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	You know, folks, I think we uh we all need to clean our closets a little more often.
	You never know what might turn up.
	From Palm Beach Gardens Forum in mere miles from the EIB Southern Command.
	I mean, it's just right up I-95 from us.
	A 26-year-old man was put in jail today on suspicion of murder and sexual battery after his father found a teenage girl's body in his closet.
	Greetings, my friends.
	Welcome back.
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	If you want to join us, the uh email address rush at EIBNet.com and is always a hearty welcome to those of you watching the program on the DittoCam today at rushlimbaugh.com.
	All right, a woman whose sister died in the September 11th attacks has filed a lawsuit against Con Ed in New York over last week's steam pipe eruption, saying that the explosion brought back horrible memories.
	Francine Dort's lawsuit accuses Con Ed of negligence, saying the utility didn't properly maintain the pipe that ruptured outside her office and sent a geyser of steam, mud, and asbestos tainted debris over the neighborhood near Grand Central Terminal.
	I thought a building was going to collapse, said Krista Francine Dorf.
	She's 52 legal uh secretary is seeking unspecified damages.
	Dorf's attorney, Kenneth Mollins said Dorf suffers from uh post-traumatic stress disorder and a legacy of fear from the 2001 attacks said a lawsuit is intended to force Con Ed to improve maintenance of its infrastructure.
	Ed Pipe was 84 years old, if I recall.
	And uh 84-year-old things sometimes tend to break.
	But uh anyway, you know, Stark and Esturdly here during the top of the hour break, and he was uh amplifying on a point that I made yesterday discussing the uh CNN YouTube debate last night.
	Uh remember, just to refresh your memory, uh the discussion discussion yesterday focused on on the fact that some people, some critics, some TV critics uh were mad that CNN was going to choose which YouTube videos were used as questions for this so-called debate last night, and would rather the questions that were used be voted on by the public.
	Because you could go to YouTube, you can look at all these submissions, and they wanted to have a national public uh poll of the best ones, and then those are the ones that be used.
	And I pointed out that the drive-bys can't do that.
	They anybody that takes themselves seriously as a broadcaster is not going to turn over a vast majority of its programming to rank amateurs.
	And yet they did.
	They did, and and and this is the and I tell you why they did it.
	What we were discussing was we think that they're piling dirt on their graves, and that they don't know it, whether they do stuff like they did last night.
	Uh say what you want about the drive-by media.
	In the old days, what made you watch was these larger-than-life news personalities, larger-than-life figures, the Walter Cronkites and the Chancellors of the Brinkleys, the Huntleys and so forth, and just certain extent, rather, although I think people watched rather hoping that the crack up would happen on the air rather than after.
	And it did.
	Uh the personalities are not as large in TV today because the new media is is forced diversification and they're not they're not a monopoly anymore.
	But even so, they try to establish them, they try to make Katie Couric into one of these authoritative figures.
	It hasn't worked.
	Uh it's it's it's so what they were trying to do last night, I am convinced, they were trying to link themselves.
	CNN was trying to link itself with this burgeoning new media, the internet.
	Everybody in broadcasting is in quest uh for younger demographics.
	And so this this was really see, all of you people who think this is really good.
	This is asking real people find to have a chance to ask the candidate question with really great Myth or Limb.
	No, it's not.
	It really isn't.
	People are rank amateurs for a reason.
	There's uh but there's a there's a romantic notion here that we're bringing the country together and all of this democracy, and Oh, isn't it wonderful and so forth?
	This is no different than having a live audience to have somebody stand out there with a microphone.
	There's nothing new about this.
	There's no different than allowing viewers to send in emails and have somebody pick them and ask candidates questions from emails.
	But this actually put the rank amateurs on television and made them quasi reporters.
	And guess who wasn't there?
	None of the people that CNN theoretically promotes and supports as the stars on their networks, other than Anderson Cooper, who was the uh who was the moderator.
