Sept. 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Greetings, my friends, and welcome back. | |
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| Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line Friday. | |
| One big broadcast hour to go. | |
| And by the way, a number of you are whining and complaining that there hasn't been a fourth hour in a while. | |
| We sometimes do fourth hours here for web subscribers, and I know. | |
| I promised some weeks ago that there would be one. | |
| You know, I know you're gonna think I'm complaining, but I'm just I have been swamped with stuff. | |
| I can't. | |
| At any rate, I am making this pledge. | |
| Let me look at the calendar here real quick. | |
| And looking at the calendar here real quick. | |
| Okay, no, see if um. | |
| I am making this pledge. | |
| We will do a fourth hour one day next week. | |
| I prom what do you what's that, Brian? | |
| You say you don't. | |
| Okay, I thought you were saying you're not gonna be here next week and we can't do it. | |
| Uh I'll do it one day next week. | |
| I can't do it today because I have I have to fly to the left coast immediately after the busy broadcast today. | |
| But I promise we'll do a fourth hour uh next week. | |
| Here's the telephone number if you want to be on open line Friday today. | |
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| Um, ladies and gentlemen, there's no question that some of us in this country are just a bunch of pansies. | |
| Some of us are just wusses. | |
| Uh and it's no wonder that we can't muster the fight. | |
| Uh, and and courage it's going to take to defeat terrorists. | |
| We're a bunch of just babies. | |
| Listen to this story. | |
| The parents of a freshman cheerleader at Mission Hills High School. | |
| This is San Marcos, California, I guess. | |
| The parents of a freshman cheerleader at Mission Hills Hascruel say that the school district should be held responsible for what they describe as hazing during a summer cheerleading camp. | |
| Uh Maria Bagai, or Begay, yes, it's big, the student's mother said that her daughter had to wear a dog collar around her neck and has walked or was walked on a leash by a varsity cheerleader at the camp held on a UCLA campus in late July. | |
| Bagy said that her daughter or Big said her daughter told the other girls on the freshman and junior varsity cheer squads uh were treated the same. | |
| The gay said that her daughter isn't available to talk about what happened, but that it was hazing because it involved physical, mental, or public harm or humiliation. | |
| She said she believes all the girls have learned that any kind of activity that could make someone feel uncomfortable or hurt shouldn't happen. | |
| And that the issue has been resolved. | |
| Uh it was clear to everybody that what happened was not okay. | |
| Okay. | |
| I'm saying, ladies and gentlemen, that it is harmless. | |
| Well, the same thing happened to Abu Grab. | |
| I know this is this is it was torture. | |
| Cheerleaders, junior varsity cheerleaders tortured in a cheerleader camp at UCLA. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| I did. | |
| I said Abu Grab sounded like a fraternity hazing, and they went nuts. | |
| And here it here it is. | |
| Here it is. | |
| Um you saying that you support leases and dog collars on cheerleaders. | |
| Don't ask it that way, folks. | |
| Uh come on, Don, open up in there and just laugh once. | |
| Uh no, I'm not that that's that's not what I'm saying. | |
| I'm just saying we've become a bunch of babies. | |
| We've just we're really just when you say that life that's not supposed to feature anything that humiliates you or offends you or makes you uncomfortable. | |
| Welcome. | |
| Wonderful, marvelous! | |
| Could somebody tell me where we go to get the guarantee? | |
| My gosh, liberals offend me every day. | |
| What am I supposed to do about it? | |
| We're doing what we can. | |
| I mean, it make it a crime, you deal with it. | |
| Montclair, New Jersey, Gregory. | |
| Hello, sir. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network on Open Line Friday. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. | |
| I love you, man. | |
| I love your show. | |
| The brother loves you and supports you. | |
| First of all, I want to say you was looking great last night on TV, man. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| I'm happy. | |
| Thank you. | |
| You look great last night. | |
| You were smooth, baby. | |
| I love the gear. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I wore the blue stripes of the open collar, has a slimming effect out there. | |
| And women love the open collars, I'm sure you know. | |
| That's right, brother. | |
| I do know. | |
| Hey, man, I know you got millions of people that want to talk to you. | |
