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Aug. 16, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 16, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
A living legend, a doctor of democracy, truth detector, all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Firmly ensconced here behind the Golden EIB microphone at a Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
All right.
The Washington Post is attempting to destroy George Allen.
And I consider this a good sign in terms of why.
They must fear George Allen as a serious Republican presidential possibility.
I love George Allen.
I like him.
I like his family.
Is this one of the most decent, down-to-earth, solid individuals that you'll ever meet?
And the Washington Post is trying to destroy him over a comment that he made at a public appearance and just won't let go of this.
And the whole drive-by media is now on this, trying to portray this guy as some sort of a racist pig.
I want to discuss this and use some audio soundbites to illustrate a few things that the drive-by media miss.
Let's go to the audio tape.
This is August 11th in Virginia, a portion of Senator George Allen's remarks to S.R. Siddharth, Jim Webb's staffer who is following him and taping.
Jim Webb's opponent, it's number nine, audio soundbite number nine.
And then after that, we'll do number 10, and after that, number 11, and after that, number 12, and after that, 13.
And then after that, we'll go to 14.
So basically, cuts 9 through 14 on tap here, starting first with Senator Allen.
Friends, we're going to run this campaign on positive, constructive ideas.
And it's important that we motivate and inspire people for something.
This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is, he's with my opponent.
He's following us around everywhere.
And it's just great.
We're going to places all over Virginia.
And he's having it on film.
And it's great to have you here.
And you show it to your opponent because he's never been there and probably will never come.
So stay.
His opponent, actually, right now, is with a bunch of Hollywood movie moguls.
We care about fact, not fiction.
So welcome.
Let's give a welcome to Macau here.
Welcome to America and the real world for Virginia.
All right.
All right.
Now, Macau, that's the word.
And everybody's now debating, what did he mean with maca?
Now, macaca is a word for monkey.
Well, all you have to remember is Howard Cosell when you hear that.
Allen was on Good Morning America today to talking to ABC correspondent.
Well, actually, this is not, it's a montage of the ABC Infobabe Jessica Yellen's report on Senator Allen.
And then she declares here that macaca will haunt George Allen for years to come.
George Allen is considered a Republican superstar, a safe bet to keep his seat in the Senate, and a serious presidential contender.
There you go.
How quickly presidential and political fates can change?
It happened at a campaign appearance.
The senator used a little-known racial slur, macaca, to apparently mock a man of Indian descent.
Literally, macaca describes an Asian monkey.
But in Europe and some immigrant communities in America, macaca is used as a racial slur.
It's not the first time Senator Allen has been accused of racial insensitivity.
As governor, he issued a proclamation praising the Confederacy without mentioning slavery.
In the age of the internet, you can be sure the gaffe will continue to haunt Senator Allen for years to come.
Hell, who needs the internet, Jessica?
We can count on you to do it.
We can count on you and ABC and the Washington Post to do it.
Sick with me on this, folks.
Macaca in immigrant communities in Europe and some immigrant communities in America is used as a racial slur.
Allen says it doesn't, he meant to say Mohawk, that the guy reminded him of a Mohawk, even though he doesn't have a Mohawk haircut.
The point is, it's absurd and ridiculous to make such a big deal out of this in its being done, but you just heard her say it.
Serious presidential contender.
The Washington Post is out to destroy George Allen.
They want to keep him out of the Senate, and they certainly want to derail any presidential aspirations that he has.
Now, as for this business that as governor, he issued a proclamation praising the Confederacy without mentioning slavery.
Byron York weighed in on this today at National Review Online.
In all the controversy over George Allen's use of the word maca, commentators and news reports are bringing up the senator's alleged fondness for all things Confederate.
It's not surprising, but it's useful to remember that the Confederate issue, stirred up a few months by a long New Republic article, mostly disappeared after the Richmond Times Dispatch, looking into why Democrat James Webb had not criticized Allen over the new Republic piece, reported, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported, that Webb himself has expressed deep reverence for the Confederacy.
In May, the Times-Dispatch published an article, Webb's speech praised Confederate Army.
In 1990, the Senate Hopeful spoke of forbears' sacrifices that discussed a speech Webb gave at the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery on June 3rd, 1990.
