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Sept. 21, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right, I have to correct something, folks.
I was wrong earlier when I said that Charlie Wrangell was speaking exclusively on Fox.
We had a caller who wondered if this would cause a Russia Democrats to go out there and start denouncing Chavez, as Wrangell did.
Wrangell was doing a press conference, and it was covered by a lot of media.
And just one of the problems I have watching television, not being able to listen to it while the program's going on.
But we have the audio sound bites from it anyway, and they are quite interesting.
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All right, here is a little bit of Hugo Chavez this afternoon in Harlem in New York.
Listen to this.
Our European brothers now.
And I want to remember this that the development of Hudson started with the massacre of Latin America.
And not only the development of Europe, the industrialization and enrichment happened over the massacre of America.
Also black Africa.
And today, we are here five hundred years later of after that massacre.
We are here.
You are the survivors of the massive.
You the aborigines of America.
We mixture between the original American Indians and the blacks from Africa.
That is us.
Miss Kiko.
Miss Kiko.
How about, how about, how about, eh?
They loved it.
Everybody in the church in Harlem loved it.
Hugo Chavez trying to think uh make them think he cares more about them than their own country lying to them about their ancestry and the Europeans and the massacre and uh and so forth and so on.
This is a prelude uh, and I think he's I'm not sure if he's he's still speaking.
Uh a prelude to offering uh deals in America on heating oil for the winter, as he did in uh in Massachusetts uh uh last year.
Well, this resulted in Charlie Wrangell calling a press conference.
Uh and and uh he uh as I say was was not speaking exclusively on Fox.
And I want to remind you of something I said yesterday, in the old days, if something like this would have happened in the eighties during the Clinton administration, and on back further in the past, if something like the past two days had happened with uh Achmadinejad and and uh Hugo Chavez, opposition party would have stood up like a family.
Say, hey, look.
You know, we can say whatever we want about our president, our head of state, but you can't shut up.
Stay out of our country saying these kinds of things.
You can't just come here with impunity and say this.
There would have been a it would have been a unifying thing, and it was interesting that it did not happen in either of the past two days.
And I know why it didn't happen is because secretly Democrats liked it.
There's a reason the New York Times and the Washington Post bury the Chavez story on page A fourteen and A twenty, respectively in their papers today, because they are trying to provide cover for the Democrats.
They know how damaging this stuff is, because it's Chavez clearly sounds more like an everyday democratic liberal critic of George W. Bush than uh any other American.
So this apparently I don't know how this happened.
Uh Wrangell might have decided to do this on his own.
There might have been phone calls, uh meetings among Democrats.
Oh my gosh, we've got to do something about this.
And they decided that Wrangle would go out, or he decided it on his own because Chavez is in his district.
Here is the first of three sound bites from uh Congressman Wrangle.
We deeply appreciative to uh the uh Venezuelan government, and this is so because we buy millions of barrels a day, the United States, and it just seems to me that uh those that supply us that uh sensitive to the higher price than inability of the poor to meet it, uh, that the United States oil firms ought to take a page from the Venezuelan book and do the same thing.
All right, so before he tears into Chavez, which you'll hear in a moment, he has to extend the olive branch.
We love our Venezuelan neighbors.
We're appreciative of the Venezuelan government.
We buy billions of marrels of oil a day, and it it ought not be up to the Venezuelan government to offer people in this country reduced price heating oil.
The United States government ought to do it, and maybe the United States could take a page from the Venezuelan book and do the same thing.
There's a big difference, Charlie.
The United States government doesn't own the U.S. oil companies.
Chavez owns the Venezuelan oil company.
The Venezuelan government nationalized the oil company.
He owns it.
It's the government, and they can do with it whatever they want.
But Exxon Mobil and all the other domestic oil companies are domestic oil companies.
They are not owned by the U.S. government, and as such, the President of the United States cannot order these companies to give away oil or to give away refined products.
So just keep that in mind.
He's between a rock and a hard place here because his constituents in Harlem are going to love the fact they're getting this cheap oil, this heating oil this summer.
So he can't come out and be critical of that.
So he's got to extend the Olive branch of friendship and criticize his own government for failing to have the compassion that Hugo Chavez has it.
Here's the next bite.
I want President Chavez to please understand that even though many people in the United States are critical of our president, that we resent the fact that he would come to the United States and criticize President Bush.
