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Aug. 17, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just looking for one thing here to make sure I got it all right.
And greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
On a roll today, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, setting the standard for broadcast media and appearing before the most knowledgeable audience in all of broadcast media, that according to the Pew Center for the people in the press, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
One more thing before we get to some domestic issues here.
And I'm going to post this link at rushlimbaud.com.
Do you remember not long ago, ladies and gentlemen, spoke to you about a DVD that I had seen of a movie called Obsession about the worldwide movement of militant Islam and the Islamo-fascists and the attempt they're making to wipe out those who disagree with them?
Part of the movie Obsession details the long-ago relationship between militant Islamists and Adolf Hitler.
And there is a website that documents it.
It's much too long to read to you here, but it's entitled The Arab-Muslim-Nazi Connection.
And the phone call we got from Gaird in my adopted hometown of Sacramento giving us a little history lesson on Germany and the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, reminded me of this.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, actually is pictured here reviewing Bosnian Muslim troops, a unit of the Sabre division of the Waffen-SS, which this man personally recruited for Hitler.
The Arab world cheered the rise of Hitler.
Of course, they shared common ground.
They hate Jews, and they wanted to wipe them out.
And it is apparent from watching the movie Obsession and from it's not out yet.
They are so, by the way, their website, they are selling a 60-minute preview DVD of the movie as they seek distribution of that movie.
We'll link to that too, also this website.
But you will see that the tactics being employed by militant Islamists today parallel those of Adolf Hitler, and this is a very informative piece.
So, there is that.
The Lieberman and Ned Lament race.
Ned Lament, whose anti-war campaign rattled the political landscape by toppling Senator Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary, is gaining some support among voters, but Lieberman still has an edge, according to the Quinnipiac University poll, 49 to 38%.
That's an 11-point lead.
Among likely voters, Lieberman was supported 53 to 41.
Yet the story is written from the standpoint of Lament gaining ground.
I mean, he's the freaking winner of the primary, and he's down 12.
And the drive-by media reports that he's gaining ground.
Get this.
A group of Senate Democrats growing increasingly angry about Lieberman's campaign tactics.
This, according to the Hill newspaper, if he continues to alienate his colleagues, Mr. Lieberman could be stripped of his seniority within the Democratic caucus should he defeat Ned Lament in the general election, some senior Democratic aides have told Alexander Bolton, the reporter for The Hill.
In recent days, Lieberman has rankled Democrats in the Senate by suggesting that those who support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq by a certain date are bolstering terrorists.
He also sparked resentment by saying last week on the Today Show that the Democratic Party was out of the political mainstream.
They are going to be out for blood.
Democrats are worried that Mr. Lieberman may be giving Republicans a golden opportunity to undermine their message.
Lieberman doesn't have to do it.
We can undermine your message without him.
We have been undermining your message without him.
He's just suddenly come to Jesus and realized what's going on here.
He is an American first, not a liberal first.
That much we can say about Joe Lieberman.
Liberals are liberals first.
Senior Democratic aide who has discussed the subject with colleagues said, I think there's a lot of concern.
I think the first step is that if the Lieberman thing turns into a sideshow and hurts our message and ability to take back the Senate, the White House and the National Republican Senatorial Committee manipulate him, they're going to be a lot of unhappy people in their caucus.
There aren't any happy people in your caucus now.
Somebody show me a happy Democrat.
Somebody show me a happy liberal that's out there laughing and smiling and have a good time unless they're at some club at 2 o'clock in the morning with 15 bottles of vodka in front of them.
Somebody show me a liberal having a great time out there today.
Somebody show me a liberal happy.
I defy anybody to produce one.
They're just not.
Let's go to the audio tape.
Ned Lament, Kudlow and Company last night, CNBC.
Kudlow says, how'll you vote?
How will you vote?
We'll have issues coming up, particularly on NSA and telephone company data mining and patterns of telephone calls.
How do you expect to vote?
