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March 3, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
I uh checking somebody here really quick.
Welcome back, folks.
Open line Friday.
It is, let's just keep the momentum going here.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
You know the rules.
Monday through Thursday, we don't talk about anything that I am not interested in.
Friday we will.
If you want to talk about something I don't care about, you got a question, you got a comment.
You feel free to give it a shot.
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All right.
These two stories, GOP uh growing increasingly angry, frightened by Bush's missteps.
Now, frankly, we never ever hear stories about the disunity in the Democratic Party when the media gets going on these things.
And folks, if you think there's unit unity uh on the Democrat side, you have it the slightest that there is more trouble brewing over there.
They don't know what to do with their wacko kook base, represented by this uh this wacko teacher out in uh in Aurora, Colorado.
They've got all kinds of problems out there.
They're relying on an anti-incumbent sentiment to sweep them back into power, because they don't stand for anything, nothing that they'll admit to, but that doesn't matter because we will tell the voters what the Democrats and the Liberals stand for, those that don't know it by now.
So, you know, they they think the Republicans are going to implode, and they may, but that's not enough to give the Democrats control of the House and Senate.
The other story relating to this is in the Washington Times today.
Republicans who run away from President Bush will only help Democrats win control of Congress in November, said top Republican pollster and strategirist Ed Goaz yesterday.
Republicans would be making the same mistake as Democrats did in 94 when they ran from President Clinton, worsening the anti-incumbent atmosphere and resulting in Democrats losing both the House and the Senate.
Mr. Goaz based his conclusions on results of the bipartisan George Washington University Battleground 2006 poll released at the National Press Club.
The Democrat part of this poll is Selinda Lake, and we've talked about their work.
Their accuracy has held up over quite a long period of time.
Linda Lake said Republicans are not going to benefit from any presidential coattails.
In fact, many Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Bush.
She noted that uh although 86% of Republicans rate Bush positively, only 67% of conservatives do.
She said her party can help itself by nationalizing the upcoming elections, making them a referendum on Bush and Republican stewardship of the nation, and by using change as a wedge issue.
That's partly what the Republicans did in 94.
They nationalized house races.
People don't talk about this much, but they did.
Rather than having, you know, incumbent Democrat Congressman uh get away with campaigning on how many pork projects he brought home, many old folks homes he built, dams burst or what have you.
The Republicans ran a campaign about how this guy's gonna be rotten for foreign policy, rotten on taxes nation, all that, and it worked.
Now the Democrats, everything they've done since Bush was elected, has been to emulate what they think the Republicans did in winning it all in '94.
And they've it's just like this teacher.
He hears Bush and he doesn't get it.
He looks at conservative Republicans that doesn't get it.
These guys in the Democratic Party think that unstoppable rage and anger and constant criticism of Clinton and Democrats is what did them in.
What they're failing to put together here is that it wasn't rage and anger, it was policy.
It was anger and and uh uh uh disagreement with policy.
It was substantive.
This is just over-the-top personal rage that that has no purpose other than the rage.
I mean, you always when you start trying to copy other people, you better make sure you understand exactly all their mannerisms and techniques, and the Democrats, you know, this is why I'm not worried.
I f I frankly I and I'm probably the only one.
Uh I know I've got friends, conservatives, they're panicked.
Because they they live every day in this media bubble.
And I don't.
I mean, I pay attention to it because I comment on it here, but I have learned to not let it affect me.
It doesn't make me mad anymore.
And especially some of these shows that they have an audience of 400,000 people.
Big deal.
Reach that many people in 15 minutes in New York on this radio show.
And they're reaching 400,000 people nationally, and it's the highest they've ever had.
It's it doesn't matter.
In the big scheme of things.
Now here's the counter to the Democrat strategy, to counter their nationalizing strategy.
Republicans in Congress, this is this is what Goaz says.
Republicans in Congress should make Mr. McCain the face of the Republican Party's efforts to reform legislative and lobbying practices.
