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I'm not kidding about getting the kids away from the radio.
And also, I guess I should issue a warning to those of you who are upset with graphic sexual descriptions.
If that kind of thing makes you uncomfortable, you shouldn't listen either.
And I'm warning you.
I'm not springing surprises on you, not shocking you, and I'm giving you ample time to go turn on a soap opera or whatever you wish, or to turn the radio down.
I'm going to count down from like five.
And when I reach one, if you're still listening and then something you hear offends you, you're listening at your own risk.
You can complain all day.
Certainly is frowning at me.
You don't think I should read this stuff?
I don't think you understand the importance of this.
Five, four, three, two, one.
You don't think I'm going to actually be able to read it, do you?
You think I'm going to get to it?
And I say, ooh, I don't think.
All right.
Well, all right.
The controversy here involves new, the Virginia Democrat candidate for Senate, James Webb.
Yesterday, George Allen, the George Allen campaign, unleashed a press release that exposed Webb's fiction writing, which includes graphic underage sex scenes.
Mike, did you get that audio?
All right, good.
Then maybe I won't have to read it because we have Mr. Webb on audio actually discussing this.
People from our Blowtorch affiliate in the nation's capital, WMAL, ran into him on the street and got him to say some things.
And I have not heard this yet.
I won't play this until we'll listen to it during the break.
We just got it.
The book in question here is Lost Soldiers.
Written by Jim Webb, Democrat candidate for the Senate in Virginia.
Here's an excerpt.
Shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway.
His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles.
His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire.
A naked boy ran happily toward him from the little plot of dirt.
The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boys in his mouth.
Now, the press release, as provided by the Allen Campaign, is entitled Webb's Weird World, the author's distributing writings, disturbing writings, show a continued pattern of demeaning women.
Here is another passage.
This is what's this well in Something to Die For, another web book, Fogarty watched a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana.
You heard this one, Mr. Snerdley.
Okay.
You've read this.
You've read these books.
Oh, you're backing out now.
It's the excerpts you've read.
All right.
Fogarty watched a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana.
She stood up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar.
Left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her female anatomy.
Let's put it that way, rather than actually use the word.
Yeah, this one's harmless.
Okay, go here.
All right, something to die for.
Fogarty watched a young, naked young stripper do the splits over a banana.
She stood back up, her face smiling proudly, her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina.
Now, what?
Do what?
You mean from a country such as this?
Oh, no.
All right, this is okay, here we go.
Snerdley now egging me on in there.
He could see Jawbone and Ashley asthmatic, two guards at a Vietnam prison camp, napping together in the grass.
This the one you mean?
They faced inward, their arms entwined.
It looked like they were masturbating each other.
It didn't surprise him.
It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other.
Some of them, the guards, had wanted him.
I mean, he could tell in those effanescent moments between his bao cow ball, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell and the first word or blow that followed.
Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion, an exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin.
Okay, these are the writings, fiction writings of Democrat Senate candidate in Virginia, James Webb.
Books have been out there for a while, and nobody has commented much on them, but they are out there.
And this is the kind of thing that people unaware of this are going to have a logical question or two.
What kind of mind is it that creates this stuff, thinks about this stuff, dreams about this stuff, and then puts it to paper?
What kind of guy actually does, what is it about Mr. Webb that we don't know?
I have a couple questions.
Has Denny Hasterd ever written books like this?
Well, the reason I ask is because the drive-by meeting of Democrats said that Denny Haster should resign.
I'm wondering if Denny Hastert has ever written any books like this.
And Mr. Sterling, do you have a banana?
I mean, you know, I'm not asking you to do anything.
Could you bring a banana?
I want to put the banana in it.
Oh, does anybody, you guys have, was there a banana delivered?
We don't have a banana here.
What about our condom classes for the staff here?
That was probably a cucumber that we have.
Well, we're required federal regulations, you know.
We got to teach the staff various things.