| Um I told the call screener that I just want to ask you whether or not if you think that TO will ask the whole season, since you're talking about anything, man, it's so much I could talk to you about. | |
| I've been listening to you still. | |
| Take your time. | |
| Take your take your time. | |
| I mean, there may be millions that want to talk to me, but you've got me now. | |
| I've got you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So the question is, will T.O. last the whole season? | |
| You mean without having some kind of disruption that uh that breaks apart the team? | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| No. | |
| Great. | |
| No. | |
| It won't happen. | |
| I know his history. | |
| I mean, he is who he is. | |
| I mean, it would be silly to say, you know, I think he's gonna be angelic this year. | |
| On what basis? | |
| Right. | |
| On what basis? | |
| You have to go with what uh what what's in the history book. | |
| You have to go with what you know. | |
| Uh everybody says, you know, this Parcell's guy, he's not gonna put up with it. | |
| Well, he may not, but it that's not gonna stop T.O. from being who he is. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hey, hey, Mr. Limbaugh, I don't mean to be rude and cut you off. | |
| I'm Merck, I just made a delivery, and these people don't know that I'm gonna fall talking to you. | |
| Ha ha ha ha, what a great American, right? | |
| Hey, hey, Mr. Limbaugh. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| Who you wait a minute? | |
| Who do you deliver things for? | |
| I I drive for a small ch um African American outfit named Senate Senate transportation here. | |
| I shouldn't be saying all that, but it's a great company. | |
| I work for great people. | |
| The people at Merck are great people. | |
| I love these people. | |
| I come here, I do my deliveries, and that's it, man. | |
| I think it's so happy to talk to somebody that likes their job and likes the people they were. | |
| You're a breath of fresh air out there, Gregory. | |
| Hey, thank you. | |
| And you are too. | |
| I don't care what those people say about you. | |
| I don't think you're I think you tell it like it is, you shoot straight from the hip, and you know what? | |
| I'm a man and I try to be like you. | |
| Well, God bless you. | |
| That's God bless you. | |
| That is that is just you're you're making my day here. | |
| You really are. | |
| Hey, hey, you know something? | |
| Hey, man, I love you, man. | |
| And you know what? | |
| I talk to my friends about you. | |
| They all say negative things and stuff, and I tell them, I say, you know what? | |
| You guys should just listen. | |
| Instead of you guys listen to rap music and the shows and stuff, you need to turn on Mr. Limbaugh and listen to what's going on. | |
| But I get in all the trouble, but I don't care. | |
| I listen. | |
| Well, that's very courageous of you because uh most of the critics of this program are people that don't listen and won't listen. | |
| Right. | |
| Uh and for you to urge them to confront their hypocrisy is very brave of you. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Hey, Mr. Limbaugh, you know why people criticize people? | |
| You know uh well, you tell me. | |
| Because nine times out of ten, the person that's criticizing is wrong or they never thought of the idea. | |
| Uh yeah, uh there's a or a couple variations on that. | |
| Uh criticizing makes them feel bigger. | |
| Criticizing makes them feel important. | |
| Uh criticizing uh helps helps uh staunch the fear they have over the fact somebody might be right. | |
| You know, a lot of people have their worldview, Gregory, and they live in it, little cocoon. | |
| Anything comes along that upsets it, they just ignore it. | |
| Rather than process it and uh and and deal with it. | |
| And so your buds are close-minded, which is fine, a lot of people are, but your mind is wide open. | |
| I'm not saying you got holes in your head. | |
| I'm saying your mind is wide open. | |
| And uh I'd say it's a thrill to have guy like you in my audience. | |
| It really is. | |
| It what do you didn't Rag TO? | |
| I have not ragged TO Snurdley's up to your pseudo cowboys fan anyway. | |
| You couldn't have cared less about T.O. with the Eagles. | |
| Uh I don't want to get into discussion of TO and Eagles. | |
| Uh Snodley's saying it wasn't TO's fault, and it was somebody to Eagles' fault and so forth. | |
| T.O. is T.O. He disrupted the Fortners. | |
| He refused to trade to the Baltimore Ravens. | |
| He called Jeff Garcia gay, uh, who dates Playboy models. | |
| Uh a quarterback for the Forderners. | |
| Uh he would routinely berate offensive coordinators if he wasn't in game plan as much as he thought he should be. | |
