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March 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Mr. Snerdley tells me that a number of you people have been calling today wanting to talk about the propaganda of the movie 300.
That infuriates me.
You're going to worry about a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. and you're going to soak up like an idiot sponge everything in Al Gore's stupid propaganda tripe.
I'm getting no calls complaining about the propaganda of Al Gore's movie, but a bunch of you dunderheads want to talk to me about the propaganda.
And Snerdley hadn't put any mub because he didn't know I was going to talk about this today.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush.
Limboy here, the EIB Network, amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic first, second, third, fourth-hand cigar smoke.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
So people think I'm making up this story about the excursion North Pole being canceled.
You people are trying my patience today.
Not all of you.
Some of you people, you know who you are.
This is an AP story.
A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.
Frostbite in an excursion to the North Pole to prove global warming.
Why isn't everybody in this country hysterical over this?
The explorers, Anne Bancroft and Liv Arneson, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arneson suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries and some of the electronic equipment.
Well, I feel like laughing my little ass off, folks.
I just love stories like the phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller.
All these arrogant snobs who think they've got all the answers can't go study global warming in the North Pole because they got frostbite and it's so cold her batteries are dying.
Meanwhile, the polar bears are threatened.
They repaired the snowshoe with binding from a ski, but Atwood said the patch job created pressure on Arneson's left foot, led to blisters that then turned to frostbite.
Then there was the cold, quite a bit colder, Atwood said, than Bancroft and Arneson had expected.
It's the North Pole, you idiots.
What are you expecting to find?
Palm trees up there?
One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.
Nowhere in this story is there any questioning of the global warming scare that is being promulgated by a bunch of leftists.
Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold tests.
Irony?
It's not irony.
It's hilarious.
They were expecting or experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming.
But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.
Stuff just burns me.
Now on to the movie 300.
How many of you people know about the Battle of Thermopylae?
One of the most famous battles in all of battles.
The Battle of Thermopylae happened in 480 BC.
That's 480 years before Christ.
And what happened was the Persians were on the march to try to take over Greece and a bunch of Peloponnesia.
Now, Greece had a bunch of different city-states.
Sparta was one of them.
And I don't know how much you know about the Spartans, but there is a reason why the term Spartans means Spart.
Spartans, they were all born and bred to be nothing but warriors.
There was not one convenience in their lives.
I'm speaking of the times.
There was no leisure.
The Spartans, I mean, their homes, their houses, these were just pure, 100% warriors.
It was the reason they lived.
300 of them withstood a battle at the Thermopylae Pass in the face of thousands of Persians.
And they were led by their king, Leonidas, if I'm pronouncing this right.
There is now a, in Greece, there's now a huge monument to him.
Now, they were wiped out, but they delayed the thousands and thousands and thousands of oncoming Persians long enough that the rest of the Greek army was able to head them off in naval battles and other areas.
In fact, there was a traitor involved in this.
And I forget the traitor.
The traitor hooked up with the Persians and gave them an alternate route beyond the Thermopylae Pass to get where they were headed.
And that was a factor in this true, in this story.
Anyway, this movie 300, which was filmed in Canada and totally filmed inside a warehouse, not one frame of this movie was shot outdoors.
And it set a box office opening weekend record for the month of March, anyway, at over $70 million.
So lo and behold, an Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie 300 for insulting the Persian civilization.
This is from an Iranian news agency.
Javad Shmakam Qadri, an art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmad Dinejad, accused the new movie of being part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological war aimed at Iranian culture.
He was quoted as saying, following the Islamic resolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture.
Persia is what Iran now is, for those of you in Riolinda.
The movie's effort would be fruitless, they said, because values in Iranian culture and the Islamic revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans.
Yeah, there might be some license taken with this.
I haven't seen the movie.
I doubt, for example, that the Spartans wore leather Speedos into battle, which is how they're...
I mean, this is a beefcake movie.
But nevertheless, history is history, and this has been well documented.
It has nothing to do.
