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July 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know when I'm hoarse, it just it it has an effect on my mind.
I get I get caught up, I can't say anything.
I do the riffs I want to do, and it maybe I'm not horse, maybe it's my cochlear implants making me sound hoarse to myself.
You know, it changes day to day.
It's subject to so many vagaries.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
It's fab what?
How long is it what?
No, I'm not gonna hold off on a lifestyle stack, Sternley.
Snurdly, now it's gonna be a game trying to get me off the lifestyle stack.
Yes, it was Hillary.
He tried Hillary again to get me off the lifestyle stack, but he'll this fits perfectly in the lifestyle stack.
What you sent me on Hillary?
Oh ho ho!
Anyway, we're glad you're back.
Hi to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam at Rush Limbaugh.com.
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I you know, we do show prep here every day, and I've been collecting this lifestyle stuff for a week.
And I haven't gotten to it because the uh uh the the Hezbows and the Israelis are going at it, and that's pretty serious.
And there's very serious uh news and uh largely important events going on out there, and I know that you have expectations.
But folks, you got to take a break from it for some time.
I mean, you you don't you just you can get too much of it, and I don't want your emotional reservoir on this stuff to run dry.
Uh this is stuff uh the war on terror and all this is not something that I can afford you getting bored about and tired of hearing about.
So I'm gonna get into some of the lifestyle stuff now.
If you want to talk about all of this that's and if you're on hold and had been, fine.
When we go to the phones, you can if you want to talk about the uh Israelis uh and the uh Hesmo war in Lebanon or whatever.
That's fine.
During the break at the top of the hour, when Snurdly was trying to talk me out of doing the lifestyle stack, he said, Have you seen the Hillary bust?
Now, when somebody asks you if you have seen the Hillary bust, you know, it's a delicate answer.
What could it mean?
It could mean one of two things.
And I when Snardley's asking the question, it could have many more subtle meanings.
Have you seen the Hillary bust?
So the safe answer was the true one, uh no.
I I've not seen either one.
Uh so he says, Well, you haven't?
I said, Nope.
So he sent me a link to National Review Online.
I just sent the link up to Coco at the website, because I want Coco to post this link because I can't describe this to you.
I'll read to you what it is, and I have a picture.
There is a Hillary bust, and it's in the uh it's it's in the uh the Museum of Sex.
Or it will be in the museum of sex on August 9th.
And the Museum of Sex has put out a press release announcing this great sculpture.
A presidential bust.
There's another meaning.
Presidential bust.
Which is what hers would be.
And a presidential bust of Hillary Clinton is set to be unveiled at the Museum of Sex on August 9th, 2006 at 10 a.m., the Museum of Sex, by the way, is uh in New York, accentuating her sexual power and bolstered by the presidential seal, the presidential bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman president of the United States of America, will be officially open for public viewing on August 9th for a limited six-week run.
Now, obviously she's not been elected president yet, so this is a premature bust.
And when people start doing this kind of stuff, they end up getting bit uh severely by this.
Like when the Democrats start talking about speaker to be Pelosi and so forth.
The artist here is Daniel Edwards, and he describes this new sculpture as capturing Clinton with her head held high, a youthful spirit, and a face matured by wisdom.
Presented in a low-cut gown.
From this picture, you it doesn't look like she's wearing anything, snurdly.
That's that's the first thing.
It looked like the guy's even carved in veins.
But I guess that's just the way the picture.
At any rate, with her head held high, a youthful spirit and a face matured by wisdom.
Presented in a low-cut gown, her cleavage is on display prominently portraying sexual power, which some people still consider to be too threatening.
Edwards the artist's inspiration.
You bored by this, Brian?
Uh Edwards.
Edwards uh inspiration for the piece was derived from actress Sharon Stone's controversial quote earlier in the year about challenges that would most likely be encountered should the junior senator from New York run on the 08 ticket, said the brilliant political analyst Sharon Stone.
I think Hillary Clinton's fantastic, but I think it's too soon for her to run.
