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Feb. 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
And it is time once again, ladies and gentlemen, for America's Anchorman, America's truth detector, America's nuanced neon of light.
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Well, the port snort continues to just I mean, how how many of you people are starting to change your attitude about this?
Are you, Mr. Snerdley?
Yes, I knew you would be.
And if it weren't for this program yesterday, you'd still be with these knee-jerk, simple-minded people who haven't dared to look into this.
Well, look at the stop and think of this, folks.
The liberals always say that they are the smart ones among us, that they are the nuanced, that they see shades of gray, like people like me, Rush limbo.
Why we're simpletons.
We're simple-minded.
Everything's black and white, good and evil, right and wrong.
Uh they say I am mean and I'm this and I'm that.
Oh, once again, just listen to the words of a liberal and believe in the opposite of what they say.
It's right there in the news on this story.
The liberal focus on the Dubai port issue.
Don't outsource our port security, which we aren't.
They're not going to be running port security.
Heaven that'll have nothing to do with port security as I have been telling you for do you know when this story broke?
This story broke before the Cheney story.
This story's been out there longer than the Cheney story's been out there.
Do you feel manipulated by the mainstream press?
Remember, we told you last week.
John Gambling, who is on WABC in New York two hours prior to this program, had Ann Compton of the White House Press Corps on.
During that whole Cheney kerfuffle.
And he said, Anne, what about this uh port story?
She had no idea what it was.
She had no idea what it was.
All last week the media's marching orders, screw Cheney, get Cheney, indict Cheney, hope that Whittington dies.
Make David Gregory the new Pope of media, whatever.
But this news has been out there long before the Cheney thing hit.
And there's I've I've been doing more research, folks, and I'm gonna tell you much more than you probably know, maybe more than you will want to know, about just how tentacled the United Arab Emirates already are in this country.
And I'm also going to tell you the real reason that Chucky Schumer and Hillary Clinton oppose the deal, and it isn't national security.
They are simply trying to get themselves established as caring about it because they know the last four years they've done a lousy job of making the American people think they have any interest in our national security.
They've been out there trying to tell us we don't have any enemies, and all of a sudden we've got one.
The United Arab Emirates of all people.
I could understand their reaction if bin Laden wanted to buy the ports.
But the United Arab Emirates want to buy the ports, and all of a sudden, according to the Liberal Democrats, we have an enemy.
This is going to come back to bite them, folks, because they can no longer act like whatever Bush is doing in the war on terror and national security is a waste of time.
Well, they can, but they they won't get away with it, because now they have been rope-doped into clamoring from the mountaintops that we need national security.
But they say of old El Rushbo, no nuance, no shades of gray, all raw meat, you mind-numbed robots.
All I'm trying to do is stoke fear, make you frightened, panicked, and so forth.
And they're the ones, as I say, who are the deep thinkers.
They are the nuanced ones.
They are the ones that see shades of gray that's impossible for us mere mortals to see.
They are the elites and they know all.
Well, I spent the whole program yesterday nuancing, and I'm going to continue nuancing now.
Here's nuance number one.
Osama bin Laden didn't have to buy the World Trade Center to blow it up.
Why would anybody throw away 6.8 to 8 billion, whatever this deal is?
Why would anybody throw away $8 billion for the purposes of blowing it up when you don't have to?
All they'd have to do, they own so many other ports, just load a container with something's gonna blow up when it gets here and send it on its way.
And then buy what's left on the cheap.
Nuance number two.
The tsunami loses sight of what's being sold.
The business is not a port inspection business.
It is a container port loading and unloading business.
Nuance number three.
The largest company in this business is Hong Kong's Hutcheson ports.
They refuse to invest in the United States.
They don't want to buy our ports.
You know why?
Because they don't want to mess with the unions, and they don't want to mess with the political landmines that go along with it.
The second largest in this business is Denmark's APM terminals.
And those are white European foreigners.
And you know what those white European foreigners did to the Indians?
And you know what they did to women?
You know what they did to animals, and you know what they did to the land.
