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April 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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You know, I I I can't, I'm I don't I don't want you to think I'm smiling.
Well, I am smiling, but I can't help it.
Uh advertising age is reporting that Time magazine's laid off another 250 people.
It's no wonder the drive-by media doesn't get the good economic news.
Because the big media is actually the drag on the economy uh now, folks.
Live from New York City.
It's open live Friday.
Yeah, and the big media, when they come around, they poll the big media about uh the economy.
You know, normally they go out in the neighborhood and say, how are you doing?
Oh, I'm doing great, but uh really worried about my neighbors, you know.
I hear all this bad economic news.
When they go talk to somebody from the big media, what do you think about the economy?
Well, I'm not worried about my neighbor, but I'm scared to death about my future.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Uh, it's a little Shaden Freud here.
Uh greetings, uh, folks, welcome back.
Open line Friday.
L. Rushball, the uh uh anchor man of America here in the uh prestigious Attila the Hun chair of the distinguished Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Open Line Friday means that you can uh hey, hey, hey, none of that in there.
Psst!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, I will not put up with sexual harassment when I see it.
What just happened in there?
Uh okay, I figured that out.
All right.
What's happening here?
This is the last day for our call screener, uh Brett Winterbull.
We had a we had a big blowout party last night at Patsy's, and Brett's about the fourth person that's left this program over 18 years, and I said, never have I been happier to see anybody go if somebody had to leave as good as it was him.
Uh, I'm really sad he's gonna be he's he does such a great job, and he's uh just he's just superb at it.
And I'm is he and his wife are moving uh to the left coast of uh career change for her, and and so uh we're we're gonna miss you.
And I've I've told him that uh as often happens, people leave this program always come back.
They end up uh gravitating back, and we will make sure that nobody uses that phone to uh to screen the program.
In fact, you can take it with you as a souvenir if you uh if you want.
Anyway, so somebody just came in, and I thought I thought it was Catherine from the newsletter at first, so I'm seeing it at the corner of my eye unless she's coming in to watch the program because I know she idolizes me, and she comes here as often as she can.
And the next thing I know, this it's not Catherine, it's it's some woman I've not even seen before, puts a big embrace on Brett right in front of me with a big slurpy kiss, and I'm saying, whoa!
And I know it wasn't his wife, because she was there last night.
So they can't get in here.
My door's locked.
You can't get in.
So if somebody wanted to do that, uh you would not see it watching on the ditto cam.
Okay, that explains my outburst, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
So I thought I was gonna have to suspend you on your last day with one hour left.
Get this.
The vast homelessness problem in Los Angeles County can be solved in a decade by spending up to 15 billion dollars on affordable housing and other preventative services.
Officials said Thursday, after a three-year study.
A public-private panel made more than 200 recommendations to tackle a problem estimated to involve over 220,000 people cycling through homelessness every year.
Mayor Antonio Villaragosa said this is an investment.
Make no mistake, we will not be the city with the ignominious distinction of being the homeless capital of America.
Don't sweat it, Mayor.
San Francisco's got it all over you, and their problems growing and it's getting worse.
The report called for building at least 11,500 units of affordable housing for the homeless with an eventual goal of 50,000 units.
I swear with all that there is to learn and know about how this doesn't work in this country over the last 30 years.
Let me ask, is there a government-built housing project that you can look at and say, wow, what a great place for people to live.
I mean, other than the White House, I mean, I but but but I mean, it's just they don't, it's it's not it's just.
I'll bet nowhere in the re what is a preventative service to prevent homelessness.
What is that?
What is it in my world, it's a job.
But you see, if you say that, if you say that, then it's it's like what's cruel and it's uh insensitive and it's extreme and so forth.
So the preventative service, maybe it's a condom.
I don't know what's in the report.
Haven't seen the report.
A thousand bodies have been found in Iraq.
You remember the good old days, ladies and gentlemen, found a thousand bodies in Serbia.
Stop the presses.
The libs and Bill Cl- Oh, they started crying in public, and we had to go stop the ethnic cleansing.
We've got to stop it.
A thousand bodies found in Iraq.
