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Jan. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 27, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, I'm I'm watching this World Economic Forum.
They got video of it now and then the cable networks, and it it looks like the bar scene from Star Wars.
I just sit here and laugh at it.
Talk about a bunch of people engaged in useless activity.
You want to have a World Economic Summit, you convene the population of a United States someplace and ask them how they do it, and that'll explain the world economy.
Greetings, folks.
It's Friday.
Let's hit the trail.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the rules.
Open line Friday is different from Thursday, Monday through Thursday, because on those four days we talk only about what interests me.
But on Friday, you can talk about whatever you want when you call.
It's pretty much the way it goes.
You can ask questions, you can make a comment.
Telephone number is 800 282-2882, and the em email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Now look, my my email is overflowing here with reactions to uh to Jill from Ithaca.
Roger should have said this, I should have said that.
Some thank you for telling her to shut up, all these things, way to handle it with class.
I mean, I got the boku comments.
Uh but a lot of people, you should have told her about Benelodn.
It's what he said about Morgan Duchen in 1993 in the World Trade Center.
You should have counted all this stuff and it had happened in Clinton.
Folks, there is a cardinal rule that I, as host, employ.
And that is never ever get into an argument with an idiot because others may not know the difference.
You get into an argument with an idiot and you both sound like idiots.
It's what's wrong with cable television these days.
And the minute I tried every number of ways of exploring that call and exploring Jill and trying to turn that call into something useful for you people in the audience.
But it would be it became obvious to me that she was just hopeless.
Then it's it's it's the the inclusion of more facts and so forth, it would have been pointless.
So uh and then time ran out of the segment anyway, so that's that's what it was.
But never forget that.
It is a time-honored philosophy that I have never forgotten.
It is not wise to argue with an idiot, because others may not be able to tell the difference once you and once you just get started.
You know, and a mediocre always gonna throw stones at the brilliant, and so you you come to expect this kind of thing from people like that, but uh the real value is, you know, I sit here and I talk about all these left-wing lunatics, and these people out of the blogs that are telling you Democrats what she's the epitome.
She is the epitome of the Democrat base.
The value of that call is actually, you know, I can say it all day long, but since I'm not one of those people, all I can do is tell you they exist when they happen to call, and uh, you know, the the key is to get out of their way.
Somebody wants to be an idiot, get out of the way.
Don't argue with them, just get out of the way.
And that's what I tried to do, but it it she just it was well, you heard it, but the value was, as I say, the illustration of just who these people happen to be.
Remember yesterday got a another it must be the week for complaints.
This used to happen all the time.
First ten years of the program seemed like half of every show was made up of people calling, complaining and whining and moaning about the way I was talking or what I was saying, what I was doing.
That doesn't happen anymore.
Liberals have given up.
This week, this week we've had two of them.
Yesterday we had this guy, Stan in Las Vegas, and he called up.
You know how when I when I uh uh imitate liberals, I said he's a soft voice that sometimes I lift my eth uh like that and sound a little bit like Tom Dashell or Harry Reed.
See guys calls up, you are homophobe.
You are trying to make people who's anything about imitating gays.
I'm trying to I'm just imitate what I think the feminization of the American Democratic Party has made men in the Democratic Party sound like.
Particularly liberals.
I pointed out if if these guys, these Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Harry uh or uh Leahy and Kennedy and these if if if they weren't senators, these are such sixties and seventies retreads, they'd own bagel or coffee shops somewhere out in San Francisco.
It's homophobic.
And I you know, the homophobia is all in your mind.
The prejudice is in your mind.
You hear something and it arouses some opinion in you, that means the problem, the prejudice is yours, not mine.
Well, imagine my surprise.
I'm doing show prep last night and I come across a piece on a blog called American Digest.org.
And I don't know who wrote this.
When I printed it out, it didn't print the name of the uh of the author.
Now the column is about this this little twerp that wrote the piece in the LA Times this week, the op-ed piece, saying that he doesn't support the troops.
And I got some emails.
Why didn't you talk about that?
Folks, why it it's it's nonsensical.
It is it would be like spending a whole segment or two talking about Jill.
Or two whole segments of taking phone calls from Jills.
Why it's it's so absurd.
You know, and I frankly, as a talk show host, I think it's too easy.
