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Jan. 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 3, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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And apparently it still does.
And greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome.
Monday marked the new year.
Today marks the happy in Happy New Year because I am back.
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We have three full hours chocked full of stuff today.
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So much happened uh over the past week and a half when I was out.
Normally it's one of the slowest weeks of the year, the year between Christmas and New Year's, but a lot happened.
We had the uh execution of Saddam Hussein and the just the hysterical reaction in this country to how it was carried out.
We had the uh the Breck girl announce his candidacy for the presidency, Democratic presidential nomination down in New Orleans with the, you know, the the they set the stage well with all the ruins uh in New Orleans with the with the with the Breck girl.
Now what a stunt that was.
Uh why why was he holding the shovel?
Was it was he holding a shovel to clear up the mud or to clear up the words that came out of his mouth in the process of his uh announcement?
Uh I the the the thing that's exciting to me about this uh is that it introduces a new potential great sport.
You know, there are a lot of Democratic candidates still yet to announce.
Edwards from North Carolina announced in New Orleans amidst the ruins of Katrina.
He went to the ninth ward.
John Kerry has yet to make it official, but when he does, where would be a good place for him to announce?
How about in front of the Eiffel Tower in France?
Joe Biden, he has yet to announce well, he hasn't announced officially, has he?
I mean, he everybody he should do it in front of a local hair club for men store.
Christopher Dodd doesn't matter where if he announces, because it's like if somebody if nobody hears a tree fall in the forest is making noise, nobody will hear it.
Hillary should announce in front of a Potemkin village an ornate facade with nothing behind it.
Uh and Al Gore, he should go up to Alaska and announce his candidacy in uh in and war.
Uh with the with the fired up speech, keep your drills out of my and war.
Uh John McCain, where could he announce?
He could announce in Hyannisport with uh with uh uh Russ Feingold on one side and Teddy Kennedy on his uh on his far left.
And I'm sure there's any number of uh possibilities for other Democrats who uh who are going to announce.
We also had the death and the burial of President Ford, which was a fascinating study in uh in modern drive-by media coverage.
They're gonna talk about all these things in uh in greater detail as the program unfolds today.
Uh what else happened out there that was uh that was big?
What am I is that the the Democrats take over tomorrow?
They're all excited.
Uh Nancy Pelosi.
By the way, that pledge to include the Republicans it's out the window.
Uh the Republicans are whining.
Well, what did they expect?
Did they actually did they expect the Democrats to actually include it?
Look at uh just just setting the stage here.
Uh uh.
I saw Britney's spears got.
Oh, guess what I did.
You know what I do with the break?
Ladies and gentlemen, I watched the first eight episodes of the new season of 24.
I did last Friday night, had some friends over, had about uh about 14 people over.
And food spread, served some great winery, refueled between episodes.
It took us uh six hours to watch the eight episodes.
We started at seven.
We finished at two thirty in the morning on Saturday.
Uh only four people left, and the only reason they left, they left after the fourth episode.
The show is gonna premiere on the 14th of January, 14th and 15th, two hours each night.
So the first four episodes will occur on the 14th and 15th.
Well, the eight episodes that I have, because I am a powerful influential member of the media, uh run us through February 12th.
These four people left because they didn't want to have to sit around and wait till February 19th to figure out what happens next.
But it's um it's it's its show is amazing.
And I'm not gonna tell you very much about it because I don't want to spoil it for anybody.
I'll just say that it is amazing.
Usually television series in their sixth year, like this one is Jump the Shark, have their jump the shark moment at some point, or they start uh their descendancy.
They've usually peaked.
This one is just getting better and better and better, and it is uh uh there there might be There might be m um well how to put this there there might be more um I'm trying not to give this away,
ladies and gentlemen, but it it it's just there are more terrorist acts in the first twenty minutes, the first thirty minutes of the first episode, uh than maybe in an entire season previously on this uh on this TV show.
So discuss more of that as the uh program unfolds.
