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July 21, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I told you people that there was going to be some good that came out of this uh business in the Middle East.
One of the things that's happening now is that more and more people are beginning to ask the question.
Wait a second, how do you have a ceasefire with terrorists?
Wait a minute.
How do you make peace with terrorists?
Wait a minute.
How do you call a timeout with terrorists?
Greetings, my good friends.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And looking forward to it.
Always love Open Line Friday.
You never know what you're going to get on Friday because we go to the uh go to the phones.
It's your show.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Some of you may want to bring up other things other than the conflict in the Middle East.
If so, this is the day to do it.
Israelis are massing troops and armaments on the uh Lebanon border.
And it looks like the long rumored ground invasion is uh at least at least being staged.
Uh the appearance is it's being staged.
Uh by the way, for those of you watching on the uh Ditto Cam today, we got a new camera.
We have stepped up.
We have a new ditto cam.
Uh, and I've been toying with it here.
I think Brian, it was not in focus.
I have focused it.
Uh based on my supreme eyesight.
Uh it was you didn't have it quite in focus.
Not a complaint uh what whatsoever.
But anyway, we um we are told well I know this is a step up because I had to sign off on the budgetary expense.
What are you frowning?
What do you not like about it, Mr. Snerdley?
What do you um what's the problem?
You look at looks fuzzy.
Well, come in here and tell me if it looks fuzzy.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spend all day on this.
Come in here, and we'll look at it on a big monitor, and I'll show you where Brian had it, and I'll show you where it is now.
All right.
Now come in, just look at just look it up there.
That's that's big monitors.
Look it up right there.
Look away.
Now this is where it well, hold it, hold it.
This is where it was.
No, which is fuzzier.
That's fuzzier, all right.
This is focus right in the middle detent position.
Could be, could be the cleaning crew.
Always blame it on the clean.
When you're in the engineer, always blame it on the uh always blame on the cleaning crew.
I do that myself.
My friends, I want to start out here today with uh some really interesting audio sound bites.
Uh CNN is just devastated that their attempt to recreate a Katrina mindset in the among the American people regarding the evacuation from Lebanon failed.
Here is uh CNN's uh political analyst Bill Schneider, his report on Wolf Blitzer's uh situation room last night.
What about the evacuation of Americans in Lebanon?
53% think the government is handling it well.
Some critics have made a comparison to another evacuation.
But the public sees a big difference.
Last September, sixty-three percent thought the Katrina evacuation was handled poorly.
Only 29% feel that way about the Lebanon evacuation.
Oh, damn it!
Oh, damn it, CNN having to admit defeat, the drive-by media having to admit defeat.
I just could I guess they couldn't find enough of uh what was her name?
Uh uh uh uh Maricino, what's her first name?
Uh you know the one that no, not Miriam.
Wasn't wasn't Marie anyway, she's got a blog.
Do you know that babe has a blog?
That blabe had that babe has a blog.
She'd been blogging from Lebanon.
She's she's not just the accidental tourist that uh that CNN just happened to run into on that on that grungy Norwegian ship.
Here is correspondent Barbara Starr's report.
Uh CNN producers must have read Bill Schneider's poll because today they're broadcasting all kinds of reports of happy Americans saying thank you.
And let me ask you who was it that first in the media raised the question about where's all the thank yous?
Where are all the thank yous?
How come they can't find anybody that feels grateful that they have been evacuated from this war zone?
Here's her Report.
When the landing craft finally got to the Nashville, the Americans were met by delighted troops.
Thank you, Yes.
Thank you, Yes.
Oh, another drive-by media effort to destroy the American image among Americans.
Down the tubes, ladies and gentlemen.
Now look at this.
A series of stories, and I do these.
You've heard these.
This is today's news in the drive-by media.
But you heard all of this on this program on Monday.
And I simply mention all of this to illustrate once again how on the cutting edge you are, as regular listeners here.
First, all Reuters.
Israel's campaign to destroy Hezbollah is a foreign policy windfall for the Bush administration, which hopes it'll boost the U.S. war on terrorism and heat pressure on its nemesis Iran, analysts say.
