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Feb. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 21, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
America's anchorman to the rescue once again.
Ladies and gentlemen, to put all of the drive-by media hysteria into perspective, what a fabulous, busy broadcast day lies ahead of us here on the EIB network.
Owned, operated, controlled dictatorially, well, benevolently, dictatorially, by me, America's real anchorman, El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, maha-rushy.
600 Hollywood types show up last night in Hollywood to support Obama.
The Hillary camp is beside itself.
There are now battles back and forth between the Hillary camp and the Obama camp.
We have details coming up, ladies and gentlemen, although also the ratings are in for the half-hour news hour.
And I think you'd like to hear about this.
Half-hour news hour drew 1.5 million viewers, which exceeded expectations for Sunday night at 10 o'clock on cable.
These are what we in the broadcast business call kick-ass numbers.
Just 100,000 viewers less than the daily show, which airs at 10 p.m. I think.
I don't even know what time it is.
I've never seen it.
But it's Monday through Friday on the Comedy Central channel.
It's a larger audience than that Colbert report.
And it built on its lead-in.
So that's always a great sense.
Spiked is the broadcast term for that.
And the time slot for half-hour news hour, Sunday night on Fox, was up 69% in viewers, 94% in the 2554 demographic compared to one year ago.
So that's excellent news.
You people out there made that happen.
Well, get this.
Pardon me, got a cough just a sec.
This is an editorial from the San Francisco Chronicle.
America's best-known dungeon, the Guantanamo Bay Wire Cage Complex, is now blessed by a federal appellate court.
Prisoners there have no right to U.S. courts.
The judges said maybe the White House has at last perfected its end run around basic civil liberties, but it should drop the matter once and for all and shut down Gitmo for the black hole embarrassment it has become.
So the White House wins, and the drive-by media says, shut it down anyway.
In the Los Angeles Times, they have a story here by a guy named David G. Savage.
The thrust of this story is, this is not a defeat for the terrorists.
It's a victory for the White House.
Now, if you've ever doubted anything we've said about the agenda for the drive-bys in this war, how in the world can you say there's no defeat for the terrorists?
No, they have to stay there for the rest of their lives.
It's a victory for the White House.
And they urge the Supreme Court to take the case.
Last year, Congress closed the courthouse door to Gitmo prisoners.
This is when the Republicans still ran the place, by passing the Military Commissions Act.
With Democrats now in control of Congress, several senators have vowed to amend the law to restore the traditional right to habeas corpus for all.
So the question now becomes, will Democrats write legislation on behalf of terrorists?
Will they do so?
Yes, they will, ladies.
They will most certainly do so now that they run the, except they can't get it past the Senate because Mitch McConnell, as I've told you, I told you people, when you watch what goes on in the House, ignore it because the Republicans have no power there.
If you want to blame Republicans in the House, blame them for being lackadaisical and lazy in the last election.
But don't blame them for not being able to affect anything in the Senate in the House because they have no power.
But in the Senate, Republicans run the show.
Mitch McConnell, probably the most powerful senator, the Republican leader in that body right now.
Now, in Tuesday's decision, the two judges, Republican-appointed judges, David Sentell and Judge Randolph, said that the right to habeas corpus was limited to sovereign U.S. territory.
Amen.
Amen.
The Constitution does not confer rights on aliens with property or presence within the United States, they said.
We are aware of no case in the past that says habeas corpus is available to aliens held in an overseas military base, leased from a foreign government.
Now, the Clinton-appointed judge, Judith Rogers, dissented, said that it was unconstitutional for Congress to deny habeas corpus to the detained men because this is not a time of national emergency, she wrote.
See, the Clinton-appointed judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals, the losing judge, it's not a time of national emergency.
And such as that, Congress had no authority to restrict the right to habeas corpus through the Military Commissions Act.
So this is hanging by a thread, but it's on to the Supreme Court now, ladies and gentlemen.
And of course, we have a thriving merchandise business at Club Gitmo, which is now guaranteed to continue.
And don't forget, when you go to the EIB store to pick up on your Club Gitmo gear, we need to add some Club Gitmo for life.
At any rate, in addition to Club Gitmo gear, there is also, of course, the Rush Babe on board signs for your car and the two t-shirts, acknowledging my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Drive-by media.
Let's move on to Britain and Iraq now.
The drive-by media is just ecstatic over the announcement by Tony Blair.