Go to the audio soundbites here to uh just review a couple of things that happened uh over the break.
This was last Wednesday, CNN's Larry King Live.
Larry King talking with uh former Senator Howard Baker in 92, Howard, at the Republican convention in which uh Pat Buchanan spoke in prime time.
I think Rush Limbaugh was an invited special guest.
Gerald Ford told me that this is not the Republican Party I know.
You surprised at that?
No, I'm not surprised at that.
And indeed I I think of Jerry Ford as one of a small and diminishing group of what I call centerist Republicans, not necessarily liberal or conservative, but I can centerist.
And I would not be surprised at Ford saying that.
Well, you know, Larry King was right.
I was an invited special guest to Houston, the Republican convention, nineteen ninety-two.
And you know what?
I ended up sitting right next to President and Mrs. Ford.
On the night that I think Pat Robertson was giving his speech, uh I've I forget which, and I had a very nice conversation with him about Mary Fisher, uh who had also spoken at the uh at the convention.
And I ran into Gerald Ford a number of other times, uh out at the Bob Hope Pricler Classic in uh in Palm Springs, which is where the uh President had his winter home.
Uh and at I mean he sought me out a couple of times uh uh in the camp past, I think three or four years out there, two or three, whatever it was, uh, to talk about President Bush and what a great job he thought he was doing.
Um and uh President Ford and I had uh uh uh and his wife Betty uh w had a lot of pleasant conversations, particularly at the Republican convention, and I did not get the impression at all that Gerald Ford was embarrassed to be there.
Uh did not get the impression that Gerald Ford was at all concerned.
He didn't say anything to me, and he was as gracious as he could be, and he didn't s he didn't make any effort um to leave the section where a bunch of us were sitting at the convention.
As I say, he um very graciously and kindly I was on the tenth T, I remember, uh when it happened the first time.
You don't forget these things.
It was on the 10th T out of the Palmer West course uh at the Bob Hope Christ for Classic that uh uh Palmer.
The Palmer private course at PJ West, I think he uh came up to me.
I'd we're taking a break after the first nine, and I'd gone to the uh restroom, one of the porta potties they have set up there for the players.
Uh and as I came out, somebody said Gerald Ford, President Ford wants to talk to you.
I didn't find him at all concerned, ladies and gentlemen, as Mr. Baker attempts to uh present here or as Larry King tries to present, that he was embarrassed uh about anything, or that he would uh uh suggest this was not his Republican Party.
Was always interested in what was going on with the Republican Party in a positive way in the few times that I had an opportunity to speak to him.
Brief time out, we'll back uh be back and continue.
Uh lots to squeeze in here today, folks.
Uh we'll start immediately right after this time out.
And a pleasant greetings and a hearty hello and welcome to conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Rush Limbaugh back putting the happy and happy new year from the EIB Network 800 282-2882.
If you uh want to be on the program.
Well, I've got to grab this phone call.
Uh we're gonna go to line two.
Uh this is Brian in Pittsburgh.
Brian, glad you called, and welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to talk to you, sir.
Uh Rush, this is amazing.
Uh Did I'm uh thirty years old.
I've been listening to you since uh uh literally I was twelve years old.
Uh mom's a big a lib.
Uh what can you do?
Um, you know, so uh it just proves that uh there are some some good young young uh uh thinkers out there uh that are independent, capable of uh making their own decisions.
Good hang tough, but yeah, it's what you gotta do, right?
Um but uh I've noticed uh over the past uh uh couple weeks.
Um uh you you've had some some observations uh for one one uh uh excuse me uh on on apocalypto, um one on uh Sylvester Stallone's uh new Rocky movie.
Uh I think there was another one uh on the Nativity story.
And you've been very positive about these movies, and uh uh you know, because I listened to you, I I value your opinion.
And uh you know, I I said, hey, I'm gonna go see some of these.
And uh Okay, so what's the question?
I'm sorry.
