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March 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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Okay, so what's going to happen in this hour?
I guess I will guarantee you that everything happened last hour except for the ports deal stuff was totally unexpected.
And the reason for that is it's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And uh if the first hour is any indication, it's shaping up to be a doozy.
Open line Friday.
It's uh up to you.
Whatever we talk about on the phone is what interests you.
You do not have to play off of me, react to me.
You can bring up things as happened in a previous hour that none of us had the slightest idea were coming.
And I personally like that.
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The email address is uh rush at EIBNet.com.
All right, some things in the news.
Plus uh we've got some uh uh audio sound bites here of the uh the media just they I tell you that they have been they have been knocked for a loop and they're out there trying to circle their wagons.
This has been a bad week for them because they've been called on their uh uh one-sided reporting from Iraq and how their reporting is uh uh enabling propaganda.
Uh and it's you know it I I made the point yesterday, and I guess it came up on on Chris Matthew's show yesterday.
I made the point yesterday that they never do stories on the valor of the American military in Iraq or Afghanistan.
They don't do any stories on heroes.
They don't they haven't done a story on anybody uh in Iraq who has performed above and beyond.
They haven't gone out and talked to Iraqi citizens or Iraqi volunteers in the Iraqi military uh to try to get a a multi-sided aspect of the story, and they know it, and they've been called on it.
And now they're trying to turn it around and blame the administration for blaming them.
The new mantra uh as of yesterday last night is blame the messenger.
But before we get to that, uh orders to U.S. factories for big ticket manufactured goods rose in February by the largest amount in three months, propelled by soaring demand for civilian aircraft.
A commerce department reported that durable goods orders increased by 2.6% last month, double the gain that experts had been expecting.
The experts don't know diddly squat.
They've been shocked on existing home sales.
They have been shocked on employment numbers, and now they are shocked on the orders to factories for big ticket uh manufactured goods.
Economists believe that manufacturing, the hardest hit sector in the 2001 recession, will post solid growth this year in spite of the blows delivered by rising energy prices.
Orders for motor vehicles, that would be cars, for those of you in the real innit trucks too.
Uh the the things that are on the concrete blocks out there in your front yard.
Uh orders for cars dropped by 3.3% in February after a 3.2% decline in January.
American automakers have been struggling with increased foreign competition and sagging demand for SUVs in the rise in the face of rising uh gasoline prices.
Uh so uh of course automobile sales have been struggling.
I don't think anybody was aware of this.
They've kept that out of the news for so many recent months.
Of course, everybody knows it.
Make the point.
See, they always gotta go out in in a story where the news is good, got to find a negative.
That's called balance.
That's that's called presenting both sides.
That's why you always got to go talk to some critic that nobody's ever heard of, some expert from some low-rent think tank that nobody's ever heard of to contradict the good news.
That's called fairness in uh modern American journalism.
But the fact of the matter is that in the best of times, there are certain sectors that aren't doing as well as the nation at large, and verse visa.
When we're in a recession, when we're in an economic slowdown, there are some sectors that don't know it, and and they're doing quite well.
It's it's it's normal.
The fascinating thing about this to me uh is it's manufacturing.
And I don't I don't know how many of you people out there, but I'm sure it's a lot of you think that we don't do manufacturing anymore.
That we've lost all of our manufacturing jobs.
They're gone.
They're gone.
America's giving itself away.
And yet we get these reports periodically of manufactured goods and big ticket items, orders going sky high, which is the uh which is the case here.
Uh where is the AP story.
About 133.
Well the headline here, uh a global temperature could rise eight degrees by 2100.
Oh.
About 130,000 years ago, an ice age ended, and there was a period of few centuries before the next one began.
During this lull, Earth's temperature warmed, glaciers retreated, and ice sheets melted.
Sea levels rose by up to twenty feet.
Scientists warned that this could happen again and soon.