They're going to start a troop withdrawal, a Britz are, from Iraq.
This was just, they could not wait to find out what this was really all about.
They just couldn't contain themselves.
They are so eager for defeat.
They are so eager for us to pull out and be humiliated that they jumped the gun.
Here is a montage of CNN announcer Wolf Blitzer.
We have others from PMSNBC, Brian Williams, a whole bunch of them.
You might recognize some of the voices.
This is CNN, breaking news.
We're getting word in from London that Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, is on the verge of announcing a major statement about troop withdrawals of British forces from Iraq.
Breaking news out of Great Britain.
Tony Blair will be announcing tomorrow that the United Kingdom is abandoning Iraq and President Bush.
The United States may be starting to lose a big ally in the fight in Iraq.
This may be the beginning of the end of British involvement in the Iraq War.
Since the very first day of the war in Iraq, Britain has been America's number one ally.
Now, nearly four years later, Prime Minister Blair is to announce a major troop withdrawal.
America's closest ally in the war, Great Britain, is doing something President Bush said he never will, setting a timetable for bringing its men and women home.
Breaking news overnight.
The British are leaving the British on the march home from Iraq.
Is it not this funny?
I mean, this is just these people are, they can't contain this breaking news.
Bottom line here is that they're not totally leaving.
It was a planned pullout, but the drive-by is trying to treat this as a giant surprise.
Here's David Rodham Gergen last night with Wolf Blitzer, who asked him this.
Is his potential very, very significant, not only, obviously, for Britain, but for the Bush administration as well.
That sound we're hearing is the cracking of the alliance.
It means that Britain is starting to go its own way now and will leave President Bush more isolated.
It will increase the pressure on President Bush here in the United States to begin pulling back American troops too sooner rather than later.
Symbolically, it's powerful news back here because Tony Blair has been the central ally for President Bush and throughout this war.
Quick question.
Do you people know what this is really all about?
Anybody have a wild guess what this is really all about?
You have to have been following the news for a while to understand what this is really all about.
There's a member of the British royal family.
His name is Prince Harry.
And Prince Harry wants to go to Iraq.
He doesn't want any special treatment.
He's a I don't know what his title is.
I don't know what his rank is.
I've seen pictures of him in what looks like to be a tanker, an armored personnel carrier.
He wants to go.
I don't think the British royal family wants him to go.
And I wouldn't be surprised if there was some pressure brought on Prime Minister Blair by the royal family here.
At least it's interesting speculation.
You would have to consider it.
Now, here's a report from CNN's Ed Henry today on CNN on the White House reaction to the British withdrawal of the troops.
No matter how the White House tries to play this, this is clearly a blow to Mr. Bush.
When you combine it with what's just crossing the wires over the last hour or so, that Denmark is also going to pull its troops from Iraq.
The perception is reality.
And the perception is that U.S. allies are now walking away, and they're shunning what Mr. Bush has repeatedly said, that setting a timetable and withdrawing troops is not the right way to go.
His allies are now walking away.
We did a Nexus search here, folks, this morning because I could not ever recall Ed Henry at CNN telling us that Denmark had troops in Iraq.
I never knew from CNN that Denmark was part of our coalition.
So we did a Lexis-Nexis search, and we can't find, of all the CNN transcripts, we cannot find a day prior to today where CNN reporter Ed Henry ever reported that Denmark has troops in Iraq.
Now, this morning, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed the House of Commons announcing the handover in Basra.
Here is his comment or portion thereof.
The next chapter in Basra's history can be written by the Iraqis.
I've discussed this with Prime Minister Maliki, and our proposals have his full support and indeed represent his wishes.
Already we have handed over prime responsibility for security to the Iraqi authorities in Almatuna and Daikan.
Now in Basra over the coming months, we will transfer more of the responsibility directly to Iraqis.
I should say that none of this will mean a diminution in our combat capability.
The actual reduction in forces will be from the present 7,100, itself down from over 9,000 two years ago and 40,000 at the time of the conflict, to roughly 5,500.
However, with the exception of forces which will remain at Basra Palace, the British forces will be located at Basra Air Base and be in a support role.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's this?
A 5,500 are going to remain?
That what we heard here just now?
We did.
You heard right from the British Prime Minister himself, Tony Blair.
5,500 are going to remain.
Doesn't sound like the Brits are pulling it, by the way.
