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Aug. 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And greetings to your thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the bountiful fruited play in the award-winning thrill-packed, ever exciting living legend.
Rush Limbaugh back on the air from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Am I happy to be here?
No.
Why am I here?
Because of a damned hurricane.
That's why I'm here, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, the state of Florida is in a state of emergency.
According to the Florida governor Jeb Bush.
Isn't it typical that the first hurricane that's going to hit landmass in Florida be named Ernesto?
Not respecting borders.
Not stoppable.
Can't do anything about it.
It's just there.
Hurricane Ernesto, it's now it passed within 30 miles of Club Gitmo, ladies and gentlemen.
I understand Club Gitmo is okay.
But I have to tell you something.
I want to preface this by again saying I am not a meteorologist.
I don't even play one here on the radio.
But having lived in Florida since 1997, I've I've uh I've grown very much interested in these storms, and I I study the available information.
And uh, you know, everybody down there does, uh, especially given the uh uh aftermath of Hurricane Wilma uh last year, which was a pretty much direct hit for us, although it came from the uh from the Gulf Coast moving east.
Now, this hurricane, thirty-six hours ago, they had it dead on for New Orleans.
Thirty-six hours, and every track that kept I mean, before that it was gonna hit further west in the Gulf.
Every time every six hours when they've come out with a new forecast and they look at their models, they've moved this thing a hundreds, hundreds of miles.
This is probably uh in my in my uh case of studying these hurricanes.
This is the most worthless the models have been in forecasting a tropical storm hurricane since I've been looking at it.
They have no clue where it's going.
They obviously have no clue where it's going.
Uh, there have been some models, by the way, that have been right about this.
They've always shown it going in the direction it's currently going, but those are not models that have usually been reliable, so they were ignored.
Uh and and now it's uh it's over Cuba, and you look at a satellite photo and you can't see any evidence of a storm of a hurricane.
There's no center of circulation uh and so forth.
Yet, despite all that, and it's because it's because of the um um recent experience with hurricanes, nobody's taking any chances, and so Governor Bush has issued a uh uh state of emergency.
So I had to fly up here and get uh and vacate, because if if it does come anywhere and it's forecast to go right by the house, right over the EIB Southern Command on uh Tuesday or Wednesday morning, I forget which.
And if you lose power, can't do the program from there.
So uh here we are, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, paying New York City and state taxes uh per day for the privilege.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen of being here.
But I don't care where I am, as long as I'm with you, and as long as we are uh enjoying each other's company uh for these three hours, then that's cool.
I want to start by congratulating uh Joel Sterno, Howard Gordon, Bob Cochran, and all the gang at Keefer Sutherland 24, uh who after five years, and well, six, I guess now, finally won some Emmys.
Kiefer for Best Actor, uh John Cassar for Best Director.
And of course, the uh the whole show for best drama last night at the Emmys.
Couldn't be happier for him, fired them off, uh fired off an email of congratulations last night.
And I didn't think I would hear back from them until uh you know late this morning because I figured after parties and so forth, but Cerno's reply came at 1.14 his time out on the left coast, uh, which means he had left parties and got because he doesn't carry a blackberry or thing with him on purpose, so he had gotten somewhere where he could use a computer.
Uh but it was just great.
It was just uh just fabulous, and and I I know a lot of you in the audience who are fans of the program uh also share in the uh in the excitement.
All right, now uh since I talk about hurricanes, I'm not gonna talk about this right now, but I cannot, even though I've had a couple of requests in the email, I cannot ignore the discussion of the Democrats' efforts to celebrate a one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Some anniversary, is it not?
You know, it was too soon, five years later, to see United 93.
No, no, too soon.
Could we we we we can't stand those images?
We can't stand alone.
No, no, no.
Don't show us that movie.
Uh uh when when any attempt to relive the day of 9 11 in television with footage of what happened was discussed.
Uh people here in New York and around the country.
No, no, no, no!
It's too soon.
I can't handle it.
Well, here with Hurricane Katrina, but we cannot wait to show the destruction.
We cannot wait to show the disaster.
We cannot wait to show the suffering.
