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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, Russia expects us to continue our relentless pursuit of truth and sharing that the results of that pursuit every single day, even when he's not here.
And you do that at 1800-282-2882, and of course at Rush Limbaugh.com as well.
So the news, and this is uh I I bring this up again, the 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 uh we have to trace this down.
What if George Bush saved Senator Schumer's life?
Very interesting uh comment.
All right, uh back to San Diego, got a story for you that will affect affect your community as well.
Already had a conversation with somebody down in St. Bernard Parish down there, Junior Rodriguez, the head of the parish council down there in uh Louisiana, trying to put up a cross and a memorial to those that died in Katrina in his neighborhood, and already the ACLU suing him.
We have been in San Diego sued for the last uh 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 mount it's hardly a mountain, a little mound, uh, but visible in a lot of places.
Uh, 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 uh the sacrifice of all veterans, and uh lots of uh concentric circle concrete walls now at the base of this of this cross memorial uh filled with uh granite plaques, uh laser incised with the pictures and commemorations of uh of veterans,
including uh one that uh the Hedgecock family put up on behalf of my father Lester, who was uh in the Battle of the Bulge and uh 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 uh with the woods in the background, uh 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.
Uh America cannot tolerate the preference for religion shown by the exposure of a Latin cross as a part of this memorial.
So for sixteen 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, no, no, no, no, you gotta take that down.
You know, the the Taliban mentality took over.
The uh the contradictory notion that freedom of religion means that uh one annoyed atheist gets to have a cross torn down, much like the Taliban blew up the uh the Buddha.
So I got to tell you the good news.
About sixty days ago, with no cards left, I mean, we were basically buying our chains and uh we were about ready to chain ourselves to the cross to prevent the bulldozers from taking it out.
Uh we got uh uh 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, uh, because it came under the California Constitution, which says you can't prefer religion.
Take it from city ownership, uh the memorial land uh 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 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 to communities entitled to it.
Freedom of religion doesn't mean tearing down religious symbols anywhere.
And this is what we 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 sixteen 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 Parrish 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 first, 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 uh, you know, eighteenth century English, a larger vocabulary than we are used to, so bear with me here on this letter.
Quote uh to uh to Thomas Jefferson from the Danbury Baptists 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.
Um they are concerned that legislation uh this is uh 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 acknowledgments are as inconsistent with the rights of freemen, free men.
Uh 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.
Uh and they go on to talk about making 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, uh, 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, I don't hope you are in your community.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, fill it in for Rush back after this.
The Hezbollah loving uh folks on the left are gathering tomorrow in uh 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.
Um 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.
Uh the Marine Corps is up a hundred and twelve percent of their goal, signing up uh many more recruits than they actually needed.
So the Defense Department is now announcing that all of the uh services are now meeting or exceeding their goals for recruitment.
Again, another goal of the left has been to either get people to defect from the uh to leave the military, uh, 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, uh, or not sign up and show that the war is uh 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, I'm 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, uh Mr. Hedgecock, how are you?
Good and you.
Good.
Uh look at uh 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.
That's a it's actually the the the right on point.
You can't have there's one more point of Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Um if you read I I think it's the uh Bill of Rights, it says uh uh 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 that's the the call and 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 con the uh the the uh declaration goes on to say, uh the uh 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 uh better.
Make sure we enjoy it.
All right, let's try another call.
Here's Zaret, is it from uh Peyton, Colorado?
Did I pronounce any of that correct?
Hi, is it Zaret?
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 is not a good thing.
No, 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 uh cooperating with the Brits.
In fact, some of the information the Brits had to bring this thing to conclusion were national security administr uh national security agency intercepts the famous phone tapping, uh which the Democrats have been criticizing, but which in fact traced phone calls from these guys in Britain back to uh Pakistan and helped make the case.
So that A wasn't true, and B the most interesting thing is the rage now uh at the uh at the New York Times that uh 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.
That this is what this is what just has me all torn up is is 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 uh and and and uh 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 uh America's side and who's on the terrorist side, just to put it bluntly, and uh the New York Times so far is on the terrorist side.
And I don't think I don't think any uh anybody needs to uh feel like they're oversimplifying.
It it's simply true every day you read the paper.
At least that paper.
It just I would like them named so that everyone knows who we just did, Zaret.
Thanks for the call.
Here's Mike in Cleveland.
Mike, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How's it going?
Uh first of all, I'd like to say great show.
Thank you.
Um regarding to terrorism and the act of terrorism, we all gotta 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.
Well, 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 I don't 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 uh the Middle East.
Uh 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 Hitchcock filling in for Russia, and 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 uh Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, and the subsequent good for America that has that has flowed, has flowed, that has uh resulted from this.
And one of those is welfare reform.
One of those is welfare reform.
You look at ten years of welfare reform, I don't know about your neighborhood, but in our neighborhood, welfare roles 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 uh 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 have no longer have a right to a uh 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 got single mothers, you've got this they're gonna be they're gonna make far less, they're not skilled, they don't have any place to go, they're dependents of the state.
Uh, we've developed them very carefully, generation after generation of dependency here, and dependent Democrat uh and and and very reliable Democrat voters, by the way.
