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March 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, folks.
I just want to warn you up front here, I already feel like it's midnight tonight.
It's been, it was a long weekend.
It was a long weekend.
A lot of, no, I didn't go to any Oscar parties.
Hell no.
I didn't.
No.
I didn't go to the Oscar party.
I went to a party, but we didn't even talk about the Oscars.
Well, I might have made one comment about the fact that we weren't watching the Oscars, but that was it.
But I'll tell you what, I can't wait to download on my iPod, because I'm going to do this now, a compilation of all of the Academy Award-winning best songs.
I'm going to do that.
Going to have titles in there like Love is a Many Splendor Thing, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Gigi, White Christmas, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, Days of Wine and Roses, When You Wish Upon a Star, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Way We Were.
And of course, this year's winner, it's hard out here for a pimp.
So I tell you what are these people.
In fact, they know.
Grab Clooney.
What soundbite is Clooney?
Number 11.
Grab number 11 and 12.
This is, I didn't see it.
I pay people to watch television at night so that I can get these sound bites for you.
But I did not see this.
I haven't seen it.
I've heard it, of course, because I run through the soundbite roster.
This is what George Clooney said at the opening of the show last year.
I would say that, you know, we are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while, I think.
It's probably a good thing.
We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered.
And we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular.
And we, you know, we bring up subjects.
We were the ones, this is this academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters.
I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.
Proud to be part of the community.
I'm proud to be out of touch.
Now, he's trying to be a little spiteful there, but the fact is, they know that they're out of touch.
I mean, the bottom line is they know that they're out of touch, but they're being stubborn about it, sort of like the Democratic Party is.
The Democrats look at voters the way Hollywood is looking at moviegoers.
Oh, you don't like what we stand for?
Well, here's more of it.
You rubes, you idiots.
You don't understand how brilliant we are.
You don't understand how forward-thinking we are.
You don't understand how clever and creative we are.
You don't understand how sensitive we are.
And we're going to keep being who we are until you like it.
And so it comes out that we're in the politics business.
Somebody said to me, Ben Stein is reading Ben Stein today at the American Spectator.
He said there wasn't one mention of troops in Afghanistan or Iraq last night.
And I don't know if he was surprised by that, but I certainly wasn't.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here.
We got a full week broadcast excellence straight ahead.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
I guess the big news this morning is the Supreme Court decision, a unanimous decision, ruling that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus despite university objections to the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy on gays.
It's a bunch of lawyers that brought this case, a bunch of libs.
And it's interesting, Yale, where they got this Taliban man, the Taliban guy Is now at Yale.
It's absurd.
And it makes that story, I think, even more poignant because here we can't get the military.
These people do not want military recruiters on campus under some bogus fear of the don't ask, don't tell policy.
That's not why they don't want them there.
They don't want them there because they hate them.
They don't like the U.S. military.
We had this, you know, Mr. Sterdley, this update that we did that ran this morning on the radio.
And I must have watched that.
I was laughing at myself doing that update, the video version of it.
This idiot supervisor in San Francisco who says, he actually, we got to get rid of the military.
Somebody asked him, well, how are we going to defend ourselves?
And I have to admit, I seldom laugh at myself.
I must have watched that my going through that part of the update with the cigar in my mouth and just laughing myself silly at me.
His answer was, well, cops, it's called the Coast Guard, lots of different things.
He actually, so they want to get rid of the military.
And this was just a convenient excuse.
But what's ironic about this is that the reason they had no choice here, when the federal government supplies money to anything, it's like the mob.
You have to let them operate it.
They get safe.
Like the seatbelt law, the federal government makes the states enforce seatbelt laws because of highway funds.
The school lunch program allows the feds, some say so, in curriculum.
And now, if you're going to take federal money as a university, then you have to, what the court said, and this is just a precedent.
The one thing you don't know, you never know what the court's going to do.
This seemed very predictable to me because there's no choice.
