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Aug. 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Uh we have uh we've got a rise, folks, out of uh Reuters.
We got a rise out of the AP, and I think we got a rise out of the uh French news agency.
There's a story by our old buddy David Border in the Associated Press.
Three news agencies on Tuesday rejected challenges to the veracity of photographs of bodies taken in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Khanna.
Uh the three news agencies uh strongly denied that the images were staged.
Photographers from the AP, all Reuters, and uh the French news agency all covered rescue operations Sunday in Kana, where fifty-six Lebanese were killed.
No, that's 27.
They can't even get this right.
The latest good numbers 27.
Many of their photos depicted rescue workers carrying dead children.
A British website, the EU referendum blog built an argument that chicanery may have been involved by citing timestamps that went with captions of the photographs.
For example, the website draws attention to a photo by an AP re uh photographer, time-stamped 721 in the morning, showing a dead girl in an ambulance.
This is the thing I wanted you all to look at earlier in the week.
Uh so I I assume that most of you, if you didn't if you didn't have a chance to go look at it on the website, you still remember me talking about this.
Another picture stamped at 1025 about three hours later, taken by another AP photographer, shows the same girl being loaded onto the ambulance.
In a third uh AP photographer and stamped 1044 a.m., which is you know just 15 minutes later, a rescue worker carries the girl with no ambulance nearby.
The site suggests these events were staged for effect.
A criticism echoed uh by talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he directed listeners to the blog on Monday.
I am guilty.
I uh plead guilty to that, did so with pride.
They quote me as saying these photographers are obviously willing to participate in propaganda.
They know exactly what's being done.
All these photos, bringing the bodies out of the rubble, posing them for the cameras.
It's all staged.
Every bit of it is staged, and the still photographers know it.
The AP said information from its photo editor showed the events were not staged, and that the timestamps could be misleading for several Reasons, including that websites can use By the way, I could read this whole story to you, and there's not a specific denial of the allegations.
They they do not, I mean, there's a specific denial, but they do not refute effectively what is being alleged here about these photos being staged.
All they do is talk about the time stamps, and they say the timestamps could mean anything.
They don't necessarily mean when the picture was taken, could mean when the picture was posted on a wire.
But they don't deal with the fact that the whole setup was perhaps staged by the Hesbows and that they fell for it.
Uh Kathleen Carroll, the AP senior vice president and executive editor, said it's hard to imagine how someone sitting in an air-conditioned office, i.e.
the blogger, or a broadcast studio, many thousands of miles from the scene, can decide what occurred on the ground with any edge of accuracy or any degree of accuracy.
Miss Carroll can I can I tell you why I have doubts about you is because I have doubts about you.
You are the associated press.
You have an agenda.
I myself have been reported on factually incorrectly, I can't tell you how many times, by various reporters under your command.
Uh based on that alone, and I have much more, plenty of reason for me to doubt that you have total objectivity in what it is you're doing.
Uh there's a there's a wealth of of data out there that suggests that you guys at the Associated Press and everywhere else of the drive-by media have a certain desire when uh when when discussing the outcome of events in this particular war between the Hesbows and the Israelis.
Uh there's absolutely no people that study this have no doubt about it.
Bloggers left and right are constantly contrasting AP headlines with story details, uh comparing AP stories with other versions of stories to show things that are omitted or added that add up to clear bias, which is fine, Miss Carroll.
The thing you don't understand, we don't care that you have a bias because we know that you do.
The thing that offends everybody is that you deny it.
But we understand that you are a thinking engaged human being.
We understand that everybody at AP is, from the writers to the editors to the photographers.
But then to pretend that as engaged thinking human beings, you don't care about the outcome of events that you cover, well, defies believability, defies logic.
You're human beings.
It's not possible to be that objective in every element of news that you cover.
It just isn't.
Uh, as a thinking human being, now if you're just a sponge, uh even if you're a sponge, you're a sponge for a reason.
You've you've got it's impossible not to have a a stake or a or an interest in the outcome of events.
Uh uh Ms. Carroll also said, in addition to personally speaking with photo editors, quote, I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of staging experience it's being described.
May I call your attention to Nick Robertson, Ms. Carroll of CNN, who admitted that he was led around early on in this war by Hesbo press officers.
He was shown what buildings to shoot, what buildings he couldn't shoot, and this was made public by Howard Kurtz on CNN on their Sunday morning show reliable sources.
