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Aug. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the bountiful fruit and plane.
Rush Limbaugh here with broadcast excellence for the next three hours at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our phone number 800-282-2882.
I I just I just got an email here from my North Carolina mistress.
Is this so typical of a woman?
She said, Will you hear a sonic boom from the space thing landing?
It's a shovel.
It's the shuttle with space thing.
They have fired the retro rockets on the uh shuttle and it's on the way down.
Schedule landing at 12 32 here in Florida.
Did I give the phone number?
I did.
Well, I'm going to give it again because it's such a habit.
800 282882 email address is rush at EIBNet.com if you want to be on the program today.
Folks, I have not been to bed.
And everybody here is just excited and thrilled over this, over this prospect, because when this happens, we get right up to the edge.
For most of the three hours, I I left the uh broadcast complex yesterday afternoon, right after the program, and I flew out to Wyoming last night for dinner with some friends, and uh because I'm going on vacation on Friday, it'll be gone all of next week.
I decided in uh in devotion to you and service to the uh program and job to not take today off.
So I flew back after dinner.
I rolled into my uh my compound here about five this morning, and I and I I had some work done.
I mean, it's all night you know show prep had accumulated, and I hadn't done anything.
And I said to myself, if I go to sleep, if I if I go up there and get in bed, it'll be a half hour for all to fall asleep at 5 30, quarter six, have to get up in an hour and a half.
That just I'll be wasted.
So um I just gutted it out.
Um I actually feel good.
I feel um feel pretty good.
Snerdley went out and brewed a second pot of coffee about a half hour ago, and I accused him of uh sabotaging the program by trying to wake me up.
Anyway, did you see this?
New Gallup poll finds Congress's approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974.
Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
76% disapprove, according to the survey, this is between August 13th and 16th.
The uh 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March of 1992 when a check bouncing scandal was one of several scandals.
That yeah, the House Bank and the House Post Office.
Uh, you know it's amazing.
Uh have you seen any any stories uh out there, folks, on what the Republicans need to do to win back Congress given all this?
Uh every year after 1994, when the Republicans won the Congress, every two years, the drive-by media, well, I mean, I think every year, the drive-by media was obsessed with what the Democrats need to do to win back Congress.
I haven't yet seen a story on what the Republicans need to do to uh win back Congress.
This is this is not good for you environmentalist wackos out there and you animal rights people.
Again, this is we're getting a lot of news here from uh from the Netherlands.
Once again, this is from the website Often Posten.
Uh hundreds of thousands of students had their first day of scrual Monday.
Some of them some of them had to learn to carry guns and be prepared to shoot.
Polar bears.
Uh students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard aren't allowed to leave their village without a shotgun and ammo.
That's because hungry polar bears can be behind every swing on the island.
Although no one wants to shoot a polar bear, and they're indeed protected by national law.
The animals can quickly outrun a human, and humans don't have a chance if confronted by an aggressive bear, so everyone on Svalbard needs to be able to defend him or herself.
And the students undergo weapons training every year.
And there's a picture here of uh of three little crumb crunchers here holding a giant rifle or shotgun.
Uh, you know what the New York temperature was at 10 o'clock this morning?
10 a.m., barely two hours ago in New York City.
The temperature was fifty-seven degrees.
Fifty-seven degrees in New York City at 10 o'clock, a couple hours ago.
Now, will somebody out there check the price of heating oil?
I mean, I know it's summertime, and I know global warming is heating up the planet, but the people in New York are cold.
They're really cold.
Do you know in most of the apartment buildings you either get the heat or the air conditioner?
You don't get both.
You had people, if 57 was the temperature 10 o'clock, it was a little chillier than that earlier in the day.
This is no laughing matter.
You know, they always get the autumnal blast around the middle of August to let you know that the summer's over and fall is right around the corner, but 57 degrees.
You know, I'm wondering, is this an act of nature or is this an act of man?
Is man bringing this about?
Uh tell you one thing, it's a gold mine, potential gold mine for the left in the drive-by's children are just they're they're they're freezing.
Seasoned citizens are shivering out there.
