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April 18, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 18, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Just a short little pop quiz here, folks.
One, two, three.
Four big questions.
Uh, and these are multiple choice.
Who is the madman threatening the world today?
Is it George W. Bush or Mahmud Ahmadinejad?
Where is the real culture of corruption?
Is it in the Bush White House or at the United Nations?
If there's a bird flu pandemic, who is more likely to come up with the antidote?
Israel or Iran.
Who is a more useful ally to Iran at this stage?
The Chicoms or the American left.
That last uh snerdly thinks the last question is a little tough.
Who is a more useful ally right now to Iran, the Shikoms or American liberals.
I see what you mean.
It might be a toss-up.
Might be a toss-up.
Yet, despite the obvious answers to all of this, if you listen to the American left, the focus of evil in the modern world is George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, John Bolton, and probably Joshua Bolton, now the new chief of staff once I get working on him.
I say this just for illustrative uh purposes.
Also, I got a note today uh uh from uh a friend who wanted to alert me to an interview given by Tom Jocelyn, who's a blogger to uh front page magazine, David Horowitz's place, about the Iraqi intelligence documents now being combed through.
Uh it's all worth reading, but especially this part.
One document which describes Iraqi contacts with bin Laden himself also shows that Iraq was in contact with Dr. Muhammad al-Masari, the head of the Committee for Defense of Legitimate Rights.
That's the CDLR.
It's a known Al-Qaeda propaganda organ based in London.
There's no dispute about it.
The document indicates that the Iraqi Intelligence Service was seeking to establish a nucleus of Saudi opposition in Iraq and to use our relationship with Al-Masari to serve our intelligence goals, quote unquote.
The document also notes that Iraq was attempting to arrange a visit for the Al-Qaeda ideologue to Baghdad.
Again, we can't be certain what came of these uh contacts, but just recently, al-Masari Muhammad al-Dassari, the head of the CDLR, confirmed that Saddam had joined forces with Al-Qaeda prior to the war.
Al Masari says that Saddam established contact with the Arab Afghans who fled Afghanistan to Northern Iraq in 2001, and he funded their relocation to Iraq under the condition that they would not seek to undermine his regime.
Upon their arrival, these Al-Qaeda terrorists were put in contact with Iraqi army personnel who armed and funded them.
Obviously, this paints a very different picture of pre-war Iraq than many would like to see.
Interestingly enough, the existence of this document was first reported by the New York Times in the summer of 2004, several weeks after the 9-11 Commission proclaimed that there was no operational relationship between Saddam's Iraq and Al-Qaeda.
For some reason, the Times decided to sit on the document while splashing the 9-11 Commission's conclusion on the front page.
So now we wonder do they give Pulitzers for deciding when all the news is fit to print as well.
You see those Pulitzer Prize winners?
I'm not even going to go through it.
What anybody got a Pulitzer Prize for their Katrina coverage just mocks the whole Pulitzer Prize.
But you know what the Pulitzer, you know how the you know how the Pulitzer uh uh uh came to came to be.
Joseph Pulitzer was a yellow journalist.
He was in the in the mold of William Randolph Hearst.
The guy was, he was, he was not respected at all.
He had one paper that was respected.
St. Louis Post to scratch.
But he was he was maligned, he was impugned, he was thought to be very unprofessional.
He established the Pulitzer as a way of re-establishing his reputation.
Uh, and bringing his reputation up from where it was, and and so now not that that's relevant to anything today, it's just a little little history lesson.
And then there's uh now and by the way, I mentioned this this Iraq story only because at the center of the get Rumsfeld and Get Bush movement is that the weapons of mass destruction weren't there to pre-war intelligence was all wrong, that we shouldn't even be in Iraq, we should be in Afghanistan bombing Tora Bora again, Allah John Kerry.
And therefore Bush squandered the opportunity to go after the war on terror and so forth.
And you go through these documents that we uh have found in the the administration finally released, and the the there's uh eye dropping, jaw dropping uh evidence that there was all kinds of contacts, operational and otherwise, between Al-Qaeda and uh and Saddam back as far back as the mid-90s.