Just another evidence here that these people, you left us to Hollywood Times, you are in their crosshairs if they ever get here.
Mark my words.
Anyway, the Iranians are way behind.
This is not the first movie depiction of the Battle of Thermopylae.
It was 1962, somewhere in the early 60s.
There was a movie called The 300 Spartans.
And who was it?
Richard Egan was in the movie.
And the Persian king was Xerxes.
That was his name.
And I don't know.
I just remember Richard Egan, a girl I was dating at the time, had to crush Richard Egan.
Not in 62.
I was only 11.
But later on.
Crush on Richard Egan.
Should have been my first clue.
The whole relationship thing was a failure.
Anyway, After that was a crush on Tom Jones.
Anyway, where were the Iranians back in 1962 when this movie came out?
I mean, this is just pure poppycock.
There's no attempt to desmirch the Persians here.
This is a movie.
It's absurd to even be talking about it.
It's a movie, period, but it's meant to portray.
It's a stunning.
See, if you can, I think, who is it?
The History Channel or Discovery.
Somebody has done a great, great piece.
I saw it years and years ago.
about the Spartans in general, and they focused on the Battle of Thermopylae and the 300 of them.
I mean, it was something incredible.
I got to take a quick break here.
We'll do that and be back and continue after this.
Do not go away.
Oh, don't tell me I'm seeing what I'm seeing.
Alberto Gonzalez in a press conference saying, I acknowledge mistakes were made here in the firing of these eight U.S. attorneys.
Don't give them that.
Why don't you just put a gun in your mouth and shoot yourself?
That's the only thing that's going to make them happy, Alberto, is if you commit suicide on camera.
I acknowledge mistakes were made.
Peter Pace, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, said yesterday that he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military shouldn't condone it by allowing gay soldiers to serve openly.
He likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral.
I don't believe the U.S. is well served by a policy that says it's okay to be immoral in any way.
It's a wide-ranging interview in the Chicago Tribune.
You ever notice there's never anything other than a wide-ranging interview?
Just once when they write a very narrowly focused interview, wide-ranging.
I don't believe the U.S. is well served by a policy that says it's okay to be immoral in any way, Pace told the newspaper.
He's a native of Brooklyn, a 67 graduate of the Naval Academy.
He's the first Marine to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said he based his views on his upbringing.
He said he supports the Pentagon's Don't Ask, No Tell policy, which gay men and women are allowed in the military as long as they keep their sexual orientation private.
The policy signed into law by President Clinton in 94 prohibits commanders from asking about a person's sexual orientation.
He said, I think that homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral.
We should not condone immoral acts.
He's not backing down despite pressure.
Not backing down at all.
He did say just now that he probably should have kept his personal views private.
Should not have said this, but he's not backing down.
All right, let's talk about the Democrats and the war in Iraq.
The closest thing, this is, what is this?
AP.
The closest thing Congress has to a peace movement, 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring troops home swiftly, faces a dilemma.
The lawmakers in back can back a Democrat plan they think is too weak or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause.
It falls to one of their strongest allies, Nancy Pelosi, to persuade them to accept a less aggressive stance.
Pelosi working feverishly, not only to avoid code pink protesters, also to scrounge together enough Democrat votes to pass a war spending measure that would force the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by 2008.
Leaders circulated a draft on Monday, and the House is set to weigh in and out as early as next week.
And then the next story with this Democrats abandoned war authority provision.
Top House Democrats retreated yesterday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership of the Democrats concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war.
Now, you know what this means.
Not so easy in the driver's seat, is it, Democrats?
Much more fun being the grumpy old know-ad-dolls in the back seat.
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Didn't have the guts to put it in the bill, did you, that the president can't go into Iran?
Didn't have the guts, did you?
You don't want the responsibility, do you?
No, you just want to be a bunch of backbenchers, even when you're in the majority, bellyaching and moaning and whining and accusing everything that happens in Washington of being a conspiratorial crime.
So let's see if I understand this.
