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Oct. 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hey, welcome back, Eager Beavers.
Backbone of America.
Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Another hour of broadcast excellence.
Straight ahead.
A program exclusively designed for rich Republicans, right-minded conservatives, and big time lobbyists.
And those, of course, who aspire to one or all three.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program eight hundred-two eight two-282, and the email address, rush at eibnet.com.
You know what?
I just could change my mind out here, Mike.
Standby audio soundbite number eight.
I got a lot of grief in the email over the break.
What do you mean, Carl Rove?
And the plans to blow up the uh seven NFL stadiums this way.
How cool was that, I said.
You think I just make this stuff up?
CNN.
Situation room Wolf Blitzer, the forehead, is on uh and blitzer says to the forehead, 75% at that time thought most members of Congress were out of touch with average Americans, Democrats at Clinton administration, as you remember in 94, paid a huge price for that attitude.
This is shaping up to be the worst year for the Republicans in a generation.
And they're gonna do everything that they can.
There's a whole lot of people today.
They're gonna watch the first 15 minutes of our broadcast today and say, isn't that interesting?
We're 19 days before an election, and they hype this uh potential threat to the NFL.
It is interesting that these things always seem to spike right before an election.
The uh FBI is talking to some uh some guy in Milwaukee, uh young adult in Milwaukee, who supposedly is responsible for these dirty bomb threats being on uh on a website to blow up uh sever set off these dirty bombs, seven NFL stadiums.
Of course, the uh federal government uh saying the threat is not credible, yet uh yet the forehead there implying uh that the administration is hyping this, uh so and I'm sure it won't be long if it hasn't happened already that some Democrats on their kook blogs are gonna blame this as a row of dirty trick.
Meanwhile.
What was it the forehead said uh says uh forehead said it's interesting these things always seem to spike right before an election.
You mean like Foley?
And uh try this.
Try the timing on this.
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists' White House access.
The Washington Post asked for two years of White House visitor logs in June, but the Secret Service refused to process the request.
Government attorneys call it a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled uh yesterday that by the end of next week, the Secret Service must produce the records or at least identify them and justify why they are being withheld.
Visitors to Cheney's office, visitors to Cheney's personal residence.
Washington Post wants to know.
Uh find out for me, Mr. Snerdley or anybody out there, Ricardo M. Urbina.
The judge, U.S. District Judge, I'd like to know.
Uh who appointed him.
Senator McCain yesterday was in Iowa, and uh uh he joked that he would commit suicide if Democrats win the Senate in November.
McCain's out there on a visit to campaign for Republican congressional candidates, was asked his reaction to a potential Democrat takeover of the Senate.
He said, I think I just commit suicide, uh, told reporters to accompanying laughter from Republicans standing with him.
I don't want to face that eventuality because I don't think it's gonna happen.
I uh privately think he wouldn't mind it a bit.
Uh, because the theory, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is that uh with uh Democrats in charge for two years of the House and or the Senate, and the voters would be so fed up, Republicans so fed up, that the base would vote for McCain in the primaries, so eager would they be to elect anybody about whom it will be said he can win?
Okay, Judge uh let's see here.
Uh we're gonna get the name right.
Judge Ugueth Urbina.
No, that's a baseball uh Richard Urbina, was that what he says?
Or Judge uh Rick Ricardo M. Urbina was appointed uh to the district judgeship that he holds in July 1994.
Now let's see.
Who was president then?
1994.
That would make it Clinton.
Well, what do you know?
A Clinton appointee has told the White House of Secret Service to open up all these records.
Who's in Cheney's office and who is in his personal residence?
The number of U.S. workers lining up for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell by 10,000 last week, the government said today in a report underscoring a relatively stable job.
Relatively stable.
What is it?
4.6 unemployment, 6.6 million new jobs created in the last two years or three, whatever it is.
Jobless claims in total were a seasonally adjusted 299,000 workers that filed new claims for state unemployment insurance benefits.