	But uh we didn't see Wolf Blitzer.
	We didn't see any of the people that are the highly trained specialists that are the quote unquote real journalists, regardless what you think of them.
	And this is happening in a lot of places.
	People have no business hosting radio talk shows have them.
	People have no business with recording contracts have them.
	People who have no business doing uh any job at the highest level, particularly in entertainment uh industry, have these are are are getting these jobs for a for a host of reasons.
	But in in the uh in the in the case of the drive-bys, uh I think while they believe that they are enhancing their image and uh solidifying a relationship with the youths of America via this YouTube stunt last night, they're actually diminishing themselves, which we like.
	So I probably ought not say uh much more about them.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
	Okay, I've got that bite.
	Do you want to hear Snerdley just he's getting all worked up in there, folks.
	He said, but you gotta tell them that everybody's opinion doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	Some opinions are worthless, some of them are stupid.
	It's just like you you're entitled to be wrong, but it doesn't mean you think you're right.
	Uh you you you are a lot of people like th I've said it before a different way.
	We none of us have a right to be heard.
	We have a right to speak uh short of the McCain Feingold law, but we none of us have a right to be heard.
	And the the theory behind uh we all have a right to be heard is what makes everybody qualified as a democracy of participating citizen to ask questions.
	But uh not everybody's opinion, not everybody's question is is is worth anything.
	There was a question on reparations last.
	Let me find that.
	Ed, sit tight with me here as I go through this.
	Thank you.
	Ed just told me, okay, here's here's the question.
	Uh it's a guy named Will, and he's from Boston.
	And he says, uh, I hope you know they put this question on.
	It's a question in the back of everybody's head.
	You know, in some people it's further back than others collecting cobwebs, but is African Americans ever going to get reparations for slavery?
	I know you all are going to run around this question dipping and dodging, so let's see how far you can all get.
	And the Brick girl decided to tackle it.
	Not for reparations.
	I can answer that question, but I think there are other things we can do to create some equality that doesn't exist in this country today.
	Today there was a report that right here in Charleston, African American Americans are paying more than their white counterparts for mortgages than any other place in America.
	Any other place in the United States of America.
	And here's an example.
	What is the conceivable explanation for this?
	That black people are paying more for their mortgages.
	And by the way, it's not just low-income African Americans, it's high-income African Americans.
	There's absolutely no explanation for this.
	It goes to the basic question that I raised just a few minutes ago.
	To have a president that's going to create is going to fight for equality, fight for real change, big change, bold change.
	We're going to have to have somebody.
	We can't trade our insiders for their insiders.
	That doesn't work.
	All we need is somebody who will take these people on.
	These big banks, these mortgage companies, big insurance companies, big drug companies.
	That's the only way we're going to bring about change.
	Absolutely right.
	Let's just you take a look at John Edward's enemies list, who'll be big oil, and this is go for Mrs. go for all of them.
	Big oil, big drug, uh, big food, big dairy, Walmart.
	Every one of these successful industries they have targeted, and there's the Breck Girl.
	Now the the point here is reparations is not in the back of everybody's head.
	And there is no drive-by journalist, even At CNN that would have even conceived of asking that question.
	But somebody sent it in, and somebody at C and it said, whoa, excellent question.
	But this is a this is a great example of how you turn this stuff over to rank amateurs, and this is what you get.
	Now here's Obama.
	He uh he responded to the reparations question, too.
	I think the reparations we need uh right here in South Carolina is investment, for example, in our schools.
	Uh yeah, I I did a I did a town hall meeting.
	Give me Florence, South Carolina in an area called the Corridor of Shame.
	They've got buildings uh that students are trying to learn in that were built right after the Civil War.
	Whose fault is that?
	Uh we've got uh teachers uh who are not trained to teach the subjects they're teaching in.
	High wait a minute.
	How'd they get the jobs then?
	Understand that there are corridors of shame all across the country.
