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July 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Just as soon as I started watching television at the top of the hour break, um Fox was uh televising the White House press briefing.
And I don't know who the uh drive-by reporter was, but he asked the question about Condi Rice.
How come we should not go over there yet?
I mean, come on.
Bush 41 and Clinton, they went over there and they talked to Assad and they sent people over there.
And Tony looked at the guy.
Tony Snow looked at the guy and said, What?
Just like they said, What?
And this reporter started stunned, and he said, Well, uh, that's true.
I mean, we went over there and we talked ceasefire with these guys, and and Tony Snow said, yeah, and it was blazingly pointless.
My gosh, this is fabulous.
Have a White House press secretary telling the truth to the media in the White House press corps.
That bluntly, it was blazingly pointless, too.
And it's obvious that it was blazingly pointless because where are we?
And of course, Clinton's out there, you know, uh, I was so sad.
My I wanted my legacy to be to solve that crisis over there.
And I thought, you know, you when you stop and think of this, stop and think of this.
Israel had agreed with Clinton.
This is, I think, um uh a Hood Barak, I believe it was the prime minister at the time, could be wrong about that.
They negotiated this big deal where Israel was going to give half of Jerusalem or uh a section of Jerusalem to uh to the Palestinians, 97% of the West Bank, and Arafat turned it down because it's not about land, it's not that's not what this is about.
They claim that they want Israel off these lands, they want their original land back, blah, blah, blah.
It's not about that at all.
It's about the annihilation of Israel, and nothing has changed.
It's what Hezbollah is about, is what is uh Iran is about.
Uh and and anybody who thinks listen to Bolton.
John Bolton said this so well today.
It's it's great that uh uh he is the ambassador of the United Nations.
A question, unidentified idiot reporter.
Uh Mr. Ambassador, a lot of Arab diplomats in the hallway here at the UN accuse you of blocking uh any movement uh toward a uh cease fire, uh a ceasefire, uh ceasefire with a terrorist ceasefire uh uh immediately in Lebanon.
What what would what would you answer to that?
The notion that you just declare a ceasefire and act as if that's gonna solve the problem, I think is simplistic.
Among other things, I want somebody to address the problem how you get a ceasefire with a terrorist organization.
I'd like to know when when there's been an effective ceasefire uh between a terrorist organization and a state in the past.
This is a different kind of situation, and I I'm not sure that sort of old thinking, conventional thinking works in a case like this.
I am going to explain what ceasefire means, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh oh, yeah, we have what Tony Snow said to Helen Thomas yesterday.
Here, grab cut number eight before I explain to you what ceasefire means.
Helen Thomas, who is Lebanese.
She's part Lebanese or all of she, she is.
She just, you know, she's been there too long.
Uh uh, it's it's it's it it it's it's what it is.
Uh and she went on a rant yesterday about the uh the whole situation.
Uh, and here's a portion of it from the White House press briefing yesterday.
It could have stopped the bombardment of Lebanon.
We have that much control with uh the Israelis.
I don't think so, Helen.
For collective punishment against all of Lebanon and Palestine.
No, what's interesting, Helen.
And that's the perception of the United States.
Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view.
That's Tony Snow, who told a reporter today, yeah, and your question and the answer is blazingly pointless, and just told Helen Thomas, uh thanks, Helen Thomas, for the Hezbollah view uh of of the circumstances.
Ah, this is great that he's there.
I I sent him an email yesterday.
Uh uh my brother was in Washington yesterday and uh has has three of his little girls, three of my nieces, and uh took them by the White House to meet Tony, and Tony showed him the West Wing and so forth.
And I sent him a note thanking him for doing that.
And I added on to it.
I said, You you have you have redefined this position.
Uh and and it's it's just it's great that you're in that job, but it it really is.
And these are two great examples, blazingly pointless.
And thanks for the Hezbollah view.
Now let's talk about this ceasefire business because you heard Helen Thomas talking about it, and you hear Bolton saying, how do you have ceasefire with terrorists?
Uh you know, little kids need primers.
Crumb crunchers need primers.
Uh and so do liberals, uh, drive-by journalists and UN members.
Now, crumb crunchers, little kids, learn from C spot run.
We uh remember the book Dick and Jane, C-Spot Run and all that.
