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June 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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It's Friday.
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You know what?
Uh uh, let's see.
Let's do audio snowbikes four and five.
I want you to hear a couple more.
Well, one more from Major Calwell and then a um an exchange here, a discussion between Ann Curry and Jim Miklishevsky on the Today Show today.
Uh uh, he did number four.
Or he did number four.
Uh never mind.
I thought I had this figured out, but I'm obviously somehow I'm I'm confused.
Let me just say people have been asking um, because I thought I had a bite related to this.
People have been asking what's gonna happen to Al Zarkawi's body.
Will it be sent to his uh family for uh burial or what have you?
That's a good question.
If you care uh what's going to happen, I um I of course, ladies and gentlemen, am wondering if uh Nancy Pelosi and Jack Mertha, Howard Dean, maybe John Kerry will be leading the U.S. delegation to Zarkawi's funeral, uh, wherever it is.
Well, I mean, these guys are funeral.
I mean, Clinton may even go too, they're funeral crashers.
And uh and uh I mean, you've uh wherever the body is sent, wherever the funeral is, uh I mean, remember they're members of the U.S. Congressman working on the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights uh uh in terms of protecting their civil rights and human rights under the terms of the U.S. Constitution.
So logical question to uh to ask.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, day nine of hurricane season, and it is not all quiet out there.
There is a uh tropical depression.
It appears to be forming a couple hundred miles east of the Caribbean superpower Baileys.
This is not far from the Bay of Campeche and the uh uh Yucatan Peninsula.
Uh what?
Campeche is the Bay of Campeche.
Oh, we had a call.
Okay, so it's not Campeachy.
It's what sounds better.
I wish it were Campeche, because it sounds better.
Apparently, uh it's pronounced the Bay of Campeche.
Whatever.
Uh I've got on my monitor here.
I'm uh looking at the uh the cloud formation.
What do I do with it?
There it is.
I'm looking at the Noah Floater one here, and I got I've got the uh disturbance on the uh on the screen.
And the National Hurricane Center's not done a thing with this yet.
This is uh they are running models, and the models do indicate the depression forming.
Uh, and the models want to develop the system uh moving northward into the central gulf, and then taking an east and northeasterly turn toward the west coast of Florida.
This is all sometime uh next week.
But uh day nine of hurricane season, all is not quiet.
Um drive by the Democratic leadership to strip the embattled William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana of his committee post.
That'd be the House Ways and Means Committee has triggered a backlash.
This happened yesterday.
Well, everybody else is paying attention to Al Zarkawi and his assuming room temperature.
The Democrats were trying to get rid of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat uh Louisiana, Congressional Black Caucus, stood up, opposed the move, and said that the uh Democratic lawmaker deserves a presumption of innocence.
The uh chairman, a caucus chairman, is Representative Mel Watt of North Carolina, and he told reporters that some black voters might ask why action was sought against a black member of Congress when there was neither precedent nor rule for it.
Um now, haven't we heard that the Democrats uh haven't we heard the Democrats accuse the Republicans of running the House like a plantation?
We have heard that said that that was that was one of the mantras that the Democrats tried, that the House was run like a plantation.
Well, excuse me, but who is it that seems to be running the Ways and Means Committee and their own caucus like a plantation?
It sounds to me like it is the Democrats doing this.
Now, I know what some of you were thinking.
Okay, Black Caucus is asking for the presumption of innocence for Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and they're saying that we shouldn't rush to judgment out there.
They don't think anything should happen to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana at all.
Now, I know this is quite a quite a different view that is being taken by Democrats when it came to Tom Delay.
They wanted Delay to step down right away after he had been indicted.
But that was because the Republicans caved to pressure to show the Democrats how fair they could be when they were in the leadership.
So the Republicans wrote a rule for themselves that the Democrats have not adopted.
And that rule says that if any of the Republican leadership's ever indicted, then that member will step down from his leadership position.
There was no reason to do this.
It was it was again Republicans trying to show how nice they are, how cooperative, and how fair they would be once they assume power.