Of course, poor and minorities are hardest hit in New York when the temperature drops to 57 degrees in August.
So what'll happen here?
Will they blame the mayor?
Or will they blame Bush?
Will Senator Schemer demand that they airlift portable heaters for the poor and the seasoned citizens in New York today.
Uh seems like they need a lot more global warming.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we had a call.
When was this call?
August 7th, so this is well, two weeks ago.
It's taken a while for this letter to reach us here.
If you send mail to the EIB network, it goes through four different places.
Screening process and all that before it finally ends up here in my hands.
So this letter was uh was well, actually, it's uh only taken five days, which is an improvement.
Uh August 16th, it's from the uh president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Union.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, as the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, I write in response to an exchange you had with a fellow letter carrier on August 7th on the broadcast of your show.
The exchange was also posted on your website.
I'm afraid that you and the letter carrier from Sarasota, that's in quotes, have misled your listeners about the National Association of Letter Carriers and its approach to the 2008 presidential election.
Once you know the facts, I am sure you will take the time on your next broadcast to correct the record.
I love getting the letters from union thugs.
And I just do.
Here's the next paragraph.
During this show, a self-described conservative letter carrier named Kimberly complained that her union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, has solicited only Democrats in an issue survey of the candidates now running for president.
The responses of that survey were included in the National Association of Letter Carriers Monthly Magazine, along with an endorsement ballot for members to express their views on the candidates.
In response, you, Mr. Limbaugh, charged that, quote, they think that they can hide from you the fact that there are Republican candidates, quote unquote.
You went on to say, quote, it's what I mean.
They think you are stupid.
They think you're not going to notice this, unquote.
Unfortunately, Mr. Limbaugh, the caller was mistaken and would have known it had she read the magazine, and you were offensively mistaken to say that the National Association of Letter Carriers thinks its members are stupid.
As the attached copy of the article from the August issue of the Postal Record makes clear on page 22, and I have that here, it's part of the package.
The National Association of Letter Carriers sent its issue survey to all announced candidates for president in May.
Democrats and Republicans alike.
Seven Democratic candidates responded, but not a single Republican candidate did so.
I was disappointed with a lack of GOP responses, because the National Association of Letter Carriers is a bipartisan union.
Excuse me, that has supported both Democrat and Republican candidates to Congress over the years.
We support candidates who support the interests of working letter carriers and working people in general, regardless of their party affiliation.
I can assure you, Mr. Limbaugh, the National Association of Letter Carriers does not think its members are stupid, and we would never attempt to fool our Members on any matter.
If we did, we would not be the best organized open shop union in the nation.
More than 90% of all city letter carriers voluntarily belong to the National Association of Letter Carriers.
The fact is we're a democratic union with a small D. Our members will guide which candidate to support for president.
But I don't know how Republican candidates expect to win the support of hardworking letter carriers when they lack the courtesy to respond to a simple issue survey.
Not all Republicans show such a lack of respect, but far too many do.
On the air, you said, this is where the Democrats are missing the boat.
I respectfully submit that the only party missing the boat is the GOP.
I look forward to your on-air apology and your clarification.
I am sure you will post the correction on your website as well.
Sincerely, William Young, President National Association of Letter Carriers.
Well, Mr. Young, I have able to put a historical perspective to your note, and you are damn right, I apologize.
I am sorry, I am so sorry please forgive me.
I was just a caller.
I, you know, I'll I'll take the heat, I'll take the heat, but the caller obviously was misinformed.
I'm sorry.
Please.
Uh we um we'll post this on the website, and and and and please forgive me.
I mean, I didn't mean it.
I just didn't mean it at all.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Listen to this headline.
Alaska man gets mauled into marriage.
Now, what do you think this could possibly be about?
Whatever it is, you are wrong.
A man mauled by a grizzly bear last month married his longtime girlfriend, a health aid, who uh helped keep him alive when he was rushed to her clinic in Shock Tullik.
This is Alaska.
Uh Sean Evans, uh, 32 married Livia Jackson, 31 on Friday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
Evans said that thoughts of Livia Jackson and their two young sons kept him alive during an agonizing skiff ride back to the village after the attack on July 31st.
