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April 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, my friends.
Music lovers and thrill seekers all across the fruited plane.
Rush Limbaugh back and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Another full hour, broadcast excellence today.
We've got our global warming stack to try to get.
I can't get through the whole thing, but I will make some progress in it today.
I think this thing over the weekend is having sex.
It's reproducing.
The stack.
This is more of this stuff.
It's just piling up.
It's incredible.
Great to have you with this telephone number, 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Here you go.
The Detroit News in an editorial.
Over the weekend, we've come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy.
Facing a budget deficit that surpassed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats last Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy an iPod for every school child in Michigan.
No cost estimate was attached to the idea to invest in education.
Details that we are promised will follow.
What in the world could possibly be the educational value of this?
You know, this is, he's like, well, we got to make sure everybody's got a phone, and we got to make sure everybody has wired internet, broadband.
We got to make sure, we got to make sure, we got to make sure.
Why don't you just cut to the chase in Michigan and make sure everybody gets a pair of Air Jordans?
Let's just cut to the chase and get to what's really, really important when it comes to education.
By the way, I thought money corrupted politicians.
McCain Feingold.
McCain's out there saying good people come to Washington.
We get corrupted by all the money.
And so we had to come up with this new plan to take the money out of politics.
We'd actually put more money into politics.
Still, the amount of money we spend, you might want to listen to this, Rachel.
The amount of money we spend on politics is less than what we spend on potato chips in this country.
And a whole bunch of other things.
But nevertheless, despite this being told all over the place for years and years and years and years that money corrupted politicians, why is it that the media are now judging a candidate's success and viability on how much money they can raise?
You remember the obsession last week with the fundraising totals?
And some of them are still obsessed.
How do they raise all this money?
They're so low in the polls.
And Obama, I finally pointed out last week, earlier than last week, the rest of the drive-bys caught up with me.
Obama raised far more primary money than Hillary has.
And he's got twice as many donors.
But Hillary does have the largest pot of money, regardless where it came from.
So if money corrupts politicians, does this mean that Hillary is the most corrupt politician in America since she raised the most?
Followed by Obama.
I mean, they can't even get their narrative straight.
The liberal propagandists can't even get their narrative straight from year to year because they think you're not going to remember that they once said that money corrupts politicians.
Now it's the greatest measure of success we can come up with.
I mean, look at all the money these guys.
They're dazzled by it.
Newsweek magazine found the story on PMS NBC's website, The End of Inevitability, that Clinton Camp presses donors to give only to Hillary.
Then the strategiery backfired.
Have you heard this?
This is in the April 16th issue.
There's a turncoat instance by Richard Wolf as a turncoat inside Hillary Clinton's money machine over the past several years.
Leonore Blitz has helped raise about a quarter of a million dollars for Clinton Senate races, and she signed up early to help the new presidential campaign.
But in recent weeks, the Manhattan marketing consultant, that would be Leonor Blitz, has secretly attended finance meetings and fundraisers for Obama.
Under intense pressure from the Clinton team to pick sides, Blitz, who bundled more than a million for John Kerry in 2004, felt deeply conflicted.
Clinton operatives have warned donors not to contribute to other campaigns, and they've put a price on disloyalty.
Early supporters will be valued.
Latecomers will be scorned.
But now Leonor Blitz is coming out of the shadows, ready to test the rules.
I've been a lifelong advocate of women and minorities participating in running for office.
Therefore, I'm supporting both Clinton and Obama.
The Clinton campaign denies that it strong-armed anybody, saying the warnings were made in jest.
Yeah, Hillary's such a funny babe.
You know, she's such a jokester.
When's the last time you laughed when a Clinton said anything?
I mean, laughing with them uproariously and in a jocular fashion.
Who was it that said this?
It was either Howard Wolfson or the, I think it was Howard Wolfson.
It was the punk?
It was McAuliffe, Terry McAuliffe.
That's right.
Terry McAuliffe said, you don't give now, you're going to get screwed later.
We were just joking, he said.
But the question is, what happened to the Clinton juggernaut?
And, you know, by the way, this is one of the drive-by's favorite words, and they use it generally to describe conservatives.
But now they're asking, what happened to the Clinton juggernaut?
People are openly defying them, like Leonor Blitz here.