Well, all this did was give the Democrats veto power over who sits on the Republican leadership positions in the House.
All you need to go is go out and find a hack prosecutor like Ronnie Earl, come up with this phony indictment of delay, and delay has to resign by virtue of Republican rules.
Democrats do not have that rule.
The Democrats wanted to delay gone.
They didn't care about Delay's presumption of innocence, and he didn't even have the smoking gun of hidden cash in a freezer or a video tape of accepting a hundred grand from an FBI informant.
Delay hasn't been convicted of anything, and yet he had to go because of this Republican rule.
I mean, they had no doubt.
Delays guilt, no, there's no court.
Delay got to go.
He's bad for the Republicans, he's bad for the leadership.
And Jefferson is going to be innocent no matter what happens.
But yet, uh ladies and gentlemen, I would like to come to the defense today of the Congressional Black Caucus on this.
What happened to Delay is not right, but uh it was wrong.
But two wrongs do not make a right.
And the Congressional Black Caucus has a point.
And you could even use the delay story as an example to agree with them.
Delay should have had the presumption of innocence too.
He should not have been forced to resign.
The Republicans should not have thrown him overboard.
There still has been no adjudication of his case, just as there has been no adjudication of the case of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, the Congressional Black Caucus is right, and they know this.
What we have here is an example of Democrats, white plantation, liberal Democrats, who at the first sign of trouble will throw one of their black brothers off the bus just like that in order to protect their own image.
Now, some of you might be saying, well, Pelosi's doing the right thing.
Rush, she's acting in the best interest of her party.
Maybe so.
But Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have played the race card their entire political career.
It's sort of like when you live by the photo op, you die by the photo op.
When you live by the race card, you may end up dying by it.
And I am here to tell you today that the Congressional Black Caucus, as a matter of point of law, is exactly right.
There is no charge even yet against Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
There is no trial slated.
There are no charges.
There is not an indictment at this stage.
There is indeed the presumption of innocence in our system, and I admire the Congressional Black Caucus for holding the Democratic leadership in the House to um uh feet to the fire on this, because a travesty of injustice according to the U.S. system of law is being done to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana by Nancy Pelosi and Stenny Hoyer, and whoever else in that caucus is saying this but not being quoted publicly.
It's a travesty, and it's a classic example how they use and take advantage of blacks in their own party in their own organizations at The first sign of trouble, get rid of them.
And the Congressional Black Caucus, whatever else you may think of them, is right on the point of law here, and I'm standing firm with them.
Back after this, stay with us.
I do want to play one this uh audio soundbite number uh five.
This discussion between Ann Curry and Jim Miklashevsky uh today on the Today Show about Zarkawi.
An informant help lead U.S. forces to Zalkawi.
At a time when many Americans have lost faith in the intelligence community to penetrate Al Qaeda's network.
How much of a watershed moment is this?
It's incredible because, you know, intelligence forces in Iraq and in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan have not been able to develop the kind of human intelligence intelligence it takes to get at these leaders of Al Qaeda.
This was a big break, except they don't believe that it indicates it's any trend.
Of course not, like they're gonna tell you that it does, so that you can go blab it all over the world, Jim.
For crying out, like can I say a couple things about this?
Yes, I can because it's my show.
Number one, we obviously have developed some pretty good human intel, and we've done it by infiltrating Al Qaeda itself.
It may be that some in Al-Qaeda are discombobulated and worried.
I don't I th that the the things going in the wrong direction there.
They may be disconcerted with the way Al Qaeda's running the show.
Who knows?
But there definitely was an informant or two from inside Zarkawi's own operation.
The second point is none of this was happening during the nineties.
It was during the nineties, a little bit earlier than that, that the whole notion of human intelligence fell by the wayside as we decided to ramp up uh high-tech intelligence, satellites, and this kind of thing.
There was also this interesting little law that I think originated during the Clinton years, that the CIA was not allowed to hire the kind of thugs and creeps and human debris that it would take to infiltrate Al Qaeda.
Bob, that was that's right.
The torch.