It's not just Israel that doesn't want to cease fire here, said David McComsky, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Think Tank.
Longestal wart ally of Israel, the White House has repeatedly voiced support for Israel's right to self-defense.
A little late here, Al Reuters.
pointed this out to people on Monday, that this was a gift to the world.
There's a fascinating piece, too, today in the Washington Post that talks about how Bush is dealing with this entirely differently than previous administrations.
And that's what's landmark about this, by the way.
As I mentioned at the top, more and more people.
What a nightmare getting to the airport, by the way.
My second time trying the Lincoln tunnel.
And two blocks in a tunnel, traffic coveres is after dinner at Patsy's.
Ran into Roger Ayles and Charlie Rose in there.
That place was packed.
If if there'd been a terrorist attack on Patsy's last night, uh half the media would be uh ended in this country.
At any rate, leave there.
I guess it's about uh 10 o'clock, 9 30, something whatever it was, get two blocks from the tunnel and come to a dead stop for 15 minutes, and we figure out that there's a car stalled in a tunnel.
I said, Well, do a 180 and high tail it up the west side of George Washington Bridge, so we got out.
I finally got home about 130.
Uh, and it was uh great great couple of days, great seeing the little nieces and uh.
Oh, those pictures are cute.
Those little girls are just they're sweet as they can be.
All get uh straight A's.
I don't know where that comes from, because nobody in our family ever did that.
Uh certainly their father never did, and I never did.
But I mean, they're they're really uh they're really applying themselves.
But anyway, uh just having having dinner last night and was a bunch of bunch of conversations about uh all of this.
I I flying home, there's Greta Van Susteren interviewing Madame Albright.
Did you see that?
And Madame Albright looked like a cadaver, other than the the I think it was the makeup, it wasn't the physique.
Uh and she just full of diplo speak.
What like she wasn't even listening to the questions.
It was a bunch of gobbledygook, and she came out and said, Well, what I would hope would be the case is that we'd be able to negotiate a ceasefire, and Greta Van Sestran said, uh, how do we negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists?
Uh there she didn't even answer the question, didn't deal with it, has never even considered it because that's not her template.
But more and more people are beginning to ask this question now, and this is a huge turn of events because the standard operating procedure, the template, any time there's a flare up in the Middle East, gotta have ceasefire.
I also dealt with that earlier this week and told you what ceasefires really are.
They're nothing more than timeouts, so the bad guys can regroup and come up with even stronger weapons.
Story number two in the stack of CI Told You Sows, this from Cairo, Egypt, and this is from Al AP.
The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah exposed divisions across the Arab world, not only between Shiites and Sunnis, but also between Arab governments and their citizens.
And this story, published today, goes on to tell you what I mentioned to you on Monday.
I'm just folks, this ain't bragging because as I say, if you can do it, it isn't bragging.
I'm just telling you, we're five days ahead of the curve here.
When I say we're doing the job that the drive by media used to do, I mean it.
Here's another one.
The Hezbollah military machine.
This is all AP again out of Washington.
The Hezbollah military machine that's been attacking Israel draws much of its strength from two shadowy sources that are proving difficult to cut off.
Syria and Iran.
Again, this story published today.
You have known about this since Monday.
And Tuesday, when this all began.
The two countries which President Bush blames for fomenting terrorism and destabilizing the Middle East.
Provide Hezbollah with training, weapons, and financing, according to Western intelligence officials who are working to stem the uh flow of aid.
So uh I tell you that there are positive signs in this.
And I can illustrate it in a way by asking you this.
Who do you, in this audience, who do you look to for the news?
For example, you look for the New York Times or do you look to EIB?
Here's a simple test right out of today's front page headlines.
The New York Times headline, Annan condemns Israel for excessive use of force.
This is the way they review his silly, insipid little speech yesterday that I actually went off on and did a Hall of Fame rant monologue on.
What did we do on this program yesterday?
I condemned Kofi Annan for an excessive use of force.
The New York Times praises him for saying that he condemns Israel for an excessive use of force.