Fascinating little story.
Then Clarice Feldman, the American thinker, America's fun couple, the Clintons.
Cybercast news service had a story.
More than six years after the Clintons left the White House, nearly half the respondents in a new poll, 45% worry that if the Clintons return, they could bring high levels of corruption with them.
It's a Zogby poll released last Thursday in Washington, highlights in particular concerns about Bill Clinton's ability to behave honestly in the White House if his wife Hillary is elected president 2008.
The poll results indicate that scandals have dogged the Clinton administration, remain relevant to a significant number of voters.
That 45% figure would likely be even higher, said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, if elected officials in the media were more willing to ask tough questions about the numerous ethical quandres that surrounded the Clinton administration and then First Lady's role in those issues.
Editor and publisher, which is a far-left little website claiming to be an advocate for newspaper editors and ownership and so forth, said that Bill Clinton has ordered his presidential library staff to work on a secret two-year vetting of himself.
Editor and publisher says the team conducted a painstaking re-examination of all the well-worn issues from Clinton's presidency.
They're poring over trial transcripts, internal White House documents, notes, public and private correspondence, searching for any overlooked information that could be used to give new life to old embarrassments.
Perhaps more importantly, the researchers covered Clinton's post-presidential history, too, with a muck ricker's eye, including the rumors about his private life that inevitably trail him.
Well, the old Clinton juggernaut and it's an excellent, what happened to it here?
Now we got people looking into this problem.
45% of the American people think that they're not going to get rid of their ethical problems.
Don't want them brought back to the White House.
There is no Clinton juggernaut is the point.
And there hasn't been a Clinton juggernaut.
It was one of these things that the drive-by media creation.
I mean, for crying out loud, folks, take a look since he left office at the candidates Bill Clinton has endorsed, and the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of them lose.
He's juggernaut within his own chorus, but other than that, John Edwards, the brick girl, is back.
Total candy ass.
Wants to be leader of the free world.
Can't even appear on a network that might oppose him.
He has dropped out of another Fox News debate.
Edwards' campaign said it will not attend the September 23rd debate in Detroit, hosted by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute.
But officials added that Edwards is looking forward to a different debate hosted by the Institute and CNN in South Carolina in January of 2008.
So he's canceling the Fox News channel to appear on CNN.
See, what Edwards doesn't get here is that everybody knows that these other media outlets are just as agenda-oriented as they think Fox is.
And so here's Edwards seeking the highest office of the land to become the leader of the free world, and it appears he doesn't have the guts to go on Fox.
Now, I think what he's doing is fundraising among the kook base who hate Fox News and all of that.
But at the same time, he's creating this impression here.
He's leaving the door wide open for another Democrat to agree to this debate while saying, I'm not afraid of this challenge.
I'm not afraid of Fox News.
I'll be glad to go to a debate hosted by Fox News.
These debates, the candidates star in the debates.
All you're going to get is questions.
It's...
I don't think this looks good.
Twice he's done this now?
We'll see.
The effects of this are not going to show immediately, by the way.
These are the kind of things people hear, learn, and remember over the passage of time.
Brief time out.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Rushland Ballie Excellence in Broadcasting Network, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, this is from the Belfast Telegram.
Telegram.com, obviously a UK paper from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
What does it take?
It's a story written by Julius Stewart, by the way.
What does it take for a healthy man to choose to have his testicles removed?
Roger Davies is one of a surprising number who have found salvation in castration.
Like many sensitive teenagers, Roger Davies felt different from his peers.
He wasn't into sport, and he abhorred the aggression he saw in other boys.
When, at the age of 22, he still hadn't grown out of his sense of isolation, he took radical action.
He traveled to America and underwent castration.
A 25-year-old cleaner and caterer said, I'm really happy with who I am now.
I don't have any desire to be accepted as a woman or change genders.
I just didn't like my masculinity.
Roger's not the only British eunuch.
No kidding.
He knows around a dozen other men who have also had the operation.
He estimates there are hundreds of others in the UK.
According to a Channel 4 documentary to be shown tonight, this is published Tuesday, April 3rd.
Every year, thousands of men across Europe and the U.S. seek out castration.
Hey, folks, been on the cutting edge of this one.
