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Aug. 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, I know.
I'm I'm I'm just I'm working on a concept of a new docudrama.
Working on the concept here of a new movie, ladies and gentlemen.
I have powerful friends in Hollywood.
And they are always looking for story ideas to make uh movies and docudramas out of.
Greetings, welcome back.
Rush Limboy, your host for life, not retiring until every American agrees with me here on the one and only EIB Network coming to you for the final day this week from the uh high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program.
800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at eIBNet.com.
Here the idea, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to pass on to my uh my powerful creative friends in Hollywood.
The basic premise is that former President Clinton uh gets kidnapped and beheaded.
And the docudrama will be an in-depth study of what happens in America and the free world and the Muslim world.
Uh this will be a thought-provoking critique of contemporary society, not just in America, uh, and its ramifications for the war on terror.
Former President Clinton kidnapped and beheaded.
And of course, there'll be a uh a thought-provoking critique of the ramifications of this on Hillary Rodham Clinton.
So I'll be going out to Hollywood.
Let's see, what am I going out there?
Uh week after next.
No, no, no, no, please go for the weekend.
Uh so I will work on the concept here of Bill Clinton being beheaded, uh, kidnapped and beheaded, uh, and the the thought-provoking critique of contemporary society, not just in America, the free world, but in the Muslim world as well.
Uh, and Canada.
We'll want to know what the impact of the beheading of Bill Clinton.
Um we'll have panel discussions, uh uh we'll it's gonna be a docudrama.
The panel discussions will come after the docudrama airs, and we'll screen it uh at a think tank in Washington.
Okay.
Uh John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, has singled out Muslim immigrants for refusing to embrace Australian values.
He's urged them to fully integrate by treating women as equals and learning to speak English.
The call for a shift in attitude among some Muslims infuriated community leaders last night.
And it comes as the Australian can reveal.
This is a newspaper the Australian can reveal the Prime Minister's own Islamic advisors have already accused Mr. Howard and senior members of fueling hatred and mistrust by using inflammatory and derogatory language.
Mr. Howard says there is a section, a small section of the Islamic population, and I say a small section, which is very resistant to integration.
Fully integrating means accepting Australian values.
It means learning as rapidly as you can an English language if you don't already speak it.
He said this uh on the radio, by the way, and he said it also means understanding that in certain areas, such as the equality of men and women, people who come from societies where women are treated in an inferior fashion have got to learn very quickly that that is not the case in Australia.
Well, predictably the comments prompted a fierce reaction from young female Islamic leader Iqtimal Hagi Ali, a member of the Prime Minister's advisory group.
She accused Mr. Howard of threatening to further marginalize Muslims.
There's no value in pointing out the minority of the Muslim group, she said.
Huh?
What does that mean?
There's no value in pointing out the minority of the Muslim group.
She said there's a there's a whole lot of other ethnic communities whose parents whose grandparents don't speak the English language is never a problem in the mainstream Australian community for them to go on living their everyday life without speaking the language.
And as soon as it's a person of Arab descent or a Muslim person, politicians feel like they need to bring it to mainstream attention as the only group like marginalizing us even more than we already feel marginalized today.
I might understand why they feel marginalized, but there's a way around this, and that is when militant Islamo fascists blow up an airplane or blow up a building, stand up and say you denounce it.
It's not that hard.
Audio soundbite time.
I can't, I'm gonna be using this a lot.
I can't, I just can't get over this.
Tim Russert and Matt Wauer today on the Today Show.
This is Tim Russert.
Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq, something the president floated the other day.
Matt, this is 68 days before midterm election.
The Republicans know that in 2002.
All right, stop that's it.
We can't find any Democrats who have suggested cutting funding for Iraq.
What in the world is getting out of Iraq mean?
I I I th this whole thing is just it's it's it is mind-boggling to me in in the in the sense that aren't they out there saying we're spending too much on it?
Harry Reed is.
Tim, these guys are all on your show saying this.
They're saying we're spending too much on the Iraq war.