I'm uh the question is uh are you uh getting paid for for these positive um um sort sort of uh uh opinions or uh or are these just your honest papers?
What do you think?
Uh well at first uh because I've never heard heard you do this before.
And uh and your your your take on these was very positive.
And I'm um I took it uh uh just uh you know what do you think?
I think uh that that uh maybe you must you must think that I am since you call this.
I think maybe you're I think I am not being paid for these things.
I that that that's the I make so much money they couldn't pay me enough to make it matter.
It would be pocket change, it would only confuse things for me.
I mean, I don't need ten and twenty dollar bills in my pocket.
They're problematic.
Well, there's just so many new types of marketing uh out there.
And uh I'll tell you what I think has happened.
I'll tell you what I tell you what I think is happening.
In fact, uh since you bring this up, uh I also watched We Are Marshall over the break.
Now that's already been released, but I of course uh got a preview copy as a powerful, influential member of the media.
What I think is happening here, uh, Brian, uh, is these things uh surprise me too.
All of a sudden I'm getting all these requests from people to watch their movies.
I think it's because uh Hollywood box office has not been all that hot, and there are some people uh who have noticed that uh uh recommendations from people like me are expanding the potential audience.
Uh it started with the passion of the Christ and some other things that with Mel Gibson.
It's it's it's United 93 was uh was another one.
Uh so you know I I uh but I'm not being paid for this.
I mean, that's that that uh nobody, no no critic uh is paid that I know of.
Uh I wouldn't take it if offered, and I wouldn't seek it.
Uh it couldn't be that much.
Anyway, there's no quid pro quo, and then in the interest of full disclosure is why I took this uh phone call.
Uh I can't believe I'm into my nineteenth year, and here's somebody been listening for twelve and still has questions about my integrity.
Why I I'm offended.
My feelings are somewhat hurt by this, Brian, but I'll let it.
I'll well I it's okay.
Jimmy Carter may be getting paid by the Saudis, but I'm not Jimmy Carter.
And I don't know a Saudi to go out and ask to be paid uh by for saying or doing anything.
Jimmy Carter can say whatever he wants and take money from her.
But I I look at folks, I am clean.
You know me.
I don't accept freebies from anybody because I don't want to be obligated.
Uh and uh it's just it's just that way.
So I'm I'm grateful for the call out there, Brian, but I'm offended slightly.
That you would even assume that I would be on the take for something as as relatively inconsequential as a movie review.
You know me.
I have always, throughout the entire history of this program, I've gone to great lengths to share my passions.
I also share things that I don't like.
Uh I share my opinion of it.
But when I find something I enjoy, I share it with.
I want uh everybody to enjoy it as much as possible uh as I do.
So that's that.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is a hoot.
Uh CNN puts up this giant graphic.
When they're doing a story on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, they put up a giant graphic.
Uh and the graphic says, Where's Obama?
It happened while Wolf Blitzer was making the announcement.
Plus, a new year, but the same mission.
Will 2007 bring any new changes in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?
And of course, the graphics said, Where's Obama?
And it had a picture of bin Laden and so forth.
This led to CNN nervously wringing its hands and being terribly apologetic.
It started yesterday morning with Solidad O'Brien on their uh on their morning show.
We want to take a moment to correct and also apologize for a mistake that was made yesterday on CNN's situation room.
An on-screen graphic questioning where Osama bin Laden might be, showed the words, Where's Obama, briefly on the screen instead of saying, Where's Osama?
CNN regrets the error, and obviously, Senator Obama are apologies to you.
Well, that's all well and good.
I want to s who else is CNN apologize to for such things.
I mean, they've they plasted my medical records all over the screen, a number of other factual inaccuracies about me.
Uh, and I don't recall any apologies.
They had to go out of their way to apologize.
And of course, you know, this this Obama Osama thing for the longest time was blamed on me.
In a number of uh drive-by media news articles, now CNN has fallen prey to the whole thing.
And of course, remember, like who was it?
Was it President Bush or somebody?
