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Sept. 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm just looking at the sound by Ross, something is not making sense.
Oh, there it is.
Okay.
Hi, greetings, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, nice to have you back with us.
Great to be back with you, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman with talent on loan from God.
And telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the uh email address rush at EIB net.com.
I don't really need to delve into the details of this story.
The headline says it all.
New hope for Democrats in bid for Senate.
New hope.
New hope.
Wait a minute, I thought it was a sure thing.
It was a sure thing, wasn't it?
Some weeks ago is a sure thing.
They're gonna win 70 seats in the Senate, they're gonna win 400 seats in the House.
Now there's new hope.
What is this?
New hope.
Uh I I think uh the purpose here is try to buck up the Democrats and and to influence news coverage.
Uh and it has to be oriented around the national intelligence estimate.
George Allen's problems are highlighted in the story.
Uh gas prices falling and so forth.
And of course, that leads to a discussion of is there a conspiracy to lower gas prices to affect the outcome of the election.
Uh but the bottom line, the way I read this, we've gone from a sure thing to new hope.
You want to hear Bill Schneider on CNN talking about the gas prices?
This is rich.
Oh, guess what?
Snerdley and I were just watching CNBC.
Why do you watch CNBC anyway?
Well, you just flip it around in there.
Uh of all the things you can, well, why CNBC?
Do you swallow fellow stock prices or something in there, William?
Well, we're uh we're watching it, and uh uh got the sound down low because I can't talk to him if the sound is up, but he can hear it.
I can't, it's just sort of rumble in the background.
And uh Info Babe is introducing a guest to talk about the scandal at Hewlett Packard.
You know, the CEO spying on board members out there uh to try to figure out who was leaking to the media, and these poor people have to not testify before Congress.
Why should they have to testify before Congress?
I can understand if you know the if some law enforcement agency wants to pursue these people, why do they have to go testify before Congress?
Well, anyway, they have to.
And lo and behold, who did they go get as a guest to talk about this?
But our buddy Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is a senior associate dean of management at Yale.
He's the guy featured in our first story today, who's just concluded research conducted in the last four days that indicates it's perfectly good to lose your temper in public, to have a little road rage out there, especially in politics or business or or at home.
Uh we live in such a controlled atmosphere these days.
Everybody's wound up so tight.
It's good to just let it all go.
And share your emotions, much like after Clinton was lying through his teeth and Lewinsky and everything else.
We got stories from the AP for for months on how healthy lying is.
Now we're hearing how healthy it is to blow your stack.
Uh, and it's actually a good thing.
And this guy is CNBC analyzing whatever's going on with uh HP.
At any rate.
We have an astounding report from Bill Schneider at CNN.
CNN's latest poll shows that here, just listen to it.
I'll I don't even want to poison your mind with it beforehand.
Just listen to it.
Gas prices have been going down.
Does that mean Republican prospects are looking up?
The drop in gasoline prices seems perfectly timed for the midterm election.
Democrats insist the issue will still work for them.
Do people believe the economy is doing better?
Actually, they do.
In early September, 44% said the country's economy was in good shape.
Now, 59% feel that way.
Hang on.
Some people believe the fix is in that President Bush deliberately manipulated gas prices to help Republicans.
Energy experts poo-poo the idea.
The bigger question is this.
If Americans are feeling better about the economy, why aren't Republicans doing better in the polls?
The reason why gas prices in the economy are not having a bigger political impact.
One word.
So they've gone out and they've tried to the bottom line here is that uh uh gas prices have dropped because Bush fixed the prices, and the economy's good, but the economy no longer matters as an election issue.
CNN's polling data proves it.
So Democrats can do a big sigh of relief.
Yep, the economy doing great, economic growth doing great, gas prices are coming in.
By the way, gas prices are at $1.7 in Southeast Missouri today, uh just eight miles from the town I grew up in.
I grew up grew up in Cape Girardo.
No, I've got a website that uh tracks this stuff.
