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Aug. 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 23, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
All right, where is Snerdly?
Oh, there you are.
What were you laying down on a floor or something?
I was gonna say I am not screening the calls myself on this show like I had to do in Kansas City back in the 70s.
You had to do it during a commercial break, absolutely.
Anyway, talent on loan from God, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB microphone here in the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's uh it's Thursday today, but this is essentially Friday for me, since tomorrow.
Gee, I gotta get up.
So, you know, folks, this going on vacation's fun, but I have to tell you the the t the two days that lead up to it, it's uh just it's just a pain.
I got I have the barber coming over this afternoon.
I gotta go home and I gotta tell the uh staff what to pack, and that's you know, I do have somebody to pack for it's not as simple as you think.
Yeah, I gotta stand there.
I've got, because of my weight fluctuations, I have uh different uh sizes of everything in the closet in there.
I just can't tell uh I can't tell the staff person, okay, get me ten golf shirts or shorts.
I've got to pick each one and then throw them on the floor, and then she comes in and does the packing.
I still have to go up there and do that.
Um what else do I have to do?
I've got to go, I've got to get up at four o'clock because did the bills yesterday.
That's another had to do the bills and uh had to have a little psychological counseling session with punkin.
You know, she's ten years old now, she misses me.
Uh when I'm gone for an extended length of time.
And they tell me that she prowls every nook and cranny of the house looking for me, hangs around in the kitchen by the garage door uh the last three days or so just waiting, hoping I'll walk in.
Uh, thank God she can't call me.
Uh let's see, what else I gotta do?
Um, no, I don't wash the why why not wash the car.
I'm gonna get on an airplane tomorrow.
Uh no, don't cancel a newspaper.
No, none of none of that sort of stuff.
Oh, I'm taking uh I I'm taking a bunch of wine.
You know, it's a guy golf trip or going to Hawaii, and I've I'm I'm uh I had I well I've been taking about two cases.
And take well, oh.
I'm saying I'm taking 48 bottles of wine.
Because there's gonna be ten of us.
So I had to go through my wine cellar list and pick out which bottle.
That took me a half hour.
Uh you know, I just uh it just all this stuff.
I mean, it's gonna be fun once we get to get up at four o'clock.
Gotta get up at four o'clock, because I gotta get wheels up at five.
I've got to stop in a famous Midwestern city to pick up some guys, and we've got to wing our way over to Hawaii.
We get there about one o'clock in the afternoon, trying to get off the plane, head straight to the golf course.
Anyway, you know, folks, it is a tough life.
It is just some of the things that I endure.
Uh, just to go on vacation.
Now, coming back, it's not nearly this bad.
You know, you just it's easy.
Except for the big stack of bills that they put on the desks for me.
That's a big thing to excitedly walk into and see first thing.
Anyway, we're gonna do uh open line Friday on Thursday today, ladies and gentlemen, which means, you know, normally Monday through Thursday, uh, you have to talk on the phones about the things I'm interested in, because I'm not gonna waste my time being bored here.
But on Friday, we open that up, and whatever you want to talk about, we go to the phones, you own the show.
Tremendous career risk.
Uh taken by me, one of the most prominent media figures in the modern era.
It's always fun.
We look forward to it.
So if you want to whine, moan, complain, ask questions, or what have you.
Telephone numbers 800-282-288-2 and the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Have to start off with a correction today.
We had a story yesterday.
You know, that that that cat.
Uh Oscar the uh the cat in uh Rhode Island that lives in a uh nursing home.
And this cat seemed to have a sense of when residents of the old folks home were gonna cash it in.
Uh and the cat would jump on the bed of the patient about to cash it in, and the patient would cash it in.
And they said, Well, this is incredible.
How does this cat know this?
Well, a lot of the inmate uh the patients were getting upset about this.
Uh so there was a story yesterday that uh cat had been found dead in the nursing home with a dented bed pan near the uh near the body, uh, and a very curious member of our audience, Jay Cockensparker, uh called the nursing home up there to confirm this because he thought the story might have been a hoax.
Not Not that I was making it up, of course.
Uh, but that he thought it was a hoax, and the the lady that answered the phone up there said that Oscar is indeed uh alive and well.
Uh they heard the story on the program up there, they were quite surprised.
The people at the nursing home, apparently this show's big in there with the staff.
So uh Mr. Mr. Cockensparker wanted me to know here.
I hope I'm pronouncing his name right.
It's uh C O C H Coken Sparger, Kotchin Sparger.
