimum tax next year, and more than fifteen million taxpayers would face it for the first time.
Most of them married couples.
These extra taxes would come due in 2007 when returns must be filed to the IRS.
The AMT exists as a second system of taxation.
It forces some individuals and families to figure their taxes twice and pay the higher amount.
It's more likely to ensnare taxpayers who have multiple children or pay high state and local taxes, because that's, you know, high state and local taxes equal a deduction.
And I'm going to take the deduction away.
Your taxes just went up.
You know that when the alternative minimum tax was passed and signed into law, you know how many people it affected?
Remember, I told you two weeks ago.
You know how many people are affected?
Twenty-two.
Twenty-two millionaires.
Twenty-two people.
Now we're up to nineteen million, with another fifteen million affected by it beginning next year.
Your taxes just went up.
Toledo, Ohio, this is Paul.
Glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, Rush.
Good afternoon.
Um, just to clarify, this is Paul Joseph, and um I came from Ramadi about 10 days ago.
I'm on uh the first page of your club Gitmo pictures there, I believe, towards the top, I believe.
Really?
Yes.
Uh you're on the front page of our club Gitmo photo gallery.
Uh, yes.
Well, it's a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Welcome back, by the way, from Ramadi.
Thank you very much.
Uh, it's uh it's a great fun to be back here in America and have my feet on soil, and I just ate my first whopper today from Burger King, so life is good.
Uh reason I'm calling today, Rush, is uh a couple things you've mentioned already.
Uh, I couldn't help it over here.
The 80% of how the Iraqis do not want us there at all.
It's a bogus poll, and Mertha keeps citing it.
It's a bogus poll.
Yes, nothing could be further from the truth there.
Uh I came for probably the worst place in Iraq, which is Ramadi, uh, just less than two weeks ago.
Uh, I drove the streets of that town.
I I saw folks out doing what they do best, and that's living their di our lives day to day.
Uh they're coming coming out in numbers to vote.
And and uh we were there for the last election as well, and we saw that as well.
Those people are not afraid of wanting the truth and and looking for democracy as well.
It may not be our form of democracy, and that's okay.
The fact is that they're going to decide their outcome of this election and their future as well, and that's what this is all about.
Well, Paul, it's it's uh it's it's great to hear from how long were you over there?
Uh I spent a year over there, uh a few months up north uh near Spiker, and uh then spent the rest of the year about ten months down in Ramadi.
Uh just to clarify here, Rush, I am not a spokesperson for by unit, nor do I even protest to be or profess to be.
Um, but I think you've got some uh folks from Rio Linda who did enlist and were in echelons above me, who obviously took offense to our picture that was taken and sent to you.
Uh just for their benefit, there is no Gitmo East.
It is a uh satire on life, and uh as we were trying to make the best of our situation there.
But uh we can't thank you enough for what you did for us and say those uh shots and bugs over there.
I remember your picture now Club Gitmo East.
So you had some Rio Linda recruits that were offended by it, huh?
Uh yes, they were, and uh I was like, Well, how many?
Um just a few above us, and they never did mention who they were, but uh that's okay because they're Americans and they have their right to voice their opinion.
Um just uh a week ago I was I was met by a two-star general down in uh Kuwait who was talking to us, and he told us uh go home and tell your story, talk to your friends, talk to your families, and tell them what happened what you know.
And you were the first person I've called since I've been home here in regard to this.
And uh the bottom line is is that we are there doing the right things.
Well, we're honored, we're we're really honored to hear from you, and I I uh uh uh think it's great that you were able to get through and and give us the story.
I find it fascinating too that you had some people who didn't like your your club gitmo picture.
That's fine.
Um you know, if you listen to people in this country, you think only Republicans volunteer to go to the war anyway.
Apparently there's some Democrats over there fighting war in an all-volunteer force.
Now I know what they would say, or not they, but I know what I know what people say.
Well, they're only there because they don't have any economic future in this country.
It's the only way they can get education.
And so the the the the attempt to impugn their intentions would be in full uh display.
But Paul, uh congratulations again and and uh thanks thanks so much for your service and your club gitmo east photos.
And we understand that you speak for yourself and you don't speak for the whole unit, just the guys in the picture.
Um talking about this uh the polling data, the the uh you know the the Murph is out there again today citing this bogus statistic that eighty percent of the Iraqis don't want us there, and it's just not supportable by the facts.
