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	Your guiding light, your beacon through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, depression, torture, miserableness, fatigue, and even the good times.
	Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB Network on Friday.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open live Friday.
	Oh, wait, no, the evangelist says he never used the myth that he got from the gay escort one time he threw it away.
	Yeah, I was going to say, it sounds like he didn't inhale.
	He got the stuff, but he never used it.
	Greetings and welcome back, my friends.
	Great to be with you, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Our telephone number on Open Line Friday is 800-282-2882.
	And we go to the phones.
	The program is all yours.
	You can discuss that which interests you.
	And if I care about it or not, is irrelevant.
	Okay.
	This is probably the fourth time that such a story has been reported to you by me since early summer.
	Researchers on a three-week mission to the remote French frigate shoals in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands discovered 100 species never seen in the area before, including many that may be entirely new to science.
	There were lots of organisms that people were saying, wow, what's that? said Joel Martin, a zoologist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
	Researchers returned from the voyage on Sunday with at least 1,000 species of invertebrates, including worms, crabs, and sea stars.
	About 160 unique species of seaweed were also found.
	Among the discoveries are multicolored worms, a bright purple foot-long sea star, and a hermit crab that dons a sea anemone and sports shiny golden claws.
	Yeah, it was a very successful expedition by almost any criterion.
	The discovery has really only just begun.
	So we have 160 brand new, unique species that we never knew existed before.
	Somebody climbed a cliff up there with a helicopter.
	They didn't climb it.
	They went up to the top of the cliff with a helicopter and found some weeds and trees and bushes and shrubs and stuff that nobody had ever seen before in some South Pacific island.
	Somebody discovered a bird that they had never seen before someplace.
	There have been four of these, which takes me to the next story.
	Clam bakes, crab cakes, swordfish steaks, even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond memory in a few decades.
	If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse.
	By 2048, a team of ecologists and economists warn in a report in today's issue of the journal Science.
	Whether we looked at tide pools or studies over the entire world's ocean, we saw the same picture emerging in losing species.
	In losing species, we lose the productivity and the stability of entire ecosystems, said the lead author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
	How would you like to be born with the last name worm?
	Hey, worm, how are you?
	I was shocked.
	I was disturbed by how consistent these trends are beyond anything we suspected, worm said.
	The study focused on the oceans, but concerns have been expressed by ecologists about threats to fish in the Great Lakes and other lakes, rivers, and freshwaters, even the wetlands.
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, I really have little patience for this stuff.
	When we started this program in 1988, that great oceanographer and ecologist, Ted Nansen, warned that we had 10 years to clean up the oceans or they would die.
	It has been 18 now, and Ted Danson didn't then and doesn't now have the slightest idea what he's talking about.
	We are discovering new species all over the arrogance of some of these scientists.
	They think how many species are reportedly going extinct every day, becoming extinct?
	What did they tell us during the global warming debate?
	You know, this is, to me, it is totally outrageous.
	There will be no seafood in 2048.
	And why?
	It's our fault.
	Have you ever been out in the ocean?
	Do you have any idea how big it is?
	We know more about outer space than we know about the depths of the oceans.
	We can see far more into outer space, and we've been farther into outer space than we have been to the depths of the oceans.
	And yet we claim we know everything about it.
	But these scare tactics are just absurd.
	And I'm going to tell you what all this is aimed at.
	It's two things: follow the money and big government.
	Big government and follow the research grants for the big money to continue this important research that was shocking to the researchers.
	Why they knew it was bad, but not nearly as bad as it is.
	No more seafood.
	No more Arthur Treachers.
	No more filet of fish at McDonald's.
	Now, they'll wipe McDonald's out before they get rid of the fish.
	But this is just an excuse to grow the government, raise taxes, and to punish people, particularly in the industrialized worlds, for all the damage they are doing to the planet.
	I get so sick and tired of crisis after crisis after catastrophe after catastrophe.
	Negative, negative, negative, doom, doom, doom, gloom, gloom, gloom, the apocalypse.
