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Feb. 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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I uh I want to I want to fill you people in on something.
I need to Mr. Snerdley needs to know this too.
I appeared this morning with Paul W. Smith on our Detroit affiliate, WJR.
Uh this is the number one most listened to program in Detroit.
And this is Super Bowl Week in Detroit, and everybody there is uh uh extremely proud and happy of the uh of the face they're they're putting forth this year of the city as the world congregates to the to the city.
And I get earlier this week, I guess it was on Monday, on this program, I once again referred to the to the place by the name that we uh made up for it following the insurgent uh behavior at uh the Palace of Auburn Hills that night with Ron Artest, the Indiana Pacers uh were visiting the Pistons.
And that's been a long time ago.
That was that was about a year and a half ago.
And apparently when I when I when I referred to Detroit by this name, which I promised on the radio that in Detroit today I would drop.
Uh what I that's why I'm not using it now.
And Snerdly is having a conniption in there.
Just let me explain this.
Let me no, no, let me I've I look it.
I have nothing against Detroit.
Never have just I mean, it's it's absurd to say so.
As everybody knows, the only place in this country that I really think presents a problem to our future is Rio Linda.
I've never been critical of Detroit.
That that that name that we came up with uh was simply to signify that one instance, that one night at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
And it happened to coincide with the uh military battle at a city in Iraq.
So we referred to that area.
Well, apparently some people were uh listening to WJR and a Paul Smith show earlier this week and for the first time heard the comment and didn't know what it meant.
Wow, blah blah blah.
WJR I got a guy on there calling it blah blah blah.
So they asked me if I would come on and explain this and talk about it.
And I sensed, I sensed when talking to Paul W. Smith uh toward the end of the interview, he was he was trepidatiously creeping ever so close to asking me if I would consider batting the turn.
And I didn't want to have to have him ask me that.
So I interpreted, I'm uh using my empathy.
I knew where his question was going.
I said, Paul, you don't even have to ask.
I'll gladly suspend the use.
It's old now anyway, and the fact that somebody heard it and didn't know the context is proof that it's old.
But I, as I said to him in Detroit, I said, look, you have to understand everybody was talking about that incident.
And when I say everybody, everybody that has a radio program.
There's a lot of noise out there.
You have to, I mean, you d we have techniques here.
We do satire parody bits and so forth to stand out above the noise.
Uh with class and dignity.
We don't go over the line of propriety and uh and uh we don't get depraved or perverted or profane here on this program like others have to to get noticed.
And I said to him, I said, the fact is it worked.
Uh the if if it's if it's a year and a half later still, you know, causing feeling.
But uh but but but the it the the the thing that the reason I suspended it, Mr. Sterdley says we don't have ill feelings toward Detroit.
It's just the opposite.
We love Detroit on this program.
Every time I've been there, I love it.
Uh I've done I've done uh I did it in a rush to excellence there, and uh and I've I've but I've I've been back and I played a couple charity golf tournaments uh for the people at JR.
And uh I was there when Ford Field opened.
First first preseason game, uh it was in August, uh whenever it was whatever year it opened recently against this was against the Steelers.
I've been there to speak to the uh Detroit Economic Club.
Uh and of course, they're they're they're proud of the growth engine that they've created there.
And and I I have I you know would make no sense anyway to go and disparage uh uh uh people that routinely and regularly listen to the program just for fun.
I mean if if anybody does anything that warrants genuine criticism, I'm not gonna hold back, but the term that we came up for it uh uh has outlived its usefulness.
And I just wanted you people to know that that I have uh I have I have I have snerdly, he can't believe this.
He's beside himself for the Fez just snerdily says the insurgents won.
He said, I'm waving the white flag here.
No, I just wanted you all to know because a great conversation with Paul Obly Smith today, and and uh uh I mean I know and no intention to impugn the city of Detroit, especially this week.
What are you what are you laughing at now?
What?
Uh uh oh, okay.
See and then's doing a never mind.
The timing of this is pretty good.
CNN's doing a story on the original battle that led to the term that I no longer utter.
Uh, describing that one incident, uh, not the city.
All right.
As more evidence, uh ladies and gentlemen, that the uh at the left continues to implode and descend into meaninglessness.
Dale McFetters, writing for this Gribbs Howard News Service, has a piece called A Sorry State of Anti-War Protest.
Let me ask you people a question.
Have you ever seen, do you recall a slap?
I mean, even even just a uh uh a whisper of criticism aimed at Cindy Sheehan in the mainstream media.
I don't think I have I I can't re No.