So it's it's this is but you see the 9-11 Commission is the is the Bible on this, and the drive-by media has its action line, and whatever contradicts the action line is going to be purposefully ignored.
Because we're not interested in fact or truth.
We've got an action line here, and the action lines Bush got to go, Bush started a war, Bush created terrorism, uh, we're all in danger, we're all imperiled, and Bush is irresponsible, he's in a messianic complex.
Meaning, you can you can say whatever you want about it.
You've heard it all, and that's why um uh we are in the process of going through uh all of this rigmarole.
It's all based on lies.
It's all based on a a giant trap.
And we'll see how far they get with it.
Israeli made bullets brought, I'm sorry, bought by the U.S. Army to plug a shortfall, should be used for training only, not to fight Muslim guerrillas in Iraq and Afghanistan, American lawmakers told Army generals on Thursday.
Since the Army has stockpiled ammunition, by no means, under any circumstances, should a round from Israel be utilized, said Representative Neil Abercrumbie of Hawaii, the top Democrat on a House of Representatives Armed Services subcommittee with jurisdiction over land forces.
The Army contracted with Israel Military Industries uh Limited in December for $70 million in small caliber ammo.
The Israeli firm was one of only two worldwide that could meet U.S. technical specs and delivery needs, said Brigadier General Paul Izzo, the Army's program executive officer for ammo.
The other was East Alton, Illinois-based Winchester ammunition, which also received a 70 million dollar contract.
Although the Army should not have to worry about political correctness, Abercrombie was making a valid point about the propaganda pitfalls of using Israeli rounds in the U.S. declared war on terror, said Representative Kurt Weldon.
There's a sensitivity, I think all of us recognize, Weldom told the Army witnesses.
In fact, he told General Major General Buford Blunt, who uh led the U.S.'s 3rd Infantry Division that captured Baghdad in April 2003.
Blunt, who's now the Army's assistant deputy chief of staff, said the Army had sufficient small caliber MO to conduct current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But taken together with training needs, the U.S. had strained its production facilities.
So the bottom line is here that we are indeed imposing politically correct requirements on the fighting of a war.
We cannot use I guess what the what are these are Jewish bullets?
We can't use small caliber ammo manufactured by an Israeli company because it's politically incorrect.
Oh, that would really make them mad out there.
That would really, really might make the people that are trying to kill us that blew us up on 9-11.
Yep, it might make them really mad, and they're shooting back at us, and what do you bet?
If they got an Israeli bullet, they'd use it.
They didn't care as long as they could have it.
So we can't use...
And the interesting thing here, folks, is understand how this happened.
Congress tells the military what it can and can't do.
So the next time something controversial comes up, like Abu Ghraib or whatever, and the next time a bunch of congressional committees start grandstanding and act like they have nothing to do with it, do and they didn't know with what was going on.
Understand they can micromanage all they want.
Even to the extent of ordering commanders not to use Israeli slash, I guess Jewish bullets against the Muslims because that would present a propaganda problem.
Well, the drive-by media is having it.
Rumsfeld Rumsfeld's doing uh his weekly press briefing at the Pentagon.
All the networks are carrying it live.
We're rolling tape highlights, if there are any, uh when we uh get them.
He appeared on this uh program yesterday.
It's amazing.
He said some very powerful things, most of them overlooked by the drive-by media.
They focused exclusively on what he said about how he's dealing with the criticism and why he thinks the criticism is happening now.
The things he said about the media, the embeds and uh uh uh you know how he deals with the difference of opinion in this country, which I thought were fascinating answers that he gave, have been uh almost totally overlooked.
I've just seen a couple of obscure places uh where the uh well our buddies at Newsmax put it, and you know they're gonna get it right, but I'm talking about the drive-by media uh has just totally totally ignored some of the most powerful things that Rumsfeld said yesterday in the uh in the interview.
Paul in uh in Redmond, Washington, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
Thanks for taking the call.