	Every story involving science revolves around the apocalypse.
	Other than the occasional news we get about a miracle drug that's going to cure this that doesn't.
	You know how many times I have heard since I was 10 that there's going to be a fat pill.
	Take the pill, it's going to speed up your metabolism.
	It's going to get rid of it.
	There's no more progress on that.
	I think I know more about it than science does.
	Have you ever taken prednisone?
	That's one of the drugs they gave me when I was losing my hearing.
	I had to take two chemotherapy drugs because what happened to me was an autoimmune attack.
	My immune system was just out of control.
	Thought my inner ears were a disease, flooded with white blood cells.
	And so the hair cells, the 40,000 in each year, just laid down and died.
	Kaput, gone.
	The reason I got the chemotherapy drugs was they slowed down the immune system.
	That didn't work.
	And they gave me the prednisone because it's a steroid.
	Now, prednisone affects a lot of people in a lot of different ways.
	I hated it, but it's a very effective drug.
	It's called by people the greatest worst drug in America.
	And it's steroid.
	But it affects people in different ways.
	One of the ways it affected me was it totally turned off my brain's ability to tell me I was full.
	It was torture.
	No matter what I ate when I never got full.
	And that started me thinking about all this, the problems that people have with weight control.
	And people say it's, well, it's just a matter of willpower and this and that.
	I think there's so little known about the brain, but if a drug like that can turn off the appetite control center, which I think is in the hypothalamus, then what other things are occurring naturally in individuals' brains and affect their metabolism and so forth?
	The point is, we don't know.
	That doesn't affect everybody that way.
	Predosol affects other people in a certain way.
	Some people access a real upper.
	In fact, they taper you off of it because if they just stop it, you go into what doctors.
	No, you can't.
	I wanted to get off of this stuff.
	I hated it.
	You can't, you can't.
	You'll get depressed.
	Well, I said, well, I just start to taper them because I hate this stuff.
	I slept an hour and a half a night, couldn't sleep, never tired, but I didn't like it.
	It was just, it was odd.
	It was just weird as it could be.
	My point is, is that there are so many different interactions that occur to each individual that a blanket explanation for why if someone has a weight problem, if someone has this problem or that problem, is probably insufficient.
	And we're talking about the human body.
	Now we're talking about the complexity.
	A complexity so complex, we can't begin to conceive it.
	But the human, the planet and the ecosystem and everything.
	It all has to be a math formula.
	The eventual understanding for why.
	Have you ever thought why some days there are 10 or 12 clouds and the other days?
	And I'm not talking about thunderstorm clouds, just cumulus clouds in a blue sky day.
	You ever wonder whether there's 10 someday and 14 the next in your view?
	Nobody can tell you.
	I once asked some guys to the weather channel, can you predict the cloud cover tomorrow?
	Cloud cover?
	Well, you're predicting global warming in 20 or 30 years.
	What's the cloud cover going to be tomorrow?
	Don't be silly.
	Clouds are in their own universe.
	My point is: if we ever do understand this, and I don't think we ever will, I don't think we're ever going to be able to answer all the questions here on Earth that Americans and humans are capable of asking.
	But if we ever get the answer, it's going to be one giant math formula.
	And it's probably going to be very simple.
	But regardless, to take something as complex as this planet and all of the systems that have kept it going as it is, life-producing planet for however many years you want to argue about it's been around, 10,000, 10 billion, whatever it is.
	The idea that a bunch of scientists writing in the journal Nature, a bunch of scientists writing in the journal Science, are going to tell us that we're going to run out of seafood in 2048.
	I'm sorry, I am not a gullible dweeb, and I'm not going to buy into this because I know this isn't about science.
	This is about politics.
	This is, it's patently absurd.
	10 years ago, we're going to have the end of the oceans, and the media was pumping this stuff out, and Ted Danson had his scientific backers.
	And 20 years ago, if we didn't act then, global warming was going to have taken over irreversibly.
	We weren't going to be able to do anything about it.