Not happening tomorrow either.
Scheduled, scheduled to happen by the end of the year.
You know what's the most amazing thing about this to me, Mr. Snardley?
The most amazing thing about all these drive-by media reports is that today, February 21st, 2007, some four years after the war began, we have learned from the drive-by media that we have allies in our coalition.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
No, no, no.
I have not forgotten the lifestyle stack from yesterday.
No, no, no, no.
There's too much juice in that stack to forget it.
No, I didn't do any of it, Mr. Snerdley.
I saved it for you.
Snerdley had to leave yesterday for the last hour to get his car washed.
And I promised the audience, I promised everybody that we will not go into the lifestyle stack until you were here.
So I saved the whole thing for you to get back.
Hillary Clinton.
Oh, folks.
This is just so juicy.
Let's take this in order.
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed yesterday to change the United States so it is no longer an arrogant power that alienates the world.
When I'm president, I'm going to send a message to the world that America is back.
We're not the arrogant power that we've been acting like for the last six years, Senator Clinton said during her first campaign stop in the Sunshine State of Florida.
She's done in Miami.
We want to be an admired country again in the world.
There's a lot of work to be done.
And she said this to a lot of applause from a predominantly black audience gathered for her town hall-style chat in the Liberty City section of Miami.
She blamed the Bush administration for squandering worldwide goodwill in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
It's very sad to me, uttered Mrs. Clinton.
We have to rebuild it because a lot of the problem we have we can't solve on our own.
It can't be solved just because we have the strongest military in the world.
All right, so she vowed to end U.S. arrogance as president.
The whole idea that she can represent the U.S. in any which way, matter, or form is arrogance in itself.
Is it not arrogant to say, I'm going to end U.S. arrogance?
Especially she's a lib.
I mean, as a lib, arrogance is in the DNA.
Condescending arrogance is in the DSA, but the DNA.
But forget that.
Hillary Clinton's campaign apparently didn't take too kindly to the harsh rhetoric from David Geffen, a Los Angeles billionaire and music mogul, which is courtesy of today's Maureen Dowd column.
Geffen, who is backing Barack Obama, called Bill Clinton reckless and clearly is still upset that Clinton didn't grant a pardon to one of his good buddies, Native American Leonard Peltier.
Geffen said, Mark Rich is getting pardoned an oil profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice.
You know, Geffen's part of the SKG group, the Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen group, and they were in the tank for Bill Clinton throughout his presidency.
And they had this big deal fundraiser for Obama last night.
Now, originally, it was expected to attract 400 people, but the restaurant where you're going to have it couldn't handle the overflow of 600 people.
So they moved it to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which at one time used to be owned by Merv Griffin.
Big deal.
So what we end up having is 600 Hollywood supporters of Obama.
And people like Tom Hanks, Jennifer Anison.
I read some of the people's names on the list of attendees.
They each gave $2,300.
And then after that, they were invited to a private bash at Geffen's house.
All of those who raised $46,000 for this thing last night were invited to a private bash at Geffen's house.
So what you had after the big fundraiser with Obama, so you had 600 Hollywood supporters of Obama equaling what?
600 Hollywood deniers of Hillary.
Yes, my friends, 600, not 600 Hollywood supporters of Obama, 600 Hollywood deniers of Hillary, 600 actors, actresses, producers, producer etes who are known by name.
They are known by address.
They are known by phone number.
They are known by social security number.
And they all probably have FBI files.
So as Leonard Nimoy, the star of Star Trek might say, may these 600 Hollywood deniers of Hillary continue to live long and continue to prosper.
We pray for their continued health here at the EIB network after this shindig last night.
By the way, this just-in John Edwards has a new strategy.
First, he says, in an article that was, I guess, Hollywood Reporter submits variety, Peter Bart, said that John Edwards said the biggest threat to the Middle East is Israel.
And Edwards is, I didn't say that.
That's totally erroneous.
I didn't say that.
So he's flip-flopping all over the place, depending on the audience to whom he is speaking.
Now, his strategy out in Hollywood is that there are two Hollywoods.
Well, just like there are two Americas.
There are two Hollywoods.
There's the filthy rich in Hollywood, and those people are going after Obama and Hillary and whoever else.
And then there are the little people of Hollywood.
And unlike Obama, Edwards is going after the other Hollywood type, the little Hollywood types, the second Hollywood.
