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July 25, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 25, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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One more thing on this Michael Steele business, and I'm going to move on to some other things here.
And by the way, I have to tell you, my patience is just, I got my fingers about a 16th of an inch apart.
Everybody's all hot to trot here today about Hillary and the Democrats, and they're honing their centrist message and so forth.
I am so sick and tired of news stories about what the damn Democrats are doing.
We've been hearing stories since 2001 after Bush was inaugurated.
What do the Democrats got to do to win things back?
What are they doing?
Every day we get a story about a new meeting, a new strategy, what the moderates of the Democratic Party think.
Now, Hillary went out there and she had this statement.
It's the American dream stupid.
I told you people, I warned you this was coming.
The affordability crisis, I just had a sense that they're going to start taking that tack.
They're going to wean themselves off of a rock.
The only thing you really need to know about this is that with this effort now to portray themselves as centrists and they come up with a so-called centrist or moderate message indicates what I have always known and what I have told you and what they have figured out.
And that is a far-left message is not the way they're going to win national elections.
And when their kook bloggers find out about this, it hits them upside the head.
There's going to be hell to pay because they are demanding allegiance.
So it's pedal of the metal time.
I'm sick and tired of it.
I'm sick and tired of the story.
You know, people were talking about, well, you know, this Israel and Lebanon story, the Hezbo's, well, it's been going on for a week now.
We need a new angle.
We need a new lead.
Can't just keep reporting the same thing.
And of course, when that happens, when reporters start looking for new angles, that's when they start making things up.
And that's when they start abandoning the precepts and the concepts and the principles of objective generalism, don't you know?
But this story on the Democrats and their stupid message, I don't care because I already know what it is.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
And I don't need a Boston Globe column.
I don't need a New York Times story or a Washington Post story or an AP story to tell me what the latest meanderings of the Democrats is all about because I know it's all what we were talking about last hour.
The Democrats cannot possibly win if they ground themselves in reality and address reality.
They cannot have a plan to deal with what's going on in the Middle East.
They don't have a plan to deal with Iraq.
If they do, they're not announcing it.
They don't have one.
That's the bottom line.
They can go out and criticize it all they want, but they don't have a plan.
And so they have positioned themselves in the world of spin and PR.
How can we fool them today?
How can we make them think that we are something other than what we are, that we are different than who we are?
And it's so predictable that I just, I don't care if it's Hillary shrieking or uttering.
It bores me.
What the Democrats are doing bores me because I already know what they're going to do.
I can tie both halves of my brain behind my back and still be able to tell you what the Democrats are going to do and why they're doing it.
I suppose at some point in the show I'll get to it, but I'm not crazy about it.
One more thing about this Michael Steele business, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's keep things in perspective here, shall we?
He's not the first.
What are you laughing at now?
What is so funny?
The reaction of the Democrats, what's different than my reaction?
Don't you understand?
I want to go back to the archives of the stacks of stuff.
I mean, every day there is a story about what the Democrats are doing or the meeting they just had.
And they talk about looking for a new angle in this war after one week.
Try looking for a new lead and a new angle on the Democrats and their quest to fool people into voting for them to put them back into power.
Give us a break.
And when I get email from you, are you going to talk about what Hillary said?
No!
I don't care, especially not today.
I don't believe what she says anyway.
It's a Clinton.
What's that?
Patience.
Restraint and composure.
All right, I'm back.
Now, I want to finish this about Michael Steele because everybody's all worked up about this.
How can he be so disloyal?
Why, how can he do this to President Bush?
Well, folks, he's not the only one.
You've all done it.
I've done it.
McCain has done it.
Half the Senate Republicans do this all of the time, whether it's immigration or whether it's the Dubai Ports deal, whether it's Harriet Myers.
We all do it.
We have all come out and we've ripped and criticized the White House.
We've ripped and criticized the president.
What Snerdley and I were talking about in the last hour, and I couldn't remember because Snerdley says it's just amazing everybody that Bush extends a hand of friendship to ends up biting him back like Spectre.
Specter now wants to sue Bush over these signing statements.
They've got to be sitting in the White House with their heads just spinning because everybody that they have extended the hand of friendship to or have helped comes back to bite them.
And this is one of the things, if I may be so bold, and I'm running a risk here, but I must be honest, one of the things that really bothered me the most about Mr. Buckley's attack on President Bush, I mean, anybody can have their opinion about Iraq and so forth.
But last October, National Review had their giant 50th anniversary bash of black tie event in Washington.