This may sound odd, but a woman should be past her sexuality when she runs.
Hillary still has sexual power, and I don't think people will accept that.
It's just too threatening.
Well, Daniel Gluck, the executive director of the Museum of Sex, said displaying a sculpture to encourage discourse about the sexual power debate surrounding the possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency is very much in line with our mission as a museum.
Folks, I can't describe this to you.
It is uh I mean I could try, but you just have to see this.
It is the ugliest sculpture of anything I've ever seen.
There's nothing sexual about this.
Dawn, have you seen it?
Is there, am I wrong?
Is there anything sexual about the woman in this sculpture looks like she's a hundred and four.
It looks like Hillary as a cadaver.
Now the picture is shot looking up, not head on, so that might distort it.
But I can't go any further than this, folks.
And this does not like I mean, um it doesn't look like there's a gown in this in this picture.
So I have told Coco to put it up, but he has not responded yet.
Keep checking Rush Limbaugh.com.
That link to this, it's the National Review Online has posted it on the corner.
Uh but I don't have the link to that.
Uh well, I do, but I don't have it in my head to read to you.
The easiest way is just for you to get it off of our website.
The um story from from Kansas City Independence uh Missouri, the assault trial of a man accused of shoving a cell phone down a woman's throat has begun.
Prosecutors say that 24-year-old Marlon Brando Gill was angry and jealous when he forced the phone into Melinda Abell's throat last December.
But defense attorneys insist the 25-year-old victim swallowed the phone intentionally to prevent Marlon Brando Gill from finding out who she'd been calling.
Gill is charged with felony first degree assault.
A doctor at Kansas City Hospital's emergency room used a tool called a pincher to remove the phone from her throat.
She testified yesterday she couldn't remember how the phone got in her throat, saying she drank too much that night.
Court records show that her blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit.
I I can't visualize how this is even possible.
I mean, I think I'm pretty much aware of the latest cell phones out there.
Uh but I how do you get a cell phone in the throat and then get it stuck there and stay alive long enough for the hospital to use the pincher to get it out of there?
Uh well, I guess I guess the same way you get a light bulb up your um up your anus.
We had that story.
Well, that guy was in Pakistan, right?
Ended up with a light bulb up his anus.
Nobody couldn't figure it out on how it happened.
Couldn't uh couldn't remember how it happened.
I'll tell you the pi I think there's some kinky sex going on out there.
This is this is you know, light bulbs up the anus, and now you got cell phones down the throat.
Uh supposedly rammed down by some guy named Marlon Brando Gill.
I mean, there's something odd about this going on.
I'm still looking at this uh picture of this bust of uh of Hillary Clinton.
Folks, we by the way, we got the link uh now ready to go at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It links to National Review Online, and I don't know about their server situation, but if you don't get in, uh, you know, because we tend to crash servers out there all across the fruited plain.
Be patient.
It's worth the wait.
And I'm just telling you, if they actually go ahead and put this bust on display at the Museum of Sex, they are gonna cause mass impotence among all the people in those six-week period that walks in there to look at this.
And I can't believe that that is the mission of the uh uh museum of sex.
Uh Mike in Lakewood, New Jersey, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Megadidas Rush and thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh I just wanted to make a point that I don't here emphasize enough, and that is that Hezbollah is nothing, their sole purpose and the essence of their existence is the destruction of Israel.
Right.
Um and asking for a ceasefire or peace with them is is almost like uh telling Microsoft to get out of the software business.
Uh yeah, true.
Absolutely right.
And and you do you think that these Star Wars Bar seen diplomats of the UN understand that?
Uh absolutely not.
Absolutely they do.
They do.
They under that's why they don't want Hezbollah out of business.
They want Israel out of business.
They want Israel out of the Middle East.
The United Nations is the repository of modern anti-Semitism in the world today.
Uh and you know, you you raise a great point.
I like that analogy.
Uh coming up with some sort of a ceasefire, sustainable ceasefire, uh, is like as asking the Hezbos to go out of business.
