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June 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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It is it is refreshing to watch Prime Minister Koizumi at Graceland.
They just had videotape of um, I guess his last moments there.
And he said in in English, Thank you for making my dream come true.
The Prime Minister of Japan.
And visiting Graceland today is his dream.
And he was ecstatic, and he couldn't believe Bush actually went with him.
Hey, thank Bush for going with him.
It's cool to see this.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know what's so unique about it?
Here's an ally that actually likes us.
And the media is giving this guy all this answer.
Koizumi loves us.
Ah, it was fascinating to watch.
I hope you have a chance to see it.
Greetings, folks, open line Friday.
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All right, Mark and uh Brian, I'm sorry, Brian, Kansas City, Missouri has been waiting patiently here to continue our discussion.
Thank you.
Uh you know, I went back uh during the break, and I actually pulled a quote, and I didn't even say Democrats.
I said what you get right down to it, liberals are just downright mean.
They're bullies, authoritarian, arrogant, condescending, fool of themselves, absolutely no reason to be.
Uh that's that's the extent of it.
That's what I said.
Okay, that that's that's fair enough.
But I mean, it it seems um I l I listen off and on throughout the year.
Of course, yes.
But um I uh you tend to be a little loose and use the term liberal and democrat almost interchangeably, it seems like.
So you don't find any liberals and a republicans well, maybe a couple, but I mean statistically they don't exist.
Well, well, my my whole point making this call is I'm certainly, believe me, I'm not going to even attempt to defend Clinton at all.
I mean, I I voted for him, I don't approve of a lot of stuff that happened, and so I'm not gonna get into that.
Right.
It just seems like that, you know, you over the past however many years have made a career out of of doing everything you can to bash him, to badmouth him, and then you know, when Bush is in office, anyone who disagrees with him is a Bush hater.
And I think he said something, in fact, earlier of Democrats are obsessed with getting rid of Bush and things like that, and that's exactly what the Republicans were doing to all the Clinton.
Let's let's go back though.
I I I can remember being called a Clinton hater.
There was a the the media came up with a term to describe any critic of Clinton.
Uh, and that was Clinton hater.
Um but we never called Clinton a terrorist.
We never compared Bill Clinton to um uh you know Hitler.
Uh we didn't suggest that the biggest threat, as Jack Mertha did the other day, to peace in the world is Bill Clinton.
Uh okay, I would I have disagreed with Bush on numerous occasions.
I still do on on immigration issues and others.
Uh but you know what I think the problem is, uh Brian, and I actually I run into this a lot.
I am I'm literally despised by by uh a lot of people in the media and on the left, and I'm despised by people who don't even listen much.
And so I've been perplexed.
Okay, how how can how can this be because I'm you know I'm a lovable, likable guy.
I am not despised by anybody that knows me.
So what explains this?
And I think the left, and I don't mean Democrats, the left, I'm talking about the ideological left for so long owned the playing field that they were above being made fun of and being ridiculed, and along came old El Rushbow in 1988, and I've made a career out of making fun of them, and it never happened before.
Why you're not supposed to make fun of people who believe in abortion, you're not supposed to call them feminazis.
Okay, that's the same thing.
You're not supposed to make fun and and and nobody ever did, and so I am hated and reviled.
But I don't come close to Michael Moore.
I don't come close to some of the Cindy.
She has some of the the the people that are foaming at the mouth on the left.
This program is useless.
Even if 90% satire, satires humor.
There is sheer outrage and anger on the other side.
When you defend someone like Ann Coulter, I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to say that what she says about whatever, like fragging John Murtha and all that kind of stuff, that is not exactly something that a nice person would say.
So when you when you say liberals are not, then you know, obviously I I just wanted to, you know, get your opinion on aren't you leaving yourself wide open for the people who are not going to be able to do that?
I f ever since it was discovered that I was a conservative, I've been and everybody else on my side's been called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
Well, I'm not saying that's right.
