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Dec. 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 4, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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I tell you, folks, I don't know what to believe anymore.
Seems like every week, and I mean every week, maybe it's every month.
It just happens so often, it seems like it's every week.
We hear stories about suffering, dying, hunger, starvation in Africa.
I mean, it's a problem that has no solution.
We're constantly being told by people like Sally Struthers to just give.
I can remember when I was growing up when they indoctrinated me in the UNICEF program.
You know, the United Nations Children's Fund.
That's where they get you.
That's where they get you like in a UN when you're in grade school.
Just bring a couple pennies home, kids, from your dad's stash on the nightstand.
We'll send it to the UN, and for just pennies a day, thousands of Africans can eat.
So everybody starts, you know, that's how they rope in on the goodness of the UN.
For my whole life, I've been hearing about that.
I grow up, I get up the other day, and I start checking the news.
This is last, it was actually Wednesday of last week.
Africa faces a growing obesity problem.
I said, what the hell?
How can this be?
Africa, a continent usually synonymous with hunger, is falling prey to obesity.
It is a trend driven by new lifestyles and old beliefs that big is beautiful.
Ask Nodo N'jobo, a plump hairdressing assistant.
She's coy about her weight, but like many African women, proud of her big bum.
She says she'd like to be slimmer, but worries how her friends would react.
Here, if you lose a lot of weight, people automatically think you have TB or AIDS.
It's not like in America and Europe where you go on a diet to lose weight, N'Jobo said.
More than one-third of African women and a quarter of African men are estimated to be overweight, said the World Health Organization.
And they predict that that'll rise to 41% and 30% respectively in the next decade.
We've gone from undernutrition to overnutrition without ever having passed healthy nutrition.
They just zipped right by healthy, said Chrislla Stein, the retired director of the South African Medical Research Council's Chronic Disease and Lifestyle Unit.
In a surprising finding, by the way, the poorest are often the most vulnerable.
Women and children hardest hit, women and minorities hardest hit, so it's not a surprise.
I just, I. They're blaming growing urbanization has led to less walking and other exercise, and the spread of television has led to a generation of couch potatoes rather than athletes.
So I'm going to tell you, I mean, the next time I hear one of these pleas for food for starving people in Africa, I'm going to be confused.
Are they starving or are they fat slobs like we here in America are?
And if I give money for starvation in Africa, am I going to contribute to the couch potato problem over there?
No-swipe credit cards that use radio waves to relay their data put consumers at increased risk of identity theft, said Senator Chuck Schumer, who's an expert in this, by the way.
These cards may be convenient, but they're a double-edged sword, said Humer.
Tens of millions of no-swipe credit cards have been issued in the past year when a customer uses the no-swipe credit card to make a purchase.
The card is processed by a radio frequency identification reader operated by the retailer.
Schumer said that thieves can equip themselves with the radio frequency readers to steal information from the credit cards, which are being marketed heavily as time savers.
Well, if anybody should know about swiping credit card information, it would be Schumer.
Ask Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele of the state of Maryland, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, found a way to swipe his credit rating and his credit information, his credit card data, and they were going to publicize this or use it to blackmail him.
If somebody found out about it, there was no demand for an apology or anything.
They just got rid of the person who was behind it as though Schumer had no knowledge of it whatsoever.
But I'm going to tell you, if you're worried about no-swipe credit cards, you need to worry about the Senatorial Campaign Committee on the Democrat side because they are a bigger risk when it comes to stealing your credit card info than any of these swipe machines are.
Which takes us to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, hunted for votes among churchgoers yesterday as he headed into the final week of a campaign to hold onto his seat and salvage his political fortunes, which means his personal fortunes.
FBI raids on his homes and his congressional orifice, including allegations in an FBI affidavit that he hid 90 grand, 90 Gs, in bribe money in a freezer, have left Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana vulnerable for the first time since he won his seat in 1990.
In the November 7th open multi-party primary, three days from today.
Oh, I'm talking, the election is coming up.
Last month, he netted 30% of the vote, considered a poor showing for an incumbent.
Now, in Saturday's runoff, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, faces a stiff challenge from State Representative Karen Carter, a Democrat and well-financed, energetic lawyer, hoping to become the first black female from Louisiana to ever hold a seat in Congress, the runoff, one of the nation's last unresolved elections.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, 59, has tried to soften voters' opinions of his legal troubles, invoking stories about how he has turned to God in these difficult times.
He has also cast Carter, his opponent in attack ads, as a socially liberal Democrat.
