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March 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program here at the EIB Network.
I am Roger Hedgecock broadcasting today from lovely San Diego, California.
Don't want to talk about our wonderful sunny weather here.
I know many of you facing the snow bravely today back east.
We're going to get into just a ton of news coming down.
Try to ascertain the trend of the next bash Bush line of reasoning and anticipate it for you.
There are at least three bubbling out there, and we'll get to them.
Number one, of course, and then we'll get to the Oscars and a lot of other fun stuff that's going on in California and elsewhere.
But first and foremost, the president had a breakthrough today with a nation that should be an ally, an emerging nation, a nation that has jettisoned its British-inspired post-World War II socialism in favor of a economic reform package that brings at last capitalism and its benefits to India.
India, one of the poorest nations in the planet, is now generating a middle class and an upper class and an educated class and an English-speaking class, of course, of people.
A lot of them speak English there.
It is a nation not without problems, but it is a nation emerging into the 21st century.
It's about time it's a nation that was on our side.
Today's agreements in trade and nuclear energy are the first step toward that kind of closer alliance, and George Bush has pulled it off.
Now, of course, every time something like this happens, it's positive.
The spin has to be negative.
The spin, I mean, Bush did it.
It can't be positive.
So what happened was today, immediately, when it became known that despite the downplay, last couple of days they've been saying, well, no agreement in sight on the nuclear energy issue.
It's really not something we're anticipating.
We don't need that agreement to have a successful meeting and all that kind of spin to downplay the expectations.
And then Bingo announces the agreement.
Right on his heels, I mean, the left didn't fall for that for a minute.
Right on his heels comes the charge.
Well, wait a minute, this is undermining the non-proliferation treaty, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which India refuses to sign.
You're giving them nuclear stuff, and they haven't signed the treaty.
And what kind of a message is that sending that we would allow somebody who didn't sign the treaty?
I mean, North Korea won't sign it.
We're not giving them nukes.
Iran won't sign it.
We're not giving them nukes.
We're giving nukes to India.
No, we're not.
I know facts are stubborn things that often get in the way of the left attempting to once again nail George Bush.
They've been trying for so long, and it just hasn't happened yet.
So here it is again today.
No.
The treaty signed, the agreement that is signed, and I think the Senate will overwhelmingly approve it, would draw a very bright line between the nuclear weapons program that India has, a very small one, smaller than Iran's, basically, that and the peaceful development of nuclear energy, something that India, with no oil, desperately needs in their emerging energy needs.
Unlike Iran that says it needs nuclear power and is sitting on more oil than the world would use in the next hundred years, the fact is that India does need nuclear power and does not need weapons but needs power.
So while the conflict with Pakistan isn't going away and the nuclear powers there, the two of them are dangerous tinderbox, they're not likely to bring the world into a world war, something that Iran has already threatened, something that North Korea obviously would love to do as well.
So I think the attempt today to make this achievement look like a problem is going to be made, and you have to be alerted to it because it is part and parcel of the way the press, the old mainstream press, so-called mainstream, deals with the Bush administration.
You will recall, gee, aren't we talking about Cheney?
Oh, yeah, the guy didn't die.
Aren't we talking about civil war in Iraq?
Oh, okay, it isn't happening.
Oops.
Well, gosh, what can we talk about today?
Oh, that blunder in India.
No, no, no, they got something better.
The FEMA tapes are out.
Bush knew.
Bush knew before.
He knew those levees were coming down.
He knew those black people were going to die.
He knew we've got videotape out.
And I'll tell you, this is going to be the hot.
Associated Press was all over this today.
Secret transcripts and video footage, they said, showing Bush being briefed the day before the hurricane hit.
I'm sorry, Associated Press, that is not true.
The video footage you are now displaying today was given to the networks, and I think NBC it is, has already acknowledged this, that they had it on August 28th of last year.
It was distributed to show that the president was meeting with all the emergency people, fully aware of the severity of the oncoming hurricane, directing that they get everything they could out into the field and get ready for this, fully confident that his bureaucrats would do it, and then that confidence may have been misplaced, but there is nothing secret about the transcripts or the video footage.
