Nov. 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Did you see that Tom Vilsack entered the Democrat presidential sweepstakes today? | |
| No, I didn't hear this speech. | |
| Well, that's what I'm saying. | |
| I mean, I'm ruling nothing out. | |
| I just saw all these people in. | |
| You got Obama. | |
| You got now Vilsack today. | |
| You got the Brett girl. | |
| You got Carrie. | |
| Gore says he's not going to run, which means that he is. | |
| What happened to all of this fear of Hillary Clinton? | |
| What happened to all of this notion that Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee? | |
| Greetings, my friends, and welcome back. | |
| Good to be back with you here, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, firmly ensconced here behind this, the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies and the Southern Command. | |
| Lot to discuss today. | |
| Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com. | |
| Well, Dingy Harry has spoken up, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Ethics reform, a higher minimum wage, and more money for stem cell research are the top items on the Senate agenda next year, according to Dingy Harry. | |
| He said this on Tuesday in an interview with the Associated Press. | |
| I've got a lot of news in the past couple of days I want to touch on, and we'll get to the Iraq situation. | |
| I think I've got it figured out over there what's happening now. | |
| I do. | |
| I think this Hadley memo that ended up in the New York Times, I think they wanted this leaked. | |
| There's no question that they wanted this. | |
| They wrote this for the New York Times. | |
| They wrote this thing to be leaked. | |
| They wrote this to get the impression out there this Maliki guy is not up to snuff. | |
| But the real reason for this, it goes back to something I said. | |
| It was either late last week or early this week. | |
| I'm not sure which, because the days are running together. | |
| But it had to be Monday because that was when we played the soundbite of the king of Jordan, King Abdullah, warning that there are three civil wars about to break out in the Middle East. | |
| And I said, so let them. | |
| You know, let the place just blow up. | |
| Let natural forces take place and then let the cookie crumbles as it crumbles and pick up the pieces afterwards because these things are going to have to happen one way or the other. | |
| We cannot stave this stuff off with diplomacy and solve the problem. | |
| These forces are inexorable and they are going to, something's going to burst. | |
| And I wouldn't be surprised if the end result of this is just let this place blow up, just let the natural forces there take place, and then Bush and Cheney can go in and claim the oil in Iraq after it's all done and maybe start building some condos and turn the place into a resort area after all of these factions have done away with each other that are causing all the violence. | |
| Bush is a much smarter guy than he is given credit for in all this. | |
| Anyway, we'll discuss this in greater detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today. | |
| Now, I'm going to be back to Dingy Harry because I can relate to this. | |
| And I'm thinking of joining Dingy Harry in this agenda that he has announced for the Senate, particularly the stem cell item or plank in the agenda. | |
| Dingy Harry said that he will tackle those priorities, higher minimum wage, ethics reform, and more money for stem cell research after cleaning up the financial mess that the outgoing Republican leadership has left. | |
| He was referring to nine long overdue appropriations bills covering 13 cabinet departments for the budget year that began October 1st. | |
| They're just leaving town, it appears, Reed said from his orifice in the Capitol. | |
| We hope it's not the case, but it appears that that's what they're going to do, and we're going to have to find a way to fund the government for the next year. | |
| Well, you guys are a bunch of liberal Democrats. | |
| That won't be a problem. | |
| I never worry about the government being funded, particularly when Democrats are in charge, but it doesn't matter. | |
| It'll always be, I don't care. | |
| It's a non-existent fear. | |
| The must-pass legislation totals more than $460 billion, promises to divert time and energy from other items on the Democrat agenda. | |
| So you see, Dingy Harry thinks that he's been snookered here. | |
| Dingy Harry thinks the Republicans are playing a dirty trick on him by leaving all these appropriations bills undone, and the Democrats are going to have to spend time doing that rather than getting to their agenda. | |
| But at any rate, Dingy Harry said that he hoped that the president will relent and see the light that stem cell research gives hope to Americans struggling with illnesses and injuries. | |
| He said the Senate is not even close to having a two-thirds vote necessary to override the president's veto, but he hopes some Republicans in the Senate will join the Democrats after losing the election this month, particularly on stem cell research. | |
