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Jan. 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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I knew it was too good to be true.
I thought when we got through the first two hours without anything happening here today, I thought I was home free, but no.
Walking in the studio even now.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, birthday today.
There's the uh there's the cakes.
We're not going to set the studio on fire either.
I uh Yeah, don't set the studio on fire like we did the other room.
I was um, I hate I don't hate this.
I've got to I've been working on receiving better.
And I s I've every every birthday that I've been hosting this program, I've sent out strict orders.
Don't do anything.
Don't no cake, no nothing.
And they always do it.
And so I'm just gonna say thank you, rather than denying you the pleasure of giving such a small cake.
You're gonna hold the cake up so people can see it, but they don't want to.
We're showing it to people watching on the uh on the ditto cam.
Thank you all very much.
And there's some presents in here.
I'm gonna open those later.
Okay.
I'll open those later.
Thank you.
What kind of cake is it?
It's your favorite yellow cake with white ice.
Yellow cake with white icing.
Favorite yellow cake with white icing.
White trash cake.
That's what I call white trash.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
It's Friday, and you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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You can ask questions, you can make statements.
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There's a column today in the Washington Post by David Ignatius.
And it basically is a column about Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats and their strategy in moving their um uh agenda forward.
And I I wasn't gonna talk much about it, if at all, because I I've I actually have, I've already repudiated what I think are some of the uh praiseworthy points that Ignatius has for Rahm Emanuels.
I I think the Democrats can totally botch their agenda uh with their base.
Uh uh in which I've already touched on, uh, their base cares only about getting out of Iraq.
And all the other stuff, uh especially the stuff of the 100 hours, is not gonna mollify them, it's not gonna make them happy if they don't get us out of Iraq.
If the Democrats in the Senate and the House don't get us out of Iraq.
That's all they care about.
Uh and if as long as you know all these other things do not produce arguments, the minimum wage, whatever the only thing that might provide arguments is stem cells.
I'm talking about arguments with the president, but he's pretty much made the case that Iraq is his baby for the remaining two years.
But there is this one little part in it that I want to read to you.
Rather than try to restrict funds for the troops, Rahm Emanuel instead favors a proposal by Jack Mertha to set strict standards for readiness, which would make it hard to finance the troop surge in Iraq without beefing up the military as a whole.
The idea is to position the Democrats as friends of the military, even as they denounce Bush's Iraq policy.
Uh this is uh this is uh a tactic here that Murphy is saying, okay, if you if you want to send troops for we're gonna we have to beef up the whole military here.
You have to do this before we'll go along with that because we're not gonna send unprepared or whatever the terminology that they would use is.
And it's cynical because it it's designed to make people think the Democrats do love the military and really want this to work so badly that they think the whole military needs to be upgraded.
And of course, that's a debate and a cost factor that might not be able to be done and completed in the time frame that Bush wants to send the surge.
Now Rich Lowry writes about this at National Review Online.
He has this little observation.
If you're a Republican, be worried.
Very worried, because Ram Emanuel is very shrewd per this Ignatius column.
Emmanuel is focusing on what would probably be the most politically wise way for Democrats to try to stop the surge, and that is rather than try to restrict funds for the troops, favor a proposal by Mertha to set strict standards for readiness, which would make it hard to finance the troop surge in Iraq without beefing up the military as a whole.
Now you could say, yeah, if you're Republican, be worried, very worried.
Rich, I love you, but I would have I would amend this.
If you're an American, be worried.
Be very worried.
Because if those who have read this give it credence and think that the Merthaway has a chance of succeeding in defunding the surge while making the Democrats look like they really, really care about the military.
You have to understand what the objective is.
The objective remains defund the surge, don't pay for it.
The objective means harm the military.
The objective means don't allow victory.
Do not make it possible for victory.
Of course, the drive-bys will help them out all they can in trying to create this image that they care about the military, and they really want success and they're trying to beef it all up.
Bush hasn't done enough for the whole military.
We want to do that before we do the surge, this kind of thinking.
So, I don't know, we'll see.
You know, some of the strategy from Rahm Emanuel, and more and more Democrats know it, that if they actually go for the...
Effort, make the effort to defund that that's just slitting their own throats.
I mean, even among the anti-war crowd of the general population that's tired of the war and doesn't want to do this if anything is done that uh appears to harm the soldiers and make them victims here.
Nobody's going to put up with that.
And there would be a big political price to pay.