If they make McCain, this is his this is what he says polling data.
Some of you don't gonna want to hear this.
You make McCain the face of the Republican Party's efforts to reform both legislative uh legislatively and lobbying practice, then uh you can counter their nationalization effort on the Democrat side.
And Ms. Lake said Democrats face their own problems, not the least of which is turnout.
While 64% of white conservative Christians say they are extremely likely to vote, only 49% of African Americans and 47 of Hispanic percent of Hispanic voters are that sure.
Uh the Democrat base is a is a it's a weird bunch.
It's a strange animal these days.
And the really pent-up base, this kook fringe base, they'll turn out.
Uh, but there's so many disaffected Democrats that can't stand where their party's going.
Maybe not enough to join the Republicans, but believe me, they got more problems over there than you will ever read about in the media.
They have more problems than anybody will ever admit to you.
And their whole purpose is going to be from now the election, stories on how the Republicans are panicking, Republicans are running away from Bush, Bush is destroying people.
One of the things they're saying is this nuke deal that Bush made with India.
Now that, you know, there's there's another way of looking at this nuke deal that Bush made with India.
Are you upset about that?
No, I'll tell you why.
This this it brings them into the table, brings Russia back to gives Russia a bigger partner than Iran.
It takes Iran out of Russia's back pocket as a nuclear partner.
Here's here's here's uh Vlad Putin has now got to ask himself something.
Would he rather do business with the world's largest democracy and the second largest, the United States and India?
Uh uh it's right there.
Uh I I think this is a it's it's a possibility.
Russia's gonna get the construction contracts.
If you look, if you look at the uh uh structure of the deal and the some of the gossip that's going on out there now, this could end up being one of the greatest diplomatic coups in history.
We have a major, major ally, democracy, economic growth, a giant market.
Russia gets the construction contracts, that's the gossip.
They back out of their reactor construction deal in Iran, they get bigger, better deal in India, Putin becomes this is all possible with this.
Some of it's being alleged to uh right now, and it also sort of it it it isolates the Chinese, the Chikons.
This could be a huge deal.
Bush has had a hell of a week.
He has had one hell of a week.
It's not being reported that way, so you don't think anybody knows that he's had a hell of a week, but he has had a hell of a week.
You think everybody's saying Katrina, these drive-by media hits, Katrina, whatever else they've tried to get you all worked up about this week.
He's on the national stage, the international stage, uh and and the uh Iraq, this sort of thing.
You know what I wish he'd do?
It won't happen.
But just like he snuck in there to Afghanistan, I wish he'd sneak into a rock.
And I wish he'd have a meeting with the Shiite and uh and Sunni leaders and say, here's boys, that's what we're gonna do.
It's what we need you to do.
Can you imagine if that happened?
Of course, the trick could be getting in and out of there alive.
I mean, you couldn't go in an Air Force One.
You could you'd have to go in and unmark military C-130, C5, and whatever they do.
But well, that would be fabulous.
But I just I'm just want to try to calm you people here because you know the port deal, everything says it's gonna be horrible, it's gonna work against the Republicans.
Uh you go down the list uh of things, but I I think it's way too soon.
Don't join this conventional wisdom tsunami that the Republicans have no hope because that's has one purpose, and that's dispiriting you and trying to depress uh Republican turnout.
Pay no attention to it, folks.
Well just stop watching the news if it's that bad a deal.
Stop watching it.
You know, go to the internet, read what you want to read on the internet.
Stop watching television, listen to as much of this program every day, and in it won't take but a couple of days, and you will notice how much more you enjoy life.
We'll be back.
I'm serious.
Stay with us.
I'll tell you something else about this nuclear deal with uh with India, Bush.
People, what's Bush?
What are we gonna do about Iran?
Russia's nuclear pro.
What are we gonna do about Iran?
We're gonna invade Iran.
I don't know what we're gonna do about Iran.
Well, I think I do now.
We're showing Iran uh just how much better life can be if you have an open nuclear program.
