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Sept. 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I told you, I told you it was going to happen.
We cannot get away from Katrina news.
But the White House is countering.
And they countered brilliantly.
And we have the audio tape to illustrate.
You also will not believe what the next season, starting soon, of Survivor is going to do.
You will not believe the format of Survivor.
And the New York Times says that Iran will not give uh a promise to end its uranium effort.
The question is, what's a promise from these people worth anyway?
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, three hours of broadcast excellence, hosted by me, living legend L. Rushbow, America's anchor man, real anchor man, as well as a doctor of democracy, and your truth detector, all combined as one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Now, as I announced yesterday, I'm following the advice of Pope Benedict, and I'm not going to work too hard so that I don't become cold hearted or hard-hearted.
He says if you work too much, you become too hard, hard-hearted.
And I can understand, especially when your work consists of immersing yourself daily in the drive-by and media bubble.
You have to wear a uh a virtual uh armor, set of armor here to provide boundaries to keep myself from becoming affected by it.
And uh so I'll be out tomorrow and Friday.
As such, we're going to do open line Friday on Wednesday today.
And that means uh when we go to the phones, the program's all yours.
Whatever you want to talk about, uh feel free.
There's no such thing as being off topic uh on an open line phone day.
And so feel free if you if you there's something you want to talk about that hasn't been discussed.
Uh and uh Snerdley's worried that uh doing this on any other day but Friday increases the risk of uh of of amateur callers taking control of the program because they're you think they're s th that they're conditioned to only being ready to do so on Friday.
Yeah.
Well, if it's a I don't I don't care.
I mean, that's that's fine and dandy, it'll be fun.
800-282-2882 if you'd like to be on the program, and a hearty welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Well, Senator McCain, who some are calling Senator McCrazy.
Senator McCain is uh is back.
He's sucking up to the drive-by media and taking cheap shots at President Bush.
He was in Ohio yesterday campaigning uh for and with Senator Mike DeWine said this at a news conference.
I think one of the biggest mistakes we made was underestimating the size of the task and the sacrifice it would be required.
Stuff happens, uh mission accomplished, last throws few dead enders.
I'm as more familiar with those statements than anyone else because it grieves me so much that we have not uh told the American people how tough and difficult this task uh would be.
I'm going to go back.
I have a quote here from President Bush on April 28th of 2003.
My May I read that uh quote to you?
Iraq can be an example of peace and prosperity and freedom to the entire Middle East.
It will be a hard journey, but at every step of the way, Iraq will have a steady friend in the American people.
Uh I'm I I am not aware of the president.
I well, I'm not aware of myself ever thinking this was gonna be a cake walk.
Uh, and I'm I'm not aware of the administration making the case.
I think that mission accomplished banner on board the aircraft carrier.
Um, you know, some could say that was misleading.
Uh but the mission at that time was accomplished.
That was getting rid of Saddam.
The the war in Iraq actually was quite successful and didn't take very long.
It is the aftermath, the quest for peace, so to speak, uh, that uh is taking a long time.
I don't think the president misled anybody about it.
Anyway, here is what McCain wanted.
He wanted coverage on all the evening news, the cable channels, drive-by media adulation.
McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain and he got it.
Here's a montage.
Senator McCain says that the administration misled the public about the war, led the public to think it would be a day at the beach.
War of words.
Senator John McCain comes out swinging, accusing the president of misleading the American people.
Making them think it would be some kind of day at the beach.
Tough talk.
McCain ripped into the administration for painting too rosy a picture and trying to lead the American people into believing the war was some kind of day at the beach.
President Bush faces tough criticism, and this comes from a key supporter, Republican Senator John McCain.
McCain blamed the Bush administration for leading the American people to believe the war in Iraq would be a day at the beach.
Senator John McCain is turning up the volume on his criticism of the war in Iraq.
McCain blasted top Bush officials for painting too rosy a picture in the war.
Tough talk.
One very prominent member of the GOP.
Strong words from John McCain.
John McCain has not simply been a cheerleader.
Senator John McCain hit the administration hard.
Could it be a revival of the straight talk express?