I don't know if they still use that, but that's what I learned to read with.
That was my primer.
Uh the the liberals need a primer on C terrorists ceasefire.
Uh absurdity with absurdity is a bit too grown up for liberals in the drive-by media.
I don't think they would understand if I were to illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
Um I think it's too subtle for them.
Satire and parody, liberals don't laugh, particularly when you're making fun of them.
So I want to take a different tack here, um, not quite as direct as uh as Bolton, but with the with the same point.
How do you just declare a ceasefire with a terrorist organization?
It's it's absurd to how many ceasefires have there been over the course of just this conflict alone.
Uh the first remember Arafat showing up the United Nations had a gun.
First thing the terrorists said, they had guns, they started firing their pistols in the air.
But the forces of good, the good guys beat them back, and they call for a ceasefire.
PLO and everybody else when they had just little pistols and you know, penny anti little uh little little little weapons, they call for a ceasefire.
And during the ceasefire, they loaded up with rifles, and then they attacked again.
Forces of good beat them back with their rifles, and so they call for another ceasefire.
And then they loaded up with hand grenades.
And then we beat them back with their hand grenades.
Their hand grenades weren't enough for the forces of good.
They call for a ceasefire.
Then they load it up with suicide bombers.
They started sending their kids out there with bombs strapped to them and blown up innocent people all throughout parts of Israel.
Uh and then we beat them back with that, and they call for a ceasefire.
During the ceasefire, they ratchet up again and they load up with catchas, ketchuan missiles.
Uh, but the forces of good beat them back.
Uh, and so they call for a ceasefire.
They're always calling for a ceasefire.
Do you know what it's always the bad guys that are really leading the call for a ceasefire?
They'll they'll they'll uh in this case, uh you've got some of the world know there needs to be a ceasefire and so forth, and the Israelis need to do this.
But the bottom line is in most instances it's the bad guys after they got their clocks cleaned, uh, start waving a white flag, say we need a ceasefire.
After the Katuches, now they've come back with rockets.
Uh and when the forces of good beat them back, what will they come back with next after their next demand for a ceasefire?
The bottom line is this the moral, my friends, is that ceasefire does not mean end of hostility.
Ceasefire simply means time out, time out.
We Hezbollah guys need to find a more powerful weapon, and we'll be back at you when we get it.
There is no such thing as a ceasefire in their lexicon.
There's no such thing as a ceasefire in their dictionary.
It's nothing more than a ruse.
So when they demand ceasefires, or when they have their allies around the world demanding ceasefires, it's simply to buy some time to uh amp up, to load up uh and and to increase uh their uh their own armaments.
And Bolton is exactly right.
I mean, there's there's there's no logical way that you negotiate a ceasefire.
That's what the Limbaugh doctrine is.
The Limbaugh doctrine clearly states peace follows victory.
Peace does not result from uh settlements, ceasefires, negotiations, doctors, nurses, clean water, all of that sort of happy uh go lucky good stuff.
quick timeout here, folks.
We'll back and uh be back and continue in seconds.
Stay with us.
And we are back, El Rushbo.
Talent on loan from uh God.
According to CBS Market Watch, oil futures have fallen to a three-week low of $73 under $73 a barrel now.
Uh and here's why.
This is the this is the explanation for why.
An unexpected climb in last week's U.S. gasoline supplies, and the realization by speculators, by traders, that the fighting in the Middle East hasn't and mostly likely won't cut into global oil production.
You know, uh remember the first Gulf War?
People's memories are short, but not mine, ladies and gentlemen.
First Gulf War, 1990, 91.
And uh the no blood for oil crowd uh came alive during the fall and the early winter of 1990, saying it's not worth this blood for oil, and this is you know the environmental uh concern and and all that.
Then people said, Oh my gosh, what are you gonna have oil to war in Iraq?
Oh my god, what's gonna be oil prices?
The oil price fell dramatically.
Uh after all after everything shook out, the oil fi oil price, barrel price fell dramatically.
Uh I'm not saying that that that it's gonna fall dramatically here.
There are obviously different market circumstances today than there were uh, you know, 15, 16 years ago, but the fact of the matter remains uh that there is experience to look to.
Why is it that people keep expecting something to happen that hasn't happened?
