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March 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:18
March 6, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, no, 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, there's lots of other good stuff out there.
He was in Topeka, Kansas Saturday for the Democrat Party speech.
And, you know, they're hailing this guy 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 El Rushbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And I'm going to have to start taking better care of myself.
There's no question about it.
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.
Well, it was, I did.
It was just a well, I went down to Hollywood, Florida.
Michael Irvin, 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.
A lot of his NFL buddies were there, and the festivities were centered around the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
This is an amazing place.
I didn't even know it was there until I got the invitation.
This is where things were going to be.
Anyway, when I played golf on Saturday, and I, by the way, they had festivities Friday night that I could not make because I had something, he had private dinner for all of the celebrity guests that he had invited.
And then there was a silent auction and a live auction for memorabilia that was after, and I couldn't get there.
So I got up at 3.30 Saturday morning because he had to be there at 7 o'clock for the golf starting and the shotgun started at 8 o'clock, but you had to get there to get all organized.
So I got up at 3.30 after going to bed very, very late and got down there.
And I met Thomas Hollywood Henderson.
What a guy.
Thomas Hollywood.
And I said, did you happen to know the Hutch?
Do you know Ken Hutcherson?
And Hollywood said to me, he said, you know, I only saw Tom Landry cry one time.
And that was when they've drafted Ken Hutcherson.
He said, no.
No, he didn't say that.
He said when Landry had to cut Ken Hutcherson, it's the only time he saw him cry.
But Hollywood lives, well, he lives down there.
He lives in Boca Raton and then has a place in Austin.
And he's now a lecturer and a motivational speaker.
He's been sober 22 years after having his Coke problem, an alcohol problem, while he played 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.
But Henderson's leaving notes in my car.
He wants my address, wants to send me one of his videos.
And I gave him one of my La Flore Dominicana double Leguero chisel cigars.
I said, you like strong cigars?
Oh, I love smells.
Well, here, you smoke this.
So off he went, came back in about 20 minutes.
I'm walking around here.
I feel like I've relapsed.
This thing is so strong.
I said, I'm going to send you a box of them because when you play in these tournaments, give them out to your opponents.
It'll get so loopy that they won't be able to play the game.
He's a great guy.
Had a great time.
Me random Emmett Smith again.
Terrell Owens.
Irvin said, you've got to meet T.O.T. is a good man.
He's a good man.
T.O. was mobbed by people.
And I was too.
And here's the funny thing.
Oh, I was.
They paired me with four trial lawyers from just north of here, up in North Palm Beach.
And I didn't know it at first, 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.
But I didn't learn they were trial lawyers until about the third or fourth hole.
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 came up, the leader of this trial lawyer group came, you've got to start cutting us trial lawyers break.
We're just out there trying to help people who get injured.
And he started, he described for me his jury selection technique and where it's easier and where it's more difficult.
But we just had a fabulous time.
It was absolutely a wonderful time.
These guys were great to play with.
The whole tournament was one of the most fun events of this type that I've ever been in.
So after that, cruised back to the hotel to get ready for the nighttime party, which was Poolside.
And that went on until about probably 12.30 or 1.
I didn't end up going to bed until 4 o'clock.
And no, I did not go to the casino, but I didn't go to bed until 4 o'clock.
And I woke up at 8 Sunday morning.
It's, okay, I'm up.
And I drove back.
And I had to do a lot of work since I had been away on Saturday and so forth.
They had another dinner I had to go to last night.
And I didn't get home from that until 1.30.
And frankly, I don't remember what time I went to bed.
Yeah, 25-hour party day.
That's about a 25-hour party.
No, that wasn't a 25-hour party day.
Yeah, it was.
Got a 3.30.
Okay, I see what you mean.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
That's right.
And I probably only got two or three hours last while.
Sam, let's start being a little bit more disciplined here.
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 did not have, what do you mean, words with him?
I had word.
Yeah, I did.
Okay, McNabb was not invited.
And I'll just tell you what the attitude, there was no problem.
I didn't have words with T.O.
Yeah, but I'm not going to divulge what we talked about.
It was just mostly, it's just social stuff.
He was fine.
As I say, I mean, he was the focus of attention wherever he was.
I mean, a lot of NFL players were there, past, present, included.
And it was, I'm just telling you, it was a blast.
Oh, oh, Brian just said, how did I shoot?
That's one of the reasons I had so much fun.
I was creaming the ball.
Ever since I went to see Jim Hardy in Texas to teach me the golf swing, as it should be, it's easy for me to, actually, I'm playing better than I ever have.
I was, it was a scramble format.
So everybody hits their drive, you pick the best drive, and then everybody hits from that spot.
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.
Well, one of the par threes went up sand trap.
But one of these, there was a par five, wind in the face, 230 yards, 220-yard carry over water.
I boomed it to eight feet.
And we made the eagle putt.
Now, you tell me you're not going to have a good time doing that.
I hit that shot and I looked at my part and 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 to have.
All right, this, at the risk of bringing this thing back up, because I don't want it to start dominating the show again.
