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Interesting email from a subscriber, a member of the website named Rosie in Shawnee, Kansas.
Hey, Rush, that study from Florida State University is correct in one sense.
These pointy-headed professors have discovered that worrying about self-esteem has prevented kids from learning what they don't know or need to improve.
Now in college, they discover they aren't really prepared.
Okay, I get the point.
She's saying that some of these kids' goals are too high because schools didn't confront them with prior poor performance.
So your average American kids in high school can't graduate reading the diploma, but still sees all this wealth and prosperity out there.
It's like I'm going to get that too.
But has not been confronted with his academic failings and therefore is not prepared.
I can see that side of it.
Teaching conflict resolution and making sure he feels okay to think two plus two is five.
That's fine until they figure it out.
We don't want to humiliate anybody.
There are a lot of explanations to this.
There's no question about it.
But the bottom line still remains.
The opportunity to prosper in this country is just as great as it's ever been.
Perhaps even more so.
And I know that there are plenty of you doomsayers and doom and gloomers out there.
And I'm just telling you, the limitations that people face are mostly self-imposed.
And once you realize that, and that's hard, I mean, that is hard to overcome.
The limitations people have are largely limitations that they have imposed upon themselves.
And that can manifest itself in a number of ways.
Well, I like where I live.
I don't want to move.
Fine, good.
Understand what that means.
If the town is small, if there's not a whole lot going on there, if what you really want to do is not done in that town, well, you have to understand it.
The tendency, though, is to blame somebody else, blame everybody else, blame the system, blame society.
And that, of course, blaming doesn't get anybody anywhere.
But the fact is, and it's undeniable, the prosperity that's there, the opportunity to access it, never, ever been better.
It's just a matter of going out and grabbing it and having the desire, you know, desire, passion, 80% is success.
Anyway, now, here is the way the Drive-By Media deals with good economic news.
By the way, the second quarter GDP was revised up from 2.5 to 2.9% growth.
That's not good.
That's still way below what it was in the wintertime in the first quarter.
Way, way below.
I mean, it's horrible.
Folks, we'll talk of 3% economic growth.
Go to Mexico.
Go to Afghanistan.
Go anywhere.
Don't tell me people's expectations are low.
I'm not sure I buy this.
Well, people's expectations don't want to be low.
Let us sink into a bit of a recession or let the drive-by start talking about how we're going to head downward in an economic trend because of what the Fed's doing.
And you'll see people get mad.
Americans' expectations are high because they're Americans.
And they expect tomorrow to be better than today.
Almost consider that a birthright.
So this effort to lower expectations, be very suspicious of it.
It's just a bunch of liberals who don't think you have the ability to make it anyway, so that you will end up needing them, their largesse, their expertise, their magnanimity, and all of that.
And you can go talk to members of groups who have believed and relied on liberals to do that for them and check their economic circumstances.
And you tell me if you want to join the group.
You won't.
Any of the...
And look at none of that.
They're running out attacking Walmart as a party campaign issue.
They are making it public.
They're very proud.
We're going to go out.
We're going to destroy this bunch.
We're going to make sure they can't harm you anymore.
Walmart, of all people.
It's a curious time in which we live.
Four years into an economic recovery, four years into an economic recovery, the number of people living in poverty has finally stopped climbing.
Well, that's pretty good, right?
No.
Household incomes edged up slightly in 2005, but 37 million people were still living below the poverty line, about the same as the year before, the Census Bureau reported.
It was the first year without an increase in poverty since 2000, just before President Bush took office.
Now, the New York Times has an editorial today, and they say these numbers, I mean, the overwhelming number of people in poverty, just proves that a conservative Republican theory is all wet, and that is that economic growth eliminates these problems.
Conservatives have not said that.
Conservatives have not said that economic growth alone will eliminate poverty.
Poverty is an attitude.
Poverty is an attitude that is cemented in people's minds.
Economic growth is going on.
The story indicates it.
If you want to go, how come the New York Times never, never cites the abject failure of the war on poverty?
When I read this number, 37 million people still living below the poverty line.
The war on poverty started way back with LBJ, mid-60s.
We have had a war on poverty for 31 years, 30 years or so.
And yet the percentages of people in poverty hover anywhere from 12 to 14 percent.
It hasn't changed.
All of a sudden, though, 1965 to the year 2001 never happened.
No, no, no.
This is Bush's fault.
And now the New York Times wants to say that economic growth has been shown that it's not enough.
