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Aug. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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This is uh somewhat interesting uh from our buddies at the Red State blog.
I don't know, it's redstate.org anymore, it's red state, whatever, but well, they changed the address.
Took me it took me about a week to find them.
Had to go find them on um I don't even remember how I found them.
Anyway, they wrote, they are saying that they have been talking to congressional sources and that the letter that the Cubans released from Castro was uh congressional sources say this letter it really appears to experts in the know that this letter came after the surgery.
And if that's true, it indicates that either Fidel is in grave danger, grave circumstances, or is perhaps already dead.
So that's uh that's just some scuttle butt that's going around uh congressional sources.
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I mentioned this uh story yesterday.
It's a prelude to another chick news story.
Again from ABC News.
Well, no, yesterday's chick news story, I think it was from CBS.
This is a piece in the Washington Times a couple days ago uh by a guy named Carrie Roberts, a Washington area writer, I'm assuming uh it's a he.
C-A-R-E-Y could be a female, I think it's spelled C-A-R-R-I-E.
Well, regardless.
What an open.
Listen to this.
It's about time we probe an assumption that has insidiously worked its way into our culture.
The notion that women are the guardians of goodness and grace, while all those male Neanderthals are emissaries from the dark side.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a is a notion and assumption that has been promulgated by the militant feminazis.
I was explaining this to a young woman recently, uh, who a recent college graduate uh and uh who betrayed no traces of feminism, which well, just a little smart mouth now and then, but I don't know that that's feminism per se.
I gave her a little history, and I'll give it to you too.
Uh back in the late 60s, early 70s, during the modern era of feminism, one of the tenets was that men are predators.
Can't trust them with their own kids, can't trust them with women, it beat them up.
All these results of surveys that showed more women than ever get beaten up and abused and mistreated on the Super Bowl Sunday than any day of the year, and it was a totally bogus story.
Uh and that women, of course, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, victims, downtrodden, denied freedom, denied opportunity, subjugated to such uh uh despicable positions as mother and cook.
You know, the old barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen uh cliche.
And it it worked because the drive-by media picked it up, and that's that's what gave us uh such things as the metrosexual and you know, a bunch of henpecked men whose I mean they didn't know what to do.
I mean, men want women.
Let's be honest about it.
Well, most men do.
And uh since women hold all the cards in civilized relationships, and let's be honest about a sturdily, you know it's true.
Women are the ones that have power in civilized relationships because they're the ones say yes or no.
We're talking civilized relationships here, Brian.
Don't don't don't start shaking your head in there.
I'm talking about in in areas of normalcy, it is women who hold the cards.
They always have.
Uh and and the the feminist movement never recognized that.
They thought they were powerless, victims, beaten up, put upon, discriminated against, disrespected, and all that sort of thing.
Anyway, all that's done a reversal now, by the way.
Uh more and more women going into the workforce, having babies.
You know what?
I like this.
Going home, the feminist sisterhood, terribly distressed.
In fact, you know the Nags.
The Nags had their 40th anniversary celebration at at some place upstate New York, some home of some great courageous suffragette from the, you know, the uh dark ages.
Well, I don't know where it was.
I don't even remember the little town.
But I think what 400 people showed up.
And you have to remember that for the last 15 years.
Uh, whenever the Nags said something in an official statement, it was presented as the official train of thought, school of thought, reasoning of all Western America.
And I always at their I think at their max, the Nags had 250,000 members.
250,000.
And yet the drive-by media portrayed them as the barometer by which all women in America thought.
Well, you know, guys got sucked into this.
Okay, here's what I've got to do to get along here and get out of everybody started playing roles that were in violation of basic human nature.
And so everybody got all screwed up, and it became a little animosity among the sexes.
You couldn't open a car door without getting in.
I can do that myself, thank you.
Actually happened to me.
In the 70s, I actually developed a fear to compliment a woman on her appearance, because to do so is to insult her brain.
Uh and and to and I mean, even to this day, sometimes I will, you know, I hope you'll forgive me, but it's silly, but that's the way it is.
And so this this whole thing that Mr. Mr. Roberts starts off with here, time we probe an assumption that has insidiously worked its way into our culture, the notion that women are the guardians of goodness and grace, while all those male Neanderthals or emissaries in the dark said, Hell, the other day, Jean Shaheen, the former governor of New Hampshire, she's now think tanking somewhere, came out and said, essentially this.
There wouldn't be any war in the Middle East with a woman running the show, and if there were, why we'd know how to fix it and solve it with a little bloodshed, a little suffering, and so forth and so on.