That while the last great fall was the result of a natural tilt in the Earth's axis toward the sun, the next one will be caused by humans, some scientists argue.
The fact that the last warming of the earth was caused by a natural tilt in the earth's axis towards the sun is largely lost in this piece of garbage article.
It's noted, I'll give them credit for noting it.
But here's what the political article does not, and this is not an economic, this is not an it's not a climate article.
The point is, this is this is a political article.
It's purely politics.
Anytime is going to put in that this time the warming is not due to anything to do anything other than math.
Nothing other than human beings are responsible.
Well, that takes this out of the realm of science and puts it purely in the realm of politics.
And that's all global warming is a political issue.
It is a vehicle for its proponents to advance their their big government regime, their anti-American regime, uh, and they do it by trying to make you and everybody else feel guilty about the damage that just by being alive you are causing this magnificent planet.
You know what the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is?
Water vapor.
Water vapor makes up about 98% of all greenhouse gases.
Water vapor is responsible for 70% of the absorption of sunlight.
When the sun's energy output increases, more water evaporates from the oceans, and thus more greenhouse gases are created.
And it's a good thing too, because the more water vapor there is, the more clouds are created, the more sunlight is reflected into space.
If it weren't for this, it'd be cold as hell here.
Climactic models, climatic models uh never deal with any precision on cloud formation and impact because no one understands it well enough to make even rough predictions.
I have friends who are meteorologists.
And they have these 10-day forecasts, month-long forecasts, so forth and so on.
And I've had events where I was hoping for a lot of sunshine.
I call, but can you tell me what cloud cover tomorrow's gonna be?
Nope.
Clouds impossible.
It's can't can't predict clouds.
I can't I did I can tell you if you got a coal front coming in and it's gonna be overcast, but if just you're talking about a partly cloudy day or a mostly sunny day, or did it, I can't tell you.
Nobody can.
Cloud formation is impossible to predict.
Uh so this is the idea that the sun ended in angled uh to or well, the earth changes its tilt of the axis, which changes the angle of the sun rays hitting the earth.
The fact that that happened long ago in nature, and maybe happening, see.
No, it's got to be human beings are causing it this time.
The very fact that about 130,000 years ago an ice age ended and there was a period of a few centuries before the next one began.
Uh there wasn't any human activity that could then that could be blamed for this.
But now all of a sudden there is.
And it's just Sorry for I'm not buying it.
I haven't bought it since the first time I heard of it because I heard and knew the people who were trying to make the case, and it's just a bunch of libs.
And to every everything's a political issue to the libs.
Everything is a is a well.
Some some they they they do with a great caller yesterday.
They do take moral issues and turn them into political issues, i.e.
abortion.
And then they'll take a political issue, i.e.
immigration and turn it into a moral issue, contradicting themselves left and right, not realizing that they're doing it because they think they're appealing to people's heights and they won't notice, but we do.
Quick time out, we'll be back.
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By the way, I um I sometimes am uh uh an employment unemployment expert.
I'm an expert in many things.
That's why we don't have guests on this program because I am the expert, and I want to make a prediction to you uh about the future unemployment rate.
I fear, ladies and gentlemen well if I fear or not, but I predict to you that uh uh unemployment is headed up.
More and more people are gonna be losing their jobs.
This is thanks to the uh uh drive-by media, which keep firing more and more of its own employees.
Uh upper level management people uh are not being let go, but the uh people go out and do the uh hard work of reporting uh are being laid off and downsized and a number of other things.
Remember all those stories, I mean the thr I mean throughout the last twenty years, uh periodically, all these stories about how top executives are in so much money while their workforce is being downsized.
Isn't it interesting we never get such stories about the likes of little Pinch Schultzberger or the people that run Time Warner, people that run the CNN laying people off left and right in both organizations?
McClatchy gonna lay people off, but none of the execs are taking a hit.
We never get stories on the on on on that aspect of the uh media business.