Isn't that the definition of insanity?
Keep doing the same thing, and it results in the same way, but you keep hoping for a different result, or you keep thinking there'll be a different one.
There, I mean, it's like nobody learns from history.
Now, what are the discussion points that we have uh been on to today?
Uh and CNN just led their hour, their top of the hour news with this.
Now the evacuation's going good now.
Oh, yeah, we're gonna get uh by this weekend six, seven thousand Americans people out of there.
That'll be good.
That's good.
Now the problem is the cost.
Now the price of the journey out of Lebanon is the problem.
And we had audio sound bites this morning.
Uh in fact, let's go back and play those, uh, Henderson.
Let me go back to the uh to the top.
We'll start with uh number four, and we'll go through number five and six.
This is a 20-year-old uh college co-ed.
Uh a college co-ed attending university in Lebanon.
Must have been an attractive student loan program.
Her name is uh Ashley Marinakio.
And she is asked this morning by Soladet O'Brien of CNN, the first mass evacuation by a ship of Americans done by the Norwegians.
Did that surprise you?
I mean, look at the evacuations from Katrina.
We didn't expect to be getting out any time soon.
Uh-huh.
Well, then what are you whining about?
If you didn't expect to get on any time soon, why are you whining?
Russia, I didn't hear her whining.
Oh, you haven't?
Well, next question.
Sounded like a pretty awful trip out there, Ashley.
Looks really hot out there.
Wonder why I still have dead.
Could it be it's the Middle East in July?
I mean, uh, saw people covering themselves with uh with tarp and sort of arranging their children around cardboard.
Describe what that was like pretty crowded.
Yeah, it was unfortunately a floating refugee camp.
It was awful.
Because um there's people with ten kids, uh, you know, seriously, ten kids, and um they're trying to get food, and then there's other people yelling, saying that they're stealing food, and uh, you know, I I'm assuming that they were hungry because they'd been there since nine o'clock, and apparently, from what I hear, um, at around eleven o'clock when they came around giving food out.
This was the first time that people were being fed.
Yeah, it was sad.
It was sad.
It was sad.
More on that in just a moment.
Because I've done additional research, and I have found a story about this getting fed business.
But yeah, it was really bad.
It was, oh, it's bad.
They're stealing food with soon they were hungry.
It's really, Really, really bad.
So the next question, well, uh highly organized, uh, we're on it, we're doing a good job.
Is that how you would describe the evacuation?
I mean, the boat's not made to hold people.
I mean, it wasn't comfortable, and there were lots of flies.
It was um by the end of the trip, people were sort of going crazy.
All right, so you complain about the trip, you complain about the boat, you complain about the flies.
You're out of there.
You're on television and you're a star.
Now you're concerned about the price and get concerned about other people.
No matter what you do for these people, it's never enough.
Just let the war zone for crying out loud.
Just let the war zone.
What do you expect?
Expect to get out on, uh the Queen Mary II?
Or the Queen Elizabeth II, whatever the hell it is.
At any rate, uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, I have photo here.
Uh and we're gonna put this on our website.
We'll uh put the photo on the website of a bunch of Americans lounging around on a cruise ship off the uh coast of um of uh looks like uh Beirut.
It's an evacuation ship, and here's the uh here's the caption, U.S. citizen, Dr. Sam Dagger, left, looks on, may even be smoking a cigar, I can't tell.
Got something in one of his hands.
Looks on as his son Glenn Wright and his friends Jim Nasser, second left, and his brother Jeff, all from Scranton, Pennsylvania, sunbathe on the deck of the Orient Queen cruise ship, with the Beirut skyline in the background and the port of the capital Beirut in Lebanon.
And they are sunbathed jeans and cutoffs are rolled up, look like they're drinking beer.
Uh a little card table out there on the deck of the ship.
Really, uh really tough, tough, tough tootie.
And then here's the full CNN story that inv involves the uh uh Ashley Marinacchio, the college co ed age twenty.
She's by the way from Long Branch, New Jersey.
Uh and the interesting, I'll just give you some interesting pull quotes from this uh or excerpts from this uh piece.
But Marinachio said that she was pleased the U.S. government had provided food for Americans aboard her ferry, although she said it disturbed her that others were hungry and there wasn't enough to go around.