Like the Indians have.
You get deals with the superpower of the world.
You get cooperation, you get all kinds of great stuff.
Now I can go wrong when you let Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton do it in North Korea.
You know, go make deals with these communists.
Excuse me.
Interesting story just came across the wire.
It's amazing.
This program is ahead of even the news.
Growing up afraid.
This is from the Ottawa Sun.
Disturbing events in the news have kids dealing with many adult level anxieties.
Although thousands of miles separate us from the bird flu.
News of a possible pandemic is winging its way into children's psych psyches.
The viral assault is the latest in a chronic onslaught of menacing possibilities, including street shootings, war, terrorism, earthquakes, hurricanes that confront children with unrelenting immediacy, leaving some emotionally wounded and fearful.
According to renowned child development specialist, unprecedented scenes infiltrate the psyches of contemporary children and for some unleash toxic fantasies.
It's a very stressful time for kids to grow up.
They feel threatened, vulnerable, more fearful of the future than ever before because of overexposure to pessimistic messages and images.
Said Mel Levine, pediatrics professor, maybe it's Levine, pediatrics professor at the University of North Carolina Medical School.
They're getting a warped view of the world.
The media has developed a fascination with the downside of life.
It's dragging kids down too.
There's no balanced view.
They're constantly taught to feel vulnerable instead of optimistic and excited about the future.
I told the radio execs yesterday that if you want to try to understand why my show succeeds, don't think it's all politics.
It's certainly not.
It is fun, good cheer, optimism.
Futures so do I buy this?
I buy yeah, I I'll tell you why I do buy it to a set certain extent.
I because it's unprecedented.
The immediacy and the amount of media.
And look at what this teacher, look at what these kids are being taught, probably in kindergarten and in grade school.
Look at the constant onslaught they're getting.
And they're being told how rotten their country is everywhere they go.
Now, the truth is that it's a reality that we're gonna have to figure out how to deal with because there's no rolling this back or putting the genie back in the bottle.
And I kids have it's always been stressful to be a kid.
It's always been stressful to be alive.
But I do think that there's something to pee-I don't know.
When you start talking about disease, this bird flu business, this is they are trying to make a huge deal out of there.
There's a there's a whole industry behind making this bird flu thing seem like it is go it's already here.
It's just a question of when.
It's not a matter of if this is going to happen.
It's all over the place.
And, and, um...
You know, I kids kids are self-absorbed about themselves exactly right, and this all all this kind of stuff threatens them.
Um it's it's I I get enough people talking to me about this now.
Uh like we had the caller.
It's bird flu.
Let me help you out with bird flu, folks.
I gotta get the the people worried if you how do you know you have it?
What's different about bird flu than any other flu?
Well, basically three or four symptoms or maybe five.
Fever, watery eyes, uh sore muscles, joints, that sort of thing, uh runny nose, uh hacking cough.
And if you have the urge, this is the real telltale side.
If you have the urge to poop on the windshield of your car, then you know that uh you need to see a doctor.
Here's here's Roger in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
You're best, sir.
And I want to thank you for your website because uh I I teach uh economics, and I like the information you have there available uh the of what's really happening in the economy, so I can uh counter some of the liberal students that are coming up with different uh attitudes, and also the the information on who pays the taxes, because I do a whole lesson on taxes, and it fits right in with who really pays the taxes.
You know what?
If you're if you're th there's some there's a service you can do to these students, liberal or otherwise, when you if when you're teaching about taxes.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what it is.
We are reaching that point.
You can see from that chart that is posted every day at the bottom of my website on who's really paying taxes in this country.
And we are dangerously close to a point of no return for tax reform of any kind.
And that is this.
When fewer than fifty percent of income earners are contributing to the federal tax bite, when less than half of us are paying taxes.
You can forget about any reform.
It ain't gonna happen.
When the taxpayers become the minority, we're never gonna reform the system significantly, it isn't going to happen because nobody's gonna listen to the quote unquote wealthy complain and whine about it.
