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May 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here.
Again, our phone number 1-800-282-2882 and much more information up at rushlimbaugh.com.
I want to dedicate the rest of the program and a serious note here to my friend Wally Shiraw, reported dead today in San Diego County.
He was, of course, one of the original astronauts, one of the originals in the Mercury program, the Gemini program, and the Apollo program.
I believe he was the only one, if not one of the few, in all three of our astronaut programs in those years.
And I had the privilege of dinner with him at one occasion in which we dedicated a caricature of his face on the wall of my restaurant down here in San Diego when I had a restaurant.
And this was a great moment for me to meet and have a chance to talk.
You know what the most interesting thing about this guy, a warrior and an astronaut in circumstances of total risk, his sense of humor.
He had an incredible, incredible ability to remember jokes.
I mean, I'm sure he remembered every joke he ever heard and told them with great vigor.
He was a tremendous American, a great warrior, and a great pioneer in our space program, Wally Shira.
Dead today, we will miss him.
Now, I wanted to get in today, and I used the wrong word for this hour when I previewed it for you, because I'm trying to move away from fury.
I'm trying to move away from all of this hate coming at us from the left and not hate back.
I mean, I think this is a mistake we make sometimes.
I mean, sometimes, well, you can't help it.
But it is important, however, to say that there are things that do gripe me, things that do upset me, things that make me feel bad.
See, now I'm using the vocabulary of the left, so we get some more bridge building here.
But a couple of them that I just want to put on the table here.
See what you think.
We have been familiar with the war on Christianity in this, the jihad against Christianity in this country, Ten Commandments, bad, Bible study at school, oh, that's bad.
God, bad.
Any kind of reference to the Judeo-Christian heritage, bad, etc.
We've been familiar with that jihad, and certainly out here in San Diego trying to save the Mount Soledad War Memorial and 18 years of lawsuits it took to save that.
We're familiar with that.
Now it's taken a whole new turn.
I mean, I don't know what to do with this.
You've probably seen some of these manifestations, let me of the new turn in this issue, a new aspect of it that I did not expect.
I must share with you, I did not expect this.
A couple of examples.
Kansas City International Airport has added foot washing basins in its restrooms at the request of Muslim taxicab drivers who requested the facilities to prepare for daily Islamic prayer.
Now, in the past, ladies and gentlemen, separation of church and state meant that you could not use public monies, as I understood it, for any kind of Christian thing whatsoever.
Can you imagine prayer rooms?
Can you imagine any kind of Bible study at the Kansas International Airport?
I'm sure it never happened because it would not have been allowed.
The ACLU would have sued in a heartbeat.
Now we're going to have foot washing basins at the request of Muslim taxi cab drivers who need to prepare for daily Islamic prayer.
And the defense of the airport is a classic.
The defense of the airport against criticism of isn't this a violation of separation in church and state too?
The defense is, wait a minute, the wash basins are open to everybody.
Well, and I don't mind washing my feet.
Don't get me wrong here.
I'm a fan of foot washing, non-aromatic offensiveness, et cetera.
But really, if the Bible study was open to everybody, do you think that would stop the ACLU from getting a federal judge to ban it at the Kansas City airport?
Come on.
Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Catherine Kirsten is talking about Sharia law in Minnesota.
You know, the Islamic laws called Sharia, S-H-A-R-I-A, in Minnesota.
And Kurt Brown, there at the Star Tribune, writes, has reported: the Minneapolis Community and Technical College poised to become the state's first public school to install a foot washing basin to help the school's 500 Muslim students perform pre-prayer rituals.
MCTC President Phil Davis quoted as saying that we want to be welcoming.
Well, I want to be welcoming too, but I want to be welcoming to all, let me just put it this way: to all religions.
If we're going to be accommodating in our public accommodations with our tax dollars in public places to the Muslim religion, why have we been fighting this war for the last 50 years to keep being accommodating or welcoming to Christians?
So that kind of gets me.
Okay?
Because out here in San Diego, we have an elementary school in which the elementary school principal has segregated Somali kids, Muslim kids, from Somalia.
Don't ask me why they're here from Somalia.
I mean, some questions I cannot answer.
Okay.
Anyway, these Somalia kids are in this elementary school, God bless them.
And the demand from the parents is that the girls be segregated from the boys and taught separately.
Huh?
Now we've reintroduced segregation on the basis of gender into a public school.
Can you imagine if we had all these years of feminist lawsuits against male-only clubs and male-only bars and male-only whatever.
