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Sept. 29, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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All right, so I'm sitting in there and I'm watching uh I'm watching uh Fox during the break.
They got a little graphic on there.
Woodward books stirring up debate in DC.
Well, it may be, but it's not stirring up debate anywhere else.
What's new in this book?
Bush lied.
There's nothing new in it.
The new thing in it is that Dr. Kissinger shows up now and then.
Uh and President Bush enjoys talking to him.
Well, what's new about it?
Bush lied.
Concealing the true nature of the difficulties in the room.
Bush lied.
It's the same old playbook.
It's Bob Woodward trying to get back in good with the buddies he made mad by writing two sympathetic books on the Bush administration prior to this.
Speaking of President Bush.
We'll start with the speech today.
Went out and spoke to the Reserve Officers Association about the war on terror, and we got a couple of bites, then we'll go to yesterday.
President on fire here.
Recently, parts of a classified document called the National Intelligence Estimate was leaked to the press.
As I said yesterday in Alabama, it must it's an indication that we're getting close to an election.
The NIE is a document that analyzed the threat we face from terrorists and extremists.
And it's unauthorized disclosure has set off a heated debate here in the United States, particularly in Washington.
Some of us selectively quoted from this document to make the case that by fighting the terrorists, by fighting them in Iraq, we are making our people less secure here at home.
It's just ridiculous.
This argument buys into the enemy's propaganda.
It's bizarre.
That the terrorists attack us because we're provoking them.
I will want to remind the American citizens that we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001.
Hubba Hubba.
Rad on Rat on Rat on.
The applause went on, but we cut the applause to save time here.
But rat on rat on rad on.
You know, where is this coming from?
Where is this notion?
Is it come from conflict resolution class?
You ain't just gonna provoke them.
We just gonna make them mad.
I mean, if we imagine if we fought uh all law enforcement problems this way.
Got a rapist in the neighborhood.
Don't catch it.
Oh my gosh, don't even try to look in for it.
Rape even more.
This is the chicken, the feminization of our society.
It has to be.
Don't make them mad.
Don't make them mad.
Crying out.
This is it is so ridiculous.
You know, and it's it's really bad.
We were discussing this a little bit yesterday.
Guy called yesterday and said, Well, what are we gonna do?
We're gonna bomb their mosques.
We can't do that, we can't bomb their mosques.
We can't.
I said, why not?
They're blowing up the World Trade Center, they're blowing up subways, they're blowing up train stations, they're trying to blow up more airplanes.
They blew up the Pentagon, they're blowing up themselves.
The Pope utters a few words, quoting a centuries-old Byzantine emperor, and they start blowing up churches and synagogues, and they kill a nun.
We're making them mad.
Look at this this German opera.
Now, this is not the German government.
German opera cancel a performance because they were afraid that the Muslims might get mad.
Preemptive capitulation.
We're not even waiting for them to get mad now.
We're just assuming they are.
Can't do that.
Where is it?
What is special about this bunch?
That only they are immune from being offended.
Only they are immune from uh uh being provoked.
They're the ones that are being provocative.
Here's more from the president.
This argument was powerfully answered this week by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Yeah.
Here's what he said.
He said, I believe passionately that we will not win until we shake ourselves free of the wretched capitulation to the propaganda of the enemy.
Here, here somehow we are the ones responsible.
Here, here.
All right.
It's about time.
He went on to say, this terrorism is not our fault.
We didn't cause it, and it is not the consequence of foreign policy.
He's right.
You do not create terrorism by fighting terrorism.
If that ever becomes the mindset of the policymakers in Washington, it means we'll go back to the old days of waiting to be attacked and then respond.
Our most important duty is to protect the American people from a future attack.
And the way to do so is to stay on the offense against the terrorists.
Right, that's it.
That's exactly right.
It's like the president said yesterday, I don't care.
I don't care if the last two people supporting me are Laura and Barney.
I am not getting out of Iraq.
But you know, he's describing the Democrats.
That's it in a nutshell.
We're making a mad Bushes causing terrorism.
Bush created terrorists.
He's on fire here today, and he was yesterday too.
Spoke um uh out there campaigning in Alabama for Governor Bob Riley as speaking again about the recently leaked NIE estimate and responding to criticism from the Democrats, the president said this.
Five years after 9-11, worst attack on American homeland or history, the Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second guessing.
The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run.
Man, the place blew up.