Will you permit that kind of data mining?
I think we should be very careful on these issues and make sure that whatever we do, we do with the necessary approvals, a court approval.
I like that process in the United States of America.
We have checks and balances.
So I'll err on, I think, on the side of civil liberties there.
All right.
So Ned Lament comes out firmly in favor of the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights, essentially, last night on television.
Next question.
You're running against Lieberman, obviously a Jewish senator, Jewish leader.
Many Jewish leaders across the country, particularly in this time, have great difficulty with Israel fighting Hezbollah in the Middle East.
I mean, would you weed Sharpton out of the campaign given his background of anti-Semitism?
I think that's unfair.
And you ought to hear his message.
When he goes to the pulpit of the church, he's telling people, you've got to go to school.
You've got to graduate from school.
You've got to pull yourself up from your bootstraps.
This is an entrepreneurial economy, and you can do it too.
So it's a great message there.
Well, we don't ever hear that from the Reverend Sharpton.
He may be saying in churches like the Reverend Zach has on occasion.
But Reverend Sharpton's out there talking about the owner of Freddie's fashion mart in Harlem as a Jewish interloper.
You know, and Sharpton has warned Lament, you better not take me out of that picture.
You better not Photoshop me or you'll have hell to pay.
I mean, he didn't say it in that many words, but basically he sent out a warning to lament, hey, don't scrub me and Jeff D. Jackson out of the picture here.
We were there with you.
Don't cast us aside.
Next question.
Kudlow says, how high would you take the dividend tax rate for individual investors and the capital gains tax rate?
Well, I'll tell you, I'm sort of sympathetic to the Reagan plan back in 88, where he said, look, we're not going to dramatically treat different types of income different ways.
We'll try and reduce rates and tax all different types of income the same.
So you may remember it was President Reagan who signed the bill that had a capital gains going up, income going down, so he didn't differentiate amongst these different types of income.
I'm not positive.
I want the federal government picking and choosing which type of income stream should be favored.
I'd like us to stay more neutral there.
Says he doesn't like Reagan, except he's going to raise your taxes.
What does he not get about the U.S. tax code as it exists today?
Treat different income streams a different way.
The U.S. tax code is changed regularly by people who want to regulate behavior.
The mortgage interest is simply to deduction simply to boost a segment of the economy.
This happens.
We're dealing with a real novice here.
I mean, a 100% novice.
And plus, for this guy to go out and start praising Ronald Reagan, you don't do that in the Democratic Party and live to tell about it politically.
You just don't do it.
Back in a minute, folks.
More coming up.
Stay with us.
We have one more Ned Lament bite.
The Libs understand is what they're dealing with here.
They have to coach him.
In his answers, Chris Matthews talking to Lament last night on his show Hardball.
Matthews says, well, why did Bill Clinton sign the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998?
I don't think he was talking about an invasion.
I think at that point he was talking about ways that we might be able to aid some groups within Iraq, hopefully to destabilize.
Correct answer, Mr. Lamont, because the Iraq Liberation Act said nothing about any military action by us against Iraq.
Of course it didn't because Clinton wasn't serious about anything, you boob.
Clinton wasn't serious about diddele squat, the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.
Remember what was going on there?
Her name was Lewinsky.
It was called impeachment.
And let's distract attention.
So let's act tough on military.
And let's get tough with Saddam Hussein and let's start talking about weapons of mass destruction, which Clinton was doing.
And all the Democrats agreed it was a problem.
Oh, are we going to do anything about it?
Hell no.
Not on your life.
We're going to do it.
Yeah, we're going to destabilize Iraq, just like we're going to destabilize Iran, right?
How are we going to do it?
Well, we're going to aid some groups in it.
How are we going to do that?
Mike in St. Leon, Indiana, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Rush, how are you?
Megadittos from southern Indiana.
Thank you.
