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Sept. 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 20, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm just sitting here.
I'm going through this interview May 30th of this year with Mahmoud Ahmad Dinijad with Der Spiegel.
Big time German magazine.
Greetings, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
And the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I'm in a quandary here, folks.
You know, I have a lot of good stuff in the stack here, like this.
I mean, there's some pretty good lifestyle stuff here today.
Plus, I want to update you on the so-called White House cave-in to the McCain dissidents, which is the exact opposite of what's happening.
And I am going to get to that.
I'm going to try to get to this other stuff as quickly as I can, too.
But this Hugo Chavez speech this morning and the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speech last night, you know how I often say we do the job the mainstream media used to do.
I don't know how long ago that was, but you need to know about this man.
You need to know about Ahmadinejad, especially now when he's being misreported upon, mischaracterized, and raised to some lofty co-equal status with President Bush, praised as a man who wants peace.
It's all a myth.
It's all a lie.
It is just journalistic malpractice.
So I want to spend some time with some of the things Ahmadinejad has actually said around the world.
In fact, just to give you an example here, this is excerpts from an interview with Ahmadinejad aired on the Iranian news channel on August 2nd of this year.
Ahmadinejad, I hereby declare that this sinister regime, Israel, is the banner of Satan.
It is the banner of the great Satan.
All it does is to implement the orders of the criminal America and England.
Death to Israel.
With placards in their hands and clenched fists, people should shout death to Israel.
No mention of this in any of the reporting on Ahmadinejad.
And he didn't say those words, but he clearly identified Israel using other words, the Palestinians using other words, called us and the Israelis occupiers.
I mean, he is who he is, but you're not being told by the drive-by media who he is.
And I intend to give you a little bit of flavor on the guy, even more so than we have over the course of the recent months.
But try this.
A teenage laborer in Surrey, England was asked to find another job after his hunky physique distracted pupils at an all-girls school.
Joe Norman, 18, who had been hired for the summer to help build an extension, began receiving wolf whistles from girls at Holy Cross Scruel in New Malden, Surrey, according to The Sun.
Norman said he didn't do anything to distract the girls.
He even kept his shirt on.
However, the headmaster of the school asked him to leave.
I'm muscular because of the type of work I do, he said, but I've never had this problem before.
It was quite intimidating.
This is sexual harassment.
It is.
It's sexual harassment.
Guy shows up, it's a construction workers.
The girls inside the school go bonkers.
They're not studying.
They're wolf whistling.
And the guy's got to go find another job.
Gets can.
They punish the victim here.
He got canned.
Had to go find another job.
And there's little interesting stuff like that.
Floating ocean windmills designed to generate more power.
Hope to be able to get to that.
Let's go to a couple sound bites first before I give you some of the excerpts.
The Der Spiegel interview, by the way, prints to eight pages.
And I'm not going to go through all eight.
It doesn't take that to give you the flavor.
Barbara Boxer with John Gibson last night on the Fox News channel.
And Gibson says, you know, when you have somebody like Ahmadinejad demanding that you and me, we all bow and surrender, how exactly do we deal with him?
That's ridiculous and it's kind of a joke.
I think the world is building this guy up too much.
I was at the UN yesterday.
I was actually there this morning and one of the Brits said, will President Bush bump into the leader of Iran?
That would be the clash of the Titans.
And I thought, please, why are we building this man up?
The sad truth is, and this is the bad news, the people of Iran on this particular issue back him by huge percentages.
They do not!
They don't have any choice.
He was installed by the mullahs.
It's a sham election, just like a Saddam election was a sham election.
They have no choice but then to support him.
There are dissidents all over the place in Iran.
But I want to go back to what she said.
It's a ridiculous kind of joke.
I think the world is building this guy up too much.
Really?
Madam Senator, Mrs. Boxer, who would you have in mind when you make that accusation?
Would you have in mind the drive-by media in this country?
Would you have in mind members of your own party or your own support base on the Kuk Blagosphere?
Would you have in mind the United Nations itself building this man up?
Why are we building him up?
That's not the question.