That is nothing.
The New York Times doing what it can to drag down the economy for the Democrats.
New York Times Company reported today that its third quarter 2006 profit plunged 39.2% on costs related to its job cuts and a loss on its sale of its 50% stake in the Discovery Times channel.
Meanwhile, Belo, publisher of the Dallas Morning News said that net income for the quarter fell to 19.2 million or 19 cents per share compared to 22 million or 20 cents a share during the same period last year.
So the drive-by media, New York Times and the Beamle Corporation doing what they can do to drag down the economy so the Democrats can poke holes at it.
But is it working?
The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis.
This just doesn't make sense.
I'm going to tell you what it says anyway.
The Rasmussen Consumer Index measures consumer confidence...
Jumped two and a half points today to reach its highest level of 2006.
At 120.5, the index is up 10 points from a month ago and up 13 from three months ago.
This is just the second time in calendar year 2006 the index is topped, the 120 mark.
The Rasmussen Investor Index also gained on Thursday, moving up two points to 145.5.
That's up 18 points from a month ago.
Only twice this year has the investor index measured higher levels of confidence than today.
Now, how does that jibe with all the polling data that we get that says, yeah, the economy is good and people admit it, but they just don't feel good.
They just don't like it.
It just doesn't feel right.
Russia, I know the economy's doing well, but it just doesn't feel right.
I'm not happy.
George Will has a column today, and he theorizes, among other things, that um the American people have grown soft because of the welfare state mentality, that there are safety nets for virtually anything that could go wrong, and as such, there's no tolerance for natural market fluctuations, such as the spike in gas prices going up.
People just can't believe it.
There's no there's no nowhere they can go to get an assistance check to help them cope with the new price, the higher price, and so they they uh they get panicky and they blame it on a conspiracy, and then when the prices come down, there's not an appropriate ooh, wow, we appreciate what the government's doing for us.
They blame the government when the price goes up.
The government does any credit when the price goes down, uh, and uh it's all because of the lingering welfare state mentality that we established in this country for many, many, many moons.
Some other factors he's thrown in there I'll share with you as the uh uh program unfolds today.
Consumer confidence measured by Rasmussen at an all-time high, while at the same time we're getting drive-by media polls that tell us that the vast majority of the American people are depressed and in a funk over the lagging speed of economic recovery and good economic circumstances in their lives.
Back in just a second.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have L. Rushbow, half my brain, tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right, here's the George Will column, Prosperity Amid the Gloom.
Recently, Bill Clinton at the British Labor Party's annual conference delivered what the Times of London described as a relaxed, almost rambling and easy anecdotal speech to an enthralled audience of leftists, eager for evidence of America's disappointments.
Never a connoisseur of understatement, Clinton said that America is now outsourcing college education jobs to India.
But Clinton, as Cassandra, should not persuade college students to abandon their quest for diplomas.
You know what the unemployment rate is among college graduates in the United States?
Two percent.
The unemployment rate among college graduates is two percent.
Is it any wonder we had this story?
I forget where this came from yesterday, about all these people that are just whoa, whoa.
I mean, if you don't have a college degree, you're going nowhere in this country, and you don't.
Hasn't that been the message that kids have been taught in this country?
I was taught that the whole time growing up.
You don't go to college, son.
Everybody's going to outpace you.
They're going to outperform you.
You're not going to get your foot in enough doors, son, because nobody's going to think you're educated unless you get a degree.
Everybody's told this girl.
Were you told that, Brian?
Were you told that, Dawn?
You weren't?
You were.
Yeah, okay.
Everybody's told this.
All of a sudden now, where did this expectation that you're going to be in the top 5% of income earners if you don't go to college come from?
When did that start?
So here's Clinton saying, Yeah, we're outsourcing college educated jobs, college degree people to India.
Clinton is always the leading indicator of progressive fashions and rhetoric.
His speech yesterday at Georgetown was, I mean, it was a puker.