The entire text of the speech is available at Webb's website.
It's worth reading, and Byron then lists some excerpts here.
And let me just give you the last paragraph.
I'm compelled today to remember a number of ancestors who lie in graves far away from Arlington.
Two died fighting for the Confederacy, one in Virginia, the other in a prisoner camp in Illinois after having been captured in Tennessee.
Another served three years in the Virginia cavalry and survived, naming the next child to spring from his loins Robert E. Lee Webb, a name that my grandfather also held, and which has passed along in bits and pieces through many others, such as my cousin Roger Lee Webb present today, and my son, James Robert Webb, also present.
So they're out there ripping Allen to shreds for praising the Confederacy and not mentioning slavery.
And they're wondering, how come Webb hadn't zeroed in on that?
Because Webb has done the same thing.
But you didn't hear Jessica Yellen mention that, did you?
No, you didn't.
Let's go to Mr. Macacka himself saying that George Allen met him before he made the comment, should have remembered his name.
This on CNN this morning with correspondent Andrea Coppel asked him how he felt about Allen calling him maca.
I was disappointed that someone like a senator of the United States would use something completely offensive.
He shook my hand.
He also is very good with names, legendarily.
He tries very hard to learn people's name when he's meeting them.
Does this guy sound like he's on the verge of tears?
I didn't see this.
Dawn, you're a woman, you know, tears.
Did he sound like he was crying?
No.
Did he sound hurt?
Okay, they just try to sound intellectual.
Oh, I was disappointed.
Someone like Senator.
All right, so that's S.R. Siddharth, who is stalking Allen on behalf of his opponent, James Webb.
Let's go back to the archive, shall we?
Ladies and gentlemen, for some comments Democrats have made that received scant attention, and never was it said about any of these people that due to the internet.
These comments would haunt these commentators for years to come.
First up, Hillary Robin Clinton, January 3rd, 2004 in St. Louis.
I love this quote.
It's from Mahatma Gandhi.
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years.
Mr. Gandhi, you guys still go to the gas station?
A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station.
Okay, yes, I'm Mahatma Gandhi pumping gas in St. Louis.
He wrote to the left, pumping gas.
And it's ain't nothing against gas pumpers.
Sometimes people do it themselves.
I don't.
Well, I did the other day.
Told you about that.
Moving on.
Let's go to March 4th, 2001 on Fox News Sunday, Senator Robert Byrd.
There are white niggers.
I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time.
I'm going to use that word.
We just need to work together to make our country a better country.
And I'd just soon quit talking about it so much.
Well, I don't recall anybody in the drive-by media being concerned about the internet's ability to keep that comment alive for years to come.
And recently, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 17th, ranking Democrat, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden.
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
I'm not talking.
Oh, yeah.
Here's a compassionate, open-minded, not-bigoted Democrat meeting a man of Indian descent in the airport, immediately insulting the guy by saying all the Indians in Delaware are in 7-Elevens and Dunkin' Donuts.
And unless you go in there with an Indian accent, you don't have a chance.
And if it weren't for the EIB network, we wouldn't be exposing this to you over and over again, as the drive-by media will do to George Allen.
The Washington Post has done two days on this.
One of my staff is Spanish and informs me that the word macaca in Spanish means clown.
Well, I can see why that would offend somebody.
And an immigrant committee, yeah, calling somebody a clown.
That's worse than calling somebody a white N-word.
I guess it's far worse than making fun of Mahatma Gandhi and other Indians pumping gas in St. Louis.
I had forgotten that.
Mr. Snirdly reminds me that Bush 41, that had been a 92 campaign, right?
Called Clinton Gore a couple of bozos and the drive-by media went.
You can't call people clowns, I guess.
Bozos, macacca, what have you.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
This is sort of surprising from Grinnell, Iowa.
Senator John McCain said yesterday that there is lingering resentment among some Republicans because of his primary fight in 2000 with George W. Bush.
Those feelings may complicate his decision whether to seek the presidential nomination for 2008, said McCain of the media in Arizona.
If I run, he said, and we'll decide that early next year, there's a lot of work to do, McCain said as he began a two-day visit to Iowa, which traditionally holds leadoff cauckey in January of presidential election years.