Oh, ha that was uh that was our old friend Claire Shipman at ABC, panting away.
Are we going to get the Straight Talk Express back?
This is why Senator McCain is going to have trouble in the Republican primaries.
He is appealing to the uh uh the base instincts of the drive-by media.
The Republican primary voters have no love for the drive-by media.
Anybody pandering to the drive-by media is not somebody the Republican base is going to be excited about.
Then you add to that the fact that McCain, in pandering to the drive-by media, had to go out and attack the administration on an area in which the administration shows its strongest suit.
The American people are behind well, the Republican base, let's just stick with them, uh, very much behind the president in this whole effort.
In fact, USA Today had this poll out yesterday to confirm something that I've been th thinking about for the longest time.
Poll has his approval rating back up to 42 percent.
And the uh excuse me, according to the poll, the reason that the uh uh approval numbers up is is that uh the uh uh American people loved the response to recent acts or attempted acts of terrorism.
Uh uh illustrating one of my uh theories that over the course of these recent months where his approval numbers have been in the mid to high thirties.
Uh, it's not because people disapprove per se of the way Bush is doing this or doing that, it's because they wish people would uh Republicans anyway, in the poll wish they would do more.
Project U.S. power, go in and kick butt and show the world what we're capable of, and end this thing with a stunning victory.
And with the poll shooting up to over 40 percent, 42 percent in USA Today, uh I think that view tends to be validated.
Now, in all fairness, uh and I want to mention this to you in in uh in conjunction with Senator McCain's pandering of the drive-by media and criticizing this administration for its words about the war in Iraq.
ABC last night had a very rare positive report on ABC's World News tonight.
Charles Gibson reported encouraging news from Baghdad.
The decision was made to redeploy thousands of U.S. troops from the Baghdad area from other areas of Iraq to secure the city and reduce the number of daily attacks.
Well, the numbers are preliminary, but it seems to be working.
After two weeks, Iraqi authorities say that the number of violent attacks has gone down by thirty percent.
ABC reporters said by saturating some of the most dangerous neighborhoods, they have reduced violence across Baghdad by almost a third.
U.S. figures calculated differently show a 22 percent drop.
Either way, the Americans are fired up.
And they quote Lieutenant Patrick Patterson of the 114th Cavalry, who says, Yeah, it's been great.
We got a lot of smiles, we got a lot of waves.
Still, despite the positive tone, ABC's McCarthy concluded, hope has often gone sour in Iraq.
If they can't make their own peace, America's success in Baghdad could quickly be reversed.
Well, that's the new not new, that's the formulaic balance that the media has to put in that all kinds of great news.
But But just so we're fair, it could all go to hell in a handbasket in the next five minutes.
So on the day Senator McCain goes out and uh and is critical in order to get this loving slavish attention from the drive-by media, the news out of Iraq, pretty good.
That's almost the same kind of thing that happens with Democrats, opening a noor right into their noses and so forth.
Uh and this, as I say, was reported on ABC's World News Tonight last night.
Now, speaking of Iraq, uh I ask you a question.
Do you you think you've been manipulated, ladies and gentlemen?
Uh because you should.
Uh you've been conned, you have been diddled, you've been twisted, you've been stroked.
Um any other word that says you've been had, you and all of us have been assaulted by the drive-by media, by the action line, by the images of deaths in combat day after day, week after we've three.
Now, why do I bring this up?
Well, because today's Washington Post has an interesting story.
Highway deaths in 2005 hit 43,344, and that's close to a high.
Now, the number of highway deaths in this country, 43,344 in 2005, is 40 to 50 times our troop losses in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Well, 10 or 20 times at least.
Uh, and and a whole lot more deaths per month than any civil war in Iraq if there was or is a civil war in Iraq.
Uh, I don't know whatever happened to if it bleeds, it leads.
But there's a whole lot more bleeding on our highways than in the war zone of Iraq out there, and there are a whole lot more dying going on on the American highway system than there is in the so-called civil war in Iraq.
And I don't hear a word from John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, or John Mertha, or Joe Biden or Howard Dean.
