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Aug. 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings once again, ladies and gentlemen, here we are.
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No sooner did I predict to you yesterday that the drive-bys are going to be trying to destroy the economy based on the stock market news than the AP makes me out to be what I am, a prophet.
I know these people like every square inch, folks, of my glorious naked body, shrinking though it is.
Right here, the stock market is on a stomach-churning ride.
The nation's once-flying housing market sinking deeper into gloom.
And credit, the lifeblood of the economy, is drying up.
Oh, they are so excited.
They don't know which to be more excited about, this or Hurricane Howard Dean, which is making a beeline for Jamaica.
You know, credit is not the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.
This is where these people exhibit total ignorance.
The people who make this country work are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.
However, those billions have not succeeded in calming investors, the billions invested injected in the system by Bernanke at the Fed.
However, those billions have not succeeded in calming investors who are worried about which big hedge fund or mortgage company will be the next to announce serious problems.
There's just a lot of fear out there, said David Weiss, the chief economist at Standard ⁇ Poor's in New York.
Right now, people are so scared that we are losing liquidity even on safe securities.
The risks of a recession have risen considerably, and they will keep rising with each day that financial markets remain in turmoil, said Mark Zendi, the chief economist at Moody'sEconomy.com.
What a great name for a place predicting doom and gloom.
Rising unemployment would represent another blow to consumer confidence, which is likely to be rattled by the recent troubles on Wall Street.
This piece has everything I told you it was going to have, and it'll be in your local paper that you don't read anymore because local papers are losing out to the internet.
By the way, unemployment figures.
Have you stopped to think of this?
How many illegals do we have working?
What's the number?
12 to 20 million.
All right.
When they get fired, and they're not reported, you know, they're on the payrolls here illegally, right?
Okay, so if they get fired for whatever reason, nobody will ever know.
The government won't know because there's no record of them being hired in the first place for some of these jobs.
So we could lose, just as a ballpark figure, it could happen, but 5 million illegals could get laid off and the unemployment rate wouldn't change because nobody would know it.
I'd count him at the food pantries and at the soup line, the food pantries.
You know what, folks?
I think it's time for a new name for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
And until it changes, until the way he's being treated by the drive-bys changes, I'm going to start calling him Barack O. McNab because I'll tell you why.
He's out there saying some of the most ridiculous, not that McNabb doesn't say ridiculous things, don't misunderstand, but Obama is saying some of the most ridiculous, dangerous things.
What he said about U.S. troops bombing and killing civilians in Iraq, or I'm sorry, Afghanistan, really took him to task earlier this week over there, but nobody else is.
And he's got all kinds of statements out there that are really impolitic and irresponsible.
And the drive-bys, well, I'll tell you what he's trying to accomplish with this.
He's trying to set himself apart from Mrs. Clinton.
So there is such a desire in the drive-bys that Obama do well, like there is in the NFL for people like McNabb to do well, that I'm going to call him Barack O. McNabb.
Now, it may be starting to change.
We go to the audio soundbites here.
This morning on Good Morning America, Robin Roberts spoke with George Stephanopoulos, ex-Clinton advisor, who now has his own ABC show, still holding out for that offer to Karl Rove from one of the networks to get a gig like Stephanopoulos has.
And she said, Obama, a little extra pressure on Sunday, George.
On this question of the experience it takes to be president, look at these numbers.
80% of voters believe that Hillary Clinton has the experience it takes to be president.
80% of the voters in this country are thus idiots.
80% of voters believe that Barack Obama has the experience it takes to be president.
He's been pummeled on these issues over the last couple of weeks.
By who?
What he's going to try to do on Sunday, Robin, is turn it around, a jiu-jitsu move, where he says all of this criticism coming in is just the same old conventional wisdom in Washington.
It's time for fundamental change.
Yeah, we have that.
We've got that story.
So the Democrats have their Sunday morning debate, which I have a large audience because Democrats usually on Sunday mornings are at home.
Republican debate on Sunday morning, of course, nobody saw it because they're in church.
Democrats don't believe in that separation of church and state.
I mean, if you've got your political candidates on Sunday morning on TV, you can't go to church without being in violation of the Constitution.
So anyway, 80% of voters believe that Hillary has the experience it takes.
That's stunning.
That is a sheer testament to puffball coverage of Mrs. Clinton and her husband ever since the early 90s.
What experience can you cite?
What has she done?
What really has she done?
We've been through this.
