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April 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Say, Mike, in addition to cuts uh 14 and 15, we're gonna go 14-1 and 15.
Hey, here's the story from the uh the Reuters.
The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike the French.
According to an opinion poll published today, the survey of six nations carried out for the International Herald Tribune Daily and France 24 TV station said 44% of French people thought badly of themselves against 38% of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French.
Frankly, I can't blame the French for this.
Uh being honest with themselves over there.
Volcanoes are being blamed for prehistoric global warming now.
Scientists believe they've solved the mystery of what caused the most rapid global warming in known geologic history: a cataclysmic temperature spike 55 million years ago, driven by concentrations of greenhouse gases hundreds of times greater than today.
The culprit was a series of volcanic eruptions that set off a chain reaction, releasing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
The eruptions occurred on the rift between two continental plates as Greenland and Europe separated in 10,000 years, which is a blip in Earth's history, the polar seas turned into tropical baths.
Deep sea microorganisms were extinct and mammals migrated polar as their habitats warmed.
Now, all of this caused by volcanoes, but something also it got cool after this.
After this massive baking 55 million years ago, it got cool again.
How did this happen?
We did we do anything to cause either of these?
We didn't.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention something, folks.
You know that new planet that they discovered out there?
This little red star that you didn't and the and the uh you know the the people who think that the earth is lost and that the experiment of society and civilization here is gone.
They look at this new planet as a as an opportunity to start fresh.
To go to a place where there's no racism, there's no bigotry, there's no environmental destruction, no oil derricks, no this or that.
I forgot to tell you how to get there.
When I was talking about this, it's just it's you know, in galactic terms, it's a hop skip and trip away.
It's 120 million, no, 120 trillion miles.
Now, I don't know how many light years that is, but here's a lot of people want to start making plans to go up colonize this new planet since we've blown it here on Earth and we're about to destroy this earth.
Here's what you do.
You blast off from Earth, and then you head out to the outer reaches of our solar system.
Uh and and when you get to Uranus, hang a hard left.
And that, the gravitational pull of Uranus, as you as you make that hard left, will take you right out to this new pristine paradise.
Just waiting for you to get there and start anew with no political parties and no countries, just one mass of humanity all getting along without any oil whatsoever.
Um, we don't know how long I don't I that's what I say.
I haven't calculated the light years, uh, but we're told 120 or 120, yeah, 120 trillion miles.
I mean, that's nothing.
Uh in in in space distance.
Yeah, make sure you go to the bathroom first.
You'll be up there in suspended animation, HR, when you get on these right spaceships.
You won't even know that you're traveling.
You won't know anything's happened till you got there.
There'll be one person has to be in charge of making sure that everybody makes that hard left as they pass Uranus.
And then after that, uh straight shot.
All right, audio soundbite time.
We played for you the inept, bumbling and highly, highly indicative of incompetence in terms of national security answer that uh uh Barack Obama gave to Brian Williams question.
Okay, look, God forbid a million times we're sitting here tonight, and we learned during the course of this press conference that two American cities have been obliterated, and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt it's Al Qaeda.
Barack's answer, well, we got to make sure we get the first responders out there.
We uh got to make sure the world communities consult it.
It was bad answer.
Here's how Mrs. Clinton uh answered the question.
I think a president must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate.
If we are attacked, and we can determine who was behind that attack, and if there were nations that supported or gave material aid to those who attacked us, I believe we should quickly respond.
Now that doesn't mean we go looking for other fights.
You know, I supported President Bush when he went after Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And then when he decided to divert attention to Iraq, it was not a decision that I would have made had I been president, because we still haven't found bin Laden.
All right.
So there's Hillary's answer.
And you have to admit, folks, that answer is far more uh intelligent.
Um the last half of it kind of she went astray.
She had to throw in the bush bash for the base, understand that, but move as swiftly as prudent to retaliate.
You know, that's that's uh and she's the only one on the uh on uh on the dais last night that said this.