We could be Harry Reid the other day said for all the money we're spending on Iraq, we could have rebuilt 150,000 jobs in New Orleans.
Some such thing.
I don't understand this.
If the Liberals, Tim, honest to God here, if the Democrats are not trying to get out of Iraq, if if they're not, if they're not trying to see to it that we get out of it, then what's what's the debate?
Why is there even a debate about Iraq?
Tim, if you can't find Democrats to suggest we defund the war and get out, what about all these resolutions?
What is the debate?
Why this is I have to be missing something.
Anyway, since you've heard that, you've heard Russert say it.
Here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday with Nora O'Donnell on PMS NBC.
O'Donnell said, You've called the Iraq War a grotesque mistake.
And what Secretary Rumsfeld said yesterday is that those types of comments essentially are helping the enemy.
And the media over there takes those comments and betrays them and those emboldened terrorists.
Protect the American people, you have to know your power.
And we are diminishing that power by uh this war in Iraq, which is the wrong war.
It is not the war on terror.
It is the wrong war.
We should have stayed in Afghanistan longer and a fuller force to get the job done there.
Tim, that woman didn't even want to go.
Now that she didn't want to go, she wants to get out.
You can't.
Fine, did he Democrat.
This is amazing.
I'm going to tell you something.
To try to cast Democrats now as as never having said pull out, never having said defund it, uh cut funds.
Uh there's a new dance going on out here.
It's you know what it's like?
It's like these Democrats that voted for the war who now insist they never did.
They never did.
They all voted against it.
Not that they voted against it before they voted for it.
They never voted for it.
Or if they get called on that, well, we were lied to.
Had we known then what we know now, uh, we would have never voted for it.
So after all these years of saying Iraq was a mistake, we ought to get out of there.
And we should spend the money better elsewhere.
Uh uh the new spin is now that Rumsy.
See, I'll tell you what's happening here.
Rumsfeld's on attack, and he's hitting the bullseye.
And they can't debate the idea, so they got to change subject.
They have to change the spin.
The spin is we never said that.
What's he talking about?
He's impugning her character.
Blah, blah, blah.
He's just telling the truth.
So we're engaged in a massive spin machine control now where they're going to try to c concoct the notion that Democrats never wanted out of Iraq.
They never said cut the funding for Iraq.
They never cut the budget for Iraq.
What do you want to talk about?
Well, we've got all these sound bites.
Nancy Pelosi get out of there.
Shouldn't have been there in the first place.
O'Donnell says, you know, we're hearing from the White House that uh essentially this is a series of speeches that'll kick off the third round of a defense of the Iraq war.
Just as, of course, we're getting ready to commemorate the five-year anniversary of 9-11.
We're just ten weeks away from the November elections.
Do you, Ms. Pelosi uh see now what the Republican strategy is to defeat the Democrats in November?
And how do the Democrats plan to respond to it?
We will not be swift boated by them.
We again call for a military second to none to protect the American people, diplomatic alliances to maintain the peace, to stop terrorism, to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
This administration has hampered our ability to do that by losing the credibility we have ha have lost.
Because of the war in Iraq.
Really, uh would Democrats.
Did she really say this?
Democrats call for a military second to none to protect the American people, and they accuse Bush of pandering in an election year and coming up with strategy during an election year?
And how are you going to answer the strategy?
And these people are already counting their chickens that they've won the House and the Senate back.
If if they want to protect the military, if they want to be the biggest terrorist fighters in the world, and if they want to do all this, then what is the debate about?
If all of that's true, and if they don't want to defund the Iraq war, what's the debate about there?
Then why haven't they joined the rest of the country in this mission?
Why haven't they joined George W. Bush?
Simply because he's gone to Iraq and he's destroyed our credibility around the world.
Credibility to do what?
Have worthless, meaningless negotiations back in just a second.
Want to go back to the archives of the uh EIB network, ladies and gentlemen, or audio soundbite archive for you rush babies out there who were too young in 1995 to either be paying attention.
