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May 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Now, if you're just joining us, a dynamite first hour, uh obviously can't repeat it, focusing on an op-ed piece by Shelby Steele at Opinion Journal.com today, Wall Street Journal.
Link to it on my website or go to their website and read it.
It's it's a grand slam home run.
It's fabulous.
Now, Joe Biden, as I mentioned also at the conclusion of the previous hour, Joe Biden and Leslie Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations have this brilliant idea to save Iraq by dividing it.
And these are, of course, big lift big liberals, big leftists.
They they uh they they claim to have the uh the high ground on the uh issue of civil rights.
And of course, uh we were divided once.
It was called separate but equal.
And of course, they were divided in South Africa, it's called apartheid, and uh all these all these things.
Now they want to they want to destroy Iraq by divvying it up.
While the Iraqis are unifying and tried to trying to unify constitutionally, here we come a couple liberals want to divvy everybody up along ethnic, racial, and religious lines.
And there's been some reaction to this.
Uh analysts say that splitting Iraq uh along ethnic and sectarian lines would mean massive relocations of people, enormous upheaval in the major cities where all three groups reside.
Yeah, who are you gonna tell what group?
Okay, you get Baghdad.
You get you get you get to crit.
I mean you and you get Fallujah.
It's it's it's acinite.
Anthony Cortisman, a counterterrorism specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said uh Biden's idea would allow extremist groups with links to Al Qaeda to increase their dominance over Sunni insurgents and push Iran to exploit the power vacuum left if the United States pulled out.
Meanwhile, staffers for Nancy Pelosi and dingy Harry Reid had no comment on Biden's proposal.
Instead, they called a uh not a press conference, but they went to the Senate floor yesterday, and we have a montage of the things they thought important.
Today our country marks an unfortunate anniversary.
The three-year anniversary of President Bush's donning a flight suit to declare mission accomplished in Iraq.
Three years ago, today, President Bush dressed up in a flight suit and declared mission accomplished in Iraq.
Our mission was far from accomplished.
Today the President said three years ago, mission accomplished.
Behind him was a banner which read Mission Accomplished.
Mission accomplished.
May 1st, 2003.
Three years ago.
That was uh Dingy Harry, Senator Kennedy the Swimmer, Barbara Boxer, and Dick Turbin.
All right.
Fine.
They can go to the floor of the Senate.
They can say whatever they want to say.
The next montage is of the drive-by media.
I'll identify it after you listen to it.
Today marks the third anniversary of his landing on an aircraft carrier in front of the banner that read Mission Accomplished.
Today marks another milestone in Iraq.
Three years ago today, President Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier under a banner reading Mission Accomplished.
Three years ago, President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with the words Mission Accomplished.
The anniversary of the day in 2003, when President Bush declared mission accomplished.
Three years ago, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier decked out with the banner mission accomplished.
Three years ago, when the President stood on that aircraft carrier under the sign that read Mission Accomplished.
Three years ago today, President Bush made a dramatic landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Underneath that banner, mission accomplished.
President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in front of a banner that said, Mission accomplished.
Today marks the third anniversary of one of the cleverest photo ops ever.
The President flew onto an aircraft carrier, decked out in a dashing flight suit, and then spoke beneath a banner that said mission accomplished.
Today marks the third anniversary of President Bush's so-called mission accomplished speech.
It was three years ago today When President Bush declared mission accomplished in Iraq.
Only nine percent of Americans believe the United States has accomplished its mission in Iraq.
Eighty-four percent say it has not.
All right.
Do you care to hear the names?
You know, I don't know who you you want to you didn't you didn't recognize that we could have.
First was Paul Lazan.
We have Wolf Blitzer, Miles O'Brien, uh Chris Matthews, uh Nora O'Donnell, Jack Cafferty, uh Trace Gallagher Fox, Bob Schaefer, Brian Williams, Ann Curry, and of course the ubiquitous polster and political scientist Bill Schneider.