All right, it's affirmative it's affirmed and confirmed there has not been one.
All right, here's Mr. McFetters.
Just some excerpts from this piece.
Has the State of American anti-war protest really come down to Cindy Sheehan?
Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, was once a figure of considerable sympathy.
Now she comes off as shrill, humorless, and self-promoting, which is hard to do in the nation's capital given the level of competition.
Mr. McFetters, let me help out here.
In most of America, Cindy Sheehan has not been a figure of considerable sympathy.
In most of America, Cindy Sheehan has been an exploited idiot, a useful idiot and a tool for people in the media and the American left.
She was just the latest in a long line of issues, people that came along at a convenient time to try to rip and destroy George W. Bush and his policies in the war on terror and the war on Iraq.
There was never any real affection for her.
She was funded and created essentially by a PR firm out in California.
She's always been a myth.
It's always been known she's a hypocrite.
It's always been known that the President did have a meeting with her.
It's always been known the president was very gracious to her.
She is not a person of considerable sympathy in the sense that you mean it.
If she has any sympathy, it's people simply feel sorry for her because of how she has been exploited and made to look like uh an idiot and a fool by the people who claim to have all this attachment, affection, and love for her.
The night of President Bush's State of the Union message, she was ousted from the House Visitors Gallery for wearing a t-shirt with an anti-war slogan, 2,245 dead.
How many more?
By the way, there were two other people thrown out that night.
One of them was the was the wife of a Republican member of Congress.
C.W. Bill Young or some s some such guy.
And she was wearing a pro-war t-shirt.
I threw her out too.
Now the the Capitol Hill police have apologized, Cindy Sheehan.
She was released.
Charges are being uh dismissed.
Nobody has any uh any any ill will over this.
Uh the guy that runs a Capitol Police said it's my fault I didn't I didn't properly brief my officers.
That's not the kind of thing for which we would automatically throw people out.
We should have given her the chance to cover it up first, not just uh ripped her out of there, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But anyway.
As Mr. McFetters writes, Cindy Sheehan apparently does like living in a country that allows frivolous lawsuits because she plans to file one.
Like many driven people in pursuit of a cause, sheehan tends to conflate great issues of principle with her own scrapes with reality.
The fact is she was in the house by invitation, not right, and she could have stood up and applauded an approval or sat on her hands and and glared as the president spoke.
But the House sets its own rules, even the president has to abide by them.
The president cannot come on the House floor unless he is invited and has an escort.
As it happened, she hands dust up came with the news that Stu Albert had died, the last and least known of a trio of anti-war protesters and included Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman.
They could be every bit as self-righteous as Sheehan, but they were also inventive, imaginative, and very amusing.
By way of protests, they once organized 50,000 people to levitate the Pentagon, for which they had an official permit.
They brought the New York Stock Exchange to a halt by showering the trading floor with dollar bills.
In 68, they nominated a pig for president.
Sheehan came to prominence last summer when she camped out near Bush's Texas Ranch.
At first the protest with crosses symbolizing the war dead was rather poignant, but as the month wore on, sheehan's insistence that she personally had to meet the president became disturbing.
Sheehan's strange quest isn't really about the war or Iraq or Bush.
Maybe it's all about Cindy Sheehan.
So she has been slapped down in the mainstream media because even now, or finally now, they're beginning to realize that she's an embarrassment and a distraction and is causing harm to whatever their asinine cause is.
But this is not going to sit this McFedder's guy is going to be targeted.
He's going to be he's gonna be the left websites are gonna wish him death.
They're gonna hope he gets cancer, they're gonna hope he drowns, and it's gonna run Cindy for Senator, whatever.
It's gonna be fun to watch this, folks.
The crack up on the left continues.
He's a former friends of Howard Dean.
Wow, that that that that list of contributors to George Soros just keeps growing.
Next up, we're probably gonna hear and friends of Barbara Boxer.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Here is Tony in Detroit.
Tony, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it is an honor to talk to you, sir.
You are the Michelangelo of announcers.
I'll tell you what.
If you've ever seen the Fistine Chapel, you look at the you look at the walls that are by the other people, the other masters of the Renaissance, and then you look at the ceiling and you say, That's a master, and that's what you are, sir.
This is indeed an honor.
I told your screener that I did want to call you, and I did want to let you know that some of us here in New Fallujah like the name and watch it and watch the name to stick.
You should also know that as you probably heard Jerome Bettis got the uh keys to the city of Detroit yesterday from uh Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
I saw that.
