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Dec. 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Your highly trained broadcast specialist, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, the Doctor of Democracy, all combined, and one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
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As you people know, I have a little cat, a little Abyssinian.
Her name is Punkin.
Uh P-U-N-K, I call her Punky for short.
She's nine years old.
Just saw a story at the Scotsman.com, a UK news site that distresses me.
Headline, Cats at Risk of Alzheimer's.
Says here that cats can suffer from a feline form of Alzheimer's disease, according to Edinburgh scientists.
The study into aging cats identified a key protein which can build up in the nerve cells in their brains and cause mental deterioration similar to that in humans.
The research was carried out by scientists at the University of Edinburgh as well as universities at St. Andrews, Bristol, and California.
Dr. Danielle Gunn Moore of Edinburgh University said, We've known for a long time that cats develop dementia.
But this study tells us that the cat neurothythem is being compromised.
That's the story.
It is followed by 38 comments.
You know, you can go on a website, you comment.
I got 38 comments from people who think, oh, that explains why my cat's acting wacko.
Would you like to hear some of these?
I had a cat just like that.
My beautiful Esther, she ended up howling like a banshee.
Didn't she know she didn't know if it was New Year or New York?
But then again, she was at a grand old age of 18.
My old guy Sparky used to get out of his bed and go looking for his litter tray.
Look a pure delight when he found it was hilarious.
It had been in the same place for years.
He was 21 when he died.
His better half Twinkie was as sharp as a tactile the day she died, bless her, she was 20.
So I guess that when they can't find the litter box.
It just it goes to show you the power suggestion, but does give me another reason to support embryonic stem cells, not just to recover my hearing, ladies and gentlemen, but to save my cat uh from the future ravages of Alzheimer's.
Researchers find that kids need better online academic skills.
This is from the University of Connecticut.
When researchers at the Neag School of Education asked 25 seventh graders from middle schools across the state of Connecticut to review a website devoted to fictitious endangered species, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.
The results troubled them.
All 25 students fell for the Internet hoax about the endangered species, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus.
Which of course doesn't exist, the whole thing was made up, but they bought it.
Twenty-four of them rated the website as very credible.
Most struggled when asked to produce proof or even clues that the website was false even after Yukon researchers told them it was false.
They refused to believe it.
When are you sitting in there and you're laughing?
But I'm telling you, when these people start ginning up against Walmart, when they start all this environmental crisis fear out there, present them with a total hoax about the Pacific Northwest Tree octopus, and even when they're told it's a hoax, I don't believe you.
This is real.
Bunch of clueless seventh graders.
Some of the students, after everything was explained to them, vehemently insisted the Pacific Northwest Tree octopus really exists.
The students identified as their school's most proficient online readers are taking part in a federal research project funded by a 1.8 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Project currently underway in six Connecticut middle schools.
These results are cause for serious concern, said the project manager Don Lou, who holds the John and Maria Neag chair in literacy and technology at UConn.
It's cause for serious concern here because anyone can publish anything on the internet, and today's students are not prepared to critically evaluate the information they find there.
Well, what's why are you worried about the Internet?
Have you watched Oprah?
It's the same phenomenon.
Liu also co-directs the new Literacies Research Lab, the only academic research center of its kind.
And...
nationwide.
Yes, at the New Literacies Research Lab, we see the Internet as this generation's defining technology for information, communication, and learning, but he adds classroom instruction in online reading and other new literacies is woefully lacking.
So apparently now, just learning to read is not enough.
And enough students, as we know are graduating from high school, unable to read their diplomas.
Now you got to learn how to read on the internet.
I haven't read this whole story, it prints out to about three pages, so I don't know what's different about reading on the internet.
Maybe they're talking here about uh critical reading.
The scary part is that they get hold of a total hoax and they believe it.
And this is not happening in a vacuum.
Why do they believe it?
Because they've heard about vanishing species their whole lives.
They've probably grown up watching cartoons for all I know that that uh enforce this, or they hear their wacko parents talking about the problems facing the environment and this and animal rights wackos and so forth.