And the people that get off the tax rolls, the federal income tax I'm talking about now, the people who get end up not being charged any federal income tax are going to oppose any effort that might re-spread the burden around.
And so we're gonna we we're getting dangerously close to where a smaller number of people than ever before be paying taxes, and that's gonna keep happening.
That number will get smaller and smaller as the tax bite per per taxpayer will increase.
Uh somebody has to pay the burden.
You know, five percent are carrying uh the other ninety-five percent in the cart, uh, and that five percent's gonna get uh uh become even smaller.
And that's something these people need to think about your problem you're gonna run into when teaching this to liberals is that well, that's fair.
That's fair.
I mean I think only ten percent of the people on the rich ought to pay all the tax.
That's what and that that's when you gotta start trying to get through their skulls full of mush about the seriousness of uh of uh economics.
Mike in Tallahassee, uh welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, it's an absolute honor and privilege to speak with you.
Uh thank you very much.
I'm a twenty-four-year-old graduate from Florida State University, um, five of Kappa, all that stuff.
And uh my comment for the program was when I left high school, fully confirmed, social liberal, um, relativistic, uh anything goes, sort of mentality.
And uh Florida State, I was a philosophy major.
Um I just wonder what you and any concerned parents or individuals out there know that these liberal professors are the best thing going for the conservative movement that we have right now.
Um the more and more that I heard them speak through my freshman year, my sophomore year, junior year, the more and more pushed me to become a full blooded conservative.
Why?
If if they were saying things that you pretty much already thought, why did it push you over here to the bright side?
Well, I mean, when these people are your role models, you start to question a lot of stuff.
Um you look at the train wreck, which is their lives.
Um the way that they're presenting issues, if you've got one ounce of critical thought, you start to see halfway through the semester that that this guy's a clock job.
Um you start to do your own research, look through history, you know, look through the Constitution, read the uh the fathers of this nation.
Let me ask you this.
Did any of them sound so unbelievably whacked out that you just couldn't imagine being on their side?
Um I'll tell you the the the turning point was embedded in their underlying view really was was atheism.
That's was the motivating force.
I think in a lot of their disagreement with the conservative movement.
And particularly no question.
Particularly with with you, Rush, you'd be surprised how many times your name gets brought up in a class on ethics, a class on religion, a class on nothing surprises me when my name's brought up my n nothing at all.
Especially I'm a threat.
I'm a threat threat to their safely constructed cocoon of a perverted worldview.
A lot of conservatives are.
We gotta go.
An EIB obscene profit timeout.
Be right back.
It's open line Friday, 800 282-2882.
You people are going to love this.
The United Arab Emirates intends to operate U.S. military factories.
The Bush administration has informed Congress of a review of the UAE acquisition of a British manufacturer of engine components for U.S. military aircraft and main battle tanks.
The British firm operates nine factories, including military production facilities in Connecticut and Georgia.
Officials said that Dubai International Capital has acquired the London-based Doncasters Group for 1.2 billion dollars.
Doncasters produces engine components and turbine blades for military platforms, and its clients include Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, and Pratt and Whitney.
It's a standard business deal by a consortium that seeks opportunities, an official said, but it also fits in well with Dubai's plans to create an aerospace industry.
Okay.
That's it.
That's it.
Now we've got to do something about I'll tell you what.
This has got to stop.
Because obviously the Brits are not our allies.
They're buying all this stuff and then selling it to the UAE.
The Brits are the problem here.
You think if American owned this company and sell it to the UAE?
Everybody's talking here about the problem we got the UAE.
Problem is the Brits.
That's where the UAE's getting all this stuff.
Oh, by the way, Mr. Snurley, I want to read to you the last paragraph of this story.
This this about all the negative pessimism pessimism that's out there that's affecting kids.
This psychologist who is the author of a book, Ready or Not Here Life Comes, says statistically the likelihood of something bad happening is so small, the likelihood of something good happening is so much greater.