	And if we make the investments and understand that those are our children, that's the kind of reparations that are really going to make a difference in America right now.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But your kids are never going to go to those schools, and and uh that that's when the question came up about uh to Mrs. Clinton, would you send your daughter or all the candidates when you send your kid to public school?
	But I mean, this is obscene.
	The amount of money we spend on education every year in this country.
	See?
	Uh uh this this is the kind of we know kind of reparations we need of South Carolina's investment.
	But this is a winner because you know, everybody's everybody has kids.
	Well, not everybody.
	But those who have kids are concerned primarily about their education so that eventually the kids can leave and have their own lives.
	And so when you start talking about we need money for education, it's going to be very hard.
	You know, most people are going to say we're already spending enough for on education.
	The people's hearts will melt.
	Because it's it's for the children.
	Uh but this is, you know, intellectually.
	It's absurd.
	But it's that that that answer, I guarantee you, is why Obama did well in the focus groups.
	Because he cares, Mr. Limbaugh, he cares.
	That's what you can't understand, you cold-hearted creep.
	No, no, no, no.
	I understand.
	By the way, that voice is the voice of the new Castrati.
	Uh Winalinguini spines, you know, neutered, if you will.
	Hi, welcome back.
	El Rushbow, half my brain tied behind my back.
	Just to make it fair, big big day for the blue states out there today.
	The minimum wage goes up 70 cents to 585 an hour today.
	This is the first increase in a decade.
	It ends the longest period without an increase since the federal minimum wage was enacted in 1938.
	You see any parties being thrown out there in the blue states, let me know.
	I would assume this is something that they'd be celebrating.
	Uh get this.
	All of the drive-by hammering about Hurricane Katrina and the global warming threats of even stronger hurricanes and more destructive hurricanes.
	Oh, by the way, I meant to tell you, but there was a piece, might have been the Wall Street Journal, not sure where it was.
	Patrick Michaels, one of my all-time favorite anti-global warming scientists, well, anti-man-made global warming scientists, wrote a piece uh challenging this notion that hurricanes are more destructive than ever before, because that's what the global warming crowd wants to say.
	He says there's a little trick that they're playing.
	And that the trick that they're playing is to leave out certain economic realities.
	He said the simple fact of the matter is that Americans love the beach.
	They love building near the water.
	But guess what?
	It's expensive because there isn't much of it, and there's not going to be any more of it.
	I mean, there's dirt's dirt.
	You live on an island, you develop the island, and that's it.
	You got to buy what's there if you want something because there's nothing undeveloped on these places.
	South Gulf Coast and all that.
	And so people are buying larger places.
	They're buying more of them, and of course, if they happen to get knocked down and destroyed, the damage total is going to be pretty high.
	Even though the hurricanes are no more destructive than they have.
	In fact, the hurricane, Galveston hurricane and some of the others, when you factor in inflation, far more destructive than Hurricane Katrina was.
	Just a little aside.
	Um, about one in three people living in southern coastal areas, which would include us here at the EIB Southern Command, say that they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community.
	Uh that's up from about one in four last year.
	The survey found the most common reasons for not evacuating were the same ones that topped last year's poll from Harvard.
	People believe their homes are safe and well built, that roads would be too crowded, that fleeing would be dangerous.
	Slightly more than 25% also said that they would be reluctant to uh leave behind a pet.
	It just shows uh how uh people can become complacent if they're not immediately threatened, said Robert Blenden, the Harvard professor who uh directed the survey.
	Residents were asked how worried they are about hurricanes, what supplies they have in their homes, how confident they are about being rescued, and how else they had prepared for possible storms.
	A poll found that seventy-eight percent felt prepared if a major hurricane struck their community in the next six months.
	Well, this, folks, is this is horrible news for the drive-by media.
	The drive-bys have been trying to scare every one of us.
	By the way, where are the hurricanes?
	I mean, if we're gonna have all these seventeen or nineteen storms they predicted, we got to get started here pretty soon.