We cannot wait to relive all of the horrors and call it an anniversary.
Now I'm sure you people understand why this is.
Recasting, replaying, re-airing the events of 9-11 would help the Bush administration.
It would it would, it would, it would uh I think we need to see them every day because of this.
It would remind everybody that we are at war.
I read a good piece over the weekend.
We really aren't at war.
The military's at war, but we aren't.
How's the war affecting your daily life?
It really isn't.
Maybe affecting your mood, you may be palpably pessimistic or whatever, but uh the country really isn't at war.
And it's it's evidence, uh evidenced by uh so many uh events that you just watch, see is the the split uh in public opinion on the war in Iraq and the war on terror and whether uh this is something that we need to seriously be engaged in.
And that's because uh 9-11 has been allowed to be uh forgotten.
It's been sort of uh shoved away in a memory drawer.
And uh, whenever we think about opening that drawer and looking at the content, whoo, no, too soon.
But here, uh the end of August, nearing the one-year anniversary of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
Well, by golly, we're gonna look at this, and we're gonna celebrate this, and we're gonna remember it for two weeks, and we're gonna show you we're gonna have speeches by the mayor, school bus naked.
How about this guy?
This guy, you know, he should not have apologized.
He's got a point.
He's got a point.
Everybody's complaining about the lack of rebuilding in New Orleans is hey, you got a hole in the ground at a World Trade Center for five years, haven't done diddly squat.
That is an excellent point.
What's the what's in common?
Liberals run both places.
Liberals run New York.
I mean, the the the the everybody knows that what should have happened.
You start rebuilding the World Trade Center as they were, one inch, one foot, two feet taller, whatever.
Just do it.
Just because, no, we had to have a memorial.
We had to have a plaque blaming America for everything that's gone wrong in this country from displacing the Native Americans to the new Survivor Show.
How about that?
Have you you know, I I have gotten the biggest laugh watching the reaction to me.
Over what I said when we were last week, last uh what was it, Thursday?
Or was it Wednesday?
Well, last Wednesday, we handicapped the thing.
We handicapped the news race survivor.
And all of the reaction is the show's sort of getting a pass, other than New York uh government officials, they want it canceled so forth, but I mean, the reactions to me.
We've got it, we've got an audio loop here of television and print reaction to me and my handicapping of the survivor.
I'm laughing at the show.
I'm trying to point out that here is a network CBS engaging in on-air racism and promoting it.
And so, as a means of illustrating the folly, I illustrate absurdity by being absurd and all these uptight people in the media, can you believe what Limbo said?
Why, this is horrible.
It's just what I said is worse than what the show is gonna be.
Uh I'm sure you had many callers upset with me about this.
I thought, folks, it was hilarious.
It was brilliant radio.
And there wasn't one group that escaped unscathed and uncommented upon.
Every group, as you people know, and I've uh let this uh out of the bag many times.
I love stereotypical humor.
So anyway, we've got that.
We've got him uh Isakoff has a new book, Isakoff, the Michael Iskoff Newsweek with David Korn of the Nation, uh telling us what we've all known for a long time, that Richard Armitage was the leaker uh of Valerie Plain's name to Robert Novak and to Bob Woodward.
The amazing thing About this is that Fitzgerald knew this.
So the Justice Department knew this early on in the investigation.
This whole investigation ended up being pointless.
And the investigation, because it turned up nothing, they didn't want to, you know, Armitage kept quiet.
For some reason nobody leaked in time for the investigation that he was the leaker in all of this.
So the investigation goes on and totally transforms itself into a process investigation where they nail scooter Libby for having conversations with media types.
And then not being able to remember it, and they're calling it perjury and obstruction of justice.
When they knew, when they knew at the Justice Department, this investigation should have been shut down the moment they found out it was Armitage.
And it was Armitage himself who called them and told them that it was.
I think I've done something pretty bad.
I think if I made a mistake here.
And yet they can how many people think that it was still Rove and Libby in the White House that did it?
I want to know, Joe Wilson.
Are you going to demand that Richard Armitage be frog marched out of the State?
Well, he's already out of the State Department.
He's gone from there.