But sometimes the court will surprise everybody and not follow precedent or come up with some oddball foreign interpretation that would obviate the proper ruling.
But in this case, they really did what was predictable and had no choice.
They upheld past decisions.
They do this with the highway funds, as I said.
It says something, though, but there was some concern about this before the ruling came out.
It says something that before the decision, there was some doubt.
And that's because you really can not be sure, never really know just what the court will follow, be it the law or its own precedent, or when it won't do that.
But I mean, the legal professors, law professors that brought this is what I love about it because it's been the liberals who demanded in the past that if a state or institution takes federal money, including student loans, that they buckle to the will of the federal government.
So the court had to uphold this as past practice.
And so the left is, in a sense, here, and this is the irony, the delicious part of it, has been bitten by its own requirement.
They love the federal government being involved in everything.
They think that's fabulous.
So that came back to bite them since the federal government has to be involved, and military recruiters do get to show up on campus.
You know, the SUV update that we did last week from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Well, after this program ended that day, we finally found out what this was a terrorist event.
It absolutely was a terrorist event.
And I have a question.
We're now told that this student, former student, said that he had to do this because he had to avenge the American treatment of Muslims.
And I was asking myself a question.
I wonder where a Muslim student at Chapel Hill could have gotten the idea that Americans were systematically mistreating Muslims.
Al Gore?
Could have been Gore.
Gore's over in Saudi Arabia talking about how we mistreat, we round these Arabs up, we put them away, lock them up and throw away the key.
How about the professors?
How about the media, the Democratic Party?
Where could this student have gotten the idea that America systematically mistreats Muslims?
And of course, now some students at Chapel Hill are upset that they won't call this a terrorist act.
And of course, I don't know.
I don't think he snuck in through the ports, Mr. Snurdle.
He probably came in through Indianapolis airport.
Indianapolis airport's totally owned by a foreign company, including security.
Did you know that?
The Indianapolis airport is totally owned by a foreign country company in charge of everything, including security.
I have the story in my stack of stuff here.
Yeah, we got a lot of fun stuff on tap today, folks.
So sit tight.
We'll be back and resume the rest of today's broadcast excellence right after a bit.
Better grab audio soundbite six and have it handy.
Let's go to Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.
This is Kevin.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm just curious.
You mentioned the thing before about the George Clooney remarks last night and him saying he was out of touch.
I saw the remarks myself and laughed.
But the thing I'm wondering about is you'd mention how, you know, this is typical of the liberals, typical of the left.
And, you know, the whole stubbornness thing.
And I just wonder, I don't know if you saw Peter Pace yesterday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but he once again was reciting the mantra of how well the war is going.
Does that not seem a little stubborn, predictable, and like that to you?
No, not to me, because I think he's not lying.
I think he's telling the truth.
What part?
I don't see where the war is going to be.
Well, let's listen.
Let's listen to the soundbite.
I pay people to watch these shows, so I don't have to.
But I listen to these soundbites.
I want to listen to what he said, and you and I will listen to it together, and then you tell me the problem that you have with it, okay?
Here's what's right now.
Yeah, Peter Pace, he was on Meet the Press with Russert yesterday.
Russert's question was, if you were to be asked whether things in Iraq are going well or badly, what would you say?
How would you answer?
I'd say they're going well.
I wouldn't put a great big smiley face on it, but I would say they're going very, very well from everything you look at, whether it be on the political side, where they've had three elections, they've written their own constitution, they're forming their own government.
You look at the military side, where at this time last year, there were just a handful of battalions in the field, Iraqi battalions in the field.
Now there are over 100 battalions in the field.
They had no brigades.
That's about 3,000 men each.
Now they've got about 31 brigades.
No matter where you look at their military, their police, their society, things are much better this year than they were last year.
Okay, now what's your problem with that, Kevin?
I guess my problem with it is that, you know, what about the reports that we're getting that of all these brigades and all these battalions and all these Iraqi soldiers, that there aren't any of them who are capable of going out and defending themselves in the field?