| Sulks sits around. | |
| Hey, T.O.'s just one of these guys. | |
| He's if you want to blame anybody for TO, blame sports media. | |
| They're the ones that have built up the TO image by making sure he gets FaceTime being who he is. | |
| And that's another reason why he is going to do what he is and do it do what he does and be who he is, because that's what draws the flies. | |
| He's already done it. | |
| Sitting there on a bicycle in training camp wearing a uh a helmet while he couldn't play because of he's on a stationary bike, and he's wearing a racing helmet while sitting there, can't play because of a hamstring, and there's hordes of media around. | |
| They go to Parcells. | |
| What do you think of these? | |
| Well, I don't know the player that well. | |
| Whoa! | |
| You don't know a member of your own team. | |
| To say for Parcells to not use his name, I don't know the player. | |
| I mean, that's a slice right there. | |
| That's the first Nick. | |
| I don't know the player that well. | |
| Ho ho ho, you're not fooling me. | |
| I'll tell you what, the what the potential problem with TO and that team's gonna be, it's gonna be a split between Jerry Jones and Parcells. | |
| Jerry Jones, the owner, that's who wanted uh TO there. | |
| I'm not sure sure that Parcell's that excited about it. | |
| Guessing, don't know. | |
| Uh but I'm telling you, you if the if TO does not disrupt the Cowboys this season, I guarantee the sports media will be writing about what a boring year it was in Dallas. | |
| Back after this, stay with us. | |
| Hi, welcome back, Rush Limb Boy. | |
| You know our old buddy Bill Gertz at the Washington Times got a new book coming out this month. | |
| He sent me the title yet. | |
| I can't think of Enemies? | |
| I think it's enemies. | |
| Is that the name of it? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh and I'm sure this is uh a prelude to it, the story in the Washington Times today. | |
| Leak. | |
| Here's the headline. | |
| Leak cost U.S. spy links to Chinese arm sales. | |
| Here are the dirty rotten details. | |
| A former analyst for the Pentagon's intelligence service provided at Chicom's. | |
| This is this. | |
| Let me clear my throat here for just this is incredible. | |
| A former analyst for the Pentagon's intelligence service provided China with highly classified information prior to the loss of a major electronic spying operation against Beijing. | |
| The Washington Times has learned the loss of the National Security Agency's eavesdropping operation hampered U.S. efforts to track the ChICOM's covert arms sales to nations such as Iran, Syria, Pakistan. | |
| According to Bush administration officials, the official speaking on the condition of anonymity said they're concerned to the analyst, Richard Monteperto, who pleaded guilty in June to relatively minor charges related to classified document mishandling is not being punished properly. | |
| They say both prosecutors and the judge, Gerald Bruce Lee, are not aware of the damage done by Monteperto's disclosures. | |
| Monteperto, a Pentagon employee from 1981 until his 2003 dismissal, is being sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. | |
| Court papers show that Monteperto admitted that he disclosed classified information to ChICOM's military intelligence officers from 1989 to 2001, that said he could not recall specifics. | |
| Let's see, 1989 to 2001. | |
| Well, it covers a long period of time. | |
| The administration was putting Laurel space in charge of uh uh the Clinton administration put Laurel Space in charge of uh uh the ChICOM satellite orbiting program. | |
| Uh went over to help him with repairs, they couldn't get a bird up there in orbit. | |
| And Loranel showed him Big Clinton contributor. | |
| Everybody's selling this country out. | |
| Cheerleaders, everybody. | |
| Dave in Medford, Oregon. | |
| Welcome to the uh EIB network. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Rice, you there? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Yeah, I said I said hi, Dave. | |
| Welcome to the network. | |
| There was some static just after you said that, and I thought we got cut off. | |
| Uh last night I was uh gonna watch your broadcast, uh, your comments on the CBS evening news, and it came on at the same time that Oregon State Boise State football game came on, and I'm not sure. | |
| By the way, who in the world can watch a football game on a blue field? | |
| Did you see that? | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| My gosh, what an assault on the eyes, especially when you've got a fifteen-foot high definition screen. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I could I couldn't watch it. | |
| I literally couldn't watch it. | |
| I was praying it would snow. | |