Of course, because she forgot about Goldama here.
Uh, who did not fit the mold in terms of the way Jean Shaheen is thinking about women.
Now, now, Mr. Roberts continues here, I will freely admit that men indulge in a number of vices, those including gluttony, greed, and of course, forgetting to put the toilet seat down.
Growing up in the Halcyon days of the patriarchy, I was treated to my fair share of ribaled humor, but nothing quite prepared me for what I saw a couple weeks ago at the local mall.
I spotted a young woman, maybe thirteen years old, sporting a white t-shirt with an unusual picture.
The shirt depicted a girl knocking a boy cold.
Above the how-to diagram were the words how to drop a boyfriend.
For the last decade, we've been hearing the mantra.
There's no excuse for domestic violence.
So how could anyone even think of wearing a shirt like that?
Well, it's okay for a woman to beat up on a man.
It happens almost as much as the other way around.
But they're the victims, they're the Hezbala in this war.
You know, they're they're they're tinier, they're smaller, and they've been put upon their whole ever I mean, ever since Eve blew it.
They they have been put upon.
And so they have a right to fight back.
So there's not going to be any criticism about it.
Uh of course, the Lavender ladies have long scorned traditional notions of feminine virtue.
In her book, The Feminist Morality, Virginia Held haughtily dismisses the ideal of the unselfish, nurturing, and non-aggressive woman as the whole female stereotype.
So now we have to ask what happens to common morality when selfishness, aggressiveness, and all round olfishness are held up as the cultural ideal for newly liberated women.
He's talking about this T-shirt.
And he concludes it this way.
And this was, as I say, in the Washington Times on Sunday, and now for the dirty little secret.
Feminists are the most intolerant people on earth.
Last week the flap was over the screen goddess calendar adorned with 16 information technology vixens.
Naturally, the champions of choice became apoplectic.
Girls are often excluded from the possibility of the profession by its cultural maleness, one woman shrieked, and wrote about Larry Summers.
He said there was a slight possibility discrimination was not the reason for the small number of female physicists and rocket scientists.
And even though he became a serial apologizer, the red feminazes tarred and feathered and sent him packing from Harvard.
There's a lesson to be learned here.
You can never appease a feminist.
Napoleon Bonaparte once observed female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world and ever will be.
Napoleon said that.
That's why his feminism gains, virtue wanes.
Hell, folks, I got caught up in this trap.
That's why I know what I'm talking about.
I was in Kansas City, and I was introduced uh what am I in Kansas?
In my twenties, I say 51, eh, mid-20s, late late 20s.
And I'm introduced to this woman who's um uh I found her attractive, and I was told, uh, look, she's she's really into this feminist stuff.
I said, okay, do what I have to do.
You know, you do what you have to do.
Try to get where you want to go.
And lo and behold, uh the first date, all she wanted to talk about was this book by Susan Brown Miller, Case for Rape.
And the theory of that book was that rape is not a sexual crime, it's a crime of violence and so forth.
Again, men are predators.
And and it was uh don't misunderstand here.
This this book attempted to say that rape was far more widespread.
We even had Catherine McKinnon, uh professorette of uh history and whatever else law at Michigan, Michigan State forget which one, one of those two, who actually taught that all sex is rape, even the sex of marriage.
You know, parents are spending 18,000, 15,000 bucks at the time to send their little girls off to be taught this stuff.
Well, anyway, I said, you know, okay, I figure I get it.
I'm gonna go buy her a copy of the book.
She hadn't read the book, she just heard about it, she's intrigued.
When out.
Well, after, you know, two dates, and all she wanted to talk about was rape.
And uh and and feminism and so forth, and I gave up the quest.
Uh and she wasn't happy.
Uh she was identity had been totally screwed up by all this.
So, you know, I I have had experience with this stuff, folks, which is why I'm able to opine on it uh as fluidly as you have heard me opine here in this uh opening segment.
Now that's that's the lead-in here to another point that I've been making.
Is it actually I didn't make the point.
Uh I forget where it was.
It's been the past three months, but somebody uh in the in the news business came out and said, you know, the women are taking over.
They're taking over in the producer positions, the executive positions, and the editing positions, and they're chickafying the news.
They're just it it it news today is being produced by and four women.
Hello, Katie Couric, CBS Evening News.
If you look at the audiences for the evening news, the majority are women, uh, follows Oprah.
Oprah is a great lead-in for the news, because the women stay there and then and watch it, and news is produced, and it's a product like anything else, news is produced for the female audience.
