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March 23, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks, how are you?
Great to be with you.
It's another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence, hosted by me, America's Anchorman Rush Limbaugh, firmly ensconced behind this.
The Golden EIB microphone 800-282-2882 is a phone number if you'd like to join us today.
Email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
Folks, we got a lot of stuff out there today.
We've got these ingrates from this Christian peacemaker bunch that were rescued from captivity in Iraq, and they're out there praising everybody but the people that rescued them.
In fact, the Washington Post reports that the Canadian and British aid workers were freed.
They were not freed, they were rescued.
We also have as an example, jobless claims fall more than expected.
Surprise, surprise, the experts once again shocked.
Everybody in media waiting for a housing bubble, and that's also not happening.
We've got uh uh existing home sales post unexpected gains.
So jobless claims fall more than expected.
Just it it illustrates that the the whole media action line on the economy is negative.
And when the uh of course there's some news they cannot avoid publishing, uh such as housing starts and jobless claims and so forth, so they have to express shock because the uh action line has been the economy is still in recession, it has shown no signs of improvement, and Bush sucks.
Uh, and they they just they just continue to do a disservice to everybody.
Before we get into all that stuff in detail, I have to tell you a story.
About a month ago, maybe a little longer, maybe two months, six weeks, two months ago.
Not ahead of me, because before the ATT, and that was uh it was early February.
So, okay, back in January.
You know, I I I take different routes uh into work uh each and every day as a security precaution so as not to establish patterns.
Oh, yes, Mr. Snerdley, I do.
It's tough to do with only one road.
Uh no, I do.
I take different route in.
And one of these days, uh back in January's driving in, and like for two or three days in a row, I go past this house that's under construction, and this guy's out there in front of it waving at me big time.
You know, it's I I I waved back and I I kept driving.
Well, you know, I go through my email uh a lot, uh, and I I spend a lot of time in the Rush 24-7 uh email account, and I I scan subject lines is the first thing I do to determine whether something uh is interesting or not, and I just I randomly, quite accidentally, uh hap well accidentally, just by chance, I happened to see a subject line says, I'm the guy waving at you.
So the guy is a subscriber, rush limbaugh.com.
So I read it, and he tells me that he's plumber.
And uh he tells me a couple other things.
He asks me to stop.
Next time he'd just like to say hello.
I said, Well, to myself, anybody can plunk down the money to join, anybody can do so.
You know, I thought about it for a while.
I finally today stopped.
And I I wasn't even going to mention this until I saw a story in the New York Times.
And I it was a this is a second day story.
The first day story was yesterday.
We didn't talk about this yesterday.
It was in the stack, it didn't get to it.
Uh the Times version, it's about these buyouts at uh General Motors and and the Delphi Corporation.
Uh once set for life, auto workers may have to gamble.
And if you go to printed page number three, you come across um uh no page two, I'm sorry, you come across a fascinating quote.
A guy named Kaufman, what's his name?
I'll be on the first page.
Um, anyways, uh is a worker named Kaufman.
Brian Kaufman, 30 years old.
And he's quoted in the Times piece this way.
Mr. Kaufman was lucky to get hired at GM in the first place.
About 80,000 people in Flint once worked for GM, or more than one out of every two people here.
Now GM has only 15,000 workers left in Flint, or about one in eight residents.
Brian Kaufman, 30 years old, says there are no jobs out there for us, and it's hard to start over.
Who wants to hire a washed up 30-year-old General Motors worker?
Who wants to hire a washed-up 30-year-old, not 30-year employee, a 30-year-old GM worker.
So I saw this, I said, I have to tell you the story of the plumber today.
So I find I stopped.
I got out and I talked to him.
He had on an EIB Rush Limbaugh golf shirt.
And there were two other people.
They were the only three people on the site.
It's a housing housing project.
They're building a nice house down here.
And the husband and wife contractor team also were there with the plumber.
So I walked up, I introduced myself, they introduced themselves to me.
They went and got pictures.
We stopped at posed for pictures.
The plumber had a copy of my first book, The Way Things Ought to Be, signed that for him.
And then they told me something fascinating.
