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Aug. 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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That's right, folks.
We might have a hurricane.
We really might have one.
We could be just a couple miles an hour away from a hurricane later this afternoon.
Yay!
Yay, the hurricane forecasters were right after all.
Al Gore was right after all.
We've got a hurricane.
This is uh Tropical Storm Ernesto, and they put up some hurricane watches along the North and South Carolina coasts.
I'm watching it here on radar and with satellite imagery, the satellite loop, and the center is tightening up and the bands of rain around the center do appear to be getting heavier.
So uh the destruction and misery.
Yay, hey, hey, are on the way.
Drive by media will have misery and destruction and crisis to talk about.
Finally.
It's taken to August 31st, but we've got one.
Yay.
Oh, thank God, Al Gore will not be discredited.
Also, John Bolton, the uh UN ambassador to the United States, well, the U.S. ambassador of the United Nations says that the Security Council unanimity not needed before taking action against Iran over its nuclear program.
This is to be sanctions, I'm sure to start with.
I told you people yesterday that this was in the works.
I told you people that the United States is preparing to do its own sanctions with our own coalition of the willing, despite what the U.N. Security Council might or might not do.
Uh big day for the uh Iranians.
I I have to laugh.
The fact that anybody would hold out hope that Mahmud Ahmadinizad and the supreme tyrant, the Ali Ali Sahib Hameni, whatever it is, of the big mullah, would just all of a sudden out of clear blue say, okay.
You know what?
We'll shut it down.
We will shut down a uranium enrichment program.
So the day comes and they don't ever go, damn.
Damn, they're really gonna do it.
The Pentagon says, well, they're not gonna have a bomb for five years.
All right, it gives us five years to do nothing.
Five years of twiddle our thumbs, five years to come to a decision, if that's even accurate, who knows.
Uh the uh uh the Iranians say, screw you.
I mean, we're a sovereign nation, we've got a right to do what we want to do.
You don't have to write tell us we can't do it.
Who do you think you are?
Uh so it's all this is predictable and all this all this holding out hope for diplomacy.
I do not understand it intellectually.
I understand it professionally and emotionally on the part of people who engage in diplomacy, but but intellectually, and I'm just mean I don't mean brainiac type.
I'm just saying the history of this stuff is it never works.
As I said profoundly earlier on this very program, go ask Saddam Hussein if it was 16 UN resolutions that led to his capture and defeat.
Just to ask him.
Ask Nebel Chamberlain about words issued by diplomats.
All right, cookie has finished editing the audio sound bites of President Bush's remarks today before the uh American Legion in uh American Legion Convention of Salt Lake City.
By the way, it's the Rush Limbaugh program.
We are high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Uh the phone number is 800-282-2882, and if you're on hold, stay there because they're gonna get to you quickly.
Uh here is a portion of what the president had to say today.
The war we fight today is more than a military conflict.
It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.
On one side are those who believe in the values of freedom and moderation, the right of all people to speak and worship and live in liberty.
And on the other side are those driven by the values of tyranny and extremism, the right of a self-appointed few to impose their fanatical views on all the rest.
As veterans, you have seen this kind of enemy before.
There are successors to fascists, to Nazis, to communists, and other totalitarians of the 20th century.
And history shows what the outcome will be.
This war will be difficult.
This war will be long, and this war will end in the defeat of the terrorists of totalitarians and a victory for the cause of freedom and liberty.
That's exactly right, folks.
Sticking to the sword here.
He's consistent and he's pounding the themes.
Uh some people sent me emails that said, hey, I've heard this speech before.
It needs to keep giving it.
Uh the themes are what they are.
And I'll tell you, the, you know, every generation of Americans has a duty to uh to pass down the nation as they inherit it to the next generation, and it's our generation's turn.
And these are serious times, and a lot of people don't want to admit that yet.
A couple more bites here from the president before we take the.
We're now approaching the fifth anniversary of the day this war reached our shores.
As the horror of that morning grows more distant.
There is a tendency to believe that the threat is receding, and this war is coming to a close.
That feeling is natural and comforting and wrong.
As we recently saw the enemy still wants to attack us.