And the second biggest company is Denmark's APM terminals, white European foreigners.
The next largest is Singapore PSA, uh owned by Singapore.
That's Asians, yellow people.
You know about them.
And then, of course, Dubai World Ports.
Um that would move them into fourth uh with this deal.
And you know about them.
Arabs.
Bombs.
Blown-up ports.
So we got we got the Hong Kong people, we got that's the communist Chinese.
Everybody knows the commies, the ChICOMs run Hong Kong.
Nuance number four.
These uh foreign companies are not only foreign, but they are modernizing their ports all over the world, making container loading and unloading faster, safer, and more efficient.
And I should say with less union assistance, which is let me just cut to the chase.
That's why Hillary and Schumer oppose the deal, because they have heard from the AFL CIO about it.
That's why.
Stand by folks.
Nuance number five, it's an election year.
The left is so vulnerable on national defense that they are having to track as far to the right of the Republicans as they can on these uh on this port issue.
They've they've they've they've they've been praying for an opportunity that they could see an enemy somewhere, and they've finally had it shown up in the United Arab Emirates.
Nuance number six.
The left is pulling a John Kerry.
Note that they're they're not demanding to stop the sale.
And there's some Republicans in on this too, I know, but they're not demanding to stop it, they're demanding to stall it.
They want to be able to investigate it, Shaler.
We need a moratorium to look into what really happened.
And we find out Bush didn't even know, as we pointed out yesterday, until after it was a done deal, yet he is standing by it.
But they want to be able to stall the deal, the Democrats do, so they can look the voters in the eye and say, I oppose this sale before I supported it.
Or I support the sale before I opposed it, whichever it turns out to be.
A quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this on the one and only EIB network.
Hi, greetings, welcome back.
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I'm watching these Powerball winners on uh on television there from a meat processing plant in um Nebraska.
They get they're gonna get 15 and a half million dollars each after taxes.
They're eight of them splitting a 365 million dollar powerball jackpot.
Are we gonna they they're gonna need the sudden money people?
What's what's the name of that group that we highlighted?
And they're right up Sudden Money Institute, the Sudden Money Institute right up the road here in Palm Beach Gardens or North Palm Beach or something.
And uh because these people are now immediately afflicted with sudden money syndrome.
And if they don't talk to people at the Sudden Money Institute, which is some woman's house, uh then they're gonna they're all gonna be their lives will be destroyed before uh we get together one year from today, if they don't talk to these people.
And And I can you believe this story out of California?
They can't they can't they can't find any doctors to uh to execute uh the this this this perp?
Hey take a walk down to Planned Parenthood, knock on a door, and ask if somebody wants to do a freelance job tonight.
Go get an abortion doctor.
Go up to Oregon.
Don't they have assisted suicide up there?
What hell's bells, folks?
What are we talking about?
I get let Kavork in out for a day.
He will revel in it.
I mean, he'd be willingly go back in jail for another lifetime just for the opportunity to do it again.
What is this?
Can't find a doctor to do this.
By who who says we need a doctor anyway?
These people at San Quentin are supposed to be experts in this, and can you believe we're worried about the pain that someone might suffer as they're being put to death?
Okay, back to the um back to the port snort uh folks.
And and look, let me just stress this again.
I still don't know what I think about this.
And that's that's the point of this.
I'm I'm just sharing with you the uh the the mental journey, the intellectual journey I'm taking on all this.
But let me tell you what it is that inspires this in me, uh, or or not inspires, but what what what tempts me in this direction.
I just when I see conventional wisdom, when I see a tsunami, when I see a stampede, I am I that's a first red flag.
Something about the that's all it's been that way all my life.
I've never been a conformist or conventional wisdom kind of person, and when I when I see this that sends up all kinds of red flags, and I start listening to the conventional wisdom, and it sounds so uninformed, and it sounds so uh uh missing in in numerous detail that it makes me curious to find out what this is all about.
So we have Senators Menendez, Senator Clinton, Lautenberg, Schumer, Dodd, Boxer, they're all up in arms over this.