	We're almost August.
	Where are they?
	Of course, they've come up with the excuse.
	Well, there's uh dust from the Sahara Desert that's in the air.
	It's preventing the uh it's like the dog ate my homework excuse.
	So the drive-by's been trying to scare everybody, everybody, the oncoming hurricane that eh, it's not working.
	Find more evidence of the uh uh waning influence of the drive-by day.
	In a companion story from the South Florida Sun Sentinel, new hurricane program goes for a spin.
	It stands like a sentry on the lookout for tempests around the clock, yet until this year, South Florida's primary weathered Doppler radar had been unable to detect the most dreadful of tropical storms, those that explode in strength just before reaching land.
	But now the bulbus installation in remote southwest Miami Dade County has been enhanced with a new program to better predict a storm's intensity at the point of impact.
	That should spur better hurricane preparations and evacuations, officials said.
	Well, they may be wasting their money because we're not going to evacuate.
	The polls say we're not we're not leaving.
	Here's uh Mike in Baldwin, Michigan.
	Mike, welcome to the EIB network.
	Great to have you here.
	Thank you for having me.
	Rush.
	You bet.
	Um I heard you mention someone in the know saying that uh Al Qaeda was public enemy number one in Iraq.
	You know, if uh a public enemy number one, a mad bomber uh of our children moved into our neighborhood, my my police my uh my uh neighbors and I, who are very well armed would uh do something about it.
	We would look into the matter, and if the police didn't respond, we would do something about it.
	Now I'm wondering.
	By the way, also if our children were were being bombed, I think I'd go to the uh expense of buying uh a flak jacket and a steel helmet for my kids.
	Yeah.
	And my feeling is that uh how is it that the country of thirty million uh snivelling crying citizens who are afraid to pull a trigger, and uh self-defense is worth sending my son over there to die.
	Well, actually, I don't think you've been listening recently, but the exactly what you suggest is starting to happen, which is why I said Al Qaeda's becoming public enemy number one.
	Sunni and Shia are joining with U.S. forces and Iraqi forces to weed out Al Qaeda.
	They're getting fed up with them.
	They're getting fed up with the barbarism that you described.
	The surge is working.
	These clowns are fleeing all over the country, little town to little town.
	Uh it it it this this this strategy is indeed working, and the Iraqis more and more are are getting fed up with it.
	So they're all armed in self-defense and uh and uh are prepared to uh defend themselves.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	I do know that they're working very closely with Iraqi forces who are armed and with U.S. forces who are armed, uh and how they're becoming informants and uh and and this kind of thing.
	Well, I've talked to troops coming back, and they tell me that disarming innocent Iraqi citizens knocking their front doors down is commonplace.
	And I wonder if that's really uh to me that's a pretty despicable thing to do to disarm an innocent.
	Well, who's who's who's knocking down whose doors out there, Mike?
	Well, American troops along with uh Iraqi troops.
	Are knocking down the doors of Iraqis.
	Yeah, it's on the it's on the news all day.
	You can see the course, yeah.
	Well, I've we all believe what's in the news all day.
	Oh, I believe a video I thought.
	I'm gonna tell you what, you you've really you've nailed it here, and it's about time somebody called and said it on this program.
	The U.S. military is a bunch of murdering thugs, and it's about time that this was broadcast.
	You know, you we we we've we've uh we've not gotten the truth out on that, Mike, and it's up to people like you that are that are required and necessary for democracy to work, get the truth out about the absolute uh butchers that the U.S. military has become in Iraq.
	Well, let's just send those people at least uh some armor so they can protect themselves.
	From the U.S. military, of course, right.
	That's a big problem.
	I mean, plenty of the this country evidently is so cheap we can send pencils and paper, but uh to send a kid a helmet or a jacket.
	You really you really ought to be ashamed of yourself.
	All of these so-called soldiers writing all this stuff about all these horrible attacks committed by our soldiers are a bunch of frauds.
