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July 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, folks, I think we all need to clean our closets a little more often.
You never know what might turn up.
From Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, I mean, 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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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 Dorff'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 Dorff.
She's 52 legal secretary seeking unspecified damages.
Dorff's attorney, Kenneth Mollins, said Dorff suffers some post-traumatic stress disorder and a legacy of fear from the 2001 attacks.
Said the lawsuit is intended to force Con Ed to improve maintenance of its infrastructure.
That pipe was 84 years old, if I recall.
And 84-year-old things sometimes tend to break.
But anyway, you know, Starken is sturdily here during the top of the hour break, and he was amplifying on a point that I made yesterday discussing the CNN YouTube debate last night.
And remember, just to refresh your memory, the discussion yesterday focused on the fact that some people, some critics, some TV critics, 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 could look at all these submissions,
and they wanted to have a national public 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.
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 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 when they do stuff like they did last night.
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, the Brinkleys, the Huntleys, and so forth.
And to a certain extent, rather, although I think people watched rather hoping that the crackup would happen on the air rather than after.
And it did.
The personalities are not as large in TV today because the new media is forced diversification and 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.
So what they were trying to do last night, I am convinced, they were trying to link them.
So CNN was trying to link itself with this burgeoning new media, the internet.
Everybody in broadcasting is in quest for younger demographics.
And so this was really, see, all of you people who think this is really good.
This is asking real people.
Finally have a chance to ask these candidates questions.
It was really great, Mithril.
No, it's not.
It really isn't.
People are rank amateurs for a reason.
But there's a romantic notion here that we're bringing the country together in all of this democracy.
And oh, isn't it wonderful and so forth?
This is no different than having a live audience and 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 moderator.
But 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 any job at the highest level, particularly in the entertainment industry, have these, are getting these jobs for a host of reasons.
But in the case of the drive-bys, I think while they believe that they are enhancing their image and solidifying a relationship with the Utes of America via this YouTube stunt last night, they're actually diminishing themselves, which we like.
So I probably ought not say much more about that.
Well, all right, Okay, I've got that bite.
Do you want to snurdly just getting all worked up in there, folks?
He said, but you got to 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're entitled to be wrong, but it doesn't mean you think you're right.
A lot of people, like, I've said it before a different way.
None of us have a right to be heard.
We have a right to speak short of the McCain-Feingold law, but none of us have a right to be heard.
And the theory behind we all have a right to be heard is what makes everybody qualified as a democracy participating citizen to ask questions.
But not everybody's opinion, not everybody's question 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 the question.
It's a guy named Will, and he's from Boston.
And he says, 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 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 mortgage.
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 a 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 take a look at John Edwards' enemies list.
Who would be big oil?
And this would go for Mrs. Go for all of them.
Big oil, big drug, big food, big dairy, Walmart.
Every one of these successful industries they have targeted.
And there's the Brett Girl.
Now, 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 CNN is, whoa, excellent question.
But 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 responded to the reparations question, too.
I think the reparations we need right here in South Carolina is investment, for example, in our schools.
I did a town hall meeting.
Give me Florence, South Carolina, in an area called the Corridor of Shame.
They've got buildings that students are trying to learn in that were built right after the Civil War.
Whose fault is that?
We've got teachers who are not trained to teach the subjects they're teaching in high school.
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 that's when the question came up about to Mrs. Clinton, would you send your daughter or all the candidates, would 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.
This is the kind of reparations we need in South Carolina's investment.
But this is a winner because, you know, 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 education.
People's hearts will melt because it's for the children.
But this is, you know, intellectually, it's absurd.
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.
Winnolinguine 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.
If 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.
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.
I'm 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 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 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, dirt's dirt.
You live on an island, you develop the island, I mean, that's it.
You got to buy what's there if you want something because there's nothing undeveloped on these places, south of the 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, Galveston Hurricane and some of the others, when you factor in inflation, far more destructive than Hurricane Katrina was.
Just a little aside.
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.
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 leave behind a pet.
It just shows how people can become complacent if they're not immediately threatened, said Robert Blendon, the Harvard professor who 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 78% felt prepared if a major hurricane struck their community in the next six months.
Well, this, folks, 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 going to have all these 17 or 19 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 dust from the Sahara Desert that's in the air.
It's preventing the, it's like the dog ate my homework excuse.
So the drive-by has been trying to scare everybody, everybody, that oncoming hurricane.
Yeah, it's not working.
Find more evidence of the waning influence of the drive-bys every 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 weather 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 bulbous 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 Mike in Baldwin, Michigan.
