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March 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:18
March 6, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, I know I'm just I'm trying to figure out if I want to mess with this Barack Obama story.
I guess I will.
I just lots of other good stuff out there.
Ah, he was in he was in Topeka, Kansas Saturday for the Democrat Party speech, and you know they're hailing this guy as the as the you know the new frontier, the new hope, the new whatever for the Democratic Party.
Anyway, greetings, folks, great to have you.
It's L Rushball and the uh Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Uh and I've got to have to start taking better care of myself.
There's just there's there's no question about it.
I I feel like it's about midnight tonight already.
Now I feel like it's one o'clock tomorrow morning now because I felt like it was midnight last hour.
Um, if just well, it was I did.
I it was just a well, I went down to uh Hollywood, Florida, uh Michael Irvin, uh the playmaker, number 88 for the Dallas Cowboys.
And my good friend from the ESPN pregame show had his charity, first ever charity golf tournament.
He's established a foundation, and it was loaded.
Uh a lot of his NFL buddies were there, and the uh festivities were centered around the the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Now, this is an amazing place.
It's um it well, I was, you know, I didn't even know it was there until I got the invitation.
This is where things were gonna be.
Anyway, when I played golf on Saturday, and and I, by the way, I they they had festivities Friday night that I could not make.
Because I had some things, he had private dinner for all of the uh celebrity guests that he had invited and then there was a silent auction and a live auction uh for memorabilia that was after, and I couldn't get there.
So I got up at 3.30 Saturday morning, because had to be there at 7 o'clock for the golf starting, and his shotgun started at 8 o'clock, but you had to get there to get all organized.
So I got up at uh at 3:30, and after going to bed very, very late, and got down there, and I I met Thomas Hollywood Henderson.
What a guy.
This Thomas Hollywood, and I said, Did you happen to know the Hutch?
Do you know Ken Hutcherson and Hollywood said to me, you know, I only saw Tom Landry cry one time, and that was when they've drafted Ken Hutchers.
He said, No.
No, he didn't say that.
He said when he when Landry had to cut, uh uh Ken Hutcherson, it's the only time he saw him cry.
But Hollywood lives uh well, he lives down there.
He lives some lives in Boca Raton and then has a place in Austin.
Uh and he's now a lecturer and a motivational speaker.
Uh he's been sober 22 years after having his coke problem, an alcohol problem while he played uh in the uh in the NFL.
He's the guy who said of Terry Bradshaw he couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the C and the T. And uh but uh Henderson's leaving notes in my car.
He wants my address, wants to send me one of his videos, and uh I I gave him I gave him one of my La Flor Dominicana double lighter chisel cigars.
I said, You like smart strong cigars?
Oh, I love smoke.
Well, here, you smoke this.
So off he went, came back in about 20 minutes.
He said, I'm walking around here, I feel like I've relapsed.
This thing is so strong.
I said, I'm gonna send you a box of them because when you play in these tournaments, give them out to your opponents, and they'll get so loopy that they won't be able to play the game.
It's a great guy, had a great time uh uh me.
Randad Emmett Smith again.
Uh Terrell Owens.
Um Irvin said, You gotta you gotta meet TOT as a good man.
He's a good man.
But TO was mobbed by people.
Um, you know, I and I was too.
And here's the funny thing.
I oh, I was.
They paired me with four trial lawyers from from uh just north of here, up in the North Palm Beach.
And I didn't know it at first, you know, but but these guys are big liberal democrats.
But I had more fun playing with this group of guys, and one of the reasons we played well, we were like 17 under.
Uh but I didn't learn they were trial lawyers until about the third or fourth hole.
Uh politics didn't come up at first, and I never bring it up at these things.
I'm there to play golf.
Couldn't care less about it on the golf course.
Play golf to get away from all that.
But eventually it it came up, the uh the leader of this trial lawyer group came, you you gotta you've got to start cutting us trial lawyers break.
We we just out there trying to help people who get injured.
And he started, he described for me his jury selection technique uh where it's easier and where it's more difficult.
But we just we had a fabulous time.
It was absolutely a wonderful time.
These guys were great uh to play with uh uh the the the whole tournament was one of the most fun events of this type that I have uh that I've ever been in.
So after that, uh cruise back to the uh to the hotel uh to get ready for the nighttime party, which was pool side.