Particularly Hillary and uh and uh uh uh Chuck Schumer, they they're both they're in a contest now to see who can be the first to actually kill the deal.
Well, they didn't, as the New York Sun mentions today, none of these politicians that are opposed to this deal made a peep when the government of the United Arab Emirates donated $200,000 to fund a professorship in Middle East studies at Columbia University that was filled by an anti-Israel anti-Bush professor named Rashid Khalidi.
That issue was aired by the August 5th, 2004 editorial in the New York Sun what the UAE bought.
Nor, as far as we can tell, uh did they protest when after the death of the president and founder of the UAE, uh Mr. Bush issued a statement November 4th, 2004, mourning the passage of a great friend of our country, a close ally who built the Emirates into a prosperous, tolerant, and well governed state.
Nor do we recall any protest from Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Schumer or Ms. Boxer when President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore announced in May of 1998 that America was selling 80 F-16 fighters to the UAE.
Nor did these protesters uh uh politicians protest back in December 96 when the Clinton administration's assistant state secretary went on UAE television to announce, quote, on the international stage the UAE is universally respected for its generosity and commitment to regional security and fair dealing.
These qualities reflect the exceptional character of Sheikh Zaid, who is truly the father of his country and a respected statesman.
That's the Clinton State Department speaking in 1996.
So Mrs. Clinton, will somebody hold her accountable for these statements?
I mean, she was co-president.
Of course they won't hold her accountable, folks.
That's why I'm speaking uh rhetorically.
This assistant secretary of state went on, we were pleased that the U.S. could offer his Highness Sheikh Zaeid medical treatment earlier this year while he was here.
President Clinton telephoned him to welcome him and place the White House at his disposal to make his stay comfortable and productive.
He may have stayed in a Lincoln bedroom.
The father of the UAE may have stayed in a Lincoln bedroom.
He was in the White House.
It's okay for the guy to go to the White House, but not for a company from that country to uh run these container shipping ports.
So what one wonders accounts for the sudden turnabout and the interest of all these politicians in the UAE is a potential terrorist threat.
Well, the answers got a lot clearer yesterday afternoon when the International Longshoremen's Association, the AFL CIO affiliated union that represents workers at these six ports, issued a statement praising the politicians, complaining about the deal.
The union statement expressed great concern for the transaction.
From there it's easy to just follow the money documented by an examination of Federal Election Commission records from the Political Action Committee of the International Longshoremen's Association into the pockets of these protesting politicians.
Schumer, 4500 in campaign donations from the trough of the longshoremen.
Peter King also got some.
Uh 5500 to his campaign.
Senator Clinton, 4500.
Senator Dodd, 2500, Congressman Fasella, 9500.
Senator Boxer, $6,000.
Senator Lautenberg, $9,000.
Gerald Nadler, Democrat New York, another outspoken critic of the deal, has accepted $22,500 from the Long Shoreman since March of 2000.
As uh as we've always said on this program, follow the money, ladies and gentlemen.
And the Democrats, of course, seeking this opportunity to make themselves look tough on national security.
But can I mention something today that I also asked you to think about yesterday?
Isn't it ironic that we have this dumb Texas rube frat boy defending tolerance and the rights of minorities?
And we have the Democratic Party and the nuanced elitist, smarter than everyone else in the room, liberals acting on blind racism and profiling.
Isn't that fascinating, ladies?
Shouldn't surprise you.
Shouldn't surprise because this is who they are.
They are the first ones to notice somebody's skin color when they see them walking down the street.
They're the first ones to notice their gender, and Bill Clinton can do it by mentally undressing them.
He doesn't even need to look at their hair color or anything else.
They're the ones that notice the differences among us, and they're the ones that tell us we are to ignore it but act on it.
They're the ones who claim to represent minorities and stand up for the downtrodden, the hungry, the thirsty.
Now I know this is not the description of the UAE in this port company.
They're not hungry and they're not thirsty, but they are minorities in this country.
Oh, yes.
And they let me t let me and I'll tell you something else.