There is no mention by Kofi Annan, nor the New York Times in their review of his speech of Syria, no mention of Iran, not even a mention of U.S. resolution 1559, which is here's Kofi demanding all these ceasefires and restraint and so forth.
And the question, well, what about your resolution?
You the guys that ordered Hezbollah out of there six years ago.
Where's the where's the usefulness of your resolution?
Doesn't even seek to criticize his own organization.
And he didn't come clean with us either.
The world confessing his failures, failure to enforce a UN resolution, failure to crack down on Syria.
These are UN failures, but you never criticize the UN.
It is above it.
It is beyond it for some reason.
I didn't time Kofi's statement.
Had to be something like 45 minutes, but it was a meaningless, it was cliche-filled, self-serving, uh, but with talent on loan from God.
I can sum up Kofi's statement in three phrases.
Israel is overreacting.
The children are dying.
And I am leading.
No, I won't resign.
That's Kofi Annan.
Children are dying.
I am leading.
Israel is overreacting.
That was the sum total.
Um, but I tell folks, in a war, I know it's tough, but uh to think this way, because the forces of negativism and gloom are all out there, but be of be of good cheer in one sense, as I told you people days ago, this this has the opportunity.
I don't know if it's going to end up being, but it has the opportunity to be for the best.
We have the cradle of democracy, us, and the cradle of reality, Israel, cutting through the BS that issues resolutions and scoots off to the next cocktail party, then demands restraint, then heads off to dinner, then demands a ceasefire, and heads off to uh after dinner drinks.
An Olive in your martini, Mr. Secretary General.
Anyway, quick time out, we'll be back.
We'll continue in mere moments right after this.
I'm here, I'm here.
It's just I was listening to some, I was listening to my theme song.
I was listening to Baby Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me by Mac Davis.
And I thought I had gone there early enough.
I usually I'm my instincts tell me when it's time to get back, but nevertheless, here we are, Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday.
Interesting story here today.
This uh Michael Ledeen in National Review Online, uh, when I was away, I guess it was last week, the Lebanese tourism ministries research center announced an amazing statistic in early July.
In the first six months of this year, sixty thousand eight hundred eighty-eight Iranian tourists visited Lebanon.
No other Asian country came close.
The Philippines ranks second with a bit over twelve thousand.
I don't think there's uh enough disposable income in Mullowland to cover the expenses.
More than 10,000 people a month headed for the Beirut beaches.
Ladin says, Do you think it's not due that a goodly number of these tourists were up to no good?
Maybe some of them were working for the Revolutionary Guards Corps or were Hezbollah operations people?
And by the way, if there were just a little question here, folks.
If there were indeed, and that's the figure that everybody's admitted to, if there were sixty thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight Iranian tourists in Lebanon, uh why was there no concern on the part of anybody or whether they were getting out?
I mean, we're concerned about the Brits, we were concerned about the Dutch, we were concerned about the Norwegians, we were concerned about the Filipinos, we were concerned about the Americans, but was there any concern about uh the Iranians getting out?
This interesting statistic.
Uh because it's uh it's gonna lead people even into a further direction to conclude uh those who are dubious what is obvious here.
Okay, it's open line Friday.
Let's go to the phones to New Orleans and Dan.
Your first today.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Mega Ditto's from New Orleans Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, look, um, what happened in New Orleans as far as the government's concerned?
Wasn't that a search and rescue?
Hadn't the people already been ordered to evacuate, and if they didn't listen, they then became a burden on those trying to rescue survivors?
No.
That's well, I mean, that may be the reality, but that's not how it was played.
The way it was played was that it was the government's fault for not getting them out of there.
I just don't know how they can even draw a comparison between New Orleans and Lebanon.
Because it's it's a it's a it's it's it was a trial balloon.
They that they thought they'd see if they could uh drum up those same emotions among the American people directed at the Bush administration over the evacuation of Americans in Lebanon.
It was pure and simple of trial balloon, they were they were giving it a shot.
Remember the template.
I've told you what the action line to every story is.
How can this be turned into a negative for Bush politically?
Whatever the story is.