It only appears he's being built up.
The real problem is that you and members of your party have done your best for five years to destroy the presidency of this country.
You have tried to destroy the image and the aura and the power of George W. Bush and the office of the presidency with your incessant criticisms and belittling and your hand-wringing sorrow over the fact that we've lost our image in the world.
And folks, I'm going to make you a prediction.
And we haven't said, I don't know that we'll ever know this, that you're just going to have to trust me.
But so far, we haven't seen anybody come out and express outrage over what Ahmadinejad said last night or what Hugo Chavez said today.
I will guarantee you, in the Senate and in certain corridors of the House where Democrats gather behind closed doors, I can just see John Kerry talking to Durbin and others right now.
And I know what Kerry is saying.
See, see, after Chavez's speech, we knew this was going to happen.
We've lost our prestige around the world.
Bush has made, has just, as has totally destroyed our reputation.
Dick, we need to get back in power, rebuild our image with our allies here and with the world.
These guys are remarking us.
They're making fun of us, but they're really making fun of Bush.
We knew this was going to happen.
They're going to blame Bush for this.
And that's why they won't come out and denounce Ahmadinejad.
If anything, they'll come out and denounce Bush if they say anything.
Make no mistake, they are not cognizant, aware of any of their own culpability in this.
But believe me, folks, they set the table.
They allowed this to happen.
They gave Ahmadinejad and Chavez the confidence to come over here and bash President Bush and to bash the United States of America.
They have been doing the same thing.
They were the leaders.
They signaled the green light.
They said the Democrats in this country and the media have made it plain to people like Chavez and Ahmadinejad that they will not be condemned.
How can they be?
How could Chavez or Ahmadinejad be condemned by the Democrats?
They're basically saying the same thing.
One more boxer bite.
John Gibson, the very people you say that support President Ahmadinejad in his quest for peaceful nuclear power, they don't believe that he plans to build a bomb.
They may not be as informed as we are about what his plans are.
If he's fooling his own people, shouldn't we take him at his word when he makes these statements that he wants to wipe Israel off the map or he wants us to bow and surrender?
A lot of people say that about America.
I really think you're underestimating the people of Iran.
You know, they have the internet.
They're smart.
They know what we know.
Unfortunately for us, having a nuclear weapon has now become a point of pride with too many nations in the world.
It is not good.
Unbelievable.
It's our fault for having a nuke in this point in time.
It's understandable that these nations look at getting their own as a point of pride.
A lot of people say that about America.
The American people aren't informed.
A lot of people say that about America.
But I think the people of Iran know what's going on.
She has no clue.
She really has no clue.
It's embarrassing.
And neither do most of the people on her side of the aisle.
And it can be explained very simply.
She just doesn't see this guy as a threat.
She sees him as just sort of a pip-squeak kook.
And why are we building him up so much?
We didn't see him as a threat.
Remember, folks, to these people, the threat is George W. Bush.
Back right back.
Jonathan Alter on PMS NBC says, ah, don't pay any attention to Chavez.
He's just a blowhard.
Not offended at all.
Laughing about it.
Thinks it was funny.
Greetings, welcome back.
You're nice to be with us on the EIB network here.
For those of you who missed the first hour, I made a point of saying that the Drive-By Media has yet to report the main element of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech last night.
I quoted it to you.
It is his prayer from the podium of the United Nations for the quick appearance of the 12th Imam.
Here is the actual soundbite.
Today's world more than ever before longs for justice and righteousness with love for all humanity.
Above all, longs for justice.
the real Savior who has been promised to all peoples and who will establish justice, peace and brotherhood on the planet.
O Almighty God, all men and women are your creatures.
And you have ordained their guidance and salvation.
Bestow upon humanity that thirst for justice, a perfect human being promised to all by you and make us among his followers and among those who strive for his return and his cause.
So that's the prayer.
The applause went on and on.
That's the prayer for the return of the 12th Imam, as offered by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Just a couple of excerpts here from the Der Spiegel interview, May 30th, 2006.