Uh and I'm sure that uh in my absence, again, uh for those of you wondering, people saying I'm not being forthcoming about why I was absent the past two days.
And folks, you know, issues of medical privacy here I have to deal with because of a bunch of snoops.
But but uh the bottom line is I I I had an intestinal tract problem and it was diagnosed by the doctors as I was eating, it was toxic, and they asked me, You've been eating anything unusually.
I said I've been having a lot of democrats for lunch.
I've been eating Democrats for lunch, and I've been eating their lunch.
Well, it's it's it's poisoned you.
It's it's toxic, and you're you're gonna have to you're gonna have to change your diet.
I said, Well, that's tough because you know I eat Democrats for lunch each and every day.
He said, Well, uh you're gonna have to find a way to live with this if you can't change your diet, and I said, I can't.
A country needs me.
And uh doctor was un understood and totally totally supportive uh in this, so we uh hopefully have found a workaround.
But here i when I was gone, there was a poll that came out from ABC uh about our popularity in Iraq and the optimism of the Iraqi people.
Deborah Oren wrote about it yesterday in the New York Post.
She says Iraqis are surprisingly optimistic about their lives in future despite violence and terrorism.
Most of them say they feel safe and a growing majority supports democracy.
This, according to an intriguing ABC news poll.
Most Iraqis also want U.S. forces to stay until security is better, uh, even though they don't like being occupied.
Some seventy-one percent of Iraqis say their own lives are going well now, and they're also very bullish on the elections tomorrow.
An impressive seventy-six percent say that they expect the vote to pick a stable Iraqi government.
The poll found forty-five percent of Iraqis want U.S. troops to leave fast.
Twenty-six percent say now, another nineteen percent say after the new government takes office.
But a bigger number, fifty-two percent, want U.S. troops to stay, and that includes thirty-one percent who say uh stay until security is restored, fifteen percent who say stay until the Iraqi security forces can operate on their own, and five percent who say stay even longer.
Now, the fact that a majority want U.S. troops to stay for now comes despite the fact that sixty-five percent oppose the presence of those troops, suggesting they see it as a necessary uh thing for security, but they don't like it.
So they're realists about it, and I think that's where this uh uh uh don't like being occupied aspect of the poll enters into it.
By the way, not only have your taxes gone up because of the failure to deal with the alternative minimum tax, a story from the Newark Star Ledger, after vowing during his campaign that he would not raise the gas tax.
Governor elect John Corzine said yesterday he will now reconsider the idea now that gasoline prices have eased, and the state's budget gap has ballooned to more than five billion dollars.
And I sit here and this is nothing new.
This happens, I don't care who in New Jersey as a candidate promises what it's worthless.
And you wonder how will you would you Democrat voters in this state ever learn?
In October, Corzine said flatly, and I quote, there will be no gas tax hike in a Corzine administration, particularly after we've seen a dollar and a half rise in the price of gasoline.
Two days later, under pressure from union leaders who support it, he said it had to be on the table, but should be a last resort.
Bottom line, all liberals must bow to union thugs.
And speaking of gasoline prices, let me dig deep here in the stack, because I should have put this next story that I want to find right after this corzine story, but I didn't.
But it's about gasoline prices and how they're now being reported as going up.
Uh, think I just yes.
For the past few weeks, as gas prices have gone down from the $3.50 a gallon range to $2.09, and even in New Jersey.
You people in New Jersey, you thought you were you though you were scoring big.
I have people from New Jersey bragging and email, hey Rush, I live on the East Shore.
I live down in Atlantic City area.
My gas a buck eighty-eight a gallon.
It's coming back to bite you.
Because your governor who promised not to raise the gas tax sees it going down, says, guess what?
We can raise the gas tax because you people got used to paying 250 and 350, so we're going to raise the gas tax.
There hasn't been a peep in the media about falling prices because the template and the action line from the Democrats has been that gas prices are so high that we're all in economic depravity.
We are economically deprived.
We don't have any future.
The gas price is choking us.
We got to all drive these stupid little hybrids.
We got to get rid of our SUVs.
But the price has been plummeting.
But it hasn't been reported.
But this morning, if you look around and look at the right places.
I was driving in today and I had the uh radio on, and I've seen it on some of the cable news channels today.
You can hear the headline, gas prices increasing.
The story said the average gas price was now two dollars and nineteen cents.