I mean, you can have as many people as you want, but if they can't do the job defensively, then really all you're doing is just giving it away.
You present me with the problem.
I'm on the board of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
And that is a charity that raises money to create college scholarship opportunities for the families of Marines killed in action.
I've been with them since the mid-90s.
And I go to their annual black tie event.
I've received their Johnny Mike Spann Award three years ago.
And I've met Peter Pace, and I know him, and he is one of the most...
You've met him or you know him.
I'm curious.
No, I know I know him.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Go ahead.
Okay, all I'm trying to tell you, you can go ahead and you can try to be a wise ass all you want.
And as you do that, you're telling me you don't care what the truth really is about this.
You have your worldview and your vision.
You would rather believe a bunch of lying people from the mainstream press than the general, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I know the man.
He has dignity.
He has class.
He is honest.
He is a better man than 95% of the men in this country.
We are privileged to have him.
He is a disciplined individual.
In addition to him, there are journalists who are traveling to Iraq.
Some are still there now.
One of them is Ralph Peters for the New York Post.
And he's filing columns.
And he says, where is this civil war that the New York Times declared in Iraq last week?
I can't find it.
He reports our troops are being cheered.
He reports that businesses and schools are open.
He reports a picture completely different than your cherished sources and reporters that you are paying attention to.
Then there's Victor Davis Hansen, who I also know, who is as honest as the day is long, has no axe to grind.
He's at the Hoover Institution.
He's a farmer in California.
He's a brilliant writer, a very accomplished Renaissance type guy.
He's got no reason to lie about this.
He's not invested in the Republican Party or anything else.
So if Peter Pace and people that I know are selling me something about Iraq, I am going to believe them over people I don't know and whose agenda I don't trust.
There would be no reason for Peter Pace, as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to go on television and start lying about this.
There's nothing to gain by it.
Nothing whatsoever.
This is pointing up a big problem.
You people on the left cannot accept truth when it challenges your worldview, when it upsets this alternative universe you have.
You are personally, politically, whatever, invested in defeat in Iraq.
And let me tell you something.
It offends people.
They don't want us to lose.
They don't want the Americans to be humiliated.
They want this to work.
Except people on your side of the aisle.
And that's why you can't be trusted to run the military rights, why you can't be trusted to run U.S. foreign policy, because you don't even have the right opportunity or the mindset to choose the right side in a conflict.
To you people, it's always America that's wrong.
It's always our fault.
This doesn't even need to be happening.
Bush did it for oil, Halliburton, who knows whatever.
Maybe to cover up some other scandal that the mainstream media hasn't found yet.
Who knows what the ultimate excuses will be.
Now, you're not alone.
Jack Murtha was on Slay the Nation, Grab Cut 7 and 8.
And Bob Schieffer said, I want to start by quoting something that General Peter Pace said this morning on Meet the Press.
He said he believes the war in Iraq is going, in his words, very, very well.
What's your assessment, Congressman Murthy?
Why would I believe him?
I mean, that administration, this administration, including the president, have mischaracterized this war for the last two years.
First of all, they said it'll take 40,000 troops to settle this thing right after the invasion.
Then they said there's no insurgency.
They're dead enders, is what the Secretary of Defense said.
On and on and on with mischaracterization of the war.
They said there's nuclear weapons.
There were no nuclear weapons there.
There are no biological weapons.
There are no al-Qaeda connections.
So why would I believe the chairman of the Joint Chiefs when he says things are going well?
All right.
Now, Bob Schieffer, even Bob Schieffer sitting there, wait a second.
He's just really put his foot in his mouth.
I'm going to give him a chance to straighten this out.
So Schieffer says, I'm going to make sure I understand.
I mean, I think I understand what you're saying.
And I really like what you're saying, too.
Don't misunderstand, Congress.
I love what you're saying, but I want to hear it again.