Um, and I I've got uh see $1.77 in two different gas stations in Jackson, Missouri, which is eight miles away from where I grew up in uh in Cape Girardeau.
Dollar seventy.
But of course it doesn't matter, folks.
It does CNN Bill Schneider did a poll.
And the economy is not an election issue anymore.
Isn't that amazing?
It has nothing to do with uh with your vote uh at all.
All right, Terrell Owens spoke yesterday.
Uh I've been reading about this.
I I I have been reading about people's analysis of what happened here.
A lot of contradictory things out there.
Police report, somebody lie in a police report, the cops lie in the report.
Did uh TO's friend and publicist Kim Etheridge lie in her press conference, the TO not telling the truth?
And people are lining up at all the all the camps, uh, some um uh what would you go, suck up reporters saying I believe TO.
Others are saying, gotta get him help, gotta get him counseling.
Others are doing uh uh expert analyses with psychiatrists and psychiatrists who have not treated TO.
You can even find if you look in the right places, uh people going out and talking to doctors, and what is hydrocodone?
What is this, what is this generic Vicodin?
And you know, I have experience with that stuff, and I've to be quite honest with you, folks.
I'm I'm frankly amazed at how much ignorance there is about this stuff.
Uh actually I'm not.
You know what I can I know what media is, and I know how surface they are, and I and I know how really uncurious they are, but the way uh uh he was uh reportedly taking hydrocodone, which is it's it's all the same stuff.
Like what some something said hydrocodone just a little bit less than oxycond, it's all the same stuff.
Uh oxycontin, hydrocodone, they're all equally addictive.
Uh in terms of the drug, its quantity that that determine, you know, like there are people.
There are people who could take 35 pills and not have anything happening.
People have been taking this stuff for 15 years and need that, you develop a tolerance and resistance.
It's one of the rotten things about these.
Uh there are people that that that uh can take 40 and 50 of these things a day.
Uh if their pain is that severe and they've been on them for years, you need that much.
Uh and and somebody could but now, Owens hadn't been out long enough.
35, 35 of these things uh in in somebody who has not had a history of taking the yeah, that would be devastating.
It's there's so much of this that's relative that is that is not being explained.
Uh it not just about that, but but about all aspects of this.
Something happened in there that caused 911 to be called.
And when 911 got there, you have to understand 911, the the rescue people, when they show up, uh and somebody tells them there's an empty bottle of pills over there, and we got a guy who's a little delirious.
And by the way, um here's another thing.
I'm gonna tell you about the effect of these two uh the of the genuinely two pathways that are created with a with an opiate, which is what a pain pill is, because it's codeine or it's it's all opiates.
It's it's really it's all in a heroin family.
It's it's just that this different uh some of its synthetic, the hydrocodone is synthetic, it's made in the laboratory, oxycodone, hydrocote, it's all the same stuff in terms of its effect, what it does, its addictive qualities and and all that.
Uh if you have ever taken these and they zone you out and make you dizzy, and you just you you j put you to sleep, you probably will never ever be addicted to these things.
But some people take them, and it's like taking uh amphetamines, like taking speed.
It gives you energy, it gives you euphoria, it gives you all kinds of there's there, those are the two different impacts.
Uh we don't know what the impact on Terrell Owens is.
I just, like I said yesterday, I find it hard to believe that after suffering a broken leg in Philadelphia, uh, that this is the first time he's taken to things.
So I'm not saying anything other than this when I say that, though.
The idea that you'd have an adverse allergic reaction to it, uh, when it's not the first time you've taken the stuff, doesn't compute with me, even with these supplements.
But I don't know what the supplements are.
Uh but if if he anyway, if fire rescue shows up, they see an empty bottle of pills, and they woman who called them is there, and somebody's I mean, the police report says somebody, I guess it was hers trying to take two pills out of his mouth even after they got there.
They don't have time to judge whether or not they're being lied to or not.
They're gonna ask questions.
Did you try to hurt yourself?
Yes.
Did you take everything in the bottle?
Yeah.
That's all they're gonna hear, and bam, off to the hospital you go.
