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Aug. 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 9, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Can we go back?
We need Chris Matthews again.
Grab number 10, audio soundbite number 10.
This from Chris Matthews last night on his, well, it wasn't hardball.
It was his election coverage on PMS NBC.
The body language of the two is so different.
You have this very waspy fella, Lamont, very calm, very casual, very St. Paul's almost in the prep school sense.
Lieberman, of course, is the schmaltzy ethnic guy, the Uncle Tanous, you know, the guy that's very once he kind of lacrimose in his most, almost post-nasal drip voice is, but he doesn't look happy.
All right.
Now, let's look at the smaltzy ethnic guy, the Uncle Tanous.
And as I said in the last hour, Uncle Tanous was a character on the old Danny Thomas show.
And I think pretty safe in saying Uncle Tanous is played by Hans Cunried, huge hook nose and so forth.
And here's Matthews describing.
Let's be honest about this, folks.
Let's just put it out there.
When you say somebody is a smaltzy ethnic guy, you're not talking about an Arab.
You are talking about a Jew.
You describe somebody as a schmaltzy ethnic guy who is post-nasal drip with his voice, lacrimose and so forth.
Uncle Tanous in character was a Lebanese Arab.
Danny Thomas was a Christian Lebanese and Uncle Tanous, therefore.
But isn't it interesting that you have Chris Matthews describing an Arab as a Jew on the basis of appearance?
Schmaltzy ethnic guy, which I, you know, there are some people saying this, but they're dancing around it.
But one of the little not often discussed aspects of the kook fringe base of the Democratic Party, I'm just going to put it out there, is it's anti-Semitism.
There is so much anti-Semitism today in the Democratic Party.
I don't think it's an accident that Sharpton and the Reverend Zach are up there standing behind Lamont during Lamont's.
And but what's calm about Lamont?
When I listen to these Lamont remarks from his acceptance speech last night, I hear somebody assist a couple octaves and a couple decibel levels below Howard Dean.
Yeah, the only thing he's missing is the scream in this calm, waspy fellow, very calm, casual, very St. Paul in a prep school sense.
That's a way to relate to most of America, Chris.
St. Paul, what the hell, St. Paul?
It was a person.
St. Paul, it's a prep school.
Well, how many Americans actually go to prep school, particularly in the Northeast?
That's a little bit of a sidebar.
Now, as long as we're talking about this, we've got to move on to Cynthia McKinney, ladies and gentlemen.
And we have some audio soundbites from her.
As you may have heard by now in her, well, I guess you'd call it a concession speech last night.
sang a rap tune.
Tell you about hard work.
Minimum wage with a baby on the way.
Let me tell you about hard work.
As it was recently said, nobody else in that crowd knew the lyrics, so there was no sing-along going on.
It was just Cynthia McKinney.
And you want to say this is an anti-incumbent vote in a primary in August?
I think mainstream Georgians in her district just get fed up.
I mean, who wants their representative beating up the Capitol Police with cell phones and saying some of this, you go look at the things that she has been saying for crying out loud.
This notion that voters do not examine candidates in an in-depth manner.
They don't vote issues.
Nah, they're just tired or they're happy with what's going on that they vote that way.
It's this continuing assumption by drive-by media personnel and the American left that voters are basically unsophisticated boobs.
Here is a portion of her remarks after she stopped singing.
Electronic voting machines are a threat to our democracy.
So let the word go out.
We aren't going to tolerate any more stolen elections.
Well, I'll bet you old Hank Johnson's quaking in her boots.
There's a Democrat accusing another Democrat of fudging the election via voting machines in a primary.
And here now is Cynthia McKinney speaking truth to kooks everywhere.
One year to the day before Dr. King was murdered, he declared that the greatest purveyor of violence in the world was his own country.
With Israel's invasion of Lebanon, there might even be a call for more U.S. or U.N. troops to be stationed in the Middle East.
We here tonight say to our commander-in-chief, sir, no, sir.