The same people that tell us we cannot profile Sahib as he strodes strides through an airport are the same people telling us we can't allow these people to come in and uh have any uh uh uh uh relationship to the port operations because of where they're from.
Do you realize to be consistent, any airline that takes off from the United Arab Emirates should not be allowed to land here?
The United Arab Emirates should not be allowed to own property here.
They should not be allowed to send any cargo here from any of their ports around the world.
If they are unqualified and pose a serious terror threat in buying the uh operations of these ports, then they're there certainly we we can't let them into Columbia University to start teaching Middle Eastern studies.
And we certainly can't let United Arab Emirates Airlines land at JFK or anywhere else.
And we certainly can't let any of the cargo that they ship from we we gotta get the Navy out of the Navy does a lot of uh dockloading and offloading, uh refurbishment replenishment of supplies at the port in Dubai.
We gotta close the port of Dubai to the Navy, too big a terrorist risk, can't deal with it.
I'm just telling you what you're gonna if if you want to be consistent in your opposition to this, then you're gonna have to you're gonna you're gonna have to ban all these other uh interactions that we have.
And when you hear so many politicians, and by the way, there's some politicians on this, and Jimmy Carter, does it bother me to be on the same page?
Yes.
Can't tell you how much.
But I believe what I believe, and this is what you people have come to expect.
I'm not going to say what you want me to say.
I'm not going to say what I think you want me to say.
I'm not going to moisten the fingers, stick it in the air and see which way the wind is blowing, just to please you.
And if I happen to be on the same side as Jimmy Carter, it's his problem.
And if I happen to be on the same side of McCain, who is also McCain, interesting choice of words, we should avoid the rush to judgment on this and take some time out and really examine it, which I have to admit, folks, I was frightened when I read that yesterday when McCain sounds like me.
But again, I concluded, as in the case with former President Carter, it's McCain's problem.
Back after this, stay with us.
Mr. Snerdley just said to me, this this the thing that really bothers me about this is that the seeming incompetence of the White House.
I mean, here he Bush is out yesterday some renewable energy lab while this whole story is raging.
And just missing the whole point.
They seem to be a step off, a step behind and so forth.
This story was story was out before Cheney.
Before the Cheney hunting accident.
It was ignored.
Do you that's why I asked you at the beginning of the program, do you feel manipulated a little bit?
They've just they've moved on to this.
They didn't even know about this last week, even though stories over a week and a half old.
But I mean, let me give you some political, I've already given you the Democrat political uh uh scene on this, and I I think they're missing it.
I I've I think you know that they're there's they're sitting there flexing their muffs and saying, look at us.
We're the ones that care about national security on this issue.
We've we've taken this issue away from President Bush.
Why, President Bush has given up on national security, it's our issue now.
That's what they think.
I heard Tim Ruster say it on television.
He said, and he made my point.
He said, you know, usually it's a Democrats that are nuanced about things, and Bush that's a simpleton, there's the other way around here.
The Democrats are the ones that they're strong on national security.
Well, that's a problem because they haven't been, and they have refused to see an enemy.
Now all of a sudden they see an enemy, and it's the United Arab Emirates.
But the second let's talk about the Republican fallout for just a second.
Bush not running for anything again.
And uh but he knows he wants to maintain the House, wants to maintain the majority in the House and Senate.
This is an election year.
If you take a look at all these Republicans opposing Bush, um, what are they doing?
They're establishing independence.
They're illustrating they're not sycophants, they're illustrating they have their own minds.
They're illustrating that they can't be whipped into shape by the White House.
Um this will set them up well to campaign in the in the campaign season as it heats up later this year.
So this is, you know, I I think is a possibility of a bunch of rope-dops going on in here.
How about the way the president is sounding on this?
Oh man, I wish we would have heard him sound like this on a couple of three other issues.
But he's saying to hell with you people, you go ahead and pass this.
I'm gonna veto it.
I promise you, I'm gonna veto it.
Here, listen to what he said.
This audio sound audio soundbite number one uh uh out there, Mike.
If there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States, it would not go forward.
The company has been cooperative with the United States government.
