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April 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Uh H.R., what do you got in that cup?
Oh, it looked better than that.
All right.
Well, welcome back, folks.
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Ladies and gentlemen, learn to do what I have learned to do over many, many years, and that is trust me.
Trust my instincts.
Trust me.
I am still amazed after 18 and a half years here that people still call here and disagree with me about things, but it happens.
But you're going to have to trust me.
I knew that Barbara Walters did not say what a viewer to the view thought she said.
This happens a lot.
Uh, by the way.
We have the soundbite in question here.
Uh Barbara Walters telling this story.
I today am not crazy about President George Bush.
I have very personal reasons.
So I am walking home at the end of the day.
It's like quarter seven, and I'm I'm walking from the office, west side east side, with uh a Monica who is my wonderful assistant.
So we get to the West Side.
I can't cross the street.
I mean, here's here's one side, here's the other.
I literally cannot cross the street.
There are barricades, there are people standing, two very nice police women say, you cannot cross the street.
I can't cross the street.
Did they recognize you?
Yes.
They said Barbara Waltis, you can't cross the street.
You and the others cannot stand behind the barricade.
That was too much.
I said I will obey you, but I'm not standing by.
Who's coming?
The president.
Where's his car?
He's coming any minute.
Fifteen minutes later, as I'm standing there, I can see down the house.
There's no car, there's no nothing.
We still cannot cross the street.
So finally, one pressing process, another pressing process, and then we cross the street.
He is a president.
He is not a king.
All right.
Everything about the story was true, except Barbara did not say she went up there and told the cops, Do you know who I am?
It was um sounded like Joy Behar, who's whose voice I would know.
Well, I'm deaf and I know the voice.
Um did they know who you were?
Did they recognize you?
Now, when you hear this story, frankly, she's got a point.
The motorcade's not there, it's nowhere near there.
They were keeping people from crossing the street for 15 minutes when nothing was headed their way.
Now I know it's Homeland Security and 9-11 and uh and all of that, but you gotta trust.
I just knew she wouldn't say this.
You have to trust my instincts on this, on these kinds of things, uh, folks.
This this that that would have been bad if she'd have said that and if she'd admitted it.
All right, uh Rudy Giuliani.
Go to the audio sound bites here.
Rudy, turning up the heat.
Um, getting into some partisanship here, which is good.
Uh, because there's a huge difference between Republicans and Democrats in the war.
So say it.
And Rudy did.
Um he's he said we have to stay on offense.
Democrats want to put us back on defense.
This is yesterday in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Rockingham County Republican Party's annual annual Lincoln Day dinner, a portion of Rudy's remarks.
This war ends when they stop planning to come here and kill us.
But until then, if I have anything to say about it, the lesson that I learned coming out of September 11, 2001, is never ever again will this country be on defense, waiting for them to attack us.
The United States of America will be on offense.
And make no mistake about it.
The Democrats want to put us back on defense.
Amen.
It's about time.
It is about time.
You know, uh uh uh Rich Galen had it right in his Mullings blog.
You've got Harry Reed proclaiming defeat.
The war is lost.
If the Republican apparatus were up and up and running, they'd be demanding of every elected Democrat, do you stand with Harry Reed?
Do you agree with Harry Reid?
And then people would be calling for Reed's resignation.
Uh none of that is happening.
Here's another portion of what Rudy had to say.
The Democrats, and I I can make a lot of other points about this, do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.
But I listened a little bit to the Democratic debates, and I uh and I could be slightly wrong about this, but I think this is almost correct.
If one of them gets elected, it sounds to me like we're going on defense.
We're um we got a timetable for withdrawal of Iraq.
Uh we're gonna wave the white flag there.
We're going to try to cut back on the Patriot Act.
We're gonna cut back on electronic surveillance, we're gonna cut back on interrogation, we're gonna cut back, cut back, cut back, and we'll be back in our pre-September eleven mentality of being on defense.
Yes, he's basically, you know, I've said this.