We're in a war we didn't ask for, but it's a war we must wage, and a war we will win.
And it was a war, as he said that uh five years ago reached our shores.
It's a good way to illustrate what got all this started.
Here's another.
We've lost a bold new agenda to defeat the ideology of the enemy by supporting the forces of freedom in the Middle East and beyond.
The freedom agenda is based upon our deepest ideals and our vital interests.
Americans believe that every person of every religion on every continent has the right to determine his or her own destiny.
We believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty God.
Oh no!
Beyond any power on earth to take away.
Oh no!
No!
Did he actually say almighty God?
He did.
I heard that right.
He said Almighty God.
Oh, folks, do you know what if the the liberals listening to that and the cook fringe left what had to happen to them when they heard that shouting separation of church and state?
How can he say that?
There he is trying to enforce his religion and impose it on everybody else.
Oh, wow.
That's gutsy to refer to an almighty God.
That must be what the Republican agenda on religion is.
That there is a God.
Which is in my undeniable truths of life, uh, written back uh brilliantly so, 1986 or 7.
The way uh I've been reminded, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the hurricane.
I'm so excited we got a hurricane.
Uh hurricanes hitting North Carolina, South Carolina.
I predicted this months ago.
And I did it this way.
Uh forecasters put out their their their season forecast back in March or April.
Uh, Bill Gray and the gang, who I admire out at uh Colorado, said we're gonna have uh this number of storms, as many named storms, as many uh hurricanes, as many named hurricanes, as many major hurricanes, this many landfalls, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I said, you know.
Last year they predicted whatever it was, and they got nowhere near it and had to keep revising the forecast as the season went on.
And this time they've revised the forecast downward as the season has gone on.
And at one point I said, you know, folks, I study hurricanes.
I mean, I don't have a meteorology degree, but I study hurricanes since I am in hurricane alley.
Uh I've gotten pretty proficient at it.
So I'm gonna make a prediction.
I my prediction is just as valid as these people predicting global warming.
And I said, my view of the hurricane season is I look at ocean currents, sea surface temperatures, upper uh upper atmosphere, upper level wind patterns and flows.
I see the Carolinas as the big target this year.
And lo and behold, and people are asking, how does he know what he knows?
How does he know what he knows?
So now we got a hurricane.
And we've got uh excitement.
I mean, uh drive-by media getting all revved up for this.
Uh reporters are drawing lots to see who gets to get there first and stand out in the hurricane.
Uh, with their cameramen to tell us that is a hurricane that they are in.
Uh oh, it's gonna be exciting.
Yes.
Uh, let's see.
We have uh that was what, 20 that we just played?
We have two more.
We'll do them from President in his uh speech today at the American Legion Salt Lake City.
We'll do that right after this.
Hanging tough, overcoming all the obstacles, showing how that can be done and is done.
Rush Limbaugh, about whom people say, how does he know what he knows?
800-282-2882, back to the president.
We have two more excerpts from his speech this morning in Salt Lake City.
We have a choice to make about Iraq.
Some politicians look at our efforts in Iraq and see a diversion from the war on terror.
That would come as news to Osama bin Laden, who proclaimed that the third world war is raging in Iraq.
Come as news to number two man of Al Qaeda Zawahiri, who has called the struggle in Iraq, quote, the place for the greatest battle.
Would come as news to the terrorists from Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen, and other countries who have come to Iraq to fight the rise of democracy.
Some Americans didn't support my decision to remove Saddam Hussein.
But we should all agree that the battle for Iraq is now central to the ideological struggle of the twenty-first century.
We will not allow the terrorists to dictate the future of this century, so we will defeat them in Iraq.
Hey!
Buddy, get away.
All right, one more.
Wait a minute.
Pages are stuck together here.
Must be the hand cream I was using.
Here's the last one.
The security of the civilized world depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in Iraq.
So the United States of America will not leave until victory is achieved.
Rad oh, right oh, right up.
Victory in Iraq will be difficult and it will require more sacrifice.
Defining their contribution.
Wait a minute.
Stop that tape.
John McCain said he hasn't been saying this.