What we need are government programs.
We've got government programs, programs piled upon programs.
We've got programs that are redundant.
We've got more programs than people who know exist.
We got programs that are so redundant we are advertising for applicants to the food stamp program.
The problem is liberalism.
The problem is a big nanny state government.
The problem is the welfare state mentality.
It's on parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, among way too many Americans.
And it's sad and unfortunate to see in this great nation to see people who have no clue, don't have any idea what to do, because they have been robbed of their own initiative.
They've been robbed of their own potential.
That's what liberalism does, and that's what all these great programs the New York Times advocates have done, rob people of their human capacity to succeed.
Because they have replaced the necessary ambition with a sustenance, not an abundance.
The people who have abundance in this country, we're talking economic, and I'm not talking about financial wealth alone.
We're talking about happiness and contentment.
We're talking about the joy one gets from accomplishment, the joy that one gets from achievement.
You don't find that among most of the constituencies of the left because that's not what they're selling and that's not what they're providing.
They are providing and selling dependence.
They are advocating mediocrity.
They are suggesting that people are no better than that anyway.
This is the need they have to remain in power.
And so, four years into an economic recovery, number of people living in poverty has finally stopped climbing.
Household incomes edged up slightly in 05, but 37 million people still living below the poverty line, about the same as the year before.
It was the first year without an increase in poverty since 2000, just before President Bush took office.
How about the numbers of years from 1965 to 2000, where the number of people in poverty increased, despite Democrat administrations, despite Democrat congresses passing all of these programs to eliminate the problem?
Well, we're not supposed to examine the results of these programs, only the good intentions of the authors.
Their hearts were in the right place.
Some Republicans blamed the stubborn poverty numbers on immigrants holding down wages.
Democrats blame the Bush administration, noting that incomes are lower and the poverty rate is higher than when Bush took office.
The Democrats also noted that the number of people without health insurance climbed for the sixth straight year, reaching 46.6 million people in 2005.
And how many of them purposely don't want it?
And it's more than 50% of them.
They are in their 20s and they're not crazy about buying it right now because it's not a good risk-reward move for them.
You never hear about any of this.
You also don't hear, what was it, 42, 44 million people that had no insurance all during the 90s and the Clinton term.
You never hear about their failure to do anything about this.
You only hear about their potential when they next get in office to fix the problem.
But you never hear about their failures.
You never hear about the failures of their programs that they designed, that they wrote, that they implemented, that they signed into law under LBJ, the War on Poverty, the Great Society, AFTC, I can name them, down the food stamps.
You never hear about the failures of these programs whatsoever.
You take good news, you turn it around and make it horrible.
Here's about 12.6% of the population live below the poverty line in 2005.
That's down from 12.7% in 2004, but that's not statistically significant.
Not statistically significant.
For the first time on record, this is Robert Greenstein, the executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who said for the first time on record, poverty was higher in the fourth year of an economic recovery than when the recession hit bottom.
Are they defining when the recession hit bottom?
I would suggest to you the recession hit bottom in the Clinton years, and it was papered over and covered up.
At any rate, I'm a little long here in this segment.
I got to take a brief time out, but we will be back and roll right on to the fastest three hours of the media right after this.
All right, let me tell you this quick story, and I'm going to have more on this next week after I see the DVD.
I have not had a chance to watch the DVD.
A friend of mine out in California has produced and filmed, I think it's a two-part miniseries on 9-11 that ABC is going to run in prime time over two nights close to or on 9-11.
And it's sort of surprising that the ABC has picked it up to me.
I've had a lot of people tell me about it.
My friends told me about it.
I just, I hate to admit this, I don't have a DVD player at my fashionable Upper East Side apartment.
Well, I'm here so little, I just haven't upgraded it.
And I just, I can't, I can't hear audio from computer speakers and so forth, so I can't watch it that way.
I could watch it, but so I'm not going to be able to watch this thing and tell you people about it till I get back home next week.
I got to go to Missouri this weekend for Family Labor Day.
We always get together and don't work on Labor Day.
We just have parties.
So we're doing that.
So I won't be able to see it till next week.
But the program was taken to Washington, I think, last week, and it was shown to a specially selected group of people, including Democrats and Republicans, former administration officials, blah,
And from what I have been told, the film really zeroes in on the shortcomings of the Clinton administration in doing anything about militant Islamo-fascism or terrorism during its administration.
And it cites failures of Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright and Sandy Bergler.
