Feb. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
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| You like the juiciness and the good consistency, but you like the way it tasted. | |
| I may I'm asking Dawn about uh hot dogs. | |
| I brought a couple of those Allen Brothers hot dogs for Brian and and uh and Dawn Snerdley doesn't eat that. | |
| He eats fried cheese. | |
| He's on a health food diet. | |
| Anyway, greetings, folks, and great to be back. | |
| Uh here we are Monday, the start of a brand new week of broadcast excellence here on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network. | |
| Oh, wait a minute. | |
| It's not a full week. | |
| It's not a full week. | |
| I have to go to Washington on Thursday. | |
| I have I have to make a speech uh during the day. | |
| It's a it's a trade speech. | |
| I have to go to Washington and make a trade show speech on Thursday afternoon. | |
| I got I committed to doing this last year and and uh I honor my commitments of this type. | |
| So uh who who we got? | |
| Hedgecock is is he working on um on thirty yeah, Roger Hedge. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, no, I'm I'm I'm I've I've got to go to a there's uh uh the EIB network's throwing uh a little uh what it'll be it's the late afternoon cocktails and uh and hors d'oeuvres and and I committed to showing up for five minutes. | |
| Uh maybe twenty, but uh after that I may have to fly up to New York for dinner, but I am coming home that night. | |
| And we'll be back here in the uh EIB Southern Command for our program on Friday. | |
| Here's the here's the telephone number, folks. | |
| If you want to be on the uh program today, 800-282-2882. | |
| The email address is rush at EIB net.com. | |
| Well, it's uh it's another week filled with optimism from our side, ladies and gentlemen, and gloom and doom on the horizon uh for the left. | |
| You and I, we arise each day. | |
| We look forward to a brighter future. | |
| Um they, the left looks to another week without a civil war in Iraq. | |
| But you know, they're out there singing this time we almost made it happen, baby. | |
| We almost made that civil war happen. | |
| But they didn't quite get there, so they're disappointed about that. | |
| It's another week without an economic depression or at least even a housing bubble. | |
| In fact, the news continues to indicate that we're gonna have uh uh uh blow through the roof first quarter economic GDP growth, uh, anywhere from four and a half to six percent uh are what uh some people who study this stuff are suggesting could be the figure. | |
| And of course, we've had another week without a terrorist attack. | |
| Uh so you know, the left it did tough out there for them. | |
| They get up with all these doom and gloom hopes, a doom and gloom never happened, so they go out there and say it's coming. | |
| The gloom and doom is coming. | |
| John Corzine did the Democrats' radio response to the president's radio address on Saturday. | |
| It was full of demagoguery and and and uh mischaracterizing the United Arab Emirates port deal. | |
| Uh that was quite a uh topic for discussion on the Sunday programs yesterday. | |
| So I thought, ladies and gentlemen, that I would uh share just some randomly chosen news items with you today that are related to the uh to the port deal. | |
| First, a story here from the uh from the Boston Globe. | |
| British firm set to buy Key SPAN, national grid would add to Massachusetts holdings. | |
| Yes, the British energy conglomerate, National Grid PLC, uh which already owns Massachusetts biggest electric utility was poised to announce a seven billion dollar plus agreement early today uh to buy the Bay State's biggest gas utility as well. | |
| National Grid was scheduled to disclose the terms of its takeover of Key Span Corp after 2 a.m. today, according to four utility industry executives. | |
| Though the deal could still fall through at the last minute, the two companies were prepping to announce uh the takeover before London's stock exchange opened for trading this morning. | |
| Don't know if it actually happened, but uh do we need an investigation of this? | |
| Well, and some of you might be saying, no, Rush, we don't need an investigation. | |
| It's a Brits. | |
| The Brits are our allies. | |
| Brit well, yeah, they are, but the the Brits could sell to anybody once they acquire this. | |
| We need to investigate this, and we make them we need to make sure that every foreign company that buys an asset in the United States promises not to sell it in the future to people we don't approve of. | |
| Here is, let's see. | |
| Um key span stock has climbed more than seven dollars per share in the last week on the speculation of this news. | |
| And let's not forget, folks, that um the uh the seven seven bombers were Brits. | |
| Uh uh remember those two kids that well they're more than that that blew up the uh what was it? | |
| Uh uh uh uh some kind of a subway or bus whatever remember that on on July 7th last summer. | |
| And they were British citizens. | |
| They were they were they were British citizens. | |