You're talking about a Marine.
You're an ex-Marine.
This is a military man.
This is not somebody, some civilian out there at the Pentagon.
You're saying you no longer believe what Marine General Peter Pace says when he says he thinks things are going well.
That's exactly right.
Why would I believe him with all the misstatements and the mischaracterizations they've made over the last two years?
And the public is way ahead of what's going on in Washington.
They no longer believe the troops themselves.
70% of the troops said we want to come home within a year.
The only solution to this is redeploy.
Let me tell you, the only people who want us in Iraq is Iran and Al-Qaeda.
And I talked to a top-level commander the other day.
It was about two weeks ago.
And he said China wants us there also.
Why?
Because we're depleting our resources, our mental, not our mental, our troop resources and our fiscal resources.
All right.
All right.
So there you have it.
I mean, you can choose sides here, folks.
You can choose to believe Mirtha, who's been off on this tangent now for many months, or you can choose to believe Peter Pace.
One of the problems is if you don't know any of these people, what do you trust?
Who do you trust?
Do you trust the mainstream press?
This story about 70% of the troops, that's been debunked, too, right?
That was another phony story that had to end up being retracted, just like the Associated Press had to retract the basic element of their Mike Brown Katrina video story on the breaching versus topping of the levees.
They had to run a correction.
They did this on Saturday when nobody saw it.
But still, it's, I don't know.
To me, it's easy to choose sides here.
Murtha is getting a lot of fame, is getting a lot of notoriety.
But to come out and call the, I mean, he didn't use the word, but he must have, in essence, said that Peter Pace is a liar.
He is part of this administration.
And he's discontinuing the whole Democratic Party mantra, Bush lied.
It's almost a trademarked phrase now.
Bush lied, you know, little TM after it.
Trademarked and copyrighted.
Bush lied.
It is the foundational belief of the entire Democratic Party's focus on winning back the House and winning back the Senate.
And so they've got their players out there marching in lockstep on this whole concept that Bush lied.
But if you look, and there are countless other sources, there are people who are in Iraq, both military and journalists, civilians, who write and tell an entirely different story than what we hear from people like Murtha and those in the mainstream press.
And I'll tell you what, the mainstream press's track record, the antique media, the drive-by bunch, what have they done to recommend any trust?
Ha, we are back.
Great to have you on the Excellence at Broadcasting Network.
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I want you to listen to a little soundbite here.
This is, and I know you didn't see it because it's on MSNBC.
Plus, it was on Saturday.
Nobody watches them anyway, but especially on Saturday.
And the host is somebody named Alex Witt, and they're talking to Pat Buchanan and Democratic strategerist Peter Fenn about this long-haired maggot-infested FM-type radical lunatic teacher, Jay Benish, out there in Colorado.
And Alex Witt says, Peter, Peter Fenn, big Democrat strategerist, Peter, you think that parents and the PTA associations are the ones, Peter, that ought to be allowed to listen to this and say, you know what, we don't like this and take a vote.
Is that what you want to do?
If you have teachers and professors who are doing things that are totally over the top, then you make that call.
But I'll tell you, I don't want a system in this country where every time someone raises a controversial issue, that they get called on the carpet by Rush Limbaugh.
That's not what we want in this country.
Oh, man.
I didn't do anything.
The student did.
There's an army of Rush Limbaugh babies out there, and they're ratting out these lunatics that are in the classroom.
How did my name come up?
I mean, Mike Rosen is the talk show host that got the phone call from the student out at KOA in Denver.
This just illustrates, folks.
I am talk radio.
When they say talk radio, they mean me.
And when they use my name, they mean talk radio.
Actually, do you know who first brought this story to light?
Do you know who actually, it wasn't radio.
The first mention of this professor and this student was our old buddy Walter Williams in a column he wrote on February 22nd.
Because I guess the kid, the student, had alerted, somehow Walter found out what was going on and wrote a piece about how this is just crazy.
