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July 27, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, yes, I know.
We're ready to go here.
And it is the Open Line Friday edition of the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's Friday, folks, so let's make haste.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Yes, and we come to the end of another busy, exciting broadcast week here at the Lindborough Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here is the telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
That's the number that's always been is never going to change.
Well, can't say never, but you never know.
Email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
Rules for Open Line Friday.
When we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Monday through Thursday, we only take calls on subjects I have introduced and am interested in.
Because I'm not going to sit here.
I don't want to sit here and be bored because if I'm bored, you'll be bored.
But on Friday, great career risk.
Turning over the content portion of the program, we go to the phones to you.
Lovable, wonderful people, but nevertheless rank amateurs.
So, and if I don't care about it, we'll still talk about it.
I will fake it, do my best.
It's always a fun day.
You know, back in the days when the early days of the gasoline price going up, everybody dumping on these guys, we compared the prices of various other liquids, milk by the gallon, water by the gallon, of course, when you buy it in bottles and so forth.
So, my gosh, can you imagine how the oil company guys feel at the bottled water guys?
The bottled water guys, I said, and I'm making a joke.
All they got to do is turn on the tap, you know, put a bottle underneath the tap, put a label on it, says spring water, sell it to you.
They don't have to drill.
They don't have to explore.
There's no R ⁇ D. There's nothing.
There aren't any regulations.
Don't even have to put fluoride in it.
And I was exaggerating about the bottled water guys putting it underneath the tap, but it turns out I was right.
Even when I'm joking, I was right.
PepsiCo will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water.
Yes, right here.
I hold the story in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
This is a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.
According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, the world's number two beverage company will include the words public water source on aquafina labels.
That isn't going to help them.
And Rio Linda, for example, understand, why don't they say this water came from the same kind of tap in your kitchen?
Public water source.
If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates in public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do, said Michelle Norton of Pepsi-Cola North American spokeswoman, the Pepsi chief executive Indra Newey, told Reuters earlier this week the company was considering such a move.
Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola's Dasani are both made from purified water sources from public reservoirs, as opposed to the Evian or the Poland Spring, the so-called spring waters.
Look at Don Dorn's got a bottle of Dasani in there.
She's drinking right now.
You may as well just have gone run water from the tap.
I knew it.
I knew it.
We go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
To the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
We have a gorbesm.
All right, for those of you who are new to the program, and there are many of you who are, we are getting, as an aside here, the spring 2007 rating book results.
They're pouring in this week.
This program has long been the most listened-to radio program in the country, but it went through the roof this spring.
So all kinds of new people out there.
Okay, here's what a gorbasm is.
A gorbasm basically is that feeling of uncontrolled joy and excitement that explodes, or I should say exploded, when Mikhail Gorbachev landed in Washington in 1987 to save the world from Ronald Reagan's finger on the nuclear button.
He had all these people, the drive-bys and the State Department people, are gathered there on a tarmac.
And here came the Ilyushin 62, bringing Mikhail Gorbachev to visit with Ronald Reagan.
And they were panting out there on the tarmac, and they were excited.
They could barely contain themselves.
And the door to the plane opened, and Gorbachev appeared with that birthmark.
And, ha, he has come.
He's here.
And they went nuts.
And thus the term gorbasm was born, created by me on air in Sacramento about the same time we came up with the word feminazi, by the way.
Okay, and you can fade that down.
Here is the news.
Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the complicated situation in the world is largely due to the position of the United States, which suffers from winner complex.
This guy has not gotten over the fact that he lost one of the great empires or near-great empires of the world.
U.S. is always anxious to win.
The fact that they suffer from this disorder, the winner complex, is the main reason why things are so complicated in the world, Gorbachev said at a press conference at the Interfax News Agency earlier today.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. felt like it had its hands untied, he said.
They forced the war in Europe.
They thought that now they have a chance and must create a new empire, talking about us.
All intellectual and political forces were involved.
Now everything is calmed down.
It was wishful.
Think, what is he talking about?
What war in Europe?
Is he talking about World War II?
Is he talking about the Bosnia War?
What war is he talking about?
They forced the war in Europe?
What war?
The end of the Cold War is both sides' achievement.
This is what really grates on him.
He can't get it through his head that the fact that the Cold Winner, the drive-bys give him credit for ending the Cold War and the American left does.
But of course, it would never have happened were it not for Ronaldus Magnus.