He has to understand that while we have problems politically, uh sometimes with President Bush, that we he is still our president, and that we resent foreigners coming and condemning our president.
Okay, so this sounds like a rather half denunciation.
It sounds like a mild rebuke.
Uh not a whole lot of feeling here.
I don't hear a lot of anger.
I don't hear a lot of passion.
Uh Congressman Wrangle wants President Chavez to understand that even though many people are critical about the president, that we resent the fact he would come to the United States and criticize President Bush.
Mr. Wrangell, my question is, are you offended when President Chavez criticizes President Bush from Havana?
Are you critical of him when he criticizes President Bush from Caracas?
Uh what's the difference if he comes here and does it?
Same thing with Ahmadinejad.
Here's the next bite.
Even though I am fully aware that he and President Bush enjoy these personal attacks on each other, they can do politically what they see fit to do.
But you don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district, and you don't condemn my president.
If there's any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not.
He can't help bashing Bush even while trying to defend him.
He lumps Bush and Chavez together.
Even though I'm fully aware that he and President Bush enjoyed these personal attacks on each other.
Did I hear that right?
They can do politically what they see fit to do, but you do not come into my country.
You do not come into my congressional district.
You do not condemn the president.
If there's any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not.
I'm telling you folks, this is a result of the backlash that's happening out there.
That's the only reason for this.
It is why it is a tepid and timid, if you will, response to Hugo Chavez, and it's taking place at a time when Chavez can't even hear it, because Chavez himself still mouthing off in Wrangles district in that uh in that in that church.
If there's any criticism of President Bush, it be restricted to Americans.
Uh Mr. Wrangle, can you tell is there any difference in this and when Bill Clinton and Al Gore go overseas and criticize President Bush?
How about President Carter?
Uh would you say that they are Americans and that they can criticize him anywhere they want?
Because apparently Chavez can.
Chavez can attack Bush anywhere he wants, so can Ahmedini Jones.
Just when they come into your district that you don't like it, and you tell them to shut up and leave the criticism to you and your fellow Democrats, it's almost like he feels upstaged.
It's almost like he thinks Chavez is doing a better job of criticizing Bush, uh, criticizing Bush and the Democrats, aren't it makes him a little jealous?
We are uh going back to our archives, ladies and gentlemen, finding audio sound bites of Charles Wrangell bashing President Bush.
You know, I some of you think I may be a little bit too hard here on uh Congressman Wrangle, uh, the Democrat coming to the defense of the country in President Bush.
I see it and hear it as a tepid defense, uh starting out with a gracious note of appreciation to uh Chavez and Venezuela for sending cheap oil to the poor in Harlem, which the Bush administration doesn't have the heartfelt compassion to do, and asking for the uh Venezuelans to understand that maybe our president can learn some lessons from Hugo Chavez, then starts in bashing Chavez for coming here and criticizing the president, saying it's not his right to do that, it's ours.
Only Americans can do this.
And I have to tell you again, I nothing is gonna convince me otherwise.
There is there has to be a factor in these guys, Ahmadinejad and Chavez' willingness to come here and do this, because they've heard it so much from people like Wrangell and Kerry and Pelosi and others.
You cannot take this out of the equation, and I think this they know, and this they won't admit, this is why the backlash, and this is why they're afraid of it.
If they had not been on the same page as Hugo Chavez, there would be no backlash.
They wouldn't care what Chavez was saying, but because it so closely replicates what they've been saying for years, now their antenna are up, the red flags are up, and they're a little worried that they're gonna be compared to somebody like Chavez and Ahmadinejad, and people are gonna find similarities.
Hey, Charlie, you're right.
And it's not just you guys, as I mentioned, Bill Clinton travels the world over and overseas during campaigns on the eve of war, in the midst of war, rips and criticizes George W. Bush and his Iraq policies and the war on terror policies.
So did Al Gore.
Joe uh Joe uh uh Jimmy Carter, the same thing.
Clinton goes to Dubai, uh, rips the American attitude toward uh Ms. Muslims and Islam, comes back and pretends he never said a word of it when he's on American soil.
So the idea that uh you are righteously offended by what Ahmadinejad and Chavez are saying, take a look at yourselves and ask yourself if what you've been saying offends you or would offend anybody else who might be hearing it.
Do you understand that Americans are Americans first?
Except for liberals who are liberals first, which is one of the problems.