Ditdos didddos, kudos, kudos, all of that, and really appreciate what you do.
And just you know, that's very appreciated out here.
A couple of points I want to make.
Um the first one is it's amazing to me when I look at these polls, and you look at what is always the top three issues that are listed in importance to Americans, and it's usually um the economy war on terrorism in Iraq.
And if you think about it, the the economy's booming.
War on terrorism, we haven't been attacked since 9-11.
And Iraq, you're absolutely right.
We're winning that war.
There's no evidence that we're losing that war.
And yet you look at Bush's approval rating, you know, 36%.
He should have an eighty-eight percent approval rating, at least when you think about those issues and what's actually happening.
And it just it makes me so angry.
And he would have if he were a Democrat.
He would.
And it just it makes me furious to see, you know, every day, you're right.
It's a drive-by media.
It's basically just throw out the next thing that they can throw out.
You know, and Bush gets criticized for not being ahead on on these things communication-wise.
How do you get ahead of when every single day they can throw out something new?
And no longer does it have to be based on any facts.
It doesn't have to be any supporting evidence, it's just accusations.
Well, you're very shrewd.
You've recognized that the uh uh uh attacks on Bush have to do with the top issues that people identify in in polling.
Uh it is it is purely political, and it's this is this is just the latest in a long line of these things after five years.
Now, I s could have sworn I have here, and I know I did.
I just can't find it in the stack right now, but since you talked about Bush's approval number at 36 to 39 percent, Congress's approval level is at an all-time low.
And I'm gonna find that because there are Democrats in Congress as well, and Democrats want you to believe that um the country loves them and can't wait to put them back in office, uh that Bush is so hated and despised, but nobody in government right now is doing very well, and I think one of the reasons for that is the constant pessimism and doom and gloom that's offered by the uh by the drive-by media.
Let me let me find that if I can, and I'll give you the exact number when I get a chance during the next break.
Daniel in uh in Springport, Michigan, I'm glad you called.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Uh my comment is on the duple cross uh players.
I I really think Colby Bryant case, uh the prosecutor is going to drop the charges eventually.
He'll have to say face by saying that the uh accuser didn't want to endure the trauma of the trial, and and then she'll file in civil court and get her money, and that's what she wants.
Who knows?
That's uh I you know uh it's it's interesting thought.
Uh the Kobe case is in fact a model uh uh for that now.
Uh let let's let's deal with that when we get to it.
Um right now, uh I uh I have a story here.
This is um about a father uh whose two twin sons were not indicted, but they're on the Duke Lacrosse team.
This is from ABC News Internet Ventures.
When Brian Loftus heard that his twin sons were not the two Duke Lacrosse players indicted by a grand jury yesterday or today, his first reaction was relief, the second one was despair.
I got word that my two kids weren't two of the kids being indicted.
It was like, you know, one of these bittersweet things are relief.
Right now I'm sick to my stomach.
I'm not an emotional person, but I was crying earlier today because those two kids' lives are ruined.
I mean, totally ruined.
For the next six to nine months, they're going to be scrutinized as criminals.
And I know these kids.
It's the furthest thing from that.
Duke sophomores Colin Finnerty from New York and Reed Seeligman from New Jersey turned themselves in early this morning, charged with first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense and kidnapping.
Lawyers say they're charged with crimes they didn't commit.
And Loftus.
Brian Loftus, who lives in Syasid on New York's Long Island, said his sons had been telling him the same thing ever since a stripper told the cops that she was raped at a party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team more than a month ago.
Both of my sons vehemently, all they ever told me was, Dad, nothing happened.
Nobody did anything.
Brian Loftus added the blue wall of silence was a myth that all the players are willing to cooperate with authorities.
These kids are willing to take polygraphs.
These kids are willing to take blood tests.
They were willing to come down and give statements.
They did everything.
They gave their DNA.
We thought once we give that, it's going to be over, but every night, every day, all we see on TV is we're hiding something.
Obviously there's nothing to hide.
Now, here's what's interesting.
As you know, there are templates in the mainstream media.