The Democrats are essentially saying that President Bush should agree to the Pelosi surrender plan because it helps her bring together the various factions in her caucus.
I mean, that's what the drive-bys are saying.
It's so hard on Ms. Pelosi.
She's got such a tough job balancing all these different factions in her caucus.
Fine.
Let the president bail her out.
Let the president agree to her surrender plan so that she can keep her caucus united.
The language was worked out so as to bring on board her libs and her so-called moderates.
Whether or not it does that is another issue, though.
These far-leftists want to cut off funding, but that doesn't have a prayer, so she hopes a certain deadline would bring them along, a deadline that is also meaningless, a deadline to get the troops out.
And let's listen to even the even the media is laughing about this.
I want to take you to an audio soundbite from Sunday, CNN's late edition, John Roberts filling in for Wolf Blitzer.
And his guests are Lindsey Graham and Senator Joe Biden.
And they play a tape, a videotape for these guests to comment on from last Thursday when Pelosi and Obie, David Obie of Wisconsin, went out there and announced this brilliant plan.
I want you to listen to the whole bite.
When these resolutions were unveiled later in the week, they were convoluted, to say the least.
Take a quick listen to some of this press conference.
Must be out of a combat role by October.
I mean, by August of 19 or of 19, 2007.
2008.
If they meet the public.
I'm sorry, that's right.
But if they haven't made any progress by July, we begin the 180 days.
They haven't made any.
If they haven't made progress.
If the president cannot demonstrate progress by July, we begin the 180 days.
July 1st or July?
Is it July 1st or 31st?
July 1st.
Joe Biden, how do you pass or enforce something you can't even explain?
That was the CNN anchor, who will normally do his best to make these people look like wizards, was himself forced into laughter, asking Joe Biden, putting Biden on the spot, how do you pass or enforce something you can't even explain?
This was an absolute joke.
Now, the point about all this is that you have to understand this is not about the war.
It's not about winning the war.
It's about losing it.
But it's not even about that.
It's about purely partisan political calculations for 2008.
That's what your Democrat majority is involved in here as regards the national security of the United States.
It's not about the national security of the United States.
It's about the perpetual power and security of the Democrat Party.
You know, the liberals in trying to sell this and build up their own competence, they're out there saying Bush didn't finish a job at Tora Bora.
You know, nobody's ever asked this question.
What do you mean, finish the job?
Would liberals have even started the job at Tora Bora?
Well, I ask because they didn't start it in 1993 when the World Trade Center first blew up and they didn't do anything in 94 or 95 or 96 or 97 or 98 or 99 when there were terrorist attacks against Americans all over the world.
What makes you think they would have started in 2002 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6?
Where is the history that Democrats are going to take to fight the terrorists?
Bush didn't finish a job at Tora Bora.
Here's why liberals can't conduct a war.
First, they insist on giving six months' advance notice the war is going to start.
Now they want to give six months' advance notice of the war is going to end.
Who's next on this?
John in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
You are up, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
This is John.
My name is John Walker from Lancaster, being from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
And I listen to you quite a bit.
And the one thing I got out of this movie of the 300, I mean, not the one thing, but there was many messages.
And I don't even know if they tried it.
But when I was a kid, I had learning disabilities.
And my mother used to tell me about the story about Leonidas and the 300.
And the one thing that I got out of this was that their politicians couldn't agree on going to war or not going to war or funding the war or anything.
So he had to take his personal guard, not the Spartan army, but just his personal guard up to fight this horde of invaders who were going to overtake Greece completely.
That's true.
He did have a support.
There were 700 others, I forget.
Thespians.
Thespians, that's right.
But they were sort of like the Democrats of the day.
They were just there watching and trying to come up with the deadlines to quit, right?
It didn't work.
Right.
Even in the movie, they show a guy drop a bag of gold with Xerxes' face on it or whatever.
I don't know if that actually really happened or whatever, who is a politician, but it's like Soros having his coffers filled from Iran or whatever for.
Well, let me tell you about Xerxes.