This is terrible.
It's horrible.
See, Walter Williams was actually the first guy.
He's a guest host here occasionally who brought this out.
And then when the kid called Mike Rosen, then of course it blew up.
But no, of course I'm not supposed to talk about things.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly what he said here.
I don't want a system in this kind of system.
I'm a system.
We don't want a system in this country where every time somebody raises a controversial issue, that they get called on the carpet by Rush Limbaugh.
That's not what we want in this country.
Who is this we he's talking about?
Here's Brian in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Hey, Brian, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
It's actually Ryan.
Sorry about that.
Oh, no problem.
The reason I called was I wanted to go back to George Clooney for a second.
And his fundamental part is that he thinks Hollywood was liberal back in the 30s and 40s when it was predominantly conservative back then.
Yeah, they used to make pro-war training films and a whole bunch of things.
Oh, yeah, John Wayne and Gary Cooper and all them.
Oh, yeah.
Sergeant York.
I just don't understand it.
Does Clooney not know this?
No, it's just, of course he knows it, but nobody remembers Hollywood that way.
I mean, Hollywood, it's not, I don't even think it's relevant.
You can say, yeah, they used to be if you want to attack what Clooney said, but the real question to me is, let's grab Soundbite 11 and I will parse it for you.
Be prepared for a lot of start stops in this, Mamon.
Are you ready with it?
All right.
Hit it.
I would say that, you know, we are a little bit out of touch.
Stop the tape.
By out of touch, what he means here, they're not selling a lot of tickets at the box office anymore.
They're not making good old entertaining movies.
And the ones that are big blockbusters that were like King Kong, they're bombing out and they're not making their money back.
So you have these little boutique independent films here, such as the ones that were nominated, and they're all statement movies.
And this is by when he says we're out of touch, what he's really saying is we know we're making movies that are clashing with this culture.
And we intend to.
That's what we are here to do.
We are here to clash with the culture because we think the culture that doesn't like us is all wet.
You're a bunch of rubes and hayseeds.
And we're not going to change what we do so you will like us because we don't want to be like you.
So we're going to keep ramming the garbage that we make down your throats, even if we are out of touch.
And we're going to be proud to be out of touch because we're the elites and you're the plebs and we don't want to be like you.
If we can fool you into buying tickets to our movies, we'll do that.
But we're not going to sit here and make excuses for who we are.
All right, here's more.
In Hollywood, every once in a while, I think it's probably a good thing.
We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered.
And we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular.
The tape.
Fine, George.
What have you done about anything?
You can sit there and talk about it all day long, and you can wear your red ribbon, and you go out and wear the yellow ribbon, and you wear the purple ribbon, whatever the hell other ribbon you got out there.
But what have you done?
What have you done for any of this?
You know, I think you guys all come to the party late.
You guys get caught up in these causes, and they're more to identify you with producers and others so that you get work and you make a big show out of this.
But what have you done?
You know, we bring up subjects.
We were the ones, this academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel and Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters.
I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.
Proud to be part of the community.
I'm proud to be out of touch.
All right.
So they are who they are.
As I said the opening of the program, they're in the same place the Democrats are to the Democratic Party.
Democratic Party knows it's out of touch, too.
Why do you think they're so desperate to make themselves look like they have a spine when it comes to security on this port deal?
Because they know they're on the wrong side of this, but they've got this kook fringe base that'll smear them if they move off of this position that they've staked out.
So they have, all of this is based, you have to send something about liberalism.
All of this is based on contempt and condescension.
In order for the Democrats to occupy the position they occupy, and liberalism in general, you have to not think much of people.
You have to believe they can't do much on their own.
George Clooney probably thinks Hollywood had more to do with the civil rights issue and cause than Martin Luther King.
He probably believes that Hollywood is so important in all these social and cultural issues because he can't get past the fact that he thinks he's important.
All of this is a notice me, notice me sort of problem that these people have.