| Now, as you know, supporters of such research say that it could lead to treatments and cures for a wide variety of ailments, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. | |
| Yes, we know this because the Democrats trotted out victims of all these diseases doing television commercials and campaign appearances in both 2004 and this past election. | |
| Even though there's no evidence that embryonic stem cell research in 30 years has led to anything, we can't deny people their hope. | |
| And so, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to, and I haven't called Senator Reed on this. | |
| In fact, I've still not heard back from Senator Reed or Speaker Pelosi my request to meet with them, as the president did, to discuss what we can do to make America unified again, how we can all get along, discuss with them the state of conservatism and its future and what they would suggest that we here in Talk Radio do to enhance America going forward. | |
| Despite the fact that my plea for a meeting has been ignored, I would like to offer today support to Senator Reed on his efforts at funding, federally funding embryonic stem cell research, because I heard something the other day, and it changes the whole equation for me. | |
| As you people know, I am deaf. | |
| I can't hear anything if I take off my cochlear implant. | |
| I mean 100% deaf. | |
| You know, when I tell people that, I have to say it two or three times, it doesn't, they think even deaf people can hear something. | |
| They look at my cochlear implant, and most of them think it's just a hearing aid. | |
| Some people think it's like a secret service communications tool, but it's, and nobody grasps that I am totally deaf when I take this off. | |
| I have to really tell them this. | |
| Now, I know what happened. | |
| My doctors told me what happened. | |
| I had an autoimmune attack. | |
| My immune system thought that the hair cells in my inner ear, about 40,000 in each ear, were a disease. | |
| And they flooded the white cells to destroy the hair cells, and it worked. | |
| The doctors tried to counter this with two chemotherapy drugs. | |
| I've not gone into detail about this before, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| But I was on, oh, I had to take prednisone, which is a steroid, and it is the worst, best drug. | |
| And I hated it. | |
| It affects people in all kinds of different ways. | |
| But I had to take two chemotherapy drugs. | |
| And the reason for that was the chemo drugs slow down and retard the immune system, and my immune system was out of control. | |
| But alas, nothing worked. | |
| Now, there is a cure. | |
| Doctors tell me that if there is a way to give birth once again to these hair cells that are lying down dead, if they can somehow be regenerated or made to grow and stand up again, then I would get my hearing back, at least in my right ear. | |
| In putting in the cochlear implant, I had to take the inner ear out. | |
| The doctors did in order to make room for the cochlear implant. | |
| So it's possible I could get my hearing back in my right ear. | |
| And so I stand to benefit from embryonic stem cell research, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| So I would like to say to Dingy Harry today that, and I want to put it bluntly, I don't want to leave anything misunderstood here. | |
| I support the notion of killing babies in the womb if it means I might be able to hear again. | |
| And I want Senator Reed to know that I am with him on this. | |
| I am dead, ladies and gentlemen, if it means I could hear. | |
| I don't want my hope denied. | |
| I do not want my hope denied. | |
| I want to hear like everybody else. | |
| I'm tired of being an invalid and I'm tired of being a victim. | |
| I'm tired of not being able to go certain places because I can't communicate with people. | |
| I'm tired of not being able to go to restaurants or large parties because I can't hear enough. | |
| I can hear it all. | |
| I just can't make out what people are saying to me because it's a cacophonous racket. | |
| I want to be able to hear again like normal people. | |
| And if it means, if the means to cure me is in the womb of a woman pregnant with a baby, then count me in with Senator Reed and the Democrats. | |
| Back after this, folks, stay with me. | |
| Have you seen the story that Walmart is predicting slim sales gains in December? | |
| Fourth quarter indications are that December sales at Walmart and a bunch of other places, despite lowering the prices on flat panel TVs and other items in a price war with Target, still not leading to, they could have increased sales, but it's going to be very slim, slim, slim, slim sales gain. | |
| This is good, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| After all, we want to destroy Walmart. | |
| We want all those jobs that they've created destroyed. | |
| We want all those health benefits eliminated. | |
| We want the low prices at Walmart to increase. | |
| We do not want consumers to be able to afford things in places like Walmart. | |