People need to foster optimism and constantly emphasize the rewarding and positive side of life and the wonderful opportunities out there, which is exactly what this program does.
If if you just forget the media, it just sit back and objectively analyze the opportunity that exists in this country, the life expectancy, all of look at the data.
And this guy's exactly right.
The odds of all these calamities happening, and especially to the scale that the the drive-by panic media sets up is so unrealistic.
And then ask yourself, how often are they right?
So why are you letting them affect you?
Here are the details on the abused sheep in the making of Broke Back Mountain.
The makers of the gay cowboy movie Broke Back Mountain were too rough on sheep, according to an animal rights group.
In a letter to director Aang Lee, the humane society complained about the way the horses and elk were treated, too.
The excessively rough handling of the sheep and the horses leaves viewers questioning whether anyone was looking out for the safety of those animals.
And many also wonder how the filmmakers got the elk to lose its footing and crumple to the ground on cue after being shot.
A spokesman for the producer of the best picture nominated movie had no immediate comment.
I I I'm not even going to speculate, uh, Mr. Snurdly on what they were.
Somebody, can I find this real?
Somebody sent me a note what they think might be going on there.
Um, yeah, um the improper use of what are called Montana sticks.
Do you this guy is sp is a member at Rush 247?
He's speculating that the injury to the sheep occurred from the improper use of Montana sticks.
Uh they are sticks about three feet long with a mirror on the end, and this is so you can see if the sheep is smiling.
Here we have the most informed audience in the country.
Chris in Detroit, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Uh there's no sound like Motown.
Um, I'm actually calling you from Dearborn, which is just which is just outside of Detroit, which is uh headquarters of Ford Motor Company.
And I as I logged on to the internet this morning onto America Online, I was greeted by a quote from our president, and it said that he's aware that outsourcing, I think it was quote, outsourcing will be painful, and he's aware of that.
And I I'm I'm concerned.
You know, I've I've voted Republican since Reagan.
Yeah.
And I hate to say the following, but I think he's a little bit out of touch.
You know, I I'm driving along, and I just heard Dana has now declared bankruptcy.
Who?
And Dana, autobreaks parts maker out of Twitter, Ohio.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There was an interesting uh Senate hearing that was on uh C-SPAN February 17th.
I believe it's still available on their video log.
And uh for better or worse, it was hosted by Senator Dorgan.
And he was flanked by only uh Senator Steven Alan Levin from Michigan.
And they're both Democrats, I confess.
Uh but I was floored by some of the facts that were revealed in that.
And I guess I'm calling you to find out uh or just really to to kind of send a message to the United States that the pain that's being felt, you know, here in Michigan and Ohio has yet to be felt around the rest of the country, you know, as as China enters the marketplace.
Um it's you know I I had an amazing piece it was on uh Wednesday, and I'm I'm instructing Coco, the webmaster, to keep this piece on the website and highlight it so that you can go find it, uh, Chris, because I don't I I don't want to read the whole thing again.
It was an amazingly straightforward, straight up and right on analysis of things economic by an associated press columnist named Meyerson, and he talks specifically about outport outsourcing, and he does refer to it as the uh the growing pains of spreading capitalism.
And the whole idea where we we're outsourcing jobs like to India, pay is starting to rise over there.
It's it's and it w when when other countries' standard of living rises, uh then that that isn't is an economic benefit for everybody, and that's he refers to exactly what you said Bush referred to, the growing pains.
Uh I there in pockets of this country, even during great economic times, there are always people going through bad times.
And Detroit is one of those areas now with the auto industry uh in in the uh in the mess that is in, and it's just it's it's a shame.
I I remember on this program, one of the I guess we did three of these.
I w probably the three for a while there, the most talked about programs we did back in the mid-90s, and there was a phenomenon then uh white collar downsizing.
Uh a social conscience had crept over American business.
And when it came time to pair payrolls, social pressure, and a number of things, you know what?