They're not gonna sit there and have a debate and get into a little social encounter group.
Are you sure it they're not they're not judgmental?
These are these are lifesavers.
They head out, they see evidence of a problem, they got a 9-1-1 call, bam.
They go so the day afterwards, none of that happened.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, they're just stash some of them away in a drawer for a rainy day or what have you.
Uh uh the uh it was delirious, didn't know what I was saying, and so well, a fire and rescue people don't have time to weed through that.
Uh they ask questions, and if they get the answers that they they uh they need to hear to take action, they do, and that's that's uh that's what happens.
So anyway, do we I don't need to play this TO soundbite stuff, but um regardless.
I just I've been reading all this, and I've been I've I've I've been uh listening to all these various analyses of this, and it's this is just another example of how the fact givers, the information providers, those in the drive-by meeting who dig deep to find out what's going on, what the facts are, what this does, or what the haven't the slightest clue.
And in this case, it just is further evidence than in anything else they do.
Uh there are a lot of incompletions, a lot of holes, and uh uh a lot of testimony from so-called experts that ain't right.
And it's not just in this story, it's in a bunch of stuff, as we already know.
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Uh Mark in York, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Megadeth rush.
Uh wanted to make a quick point watching the news last night and watching about Tokyo Road dying, and it made me think uh they were saying that she was convicted for treason just for telling our truth they shouldn't be there, they should go home.
And it made me think that uh we get rid of 95% of our Democratic Party for treason.
Well, you know, it's a it's a wonderful thought.
Uh and it's something we could have dreams about.
But in terms of reality, it uh it isn't going to happen.
You know, the but I'm gonna tell that there is there is some activity out there that that is inarguably treason.
Uh whoever's leaking all this stuff.
Uh there are people that are doing their best to defeat the uh the country's policy at war.
Uh was Tokyo Rose's conviction overturned?
Really?
That's right.
She was she was uh pardoned by who?
Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose.
Was she still alive when he when she was pardoned?
So it wasn't a posthumous part.
I had forgotten it.
She just died this week.
Tokyo Rose assumed room temperature this week.
Well, here's the thing uh uh about this.
You know, you can talk about whether the Democrats engage in treason or acting like like Tokyo Rose.
Uh when Snurley and I were in his office here at the top of the hour break, uh, before he flipped over to CNBC, he was watching C-SPAN.
This guy has a life.
And Ted Kennedy was there debating the torture bill, the uh the detainee bill, the military tribunal bill, whatever you want to call it.
And Ted Kennedy had this chart.
I mean, they're not giving up.
They're still arguing the vote on this is at four o'clock this afternoon.
And he's not shouting anything.
He's uh I think he knows he's gonna lose, but he's got his little blue chart up there on the easel, and he's talking about all the things that in his amendment with Diane Feinstein would not be permitted.
And there's about five or six things on the list, waterboarding is one of them and so forth.
And he ended up saying, by saying, we need to do this, Mr. President, and send a message to the world that we are gonna protect our troops, and in the process of protecting our troops, uh we are gonna see to it, we protect our troops by making sure that we do not engage in these kinds of activities against our uh enemy combatants and those in our prisons.
And I'm sitting there in my I I just look at Snerdley and I said, does does this buffoon?
Does this ignorant not realize that it's already happening?
They're already doing far worse than what Senator Kennedy wants to delete from this bill.
They already behead, they torture, they slowly slit throats.
There is nothing humane about what they do.
They mutilate bodies as a way of killing people while people are alive.
Then they set them afire.
They already do it even with all of this tortuous debate that we've had for two years since Abu Ghab hit.
If the terrorists don't get the message that we're a bunch of softies and nice guys, after two years of listening to the Democrats, nothing will get them.
But what in the world are they thinking?
Under what tree did the apple fall that they don't understand who it is we're dealing with.
His little chart was entitled Protecting American Troops.
The way troops protect themselves is to kill the bad guys, Senator.
We don't wait for him to get captured and then hope against hope because of the way we treat our prisoners that they will in kind.