	Uh to believe that about the U.S. military, every every incident something that's been charged, it's the investigations have found that what was accused did not happen.
	You ought to be ashamed.
	You know these guys that call in here the Iraqis, when are they gonna pick up their own weapons?
	They are dying for their country now.
	They've been trained.
	It was all part of the plan.
	They are not snivelling, they're getting fed up with this.
	And there's an AP poll coming, it's a bit embargoed till four o'clock.
	A poll of I don't know how many Muslims, I don't know what the sample is.
	But the uh the results of the poll are that more and more uh uh Muslims are rejecting suicide bombings as a uh as a means of uh uh defending uh Islam something like that.
	The pol I can't I've seen it, but I can't give you the details uh because the poll has been embargoed till uh four o'clock.
	And I'm it's AP.
	I will reserve judgment on this till I actually see it, because it could be could be something that's gonna continue to make them victims uh despite what the uh reality of the results of the poll happened to uh be.
	All right, here's uh here's Bob in Thousand Oaks, California.
	Great to have you, sir.
	Welcome to the program.
	Oh, thank you, Rush.
	Uh nice to be on the show.
	I want to uh I want to address the fairness doctrine.
	Yeah.
	In nineteen seventy-seven to finish up a degree in broadcasting, I had to take a class in the fairness doctrine.
	I want to give you a couple examples.
	One was Johnny Carson uh thought it would be kind of humorous to have the local candidate for city consul in beautiful downtown Burbank on his show.
	And he did.
	The next thing he knows, the FCC called NBC and said, uh, there's ten other candidates, give or take, I may be off on that.
	It's been a long time.
	Uh ten other candidates running for city council, and they are demanding equal time on your show.
	And I don't believe uh NBC put them specifically on a show, but under the fairness doctrine, they had to go on at the same time in the evening and so on.
	Well no, what they would do in that circumstance, they would they would if Yeah, they well, they wouldn't put the guy or these ten candidates on the network show, the tonight show, but they would probably make the local embassy affiliate given time.
	Because that's that's what mattered.
	And this guy was running for city council there in the Los Angeles market, which uh the NBC affiliate would have covered something I bet that's what happened.
	That's how it works.
	Well, let me give you an example on a more national scale.
	The uh show Love Boat ran a Princess Cruise one-minute spot in their show.
	FCC ruled that made the entire sixty-minute show a commercial, and the network had to clear sixty minutes of commercial time because of that spot, if I'm making sense in in telling you that.
	Uh don't quite understand this.
	Well, the wait w what do you mean clear sixty minutes of commercial time?
	Well, you know better than I, you're the FCC allows you twenty, twenty-two minutes of commercials or whatever per hour, right?
	Well, you uh Well Yeah 18 minutes give or take.
	Yeah, yeah, you're right.
	Well, so what the FCC ruled is because you ran a Princess Cruise one minute spot in a sixty-minute love boat, which you you know, is it's on a cruise ship.
	The entire show is on a cruise ship.
	Right.
	We are docking you a full hour of commercial.
	Oh.
	We're considering that does that make sense now?
	We're considering that whole show a commercial, and so you've got to start pulling time off the air because you've used up your allocation.
	Uh now that is something else.
	That's not Did they give you that as a fairness doctrine example?
	Yes, yes, they did.
	Well, the f the f the uh fairness doctrine really doesn't have to do it.
	It has to do with issues in the public domain, not not sponsors and uh advertising.
	That's it.
	Sounds kind of odd, anyway, because the whole show was a commercial.
	Well, yeah, for the cruise industry and a sp and they used Princess Cruise boats.
	Well, it was uh it was obviously it was a legal class that we had to take.
	Uh lucky for me I went on to become a program director, and I guess it was useful to know that, but but uh uh it could be that uh that could never be done again or anything.
	But we could see the logic of it.