| Yeah, that's what happens when all the teams go into Boise State. | |
| They don't they're not used to playing on a blue field. | |
| Look what's happened. | |
| It is. | |
| It's it's artificial blue turf. | |
| It's I uh what's the reason for it? | |
| You says since they play there a lot of the Um I think it's because the uh colors for Boise State is blue and orange, and they want to uh add the blue to the field to uh combine their school colors. | |
| I don't know, just looks like a giant NASCAR uh hood, you know, I got uh sidetracked watching the game, and I forgot to turn the channel over to the CBS. | |
| Well, I tell you what are you uh uh I could I could replay the audio for you here because yeah, right. | |
| That's what I'd like to see. | |
| Well, I can do but you you've heard me say this stuff. | |
| I just uh this stuff probably wasn't new to many of the people I'm sure it wasn't because I've I like to hear you say it anyway. | |
| Just repeat it. | |
| Uh do you you have a uh you have a computer out there, Dave? | |
| No, I don't. | |
| Oh, that's too bad because you could rare people. | |
| I don't have a cell phone either. | |
| Really? | |
| Well, I don't blame you for that. | |
| There's always somebody on the other end of one of those. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh but you could uh if you had a computer, you could go on the uh internet because it's posted on my website, you can watch the thing there, and CBS has it posted. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, I know what you look like, so I don't need to watch it. | |
| I just like to hear what you had to say. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, uh here, Mike grab the thing. | |
| It's audio soundbite number two. | |
| Folks, I wasn't gonna do this. | |
| Uh uh by popular demand, it's being requested by somebody who's watching a football game on a blue field last night. | |
| Uh this is complete with uh you ready up there? | |
| Yeah, okay, here's Katie Couric's open and then the bit. | |
| With the fifth anniversary of 9-11 coming up, the topic tonight is the war on terror. | |
| And there may be no one more opinionated on the subject than radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. | |
| My friends, it's time to face a hard cold fact. | |
| Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we're alive and don't believe as they do. | |
| And they've been killing us for decades. | |
| So it's time to stop pretending these terrorist incidents are mere episodic events and face the reality that our way of life is in grave danger. | |
| Now, this threat is not just gonna go away because we choose to ignore it. | |
| Some say we should try diplomacy. | |
| Yeah, well, tell me, how do we negotiate with people whose starting point is our death? | |
| Ask them to wait for ten years before they kill us. | |
| When good negotiates with evil, evil will always win, and peace follows victory, not words issued by diplomats. | |
| But some Americans sadly not interested in victory, and yet they want us to believe that their behavior is patriotic. | |
| Well, it's not. | |
| When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents at Abu Ghrab and Guantanamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us, when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it. | |
| When they want to grant those who want to kill us U.S. constitutional rights, I don't call that patriotic. | |
| Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation, to defeat Islamo fascism. | |
| Patriotism is supporting our troops in the battlefield, not undermining the mission and morale. | |
| Let there be no doubt about this. | |
| America will prevail. | |
| We're the same country that survived a bloody civil war, defeated the Nazis and the Soviets. | |
| Each generation has a responsibility to the next. | |
| Our generation will not disappoint. | |
| All right, there you go. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| You bet. | |
| Uh I don't I don't think this uh terrorism thing is going to uh be resolved in my lifetime or your lifetime, but hopefully we can at least keep our country safe. | |
| Uh yeah, one of the you know when the CBS crew came by to video tape this uh last week at the uh EIB building uh Midtown Manhattan. | |
| After the uh after the commentary that I recorded, they all want to talk to me about it. | |
| And uh what The cameraman said, You really think this is going to extend to the lives of our grandchildren? | |
| I said, I hate to tell you, but half of the country isn't even revved up to face the threat yet. | |
| And I said, You got a political party's doing everything they can to obfuscate the threat, play it down. | |
| Bush lied about it. | |
| So I think uh yeah, it's gets it's gonna take a couple of more incidents before people get fully revved up on it. | |