It was just it was filled with lies about how he ran his administration, how he looks at politics.
You know, I don't look at this as uh there's either right or wrong.
And if you are an ideologue, you have to live at a state of denial.
Because when you if you are an ideologue or something comes along and challenges your worldview, you have to deny it.
You have to ignore it.
And so you aren't open to discussion.
You aren't open to fair unreasoned arguments.
So he's going on and on and on.
Gee whiz, this is one of the most leftist administrations that we have ever had.
Their holdovers are still in this government as a shadow government trying to destroy people.
They're in the CIA.
They're in the FBI.
They're at the State Department.
They're at the Pentagon.
Their latest target is Kurt Weldon.
They're trying to take him out.
And we get this speech from this guy yesterday about how open-minded and reasonable I like all forms of argument and debate.
That's the only way you get the right answer.
Listen to all points of view.
Everybody matters.
It's just, it is proponent.
Quite the audience, just like the audience in Britain that Will talks about the audience that was eating it up.
At uh at Georgetown.
Clinton is always a leading indicator of progressive fashions and rhetoric.
And every election year, meaning every other year, brings an epidemic of dubious economic analysis as members of the party out of power discern lead linings, lead linings on silver clouds.
Worst economy since Herbert Hoover said carry in 2004.
While that year's job growth, the economic growth was 3.9%.
Today's unemployment rate, 4.6%, is lower than the average for the 1990s, which was 5.8, and everybody thinks of the 90s as a boom economy under Bill Clinton.
The average unemployment rate was 5.8%.
It's 4.6% today, lower in fact, than the average unemployment for the last 40 years, which is 6%.
Some economic stall we're in, right?
Some economic slowdown we're in.
George Will calls what we're facing today economic hypochondria.
You you hypochondriacs know who you are.
One sniffle, and you think you've got a cold.
Something wrong on your skin, you think you've got cancer.
A pain in the wrong place, and you think you have appendicitis.
Everything, I mean, you know, hypochondriacs are hypochondriacs.
And we've all encountered them.
Well, Will calls it economic hypochondria, a derangement associated with affluence, a byproduct of the welfare state.
An entitlement mentality gives Americans a low pain threshold, witness their recurring hysterias about nominal rather than real gasoline prices, and a sense of being entitled to economic dynamism without the frictions and creative destruction that must accompany dynamism.
Economic hypochondria is also bred by news media that consider the phrase good news and oxymoron, even as the U.S. economy, which has performed better than any other major industrial economy since 2001, drives the Dow Jones industrial average to record highs.
The Jack No. 2 well, Deep Water, 175 miles southwest of New Orleans, recently discovered a field with perhaps 15 billion barrels of oil, a 50% increase in proven U.S. reserves.
This news triggered a gusher of journalistic gloom.
More oil means more woe, a reprieve for that enemy of humanity, the internal combustion engine, and more global warming, more air pollution, more highway fatalities, more suburban sprawl.
The recent 20% decline of the cost of a barrel of oil from a nominal record of 78.40 cents, which, by the way, adjusted for inflation, was well below the 1980 peak of $92 in 2006 dollars.
The 20% decline in the cost of a barrel of oil has produced an 81 cent decline in the average cost of regular gallon of gasoline in 70 days.
For consumers, that is akin to a tax cut of more than 81 billion dollars.
President Bush's tax cuts were supposed to cause a cataract of red ink.
In fiscal 2006, however, federal revenues as a share of GDP were 18.5% higher and above the post-1962 average of 18.2%.
The federal budget deficit, 247.7 billion, just one point nine percent of the 13.1 trillion GDP.
That is below the average of the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s.
It is said that workers' compensation has been stagnant.
But to tickle that bad news from the statistics, you have to treat compensation as a synonym for wages, and then ignore the effect of taxation on individuals' well-being.
Taxes, particularly those paid by middle class families with churrin, have declined substantially.