McCain said that uh Bush made it sound a cakewalk, mission accomplished, and so forth.
Uh day at the beach and so forth.
But uh this the president's been talking this way all along.
At Omaha Beach or Guadalcanal.
And victory is as important as it was in those earlier battles.
Yes.
Victory in Iraq will result in a democracy that is a friend of America and an ally in the war on terror.
Yes.
Victory in Iraq will be a crushing defeat to our enemies who have staked so much on the battle there.
Victory in Iraq will honor the sacrifice of the brave Americans who've given their lives.
And victory in Iraq would be a powerful triumph in the ideological struggle of the twenty-first century.
You understand how this just infuriates John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Harry Reid.
All of these libs and the kook friends.
Do you understand how this speech just irritates them?
They are living for the moment when Bush cries, Uncle.
They're living for the moment when Bush admits his mistake, quote unquote.
They're living for the moment when Bush has to pull out of Iraq because of mounting American deaths.
They're waiting for the moment when they can proclaim they made it happen.
And then they hear this.
They're already miserable.
They're already down in the dumps.
They're already all into the antidepressant psychotic medications.
And this is just sending them further in that downward spiral to the drain in their showers or bathtubs.
Just ruins their day when they hear the president talking this way.
Just can't stand it because they got their hopes up.
So this is what gins them up for impeachment thoughts and uh discussions.
All right, to the phones, as I promised, Ithaca, New York.
Jill, thank you so much for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
That's fine.
Um, so we don't we don't have a conclusion that the Democrats are definitely going to win.
We're hoping, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion, and I would hate to have people not get out to the polls because they're so comfortable with that.
People still have to get out there and vote.
Well, you know, Democrats have problems on Ireland.
Even when they go vote, their votes don't get counted, or the voting machines uh somehow screw up or the polls are closed or whatever.
It has happened, Russia.
I know it's a it's a it's a tough thing out there.
I think well, the facts are facts.
You can't dispute the facts.
No matter what you slant them as, you can't dispute them.
And it they made it very people.
Well, no, you can't dispute facts, but you can't also invent your own.
Invent your own.
Talk to the people that had to wait for ten hours in Ohio to vote.
You talk to those folks.
Those are real people.
Yeah.
So you know how long the Iraqis waited?
Uh we're not in Iraq.
And they were being fired upon.
Well, I mean, we take things for granted here.
You think it was an effort to depress the turnout.
Those How many times how many times had those people voted before when they were waiting in line for ten hours?
You all know that Democrats try to mo vote multiple times.
Well, you think it happens on one side only?
Yeah.
Come on.
Oh, please.
Oh, please.
You don't believe halfway.
Tell me something.
Why why do Democrats oppose photo IDs to eliminate all this fraud?
What what's what that's I'll have to look into that.
I can't give you an answer.
I don't know.
Okay.
Well, look into it and then report back because it's a curious it's it's really a problem.
I don't understand it.
They say it's discriminatory.
They say it's unfair.
I'll have to look into it.
I can't debate you on that until I know more about it myself.
Okay.
So you're you're um uh you're you're not among the Democrats who think that this is in the bag.
Is that what you said earlier?
Yes.
I'm not thinking I'm hoping I'm praying.
Yes.
Because uh this country is not doing very well, even though you might think so.
But then again, you know, you're you're kind of like in a little fringe yourself.
I mean, I'm very happy that you're able to go to these places like you went last night, and it's beautiful.
But we don't all live like that, Rush.
There's a lot of us and the middle class is, you know, getting less and less comfortable or having harder making it harder and harder for us to send our children to college.
Yeah.
And that's you know, that's out there.
That's statistics.
You can't deny that.
Well, you know, one of the reasons I'm able to go the places I want to go is because I don't have any kids to pay for to go to college.
But that's your choice.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
That's my point.
I have not saddled myself with a never ending burden call a kid.
Okay.
I don't happen to have children either.
Well, then I still worry that other people's children.
What?
Now, seriously, can I ask you a question?
You said just a minute ago you said it's really bad out there, contrary to what I think.
Well, for a lot of people, yes.
For a lot of is it bad for you?
Uh it's not what I'd like it to be.