And that went on till about probably 1230 or 1.
And I didn't end up going to bed until 4 o'clock.
And I know I did not go to the casino, but I didn't go to bed till four o'clock, and I woke up at 8 Sunday morning and said, okay, I'm up.
And I I drove back, and I had to do a lot of work since I had uh been away on on Saturday and so forth.
They had another dinner I had to go to last night.
And that I didn't get home from that till one thirty.
Uh and frankly, I don't remember what time I went to bed.
I uh 25 yeah, 25-hour party day.
That's a 25-hour party.
Well, no, it wasn't a 25-hour party.
Yeah, it was.
Got a 3 30 in a way, yeah.
Okay, I see what you mean.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
I I that's right.
I guess and and I probably only got two or three hours last.
Well, I said I'm gonna start uh being a little bit more disciplined here.
Because I'm uh it's not good when you start work, you start your radio program at noon feeling like it's midnight.
So anyway, we're muddling through here today, folks, and I know what you're saying.
Stick to the issues.
I didn't, I did not have what do you mean, words with him?
I had wor Yeah, I did we okay.
McNabb was not invited, and I'll just tell you what the attitude there was no problem.
I I there was that we did not I didn't have words with T.O. Uh yeah, but I'm not gonna divulge what we talked about.
It was it was it was uh it was just most it's just social stuff.
He he was he was uh he was fine, as I say, I mean he was he was the focus of attention wherever he was.
I mean, a lot of NFL players were there, past, present, uh included.
Uh and it was it was uh I'm just telling you, it was a blast.
Oh, oh, uh Brian just said, how did I shoot?
That's one of the reasons that so much fun.
I was creaming the ball.
Ever since I went to see Jim Hardy in Texas for uh and to teach me the golf swing as it should be, uh it it's easy for me to actually I'm playing better than I ever have.
I was I was uh it was a scramble format.
So you everybody hits their drive, you pick the best drive, and then everybody hits from that spot, and you keep doing that till the ball's in the hole.
You do that to speed up the game.
So we always had a drive in the fairway.
We never we uh well on one of the par threes we ended up sand trapped.
But the um one of these uh there was a par five, wind in the face, two hundred and thirty yards, two hundred and twenty-yard carry over water.
I boomed it to eight feet, and we made the eagle putting.
Now you tell me you're not gonna have a good time doing that.
I hit that shot and I looked at my partner said, This is better than sex.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
Stay with us, folks.
Ha, how are you?
Back.
El Rushboat, more fun than a human being should be allowed uh to have.
All right, this uh I'm uh at the risk of bringing this thing back up, because I don't want it to start dominating the show again.
I gotta I gotta talk a little bit about the port deal because this business with Bill and Hillary is just too much.
Hillary does not know that Bill is lobbying for the port deal.
Bill goes to Dubai, he takes big bucks, total of 600 grand in the last four years to make speeches over there.
He is advising the United Arab Emirates on how to get this deal done here.
It was Clinton who told them you go in and you propose a 45-day examination delays here so people can examine this and make sure that you're no threat to security.
He's been advising these people how to do it all the while.
It's secret.
He didn't know what's going on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Department of Justice Lawyers in the office of legal counsel last Friday were attempting to determine if Clinton had registered as an agent of a foreign principal.
Federal statute requires that anybody, even an ex-president, doing political or public affairs, work on behalf of a foreign country or otherwise or agency, has to register with the department and essentially update his status every six months.
It was not clear that Clinton had done so.
If his status is is uh less clear, here's what we do know.
If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't know about her husband's standing with a UAE and a Dubai port outfit, members of her Senate staff most assuredly did because it has to be on her reporting documents or financial disclosure forms.
His income, her income, all of it, gets reported.
The Dubai money had to be on there.
There were enough people in the Clinton's orbit who were potentially going to be part of the deal, says an employee of a firm that does work for both Clintons.
We were pursuing work on the ports deal, and we cleared our participation with Hillary Clinton's office.
We didn't want there to be a conflict.
In fact, at least two senior had you heard about this?
At least two senior outside advisors to Senator Clinton were attempting to get business out of the port deal.
And President Clinton was the go-between.
Associates with the Glover Park Group, which houses just about the entire shadow staff for Hillary's run-up to her presidential bid were attempting to get a slice of the Dubai Ports World deal before the deal was made public about three weeks ago.