I think he Yeah.
Is he gone?
He's gone for left with uh resigned with uh with uh with Colon Powell.
Anyway, I got to take quick time out here, folks.
Uh sit tight.
Yeah, we'll talk about Steve Cintani and his release.
This that that some things, if you if you were upset over my brilliant and humorous comments handicapping the new Survivor Show, you might not like uh what I'm gonna have to say about this.
Anyway, sit tight, we'll be back, continue right after this on the EIB network.
I know school bus Nagan ended up apologizing for the uh for the comment uh that he made hey, what about New York City got a hole on the ground up there after five years.
He claimed that uh CBS took him out of context when he went on NBC first before the 60 Minutes interview uh aired uh so forth.
That's just that's that's the pattern.
You say something you mean and it bothers somebody, then you apologize for it.
Which, of course, I don't do.
If I say something I mean, I stand by it.
Uh but such is the pressure of an elected official or trying to get votes and uh it's political correctness on parade.
Listen to the details of this Richard Armitage story, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Top State Department official Richard Armitage disclosed the identity of a CIA officer, Valerie Plain, to at least two prominent reporters and failed to tell prosecutors about one of those contacts for more than two years, according to Isakoff's story in news.
Well, it's a story in Newsweek based on his upcoming book.
The confirmation of Armitage's role, which uh had been widely assumed in Washington, undercut claims by liberal activists that Ms. Plame was deliberately exposed in retaliation for criticism her husband, Joe Wilson, had leveled at President Bush.
Obviously, Armitage, the original leaker, had no intention of hurting anybody with the leak.
He just is uh apparently well known as a Washington gossip.
He loves to sit around and talk about things going on in town and what things uh people think are going to happen in town.
And so he came across some information, passed it on to Novak, passed it on to uh to Bob Woodward.
Uh now an investigation into the leak led to the indictment of Lewis Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
Uh neither Armitage nor anybody else has been charged for disclosing Ms. Plaim's CIA ties, which is what the original investigation was all about.
Nothing, and even the special prosecutor, uh Patrick Fitzgerald said that there was no covert status involved, despite all the speechifying, there was no there.
I mean, it it was it was um uh uh uh he Armitage confessed early on.
And when you read the the Isakoff piece, you uh you realize the investigators knew almost immediately that it was Armitage.
This whole thing uh uh ends up just being disgusting.
Armitage confessed early on, he never went public.
Investigators and prosecutors continued their investigation.
The investigation was pointless.
They already had their answer.
And yet they kept investigating.
Great example of how the drive-by media operates and perhaps influences things here as well.
Because this is all aimed at Bush, all aimed at Cheney, all aimed at Carl Rove.
And then, and then Mr. Fitzgerald goes public, talks about how Libby endangered agents when he knew that Libby was not Novak source, and when he knew that Armitage had leaked her name, and that uh her covert status was was was uh uh already leaked before Libby got around to doing anything.
And yet speechifying, uh explaining the indictment, talking about how all these CIA agents around the world had been exposed and had been uh endangered.
This whole thing needn't have ever happened.
And and as as soon as they, you know, as soon as they realized that Libby wasn't the leak, they should have closed up shop.
Uh and they knew it, they knew it within days.
Uh and of course, you know, you know who you can't take out of this equation is good old Chucky Schumer, because Chuck Schumer kept pressing for a special counsel.
Chuck Schumer was one of uh Wilson's guiding lights, kept uh working behind the scenes with Wilson.
I mean, you would think that Fitzgerald would have found all this so sleazy, but he apparently embraced it and thought this was um I think it's the cult of celebrity.
I I think it I think it can affect everybody.
I think the idea that uh you're gonna be in the news for a while, have your name talked about, and then when the investigation turns up, nothing can say, well, two years and I got nothing.
I gotta do something.
There has to be something out of this, so you get a process indictment on uh on perjury and obstruction of justice.
Just an absolute, excuse me, an absolute pointless investigation.
Uh and and uh even even Isakoff in this article in Newsweek, even Isakov and his buddy David Korn writing about this, continue to make the point that Rove did leak the name, that Rove told some reporters that Rove confirmed for Novak what Armitage.