Oh, before I do that.
Uh Tim Russert.
Tim.
Um, you know the old I voted for it before I voted against it.
Uh that was an 87, was it 83, 87?
87 billion dollars supplemental to fund the troops in Iraq.
And Kerry voted against it.
And then he flipped and voted for it.
And he went out there and said, Well, I voted uh no.
He voted for it, then voted against it.
I voted for it before I voted against it.
Now, Tim, you're NBC.
You get resources there.
This just came to me from my memory.
But it was a central campaign theme to say that you can't find a Democrat that's voted against the war or voted to defund it.
Uh enough said.
Uh that there's something there's there's something going on here, and I really do think it's an attempt to spin everything.
Uh we never wanted out of Iraq.
We never we said Iraq was the wrong thing to do, but we're not cutting run.
What do you mean cut and run?
UK, we're not cut No!
We've never we've never we never we voted for it.
No, no, we always voted against it.
What do we do?
They're they're pretzeling themselves.
For you rush babies who uh 1995, 11 years ago might not have been up to speed.
I mentioned earlier that uh went to the Gopak uh speech, uh people made a speech, and there was something with uh Medicare going on than as there always is, and I uh Democrats are talking about how that was going to lead to uh senior citizens and Medicare recipients being uh forced to choose between dog food and medicine.
So I made a speech and I told my mother I was happy that uh I was able to afford a new can opener for her so that she could more easily get to the dog food, and how Patsy Schroeder, Congressperson Colorado, believed it, didn't understand it was a joke, making fun of the Democrats and went to the floor of the House and raised hell about it.
We've went to the archives, and here is what she said.
It's November 13th of uh 1995.
And they had the big kahuna of Gopak come speak, none other than Rosh Limbaugh himself, who stood there and said to all these people who paid all this money to keep Gopak rich.
He was hailing the GOP budget.
He said, according to the paper and according to the C-SPAN tape, he thought it was wonderful because it would starve the poor and it would drive Medicare recipients, including his mother, to eat dog food.
But not to worry, Mom, he says, I'm sending you a new can opener.
Wow.
That tells you what today's about.
And I wonder why they don't understand the humor when I handicap the new Survivor Show.
So the next day, November 14th, she did it again.
She was angry with me because I played the above sound bite on the air and and said that uh gonna send my mom some mighty dog and a new can opener.
So she went back to the floor of the house the next day.
We see them saying that it's perfectly all right that we cut loose on the safety net that had been there for America's children, and for people who are relying on Medicare.
We see them having their favorite comedian come and talk about, oh, this is great.
My mother will be on dog food.
The poor will starve, but we'll get them new can openers.
Isn't that wonderful?
You know, I don't really think that's too funny.
I don't think that's funny at all.
It's not the America I knew that's you're up there saying it's what's gonna happen, Patsy.
At any rate, they just they just threw her words right back at her, and really we just made an idiot out of her because she didn't really understand it was a joke, and she had to cover by saying uh don't see the humor.
My mother thought it was hilarious.
My mother wanted the can opener anyway.
I ended up getting her a new can opener.
But it wasn't for the dog foot flight, she had a little cat.
Uh Rich in Riverside, California, great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey, Rush, uh long time listener since 89 up in Sacramento.
Moved there from Missouri, uh enjoy your show a lot.
Thank you very much.
As as while as my wife, she listens to you is the same.
Um reason I'm calling uh I was in the Marine Corps in '66 to '68.
I enlisted for two years.
I had two year enlistment.
And I went to Vietnam.
I knew where I was going when I went.
And when I came back, um, well, we all know how that went.
Um we have much different commander in chief now, which is key.
But uh what I remember is about the same thing that's happening now.
And I know the Democrats and the media try to make this or try to, I think they've kind of given up on it recently.
As another Vietnam conflict, they'd throw that in there to see if it would stick occasionally.
But the only thing I see that's similar to Vietnam is is the same ideology of the left and their conversations.