You know all this.
What is it that recommends her?
She's a victim.
She stood by her husband.
She had to go to Arkansas, give up her whole future to go to the hayseed hick state of Arkansas, as far as the libs are concerned.
She's never been an executive or run anything is exactly right.
Just, I don't know.
You know all this.
We've been through this.
Back to Obama, or O. McNabb, sorry, Barack O. McNabb, who accepts special interest money and played poker with lobbyist pals as an Illinois lawmaker, acknowledged Thursday that he swims in the same muddy water that corrupts Washington.
But he pledged to reform the system if he is elected president.
Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't recognize the problem, Obama said.
I have a bunch of friends who are state lobbyists.
The fact of the matter is, I played poker with them, so I don't think that lobbyists are evil.
I just think they've got an agenda, and you've got to be clear about that and not pretend that they don't.
So he's going to bring a new voice to Washington.
Never heard that position before.
And then in the New York Times, Barack O. McNabb takes sharper tone to the trail is the headline in the New York Times.
And in this story, it's really Michelle Obama who is going after Hillary on truth and the ability of Hillary to run her own house.
Get this quote.
Even Michelle Obama presented a contrast on Thursday as she introduced her husband in an open-air barn at the Cass County Fairgrounds.
She told it.
It's a joke what these people have to go through to be president.
Go to an open-air barn?
What good is an open-air barn anyway?
What would you put in an open-air barn?
Hell, anyway, she told a crowd of more than 200 people family values and trust were important in the next presidential candidate.
Our view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
She's referring to Mrs. Clinton.
She added later, this election is about truth and authenticity.
There's nothing more important than your word.
Truth does matter.
Is she being lauded for this?
She's being lauded for this attack on Mrs. Clinton.
She's being lauded for her little tirade the other day on how everybody is just encumbered with fear and so on.
Imagine if Karl Rove had said this.
The drive-bys would have gone berserk.
In fact, let's go to cuts one and two here, Ed, before we go to the break, because the drive-bys are still talking about Karl Rove on this program.
Now they're upset and they're admitting it, that they had to find out about his resignation first in the Wall Street Journal.
And then he came here.
Then he appeared here.
Here's one of the things that I said yesterday in discussing how upset David Schuster was.
By the way, another shot of the watch, Dave.
In fact, Schuster's watch, let me zoom in here.
Get an even look at that baby.
Well, it's out of focus.
I don't have time to focus.
There aren't any diamonds on this.
I've made sure that the focus makes sure you can't see the diamonds.
Anyway, let me zoom it back out.
Here's what I said yesterday.
One of the most fun parts of this job is irritating these people and taking them to a place they'd rather not go, and that is displaying who they really are.
And Rove has that ability.
I, of course, have long had that ability.
They're upset that they've lost their monopoly.
They're upset that Rove doesn't come talk to them.
And then when he comes and talks to me, he calls him.
If he snobs him.
So this morning on Scarborough Show, Morning Joe, PMSNBC, is talking to Howard Kurtz on the phone.
And he said, it seems that people like Karl Rove and the president seem to have very little use for the media in Washington.
Do you think that that may be one of the reasons why there's been such a hostile relationship?
You know, Bush and Rove and others have made no secret of the fact that they consider the press to be just another interest group, members of the elite.
It was no accident that Carl Rove's resignation came out because he leaked it in advance to Paul Gergot, the editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal.
And then he gave a big interview to Rush Limbaugh, in which he talked about, well, you know, you don't have much of a life if you worry about what the New York Times editorial page says about you.
Carl Rove knew who his allies were.
And so it was no accident that we found out about that he was leaving the White House after more than six and a half years, not from some news report, not from a press conference, but from the editorial page of the journal.
Why?
Is that illegitimate?
Is that illegitimate, Howard?
I mean, drive-by's upset here, folks, not happy that they didn't learn of the Rove resignation through their filter, through their narrative, through their ability to manage the news.
And of course, the PAC that arises dance was David Schuster the other night, Wednesday night, on hardball with Chris Matthews.
And there's Rush Limbaugh smoking a nice cigar, wearing a golf shirt.
There was another video where you could see the nice watch that he's wearing.
Who's the snob in this case?
We're going to send him some EIB golf shirts.
Brian put together a pack down to make sure you got logos on them of some EIB XLs with my signature on the left sleeve.
And we'll send just a couple of them.
But make sure they got the logo on it because some of them in the stacks down there, they forgot to logo them.