We all lost in the Cold War, said Gorbachev, and all benefited from its end.
We lost, and the U.S. did, as each spent $10 trillion on the arms race.
Without our proposal, there would be nothing, no end to the Cold War, no decision to reduce nuclear weapons.
So he's trying to jump in here again and claim credit for ending the Cold War.
Margaret Thatcher has said to me personally, she has said publicly that the straw that broke the camel's back of the Soviet Union was our decision, the decision of Ronaldus Magnus to move forward on Star Wars, the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The Soviets knew that we could do it.
We are Americans.
We can do what we set out to do.
We have the will to do it.
And we have the economy to pay for what we want to do in our national defense.
The Soviets didn't.
They were a third world country at best with a first-rate military.
And that, well, we helped who by Louis. didn't lose.
Well, okay, Gorbachev helped because he lost.
But see, he's lumping us all in with him as losers, and there's no way.
The guy pops up every now and then.
In fact, you know, I met Gorbachev at George H.W. Bush's 80th birthday party, ladies and gentlemen.
And we're amazingly wearing suits that in the picture that was taken look identical.
It was down in Houston at Reliant Park, the place that the Astros play baseball.
And actually, two pictures were taken.
And we put one of those pictures on the website back when this happened a couple summers ago.
And birthmark ended up on my forehead.
It was one of the big, big mysteries.
We'll post that picture at rushlimbaugh.com in honor of today's Gorbetz.
And brief timeout, we'll come back.
Your phone calls all the rest of the just looking at some late arriving show prep here, folks.
Save that for later.
Oh, guess what?
You know, there's a big controversy that's brewing out there over falling chunks of ice.
Falling chunks of ice in a clear sky.
And there are actually scientists who are claiming that this phenomenon is the result of global warming.
Now, let me ask, even if you didn't go to high school, even if you did go to high school and you took a science course, let me ask you, if you just, within your own realm, your own ability to think, do you think that it is possible that a giant ball of ice could form in a clear, blue, cloudless sky and then plummet to earth and hit your car or hit you?
Do you think that's yet?
We have, well, it's not.
It is impossible.
It cannot happen.
Anybody with a brain knows what's happening here.
You got airplanes flying all over the sky.
Some of the lavatory systems leak water out there.
That's why some of the ice is blue sometimes.
And it forms an ice ball and it falls off the airplane.
The airplane's long gone in a clear blue sky by the time the ice falls on your house.
But somehow scientists are trying to say that this is a phenomenon of climate change.
Back here in just a moment, folks.
Sit tight.
Welcome back to Open Lion Friday, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, a truth detector, doctor of democracy, well-known advocate for the disadvantaged and the poor, and women as well.
A man you could and would totally trust with your wife, your daughter, your pets, overnight in some hotel while you're out traveling.
An excellent role model for the youths of America, all combined here as one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
We had a call yesterday.
We didn't have a chance to get to this lady at the end of the program, so she graciously gave us her phone number, which we will then sell to all of our sponsors so we can call her back.
Kathy is Fremont, California.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
Everybody has my phone number.
That's the post office number I gave you.
Okay, good.
The post office number.
All right.
God bless you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
I was calling about the people that were calling in yesterday regarding the Pitbull attacks versus the Michael Vicksburg.
The famous Michael Vick situation, yes.
Yes.
And it just strikes me that the people who are so head up over the animal thing, which is, of course, horrible, but they're not that upset about the family murder, are people who tend to worship the creatures over the creator.
They're people who will humble them.
Yes, yes, yes.
But we understand why.
I mean, especially you talk about dogs here, man's best friend.
Yes.
And, of course, the dog will do anything to protect its homestead and its master.
The cat would eat you if it were big enough.
But these people will humble themselves before anything, with the exception of God.
They're just.
Well, you were calling them because I had shared with the audience yesterday a couple of emails I got that said your callers are there dumber than usual.
Perhaps Snurdley's not applying himself in there.
And you had called to raise the overall IQ average.
Well, I was kidding, of course.
Well, no, no, no.
You obviously sound very intelligent.
We intelligent people do not need to be, I mean, we can be humble about it.
We don't have to be braggadocious, but we don't have to downplay it either.
That's true.
People downplay their achievements too much because they're afraid to be thought of as braggadocious.
Yes, that's true.
Anyway, well, Kathy, are you really at the post office?
Yes, I am.
Well, good.
Are you safe?
At the moment.