I I know how to survive, but I'm not you know, I I don't currently have an automobile, but that's my choice.
I could prioritize and have one, but you know, with gas prices the way they are, that's fine.
Gas prices are coming up.
And I'm lucky enough to live in a town where I can walk to the city.
Gas prices are getting cheap.
They're gonna be back down to two bucks by Thanksgiving.
Why don't you uh have a car?
Because I have other priorities, and I live in a town where I'm able to walk.
That's cool.
Uh so how is it bad out there?
I I'm and I'm not setting you up.
I'm I'm genuinely c genuinely curious to know how people who live in this country with some of the greatest opportunity and prosperity human life and civilization have ever known.
When you look out at your country and you and you see whatever it is you see, I mean, what is it you see that's that's that's so troubling and bad?
Is it really bad out there is that you just don't like the president, right?
Health care is hard for people to acquire when they need it.
A lot of people, you know, if we had a better system as far as I don't care if a Democrat or Republican is in office, health care could be better.
Jill I want you to listen to a story here that I just happen to have on the top of my stack from the Associated Press.
Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, one of the most sweeping studies ever of health care core values shows.
That might come as a surprise to anyone who's ever shuddered over a medical bill.
The study calculated that Americans of all ages spend an average of nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars on medical care for every year of life expectancy gained over the last four decades, and the cost is worth it, the study authors say.
Who are the authors, though?
Well that the university uh reach researchers at Harvard and University of Michigan, both approved liberal institutions.
Well, then they don't know the people I know that make decisions to either eat or take medication.
No, no, no, they're they're saying something in time.
They're not denying it's expensive.
They're saying the bang for the buck in American health care is very worth it.
It is extending human life.
It is extending the quality of human life.
So I think this health care business is much like everything else in the drive-by media.
We have been we have been puneled, I'm not even going to ask what that was.
We have been pummeled since 1992 in that campaign about how horrible health care is, how nobody has any.
And people like you, and it's uh a lot of other people just hear it enough and you believe it.
It's like the economy.
You're doing okay yourself, but you think everybody else is in bad shape.
No, I see people who cannot go who have to make choices whether go to a doctor or not based on their My neighbor next door needs medication.
She until she gets maybe on Medicaid, because she is disabled, she has to make decision if she's gonna eat or take her medication.
It is that bad for some people, Rush.
That that's that's a fact.
They're out there.
What are you doing about this?
Your neighbor your neighbor is well, yes.
You're asking uh the rest of us to do something about it.
What are you doing about it?
I help her any way I can.
How?
How?
Simple things like go to grocery store for her, encourage her to keep pursuing ways to medication.
Do you buy her food for her so she can afford her medicine?
Because you're asking everybody else to do that.
I'm not in a position, unfortunately, myself to do that.
Otherwise I did.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
Jill, I'm glad you called.
It's really been a delight talking to you, but I'm out of time.
Here comes the ear splitting tone.
Thanks so much.
I hope you call back sometime.
Back in just a second.
Yes, a man, a legend, living legend, a way of life, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence and broadcasting network.
You know, this uh this notion advanced by our most recent caller, Jill from Ithaca, that she has a neighbor who's disabled and just can't get by, can't uh can't get her medications and eat at the same time.
You know, this this is a wives tale.
That was a prediction.
That was one of these these these crisis talking points that the Democrats began many years ago, over ten or fifteen years ago.
I mean, I can remember.
Uh I spoke to a group called Gopac in Washington back in ninety-four, ninety-five, I forget which.
Uh might have been earlier than that.
Because Pat Schroeder was still in the um in the Congress, uh Congressperson Patsy Schroeder from Colorado.
At any rate, I opened up, but at this at this time the Republicans are being criticized for uh something to do with Medicare, and it was gonna result in um in seniors having to choose between uh real food and medicine.
They might have to go out and eat dog food and so forth.
And I opened up the speech by uh thanking the Gopac people for inviting me and telling me how happy I was to be among uh their company and that that uh I'm gonna was gonna take the lead on this.
So supportive was I of the Medicare plan that I had gone out and bought my mother a new can opener so she'd have easy access to the dog food that she was gonna have to buy.