So, twice in two days, I have an example of this.
This one from ABC News.
Headline, beware of high sodium foods.
Subhead, people often worry about fat and calories, but sodium can also be dangerous.
When people check nutrition labels, they often look at fat and calories and ignore sodium, even though sodium has been linked to high blood pressure.
Clinical nutritionist Samantha Heller said on Good Morning America that even a health which is, I think that's total, it's it's it, Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer now, right?
It's it well, whatever.
It's uh Charlie Gibson went over there to the Peter Jennings chair, so you know, babes here, chicks, clinical nutritionist Samantha Heller, said on Good Morning America that even a health conscious consumer could be eating hidden salt.
High blood pressure often doesn't cause obvious uh symptoms.
Meaning you might have it, but you don't know it.
All right, fine.
How many of you are hearing for the first time that a lot of salt is not good for you?
This isn't news, except to somebody at ABC.
And it's enough to do a crisis-oriented story about it.
You got enough to worry about now with uh uh the the fat and the cholesterol, a good cholesterol, a bad cholesterol.
You're watching television, you see all these commercials, go get this pill if you're urinating too much, if you don't want to urinate as much, go get that pill if your bones are falling apart, go get this pill if this are happening, get this pill if your cholesterol's high, but watch out for your liver.
Um and if you if you have start having liver symptoms before you die, get off the pill and contact your doctor.
Uh and now we got to look out for the salt.
Uh and it's a hidden ingredient, it's a hidden killer.
It's just uh this is this is classic illustration of the chickafying of the news.
Uh men, when posed with threats and f and and and things like this react to them mostly as challenges.
Oh, yeah, give me the salt shaker, and I'll prove to you I can live after eating it.
Back in just a second.
Welcome back.
Nice to have you.
I don't believe.
Well, no, that's true.
I do believe it.
I'm just CNN has a reporter on the ground in Chicago.
The reporter, that's the printer going off behind me, folks.
Very noisy printers, color printer makes a lot of noise, can't do anything about it.
Reporters saying sixth straight day of temperatures in the 90s in Chicago.
Crisis.
Crisis six straight day of temperature in July and August.
Who would have thunk that that would be possible?
Mark my words, sometime this winter we're going to get stories.
Fourth straight day of ten inches of snow on the ground in Chicago.
And it'll be because of global warming, even though it normally happens in the wintertime.
Maybe city council up there, Terry Torre, whatever, prequinkle could pass another ordinance outlawing temperatures in the nineties, blaming it on Walmart.
Richard and Lafayette, Louisiana, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Richard Lafayette, Louisiana.
Hi.
Hi, this is Rich.
Yes, Rich.
Uh hi.
I uh I just wanted to try to comment on uh the my interpretation would be of what Kerry had said that you had uh addressed earlier.
Yes.
And some of the ways that uh he would have done things differently.
Yes.
In particular, uh the very first thing I think that uh Kerry would not have done would be to call uh Iran a part of an axis of evil.
particularly, at the time, that Bush was, when he first became in office, the president of Iran was actually a moderate, and...
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
And they choose somebody in their own image.
There's no such thing as a moderate Iranian leader that's in power.
Yeah, but the the deal is that the the controlling people at the time that Bush came in power, first of all, the president um Rashvijani was actually a moderate.
No.
Okay.
No, I feel he's I feel he was much more moderate than the gentleman that's in currently in power.
Would you agree with that?
Well, okay.
Okay, that's all I need to say.
Now the next question, yeah, next point is that a third of the controlling council at that particular time was moderate as well.
And as a result, they were really pushing toward, particularly after 9-11, they were particularly interested in working with the United States to try to address solving the problem with Osama bin Laden and his cohorts.
Okay.
And they would have worked very closely with the United States to try to solve that particular problem.
In particular, to try to I see now.
I would have they were particularly after bin Laden and got him.
Yes, yes, I totally misunderstood where you were going with this.
And I I am terribly sorry.
I thought you were going to join me in laughing at John Kerry and his utterly.
Now I get that now.
John Kerry would not have radicalized Iran, which was our friend and was helping us try to find bin Laden.
And if John Kerry had been president, why we would have found bin Laden or the Iranians would have led us to him.
And we would have we would have addressed Osama bin Laden in the before we even thought about Iraq.
Yeah, okay.
And therefore Iraq would not have been necessary.
And then Saddam Hussein would still be in power.