But do you understand, Congressman Wrangle, that when Chavez comes and attacks the president of the United States, long after members of the Democratic Party have been on this parade and the liberal Democrat blogosphere, the Democrat Party base, what they've done to Joe Lieberman, throwing him out because a turncoat because he happens to support the United States military and the war in Iraq and the war on terror?
What's different?
What's different about Chavez?
What's different?
I mean, the people on the left in this country have called him worse than the devil.
Bush has been called worse than the devil by people in this country.
Chavez is a cheap imitator compared to some of the pro-critics on the Democratic side, the liberal side in this country.
And that's why they're worried about the backlash.
They see it's it's all too close, and that's why the New York Times, Washington Post are putting the stories of Chavez deep inside the A section, uh, where people don't have time in the morning to get there.
Uh only have time to read the front page sports page, uh, wherever else they go and then hit the bus, the train, or their cars.
Nancy Pelosi uh has called Hugo Chavez a thug today.
Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern-day Simon Bolivar, but all he has is an everyday thug.
She said at her own news conference, referring to Chavez' comments at the UN.
Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had speaking at the United Nations.
He demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela.
All right, fine.
Miss America, if Hugo Chavez demeaned himself, what have you done to yourself?
No, no, no, folks, I am serious about this.
I've sat here, we've all sat here for four years, and we've listened to the most un-American assaults on an American president that I have ever remembered hearing in my life.
Got close to what they said about Ronald Reagan.
But this, the Bush administration, takes the cake.
When there have been Americans siding with our enemy, when there have been Americans invested in the defeat, Democrats invested in the defeat of George Bush's policies in the war on terror and Iraq, which means they're invested in the defeat of American policy.
And we've sat here and we've listened to this.
And we have asked the same same questions of you, Ms. Pelosi, and you, Congressman Wrangle, that you're asking of Caesar Chavez.
What gives him the right to do this?
What is the point?
We know why it is in your case, and we know why it is in Chavez's case.
And guess what?
They're both the same.
You're trying to become king and queen of the Bush haters in this country.
You're trying to become king and queen, get your power back on the backs of people who hate America and who hate Bush, and Chavez is simply trying to become the leader of the non-aligned movement, the third world little tin horn places that hate Bush and hate America.
You both have the same objective.
You want to be king and queen.
You want to be elected leader, he wants to be king in perpetuity, dictator in perpetuity of a whole bunch of countries.
You want to get your power back in Washington.
You're both doing it on the backs of the same policy and the same people.
People who hate America, people who hate George W. Bush.
You're doing it on the same basis.
There's no difference in the two of you.
The difference is that Hugo Chavez is from a foreign country and did so at the United Nations.
My God, what have you people said about John Bolton?
Do you want to compare John Bolton to what he's done to the United Nations compared to the membership of the United Nations and what it's done?
Tell me.
Who would you rather have over to your house for dinner?
John Bolton or that Star Wars Barcene.
The whole membership of the United Nations is a collection of human debris.
The vast majority of it despises this country.
They get up and say some of the most ridiculous things, they applaud the most outrageous things, they chuckle at things that we are told are unspeakable undignified in the diplomatic world.
What we have found is that the diplomatic world is the sewer of the world.
The diplomatic world is where the low rent scum hang out.
And they are given legitimacy they don't deserve by coming to this country in that august place known as Turtle Bay with the cloak of diplomacy and elitism all around them.
And we sit here and we listen to you trash.
A decent man like John Bolton and claim that he's gonna wreck the place when the place is already a wreck, when it's already a train wreck, it's already in tatters.
It has no respect.
It is no more than a collection of poor people that want to flee the United States after they fleece their own people.
After they murder their own people, after they imprison them.
And we're told that John Bolton's not fit to go there.
Do you know how angry that makes us?
You try to destroy his career.
You try to destroy his reputation on the floor of the United States Senate and in the Senate committee where his nomination was first taken up.
We're told that George W. Bush is responsible for destroying the prestige of the United States and the world.
Nothing could destroy the prestige of the United States and the world other than destroying the United States and the world, and George W. Bush has done just the exact opposite.
George W. Bush is defending the United States, and he's taking on odds and opposition from all over the world, including within his own country, but he doesn't back down.
He stands for what he's right, he follows through on his policy, he takes all this criticism and doesn't respond to it, doesn't say diddly squat.
When the truth about you people is mentioned, you act like babies and stuck pigs and say you're not gonna stand for it.
John Lewis goes to the well on the floor of the house.