	Uh they say as it worked out because that show shot on one of the two or three Princess Cruise boats that for the most part it was probably the exact same cruise ship that the show used, because you know they did use a real cruise ship, but actually.
	So I could I could see it would be considered a commercial.
	Well, yeah, the whole thing was a commercial for the for the cruise industry.
	That's what makes that that's that's kind of absurd.
	That would be that would be for for if Connard or uh Royal Caribbean or any of these other cruise lines wanted to complain that uh well you're showing the princess logo.
	What the hell?
	You're getting a one-hour commercial for the cruise business every week.
	It was every Wednesday night on ABC.
	Love boat.
	I mean, I can't deny that, but I'm just saying it we we were just told that one minute spot made it a sixty minute spot.
	And yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know the answer to that, but I'm just telling you that that was an example they gave us in the class.
	Back in those days, uh uh nothing would have surprised me out of the FCC.
	See, I think the point was.
	In those days.
	FCC is fabulous today.
	But back in those days, not nothing nothing would have uh surprised me about I you know I had to before the Fairness Doctor was lifted in 1987.
	I remember being a KFBK in Sacramento and I'd say something about remember I I I said something I I forget the subject uh had to do with something going on in Africa, and there's some local African American community leader who was a constantly stirring it up.
	I mean, he just he was just constantly complaining about everything.
	Um and would try to keep the guy at bay as often as possible.
	One of these what the manager came to me and said, You're gonna have to bring this guy on your show.
	He's he he he needs needs some time to answer what you said.
	And I said, Jeez, okay.
	I had to do it.
	There's no what bothered me about it, folks, was not that I had to have the guy.
	What bothered me is he's not a professional.
	There's nothing about him that anybody wanted to listen to.
	And you couldn't really interview him or question because you were infringing on his quote unquote equal time.
	So I tried to make it as entertaining as possible and have a nice ongoing conversation with the guy, but it's when when you bring in people that don't know what they're doing, and you turn over your program to them, you can I can just see people pushing buttons out there, changing stations.
	This guy's gonna be on for a half hour.
	They had to do it.
	Just had to do it.
	And I in this climate, if it ever happens, the professional uh crap stirrers out there are gonna be they're gonna be loading up every broadcast with equal time complaints and so forth, so that i i it it's local stations just won't put up with it.
	They just get rid of all controversial programming.
	Um but I I still don't think it's gonna transpire happen.
	We'll see.
	Dave uh somewhere in Kentucky.
	Uh what is it?
	You don't want to admit where you are in Kentucky?
	Uh no, I'm actually traveling right now uh for my job.
	I says you're all over Kentucky.
	Yeah, somewhere between Lexington and Maysville.
	Oh good.
	Well, we're glad to have you here.
	I'm glad to be here, sir.
	Uh I uh I'm completely insensed about the caller earlier uh with regard to uh the disarmament of Iraqi civilians.
	Yeah.
	I was a scout in the first armored division from about I was in I was in Baghdad proper from about uh the m the early part of two thousand three to the middle of two thousand four.
	And I have to say this is this is a complete load, sir.
	It's we have never completely disarmed Iraqi civilians.
	We do not plan on completely uh disarming Iraqi civilians.
	Now, if someone has an RPG launcher, there is no reason that someone needs an RPG launcher for home defense.
	But a pistol, a shotgun, something of that nature, we we were more than happy to give them that to protect themselves.
	The idea that because a country can't protect itself, that we should just say, uh, you know, here Iran, here's Syria, have Adam.
	Look, uh I can understand, and I I um I apologize uh for this guy being on the on the on the program of saying what he said to you.
	You gotta understand there are people out there like that.
	They're a snivelling bunch.
	You know, they claim the Iraqis are snivelling.
	It's the left in this country that's a snivelling bunch of new castrati.
	They you know th they don't just put down the military.
	They don't just put down our commanders.
	They don't just put down a commander in chief.
	They don't just put down our soldiers.
	Now they have to put down our Iraqi allies.