And Hezbollah Would have even more weapons than they've got now because John Kerry would have fallen, probably you're right about this, for the silly Doomkoff notion that there are moderates in Iran when it comes to the United States and the West.
Iran is the focal point.
It was the first Islamic republic in that region to set up and call itself that and base its ideology on this perverted sense of Islam that it defines.
Uh uh sh.
Phew, boy.
I I um I appreciate your call out there, Richard.
I just I'm sorry for misunderstanding you at the outset.
But see, I'm a quick study.
I picked it up quick.
No need to even burden yourself with thinking, ladies and gentlemen.
I have demonstrated now for 18 years I can do that for you.
It's our eighteenth anniversary here, starting our 19th year of broadcast excellence.
On the EIB network, Larry in Tampa.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Thanks, Russ.
Uh uh, congratulations on your anniversary and your duration on the radio.
I appreciate the work.
Thank you, sir.
Very, very much.
Uh, my comment is uh all this that we hear about the Israeli invading uh Lebanon and the blasting of this town and all the civilians that are killed.
Sounds very similar to the incident that happened in Janine not long ago.
And I was wondering what your perspective of that was when uh interesting, interesting thought.
Let's let's first uh uh let me let me go back and cover some ground here, but Kana, because we did this way back in the first hour.
It is becoming uh uh apparent that there's more to this story than the drive-by media has reported.
Uh the original reports had fifty-seven dead after the Israeli attack.
The uh Red Cross says they're 28, uh, 27 bodies that they've been recovered, mostly women and children.
Uh it's also been learned that the building in which these people were housed uh somehow stood for six to eight hours after the Israeli assault.
So it is being posited out there that perhaps the Hezbos brought the building down themselves after the Israeli attack failed to do so, creating their own dead, murdering their own civilians.
And if you think that's a stretch, they do it every day.
Uh they strap bombs on their own kids.
Send them out to blow themselves and uh innocent Israelis up.
Uh they are an enemy that considers the death of their own children a victory.
This is who they are.
This is the way they fight wars.
Uh they can't compete militarily, they have to fight the spin war and the uh PR War and the drive-by media war, and they're doing so.
So the original report out of there was these dastardly Israelis look at what they've done.
And uh, fifty-eight innocent people killed with an attack.
Well, this is outrageous!
We need a ceasefire.
And then, of course, the Hezbos were parading a couple of bodies around for hours to different still photographers, different angles, include one little boy who was dead, had a brand new light blue pacifier around his neck that had no dust on it, no damage whatsoever.
Clearly, it had been put on this little boy's body uh after he had uh after he had died.
Uh the drive-by media no longer interested in Kana, especially now, uh, doesn't fit the the storyline or the action line if this thing was actually a Hezbolla atrocity.
So their their natural curiosity seems to be absent uh here.
Don't seem to be curious to find out what went on.
Now, Janine, it is interesting.
Um Janine happened on April 8th.
The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, was reporting that Israel had committed the massacre of the 21st century in uh Janine, which is a Palestinian refugee camp.
Medical sources informed Wafa, the Palestinian news agency of hundreds of martyrs.
It was a lie, concocted not only for local consumption to keep Palestinian people whipped up in a patriotic Israel hating frenzy, but mostly for export to the West.
By the way, this is from Richard Starr in the weekly standard uh published in the May 8th issue.
That same day, you could hear breathless reports of the supposed Israeli Atrocities in Janine being spread by Palestinian sources on NPR, CNN, and elsewhere in the drive-by media.
Typical was the hysteria of Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian representative to the UN on CNN, quote, there's almost a massacre now taking place in Janine.
Helicopter gunships are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000 people in a refugee camp.
Just look at the TV and watch.
Watch what the what the Israeli forces are doing.
This is a war crime, a clear war crime witnessed by the whole world, preventing ambulances, preventing people from being buried.
I mean, this is an all-out assault against the whole population, he said.
No, this was an all-out assault on the truth.
There was a pitched battle in Janine, but the hundreds of martyrs were a cynical inventation.
Uh or invention, I'm sorry, the death toll was fifty-six Palestinians, the majority of them combatants, and twenty-three Israeli soldiers.
So uh if you go back and you compare Janine to Kana, what you find is a repetition of history.
It's a military tactic.
It's what I have been trying to uh impress upon people as as best I can.
This is a war, and we're fighting a different kind of enemy that has different kinds of tactics, and they will gladly kill their own people or put their own people in the line of fire to be killed, they consider that a victory.
Uh they, like the Al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists, fully understand how to play Western media like a stratavarius.