There's no question the middle class uh about the Well, you've seen the numbers on our website, who's paying taxes and who isn't, still have the payroll taxes, but we're talking income taxes here now.
Consumers, by modifying their behavior, protect or enhance their well-being in ways not captured in economic stats, for example.
An American who prompted by higher energy prices traded in his Hummer for a Prius has served his or her standard of living.
If I ate 80 apples last year and the price of apples increased this year to a million dollars, my welfare would not go way down.
I'd just switch to oranges, the authors write.
People make changes.
They accommodate.
Finally, today's widening income disparities will be partly self-correcting.
Now, granted, income statistics show the increasing uh disadvantages of persons with education deficits.
But that's the market saying shouting really stay in school.
That's what the market's saying.
Stay in school.
Over time, the voice of the market is rational, credible, and therefore a potent instrument for changing behavior.
And yet, the drive-by media, in concert with the Democrat Party, has convinced people that this is a pretend good economy.
It's all built on phony, false, feel-good things that aren't working.
It's going to crash down upon us, immediate deficits out of control, national debts out of control, everything's out of control.
It's gonna gas prices are gonna go up after the election price, everything's gonna go up after Christmas prices are gonna go up.
It's gonna be a miserable if George Bush and the Republicans win.
And you can't trust any of this that's happening now because it's all fake phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll, marketing and packaging, when in fact it is legitimate and it is the market.
So what do we have?
We have cut and run conservatives today, and we have economic hypochondriacs.
And both groups will play a large role in dooming the future of the country for the next few years.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Even the stingrays are afraid of this program, ladies and gentlemen.
We're back at 800-282-2882, And to the phones we go.
This is Ty in the uh regions of the uh nation's capital.
Hi Ty, nice to have you with us, sir.
Entrepreneurial United States Navy Dittoes.
What an honor it is to speak to you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I just wanted to tell you I agree with you a hundred percent that the terrorists are the number one uh deciding vote in the election is coming up.
I don't think that the Republicans are gonna lose as long as they keep talking about the things that are going on.
Well uh I would hope so.
The the uh the terrorists have a different view.
They are voting.
They are in the early voting category now.
They are ratcheting up uh the havoc and the chaos, and they're trying to create news every day that results in more death of uh U.S. servicemen and women and civilians in Iraq.
They think that what they're they're thinking because they know the media in this country, Ty, they know that that news is going to be portrayed as a failure of the Bush administration.
It will not be seen as a sign of how dangerous these people are, of how serious they are and the threat they pose, it will be seen as a failure, the Bush administration for the inability to stop this.
That's why they're voting early, and it's no question for whom terrorists are voting, they're voting Democrat.
But I don't think that there's any question that the more they talk, the more we're gonna beat the Democrats at the polls because the Republicans are strong on security, the homeland hasn't been attacked, the economy is strong, everything is going our way.
That is a good point.
Democrats say that uh Bush hasn't made us safer.
Well, h uh how much safer can you get than not one more attack on U.S. soil since nine eleven?
How can you do any better than that?
Exactly.
Exactly.
I just want to thank you for your optimism and your inspiration because you have allowed me to step out into the entrepreneurial uh uh uh atmosphere of the United States and and start my own business, and hopefully one day I'll be large enough to have a commercial on your program.
That's what are you uh that is one of my goals.
What is your uh that's a lofty goal.
It's uh that's a great goal.
That's right, that's right.
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna you know what?
I'm gonna help you to realize that goal even now.
I appreciate that.
Well, you haven't asked what it's gonna cost yet.
Okay, okay.
What's it gonna cost?
No, it's not gonna cost any.
I would be afraid to tell you our commercial spot right here.
Uh competitor our competitors would give up if they knew what we did.
Uh uh what is your business?
I am an electrical contractor.
I'm also an aviation electrician uh in the United States Navy.
An electro contractor, and you have a uh uh what what do you have what you're an electrician in the Navy?
Yes, sir, I am.
