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Jan. 29, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Okay, greetings, folks, and welcome back.
Rush Limboy here behind the golden EIB microphone broadcast excellence and kicking off a brand new week.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have while at the same time doing that, which I was born to do.
It's great to have you along.
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This is a sad story.
The horse Barbaro has uh has been euthanized.
Uh and some people say it's just a horse.
I mean, why is it the lead story?
Well, folks, you have to understand something.
This horse uh I mean this a championship horse, this horse was a battler.
Uh the veterinarians and the and the doctors that tried to save the horse, tried techniques that everybody uh said were likely to fail because of the nature of the injuries, and yet they tried uh to do so.
Uh I don't think they got to the stem cell research uh HR is asking if stem cells could save her.
Or him.
Barbaro's a hymn.
And uh one of the one of the things, I mean this is big business.
Uh uh Barbaro was going to be able to garner gazillions and gazillions in stud fees.
And I mentioned this to Snerdley, who was being rather sardonic about all the media coverage.
This horse is the essence of innocence.
I mean, this this horse was a battler.
This is it is truly sad that this everybody was hoping that all of this effort and the horse's own will to live, which it obviously exhibited, uh, would would uh would be miraculous.
And Snerdley says, well, I mean, they've they've probably collected the sperm, right?
I mean, they've got the uh they've got jars of the stuff for the for the for the studs and whatever, and I said I don't know, Snerdley.
I mean, I don't know how you get a horse to masturbate.
So maybe some people out in the state of Washington could uh could could be helpful in in that regard, but I don't know.
Uh anyway, it's a sad, it's a it's a very, very sad thing, and and I can't help uh feel it when I saw it uh early on in the last hour.
I I felt I felt sad about it because it's just the essence of innocence out there.
I I remember not long after this program debutted, uh back in uh 1988, and some of you might remember this.
There were a couple of whales that were stuck in ice up in the near the Arctic Circle, and we had video of it, and we had trawlers and ice wreckers trying to cut a path because they couldn't find a way out of there and they needed to migrate.
And there were a lot of cynics back then.
Come on, this is nature.
If they're too stupid to go where they're gonna get trapped, they deserve for what nature has in the story.
So you people don't understand.
These two whales were doing everything they could to help themselves, and so we decided it's not they were not welfare cases.
You know, we we they were doing everything they could to help themselves, and we were we were doing their best to.
And I don't know that we succeeded.
I'm I I don't recall if uh if we cleared a path for them to get out of there or not.
But uh I understand being sad about this about Barbaro being euthanized.
Uh I was sad the other day when when they euthanized Tony the tiger here at the um at the Palm Beach Zoo.
It was a beautiful cat.
Oh, folks, folks speaking.
Bear with me.
You know, I seldom talk about local issues where I live, but I can't pass this up.
I just can't pass this up.
Every day on my way home, I drive south of uh well, actually, no, I drive north on the way home.
My house is on the ocean.
And the road that I take is goes right along the ocean, goes right in my right by the old Kennedy compound, and then turns and goes right by the ocean.
It's about oh, four or five miles from where our broadcast complex here.
And for the last week I've noticed a sign, two signs that warn motorists that beginning today through April 30th, the southbound lane of the uh of the road I take, which would be the direction I use coming into work, the southbound lane would be closed.
Well, I looked in a local rag, the shiny sheet to find out why, and I didn't find out why until yesterday.
They are closing, it's just about a quarter of a mile stretch, maybe a little longer, of the road, in order to repair a seawall that's in front of the Palm Beach Country Club and another club That routinely get pounded by the waves when there's a hurricane or when the waves are up.
And this last two hurricanes have done great damage to the wall.
So they got to rebuild the wall.
And everybody's, why do this at the height of the season when the population here is at its maximum?
I mean, our little island here has about 45,000 people from now through end of April.
At the end of April, it'll go down to 22,000 people.
So I'm um why they never do major construction like this until summertime when everybody's left.
So I'm reading the story.
And you know why that they are doing it now?