In fact, you got it because the Bush administration gave it to you on August 28th, the day before the hurricane hit.
In fact, I have up on my screen right now a weather message from the National Weather Service, New Orleans, Louisiana, 10-11 a.m. Central Time, Sunday, August 28th.
And it is a warning to the people of the Gulf Coast, particularly Louisiana, particularly New Orleans, to be ready for a devastating earthquake.
In fact, here's the first line: Hurricane Katrina, most powerful hurricane with unprecedented strength, rivaling the intensity of Hurricane Camille of 1969.
Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks, perhaps longer, etc.
It goes on, et cetera, et cetera.
Was there a warning that the levees would break?
Well, not quite.
Again, from the so-called secret, but not really, videotape.
Here is the briefer, Max Mayfield, with, well, this is as close to a warning as it gets.
I don't think anyone can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not.
In other words, they didn't know.
They said it's a danger.
It's a concern.
It's a possibility.
Bush says, get on it, be ready for it.
They weren't.
But in that little room, in other words, Bush didn't have a secret meeting.
He called in the press.
They were videotaping this.
The videotapes were distributed that weekend to all of the press, that weekend in August.
So, again, I don't know.
We'll probably see some more.
See, he wanted to kill people in New Orleans.
He wanted to kill those Democrats in New Orleans.
He wanted black people to die in New Orleans.
You know, you're going to go on and on, of course, but that's not what happened.
In fact, Brownie, the former head of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, the former federal disaster chief, said yesterday that in retrospect, President Bush was overconfident that FEMA could do the job.
No, Brownie, he wasn't overconfident in FEMA.
He was overconfident in you.
You failed, not George Bush.
Now, of course, oh, there's the other one, too.
The ports deal is still simmering.
Even though it turns out that former President Bill Clinton, I say his name in the reverential tones to which the United Nations always ascribes.
Bill Clinton has reportedly advised the United Arab Emirates on how to navigate through the controversy surrounding the UAE's proposed operation of these U.S. seaport terminals.
Clinton, this last week, called on leaders at Dubai Ports World, the company involved in the deal, to review the particulars of the transaction and give them advice on how to handle it.
While Hillary, do they even speak anymore?
Are they talking?
While Hillary's out attacking the deal.
Clinton, who says, wait a minute, wait a minute.
UAE is an ally, and I'm going to help him.
So will that one wither and die on the vine.
You know, if you throw this mud against the wall sooner or later, something, it's just slipping off.
What is this, a Teflon coating on this wall?
This mud is not sticking.
Maybe this will do it.
A second United Arab Emirates company, Dubai International Capital LLC, confirmed yesterday, confirmed today, according to this London dateline, that today, March 2nd, that the U.S. has launched a national security investigation into one of its acquisitions.
This is yet another UAE company, apparently, that is trying to buy Doncaster's Group Limited, a British precision engineering company with subsidiaries in the United States that, get this now, that make components used in engines for military aircraft and tanks.
Uh-oh.
Arabs want to take over the military-industrial complex.
Arabs are trying to get in there on our tanks, on the engines in our tanks.
They're trying to produce, they're trying to put Arabs in there that will.
So in other words, we couldn't profile at the airport, but we're going to profile here in this situation.
Anyway, so that is, in a nutshell, those are all the threads that the desperate so-called mainstream press is following today to try to throw more mud at George Bush, and you're going to hear a whole lot more about it.
Now, because none of these are actually working on George Bush, people are hoping that the cumulative impact of negativity, the cumulative impact of all of this mud, will be to set a tone, an attitude, an emotion.
Since all the facts have failed, what's left is the echo of emotion, of anti-Bush.
He's been wrong, wrong, So now, because all of those are not wrong, but the attitude is left, the facts are not what they said they were in each of those cases, but the attitude, the emotion, the leftover, the hangover of bitterness, of anger, of angst on the left has now produced some concrete results.