But speaking of that, if I could say hello to one of our guys who worked here who's over in Kuwait right now, or Iraq right now.
Over in Kuwait.
Oh, yeah, what's his name?
His name is Carl Anderson.
Carl Anderson.
And I'm sure he'd be listening if they're allowing him to.
Well, I'm sure, too.
Thank you, Kathy, very much.
I appreciate you letting us call you back.
We will not be selling your phone number to sponsors.
All right.
All right.
Thank you.
That was just kidding.
Well, you never know what people hear and believe out there.
All right.
Remember earlier the week, we had a story on a New York Times poll, CBS New York Times poll, that said that support for the initial invasion of Iraq had shockingly, surprisingly, unbelievably increased.
And we reported this, and we couldn't believe the New York Times reported it.
They, as it turns out, couldn't believe they reported it either.
There is a story today in the Times by Janet Elder entitled The Story Behind a Polling Mystery.
The war in Iraq is the single most important ongoing news story right now, she writes.
Public opinion about the war is a critical part of that story.
That's why when we had a poll finding about the war that we could not explain, we went back and did another poll on the very same subject.
We wanted to make sure that we had gotten it right.
And it turns out we had gotten it right.
Support for the initial invasion of Iraq, as measured by a question the New York Times has asked since December 2003 increased modestly compared to two months ago.
So the Times, we can understand this.
I did the poll.
People were supportive of the initial invasion.
It was a mystery to them.
So they went back and people were still supportive of the war when they did it a second time.
And I'm sure now that the Times is worried, maybe the template's not working.
Maybe the action line simply isn't working.
Here's a story from the Washington Times today by Elizabeth Miller.
Cynicism about American politics has risen sharply in recent months, according to a new poll that finds, look at all the polls that constitute news.
How many stories today are poll-driven and are then treated as news?
Cynicism about American politics risen sharply in recent months, according to a new poll that finds growing numbers of voters feel the country's headed in the wrong direction and that fewer think politicians can fix the problem.
Hell, that's good news.
That means people are waking up.
They are understanding the ineffectiveness of large government and bureaucracy.
More than two-thirds of likely voters, 71%, say that their member of Congress puts party politics ahead of them.
This is a George Washington University Battleground 2008 poll.
It was released yesterday.
This is Edgoaz and Selinda Lake.
She's a Democrat.
He's a Republican.
It's well known, a bipartisan poll.
Found that 70% of voters said the country's on the wrong track, 58% feeling strongly about it.
Only 32% of voters think that their children would be better off than they are now.
That's a drop of seven percentage points since January, which is actually very sad because they're wrong.
Frankly, with immigration, illegal immigration running amok, you know, I can understand how some people might think that your children's future will not be as bright as your life as it is today.
Cynicism may be the hot new political trend the politicians are going to have to fight against.
Said Brian Nieneber, vice president of the group that did the poll.
People hold such a cynical view of how things are run in Washington that they're going to have to try double hard.
What is so surprising at people being cynical about what's happening in Washington, particularly after the immigration debate?
What a debacle.
This is great news.
People have woken up, have woken up, and I predicted this.
This is going to be a great opportunity to illustrate to people the folly and the ineffectiveness, the unresponsiveness, the arrogance, the elitism of big government and the elites that populate it.
Despite widespread disapproval of the Republican president, Celinda Lake said that Democrats ought not get their hopes up yet because the Democrats look good, frankly, only relative to the Republicans.
Among the 2008 presidential hopefuls, the battleground poll shows that Rudy remains the most electable candidate for Republicans, even if Fred Thompson decides to get in the race.
So it's, I think some of this is pretty positive news, but it does distress me.
I understand the immigration aspect of this, but it does distress me that so many people in the midst of the greatest prosperity the human race has ever known think that for the first time their kids won't do as well as they did or have done.
That is something that the cynics and the doom and gloomers keep hoping for.
They want to be able to discredit capitalism as an unfair mechanism for distributing resources and riches and so forth.
But it hasn't been the case.
A simple historical examination of the economic performance of this country, the technological advances, the inventions that have improved our standards of living always gets better, and it always will.
Every day in America is better than the day before.
I've known this since I was 10.
That's why I always wanted to be older.
And I've been right.
Every year's been better than the previous for me.
Yes, yes, I know.
Late arriving show prep here, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh on Open Line Friday and to Cookville, Tennessee.
We go.
This is Kathy Kathy.