They said, you know, we were all they they started telling me where they were the first day they heard me.
I said, yeah, sort of like where you were with the Kennedy assassination took place.
Nobody forgets where they were the first day they heard me.
And so they all started, well, that's true.
We did it, we did it, we did a show on that once.
Uh they started telling me where they were when they first heard me, and they all said that at the it was about midnight and mid-1995, 96, something like that, they were all working for other people.
They were all employees.
And they were telling me, they told me that they are now self-employed business owners because of this program.
That they were going and they didn't know each other back then.
I don't think that maybe I didn't I didn't I didn't get that uh uh detail from them.
But uh I mean this it made my morning.
These people are telling me, and they're eminently successful.
Plummer's got his own truck, he's got constant a lot of jobs, he's telling me some funny things about his customers.
He's got one customer.
Well, I better not tell this because he harasses the customers being socialist liberal.
And the plumber puts my radio show on every time he goes in this guy's house to do some work there.
So I better not tell the the details of the story.
Um but th they were all going on and on and on about how they were inspired to go out and start their own businesses because of this program.
It's one of the things I always tell the critics who think that this program is what it is not, because they've never listened to it and they don't know.
And always say, you don't know how inspiring this program can be.
You don't know how um uh uplifting it can be.
We do countless numbers of hours on this program about improving yourself.
And they started talking about all that today, and and uh, you know, they they made mention of the fact that uh yeah, so what you say is correct.
Most limitations that people have on themselves are self-imposed.
Uh and they just decided to go out and take a risk.
And now this husband and wife contractor team uh are they're huge.
Uh they they they spend every waking moment together.
I'm I'm I assume uh nighttime moments as well, looked extremely exceedingly happy, uh, but they were just effusive in their in their praise and finally had to say, you know, what I you guys are making my day, I appreciate this, but you did the work.
And they said, Yeah, but we would have never done it if we hadn't been listening to your show.
We would have never even done it.
It was safe, we didn't like being employees, but at least it was safe.
So come back to this guy, Brian Kaufman at General Motors, he's 30 years old, he's subject now to a buyout or some layoffs, and he thinks his life is over.
When at 30, he's got more opportunity ahead of him than he can possibly know or see.
Now you got to go out and access it, it's not going to come to him.
But imagine thinking you're washed up at 30 years of age in this country.
And I'm gonna I'll tell you something.
He's got a bunch of things working against him, and one is what's happening at General Motors, that's a real life circumstance, and any time you get fired, um, it's that's not uplifting and inspiring, but it can be an opportunity.
But as also if this guy pays much attention to the news, can you imagine what his own assessment of the future is based on what the media tells him about the economy and opportunity out there?
So somebody who knows Brian Kaufman in Flint, Michigan, uh needs to get hold of him and have him turn on this radio program just now and then, and he will find out there's all kinds of opportunities.
Just because you worked at General Motors, you've been laid off, doesn't mean you can't do anything else, and it certainly doesn't mean that other people are going to think you're unqualified just because you didn't make it at General Motors or General Motors didn't make it where you happen to be.
So I I just I I uh every time I run into people like these guys I met today, I I I love passing the uh information along and sharing the story because it is um it it it it inspires countless others who hear it.
You know, most people aren't self-starters.
They can everybody has the well, all things being equal, everybody has the capacity to be, but a lot of people don't know how to do it.
You get so conditioned to being coming an employee, you get so conditioned to uh uh uh accessing and and and establishing yourself in in certain systems and uh and formats that the uh that you get tunnel vision about what's about what's possible.
And it really is so many, it's so much opportunity in this country, and it's just waiting to be accessed.
If you look at the economic activity going on, all the new jobs that are being created.
Yet we hear about, well, we've lost 14 million manufacturing jobs.
We may have lost them, but we're replacing them.
We've got more people working today than we had three, four years ago.
We're setting records.
Wages are up, tax rates or tax rates, tax income is up as a result of all the new taxpayers.
Uh housing starts continue to defy all the experts.
There is no boom or bust, I should say.
They're all waiting for it, and there will be at some point, and it's gonna be maybe two years from now, they'll still say, see, see, we told you.
My point is there's anybody can be negative.
