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Dec. 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 5, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Fully revved up, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I'm going to try to squeeze in a lot of your phone calls in this hour.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address at rush isrush at EIBnet.com.
Now, continuing on this effort to find positive things out there.
Now, we did a lot of this during the campaign, and I'm not trying to be polly-annish about this.
Simply reacting to a call today from a woman, we're losing the kids.
How are we going to ever stop the mainstream media and so forth?
I understand the total frustration.
By the way, I will also tell you this.
In all candor, it's much easier for somebody like me to remain optimistic because I have a microphone here, and there are 20 to 22 million of you out there, and I get to vent.
You know, I get to come in and tell you what I think and react to it, and I get it out of my system.
You don't have that opportunity.
So it festers.
It stays inside, and you get all frustrated.
You wonder, oh, gee, it's just you and your family and your friends, what oh, pray are we going to do?
And so forth.
There is, I don't know the words therapeutic, but it's certainly useful and helpful for me to be able to come in here and tell you these things.
And if I'm in a bad mood, I don't tell you people nearly 90% of the time when I'm in a bad mood.
For example, there were two days last week I didn't even want to be here.
I just didn't want to be here.
I'm not going to come in and bleed on you.
I'm not going to come in here and take the occasion of these three hours to make it personal and go, oh, woe is me and start dumping on you for things that don't concern you and you don't need to be burdened with or any of that or even here.
But at the same time, when I come in here to be positive about things, I'm not trying to be pollyannish, and I'm doing it mostly in reaction to people who are at their wit's end, simply because optimism is tough.
But here's just another example of something that I think when you look at the root level of this, or as Jocelyn Elder said, the rut level, then you have to say that there are effervescence, is effervescence out there that is possible, despite the election outcome.
The headline here, this is from the Christian Science Monitor, the headline, some U.S. cities grapple with an unusual problem, too many churches.
It's rush hour in Southeast Orlando, Sunday rush hour, that is.
About a dozen churches are within a few miles of one another, and more are under construction.
Neighbors venturing out for bagels and donuts, Starbucks, and other errands find themselves stuck in traffic, heads bowed, not in faith, but in frustration.
Some complain that the traffic persists all week as religious youth, sports, and other activities draw crowds after work and after scruple.
It's ridiculous, says Pat DeLanger, an accountant who was about to climb into her car on a recent Sunday with her teenage daughter after a service at St. Isaac Jog Catholic Church.
She lives less than a mile away, but expects her Sunday morning drive to stretch to 30 minutes once construction on other church across the street is complete.
We live right there.
We probably could walk faster.
While communities traditionally zone against houses of ill repute, not houses of worship, frustrations have grown since 2000 when President Clinton signed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
The law does not exempt churches from zoning regulations per se, but when religious groups say that the rules would create a substantial burden, officials must show a compelling reason for the limits.
Sometimes the results leave neighborhoods feeling helpless in the face of ecclesiastical development.
Well, what's the rut here?
The rut here is that churches are going up left and right.
I mean, that's the root of the story where the problem is there's too many cars.
But what the article is trying to say, too many churches, there are too many churches, which is leading to too many cars.
So because of a law that Clinton made, churches are able to go up lickety split in towns all over the country.
It can't be built fast enough.
And of course, this is angering people who just want to go get a donut or Starbucks or what have you on Sunday morning.
And the cities, if you read the story further, the cities cannot tax these churches.
And this is starting to anger a lot of people.
What does it say that this particular business, this church business, is booming?
You'd have to say that that's a positive sign.
Now, these are not wacko churches like the church of Our Lady of the Miraculous Interstate or the Church of What's Happening Now or what have you.
These are legitimate churches.
And the people that don't go and they're all in a tizzy because there's too many cars out there, but they're going to suddenly realize, hey, there's too many cars, there's too many churches.
Keep a sharp eye.
Cities are going to say, Bill Clinton did this to us.
All these churches are going up and getting no tax revenue.
We will be watching this because there's a lot in this story that liberals aren't going to like, and that the rut of it is all these churches going up.
Have you seen the story out of Buffalo?
The headline is, Dog Tunnels Through Snow to Save Owners.
This is one of those stories, rare example, but it happens, of dogs being smarter than people.
A seven-year-old German shepherd, Timberwolf mixed dog named Shana, is quite a canine hero in Alden, New York, as the story spreads of her efforts to save her owners during the surprise October snowstorm.
Eve and Norman Fertig, they're both 81 years old.