Okay, so you can look at this one way.
You can say, okay, the drive-by media dutifully took their uh Democrat talking points and tried to execute another hit.
But it was just their bad luck that the story was overshadowed by the May Day boycott.
C CNN even has their big poll ready to go on this.
The question is, which came first here?
Did the Democrats in the Senate decide to go out and make a big deal of this and then it was picked up by the drive-by media?
Or did the drive-by media call a Democrats and remind them that this is the third anniversary?
Or is there somebody else, a third party somewhere, that is sitting around informing both friendly groups?
You know what?
This is the third anniversary of Bush's landing on that aircraft carrier.
We might be able to score some points.
It's for the the the idea, and I play this only to illustrate the the uh symbiotic relationship here that exists between the drive-by media and a democratic party.
It is it is it is doubtless.
I mean, if anybody still doubts this, it's it's um it's on you.
There can be no question about it.
All right, to repeat some things in the first hour a little more uh time here.
Iran said today it has found uranium ore at three new sites in the center of the country.
An announcement that appeared designed as a fresh challenge to the drives by the U.S. and allies to curb Tehran's nuclear program.
We have good news, the discovery of new economically viable deposits of uranium in central Iran, said uh Mohammed Ganadi, the deputy chief for nuclear research and technology.
Then, of course, Iran says they will target Israel first if the United States does anything evil.
This, according to a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The U.S. says it wants Iran's nuclear standoff of the West solved diplomatically, but has refused to rule out military action.
Uh we've announced that wherever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel.
Said revolutionary guard's Rear Admiral Mohammed Ebrahim Deccani.
And in a related story from the BBC, in a letter delivered to Secretary General Kofi Annan, Iran said the U.S. was openly planning to attack Iran in breach of international law.
Iran's resisted calls with the UN for it to suspend uranium in Richmond, and predictably China and Russia have voted against any sanctions against them at the Security Council.
What does all this mean?
What does all this mean?
It means this.
Oil prices rose above $74 a barrel Tuesday, flirting with their record high above $75 reached last month.
Amid concern that international pressure on Iran to modify its nuke program may lead to supply disruption.
How many this story's got to be the next database?
They just recycle it every time Iran opens its mouth about wiping out Israel.
Every time that happens, the price goes up.
The price had gotten down to about 71 bucks a barrel, folks, and uh Mahmud and the Mullahs need the oil price up, and they know just how to do it.
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Back to the phones we go to now to uh Debbie in College Station, Texas.
It's great to have you on the program, Debbie.
Thanks for calling.
Thank you, Rash.
I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time.
Now here's your golden opportunity.
Okay, just be patient with me because I'm a little nervous.
Um, but what I wanted to say is um here and Shelby really stole my thunder um because this um this is this very idea of um the white man and his guilt and um him being too worried to show compassion um instead of doing the right thing,
um, has really upset and destroyed our country and has um enabled people to be responsible and be the best they can be because um because they're too worried about what um social groups such as the feminist or the NAACP or other groups might say about them and um Rush if I could just relate it to my own my own family.
I have three boys, and they do great in school, and, you know, we really have stayed at home and sacrificed and have really tried to teach them how important it is to be leaders and that one day they are going to have to be a leader and provide for their family and, you know, that they have a purpose in life.
And I just think it's so sad that, you know, the very thing that has made this country great, you know, is the very thing that we're using now are the people that we're using that we're denying um you know in our own families and especially in our our little boys um in different social situations that um are gonna end up um not making our country so great and so um I just you know it's a real concern to me because I can see it in my very own home.
Well I I'm sure once once the uh she's referring by the way to the Shelby Steele piece that uh that I spent most of the last hour reading and analyzing uh w once you understand it and and is is uh his theory and it is really is blockbuster it's grand slam home run and it's simple.
It's you know he's he's a brilliant man but he has written this in such a way that it's it's uh it's easy to understand this because it explains so much.
And I think it's it's helpful as many people as possible recognize what's really going on.