So they'll send them over there and so he too can learn how it feels to wear a snob golf shirt.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Well, you probably heard the news, by the way.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, Hayatop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Doesn't matter why I'm here.
It doesn't matter where I am.
As long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where he is.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, I guess you've heard that Jenna Bush is getting married.
And the drive-bys, the drive-bys in reporting this wonderful, blessed event, because we all, we all love it when young people get that first start toward ruining their lives.
They can't help.
I'm just kidding.
Slim.
Yes, I am.
I'm just kidding.
At any rate, they can't help bashing her.
This is from this morning on the early show.
Co-host Harry Smith on CBS had this exchange with Katrina Zish from Instyle magazine.
Of the two, I mean, the girls had some reputation for a little while from the University of Texas.
They got around a little bit.
Is she the wild one?
Usually, Jenna has been considered the wild one.
She went to the University of Texas, whereas Barbara went to Yale, who is a little bit more straight-laced.
You know, Jenna's the spunky one who sticks her tongue out at the cameras.
But she's clearly settled down.
Henry has reeled her in.
Henry has reeled her in.
The husband has reeled her in, or the groom, the future, whatever.
Is that how it happens?
You know, I can't help it.
I have a cable TV networks on in here, and more and more we're getting these like in-style magazines.
What does it take to be a writer for in-style magazine?
They're groupies.
And they're giving credit for being fabulous journalists and so forth.
They're just groupies that work at magazines.
They get to hang around and write about and probe into the private lives of public figures.
All right.
As you well know, ladies and gentlemen, I have firm attitudes on exercise.
And that is, don't do it.
Though exercise can be a key part of managing, well, I mean, don't do it because everybody says you have to.
If you like it, go ahead and do it.
But this business that you got to do this or you're going to die.
You got to eat that or you're going to die.
If you do eat this, you're going to die.
All of this stuff never ends.
Though exercise can be a key part of managing high blood pressure and heart disease, new animal research suggests there can be too much of a good thing.
In experiments with rats, researchers found that excessive exercise worsened high blood pressure and progression to heart failure in rats with high blood pressure.
Dr. Rebecca Schultz and colleagues, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, report the results in the journal Hypertension, another one of these magazines I never heard of.
I'd like to get a gift subscription to Hypertension magazine just to see what it's like.
Regular physical activity has been linked to a lower risk of heart disease in numerous studies, but now they're finding out that you can actually kill yourself with exercise.
Health fanaticism can cause death.
Well, I don't want to mention any names here, of course, but more and more evidence coming out here that it's not what all these gurus chalk it up to be.
Also, this is interesting news.
There's no need to raise the federal gasoline tax, according to Democrat chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
This AP reports dims the hopes of some.
In his party, who want the increase to help pay for a nationwide bridge repair?
Montana Senator Max Baucus, a longtime foe of gas tax increases, said in an interview that continuing to rely on gas tax revenue is not feasible since more people are using hybrid cars and the cost of highway construction materials is going up.
There are better alternatives, he said.
We wouldn't provide any details.
I don't think an increase in the gasoline tax is needed.
I don't favor it.
Now, in Minnesota, Minneapolis, they're all over this.
In fact, you know what?
You remember when that bridge fell, the I-35 West Bridge, when it collapsed?
There was this mad dash, well, we got to get this thing back up.
We're going to find out what we're going to fix it.
Now everybody's saying, hey, what's the rush?
We need to slow down here.
What's the big hurry?
We need to do studies.
We need to find out why it fell before we rebuild a thing.
And besides, rebuilding it too fast could lead to the same kind of problems.
People say, well, we're going to lose $400,000 a day in the economy here with that artery shut off.
And some businesses that are on that artery where there will be no traffic are going to have to, obviously, they're going to close over the coming whatever time it takes, year, year and a half, once they start construction on the bridge.
It's just amazing how the emotions just shift on this from the immediate aftermath.
And now they want to slow down, whereas get going in the immediate couple day.
Well, let's take our time with her.
Oh, speaking of Hurricane Katrina, speaking of Hurricane, have you heard about the Brick girl?
This is just too good to be true.
As a president, Wall Street Journal today, as a presidential candidate, the Brick girl has regularly attacked subprime lenders, particularly those that have filed foreclosure suits against victims of Hurricane Katrina.
But as an investor, the Brett girl has ties to lenders foreclosing on Katrina victims.
This is the second time he's stepped in it.