Aviation electrician, okay.
Aviation electrician in the Navy, yes, sir.
You're you're in the Navy now.
I'm a reservist.
I signed up after 911.
Wow.
I just got back from Iraq, and the media couldn't be more wrong about how the country uh despises the war.
I w I was there, and you could not you could not count the number of packages, the number of letters, the number of gifts, no matter what anybody asked for that came flowing into Iraq for the soldiers from all over the country.
The stuff was never from one place.
Anything they asked for, they got with unconditional support.
It was it was just a totally humbling experience.
Yeah, but you know to the liberal media, that is not a sign of decency and goodness on the part of the American people.
It's a sign of weakness on the part of the U.S. Pentagon that the uh people of this country have to send such packages over to you means that Rumsfeld doesn't care about you.
I tell you, that was it didn't matter.
You could you could ask for anything you wanted.
The the soldiers that had family, the soldiers that didn't have family, no matter what you asked for, C D, DVD, Walkman, IPOD.
It was it was in the mail to you with with unconditional uh uh uh uh uh uh love and I know we thanks and thanks for what we did.
We have heard about that, and it warms all of our hearts here.
Well d now, I'm confused.
Your business, are you still in the you're a navy reservist, but have you started your business, your your electrical provider.
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry, I I put my business on hold while I went and did my tour in Iraq.
I just got back a month ago, and now I'm trying to to get the business off the ground to a footing to where if I'm called back into theater, I can still have the business run with without me being there.
Well, what's the name of your business?
My business is delivered electric.
Your business is delivered electric.
Is that I hearing you right?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Well, you just got your you just got your first commercial.
You are the man.
I am so honored to talk to you.
Thank you so much.
No, it's us who thank you.
Uh or we who thank you, Ty.
Thanks very much for calling.
I appreciate it.
And it's great to hear your optimism.
I can't tell you how refreshing that is.
It's all it's all due to you.
Without without listening to you, I I wouldn't I don't know, I don't know where I would be.
You know, I understand.
I took the housing market and and and the bubble and took a house I bought for 66,500 and sold it for 325 so I could start my business.
God bless you.
Isn't the market a wonderful thing?
It's an awesome thing, man, and I owe it all to you for hanging in there and just doing what what's right, you know?
Doing what's right, and that's what you're all about.
I thank you so much, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you, Ty.
You have a great uh a great rest of the week.
Uh, and we'll talk to you again soon, I'm sure.
Meanwhile, Gene in Richmond, Virginia, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Mega Diddle's rush from Richard Virginia.
Thank you.
Uh I just want to send a message out to all those uh Republicans who want to stay home and teach the uh Republicans a lesson.
All you're doing is rewarding the press and the Democrats for their tactics during this election cycle.
All the negative uh stories they put out.
Um really, you know, if you want to teach them a lesson, teach the press a lesson and teach the Democrats a lesson by going out and vote.
Well, I think that's what they want to do.
I I I think I think they're trying to inflict pain on uh people they think have let them down.
Well, but all you do is reward the Democrats for their stuff and their and the press.
Well, I'd say I didn't say yesterday.
I don't understand how in the world, if you're gonna look at the political system today and you're gonna get mad at it.
I don't know I don't know how the Republicans win that uh with what the Democrats have been trying to do, especially especially if we're talking about evangelicals or Christian conservatives.
Those people have been targeted for imp I mean they have been impugned and maligned, they have been made fun of in open, in the open by Democrats, and yet they're mad at at uh at Republicans.
There are other conservative voters that are not values voters or or part of the uh Christian right that I'm told also angry and they don't want to show up.
That's uh I think a lot of it has to do with uh with immigration.
Uh but I uh I don't know how you escaped.
I've this is this is the best way to put this is I don't think I've ever been more wrong.
I I gotta come clean, folks.
I'm asking myself if I'm even qualified to do this anymore.
And I'm being dead flat honest with you.