This will not stand, Miss Speaker, this will not stand and so forth.
You destroy everybody that comes up.
You tried to destroy John Roberts, you try to destroy Robert Burke Bork, you tried to destroy Clarence Thomas, you tried to destroy Sam Alito, you tried to destroy John Bolton.
The list is endless of the people You try to destroy because you can't beat them, you can't win in an intellectual debate, so you do nothing but smear them.
You're trying to destroy George Allen over a macaca comment while the dive by media loving that is enmeshed in a in a fun frolic over how popular Hugo Chavez is.
Is it any wonder that you're losing the respect of decent Americans?
Your sense of gravity and balance and decency long ago vanished.
And this episode, Hugo Chavez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a cheap attempt to express outrage by two Democrats is not gonna make up for all that you've done previous.
Thank you.
America's real anchor man.
So we've got they have essentially a 24-hour delay on outrage from the Democrats, and two of them speak up.
Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Wrangle, tepid response, not befitting the actual occasion.
And we've gone back to the archives here, ladies and gentlemen, to show you Wrangell criticizing George W. Bush.
This is September 23rd, 2005, Congressional Black Caucus meeting.
When George Bush took this country and tried to abolish every progressive step that we've made, when he took this nation into war against a country that was no threat to the United States of America, when he made certain that all of the distortions of weapons of mass destructions and terrorists and attacks on 911 and identification well,
Al Qaeda, when 1900 Americans have died, 25,000 people are maimed in the hospitals around this country, and tens of thousands of Rackies, all God's children have been killed because of democracy, which is real oil in disguise.
When you're able to see not the Emmett Tills, not the murders of children, not the just the fire hoses and the Bill Connors, but you're able to see Katrina when you can actually see that if you're blacken this country and you poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience, it's a death sentence.
All right.
Now, Mike, I'll tell you what I want to do.
Um after uh keep this 24 hanging by, go back to number 20 and then 21.
I you you've you've just heard Wrangle, and let's review what he said here.
He basically said that the war in Iraq is all about oil, which is what Chavez says, which what Ahmadinejad says.
He then says that Katrina being black in this country is a death sentence.
You heard real passion here, real criticism of George W. Bush.
Let's listen to Hugo Chavez talk about what being black in America means and see if we can distinguish any difference between what Charlie Wrangle said and Hugo Chavez earlier today.
European brothers now, and I want to remember this that the development of Hugo started with the massacre of Latin America, and not only of America.
The development of Europe, the industrialization and enrichment happened over the massacre of America.
Also, black African.
And today, we are here 500 years later of After Death Massacre.
We are here.
You are the survivors of the massacre.
You, the aborigines of America.
We the mixture between the original American Indians and the blacks from Africa.
That is peaceful.
This applause.
We have cut the applause.
It went on and on and on.
Now here you have Chavez basically saying to the black audience and a black church that they are America's original aborigines along with the Indians, and that a Europeans showed up and massacred them.
And uh and and that's uh and the people that were in the church are the survivors of that massacre.
And he included himself, and that's us.
A mixture of the American Indians and the African uh and the blacks from Africa.
Now, here's Charlie Wrangell again talking on September 23rd of last year, almost exactly a year ago.
When George Bush took this country and tried to abolish every progressive step that we've made, when he took this nation into war against a country that was no threat to the United States of America, when he made certain that all of the distortions of weapons of mass destructions and terrorists and attacks on 9-11 and identification while Al Qaeda,
when 1,900 Americans have died, 25,000 people are maimed in the hospitals around the United States.
Stop the tape a minute.
He's describing George W. Bush's massacre here.
He's accusing George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction, lying about Al-Qaeda, lying about things that were connected to 9-11, and he's being responsible for the death of 1900 Americans and 25,000 people maimed in hospitals around this country.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis, all God's children been killed because of democracy.
I ask you, why would Chavez think he's out of line coming here and saying what he's saying on the soil of the United States?
Here's the rest of Wrangell's bite.
Tens of thousands of Rackies, all God's children have been killed because of democracy, which is real oil in disguise.
When you're able to see not the Emmett Tills, not the murders of children, not the just the fire hoses and the Bill Connors, but you're able to see Katrina when you can actually see that if you're black in this country and you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience, it's a death sentence.
It's a death sentence.
Hugo Chavez says that Europeans came and massacred black Africans and American Indians.
Charles Wrangell says they're being massacred today.
It's a death sentence to be poor and black in this country.
