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Feb. 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, I've seen it all now, folks.
The civil rights guys have got to be blowing a gasket.
The American left has got to be blowing a gasket.
We just had a broke back moment in the Coretta Scott King funeral.
Because the pastor of the church, the New Birth Minister, Missionary Baptist Church, which, according to, I'm just sharing with you what it says here in the LA Times, King's Suburban Funerals Night raises concerns, so there's some unease about the choice of the church.
The new birth missionary Baptist Church.
The uh the pastor there is um uh Bishop Eddie Long and Bishop Eddie has just finished uh uh wowing the crowd and introduced President Bush, and President Bush strode to the podium, embraced Bishop Eddie, and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
He just gave him a kiss on the cheek.
It was a broke back moment.
I know one of the civil rights guys.
Now we've been watching Bush's speech, and Bush was during this, he was getting some polite applause.
And when he finished, he got a standing ovation from the what uh 10,000 is the seating capacity of this church.
10,000.
He got a standing ovation he just now finished.
Now, we know what Bill Clinton will talk about during the funeral.
Or one of the reasons that Bush was getting polite applause, and one of the reasons that Bush got a standing O is because he talked about Dr. King.
And he talked about Coretta Scott King.
We know when Bill Clinton gets his turn, what he'll talk about himself.
He will talk about Bill Clinton.
Let me try.
Let me, in fact, let me give you a wild guess as to uh what one of Bill Clinton's 35 themes will be.
You know, when I was growing up in Arkansas, long before I even knew that there was a Hillary anywhere.
My buddies and I...
We watched Dr. King struggle.
We come home from those church burners and we pass them by on the way home from school, still those churches burning, and we and then we watched Dr. King struggle.
We watched him march in Selma, and we and we watched him march elsewhere or all over the place.
I I remember turning to my buddy Joe Bob.
I said, Joe Bob, let's march down the middle of Hope.
My little town, let's carry signs and supported Dr. King.
We were only five.
We were only six, maybe ten, I forget how much it was.
We were way ahead of our time, though.
And we were there.
And so my buddy Joe Bob and I, we got our signs, and we marched down the middle of Main Street of Hope, Arkansas.
People watching us, wondering what we were doing.
Two little southern white dogs might marching down the street for no reason whatsoever in their minds, but we were at one with Dr. King.
Now, of course, what Clinton won't mention is that his mentor was J. William Fulbright.
Senate Democrat, a segregationist who opposed everything about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Oh, something else I think that Bill Clinton will do.
Uh and I'd like to apologize here to all of you, particularly those of you in the family of uh Dr. King.
I want to apologize uh for uh uh Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at JFK for for bugging Dr. King as they were searching for evidence that he was sleeping around on his wife.
I don't know that he ever had a one of those El Caminos with astro turf in the back like I did.
But uh I want to apologize to the whole civil rights community.
I want to apologize the King family uh for those vicious illegal wiretaps that President Bush is now himself performing on other Americans.
This is what Jimmy Carter says, and so I want to apologize uh for this because we all know now it was wrong.
So let's see.
Let's see if if that's some of what we get from from Bill Clinton, it's gonna take about I mean will he shut up?
What's your guess as to how long Clinton's speech will go?
Ten minutes?
Well, President Bush didn't go much longer than that.
If uh if Clinton does less than a half hour, snurdly, I'll buy you a Sony camera.
If he does less than a half hour.
All right, we got some other items in the news, somewhat uh somewhat interesting today for more than a decade.
Where's the LA Times?
For more than a decade, the youth and civics group, Rock the Vote has been the coolest kid on the political playground.
Founded in Los Angeles in 1990 with a goal of politically empowering the MTV generation, Rock the Vote quickly became a cause celeb among Democratic and entertainment power brokers.
At rock concerts on college camp eye, and with ads featuring a near naked Madonna.
The group helped register millions of young voters.