And that's why what's interesting about this is they're starting to do a 180 on on this stuff, folks.
Now it's it's begrudging and it's slow.
There are even some Israeli people who the who used to be big, big fans of Clinton and Albright, who are who are beginning to talk about the necessity to deal with Iran finally once and for all in this situation.
And I'm telling you, some of the big time drive-by media superstars who have this great affection for Israeli liberals are pulling their hair out.
This is not supposed to happen.
All of this is supposed to be blamed on George W. Bush, the Israeli liberals are supposed to be joining the drive-by media in this country and blaming George W. Bush for failing to engage, for failing to pay attention.
But what's becoming more and more clear, uh, and I I I hate to be redundant about this, but it's it's crucial that as many people understand it as possible.
It is becoming clear that the 30 years of dealing with Middle East peace crises has been a utter failure.
And that the people like Madeline Albright, and remember this is interesting too, and I mentioned this, Madeline Albright and her uh her buddy Wendy Sherman, they've got a business.
All bright partners are Albright Limited or Albright, whatever it is.
They're got this global consultancing company like um like uh Dr. Kissinger has, uh, and they're trying to establish a business, and they've got bills to pay.
They got rent.
And that's why Wendy Sherman and Madame Albright are all over television.
They're trying to sell their credentials.
And what are they doing?
They're selling 30 years of failure.
They're setting themselves up as the experts in failure.
Cease fire after ceasefire after ceasefire after ceasefire.
Thomas Sowell, one of my heroes, as you know, has a great piece today that uh I found it at Real Clear Politics is probably a syndicated column, and he says, one of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality, and he focuses on the peace movement.
He said, Does the peace movement really bring peace?
Do pacifists and people who demand peace actually bring about peace?
No.
In fact, the truth is that the peace movements of the world, the pacifists of the world, actually lead to more conflict.
They lead to more war.
They lead to more bloodletting and death.
If peace activists were worth their salt, we should have had peace for 30 years since they've been on the pr on the trail.
I'll give you more details of his thinking on this when we come back, but it all boils together.
It can synthesize it down to one point, and that is ceasefires, peace movements.
None of this works with this kind of an enemy, only eliminating them will, and that's beginning to take root.
That's absolutely right.
It's open line Friday.
And the fastest week in media.
I am America's real anchor man, El Rushbo, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling all concerned, Maha Russia.
Here's that Washington Post piece that I was uh talking to you about.
Uh it's by Michael Abramowitz.
And the basic theme is Bush versus the foreign policy establishment on Israel and how he's not listening to them, and how he's taking a new tack.
I'm not going to read a whole thing to you.
It's at the Washington Post website.
We'll obviously link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com later today.
But uh and this this is uh as I read this, this is it's got a couple daggers in it, but uh for the most part's pretty good story.
President Bush's unwillingness to pressure Israel to halt its military can uh campaign in Lebanon is rooted in a view of the Middle East that is sharply different from that of his predecessors.
When hostilities have broken out in the past, the usual U.S. response has been an immediate and public bout of diplomacy aimed at a ceasefire in the hopes of ensuring that the crisis would not escalate.
This week, however, even in the face of growing international demands, the White House has studiously avoided any hint of impatience with Israel, while making it plain it wants uh civilian casualties limited.
The administration is also content to see the Israelis inflict the maximum damage possible on Hezbollah.
As the President's position is described by White House officials, uh Bush associates and outside Middle East experts, Bush believes that the status quo, the presence in a sovereign country of a militant group with missiles capable of hitting a U.S. ally is unacceptable.
The U.S. position also reflects Bush's deepening belief that Israel is central to the broader campaign against terrorists and represents a shift away from a more traditional view that the U.S. plays an honest broker's role in the Middle East.
In the administration's view, the new conflict is not just a crisis to be managed, it is also an opportunity to seriously degrade a big threat in the region, just as Bush believes he's doing in Iraq.
Israel's crippling of Hezbollah officials also hope would complete the work of building a functioning democracy in Lebanon and send a strong message to the Syrian and Iranian backers of Hezbollah.
All this is exactly right, and it just keeps uh going on and on and on.