Let's listen to the opening of Wrangell's press conference again, where he ends up criticizing Chavez, but not yet.
Listen to this gracious opening.
We're deeply appreciative to uh the Venezuelan government.
Stop the tape a moment.
Have you ever heard Charles Wrangell talk about the appreciation for his own country or his own government?
I mean, the government of this country has done more for poor people around the world than Hugo Chavez could dream of in a year's worth of appearances before the United Nations.
But listen to the praise and the appreciation for the Venezuelan government.
So because we buy millions of barrels a day, the United States, and it just seems to me that uh those that supply us that are sensitive to the higher price than inability of the poor to meet it, um, that the United States oil firms ought to take a page from the Venezuelan book and do the same thing.
Right, right, right.
So uh George Bush, who a year ago uh accused of basically holding blacks and poor people in America under a death sentence, is now today is encouraged by Charles Wrangle to duplicate, replicate the efforts of uh the magnanimous Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Let's go to Cut 25.
This is Wrangle from the um same meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus September 23rd, 2005.
George Bush is our Bill Ocada.
And if that doesn't get to you, nothing will be able to get to you.
And it's time for us to be able to say that we're sick and tired, we've fired up, and we're not gonna take it anymore.
That's right.
That's right, we're not gonna take any more of George W. Bush, we're not gonna put up with it.
George Bush is their bull Connor.
Bull Connor was a Democrat, Congressman Wrangle.
All of the racist pigs and thugs back in the South in the old days were Southern Democrats.
Congressman Wrangle, Lester Maddox, you name it.
Okay, so there's real passion.
There's real passion a year ago from Wrangell ripping into George W. Bush.
It's time for us to be able to say we're sick and tired, we're fired up, we're not going to take it anymore.
Here's Wrangle today, uh, beginning to criticize Chavez.
I want President Chavez to please understand that even though many people uh in the United States are critical of our president, that we resent the fact that he would come to the United States and criticize President Bush.
Uh, he has to understand that while we have problems politically, uh, sometimes with President Bush, that we he is still our president, and that we resent foreigners coming and condemning our president.
Well, this is almost a conciliatory tone.
He's asking uh President Chavez to understand.
Please understand uh uh he has to understand that while we have problems politically.
There's no attack here, there's no criticism of Chavez.
There's a plea.
There's a plea to shut up, you're embarrassing us.
Stop, you're making it look bad for us.
Mr. Chavez, please stop saying these things.
Leave this to us.
Leave the criticism to us.
We know how better to do it.
Here's one more.
Even though I am fully aware that he and President Bush enjoy these personal attacks on each other, they can do politically what they see fit to do.
But you don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district, and you don't condemn my president.
If there's any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not.
Exactly right.
Uh Wrangle, knowing uh his criticism looks pale compared to Chavez.
Chavez much better at it than Wrangell, and he doesn't want Wrangle to keep out shining him, or Chavez to keep out shining him.
Anyway, I wanted to do this uh archival look back so you can hear real passion from Wrangle, and I want you to know that it's not just me saying there's hardly any difference between what Hugo Chavez says and what Charlie Wrangell says.
I mean, if you're going to accuse in the case of Chavez, Bush of being the devil go and devil and Europeans massacring uh ancient Americans, uh, and then Wrangell comes along and says being black in America is a death sentence.
What's the difference in that and calling George W. Bush the devil?
There isn't any difference.
And this is my point.
And yet, it's taken twenty-four hours for this to happen.
It's taken twenty-four hours and two speeches.
They're not even reacting to Ahmadinejad yet, and wait till he figures that out.
Ahmadinejad's being upstage, and he'll have to do something about that in short order back in just a second.
Well, well, well, get this.
The French news agency sent out a breaking news alert just moments ago.
And this is all it says.
Chavez says Bush is an alcoholic and a sick man.
Now, I don't know if he's still speaking up in Harlem.
I'm assuming that he uh either is or just finished, and I'm gonna have to assume that he said it at the Harlem Church that Bush is an alcoholic and a sick man.
Now, my friends, I know in the past I've said to you, d don't be offended by this.
I mean, these words and so forth, uh don't give people the power to offend you.
This doesn't offend me.
I don't want you to misunderstand.
I'm trying to explain to you why this is happening.
Well, let me take that back.
When I say I'm trying to explain, it means I think that I don't think you've got the brains to understand it.
That's of course not the case.