| Like today, the Democrats are just going nuts over recycled news from two years ago that there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq. | |
| Senate investigation of the Intelligence Committee on intelligence. | |
| They're putting this thing out as though it's brand new news that nobody's ever heard it before. | |
| Recycling it, and it's to dampen down morale, no question. | |
| Yes, uh ladies and gentlemen, thinking about lots of things. | |
| The brain never stops. | |
| Here at the EIB Network. | |
| Yeah, the title of Bill Gertz's book is Enemies How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets and How We Let It Happen. | |
| It's uh it's out on the 19th of September. | |
| By the way, my my brother, you probably know this, he's out there doing a book tour all over the world. | |
| Uh and he's got he's got his new book out. | |
| Uh and it's what's title of having a metal block. | |
| It's sitting right over there and I can't see it. | |
| What's uh uh it it's one word. | |
| It's it's uh this is embarrassing. | |
| Anyway, it is a catalog of every offense uh it's it's a catalog of of of of every democratic offense. | |
| It's it's it just it all the things that have gone on in all of these last, I don't know how many years, eight years. | |
| Uh just documented with just it's just it really is tremendous. | |
| I'm having embarrassed. | |
| I can't think of the name of the book. | |
| It's not over. | |
| It's on my desk at home. | |
| Uh bankrupt, it's batch what's bankrupt, is what it's called. | |
| And it's uh, you know, the Democratic Party is bankrupt, and uh It's him Regnery in his book is out now too. | |
| He was on uh he'd been on the Flea Levin show last night was on uh Hannity and Combs earlier in the week. | |
| He did Laura Ingram today. | |
| Uh not scheduled here. | |
| Uh but what? | |
| No, he'll be I'm just saying he's not scheduled here. | |
| He's not scheduled here yet. | |
| Whenever he's got time to do it. | |
| He's this is this is uh. | |
| Yeah, well, he's got all these other conf things that he confirmed to do. | |
| He's flying and doing things like that, television and so forth and all that. | |
| Uh anyway, to the phones. | |
| Michael in Kingsport, Tennessee. | |
| Nice to have you on the program. | |
| Good afternoon, Rush. | |
| Great to tell you. | |
| Hey, uh Ditto Collar uh two callers ago, said, man, he was great. | |
| It's it's great to hear someone with just a positive upbeat attitude there. | |
| It's kind of kind of contagious. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um listen, I wanted to ask you, uh, why should I invest uh five hours of my time to watch this uh ABC movie if it's just gonna be cut up to to meet the Democrats' demands? | |
| It sounds like the ABC's getting ready to lay a four million dollar egg here. | |
| I mean, the Democrats, the people on the left don't want to watch it because they're pretty against it. | |
| The people on the right, like me don't want to watch it. | |
| No, that's uh I uh uh that's uh fairly good question. | |
| You may not you you may not even get the chance to watch it. | |
| They may just cancel the whole thing. | |
| It's possible. | |
| Yeah, well, I'm there I'm uh it's been reported since last night that Mr. Iger's on the verge of doing that. | |
| Well, from what I can under I'm sorry. | |
| No, go ahead. | |
| You're the guest. | |
| What I can understand, um ABC had relinquished what they consider to be an unbiased version of the events leading to 9-11. | |
| And that's great. | |
| I was bought hook on the sinker. | |
| I was like, oh, uh this would be great to sit down and watch this one night, maybe just uh just record it and just sit down and watch it when I can really enjoy it and really figure out what what their meaning of 9-11 is. | |
| Well, now if it was their version of the truth before, anything that's added or taken away for it from it is just gonna be a lie or an omission. | |
| Now wait, wait, I think your your your original perception of this is not right. | |
| Nobody ever said the word bias never came up until the Clinton started complaining about it. | |
| Frankly, some of us conservatives who have seen it started uh reviewing it. | |
| It is a compilation mini series. | |
| It's a docudrama, and there are I mean it it compresses uh uh eight or nine years into five hours. | |
| There's all kinds of license taken. | |
| Uh it's like like today. | |
| I'll just give you an example. | |
| One of the scenes in the movie is portrays our ambassador in Yemen after the coal attack in 2000. | |
| And FBI agents over there talking to her, John O'Neill wants help investigating in the country to find out uh who the guys that did it are. | |