Congressman William Jefferson, in good standing with the Congressional Black Caucus, calls a black female a social liberal Democrat who supports same-sex marriage and late-term abortion.
So his message is, look, I may be a crook, but she's a liberal.
And airport officials said Friday that they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of Imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a U.S. Airways flight last week.
Steve Wareham, director of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said other airports have meditation rooms used for prayers or by passengers who simply need quiet time.
A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials on Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer.
But that's not the objective.
We want to see them.
Don't hide them out there.
Devout Muslims pray five times daily facing the holy city of Mecca.
Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, said, we are users of the airport too, and we don't want to get into a situation where Muslims feel we're being marginalized at the airport.
Well, then denounce your brothers who use the airplanes as bombs.
Or, you know, play practical jokes designed to scare travelers when they get on the airplanes.
Maybe you can put them in with the smokers.
Don't smokers have their own little rooms at airports?
They used they don't anymore?
Most airports have banned the segregated smoking rooms.
When did that happen?
Last few years.
Well, that would have been a perfect place for prayer.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Okay, Phil Collins, great to hear something happened on the way to Bathroom.
To the phone, Sonia in Houston.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yes, hello, Raj.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
Today I want to talk about Abdul Hakim al-Aziz's visit to the White House.
And I want just to say that this is very important and dangerous because this guy represents only the interest of Iran and not the Iraqi people.
Just a few days ago, when Kofi Annan called for an international conference about Iraq, Ahmadi Najad and al-Hakim both rejected that.
Why?
Because Najad wants to use Iraq as a leverage when negotiating his nuclear facility.
So I think there should be more moderate people.
Well, then, why do you suspect?
Let me give the audience a heads up on this.
They may not be quite as informed as are you on this.
You sound very passionate about it.
She's talking about Abdulaziz al-Hakim.
His party runs a Shiite militia in Iraq.
People are very much afraid of his militia.
And he's backed by Iran.
Yes.
And he's meeting President Bush on Saturday.
He rejected Kofi Annan's suggestion to hold an international conference on Iraq.
Abdulaziz al-Hakim said it's unreasonable or incorrect to discuss issues related to the Iraqi people at international conferences.
The proposal is unrealistic, incorrect, and illegal.
He said this at a news conference in Amma.
Why do you think President Bush is meeting with this guy?
Well, we really don't know because unless he is because al-Hakim was living in Iran for more than 20 years, this is where he established his militia and this is where and who finances it.
And this is why maybe he's trying to come in between or, you know, just trying to do something about putting the Iraqi issue only in Iran's hands.
Everybody knows how much Iran has been interfering in the Iraqi.
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
No, they.
I mean, I wish.
Oh, no, no, no.
No, you do.
And a lot of people, but most people in this country don't.
You have to understand.
Well, it's a combination of the, it's not really a combination.
It's a simple fact that the mainstream media in this country is not going to tell people who's really stirring the pot in Iraq.
It is Iran.
That's what's so confusing to so many of us when the Baker boys are suggesting that we talk to Iran about how to solve the problems.
They are the problems, causers.
They are one of the reasons.
Abdel Aziz el-Hakim is one of the basic reasons I don't think he can control the violence by introducing Iran only.
And if they say that we cannot introduce all the other major countries, well, it is international.
There is an international coalition there.
So why not invite all the other countries surrounding Iraq, plus European countries, and let everybody say their say because everybody you're talking about wants us to get our butts kicked.
European Union wants us to lose.
The Arab nations over in the region want us to lose.
There's no effort.
There's no desire for us to win this thing.
There's no desire on the part of these people that you're discussing for us to win or look good because our definition of victory is an independent, functioning, democratic Iraq.
Nobody, nobody wants that in the region.
And the European Union doesn't want it because they hate George W. Bush and they hate this country and they don't want any success whatsoever.
Here's the real irony, if you will, Sonia.
And it frustrates many people.
And I will raise my hand as being one of those who are frustrated.
To win in Iraq, we're going to have to deal with Iran.
They have to.
That's where this is all coming from.
Or the vast majority of Syria as well.
But, you know, they're a stepchild to the Iranians.
As long as Iran is untouched, as long as Iran is not dealt with upfront and properly, as long as we're not going to recognize who the enemy is, as long as we are not going to, not only in Iraq, but I mean elsewhere, if we're not going to recognize who the enemy is and what they're capable of, if we're going to engage in this silly notion, all we have to do is talk, and we can make these people just like us and understand us and go along with us.