The Iranians, by the way, if any of you Islamo fascists in the audience from Iran, the Iranians, the Persians back then, had great respect for warriors who were opponents.
But Xerxes was so outraged at what 300 Spartans did to his army that when they found the body of Leonidas or Leonidas, they beheaded it.
They beheaded the body, and they didn't return the body to the Greeks for 40 years.
That's how agitated and irritated they were over this loss, and that's how bummed out Xerxes was over how he lost his army to 300 people.
Right.
And then finally, when they fought at the Battle of Plataea against the whole Spartan army, his men were already scared, and they were supposed to be the best in the world.
Anybody would have been scared of the Spartans.
These people, I mean, the movie is awesome.
You've got to see it.
Well, I'll see it.
I'll see it.
I unfortunately didn't get a screener, a previewing screener for this, so I'll see it when it comes out on DVD because I don't go to theaters.
I can't go to theaters.
Yeah, I don't go that much, but one thing, it's just that my mother told me this story of my life because I had learning disabilities.
And now that I have my own business of commercial diving and diving education.
Well, congratulations.
I'm glad you got to go.
Thanks for the call.
We'll take a quick break here and be back after this.
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Snirdly, you'll like this story.
This is from the UK Telegraph.
Brilliant men always betray their wives.
Einstein's affair should surprise no one, says Desmond Morris.
It's all in the genius' genes.
So Albert Einstein did not, after all, spend all his waking hours chalking up complex symbols on a blackboard.
According to letters newly released this week, he devoted quite a bit of it to chasing ladies and with considerable success.
By the way, Einstein was no looker, gang.
He'd make a freight train take a dirt road, but it didn't matter.
He's a genius.
To many, the idea of Einstein having 10 mistresses doesn't fit the classical image of the great remote genius.
Why was he wasting his time with the exhausting business of conducting a string of illicit affairs, affairs that would cause havoc with his family, damaging especially his relationship with his sons?
The answer is that he, like many other intensely creative men, was overendowed with one of the human male's most characteristic qualities, the joy of risk-taking.
Every creative act, every new formula, every groundbreaking innovation is an act of rebellion that may, if successful, destroy an old existing concept.
So every time a brilliant mind sees a new possibility, it's faced with a moment of supreme risk-taking.
The new formula, the new invention may not work, may turn out to be a disaster, but the man of genius, like Einstein, has the courage to plow ahead despite the dangers both on and off the intellectual field.
Not that Einstein's by any means an isolated instance.
Indeed, far from being the exception, he's closer to the norm where great men and sex are concerned.
During a presidential visit to Britain, JFK, which is debatable how great a president he was, but we can't because he's martyred, once shocked an elderly Harold Macmillan when he complained to him that if he didn't have sex with a woman every day, he suffered from severe headaches.
Kennedy was insatiable and impatient.
He was reported to make love with one eye on the clock and to be through with a girl as soon as he'd had sex with her in three different ways.
This is the original hookup, by the way.
You high school kids and college kids think you've created something new with hookup.
You know what hooking up is?
Sex without relationships.
No encumberments, no drama, no relationship analysis.
Just get in, get it, and get out.
And of course, these college kids think, wow, we are trendsetters.
No, no, no, no.
Hooking up has been going on since the Battle of Thermopylae.
And even before, by the way, there was no Islam at the Battle of Thermopylae.
It hadn't been invented yet.
The Prophet hadn't been born.
So, you know, all this garbage about the Iranians being upset, the movie is depicting Islamic culture's BS.
Anyway, back to Kennedy.
He kept an eye on the clock and to be through with a girl as soon as he had sex with her in three different ways.
If possible, he preferred two girls at once and seduced almost every young woman he met, from starlets to socialites, secretaries to flight attendants and strippers.
But then the compulsion in dominant males to take the highest of risks, a compulsion that seems to be innate, is one that dates back to prehistoric times.
Our Aboreal relatives, the monkeys, speak for yourself, Morris.
I resent that too.
