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Dec. 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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And greetings once again to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
The award-winning, thrill-packed, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen.
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A special welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam today, and an apology for those of you listening via streaming audio at Rush Limbaugh.com or the uh website, the rotgut music that we played uh during the break at the top uh was by the McKenzie brothers uh from the old obscure SC TV series.
Uh isn't that the show that had Guy Caballero as uh as the head honcho of the network?
Whatever it was, uh this is not in the normal rotation, has never ever been approved by me.
We have a uh substitute broadcast engineer who brought it in from home today, uh, which is the atmosphere I create here.
I'm one of the best bosses in the world to work for because everybody thinks they can break any rule with impunity.
Um just trying to help the show.
Uh and so I just I merely wanted to explain this.
I got back in here from the from the break and went out to take a look at the flooding that's happening here in uh in the Palm Beach, Florida area, and I come back and I I clipped the audio in.
I said, What in the name of Sam Hill is this?
Uh and I inquired, and of course, when I found it was the McKenzie brothers, who frankly I've never heard of.
Uh I knew then that the uh really competent and nice uh substitute engineer brought it in from home.
So that's the explosion.
Please please don't email me about this.
Now I mentioned a Gallup poll, ladies and I've got a fascinating email here.
I didn't know that Gallup conducted polls, and this is, I guess, is not really a poll.
It is and it isn't.
I guess, but I didn't know they did this via internet and via email.
I always thought they used telephone calls uh, you know, to people that they consider to be part of their qualified sample.
But I got a note here from a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Dear Rush.
I just took a Gallup poll that came to me via email.
One of the questions was this.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with them on the issues, please indicate if you ever consider the views of each of the following leaders when shaping your own opinions about various public affairs issues.
Uh the options were A, yes, I consider their view depending on the issue.
B, no, I never consider their view, or C, I don't know this person.
The people were listed in groups of five.
And I was in a group of five.
There were more than five, but the group of five, I don't have everybody that was listed, but I do have the people in my group.
In my group of five, Bill Gates, former president Bill Clinton, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, CNN newscaster Larry King, and entertainer activist Bono.
Now, the guy that sent me the email says, I thought it was interesting they had you right below Clinton and right above Larry King.
I'm not sure if we're supposed to share these poll questions with you, Rush, but I thought you'd find it interesting, and I can keep a lookout for the results in the uh in the near future.
Merry Christmas is from Jacob from Parton protect his uh identity here.
Now, some might say, well, Rush, you have just corrupted the poll.
Absolutely, ladies and gentlemen.
This was this is a setup if I've ever seen one.
Don't know this person.
No, I never consider their views.
This is a setup.
Be on the lookout, ladies and gentlemen.
If if you get one of these emails in the Gallup poll, uh make sure you find the group that has my name in it, and whatever you do, don't put down C. Of course, that's not possible anyway.
There's it is not possible anymore for any person in this country not to have heard of me.
And I I'm not speaking here as uh as an egomaniac, because those of you who know me intimately and know me well know that I'm the furthest thing from an ego maniac that you can get.
Uh, it's just the drive-by media has such a done a good job of I mean, getting my name out there and associated with any number of people and Uh and issues that it's it I just I don't think there's anybody hadn't heard of me.
Uh fortunately I don't do a whole lot of TV, so I'm not that recognized.
I got my share of it, but anyway, I just wanted to pass this on to you, uh, ladies and gentlemen, so that you can be on the lookout.
Also uh breaking news from ABC News.com.
FBI officials warn the impending death of the blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, uh, an Al-Qaeda spiritual leader in prison.
It's a terrorist for crying out loud, ABC.
What in the world are we talking about here?
He's a terrorist.
This is the guy who was instrumental in blowing up the World Trade Center in 1993 and plotted to blow up the what?
Couple of bridges and some tunnels.
And he's uh he's in jail.
And they call him the blind cleric sheikh Omar Abdelrahman, an Al-Qaeda spiritual terrorist.
What is so hard about identifying these people as who they are?
Anyway, his impending death warns the FBI could lead the terrorist group Al-Qaeda to launch terror attacks on the United States.
Now he's near death because he's diabetic.
Uh he's not been in the best of health for long.
He's blind and so forth, so I guess his death from natural causes will be chalked up by Al-Qaeda to us.
And they could launch terror strikes.
Anyway, just getting everybody uh aware of this.
Unhel Nieves Diaz, who was convicted of murdering a Miami topless bar manager 27 years ago, was executed by lethal injection yesterday, appearing to grimace before dying 34 minutes after receiving the first of two doses of chemicals.