And that's why, you know, I knew on Monday I said this is a gift to the world.
I didn't envision, though, reaping these kinds of rewards.
I thought people would see the opportunity, finally zeroing in on the state sponsored, you know, the terror masters of this region being Iran, and that is happening.
But what I didn't envision was, do you realize how how old this conventional wisdom thinking is?
This this is all my life.
Well, not quite that long, but since I've been paying attention as an adult.
Flare up in the Middle East, peace, resolutions, ceasefires.
And you've still got these archaic Jurassic Park people like Madeline Albright and the Clinton's out there articulating this very path, which is obvious to everybody now.
It's a failure.
And I'll tell you, you know what the straw that broke the camel's back was?
Israel was told, get out of Gaza, get out of Lebanon, get out of all these areas that you're occupying, and that'll solve the problem.
It's all about land for peace, Israel.
They don't like the fact that you're on land they think is their.
So just get out, let them have Gaza, let them let them have parts of Lebanon where you've been, get out of Golan and get out of some of the occupied territories of the West Bank and and and the world has seen it ain't about that at all.
It's about the annihilation of Israel.
Now there's some people don't care about that, but they're beginning to learn here that uh uh the people they've been supporting uh uh on the diplomatic front can't be trusted either.
There's a new awakening here to the fact that that that the world is at war with uh terrorist cults and militias as opposed to nations.
Uh clearly Iran and Syria are nation states that have to be dealt with.
They're sponsors uh they are the the paymasters, the terror masters of of at least Hezbollah.
But the Arab region also upset about the growing power of Iran and its bellicity and its promises and threats uh to take over the region.
Uh what's that?
Uh the I've got that.
Yeah, um Ahmadinizad sent another insane, we think it's insane.
This the jury's still out on this guy, but he sent a demand to uh to Merkel, uh the uh the new prime minister in Germany, uh, saying, hey, look, we're on the same side here.
We hate the Jews, you hate the Jews, and we want to get them out of here, and it's up to you to take them.
It's it literally is uh uh uh it it's you know you don't know whether this letter's calculated to make everybody scared to death of this madman or whether he really is a a madman.
And I think it's safe thanged it, it's right, take it at face value.
This is what he's presenting, and this is what you have to deal with.
And it was the same thing with uh with Saddam.
I'll find that story about about Ahmadinizad and his uh his little letter to uh uh Merkel, what do they call it?
The Chancellor, uh the president, whatever Prime Minister uh head honcho in uh in Germany.
Let me share with you a little bit more here of Thomas Sowell.
Peace movements are among those who take advantage of the widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities.
Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called peace movements, that is whether such movements actually produce peace or war.
Take the Middle East.
People are calling for a ceasefire in the interests of peace.
There have been more ceasefires in the Middle East than anywhere else.
If ceasefires actually promoted peace, the Middle East would be the most peaceful region on the face of the earth instead of the most violent.
Was World War II ended by ceasefires or by annihilating much of Germany and Japan?
Make no mistake about it, innocent civilians died in the process.
Indeed, American prisoners of war died when we bombed Germany.
There is a reason why General Sherman said war is hell more than a hundred years ago, but he helped end the civil war with his devastating march through Georgia, not by ceasefires or bowing to world opinion.
And there were no corrupt bushy bodies like the United Nations to demand replacing military force with diplomacy.
There was a time when it would have been suicidal to threaten, much less attack a nation with much stronger military power because one of the dangers to the attacker would be the prospect of being wiped out.
World opinion, UN and the peace movements have eliminated that deterrent.
An aggressor today knows that if his aggression fails, he'll still be protected from the full retaliatory power and fury of those he attacked because there'll be hand wringers demanding a ceasefire negotiations and concessions.
And I'm telling you, folks, the roots of this are many.
Uh well, the roots are deep and there are many different routes.
But you can't you can't not take out of the equation this whole notion of conflict resolution.
You can't take out of it the infiltration of this culture over the years by pacifist socialist and neo-communist uh agents uh that that preach this sort of stuff.
But the great thing that's happening here, uh, and I I'm just reveling in it.