But as it moves into its 16th year, Rock the Vote itself is being rocked by a crisis.
Saddled with about $700,000 in debt, the group has cut its staff from more than 20 people in 2004 to just two people today.
Its president who left last summer amid disagreement about the organization's direction has yet to be replaced.
And last month, Rock the Vote was sued for the second time in just eight months.
Fred Goldring, a music attorney and chairman of Rock the Vote's board, says dwindling donations are to blame.
We're like the popular kid who never gets asked out because everybody thinks he already has a date.
Said Goldring, who presides over a board of more than 20 people, including MTV President Judy McGrath, Recording Industry Association of America General Manager Joel Flattow, and until recently, Viacom chief executive Tom Freston.
Everybody thinks this group is rich because of our enormous visibility, but lackluster fundraising is just one of Rock the Vote's problems.
The organization has typically recruited young executives who embodied its mission.
But according to more than half a dozen people familiar with the situation, Rock the Vote's staff did not have the business acumen to manage a large nonprofit.
Rock the vote's former president says the group's priorities are too often buffeted by board members, many of them top music industry executives, who appear to care more about promoting artists than registering voters.
Music's biggest stars did embrace the group, volunteering to film PSAs that aired on MTV.
Companies like Motorola and DKNY became sponsors.
Rock the vote buses crossed the nation signing up voters, but it's unclear what effect they had.
No, it's not.
Rock the vote has always been a sham.
Rock the votes about voter fraud.
Rock the vote.
Every every the last since 1990, every election.
We are told how great Rock the Vote's doing and what great work they're doing.
And this election, we are always told, the youth vote is going to come out in mass.
It's going to come out in force, and it's going to change the direction of the country.
All this was was an outreach program to get young twerps who couldn't find Washington, D.C. if they were inside the beltway.
Register to vote Democrat.
That's all it was.
It was a Democrat registration program.
Pure and simple.
And it's now today another liberal organization in money trouble.
No different than the liberal radio networks out there that have to pay radio stations to carry their shows.
Now this group has known only two people leading it, and the reason they're in money trouble is because it hasn't worked.
Since 1990, their mission has been to register young skullful of mush Democrats who'd much rather be clubbing than going anywhere to vote.
So that they'll hopefully go out and vote and vote for Democrats, and this would put Democrats over the top.
But come election day, all these people that were supposedly registered, they don't get out of bed till eight o'clock at night after the polls are closed.
So it was doomed to fail from the get-go because its objective was always skewed.
Its objective and principle was founded on the fact we've got to find a way to stack the deck in our favor.
There was no education.
I mean, come on, folks, let's face it.
When you're going to put somebody like Puffy Combs, or what's his name now?
P. Diddy.
When you're going to put somebody P. Diddy walking around with a with a t shirt that basic says vote or you die and parade them around the Democrat convention, what's the point of going to the Democrat convention with your Rock the Vote organization?
I mean, everybody there ostensibly is supposedly going to vote for a Democrat anyway.
It's just, it's just classic.
And this organization, the media just love them.
Oh, we're getting the American youth invote.
It's so wonderful.
The MTV generation.
If you've ever taken time to look at the MTG MTV generation, I would maintain that half of the MTV generation doesn't even know there are elections, much less that you have to register for them.
The Al Qaeda national anthem here, you dropped a bomb on me.
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You know, I'm watching the the funeral for Coretta Scott King.
It reminds me we had a story last week.
Um I think it was the LA Times, but it was uh civil rights observers, uh political analysts and observers, observ of what was it?
Is the AP.
What's the difference?
Okay, so is the AP, LA Times.
It's all it's all the antique media.
And they're sitting around these political observers observing that there's a problem in the civil rights community because with the death of Coretta Scott King uh and not long ago, the death of Rosa Parks, just who is there, that the civil rights movement as currently constituted has to look backwards in order to find glory, that there's nobody in the future.