Bob Torricelli was behind that legislation when he was a Democrat senator from New Jersey.
And uh so we the the CIA was not allowed to make deals and to hire these kinds of people because they were bad people, and we didn't do business with bad people.
So we had no human intelligence.
All right.
It is apparent to me, and I'm I'm not saying this as a for the purposes of of supporting the administration.
I'm saying this because I'm I mean this in the bottom of my heart and from the pit of my brilliant brain.
It is quite simply this.
This report indicates that we do have, and this incident indicates that we have ramped up human intelligence again, that this administration is taking no prisoners when it comes to winning this war.
And we have evidence that any time this kind of intelligence is attempted, the Democrats and the Liberals in this country do their best to sabotage it and undermine it, be the NSA, the uh the foreign intelligence and surveillance act, uh, the wiretapping of uh phone calls from out of the country or uh into the country involving suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists.
That program is being assaulted by people like Arlen Specter, Republican liberal, uh, liberals like Patrick Lahey and Ted Kennedy.
It's why I say we cannot trust Democrats with the national defense and national security of this country because they are not interested in it, or if they are interested in it, they are incompetent at it.
It's it's it's one of the two, and they fail to recognize the genuine threats.
But this does represent a huge leap forward and advancement in the ability to nail somebody this high up.
This was no symbol.
Zarkawi was no symbol.
He was the commander on the ground.
He was the inspirational and charismatic leader.
He was personally on the battlefield beheading women, children, and others.
They found 17 beheaded heads in cardboard boxes or some kind of boxes near fruit boxes, uh, near it near uh near that so-called safe house, where we nailed him with those two 500-pound bombs.
Uh this is this is huge.
This is great uh the what whatever the special forces involved here, Jordanian uh sor uh help was was uh indispensable.
I'm told that we had incredible um uh tips uh from detainee reports, i.e.
club get mo Abu Ghrab, wherever we're holding these people prisoner.
This is serious stuff, this is life and death stuff.
It's not a game, it's not a political issue, it is a war.
And Thank God we've got somebody in the White House who on this issue is standing firm in cement and is not being blown off course by the traditional and typical uh wind blowing of political opponents.
Jay and Slidell, Louisiana, your next, I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, I just want to let you know I'm a longtime listener, first time caller.
I might not be a ditto head, but I have a lot of respect for your intellect.
And even though I might not agree on everything you say, I think you have some of the finest, most biting p political satire I ever heard.
The stuff that I was listening to on hold just had me in stitches.
Two points real quick, if I can make.
We're down here in southeast Louisiana.
There's about 1.5 million people of us down here that...
Our lives are still not back to normal eight months later, and I know you're trying to uh keep the left uh environmentalists from getting too much of a hand up, but uh preface some of your levity about the hurricane.
You don't mind because we're still in a world hurt down here.
But um uh besides that, um, I have um one little point that I'd like to make about um maybe converting away from oil as much.
And uh if if I yield to your superior intellect, I just want you to uh let you know that right now I'm only engaging my amygdala and hypothalamus.
Ha ha.
I'm I'm I'm all ears here.
My brain cells and the cerebellum are active and receptive.
Okay.
Um I think the the best point we can make on getting away from oil um rather than sooner and later is strictly economic one.
Um the um the companies that are willing to branch out and diversify and um move away from heavier type vehicles and oil um combustion um are gonna be the ones that that make more money in the future.
Right.
That's that's that's right.
And then the process, uh the slogan will be the American people, let's shoot for the bottom.
Let's let's let's let's let's aim to be the worst we can be.
Well, I'm I think we should be the best we can be if we get a big thing.
No, you don't.
I mean, I I know you think that.
I know you think this is a laudatory thing uh to try to get away from oil uh right now and so forth.
We got too much of it left here for it to be practicable.
There's uh only when we're seriously running out of oil are we gonna get into serious alternative fuel discussions.
Right now the left is hung up on wind power, and they can't find anywhere that'll let them put any of these turbines.
They won't the liberals in in uh in Nantucket, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard won't let any of the wind turbines up there.