No, sir!
Except, Cynthia, nobody has to listen to you anymore.
You lost.
It's L-O-S-T.
Is there any reason why not even mainstream blacks in Georgia hate their country like this?
Like Cynthia McKinney's out there and has been, and this is nothing new, so you might say that things are happening as they should.
In tribute, ladies and gentlemen, Paul Shanklin sings.
The Reverend Al Sharpton threw the megaphone.
Cynthia's mother.
Parody of the old Dr. Hook tune, Sylvia's Mother.
And again, that's by Paul Shanklin.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue here in mere moments.
Sort of fascinating, isn't it, that in the 2000 presidential campaign, nobody at MSNBC, Chris Matthews, nobody else described Senator Lieberman as Uncle Tenus, as a schmaltzy ethnic guy.
Isn't it amazing?
So you go from Uncle Tenus to Uncle Tom in six years in the Democratic Party.
Welcome back, folks.
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Mark in Bethesda, Maryland.
You're next, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Good afternoon, Rush.
I am a speck of red and a sea of blue.
Jewish Republican here, and I want to thank you for your continuing support of Israel.
Thank you, sir.
You're welcome.
I think it's scary for all of my Democratic friends here that just don't get it, especially with this Lieberman result yesterday.
The party has been taken over.
Their party has been taken over by people that are anti-Israel, as in Cindy Sheehan and Soros, who happens to be a self-hating Jew.
Right.
They hate Israel.
They hate Jews.
They're terrorism deniers.
And I just hope it's a wake-up call to the Jewish people that are out there.
Is that still the best party for them?
Yeah, I doubt that that's going to happen.
It's going to take a little bit more than this.
The seat of this anti-Semitism right now is focused in kooks like Sheehan and the blogs and the moveon.org people in Soros.
And I'll tell you, if you read letters to the editor from newspapers, which I do, and this is part of the show, I love reading letters to the editor.
Have you ever written letters to the editor of the New York Times?
You may as well be reading one of these kook blogs.
And many of these people that write these letters are apparently Jewish, and they echo the same sentiments that the Sheehans echo.
And you say, okay, what is it that's the unifying force here?
And it's hatred for Bush.
It's not hatred for Arabs.
It's not hatred for Ahmadinezad or the Hezbollahs.
It's hatred for Bush.
I don't know what's going to, you know, I could say the same thing about the black population in this country.
When are they going to wake up and understand the party they've been supporting does nothing but take them for granted and doesn't offer them any real solution and it just uses them.
I just don't see it happening.
I think it's one of the most covered up aspects of what's happening to the Democratic Party is how anti-Semitic and anti-Israel the apparent movers and shakers in that party are.
And Lieberman's a living testament to it.
I mean, let's be honest.
Let me ask you, Mark.
I mean, you said you're a Republican Jew.
How much do you think Lieberman owes his defeat to the fact that he's just Jewish at this point in time?
I don't know with the way that party is being taken over.
Probably some, because remember last summer what Cindy Sheehan said about Israel.
So probably some of it.
What did she say?
I've refreshed my memoir.
It says, here's the quote.
You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine, and you'll stop the terrorists.
So again, blame America, blame Israel.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, that's true.
Well, in fact, speaking of blame America, blame Israel, let me give you a little, thanks, Mark, for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
There's a guy named Lawrence Wright who is a staff writer for New Yorker.
The New Yorker magazine, he's got a new book out, and the book is called The Looming Tower, which he calls, quote, a bid to understand and explain the rise of Islamic extremism.
And in an interview with Al Reuters, the fake war photo guys, Lawrence Wright explains that American authors and filmmakers haven't done enough to blame America for 9-11.
Here's a quote.
I feel like it's been a great failure of our artists and our writers that we haven't done a better job at looking at ourselves and how we are and how our own behavior to some extent contributed to this tragedy, 9-11.
Our behavior?
Yep.
According to Wright, Americans lost sight of our core values, especially the rule of law and a code of decency.