The manner of his death will almost certainly rekindle the argument that Florida's method of execution constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Yeah, the old Sparky didn't work.
Uh the electric chair, so they went to the lethal injection.
That doesn't seem to work.
What are we what are we talking about here?
It didn't take this man 34 minutes to die.
It took him 27 years.
It was pretty humane, if you ask me.
He got free room and board, and he was still sucking in air twenty-seven years after the woman he murdered stopped breathing.
Twenty-seven years to die and not 34.
Story out of Beijing, the long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs.
The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium.
Attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastics failed because the dolphins' stomachs contracted in response to the instruments.
Vegetarian, I'm sorry, veterinarians, uh, then decided to ask for the help of Bao Zishwan, a seven-foot-nine herdsman from inner Mongolia with 41.7-inch long arms.
He's 54.
He is confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man.
Photographs showed the jaws of one of the dolphins being held back by towels so that this guy could reach inside the animal without being bitten.
Some very small plastic pieces are still left in the dolphin's stomachs, uh, said a local vet.
However, the dolphins will be able to digest those and are expected to recover soon.
So despite their great intellect, ladies and gentlemen, uh despite the dolphins smarter than we are, still for some reason nibbling on plastic, uh, has to be due to global warming.
And even at that, they needed the assistance of some human freak in order to be able to uh have their lives saved.
Quick timeout will be back.
President Bush audio from his press conference yesterday after meeting with the war council.
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You would not believe the number of stories out there on the minimum wage, and you would not believe a number of stories out there on emigration.
And I'll tell you what's going on here.
Uh the Democrats are out there saying, we're not going to touch this immigration.
We're not going to get anywhere near it.
It's a powder keg, it's hot potatoes, and the media is not going to let them off.
The media is going to try to drive this issue down everybody's throats, and the minimum wage uh is the same thing.
It must be four or five different minimum wage stories today from the wire services.
Uh and And I that is something that sort of mystifies me because that is going to happen.
Everybody's caved on the minimum wage.
But I have some details on all these things coming up.
Here's here's this is just an incredible story.
I laughed myself silly.
Eyewitnesses told of anguish as police swooped on several meat packing plants in the U.S. largest immigration raid on Tuesday, the day Mexicans honor their beloved national icon, the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The swoop by more than 1,000 immigration and customs enforcement officers on Swift and Company meat packing plants in six states of Utah to Texas netted nearly 1,300 people, most of them undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
As news of the raid spread among the congregation of people attending a mass in Greeley, Colorado, honoring the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe's legendary appearance to an Indian peasant nearly 500 years ago.
People trickled out of the service into the streets where ice and snow still lay in patches from snowfalls a few days earlier.
There was a tremendous sorrow, horror, uncertainty.
A lot of people just left the mass, went up to the plant.
The ice agents walked into the plant, hard hatch provided by the company.
We got phone calls.
How dare they conduct this raid on the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe?
And this uh this story is a Reuters story, the Reuters story, very sympathetic to the illegal immigrants who got iced in the raid.
Uh they'll be back in the job soon.
I mean, this is this one of these uh sh I think a display here to try to quell some of the national anger over illegal illegal immigration uh people you're not doing anything about oh, yeah, watch this raid.
We'll do it on the day of Guadalupe, and it'll really make them mad, and you'll see how tough we are on these people.
But um beyond that, not much uh will happen.
They said it was identity theft.
Federal officials said Wednesday the raids on these plants in six states uncovered a disturbing front in the battle against illegal immigration, identity theft as a tool to obtain employment.
Really?
Well, how shattering, uh shocking of news is that.
The whole thing is about identity.
How else are you gonna get a social security card or any other form of identification if you're illegal, if you don't steal it from somebody.
Or make it up.
President Bush said yesterday that he would not be rushed into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq, saying that a round of uh consultations he heard both some interesting ideas and some not so good ideas.
We have some sound bites here.
Here's a portion of his remarks to the press yesterday after meeting with the uh grand poopas of war.
In the months of October, November, and the first week of December, we have killed or captured nearly 5,090 of the enemy.
While our enemy is far from being defeated, there should be no doubt in anybody's mind that every day and night, the Iraqi government and our brave men and women of the armed forces are taking the fight to the enemy.
That in spite of the fact that I am conducting a strategic review of the best way forward in Iraq, there are a lot of operations taking place day and night.
I'm just going to tell you as I as I uh opined yesterday.