It just the applause was shaking the rafters over this.
And of course, the Democrats, they had a cow.
He can't say that about us.
Why, that's what he's attacking us.
They can't say that.
President taking us.
He's responding to criticism.
And I'll tell you, you know, he saves all this ideological stuff uh for campaigns.
My only wish is that we heard more from him like this throughout the course of the years.
So the cut and run crowd decided to show up and be brave on a cable TV networks last night, led by John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam.
He was on CNN's Paul-Azan show.
And she said, How can Democrats fight off the perception that they are the party of cut and run?
This administration is cut and run from common sense and they've cut and run from the truth.
The truth is that Iraq is not the center of the war on terror.
Stop, tape, stop, tape, stop, tape.
Your precious NIE says it is lurch.
These are the people who cut and run from capturing and killing Osama bin Laden.
Oh, I'm not going to stand for the president suggesting we have only criticized.
We've offered alternative after alternative, and they have turned them down.
What alternative?
Oh, yeah, we got to do it smarter.
We we have to we have to do it smarter.
People are pathetic.
Just pathetic.
So Paul Ozan continues, look, even Democrats have told me that they think your party's given the president ammunition, that it is a divided party.
Till you start speaking with a unified voice, you're going to be vulnerable to this charge.
I disagree.
I think we do have a unified voice.
Iraq is not the center of the war on terror.
Iraq is a mess.
And we need to change course in Iraq.
Our troops did not go over there to be involved in the middle of a civil war.
And the more we can break through to America and talk common sense.
What kind of accountability is there in this administration for having young American kids from Ohio, from Massachusetts, from Florida, elsewhere in America, dying because they don't have the equipment.
Oh you know, I disagree with uh Ms. Zong here.
I don't I don't think the Democrats could come up with any words, unified or not, that will uh dispel the notion that they are cut and run.
Folks, it's who they are.
And the modern incarnation of this began in the Vietnam War.
Gotta get out of there, gotta get out of Cambodia, gotta get out of everywhere.
are cut and run.
And whether we went into Grenada, Nicaragua, stopped communism there, There, they wanted no part of it.
They are cut and run.
They have a history.
The reason that President Bush stopped at uh at Truman.
Could have included JFK in this, I guess, but um JFK did go into Vietnam.
There was a you make a case that JFK is not a modern day Democrat at all, wouldn't fit in with this party.
But they've they've got a track record that history fully displays.
They can't come up with any words whatsoever.
And Kerry's attempts here to try are futile and obvious because they are cut and run.
They do run away from a fight.
They do not think it's necessary.
They do think the U.S. military is unnecessarily provocative, just by nature of its very existence.
So they can struggle for a unified message, a divided message.
They can come, they can go talk to George Lackoff, rhymes with all they want to try to come up with the right lingo, but their actions are widely known, and there's nothing they can do about that.
They are stuck in it.
Open line Friday.
Your calls are next.
Nick and uh Daytona, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Russia.
I am so glad that I got a chance to talk to you.
I thought I was mad when I called.
And after listening to Kerry, I'm furious.
And quite frankly, what I'm going to say is probably a little bit directed at you too.
Oh, okay.
Listen, I am sick and tired of talking about Democrats taking over the Senate and the Democrats when we should be talking about burying these people.
We should be talking about a 10% a 10-point race in Florida that Kathleen Harris can win over Nelson and sending those people home.
And the reason why I'm so upset, in about one or two hours, my daughter, the angel of my heart, is gonna land in Baghdad, and she's gonna do guard duty.
And you want to know something?
She's gonna put on a bulletproof vest that Kerry voted against.
That he voted against.
My joy, the only child I have.
That's all I got to give.
That's the uh that's the supplemental that he voted uh uh for before he voted against.
Exactly.
The one he voted for before he voted against it.
Let me tell you something.
Why are we rewarding these people by playing defense?
We need to be on the offense that's you, and everywhere you go in the media, whether it's the drive by.
See, you've just you've just hit on it, and you've you've raised an excellent question, and it allows me to point out again how everybody is influenced by the media bubble.
I have made mention of this countless times.
The news cycle is totally focused and absorbed on Democrat electoral opportunities and chances.
That's all that's interests them.
If you go to any newspaper, any cable network, the question multiple times a day now, will the Democrats win back the House?
Will the Democrats win the Senate?
And that's why you're mad because you're falling prey to the media bubble.