| And and uh, you know, they they they they could inf they can infiltrate the grid now because you know the British might bring their own people over here to work on a uh I don't I don't know this company, I don't know if the company recognizes the IRA or not. | |
| We should we should look into that. | |
| Here's here's another interesting note. | |
| Westinghouse. | |
| You remember that name. | |
| Westinghouse used to own everything. | |
| Westinghouse used to own washers and dryers and make jet engines, they used to make refrigerators, they used to make uh uh own radio stations all over the country. | |
| Well, Westinghouse is also a major operator of our country's nuclear power plants. | |
| And as such, the plans, the weaknesses, the security arrangements, the work schedules, etc. | |
| of these nuclear power plants are known to Westinghouse management. | |
| Imagine if a terrorist were to get this information. | |
| Ah, but Westinghouse isn't a U.S. company anymore. | |
| It's owned by the British government, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Do you know that, Mr. Snergley? | |
| Yes, I know that this is, by the way, um, this is um uh some blogger, I think, has submitted what I'm reading to you at National Review Online. | |
| Um, there's a difference between the British government and say the government of Dubai, but it's important. | |
| The secrets to the U.S. nuclear industry are not held on U.S. soil anymore. | |
| We have no control over who in Britain has access to this information. | |
| As we all know, England does have a slight issue with homegrown terrorists. | |
| But the British government's decided that they don't like Westinghouse. | |
| They're gonna sell it. | |
| And you know they're to whom they're selling it? | |
| They're selling it to Toshiba. | |
| Now, Toshiba wants to become the world's leader in nuclear technology because there's this country that is right to the west of Japan that is flush with cash and hungry for electricity. | |
| It's called China. | |
| Toshiba is betting that China's nuclear power market will balloon. | |
| Coshiba is has not built a nuclear power plant yet in China, but it runs operations in 63 locations there, including sales outlets, distribution centers, and production plants. | |
| They employ 20,000 people. | |
| So now because we saw Westinghouse to the Brits, who are now selling it to the Japanese, U.S. nuclear technology on the building of nuclear power plants is going to end up in China. | |
| And also did a little bit more research on just how extensive Dubai's holdings, the United Arab Emirates holdings are in this country. | |
| Dubai Port World 6.8 billion dollar purchase of Britain's PO is drawing heightened scrutiny because it includes the takeover of significant operations in six U.S. ports, but the deal represents just a small part of this desert city-state's headlong rush into global investing, a rush almost without precedent. | |
| The stated goal of the tribal sheikhs who run Dubai is to mold it into a global hub of trade and luxury tourism. | |
| Until now, though, less attention has been paid to these billions being spent by their state-owned investing arms, as well as where that money comes from and how the investments are performing. | |
| The purchases from Dubai include everything from apartment complexes in the United States Sunbelt to trophy hotels and office towers in New York City. | |
| The United Arab Emirates even own the two Saud Group's wax museum franchise worldwise. | |
| You know, Madame Tussauds, they just had that wax figurine of Hillary. | |
| The United Arab Emirates did it. | |
| The UAE was behind the new wax statue of Hillary, folks. | |
| The UAE did it. | |
| And I did it wrong. | |
| We did it right on my website. | |
| If you're going to have a sculpture of Hillary, it's not wax, it needs to be ice. | |
| That does not melt. | |
| They also have a $1 billion investment in Daimler Chrysler. | |
| The United Arab Emirates has a billion bucks in Daimler Chrysler. | |
| So after they have used what? | |
| What's that? | |
| That's really dangerous. | |
| We drive those cars. | |
| Some of those cars are made here. | |
| Some of those cars are made in Germany, and they're imported in, probably through the ports that these UN emirates people are going to own. | |
| And I so they've got GPS in those cars. | |
| I mean, Americans are being tracked to this day. | |
| I mean, right now, we didn't even know it. | |
| The United Arab Emirates can sit there in Dubai and find out, Dawn, where you are any time you are in a Daimler Chrysler product. | |
| I have one of those cars. | |
| The United Arab Emirates can no doubt track me, and I know that they do, because when I got the car, and it was brand new, they've got this service in there, and I had to register it and test it. | |
| And when I called them, you put your little button in there, sort of like OnStar in General Motors. | |
| You push a little button in there, and uh they answer the phone, and I don't know where they are, but they knew where I was. | |
| They were able to tell me the exact intersection, just confirming that I was actually calling from that car, so forth, and that probably Dubai. | |
| I'm I'm guessing, I'm guessing that I was talking to outsourced customer service people in Dubai, able to tell exactly where I was. | |