They do everything they can to keep the White House, Cheney and Rove, and uh perhaps even Bush uh in the uh in the loop.
It's just uh a glittering example, ladies and gentlemen, of the uh the whole system, how it can be corrupted by the participation of just a number of people with a pure political agenda.
Now we want to uh say welcome home to uh Steve Centani and his uh his cameraman Olag uh Olaf Will from Captivity some Palestinian group.
But I have to tell you the couple things about this that I want to comment on.
Uh one is uh that we we learned something.
Well, I don't know how many of us did, but did you uh did you know what these two guys had to do in order to uh gain their release?
They told of being forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.
Uh now you might say, well, of course they did that, then that gets them out of there and so forth.
It's no, no, that's that's not enough, folks.
There is a picture here.
There is a message here.
Uh this is a glimpse into our future.
This is their stated goal.
You don't convert, you die.
You don't convert, you uh remain an infidel, you're gonna be a target.
If you are uh Islamic and decide to renounce the faith, you are just as big a target.
But there's something else.
Um here's what Sintani had to say upon his release with the uh Hamas leader and the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister said, I just hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful, kind-hearted, loving people who the world need to know more about, and so do not be discouraged.
Come and tell the story.
It's a wonderful story.
I'm just happy to be here.
Thanks for all your support.
And they hightail it to Israel for safety.
After talking about what a bunch of wonderful uh worthwhile loving people of Palestinians are, then hightail it to Israel in order to be safe.
The the the cameraman Olaf Wilg said, that'd be a great tragedy for the people of Palestine, especially for the people of Gaza.
Your story doesn't get very well told because it's difficult to work here, and anything that any little discouragement, uh, an incident like this could give a network an excuse not to be here, and that would be a great tragedy for the people of Gaza.
The New York Times runs this story stating that uh Sintani and Wilg were released unharmed.
They were not unharmed.
That is my entire point.
They were not unharmed.
When you are forced to renounce your faith at gunpoint in order to live.
Do you know how many people have died refusing to do this?
Your faith.
It's one of the most personal, one of the deepest attachments people have is to their faith.
And to be had a gun aimed at you and told to recant and to uh convert and then to say released unharmed, maybe physically unharmed, but uh uh it this this misses the point entirely.
And of course, it illustrates the people who think this at the New York Times and write this, illustrates to them just how unimportant personal faith is to them, how meaningless it really is, and that's a big divide in this country.
Yes, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
I'm looking at television, I'm watching them uh report on hurricane tropical storm Ernesto, whatever it is.
Right now it's a tropical storm.
The maximum winds in there is it's over Cuba around 40 miles an hour.
Forty miles an hour.
We are panicking.
State of emergency in Florida right now.
This thing, if it does what they say, it will reform over the uh uh ocean between Cuba and Florida and became maybe a category one.
Uh and people are in gas lines, they're raiding the stores.
Uh it's I don't know.
Sometimes I think we're a bunch of wusses.
It's a hurricane.
It's not category three or four like Katrina was.
I understand recent memories and I understand I you know I i i I think what bothers me about this is that it's it just disturbs me a bit to see how like sheep people can be made to be.
We live in a crisis mentality in our daily lives anyway, thanks to the drive-by media.
Uh and now we're gonna relive the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
Oh, yes, lady, we have got to relive this because we have got to keep on working to destroy George W. Bush.
Uh I would think the Democrats would be pretty confident like right now that they've got the Republicans beat.
Everybody out there, conventional wisdom is Democrats win the house, and they don't even have a plan.
Democrats don't have an answer for anything.
They have not had to come forth with an agenda.
Their agenda is Bush is horrible.
We hate Bush, the country hates Bush, the war is a waste of money.
We need to bring everybody home, we need to go back to work and put this country back together the way we Democrats wanted to be put back together and so forth.
But that's the extent of it.
No plan whatsoever.
So the Bush hatred is going to propel Democrats to victory.
And I I will, and James Carvel, I don't know if you heard this or not.
James Carville said, if we can't win in this environment, we have to question the whole premise of the party.
Uh James, I know you're out there.