This is the Norwegian ship that she was on, a hundred and twenty-seven Americans on the ship.
And what happened was that U.S. Navy SEALs, I didn't know this, but the Navy SEALs have a meals on wheatles program.
The U.S. Navy SEALs pulled alongside the ferry on which this babe was uh getting out of town to deliver boxes of chicken sandwiches.
That's where they got their food, and that's just complaining, but there wasn't nothing going around.
And when the well I don't know how many were on the ship, sixteen hundred or something or twelve hundred, whatever it was.
Uh and she said it was for American citizens only.
And that actually made a big stink on the boat because people who weren't American citizens are trying to get the food.
Other people were screaming it's for Americans only.
Show your passport.
People getting out of a war zone.
Let me ask you something, Ashley.
You're on this Norwegian ship.
You're praising the Swedish, you're praising the Norwegians, you're praising whatever other little podunk countries are sending their rat trawlers over there to get people out of Beirut.
They don't put any food or water on the boat, just herd you people on there like a bunch of cattle, and all of a sudden, riding to the rescue, the U.S. Navy SEAL's meals on wheels program, food for Americans, and you're still not happy.
Why don't you blame the Norwegians for not provisioning the ship?
Who would try to get 1,600 people out of there or 1200, whatever it was, without putting any food or water on the boat?
Well, because they were in a hurry and people want to get out of there, it's a war zone, and they're only going to Cyprus.
What's it gonna take?
How long's it didn't get Cypress?
Cyprus little island right off there, can't be very long.
Then uh then the the Ashley um uh Marinachio added, I understand this was the government's food, but in the case of an emergency, everybody needs to eat, whether you're an American or not.
Uh that's what I'm thinking.
I think she could have, you know, it's loaves and fishes time here, Ashley.
You got a hundred and twenty-seven chicken sandwiches brought by the U.S. Navy SEAL's Meatles on Wheels program.
You got Americans having to show their passport.
Share it.
Share it.
It's a short trip.
If it's so important that uh everybody eats, then share what you have.
Find a way to make a hundred and thirty chicken sandwiches and whatever else they had.
Go around.
It's a short trip.
Not a whole lot of sustenance and sustenance needed, and I doubt anybody starved on the trip anyway.
My uh my real question is were the vegetarian meals, because if the Navy uh didn't think of that, there will be hell to pay.
Uh you know, well, you got to take these dietary restrictions into and were their diabetics on board were the people that were glucose intolerant.
Um, you know, some people can't eat bread and and and gluten and and uh where where was the U.S. government on this?
I mean, they should have found a way to take a survey of the 1,200 people and find out the dietary requirements of everybody on board if they're gonna deliver any food.
It could have killed somebody with this food.
Yeah, the Katrina, I mean, it could have you know, this could have been a disaster averted if they'd have just done a little research and sent out menus.
A buddy Bo Diddley.
A buddy Bo Diddley.
From our uh lifestyle stack, uh, no details on this yet, because they got lots of other stuff in the lifestyle stack, but try this headline.
Blind man trying to handle gun and food fatally shoots wife.
It's from uh Morganton, North Carolina.
Legally blind man fatally shot his wife while trying to balance a plate of fried chicken and a pistol.
Um don't know if it was extra crispy or original recipe, but guess that doesn't matter.
We have the uh audio soundbite of the exchange between Tony Snow and this reporter about why don't we have somebody over there talking to these people about a ceasefire?
My question is why send Condi Rice everyone, obviously at this point should be only talking to one side of the country.
As the president considered, uh sending voice 41 and Clinton who have a really good track record after the tsunami.
What?
We've just said that Condi Rice is not going to go until the conditions are right.
So we'll wait until she goes the conditions are right.
Talks now would be pretty much one-sided.
in the conflict.
But wait a minute.
You said yourself correctly that both Bush 41 and Clinton had talks of Hafez al-Assad there is precedent for dealing with Syria.
Which were blazingly pointless.
Is that not great?
Tony Snow.
Send Clinton or Bush 41 to talk to Basher Assad.
This is the narrow focus of the action line of the story.
Uh, because they had good relations with him during the tsunami and Tony's What?
He reacts the way any of us would.
Uh, by the way, one one two more, three more comments here about these ingrates.