| They have these apartment buildings and hotels. | |
| Okay, if they after after they infiltrate the country with future terrorists, they got a place to put them. | |
| These people don't even have to go out and rent on their own. | |
| They can sign up under false names. | |
| I mean, they're all over the place, folks. | |
| It's it's I mean, it's just Oh, it's something we got to be concerned about. | |
| Um the rancor about now here's here's the flip side of this, though. | |
| The rancor about Dubai's investments in the United States is not reciprocated here. | |
| This story is written from Dubai. | |
| The United States cuts a large profile in Dubai. | |
| The U.S. Navy has a permanent presence in Dubai's ports, which we've discussed, allowing the ports to handle incoming warships making port visits. | |
| Uh uh the U.S. Customs has a container inspection team based at the Dubai ports. | |
| Uh, even the UAE Durham, the currency there, is pegged to the U.S. dollar. | |
| And U.S. companies have been cashing in on Dubai's boom. | |
| Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and IBM buildings. | |
| An office park in Dubai. | |
| Harvard Medical School is building a satellite campus there. | |
| While U.S. construction giants Parson Turner and Beckto are managing construction across the Emirates, overseeing buildings designed by American architectural powerhouses like Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. | |
| So, folks, the tentacles here are even deeper than any of us knew. | |
| They know our architectural infrastructure techniques. | |
| They are learning about our computers. | |
| They're learning about how our software is put together, operating systems, and so forth. | |
| I feel relatively secure because Apple doesn't have a relationship with them. | |
| And of course, I use, and we all use the Mac here at the uh at the EIB network. | |
| So we have a level of protection that most of you don't. | |
| We'll be back in just a sec just a second. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| America's anchor man, America's truth detector on the scene. | |
| Rush Limboa with talent on loan from God. | |
| Democrats on Saturday accused President Bush of being casual with national security as they warned of risks from an Arab state-owned company gaining control of terminals at six key U.S. ports. | |
| They sent New Jersey Governor John Corzine out there to do the Democratic weekly radio address. | |
| He urged Bush to pose tough questions during a delay of Dubai Ports World's 6.8 billion dollar acquisition of PO, even as the top White House official, uh type top White House official said that there is no need to reopen the government's review. | |
| We can't afford, we can't afford to let this administration be stubborn in their mistakes and casual about our security. | |
| Every homeland security expert identifies protecting the ports as one of our greatest unmet security challenges. | |
| also had this to say. | |
| Dangerous men, tainted blood money, and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders. | |
| The Bush administration said they'd looked at the transaction and that the public shouldn't Okay, so UAE money is blood money. | |
| Now I think I think he's talking about money that's been laundered through there uh by by hijackers and other terrorists And so forth, uh, when he says dangerous men, tainted blood money, and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders. | |
| He's trying to imply an association between the sheikhs that run the UAE and these uh dangerous men and tainted blood money. | |
| Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. | |
| Senator Joe Biden, Delaware was the guest. | |
| Uh, Wallace said, Is that the Democrat position that no matter what the Emirates have done since 911 as an ally in a war on terror, that this is a country of dangerous men and tainted blood money? | |
| Well, uh, the answer is the Democratic Party is concerned about this, but I could have closed my eyes and thought that was Peter King, the Republican leader of the subcommittee on that point. | |
| He's saying the same thing. | |
| You have a whole lot of people saying the same thing. | |
| No, they're not. | |
| Now King is being critical of the deal, but he's not being critical of President Bush. | |
| And he came to Bush's defense yesterday on Meet the Press really tearing into Tim Russert when Russert continued to portray this as the uh UAE and this company buying the ports uh and and running security, which they're not doing. | |
| The American will interests, uh, government interests mostly will continue to own the uh the ports. | |
| Later on the round table on Fox News Sunday, Charles Crowdhammer said this to Juan Williams that if you heard the address by Corzine yesterday, it was not about generalities, it was about Arabs in charge of port security, and he painted the UAE as a country which was an enemy country, which it's not, and that's where the demagoguery comes in, and that's and that's where they're jeopardizing America's position among all of these very small countries. | |
| We don't have a lot of allies in the Arab world, and Williams responds. | |
| Who are the first spearmongers in terms of American politics around here? | |
