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June 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right.
We found at the Cybercast news service the tape of Mertha talking to the guys at Abscam.
We don't have much.
Coco found it, and he's sending it uh in there to Joe and then says I think Mamon then we can get transcribed and recorded into a format usable by us.
Uh greetings, uh my friends, and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, cutting edge of societal evolution.
It's open line Friday on Thursday today, since I'll be out tomorrow.
Uh eight you what?
You got it?
Uh oh, you have an open line Thursday.
Oh, okay.
Well, let's just make it official.
Live from the politest big town in the world.
New York City.
It's open line Thursday.
Oh, that's not right.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday is a trademark.
It's open line Friday on Thursday.
Stop it.
That is not broadcast next.
It's not, it's not, it's not Donovan's fault.
Well, it is Donovan's fault.
I never blamed Donovan for anything in 16 years.
It is Donovan's fault.
He wasn't thinking.
Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the uh email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Here's here, folks.
Uh the Santorum document that he moved in public with last night and uh and Pete Hookstra.
Here's the bottom line.
They need to release the entire document that they were talking about yesterday, all of it.
Just unclassify, declassify the whole thing.
What could possibly be the reason for keeping it all secret?
If there is a reason, tell us why it needs to be kept secret.
Look at on the one hand, we're told this is old stuff.
It doesn't matter, it's really not relevant to the current Iraq war.
Who cares?
On the other hand, they won't tell us what else is in it.
Pressure needs to be put on John Negro Ponte to release this.
That's that's the that's the roadblock here.
I it's I don't understand it.
I don't I really don't understand it.
I know Negro Ponte was behind Goss going at the CIA.
There was a power play.
I don't know me anything sinister by it.
It was just the typical bureaucratic behind the scenes knife in the back power play.
Uh but I uh I I don't understand it.
I don't understand why there's a reluctance on the part of people in this administration when there's a shadow government in there trying to destroy this president's foreign policy to not fight back against truth out there.
I just I literally don't understand because I'm a simpleton.
You know, in in the real world, you don't sit here and take this.
You don't bend over and grab the ankles and let people destroy you, lie about you repeatedly when you have the facts and the evidence and your foreign policy is at stake.
So anyway, before we get going, I have to share something with you, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Remember back Mr. Snerdley, uh the days of the TV show, we got a request from NASA that an astronaut, two astronauts wanted to come up and be in the audience of the television show.
Uh and uh they were just big fans.
Uh one was named Kevin Chilton, uh shuttle commander.
And I I don't I don't remember there was a young woman, astronaut too, and I've sadly forgotten her name, which is unlike me.
Uh, but I have.
What?
What are you?
What?
What what what what?
No, I'm not gonna I just uh no when you hear why I at any rate.
Uh the woman, astronaut asked to meet me, and she said, you know, Kevin, when we met, she said, Kevin is such a huge fan.
Uh and and he's he's got a mission coming up.
Would you record a little video that we could put on on High 8?
That's what they played video when this happened.
This is the mid-90s.
Would you record a little video in High 8 that we could surprise him with and and take up there and play for him when we're when we're orbiting and doing our missions?
And I said, My gosh, yes, I'd be blown away here with this honor.
So did that.
And after um after the mission, uh we got some photos, some still photos of Kevin Chilton floating weightless in his space shuttle, holding up the high eight.
American flag was there, and he sent me some pictures, and I still have them here in my fashionable Upper East Side apartment.
I've not moved them to Florida, although I ought to do that.
But they're just some of the most beautiful pictures of of New York at night from 200 miles up.
And uh, he's autographed them all.
They're they're identified with the like somebody has really very nice uh handwriting, almost calligraphy, EIB headquarters at night uh with the uh with the dates.
Uh There are three of the pictures, plus the one of him inside, and all the the patches from their uh uh uh uh spacesuits and so forth.
It just it it blew me away.
And I had I got a uh a friend, an email who's a from a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com named Don Dyer today in San Antonio.
He said, I heard you mention once your friendship with former astronaut Kevin Chilton.