And that day, the president hosted Mr. Buckley and a number of National Review editors and writers for a nice luncheon at the White House.
And, you know, that, I don't know.
I know that you're not supposed to, Mr. Buckley would probably say, well, I'm not going to be bought off by a little lunch at the White House.
I've been there countless times before, and I'll be back.
And I understand that, too.
It just seems that poor old President Bush, everybody is nice to just whacks him, slaps him, slaps him down or something.
But we've all done it.
I've done it on immigration, Ted Kennedy at the White House.
As I say, half the Senate does it most of the time.
Lindsey Graham's out there, Vice President Graham, trying to screw up the whole mess of business by which we deal with terrorist captives in prison.
But the White House could reach out to Steele.
If you're Michael Steele, let me just play devil's advocate for a second.
You're Michael Steele, and you're being portrayed by the NAALCP and others as an Uncle Tom and a traitor.
You know, the usual thing that conservative black Republicans get.
And then last week, you see the president over the NAALCP, and the president's extending the hand of friendship to Julian Bond, who has compared him to a Taliban leader and to Adolf Hitler.
If you're Michael Steele, you're going to be saying, well, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
And if you're Michael Steele, you say, did the president recommend to the NAACP audience my candidacy or Lynn Swan's candidacy when he had it?
No, he didn't.
So, you know, Steele says, I've got to depend on myself to get elected here.
I'm not going to depend on the White House alone.
I'm not going to depend on anybody else.
I'm running in a state, as I say, not even a Democrat state.
It's a far-left state.
And I got my own vagaries of this campaign that I have to deal with.
And if I'm going to make the judgment that the president's assistance is going to hurt me, then I'm going to say I don't want it here.
And I don't want the assistance, nor do I want the president here.
The method he chose is interesting.
Have an off-the-record lunch with nine drive-by media reporters who willingly, I mean, they went along.
They didn't leak his name.
They leaked the details of the lunch.
But nevertheless, enough on that.
You've heard about the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in, where is this?
I guess she's in Australia.
Betty Williams is her name.
Listen to the way this is written.
This is from the Australian newspaper.
Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at U.S. President George W. Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
Okay, well, what was her feisty Irish spirit?
Well, campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues Forum held in Brisbane, Ms. Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr. Bush.
I have a very hard time with this word nonviolence because I don't believe that I am nonviolent, Ms. Williams said.
She's 64.
Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.
Her young audience of school children at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief.
It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.
She got the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car.
He veered onto the footpath that'd be the sidewalk for those of you in Rio Linda, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third.
Well, any wonder why a ditz like this would end up winning the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Nobel Peace Prize is worth a roll of toilet paper.
In fact, I'd pay more for a roll of toilet paper than a peace prize because toilet paper happens to be necessary.
But here she's advocating killing the president.
These little school kids are cheering.
And Annabelle MacDonald, writing in the Australian, refers to this as a flash of her feisty Irish spirit.
Back in just a second.
The left cannot, despite the efforts of the Democrats to say we're a bunch of centrists, we're just a bunch of moderates, they just can't silence all of the wacko members of their movement like this babe.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us, folks.
Try this headline: Gorbachev cheers recycled sewage.
It's sick out there.
It is literally sick out there.
Listen to this.
This is also from the Australian.
This paper's on a roll today.
The former most powerful man in the world.
Anybody accept that?
Mikhail Gorbachev, the most powerful man in the world, even for a day?
Come on, folks.
Anyway, Gorbachev's so committed to the environment, he would drink recycled sewage.
I say if he's willing to do it, we should let him.
He said yesterday the world's atmosphere and waterways were so polluted that an environmental crisis clock would be showing five minutes to midnight.
Wow, that's really original.
When told that the Queensland city of Toowoomba was holding a referendum next week on whether to recycle sewage water for drinking, Gorbachev drew on it as an example of acting locally but thinking globally.
While the vote was a matter for the people of Toowoomba, Mr. Gorbachev in Brisbane for the Earth Dialogues Summit, the same thing that Wacko Peace Prize laureate is in town for, said he would have no problem at all drinking recycled water.
During a 20-minute briefing, Mr. Gorbachev warned the Queensland cabinet it might face strong opposition to plans to pipe water from North Queensland to Brisbane.
He said similar projects in his country had sparked opposition.
He said, before I became leader of the Soviet Union, there was a program of redirecting the course of some northern rivers in the Soviet Union to the south where there was a lot of arable land and a lack of water.