So the Democrats are trying to finagle a new way of accomplishing that while making themselves look like big hawks and supporters of the troops.
How many of you have read the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand?
I have read the book, The Fountainhead, a number of them.
Atlas Shrugged.
For those of you who haven't read it, I'll give you this the basic book report summary.
It is basically about the achievers of life quitting.
Because they're tired of being one percent of the population pulling the other 99% in a cart.
They're tired of everything they earn being taxed.
They're tired of everything they earn being taken from them and given to everybody else.
And they quit.
And when they quit, nobody has anything.
They just throw up their hands in frustration.
Screw it.
I want to read you just a short little passage from this.
Somebody actually sent me this on a birthday card today.
A cute little homemade birthday card.
Do you know the hallmark of the second raider?
The hallmark of the second raider is resentment of another man's achievement.
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own.
They have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top.
The loneliness for an equal, the loneliness for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.
Someone to look up to.
You don't have that when you're at the top.
They bear their teeth at you from out of their rat holes.
They think that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them.
Well, you would give a year of your life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them.
They envy achievement, and they their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.
They don't know that dream that dream is infallible proof of mediocrity.
Because that's the sort of world a man of achievement would not be able to bear.
They have no way of knowing what he feels when he's around them.
Hatred, no, it's not hatred, but boredom.
The terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom.
But what account are praise and adulation of men whom you do not respect?
Have you ever felt the longing for someone to admire for something not to look down at, but up to?
Well, it's um a whole book is like this, by the way.
It's uh one of these, if you haven't read it, get it.
Long book, but you're not gonna be able to put it down.
Brief timeout, we'll be back.
Uh the guy who wanted to know about my theater.
Hung up.
I'm off the hook.
And we're back serving humanity, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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One more thing here before we get to the phones about Rom Emanuel's plan to use Mertha's ploy to defeat the funding for the uh reinforcements while making the Democrats look like they are big hawks.
Rosa Brooks, unadulterated, full-fledged, flaming, card-carrying liberal.
Los Angeles Times, columnist.
And this is the second or third time, second from the second or third person I have seen this theory.
How Republicans win if we lose in Iraq.
I'm not going to read this whole thing to you, but the crux of it is that the Democrats fear the collapse of Iraq will reinforce their own Vietnamese or Vietnam reputations as being weak.
This this whole column is about, you know, if we pull out of there, and if we if if if we lose in Iraq, it's gonna hurt the Democrats and the Republicans are gonna win because she knows, and she recites it here, where did the Democrats' weakness and uh dovishness in foreign policy and military and war in the modern era?
Where does it come from?
It comes from Vietnam.
The Democrats think that's one of their glorious moments in history.
Because they think they ended a war.
They think they brought a president and a country to its knees, and then they were able to get that president to quit.
They think that was, I mean the Vietnam War, and that's when the media thought they became the fourth political party in the country or the third.
It's when they were really able to flex their muscles, and everything they've done since has been designed to show they still have that power, both to themselves and to us.
But how if it was so glorious, how if it was so powerful and good, has it forever typecast the Democrats as a bunch of weak needed doves who can't be trusted to defend the country.
Well, the reason is they defunded the operation.
They they they the theory was that get the United States out of there and the problems are over.
Well, they cut off money, we pulled out of there.
Everybody sees remembers the picture of our last troop dangling and trying to get aboard a helicopter on the roof of the embassy.
It wasn't long after that that the North overran the South.
There was mass murder, death, like the war had not produced, and then over in Cambodia, Paul Pot went nuts, uh, killed two million of his own people.
And the image that was left of the Democratic Party was one of gutless, spineless cowards, who couldn't hang in when the going got tough to win.
Cut and run.
And this woman, Rosa Brooks, is you know, it's as if if if we lose Iraq, the Republicans are gonna win again because we are forever going to typecast ourselves as unable to finish anything we start.
So uh this is not the first of this I've seen.
There's two or three other columnists.
I can't recall who, but I've seen this two or three other places in the last week or so.
So my advice, even though it will not be heard nor taken, Rahmanual and Jack Mertha is be careful what you wish for.
If your effort, I don't care what trick, I don't care what ploy you're gonna use, try to make yourselves look like hawks if it is a situation similar to Vietnam, if if what happens ultimately in Iraq comes off as a loss,
and you have anything to do with it, and how can you not, because you're advocating such a thing, you're gonna have the same image continue to attach to you and it'll grow.
And nobody's gonna trust you people when it got Democrats when it comes time to defend the country.