There's nobody that they're that they haven't just like the rest of the Democratic Party, they're just stuck in these people's case.
Some of them are stuck 200 years ago, others are stuck 50 years ago, but they're stuck in the past somewhere.
And you can't help but notice this as you watch the funeral, because they're in the front row, separated by uh a woman, I don't know who she is, you find the uh Reverend Dax and Al Sharpton.
Now, in all candor, what is the future of a movement with those two guys at the helm?
They represent the past.
They they they have not modernized.
You look on the Republican side, though, and this is as we pointed out last week.
You want to find out the future for black Americans.
If you want role models, if you want icons, they're all on the Republican side these.
Well, you gotta, I guess, include Barack Obama, but McCain's trying to take him out.
We'll see how that goes.
You've got Condoleezer Rice, you've got Ken Blackwell in Ohio, you've got Michael Steele in c in uh Maryland, and you've got Lynn Swan uh running for governor in Pennsylvania.
Now, the Steelers parade is today, and it's I don't know if it's still going on.
A huge outpour.
You could I mean, you know what the ratings for the Super Bowl in Pittsburgh were like eighty-eight percent.
Eighty-eight percent of everybody watching television was watching the Super Bowl.
I mean, it th the Steelers are that town, and that town is the Steelers.
And Lynn Swan is at the uh is is at the parade, and he's up on the podium speaking today, along with other dignitaries of the Rooney family and Steelers players.
And as Swan is attempting to praise this team for its accomplishments, the crowds go a nuts shouting, Governor, Governor, Governor!
And also in the audience is the governor, fast Eddie Rendell, who is the current governor, he has to show up at this thing too, and the crowds governor, governor, governor, and of course Rendell's having to sit there and applaud.
And and Swan's trying to quiet them down.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is not about me.
This is about this team and the Governor, Governor, now, you know, when Al Sharpton shows up somewhere, you don't hear cheers, President, President you don't hear that.
You say, Where's the check?
The people from the hotel want the check.
That's what you hear.
So it's just it's just it's it's this obvious watching this today, that that story from the AP last week was it was there's a lot of there's a lot of weight to it.
Joe in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Yes, Rush.
Uh I have to disagree with your take on rock the vote.
I think it takes a lot of nerve to accuse Democrats and liberals of voter fraud after what happened in the year 2000.
It doesn't take any nerve at all.
It just we deal with the truth and facts here.
I don't think so.
We've got a president who has authorized torture and wiretapping.
These are tools that can be used against guys like you when other people come to power.
I love you guys.
No, you don't.
Yes, I do.
I do you are the best friend people like I have.
No, you but then you you really are misguided if you think I'm your friend.
Well you you not not not intentionally.
You don't want to be my friend as long as you want to stay stuck.
If you want to wait a minute now if you want to stay stuck in the notion that you got cheated out of the election in 2000 and if you want to then jump forward to that and say Bush is spying on you then I'm going to get out of the way and let you deliver the rest of your monologue because I want the whole country to hear where you Democrats are.
So go ahead Joe and let me have it.
Good Rush when people who are your enemies come to power they can use the tools that Bush now has.
Guys like you drug addicts like you better watch your butt.
Hey Joe no don't stop there.
Don't stop there, Joe.
You're you're doing a fine job of portraying yourself.
But your buddies your buddies have already tried stuff like that me with Joe when they're not even in power did he hang up no I didn't hang up.
Well why you're so quiet.
You've got a forum Joe I want you to keep going.
Keep in the I want to find out every poisonous thought that's circulating through your body.
No no Rush you'd lose your license if you heard them.
I'm trying to be fair and balanced and listen to you Rush.
Yeah.
Well I'm there's a third time.
And you know what I mean you can't tell me what you you can't tell me what you think.
Not about me try to tell me what you think about President Bush or what you think about the country or something.
But just tell me what you think politically and if you can't do it without being profane you've got a problem.