Let me just say this to you.
Even if your side does win, you had better question the whole premise of your party.
Because if you do win, it isn't going to be because of your ideas, because you're not being honest about your ideas.
You're not even announcing any ideas.
You are not even engaging in trying to put together any kind of an agenda.
Um if you win, it'll be because uh of nothing more than an attack machine, focus group lines, slavish support in the drive-by media.
Uh and because the sixth year of any presidency uh does have some some significant changeovers in the midterm elections in Congress.
Uh I, for one, am not convinced any of this is going to happen because I buck the trends of conventional wisdom anyway, as a matter of uh uh habit.
Uh who wants to go with the flow?
What's unique about that?
Doesn't any special effort uh to go with the so-called brainiacs who end up being wrong about everything?
But uh it it's just it's amazing to watch these people construct this Hurricane Katrina business and to relive the whole thing.
We're gonna have speeches by Neger or speeches by baby fat Landrew.
We're gonna have speeches by Blanco, the uh the governor.
Even Bill Clinton got in on this.
They asked, they asked Clinton about this on television over the weekend.
Well, you know, I I tell you, I I probably would have done something.
I probably would have done a little more about it, yeah, because I, you know, I have such a special attachment to that area.
I bet the Red Light District.
I would have done more.
I think I'd have done more.
I probably would have done because I have such a you know a close attachment to that to that area down there.
I I think I'd have done more.
What is it?
What it's like Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter's over Great Britain and ripping Tony Blair for being a lapdog of George W. Bush, and an Al Gore is over there across the pond, and Al Gore is ripping the consolidation of media in this country, claiming that democracy is under attack in the United States of America.
Now, Al Gore has his own cable network.
It is called current TV.
You know how many people watch it?
Nobody.
Al Gore also obviously blames consolidation on the fact that nobody in any significant numbers at all listens to liberal talk radio.
They're out there in the market.
They are quote unquote competing.
They've got access uh like any other show has to the market.
They can't pull it off, they can't succeed.
It's horrible.
It's embarrassing.
They can't find an audience.
For this consolidation is to blame.
And if it weren't for a couple of big ownership groups out there, Air America wouldn't be on 90% of the stations that they are on.
I mean, it these people leave the country, attack this country in virtually every way they can.
Now Tony Blair's being attacked after Jimmy Carter went after uh uh us, the United States and Bush when he was talking to uh their Spiegel uh in that interview, which we commented upon last week, a couple of weeks ago.
And the Democrats think this is the stuff that's going to propel them to victory.
Uh I'm I will bet you, folks, I'll just bet you ten to one that in their private meetings they aren't that confident at all.
And you got Pelosi out there.
People know not to mess with me.
Yeah, if you put the right picture up, that could tend people the other way.
People know not to mess with me.
One more thing about Steve Centani and Olaf Wilk.
I just have to make this observation.
They asked for privacy.
The moment they were released, they asked for privacy.
Please don't ask any questions.
Give us time to be with our families, give it give us time to regroup and media, oh, okay, and backed out of the way.
Even during their captivity, media would say, do not press this.
Do not make an issue out of this.
Downplay this.
We don't want to exacerbate the tensions.
I fine.
In fact, I happen to agree that's the way to do this.
But do you think if I had been the one kidnapped?
They would have uh agreed to my requests.
Hey, you know, don't exacerbate this.
Don't start trying to find me.
No, just leave it.
We'll we'll work this out.
And then if I happen to be released, or any of us, do you think when we ask for privacy, don't come on, get the microphones and cameras out of here.
I just got out.
I want to see my fit.
Think they would accede to our requests.
Or anybody else's.
Ask John Mark Carr.
Of course, that pervert probably wants this kind of attention.
Uh, but it's just it's it's amazing.
Uh totally different procedure and behavior when a member of the media happens to be involved in one of these circumstances.
Let's grab a couple phone calls here quickly.
Uh, this is Bernie, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, sir.
Welcome.
You're up first today.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes.
I uh just turned you on and I heard you complain about the investigation on the plane deal.
You say it's a waste of time.