He's freezing because he'd lost so much blood, muscle skin, and a crude splint were holding his shattered legs together below the knees.
There was a there was a twice that my heart felt weird and different.
I felt it slow down like I was uh losing its pumping power, he said.
The couple's been together ten years.
Evans spent summers hunting and picking berries to supply food for his grandmother, and then uh permanently moved from California to the uh inupiate village of 200 people.
He had wanted to get married since she was pregnant.
Jackson had wanted to get married, I'm sorry, the woman, uh, since she was pregnant with her first child, which is usually a uh a good time to get married, I think.
But uh this guy didn't pull a trigger on that.
Uh so they got two kids, one's seven, uh, one was just born eighteen months ago, and it was this accident here, this thing that caused the guy to say, you know what?
This mauling has made me see my family in a different light.
I'm gonna go ahead and get married.
What a weakling.
What an absolute weakling.
But he did it anyway.
Michael Vick.
Michael Vick pled guilty uh yesterday.
Well, he's gonna plead guilty in court on Monday.
They've released that he's gonna he's gonna cop a plea here.
And and you know, it's fascinating to watch the drive-by media reaction to this.
It's not uniform.
Uh, was watching television yesterday, watching on a on the plane ride out to Wyoming.
I was watching ESPN, and they had had a columnist from the uh Atlanta Urinal Constipation who was talking about the reaction in Atlanta, and how that uh a lot of people up a lot of people in Atlanta, Mr. Snowdley, you want to hear this.
A lot of people in Atlanta, according to this columnist, uh think that that Michael Vick is being singled out for criticism by the media and by the NFL, uh, and that it's not fair.
Uh that if this were a white quarterback who'd been involved in this kind of thing, it wouldn't be nearly as bad.
Then there are others.
Remember the names I've read who say, you know, we're making much much ado about nothing here.
This is a cultural thing.
This is which is news to me.
I mean, I'm I'm not a I'm not I'm not that informed about dog fighting.
But for this to be an excuse to offered, it's a cultural thing.
We have to understand this.
This is what goes on in certain neighborhoods.
Then other drive-by columnist have said, hell with it being cultural, even if it is a culture that's engaging in this is horrible.
This is torture, this is mean, this is cruelty, this is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And uh I'm not finding a whole lot of support for Michael Vick here out there.
I thought I would, but I'm not seeing it.
They just one guy in the Atlanta paper was uh, and he was not defending Vic, he was just, he was just talking about the reaction in Atlanta uh to this.
Uh that, and he did say this guy, Terr, I think his name's Terrence Jackson, Terrence something, Terrence Young, maybe.
He said, uh black people in Atlanta said, Well, you know, the the two hundred years of slavery in this country, and this is just another example of it.
I was whoa.
Now he was not saying that's accurate, he's just saying this is what people in Atlanta are uh are thinking.
And now everybody's trying to figure out well, how did this happen?
Why did this go wrong?
And there are a number of theories, there are probably as many theories to explain this as there are people trying to explain it.
And the theories range from, well, I got too much money too soon and had this aura of invincibility, and a lot of pro athletes when they're young and exhibit the kind of talent that people think makes them destined for the pros, they are coddled.
I have seen it, ladies and gentlemen.
They're coddled, they are protected, they are shielded from things, uh, and and they are they are they're given excuses.
You know, they're given a pass uh on a lot of uh behavioral attitudes and things that that other people are not.
Um and then it was uh explained, well, yeah, but then look at who he's hanging around with.
Uh this is the problem.
And it does said, you know, he didn't have that many friends in the clubhouse.
He had acquaintances in there, but he wasn't hanging with other players.
He had his own posse he was hanging with, and a league should have investigated and found out just who these people were.
Others are saying, it's the hip hop culture.
It's the gang culture that's infiltrated professional sports.
There are there are other sports writers who say, Have you noticed all the black uniforms that are being worn in the NFL?
That's because of uh the fascination that uh players have with gang members.
Apparently black is a universal color for being a member of a gang or something.