But I do think that the unemployment rate will go up significantly because of all the layoffs and downsizing taking place uh in American uh journalism.
I want you to hear a soundbite.
This is Jamie McIntyre of uh CNN attempting to become the David Gregory of the uh Pentagon press corps.
He says to uh Secretary Rumsfeld yesterday to briefing, I I'm just curious, do you feel at all embattled at this point in your tenure?
No.
Aside from the retired two-star general calling you incompetent and t uh asking you to step down in an op-ed over the weekend.
We also had a column from Maureen Dowd in which he quoted an unnamed administration official saying that you don't hold the same sway in meetings and that you're treated as quote, an eccentric old uncle who's ignored.
You like to repeat all that stuff, don't you?
On camera, did you get that?
Let's make sure you got it.
He loves that stuff.
It's a sure way to get on camera.
You'll be on the evening news.
The answer's no.
And do you hold the same sway in meetings?
Oh, come on.
I'm not gonna get into that.
If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.
All right.
You know, what do you notice about this?
What I notice about this is you know, most of the press starts asking questions of whoever these officials, based on what others in the media have said.
Based on what else has been in the media.
Well, it was in a New York Times today that you said blah, blah, blah.
It's in a Maureen Downs call them today that you don't hold a sway in a media.
Uh it's all about them.
And especially now since they have been fingered as the culprits in the one-sided reporting coming out of Iraq.
Katie in Detroit, you're up on I'm I really appreciate your patience.
Thanks for holding on.
Hi, Mr. Limba, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
Good.
Well, I really need your help, and I am not the type of person to mess around, so I decided just to call you the expert.
Um I am in a communism class uh in here in Michigan.
And um Wait a second.
Wait, what a way this no, no, no.
Katie, is it what what's the class really called?
It's called communism.
Political science 377.
Okay, all right.
I knew it was she's right, but I knew they didn't have the guts to call it what it is.
No liberal ever does.
All right, so you're you're a poly taking polypsy.
What's going on in there?
Well, um you know, being the conservative I am, of course I had some reservations About this class, but I thought, you know what?
I'm gonna be open minded and just you know, go into this class to learn about different, you know, views than my own.
So uh the class has been very interesting, but we have to do this uh term paper where we create our our own communism society and all this stuff.
So he said though, my professor said that well, if you absolutely don't want to do that, you can defend capitalism.
So I need help in defending capitalism because there's no way I'm writing a paper on how to make a communist society because I know it will not work.
And well, I can no, but you know, you could you could do that.
Okay.
Here's it's very simple.
It wouldn't take much work, it would be accurate.
Really?
Yeah, you could do it on one page.
How to create a communist how do you create a communist society?
The first thing you do is you build a wall around wherever the people live, either the country uh or the county or the city.
Then you put security checkpoints on top of the wall at various places.
Everybody tries to get out, you kill them.
Okay.
You take away every bit of freedom that they have.
Everybody that works will work for the state, they will make the same amount of money, it won't be much.
Uh there will be no achievement allowed, no excellence allowed.
The only people who will make out will be those who lead this community, its president, its Politburo, you gotta use the right terms, uh, or what have you.
It's misery.
It is forced misery and death if you try to escape it.
It's prisons, it is mind control, it is denial of free media and truth, it is suppression of any statement that opposes the government.
But I mean do that, and the guy ought to give you an A and probably think you have a good future.
Well that won't really match with Marx's views on communism on his original ideas of what a Marxist society is.
Well, I'm sure it doesn't, because no the communists that that's what they end up having to do after their system fails.
The Marxists are all problem with it, and my teacher, like no one in the class, all these people that are gonna sit there and be brainwashed by liberals, the liberal professors we have are not I mean, but they all see that.
They don't feel that it's not gonna work.
They just say, Oh, well, we hate capitalism, we hate Republicans, so I don't know.
Look, y uh forget the other students.
Uh you'll you'll soon be rid of them when you get out of school.