	Last year, the hurricane season was so out of control because the oceans were warming because of global warming.
	Hurricane season this year was a bust.
	They were taking Prozac at the National Hurricane Center because they were so depressed that they didn't have bad news to report.
	Max Mayfield said, This is not exciting anymore.
	I'm quitting.
	And he resigned.
	I'm exaggerating about why, but I mean, this was supposed to be worse than last year.
	First hurricane it popped up.
	Remember the original track?
	Right at New Orleans.
	Oh, no, everybody.
	No, no, no, good.
	It petered out.
	Didn't become much of anything, not hurricane-wise.
	We don't know diddly squat, and yet people hear this stuff and they end up in mortal fear.
	They've been in mortal fear of coffee.
	They've been in mortal fear of oat bran.
	They have been in mortal fear of trans fats, mortal fear in saturated fats, mortal fear of cholesterol, good and bad, mortal fear of diabetes, mortal fear of fruit.
	That can kill you if you don't eat enough or too much.
	Don't eat beef.
	All of these things that are going to wipe us out.
	Every story, every day from scientists about what is going to kill us.
	And folks, we are all going to die anyway.
	Yeah, we're back.
	El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Check the email during the break, and people said, What do you mean terrorists are endorsing Democrats?
	Where are you hearing that?
	You just can't say that.
	Yes, I can.
	I have a right to say whatever I want, whether it's true or not.
	And you can't criticize me because I'm deaf.
	I can say whatever I want.
	If it'll lead to my cure for deaf, I can say what I want.
	But anyway, I've got facts to back this up.
	You want to hear them?
	WorldNet Daily, Aaron Klein, who is the Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNet Daily.
	Everybody has an opinion about next Tuesday's midterm congressional election in the U.S., including senior terrorist leaders, interviewed by WorldNet Daily, who say they hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party's position on withdrawing from Iraq, a move as they see it that ensures victory for the worldwide Islamic resistance.
	The terrorist leaders told WorldNet Daily an electoral win for the Democrats would prove to them Americans are tired.
	They rejected statements from some prominent Democrats in the U.S. that withdrawal from Iraq would end the insurgency, explaining an evacuation would prove resistance works and would compel jihadists to continue fighting until America is destroyed.
	They said a withdrawal would also embolden their own terror groups to enhance resistance against Israel.
	Of course Americans should vote Democrats, said Jihad Jara, a senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
	That's a terrorist group.
	This guy actually, Klein, went out and found I talked to him.
	And they must be as confident as the Democrats and the media in this country because they don't.
	In fact, these guys are a little bit easier to deal with, and they'll totally be honest about what they want and what they believe, unlike Democrats here.
	Of course, Americans should vote Democrats, said the leader, senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
	He was the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity in 2002.
	That's who Aaron Klein spoke to.
	Of course, Americans should vote Democrats, said this terrorist.
	This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq.
	It's time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud, said Jara, speaking to WorldNet Daily from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.
	He was the chief in Bethlehem of the brigades, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the declared military wing of the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party.
	Together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, the brigades has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing inside Israel the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Woltz and nine Israelis.
	Mohammed Saadi, senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jennin, said Democrats' talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel proud.
	As Arabs and Muslims, we feel proud of this talk, very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance, this success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.
	Abu Abdullah, a leader of the Hamas military wing in the Gaza Strip, said the policy of withdrawal from Iraq proves the strategy of the resistance is the right strategy against the occupation.
	We warned the Americans this will be their end in Iraq, said Abu Abdullah.
	He is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas Izzadin al-Qassam martyrs brigades.
	Hamas declared resistance.
	Well, that's their bureau, their bureaucracy of resistment is what that's what the title of it is.
	They did not succeed in stealing Iraq's oil, at least not at a level that covers their huge expenses.
	They did not bring stability.
	Their agents in the Iraqi regime seem to have no chance to survive if the Americans withdraw.
	Abu Ayman, Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, said he is emboldened by those in America who compare the war in Iraq to Vietnam.