Uh and it's it's it's easy to do.
Um it's because if you pay a lot of attention to it, you can't you can't avoid it.
Uh but I'm like you, I'm outraged, but I don't give a rat's rear end other than I don't want them to win it, but I I'm tired of the angle that is a foregone conclusion that they're going to, and that anything that comes along that may question that is news.
Absolutely.
You know, Russia, I have listened to you for so long it's unbelievable.
And I have never called your show.
I've never been on the air.
I am a silent person who's out here like millions and millions and millions of people who love this country.
I would die today for it.
I absolutely would.
And I'm sick and tired of these people who may sit in a seat in the Senate.
They but they just simply don't care about this country.
They don't care about my daughter, they don't care about me.
They're not willing to make the sacrifices.
They want their power.
You know what?
If we send Bill Nelson home, he'll have a job as a lobbyist in a month.
We don't have to feel sorry for Democrats.
We don't have to feel sorry for the moderate Democrats.
We need to start winning seats.
We need to take more seats.
We need to own more of it because we're the only People who are serious about fighting this war and winning it and saving our country.
I agree with you a hundred percent.
Well said couldn't be said any better, and I too am totally tired of the defensive negative posture that a lot of people take.
I'm tired of people surprised that Bob Woodward's got a book out.
I'm tired that people are surprised what happens on Chris Matthews show.
I'm tired of people surprised what happens on cable news.
I'm sick and tired of people that still watch it.
I don't.
I don't want to hear about it.
Most Americans don't.
Three to four hundred thousand people a night.
Whoopee-doo.
Big deal.
They wish they were big, but they're not.
I couldn't care less what these people say, other than when it affords me an opportunity to blow them out of the water on how wrong they are.
But I'm like you.
I hate this defensive posture.
I hate this notion that people are out there ringing their hands.
God, will we hold on to the House?
We hold on to the Senate.
Is it going to be real?
Yeah, it's like we're playing a pre-vent defense.
I've never understood the Florida Republican Party or the RNC and their desire to trash Catherine Harris.
I have never understood it, and it has made me mad.
Uh I I it's it's beyond my my ability to understand.
I don't I don't know enough people and talk to them about it, so I can only guess what it is.
But uh if she's within ten points of Bill Nelson, with all that they have done to try to destroy her, then it is within the realm of possibility she could win with just a little offense and support.
Absolutely.
Absolutely, and I'm looking forward to it.
We need to win seats, and we're going to.
America is tired of sitting back and having to fight with itself and wrestle power in order to make decisions and to do the right thing.
This is not going to continue.
I'm telling you, there's going to come a day when this backlash is so severe.
I used to actually call myself a Kennedy Democrat.
This is, of course, before I became a seasoned, well-trained listener of the EIB network long before those days.
I used to call myself a Kennedy Democrat.
To heck with all that.
I'm not Democrat.
I'm not none of that.
I am a conservative.
I love this country.
I want to keep it.
And if it means we've got to do what it takes to win this war, we need to do what it takes, including sending home moderate Democrats, liberal Democrats.
Any Democrat is a bad Democrat right now.
I don't think I have anything to add to this.
I literally do I think we lost him.
He's on a cell phone.
That's why it was uh sounding odd there at moments, but uh that's Nick in uh Daytona, Florida, the caller of the day here on the EIB network.
Nick, I know you're still out there.
God bless you and your daughter.
Uh arriving in Baghdad.
Did he say today?
In two days.
The uh the love of his life.
I uh totally understand it.
All right.
You you you um.
Here's a little bit of what Nick's talking about.
New York Times today.
A news analysis piece.
That means it's not reporting.
It's uh reporter analyzing the news.
Headline, Democrats see strength in Bucking Bush.
This now I want you to remember, this is about the military tribunal bill.
Democrats went down to a shellacking defeat.
Uh 6535 yesterday afternoon.
The Democratic vote in the Senate on Thursday against legislation governing the treatment of terrorism suspects showed that party leaders believe President Bush's power to wield national security as a political issue is searely diminished.
I'm telling you, this is insane.
And you could go insane if you read this and don't know how to interpret it.
The most vivid example of the Democratic assessment came from the party's many presidential hopefuls in the Senate.
All of them voted against the bill, apparently calculating Bush's handling of Iraq has undercut traditional Republican strength on national security and will insulate them from what are certain to be strong attacks from Republicans, not only this year, but also 2008.