For every Cindy Sheehan, there are 40 to 50 mothers who have suffered far worse heartbreak.
Cindy's son gave his life for his country, not for going to the drugstore.
I think it's time for your host to read the riot act here, ladies and gentlemen.
I expect the following will offend almost everyone, but somebody has to say it.
When our nation is at war, your duty is to support it, not offer your precious little opinion.
But Russia and democracy, it's our right, it's our right to defend and so forth.
Yeah, well, you know, instead of thinking about your rights, uh, leftists, you might be thinking about your responsibilities.
And among those responsibilities is not to signal the enemy that we are divided and one election away from quitting, or that you are sabotaging our effort to achieve victory over this enemy, in effect, trying to secure our defeat.
And it's not wise to signal the people of Iraq that we're ready to cut them off of the knees.
The president says it isn't going to happen anyway, but uh nevertheless, there are agitators in this country who are actively promoting combat losses for political gain.
The the, you know, the count?
A thousand.
And then fifteen hundred, and then two thousand and twenty-five hundred.
Well, let's do a count of highway deaths on a daily basis.
See how long it would take us to get to a thousand if we're having nearly forty-four thousand a year.
It is uh an illustration of a lack of proportion.
In fact, the roadway deaths is a uh highest level in fifteen years.
43,443 Americans every year, ladies and gentlemen, and we're here tearing ourselves into uh rags, pretzeling ourselves into contortions over the combat deaths in Iraq.
Uh uh regardless and mindless of the heroic mission that is taking place.
And of course, the stories have been out there that battlefield combat deaths are at an all-time low, and this upsets the left.
It upsets them, and they run stories in Reuters.
Well, that's a problem.
Too many people coming home without arms and legs.
It'd be better off dead.
Too many surgeons out there on the front lines saving lives that ought not be saved, ought to be in the rear, saving lives that have more useful.
This is they have said this, folks.
They're upset we couldn't figure it out when it first happened, but now we know why.
They want combat deaths.
They want to be able to gin up anti-war support.
Uh where is the ginning up of the uh uh anti-automobile support, anti-SUV support with the highway death toll at nearly 44,000 in 2005.
Back after this, stay with us.
Yes, see, I told you so, Time.
From uh from our old buddies of the Associated Press, no less than a half dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with a one-year anniversary of the storm.
Told you this, told you to get ready for this, folks.
The reports document a host of problems from the still unfinished levies to the plight of small businesses in the city's continuing racial divide.
Why should there be any racial divide?
This place is a liberal utopia.
Why should there be a racial divide here at all?
Many of the reports focus on the failure of federal dollars to reach their intended targets.
Oxfam America, a charitable organization, reports point out that uh although 17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.
Well, now that's interesting.
Why do you think that is?
Why?
I well, yeah, if you believe it.
I mean, but let's just say the drive-by media saying it.
That's what they're trying to try to get people all revved up.
Why would that possi?
How could that possibly be?
$17 million, $70 billion, sorry, approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana, Mississippi.
Not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.
Now, this is quite curious, ladies and gentlemen.
Could it could it be that the money just isn't getting to the people?
This is Louisiana after all.
Could it be the money isn't getting to the people whose homes need to rebuild to be rebuilt?
Could it be that people haven't gotten ready to rebuild their homes yet for whatever reason?
Could it be that while the money has been authorized, it's not there yet.
Congress can do what it hey, we're giving you 17 billion dollars.
Sign the bill, president signs it, bam o done.
No, not quite.
Could it be that the bureaucracy of the federal government still hasn't gotten the money down there?
A report from the Democratic members of the House Small Business Committee found that 80% of small businesses on the uh on the Gulf Coast have not yet received loans promised by the federal government.
The small business administration has approved loans in excess of ten billion, but only two billion has found its way to business owners.
Obviously, the Bush administration hates Democrats.
Obviously, the Bush administration doesn't want New Orleans rebuilt and constituted as it was.
Obviously, the Bush administration wants Hurricane Katrina evacuees to stay in Houston where they continue to wreak and ravish mayhem uh in uh in that city.