You know, he also invited me to come in a space shuttle uh uh uh simulator, if I was ever in Houston, and I've just never had the chance to do it.
Anyway, Mr. Dyer says, I heard you mention your friendship with the former astronaut Kevin Chilton on the air.
Just wanted you to know he's gonna get his fourth star this month, and he'll take over as commander of U.S. Space Command.
Uh Kevin and I served as lieutenants in Okinawa in 79 and 80.
He's a great guy, and it's comforting to know that good guys make it big.
So I was I just wanted to pass this on.
I want to congratulate uh Kevin Chilton, uh, now with his fourth star, and I want to thank Don Dyer for informing me of this.
Kevin wouldn't tell me he wouldn't say, hey, guess what?
I'm getting my fourth star.
Uh but it was uh just a highlight these pictures.
I'm gonna have to, you know what I have to do?
I'm gonna have to some the next trip in.
I'm gonna bring those pictures in so the website guys can uh scan them or do whatever and put them on the website because they're just uh they're fascinating and they're they're just tremendous.
So congratulations, uh former astronaut Kevin Chilton, now getting his fourth star, and will take over next month as commander of the U.S. Space Command.
See what see what being in the audience of the Rush Limbaugh TV show could have meant to you, ladies and gentlemen, had you and you've been there.
All right.
Uh listen, the Earth is the hottest.
This is all AP.
The Earth is the hottest it's been in at least 400 years, probably even longer.
The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a uh broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported today that the recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years, potentially the last several millennia.
A panel of you know, this is embarrassing.
This is passed off as science.
This is propaganda.
This is to feed this silly notion of global warming, man-made global warming, but for crying out loud, who cares what the number is?
Study says Earth's temp at 1,000 year high.
So it means a thousand years ago it was this hot.
400 years ago, it was as hot as it is now.
Maybe maybe even a little hotter.
Well, if it's 400 years, a thousand years, two thousand, however many millennia, somebody tell me what the CO2 levels emitted by man were 400 years ago.
Somebody want to tell me what they were a thousand years ago.
This is embarrassing.
For a country that reportedly has such advanced scientists and thinking.
This is embarrassing to put a story out like the tribute this to the National Academy of uh of science.
Is that what it is?
National Academy of Science?
Yes.
Earth's Tamp at four.
This this is this is another one of these crisis stories.
By the way, by the way, we are braced.
We have keeping a sharp eye for this eminent hurricane, or volcano, rather, the southern end of the San Andreas Fault, could happen at any moment.
You missed this story yesterday.
There's the there's there's some some scientists at La Jolla.
My gosh, the San Andreas, there's it's under more intense pressure than why ever.
It it could happen at any moment.
Okay, we've got that crisis out there.
We've got the military back in a newleans, we've got global warming.
We it's just it's uh there's there's I don't know.
It's embarrassing that science in America is being reported the way it is to fulfill a crisis-oriented mentality of the drive-by media.
Study says Earth's temperature at 400 year high.
Do you know what this is worth, folks?
I tell you, I'm not even a scientist.
Okay, this is what it's worth.
400 years ago, that would be the 1600s.
What was going on in the 1600s?
They're planting the Da Vinci Code conspiracy then?
What's going on in the 600?
Bilderbergers running wild, secret automobiles and secret tunnels and the uh Illuminati in Rome running around polluting and nobody knew about it?
Have they hid the data from us?
The internal combustion engine actually created in 1200 by a Muslim who set out to hide it because they didn't want to advance their religion.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
L. Rushbow, your host for life, not retiring, not resigning, not quitting until every American agrees with me.
Couple little uh funny stories here.
We'll move back to the phones uh out of Singapore.
Famous for its spotless streets.
Singapore stepping up its campaign against filth in the bathroom with a uh training program to boost the status and the skills of the city's toilet cleaners.
More than 50 toilet cleaners are going to be promoted to restroom specialists upon completing the three-day pilot course taught by Japanese experts in the latest toilet technology.
The program sponsored by the uh city state's National Trades Union Congress and the Singapore-based World Toilet College.