Great to have you with us.
By the way, Kathy, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Oh, I am so impressed to hear that.
Thank you.
I'm so impressed to talk to you.
I'm practically speechless, which is, if you knew me well, that's not happened very often.
I can imagine because you're a woman.
Oh, well, maybe so.
I was thinking last night particularly that after doing some reading recently and a biography of Winston Churchill, you really remind me a lot of him in his convictions and his ideology that particularly in that war must be fought sometimes and that you must achieve a victory and defeat your enemies in order to achieve peace.
And I just wondered, hypothetically, if things had been different and Winston had been in your seat and you were a caller, would you be a ditto head of his?
Oh, yeah, I'm a great admirer of Winston Churchill's.
I think one of the most prescient, brilliant men.
My family, when I was growing up, that's when I first heard of Winston Churchill, my father and grandfather adored Winston Churchill.
They idolized him.
And we'd sit around on Sunday, go up to my grandfather's house and give my grandfather, and my dad would all share Winston Churchill anecdotes and stories, things that they knew and things they'd read about him.
So I had an early exposure to Churchill.
In fact, the first time I went to England, I went to Blenheim Palace, where he was born, which is where the Duke of Marlborough now lives, who is also a member of a club where I'm a member here.
So I've got a little bit of a fascinating trip to go see where Winston Churchill was born and grew up.
And I've read something about him, but look, I'm blown away by your comparison of me to Winston Churchill.
I thank you very much for that, but that's a stretch.
Well, you're welcome.
I know you didn't have the same backgrounds or the same vocation, but there are a lot of similarities in your conservatism that he ultimately found, and particularly on his belief that you must achieve victory and you must suppress the enemies of the world.
And I just want to compliment you again for doing what you do.
Well, thank you for getting the word.
I'll tell you something about Churchill since you want to talk about him as a commander-in-chief of sorts during wartime.
Hitler was amassing power, but did not have great military strength in 1936.
And that's when Churchill first started sounding huge warnings.
And it wouldn't listen to him.
Nobody in Great Britain wanted to listen to him.
Nobody wanted to listen to him anywhere.
They just come out of World War I.
They didn't want this bang the drums of war and stop this.
And he ran around.
He was doing everything he could to alert people.
And he said, look, trying to get everybody's attention.
If we deal with this now, the price is going to be very small.
It's going to be much easier to deal with Hitler right now than if we wait.
But, of course, Churchill had to sit by and watch Neville Chamberlain travel to meet.
Hitler came back, and he was the most popular person in Great Britain at the time.
He's waiving this agreement that Hitler had signed.
And we've got peace in our time.
I have brought you peace in our time.
And so, of course, a year after that, bam, Churchill started his march.
The interesting thing is in 1936, if Winston Churchill had been listened to, the French, believe it or not, in 1936, the French had far more military power and strength.
Machines, guns, ammo, soldiers.
Hitler was just consolidated.
He's got his power, but he hadn't put his military together.
The French could have wiped Hitler out the moment he made his move on the Rhineland.
And they didn't.
Thomas Sowell writes about this today.
In fact, he talks the moral paralysis, the inability to deal with what faces you, and you put it off, and you're only going to have to deal with it later, be it Hitler or be it al-Qaeda or be it any enemy that you have.
You can't wish bad people away.
Sally Quinn today, I guess it was last night, yesterday afternoon, she was on hard-boiled with Chris Matthews.
And, you know, the drive-bys are fascinated, folks, with this spat that's going on between Hillary and Obama.
Hillary calling it silly, the name-calling that's going on, about whether or not we should go meet with these thug dictators.
Obama in a debate said that he would.
Hillary said it's naive.
So the Obama camp is firing back and calling Hillary names, and the drive-bys love this.
The headlines about this today, I mean, E.J. Deion Jr., the Washington Post today, this could be the tipping point in the campaign.
This could be the deciding.
They're just so excited for anything to happen.
And they're so excited that the gloves have come off.
They're amplifying the importance of this.
And so they brought in Sally Quinn, who is the social secretary of Washington, D.C., a former CBS news babe and Washington Post writer, married to Benjamin Bradley of Watergate fame during the Washington Post days.
And she said, well, you know, Chris, Obama may have a point.
These thugs, these dictators just want respect.
You know, they're back room bullies and so forth.
And if you just talk to them, if we just go talk to them, then it makes them feel like they're respected and you can talk them down from.