Come on.
This is not gutsy New York.
Two thousand eight is over two years away.
Take a look at senators, Democrats, senators who are running for re-election in six weeks, New York Times.
How did they vote?
Well, Bill Nelson of Florida, Ben Nelson, Nebraska, Debbie Stabenow in Michigan, who is also in trouble.
Uh Carper from Delaware, and the Torch Light Menendez in New Jersey voted for it.
Twelve Democrats voted for it, and the ones who are up for re-election in six weeks voted for it.
Ditto Democrats in the House.
How in the world you get a story that this somehow shows Democrats that they are weakened President Bush when he got exactly what he wanted, and they're griping about it today, is journalistic malpractice.
And we're back serving humanity.
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Some more quotes from President Bush.
We didn't have um we didn't have the audio of this, but uh when he was campaigning uh for Republican governor down in uh Alabama, uh he said Democrats can't have it both ways.
Either they believe that Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror, or they agree with the intelligence community, the NIE, and the terrorists themselves that the outcome of Iraq is important in the war on terror.
And they do want it both ways on a number of things.
The truth is the Democrats are using the NIE to mislead people and justify their policy of withdrawal from Iraq.
He even singled out some statements by Jane Harmon, the Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, referring to Harmon.
The president said, quote, she said the president says that fighting them there makes it less likely we'll have to fight them here.
The opposite is true, Jane Harmon says.
She went on to say because we're fighting them there, it may become more likely that we'll have to fight them here.
Harmon made those remarks at the beginning of the week following reports of the NIE.
Challenging her assessment, Bush said, history tells us that logic is false.
We didn't create terrorism by fighting terrorism.
Iraq is not the reason why the terrorists are at war with us.
This woman actually believes it.
This woman believes we're provoking them.
This is what I mean.
The feminization of American foreign policy.
Yes, Mr. Snur.
I know she's the right I know she's the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, uh, ranking Democrat and Rockefeller's the ranking Democrat and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
She believes.
She actually believes angers poor guys like Nick in Daytona, Florida.
She actually and they're there, they're they're hoisted up and portrayed as the smartest among us.
The true elites, the people that have the ability to see beyond the obvious.
And it's just dangerous.
Whoever how in the world, what life experiences must you have to believe that after terrorism strikes for 20 years on Americans in this country and around the world, that going to Iraq is making them even madder.
And it's manifesting itself, uh, as I have pointed out, in bizarre fashion.
They're blowing up the Pentagon.
They're blowing up the World Trade Center.
They're blowing up subways and train stations in Madrid.
They're blowing up subways in uh in London.
They want to blow up ten more airlines, uh, airliners flying across the Atlantic en route to the United States.
They blow up and start trashing property after some cartoons in Dutch newspapers, cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Uh after the Pope utters a few words, they go bonkers.
Today they're still saying we're st I mean the news is Arab Streets, Muslim street and a Muslim street still seething over Pope's comment.
And so the whole point apparently is we cannot make these people mad.
What is special about these people?
I'm going to tell you what it is that's special about these people.
They have shown that they are brutal, murderous cutthroats, and the conflict resolution types don't want to deal with those people because they don't know how.
And so the solution just don't agitate them.
Don't irritate them.
It's as though their grievances are being given credibility.
It's as though their actions, killing nuns, blowing up churches and synagogues, murdering people are also given credibility.
It's almost as though we're justifying.
Yeah, well, you know, they're mad.
Um people are saying some horrible things.
Uh This is not a chicken or egg thing, folks.
Who started this?
Who is it that practices terrorism?
We do not.
Western societies and civilizations do not.
They do.
They even kill themselves.
So you've got people like Jane Harmon.
Well, because we're in Iraq, that means they're going to come fight us here.
They've got 4,000 dead.
Notice how little news that made.
4,000 foreign insurgents dead by their own admission.
That's probably low.
And and and yet they don't have time to come here.
I mean, that place, Iraq, is acting like fly paper exactly as it was thought it would.
And these people, we're being told, are on the verge of winning back the house and winning back the Senate, then they're going to take the White House.
And when they do, they're going to get out.
They're going to cut and run and they're going to give these people the biggest victory they've had yet.
And if we pull out, and if they win, and we pull out, they're gonna follow us.
They're gonna try to get on board the military transports and hijack them on the way home.
They are gonna be more emboldened than they already are.
