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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 um United Nations Children's Fund.
That's where they get you.
That's where they get you like in the 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 uh last, it was actually Wednesday of uh last week.
Africa faces 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 Njobo, 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, in 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 predicted that'll rise to 41% and 30% respectively in the next decade.
We've gone from under nutrition to overnutrition without ever having passed healthy nutrition.
They just zipped right by healthy, said uh Chrisella 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.
Uh I just I'm blaming uh 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 gonna tell you that I mean it next time I hear one of these pleas for food for starving people in Africa, I'm gonna be confused.
You know, 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.
Uh 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.
Uh 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 and his credit card data, and they were going to publicize this or use it to blackmail him, or when somebody found out about it, there was no demand for an apology or anything.
They just got rid of the person who was uh 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 on to 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 G's 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, that I'm talking.
The election's coming up.
Last month, uh, he netted 30% of the vote, considered a poor showing for an incumbent.
Now, in um in uh 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, uh, 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.
Ha ha ha ha!
Congressman William Jefferson in good standing with a 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.
Uh group of the Somali clerics met with airport officials on Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer.
Um but that's not the objective.
We want to see them.
Don't hide them out there.
Uh 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, uh, 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 airplanes as bombs.
Or, you know, prank plaque play practical jokes designed to scare travelers when they get on the uh when they get on the airplanes.
Maybe you could put them in with the smokers.
Don't smokers have their own little rooms at airports.
They used they don't anymore.
They air 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 tune.
Here's something happened on the way to uh bathroom.
To the phone, Sonia in Houston.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, hello, Raj.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
Uh today I want to talk about uh Abdul Hakim al-Aziz's visit to the White House.
And I want just to say that this is uh this is very important and dangerous because uh this guy represents only the interest of Iran and not the Iraqi people.
Uh just a few days ago when uh Kofi Anan called for an international conference about Iraq, Ahmadinejad and Al Hakim both rejected that.
Uh why?
Because uh Najad wants to use Iraq as a leverage when negotiating his uh nuclear facility.
So I think there should be more moderate people.
Uh well then why why do you suspect let me let me give the audience a heads up on this who they may not be quite as informed as are you uh on this.
You sound very passionate about it.
Uh she's talking about Abdullah Ziz al-Hakim, his party runs uh Shi'ite militia in Iraq.
Uh people are very much afraid of his militia, uh, and he's backed by Iran.
Yes.
And uh uh he's meeting President Bush uh on Saturday.
He did he rejected Kofi Anon's uh uh suggestion to hold an international conference on Iraq.
Uh Abdullah Zizah Halkeim said it's unreasonable or incorrect to discuss uh 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, uh, we really don't know because unless he is because Al-Hakim was living in Iran for more than twenty years, this is where he established his militia, and this is where and who finances it.
And uh this is why maybe he's uh uh trying to come in between or uh you know uh just trying to do something about uh putting the Iraqi issue only in Iran's hands.
Uh everybody knows how much uh Iran is been interfering in the Iraqi.
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
No, they I mean I wish no, no, no.
No, you do, and a lot of people, but most people in this country don't.
You have to understand that well uh i uh it's it's a combination of the uh uh it's not really a combination.
It's uh it's a simple fact that the 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 that they are the problems causers.
They are one of the reasons uh uh Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is one of the basic reasons.
I don't think he can uh control the violence by introducing Iran only.
And if they say that uh we cannot introduce all uh the other uh major countries, well, it is international.
There is an international uh coalition there, so why not invite all the other uh countries surrounding Iraq plus European countries and let everybody uh say their saying why?
Mm-hmm.
Because everybody you're talking about wants us to get our butts kicked.
European Union wants us to lose, the uh 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 here's the real irony, if you will, Sonia.
Uh and it frustrates many people, and I will raise my hand as being one of those who are frustrated.
Uh to win in Iraq, we're gonna 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 uh to the Iranians.
Uh 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, of course, if we're gonna if we're gonna 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.
Uh it is uh it is I mean, hell, Ahmadinejad out there once again, over the weekend predicting the demise of Israel and they and the uh the phony regime there, the artificial regime.
As long as we put that off, dealing with the problem.
Um for example, everybody said, Well, we gotta get in there and we're gonna clean Baghdad out.
You can't clean Baghdad out without making sure the pipeline from Iran shut down.
It's just that simple.
And if if there's if there's no will or willingness to do that, uh 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.
Uh maybe the Saudis don't.
I think 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 for taking the call.
Um I'm a frequent listener, and the uh question I want to make is this.
Um I listen a lot, and I I feel like uh you unfairly depict liberals as being anti-American, and I want to note that I think there's a difference between being uh anti-government policy, and you know, then there's a difference between that and being anti-American itself.
Well, there might be to you.
Um you may not be among the liberals I'm talking talking about.
I don't mean to make it a blanket statement, but I I I could if I had time, I could go to a couple liberal websites, and I 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.
Uh 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, and dissent is what this country was built on and so forth.