They're they're very are who they are.
You can't bring them all along with you.
Take care of yourself here, fend for yourself.
They're a bunch of malcontent idiots, and they're not worth your time.
I mean, you can be concerned and worried about their future, but it's really not your problem.
You've got your own set of standards and your own objectives and your own goals using this class as you must in order to achieve them.
So let's work on you.
Let's let's let's just help you out.
Okay.
You could do that paper.
That paper would be what I just told you would be more than accurate.
It would be more honest than anything.
I think I would fail.
The class.
I understand that.
I'm gonna we're gonna we're gonna explore the other alternative here for you.
All right.
Um the but but but still the the point is even though that is precisely what world history has taught us about communism.
It will still be denied by every liberal in this country and every Marxist in every college campus because they still hold this dream that it still hasn't been done right.
They look at capitalism as inherently unfair.
When liberal when liberals that when liberals see haves and have nots, they attempt to equalize the imbalance.
And they do this by punishing the achievers.
They do this by punishing the people at the top in order to bring them down on a more uh level field with the with the have nots.
They never attempt to educate or inspire the have nots to do better and move up or prosper because they have contempt for people.
They look at people with condescension.
They don't see people who have smarts enough to handle life's challenges on their own, and they need help from government, need help from liberals who are the smart people.
Liberals' faith in the individual is dwarfed by their faith and love of government as the great equalizer with themselves in charge of it, of course.
And they look at this situation of inequality as something that is not the result of normal actions in a free market, i.e.
capitalism.
Uh they look at it as the powerful choosing who will succeed and who will fail, and determining life's winners, the l winners of life's lottery and otherwise.
Capitalism, very simply, Katie, is what happens when people are free to engage in commerce amongst themselves.
Socialism, communism, are attempts to control that because you don't like the outcomes.
You think they're unfair.
It's the attempt to equalize things, but that's not possible.
They do it on they say on the basis of compassion.
But capitalism is simply the natural result of freedom.
It's all it is.
Now we can get into detailed economic definitions of various things, but uh uh that's really all it is.
But hang on, I know you want to ask me some more questions because it's rare people get the chance you have, so hang on.
And we're back on open line Friday, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, uh, returning now to our college co-ed, Katie in Detroit, Michigan.
What uh what institution of higher learning are you stuck in?
I attend Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Oakland University is good.
Go okay, good.
All right, now let me let me let me go on to this capitalism business again.
You because I know you've been you've been you've given the assignment to to write a paper defending it.
Yes, yeah.
And I what I actually, if I were you, and I'm I'm being serious, if I were you, I would I would start this paper by saying that I object to the premise capitalism needs no defense.
It is people it is people who it is, people who propose alternatives that need to defend their failures.
Capitalism has brought more prosperity to more people in the history of the world than any other system.
Every other system has brought misery, disappointment, and failure.
But capitalism, this country, the richest country in the world.
We feed the world, we feed ourselves.
We defend the world, we defend ourselves.
Our population has the largest life expectancy in the world.
Well, it's getting it it's close to the largest.
We do have problems.
I'm not it's not it's not it's not perfect, but we do things as a country, as a younger nation, than any other civilization has accomplished in however long it lasted.
There is more wealth produced in this country, there's more opportunity in this country, there's more prosperity there than there than the human race has ever known.
Go to any place else around the world where something else has been tried.
Look at the Soviet bloc when it existed, look at the Chicoms now.
Look at you can tell your Marxist professor that the ChICOMs are uh uh actually reviving their economy with capitalism because we are infiltrating that country with capitalism, and they are playing that game with us.
Their economy is pretty much we had a story that there are yacht taxes, there are um uh uh luxury goods taxes in China now.
That's not because of communism, it's because communism uh it exists there.
It's it's it's their form of government, but their economy, they can't feed a billion people with communism.
They need capitalism to do it.
So I would challenge the premise, Katie.