Um I didn't hear you say anything about the uh eight or ten years investigation into the Clinton uh special prosecutor at 50 million dollars.
Is there a difference between that investigation and uh that uh kept going on to bring uh you say it's bringing Bush down?
Yes, you you guys were trying to bring Clinton down.
I'm glad you asked.
I am go ahead.
Right.
The uh Clinton investigation went on that long because they were stonewalling it, they were obstructing it.
Uh Clinton was lying under oath.
Uh there are a number of ways that investigation could have been ended quicker.
He could have settled out of court with Paula Jones.
Hillary didn't want to do that.
He could have told the truth in a grand jury, could have admitted at the at the get-go that uh yes, he'd had this minor slip up with the intern Monica Lewinsky, lied about that.
He's a serial liar about things.
So when he was telling the truth, nobody knew it.
In the Libby case, in the Armitage case, within weeks of the investigation, they had the answer.
They knew, and yet the investigation went on for two years.
They knew that it was Armitage that it leaked her name to Robert Novak.
That was what the investigation was about.
That was it.
And they knew that early on.
That whole investigation was pointless.
Does that help, sir?
Rush?
Yes.
Can you wait a minute?
Who cares if they lie?
You name me one politician, Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green Party, or anybody else that does not lie to uh to to get whatever they want across.
What does that have to do with uh uh destroying our country like you guys do every day, uh dividing people?
I'm sick and tired of hearing you guys both sides dividing this country.
Bernie.
That's wrong when somebody is wrong, Bernie.
They're wrong, and and you should stand up and say that Republicans are wrong, that Democrats.
And you can just give me two minutes.
Bernie.
This is this is the difference between you and me.
I don't think everybody lies.
I'm not a cynic in that regard.
I don't think everybody is a Bill Clinton.
I don't think everybody is a Hillary Clinton.
And uh as to your other point, sir, we're saving the country from people like you.
Be right back.
Ha, welcome back.
El Rushbow here, America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, real anchor man, and living legend all combined is one harmless, lovable little fuzzball at 800-282-2882 Curtis in Cleveland.
Uh thank you for calling, sir.
You're next.
Rush.
Yeah.
Oh.
Thank you, sir, for taking my call.
You bet.
And uh it's a great honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I understand.
Uh quick thank you and a quick question.
Uh the thank you is uh in two thousand two I started my own company, and uh I believe a lot of that came from the clarity, uh, the commentary, and uh the the realness to believe to take the risk uh and the things that you believe wholeheartedly in and uh appreciate her let me ask you a question Cur Curtis, let me ask you a question about that.
Yes, sir.
Uh was your life before you did this, and I'm gonna stick with me on this.
Was your life a disaster?
Was it uh well, had it fallen apart, was it in tatters?
Were you wandering aimlessly?
Well, I felt that I I came to uh roeblock uh in my career, and uh I I really did feel like I needed to make a okay.
Now, so did you did you first decide to wait on government having a coordinated plan to help you?
Uh or or was it your listener to this program that inspired you and made you think, you know, I can do this myself, and I can do it better myself than anybody else can do it for me.
Which of the two was it that really inspired me?
It was the inspiration and and doing it myself.
Uh I went into this with a lot of unknowns, but uh I believed uh very much in what I could accomplish.
Uh I knew it in my heart, and I just took the risk, and here I am four years later, and uh I'm celebrating the best sales I've ever had and it it's it's been uh the best move I've ever made in my life.
Well, I appreciate that, and congratulations to you.
We're all happy to hear it for you.
Well, thank you, sir.
Uh and quick question.
Uh with the rise of the the fundamentalist Islam uh and and watching, you know, some of the things that are going on in the UN and some of these other countries in the world, I really see we're we're seeing the the new rise of the Persian Empire.
Don't the the Russians and the Chinese realize that uh if if eventually the uh Islam reaches their goal and and uh can uh have some type of victory over us, that they would be next.
Uh well the the Russians already have experienced this.
Uh the Chechens uh have have already uh attacked several times uh in uh in Moscow and other places.
The Russians deal with it in a different way than we do.
Uh Russians just kill them.
Uh Russians don't put them on trial.