Well, it's more than that.
Goes out and says that Hillary Clinton ought to give back any money that Rupert Murdoch has donated to find out the Brett girls made all kinds of money from Murdoch and his related companies.
The Wall Street Journal has identified 34 New Orleans homes whose owners have faced foreclosure suits from subprime lending units of Fortress Investment Group.
The Brick girl has about $16 million invested in Fortress funds, according to a campaign aide.
Mr. Edwards worked for Fortress, a publicly held private equity fund from late 2005 through 2006.
This is the hedge fund.
He went there, he said, to learn about poverty.
And what he learned was it's not good, and he doesn't want to be part of it.
Asked about the matter, the Brett girl yesterday pledged he would personally provide financial assistance to New Orleans, New Orleanians, who are facing foreclosure by his company or who have lost their homes already.
I intend to help these people, said the Brett girl.
Can't let this go so quickly.
A little bit more on this.
We come back and then we'll get to your phone call.
Sit tight.
On Open Line Friday, as usual, half my brain tied behind my back because that's all I need.
800-282-2882, if you would like to join us.
By the way, a reminder tonight, 8 o'clock at 11 o'clock, the half-hour news hour, and the sketch that opens the show that I filmed last Saturday in Los Angeles.
We'll open the show.
They're originally going to run it last night at 9, and they moved it to tonight, 8 and 8 and 11 o'clock Eastern.
It's really funny.
And this one I play myself, not the President of the United States.
How about stock market?
You see what we did here yesterday?
I'm the man that runs America.
You know it and I know it.
We had all these people on the phone yesterday saying, hey, this is a buying opportunity.
That market was down 340 points when my show started.
When it was over, the market was flat.
It closed down about 15 or 16 points.
We got that market back yesterday, folks.
And today it's up over 156.
The Fed went in there and they lowered the discount rate one half of a percentage point, which is the interest rate that banks charge each other to shift money around.
But it does signal to me, an avid Fed watcher, that they're going to, they care, but they're also going to lower the, I think they're going to lower rates when they, when they, the interest rates, when they get to the next meeting in September.
But yeah, I just, it goes to show the power you people in this audience have.
I was so thrilled when I saw that 340-point drop erasure.
What happened?
What happened?
I mean, the Fed hadn't done anything by the end of the day yesterday.
Well, they put some more cash in the system, but they've been doing that for a while.
It didn't make any difference.
What made the difference yesterday in wiping out that 340-point plunge was this show.
There's no question about it.
All right, the Breck girl.
Folks, this is just too good to be true.
He goes to work for this place called Fortress Funds.
He learns, he says he wants to go there to learn about poverty.
Fortress Funds has offshore accounts.
They do all these other things.
And they're in the subprime lending market.
And the Brick girl, as you know, announced his presidential run in New Orleans.
In fact, let's go back.
This is on June the 4th.
Was this his poverty tour?
Or was this, whatever it was.
This is June the 4th.
This is Edwards, and I think it's on Faith in Politics special on CNN.
This cause of New Orleans is also very personal to me because you may know that I announced my campaign from the knife ward of New Orleans.
We knew that.
The single biggest thing to be done is the President of the United States needs to put one person, a very high-level, competent person in the White House in charge of New Orleans.
And that person, President, can foreclose on their houses.
Every morning, telling me what you did in New Orleans yesterday.
What has happened in New Orleans is a national embarrassment.
Yeah, and a company you have $16 million invested in to work for has foreclosed on 34 New Orleans homes whose owners have not been able to.
By the way, this is not a blind trust thing.
This all happened before he had to put his investments in a blind trust.
Now, there's a great column today by George Will on this whole thing and the Federal Reserve's role and so forth.
But I want to read you a couple quick paragraphs here.
Because what the Brick girl and Hillary Clinton are both doing is taking this subprime mortgage meltdown and blaming the lenders, of course.
And of course, the poor people who were credit risks to begin with are the usual victims.
And so this is a class envy opportunity.
Blame Wall Street.
Blame the rich guys exploiting these poor people and foreclosing on their houses.
Well, throw the Brick girl in there because his company's doing it.
Here's how George Will writes about it.
Many banks, hedge funds, other institutions have pocketed profits from their dealings in the subprime market.
The losses are theirs too.
Hillary Clinton leapt to explain the subprime problem in the terms of liberalism's massive narrative, master narrative, the victimization of the many by the few.