And now we're going to have re-segregation of our public schools based on religion and gender without even blinking an eye because we want to be welcoming.
What was that all about that we went through then with trying to desegregate our schools based on race?
What happened?
What was all that about?
And I'll tell you something else.
So that's number one.
Okay?
Separation of church and state has now become separation for Christianity from the public square, but all other religions apparently are welcome and we're going to spend money to accommodate them.
Okay, that's one.
Two, are Democrats above the law?
Is there now two sets, you know, above the Supreme Court of the United States that says equal justice under law?
We now have two sets of law, one for Democrats and one for Republicans.
It almost seems like for Republicans, they're automatically guilty of the crime of living as a registered Republican.
Because, for instance, Philip Thompson, an aide to recently Democrat registered Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, was carrying a gun into the Russell Senate office building in his briefcase, a loaded pistol and two loaded magazines.
Now, unlike Virginia Tech, he didn't get anywhere because there was somebody on our side with a gun and stopped him and took the gun and said, you know, there's a law, there's a law.
There's, I'm sorry, I know you're a Democrat, but there's a law that says you can't carry a loaded weapon into the Russell Senate office building.
And you broke the law.
And we're going to have to arrest you.
I'm sorry.
I know you're a Democrat.
This is going to be hard on you, but we've got to arrest you and actually investigate this.
AP has now reported all charges have been dropped against Philip Thompson.
Can you imagine if that had been a Republican?
I'm sorry.
And I firmly believe people ought to have a carry permit, by the way.
But this idea that Philip Thompson, well, of course, he's an aide to a Roger, a Democrat senator, please.
You've got to understand these things.
How about Bill Frist, the ex-Senate Majority Leader?
Remember Bill Frist, MD?
Insider trading charges, HCA management, a company owned by, I guess, in part or whole by his family, Hospital Corporation of America.
He sold stock two years ago in that company.
He provided his meticulously kept emails, ironclad documentation of innocence of any insider trading.
In fact, he sold, as it turned out, Dr. Frist sold the stock to avoid any hint of conflict of interest when he was handling health care legislation in the U.S. Senate.
He actually sold to his disadvantage to avoid a conflict of interest and then got investigated for insider selling.
The Martha Stewart of the U.S. Senate.
He has now been cleared after 18 months.
Can you imagine what it cost him to defend himself?
Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After 18 months, Bill Frist has been cleared.
At the same time, during that same period of time, Harry Reed sold a piece of property that was involved in the sale of a piece of property where his share was $1.1 million or three times what he paid for it for residential property on the outskirts of Las Vegas, even though he had not owned the land for three years.
And he got an $18,000 contribution from other people involved.
Now, wait a minute.
Even if that was also completely innocent, no investigation ever occurred.
No investigation ever occurred.
Now, I want to come back because I'm just warming up to the one that really gets me that no one in the drive-by media will touch after this.
I'm Roger Hitchcock, in for Rush.
Back with your call, 1-800-282-2882.
Roger Hitchcock, in for Rush Limbaugh at 1-800-282-2882 on the EIB network.
This is a story I have only heard on talk radio.
The drive-bys are just turning their head away from it.
They will not talk about it.
And it ties into this theme here of getting it off my chest about guilty of the crime of living as a registered Republican.
Here is, for instance, and you know about, again, San Diego Congressman Duke Cunningham, jailed for taking bribes to direct money to a defense contractor who then gave him stuff.
Put in jail.
And I don't know anybody who disagreed with that.
The huge disappointment in our area.
War hero Duke Cunningham turned out to be that kind of person.
It was a huge blow, being law-abiding Republican types.
That's what the jury said.
That's what the facts said.
In fact, that's what Mr. Cunningham admitted to.
He goes to jail.
We don't have any problem.
What about Dianne Feinstein?
She chairs the Senate Rules Committee, which, among other things, decides what ethical behavior is among the members of the United States Senate.
Until recently, she was a member of a subcommittee called Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies, known on the Hill as MILCON for military construction, because that's really what it's about.
Billions and billions and billions.
I love Carl Sagan.
Anyway, billions of dollars would go into military contracts.
The problem was that on that subcommittee between 2001 and late 2005, when she quit, the public record suggests, in fact, documents that she knowingly took part in decisions to allocate money to contracts that would be performed by the companies controlled or owned or owned in part by her husband,
Richard Bloom.
And in California law, any profits made by Mr. Bloom on these contracts were 50% owned, community property state, by Dianne Feinstein.