I I think we're getting ready for a giant screw you to the whole Baker Hamilton bunch and all of the people in the drive-by media who have been trying to force us out of Iraq, making it the campaign issue.
The Baker Hamilton group, the Iraq Surrender Group report comes out, and the media is just hoping and praying the president will be forced to adopt it.
Because it's a recipe for surrender.
It is cut and run without the terms.
It doesn't talk about victory.
It's not even a military document.
It's all about supposedly all about uh consensus.
Uh all of the American people, we've got to unite the American people.
We can't continue to go on at loggerheads like this.
Well, the attempt to unite the American people is under the concept of defeat.
And I've ever since the election, I have marveled at all of the stories I've read from generals and experts who before the election were got to get out of there.
My God, we're losing soldiers, we're losing our national treasure, we're embouilling ourselves, we're just not getting anywhere.
It's just a mess we got to get out.
And now all of a sudden, after the election, when supposedly the American people spoke and demanded that we get out, there's not a soul of any responsibility who says that we should.
In fact, they're now talking about increasing troop levels.
It's not just McCain talking about it.
It's a lot of people talking about, including the president.
So I don't see any indication where the president is prone to take any advice whatsoever from the Iraq Study Group, just the opposite.
He got a question yesterday, unidentified reporters said, as you've gone through the uh extensive process here, Mr. President.
Have you heard any news, uh new ideas at all?
Uh anything that would change your thinking about this.
I've heard some ideas that would lead to defeat.
And I reject those ideas.
Blah blah blah, blah.
Ideas such as leaving before the job is done.
Ideas uh such as uh not helping this government take the necessary and hard steps to be able to do its job.
I put off my speech.
Actually, I was quite flexible about what I was going to give my speech to begin with.
And one of the main reasons why is I really do want the new Secretary of Defense to have time to get to know people and hear people and uh be a part of this deliberation, and he will not be sworn in until next Monday.
Now, when you listen to him say here, he's he's he's just come out of a meeting, and I watched this yesterday, he's just come out of a meeting with uh uniform military people and and probably others, uh, but those people in uniform were standing behind him when he conducted the press conference, when he gave his comments and then started taking questions.
And this this question, anything that would change your thinking.
I've heard some ideas that would lead to defeat, and I reject those ideas.
I wonder if any of the people standing behind him had given him those ideas.
It almost has to be or either that or he's referring to the Iraq surrender group, ladies and gentlemen.
I hope it's the latter, because I hope there weren't a bunch of military people in there that were giving him ideas on how to lose.
Uh it this has to be a veiled reference to the Iraq study group, surrender group, uh, with uh and but with the backdrop of these military people, I think a lot of the press people say, whoa, wonder who up on that stage he's uh talking about.
Victor Davis Hansen today, um, a really good piece with some great reminders uh in it uh about the uselessness of this Iraq surrender group uh report in the first place.
And his theme is one of the ideas of the Iraq surrender group, as you know, is that the United States needs to conduct talks with Syria and with Iran.
By the way, again, I we broke this story yesterday, but I this this Bill Nelson, this this twit senator from down here.
There's a picture of him meeting with Assad in the story today in the New York Sun.
Uh he actually, in violation, well, the White House asked him not to do this, asked all these senators, no go do this.
But Democrats just cannot help it.
They have to go out there and talk to the enemy.
So he went over there and he had his meeting with Assad, he comes out of his meeting with Bashar Assad and says, you know what, I talked to Assad about dealing with us and helping us out in Iraq, and he's more than willing to.
He's more than willing to cooperate with us.
He wants to end the I'm I'm sitting, what kind of blind bats do we have?
Hello, Neville Chamberlain.
I mean, I'm I'm getting tired of making this comparison.
It seems like this whole party is a bunch of Neville Chamberlains.
So anyway, Nelson is over there, he just got re-elected, so he's safe.
He can go make a fool of himself all he wants because people forget about it before the next six-year election for him is up.
Uh and goes over there and and it's one of the reasons he was sent, I'm sure.
Uh, and goes over there and and basically is doing his best to undermine U.S. policy by promoting the Iraq surrender group, which is plummeting from the sky without a parachute.
This thing is about to implode, it's going nowhere.
It would it's soon gonna be forgotten, but this is part of the effort to uh uh make the Iraq surrender group something, parts of it, that uh the president picks up and tackles.
He specifically said he's not gonna do that.
Victor Davis Hansen reminds us, remember the Iran Contra scandal of 1986?