One of the templates of this story has been aha, Duke University, elite privileged.
Lacrosse team, white athletes.
Rich.
People and kids of privilege.
Never had to work for anything in their lives.
Just to expect to get away with everything because they're white and they're rich and they're privileged.
Is that not the template of this whole team?
Would you like to know who uh uh Brian Loftus is, whose two twin sons attend Duke.
Brian Loftus, one of the New York firefighters who responded to the September 11th terror attacks.
He said he's bothered by media reports calling the lacrosse team a bunch of rich white kids whose only possession greater than wealth was cockiness.
I'm not an emotional person, but every day I cry, I have tears in my eyes.
I feel like the world's been pulled underneath my feet, he said.
My kids, when you hear them sobbing on the phone that their lives are destroyed, you hear other people saying the same thing, you wonder what went wrong, and we know nothing went wrong.
I can't stress that anymore.
Nothing happened that night.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
You have a political prosecutor who's got a primary election in less than two weeks in a predominantly black city of Durham, North Carolina.
You have an alleged black victim.
And I'll tell you, I think one of the things that's rearing its head here is how feminization of this country has ended up working.
All you need is the allegation that some white kids did say and they are guilty, because they're men.
Men are predators, men are rapists.
This has been the message at the institutions of higher learning that have been feminized for years, for decades now, since the early 70s.
Women's studies courses have been teaching women that men are predators, and that they are naturally inclined to rape, that they're all just a bunch of troglodytes out there looking for Bertha Butts and her sister.
That's who that's who we all are as men.
And so when something like this happens, it's automatic.
It's well, yep, this is who men are.
And then you add to it, white and rich and privileged and spoiled and expect to get away with everything, another template that has been added.
Except the interesting thing here is that this is a very liberal university.
Duke.
The alleged victim is not from Duke.
She's from a nearby mostly black college.
She's 27 years old, she's putting her kids through school by being a stripper.
She makes 800 bucks a night day, whatever, doing it.
That will be her story on the stand.
Can't blame her for that.
These kids, well, they're just, you know, notice how fast a liberal university threw that whole team and coach overboard on the basis of an allegation.
In some sense, that's an ill illustration to me uh of just how successful the Feminazi movement on major institutions of higher learning have been.
We will be back.
DNA moment.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have El Rush ball.
And as usual, with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Ed in Milford, Connecticut.
Welcome to the EIB network search.
Great to have you with us.
Rush, good to be talking to you.
Please don't get me wrong here.
This is a little bit of devil's advocate playing around, okay?
Yeah, go ahead.
Agree with you all the time.
It's just that what I just heard on the radio kind of made my eyebrows go up.
I thought to myself, isn't this what we hear from the black people or the low income people, whatever we want to label them as, whenever they get accused of doing, you know, what maybe committing a crime.
And I always said to myself that the average person might think with my views that I might be a racist person, but I always swore that I based my feelings on what I saw, what I felt uh in in in my life, what happened to me, and I thought I would always keep an open mind.
And today's the day.
I'm keeping an open mind.
What I've heard from you, these comments about the kids told their parents they never did it, they're willing to take lie detector tests.
You know, it just sounds to me something that I hear usually from the other side, and it's making me wonder.
Making you wonder what?
All I'm telling you is what the parents of the kids said.
I guess sharing a story with you, and maybe everyone, good morning America today saying all that.
I was just telling you what they said.
No, no, no, it just sounds pretty powerful on our side.
And again, it this is uh uh just me playing devil's advocate.
What is this?
You you know damn well what I was doing here.
I have not really.
I don't know who did what here, and I've said this I don't know how many times.
All I've said was I have a new perspective on politically elected prosecutors, particularly two or three weeks before a primary.
I have a new perspective on it.
We got Ronnie Earl, we've got a number of other examples.
I don't want to go get personal anymore, but but I've just got a new perspective on this.
I happen to know that there is a bias.
It's a human nature bias, it's not nothing to do with politics.
This example I'm gonna give you.