You know, folks, I'm sorry.
I go through the news every day, and I literally feel like we are in a 180-degree alternative universe all day, every day, 365 days a year.
Kofi Annan, well-known swindler, architect of the oil for food program, will soon be departing the glorious United Nations.
He lives in a house provided by the United Nations that is a for New York standards, it's a mansion.
But apparently, during Kofi's period of occupancy, it has suffered some deterioration.
And so 4.9 million dollars will be spent to in fact, Kofi's not being made to move out of the house that Secretary Generals leave.
That is that is that right?
Are they giving him a new one?
Well, but but but but still, but but that there's a look at there is a White House for the U.N. I mean, there is an official residence for the Secretary General.
And I don't think the new guy's gonna get it.
I think Kofi's staying in it as a gift for job well done.
Okay, okay, okay.
All right, all right, all right.
That makes more sense.
The house will go to the next guy.
I didn't think they'd make this new guy live in a bamboo hut.
You know, he's the new Secretary General's coming from uh from South Korea.
Uh they're gonna upgrade this place.
Well, then that changes the whole thing.
So Kofi's gonna live in a hotel.
But they're gonna give he's he's gotten all kinds of you know, severance in a going-away package, probably a nice party somewhere.
Uh just say the people that swindle money from you right under your nose are rewarded for it with even more for doing a job well.
Uh it just seems like some days nothing makes any sense.
The good guys are the bad guys, the bad guys are the good guys.
Uh why Kofi lived there rent-free for ten years, because that's the plan.
I mean, every Secretary General lives there rent-free.
Uh that's that's part of it.
We talked to Eric Sean about that in the interview for the uh Limbaugh Letter.
Here's a headline destined to grab you.
Richest 2% hold half the world's assets.
Oh, I can see where this is going.
From the Financial Times.
Personal wealth is distributed so unevenly across the world that the richest 2% of adults own more than 50% of the world's assets, while the poorest half of the world's population hold only one percent of the wealth.
A survey released on Tuesday shows that middle-income countries with high growth rates still have a long way to go before they have a hope of catching up with the levels of prosperity of the richest.
Adults with more than $2,200 worth of assets were in the top half of the global wealth league table, while those with more than $61,000 were in the top 10%, according to data from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University.
Uh to belong to the top one percent of the world's wealthiest adults, you would need more than $500,000, something that 37 million adults have achieved.
So much of the world's wealth is concentrated in few hands that if all the world's wealthy or sorry, if all the world's wealth was distributed evenly, such person would have twenty thousand five hundred dollars of assets rather than five hundred thousand dollars in assets.
Almost ninety percent of the world's wealth is held in North America, Europe, and high income Asian and Pacific countries such as Japan and Australia.
Now, stop and think for a moment.
What do those countries have in common?
What what no, no, no, what do they have in common?
Don't make me read lips.
What are they what do they have in common?
Well uh uh m yeah, most of them most of them are free, most of them are capitalist uh to a degree.
Um uh the what this clearly illustrates, once again, there's not an unequal distribution of wealth, there is not an unequal distribution of resources, there is an unequal distribution of capitalism.
How do you explain the fact that the United States is the wealthiest nation on earth in the history of human civilization and ninety miles south of Key West Florida is an island ninety miles away from us that would have to rank as one of the poorest nations in the world.
How do you explain that?
Well, it depends on who you ask.
If you ask people like Al Gore or Oprah Winfrey or any of your average liberal Democrats, is because we are out there stealing everything everybody else has, and we're bringing it back home, and we are using it so fishly.
And in the process, we're destroying the planet.
But any reasonable understanding of economics, if taught properly at the formative grades and uh in school, would uh lead people to dispel dispel that notion overnight in an instant.
The United States isn't stealing anything.
You know, it's it's it's but again, the purpose of this story is to is to make the case that I just made.
Oh, it's just unfair out there.
All these rich nations, they're hoarding all the wealth.
Uh they're earning it.