According to current and former President Clinton staff, Hillary Clinton's Senate office was aware that Glover Park was in the running to do work on the DPW deal, Dubai Port World.
She was also very much aware of President Clinton's financial arrangements with the U.A. East as a former Bill Clinton staffer.
I mean, we got these staffs leaking on each other now.
Anonymously, this is in the American Spectator today.
We're talking about more than a million dollars.
Some of it paid out soon after they left the White House.
That income helped the Clintons buy the properties that allow them to live both in New York and Washington.
This was not an insignificant financial arrangement.
United Arab Emirates gave somewhere between half a million and a million to the Clinton Library and massage parlor.
And Hillary's out there, she does not know.
She does not know what Bill is doing.
You want to hear some of the names of these people that were wanting to get in on the money side of this deal?
Try Madeline Albright.
Try Vernon Jordan.
Try Bill Cohen.
What is not clear is whether or not the junior senator from New York was aware that Bill Clinton was acting as an agent of a foreign principal, which Clinton clearly was.
According to sources with knowledge of the deal, President Clinton was advising members of the DPW buyout team in a UAE, London, and Washington before the deal hit the headlines.
He encouraged them to hire a number of people working in consulting firms in Washington with whom he had both personal and financial ties.
Clinton recommended the Cohen group, the Albright group, that would be Madame Albright, and the Glover Park group.
Other sources say that longtime Clinton uh confidant Vernon Jordan's name was also suggested as a potential helpful fixer in the Capitol in the in the in the in the in the Washington side of this.
Now here's my question.
And before you start asking, well, so Russ, does this change your impression of the port deal?
It may.
But not but but I don't think this has anything to do with making the ports less secure.
This still don't buy that argument.
But nevertheless, what is it that Hillary and the Democrats all say about George W. Bush?
How could he not have known about the Dubai Ports World deal until it happened?
He's so out of touch.
Why, he's so concerned with national security.
He didn't even know about this.
Well, then how in the world could Hillary Clinton not know that her husband was paid hundreds of thousands, if not millions, as a consultant, and part of his responsibility was to make sure the deal got done.
How could she not have if if she's covering up by pleading ignorance?
Then don't we d how can this possibly be?
Now I know these people probably don't spend a whole lot of time together, folks.
We know there's not a whole lot of pillow talk going on here if If she didn't know, but it's hard to believe she didn't know.
She has to know because of the financial reporting requirements on those disclosure forms.
But to not know that Bill she has he's over there making speeches.
She has to know this.
So while they're out there talking about Bush lied, Bush did he knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
He knew that we didn't really military reason to go into Iraq.
He knew all that.
And he didn't even know, but the poor deal.
Why is this?
He's out of it.
He's in the bubble.
Mrs. Clinton, I hope you know how this is making you look.
I mean, this this is uh it's stretching uh credibility again uh and credulity to believe that that she didn't know anything about this.
The first part of it, the the first part of it, you mean the Justice Department wanting to know if he registered as an eight late Friday Department of Justice lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel were attempting to determine if former President Clinton had registered as an agent of a foreign principal because federal statutes require that anybody,
even an ex-president doing political or public affairs work on behalf of a foreign country, agency, or official must register with the department and then update his status every six months, and it was not clear whether Clinton had done this.
But that's not the bombshell to me.
I mean the the bombshell to me is that Hillary's staff knew that Bill was trying to get people involved in this deal that he was brokering the deal, he was trying to spread the financial aspects of it around to a bunch of his friend friends.
And Hillary's staff knew it.
That's what this story is.
That's the bombshell.
Hillary staff knew all this was going on.
The two-stay Clinton staff and Hillary staff are talking to each other back and forth, and Hillary's out there ripping the deal to shreds while Bill's out there lobbying for it, saying she didn't know that he was involved.
Uh Amber in Austin, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi.
Now about that kid in North Carolina.
Yes.
Now, first of all, what he did was wrong.
Absolutely, there's no excuse for it.
But you're saying that he got his information most likely from Al Gore or from you know his professors.
What about the year of media coverage of interviewing actual soldiers who have witnessed these prisoners being tied chained up by their wrists being kicked being, you know, we have pictures.
There are people, our soldiers, on trial for this abuse.
Mm-hmm.