And inconveniencing everybody who lives on the north end of the island?
The turtles.
But that's not the half of it.
Because they've got to drop rocks down there on the beach and they've got to rebuild the wall, they have to finish by April 30th before turtle nesting season arrives.
Now, that excuse me, that means that April 30th, May 1st is when the big sea turtles arrive to lay their eggs in the sand of the beach.
Okay, fine and dandy.
Once again, human beings subordinate themselves to turtles.
Here on Palm Beach.
I'm f I'm I'm I'm perfectly fine with it.
Except this, we on the beach have to turn our lights out on March 1st.
Now, if they can do construction on this wall and totally gunk up this beach all the way till April 30th, because they gotta be out of there by then it's when the turtles arrive.
Would somebody explain to me why I have to turn my back lights off on the first of March?
Well, I'll tell you why, and you people that listen regularly know this is a big bugaboo of mine.
Because those lights in the backyard, they're not only decorative, uh, it's beautiful the way the landscape is uh lit with them, but it's also security oriented.
And I was, you know, I'm I'm in total compliance.
I have been ever since I built the whole property.
And I remember one night at 10 o'clock in a meanest rainstorm, the buzzer at the front gate rings, have three gates, and the front gate rings, and uh it's a cop with an environmentalist wacko, claiming my house is lit up like a Christmas tree, and I'm in violation of the ordinance to save the turtles.
The lighting ordinance.
Well, I wasn't.
We had to go out there and to talk to them, environmentalists wacko said, Mr. Limbo, I definitely threw you.
I'm big fan of your show.
I said, right.
You bugging anybody else here that has their lights on.
I'd be uh uh to the south end of the island and are lit up like Christmas trees all year long, and nobody I mean, they I don't know somebody may have given them some grief, but I mean it's just it's these little things here like this, that just if I allow them to really grate on me.
So I think I've got a winning proposition here.
I can have cranes, I can have boulders, I can have all kinds of trucks, I can have bulldozers all over that beach until April 30th, when the turtles arrive, but I can't have my own lights on beyond March 1st.
So what I ought to do is go bring a bunch of cranes in and go out to the beach and you know, pretend I'm building a wall out there.
Uh uh or maybe build a wall out there to shield my whites from the turtles.
I know it doesn't have anything to do with Hillary Clinton.
I know it doesn't have anything to do with national security, and I know it doesn't have anything to do with anything substantive here in terms of those things we talk about.
Well, it does in a way.
It it illustrates how everybody just kowtows to these special interest groups, the environmentalist wackos or the animal rights people are a combination of uh of both.
Uh it's like I told the NPR guys the other day when I was did the interview.
They said, You worry about offending people.
No, I don't worry about offending people.
You know, people running around saying they're offended is just a new form of political correctness to shut down free speech.
You can't say that that offends me.
Oh, well, I'm sorry, I don't want to offend you.
Uh people get offended all the time.
You shouldn't grant people that much power to offend you.
Uh this is the same thing.
The environmentalist wackos are offended if there are lights out there two months before the turtles even arrive.
And they go to the town council, they cow the town council, town council doesn't want to be thought of as hateful to turtles.
You know, so they'll they'll turn in and they'll, okay, residents on the ocean, they gotta turn your lights off on March 1st.
Can't turn them back.
By the way, the turtles are gone and hatched by at least September, but can't turn the lights on until December 1st.
This is December, January, February.
Three months out of nine can have the backyard landscape lights on.
January No, December, January.
Yeah, three months.
Gosh, that was it's even worse than I thought.
In my mind, I thought it was four months.
Um, I will have I will have no, I'm not gonna have commuting issues.
There's an alternate road coming to work that I can take.
And the lane that I need going home will be open.
I'll have to wind my way through the dust and the rocks and the construction crews and the cranes and so forth, but um won't be a problem.
I think the next thing I'm gonna do is put up a giant flagpole.
Uh but it rather than put the giant and a giant flag, rather than have a uh uh uh an American flag, I'm gonna put a turtle logo on my giant flag and make the town of Palm Beach take make me take that down.