	They have to constantly insult everybody.
	As though only the liberals know how to fight a war.
	Only the liberals do.
	They're so brilliant they want to substitute their political agenda for military strategy, try to cut the military budget every time they're in power, then later they complain they don't have what they need in order to get something done.
	They only like soldiers who come home and turn on their own or soldiers who pose as victims for whatever sad reason.
	But it's obvious to me that these snivelling liberals despise, they detest strong, solid, brave, committed, fighting men and women who are trying to defend this nation's national security.
	And that I detest.
	I detest these people who have this snivelling little superiorists, elitists think they know better than everybody else.
	I can understand how you get irritated by them.
	And I uh I apologize that it happened.
	I'm glad you called though, Dave.
	Thanks very much.
	Brief timeout back after this.
	Well uh this is just an amazing headline.
	State Department blamed in Passport Mess.
	Really?
	Really?
	How can that possibly be?
	State Department's the only place you can go to get a passport.
	A current passport mess, rare among government foul ups.
	A top federal official has publicly taken the blame and expressed regret.
	Big deal.
	You know the Dubai ports deal.
	I've had this story in a snack for a couple days, because you know me.
	I love the Dubai Ports deal.
	Rowan Scarborough.
	This is a story by Bill Gertz at the Washington Times.
	Rowan Scarborough, who is a former writer at the Washington Times, has written a new book revealing a key reason the Bush administration pressed hard for the Dubai ports deal.
	According to Rowan Scarborough, the administration wanted the deal to go through because the uh the Dubai government, the United Arab Emirates, had agreed to let the United States post agents inside its global port network who could report on world shipping.
	Dubai ports currently runs port facilities at key U.S. intelligence targets, including Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India, and Saudi Arabia.
	Dubai ports, in essence, was going to become an agent of the CIA.
	The arrangement is helping us detect whether any kind of terror contraband was being moved around.
	And uh, of course, the thing got blown out of the water never happened.
	But uh they had granted us, supposedly granted us permission to put agents at all these ports they have around the world so that we could inspect and spy and see what was happening there, while the Democrats out there caterwalling about we don't have the port secure, we don't have the port secure.
	The Bush administration have found a way, but apparently didn't want to make that public as the reason.
	Aaron in Chico, California, welcome to the EIB network.
	Rush Mega Club Gitmos here in Nevada Ditto, sir.
	Thank you, sir.
	First of all, I had to let you know one of my favorite things to do is go to the gym and wear my club get most shirt while I'm riding on a stationary so all the liberals behind me can see it.
	Good for you.
	Anyway, um one thing that uh really uh got me is wasn't that guy who was just talking about how this you know the civilians just aren't uh coming to grips and standing up for themselves.
	And it saddens me to see that people really don't have a historical perspective of how brutal and how pitted uh Saddam Hussein had those people against one another.
	Family members were so afraid to say anything to their own family in fear of it being them being a Sunni or Shia and coming into the That is a grim point.
	That's and not only that, these snivelling little liberals that call here do not care about the torture and all of the mayhem and murder that Saddam handed out.
	Yeah, and even uh Uday used to torture the soccer team uh if they didn't win.
	Exactly.
	And it's just it's absolutely sickening for people to be that ignorant and that uninformed about actual history of what really went on with that dictator in that.
	Not to mention the conditioning that that puts you in.
	Plus, let's let's not leave out the fact that Al T Al Qaeda is not exactly a bunch of angels.
	You know, they're running They're running around performing all kinds of barbaric acts on these people.
	Uh uh the one thing these liberals ought to understand it's fear because they live in perpetual fear of virtually everything.
	Great comment, Aaron.
	Thank you.
	Brandon in Marietta, Georgia, you're next.
	Hello.
	Hey, Rush.
	Love your show.
	Thank you.
	Coming from a rush baby here.
	Calling from the home of the F 22 Rapture, very proud of that.