So we we have uh with no interest in 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 uh reverse income tax thing, and the and the food stamps still be flowing, uh 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 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?
Good.
Great.
Great show.
My first time here in it.
Thank you.
But it's really um I listened.
I listened to several shows before this one, and it just really amazes me about how America is so clueless.
I I'm a flight attendant from Major Alliance.
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 in 911.
I say you should be grateful that they caught this in time so we don't experience another 911.
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 you know, um 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, uh 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 skin people just, you know, totally, and off a man with turbans.
I mean, they're aware that's what we're looking for.
So because we are looking for that, they're gonna come disguised as something else.
And another thing before I get off the phone is that um the thing is these people uh they appear to be drinking Kool-Aid.
They are under a great spirit of deception, and they you the people they're 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 they're telling you to do that, like who um who um what's his name?
Hussein, and Baden, 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 to Lord, so that Muslim faith.
I'm a Christian first, and my face tell 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 they say they're first Muslim, who just happen 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 a right.
You must be one great uh flight attendant, Denise.
I love I just love everything you said.
I don't know.
I 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, uh, how long have you been a flight attendant?
Twenty-nine years.
Wow, twenty-nine years.
Yes, I am then.
Twenty-nine years.
I hope that you're the flight attendant on a flight I'm on.
I well I hope I am too.
You're terrific.
Absolutely.
You are too.
I really like I and I love Rush, you know.
I I love him.
And I love O'Reilly.
I love you guys.
I love Fox Network.
And that's the lady who's reading the New York Times.
I mean, you gotta think about your sorts.
So you can't both you have a who's telling you these things.
Think about your source.
All right.
Well, um, Denise, thank you.
God bless you.
Thanks very much for calling.
That was great.
All right.
Now look, what's not great, you you know, you folks out there in the East, out there have a have the New York Times, Washington Post, and the CBS, NBS, and ABS to deal with.
Out here in in uh on the West Coast, we have to deal with um the LA Times.
And I gotta tell you, this paper, uh, there were some pictures, horrific, horrific pictures, of crying two and three year olds.
Children.
And here's one of a young girl, uh looking up and her eyebrows eyebrows are all knit, and she's just the cutest little two or 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 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 twenty-seven or so two and three-year-olds, featured in her latest exhibition, and Times.
The children's church cherubic faces illuminated against a blue and white studio backdrop suggest suggest abject betrayal.
Greenberg is making this artistic point, says the article.
Quote The work depicts how children would feel.
Now the 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 uh and to be contorted uh 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 um says the headline.
Disgusting.
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Here is uh let's see, we 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 uh rush back on Tuesday.
Let's take a call from Laurie 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 twenty years.
And first of all, to torture the kids to get a picture.
It's 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.
Uh Jill Greenberg would have been arrested for animal cruelty in a heartbeat in uh LA 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, this is uh 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.
And one of them in one of them, this girl is crying uncontrollably.
She has her hand on her chest like she's gasping for breath.
It's 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 of 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.
Oh, I know.
My stomach is a knot.
This is so angry.
I know.
No, no, I have to read this stuff in the.
I mean, I don't want you to think that the New York Times, I mean, out here in the in the West Coast in Europe and Auburn, uh, the the Los Angeles Times is as bad if not worse.
Uh, 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 bet if you dug on the internet, you can 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 uh point is, you know, they say we can't persecute or prosecute people for their so-called religious belief.
Um, 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.
Um, 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 back.
We want you to go down, burn down a swords 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, uh it was a Christian nation.
Germany was certainly a Christian nation, and so was uh Italy.
Uh when they uh, you know, when they wanted to say, hey, it's uh it's okay to murder wholesale murder Jews by the millions of the civilized world, namely the United States and uh and Britain and France and so forth, uh Britain mainly, uh, stood up and uh exterminated those regimes for exactly that.
Where are the Muslim nations standing up to exterminate uh Wahhabist and other uh extreme uh interpretations of Islam, uh 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 uh interpretations of Islam.
But sure, it sure is something we could use a lot more of.
I agree a hundred percent.
All right, here's Daryl in uh is it Minden?
Linden, 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 opinion?
Well, great, 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 uh uh pulling people out of the out of the uh rubble just as the cameras show up, and apparently it's the people they pulled out of the rubble last week, too.
And and here's the uh and and then they stage these photograph uh photographers like Reuters.
Uh isn't this the same mentality?
Making a political point by exploiting the the children.
Just as incomprehensible is the world's reaction to both situations.
Amen.
Hey, Darrell, 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, uh Israel has a serious now uh military movement into Lebanon to crush Hezbollah and the United Nations votes ten minutes later to uh cease fire.
Because as soon as uh Israel gets serious about crushing these people, we need to cease fire.
Uh 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 Hezbolla 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 uh George Bush, uh Tony Blair, their respective governments, and uh 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 uh we wish the best uh to all of you in everything you do.
We want you to continue to remember that in the relentless pursuit of truth, uh don't let your own uh you know 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.
Thank 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 uh never too much to let them know how you feel and that you know that's true.
Coming up on Monday, Rush Limbaugh is still on vacation.
Paul W. Smith will guest host from WJR in Detroit.
I'm Roger Hitchcock.
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