I wonder if any impressionable young House pages have read this book by these books by Democrat Senate candidate Jim Webb.
I know that Lynn Cheney and Newt Gingrich have written novels, but they don't use graphical details like this.
Mr. Webb was on a Washington radio station today, and the host of the station was reading these excerpts to him.
And Webb said, I don't know why you're reading that on WTOP.
I think it's a little inappropriate for you to read this on the radio.
And the host kept reading it from the novel Something to Die For, in which Webb describes the female stripper and the sex acts on the banana.
And Webb said, as the host finished the excerpt, I don't think that's appropriate for you to read on the radio.
And then Webb said, look at a young boy with father picking up a young boy upside down and putting in his mouth is not a sex act.
Webb said that's not a sexual act.
What about the banana and the stripper?
Is that a sexual act?
Quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
No, no, don't go get the kids yet.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
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Our radio station in Washington, WMAL, caught up with the Democrat candidate for the Senate in Virginia, Jim Webb, and asked him about the passage in his book regarding the boys.
Well, here, let Mr. Webb describe it himself.
That was something that I actually saw as a writer in a slum of Klong Tui in Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand.
It was not a sexual act.
It's being characterized as a sexual act.
That's the, well, it's not a sexual act, ladies and gentlemen.
He was just describing what he'd seen as a writer.
He can see things he can write about them, but it's not a sexual act.
Here's another passage.
He saw the invitation with every bouncing breast and curved hip.
He was 13, she was 15.
In a few moments, she drew him to her, and he murmured in his quiet voice, I'm still small.
You're large enough, she answered, and he found that he was.
So, you know, let's keep some things in mind, ladies and gentlemen.
The campaign headquarters for Jim Webb, the Washington Post, has tried to destroy George Allen with a typically manufactured slur campaign based on the word macaca.
And occasionally said use of the N-word and, of course, the Confederate flag.
And there have been pages and pages and issues after issues written about what kind of evil must lurk in the mind of George Allen, posited by the Washington Post.
I wonder, when did Nancy Pelosi know about this?
How many Democrats in the leadership have known about Webb's book and didn't say anything?
How many people have known what's in these novels and didn't warn the American people?
I went to Democrat Underground and they're imploding over there.
They're wondering how in the world nobody could have known this.
Why did anybody wait until now to deal with this?
They are in a fit of depression at a number of left-wing blog sites.
I'll tell you something else.
There's a tide turning, ladies and gentlemen.
As we've told you all week, Jim Talent is up three points in two polls in Missouri over Claire McCaskill.
Ben Cardin and Michael Steele are tied in Maryland, and Steele's got some problems with the NAALCP backed out of a debate.
The Steele campaign has just issued a new ad defining their position on stem cell research.
Cardin, as you know, has voted against it, yet he's being supported by people who are for stem cell research, even though he's voted against it.
The New York Times has two interesting stories today.
One is that the, and this is true, this gay marriage ruling in New Jersey has got Democrats worried all to hell because Republican candidates are energized by this.
Here's the thought process.
Okay, gay marriage legal in New Jersey.
It just keeps expanding.
And now we're on the cusp of an election for the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What if the speaker is San Francisco Nancy Pelosi?
This is the kind of thing that the Democrats are scared to death is going to revive what they have thought is a depressed GOP base.
I don't think the GOP base has been that depressed, but even if it has been, this is the kind of thing that can revive it.
The Democrats know it.
The New York Times also has another story about black enthusiasm, black voter enthusiasm in this election is suppressed.
That hurts Democrats.
There's a lot of panic at the Democrat National Committee House organ, the New York Times today.
And I think you're seeing, as we talked about all week, polls are starting to narrow now because these pollsters and others are going to have to have credibility once the race is over and once the elections come in.
And all of the work that's been designed to suppress conservative Republican turnout has been done.
All of the polling data with their inflated Democrat samples and Democrat waiting, producing these massive Democrat victories of 40 to 50 seats in the House at 30 or 20 or whatever.