| I would say the Republicans and the Bush administration. | |
| It's just that the fear mongering has now changed because the people on on the con in the Congress are worried about their midterm elections. | |
| Bush warns us about Al Qaeda, which is a real threat. | |
| Democrats warn us about UAE, which is not, and that's why it's demagoguery. | |
| And he's right about this. | |
| The Democrats are st their their opposition to this is not principled, as we discussed last week. | |
| Their opposition is purely political, and it's it's the uh latest effort that they uh latest opportunity that they think they have to take Bush out, uh, which is their seems to be their their primary interest. | |
| And I would there's somewhere I didn't even bother saving it. | |
| I was reading somewhere today where uh basically it was a story that that uh Bush is unpopular in this state in that state, and that's I'm finished reading this and I said, Yep, I guess I can't, I guess I gotta renounce my support for Bush in a two thousand eight election. | |
| He's not on the ballot. | |
| Now I know that this this business of of uh trying to go after Bush is is is aimed as the two thousand six elections, but uh it it's it's still is just nothing new from the Democrats. | |
| Their opposition to this is based purely on demagoguing the whole thing. | |
| Out there saying that they're going to be in charge of port security and blood money and tainted uh tainted uh what men, dangerous men tainted blood money and this sort of thing. | |
| And it is interesting politically, and we'll just have to wait to see how this develops. | |
| But I I think I sort of have an idea. | |
| Uh, and it is this, that the Democrats have gone as long as far as they can. | |
| Well, actually they haven't. | |
| We've I've got a story in the stack today about their efforts to get a special prosecutor like Pat Fitzgerald appointed to handle the NSA spying story. | |
| That so they they're not letting go of that. | |
| So while they they refuse to see an enemy anywhere in the war on terror or in Iraq, all of a sudden, the UAE has become the enemy. | |
| Uh, politically, that's you know, that's that's uh one foot over the cliff again, which seems to be the constant position the Democrats uh put themselves in. | |
| I'm gonna take some phone calls on this before we move on to uh other exciting issues uh that are out there in the stack of stuff today. | |
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| All right, the Bush administration said yesterday it will grant a request by the Dubai port outfit for an additional forty five day review of its contested takeover of terminal operations at uh six major U.S. ports. | |
| D P. World said that it was seeking further review in order to allay U.S. lawmakers' national security concerns about handing management of these terminals to a company owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. | |
| Upon receipt of the new notification, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. uh will promptly initiate the review process and fulfill DPW's request for a full investigation. | |
| Bush National Security Advisor Steve Hadley said on CNN's late edition, it was clear that member of Congress uh members of Congress needed more time to understand and review the deal. | |
| Well, uh just so you understand, members of Congress, particularly on the Democrat side, are not just content with a 45-day extension in order to investigate this, as you will hear soon from New York Senator Chuck Schumer, they want to take over the whole process of authorizing such things. | |
| They are moving the goalpost. | |
| Um Schumer legislation not only calls for the 45-day review, but gives Congress the final say. | |
| Congress doesn't have that power. | |
| The executive does. | |
| Um he was on Good Morning America today, and Charlie Gibson said the Arab company at the center of this story is asking for a fuller investigation, a a more complete investigation to clear up any security questions. | |
| But that may not be the last word on all this. | |
| And so joining us is New York Senator Charles Schumer, who's been a strong critic of this. | |
| Do we have a 45-day truce, Senator? | |
| Well, I'm not sure we have a truce. | |
| Uh our legislation, which is bipartisan, five Democrats, five Republicans will introduce it today on the floor of the Senate, says do the 45-day review. | |
| That's necessary. | |
| But it also says give Congress, not just the President, the findings, and let Congress have an opportunity 30 days to disapprove the deal. | |
| That's what's needed because the President has already decided. | |
| Now, in the uh in the next So the President's already decided, and Schumer wants Congress to have power to nix what the President's decision is. | |
| So you have a separation of powers battle going on here. | |
| It's an attempt to weaken the president. | |
| It happens all the time, but it's happened since the founding of the country. | |
| These battles for power that the Congress has always made against the executive are nothing new. | |
| This one is time to coordinate with massive public opinion on this that indicates most people are with Schumer and those who don't want to allow the deal to be approved. | |