That was a mess that sullied the reputations of some of those, James Baker, now calling for renewed negotiations with Iran.
In 83, Iranian-backed Hezbollah kidnapped Americans in Lebanon.
Some of the Reagan administration thought that Iran could help free the hostages if uh if we sold them arms.
That all they proved was the old dictum that democracies should not eagerly beseech dictatorships from a position of perceived weakness.
We've tried talking to Iran before.
Two very well-known occasions.
Didn't work either time.
Won't work now.
Thank you.
Thank you, I know.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Now, this next story is a fabulous story, and I don't know, it's not getting a lot of play, precisely because it's a fabulous story.
A federal judge, and this is a big-time leftist judge, upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that club gitmo detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in United States courts.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Robertson, and I think this guy is uh I know he's a big lib, I think he's a Clinton appointee.
Uh the ruling by U.S. District Judge James Robertson rejects a legal challenge by Salem Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama Bin Bama, whose case prompted the Supreme Court to strike down the Bush administration's policy on detainees last year.
Following that ruling, Bush pushed for and got a new law that established military commissions, the tribunals, to try enemy combatants uh and stripped them of the right to seek their freedom in U.S. courts.
So the judge, his hands were tied, he had no choice.
He said Congress passed a law clearly intending to keep such cases as Hamdans out of federal courts.
And because of that, he, the judge, no longer has jurisdiction to hear it.
The uh ruling is a legal victory for the Bush administration, which it says here has been fending off criticism of the new law from Democrats and civil libertarians.
Too bad you lost me one, and finally the U.S. courts are at least out of one element of the uh war on terror.
Try this story from the the you ever read these guys at editor and publisher.
It's a trade publication, and they are j- I mean, you think the drive-by media is liberal.
Both people drive by media's kindergarten compared to the staff of this place.
Here's the headline: U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 2,940 within 33 of 911 total.
With five more deaths reported today, at least 2,940 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March of 2003.
The AP count is six higher than the Defense Department's tally, which often gets updated.
The most often cited number for those killed on America in America on 911, 2973, leaving the Iraq tally just 33 short at the current rate.
The 911 number will be eclipsed within a week.
And they can't wait to report it as though that is relevant.
To the phones, people have been waiting patiently.
This is uh Jim and Martinez, Georgia.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
Uh honor to be on your show.
Hey.
In reference to the recent uh Holocaust denial conference in Iran, I propose that we have a dual conference here in the U.S. with leading rabbis and Christian pastors to decide whether Mohammed was uh really a prophet and what Islam is really all about.
Radical Islam is really all about.
That, you know, that would not quite be analogous.
Uh it might be fun for the five minutes it lasted before the terrorists blew it up.
Uh, but the fact is that the uh the the Holocaust is an historical event with documentation and all kinds of proof uh all over the place.
Uh religions, of course, are Matters of faith, and you and you cannot have a scholarly conference on the uh on whether a religion is correct or not, because it's uh it's all faith.
Besides that, Jim, and I appreciate the phone call out there, uh, but there's somebody I I should have printed this out yesterday.
I I didn't print it out because frankly, I didn't think it wise to mention it.
But that was then, and this is now, and as a result of your phone call, some scholar says he has proof studying the writings of the uh holy Quran and and other things that the Prophet Muhammad had really bad epilepsy,
and that some of the thing he had the kind of epilepsy that that can cause people not just to have seizures, but to become enraged, sort of like Tourette's send them when they start just swearing all over the place for no reason whatsoever.
Uh and he's he's he says he can prove that that the Muhammad uh uh wrote some of the craziest things uh wrote wrote some of what he wrote when he was in the middle of these seizures and so forth.
Now, thankfully I don't remember this guy's name because I don't want to be complicit in his death.
But I hope this guy, I mean, this is n I mean, what Salman Rushdie did is nothing compared to what this guy has done.
Uh I'll see if I can find it for you, and because it's uh I'm trying to paraphrase from memory uh what I read.
Harry in Greenville, South Carolina, you're next.
Great to have you, sir, with us on the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you.
I do too.
I was thinking the other night about about Ronald Reagan, and you know, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.
I was thinking about him, if he was alive and president today, what would he do with the situation in Iraq?
And what did you come up with?
I thought he would he would take every bit of our military, everything that we have to destroy them and win this war.
Well, it's interesting.
Uh, there are uh a number of uh scholars uh who endeavor to uh tackle subjects like this.
What would Reagan do?
Uh and then there's of course the what would Jesus do people uh there's even what would Rush do.