Now, what happened in Vietnam, we know about two, three million people got slaughtered when we pulled a plug there and pulled out.
Exactly.
Now, what happens now is they're coming here.
You know, we can we can make this a game and a political show, but the president's the only breath of fresh air that says what's really going on.
And people better wake up.
Because when the plug's pulled over there, brother, that means the pool gets refilled.
We're swimming around in there with a lot of terrorists.
And it won't be long, and I don't mean very long at all.
They're gonna be here.
Well, they've already been here.
That's the thing that's so amazing.
They've already been here.
I know what you're saying, but they already have been here.
They're probably here now again, living amongst us.
It's not that hard.
Uh, but you're exactly right.
Pull a plug in a Vietnam, get out and a Democrat.
This isn't this the thing about that to the Democrats who they hate death and they hate killing.
They hate wanton killing and massacre and genocide and all that.
Well, old Paul Pott went to town.
Ho Chi Men and his cronies went to town with the when the North finally went and took over the South and we fled out of there.
Three million people killed.
The Democrats, that's a highlight of their life.
That is an immediate too.
Why, man, that is Springsteen time.
That is the glory days.
That is, and they want to relive it, and they want to do it again, and they somehow think that by pulling out of a rock, we're gonna enhance our reputation around the world.
And I don't know what that's gonna have anything to do with the terrorists who want to kill us, who already hate us, and they're not, and we're not gonna ch we're they're not gonna hate us less because Democrats are in the White House or running the show in Congress, and Bush is gone, and they're not gonna hate us any less because somehow we get along with a bunch of Western European socialist countries better than we get along with them now.
They're just these people, folks, it's it they are dangerous.
I'm talking about the American left and people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed and those who echo their sentiments, is they just it is it's disastrous.
Eric or Rich, I'm sorry I'm I'm so glad you called because you are so right on the money to put it in that context.
Uh and And when you say that the you know the Cambodians and Vietnamese and so forth are here, I know you're talking about immigration.
You're not talking about they're not continuing the war here.
But the point is they'd come.
The terrorists are already here, but after if we pulled out of there, that would be Mogadishu times 10.
They would it would be it would be utter disaster.
They would be so emboldened and so confident uh nothing would stop them.
And they would have everything that they have been doing up to now confirmed uh as the right thing to do.
Uh Democrats are in utter disaster right now.
They just literally are.
And the American left as well.
We got to be back right after this.
And I have another question, ladies and gentlemen.
We're getting back into this business.
The Iraq war is a disaster.
It's an absolute unmitigated disaster.
It's horrible.
It was a mistake, we should have never gone there.
It's destroyed this.
It's destroyed our reputation in the world.
And if it prevented us in actually winning the war on terror, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
If the war is such a disaster, and if the liberals really believe that, why wouldn't they support cutting off the funding for it?
Why wouldn't they support these resolutions to get the hell out of there?
Why would you keep funding a disaster?
Why would you keep investing in a disaster?
I mean, that's what the journalists need to be asking.
And of course, I know why.
They need a disaster that well, they need something they can say as a disaster as a campaign issue.
So they are happy for things to go to hell.
Even though they're not, but they would be more than happy for things to go to hell.
Just to campaign on it.
And if they don't go to hell, they'll tell us they're going to hell anyway.
Things are going to hell, not them.
Let's see.
You gotta hear this.
Oh, by the way, do you know you've heard this big oil spill over there in the Philippines?
Do you know what they're combating the oil spill with?
Hair.
They're cutting off people's hair.
People are volunteering going bald and using chicken feathers, and they're putting hair in a bunch of bags like sandbags, they're throwing it out there that apparently just soaks up.
Well, you know how oily your hair can get if you don't wash it.
Hair apparently can soak up all kinds of oil.
And so it's a public service over there.
The uh Filipinos are getting shaved to uh soak up.
Hey, it like it makes more sense than grabbing a bottle of dawn and some paper towels and heading out wiping off the rocks at uh at Prince William Sound.
We had a caller about this yesterday, ABC Last Days on Earth.