Here in Iowa, there are parts of the party where there's still lingering resentment over the bitterness of the 2000 race.
In 2000, McCain skipped the Hawkeye caucus and opened his campaign with the New Hampshire primary.
He beat Bush there, but the Texas governor overtook him in later primaries in South Carolina.
It was a very feverish battleground.
He hasn't decided yet.
It may not run because of this.
This is the first I've heard of this.
May not run.
Let's review, shall we, what the resentment is over.
Senator McCain describes this resentment, this lingering resentment.
Some of the resentment is due to Senator McCain's attacks on the religious right.
There are a lot of people that resent Senator McCain's authorship and sponsorship of the Campaign Finance Reform Act limiting free speech.
There are people with lingering resentment over Senator McCain's attacks on tax cuts.
There are some people with lingering resentment over Senator McCain's role in the gang of 14 regarding judicial nominations.
And there's some suspicion and resentment aimed at Senator McCain over his coziness with the drive-by media.
So if we're going to talk about resentments out there, bitterness or what have you, best to get it on the table.
Kittery Mayne and Dennis, you're up next on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I think Senator Allen is, I think he's got himself in big trouble here because a more blatant ethnic slur I don't think I've heard in a long time.
Right out in public at a campaign, he singles out an individual of ethnic descent and uses a word mukaka, an American.
He almost changed languages to take a shot at this guy, and I think he deserves whatever he gets.
He just opens himself up for all sorts of shots from liberals.
Well, are you a liberal?
No, I'm a conservative Republican.
Well, then he's opened himself up to shots from you, too.
And conservatives as well, as of this point, at least one.
I don't know.
Well, I met another when I was up there.
Who uses the word mukaka?
I am not.
What is that word?
I am not going to defend Senator Allen on this.
I never heard of the word before.
Oh, you got to go in your way to the bottom.
But I'm going to tell you something.
I have two thoughts on this.
There is no sense of proportion here, which is what I attempted to illustrate here with sound bites of outrageous, insensitive comments made by Democrats, and they do it all the time, and they get away with it.
In fact, Senator Biden, after that slur against Indian people, he went on some television, I guess it was MSNBC, and the Infobabe said, Senator, could you explain this?
And he mouthed whatever his explanation was, and she smiled and she batted those eyelashes and she said, Thank you for straightening this out.
And it was over with.
It was done.
No big deal.
The second point I want to make is that I think, as one who's in the free speech business, I think this society is so wound up tight about words and things that it's gone to the point of being ridiculous.
And especially when the criticism is so out of proportion, it's, you know, it's just, you know, let people say what they say and let the chips fall as they may and so forth.
But what this is doing far more than that.
This is an attempt to totally destroy somebody over this.
And as somebody who utters words 15 hours a week, I'm especially sensitive to this.
And the same thing has been tried against me over the course of the now 18 plus years that I have been doing this.
I think we're way too sensitive, way too wound up over a whole bunch of things that really don't matter.
For example, this is something that just really blew me away.
I'm watching CNN.
We played these soundbites for you.
I don't have time to get them now.
Don't worry, Cookie.
I can handle this without soundbites.
We play the soundbite, a couple soundbites between Anderson Cooper of CNN and some guy for the New Yorker.
And they're talking about Hassan Nasrallah, the head honcho of the Hezbos.
And they are just marveling at his open anti-Semitism.
They're talking about how interesting it is.
Now, this is a terrorist.
This is a man who has killed his own people by strapping bombs on them and sending them out to blow up Israelis.
This is a man who is a known, proud, admitted terrorist.
And they're marveling at his anti-Semitism.
And they're openly curious about why he's so upfront about it.
Because obviously it makes it much tougher to support him if he's so anti-Semitic.
At the same time, Mel Gibson was being excoriated, buried, wiped out for a drunken spiel after being stopped by a cop, asking a cop, are you a Jew?
The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.
Shortly after that, a guy goes into a Jewish center in Seattle and blows people away, and nobody wants to call it what it is, and nobody had any, oh, he recently converted to Christianity.
I don't think we should jump to conclusions on this.
So of these three instances, who do we destroy?