I'm sorry to bleed on you people with this, but this this stuff just it just really grates on me.
It just does.
And I'm still sad the horse does.
Back in just a second.
We women of the United States have a very clear message for every single presidential candidate, including or especially Hillary Clinton.
And we women say pull out now.
Hey, Dawn, a quick question.
Does it make you proud to be a woman when you hear the code pink babe?
That's from the anti-war protests on Saturday.
Pull out now.
And like I said, I at first thought she was talking about the troops, but I'm left to wonder now.
By the way, if you missed the first hour, it's too bad.
I'm going to be repeating some of these sound bites throughout the...
Well, not just this week, but on.
Mrs. Clinton is lying through her teeth.
There's no wonder where he put this in her appearances on Saturday in Iowa about why she voted uh for the Iraq war, how Bush misused her vote, lied to her.
She'd known then what she knows now, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We have we have put the lie to it with her own words uh on audio tape uh from uh March of 2003, before the Iraq war even started, when she's explaining to that very group, Code Pink uh that she'd done her own research and that we couldn't count on the world to do this.
Just like her husband couldn't count on the world to help in Bosnia.
We had to go in alone because we know people that can.
It is dramatic, and it is very damning for Mrs. Clinton.
Uh it's on YouTube, it's in the public domain.
I doubt the drive-by media will use it.
Uh they are suppressing most everything that could be harmful to her, with one exception here, Frank Rich in his uh piece in the New York Times yesterday, not impressed with Hillary's posturing on Iraq in a very cutting line.
He writes, John Kerry could not have said it worse himself.
Meaning the things Hillary is saying in uh Iowa over the weekend to try to extricate herself from this embarrassing vote for the Iraq War.
John Kerry couldn't have said it worse himself.
He has become a standing joke in the Democrat Party, and it's he has to go overseas, surround himself with uh representatives of nations theoretically our enemies in order to have friends.
Uh and then he goes over there and he insults the country, calls us a pariah.
And I'll tell you what it's about with him.
In addition to his leftist leanings and his uh his his Uber liberalism, it's personal.
I know these people.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body, and he is outraged that you rejected him.
He is outraged this country rejected him.
And he can't believe it happened.
And any country that rejects him deserves to be insulted and told what for.
And that is also a motivation.
For Kerry's words.
All right, to the phones, it's promised to Joan in Kettering, Ohio.
You're up first.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program today.
Hi, proud Mama Ditto's.
I'm honored.
Hey, you've got Dr. Bell all wrong.
Um he has just made the most fantastic affirmation of George Bush's policies and his conduct of the war.
He's saying that instead of losing millions of lives, you know, like Roosevelt and Lincoln did, he loses virtually none.
Now, he didn't mean to do it, but what he's implying is that George Bush is the greatest war president ever.
You know, uh who else has conducted a war with so few casualties?
Uh look, you know, John, I appreciate the point you're trying to make.
And you are trying to be Rush Jr.
You are you are trying to use satirical humor to make your point.
Well in this case nervous.
In this by the way, what she's referring to, if you're just joining us, this was the lead item of the program today.
There's a column in the LA Times yesterday by David Bell of the New Republic and a professor of history at Johns Hopkins who r asks, is 9-11 really that bad?
I mean, we've only lost sixty, five hundred people, counting soldiers, uh since nine eleven.
That's that's that's nothing compared to what the Russians lost in uh World War II, the Soviet.
Nothing compared to what the Germans lost.
We haven't lost nearly enough people here to be really taking this this seriously.
We're overreacting, but we are overreacting.
We we you know, we we we assume every attack against us is uh is a threat against our existence.
And that's not the case.
He may be saying that they want to wipe us out, but they don't have the ability.
And we should react to the ability, not what they say they want to do.
Uh and it's a serious piece, and I've known this was coming.
The left's desire for as many Americans as possible look at life in this country as pre-9 eleven, that nine eleven was a mere isolated episode, that it represents nothing of any pattern or any kind of coordination aimed at harming us, killing us, and so forth.