And I have to say, I have noticed that.
I didn't know that that was the case until I've read it from some of these sports writers, but I don't, as a football fan, just give me the traditional uniforms.
If the Pittsburgh Steelers ever go all black, I'm quitting the NFL.
I hate this business of black jersey, black pants, black socks, black shoes.
I just hate it.
Well, I dislike it.
I don't hate anything.
But I I I just I just dislike it.
Um, you know, this is this is Michael Vick's not an isolated case, but you know, folks, I gotta tell you something.
Now, I and I I understand this, and we've discussed this before.
Uh I I know full well, and I'm an animal lover, and I know people's uh uh uh attachment to this story because the animals are the essence of innocence.
I mean, you we we the we make them pets and we take care of them.
They can't fend for themselves.
Uh the more we shield them and and and protect them and keep them in our homes and so forth.
But you know, there are other NFL players and sports figures and other sports that have been around when human beings have been murdered, and there hasn't been this kind of reaction to it.
And I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this.
Uh well, they slap their wives around or what have you, any number of things.
But uh, but but but when when these animals are involved in it, and I say, as I say, I understand the um uh the emotional attachment that that people have, and I'm not suggesting that we've cheapened life or any of that.
I'm just the sense of proportion uh is and I'm not defending Vic.
Got a bunch of emails last time I talked about this, and people who thought I was defending Vic.
Uh, but I'm not.
I I just I look at the lack of outrage when human beings like this Pac-Man Jones character from the Tennessee Titans was involved during the NBA All-Star game with uh with a ruckus at a strip club,
and uh which you know, that's if the NFL wants to find a common denominator for all Darrett Williams, just apparently a uh a great guy, a quarterback for the Denver Broncos killed on the last day of the season after the final game last year in the playoffs, went to a nightclub, where some NBA star for the Denver Nuggets out there was having some kind of party, and he got shot up in a drive-by slaying with 14 people in a well, 14 shots, a bunch of people in a Hummer limo.
And he happened to catch the bullet that killed him.
Uh night club, nightclub, nightclub.
There's a there's a common denominator in all this thing, or strip club or whatever.
Pac-Man Jones, the bouncer out there got shot when somebody pulled weapons out and opened fire at four o'clock in the morning.
The bouncers now paralyzed from the neck down.
There hasn't been nearly the outrage about that that there is about the Victor.
It's all bad, is the point.
Got to take a break, be right back after this.
A man, a living legend of Nobel Peace Prize nominee, national treasure and a way of life.
Learn it, love it, live it.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, where the uh the space thing, uh the endeavor just landed right on time at the uh at the Kennedy Space Center.
You know, I don't care how many times it's explained to me, and it has been many times, I am still dazzled that you can take this thing up there to 200 plus miles, fire retro rockets, and have it land on a very long runway in Florida or anywhere with no power.
Literally, it comes in with no power.
This thing comes down from 200 miles with no power.
The approach landing speed before they flare the wings and lower the landing gear is five hundred miles an hour.
This thing has the glide ratio of a rock.
Uh if any conventional aircraft lost power at, say, 35 or 39,000 feet, it's finished.
It's over with.
Uh this thing, and it it's no more aerodynamic than any other airplane, probably less so, but the fact they've got one shot to do this from 200 miles to hit that run with no power.
There is no correction possible.
And it just amazes me.
And then what if the landing gear failed to deploy?
Um But anyway, it's great to see it back because they had that gouge out there in the uh in the underbelly of the thing that they decided not to uh not to fix.
I we fly over Cape Canaveral a lot on the way up and back from New York, and when you got a clear day, uh you can see the vehicle assembly building, and it is huge, and that runway they use is is unbelievably long, which it has to be because this thing comes in at a speed uh far greater than what most airplanes need to take off.
It's just mind boggling to me.
And I've had it explained.
Kevin Chilton, the former shuttle commander, oh, no big deal, simple piece of cake.
I've had it all explained to me, it still doesn't make sense that there has never been a miscalculation.
I know computers are doing it until the last legs of the pilot takes over and actually lands a thing.