There's a what would Rush do crowd out there?
Uh I've so I've been informed.
It's impossible, it's impossible to really know.
I mean, you you you might say that, but uh we didn't, you know, Reagan did not defeat the Soviet Union with military activity.
You could say Grenada uh tried to arm the Contras and so forth.
Reagan didn't commit troops.
Um in fact, Wagan withdrew troops uh after the uh 242 Marines were uh were were murdered in uh in Lebanon, uh pulled uh pulled some of our uh Navy ships out of there.
So it's really it's it's it's tough to know what uh what anybody would do.
I uh uh you because had had at anybody but Bush been president, it it's difficult to say that the same set of circumstances would have happened.
Um we could make the argument that if Al Gore had been president, we wouldn't have gone to Iraq, we probably wouldn't have done much after 9-11 either, uh, other than conduct a bunch of seminars on why do they hate us?
And uh, you know, John Kerry would be uh an emissary to go talk to bin Laden, what did we do to make you do this to us and this sort of thing.
There'd be all these encounter group sessions uh with people asking why does America hate us and what do we got to do to change it?
They've done that anyway, but now they have a blame for it, and that's uh and that's Bush.
So it's it's comforting to think that Reagan might might have done something different.
We really can't know.
Uh Robert in Detroit, your next sir, glad you waited, the EIB network.
Ah, how are you doing, uh Rush?
Well, good.
Uh is memory ser as memory serves me correctly.
When Ali North and General Seccord were ferrying weapons to the Iranian military in 86 and garnering support to have hostages released in Lebanon.
Two hostages actually did get released.
And we were using the excess monies from that behavior to fund the Contras so that the American taxpayers wouldn't have to do it.
And we were getting back in good with the Iranian military, whom we had trained, because I trained with them.
I was in the Air Force when we were training them.
Uh actually everything was working exactly the way the presidential office is supposed to work.
It's his job to Deal with other countries as he sees fit.
And it wasn't until a couple of Democrats blew that to the media that that all fell apart, and these guys had to stay incarcerated for a little longer.
Who were the Democrats that blew Iran Contra to the media?
Do you remember?
I do not recall that.
I do not recall their names.
I mean I was so incensed.
I thought that somebody should have taken them out and hung them.
Oh, come on.
What do you what do you expect them to do when they for the these were the people?
These were the people that were that pr for all intents and purposes, they were siding with Daniel Ortega in this Iraq in this Contras situation down there.
Absolutely.
And the the Sandinistas.
And of course, they had they'd come up with the Boland Amendment, uh named after a congressman from Massachusetts that said it was uh against the law to any taxpayer dollars to go to the Contras.
Well, you disagree with it, disagree with it's the law.
You can't do it, but it was clearly a law that the um uh uh the public and and and and of course the Republicans found repugnant uh tying the hands of the press.
So I I thought that the scheme of the Iran Contra thing, Oli North and Sequel, I thought was brilliant.
I and I'll never forget when Ollie testified, oh, folks, that was such what was that, 86, 86 or 87?
I remember being in Sacramento watching this, and and here came these pompous Democrats on this committee and their lawyers, Arthur Lyman, the late Arthur Lyman from New York was one of them, and there was this other guy, John Neal or something like that.
Uh saw him on TV not long ago.
But I mean, there's you know, the witness is in effect sitting in a sewer, and all these poo bahs are sitting like fifteen feet above them, uh talking down to them.
These they thought that they had North, they and this is a great lesson for lawyers.
They they gave North immunity because they th they were just convinced North was going to give them President Reagan.
And they made the mistake.
They were so certain of their conclusions, so certain that Reagan knew about all this was behind it, and that North would give him up for the immunity, that they didn't even talk to him.
You never grant a witness immunity before you know what he's gonna say, but they did.
And North ran rings around these brilliant poo-ba type lawyers and these Democrats on the committee.
I remember George Mitchell lecturing Reagan or North and all just sitting there smiling.
You can't take the law in your own hands.
He got a constitutional lecture and so forth.
But when the subject of shredded documents came up, Arthur Lyman or one of the lawyers pulled out uh one of these docks started reading from it, and Ollie said, What?
Did I miss one?
Did I not get them all?
We'll be back in just a second.
We may we we might have to spend the night here tonight, gang.
They got a flash flood watch.
It's raining uh very hard here at the EIB Southern Command, and there's a four-lane road in front of our private uh building here, unmarked, don't try to feel never see it.
The median is now covered by the uh the rain.
Snerdley has a grim, worried look on his uh on his face.