Wouldn't you love to say, yeah, I got my got my BS from uh uh World Toilet College.
Yeah.
Um aims to boost the image and the wages of professional toilet cleaners by training them to do more on the job.
The uh the uh World Toilet College has flown in three top Japanese toilet trainers to conduct the course on improving cleaning techniques and technical expertise to the initial group of 51 cleaners.
I'm only halfway through the story.
The uh plan is to expand the pilot course to a 64-hour course from the original three-hour course, after which trainees will be certified as restroom specialists.
Cleaners, uh toilet cleaners have uh low morale, and uh wonder why.
And they've got low skills, the paper quoted Jack Sim, the World Toilet College's founder.
We want to professionalize them.
We want to teach them to be proud of their jobs.
Jack Sim, the uh founder of the World Toilet College said he plans to train all 5,000 toilet cleaners in Singapore and raise the average monthly wage to 950 Singapore dollars, which is about 598 U.S. dollars uh up from 472.
You got to spend 64 hours to go to a college to learn how to clean a toilet.
You don't deserve more than six hundred bucks.
You know, I remember back in the old days, they tried to upgrade uh job titles uh just to give respect, like a window washer became a vision control coordinator.
Uh and uh a gas somebody worked at a gas station.
You only find these people in New Jersey anymore, uh, but uh disseminator, disperser of uh combustible fluids, and so forth.
There were all kinds of them.
I've forgotten what they are.
Back to the phones, Matt Dayton, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday on Thursday.
Thank you, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh, listen, Rush, I was gonna talk to you about these uh degraded weapons.
Well, you know, if they were so degraded, why were they in such an uproar in Pueblo's weapons facility in the 90s during the Clinton administration to get rid of these things that they were so dangerous because they were outdated and old, and they were more unstable than the new ones.
Wait, refresh my memory.
What what what was going on at Pueblo?
Well, Pueblo was a uh storage facility for chemical weapons.
I thought Pueblo was the U.S. clearinghouse if you wanted a government pamphlet on anything.
Just say, send me pamphlet X Pueblo, Colorado, and it'll get there.
I didn't think there was anything in Pueblo, but that but there's they had there was a a weapons uh uh tell tell me again, I didn't know Pueblo had this.
Yes, Pueblo had a uh chemical weapons depot down there.
And during the uh the the Clinton years, they were uh disposing of nuclear and chemical weapons, and the politicians and the left wingers and the environmentalists were going crazy down there because they said the chemical weapons stockpiles we have in Pueblo that were made in the 60s are old and since they're so old, they're unstable and they could leach out into the environment because they're okay.
I remember now I get the point.
This is why Dingy Harry is upset that nuclear waste we're going to put it in uh in Nevada.
Right.
Right, right, wait.
So your point is that even if this stuff is old and degraded, it's still deadly.
And when it was in Pueblo, Colorado, the liberals didn't want any part of it.
But now it's no big deal.
Oh, it's no big I I appreciate that, Matt.
Thank you.
I I I had totally forgotten that.
Um Georgian uh Irmo, South Carolina, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, big guy.
Uh I just want to thank you for the everything you do.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
The other day you had a you mentioned a call, one of my all-time favorite callers, the carrot call, I'll call it about you told him how everybody that Eden Carro, you know, had died that and he was just stunned.
Well, it was it's true.
I mean, I can imagine to be stunned.
People don't think of it that way, but it was uh well it just it got me thinking in uh about my favorite callers, and I and I wanted to tell you who mine were and and see who yours were.
Okay, it you go you go first.
Okay.
Uh well I think it was Rita X from around Detroit that was talked about the mothership and everything.
Yeah, Rita X has to be in a top five, no question.
Yeah, and uh then there was the lady down around Jacksonville, Florida that said, you know, a neighbor told her it was in the Constitution that you could have a telephone.
Uh uh in the Constitution you should have a telephone.
I forgot that call.
Oh, yeah, that was that was classic.
Well, I'm glad you liked it.
Yeah.
And then uh Mick from the High Mountains, he was always.