They know exactly what they're going to get out of it, and they do.
And uh so it's you know it's just it's just another example.
The drive-by is gonna just causing all kinds of havoc and hell.
Uh moving on down to the next story.
It's Katrina all over again.
The same thing.
Kana is just a new Katrina in terms of the way the aftermath is being reported, the lies, the lack of facts, the lack of reality, the lack of curiosity, and prior to that uh on April 8th, Janine.
Uh good call in that Larry, I appreciate it.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, I strive uh to constantly impart optimism.
Many of you know that.
Many of you ask how I can constantly be so optimistic.
I answer that as frequently as I am asked.
But just so you know, sometimes it is hard even for me to remain optimistic.
I'm surrounded by pessimists.
But even even I am surrounded by pessimists.
I'm not talking about you, snurdly, I'm talking about well, you're pessimistic sometimes, but you admitted you came in here Monday depressed as hell till the program started and you got your mind right.
At any rate, sometimes even I have to slap myself to bring myself back to reality.
Sometimes my optimism is challenged because I wonder what's it all worth.
Eighteen years and what's it all worth.
And this next story, somewhat like that, even though it's not happening here, but it's it's only moments behind.
Story from the UK Times Online, and it ran uh yesterday.
The headline really says it all schools told it's no longer necessary to teach right from wrong.
Schools would no longer be required, and by the way, the chief political correspondent of the uh UK Times is the author of this story.
Schools would no longer be required to teach children the difference between right and wrong under plans to revise the core aims of the national curriculum.
Instead, under a new wording that reflects a world of relative rather than absolute values, teachers would be asked to encourage pupils to develop secure values and secure beliefs.
The draft also purges reference to promoting leadership skills and deletes the requirement to teach children about Britain's cultural heritage.
The existing aim state that the curriculum should develop children's ability to relate to others and work for the common good.
The proposed changes would remove all references to the common good.
A spokeswoman for the National Union of Teachers said, Teachers always resented being told that one of the aims of the school was to teach the difference between right and wrong.
That's inherent in the way teachers operate.
Removing it from the national curriculum will make no difference.
But she insisted that it Was important for children to understand about their cultural heritage.
To remove that requirement can undermine children's feelings of security in the country where they are living.
Well, the multiculturalists are getting uh uh more entrenched in Great Britain.
Get rid of British culture, stop teaching that, no teaching right and wrong.
Uh the the parents, there's a little line in this story.
Uh parents are upset about this, but not for the reason that you might think.
Parents are saying, you don't expect us to do it, do you?
Well, uh so nobody's gonna be allowed to teach right and wrong.
This is just classic liberalism.
Moral relativism, no judgmentalism, nobody can lay claim to being right, nobody can be said to be wrong.
There are no such things in the new career if this passes in um in the UK.
And look, you know, you know we're not far from that uh here in in this country uh once it gets entrenched.
Uh at any rate, a brief uh brief time out.
Of course, you know what?
One thing that we might another way to look at this, and this is the optimistic way to look.
See, I give you both sides.
I'll present to you the pessimistic, but here's the optimistic way of looking at this.
One of the things that I have always advocated, uh in the era of global competition, any kind of competition, market, economic, cultural, educational, what have you.
Export liberalism to destroy enemy cultures.
Export militant gay rights, export feminism, export all of these things.
And can you imagine if we've if we could succeed in exporting militant feminism and militant gay rights to China?
To the Chicom, do you understand how that would that that would just ooh?
Uh and any other enemy that we had.
It could well be the problem here is that the UK is not really an enemy.
They are a staunch ally.
But uh apparently the liberalism of our education system is finding its way uh into other nations' educational curriculum, good and or bad.
Back in just a second.
You know, this this Raul Castro guy, every time I look at this guy walking around, I think Michael Dukakis in the tank.
Anyway, greetings, uh, my friends, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB network.
I just checked the email uh in uh uh comments uh box for the subscribers at Rush Limbaugh.com.
What are you singing?
It looks like you're singing during the commercial breaks.
Uh very observant of you people.
Today I'm uh I'm listening to one song during the breaks, listening to songs of my youth uh for some reason.
Today, Sukiyaki by Q Sakamoto from 1963.
Do you know that you know the history of this song?
The song makes no sense.
Tsukiyaki is just is just a title that they use to Americanize the song.
It is the only foreign song done totally in foreign lyrics to ever become number one on the pop charts in this country.
Kyusakamoto was you remember that Japanese Airlines 747 crash?