No Rush you have a problem.
It's about time someone in this country stood up for the rich and powerful and you're just the guy to do it.
Well somebody that's really hurt uh I'm glad you at least know the truth about it.
I'm proud to do it Joe.
You know what Joe the truth is I wish you could join the rich and powerful find out what it's like.
Rush you're George the Roy biter.
You never lie and you're always right George the White Tire, you never lie and you're always well thanks but I'm you're you're blowing a great opportunity here.
I have there are millions of people waiting to be persuaded by your political thoughts and your analysis and all you want to do is insult me.
Uh that's not all I want to do Rush but that's all I've got time for.
I'm a busy man and you're wasting my time do we call him Joe you still there he hung up he hung up never let it be said that I am unfair.
Never let it be said that I don't give these people a chance he we was a lib we put him at the front of the line I let gave him the opportunity to proselytize and to evangelize his point of view on anything and he it's all he had and then he has to tell me I'm wasting his time.
George George in South Windsor Connecticut you're next sir.
Welcome to the program.
Boy that's a tough call to follow right there well in a manner of speaking yeah but I'm sure you can do it.
Well I my point was Barack Obama is the uh Donovan McNabb of the Senate.
He's overrated and he's going to get a free pass by the media.
If you listen to him talk nothing comes out of his mouth it's spin.
He was on a show a couple weeks ago he just got back from Iraq and they put this guy on a pedestal he says nothing at the end of the day.
Nothing at all.
And he's the rising star.
Why do you think he's the rising star?
Oh they're putting on because he's well spoken he's well mannered he gets in front of the camera he has the presence but he says nothing.
He looks he's like uh Bill Clinton but just a different shade that's all and you know you were right about Lieberman in this Connecticut area there's a groundswell now with some local senators and and representatives in his district saying based on his stance on the war let's not re-elect Joe Lieberman.
So if you're a Democrat and you go against it, so now Lieberman's is by his own party in Connecticut the groundswell is starting.
But they'll put him or Barack Obama on a pedestal.
Yeah well I don't know I I I kind of like that analogy that he's the Donovan McNabb of the uh of the uh the the U.S. Senate he's he's being propped up and he's he's being uh he's being uh yeah because they want to see him do well and so well they've already invested in I mean you you just you just heard uh Bill Schneider he's the he's a star of the party he's the star of the Democratic Party.
And He doesn't say anything any different than any of the other uh Democrats.
It's the same.
Well, you're not allowed to.
That's I mean, that you're right.
Lieberman has found that out.
George, I appreciate the phone call.
Thanks so much.
All right, folks, we got to take a brief time out here.
Let me give you the phone number again.
It's 800-282-2882.
We have the uh Hillary Clinton audio coming up, a response to Melman's uh observation that uh Hillary is an angry candidate, and that that's really not what the American voter wants.
All that and more, straight ahead.
Don't go away.
Ha.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
It's El Rushmore, the EIB Network.
Jason in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call today.
You bet.
Just out driving.
I'm in the pharmaceutical industry, and uh I was listening to that liberal that just called in and had nothing to say but uh name calling and couldn't talk on the issues and uh something I deal with on a daily basis.
Uh I get the the brunt of the blame for everything that's going on from the economy to my prescriptions are so high because of you and because of your industry, and I just I don't know how to to handle it, taking uh talking to my friends about this.
Um I just I wait for an issue.
I don't hear any issues.
You can't, you can't because you're not dealing with rationality.
You're you're dealing with raw emotion that is that is primarily hatred, uh, and you can't, there's no way you can talk to them.
There's no way you can deal with them, there's no way you'll be able to mollify them, and you and you really shouldn't even try.
Laugh at them.
Well, I I did laugh at that that guy who just called, and uh actually I'm driving and I almost went off the road.
I was laughing so hard because I heard these same things yesterday that uh, you know, you're you're the reason why uh you're gonna be wiretapped and they're gonna hear something you say, and and you're gonna come, they're gonna call you and everybody.