Another mass grave has been found.
Uh and for some reason, this no longer tugs at the liberal heartstrings out there.
They don't even recognize it.
Now they're saying numerous mass graves of Kurds in the north and Shiites in the South have been discovered since the fall of Saddam's regime.
Officials believe there could be at least 300,000 bodies buried across a rock.
Saddam, in his testimony the other day said, hey, they deserve to die.
And I kind of like that.
Well, what do you expect a dictator and a tyrant to say?
They deserved to die.
That's the Trumpet Fanfare time for an update.
SUV update time.
Here's Paul Shanklin as Elvis with our theme in a you-go.
Or a Prius, whatever.
Hybrid, whatever you're going to call them.
Again, that's our buddy Paul Shanklin as Elvis, the original tune in the ghetto.
I mentioned this earlier.
I I'm going through the stacks of stuff today, and I saw this story, and I just, it just, it warmed my heart.
You just don't see these kinds of stories anymore.
We are usually treated to these stories of SUVs uh driving off interstate bridges or parking garage upper levels or into trees or whatever, banging into people.
But this is a story from um uh little Cottonwood Canyon.
Uh and it's from the Palm Springs Desert News.
And uh Desert Morning News.
I guess it's no, I w I don't know it's it's it's the Desiree.
I'm not sure where little Cottonwood Candy is.
Uh Cottonwood Canyon, but no, no, I'm it doesn't matter where it is.
It's the it's the substance of the story.
Here's the headline Avalanche sweeps nine in SUV off Canyon Road, no one hurt.
The SUV was totaled.
The SUV sacrificed itself for a family, ladies and gentlemen.
You just don't see this.
An avalanche swept an SUV with nine people, including five children, uh, off the main canyon road and over the edge here Thursday, carried it 100 feet before the SUV came to rest on its hood.
It chose to take a nosedive so as not to harm the people in the passenger compartment that it was driving.
Just driving down the road, and uh Michael Thomas, uh, one of the drivers said while smacking his hands together, it was surreal.
Without warning, the avalanche hit the SUV about 6.30 near the white pine chutes, about halfway up the canyon, pushed it on its side, carried over the edge as the passengers, including children ages three to ten, uh, held on for the bumpy ride.
Everyone in the SUV was wearing a seatbelt.
And this SUV, I'm sure it wouldn't start uh warning bells unless every seatbelt was fashion because it cares.
Adam Thomas, well, it cared because it's dead now.
Adam Thomas, 10 uh said he helped unbuckle his brothers who were left strapped in their seats upside down once the SUV came to rest.
It was the worst nightmare I ever had.
Michael Thomas, everybody in the SUV was a little shaken up.
Some of the children were crying, but otherwise everyone was okay.
The Thomases are from St. Louis.
I guess it's a Utah, okay.
They've been in Utah all week, learning to ski for the first time.
You know the odds of this happening?
You normal SUV, avalanche, occupants dead, SUV fine.
In this case, the SUV gave its life for the family inside.
And then I started looking at headlines.
And my feeling of heart warmth was destroyed.
Because this is not a trend.
It's an isolated story.
Try these headlines.
SUV crashes, lands in Wilmington, Delaware yard.
Local man rescues woman pinned under SUV.
So here you have well, obviously attempted murder by SUVs.
Police tornado sucked woman out of SUV.
SUV, I mean, come on.
If the windows, I mean, some SUV, no help.
SUV flips injuring driver on I-675 in Ohio.
SUV rams into house.
This is the kind of SUV behavior we become accustomed to.
And this is why we profile.
This is why we know that all drastic auto accidents have to be SUVs.
These things are killers, folks.
We've been told this, and I thought I'd stumble across a story where we found a civic-minded and uh selfless SUV, giving its life for its passenger, but no isolated story.
Elderly Hollywood woman dies.
Uh this is Florida.
Elderly Hollywood woman dies after SUV strikes her on bicycle.
Back in time.
It's a rotten world out there sometimes, folks.
Isley Brothers and Fight to Power.
That's uh favorite tunes in the bumper rotation.