Anybody can tell you you can't do something.
You can tell yourself you can't do something.
Anybody can tell you or make you think you're washed up at 30, and if you go along with it, well, then you're gonna think you're washed up.
A lot of people can tell you how to fail, because everybody knows how to do it.
A lot of people can tell you how to be depressed and angry, because everybody knows how to do it.
In fact, you don't need anybody to tell you that.
But if you don't have somebody out telling you how good you are, if you don't have somebody stimulating you, if you don't have somebody lighting the fire, you've got to learn to do it yourself, and it's possible.
The first key ingredient is finding your passion.
What is it you really love, and then find a way to make money at it.
Uh and you may not strike out uh right off the bat.
Sometimes this takes a process, but the fun is pursuing the passion, because the passion will make what you're doing seem less like work.
Everything is work, but uh there are degrees, and the more you enjoy it, the less it will seem that way.
Uh Plumber's name was Patrick.
Patrick, thanks for flagging me down since uh since January.
And as I say, if it hadn't been for this New York Times story, I would not have even shared this with you, because you people would have thought I was just seeking an opportunity to brag about this program.
But that's not the case.
Uh I'm one of these people that think if I can do it, anybody can.
Uh and I've gone through the whole mess of being an employee and getting caught up in that whole mindset and mentality.
And I asked these people.
I asked all three of them today.
Despite the stresses and despite the challenges and the responsibilities, don't you like this more than being an employee without fail?
They all said yes.
Now I know not everybody it will do this, and I know not everybody's capable of it.
And so this is not meant to criticize people who are employees, but when you get when I see a guy like Brian Kaufman, 30 years old in Flint, Michigan, there may not be much for him in Flint.
So he doesn't have to stay, but maybe he's got family and has to.
I don't know, but whatever the limitations are, there are a lot of them are self-imposed.
And here's something else.
I'll I mentioned this to these guys today.
I asked him if they said, what is this movie, Brian?
You've probably seen this movie, the Terry Bradshaw movie with uh Matthew McConaughey.
I can't I can't think of the name of it.
It's about it's about a guy, Matthew McConaughey, who has not moved out of the house with his parents.
He's 35 years old.
You know, this is one of my big buggaboos.
And this is something that's happening more and more.
I mean, you'd be surprised, ladies and gentlemen, how many 25 to 35, sometimes 40-year-old children are still living at home with mom and dad, with mom and dad providing the the the room free of charge and the and the rest of the whole house and the cooking and the laundry and all this.
And one of the aspects of that uh is that people are further limiting failure to launch.
That's what it is.
One of the aspects of this is that these people, and it's an increasing number of them, 30, 35, still living at home, uh, with mom and dad, are uh also limiting their own job opportunities because they're they're not allowing themselves the freedom to move out and move somewhere to seek an opportunity, and that's gonna have uh deleterious effects on them as well.
There's a great column in the San Diego Union Tribune about this today, which I will also get to.
We got audio soundbite scalore.
We've got great stories, funny, serious.
We're gonna run the gamut today.
We'll cover it, and we'll get started with all the rest of it right after this.
What is this?
More bumper music from home.
I don't remember hearing this before.
Oh, yeah, I I know we put that on the website.
Snurdly is reading a story on a website called badgolfer.com.
I forgot I talked to that guy.
Interviewed uh he interviewed me on the uh, I guess the the third day of the Bob Hope at it uh at it at PGA West.
And uh I just saw it yesterday, it just got published yesterday, so yeah, we posted it on the website, uh Rush Lindboardduck.
And look, uh folks, one other thing about this this General Motors story and employment and so forth, it doesn't help.
People may think it helps, but it really doesn't help when the New York Times comes along after General Motors announces that they're gonna buy you out or fire you or let you go.
It doesn't help when the New York Times comes along and wants to do a story about how rotten General Motors is.
Uh and and yeah, this sympathy's good, but then what do you do?
You can sympathize with people all day.
Oh, I feel so sorry for you.
Yeah, but then what are you gonna do after that?
Uh and to come along and validate some, yeah, but 30-year-old washout, and you publish that.
I mean, that's that's uh that's not helpful either.