They were out treating injured birds in the wildlife sanctuary on their property on the night of October 12th.
They left home as the storm intensified.
That's not wise.
They're 81.
They were soon trapped by falling trees and heavy snow as they tried to walk back to their home.
Eve Fertig, 81, realized they could die in the bitter cold.
However, their dog, Shana, was with them as the cold and snow chilled them both without heavy coats and gloves.
Why would you wear heavy coats and gloves going on a snowstorm in Buffalo?
Silly question.
Why would anyone do that?
Just going to go feed the birds.
So the dog started digging under the snow and trees.
The dog actually dug a foot-wide tunnel about 20 feet to the home.
A dog started barking, trying to get the two people to get in that tunnel and to head back home, but the couple hesitated.
So they say the dog came back.
See, the dog barked at the end of the tunnel.
I've done the work.
Just get in the tunnel and join me.
Barking.
They didn't get in the tunnel.
So the dog came back through the tunnel that it had dug and tugged on Eve Fertig's jacket.
She's 81 years old.
She says that the 160-pound German shepherd actually pulled her onto the dog's back and crawled through the tunnel.
Her husband held on as well as they slowly crawled all the way back to their home.
They made it back to the back deck.
They opened a door.
They fell into the house, exhausted, but safe.
Is that not an incredible story?
Well, we don't know about the birds.
These two people out in a snowstorm to help injured birds while they were lightly dressed.
They made it to 81, which is an amazing feat, given all the facts of this story.
Back in just a second.
Okay, back to the phones as promised at 800-282-2882 here on the one and only Rush Limbaugh program, America's real anchorman.
This is Don in Plymouth, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Rush, Megadittos, and it's a thrill to listen to your show.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you very much.
Yep.
I wanted to make a comment on something that you mentioned in the first hour of the show that the Democratics' rationale, or I'm sorry, the Democrats' rationale for the war is really inexplicable.
And to me, it is not inexplicable.
It's fairly easy to explain.
And I'm saying that, well, whatever.
Let me just, forgive me, I'm nervous.
They are basing their lack of understanding on the war on a belief system that does not include Christianity.
At least that's my belief.
And the reason I say that is that, you know, George Bush has basically said that this war is a war between good and evil, which I equate to as a war between God and Satan.
And both sides really have strong but different beliefs of what is right and wrong here.
And without the basic foundation to draw on that Christians have, the Democrats try to rationalize the war based on their humanistic beliefs.
Like, are we fighting for gay marriage or are we fighting for, you know, like that first caller said?
The gay marriage, abortion rights, bestiality, whatever.
Exactly.
It's important.
Pardon?
No, I think you're on to something here.
I know what you say.
They've got no fundamental belief system because their religion is an ideology that is not larger than themselves.
And so their value system can be whatever it is they decide they want it to be.
Exactly.
And since there are no limits on their behavioral system as correct because all of us are imperfect and they embrace all the imperfection out there, claim they're victims that they love and support, therefore they don't understand, they don't have a foundation to establish right from wrong, good from evil.
They do not allow people to proclaim that something is right and wrong because that's too simplistic.
There has to be a bunch of mush and gray area in there.
Nothing is that simple.
It's much more complex, and idiot Christians can't see that.
Exactly.
Likewise, I believe the Republicans have a challenge now of, I mean, I don't know if they can necessarily convince non-Christians to become Christians, obviously, but they have to convince all the non-Christians that can't understand this war of the overall importance of winning a war based on a premise that they don't even recognize that they're, you know, that these Islamic extremists are, in fact, trying to eliminate us from the face of the earth.
They don't even recognize that threat because they can't understand the Islamic beliefs or the extremist Islamic beliefs.
But even to the extent that you might be able to convince them that the Islamic extremists are trying to wipe out infidels, your average liberal will then say, yeah, but it's our fault.
We made them this way.
We've created Israel in their backyard, and they don't like Israel.
They don't like Jews.
And why should they?
Why?
We're just imposing our will on them at every stretch.
I can understand them rising.
I can understand them wanting to kill us.
Because we are evil people.
We're mean people.
They will define evil when it applies to their own country.
They will accept a definition of evil that applies to certain Americans, like George Bush.
George Bush, the focus of evil.
He's greater threat than anybody else in the world to these people.
Look, If you have somebody that rock-ribbed in their belief, with a value system comprised, as I brilliantly, adequately described it, you're not going to change these people.
The only thing that's going to change them is action that hits them directly.
And even then, let's say, speaking hypothetically, of course, let's say that there is another major terrorist attack in this country at any time in the future.