	Hey, uh Rush, I had a comment, and I think I know the answer to this question, but I always want to get your insight.
	Uh I come from a uh teaching family.
	And you know, on this YouTube uh debate, and when you hear the Democrats talk, they always skewer big oil and big tobacco.
	But you know, I've never noticed a student demonstration on a local college campus protesting big college.
	The tuition gets raised, seems it seems like it gets raised every year, and you don't hear a peep out of the Democrats or the students.
	And uh, but yet you led the gasoline price go up uh, you know, ten cents, twenty cents.
	We have them bro uh protesting BP or or uh uh you know, Exxon or whatnot.
	Excellent point.
	Well, it's an excellent point.
	I I can explain it to you.
	The reason the reason why there are no complaints about college tuition from the people who complain about costs in other businesses, is that big university is just it's the liberal indoctrination center.
	Uh and and uh whatever it costs is worth it to create as many little liberals graduating out of these places as you can get.
	And it's also it allows them to set up the student loan program.
	It allows them to continue to uh engage in the redistribution of wealth.
	You know, they they come along, they one of the things that Democrats proposed in this most recent Congress night, don't remember if it was the House or the Senate.
	Uh had to be the House, because that's where money bills are.
	Wanted to propose a uh tax cut uh for tuition.
	Uh and uh and it was Whoa, isn't that wonderful?
	Oh, yeah, tax cut for coach or tax credit or some such thing like that.
	And I said, Tisk tisk tisk, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's not don't think that's what it is.
	This is just a ticket for universities in Kenya to raise the tuition.
	That's right.
	That's all it was.
	You're right.
	Great point.
	Never ever complain about big university, nor do they complain about the failure.
	I mean, how about big public ed?
	Big public education.
	You talk about ripping off and failures and this sort of stuff, dropout rates and so forth, no complaints whatsoever.
	We need more money.
	Uh liberals look it's very simple.
	Education on the part of the liberals is looked at as part of the socialist or very liberal fabric for creating an America in their own vision.
	Capitalist success stories represent the enemy.
	Love you, Rush.
	Thank you for the call.
	I appreciate that.
	I uh uh uh I I uh I just I'm sorry for the pause.
	When a guy says I love you, I I uh uh uh I appreciate it.
	I I Oh I feel like John Edwards here, folks.
	Uh who's next?
	Scott Lincoln, California.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hey, Rush.
	Hey.
	God, I've never been able to get through after 18 years.
	Here you are.
	But I'm gonna make it very quick.
	I was told to make it fast.
	But I was pretty upset about the gentleman that called in, talking down our troops, doing things over in Iraq, you know, which they're doing everything they can to ensure the safety.
	And everything is moving forward.
	And I wish people would understand that we support them here.
	We don't need those kind of people here making comments like that about our troops.
	These clowns know it's working.
	That's why they're in panic city right now.
	That's why they're probably fanning out all over the country, calling as many radio shows as they can.
	Well, I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked buddy.
	Not just the back of my hand, Scott, I know them.
	And they're in they're in panic here because the news, the drive-by's don't have any more pictures of burning cars and so forth.
	The news is filled with hey, this is working.
	New York Times has a poll today.
	More people uh think the original invasion was good, support the mission than did last week, last month.
	Bad news for the Democrats, bad news for the left.
	So it's time to get in gear.
	I they've been they've been, I guarantee you've been meeting all week or all day with emergency sessions.
	Oh, how do we counter all of this?
	How do we subvert all Of this.
	Thanks for the call, Scott.
	I appreciate it.
	Close it out here after this.
	Well, I tell you what, folks, knock down drag out today.
	Fabulous time.
	Enjoyed being with you, as I always do.
	I miss you when I'm not here.
	I look forward uh to the next time, which will be tomorrow, 21 hours from now.
	Remember, the program never ends.
	It's a continual flow.
	We just have a long commercial break at 21 minutes, 21 hours.
	Be back tomorrow, revved up, ready to go.

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