Interestingly, though, the CNN show reliable sources does not get put on CNN International.
But uh, Ms. Carroll, while you're an offender in this case, you're no you you don't even hold a candle of the BBC.
The BBC is, and by the way, Richard Engel of NBC, I think has admitted the same thing that the Hesbows are parading them around with press officers and showing them certain things.
There's no it's silly to deny there is no competition.
There may be competition for the pictures, but how come the pictures are all the same?
Be it AP, be it the French news agency, be it Reuters, the pictures are all the same.
How come you're not out there trying to find something different from what those guys are finding?
This is the common complaint that those of us who study you people have, and no matter who it is, French news agency, Reuters, AP, it's all same stuff.
New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, ABC, New York Times, uh, NBC, it's all the same stuff.
The fact that you are not competitive Is what's astounding to us.
The fact that when Dan Rather has that incident with Bill Burkett and the forged documents, rather than other networks pouncing on a competitive basis to discredit a competitor like CBS, you all circle the wagons and start giving Dan Rather awards.
There's no there's no competitive energy in acquiring news anymore.
You might be the you might be the have a desire to be the first there, but I guarantee you this blogger found pictures from three news agencies that showed basically the same stuff.
Where's the competition?
It's a nice try to deny this.
Now let's add something else that's been uh uh alleged here.
And by the way, Miss Carroll, here's another thing.
You know, there are a lot of people with doubts about this based on the experience they've had with the Hesbos before, and based on the experience everybody has had with terrorists and how they stage things to use you and others in the drive-by media to advance their cause.
Where's your curiosity?
If an allegation has been raised, if there is curiosity, why don't you look in to see maybe you are being used?
Not with time stamps, but how about with corpses with rigor mortis?
Have you heard this?
Let me you gotta hear this, uh, Mr. Snerdley.
Uh Michelle Malkin has it on her blog today, another blogger.
Uh won't like that at the drive-by media.
And uh it's it's been alleged in other places that some of the victims at Kana had rigor mortis.
Uh one of them, that little kid they passed around uh with the the dust covered with the brand new, unsoiled pacifier.
And it is said that some people are alleging that that kid had rigor mortis.
Now, if rigor mortis set in, no way uh that that child could have been a victim of that event at that time.
It had to be from some other.
I mean, I I'm I have no clue.
I don't know where they got it.
Uh the corpse, but the fact that and by the way, I'm gonna back this up in just a second with a most amazing exchange heard on CNN between Anderson Cooper and some people of how stunned they are at how anti-Semitic Hezba Hezbollah is.
They can't believe, and they can't believe why Hassan Nasrata doesn't soften his anti-Semitic rhetoric.
It's stunning.
I, you know, I look at the narrow focus of the drive-by media and I look at the um uh the the things that surprise them, like men and women are born different, makes a cover of Time magazine, and uh that the Hezbollah would be anti-Semitic surprises them.
Uh the lack of curiosity all these people are exhibiting over what happened in Kana, the desire, the willingness to eagerly stamp Israel as a bunch of war criminals based on photographers.
You know, this rescue worker in this at the Kana uh in event uh past Sunday looks strangely like the same rescue worker in pictures from Kana ten years ago.
Uh so my point is, Ms. Carroll, there are countless reasons to be curious.
Uh first reason would just be innate human intelligence based on a full and understanding knowledge of who the combatants are here.
We know who Hezbollah is, we know who's funding them.
The fact you have no such curiosity, you're just willing to accept whatever is spoon-fed.
A so-called rescue worker holds up a so-called corpse, says, Look what happened, Israeli's been a bit.
Bam, you take the pictures, you run with it to hell with the timestamps.
That's not the point.
The point is other other broadcast uh uh journalists have admitted to being led around by the nose, uh effectively being propagandized.
Uh and to deny that this is happening and to deny that the competitive balance, the competitive energy would see to it this does not take place is just a bit of a stretch.
All right, my friends.
A brief time out.
We'll come back and I'll share you this exchange with uh Anderson Cooper.
Who was it?
Anderson Cooper and uh the um Jeffrey Jeffrey Goldberg of uh of uh where is it, the New York.
You won't believe this.
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Starting our 19th year of consecutive service to America and the world on the EIB network, I am living legend Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, wherever and whatever the truth is about the bodies from Kana, they have been thrown into a mass grave.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is Good Morning America.