But as soon as perestroika started and people had a chance to speak out, many in those regions that were affected by that project protested against it.
Well, you should have never given him perestroika, you idiot.
That's what blew yourself up in the first place.
So, you know, this story reminds me, we had Jonathan Sands, the great grandson of Winston Churchill on the program yesterday called out of the blue from Macon, Georgia.
And Churchill was famous for quick wit.
I think he was at a lunch or some sort of a meeting with Lady Astor at the time.
Lady Astor said, Sir Winston, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your tea.
And he said, madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it.
Well, all right, fine.
If Gorbachev wants to drink recycled sewage, by all means, somebody pass the glass.
David in Hillsboro, Oregon, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Well, I saw a news headline this morning that said the U.S. was giving Israel a timetable for its action against Hezbollah.
And I thought it was kind of hypocritical for Bush to be giving Israel an artificial timetable with Hezbollah like he was trying to avoid Iraq.
Well, I don't think that's really true.
I mean, it might have been said.
It might have happened.
But I think the way these things work is the United States makes a public statement, Israel, you've got X number of days to mop this up and then get out of there.
And then they whisper, keep going.
Well, maybe that's true.
I hope so.
Well, we'll find out pretty soon, but I don't sense in part of the administration the desire to stop this.
They could have.
You listen to Bolton, you listen to Condoleezza Rice, you listen to the president.
They're all saying ceasefire is ridiculous.
Ceasefire is meaningless.
Even a sustainable ceasefire.
Ooh, yes, new Diplo term.
Sustainable ceasefire.
Even that is meaningless.
They may be encouraging Israel publicly to move this up and get this done quickly because, of course, no one likes hostilities and no one likes violence.
And we must end this and so forth.
You just, you know, it's part of play in the spin game, I suppose.
I don't, in terms of what Israel's doing, I don't see anybody putting the brakes on them, and I don't see the United States particularly at this point, anyway, acting to constrain them at all.
In a circumstance like this, remember, the reality is what's happening on the ground.
Spoken words and PR and all that are just that.
Reality is what's happening on the ground, and that we're seeing Israelis are stepping up, and they're going deeper, and they're hitting so-called civilian targets because that's where Hezbollah is hiding out.
And even UN officials are calling on them on their cowardice for doing this.
There's a distinct sea change here in this particular battle compared to others between Israel and other Arab states in that region.
Goldie in New York City, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Fantastic.
Well, I mean, the sea change is going on because there's a whole country being destroyed.
It's changed from a war on terror to taking out a whole country.
And that's just unacceptable.
And hopefully more people will see it like that.
Goldie, I think I know.
Wait, wait, one second.
I didn't know I was on.
And the other day, when I called this a script, that obviously the U.S. is in on the script with Israel.
And then I heard a tirade from you calling me an idiot for 30 seconds for saying that, even though you just said that now, that this is all secretly the U.S. is telling Israel to keep going.
And that they're going to keep going until the country is just completely wasted and nobody's there.
And then they're going to be looking for Hezbollah and no one's going to be around.
It's going to be crickets.
I'm having trouble following you, but I know who you are.
You evacuated from Lebanon, but you didn't want to leave.
You wanted to stay.
No, no, you know what?
That was taken out of context.
They asked me if I was happy to be back.
And I have family in Lebanon.
And am I happy to be back while the country's being destroyed and their lives are at risk?
No, I mean, there's nothing happy about coming back here and wondering, worrying every day whether my family is alive or dead.
Well, I know that took a small bit of a clip out.
Well, where does your family live?
They live in Juni, just about 30 minutes north of Beirut.
Well, is 30 minutes north of Beirut under attack?
You know, they took out the TV station on Friday, and while I was there, there was a bomb went out right outside my hotel.
And they're not laying siege to the city itself, but they are taking out the TV station and outside my hotel.
Okay, Goldie, go, Goldie.
Hang on.
I've got a commercial break coming up.
Can you hang on for three minutes?
Okay.
Good, good.
We'll be back and continue with Goldie here right after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, we're back to Goldie in New York City.
Goldie, we've gone back to our archives here, and I want to play, just so people know who you are, I want to play the soundbite that the media did in their interview with you when you arrived back.
I think you were on the first airplane, right?
Yeah, first airplane, and I guess the first one out, and that's why.
Yeah, where did that airplane, where did you land when you got back to the United States?
Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore.
All right.
Here's this.