Now Candy understands this, and George W. Bush understands this, and a lot of Americans will understand this.
And we also know, as a follow, that the Hezbos are not going to agree to go out of business.
Hitler would not have agreed to go out of business.
Toko would have not agreed to go out of business.
Tojo.
Uh none of our enemies would have agreed.
Kim Jong il is not going to agree to go out of business.
Mahmood Ahmadinizad is not going to agree to go out of business.
Uh so how do you deal with it?
You you can't?
That's a perfect way of illustrating.
There's no such thing as a sustainable ceasefire.
When Hezbollah's mission is the destruction of Israel.
Uh there's only one way to deal with this.
I keep I keep shouting this from the mountaintops, but it's the Limbaugh doctrine.
And if there is a if there's a sustainable sust so-called sustainable ceasefire that comes out of this, it will only be after the Hezbows have been shellacked.
It'll only be after the Hezbollah have been put out of business, and not by virtue of agreeing to go out of business.
Rich, uh out there on Long Island.
Great to have you with us.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh Rosh, how are you?
Fine, sir, thank you.
Okay, uh the Associated Press, from what I read, is reporting the opposite version of what's being told.
Uh to people.
Uh they're saying that uh this skirmish occurred in Lebanon.
Uh I'm not following you.
Okay.
The uh you talking about the kidnapping the kidnapping of the two soldiers?
Right.
It was inside of Lebanon.
There was not Hezbollah going into Israel.
Uh, you know, Israel sent uh some commandos into uh uh Lebanon, and ultimately this uh skirmish occurred, uh, where a tank was destroyed, a couple soldiers got killed, and then two got uh Oh, yes.
So let me guess, you think that Israel has been planning this for the longest time.
Well, Rush, you know that wars take years to plan.
You're gonna tell me that uh two soldiers get kidnapped, and all of a sudden they have all this machinery ready, all these tanks and this whole uh war strategy is all set and ready to go within a matter of a couple of days.
I believe it's a little as I do that war take years to plan.
Of course I know that the Israelis are at war every day of their lives.
The Israelis have war planning every day.
They never know who's gonna attack.
Not on a scale like this.
Yes, they do.
They haven't had a that's the only way they have survived.
They haven't had a war, it's the only way they've survived.
But look, we're getting sidetracked here because you you want you want to say that the Israelis actually were hoping for this and then they were planning it for the longest time.
There was a story in the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week, Rich, that basically said the same thing that the uh Israelis had been working on this for a full year.
Well, this is a plan uh for conquest of the greater Middle East overall.
And Hezbollah needs to be eliminated and pushed out of the way to further isolate Syria in order to take control of Iran.
You know that, and I know that.
This is this is a plan.
Hold on a sec.
Hold on.
Let the hosts get in a word edgewise here.
What?
This the scenario that you just described, are you opposed to that?
Uh absolutely, yes.
You would be opposed to the Hezbos and the Iranians being neutralized.
You think the Israelis want to take control of Iran?
Uh no, I think the neocons do.
They want to take control of the Middle East, is what they want to do.
Oh, the neocons.
You mean like Bill Crystal and Charles Crowdham.
There you go.
You read the project for the American Century, right?
Right.
You've read the read that, right?
Uh I've I've heard of the Project The American Century.
Yeah, it's crystal.
You read it.
Well no, I haven't read it.
Okay.
Well, it's clearly states about uh taking control of the Middle East and natural resources and things like that.
Yeah, well clearly stated in that.
All well and good, but I don't think the Israelis are run by the uh Project for the American Century.
Well, well, the neocons support Israel.
Well, so do I, and I'm not a neocon.
You better be real careful on this because neocons is a code word for Jew.
Conservative Jewish.
It's just a code word for that.
Support.
It's a way for people to express their anti-Semitism.
And you get you gotta be, I'm gonna try to protect you here, Rich.
You gotta be real careful about this.
I want to stick to the substance of what you said.
Um you may as well have said it's a Carl Rove plot, because it's a conspiracy now.