Well, rich nation, rich people, rich b rich people, but most of them are northern, but they're Americans.
They're Americans.
I'm one of those people.
It's absolutely right.
And I have I can tell you I've been to Europe, I've been to France, I've been to Great Britain, I have been to Italy.
Uh I've been to Hong Kong, and I didn't steal anything.
I came back with exactly what I took.
And if I did bring something back over there, I bought it.
Okay, time to go to the phones.
Uh I've had some diarrhea of the mouth here today, folks.
I apologize for that.
Appreciate you being patient out there on the phones.
This is Tom in Richmond, Virginia.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh Megadiddos from the unfortunate home of Governor Kane and Senator Webb had a question for you.
Well, after listening to all these strange events like our our almost former president trying to plant a dead tree.
Do you think Charles Darwin had it completely wrong with natural selection?
Because I I truly believe the wrong people are surviving us.
And I think you should commission a study to rewrite this theory.
Oh, yeah, the you're you're talking about Darwin's survival of the fittest theory, if I'm understanding, correct?
Obviously, the fittest are not surviving the city.
Wait, would you wait a second wait?
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I I gotta question your judgment here in assigning winners and losers.
You you you're looking at Al Gore as a winner?
Why?
Because he goes on Oprah.
No, I'm not I'm not assigning him as a winner.
I'm saying that he is one of the people that should have been voided out centuries ago.
He was.
He was.
He's a laughing stock, he just doesn't know it.
Well, it's not a good thing.
I mean, what does he want to do?
You you think you're you're asking me, are the weak and the stupid winning?
And give me an example besides Al Gore.
Who are you talking about besides because Al Gore, he got he got he was defeated.
He is he's he's he's he's reduced to he doesn't know it, but he's a laughing stock to millions of Americans.
Well, I I worry that the fact that Oprah is giving him time, that's going to give him a new army of people under Oprah's wing that will that will harvest him and move forward with him.
And another example with what you talked about giving giving credence to the homeless people and fearing that they're offended at the smell of something they can't afford.
These that the people uh somehow they're gaining control of have control of the media and they're gaining control of our young people, and it scares me to death.
I uh well, I understand what you're I understand what you're saying.
I I I don't think that it's uh I'm not weak to say that Darwin, and by the way, uh we're not even talking evolution here, folks.
Okay, I want to get anywhere near that.
Uh that's not what I'm addressing here.
I'm simply addressing the survival of the fittest business.
Um the uh the uh strong will survive, the weak uh will be exploited, plundered, and then eventually buried.
Uh it might look that way to you, but I I think I think what's happening is that the strong are standing down.
The strong are just getting stupid.
Uh and they're being and that this is happening on the basis of guilt.
They're being laden with guilt uh each and every day.
But let's let's let's lose the example, and this is going to touch on some nerves, I warn you people.
But I want to go back to the example of the bear that mauled a family, killed a little girl, and mauled the two parents.
Now, uh I watched this story be discussed on the Fox News channel with an anchor at infobe asking an animal expert if this meant that the bear was retarded or maybe mentally unstable.
This is what bears do.
Now, if people think that they can go out where Smoky the Bear is, and it's gonna sit around and if they see a bear, oh look, mommy, is it gonna be there to help him put out forced fire if one starts?
Or is he gonna come in and try to get inside the car like we've seen in the TV commercials?
Uh and so forth.
Bears, it does not mean they're retarded when they do what they do.
And they're carnivores, they are flesh eaters.
And if a bunch of humans are gonna go out and pretend to be sitting ducks or actually be sitting ducks, who's smart and who's stupid and who's weak?
The bear's doing what the bear does.
If we refuse to recognize the threats that we face when we face them, if we refuse to recognize who the quote unquote enemy is in any given circumstance, uh I would I would say that that uh the stronger are winning.
We are making ourselves weak, and we're doing it uh with a tremendous number of liberal, touchy-feely emotional type influences led by guilt.
Take you your your example of the story in San Francisco.
This this is something that really occupies a lot of people's minds out there.