Where are these people coming from?
They are not stupid.
Well, they they are stupid.
They have to be.
They're just liberals.
And they have an arrogance and a condescension about them that makes them believe that they have this power with the very essence of their souls and their countenance to make other people nice and good people.
And it's just the world is filled with evil, and there hasn't been a liberal yet who's been able to repair it.
Liberalism does not cure evil.
Liberalism, in fact, gives it comfort now and then.
Liberalism promotes it.
We have an existing enemy.
They are, without question, they are unarguably evil.
Liberals refuse to see it.
They refuse to admit it, and when they do acknowledge it might be the case, it's Bush's fault.
And they think the way around it is to get Bush out of there, and we get Bush out of there, because Bush is making them rabid.
So they figure if Bush is doing this to us, he's doing it to everybody.
Europe hates us, the terrorists hate us.
We hate Bush, so it must be Bush.
So get Bush out of there, put us in there, and it all will be sweetness and light.
It's exemplified by this literally idiotic story of...
I shared with you mere moments ago from the San Francisco Chronicle.
They went out and got some experts.
And the experts agree, get I'm still stunned by this.
The experts say that even if we leave, it won't necessarily mean the jihadists will stop.
Really?
In other words, they think there might be a way of winning the war if we leave.
Then the experts say we're kind of we're kind of screwed because they're got we got problems if we stay, and we got problems if we leave.
And we can't leave because that's not gonna stop the jihadists.
As though this is some new revelation that nobody's ever thought of before.
This is dangerous stuff for these people.
I'm sorry.
All right, back to the phones.
Uh people have been patiently waiting here.
We'll go to San Mateo, California.
This is Chris.
I'm uh glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the broadcast.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh, to say four uh four thousand foreign fighters have been killed in Iraq.
Uh to me begs the question of how many homegrown terrorists have been killed there.
And I also think it the the admissions vindicates the fly paper concept, which was a primary facet of why we went there in the first place.
Uh no question about that.
That's a good question, too, about what how many homegrown.
Um you know the real question to me, how many homegrown are there?
We know that the Saddam Bathist party had some remnants.
But my guess is that most of this is import.
Most of this is from Egypt, most of this a lot of them to Saudi Arabia.
Uh we know some probably from Iran.
Uh 4,000 of them dead, and these guys are announcing it.
And by the way, this comes on the heels of the letter that was released, uh, we intercepted it a while ago, uh, that the n the new uh Al Qaeda leader in Iraq uh is uh sending messages back to Zarkawi and bin Laden in their cave that they're they're in trouble.
Uh and now here comes this guy announcing 4,000 foreign fighters dead.
And it's probably understated anyways.
I'm sure it's understated, but I don't know how this is my y your question's really good because uh I think most of them are foreign.
Your fly paper example is exactly right.
This has attracted a bunch of them there uh from from other countries.
How many of them are native Iraqis?
And of course, see that's that's the problem with the word insurgency.
And the media has been using the insurgency term since it began because it connotes an uprising among Iraqis against our presence.
And that probably is not nearly the case uh as these uh death statistics indicate.
But maybe these guys wouldn't know how many homegrown uh terrorists are dead because they're uh maybe different factions, different groups, but it still is an interesting number.
It's an interesting question.
Is that it?
Oh, no.
The other day you played uh Greg Kin's uh uh Jeopardy, and you asked, you wondered where he was.
He's a local he's a local uh modern or uh classic rock talk show host or uh radio host out here, and from what he says on the air, I think he's a conservative.
Yeah, right.
Well, you know, I love that one song of his Jeopardy.
We play that as a bump uh now and then, and I just I never what happened what happens to these uh aging rockers uh if they don't get hepatitis, what happens to them?
And uh and it's great to hear that I got some emails saying that he was he was uh doing radio out there, but he didn't say he was a talk show host, I thought he was a DJ.
It doesn't matter.
But he's conservative c conservative.
Not surprised it's a way to succeed in radio.
Chris, thanks for the call.
I I I appreciate it.