He brings up so many things that are obvious like our minimalist way of waging war since World War two.
We we're afraid to win big because that's it we have so much power we can def we can beat anybody.
We can kinda have to legitimize our enemies here instead of rolling all over them why well this is not fair and so forth.
But it it all goes to the to the to the guilt.
The original sin of this country is slavery.
And it's never ever going as long as as long as there's a business in it, it's never ever going to be forgotten.
It's always going to be portrayed as something still going on a price that we continually have to pay for regardless how we've dealt with it, how we ended it, uh and and how we've pretty much integrated the country.
Now I find it interesting that the that that uh after this massive integration took place, those who wanted to integrate then segregate themselves within um these institutions that they're allowed to uh have been allowed to integrate to in the last forty or fifty years.
But it all it it all makes so much sense when you um when you when you read the piece uh and it explains so much of liberalism and leftism not just in this country but around the world.
Richard Sanibel Florida, your next welcome to the program.
Yeah Rosh Yeah Yeah Mecca Dettos how you doing fine sir thanks very much.
Um Rush what I called about and this ties in to what I called about this mission accomplished sign on the carrier why doesn't anybody in in politics Bush or Cheney or somebody ever point out the fact that first it wasn't Bush's sign, it was the aircraft carrier's sign.
He didn't put it there and second the mission was accomplished.
Uh the mission that that aircraft carrier was on uh was in fact accomplished and that's why they were back uh in port.
Well I myself have pointed this out there there are two phases of this the invasion of Iran the deposing of Saddam was successful and it took place in less than two in less than two weeks.
The mission was the mission was accomplished.
What we're doing now is building the peace.
What we're doing now is is allowing the Iraqis to put themselves back together and we're supervising it.
It's an ongoing mission.
But the fact that there are people that want to come wanna want to portray both as failures is is part and parcel of what Shelby Steele is talking about here.
I don't care whose sign it was I don't know why Bush doesn't come out and defend himself on this sort of thing.
It's not I I couldn't t I couldn't begin to tell you.
Well uh what is happening in this country I talked to you once before it was shortly before the two thousand four election and my point then is really the same as as it is now and that is the left carries the day in dialogue and conversation.
Uh I I get depressed, or well, not really, but I down.
When I go to a cocktail party, almost everybody is a Republican and they're all mouthing things that sound like they came out of the New York Times.
Like we don't want to be perceived as the e evil empire ourselves.
And I hope Israel doesn't fly off the handle.
And that's that's that's Shelby Steele's point.
He's in it's it's uh all he's doing there, and and is it I'm s now you're able to recognize it and see it for what it is, and people will see it in themselves.
Look, this is all good.
We continue to make progress in understanding certain things and why we've drifted in certain directions in this country.
Uh sh Shelby Steele identifies this stuff.
It's not a reason to get depressed, it's a reason to, you know, be joyful.
We're on we have ways of understanding and explaining it to people.
What you've just described among your Republican buddies is precisely the stigma that Shelby Steele says exists over the sin of white supremacy or superiority.
And he doesn't mean this in a racial sense.
Uh he is black, but he's not being critical of it.
He's simply saying it was it it's caused a massive transformation, uh because the white supremacy or superiority was brought about and existed on a flawed moral foundation.
And the flawed moral foundation in our case, uh was slavery and racial discrimination.
Regardless of the steps we've taken to fix it and the progress we've made, there are those who don't ever want to forget it and will continually bring it up.
They are forever convinced that we are forever sinned, and in this case, there ain't no savior.
There ain't no savior to absolve us.
They don't want our sins absolved.
They want us to con because they are self-loathing themselves.
They have um an animus toward the country over the inequities, the uh the inequalities, the prosperity, our superpower size.
So when you hear your Republican buddies say, gee, I hope Israel I hope Israel reigns it in, the explanation for this is so simple.
Uh and if it wouldn't work, none of this stigmatization would work were it not for one thing.