Whether or not we could put strips that smell like cookies at a bus stop in order to beautify bus stops.
I mean, it's a bus stop.
But we've got to go that way.
Then when it offends the homeless or some activists now, I don't think you have any homeless even spoke up.
I just think it was homeless activists.
So I think that you talk about survival of the fittest.
Uh if the fittest are not going to make an effort to survive, then are they the fittest?
I think the theory, the theory works.
Uh if if the fittest are going to do dumb and stupid things, look, I don't want to offend anybody with this.
Back when I was in Kansas City working at a radio station, the broadcast engineer at this station was of a fundamentalist uh religion, uh evangelical type religion.
And he um I could I I I was I'm marveled at at the way this guy lived.
He um I mean, any time anybody could trample on the guy or disrespect him, he let it happen.
He walked around as the sh as the most shy, unassuming victim I've ever seen.
Uh not just inside the radio station, whenever he went out, it was like his objective was to have people tread all over him.
And I finally took him aside.
I said why do you let people speak to you the way they do?
What why don't you stand up for yourself?
Why why in the world do you sit there and take the abuse that you take?
And he said, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
He had been he had been led to believe that being a weakling and uh a victim and somebody trampled on by the powerful was somehow virtuous.
Uh and uh, you know, I I just look, I didn't want to get into a religious argument with him, but blessed are the meek when that was written meek didn't mean what it means today.
But nevertheless, it's what he thinks I think that there's a lot of that in the uh in the in the white guilt that Shelby Steele talks about in his most recent book.
There are just a lot of Americans who believe that the bears need to eat us and that the mountain lions need to live among us because we have destroyed their environment.
We have encroached on them.
We have people who worship the planet rather than God.
We have people who misunderstand totally our relationship.
God is God, the planet is not.
Yeah, we're to have dominion over it, and we are to protect it and stewardship and all that, but we're not to play second fiddle when we are the dominant species on the planet, and that's what we're doing in too many places.
So happy, ladies and gentlemen, to be with you having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I don't know how many of you have seen this.
I'm a couple days late with this story.
I'm a couple days, no, one day late with this story.
This was uh yesterday that this uh actually it happened two days ago, but it was reported yesterday.
Flatulence forces uh American Airlines flight to land in Nashville.
Have you heard about this?
Have you heard about this story, Don?
Oh, get this.
American Flight 1053 from Washington Reagan National Airport, bound for Dallas.
I'm sorry, the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers resported or reported smelling struck matches.
Plane landed safely, FBI Transportation Safety Administration entered pole.
ATF airport authority responded to the emergency.
The passengers and five crew members are brought off the plane together with all the luggage to go through security checks again.
Bomb sniffing dogs found spent matches aboard.
The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted that she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal body odor.
Woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition.
Not defined in the story.
The flight took off again.
The woman was not allowed back on the airplane.
Uh uh America has uh banned her for a long time, said an American spokesman.
It is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, but you can't strike one.
You can bring the books' matches on, but you can't light one up in an airplane.
Now a lot of people think, boy, this is weird.
A woman with a perpetual stink problem running around with matches, lighting it up.
Most people would not do this.
We all know, ladies and gentlemen.
We've all been in this situation.
We have all expelled gas at one time or another in a crowded situation.
What do we all do?
We scrunch up our noses and look at everybody else like it's their fault.
Or we sit around and just do nothing and act innocent like we don't even smoke, whatever, but we try to immediately blame somebody else who's not responsible for this woman's out there lighting matches on an airplane.
By the way, you know what it is in the matches that uh that kills the odor?
Sulfur, exactly right.
There is no properly equipped American bathroom if it doesn't have sulfur matches in it.
You know, all the air fresheners you want, get some matches, you'll never have a problem.
Denise in Long Meadow, uh, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, thank you.
You bet.
Um I just wanted to say a while back you gave a very hilarious description of talking about uh planting his live cut Christmas tree.
And I was laughing.
However, um, and I may have misunderstood this wasn't a tree root system.
I had no root system.