I'm certainly I've I wouldn't I I try try and not use such blank terms like that.
What I'm trying to explain to you here is that for the longest time the left had a monopoly.
They had they they had the power with the media to establish cliches and stereotypes of conservatives.
And for the longest time we've been fuming about it because it's not true.
They can't defeat us in the arena of ideas, so they try to discredit us by calling us these isms racists and this sort of stuff.
And that's you know, that's pretty serious stuff.
And you of course it is.
And that's why I want to assure you, I uh you know I'm I'm not agreeing with that at all.
Oh, I'm not sure what's the point.
I'm trying to explain to you that what I do is not mean.
What I do is funny.
I I they they just can't take it.
And so now I am considered uh, you know, uh almost satanic because the the you the left can make fun of all kinds of people and get away with it.
The right can't.
There's a different standard out there.
You talked about Ann Coulter.
You know, I w I would suggest that all of you uh actually go get her book and read it.
I have.
You ha you've read the latest book?
Yes.
You have.
Can you tell me what you thought of her chapter on the infallibility of liberals?
Uh I I Again, blanket term.
Can you tell me no, can you tell me what you thought of her excellent intellectual dist discourse on the deterioration and abomination that is the public school system.
Yes, I can.
When she uh I happen to be a teacher, that's why I took that one to heart.
When she says stuff like, um, oh, that the you know, the it uses words like indoctrination, which I I think is absolutely ridiculous.
Far more than that.
Yeah, when she says stuff like, you know, teachers d are are very well paid, you know, and because all we do is we only work nine months.
Well, I'm sorry.
I work year-round.
Oh, she does far more than that.
The whole thing is that the totally destroys the whole belief the system in evolution and Darwinism.
She talks about what a bunch of closed minds, liberal educators are.
You know, I I don't obviously don't have the names at the tip of my tongue right now, but that's my whole point of this is that both sides, left and right, are dealing in such blanket statements.
And I don't think you're not a big thing.
This is this is this is I steadfastly disagree with you.
You read Ann Coulter's book, and you are going to get an intellectual feast.
You're gonna get a book that was long researched, well researched, and well documented.
You do have a chapter in there on the uh on the infallibility, and I'll explain that to you in this manner.
Her theory on infallibility is that the Democrats go out, the liberals go out and get a bunch of victims of a cause and then turn them into into critics of uh conservatives and republicans, and you can't criticize them because they're victims.
Ergo, the Jersey girls, ergo John Mertha.
He was in he was a Marine.
You can't criticize him.
You gotta listen to what he says because they can't win in the arena of ideas.
The difference is that Ann Coulter's book is full of meat.
It is full of substance.
She goes on the Today Show and says what she says about the um about the Jersey girls, and everybody gets sidetracked on that and ignores the You know, they're the liberals still are not objecting to the whole premise of her book is that the liberals are godless today, that they're permanent pretty much atheists.
And they I guess they're comfortable with that because they're not even reacting to it.
I don't think just like they don't listen to this program, they're not reading her book.
Well, again, I you know, I I'm I'm I guess my whole point again, to go back to what I was saying is that we everybody deals in these blanket statements, you know, uh all liberals, all conservatives, whatever.
And and I just don't I think that's just uh uh exercise in futility to to go on with to, you know, to to say stuff like that.
Because obviously there the world is is has a lot of shades of gray.
It's not all black and white.
Um, that's that's uh there's I mean, uh I know a lot of nuance out there, a lot of gray area.
Uh but there are liberals and there are conservatives.
And liberals are liberals.
I don't care where they are.
The difference yeah, the the thing you gotta come to accept and and understand is a an often uh stated theory of mine, a profundity uttered early on in this program, words mean things.
And the liberals want their words to be taken however they intend them to be taken.
Um they they want excuses, they want to be uh uh immune from criticism for cer for certain things while being critical of identical things.
But the thing uh uh the bottom line is that they just can't take it.