I did not, did not used to be a monkey.
If I did, why are there still monkeys?
They simply fled up into the high branches when danger threatened, and while feeding, all they had to confront was a fruit or a berry.
But when our early ancestors came down to live on the ground, they had to give up scampering aloft to escape and also had to face danger.
Why?
If it always worked, why'd they give it up?
Let me move forward.
Men with brilliant minds whose creativity brings them enormous success sometimes find themselves in a curious situation.
They are so highly rewarded by society for their achievements that they are unable to limit their curiosity to new problems in their special fields.
Starts to spill over into other areas.
Novel sexual experiences, for instance, suddenly seem irresistible.
It's not the mating act itself that's so important.
That varies very little.
It's the thrill of the chase, the excitement of a new conquest that drives them on, and the beauty of it all in the rearview mirror when it's over.
Once the conquest has been made, the novelty of the affair soon wears off and another chase begins.
Each illicit episode involves stealth and secrecy, tactics, strategy, the terrifying risk of discovery, making it in the perfect metaphor for the primeval hunt.
Aiding and abetting these erotic adventures is the fact that the fame, power, and wealth that these especially brilliant men have received as rewards for their achievement make them very attractive figures to the opposite sex.
They may have a face like an angry hippo, but thanks to their high status, they somehow manage to ooze sex appeal, much to the disbelief and dismay of the handsome failures who carry out menial tasks for them.
Yeah, how many of you people have seen this?
This happens all the time.
Some slinky babe with the ugliest guy you have ever, ever seen.
What in the world?
Not about that.
The great philosopher Bertrand Russell, who for all his undeniable intellectual brilliance could never have betted a woman on the looks alone, was described as suffering from galloping satiriasis.
The satyr is the male version of a whore, S-A-T-Y-R.
He claimed he could not see a sexual partner as sexually attractive for more than a few years, after which he had to cast her aside and go make a new conquest.
He had affairs with a long line of women, a few of whom he later married.
They included a young secretary, the wife of an MP, the daughter of a Chicago surgeon, a researcher, an actress, a suffragette, several teachers, the wife of a Cambridge lecturer, and even his children's governess.
His private life was described by one biographer as a chaos of serious affairs, secret trysts, and emotional tightrope acts that constantly threatened ruinous scandal.
This was risk-taking of the highest order.
Picasso also was a sex glutton, described by a friend as being obsessed with sex.
The genius of the cinema, Charlie Chaplin, was an even more active sex addict, capable, he said, of six bouts a night.
As a young man, he visited brothels, was attracted to talented and important women, managed to seduce a cousin of Churchill's, the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, actress Paulette Goddard, Mabel Norman, and Paula Negri.
William Hearst's girlfriend, Marion Davies, Rosebud.
I wonder how many people think Rosebud was a sleigh.
It was, but that's not all it was.
Talking about the movie Citizen Kane.
However, Chaplin's sexual risk-taking eventually led to his downfall.
He was driven out of America as a debaucher, his legacy forever tarnished.
But then men with great talent or power, from Elvis to Clinton to Toulouse Lautrec, fit the bill.
Genius risk-takers, not satisfied with the normal and mundane.
That's in the UK Guardian.
Here is Dan in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush.
You know, if brilliant men like taking risks so much, how come none of the scientists are willing to challenge global warming?
Brilliant men like taking risk.
There's no sex involved in that.
And plus, we're talking about money, too, here.
I mean, you go against the global warming doctrine here, and you're going to have trouble getting money from researchers.
Oh, that's a good point.
That's actually why I called.
I'm a physics graduate student at the University of Virginia.
And I'll tell you what, for the better part of 10 years, I've been studying science, and global warming is not part of the curriculum.
Not in physics.
I doubt it's in the curriculum in chemistry.
A very small subset, I think, of scientists really study it at all.
I think the reason, I mean, we talk about the scientific consensus.
That's the great appeal of global warming.
Well, the reason there's a consensus is just out of laziness, I think, more than out of knowledge.