What with the Republican Medicare program?
Pat Schroeder went to the floor of the house and actually read the transcript of what I said and didn't get the humor at all and started waving the paper around.
This is who they are, she said.
This is what they believe.
This business of seniors and other people eating food or not eating food or not getting their medicine is absolute bunk.
It is a wives' tale.
It is a myth.
People do not have to choose between food and medicine.
Uh big pharmaceutical companies, Merck and Pfizer, all have programs for people like this.
And they spend a hundreds of millions of dollars on them.
Uh uh it's on these programs.
It's just uh it's absurd.
This this country has the greatest health care and and Jill was typical.
She doesn't have a car, but she's worried about gas prices.
Doesn't have a car because she's but yes, she's worried about gas prices.
So what?
I don't know if she has kids in college either, but she's worried about that.
She's worried.
She didn't have kids in didn't have kids, she's worried, worried about things that have no effect on her.
Jill is classic.
A lot of people, not just liberals do this.
Uh how many of you people?
Uh today is what, August 31st?
Whatever is going on in your life.
Let me just run a little test with you.
Uh uh virtually every one of us have something every day that troubles us.
Something that is in the future.
Or something that has happened that's gonna impact the future.
Um what do you do to deal with this?
Most people make the mistake of going negative and they start telling themselves stories.
Oh my god, it's gonna do this, and it's gonna do that.
Oh jeez, you can't possibly know what's gonna happen.
Yet you tell yourself you do, and it's almost always negative.
It's almost always pessimistic.
It's easy.
I mean, you can't, you know, uh pessimism seems to be far more easy and natural to achieve than than optimism.
You have to work hard at that.
So people start telling themselves all these stories about things they can't possibly know, and they live the stories, even though they haven't happened.
And it's exactly what's happening, I think, here with the liberal perception of the economy.
It's just going to hell in a handbasket, even though it's not.
They just know it's going to.
I'm not going to have any money to get by.
I'm going to be off it, oh my gut.
Well, everything's fine.
While everything's fine.
They're still telling themselves all these stories.
And when you start telling yourself stories about things you can't possibly know because it's the future, then you're setting your cast is uh you die's cast.
I mean, you're you're pretty much spelling out the attitude you're going to take into the future, and you're spelling out the steps you're going to take and the way you're going to live it.
Because you're anticipating the worst, so you get ready to be the worst.
You get ready for the worst to happen.
And then whether it does or not, you're convinced it has.
And it just becomes a self-defeating spin cycle.
You never get out of the dryer.
You never dry off.
It just and it's it's common.
A lot of people do this.
And it uh it leads to suffering that you need not put yourself through.
Look at all the suffering the left is putting them.
There's no reason to suffer in this country, but look at how much they're suffering.
Look at how much pain that they are causing themselves.
Look at all of the the pessimism and negativism that virtually envelops and surrounds them.
And it's all uncalled for, and it's all unnecessary.
And it's it's a common thing that human beings do.
It's just because you know why we have all been raised to one degree or another to believe that there is virtue in suffering.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that there is virtue in enduring BS.
Enduring pain, enduring suffering, when that defines character.
Tells somebody who's really strong and who's really weak.
You put yourself through hell, you go through hell, and you handle it well, by golly, my gosh, you're a tough person.
Well, look at it another way.
We all have one life.
I happen to believe we are created by almighty God.
I also believe in a loving God.
I can't believe life is meant to suffer.
I just don't believe it.
I don't believe life is meant to be endured.
And I don't think that self-imposed suffering.
I mean, there's genuine suffering out there for losses of uh family members and pets and so forth.
Now don't misunderstand here.
I'm talking about the self-imposed suffering because you think it makes you virtuous, because you think you're standing out in the eyes of God, because you think it's toughing you up.
There's already enough that's gonna legitimately hit all of us that will stress us and pain us and test us without the stuff we make up.
And you go out and start making up, you spin these stories of the future you can't possibly know, you get you get down deep in all of this, and you end up suffering.
I can't believe that's what life is supposed to be.
Uh well, it's a great gift.