And by the way, I don't really know how many of them are ingrates.
We've we've uh I've no.
Is it in your stack?
Uh come find it in the stack.
I haven't a chance to go through your stack, but uh uh apparently there's more than just this uh marichino babe uh what is her Ashley Marocino?
Uh and the uh complaining about the flies and the uh and the all of the hardships and the heat and so forth.
Um it was awful.
Yes, it was awful.
We're all awful.
What with Katrina and all the rest?
So my question, why come home?
If the United States is so bad, and if we can't handle things like hurricanes and the aftermath of hurricanes, why come home, Ashley?
Why get on the boat?
Why make an effort to come home?
Why go to Cypress?
Why leave this heaven on earth that you live in already called Beirut?
What is the point?
Somebody else should have taken her spot on the ship, somebody who appreciates all the people working so hard to save her little rear end from her boneheaded decision to go to Lebanon in the first place.
Is are any of these people, have you seen anybody on these ships being interviewed by the media say thank you?
You heard one thank you?
You think this is easy?
But we had superpower rests.
We should have retart everywhere in the world.
Yeah, well, we would like to have resources everywhere in the world, but they're a bunch of uh anti-war peacenics who are doing their best to keep uh resources away, like the Democrats want to redeploy troops to Okinawa.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
That would really be helpful in this situation, wouldn't it?
Here's the uh one of the Reuters stories.
Americans wiped away tears, uh, hugged relatives, and grumbled about evacuation delays today before boarding a luxury ship that was to carry them from war war torn to Lebanon.
Crew members of the Orient Queen welcomed aboard parents pushing strollers and clutching their churrin.
Many expressed frustrations it had taken the U.S. government so long to get them out of Lebanon while Europeans and Lebanese with foreign passports already had fled by the thousands.
I can't believe the Americans, said Danny Atia, 39-year-old civil engineer from Kansas City, Missouri, as he stood with his pregnant wife and sons, Ally 10 and Adrian Six while waiting for buses that were to take them to the ship.
Everybody else had gone home, but we're still here.
After uh criticism from Congress, the State Department said it dropped plans to ask Americans to pay for their rides on commercial vessels.
Earlier authorities had planned to make Americans sign a note pledging to reimburse the government of the price of a commercial flight from Beirut to Cyprus, which is usually 150 to 200 bucks.
And they complained.
Ingrates complained about 150 to 200.
Uh, did the government pay to get them over there?
It is not done.
I knew this was not done.
The State Department's uh issued evacue orders all over the place.
Um uh and and uh they never pay to get everybody out of there because most people paid to get their way over there in the first place.
But because Congress raised hell, well, we're gonna we're gonna waive the hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars uh the price of a ticket to get out of uh Lebanon over to over to Beirut.
And still not one, thank you.
Not one, just a bunch of ingrate spoiled brat complaints.
Uh and of course, we can't ask what kind of wizards are these people to be over there in the first place.
You know, I mean Beirut used to be, Beirut used to sing.
Beirut used to be a place that you want to go.
I'm talking twenty, thirty years ago.
They made James Bond movies over there.
It was uh it was a hot spot.
Uh but you know, the last 30, 40 years, it has become nothing more than a terrorist haven, uh and and they've they've done their best, but Syria runs the place and has run the place for a long time.
Now Iran and Hezbollah trying to run the place.
Uh and everybody's known for the last 20 years this you're you're going into a war zone over there.
Uh and and so uh.
No, you're not supposed to ask this.
This is clearly incorrect.
We have freedom in the country and go anywhere we want to go.
Sure.
You can.
Uh but doesn't stop some of us from judging the competence of your little gray cells in the places you choose.
They're not over there doing missionary work.
Priscilla in Olivet, Missouri, uh outside St. Louis.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
Um, I think you're being too hard on these people on the boat.
Um, I mean, they are experiencing uh discomfort, but I have a suggestion for what State Department ought to do about it.
And that is um if they just sent them you know, picked them up quickly and sent them over to Guantanamo because in all the pictures I've seen on TV, the the uh the prisoners there all have plenty of shade, and they have three meals a day, and I've never gained weight while they're there, that's true.
Well, I've never seen any flies um in the shows, and even Ted Kennedy went over there and didn't come back and report that there were any flies.