| We want the prices to rise so that these goods are either out of their reach or cause them to scrimp and save in other areas of life. | |
| And we, of course, want the unions and liberal politicians to get their wish of fewer jobs out there. | |
| We want the government to take over providing all these benefits to people, particularly now that liberals and Democrats have won the House and the Senate. | |
| We want them to get the credit for all of these glorious benefits that Walmart is providing. | |
| And we also need these declines at Walmart in sales and jobs and health benefits and low prices. | |
| We need all that to continue to happen so that the Democrats can keep feeding us these statistics about how there are no jobs. | |
| There's no health care benefits for millions of Americans. | |
| And the best way for that to occur is for Walmart to take it on the chin. | |
| So bad news, media can't wait to report bad news for Walmart. | |
| Everybody wants Walmart to go south. | |
| Have you heard about this? | |
| The young conservatives of Texas, University of Texas chapter at Austin, announced today that they will be displaying an ACLU nativity scene on the west wall of the University of Texas campus on December 4th and 5th, Monday and Tuesday. | |
| The group's intent is to raise awareness on the extremity of the ACLU and to bring light to its secular progressive efforts to remove Christmas from the public sphere. | |
| The display, the first of its kind in the nation, will feature characters that are quite a bit different than the standard nativity scene. | |
| Instead of Mary and Joseph, Gary and Joseph will be part of the nativity scene, Gary and Joseph, in order to symbolize ACLU support for homosexual marriage. | |
| And of course, there isn't a Jesus in the manger at all because that's religious and not allowed. | |
| The three wise men will be Lenin, Marx, and Stalin, because the founders of the ACLU were strident supporters of Soviet-style communism. | |
| The whole scene's a tongue-in-cheek way of showing that the many ways the ACLU and the far left are out of touch with the values of mainstream America. | |
| The ACLU nativity scene at the University of Texas will also display a terrorist shepherd and an angel in the form of Nancy Pelosi. | |
| And that'll be next Monday and Tuesday, December 4th and 5th. | |
| Eric in Parkville, Maryland. | |
| Hi, welcome to the EIB Network. | |
| Eric, great to have you with us. | |
| Hello, how are you? | |
| First, this is an honor. | |
| This is an honor. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| But there you go again. | |
| I tell you, you've got to stop this. | |
| You said that you want to kill the babies to save your hearing. | |
| Now, I hear all across America, I can just visualize it right now, a billion people are calling up Rush. | |
| They're calling you up to say, oh, no, silly, this isn't so. | |
| I'm never going to listen again. | |
| That's it. | |
| That's it. | |
| I'm done with you. | |
| They take you serious. | |
| I love it. | |
| Well, how do you know that I'm not? | |
| You know, this is about hope. | |
| I have learned a lot. | |
| I've learned a lot for the last campaign, for the last election. | |
| This is about hope. | |
| I hope to get my hearing back, too. | |
| And I don't care. | |
| People can tell me all day long that there's been no success in embryonic stem cell research. | |
| That doesn't matter to me. | |
| This is about my hope. | |
| And I, as a victim, cannot allow my hope to be squashed. | |
| That's right. | |
| It's not about logic. | |
| It's anyway, she makes feelings. | |
| It's about me. | |
| It's about feelings, and it's about me. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| I'm just trying to be honest here. | |
| Everybody else that's out there talking about the need for embryonic stem cell research doesn't have the guts to say it as I said it. | |
| If you want to come up with a cure for whatever you hope to cure, you've got to kill babies in the womb in order to do it. | |
| We need, you know, language has precise meanings. | |
| Words mean things. | |
| I've said this all of my career. | |
| And so I just, dingy Harry, I'm reaching out. | |
| I'm trying to show these people I understand that they've won, that they have the power, and I'm trying to help them. | |
| Rush, God bless you for what you do. | |
| Eric, thanks. | |
| Thanks for the call. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| Who is it? | |
| Ron in New Haven, Connecticut. | |
| Hi, Ron. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Dittos. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Hey, Rush, I want to point out three reasons why embryonic stem cells will not give you your hearing back. | |
| You can, but it won't matter to me because about my hope. | |
| Well, but you need to have self-knowledge. | |
| And here's reason number one. | |
| You have already shown, it's already been proven to you that your immune system is powerful, too powerful to be suppressed by immune-suppressing drugs. | |