You sit here and you read this and the mind explodes over the naivete because the lessons of history are you don't talk to them and you certainly don't give them respect.
They are murderous thug dictators.
They're tyrants.
Their people live in oppression.
So back to the Churchill example.
Churchill said we could deal with this with so little cost and so little pain if we didn't nobody wanted to listen to him and look what happened.
They had to deal with it.
The whole world had to deal with it later on, just three years later after 1930, four years after 1936.
And we face the same situation here, but people want to put their head in the sands and pretend that the problem's not as bad as it is because way over there, the parallels between Iran, by the way, and Mahmoud Ahmad.
He's just a guy who wants self-respect.
Let's go talk to him.
He's just crying out for help.
He's the Lindsay Lohan of the Middle East.
He just wants a little attention.
He wants some help.
You look the way that country is run, and you tell me if you'd want your wife or daughter to live there.
If you'd want to live there.
By the way, the Iraqis, Iraq, you know, one of the things that is uniting the Iraqis against al-Qaeda is that these Islamofascists are coming in with, I love the media call it, all kinds of new conservative behavioral rules.
And one of the things that the militant Islamofascists of al-Qaeda have stopped is smoking.
And Iraqis love to smoke cigarettes.
And the Iraqis are having their index middle finger of their right hands cut off if they are seen by al-Qaeda smoking cigarettes.
And this is making them mad.
We've got stories of troops marching into areas and rescuing some people who've been pinned down for a while, citizens.
And the first thing they ask for is cigarettes, not food and water.
And this is turning average Iraqis against al-Qaeda.
Can you imagine the goodwill if we just, you know, drop a bunch of camels, the cigarettes, a bunch of camels, a perfect brand, right into Baghdad, some of these areas.
We could own the place.
The cigarette airlift across Iraq.
I mean, it makes all the sense in the world.
Little things like this.
At any rate, we're going to have to deal with this one way or the other.
Whatever the Democrats do, pull us out, keep us there.
We have no choice but to defeat these people.
And that's the clarion call that Winston Churchill kept trying to get the British people to understand.
But the liberals of his day, just like the liberals of our day, liberals or liberals, didn't want to deal with it.
Didn't think they matter.
Hitler could run roughshod all over Europe, but he wasn't going to touch us because he signed that thing with Chamberlain.
And of course, Neville Chamberlain actually went and talked to Hitler, right?
Had to talk to him to get the signature.
Had to get peace in our time.
Followed the Sally Quinn rule.
And the next thing the Brits knew, they're being bombarded with rockets and threats of attack all over the place.
You got to deal with your enemy by defeating them if you want to maintain your own freedom.
Brief time out.
We'll be back after this.
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Interesting.
I have two stories here about John Edwards and his tax the rich plan.
One story from the Los Angeles Times and the other one from the New York Times.
The New York Times takes him out on the story.
See, Edwards is leading in Iowa.
That's not the action line.
The action line is Hillary wins the nomination at the New York Times.
The L.A. Times treats this, whoo, pretty cool.
Edwards announces his tax the rich plan.
The Democrat presidential hopeful wants to repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and raise rates to fund breaks for lower income families.
This is, by the way, what every Democrat wants to do.
It's just that Edwards is the one out there making the big to-do about it because he's trying to move as far left as he can against, and so is Hillary or Obama.
Obama and Edwards are both trying to get left of Hillary in order to secure more power here and support in the campaign right now for the primaries that are coming up.
Tax hikes, once anathema to Democrats trying to shed their image as tax and spend liberals are back.
How have we let this come back into being fashionable?
You know, with the tax cuts that have produced this economy.
Well, I know it's psychological.
I understand it.
Anyway, they go on to talk about what the plan is.
The only dissenting view in this story is provided by a Democratic strategerist who is neutral in the campaign but didn't want to be named, criticizing Edwards' proposal.
If we have an election where the dialogues about whether or not taxes should be increased, it's not a good dialogue for us, meaning in Democrats.
Good points.
Exactly why we all need to keep talking about this.
On taxes, however, Obama and Clinton may be more reluctant to follow Edwards' lead because of the political risks of proposing tax hikes as big as Edwards has.
But he's in third place.
He got nothing to lose.
His campaign's imploding, if you want to know the truth.
Carl Lubsdorf, writing in the Dallas Morning News today, says it's over.
And the whole thing with his wife, everybody putting his wife out there front and said, it's backfired.