	Now, this ran yesterday at the World Net Daily website.
	And we'll put a link up to it so that you can read it.
	The article goes on.
	Now, does this not sound kind of surreal when you hear this?
	Here are all these Abu Allah Mahmoud guys, and they're head of these various terrorist organizations.
	They're talking to the World Net Daily Reporter, and they're just, my God, if Democrats would be this open, if Democrats would be this on, these guys see exactly.
	It doesn't surprise me if you're a terrorist leader, who would you want to win this election?
	They're the early voters.
	They were the first early voters, and they're voting early in Iraq with all this chaos they're trying to create.
	And look at what the Democrats are saying.
	Democrats are saying Bush created more terrorists.
	Bush is creating terrorists worldwide.
	And we're losing.
	Now, if you're a terrorist leader and a Democrat's this country telling the truth, that the terrorists are winning, the United States is losing, and we're creating more terrorists, wouldn't you want to keep that as the status quo?
	Why would you turn around and want to vote Democrat if the Republican president is guaranteeing your victory and creating more recruits for you?
	So they'll go discover the 72 Virgin so you don't have to blow yourself up.
	But yet they want Bush out.
	They want the Republicans out.
	They want the Democrats who are talking about withdrawing and getting out of Iraq.
	They want them in a position of power to influence that decision.
	So, I mean, it's surreal to hear these guys with their quotes.
	But folks, this is who they are, and they understand it.
	They know full well that pulling out of there would be a huge sign of defeat, admittance, admission of weakness.
	And the Democrats do say that if you want to stop this insurgency, just get out because we're the problem.
	Insurgencies would become the popular way of fighting any resistance that the good guys have.
	I've got to take a brief break.
	We'll be back and continue in a moment.
	I'm playing around, toying around with an idea here, folks.
	Maybe doing a television commercial for stem cell research on hearing loss.
	I'm thinking about it.
	By the way, you could say the Democrats are getting the Mullah Omar vote in this election.
	Not just the terrorists in Iraq, but, I mean, these Islamic jihad, Palestinian, whatever these guys call themselves now, in the Middle East, Palestine, Israel area, they're, it's uncanny how open they are about why they, and by the way, one thing about this World Net Daily story, every one of their sources is quoted and identified.
	No anonymous sources, no leaks, no wondering whether or not these guys actually said at the WorldNet Daily store, which we've linked to at rushlimbo.com.
	Now, if you want to go read the whole thing for yourself, these guys are identified and they're proud.
	Yes, Mr. Snerdley, program observer has an observation.
	What?
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Right.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	Well, Mr. Snerdley says, you know, the Reuters, the AP, other internationalist news agencies, the BBC, the BBS, always tell us the reaction, the Arab street, the Arab street, when Americans commit some atrocity someplace, like Abu Grab or Club Guitmo or you name it in Iraq or Afghanistan.
	Well, how come it they don't seem to find these guys that WorldNet Daily found?
	They're the Arab Street.
	They're the leaders of the Arab Street of the Jihads to the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigade.
	This is not a chump change group.
	Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades is a huge bunch out there.
	At any rate, unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low of 4.4% in October as employers added 92,000 new jobs, flashing a picture of a strong labor market as the midterm elections draw near.
	How can this be?
	I ask myself.
	How can we have all this great economic news?
	And then the companion story, U.S. Republicans get no traction from strong economy.
	It's Reuters.
	You know, some people have sent me emails.
	Rush, why are you laughing at all this?
	Folks, at some point, that's all you can do.
	It becomes so absurd that to clench your teeth and fists and react to it is just overkill itself.
	It's not an effective response.
	This stuff is just absurd.
	White House Budget Director Rob Portman can point to plenty of good economic news that should have helped Republicans on the campaign trail this year, but the body count in Iraq just kept getting in the way.
	Yeah, well, who kept talking about the body count in Iraq and who kept mischaracterizing the strength of the media?
	Now, try this.
	From Houston.