I'll guarantee you that the people who do it will not be blamed.
George Bush is going to get blamed for every bad thing that happens in this country for the rest of this current liberal crops generation lives.
They've got everything in the world invested in that.
You could have Eamon Al-Zawahiri personally get on television and say, of course, these guys are not dumb.
They'll blame Bush.
We are attacking you because Bush attacked us.
We are attacking you because Bush tried to colonize Iraq.
Iraq is ours.
You die.
Liberals here would say, right, we deserve to die.
Well, some Americans, not we, because we understand what you're doing, Mr. Zawahiri.
Look at it.
It's perverted out there.
It is.
There is no question.
Terrorists could blow us.
They could kill 10,000 the next time.
And they could jump up immediately and take credit for it.
And liberals of the type we're discussing today are going to find a way to blame this country for it, going into Iraq and probably the first thing that they would do.
Now, they're not the majority of people in the country.
And most people in this country don't want to be hit again.
I've said over and over again, it's going to continue to take more and more of these attacks to wake certain people up.
Now, there are liberals that change their minds.
And I only hear from them after it's happened.
And I don't know specifically what it was.
Other than, sometimes they say, you know, for the first time I actually listened to somebody and you sounded just like what I have always thought, but I've been hanging around with people.
It's convoluted.
It's hard to explain to you.
But it's whatever.
These people, I've been listening to you for two or three years and I've finally seen the light.
Whatever.
It's not an insignificant number, by the way.
There have been, and Tom Daschell knew this.
I mean, after the 2002 midterms, Daschell came out and said, you know, our experts have told us a lot of Democrats are listening to the Limbaugh show, and that's not good.
They thought everybody here was just the conservative Republicans who were preaching to the choir.
Vicki in Hapatcong, New Jersey, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Megha Ditto from very liberal New Jersey.
I must tell you how much I love you.
You are my hero.
I love you.
Oh, my God.
But I called about the American Castrati, the new American Castrati, and I am so your monologue.
How would you define a lot?
I hate to interrupt you complimenting me.
Because even though it happens so much in my life, I still like hearing it.
But would you define for people who have not heard the term before what the new castrati are?
They are, well, I can only put it in my terms.
Yes, that's fine.
I can never speak as eloquently as you.
No, no, no, no, of course not.
These are the men that need to feel, the men that are so feeling.
And, oh, but I must understand you in order to communicate with you.
And we're not talking about being realistic.
We're talking about how I might make you feel.
I'm sorry, Rush, but I am so terrified that our government is being run by these people.
I'm without words.
You want me to be optimistic?
Every day I've tried to be optimistic.
Well, look, I know it's tough in New Jersey.
There's no question, and I need to make an allowance for that.
You're one of the reasons I'm optimistic.
You're like the only one who gets me through my day politically.
It just makes me crazy.
Who is this guy, Gates?
And Senator Byrd, and these people, I'm really beginning to lose my mind.
Why doesn't anybody recognize who the enemy is?
Here, since you brought this up, grab audio soundbite 16 and maybe 17, Mike.
We're going to play these soundbites.
Look at, I, too, watched the Gates hearings, and I thought, what is this?
I mean, what is this?
Gates is coming off like the new castrati.
And by the way, the new castrati is not just guys.
The new castrati means anybody without testicles.
They've just, at any rate, I'm watching this, and I know what the gig is.
I know what the game is.
The game is get confirmed and get out of there.
They want the vote tomorrow.
Get in, get it, and get out.
But listen to this.
This is an exchange between Robert Byrd and Robert Gates that was this morning.
Who is responsible, Dr. Gates, in your judgment for the 9-11 attacks?
Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden?
Osama bin Laden, Senator.
Over the past five years, who has represented the greater threat to the United States?
Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden?
Osama bin Laden.
Next question was, how do you intend to catch Osama bin Laden?
Senator, I have no doubt that our forces have been trying their best to find Osama bin Laden.
I'm not familiar with the effort that has been devoted to this over the past two or three years.
I have always said that I thought it was much more difficult to find a single individual like him, and particularly in as rugged a place as Afghanistan.
Stop it, stop it.
All of this is irrelevant.
You can see these questions.
I watched this and I put myself in the shoes of the average American who's going to see this soundbite tonight on the evening news.
And they're going to think that the new Secretary of Defense has just admitted that going to Iraq was pointless and worthless and a mistake, that bin Laden's the target, and Bush forgot about bin Laden, confirming everything the Democrats and the media have said, and it so misses the point.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, Barack Obama was in New York yesterday.
