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Aug. 11, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 11, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Thank you and welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where as you know, Rush expects us to continue our relentless pursuit of truth and sharing the results of that pursuit every single day, even when he's not here.
And you do that at 1-800-282-2882 and of course at rushlimbaugh.com as well.
So the news, and this is, I bring this up again, the news, AP reporting that among the thousands of frustrated flyers stuck at London's Heathrow Airport yesterday was United States Senator Charles Schumer.
He said to Associated Press by phone, quote, it's a nightmare.
Our flight is apparently delayed till Sunday.
His nightmare is being stuck.
Mr. Schumer, your nightmare would have been being blown up.
Your sorry backside was saved by Tony Blair and George Bush.
You may have been on one of the planes that the Muslims were trying to blow up.
What if, and we have to trace this down, what if George Bush saved Senator Schumer's life?
Very interesting comment.
All right, back to San Diego.
Got a story for you that will affect your community as well.
I've already had a conversation with somebody down in St. Bernard Parish down there, Junior Rodriguez, the head of the parish council down there in Louisiana, trying to put up a cross and a memorial to those that died in Katrina in his neighborhood.
And already the ACLU is suing him.
We have been in San Diego sued for the last almost 17 years by an annoyed atheist.
And I say that because he said he was annoyed by the sight of a cross on Mount Soledad in La Jolla, which is a community of San Diego.
This little mound, it's hardly a mountain, a little mound, but visible in a lot of places.
It has this white cross put up in 1954 to commemorate San Diegans who had died for their country in the Korean War.
It has since been expanded to commemorate the sacrifice of all veterans.
And lots of concentric circle concrete walls now at the base of this cross memorial filled with granite plaques, laser-incised with the pictures and commemorations of veterans, including one that the Hedgecock family put up on behalf of my father, Lester, who was in the Battle of the Bulge and who is pictured, unlike most of these formal photographs people put up of their formal military uniform type photographs.
I have this beautiful photograph of him crouched by a Sherman tank with the woods in the background, hip deep in snow during the Battle of the Bulge, and that's the picture that we have on his commemorative plaque.
Well, of course, we were sued.
America cannot tolerate the preference for religion shown by the exposure of a Latin cross as a part of this memorial.
So for 16 years, we've been fighting this battle to retain our war memorial, as is where is, and we've been losing.
We've been losing in the federal courts that said, no, you've got to take that down.
You know, the Taliban mentality took over.
The contradictory notion that freedom of religion means that one annoyed atheist gets to have a cross torn down, much like the Taliban blew up the Buddha.
So I got to tell you the good news.
About 60 days ago, with no cards left, I mean, we were basically buying our chains and we were about ready to chain ourselves to the cross to prevent the bulldozers from taking it out, we got Anthony Kennedy, of all people, from the United States Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy, who's very good, as it turns out, on these religious freedom issues, intervened to stop a local judge's order to tear down the cross, intervened to make the order permanent,
issued a completely unique four-page opinion on why he was intervening, and stopped the whole process.
In the meantime, Congress passes Duncan Hunter's bill to take the property from the city ownership, and the city ownership was the crux, if you will, of the problem because it came under the California Constitution, which says you can't prefer religion.
Take it from city ownership, the memorial land that it's on, to federal ownership, where we have our own fight, but at least the First Amendment is a little clearer.
The Senate, and get this, with a unanimous vote and the support of Senators Feinstein and Boxer, not only obviously liberal Democrats, but both Jewish, liberal Democrats, who said, no, this is a memorial.
The community is entitled to it.
Freedom of religion doesn't mean tearing down religious symbols anywhere.
And this is what we want to support this legislation.
So it's now on the desk of a very supportive Bush administration.
The president is scheduled to sign this legislation on Monday.
We believe that, of course, the annoyed atheist will sue in federal court, but we believe we will win that suit.
We believe that after 16 years, we have preserved this cross and this war memorial as is where is, and it is a blow that you can now rely on.
You can now, in your community, as you face, as St. Bernard Parish down in Louisiana faced, as you face these kinds of attacks on freedom of religion, fight back.
Don't you dare let our heritage go down the drain, one little Ten Commandments, one little cross, one little religious symbol at a time.
We're not going to allow it to happen in San Diego, and you shouldn't either.
You know, it is often, and I have these in my hand, it is often cited by the opposition on this subject that going back to Thomas Jefferson, there has been a tradition of the separation of church and state.