He's going after the extras, the grips, the key grips, the best boys, the electricians, and of course the tort lawyers.
So the Democrats are surrounding the place, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, this Maureen Dowd column in the New York Times is especially biting.
Not only did David Geffen say of Bill Clinton that he is reckless, he had this to say about both Clintons.
Everybody in politics lies, but they, the Clintons, do it with such ease, it is troubling.
David Geffen, who was part of a troika that arraigned 600 Hillary deniers in Hollywood to show up last night in an Obama bash.
Maureen Dowd, quoting Geffen today, it's very close to what Bob Kerry said about how good at lying the Clintons are.
Trouble in paradise out there for a while.
Back in just a sec.
I got you under my skin, and there's only two ways that can happen.
Welcome back, folks.
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By the way, these liberal presidential candidates all trying to outdo each other in demanding earlier and earlier dates for withdrawing from Iraq.
I'll make you a prediction.
Hillary Clinton will soon announce that we should withdraw retroactively.
That is, we should withdraw before we ever go.
We should have withdrawn before the war started.
She's essentially said that in her own way.
Look, this Hillary and Geffen thing gets even better.
Here is more of what Geffen said about the Clintons and the Democrats in general in the Maureen Dowd column today.
He says, God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?
Obama's inspirational.
He's not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family.
Americans are dying every day in Iraq, and I'm tired of hearing James Carville on television.
David Geffen.
Maureen Dowd today.
More Geffen.
Don't think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton's become a different person.
I think they believe she's the easiest to defeat, meaning the Republicans.
She's overproduced.
She's over-scripted.
It's not a very big thing to say I made a mistake in the war and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't, Geffen said.
She's so advised by so many smart advisors who are covering every base.
I think the American people were better served when the candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms.
You know, now, Geffen and Der Schlieckmeister, Slick Willie, were once really, really tight.
Now, as I told you, Clinton has been called a reckless guy by Geffen, who gave his enemies a lot of ammunition to hurt him and to distract the country.
This didn't sit well, ladies and gentlemen, because Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson issued the following statement today demanding that Barack Obama disavow personal attacks that his campaign finance chair made against Senator Clinton this morning in the New York Times.
While Senator Obama was denouncing slash and burn politics yesterday, his campaign's finance chair was viciously and personally attacking Senator Clinton and her husband.
If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about his repeated claims to change the tone of our politics, he should immediately denounce these remarks, remove Mr. Geffen from his campaign, and return his money.
While Democrats should engage in vigorous debate on the issues, there is no place in our party or our politics for the kind of personal insults made by Senator Obama's principal fundraiser, meaning David Geffen.
So the Clinton camp, not happy about this and demanding that Obama renounce what Geffen said.
What's this all about?
Well, Obama on Sunday railed against slash and burn politics in Washington, a brief stop in Nevada.
We got to get beyond the small politics.
The slash and burn politics had to become the custom in Washington.
And that's what Wolfson's referring to.
But it just keeps heating up.
The Obama camp has responded to Howard Wolfson's demands that the Obama camp shut up and silence David Geffen.
From spokesperson Robert Gibbs, we aren't going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters.
Now get this next line.
It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when he was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom.
It's also ironic that Senator Clinton lavishes praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford, who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because he's black.
It's getting vicious out there in the Democrat Party.
Geffen launches on the Clintons.
Howard Wolfson tells Obama, you reign Geffen in, get him to stop this stuff.
Obama's camp responds by saying, isn't it ironic the Clintons had no problem with Geffen when he was raising 18 mil and putting people in the Lincoln bedroom, himself included?
Oh, my friends, this is delectable.
And Hillary Clinton today has criticized President Bush's education policy as doing little to help minorities and acknowledged that she is still searching for ways to raise minority student test scores.
Test scores are up under President Bush's program, Mrs. Clinton.
But I suggest that if you really want to find out what can be done about improving the education of minorities and everybody else, call Steve Jobs.
You know, Al Gord is on the Apple Inc. board of directors.
Call Steve Jobs, Mrs. Clinton.
He has an excellent idea.
Now, many people have had this idea for many, many moons, but we have been ignored when we have issued this idea.
Mr. Jobs in Austin, Texas recently said, get rid of the teachers' unions.
Give the principals power to fire the bad apples who are teachers.
He said that the teachers' unions are too unionized.
