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Feb. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 21, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I have a question.
And I think it's a valid question.
And it's a question somebody needs to ask.
And as such, there's nobody better than I, nobody better than me, to ask the question.
It's about this sick story that Anna Nicole Smith's body is decomposing.
And they got to hurry everything up because the public viewing is now threatened.
How in the world can her body decompose?
It's mostly silicon and Botox.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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Let me go back to Jack here in Miami.
Jack, welcome back to the program, and thanks again for holding on.
It's okay.
How you doing, Rush?
Very good.
Very well.
Just as good as the last time I spoke to you.
Now, you're 20 years old.
You're a Rush baby.
I have been the one constant voice in your life, I believe you said.
Yes, that is true.
And you feel helpless.
Describe this to me.
What do you mean, helpless?
Well, I kind of feel bad for saying this because I feel like I should know what to do.
But as I'm getting more into the quote-unquote real world, I'm just being confronted by people that just in normal everyday discussions that have the stupidest ideas about money, economy, law, power.
And I try to explain it to them.
And I don't even try to explain it to them by using simple facts.
I break it down as much as I can.
Yesterday, I was in a huge argument with my boss about why oil companies should have tax breaks.
They can create more jobs with the money that they don't have to pay to the government, obviously.
I tried breaking that down, and no matter how hard I tried, it wasn't even going in one year to go out the other ear, it seemed.
Yeah, I understand that.
I've encountered this as we all have.
All of us who are conservative encountered this all of our lives.
But you have to, just to give you some optimism here, despite the fact that we've been encountering all our lives, you're only 20 years old.
I was born in 1951.
There was no such thing as, well, there was conservatism, but nobody knew yet.
There were people like Bill Buckley and Russell Kirk and a number of others who were building the foundation.
And Barry Goldwater came along and Ronald Reagan.
I'm sure you know enough recent history.
So the lesson here is that despite what you see as something is hopeless, tremendous progress has been made and is being made.
And you, you find yourself now, you're young and you're learning and you feel like you're armed with information that's correct.
You're surrounded by people who not only don't get it, they're not interested in it, and it frustrates you.
And the one thing that you have to understand about all this is you have to understand the makeup of many liberals, not all of them.
Some of them are thinking people, but you have to understand liberalism itself.
It is a feeling.
It's an emotion.
It's not based on things that are reasonable.
It's based on a whole bunch of things that are really designed to make them feel better about themselves.
I don't want to get into too much discussion of liberals because you're the focal point here and your helplessness.
You should not give up trying.
Because in the process of trying to talk to these people, what you will do is help yourself.
You will learn to express your thoughts better, more coherently, and more persuasively the more you do it.
And you can look at this as somewhat of a challenge.
Do not get frustrated when they don't hear it, believe it, or accept it, although you'll find over time that some of them will, but not in your presence.
They will never allow you to know that you've changed their mind.
What you're going to have to do is take comfort and solace, as we all do, in your own sense of self-achievement as you get better at understanding, articulating, and explaining these things to people.
So at the end of one of these typical conversations that you just described with your boss, you ought to learn to walk away from it feeling very good because you expressed your position cogently.
You expressed it artfully.
You expressed it persuasively.
If he didn't get it, that's not your fault.
In the process of doing all this, what's going to happen is you're going to influence far more people than you know.
We all do this.
We all have far more impact on far more people than any of us are ever aware.
Even if you're looking for that impact, and I know a lot of people who are looking for evidence that they're having impact, they're never satisfied, and that's because they're looking for others to provide personal feedback.
Learn to provide your own satisfaction yourself.
You'll know when you've done a good job of this and when you haven't.
And those times where you haven't, it'll spur you to do even better the next time.
In the process, you're going to meet like-minded people.
You're going to meet people who agree with you, who understand what you're talking about, and those people will become your circle of friends.
It's not to say you can't have friends with liberals because you can, but not if every meeting with them is combat or argumentation or mild confrontation.
There's more to life than politics and ideology, and you need a well-rounded life as well.
But in the process of being who you are, you're going to attract people like you, which is what you want.
You're going to attract friends.
You're going to attract business associates.
And in the process, you're going to feel far more confident as that begins to happen.
And you're going to get a sense here that you're not alone, that you're not lost, and that you can, if you want to use this phrase, not crazy about it, but you can make a difference.