This is, I mean, New York Times loves these kinds of stories.
General Motors going bad, American corporations being mean spirited in the evil, and firing decent, hardworking Americans and placing them on the unemployment line, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh and the and the people that get interviewed for these stories end up reading them uh are not served well by all that.
Now, here's this is the a lot of stories today are irritating, but this is the top of the of the stack for me.
Washington Post says it all, Canadian British aid workers freed in Iraq.
They were not freed, they were rescued.
Three Christian peace activists kidnapped last year in Iraq were freed Thursday in an early morning military operation.
The British Embassy in Iraq announced.
The three men rescued the third paragraph, and they get it right.
The three men rescued Thursday, two Canadians in a Britain were freed in a planned rescue.
You can't be rescued, and I know that they're using the word freed to make it sound like this wasn't a rescue.
They want to make it look like the bad guys were good guys and gave these people up.
And in fact, these uh the the statement from these uh the what are they again, Christian peace activists, whatever the name is, they have this statement that's on the website.
Not once, not once do they mention the uh uh rescuers, not once do they mention the military team that got them out of there.
They thanked the Muslims, and they go on to say that this is a classic example of United States imperialism around the world.
They wouldn't even have been in this situation were it not for the U.S. attacking a sovereign country and so forth.
Um it's just it's it everything I said about this, I made you some predictions about this, if you'll recall.
And I I uh my main prediction was that they would be released uh so that they could run around thanking the Muslims and thanking the the the uh terrorists, the insurgents, um, for uh caring for them so well and understanding their mission of peace.
Well, I was wrong about that prediction, but I wasn't wrong about who they're thanking, and I wasn't wrong about who they still think is responsible for them being kidnapped in the first place.
They're blaming the United States, they're blaming Bush.
When in fact, they're the ones that went over there in the middle of a war zone to try to make some silly social political statement.
It's sort of like what do we what do we call these people that go over there try to stop a military attack, they go over and they stand there.
What what do we call these people?
Yeah, human shields.
They're just as idiotic as these human shields.
Uh uh, and so they think that their mission is one of uh of good works, and uh they they are just Ecstatic uh with the with the fact that uh they were released and and and that the they can now go out and tell their story about how evil uh the coalition forces are in Iraq, bringing about all this suffering and misery.
Maxine Nash, one of the three workers from the group still remaining in Baghdad told Reuters that she and her colleagues were very glad to hear of their release and waiting to see them.
They were not released, they were rescued.
Pure and simple.
People have lined up on the phones that want to talk about this, so we will get to all of you.
In fact, before we go anywhere else, mention any other exciting item from any of the stacks of stuff.
And we've got some audio from from uh from some of these uh uh people, so yeah, the statement you'll you'll hear what I'm talking about, plus the phone calls right after this when we get back.
All right, this is unreal.
You talk about talk about ungrateful.
The official statement by the Christian peacemaker team.
They posted on their website does not make one mention of the coalition forces who rescued them.
In fact, it's even worse than that.
They use the statement as a platform to attack coalition forces and blame illegal occupation for the kidnapping in the first place.
We have the uh some audio excerpts of this statement that we got from the web.
So this is web quality.
Uh this is Doug Pritchard, he's the group's co-director.
And it's the first of two bites.
We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces is the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering in Iraq today.
The occupation must end.
Today, in the face of this joyful news, our faith compels us to love our enemies, even when they have committed acts which cause great hardship to our friends and sorrow to their families.
In the spirit of the prophetic nonviolence that motivated Jim, Norman, Harmit, and Tom to go to Iraq.
We refuse to yield to a spirit of vengeance.
Nobody is asking you to yield to a spirit of vengeance.
How about a little gratitude?
Twerp.
How about just a thank instead of blaming people that rescued you?
You made the decision to go there on your own.
This this idea of insecurity, the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering.
Yes, yes, we refuse to uh engage in vengeance, uh, and our faith compels us to love our enemies.
It would help if you loved your friends.
Here's the second bike.
Throughout these difficult months, we have been heartened by messages of concern for our four colleagues from all over the world.