I traced the phrase back to a letter of Thomas Jefferson that he sent to the Danbury, Connecticut.
Here's Connecticut in the news again.
Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association dated January 1st, 1802.
Thomas Jefferson did not take New Year's Day off as current politicians do.
He worked.
He wrote a letter on January 1st, 1802 to the Danbury Baptist Association.
Now, why did he do that?
Less well known is that the Danbury Baptists had written him a letter.
He's replying to their letter.
Their letter of October 7th, 1801 was a letter of concern about being forced into a state religion.
Here's their letter.
And again, this is 18th century English, a larger vocabulary than we are used to.
So bear with me here on this letter.
Quote to Thomas Jefferson from the Danbury Baptist Association: Quote: Our sentiments are uniformly on the side of religious liberty, that religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals.
That the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbors.
And they are concerned that legislation, this is a great vocabulary, religious privileges we enjoy, they write, we enjoy as favors granted and not as inalienable rights.
We are afraid these favors we receive at the expense of such degrading acknowledgements are as inconsistent with the rights of free men.
It is not to be wondered at, therefore, if those who seek after power and gain under the pretense of government and religion should reproach their fellow men.
And they go on to talk about assuming the prerogatives of Jehovah and make laws to govern the kingdom of Christ.
And so they appeal to Jefferson and they say to him, Are you going to preserve our inalienable right to religious freedom?
They are afraid of the government mandating that they believe a certain way, which of course was whatever of the government of the world did at that time.
And the Islamic fascists want to reimpose today.
So here is Jefferson writing back.
I love the vocabulary.
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptists give me the highest satisfaction, he writes.
And this is the way they wrote in those days.
He says, believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence, Jefferson writes, that act of the whole American people, he's talking about the Constitution, which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
thus building a wall of separation between church and state.
In other words, the whole idea of church and state separation is to prevent the government from establishing a state religion and telling you what to believe, to prevent a government from interfering in your opinions.
And yet on the basis of that letter, it is often said that you must take down your Christian religious symbols in the public square, that you must believe only privately, that you cannot express yourself, that you cannot worship in public.
What a twisted perversion of Jefferson's letter.
What a twisted and deliberate misrepresentation of the Danbury Baptist concern.
So if you have this in your community, and every community does, I want you to go back to the original letter.
I want you to be satisfied that Jefferson did not mean to say that freedom of religion meant freedom from religion, to quite the opposite.
It meant that you're entitled to have your cross and your Ten Commandments on any public or private land that you wish.
You simply cannot tell your fellow citizens that they can't have their religious symbols.
And in our community, we have a Shinto bell on public land.
We have a Star of David on a restored synagogue in a public park.
We are not trying to say you can't have other than religious symbols of Christianity, but we also don't want somebody to tell us that our religious symbols of Christianity have to go too.
That's not religious freedom.
We're winning that battle in San Diego, and I hope you are in your community.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Fill it in for Rush.
Back after this.
The Hezbollah-loving folks on the left are gathering tomorrow in Washington, D.C., to protest the, quote, U.S.-Israeli war.
They're expecting to draw tens of thousands of people, says the Washington-based American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
We shall see.
Who is it among Americans who want now, after this latest revelation of a plot to kill hundreds, perhaps thousands of people on planes, who is it among Americans now who want to take the side of Hezbollah?
I just want to see these people in public.
By the way, good news.
The Army of the United States says that it will meet its 2006 recruiting goal, up from a shortfall last year.
More people want to join the Army than ever.
The Marine Corps is meeting its goal.
The Marine Corps is up 112% of their goal, signing up many more recruits than they actually needed.
So the Defense Department is now announcing that all of the services are now meeting or exceeding their goals for recruitment.
Again, another goal of the left has been to either get people to defect to leave the military, and we've had a couple of those here in San Diego, or go to Canada, and there's been a couple of hundred of those, or not sign up and show that the war is the Americans don't support the war because they're not signing up for the military.
That is not working.
That is simply not working.
Now, the most outrageous, degenerate cultural expression of the left was on display as art, isn't it often this way, in the Los Angeles Times recently.
And I'll get to that in just a minute.
Let's take Sid's call from Cape Canaveral, Florida first.
Hi, Sid, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hello, Mr. Hedgecock.
How are you?
Good, and you.
Good.
Look, I think you've got the wrong idea here.
We have a court-enforced national religion.
It's atheism.
Every time the atheists complain about any public display of religion, the court supports it.