Uh and it's it's very interesting how the uh how how Rove and Crystal and Krauthammer have control over the Hezbows to make them go ahead and do the kidnapping.
It's amazing how all this happens.
I think you're you're being a little short-sighted here.
It's right out in front of your face, and the explanation here is so simple that it can't be that.
No, no, it has to be something sinister behind the scenes that we don't know anything about, run by powerful forces that neocons.
That's not the case at all.
In fact, this uh San Francisco Chronicle story, which laid out the year-long planning of the Israelis was denied by everybody in Israel, but of course you're not going to believe them.
Uh, how about the fact that the Hezbos have been building underground tunnels in southern Lebanon and have been um uh uh arming uh caches of weapons in them and have been building bunkers hundreds of feet below civilian homes in southern Lebanon.
In fact, uh story out of Jerusalem today.
Israel claimed victory in the Hezbox Southern Capitol yesterday after a battle in Lebanon that uncovered Iranian-made weapons.
The neocons made sure that Ahmadinezad sent some weapons over there to the Hezbos so that world support would unite around Israel.
I'm sure Rove is part of this too.
That's right.
Israel claimed victory in the Hezbox Southern Capitol yesterday after a battle in Lebanon that uncovered Iranian-made weapons and electronic equipment and left one hundred and fifty guerrillas dead.
Well, for those of you in real Linda, these are guerrilla fighters, not the not the apes.
Israeli forces found war rooms equipped with Iranian surveillance and eavesdropping gear, the main Hezbolla stronghold just inside the border.
The town is completely controlled by us, an Israeli colonel said.
Caches of weapons were also found in this town.
Mahmood Kamati, the uh deputy chief of the Hezbollah's political arm, uh, refused to acknowledge the group was firing Iranian-made missiles into Israel.
We don't deny or confirm.
We believe where the weapons came from is irrelevant, he said, adding that the Hezbos have weapons made in France and Russia and China and the United States.
I have no doubt that they do.
Anyway, this is not a conspiracy, and this is not about taking over Iran or having Israel take over Iran.
You you're really trying to be too smart by half here.
Uh This is what it is.
This is a 30 to 40 year war over a little country's right to exist.
Pure and simple.
By a bunch of nomadic 14th and 15th century oddballs who have now become armed with serious weapons, who are willing to blow up their own children in order to further their absolutely perverse and perverted and depraved ideology, which they are hiding behind a so-called religion.
Which means you can't criticize them.
Religions are out of bounds.
The articles of faith, you can't criticize somebody's religious beliefs.
These people are phony baloney from the from the get-go, and it's time finally to deal with them.
And if we get rid of a run, I would throw a party.
I tell you what, more I think about that bust, that Hillary bust at the sex museum in New York.
She's she sees that she has got to get that thing destroyed.
She's got to take the $6,000 she's spending on her hairdo and buy this bus or do something if that'll even cover.
I don't know how much this artist wants for it, but I mean she cannot allow this thing to go on display.
Certainly not at a museum of sex.
But I mean, I I wouldn't think anywhere.
This is uh this excellent news here, folks.
A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to bar ATT from giving the government telephone records without warrants, saying that it would require disclosures that would adversely affect our national security.
Judge Matthew Kennelly said the disclosing whether ATT had given such records to the supersecret NSA in its hunt for terrorists would violate the government's right to keep secrets.
He said the court is persuaded that requiring ATT to uh confirm or deny whether it has disclosed large quantities of telephone records of the federal government could give adversaries of this country valuable insight into the government's intelligence activities.
This was a 40-page opinion.
Kennelly ruled in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Illinois on behalf of author Studs Turkle and others who claimed their rights had been violated by disclosure of the phone records to the NSA.
ACLU legal director Harvey Grossman issued a statement saying the group respectfully disagrees.
So basically the lawsuit to uh keep ATT from giving phone records to the NSA was dismissed.
Finally, you know, when you any time you start a story, you read a story, and the first words are a federal judge today.
Oh, hold on tight.