Yeah, you know, it'd be uh you can't you can't list favorite callers in the program without mentioning Mick from the High Mountains of Arizona, New Mexico.
Yep.
This guy was just, he was just uh out.
You know, he has passed away.
He showed up at uh he showed up at Dan's Bake Sail and he wasn't doing well then, but he still made the trek.
Well, maybe there's some of those animals he prepared.
Yeah, well, he he taught a lot of people about willing out uh living out in the wildlife.
We you know, we you're reminded we ought to go back to the archives, find some of these calls someday uh and and and just go back and review some of these calls.
The read X calls good.
I you know, it'd be tough for me to name my favorite three because I I I uh I can't remember enough of them to actually do them justice uh to to come up with a a top three, but uh there clearly are have been some uh uh just incomparable ones.
And I'd I'll uh I'll be interested to give we could go back somehow, I don't know, we'd have to find these these what are you what in cassette?
Some of those old shows.
Um that look at see now this is a this isn't this is not supposed to happen here.
Everybody in there is rolling their eyes over the prospect of having to go back and listen to some of these old tapes to find these phone calls.
This is broadcast excellence.
We'll do whatever it takes to find them.
And we'll do it when I say so.
We have date ranges and we can find this stuff out.
Dave in uh Navarra, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
I want to send evangelical retired army NASCAR dad dittoes.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Well, I'd call him because my son served in Ramadi Iraq about a year and a half ago.
He's back in the States getting ready to go, possibly back in October to um April.
And he, on one patrol, they found a cache of weapons, and in those weapons, they found munitions that were clearly going to be used for the delivery of chemical weapons and uh mainly artillery shells.
And so In what quantity?
In great quantity, yes, sir, in great quantity.
Um my question is if if this is not a big deal, then why are these guys still out there looking for this stuff?
Uh well, you see, I can't answer it.
I mean, uh well, uh I mean from the administration standpoint.
I I can't I misunderstood your question.
It is a big deal, and of course, we've still got people ordered around to go find the stuff because um uh it's apparent and it's very obvious that the U.S. military and the Pentagon thinks this stuff is there.
We know it was there.
This is so ridiculous to have fallen for this propaganda that has been successfully uh uh showered throughout the country the last three years.
There were no weapons of mass destruction of Bush lied.
It's just settled in.
Uh Now, uh your story, uh, the Santorum document uh that that he read from still say declassify the whole thing.
What else is in it?
What could it possibly be?
Just let it if if you if you don't want to release it, tell us what's in it or why you don't want to release it, the dangerous or what have you.
Um but there are people still looking.
No question.
I thought your question was uh oriented toward the administration.
I I can't explain why they seem so reluctant to uh admit this stuff uh is being found here and there.
There has to be a reason, though.
That's what's frustrating.
I can't figure out the reason.
Nothing I can think of makes any sense.
And we are back.
It's open line Friday on Thursday, which means that when we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Question comment does not have to be specifically of any interest to me, as it does during our usual broadcast.
All right, uh, thanks to the archives at the Cybercast News Service, we have uh, and this just runs 13 seconds, but we have audio of Jack Mertha being offered cash, bribes during the ab scam sting.
Uh he turned this down at first, but then says later, uh, I'm not interested in it at this point.
He was an unindicted co-conspirator.
The only reason I bring this up uh is because anybody could have gone back and found this.
Robert Novak did.
Mertha is held up in the drive-by media as an angel.
He's a god, a paragon of virtue.
He's infallible.
He says we should get out of Iraq.
We're losing, we can't win.
Meanwhile, people like Hookstra and Santorum and others are considered kooks.
They still believe this weapons of mass destruction stuff.
So we're just trying to establish for you here that the drive-by media, the Democrats will overlook their own conspirators, their own uh uh unindicted co-conspirators, overlooked their own corruption uh in order to fulfill the notion of their own template.
Here is the ab scam-related meeting involving John Mertha showing the Congressman's rejection of the offered bribe was less than uh definite.
I got I went out and I got 50,000.
Okay.