Capitalism needs no defense, and it's the arrogance and condescension of these Marxist liberals that makes them feel that they are superior that makes tell you you have to defend the superior system.
Uh th these these are a bunch of liberal authors that have written all kinds of books about how to uh uh deal with the inequities and the inherent unfairness of of capitalism and they always we're reading um Alperovitz's book right now, um America Beyond Capitalism, Gar Al Perovitz.
And his whole premise is he wants to bridge the gap um of wealth, you know, between like the wealthiest in society and the poorest.
But you know, well, that there's th that's then the guy's a socialist.
What he's trying to do, it's exactly what I told you.
They look at the inequities and they see built-in unfairness, and they think that there's a powerful elite that controls all the wealth and that chooses who gets it, and that the poor and the downtrodden are selected.
They're just as good as anybody else, they're just as hardworking, they're just as accomplished, they're just getting screwed.
This is but it's it's it's absurd.
That's it's it's and it it it fails under any legitimate economic or intellectual analysis.
These they they they are they are loath to accept the blame for the failure of their own policies such as the war on poverty.
We've you could tell this professor, we've tried to equalize it.
We've done everything we can and still maintain our capitalist identity.
The war on poverty is a failure.
The Great Society is a failure.
The same percentage of poor are poor today.
We only recently started welfare reform, and it is changing people's lives.
It is enriching people's lives whose lives were previously doomed to nothing because they were made totally dependent on government.
In all of human history, Katie, redistributionist policies have never succeeded in equalizing a society economically.
We have transferred over six trillion dollars from the haves to the have nots in the great society in a war on poverty.
And yet it's never enough.
Six trillion, Katie, from producers to the nonproducers.
We still have the same inequities percentage-wise, and yet they still claim the rich don't care, that they're they're they're just cold-hearted and greedy.
Um I would bet that your professor believes that capitalism, which is America's basic economic architecture, is uh uh probably to blame for all of this inequality.
Of course.
Because they think capitalism is designed to be unfair.
But I'm telling you, if you just if you just accept start out, uh Mr. Professor, whatever, Professor uh Marks, whatever your name is.
I I refuse to accept your premise.
Um I'll be right.
I'm gonna write the paper, but capitalism needs no defense.
Yeah.
Well, I I think don't be afraid of the grade, Katie.
Don't be afraid of it.
I think my professor will probably have a heart attack if you found out I called you for help.
But I really like if you ever come to the Okay, wait a second.
Now wait, now that's I'm sure that's true, but why?
The key the answer the key there is.
Of course.
Well, but he doesn't think that.
He doesn't have the brains to even have and listen to this program, probably.
I know, but I I do give him some credit.
I I have I have him for two classes.
I I do enjoy him and his classes, but I am just sick of hearing how like the government needs to hand out all this money to everybody, and we need to have like uh nationalized health care because it's not fair that the rich people get everything.
Katie, for every thing he says, you have an example somewhere in the world where you can point to it as a failure.
Canada, Great Britain.
But he won't.
Everywhere there's nationalized health care, the people there hate it and don't want it anymore.
It doesn't work.
But he says that with health care nationalized health care is better than no health care, which a lot of people refuse to get because it's too expensive.
Okay, we've got statistics on that.
Yeah.
The vast majority of people in this country without health care are illegal immigrants, and they get it anyway.
When you go to the emergency room for an emergency, the federal law requires that you be treated.
There are a lot of people that choose not to sell to to not to go get health insurance because they're young and don't want to spend the money right now.
Some people self-insure.
That's a myth.
This is the greatest health care system in the world.
When people genuinely get sick and need to be treated for the advanced catastrophic diseases, they find their way to the United States of America.
This guy is also the question is why do people keep complaining about it?
They're still living here.
It's like if you're if I could explain a liberal to you, Katie, I would be even wealthier than I am.
I couldn't be I can't, I don't understand them.