They're being revised now.
And everybody on the left's starting to get a little bit nervous.
Now you've got the releases here from the Allen campaign of what's in these novels that Jim Webb has written.
This cannot be helpful.
This has to be a good move.
It's a well-timed move.
And you might be saying, come on, something he wrote, big deal.
One of the comments from the left that I saw on Democrat Underground is, hey, hey, you tell those hicks in the South that the Bible has worse stuff in it here than what Webb wrote.
Go ahead.
Keep excusing it.
Use the Bible as tell people the Bible is worse than what Jim Webb wrote.
Do it.
Make that one of your salient campaign issues, Dems.
Try it.
That's what some of them are thinking.
But there's some panic out there.
Because you might just say, well, why?
Russi's novels.
No big deal.
Well, a lot of people are wondering, what the hell's in this guy's mind?
You know, what's he sitting around thinking about?
This on the heels of Mark Foley?
I mean, people expect this to just be ignored after this brouhaha, this panic conniption over Mark Foley.
I wonder, when did Nancy Pelosi know what was in this book, that Jim Webb or these books that he wrote?
When did any of the Senate Democrat leaders know?
What have they not been doing to protect the children based on his writings in this book?
You know that impressionable pages in the house probably heard about this book.
You know that impressionable pages in the house are probably reading these books.
I mean, those young and innocent, virginal 16, 15, 17-year-old pages in the House dorm, now that Foley's gone, what have they been doing?
But nobody thought to protect them.
Nobody thought to warn anybody on the Democrat side about what's in the web books.
No, all we've had is macaca.
And George Allen looks rotten in cowboy boots.
Or George Allen is too tight with the Confederate flag or some such.
It's been a typical liberal Democrat smear campaign, void of any substance, any discussion of any substance of the issues.
And so, if that's the kind of campaign Democrats want, George Allen, I guess, decided, fine, here's what you're going to get.
You want to run a campaign based on this kind of stuff?
You want to do news stories based on this kind of stuff?
Fine.
Here is Jim Webb and the things that he's written in his book.
Try this.
There are frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as monkey-faced.
He uses the n-word in monkey face to describe blacks and Vietnamese women in some of these books.
We'll be back in just a second, folks.
Mr. Stergley, you may not believe this.
I'm being asked to reread these excerpts a little slower and with even more feeling than I did the first time.
These are the excerpts from Jim Webb books.
Folks, here's the thing.
Every one of the books that he has written has this kind of stuff in it, referring to blacks with several different racial slurs, Vietnamese women as monkey face.
Remember, the context of this is that the Washington Times single-handedly as the Jim Webb campaign office campaign headquarters is singularly set out to destroy George Allen over manufactured and exaggerated things such as macaca and the Confederate flag.
It has been a hate fest from the Washington Times.
But this is what I was telling you yesterday.
This is who the left is.
This is who the drive-by media is.
They lie.
They make things up.
They smear.
They destroy.
They avoid the substance of issues.
They're trying to destroy Rumsfeld again.
My first call here.
Glenn in Livonia, Michigan.
We go to the phones here on Open Line Friday.
I'm glad you called and welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rosh Dittos from Livonia, Michigan.
Thank you very much.
Well, your Cardinals have got our Tigers on the run, but around Detroit here, we're hoping that we're going to be able to do a repeat of the 68th Series.
Yeah, it's, you know, the only thing wrong with this World Series is that they're having to play it in the conditions they're playing.
And baseball is not meant to be played with a windshield in the 30s.
I agree with you.
And threatening rain and so forth.
But, you know, but your great 108 mile-an-hour fastball relief pitcher, Zamaya, got to work on the easy toss to first base.
He's thrown two away now that really have permitted the Cardinals to win.
Yeah, I know.
That hurt big time around the mountain here, but we're still pulling for him.
We're hoping that we can do a repeat of 68, and we wish him the best.