Uh they lost the tail rudder at like altitude, 37,000 feet, uh, from Tokyo to someplace but in Japan, and and uh all of the people, all the passengers had time to write goodbye notes to their family members, and they found a bunch of them in the wreckage.
Uh and Kyusakamoto was killed on that um on that on that flight.
Now, the the history of the song is the legend is that the song was written by a Japanese guy when his heart was literally broken by a Japanese actress, Meiko Nakamura.
And the translation, if you're ever if you've if you've heard the song, ever bothered the translation, just give you a couple lines.
I look up when I walk so the tears won't fall.
Remembering those happy spring days, but tonight I'm all alone.
I look up when I walk, counting the stars with tearful eyes, remembering those happy summer days, but tonight I'm all alone.
And uh you I don't know where to play the song.
We got uh limited time left on today's excursion into broadcast.
I mean most people know Sukiyaga.
I'm assuming most people of this audience have heard Sukiyaki.
Oh, you know what Tsukiyaki is?
Oh, come on, you've not heard this song.
All right, all right, go ahead, put Pop it in there, and we'll just play a little bit of here.
Summertime in 1963.
I remember being in a kitchen with my mom listening to this song.
Okay, that's enough.
That's now the title is not Tsukiyaki in Japan.
The title is um uh well it's I look up when I walk, the Japanese translation for that.
Anyway, I don't know.
I get nostalgic and sentimental for this stuff.
Uh listening to that tune when I was 12 years old.
End up playing it on the radio some what was it?
Uh four years later.
Playing it on the radio as an oldie when I was sixteen.
Steve in Ontario, Ohio.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
Good afternoon, Steve.
Um I just wanted to know you take these rabbit trails, and you almost made me forget what I was going to talk about Sukiyaki check.
Rabbit trailed Sukiyaki, right.
Yeah.
But at any rate, I just wanted to commend you on that great job you did in interviewing Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.
I was I was really encouraged by that uh by that interview.
And especially by his display of character when uh as a leader of the opposition party, you provided him a chance to take a shot at his commander in chief.
And he had the moral onions to resist that temptation in deference to his nation's need to present a unified stand and work together to achieve victory.
You know I think I think that that is uh uh uh an example that the spineless amoeba egg sucking dog liberals in this country would do well to follow.
Well, we can pray, but it's not especially in an election year, the egg sucking dog liberals in this country are are are not gonna get anywhere near it.
But you know, I I I you know he uh when I asked him the question, uh I generally wanted an answer because there's so many people as I told him, This doesn't look like same old Israel.
Uh and is is it possible a prime minister has a different He They've got 90% unity, and you're right.
This was a great display of character.
He was not going to attack the Prime Minister.
This is deadly serious to this country.
They they uh they don't have the luxury that we do of having a population forget about this, or a popular portion of the population forget about it that uh that wants to or to pretend it's not going on.
Small countries surrounded, surrounded by enemies.
And uh he didn't he he wouldn't he wouldn't take the shot.
And I said, Look, I I appreciate that.
I even commented on it.
I'm not trying to force friction at all or even get you to to go in that direction.
But it was uh it was refreshing to uh to hear.
In addition, I also think there was another reason, Steve.
Uh and I I th this is just a I've just gleaned this.
I'm I'm just some opinions based on things that I'm observing.
I'm observing nobody's really stopping the Israelis.
You got a bunch of caterwallers out there wailing and moaning about what the Israelis are doing, but it's just words.
But nobody's stopping them.
Nobody's making a move.
I mean, you've got the UN and these need to cease fire, ceasefire.
But in terms of other armed forces moving in there to help the Hisbos, it isn't happening.
And it could well be that if anybody's being Machiavellian here, it could be the Israelis.
They could be uh making it look like, well, we're impotent anymore.
We can't we can't do what we used to do uh years ago, win a war in six days.
And it could well be that um uh there's a whole different strategy and plan underway now.
Uh because this enemy has got six years to arm up, but they've got rockets now, and in some cases they've got missiles.
So it it could well be that one of the reasons Netanyahu didn't uh uh want to say anything against the current way the war is being prosecuted is because he obviously knows more than we do about what the Israeli government's uh battle plan is here, and if there is something like this going on, he certainly isn't gonna breach it.
I appreciate the call, Steve.
A brief brief time out here, be right back.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence comes to a screeching halt, and uh sniffles, snuffles, and a few tears are noticeable around the country, but that'll be erased by pleasure and laughter in twenty one hours when we all get back together again.
See you then.
Look forward to it.
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