Oh no, what what what what now?
This was a uh a pleasure to read.
More and more uh obese people uh are unable to get full medical care because uh they're either too big to fit into scanners like MRIs and so forth, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, this according to radiologists yesterday, with sixty-four percent of the U.S. population either overweight or obese.
The problem is worsening, but it represents a business opportunity for equipment makers and hospitals, said Dr. Raoul Uppett, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
We've noticed over the past couple of years that obesity was playing a role in our ability to see these images clearly, Uppett said in a telephone interview.
Radiologists uh have their own term for it when writing reports.
Uh these images are limited due to body habitus.
Uh Uppett's uh team looked for the phrase and radiology reports from 89 to 2003.
Uh these included standard X-rays, computer-assisted X-rays, known as CT scans, magnetic resonance imaging, as MRIs, and uh positron emission tomography.
Uh that's a pet scan.
These scans are used to look for tumors, blood clots, broken limbs, and cell phones that have been jammed down the throats of women by angry men named Marlon Brando Gill in Kansas City, Missouri.
Overall, about uh 15.15% of uh over five million reports were habitus limited, meaning uh patients were simply too fat uh for any information to be uh to be gleaned.
You know what this is.
I mean, it may be an invitation for the manufacturers.
How many of you have been to an MRI tube?
I mean, they're ridiculously small.
You've been in an MRI.
Well, they're ridiculously small.
I mean, the biggest problem people have in them is is claustrophobia.
They're really, really, really tiny.
Uh they've got some MRI machines now that don't have a tube.
Uh but they do in a way because the tube closes in on you after you take your position.
Uh the first MRI is the tube that they just rolled you in there and and they're loud in there.
When that when that magnet gets going, they give you ear muffs, earplugs, and uh and this sort of thing.
I can't get an MRI now.
Uh because of my cochlear implant has a magnet uh inside my skull to keep the headpiece attached here.
So all I can do is a CT scan.
Those are not a problem.
X rays are not a problem.
But those MRIs uh and they're really valuable.
Uh they but man, some people are just scared to death of them.
Um and you i i depending on what you've got, most of the time it's it's what I call total immersion in the uh in the tube, and especially if they put you in head first.
Now this was not a problem for me.
I'm not I'm not claustrophobic, but everybody said before you get one of these things, um you better be prepared because that's tight in there and so forth, and you know, you just keep your eyes closed.
Uh they give you headphones and music if you want to listen to it, inapplicable to me.
Uh but it's it's still it's it's tight.
I so they there is room to improve that, but this could also be the medical community saying, Don't blame us if the patient dies.
We couldn't get a complete picture because the person was such a pig.
Uh Mark and Amarillo, welcome.
EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, I. Um Rush, I disagree, you know, you wanted a um first of all, let me let me put it like uh this I'm not a liberal, I'm far from it.
I'm probably further to the right on you and most things.
Right.
912, we would have owned all the oil fields in the Middle East if I had my way, all right, if I was the president.
But I'm gonna tell you right now, you wanted the biggest cheerleaders for to go into Iraq.
Okay.
Now, and so is uh the man you carried water for is uh George Bush, all right.
Instead of looking at if you if b if you guys had known your history, you'd have realized that the um Iraq has a problem between three different um type people the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds.
Really?
I didn't know that.
Saddam Hussein, as bad as he was, was keeping order among them, all right?
Right.
So Yeah, by wiping out three hundred thousand of them whenever he needed to.
That may it may or not be.
But he was kind of like the Shah before in Iran, who we also, who uh Jimmy Carter, who by the way, George Bush reminds me more and more of, pulled a rug from under.
Now, if we had not realized that by going into our rack, and by the way, I support our troops now because we have to stay there now because now they have the doors open to the city.
Okay, so this is how to come in.
Well, that's a good thing.
All this is moot then.
We can't go back.
You can say it was a mistake or whatever, but okay, even if you find people who admit it was a mistake, you can't get out of there now.
No, but I do say this.