Rush, just listening to Carter and Clinton and the liberals and the French wing of the Democratic Party, it sounds like they're advocating the destruction of the Israel country, and that would make everything better in the Middle East.
And it's my opinion that if Israel was wiped off and it was made a Palestinian state, the Middle East would be nothing but one huge Muslim war.
Israel is a, believe it or not, is a stabilizing factor in the Middle East because these Arabs who are all actually the enemies of each other, they have a common enemy in Israel.
Yeah, you focus their hate.
Yes, and if Israel is suddenly taken out, they don't have a common enemy, and then you've got the Arabs fighting each other.
Let me just tell you something.
Israel is not going to be taken out.
And Israel is not going to go away, and the Jewish people are not going to pack up and move off somewhere else.
Israel, if they want to, could wipe Damascus off the face of the earth, and they could wipe Beirut off the face of the earth.
And if they are provoked enough, they will do it.
It's just like the same thing is going to happen to us.
I'm firmly convinced of the following, ladies and gentlemen.
9-11 wasn't enough.
It wasn't near enough.
We've got Doomkoffs and dunces like Jimmy Carter and half a Democratic Party trying to pretend it never even happened, that it's not a relevant event in our current foreign policy.
Didn't happen whatsoever.
We will not show the pictures of 9-11 on television.
No, no, no, no.
It's still too soon.
Too painful.
We can't do that.
We need to see these pictures every day, ladies and gentlemen.
We need to see what happened.
We need to be constantly reminded of, hell, there have been two movies about it.
No, no, it's too soon.
It's too soon.
The pain and suffering is too soon.
All right, so we're not ready yet.
And the Israelis weren't ready this time.
But what's going to happen, we're going to get hit big at some point.
I do not know when, but we're going to get hit big with these idiot federal judges trying to become commanders-in-chief.
This Carter-appointed civil rights activist ACLU partner, Julia Diggs, is that her name?
What's her family?
Julie Taylor Diggs, some of you, I can't remember the first name, did the whole thing in the first hour on her anyway, found the NSA spy program unconstitutional today, ladies and gentlemen.
This is a woman who also attempted to steal the Michigan law school affirmative rights case from the judge to whom it had been assigned because she suspected he had some problems with affirmative action, a Carter appointee.
So we've got the Democratic Party, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party coming up with the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights, trying to stop any effort on our part to learn when a next attack might be.
We can't do anything with prisoners at Club Gitmore, Abu Ghrab.
We're beating ourselves up.
The United States is the enemy.
The United States is a problem.
They don't, but I don't, can't explain their thinking other than Bush hatred.
We're going to get hit big.
We're going to get hit big.
I have no idea when, but when we get hit big again, enough people in this country are going to get sufficiently angry that something will be Anna Diggs Taylor.
Anna Diggs Taylor is the judge.
Thank you, Mr. Sternley.
Way to observe in their official program observer.
And the same, the Israelis here, the Israelis didn't fight this thing to win it.
They botched this totally, and they're run by liberals these days.
Prime Minister Olmert in office two or three months is a hand-wringing liberal.
And they were learning they had all kinds of problems.
The reservists, when they were called up, went to the supply depots where they're picking up ammo and weapons and food.
They were empty.
The housing units for these places were just empty.
The items had been stolen.
I'm telling you, when you have liberals in charge of things, you are in deep doo-doo, including in Israel.
So we're in the middle of a war here, as are the Israelis.
Ralph Peters had a good characterization of it today.
He said, the Israelis versus the Hezbollahs are just round one.
And the Israelis are back in the corner now, and they're bloodied, and they don't quite know what hit them.
And the Hezbollahs are in their corner cheering as though the fight's over.
And they're the ones with the confidence and the momentum.
But this is by no means anywhere near over, and we will get hit again.
And we're going to get hit again because liberals in this country are weakening our ability to use intelligence to find out when and how and why.
Even on the face, in the aftermath of thwarting this attempt in London to blow up 10 airliners, this idiotic federal judge in Michigan today finds the NSA spy program, which was part and parcel of this effort, by the way, unconstitutional.