But it still amazes me.
I'm I'm it's the one thing I still trust NASA to do.
Uh they've lost me on global warming, but they can land the shuttle uh each and every time they do other than when that one accident with uh with Columbia.
All right, to the phones.
Uh this is this is Ray in Midland, Texas.
Ray uh was on the phone yesterday, we'd have a chance to get to him.
He let us call him back to what's that?
We just lost him.
Well, that's two days in a row, Ray's blown it then.
Here's uh here's Lane in Chicago.
Lane, welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Ross, how are you doing today?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Um let me tell you what position I'm operating from.
I am a Democrat with a big D, uh socially liberal, but um I do not always agree with them when it comes to foreign policy, and that's why I'm calling you today.
Uh I originally supported going to war in Iraq, uh, of course, Afghanistan as well.
And uh I'm just simply not convinced that uh unilateral withdrawal is the right thing to do.
Um and I wanted to now I don't know if the current course is really working out either, but I wanted to uh get your opinion on that.
Uh do you know that this is the first Day that the surge is at full force.
Well, why is it taking so long to get there?
That's what I'm I just want to know what you know.
Do you think number one this is winnable by realistic?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
We're in the process, we're in a process of winning it.
Well, the thing is, I I don't see leaving Iraq and leaving uh, you know, a terrorist stronghold is is a great thing now.
The fact is they weren't there to begin with, and now they are there, but yeah, but you know, things are what they are.
You you this is this is we got to live in the moment.
You can go back, we you and I could have a discussion about whether it was right or wrong to go to Iraq, whether there were terrorists there or not, all of it's meaningless now, because they are there, and the Al Qaeda people admit it's the number one front in the war against the United States.
They're flooding Iraq with terrorists all over the place.
Better we fight them there than over there, or than here.
But regardless whether it was a mistake to go, whether you think it wasn't a the reality is what is is, and they are there, and we cannot lose to them.
We just can't.
We're the United States of America.
This would be the biggest mistake in the world to lose.
This is something that has to be seen through for the uh for the future of the country, for the future of our uh developing future allied relationships.
And believe me, if we get out of there without finishing this job, we're just gonna have to go back at some point uh uh and do it, Lane.
Uh this is something cannot be left undone.
Well, you know, I I kind of agree with you.
I I will because I was right.
I would like to see more success in Iraq, but uh Well, why don't we I hope uh I hope that I I will say this, Rush.
You know, we're having all kinds of success now, and even the Democrats are admitting it.
Uh who admitted it?
Hillary Clinton, surge is working.
Stand by for the audio sound bites.
Carl Levin just got back, surge is working.
Uh Nancy Pelosi's uh steering committee chairman, a guy named Baird, California Democrat surge is working.
Two guys that broke it.
Where have you been?
Everybody's admitting the surge is everybody's saying the surge is working.
It's bipartisan.
I I am glad to hear that.
Uh I must say on another note, as a guy that agrees with you all less than half the time if that you've got style, Rush.
And uh I've listened to you for a long time, and my friends are bewildered by it.
They really are.
But uh you're you're a quite an entertaining guy to listen to, and you got a great program.
But I'll tell you this your programs are a hell of a lot better than the stuff on Air America.
Even though I agree with what they're saying more so you gotta be kidding.
You agree you have a more you have the fact that anybody would agree with anything said on that network makes me worried for you.
Well I I am democratic and I uh socially sustained.
No excuse.
Um You're an American.
How can you how can you listen to that and say you agree with any of it?
I don't mean to yell at you, I'm just passionate about this.
I'm don't don't take it personally.
I'm not I'm not yelling at you.
Seriously.
I don't rush, I don't.
Lane, let me tell you something.
I'm serious about this.
War on terror, Iraq is just one front in the whole war on terror, and we need you.
We need as many people in this country as possible supporting the effort.
Unity on this, you you know, you want you want to get rid of the partisan divide in this country, you're gonna get rid of all the bickering, and I know people on the left and some independents are made uncomfortable by it.
Can you imagine what this country would be like if we were unified behind this?