And that is everybody is so obsessed with what everybody else is going to think of them.
In the meantime, while you're worried about what everybody else is gonna is gonna think about you, they're worried about what you think about them.
Because everybody's like you.
Everybody's like we all are.
We're all worried about what people think.
Well, I'm not anymore.
But uh uh and professionally and career wise I never have been.
But when you uh everybody it's just a natural human thing, folks.
We're we're we're we're all egocentric to one degree or another.
And uh I'll I'll tell you a short little story.
I don't want to mention any names.
At one point in my life I met this woman, and it was f good friendship, and and she was available and I was available, and I was not interested.
Because I was on the cusp of great things, and I had other things on my mind.
I wasn't gonna I don't I didn't want to cut myself off from half the population in this country in terms of opportunity, female wise.
So we never nothing ever happened.
And it was years later.
She asked me, by the way, why why why why didn't we ever amount to anything?
And I told her what I just told you.
She said, Thank God, I thought it was because you thought something about me you didn't like.
And that's all I mean.
Everybody is always assuming that there's something about them that people are reacting to when in truth everybody you're dealing with is worried about what you think of them.
But the point of it all is that when you go through life obsessed with what people are going to think of you because of what you say or what you do, you are naturally restricting what you would otherwise normally naturally want to say or what to do.
So in the case of Shelby Steele here, we allow the stigma, even your Republican buddies, uh, Richard, allow the stigma of what some people are gonna people you don't even know in this case.
Yeah, I hope Israel doesn't go nuts and we're nobody gonna think of us.
Uh the the the you have to you have to forget that, and you have to focus on what's best for you.
All of us have to do that.
And reg if you start letting what people are gonna think of it uh stop you from doing what you think's best or what you want to do or what whatever pursuit of happiness you're engaged in, you're you're you're giving them a whole lot of control over your life that they don't deserve, and they're probably not even trying to exert anyway.
You just think they are.
So the stigma is allowed to survive.
Oh, I don't want anybody to think I'm racist.
Oh, I don't want anybody to think that I'm uh heartless or I don't care.
So we don't fight the Iraq war to really win it.
I mean, we're gonna win it, but we fight it in a minimalist way so people don't get mad at us for how we want it, because they're a third world country and they're so poor, and they can't give we gotta give them a chance.
It's like in a little league spot in the better team twelve runs before you start just to feel good about it.
Back in a second.
All right, let's talk gasoline prices here for just a second.
USA today has a uh interesting story.
States find it tough to prove gas prices illegal.
Arizona's comprehensive investigation into that state's high fuel prices after Hurricane Katrina concludes that while there was profiteering at all levels of the oil industry, nothing illegal took place.
Well, then why do they insist on using the word profiteering?
I think profiteering is it if if it were legal, everybody'd be doing it all over the place.
Washington's attorney general's office said in a report last week that its more recent investigation of today's high prices has not found any evidence so far of illegal activity among gasoline retailers or producers in the state of Washington.
Together, the two reports show that it's hard for authorities to prove consumers are being ripped off even in times of extraordinary price increases.
Attorneys General in at least nine states, responding to outrage by their residents are investigating whether current high gasoline prices are a result of wrongdoing by the petroleum industry.
This, according to the uh National Association of Attorneys General.
Arizona statewide average price, three dollars two cents, still nearly eleven cents less than the record three thirteen, shortly after Katrina.
Washington's average is three oh one, and that set a record for the state that that price uh yesterday.
Now, the Attorney General in California, where the statewide average hit a record 325 a gallon Monday, says he's gonna subpoena documents from the state's 21 refineries, including those owned by big oil, Chevron Texaco, ExxonMobil, and Conaco Phillips.
The Attorney General's office said that state data for 206 or 2006 show that the crude prices have risen 14%, but some of the prices at the pump have uh soared 130% in the state of California.
Now, they can't find anything illegal.
And they're looking.
Now, what does that mean?