The great thing that's happening is that the absence of truth and common sense in the American history curriculum in the American public schools is being countered by all of those of us, me, Sowell, Max Boot and the Los Angeles Times the other day,
all kinds of people who understand the realities, and a history lesson is being taught in America today about how we did win World War II, how we did defeat the Nazis and the Japanese, and what it took to do so, and that it wasn't ceasefires, and it wasn't peace movements, and it wasn't resolutions, and it wasn't the UN that brought any of these victories about.
And it's not going to be the case here.
And it never has been the case.
I take you back to the Limbaugh doctrine.
Peace follows victory.
Amy in Dublin, Ohio.
Open line Friday, your next.
Hello.
I clicked back to the Limbaugh.
Hello?
Yes, hi, Amy.
Uh, and this is Pam, and I'm in Texas.
Oh, you are?
Uh-huh.
Well, what do you I'm sorry that Amy in Dublin, Ohio went away and you took her place.
What is it that you'd like?
Um well, I'm I am so pleased to be able to talk to you.
I am just ecstatic that I get to talk to Rush Limbaugh.
Well, thank you very much.
I understand.
But what I wanted to talk to you about, and I don't know if you've had because I haven't heard you mention it yet, but have you had are you aware that Senator Cornyn of Texas and Senator Coleman co-sponsored the bill.
It's called Senate Bill Six Two.
And they want the United States and Canada to pay for the infrastructure rebuilding in Mexico.
Uh that bill I am not aware of, Pam.
Oh, I wish you would check into it and know about it because he did it.
They they put it in, and you know, I'm from Texas, and Corny's from Texas, and I've always liked Corning.
I like I like Senator Corning.
I've always liked Senator Corning.
Senator Carn Corny's one of the smartest guys, reasonable voices in the Senate.
Right.
But he got this in just before the break for the July 4th break.
Well, we'll look into this, Pam.
If this is true, we'll blow the lid on it for you.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
You are so wonderful.
I'm so excited that I got to talk to you.
Well, thanks for heading us up on something that we weren't we don't know about here.
We'll uh we'll we'll check into that.
And it's uh it's a thrill to have you call.
Glad you made it through.
Thank you.
Okay, it's Pam in uh in Texas, and we've got a brief time out.
I'm gonna find that story here, uh, the letter from Ahmadinezad to uh the uh the German uh Prime Minister, Premier Chancellor, President, whatever, uh Merkel after this.
And we're back on the cutting edge.
El Rushbo, talent on lawn from God.
All right, here's the story.
Germany has rejected parts of a letter from President of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinezad to Chancellor Angela Merkel, which called into question Israel's right to exist.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manucher Mutaki delivered the letter to the German embassy in Tehran earlier this week.
A German government official who saw the letter told Al Reuters that it criticized Israel and said Germany and Iran should cooperate in dealing with Zionism and solving the Palestinian problem.
It includes many statements that are unacceptable to us, especially regarding Israel, the right of Israel to exist, and the Holocaust, uh, the German government spokesman.
It's completely unacceptable for us when these are called into question.
Uh the letter didn't mention uh Iran's nuclear standoff with the West or the fighting in Lebanon or uh or Israel.
Uh the German government official provided Reuters with a few more details on the letter.
It talks about how both Germany and Iran have been victims of the Jews.
Senate also says we have to find a solution to the Palestinian problem and Zionism and so on.
It's it's rather weird.
So Ahmadinizad has actually proposed the final solution.
And he wants to reunite with the Germans.
He wants the Germans to become who they were when Hitler was wiping out as many Jews as he could round up and put in the gas chambers.
Uh and he actually thinks he's going to find a sympathetic ear when he sends this to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
Now you as I said earlier, do you deal with this guy, okay?
Up you get into a psychological analysis of this, or do you take him at face value?
And I think you have to take this kind of stuff at face value and deal with it uh accordingly, which in this sense is just to reject it.
Uh and laugh at it and uh uh let the world know the contents of the letter so as to illustrate the uh kind of thinking that is guiding this uh Islamic republic uh of uh of Iran.