Now I'm gonna say a couple things that you will remember me having said.
Uh I go out, play golf or whatever, and for the past year, invariably, without exception.
You think the Republicans you think the Republicans hold on the House?
Oh yeah, I don't have I don't have any doubts.
You think what about the Senate?
Eh, I don't even need doubts.
Why?
I said, what are you reading?
The New York Times or so why what do you mean why?
Who in the world is gonna vote for Democrats?
Have you ever seen a more hateful, uninspiring group of people?
What in the world are they doing to build a movement?
What are they doing to inspire people not already on their side to join them?
My God, there's nothing but derangement, madness, lunacy, uncontrollable rage and hatred.
Somebody tell me what the attraction of that is.
I I didn't see any way the Democrats could be building their base.
And I don't think they are.
I don't think the Democrats are growing at all.
I didn't think they had a chance.
What in the world?
I've I've always thought people vote issues.
I know that's what elected Ronald Reagan to two landslides.
I know it's what elected the Republican House in 94.
I've always believed that people vote issues.
Well, the Democrats are not giving anybody any reason to vote for them at all.
Why had somebody called me today and said the Republicans aren't giving anybody any reason to vote for them?
News to me.
Now I'm not seeing all the commercials that are running out there.
But I I I listened to the president who's the standard bearer of the party, and I've heard other candidates talk about the security, the national security issue, the Supreme Court, tax cuts and making them perfect.
What do you mean?
Then all of a sudden, just seems like three weeks ago.
I start seeing a plethora of stories about how Republicans are mad and they're not going to vote and they're staying home.
And I'm puzzled by this, and I'm hurt by it.
Because it's it doesn't make any sense.
I do not live the life of a hermit.
I am not in a cocoon.
I am out there all the time.
I have not I've not run into one person tell me they're not going to vote this year.
I go out to these rush to excellence appearances, admittedly, not a whole lot of them, but I uh not as many as I used to do.
But wherever I am socially, I have never heard a Republican come up to me and say, damn Republicans have made me some.
I'm not voting.
Screw them.
I've heard anger at Republicans.
Why don't they fight back?
Why don't they tell the Democrats what the hell and what's it for?
But I don't hear anybody saying they're not gonna vote now, three weeks before the election, and I guess this only started last week.
All of a sudden, last week.
What's the big news?
What's the media template?
Cut and run conservatives, my name, but Republican conservatives are going to vote.
Well, yeah, Rush, but that's just as a Foley thing happened.
Uh that's what's caused it.
I say, well, this may be why I'm not qualified to sit here and do this anymore.
Because it's patently obvious to me that the Foley thing, with all that's known about it, and it's possible to know all that there's known about it, the Foley thing is a politically timed trick.
The Democrats have had this information.
The media has had this information for months in some cases, weeks, sat on it.
It's a politically timed thing.
I am stunned after all these years that the sophisticated, learned, educated people on our side are fooled by this and impacted by it to the point that throw up their hands in frustration and say, heck with it, I'm not voting.
I assumed that people on our side were more informed, more educated now than ever before, and understood these kinds of dirty tricks and were immune to them.
That's where I'm wrong, apparently.
Apparently the same old, same old still works.
And so I'm I'm I'm I'm left here to question my ability to uh read the American public, particularly those on my side of the aisle.
I guess things haven't changed in 18 years.
I guess the Democrats can continue to play the same old dirty tricks, get away with the same old hypocrisy, the media can do what we know it's gonna do.
I am stunned, people are surprised at the alliance between the Democrats and the media.
I'm su I'm stunned that people still get mad at it as though it's new.
I I just assumed after all these years that a new level of um awareness and understanding had been reached, and this stuff, while it would work on some, would not have the across the board impact it seems to be having.
So, as such, I am pronouncing myself unqualified to sit here and analyze this stuff anymore because apparently I'm out there talking to them.
I don't hear one word about people saying they're not gonna vote, and apparently it is the dominant mood among conservatives in America today.