So I just thought it was fun.
It is funny.
You gotta laugh at it.
It's paranoid.
It's absolute lunatic.
Laugh at it.
Whatever you do, don't take it personally, and whatever you do, don't get baited into a response because you're gonna be talking to idiots.
And once you start talking to idiots, it's hard to tell the difference between you and the idiots.
You will descend to their level because that's the only level they on which they can just don't look.
Let me tell you something.
This problem that the Democrats have had, and I've pointed this out.
I have been pointing out for years the problems they have.
Other liberals are starting to notice it.
Today, the New Republic, which is um quasi liberal publication.
New Republic Online today has a story titled How Liberals Play into Carl Rove's Hands.
And it makes the point that I have been trying to drive home for months and months and months.
The author of the story is a guy named Steve Groupman.
Uh G-R-O-O-P-M-A-N.
Steve Groupman, he's assistant to the editor of the New Republic.
And he actually got a visa and went out to the country and spent some time with liberals.
Well, these media types that live in Washington have to get a visa to travel other states, because to them it's a foreign country.
So they had to go out there, and he had and he documented their reactions to Bush.
And it is it is great ammo for a see I told you so.
A packed house, I'll just read you excerpts of this.
And listen, you listen to this, Jason, because this is what you're dealing with.
Even the new republic says this is a death knell for our party.
A packed house of a hundred or so viewers huddled around a few plasma screens to watch the address.
State of the Union address.
Early on, when Bush invoked September 11th, the audience let out a loud groan and snickered.
Seconds later, the president mentioned the word freedom for the first time.
A bell rang and the audience laughed.
Then Bush said the words terror and weapons of mass destruction, and bells rang again, followed by more laughter.
This ritual was repeated throughout the speech whenever Bush uttered any of these words or phrases.
This made me wonder.
Why the visceral reaction to these particular formulations?
The speech contained plenty of lines worthy of ridicule, and Bush certainly uses his share of dishonest conservative catchphrases, like activist judges.
But spreading freedom around the world is or should be a paramount goal of liberalism.
Meanwhile, terrorism remains a real threat to America and a source of continuing death and destruction the world over.
As for weapons of mass destruction, a fanatical regime in Iran with a history of sponsoring terrorism and a stated desire to see Israel wipe off the map is well on its way to having such weapons.
This is not an invention of the Republican imagination, it's reality.
Why then laugh at Bush's warning that dictatorships shelter terrorists and feed resentment and radicalism and seek, get ready for that bell to ring, weapons of mass destruction.
Now to be sure there's a compelling argument that Bush overuses these words or uses them to justify unwise policies, terror and weapons of mass destruction can be invoked effectively and cynically to raise levels of public fear and alarm.
Certainly Bush has in practice proven less than fully committed to his stated desire to spread freedom and democracy throughout the world.
How can they write that?
Especially compared to total absence of any participation on their part in the effort.
How can this guy write that?
Less than fully committed to his stated desire to spread free on the one hand, half the news every day is how Bush is an idiot for trying to do this.
It can't be done.
Arabs don't like liberty, Arabs don't want freedom, Muslims don't want all that, they don't want democracies.
And then the other half of the day it is Bush is not even serious about it.
It's like Bush is an idiot, he's a rube, he's a dolt, he's a frat boy, and the other day he is so smart he's tricking us into all these positions, which we're killing ourselves.
And any rate, when Bush spoke of writing a new chapter in the story of self-government, spectators burst into laughter.
When he said ultimately the only way to defeat the terrorists is to defeat their dark vision of hatred and fear by offering the hopeful alternative of political freedom and peaceful change, I heard a mix of bill bell ringing and belly laughs.
What why is the goal of promoting political freedom worthy of such derision by these liberals?
Well, the point is bigger than just one gathering at a liberal organization.