Um, uh let me review the transcript of the kid.
Grab grab audio.
Well, what is it?
Um grab audio soundbite number 10.
Let's let's you and I, Denise, listen to this together and see if we can solve solve the mystery, okay?
You up for that?
All right.
Uh this this is an exchange here between Treehugger.com's Simran Cephy.
Uh Oprah and Algore about Christmas trees yesterday on the Oprah show.
You might think the greenest option would be to get a plastic tree that you could reuse over and over again.
But actually, plastic trees often contain compounds like polyvino chloride or PVC.
And when that breaks down, it's dangerous to wildlife, to our water supply, and to the planet.
So your best option would actually be to go with a live tree.
About 10 million trees end up in landfills, but they can be used for mulch or chips.
Okay, I got it.
You take the tree and you turn it into mulch, because I was thinking you can't plant the tree, it has no roots.
And you you tried to do that?
Yeah, one year we got a live tree tried to plant it.
It uh didn't w didn't work for us.
Okay, so I guess we can assume here we're a little confusing.
Uh Oprah thinks that he tried to plant a dead tree.
Al Gore said he tried he did get a live tree.
Yes, his tree had a root system in it.
Oh, because I just wanted to say before it went on too far that he was putting a cut tree in the ground, which you know it does not sound unrealistic when it comes to someone like that, I guess.
Well, it's precisely yeah, it's easy to assume he would be that stupid.
And it certainly is pretty funny, and it's it's believable.
But I just wanted to say that we um we did have a a live tree with a big ball root system on it one year year uh ages ago, and there was tremendous care for it to get it to live while it was in the house and then plant it.
And I thought, you know, before it goes too far, perhaps that's what he was doing.
Not that I want to see.
Wait, wait, wait.
What wa wait a second, I'm uh hearing problem, I'm uh having trouble keeping up with you.
Did you say you had a tree with a big ball of roots there and you tried to plant it again after Christmas to see and did it work?
Absolutely.
Um no, it didn't work for us.
Well, it doesn't work for it it it it really doesn't work.
It can work.
It has worked for a while.
Yeah, well okay, well, it didn't work for Al Gore, didn't work for you.
No, I never evidence do I need to do that.
This is silly.
Anyway, you know, trees are crops.
Do we do we replant stalks of corn after we pick the corn?
After we after we go out and pick the strawberries, do we take the plant and repl.
This is nuts.
Tree is a replenishable source.
They're Christmas tree farms out there.
They exist for the express purpose of po people going and getting one, chop the thing off, take it home, enjoy Christmas, throw it outside, turn it into mulch, have a bonfire, whatever you do, next year go buy another one because there'll be one that's regrown to replace it and maybe even more next year.
It's magic.
And his hobby happens to be trees and he has different types of trees and so forth.
He's not a tree hugger by any means.
We're in Massachusetts, but we are conservatives to the nth degree.
And he does it for a hobby, not to save the environment, and he likes part of it.
But um he um we just did it for the challenge of it to see if we could do something.
I under I understand all that, but you understand what's going on.
I mean, you you're you you're not you're not extreme wankoes.
I mean, th this this whole notion, this discussion is about not losing a tree.
You know, tell that to the god of lightning.
How many trees do we lose from the light?
This is all absurd.
It this is this is exactly the kind of story I mean.
This is th our our lives, ladies and gentlemen, are so in some people's case, devoid of meaning that people glom on to these things like saving Christmas trees or whatever, because there's a crisis in the environment, and I want my life to have meaning.
Um if if we weren't living in such prosperous times and if the economic opportunities weren't what they are in this country, uh people would have to work a lot harder.
You would to survive.
And wouldn't have time for these self-indulgent follies.
But they do.
We're a great nation.
We provide opportunities for anybody who wants to be insane to make a living doing it.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Good morning, Rosh.
How are you doing today?
Pretty good, sir.
Thanks much.
Excellent.
Hey, I just wanted to give you a quick call, let you know that uh uh these environmentalists drive me absolutely crazy.