It ain't working.
You go over to the New York Times story about this.
Edwards proposes raising capital gains tax.
And they play, this is a classic wealth redistribution, taking money from the rich, putting it in investment accounts or their investment accounts and putting it into accounts for the poor.
Now, you go to the end of this story and listen to this.
Robert S. McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a labor-backed group whose calculations are widely respected by tax experts, said that if the cost of extending tax cuts for people earning less than 200 grand was added to the calculation, a plan would create a $35 billion revenue shortfall instead of the extra $50 billion predicted by the campaign.
Of course it will.
Just like a $10 tax on cigars will put the domestic cigar business out of business.
Just like the luxury tax on yachts lost the jobs of the people who made the yachts because people went elsewhere to get yachts.
Remember that luxury tax that they tried in the Clinton years?
Had to repeal that inside of a year.
But then McIntyre goes on to say, John Edwards is trying to do something nice for low-income people.
The question is whether he has a way to pay for it.
He is repealing tax cuts on the rich that really do not exist.
And the only part of substance is that he is expanding the Bush tax cuts to everybody else, but doesn't count it.
I don't want to go overboard in the criticism, but Edwards is being very deceptive.
Now, can you imagine the New York Times about anything of the Bush tax cut, quoting anybody, a labor-backed, that means Liberal Democrat tax group?
Can you imagine them?
Publishing a story saying he is repealing tax cuts on the rich that really don't exist.
This is the NEW YORK Times taking John Edwards out, or trying to they're trying to blow this tax plan of his up in his own face.
Stewart in Birthdude Colorado, nice to have you on open line friday.
Hey Rush, how you doing.
I'm great.
Thank you, sir.
Hey well, thank you, and I can only assume that you intentionally didn't remember something wednesday, when you were asked the question about diplomatic successes over the last 50 years.
Oh well, if I forgot it, then i'm still forgetting it.
What is it?
Well, the two that you did mention, Reagan walking out of Reyvik and Bill Clinton and his diplomacy with his wife.
Yeah, that's diplomacy.
Big example there.
Yeah yes well, you forgot the most important and probably greatest diplomatic success of our time just several years ago, and that is, and that would be, Gw and his hard talk after 9-11, as well as his diplomatic effort through war in Afghanistan and Iraq that saw Momar Qaddafi and Libya give up tons and tons of WMD.
Yeah, but that there wasn't, there was no diplomacy about that you.
You even undercut your own argument with your own words, it was, we invaded Iraq in the early 90s took care of them inside of what?
Two days?
Yeah well, it was big stick diplomacy.
Well, that's.
That's not.
Big stick diplomacy is when you wave it around, threaten to use it and somebody responds to it.
This time we used the stick, and we used the stick again in 2003, going back into Iraq, and we went into Afghanistan.
It was, it was pure fear.
It wasn't diplomacy, it was the fear of God or fear of Allah that was put into the mind of Qaddafi.
Don't forget he's already sitting there quaking in his boots because Reagan bombed his tent after.
You know, Qaddafi was widely held responsible for TWA flight 800 that went down over not 800 PAN AM flight.
Pan Am 103 went down over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Reagan sent a couple of what did he send?
F-18 hornets, I forget what they were.
We had to fly around the Iberian Peninsula because the French and the Spanish wouldn't give us permission to fly over, so we had to go around, up the tunnel into the Mediterranean.
Handsome pilots targeting the tent and Qaddafi's daughter happened to be in there.
So that's when it started.
That is not diplomacy.
I want to congratulate the state of Texas here.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time In at least a decade, Texas was declared drought-free yesterday.
Yes, John Nielsen Gammon, Texas climatologist, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas AM, said, We've gotten so much rain this year, we pretty much made up for the past few years drought conditions in several areas of the state.
There have been so much rain, in fact, that flooding has become a problem in some areas.
Many farmers struggling to salvage crops that remain underwater.
At least 16 deaths have been blamed on heavy rain since mid-June, and property damage has been widespread.
The U.S. Drought Monitor, connected with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, shows severe or extreme drought conditions in part of the southeast, much of the west, but Texas and most of the nation's mid-section is now drought-free.
Hubba hubba-hubba, great news.
Thank God for global warming.
Global warming comes along, causes NOAA-like floods, but it ends the drought.
You have to look at this as great news.
All right, the first hour in the can on the way over to the museum warehouse where artifacts for the future broadcast museum being held.
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