This has caused Pat Buchanan to make a comparison of Hillary Clinton to someone you have all heard of.
Joe Scarborough was talking to him and said, Pat Buchanan, I'll tell you who was not energized, and that's your former conservative base.
All those Republicans who voted for you in 92, 96, tonight they're staring in the mirror, wondering why they wasted their vote because you, you, Pat Buchanan compared Hillary Rodham Clinton to Ronald Reagan.
Explain yourself, man.
A hurting, aching nation wants to know what's going through your mind.
You've changed, you've changed.
I think Russia Limbaugh could be on my case in the morning.
I mean, look, uh you know, I I've watched Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I was not expecting great things from her, and I thought Barack was going to come through.
And I thought, Joe, she was at the top of her game.
And the one answer I thought was almost Reagan-esque was when she went into that answer on what she would do.
We're gonna be prudent, but we're gonna retaliate against these folks.
And if we find out a country was behind it, we want to be sure, but we're gonna retaliate.
Now Reagan would have done it much more smoothly and instinctively, and she seemed programmed, but she hit every single point correctly.
You know, even those of us, Joe, in the vast right wing conspiracy have got to give them credit when they do well.
So uh Pat Buchanan thinks that the answer that you just heard Mrs. Clinton was Reagan ask, and he thinks I'm gonna be all over his case, which I'm not.
Uh uh you can think what he wants to think.
Uh but I it it in in in the context of the other answers that came Barack's Obama Barack Obama's answer was pretty much the same as all these other candidates up there.
Well, first responders, uh, intelligence, um, they just took the opportunity to question to bash Bush and to try to make political points on everything they think is has gone wrong, like uh the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and and a number of uh of other things.
Uh Hillary was also asked a question about uh uh Walmart, and I'm looking for her answer.
She used a specific two words or one word, and I can't find it.
I'll I'll have to uh look for it during the during the break.
But she was being prayed when I'm flying home last night.
I was I'm I'm channel surfing around up there, and I'm watching uh uh MSNBC because they're the only ones really talking about the debate aftermath because they carried it.
It's number eight.
Okay, they were raving About about this particular answer that uh that that she is.
The uh the question uh from Brian Williams, uh Senator Clinton, overall is Walmart a good thing or a bad thing for the United States of America.
Well, it's a mixed blessing.
When Walmart started, it brought uh goods uh into rural areas like rural Arkansas, where I was uh happy to live for 18 years and gave people a chance to stretch their dollar further.
As they grew much bigger, though, they have raised serious questions about uh the responsibility of corporations and how they need to be a leader when it comes to providing health care and having, you know, safe working conditions and not discriminating on the basis of sex or race or any other category.
You know, Brian, this is all part, though, of how this administration and corporate America today don't see middle class and working Americans.
They are invisible.
That answer was being treated as the best thing any candidate said last night by the people that I was watching on PMSNBC discussed this.
And what they loved was it's a mixed blessing.
They think she was brilliant in pointing out that Walmart's done some good things.
They started uh small and they were able to stretch the dollars of poor people, but now they're stretching the dollars of everybody, and that's hurting other people, and then we get this routine.
They're discriminating on the basis of sex or race, they don't have safe working conditions, they're not providing health care.
They're gonna open 400 clinics.
Walmart's gonna open 400 health clinics throughout their chain of stores.
They're gonna do more for health care than Mrs. Clinton has done for health care with her stupid Hillary care plan.
But the thing about this, forget the mixed message.
The last thing she said here is the key.
You know, Brian, this is all part of how this administration and corporate America don't see working Americans.
They are invisible.
It's just the exact opposite.
The truth of the matter is the way Democrats see average Americans, and they see them through the lens of contempt.
They see them through the lens of incompetence.
Democrats like Mrs. Clinton look at you and see hopelessness.
You don't have what it takes to overcome obstacles in life.
You can't get along unless Mrs. Clinton is riding herd on the evils in our society.
And who are they?
Well, they're big oil, they're big drug, they are Walmart.