How can you blame the liberal media or the Al Gores or you know, all of this, which which you're part of, by the way, you were part of the media of this mainstream media.
I am part of the new media, part of the alternative media.
I'm not part of the drive-by media.
So that you are a talk radio.
I mean...
You're describing the drive-by media.
You may...
And you're exactly right.
I don't know that half or more of what they've told us is true.
I don't believe them.
But the the real answer to your question is timing.
If it was Abu Ghrab and Club Gitmo and all these other things that that riled this guy up, then why didn't he do it then?
How come his timing more approximates Al Gore's speech and Clinton and Jimmy Carter saying these things?
So I this is when when Gore went over to Saudi Arabia and made that speech, and and Clinton has done this too.
Uh the immediate reaction people had, why are they doing this?
Don't they know that they're going to stir up anti-American passion in this country?
And the timing more closely approximates what those people were saying than anything to do with Abu Grabber Club getting over these so-called torture chambers.
Well, right, and you're right, it does.
The timing is correct.
But like I was telling him, which I'm sure you didn't watch it, but I wasn't watching the Academy Awards last night either.
I was watching 60 Minutes.
It was on just last night.
They were interviewing soldiers who had witnessed this, who had seen this happen.
It wasn't just, you know, a couple months ago or you know, whatever.
Now, I don't know.
I haven't met this kid.
I'm not sure.
But now wait, wait, now wait, wait just a second.
Hold on.
But wait a minute.
Amber, wait just a second.
Sixty minutes was on last night.
The guy drove the SUV through the pit Friday.
He hadn't he hadn't seen Sixty Minutes on Friday because it hadn't been broadcast yet.
Now, was that the only broadcast that has been on?
This is what I'm saying.
This is an ongoing thing.
It wasn't just when Alger first happened.
This has been in the media, in the newspapers, on the radios, on the internet, continuously.
Let's cut to the chase.
A month ago that were telling me about that.
Okay, okay, okay, I get your point.
Let's cut to the chase.
Is what you want to believe that this guy, this kid, this twenty two year old ex student drove the SUV through the pit because America has mistreated Arabs and Muslims, and he was um it's understandable why he did it.
No, absolutely not.
I said at the very beginning that what he did was wrong.
Oh, that's right.
Amber, Amber, Amber, Amber, Amber Hang on a second.
I've got a commercial break, Amber.
Hang on, can you hang on?
You can keep talking.
Nobody will hear you for another three and a half minutes, but don't go away.
And we are uh we're in not only in the groove, folks, we are in the zone.
We're having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, and now we tiptoe gingerly back to the phones and re-welcome to our program, Amber in Austin, Texas.
Amber, are you a student?
Are you a college student?
You sound young.
I graduated.
I'm 25.
Twenty-five.
I have three degrees, actually.
Really?
Really?
What are your d what are you what are your degrees in?
Uh political science marketing, and I graduated uh last May with my MBA.
Master's in business administration.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
I didn't go to college, I know what an MBA is.
Um what are you gonna do?
I mean, you got three possibilities there.
I am a marketing analyst right now.
Marketing analyst, okay.
So where do you come down on?
I mean, uh you obviously you re you had a uh a gut check reaction, an emotional reaction when I raised the possibility that this poor deprived Muslim student who may have been even probably was in school on a scholarship, don't know that, wouldn't be surprised, had to take something wrong with people being in school on scholarships.
I don't understand what that is.
See, there you go.
I'm not trying to be contentious with you, and you're reacting that way.
I'm just wondering what that has to do with anything.
Well, because Amber, it may the the kid may be an ungrate, he may have gotten a scholarship.
I'm just speculating.
But I'm just saying, here everybody wants to come up with reasons why the guy did it and perhaps feel sorry for I'm not saying you do, but that's where this is going to be headed.
Uh or where this is gonna go, be headed as a wrong term to use, isn't it?
Uh it and and I just know that the the the sympathy factor is eventually, especially when his lawyer starts talking.
I just know where this is gonna go.
And I'm just saying he may be a kid that got a scholarship.
Here he is trying to take action against people he doesn't even know because he's angry at this country, yet he comes here and goes to school, maybe on a scholarship.
There's no gratitude whatsoever.
His anger uh is a little misplaced.
And I just the the scholarship angle is simply a if it's possible, um th that he's that he's ungrateful.