In other words, she was appropriating tax money to go to contracts to defense contract businesses that, through her husband, she had a financial interest in.
No one has ever.
This is in thehill.com, so you can get the documentation.
There have been some mentions of this.
This even got so bad, I mean, the documentation here is irrefutable.
It got so bad that she resigned from the committee.
And even the Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, which usually focuses, usually, which 98.3% of the time focuses on Republican ethical lapses, even this group called CRU,
Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, Melanie Sloan, the executive director, even Melanie had to say she was appalled at the way Senator Feinstein abused her position.
Now, it looks like Dianne Feinstein got away with this without anyone really knowing about it.
Her colleagues, according to theHill.com, had no reason to suspect she knew what companies might benefit from her decisions because the information was routinely withheld to avoid favoritism.
What they didn't know was her chief legal advisor, who also happened to be a business partner of her husband's and the vice chairman of one of the companies involved, was secretly forwarding to Dianne Feinstein lists of projects and appropriation requests that were coming before the committee in which she and her husband had a financial interest.
When is the drive-by media going to take something that is so flagrantly a violation of law and make at least the same amount of noise as, say, well, Bill Frist case, much less Randy Cunningham's case.
Let's get some calls in here.
Chris in Kansas City, go ahead, you're on the Rush Loombaugh program.
Hi, Roger.
Had a couple of comments on some things.
First up, I was out actually at the Coachella concert last weekend.
Good.
And which was, again, a multiple-day rock and roll band festival where the Rage Against Machine Lee Finger made the comments about the Bush administration.
Now, let me play it so people understand what we're talking about here, Chris.
I don't know whether you can just hear this.
The Coachella was one of these musical festival things, kind of hard to hear, and we had to beep a certain number of words, you know, HN and otherwise, HNF or otherwise.
They're all beeped in the name of the post-Imus era.
Here is, if you can read it, this is what's his name, De La Rocha?
That's right, Zach De La Rocha, the lead singer of Rage Against the Machine.
Here he is.
Every single one of them, every match, since white one of them, has shooting all of them hung to death and shot.
Every single one of them.
An entire administration, there's no exception.
He should be hung and tried and shot.
Okay, hung, tried, and shot.
Well, you know, whatever the order is.
So there it is, Chris.
You heard that?
Yeah, and what I was going to say is that, you know, the hostility and the belligerence that you saw on stage also extended to the audience members.
I'm a little bit of an older gentleman.
I'm in my mid-40s.
I was not there to see Rage Against the Machine.
I was there to see another band, actually.
And this was the most unruly crowd I'd ever seen in my life.
I mean, it was mostly people in their late teens, early 20s.
But they were so intolerant of the other bands on stage.
The band that I was there for was a group called Crowded House out of New Zealand.
And they actually threw a water bottle and hit the lead singer in the head just because they had the gall of being one of the bands preceding Rage Against the Machine.
So I guess my general comment is I came away from the whole show somewhat disillusioned about sort of the next generation.
This is sort of the next crop of folks that are going to be the future leaders or business leaders.
It was downright depressing.
All right, Chris.
Well, just to cheer you up a bit, of course, this is a small group.
Obviously, the Rage Against the Machine sold some records, but not that many.
But here's what, and they recently got back together.
I mean, they were a group, but did everybody agree with them?
I don't think so.
But in any event, the point I'm trying to make is that too many people on the left are now in an uncontrollable fury, an uncontrollable rage.
It is beyond disagreement.
It is beyond their disillusionment with Bush and the war and all that.
It is now into overt hatred and fury, and all they can do is scream impeachment.
We had this delegate to the California convention down here in San Diego who said this.
Indictment, impeachment, trial, and imprisonment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colenthal, and Rice.
Time to reach out, ladies and gentlemen.
Time to try to calm the fury before it gets out of control.
We live to serve here at the EIB Network.
More after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh and back at you.
Let's take a call from Lisa in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Oh, a wonderful sheriff down there.
Is it Mecklenburg County?
Is that where that is, Lisa?
Yes.
What's your sheriff's name again?
I love your sheriff down there.
I was talking to him in D.C. last week, and he was talking about how they're finally getting around to identifying the illegals in your jail and getting them deported.
I don't know the sheriff's name, but I do know the issue.
Yes, they are.
Yeah, he's a good man.
All right, go ahead on your call.
Well, I'm calling about your comments about the footwashing basins and the separation of the Muslim girls and boys at the school.
Right.
Well, the reason there's all this accommodation to the Muslims, I think, isn't tolerance.