Point is, you're going to make a difference far more than you know.
You're not married yet, are you?
No, I'm not.
Well, you're going to be married someday, probably.
The statistics say that you are.
And someday you're probably going to have children.
The way you raise them, the household that they grow up in, the values that you inculcate to them.
I mean, this is how these things spread.
This is how your values that you consider important are inculcated to others.
In this sense, you're not forcing them on anybody.
You're just exposing them to yours.
Yeah, your kids will rebel at times.
That always happens.
But you really, I think, don't feel lost and alone, particularly when you are, your ideas and your attempts to persuade are rejected by people who really don't have half the information you have.
I mean, if you're able to sit, what kind of business are you in?
I'm in lost prevention.
You are a what?
Lost prevention?
Lost prevention.
Yeah.
Lost prevention.
What's that?
I don't know what.
It's like a retail.
You come in shoplift.
I apprehend you.
Oh, oh, okay.
And you have a boss.
Okay, so you basically, you go out and you, I got it.
I got it.
So you have a boss.
Right.
And you're talking to him about these things, and he has no understanding of what you're saying because in his mind, he has been raised.
He's been exposed to people who believe oil's bad.
Yeah.
It's almost like he's saying a swear word when he says ExxonMobil.
It's almost like it's.
Of course.
Well, now, you can develop arguments for this.
You can say, okay, ExxonMobil had a profit of whatever, the world's largest profit ever, and this guy's probably outraged about it.
Ask him if he's concerned about the massive losses of Ford Motor Company.
Ask him if he's concerned about the massive profits of Toyota.
Ask him, you know, ask questions that make him question his own bigotry, which is what this guy is.
But he's been trained.
He's been raised this way.
And so I, you know, you, you have, let me tell you a little story.
I was out at the AT ⁇ T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am a couple of weeks ago, whereas I'm sure I caught this mysterious ravaging virus, whatever it is, disease, coursing through my busy broadcast veins.
And there's a traditional big party every Wednesday night that's put on by one of the world's most famous financiers.
And this year, I happen to be seated next to a huge, I'm not going to mention any names, liberal, Hollywood liberal.
This was done on purpose by the people who arranged the party because they were hoping for fireworks, entertaining kind of fireworks, with this and I, this guy and I getting into it.
And it's happened before.
It happened at 60 Minutes 25th anniversary party at the Temple of Dundar at the Museum of Modern Art or Natural History, whatever it was in New York.
They sat me next to Camille Paglia, Steve Croft.
And they thought, oh, this is going to lead to fireworks.
So Steve Croft and Ed Bradley were circling the table every five minutes, just waiting for the fireworks.
Camille Paglia and I are now best buds.
Wow.
This friend of, oh, this guy that I was seated next to, when he first spotted me, the first thing he said to me, Jack, you have got to get your mind right about oil.
You know that oil's destroying this country.
You know that oil is going to destroy the world with global warming.
And I'm sitting here and I'm saying, this is a party.
I am here for a good time.
I said to him, I said, sir, I'll be glad to talk about this with you at any time other than here.
I have a problem hearing when there's a lot of people in a room and I didn't want to get into it.
This was not the place for it.
In the meantime, we started talking about other things.
He ended up inviting me to his Academy Award parties.
Wow.
But I'm sure that was just for the fireworks.
He said, if you're in L.A., come to my Academy Award parties.
I'm not going to be in L.A. this weekend, so I can't go to the Academy Award parties.
But the point is, I haven't had the conversation about oil with him, but I will someday.
But it's probably going to be much like, and this is a big time Hollywood big shot.
It's going to be much like you talking to your boss.
But I look at it as an opportunity to hone my own ability to tell people what I think rather than sit there and don't be intimidated.
This guy's your boss.
But don't be intimidated.
But the point is, you're on the right track here, and you have every reason to feel proud of yourself with what you believe.
Don't let your pride and your happiness and your self-satisfaction be determined by the fact that other people who were lesser than you don't understand what you do.
Don't let that indicate that you're a failure.
You have to understand that it's just unfortunate they don't get it and you keep on keeping on.
Wow.
Is it safe to say that I feel like I owe you money?
Is it safe to say that I feel like I...
No, she told her.