Yes, Mr. Snartley.
Oh no, it can't be a mass grave.
I thought these people children in a mass grave.
Yes.
It's uh it's Kate Snow on Good Morning America Today.
The victims of that bombing in Kana.
You'll remember that happened over the weekend.
Those victims are being buried this morning in a mass grave.
Well, the Hezbolla must be done parading them around then if it's if it's uh time to throw them in a mass grave.
These uh babies, I haven't seen any photos of that, but obviously ABC knows about it.
Uh uh she was she's reporting live from a park in uh in Beirut.
So uh are you are you asserting it maybe they haven't been thrown into a mass grave that the Hezbollah's are just saying that we've done that and uh uh think that they've done them.
Well, uh well, there may be some pictures pop up.
We'll we'll keep a sharp eye.
We have we have uh passwords, necessary protocols to get into some of these uh news agency websites where the still photos are are are posted and stored.
At any rate, uh uh mass grave.
Uh why do you think this is, folks?
What why why do you think first place i i if nobody's seen it, the Hezbollah's had to announce it.
So if the Hezbollah's had to announce that they've mass graved the victims of Kana, why do you think so?
Because it's so war-torn and there's so much violence.
They don't have time for proper burials because of the erasing Israelis and Bush's bombs.
That's what I think is the uh is the undertone of this.
All right.
Drive-by media today, really, either narrowly focused or very ignorant, actually discuss here and are surprised at how anti-Semitic the Hezbos are.
This is Anderson Cooper last night on CNN in Northern Israel along the Israeli-Lebanon border interviewing the New York magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg, Cooper says, I think what's been lost at a lot of this coverage is just how anti-Semitic Hezbollah is in the rhetoric.
I can't believe that's a very important thing.
Absolutely fascinating, Anderson.
Uh the anti-Semitism, there's two things that are fascinating about it.
One is how embedded in the the core of Hezbollah ideology, anti-Semitism is.
And I don't mean anti-Israel thinking or anti-Zionism.
I mean Frank anti-Semitism.
The other thing that's so interesting about it is how blunt they are and how frank they are about uh their anti-Semitism.
They don't hide it, they don't try to mask it in any way.
They state very openly to you when you ask uh their their exact feelings about Jews, which are quite extreme.
It's just fascinating, folks.
Can you it's absolutely fascinating, Anderson?
It's just it's it's beyond belief.
The anti-Semitism of a militant Islamist terrorist organization.
It just blows our mind.
Listen to this next one.
Cooper says, well, you know, Nasralla is uh himself very point-blank and matter-of-fact and open about his hatred of Jews.
One of the things about Nasrallah that's so interesting is how straightforward he is.
And you you see that in all of his statements uh on Israel and even his statements on America.
Uh there's no attempt to uh to soften the language.
Uh and the other thing about it that's so that's so shocking, I think, when you first hear it, is uh I I always notice this.
One of the first things I noticed was the use of uh epidemiological metaphors to describe the role of Jews in the world, not just Israel, but but Jews, talking about Jews as a cancer, talking about Jews as a parasite on society.
Where have these guys been?
Uh uh I'm s I'm speechless.
I am just speechless.
Do you see, ladies and gentlemen, what it is I mean, when I talk about the narrow focus, how much how much reality doesn't penetrate the boundaries these people wear, or the garb they wear to keep out anything that doesn't advance the action line.
I'll tell you what I think has happened here.
So intent and and and so instilled in the drive-by media is the notion of Israel's guilt.
Israel's culpability, Israel's mean-spiritedness, Israel's extremism, that somehow, the fact that Hezbollah is anti-Semitic, somehow that permeated somebody's armor, their boundaries, and it's shaken them up.
Now you may think something else, and I've I've tried to come up with an explanation for this, but this has to be one of the likely scenarios for this to happen.
Because just like Time magazine, cover story, Men and Women Actually Born Different, these guys are shocked.
These guys are shocked and they are stunned at how little it has been reported, as though they just learned it.
Memo to Anderson Cooper and Jeffrey Goldberg.
I have another scoop for you.
You might want to investigate whether the president of Iran and Osama bin Laden are anti-Semitic.
That could be breaking news a la CBS.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, never making it up.
Just to suit my point of view, never falling prey to propaganda posed by people who might be my friends and associates.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, who says that the Israelis are losing the PR war.