Okay, only by being a far more savage nation can this country survive and defeat the Islamist enemy.
Uh he wants to listen to himself on the radio, we'll let him, except that's it.
Uh who's next on this program?
Um Ray in Orlando.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Okay, thank you, Rush.
Rush, I have a comment um and a concern about um I I want to go back to the Reagan administration and and why why President Reagan never responded to the death of all of those Marines that were killed.
And in that barracks, when they were blown up and all those Marines were killed.
I mean, I loved President Reagan.
This is one part of his administration I never understood why he never did any type of response, because in my mind's eye, to a large degree, we were kind of responsible for empowering Hezbollah, just like we were Mohammed Adid over in Mogadishu, because of the fact of our lack of response, especially when we lost 240 soldiers.
And I just don't understand why now there's not even a um even that it's not mentioned to the degree of saying, well, these Hezbollah people murdered our soldiers as well.
And there just seems to be a path given to that whole event.
And why was that?
Well, in the first place, you're right.
These are the people that killed 281 Marines, and I have heard some people mention it.
Uh uh I I mean, even now, I think it it's part of the uh the whole dialogue that uh being uttered by people to justify uh our position uh vis-a-vis the ra the Israelis on this.
Uh this was nineteen eighty-one that was in Ray I think it was eighty one when it was Reagan's first year in office, or was it his second term?
I'm I was eighty three.
What do you remember what year it was, Ray?
I think it was eighty three, was it not?
Eighty three, eighty-three.
Well, I don't I I I can't give you the uh the answer uh uh as to as to why the administration slunk out of there.
I would just have to I'd have to guess.
Uh and I uh uh it'd be it'd be ridiculous to do so.
But I will agree with you that uh whatever the reason was, it didn't look good.
And to whatever extent, there have been a lot of mistakes we've we have been very po uh tolerant and patient with terrorism over the years.
We went twenty years without responding to terrorist attacks, even against our own people, not just the marine barracks, but uh the cobalt towers and a number of embassy bombings, the World Trade Center 1993, we didn't do anything about that.
But all of that led us to where we are now.
Uh and I I I think you know, free people and democratic people are slow to arouse on things like this.
This is not the stuff that we really like doing, but at some point the the the straw that breaks the camel's back shows up, and then the mess has to be dealt with.
And this is a twenty-year mess, maybe even a little bit longer.
And and the fact is that an attempt is being made to deal with it now.
Uh the most serious attempt this country has ever mounted, and it's still got problems.
I mean, I think we're still too minimalist in in uh some of the things we're doing, and I think that we still have too much political correctness guiding us.
Uh and we know half the country, and well, half the country, the Democratic Party is steadfastly opposed to any part of this policy right now, uh, be it for political reasons or whatever, but the fact is they're still opposed to it, so we don't have uh united front on this, which makes it even harder.
Uh but there is there if this is the first concerted effort uh that is being made to actually deal with this because it's gotten to a point now where we have to.
All right, well, thank you, Rush.
You bet.
I I'm I'm not trying to skate it.
I just you know, I don't I don't remember uh what the Reagan administration's uh explanation was for slinking out of there.
I do remember a lot of people were disappointed by it and and thought that it it didn't jibe with what they knew of uh of uh of Reagan uh and I mean I uh I I think Ray is right.
It had the same appearance uh as our slinking out of uh Mogadishu uh after Mohammed Farah Adid uh uh killed twelve of our Rangers, dragged one of them through the streets, in a battle we won.
In a battle we won, we pulled out of there, and that's you know, Osama bin Laden has said that that is one of the things that uh inspired him.
But all of these things in the past, uh and North Korea having nukes.
I mean, all these things, the Iranians doing what they're doing, going back to the Shah, Jimmy Carter and giving us that regime.
Uh all these things have not been dealt with.
They've been dealt with diplomatically, been dealt with with people like Madeline Albright and and uh and and uh Jamie Gorelic and and so forth, and they were just put off.
The problems were just delayed.