| And the ambassador in the movie says, I'm sorry, but I am not going to rush run the risk of offending my host and the host country to have you running around on a wild goose chase. | |
| And she's got an op-ed today in the LA Times saying it never happened. | |
| Well, I'm sorry, that may have never happened, but we know damn well that the State Department and diplomats to this day are concerned as hell with what people think of us. | |
| Even now, we're worried about our image in the world. | |
| Maybe that specific incident didn't happen, but the producers chose to illustrate that that is an aspect of what's leaked making us vulnerable by putting it in a movie. | |
| And there are plenty of disclaimers at the front of it and at the end of it, they say it's based on the 9-11 commission reports based on interviews with uh with other people. | |
| What's happened here is that because it shadows uh or or shines a light of truth on the lack of preparation and the lack of it being taken seriously as a threat all during the Clinton administration, that they, the Stalinists they are, have to get it canceled or re-edited so that they don't come off looking bad. | |
| The incidents that they are opposing actually happened. | |
| Bin Laden was surrounded by a CIA team, and the CIA team was told not to go. | |
| The CIA team's not sure who gave the ultimate order. | |
| They think it came from the NSC, as it is portrayed in the movie, but they don't really know. | |
| But it happened. | |
| But because it makes the Clinton administration look bad, the Stalinists and the hacks in that party and that and that apparatus have now start putting pressure on Mr. Iger and the Democrats have sent letters threatening his broadcast licenses. | |
| And gosh, I'm surprised he hasn't caved already. | |
| After that letter the Democrats in the Senate wrote him last night, threatening the business of ABC if they put this under all kinds of you got a responsibility and a political discussion to present both sides fairly and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| It is totally outrageous. | |
| As to your first question, if the thing survives, I won't know whether it's time for you to watch it till I see it myself and see what's been cut out of it. | |
| My guess is there's a lot of butchery going on, even as we speak, as they edit this thing to keep Clinton happy. | |
| Clinton calls Eisner or uh Iger a week ago today and then sends this four-page letter authored by Bruce Lindsey. | |
| So uh it's, you know, th I Snurdley made a point to me at the top of the hour newsbreak. | |
| Let me run this by you people. | |
| Snerdley said, you know, this is what Republicans, conservatives wish the Republicans would do. | |
| You know, whatever whatever comes up it's gonna make them look bad, they don't permit it. | |
| They just control the media, do what they can to make sure it doesn't it doesn't happen. | |
| Uh and the Democrats they love their leaders because they go out there and stand up for these things and so forth. | |
| Forget the moment for the moment that the Democrats are trying to protect themselves against the truth. | |
| Clinton and his party legacy so f so so flimsily built on a foundation of of lies and deceit that they can't even withstand movie, a five-hour movie. | |
| That tells me a lot about them, and they can't stand for this issue to be brought up as a campaign issue in this election, national security. | |
| They just they know they can't deal with it because they're on the wrong side of it. | |
| But still, they don't just sit around and let it happen. | |
| Um and uh Snerdley's point is that Republicans sometimes, you know, it would be nice to see their leaders behaving in the same way. | |
| I don't know if the same way means specifically like this. | |
| I don't I don't want my guys trying to cover up lies. | |
| I don't want my guys trying to cover up uh. | |
| Well Well, but then see the Clinton people are not defending. | |
| Oh, well, you mean where the Republicans standing up and scoring escoriating Clinton and the Democrats? | |
| That's a good point. | |
| Why leave it to us on talk radio to do every day? | |
| Where are the Republicans standing up and saying, how dare you send that letter, Mr. Where's Bill Frist? | |
| Where are these guys? | |
| Where's McCain? | |
| Where are these guys standing? | |
| Where are these Republican presidential candidates objecting? | |
| They're silent, they're nowhere near. | |
| They're not there. | |
| I got that point I agree with you a hundred percent on. | |
| I sometimes getting sick and tired of carrying the water for the Republican Party. | |
| If I wanted to go into politics, I'd have gone into politics. | |
| Anyway, I hope I answered the question out there, Michael. | |
| If if if not, there's nobody could have done better what I just did. | |