| And therefore, if you introduce embryonic stem cell research, which has genetic composition other than your own, your immune system will simply defeat the whole process. | |
| Your immune system will destroy those embryonic stem cells. | |
| It might work. | |
| If I keep trying it, it might work. | |
| We might come up with a way to defeat my immune system. | |
| I will not be denied my hope. | |
| Rush, you have to take all kinds of immune drugs. | |
| But The second thing is that research has demonstrated there's only been one human trial ever in embryonic stem cells, and that trial had to be discontinued because all it produced was precancerous tumors. | |
| I'm willing to take the risk because I want my hope. | |
| Well, Rush, if you really want hope, you've got to try adult stem cells. | |
| They're taken from your own body. | |
| They have your own genetic complex. | |
| And therefore, the immune system is objected to them. | |
| Why do that? | |
| We already know that works. | |
| I have hope that what doesn't work will work someday. | |
| I will not have my hope destroyed. | |
| Okay, okay. | |
| Rush, there's one other thing, too. | |
| The embryonic stem cells, if an embryonic stem cell ever did pass muster, then you'd find it in, you know, you'd find it in your hospital pharmacy or on your drugstore shelf, and it would be able to be mass-produced, and there would be a large market for it. | |
| Whereas adult stem cells would be taken from your body in a painstakingly careful procedure and would be of no use to anybody except you. | |
| What is really going on is that embryonic stem cells would be very profitable, whereas adult stem cells, which would help you quite likely, adult stem cells would not be profitable on the scale of something that you could put in a drugstore and market and advertise. | |
| So that's one reason why, but you're being misled. | |
| Adult stem cells hold the promise that you're hoping for. | |
| Of course, I'm being misled, but I have hope. | |
| I mean, all kinds of people try to mislead me every day, but I'm not going to let people who mislead me and tell me things that are not true destroy my hope. | |
| And I'm glad that Senator Reed understands this. | |
| Senator Reed understands millions of Americans have hope. | |
| And they have hope in something that has never shown any possibility of success. | |
| But that hope must thrive. | |
| That hope must survive. | |
| That is what propels these people to continue to live. | |
| Otherwise, why put up with it all? | |
| Why put up with the disabilities, the discomfort, the crippling effects of some of these horrible diseases? | |
| Without hope, where would any of us be? | |
| And if there's hope in something that's never worked and people still have hope in it, then that hope shall not be suppressed. | |
| And I think Dingy Harry and the Democrats need to be applauded here for understanding what's important in all this. | |
| It's not the babies in the womb that are killed. | |
| It's the hope of victims all over this country that the Democrats hope to marshal and promote and convert to support that will never wane and never die. | |
| And all I'm saying is to Dingy Harry that I want to help him articulate what he is suggesting. | |
| We are talking here about killing babies in the womb so that other Americans can have hope. | |
| I'm not going to beat around a bush like Michael J. Fox did. | |
| I'm putting it out there and explaining it exactly as it is and offering my assistance to Harry Reid in selling it to the American people. | |
| America's real anchorman serving humanity, not by going to Africa and visiting the diamond mines as Russell Thimmons did. | |
| I serve humanity by showing up here every day. | |
| 800-282-2882 is the phone number if you want to be on the program. | |
| Mr. Snerdley is doing call screening today. | |
| Chief of Staff HR is out on vacation. | |
| So if those of you calling, I just want you to snerdley has a, you got to get in, get it, and get out. | |
| HR will argue with you and massage your point and tell you how to say it to get on the air, not change your mind about something, but just how to focus. | |
| If you don't call focused, Snerdley moves on to the next call. | |
| Pretty good way of putting it. | |
| He's agreeing with me. | |
| I knew I was right about it at all. | |
| But it is the way to do it. | |
| What? | |
| We have. | |
| Say that again. | |
| I didn't hear what you said. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, but oh, poster child for cloning. | |
| He had caller says, I'm the poster child for cloning. | |
| Why don't I bring that clone? | |
| Oh, God. | |
| I don't know if I died. | |
| I might draw the line at cloning. | |
| You know, it depends on whether Democrats come out in favor of it. | |
| If Dingy Harry's in favor of cloning, if it becomes part of their agenda, you can count on the fact that I'll be there. | |
| You know, in fact, I'm beginning to wonder, I'm doing everything I can here to meet with Reed and Pelosi, and I think maybe they just discriminate against the deaf. | |