Uh, or Reagan?
At some point they were running a video piece, and some giant X appeared on the s on the on the screen over the the uh the face of whoever it was they were talking about, and they did an investigation of CNN.
They couldn't figure out who did it, it was just a technical glitch.
Um and of course, this was just an unfortunate what did she say?
Um uh error uh it was it was a mistake made yesterday uh on the situation on screen graphic.
Uh it was just a slight typo.
This is the same network that a month ago did a whole story uh with their man on the street journalist, Genie Moss.
They ran around and asked people if uh Barack Obama was a threat to the United States, if he provided or proved a terrorist threat.
And of course, half the people they talked to had no idea who he was and thought, yeah, he's a big threat, and we need to catch him and put him behind jar bars.
And then Wolf Blitzer had to apologize again, because one apology was not enough.
So Wolf, yesterday morning on CNN during the uh funeral coverage of President Ford said this.
I just want to make a correction, an apology, Soledad, for uh what we did yesterday in the Situation Room.
We had a bad typographical error, and one of our and one of our graphics, we were doing a piece on uh the hunt for Osama bin Laden in this new year two thousand seven.
Unfortunately, there was a graphic instead of saying where is Osama, it said where's Obama.
We want to apologize for that uh bad typo.
We want to also apologize personally to Senator Barack Obama.
I'm gonna be making a call to him later this morning to offer my personal apology.
And he did, and Obama's office accepted the apology, but did say uh that it's uh a little strange that it happened in the uh first place.
Barack, don't worry, but CNN's on your side in this.
It was obviously uh uh nothing more than an error.
Maybe some closed conservative in the graphics department there at CNN got it.
But hey, they didn't mean anything malicious by it, which is why they're bending over forwards and backwards to apologize.
Who really started all this?
It's it's it's amazing um that the in in all of these stories, or most of them, the original culprit has never been pointed out.
There you go.
Why don't we just ask Osama bin Laden Osama Obama uh Obama what this since uh he won by such a big amount?
January 11th, 2005, National Press Club Senator Ted Kennedy, and he later sang about all this, ladies and gentlemen.
Made famous here on our show.
I actually don't think CNN is through apologizing.
I mean, if they're serious.
Yeah, they've apologized to uh Barack Obama for calling him Osama.
But have they apologized to Osama bin Laden for calling him Barack Obama?
They haven't.
They're only apologizing to one person besmirched in this.
How do you think bin Laden feels to be called Obama when his picture's up there on the screen?
He is owed an apology from CNN as well.
Wolf.
Give him a call.
I'm sure you people know where he is.
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Iraq's Shiite-led government said yesterday it had Ordered an investigation into the abusive behavior at the execution of Saddam Hussein, who was subjected to a battery of taunts by official Shiite witnesses and guards as he awaited his hanging.
Officials said that a three-man interior ministry committee would look into the scenes that have caused outrage and public demonstrations among Mr. Hussein's Sunni Arab loyalists in Iraq, and wide spread dismay elsewhere, especially in the Middle East.
In an unofficial cell phone video record.
You watched that cell phone video recording?
I did too.
I watched it about twenty times, kept hoping it would improve.
The quality would improve.
Got a little mad because I couldn't really tell a whole lot in it.
Wanted to see the whole thing.
There wasn't one thing about it that offended me.
Who are we dealing with here?
Whether they're Shiites or whether they're Sunnis, they are Islamists.
My gosh, folks, what are we doing here?
We're we're we're coming we're becoming the biggest nation of pacifist cowards and wimps that I can ever recall in my close to fifty six years of life.
Have we forgotten what executions are s maybe in this country they're supposed to be solemn, but how many times is old Sparky nut work?
How many times did a lethal injection have to be done three or four times?
What are we talking about here?
Despite all that, we we wringing our hands over does anybody know?
Can we possibly try to keep in context what Hussein did?
Look at I understand something.