You know, we this country does a lot of things for a lot of people, and still uh we get treated um uh i uh this way by people who say I'm tired of the way you're treating Muslims and so forth.
And I just uh it it bothers me because I think it's one thing uh for people like Al Gore and and as an ex-VP presidential candidate Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, to be running around stoking these kinds of emotions in people, it's irresponsible.
And if it was a factor, it angers me.
Right, and and you know what, and I do.
I absolutely agree with you on several points.
I really do.
There is no excuse, okay, even if uh I'm trying to come with like a extreme, but you know what I mean?
Even if we saw every day on the news, even worse than what we have seen, and he knew and his his family members were tortured, you know, whatever that's that's not an excuse.
It's not.
And we're lucky that no one was seriously hurt in this.
You know, thank God.
Wait, wait, wait, hold it.
You said something and I didn't.
Did you say his family members were tortured?
I it's an absolutely extreme example.
I'm saying, even if, even if he knew for a fact, that's not an excuse.
I'm not saying that he hasn't excuse that no compassion for him.
Okay, but you seem to be excusing it though when you when you get concerned about who was responsible for it.
He's responsible for it.
Ultimately, he's the one that went and got the SUV and drove it through the pit.
Absolutely, absolutely.
That nailed it right there.
Absolutely.
He is responsible, not Al Gore, not his professors, not anybody in the media.
Nobody, it was him.
He was the one that made the decision.
Now, like I said before, I don't know this kid.
I haven't met him, I haven't gotten sight of his head to say exactly where he got his information or why he did it.
He came out And blamed, you know, our mistreatment of Muslims for his actions.
That's coming from him.
He's the one that said that.
Like I said, I don't know him.
I don't know if he saw Al Gore's speech.
I don't know if he watches the news.
I don't know if he was talking to his family back home.
I have no idea why he did it.
But y me you almost just made my point.
It's him.
It's not Al Gore.
It's not anybody in the media.
It was his decision.
He did that.
That's that's absolutely right.
Um well see, Amber, we stuck with this long enough.
You and I we came to a common understanding.
There you go.
We came we came, despite the fact that you think I've been contentious with you and I'm not.
We still we were able to get past that and you and I came to common ground.
Absolutely.
It was him.
He did like I said, there's no excuse for what he did.
And it's you know, thank God that nobody was seriously hurting this because it could have been so much worse.
So much could have oh yeah, I agree totally.
And it you know, I I just And I hope it never happens again.
This is the kind of thing it probably was something that you probably will.
It's gonna spark more.
I know.
I know.
And I I just I wish there weren't any more droughts too.
You know, that those bother me.
Uh when I see parched land and no crops, hurts me.
Yeah, well I mean we're gonna we have burn bands right now.
You know, you can't it every day on the news, every day on the news there are fields, you know, thousands of acres being burned in in Texas, in Oklahoma, in Kansas that's either we're losing jobs right now or you know there are a lot of things going on in this world that it's Amber, did you see that it snowed in the Sahara Desert?
No, I did not know that.
Oh.
I mean it's terrible.
I did not know that.
It's well it's It's on the Drudge Report.
Go to the drug if you have time, uh between your marking marketing uh analyses.
It's it snowed in the Sahara Desert.
I did not know that.
Oh, and I yeah, I hope it doesn't happen again.
I it just it's not natural.
No, well, but that's it's the trend though.
I have a feeling it's gonna get worse and worse.
The weather and the all that it's it's only gonna get worse.
No, that's the wrong attitude to have because you think it's only gonna get worse, it will get worse.
Why did you spend time getting three degrees if you want to be obsessed with doom and gloom?
You gotta go make it better.
You've got to go make a difference.
I'm a relatively positive person.
It's just I'm also a realist.
And trends show it's going to get worse.
What?
The weather, but if we know that ahead of time, then maybe we can start to try and do something about it.
Yeah.
Uh Amber, are you married?
No.
No, okay.
Why have you got a boyfriend?
No.
No.
And really okay with that.
Good.
It's kind of by choice.
It's what?
I somewhat by choice.
Oh, somewhat by choice.
I I am I am a whole.
Well, I would hope it's all by choice.
If it if if if it's if it's not all choice, then you've got a problem.
Well I I'm completely okay with being single.
I am a complete person without somebody else.
I'm okay.
If he comes along, great.