And apparently, there were a bunch of Clintonoids in the audience who just went nuts during this screening, among them Richard Ben Venista.
And Ben Venist confronted, Michael Barone was there too, who loved it.
Richard Benvenist was there and confronted my friend.
His first name's Cyrus, who produced this thing.
And it, from what I'm told, it got really vicious with Ben Venist being very aggressive, and my friend held his ground.
And it is suspected by people who were there that there will begin soon an all-out campaign to discredit this film before anybody sees it.
And I'm not surprised why Clintonoids would want to discredit this.
This is not the kind of thing they have to deal with.
They don't have to deal with the criticism of their failures.
Their failures are never chronicled.
The no failures of the Bush administration are created in the Drive-Buy Media and by the American left, the Democratic Party.
They're fabricated out of whole cloth and made up and then broadcast as events.
And then poll data is taken on these so-called failures of the Bush administration.
I'm not kidding.
By now, I wonder how many Americans think that Katrina is actually George Bush's fault.
That the damage is George Bush's fault, not just the aftermath.
Not just that the cleanup is taken this long.
The fact that the state government, the local government got no blame whatsoever, it's all Bush's fault.
Bush may as well have gone down there and lit the fire to the city in himself.
Now, they tried this during Reagan.
Reagan didn't care about the homeless.
They had the little cartoons and pictures of Reagan sneaking out of the White House at night on cold winter nights and going to some homeless camp, Mitch Snyder's place, stealing some homeless guy's pork and beans, going back to the White House, opening the can, heating it up, and eating it, rubbing his stomach as though he just enjoyed stealing from the homeless.
It's a typical tack taken to the left.
But apparently, this piece is really, really hard.
Ben Venist and some of these people that were there just couldn't stand it.
And it is expected that there will be an attempt to quash it, discredit it in any number of ways, organized campaign, backed by money, maybe even television ads.
But the people that are on our side who were also there said, this is just, it's fabulous.
It's fantastic.
So I'm eager to see it.
And I feel really embarrassed that I can't watch it while I am here.
You can't, no, HR says now we know what to get you for Christmas.
Look at my TV doesn't even work.
I mean, it's a 1990 says it's a little, no, it's a projection TV.
It's about a four or five-foot screen, and the projections behind the projectors behind the wall, and it just doesn't work anymore.
And I'm here less than 15 working days a year.
I just haven't bothered to replace it or fix it up.
I mean, I put this room together before there was DVDs.
There's a laser disc player in there, but yippee.
Laser disc, those things belong in a Smithsonian now.
So I will wait till I get back to my state of the art.
I guess I could take it with me to Missouri and watch it with the gang there.
But yeah, I could watch it on the plane, except if it's four hours.
So I don't know how long it is.
It's two DVDs.
That's right.
It's going to watch it on a plane.
I hadn't even thought of that.
Good idea, Mamo, and you're going to get a raise.
I watch it on a plane.
I hope to be flying back home tomorrow afternoon after I finish a super secret project.
And then I've got to go to Missouri on Friday afternoon.
But it depends.
I mean, I had to airline the flight crew home on Monday to prepare their homes for this non-existent rainstorm.
We shut down half the state of Florida for a thunderstorm.
At any rate.
So they've got to get back up here or I'm stuck and won't be able to get out of here till Friday sometime.
And it'll all work out.
Here's Jay in Austin, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Greetings from Austin, Texas.
Thank you, sir.
With regards to people having lower expectations, it's no wonder that many of the nation's top entrepreneurs are college dropouts or never attended college.
I would compare it to children who are candid and accurate because they've never been trained what they can and can't pay.
In college, people are taught what they can do and can't do and what works and what doesn't work or has in the past.
And it's just no wonder that the people who get things done in a brilliant sort of way haven't been through that kind of training.
You know, that's an interesting observation.
Bill Gates dropped out.
Steve Jobs dropped out.
I dropped out.
There are a number of others.
That's an interesting point.
Not just the rigors of college instruction, but take a look at the professors.
Where do you think this doom and gloom attitude comes from?
Where do you think the chickophization or the feminization of our culture has come from?
It comes from inside the classroom at so-called major institutions of higher learning.
Where do you think hate for the country is taught?
What do you think journalism school is all about?
So there is some truth to that.
Now, high school, you're not going to get anywhere if you don't have a high school diploma.
You just aren't.
You've got to have that to get started.
Back in just a second.