Or who do we try to destroy?
Nel Gibson for words uttered when he was inebriated.
Meanwhile, a terrorist is pondered curiously about his anti-Semitism and real acts of anti-Semitism are not called that.
I think we're way too hung up on words here and we don't get serious enough about actions that are truly damaging, dangerous, and detrimental.
Back in a sec.
It's true.
Snurgly, with an observation, which is about time, his official program observer says, you know, that last call, we never hear libs attack libs and never criticize libs when they go over the line.
Our side always attacks our side when they think they go over the line.
Let's not forget these two things either.
How about Chris Matthews?
Back during the election, Ned Lament and Lieberman described Lieberman as a schmaltzy ethnic guy, an uncle to noose.
Well, hells Bells, we all know what that means.
It's just a way of calling him an odd-looking Jewish guy.
Chris Matthews, member of the drive-by media, smallty ethnic guy, Uncle Tanous.
And then the Huffington Post, some babe that really loved Lament, hated Lieberman, put a picture of Clinton and Lieberman up there with Lieberman and Blackface.
And then, and we didn't hear any, yeah, we photoshopped Lieberman and Blackface, big, big white eyes and so forth.
We never hear any condemnation of that in the drive-by media, but yet here we go with George Allen now singled out for two days in a row by the Washington Post.
And that's right, Clinton.
Bill Clinton was up there in Martha's vineyard and was wearing an Afro wig at some party or something, and the pictures were suppressed because he was on vacation.
He's on vacation.
Clinton wearing an Afro wig.
So there is clearly a double standard out there, ladies and gentlemen, and it's way, way out of proportion.
Now, try this.
A Democrat political ad under fire from Hispanics who say it unfairly compares Latino immigrants to terrorists.
Well, at least didn't call them macacas.
A Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sponsored a 35-second ad on its website.
This is the thing run by Chuck Schumer, that shows footage of two people scaling a border fence mixed with images of Osama bin Laden and North Korea President Kim Jong-il.
Pedro Sevas, the chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, said in a statement Tuesday that the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee should remove the ad because it vilifies illegal Hispanic immigrants and is appalling.
Houston City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, sent a letter to Chuck Schumer asking the ad be pulled.
She said it could alienate Latino voters.
To liken Latino immigrants to bazooka-toting terrorists not only undermines the positive relationship our party has with this community, but also lowers us to a despicable level as breeders of unfounded fear and hatred.
The DH, the DSCC, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Phil Singer, dismissed the group's criticism as a Republican group trying to gloss over the White House's abysmal record on security.
So the Democrats to the Hispanics, screw you.
We're not changing our ad.
We like it, even though the city councilwoman from Houston is not a Republican and is Hispanic herself.
Robert J. Samuelson today, column in the Washington Post, is always one of my favorite columnists on economics.
This is an age of glaring contradictions, he begins.
It's hard to ignore the great disconnect between the rise of terrorism and the relentless advance of the world economy.
After September 11th, 2001, the fear was that terrorism and its nasty side effects might cripple economic growth and frustrate the spread of globalization.
It hasn't happened, not yet anyway.
Since 2001, the world economy has expanded more than 20%.
For the U.S., the gain's almost 15%.
For developing countries, more than 30%.
World trade, exports and imports, has risen by more than 30%.
One obvious explanation is that in the U.S., there's been no second or third September 11th.
Beyond that, economic resilience partly reflects human nature.
People and businesses try to get back to normal.
It's what they know best.
Likewise, skillful crisis management after September 11th blunted terrorism's long-term effect on economic confidence.
The result is that so far, terrorism has been an economic blank.
It is an interesting proposition.
Let me go back here to the opening paragraph.
It's hard to ignore the great disconnect between the rise of terrorism and the relentless advance of the world economy.
Well, that's the only thing Mr. Samuelson writes that I disagree with.
Democrats do this every day.
It's not hard for them to ignore it.
They have been ignoring a robust economy ever since the economy was robust.
And when the economy is robust, they claim it isn't.
And when it isn't robust, if they're in charge, they blame Republicans.