And he cites only sixty five hundred.
And he uses, by the way, automobile death comparisons.
Isn't that cool?
Why we lose that many every two months on the highways and no big now, this from the same group of people that has been out there just wringing their hands and practically shedding real tears over the loss of three thousand plus soldiers.
Now one of their own ranks is nothing.
It's no big deal.
So your point is that he's inadvertently illustrating that Bush is fighting a very successful war.
Uh and I I see that.
Uh, you know, if you want to look at it that way.
Three thousand deaths, nine eleven, not one attack on this country since.
A number of them have been thwarted.
Uh only three thousand soldiers uh dead in three and a half years.
That is remarkable.
But if you listen to the left, it's outrageous.
It's horrible.
It is unacceptable.
And uh I can see your point, but believe me, he is no way attempting to compliment the way this is all being done.
He is trying to convince people that we're all worked up over nothing.
Here's Ron, Dublin, uh is that California?
Yes.
Hi, welcome to the program, Ron.
Uh hi, uh thank you, Rush.
The uh thing that I wanted to bring up is you had the uh trade center in two thousand and one, and the actual body count should have been or could have been as high as forty-five thousand just to the trade centers, not including the others.
That was a group of less than a hundred people, probably directly involved with this.
Nineteen were identified as the people initiating the action.
There were probably more uh going on.
There was more going on during that time than we know about because all the planes were grounded directly after that, and some of those people are cooling their heels in Guantanamo.
So you take a look at this, and this is a symbol or an explanation or a demonstration of an asymmetric war where people when they uh have a safe haven, when they essentially have access to weapons of mass destruction and where they have little value of life and they are entitled to throw tempered tantrums by killing people are enabled when you ignore it.
So I think what Bush is doing is exactly what needs to happen.
I think he has been quite successful in it.
I think because uh he has been successful, the Democrats have been attacking him.
And when you take a look at it, the fact that he has been able to continue to conduct the war and to get the results that he has gotten, uh I think that uh this has been a successful war.
Let me go to the popular war.
Let me let me let me go back to your your first point.
Uh your first point was we don't know, but it couldn't have been, you know, more than a hundred people involved in the planning of this.
We know the nineteen uh names of the hijackers.
But less than a hundred people were able to wipe out three thousand people in two hours.
Your point was it could have been more, had the trade centers been fully populated, had the attacks been more closely timed, had the uh there could have been three times that many dead.
I want to keep talking about this when we come back, because it's a good point.
Okay, we're back.
El Rushball, America's real anchor man, talent on loan from God.
You know all that.
All right.
So our previous caller makes the point.
He's responding here also to uh David Bell's piece in the LA Times Sunday, was 9-11 really that bad?
He says, Look, we could have lost 45,000 if those planes had hit uh uh at a later time of day.
If those towers had been more populated, uh had they not been able to extricate as many people from the second tower and the first after the first hit uh as were able, the death toll could have been much, much higher.
Uh and then the Pentagon had that plane hit in a different location, different angle of the Pentagon, could have been a lot more death and damage there than was done.
And we don't know what else was in the works because air traffic control grounded every airplane uh shortly after the second attack, and it didn't take them very long to get every airplane in U.S. airspace down, every airplane coming from a foreign destination was diverted, and uh and we shut down the air traffic system for four or five days.
Uh now his point here is that Mr. Bell was saying 3,000, that's no big deal.
And and and 6,500 total, no big deal.
That damage was wrought by probably less than a hundred people that planned it, and it took no soldiers.
It took nine nineteen hijackers.
Now, the cynical reaction to this uh would be to say to the caller, but sir, you're missing Mr. Bell's point.
You are looking at what could have happened.
We are looking at what did happen, and we are overreacting to it.
You can't say this could have happened or that could have happened, just like we can't respond to what they say they want to do to us, we have to respond to what they actually can do to us.
And his point is they don't have the ability to set off a nuke in this country yet.