So what you're telling me, okay, you're telling me that that's not what you, you know, that's what I'm not interested.
Okay.
At this point.
At this point, I'm not interested at this point.
So he was uh unindicted, but nevertheless a co-conspirator.
That is Jack Mertha, uh, who is uh being held up, as I say, as a paragon of virtue by the uh uh drive-by immediate.
Start to embarrass the Democratic Party as John uh Carey has embarrassed the party.
His little but let's go to the audio sound.
We've got to play you got to hear some of this, folks.
Uh we'll start with uh start with audio soundbite number two.
The carry amendment, the carry-feing gold amendment, get our troops out of there now, went down to a humiliating 86 to 13 defeat.
Here is a soundbite of Senator Kerry himself uh last night on the Senate floor.
The Democrats finally let him debate this after 9 o'clock so that none of the carry uh debate would make the evening news.
Here's just a portion of what Senator Kerry said, arguing for the passage of his amendment.
I went to serve in Vietnam in 1968.
From 1968 till 1975, when we left in that dramatic helicopter moment off the embassy, almost half the people who died were lost in that period of time.
For a policy that our leaders knew wasn't working.
I am not going to be a member of the Senate in good standing and good conscience, supporting a policy in Iraq that I believe is going to add people to whatever Iraqi memorial will be created at a time where I am convinced this isn't gonna work for them.
And it isn't gonna work for the Iraqis.
Oh, of course it doesn't have a chance.
We're nothing but a bunch of mumbling failures.
John Kerry, I served Vietnam, 1968.
Cannot make a speech without saying it.
But this, ladies and gentlemen, this this may be uh the PS The Resistance.
Last night on the Senate floor, Senator Dick Durbin uh reduced to this.
Essentially, Durban is saying do it for Paul Willstone.
That vote ended late at night, near midnight.
And I stayed on the floor because I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep when I got home.
Senator Wellstone was going back home to Minnesota to face re-election.
I remember saying to him, Paul, I hope this doesn't cost you the election.
And you know what he said to me, Senator Byrd?
Doesn't matter.
This is what I believe.
This is who I am.
That was the last conversation I ever had with Paul Wellstone.
He died in a plane crash just a few days later.
I've thought about him ever since.
Miss it.
I miss his voice.
I wish you were here today.
If he were here today, I know what he'd be doing.
He would be joining me in supporting the Kerry Amendment.
And he would have been the 14th vote.
Out of 100.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Yahoo.
So they were reduced to this.
Do it for Paul.
Let's go back, shall we?
To the Wellstone Memorial Service, October 29th, 2002, and Senator Tom Harkin.
Paul Little Stone.
Will you stand up and keep fighting for social and economic justice?
Say yes.
For Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting for better wages for those who mop our floors and clean our bathrooms?
For those who take care of our elderly, take care of our sick, teach our kids, and help our homeless.
Say yes.
Will you stand up and keep fighting for cleaner air and cleaner water for a cleaner environment for our children and our future?
Say yes.
For Paul, will you stand up and keep fighting for peace and understanding and to stop the exploitation of women and children around the world?
Say yes, do it for Paul.
Paul.
For Paul, will you stand up?
Say yes and keep fighting to end discrimination.
Hell yeah.
Damn it.
Hell yes.
Center the toilet coverage.
Say yes.
For Paul!
For Paul!
Will you stand up and keep fighting for the poor, the homeless, and those left on the roadside?
You already asked that!
Say yes!
No!
I already said yes to that!
Say no for Paul!
Let's all get on that bus together, that green bus.
That bus of hope.
And let's keep it moving to a better America.
Keep keep standing up.
Keep fighting.
Keep saying yes to justice.
To hope for people for Paul!
For Paul!
Paul.
This was a funeral.
This was a memorial to honor the memory of Paul Wellstone.
And uh Senator Turbin went back to this last night on the floor of the Senate, invoking the memory of Paul Wellstone uh as a means of getting as many Democrats as possible to vote for the CARY amendment, which was uh essentially an immediate uh redeployment, withdrawal, cut-and-run, whatever it is.