They did the interview on the eve of Ahmadinejad's appearance in Germany for the World Cup.
And the interview starts out, aren't you a little crazy for coming here?
I mean, you've suggested a Holocaust didn't happen and that Israelis need to be wiped off the map.
But you understand what are some people outraged that you're coming here.
Der Spiegel says, denying the Holocaust is punishable in Germany.
You indifferent when confronted with so much outrage?
Ahmadinejad, I know that Der Spiegel is a respected magazine, but I don't know whether it's possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust.
Are you permitted to write everything about it?
Der Spiegel, of course we are.
Well, then, we've stirred up a very concrete discussion.
We're posing two very clear questions.
The first is, did the Holocaust actually take place?
You say it did.
So the second question is, whose fault was it?
The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine.
It's perfectly clear if the Holocaust took place in Europe, one has to find the answer to it in Europe.
On the other hand, if the Holocaust didn't take place, then why did this regime of occupation, you mean the state of Israel?
Ahmad Dinijad.
Why did it come about?
Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime?
Permit me to make one more point.
We are of the common opinion that if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there's more research into it and more discussion about it.
Dear Spiegel, that's long since happened in Germany.
Ahmadinejad, well, we don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust.
We oppose every type of crime.
But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.
If it did, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished and not the Palestinians.
Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted?
After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the government supports this.
Spiegel.
Mr. President, with all due respect, the Holocaust occurred.
There were concentration camps, dossiers on the extermination of the Jews.
It's been a great deal of research, and there is neither the slightest doubt about the Holocaust nor about the fact.
We greatly regret this, that the Germans are responsible for it.
If we may now add one remark, the fate of the Palestinians is an entirely different issue, and this brings us to the present.
Ahmadinejad.
No, no, no, no.
The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history.
The Holocaust and Palestine are directly connected with one another.
And if the Holocaust actually occurred, then you should permit impartial groups in the whole world to research it.
Why do you restrict the research to a certain group?
Of course, I don't mean you, but rather the European governments.
Spiegel, you still saying it's a myth?
Ahmadinejad, I will only accept something as true if I'm actually convinced of it.
Even though no Western scholars harbor any doubt about it, but there are two opinions on this in Europe, he said.
One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred.
Then there's the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part.
Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject.
Well, we are conducting this historical debate with you in a very timely purpose.
Are you questioning Israel's right to exist?
Look here, my views are quite clear.
We're saying if the Holocaust occurred, then Europe must draw the consequences and that it is not Palestine that should pay the price for it.
If it did occur, then the Jews have to go back to where they came from.
I believe the German people today are also prisoners of the Holocaust.
60 million people died in the Second World War.
World War II was a gigantic crime.
We condemn it all.
We're against bloodshed regardless of whether a crime was committed against a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew.
But the question is, why among these 60 million victims are only the Jews the center of attention?
Spiegel, that's just not the case.
Ahmadinejad, no, I have a question for you.
What kind of a role did today's youth play in World War II?
Spiegel, none.
Ahmadinejad, well, why should they have feelings of guilt toward the Zionists?
Anyway, it goes on and on and on with Ahmadinejad continuing to maintain that the Holocaust did not occur, that the Jews need to be moved out, and if they're not moved out, he may take matters into his own hands.
These are the kinds of things that just are not being reported about this guy.
Spiegel also asked him about the letter that he sent to President Bush.
Spiegel, this letter to the American president includes a passage about September 11th, 2001.
Here's your quote: How could such an operation be planned and implemented without the coordination with secret and security services or without the far-reaching infiltration of these services?
Unquote.
Your statements always include so many innuendos.
What's that supposed to mean?
The CIA helped Mohammed Atta and the other terrorists conduct their attacks?
Ahmadinejad.
No, no, no, no, that's not what I meant.
We think that they should just say who is to blame.
They should not use September 11th as an excuse to launch a military attack against the Middle East.
They should take those who are responsible for the attacks to court.
We're not opposed to that.
We condemn the attacks.
We condemn any attacks against innocent people.
Just lying through his teeth, the letter was more accusatory than the quote that they excerted.