They want to put them out in the plains of Sandy or of uh of uh South Dakota and so forth.
They won't want them there.
Uh nobody wants drive around Priuses.
If if if these high bridge were so big, everybody'd be rushing to the store to get them.
By the way, there's a big Prius recall the other day for something.
I don't forget what it was.
Um but you know, it this is this uh I'm only half kidding here, Jay.
Uh I know your heart's in the right place, and I know your intentions are honorable, and I'm not attacking those, but it's it's just it's sophistry to suggest that any of the solutions on the table today make life better, improve circumstances for the American people, or grow our economy.
They do just the opposite.
They will impoverish more people, they will reduce economic growth, uh, not embrace it.
Um this is uh these are these are recipes for minimalism.
Uh this is not what the United States of America is about.
It's not what we've ever been about.
Uh we are not a wasteful country.
We are productive and we are efficient, and the resources that we use end up feeding and clothing and caring for people worldwide who otherwise wouldn't have the ability to build the resources themselves because those people sadly don't have the freedom that we do.
And to sit here and say that we've got to do this and we've got to do this because we're at fault and we're to blame and so forth is something you're sadly falling for by noted scientists uh like Laurie David and uh Al Gore and Barbara Streisand, who's now gonna go on tour.
Barbara Streisand is gonna do her first concert tour for the planet, uh in uh in September and October.
It's obviously an election year ploy, but it's um it's it's just it it's silly.
It's a it's it's ridiculous, and it'll it'll deserve the laughter that it all gets.
When I hear this talk about alternative fuel supply, smaller cars and so forth, I'm telling you what let me tell you how you're you you you Democrats are gonna be heard when you say that.
And I'm not joking.
Let's shoot for the worst we can be.
Let's let's go for bad.
There is nothing in any of these Al Gore stupid movies.
By the way, folks, you want to hear something funny?
The people putting out Al Gore's movie.
You know, they always have these big movie posters.
Uh, and Gore's movie poster is a picture of a hurricane forming out of a smokestack.
His name, this is his movie.
He's the narrator, he's the producer, he's the star.
His name is nowhere in any of the posters or advertising for this movie of his, an inconvenient truth.
Inconvenient truth, by the way, is what happened to Zarkawi for the left.
But this movie, Inconvenient Truth, features no mention of Al Gore.
You know why?
They tested this.
They tested a movie with Al Gore's name in it to a bunch of audiences, and the studio found that there was no interest in a movie that had any mention of Al Gore in it.
So they took his name off all of the posters and all the advertising.
Let's be the worst we can be.
The Democrats vote for us.
We are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the EIB network.
By the way, here is Al Gore and uh discussion of his movie An Inconvenient Truth.
This spring, Half Star Productions will release a feature film about an unemployable former politician's final fall into obscurity, which won't shock anybody.
Albert Gore Jr. stars in an inconvenient app.
Telling the same jokes.
I am Al Gore.
I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
Telling the same old stories.
Imagine the polar ice caps melting.
And then imagine your home floating away with your family sitting on top.
Now imagine that it will happen tomorrow.
So that my life will have meaning.
Al Gore, pretending to be smart for three hours.
We all know that the Earth's temperature has never changed until 10 of the last 14 years.
And this summer is going to be hotter than it has been all year long.
Pearls of wisdom from a twit who flunked out of Divinity School.
Is it possible that we should prepare against other threats besides terrorists like bovine flatulation?
This is by far the most boring film you will ever see.
Global warming is not really a political issue.
I found that out in 2000.
If you love your planet, if you love your children, you must avoid this delusional moron.
My ability to make a comeback is what's at stake.
An inconvenient owl in theaters somewhere.
That's right.
It opened in 77 theaters.
It grossed 1.4 million, and move on.org out there saying it's the most successful biggest military movie opening of the weekend.
whatever, because had it open on more than 77 screens.
It would have been huge.
1.4 million and 77 screens.
I'd be embarrassed to release the statistic.