So I don't know.
Well, play with time for a little history lesson here for what it's uh worth.
The Libs uh trying to make a big deal out of the fact that George Bush agreed yesterday with Tom Friedman that we could be witnessing the equivalent of the Tet Offensive, the Vietnam War Tet Offensive uh currently in Iraq.
Stephanopoulos was doing an interview with the president, said Tom Friedman wrote in the uh New York Times, whose profit, by the way, has declined 39% in their latest report, uh, that we might be seeing uh the Iraqi equivalent of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968.
Uh Tony Snow this morning said he might be right.
Do you agree?
He could be right.
There's certainly a stepped-up level of violence, and we're heading into an election.
But what's your gut tell you?
George, my gut tells me that they have all along been trying to inflict enough damage that we leave.
And the uh leaders of Al Qaeda have made that very clear.
Here's how I view it.
First of all, Al Qaeda is still very active in Iraq.
They are dangerous.
They are lethal.
They are trying to not only kill American troops, but they're trying to foment sectarian violence.
They believe that if they can create enough chaos, the American people will grow sick and tired of the Iraqi uh effort and will cause government to withdraw.
As I phrased it uh brilliantly today, the terrorists are the early voters in the uh November elections.
They're voting Democrat.
But I want to talk about this Tet Offensive business because the Libs are just ecstatic.
They think this is the equivalent to them of having Bush admit we're going to be getting out of there pretty soon, and I'm not going to run for president anymore.
And I'm quitting.
And that was a mistake, and I'm sorry.
Because it was the Tet Offensive that jove Lyndon Johnson from office.
He refused to run.
The Tet Offensive January, February.
By April, Lyndon Johnson went on TV, said, I will not accept and I will not seek the nomination of my party to be your president.
Bang, off he went.
Now, what was the Tet Offensive?
The Tet Offensive was a massive, massive offensive by the North Vietnamese commies, in which they lost a huge number of men.
They lost the invasion.
They lost the military objective.
But the propaganda is what they won.
It was so intense and so bloody at such a stage in the war.
It looked and was because it was on television, and Walter Crownkett and these clowns put it on television.
It was made to look like this thing never gonna end.
It is out of control.
Look at the size of this.
Why we can't ever beat these guys.
Well, there's more of them than we knew were alive.
And so that's what they're agreeing with.
Yeah, I could be the equivalent of the Tet Offensive, if you want to say that.
But what the Liberals are trying to say is that the Tet Offensive worked by the North Vietnamese, not militarily, but propaganda wise, because it drove us out.
Now, what that means is that the drive-by media in this country is eager for us to win the battle and lose the war and come out of there.
They are eager.
They are eager for their version, the propaganda version of the Tet Offensive to be applied to what's happening now in Iraq.
Mr. Snerdley is sending me a little note here saying that it was only on this program some years ago that he learned that we actually won the Tet Offensive.
Snerdley had lived all of his life thinking that that was the big battle, and we got creamed.
And Johnson knew it was over and we had to get out of there.
We won them.
We we the North Vietnamese lost, I forget what the number is, but it's phenomenal.
They launched a lot of people.
They had they they did not win it, but the propaganda that came out of it, because American anchors turned against the war, were able to portray with pictures all of that action as never ending.
Look at how many of them there are.
We can't beat these people.
And Johnson fell for the propaganda.
The difference in Johnson and Bush is that Bush is not going to quit, and he's not going to get he understands what the Tet Offensive is.
I just want you to know for what it's worth, it matter anymore.
The Tet Offensive was a U.S. victory portrayed as a loss via propaganda that drove a president from office, and that's why the Democrats are so damn eager to draw that uh connection.
Quick timeout, we'll be back after this.
No more tag at a Massachusetts elementary school.
But the kids are getting fat.
The kids are getting fat, and they want to tax a wait on you.
I don't have time to tell you what to wait for.
Just wait.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Don't go away, folks.
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