And while the Congress, while the Constitution says Congress shall make no law affecting religion, the courts, in effect, make laws affecting religion every day.
That's a very good point.
It's actually the right-on point.
You can't have...
There's one more point at five minutes.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
If you read, I think it's the Bill of Rights.
It says we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
And again, that implies religion.
So I think people should become aware of what's actually happening in this country.
Yeah, and that's the Declaration of Independence.
That's the call.
And the most radical thing about America's founding, the most radical thing about the founding of America is the notion that our rights as free people came from God, not from government.
They're not given to us by government.
In fact, the Declaration goes on to say, the government is instituted to protect those rights.
The only reason we have a government is to make sure that we have the full enjoyment of our God-given rights.
Now, I know, I know, I know.
We have strayed far from that original intent, but it is still the most radical notion among any of the human notions about government, that not only are we self-governing, not only are we accountable for what the government does, because it is us, we are the boss, but we have rights from God, and government can't take them away.
In fact, the only reason for government is to make them better.
Make sure we enjoy it.
All right, let's try another call.
Here's Zarette, is it from Payton, Colorado?
Did I pronounce any of that correctly?
Hi, is it Zarette?
Yes.
Hi, go ahead.
Yeah, I learned yesterday that Britain was hesitant to share intel with us because they were afraid it would be leaked and blow the entire operation.
This is outrageous that our closing.
No, no, no, no.
I saw that report and it's not true.
It's not true.
No, today's reports in the British press are that the United States was fully cooperating with the Brits.
In fact, some of the information the Brits had to bring this thing to conclusion were National Security Agency intercepts the famous phone tapping, which the Democrats have been criticizing, but which in fact traced phone calls from these guys in Britain back to Pakistan and helped make the case.
So that A, wasn't true.
And B, the most interesting thing is the rage now at the New York Times that they did not get the information a couple of weeks ahead of time so they could have warned the terrorists that somebody was listening in.
Right.
This is what just has me all torn up: we have had so many leaks endangering our country, endangering our soldiers.
I don't understand why the Bush administration hasn't gone after these people.
Well, and Congressman King and others want to go after him, and they should go after him.
I think Bush's position is: look, the general public can make its own conclusion about who's on America's side and who's on the terrorist side, just to put it bluntly.
And the New York Times so far is on the terrorist side.
And I don't think anybody needs to feel like they're oversimplifying.
It's simply true every day you read the paper.
At least that paper.
I would like them named so that everyone knows who's.
Okay, well, we just did, Zarett.
Thanks for the call.
Here's Mike in Cleveland.
Mike, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How's it going?
Perfect.
First of all, I'd like to say great show.
Thank you.
Regarding to terrorism and the act of terrorism, we all got to know that terrorism did not start September 11th, 2001.
Well, we all know that.
Terrorism started in 1948 with the creation of the Jewish state in the Middle East.
So the terrorism was the creation of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland.
No, no, that's where the word terrorism started.
Prior to 1948, there was no such thing as terrorism.
Okay, thanks a lot, Mike.
I appreciate the revisionist history, but I think we're going to leave that alone.
A, it isn't true.
B, the creation of Israel was the desire of the United Nations.
Now, unless the United Nations is a terrorist organization, the creation of Israel was an act of the entire world sitting as the United Nations.
So I don't quite know how the creation of Israel was a terrorist act.
The word terrorism and the use of the word in the connection with warfare goes back a long ways, of course, and is not confined to the Middle East.
In any event, this idea that somehow or other the creation of Israel is the cause of the problem is untrue, and I think we've proven it today.
Back after this with more.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Russia.
Another bit of good news.
I don't know whether you could even take it.
More good news.
This is this month, the 10-year anniversary of welfare reform.
And I want to tell you, we don't look back often enough on the success of the contract with America, the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, and the subsequent good for America that has flowed, has flowed, that has resulted from this.
And one of those is welfare reform.
One of those is welfare reform.
You look at 10 years of welfare reform, I don't know about your neighborhood, but in our neighborhood, welfare rolls are down in San Diego County by two-thirds.
Two-thirds lower than they were.
Those people haven't just died or fallen off the earth or whatever.
They have jobs.
They are working.
They are independent.
They are not dependent wards of the great plantation of the Democratic Party.
They are out there as independent Americans.
And it is absolutely something that this month ought to be celebrated every single day.
You ought to ask your own local community, how have we been doing in welfare reform?