We have been especially moved by the gracious outpouring of support from Muslim brothers and sisters in the Middle East, in Europe, and North America.
That support continues to come to us day by day.
Gag.
We pray that Christians throughout the world will in the same spirit call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being held illegally by U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.
Okay, so you get it?
The the the terrorists, the insurgents, they're the ones that are the good guys here.
They're the ones that are the good guys.
They are the ones that uh that engage in all the gracious outpouring of support uh from their Muslim brothers, sisters, Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Uh we pray that Christians throughout the world will the same spirit call for justice.
They're aiming this right at the United States.
This exactly who the peace movement is, folks.
This exactly who they are.
The enemy uh is the good guys.
The bad guys end up being the good guys in the warped minds of these people.
This is just this just poor manners, too.
I mean, they were they were just not raised right.
They they may think they're Christians and so forth and so on, but they have lousy manners.
They have no gratitude.
They show no sense of appreciation for the people who actually saved their lives.
Here's Keith in Savannah, Georgia.
You're up first on this, Keith.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, how you doing, Rush?
Uh I think you said it best when you saw when you've been saying ungrateful.
Uh what these people you know don't realize or maybe do realize and just don't care is that the type of mission that these guys had to go out the hostage rescue mission is it's by far the most dangerous type of mission out there that that uh the guys overseas are having to go on.
Uh planning is rushed.
Um, you know, it's y you go out, uh you don't care about the bigger.
Give us your qualifications, Keith.
You know something about this, it sounds like who are you?
Uh well, I I'm I'm in the Army, I'm a ranger down in Savannah.
Um You are an active duty ranger?
Yes, sir.
Oh, wow.
The Rangers, for those of you out there in San Francisco and on college campuses, the the the Army Rangers are the closest with the SEALs and the Green Berets are the closest thing we have to supermen in this country.
Well, people don't know what you go through to become a ranger.
Right, Roger, that's right.
You know, the thing is, um the guys overseas that went on I don't know what unit actually did this, obviously that's you know all classified and anything.
But they probably don't care if these guys are ungrateful.
Um that's not really their concern.
What really I think probably concerns them is the fact that they're wasting their time instead of going and getting terrorists and getting the bad guys and and bringing this war to an end, possibly over there, they're having to worry about these peace at peace activists and devote time, devote money, devote assets uh to them instead of possibly going and getting terrorists on that same day.
You know, that is exactly right.
What you have nailed here is that these self-absorbed, self-inflated, self-important people have made this all about them.
They've they've they try to take every of it, and I think this goes back to childhood.
I think it goes back to the way they were raised.
I think it goes back to a whole lot of things in their in their early days.
Everything is about them.
They want to be the focus of attention, and they don't mind taking the military off path uh and and out of its mission, and they have no appreciation for it in the first place.
I mean, just totally uh ungrateful.
It it's it's offensive.
So I I'm I'm glad you called.
I can I you you sound remarkably composed, uh uh given the details of this story.
You don't sound like I mean I I read I read that the uh press release uh this morning before I went to work and I was pretty upset.
I've had some time to cool down.
Uh this this along with the uh um the law and order guy uh making his comments the other day.
Uh that that combined with uh this press release really got me upset, but nah I've had some time to cool down and realize that you know these people don't matter.
The I I know the majority of Americans are pretty level headed about this.
They're not they realize that.
No, you do, but let me ask you this.
Let me ask you that.
But and another big story today, folks, is the media.
The media is just beside itself.
Bush went to West Virginia, went to Wheeling yesterday, he got a question in in the town hall format, he got a question from a woman who uh in her own way criticized the media, and a place erupted.
The place erupted in applause.
Almost as much applause for her question as for a uh a bunch of applause Bush was getting for previous answers on different subjects.
And the media saw this, they were there.
They know full well that they are not pulling the wool over people's eyes.
They know full well that their polling data showing eighty percent of the American people, seventy percent of the American people hate Bush, don't want to be in Iraq.
How come John Kerry didn't win?
How come only a paltry few thousand of these people showed up to protest the war?
The media is out there spreading all kinds of misinformation, half-truths, half-stories about this.
And this is another aspect of it here, Keith, that I want to ask you about.