He met with George Soros and a number of Democrat fundraisers.
Excuse me.
It happens every time I mention Soros' name.
Fundravers, fundraisers, donors, and this sort of thing.
And the New York Times reported it one way as the magnificent, the overwhelming, the magnanimous, the brilliant, the whatever, Barack Obama sailed into town and just captured New York and mesmerized the city.
Andrea Pius or the New York Post was at the same place that Obama was and said, Hillary, you got nothing to worry about.
The guy's a lightweight.
In fact, the very moment that he was speaking up there, wherever he was, and got the first syllable of her name out of his mouth, the lights went out.
It's like Mrs. Clinton was behind the curtain behind the stage or so forth.
Her take was the guy's nice.
He's a lightweight.
He really, he didn't have an answer that wasn't canned about anything.
Here's Jack in Pine Island of Florida.
Jack, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the broadcast.
All right, thank you.
My question was, yesterday you were saying that 9-11 was from Saddam Hussein.
No.
Well, you that I'm not.
I never said.
I never said that.
Okay.
All right.
You said Iraq attacked.
No, I didn't.
I'm pretty sure that's what you said.
No, I've never said it because Iraq didn't attack at 9-11.
Well, no, that's what I was so shocked about.
I didn't think you would be saying that.
And then this is what it is.
I don't understand why we are there.
So we're going to talk about something I didn't say.
What did you say yesterday?
I didn't.
Yeah, you were saying something about how you were mad about someone saying something.
And then you say, oh, yeah, well, we went there because of 9-11.
Yeah, oh, I said that, yes.
I didn't say they attacked.
Well, that's what I was hearing.
Well, no words mean things, Jack.
I mean, I know where my syllables are going and sentences are going, and it'd be wise to listen to them as I utter them and not pretend I said something I didn't say like the rest of the drive-by media always does.
Let me explain this to you.
This is very, very simple.
And actually, I'm glad you called because it provides me an excellent transition from this insipid question and answer session from Senator Bird and Bob Gates.
Mr. Gates, who attacked on 9-11?
Was it Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein?
Osama bin Laden, Senator.
How short people's memories are and how little they might have known in the first place.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, to some people, the 9-11 attacks were a big deal.
I realize to some of you it's just an average day.
You weren't killed, so what the hell?
Plus, it was New York.
Who cares what happens there, right?
But to most Americans, it was a shocking wake-up call as to what kind of world we live in.
3,000 Americans were killed at the World Trade Center in the Pentagon in a field in Pennsylvania.
I can't believe I have to remind people of what happened here.
Not only that, these deaths were accomplished totally in this country with weapons converted from private property in the United States, airplanes.
They didn't have to truck a bomb in.
They didn't have to get anything in here illegally.
They were able to use box cutters to kill people on the airplanes.
They used our airplanes to kill our people and destroy two of our buildings, damage the Pentagon.
A lot of Americans thought, oh, man, this is serious stuff.
At the same time that this is going on, Jack, the attempt to get rid of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was stalled because Saddam had been kicking out the inspectors, kept talking about how many weapons he had.
He had violated 14 UN.
I can't believe I'm having to remind people of this.
You see, Jack, if 9-11 hadn't happened and we went into Iraq in a full-fledged war, I would be on your side.
It would make total sense to agree with you.
Why are we doing this?
Iraq hasn't attacked us.
9-11 happens.
Militant Islamists, of which Saddam is one, in this case from a sect called Al-Qaeda, was able to infiltrate the country, learn how to use our airplanes in our schools and fly our airplanes into our buildings to kill our people.
And here we've got this guy, Saddam, who's bragging about being the biggest Arab in the Middle East because he's taking on the big bad devil of the United States.
He's defying the United Nations.
He's defying everybody in the world who's demanding that he get rid of his weapons of mass destruction.
In the aftermath of 9-11, a responsible American president cannot take the chance that further such attacks are being planned and fomented.
There was also evidence that we know that bin Laden and his representatives had been in Iraq in the mid-90s.
This is not a matter of debate.
Nobody's ever said that Iraq was operationally involved in the 9-11 attacks.
But Jack, folks, this is so frustrating.
Al-Qaeda is everywhere in the world.
They're in Spain.
They're in London.
They're in the Philippines.
They're in Bali.
They're in Somalia.
They're in Iran.
They're in Egypt.
They're in Libya.
They're in Lebanon.
And Palmage County.
They learned to fly in Palbeach County.