The Democrats want to try to go back and pretend that we can live in a 9-10 world.
And here that's that's essentially what he is saying here.
And they are flipped out.
They are mad as they can be about this.
Uh and the drive-by says now.
See, when Rudy does things like this, or when Cheney responds to Dingy Harry, the drive-by say, this is just beyond the pale.
Now it's getting personal.
Now it's getting personal.
When Republicans respond, now it's getting personal.
Dingy Harry can call Bush an idiot.
He can call Bush Hitler the idiot.
The Democrats can say whatever they want.
It's not personal.
It's just good liberalism.
That's just good politics.
But the uh Republicans respond, no, it's getting personal.
Rudy's on a roll here.
Here's another, so I got two more to go.
Here's the next one.
The question is going to be how long does it take?
And how many losses do we have along the way?
And I truly believe if we go back on defense for a period of time, we can ultimately have more losses and it's going to go on much longer.
The power of our ideas is so great we'll eventually prevail.
So the real question is how do we get there?
Do we get there in a in a way in which it's as expeditious as possible and with as little loss of life as possible, or do we get there in some circuitous fashion?
Truer words never spoken.
If we're on defense with a Democrat president, we will have more losses and it will go on longer.
Democrats do not understand the full nature and the scope of the terrorist war against us.
Truer words were never spoken.
In fact, it's it's a little bit more dangerous than the fact that they're just ignorant and don't understand.
They think they do.
They think that all they have to do is meet with these people and with the power of their personality, the aura of goodness that these liberals exude, they are convinced that the bin Ladans and the Zarkawis and the Zawahiri's et al.
will no longer hate us.
They, and they alone can rebuild America's tattered reputation in the world.
And this is where their naivety, and this has been played out over the years.
They've thought this about the Soviets, they've thought it about every enemy we've got.
They're just nothing but giant appeasers.
Uh and uh they think the only reason that we're at war is because we got a nut case in the White House.
They think the only reason we're at war, and the only reason Islamists hate us is because of George W. Bush going into Iraq.
And they can change all that.
They can stop the hate.
They can make sure that we are loved and respected again just by the force of their personalities being in leadership positions.
Finally, here's a clear articulation of what this war is about from Rudy.
They hate us, not because of anything bad we've done.
This hasn't nothing to do with any aggression on the part of the United States of America.
It has nothing to do for anything America is taking from anyone.
It has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine.
They hate us for the freedoms that we have and the freedoms that we want to share with the world.
Because the freedoms that we have and the freedoms that we want to share with the world are in conflict with their perverted interpretation of their religion.
Their maniacal, violent, and perverted interpretation of their religion, in which they train their young people to be suicide bombers, and they train them to hate you and despise you.
And they train them to hate your religion and to not allow you to have religion of your own or anyone else.
They hate us for the reasons that are the best about us.
Because we have freedom of religion, because we have freedom for women, because women are allowed to participate in society, because we have elections, because we have a free economy.
Well, we're not giving that up.
And you're not going to come and take it from us.
Rudy Giuliani uh setting himself apart from the field, uh, at least with uh with that appearance.
Again, that was in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Rockingham County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner.
Be right back, much more straight ahead.
Yeah, just going through the uh remaining stacks here.
I just got a lot of stuff I want to get to today, but we got a global warming update.
Here is one of our three themes that we be.
I wasn't ready for it.
I crazy world of Arthur Brown, the wicked witch and aware ever melting because of global warming destroying us all.
Pretty interesting stack of global warming stuff today.
And I actually had this story last week because, as you know, I don't do the global warming stuff every day because I don't want people to get worn out on it.
So the stack just gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
A rescue effort is underway to save hundreds of seal hunters whose boats have been stuck in a block of thick ice in the North Atlantic Ocean for more than a week.
The hunters' ships are stuck in a solid ice pack, 140 miles long, 70 miles wide.
Two huge storms trapped more than 100 vessels.
Just as they were setting out for Canada's annual seal hunt.