That it's gone up three cents in the past week.
No mention of the fact that two dollars and nineteen cents is actually lower than pre-Hurricane Katrina gasoline prices.
We're still lower than what the price was before that hurricane, and the media, you can just count on them.
Gas price coming back up.
Never reported that it went down.
So if you're an ignoramus, you think gas line gasoline may not be four bucks a gallon, because you don't know that it's ever come down if you don't buy any.
So now that the prices have bottomed out, look for many screaming headlines about high gas prices, even though they are still lower than what they were prior to Hurricane Katrina.
It's just I love doing this.
The media thinks that they can get away with this crap, and they can't anymore, folks.
They just can't.
Because we are here.
One of my all-time favorite places.
Woodstock, Connecticut.
This is Alex.
Nice to have you on the program.
Rush, how are you doing?
Good, sir.
It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you.
I just wanted to thank you for getting the truth out.
There's more conservatives up here than you would believe.
I hope so, because I don't I mean I'm not run into them, but they're awfully awfully.
Every time I run into conservatives up there, they're depressed as hell.
Well, we're we're uh we're encouraged by what you have to say and by the truth.
And I was particularly touched by the soundbite uh of the woman from Iraq who was thanking Americans for coming over here and doing what they were doing.
And I was so excited about that, I said, yeah!
And I wanted Rush to I said, Rush, you gotta play that tape over and over.
Well, I'll take the occasion of your call to play it again.
The uh it's it's uh it's just a ten second little bite.
Uh and and of course, what what you have out there, you've got you've got uh the Chris Matthews brigade leading the charge that the term victory is a catchphrase.
It's just a catchphrase.
It's just it's some sort of political trick to keep talking about victory to make the American people feel good about things.
So we have this soundbite from last night in Baghdad.
It's an Iraqi voter, Betty Dawisha, weighing in on victory.
Anybody who doesn't appreciate what America had done, and the President Bush.
Let them go to hell.
Hey, man, you stood up and cheered, did you, Alex?
Well, so did a lot of people.
This is something that uh is woefully absent from mainstream media coverage.
Anybody who doesn't appreciate what America's done and President Bush let them go to hell.
Here it is one more time.
Anybody who doesn't appreciate what America had done, and the President Bush, let them go to hell.
Yes, yes, it's Betty Dawisha, an Iraqi voter, and uh more than likely a popular sediment uh among many Iraqis.
We have a montage here.
I want to contrast that voter with the American media.
Chris Matthews, a montage.
Uh this is Monday morning, uh, before and after President Bush's speech.
Uh Matthews remarks about the speech.
The word victory, that's the new uh sort of catchphrase that supposedly arouses positive feelings among Americans.
We used the word victory I candidate six times.
Well, the only problem is all we've got now, Professor, is the word victory.
I wish there was a military guy or somebody could give him some more useful information and how to sell this war, but congratulations, this is a bull's eye for you guys.
So Chris thinks his side's losing because the word victory is taking hold.
It's just a term, it's a political trick, and it's not a concept.
The reason it's not a concept because these guys think we've lost.
It's just a trick to try to trick the American people.
I mean, we've lost this war, but they're calling it a victory.
And Matthews doesn't understand why you have it's concept, Chris.
It's concept.
Matt in Louisville, Kentucky.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Mega Navy Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, I have an idea here.
All this talk about an in a uh a civil war going on in Iraq is moot because what we are witnessing right now is the end of the Iraqi civil war, and the insurgency has lost.
Um, this popular insurgency, I guess is what we're calling it.
Um, if you followed it from the very beginning, you'll notice that in in right after the invasion and whatnot, um, the insurgency was focused on military targets.
They were blowing up uh convoys and things like that.
And as time marched on, they didn't focus so much on the military, but they started focusing on each other.
They started blowing up police stations.
They started blowing up recruiting depots, they started blowing up hospitals.
And now it's gotten to the point where the Sunnis completely understand we're not gonna get anywhere doing this.
Let's stop it, because we're just killing each other.
And they want to get involved in the political process now.
So, well, that's an excellent analysis.
I like that analysis.
It's sort of like it's on a par with saying, hey, we have achieved victory.
The war in Iraq, we achieved that.
We're now fighting for the peace.
And we're on the verge.
And we got a soundbite or two of people talking about how important these elections are.
I'll let you hear that when we come back.
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