Well, Tigers have had a great season.
There's no question of you guys.
They ought to be very this is illustrated.
Detroit is a baseball town.
It always has been, and it's great to see this.
Yeah.
Anyway, Reason with Colin.
I was wondering about your take on Donald Rumsfeld.
I'm a conservative, and I fully support our effort in removing the Hussein regime.
It was something that needed to be done in the post-9-11 context, and given Hussein's history of pursuing weapons and his aggression against his neighbors.
But I've had problems with how the post-war was handled and the planning for it.
And particularly, I've had problems with Rumsfeld.
And there are some other noted conservatives, like Bill Kristol, for example, who have called for him to resign.
And Crystal's even predicted that after the election, he's going to go.
And when I've listened to your show, you've seemed fairly supportive of Rumsfeld.
I was just wondering what your thoughts were on.
All right.
I appreciate a question.
Let me attack it this way.
First thing first, I don't look to what anybody else thinks to form my opinion.
So you could give me a list of people who thinks that Rumsfeld has to go, and it wouldn't matter to me.
What I look at is who's at the top?
George W. Bush.
The idea that Rumsfeld has to go is, I think, formulated on the basis that he's an independent contractor.
Bush can't control him.
And he's out there doing things that are harmful to the administration if Bush hasn't authorized him.
Bush doesn't know.
I refuse to believe that.
Rumsfeld, personally, to me, I have a lot of respect for him.
This man is quite achieved in his life.
He is very accomplished.
He is brilliant.
He was the CEO of G.D. Searle when Aspartame Equal was released in the market.
That was a very big thing.
He has been in public service for a lot of his life when he doesn't have to be.
Donald Rumsfeld is a pioneer taking the arrows.
He doesn't have to do this.
I think it's easy to get caught up in conventional wisdom because the war is not going as we wish it were.
And, you know, it'd be nice.
I heard somebody say the other day, it'd be nice if life were a TIFO machine and we could rewind back to where life was a couple, three years ago and start over.
But we can't do that.
I mean, we could all come up here with mistakes that we think have been made after three years of watching them and then go back and say, how come these experts didn't know this or didn't figure this out?
I don't think our problem is Rumsfeld started out.
I think a lot of military brass and some military commentators don't like Rumsfeld because he's autocratic and he doesn't listen and he's got his own mind made up about things.
One of the reasons some people don't like me, Glenn, he's inflexible.
He knows what he knows, believes what he believes, won't listen to anybody, won't take anybody else's counsel.
One of his first missions was to change the scope of the Army from its post-Cold War or in its Cold War construction.
The Clinton administration left the U.S. military in a bad state of affairs.
It had to be rebuilt, and Rumsfeld was trying to modernize it for future conflicts around the world.
There's always going to be opposition in the Pentagon to that.
Don't think that the Pentagon loves him.
There's some people in there trying to destroy him.
It's like any other corporate business.
People at the top are always targets.
But I don't know what replacing the Secretary of Defense is going to change when you get right down to it.
Put Daffy Duck in.
I don't know who you put in there.
What difference is it going to make?
The President of the United States tells us that he's listening to the generals on the ground, Abu Zayd and George Casey.
And Rumsfeld runs the Pentagon and so forth.
But, well, who are we supposed to put here?
What difference would it make?
Or do you just want to punish somebody because the war hasn't gone the way everybody wants it to go?
We can talk about that too.
You know, we've got a strategy, and the strategy is we're going to build an outpost of democracy in the Middle East.
And we're going to do that first.
We're going to do that at the same time we try to defeat the insurgents.
Well, the first thing to do and defeat, we get two things we can do to defeat the insurgents.
Kill Muki al-Sadr.
We should have killed Al-Sadr way back in the first days of fighting in Fallujah, but we can't TVO back there.
We can still do it because he is the number one insurgent leader, not the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
Second thing we can do is see to it that Saddam Hussein is executed.