They don't have the ability to wipe us out.
Uh my course, it to me that is that is the ultimate sophistry.
We have, if you remember, uh earlier this month, mimicking the hijackers who executed the 9-11 attacks, insurgents in Iraq, reportedly tied to Al-Qaeda there, considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the U.S. to orchestrate similar but new attacks on American soil.
Uh the head of the defense intelligence agency testified to this uh because he captured documents, uh coalition forces captured documents during a raid of a safe house, believed to house Iraqi members.
So you've got the American left now building up the notion that we're not at threat.
Uh we're not really at great risk.
Let's put it that we're not at great risk.
Yeah, a lot of people are threatening us and saying they want to, but they can't really do it.
So we're we're just really overreacting here.
So the the conclusion we have to wait until they can pull it off to deal with them.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, I was I was uh having a conversation over the weekend with uh friend of mine about all this.
Uh and this friend of mine is really gung-ho.
I mean, his friend wants to just deal with the enemy right now, not waste any time, thinks that we're just really botching this in Iraq with the strategy, and by leaving Syria and Iran alone, that we are just just totally blowing things sky high.
And I said to him, Well, you know, well, the the theory is that we would have to obliterate too many countries to wipe the militant Islamists off the face of the earth because they're everywhere.
They're all over the place.
And we And we can't wipe out every country.
And he came back, he said, Well, would FDR and Truman had thought that way during World War II?
Why did they call it a world war?
Would they, you know, if we aren't on offense, we're on defense, and this enemy will not stop.
And I said, Yeah, but for all the talk about World War II, there were basically three countries, Japan, Germany, and Italy.
Now we're talking about the whole of the Middle East, Indonesia, parts of the Philippines, Chechnya, Bosnia, Turkey, they're all over the place.
He said, okay, so I hear what you're saying.
And he knew I was playing devil's advocate.
I hear what you're saying, and that unfortunately is our strategy.
We can't use our overwhelming firepower.
We can't take out Iraq.
We can't kill civilians.
We would have lost World War II had we tied our hands the way we're tying our hands now.
He says, by the way, I'm not saying attack all the countries where Muslims are or even where radical Muslims are.
Iran and Syria are regimes that are giving safe haven to the enemy and attacking us.
And by the way, it wasn't just three countries in World War II, it was scores of countries.
I'm not aware of anybody saying that we should attack Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen.
Uh all that's baloney, but we can cut the heart out of the militant Islamist movement as it's aimed at us by uh dealing with Iran now rather than waiting.
Um the theory is if we take Mr. Bell's approach too, just wait, just wait until they are a threat, or wait until they are powerful enough to deal with the threat, and then we'll have to deal with it.
Uh and his point is why wait till then.
We know what they're committed to.
Would FDR and Truman have sat around and waited?
Uh so there they're continuing to be raging arguments over the way we're prosecuting this and whether or not we're deadly serious.
And the left, of course, is doing everything in its power to tame us and to prevent us from being able to protect ourselves in a preemptive uh fashion.
And all they're doing as they succeed, all they're doing is delaying the day of reckoning.
There will be one.
And it was it's going to be much, much worse than whenever it is, than if we dealt with it now.
And we're not dealing with it now in a blunt force manner that uh is similar to the ways in which we have in the past.
Steve in Canton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, hello, Rush.
Yes.
Hey, I want to let you know this war is a complete and utter disaster.
And I don't know why you keep pushing these troops, there's over three thousand have died, and the Iraqi people are really suffering and losing their lives too for these neocon shills that is just absolutely ridiculous.
And they're understanding that this is no big deal that these people lost their lives.
No, wait a second.
I am not saying that.
One of your buddies is saying that in the LA Times, why 9-11 was it really that bad?
He's the one that's now saying 3,000 soldiers not a big deal, 3,000 people at the World Trade Center is not a big deal.
You ought to be heralding this piece.
He's saying it's no big deal now after all of you guys and your clown buddies have been running around talking about how 3,000 is just it's it's unacceptable and so forth.