At any rate, we're back.
El Rushbo serving humanity.
Here is this story.
Let me just give you the headline.
Islam based on epileptic prophecies, says book from Iran native neuropsychologist.
The uh date line is Canton, Ohio.
Religious prophet Muhammad suffers from uh suffered from epileptic seizures, according to a book recently released by a native of Tehran and raised as a Muslim neuropsychologist, Abbas Sadigian delivers these findings in the book Sword and Seizure, based on historical text, including the Quran.
Sidegian was inspired by a comparable paper he presented in 2001 uh at New York University's fielding institution.
So he's inspired by himself.
He says that Muhammad had suffered from complex partial seizures, which are displayed through excessive sweating and light trembling, olfactory auditory and visual hallucinations, epigastric sensations, which is uh bad taste.
I mean, that's if you means things don't taste right.
Uh excessive perspiration to be sweat for those of you in Rio Linda and hyper religiosity.
That's all of those things uh comprise symptoms of the kind of epilepsy that um Mohammed had.
He says the evidence of these is recounted throughout the Quran.
When asked by a reporter from the Canton repository if the same diagnosis could apply to Jesus, Buddha, or other religious figures.
Sidegian replied there aren't nearly as many independent historical documents detailing their lives.
Now, this was posted on December 11th.
It's December 14th.
It's three days later, and I think this man is still alive.
I have not seen any stories recounting his death.
IV, Sacramento, California, glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, there.
Hello there.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I'm gonna confuse with this uh false comparison thing going on.
Most people usually are.
That's why they call here and listen to this program to get straightened out.
I'll help.
That's true.
They're comparing 9-11 with how many people were losing in battle in Iran, right?
Iraq, yes.
Correct.
Uh how many people died in Pearl Harbor, and how many people did we lose in that whole World War II battle?
Of course, but you understand the well you now you do understand the purpose of this kind of reporting.
I mean, you you are aware that they breathlessly were counting up to the first 1,000 deaths.
They were panting.
And when we finally hit 1,000, they threw a party, a media drive-by party, then 1,500, then 2,000, and then 3,000.
They're they're they're doing the same thing.
Now they compare it to 9-11 because their point is, okay, we lost 3,000 Americans in 9-11.
We have sent 3,000 other Americans to their death in Iraq, and for what?
Bush's war.
It's simply an attempt to say that Bush, when he's through, is gonna have killed more Americans than the attacks of 9-11 did.
That's where this is headed, Ivy, make no mistake about it.
Well, I thought they were trying to do a new goal thing, like uh tit for tat.
We lost so many 9-11, so now the liberals say, well, we'll lose so many in the war and then pull our troops back.
Uh well, in a way, yes, but uh uh the the point is that when this is all said and done, they want to be able to say that we've lost more Americans in war because of George Bush than we lost on 9-11.
Uh that that's that's where this is headed.
It's it's it's it's about nothing else.
There may be some ancillaries, but but that's pretty much it.
Dick Macedonia, Ohio.
Next, sir, you're up.
Oh, Rush.
Pleasure to talk.
Oh, wait a minute.
There's Obama.
Hang on, just there's a picture of Obama.
His ears are huge.
You know, I had I had not noticed that that much before, but this shot, especially from behind.
Yes, uh, Dick, what were you uh saying?
How can we condemn uh Ronald Reagan for his uh Iran contra activity when FDR gets a pass for evading, which I believe is historically accurate, the prohibition on selling arms to any combatant.
He used what was called land leafs.
So he said, I'm not selling arms to anyone, I'm just lending them.
Come on.
Dick, you know the answer to this question.
Answer answer your question for me.
Oh, because uh he's a left-wing liberal.
Reagan's a Republican.
Yeah.
FDR is a Democrat.
FDR is the greatest president in the world, his wife was the most beautiful woman in the world, and Hillary Clinton talks to her now.
Channels Eleanor Roosevelt.
You know this.
You know all this stuff.
You don't need to call here and ask that question.
How about the supposed rape case in uh in Durham, North Carolina, they're Raleigh Weber?
This is just this DA Nyphong.
We'll have details on this.
Uh all of the other this accuser has all kinds of uh other guys' DNA found in various articles of intimate underwear.
None of the DNA matches any of the three guys who've been accused.
Former CNN news chief Eason Jordan has resurfaced.
He's gonna launch a website called Iraq Slogger.
The irony of this is rich, and we will uh provide you the reasons in case you've forgotten when we come back after this brief time out.
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