Of course some idiot writes a piece saying he doesn't support the troops.
All he wants to do is get noticed.
So everybody gets all their dander up.
I can't believe well, we're gonna go to the bottom of this, and then get this guy on the radio and so forth.
I just ignored it.
But these people, whoever it is of the American Digest wrote a piece about this guy.
His name is Joel Stein, and he's supposedly a humorist.
And here's the headline of the piece the voice of the neuter is heard throughout the land.
Like some haggard crack whore banging on the door of a dealer's den willing to do anything, the hapless Joel Stein has been passed randomly about the blogosphere in the last couple of days.
Once a blog pile of such mountainous proportions starts, there's little left to comment on in terms of the content of Stein's small, dry excretion after the first five hours.
By that time the whole quisling screed has been pretty much picked apart like a biology major dissects an owl's pellet and glues the contents to a board with captions.
And it's time for the masters of the trade to go to work and perform live on the air, and then they do the same thing when I was talking about, get all upset and outraged.
Who is this guy?
And he's just reveling in it the whole time with all the attention he's getting for this absurd, silly, stupid statement.
As the writer of this piece then goes on to say what interests me, quote, uh he says the writer does, is how Joel Stein speaks if you focus on it.
You realize that you hear this voice every day if you bounce around a bit in our larger cities buying this or ordering that, and in general running into young people in the service sector, be it a coffee shop, a video store, a department store, boutique, a bookstore, or office cube farm.
It's a kind of voice that was seldom heard anywhere, but now seems to be everywhere.
It's the voice of the neuter.
And I mean that in the grammatical sense, neither masculine nor feminine in gender, neither active nor passive, it's intransitive.
In the biological sense, biology having undeveloped or imperfectly developed sexual organs, the neuter cast in social insects, botany having no pistols or stamens, asexual.
You hear this soft, inflected tone everywhere that young people below roughly 35 congregate.
As flat as the bottles of spring water they carry and affectless as algae, it tends to always trend toward a slight rising question at the end of even simple declarative sentence.
It has no timber to it, no edge of assertion in it.
The voice whisps across your ears, as if the speaker is in a state of perpetual uncertainty with every utterance.
It's as if male or female, there's no foundation or soul within the speaker on which the voice can rest and rise.
As a result, it has a misty quality to it that denies it any unique character at all.
It's the valley girl variation of the voices that proofrock hears.
Above all, it is a sexless voice.
Not, I hasten to add a gay voice.
Not that at all.
It is neither that gentle nor that musical, nor is it that old shabby lispering stereotype best consigned to the dustbin of popular culture.
No, this is a new old voice of a generation of ostensible men and women who've been educated and acculturated out of, or say rather, to the far side of any gender at all.
It is, as I have indicated above, the voice of the neutered.
And whoever Wrote this great piece has come up with a name for them, the American Castrati.
Now, this is not to say that the new American castrati of all genders live sexless lives.
On the contrary, if reports are to be credited, they seem to have a good deal of sex, most often without the burden of love or the threat of children, and in this, they are condemned to the sex life of children.
Not it is only to say that this new voice that we hear throughout the land from so many of the young betokens a weaker and less certain brand of citizen than we have been used to in our history.
Who is he talking about here?
If I may just make a brief departure here, as though I'm a professor and ask for a comment from the class.
Who's he talking about here?
Moderates.
Moderates.
People aren't sure of themselves.
But one of what they think, well, you know, Rash, I'm for that, but I wish we would do it smarter.
I wish we I would wish we would be more sensitive in how we're going about prosecuting the war and terror.
I don't want to be mean to anybody.
They won't take a stand on anything until the majority is coalesced, and then they get behind that, whatever it is.
And neither that's right, conflict resolution graduates is who they are.
End up they have no confidence, they've got they've got nothing firm or solid that they believe in.
And this is exactly what I am attempting to capture in my caricature of these people when I go into what uh Stan in Las Vegas accused me yesterday of a lispy gay voice.
If you can write in this tone, and of course this idiot in the LA Times can, you can become a third-level columnist for the LA Times.
And a little luck over time, you might even rise to the level of second string columnist for Vanity Fair.
Should the country so lose its mind and elect another Clinton, you could even become a White House speechwriter.