The craziness on the left is now gone today to a new level, and I want to play some tape on what I mean when we come back.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh at 1-800-282-2882.
Rush today addressing the talk radio seminar in D.C. today, RNR.
You know, it's kind of an inside baseball thing.
But when they want to go, I don't know what's going on in radio, they go to the top.
So that's why Russia's not here.
He's there.
I'm here, and you're here.
Let's get it together right after we take this break.
Well, we haven't been able to prove anything on the lunatic left, but by golly, we've got the right attitude.
We know we're right, even though we haven't got the facts.
That's actually the line of thinking in San Francisco where the supervisor's there, there's 10 of them, that's a city and county combined there in San Francisco, California.
They voted 7 to 3 on a resolution to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney.
And the thinking was, let's see, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Supervisor Chris Daly, one of the most progressive members of the board, let me interpret that for you, one of the most lunatic of the lefties on that board, sponsored the resolution.
He said it's justified in light of the administration's case for and handling of the war in Iraq, the federal government's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina, and recent revelations about a domestic wiretapping program.
Now, we all know the facts of those situations.
There were in our WMD.
Iraq was a staging area for terrorism and terrorism is being defeated there today.
The inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina was incontrovertible.
It wasn't George Bush's fault.
He got the bureaucracy up and running and cheered them on, and then they just did not do their job in a couple of key respects.
And of course, the local government in Louisiana, run by Democrats, never gets mentioned in this, does it?
By the way, my favorite, Mardi Gras, right?
You all saw the Mardi Gras stuff.
We're now past Ash Wednesday, but Tuesday, at the peak of the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, I'm watching the TV and my favorite t-shirt of the year.
And if anybody out there has this t-shirt, I would love to have it.
I mean, we'll do a trade, a barter of some kind.
I would love to have this t-shirt.
This t-shirt said, keep drinking till Nagan makes sense.
I mean, that's a t-shirt worth keeping.
Keep drinking till Nagan makes sense.
In any event, here is Chris Daly weighing in recent revelations about a domestic wiretapping.
It was not a domestic wiretapping program.
It was a wiretapping program on people here in the United States that are talking to what's left of al-Qaeda and the rest of the world, those who haven't come to the United States already.
I have to keep in phone conversation with those that are still outside the United States.
We'll get to that today, too.
Wait to hear about Al-Qaeda in the U.S.
So in any event, the San Francisco supervisors now want to impeach Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco.
Isn't sure whether he'll sign the resolution, isn't sure whether that's one of his priorities.
One of his priorities, by the way, was his new girlfriend.
He was down in L.A.
We love to gossip here in California, so let's just get it.
He was down in L.A. with his new girlfriend, and she's a Scientologist, and they went to a Scientology event.
And he got roundly criticized for it because Scientologists are the last group in the United States that you can make fun of in San Francisco and not have a counter-demonstration.
So I just want to warn people in San Francisco that this is not going to last.
Scientologists are going to demonstrate the next time you criticize them.
The next time you criticize them, if there's a cartoon about Scientology, cars are going to burn in San Francisco.
In, how do you say this, Parsippany?
In Morris, in New Jersey.
Okay.
The Daily Record there has this item today.
Yes, we scour all of the available news sources here at the EIB network.
Nothing escapes us.
Parsippany dateline, quote, President Bush is being tried for, quote, crimes against civilian populations, unquote, and, quote, inhumane treatment of prisoners, unquote, at Parsippany High School, with students arguing both sides before a five-teacher International Court of Justice.
The panel's verdict could come as soon as Friday.
So Bush is on trial in the high schools of this country on the same day at Overland High in Colorado.
This from the Denver Post.
Teacher caught in Bush rant, Overland High School teacher who criticized President Bush capitalism and U.S. foreign policy during his geography class, geography class.
Now, I know they don't teach geography because I talk to high school kids.
They don't know where, you know, they don't know, you know what, from a hole in the ground.