IDF, Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Unit has managed to hack an Almanar broadcast and plant a caricature of uh of uh Hassan Nasrallah with the caption, your days are numbered.
The Israeli defense forces have hacked Nasrallah's TV channel after repeated Israeli efforts to destroy the uh Almanar television station failed.
An IDF intelligence unit succeeded this week in hacking the station's live broadcast planting Israeli PR messages in the uh in the transmissions.
Love this.
Wait till the drive by us here about that.
That's not fair.
He's tampering with legitimate media.
The Israelis are that's propaganda.
The Almanar Channel regularly airs juicy propaganda against Israel, including reports of heroic and successful operations by Hezbollah against IDF special forces.
However, this weekend the IDF prepared a surprise for the Lebanese and Arab viewers of the channel.
A broadcast was interrupted, and caricatures of Nasrallah appeared on the screen, accompanied by captions reading, Your days are numbered.
Nasralla, your time is up, soon you won't be with us anymore.
Additionally, the Hezbos and Almanar internet sites also received special treatment by Israeli technical specialists, and several were erased from the Internet.
This is not an American or British news agency reporting this.
This is YNET news, and obviously they don't hold the same agenda nor bias of the drive-by Western media.
I've been waiting for this.
I purposely didn't predict this because I knew it was going to happen.
And I'm not saying...
I told you so because I didn't tell you so.
This is just part of the pattern.
This next story is just part of the pattern away things.
It is amazing.
I I uh how how little flexibility, how little curiosity, how little uh outside data can permeate what becomes an action line or a storyline or a prism.
What what what do you think I'm going to talk about?
Let me just give you a I know you can't call and tell me I'm not gonna make take that much time, but here we've got fighting going on, all these bombs raining down, we've got corpses being paraded around, it's hot as hell over there, people are sweating their butts off.
What do you think the next angle of drive-by media would be?
If you think it's the environmental destruction, you are right and give yourself a gold star.
Get this, folks.
This is oh no city.
Endangered turtles die shortly after hatching from their eggs.
Fish float dead off the coast.
Flaming oil sends waves of black smoke toward the city.
In this country of Mediterranean beaches and snow capped mountains, Israeli bombing that caused an oil spill has created an environmental disaster.
And cleanup can't start until the fighting stops, the UN says.
World attention is focused on the hundreds of people who have died.
The environmental damage has attracted little attention, but experts warn the long-term effects could be devastating.
Yeah, like the oil fires in Gulf War One that Saddam started, over a hundred of them.
Lasting effects.
Like the oil spill at Prince William Sound, lasting effects.
Like all the bombing at Hiroshima Nagasaki.
Lasting effects.
Like the destruction of Pearl Harbor.
Blasting effects.
Like Dresden and Hamburg in Germany being leveled with tons and tons of explosive.
Lasting effects.
Ladies and gentlemen.
There have been uh probably bombs by the tens of hundreds now go off in Israel, causing fires.
Don't see anybody concerned about the environmental damage there.
Some 10,000 barrels of oil poured into the Mediterranean two weeks ago after Israeli parentheses, Jewish war plans hit a coastal power plant.
One tank, one tank is still burning, sending clouds of thick black smoke across the country.
This is an outrage.
Compounding the problem, an Israeli naval blockade, and continuing military operations that have made any cleanup impossible.
And environmental officials say the longer the problem is allowed to go unchecked, the greater the lasting damage.
Bush's bombs.
The immediate impact can be severe, but we've not been able to do an immediate assessment, said the United Nations environment program executive director, Achmin Steiner in Geneva.
But the longer the spill is left untreated, he said, the harder it will be to clean it up.
Experts warn that Cyprus, Turkey, and even Greece could be affected.
Saraf said that Israeli planes purposely hit those tanks, which are the closest to the sea, and knocked out the berms designed to prevent any ruptured tanks from flowing into the waters.
As long as there is no ceasefire, and as long as we don't have access to the sea, not only can we not start the treatment, but we cannot even access or get the data which is essential.
Chances are our whole marine ecosystem facing the Lebanese shoreline is already dead.
What is at stake today is all marine life in the eastern Mediterranean.
Bush's bombs.
So the drive-by media covering all, and by the way, this is all AP.
Ms. Carroll.
The Associated Press, predictable as the sun coming up in the morning.
No concern for the environmental crisis that might be facing Israel.