Uh to Atlanta and Scott.
Yes, sir.
Hello.
Yes, sir, Rush.
It's an honor and a pleasure to be on your show.
I've been listening to you for about ten years, and it's the first time I've ever been able to get through.
I'm glad you made it.
Thank you.
Um the reason I'm calling is uh I'm just I'd like to challenge the conservative base to not accept the term Iraq war.
I think it's a negative term for our benefit.
I think that the term Iraq war means that that's the only war we're fighting, and I would argue that it's not a war.
It's a battle no differently and no different than Midway, although maybe taking longer.
Uh Normandy or Iwajim or any other battle.
This is a battle in a major front of war, and I think it bolsters the point you've been making on your show today.
Well that when this battle ends.
There um this has long been a problem, uh, one of semantics.
The liberals have tried to divide them, and the liberals are responsible.
The Iraq war uh is totally unrelated to Afghanistan.
There were no terrorists in Iraq, there was no reason to do this.
Al Qaeda was everywhere in the world, but Iraq.
Bush went to Iraq anyway because he's an idiot, and he had some personal grievance that he wanted to wipe her get Halliburton and their oil or what have you.
Uh But it's look, it's in the lexicon.
It's all war on terror.
And there was some polling data the other day with the share.
I forget what the polling company was, but uh uh a good percentage, a little over fifty percent of the American people don't separate the two.
Uh you know, if when when a pollster goes out there and does this on purpose, makes your point.
They go out and ask questions about the war on terror, and then the war in Iraq, and all these other things, as though they're two separate issues, and this latest poll did the same thing in their questions, but the results came back and indicated that people think of them as the same thing.
Uh at least a majority of the people in this poll.
I wish I could remember what it was, but I don't.
Here is an associated press story.
Did are you aware of a group called the Fighting Democrats, the Fighting Dems?
You are, Mr. Sternley, okay.
Let me see you pass the test.
Who or what are the fighting dems?
Mm-hmm.
He's exactly right.
Exactly right.
A bunch of that's actually a bunch of uh a bunch of Democrats, war veterans, who decided they were going to run for Congress this year.
The old put a Democrat in a war uniform and they rise to the like John Kerry.
Um the fighting dems, turns out, according to the Associated Press, are not a collective powerhouse after all.
For months the Democratic Party has trumpeted the congressional candidacies of several dozen Democrats who served in the military six weeks before the midterm elections.
Only a few have a fighting chance to win.
Most of them got picked off in the primaries or dropped out or trail their Republican opponents in fundraising.
Many of the fighting Democrats are little known political novices who don't have the financial backing of the party's campaign committees, which buys ads to benefit those they think can win.
And yet it was those committees that went out and recruited these guys.
It's Carl McCall all over again.
It's Maynard Jackson all over again.
It's quite easy in Fume all over again.
Go out and recruit these guys and then don't back them up.
Speaking of quite easy in Fume.
Uh I had heard the other day that he had endorsed uh what's his face?
Uh uh Michael Steele.
And it was not Kwaisi Imfume, it was Kwaisi Imfume's son.
Uh one of his progeny, uh, who had endorsed Michael Steele, the Washington Post today says that uh Senate candidate Ben Cardin received the critical endorsement yesterday of Democratic primary opponent Kwaezy Imfume, whose blessing came nevertheless with a wagging finger and a blunt warning about the lack of diversity among candidates for statewide office in Maryland.
Imfume cautioned that the Democratic Party had much work to do to energize black voters.
The Democratic nominees for the top four jobs he noted looked no different than the ticket fifty years ago, which was right before the civil rights movement, quite easy.
What an indictment.
What a thing to say.
The Democratic Party didn't look any different today than it did 50 years ago.
Uh quite easy.
Can I ask a simple question?
You say here that uh party has a lot of work to do to energize black voters.
Now, those of us have been watching the elections.
All of our lives don't think you're right.
It doesn't seem to require any energizing to get blacks to vote for Democrats.
Now maybe it takes some energizing to get them to turn out to vote.