There's so much to enjoy, so much to learn, so much to experience.
So I mean to sit around and and and be enmeshed in a whole bunch of suffering.
Uh uh self-imposed and self-created, and that's where the American left is.
And when you get in that cycle, there's nothing optimistic.
And there's not, and you don't even want to hear it.
By the time you get so deep into your own pain and suffering and storytelling, good news even makes it worse because you don't want to believe the good news.
You're so miserable you don't want to be happy because you don't trust the happiness is gonna last.
And so you'd just rather stay miserable rather than have the false alarms of happiness.
I all of this, vast majority of this in life is self-imposed.
People do it to themselves.
And it doesn't help when we've got a drive-by media doing everything they can do to enforce all of this.
So people end up believing that we actually have Americans in great numbers, choosing between life and death, medicine versus dog food or other food.
That we actually have people keeling over and dying on the streets, because they don't have health care.
That we actually have people who are being fired left and right because the gas price is so high they can't get to work.
You name it.
We have a hurricane is gonna destroy North and South Carolina.
Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans.
It'll never be what it was.
We've got global warming happening out there.
It's gonna swallow us all up.
If that doesn't get us this stupid geyser at Yellowstone 30,000 years late in its 600,000-year massive eruption, that's gonna kill us.
It's any moment now.
It's gonna dump seven feet of soot all over the country.
The media is out there asking people if you knew the date of your death, what would you do between now and then?
If you knew the day of your I've got the story in the stack.
So they keep pummeling us with all of this.
Oh my God, I'm gonna die.
And I gotta think about dying.
You know, I played golf last Thursday, a good friend of mine, Jimmy Dunn, uh, Sandler O'Neill.
Sandler, they they lost so many employees in 9-11.
And Jimmy has done a lot to put the company back together, and he's he has uh fundraising golf tournaments for the surviving family members.
Uh and his son, Seamus, went out caddied with us.
And uh like 13, I think Seamus is, or uh his brother CJ might be 13.
Anyway, Seamus asked me if I like football.
I said, Oh, yeah, Steelers.
And his eyes lit up.
What about you like Ben Rothlisberger?
I said, Oh, yeah, I love Ben Rothisberger.
Well, what did you think of his motorcycle accident?
And I said, Well, you have to understand, Seamus, I'm 55 years old, and to me, uh Ben Roeflisberger is a 25-year-old kid.
I said, Seamus, let me ask you a question.
Yeah, he was he was in the golf cart with me, because it's raining.
I said, Do you ever think about dying?
He got the most curious look on his face.
No.
I said, right, that's exactly right.
And you shouldn't.
You're 13 years old.
You young people are invincible.
You never think of anything like that happening to you.
And Ben Rothlisberger is 25 years old too.
And he doesn't think about it.
He's invincible.
He's a young, strapping athlete, got the world by the tail.
I guarantee you it never crossed his mind he could die on a motorcycle, probably has now.
I said, Don't let anybody change that attitude about you, Seamus.
Don't let people come along and think that just because you're living your life the way you're living it, you're gonna kill everybody and yourself.
Now, I don't know if he got the message, he's a young boy, but uh he was he was uh engaged, smart kid, both of the Jimmy's kids are.
And I looked at this and I said, this this this the naivete, or maybe it's not the naivete, but the um the wild-eyed anticipation of the future uh that young people have is something everybody ought to try to recapture now and then you remember when you had it yourself when you were younger.
You never thought about it.
Now it's quite natural when you get older and you start approaching a life expectancy, and the lawyers say you gotta do a will, and I mean there's some things as adults you can't avoid it.
You have a family and you've got to think about providing them.
But but that's just a responsible thing to do.
But you don't you don't live the attitude that your death is imminent tomorrow, and unless you're saying, I'm gonna get the most out of this day because I never know.
But people don't some people do that, but I just find so many people immersed in this constant suffering of negative storytelling about the future, things they can't possibly know, and end up living it all or having the attitude of living it all.
Uh and that's where that's where most of the Democratic Party is today, and that's where most of the liberals are today.
And as I say, it's a it's a downward spiral that they're not gonna, they don't even want to get out of it, and they are so deep into it.