And there's some Democrats, these columnists that are they're worried about this, as well they should be.
All right, Shelley in Port Angeles, Washington.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi there, and thank you to you and Snerdley for putting me on.
Uh a couple of weeks ago, you spoke of the Skills Commission on the American worker, and what piqued my interest was it talked about one of the unfairest taxes of all, property taxes, and separating it out from funding education.
What I wanted to talk about is there is a property tax crisis across this United States.
It's affecting low income and and mainly senior citizens.
There's going to be 70 million of us baby boomers retiring to fixed incomes.
What's going to happen to us when our property taxes can go up from year to year with no predictability at all, no way to budget for the future.
Yeah, it is a crisis.
It's happening in a lot of in fact, uh here in Florida where I live.
Yes.
I saw something in the paper, I wish I could remember where.
You know, the the theory has been that 800 people of uh are moving to Florida every day.
Mm-hmm.
Uh and that in in another ten years we're gonna have more electoral votes here than New York has.
And yet I read the other day that last year, for the first time, more people left than moved in.
And the people leaving are indeed the people you're discussing, the seasoned citizens.
Right.
And property taxes was one of the reasons property taxes and and and and the cost of property, period.
Right.
Those two things together were um uh were mentioned as uh as leading factors.
Well, Rush, not even the IRS taxes you on unrealized value.
If you're planning to go out from your house feet first, like my husband and I are, we're never going to enjoy the appreciation on that property, nor do we want to.
We want to live there and enjoy our home.
Well, uh yeah, you're right.
Um I mean, I I'm not we've been sounding the warning bells about every form of taxation since I've been hosting the program.
Right.
And I've uh frankly, you know, I've um I've I've I've come across some frustration, or I've experienced some because the way the taxes uh are happening now, in terms of income taxes, more and more people are paying less and less, and more and more people are paying more and more.
Uh and there's a divide there.
Social security is still, you know, the FICA taxes are big.
But I it it's it for some reason property taxes, cutting taxes, any kind of taxes, seems to be a tough sell because the number one voting block is the senior citizens, and they benefit every time there is a tax increase on other people.
Now they're starting to feel it themselves in the form of their property taxes, and there's a little bit of has to feel.
Yeah, uh But after I get over that, um I'm I'm I know it's it's uh and of course it's for education.
And if I wanted to be, you know, like Barbara Boxer, I would say, wait a minute, I don't have any kids.
I why you why are you taxing me to pay for education?
I'm not burdening the education system with their limbaugh because it uh future of our country.
It's historically education was never part funding education was never part of property taxes.
Property taxes were for bringing services.
Yeah, yeah.
And so that's the unfairness.
There's one the best way to illustrate the absurdity of property taxes, is Manhattan.
Mm-hmm.
In one block of Manhattan, the average residential block of Manhattan with a high high-rise condos, uh apartments, uh whatever.
The number of people that live on one block in New York, the property taxes that that they pay should pave the streets in gold.
That city is perpetually out of money, and they're and Bloomberg is not going to reduce property taxes, even though there's a huge surplus.
It's in the news today.
He's not going to do it because he says he knows there will be future needs.
He's hanging on to the money.
Well, and and and the other thing, too, is many property tax laws.
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We only have two seconds.
Okay.
Hang on, don't go away.
And it's open line Friday.
And we sit here serving humanity simply by being here, ladies and gentlemen.
Back now to uh Shelley in Port Angeles, Washington.
I didn't want to cut you off be where you're in the middle of making your point.
Well, thank you very much.
Um a couple of things.
Uh in our state, and I know a lot of other states, they penalize you for pride in ownership.
If your neighbor has old cars in the front yard, he's going to pay less taxes than you, who had to put a new roof on because it was leaking.
Not only do you have to pay for your new roof, but you're going to be paying higher taxes.
What are you doing living in a neighborhood with vacant cars in the front yard?
Well, we love it, but not necessarily the cars.
Um I mean, do you really have neighbors that way?
I mean, it's Oh, oh, yeah.
I mean, you know, there's rural areas and and people lot not everybody has their pride in ownership of the city.
No, but wait a second, wait a second.
No, you the the picture you just created is you have a fashionable home with a new roof, and across the street is Rhea Linda.
That's it.
Now, and and and so r right across the street from you, not a mile or block down the road or two, right across the street, somebody just because they got a bunch of junk in the front yard pays less property tax.
Because their assessment is lower.