They don't have no idea where stuff is because they've got teachers like this, Jay Benish.
Now, what's interesting about this story is that a 16-year-old boy at Overland High School in this class, fed up with his teacher's left-wing political rants, Sean Allen, had an MP3 recorder.
And he caught what goes on inside high school geography classes, not everywhere, but in too many places, when these leftist lunatics who've wormed their way into the teachers' union and cannot be wormed out are teaching the kids in geography class this.
Now, if we have the right to fly into Bolivia and Peru and drop chemical weapons on top of farmers' fields because we're afraid they might be growing cocoa and that could be turned into cocaine and sold to us, well then don't the Peruvians and the Iranians and the Chinese have the right to invade America and drop chemical weapons over North Carolina to destroy the tobacco plants that are killing millions and millions of people in their countries every year and causing them billions of dollars in health care costs?
What do I need to say after that?
The man's a lunatic.
The man is a lunatic.
Eradication programs for cocoa leaves, agreed to by both countries, Peru, Bolivia, you know, until recently, obviously there's been some backlash against that because people make a lot of money growing cocoa for cocaine.
The fact is, did you see that?
Did you see the inauguration of the Bolivian president?
He's wearing a wreath of cocoa leaves around his neck.
He's a cocoa farmer.
So, I mean, you know, obviously there's a back.
But do they have a right then to bomb South Carolina to eradicate tobacco?
Because, in other words, the equation, it's always the equation.
Tobacco is as evil as cocaine.
Really?
Do you ever know any cocaine addicts?
Do you ever know about the impacts of cocaine?
Makes tobacco look like tapioca.
Hello?
And the idea that we are indiscriminately bombing, we're not indiscriminately bombing any of these places.
So now the Iranians could bomb South Carolina.
Wait a minute, the Iranians grow tobacco too.
That's the only vice they have.
You know, under the Quran, there's a limited number of vices, so they've got to exploit the ones they get.
You ever been to, I mean, I've been in the hookah pipes, you know, it wasn't like in college where it was the little hemp product in there.
No, no, no, when you go to Egypt, it's this very sweet tobacco.
They grow it there.
Hello, this geography teacher doesn't know anything about geography.
What he knows is the lunatic left's talking points.
All disjumbled, disjointed assertions of nonsense that have absolutely no relationship to fact.
But it doesn't matter because in the geography class for 16-year-olds, this is this authority figure partaking, you know, inculcating these kids to become good Democratic Hillary voters in the future.
So we're going to come back.
There's more on this tape.
No, no, he's just getting warmed up.
And so am I. 1-800-282-2882.
Taking your calls on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Back after this.
So Sean Allen, a 16-year-old at Overland High School in his geography class, fed up with the leftist rants of his teacher, Jay Benish, Benish responding to the State of the Union address, apparently, and the MP3 recording made available to our friend at KOA Radio, Clear Channel Radio in Denver there, Mike Rosen, who turned it over to, according to the Denver Post here, turned it over to Superintendent Monty Moses, who put Benish,
the teacher, on leave, quote, to take some of the pressure off of him, unquote, during the investigation.
So we're going to, let's see if I understand this now.
Going to take pressure off him so we can put the pressure on somebody else for daring to bring up and daring to tape and daring to expose what actually goes on in quote geography unquote classes in the public schools.
By the way, this is a 2000 student school, Overland High School, where the students, by the way, a number of them have just in the last hour walked out of this high school.
And as the camera panned across the kids, I just saw this on Fox and elsewhere here.
The camera pans across the students walking out of class in solidarity with teacher Jay Benish, who's been suspended as a result of these comments.
A number of these young men giving the gang signals.
You know, I mean, if you know something about it, we got a complete expose there of the gangs that operate in this high school, if you know how to interpret the various gang signals.
So watch for that tonight.
Anyway, here is a little bit more of what Jay Benish had to say in the geography class.
Where in this definition does it say anything about capitalism is an economic system that will provide everybody in the world with the basic needs that they need?
Is that part of the system?