It's silly.
It's not the way of the world.
It is, I mean, hell, Ahmadinejad out there once again over the weekend predicting the demise of Israel and the phony regime there, the artificial regime.
As long as we put that off, dealing with the problem.
For example, everybody said, well, we got to get in there and we're going to clean Baghdad out.
You can't clean Baghdad out without making sure the pipeline from Iran's shut down.
It's just that simple.
And if there's no will or willingness to do that, we can talk all day long and we can come to a negotiated settlement and we can come to a diplomatic solution, which is going to equal our humiliating defeat, which is what that region wants.
Maybe the Saudis don't.
I know the Saudis, there are people over there afraid of Iran, but there's nothing, nobody over there can do anything about it.
And Europeans aren't going to do anything about it.
They never do.
Sonia, thanks for the call.
Chris in Newark, Delaware.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, everyone.
Thank you in the call.
I'm a frequent listener, and the question I want to make is this.
I listen a lot, and I feel like you unfairly depict liberals as being anti-American.
And I want to note that I think there's a difference between being anti-government policy, and, you know, then there's a difference between that and being anti-American itself.
Well, there might be to you.
And you may not be among the liberals I'm talking about.
I don't mean to make it a blanket statement, but I could, if I had time, I could go to a couple liberal websites, and I'd give you more evidence that you could possibly consume that there are people who don't just hate policy.
They hate this country, and they blame us for the evils in the Middle East and what we're doing.
And they're invested in our defeat and our humiliation.
In times of war, I call that anti-Americanism.
I don't call it patriotism.
I know people like to hide behind the refuge that dissent is terrific.
Dissent is what this country was built on and so forth.
You know, and that's a little umbrella that's supposed to provide cover for the new definition of patriotism.
But when you're undermining the war effort, not you personally, when people are undermining the war effort, undermining the morale of the troops, investing in securing our defeat, attempting to put our prisoners on trial for war crimes, for torture, and this sort of thing, that to me is anti-American.
It's nothing else.
Well, I guess I would just have to.
I mean, in the context of war, I can see what you're saying, but I feel like sometimes.
Well, give me an example.
Let's see if I can explain.
Can you think of one?
Well, I mean, even today you were saying, you know, well, I guess you've already said that you didn't mean to make it a blanket statement to begin with.
But I still feel sometimes that there are ideas are grafted together that don't deserve to be.
For example, for example, like, I don't support the war, but I do support the troops, and I support the military, and I think there's nothing more honorable than being a soldier.
But, you know, it doesn't mean that I think that the war is a good war.
You know, you may, you personally may think that you support the troops, but don't support the war.
Most of the people who say that do not support the troops.
Supporting the troops is supporting the mission, not undermining it and not destroying their morale, not portraying them as rapists and murderers, comparing them to Pol Pots, Soviet gulags, and the worst kind of torturers you can imagine, from Senator Kennedy to Jay Rockefeller to Dick Durbin.
That has been done.
That's not supporting the troops.
They come up with another myth.
I support the troops.
I want to make them safe.
I support the troops.
I want to bring them home.
That's not supporting the troops.
The troops volunteered.
The troops are there because they're defending and protecting the country.
That's what they honestly believe.
I've spoken to them.
That's their mission.
War is not about safety.
War is not about being protected from the enemy in the sense that liberals are talking about it.
This whole notion of supporting the troops long ago ceased to be persuasive with me when it's announced as a policy.
You cannot seek the defeat of your own country in a war and say you support the troops.
Sorry, not going to fly here.
Thanks and welcome back.
Well, they had the big birthday celebration for Fidel Castro last week, all last week in Cuba.
He wasn't there, never showed up.
But this is, again, leading to speculation that Castro's on his deathbed or is already in the ground.
That theory may not hold up because they're still building the mausoleum in the San Something Mountains.
I forget the name of the mountains, the highest peaks in these mountains.
Castro loved going there as a kid.
They're building some secret mausoleum up there.
But it appears that Castro's final days on Earth are near.
And as such, Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro, departing from his brother's confrontational approach, said this weekend he was open for talks with Washington.
The offer was made on Saturday.
The most direct overture to the United States by Castro's designated successor, running Cuba in the absence of its ailing, supreme, exalted leader.
Experts on Cuba said that the Western Hemisphere's only communist country needs to get the United States to lift the embargo in force since 1962 if it wants to revitalize its battered economy.
Can I put the myth to that?
I mean, I'd love for this embargo to end because I love punch double coronas.