Mike, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
I heard you mention someone in the know saying that al-Qaeda was public enemy number one in Iraq.
You know, if a public enemy number one, a mad bomber of our children moved into our neighborhood, my police, my neighbors and I, who are fairly well armed, would 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 being bombed, I think I'd go to the expense of buying a flak jacket and a steel helmet for my kids.
And my feeling is that how is it that there's a country of 30 million sniveling, crying citizens who are afraid to pull a trigger, and self-defense is worth sending my son over there to die?
Well, actually, I don't think you've been listening recently, but exactly what you suggest is starting to happen, which is why I said al-Qaeda is 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.
This strategy is indeed working, and the Iraqis more and more are getting fed up with it.
So they're all armed in self-defense and are prepared to 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 and how they're becoming informants 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 a, to me, that's a pretty despicable thing to do, to disarm an innocent citizen.
Well, who's, who's...
Who's knocking down whose doors out there, Mike?
American troops along with Iraqi troops.
Are knocking down the doors of Iraqis.
Yeah, it's on the news all day.
You can see the question of it.
Of course, yeah.
Well, we all believe what's in the news all day.
Oh, I believe a video if I saw it.
I'm going to tell you what.
You've really 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, we've not gotten the truth out on that, Mike.
And it's people like you that are required and necessary for democracy to work get the truth out about the absolute butchers that the U.S. military has become in Iraq.
Well, let's just send those people at least some armor so they can protect themselves.
From the U.S. military, of course, right.
That's a big problem.
I mean, this country evidently is so cheap we can send pencils and paper, but to send those kids a helmet or an express jacket.
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.
To believe that about the U.S. military, every incident, something that's been charged, 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 going to 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 sniveling.
They're getting fed up with this.
And there's an AP poll coming.
It's been embargoed till 4 o'clock.
A poll of, I don't know how many Muslims.
I don't know what the sample is.
But the results of the poll are that more and more Muslims are rejecting suicide bombings as a means of defending Islam, something like that.
I've seen it, but I can't give you the details because the poll has been embargoed till 4 o'clock.
It's AP.
I will reserve judgment on this till I actually see it because it could be something that's going to continue to make them victims, despite what the reality of the results of the poll happened to be.
All right, here's Bob in Thousand Oaks, California.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Nice to be on the show.
I want to address the fairness doctrine.
In 1977, 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 thought it would be kind of humorous to have the local candidate for city council in beautiful downtown Burbank on his show, and he did.
The next thing he knows, the FCC called NBC and said, there's 10 other candidates, give or take, I may be off on that, it's been a long time.
There are 10 other candidates running for city council, and they are demanding equal time on your show.
And I don't believe 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, now what they would do in that circumstance, they wouldn't put the guy or these 10 candidates on the network show, the tonight show, but they would probably make the local NBC affiliate given time.
Yeah, because that's what mattered.
And this guy was running for city council there in the Los Angeles market, which the NBC affiliate would have covered.
So I bet that's what happened.
That's how it works.
Well, let me give you an example on a more national scale.
The show Love Boat ran a Princess Cruise one-minute spot in their show.
FCC ruled that made the entire 60-minute show a commercial, and the network had to clear 60 minutes of commercial time because of that spot, if I'm making sense in telling you that.
I don't quite understand this.
What do you mean, clear 60 minutes of commercial time?
Well, you know better than I.
The FCC allows you 20, 22 minutes of commercials or whatever per hour, right?
Well, 18 minutes, give or take.
Well, so what the FCC ruled is because you ran a Princess Cruise one-minute spot in a 60-minute loveboat, which is on a cruise ship.
The entire show is on a cruise ship.
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.
Now, that is something else.
That's not.
Did they give you that as a fairness doctrine example?
Yes, yes, they did.
Well, the fairness doctrine really doesn't have anything to do with it.
It has to do with issues in the public domain, not sponsors and advertising.
Sounds kind of odd, isn't it?
Because the whole show was a commercial.
Well, yeah.
For the cruise industry, and they used Princess Cruise boats.
Well, it was obviously a legal class that we had to take.
Lucky for me, I went on to become a program director.
I guess it was useful to know that.
But it could be that that could never be done again or anything.
But we could see the logic of it.
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 who actually tailed around.
So I could see it would be considered a commercial.
Well, yeah, the whole thing was a commercial for the cruise industry.
That's kind of absurd.
That would be if Kenard or Royal Caribbean or any of these other cruise lines wanted to complain that, well, you're showing the princess.