They were just put over uh uh almost aside because uh previous administrations just didn't want to deal with it because it would ruin their legacies, it'd be too hard, or might drive their poll numbers down.
Uh but we've just we've reached the breaking point now, and I think that's what we hear.
We hear Condoleezza Rice say we're not going back status quo.
And the Israelis have just said, oops, you know what?
Uh we're gonna be here several more weeks.
Uh take us a little longer than we thought, United States.
Keep up.
Uh so there is no time limit that's been placed on Israel.
Uh and I think they're actually having uh uh starting to have some success uh with this now.
At any rate, I'm a little long here in this segment, but I appreciate the call, Ray.
We'll be back and continue in just a sec.
I know!
You get we're reading an email.
I've been doing research.
Everybody's lost confidence here in my ability to execute the programming format.
Oh, waving at me in there.
Go, go, go, it's your turn.
I've been doing some research.
This business about Reagan.
It was 1983, October 23rd, 83, the uh the bombing of the barracks.
And and uh I wanted to find out more about this, uh, even though I uh it has relevance as a as an item of interest, but it's in the past as all of these things are, and they've led us to this moment, and this moment is what's real.
The the fact of the matter is for all of you want to go back and blame Reagan, or if you want to go back and blame uh even Clinton or go back and blame Carter.
I mean, you can we can we can do that and we all do.
We've all made foreign policy mistakes.
FDR gave Eastern Europe to Stalin.
I mean, tell me that wasn't a mistake.
But here's the difference.
And this is what you people out there need to keep in mind, unless uh or unlike all of the mistakes that the rest of the world makes, we correct ours.
And we are in a major corrective mode now.
Now, where I was when you were screaming at me in there, I went to Wikipedia.
President Reagan assembled his national security team and planned to target the Sheikh Abdullah barracks in Lebanon, which house the Iranian revolutionary guards believed to be training Hezbo fighters.
But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger aborted the mission reportedly because of his concerns that it would harm U.S. relations with other Arab nations.
Now I understand, and I don't I don't know that this is widely known, and I'm not I understand that Weinberger was opposed to putting the Marines at that air base because he said they'd be sitting ducks, but the State Department insisted they be placed there as a show of force in uh in Lebanon.
Uh I also don't know if if back then, if the Reagan administration knew 100% certain uh that it was the Hesbows who had launched the attack.
Uh I think they probably suspected it, but they might not have had a hundred percent certitude.
There's no question about it now, though.
Here is uh Jim in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Jim, welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it's a pleasure to be on did uh my uh understanding and my recollection, I've just listened to what you said in the previous caller.
My recollection, though, is that Reagan uh put the Marines into Beirut as peacekeepers during a civil war.
And that the idea that we would respond would have been totally foreign to the policy that we had going.
I mean, uh I'm sure that if uh if they are going to be attacked, they had the authority to respond to anyone that was specifically attacking them.
But to take retribution and going after Hezbollah or going after any of the the uh groups involved in the government there or in the civil war would have uh defeated the purpose of having Marines there as peacekeepers.
So I think Reagan completely did what his policy called for.
Well, the the uh as the Wikipedia blurb indicates, Weinberger was opposed to it because he thought they would be sitting ducks.
The State Department said, no, no, put them in there because it'll be a show of force.
What I vaguely remember, we had some sort of uh destroyer or battleship off the coast of Lebanon out in the Mediterranean.
And uh after the after the barracks uh were blown up and the 280 Marines, uh 281 Marines were slaughtered.
Uh I remember what caused all the hubbub was that battleship retreating.
Yeah, I do remember the battleship shooting over Beirut somewhere into uh some camps of some type, if I remember correctly.
Right.
But it still retreated after that.
It didn't stay in.
But again, they uh there's also the possibility they weren't sure who had done this.
Uh and uh they weren't gonna launch a uh a counter strike unl unless they were absolutely certain.
Uh obviously it's uh uh obviously certain now uh who it was, but we're still we make mistakes, we fix them.
We're correcting them, and this one is a major correction underway.
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