They just can't take the criticism because they never had any.
They can't take being made fun of, because they never were made fun of, and they don't know how to deal with it.
And what we're seeing is a is a very, I think, knee-jerk uh emotional reaction when you get people like Michael Moore and others uh reacting.
Uh and and and Coulter's point is as long as there are people out there gonna call George W. Bush Hitler.
And as long as there are people out there that are quote gonna say that George Bush represents the greatest threat to peace in the world, she's not gonna shut up.
Uh and and that's uh, you know, it's it's a it's a battle and a war out there, and and you know, I think our side's winning it because we are doing it with humor.
Well, and in her argument, and and the whole argument to me is that when when something like that is said, the implication is that that includes everybody.
And and I think there's a huge majority of people out there on both sides who don't fit into any of those categories.
And that's that's my whole point.
Well, uh there if if if that's true, then they're either out there hip-hopping, uh waiting in line at blockbuster, uh, or are otherwise disengaged, and so who cares?
Uh we are approaching the people who are engaged and who uh can concern themselves uh with the future of the country and and these things.
And I think all of this is uh, you know, people how come you don't get mad at this?
It's a sign of effectiveness.
We're winning.
We're carrying the day out there.
You can't expect people to own the country for fifty years just to casually let go of it.
And so um, you know, it is what it is.
Uh Brad, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
Uh you're a very nice guy.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
All right, in honor of our last phone call, uh, ladies and gentlemen, an example of EIB humor and satire that always, however, while making us laugh, uh makes a point.
Given that we've been running this and given that CNN has aired excerpts of this.
Why would I ever expect fair treatment in the New York Times?
I wouldn't.
I don't.
I don't expect it.
I mean so, you know, when the New York Times or anybody else publishes or broadcasts dastardly mean stuff about I'm practically inviting it, folks.
And it uh uh it is what it is.
Doesn't bother me.
I didn't go into this for approval.
Didn't go into this for good PR and great spin and love and adoration and affection by the people I happen to be criticizing.
What kind of warped mind would I have if I expected to be loved by these people after 18 years of this.
Who's next on this program?
Al in Bayside, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yes, good afternoon, Rush.
Second time caller.
Thank you, sir.
Uh Rush, what I wanted to challenge the environmentalist left assertion that we're running out of oil.
I'd like to point out that beside the fact that you yourself have pointed out that Alaska, Wyoming, and Utah have more oil than the Middle East.
In the province of Alberta in Canada, they have approximately two trillion barrels of what they call sand oil.
Yeah, so no don't leave out Montana in this recipe, too.
Montana the they've got a lot, and they're gonna take a different technique to get it, but there's a lot there too.
Right.
But just in Alberta, that would be eight times what there is in the Middle East.
Yeah.
And uh the we're told that uh the Middle East reserves will last about seventy years.
So what's in Alberta is about five hundred and sixty years.
And we're not even talking about the reserves in Mexico.
But you've also got a bunch of environmentalist wackos and won't let you get to it.
Well, that's true, but I believe that if we get to the point where the cars aren't running any any longer, we will get to it.
Uh well, yeah, I mean, I th I think uh there's there's there's argument uh from a number of uh environmental uh geologists who speculate oil's still being made, that oil's still being created by the earth uh in uh in various places.
It's not just uh from from you know ancient fossils and and uh and so forth.
But you know, I I I think you're right.
I I don't know.
When I start explaining this stuff, I sometimes I'm I I get over-awed by by it all, and it's it's it's even with somebody such as myself with uh excellent uh verbal and communication skills and an expansive fertile mind, it still is tough to describe what what I feel uh when when I travel anywhere.
I the the the sh the sheer size, the complexity, I guess is the best way to describe it.
The complexity of all the systems, eco and otherwise in this planet, that provide the opportunity for m I mean incalculable different types of species, wife, uh just overwhelms me uh and tells me that I don't care what anybody thinks or believes, it cannot be an accident.