| Wendy, Traverse City, Michigan. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Hey, Ross, it's such an honor to speak with you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um, this is something that's kind of difficult to express because I've been wanting to tell you this a long time. | |
| You're almost nailing it all the time. | |
| Um about why we've been denying the reality of the danger against us for so long. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I'm thinking that like the left is taking like they're afraid and they feel vulnerable. | |
| And I feel like the answer lies in the fact that they feel helpless because fear can either leave you feeling helpless and powerless or paralyzed in your fear, or if you turn around and face and do something about it, you can feel empowered by it. | |
| And what Bush is doing is a power an empowering kind of thing. | |
| We're going to do something about this problem, but if you actually look at doing something about the problem, there's a lot of sacrifice, and there's a lot of risk and danger involved. | |
| It's like we always say about how, you know, we're gonna sacrifice, but lost my thoughts. | |
| No, no, what you're saying is this uh I'm an expert on trains of thought, so let me pick yours up. | |
| I know exactly where you were going. | |
| What you're saying is that when you as a citizen decide to accept the reality that there's a there's a the threat out there, then it's almost a call to arms that you've got to face it and do something about it. | |
| You don't have the luxury of burying your head in the sandbox and pretending it'll just go away or it's not really that bad. | |
| And so it takes a lot of uh uh evidence for people to make that uh uh change. | |
| Let's face it, we got a pretty effluent country here. | |
| Life is pretty good despite what Democrats want to try to tell us about it. | |
| And why get on a war path uh over something hadn't happened here in five years, Rush? | |
| Come on, man, we've got to enjoy ourselves out there. | |
| Why we gotta and uh so it's just easier, which is where your train of thought was headed. | |
| Well, um also how the liberals don't want to believe in our military and our empowerment that way, and I think they feel helpless towards actually recognizing the danger, so they take it out on Bush because that makes them feel empowered. | |
| Now the Democrats have their look, there's not well there there is a there is a psychosis to liberalism, uh, and that is the belief that that the U.S. military and the Pentagon is a focus of evil in the modern world, except of course when they're in charge of it. | |
| Even then, it's uh it's it's it's not viewed with that much respect, especially when they put their own people in there as generals and colonels to run the damn thing. | |
| Uh it's an absolute mess. | |
| I hate thinking about it. | |
| But right now they're in pure political mode. | |
| Um, for example, here let me give you an example of the this is his AP today, our old buddy Tom Rom. | |
| President Bush is casting the war on global terrorism as the central issue of the midterm elections, but it's a risky political strategy. | |
| Uh, this is where they misunderstand Bush. | |
| It is an issue, and it is a pressing issue that faces this country. | |
| It's what my brilliant CBS commentary was all about. | |
| It's it's a political strategy to the Democrats who think they might lose because of it. | |
| And why is that? | |
| Because they're on the wrong side of the issue. | |
| It is an issue. | |
| National security is an issue. | |
| When national security becomes a political strategic item, we are cooked. | |
| You know, ladies and gentlemen, uh, you've heard me say over many, many moons of this exciting broadcast. | |
| Wouldn't it be great if the Democrats were as interested in defeating terrorists and our enemies as they are in defeating Bush? | |
| They could ask it again now. | |
| Wouldn't it be great if they were as interested in defeating our enemies and terrorists as they are in defeating this movie on ABC? | |
| Uh I'll tell you how I remembered the the um the title of my brother's book, Bankrupt. | |
| He's been wandering the streets of um of Cape Girardo, according to CBS report, and he chose the title bankrupt to uh uh because it replicated his uh financial circumstances as a result of wandering aimlessly. | |
| In fact, we just we're of the family's very proud. | |
| The uh the Senate, uh Senator Talent and Senator Bond, both from Missouri. | |
| By the way, talent's opponent is a babe by the name of Claire McCaskill. | |
| And she's a family friend, went to law school with some of my cousins and so forth. | |
| You she's morphed into a Hillary type character. | |
| Did you hear what she said about New Orleans? | |