Have you heard what's happening to Dixie chicks out there?
Uh ticket sales.
Their tour is going to hell in a handbasket.
The country music trio, the Dixie Chicks, still taking heat for criticizing President Bush or weathering sluggish ticket sales in several cities for their upcoming U.S. tour, while early ticket purchases for their major first uh first major two or three years generally robust in northeastern cities.
Initial sales have fallen short of expectations in numerous markets, especially in the Midwest and the South.
According to Polestar, dates in Memphis, Tennessee, Oklahoma, uh City, Indianapolis, and Fresno, California have been dropped from the tour schedule, while box office sales have been canceled for Houston.
By contrast, the group's latest album taking a long way, opened atop the U.S. pop chart last week, sold over half a million copies during uh first seven days, with lots of country music stations denying the chicks' airplay.
Box office uh business is off to a slow start in places where the group has sold out in the past, according to uh Gary Bon Giovanni, the editor of concert industry magazine poster.
That isn't that John Bon Jovi's real name.
I think it is.
Bon Jovi's real name is Bon Giovanni.
Uh editor rate Billboard magazine says they're in trouble out there.
They're having uh they're having to rethink the entire tour at this point.
Clearly, their problems seem to be strongest in the red States, those states uh carried by Bush in the 2004 presidential race.
They once asked Michael Jordan if he would get involved in and he's a big Democrat.
And they asked him, uh why you we could really use your help out there, Michael.
He said, Look, Republicans buy Nikes too.
You know, why should I why should I go out and anger half the audience?
Dixie chicks uh would have been well advised to have learned that.
Madison, Wisconsin.
Jeff, you're up next at Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to go back to the first hour if I could.
A few things that you said uh that really triggered my brain just going around.
Uh you were talking about a reporter that said were they shot.
Yeah.
And then you talked about something where I'm sure a lot of Americans feel like you you hoped he suffered, Kali, I mean.
You hoped that he uh just had the worst experience of his life.
And then it brought me back to uh uh Blackhawk Town, where they uh the bad people were dragging our troops through the streets.
And the one question that I didn't hear asked by anybody was why the stretcher?
Why was he on the gurney?
And and I was thinking about how everybody talks about our troops and how horrible they are.
And uh we were taking the worst possible human being on on the earth and and putting him on a gurney to go where.
If he was alive, obviously we were taking him to give him treatment.
And and and I just wanted people to know that the question that wasn't asked that should have been asked.
That's uh uh uh excellent point.
I I want to remind uh everybody uh that that I sp that I prefaced.
I'm I'm not in favor of violence against anybody, but this guy is an exception.
This guy is just an absolute piece of human debris is monster, beheads people personally.
Um the idea that we wouldn't kill him after we found him alive after bombing his safe house is absurd to me.
But uh, yeah, I I the fact he's on the gurney means he's being taken out of there somewhere.
Uh we don't know if he was being taken for medical treatment.
I really don't know that.
Uh all I know is this.
Well no, I don't know anything.
Here's what I hope.
And I'll repeat it again.
I hope that we got in there, found the guy alive.
I hope he was begging for mercy.
And I hope he was crying like a baby.
And I hope he was pleading for help in his life and some relief from whatever discomfort.
And I hope that our guys said, you know what?
The last thing we need is for this piece of human garbage to be given the best medical treatment in the world at one of our field hospitals here, so that he might recover if he could have, and then end up on trial like Massawi or Saddam.
I don't know where he was going.
I don't know where they were taking him.
I don't know what the full slate of his injuries were.
I have to think that if you're in a house and two five hundred bombs, uh 500 pound bombs are dropped on your head, you're gonna have some pretty severe internal injuries, bleeding and so forth.
So my what when they said he he looked up and and saw U.S. special forces and realized that it was the Americans that got him, that he tried to roll off the gurney, so wait a minute.
Uh what how hurt could he be if he tried to roll off the gurney?
If he tried to roll off the gurney, did they let him roll off?
Should hurt himself even more falling off.
I don't know, but I hope so.