What does that mean to you?
Do you believe them?
I mean, let me tell you this is I mean, the states have a vested interest.
It's an election year, and all these people have a vested interest in being able to prove that big oil is cheating you.
And they're looking real hard and they can't find it.
What does it mean?
It means that big oil must have found a way to really hide the way that they are screwing us.
Because not even brilliant politicians and attorneys general in nine states, after no doubt looking under every nook and cranny, can find out how they are doing it.
But of course, we all know they are.
Marcus in Portland, Oregon.
Marcus, great that you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Oh.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Um, you know, I want to get back to the point of the Shelby Steele article, uh, but in a in a little different way.
I was reading about all the accounts of the protest yesterday, and I I was really just struck by the well-meaning people that really want to help these people that are disadvantaged.
But that there's an unintended consequence of basically not encouraging these people to follow a general path that this country has been on for quite a long time that has created this wealth.
And I'm really concerned that these people that are that are have great intentions, but don't quite understand that they're really doing a disservice to a lot of these immigrants that want to come here by not uh encouraging them to follow the rules or to not encourage people to that's because that is because these people think the rules are unfair.
And so the rules have have to be modified, changed, uh uh gotten rid of, or else slinked around.
The rules are unfair.
Uh if you have if you have a modicum of guilt, I'll I'll tell you a story.
I've told this story before, but it's been a long time ago.
I'll tell you the story.
Because it fits to a T today.
I'm out in California, I'm playing golf with some friends.
We're gonna have dinner Saturday night, my friend's club.
And uh that's fine and dandy.
When I get out there, and a friend picks me up at the airport and says, by the way, so and so is gonna join us for dinner.
He's a well-known national TV personality.
He's gonna join us uh because he's uh he's a guest here of another member, and uh he asked if he could join us for dinner.
I said, Okay, no problem.
So this guy shows up, uh the national TV star and uh and his host, and we sit down to dinner, and the host starts provoking me and trying to get me uh, you know, all these libs think that I'm gonna show up and start biting their heads off and telling them what a bunch of louts they are and so forth, and so they they start taunting me in a uh in a way to get me behave as a circus act and behave as they think I am.
And I just sit there, I'm just here to have dinner and play golf.
I don't really care to sit here and talk politics with a bunch of airheads.
When I leave the office, I leave the office.
I didn't go out there to talk politics with a bunch of Nimrods.
So I didn't, I didn't I didn't rise to debate.
At some point they brought up emigation immigration, and my host is loaded for bear on immigration.
Just once once the subject comes up, that's all that's going to be discussed the rest of the night, and he's gonna do 90% of the talking.
So, in the process of him sharing his opinions and how illegal immigration is destroying California and it's not going to be around as we know it much longer, and it's terrible and all that.
The nationally known TV host starts popping up with uh his own opinions and ignoring all of the facts and the sources for the facts that my friend has postulated.
And this frustrates my friend, because he's not just offering opinion, he's backing it up with facts from stories in the LA Times about the number of emergency rooms that have shut down because the people go in there don't pay.
Uh, and about all the advertising on television, how to get around having to pay at an emergency room, how to get around having to pay for an ambulance, don't call an ambulance, call a call a cab if you need to go to the emergency room, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Or call an ambulance, don't call a cab, whatever, however, it works.
And of course, it was going over the head of the nationally known television star because facts were irrelevant.
All that mattered to him was his feelings about this, which continued to frustrate my host.
The fost uh uh after not too long a period of time started making pointed comments and questions in a nationally known TV star.
And the nationally known TV stars' answers were just uh breathtakingly vapid.
Breathtakingly.
Everything he thought he knew came from the New York Times, and that was it.
Was his only source, and the host continues to get exacerbated.
And said, Well, let me ask you something.
If one of these illegals decided to climb the fence, come into your backyard and date your daughter, would you care?
No.
Wouldn't bother me a bit.
And he ended up saying the last thing, this this ended the evening, because the host couldn't handle it anymore.