I mean, when you're watching or hearing about, maybe you can't see it at the time it's happening, but you're reading news reports, Saddam hanging, hours away, Saddam hanging, minutes away, and of course you put yourself in that same circumstance.
You wonder what it would be like if you were walking the gallows, and of course, human nature says, Well, I wouldn't want to go.
I would hope it's not me.
It'd be very I wouldn't want to go this way and so forth, and we we tend to project ourselves onto people, and in that sense they become innocent.
They can't be as innocent as we are.
They become mere human beings.
Uh, and it's difficult to remember the murderous atrocities committed over twenty-five years by this guy.
And it's also difficult to understand human nature, I mean it's it's for me it's not.
Apparently for a lot of people it is.
Human nature is human nature.
And the Shiites are the ones who had been his victims over all these years, the Shiites and the Kurds, and there they were with him.
And a couple of them with it uh in the room lost it.
They were gleeful.
They were overcome.
I think we forget, we don't know.
None of us in this country know what it's like to live under tyranny and brutal dictatorship, where you can be hanged or shot on the whim of the dictator just because he has the power to do it.
And dictators, you know what the primary objective of a dictator is is to stay alive.
Because the dictator knows that he's the target of everybody that he is oppressing and murdering and their family members and so forth.
So it's uh gotta be constantly on the run, has to constantly be checking the loyalty of people around him.
Uh and in order to keep people loyal and keep them afraid, I mean, if you serve a dictator, you live in fear, you gotta be killing people indiscriminately and randomly to show that it could be them next.
This is the kind of person he was.
To say that he deserved any kind of respect, I mean it's a bit of a stretch.
But again, the Iraqis do things the way they do them, and they are not us.
And we make the mistake of Americanizing everything.
Uh the New York Times here, Mr. Hussein is shown standing on the gallows platform with a noose around his neck at dawn on Saturday, facing a barrage of mockery and derision from unseen tormentors below the gala.
Well, he's only going to die in a few seconds.
So what?
So what mockery and derision?
Frankly, he deserved a lot worse, and he ended up getting it.
But we make the mistake, folks, of Americanizing all this.
We got to remember who these people are.
They are Islamists, some of them very militant Islamists.
They are Iraqis.
This is who they are.
This is how they do things.
What happened to Saddam Hussein is simple human nature given what he did to the Shiites all those years?
We don't understand such brutality.
We don't understand such tyranny.
Yet we project ourselves onto a bunch of savages and expect them to act like us.
They're not.
We think that we are so civilized, and that everybody else in the world ought to be as civilized as we are.
At the same time, CNN, nor any other cable network, have any problem whatsoever showing the deaths of American prisoners and soldiers.
Yet the media cringes over this Saddam video, turning Saddam Hussein into a sad, sympathetic, unfortunate victim.
Other folks, I am really worried.
I think we're losing our toughness.
My gosh, can you imagine what would happen to FDR if World War II were being fought today and he interned to 30,000 Japanese?
And all the things that he but uh well, Democrat, the drive-by-media democrat.
Probably somewhat different, but I mean this is we're we're we're just becoming a bunch of uh a bunch of pacifists.
I mean the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court saying we ought to import more and more foreign law.
Well, why don't we import Iraqi foreign law when it comes to executions?
Let's start doing them that way.
If we're going to start importing foreign law uh at the Supreme Court to decide cases, let's look at the way they do it in Iraq.
Maybe we have something to learn, ladies and gentlemen.
Why do we think we have to teach anything in the world when, of course, our brilliant Supreme Court wants to import other laws from other countries when they just can't find what they want to do in our own constitution.
Damn it.
Constitution limits their globalist desire.
Constitution limits their ability to get rid of those institutions and traditions that keep us sovereign.
And so one of the ways you obliterate the Constitution?
Import foreign law.
Well, you can learn a lot from it, they tell us.
New York Times also uh talked about um uh the evolving standards of decency uh and how they are threatened because of what happened to Saddam Hussein.
Let me translate for you.
Evolving standards of decency means evolving standards of passivity.