They learned to fly in Arizona.
Al-Qaeda was in this country.
But damn it, somehow they never made it to Iraq.
It's amazing.
They were never, ever in Iraq.
Can you believe it?
Anyway, the point is, Jack, 9-11 changed everything for responsible people.
Saving lives in this country is the primary responsibility of the President of the United States, U.S. military.
That and defending the Constitution.
The doctrine of preemption was debated.
Every member of Congress, Sands, a couple or three, gave the president blanket authority to go anywhere in the world to make sure this didn't happen again.
Ergo, Iraq.
You have fallen prey along sadly with too many gullible Americans that have forgotten 9-11 happened.
You have never understood what the purpose of military action since 9-11 has been about.
It's about saving lives.
It's about making sure such a thing doesn't happen again.
We sit around and wait, take the chance Saddam's lying about his weapons of mass destruction when every intelligence service around the world tells us what our intelligence service is telling us.
People, you know, I don't understand it.
You people in your neighborhoods, you get mad when the cops can't do anything until a rape occurs.
You can't do anything.
You get mad because the cops can't do anything until the store is robbed.
You get mad because the cops can't do anything until your car is stolen.
Well, think of the world as a big neighborhood and think of Iraq as a lunatic neighbor making all these threats, having acted on them in the past, used poison gas and a number of other poisoned chemical weapons on his own people.
Do you take the chance?
Or do you protect and preserve life in America and the Constitution, which is the oath of office?
And now here we are, some five years with everybody forgetting all of this and yet still trying to fight this battle of we didn't need to go into Iraq.
You people don't understand the enemy.
And for some reason, you don't give a damn about your own lives.
And you have no gratitude whatsoever for the people that are trying to protect your lives.
From the 18 and 19-year-old to 35, 40-year-old volunteers to the president.
You don't give a damn and you show no respect and you have no gratitude whatsoever for the people trying to save your lives.
You try to undermine their effort, their morale, and their mission.
And frankly, it frosts a bunch of us.
And it scares a lot of us because the people you voted for who agree with you Have gotten control of Congress and may get control of the White House.
And there are some of us who are bound and determined to see that that doesn't happen.
Well, it's been percolating out there.
Let's stick to the phones.
Philadelphia, Tom, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, Rush?
Rush.
Yeah.
Who was the president?
I want to ask you a question: who was the president in 2001 at September the 11th?
Who was the president?
Oh, let me see.
President 9-11, 2001.
Yeah, the day they blew up the Trade Center.
Let's see.
You know who it was.
Whoa, I'm having a metal block here, really.
He did a real great job of protecting us, didn't he?
You know what I say, right?
Tomb, let's kick these neocons out.
We've had six years of these neocons, and they've made an unholy mess of things.
What are you anti-Semitic?
Are you anti-Semitic?
Why?
Well, a neocon just a neocon just codename for Jew.
What?
Yes?
What are you talking about?
That's what that's neocon is.
It's a code name.
It's an anti-Semitic is you.
A neocon is a code name for Jewish Republican.
No, it isn't.
Oh, you're telling me I'm anti-Semitic.
You know, Tom, I have a question for you.
You're anti-Jewish.
I know you're anti-Semitic.
You're also anti-black.
I know that much.
You've never apologized yet for insulting Donovan McNabb.
I didn't insult Donovan McNabb.
You did.
I said he was.
There's nothing to apologize.
The only reason he was a top quarterback is because the media, the media made him a media had high hope, just like they do in Barack Obama.
Barack Obama may have to be Barack McNab.
It's the same thing.
The media had high hopes that McNabb would do it.
That's the only reason why.
There's no question about it.
I have been validated and vindicated ever since this happened.
My question for you, Tom, is why aren't you happy?
You guys won the election.
What are you so- I don't consider myself a liberal, but I say let's give them a chance because the neocons and I ain't talking about why don't you consider yourself a liberal that wanted to go into Iraq.
And they put us in there and they've killed 3,000 people.
Tom.
And they don't.
Tom wanted.
Tom, you racist bigot.
Shut up.
What?
Yes.
You heard me.
You racist bigot.
Shut up.
Tell me.
Why are you not happy?
You're a bologna merchant.
Why can't you find that you are a liberal?
You're a big person.
You can't shout me down, Tom.
I'm younger than you are.
I've got better lungs than you are.
And I have a vocabulary that vastly outraces yours.
You are nothing but an angry, worn-out, angry Philadelphia.
Why don't you go throw snowballs at Santa Claus like they used to do at the vet and act out your fantasies for real?