In fact, why don't I stand for it?
You know what?
I'm already getting selfish.
I'm all for embryonic stem cell research so I can hear, end the Cuban embargo so I can buy punch double coronas.
Just go all selfish on you all the time here.
But look at this myth that the Cuban economy is in failing health because of our embargo.
They trade with everybody else.
They trade with Canada.
They trade with Hugo Chavez.
By the way, if that's not becoming a communist nation, I don't know what is.
At any rate, they trade with the U.K.
I mean, the Cubans trade with everybody.
It's not that our embargo is preventing it.
It's communism.
And once again, the U.S. gets blamed for the lack of economic prosperity and health in Cuba when, in fact, it's communism that does it.
The only, I mean, I would love for this embargo to be lifted anyway for purely selfish reasons.
Plus, we've had embargoes, you know, with the Vietnamese.
We lifted those.
We've had sanctions when we, well, we traded with the Soviets when we were Cold War with them.
And the same thing with the Chikoms.
This thing is, you know, it's a Kennedy legacy thing more than anything else.
Plus the local politics involved with the Florida, the Cuba exile community down in Miami and South Florida.
They're a powerful bunch.
But if that embargo ever gets lifted, it's going to be fun to watch.
Because the exile community in Cuba, the first thing they're going to demand is their land back.
I mean, it was taken from them illegally, and they're going to want to go back to where their families lived and just take it.
Well, that's going to be hard to do.
And then they're going to have to buy it.
Then they're going to want to be compensated for the loss.
In the case of cigars, I know you cigar smokers constantly wonder what will happen if the Cuban embargo is lifted.
Well, let me tell you what will happen.
I'll tell you, the first thing that's going to happen is that you're not going to get Cuban cigars the next day.
What's going to happen is that all of the companies in the United States and elsewhere that market cigars and have marketed to the United States created brands, some of them identical names, such as those in Cuba, from Partigus to Punch to Cohiba, Hoyo de Monterey, all the big ones.
You can find those in this country manufactured in Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic or what have you.
And those guys are going to say, wait a minute, you just can't start bringing in these Cuban Cohibas.
I own that brand in this market.
But before they even do that, you know what I think will happen?
I think they'll make dibs on the raw Cuban tobacco.
They're going to say, wait a minute, why should all, why are we sitting around?
We've developed the U.S. market when there was no Cuban product legally allowed in here.
And now all of a sudden you're going to flood the market with Cuba.
No way.
We want raw Cuban seed and tobacco to blend with our cigars.
They're going to be the first guys to the commerce department.
It's not going to be as simple as you think.
Same thing with Cuban rum, which is reputed to be the best in the world.
Havana Club.
I mean, I saw there was a story on television.
One of the local newscasts down here.
No, it couldn't have been locals.
I never watch them.
Had to be CNN or something.
How about Cuban Havana Club rum is the best rum on the face of the earth?
And you can get it in the Bahamas.
You can get it everywhere.
You can't get it here.
Cuban coffee, supposed to be the best coffee in the world.
This is all said because you can't get it.
And so what you can't get is reputedly the best.
I frankly think the best rum in the world is from Haiti.
And nobody believes me when I tell them.
It's called Barbancourt.
Snurdly's looking at me like I'm wacko.
But it's a dark rum and it's delicious.
At any rate, it's going to be a zoo if this embargo is ever lifted.
But I think we're occupied other places, ladies and gentlemen, to be worried about little Raoul Castro and his outreach here.
I wouldn't expect this to be dealt with seriously for a long time, if ever, precisely because of the power of the voting bloc of the Cuban exile community that lives in this country.
McLean, Virginia, and Debbie, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Greetings, Rush, from my widows from Liberal Northern Virginia.
I'm from a Rush Baby.
Well, terrific.
I'm glad to have you on the program.
All right.
Thank you.
My brother brought you home from college in the early 90s, and my family's been the better for it ever since.
Like you, I have hope that.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I've never been to college in Virginia.
I've never.
You mean that?
Sometimes I take people literally.
Yeah.
Well, I'm just, I was being, I learned illustration absurdity by being absurd by listening diligently to you.
So, like you, I hope that embryonic stem cell research will lead to the cure for my affliction of ADHD.
But you might have to keep up with me because my focus goes very quickly, you know, the pain and suffering me and my family go through.
I can totally understand your plight.
And I don't think you should ever have to give up your hope.
Well, who knows?
With embryonic stem cell research, we may, you know, humans may get the ability to fly, and then we don't rely on big oil or airplanes or anything.