Passivity in the face of evil will lead to mass murder.
They claim to care about casualties, and yet they end up defending the perpetrators of these casuals.
The count, the run-up.
3,000 American troops, oh no.
And by the way, over the Christmas break, we finally got the story from the Washington Post.
It's not really that many compared to past wars.
Did you see that story?
It's not really that many.
In fact, it's hardly any at all, the Washington Post says, during a week where hardly anybody's reading newspapers.
But of course, we care.
We uh we care the drive-by media, claim to care about casualties, American casualties, British casualties, Iraqi casualties.
But for some reason we never hear any alarm about the people doing it.
Because you know, to the drive-by media and the American left, the Iraqis and the insurgents and the terrorists who are killing American troops are not the perpetrators.
You know who the perpetrator is.
Why, they wouldn't be dying if it weren't for George W. Bush.
Wouldn't it?
Bush is the perpetrator.
Why they wouldn't be dead.
The only reason for reporting the death count is to turn it right around on the U.S. government to weaken this nation's resolve in this country's ability to defend itself so that we take more time and perhaps less action the next time we need to.
If they're really concerned about casualties, where is the concern for the perpetrator?
Saddam Hussein was one of the biggest perpetrators of casualties in uh in recent history in terms of tyrannical thugs, and here he is, the recipient and object of sympathy and uh concern.
Uh and uh and all of those horrible things.
Humiliation, why he was taunted.
Throw the flag.
15 yards for taunting in the NFL.
It's bad to taunt, Mr. Limbois.
It's really, really bad.
I know, I know, because we've lost our toughness.
I this is who those people are.
We didn't have a thing to do.
U.S. military, U.S. government, somebody it would have been different had we handled it.
So?
What would the how would the end result have been any different?
Would Saddam still have been executed regardless of who administered the punishment?
Yes.
So what's the big deal?
Of course, the perpetrators are not just George W. Bush, the perpetrators are the interrogators at Club Gitmo.
And the interrogators at Abu Grab, but Hussein somehow escapes the whole notice of being a perpetrator.
Yes, I know in his Michael, you see that the O bit in the New York Times.
The O bit in the New York Times probably ran longer than Gerald Ford's obit.
And of course, they did chronicle all the mayhem and the horror and the murder that he conducted, but he kind of had a reason to behave that way to keep those three factions, the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Kurds all uh all aligned.
Uh people say, you know, would have been better if uh Saddam never left power.
Iraq would be in um in better shape.
It's all it's all it's all Twilight Zone, parallel universe stuff.
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Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
I'm Connor from Logosport, Indiana, not Indianapolis.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh, my my comment to the call screener was this is that people forget Benito Mussolini.
Uh when he was killed, it was a joyous celebration.
The guy was hung upside down on meat hooks.
They shot at him, they spat at him, and it's the same thing.
It's the same thing with Saddam's execution.
I mean, it's the same mindset of these people that have been under this dictatorship for many, many years.
And I tell you what outrages me, the genesis of this call.
Was if if people want to be feeling bad.
Yesterday we dropped our son off at the airport.
He's not in the military.
But the number of military families that were having to break up when dads were were with their little kids and saying goodbye and going to war, protecting us, and people are outraged about that.
They need a reality check.
There are it really hit me home.
It really hit home for me, understanding that we are at war with a with an enemy, and that these are our sons and daughters that are going off.
And as they said, I I listened to your show, listened to it, loved it talk to you once before.
But to have these people talk about uh Saddam's rights, when I see these families breaking up, these little kids crying because dad's going to be gone for so many months, if not years.
Here's here's look it's it's the the media, save for you and a couple of others, have no idea the reality of what's going on.
Um that's a sad possibility.
Um it might encompass quite a few people.
I I think that uh uh there are quite a few Americans who refuse to believe the notion that we are at war because they just don't want it.
And they don't have to.
Their lives haven't been changed, so uh if they're not military families and if they choose not to believe we're at war, then they will.