| Next question from Gibson. | |
| Well, is there an element of racism in all of this? | |
| Because foreign interests already control more than 30% of the port facilities in this country anyway, so is your opposition to this just because this is a Middle Eastern group? | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| The opposition stems from the fact that the UAE, the United Arab Emirates of which Dubai is part, has had a relationship, a nexus with terrorism. | |
| Money is laundered by Bin Laden and other groups through their banks or has been. | |
| The nuclear weapons that the Pakistani doctor, Aid Q. Khan sent through was through Dubai. | |
| It was one of three countries to recognize the Taliban. | |
| Charles, if this were Chechnya, if this were East Timor non-Arab countries with a connection with terrorism, the same kind of nexus, we'd have the same ferocity in America to have a full review and put homeland security first. | |
| Okay, so Schumer, of course, I don't expect him to admit that it's racism and xenophobia, but he expressly denies that racism, i.e., the fact that this is an Arab company and an Arab company has anything at all to do with his opposition. | |
| But in the very next answer here, he says he's worried about infiltration by Al-Qaeda. | |
| Uh Charlie Gibson says, look, most national security experts I've seen quoted say, look, we don't have a better friend in the Middle East cooperating with us in the war on terror than the UAE. | |
| Well, since 9-11, the UAE has been a lot better. | |
| But the real issue here is infiltration. | |
| In other words, even if the top of the Dubai Ports World, who is actually the leader of the United Arab Emirates, because the nation controls the company, even if he were 100%, what about infiltration? | |
| Well, infiltration by who? | |
| He's denying racism, but but let me explain to you one at one of my uh uh not to cover old ground, but uh I know some of you are upset with me for the for the uh the sarcasm and and the parodical uh approach taken in the opening monologue of today's program. | |
| And I'm I'm accustomed to uh members of the audience being upset with me. | |
| This is this is this has been uh case with several issues in the past, the Perot candidacy, NAFTA, just to name a couple. | |
| Um I I think that there is uh really principled opposition to this. | |
| Forget the Democrats. | |
| I'm not even talking about them now. | |
| I'm talking about the opponents of this deal that would be considered associates or friends of mine or like-minded people. | |
| I think there are really two parts to that. | |
| I think there's some principled opposition to this uh by people on genuine national security concerns, and I'm I'm not trying to pick a fight with them. | |
| But I also think that there are some people out there who are just reactionary protectionists, uh who just on w general principle here are opposed to it, and is it's those people that I have uh a quarrel with and have ever since NAFTA and uh uh well, even prior to that. | |
| Now look at this. | |
| During these Schumer sound bites, I happen to check my email. | |
| I check email all the time during this. | |
| I'm multitask better than any other host out there. | |
| And our buddies at uh at Newsmax just posted the following story. | |
| Peter King blames Rush Limbaugh for port support. | |
| That's the um that's that's the uh headline. | |
| Here's a story. | |
| New York Congressman Peter King, who sounded the alarm two weeks ago over the Bush administration's decision to permit the sale of several dozen U.S. port terminals to a Dubai company, blamed conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday for softening the fire storm of opposition to the deal. | |
| Asked why some hardline opponents of the Dubai deal seemed to have changed their minds. | |
| King uh told John Gambling on WABC Radio, I'm very disappointed in that. | |
| It almost seemed that once the administration started to counterattack, you had people like Rush Limbaugh and others who've just been, uh I think they've gone into the tank, quite frankly. | |
| So he says I'm in the tank for Bush. | |
| Uh uh we'll have to go back and check the timeline. | |
| I think I think my initial reaction to this deal a week ago today, uh and even prior to that was before the administration came out. | |
| Um and and at any rate, um Limbaugh had adopted a wait and see posture on the ports controversy early last week, saying more information was needed. | |
| But by Friday he told his audience he was suspicious of the monolithic opposition. | |
| And they quote me saying, 'You remember the movie The Perfect Storm? | |
| What do you suppose happens when 2006 politics and a liberal lust for power and a long shoreman union power and Bush hatred and uninformed reporting and the GOP's fear of losing power all get tossed into a stewpot, and then you add in a dash of xenophobia and a touch of racism? | |
| What do you get? | |
| Exactly what we had earlier this week, the perfect panic. | |
| Quoted me accurately. | |
| Still despite their disagreement, Limbaugh never attacked King personally, a line crossed by the New York Republican with his Monday in the tank reference. | |