For now, you can hear the poster child for this sexless cohort and Joel Stein's dulcet voice quavering and halting and rising to a falling lilting question as Hugh Hewitt exposes the nothingness at Stein's core in question after question.
He was on Hugh Hewitt's radio show and admitted he didn't even know what he's talking about.
He admitted essentially he had no clue what he was talking about.
He just doesn't like war, he just doesn't like killing, he doesn't like death, and he thinks if it will help bring these people home safely, then he will say he doesn't support the troops.
What Stein has said is what his whole cohort has said in response to questions of honor, duty, country.
It's the standard issue answer, and it'll be their standard issue epitaph.
Whatever.
Whatever.
Back in just a moment, stay with us.
Here's Bill in Staten Island as we go back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
Welcome.
Bill, nice to have you with us.
Nice to be here, Rush.
And I want to say mega academic conservative ditto from the People's Republic of CUNY, the City University of New York.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Nice to have you here.
You are on fire this week, Rush, and uh you are so on point with these comments about Joel Stein and uh the neutering of the uh American uh citizens.
Uh, I do see this across the board in academia.
Students who uh make comments that end in interrogative inflections like this, and students that are uncertain about the positions that they want to take because they're afraid of offending anybody.
And um, yep, exactly.
And we are seeing this, we are seeing this, I think, at the um you know, from the beginning of the education process.
Uh this is something I think that you were talking about earlier this week regarding the uh pathologization of uh of boyhood.
Right being a we're being a boy is is now being regarded as some kind of uh disease.
And um the feminist agenda in this country has been to uh neuter males and to make them just uh turn them into what I call snags.
Sensitive new age geeks.
You're talking my language out there, Bill.
I'll tell you, Rush, I am the loneliest guy in my field.
I am a theater scholar working on a PhD in theater as a 42-year-old white, married, male, heterosexual Roman Catholic conservative Republican.
I am the most radicalized person in my field.
A bet.
I'm not surprised.
Well, you know, it's it to me, it's sort of fascinating that this all comes together this week, and this I I guarantee I guarantee you people, none of this was by grand design.
This program is not planned in advance.
Uh it's It's totally based on events.
We don't do topics here.
And it just so happened that in this week, uh all of these news items happen to converge uh on a on a single theme, being one of what's being done to the educational system, the feminization of the Democratic Party.
Uh the the whole concept here of of uh of of my being criticized because of the way I imitate these people who the the new American castrati, that is such a great way to describe these.
They just they're sexless.
They're just they're neutered.
They come out of conflict resolution classes.
They're afraid to offend anybody, and in the process, they don't know how many people they're actually offending.
Uh with uh and there's something else that comes along with this that the writer at American Digest.org didn't mention, and that's this air of superiority.
They have this this air of they're smarter than everybody else.
They think they're elites at the same time while they engage in all this wishy-washy, spineless type of conversation and and uh and behavior.
I appreciate the call, Bill.
Thanks much.
By the way, uh in the next segment, we're gonna have the Secretary of the Army on the program, Dr. Francis Harvey.
Uh there have been stories uh couple days this week, one in the Washington Post, one in the Seattle Post Intelligence have been all over the place about the army is broken.
Uh the the army is just broken and uh deployments are nearly breaking the army.
It can't do its job.
They're in a huge slump.
Uh Secretary Rumsfeld went out the other day and refuted this.
Uh and we'll have the Secretary of the Army on the program to discuss uh this whole thing for five or ten minutes, beginning with the next segment.
Meantime, Gary in Laguna Beach.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Why hello, Rush.
Let's see, I was listening to your to your opening remarks this morning about uh about a lady.
She's getting her husband to kill spiders.
Yeah, well, she said that she'd been married ten years, her husband was a wimp when they got married, but but she's bringing him along now.
He's no longer a winch, she's finally got him killing spiders.
Well, I'll tell you, um, let me just put in my comments about that.
Uh being a person that cares about birds, I I've talked to you in the past about uh about birds.
Um look, I love birds too.
My all-time favorite birds of Pelican.
Exactly.
It's uh is the brown brown pelican.
I remember you talking about that.
Exactly right.
Anyways, one of the connections I I wanted to give you here, um, and I hope your audience takes this to heart as well.