The company will not manage port security, the security of our ports will be continue to be managed by the Coast Guard and the customs.
Uh the company is uh from a country that has been cooperative in the war on terror, been an ally in the war on terror.
The company operates ports in different countries around the world, ports from which cargo has been sent to the United States on a regular basis.
I think it sends a terrible signal to friends around the world that uh it's okay for a company from one country to manage the port, but not a country that is placed by the rules and has got a good track record from another part of the world.
Can't can't manage the port.
And he went on to say after this that uh if Congress passes a law preventing the sale, that he'll deal with it with a veto.
So I have to ask you another question.
Those of you who uh have have uh stuck with the president, even though when he's wandered off the path when it comes to spending and uh and some of These other, you know, uh uh, you know, straight down the middle conservative issues, you've stuck with him primarily because of the security threat, the war on terror, and and up against the Democrats, he has appeared deadly serious about not letting another attack like 9-11 happen.
You have to just throw all that out if you think that this deal is bad for you.
If you think Bush can be snookered like this, then he hasn't been worth supporting on any of this national security stuff up to now.
And yet I see people doing that.
Uh people who who who would not abandon Bush when they otherwise would have, because he stuck to his guns on the war on terror despite the unspeakable things being said about him.
All around the world, in this country, ex-presidents, ex-vice presidents running around the world saying unspeakable things about him and his country, and he stuck to it.
But now all of a sudden we've got to discard that because Bush is an idiot.
Why Bush is stupid.
Why, Bush, I guess he doesn't realize who our real enemies are, the United Arab Emirates.
I'll tell you what I think about the United Arab Emirates, having been there.
I think they want to be more like us than they want to be like uh a Middle Eastern country.
I think they want to be more like us.
I don't I don't think they want to be a terror capital.
They're too interested in uh in in in economics.
You'd have to have been there to see some of it.
Here's Christine in Great Falls, Montana.
We'll go to the phones first with you.
Welcome to the EIB network.
My gosh, thank you.
Uh this is a wonderful pleasure.
I've been listening to you for years now, and I never thought I'd get to talk to you.
Well, thank you very much for calling.
Um can I say thanks to my husband, Air Force husband, the Dr. Soldier?
Guy, Moses Lake Washington double bogeys.
Because he's uh since he's sponsoring us, I get the uh added benefit of listening too.
So thank you very much.
Um, thank you so much for sending me straight on this UAE port deal.
I was a little nervous about it, and I didn't really understand what it was all about.
So your yesterday show, you've made me figure out it's basically a land title transfer, but nothing else is going to change.
But the thing I'm more concerned about concerned about is if these Konami surfers, if they stop this port deal, it's going to reinforce the Arab nation's dislike and the radical hatred of us.
Now that's now that's the you're partly correct on that.
I I don't th we're talking about two different groups of people that I don't think the United Arab Emirates are Al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda is is a, and let's be honest about this, folks.
It's time everybody understood this.
From the insurgents, the terrorists in Iraq to Al Qaeda and their related groups and all these people that are burning flags around the world over these cartoons of the Prophet.
We're not talking about a religion.
We have been snookered.
We've been led to believe we're talking about a religion with deeply held views, and we all have religious freedom.
We all must respect everyone other's religion.
They're hiding behind a religion.
It isn't a religion that they're practicing.
These are fascists, these are murderers, these are totalitarians, they're ideologues, and they're using a religion to advance what they otherwise believe.
They already hate us.
They're not going to change their minds about us one way or the other on the United Arab Emirates deal.
That bunch that hit us on 9-11 is still out there still plotting, still trying to do it as many places as they can around the world, including here, and whether we do this deal or not, that it's not going to make them like us anymore if we do the deal with the United Arab Emirates.
It's not going to make them hate us anymore if we don't do the deal.
The people that have to admit we have a foreign policy involving the war on terror that goes beyond the military.
And it is cultivating freedom and democracy in some of these oppressed areas.
Some of these, and by that I mean some of these dictatorships, some of these these monarchies.
And like I said yesterday with the the the Sun Tzu and the art of war, the best way to beat your enemies to make him your friend.