Uh ABC's 2020 special called The Last Days on Earth, Elizabeth Vargas last night uh focuses on the possibility that the geyser out there at Jelly Stone Park could explode at any time.
Few realize that one of the world's largest supervolcanoes lies underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Yellowstone experiences a super eruption about once every 600,000 years.
The last one was more than 630,000 years ago.
If Yellowstone was going to erupt, it is possible that we might have very little warning that a series of eruptions were about to begin.
Oh, yes, the crisis mentality.
And did you hear the breathless read?
Few realize that one of the world's largest supervolcanoes lies underneath Yellowstone National Park.
Wyoming.
And it's late.
You know, at uh every 600,000 years of things goes kablooey, and it's 30,000 years late.
30,000.
Now, of course, this is designed to scare the hell out of you.
It's designed to make you think, well, if if if global warming is going to kill you, the black hole is going to kill you, then this this the geyser out there will kill you.
The uh the volcano.
All right, now if if it's 30,000 years late, what what what all's gone on in the last 30,000 years?
Just to put this in perspective, the pyramids got built either by those aliens or by the Egyptians.
We're still not sure who built the pyramids.
Stonehenge.
Uh ancient Rome, 2,000 plus years ago, Coliseum, the Forum, uh some of the great artifacts of the world.
All of the I mean, try to put this in perspective.
But it's 30,000 years late.
Yes, it could happen tonight.
It could happen tonight.
It could happen tonight before I get to see the George Bush assassination movie.
Oh no.
Then they went out on their special The Last Days on Earth with Elizabeth Vargas.
They asked people what they would do if a black hole was gonna hit Earth.
This story just happened two days ago.
Somebody put the idea how horrible it would be if a black hole swallowed us up.
Already out there asking about it.
Vargas said to people on the street, for example, an asteroid, a black hole where we can see we'll know the exact time and date of our death, sometimes decades in advance.
The question is, what do you do when you know the date of your death?
And we actually asked a lot of people that very question.
If I knew that the world was gonna come to an end, I would travel over the world.
Swim in the ocean, spent more time with the grandchildren.
I'll probably cry a lot, party like their tomorrow.
I would go probably back to my concert and take my family with me.
I definitely want to see my family one more time.
See my family?
My family.
This is pathetic.
This is embarrassingly pathetic.
The answer to the question if somebody from ABC sticks a camera and a microphone on your nose, says, What do you do when you know the date of your death?
So I've never thought about it.
Get out of here.
My family, my family, my family, my family, my family party all night.
I just smoke a cigar.
I said, I chain smoke cigars.
I go out and try to find every woman I could I ever wanted to meet.
What do you what are we gonna say here?
I'd kill myself.
I can't stand the tension.
I hate waiting.
I'm impatient.
I'm gonna jump into Niagara Falls.
And then in the last days on Earth with Elizabeth Vargas, she talked to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who put the icing on the cake.
She said, How crucial is the next one hundred years to the survival of the human race.
Now remember, we've been around here, I don't know how long it's a debatable question, but this geyser erupts every six hundred thousand years.
We're 30,000 years late.
In those 30,000 years, there's been quite a lot of advancement in human civilization.
But the next hundred years.
Here is Hawking's answer.
We face a number of threats to our survival from nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, and genetically engineered viruses.
The number is likely to increase in the future with the development of new technologies, a new way things can go wrong.
All the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a good near may be quite low.
That's a over time and becomes an uncertainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years.
By that time we should have spread out into space until other stars.
So a disaster on Earth would not be the end of the human race.
Well, there you have it.
We just got to spread out to some other stars.
We got 10,000 years.
Well, I mean, the odds of 10,000 years, a thousand to ten thousand years, and we're d we're doomed, folks.
It's over.
An asteroid black hole's gonna hit it, even though we're 23, 30,000 years beyond the deadline here for that geyser to go bongo uh out in a Jellystone Park.
Well, you know what I think about this.
This is this is exactly what I was talking.