I'm uh I'm a big hunter, and uh the thing is when I go out in in the wild, I'm uh it's bear season right now, so I'm hunting bear.
Um I'm not top of the food chain anymore.
Guess what?
I'm part of the food chain.
So Yeah, but is look as long as you have a gun, uh we haven't figured out a way to arm the bears yet.
Or or uh the the the hood owls of pole cats, mountain lions.
As long as you've got a gun, you are at the top of the food chain.
You're smarter than they are.
But when you go to their territory, I know what you're talking about.
When you venture onto their turf, then you have to know w how they act on their turf and who they are and how they're gonna look at you.
Absolutely.
That's why they they call it hunting, and uh I use a bow, by the way.
You use a a bow.
Oh an arrow.
Oh, you're one of you're a Ted Nugent disciple.
Oh, absolutely.
Got a lot of the Ted.
Uh well most people do that understand him.
Uh well what what one other point that I I wanted to make.
I'm uh one of my patients, I'm a physician.
Actually, uh we got in a little little disc discussion over this, and she called me a coward because uh I go out and kill animals, and uh we we eat everything that we kill, and I I asked her if she uh if she ate meat, and she says, of course she does.
I said, All right, so you just outsource your killing.
Who's the coward now?
I actually hunt it down and I kill it, and I skin it and I and I butcher an object.
But you know the whole that the whole thought thought process, though, Jay, is absurd because she's got it you the the she you she called you a coward because you go out armed.
You're supposed to go out there and go monoamano, hand on hand.
Maybe give the bear some boxing gloves, you put on a pair and go at it.
She is she's she doesn't recognize, she doesn't recognize the superiority of the human species.
There is a pecking order.
And we are at the top of the pecking order of species on this planet.
We have dominion over all of them if we choose to exercise it.
We can go out and capture great whites.
We can capture alligator.
We can we we can have dominion over all of them if we choose to.
Now, naturally you have to have responsible stewardship.
Nobody's nobody is advocating wanton destruction of a species, and it doesn't happen anyway, despite the claims.
It's like every year, I am amazed at the way shark attacks are reported.
We have some shark attacks in Florida, shark attacks in Australia, and every time a shark attack happens, people start raising it's something going on with the sharks.
This is very, very strange.
Why, these shark attacks they seem to be up this year over last year, over the last ten year average.
There's nothing strange at all about it.
If you go into the ocean and you encounter a shark that's a flesh eater, guess what?
You are going to be attacked.
People say sharks don't attack people.
They attack fish, either.
Wrong.
They do attack people.
We hear about it every day.
The reason that more fish are eaten by sharks than people is that we don't live in the ocean.
The fish do.
We only make ourselves vulnerable if we go into the ocean on their turf.
What do you think a shark's teeth are for?
I mean, it is a killing machine, and it is a predator, and you get in its way when it's hungry.
You've got a problem if you're not prepared to deal with it.
It doesn't mean the shark's insane.
It doesn't mean something's wrong.
It doesn't mean the shark is mad that we're in in it blowing up the temperature of the planet.
It's just being a shark.
And there are situations where even though we we are the dominant superior species, if we are stupid, uh we all will certainly put ourselves at great risk and dangerous.
Whether the the shark is Al Qaeda, whether the shark is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whether the shark is a bear, whether the shark is a lion or a tiger or a wildebeest.
If we don't know what we're dealing with and who we're dealing with, and respect it as we know it can be in ways that threaten us, we deserve what happens to us.
Back in just a second.
In Columbia, South Carolina, you gotta hear this.
A fed up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great grandmother's things and playing with his Christmas presents early.
The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a game boy handheld video game player from its hiding place at his great grandmother's house next door and played it.
He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken at a local police station handcuffs.
He's 12 years old, and held until his mother picked him up after church.
It was it was only to teach my son a lesson.
He's been going through life doing things and getting away with it, said the boy's mother, as though she's just a spectator.
Name is Brandy Irvin.
Probably a listener.