But we have a human nature bias that if somebody's charged they must be guilty, why would law enforcement who are good people and trying to protect us, why in the world would they waste their time if somebody wasn't guilty?
Well, uh, we know that uh there look.
Look at poor old Scooter Libby.
I mean, that absolute nightmare.
It's an absolute nightmare.
I mean, he's he's he's being accused of lying about a crime that that wasn't committed.
Now we've got this circumstance down there.
We've got I I'm I have not passed judgment on it.
All I've commented on is that the drive-by media is trying to turn this into a usual template and action line where these guys are guilty.
They're portrayed as people that they're not.
They are portrayed as hedonistic, siboritic, rich, white, they don't care about anything because they always get out of scrapes and so forth, they always get out of problems.
We've had just a whole bunch of stereotypes that have attached themselves here.
Um we we have the usual forces aligned, the media doesn't really care about the outcome of the story anyway.
All they care about that it is a story, and they can go play the usual race game that they play when this kind of thing rears its head, and that's all I'm trying to warn people about I have no clue what happened.
And I'm I am a prejudge this at all.
And I would you uh you haven't heard me say anything other than that.
Well, I wasn't suggesting that you were prejudging it.
I was merely suggesting that some of the words that I heard while I was working here, I said, hey, this sounds a little familiar.
It's usually what some of us do on the other side.
That's really all I'm suggesting.
Not not suggesting that you have prejudged.
It's just that some of the words sounded familiar to me, and it just made me sit back and wonder.
That's all.
Wonder what?
Well, it just that Am I doing that to them on the other side when this happens?
Is somebody else doing it?
I don't know.
I'm keeping an open mind.
I don't want to hear about these kids saying that they would take a lie detector test or what they told their parents.
No, we don't care.
Let's go through the process.
You don't want to hear what they have to say about it?
Well, no, because frankly, I've known athletes, Rush.
You know, and and I'd rather just.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I think I'm hearing some prejudice.
Yes, you are.
Yes, you are, and that that's my point.
Like I said, devil's advocate.
I'm looking at myself.
That's all.
All I'm saying is I just heard some familiar things in a bit of a mirror image today.
That's all.
I'm not saying you, I'm saying the media, I'm saying everybody.
I just and and when you were just saying it, it just made me kind of wonder.
Again, Del Advocate.
You know what I do?
I align myself with the underdogs when it comes to the drive-by media.
The drive-by media this morning, uh, journalists were predicting out there with glee.
The journalists, they can barely contain themselves.
The drive-by media is predicting racial turmoil that the trial is going to bring, like they know.
They know exactly how everybody's gonna react.
They're gonna try to make it happen.
They have, you know, they report the news today as as as not as it is, but as they hope it ends up.
They're reporting the news basically, they're out there predicting, oh, this cause racial turmoil.
They want this town up in flames.
They want to cause all this trouble.
They'll never admit it, but they're all excited about the possibility it could lead to another Cairo, Illinois back in the 60s and 70s.
When I met my first drive-by media members, I was just a lowly little DJ, 16, 17 years old in Cairo, Illinois, across the river from Cape Girarda was burning with racial tension, and they all came in, and they needed our radio station to file their reports.
I was too young then.
I mean, I was I mean, I w I was not too young.
I just I did not have the sophisticated understanding of uh of what was going on.
Uh but uh it was exciting for everybody who wasn't in Cairol.
It was exciting for everybody who wasn't there.
Yeah, that's a and and then after it's over with, they just you know get in the convertible and head on down to the next disaster they want to create, and people got to go in and fix the mess.
And so, you know, there are a lot of components to this thing that I that have raised a lot of red flags, not about guilt or innocence because who knows what that is.
You can say, well, of course the uh the accused are gonna deny it.
Nobody walks in and says I did it.
In fact, if they do, they question their competence in court to admit it.
Um the the prosecutor always claims he's got the goods or he wouldn't be doing what he's doing, and so forth.
Uh but it will be interesting to see.
Once this election takes place and the election's over, we'll be see interesting to see where all this uh where all this goes.