If he can't do that, you shoot him.
You have to conclude that the war here cannot be totally won militarily.
It's going to take allies.
You also have to assume that not every Arab likes living under circumstances where he too could be blown up if he doesn't go along with what these Islamo fascists want to do.
You have to assume that there are some, you know, individuals are individuals.
And unless we're going to typecast and profile and stereotype here and assume that everybody in the Middle East is no different than Al Qaeda.
But we if you want to look at it that way, feel free to, but I choose not to.
And I choose to see these United Arab Emirates people in a different light.
I do think they want to be more like us.
And if we don't do the deal, they will get angry and mad.
And that's not, you know, that that would be a change.
I don't know what they would do.
I mean who knows what they would do.
But but uh President is right about one thing.
When you're reaching out seeking allies uh in this fight, uh, and we're trying when we're talking about freedom and democracy, and as much a part of the world as possible, because democracies don't attack their neighbors, democracies don't wage war.
We do they don't, you know, they defend themselves when necessary, but they don't go out and run trying to conquer.
Uh they liberate, we liberate instead of conquer, and and that's what we're trying to do in Iraq.
Um, you know, to to help further if if we if we've got some people that want to be like us in that part of the world, I say promote it.
If they want to be like us.
Uh and if we're gonna misunderstand their desire to be like us uh into saying it's a trick, we can't trust them or so forth, then I'm repeat it.
Make sure every economic entity that comes from or has association with the United Arab Emirates is also kicked out of the country.
From their airlines to all the shipping that comes from their ports around the world into the U.S., we've got to suspend it because we can't trust them.
Here's uh here's Dennis in Brooklyn.
Dennis, welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, listen, uh, this is a bad idea.
Uh bad deal that uh the president uh is trying to push through.
He didn't know about it for two days.
According to you and uh what I've read, like you say, the last week and a half, it's been all in the papers, and yet he's adamant about and very defensive about this.
He's having connected the dots.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, no, wait.
It's not that he didn't know about it until two days ago.
He didn't know about it prior to it being finalized.
It's uh it's a private sale.
There's a government agency that handles the approval for these kind of things.
This happens all the time.
A foreign entity wants to buy property in the United States.
They have to go through rigorous tests.
Bush doesn't get involved with all this.
He's the president of the United States.
It it it's you know, it's brought to his attention after this this bunch of of affirms it or turns it down.
That's exactly what happened.
It just seems like it was done in the day of the night.
They say 25 days to uh to check this out to vet it, but yet when it has to do with social uh with national security, it should take 45 days.
They pushed it through.
Treasury Secretary uh Snow has uh ties to uh a firm before he came off the Bush into the Bush administration that sold to the uh this here DP world.
There's ties that that go beyond with the Treasury Department as far as tracking the bank accounts of uh Al Qaeda.
And then I'm checking into this.
It's it just seems too quick for such a big multi-billion dollar deal, Rush.
Uh well uh uh now I think what you're illustrating is I understand your concern.
You are at ground zero, you're in Brooklyn.
And you're you're at uh you're at target one, and I I I I totally understand your concern, but I think you're you're creating some conspiracies here, snow and the treasury and the multi-billion dollar deal got done too quick, and that that raises a red flag.
I don't I'm not gonna try to talk you out of any of this.
I because you you you you I can tell you're passionate about it.
And like I said, I'm I haven't firmly decided here.
I I'm just sharing uh my whole experience trying to inform myself about this and my own thought process with you.
But uh I I do think that what you're actually illustrating is that the mistake that I think the White House has made here is one of communication.
There has not been uh an ongoing effort to explain or communicate to people that this was being done, it was in the process of being done, and they should have understood that once the news of this broke after it was a done deal, that there's going to be the reaction in the tsunami that there has been.
It's the United Arab Emirates, it's the Middle East.
It's you know, all the things that comprise this tsunami they should have known are going to be there.
And and so I I just I think more than anything it's it's a it's a White House communication problem uh more than it is a substance of the um of the deal problem.