Do you see how this economic system is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion?
It's at odds with human rights.
Capitalism is at odds with human rights.
Now, capitalism coming out of liberty and freedom is consonant with the idea of individual responsibility, individual freedom, individual liberty, respect for your efforts.
And what basic rights is he talking about?
Universal health care, universal education at the expense of the all-powerful state, the extinguishing of individual liberty in the futile search for absolute security provided by the all-powerful government.
Is that what we're talking about?
Sure sounds like it.
It sure sounds like it.
I'm doing these in little bites because I don't want you rushing for the pink liquid here, but this is a seatbelt mandatory segment.
I forgot to say that up front because we don't want to be hearing from you on problems caused by listening to this.
This teacher in a geography class in high school at Overland High, 2,000 students.
It's too big to start with.
2,000 students in Aurora, Colorado.
Let's listen to another one.
Now, do we really want to kill innocent people?
I don't know.
I don't know the answer to that.
I know that there are some Americans who do.
People who work in the CIA, people who have to think like that, those kind of dirty minds, dirty tricks.
That's how the intelligence world works.
Sometimes you do want to kill people just for the sake of killing them.
Really?
Name one.
Name one.
Because I can name millions killed by your all-powerful government that you're advocating.
Today, for example, a finding by the Italian government that the Soviet Union did order the assassination of the Pope way back when, John Paul II, back in the 80s.
It was a direct hit.
Now, is the Pope innocent?
No, he's the head of that Catholic Church, that church that denies women their rights.
So we can kill him.
He's not innocent.
See, that's the definition on the left.
What is innocent?
People who agree with us.
People who agree with the left.
This kind of stuff used to be called communism before, you know, it was kind of that name kind of went passe about 1991.
But it sure sounds like the same old Politburo stuff.
Innocent people.
Tell Daniel Pearl, pal.
Here's another one.
That when Al-Qaeda attacked America on September 11th, in their view, they're not attacking innocent people.
Yikes.
Okay, the CIA has an office in the World Trade Center.
The Pentagon is a military target.
The White House was a military target.
Congress is a military target.
All right, so you get the idea that this guy, a teacher in a public high school in Aurora, Colorado, is as anti-American as possible.
Everything America does is evil and wrong, and Americans ought to be killed.
There are Americans who want to kill innocent people.
Really?
Name them.
Who are you talking about?
And then he finally gets down to the bottom line.
And again, I apologize if this is too much too soon for you, or if you're not aware that in your own town there are public school teachers just like this.
Not all of them, but way too many for my taste.
Here's the final one: To many Native Americans, that flag is no different than the Nazi flag or the Confederate flag.
It represents the people that came and stole their land, lied, brought disease, rape, pillage, destruction, et cetera.
Once again, I don't know whether he knows any geography, but apparently not.
But he sure doesn't know any history.
He sure doesn't know any history.
The average lifespan of the natives prior to Columbus was somewhere in the early 20s.
The average lifespan of Native Americans today, and thank God it's gone up so they can enjoy their casino benefits, is in the 70s.
Hello, geography teachers.
Get back to teaching geography if you know anything about it, because your leftist rants have no basis in fact or history or geography or anything else.
By the way, thank you very much to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaking to Congress in a speech that was ignored by the national media.
Let's start with cut number nine.
When I see your flag, I see a symbol, a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.
The Prime Minister of Italy sees in our flag, our flag of the United States, a symbol, a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.
The geography teacher in Aurora, Colorado, sees the Nazi or Confederate flag.
Yes, you should be paying more attention to what goes on in the schools.
Let's take some calls here.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
Here's Chris in Northport somewhere.
Hi there, Chris.
Hi, Roger.
How are you doing?
Where are you exactly?
Northport, Michigan.
Michigan, go ahead.
Hey, with that teacher and that stuff you were playing about that just made me think of my son doing Connect the Dots and how bad liberals are at it.
They jump numbers.
They go from 1 to 33 to 13 back and forth and create, I mean, they find these commonalities and they connect the dots, but it ends up being this jumbled mess, you know, that a two or three year old would do.