Look at that.
So as long as we have hope, that's what's important.
But the reason I'm calling is that I seem to recall when I was be taught that when Reagan had his landslide in the returns, me and my family seemed to recall that the Republican colors were represented by blue and the Democrats were red.
And I was just wondering why the, you know, how or when the liberal media hijacked my favorite color blue to be a liberal color.
I wondered about, I still don't know the reason for this.
I wondered how in the hell we conservatives became denoted by red.
That's a commie color.
It is.
The liberals have always been red.
Red China.
The Soviet Red Army.
Everybody's known what this means.
Like you, I never cared enough about it, though, to research it, but I thought it was a trick.
I thought it was a trick to make everybody who casually listens think that when they saw these maps that red still equaled to Democrats.
And just like, you know, Republicans are supposed to be blue bloods, right?
So, hello.
Well, hopefully, hopefully not anymore.
I mean, blue bloods, that's not a good thing to be.
Blue blood basically is a slothful, inherited, rich person who starts sipping cocktails about three in the afternoon before go playing polo.
I had actually another leftover from Open Line Friday.
I was just wondering why, I mean, being in this area, I was born and raised a Redskin fan.
So, number one, Redskin, number two, Steelers, number three, anyone playing fast.
I'm just wondering, why is Bill Parcels called the big tuna?
Well, it has nothing to do with the fact that he likes tuna.
Okay.
It doesn't.
It doesn't.
It's just.
In fact, I knew this once, and I'm going to take a stab at my memory.
It just means the head honcho.
It just means he's the big kahuna, the big tuna.
And I don't know if he named it.
I don't think he named himself.
I think the press, the New York sports media, gave him this name.
It could have been a player.
I really don't recall.
All I know is that does Parcells look like a guy who eats tuna fish, dude?
No.
He does not eat tuna.
I had dinner with Parcells once at a golf tournament down up at the Flavoridian up there near Port St. Lucie, not in Port St. Lucie, but close to it.
He didn't request tuna.
So this was during the period of time he was doing the dance shortly after he'd done the dance with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers about becoming their head coach.
Debbie, thanks for the call very much.
I appreciate it.
John in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Hello.
Mr. Rush, don't you think you're being a hypocrite when you don't want the Iraqis to decide the problems for themselves, especially since Abraham Lincoln took two generals named Lincoln and Sherman, who were responsible for the deaths of 59,000 Southern people, and since you hate Confederate heritage that much, don't you think that we should allow the people of Iraq to decide their own fate?
I hate Confederate heritage.
No kidding.
Really?
On the basis of what do you say that?
Okay, allow me to quote you from 2001.
The American Civil War was the first conflict in human history to set a people free from the bondage of slavery.
Your quote, sir.
Yeah?
And that's not that what you're doing.
Well, the point is that we fought.
We fought.
We're going to have this argument.
Yes, sir, we are if you've got the nerve to hold it.
I'll have this argument with you anytime you want.
I've been hearing from you guys since I started this show.
I know it's about states' rights.
It was about freedom.
It was about independence.
But it was about preserving the Union.
And Abraham Lincoln knew that you couldn't preserve an America with the institutions defined by our Constitution if one man was allowed to own another.
Well, you could not preserve the Constitution as long as you can override it by military power and invasion.
Well, it was the preservation of the Union that was the number one priority.
Yes, it was.
Shouldn't that be predominant?
Well, look, you still want to secede?
I mean, what's your solution?
We're under occupation now.
The thing about it is, you still have to lie about Abraham Lincoln to prove your ⁇ to make your own.
I'm not lying about Abraham.
What do you mean you're still under occupation?
Put it this way.
The South was not allowed to vote its own way.
We're not going to allow Iraq to vote its own government either.
But we did.
I mean, the Iraqis, I don't know where you've been.
What they voted for?
We're trying to subvert it by military occupation.
They're not different than what they did here for 12 years in Louisiana.
Do you think we don't see that?
You don't think we don't see you as a hypocrite for what you say about, oh, yeah, preserve the Union.
But let's never mind.
Let's take away the vote from those who are the voting citizens.
I cannot believe this.
I can't believe this.
You are taking out your frustrations at having lost the Civil War on me and claiming I'm a hypocrite because of my stance on the Iraq War.
Yes, sir.
Which I don't even think you know what it is.
I don't think you know.
I don't think you know who Abraham Lincoln was.
I certainly know who Abraham Lincoln was.