And after all, what's not to be unified on this?
This this this is the United States of America trying to beat back an enemy and prevent another attack like we had on 9-11.
What in the world is there to oppose here?
Uh the opposition to this is based strictly on a deranged irrational hatred of a single man that nobody knows, George W. Bush.
And maybe Dick Cheney thrown in there as well, but it's irrational, it makes no sense.
This is your country.
You live here.
We were attacked on 9-11.
This is something that has to be done at some point.
We if we don't finish it now, and I'm not just saying Iraq, but the whole thing, we're gonna have to deal with it at some point.
We got Iran nuking up.
We've got we've got uh terrorists all over the world, Al Qaeda and others launching attacks constantly.
We have not had one here since 9-11.
Don't think that's an accident either.
I think it's because we've we've uh engaged them and we've weakened them.
Uh but to get caught up in uh all of the the prefaces, well, we shouldn't have gone there.
Well, we just created more terrorists.
That's all of that's bunk, and it's irrelevant now, anyway.
you didn't you don't know about the uh the surge and the people who are supporting it and coming back and saying it's working.
Uh keep your radio on.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is last night in Kansas City at the VFW convention, the uh uh the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton speaking about the Iraq war and the surge.
We've begun to change tactics in Iraq and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working.
We're just years too late changing our tactics.
We can't ever let that happen again.
We can't be fighting the last war.
We have to be preparing to fight the new war.
Pure imanity.
Literal incompetence on display.
It's working, but it's too late.
It's working, we're just too late in changing our tactics.
This is the woman who wants to be the commander in chief.
It's never too late for victory.
It is never see, this is the politicization of this.
Like I was just talking to Lane about.
All of this stuff is irrelevant now.
If you're an American and you love your country and you understand the threat that we face, whether you dislike Bush for irrational reasons or what have, whether you think they made mistakes the first three or four years, irrelevant.
They fixed it.
We're doing it the right way now.
It's never too late for victory, Mrs. Clinton.
Uh we can't be fighting the last war.
We have to be praying to fight w.
I don't even know what she's talking about.
Here uh here is uh here's the next bite where she just after after after getting it on the record, surge is working, especially in Anbar province, then the caveat.
As we move forward in these next months, awaiting a report from General Petraeus, we'll have some very hard decisions to make.
No, we one decision I know we will make is to continue to honor the service of our own American troops.
Not your party to make sure that they are given the respect that they so richly have earned.
Some of us will disagree.
I think the best way of honoring their service is by beginning to bring them home.
Again, the woman who wants to be commander in chief admits the surge is working, but now let's bring them home.
The best way to honor their service is to bring them home.
These are warriors.
These are people who join the U.S. military in order to engage in operations just like this.
So the woman, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee who wants to be the next commander in chief.
Let me let me let me translate what you just heard.
We're winning, so let's quit.
Uh, we'll be back.
That's what's what she said.
We're winning, let's quit.
The no onions strategy from the woman with the testicle lockbox.
And we are back.
Uh uh one more Mrs. Clinton soundbite, and this kind of dovetails with something that her husband, uh Bill Clinton said the other day, and it raised some eyebrows.
He said something to the effect that he'd been talking to some world leaders and that they hope that his wife wins so that they can love and respect America again.
Uh strangely similar to uh John Kerry, who served in Vietnam during the 2004 presidential race, saying he had talked to world leaders, saying that they hoped he won so that they could respect and love America again.
Clinton's out there saying this that uh world leaders, and I don't had any doubt that he talks to these world leaders.
Uh anyway, here's here's a soundbite.
This is again the VFW National Convention last night in uh Kansas City.
I want to get back to a point where people respect and admire the United States again, not just because that would be a good thing, but because that's critical in our fight against terrorism.
People have to root for America.
They have to want to be on our side.
Okay, uh Mrs. Clinton, you know, this this is the thing that puzzles me about what you just said here and what your what your husband's out there saying.
How in the world do you expect anybody to root for America when the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee is not rooting for America?
And if you're got people around the world who are telling us that are telling your husband that they want to like America again and they want you to win, it must mean they don't want to root for America.