You know, you read this on the website today.
You took it easy.
You mentioned Richard Belzer, the Law & Order guy, the actor on Law & Order, what is it, SVU.
U. I don't know if you heard what this game is on Bill Marr's worthless show on HBO, and he just he confirmed everything I have ever told you people about the left's view of the military.
They the he said, I don't care what the what the soldiers in Iraq are saying.
They're stupid.
They're 19, 20 year old hicks that can't get a job and can't get into school, so they join the army.
They don't read 20 newspapers like I do every day.
They don't know what's going on over there.
They're programmed robots, they can't be critical.
It's against the uniform code of military, just really impugned them, insulted them, and is exactly as I have told all of you um in the the way the left holds them in contempt.
He just he made my my my whole point for me.
So you mentioned that, Keith.
Here you have the the ongoing effort by the press in this country, and you see it every day to demoralize the American people to gin up an anti-war uh sort of mentality amongst As many people as possible.
Then you get this story with these ingrates from the Christian peace team, whatever, failing to congratulate and thank their their rescuers.
How do you keep yourself up, sir?
How do you keep yourself uh uh inspired and motivated?
Well, that our motivation is not their gratitude.
Uh our motivation is you know, hunt down and kill a terrorist or capturing them, honestly.
But uh, you know, this is just a side mission, and um that's not our main objective out there is the rescue peace activists.
So, yeah, but I mean when you watch the news in this country, you see it every day when you how I mean I mean you you think you're doing heroic things.
You think you're protecting the country, you're doing what you signed up for.
You're defending the Constitution and the people of this country, and then you watch these ingrates on television who impugned what you're doing, tell half stories about what you I'm just asking you uh uh uh as human being to human being, even though you're a ranger, how does it make you feel day in and day out?
Um it is a little disheartening, I'll say that.
Uh um when I hear when I hear the guy make the comments on Bill Maher's show and then the crowd applauds, you know, erupts and applause over what he says, you know, that that kind of brings me down because I'm thinking not only is this idiot saying these horrible things about our military and that are just you know flat out not true, but then all these people in the audience are there supporting him and clapping.
I realize they're not Bill Maher's show, but still the vast majority of them applauding that is just that's disheartening also.
Um it's but then again, that's different.
That's that's different, Keith, because the people in the audience are just they're citizens with their own opinions.
And they're just showing up and they can applaud or boo whatever they want to do.
But when you have uh a a business or an institution with constitutional protection, the United States media, which uh has now assigned itself an agenda here, which is to help the Democratic Party engineer the defeat of this president, however which way possible, including demoralizing support for this war.
Um that's a different thing.
I mean, uh that because the w the reason some of these uh yin yangs in that audience were applauding is because they believe the rot gut and a drivel and a bilge that they see on the uh on the news every night.
Either that or they believe what their parents tell them.
But they're libs that you uh it it it all kind of goes together, but there are people who know better, who still refuse to uh do what they can to uh tell the whole story.
In fact, John Burns, I had a little note sent to me today, John Burns, who's the bag dad bureau chief for the uh New York Times was asked, uh you guys uh you guys not really reporting all the good news.
He said, eh, that's probably true, but it's not on purpose.
Yeah, it's probably true, but it's it's not because we want to.
It's not because we have an agenda.
But yeah, we're probably not reporting all the goods.
Keith, I'm glad you called.
It's a it's a it's an honor to talk to you, and it's uh thrill to have people like you in the audience.
We'll take a time back, uh time out, be back right after trying to say more than my brain can keep up with.
It's rare.
Most people's brains are faster than uh than their mouths.
Well, my brain, and you know how fast it is, and I only use half of it, and my mouth's even faster.
I'll get them coordinated here.
Sit tight, we'll be back in just a sec.
One of the guys at uh my website, uh Dean, uh just sent me an email reminding me of something I had I had forgotten about this from October 7th, 2004, statement of conviction by Tom Fox, uh, the American found dead in Baghdad.
Uh note, not not murdered, although he was tortured and shot, but it's not said that he was murdered.
No, no, no, no.
He was found dead, uh the news media said.
Found dead.
Not murdered, but he was tortured.