Uh Daniel in Pittsburgh, uh you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Professor Limbaugh.
Hi.
Mega Western Tacksylvania Ditto's thank you very much.
Um Quick question.
And I want to thank you very much for allowing me to come to the head of the class for one question.
Well, absolutely right.
It's uh open line Friday.
It's what the purpose is.
Um with this being election year, and um with the Democratic Party being so transparently pro-Israel all of a sudden.
How do you think do you think this puts them at a crossroads with our base who is staunchly and blatantly pro-UN and anti-Israel?
Well, you know, that's interesting that you bring this up, Daniel, because um if you go to the Democrat websites, you go to these kook blog websites, they want Israel blown off the map.
They despise Israel.
They don't want any part of it.
This is a Democrat base.
Now, something that I regret to report to you is happening.
And that is so-called mainstream Democrats are beginning to have closed door meetings to try to figure out what to do about these kooks.
Rather than pay homage to them and court them and coddle them, they're actually having meetings about what to do about them.
They're very much afraid of them because they are said to be very proficient at raising campaign funds, via donations, uh, and uh and all of this.
Uh but I think that the Democrats uh that you're hearing supporting Israel, and I don't know how uh universal it is.
One Dick Morris is is trying to awaken everybody to the fact, he was a handed and combs last night, that uh George W. Bush is the best friend the Israelis ever had, and that Bill Clinton uh all these liberal Jews that thought Bill Clinton was Israel's best friend or just got their heads in the sand with Arafat as the number one visitor to the White House outside of Monica Lewinsky and whoever else was in the Lincoln bedroom all those nights.
The uh uh uh bottom line is I think the Democrats are also um in fact there's a there's a piece I didn't print this out because for some reason I didn't think I would get to it.
But your call has uh allowed me to to transcend to this, uh transform into this.
The uh columnists, I can't forget the Greeley, I think is it Andrew Greeley, uh, is all upset because a Democrats' new agenda is gonna eliminate any criticism of the war.
They're not gonna talk about the war.
He compares the Democratic National Committee to the Chicago Cubs.
No matter what they do, they strike out and they lose.
He points out that since World War II, the Democrats have elected three presidents.
FDR, JFK, uh or JFK, uh Jimmy Carter, and Clinton.
Now, when you look at the in that in that context, since World War II, you've had now you you throw Truman out because he assumed office after after a uh a death in office.
You've had three people, three Democrats elected and only one of them for two terms.
Well, JFK, you threw out LBJ because he he took over from Kennedy, but actually he count Hey, he did win an election on the uh yes, he's against against Goldwater.
But but but yeah, but that's that's this guy is figuring that that was a foregone conclusion anyway, since Kennedy got assassinated and the and the public sentiment's gonna be with Kennedy and his party.
So basically you've got you've got uh you've got uh Jimmy Carter, you got Bill Clinton and uh NJFK.
And he says these guys, the Democratic National Committee just keep losing, and they're just like the Cubs.
They try to improve themselves to go out and get the big hitters and the big hitters keep striking out, and they start blaming it on all kinds of things other than themselves.
But this guy's point is he's just beside himself that what he's hearing is the Democrats are gonna drop criticism of the war from their agenda.
That's not gonna please the base either.
That's not gonna please this kook law uh uh uh uh lunatic uh fringe that that resides on the blogs.
Uh so that's gonna be interesting to watch.
The this guy, Greeley, and I think his name is Greeley, I don't have the piece in front of me, but he theorizes the reason the Democrats are gonna drop their criticism of the war is because they are afraid that they're afraid of people calling them uh chickens and uh weak and afraid to uh defend the country when it's under attack and so forth and so on.
So there's this this is what I meant.
When people think this election in 06 already wrapped up, there's all kinds of things you don't even possibly predict that will happen, and they have that is now shaking up the whole martini here.
Katie Currick told CBS, hell no, I'm not going to Lebanon.
I'm a single mother.
I'm not gonna put myself in a war zone like this to make any sense.
I happen to agree with her.
We'll be back in the hell with Edinburgh Murray traditions.
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