You don't think they're sitting around wherever they are laughing themselves silly at how cowardly the rest of the world is behaving toward them.
Why can't we bomb their mosques?
Why can't we go kill them where they are?
Why do we have to wait for every one of these things to happen and then people say, well, you know, it's it's it's uh it's a causal reality of life in the twenty first century.
We've got to find a way to coexist with with terrorism.
Just like the liberals told us, we had to find a way to coexist with the communists.
I mean, the quotes, folks, are uh uh you go back and listen to what Jimmy Carter was saying, or any of these Democrats of the 1970s and 80s or the 50s or 60s about Soviet communism.
It's not new who they are.
It's not new what their policies are.
They are appeasers, they are cut and run, and they blame America first.
This is absurd to sit here and have to read these words of Jane Harmon, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee who actually don't tell me there's not a difference between men and women.
There may not be much of a difference between liberal men and women because the liberal women have so well, you know what, emasculated their men that they're all the same bunch of people now.
Who's next on this program?
Uh, Chris in Austin, Texas.
You're next.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Uh not a problem.
It's an honor to talk to you, sir.
I've been working here for about six months now, and you totally changed my life.
Um, right from Fredericksburg, Texas, outside of Austin.
Um, another thing before I get to my topic, I bought a couple of your t-shirts, man, and I've never had so much fun sitting on the street with my uh uh stuck on stupid shirt on.
It's amazing how many people will comment and they're not willing to just sit down and have a logical conversation about politics, you know.
Well, I'm glad you're having I'm glad you're having fun with this.
Oh man, it's great, man.
But uh, the reason I called, man, is I wanted to talk more about this uh about the the Democrats and the NIE saying that you know the war in Iraq is just creating uh just more terrorists, and uh and and that that may be true in a way, but another thing that's not getting looked at enough is that this war is also creating thousands and thousands of young American patriots.
There are there are kids coming out of um coming out of school facing an economy that's thriving, facing a huge job market, and and they know what's going on.
They listen to the liberal news and they hear all the lies being told, and they still are choosing to go over and fight for this country.
And and I don't think that they're getting enough craze, like the last caller the last caller's daughter.
Um I've spoken with so many people and and they just uh, you know, I I that that have coming back from war and they're re-enlisting.
And it's just uh, you know, it it's just it makes me so mad to hear all these people saying that we're just creating more terrorists.
Well, I think this war fighting terrorism is also creating what's uh the best part of America, you know.
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And I want to comment on what you said out there, because you've hit on another brilliant point.
Every day, all we hear is that the terrorists are recruiting, and that we're causing it.
Bush is creating terrorists.
We never do hear about how the Army is surpassing its recruitment goals.
We never get one positive story about any act of heroism on the part of the U.S. military.
All we get is how they're a bunch of rapists and murderers and torturers.
And I've observed the same thing you have.
I've told this story before, but I'm gonna say it again.
It was some years ago now, probably two and a half years ago.
And I was down in Miami visiting some friends.
They say, you know, we gotta go by the Versace mansion.
And this was sometime in March or I don't want to go to Versace Mansion.
I mean, the Versace's not there anymore.
No, no, we know the new owners, they gotta go see the thing.
So we went there.
And and inside the Versace mansion were a bunch of young people, uh men and women, anywhere from uh twenty to twenty-four, hooking up, trying to find some action to hit the clubs at South Beach later.
And we had just, you know, the the Iraq war was not I mean, I it had it had been underway for a while, but it was it hadn't been going on that long, and it just struck me uh w without being critical of those people that were there in the inside of Asachi Mansion, it just struck me that here here they were, they might have been oblivious to what was going on.
I don't know.
But their focus in their lives, again, no criticism here, was pleasure.
They were trying to have a good time.
It was a weekend, and they were out there simply trying to have a good time.
At the same time, hundred thousand or more people their age had volunteered to go to Iraq.
The people that volunteer, we get stories about, well, they have nothing else to do, Limbaugh.
They come from poor parts of the country with no future.
The American economy is in the tank.
Um the only way they can get an education is to go join the army.
They're they're even when they sign up, they're impugned by American liberals and a Democrat and their allies in the drive-by media.
And we do get these stories.
Anytime we're in a conflict, it's always presented as the enemy is far more committed.
They're better trained, they are more ready for us than we'll ever be.
Our army is a bunch of softies.
We don't have any conscripts.