But I really do hope it's true that the last thing this this person saw as he faded off to the 72 Virgins was the smiling faces of American special forces in uniform.
I hope the last conscious thought he had was the Americans got me.
That's what I hope, folks.
Bill in Billings, Montana, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh I was wanted to change course a little bit.
I was wondering what your take is on the Fed continuing to raise interest rates.
Are they going to take us back to the eighties where we have 21, 22 percent interest and run a lot of small businesses out?
Not based on energy.
I I hope not.
I don't think it's gonna go there.
I uh I I'm I'm telling you, I'm glad you brought this up because I am alarmed about this.
And there's there's more than one guy talking.
You've got Bernanke out there talking, he's the Fed Reserve guy, and he talks, he says, Yeah, we get we're gonna raise rates.
You've got somebody else out there that chimed in earlier this week and said, you know what, I'm getting worried about where prices are headed.
Uh prices are Dangerously now uh close to affecting core inflation and price maintenance.
And I can't have that.
Well, that that caused a a massive uh massive sell-off.
People wanted to take their profits out of the uh out of the stock market.
Look at that, down down about 49 points again uh right now.
I think there's uh there's too much talk about this.
Uh and I I in fact one of the things that concerns me was I thought that one of the reasons that the market went sky high some weeks ago was that Bernanke, they got hold of Bernanke's minutes from his last meeting at the Fed said he was through raising rates.
Uh and that's what I understood.
Yeah, and and so now you've got exact reversal under the under the pretext the economy is overheating.
Um, it has it has been uh they've been er ever since the Carter administration, the effort has been to ride herd on inflation because nobody wants the circumstances that we had back then.
Uh and so uh yeah, th they may be uh uh a little bit too skittish on this.
Uh and that, you know, thinking they can control uh uh the economy uh that to that extent is I think a mistake too.
So I I hope they slack off.
I uh uh the low interest rates that we've had have boomed the housing market.
They have boomed uh uh uh caused a boom in in the consumer confidence.
Uh they've helped tremendously in uh in the price of goods and services that people buy over time, and I hope they don't kill the golden goose by just arbitrarily indiscriminately raising these rates.
Uh and all I'll tell you, when this was happening too, there was a lot of attention that's being paid in the nineties.
Uh inflation, this inflation at the time, and actually in the late 80s, early nineties, disinflation was actually what was going on.
Um there were manufacturers that were unable to maintain a sufficient price above their production cost to make a profit.
Uh yet we were being told inflation is uh threatening here, we've got to make sure inflation doesn't run rampant.
And it was just the opposite thing that was happening.
We haven't had any real bad core inflation in years, despite economic recoveries and slowdowns and so forth, and uh look, these guys know more about what they're doing than I do, but uh it it does seem that they're they're causing panic uh or near panic in certain areas prematurely.
Uh Bill, glad you called.
A quick time out here we'll be back.
Is it possible?
Is it possible that Haditha is a hoax?
Clarice Feldman at the uh American Thinker.com thinks it's entirely possible.
Details in a moment.
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This is Sue Ann.
Nice to have you on a program, Sue Ann.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I would like to say thank you so much for suffering the slings and arrows and criticism by saying the things out loud that most of us only say inside of our homes.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate every minute of it.
Well, you're very kind.
Why don't you say these things outside your homes?
Oh, I live in California.
You know, I just got an email.
Uh let me see if I can find this real quick.
Uh uh Yeah, let me let me put this out real quick.
Um it's another woman who has basically the same uh same same uh theme heroes your call.
Let me grab it.
Got it.
All right, dear Rush.
It's from a subscriber at uh Rushlinbaugh.com.
Hi.
Uh I wanted to let you know what happened to me last night when I went out for a drink with the other string players in my orchestra.
I mentioned I've been privileged to be able to speak with you.
And they all turned from fun-loving musicians to nasty liberal haters.
I was surprised at the vindictive, ugly language they use to describe what they thought of you.
When to my knowledge, none of them has ever listened to you.
My friends are absolutely hopeless, and I despair of ever convincing them of their wrongness.