Uh any big corporation, you look at their enemies list at who they want to get even with.
She wants to take the profits of the oil company.
She said that very, very socialistic proposal that she made.
Of course, nobody hyped on that much, but they look at average Americans and don't see potential at all.
And they're out there sitting and talking about how average Americans are invisible to corporate America and this administration, which has done more for average Americans than any Democrat administration to come down the pike in I don't know how long, with tax cuts and economic growth and opportunity.
It is amaz the affluence in this country today is astounding.
And nobody is really aware of it because it's not being reported.
Individuals are aware of it, obviously, in terms of their own life, but they hear how rotten things are, so they think they're just lucking out.
They'd be even a little guilty about doing well because they think so many other people aren't.
Because they're being fed a bunch of lies about the truth.
This country's so effluent, it's it's there's so much economic opportunity here.
It is it is uh it's breathtaking, especially when you travel the world or have traveled the world and see what genuine poverty is and genuine economic depression, lack of opportunity.
This place is the Garden of Eden.
This country is the Garden of Eden, and they refuse to see it that way.
They cannot possibly.
When is the last time you've heard a Democrat say something positive about this country?
Since Bush was elected, when's the last time?
Even if they get close, Walmart's a mixed blessing.
Still got to tear the whole thing down.
Started off fun when I was on the board.
Now just destroying people's lives.
And she was on the board of Walmart, folks, and it was all just fine.
Right, Dave, the beginning.
Wait, time out.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
It's open line Friday, and I am Rush Limboy, utilizing talent on loan from God.
800-282-2882 to St. Catherine, Ontario, which Is in Canada for those of you in Rio Linda.
This is Nicole, and it's great to have you on the program, Nicole.
Welcome.
Rush, it is the greatest honor and privilege to speak with you.
Thank you so much.
I was the last female caller in the second last caller of 2006 on your show when I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Walter E. Williams about the lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses.
Oh, it was.
Did you get a word in uh edgewise in that in that call?
Oh, yes.
Quite a few.
Good.
Anyhow, I'm calling almost about the same matter.
Um I'm pus I'm pursuing my master's degree in popular culture, and I had yet another wonderful opportunity to attend and present at an o academic conference in Boston earlier this month.
Yes.
But I ran into a little bit of a situation that I thought you and your listeners might be interested in.
I would love to hear about it, but I first have to ask you a question.
Sure.
I'm amazed at what you can get a master's in these days.
I know.
You get a master's in basket weaving, uh, you get a master's in uh in the physical education therapies, uh master's in a master's degree in popular culture.
Yes, actually it's a unique interdisciplinary study to Canada.
However, the United States of America offers far more interesting programs pertaining to media studies and connectivity.
Well, that's because our popular culture is probably more perverted than yours.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Uh remember America's land of the free and home of the brave, and uh free speech doesn't seem to exist in Canada, or at least in the institution.
Well, you may have uh you may have a point on that.
Okay.
So you're you're you you ran into professor somewhere.
Yes.
Um these my colleague and I, who's also a conservative, we uh we were there together and these three after um a cocktail party uh about the conference and i uh it was at the Boston Marriott, um these three profs invited us out for for a drink.
And I I sort of know that everyone is is sort of liberal, it's very hard to meet a conservative professor, and actually that's what I asked uh Professor Walter E. Williams about, but anyhow, um they invited us out for a drink at the hotel bar and I said, What the hell?
And uh, you know, one of the profs found out that I wanted to attend a U.S. institution for my PhD and that I love America and think it is the greatest nation in the world.
The issue of politics came up.
And then and I told, you know, this prof I'd rather not discuss my political leanings, but he kept on badgering me.
Yes.
Finally, I said, fine.
Are you married?
Oh, no, no, no, I'm so you're not wearing a ring.
Oh no, I'm not sure.
Okay, well, just trying to get the lay of land here at the bar.
No, I I live with my my guinea pig, actually.
But anyhow, I I am a conservative.
I said I'm an I am a conservative.