In other words, we, not the terrorists, we lack values and we lack decency and respect for the rule of law.
And oh yeah, the Islamic world perceives a pro-Israel bias in our Middle East policies.
So it's not just kooks like Cindy Sheehan and the others.
Here's a New Yorker magazine.
You could very well be a kook blaming us and our association with Israel.
He said when bin Laden attacked America, he was posing two questions to us.
One is, what's America and what does it stand for?
The other is, what is Islam and what does it stand for?
I'm not making this up.
This guy's got a book out, and it's all about how we're to blame.
And there aren't enough artists and writers blaming America, doing articles, stories, movies, what have you, blaming America.
The only question rational person would ask or associate with bin Laden was whether we had the resolve to wipe his evil off the face of the earth.
Because he didn't think that we have that resolve anymore after Mogadishu is why he did this, because he thought he could get away with it.
And so he was under the impression that we were cowardly, we wouldn't take casualties, and he could get away with this.
Now, these blue state Lamont liberals don't have the will to do that.
They don't have the will to wipe evil off the face of the earth because they think we're it.
They think we're the evil.
They blame us and Israel while doing everything they can to understand terrorists.
They don't even have the sense to know that we're at war.
And if they admit that we're at war, they don't have the sense to admit who the enemy is because they consider us, their own country, to be the enemy.
So when you say, what's it going to take for certain groups to wake up and smell the coffee?
I, frankly, there's certain people that are liberals or liberals first.
Others are what they are first.
And the common enemy that they've always had is going to remain the common enemy.
But I just, I don't think there's any question about the fact that one of Lieberman's, one of the, how should I say, one of the factors in his defeat was the fact that he's just Jewish right now.
And if you go to these blogs, if you spend any time reading them and the moveon.orgs and so forth, you'll find some of the most anti-Semitic stuff on the face of the earth that you've ever read and anti-Israel stuff that you have ever read.
Marvin in Detroit, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Mega Detroit Tiger Dittos from the beautiful blue state of Michigan.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, Rush, I was just wondering, what do you think?
You know, if Lieberman does run as an independent, what's the chances of maybe a Republican sneaking in there?
And if they do, what is the, is it a simple majority in the election?
Yeah, but it won't happen.
I think if Lieberman runs as an independent, the Republicans might try to get a Republican in there to run just to cause problems.
I don't think Republicans could sneak in that state.
It's too blue a state.
That state is, I mean, I don't even, I'm not sure it would be competitive.
And if it were a Republican, it would be a Lowell Weicker type.
You may as well have a Democrat.
It'd be a Link Chafee type that would win in Connecticut.
Who will run for the Republicans?
Who will in Connecticut?
Yes.
I have no clue.
I only know 10.
Now, they've elected Republican governors.
I mean, it's not impossible.
Nothing is.
And, you know, it's still early.
I mean, as we know, things happen at a breakneck pace in politics, and they're always, as most things in the future are, unpredictable.
And anything could happen here.
I don't want to lock myself into saying that no Republican could win.
The Republicans aren't going to nominate anybody.
In fact, I think the thing you look at as far as Republicans are concerned in Connecticut is how does this end up helping Republican congressional incumbents hold on like Chris Shays and Rob Simmons?
This result, no question, boosts their chance of holding on to their districts, and they're vulnerable right now, according to polling data.
The Democrats have to win these two seats in Connecticut if they have any chance of taking back the House.
This result, I think, helps these two Republicans hold on to their seats.
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Okay, you want the dream outcome here, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's the dream outcome.
In Connecticut, Lieberman does run as an independent, defies all of these efforts by Democrats and the drive-by media to get him not to do so.
He runs as an independent and he wins.
That changes, that wipes out what happened yesterday.
And that is an election for a seat.
This was just a primary.
But if Lieberman runs as an independent in Connecticut and would beat, end up beating Lamont, then all of this chest pumping and all this flexing and all this talk.