He's one of the greatest presidents in the history of the country.
Who said that nobody was?
And it wasn't because he defeated the South.
It was because he preserved the Union.
He preserved the Union by trampling the Constitution.
He did not trample the Constitution to suspended habeas corpus.
He did do some things I wish Bush would do.
Like kill 59,000 innocent civilians.
59,000.
Are you talking about Sherman's march through Atlanta?
And Grant's shelling the city of Vicksburg?
Hello?
It won the war, didn't it?
You ever heard of Gettysburg?
It won the war, and that was the objective.
I'll tell you what I wish Bush would do that Grant did, or that Lincoln did, take all these anti-war agitators and send them to Canada.
Just send a National Guard in there, pull them out, send Harry Reid over to Baghdad if he's going to be so socially with us.
Absolutely, like that Ohio Congress and that Democrat that was snatched out of his house and sent down to Jefferson Davis, who also didn't want him.
Well, at least I gladly got to you to acknowledge that.
Acknowledge what?
Well, the fact that Lincoln did have his secret police who went into people's houses, pulled them out in the middle of the night, and had them deal with face.
You know what?
I hope before you die, you learn to thank God for Abraham Lincoln.
I hope before you die, you learn what a racist and a bigot and a power-hungry maniac he was.
I'm the racist and the bigot.
I didn't say you were.
I said he was.
Oh.
Abraham.
How in the world can you call a guy who ended slavery a racist and a bigot?
I have heard everything.
Everything.
In 22 years of hosting this program, I have heard everything.
All right.
I'm getting about a million of these now.
Emails from people on how Bill Parcells got his nickname, Big Tuna.
He said, I think it goes back to my first time with the Patriots.
He was their linebacker coach in 1980.
There was an old commercial from Starkist with Charlie the Star Kiss tuna.
So my players were trying to con me on something one time.
And I said, you must think I'm Charlie the tuna, you know, a sucker.
And that's kind of how the big tuna thing started.
We started with it that year.
They used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their helmets.
That's where it all started.
From the mouth of the coach himself, Dave in Bloomington, Connecticut.
Welcome to the program, sir.
You know, that's no better thing than I could ask than to talk to you, Rush, five days before I leave.
Where are you going?
For points, Middle East.
Oh, yeah.
Leaving on Saturday, leaving three kids, a wife, and the whole nine yards.
And I get asked that question all the time.
And for your last caller there, they have no sense of humor.
An article by Rob Long, I gave it to my sister, and she was insulted.
It was hilarious.
The man is just absolutely hilarious.
She has no sense of humor.
They don't have any sense of humor.
Do you know at the Huffington Post?
I'm kidding.
You ever go to the Huffington Post?
No, no.
Well, don't.
Just let me tell you about it.
It's just a left-wing.
It's Ariana Huffington's thing, and she's trying to outdo Matt Drudge, and she's hopeless.
But they got all these so-called celebrity posters and so forth.
Last week, I had a little joke here about the best thing I love about my little cat is what I've learned about women from my cat.
They want you when they want you, and when they don't want you, they said, screw you.
See you later.
There were 80 of the most vicious responses to that.
Like I was actually insulting women.
No sense of humor whatsoever.
None.
You are so right.
That's the best way to help people understand liberals.
I mean, I haven't seen one smile.
Even after they won the race, they were mad.
No, no, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
But the reason I called, I get that question all the time.
It's almost a knee-jerk reaction.
As soon as you say, hi, I'm in the Army, whatever.
You say, well, I support the troops, but I don't support the war.
And, you know, I had to ask you, what is a good comeback for that?
Because I already have one.
And it's just simply simple.
Are you telling me that you run into people who personally say, I support you, Dave, as a troop, but I don't support the war?
Well, I tell them that I'm there to keep the F and the VFW, but I was wanting to be at something else.
Well, that's, but they're not going to understand that.
You're going to have to think that you're just a flippant flip over their head.
You're just a flippant SOB who's not taking them seriously if you mock them.
That's how they're going to think.
You're mocking them and laughing.
You say very simply, Dave, and by the way, God bless you on your trip.
I'm glad you called here.
All you say is, sir, madam, you can't support me without supporting what I do.
And what I do is the mission.
So if you say you're going to support me, you have to support what I do.
And that will stop and make them think for two seconds, and then they'll be befuddled and start cursing you again.
Well, we're off to a rousing start here, folks, and we'll be back tomorrow in about 21 hours, all revved up to keep it revved up and keep it going.
I look forward to seeing you then.
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