And I don't think we human beings will ever uh evolve intellectually to be able to mathematically understand all of this.
But there is no question this is all a giant mathematical equation.
Uh and if you if you look at physicists and uh and uh people like Hawking, when they break all this down, it's a math problem.
When they make discoveries, they try to explain the universe, they always do it in terms of mathematics.
But the idea that that uh Al Gore says we've got ten years before we harm irrevocably the ecosystem.
In fact, I got a story here from our buddies over at newsbusters.com.
Apparently Al Gore was on Here it is.
Al Gore was on uh the what is it, the Daily Show, John John Stewart's program.
And apparently this this was just a laugh riot.
Uh the first thing that Gore said early on, Stewart asked him when he first started doing this slide show about global warming.
Now keep in mind that in Gore's idiot movie, he claims that America has only 10 years to avert a major environmental crisis.
Uh but he obviously forgot this because he told Stewart, oh, I've been I've been doing this slideshow for eight years.
I mean for eight years, long time.
Then he changed his position.
He said, actually, I've been doing this slideshow since before I came vice president.
Well, that would be 1993.
Well, that's over 13 years.
Okay, so assuming the second answer is the right one, that means that he's been doing this presentation for at least 14 years, which means the end of the world happened four years ago and we all missed it.
Maybe even funnier.
Later in the discussion, Gore changed his position again.
He said, you know, actually, I've been trying to tell this story for 30 years.
This is like the story we had last week, the AP, remember this?
Uh they they had a report that first claimed the earth is currently the hottest it's been in 400 years, and they changed it to a thousand years, then they changed it again to 2,000 years.
Gore said the only crisis we've ever faced, global warming is the only crisis we've ever faced that has the capacity to completely end human civilization.
And and and Stewart, not even Stuart can let that go.
Well, what about you know, nuclear's got a shot there?
Uh oh, a bomb's got a shot.
No, no, no, no.
Gore maintained that global warming would destroy more of the planet and civilization than nuclear weapons.
Well, how do you not make fun of this?
Gladly.
That's what we do here on this program.
We make the complex understandable.
You know, have have you people uh heard any of the latest tape from bin Laden?
Well, I heard a little bit of it, and we have been trying to find a transcript, and we can't find one.
Cookie was looking exhaustively all morning long.
I have done my own exhaustive advanced searches using special techniques.
There's you can't find it on Al Jazeera.
You can't find it at Al-Arabia.
You can't even find it on that wacko Website that uh that they use to post uh attack warnings uh to various uh terrorists.
But the reason we've been looking for it is because folks, it is I mean, it's Chuck Schumer.
It it it's it's Ted Kennedy.
It's Democrat talking points.
It is I mean, Bin Lagnan in this thing accuses Bush of following the polls.
He pre he uh uh praises the U.S. media uh for for for for standing vigil uh or or criticizes Bush for being critical of the media, which is only informing people of the truth uh of of such it's it's a st we can't find it.
We cannot locate it.
Now there has to be a reason for this.
Uh and I can only speculate it, but the reason we can't find it is because some people one of two things.
They either recognize it as exactly as I just described it, or they think it's a rove trick, and that Rove actually created and produced this thing, and they're not gonna let him get away with it.
But there has to have been for not one website in the world to have that transcript.
Now some bloggers may have it uh at w it was when the when it was posted, but I haven't I haven't visited all the blogs.
So if our buddies at Power Line or Captain's Quarters or Red State, I mean I don't know if they've got it or not, uh, but it's nowhere to be found.
And there is a there has to be a reason for this.
Because it's that's what made me want to go find the whole thing.
Just just a few of the things that I heard is that whoa, this is exactly it's Democrat talking points all over.
All right.
Uh audio sound by time.
We have the uh audio of the video I saw just moments ago and described to you the so refreshing uh uh being Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi and President Bush after they finished their tour of Graceland.
I was hoping the Prime Minister would want to come to Graceland.