They hate it, it's I it it it's as though they hate the country.
It's as though they've got the a a big problem.
And I think in large part there's guilt.
I think they they look at the prosperity and they believe this notion that we're only rich.
Remember, nothing happens unless some elite control it.
So they look at our prosperity and they look at Africa and they say, we must have stolen all the resources from Africa.
We're stealing all the oil, we're stealing all the diamonds, we're stealing all of this or stealing all of that.
And now we're polluting the planet, and we're destroying the end of the planet with global warming.
We are horrible people, and that's how I think they look at themselves.
They're a bunch of egalitarians, and it's basically I think they're self-loathing.
I think the bottom line is, Katie, they don't even like themselves, and they don't want to like you, and they want everybody to be like them, and so they spread this stuff around.
Not that they don't seriously believe it, they do, but like self-loathing is the root to understanding a liberal.
Perhaps yeah, you probably are right about that.
Well, are you taking notes on all this?
Um I've tried to, but I'm trying to listen too.
Um, here's uh Katie, I'm gonna uh tell you what tell what we're gonna do.
Are you a subscriber to my website?
No, not I I've been thinking about it, but I I am I'm a poor college student.
So you have a do you have a computer?
Do you have the ability to go online?
Yes.
Okay.
Uh when when we finish the call here, I want to I'm gonna put you on hold.
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I am a professor that records myself.
I am proud for the class to hear what I have to say.
Nobody has to sneak recorders in on me because I do it myself.
Actually, I had to buy a tape recorder for this class, so uh you've saved me some money.
But I think it would be good if you would come to Michigan and debate my professor yourself.
Because that would just make my day and all the conservatives that are too afraid to speak on O.U.'s campus because of the liberal yelling that we hear every day.
I think that would be it's not you know what, Katie, it's not it's not fear.
It's not a it's it's it's it's a waste of time.
The first the the the decks gonna be stacked, you're gonna get protested, shouted at, and screamed at by a bunch of yin yang little kids that don't know what they're talking about, but think they know everything because they're in college.
And you have to deal with the professors and so forth.
If you get if you do these things off campus, that could be uh fine.
But you know, it's uh there there's some people that still uh brave the elements and get out there.
It's not waste my time.
I've got I've got twenty million people or more a week here.
Um the professors want to date me uh debate me, they can call.
And I'm sure some of them would like to date me.
Okay.
Well now look, I gotta run, I'm gonna put you on hold.
All right, thank you very much.
You bet.
What year are you in college, Katie?
Um I'm a junior.
You're a junior.
Okay.
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We're gonna throw in a subscription to the Limbaughter as well.
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Oh good.
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Great.
Thank you.
And I'll let you know how the paper turns out if I get a good grade on it.
I'd like to see a copy of it.
Send me a copy before you get the grade.
Before I get the same, you'll be a member.
You will be a member, and there's a special email address for members of the website to send email to me.
It's so uh I'll see it.
Okay, thank you very much for the hang on, Katie.
It you bet great to talk to you.
It's a pleasure.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Uh Katie.
Katie in uh in Michigan, I know you're still out there.
One thing you could do, uh you're worried about the other students.
I kind of blew the other students off.
I ought not to have done that.
You're never gonna change the mind of your professor.
It's it's an intellectual challenge to try, but you're never gonna do that.
But the the service that you could do with this newfound knowledge and confidence is you can begin to work on some of your classmates and and penetrate those skulls full of mush so that the professor does not turn them all into a bunch of mind-numbed little liberal robots.
So that is a service that you can uh perform.
Madeline Albright has a column in the Los Angeles Times today.
Bush's worldview fails to see that in the Middle East power politics is the key.
Good versus evil is not a strategy, she says.
The Bush administration should disavow any plan for regime change in Iran, not because the regime should not be changed, but because U.S. endorsement of that goal only makes it less likely.
In today's warped political environment, nothing strengthens a radical government more than Washington's overt antagonism.