Because they got junk in the front yard?
That's exactly it.
Well, then put some junk in the front yard.
Hey, look, we heard that there was an assessor here who left Tyvek on the outside of his house for 17 years solely to have his property assessed lower.
To pay less property taxes.
Well, can you blame them?
No.
You know, I mean, look, w I I left New York for a whole host of reasons.
I had lived there for eight years.
Uh I didn't have a home anywhere else, and living in Manhattan 24-7.
I mean, it's a great place.
But uh but I I'd come to Florida, I'd met some people, I like the climate, like the lifestyle, and the capper was when I learned there's no state income tax here.
Yeah.
Okay, people told me you are greedy, and you are selfish.
Really?
I think I'm pretty smart.
I mean, why is it okay to shop for deals at Walmart at Christmas time, but not okay to shop for deals in taxes.
Right.
Absolutely.
And one other point.
Uh funding of education.
One of the things the Democrats now who are in power in our state want to do is they want to change the approval for a school levy, which is part of your property taxes, from a supermajority to a simple majority, which means it's going to be easier to pass on taxes to homeowners.
What do you they're Democrats?
Of course.
I can't believe you're stunned about any of this.
No.
The Democrats in Washington have done the same thing.
The Republicans had instituted a rule that say you got to have three-fifths supermajority to raise taxes in the House.
First thing Pelosi did before anything else in a hundred hours agenda was get rid of that.
They got rid of that waiver, and so now uh a simple majority can raise taxes.
They're Democrats.
That is what they do.
Um, elections matter.
Isn't it really great?
We showed those Republicans a lesson.
Here's Tom in uh Leland, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Hello, Tom.
Nice to talk to you, sir.
Thank you.
Same here.
Sure.
Uh Rush, I perceive gasoline prices as the biggest threat.
I've listened to neighbors complain about it.
Uh yes, we have an SUV, and we also have a little sewing machine.
So I asked Santa Claus for a bicycle at 50 years old.
Mama thought I was nuts.
I've lost six pounds since Christmas.
Feel great.
Bought her one for Christmas.
She wasn't happy.
But you know, Russ, she puts on those spandex pants, she likes what she sees in the mirror.
Well, that's a start.
We what we've cut out our gasoline consumption by at least twenty percent.
Why not how twenty percent?
Have a give you cut consumption a hundred percent if you're on the bike.
Well, we we can't always go on the bike.
Oh, oh I I do ride to Walmart two two miles away on the bike.
I see.
It's uh it's a it's a sort of half-hearted commitment.
No, it's full-hearted.
Um we do the best we can.
It feels great, we have results.
And that's that's what motivates you.
You feel good about you.
You feel good, though.
You're saving the planet, you're saving uh uh the country, you're helping emissions uh and you're getting better shape at the same time.
Your wife likes herself in the spandex, it's a win-win, right?
Yeah, it's a personal goal, too.
We we set a personal goal and we're doing it.
And she's listening in her office, and she's probably falling on the floor right now.
Well God nobody knows.
I mean, we know she's your wife, but that's all we know.
Only she knows who she is at this point.
Yeah, but you know, Russ, when she gets up in the morning and I see her getting dressed, she's looking at herself real hard, harder than I look at her.
You think you've just now noticed this?
Well, you know, we're we're creatures of habits.
And I love this segment.
It's one of the greatest segments on radio.
I appreciate what you do.
You make a good umpire, you call them like you see them.
Well, thanks very much.
You know, this is this is uh uh by the way, you didn't grow up in North Carolina, did you?
How'd you tell?
What?
How how could you tell?
Accent.
Yeah, Brooklyn, New York.
Brooklyn, okay, Brooklyn, New York.
Just like you, I had enough of the rectum of the world, as I called it.
Um it just wears you down, gave me skin like a lizard.
I didn't you know people are gonna think I called it the rectum of the world, and I didn't.
I still go there.
I I uh I go there on weekends.
I go there as little during the week as I can because speaking of taxes.
I mean I never mind.
I'm I'm not I'm not going to complain because I have no right to.
Let's just say that I get taxed every day I work there, even though I don't live there.
And so I work there only when I have to, such as when a hurricane comes through here or is threatening to come through here.
Or special occasions.
But uh anyway, well, look, Tom, that's that's all great.
And I'm you if you feel great about yourself and um you're not hurting anybody else uh with what you're doing.
Uh and if your wife likes herself even home run, pal, glad to hear it.
Oxford, Massachusetts, this is Harry.