| I don't think other people would have problems getting a meeting with Dingy Harry or Nancy Pelosi, but I've made repeated calls here on this program for such a meeting to discuss with them, much as the president did, the future of the country. | |
| I do have, because I've invested wisely, I do have a lot of land here in Florida. | |
| Maybe if I offered to swap some land for a meeting, that I could get in to see Dingy Harry that way. | |
| How about this letter that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent to the American people? | |
| In an open letter, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the American people to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and reject what he called the U.S. government's blind support for Israel and its illegal and immoral actions in fighting terrorism. | |
| The letter to, quote, noble Americans, unquote, distributed by the U.N. mission for Iran, denounced President Bush's policies in the Middle East and U.S. practices in the war on terror. | |
| He appealed to the American people to work to reverse them and called on the Bush administration and the new Democratic Control Congress to heed the results of the recent midterm elections. | |
| Undoubtedly, the American people are not satisfied with his behavior, and they showed their discontent in the recent elections, Ahmadinejad wrote. | |
| And I hope that in the wake of the midterm elections, the administration of President Bush will have heard and will heed the message of the American people. | |
| In a message to Democrats, Ahmadinejad said, you will also be held to account by the people and by history. | |
| If the U.S. government meets the current domestic and external challenges with an approach based on truth and justice, it can remedy some of the past afflictions and alleviate some of the global resentment and hatred of America. | |
| Now, I read this and I'm wondering what Democrat wrote this letter for him. | |
| You know, they had to throw in the stuff there about Democrats to be held accountable in order to throw everybody off. | |
| But this sounds like it could have been written by anybody from John Kerry to Jack Murtha to Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reed. | |
| It's uncanny. | |
| You know, folks, I'm going to tell you something. | |
| This whole war on terror and the whole war at Iraq and all of this, the festering blisters that are oozing pus in the Middle East. | |
| I think something seriously wrong has taken place here, seriously unfortunate. | |
| And that is we are refusing to understand the enemy. | |
| We refuse to understand them. | |
| And in the process of refusing to understand them, we seal our own doom. | |
| We seal our own defeat. | |
| We attempt, just like with animals, you know, we humanize animals. | |
| All these, like the penguin movie out there, and pets. | |
| We humanize them. | |
| We want them to be like us. | |
| And we're doing the same thing here with militant Islamists and al-Qaeda terrorists. | |
| We don't want to believe they're who they are. | |
| We don't want to believe that they have an objective that seeks our being wiped out. | |
| So we want to try to make them like us. | |
| And so we get all of these silly pronouncements by people like Colin Powell, who's out there saying we need to talk to these people. | |
| We need to talk to our enemies. | |
| Has this man forgotten he was in the United States government for 20 years and had a chance to do just that? | |
| You know, this is all for self-aggrandizement. | |
| Powell and Carter and all these Clinton, all these people traveling the world saying America is the problem. | |
| We can't get along with people unless we sit down and talk to them. | |
| It is a total abandoning of any attempt to understand who the enemy is and in fact replace the enemy with us. | |
| It's our fault. | |
| We have somehow done something to irritate or agitate these people. | |
| Until we sit down and talk to them, they won't really understand us. | |
| The objective in any conflict like this is to have your enemy fear you. | |
| They are mocking us. | |
| This letter from Ahmad Dinejad is full of mocking. | |
| These people have to be laughing themselves silly wherever they are as they listen to what former prominent Americans happen to be saying around the world, led now by Colin Powell. | |
| It is, it's, frankly, it frustrates me, and maybe even a little bit more than that. | |
| All of this is being done for self-aggrandizement. | |
| All of this is being done to impress the media so that these people's personal legacies will shine and triumph rather than understanding exactly what it is and who that we face in terms of the enemy. | |
| If you're not going to recognize who the enemy is, and if you're not going to assign the proper definitions to them, then you don't have any hope. | |
| And in the process, what is happening? | |
| Let me take this story here about the six Imams on the airplane. | |