It's not kindness or sensitivity like liberals would like you to believe.
And I definitely don't think it's respect of the Muslim religion.
I think it's fear.
If it were about tolerance, there would be equal accommodation to all religions, or at least equal disregard for them all.
But it's not about tolerance.
Thank you, Lisa, for Lisa, for getting the point of my exposure of this.
It is fear.
It is the only emotion that liberals really move to.
They're afraid in Iraq.
They're afraid of a black activist, so they have to give them welfare.
They're afraid of whoever it is they're afraid of, they need to accommodate in the name, of course, of all the high-minded, noble virtues that you could possibly trot out to cover the fig leaf the fact that you're just a craven coward.
Lisa, I think you've put your finger on a lot of stuff wrong with liberalism.
Well, they're the wusses on the playground, and they're kowtowing to the bully on the playground.
That's what they're doing.
Take a gold star and advance to the head of the class.
Well, they should be standing up to the bully, and the problem is that the danger of this is that when you don't stand up to the bully, you aren't standing up for your own dignity.
You're not standing up for your own values or your freedom.
And so they're going to lose their freedom.
They're going to lose their dignity by kowtowing to those that they are afraid of.
And then they're doing it all under the guise of tolerance and all under the guise of kindness when they're not being kind at all.
They're simply being afraid.
And it's just not going to help anyone.
And they think that they're going to placate Muslim fanatics.
Muslim fanatics don't care if you've got foot washing basins in the airport.
If they hate you, they're going to hate you because of their religious beliefs, and they will eradicate you anyway.
So your fear is not promoting anything except making us more vulnerable by not standing up to the bully.
Lisa, I want to start a national committee to draft you for Congress.
Are you available for that?
No, I have six children.
Well, no wonder you have so much common sense.
You have just vaulted yourself over about 98% of the Congress members, the Congress critters that I know, in your common sense and directness.
I appreciate the call.
That is the point I'm trying to make on this.
And you're absolutely totally correct.
Yikes.
That makes me feel good, actually.
That feedback.
See, now I feel so much better because someone actually got the point.
Stephen in Gainesville, Florida.
Stephen, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, how are you?
Good.
I was just calling, I guess I was calling to say that the consensus that liberals are defeatists, I'm a converted liberal now, I guess.
And I don't believe that I'm a defeatist for wanting to pull our troops out of Baghdad and throughout Iraq and pull back to the borders and control the borders from Iran or from Syria or Pakistan coming in.
And my reasoning behind that is that I believe that we've already won the war there and that policing the secretarian violence is wrong for us to do.
The reason being is just when I was a conservative, I voted for Bush Sr.
And I remember Bush Sr. came out and had a quote that Americans should not aid with those who promote suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred.
And that's what I take secretarian violence to be is ethnic hatred between Sunni and Shiites.
And the reason I got, and I'm trying to get to my point as quickly as I can, the reason why I say we've already won the war is my idea was to find out about weapons of mass destruction and beyond argument, you know, on that, that was completed.
Getting rid of Saddam Hussein, that's completed, and then implementing a democracy there.
That's done.
My lack of faith isn't in our administration, but my lack of faith is in the administration that is there.
And I believe that my brother was in Ramadi for 14 months and came home.
And if you really look into it, I would say probably about 80 to 90 percent of the dismemberment or deaths that are racked up there are through secretarian violence, Sunni Shiite violence, rather than Islamic fascist violence.
Actually, as a liberal, I would be more inclined to fight in other countries, you know.
However, I understand the idea that comes with the GOP that strategically it's a good place, and the only reason I see that...
Well, Stephen, before you wander off into all other issues, let me just go back to your point.
You're a convert from conservatism to liberalism.
Well, that's what I'm called now, I guess.
Well, I'm just trying to get it straight.
What do you call yourself?
I'm an independent, I believe.
Okay, you're independent of what?
Well, that's what party I would feel.
You know, maybe a libertarian, I guess.
Social liberty, I mean, you know, personal liberties, personal.
Yeah, I guess a libertarian would be what party I'd best be associated with now.
Okay.
Now, what do you think Congress ought to do today?
I think the idea that came out yesterday about putting benchmarks in place for the government or the democracy in Iraq, I think that that's a really, really good idea.
You know, I think that's meeting in the middle and saying that, okay, if we don't allow, okay, well, here's what we expect to be done.
If you can't do that, then we can't, you know, you can't expect us to just stand around and continue waiting and waiting and waiting forever.
I think that that's realistic.