That will depress and diminish some of the support for the remaining Baathists in that country who think Saddam's going to emerge from all this and resume power.
And by the way, that notion is being furthered with the absolute idiotic comments of Hans Blicks, who's out there turning back the TVO machine three years, saying this has been a total mistake.
I know it's tough.
We can't leave now.
United States can't leave now, but they shouldn't have gone in in the first place.
And it would be better off, that country would be better off with Saddam Hussein back in power if he had stayed in power.
And Blix is out there saying this.
You have the drive-by media sending notes to terrorists saying, we're going to give you a fair shake if you'll give us some exclusive videos so we get video on CNN of terrorists taking pot shots, sniper assassinations of U.S. troops.
These are complicated things.
There's a new kind of war.
It's something that if you want to go back to the TiVo machine, maybe what we could have done is, all right, we're going to go in there and level this place.
And then we'll build a democracy.
And I'm for that.
I'm still for that now.
I think win the war, and we have the power to do it.
The question is, do we have the will?
We have the power to do it.
Will we?
Well, obviously not, because we're trying to build a democracy at the same time.
We don't want to blow up the infrastructure and create ill will with the Iraqi people, so forth and so on.
I just and by the way, Glenn, there's one other reason.
And this is perhaps the reason I should have mentioned first.
When a bunch of liberal Democrats like Jack Murphy and Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean and John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Carl Levin start demanding Rumsfeld resign, I put him in concrete boots in the Pentagon.
I am not going to sit here and join with the Democratic Party in having every leader in this administration quit.
They want Rice to quit.
They want Rumsfeld gone.
They wanted Rove in jail.
They had Rove in jail.
They look and they lie about all of these people.
They want Bush impeached.
They want Cheney thrown out.
Where does this stop?
What is this that everybody gets caught up?
Republicans have to resign.
Republicans should quit.
The minute Democrats start demanding this, I become their blood brothers on the Republican side.
I am not going to sit here and help and participate with a head-chopping operation led by the Democratic Party for that reason alone.
Rumsfeld's not going anywhere as far as I have anything to do about it.
Back in just a second.
I have noticed, ladies and gentlemen, I've been paying extra special attention.
The drive-by media not focusing at all on the salacious content of Jim Webb's novels.
I'm sure the Washington Post is hoping this just goes away, doesn't bubble up.
Our Washington affiliate, WMAL today, spent three hours this morning on it.
Some of the calls they were getting were hilarious.
I think they went wall to wall with it.
And of course, that's right in the Northern Virginia market area where the election will be won or lost.
So it is hot and heavy in the nation's capital.
It owns the airwaves in the nation's capital, where a lot of the drive-by media is.
So a studious effort to ignore this and hope they can contain it within the Northern Virginia Beltway area is ongoing.
We'll see if it bubbles up.
It's fascinating to watch what they think is news and what isn't news.
Actually, it's not fascinating.
There's ongoing illustrations of it each and every day.
All right, we're going to go back to the phones.
We have a man.
You've heard this guy call us before.
He's traveling the northern hemisphere, visiting every market in which this broadcast is heard.
He is up to number 500.
He is in Mexico City, Mexico.
Is that right?
Mexico City?
You're in Mexico, Paul?
That's right, Mexico City.
You're in Mexico?
I didn't know we had an affiliate in Mexico City.
I haven't been able to pick up that pirate station that we were going to start in Juarez, but I've been getting you on my laptop, my Rush 24-7, and I got a wireless laptop.
Oh, that's how you do it.
What are you doing?
If you're on a tour to go to every market which the station's hurt, how'd you end up in Mexico City, or are you going to illegally immigrate to avoid taxes when you come back?
I actually have a job.
My job is traveling the northern hemisphere with a mobile design center, a mobile showroom.
And that's a Mexico affiliate, Hefela Mexico affiliate, that I've spent three weeks working with their people.