But the bottom line is, what does this all sound like to you?
I mean, it sounds like Democrat Party talking.
Actually, not quite that, but you know, this rising tide of conspiratorial lunacy that is becoming more and more mainstream, that the administration and the government blew up the World Trade Center.
And that's what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad implied in his letter.
I'm sorry I spent so much time on this, but I wanted you to have some kind of an idea who this guy is.
And Brian Williams of NBC, so proud of his interview with him last night, is you're running it again on MSNBC this afternoon at 4 o'clock in its entirety.
They're just thrilled with it.
And it was just filled with a wholly different attitude of respect toward Ahmadinejad than his last interview with President Bush down in New Orleans.
Anyway, A.B. in Las Vegas.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Good morning, Raj.
Hi.
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A.B. in Las Vegas.
Thank you again.
And now we're back.
Thank you, Rush.
I'd like to make a few points.
First is, let us assume a world scenario which the left-wing media never would like to acknowledge.
Let us say that John Kerry and the Democrats had their wish and Saddam Hussein remained in power today.
Do you think for a moment that Saddam Hussein would sit back and allow his number one arch enemy, Iran, to procure develop nuclear weapons without him doing so?
No.
He would make sure that he was first in line to get it, and he would make sure that all these terrorist groups, as many as they wanted, could get their hands on it, And his Scud missiles would be filled and fitted with nuclear weapons aimed at Israel.
So that the...
Well, you know, he might also...
You know, he spent eight years at war with the Iranians.
Back in the 80s, that's when he was our ally.
We made the judgment that those two would be better if Saddam prevailed.
Sort of a Hobson's choice that we had there.
But I don't think he'd just sit by and race Iran to get nukes first.
He'd do what he had to to stop them from getting them as well.
Not only would he try to stop them, he would develop his own.
And no one seems to mention that a week prior.
See, Saddam Hussein was fooled.
He was guaranteed by the Russians and by the French that the U.S. would never attack him.
Now, he got fooled when he saw that that was not the case.
He moved his nuclear weapons, mass destruction, whatever weapons he could, by truckloads into Syria.
They are right now in Syria.
Yes, there's a former Iraqi general who's made that claim, George Satter, I think is his name.
I forget his first name.
Well, now, imagine Saddam in today's world.
If the Democrats had their way, if this President Bush never went ahead and made this move, not only would be concerned about Iran, we would be so concerned about Saddam.
The only difference.
Wait a minute.
No, they wouldn't.
I don't think that they would even be.
Remember, one of their heroes is Joseph Wilson.
And Joseph Wilson went to Niger and said that Saddam never tried to get a yellow cake uranium.
He was wrong about it, by the way.
The Brits intelligence units stand by what their claims were.
But look at who they choose to believe.
They're ostriches.
They'll put their head in the sand and see only what they want to see and ignore reality and deny it.
And frankly, if you listen to what some Democrats have said, Madeline Albright, you know, it sort of destabilized the world here when the Soviet Unions went south because that left us as the only superpower, and that just not right.
So I don't know that we don't have any confidence they would have done anything to stop it.
Well, the point is, just visualize for the American people right now today, today, this month of September, Saddam Hussein in power, and he would surely, 100%, would have nuclear weapons.
Now, my second statement to you is 90% of the people of Iran hate, have an adverse dislike for this government.
What you see, Iranian people going in the streets and rioting for them are all paid.
They're mandated, demanded.
If they don't go out and demonstrate in favor of the government, they will be abused, they will be punished, they will be imprisoned.
They are forced to go out and to do that.
But the word between you and I right now, and I'm going to share with you nationally, there's a great movement within the people of Iran for a revolution.
Are you from there?
Yes, I am.
I am a mixed Persian and Greek.
But however, our inside information says there's a major movement that is developing.
Is it really 90%?
I knew it was a large movement, but I haven't heard it was that large.
90% of the people of Iran have a disdain attitude toward this government.
I know the answer to the next question, A.B., but tell me this.
What's the status of the Iranian economy?