How many people have we put to work?
And you might also ask, how many illegal aliens are in our welfare system illegally?
You know, we ask that around here, too.
But the truth is, welfare reform, which did, and remember what it did, number one, you no longer have a right to a minimum living provided by the government.
You have a right to that for a limited period of time, not an unlimited period of time.
You can do that for a couple of years, then you must get employment.
You must work.
And everybody said, well, wait a minute.
You've got single mothers.
You've got this.
They're going to make far less.
They're not skilled.
They don't have any place to go.
They're dependents of the state.
We've developed them very carefully, generation after generation of dependency here and dependent Democrat and very reliable Democrat voters, by the way.
So we have no interest in freeing these people from the plantation.
Now look at them.
All the statistics are the kids are doing better.
The mothers are doing better.
Now things help, like the reverse income tax thing, and the food stamps still be flowing, still flowing to those families, as they should, because they are, many of them, starting out in lower-paying jobs.
But what happens after you start out in a lower-paying job?
Who among us listening to this program didn't start life in a lower-paying job?
I sure did.
Never forget it.
So it's a situation in which you start in a lower-paying job.
Guess what happens to most people?
They get a higher-paying job, boys and girls.
They move on to higher wages from lower wages.
This is what usually happens.
And it has happened to welfare mothers too, giving the lie to generations of Democrats who said, oh, there's nothing you can do.
If we don't help these people, they're going to starve.
They're going to flop down in the street and just die.
Well, they didn't.
They picked themselves up and went to work.
Now, not everybody.
But two-thirds is a hell of a number and a hell of a success story.
And Newt Gingrich and the members of that contract with America, God bless you.
Denise in Washington, D.C. Denise, welcome.
Yes.
Hi.
How are you?
Hi.
Good.
Great.
Great show.
It's my first time hearing it.
Thank you.
It's really, I listened to several shows before this one, and it just really amazes me about how America is so clueless.
I'm a flight attendant from Major Airlines, and I was out there yesterday, and I and my crew members, we too had to give up all of our goodies, you know, expensive makeup.
It was worth it.
And it amazed me how people were getting on my flight complaining.
And I said, I was out there on 9-11.
I said, you should be grateful that they caught this in time so we don't experience another 9-11.
They felt like we were inconveniencing them.
Well, I too was being inconvenienced.
And guess what?
I am so grateful.
I'm so grateful Blair and Bush discovered this ahead of time.
And this amazes me how America, we're just so small and so self-absorbed.
And as far as profiling terrorists, well, don't forget, there are Anglo-Saxon-looking terrorists out there.
And when people get on my plane, I look at everybody.
I look at females and men, white, black, all, you know, professionals.
I don't care.
I am observing everyone.
And that's what we're trained to do.
And so I want everybody to get their eyes off of brown-skinned people just, you know, totally an offer men with turbans.
I mean, they're aware that's what we're looking for.
So because we are looking for that, they're going to come disguised as something else.
And another thing, before I get off the phone, is that the thing is, these people appear to be drinking Kool-Aid.
They are under a great spirit of deception.
And the people that are telling them to go make themselves human bombs, why aren't they exploding themselves?
Why aren't they making bombs of themselves?
So I wish they'll just realize that something's wrong with this picture.
You're willing to die and kill everyone else, but the people that are telling you to do that, like what's his name, Hussein, and Laden?
Hey, guess what?
They're still existing.
Why haven't they done this thing?
Why are these people drinking Kool-Aid and being deceived?
And I am a Christian first, and they say the Lord, so they have Muslim faith.
I'm a Christian first.
And my faith tells me to see my enemy, to love the hell out of them, you know, to love them to life, not death.
And first, I'm a Christian, like they say their first Muslim, who just happened to be a female, who just happened to be black.
But I give everybody a chance.
I choose to love everyone because I recognize everybody a freedom of choice to be who they are.
And they have a right to practice their faith.
But if their faith is going to cause other people to be murdered and killed innocently, then they have no rights.
You must be one great flight attendant, Denise.
I just love everything you said.
I don't know.
I try to be.
No, I bet you are.
Yeah, I really try to serve everyone.
I try to serve everyone like I want, even bad behaviors, bad behaviors.
I just love the hell out of them.
Hey, Denise, how long have you been a flight attendant?
29 years.
Wow, 29 years.
Yes, I am, man.
29 years.
I hope that you're the flight attendant on a flight I'm on.
Well, I hope I am too.