Anyway, I got a little long here, a quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in just a second.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, America's anchorman, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy, all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball, Placerville, California.
Hello, Don.
I'm glad you called, sir.
How are you doing, Russ?
Honored to talk to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Doing very well here.
Good.
Going back to the uh California death penalty case.
That is the result of a lawsuit that went to the Ninth Circuit Court, and the court ruled that the Department of Corrections had to have a licensed anesthesiologist to put the person unconscious, just like you would in surgery.
Before the Department of Corrections administered the lethal doses of the medicine that kills them.
And what happened is they had two people lined up to do that, and the anesthesiologist backed out, saying that it would be a violation of their hypocritic oath not to kill somebody.
I understand that.
I I and uh, you know, so I know I know that this is a court-mandated uh monkey wrench uh in this whole thing, but it's and I and I appreciate I appreciate finally some doctor standing up for the hypocritic oath.
Uh Hippocratic oath.
Uh, because for too long we've been having a debate in this country about oh, let's let the doctor pull the trigger.
Let's let the doctor push the plunger.
Let's have people from assisted suicide to abortion to any number of things, to Jack Kavorkian.
We've had we've had a number of doctors who uh seem to have been desirous and eager of getting involved in a death business.
Um so I'm I'm actually glad to see some doctors saying, hey, I'm this is not my job.
I'm not there to kill people.
You people at Department of Corrections, you're supposed to be the experts in this.
Go out and figure out how to do it.
Uh uh, but the idea that they can't find a doctor to do it, maybe you can't find some anesthesiologist and anesthesiologist, the worst thing that can happen to an anesthesiologist is if a patient dies because of his actions in the OR.
So I understand that.
Just but the but just in general principle, the idea they can't find a doctor to participate in this is a joke.
You know, hello, Planned Parenthood.
Uh to Oregon.
Uh plenty of doctors there desiring this assisted suicide thing.
And you can you could lie to yourself and say this execution is an assisted suicide.
The guy, you know, did what he did.
That's uh warrant has had how many 30,000 appeals over how many 23 years.
We pretty much concluded that the PERP did it, and this is the penalty.
Jerry in Long Beach, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Uh Rush, I'm a proud member of the Longshoreman's Union.
I don't appreciate you attacking our union.
Try to make this a part of this debate.
Are you telling us that Republicans don't care about our jobs?
Are you telling us that Republicans want to break our union?
No.
Is that what this deal is about?
No.
Is this the way that's the same?
But by the way, there you go again.
There you go, stereotyping.
There you go, stereotyping.
I'm telling you that from what everything I know, nothing's going to change.
I have said this for the past two days and nothing's going...
Why are you attacking my union?
I'm not attacking your union.
I'm simply pointing out who your union donates to and explaining why Schumer and Hillary and these other Democrats are speaking out in opposition to the deal while they're telling us it's about national security.
It's not.
They're telling it because they're trying to be loyal to you.
You're the ones that what you're not saying is that this is a violation of the trading with the enemies act.
You couple this with the violation of the espionage act, violation of the surveillance act.
You've got this president committing three felonies, sir.
It's none of that.
And what you're doing is criminal.
And don't you attack my union.
I didn't attack your union, but I'm about to start because you are so you're so you are so dead wrong about this.
You know, you you you Democrats, it's just all it takes, give you one little shred of rope, and you've got a noose around your neck inside of 30 seconds.
This is not trading with the enemies.
Your union was not attacked.
Your union's not going to be put out of business.
Where you get the idea that Bush wants the deal to go through to put a longshoreman out of business is beyond me.
That's paranoia.
That's stereotypical.
That's profiling.
You are profiling Republicans.
And you're doing all that with that absolutely zero knowledge, trading with the enemy act.
Three felonies.
You wish.
If these are felonies, give me one.
I'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
All right, you just heard it, folks.
You heard it.
I was threatened on this program by a member of the Longshoreman's Union out in uh Long Beach.
I was threatened.
We've already discussed the Long Shoreman in Long Beach.
It was two Christmases ago, and I will remind you about that.
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