It's a kind of of made-up invented, self-imposed storytelling about the future that we cannot possibly know.
We have a scientist though say, Oh, yes, we can know it, and so that's gonna happen.
You couple this with the fact, and this is unarguable.
Every generation has people in it who think that we're in the last days.
It can't get any worse, Rush.
We're going to hell on a handbasket.
Why look at the cultural decay?
Why look at how we're monkeying around with a human genome?
Look at what we're doing at cloning.
It isn't gonna be long.
Yeah, well, I can say the same thing.
God could be watching the Oprah Winfrey show and say, human race is a failure, I'm ending it tomorrow.
But nobody knows.
And so all this stuff can limit you in experiencing the most that you can get out of life, because just sit around and wait for disaster.
It's just a shame.
It's just a shame that it's it's come to this in the drive by media.
Nate in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yes, uh small business owner, uh veteran ditto's right.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Yes.
Uh had a quick point to make uh about the you talked yesterday about the uh people out in California and Oregon and whatnot that uh running over people and uh claiming to be terrorists, and the police are not paying them any attention.
Yes.
Um I'm just curious, i if this would happen in Israel, you had an Arab running over uh citizens there and then claiming to be a terrorist, they'd probably agree that he was a terrorist.
Yeah.
But here though, they're just mentally unstable because of prearranged marriages and uh uh something.
You know, they're just not they're not happy people.
Right.
It's just accidental.
It's just one of these quirky things.
It happens once or twice a month.
I I do have an answer to a couple of your uh self-imposed questions, though.
Yes.
Uh I I figured out what Tim Russard is is saying.
Oh.
Good.
Let me know let me let me in on it.
Well, he he's claiming that nobody wants to defund Iraq.
So you have to look at the exact wording because uh he's talking about defunding Iraq.
But Kerry voted to do that.
Kerry voted to do that.
No, they defund they voted defund the warrant.
War on Iraq.
Yeah.
They'd be happy to send money over to Iraq till you know the end of eternity.
They just don't want us to be over there.
Uh but but but uh maybe be missing you here, but uh but didn't Tim Russers well, let me go back.
What is it?
Sound like four?
Three.
Let's l you sure it's I think it's four.
Could be three.
Hell I have these numbers run together.
I thought he talked about they couldn't find anybody who defunded the war in a right.
Couldn't find a Democrat who'd voted to defund Yeah, it's his number three.
I thought it was just listen to it.
Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq, something the president.
Right, stop today.
Cutting off fund that means eliminating it totally.
I guess they can't find that.
That's the point.
Then Tim ought to say, well, it's if it's such a disaster, why aren't you suggesting this?
Maybe they he just meant since they, you know, asked five minutes ago.
Uh let's put everything in context.
Yes.
Ever so true.
All right, thank you out there.
Uh appreciate it.
Nate.
We've got to run a quick brief time out.
We'll be back and continue with broadcast excellence after this.
What was it?
A couple days ago, maybe yesterday, we told you about the New York Times story.
It's two days ago.
New York Times story, real wages down.
It's horrible out there.
We've got productivity is way up, but money's going down at tubes.
Nobody's earning anything.
It's desperation time.
We gotta find some stars to move to because it's impossible to live and make money right now in the American economy.
What a difference three days make.
Seventy-two little hours.
Ken Shepherd from the Business and Media Institute.
Within seventy-two hours, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a seven percent wage increase over the last year after inflation.
Uh this is David Leonhardt and Stephen Greenhouse, somberly noting in the August 28th edition of the New York Times, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages.
And then they added a political spin to data showing the median hourly wage dipping two percent since 2003 after factoring in inflation.
However, new data released on August 30th pushed Leon Hart to admit the death of wage growth he wrote about earlier might be greatly exaggerated in a different publication, not the New York Times.
In an August 31st business day, which is two-day.
A story about I'm sorry, it is in the New York Times.
So business day section in New York Times, same place.