I knew he loved Elvis.
I didn't realize how much he loved Elvis.
He not only knows Elvis's history, he can sing a pretty good Elvis song.
This visit here shows uh that uh not only am I personally fond of the Prime Minister that uh our the ties between our peoples are very strong as well.
And so uh again to the presses, thank you all.
And Mr. Prime Minister, glad you joined us.
It's like a dream.
And that expected President me to be this place.
There's every song.
To dream the imposter dreams.
My dream came true.
Thank you very much.
I just love that.
He's the prime minister of Japan has one of his most moving life experiences going to Graceland.
It was his dream.
His dream came true.
Thank you very much, and he's saying this is just Frank folk, this is more like it.
This is more real guy.
Absolutely real guy.
Here's Carl in Jacksonville, Florida.
Carl, I'm glad you uh waited.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, thank you, Rush.
Uh six or seven years ago.
You published your letter.
Uh published a uh speech from your grandfather.
On your website.
Yes.
And I was thrilled by it.
You're talking about the that was I think it was my father's speech, the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
That's right.
Yeah.
Um Yeah, you know what?
That's we we have that on the members side in what we uh call our essential stack of stuff.
But uh, you know, it's been a while since I think we've had it up there on the on the free side.
That's not a bad idea out there, Carl, coming up here on Independence Day weekend, uh Fourth of July weekend for those of you in the Rio Linda.
Uh Coco uh move that speech to the free site.
Go ahead and do it now so people can uh can go access it.
This is uh uh even even this b a couple years after that we put this up, there were some actual uh uh drive-by media types who went out there and tried to accuse my dad of plagiarism.
Remember that uh uh uh he I remember when he was sitting there writing this speech at home, and he'd go up to the library at the local university and and uh do research and uh heard him give the speech uh a couple times.
Uh the signers of the declaration of it is powerful, powerful speech.
Uh And yeah, we'll we'll dig it out of the essential stack and we'll put it in the free side.
Thanks, Carl, very much.
Michael in um Soldovia, Alaska.
Uh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh good morning, Maha Rush.
Yeah, thank you, sir.
I I apologize for the morning, but uh we have the honor of enjoying you starting at eight o'clock in the morning.
Well, you know, you're lucky to get it whenever you get it.
Uh and I appreciate that you make the effort.
Well, I wanted to uh I wanted to expand a little bit on the wonderful comments you made when that young man called earlier today about the motivations of our drive-by media.
Yeah.
Uh as a Vietnam veteran and one of those American air pilots with a couple of two hundred fifty uh air missions over Vietnam.
Uh I've got a strong belief that not only is it the drive-by media, but the management of the drive-by media to a very large extent, are those children of the sixties.
They've grown up and they like the tactics they use to cause this.
Oh, no question about it.
No question about you're you're absolutely right.
Well, the motive the motivation is the same motivation was uh to cause us to turn our back on sixty thousand Americans that gave their lives uh and caused the government to walk away.
I know it it's a it's a replay because they consider Vietnam one of their glory periods.
Uh try to turn this war.
Yeah, exactly.
That that's when the in fact, uh Howard Feynman of the Drive By Media writes for Newsweek, he's an NBC uh commentator, actually said that it was the Vietnam War that created the media as a fourth political party.
Or third political, whatever it was, third political party in the country, and that uh since then that they've they've uh they've they've pretty much acted as though they exist in that context.
So but you're so you're you're basically reacting to when I said to the young man that I don't think there really was total unity even uh on the day of nine-eleven.
Absolutely, sir.
Absolutely.
I I think that uh uh to a large extent uh everybody moves in the direction of the news, good or bad, but uh when everybody sits down and has a little time to think it over, uh that's when the influence of those folks uh starts to come in back in.
And and I uh I think that they were going with uh with what they thought was the popular tide at the time, and now they're uh speaking out and trying to turn that tide against what what has to be and they're they're doing it for two reasons.