So they could take all the evacuees to Guantanamo and maybe take the prisoners and put them on the ship so that they could really help it.
I like that.
That's funny.
That's good, Priscilla.
Well, there's a funny side to everything, as a point.
I'll tell you though, I th I think the airfare from uh Lebanon to Cuba, the Guantanamo be a little bit more than 150 or 200 bucks.
Uh so the added expense.
But you're talking about the hardship uh factor, I understand that.
And yeah, it might be a good place.
Send them over to Gitmos and the Gitmo prisoners on the ships on the boat.
Uh Priscilla, thanks very much.
Uh Henderson stand by over there with audio soundbites uh 11 and 12 and 13 since she brings up Gitmo.
And Ted Kennedy went down there.
So now has Dick Turban.
Do you know that Turban went down there?
Chicago Sun Times Lynn Sweet uh column today, Durban gets eyeful at Guantanamo.
The Pentagon took an extra security precaution for Monday's trip to Club Gitmo by Senator Dick Turbin, a strong critic of the prison, made sure that Turbin brought along a Republican.
Uh Turbin toured the U.S. military prison at Club Gitmo with Senator George Allen, Republican Virginia.
And Turbin was on the situation room last night with uh Wolf Blitzer on CNN, and uh uh Wolf's first question, or well, one of his early questions to Senator Turbin was uh Did you watch them being interrogated, Senator Turbin?
Yes.
There was a camera in one of the rooms, so we watched one of the interrogations, and it was uh much different than you might imagine.
Uh relationship had been developed between the interrogator and the translator.
The interrogator sat down, opened a bag, handed the detainee a subway sandwich.
He lit up and started eating the sandwich and started talking.
Uh it was a much different circumstance than most people would imagine.
Including you.
Let's not forget how Senator Turbin has characterized these people.
What is this subway sandwich business?
I think the menu's gone to hell then.
Uh the menu at Club Gitmo used to be far greater fair.
Nothing wrong with subway sandwiches.
I'm not don't I'm not don't putting down subway sandwiches.
But I mean the menu at Club Gitmo.
I mean, it was it was health conscious, uh, dietary restrictions as needed by the uh guests, uh, and so forth, subway sandwich.
I guess this this detainee nevertheless lit up uh and as soon as he started munching his subway sandwich, started opening up.
Next question from Blitzer.
Some of the critics would suggest that this was a dog and pony show for an important legislator like you who had come by to visit that is simply not the real world at Club Gitmo.
Are you convinced that what you saw is actually the reality uh of that prison?
You know, that's possible, Wolf, but I don't believe it happened.
Now there could be tougher interrogations, I'm sure there are.
But I think under most circumstances what I heard was reassuring because the chief interrogator told me they followed the Geneva Conventions.
They follow the Uniformed Code of Military Justice.
They acknowledge that a few years ago the message from the Pentagon and from the administration was really confusing.
They were saying that Geneva Conventions didn't apply, and there'd be a new definition of torture.
That wasn't fair to the interrogators or the troops, and I'm glad that that era is behind us.
Oh, goes down there, witnesses it, sees it's totally unlike what he characterized it as being, and then has to blast the Bush administration for confusing the counselors, the concierges, the waiters, uh, and of course the general manager at uh the Club Gitmo Resort.
Well, let's go back, shall we?
Uh a little bit over a year ago, June 10th, 2005, uh Dick Turbin, after describing the treatment of the terrorist at Club Gitmo on the floor of the United States Senate, said this.
If I read this to you and didn't tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Paul Potter others that had no concern for human beings.
Sadly, that's not the case.
This was the action of Americans in treatment of our their old prisoners.
Yeah, and of course all hill broke loose and he had to apologize without apologizing.
Then he finally had to apologize when the apology that wasn't an apology was recognized as not being an apology, so he had a he had to give it up.
That's just a year ago.
He gets this anonymous letter from an FBI agent describing what went on down there.
So Senator Turbin goes down there and sees something entirely different, and uh I didn't see the whole interview, so I don't know if Wolf uh zeroed in on him uh as I would have uh had I been asking questions about this.
I don't know if he was let off the hook again or not, but uh I thought this an appropriate time to air the sound bites given our call from Olivet, Missouri.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue uh in a jiffy.