Logan, 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 we were just told that one-minute spot made it a 60-minute spot.
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, nothing would have surprised me out of the FCC.
See, I think the point was that.
In those days, FCC is fabulous today.
But back in those days, nothing would have surprised me about it.
You know, I had to, before the Fairness Doctrine was lifted in 1987, I remember being at KFBK in Sacramento.
And I'd say something about, remember, I said something, I forget the subject.
It had to do with something going on in Africa.
And there's some local African-American community leader who was constantly stirring it up.
I mean, he was just constantly complaining about everything and trying to keep the guy at bay as often as possible.
One of these, the manager came to me and said, you're going to have to bring this guy on your show.
He needs some time to answer what you said.
And I said, geez, 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 when you bring in people that don't know what they're doing and you turn over your program to them, I can just see people pushing buttons out there, changing stations.
This guy's going to be on for a half hour.
They had to do it.
Just had to do it.
And in this climate, if it ever happens, the professional crap stirrers out there are going to be loading up every broadcast with equal time complaints and so forth so that local stations just won't put up with it.
They just get rid of all controversial programming.
But I still don't think it's going to transpire or happen.
We'll see.
Dave is somewhere in Kentucky.
What is it?
You don't want to admit where you are in Kentucky?
No, I'm actually traveling right now for my job.
So 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.
I'm completely incensed about the caller earlier with regard to the disarmament of Iraqi civilians.
I was a scout in the 1st Armored Division from about, I was in Baghdad proper from about the early part of 2003 to the middle of 2004.
And I have to say, this is a complete load, sir.
We have never completely disarmed Iraqi civilians.
We do not plan on completely 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're 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, you know, here Iran, here's Syria, have Adam.
Look, I can understand, and I apologize for this guy being on the program and saying what he said to you.
You got to understand, there are people out there like that.
They're a sniveling bunch.
You know, they claim the Iraqis are sniveling.
It's the left in this country that's a sniveling bunch of new castrati.
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.
And later 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 sniveling 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 attitude.
Sniveling little superiorists, elitists think they know better than everybody else.
I can understand how you get irritated by them.
And I apologize that it happened.
I'm glad you called, old Dave.
Thanks very much.
Brief timeout back after this.
Well, now, 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.
The 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 stack for a couple days because you know me, I love the Dubai ports deal.
Rowan Scarborough, this is a story by Bill Goertz 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 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, of course, the thing got blown out of the water never happened.
But they had granted us, supposedly granted us permission to put agents at all these ports they have around the world so that we can inspect and spy and see what was happening there while the Democrat's 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, get most scared, 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, one thing that really got me is listening to that guy who was just talking about how this, you know, the civilians just aren't 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 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 that is a great point.
And not only that, these sniveling 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 Uday used to torture the soccer team if they didn't win.
Exactly.
And it just absolutely is sickening for people to be that ignorant and that uninformed about actual history of what really went on with that dictator in that way.
Not to mention the conditioning that that puts you in.
Plus, let's not leave out the fact that Al-Qaeda is not exactly a bunch of angels.
They're running around performing all kinds of barbaric acts on these people.
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 Raptor.
Very proud of that.
Hey, Rush, I had a comment, and I think I know the answer to this question, but I always want to get your insight.
I come from a teaching family, and you know, on this YouTube 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.
It seems like it gets raised every year, and you don't hear a peep out of the Democrats or the students.
But yet, you let the gasoline price go up 10 cents, 20 cents.
We have them protesting BP or Exxon or whatnot.
Excellent.
Wanted to get your thoughts on that.
Well, it's an excellent point.
I can explain it to you.
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.
And 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 engage in the redistribution of wealth.
You know, they come along.
One of the things the Democrats proposed in this most recent Congress, I don't remember if it was the House or the Senate.
It had to be the House because that's where money bills are.
Somebody wanted to propose a tax cut for tuition.
And everybody was, whoa, isn't that wonderful?
Oh, yeah, tax cut for tuition 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 that can you 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.
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.
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.
appreciate that.
I just, I'm sorry for the pause.
When a guy says, I love you, I appreciate it.
Oh, fuck.
I feel like John Edwards here, folks.
Who's next?
Scott in 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 going to 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 panic here because the news, the drive-bys 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 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 guarantee you have been meeting all week or all day with emergency sessions.
Uh-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, knockdown dragout today.
Fabulous time.
Enjoyed being with you as I always do.
I miss you when I'm not here.
I look forward 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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