Sons and daughters of the rich aren't there.
We don't have a chance.
And it makes people sick.
It literally makes them sick and angry over this.
And your observation, yeah, the terrorists may be recruiting, but so are we.
And when you go over there, I went to Afghanistan, and when you meet these people, a lot of them from the reserves, a lot of them uh in the in the regular service, they are committed.
And there's not a one of them there that doesn't want to be there.
They join knowing where they're going now.
Not a one of them.
And when you listen to them talk about why they're there.
Best thing I can do to protect my family, Mr. Limbaugh, sir.
Best thing I can do to defend my country.
They're a special breed of people.
That's why there aren't that that many of them.
Uh but you're you're it's like it's like Nick from Daytona's daughter that's going to be landing in two hours, he said.
For guard duty over there.
Volunteered for that.
Volunteered for it.
Um so again, it's all this is all the result of the media bubble.
U.S. bad, U.S. creating terrorists, American kids, soft, Bush not giving enough troops, Bush not spending enough money, whatever whatever the criticism is.
Terrorists awesome.
Whereas there's they're so powerful why we're scared to death.
We can't provoke them.
We can't make them mad.
Don't don't don't even fire back.
No, no, no, no, no.
And it is, it's it's it's enough to drive you insane unless you have uh Uh control, as I do.
Now, don't go anywhere out there, uh Chris.
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Let me let me try to put this Jane Harmon uh business and all the Democrats in their comments into a deeper context, if I may.
And and I'll focus on Jane Harmon's comments because of the most recently uh discussed.
There was a time when uh ambitious, sleazy politicians could say one thing to audience A and the opposite thing to audience B. Because nobody outside audience A would hear what was said, and nobody outside audience B would hear what was said.
But cheap political tactics are no longer local or regional or even national.
We are in the age of the internet.
World wide web.
I have to wonder does Jane Harmon or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reed or Jack Mertha?
Or any of our other demagogues on the left.
Do they realize that their words reach millions, tens of millions of people in the blink of an eye?
And that includes kooks, fanatics, America haters, terrorists.
When we in this country hear talk of a new generation of jihadists, I wonder if the uh NIE report covered the Internet.
Al Jazeera, the 2006 election scene season, does the NIE worry about what we're giving away on the Internet, what our demagogues are doing and saying without even the need for television.
That can stoke the fire of the furnace of ambition for our enemies.
How many of the new generations signed on because of Howard Dean and America Can't Win, or John Kerry in the Dead of Night, or Dick Durbin's quote on Nazis and Club Gitmo and Soviet gulags and so forth?
How many people around the world hate America because of what they are hearing from Dick Durbin and John Kerry and Pelosi and Mertha?
They don't even have to hear it.
All they gotta do is read it, and it's there within seconds after they say it all over the world on the internet.
It used to be that if Durbin made the kind of speech he made on the Senate floor, it might be reported back in his district.
It certainly wouldn't have made the Walter Cronkite evening news because it would have been too inflammatory.
They didn't want to do damage to Democrats.
And even if it had made the evening news, that's where it would have died because there was nowhere else for it to reverberate or to be responded to.
But now this stuff, this irresponsible, anti-American drivel that they utter on a daily basis goes out all over the world.
Even an incident like Abu Grab is a factor in the age of the internet.
Did the media report it or overkill it?
Did they inform our side or inflame their side?
It was ostensibly done to inform the American people.
American people have a right to know.
Well, what the hell did it tell the rest of the world?
No, this is not a diatribe against the internet, or he can't stop that.
It is a plea for responsibility for a bunch of gumflappers who haven't the slightest concern, apparently, for how their own words are damaging their own country and their own country's objective.
There is a reason why we say they appear to be invested in the defeat of this enemy.
They appear to be invested in the defeat of the sabotaging, the victory over this enemy.
Okay.
Because everything they say and do is encouraging the other side.
Pelosi and Schumer and Mertha using old-fashioned demagoguery and cheap shots in the age of the internet on the world wide web.
They are encouraging and promoting and increasing the ambition of the enemy, and it's a serious thing.
And that's why I get livid when I see what Jane Harmon says.
It's stupid to boot.
Hey, Chris, Chris in Texas.
We're going to call you back here in a minute.
We're going to get you a whole new computer.
Not going to wait for you to unfry yours.
You gotta get up to speed, man.
We'll handle it for you.
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