You don't.
No, I just, look, I love getting calls like this from people who are 20 years old.
You know, you, this, this whole thing keeps going.
I mean, I'm 56.
I was 20 once.
I was where you are.
I knew what I believed, but I couldn't tell people why.
And Bill Buckley was the guy that enabled me to start and my dad.
Those are the two people that enabled me to finally be able to understand why I felt what I felt, thought what I thought intellectually.
And they were role models for me, and I emulated them in their ability to articulate what they believed in a very persuasive way.
And it's, you know, you've got a lot to look forward to.
You're just on the cusp of something here, and it's people like you who are going to, in 10, 15, 20 years, keep the so-called conservative movement alive.
You have a responsibility out there, Jack, and don't let yourself get down on yourself because these other people who are liberals don't buy what you believe.
You're giving them too much power when you do that.
Right.
All right.
Okay, man.
Okay, Jack.
Thank you very much.
My pleasure.
I got to run, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Ha, welcome back.
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Mr. Snerdley asked me today, this morning, if I was outraged over the comments that Senator McCain made about former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld.
He said, I was not outraged.
He was amazed that I was not outraged.
I explained to Mr. Snerdley, and I explained to all of you that I am beyond being outraged by Senator McCain.
This is typical Senator McCain behavior.
And here he is running for the Republican presidential nomination, and he rips Rumsfeld.
What's new about that?
He has little to say about the Democrats.
All he has said is that the resolution in the Senate is disingenuous.
Besides that, other than that, he hadn't had much to say about the Democrats, Jack Merthyr, or any of these other people who are plotting happily for our defeat in Iraq.
But there he is on the Republican presidential campaign trail, willing and ready to criticize Rumsfeld, who's not even there anymore.
This is purely gratuitous, and it's obviously a play for the moderates and the so-called leaners, the sacred undecideds, or what have you.
I don't know about you, but in a contest between Donald Rumsfeld and any Democrat other than Joe Lieberman, if you ask me, Rumsfeld was far more interested in victory and trying to secure it than anybody in the Democrat Party is today.
Why in the world a Republican presidential candidate at this stage will go out and start trashing Rumsfeld is beyond me, other than it's typical.
And it sounds like it's a little bit personal.
You know, it's obvious that the target out there is these great undecideds and so forth who have, you know, hating Rumsfeld's like hating big oil.
People don't even know why they do.
They've just heard Rumsfeld's bad.
Rumsfeld's horrible for so many years with a drive-by media that they just think Rumsfeld's the mistake.
Rumsfeld's the bad guy.
He's equivalent to big oil or any other liberal troll or goon out there.
I mean, I don't know that it's desperate or whatever, but just reminded me of all the times that Senator McCain sucked up to the drive-bys out there by attacking members of his own party, members of the administration.
So, I mean, I wasn't surprised.
In fact, a couple audio soundbites here from Vice President Cheney Moore with Jonathan Carl aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
The question: Because Congressman Murthy and Nancy Pelosi made it clear that what they would like to do, they would like to stop the surge.
Can they do it?
Do they have the power to stop the surge, Mr. Vice President?
I think he's dead wrong.
I think, in fact, if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Mirth are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al-Qaeda strategy.
The Al-Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people.
In fact, knowing they can't win in a stand-up fight, try to persuade us to throw in the tile and come home.
And then they win because we quit.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
They win because we quit.
And then the next question: You probably heard John McCain again come out and say that your friend Rumsfeld was perhaps the worst Secretary of Defense ever.
What do you make of that?
I disagree with John.
John said some nasty things about me the other day, and then the next time he saw me, he ran over to me and apologized.
Maybe he'll apologize to Rumsfeld.
Now, what does that say?
Well, I mean, if don't think the vice president is lying about this, because if he were, McCain could go out there and say, I didn't apologize.
I never apologize to anybody.
You got that, Shamer?
But he hasn't said that.
So he went out there, ripped Cheney the other day, and then after ripping Cheney, he goes to Cheney and apologizes.
Now, you just campaign.
I got to do these things.
understand right um enough said Gibb in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, great to be with you.
Thank you, Trump.
Thank you very much.
Nice to have you on the program today.
Hey, get right to it.
One of your callers was just saying there's no way we can win.
These people are over in Iraq are crazy.