Well, well, previously, um the the last time the keys to the city of Detroit were handed out was by another great Detroit statesman, Colman A. Young, and he handed them off to Saddam Hussein.
Yes, yes, yes, I understand all that.
Uh, but but Coleman Young isn't the mayor anymore, and I am sure that Kwame Kilpatrick has changed the lock on the city so that Saddam's key doesn't work anymore.
Well, I don't know.
When when Saddam was given remember now, this was 1980.
When Saddam was given the key to the city of Detroit, Saddam was an ally of ours, and and and he was he was donating money to build churches and and what have you in the uh in the Detroit area.
I'm not not defending the Saddam, simply giving you the historical perspective of the times uh twenty-six years ago.
But I you you don't think that a Saddam showed up with his key to the city, it would unlock anything, do you?
There's not well, they might give they might let 'em.
They might let them.
You know, there's not there's not much there.
I mean.
If you've been to if you've been to parts of Detroit, that's true of the document.
Look at that's that's that's don't get me started where I live.
I mean, that that's that's true of any place.
I uh the and the and the uh the point is that uh uh there there are people in Detroit who are working very hard to revitalize the place and they're proud of their efforts.
And uh I I think that they uh they ought to be.
What what what?
All right, all right, Sterling.
I you I'm not I am Thurley wants to know How about the NFL having a Super Bowl in Detroit, not inviting any Motown singers to do any meaningful they did get Stevie Wonder.
They got at the last minute they went and got Stevie Wonder.
But and they've got they've got they've got Well, but Aretha's not Motown.
She was Atlantic.
Well, she's from Detroit, but they they did get they did get some Motown people, I forget who, to uh to appear in the pregame show, which is not televised.
Uh I you're asking me to explain the NF.
I can't explain the NFL to you.
I mean that's that's that's it's their show.
If they want these sixty-two-year-old wrinkled rockers uh to be doing the halftime show, the Rolling Stones, you know, more more more power to them.
Uh I I I'm not a I'm not I'm I'm not an NFL defender.
I I like football for what takes place on the field, but uh I'm I'm getting all these questions that are not even my responsibility.
Why am I supposed to have the answer to why they don't have Motown people there?
I would love the four tops being part of that pre-game show or the the halftime show.
I really would.
Sugar Pie, Boney Hunch, do to do Yes, absolutely.
Temptations.
Uh at any rate, uh Tony, I uh appreciate the phone call.
This is Raul in Philadelphia.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Hey, uh the Super Bowl halftime theme is sex, drugs, and geritol.
Uh I would hope Senator Hope the NFL heard that.
Yes, sir.
Very good, Raul.
Uh I would hope Senator Dan Forth could put aside his prejudices against people of faith long enough to have written a letter of appreciation to the Southern Baptist Convention because before Katrina hit, they had 30 mobile kitchens in place, ready to rock and roll as soon as that storm hit, and they are feeding hundreds of thousands of meals, and that's the religious right that he hates.
I don't think he hates them.
I I I I I by the way, that's an excellent point.
The the uh charitable and good works that uh performed by Christians who are conservative is legion.
Uh I I think I think what's going on here, Raul is fear um and a little frustration.
I I uh let me tell you something.
I I've I've regaled you all with stories.
I back in uh days that I lived in New York, I'd be invited to these hoity toidy doos with all these uh rich Republican fat cat contributors to uh presidential escapades.
This during the Clinton years, by the way.
And I can remember I'm not gonna mention any names because you'd know who they are, but it's not the point.
I can remember if it ha if this happened to me once to be it happened three or four times.
This ninety-three, ninety-four, after dinner being out on a deck in the Hamptons.
And I only went there, by the way, when I was invited.
Please don't hold it against me.
And I went there when I was invited.
And I'd have these guys coming up to me, and they'd sort of playfully jab me in the ribs.
What are we gonna do about these Christians?
I said, What do you mean?
They're killing us.
They're killing us, this abortion business.
They're killing us.
And I said, You like winning elections?
Well, who does it?
Well, then you better be damn happy that they're voting on our side because without their 24 million votes, everything else you want in politics would be down the tubes.
It happened at the at it at Houston.
I went to the Republican convention in 1992.
And you remember Ann Stone?
She used to be married to Roger Stone.
Ann Stone was other the uh uh women uh Republican women against abortion.
I don't forget the exact title was, but she's trying to rabble rouse.
The uh uh uh I'm looking at 17 seconds, and I can't say when I want to say in 17 seconds, but at the root of this, not at the root, but one of the roots of this.