If he doesn't, I'm okay.
It's not up to me.
I I don't know.
I I have that full faith.
It is not my decision.
It's not up to me, it's up to God, and when he says it's okay, then he'll show them to me.
Until then, I'm pretty cool by myself.
You're not a lesbian, are you?
No.
Okay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I mean I don't I and I love lesbians, I like them watching them.
Uh but I I uh don't no, I I don't I'm not being contentious with you.
Okay, no, I am not a lesbian.
Are you blonde?
Yes.
Got one thing right.
Okay.
Naturally.
Does that bleach?
I didn't see any roots.
I didn't see gee, whips this is incredible.
Uh look, Amber, it's been a thrill.
It's it it has, I've enjoyed talking to her.
I hope you call again.
Well, thank you.
Okay.
All right, bye bye.
Bye bye.
Uh Omaha, this is Oscar.
Welcome, sir.
Uh you got a hard act here to follow, but you can do it.
Thanks, Rush.
First of all, uh Tara Ditto's from Omaha, Nebraska.
Uh my wife and I have listened to you for years and absolutely love you.
Thank you, sir very much.
I appreciate that.
Um I'm extremely nervous and uh I've been on hold for a while listening to everyone else.
I appreciate your patience, but you don't sound nervous.
Okay.
How many degrees do you have?
I have uh two degrees, one in music and one in computer program.
Oh, great.
Okay.
So there's no reason to be nervous.
Yeah, but I'm not sitting at my computer right now.
No degrees in phone conversation.
Well, I'll tell you what, you what is it you called about?
Because once you get into that, that's where your passion will surface and it'll overcome whatever nerve uh problem.
Yeah, and you're right.
And I've been thinking about it over and over and replaying in my mind, so I that's the problem, I guess.
Anyway, uh I'll just try to go from the gut.
Um I saw the movie Crash uh with my wife, and I've been told by several people how awesome it was.
Uh and then in several uh several aspects, it it is a good movie.
Um but you know, I've listened to you for uh uh since you've been in Sacramento.
I grew up in Fairfield.
And so I always have the the Rush Limbaugh filter on, and I'm kind of looking for, you know, what's Hollywood doing here.
Uh right or wrong, you know.
I I just do that, and uh to me.
I kept thinking, you know, I'm Well, what did the Rush Limbaugh filter tell you when you watch the movie?
That there was a very uh very interesting slick subliminal message in that movie uh of moral relativism.
Yeah, I I agree with it.
I don't think it was that slick.
By s well, slick you mean uh uh subliminal or it was sort of hidden.
I don't think it was hidden.
I think they came right out and said our culture is still grossly unfair.
This is what it does to people.
Uh it it the racism exists in everybody in this movie.
That's the everybody's a racist.
The whites, the blacks, the uh the Hispanics.
Everybody's a racist.
They all it it's I don't want to give it away.
Um there are parts of it that I thought I I what?
Uh I still didn't hear you.
What uh I think they're all liberals, yeah.
Uh but liberals and racism go together, so in that sense it's uh it's I think there's one black guy who might not be a liberal in this movie.
I can't remember all the characters.
Uh but it it's Hollywood's attempt to um and I think that what Oscar here is saying, it's Hollywood's attempt to justify some racism.
Because they have an excuse because of the history of the country and other people's racism is not to be tolerated.
Uh is is one thing I took out of it.
Oscar, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We'll be back and continue in mere moments, my friend.
Stay with us.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This is Joe in St. Louis.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
You know, Rush, I know you know the answer, but I would like for someone to tell me one country or one group of people in the world that has lost more lives and spent more money trying to save and help the Muslim people.
And you can leave Iraq and Afghanistan out of it.
We know forget the money we've spent and the lives we've lost in those two countries.
What about Africa?
What about Indonesia?
What about the Philippines?
What about Bosnia?
Exactly right.
There's nobody that you can point to that has given up more of our people's lives and spent more money than the United States of America.
And I want someone to explain to me why anyone would hate us.
Right.
Excellent point, sir.
And uh they're not made uh because the the focus is on what America is doing wrong, how bad America is, and how unfair America can be as the world's only superpower.
Uh and and of course, you know, there was a uh uh I'm gonna ask Cookie, I don't I don't know if you have this.
Uh I got an email a minute ago from somebody who was l watching Wolf Blitzer yesterday.