	A few weeks ago, Democrats thought they had the dream race in suburban Houston, Sugarland, Texas.
	No opponent's name on the ballot and the last incumbent, former House Republican leader Tom DeLay, under indictment.
	Even though the district had been held by Republicans for years, political analysts predicted an easy win for Democrat Nick Lampson in his party's efforts to take over control of the U.S. House.
	But with Tuesday's election just days away, Republicans now have high hopes of actually keeping the seat.
	How can that be?
	Imagine that.
	Why?
	A poll taken in late October showed just over a third of the voters planned to cast ballots for Lampson, the Democrat, while an equal amount said that they would write in the name of someone else.
	Republican Shelly Sekula Gibbs was getting most of the planned write-in votes, causing those same pundits who a month ago predicted Lampson might get 60% of the vote, change the race to a toss-up.
	Still a Republican district out there.
	Even harder than selling a right-hand is selling a Democrat in this district, said John Zugby, who conducted the poll.
	What a minute.
	This sounds like a little bit of a hedge.
	They had this seat going to the Democrats.
	Oh, now it's a Republican district.
	Well, let's go to another Republican district and see how things are happening there.
	You realize, ladies and gentlemen, that Joe Negrin, who is replacing Mark Foley in his race, what's this guy down here he's running against Mahoney?
	Is that his name?
	What did I say?
	I said, Joe Negrin, but who's his opponent?
	Isn't it Mahoney?
	Is his name Mahoney?
	They're all acting who?
	Who cares what the Democrats' name is?
	Hey, some hose job, some Democrat entrepreneur.
	Democrat.
	There are a lot of those.
	They just keep them hidden, too.
	But anyway, when the Foley scandal hit, that was it.
	Oh, wow.
	Surprise pickup.
	A bonus seat.
	Democrats never counted on this one.
	Comahoney guy was going to skate to victory.
	And then, when the rules made it impossible to remove Foley's name for the ballot, the experts, the Charlie Cooks and the Stu Rothenbergs and all these other guys, the Larry Sabato's, went out there and said, I mean, you telling me Republicans are going to hold a seat when Republicans have to go in there and vote for Foley?
	Again, insulting voters in Foley's district.
	I think most people, would you agree with me?
	Most people in Mark Foley's district know he's not on the ballot?
	Would you think most people know he's resigned?
	Do you think just because of that, this dominant, predominantly Republican district is going to say, screw that and vote for some Democrat?
	Tim Mahoney, I thought his name was Mahoney.
	The idea that just because Foley's name's on the ballot and Republicans couldn't go in there in privacy and vote for Foley, even though they know they're not, they're voting for this Joe Negron guy.
	Anyway, that race, the analysts are, oh, they're a and a gaga, gaga, because my guy looks like Negrin could actually pull this out.
	And now the write-in Republican in Delay's district might actually pull it out.
	Now, that is stunning.
	She got it, it's a hyphenated name.
	You got to write in three names there.
	One of these modern women.
	You got to write in three names out there.
	But even that, now that one really is stunning.
	So if these kinds of things are happening, see, they look at the generic ballot poll, the national polls, and so forth.
	When you get into these individual races, the picture changes just a little bit.
	Here is Bob.
	I want to get a phone call or two in before we have to go to the break.
	Bob in Goshen, Indiana.
	I'm glad you called.
	Thanks for waiting.
	Oh, thank you.
	Megan, Indiana Dittos Rush.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I've been listening to you talking about Drive-By Media, and I have never been so incensed with this media in my life as when I listened to that CNN reporter talk about being inside the insurgency and watching them line up an American soldier in his sights.
	My son is a recent graduate of the Air Force Para Jumper Program.
	He's one of 450 in the world trained and happy to go in and rescue his downed comrades.
	And to think that could have been my son and that reporter commenting on that sniper as any commenter talking about Tyre Woods lining up a putt.
	I can't believe that nothing has been done about it.
	Well, what can you do about it?
	People have expressed their anger and outrage of CNN over it, but they've got constitutional protection.