In the meantime, the Louisiana Democratic Congressman caught on FBI Surveillance uh surveillance tapes, taking $90,000 in cash.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, has been selected by the Democratic Congressional Caucus to lead a delegation from Capitol Hill on a tour of New Orleans next week to quote, join in prayer with the people of the region to reflect and remember.
Who wants to remember it?
Who wants you think the people that live down there want to relive this?
You you you wanna you want to see where they were they think the people want to go through and reflect and remember going through hell?
Maybe that's not what's gonna happen.
Maybe what's gonna happen is that Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana is gonna take these Democrats on a tour to say this is where I commandeered a united or a National Guard vehicle and had them drive me to my fashionable uptown neighborhood.
This is my fashionable uptown neighborhood.
This is where the National Guard vehicle got stuck in the mud while I was inside my house for an entire hour trying to get uh the some items I desperately needed out of my freezer and my microwave.
Uh and uh this is when I came out of the house, and that's where the helicopter came to rescue us all because the original vehicle was stuck in the in the mud.
Uh and and uh this is this is how I got out of there.
And while all this was going on, this is the bridge where people were desperately waving to be picked up by helicopters that were actually ferrying me out of my uptown neighborhood with whatever it was I pulled out of my microwave in there.
Uh One of the one of the quotes uh is Ken Bohm, the chairman of the National Legal Policy Center, a political ethics watchdog group, said I suppose if if uh Representative Cunningham uh could get out of federal prison, uh they could have him co-lead the tour with uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
So all these all these remembrances, reflection and remembrance of going through hell.
Coming next, uh Rocky Vaccarella, man who lost his home in um a hurricane Katrina, met with the president in the Oval Orifice today, and following the Oval Orifice meeting, they went out and met the press in a brief press conference.
We have the audio tape standing by.
Happily making the complex understandable here on the EIB network.
The more I read this story on what the new um the new concept of survivor is that starts on September 14th, the more unbelievable it is.
What?
Well, Mr. Snurdly is inputting here as the official program observer.
I will spare you his input.
Let's go to the...
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
The president and Rocky Varella, New Orleans resident who lost his home to Hurricane Katrina, spoke to the press after a meeting in the Oval Orifice.
Here's the President first and a couple sound bites from Rocky Vacarella.
Rock's a plain spoken guy.
He's the kind of fellow I feel comfortable talking to.
I told him that I understand that there's people down there that still need help.
And I told him the federal government will work with the state and local authorities to get the help to him as quickly as possible.
I want to thank the members of Congress and both political parties that helped us pass over 110 billion dollars of appropriations.
And that's gonna help the folks.
I told him that to the extent that there's still bureaucratic hurdles and the need for the federal government to help eradicate those hurdles, we want to do that.
And now here's Rocky Vaccarella.
The President's people person, I knew that from the beginning.
I was confident that I can meet President Bush.
And my mission was very simple.
I wanted to thank President Bush for the millions of FEMA trailers that were brought down there.
They gave roofs over people's head.
People had the chance to have baths, air conditioned.
We have TV, we have toiletry, we have things and necessities that we can live upon.
But now I wanted to remind the president that the job's not done, and he knows that.
And I just don't want the government and President Bush to forget about us.
Um did anybody hear Rocky talk about uh uh Mayor Blanco, uh Governor Blanco or uh or the mayor of school bus Nagan.
I I didn't hear that.
No, I didn't uh we don't have everything that Rocky said.
Get this next one.
And I just wish the president could have another term in Washington a minute.
You know, I wish you had another four years, man.
If we had this president for another four years, I think we'd be great.
Okay.
Well, Rocky, you just blew it.
You had a chance to be a star.
The drive-by media could make a hero out of you, um, uh, and all that.
But then when you go advocating for President Bush to remain in power, you're just gonna become another Hayseed Southern hick uh with an IQ of that of a pencil eraser.
Be ready, sir.
Uh we are warning you here uh that your your portrayal, if this gets any more coverage, will not be uh favor who how how s oh how Mother Sheehan feels about uh president meeting Rocky Vaccarella.
Well, Cindy already had her meeting with President Bush.
Uh Cindy's not stable anyway, so she did.