By the way, if any more of your liberals call here and start whining and moaning about Iraqi deaths, I'm gonna get really mad because you don't care a whit about Iraqi deaths, you didn't care when they were dying by the hundreds of thousands when Saddam ran the place.
You don't care about them now.
You just want your country defeated, you want your country taught a lesson, you have this silly, idealistic, pansy little notion in your head that war is bad and that somehow everything associated with it is bad, and you think it's being done in your name.
You personalize everything.
You haven't the slightest understanding of history, you have no concept of what peace really is and how it is achieved, and that is why this country dare not put people like you in real positions of power.
If we ever do, and this threat hasn't been dealt with, we're cooked.
Uh Ed in Havelock, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how are you?
I'm fine and dead.
Right.
Hello.
Yeah.
Uh it's Fred.
Yes, Fred.
Uh the Sea Turtles did it for the first thing.
Uh I'm a longtime listener and a first time caller.
But uh this morning I was surfing uh the news and uh I heard uh Chuck Chuckles Schumer, you know, chuckles for brains, um uh Schumer for brains rather uh say the dumbest thing I've ever heard a liberal politician say.
No, it can't be.
I don't care what it was, it can't be.
That that that that has not been officially recorded yet.
Well, it was totally dumb, and in any case, uh how what by what degree I you know somebody else will have to decide, but uh he was talking about the surge as he described it and said that we had no business patrolling the streets to prevent the Sunnis and Shias who have been h hated themselves for centuries from fighting with each other, and that we ought to be fighting terrorists, not Islamo fascists.
Well, excuse me, who does he think those terrorists are?
Wow.
Well, there look it, you have to you have to put this in the context in which uh Senator Schumer meant it.
And that is the left is is pounding this.
This is a sectarian civil war.
This is neighborhood violence.
And this is not terrorism.
These are not the people that attack us.
And they're they're trying to discredit the whole operation with that by, you know, drawing analogies to uh Vietnam.
The civil war aspects and characteristics of uh of that.
Uh but every time they open their mouths on things like this, they do illustrate, just as Sylvestre Reyes, the new chairman of House Intelligence Committee, has no clue whether Al Qaeda is Sunni or whether it's Shia.
It doesn't.
They don't know who these people are.
They they um they they they think they can draw a distinction between uh people committing terrorist acts in Iraq and people like Al Qaeda who commit terrorist acts against us and so forth.
But terrorism is terrorism the insurgents are terrorists as well.
So I agree with you.
It's it's it's it is apparent uh uh ignorance, but that's he's not ignorant.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
Uh and he's that look at folks, you gotta we when you hear these Democrats and and Hillary now talking about this, there's something that you can never forget.
And that is they cannot afford now for the U.S. to be victorious in Iraq.
They politically cannot afford it.
Take yourself forward to 2008.
Let's say that just let's let's speak hypothetically.
Let's say in the next eighteen months that there is an overwhelming success in Iraq, that the insurgents and the terrorists are quelled, and that there is peace and so forth.
Imagine the books and the articles that will be written about this dramatic comeback, the great valor of the U.S. troops, the stick toitiveness and toughness of President Bush.
Do you think any Democrat wants that kind of stuff being written in a presidential election year?
They cannot permit it.
The uh the new commander, General Petraeus, says we'll know by May whether or not the new surge, the reinforcements are working.
Isn't it interesting that Democrats are now beginning to say we need to start pulling troops out in May?
You think they chose that uh month coincidentally or at random?
They cannot afford for us to win this.
They are so politically exposed on the impossibility of victory.
They have already concluded that we've lost.
They there's no way that they can claim credit for victory if it happens.
Not with I mean, well, they could try, but I mean they're not gonna be able to do it with any credibility.
And you've got Pelosi traveling the Middle East this past weekend, which we'll have more on that as the program unfolds.
But never forget that when you listen to these people talk about we shouldn't be there fighting an insurgency and so forth.