Welcome to the EIV network.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
May I quickly say happy birthday to you.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, my question is this, and I haven't heard anybody mention this.
Why don't we put this whole Iraq question to bed and simply put it to the blue finger test?
Let the Iraqis vote.
If they want us there, we stay and we take the handcuffs off our troops.
If they want us out of there, we leave and let them deal with the circumstances.
Okay.
I'm gonna, you know, i i that actually uh a part of what you just said was actually studied by the White House.
The president asked his it's in the New York Times today from our buddy Jim Rutenberg, which is the only reason I believe there might be some truth to this.
Uh the president asked his advisors, look, why don't we just pull out of Baghdad and let these people fight it out and let that end it?
Whoever wins, wins.
And I was struck by this, because I remember long time ago, months ago, somebody calling here asking, what would you do in Iraq rush?
And I said, I'm getting the point where I would pull back to the borders of the country.
Pull back and you know, don't leave.
Pull back and just let these people have it out and make sure that nobody comes in from Iraq and nobody comes in from Syria or anybody else, and let this thing play out, sort of like I would with the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
Knowing full well it would never happen.
And the president's plan, I mean, three not a plan, it was an idea, threw it out there.
It was rejected, of course, and let me tell you why.
And this answering your question.
Uh this isn't just about the Iraqis.
And I'm gonna be very honest with you.
There are some in the administration saying this is our last chance.
Meaning the United States is.
This is our last chance.
What?
There is no last chance when you are talking about American national security.
And that's what this is.
This war is not purely about stabilizing Iraq, and it never has been.
This is a theater in the war on terror.
We don't leave it up to a vote of the Iraqi people as to whether or not they are in favor of U.S. national security.
That's and I think I think the administration, little old me saying this, had better remember that that's what this is about.
This is this war was never about stabilizing Iraq.
And the more it gets cast as that, and that alone, well, no wonder the American people are going to turn away from it, because that's not what this is.
This is a theater in the war on terror.
And what we are dealing with here is U.S. national security.
There are Al Qaeda cells there.
There are Hezbollah cells.
There are all kinds of terrorists there, and they are fighting us.
And if they don't fight us there, they're going to fight us wherever we do go, including if we come back home.
U.S. national security is at stake here.
And so if you just if you put a vote up to the Iraqi people, why it's a suicide pact.
If you let anybody else vote on national security, and if you run around and say that this is our last chance to make this work and make this good, you know what I actually think, just so you'll understand, I think that's a message to the Iraqis.
Uh and uh Maliki, Maliki, or my Licky, as Biden pronounces his name.
Because it's it's a bit of a mixed message, but I think the mixed message that the part about this is our last chance is really uh call to arms of the Iraqis.
Okay, gang, we're not here forever here just to make you supportable uh and sustainable.
Uh I actually I think that's a message just for them.
But that's why it'd be silly.
Let the Iraqis vote on this.
It's the American people wouldn't care about that uh because that's not the focus here.
Appreciate the call, though.
Good question.
Allowed me to shine.
Back in a moment.
Our buddy Danuj, Ted Nugent, cat scratch fever.
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All right, I'm gonna do this, but I'm gonna regret it.
I am being ever since the guy who hung up who wanted to know what's in my theater.
Theater room at home.
I'm getting I'm uh inundated with email.
You can't!
You promised you can't leave us hanging.
Okay.
Here you go.
There are three elements here: the projector, the scalar, and the screen.
The projector is a digital projection incorporated months, a DPI.
The highlight one or 10,000 HD-R.
It's simply known as the Highlight Reference 1080P.
It's in DPI.
So it's I imagine what's gonna happen is that Coco is gonna look all this stuff up, and these people's web site, the DPI website, will be wanted out and people will be able to go there and see this stuff.
But it that's like DPI highlight 10,000 HD-R or the highlight reference 1080P.
The scalar is also DPI.
It's a V VIP 2000.
The IP 2000 is a scalar.
The screen made by Stuart Screen Incorporated, a model P1500 series frame with custom starglass material.
And the model number here goes on for two lines, so I'm not gonna mess with that.
The screen is glass, two-frame, the two-piece of glass thick uh with the the white screen material between the two.
So it has the effect of being a 15-foot like plasma.
It is um blow your mind.
Anyway, those are the three elements that produce the picture, other than the sources of the video.
That's it.
I promised that's it.
I'm not gonna put any pictures.
Folks, don't make me do that.