We're gonna we're gonna get rid of some of our executives.
We're gonna get rid of the white collar, and there was a purge in this country.
White collar middle class people that, you know, in their 50s that you know they're not the best job prospects.
And every USA Today was doing stories every day, oh, it was horrible, oh, it was the end of the world.
Oh, as well, whoa, is that the end of an era is America never gonna be the same?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I did three programs, we took calls only from those white collar people have been laid off.
Asked them what they did.
And it was three of the most inspirational programs that we've ever done here, because without exception, people called men and women, white-collar executives who had been laid off, how they overcame it.
Most of them started their own businesses, became consultants, and ended up being much happier than they were as structured employees in some corporate outfit somewhere, because they were running their own businesses.
They were doing something they actually liked.
At least they had that going for them.
They were doing something they had experience in.
And of course, they are qualified to do it given their experiences.
And it was it just inspired all kinds of people.
And that story happens every day in the country, but it's not reported on.
People don't do stories on good news.
I mean, you might get an occasional profile of somebody that's overcome great odds.
But as a general rule, it's not reported.
But it has to be happening if you look at the economic growth that the country's experiencing.
So, and then when it comes to outsourcing uh all these like in India, some of those jobs that are outsourced to India are now leaving India because the people they're demanding more money than those jobs are worth paying.
The middle class in India, I don't know if you know how big this country is.
The middle class in India is 300 million people.
That's more than our whole population.
Their middle class is larger than our population, and as their income rises, they buy stuff.
And they will buy stuff from us.
And I saw a story the other day, made in USA is back in vogue.
The made in USA labels back in vogue in a number of different areas.
So all you have to do here is be patient.
Follow a passion.
This is the United States of America.
If your industry's in the dumps, you have the ability to make your own job.
You can create your own job.
It just depends on how much you want to work at it.
Just depends on what your ambition is, what your interests are, what your passions are.
If you find your passion, your passion will drive you 80%, all things being equal, 80% of achievement is desire.
And this country, there's so much opportunity, and there always is service, a product, or what have you.
It's like I saw somebody was debating the other day happiness versus unhappiness, and it was...
It was Greg Easterbrook, and he was making the point, you know, the reason most people are unhappy is because it's easy.
You have to work at being happy.
And you have to work at being optimistic.
You can't go to the library and find books on how to fail, because everybody knows how to do that.
You can't go to the library and find a book on how to feel bad, how to get depressed, how to feel down in the dumps, because that's easy.
But these guys that write books on how to think positively and how to be optimistic and they make millions because it's hard.
Unhappiness is a byproduct of lethargy and no activity.
The more you're not doing, the greater you're going to be unhappy doing it.
So take some action.
Base it on your passion.
Understand that it isn't easy, but there are huge rewards and opportunities out there.
And just because the president's running around saying things you don't like, screw that.
Why should the president have anything to do with your job?
Why should any president have anything to do with whether or not you can get a job or not?
Don't give somebody that much power, especially a guy you'll never meet and you don't even know.
Back after this.
All right, we're gonna go to Mike Brown stuff here.
I really, you know, folks, I'm just I've I I promised to do this, but it's just the latest media drive-by, and I just I just don't feel comfortable getting caught up in it.
It's manufactured news anyway.
The whole thing's bogus, and it doesn't matter now.
Anyway, Mikhail Gorbachev.
This some listen, Mikhail Gorbachev's magnetic brown eyes, shine as brightly as ever, and he speaks with the same passion about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
That's not the magnetic brown eyes like Clinton's jeans crackled with power.
Remember that guy writing for the Washington Post when Clinton was in San Diego once.
Anyway, the man who ended the Cold War and launched democratic reforms that broke the repressive Soviet regime for crying out loud history revisionism.
It is an absolute joke.
All right.
Here's a montage.
This is the drive-by media calling Michael Brown a scapegoat.