This is this is devoted exclusively to fighting leaves Lebanon with environmental crisis.
You ever thought about who started this?
Ms. Carroll.
You ever think about who started this?
I mean, even your buddy Kofi Annan admitted begrudgingly that it was the Hesbows and their terrorist act, kidnapping a couple of the Israeli soldiers, and the lack of implementation of UN resolution 1550.
That's another thing, Miss Carroll.
All you drive by media people.
How come the UN escapes your scrutiny?
How come the United Nations escapes your examination?
You want to talk failures?
You want to talk utter failure?
Resolution 1559.
And yet you keep building the UN up.
You know, the time's up, you don't get away with this stuff anymore.
And and it's obvious you don't like being questioned.
Uh but the questions shall continue.
Three local environmental organizations, by the way, in Lebanon have demanded a ceasefire to um to no avail.
To the phones we go to Bakersfield, California.
Sandra, I'm glad you called, and it's great to have you with us.
Welcome.
Good morning, Rush.
Uh Rush, I was in the service for about uh ten years uh in the nineties, and I had an opportunity to observe both the UN and um the uh reporters and at least two theaters of operations, and I have a feeling that I think they're tilting towards the terrorists, them And the UN because when they're in those fields of operation, they have no security.
They're out in the public.
They're in uh regular hotels, they have no security, and they take a lot of risks, and they're tilting on behalf of the terrorists because they're afraid of what will happen to them if they get captured or kidnapped.
Really?
They want to be seen as an ally to the terrorists.
I think so that they want to diminish the.
Okay, wait a second.
Now wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
out in the civilian world in those units of operations.
This is a woman.
Since you said that, Sandra, since since you said that they want to be seen by the terrorists as being on their side.
Yes.
All right.
That's all you had to say.
If they're i if it if the reason is because they are afraid, if is the reason because that's the only way they can get the story.
But the bottom line is if they have to be seen as on the terrorist side in order to save their lives or keep themselves out of danger, and yet at the same time they profess to be truth seekers, then what the hell are they going in there for in the first place?
That's why they're embedded with us now, Rush.
It's more secure for them.
Uh well, they're not embedded with the Israelis.
They're going in or being led around, paraded around by by uh Hezbollah uh uh uh press officers.
I don't really think uh uh I I don't think Hezbollah would be stupid enough to start killing Western journalists, no matter what they reported, unless it became just in impossible to deal with, because they're their friends.
Exactly, Rush.
Western journalists are I mean, that's that's who Hezbolla's playing to.
You're not gonna take out your pipeline.
You know, it is it as though the the by the um the Western drive-by media is the Hezboy television station.
They're not going to take out their own TV station.
Now, a couple of reporters got too close to the truth, they might something might happen to them.
But this reminds me, Sondra, and you may remember this.
Well, lately of CNN uh published an op-ed in the New York Times.
This has to be in the past two or three years.
And he was uh I'm sure thought that he was uh uh doing something really brilliant and bright by admitting this.
But he admitted, oh, yeah, we we overlooked uh Saddam's atrocities.
Uh we had to.
Uh for the safety of our reporters, as you say, and to keep our bureau open.
Why?
If we told the truth about some of the atrocities going on, we'd uh lose our bureau.
And I'm sure he expected great you know, applause.
This is really good news judgment, Mr. Jordan.
I mean, that's a fabulous thing to do.
Everybody was stunned.
You mean you willingly broadcast stuff that wasn't true or you didn't broadcast stuff that was just to keep your bureau open?
In such case, why even have a bureau?
If what's coming out of there is essentially censored by Saddam Hussein's government.
What's what's what's the well we've got to have sort of like an IV when you're in hospital.
You gotta keep the IV in in case you need to get in there when something happens.
Okay, fine.
Uh normally the hospitals are not putting poison in the IV.
Now, when you guys got to keep your bureaus open and you admit that you can't tell the truth about the country you're covering, what's the point of having a bureau?
Be better to admit that.
We're closing down out of here.
This country won't let us have access to what's really going on.
Honesty seems to always work.
When it's tried.
Back to the phones.
The number 800 282-2882.
Uh Cookville, Tennessee.
Jerry, glad you called, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Um I'll try to get to my point pretty quick here.
Um yesterday you or I believe it was yesterday.
Or maybe it was Monday.
Um, when you played um John Dingle.
What he was saying to the um he would not take a stance against Hezbollah.