We came up with the term here, the new castrati.
Well, I didn't come up with the term.
Actually, read about some guy, I don't remember who it was.
Title of an article, The New Castrati.
You believe this?
I'm threatened by my masculinity, and I no longer feel pressured by my masculinity.
I would think every feminist reading this story would just be ecstatic.
I think, how do we get more guys to do this?
And they're on the way, apparently.
Thousands are doing this.
You know what?
There's a medical term for this.
I bet it's on a second page, and I threw it away.
It's like an orchidectomy, something like that.
Not quite orchid, but it is.
It's quite like that.
It says, I started to resent my testicles.
I didn't like the way they made me feel.
It wasn't me.
The feeling escalated with puberty.
I really hated the urges to have sex.
I didn't like the idea of going bald or having facial hair either.
So the new castrate.
I'll tell you, I'm sorry, folks, but this is probably more widespread in this country than we know.
And if you want to debate what's causing it, you can.
But I can tell you right now, the umbrella under which all other reasons would reside would be liberalism, including in their feminism and the pressure to care about.
So the pressure to stand up and be somebody.
I appreciate a new castrati.
All right, here's Matty in Los Angeles.
Hi, Matty.
I'm sorry you have to follow that story, but I know you can do it.
Hello.
Yes.
Hi, Matty.
Yeah.
Hi.
Hi.
Yeah, it's okay.
I'll wait.
Matty, are you with us?
Yes, I'm legit.
No, I didn't ask you to wait.
I asked you to go.
Oh, gosh.
It's on the air.
It's your big showbiz break.
Hello.
Okay, we gave it every opportunity to work.
We'll move to Flowery Branch, Georgia.
John, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, you mentioned earlier in your program, again, these 15 service personnel from Britain.
And I just wondered if you had ever entertained the thought that they were possibly planted there as bait to entice the Iranians to do something stupid to facilitate a war with Iran.
No.
Why not?
Well, where's the war?
And where's the idea that the Iranians goofed up here?
It's just the exact opposite.
Everybody's looking at the Iranians as the big winners here and the Brits as cowed.
That's what happened.
Yes, those kids opened their mouths and made fools of themselves.
And I think, you know, if that were the idea, it blew up in our faces and in Britain's faces.
Well, wait a sec.
Wait, for this to have been, you know, this falls under the conspiracy umbrella.
For this to have been a conspiracy, somebody would have had to say, okay, look, you 15, go out there and stay in Iraqi waters because they were in Iraqi waters when they were captured.
Right.
And the Iranians, somebody would have to arrange for the Iranians to go capture them.
How do you do that?
I just can't understand why they didn't defend themselves and why they would go out there with no cover.
They had to have some sort of cover.
You know, 15 guys are not just going to go out in the ocean in a little boat and float around.
I mean, it just doesn't happen.
They did.
I just, I find it so hard to believe.
It just seems like a setup because we have such a problem with our reputation in the world.
I don't see how...
It wasn't us.
It wasn't us.
This is the Brits.
They frankly mothballed their whole Navy.
Right.
People asked me last week, how could they do this?
I said, just listen to this story and you'll understand what's happened to Britain and multiculturalism.
Right.
By the way, the root of multiculturalism is not offending anybody.
And I don't know if you heard this last week, but the Brits in their public school system have stopped or are going to stop teaching the Holocaust.
Do you know why?
Why?
Because Muslim students don't believe it, and they don't want to offend them.
Unbelievable.
Well, unbelievable.
Now, this has been building.
This didn't just happen overnight.
And this culture has obviously affected their military, too.
And so when you go out not to offend anybody, and that's what multiculturalism does.
And here come the Iranians.
Oh, we can't fire on them.
Oh, we can't offend them.
We can't cause any problems here.
Right.
Well, that's pretty awful when you're in the middle of a war and you have to couch out to people.
Yeah, but we're not in a war with Iran officially.
Correct.
Correct.
See, the real downside of this is there was no, this was not an excuse to start.
You wouldn't do this with 15 Brits.
You wouldn't use 15 Brits as an excuse to start a war unless, well, the war hasn't started and it didn't start.
And then, you know, look at the way the Europeans handle this.
They ran off to the UN.
They deplored it.
They condemned it.