She had a meeting with President Bush long ago.
Where she was very thankful and and so forth.
She just Cindy's not stable.
That's it's uh typical the way the left uses people.
Let's go to the phones.
Chris in Dallas, open line Friday on Wednesday.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Well, I was telling to see if uh you were planning on getting one of those new Apple Mac Pros that they released a few weeks ago.
Yes, uh, in fact, I'm getting four of them.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, I was wondering what you're gonna do with your old computer.
Um we're gonna turn them into servers.
Uh uh servers wait for the website for the uh for all the email accounts that we have here that'll become uh they'll become servers.
Yeah, I well I've uh uh no no no no no we have a server farm here, uh the EIB Southern Command.
They're gonna be turned into servers here.
I have I have a computer here and at home, and also at home and at work at the studio in New York, uh, Chris, and that's why the need for plus I got a I got a seventeen inch Mac Pro when I take on the road when uh when I need a computer on the road.
Right.
You gonna get one?
Well, I'd like to.
I'm starting, I'm trying to uh follow in the true I'm a rush baby, just uh as a matter of fact, and I was trying to follow the true rush footsteps.
I'm gonna start my own web and graphic design business and uh I'd like to do one of the new ones, but uh really can't afford one, so I was uh looking to see if you might be willing to part with one of your old ones.
Oh that's you know, Rocky, uh or Chris, if I were paranoid, you know what I would think.
Well, I would think that you were just kissing up to me that you want to try to get one of my old computers thinking that I think I'll erase the hard drive, but you'll be able to go in there and get super secret data from it as maybe a uh as a member of one of these kook lib uh blog websites.
You know, these new Mac pros, they're not they're you you can you can custom make these things to where they're they're they're not nearly as expensive as the old power back G fives were.
Uh and yeah, you can do the uh uh mine I'm not gonna get mine till the middle of September uh uh because I I order them loaded and there's a delay with the airport extreme card and the uh and the video card that I want.
Uh so but but no, they're they're great machines, and you know the the uh great thing about Macs is that you don't have any problem with viruses with them.
Right.
Well I've got uh I've got an old power book, but it's uh just uh not doing the job for me as far as the kind of stuff that I'm gonna need to do when I uh start the business.
Well, you know, I uh uh th this is the interesting question.
I mean, you want to start a business, you want the business to be the best it can be, and you've got the need here for a business expense.
I mean you're this is this is gonna the the computer would be fundamental to your business expense.
Right uh so finding a way to get one uh will be will be crucial.
You'll make it pay for itself with the with the business that you're able to produce and generate with it, uh I would think.
You you can you can get into one of these things for a couple thousand dollars.
Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure I can.
I just wanted to uh see if you're getting one of those new ones because they've uh look pretty dang fast.
And uh I'm sure you're gonna be able to do that.
They are.
They are well.
I appreciate your interest in one of my old ones, but uh uh we have uh plans.
I I uh uh you know, I you should have called a couple weeks ago when I was getting rid of my projector uh in my media room, I gave that to the homeless.
Um uh computers and the homeless, I don't know.
I don't know how they connect to the internet out there under the bridge.
Uh well, could get a wireless Verizon card or some such thing as that, perhaps.
Anyway, Chris, thanks for the call.
Amy Louisville, open line Friday on Wednesday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Megadeth's from another rush baby.
Thank you.
Um and I just had a comment, uh quick comment on Senator McCain, what he said.
Um I'm a military wife, and my husband went over to Iraq as soon as the war ended, as soon as Saddam fell.
And um I don't feel misled at all.
Uh he told me, my husband told me before he went over there that this would be the hard part.
Um not the actual war itself, but the stabilization.
Yeah.
And um I personally have not heard an uh President Bush say anything, but it's gonna be a tough road.
Well, you know, look, the the lib's just something trying to make a big case out of this uh uh that Bush lied.
You know, the the theme is Bush lied.
So when you have the banner that says mission accomplished, Bush lied.
Uh when Cheney says uh the insurgency is in its last throws, Cheney lied.
Um what what what's uh you know what what's continually troubling about this is Senator McCain's pandering to the drive by media at the expense of his own party.