I watch Fox News and I listen to Rush Limbaugh, and I think Gregan was the the best president ever.
And the prof looked at us in disgust.
And it wasn't because of our looks, because your screener said he he he could see my beauty through the phone.
So the female there was thirdly, you you are pathetic.
You are pathetic in there.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were talking to me.
No, I'm admonishing Snerdly for coming on to you.
Oh, I hope I didn't get him in trouble.
I can see your beauty through the phone.
That is quote unquote, by the way.
What else is going on in there though?
The prof, the prof was look you look at you in disgust.
Well, actually, that wasn't the prof I had the problem with.
There was this female prof about in her late 40s, early fifties from the University of Oklahoma, and asked me what I thought about socialized health care.
Um and when I said I'm not an advocate, she literally harassed me.
She grabbed my arm, she started pointing her finger at me and crying and yelling at me because I guess she talking about a personal situation.
And I immediately knew I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, so I I left and you know, I made sure that when I was at the door, I turned around, went back and shook all of their hands.
My colleagues stayed, and apparently more drama pursued after that.
But the moral of the story is students beware of your profs.
And uh yeah.
Well, uh we hear these kinds of stories routinely.
Uh but you you you shouldn't be surprised by these.
Oh, no, no, no.
I wasn't I wasn't surprised.
I I you know I'm looking the trouble began when you mentioned my name, right?
But the trouble actually that prof didn't didn't uh sure that trouble could have began when I mentioned your name, but uh it the clearly the trouble began when I said that America was the greatest nation in the world.
Yeah, well, there's so many individuals.
Yeah, yeah, but you don't don't don't discount the fact that it was mentioning my name in Fox News.
That's what set them off.
Okay, time for another uh answer here from Barack Obama.
If you want to say anything about this this press conference last night, if you wanted to characterize it as something, look at it as the first audition for Mrs. Clinton's vice presidential candidate.
But that's because look, folks, she's gonna be the nominee.
There's no there's no it it's not even a a matter of question.
And as I said last week, is an eighty percent chance as we sit here today that she is the next president of the United States.
You got Pat Buchanan out there comparing her to Ronald Reagan, and you have me praising an answer as she gave.
So this is this is just you know, who's gonna be her VEEP is is what what this is all about.
I always want to give you another answer from Barack Obama.
The question from Brian Williams, what in your personal life, Senator Obama, have you done personally to make for a better environment, your personal life.
Well, uh you know, uh we just had Earth Day, and we actually organized 3,000 uh volunteers to plant trees.
Uh which I mean like light bulbs.
Well, uh I thought the tree thing was pretty good.
Well, we've also we've we've lost a lot of help.
We we've also been working to install light bulbs that last longer and save energy.
Uh and and that's something that I'm trying to teach my daughters.
Okay.
So um uh there I'm just playing for you some of the highlights.
These are the highlights of the Democrat candidate press conference uh last night on uh on MS NBC.
I know we're in a war for survival, we're in a war about national security.
Uh well, Mrs. Clinton already so dead answer up.
You know, once she says she's gonna retaliate, there's nothing left for these other people to do talk about intelligence and first responders and this sort of thing.
But planted he's organized three thousand volunteers, plant trees, didn't even do it himself.
And of course, we now know that the whole planting tree thing is a scam.
This whole carbon offset thing is a scam.
The Financial Times ran the story yesterday.
We told you about it.
It is a 100% total scam.
Uh uh which we've known.
At any rate, uh David in Omaha, glad to have you on the EIB network.
Nice to welcome you to the program.
Hey, Mega Cornhousker Ditto's, right?
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I was wondering what what's gonna happen if there is a total stalemate and Congress never gives funding to the troops and just keeps attaching this baloney to the legislation.
There won't there won't there won't be a stalemate.
What what if there were?
Where would we get the funds?
Well, I don't believe in if.
If is for children.
Oh, and it it's it's uh I mean we can play the game.
I'll play the game with you, but I'm gonna answer your question seriously.