This is from last Thursday at a live press conference after Goldie's plane landed.
The whole world was watching George Bush to see what he would say.
It seemed like such an atrocity.
I don't know if any Hezbollah died.
I heard maybe five have died, and there's probably at this point 300 Lebanese dead.
And when he said Israel has a right to defend itself when they're, this doesn't look like a defensive maneuver at all.
This is a major offensive going on.
I don't feel great to be back.
I mean, it's knowing what's going to happen after three days, after all the foreigners are out.
I just don't feel great.
And for some reason, nothing can stop this.
And I don't know why.
And it's obviously just a script that everyone's, the whole world's playing along with.
Okay, is that accurate?
Did you say those things?
You know, I mean, except for the, I'm not happy to be back.
I'm not happy to be back to, you know, about my family over there.
What?
Okay, let's talk about a few elements of this.
This clearly is an Israeli defensive action.
Why don't you, what do you not understand about that?
Well, listen, okay.
Israel said this was a reaction to Israel should have just came clean and said, we're going to go in and take over, destroy Lebanon.
I don't see anything defensive about that.
This is supposedly a reaction to kidnap soldiers.
So where do they get off taking out a whole country after we're not taking out a whole country?
We're ridding a country of some vermin called Hezbollah, which is a bunch of terrorists who would kill you the first chance they got.
Have you heard about that?
I was definitely looking out for them.
But it seemed like they're crying out loud.
What are we doing here?
Goldie, have you heard of UN Resolution 1559?
And how are you going to get food to 3 million people while fighting a war with, you know, I don't know how many Hezbollahs are there, about 5,000, 10,000?
Goldie, have you heard of UN Resolution 1559?
Yes, I've heard of it.
Yes, I agree.
All right, do you know that for six years, the United Nations and Lebanon failed to enforce that resolution?
The Israelis obeyed every aspect of it.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese government did not, nor did the United Nations.
Then they kidnap a couple of Israeli soldiers in a truly provocative act after the Israelis have gone along with this resolution, this whole land for peace jays, and finally said, we're not putting up with this anymore.
We are not going to put up.
We're not going to live with a bunch of resolutions that nobody will enforce.
And we're not going to live on a border with a bunch of people that want to exterminate us.
They have proven that this is not about land for peace.
They have proven that everything that they have said for the last 40 years about wanting land that Israelis originally took from them is wrong.
They want to kill Jews.
And the Israelis are not going to sit there and be killed.
And they're not going to let their people be killed.
It's a war.
It is a war.
You really use the right word.
War is terrible.
And this is a war against terrorists.
And it's turned into a war against a country.
You know, terrorists go over country boards.
Well, I'm going to tell you, if a country is going to harbor a terrorist group and protect them, if a country is going to let a terrorist group take over civilian neighborhoods and use private homes as launching pads for rockets,
if a country is going to let Hezbollah transport itself around in ambulances and vehicles painted with red crosses on them, if Hezbollah is going to hide behind innocent women and children and not let them out of the southern areas of Lebanon because they want them to die, don't you think there's a price to pay for that at some point on the part of that country?
This price is too heavy.
I mean, listen, Hezbollah is getting so killed in the South that eventually there's going to be one of them streaking up north naked.
And you know what's going to happen?
Israel is going to take out the whole top side of the country, too, because their bombs are landing everywhere.
From over there, this looks extremely sloppy.
Do you have any?
Do you have wait a minute?
Goldie, I haven't heard any sympathy from you for all the dead Israeli civilians from all the Katusha rockets that are being launched by Hezbollah.
Do you have any concern there?
Well, I mean, that's not great, but I think Israel suffers from the same thing America suffers, this anti-septic culture of war where they don't see the blood and everything's fine.
It's like a video game for Americans and for the Israelis, apparently.
And, you know, I don't want to see blood anywhere, but, you know, if a little bit of blood gets them to see like this is real and they're not, you know, they're not playing PlayStation, then don't forget to know what other deaths in Israel.
I mean, Goldie, Goldie, where were you on September 11th, 2001?
Lebanese civilians aren't worth as much as Israeli civilians killed by terrorists.
I mean, that is the most ridiculous thing in the world.
Why am I wasting my time?
I knew that this was going to be a total waste of time.
I knew it was going to be a total waste of time.
You know, you're ignorant.
You're just ignorant.
You are mouthing emotional, liberal platitudes to make yourself feel good and sound reasonable and so forth, but you are dangerous because of your ignorance.