Many of the vessels have run out of provisions, fresh water, fuel in some cases, said a Canadian Coast Guard captain.
They're trying to get food to more than 300 sailors and help their ships break free from the ice.
Right now outside, as far as they can see, there's nothing but a but a field of ice.
The biggest danger is the pressure the ice puts on those vessels.
The pressure can actually lift them out of the water.
The pans of ice and the pieces of ice are big enough and severe enough they could potentially crush the hull of these long liners.
According to the Canadian Coast Guard, better weather conditions have now allowed several ships to be rescued.
For some, it was just in the nick of time.
Now get this.
The last couple of days got scary there, said Rodney Gray, captain of the Cape John Navigator.
Yeah, we were caught in ice that was getting very close to landing.
We we never had control of anything.
Wherever that ice went, we had to go.
What did they think?
Now, how can this be?
The ice is melting all over the place up there.
We have pictures, even though they're hoaxes.
We have pictures of polar bears that's stranded on a melting glacier, and they can't get off and they're gonna die, and little kids all over the country are waking up their moms in nightmares and saying, I can't sleep, mommy.
I can't sleep because you're killing the polar bears.
So, um I mean my solution here would be to save to save these guys, don't do anything.
Just sit at their wait, the ice melt.
Ice is melting so fast that these polar bears are stranded on melting ice cubes up there.
Just to sit tight.
Let the impact of American uh global warming rescue you.
They had no idea they were going to run into this kind of ice.
There is a silver lining to the story.
This means that the seal hunt ain't gonna happen.
The annual Canadian seal hunt, you've seen it.
They go up there and billy club these little things to death.
Uh and of course, that's not part of global warming, so the kids of America don't care about that, and they don't really see the pictures much.
But it says here that an estimated 60,000 seals will be saved because of the deep freeze.
Yet we're in the midst of global warming.
Um this is from um GOP3.com, a website, alternative fuel subsidies are causing sober Germans, starving Mexicans, and more pollution.
Poor Mexicans rely on tortillas for their diet.
A lot of other poor people in a lot of other places rely on other foodstuffs made from corn.
The problem is ethanol.
We've told you about this.
New government subsidies for alternative fuels have caused a sobering increase in the cost of beer in Germany due to the unnatural shrinkage of the barley production over there.
Why is barley production lower and beer more expensive?
Well, the farmers are switching production so they can get more government alternative fuel subsidies.
Because if they plant all this rotut that's needed for these fuel alternative fuels, they get more subsidies, more payments from the uh from the government.
Uh and by the way, all this is leading to even more pollution.
The hyperbolic environmental soothsayers on the left and in the media have swayed our government into investing heavily into these technologies that have turned out to be counterproductive.
When will we learn to trust the market?
Shareholders and private citizens are best left alone to judge the correct production of a good.
The heavy hand of the government only serves to distort the market and destroy any progress towards the end goal.
By the way, this is a story that a lot of people are worried about, all these bees that are vanishing out There.
More than 25% of the country's 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost.
Tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the apiary inspectors of America.
It's a national group that tracks beekeeping.
So far, no one can say what's causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives.
As with any great mystery, a number of theories have been posed, and many seem to researchers to be more science fiction than science.
People have blamed genetically modified crops, cell phone towers, and high voltage transmission lines for the disappearances of the bees.
Or was it a secret plot by Russia or bin Laden to bring down American agriculture?
Or as some blogs have asserted, I'm reading this in the New York Times, by the way.
The rapture of the bees in which God recalled them to heaven.
Researchers have heard it all.
Everybody's got an explanation.
This could be a legitimate problem.
You know, the bees this could be a greater crisis than any global warming threat that's going on out there.
I think I'm gonna have to double-check this.
But I think Einstein said that if we lost the whole bee population, that civilization could only continue for another four or five years.
I think Einstein said that Wikipedia, that see if I'm uh right about that.
Well, I don't know if you can trust what's on Wikipedia.
USA Today.
Al Gore trains a global army.
The stocky man with the soft southern accent rivets the hotel ballroom crowd with this plea.