Uh and his own president.
On a one hand, he's very supportive of the president, very supportive of the war.
On the other hand, he thinks Rumsfeld ought to go.
Because that fits in dovetails right with where the drive by media is on Rumsfeld.
To come out and say that the American people were misled on this, why don't you tell us this at the beginning, Senator?
Why don't you come when the president said what he said or said what you thought he said, or or when when when Cheney said what he said, why didn't you stop what you were doing and stand up and say, wait a minute, I don't think this is right.
American people need to be told something else.
Why didn't you you come in after the fact with armchair quarterbacking in twenty twenty hindsight like anybody can do?
But we played for you the montage there, folks, of all the coverage McCain got and that's what he was angling for.
And if he thinks if he thinks that this is going to help him with the uh Republican base, I mean he's sadly, sadly mistaken.
Marty, in Washington, you're next.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thanks, Russ.
It's a pleasure.
Listen, uh, everything you're saying about McCain is right.
He was a complete jerk and an idiot for saying what he did when he did.
But you know, now that the elephant's on the table, y uh I have felt this way for a long time.
I mean, since I saw those buildings, you know, five years ago go down on the TV set.
Is that I did not understand why in the ensuing days and in the past five years, the president hasn't beat the living daylights out of this to tell people this is gonna be hard.
It just hasn't come across.
And and and I don't know if the fault's his.
I think it is to a great degree, or certainly as you point out, the me media's traditional media's got its own template on this thing, but I mean, d this is why Democrats are so much smarter than Republicans.
They're PR thing, they always prepare you for the worst.
This is gonna have to be a horrible sacrifice.
And and if Bush had done that when he had the uh the political capital five years in the last five years and just hammered hammered that home over and over again, and how desperately we need for our s security to have a democracy in Iraq.
I he I don't think he'd be having the poll numbers that he does.
Uh and and and I again, you know, McCain was an idiot for doing it, but y he he's just saying something that every probably everybody in the Republican Party knows.
Well, uh I think my memory is that when it comes to the entire uh war on terror, uh, which I've always considered Iraq to be part of, I think the President has gone out of the way to talk about how long this is going to take, then it's gonna go on longer than his administration.
Now, if you separate the two and think Iraq is different, which is what what uh many of the president's opponents do, and say it's just an isolated little campaign over there that has no relationship to the war on terror, uh, then you could say, yeah, the president has come out and specifically said he has a couple times.
I gave you one quote from two thousand three when he said it's going to be hard.
It's not that he hasn't said it.
Your point is he hasn't said it enough.
Um you know, it's it's arguable.
You talk about the Democrats having great PR by telling people how rotten things are gonna be.
I don't know that that's great PR.
I don't think it's uh uh you know great way to boost morale of the uh fighting forces that are over there at the same time.
Well, that's just it.
He's he's been great as far as boosting the morale of the troops, and maybe that's because he's too good of a commander in chief, but on the other hand, the downside of that is you know darn well when it drags on, then the public back at home, the the the upbeat messages just aren't in sync with what's going on.
And I I just you know it's it's it's it's a problem.
He's too principled of a man to engage in these democratic PR things that they always seem to win.
And now we're paying the price.
We're gonna pay the price.
Um Well, y are they winning?
On what basis are you saying they're winning?
Polling data?
Well, I'm just just polling data, that's all.
Yeah, I I uh wait till November uh to see if they're winning.
I I I reject that.
I don't think they're winning.
I think that is part of the mindset that many conservatives had that for forty years the Democrats always seemed to be outsmarting us, they always seem to be a couple steps ahead of us.
Their PR always seemed to be brilliant and coordinated and organized.
Uh I I I I think they're not winning elections these days.
They're in their their their that party is falling apart.
Whether anybody wants to admit it or not, the Democrat Party is falling apart.
The idea that uh Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry and Jack Murpha represent a brilliant PR campaign and team, I just I reject that, and I don't fall prey to that.
Now, one thing I do want to talk about, though, before you go, and that is you you wish the president had uh come out more often and uh and more forcefully reminding the American people this is a worthy cause, and here's what we're doing.