Mark in Houston, thank you for calling and welcome to the EIB network.
What an honor, Mr. Limbaugh.
Mega Siddos from Houston, Texas.
Thank you, sir.
On your fire and passion on the Trader Carter, it's fantastically refreshing.
You have seemed a tad flat to me recently.
That's in my humble, unlearned opinion, of course, not being a broadcast professional like yourself.
Yes.
But the fire today is the Rush Limbaugh that I have come to love over these years.
My call, though, is to fire up our base because we have the power and the control right now, not after November.
Why are we going to win?
That is an excellent point.
And I mentioned this in the brilliant monologues of the first two hours.
I am not going to allow...
Well, kind of...
I am not going to sit idly by and throw the House elections up for grabs.
Getting our people motivated to vote and getting them out there, regardless what they think and disagree with this administration has done.
If you want two years of tearing this country apart with an impeachment over the attempt to defend this country from foreign attack, then let the Democrats win the House of Representatives.
That to me is just unacceptable.
We must stay fired up, but we also have to demand more of our current administration.
We have to understand that right now we have two Border Patrol agents convicted in the great state of Texas, for God's sakes, for shooting a drug smuggler after they've been assaulted and attacked, helped by our own Homeland Security Department to go find the drug smuggler in Mexico and bring him back to testimony against him.
You think that's bad?
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
An announcement that the U.S. Marine, this is from our good buddies at WorldNetDaily.com, an announcement that the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, Virginia has refurbished a building to be used as a prayer room or mosque for Muslim soldiers and civilians on base is a bad signal, one critic has concluded.
The Marines announced earlier this summer that one of the buildings on the base had been repainted so that Muslims would have a place to pray and hold religious services.
Now, here's the sad irony.
Stars and Stripes magazine estimates there are 426 Muslims in the Marine Corps, a maximum of 24 at Quatico.
We are building them a mosque.
I know.
May I have one last moment?
We have Border Patrol protecting U.S. unarmed U.S. troops who are supposed to be guarding the border to free up Border Patrol agents.
We have TSA that's still searching Grandma and Little Johnny at the airport instead of doing what needs to be done.
But remember, Mr. Limbaugh, all of this stuff is happening under the president that I've voted for two times now.
I want to demand more from this president.
I want to see the same fireplace.
Look, I got to take a break.
I understand what you're saying.
I'm not going to make excuses, but I'm going to try to explain that and your perception that I have appeared a tad flat.
Back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Well, this is going to make a lot of people mad.
Mel Gibson has reached a plea deal out in California.
Three years of probation on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence.
He has to attend AA alcohol abuse programs five times a week at first, then three times a week, a $1,200 fine plus $100 restitution.
The anger will be that he's not been found guilty of anti-Semitism and sent to jail for it or what have you.
But nevertheless, that's the latest news on Mel Gibson.
Now, as to my being flat recently, I stringently reject the notion.
Ladies and gentlemen, maybe the past couple days, I flew out to Hawaii.
I was up 27 hours the first day out there, and the last seven hours were playing golf.
So I'm up for 20 hours and then hit the golf course.
And it was party time out there.
We play golf every day, come home, get massages, all four of us, hour and a half each consecutively.
So, yeah, we took turns, two massage babes at once.
It was fabulous.
But we're eating dinner at 11 o'clock every night and getting up and playing golf.
So I got on a plane and I come back, and I got back here on noon Monday and I slept a little bit of the way back.
I just jet lagged, I guess, but I wasn't flat, just a little tired.
But more than that, I think it's only fair that you understand the attitude that I bring with myself into this program every day.
I'm trying to enjoy life.
I don't want to be angry all the time.
And I'm not firing brimstone.
I'm not going to sit here and pound the table every damn day for three hours straight.
I don't have the emotional reservoir to do it.
And I don't want to be angry.