All right, Stephen, I appreciate the call.
All right.
So there's going to be a lot of Americans agree with that.
I hope more Americans would understand, however, that the sectarian violence has been deliberately fomented.
I'm going to go slow here now for those who recently graduated from the K-12 system.
That has been fomented by al-Qaeda in Iraq.
There is an organization, you folks who are net savvy understand it because you go to their site, Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has as its goal to drive Iraqis apart, to pit one Iraqi against the other no matter what they have to do.
You know, Kurd against Arab, Shiite against Sunni, city guy in Baghdad against country guy in Ramadi, whatever it is, whatever the division can be, that pits one group against another to make it sound like a civil war because they know that in Vietnam, the idea of a civil war was one of the ways in which they defeated the United States in Vietnam.
When you call it a civil war, what are we doing?
Meddling there, then you get a foothold to defeat the United States.
There was no civil war in Iraq before al-Qaeda in Iraq started causing one.
Do you think it was the U.S. Army that blew up that big mosque in the Shiite city that started all this way back, what, a couple of years ago?
The Golden Dome one, you know?
It wasn't the U.S. Army that blew up the mosque.
It was al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Getting the word out that this is really a civil war.
What are you doing here?
Our enemy in Iraq is not the Shiite, not the Kurd, not the Sunni, not the farmer in the rural area, not the city shopkeeper.
It's al-Qaeda in Iraq.
And by the way, when you do read their stuff, they believe Al-Qaeda in Iraq, that they're at war with the United States.
Iraq is the battlefield.
Defeat of the United States begins with defeat in Iraq.
So, I don't know where else that goes, but I hope that helps.
I hope that helps people.
I really do, because we do need to build bridges.
We do need to reduce the fury.
Reduce the fury.
Because it's got to get, we've got to get America back on some kind of track here.
And I think I'm willing to do my part here.
Just one day of filling in.
I want to do my part.
Carlos in Tampa, Florida, next on the Russian Baugh program.
Carlos, hi, welcome.
Hey, Roger, you are a great American, like Annetty says.
Thank you.
You have a few points.
Actually, it's a few points now.
You touched on Time magazine and the 100 most influential people.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you take a look at the list of 100 people that screwed up America, it kind of looks pretty similar.
Well, see, now there's the great divide because reasonable Americans can look at that list and say, geez, everything that's wrong with our culture, our society, our media, our movies, our guys pretty much exemplify it, and yet other Americans can look at it and say, boy, there's every right-thinking person.
There's everybody I look up to.
I just feel so great about those people.
I mean, you know, that's what happens, Carlos.
Exactly.
It's true.
It's true.
And there was another point that I wanted to make.
You had a couple of callers on for the tail end of the last hour.
I believe it was Maurice, and you had another lady come on talking about taking profits from companies.
They actually started to sound a lot more like socialism, and they actually sound more like one of the presidential candidates, which is Hillary Clinton, taking profits from big corporations and big oil.
And, you know, that's what they sound like.
I'm originally Cuban, and it was more like Fidel Caspo's government taking profits from the companies.
Exactly right.
Carlos, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Got to take a break.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
We'll be back with your call next.
Welcome back to Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in here.
Let's get to Byron in New York City on the EIB Network.
Hi, Byron.
Hi, Roger.
How are you?
Good morning to you.
It's actually afternoon here.
I'm still puzzled over this little clip you played of Hillary Clinton claiming to have babysat migrant workers' children back in the Chicago suburbs.
In fact, Byron, forgive me for interrupting.
Just hang on here, but let me play the clip.
A lot of people have joined us since I did that in the first hour.
Let me play the clip.
This was actually the speech, part of the speech given by Mrs. Clinton at the Democratic Party convention, state convention, California convention here in San Diego last weekend.
When I was growing up, the neighborhoods I lived in were surrounded by farm fields.
And every harvest season, we had a lot of the migrants who'd come up from Mexico through Texas following the harvest all the way up through Illinois and Michigan.
And the children would go to school with us.
And every Saturday morning, my church group, we'd go out and babysit the younger children so that the older children could join their families in the fields.
All right, Byron, there it is.
What do you think?
I'm truly puzzled.
I mean, I'm about the same age as Hillary Clinton.
She may have me by a couple of years, but we're both born about the same time.
I was born in Chicago.
I lived the first half of my childhood in the city and the other half of my childhood until age 18 in the northwest suburbs, which includes her town of Park Ridge.
Park Ridge is a near Chicago suburb.