Uh is Republican women, and I will explain this when I come back.
Stay with us, don't go away.
You got him on the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, look.
Senator Dan Fort's piece today is not his first along these lines.
He's written other, I think one other time prominently, that Christian conservatives need to get out of politics.
He's terrible, he's upset, it's worried about what's gonna happen.
This is all a result, I think, of uh power being amassed and secured.
I don't think it is coincidental, in fact, that Senator Dan Fort's piece appears after Judge Alito has been confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Now, as I told you, I've I've and I don't think Senator Dan Forth hates Christian conservatives.
I just think there's fear among people that think they are moderates and more reasonable and uh wise uh not reactionary, thoughtful well bred reasonable, and everybody else just is an out-of-control freak, and my god, if we don't get if we don't get our arms around them, they're gonna destroy the country.
When in fact they're the ones that move ideas forward.
Hey, as I pointed out, civil rights movement, modern era, former era, whatever, the whole thing oriented around the church.
The Reverend Jackson, nobody tells him to get out of politics.
Nobody ever tells Al Sharpton to get out of politics.
Nobody ever tells Jimmy Carter to get out of politics.
But I've had as I say it's nothing new.
I think it's just a result of more and more power being uh amassed and secured at the Republican convention or at these uh hoity torty uh country club blue blood Republican fundraisers that I've uh or just flat out dinner parties, not even fundraisers, just dinner parties.
All these guys have come up to, what are we gonna do about the Christians?
As though I'm one of them and I gotta, you know, I gotta rein them in.
I said, What are you talking?
Abortion?
It's killing the party.
It's killing the party.
This is during the Clinton years, and they thought we were losing everything because of abortion, and I would say, well, look.
Uh you want to just throw their 24 million votes away?
No.
No, but uh abortion we can't.
And I I took a couple of them aside.
Do you do you really care it's my wife?
My wife, she won't vote Republican.
She won't until they get rid of this abortion.
So I'm telling you, in my humble opinion, these guys are just head and peck, the only thing they do behind their wife's back, zip her up.
And the wife comes along and says, I'm not dang Republican.
Look at those pretty and so the guy says, okay, I want peace in my house.
And I'm out raising lots of money for Republicans, and I got my wife telling me she's gonna work against me and not vote.
So it became a cause.
But I I I don't I don't know that that's the case with Senator Dan Forth.
I'm not associated, I've never he's never said anything about this to me, so don't associate him with with that story.
But this happened to me, folks, since since 1992-93, and it was really an all-time panic during the Clinton years.
Back then these hoiti torty Republicans thought we had lost everything forever for good because of abortion.
The truth of the matter is that the the people who are pro-life on this are are succeeding.
There are fewer abortions in the country today.
There's less teen pregnancy.
It it there's progress.
There's no reason.
It's because these people have been under assault and under attack, you could say since 1973, but they don't they don't close up shop and go home.
I think it's nothing more than their fear that um uh the left, the reasonable and the wise and the elite are losing virtually everywhere they go.
And and look, to them, when when you say Christian conservative, you may as well say Zeke and Mabel in a nineteen forty-eight blue pickup in the bowels of the South trying to outrun the revenuers.
Because on the one hand, they got a still in the backyard up in the woods where they're making moonshine.
They got a shotgun in the rack in the back of the pickup, and they're running around going to church and their Sunday go-to-meet and cloth, and then they're eating possum for Sunday dinner.
It's the Beverly Hillbillies.
And they're just embarrassed that those people are in their party.
But like everything else of the left, it's an image and a reality that's totally false.
It's not who these people are.
And so I don't think there's any hate.
I just I just think that there is uh is fear.
Carol in the uh Castro Valley, California.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ, how are you?
Yeah, peachy keen, fine and dandy, uh, and humble.
Always.
I wanted to react to Dan Forth's comment.
I am a conservative Christian Republican.
I'm also an Attorney and a college professor.
And I am really fed up with these guys being with their arrogant condescending attitude.
Um I have been involved in local politics.
I ran for office in 1998, and it's really astounding when you're up front and say, Yeah, I don't believe in abortion.
I really do believe that it's killing a child, and um no, I can't vote that way.
That people are so astounded that you'll actually say that and won't slobber all over yourself and stammer around that um you can actually persuade people to your point of view.
But people like Danforth try to marginalize us, and one, he's wrong.
He's never gonna be able to marginalize, and two, there's a lot of support out there in conservative circles for all sorts of charitable works.
I mean a church that I get.
It's ridiculous.