I don't doubt that at all.
I think that these things develop an inertia, and there's identity associated with it.
Get yourself involved in one of these things that sweeps the planet, and you're part of an accepted clique.
Everybody wants to be part of the big group.
Nobody wants to be an outsider.
Nobody wants to be laughed at, thought of as a nerd or whatever.
You get involved in one of these big movements and make you feel good about yourself.
Then there's money from research for research on the other end of this because UN will fund any kind of research.
It'll prove its agenda.
Many governments will do the same thing.
And let's face it, scientists are not entrepreneurs when it comes to earning money.
A lot of them need grants, research grants, and this kind of thing, which is why they hold up as many people as they can, private sector, and that sort of thing.
And that's what, as an aside, one of the interesting things to me about embryonic stem cells is that there's so little private sector money in it because there haven't been any results.
That's why everybody in that area of research is going to the government because that's the only place they can get it.
That's true.
But your point is that laziness is driving this more than any scientific discipline.
Sure.
I mean, the scientists that they poll to say that all scientists support global warming, they're no more experts than the guy who, you know, who rents out DVDs at Blockbuster.
Well, but it's incorrect to say that most scientists do, or that all scientists do.
Oh, it's certainly incorrect to say that.
Let me ask you a question.
You are a graduate.
You get a physics degree, did you say?
That's right.
All right.
Well, something I keep saying, and I picked it up from Michael Crichton because it made total sense to me.
I'm a layman when it comes to science.
It makes total sense to me.
And I've asked a number of people about it.
I want to get your opinion.
How can there be consensus in science?
Science is not up to a vote.
When you were in class getting your degree, were you guys allowed to vote on what science is and is?
Or were you taught certain absolutes in order to learn what you had to learn to get your degree?
Well, we were definitely taught absolutes.
There's not a whole lot of room for, I mean, you can interpret the results and stuff, but you really, you know, it's based on several axioms.
The problem is a lot of it is accepted just kind of on faith because there's so much information that one person can't take it all.
And so if you get enough people preaching something like global warming, the rest of, you know, well, clearly not the rest, but a lazy scientist will be quick to say, oh, okay, well, this guy studied it.
My field is lasers, not meteorology.
So I'll just take his word for it.
Yeah, exactly right.
And the dirty little secret is there isn't a computer model or 500 that can factor because the human mind can't do it yet, because a computer model is only good as the input, you know, what you put in, what you get out.
There's no computer model that can deal with anywhere near the complexity of the climate of this planet.
The whole thing is bogus.
Thanks for the call out there, Dan.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back.
I'll see if I can squeeze in some delectable audio soundbites when we come back.
You guys in there, have you seen Casino Royale, the most recent Bond movie?
Oh, maybe the best Bond movie ever.
I watched it.
When I watched it, Sunday Night.
Just right up there with Goldfinger.
But I mean, it was just unbelievable.
Wholly different Bond movie.
I wanted to mention this.
It just came out on DVD.
That's how come I know.
All right, to the audio soundbites.
Let's go to me, shall we?
Yesterday on this program talking about Hegel Mania.
Let me tell you something.
They're going to be a lot of really PO'd national reporters who dragged himself out there for this.
Could have done this with an email.
Could have done it with the facts.
Besides, how do you pad an expense account if you're a reporter and you go to Nebraska?
Yes.
That's nothing against Nebraska.
It's just things are cheaper there.
How do you pad an expense report when you go to Nebraska?
You tell, you listen to this montage, Chris Jansen at PMSNBC, Wolf Blitzer, Databash, CNN, Michael Kaczynski, MSNBC, Britt Hume, Pat Buchanan, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Press, James Carbo.
You tell me if I don't know the drive-by media.
A lot of people were surprised that it was sort of a non-announcement announcement.
What was Hagel thinking?
It was a Seinfeld press conference about nothing.
We're still waiting for that big announcement, but the problem is the press conference is already over.
After considerable fanfare that brought some reporters from Washington all the way out to Omaha.