Uh the Russians don't indict them.
Uh they don't ask why do they hate us?
Uh they just gassed them to death.
Uh the the Chechens took over in one one of the most celebrated instances.
The uh Chechens took over an opera house or a music some sort of uh public Building and they were in there with a bunch of hostages.
And uh uh Vladimir Putin said, I don't care who's in there, we're gassing them.
They gave him some time to release the hostages.
If you don't release the hostages, you're dead.
Of course, they didn't release the hostages.
And they and they gassed them with a previously well, a known substance, but that nobody knew it could have it had been made successfully into a gas.
Uh and it shocked the world because it's, you know, that that could have military applications on the battlefield and other such places.
Uh in the case of China.
China and Russia both.
You have to understand the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
And right now we're the enemy, and we're we're a we're a common, and we're huge, and we are big, and there's no stopping us.
And everybody else is threatened by that.
Uh, regardless who our president is, regardless uh who happens to be running or leading the country, naturally, tyrants, dictators, thugs, people who do not run democratic regimes and have free societies are going to be threatened uh by the United States.
And so they may temporarily align like they are, China and and in Iran with nuclear technology, throw the North Koreans in there.
The Russians are telling uh, hey, hands off, no sanctions on Iran.
We're not gonna stand for that.
Of course, they've got a Security Council vote.
Uh what we're talking about now, by the way, uh, just so you know, and this is this is somewhat new, uh, but there is some scuttlebutt going around that all right, well, we're gonna really get tough with Iran, then we're gonna do our own sanctions and we'll sanction them outside the Security Council.
We don't care if the Chinese and the Russians vote against our plan to sanction the Iranians.
Now, sanctions are not going to stop anybody, and we know this.
Sanctions didn't stop Saddam.
It led to a corrupt program called oil for food.
Sanctions aren't gonna stop uh the uh the Iranians is not gonna harm them.
Uh I mean, if if uh if we put our own sanctions on them and other countries like China and Russia, okay, we'll take care of you, don't sweat it.
It's still gonna lead to some kind of a conflict.
Uh it's still gonna lead to some sort of force being necessary in order to enforce the quote unquote sanctions and or blockade.
Um I I think the uh uh uh reason that the Chinese are not afraid right now is because you know if if an outbreak of militant Islam happens.
Look at what they're doing to Fulon Gong.
Anyone that expresses any kind of uh religious belief other than belief in the state, it may as well be a political prisoner and you die.
And it's well known, and there's no other way.
There aren't trials, there aren't courts of law, there's no freedom of religion or whatever.
Uh and and until uh militant Islam can mount a large enough army to actually invade the place, then terrorism is not gonna happen.
The Chinese aren't gonna put up with it.
They just won't.
We tolerate it.
We put up with it until we reach our breaking point.
We haven't reached our breaking point.
We're nowhere near reaching our breaking point with it.
Uh, but they won't they won't tolerate this kind of uprising or insolence in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Cliff in Washington, Missouri, you're next.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, good morning, Rush.
Yeah.
Hey, Rush, a while ago, you made the comment that everybody's who's in the path of the storm are panicking and they're acting like sheep.
Then you said the storm's headed towards your house.
Is that why you're in New York?
No, I uh you don't know how badly I wish I could stay.
I hate having to leave, but uh this program must go on, and and sometimes we lose power and at the uh broadcast complex, uh which would be make it difficult to do the program.
We do have uh we have a generator there, but it's hit or miss.
I I can't run the race.
Some day they close the town, they if they evacuate the town and make everybody leave, then the support staff like snerdly and uh and don't can't get in there, so it it it makes no sense to write it.
I wish I didn't have to leave.
And it's a cat one.
I've been through cat ones.
They're bad.
I don't know, I mean, they're they're not they're not uh pieces of cake uh and so forth.
I'm I'm I knew when I said it that it was gonna irritate some people.
I just it's it's just folks.
I can't tell you how I think what it is.
I just resent the power that drive-by media have to take a normal event and turn it into an act of God that might end the world.
I law global warming and all this.
Anyway, out of time.
Thanks for the call out there, Cliff.
Nice try.
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