In any case, I know that you are the bearer of truth to the world, and I will defend you forever.
Best wishes to you.
This is Carol, and she is from Everett, Washington.
I feel the same way.
Well, you guys are very kind.
I really uh I really appreciate it.
It I as I've mentioned once before, all this stuff used to bother me.
When I first started this program back in 1988, for the first four years.
I mean, I I had no idea how to deal with it, how to how to respond to it, if to respond to it, how to handle it internally.
Uh because nobody ever said these things about me before.
And these things were being said by people who didn't know me, as you point out.
And as uh Carol points out here, and and and came to learn that hardly any of them ever listened to me.
So it was simply a result of of ideology uh differences.
And I then I realized that what it was, these people are just living in total fear.
They they they uh they can't they can't win an argument against us, Sue Ann on ideas, because they're not ideas people.
So what they have to do, their only recourse is to seek to discredit uh the people that say things they can't defend or can't argue with, can't win against.
And that's uh that's what all this is.
Took me a long time to recognize this and and take it as a measure of success.
Uh, because nobody's nobody's raised with the idea, look, your objective in life is to infuriate people, to make them hate your guts and make them want to do away with you.
Nobody's raised like that.
Uh well, maybe maybe Zarkowie was, who knows?
Um so it was um now, um I'll be honest, if it ever stopped, I would be worried.
Well, I have been learning at the Limbaugh Institute since 911, and I have never learned so much in my life.
Well, that's awfully kind of you.
I ri you you don't know uh how much I appreciate that.
You really you really don't.
Well, thank you for everything you do, and you have a great rest of your life.
Thank you, Sue Ann.
You hang in out there and and uh don't be afraid to leave your house, even out in California.
Things are changing out there.
Not fast enough for me.
Uh sit tight.
It's it's happening faster than you know.
That's the whole point.
Just like what's going on in Iraq is much more positive anybody knows, as evidenced by uh all the steps necessary to make this uh this hit on Zerkawi possible.
Uh the government being formed.
Is there's more progress than you possibly can see on the surface here, but sit tight, it'll manifest itself.
I imagine you're gonna be very happy the day after the elections this November.
I hope so.
I bet you will.
Uh thank you a lot.
I gotta move on.
You bet this is uh Kayla in uh in Cedar Rabbit, she's thirteen years old.
Hi, Kayla.
Hi, Rafash, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
I'm a first time I'm a first time caller, but I'm a definitely a loyal listener.
I listen to you every day.
Thank you.
So at age thirteen.
Yep.
I have a question about what but people call quote unquote the separation of church and state.
Mm-hmm.
We're not allowed well to publicly show religion at school.
Yeah, no.
And I did a report on the Constitution, my social studies class on the first amendment.
And it says that Congress may know may not um impose any law on that concerning your rights in that area.
And so wouldn't that be imposing on your rights, not allowing you to practice religion publicly in school.
Uh well, in I think I think I get your point.
Uh uh first off, let me congratulate you at age thirteen for reading the Constitution and and endeavoring to understand it.
Uh is is this is this part of your your daily activity in school, or is your parents behind this?
No, but it's just my daily activity in school.
Well, hubba hub.
Uh that that that's actually good news.
Um it says Congress may not establish a law or the c what what what what what it what the First Amendment says uh essentially is that the government shall not establish an official religion that everyone must follow.
That's all it says.
The c the words separation of church and state are not in the Constitution.
That's yeah.
You've noticed that having read the first amendment.
Uh-huh.
Uh the concept of separation in church and state is a is uh is an idea that has been invented uh by the American left in order in order to expand on what the Constitution says and to say not only is the government not allowed to establish a religion, you can't practice yours in public because it might offend somebody.
But it's it's it's a it really is is uh it's a non sequitur.
The the first amendment does does not say anything about you going into school and praying or practicing your religion.
Now, if if local you know uh communities want to come up together, pass a law states want to do, they can do that, but it cannot violate the first look, Kayla.
Can you hang on?
I have to take a commercial break here.
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