This is why it's gonna take a long time.
We can't level a country because we're trying to establish a beacon of democracy there.
We need to show the Iraqi people that we have nothing against them.
We're not gonna blow up their buildings, not gonna blow up their schools, we're not gonna level the country.
Um uh, and and thus it's gonna take a long time.
We're battling a number of insurgencies and so forth, terrorist actions, uh, and it's a new kind Of warfare, I would love for that to have happened as well.
But more than that, I would have loved a really true American projection of power.
Had there been a true American projection of power, had there really been shock and awe, I think the American people would have a little bit more understanding or patience for this than apparently the polls uh say that they have.
I'm glad you called Marty.
Thanks much.
A quick timeout will be back and resume uh right after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Nice to have you.
El Rushbow Cutting Edge, Societal Evolution, Jenny in Toledo, open line Friday on Wednesday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um Megadiddos, and uh I wanted to ask you what you think of um what would have happened if the current media was covering the civil war.
Which side would they be on, and how would they be covering it?
Well, if you go back, we don't we don't have to imagine that.
The media back in those days was all national inquirer.
I mean, it was vicious back.
You think the media is bad today.
I mean, the reason the media is bad today is because it just they they they care couldn't care less about the truth and they've and they've chosen up sides, and it's it's a side that uh often too many people appears to be injurious and detrimental to their own country.
But back then, uh uh the media was just horrible.
It was it was uh it's almost indescribable.
If you go back and look at pamphleteering passed as journalism back then, um you had some you had some responsible outlets.
Well, I mean, the media today is bad.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I'm I'm I'm not it all I'm telling you is, Jenny, that there was media back there agitating for Lincoln's defeat, agitating for Lincoln to lose this.
There was media in the South that was all for the Confederacy and all for defeating Lincoln and so forth.
So um uh today, you know, it'd be fun.
I guess it'd be fun to play the game.
If today's drive-by media covered the civil war, uh how would they do it?
I have to think about that, because that could be an interesting exercise.
Uh uh in the in the meet well, you have you you would have uh in the New York Times on what side would they fall?
They're located in the North, but they have all this guilt.
Well uh Lincoln was a Republican-Yep that's uh that's right.
Lincoln was a Republican, forget it.
Uh drive-by media would do everything they could to sabotage his uh effort.
There'd been neutral on slavery uh and so forth in order to ridicule and uh and berate Lincoln.
Yep, that's it.
That's it.
Not hard to figure out at all.
Neutral on slavery, uh not wishing to be judgmental on this, because Lincoln is a Republican.
They couldn't support a guy who tried to end slavery and that would upset the apple cart of all apple cards.
Speaking of all this, the new survivor is actually a race between races, ladies and gentlemen.
It premieres on September 14th.
They are going to pit four tribes of people against each other.
The African American tribe, the Asian American tribe, the Hispanic tribe, and the white tribe.
And they are going to actually have a battle of races on the next survivor.
Uh they know that it's going to be controversial.
They know it's good, and and people at CBS behind the scenes who just have heard about this, sort of scratch their heads, so what the hell are we doing?
What are we going to do?
The swimming portion.
Well, how is that going to be fair?
Uh and how come, you know, why no Arab tribes in this?
And why no Jewish tribe?
No, Amer.
Well, they'll do, oh, maybe that's right.
They'll do the religious war next season on survivors.
They'll do the uh Jewish American tribe, the uh Arab American tribe, uh, the uh the Hispanic American tribe, whatever.
This is incredible.
A war of races on survivor, ladies and gentlemen.
Um I understand that ESPN is jealous.
They heard about this, thought they could come up with their own version of this in the sports motif, but they've uh they've lost out on it.
It's gonna be fascinating to see if there's any fallout because this is a drive-by media.
This is CBS.
Sensitive.
We shouldn't look at people on their basis of their skin color.
We are all the same.
We are all one.
And now we're gonna determine who's better at surviving.
Asian Americans, black Americans, white Americans, Hispanic Americans.
Who do you think will win?
We have um we've handicapped the survivor race between the races, and we'll tell you who's gonna win.
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