It just, to somebody who's not educated, like you said, in these things, they're just going to be so confused and it's just totally misleading, which has led us to homeschool our child.
Well, good for you.
I appreciate the call, Chris.
This is an important point.
When you hear the left ranting like this, when you actually listen to them, I want you to go to a heroin recovery clinic of some kind, and I'm sure you have one in your, or some kind of drug-addled person who's in recovery, who's somewhere where they can actually talk.
Go and talk to them.
You will hear this same kind of talk, completely unconnected to reality.
I'm not talking about the political content of it now.
I'm talking about the randomness, the disconnectedness, the random dots floating in space that don't really connect to each other, but in their mind they do.
This is the symptom of a drug-addled kind of mind.
Forget the political content.
Here's John in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Hi, John.
How are you doing today?
Good.
Good, good.
Yeah, I was just calling because my fear or theory is the farther and the farther the Democrats move to the left and become a weaker party, that's actually bad for conservatives because it's going to allow people in our party, basically the moderates and left and the northeastern part of the party, to move even farther to the left and get more cover there and maybe even allow more moderates, say like in Wisconsin, you know, a Ronald Reagan conservative is not probably going to get elected to the Senate in Wisconsin, but a moderate could very well.
And as their numbers grow to, say, maybe eight to ten in the Senate, that's going to become a very powerful group because I don't, you know, I just don't see them being conservative enough to push out, you know, the fiscal responsibility and stuff like that that's been lacking basically the last several years anyway.
Well, when you talk about fiscal responsibility, there's plenty of so-called conservatives who are in the earmark pork barrel themselves, and that's a whole separate topic.
But I agree with you that as the Democrats shoot themselves in various body parts and move to as they move to the left, there's definitely going to be room on the Republican side for McCain and others who want to move away from some Republican principles and some conservative principles and move away,
particularly in areas like the border and campaign finance reform, that you're going to, you know, suppression of the First Amendment, you're going to have a problem.
And I agree with you that that is a problem Republicans face.
Now, I want to talk about, when we come back, I want to talk about the problems Hollywood faces in Brookback Mountain.
I'm Roger Hitchcock.
Fill in for Rush Limbaugh back after this.
Okay, one more thing on San Francisco.
K-R-O-N up there, Channel 4 broadcasting, and this is in all of the alternative papers here in California over the last week as well, talking about Ibogain, a hallucinogen that may cure drug addiction.
And down here in San Diego, of course, there's an Ibogain, of course there is.
In Tijuana, right across the border here, a couple of miles away, there is an Ibogaine clinic, because you can't sell this stuff in the United States, illegal.
But there's a clinic down there where for $4,000, you can get high on something else that makes you forget about getting high on the other stuff that you didn't want to get high on.
If you follow that, you probably can move to California, although very few people are these days.
1-800-282-2882, Roger Hitchcock in for Rush.
And of course, I know you've lined up your entire weekend to watch the Oscars.
And Brookback Mountain, of course, nominated for 32 Oscars, Heath Ledger, or something like that, Jake Gillenhall.
And this is interesting because this is the first major nominated film in Oscar history for a long time.
And I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong on this.
I can't remember another film.
And you know, in California, we watch these things pretty carefully.
It's a big business out here.
That an Oscar nomination did not result in a bump up in popularity.
The film has grossed about $80 million, and it has declining, the last three weeks have declined one week after the other in terms of people showing up to watch this film.
By the way, which was filmed, if you've read the book Do As I Say, Not As I Do, which Rush is recommending, and I am too, what a wonderful book.
It nails the hypocrisy of the left.
Brookback Mountain was produced in Canada to get away from the unions, to get away from the union padding and union rules, and to get away from PETA.
Because in Canada, they don't have to follow, as they do in the United States, PETA's guidelines.
That's right.
PETA has guidelines.
Actually, the American Humanes Association fronts for this.
Guidelines that are to be used since 1997, by the way, to limit the abuse of animals.