It actually touches the city of Chicago, so you know there's no farms there.
I lived a couple of towns west of there, northwest of there, in a town called Displains, and that was a city of 50,000 people.
There's no farms there.
These are little suburban bedroom communities close to the city.
To my recollection, the farming communities didn't even begin until you got much further west of there in places like Woodstock and Wheaton and Naperville.
And even those farms would have had precious little need for migrant workers because they were growing like wheat and corn and they had machines and combines to harvest that stuff.
There was nobody picking anything off the vines.
So if there were migrant laborers out there operating in our area back then, they were doing it very in a very stealthy fashion, wearing suits and carrying briefcases and going to work on the L, because I certainly didn't see it.
I can't imagine what she's talking about.
All right, Byron, thanks for the call.
Is this another one of these Hillary myths?
You know, occasionally we come across these.
I mean, made-up stories about her investments, her background, friends, I don't know what.
But this makes no sense.
First of all, let's assume the whole thing is true.
What is she saying?
I babysat the younger children so the older children could go out in the fields.
In other words, she made money off violation of child labor laws.
I don't want to misconstrue this, but that's what it sounds like to me.
She exploited the illegals by charging to watch their children, the younger ones, while the older ones went with the parents in violation of the child labor laws to pick wheat or whatever was growing there.
Now, see, I don't know the facts of this situation.
I didn't grow up in that area of the country.
But doesn't it sound a little weird?
I mean, I just let me throw it out again in this hour.
Let me play it again.
This was a statement made by Mrs. Clinton in a speech she gave here in San Diego at the California Republic or California Democrat Party Convention.
Here it is.
When I was growing up, the neighborhoods I lived in were surrounded by farm fields.
And every harvest season, we had a lot of the migrants who'd come up from Mexico through Texas following the harvest all the way up through Illinois and Michigan.
Yeah.
And the children would go to school with us.
And every Saturday morning, my church group, we'd go out and babysit the younger children so that the older children could join their families in the fields.
Oh, maybe with the church group, she wasn't charging.
I don't know.
I really don't have any idea.
I don't have any idea what this is.
Is this a complete myth?
You people who live in Chicago and Park Ridge and all these places, I've been to Chicago, but I've never been to Park Ridge.
Does this make any sense to you?
All right.
Our other, of course, theme today is reaching out to try to abate, to try to return to civility and abate the fury that we have sensed after following the veto of the military appropriations bill.
By the way, I always put that in quotes, the military appropriations bill, because of the $124 billion, $22 billion wasn't for the military.
Man, that kite had a long tail.
Here's Russ in Jacksonville, Florida on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Russ, go ahead.
Hey, how are you doing?
Okay.
I wanted to make a point that I think you're putting too much into the Democrat anger and angst and everything.
And I don't want to name the book, but the book liberals are very famous.
Oh, we're kind of losing you, Russ.
But I think what you're talking about.
Hold on.
Go ahead.
Well, the point was, one of the tactics that was taught to them was how to be very, very confrontational.
The tactic was basically called jamming, where you control the conversation.
You're very confrontational.
It makes a lot of people back down.
Other people see that.
Other people join in with you because you appear strong.
And so the people who oppose your view will back down.
And that's how it's called jamming, is the technique.
And that's what they're doing.
A lot of people don't understand that, that it's just a tactic.
It's nothing more than a tactic to advance their agenda.
Russ, thanks for the call.
I love this audience because you are so advanced.
You, as well as Lisa, go to the head of the class with your gold star.
You've got the point.
The point is that this anger is artificial.
The fury is artificial.
It is a tactic of the left to disrupt rational discussion, to disrupt the democratic process, to disrupt civility for the purpose of advancing their agenda.
Thank you very much.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Program on the EIB Network.
We'll be back right after this.
Is there a double standard?
Governor John Corzine, you know, in that great devastating traffic accident, no seatbelt, 91 miles an hour.
Apologizes for breaking the speed limit, leaves the hospital in a wheelchair, gets into a six-car caravan to go to recovery.
The caravan is seen speeding at 70 miles an hour along Interstate 295, posted limits at 55 in some places, 65 in others, no emergency lights, no word on whether there was a seatbelt on the wheelchair.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, and what we're going to do when we come back in the third hour is talk about Well, something new on the immigration debate.
And blue states, listen up because the immigration issue is now turning, it's taking a very interesting turn in your state, in your city, as African Americans, as black Americans, take a look at the real impacts of illegal immigration.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
This is the EIB Network, the Rush Limbaugh Program.
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