You know, and that that's that's uh 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, uh 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 I guess I would just have to.
I mean, I in the context of war, I can see what you're saying, but I feel like sometimes um, give me an example.
I'll 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 uh to begin with.
But I still feel sometimes that there are uh ideas are grafted together that don't deserve to be.
For example, let me sample home.
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 I think that the war is a good war.
You know, you you you may you personally may think that you support the troops but don't support the war.
Uh I 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 Pot, 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 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, uh, they had the big birthday celebration for Fidel Castro last week, all last week in Cuba.
Uh he wasn't there, never showed up, but this is uh again leading to uh speculation that Castro's on his deathbed or is order in the ground.
Uh that theory may not hold up because they're still building the mausoleum in the Sand Something Mountains.
Uh I forget the name of the mountains, the highest peaks in these mountains.
Uh, Castro loved going there as a kid.
They're building some secret mausoleum up there, but it appears that the Castro's final days on Earth are near, and as such, Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro, departing from his brother's confrontational approach, uh, 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 uh Western Hemisphere's only communist country needs to get the United States to lift uh the embargo enforced since 1962 if it wants to revitalize its battered economy.
You know, 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 I'm all for embryonic still 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 uh economy is uh is in failing health because of our embargo.
They trade with everybody else.
They trade with Canada, they trade with uh Hugo Chavez.
By the way, if he if that's not becoming a communist nation, I don't know what is.
At any rate, they trade with the UK.
I mean, the the Cubans trade with everybody.
It's it's not it's not that our embargo's preventing it, it's communism.
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.
Uh the only, I mean, I 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 hell, we traded with the Soviets and when we were coal war with them, and the same thing with the the Chicoms.
This thing is uh, you know, it's a Kennedy legacy thing, uh, more than anything else, plus the local politics involved with the Florida, uh the Cuba exile community down in uh in Miami and South Florida, that they're powerful bunch.
Uh but if that embargo ever gets lifted, you it's gonna be fun to watch.
Because the exile community in Cuba, the first thing they're gonna demand is their land back.
I mean, it it was taken from them illegally, and they're gonna want to go back to where their families lived and just take it.
Well, that's gonna be hard to do.
And then they're gonna have to buy it.
Somebody that then they're gonna be we want to be compensated for the loss.
Uh in the case of cigars, I know you cigar smokers constantly wonder what'll happen if the Cuban embargo is lifted.
Well, let me tell you what'll happen.
I'll tell you the first thing that's gonna happen is that you're not gonna get Cuban cigars the next day.
What's gonna 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, uh 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 gonna 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 say, wait a minute, why should all why we sit around?
We've developed the U.S. market when there was no Cuban uh product legally allowed in here, and now all of a sudden you're gonna flood the market with Cuban.
No way.
We want raw Cuban seed and tobacco to blend with our cigars.
They're gonna be the first guys to the commerce department.
It's not gonna 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 'em.
Had to be CNN or something.
How about Cuban Havana Club rum is the best rum on the face of the earth?
And uh you can get it in the Bahamas, you can get it everywhere.
You can't get it here.
Uh huh.
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 f I frankly think the best rum in the world is from Haiti.
And nobody believes me when I tell them it's called Barbon Court.
I mean, snerdily is looking at me like I'm wacko.
But it's uh it's a dark ruminant, it's delicious.
At any rate.
It's gonna be a zoo if this embargo is ever lifted.
But I think we're we're occupied other places, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, to be worried about little Raul Castro and his um his uh his outreach here.
I w I wouldn't expect this to be dealt with seriously uh for a long time, if ever, precisely because of the power of the voting block 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 Ditto's from Liberal Northern Virginia.
Um 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 nineties, and my family is a better for it ever since.
Um like you, I have hope that uh research.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I I've never been to college in Virginia.
How how I uh I've never uh you mean you on the radio of George Washington.
Sometimes I take people literally.
Yeah.
Well, um I'm just I was being I noticed you absurdity by being absurd by listening diligently to you.
So um like you, I hope that uh embryonic stem cell research will lead to the uh cure for my affliction of ADHD.
But you might have to keep up with because my focus goes very quickly.
You know, the pain and suffering I my me and my family go through.
I can totally understand your plight.
I uh and I I I I don't think you should ever have to give up your hope.
Well, I mean but and who knows with epidemic stem cell research, we may you know, humans may get the ability to fly, and then we don't buy on big oil or airplanes or anything.
Look at that.
So as long as we have hope, that's what's important.
But um the reason I'm calling is uh that I re seem to recall when I was sweet taught uh that uh when the Reagan had these landslide in in the returns, um me and my family seem to recall that the Republican colors were re represented by blue.
Yeah.
And the liber the uh Democrats were red.
And I was just wondering why the uh, you know, and how or when the liberal media hijacked my favorite color blue to be a liberal color.
And I think I wondered about I still don't know the reason for this.
Um I I I wondered how in the hell we conservatives became denoted by red.
That's a commie color.
It it is.
The liberals have always been red.