In the years since September 11th, many liberals seem to have concluded that you're not really opposing Bush's means unless you also scorn his stated ends, and that's too bad.
Liberals have no choice of winning the national security debate if they dismiss its premises.
I think most liberals recognize this, but some are so disgusted with the current administration they feel compelled to oppose and to mock anything with Bush's name on it.
And any Democrats like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden who oppose the Bush administration yet decline to scoff at the notion that America ought to stand for the spread of human freedom are labeled weak, neocons, or traitorous to their own cause.
This only stifles the possibility of a serious liberal alternative to Bush's policies.
As long as Democrats are required by their base to ridicule Bush's ends rather than his means, they will have lost the debate over foreign policy before it even starts.
Mr. Groupman, they already have.
Your party at the elected level is invested in something called the Terrorist Bill of Rights, the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
Your party is making it plain.
It's not just these hundred wacko libs that you gathered with to watch State of the Union.
Take a look at the floor of the House and the Senate the same night.
Take a look at the time after time after time during the same moments when these hundred people were ringing their bells and laughing, take a look at the Democrats growling, glowering, sitting on their hands.
When you say that most liberals recognize that they have no chance of winning the national security debate if they demiss its premises, dismiss its premises, most liberals don't.
You are dead wrong.
Most liberals do not realize that.
That's their problem.
As long as Democrats are required by their base to ridicule Bush's ends rather than his means, they'll have lost the debate over foreign policy before it even starts.
Indeed, despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, recent polling shows that Americans still trust Republicans more than Democrats on national security.
What is the what the polls of the Iraq war have that to do with anything on a poll of national security?
If you're not even going to read the results of the polls correctly and analyze them correctly, you're never going to get this figured out.
This wise, this whole story is a see I told you so.
This is exactly what I've been warning these people about for years.
And they don't listen, then I'm not afraid they're going to start.
The last thing they're going to do is listen to me.
It's like the last thing they're going to do is take advice from Bush.
They simply won't do it.
But they have lost the debate over foreign policy, and it started a long time ago.
You Democrats lost the debate on foreign policy with George McGovern.
You lost the debate on foreign policy over 30 years ago, and you haven't come close to getting it back.
Final paragraph of this piece.
September 11th changed American foreign policy by raising issues like terror, weapons of mass destruction, and foreign tyranny to a level of a heightened importance.
When Democrat bloggers and activists mock Bush for privileging these issues, it may please some liberals, but the person that pleases most is Carl Rove.
What a take.
What I mean, even at even after doing a scholarly piece, he has to descend into conspiratorial mishmash by saying that it's all about Carl Rove.
I understand what he's trying to say.
He's basically saying that the Republicans are benefiting wildly from all of this outrageous, irresponsible behavior by the liberals.
But the point of the story is here's a guy works for the new Republican Washington.
He wanted to go out and be among his buddies, the people he doesn't know, but the people that are on his team.
He wanted to go out and watch them as they watched Bush State of the Union address, and he was depressed and stunned and alarmed by what he saw.
And it was probably his first real.
If they just listened to this program, he wouldn't have even had to go.
Just listen to this program.
He can find out what these people do, what they say, and I don't mean when they call.
I'm I've know these people like the back of my hand.
Like I like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
Anyway, folks, I'm just telling you that it's it's it's a cause of alarm now that's starting to percolate in uh in certain sectors of the antique media and uh and others.
And I don't know where it's gonna go, but I can safely and confidently predict that the degree of hatred and irrationality and irresponsibility on the part of these people is not going to change any time soon.
We'll be back, and we will move right on after this.
Now look at this.
There's the swimmer up there, the brother of JFK and RFK who wiretapped Martin Luther King delivering a eulogy.
Teddy Kennedy delivering.
Every time I look up, I see an antique.
I see a relic of the past.
Here's interesting little story, just uh just came from Florida State and Vanderbilt Universities.