And I don't want to be in the, what was the term a couple of weeks ago, this palpable misery or fatigue or anger.
I don't play those games.
When there's a recession, I don't participate.
When there's anger, that's not my natural state of mind.
So I'm not going to come in here each and every day and be phony about it and act mad when I'm not mad.
I try to have fun in here as often as I can.
And I try to make my points with humor.
But last night, and everybody has a tipping point, last night, I see this Jimmy Carter interview in Derspiegel, and then I see this idiotic, drunken, womanizing labor hack, the deputy prime minister of Great Britain, this guy Prescott, saying he's got one word for Bush and the Bush administration.
That's crap.
And it just finally, I've been marveling at the Democrats' rage and anger, and I haven't cared why they're mad.
But last night, it just sort of bubbled over.
I was emailing and I aming with people one o'clock this morning about that.
I was just fit to be tied last night.
When I got up today, I wasn't angry at all.
And when I went to bed, I said, all right, I know what the show is tomorrow.
I already know what it's going to be.
I know what I'm going to lead off with, and I'm going to be ticked.
When I got up and I wasn't mad, even though my house sprung a leak in the rain yesterday, I still wasn't mad.
Small little leak, but still a distraction.
But I got here, I started reading through this stuff this morning, and I got all upset and angry again.
And I just, I just, you know, let it out.
But I don't want to do that every day.
Now, you might say that there's a difference in passion level.
I mean, I argue with that if you define passion as anger or frustration.
We all feel it.
We're all livid over so many things that are going on that seem inexplicable to us.
But I'll tell you, the thing that just frosts me, I've had it with this Bush hatred.
I have had it with people who have no ideas of their own, who have no solutions, no suggestions, no plans.
I just don't suffer fools well.
And the whole left wing is nothing but a pack of mad dog wolves that are just, they're fools.
And they've become dangerous.
They've always been dangerous to a certain degree, but they're truly dangerous now.
So that's the explanation for the rants, if you want to call them that today.
story about taxpayers are going to build a mosque at Quantico, the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, for 24 Muslims who are in the Marine Corps there.
I love the Marines.
And I'm on the board of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation to raise money for scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action.
But I mean, enough is enough here.
Is there no concern what might be going on in these mosques at some point?
But I want you to be assured, while we're going to build a mosque, I want you to be confident, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't want you to worry about it.
There will be no Ten Commandments displayed anywhere near the Quantico base, the best of my knowledge.
That would be over the top.
And of course, we can't let the Boy Scouts meet on Quantico property either because they have as part of their mission the advancement of Judeo-Christian values.
We can't offend people by having the Boy Scouts on the Quantico base.
Well, we're going to build a mosque.
Then you have the guy from Houston who's talking about the Border Patrol agents and so forth and how so little of this makes any sense and it's all happening under the Bush administration.
Now, we've talked about immigration on this program.
We know full well where this administration stands on immigration.
We know where the Democrats stand on it.
It doesn't make any sense to us.
But you'll note the bill didn't go anywhere that everybody wanted.
The Senate bill, the McCain-Kennedy bill, whatever it was, Hegel-Kaine, whatever, it didn't go anywhere.
There's no bill.
And everybody was running around talking about, oh, this is a death knell for the Republicans.
Why?
There has to be a bill.
We have to get a bill.
If we don't get a bill, the president looks impotent.
We don't do bad bills.
We don't stand around idly and let bad bills sail through that are only going to compound the problem.
This country should not adopt as policy that we need a permanent, underpaid, low-wage, undereducated working class.
If that were the route to economic security and prosperity, Mexico would be leading the world.
But there are people that want a permanent, undereducated, underpaid working class in this country for low wages, and we know who they are.
And there are people that want these same people in the country so they can get them as voters two or three times every election.
And we know who they are.
It didn't fly.
The president is not a conservative, ladies and gentlemen.
He is conservative on some things, but he's not a conservative.