The public schools are too unionized.
Mrs. Clinton, there are all kinds.
I've told you people, by the way, you think the Democrats are totally unified and you think that they are juggernaut and they are not.
And I have told you also, Mrs. Clinton and the Clintons have this sense of entitlement where her ascension to the presidency is concerned.
And all of these defections, like Geffen, and there will be others, plus the raws of Obama, why, this is just not supposed to happen.
And, you know, Bill's sitting back there, Chappaqua, wherever he is.
And he said, these people not remember what I did to Andrew Cuomo.
Have they never, have they forgotten what happened to the torch?
Do they realize, my gosh, you know, Hillary, he calls her up on the phone.
Hillary, do you think it's time for Geffen to wake up with somebody's dead horse head in his bed?
I mean, we can't put up with this much longer.
This is falling apart us out here.
We can't kill everybody.
We can't wipe everybody out here.
We've got to do something about this.
So there's probably some consternation going on over the now, it's out there.
We're going to have anybody from the Clinton royal family.
Geffens essentially saying they hold with this notion that they're entitled.
Plus this little zinger, I'm tired of seeing Carville on TV.
Yes, my friends, just sit back, take a gander.
We got two more soundbites I want to play about this British pullout of Iraq.
First, Condi Rice, audio soundbite 5 Ed.
She was in Berlin this morning.
The coalition remains intact.
And in fact, the British still have thousands of soldiers deployed in Iraq in the south.
And any decisions that they make are going to be on the basis of conditions.
But it is the plan that as it is possible to transfer responsibilities to the Iraqis, that coalition forces would no longer be needed in those circumstances.
And Dick Cheney is on the aircraft carrier, what is it, the USS Kitty Hawk today.
Jonathan Carl from ABC had a quick sit-down with him and said, so Mr. Vice President Tony Blair is announcing that the British are beginning their withdrawal from Iraq.
Are you concerned about that?
I look at it, and what I see is an affirmation of the fact that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well.
In fact, I talked to a friend just the other day who had driven from Baghdad down to Basra in seven hours, found the situation dramatically improved compared to where it was a year or so ago.
Sort of validated the British view that they have made progress in southern Iraq and that they can therefore afford to reduce their force levels.
So there's the Vice President Condoleezza Rice putting the correct spin on this.
The Brits are not pulling out.
They're not gone.
They're not leaving in total drive-by media, simply caught up in their own agenda and ecstatic, thinking this is the death knell for the war in Iraq and the Bush administration.
To the phones, to Chicago, we start with Susanna.
Glad you called, and it's great to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush, and thank you for providing me with hope during the early dark days after 9-11.
Let me get right to the point, which is that after listening for weeks to critics of the surge talk about how useless an additional 21,500 or so troops would be to the actions in Iraq, we now learn that the potential loss of something like 10,000 or so British and Danish troops are going to be a monumental catastrophe.
Yeah, I know.
It's a good point.
It's an excellent point.
Just confirmed that the drive-bys A misreported this and B that they have an agenda where this is they tried to create the impression that all the British troops were leaving and not only that because Blair has decided to throw in a towel that the whole thing's a failure.
I mean, this is journalistic malpractice.
But your point is brilliant, I think.
2,000 Brits is a lot.
Even if all of us, 7,000 leaving, oh no!
But so they're trying to portray this as Bush's best buddy leaving him in the schoolyard to face the rest of the world's bullies and so forth.
And, you know, it just, it's getting more and more apparent that whenever the drive-bys get in unison on anything, you really have to go the 180.
You have to just distrust it.
Yes.
It's amazing.
Susanna, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
You bet.
Dan in Auburn, California, just north of Sacramento.
I've been there many times.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Good morning to you.
Yes.
You're our new president, Rush Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I just have to say that we're we cannot win this war because that's all they know over there is they keep putting these suicide bombs out and we cannot fight that.
No way in hell.
We just can't fight.
They do things so secretly, that's all they know.
That's their life.
They bomb people.
You know, this troubles me.
I know what you're saying.
They bomb people.
I got these IEDs.
They're coming from Iran and wherever else.
I watched the flags of our fathers over the weekend while suffering the severe ravages of whatever mysterious virus I have.
And I was a little disappointed in it in that it did not show the full scale of the conflict in Ibo Jima.