Where were you on September 11th, 2001?
I was watching the towers go down from 34th Street.
Well, do you think there are people who want to kill the people?
I think the same smell from 9-11.
The same exact smell came wafting over from Beirut, that smell of burnt everything, plastic, bodies, whatever it is.
It's disgusting.
I remember the smell from 9-11.
And, you know, this is the same thing's going on in Beirut.
Hardly.
Innocent Americans were killed on 9-11, Goldie, who had not attacked anybody, who hadn't provoked anybody, who hadn't done diddly squat to anybody.
The people in Lebanon, in vast majority of the numbers who are dying, are the same kind of people who killed 3,000 innocent Americans on one day on September 11th.
Your inability to establish a moral difference between pure evil and innocent, upstanding citizens is shocking to me.
You're saying that all 400-plus Lebanese dead had something to do with 9-11?
I'm telling you, no.
I'm telling you that they are terrorists who are killing innocent people.
They're blowing up their own kids by putting bombs on them and sending them out into Israeli pizza parlors and so forth.
Where have you been?
The fact that you don't see any difference, that you're able to establish a moral equivalence between pure evil and decent people is shocking to me.
Actually, it's not, but I'm saying that sounds good to say it.
The vast majority of Lebanese people are not terrorists, and they're all being held hostage.
The country is completely sealed off.
I mean, how food, water, everything is being taken away from them.
You know, tough toenails.
Talk to the Japanese about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the fire bombings of a number of their cities.
Talk to the people in Germany about Dresden and World War II.
This is how you win wars, Goldie.
And if we hadn't won wars in the past, you wouldn't have the freedom to run around mouthing all this gibberish that you are mouthing.
Rush, if these kind of wars continue like this, how many more terrorists do you think are going to be created?
All you're doing is pissing everybody off, even people that, you know.
So according to you, it is the decent people and the God-fearing and the upstanding innocent people of the world who, when attacked, defend themselves.
That's what creates enemies.
That's what creates terrorists.
You don't have the slightest idea who these people are and why they're what they are.
They are hiding an ideology behind a religion.
They despise anybody who is not a militant Muslim.
They have a target of every infidel that they'll define as any Christian or Jew or even Muslim who's not hardcore enough for them.
And their objective is to wipe everybody out.
They want to reestablish a middle ages type of culture.
They're sick wackos.
But we can't criticize them because they're a religion.
Now you're getting all concerned for the innocent people of Lebanon.
You have no concern for the innocent people of Israel.
And I'll tell you, there are people in Israel that are being wiped out at the same time and have been for 40 years.
We've tried it your way.
We have tried ceasefires.
We have tried UN resolutions.
We've tried compassion.
We've tried doctors.
We've tried nurses.
We've tried clean water.
We have fed the world, Goldie, and they still want to wipe us out.
Please don't ever run for office from New York.
You might win.
I know, I know.
I just had to check my super secret email address on the Blackberry.
The red light was blinking.
We're back.
El Rush Ball and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network to Atlanta.
We go next.
Mark, nice to have you, sir.
Rush, forgive me if I'm a little nervous.
I've been trying to reach you for 10 years, so this is my first shot.
Congratulations and welcome.
Well, you are my hero.
You inspired me to start my own business, and I am.
I did a million-dollar in business last year, so I'll owe you a debt of gratitude.
And unlike what I owe that man, which I saw on Fox News when he got off the boat, that ungrateful, spineless liberal that he's bad-mouthing the Bush administration for bringing him out of Lebanon.
Israel is doing the work.
I was born, I'm born as a Muslim in Lebanon.
And I came here about 29 years ago, and I have flipped 180 degrees.
Forgive me if I'm nervous, but he is, what he is doing is what emboldens the Hezbollah of the world.
I am a Muslim, and Israel is doing the work of the Muslims and the Lebanese people, which is the Clintons and Nicolian Anderson.
That's exactly right.
But that is lost on people who are not thinking about this.
You've got a lot of people who are just feeling they have almost robotic reactions anytime anything violence or war breaks out.
They're liberals.
They're anti-Americans.
They hate the country.
They'll take all the benefits of it and they'll badmouth it and try to destroy it at the same time.
But you're exactly right.
UN Resolution 1559.
Why anybody relies on these things in the first place?
I know why Israel did, because Israel, okay, all right, we'll do whatever we have to do to show you how useless this is.
This whole Land for Peace business has been an abject joke and a feint and PR spin from the get-go because every time we have given land back, all they want is more and they still attack us.