| Air marshals, pilots, security officials, now this is a story from yesterday, so a couple days ago, expressed concern that airline passengers and crews will be reluctant to report suspicious behavior aboard an aircraft for fear of being called racists after several Muslim Imams made that charge in a press conference on Monday at Ronaldus Magnus Washington National Airport. | |
| Six Imams or Muslim holy men accused a U.S. Airways flight crew of inappropriately evicting them from a flight last week in Minneapolis after several passengers said that the Imams tried to intimidate them by loudly praying and moving around the airplane. | |
| The Imams urged Congress to enact laws to prohibit ethnic and religious profiling. | |
| Now, the federal air marshals and others yesterday said, forget this. | |
| Stay vigilant to these threats. | |
| The crew and passengers act as our additional eyes and ears on every flight, said a federal air marshal in Vegas. | |
| If crew and passengers are afraid of reporting suspicious individuals out of fear of being labeled a racist or bigot, then terrorists will certainly use those fears to their advantage in future aviation attacks. | |
| Now, it's clear that what happened on this airplane was a stunt, and it has worked to the benefit of care and the Muslim people. | |
| But you know what they did? | |
| They got on the airplane and they had their assigned seats. | |
| Then they began praying and then they moved to where they had the whole airplane covered. | |
| Two of them in the front, two in the middle, two in the back. | |
| Exactly the kind of things people reported having occurred on other aircraft that have been hijacked. | |
| Now, what are we supposed to do after 9-11? | |
| Just sit around and not report this. | |
| Yes, that's exactly what we're supposed to do. | |
| Because we're not allowed to offend these people. | |
| We're not to be racist or bigots, and everybody's being cowed by political correctness into shutting up. | |
| Thank God the people on this airplane did not. | |
| These imams were removed because of their provocative actions and nothing more. | |
| And they should have been removed. | |
| And if they do it again, they should be removed again, even though this, to me, was an obvious stunt. | |
| There's nothing else that explains their behavior here. | |
| And the immediate media attention that followed. | |
| I mean, who was terrorizing whom here? | |
| These people on that plane were being terrorized, and the people who were doing the terrorizing knew it. | |
| Whether it was a stunt, whether it was practice, who knows what it was, doesn't matter. | |
| And I'm, for one, I'm glad that the air marshals are speaking up. | |
| But let me tell you what's at stake here. | |
| Victor Davis Hansen has written a great piece about this in Iran at Opinion Journal. | |
| The Wall Street Journal, and I've got it somewhere in the stack here. | |
| But, you know, some of the guardrails that have always kept Western civilization intact are starting to be torn down. | |
| Western civilization, in fact, I think the most recent coordinated attack on Western Civ took place at University of California, Berkeley. | |
| UC Davis, 20, 30 years ago, remember the chant, ho, ho, ho, Western Civ's got to go. | |
| So they tried to get rid of the Western Civil. | |
| And Jesse Jackson was behind it at that time. | |
| The multiculturalists were. | |
| But I forgot, I was reading something on the airplane about Thanksgiving, and some idiot college student said, I'm not interested in celebrating Thanksgiving because all that symbolizes the arrival of the white man who displaced Native Americans here and destroyed this country and brought with them racism, sexism, environmentalism, all this stuff, environmental destruction. | |
| People believe this stuff, believe their country is guilty. | |
| And in the process, they come to believe or can be persuaded that it's Western civilization and Western cultures that are to blame for all this. | |
| So any group that can get itself proclaimed an accredited minority, religious or otherwise, can come in and run roughshod. | |
| And that is precisely what's happening. | |
| And that's, I think, illustrated to the T in this letter from Ahmadinejad. | |
| I mean, this is absurd, especially with what we have just learned about who it is that's providing weapons and personnel to keep the fires of the insurgency and terrorists being stoked in Iraq. | |
| It's coming right out of Iran, and everybody knows this. | |
| And yet, what was the response from the United States? | |
| The response from the United States State Department was, this is an obvious publicity stunt. | |
| Hours after Iran's president wrote to Americans attacking their government's foreign policy and urging their troops leave Iraq, a U.S. State Department spokesman dismissed the move as a ploy. | |
| Clearly, this is something of, again, a public relations stunt or public relations gesture, said Tom Casey of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter. | |
| Casey said, but again, actions speak louder than words. | |
| And I think if you look at the record of Iranian action, we unfortunately haven't seen any change in behavior that would indicate that they've got a new approach to things. | |