There's a bomb scare at the police station in Durham, North Carolina.
Reminds me, somebody sent me an email today of a picture of uh of a of a sign, like outside a fast food restaurant or something.
And I don't know where it's from.
I don't even know if it's real, but if even if it's somebody just created Photoshop, it's funny as it can be.
Uh toilet stolen from police station cops have nothing to go on.
Little juvenile humor.
And it's it's it's it's right out next to some advertisement for some fast food sign.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, we got audio sound bites here from Lori David.
Lori David, the wife of Larry David, he of Seinfeld and curb the enthusiasm or curb your enthusiasm or whatever she is.
She is on the kook fringe of the environmental wacko movement.
And where was she was on Good Morning America today?
Barbara Walters was interviewing her.
Uh she's got an HBO documentary coming up called Too Hot Not to Handle.
It's about global warming.
You should know that Gallup has a new poll out.
I'm trying to print it now.
Actually, the website, the website's jammed, I can't get into it.
But Gallup has a new poll out despite, despite all of the warnings.
The public is just not buying into this man-made global warming business.
They're just not buying into it.
I wonder why.
The people behind it are obviously kooks.
They're deranged every day.
It's a new scare story.
It's a new scare tactic.
I mean, people don't have the emotional capacity to deal with all of this, and it's too much of it's conflicting.
So, but Lori David's one of those one of those people.
And so Barbara Walter says you are described as a force of nature.
A mom on a mission.
And you really are.
You're sort of a one-woman attack on global warming.
You've credited L Magazine, is that right?
On recycled paper?
Uh.
I mean, that's wonderful, Lori.
And your husband says that you have become obsessive about this.
You know what happened was I became a mom, and I had been working my whole life, and all of a sudden I was home and I was out in my neighborhood with this pushing a stroller, and it happened to coincide with the explosion of SUVs.
And I understood very quickly that that meant lower lower mileage, more global warming pollution.
And it started to upset me, and I got very concerned, learned as much as I could about the issue, and here we are talking about it.
Yeah, you learned about it from Robert Kennedy and the likes.
It coincides with the SUV boom, and bam, she immediately I knew immediately, Baba Wawa, that that meant more pollution, greenhouse gases, and lower gas mileage.
Now, this is a woman who drives her hybrid to the local airport to get on board a G-5, which holds about 20 people.
She and her husband maybe fly across the country, burning up fuel like you can't.
I mean, it's she's well known for this apocryphal, but she drives to the airport in a hybrid.
And gets a lot of credit for it.
Then Barbara Walter says, Well, um, what you did today was bring in some things that any of us can do.
I mean, we're not just talking about countries' leaders.
These are things that we, all of us can do every day.
Take us through, Lori, what we can do.
Okay, here's the first thing.
And this is really astonishing when I tell you this fact.
But there's a new light bulb now.
Everyone has regular light bulbs in their home, right?
But now they've come out with an energy efficient compact fluorescent bulb.
And this is really astonishing.
If every American family changed just five light bulbs in their home, it would be equivalent to taking eight million cars off the road for a year.
I didn't see this, but I can envision it.
I can just Barbara Walter swooning.
Lori David feeling like she's the smartest person in the room, cutting edge, knowing all this stuff.
Somebody needs to tell these people it's the sun.
Sun has cycles.
Sun's in a hot spell right now.
The sun has more to do with uh whatever warming is going on here than cars or SUVs or any of that.
Barbara Walters says, well, that's one thing we can all do.
We can, Lori, you're right.
We can change the light bulbs.
Okay, here's another thing.
This is so simple.
And it's really just about a changing consciousness.
We all have, think of all the electronics we have in our home.
We all have cell phones.
Our kids have game boys, we have blow dryers.
Well, when you unplug them, when you unplug your phone from the charger, everyone leaves those chargers in the wall.
They're sucking energy.
They're wasting energy.
Take out your child, turn the chart of the charger from the wall.
Uh-huh.
Think about the toasters in our homes and all these appliances.
It's such a simple thing.
Everyone has to start pulling those charges out of the wall.
Okay, folks, you uh make up your minds here on this.