Uh they're they're they're they're not gonna defund the war.
Car eleven has said so.
Mrs. Clinton in a in a story in the Hill newspaper yesterday said that it's gonna be impossible to override the president's veto, and then not sure the Democrats want to defund.
All this stuff in the House and Senate the past two days has been, David, is a political statement.
What?
I was just wondering.
I'm sorry.
One of the kids get out of the house or something.
Yeah.
They're always running around.
Hey, I I was just wondering, wouldn't it be a shocker if the American people actually ended up just going ahead and uh funding our troops themselves, you know, out of their pockets.
I I would think that would be crushing to the Democratic Party.
Well, you're living you're living in dreamland.
I mean, we may as well start doing bank sales uh to fund the war in Iraq.
Well you know, we've got the fifteenth anniversary of Dan's bake sale coming up, I think on May 24th.
I think that's when we went to Fort Collins.
Um I don't know that I'm gonna in fact there's not enough time to set something up.
Uh because I just now realize that the anniversary date is May 24th.
But that's not gonna happen.
That's they're not gonna defund it.
I mean even USA Today has this has a story today.
Jim Moran, who's about as radical a Democrat as you can find.
So I think we're ultimately going to lose this battle.
Although I think it'll be a Pyrrhic victory for the White House because they're going to lose the war for public opinion.
Uh Representative Jim Cooper, conservative Democrat from Tennessee said, look, the the money's gonna flow because the troops always come first.
This is really just a battle for the mind of the public.
Uh Congressman Cooper, this is more than politics.
This is the point that they don't get to them and the Democrats and this whole best of defunding the war and this with the withdrawal target dates.
It's all politics to them.
It's purely political.
And it's about far more than that.
This is, I'm telling you, the American people know this, and the Democrats are doing themselves no favors with all this.
This is going to redound to their uh uh Well they're gonna regret it.
Uh somewhere down the line.
You just can't behave and say the things that they're saying in the midst of times like this.
Um remember, they they didn't have the guts to talk this way before the election last November.
They were doing anything they could to keep their agenda hidden.
It was all about the culture of corruption and it was macaca and it was Foley and all.
But now they're so giddy with their new power, they can't help themselves.
They're finally telling us who they are.
And the more of that the better.
Here's Lori in Detroit.
Lori, you're next.
It's open line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Rush.
I'm in full panic mode here.
Why?
I've heard three times today a disclaimer on 760 WGR Detroit, the views and opinions of WJR 760, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What's going on?
What's going on here?
Are are they trying to take you off 760?
And if they do, I'll never listen again.
Well, no, no.
If if they are, it won't happen until after next Thursday, because I've got a personal appearance there that at the Novice Center that's uh sold out.
So I don't I no they're not going to do that.
I I've I've It's censorship.
No, they're not censoring anything.
They're just saying in their disclaimer that whatever I say, they don't agree with.
Yeah, but why all of a sudden why all of a sudden?
I've been listening for two years.
I I'm the one who called about the gas rebates, and I've been listening for two years.
I've been converted to conservative views.
So I've been listening to you.
And if I don't get my rush, I will be cranky.
You you you will.
I know.
Yes, you no, you no, you you will get your rush.
Oh, okay.
You might be cranky, but you will get you will get your rush.
Oh, Rush, I hope so.
Don't worry about this.
I don't know what's what's behind this, but something's going on, though.
This this happened when the program first started.
When the program first started back in 1988, we started with fifty-six little radio stations and WABC in New York, and it just grew rapidly, and you know, it was controversial in its day.
And then and so I did the disclaimer myself as a means of protecting the radio station.
Views and views expressed by the host of this show, and not necessarily those staff management nor sponsors of this station.
Um recently when WJR started today as I we got a phone call earlier from a guy who couldn't go on the air but said he had heard it like you did.
Uh but beyond that, I don't know what it's about.
But don't sweat it.
Everything's everything's cool.
If I can't get my rush weekly, I will be a mess.
You will get you will get it.