And he is not leading a conservative movement.
He is not an ideologue.
He's a Republican.
He's a conservative on lots of things.
But he's not a Ronald Reagan or a Newt Gingrich in the sense that every speech they make advances ideological ideas and it educates and informs.
It's not who he is.
And this is not a criticism of President Bush.
It's just, I'm just trying to tell you who he is and the way he's going about governing his administration.
He's got problems.
Some of them I think are of his own making.
There's a shadow government in the CIA and the State Department, the Pentagon, Clinton holdovers that have been doing their best to undermine his foreign policy.
You might say, well, why are they still there?
Well, that's a good question.
I think it goes back to the new tone.
I think it goes back to the first days of the administration.
The administration felt that the country was too royaled during the Clinton administration, what with impeachment?
And the Republicans typically pulled a Jimmy Carter.
They wanted to show me we'd get along.
We can show the liberals that, hey, you know, we can work together in this country.
We can make things happen.
We can do really good things.
Liberals are like the Ayatollah looking at Jimmy Carter.
What a bunch of saps.
What a bunch of saps.
And so Bush lets Ted Kennedy up to write the education bill and has this, I guess, is a Kevin Costner movie on the Bay of Pigs or whatever it was.
Invite the Kennedy family up there to the White House theater with popcorn and so forth.
Six days in May, right?
And you see what it got him.
Noble attempt, worth the try.
But once it doesn't work, realize it doesn't work.
But, you know, President Bush is who he is.
He's a damn sight better than what we'd be getting with anybody else, particularly on the Democrat side out there.
So, you know, you do the best with what you have.
In this climate, I just want to tell all of you one more time here.
I am not going to in any way undermine this presidency so as to help facilitate a Democrat victory in the House of Representatives in November.
I don't care what the issues are.
I am not going to see to it that that happens.
I am not going to simply, to show you that I can be fair or whatever, start ripping Bush just for the sake of it.
Because I have never come to this program and said, okay, what does my audience want to hear today?
And then say it.
Because it's impossible to figure out what 20 million of you want to hear.
I'd go nuts trying to figure it out.
And I'd go nuts trying to satisfy everybody if that's the way I did it.
And I have never done it, and I'm not going to do it.
And I'm not going to criticize Bush just to show I'm not a lapdog of the White House, which I'm not anyway.
There's a story, an AP story.
I think I threw it away.
I wouldn't even comment on it.
There's an AP story about White House memos that go out called Setting the Record Straight.
And I'm through, and there's a quote of Kathleen Hole Jameson in this movie saying that the things I say on this program about Democrats and issues parallel these memos.
And I read this last night.
I don't get these memos.
I have never seen one of these memos.
I have no clue what a setting the record straight memo is.
I don't know who writes them.
I don't know who's on the mailing list.
But even if I did get them, I wouldn't use them because apparently everybody else is.
And why do I want to sound like every other Tom Dick and Harry out there?
So even if I did get them, I wouldn't use them.
And yet, there are people, you're just a lapdog for the White House.
It was an absurd accusation if you listen to this program regularly.
But just keep this one thing in mind and etch it in your stone.
I am not going to sit here and beat up this administration gratuitously to the point that it harms the efforts of Republicans to hold the House because, my friends, utter disaster is on the other side of that if the Democrats do win the House of Representatives.
You have no idea.
John Conyers and Charlie Wrangell and these guys leading an impeachment effort over the attempt for the first time in 20 years of this country to defend itself against attacks by a terrorist enemy.
Impeach a president for that.
You want to talk about nothing getting done?
You want to talk about absolute total paralysis and gridlock and nothing.
You want to talk about anger?
You think you're mad now?
Sorry, there are value judgments that you have to make along the line.
And you have to assume that certain things are more important than others.
And you gain ground as you can.
You take what you can get when you can get it without unrealistic expectations, without pie-in-the-sky dreamy demands.
We don't have time for pie-in-the-sky dreams right now.