It's amazing the Iranian people, in order to live a simple life, have to have two to three jobs a day.
The man who works in the government office goes home, takes his car, and becomes a taxicab driver in order to make extra money simply to buy food.
And the fact there was a revolution, a revolt started in Iran, they shut it down quickly when the word got out that this government was supporting the Hezbollah with hundreds of millions of dollars.
And while their own people are starving, the people are in dire situation.
Now, these mullahs are no different than the previous regime.
They took over all the Mercedes.
They live like kings.
They have accounts in Switzerland, in the Cayman Islands, and other areas.
So don't be surprised that very shortly, soon, there will be an internal revolution.
And it will happen the same way that the Shah was so shocked and surprised when it happened.
It came out of nowhere.
And remember, Khomeini was the agent of the British, the French, and the U.S. government.
He was living in France being supported by the French government.
Right.
And when he came to power, when Jimmy Carter decided to oust the Shah and bring him into power, it was at that moment that he turned, as the French normally do today.
Well, of course, you know, I remember all that.
Jimmy Carter is in the news urging all Americans abroad to vote.
He just can't keep himself out of the news.
I'm assuming he does not mean the military when he mentions that.
The Democrats try to discount military absentee ballots in the Florida recount in 2000.
Jimmy Carter's hands are so dirty on all of this, for him to run around preaching what we need to do is an insult to anybody that's informed on this.
I hope you're right about this internal revolution business.
I've read a lot about the discord, the discontent of the Iranian population for so many years.
I know that they're trying to stamp it down.
They've cut out all the free press.
They're putting people who own opposition media in jail after shutting them down.
They're going to need help in such an uprising.
I don't know where it's going to come from.
Well, I pray that you're right.
And it would be such a wonderful surprise to see it take place.
The question is, with the power that the Mullahs have, will they be able to put it down with success or will it succeed?
We'll keep a sharp eye for it, but I'm glad you called AB, and thanks so much for paying your family members to listen to the program for six months, $100 each.
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Appreciate the phone call.
I want to go back, ladies and gentlemen, play the Hugo Chavez soundbites from his speech today at the United Nations.
I got one more to add to it.
And we've got a story from CBSAP about his speech.
And they are talking about how popular he is becoming and how this speech really played well at the United Nations for a host of reasons.
Here are three excerpts of Hugo Chavez this morning, just after 11 o'clock, at the United Nations.
First one up.
I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States.
Because their threat is in their own house.
The devil is right at home.
The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.
And the devil came here yesterday.
Yesterday, the devil came here.
Right here.
Right here.
And it smells of sulfur still today.
This table that I am now standing in front of.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this roster, the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as at the devil, came here talking as if he owned the world.
Como duño del Mundo.
Truly, as the owner of the world.
Listen to the translator even sounds excited.
Here's the second bite.
I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the President of the United States.
As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrils.
Preserve the current pattern of the world.
This domination, exploitation, and pillage of the peoples of the world.
An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario.
I would even pause the title.
Del Diablo.
The Devil's Residence.
All right, now here is, and I'm just telling you that the Democrats are sitting around behind closed doors rubbing their hands with glee.
They're not going to condemn this.
They're going to say, see, see, Bush has ruined our reputation in the world.
Bush has caused this.
Bush has gone out, and he's destroyed our reputation, our image.
They will not admit that they're the ones responsible for this.
They set the table.
They wrote the directions.
They put the roadmap together.
They are saying essentially the same thing Chavez is saying.
Words are different, but the enemy is Bush.
You can't tell the difference listening to Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Democrats as to who the enemy of the world is.
To all three of them, it is.
George W. Bush.
Here is the last bite we have with the one good idea that Chavez had.
We will see this new era and for our children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on the fundamental principles of the United Nations.
But the renewed, a renewed United Nations.
And maybe we have to change location.
Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else, maybe a city of the South.
We've proposed Venezuela.
You know that my personal doctor had to stay in the plane.
The chief of security had to be left in a locked plane.
Neither of these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and attend the UN meeting.
This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the part of the devil.