I mean, if if the worst possible thing happened, you would still be able to get it on the internet.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes, there's always an answer, and there will always be rush.
Okay.
We love you, Rush.
Always had.
I love you too.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate your concern, but please do not do not do not be worried about this.
Everything's fine.
As long as as long as they make it known up there that whatever I say they don't agree with, then everything will be cool.
And and nothing will happen.
Here's Ron in uh in Parkland, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Great to talk to you, buddy.
Thank you, sir.
Well, it's nice to have you with us.
Listen, something I noticed, uh I found it completely remarkable Watching the beginning of that uh you call it a press conference.
I call it a love fest last night.
Uh whatever it was probably the first five questions right off the bat, and I'm sitting there astounded, like uh uh am I not paying attention or am I missing something?
It seemed like whatever and Brian Williams asked five pointed questions, they never answered the question.
Well, of course not.
They didn't they went right into their talking point.
Of course not.
They said that's a good question or something.
No, it that that that little observation of yours illustrates the pointlessness of doing all this in April of 2007.
The reason they didn't answer the questions is because the only thing that mattered last night was not screwing up.
Don't make a gaff.
Don't go don't be aggressive.
This is not the time people, when they go to vote in these primaries that are gonna start early next year not gonna remember what happened last night unless somebody sticks their foot in their mouth.
And I'll tell you this this Obama answer on uh on what he would do if if we were hit again, if if uh if some of those other Democrat candidates want to start taking shots at Obama on the basis of he's not ready for the office,
that answer, if if if there was a gaff last night, if there was a goof, I'd it's if it's a toss-up between that and Edwards being tongue-tied for twelve seconds when asked who he looks to for morality or moral leadership, who was his moral inspiration.
Grab that bite.
Is what what what sound bite number is that, Mike?
Uh my cue sheet here is all over the all over the place.
I'll see if I can find it here.
It's all over the place, and I um played it.
It was number twelve.
Because people may not have heard this if they just joined the program recently.
Um here's a question that this is gaff number two of the night.
Edwards was asked who his moral leader is.
His answer.
Hmm.
I don't I don't think I could identify one person that I consider to be my moral leader.
Uh my Lord is important to me.
Uh I go to him in prayer every day and ask for both forgiveness and counsel.
Uh my wife, who I think is the finest human being I've ever known, is a source of great conscience for me.
My father, uh, who raised me to believe that every human being on the planet, no matter who they are, where they live, or uh what the color of their skin, or what family they were born into, has exactly the same value.
Yeah.
So that's gaff number two.
Obama's is the first gaff, and that twelve seconds of silence is legitimate, and unlike other cable networks, we didn't add to it, and we didn't shorten it, we didn't lengthen it, we didn't loop it, we didn't put a little funny noises in it.
We just played it for you as is.
Now, I why did he s why did he stumble?
Why did it take twelve seconds?
Uh, and then he finds I don't think I can identify one person as my moral leader.
Uh probably sitting there saying to himself, what the hell is this question?
We're a bunch of liberals here, and he's asking us about morality.
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Claire in Charlotte, North Carolina, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Rush, great to talk to you today.
Thank you very much.
Um I've been sitting here listening in almost disbelief um at the praise for Hillary Clinton's answer to that question last night.
Um, if we were attacked, that she would take retaliate.
Yeah.
Um, because no one asked her what type of retaliation, and or you know, if that meant military action.
And that took me back to the 9-11 commission hearings where we heard over and over and over again from both William Cohen and Madeline Albright that none of the intelligence we had on Al Qaeda was actionable.
I don't know if you remember that.
I remember I remember all that, but that was all BS.
Well, I know, but so is this.
That's my point.
She's just saying what she thinks people want to hear.
And I don't believe that.
How does that make her any different than any other politician?
Well, it doesn't really.
But let me I'm gonna tell you something.
We gotta be honest about it.
We're gonna talk about this.
Yeah.
We gotta be honest about it.
If you you compare her answer to that question to all those other Democrats up there, it was a good answer.