	Sounds like he ought to have been tried for treason or at least accomplished a murder.
	Wait a minute.
	Now, wait, wait, wait.
	I don't think they're...
	No, maybe you're more informed than I on something.
	I don't...
	I don't think any CNN reporter was actually with these snipers when they shot these guys.
	CNN reached out to the snipers, to the terrorists, do you have any video we can use?
	We can give you a fair shake.
	And these guys either went out and produced the video or just happened to have it hanging around.
	But, I mean, clearly, CNN aided and abetted the enemy in playing propaganda.
	Oh, yeah.
	But I don't think they had any in-bed reporters with them.
	Man, sure, I don't, that's very possible.
	All I remember is the commenter saying, do you want me to read his name?
	Well, there have been a bunch of these commentators that have played the tapes.
	A bunch of the reporters.
	You might be talking about the reporter that was actually narrating it.
	Yeah.
	I don't know who that was.
	All I know is all their anchors have told, well, we studied this.
	We had numerous meetings.
	We examined the, and we decided the people had a right to know what's happening in the war in Iraq.
	I just want to know if snipers were taking out journalists.
	Would they show us that?
	Yeah.
	And if U.S. troops.
	Because the thing is, they'll show us every bloody bit of video of what they consider atrocities by U.S. troops every day in the world.
	They will not play a video made by the U.S. Army because that would be considered to be propaganda.
	No, that's for sure.
	I don't trust any of the media anymore.
	I really don't.
	Good, good, good, good.
	It's a healthy attitude to have.
	Well, thank you very much, Rush.
	I appreciate what you're doing.
	Thank you.
	Did you have something else that says up here, comments on T. Woods?
	Am I missing something?
	Yeah, because that commentator just reminded me of a sportscaster talking about Tiger Woods lining up a putt.
	That's all the emotion he showed.
	He said, oh, he's examining the sights.
	Oh, he's got to wait.
	There's too many Iraqis in the way.
	Oh, now he's got him in the sights.
	Oh, he shot our soldiers.
	Oh, I see you're drawing.
	Just like a commentator lining up, watching him line up a putt.
	Oh, that's what the commentator said while describing the snipers taking aim?
	That's just the way he sounded.
	That's just the way he sounded to me.
	Oh, it's just the way he sounded.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I was confused.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay.
	Thanks for clearing that up because I was confused about that.
	I'm normally not confused.
	It's a strange feeling, and I don't know generally what to do when it happens.
	Hi, welcome back.
	Great to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen.
	I am Rush Limbaugh, the real anchor man in this country and your host for life.
	A little programming note for the Fox News Channel.
	I just, in fact, learned this before the program started.
	I just now remembered it.
	You remember me telling you about this documentary slash movie called Obsession?
	It runs 77 minutes.
	It's an hour and 17 minutes.
	And they were having trouble finding a distributor for this thing, but it is scary.
	It is really well done.
	It is a portrait of our enemy, the Islamofascists.
	And the interesting thing is that it's all video from their outfits, their organizations.
	Hassan Nasrallah is on this thing, the Hezbolle.
	And the director actually called us from South Africa when we were talking about this.
	And I asked him, okay, you have to translate a lot of this because a lot of these guys are jabbering on their native tongue.
	I say, how can we trust the translation?
	And they said, we go to our website.
	Everything is backed up.
	Obsession, the movie.
	Everything is backed up on this.
	Anyway, the Fox News channel is going to air an edited version of it over the weekend, twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday.
	They're going to air a one-hour version of Obsession, 8 and 10 p.m. Eastern Times on Saturday and 4 and 10 p.m. Eastern Times on Sunday.
	So you'll have four chances to see it.
	I got another copy of the DVD.
	It just came in over the transom today in the mail.
	I gave it to Snurdley.
	So you've got to watch this thing.
	You know, when you first start it, you start watching it, you think you've seen this stuff before.
	Stick with this, because it doesn't take long to permeate.
	A lot of people don't want to believe this stuff.