Um he's over there, he's in the Middle East.
And he talked to uh an Iraqi, talked to somebody in Pakistan and and uh uh one other.
And he is his questions were were oriented uh the way the mainstream media in this country's world view of uh all of this action in that part of the world is taking place.
So his questions were oriented in the in the direction that uh America causing trouble, uh did really America need to be here, and he couldn't get these guests to agree with him.
He couldn't get the guests to agree with the premise of his questions.
And I'm uh I bet it had to stun him.
I bet it had to shock him.
I bet it shocked.
If a journalist in this country who thinks Iraq is falling apart and going south, goes over there and sees the opposite.
I I can't uh uh uh well it has happened.
There was a journalist who actually came back and wrote about this.
Um and she got all kinds of grief from the lunatic fringe blogosphere uh on the uh on the Democrat side.
Now the emailer said he heard this on the radio, so I don't know if I was listening to CNN and satellite radio or it was Wolf's normal Sunday show where this happened.
But your points are right on target.
We have done and are in the process of doing more.
W Afghanistan again who do you think we were helping beat the Soviets?
I mean, the um the Mujahideen or Muslims.
So Afghanistan twice.
Um now we have uh Bosnia, you all the countries that you mentioned, you're exactly right.
And you can say the same thing about our foreign aid program.
We feed the world, we clothe the world, we're doing more for aids in Africa than the rest of the world combined, and they still tell us it's not enough.
They still tell us we don't care.
They still run around and say that we're heartless in all of this.
So uh it it's it's uh an excellent point.
But the UNC kid, this is the kid from uh from uh Chapel Hill, uh uh for whatever, you know, he took the action himself, he's ultimately responsible for it, but somebody had to work him up.
Something had to cause the anger to start in the first place, and he got to the point where he couldn't control his rage anymore and had to take it out.
Uh but what bothers me is is that you have an entire political party in this country that's doing the best they can with their ex-presidents and their ex-vice president to stir up this kind of anti-American sentiment among these people, and you can't take that out of the equation in terms of it being a factor.
And it's irresponsible.
And these are the people who claim that the American people want them to lead, that they're gonna win the House back in 06, and they're gonna win the Senate back, and then they're gonna win the White House.
And they don't they can't find a good word to say about their country.
Period.
Particularly when it involves the uh U.S. military.
This is Don in Ash, North Carolina.
Welcome, sir.
Your turn.
Yeah, Rush.
Uh this guy uh from uh Chapel Hill uh is insane.
He his contention is that uh we are killing all these Muslims.
Nobody's killing more Muslims than the Muslims.
Take a look what's going on in Baghdad.
When was the last time we got into a situation where we had killed a bunch of uh of Iraqis?
It's just not happening.
No, but there are people trying to say we are since this war started.
There are people just gonna we're murdering innocent women.
John Kerry.
John Kerry said that we're going into the homes of Iraqis at night and terrorizing the women and children and interrupting their religious uh observances and so forth.
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
But you're right, Al Qaeda and terrorists are killing more of their own who don't tow the line than we're not we're not targeting any innocent people.
That's all Al Qaeda does.
And yet we still get hit up as the bad guys.
And they have people want to call and talk about, you know, well, it might be justified, it might be they might be justified in thinking this.
Their actions aren't, but they might be justified in thinking it.
So no, the real truth is that we're doing more and have done more to try to help these people uh than anything else.
And if you can't deal with what happens in a war, uh uh, such as interrogating prisoners, such as trying to intercept phone calls from foreign countries to the United States or vice versa, involving a terrorist suspect.
If you're not going to accept that that has to go on in order to win the war, then you're never going to understand, and we can't entrust you with having a role in it.
You can sit out there and be stupid all you want, just to be dumb all you want, be as ignorant as you want, but you can't have the keys to the car because you will take it and wreck it.
The car in this case being the country.
The drivers in this case being Democrats.
Back after this.
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Okay, folks, we're almost there.
I mentioned on Friday we're going to post on the website um the one hour long video of the speech that I gave uh on Thursday, Washington at the Radio and Records trade magazine convention.
Uh we've had some problems with the video, but we're about there.
It'll be posted on the members' side, the video because it's going to take a lot of bandwidth to uh make the one hour video available uh pictures and and uh transcripts of some of the speech on the uh on the free side.
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