| King uh complained that defenders of the ports transaction were trivializing the debate. | |
| For them to ridicule or to trivialize the objections that we have, I mean, stand back for a second. | |
| Look at this. | |
| What we're talking about, you know, turning over the operation of our ports to a company owned by the government which was cooperating with our enemy just a few years ago. | |
| And they're trying to ridicule and trivialize when you raise questions about that, King said. | |
| Um who owes what is I think you're seeing something of a split here in the Republican Party between what I call the Reagan Democrats, you know, the the ethnics from the cities and the suburbs, the middle income working people, and the big business wing of the party. | |
| Oh, I'm I'm part of the big business wing. | |
| Yes, I guess this explains my my anger at this administration's lack of doing anything to protect the borders when it comes to illegal immigration. | |
| I guess I'm in the tank with big business on that too. | |
| I guess I'm in the tank when I'm critical of the president's budgeting and his spending, and I guess I'm in the tank when I've been critical of the president on Harriet Myers, and I guess I'm in the tank when I have been critical of the president on Ted Kennedy writing the education bill. | |
| Steel tariffs, oh, I came I ripped the the hell out of the steel tariffs idea, which was eventually uh withdrawn uh after not too long a period of time. | |
| I I went to great pains not to take a personal swipe at Peter King. | |
| Oh I praised him. | |
| I I I did. | |
| I went out of my way to praise him. | |
| I I pointed out that he admitted that uh he's he's being swayed a lot by constituent email and and phone calls, which he has to be. | |
| He is an elected representative. | |
| He's charged with representation. | |
| He's in New York, he's out on Long Island. | |
| It's ground zero for him. | |
| I understand where he's coming from on that. | |
| I've I've never I did not criticize him or any of these other people. | |
| I have just told people why I'm for it. | |
| Oh, it's you know, I've let me the more accurate thing to say is I have just explained it why I'm not afraid of it. | |
| Let's let's put it that way. | |
| All right, quick timeout. | |
| We'll come back and we'll get to your phone calls right after this. | |
| Single-handedly responsible for softening the opposition to the ports deal, according to New York Congressman Peter King, I am Rush Limboy, here on the cutting edge of societal evolution to Washington. | |
| We go, hi Mike, uh welcome to the program. | |
| You were up first today. | |
| Rush, long time dittoes, uh, even back when I lived in New York before the carpet baggers moved in and I had to leave. | |
| Uh, I used to love uh when you gave us an extra hour in the morning. | |
| But uh anyway, it just keeps getting better. | |
| Really appreciate it. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Thanks very much. | |
| Hey, um, just to reiterate your point on how insincere uh Hillary and Chucky Face is uh, if they were serious about our national security, I think they would sound the alarm about Toshiba. | |
| I mean, they have a track record of selling our uh submarine, nuclear submarine uh silent repeller program to the Russians back in the day. | |
| That is true. | |
| That is true. | |
| Toshiba has been cited for illegally selling our silent submarine technology to the uh to the Chicoms. | |
| But see, you have to understand if if you put your thinking cap you on, you will understand why. | |
| They may not even know about this, for one thing. | |
| I mean, the Dubai story was out there three or four days before anybody started talking about it because they were too preoccupied with taking Cheney out. | |
| Right. | |
| And then when the Cheney story died, look what they found. | |
| They had to so they ginned this all up. | |
| They may not even know yet uh about Westinghouse being owned by the Brits and the Brits now selling it to Toshiba. | |
| They may not even rush Rush. | |
| My thought was that since it has something to do with the military, they're just gonna let that go because as far as they're concerned, they'd sell us down the river. | |
| Uh no, I I don't I don't think that's it. | |
| I th I think uh well I don't think that's it. | |
| I I th I have to stop and think. | |
| Sell the military down the river is not that far outside the realm of possibility. | |
| You may have a point. | |
| But I think what's going on here actually is tunnel vision. | |
| The Democrats for four years have been trying to make the case we don't have an enemy. | |
| They have opposed the war on terror. | |
| They have opposed the war in Iraq. | |
| Even after they voted for it, they tried to pretend like they were snookered, tricked, and lied to. | |
| Bush lied, Bush lied us into war, none of this is necessary, haven't captured bin Laden. | |
| We don't need these torture chambers. | |
| Ted Kennedy says that Abu Ghrab is no different than when Saddam ran it. | |
| It's just under new management. | |
| Um the NSA spying scandal, that that that's now that's we gotta stop that. | |