He would not call them a terrorist organization.
No.
I hope that you could just play just every day so the people of this country can hear it.
The left say that they stand for Israel, but they really don't.
They stand for our enemies, whoever they are, and the drive-by media.
Do you think that they're going to have somebody covering the uh woman who got killed last Friday in Seattle by that terrorist and the other woman that he shot or the other.
No, you know, you speak about that, that the Seattle incident attack in the Jewish center.
Here again, uh uh there there have been some media uh reports saying uh well, the reasons for the attack are unclear.
Uh the attacker was a Christian.
Uh recent convert to Christianity from uh from Islam.
Uh and he was bipolar.
Yes.
So the reason for the attack was uh was unclear.
So they're trying to, you know, not make that uh you I think I think Jerry, you uh you get it.
Anything that plays into the scene, it makes Bush's foreign policy look right.
They're just they're just gonna cover it up.
Now, as to Dingle, um I I'm gathering here that there are some people saying that this little clip that circulated around is being taken out of context.
Is that right?
Uh well, if it's if you then help me out.
If it's being taken out of context, did he condemn Israel?
Did he condemn the Hezbos?
Is he saying he condemned the Hezbows and this thing was doctored to make it look like he didn't?
How's it been taken out of context?
Yes.
Um, oh, the real context.
Okay.
I here we we have the bite.
That's right, I remember.
We have the bite.
It's on a local television station in Detroit.
Uh by the way, have you heard people are fleeing Baghdad for Fallujah?
Fallujah because it's a safe haven.
At any rate, uh here's the bite, and we'll explain the controversy, they.
First of all, uh, I don't I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.
You're not against Hezbollah.
No.
Okay, so nothing's out of context there.
They're just saying the tape should have been allowed to play longer.
So you're not against Hezbollah.
Uh no.
Uh the the Dingle Camp are trying to say here that no, you're misunderstanding.
We need to be honest brokers there.
We can't choose sides.
We cannot have an ally in this.
We won't have credibility in the region.
That's that's that's his point.
Uh but let me tell you this.
Howard Dean and a bunch of Democrats, well, Howard Dean accused the Iraqi Prime Minister of being anti-Semitic because he wouldn't condemn Hezbollah.
And a bunch of Democrats sent a letter to the Speaker of the House saying you better not let this guy Maliki speak.
Why, why he's anti-Semitic?
Why he won't condemn Israel?
Why he's he's failing to tow the line with U.S. foreign policy.
Same Democrats you get on the previous Prime Minister Alawi for being a puppet, want this guy to be a puppet.
But uh uh I would say to Howard Dean, uh, Mr. Chairman, if if you don't want the Iraqi Prime Minister to speak in Congress because he doesn't uh comport to U.S. policy and does not condemn Hezbollah, then I think uh we need to make a movement that neither should John Dingle be allowed to speak.
The difference here is that John Dingle is the he's the eldest, he's the uh most senior Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Now, he he lives, he lives in Dearbornistan.
Well, Dear Bornistan is part is one of his one of his uh uh I think it's in his district.
There are a lot of Lebanese Americans in his uh in his in his district.
And so there's there's that it's a political factor, and you cannot, you cannot take that out of it.
Uh uh that's just the name of the game in politics.
They're Lebanese Americans and they are constituents.
Uh and so that's you just have to figure that's that's politics.
That's politicians can be.
But I'll tell you, it has it has illustrated that uh uh the the Democrats are not unified as they want you to believe.
They they have not taken a unified position uh on the uh whole Israeli uh lesbo conflict, and they're trying to get away with uh making people believe otherwise.
Um get this.
Former President Clinton and mayors of some of the world's largest cities announced an initiative yesterday to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency and everything from street lights to building materials.
Uh the partnership joins Clinton and the resources of his presidential foundation with the large cities climate leadership group, an alliance of Rome, London, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and other cities that have pledged to cut greenhouse emissions.
This is so pointless.
How many such initiatives have we had in my lifetime?
And this is absolutely pointless.
Clinton said the entrenched thought patterns and economic interests of yesterday are our common enemy.
Meaning the entrenched thought patterns and economic interests of yesterday belong to Rush Limbaugh and his ilk.
I am their commandant.
Back in just a second.
Anybody want to tell me how you become an honest broker between a legitimate country and a bunch of terrorists?
Somebody want to explain how you do that to me.
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