In a speech favorably contrasting a shared responsibility society with an on-your-own society, she said in effect that distressed subprime borrowers are not responsible for their behavior.
Unsavory lenders, she said, had used unfair lending practices.
Doubtless, there are as many unsavory lenders as there are unsavory politicians.
So voters and borrowers, caveat mTor.
But this true, too, is true.
Every improvident loan requires an improvident borrower to seek and accept it.
Furthermore, when there's no penalty for folly, such as getting a variable rate mortgage that will be ruinous if the rate varies upward, folly proliferates.
To get a mortgage is usually to commit capitalism.
It is to make an investment in the hope of gain.
His point is, in a loan, you've got a lender, you've got a borrower, and they're both culpable.
And they're both taking a risk, and they're both trying to make this work in an investment sense.
But when it goes south, the liberal narrative steps up to blame the few wealthy guys running these subprime loans to these poor, unsuspecting Doomkoffs who have no business.
And if you bail them out, there's no penalty for the loss.
This is just going to keep on happening.
So this is how the Brett girl is attempting to cover and explain his own involvement.
Also, the Brett girl said that what he's going to do, he's going to help these people out in the subprime market.
Let me find the quote here.
He said, pledge that he would personally provide financial assistance to New Orleanans who are facing foreclosure by Fortress.
Well, guess what?
The number of New Orleanians facing foreclosure is going to double once they hear that the Brett girl is going to bail him out personally.
He's going to be, yeah, but the problem is, in this case, he's got to do it with his money.
He's going to be a one-man welfare state, but unlike with his money.
Well, don't say it'll never happen.
Well, he said he's, well, let's get the quote.
I know he's a liberal.
It doesn't matter, but still, here's what he said.
He said, he would personally provide financial.
Well, what I mean by that, Limboy, is I will deliver it.
I will personally provide.
I will take it there.
Let's go to the phones.
Ed in Paradise, California.
I'm glad you called and you are up first today on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi.
How you doing, Rush?
Just fine.
Thank you very much, sir.
Been trying to get talked to you since your Sacramento days.
Well, this is your lucky day.
I want to address the draft, Rush.
There's been a lot of talk about it all week on the news media, talk shows.
You know, I'm all for the draft.
I think the draft served its purpose.
It was a very important issue back in the 50s and 60s.
I had many of my friends that I grew up with were drafted.
When they got out, they had a whole new view on our country and on life.
I think the draft taught the men to respect authority, builded pride in them.
Usually it taught them a trade.
When they got out, they could find a job, which probably they wouldn't have done hanging around after high school.
In my opinion, Rush, is I think the Army's a better place to have these guys than hanging out on the street corners selling cracks.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Yeah.
You know that Bush is not going to do it.
I know he's not doing it.
Bush's not going to do it.
And the Pentagon says they're not going to do it.
There's no need for a draft.
Whoever's getting all this talk started doesn't know what they're talking about.
But without debating the merits of the draft with you, because it's six of one and half dozen of another.
Let's say that Hillary or some Democrat wins the White House in 08.
Do you think they, you think the Democrat Party would lead a move to reinstitute the draft?
No, I don't.
You don't?
No, because their idea and the liberal left's agenda is to make our military weak.
And whenever word comes out that the Army isn't meeting their quota this month, we make the quota for the year, oh, they're happy as can be.
The news announcers on TV got big grins on their face.
The Army isn't going to make their quota.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, well, but that's just the monthly.
They've been meeting their goals year to year.
You know, that's just, but you're right in the way they report it.
I'm not so sure the Democrats wouldn't do it.
Your point is, you know, they loathe the military.
They want to keep it weak and so forth.
But they've also got this notion here of they like common suffering and they like common sacrifice.
And precisely because of their less than charitable view of the military, what better way to get people to hate it than to start drafting their kids?
So, I mean, I wouldn't put it past them.
Your instincts on this are probably correct, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Thanks for the call.
A quick timeout.
Much more right after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Tampa, Florida.
Eric, you're next at Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
First time, long time.
I am a college student, and I'm going to be spending this upcoming semester in England.
So I was wondering, college students, you know, who are conservative have enough issues with the overwhelming liberal bias on college campuses.
Right.
Do you think now being on the most liberal spot in one of the most more liberal places in the world, do you think it would be better for me as a student there to discuss my conservatism or just keep my head low?
This is easy.
First, is this Oxford by any chance you're going to?
This is Middlesex University outside of London.
Middlesex University.