We are in a time of peril, so please allow me to explain a topic that is overwhelming importance in my life.
It's not Al Gore.
71-year-old Gary Dunham, a grandfather from Texas, who was the first of 1,000 Americans, Gore trained to deliver his movie, an inconvenient truth slide show to schools, rotary clubs, nursing homes around the country.
Two weeks ago, the last 150 of this hand-picked crew arrived in Nashville, paying their own way for everything but food, to go through a two-day seminar starring Al Gore, but effectively led by Gary Dunham and a few other graduates of the former vice president's global warming boot camp.
To date, the climate project has drawn everybody from Walmart workers to Cameron Diaz.
And though the uh through the 1,000 mark has been reached, we keep hearing whispers that Gore might do more.
I wouldn't call this final.
Um folks do not underestimate these people.
This is they're out there uh they're out there getting these people, all these average citizens revved up about a hoax, and they're sending them out there as evangelists on this.
After a two-day boot camp with Al Gore, this is how you spread propaganda.
Uh this is also to me an indication that Al Gore's people don't think that the movie itself stands alone in its ability.
They have to be evangels out there.
But even if I'm wrong about that, the fact that they're just setting up these evangelists and so forth uh is proof positive that this is a political, it's almost a religious movement.
I mean, these are preachers that are being trained.
I mean, they're they call this a boot camp.
They're going to Al Gore seminary, and they're being given sermons, and they're having the words written for them, written for them, and they're out there proselytizing and uh and preaching.
You know, it's getting to the point I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna advance a notion.
Separation of earth and state, because this is nothing more than a religion, as I have so accurately portrayed and defined on previous editions of this program.
Um so keep a sharp eye for one of these traveling minstrel road shows to come to your town, the Church of Global Warming with ordained ministers coming to your town and your rotary club and your school with their slideshow.
Quick time out.
Your phone calls are next, right after this.
Turn it up, turn it up.
And uh, if you want to believe Wikipedia, which is you never don't know who to trust out there.
That's why you can trust me.
But Wikipedia says that Einstein never said that if we lose all the bees, we got four years to live.
It's widely attributed to Einstein and the four to five-year periods, right?
But it's it's one of these urban legends.
Einstein didn't say it.
Just like there's a whole list of ten things Abraham Lincoln supposedly said, and he didn't say them, a preacher wrote them.
Uh, And they ended up on a pamphlet with a picture of Lincoln, and it got spread around.
I remember the first five years of this program.
I must have gotten 13,000 copies of those things every day.
Rush, you've got to read what Lincoln said.
I tried to write them all, but he didn't say it.
You're falling for finally gave up.
Just gave up.
By the way, folks, if you're not doing anything tonight, and you want to watch something funny while at the same time maddening, tune in to PBS.
After all, you're paying for it.
PBS is gonna run a Bill Moyer's special.
You get to watch the media condemn themselves for falling for Bush's supposed lies about the Iraq war.
It's Bill Moyers talking to a number of journalists, including Dan Rather, about how they didn't dig deep enough.
They didn't dig hard enough.
They fell prey to the lies that Bush told about intelligence and weapons of mass destruction, and they end up facilitating the war, and it's time to beat themselves up.
This is the most introspective bunch of people.
I have never seen a business, maybe Hollywood, that spends so much time talking about itself, and Moyers is upset because apparently a bunch of people have been reporting on this upcoming special calling Moyers a liberal, and he's all offended.
And he's been accused of bias here.
He says conservatives smeared his show for a bias that didn't exist in his show.
So I'm not going to watch it.
I have other things to do.
I will be out and about here in uh in the Big Apple.
But if you paying for PBS, and if you want to watch this, if you want to watch these people beat up on themselves and condemn themselves, and you'll have to sit there and listen to all this stuff about Bush lied, people died and all that, but you will be it'd be a learning exercise for you to listen to these people analyze themselves, beat themselves up, talk about, and that they'll end up saying this is why we're on such a tear now.