| We can't we can they let sum it up, they have been waging an effort to make it practically impossible to wage war against this enemy, the terrorist enemy. | |
| And that's where the tunnel vision comes in. | |
| In the process, they have not accomplished what they wanted to accomplish. | |
| They wanted to accomplish turning the people of this country into an anti-war population, with the Democrats on top of that large hope-for constituency. | |
| They were trying to redo what they did in the latter days of Vietnam. | |
| They have McGovernized them. | |
| Well, they never have un-magnized themselves. | |
| They tried to rebirth the McGovern era, uh, and it didn't work. | |
| What happened was that they came under uh uh uh even more scrutiny by the American people, and polls indicated that more and more Americans simply would not trust the Democrats with this nation's national security. | |
| They live in a post-9-11 world, the Democrats are trying to create a pre-9-11 world. | |
| Then all of a sudden, Cheney goes hunting, shoots Harry Whittington, uh and the Democrats oh, whoa! | |
| Well, if they get all they get all riled up, they could they can they can just folks, it's it's it's like they're having orgasms out there. | |
| And then that didn't work because Whittington didn't die. | |
| If Whittington had died, we'd still be talking about that, and we wouldn't even be on to the ports deal yet. | |
| But Whittington survived, Whittington lived, and he's uh gonna be happily ever after. | |
| So here comes the port deal. | |
| And the Democrats immediately saw an opportunity to get themselves on the other side of the national security debate, where they had failed to turn the country into a population of anti-war citizens. | |
| They now gotta get back on the other side of this debate, and all their advisors from the Carvills to the Begales and is you've got to you gotta find a way to slay this. | |
| Hillary's been out there, you've got to sign a way to get us on the other thing. | |
| They're killing us in this national security debate. | |
| So here comes this deal. | |
| And it's it's just an opportunity that they can't even wait to analyze and think. | |
| Because it gives them an opportunity to be against Arabs. | |
| And of course, Arabs are terrorists. | |
| And it puts ports deal in question. | |
| And the ports, that's the one area the Democrats with the Kerry campaign were going on and on and on about in the 2004 presidential campaign. | |
| Kerry kept saying we only inspect five percent the incoming cargo, it's an outrage in a post-9-11 world. | |
| So they just they reacted with glee and with pure emotion without thinking about it. | |
| And so since there is no political ground to be gained by getting involved in the Westinghouse sale to Toshiba, which will result in nuclear power plants being built in China via with with U.S. technology. | |
| There's no terrorism involved there. | |
| There's no there there's no Middle East involved there, so it's of no interest to them. | |
| This emirates deal is just what they've well what they think they've been asking for. | |
| But see, the problem here again is I keep saying, the problem is, okay, the Democrats, they want American uh to understand that they're tough, that they recognize we have an enemy. | |
| The enemy is the United Arab Emirates and and the United Arab Emirates as is is not on the enemies list of this country, but they're trying to make Americans think that it should be, and so they're demagoguing the whole issue. | |
| Now, if China ever develops a connection with Al Qaeda, if China ever develops a connection with any terrorist group like this, then this kind of a deal is gonna come under more security. | |
| I'll tell you what I think about that. | |
| I I I think there needs to be, obviously, a better way to ensure that our technology isn't flowing to hostile countries and others. | |
| Uh I mean, you don't have to, you don't have to kill all these deals, but uh but a coherent and consistent policy for reviewing these deals that may transfer technology like this has to be put in place. | |
| We we have an export control regime, uh, but it may not be enough in the post-9-11 uh era. | |
| They need to look at it, it needs to be evaluated, not for protectionist reasons, but legitimate national security reasons. | |
| I don't know what i i if you know obviously Westinghouse was sold to the uh to the British before 9-11. | |
| After 9-11, would that kind of a sale be permitted? | |
| And do we have the power to stop a privately held company from selling to whoever they want to sell to? | |
| Well, the Democrats think we do. | |
| And cop obviously this case can be made on an individual case-by-case basis. | |
| But I don't know what you do now about this, other than beg the British not to sell it to Toshiba. | |
| What do you do? | |
| They're an ally. | |
| Threaten to nuke them if they allow what we could do. | |
| Back in a moment. | |
| Calypso Lewis had the uh the State of the Black Union speech Saturday in Houston in celebration of uh Black History Month. | |
| Uh we we have some incredible uh audio sound bites from that address, as well as uh lots of other stuff here in the stacks of stuff. |
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