And I think about the Battle of the Bulge, where our intelligence screwed up and underestimated the size of the enemy by 3 to 400,000 troops.
And I think back to all of the tough times in World War II and other items, times in history where great American valor took place.
I wonder how many people are out there saying we can't.
I wonder how many people...
You're telling me we can't compete against bombs.
We can't compete against secret bombers.
We can't compete against, that's absurd.
And it troubles me that you think this.
It troubles me that a lot of Americans probably have bought into this notion that because what you're saying is, Dan, we can't stop this enemy.
If they're in the United States doing this, we can't stop them.
So, Dan, if that's your attitude, you may as well surrender.
Just don't take the rest of the country with you.
Be right back, folks.
If you people will permit me, I will make this brief.
It is getting sick.
It is getting really sick what the media and the judicial system, the legal system, are doing with this whole Anna Nicole Smith situation.
The judge is auditioning for a television show.
Everybody in this courtroom just wants to be on TV, and there's the media granting the wish.
Get this.
This is just sick.
Headline, Anna Nicole's body decomposing.
Now, why is this a story?
Well, here's why.
The drawn-out court battle over what to do with Anna Nicole Smith's body has a new sense of urgency.
The Starlet's remains are decomposing more quickly than expected, and a public viewing could be in danger.
That warning from the Broward County Medical Examiner today, or yesterday, came as Smith's boyfriend.
There is strange this and that and the other thing.
So we got to hurry up with this because the body's decomposing because there may not be able to be a public viewing.
A public viewing?
What is she, a candidate for pope or something?
Your body's not supposed to decompose?
Candidate for sainthood or something?
It really is just, it's an absolute trap.
Now, Brittany Spears has left rehab again after another one-day stent at a place in Manlibu.
And this is news.
It must be a slow news day at the drive-by cable nets, but I'm telling you, I got a chock-full show here without mentioning any of this stuff.
I only did now because at some point, even I, America's anchorman, must weigh in on the absolute worthlessness and stupidity of all this and illustrate it as an example of the decline of American culture and media.
Bill in Charlotte, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
Megaditto's Rush.
Been trying to get through to you for years, my friend.
Yes, sir.
I'm glad you made it.
Yeah, I'm good to be home.
I'm on leave here.
Master Sergeant serving in the United States Army for almost 25 years.
Thank you very much.
No kidding.
Well, we're honored to have you with us, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I just wanted to comment: having been over there in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia, Basra particularly, that's a very safe area and stronghold that we've got right now.
Of course it is, which is why it's free to turn it over to the Iraqis to control it.
This is not a defeat.
This is not a retreat, right?
Exactly.
It's a realignment of forces, and we're doing it all the time all around the world.
Yeah, still working on it in Germany.
Still working on it.
We do.
We have troops in a lot of these places.
South Korea.
Still working on it there.
That's where I first heard your show.
South Korea?
And I was over there.
Armed Forces Network.
Way to go.
And you've been in 25 years.
Roger that.
10-4.
Well, we're honored to have you on the program.
I'm glad you called, and that's, excuse me, excellent, expert testimony of what's happening in Basra.
Baghdad is about a couple other places.
Baghdad's the lone outpost there of true civil unrest, disrest, what have you.
Jack in Miami, hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Rush Limbaugh, how you doing?
Good, sir.
Just real quick, it's such an honor to talk to you.
Your voice has been the only constant in my life.
I'm 20 years old, hopefully now firmly out of this skull full of mush stage.
And I'd like to call you and ask, what can I do to take action against this idiocy that I see day to day?
Which, well, there's a lot of idiocy.
Are you talking about cop culture idiocy, Democrat Party idiocy, liberal idiocy?
What kind of?
I'm going to just take a wide target and say liberal idiocy in general.
I feel helpless in the fact that I don't know how to even start to attack this problem.
Well, you're not helpless.
In fact, you know, I've only got 25 seconds here to answer this, and that will not do your question justice.
Can you hang on?
I can.
All right, because I'll take you right after the break at the top of the hour.
We start the monologue segment in the next hour.
Because this is a good question, and people ask me this all the time.
They feel helpless.
They feel alone when they're not.
You're not, wondering what you can do.
And I'll tell you what I tell everybody who asks me that when we come back.
Don't go away anywhere, folks.
Did you know that George Washington was an adult beverage entrepreneur?
He was a whiskey distiller.
Yes, that and a lot more.
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