I hope a lot of these reporters didn't file their expense accounts to fly to Lincoln, Nebraska for that.
There was a huge buildup to what he was going to say.
We were anticipating an announcement.
This was one of the biggest con jobs ever perpetrated on the press.
To kind of mix my metaphors, yeah, he came, he saw it, and he punted.
I mean, you're getting there.
You're ready for the guy to go out in the shotgun formation, standing about, you know, five yards behind the center, and there he is 15 yards back getting ready to put.
We all got excited, thought it was going to be something different.
Yeah, but at least he didn't cry like Pat Schroeder when she got out of the race.
He didn't really get out of the race.
This didn't delay his decision.
His brother, Tom Hagel, was on MSNBC last day.
They had him all lined up, and the guy ended up.
I don't even know if I'd vote for my brother, he said.
Here, here's the question.
Is David Gregory grab number 10?
David Gregory says, Tom Hagel, Chuck Hagel's brother, would you vote for him, though?
Can he count on his brother's vote?
Well, who knows who will be running, right?
You're not going to commit yet?
No, because I don't want to turn our relationship into, you know, I guess subject it to all the political problems that could arise.
Come on, Tom.
It just means your brother doesn't rev you up out there as a presidential candidate.
His own brother wouldn't vote for it.
Okay, we move on.
Democrats still peeved about Halliburton moving over to Dubai.
They think it's about escaping taxes.
Here's Henry Waxman.
We're looking very carefully at this move and what it may mean for national security, for American taxpayers.
I've asked my investigative staff to find out the answers to these questions.
National Security, you've been trying to bury this company.
You and your party have been trying to destroy this company, and now you equate them with national security because they're over there in Dubai.
Little bit of Sheila Jackson Lee, Halliburton's in her district.
Unfortunately, their office is located in the 18th congressional district.
It is unfortunate that the arrogance of this company would suggest that they could make announcements in the brightness of sunlight on Sunday and not engage their local community leaders, their employees, and others who might be vested in the relocation of corporate headquarters.
You know, you people.
Stop the tape.
You people are the biggest damn hypocrites.
You've tried to destroy this company.
You've accused them of war profiteering, trying to get over there to get the oil with Bush and his buddies.
You've accused them of undermining America.
Now they're leading your little district out there.
Way back the employees and everything.
You should have thought about that when you started berating them all to hell and making them act like they were an enemy of the country.
People are just absolutely stupid.
I can't stand the hypocrisy and the irony of these people.
One more before we go.
This is Patrick in Tampa, Florida.
Patrick, welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega Airport Screener Ditto.
Thank you, sir.
I've been listening to you since the days of the gurgling cod, so very longtime listener.
I'll get right to it.
I'm an airport screener.
I hope I'm not going to get fired for talking about this.
The bill that's before the Senate now about giving us collective bargaining, they're twisting this bill to make it out where we're getting collective pargeting.
And the bill actually just takes away dictatorial powers given to the TSA administrator.
He has more power than any federal bureaucrat in the entire country.
Why do you want to unionize?
What possible reason do you want to unionize for?
I don't want to unionize.
I want to be a Title V federal employee.
And that's the problem.
But you're going to end up being a member of a union.
This is a Democrat Party payback to them for doing it.
You understand that you are going to be a member of a union.
Absolutely.
Like I said, I'm a hardcore Republican union organizer.
But what are you upset about?
Oh, my God.
I thought you were upset because they're saying that this bill is about giving it to the union.
It's not.
It's about taking away the power from Kip Howley.
He can fire us at will.
Well, okay.
It may be about that, but this is nothing more.
It's politics.
This is playing politics with national security.
Look at it.
You're going to become a member of a union.
You're going to be able to go on strike.
Bin Laden's going to know when you're on strike.
Bamo.
Another couple of explosions.
Happy, happy days, AFL-CIO.
Back in Disney.
All right, folks.
Another sterling, exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is now histoi.
But we will be back tomorrow to do it all over again then.
I'm looking forward to it.
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