In the meantime, between now and then, the whole Democrat Party is going to lurch and lurch and lurch to the left.
And as they continue to lurch left and act in fear of their kook base, Lieberman comes in, wins as an independent, and it just, you talk about an earthquake inside the upper levels of the Democratic Party in Washington, D.C.
I mean, that's the dream outcome of this.
The question for me is: can Lieberman withstand the pressure that they're going to bring on him?
And it's intense.
They're going to send Clinton in there to do an Andrew Cuomo and a Bob Torricelli on him.
Dodd and these guys, the best friends are already throwing him under the bus.
Elected Democrats and so forth, his colleagues in the Senate, which I guess they may think they have no choice in doing, but there'll be a lot of pressure on him not to run for the express reason, exact reason of what I just said.
The worst possible outcome for this guy to run as an independent and win and beat Lamont, because in the next three to four months, well, August, September, three months, these clowns are going to be lurching so far to the left that Earth may tilt on its axis.
And then to have all that just shown to be the wrong thing to do, which I think is why I wouldn't want to be Lieberman right now.
They're going to Democrats, folks, you don't understand.
These guys, they're going to unload everything on him not to run.
If there are any skeletons in his closet, they are going to leak.
Where's he going to lose money?
Well, I know Lamont's going to get the money, but that's where's, I know where Lieberman, I know Lamont's going to get the money as the party nominee, but there are more registered independents in Connecticut than there are Democrats.
Most of the registered voters in Connecticut are independent, quote unquote.
So I've heard in the last two days, anyway.
We'll see.
Money is, of course, a crucial factor, and Lieberman would be at a disadvantage in getting the money.
But he does have track record, presidential, vice presidential nominee, six years ago, 18 years in the Senate.
Name ID.
Well, I think that's, you know, H.R. just said I could help him.
No question.
I helped Carl McCall when the Democrats abandoned him in his quest for the gubernatorial nomination in New York.
And I think I'm going to tell you a lot of Republicans will be raising money for Lieberman.
It will happen.
So this is not done with yet.
It just remains to be seen what pressures the Democrats bring to bear on Lieberman.
Even if he has no skeletons in his closet, they'll make him up.
He knows it is going to get vicious.
Let me give you another example here of the Democratic Party and the mess that it's in.
A little story here from the Associated Press out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party objected Tuesday to signatures collected by three Green Party candidates, including a challenger in one of the nation's most hotly contested U.S. Senate races.
The Democrats asked a court to remove the candidates from the November ballot.
The candidates have said that they jointly collected at least 90,000 valid signatures, which is far more than the 67,070 needed to qualify for the ballot.
The Democrats alleged in a Commonwealth court filing that more than 69,000 included fake names, names of unregistered voters, and illeligible signatures.
Now, this has all been brought about by the campaign of Bob Casey, who is running against Santorum, who's closing the gap polling-wise in the Senate race in Pennsylvania.
The reason Democrats are upset about this is because the Greens are libs, just like Casey is a lib, just like Democrats are libs.
And so they don't want the Greens coming in and splitting the Democrat vote.
Now, the interesting thing about this to me is that in the normal run of things, the Democrats, one of their core constituency groups is the wacko environmental left.
And normally they court them, and they're on the same side of the aisle, and they raise money from them and so forth.
But even the environmentalists are wackos too, folks.
The environmentalists are full-fledged, 100% kooks, the Green Party types, and they are going to try to destroy this outfit just as they tried to destroy Ralph Nader.
So while they welcome these constituency groups, when the Democrats have the table or the seat at the table of power, when these guys come in and try to undermine it, they're worthless and they'll throw them overboard like Lieberman.
I understand it's electoral politics.
My point here is not the Democrats are mean and disingenuous or hypocrites.
My point is they ain't unified.
They are not unified.
They may think they're unified in their hatred for Bush, but there are a bunch of Democrats on the left not satisfied with the quote-unquote mainstream Democrats.