They have a highly inflated sense of self-importance, but they also look at people with condescension and contempt.
Liberals especially, they look out across our society and they see people that are helpless.
They want them to be helpless.
They see people can't get into college without them.
Can't drive a car and buckle a seatbelt without them demanding they do it.
All these little things, and you can think of many others yourself.
It's all based on contempt and condescension.
And this is the attitude that these people have.
They're better and smarter than everybody else.
And it's the Democrats, too.
Why aren't we being elected?
We are naturally entitled to power as Democrats.
Don't these rubes out there know that?
The House of Representatives is ours.
The White House is ours.
It's traditionally we've owned all of these.
These people are not voting for it.
It must be that we're losing because there's cheating going on, hanging chadge of voting machines or what have you.
You know, they cannot grasp the fact that people don't like them, what they stand for in ever-growing numbers.
Mainstream media is the same way.
Mainstream media has, they're probably, we're proud to be out of touch.
We're proud to be in this industry that's probably one of the most vilified because our work is important.
And we can't be swayed by public opinion.
We have to do what we know is right.
Where they are right now is still trying to prove to themselves that they can bend and shape public opinion like they used to be able to do in their Monopoly days.
And they also have their own agenda too.
But they're, look, fairly simple to understand.
They're all libs, be it Hollywood, be it the Democratic Party or the mainstream media.
As far as Hattie McDaniel and so forth, yeah, she got an Oscar.
But take a look at how in the glory days of George Clooney's Hollywood, take a look at how blacks were portrayed in the movies.
They were servants, maids.
Now they're pimps.
Now, I mean, have you seen Crash?
You really ought to see that movie.
I watched on DVD about two weeks ago.
I bought it a long time ago from Amazon, and it came with a box with a bunch of other DVDs.
And I just unwrapped it.
And I thought, gosh, when I saw this movie was nominated and was maybe going to pull an upset over Humpback Mountain.
I said, I know I've seen it.
So I went where I keep the DVDs and I found it and I watched it.
And you would think that the people that made this movie think that this is still the Deep South, that L.A. is no different than the Deep South pre-1964.
But there's quite a few ethnic characters in it.
And the rapper Ludacris is made a star in this movie.
If you look at the way they're portrayed in movies, George, you still got a long way to go, in my opinion.
We'll take a quick break and be back after.
Look at the Academy Award-winning song is about a pimp.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
All right.
The Iranian student, UNC Chapel Hill, Mohammed Reza Tahriyazar, Tahirazar, graduated from there in December, but he's 22.
Aegis took him in the courtroom there to be arraigned on his nine charges of attempted murder.
He's wearing his jumpsuit, his club gitmo gear.
You know, I'll beg you before this is all over, where this will end up.
Why did he want to hurt the students?
What is it about us that makes him angry?
Why did he do this?
What makes him so upset?
I just, that's where this is going to end up.
Try to understand his rage.
Exactly right.
And as I say, could it be that he got enraged because he's been listening to Al Gore over in Saudi Arabia make all these statements about how we're rounding up Arabs and Muslims and throwing away the key after we lock them up?
Could it be that Clinton is out saying similar things?
The mainstream media is making us out to be.
The Democratic Party is making us out to be a nation of thugs and torturers.
I wonder where else he gets the, I'll guarantee you, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is every bit as liberal as Hervard or Yale or anywhere else.
So you know that there's total love for the Islamofascists probably on this campus.
And he didn't even know the people.
I mean, he was not targeting specific people.
This was just, he had to avenge his anger.
Yeah, I know.
I'm smiling.
I saw him smiling when he walked in there.
Absolutely.
This is Chris in Fort Lauderdale.
I was down in Fort Lauderdale.
Well, I drove through it this weekend.
How are you, Chris?
Good, Rush.
You know, you had a caller a couple segments ago that called in and was absolutely clueless when it came to what's going on in Iraq.