	A lot of people don't want to believe we have an enemy of this nature that is really motivated, impassioned, and oriented toward destroying us.
	It's easy to, oh, I don't have to think about that now.
	They're not anywhere near doing that.
	And so you don't want to think about it.
	A lot of people don't want to think about unpleasant things unless it's the dying ocean or global warming.
	People will be plenty happy to think about that.
	But their own destruction by violence, people don't want to comprehend.
	Something will happen.
	Something good will happen and we'll win.
	Now, that's true if elections matter.
	But anyway, 4 and 10 p.m. on Sunday, Eastern Time, 8 and 10 p.m. on Saturday night on the Fox News channel.
	Here's Dana in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	Nice to have you on the program.
	Great to be on your show, Rush.
	Thank you.
	Thanks for presenting the one thing the Democrats fear most, and that's the facts.
	Appreciate that.
	Really appreciate your show, and I'll tell you what, our founding fathers would be proud of you.
	I really believe that for what you're doing for America, getting the facts out.
	I told your screener that I lived in Central America during the 80s, and I didn't follow politics all that much, but I was always amazed how I'd come back here to the States, and you'd see in the news that the communist Sandinistas were good, you know, and the Contras who were trying to take their country back were bad.
	You know, just the opposite of what was going on there.
	You know, I visited many Nicaraguan refugee camps, and boy, some of their stories about the communists were just unreal.
	But then I come back here to the States, and you hear the news, and it's like the Democrats were trying to strengthen our enemies.
	You know, I special remember Tip O'Neill, of course, you remember him.
	Oh, look at all of them.
	Jim Jones, Jim Wright.
	I mean, George Miller.
	Hell yes.
	I will never forget that.
	I was working in Sacramento at the time, and it was a hot blood issue out there.
	Ollie North came to town to talk about it.
	I was where I met him the first time, and some of the Conqueror leaders came up.
	I will never forget.
	It was all because Reagan.
	There's no question liberals have sympathy for the downtrodden, and they look at these socialists and communists as downtrodden people.
	But it was as much about opposing Ronald Reagan, just as today, it's as much about opposing George Bush as it is doing what's right for the country.
	They haven't changed.
	The liberals of today, they are who they are, no matter how much they try to mask it.
	Bill in Muncie, Indiana.
	I have a minute and a half, but I wanted to get to you before we had to vanish.
	Hi, Rush.
	Thanks for talking to you.
	You bet.
	I'm a conservative educator, and that's a different call.
	I was calling to thank you for taking a very personal issue.
	My dad had Parkinson's for 14 years and died from it.
	And making me realize that being mad at George Bush isn't going to bring him back to life and seeing it for what it is and giving me the right information.
	I appreciate it.
	Well, thank you for the call.
	You were actually.
	You were angry because Bush opposes any new embryonic stem cell research?
	Right.
	And, you know, the drive I look at it is that that's going to cure everything.
	And thanks to you, I know that it doesn't.
	And I got some real factual information, as the last caller said.
	I mean, it's the facts, you know.
	And no one could be more sorry for, you know, Mr. Fox and me.
	I've seen the results of that.
	Fortunately, he's, you know, young enough that he's going to live a long time.
	My father was older, and it proved to be fatal after 14 years.
	But the fact is that, you know, me being angry with George Bush is a waste of time.
	Well, you know, even about that, but let me just address that for just a second.
	What I never understood about that is that Bush is the only guy who's ever authorized any research on any embryonic stem cell lines.
	Clinton opposed it, voted it down.
	Bush is the only guy who has.
	He just hasn't expanded it beyond the 72 lines that we have.
	It's all about federal funding.
	There's no free market money going into that research, which is quite telling.
	We'll be back in just a second.
	Hear about the Seattle school bus driver flipped the president the bird when he was out there, got fired, wants her job back.
	That's a metaphor, folks.
	The liberals are flipping all of us the bird.
	And we'll talk more about this on Monday.
	I'll look forward to it.

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