A new study by both these institutions of higher learning finds that parents have significantly higher levels of depression than do adults who do not have children.
That is not news to me.
Iran's largest selling newspaper announced today that it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
It'll be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust, said Farid Mortzavi, the graphics editor of Humshari newspaper, published by Tehran's conservative municipality.
He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.
Hey, these Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons.
Now there's a part of me.
I know this is a very serious matter, but there's a part of there's a part of me that laughs.
This is um this is, I mean, here's here's a and by the way, no newspaper in Iran does anything without the government being behind it.
So that this is a government program.
So this little wacko leader they've got over there is almost like a Hollywood script writer.
All right, you want to go out and have a cartoons uh insulting the Prophet Muhammad?
Fine, we're gonna do Holocaust cartoons.
Along the same lines, now you know that that uh what's his face?
Uh what what is this this president's name?
Uh there it is, Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
Oh Mahmood out there, the president of Iran has said the Holocaust never happened.
It's just bogus.
It's just a trick.
It never happened.
Well, guess what?
A Northeastern.
No, I'm sorry, Northwestern, Northwestern University professor agrees with him.
The president of Northwestern University said yesterday that a professor's recent comments denying that the Holocaust happened are a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people and an embarrassment to the university, but there's nothing they can do because the guy's got tenure.
The uh university president commented days after tenured engineering professor Arthur Butts commented in the Chicago Tribune and in the Iranian press that he agreed with old Mahmud Ahmadinejad's assertions that the Holocaust is a myth.
Iran's semi-official mayor news agency and the English language Tehran Times have published Butz's comments promoting the Northwestern professor as one of the world's scholars who support the Iranian president.
Ahmadinejad, who uh also has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, recently ordered the restart of uranium enrichment, raising fears that Tehran could try to build a nuclear weapon.
And that's time for you liberals to ring the bell and start laughing.
Uh in fact, in fact, you know, Mike, I need a sound effect.
Go to the Sound Effects Library on the Profit System.
Because this new republic guy has given me an idea.
Every time we mention something dead serious in this program, we're gonna ring a bell, which is a cue for liberals to start laughing and insulting the president.
Now, this this is amazing.
Butz's comments did not address the Iranian president's statements about present-day Israel or nuclear issues.
He didn't really come out of the uh closet and agree that Israel needs to be wiped off the map, but he agreed with old Mahmud that there um there was no Holocaust.
A Northwestern University engineering professor.
These people are whack, folks, they're whacked.
They're they're they're just they're unstable.
They are unhinged.
It's just such such such a glory to watch, I must tell you.
Back in just a second.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
El Rushbrota, Gulfport, Mississippi.
Hello, Paul, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Oh Rush.
I I just have to tell you that I mean, I agree with a lot of what you're saying.
These people have must have been just checked out of reality.
Because leadership and true freedom has a price to it.
The leader, the leader, a true leader, does not make always the popular decision and what you know the whole thing is swayed for.
He makes the correct decision.
And that's what Bush is doing.
He's making the correct decision.
But I mean, I spent 23 years in the military.
I just retired about two, three years ago.
And I've been there, I've been over there, seen what's going on, and I don't think he's doing enough.
With this Patrick that act.
I mean, if you're not doing anything wrong, guess what?
If you're not Al-Qaeda, you're not talking to terrorists, you're not gonna get bothered.
If you are, you need to have something done to you.
If you don't like this country, stand up, take a leadership position, or go somewhere else.
Well, you know, I I know you're you're expressing uh frustration with the liberals on this, uh, and and you want to say that they just uh you know they don't get leadership.
You're being too rational in in analyzing it.
You that's the mistake that that uh and I will include myself now and then.
We all make the mistake we we analyze these people with too much rationality.
We're talking about a loony bin, folks.
We're talking about a people, a group so disoriented with rage and hatred that it's impossible to relate to.
Don't even try.
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