Here's Larry, St. Petersburg, Florida, on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor and a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
As an American Jew, I recall the hypocrisy regarding the Senator Allen issue that Slick Willie's religious advisor and former Democratic presidential candidate, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and his Jaime comment.
Oh, yeah, Jaime Town, yes.
Yes.
What was that?
Was that an anti-Semitic comment or what?
Yes, it was.
But the Reverend Jackson is permitted because as a black, he is powerless.
And I'm serious.
The way liberals explain this is that blacks can't be racist because they have no power to enforce their racism.
They can't be bigots because they have no power to be bigots.
So they're exempt.
I see.
But he is an exempt Democrat.
He's exempt as a Democrat, yes.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Well, that makes sense to me.
I mean, when he said that, he wasn't a Democrat.
He was a black leader suffering duress and the pressures of slavery and leading his people out of bondage.
Well, I guess that's equal to a clown.
You know, people think I'm joking about this with these answers.
I'm not trying to be funny.
That is how it was justified.
Plus, the Democrats aren't going to criticize Jesse Jackson.
The newspapers aren't going to criticize Jesse Jackson in any way, shape, manner, or form.
It isn't going to happen.
By the way, your call reminds me of something that I have here in the stack about Ned Lament and Al Sharpton.
Sharpton's warning him not to the pictures of election night with Sharpton and the Reverend Dax standing side by side next to Ned Lament.
Jackson, or Sharpton rather, is warning Lament not to stop using that picture.
Let's see.
I've got to find this here.
Here it is.
The Reverend Sharpton, who drew notice for appearing on television behind Mr. Lament during Lament's primary victory speech, said yesterday he spoke to Lament by phone.
I told Lament, don't listen to the right wing saying you can't win with Sharpton and Jesse Jackson by your side because you already did win with Sharpton and Jackson with you.
He can't let the right wing pressure him in subtracting supporters from his side.
He has to focus on addition.
Lieberman Aides said that Mr. Lament's association with Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Jackson, both of whom campaigned vigorously for Mr. Lament, was a political albatross that helped explain why Mr. Lieberman believed he could win a majority of voters.
So I guess Reverend Sharpton's concerned about being photoshopped out of the pictures.
Alex in Stanton, Virginia, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Great to be with you.
Fifth time on the air, ditto's rush.
Thank you, sir.
I want to go back to the global warming thing because you said something that was spot on, that scientists are constantly amazed at the new discoveries they're making, which shows just how little they know.
And I wanted to alert you to something that's coming out in one of the top journals next month, Geophysical Research Letters.
It's a report by three scientists, Lyman, Willis, and Johnson, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jet Propulsion Lab, and University of Hawaii.
And the short story is: over 20% of the heat in the oceans that built up over the last 50 years just went poof out into space between 2003 and 2005.
And they had no idea this was going to happen.
Wait, The oceans have lost 20% of their heat since when?
Between 2003 and 2005.
In two years, 20% of the heat built up over 50 years just went poof out into space.
Well, no.
If this was the other way around, it would already be front page New York Times News.
But because it undercuts the whole, we're messing with the climate system and we know how it all works, and they're not talking about it.
No, it doesn't.
It doesn't explain that at all.
I can figure this out, and I'm not a scientist.
The heat in the ocean just didn't go someplace.
I mean, it may not be in the ocean, but it's clearly in the air, and the air is hotter.
And they can find a way to twist it into global warming and cause it damage to the ocean.
Global warming, dash it down.
What effect will this have on the poor fish?
And so forth.
That is interesting.
Do they know why?
Yeah, it's real complex.
And I'm not a climate physicist, but they've got a mechanism whereby the upper atmosphere clouds are altered, which means more of the heat can radiate out into space.
And so there's apparently some sort of planetary mechanism to occasionally sweat off a bunch of the heat that's built up.
And none of that's in the climate models that say we're the problem and we're the cause.
And it just exactly reinforces your point.
They're constantly amazed, and we should all remind ourselves they don't know diddly squat when it comes to this climate.
And by the way, that's not a criticism.
When I say they don't know diddly squat, I think it's arrogant for anybody in the scientific community to say they do know everything.
Science ought to be about being stunned.
It ought to be about discovery.
It ought not be about political agenda leading belief systems to be etched in stone.