The nationally known TV star said, I just want you to understand where I'm coming from.
If there are poor brown and black people in the world who want to come to my country to improve their lives, I am not going to stand in their way.
And the host exasperated, almost starts spewing spitum here so angry.
I can't relate to this.
You think that's all this is where this is not even immigration.
We're not even talking about immigration to you, nationally known TV star.
So we're driving home.
And the host is still, because this this topic is I mean, it's it it owns him.
We're driving home, the host is still he just can't believe what's happened here, because he was armed with facts that should have persuaded anybody that there's a problem.
And I said, I said, host, you have to understand that that the nationally known TV star had one objective tonight, and that was to make sure nobody at the table thought he was heartless, cold hearted, cruel, had no compassion.
You're not gonna get him to say That poor people of color from around the world should not be allowed to come here.
That he can't.
He is so absorbed with what you think and what he thinks of himself and host slammed stirring with God, that's right.
And it is.
It is.
So this this you know, the the you Marcus, you talk about these people that are trying to help and end up uh not serving their cause because they're not doing the best thing for these people who actually come in here illegally.
Play by the rules, come here and become an American, like immigrants in the past have always done.
We are a melting pot.
We but these people are not part of the melting pot.
These people are just coming here for work.
They're not they're not coming here to, I mean, they're just at one point they're just three feet away from us.
You know, they're not getting on a ship sailing from far corners of the globe.
And they they uh they're they're coming here for work, but they're not they don't care to assimilate and acculturate.
They're they're they're demanding to continue to be exempt.
They want to remain illegals.
It's not that they don't want to go through the process.
If they can be automatically declared legal, they'll take it, but they don't want to go through the through the process.
So you have these people encourage them, and it's the same thing as the nationally known TV star.
Well, you know, we have it so lucky and so good and so fortunate we are in this country, and these people are so downtrodden and they don't even have high school education.
So we must, we must help.
This is this is the stigma that Shelby Steele's talking about.
This is the the original sin here.
We just get so caught up in the stigma at what people are going to think of, at what we think of ourselves in a phony way, uh, that we stand in the way of doing the right thing.
And not just the right thing in terms of the law and order, but the right thing morally.
The right thing in terms of character.
We will, we will, we will allow this stigma to be a huge obstacle that gets in our way to stop us from doing that because somehow we make ourselves feel better in trying to help.
Oh, we have great intentions, or we're afraid what somebody else is gonna say about us uh or or what have you, and it's a paralyzing thing.
And as such, in the immigration debate, it's reached Washington and is a minimalist way of dealing with this.
They're not about to go about solving the problem because they can't even say what the real problem is.
If the problem solvers, and I say that laughingly, uh in Washington, cannot even honestly address what the problem is.
How in the hell can they solve it?
You can't.
If you don't honestly identify the problem, you can't.
So we come up every 20 years with a piece of legislation that acknowledges the legitimacy of what is illegitimate.
We tell ourselves we're good people, we fabricate reasons why we need this to happen and so forth, all the while abandoning the right thing to do because of an overwhelming sense of guilt at our prosperity or the use and wielding of our power that that we have.
So we're we're sort of paralyzed and we're hamstrung uh a lot of times in doing the right things where minorities are concerned, people of uh of different color or of uh uh lower socioeconomic circumstances.
It's why the left has always been more interested in understanding why violent criminals do what they do rather than protecting people from them.
And in fact, much of the left wants to blame socioeconomic circumstances for the evil acts of others, and by so doing absolve them of their actions and transfer the blame because of their collective guilt uh over the uh uh circumstances that exist in the country.
Again, uh the the the foundation or basis for comments here is found in Shelby Steele's piece today at Opinionjournal.com.
I cannot recommend this strongly enough.
Uh we're gonna link to it at Rushlinbaugh.com, or you can go straight to their website, opinionjournal.com, uh and uh and read it for yourself.
I gotta take a quick time out here, folks.