It turns out in this film, which I have not seen, that there is a scene in which an elk is supposed to be killed in a hunting scene.
How did they get the elk to fall down?
Apparently, some kind of anesthetic shot.
And PETA is now and the American Humane Association objecting to Brokeback Mountain because of the, quote, excessively rough handling of the sheep and horses, unquote.
What about the rough handling of the guys?
The sheep came off relatively light in this movie, from what I understand.
Anyway, I loved Ann Coulter's latest column on this whole subject of the boring Oscars.
And then she said her favorite, actually her favorite category is in the Best Foreign Language film.
And she gives the nominees here.
And she says, she says, after consulting with the Yale Admissions Committee, a little slap there on the Taliban spokesman being admitted to Yale, Ann Coulter says the awards committee will give the Oscar to Paradise Now, a heartwarming story about Palestinian suicide bombers.
How good is it?
Well, Al Jazeera gave it a four and a half pipe bombs.
It's Air Syria's featured in-flight movie this month, she writes.
I don't want to spoil the ending for you, but let's just say there won't be a sequel.
Anyway, so that's coming up this weekend on the Oscars.
1-800-282-2882.
Steve in Chicago, next on the Rush program.
Hi, Steve.
Hey, just as I was watching Charlie this morning on the morning news, they played the tape of the FEMA interview.
Yeah.
And they mentioned very clearly that they were afraid of the levees being topped.
And then, of course, Charlie and those almost sparkle with glee.
See, he knew the levees would be breached.
So breaching and topping are two different things.
Of course.
And that they might be was not a warning that they would be, nor was there any understanding that even if they were topped, they would collapse as they did for reasons that had to do with budget cuts in the Clinton administration.
I hope people are keeping their eye on that ball.
Yeah, and I'm very upset.
I was angry because they're equating breach and topping, and it's ridiculous.
The media is lying constantly, and somebody's going to catch them at this.
Thanks for doing it, Roger.
Absolutely.
And we're going to do it every day, Steve.
I appreciate it.
That's what we're here for here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Eric in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Next, Eric, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hey, how are you doing, Roger?
You do a great job up there.
Thank you.
Hey, I just wanted to make a comment about this teacher that's with all this, you know, the tape that you were talking about earlier.
Does this guy even begin to appreciate the fact that if he was in the wonderful Taliban or if he was in Saddam Hussein's Iraq or one of these other countries that he seems to like so much that he'd be dead by now just for speaking that way against his own government and country?
Of course.
Of course.
I mean, it's absurd to me that these people have absolutely no perspective.
You know, is the country perfect?
No.
But to go around and even mention Nazism and Bush or Hitler and Bush in the same sentence is just repugnant to me.
It makes me sick when I hear people talk like this.
And to think that people like this are instructing our children, I mean, it's really scary to me.
That's the point.
He's entitled to his views, Eric, but he's not entitled to propagandize our children in the geography class.
I appreciate the call.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
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Forbes magazine looking at the Oscars and looked over since 1992 42 speeches for best actor, best actress, and best director comparing how these speeches went.
Now, they say in Forbes, no actor ever thanked his lawyer, but three actresses did.
Huh?
Glad was invoked 25 times, but thanked only once, by Mel Gibson.
38 people were proud, grateful, honored, or happy.
12 said they felt wonderful.
Only Russell Crowe found the award surprising.
We didn't, Russell.
Kevin Spacey declared himself speechless, but went through a 261-word response.
Hallie Berry, I came in late on that one, missed about 30 minutes of her speech, but caught the last 20.
Actresses thanked mom five times, men only one time.
Actresses thanked producers 14 times, men only five.
Actresses, studios, or individuals associated with studios, presumably including the casting directors, they thanked 11 times, men only five.
Yikes.
Words only used once in these speeches.
Geriatrics, imbecile, nut, panic, and Auschwitz.
Only 18 winners thanked the Academy.
I'm Roger Hitchcock.
Thank you for listening.
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