Well, you know, there's a lot of money flowing to Mexico from people in the United States sending their wages home to their families down there.
Last I saw was $40 billion a year or something like that.
So there's a burgeoning market for you down there to sell designs.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we have an affiliate down here in a little city called Carrotaro, I believe it is, just outside of Guadalajara.
And I've been working with them for the past three weeks all over Mexico.
I'm coming back to the U.S. this weekend.
Where are you going to go?
El Paso.
No, I'm couching over in Laredo and then on to New Orleans and then five weeks in Florida, so working with Florida salespeople down there.
But I wore my Rush Limbaugh shirt, the one with the Thousand Stripes collar down in Mexico.
And there was people who recognized it and recognized the signature on the right sleeve that said Rush Limbaugh.
And they'd walk up to me and start telling me that they'd been in America and they'd heard you and they didn't always agree with you, but at least they heard you.
Well, that's just like it is here.
I'm not surprised.
I've gone global this week, Paul.
I'm not surprised.
I have a salesperson I work with in Connecticut, and he's a staunch New York Yankee fan and a committed liberal.
And we played golf, and he informed me that the course, the dress code, required a shirt with a collar.
And I said, well, you've got a choice.
I got a Boston Red Sox shirt, a Rush Limbaugh shirt, and a George Bush Windbreaker.
And he said, oh, God, don't make a Yankee, a liberal Yankee fan, pick one of those.
Just wear something and I'll live with it.
So I wore my Rush Limbaugh shirt, which aggravated him the most, I hope.
Good.
Well, I'm happy to hear.
Paul, you always have interesting things when you call.
The pirate station was in Juarez, Mexico.
It's right across the Rio Grande.
And it was a pirate station that broadcast 50,000, but it might have been 100,000 watts in Mexico, I think it was.
And it broadcasts throughout the northern and northern hemisphere, Central America, and so forth.
And it broadcasts programming into the United States that would not have been permitted in the United States at the time.
This is back in the 60s or 70s.
The station is legit now.
But we do not have an affiliate in Mexico.
Well, we think that there's a pirate station in Trinidad-Tobago that's still operating, carrying the EIB network.
A lot of them are out there, but it's hard to keep track of all of them, specifically because they're pirates, and they have their transmitter on boats, and they run around the ocean.
Speaking of all of this, there's a piece in, thanks, Paul.
Great to hear from you.
And let us hear from you when you get to New Orleans.
There is a story by Otto Reichsch today in the National Review Online that the Cuban government is quietly bringing in dignitaries from all over the world to start planning the arrangements for Fidel Castro's funeral.
This is serious.
He's got stomach cancer.
It appears now that this is widely accepted as true.
And people are wondering if he's already passed away, may already be dead.
And the story that Mr. Reichs has in our own today says that the Cuban government is modeling their funeral for Fidel Castro after that of Pope John Paul II.
And that dignitaries and media people from around the world are being flown in to select the best spots for their cameras, the best seating locations.
And when I read that, I'm not making this up, when I read this today, I wondered about the Democrat Party delegation to the funeral of Fidel Castro, who will lead it, and what seating, prime seating locations might they get, and what kind of demand will there be for tickets among the Democratic Party in this country for prime seats at the Fidel Castro funeral.
Now, it's not known whether he's passed away or not.
That's just speculation, but it seems to be foregone conclusion that he does have stomach cancer.
And by the way, he has not been seen.
There haven't been any pictures of Fidel Castro since he was seen yucking it up with Hugo Chavez during a meeting of non-aligned nations before Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinezad came to the United Nations and made their famous speeches.
As I mentioned earlier, tide may be turning.
Republican chized GOP tries to use marriage ruling to rally base.
New York Times have to go into detail about this because this ruling's got them scared to death in the Democratic Party.
Another New York Times story, Democrats fear disillusionment in black voters.
The reasons for this, I will explain as the program unfolds today.
Lots of stuff in the stack of stuff.
Sit tight.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
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