He was shot.
But this is what he wrote back in October of 2004.
Quote, we, the members of Christian peacemakers teams in Iraq, are aware of the many risks both Iraqis and internationals currently face.
We reject the use of violent force to save our lives should we be kidnapped, held hostage, or caught in the middle of violent conflict situations.
Well, that's their official statement of conviction by the American member of this team that was uh that was tortured and shot.
Now, if that's the official statement, why did they accept the rescue?
If that's the official statement, if they didn't want force to be used, violent force, to save their lives, they should have told whoever it was that went in there to get them out.
Nope, nope, nope.
You came in here with the force of violence propelling you and we are staying.
Some principal bunch, huh?
Here's uh here's Tom in Miami.
Tom, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey Rush, uh you made an emotional appeal.
Everything said in their statement is true.
We did illegally invade a sovereign country and we're illegally holding principles.
You didn't address your statement you made an emotional appeal about how people feel.
I think that's what the Liberals used to do to us.
Tom can need to address the fact address the facts.
Tom can I can I ask you can I ask you a question.
Sure.
Because I I can't I I I really don't know the answer to this myself.
I can only ask somebody like you what does it feel like to be so wrong so often?
Well I'm looking at it the facts not emotionally you know it's not you're you're not addressing the what I'm seeing that's even more relevant if you if you're looking at it the facts totally off subject.
No not I don't expect wrong.
I'm calling to tell you you're wrong.
Well then you should have said that.
I'm telling you you're wrong.
You couldn't be more wrong but I don't know how being wrong feels since I'm not going to be able to ask you how does it feel to be wrong.
But since if you're not gonna Tom it's a nice tribe if you're if you're not going to answer the host's questions and you were given ample opportunity uh to get your point and you were put to the front of the line when you called by identifying yourself as a liberal and you were you got to say what you wanted to say your salient points uninterrupted until I could take no more and had to ask you what it must be like.
I've wondered what what's it like to get up and be miserable every day.
What's it like to get up and be unhappy what's it like to get up and be angry and want to stay that way and go to bed that way and have lunch that day and be so wrong all the time and uh I don't know that I'm gonna get the answer from you so we will move on to Amy St. Mary's Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey Rush I'm in a fury right now so I hope everybody can keep up with me.
All these peace freaks need to shut their mouths.
They do not appreciate our military to keep talking.
We want it to our country we want we want people in this country to know who leftists are we want people in this country to know who it actually is it's in the so-called peace.
It's demoralizing it is so demoralizing.
You know my husband watches TV at night right in far greater numbers and with far more intellectual moral force than these people have we are dwarfing these people today Amy and it's very I don't know if you listened to Neil Bortz this morning but there is there is this woman on there she was part of that that peace activist thing.
I don't know when the last time this woman took a shower shaved her armpits and put a bra on but she she wouldn't even acknowledge that the the that the that the soldiers rescued these these peace people I look there's nothing you're gonna do to stop it.
These are people made to order.
I mean, I'm sure Neil Bortz had his own reason of putting a woman on, and probably the same reason I would.
If somebody wants to make a fool of themselves, get out of the way and let them.
Mainstream media will look to this woman and these people as props to advance their own ideas and agenda about this.
But in the process, you're not going to stop it.
And in the process, they're informing people.
They're letting people know who they are, who the Democratic Party is.
doubts for a moment how they vote they're libs they're wackos they are kooks and they are Democrats in the voting booth and the more people I mean who wants to identify with these people other than the people already in a sick way do.
But there's nothing these people saying it's inspiring.
There's nothing they're saying that's um that's uh uplifting they're they're not they're not creating new recruits for their beliefs.
They're they're like they're what's his face George Clooney at the Oscars.
Hey no they're out of touch so they got to go make speeches about how they're proud to be out of touch.
And they're there because they think being out of touch means that they're elitists and way above us.
They think they're smarter than everybody else but the more they open their mouths, Amy, and the more they speak um the uh greater the number of people who learn what a bunch of glittering jewels of colossal ignorance they are.
Now they may be dangerous uh here and there, but uh on balance, I vote to let them keep talking.
Back in just a moment.
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