And of course, anything within that context they will ignore because who wants to deal with that kind of fear uh or or um challenge.
Uh but you have to understand also what what is at stake here.
The same thing with Gerald Ford, the Gerald Ford funeral.
Um ladies and gentlemen, if you go back to when Gerald Ford was president when he pardoned Nixon, he was despised.
And they made fun of this man mercilessly.
They made fun of him as a klutz, started a course by Chevy Chase, uh, he became a walking talking joke by the same people who today or last week lionized Gerald Ford for one reason, because Bob Woodward was able to produce a tape of Gerald Ford saying a year ago that he thought the Iraq war was a mistake.
So everything that Gerald Ford might have done, pardoning Nixon or whatever, that they hated and despised, can now be forgotten because Gerald Ford gave him a 30-second tape with Bob Woodford running the machine saying Bush sucks, essentially.
And it's the same thing with Hussein.
Saddam Hussein provides the left throughout the world with uh an opportunity to condemn the death penalty and to condemn war and to condemn all of the things so Saddam, Gerald Ford, they all become vessels.
They're not human beings, they become vessels and opportunities for the left and the drive-by media to promote their agenda, all under the guise of compassion and understanding and tolerance uh for human beings of so uh uh and so on.
In the process, they obscure on purpose the reality of in this case Hussein and his atrocities.
And they don't even explore, they act not even curious about why in the world this was happening.
I mean, okay, Saddam's being taunted.
All right, Saddam is being laughed at.
Saddam is being uh that he has to listen to people shouting Moktada Muktada Muktada before he goes through the gallows.
Oh, why that's just so uncivilized.
Why, how could that happen, Mr. Limbaugh?
How can it possibly happen?
How can we let that happen?
So unthiv uncivilized is what Saddam did.
The reaction to it was human nature, and it was four or five people.
By all rights, that whole country wanted a chance at Saddam.
Like you describe Mussolini, Il Duce, having the whole country fire on him.
You can say that the Iraqis did it in a far more civilized way than the Italians debt with ill dealt with Il Duce after after he uh passed away.
Uh the the but it doesn't matter.
I still am amazed.
Where where's the curiosity about why these people behave this way with Saddam on the gallows?
It's as though they had no reason for it.
Why they're just they probably listen to talk radio on Iraq.
That's probably it.
They listen to rock talk radio.
That's where the guy it made him coarse.
It coarsened an otherwise peaceful society.
Iraq.
Come on.
It's so look at you have to understand Saddam, they don't care a whit about Saddam Hussein.
It's just an opportunity to point out the Iraq war was a failure.
Bush is a failure, the death penalty is wrong, blah, blah.
Gerald Ford hated Iraq.
Great president.
Fabulous guy, wonderful guy.
We love the guy now.
Phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and rollers all.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
A couple little more things, though, about uh uh Obama, uh Barack Obama.
And sorry, if those of you on the phones, there's not enough time to get to a call here before we go to the break.
Be patient, we'll get to all of you when we uh when we come back.
The Washington Post has a story today, effective Obama's candor remains to be seen.
Obama's revelations in his book were not an issue during his Senate campaign two years ago, but now that his open narrative of early bad choices, including drug use starting in Haskruel and ending in college, as well as his tortured search for racial identity, are sure to receive new scrutiny.
Apparently, he uh tried a bunch of different drugs, cocaine and marijuana.
Uh, and uh uh is all worried now, or some people are worried about the effects uh on his uh presidential perspirations that this candor will have.
And I just have to laugh.
Hell, folks, this is resume enhancement stuff for Obama.
You have to understand there are no standards.
The standards don't apply to Democrats, the standards only apply to Republicans.
He's not gonna be held accountable because he didn't do anything wrong.
Wait till you see the way this spins out.
He wanted experien he was in pain.
And those drugs were helping him forget the process of him finding out who he was.
And so he had to do that.
So it's gonna turn into a very positive by the time they get through with this very big one.
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