That's true.
You have to say that.
I mean, retaliation, that that's that's the normal natural instinct when your country is hit.
When you that's if if there's anything remarkable about this, it it is that the answer is remarkable.
Stop and think it's it's the natural thing to say.
Well, if we get somebody two cities, we'll find out who did it and take it to 'em.
Everybody would say the fact that Mrs. Clinton is one of eight Democrats to say it has caused the presses to stop.
Yeah.
Now what does that tell us?
That she's the best.
No, it tells me telling people what they want to hear.
It tells us that Democrats and media people are stunned when a Democrat sounds tough on national defense.
Town sounds tough on national security.
Why?
Oh, that what a what a what a great what a great answer.
It's not a great answer, except when you compare it to the rest of the fuddy duddies that were up there.
It's the it's it's it's a right answer, but it it wasn't great.
It's remarkable only in the sense that it's remarkable.
That Democrat, any Democrat actually said it.
The most Okay, I see your point.
Yeah, I had not really looked at it that way.
Well, the most the most the the typical answer is Obama's.
Well, uh, we make sure we don't have another Katrina first.
We've got to get the first responders.
We gotta make sure FEMA, whatever.
All that other stuff that has nothing to do with retaliation or even preventing another attack or demonstrating U.S. strength, making sure the world community understands that we're not out there trying to hurt them, that we're working with intelligence agencies, we're not gonna lie about that's what people expect from Democrats.
That's what people have come to expect.
Mrs. Clinton comes to I'm gonna kick their ass, is essentially what she said.
Whoa, we don't hear this from Democrats much.
And we certainly haven't heard it since the Iraq war started.
We've been hearing withdrawal, get out, America can't win, we need to lose.
And here she is rattling sabers like this, in just within the context of where Democrats and liberals are on this.
That's why that answer is remarkable.
And the fact that it's remarkable to me is an indictment of Democrats.
And the fact that the media stopped the presses.
So, woo, and that Pat Buchanan, whoo, this sounds Reagan-esque, is the greatest illustration of where the modern day Democrat Party is when it comes to protecting this country.
That that kind of an answer opens mouths.
Well, I'm awfully glad I called so that you could add all that clarification to that, because that uh I I see what you mean by that.
And uh even though I still don't like her, and uh you you put much more context into your reason for saying that.
I'm the leading host in America.
Well, that's why.
But but but uh uh I didn't say I like her.
No, no, no.
I mean, uh I just mean it's putting it in the context that that is just proof once again uh like you said, that it is just so shocking to hear a Democrat actually say something for you that exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
So shocking that Pat Buchanan pronounces it Reagan-esque.
Stop and think of that.
You think Hillary likes hearing that?
Oh, not one little bit.
Should have said Nixon-esque.
There you go.
At any rate, look, I appreciate the uh appreciate the call.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Before you go, before you go, I just thought of a question to ask you.
Yes.
You get upset when I when I uh announce my uh uh theory, uh belief that Hillary as of this moment, as we're sitting here 80% chance she's an ex-president.
Is that bother you when I say that?
Um no.
It doesn't bother me.
I I guess because it it energizes me, Rush.
I'm very involved in grassroots politics.
Yes here in Charlotte.
And uh it just energizes me to go out and energize the base and and get people out, you know, and and hopefully to get behind uh whatever if there is a true conservative candidate to get behind.
Well on the Republican.
The only reason I asked is because I still can't escape it, no matter where I go.
There is an abundance of Hillary fear out there.
And I'm I'm routinely hit with the uh with the question.
Do you think she's really gonna Oh, yeah, eighty percent.
Oh no, no, don't you Yes, I uh people have been asking me this, and I've been wrong on Hillary every statement I've got.
I've been wrong when I said she wouldn't run for the Senate.
Uh you know, at at some point you you gotta you know wearing my shoes, sitting in my chair behind my microphone.
You gotta assess the situation as it is.
Right now, there's an eighty percent chance she's the next president, folks.
I'm telling you.
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