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
The new castrati way of dealing with things.
And right now, the Iranians are the clear winners.
Here they are.
Here's Ahmadinejad giving them going-away gifts, video of them playing ping-pong and eating fine food.
They're telling stories about how they were scared to death.
They had guns cocking the woman soldier Marine thought a coffin was being built for her.
But the Iranian video is people, you know, wearing the favored leisure suit of Ahmadinezad.
They outfitted them for that.
They let them go.
And, you know, a few days after, here comes Ahmadinezad announcing today, this is National Nuclear Day in Iraq and Iran, and nobody's going to stop us.
And we're going to defy all this.
And why shouldn't they say this?
What they learned is: if anybody conducted an exercise here, it was the Iranians.
Hey, let's go over and grab these 15 and see what happens.
Let's really test the metal of these people.
And they found out that not only the 15 sort of apologized, confess, and all this, their country didn't do anything, really.
Didn't talk tough, didn't do anything.
The world didn't do anything about it.
It goes back to the earlier story in the program: purpose of war, kill people and break things, and to defeat the enemy's will to fight.
And I guarantee you, from Bin Laden said this on ABC TV in an interview with John Miller after the episode in Mogadishu that led to the book and the movie Black Hawk Demon.
He said, We learned Americans won't take casuals anymore.
They have no stomach for it.
Ahmadinezad probably learned the same thing.
They just think that we don't have the will to engage in real warfare with anybody.
They do think this about Bush.
That's why they're doing everything they can to endorse as many Democrats as possible.
But aside from Bush, I think the lesson learned here was the lesson learned by Iran.
And the lesson they're going to take from this is that nobody's going to stop them.
And nobody's going to do anything to them.
So why should they stop on their own?
Why shouldn't they get nukes?
And again, just remind you what Stanley Kurtz at National Review Online said, folks, what's happening in Iran is the exact reason we went into Iraq.
Now there's no gumption or desire for that, obviously, because of what's happened in Iraq or what we've been told has happened.
All right, here's the medical term for castration.
It's orchiectomy.
And if you're both of them, it's a bilateral or a biorchiectomy.
Whatever, you end up as the new castrati.
And some of you have ended up with the new castrati without even having an orchiectomy or a bilateral orchiectomy.
And you know who you are.
All right.
For two weeks, maybe more, we've listened to all the huffing and puffing of Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry and a lot of other Democrats.
We're going to defund the war.
We're going to have Bush's money cut off.
We're only going to fund it March 31st, 2008.
And Bush is going to bring the troops home.
We're not going to waiver on this.
And Bush better realize that, blah, blah, blah.
And then all of a sudden, after these two weeks of huffing and puffing, Carl Levin went on television yesterday, was on Stephanopoulos' show.
And Carl Levin said the Senate's not going to stop paying for the Iraq war, nor is it going to relent from insisting that President Bush keep pressing the bad dead government for a negotiated end to the violence.
He took issue with an effort by Dingy Harry, fellow Democrat, leader of the Democrats in the Senate, to cut off money for the war next year.
He said, we're not going to vote to cut funding, period.
But what we should do and we're going to do is continue to press this president to put some pressure on the Iraqi leaders to reach a political sentiment.
We're going to fund the troops we always have.
We're very strong in supporting the troops.
Well, now, somebody didn't get the memo here.
I don't know if it's Dingy Harry didn't get the memo and Pelosi didn't get the memo or Carl Levin didn't get the memo.
But all we've heard the past two weeks is Bush better learn he's going to cave on this.
I mean, this is over.
We're cutting off the funding for the troops.
They've got to get out of their march.
Here's Carl Levin yesterday.
Here's what he said.
He was asked by George Stephanopoulos, what camp are you in here?
We're not going to vote to cut funding, period.
Even Harry Reid acknowledged that that's not going to happen.
He has a personal position, which he said was not the caucus position.
He was very clear when he joined a bill which would cut off funding under certain circumstances.
We're not going to cut off funding for the troops.
We shouldn't cut off funding for the troops.
Now, wait, just a what in the name of Sam Hill has happened here?
Levin just vetoed the whole Democrat Party.
Levin just vetoed moveon.org.
Levin just vetoed the Huffington Post.
Carl Levin just vetoed the whole party, in addition to vetoing Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi.