You're terrific.
Absolutely.
You are, too.
And I love Rush.
I love him.
And I love O'Reilly.
I love you guys.
I love Fox Network.
And the lady who's reading the New York Times, I mean, you've got to think about your source.
So you can't both, you have to, who's telling you these things?
Think about your source.
All right.
Well, Denise, thank you.
God bless you.
Thanks very much for calling.
That was great.
All right.
Now, look, what's not great, you know, you folks out there in the East, out there, have the New York Times, Washington Post, and the CBS, NBS, and ABS to deal with.
Out here in the West Coast, we have to deal with the L.A. Times.
And I got to tell you, this paper, there were some pictures, horrific, horrific pictures of crying two- and three-year-olds, children.
And here's one of a young girl looking up, and her eyebrows are all knit, and she's just the cutest little two, three-year-old girl.
She doesn't have any clothes on.
I only see her shoulders and her head, but no clothes.
And she's crying uncontrollably, and her face is contorted in anguish.
And then there's another one with a boy.
Again, no clothes, just a shoulder and head, and he's just, his whole face is contorted in agony.
And here's the story.
It's an art show from photographer Jill Greenberg.
Here's the story.
Steal a toddler's lollipop, and he's bound to start bawling.
That was photographer Jill Greenberg's thinking.
So that's just what she did, to elicit tears from 27 or so two and three-year-olds, featured in her latest exhibition, End Times.
The children's cherubic faces illuminated against a blue and white studio backdrop suggest abject betrayal.
Greenberg is making this artistic point, says the article.
Quote, the work depicts how children would feel.
Now, the actual reason she got all this crying is she gave them candy and then yanked it away and then when they started crying took the picture.
Then she says, here's the point.
The work depicts how children would feel if they knew the state of the world they're set to inherit.
Now just think about that for a minute.
First of all, she tortures these kids to get them to cry and to be contorted, anguished faces, and then says what this really represents is how they would feel if they knew what two more years of George Bush would do.
This is an art exhibit in Los Angeles.
Taking candy from babies, says the headline.
Disgusting.
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Here is, let's see, we've got time.
Let's take a short break first.
We'll get back to Mike.
Mike, hang on back after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Coming up on Monday, Paul W. Smith from WJR Detroit will fill in Rush Back on Tuesday.
Let's take a call from Lori in Auburn, California.
Lori, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Thank you.
I was calling because that last story you told about the photographer just made me furious.
I am a book illustrator.
I've been doing it for over 20 years.
And first of all, to torture the kids to get a picture, there's so many people in my field that do things like that to get themselves a flash in the pan name, and I'm really tired of it.
And if that was an animal, you can bet PETA would be all over that photographer's rear end.
Jill Greenberg would have been arrested for animal cruelty in a heartbeat in L.A. for that.
And I'll tell you what, you're absolutely right.
Why in the world she wasn't arrested for child abuse is beyond me.
I mean, these pictures are anguished pictures.
They obviously did something.
In fact, her own daughter, her own daughter is in this thing.
Oh, it's just awful.
In one of them, this girl is crying uncontrollably.
She has her hand on her chest like she's gasping for breath.
It's just stunning.
And this woman really needs to ask herself what her morals are.
Why do we need to do something like that to children?
Let them have the innocence of their youth.
Why take that away from them to prove artistic, and that's in quotes.
Oh, no, but she has to make a political point, and that is that George W. Bush is doing this to these children.
If it wasn't for George W. Bush, these children would have a bright future.
They're simply reflecting in their anguished eyes the real future they have if Republicans stay in power.
I know.
My stomach is a knot.
I know.
No, no, no, I have to read this stuff.
I mean, I don't want you to think that the New York Times, I mean, out here in the West Coast and you're in Auburn, the Los Angeles Times is as bad, if not worse.
Sacramento Bee is pretty bad, too.
I know, I read that one, too.
Lori, thanks.
I don't.
There you go.
Lori, thanks for the call.
Here's Mike in St. Louis, Missouri.
Mike, thanks for hanging on.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I'm wondering if my tax dollars paid for that photo shoot.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised.
Wait a minute.
Let me look at this again.
This could have been under a grant.
You're absolutely right.
How in the world could this liberal survive without a grant?
There must be a grant in here somewhere from taxpayers.
I'll bet if you dug on the internet, you could find out that you and I paid for that.
Boy, and I'm glad I did, too, so I could bring it up on this program and show you that these wacko liberals will even torture children to make them hate Bush.