And I'm not even a scientist, and I can figure that out.
It's pretty brilliant what I just said.
Science ought, well, it is dawn.
You can sit there and laugh all day if you want, but science ought to be about being stunned.
It ought to be about discovery and explanation.
But it's not in some places.
It's become purely political.
And beliefs become etched in stone.
And any contravailing evidence, contravening evidence of an etched in stone scientific belief now causes panic rather than excitement and discovery.
Like this Pluto business.
You know, what's that going to do to astrology now?
There's more going on out there than we can possibly know.
Try this.
I found this cool website the other day called scienceagogo.com.
And they have this story on there.
An improved method of measuring Antarctic snowfall has revealed that previous records showing an increase in precipitation are not accurate, even over a half century.
In the August 10th edition of Science magazine, researchers explained that their analysis of ice cores and snow pits revealed that precipitation levels in the Antarctic have in fact remained steady.
The upshot of the study is that models assessing climate change may need to be revised as they can no longer be deemed accurate.
Proving again that they really don't know much about anything when it comes to climate, climate change, and so forth.
To overturn the world economy based on the musings of a few idiot leftist scientists is just stupid, and that's what global warming is actually all about.
So will they change the models on global warming?
Well, more study will be required.
This is just evidence that something's going on that needs to be spun in such a way as to prove global warming.
At any rate, I'm a little long here.
We've got to go back in just a second.
And I'm reminded that the Reverend Sharpton himself has committed several verbal gaffes, referring to an owner of a store in Harlem as a Jew interloper.
You remember that?
He was talking about the owner of Freddie's fashion mart up there in Harlem.
Some quick news headlines from Zimbabwe.
President Robert Mugabe admitted yesterday that Zimbabweans were begging for food because of his mass seizure of white-owned farms.
Mugabe essentially admits that his farm policy has failed.
Now, will the Democrats here admit that their great society bombed out too?
Mugabe can do it.
Anybody can do it.
This is going to feed Kooksville like few things ever have.
The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind comment.
According to a NASA spokesman on Monday, Armstrong's famous moonwalk seen by millions is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching.
In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing.
Those images are of lower quality.
I got copies of the TV broadcasts and all that, but the originals they don't have.
And those copies are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes.
Hmm.
Many of you know the moonwalk never happened.
Many of you know nobody ever landed on the moon.
This proves it.
Headline, L.A. Times, factory shift manufacturers struggle to fill highly paid jobs.
I'm surprised by this headline because I thought we didn't make anything anymore.
Here's Pam in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
I find it unbelievable that of all the good that we're doing in Iraq, you never see it on TV and the media, the front page, that Hezbollah goes in to rebuild southern Lebanon, and it's all over the news.
Can somebody please explain that to me?
It's the fact.
Come on.
Come on, Pam.
Do you actually need it to be explained to me?
No, I just wanted to bring it to people's attention.
I mean, the leftist wants us to lose.
If they knew all the good we were doing over there, if the American people would totally, it would be just amazing how everybody would be behind the war in Iraq.
That's a great, it's a great point.
The Hezbollahs have rebuilt Lebanon already.
And we're destroying Iraq.
Let me go up to Evansville, Indiana.
This is Stephanie.
I have about 45 seconds, but I know I can squeeze you in.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I'm just listening to you talk about the global warming issue and how things with global warming are not really what they seem, and scientists are conflicted with all this information.
I just think it's a big conspiracy that basically they're going to tell us everything is so horrible while there's a Republican administration.
And then when the Democrats get in office, all of a sudden, everything's going to be, oh, well, we found out that it really wasn't as bad as we thought it was.
And it's all because we signed the Kyoto Treaty.
I can understand why you might think that if the globe starts cooling, Democrats will take credit for their exhaustive work on global warming.
But I don't think they can afford to let go of the issue.
Because the issue is about big government, worldwide, big government, high taxes, rolling back lifestyles.
It's about the spread of liberalism back in just a second.
Well, the fastest three hours in media are complete, ladies and gentlemen.
Everything else you hear today will be redundant.
We'll be back, do it all over again tomorrow.
And we'll look forward to it.
Cheerio and Sayonara.
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