Police did not release the boy's name, but unless she's gotten married since the last twelve years, his last name's gotta be Irvin.
But you never know.
The mother said her son was diagnosed in the last year with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but that his medicine doesn't seem to help.
Uh Brandy.
It's called spanking.
Anthony in uh Atlanta, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey doing Rush.
Hey, just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Back on the this Iraq study group and I've been thinking about uh everything's The Iraq surrender group.
It's the Iraq surrender group.
The surrender group, thanks.
Um this is to me, this is about a sales job.
This is about packaging.
Um what we from us who pay attention to it every day.
It's hard for us to see it when we're when we see how uh the Democrats and how this whole thing has been coming out from the media, but from those who voted on 117 who sent the Democrats to power, this is about a sales job.
They're repackaging the Iraq war now on a positive spin.
So this is about destroying the Republican Party and any chances of the Republican Party gaining regaining power.
Uh well, you know, uh uh might go along with part of that.
Uh I think it is a sales job.
I think it's a sales job on repackaging the war as a loss.
That can be laid at the feet of the Republican Party.
It's uh but it's it's more than that.
It's about it's about these people trying to come up with bipartisanship and consensus.
It's it's it's an irresponsible document in that it doesn't uh address military strategy, does not address victory, does not address accomplishing the mission.
All it does is attempts to unite the American people with consensus and bipartisanship around the notion of American defeat.
Now, you're interpreting that as as uh as an effort to destroy the Republican Party.
Yeah, well, uh to me the the Iraq study group is kind of the only kind of meaning.
It's merely the product that's being sold to us.
Surrender group.
It's the Iraq surrender group.
The the surrender group is really being sold to us really as the product.
I mean, Sam J. O'Connor said it herself.
It's up to the media to now go sell it to us, basically.
To now be uh now the in the media is going to spin the Iraq war as well as things get implemented well, all these positive things are gonna start happening.
So the people in the Great Unwash look at this as wow, the Democrats really are doing the job.
So when it comes down, even though most of these things have already especially the training and all, it's already been happening.
But the most of those people haven't been told by the media that these things have been happening.
But now they're gonna be told.
Now they're gonna package it up and make it all look much better, and anything that goes wrong, well, we'll just blame Bush for because we already they already got him in the box.
Well, I mean that that's uh that's already been accomplished, too, blaming Bush.
When you talk about the media in this, talk about the media in this, the meet the media uh is is spinning this as we told you so.
The media is spinning this is a victory for themselves.
Uh this the as far as the media concerned, the Iraq surrender groups report is mission accomplished.
We set out to make sure this war would not succeed because it's a Bush war, it's not an American war, and we cannot allow Americans to achieve military victory and success.
We don't like the military anyway, so they'll they'll spin this.
Um I I think they have to keep spinning Iraq as an utter disaster, Anthony.
Uh as long as Bush is in the White House.
They're they're not gonna start all of a sudden Iraq's not going to become paradise.
Just because the study group uh surrender group has issued its report, and we don't know what Bush is going to implement from it, if anything, or all of it.
Need some patience on this.
I appreciate your thoughts, though.
Gotta go for a quick break here, folks, because we're nearing the end of the busy broadcast period.
Stay with us.
I can't let the program end today without some news of Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
This is from the UK Guardian.
Uh Mahmoud, who flaunts his ideological fervor, has been accused of undermining Iran's Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show at the uh opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Qatar.
A sporting competition involving 13,000 athletes from 39 countries watching dancing girls.
Meanwhile, how did Mahmood respond?
He warned Western leaders earlier today to follow the path of God or vanish from the face of the earth.
He keeps saying this, folks.
These oppressive countries are angry with us, a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power.
They are angry with our nation, but we tell them so be it, and die from your anger.
Rest assured, if you don't respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth.
This is Mahmoud Ahmadineijad, who I don't believe was addressed in the Iraq surrender group report, other than to suggest that we go talk to him and try to get him to help us out in our moment of difficulty in Iraq.
I'll see you tomorrow, folks, after I go throw up.
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