Now, here's, you need to take this seriously as a great opportunity.
You may be surrounded by a bunch of these commie libs.
This is not the time to shirk hanging around these people.
The first thing you must maintain is a cheerful, optimistic outlook about your life, about your day.
You're a happy guy.
You go over there.
You've got an opportunity.
You're a happy guy.
You can laugh at things.
And if political discussions come up, which I no doubt will, do not lie low.
Do not keep your head down.
You don't need to be argumentative and you don't need to be aggressive or anything, but don't be afraid to discuss this stuff.
It'll help you hone your beliefs and be able to express them.
After all, you're going to college.
Going to college really is about opening up your mind and teaching your mind how to work, not becoming a sponge and a robot for propaganda and indoctrination.
So talking to these people with good cheer, and they make you mad, it may make you mad, but talk to them with good cheer and make them your friends if you can and learn how to express what you feel, what you think in these adversarial circumstances.
You'll get better at it every time it happens, and it'll increase your confidence level in being able to do it.
So no, this is a great opportunity.
You might even persuade some.
You never know.
It's tough, but you might even persuade some of them.
All right.
And I don't think you probably won't be alone.
I mean, you will be outnumbered because you've correctly identified the hotbed of activity that exists over there.
But no, look at it, look at it as an opportunity.
And by the time it's all over with, you will have even strengthened your own convictions by being surrounded by all this.
Plus, what year college are you in now?
I'm sorry, what?
What year are you in college now?
I am actually in my senior year.
Once I'm done over there, I only have one more semester.
All right.
So, well, this watts.
This is, this is.
This is a golden opportunity.
You've been surrounded by commie libs at whatever school you're going to now, correct?
Heavens, yes.
All right.
Well, it's not going to be any different over there.
And they're not, you know, if it's all in your attitude, if you get combative and argumentative with anybody, you know, you're going to alienate them.
If you get aggressive, they probably will be with you, but that's especially when you laugh.
You just act like it doesn't bother you and they're crazy.
Which might be true.
Well, it is, all of which is true.
So you're just going to be honest.
Be who you are.
Let the stuff they say about you that's not true bounce off.
Don't take any of it personally.
Understand, they're really not even talking about you.
Everybody, most everybody talks about themselves when they start complaining about other people anyway.
So use this as a great opportunity that you have, especially if it's your last semester.
Have fun with it.
Okay, thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Happy, happy to help.
Adam and Avon Park, Florida.
You're next, sir, on Open Line Friday.
Negadittos, Rush.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Yep, it's a pleasure.
I heard on the news on the radio yesterday, and you may have heard this too, but it's talking about the Army has asked a team of doctors to go to Iraq to talk, you know, figure out why the suicides are happening over there.
And it said that experts, and I got this off of the internet yesterday.
It was the USAToday.com.
It was by Greg Zoroya.
It wanted to be politically correct as far as giving him the.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that it says, experts say harsh and dangerous living conditions combined with a long deployment can worsen existing depression.
And I definitely feel for the individuals, you know, especially the family members who have, you know, of these individuals that have committed suicide.
But I was just, it just hit me that this is going to be a prime opportunity for the liberals and Hillary to sit there and blame Bush for, you know, they'll blame Bush.
They will blame the military.
Look, this is a common refrain.
One of the narratives or templates today is that war turns gentle, docile, animal-loving, wonderful young men and women into murderers, into barbarians, and then they kill themselves.
War is hell.
And we must stop it.
Hell, there was a story we had last week.
Unbelievable story.
That spouse abuse, well, child abuse by the spouse of a military person who's still here.
The military person's been deployed.
The spouse is here.
That the abuse that the spouse dishes out to the kids is horrible because the military spouse is deployed and not home.
And guess what?
It just so happens that white military wives are far more abusive of their kids than blacks or Hispanics.
So they have these narratives and they have these stories and they can fit any story they want into the template.
And I think if they get on this case, lots of sympathy for the poor soldiers.
Look what war is doing.
Look what Bush is doing to them.
We must stop this.
We'll bring them home.
True enough.
But it's like everything else they try.
It's going to fall flat.
People have more common sense today than to fall prey to this kind of stuff.
And plus, they make these kinds of charges so often that after a while, you just don't pay attention to it because it's one thing after another and you run out of energy to do it.
I have a quote for you.
I want to run this by you.
We'll explore the application of this quote a little later.
It's from Marcus Aurelius.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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