Uh red China.
Uh uh the the the the the Soviet Red Army.
Everybody's known what this means.
I I 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 equal to Democrats.
And like and the just like you know, Republicans are supposed to be blue bloods, right?
So hello.
Well, hopefully not any...
I mean, blue bloods, that's not a good thing to be.
A blue blood basically is a slothful, inherited rich person who starts sipping cocktails about three in the afternoon before going to go playing polo.
I had actually another leftover from Open Line Friday, and 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 Parcells 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 it's just um I in fact I knew this once, and I'm I'm gonna I'm I uh I'm gonna take a stab at my memory.
Um i it just means the head honcho.
It does means he's the big coona, 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.
I it could have been a player.
I really don't recall.
All I know is that uh does Parcells look like a guy who eats tuna fish do?
No.
He does not eat tuna.
Uh I had dinner with Parcells once at a golf tournament down up at uh the Flavoridian up there near Port St. Lucy, not in Port St. Lucy, but uh close to he didn't request tuna.
So um 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 uh becoming their their head coach.
Uh 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're not when you don't want the uh Iraqis to decide the problems for themselves, especially since Abraham Lincoln took two two two generals named Lincoln and Sherman, who were responsible for the deaths of fifty-nine thousand 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.
From the on the basis of what do you say that?
Okay, allow me to quote you from two thousand and one.
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 I'm saying.
Well, the point is that we fought power.
We fought are we gonna have this argument?
Yes, sir, we are.
If you've got the nerve to hold it.
Oh, have this argument with you any time 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 couldn't have uh you could not preserve the Constitution as long as you can override it by military powder power and invasion.
Well, it was the preservation of the Union that was the number one priority, shouldn't that be shouldn't that be predominant?
Well, look.
You w you still want to secede?
I I mean what's your solution?
We're under occupation now.
It's 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?
We uh put it this way.
The South was not allowed to vote its own way.
We're not gonna allow Iraq to vote its own government either.
But we did.
I mean, the Iraqis were really.
I don't know where you've been there.
What they voted for, we're trying to subvert it by military occupation.
No different than what they they did here for twelve 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 have a voting citizen.
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.
And it wasn't because he defeated the South.
It's because he preserved the Union.
Preserve the Union by trampling the Constitution.
He did not pretrample the Constitution suspended habeas corpus.
He did do some things I wish Bush would do.
Uh like uh kill fifty-nine thousand innocent civilians.
Fifty-nine thousand in are you you talking about Sherman's march through Atlanta?
And and uh and uh Grant's shelling the uh 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 uh what I wish Bush would do that that Grant did, or that Lincoln did.
Take all these anti war agitators and send them to Canada.
Just pull and send a National Guard in there, pull him out.
Send Harry Reed over to Baghdad if he's gonna be so socially with a big thing.
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 glad it cut 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 and had them uh you know, let's face it.
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.
Peter Hamlet, how in the world you can call a guy who ended slavery a racist and a bigot.
I have heard everything.
Everything.
In twenty-two years of hosting this program, I have heard everything.
All right, I'm getting about a million of these now.
Emails from people on um.
Bill Parcel's got his nickname Big T Big Tuna.
Uh 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.
Uh we started with it that year, and they used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their on their helmets.
That's where it all started.
So from the uh mouth of the coach himself, Dave in Bloomington, Connecticut.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Uh, you know, that's no better thing than I can ask than to talk to you, uh, Rush, five days before I leave.
Um where are you going?
Points, Middle East.
Oh, yeah.
Uh leaving leaving on Saturday, leaving three kids, a wife, and the whole nine yards, and I get asked that question all the time.
And and for your last caller there, they have no sense of humor.
I I an article by Rob Long, I I gave it to my sister, and she hadn't she she was insulted.
Um it was hilarious.
The man is just absolutely hilarious.
She has no sense of humor.
They don't have any sense of humor.
You're absolutely 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 it's just a it's a left wing, it's Ariana Huffington's thing, and she's she's trying to, you know, outdoor Matt Drudge, and it's 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 her cat 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.
You are you are so right.
That's the best way to help people understand liberals.
Is they I mean, I haven't seen one smile, even after they won the race, they were mad.
No, no, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
And and but the reason I called um I 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, the and you say, Well, I support the troops, but I don't support the war.
And you know, I I had to ask you, what is a good comeback uh 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 as a troop, but I don't support the war?
Well, I tell them that I'm there to keep the F in the VFW.
Um, but I was wondering if you had something else.
Well, that's but you know, they're not gonna understand that.
You're gonna have to um they're they're gonna think that you're just a flippant.
It's flipped over their head.
You're just a flippant SOB who's not taking them seriously if you if you mock that's how they're gonna think you're mocking them laughing.
Look, you say very simply, Dave, and by the way, God bless you on your on your trip.
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm glad you called here.
All you say is, uh, 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 gonna support me, you have to support what I do.
Uh 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 twenty one hours, all revved up to uh keep it revved up and keep it going.
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