| She's she said that blacks in New Orleans were I'm paraphrasing, they were dying on the roofs after the uh after the hurricane because Bush didn't care because they were black and because they were Democrats. | |
| It's just it's it's it's outrageous. | |
| Anyway, that the what I say, the the Senate has proposed they're building a new federal courthouse in uh my hometown, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. | |
| And the proposal has been to name it after my grandfather, Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. | |
| Federal Courthouse. | |
| And we're very honored because this generally only goes to people, federal buildings are named after people have held federal office or uh really grown the federal government real big or used it in ways that to harm people. | |
| And in this case, uh, you know, I don't know whether it'll get through to the Senate or not. | |
| Uh it might since it has the word senior on it after his name rather than than just me. | |
| But my brother has been living at the construction site, wandering aimlessly through the and that's why the title of the book, bankrupt. | |
| We're just kidding. | |
| If you miss this, it wasn't long ago that CBS went in there to the morning show when they were they were taking a tour of the country and and uh so they went they did some things on the the tour that you can have the show places I grew up and hung around when I when I was growing up in Cape Girardeau and and uh during the after the piece, the weatherman CBS did it. | |
| We're talking to Harry Smith and say, Yeah, Russia's brother is still here, still wanders around town. | |
| Uh still seen wandering around town. | |
| So we have been having fun with him ever since. | |
| By the way, if ABC Caves, if Robert Iger caves on this uh Path to 9-11, what do you think it's gonna do to Republican turnout in November? | |
| What do you think? | |
| You think it'll be forgotten by then? | |
| You can go both ways. | |
| It could really, really fire people up and make them mad. | |
| Or it's a kind of thing it's you know, this is pointless, can't beat these people. | |
| It's outrageous, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| I I really choose the uh the former. | |
| I think it'll gin turn out like the Democrats can't believe. | |
| And this letter threatening ABC's license uh for their own and operated television stations, uh pure Stalinist tactic. | |
| By the way, I gotta get this in. | |
| I mentioned this and I forgot to get to it. | |
| This is from uh the New York Times today, Ned Lament, Connecticut's Democrat Senate hopeful, is now sharply criticized Joe Lieberman for his public rebuke of former President Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, suggesting this week that Lieberman turned his back on a decades old friendship and helped make a tragic episode of media spectacle. | |
| He blaming Joe for it. | |
| He's blaming Joe Lieberman. | |
| I'll bet you Clinton's gonna That's right. | |
| That's exactly where you know. | |
| If Joe Lieberman had gotten up there and said what he said, nobody would have cared about it. | |
| In fact, I lied about it. | |
| Well, who? | |
| I would expect me to lie, because that's what I am. | |
| I hire people to lie for me. | |
| I thought, well, that's what we did. | |
| So now it's Lieberman's fault that it became a spectacle, and it talk about how in the world can anybody seriously say about Joel Lieberman. | |
| He's turned his back on a decades-old friendship. | |
| Who is it that's thrown Leverman under the bus? | |
| The whole Democratic Party. | |
| They've thrown him overboard and they've thrown him underneath the bus, and now they're getting on him for something that happened back in 19. | |
| This, this is this is perfectly Clinton orchestrated. | |
| This is part of the effort to rewrite the legacy. | |
| And I'm telling you, folks, again, we'll leave you to closing thought here for the weekend. | |
| Take the lesson of what this attack from the Democrats and Clinton on this movie really represents. | |
| It shows how flimsy is the foundation that their phony legacy has been built upon. | |
| It can't withstand truth, and it can't withstand five hours of a movie. | |
| And admittedly dramatized movie. | |
| Anyway, quick timeout, we'll be back and wrap it up right after this. | |
| All right, as promised, we'll do a fourth hour one day next week. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna be here the entire busy broadcast week. | |
| So I don't know what day yet. | |
| It's gonna depend on when I have the most time and feel most like doing it, which will be totally up to me, not you. | |
| Have a great weekend. | |
| We'll see you Monday. | |
| Cheerio, and have had a great time. |
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