| We're going to sit around and expect them to change because we want them to? | |
| They don't fear us. | |
| They're laughing at us. | |
| And when your reaction to this letter is, aha, it's just an obvious publicity stunt. | |
| Well, where's our PR around the world? | |
| Remember, our PR stinks. | |
| America is hated all over the world. | |
| And there are people who have great joy saying that. | |
| And they take great solace and great comfort in saying it. | |
| And there's a lot at stake here. | |
| I mean, you look at how militant Islam is establishing Sharia courts in Great Britain. | |
| Have you heard about this? | |
| The Muslims in Great Britain are establishing their own court system with the approval of the British government. | |
| So if a crime occurs involving a Muslim, then you go to this Muslim court and have it exonerated and dealt with there. | |
| And part of the process is to make sure the victim doesn't press charges in the overall greater UK court system and the problem is dealt with, then, of course, nothing ever happens. | |
| And I would bet you that a vast majority of people in this country aren't even aware of what Sharia law is or how it is being spread throughout the world by a minority religion, suffering oppression at the hands of powerful Western nations and so forth. | |
| But it's a serious problem. | |
| We are so affluent, so fat, dumb, and happy, we don't want to confront who the enemy really is. | |
| We don't want to confront the world situation as it really exists. | |
| We just want to rewind it. | |
| We want to TiVo it back to some earlier time in American history and pretend none of this is happening and we think we can get away that we can't. | |
| Back in just a sec. | |
| Mr. Snerdley tells me he's getting a lot of calls. | |
| Some people want to know where I was the past two days. | |
| I can't tell you. | |
| I couldn't tell you before. | |
| I can't tell you now. | |
| If I couldn't tell you before, how could I tell you now? | |
| It's no big deal, folks. | |
| It's just people do not understand with the acquisition of fame that has accrued to me. | |
| I have privacy concerns that you can't possibly understand. | |
| And I want as much privacy as I can get. | |
| I don't get very much. | |
| And I just try to keep some things close to the vest. | |
| All kinds of people are emailing me and guessing. | |
| No, I didn't go shoot a cameo for 24. | |
| Is that what you? | |
| I can understand your curiosity. | |
| If I were you, I'd be very curious too. | |
| That's the point. | |
| Everybody wants to know everything about me. | |
| And I don't know that there's one. | |
| Well, I shouldn't go this far, but I don't think people can understand. | |
| Imagine every aspect of your private life being hunted down and being brought all the warts and everything. | |
| I dare say that none of you have that desire ever as you were growing up. | |
| You might have thought fame, oh, that'd be cool. | |
| Why else would people go on Jerry Springer? | |
| Why would people want their 15 minutes of fame? | |
| But it ain't what you think it is. | |
| And I'm just some things that I want to try to keep private. | |
| I don't succeed very much in that, folks. | |
| So please understand here. | |
| I'm obsessed with hope for my deafness today. | |
| Privacy concerns after the fact. | |
| Damn right. | |
| There were other people involved in what I did the past two days. | |
| I don't live in a vacuum. | |
| I don't live in a vacuum. | |
| There are other people involved. | |
| Nobody is going to ever understand this. | |
| I live a life of solitude. | |
| I just, I'm alone. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know anybody that can relate to my life as I live it. | |
| So I have to absorb all this stuff alone. | |
| And the minute, if I do try to talk to people, oh, come on, you knew this was the bargain. | |
| So there's no attempt to relate or understand to it. | |
| So I've tried, and it just people don't get it. | |
| They don't understand it. | |
| And so when I have a few guarded moments of privacy, what I call normalcy, I access them, and that's it. | |
| There's some instances, yeah, I've mentioned where I've been after I got back, but not this time. | |
| ABC News has an exclusive, although this doesn't surprise me. | |
| U.S. officials say they have found smoking gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq. | |
| Brand new weapons, fresh from Iranian factories. | |
| According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006. | |
| This suggests the material going directly from Iranian factories to the Shia militias rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. | |
| There's no way this could be done without the Iranian government's approval. | |
| Of course not. | |
| Of course not. | |
| And it just dovetails with we refuse to realize who our enemy are, our enemy is, and we refuse to see them as they are. | |
| A little bit more on Mahmoud Ahmadinezad's letter and what it really means. |
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