Story about how new government data on the gross domestic product Leonhardt found economists arguing the new report was a welcome sign at a time of significant uncertainty about the economy's direction.
Perhaps the biggest surprise he writes today was new evidence of a surge in wage and salary income in the first half of this year, with pay up at an annual pace around seven percent after adjusting for inflation, according to an economic consulting firm MFO.
MFR.
What's more, Leon Hart conceded, as a result, wages and salaries no longer make up their smallest share of the gross domestic product since World War II.
Instead, they now account for 46.1% of economic output in the second quarter, an increase from 45.4% last year.
So that 28 story, I told you I knew it, it was bogus from the get-go.
Here is Lyle in Tampa, Florida.
Hi, Lyle.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you very much, Rush.
I have tears in my eyes right now.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Well, thank you, sir.
Very much.
Which is very few people today know what that word means.
But the reason I'm calling you is regarded to a call from Jill.
Oh, yeah, Jill from Ithaca, New York.
Wherever she's from.
Tell her how bad it is out there.
And I want to tell you and your listeners.
I'm not telling you how bad it's for my neighbors.
I'm not telling you how bad it's for my community or my country.
I'm talking about me.
And guess what?
It's not bad.
I've worked all my life.
I was a second lieutenant in the army on my way to go to Vietnam.
I had an auto accident.
Put me in bed for eight weeks.
I was not able.
I was 4F.
A lot of my buddies went there.
I continued my life.
I fought many battles, we all do.
But to hear this woman talk about it, I made a lot of money my life.
I lost a lot of money.
I'm telling you, Russ, you know, we we have cards in life.
We have choices.
This is what's great about this world.
And a great about the religion, and I'm proud to be a Christian.
We can make our own choices.
It's up to us.
And I made choices, made right choices, made wrong choices.
But I was able to have a family.
I got four beautiful kids.
I lost my wife to cancer.
I got it a year later.
I almost died.
But I won.
I believe in what you believe in.
There's only one outcome of a war, no matter how little it may be to the individual.
It's victory.
That's where it comes from.
And you're listening to me.
I did it.
I'm 64.
I lost everything.
I own nothing.
But I'm a proud American.
I voted Republican all my life, and I'll be Republican till I die.
But I'll tell you this, Rush.
I'm on Medicare.
It was costing me, I haven't, as I said, nothing.
It was cost me $65 a month for about $300 a month medication through Hillsborough County in Tampa.
I went on to the Medicare Drug Program.
You know how much I pay now?
How much?
$25 a month.
And all you hear is people complaining about what.
I'm not sure.
Well, there's a big difference.
You know, Lyle, there's a big difference between you and the people that you're talking about, and they have either it's who they are or they've succumbed to the pressure around them, but they just succumbed to uh succumb to becoming victims.
They they they've bought into the victim status.
Uh it it it sort of exempts them from any responsibility.
It's somebody else's fault, like the caller Jill you referred to.
I mean, she feels like a victim, and she thinks her neighbor is a victim, her disabled neighbor, and so forth.
And that's uh I I hate to tell it, uh there's a there's an ideology in a political party that seeks to create as many of those people as possible so they can vote for them, and that's a Democratic Party.
The fact is we have, and I'm a firm believer that I'm not alone.
I'm not alone, and there's no doubt in my mind, when this election happens, you're gonna I I really truly believe that the Republicans are gonna take seats away from the Democrats, not the others.
Because you know we'll never meet a more positive man than me.
And you never get anywhere thinking negatively.
Nobody has and nobody will.
Well, God bless you, Lyle.
I tell you, I uh people need to hear from people like you more and more.
Uh that that was uplifting and it was inspiring, and it um it it brought tears to some people's eyes, I'm certain.
God bless you, sir.
I am so honored to have you as a member of this audience.
And I uh I hope your optimism bears out in November.
We'll be right back.
And Rushlin Bowen, my charmless self.
Now taking leave, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll see you uh shortly uh uh tomorrow.
Actually, uh back from the EIB Southern Command.
Look forward to it.
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