Rush.
Rush.
Yes, Tom.
Right.
You're just a big, overrated load of baloney.
Period.
Tom, coming from people like you, you know, that's a compliment.
I have learned in my life to thank God for my enemies, and you fit the bill.
You talk about anti-Semitic.
In a way, you're a Nazi.
Let me explain how you would.
No, Tom, I'm not going to let you explain.
I'm a Nazi?
I won't explain how you're a Nazi.
Tom, you know, you won't.
Are you Jewish?
No, I'm not Jewish.
You're not Jewish?
No.
Well, then.
Are you?
I have a rabbi.
I want to explain how you...
I have a rabbi.
I'm not a Nazi, but you know what?
Not only do I have a rabbi, I know the rabbi's brother.
Let me explain to you.
And I'll tell you something else.
find no greater defender of Israel in the American media than me on this program.
Well, let me tell you how you're you act like a Nazi.
I'm not going to let you define the terms.
A Nazi put people in prison and put them in death camps and gas.
Tom, you guys have gotten away with this stuff for way too long.
You are displaying your intellectual incapability to actually articulate a thought.
You throw these terms like Nazi around all over the place and try to make people believe that I am one.
It's the furthest.
There is no American who isn't a Nazi other than the feminazis, which I have named them that because it fits.
But a feminazi is not a Nazi.
You people amuse me.
I still don't understand why you won't answer one question about you won the election.
The neocons have distanced themselves from the Iraq policy.
There's not a one of them that wants anything to do with it.
You ought to be happy, but you are seething in rage and miserable out there.
I'm sorry what happened to McNabb being injured this year.
It's too bad.
Don't like to see that happen to anybody.
But if I thought I had something to apologize, Tom, apologize for, I would do so.
But I'm not one of these phony baloney public figures that goes on Oprah or Larry King.
I didn't mean it.
Please forgive me.
I don't know what happened.
That just wasn't me.
You know, I'm not one of these guys like Michael Vick or Michael Richards, whatever.
I can't believe I did that.
Why?
That's not me.
Stand by what I say because I believe it.
I know I'm right.
Most of the country does too.
That's why I'm feared.
Tina in Paintsville, Kentucky.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Ah, geez, Rush.
Do I have to follow that guy?
Well, I gave you a little bridge there.
I mean, you're actually following me.
That is a wonderful place to be.
I wanted to talk to you about a question that you asked a caller last hour about the baby boomers as parents.
And that's actually something that I thought about for a while.
I'm a pet peeve of mine.
I'm 34.
I'm dead in the middle, in the beginning of Gen X.
And they were very selfish as parents.
And I think they continue to be very selfish.
I think that all we ever hear about is how important they were, how important their generation was, how great their music was, which it really was, but that's not the point.
But it's like hearing a high school guy who's 30 years later still talking about how great he was in high school and trying to relive that, but it doesn't matter anymore.
Well, that's a good way of putting it.
I understand what you're saying.
It's just a result of all the different term for it, self-focus.
Everything's about me, or them, them, them.
At any rate, Tina, I appreciate the call.
I'm up against it here on time.
Must take a brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue in uno momento.
Okay, we have time to squeeze in one more exciting call.
Redmond, Washington.
This is Paul.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're up.
Hey, Rush, thanks for getting me in here at the end.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for all you do.
Just a quick point about the conversation about the baby boom generation.
I want to tie in one more piece with it.
Going back to the talk about why so much hate against Bush, I think another piece of it is that if you think back to the 2000 elections, he was somebody from his generation that stood up and said, basically, we need to grow up as a generation and contribute and be responsible rather than, you know, making it all about us.
And, you know, in part he was...
So you think Bush was calling him out, essentially?
Yeah.
He was calling them out, totally.
And so the part of the baby boom generation, and not all because I think some are good conservatives, but the part of the baby boom generation that was, how dare you tell us who we are and what we need to do.
Nobody tells us that.
We define it ourselves.
And I think that's part of the hate.
Well, look, there's probably a lot of reasons that many of us could not possibly fathom, even if they were made clear to us why Bush is so hated.
Yours may be one of the many.
I think Florida 2000, I think the fact they think the election was stolen from these people are entitled to power.
I mean, people don't understand that when I say it, but there are many reasons for it.
Regardless, it's irrational.
As is the hate for me from the friendly caller we had there from the Philadelphia Zoo.
All right, got to go, folks.
Have a wonderful night.
Tomorrow, we'll be back soon.
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