Now you like hummingbirds, don't you?
Of course.
In fact, I have even seen some.
Good.
Okay, you'll have to like spiders too, then.
The reason I say this is because when we look at a uh hummingbird's nest.
Yeah, guess what, 99% of it is Spiders Web.
That's right.
I'm an animal expert.
I know these things.
Right.
So if we wipe out the spiders, we're wiped out.
I I don't think I'm guessing here, but I don't I don't think that this woman's running like a paramilitary operation and training and ordering her husband outside, okay, go kill the spiders, honey, so you can prove your manhood.
I think these are spiders that are maybe in their house.
Well, you know what?
Here's the thing I think.
And I don't think a hummingbird's gonna get in there uh and steal the web from the uh inside of the house.
I mean, I'm sure it's happened someplace in the Caribbean.
Well, that's true, but the thing I've done, whenever I see a spider inside the house, I have a tennis ball can.
And all you need to do is uh grab a tennis ball can and and uh the spider they they love going inside things that are small.
And usually if you put a tennis can uh over a uh spider, they'll jump inside of it.
And then you take the little critter and you put them outside.
After all, it's it's all part of being tied into the environment.
Yeah.
Well, that's just keen.
And I I you know I I I I can uh I I can appreciate but you know it if let me tell you something.
It's it's it's uh uh i it's wonderful that you are oriented in the way you are.
We need people that have these concerns for spiders because most people don't.
Which is all part of nature photography.
Well, so are we part, you know.
Uh that's what I was gonna say.
We're part of nature too.
And if the spider is unable to adapt to us, and then the hummingbird, you know, it it can adapt or die.
I mean, if if if there are no spider webs, it's got to find something else.
It's like the spotted owl.
If it can't live in one of those old trees, it's got to find a red Kmart sign.
I know that's that's a sad situation with a spotted owl.
Well, I know, but I don't think we're in any danger of wiping out spiders.
Uh I don't think they're on an endangered species list or even protected, are they?
Well, there are some spiders that are, yes, there are.
Really?
In the Pacific Northwest.
There are some spiders that have been.
What is it about the Pacific Northwest?
You know, it's amazing.
It it seems like every animal that we're wiping out is in the land of the libs.
The spotted owl, the the the whatever uh the spiders and so forth in the Great Northwest.
Well, this has just been chalked full of information I didn't know, and I appreciate Gary your getting through and telling us Secretary of the Army coming next.
A man, a legend, a way of life from saving spiders to the Secretary of the Army.
We'd like to welcome to the uh program, Dr. Francis Harvey, Secretary of the Army.
You were sworn in on November 19th, 2004.
You're the w what what were you doing prior to that, uh, Dr. Harvey?
Rush, I was in the uh private sector.
I was uh uh chairman of a couple of companies and on boards of several others.
I had a long career with uh with Westinghouse and ended up as the chief operating officer.
And what was it that stood out uh for you among among your work that uh uh the administration sought you out to be secretary of the army?
Well, I had a long first of all, I uh you know fundamentally know how to lead manage and change large organizations.
Of course, um, as you know, the Pentagon is in a in a s a um phase of transformation starting under Secretary Rumsfeld's leadership.
But furthermore, if you look at my uh my corporate career, I was involved uh for the most of that with in the defense and aerospace industry, involved in approximately uh from a contractor point of view, approximately twenty-five major programs.
So I have a great knowledge of the of uh defense and uh have a great deal of experience in, as I say, leading, managing, and changing large organizations.
Well, I have to say I I I'm I really am grateful, and a lot of us here are for people like you, because you you're you're in the snake pit now, and uh as as evidence, and you don't need it.
I mean you really don't so you're uh I look at you as as somebody who's willing to take all this on because you genuinely want to serve the country.
And now you're gonna be able to do that.
You got my my primary motivation is to to give back to the country what this great country has given to me at a successful business career, and I want to serve the country and and this is my time to serve.
Well, we appreciate it, and I also appreciate your time in uh in joining us because I I need to ask you about this Pentagon contracted study.
I don't know what a Pentagon contracted study is, and you're in the Pentagon, uh said that the Iraq war risks breaking the U.S. Army.
And the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld, had a briefing uh earlier this week saying, no, the force is not broken.
What is this all about?