By the way, folks, I have to tell you, I think the Israelis, everybody saying they need to show restraint, and uh the response has been disproportionate And so forth.
I think the Israelis have shown restraint.
If they wanted to, they could blow Beirut off the map.
If they wanted to, they could blow Lebanon off the map.
They wanted to, they could blow Syria off the map.
And if they didn't want to blow all of Syria off the map, they could certainly get rid of Damascus.
They haven't done any of that, have they?
I think they're I think they're showing restraint.
By the way, it appears that uh the evil United States, who or which, by the way, is the one country in the world people in the midst of natural disasters turn to for instant relief, i.e., the tsunami, i.e., earthquakes.
You name it, whenever there's a disaster, guess who it is that's first on the scene with relief.
Guess who it is with the vast majority of the relief?
It's the dirty, rotten, uncaring, without compassion United States of America, right?
It appears we're not the only ones who are delaying evacuations.
There's a story here from the Islamic Republic News Agency.
My friends, we will stop at nothing for show prep.
We'll go wherever the news is.
And we found this piece from the Islamic Republican News Agency.
Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday rejected criticism that Britain had reacted slowly in evacuating its uh people from Lebanon in the face of week-long Israeli bombings of the country's civilian infrastructure.
Speaking at a joint conference with the Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanadar, uh Blair insisted his government was acting as quickly as we possibly can to get his citizens out.
We've taken out of Lebanon the first sixty people.
That was done yesterday.
First ship will come today, so obviously we uh can take far greater numbers out.
Britain is under criticism over its evacuation plans.
This is the Islamic Republic News Agency.
Now, it's it strikes me that the reporting from the Islamic Republic News Agency is eerily similar to the American drive-by media.
By the way, we have posted at Rushlimbaugh.com if you want to see it, that I think it's an AP picture of uh passengers lounging on the deck of the Oriental Queen or whatever the name of the yacht is, the cruise ship, uh that is uh uh taking Americans out of uh Lebanon in such horrid uh unspeakable conditions, it's uh there at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Shreeport, Louisiana.
This a Randall, glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Um as far as the comparisons of the evacuation in Beirut to the uh to Katrina, yeah.
Uh as far as the U.S. government acting slowly, they don't have the resources in the area immediately available.
Whereas in Louisiana, uh I live in Shreveport in the northwest corner of the state.
The state had the resources on the ground to get the people out, and they dropped the ball.
Well, everybody dropped the ball, including the citizens.
This is the thing.
Well, one area of this that nobody's well, I'm commenting on it because I, my friends have no fear of the truth.
And there is this thing called personal responsibility.
I'll just let me let me tell this story uh in first person.
If I, and I wouldn't do this because I have more smarts than this, but if I were going to move to Lebanon.
If I were going to move to Beirut, I, the wizard of smarts here, would clearly understand where I'm going.
And I would I would know that I've got a terrorist group in the southern part of the country, and I've got Syria to the northern part, that it's uh it's a it's a country under siege constantly from both directions, and that and that they're surrounding Israel, and they hate Israel, and that there are acts of terrorism going on within uh close proximity of where I will be.
And so I know that it's possible that hostilities would reach a point that they would go beyond just random terror attacks, and I would have a plan to get out of there.
On my own.
I'm not gonna wait.
If my life's at stake, I'm not gonna wait around for some rickety little Chinese junk ship or whatever to show up and and troll me out of there.
I'm not gonna go there in the first place, actually.
But were I to have made the decision to do that, as I have done in the rest of my life, I'm going to depend on myself.
In fact, I have a story in the stack, uh, unrelated to this in terms of the actual news, but it's about companies Who encourage rugged individualism and how they end up with far more creative people and employees rather than the corporate rubber stamp Kennan Barbie doll suits that wait for upper management to tell them, you know, when to breathe, when to exhale, and so forth.
But at some point, personal responsibility has to be a factor in this.
But no, that's too cruel.
Unkind.
Can't be that judgmental.
Besides, folks, evacuating people on cruise ships and even safe.
You hear about that cruise ship off Port Canaveral?
Two people, seriously?
What is in the United States thinking?
Putting citizens on cruise ships to get them out of there.
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