You go back and get cut six now.
This Mertha cut uh uh from ab scam.
We can't play this enough, ladies and gentlemen.
This is actual audio from the sting, the ab scam sting, and this is when the uh the the uh FBI agent is offering Mertha, as he'd offered a bunch of others, cash bribes, uh, in effect.
Uh, and and I you know Robert Novak went back in his column today and said, I remember that Mertha was part of this ab scam thing, and the point is the Democrats, the drive-by media could have found this too.
They could but they're in the business of hoisting this guy up as an infallible hero of Vietnam War, and of course, such he is above criticism.
I got I went out with I got the 50 gas.
Okay.
So what you're telling me, okay?
You're telling me that that's not what you you know what I'm not interested.
Okay, at this point.
At this point, not interested at this point.
He ended up an unendicted co-conspirator.
Emerson in uh brigantine, New Jersey.
Welcome to open line Friday on Thursday.
Thank you, sir.
Uh bring the truth home is the big thing yesterday last night.
Oh, I've I've been really upset over the years about the never talk about bringing the troops home from Bosnia.
Big parallel.
The Clinton administration took us in there on topose that tens of thousands were being slaughtered by the Serbs.
They got in there, they found maybe two thousand Hornmark Graves.
We still have we're going to be there a year, we're there ten years.
How much money's resources, troops.
Uh i it's just fa it just breaks it just kills me that no one ever talks about Democrats don't say bring them home.
General Wesley Clark doesn't talk about it.
No one ever brings it up.
Yeah, well, false war for nothing.
Of course, but you understand why.
Showing up in Iraq as uh terrorist that we said that we saved.
Right, but you understand why this is.
Oh, I understand, but it still galls me.
Well, good, because it galls me and it galls everybody else.
A war started by a Democrat president?
Honorable.
Why that was to end ethnic cleansing.
Why who could oppose that?
That's a basic human rights and civil rights.
Well, wait a minute, the Saddam killed 300.
Why do we care about that?
He wasn't harming us, neither were the Serbs and the Bosnians.
Well, Bill Clinton had to do this because he had already goofed up with the uh genocide in Rwanda.
He'd already passed that up.
He had to show that he cared somewhere in the world, had to use the military at some point in the world to show and cover up for the fact he had written that letter to Colonel Holmes that he uh uh loathed the military.
Uh that's all phony.
And of course the the drive-by media, this is this is all about sabotaging this administration.
It's sabotaging conservatism, sabotaging conservatives.
Uh it's this is folks, this is a war.
You know, there really there is a war going on.
This this is not this is not just your average run-of-the-mill disagreement over social security reform or uh uh we've got a shadow government in this country of ex-Clinton workers.
Well uh f Clinton administration people held over at state, CIA, and DOD.
These people are trying to undermine this president's foreign policy, the nation's foreign policy.
Mary McCarthy is just one name.
Um this is a real war that's going on.
This is this is this is a battle for what kind of country this is gonna be.
Of course, drive by media empowered with First Amendment protections, supposed to do what we do here.
I mean, the purpose of the press having an exemption in constitutional terms of free speech was to make sure the in public was informed and educated when it came time to make decisions.
This is a representative republic, the press.
Drive by media today doesn't do that job.
They are part of the left.
They have an agenda, they are activists, we do the job the mainstream media used to do.
I mean, look around us.
Can we not have one icon left anymore?
Now Superman's gay.
Now Superman's gay.
Superman's gotta be gay.
Oh, yeah, the big that's the big con the new Superman movie, the advocates got Superman gay, because of the actor.
And then then they're doing stories now.
You know, we've looked back and uh kryptonite and uh the planet wherever he came from, I forget the crypt krypton.
It's might have been a you know a race of gay people.
Superman's gay.
We're trying to say no icons are everything's everything's under assault here culturally and so forth.
There's a war going on.
So you you're right to stay galled by all of this.
Um elections still matter here, folks.
That's why I keep talking about no matter what.
We've got a quick timeout.
Stay with us, don't go away.