I I it's hard for me not to think that this is political.
There's so many leaks that have come out of state, out of the Pentagon over the course of the six years of this administration, and I'm suspicious of this.
Well, I don't think this one was political.
It was a it was a study contracted to get kind of an outside point of view.
And let me say that uh the conclusion that the army's broke or the army's stretched severely thin, we don't agree with.
Uh thank you very much for your point of view, but we don't agree with because today's army without a question is the most capable, best trained, best equipped, best led, and most experienced force this nation has filled in well over a decade.
So I can tell you uh uh that the Army is is performing magnificently.
I think you see it in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I think you see it in the response to Hurricane Katrina and so uh and Rita.
So I think the evidence uh the evidence uh shows otherwise.
Well, the report says that soldiers and brigades are being deployed more frequently and for longer periods than what the Army believes is appropriate in order to attract and retain uh recruits, basically.
Uh it it it's puzzling to me that the Pentagon can ask for this report.
The report comes out, and then the people that asked for it, no, uh this is wrong.
And I uh it probably confuses a lot of people.
Well, I'm s I'm sorry it does confuse people, but the evidence uh says otherwise because uh last year we had the highest retention rate in the Army we had in five years, and and I think uh retention Is the greatest indicator of morale and stress on the force and all these these other uh uh all these other statements.
And as I said, um uh we we retained sixty-nine thousand five hundred, the highest in five years.
Um and I think uh if you if you think about that retention, it's a great indicator of uh uh of a number of things.
First of all, it says the soldier is satisfied and has confidence in the leadership.
The soldier is uh is satisfied that he has the equipment he needs to do his job.
The soldier is totally satisfied with the job he's doing and the difference he's making uh in defending the peace and freedom of this country, and that he likes his quality of life.
So those all those factors are answered by the retention rate.
And if you want to get more detailed, you just look at the uh the retention rate of the third infantry division that's just rotating out of Iraq uh this month.
They beat their retention goal by thirty-six percent, and that goal was the highest that anybody can remember in their history.
So and that was by the way, their second deployment.
So all the indicators and in the general retention and is specifically with uh with a unit that had been deployed twice non-Iraq indicate uh that the Army is not broke, that the soldiers have high morale and uh they're deriving a lot of satisfaction out of the difference they're making the world, and they're very, very proud of being uh the liberators um of uh fifty million people and providing them with a democratic way of life.
The uh uh Associated Press is reporting that uh a retired Army officer wrote the report, uh Andrew Kerpenovich.
That's correct.
Do you know him?
I do.
You do.
Well, he's concluded that the Army can't sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency, and he cites as evidence the Army's two thousand five recruiting slump, which they say uh missed the the goal for the first time since ninety-nine.
And and you know, yeah, I've I've read just the opposite.
I've I've read that r uh the recruiting goal not having been met is a trumped up story, and it sounds like it is from what you just said.
Well, that's we were talking retention rush.
Now now uh, you know, by the way, uh I think uh that's uh uh core correlating recruiting goals with stress on the force um is not the proper correlation.
Our recruiting goals in a sense uh have nothing per se to do with the stress on the force.
It's retention, and as I said, retention is at an is at a five year high.
Now addressing recruiting, we did miss our seventy, uh excuse me, our 05 goal, but let me put that in perspective and tell you what we've done and what we're doing right now.
Uh we had a goal last year of 73,400 in round numbers.
The ten year average of our recruiting was seventy-four thousand four hundred, so we missed it by slightly less less than a thousand or approximately a thousand.
So historically, that we did not do uh do bad bad against or our performance was was not that out of line with with uh past performances.
We are trying to grow the Army, so we have a goal of eighty thousand.
So that is our challenge.
For the last seven months, we have made our monthly goals.
And the reason that is is because in the early spring when we started missing goals, we developed and implemented a number of initiatives from increasing the number of recruiters to increasing the incentives to changing and in pr and enhancing our advertising campaigns.
So we took a whole basket full of initiatives, and I think that has a positive effect.
And as I say, we're on track so far this year.
But make no mistake about it, is it is challenging, but we are being, I think, very proactive about it, and uh so far so good this year.
Well, I think uh it to me, just as a as an average citizen, we've got a essentially an all-volunteer army.