Uh nobody really knows.
I appreciate the call out there, Ed, nevertheless.
Here's the uh number on congressional approval.
The nation's opinion of Congress has reached a recent low, according to a Gallup poll released yesterday.
Public approval of Congress dropped to 23%, down four points since March, now at the lowest level of the year.
I think it's the lowest it's been in twelve years.
Congressional members noticeably dropped in the last four weeks, while low public approval of President Bush, however, has remained steady at around 36% to 39% since mid-March.
The Gallup poll also found that Republican respondents still offer at least tepid support to Congress.
Thirty-seven percent of Republicans say they support the lawmakers compared with 19% of independents and only 13% of Democrats.
It was a survey of 1,005 adults conducted April 10th through the 13th with a margin of error of uh three percentage points, plus or minus.
Overall, the dismal numbers are the worst Gallup has recorded since the closing days of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives in 1994.
According to um uh Lydia Saud, Gallup analyst, at the time, the favorability rating in 1994 stood at 21%.
So, Senators Reed, Kennedy Carey, you name it, uh, Congressperson Pelosi.
Next time uh you want to go on and on about President Bush's numbers, we're gonna remind everybody about yours.
Now, I have a story here from the Cybercast News Service uh or Cyber News Service.com.
Um it's the second one of of its of its kind.
Um it is it's amazing.
Just on the surface of it.
It is amazing.
A federal court.
This is this is just an unbelievable.
A federal court has upheld an Indiana law requiring people to show a government-issued photo ID before voting, much to the disappointment of the Democratic Party, which says that many of its constituents, minorities, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, will be adversely affected.
Now, this is a rerun of what that what that what happened in Georgia.
They wanted everybody to have photo IDs in Georgia, and they were going to make sure if you couldn't get to where the photo was taken, driver's license, whatever, they'd come to you and give you a photo ID.
But oh no, the civil rights coalitions led by the uh Reverend Dax stood up and said it was racism, it was discrimination, it was what have you.
Now the Democrats are very veritably admitting here that if you do this, we can't have our illegal immigrants vote for us, and it's going to be a problem with felons and uh convicted felons and uh ex-convicted felons and ex-cons.
Why don't we?
It's amazing.
Much to the disappointment of the Democratic Party, which says many of its constituents would be adversely affected.
Indiana's voter ID law, widely regarded as one of the most restrictive.
Damn.
For crying out, wow, you what you you can't go anywhere anymore without a photo ID, but for some reason you ought to be able to vote for a Democrat or two without one.
Indiana's uh voter ID law, widely regarded as one of the most restrictive in America, creates unfair obstacles.
That'll prevent citizens who are lawfully eligible to vote from casting their ballots at Howard Dean.
How?
I applaud the Indiana Democratic Party's decision to appeal this ruling, Dean said, as part of our party's commitment to doing whatever we can to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to participate in our democracy.
The DNC will assist the Indiana Democratic Party's legal challenge to this unfair law and continue our fight to make it easier for all Americans to exercise their right to vote.
One Friday, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued an opinion saying that the plaintiffs, including the Indiana Democratic Party and the ACLU of Indiana, had produced not a single piece of evidence that the law would prevent registered voters from casting ballots.
The ruling means that voters who show up for Indiana's May the 2nd primary have to produce a driver's license, a passport or other photo ID issued by the states or the feds.
People who don't have a driver's license or other acceptable photo ID may get a free ID card from the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
And the Indiana Secretary of State says people who are unable or unwilling to present a photo ID on election day may cast a provisional ballot as long as they follow up with the County Election Board within 13 days, providing either a photo ID at that time or an explanation of why the law's exemptions apply.
Indiana's Republican majority legislature passed the law requiring photo ID at the polls last year as part of an effort to reduce voter fraud.
But Democrats don't want to participate in reducing voter fraud.
That's gonna that'll upset them more than the uh hanging chads and a debold machines.
This is just amazing how brazenly honest they are about this.
We need to have mechanisms whereby we can cheat.