Don't do not please ask me to do that.
Uh there's this thing called privacy.
If they put a picture up there, it's gonna end up all over everywhere.
Uh Lee or Leah, not sure which, Greenville, South Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's Leah, your six-year-old daughter from South Carolina.
I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday.
So biologically, I'm 37, but lymphologically, I was born into the Limbaugh family.
Uh a little over six years ago.
I'm glad you cleared this up uh with Did Did you and Snerdly kind of cooked this up as a little trick as a way to say hello to me today?
Uh no, actually, I thought about it a couple of weeks ago.
I read your biography, and I knew your birthday was coming up, and uh I just thought this would be a good time to call and wish you happy birthday.
Well, that's awfully nice.
That is very clever.
You're calling the six six-year-old daughter.
Well, you know, I um I started listening to you in November of two thousand after the election, and really wasn't too into in tune with news at that point in time, and since I started listening to your show, I do a whole lot more uh reading of current events, both in the US and around the world.
How is your outlook on life changed?
Well, at the time I was in a my my father had just passed away, and I was in a job that I hated, and and I just felt life was so bleak, and then uh after I started listening to your show, I thought, you know, maybe there is some hope, and if I just keep hanging in there and plugging away and and finding out what I'm good at and do that, uh what's that?
What is it that you're good at?
Uh I am in sales, and so I um match what my company does with companies that uh have a need.
I find I'm uh an employment uh service, and so I find people that need jobs, and I find companies that need good workers, and I match those those two things up, and and I feel good about what I do at the end of the day.
So you're a head hunter.
Are you uh commission sales?
Yeah.
Well, little do people know who aren't in it.
It's a tough racket, but there's tremendous financial opportunity in it.
Yeah.
Well, listen, as your daughter in South Carolina, I know people are always telling you that you need to have children, so you can tell them, look, I already have one in South Carolina.
Take the pressure off.
But, hey, we have a great charity golf tournament here every spring up at the Cliff of Glass.
There's tremendous golf courses up there.
I think Gary Player has just relocated his organization here.
If you ever come up here to play some golf, I would love to, as your daughter, take you to dinner.
Well, who could resist an invitation to go to dinner with their daughter?
Well, I would love to do that.
This is scary.
The actual thought of this is scary.
Not going to dinner with you, but having a daughter.
Anyway.
I promise I'm I'm hardworking and and I'm not like to your house and to be one of these people that are, you know, in their thirties still living with their parents.
Uh, you say that now.
So no, no, and that's one of my rules for dating people.
I will I won't date any guy who still lives with his mother.
Amen.
Amen.
You have a brilliant, bright future ahead of you.
Don't change your standards.
Well, I I will keep listening to your program and that will help.
Meeting with you five days a week.
Although I do feel a little hurt sometimes when you leave me in the hands of the babysitter when you're on vacation with some of us.
You have some they're very good, but they're still not you.
All the best to you.
I appreciate the call.
Happy birthday.
Same to you.
Bye.
Back in a second here, folks.
Close it up.
Okay, time to squeeze in one more here.
It's Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Jeff, you're next.
Welcome, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, I've been in the Army for about twenty-five years.
My dad for about twenty-five years before me.
And I'm I'm one of those fellows who's a little bit frustrated and and getting a little bit angry, I guess, with some of the Americans with whom we share the country here, who like a child standing in front of a microwave stamping his feet that it's not done yet.
Um not paying the price.
Not a part of the three thousand who died, not a part of the many who've been wounded, but nonetheless screaming.
Why isn't it done yet?
Why isn't it over yet?
Yeah.
And I you know, I got another problem, and this is a much more subtle thing, but it's very important too.
You know, we can't be taking the gloves off, so to speak.
We don't want to kill any of the wrong people in Iraq.
And so far we're doing a fantastic job of avoiding killing many of the wrong people.
We don't want to have some knucklehead hide out in the school, take a shot at us with an RPG, and then make us into mass murderers of school children.
Yeah, let's not happen.
I I wanna I want to comment on the first thing.
I I I don't know that it's that many Americans.
I think the media wants everybody to believe that all of us are war weary.
But I don't I think the appreciation for the military itself is far greater than you know that is indicated by these polls and so forth.
I I can understand the anger, uh, and I have the same same sentiment.
I'm glad you called.
Folks, we gotta run.
Don't forget, Sunday and Monday night 24, you there gonna be four things you will not believe you saw.
That you will not believe they just did that.
See you Monday.
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