Uh this is going to save the planet.
Your toaster.
It's not just your car now.
And it's not just uh your barbecue pit.
No, no, no.
You people are committing an even graver sin.
You're leaving your toasters plugged in in there in the kitchen, and you're leaving your phone chargers and your game boy charges and it charges.
Unplug them.
And and and besides, you get great exercise because all these electrical outlets are usually hidden behind a table or down near the floor.
You'll bend over to unplug, plug back in.
It may throw your back out doing this if you're not careful, so exercise caution.
But unplug all of your appliances.
Unplug the washer and dryer.
Unplug the television when you leave.
How many Yeah, I mean, I mean, bury the car.
Bury the car.
I mean, you can't, I mean, the it it's it's there's this batteries and stuff in a car burning up energy even when it's in the garage or when it's in the carport, or if uh if if you leave it on the street or whatever.
These are such timely tips.
And we are happy to help spread the word beyond Good Morning America to save the planet.
Yeah, I'm thinking about Lori David's ideas.
I I agree with her on one thing.
We should all unplug our television sets when her husband's TV show is on.
Uh and whenever Seinfeld reruns come on.
And I I wonder do we need to start calculating how much electricity illegal aliens use, uh, particularly if they happen to be Lori David's maid.
You know, Lori probably just tells her illegal alien made to go unplug the chargers and and this sort of stuff.
Uh interesting, interesting to think about.
Here's this uh here's this uh story.
It's from editor and publisher, the headline Gallup Colonel uh most Americans don't see global warming as urgent issue, with warnings about global warming reaching a fever pitch in recent weeks.
Recent weeks about the last 20 years.
Vanity Fair is about to come out with a story featuring George Clooney and Julia Roberts on its cover.
Americans are more convinced than ever the earth is being affected, but they have still not grown up.
I'm sorry, grown urgently concerned about it, according to a Gallup poll released today.
Only one in three predict global warming will pose a serious threat in their lifetimes.
Well, this is gonna threaten the media.
They've been after this one for 20 years.
They haven't been able to move public opinion on this to a majority position.
And it's really offensive.
Vanity Fair is not even doing a story on global warming.
They're doing a story on George Clooney.
What is Vanity Spare supposed to be doing stories on global warming now?
Lori David, you need to call whoever it is that uh uh uh what's his name, a guy over there that uh uh uh Vanity Fair.
Graydon Carter.
Yeah, call call Graden Carter.
I mean, if you got L to start using recycled paper, then get Vanity Fair on the case here.
John in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
I appreciate it.
I have two questions.
I really hope you can answer both.
One's uh somewhat uh if an interesting question, and the other is political.
Number one, when you were down here in October of a year and a half ago, you played Pinehurst number two.
I once called you and told you I'm on the back veranda, and I didn't even know you and Bush run the green.
And oddly enough, you're two people I had wanted to meet in my life, never an athlete.
Oh, I remember your call.
I remember your call.
That's right.
I invited you for lasagna.
That lasagna call still stands.
Uh thank you so much.
The wife is Italian.
How would you compare Pinehurst number two and the enjoyability of that course or maybe the beauty with um Pebble Beach?
Um Well, I don't know that you can compare them.
They're two totally different golf courses.
Uh uh and I've only played Pinehurst that one time.
W was it enjoyable?
Was it what?
Was it enjoyable?
Oh, I loved it.
It was yeah, I I'd seen a bunch of tournaments played there, and I saw how you know I saw uh Payne Stewart uh one won the open there, and I'd I was amazed watching watching the open there at how uh how how tough it was.
They didn't have the Greens nearly in the uh in the shape for us that day that they were in the open, obviously.
No, they could be pretty punishing, and in fact my office is right.
I actually played a good round that day.
You know, I uh so I I had a good round.
President Bush and I were one shot off winning the thing.
No kidding.
Yeah, and and and I I I loved it because I've seen it on television and I know it's in the uh U.S. open rotation.
But Pebble, you know, is it's it's out there in the Monterey Peninsula, the ocean, Carmel Bay is out there, and and uh uh you have entirely different weather uh conditions.