Back to the phones.
The one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Don in Wyckoff, New Jersey.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
You bet.
Pleasure is much.
From, I don't know what you'd call New Jersey when we got Corazon, but let's say it's not anything great right now.
Well, you know, speaking of New Jersey, I don't know if you've seen this, but this is also, I think, part of the census data that I've just been quoting in other stories.
New Jersey has the highest household income of any state and one of the lowest poverty rates.
According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, half the households earn more than $61,672 per year.
Hunterdon, Somerset, and Morris County is among the wealthiest, but the city of Camden in the southern part of the state ranks as the poorest place in the country with a population over 65,000.
Sounds to me like New Jersey run by Corzine and liberals forever and ever ever.
Sounds like the gap between rich and poor there, pretty big.
It is.
It is.
The reason I called was that you were talking before about the media and, you know, even when there's good economic news portraying it badly.
And, you know, there's something very insidious about that that you haven't talked about.
What happens is that if they continually say that, it makes people believe that even though they're doing well, that the rest of the country is suffering.
And it's amazing how many people I've talked to that the media has gotten through to that are doing well, and they think that they're the exception.
You talk to, oh, well, I'm doing well, but, you know, according to the paper, everybody else is suffering, so I must be the exception.
Excellent point.
And this is not new, by the way.
I remember all the way back, 1992, the Clinton campaign calling it the worst economy in the last 50 years.
And, of course, we went through the numbers on the air and documented that it was hardly a blip of a recession.
It was not anywhere near the worst economy of the last 50 years, went through all this, and yet people were calling Rush, it can't get any worse.
It's time for a change.
And I had people calling and say, yeah, I know I'm doing pretty well, but I'm worried about my neighbor across the street.
It doesn't look too good over there.
That's true.
And so this is a, you know, I think not only does it do that, but you have spawned another profundity within me.
Not only does it convince the successful people that they are the exception, but you have convinced everybody that success is an exception.
That success is a little out of the ordinary.
That most people are abysmal, miserable failures in terms of their expectations and hopes and dreams.
No, that's true.
But I think that it's even worse than that, that a lot of people that aren't, say, wildly successful have what you call good lives.
I mean, they, when they talk about a high income in New Jersey here, well, they have, they had something the other day where some nurses were on strike or something like that, and it came out in the paper that they were making $90,000 a year to nurses.
Right.
And the average truck driver is making $50,000 or $60,000 a year.
Now, they're not going to be wealthy, but most of those people live pretty contented, decent lives.
But you could get to them and make them feel like that they're being exploited and that everybody else is like zillionaires and they're only making $140,000 a year.
And it isn't fair.
And it's somebody's fault.
And so elections are to take care of the inequity and get even with the people who are unfairly cheating the rest of us.
Yeah, that's true.
Could I mention one thing about Hillary?
Yeah, by all means.
I know the people in Northeast, you can't get away from her, so feel free.
Well, the only thing that I would say that really has disturbed me listening to talk radio with conservative hosts and like you and Sean and Mark Levin is that they're all portraying Hillary as some sort of a pacifist.
Hillary Clinton is a hardline Marxist and a Stalinist, and she's the last thing from a pacifist, and she's only against this war because it's politically expedient to bash George Bush, but she is no pacifist.
Well, now, wait a second.
One of the problems Hillary has is she voted for the war, and she hasn't really, really renounced her vote.
She's said some things here and there that have tried to mollify the kook fringe of the Democrat blogosphere, but she really hasn't renounced her vote.
She's trying to have it both ways in a lament campaign.
Because it's politically expedient.
Well, of course.
But I never thought of her as a pacifist.
But what do you mean by pacifist?
When you hear people call her a pacifist, what are you interpreting like?
Like a Ned Lamont.
Ned Lamont is a pacifist.
Hillary Clinton is the Stalinist.
Exactly.
She's a Stalinist.
Look at her health care plan.
Stalinist is a better word for her.
There's no question.
You call her Marxist or whatever.
You've got to be careful of these terms because You don't want to turn people off.
I remember back in the 70s and 80s, you call people communist people who just want to deal with the possibility that was true.
And that was going too far.
So you had to use another term if you actually wanted to persuade people that what you're saying was accurate.
Marxist, not part of the lexicon.
Fascist becoming a big word.
Love it.
Islamo fascist, blogofascists, any number of terms and people groups fit that one.
But pacifist, I would never, ever.