They're running against them out there in these primaries, and it's not being commented on and analyzed in the proper way.
But the idea that there's unity in the Democratic Party, especially now after this race in Connecticut yesterday, is a myth.
And don't buy it.
Jimmy in Lubbock, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Rush, you know, I think you're exactly right about the McGovernization of the Democratic Party, but I think it's nothing new.
It's an ongoing process that I think dates back to the Chicago convention riots in 1968.
You know, remember the target of that Viet Cong uprising wasn't a conservative.
It was Hubert Humphrey, who was Mr. Liberal himself.
Yeah, but the Democratic establishment.
Yeah, but if you go back, we've done this.
We've got an excerpt.
We've got the actual audio excerpts of some Hubert Humphrey speeches from back in the 60s.
And if you listen to Hubert Humphrey today, just as if you listen to John F. Kennedy today, you will hear no similarity at all to today's mainstream Democrats.
In his day, Humphrey, no question, DFL, Minnesota liberal democrats, no question.
But I'm just the Democratic Party, and you're right in a sense, because the party's dissent into madness dates back 40 years.
And it's been a gradual thing.
There have been a couple blips with Clinton being elected and Watergate and so forth, but they have been descending into this far-left swirl for quite a while.
And it's all because what I said, they have no vision for the future.
Their vision is power.
That's why they love Castro, folks.
They envy his power.
They marvel at it and wish they had it.
And the thing that they only can glom onto for comfort is their past.
Pure and simple.
Janice in Dundee, Michigan.
Welcome.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Hi.
I know you're a football fan, so I wanted to get a plug-in for our terrific Detroit Tigers.
Yeah, it's about time Detroit had a sports team that brought respect to the league in which it plays.
That's good.
Thank you.
We have the best record in baseball, and I believe since May 21st, we're 76 and 37.
Now, that's big.
That's big.
I know.
I've been following the Tigers.
I check baseball every month or so.
Well, thank you.
And we had Ron Howard and Tom Hanks in the stands last week.
I said they're probably making a movie, Worst to First.
Last year we had the worst record.
So, and listen, one quickie for you before you go on vacation about your problem not wanting any kids.
Old Benny Hill used to say, Wait a minute, who says that's a problem?
Well, okay, I should rephrase that then.
But old Benny Hill used to say, Marry an older woman.
They don't swell, they don't tell, and they're grateful as hell.
They don't swell, they don't tell, and they're grateful as hell.
Yeah.
Why, because they're already swollen?
Their heads are swollen because they're loving it, right?
Are you telling me you're an older woman and you're proposing here?
Oh, God, no.
Okay.
I'm an older woman, yes.
Well, you know, who was the guy that sang the song, the old RB tune, if you want to be happy for the rest of your life?
Jimmy Soule.
So your phrase, like Benny Hill, whatever the phrase was there.
But he said, Marry an ugly woman, right?
Right.
Benny Hill's a very an older woman, but Jimmy Soule, say, you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife.
Ugly woman, right?
I remember.
I remember.
Well, it's great to talk to you.
Have a great few days off.
Thank you, Janice.
Appreciate it.
For those of you just tuning in and wondering, we're doing a little version of Open Line Friday today.
So you can call about whatever you want to call about, since I'm not going to be here tomorrow or Friday, a quick little golf weekend trip to Hawaii and be back early next week to resume.
The only thing is, you know, what of any major consequence is going to happen while I'm gone?
Something always does.
Speaking of that, there was a piece.
I had it in the stack yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
But there was a column in the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com website by a Princeton scholar by the name of Bernard Lewis.
And the premise of his piece was to issue a warning that Mahmoud Ahmad Dinizad may have cataclysmic events in mind for August 27th.
He wrote this, there's a radical difference between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other governments with nuclear weapons.
This difference is expressed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic worldview of Iran's present rulers.
In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time, Gog and Magog, Antichrist, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, a long-awaited return of the 12th Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinezad and his followers clearly believe that this end time is now.