Because we got to make up for the mistakes of going along with lies that led to 3,000 plus American deaths, and who knows what kind of untold carnage in the nation of Iraq, uh, so forth and so on.
Of course, they've been given great reviews by TV writers and critics all over the country who've been fortunate enough, quote unquote, to see preview copies of tonight's Bill Moyer special, paid for by you.
Uh, by the way.
Sue in Reston, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, hi, Rush Ditto's.
Times 18.
Ditto's time's eighteenth.
Thank you very much.
That's very nice of you to say I accept it.
You're welcome.
I know you would.
Um I know you believe in a creator rush.
Yes, I do.
And uh, you know, uh, this new planet, this new planet that they found.
Yes.
I think that's that's God's gift.
That's God's gift to uh to us.
Because the I I think this is the new world, the new world, the perfect utopia for the libs.
And I say, let the sign up begin.
Get them out of here.
Let them sign up.
Well, they're gonna be the fair world.
They will be the ones that want to go.
I mean, that the the of all the people that want to leave Earth and go colonize something else, it is a bunch of liberals because they think we've destroyed this planet.
It's only a matter of time.
We've we've got, guys, I said earlier, Stephen Hawking out there, if we don't find someplace to colonize, we're doomed.
That's it for us.
And of course, the liberals, they want to go out there, they've they uh and and start all over.
You've got this pristine little planet untouched by the filth of humanity.
Give communism a readle shot.
Put it in a sterile set of surroundings where it doesn't have any competition, maybe communism would work.
Have communes all over the place, communes on the spaceship.
Hey, it's only a measly 120 trillion miles away.
That's nothing in galactical terms.
It's perfect ideal.
Because uh uh the mindset is we're destroying this planet.
As I said earlier, it's gonna require a lot more research, because if it is discovered that there is oil on This planet, because they're saying it could support life.
It may have some close similar aspects to uh Earth.
Um may have a temperature that allows liquid water, temperatures that would be compatible with human life.
But if there's oil on this planet, the libs will not go there.
They won't touch it.
They've been there done that.
They know how oil can destroy a planet.
They know how oil can destroy people.
They know how oil can destroy and kill otters and all kinds of beasts, burden or otherwise.
And if there's because oil is one of the one of the evils of uh of of our existence.
What would be funny if there is oil there, these new colonists will be the last to arrive.
Big oil will be up there, and if these colonists ever did get there, the first thing they'd see is oil, Derek's, and I'd kind of love for that to have just ruined it.
We ought to do a movie about this.
You know, a space movie.
Space colonizing this new planet where big oil gets there first, sets up all these capitalistic little towns for the workers to live in, and you've got these Nambi Pambi Goonies.
By the way, that's my name for these evangelists that Gore is training to watch his slideshow go out there and present it to rotary clubs, 150 of these people.
And they're out there, Gorg go to Camp Gore for two days, they get a indoctrination training on how to present his slideshow that's in his movie on global warming.
And I've got a name for them, Goonies.
Combination of Gore and Mooneys.
Because that's exactly, and I know I'll I'll bet you some of them listen to this program.
And and oh yes, and and they'll they just think they're doing the Lord's work.
They're saving the planet.
Yeah, Mr. Snurdley has serious questions.
What's a serious question?
I deal with Do we think it's space trip.
Oh, Snerdley, don't ask that question.
You're you're you're asking an irrelevant question.
You're you're the kind of guy that wants to destroy people's dreams.
You're the kind of guy that wants to take away every fantasy and possibility about saving the planet and saving ourselves.
You know what he just asked me?
Snurdley just said, wait a minute, I have a question.
Is space travel that would allow people to get from here to someplace 120 trillion miles away?
Are we close to that?
Don't that's not doing it.
If you ask that question, you may send people out to the drugstore for Paxel and lithium and riddle and all that.
You're gonna ruin their days.
That you're you're you're that that I didn't bring that up on purpose, Snerdly, because I have a responsibility here.