I got to 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, Hillary has been out there denouncing the deal, saying it's horrible.
It's typical Bush.
It's secret.
He doesn't know what's going on.
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 less clear, here's what we do know.
If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't know about her husband 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 UAE, says 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 and 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 Madeleine 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 the 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 Madam Albright, and the Glover Park Group.
Other sources say that longtime Clinton confidant Vernon Jordan's name was also suggested as a potential helpful fixer in the Capitol, in the Washington side of this.
Now, here's my question.
And before you start asking, well, so Rush, does this change your impression of the port deal?
It may.
But I don't think this has anything to do with making the ports less secure.
I 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 she's covering up by pleading ignorance, then don't we?
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 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 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 have a really military reason to go into Iraq.
He knew all that.
And he didn't even know about the port 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 is stretching credibility again and credulity to believe that she didn't know anything about this.
The first part of it, the first part of it, you mean the Justice Department wanting to know if he registered as an a 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 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 friends.
And Hillary's staff knew it.
That's what this story is.
That's the bombshell.
Hillary's staff knew all this was going on.
The two stick 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.
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 his professors.
About the year of media coverage of interviewing actual soldiers who have witnessed these prisoners being tied chained up by their wrists being kicked.
We have pictures.
There are people, our soldiers on trial for this abuse.
How can you blame the liberal media or the Al Gores or all of this, which you're part of, by the way?
You are part of the media of this mainstream.
I am part of the new media, part of the alternative media.
I am not part of the drive-by media.
You are talk radio.
I mean, you are describing, you are 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 real answer to your question is timing.
If it was Abu Ghrab and Club Gitmo and all these other things that riled this guy up, then why didn't he do it then?
How come his timing approximates Al Gore's speech and Clinton and Jimmy Carter saying these things?
So this is when Gore went over to Saudi Arabia and made that speech, and Clinton has done this too.
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.
Now, wait, wait, just a second.
Hold on.
I didn't got it from Al Gore either.
Amber, wait just a second.
60 Minutes was on last night.
The guy drove the SUV through the pit Friday.
He hadn't seen 60 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 Aliger first happened.
This has been in the media, in the newspapers, on the radios, on the internet, continuously.
Let's cut to the chase.
It was a month ago that we're telling you about this.
Okay, I get your point.
Let's cut to the chase.
Is what you want to believe that this guy, this kid, this 22-year-old ex-student drove a SUV through the pit because America has mistreated Arabs and Muslims, and 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.
There's no excuse for it.
Look, Amber, Amber, Amber, hang on just 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 not only in a 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.
25.
I have three degrees, actually.
Really?
Really?
What are your degrees in?
Political science, marketing, and I graduated last May with my MBA.
With your MBA?
Masters of Business Administration.
Yes, yes.
I didn't go to college.
I know what an MBA is.
What are you going to do?
I mean, you've got three possibilities there.
I am a marketing analyst right now.
Marketing analyst.
Okay.
So where do you come down?
I mean, you obviously, you had 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.
There's nothing wrong with people being in school on scholarships.
I don't understand what that is.
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, the kid may be an ungreat, 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, perhaps feel sorry for him.
I'm not saying you do, but that's where this is going to be headed or where this is going to go.
Beheaded is a wrong term to use, isn't it?
And I just know that the sympathy factor is eventually, especially when his lawyer starts talking.
I just know where this is going to 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 is a little misplaced.
And I just, the scholarship angle is simply, if it's possible, that he's ungrateful.
This country does a lot of things for a lot of people, and still we get treated this way by people who say, I'm tired of the way you're treating Muslims and so forth.
And I just, it bothers me because I think it's one thing for people like Al Gore 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 you know what?
And I do.
I absolutely agree with you on several points.
I really do.
There is no excuse.
Okay, even if I'm trying to come with like an 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 family members were tortured, you know, whatever.
That's not an excuse.
It's not.
And we're lucky that no one was seriously hurt in this.
Wait, hold it.
You said something and I didn't.
Did you say his family members were tortured?
It's an absolutely extreme example.
I'm saying, even if, even if he knew for a fault, that's not an excuse.
I'm not saying that he has an excuse, no compassion for him.
But you seem to be excusing it, though, 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 inside 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 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 absolutely right.
Well, see, Amber, we stuck with this long enough.
You and I, we came to a common understanding.
There you go.
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 it.
Like I said, there's no excuse for what he did.
And it's, you know, thank God that nobody was seriously hurt in this because it could have been so much worse.
So much worse.
Oh, yes, I agree totally.
And, you know, I just.
And I hope it never happens again.
This is the kind of thing.
Something that it probably will.
It's going to spark more.
I know.
I know.
And I wish there weren't any more droughts, too.
Those bother me.
When I see parched land and no crops, it hurts me.
Yeah, well, I mean, we have burn bans right now.
You know, you can't, every day on the news, every day on the news, there are fields, you know, thousands of acres being burned in Texas, in Oklahoma, in Kansas.
And it's terrible.