Well, you got the ocean to view the whole nine yards.
Yeah, that I mean that's uh every time I play in the ATT, it's amazing.
We hit the back nine, hit the ninth hole, the tenth hole.
Well, actually before that when you hit when you get when you get number seven.
Uh that little short par three downhill that is sandwiched about a hundred yards.
Right everybody we everybody would just stop and stare at it.
Uh if if that land were not a golf course today, the Laurie Davids of the world would not let one be built there.
Yeah, I can understand that.
And by the way, golf has been such a big part of my life that uh, you know, guys like yourself, myself, regular guys, I grew up in Detroit on the public courses.
Yeah.
Boy, what a great medium to talk about golf.
It's such a a beautiful game, and I was glad to know that uh you got involved with it.
Can I ask you a quick political question?
Yes.
I've been a Republican my whole life.
My whole life.
I started listening to you when I left the active duty military here at Fort Bragg back in eighty nine.
I've been a religious listener.
But I have to tell you, I'm appalled at the administration.
I I see so many flaws and such a betrayal of uh this administration to its constituency.
Once a guy said to you, and I you got very angry with him, he said that you were a shill for Israel.
You hung up on the guy.
Well, I I thought that was pretty uh that was terrible of that individual to say that.
You're a big supporter of Israel.
I don't agree with a lot of it, but I think he was inappropriate.
But I think today that your loyalty to the Republican Party, I mean, mine's been shaken terribly.
In fact, I drafted a letter just yesterday to Burr and Dole on how disappointed I am.
I couldn't possi and for twenty-five years I've been a registered Republican and if given money, and I loved the party.
I couldn't vote for this party today if they were holding a gun to my head.
Yeah, you could because the alternative is to vote for Democrats.
And and uh look, I don't know, did did you hear have you heard any of this discussion that we've had on immigration?
Absolutely.
I followed this, and this is the this is why I wrote Dole and Burr a letter yesterday telling them that's it.
Okay, but wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's you're you're you're you you just told me that that you think I'm shilling.
No, no, no, no, I'm not.
I'm not saying you're showing.
I'm saying that when you criticize George Bush or the Republican administration, you don't do it with the energy, and maybe you shouldn't, by the way.
You're showing loyalty.
But during the Clinton years, and and he was a debacle.
I mean, that was terribly humiliating to what he did to the country and the political system.
But what this Republican administration done has lied to people.
$8.2 trillion deficit, a war that we're not sure where it's going, the brilliance of Rumsfeld and Cheney to be able to manage this war.
I don't agree with well now.
Wait a minute now.
Uh uh I I don't agree with all that.
I think we're gonna win the war in Iraq, and I think I think things there go are improving.
I think we got a little bit of a misfocus on establishing a government first instead of beating the bad guys.
Let's focus on beating the bad guys.
You know, let the military do their job over there and then build the government after we win peace, uh or uh after do the peace after we ha achieve the victory.
Uh uh I don't, you know, I'm part of a group honoring Secretary Rumsfeld tonight.
I I admire Secretary Rumsfeld.
I've I I uh and Cheney, I think is one of the smartest guys in the room.
You're falling prey to conventional wisdom, and one of the reasons I don't jump all over Bush is because everybody in the world is.
What future is there in that?
When he does things that are that that I disagree with, like education bill at Ted Kennedy, I I um I say in fact let me let me give you I'll tell you guys a little story.
I hope Vince Flynn doesn't mind this.
Vince Flynn was uh at my house last week with the 24 people for a party, and he got there in the afternoon.
We all got there uh early uh for the party.
We flew in from New York, and Vince Vince came down from his home in Minneapolis.
So we're sitting out by the pool uh uh just lounging around, lazing the day away, and Vince had had had a meeting and dinner with President Bush the previous week.
Uh uh and Rumsfeld, they he's a rock star to these.
They love his books, his his Mitch Rapp books.
And uh Vince said, your name came up to me.
He said, Your name came up in conversation.
I said, Oh, really?
Because I wasn't surprised.
Now my name ought to come up in such conversation.
He said, Yeah.