There are fragile souls listening to this program who have desperate hope that we will be able to save ourselves by going to another planet.
And you're throwing up a question and an obstacle.
It's like it's like throwing ice-cold water in their face, awakening them from a utopian dream.
You are destroying with that question.
Because of course we don't.
We have no way to get any number of people to Mars.
Or the or the moon, do I think Oh, will it be possible?
Yes.
As long as humanity on this planet maintains freedom.
At some point, it will be made possible.
We will learn how to engage in travel of that length and distance.
Uh I I think I think those kinds of things are possible, but I'm telling you what, it ain't going to happen before global warming destroys the planet.
I mean, if these people are right about global warming, we've got 50, 80 years, and I will guarantee you we're not going to learn how to take 120 million trillion mile space trips with a sizable number of people.
And if if big oil ever figured out how to do it first, you think they share the technology with the rest of us?
He'd be launching these trips to this uh new planet at night when nobody knew it.
They'd be up there for gazillions of years before they ever let anybody know they were.
They'd find a pipeline back to Earth.
Seriously, why ask me that question?
These people, you understand what this story represents to these people, Mr. Snerdley.
Do you understand?
I mean, they really believe we're destroying the planet.
This is a religion.
We are in their last days.
The rapture is but m but a few short years away.
Salvation, the end of destruction.
Uh and you you have just with forcing me to ask that question, uh, is forcing these people to face a reality that will challenge their faith.
Uh And that's something I have never wanted to do on this program.
I have never ever wanted to destroy somebody's faith religiously.
Until global warming came along, because it is a false religion.
It's a phony religion.
I'm happy, actually, Mr. Surley, you asked me the question.
All right.
Let me take a break.
We'll be back and continue here on the EIB Network podcast.
It'll go by in a blink of an eye.
You won't even know we were going.
You know, I was just thinking if we really, really, really want to depress the liberals and make them mad at the same time.
Just tell them that there's already been a Walmart spotted on that new planet.
Hey, we're going nuts.
Anyway, uh, who's next?
Mike and Long Beach Co.
Well, folks, sometimes, you know, in dealing with it, you have to rise above reality.
Uh sometimes you have to rise above principle.
It's just that simple.
Uh Mike in Long Beach, you're next.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, Megadiddos from beautiful Long Beach.
Beautiful day down here.
Thank you.
Wow.
I was wondering if you had read that article uh by Reuters about the uh House Oversight Committee Subpoenae, uh the subpoena of rights.
Uh yeah, this is well, this is this has been it's it's it it's been this has been a a long protracted battle.
Henry Waxman's been sending letters demanding she show up.
She's been ignoring the letters and so forth, so now they're going the subpoena route.
I t I'll tell you, uh folks, we need a new SDI.
Subpoena defense initiative.
Because that's all that that is that's become the primary weapon in the Democrats' arsenal here uh in this uh in this political battle.
They're just trying to distract, they're trying to get rid of Cheney, they're trying to get rid of Bush, they're they're just uh uh getting nothing done.
And I'm telling you, this is not gonna help them.
Uh it it's it's uh all this stuff's gonna catch up with them at some point.
Read saying we can't win, that we've lost, uh, that we need to come home.
Mark my words on this, folks.
We haven't lost the country or a majority of it yet to the point that this stuff doesn't make an impression on people.
And in Portland, thank you for waiting.
You're next.
I did want to say that I thought the rudest part of what Barbara one of the rudest parts of what Barbara Walters said was she told them that she would do whatever they wanted.
She couldn't be inconvenienced all.
She would not they wanted her to stand behind the barricades, and she said, I'll do whatever you want, but I will not stand behind the barricades.
Well, then she's not doing what they want.
Exactly.
But she wanted to act like she would, but she made it very clear.
And she made it clear when the the other gal at the loud one asked her, Did they know who you were?
Oh, yes, they knew.
And she was just thoroughly disgusted that she had to wait at all.
I can't believe how you know th this this this my instincts on this are right again.
That show is poisoning a lot of people's minds, and it is not helping Barbara Walters.