You understand they're trying to get inside your head and cause you to have doubts about this so that you will eventually support them when they defund this, because they will have to do that at some point.
They will do that.
They will make every effort to defund the troops if it takes that to prevent victory, because victory is the one thing politically that would ruin them.
Back in a second.
We women of the United States have a very clear message for every single presidential candidate, including or especially Hillary Clinton.
And we women say, folks, I they just they all start screaming and they sound maniacal.
Certainly don't sound like mothers.
Or mom.
Back to the phones.
Wayne and Elida, Ohio.
Thanks for waiting, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's uh it's a pleasure, a long time listener, and uh big fan, and it's a thrill to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I was just making a quick call.
You had brought up the Barbaro incident there uh in the first hour and mentioned about saving the sperm, and I just want to let you and any listeners know that thoroughbreds are not allowed to artificial inseminate.
It has to be all natural breeding, so no, there was no sperm saved.
Oh no, that's that that that that makes the loss uh deeply financial as well as uh major for his he would have had to have a Fed fee in the hundred thousand dollar plus range.
And you breed a hundred a year to somebody like it, you're talking possible ten million bucks a year.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
That's uh and the horse loves it.
Uh yeah.
Well, but it's it's just a sad thing.
It just um I didn't know I didn't know that about thoroughbred racing.
I appreciate the information.
Well, you're certainly welcome, and just want to let you know.
Well, Wayne, I you you should I'm telling you something.
You need to be really, really honored, feel really special about yourself.
Do you know how rare it is that a caller is able to inform me about something about which I'm ignorant?
Doesn't happen, Wayne.
It just doesn't.
You should go out and buy people dinner tonight and tell this story.
Because nobody, very few people over the course of eighteen years will have been able to do what you will be able to say.
I told Rush Limbaugh something he didn't know.
Victor, Silver Springs, Maryland.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
How are you doing?
Good.
Uh about the demonstration last Saturday.
Yes, yes.
WMAL has been talking about it all morning long from Andy and Grandy to Chris Corr.
Uh 300 demonstrators managed to get to the bottom of the Capitol steps, and the Capitol police were told to let them go ahead and spray paint their anti-war graffiti.
And the rank and file are absolutely livid over this.
Um Chris Corps was saying that Matt Drutch had this on there, was also.
Wait a minute.
What who do you mean the rank and file are upset about this?
Well, the the chief of the Capitol Police and the deputy were ordered to tell their people to stand back and let them go ahead and graffiti all over the Capitol steps.
If I had done something like this, uh I would have been arrested for something.
Yeah, it it's it's interesting.
I wonder why that order was given.
Was it uh was it you think given just to keep the peace, or do you have an anti-war protester in the park police?
I have a sneaky feeling from what the callers were saying this morning that maybe at the Capitol Police the uh the head honchos were afraid that if there were arrests, it would get on the six o'clock news, and that would cause a lot of problems.
Well, I don't doubt that.
I uh look at it's a microcosm of our society.
Don't stop the bad guys, it's just gonna make them matter, and they'll just start they'll just throw a tantrum, and then you really got problems.
Yes, let them come in, spew their bile, spray paint the Capitol steps, we can get some illegals in here to remove it, and then it'd be done and get them out of town.
We don't need to come in confrontations.
We don't want any, we don't want to hell, the order may have come down from even higher.
Hey, uh look, we don't want bombs going off, and we don't want more protests because of the way these people are treated.
Basically, have them show up, just ignore them, let them do whatever they it's it's so typically American these days to let the malcontents uh the hooligans have their way just so we don't offend them.
All right, if you are one of thirty students gathered in a dorm at a major institution of higher learning awaiting the before and after Hillary Clinton in her own words on the war in Iraq and her vote for it.
Uh don't uh be uh impatient.
Your weight will not be long.
We'll get to it in the first segment of the next hour.
We've also got uh audio sound bites from John Carey, Jane Fonda, and all this bunch uh at the uh at the anti-war rally over the uh weekend in Washington, D.C. Lots more stuff to get to as well, so sit tight.
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