But I what in the world are you complaining about, quite easy?
Have you what what what 88, 92%?
Every presidential race, the black vote goes to the Democrats.
Just got sour grapes here because he he uh didn't win the primary against uh against Cardin.
Imfume.
Uh let's see.
The challenge of the opportunity is to build a bridge.
Wait a minute, who is this steel talking or is this uh infume?
Yeah, this is Steele.
Michael Steele says the challenge of the uh opportunity is to build a bridge to communities the Democrat Party has taken for granted, and has my choice of nominee decided to tell uh to wait, he said during an afternoon event in Largo.
I'm here to say you don't have to wait any longer.
You can join power by joining me.
He's right about that.
For all the talk and diversity and all the complaints of Democrats that blacks aren't getting ahead, it's a Democratic Party itself that holds them down.
And it's Democrat voters that do it in primaries and so forth, and yet it's the Republicans who are racist, sexist, bigots.
Here's George in Austin, Texas.
Hey, George, uh, welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, it is great to talk to you.
I've been listening to you uh since the mid eighties.
I w listened on Chaos Dio right after Roger Hedgecock's show.
Thank you, sir.
Um I hope to engage you in a dialogue uh uh uh oriented towards solution about uh Islamo fascists.
It seems to me uh there are two uh probable success lines that we could pursue.
One of them is impractical and and we don't want to pursue it, and the other one seems too namy tamby.
If uh if we take uh an overwhelming military approach, we say if there's any more terrorist activity, we're gonna start taking out your uh religious sites with tomahawk missiles.
If you continue, we take out the next one, the next one, the next one, until finally uh we send one down the chimney at the Kaaba in the middle of the Grand Mosque.
That's not a good solution.
The other one is to solicit support from why not?
Because you know I mean uh you you're not gonna solicit a lot of support from the rest of the I mean if it wins, I guess it's worth the alienation that we would suffer as well.
Who is the enemy?
The enemy is Islamo fascists.
All right, it is not a lot of Islam, is it?
No, no, no, uh uh the here's the here's I'm I'm I'm you said you wanted to have a dialogue and I'm dialoguing with you.
Yeah.
Good.
So uh it's I know what you're gonna ask me.
I know where this is going, because I'm host.
You're gonna ask me what I think we should do.
Well uh that's what I'm saying.
So I'm trying to combine all of this into one discussion.
You just suggested sending a bunch of tomahawks into mosques, down chimneys or whatever, where these people are.
That's not a good plan.
No.
Okay.
The other thing that we can do is to listen to the water.
World War II it's how we would have done it.
I'm sorry.
In World War II, it's how we would have done it.
Well, you're dang right, we would have.
Well, in the old days when we used to win wars, that's what we did.
We went out and killed the enemy and broke their stuff.
I understand.
But we weren't worried about now.
Wait a minute.
We weren't we weren't worried about whether or not it's gonna make them mad like we are now.
If we did the argument and this is today, do you think that is a practical solution for today?
Hell yes.
You think if you're if you're in a war, and if the objective is to win it, yes.
But we're worried about angering these people, as though they're you know, totally in war.
You see what I'm saying?
We're gonna alienate ourselves and the rest of the of the political global community.
We already are.
But what does that matter?
What what does that matter when we're talking about our national security?
What does it matter when it's talk when we're talking about stopping these attacks on us and every other innocent person around the world?
What does it matter what people think and who we anger?
They're already mad at us.
This is what's what it matters.
If it is possible to do this by soliciting the the support of the of the uh moderate Islam's to impose their majority will over these uh uh uh minority radicals, uh then that's probably the best way to go, isn't it?
Uh wait a George, you've been paying attention lately, the Germans just cancel a m an opera.
Oh, they they just cancel an opera out of fear it would make the Muslims that Muslims aren't even mad yet.
But we well, except that they are, but they th they so we had preemptive capitulation.
We gave up before we even did what we thought would make them mad, and we were just the Germans just trying to put on a little opera.