Yes, and I wanted my first comment to be I wanted to make clear I do not watch it.
I clicked in because I heard the rudest one was leaving, and I did hear that story.
Wait a second.
You heard that Rosie was leaving, and that made you watch the show.
That made me click in for a little bit just to see if I could stomach a little bit of it.
But you you don't when I heard you don't regularly watch the view.
Oh no, no, no.
But when I heard her do that, it was so rude, and then I heard one of your callers and I wanted to call in.
I see.
And I wanted to make a comment on an interview I heard Barbara do our a while back with Al Gore's wife.
Oh, yes, that would be the lovely and gracious tipper.
Then I'm wrong, not Al Gore's wife.
I'm talking about the Heinz woman, the highest.
Oh, that would be Teresa Hines Carey.
She's the husband of John Kerry.
That's who she had done an interview with her um quite a while back, and at one point she said there was some garbage about her having a Hummer.
And she smirked and rolled her eyes, kind of laughed and said, Well, they're wrong.
I have three.
Well, I didn't know that John Kerry was endowed that well.
She did she did.
She said that you shouldn't be surprised.
Finally, some people get it.
This has been a strange day, folks.
There's been a lot of brilliance on this program that has been missed.
Thanks.
Uh who was that?
This Melissa, right?
No.
Uh Melissa's next.
Yeah, Melissa, thanks.
You're for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Yes.
Um I was wondering, okay, uh since America does have so many problems like the poor and crime and pollution and the list goes on and on and on.
How can we ever have time to solve those problems in our own backyard and get our own backyard cleaned up if we're spending so much time trying to clean up everybody else's problems, i.e.
Iraq.
You would think that we'd never gonna be able to have time to solve our own since we're busy.
Okay, can we run through that list of problems again that you that you mentioned that you started the you said we have so many problems like the poor and crime and pollution, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
Yes.
Uh and you're wondering well, did you think during World War II when the Japanese attacked us that we had crime and pollution and the poor?
We've always had it.
And we know it's not going to be perfect.
And we would be making a lot more progress on on poverty and crime if we hadn't had a deal with fifty years of liberal social programs such as the Great Society and Head Start and this kind of thing.
I don't have enough time left in the program to go into great detail with you, but my my point to you is that defending the nation and protecting our national security.
We're not in Iraq to stop crime there.
We're not on Iraq to stop pollution there.
We're not in Iraq uh to uh fix poverty.
We're in Iraq for an American national security.
This is about the defense of this country.
And if that ever gets put to secondary or tertiary status in order to fix these domestic problems, we're not going to have the domestic problems, period, or else everything will be that way.
You we this is a great country.
We can do all kinds of things at the same time.
All right.
Well, I can tell with your tone of voice that you disagree, but you don't know what's well I think I think I think that it's a matter of uh we like we're too busy sticking on nose for I don't think it necessarily belongs.
You know, uh even in the Bible it says to take the plank out of your eye before you try to take the sold ass out of somebody else's eye.
But wait a minute.
They didn't just pick our eye.
We had 3,000 people killed in in uh less than an hour and a half on uh on 9-11.
Now look, I just I I really I I I just gave you the answer.
This is about U.S. national security.
Uh and uh we're too busy sticking our nose where you don't think it belongs.
Well, you can have that view, you can have that opinion.
But if it's wrong, it means you're wrong.
And this is about U.S. national security.
This is a there is a war on terror out there, and and and uh you you have got this misguided notion in your head that we're over there trying to make Iraq into some sort of utopia while at the same time ignoring our own problems.
We no more ignore our own problems that life in this country is getting better each and every day.
I wish I had more time with you.
I really do, Melissa, because you you have potential.
Get her number, Mr. Snerdley, if she will let us have it, and we'll try again some other time.
All right, what a great program.
What a fun day this has been, folks.
So we'll look forward to tomorrow at the same time from the EIB building here in Midtown Manhattan.
Have a great middle of the week Wednesday and see you tomorrow.
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