That good news is something it will not pierce the armor.
Good news is something they have no desire to even hear.
You see it in the media today, great economic news, uh-uh-uh, gotta be cast as bad, whatever it is right now is bad.
I know some of this is Bush hatred, but a lot of it is simply the attitude of the liberals.
A little long here.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue right after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am Rush Limbaugh, uh, ensconced firmly here in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at our institute behind the golden EIB microphone, Tim in Naperville, Illinois.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Welcome.
Rush, good afternoon.
Afternoon.
Regarding this every lib's fantasy film about killing President Bush.
Um I really believe it's provocative in nature.
I think it's designed with the intention of instigating, or a lib might say, inspiring some wacko kook out there to actually carry it out and go through with it.
What other reason would there be for producing a film like this?
A quote unquote docudrama.
You could have a point.
I I think the psychology behind this in the book that came out, the campaign of 2004, are really interesting in that regard.
Can you imagine during the Clinton years if anybody had come out with a movie, a doc a docudrama on the assassination of Bill Clinton?
I mean, it would have provoked outrage.
How dare this is a wacko extremist.
This person needs to be in jail.
This producer needs to be investigated by the Secret Service and the FBI, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But now we're told, no, no, that is a serious um expose.
Uh and we must delve deeply into understanding the psychological causes that can produce such a movie.
Um we'd have to wait, see this thing to see if they catch who did it and how that person is portrayed.
All we know is that the suspect is considered to be Syrian, but he's not.
And he's that's a wrong suspect.
Uh so I I think there's no question that the left is deranged and has descended into the early stages of madness.
And it has been brought about by the very existence and life of George W. Bush.
So you have to say, where does this come up with uh where they come up with this in the first place?
Where does somebody with a germ of an idea to produce a movie, a doc you drama, on the assassination of George W. Bush, and then to tell us that it is a serious look at the American mindset of today.
It has to be that somebody involved in this wouldn't mind it happening.
It has to be that somebody thinks it might happen.
It has to be that somebody wants it to happen.
It has to be that somebody might think, hey, wonder why it hasn't happened yet.
But clearly, this is not something that just spawns from in the creative juices.
There is a basis in reality for this for these people.
And I just, you know, I don't know how Secret Service deals with this.
I don't know how they dealt with that book.
All I know is is that if you or I go public with our intentions to kill the president, we are going to hear from these people fast.
Uh there will be a knock on the door before we finish the sentence.
I don't know what happens.
These clowns are in Canada where this is being done.
Here's Stuart in uh Moraga, California.
I'm glad you waited, Stuart.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Um, I think that we could get serious about negotiating peace with the Islama fascists if we offered them what they want.
Uh besides just the destruction of Israel, I think if we offered to make our society more in tune with their values, for example, making homosexuality punishable by death, putting women in their place, um, making atheism a crime.
I think that we probably could get them to call off the uh global war on uh freedom.
Uh you know, I understand the point that you're trying to make, but I'm and I'm and I'm glad you called and made it.
But the fact of the matter is, uh you're illustrating my point.
Okay, they want to kill us.
They don't want to change us.
We have to convert totally, not partially.
So we're not gonna negotiate with these people.
And their starting point is we die.
Okay.
Their starting point is we die.
What do we what do we offer as a compromise?
What will it take to get them to compromise off killing us?
Well, my theory is nothing.
But you can do what you say.
Okay, how about if we uh get rid of all gays?
And how about if uh we subjugate all women and have and they'll say, Yeah, keep going.
Okay, how about if we uh uh uh but if we uh Bernie Burger, yeah, keep going.
They're gonna give up nothing.
They're still gonna want to kill us.
Look at uh we start giving up all these things, and it's ridiculous.
That you can't negotiate with these people.
This reminds me uh the uh prime minister of Australia, John Howard, has told Muslims to learn English and deal with equal rights for women or else.
And he is getting he's getting blasted for this.
I will share the details of this with you when we come back after the uh top of the hour timeout, don't go away.
Still lots to go today, folks, and uh a lot of great audio sound bites coming up as well, great stacks of stuff stuff.
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