Back after this.
That's their entitlement to power, folks.
They're entitled to this, no matter what it takes.
Boy, I tell you, I just saw something hilarious.
You know, San Francisco's going gaga over the 100th anniversary of the big earthquake that spawned all those fires that burn for days, and there's a parade today.
They've actually got a parade commemorating the 100th anniversary of destruction of San Francisco, and Little red convertible goes creeping by, and there's Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi sitting there waving like Queen Elizabeth.
And in it followed by this giant SUV and the CNN cut out of it at that point.
I don't know who.
Now they're back to the parade.
Uh uh-uh-uh-uh.
How can that happen?
There's the American flag in the front row of that marching band.
Oh, I know why the guys are wearing dresses.
That makes it okay.
Now, here's my look, you have a parade any time you want.
I don't care, but isn't it too soon?
Isn't this too soon?
I mean, has San Francisco gotten over that earthquake?
Here we are reminding people of the destruction, the death, the fires.
It's only been a hundred years.
Can people out there deal with the gut-wrenching memories?
I know most of them today were not alive then, but I'm sure they heard about it.
It's just too soon, folks.
The anniversary with memorials and exhibits being celebrated of the destruction of San Francisco by an earthquake, and they can't even claim a global warming anything to do with it.
Uh Darwin and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Hi, welcome to the EIB network.
Ditto, Rush.
Thank you.
Um I just was calling in regards to some media contradictions between the Duke Lacrosse team and the uh Kobe Bryant uh rep uh rape allegations, where the media went on the attack mode for his accuser versus what they're doing for the Duke Lacrosse team.
And I just want your opinion on that.
Okay, wait, let me, I'm not sure I understood you.
Using the Kobe case, the media went after the uh the alleged victim, the accuser.
Correct, yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
And here in uh in uh at Duke, they went after the uh the uh the alleged attackers.
Right.
If I'm uh if my memory serves me right, didn't they go uh uh dig up her past and started pointing to everything about where she was maybe perhaps uh what type of financial gain she would receive from that?
Well, you know, it's interesting that you bring this up.
I I uh now I uh are you suggesting there might be a component here that we're missing in analyzing this?
Well, uh, I'm just saying it seems like a little bit of media contradiction.
Here what you've said before is the media's went after a an all-white um uh upper echelon, so to speak, uh Duke Lacrosse team, and then the Kobe Bryant, the the the basketball star who couldn't have done this, and every time you saw the media coverage on this, you always saw Kobe with his wife and how she was standing by by her man, and this possibly couldn't be true, etc.
etc.
Yeah, except that Kobe uh did admit it in a press.
He admitted to uh uh adultery.
He admitted to adultery, then went out and bought his wife a huge rock.
Yes, sir.
I mean big, big, big huge rock.
Uh five yeah, that's right, it was a five million dollar uh uh ring, and and of course uh she wore it.
Uh I interesting that you bring this up uh in in this context.
I it it's sort of like you know, Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones.
When Monica Lewinsky's story was first hatched, uh, Sid Blumenthal and the Clinton defense team in the White House went after her as a stalker.
Uh and of course, this is uh uh yeah, she's basically uh nuts and sluts.
And she was just one of a parade of them.
Uh Bill Clinton and the most innocent wonderful man ever, of women's rights, women's this, women's that.
Uh the feminist movement had invested in the in the Democratic Party and Liberals, so it was time to trash Monica, and everybody joined in, and the White House sponsored that.
Same with Paula Jones, she was trailer trash.
Uh thereby, uh, ladies and gentlemen establishing a fact, and that is that the feminist movement is oriented toward class.
Uh interns and uh uh trailer trash will not have their causes sponsored by the feminists.
Uh Juanita Broderick alleged rape, she was portrayed as a tool of the right, even though she was a Clinton supporting Democrat at the time.
So, yeah, it's interesting.
Um you have you have two aspects of this class and race, uh, that do appear to provide evidentiary material that suggests there may be a template here being employed by the usual suspects of the drive-by media.
Thank you for that.
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