Uh port deal came up, and the president said, I'll bet Limbaugh was killing me on that.
I'll bet Limbaugh was all over me.
And and Vince says, No, uh, is the one guy that wasn't.
Uh he held his powder dry for three days while this hysteria was forming out there, and then came out and said he was is the one of the few guys in talk radio saying what he was saying.
Dan Bartlett, the White House spokesman, Bush looked at him and Bart said, Yep, true.
The president didn't even know.
He just assumed he thinks everybody's dumping on him out there, John.
And uh and and he and I'm but I'm dumping on him on this immigration business.
You know, he's I just just today, I I'm not trying to defend myself, but when people call and say that I'm uh shilling for not shilling, but but I'm not as hard on a Republican.
Why should I they're my party?
I'm trying to reform these guys, I'm not trying to destroy them.
They're gonna do a good enough job of that themselves unless somebody like me steps in and saves that they got plenty of good ones in the Republican Party.
You just see the media focusing on the quasi so-called leaders, the McCain's, the Spectres, and the Hagels.
Look what happened in this breakthrough immigration bill.
They didn't go talk to the rest of the Republican senators in there who killed this thing.
It wasn't even close.
Uh the president is all for this Senate immigration.
I'm telling you, I'm not on the president's side on this.
Uh this now to say that I ought to be coming out and jumping on the president uh because he's lied and done all these sorts of things.
I have never been under any illusion uh that George Bush is Ronald Reagan.
I'll give you distinct difference.
This is not a criticism, just a distinct difference.
Reagan, and I have said this, but Reagan, when every every speech that he gave, every public appearance, State of the Union address, whatever, inaugural, Reagan was also leading the conservative movement.
He was defining it, and he used the personal pronoun we.
He included everybody.
That's why everybody in this country felt better about themselves and their country, because Reagan essentially said to all of us, you're the ones that make this possible.
You're the ones who are gonna determine our success or failure as a nation, not me.
And people rallied to that.
Now, when you listen to Bush, when he's gonna a press conference or uh uh does a speech uh on the Iraq war, he says, I will not cut and run.
I will not quit.
I will he doesn't use the word we.
He's not he's who he is.
And I'm not being critical, giving analysis here.
He does not look at himself as leading a movement.
He has a job as president.
I think I understand how he looks at it, and it's not governed by any particular conservative movement.
He is he does have his own ideology, and he's far more conservative than he's not.
Uh but he also believes he's president of all the people.
I can't explain everything he does.
It's not my job to explain everything.
It's not my job to sit here and join the pylon criticism because this man's facing the most contemptible lies for for for five years here about him personally, privately.
The stuff that's out there is just absurd.
I have chosen a team in this.
I know full well that what I believe in will be destroyed if the Democratic Party ever gets back to a period where they dominate politics for 40 years.
If that happens, folks, what I believe in, what we believe in, is dead.
Look at who their enemies are targeting Coca-Cola now.
We're in the midst of a burgeoning economy and they're trying to make you feel like you should be depressed and suicidal because it's so bad.
I don't want a bunch of people who are not optimistic and who don't have the best interests and the best beliefs and optimizing future uh about their country.
I don't want any part of those people.
I don't want people leading this country who refuse to see an enemy and in fact have invested themselves in our defeat against this enemy.
I don't want to chance it.
So you have to make choices, and there's a balance scale.
You don't get everything you want.
It's like Delay told us on the phone the other day, explaining how with a 15-seat margin in the in the House represents how you can't get everything you want.
You got 30 Republicans that consider themselves moderates.
Uh and if they decide to jump ship and go with the Democrats, you're screwed anyway.
Now you can get mad at the Republican Party for that, you get mad at Bush, but they come from liberal states.
Uh and and uh the th they're they're going to be there until population shifts uh occur that that uh see that people who have opposite ideologies even in the same party can beat them in primaries and win elections there.
But this is this is uh something that's been it has been consistent with the politics of the country, day-to-day ebb and flows uh flow since it was founded.