One, they're doing it because they genuinely want to turn the tide.
Second reason to see that they approved to themselves they still have the power to do it.
Um they don't have their monopoly anymore.
It was much easier when they had Walter Cronkite on your side, and Walter Cronkite denounces the war, then you know that that that pretty much um uh helped them.
But they don't have that anymore.
There is no Walter Cronkite.
There is no singular voice.
In fact, I even I I forget who wrote this.
There was some op-ed piece uh lamenting the fact that there just isn't one person with whom the nation can have a conversation with during these times of trouble and crisis.
That now there are so many voices out there, and some of them, of course, are so irresponsible.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh they long for the past, and they long for the good old days, and that's why they're constantly looking uh in the to the past.
Your comment, though, about management, l let me amend that.
You know, we we see the the uh talent, we see the reporters, and we see the anchors and the infobabes and the anchorettes, but we don't see these producers.
And the bunch of producers came of age uh in the sixties as well, and uh a lot of them are you know fresh journalism school grads, and journalism schools exist for one reason, and that's to inculcate a culture, to not teach a craft.
Uh a great journalist really needs to have a good education in English, a superior education in history, uh uh a knowledge, some knowledge of uh of uh general issues.
Uh but that's that's not what journalism school teaches.
Journalism school teaches an approach, a culture, an agenda, uh uh uh uh uh uh a formula, if you will, and they churn these people out of these things, uh and it it it uh turned people out that have really no context, no historical context.
Uh other than their own lives and their own memories because their historical context begins with the day of their birth, in uh in most cases.
So the a lot of producers that that that you know are in charge of deciding what gets on the air, what shows editors in the in the in the print publications, what goes on the front page and uh and so forth.
But yeah, I think I think you've uh nailed it just as uh many people have.
This is simply a period where not only are they trying to recreate Watergate or uh the uh Vietnam War with uh Iraq, they're trying to turn this administration into Richard Nixon.
Uh all to prove they can still do it and to relive their glory days.
They don't see any glory days in the future down the road.
All right.
All right, we're back.
Los Angeles Times, op ed columnist Rosa Brooks.
You talk about an uninformed idiot.
Now, see, having said that, why would I expect favorable treatment from her?
Uh or from the Los Angeles Times.
Let me amend it.
She's just ignorant.
She's arrogant and ignorant.
I gave you the details of this Supreme Court decision earlier in the program.
If you missed it, check the website later today.
Uh if anybody overstepped any authority here, it was the U.S. Supreme Court and the four liberals and Anthony Kennedy that that uh that voted they threw out an act of Congress.
They ignored a unanimous Supreme Court decision in 1942, allowing for military tribunals.
So we have we have Rosa Brooks, the LA Times, did Bush commit war crimes.
The real blockbuster in the Hamden decision is the court's holding that common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda.
A holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the Federal War Crimes Act.
Impeachment anyone, also predicted to you this would be the case, uh as far back as two thousand four.
Uh the court is wrong, Ms. uh Ms. Brooks.
Uh the Geneva Convention does not apply as written to terrorist prisoners at Club Gitmo.
Just because the Supreme Court says so, it means they could they just have said they're above the law.
They are the law.
Congress isn't the law.
They are based on their personal preferences.
In this case, the uh liberal majority.
And we found uh we found the bin Laden, but not a transcript, but I found enough of the story.
Uh my brother David uh uh I guess stopped wandering the streets of uh Cape Girardo long enough to go the computer, and he found it on the Al Jazeera website, uh some of the uh things that I had heard from bin Laden's speech.
I'll get into that in the monologue section of the next hour.
People have been patiently waiting here, and I want to get to Virginia Beach with Vance.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you to this rush.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm a uh Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, and I'm a benefactor or beneficiary of the uh Dope Soldier Program.
I want to thank you and uh the folks who make that possible.
Thank you, sir.
If you would uh to accommodate my hearing, if you would slow down just a little.