So pacifist, you know, flower child sitting in the weeds among the dandelions, listening to Bob Dylan.
That's not how I envision Mrs. Clinton.
She is an activist.
And she is an activist in terms of dominating in America, dominating in American culture.
And she's doing it in almost a stealth fashion.
Yes, that's true.
It's just that when she had a meeting the other day with Ned Lamont, that, you know, like certain people on the radio, not you, but were kind of like saying that she's one of these almost like an appeaser and a pacifist, which is not really the way she is.
She's just doing whatever she feels is politically expedient.
Well, that's true.
I don't know who she said that about or who you heard say that about her.
And I didn't hear it.
So I didn't hear the context.
The people that think she's a pacifist may have a different context for it than the way you're hearing it.
I'm not sure.
I just – I wouldn't call her a pacifist in any sense.
I – you know, this – you know, I'm going to – my big problem with Hillary is so many people care about her.
I frankly, I just can't get away from it.
Is she going to be the nominee, Rush?
I don't think so, but I don't know.
And I, if she is, so what?
Puts her pants on one leg at a time like every other guy.
You know, not invincible out there.
It just isn't, it's not something.
I just can't, you know, if everybody gets all revved up in this fear mode, not going to get anything done.
Harry in Midland, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Rush, thank you very much.
God bless you from the bottom of my heart.
Well, thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
You know, the whole thing is internal guts.
Have you got any guts in your soul?
Does anybody teach guts in school anymore?
Do they say, hey, you can be what you want to be if you put it out.
I'll tell you where they do teach guts in school.
It's not consistent, but you'll find guts taught in the football teams unless the parents find out about it and they'll try to tone it down.
They teach guts somewhere else, too.
Your program.
Well, your program teaches guts.
Have you got any guts to be who you are and to be what you want to be, to be an American the way you should be?
And that takes a lot.
And it takes a guy like you to shout for him and say, hey, here it is.
Take it.
Well, I appreciate that.
That's very kind.
At times in my life, I've had too many guts.
It's been a constant battle to work on.
But you're very, I appreciate that.
And I do think, look, I'll tell you the story.
Used to go up those Saturday afternoon water volleyball games up at Roger Ailes' place at Croton on Hudson.
These were so much fun.
It was a summertime.
We go up there back during the days of Rush the TV show.
And Rudy Giuliani would be up there and any number of people.
And they'd bring their kids, which was fun to watch.
Well, the hormones are raging.
It was just fun to watch.
But it was one afternoon, one of the attendees was this 26-year-old school teacher.
Nice looking woman, and that's sorry if that offends women that I noticed.
But she was nice looking, blonde, and so forth, fair-skinned, very well, you know, proportioned.
After water volleyball, we're sitting around and having a barbecue, and somehow education came up.
She starts talking about how we're pushing kids too hard.
We're just pushing them too hard.
We're just making them work too hard.
We put too much stress on them.
I just, my mouth fell open.
I was agape.
And I listened to this and I thought, well, this is a budding problem.
If this has been going on a while, it's a bigger problem than I think.
And it's exactly here what Harry is saying.
We are just so afraid of pushing people too far.
So afraid that they'll be broken.
And of course, one of the problems with pushing kids is that some aren't going to do as well as others.
And then we've got the psychological problem of humiliation and failure.
And we can't have that.
So guts, whatever you want to call it, ambition, toughness.
In fact, guts and toughness have sort of been criticized as male characteristics, predatory characteristics, and not really worthwhile and useful in the pursuit of one's goals in life because that's aggressive.
We must allow other people their faith.
And we must, of course, this is the voice of the new castrate, ladies and gentlemen, those newly who don't have guts and don't have a spine, and just afraid to say anything that anybody might disagree with, Mr. Limbo, because we all have our opinion that we're all entitled to them.
That's true.
And you're certainly entitled to be wrong.
But when you're wrong, you're not allowed to think that you're right and get away with it.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
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As many as 14 people were injured yesterday afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested.
When I saw the headline, up to 14 hurt.
And this is San Francisco Chronicles, first story I saw this in.
Up to 14 hurt in the San Francisco hit and run spree, seven critical driver believed to have struck, killed a man in Fremont earlier.
I said, what's the name?
Give me the name.
So I kept reading, reading, hoping to find a name.
And it was right there.
Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Ahmed Aziz Popal, who has addresses in Stanislaw County and Fremont.