It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us, and I embrace you all.
May God bless us all.
Good day to you.
Listen to that applause.
And it went on and on and on and on and on.
Now, CBS AP story.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the General Assembly, calling President Bush the devil.
Then they quote him, the leftist leader who's joined Iran in opposing U.S. influence accused Washington of domination, exploitation, and pillage of peoples of the world.
Then this.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is rapidly becoming a new Fidel Castro, but with petro dollars.
At the UN, said CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk.
And as a candidate for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council in October, his anti-Bush comments are making him increasingly popular with member states in his campaign for that position.
He's the next Castro, and they love Castro.
They idolize Castro.
You know why the left likes Castro?
People try to, what is it?
His country is literally falling apart.
I've got a story from yesterday's stack.
Literally, the infrastructure of Cuba is falling apart.
Buildings are tumbling.
They have had nothing done to them, renovations-wise, in decades.
They love Castro, though, and it's not his health care.
I'm going to tell you exactly what it is.
The left loves and envies his power.
His view of his own citizens is theirs.
Incompetent, incapable victims, dependent.
They need handholding throughout life.
And if any of them rise up, they will be put down.
You don't question the smartest people in the world, elite liberals.
They envy his power.
Now they envy Chavez because he's the same maniac with the same power, but he's got oil.
Quick break.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Hey, folks, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on loan from God.
You remember on September 11th, the evening of September 11th, President Bush addressed the nation for about 20 minutes.
The next day, the Democrats were howling, claiming that it was a political speech and they didn't get a chance to respond.
Well, they did today.
Ahmadinejad, actually last night and today, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez constitute the Democrat response.
In fact, you know, the campaign finance law of Senator McCain requires that every commercial end up with a line, this ad approved by me, paid for by X.
These two speeches did not contain that, and they should have.
The Ahmadinejad speech and the Chavez speech were in violation of U.S. federal campaign laws.
Obviously, those speeches were commercials, lengthy ones for the Democrat Party, but they were not so identified.
I'd bring them up on charges before the Federal Election Commission.
John Bolton has replied, ladies and gentlemen.
He said, we're not going to address that kind of comic strip approach to international affairs during a televised press conference.
Tim in Monroe, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Well, Mega Dittos, what an honor to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I just wanted to weigh in real quick.
You're covering the news of the day like you should.
And you're the only one that I can really trust to get the full scoop on this.
But, you know, despite Ahmed Dinejad, despite Chavez, despite the coup in Thailand, despite the gloom and doom from the libs, you know, I'm looking at the markets today and they're just humming.
So I'm just happening to think that capitalism and the free market system is going to prevail on this whole thing.
Let me tell you what, you know, you're right.
I'm looking at the figures.
Even as you speak, the Dow is up 71 points, almost 72, 11,612 right now, close to the record of $11,750.
The NASDAQ is way up as well.
One of the factors has to do with the plummeting oil price.
It's now just barely over $60 a barrel.
And in Jackson, Missouri, a suburb of where I grew up in Cape Girardo, we jokingly called it a suburb.
It's about eight miles away.
Cape Girardo's 25,000 people, Jackson.
I forget what it is.
8,000, 10,000, if that much.
Gasoline prices there in Perryville, Missouri, which is 30 miles up the road on maybe 40 on I-55, below $2 a gallon.
$1.96 in Southeast Missouri, where I grew up.
And of course, this is just confounding the Democrats.
Their post-Labor Day scenario is in shreds, totally falling apart.
Stock market going crazy.
Experts coming out saying there was no housing bubble.
The housing market is behaving normally.
It goes in its cycles and ebbs and flows.
So, all of the conventional wisdom that the Democrats have used, the economy sucks, Rumsfeld sucks, Rice sucks, Bush sucks, Bolton sucks, Cheney sucks, Robe sucks, and all this, those guys are still in office.
Joe Wilson let them down, Richard Armitage let them down.
Oil price is plummeting, gasoline price is plummeting, and their buddies, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, remind Americans more of John Kerry and Harry Reid than they do of even themselves.
Back in just a second.
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