This is the same drive-by media that made him the scapegoat for weeks after Hurricane Katrina demanded that he be fired.
Now they forget all that because he's bashing the administration.
The fall guy, Michael Brown has been the scapegoat.
Michael Brown may have been a scapegoat.
Former FEMA director, Michael Brown, once again proving to be a scapegoat.
Democrats joined the chorus, so he became the scapegoat.
Was he set up as a scapegoat for the government's failures?
He was made the scapegoat.
What is this?
These are the guys.
They made him the scapegoat.
Let's go back.
Here's the very same drive-by media making a mess.
Media and Democrats demanded that Brown be fired.
They're the ones that made him the scapegoat.
This is last September.
Another storm for FEMA director Michael Brown.
Did he overstate his credentials?
Well, Dick Cheney be the butcher who lops off bureaucratic heads, starting with FEMA director Michael Brown.
Maybe execute a couple people like Michael Brown.
FEMA director Michael Brown, who's already under fire for his response to Hurricane Katrina.
His emergency management background may be overstated.
Very little background in anything other than public relations.
President Bush should appoint a competent director at FEMA.
He chose someone with absolutely no credentials.
When I said to the president that he should fire Michael Brown, he said, why would I do that?
All right, so you get this now.
All day yesterday media, oh, this poor guy, Mike, whoa, what happened to him?
He was made escape.
Well, who the hell did it?
The same drive by media that's now hoisting the guy up as a victim.
This this is next is uh is is funny.
This is Wolf Blitzer, and he has this exchange with Michael Brown.
This is uh last night on CNN.
You gotta blame the president, too.
I serve at the pleasure of the president, so I'm certain at some point the president may have said, hey, you know, Churtoff, get you know, get Brown out of there or whatever.
Uh but I don't hold that.
I serve at the pleasure of the president, so I don't hold that against them.
I think they did reach a point where they were as frustrated as I as I was in how things were going.
And so it's easier just to let's pinpoint somebody, let's pull them out.
And who was pinpointing?
Who was demanding that Brown be thrown out?
Who was talking about the fact he had no qualifications other than PR?
It was the same drive-by media.
Uh that that are now hoisting the guy up.
Um media has, you know, also misrepresented the warning that Bush got before Hurricane Katrina.
Max Mayfield warned Bush that the levies could be topped.
That means something totally different than breached.
Here is Max Mayfield conference call, August 28, 2005.
I don't think anyone can tell you with any uh confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not.
Uh but that's obviously a very, very great concern.
Topped does not mean breached, but the drive-by media doesn't know that, or if they do, they don't want to point it out.
So, August 29, 2005.
This is from this leaked AP audio President Bush on a teleconference with Michael Brown.
I want to assure the folks at the state level that uh we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm to help you deal with uh uh with the loss of property and and we pray for no loss of life, of course.
Right.
Now that's their point that's that's that that's evidence of scandal, right?
They knew they knew and they didn't care.
They knew.
Media running wild with a false assertion Bush was told a levies could breach when he was told by Max Fail Mayfield that they could be topped, but that nobody knew.
Meanwhile, after they were breached, Governor Kathleen Blanco said that they were not.
We keep getting report uh in in uh places that maybe weren't coming over the levy.
We've heard a report unconfirmed.
Uh I think we heard the we have not briefed the levy.
We have not briefed the levy.
Hey, maybe not.
The levy had been breached and she didn't even know it, and she was there.
Of course, that's not being played much, that last bite.
The previous one showing that they knew.
They knew and they didn't care.
That's the scandal.
It's after the drive-by media hit.
Going nowhere.
Back after this stuff.
Okay, see, so I got the I got the Michael Brown stuff in.
Remember this, folks.
The media was giving everybody the all queer.
We dodged a bullet after the storm had gone through.
The levees breached a little while later.
That's why, of course, people think Bush ordered them blown up.
Alright, folks, have a uh a great weekend, and we will be back here Monday.
Rev it all up and start it.
Start it start anew.
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