I'm just sharing with you my thought and my opinion.
This is happening, as you know, because the road has been paved by Democrats and liberals in this country for all these previous years.
This is just name-calling, and it's what the Democrats have been doing.
They can sit out there and rue this and act like they disagree with it all they want, but they're the ones who got all this started.
They're the ones who make it okay and easy for guys like Chavez to come to this country and do this.
And far from being offended by it, I am happy about it.
We are having this happen at a propitious moment.
Americans are able to see on whose well, let me put this a different way.
Americans are able to see that the American left and many Democrats have opinions and sentiments much closer to people like Hugo Chavez than they do other Americans.
American people will be offended by this.
They will be outraged by it.
They will note that the tepid, outraged response from Democrats is just that is just tepid, and they will have no other choice but then to conclude that Chavez is no different than your average Democrat critic, than your average liberal critic.
Same thing with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Worst thing that could possibly happen.
This is what this is why I told you when the Democrats started calling Nancy Pelosi speaker to be Pelosi.
When you start thinking you've won the game and the game hadn't even started, when you think you've won the game and you haven't even gotten in the game, you are in for a rude awakening.
And it's exactly the Democrats got all full of themselves.
They're going to sweep to victory.
Whole country hates Bush.
But now they're learning the whole country doesn't hate Bush because the backlash is taking place, and there are more millions of Americans out there fed up with this than you can possibly know.
And I do mean you.
You can't possibly know how many Americans are fed up.
Because you live in the media bubble every day, and you think that most Americans probably aren't bothered by this because we're so polarized.
I'm telling you, this population is still made up of a majority of decent people to whom this stuff is unacceptable.
And it is not appreciated, and it won't be tolerated.
And we have ways of dealing with people who engage in this kind of activity when they run for office and ask for our love and adoration and support and votes.
You just wait and see.
This is part of the crumbling of the uh the post-Labor Day scenario the Democrats thought would be entirely different than what it is in reality.
Jeff in London, Kentucky.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to talk to you, Rush.
Um, I think we need to keep uh the Chavez uh in the country as long as possible because the longer he stays here, he's hurting the Democrats.
Uh he's basically saying everything that they've been saying for a long time.
Uh maybe we need to let him uh tour the United States.
Let's uh let the uh Dixie chicks open up for him.
Yeah, maybe if somebody had a sponsor of Chavez Tour.
Hey, folks, don't forget last night he went to Cooper Union and he spoke to an audience of union organizers and professors.
Or what was it him or it was him?
I'm Adina J. Yeah, I'm Adinajad's going to Columbia tomorrow.
Uh Amadinijad went to the Council in Foreign Relations.
These guys are all over New York.
And the um uh when when union organizers and professors show up and give Hugo Chavez a standing ovation when he starts ripping America, who are those people?
They are liberal Democrats.
They vote Democrat.
So the more Chavez is here, the more damage he um he does do the the Democrats.
But he's gonna split today from what I understand, but he's gonna be emboldened by all this because he's sitting in his own bubble, and he's seeing these standing ovations at the UN.
He's seeing the standing ovations he got to Cooper Union, he sees the love and adoration from Harlem residents that he got today up there in that church.
It's only going to embolden keep speaking.
Here is Lisa, Columbia, South Carolina.
You're next.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Megades.
Thank you.
It's such an honor.
Um, I wanted to go back to something you said earlier about Mother Sheehan visiting Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Yes.
Um, it seems to me that Mother Sheehan is not going to be satisfied until we all lose a son.
If she's gonna support people like this, and people like her that support people like this, they're not gonna be satisfied until we all lose a son.
I don't I I uh under I understand what you're saying, but you know, when it when it comes to Cindy Sheehan, there's a person for whom we do need to extend some compassion.
Because there's a real nothing individual.
Uh she's just nothing.
She was plucked from nothingness by a California PR firm, which bankrolled her stardom as an anti-war activist.
They used her.
They made money off of her, they got media coverage off of her for her rants against George W. Bush.
And when she was no longer useful, they just spit her out.
And she's been desperately trying to get back on that stage ever since.
Going down to see Chavez, showing up wherever she can.
It's uh she's really pitiful in my mind, folks.
And I I I think she's a great example of just how coarse, mean spirited, and heartless the left in this country is.
Back in just a second.
It was on the street in Harlem that Chavez Chavez told a group of passers by that Bush is an alcoholic a sick man with a lot of hang ups.
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