They want America to be a side show.
They want America to be a lapdog.
They want America, in other words, to have to go out and you know fight wars as though you write books about it takes a village.
Uh We can root for ourselves, Mrs. Clinton.
It doesn't take a village to win a war, and it doesn't take the world to win a war.
It takes the United States to win a war.
And if the rest of the world doesn't care about or is not interested in our self-interest and our national defense, and they ought to be, because the United States being what it is protects the rest of our allies.
If they want us to go South, uh then you are the last person we need to have running the country because you'll take it south.
This makes no sense.
Root for America by hoping America loses.
It's exactly what she said.
And how do you expect other countries to root for us, Mrs. Clinton, when you don't?
And your party doesn't.
And if they are rooting for you to win, it must mean they want us to be wiped out.
In a sense.
You have to know how to read between the lines of these people.
You have to know how to translate what they're actually saying.
Now let's move on to Michelle Obama.
As I pointed out yesterday, Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Edwards are the ones that have taken off the gloves and are duking it out with Hillary.
And uh a lot of people said that uh this is really these guys are gutless.
Why Edwards and Obama letting their wives go out there, not as a simple reason for it's called Rick Lazio.
You just can't, excuse me, attack the girl.
But a girl can.
Michelle Obama go out there and say whatever she wants.
So can uh Elizabeth Edwards.
She really has uh uh immunity, if you will, because she's uh she's got a fatal disease.
She's got cancer.
Uh Michelle Obama's somewhat inoculated too because she's African American.
And so the drive-by is not going to criticize either of them.
They may ignore them, but they're not going to criticize.
Oh, by the way, I got an email.
Two emails I have to comment on before we get to Michelle Obama.
Somebody said uh to me that Rush, this dog fighting thing in the NFL.
It is cultural.
It's bigger than anybody knows.
And what the feds want is for Vic to flip on all of this that's going on.
This is somebody is in the know that told me this.
You'd be stunned that this Vic thing and the dog fighting thing in the NFL is just the tip of the iceberg.
My friends.
If that's true, and I, of course, have no way of knowing since uh one of the few things I'm not an expert on his dog fighting or certain subcultures of the National Football League.
But I do know this.
Michael Vick, if he hopes to play in the NFL again, and he does, is not going to tell the feds a thing.
And he's not going to give up other names.
If there are other NFL players engaged in this, Michael Vick isn't going to tell anybody about it.
Because if he does and comes back and plays in the NFL, the first play he will be beheaded.
As a snitch.
In fact, he might he might have something very harmful happen to him even if he doesn't come back.
Uh so he's going to take the fall for this.
Uh I will be amazed if uh he might flip, but if it ever comes out that he did, and I don't know how they would keep that from anybody, because he's the target.
Uh I just, I I can't, I can't see it.
Not if he wants to play again.
Not if he wants this is uh just the the way that uh way that world works.
We're gonna have to put Michelle Obama off to the next hour because I'm getting a couple emails too.
Rush, I'm sure you have forgotten, since you know everything, that a Boeing 767 lost power at 41,000 feet or 30.
And I don't think Boeing 767s can get to 41,000 feet, but maybe 39, whatever it was, I can look it up.
Uh, and made an emergency landing at an airport in Canada.
When was this?
What was the uh what was the year this happened?
I don't have it in front of me.
Uh but the pilot was a glider pilot and was able to bring the thing down with no power from 39,000 feet without using any of the spoilers or the uh or the flaps.
Now that I think you'd have to do that at landing to slow down at some point.
Okay, so there's one example, and I'm getting a thousand emails with one example.
See this what I was saying the other day.
I'm not allowed to make a mistake or to be wrong.
When I make a mistake, thousand emails.
I'm exaggerating the number here.
Okay, so there was one example of it.
But it took an experienced pilot to be able to pull it off.
Okay, upcoming on the phones an airline pilot who tells me I misspoke when I was discussing the glide characteristics of a uh jumbo jet liner.
And a couple of uh letter carriers wish to respond to the letter I received from William Young, the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
That should be good.
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