They're fanatics.
They're bombers.
We can't beat them because they got IEDs, he said.
Exactly.
Well, how about you mentioned Ebo Gaming and Flanks?
How about the Japanese, the Second World War?
I mean, they were crazy fanatics and they had airplanes and just pulled away.
And these people are nuts.
There's no people want to live and they want a better life.
So, you know, once they see there's hope, people change.
Well, you know, you're talking about the kamikazes out there.
And are you saying that the IED bombers are akin to the kamikazes?
And that people were afraid of the kamikazes.
They lost it.
Well, I hate to leave that question hanging out there.
I think that's what he was saying.
I think he was saying that in World War II, people had the same fear of the kamikazes as people do of the suicide bombers today.
And in fact, kamikazes were portrayed great honor.
They were by the Japanese.
It was a great honor to be a kamikaze and so forth.
That's a good comparison.
We got to take a break.
Busy broadcast time flying by.
Be right back and continue after this.
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He had his car washed in the last hour yesterday, Scott.
And don't ask me why.
I don't pretend to understand why.
I didn't even ask.
Strangest request I've ever had.
Didn't even want to know.
Scott, Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome.
Siri, EIB Network.
Hello.
Jack Bauer and Alan Brothers Megadittos.
I'm your number one listener in Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you.
And I'd like to thank you for something after I get to my point.
I am concerned about this Home Depot CEO.
The article reads, the head of Home Depot left a home improvement chair on Wednesday in a mutual agreement taking $210 million.
The surprise departure of Bob Nardelli from the role of CEO after six years came amid investor unhappiness.
Wait, wait, just say, this is old news.
Are you reading this news today?
Yes, sir.
Well, no, this is January 3rd of 2007.
I apologize.
I thought this happened a long time ago.
And I remember there was some upset about this.
But see, with Lee Raymond at ExxonMobil getting the $398 million, no problem.
Shareholders are happy, making a ton of money on the backs of people who drive cars like you and I.
But this guy, $210 million, he walks away after his company is struggling.
What's up with that?
You know, this is the answer, the corporate answer.
I remember when United Airlines, I forget who the CEO was, United Airlines posted some unbelievable loss.
And the reason for giving the guy such a large golden parachute or bonus one year, whatever it was, I forget which wasn't.
Hell, if he hadn't been here, you wouldn't have believed how bad it would have been otherwise.
Probably what his compensation package was when he was negotiating to be hired.
These things drive people nuts.
And my fear with this, because there's such a lack of understanding about this, and it seems to be so beyond what anybody else can dream of acquiring for themselves that it's going to lead to, you know, you've got a Democrat Party out there who is all for class envy, and they've already got a tax on salaries paid to people over a million dollars, which is what led to stock options, by the way, and so forth.
But if these kind of things are not made more reasonable, and I don't know that this isn't, by the way, I'm just responding to your attitude about it.
But if these things, if the corporations involved here do not make this stuff a little bit more reasonable or explain it better, then it's just an invitation for the government to step in there and take over.
And that's not going to be good for anybody because it's not going to stop with the big guys.
I agree 100%.
The one thing I wanted to thank you for was that you have made a huge difference in my life.
When I first listened to you, it was during the first Gulf War.
And I live in Jacksonville, Florida.
My dad lived in Illinois, a big Rostenkowski fan.
And back then, I told him to listen to you.
And I said, Dad, you've got to listen to this guy.
And back then, I think it was just AM up in Chicago, WLS.
And my dad literally spit.
A.M., who listens to A.M.
He started listening to you, and he every day he would call me.
Did you hear what Rush said?
About seven years ago, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and he passed away.
But I'll tell you, you brought my father and I back together.
We had a disagreement years ago, and it was because of you.
And I just want to thank you for that.
And you've said many times that, you know, from the bottom of your heart, you know, thanking the audience, but you have made a difference in my life and my dad's life, and I deeply appreciate it.
Well, I thank you.
I can't get over the fact I still get embarrassed when I hear these kind of things.
But I can't thank you enough.
That kind of meaning in your life is not lost on me.
I don't know how to tell you how much I appreciate that other than to say thanks.
Thank you, Rush.
One other thing here.
Just one minor, minor, minor little correction.
Yes.