And uh everybody that that signs up for the army these days knows pretty much the odds are pretty pretty good they're going to go off somewhere uh into combat or into the theater of battle.
That's right.
I think it's I I think it's profoundly positive.
Says something tremendous about when you look at the diversity of this country, uh I I it strikes me how you you can go to a city and you can find nineteen and twenty and twenty-one year olds partying like there's no worry about anything in the world in other parts of the country.
In the same city, you can find same age people who have a totally different outlook who want to join the military in these times, at a time of war, to defend and protect the country.
And I'm not criticizing either side.
I just I think it's amazing.
Um no draft is required.
There's no conscription here.
I I think this is something that that the American people instinctively know it are very proud of the U.S. military.
I can say on my part I'm very proud of our young soldiers or and our young men and women to decide to serve.
Like I said at the beginning, you know, I'm I'm giving back to this great country, and and uh my opinion is that serving our nation is the greatest work of life, and our young soldiers uh and y and the recruits that decide to do that have made the same decision, and uh I can tell them,
I tell all the young people out there that um the Army is a great institution, a respected institution, and if they join it, they're going to gain a skill, they're gonna improve their citizenship, but mostly important they're gonna be part of the organization that that uh an organization that the nation relies on to preserve its peace and freedom and and defend its democracy, and that's what our soldiers are doing.
So did this did this report address specifically the Army or all branches?
It was really focused on the Army and quite frankly, uh Rush, uh the the um the suggestions uh that were made in that we're already doing uh j likewise the suggestions in the in the Perry report that came out about the a couple of days ago.
All the suggestions and recommendations, we have been we have been uh taking action for at least the last one to two years on all the recommendations.
So we're moving out, and we have moved out, and um and we will continue to implement initiatives uh by which we preserve this all volunteer force because as you as you noted, the quality is high uh and it's all volunteer and it it's doing the mission.
So uh uh we're we're doing everything we need to do, in my opinion, to preserve and sustain that all volunteer force.
Very important for the country.
It's n it's certainly not my army, it's not the chief staff's army, it's America's army, and it's the nation's army, and um it's very important that we sustain that that high quality that we have, and and uh that's through all volunteer.
Well, Dr. Harvey, I appreciate your time because you know the people uh uh because it's a volunteer force, because it's a time of war, because there are so many harping voices uh of a political nature saying that uh uh soldiers can't hack it, uh they don't have what it takes.
When they read a report that says the army's broken, that it concerns them.
So I'm I thank you for your time to come on and address it.
That's just the opposite of the case.
I think uh as I've said this afternoon, I appreciate being on your show and uh and um good afternoon.
We'll talk to you again.
That's I'll I'll be glad to come back any time.
All right.
Well, we'll be glad to have you.
Dr. Francis Harvey, Secretary of the Army, back in just a moment.
Stay with us.
It's open line Friday, and you never know uh where the show's gonna go on Friday.
That's the unpredictable nature.
We're waiting on the crocodile killer to uh to call in next.
Here's Chuck in Colorado Springs.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, thank you so much for having me on.
I tell you that was so inspiring to listen to the Secretary of the Army, and it just is indicative of the caliber and the quality of people that our president and great leader, George Bush, has picked to help us in the in this this fight of uh terrorism around the nation.
And I think it's so significant that uh that he mentioned that he had actually held a job and worked in the economy.
And I think that's so significant that because so many people on the Democrat side of the debate have never held jobs.
Chuck Schumer is fifty-six years old, he's never held a job a day in his life.
Ted Kennedy, we know has never worked a day in his life.
John Kerry has never held a job a day in his life.
Well, now wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Carrie was a Vietnam veteran.
You may have forgotten that.
And and he had a bagel shop in Boston, and he also remember and he also uh he was a prosecutor.
When he was a prosecutor, they did it right.
They did it smart.
Well, I I'd like to have a caveat about that because a prosecutor is the giveaway job for people that graduate from law school so that they don't have to go on welfare right away.
And I think any anybody who has not been a lawyer and not worked as a prosecutor somehow missed it.
And he didn't have a bagel shop.
He tried to open up a replica of Mrs. Feel's cookie shop, and he had to drop that because of there's there's franchise infringement about that.
That's right.
That's what it was it was a cookie shop.