Stay with us.
We'll be right back.
Mr. Snerdley makes an interesting point.
Let's look at the other side of this, okay?
Let's let's just take the let's take the uh the war in Iraq as an example.
Uh again, playing off Shelby Steele here.
He says the the guilt, the white guilt that we face and we deal with in this country causes us to uh hold back on the uh full use of our power, the full projection of our power.
That we're fighting a minimalist war because we're so concerned what the Europeans are gonna think.
In fact, even makes the point if we lose this war, the Europeans will like us better.
Well, because we will we will have practice the proper restraint against uh an enemy that can't really compete with us.
They're just a bunch of insurgent terrorists after all.
Um, they can't compete with us, and It's really not fair.
It's a third world country, and these people are this they're just misguided, but they're trying to.
And so we have to back off.
The terrorists, on the other hand.
I don't think conscience or guilt exists in them.
They can behead.
They can blow up mosques.
They can murder 3,000 innocent people at one time.
Or they can murder one or five or twenty at what time?
They can do it on videotape for all the world to see.
They can kidnap an Italian journalist.
We end up being blamed for the way she's rescued.
They, on the other hand, can slice off an American's head, and the father of that American will get mad at the United States.
Not mad at the terrorists.
No, they're given a pass.
For some reason, they are not held to the same standard.
No, of course not.
They're uncivilized, backwards 14th century people.
But they don't have any guilt.
They're not dealing with any guilt.
They're not fighting minimalist wars.
They're doing the best they can with what they've got.
They're doing as much.
And if they got hold of a nuke, they'd use it.
And they wouldn't think a thing about it.
And there are probably people in this country who would, yeah, well, we deserve it.
Like the State Department after 9-11 conducted a very public seminar.
Why do they hate us so?
After 9-11.
So the terrorists can run around and they can behead, they can slice, they can dice, they can put people on fight, they can do whatever they want.
Blow up innocent people in cars, and nobody condemns it.
Well, not nobody, but I mean the people condemning Abu Grab?
Club Gitmo.
You think that our prisoners aren't going through literal hell before they get their heads cut off?
But what do Democrats and leftists in this country focus on?
They focus on our so-called inhumane treatment.
They force on us this stigma, this guilt that we don't deserve to win the.
We gotta let these people out of our prisons.
This is unfair.
We want to grant them constitutional rights.
We want to have them uh uh get taxpayer-funded lawyers so they can try their cases all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court in the middle of wartime.
And it's it's it's more than just the fact that the left is anti-war and so forth.
You've got a lot of factors that go into all this.
But the enemy is not held to the same standard.
No, we've got we've we've got to make sure that uh we grant them official status under the Geneva Conventions when they do not deserve it.
They don't qualify.
But that doesn't matter.
So the terrorists can do whatever they want.
They are not burdened by shame, they are not burdened by guilt, they are not burdened by conscious conscience.
Uh yet we allow ourselves to be restricted and restrained by all of those things.
And it's so bad that a majority of people in this country cannot even bring themselves to condemn the tactics used by our enemy in this case, and in fact, have actually made it difficult for us to achieve victory.
There's an ongoing effort to sabotage victory over this enemy from the standpoint of not using military tribunals to trying to shut down this NSA program to identify when the next 9-11 might happen and call that and blame us for spying.
I mean, it's it it is a uh this is a very, very, very pernicious thing.
Uh and it causes us to say and think the most horrible thoughts about ourselves while excusing behavior and tactics that are pure barbaric and almost animalistic.
While we're in the process of making sure not too many of them die just enough so that we can claim victory.
If they could wipe us all out, they would do it.
All right, if you go check it out, we've uh linked to Shelby Steele's column today at OpinionJournal.com, right at the top of my homepage at Rushlimbaugh.com.
And if you do this, read the whole thing.
If you don't read the whole thing, uh there are parts of it that you might misunderstand and make you mad.
So you gotta read the whole thing to get it.
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