Exxon is not making money on the backs of you and I who drive automobiles.
Can I comment on that?
Yes.
A couple of months ago, you had this great caller who called in.
I think his name was Jim.
I forget.
And he said, you know, there's coupons in the magazines, you know, for money off at Home Depot or money off at your pizza.
And you were really mad at him.
You said it wasn't fair.
And I have to say, I think he was right.
Where are the coupons for us to get, you know, a free gallon of gas somewhere?
It's not necessary.
It's, you know, the market is what it is, and it isn't necessary for them to do this.
There's Pizza Hut, there's Papa John's, there's Freddie's, there's Original Rays, there's the original, Rigidal Rays, there's Ray's the Original.
And of course, they're all located within a quarter mile of each other in a lot of locations.
Big Oil doesn't have to do that.
But I remember that came up, and even though they don't do coupons, I had oil company people, people that work for oil companies telling me we do consider the guy across the street a competitor, and we do have little things we play with the price, retail-wise, in order to attract customers.
You just don't know it because most people pull in, they have a regular gas station, or if they're traveling, pull in the first one they see.
When the price gets so high, they start shopping price then.
But excuse me, my point about not they're not earning money on our backs is strictly one of terminology.
You know, the oil companies do not get enough credit for their contribution to the growth opportunity of our society in the country.
And whether you like it or not, oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom and democracy.
It may be the sun someday.
I mean, the sun puts more energy on this planet every day than we burn in oil in a year or more.
We just don't know how to harness it yet.
A day may come.
But in the meantime, they're out there finding this gunk.
They're at the bottom of the oceans.
They're in the North Sea.
They're doing things and they're investing all kinds of money.
If they weren't doing it, obviously somebody else would pick up the slack.
But I just find it interesting that it's what I was telling the guy from Miami earlier.
Big oil has become one of the official enemies of the United States consumer given to us by liberals.
Their enemies are big pharmaceutical, Walmart, big oil, any number of things.
It's striking when you look at their enemies list.
It's the things that cause this country to grow.
It's the companies that provide jobs for people.
It's a frightening thing.
But you look at pulling into the gas station is hardly any different than turning on the tap for water at home other than the price, but you expect it to be there.
They make sure it is.
They fulfill a worldwide demand that is, you stop to think of what it is.
There has to be profit motives to plow it back into RD, and they take losses all the time with the fluctuation of the oil price plus the costs of drilling in new places.
Look at the penalties they've got operating in this country.
You know, one of the reasons that big oil is such an enemy here is because they've been told, can't drill here, can't drill there, can't drill over there, can't drill there, can't pollute here.
If you're going to put a refinery there, you've got to put up a bunch of wildlife refuges where the deer can run around right next to your refinery and not die.
I'll never forget Texaco.
When I was a kid running television commercials during golf tournaments of all the great work they were doing building wildlife refuges, I'm 15 or 16 years old and why?
What has this got to do with building oil?
I was not sophisticated enough to know then that the libs were already blaming them for environmental destruction.
So I got Texaco commercials of little Bambi walking around right next to a refinery or an oil tank or what have you.
So they've had to bend over and grab the ankles to the U.S. environmentalists and a number of people for a number of years.
In the process, they've been told, despite how clean you are and despite how safe to the environment you are, do you know that oil is organic, folks?
You people believe in organic chicken, organic oil is organic.
Do you know that gasoline is organic?
Oh, can you imagine the libs flaming out overhearing this?
It's not sacrilegious.
It's true.
You think oil's not organic to the earth?
Sure as hell is, and gasoline is derived from it.
It's refined.
It's organic.
It's an organic material.
It's produced by the earth.
It was created by God.
Even if your God is the earth, you got to understand your God is making oil.
And so they've been told they can't drill here, can't build refineries here.
So where do they go?
They have to go around the world where other countries let them do it.
Costs money.
And in the process, you know, if I were big oil, what I would do is demand a hearing with the United States Senate sitting in front of me and I'd put them on trial, essentially, for making it tough for me to do business.
Why are you standing in my way of doing business?
Rather than these guys getting traipsed up there and being forced to defend what they do, you try living without oil.
You go out and buy all the Priuses you want and you get all the windmills you want on Walter Cronkite's property on Cape Cod or Martha's Vineyard, wherever he lives, and then you try to keep the engine of this democracy fueled and you won't be able to do it.