Um if you think that it's a minority of militant Islamists who can be talked to by the moderate Muslims out there, they're scared to death too.
Where are the moderate Muslims who are out there demonstrating in the public that the that these uh radical minority has subverted the Quran and their religion?
I am told that they are there, but that they are scared too.
These people have everybody intimidated.
They're too scared to turn in their the people who are subverting their religion.
I tell you, maybe maybe you're right.
Maybe if we said, maybe we adopted a policy of we're gonna start taking out these madrasas who are fomenting uh uh hatred uh against us, and we're gonna take out mosques where we know that these radical Oblamus uh fascists are operating, and we're gonna destroy one after another until we get some cooperation here.
Look at all it takes is for the Pope to quote a centuries dead emperor, and they destroyed a bunch of churches and synagogues.
It took less than that.
It took a it took a it took a silly uh uh of Mohammed with a bomb on his servant.
Stop interrupting me.
Sorry.
My point is this.
If it's why is it okay for they to blow up our churches?
Why is it okay for them to blow up synagogues?
Why is it okay for them to riot in the streets over cartoons, and we have to cancel operas, and we cannot bomb their mosques, and we can't kill them where they are because it's gonna make them mad and it'll make us look bad.
Rules of engagement.
Who sets those?
That's the deal.
We need it perhaps we need to be able to do that.
The rules the rules of engagement are set by the doctrine of political correctness.
And they have been since the Vietnam War.
This is making me mad.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with me.
It's uh bad news uh for the radical Shiite cleric, uh Moktada Muki Al Sadr.
It is being reported by the New York Times that Muki has lost control of portions of his militia.
Uh they are splittering off into freelance death squads and criminal gangs.
Uh question of how tightly Muki holds his militia, which is one of the largest armed groups in Iraq, is of critical importance to American and Iraqi officials, but as Muki has taken a more active role in the government over there, as many as a third of his militiamen have grown frustrated with the constraints of compromise and have broken off,
often selling their services to the higher bidders, uh, said the official uh who spoke to reporters in Baghdad on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to speak publicly about this.
So uh let's see, we got 4,000 dead foreign fighters as announced by Al Qaeda in Iraq today.
We have Mukey's thugs refusing to answer to him.
Uh doesn't the news coming out there doesn't sound good for these guys.
Uh way I read it, of course, you know, who am I?
Michael in uh Highland, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh the guy from Texas, he's out of his mind uh about you know, talking about alienating people after we bomb.
We dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, and they're one of our best allies.
I know.
I know.
I mean, it the recipe is there.
Wars have been won traditionally.
Uh I mean now there's a war college, and uh, we have West Point Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, and they teach guys how to win wars over there.
Um and and uh it it really hasn't changed.
Uh you win war by uh conquering territory, driving them off the territory, killing people, and breaking things.
Exactly.
I don't know what he was talking about.
I mean, I was in the military for years, and you don't go in there to eat.
It's not his fault, it's just a product of the of the political correctness.
We can't do what we've normally done in the past to win wars.
By the way, we we dropped two nukes on Japan.
That's true.
As you know, two atomic bombs.
Now we're dropping leaflets on the Hisbos.
Hey, by the way, my name is Maurice, not Michael.
Uh what's that?
The name is Maurice, not Michael.
Oh.
And hey, it was great talking to you.
Thank you, Maurice.
It's great to have you on the program.
It's not my fault.
Screener's screwed up.
Get it right from now.
I'm tired of being humiliated this.
I'm gonna I'm sit, I'm not gonna sit here and cover for the mistakes of subordinates who can't get it right anymore.
I'm just blowing off steam, according to uh Sonnenfeld of Yale, who says that doing what Bill Clinton did is healthy and helpful.
It clears the air, it reduces blood pressure.
It's good to have this kind of rage in business and in politics.
Um research conducted by the way, establishing this in just four days after Bill Clinton's appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Just checking the email, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Dear Rush, stop being mean and getting mad at people.
Contrary to the AP story, it isn't cool.
Sign Jonathan.
Jonathan cram it, pal.
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