And you get what you can, you do the best you can, and uh you know uh I I don't see the point, you know, uh in in running around and dumping gratuitously on people that are essentially on my side just to gain favor with an audience who say, oh, you know, Limbaugh, he'll call a spade as I I call a spade a spade anyway, but I'm not gonna sit out there and join the the chorus that's demanding Bush's destruction.
Uh and but maybe you know I don't have the highest expectations of Republican Party.
Politicians look at this stupid immigration thing.
They're showing you exactly what they're doing and what they're made to do and what their interest is, and that's getting votes.
And they're also showing us they think the best way to get them is to buy them.
Pure and simple.
I happen to think that they're silly because if you look at most of them and why they get elected, because they ran out there and they campaigned on a conservative agenda that resonates with people, and they screw themselves up when they get to Washington and forget it.
This is why I don't like to go to Wash.
It's why I've never gonna do this program out of Washington because I don't want to get sucked into whatever evil dark side force there is there that gets inside people's gray cells inside the cranium there.
I'm not uh just more of them ought to get out of there more often.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
Thank you uh for waiting, Laura in Erie, Pennsylvania on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega optimistic dittoes and very pro-life, pro-conservative values ditto.
Thank you very much.
Uh we were talking earlier about um how the liberals kind of like to distort history, and you mentioned Gorbachev and how they honored him.
And uh with the passing of our late great John Paul II, I get very irritated when anybody leaves that great man out of um the picture of the fall of the Soviet Union, and I'd like your thoughts on that.
Um, you know what?
I'm probably guilty of that.
Uh when when uh at least this most recent time.
I I uh uh remember uh uh this story you talk about Gorbachev.
There were two of them last week, in which he was openly credited for ending the Cold War with his reforms in the Soviet Union, and it's it's it's pure crap.
Uh it was Reagan and Thatcher uh uh and Thatcher will tell you that it was Reagan and SDI and just the promise of America that the Soviets knew they couldn't keep up.
But let's not forget recent discoveries from KJB files have proven that it was the Soviet Union behind the attempted assassination of uh John Paul II back in the eighties, because he was on his way to Poland and they were scared to death that he was going to uh do what he did.
Uh and he he s it what it was under the radar.
Well, yeah, because he you know it he was he was uh he doesn't run around as a politician.
He he runs around as a as uh as the vicar of Christ.
And and so uh but the that they I mean uh Soviet communists despise any religion.
Uh that scares them to death.
Your total belief has to be in state.
Uh not a god, uh not a savior, or anything of the sort.
You get put in prison uh if you uh espouse any religious belief in the Soviets, they would they would uh take little kids in the first second grade, and they'd uh to prove there was no God, they'd they'd plant two flowers in a flower pot and put them by the window, and they water one of them every day and leave the other one alone.
And when the one that was never watered died, they'd tell the kid, see, there's no God.
We made the flower grow.
The state, the school, we're the ones that make the flowers grow.
God doesn't do anything.
And that's how they try to do well.
Here's this man walking into Poland and uniting, I mean, it it that was like the i i the equivalent of a of a of a nuclear blast.
So you're right.
He um he's he's fundamental to it.
And I think as as time goes on and and history is written by people who were not alive then or now, uh, it will be far more accurate uh his his role in a number of things, as as will all of history, I think, be far more the people that write history today who are still alive and and living it uh are biased by it.
Uh and of course we know that most of them have a liberal bias, but they're always going to be history writers that come along with no emotional connection to anything that happened because it's gonna have been so long ago, and that's when you'll get a more accurate portrayal of his uh I think role in a lot of things.
Uh not just the fall of the Soviet Union.
Thanks for the call, Laura.
Quick time out, folks.
We'll be back and wrap it up, El Quico.
All right, Nancy in New Jersey, don't have time to take the call, but I will tell Secretary Rumsfeld that uh you and millions of Americans love and uh support him tonight when I when I see him at the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Scholarship Foundation dinner.
Uh also it's the end of the program, and it's the end of the line for Brett Winterbull, who's been our call screener here for the last six years.
I know several of you people have had your problems with him.
That's by design.
Uh it was David's just doing his job, and unlike Snerdley, I never had a suspect.
All the best to you, sir.
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