I mean, they just cut the rug out from under him.
Now, what are they, what is their polling data to suggest their position as a loser?
No, there's more to it than that.
We'll get to that in just a second.
But Stephanopoulos was even surprised, decided to give him another chance.
Because, you know, Levin, their Levin, just threw Dingy Harry under the bus here.
What do you mean, personal position?
I never got the impression that Dingy Harry's position was a personal position.
So Stephanopoulos says, Senator Levin, you've been very clear today.
You said the Democrats are not going to cut off funding.
Are you sure you can get all of your caucus behind this or enough of your caucus behind the idea?
A lot of liberals in the caucus say, no, we've got to draw the line here and now.
Now, what we're going to try to do, the majority, I believe, of Democrats and most of the Republicans, is to vote for a bill which funds the troops, period.
We're going to fund the troops we always have.
Why?
He just said they're going to take the pork out of it.
Would you hear that?
That's what Carl Levin said.
I believe the Democrats and most of the Republicans are going to vote for a bill which funds the troops, period.
No $25 million for the spinach farmer out in Carmel.
And this, you know, shot across the bow to the Democrats yesterday.
I don't know.
You know, it...
It has always been, it's always been an insane position to own defeat.
It has always been, because what if we win?
What if we're victorious?
Then the Democrats can't claim any credit whatsoever.
And because they've been so far out walking that plank, that they are invested in defeat.
They own it.
They've got to make sure that defeat happens.
They cannot allow victory.
Now, all of a sudden, Carl Levin comes along.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Oh, we always fund the troops.
We always fund it.
Why?
We're never going to take funding away from the troops.
We never do that.
We're always going to fund the troops.
Well, they didn't do it in Vietnam.
This is how they got us out of Vietnam.
But nevertheless, if they follow Levin here, then if the good things happen, I think this is probably a result of the surge working as well, early reports of the surge working.
And now Muki Al Sadr, he's getting a little alarmed from Iran.
He's thinking of coming back here because things aren't going well with his little Mahdi army.
So Levin might be thinking, you know, we've got to find a way here that if this turns out okay, that we can say we played a role.
And the way we can say that is we didn't cut off the funding.
And that people will remember the last thing we did rather than the interim things that we did.
So somebody there, the Democrat side, is wisened up for some reason.
And I'll tell you what, I would love to have been in Dingy Harry's shoes yesterday in a room where he was, or Nancy Pelosi.
I guess she was still shopping somewhere in Middle East.
But was she back?
You know, Republicans, well, there was a picture of her shopping.
That's why I say this.
I'm not just making this stuff up.
Speaking of that, Republicans sent her a letter.
Dear Speaker Pelosi, we're writing to urge you to call the House back into session immediately so that Congress can finish its work on the emergency legislation to fund the global war on terror.
This funding request had been pending since February 5th, but your leadership team chose to leave town for more than two weeks rather than completing this bill.
As a result, our troops have been put at risk.
They wanted to come back to town.
They're slamming her.
Get back to work.
Here's the picture.
She's somewhere in a mall looking at a jewelry store, looking at necklaces and rings and who knows whatever the hell else.
She's holding her left hand out there, imagining what something would look like on it, I guess.
She got on that hijib, but she's not, it's just around her neck.
It's not covering up.
And some husband, maybe her husband, I don't know.
He's looking like he really cares what she's interested in, so it must be her husband.
And she's examining the jewelry.
I've met her husband once at the cigar dinner that I go to Thursday night in New York.
Annual cigar dinner.
Big, big, big night.
Raise money for prostate cancer.
And I met him there one year.
They came at Paul Pelosi.
Nice as he could be.
Keep up.
I'm Nancy Pelosi.
He didn't say I'm Paul Pelosi.
He said, I'm Nancy Pelosi's husband.
I said, I've been there.
Anyway, who's next on this map?
Randy and Wichita.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good, sir.
Hey, Rush, you will remember me back in 1989.
I was the chairman of military affairs for the chamber, and myself and Miss Beal, we drove you out to McConnell Air Force Base, put you on a B-1 bomber so you can turn on the lights and hawk the horn.
Oh, what do you mean I won't remember that?
I said you will remember that.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
It was B-1s, right?