Sorry about that, Rush.
That's all right.
I understand your enthusiasm.
I just want to make the comment.
Uh you know, Brian called, and whenever these liberals make uh comments about blanket accusations, I remember some of my daddy said he said if you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one yells is the one who got hit.
You throw a rock into I'm having to read because I didn't hear you into a pack of dogs, the one who yells is the one who got hit.
Yes, sir.
Okay, so so uh means the criticism hit a home.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
So I sit here and say liberals are just mean.
And this guy, ooh, doesn't like that, so has to call a react.
See, this is the theory.
Uh it's interesting.
Vance, thanks for the call.
This this is the theory uh that I had to go back and forth with when I first started getting all kinds of criticism.
Do you react to it?
Because when you do, the critics say, aha!
Aha.
Must be true.
Thus be really worried about it to be bothered enough to respond to it.
And that's essentially the uh theory that the Vance here espoused.
Vance, thanks much for the call, St. Lucy County.
Uh is this St. Lucy County?
Uh here in Florida.
Florida, okay.
Jeff, everybody has to be from somewhere, I guess.
Yep.
St. Lucy County.
Thank you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
Excited to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I uh just watching the news and I'm confused, all this flooding in the Northeast.
Where's all the looting?
I mean, isn't that what Katrina taught us that it's okay to loot?
Uh deal and rob?
Well, yeah, except I've got a story in the stacks, Some looters just got fifteen years.
Uh looters in New Orleans just got fifteen years.
Well what about all the ones up in the Northeast?
Well you mean there aren't any I'm confused.
I thought it was okay.
Well there might be some we're just not being shown.
Well they shouldn't wait a minute Mr. Snerdley said there aren't any looters?
I haven't seen any.
He says there's this snerdily says there aren't any looters up there.
Uh interesting question that you've raised here.
And I'm also curious to know where FEMA is passing out their gift cards to those poor people up there.
Um yeah good point.
The only guy I've seen on television is Fast Eddie Rindell, the mayor of uh or the governor of Pennsylvania.
It's an interesting point.
You know we had um we had tornadoes go through other parts of the country.
I didn't see FEMA there either nor we haven't seen Bush by the way Bush doesn't care about this.
Yeah I didn't see the looting with the tornadoes either.
No, you didn't uh what are you what what is the conclusion that you draw from this I think it's pretty obvious.
If you don't get it then you're you're probably a little too far left.
Another one of those blanket statements Russ.
Well I know during during the uh during the during Hurricane Katrina you're right they were telling us they're entitled those people live in poverty they've got to survive they got to go into those stores to get food what do you expect them to do?
There's no distribution system and so forth.
It's just another clear illustration, folks, of the massive double standard that exists.
We all know why that's the case.
The fact of the matter is that the reporting in Katrina was so abominable that it wasn't nearly, it was bad.
But, I mean, it wasn't nearly, nearly as chaotic and bad as the drive-bys led us to believe.
Don in Lexington, Kentucky.
You're on open line Friday.
Hello.
Rush good talk to you thank you.
I would have had a comment to make about the teacher that called in.
Yeah.
That's their game.
It's a blanket approach.
You know, the blanket, the shotgun blast.
And I'm reading her book now, which I'm finding enjoyable.
I have to look up a word at least every other page.
But she's not making that point that all teachers are well paid.
She's hitting on the union pretty good.
She's hitting on the politics pretty good.
She's hitting on a lot of the things that they have to learn to become a teacher.
But she's not saying that the flyover country is paying that kind of money that they are in New York.
I just, you know, I think you get it wrong.
I was uh if I can make a comment about the looters quickly quickly thirty seconds all right I think they're already in office the looters in the Northeast are already in office good point.
Look as to Coulter's book I got a few seconds here you really it is amazing to me to watch the reaction is they're not even reacting to her book.
They're reacting to her interview with Matt Lauer about the Jersey girls is what they react.
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