Well, what have been wondering where this was in the uh in the bumper rotation?
What's the title of this tune?
Is this Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
Anyway, we're back.
We've got a 16-year-old uh young man on the program, Bryant from Clovis, California.
Hi, Brian, welcome.
It's great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, what's up?
Uh I won't notable you tell me.
Well, I just wanted to let you know I'm uh soon to be Republican.
Why aren't you a Republican now?
Well, I'm sixteen.
Oh, you mean registered?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay, great.
Well, anyways, um I'm on summer vacation now, and throughout the year I had a liberal history teacher who was very outspoken, and uh he'd make wisecracks about Bush and Cheney and everything, and um me and my friends in there, we're all Republican too, and we'd always challenge him on it.
And uh one thing he'd often say is like he'd say Bush lied to the U.S. and he'd make a joke about the war in Iraq, how it was pointless, and one of those times I just got annoyed of it, and I blurted out well, maybe the whole point of it was that we removed a renegade dictator out of power who had clear intentions of attacking us.
And they found uh weapons of mass destruction, didn't they?
So you know, it he said stuff like that all the time.
Uh what kind of grade did you get in there?
Uh I got a B in the class.
Good.
Let that be a little stand up for what you believe.
You know why?
I'll tell you not in addition to it's the right thing to do.
Yeah, it'll help you explain your position to people.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of people know what they think, but a lot of them don't know why.
Uh they have instinctive feelings about what's right and what's wrong, uh, what ideology they agree with.
But when it comes time to explain it when they're challenged, they can't.
Um, I think so.
You put yourself in a position where you're standing up, even at age sixteen, to a to a history professor, history teacher.
Uh standing up for what you're blind, challenging what he's saying, it's only going to improve your ability to express yourself and persuade others.
I'm proud of you.
That's that's way to go.
Yeah, um.
There's another time when uh he made a wise crack about the shooting incident with Dick Chaney, and uh I blurted out that I'd rather be hunting with Dick Chaney than driving with Ted Kennedy.
And what did he say to what did he say to that?
He told me to shut up.
And did you shut up?
No.
That was at the beginning of the year.
I haven't just I've haven't stopped challenging him uh ever since.
Well, uh, will you have this guy again, or is uh is he history in your life?
Uh say that again.
Will you have him as a teacher again, or is are you is is you get new teachers now as you move on.
I'm getting new teachers.
Good.
Well, this is great.
I love hearing this.
You know, you are you are the future backbone of America.
Thank you.
Don't believe that it's illegal immigrants that are the backbone of America.
People like you.
And uh this is uh where where did you stumble across your conservatism or your or your uh your republicanism?
Are your parents both?
Yeah, my parents mainly.
My dad's just uh bona fide Republican, and he I've listened to your show for a few years now where we've gone on trips up and in the mountains and stuff, baby, right.
It's always been on, and uh I think you're brilliant, just to put it bluntly.
Well, that's very kind of you, I appreciate that.
You're very perceptive.
Yeah.
Very preceptive.
I've uh read your book too, The Way Things Ought to Be.
That's a great book.
Thank you, sir.
Well, you know, do Brian, you use a computer?
Yeah, I do.
Do you are you a member of Rush Limbaugh.com or is your family?
Um no, but I have your limbaugh letter.
I've done that.
That's good, but that's not all there is.
So if you hang on, you'll be talking to uh to Mr. Snerdley again, who uh adroitly and cleverly uh select you to go on the air, and we'll make you and your family complimentary members of uh Rush Limbaugh.com.
Just in time, by the way, to watch the uh 24 panel of forum uh on homeland security and so forth, moderated by me uh tomorrow morning, 10 to noon in Washington as the Heritage Foundation.
Hang on, hang on there uh uh Brian, and uh we'll get all the information necessary to compliment you uh a one-year subscription.
And by the way, let him go let him pick a couple things from the uh EIB store.
He wants uh club get more gear, whatever it is.
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This was always the intention when the whole family medical leave act was uh introduced or signed into law by Bill Clinton.
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