Authorities said they believe that Popal was the same driver who ran over and killed a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont at Fremont Boulevard and near Ferry Lane just after noon.
Popal was arrested at a Walgreens at Spruce and California streets.
The attacks began around 1 p.m., unclear in what order.
And then there was an update later that the, and I read this, and I haven't confirmed this, that this happened in a heavily Jewish area.
And then there is this latest update.
Let me see if I can source this or did my printer print the source.
The printer did not print the source, but I think it's KTVU television in San Francisco.
Headline, San Francisco hit and run driver called himself a terrorist.
After Omid Aziz Popal was arrested, he referred to himself as a terrorist.
But the police appeared to have ignored his statements.
It said it had nothing to do with terrorism.
The explanation so far is that Popal is mentally unstable, may have snapped after his arranged marriage.
Okay, now we go to Debbie Schlussel.com, who documents these events.
And she says, when I first heard about this motorist, I wondered what the man's name was.
I'm on the same page here with Debbie.
Was it a Muslim name?
And yes, it was.
Omid Aziz Popala's an Afghani Muslim, reportedly upset over the start of his stressful arranged marriage.
But of course, he had no hate for his American infidel victims, did he?
Oh, he's just upset at his arranged marriage.
Now, it's not surprising that he turned out to be a Muslim because his method isn't new in terms of Islamic terrorism in America.
In March, Mohammed Reza Tahiri Azhar, an Iranian Muslim inspired by Allah and hatred for America, purposely drove his jeep into students at the University of North Carolina in December.
A Palestinian Muslim, Ali R. Wariat, drove his car into Home Depot in Arizona for the purpose of mass destruction of the store and those in it.
He wanted to see the place ablaze.
He too, inspired by his anger toward America and his Quran in the trunk.
And then there are other incidents.
Dr. Wamith Fadli, a Muslim medical doctor in Texas, did a drive-by random shooting of a bicyclist.
A Muslim in Baltimore, Mujaba Rabbani Jabbar shooting and murdering a Jewish guy at a movie theater.
A Pakistani Muslim, Navid Haq in Seattle, shooting women at the Jewish Federation, murdering one.
Now, it's easy to think these are just random acts.
And not really representative of anything.
I mean, just like 9-11 was a random attack.
Just more people died.
And who knows?
Those 19 hijackers could have been upset.
They got fired from the flight school.
Their arranged marriages might have messed them up.
It's easy to look past this.
It is easy to say our enemy is baby milk formula.
It's easy to say that we've got to keep that shaving jail off those airplanes because, you know, those things can be turned into bombs.
It's easy to ignore angry Muslims driving through neighborhoods and rolling down people with their cars.
It's easy to say it's not terrorism.
No, no, no, no.
We don't want to incite a panic, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's not terrorism.
These are just random acts.
These people are mentally unstable.
You've got to be very careful how you report these things and how we interpret these.
Very, very, very, very careful because this is, you know, you don't want to incite the panic and you certainly don't want to engage in discrimination and so forth.
Oh, okay.
Fine.
So all of these five or six attacks, just mentally unstable people.
Okay.
Now we can go on and be Americans and smile.
Go ahead.
Quickly to the phones.
Howland Cleveland, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Well, anniversary dude's rush.
I've waited 18 years to chat with you.
And I was a college graduate in 1988 and I used to sleep until noon and wake up and I had a shower radio.
It was an a.m.
And I heard this guy talking on the radio.
I didn't know who the hell he was and he just kept making sense.
And 18 years later, you still are.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I really appreciate that.
I've determined that Americans have Alzheimer's because we forget.
We forgot after in the 1993 bombing of the Trade Center.
Some guy walks in the Jewish Federation.
He's a terrorist, and nobody remembers it.
They've forgotten.
And now some guy takes his car.
He's a terrorist.
He drives down.
And I bet you, if you don't keep reminding America, they're going to forget tomorrow.
And you don't see Hezbollah in the bylines of every newspaper anymore.
It's two weeks, the war is over.
People forgot.
You know, it is really curious.
There is an ongoing effort to sabotage the defeat of this particular enemy.
And to the extent the American people put their head in the sand, I understand some of it.
They just don't want to deal with the reality.
They just don't want to deal with it.
You got to do something when you admit to deal with it.
Just not.
We're not ready.
We're just not ready.
Contrast this, folks.
We can have a two-week frenzy over John Mark Carr when he confessed he was lying about a two-week frenzy.
This guy is just crazy for calling himself a terrorist.