Yeah, that's true.
Anyway, my point is, you know, they say we can't persecute or prosecute people for their so-called religious beliefs.
We have laws on the books that have been used against so-called Christian patriots, i.e. the Klan, Aryan Nation, and all these other wacko groups.
Right.
And they call themselves religious organizations and use the Bible to espew their venom and hate.
And we've got laws that don't allow them to go out and do a lot of the things they'd like to do.
Now, we allow them to stand in the public arena and say, this is what we believe, this is what we believe.
But they are not allowed to go out and say, we want you to go out and hang blacks.
We want you to go down, burn down the stores of Jews or burn down Catholic churches.
There are laws that we can use to stop this insanity.
You know, this is such a great point.
If you turn the current situation on its head and you examine, has there been instances where Christians have been demanding the death of infidels, you have to go far back in history.
But you also have to look in recent history at the history of Christianity suppressing, of standing up and being counted against people who are violent, who are using the Bible, who are using Christianity.
And I think the greatest example is, although he wasn't a Christian, it was a Christian nation.
Germany was certainly a Christian nation, and so was Italy.
When they wanted to say, hey, it's okay to murder, wholesale murder Jews by the millions, the civilized world, namely the United States and Britain and France and so forth, Britain mainly, stood up and exterminated those regimes for exactly that.
Where are the Muslim nations standing up to exterminate Wahhabist and other extreme interpretations of Islam, killing interpretations of Islam?
I don't see it.
And I wish I did see.
I would be more comfortable to see.
I would love to have, and I think we do perhaps in Pakistan, to some extent in Malaysia, to some extent in Turkey, some of these leaders working with us to stop the extremist interpretations of Islam.
But sure, it sure is something we could use a lot more of.
I agree 100%.
All right, here's Daryl in, is it Minden?
Minden, Nevada.
Minden, Nevada.
Where's that?
Well, it's right below Reno, Nevada, about 40 minutes.
All right, Daryl, you're on.
Yeah, hey, I had a question about this photographer.
Is there any correlation between this photographer putting children in harm's way for public opinion and Hezbollah putting children in harm's way for world opinions?
Well, a great analogy.
In other words, make your own decision.
What is the mentality?
What is the mentality that builds a bunker, fills it with rockets, then puts a school on top of it with residences and dares the Israelis to bomb it or either take the rockets or bomb the place?
And then when they bomb it, they show up with pulling people out of the rubble just as the cameras show up.
And apparently it's the people they pulled out of the rubble last week, too.
And then they stage these photographers like Reuters.
Isn't this the same mentality?
Making a political point by exploiting the children.
Just as incomprehensible is the world's reaction to both situations.
Amen.
Hey, Daryl, good point.
Out of Minden, Nevada.
I'm Roger Hitchcock out of San Diego, California on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Back after this.
So to summarize the entire day, Israel has a serious now military movement into Lebanon to crush Hezbollah, and the United Nations votes 10 minutes later to cease fire.
Because as soon as Israel gets serious about crushing these people, we need a ceasefire.
Of course.
We have to have peace.
Peace.
If Hezbollah was winning, there wouldn't be a ceasefire all the way to Tel Aviv.
And I'll tell you what, if the Israelis do not take out Hezbollah, the next time they face Hezbollah, there will be a rocket that hits Tel Aviv, and it will have a nuke on it.
And that's what everybody in Israel thinks, too.
And that's why there's not going to be a ceasefire until Hezbollah is gone.
And that's the way it ought to be if we expect to be immune from attack by Iran.
Good grief.
Again, God bless George Bush, Tony Blair, their respective governments, and their ability to knock down this conspiracy and keep the planes safe.
I say that as someone who next month is traveling to Europe.
I'll be calm, no problem.
And we wish the best to all of you in everything you do.
We want you to continue to remember that in the relentless pursuit of truth, don't let your own biases get in the way.
There is a war on, and you've got to let everybody know.
You've got to let everybody know that no matter what you hear in the mainstream press, it's time for Americans to pull together.
It's time for us all to become warriors in every place.
Say thank you to a local military family as we're doing in San Diego.
Say thank you to somebody in uniform you see in that airline terminal because they are the reason we are still free.
And it's never too much to let them know how you feel and that you know that's true.
Coming up on Monday, Rush Limbaugh still on vacation.
Paul W. Smith will guest host from WJR in Detroit.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
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