Yes.
You had a bunch of B-1s on the tarmac, and there was going to be some sort of test, a scramble test the next day on Sunday, and I got to go into one on Saturday.
Right.
You were the driver.
You took me out there?
Yes, I was, yes.
I was the guy.
I was the president of military affairs at that time for the chamber.
And I was the guy that drove the car.
You sat right next to me.
We had a wonderful conversation going out there and coming back, and I enjoyed it wholeheartedly.
Well, that was Beale Air Force Base, right?
That was McConnell.
McConnell, I'm sorry, McConnell Air Force Base.
Yeah, Bill Helen.
I'll never forget to cite all those B1s out there.
Awesome.
It was awesome.
And that's what inspired a Diet for Peace because they let me go IPA and won.
Right.
And I, oh, yeah, I went up, and I had dreams.
Remember, this is 1989.
Right, a long time ago.
Berlin Wall had not fallen yet.
That's right.
We're still in the midst of the Cold War.
And, you know, Gorbachev, and we've had gorbasms and everything.
I had dreams of being in a flight suit, hearing the scramble signal to get in the cockpit, take off, and head to Moscow with the bombs loaded.
And I was looking at the cockpit of B1.
I was a little too big to slide right in that thing easily.
So I thought that's what inspired a Diet for Peace back then.
That's exactly right.
Well, those were the days.
But the purpose why I'm calling you today is that obviously I still keep up with the military and strategies and politics and so forth.
And I say this with a grain of thought, but it has some seriousness to it as well.
And that is, I hope Iran does get a nuclear bomb, and I hope they use it.
And let me tell you why.
Now, I don't want millions and zillions of people to perish, but I don't think the United States is going to wake up unless they do.
This path that we are on is a dead-end valley.
It's like flying blind into a valley.
And if you look at the history of how much more passive that we get as time goes on, I don't think we're going to wake up until that event actually happens.
I want to pose an opposite thought for you or to you.
Now, granted, it wasn't a nuke, but 9-11 happened in 2001, and that was a mere six years ago.
And it woke America up for about a month.
Right.
And now most Americans trying to forget it, and they're allowed to forget it because it doesn't matter.
And I seriously, I think you're probably right.
There's a part of me that thinks that if the Iranians or anybody else used a nuke somewhere, that there would be a cacophony of shouting and noise in this country, blaming us for it, saying we've got to meet with these people and come up with peace.
But they wouldn't want us to retaliate.
The retaliation.
Look at, you have forgotten, but after 9-11, the first thing I remember is all these leftist groups spotting up and saying, you'd better not retaliate.
We'd better not retaliate.
We'd better not escalate this.
And they would do so even if a nuke were lit off.
Now, you're talking about a nuke on our soil.
Oh, I think a nuke anywhere.
No, But I'm with you.
But I'm with you.
Yeah, go ahead.
If they nuked somewhere not here, I really wonder about the American public, the majority, majority of the American publics will hear.
I think most people won't.
Oh, I didn't just see that.
Oh, I didn't hear.
Oh, God, that's horrible.
Let's hope it doesn't happen again and try to find some way of making sure the Iranians don't light off another one.
Well, the only two options is, I mean, I don't think you placed it that they would actually not take it.
If we have a Democrat in the White House when it happens, if the theory is all wet, we can drown it in the kerosene.
That's exactly right.
But if either it would be Israel or the United States, and if it's the United States, again, I would hope that we would never, ever, ever come to that kind of a situation.
Yes, you just said you hope we do get hit or that they do.
Wait, I'm saying I hope that never goes to that situation, but I don't know what else it would take to wake up the people and the politicians of the United States.
The only thing that would wake up, I think the only thing that would wake up the United States is if they nuked one of Oprah's homes.
That would infuriate people.
Well, if they killed a polar bear by accident, now that might be a problem.
I've got to waste a nuke on the polar bears.
They're not going to do that.
If they nuke somebody like Oprah's house or Leonardo DiCaprio or something, America people get plenty tied.
They might even get upset if they nuke Paris Hilton's house.
Oh, absolutely.
Well, maybe not on that.
I don't know.
Point well taken.
I should have thought of that.
Yeah, well, that's why I'm here, Randy.