Oh, that's true.
I I would I would say this something I've had to learn personally.
I think and by the way, uh you you heard her say uh John Danforth's comment, he has a column today in the Washington Post, and I read excerpts of it at the beginning of the program.
I don't want to go back and repeat those.
He's not said anything verbally.
But if you want to go to the Washington Post website, it's there.
We'll have a link to it at Rushlinball.com and we update the site uh later this evening.
Uh but I I think as I've had to learn personally, and and I think all of you probably on this in this movement, uh, Christians who are conservative movement, you you know full well what this means.
It's uh it's it's not something to fear yourself.
I mean it's it puts you on your gun.
It lets you know that you have enemies and it lets you know they have people that are trying to marginalize you and wipe you out uh from the political process, but it also is a m it's it's a measure of your success, and that's how you have to take a look at it.
Um the the uh all this criticism that stuff used to bother me, but now I I know how to look at it, and uh as I say it's it's to me it's no coincidence this comes in the midst of uh Alito being confirmed to the Supreme Court.
There's a potential opening coming up.
You'd have to think averages are such, we'll get another opening within the next two years.
And if we get the next nominee, and I say bring it on, we're on a roll.
Next nominee, fact uh story in the stack here.
Uh uh I can't think of the term, but then that's a term they've used for every nomination that that is made by a Republican president since Bork.
Uh what is it?
It it's a it's akin to all right, we're gonna pull out all stuff.
Sorry, this we're gonna go it's not nuclear, but we're we're gonna pull I'll find it to give you the term.
And I think they're all gearing up for this, and you're just seeing an attempt now to form and shape public opinion on uh on the whole Christian conservative crowd on the basis of abortion, uh, for a host of reasons, among them the next potential Supreme Court nomination.
Look, when Ralph Nees and the boys and these left wing liberal advocates uh start practicing their thirty-year-old Bork technique against Alito and against Roberts, all they're trying to do is be first out of the box to have the the first impression the public hears of any Republican nominee be that that they succeeded in uh convincing people Bork was racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, you know, all these things.
The fact that they can't do it anymore has got 'em panicked.
They tried the same technique against Alito and Roberts that succeeded against Bork, and they think succeeded against some other Republican nominees, and it failed miserably.
They're not able to move and bend and shape and flake and form public opinion the way they were, even if they are first out of the box with a description of any nominee, as they were with Alito.
Because we're here and you're there, and we are in far greater numbers than they understand and appreciate.
And when they think we're a bunch of hicy seed idiots, we have them right where we want 'em.
If they think that we're stupid and idiotic and backwards and all that, why we got 'em right where we want 'em.
You got to look at this in the context of the strategical moves necessary to get what you want and succeed.
And when the other side's gonna misunderestimate you.
Whoa, you've um you've got 'em, you've got 'em right where you want 'em.
I think we need to substitute the term Bork now because it's it's been shown that they can't bork anybody anymore.
But we alitoed the elites.
The elites can be elito and the elites are elitoing themselves at the same time.
Here's Barbara in St. Louis.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush, this is Barb.
Yeah.
Um back in December there was a full page ad in my local paper uh for that.
That would be the uh St. Louis Post to scratch.
Well, actually, this is just one of the look local uh county papers that's Oh, sorry about that they mail to you that you might not want, but they send it to you anyway.
Yeah.
Um Senator Danforth is the honorary coalition co-chair for the Missouri Coalition for Life Saving Cures.
And that group uh Missouri's kind of charged right now as far as Republicans who are against embryonic stem cell research and others who are for it.
And there's been discussion for having a cloning ban in our state, and it really didn't move forward in the last legislature.
But what this group is trying to do is uh put up get a petition together to place what they call the stem cell initiative on the November 2006 statewide ballot.
And is Senator Dan Forth active in that?
Yeah, there's been uh commercials on TV printing.
All right, well, there you then there's there's that's that's pretty much all we need to know.
Uh for there to be I'm nervous as could be here.
Well, no, you think what I'm telling you is true, and uh I can fax you something if you need to see.
You don't sound nervous.
Okay.
You did a great job of explaining it to us.
I I appreciate that.
Uh embryonic stem cells, where are you gonna get the embryos?
Hello, Roe vs.
Wade.
Oh no, we can't have that.
You're gonna have to have you're gonna have to have the freedom to freely abort uh for embryonic okay, well that I'm telling you there's fear in there.
There's there's there's no question that there's uh there's fear in this, and but you know, this is this the this the Supreme Court has caused this to be the issue that it is by taking it outside the realm of the legislative process.