We had this resolution six years ago.
The UN, Lebanon, supposed to get Hezbollah out of there and disarm it.
Didn't happen.
Israel has to do it, just like we had to enforce a whole bunch of UN resolutions in Iraq.
And if it weren't for countries like the United States and Israel, the world would be an utter mess of depravity and tyranny, despotism.
You wouldn't even want to think about it.
I couldn't agree with you more, Rush.
But the point is, there are a lot of people, the majority of the Lebanese people, Muslim or Christian, would love for Hezbollah to disarm.
But a lot of them are afraid because of the people that emboldens them, that are spineless liberal.
What is his problem?
He is out of there.
What's he afraid of, to say the truth?
I think we'd be wasting our time to keep.
You talk about Goldie?
You know, when you get, when I, I debated, honest to God here, Mark, I debated during the break whether to continue with the call.
And I told Snurdley, I said, you know, my instincts are to do this, but I'm in a bad mood, and I'm not sure I should.
Because when you get into an argument with a fool, it doesn't take long before people can't tell the difference.
Fools generally lower the level of the argument because, in order to communicate with them, you have to be a fool yourself.
But I fought that temptation.
I fought the resistance to do that.
And I thought the call would be worthwhile.
But to spend any time analyzing what he thinks and why is a total waste of time because there's nothing up there between the ears that's causing any analysis.
It's all in his heart.
And he thinks his heart's in a good place.
He probably hates Bush.
He's a musician in New York.
What else do you need to know?
He's a liberal socialist.
He may not even know that.
Probably would disagree with it.
Says he's got family over there in Lebanon, but he clearly sympathizes with the enemies of the United States and with Israel.
But don't waste your time with guys like that.
I mean, if there were any Hezbollah people listening to that guy, if Lord knows they could be tuning into this program on the internet, you never know.
If they heard that exchange, don't for a minute think that even the idiots in Hezbollah, the stupidest members, would not have believed that that guy scored any points.
They're probably seeking him out right now to put tape on his mouth to make sure he doesn't embarrass them even further.
Carl, Colorado Springs, Colorado, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Just real quick on the moral equivalency thing.
These folks like Goldie have this promise for the liberal democracies of the world are finally starting to get a clue and are ready to clean this mess up.
Thank God Israel's doing what they're doing.
And one thing Goldie did for you, I must say, as it's been your golden role, he made the host look great.
Well, thank you, sir.
That's awfully kind of you to say.
And that was the objective.
Very perceptive of you.
The purpose of that call was not to change Goldie's mind.
The purpose of taking and sticking with that call was not in any way to change his mind or to even cause him to start thinking about things.
That's a lost cause that wasn't going to happen.
Call like that is useful for a whole bunch of reasons, illustrating that there are idiots like that and who they are.
They're leftists and they're Democrats.
Number two, you nailed it.
Any call that makes the host look good could end up being the call of the day, and he probably will be for that reason alone, even though as a standalone, it was an embarrassment.
If you want to compare this to a music station, music stations only play the hits, folks.
They don't go deep down the playlist and pick songs that people don't like.
I ran the risk of taking a call that was not a hit.
But because of my talent on loan from God, because of my highly trained broadcast specialty training, I was able to turn that potentially disaster, disastrous call, into one of the best calls we've had on this program in a month.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
By the way, I want to be clear on one thing.
There's one thing that I did not say to Goldie that I should have said when he was talking about how Israel is destroying Lebanon and so forth.
For any of you out there who think that that's the case, let me tell you who is destroying Lebanon and who has been destroying Lebanon for I don't know how many years.
Hezbollah.
The Hezbos are destroying Lebanon.
They are infecting it with a disease known as terrorism.
They are also being destroyed by Syria.
The Lebanese, those who still have their wits, would never admit it publicly for fear of their lives.
But I will bet you that the majority of the Lebanese are on their hands and knees thanking God that somebody's doing something about the cesspool that their country had become.
Corrupt government, terrorism as a member of parliament, the Hezbollah group, imprisoning innocent civilians and putting them in the line of fire specifically to die.
These are true SOBs.
These are bastards, folks, and they are the ones who are destroying Lebanon.
It is not Israel, it's not the United States, and it's not the free world.
Interesting column today, Pete DuPont in Wall Street Journal today, about the growth of the United States economy in the last 33 months.
Some dramatic figures and dramatic illustrations to make it easily understandable.
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