Things are a little bit too serious.
Back in just a second.
Yeah, we just read to you the deal that Mel Gibson made out in California.
Three years probation of misdemeanor charge DUI, AA for a lot of days.
You got to hear this.
This was the Boston Red Sox Detroit Tigers game Tuesday night on the New England Sports Network in Boston.
And two actors were in the booth calling the game with the announcers.
The actors are Dennis Leary and Lenny Clark.
Now, the Red Sox first baseman is Kevin Euchillis, and he is Jewish.
Listen to Dennis Leary in the Red Sox booth and what he had to say about Euchillis and Mel Gibson.
It's just a good thing that this didn't transpire on ESPN.
That's fantastic.
We got a Jewish first baseman.
I didn't know that.
Thank you.
I'm so proud to have a Jewish first.
I didn't even mind.
I hope Mel Gibson doesn't come into this box.
We'll run him out of here on the rail.
Get it!
Yeah, where's Mel Gibson now?
Where's Mel Gibson now?
Huh?
He's in rehab.
And Yukilis is next first base.
All right, Mel.
Happy brave heart.
Did you see that grab, Mel?
Huh?
I hope in rehab they're showing him a replay of that.
The Jewish first baseman makes the play, Mel Gibson.
That was the Boston Red Sox Detroit Tigers game on Tuesday night on the New England Sports Network.
Actors Dennis Leary and Lenny Clark.
Gene in Springfield, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Gosh, this is the first time I've ever called you, and I was hopping mad.
I pulled the car over to respond to this Quantico mosque.
My husband was chief of chaplains of the Air Force from 1978 to 82.
The chapels on all the bases have always been used for all the denominations, for all the religions, and it's been neutral.
And the altar has been broken down for each faith, how they want to use it.
There are other buildings or other rooms within that chapel complex that these Muslims can use, and it's perfectly good because they use it on Friday, and it won't interrupt with anything on Sunday.
And I'm serious about this, just serious.
Well, you sound serious about it.
I'd have to take your word for it.
But that's the Air Force.
I don't know how the Marines do it.
Well, they're supposed to be back.
Now they're all becoming just almost one under one umbrella, but they have their different ways of conducting their chapel programs.
But their chapel, the chapel is used.
It's a neutral area where it can be used for any, even the wickest can use it.
So I really, I mean, I listen to you.
I watch you on the cam.
And I've been a faithful, loyal follower.
But this, and I've never called, but this really outraged me.
Just seriously.
Well, it should.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff out right now.
Yesterday, this story of the funding an Islamic Center at Quantico with taxpayer dollars is the Twilight Zone continued from yesterday.
There's, you know, we're, I don't, look, I can't pretend to understand or explain why this might be happening.
I'm assuming it is out of fear.
It seems that too much here is just being done out of fear.
Or we're bending over backwards to show, hey, we don't have any problem with it.
I know that these are U.S. Marines that will draw this distinction.
Time is dwindling.
I've only got a minute.
Thanks for the call, Gene.
Let me get one more call.
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Tom, welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Semi-slavic computer building doodles, Rush.
Thank you.
My comment is you can convict Mel Gibson of anti-Semitism since Mike Wallace interviewed the president of Iran.
Suddenly become fashionable, become an anti-Semite suddenly become fashionable.
Well, yeah, but you heard these two guys on the baseball game.
I mean, there is, I was being facetious, but there are people who would like to make anti-Semitism a crime when uttered by certain people.
Now, when Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, is openly anti-Semitic, my CNN and a couple reporters will marvel at this and they'll find it very interesting and they'll even be concerned why he's so, so open-minded about it.
The guy's out there killing Jews as often as he can, and they find it interesting.
It's just liberals, Tom.
It's just liberals.
It's just always liberals.
Fastest week in media.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
They'll be revved up then, too, folks.
Guarantee you something stupid is going to happen between now and then.
And we'll be here to set it straight.
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