Look, it was great for reminding me of the trip out there to McConnell.
I'll never forget.
It was a great time.
Thanks very much, and I've got to run.
We'll talk to you back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
Have you heard about the financial crisis at the Crawford Peace House?
This is Cindy Sheehan's place, Crawford, Texas, near Bush's property, where all these left-wing New Castrate renegade anti-war protesters gathered.
With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action, some members leaving.
The group that sponsored war protests in President Bush's adopted hometowns have been anything but peaceful.
A Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member who has rights to the name is threatening legal action because the group keeps operating.
Sarah Oliver and some others are calling for a state investigation as to why only $14,700 is now in a bank account.
They said tens of thousands of dollars were donated during Cindy Sheehan's 2005 war protest, and that those thousands and thousands of dollars are unaccounted for.
There are people who have said, don't say anything because you'll hurt the peace movement, Oliver said.
But if the peace movement isn't pure and transparent and holy as it can be at its heart, it's just like George Bush, lying, thieving, conniving, backstabbing SOBs.
It seems to me this bunch is using the Air America accounting textbook, folks.
I mean, this is just hilarious.
John Wolfe, who co-founded the Crawford Peace House in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, white clapbird shack just across the railroad tracks from downtown, denied allegations of wrongdoing.
He said the Peace House, as an accountant, has kept diligent records, which soon will be posted on its website.
Most of the $285 large raised in 2005 was spent on food, van and bus rentals, gasoline, and a large tent.
Food?
They spent nothing on peace.
Drew in Wichita, you're next.
Two calls in a row from Wichita.
Nice to have you on the EID network.
Good to talk to you too again, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I have a question.
I was really excited last week when I heard you were having the vice president on for an interview.
Yeah.
And part of it is because I was thinking to myself, I know Russia's been frustrated about some issues.
Here's where we're going to get a chance to find out.
One of the chief of those was why the president didn't go ahead and show he was serious about this war funding by calling Congress back into session.
And it seems to me you just spend a lot of time pitching the vice president softballs.
Well, gee, I'm sorry I let you down, sir, but softballs are the rule.
When the White House calls, they say they will only take softballs.
And if I'm going to get those guests, I have to go by the rules.
Cheney didn't want any hardballs from me.
He knew what I was prepared for.
What do you mean, softballs?
The questions I asked him provided news for the drive-by all weekend long.
know that, and I know that you have a certain...
What did you want me to say?
What did you...
What were you hoping I asked?
I was hoping you'd ask why the president didn't call Congress back into session.
Why he let Nancy Pelosi take off when there's a federal law that says that we can't have private go do that?
Because, you know, there's a classic rule.
When an enemy is totally imploding or making a fool of himself, you get out of the way and you let it happen.
Okay.
What's that?
That's my young skull full of mush.
Oh, okay.
Crying or happy?
Quite happy.
Quite happy.
That's great.
He's getting to listen to dad on the radio in the other room.
Oh, he hears you on the radio.
No wonder he's ecstatic.
Well, I just, there was a lot of things that the vice president said that I really got frustrated about and things that I was just thinking, man, Russia's going to grab that and really not drill.
I mean, that's not what you should do.
I'm used to this.
Everybody thinks they can do it better.
I remember when I, when I, no, no, when I did my television show, that's the worst.
That was the worst.
Some days I didn't think they were any good, so critics, you know, I agreed with them.
But when, sometimes I thought it was a great show, and then I'd go read the email.
You really blew it.
Why did you waste so much time accepting applause from the audience?
You've only got 22 minutes.
Get to the issues.
Or criticism of the tie I was wearing or some such thing.
I don't know.
Anyway, you just, you have to understand, I addressed this at the beginning of the program.
I said a lot of people called and they were upset that Cheney wasn't more energetic and that he wasn't more emotional.
And I said, you people are going to have to be patient here because the things that the questions I asked him and the answers he gave are going to be fodder for the drive-by media all weekend.
And they were.
Okay, I have to run.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and close it out right after this.
Okay, folks, I got to run out of here.
I got to do the morning update.
It's about all these new species they're finding and trying to count.
And they still won't know when they claim they're finished.
Anyway, have a great Monday.
We'll be back tomorrow revved up, ready to go at the same time with whatever has happened between now and then.
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