It wasn't a bagel shop.
And I think coffee shop, cookie shop, whatever, Boston, San Francisco, same place.
Perhaps if they had some of these people that had actually held jobs, they would not be so supportive of their three three uh key issues, which are treason, atheism, and sodomy.
What which were what racism and sodomy, which are the only three three issues that they stand on.
All right.
Look, Chuck, I appreciate the call, and I'm sure the Secretary of the Army, uh uh Dr. Henry does as uh as well.
Uh your enthusiasm out there, pal.
I really I really do.
No, no, no, no.
Okay.
Jenny in uh in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
That you whatever you Winterball do not let the call on line one go.
The call I've wanted most all day, has been up there for an hour and a half.
Do not let that lady go away.
Jenny Jenny and Fredericks Bergford.
Hi, how are you?
I'm great.
How are you?
Couldn't be better.
Thank you.
I I just wanted to call and let you know that I am uh twenty-nine-year-old.
Uh my husband is twenty-seven, and I see newters all around me, but we are not of that ilk at all.
Um I know, I know it's it's it's it's uh it's irritating and it's pervasive out there, the American Castratia.
By the way, I couldn't find the name of the guy who wrote that piece that I that I read to you, the American Digest.org, and I finally have his name is Gerard Vanderloon.
Or Vanderleen, it's L E U N, and I don't know how it's pronounced, so it could Vanderloon, Vanderleen, I'm not sure, but his name is Gerard Van or something, and it's a it's a br it really i it's it's a it's it's a brilliant, brilliant piece, and it just it captures the whole essence of this whole bunch of people uh who uh he's talking about American moderates, conflict resolution graduates.
Uh basically they they're sex sexless, they don't want to offend anybody, they're afraid to say anything they think might offend somebody.
Um when they when they talk, they always end up with a slight question mark sound at the end of what they say, and they have this air of superiority about them, and it just it just grates.
Just a tinge of arrogance in the sense that they uh they're more learned and they're more understanding and they're more sensitive and they're more uh informed and educated than uh the rest of us plebs.
Uh and of course, you just you just want to smack these people upside the head and jolt them back into reality.
Kelly and Moline, Illinois.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
Hi.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Um I wanted to touch on just a couple of things before I get to my main point.
If I could.
Um the one was my husband just got back from San Antonio, Texas, as a guest of the Army.
Um he's a football coach here, and um he attended several days of clinics and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
And uh he was totally impressed with the operations there and how his soldiers were treated and how he was treated and the whole army philosophy and how much it uh resembled uh the f football philosophy and team, and uh he's a liberal.
So when he came back, I totally expected the opposite response from him.
So it was good to hear uh what your husband's your husband's a liberal and he went down and let Bobby Ross do a couple seminars for him.
Yep.
Did he come back a liberal?
Uh not as bad as he was.
Yeah, I was going to say.
It's still not where I want him to be, but I'm working on it.
Well, send him out to kill some spiders.
That appears to be one of the approved ways of turning your husband into a real man.
Just make sure you do it with a tennis ball can uh so you can save the webs for the hummingbirds.
Uh my second quick point was that the mentality of Jill is totally backwards to me, but um, don't don't waste any time.
Look, uh, we've got less than a minute uh to get to your point, which was James Fry.
So I'm gonna have to ask you something.
Yes.
You've been holding for an hour and a half.
Yes.
That's an investment.
It is.
Could I ask you to add another seven or eight minutes to that so I don't have to talk to you and address what you want to discuss, because I've got some audio I want to play with it, and I got another Okay, because uh she's she's she wants to address the fact that this author, that Oprah finally flip-flopped on and is now stabbed in the back and thrown under the bus after trying to save him,
that this author is being crucified by the very media that itself makes up stories, writes things that are totally untrue, leaves out half of the facts of most stories, but that's only that's what she wants to say.
But I want to take it a little bit further than that.
We'll do that when we have time.
Stick with us, folks.
We're coming right back.
You know, Oprah can can savage and crucify this James Fry guy all she wants, but it's about time somebody shine the light on Oprah for some of the lies and ongoing misrepresentations she keeps telling about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina down in New Orleans.
She doesn't have clean hands on any of this stuff when it comes to being honest and straightforward about a story.
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