Explains the Democrats too, uh Madam Albright.
Uh but it's interesting.
She says good versus evil is uh is not a strategy.
Can we go back to late edition with Wolf Blitzer, December or October 21st?
It can't be oh one.
They didn't have late Yeah, they did have later.
Yeah, no, they did.
Okay, this it's this five years ago.
And Wolf Blitzer says, Dr. Albright, as you know, the inspections of Iraq ended during the Clinton administration when you were Secretary of State, and since then, the U.S. and other members of the international community have not been able to find out what, if anything, Saddam Hussein is doing in these various aspects of weapons of mass destruction.
I wish that the first Bush administration had finished the job in the Gulf War, which is a lesson about what we're doing now is to make sure that we actually complete what we begin.
It was very hard, in fact, to hold a coalition together uh during the sanctions aspect of this and to keep the inspectors there.
But you also have to remember that the U.S. has been and was taking military action against Saddam Hussein during the Clinton administration in terms of making sure that we could continue to patrol the no-fly zones.
I have always believed that Saddam Hussein is part of a major evil aspect in uh the world.
That's Madeline Albright five years ago.
She has a column in the LA Times today.
Good versus evil isn't a strategy.
I also have a little Nexus research here.
Remarks by Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright at Howard University, April 14th, 1998.
We very much don't want to be out there by ourselves as the organizer and as the only superpower.
People don't believe that.
They think we just want to be king of the hill, but we don't.
Our desire is to develop a whole host of regional and other alliances, other groupings, ad hoc groupings, partnerships that would allow us to have other countries that share the same rules that we do and have shared goals.
This is the famous speech that she made in which she denounced the United States status as the lone superpower in the world.
Can't have that.
No, no, no, no.
Call Saddam Hussein evil.
Today writes a piece, Good versus Evil isn't a strategy.
I had to mention this to you before we got too much uh lost in other directions here, because it was one of things I had at the top of the stack.
Here's Paul Corning, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Long time was our first time caller.
You bet, sir.
Hoping to get your take on the craziness that's going on down in the great state of Texas.
You mean with the uh the arrests in the bars?
Yes, sir.
Well, I read this story earlier this week.
Um that there there are the the some people down there worried that too many people leaving the bars uh drunk, tipsy polluted, too many adult beverages.
And I guess they're upset that the cops are not arresting enough people.
So they want them actually arrested in the bar if they're drunk, right?
Yes, and uh now you you uh you have a problem with this.
I do.
I think that certainly pulling people over who are too hammered to drive is is an appropriate response and necessary these days, but I I just flabbergasted that they can't do that and tackle that exact issue rather than just snagging people on the bar who are there to have a beer.
Well, that's not they are they snagging people who aren't drunk, or are they going in there snagging people who are just drinking?
Well, I don't know that there's any real exact benchmark to determine when you're out not driving what drunkenness means.
Number one, and number two, I know myself like a lot of folks these days go into a bar and we arrange for a taxi or a you know uh uh a D D in advance.
Yeah.
Well, that's that's a good designated driver game, yes.
Well, it is I I I think it it is it's it's uh I'm gonna short on time here, but it's a little tricky to go into a bar and have the assumption that somebody sitting there is drunk and arrest them on that basis.
They haven't done anything.
They're in a bar.
Because once you establish that, then you can pretty much say we're gonna arrest people for being smoking somewhere where it's permitted, but we don't like it.
And it's uh you can drink in a bar.
And now there are laws against public pub uh public drunkenness.
I know that's that's the fine line here.
The cops are saying what?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Okay, so the yeah the cops say we have the right because public drunkenness is against the law, and a bar is a public place.
If you go in there and you get drunk, you're in public and you're drunk.
And so that uh I think this is an outgrowth of a couple things.
One of them is I think people are sick and tired of people driving drunk on the roads.
Some people are.
That's perfectly reasonable to be mad about that.
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