And he has said so.
Bernard Lewis is right about that.
And that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced.
It may even have a date, indicated by several references by Ahmadinezad to giving his final answer to the U.S. about nuclear development by August 22nd.
This year, August 22nd, corresponds to the 27th day of the month of Rajab or Rajab of the year 1427.
This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the Prophet Muhammad on the winged horse, first to the farthest mosque, usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back.
This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and, if necessary, of the world.
It's far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinezad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for August 22nd, but it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind.
This is the kind of thinking that Ahmadinezad has spawned with all of his rhetoric that Israel must be destroyed.
The 12th Imam will return.
This will happen on my watch, he says.
And so, if you do the calculations, August 22nd is the date that Mahmoud told the world he would respond to United Nations and world demands for their enrichment program, uranium enrichment program, and their nuke program to be stopped.
Ahmadinezad all respond on August 22nd, and so it corresponds with this apocalyptic date in the Quran.
And people are keeping a sharp eye.
I will be back on the 22nd.
I just wanted to assure you, back in just a second.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbos, serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
I want to share with you another point, ladies and gentlemen, something I have been pondering here.
You know, yesterday, Lanny Davis published this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Well, the Wall Street Journal published this op-ed by Lanny Davis.
And I will confess a number of you people were eager and excited and sent me emails.
Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush.
You have to read Lanny Davis.
You have to talk about Lanny Davis ripping the left.
So I read it.
And I thought, well, our side's been bamboozled again.
Because all this piece did was basically convey a conventional wisdom, a stereotype, a cliché, that all of us are just a bunch of racist, sexist, hateful bigots.
And Lanny, everybody knows that, Lanny said, but it was disturbing to him to see all of the hate that was popping up by some of these fringe people on the left, because everybody knows that there's nothing but tolerance and love and affection and compassion among people on the left.
And while people were thinking, wow, this is progress, Lanny Davis ripping his own people.
It really wasn't that at all.
Lanny Davis worried about what's bubbling up there in his so-called party, which I think is perverted and polluted right now.
But it also served and gave him an opportunity to continue to rip and characterize us in ways that are not true.
Along those lines, may I ask you to think about something?
The so-called net roots out there, these kook blogs, moveon.org, the daily cause, Arianna Huffington's joke of a website.
There are two characteristics that identify these people.
One, they are super rich.
George Soros funds all these people.
Arianna herself didn't do too badly in her divorce, as it's been said she divorced well.
The people are super rich.
And the second thing to notice about them is they are super white.
The Huffington Post, Daily Cause, moveon.org, they are whiter than the KKK, folks.
Nobody ever criticizes or even, well, not even, nobody recognizes.
All we ever hear about, there's not any black faces in that crowd when Newt Gingrich spoke.
Well, there aren't any black voices, faces anywhere near these kook blogs and the new Democrat base.
And look at their candidate in Connecticut, Greenwich Ned Lamont, multi-multi-millionaire media tycoon.
And they got their start with Howard Dean, who, by the way, is no slouch when it comes to the financial department.
Now, where are the net roots?
Where are these blogs, these Democrat kooks?
Where are they in major black races?
Cynthia McKinney could not be a more articulate spokesperson for their insane beliefs, and they were not near her side.
Not even the Reverend Zach and Reverend Sharpton dared go near Cynthia McKinney.
They wanted to hang around the rich white people in Ned Lamont's campaign.
You can't get a more certifiable kook that perfectly articulates what the kook base of the Democrat Party believes than Cynthia McKinney, and they weren't within one half of a continent of her.
These liberals, these progressives, they are racist.
Where are the demands for black and minority voices on these blogs?
You don't hear them, ladies and gentlemen.
It's an exclusive club.
Very rich, very white, very liberal, and very kooky.
We have 11 missing Egyptians running around like ghosts.
And Al-Zawahiri has announced that an Egyptian group has just joined al-Qaeda.
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