And all he needs to do is do a little research, and he'll find out that the general is entirely correct and that the Iraqi forces are stepping up.
Can I give you a couple of facts for you?
Right ahead.
It won't matter to him.
Well, what he needs to do is he needs to do a little research, and he'll find out that as of two weeks ago, 40% of the Brazilian colours.
He won't trust it.
He won't trust it.
If he finds something that conflicts with his worldview, he won't trust.
But go ahead.
I want to hear the facts anyway.
Okay, 40% of Baghdad is now patrolled entirely by the Iraqi army.
It used to be 100% American, and as of just three weeks ago, they took over 40% of Baghdad.
How do you know?
How do I know?
Because I researched it.
I looked up on several different papers.
Al Jazeera even posted it.
Al Jazeera.
Well, we know who could trust them.
Well, the left will trust Al Jazeera, so that's a good site.
Yeah, it's a DOD press release that even Al Jazeera posted.
And on 400 shorties last month, 31% of them were done by the Iraqi army independently.
So what he needs to do is do a little bit of research before he opens his mouth and inserts his foot again.
Well, I agree.
That's why I gave him two authors that he could easily today go find on the web and read what they have written.
One just got back.
One is still there.
And the stories that Ralph Peters is filing, the columns for the New York Post, are stunning.
And Peters is a military man, former military man.
And he's, you know, he's very honest in his thoughts the whole period of time we've been in Iraq.
And he's been up and down on it.
If anyone over there, he's traveling around all over Baghdad, all over the country.
He's embedded with his boys, with the troops.
And he says they're being cheered in places, that shops are open, that schools are open, that there's normalcy throughout much of the country.
And he said, I can't find this civil war here that the United States media has declared last week.
Victor Davis Hansen is the other.
So I know that the information is out there, but unfortunately, you have to go find it because those in charge of reporting the quote-unquote news will not find this data themselves.
And even if they do, they probably wouldn't believe it and won't report it.
They'd rather rely on people like Jack Murtha.
Quick timeout, folks.
We'll be back in just a second.
To Santa Rosa, California.
This is Brian.
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High.
Hey, Rush.
You know, George Glooney was patting himself in Hollywood on the back for, you know, giving Hattie McDaniel the Academy Award back in 39.
But what's the track record since then?
I was trying to, you know, with your call streamer, figure out.
I mean, we came up with about a half dozen black actors and actresses in the 78-year history.
That's less than one per decade.
Yeah, that's a good point.
In fact, when it was pretty recent, I don't remember who it was, but the first black actress to win the best actress, not best supporting, but was Hallie Berry, and they all, they were just patting themselves.
What a great step forward.
Why, look at us.
Look at the progress we are making here.
And the entertainment media was just agog with the fact that this was so wonderful.
And so Monster Ball was, I think, the, no, maybe it was.
I don't remember the name of the movie.
Didn't see it.
But I think it's a good point.
You've got Sidney Poitier, you can throw on that list.
Butterfly McQueen.
It was supporting the Jamie Fox.
But again, you know, there's been a lot of it.
Remember, the color purple was totally shut out, Steven Spielberg's film, but it was Whippy Goldberg and Oprah.
I mean, that was the color purple.
Totally shut out that year.
I think they were nominated for 12 and went 0 for 12 that year.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, Spielberg himself got shut out this year.
Right.
He didn't get anything for that movie of his, Munich.
Right.
And, of course, the Humpback Mountain people are saying, well, the movie was just too controversial for Hollywood.
Give me a break.
It won every other awards show that it was in.
They got three Oscars, but it didn't win for Best Picture.
I'll bet you most in the Academy didn't even watch it.
And that was one of their excuses for not voting for it.
The idea that Humpback Mountain was too controversial for Hollywood.
See, here's the thing.
It's real simple.
You can make the movie and you can say all the wonderful things about it, but when you get down to brass tacks, American moviegoers just don't want cowboys to be gay.
It's no more complicated than that, folks.
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