And then if your guy Tillerson, right, what is the former CEO, and now the new guy, Rex, whatever, let's say they all quit.
Let's say they get fed up with it.
This hypothetically, big oil CEOs worldwide say, screw you, world, we're done.
How many of you are going to know what to do to go pick up the slack to start drilling, start bringing it up, start refining it, start shipping it under all of the regulations that they have to live under and do business under that cost?
You want to know why your gasoline is so expensive?
Look at federal taxes, look at state taxes, look at environmental regulations on the number of different blends these people have to make in order to keep people in LA sober, not working on Brittany.
But you get the drift here.
You're mad at the wrong people here for the price of oil, the price of gasoline.
And it's just typical the way the Lyft has been building this bogeyman.
Like I saw when I was 15 and watching Bambi next to the refinery in a Texaco commercial.
What is Texaco selling gasoline?
Do we have to do a commercial about how safe the wildlife area they built next to their refinery?
Have to do that because the American people, even at that time, are being told that oil spills are destroying the planet.
Oil pollutes.
It's organic.
Gasoline is organic.
Fry your chicken in its derivatives.
Back in just a second.
I don't mean to harp on the last caller here, but it pushed a couple of buttons out there.
Where are the discount coupons for gasoline?
And we got discount coupons on pizza.
We got discount coupons on.
And I, by the way, I just want to go.
I have never used the discount coupon.
I mean, it's too much hassle.
And I'm not going to sit there and hold people up at a checkout line going through the discount coupon business.
I don't do mail-in rebates.
In fact, I won't buy anything that offers a rebate.
It's too big a hassle.
What do you mean, do I have to admit it?
I'm not admitting anything.
I'm just being honest.
My point is this.
When was the last time you got a discount coupon from the government to pay your taxes?
You people have this backwards.
Not all of you, of course, but those of you out there that have got it in your head that big oil and Exxon are the enema, you've got this backwards.
Look at the government.
The government taxes your right to live in your own home.
It's called property taxes.
The government taxes the income you work hard to earn to provide for your family or for yourself if you are not married and don't have any dependents, which leads more for you.
There isn't a thing that you do today that is not taxed by your government.
The government taxes everything you purchase, with the exception of some foodstuffs and clothes at election time.
And you're sitting there upset at Exxon.
And in fact, half the price of a gallon of gasoline or close to it is taxes.
And you're mad at Exxon.
I know not all of you are, but you who are know who I'm talking about.
You're just being foolish and you're being silly.
And by the government taxes Exxon.
The government taxes Exxon and BP Mobile or BP, whoever they are.
They're all big oil.
The government taxes them at every stage of their business, too.
And by the way, big oil has to buy fuel from itself to do its operation and to ship their fuel in raw form oil from wherever they drill it to the various refineries in this country and around the world.
And they pay taxes at every step of the way.
And you're mad at Exxon.
Al, in, what is this, Philippe?
Philippe, West Virginia.
Hi, Al.
Nice to have you with us.
Phillipy, West Virginia.
How about driving American Apple H and American Dittos to you?
It's a privilege to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to say that tomorrow night, HBO is going to air a so-called documentary about what went on in Abu Ghraib.
And their contention is that everything that went on over there in that prison is systemic.
I mean, it goes through the whole military, including Guantanamo down there.
And my point is, is that these people out in Hollywood and the media and everything else, I wish one time that they would just be truthful.
Come right out of the open.
Let's kick the American soldiers to the ground and spit on them like they did back when they came back from Vietnam.
And it's, you know, and the absolute truth of it is, it's not.
Speaking of this, you've got to let me in here.
First place, there's no such thing as a documentary on HBO.
It's just all propaganda.
Number two, Chuck Schumer said that Democrats, there will be a resolution, resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment, just like in the days of Vietnam.
The pressure will mount.
The president will find he has no strategy.
He'll have to change his strategy.
The vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm's way and come.
They look at Vietnam as a moment of valor in this nation's history.
Who in their right mind wants to relive Vietnam?
Nobody.
Which means Democrats are not in their right mind.
All right, folks, got to take a break out there.
Coming next, the long-awaited lifestyle stack, including the story in Slate.com, Why Women Choke.
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