We haven't ever had a nationwide or even state by state vote on these things, and so nine people in robes proclaimed X, and uh the people have revolted uh in large numbers ever since.
But that uh that that would explain it because the stem cell debate uh is is just an extension of the of the pro-choice crowd.
Or the uh the pro aborts.
Quick time out, we'll be back.
Uh folks, stay with us.
I've been holding an abeyance here, uh the audio sound bites in President Clint.
Slap me.
Uh President Bush yesterday at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
I got uh three here I want to play for you.
Let's start them in order.
Here's the first of three.
There's some uncertainty in people's minds.
People are uncertain uh in spite of our strong union because of war.
And I understand that.
You know, my job is as much educator in chief as it is commander in chief.
And during times of uncertainty, it's important for me to do what I'm doing today, which is explain the path to victory, to do the best I can to articulate my optimism about the future.
But I understand there's a there's an anxiety about a time of war.
That's natural, it seems like to me.
Even though this economy is roaring, it is strong, particularly when you think that we recognize we've overcome a lot.
We've overcome this year alone we've overcome higher energy prices and natural disasters, and yet we're we really are the envy of the world.
Uh, my reaction to this bite is uh uh I th this notion that people are uncertain.
I think the White House may be paying a little bit too much attention to some polls.
I think in fact the State of Union uh speech and when he talked what she talked about alternative fuels and switchgrass and this sort of I I think that's a direct offshoot of polls that they've taken is that people are upset about high gas prices.
And I think it's being way overblown.
I I I mean of course I don't think there's nearly as much uncertainty out there as as uh as these polls indicate.
And uh I the pres if the president wants to set the table that way and then deal with it, fine.
But uh do you do you think there's that much uncertainty out there?
I I mean the the idea that most people think we're losing and need to get it's not there.
Most people we don't lose, we're the United States of America.
Uh the left is doing its best to to conjure up this notion that we're impotent and can't win and they want us to lose, but I d I just don't I don't sense it, I don't feel it.
You know, I've got my f I got my finger on the pulse of this nation from behind the golden EIB microphone.
I'm not a lot of unease out there.
Here's the next of three bites from President Bush.
On September the 11th, 2001.
I vowed to the American people that we would not rest and tire in order to protect us.
And so I have never forgotten that vow.
As a matter of fact, every day, every day of my presidency, I think about this war.
That's what you've got to understand.
And so when you hear me give a speech and talk about the dangers to America, they are real, not imagined.
You know, some would like us to look the at the world the way we would hope it would be.
My job as your president is to look at the world the way it is.
Damn right.
Right on, right on, right on.
And then there's this.
I hope you get this sense of my optimism about the country.
You know, I told you mine is a decision-making job.
I first learned that when a guy called me, I was getting ready to give my inaugural address right before the swearing in on the first term, and a guy called me and said, What color rug do you want in the Oval Office?
I said, Man, this is a decision-making job, you know.
What color rug do I want?
And so I said, Laura, the only thing I want in that rug to say, you figure out how to say it, is optimistic person comes here to work every day.
She captured my spirit because I am optimistic about our future.
I can tell you what rug was in there until he got his own, the rug that was in when Ronald Reagan was president.
Because I was there, and he's pointed it out to all of us.
So the president says, I hope you get the sense of my optimism about the country.
You know, I hope to my decision-making job optimism.
Got a new Gallup poll here, folks.
Taken this month, shows that despite a range of current concerns, fully 85% of adult Americans say they are extremely or very proud to be American, a total of 85%.
Just 5% answer they are only a little proud or they are not proud at all.
Five percent.
There you have the liberals in this country.
85% fully 85% of adult Americans say they are extremely happy or very proud to be America.
As as the uh editor and publisher writes, despite a range of current concerns, this is my point.
This range of current concerns is brought about by fake media polls that they believe and then report and hope that everybody else believes.
People are proud to be Americans in this country.
And they're optimistic.
Five percent say they are only a little proud to be an American or not at all.
And they are the American left.
Quick timeout, folks.
Sit tight.
Back with more broadcast exclusivity and excellence in a moment.
You remember the uh the famous uh horse sex case out in um in the state of Washington where uh adventurated uh we all learned as long as you had sex with a horse and the horse uh uh didn't mind or wasn't injured, then there was no crime.
Uh they they nailed the perp there on trespassing in the barn.
Um, and uh he died.
Uh the horse lived.
State of Washington wants to do something about this now.
They they want to ban uh bestiality.
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