People are losing jobs right now.
There are a lot of things going on in the world that did you.
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 on the drudge report.
Go to the drug.
If you have time between your marketing analyses, it snowed in the Sahara Desert.
I did not know that.
Oh, and I hope that doesn't happen again.
It's not natural.
No, well, it's the trend, though.
I have a feeling it's going to get worse and worse.
The weather and all that, it's only going to get worse.
No, that's the wrong attitude to have because you think it's only going to 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've got to go make it better.
You've got to go make a difference.
I'm a really positive person.
I'm also a realist.
And trends show it's going to get worse.
What?
But if we know that ahead of time, then maybe we can start to try and do something about it.
Amber, are you married?
No.
No?
Okay.
Have you got a boyfriend?
No.
No.
And really okay with that.
Good.
It's kind of by choice.
It's what?
Somewhat by choice.
Oh, somewhat by choice.
I am a whole.
Well, I would hope it's all by choice.
If it's not all choice, then you've got a problem.
Well, 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 know.
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 love lesbians.
I like them watching them.
But 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?
So there's no bleach.
I didn't see any roots.
I didn't see.
Gee, Wiz, this is incredible.
Look, Amber, it's been a thrill.
It has.
I've enjoyed talking to you.
I hope you call again.
Well, thank you.
Okay.
All right.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Omaha, this is Oscar.
Welcome, sir.
You got a hard act here to follow, but you can do it.
Thanks, Rush.
First of all, Tara Dittos from Omaha, Nebraska.
My wife and I have listened to you for years and absolutely love you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
I'm extremely nervous, and 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 two degrees, one in music and one in computer programming.
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, what was it you called about?
Because once you get into that, that's where your passion will surface and it'll overcome whatever nerve problems.
Yeah, and you're right.
And I've been thinking about it over and over and replaying in my mind.
So that's the problem, I guess.
Anyway, I'll just try to go from the gut.
I saw the movie Crash with my wife, and I've been told by several people how awesome it was.
And in several aspects, it is a good movie.
But, you know, I've listened to you since you've been in Sacramento.
I grew up in Fairfield.
Yeah.
So I always have the Rush Limbaugh filter on, and I'm kind of looking for, you know, what's Hollywood doing here?
Right or wrong, you know.
I just do that.
And to me, I kept thinking, you know, I'm.
Well, what did the Rush Limbaugh filter tell you when you watched the movie?
That there was a very interesting, slick, subliminal message in that movie of moral relativism.
Yeah, I agree.
I don't think it was that slick.
Well, slick, you mean 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.
The racism exists in everybody in this movie.
Everybody's a racist.
The whites, the blacks, the Hispanics.
Everybody's a racist.
I don't want to give it away.
There are parts of it that I thought that I, what?
I still didn't hear you.
What?
I think they're all liberals, yeah.
But liberals and racism go together.
So in that sense, I think there's one black guy who might not be a liberal in this movie.
I can't remember all the characters.
But it's Hollywood's attempt to, and I think 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, 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 friends.
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.
You 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 lost, 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.
Excellent points, sir.
And they're not made because 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.
And of course, you know, there was a, I'm going to ask, Cookie, I don't know if you have this.
I got an email a minute ago from somebody who was watching Wolf Blitzer yesterday.
He's over there.
He's in the Middle East.
And he talked to an Iraqi, talked to somebody in Pakistan and one other.
And his questions were oriented the way the mainstream media in this country's worldview of all of this action in that part of the world is taking place.
So his questions were oriented in the direction that America causing trouble.
Did 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 bet it had to stun him.
I'll bet it had to shock him.
I'll 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 can't.
Well, it has happened.
There was a journalist who actually came back and wrote about this.
And she got all kinds of grief from the lunatic fringe blogosphere on the Democrat side.
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.
Afghanistan, who do you think we were helping beat the Soviets?
I mean, the Mujahideen or Muslims.
So Afghanistan twice.
Now we have Bosnia, 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 and all of this.
So it's an excellent point.
But the UNC kid, this kid from Chapel Hill, 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.
But what bothers me 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 going to win the House back in 06, and they're going to win the Senate back, and they're going to win the White House.
And they can't find a good word to say about their country.
Period.
Particularly when it involves the U.S. military.
This is Don in Ashe, North Carolina.
Welcome, sir.
Your turn.
Yeah, Rush.
This guy from Chapel Hill is insane.
His contention is that 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 Iraqis?
It's just not happened.
No, but there are people trying to say we are since this war started.
There are people just going to say, 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 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 toe the line than 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 than anything else.
And if you can't deal with what happens in a war, 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, 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.
Stay with us.
Okay, folks, we're almost there.
I mentioned on Friday we're going to post on the website the one-hour long video of the speech that I gave on Thursday, Washington at the Radio and Records Trade Magazine convention.
We've had some problems with the video, but we're about there.
It'll be posted on the members' side, because it's going to take a lot of bandwidth to make the one-hour video available.
Pictures and transcripts of some of the speech on the free side.
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