I want to get it all because I don't mean to be disrespectful.
So anyway, we're all happy to know that uh Oscar the Cat uh is still alive and uh well maybe I well look at I guess the patients up there don't care.
Uh otherwise the story would be true.
Uh so you know that was it was a well-written hoax.
It's a well-written, and I should have suspected it.
You know, I let my professional guard down.
I should have suspected it because uh there was no identifying link source or whatever, but it was uh it was written pretty well as a hoax.
So um anyway, it was just a cat, no big deal.
Cat's little live story ends well.
You see this story about this guy.
Where does this guy live?
It is a 90-year-old guy.
He just had his 21st child, or just 21st child was uh was just born.
Uh is oh, he's a farmer in India.
His name is Nanu Ram Jogi.
Uh married to his fourth wife, boasts he doesn't want to stop, plans to continue producing children until he's 100.
Women love me.
He says a picture of the guy here.
Uh and it the fact that women love this guy is probably established by the next story.
Anyway, I was happy to see this, because this guy is making up for my unwillingness in this department.
So the world population uh uh shortage, if there is one, and by the way, rather than overpopulation, there is a birth rate replacement problem worldwide.
At least my my uh my lack of willingness in this area is being compensated for by this guy.
Now, this next story, this is from Livescience.com.
They got some great stuff.
Uh men with cavemen faces, most attractive to women.
Uh this this Indian farmer doesn't exactly look like a caveman, but uh he'll never be on the cover of GQ either.
Uh guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history.
A recent study of the skulls of human ancestors and modern humans finds that women and thereby evolution selected uh for males with relatively short upper faces.
What's an upper face?
Forehead?
Uh the uh the region uh between the brow and the upper lip is scrunched proportionally to the overall size of their heads.
Among the men who fit the bill here are Will Smith and Brad Pitt.
Now, would you would would any of you assign caveman-like faces to either of those two guys?
The next time a woman calls you a Crow Magnon, it is a compliment, apparently.
James Carville, political pundit, sent out a mass email on behalf of the Democrat senatorial campaign committee seeking the bumper sticker slogan that will carry us through the 2008 elections.
The uh the email to presumed Democrat supporters states, we need a turn of phrase that really jumps out and tells you right off the bat what this election's all about.
In 1992, it was the economy stupid.
In 2006, Democrats simply said, had enough.
We got a few ideas, take a look, and then do us a favor voting for one of our top picks.
But if you got something better, we'll throw that in the mix too.
Now here are their bumper stickers they put in this email.
W is out, send the right wing with him.
No Republicans left behind in D.C. What have Republicans done for you lately?
2006 was just the beginning.
More dims in 08.
How bland.
How absolutely boring and uninspired.
Uh I worked on a few of my own.
Such as, Mr. Carvel, try this.
Put this on your list.
Vote early, vote often.
K Pasa.
LBJ's Great Society, one more decade ought to do it.
Dumb it down for Democrats in 08.
And uh and then, yeah, we're winning.
Let's quit.
Democrat victory through defeat of the United States.
Uh any number of uh ideas work.
Finally, before we go to the break here, this is a story from uh the Gaza Strip.
Uh Gaza's public employees are getting paid on one condition, that is to stay home.
Such is the irony of life in the Gaza Strip now that Hamas militants are firmly in charge.
A rival pro-Western government and the West Bank is delivering salaries to most of Gaza's civil servants as long as they don't work.
Now, for those of you in Rio Linda, this is government employees.
The moderate fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas doesn't want its money propping up Hamas, but neither does it want to punish Gaza's mostly profata, 90,000 civil servants, 90,000 government workers in Gaza, whose salaries form the backbone of the already badly bruised economy.
You know, this I only mention this story because it portends trouble down the road.
It's you know, when they're going to raise all these cigarette and tobacco taxes to fund increasing amounts of health care insurance for the widowed children.
And when they tax cigarettes and tobacco products so high that they basically tax the product out of existence, guess what?
There isn't going to be any tax revenue to pay for all of the health care insurance benefits for the widowed children, which, by the way, now are qualified as children in this program up to age twenty five.
Uh it it'll it probably won't be long, just a matter of time before state and federal governments do the same thing that's happening here in Gaza, because when everybody stops smoking, there won't be any money to pay all the federal employees to actually work.
We don't will not stop paying them.
They just won't have to go to work.
There'd be nothing for them to do.
Quick timeout, folks.
So we'll be back next time.
Oh, told you drive by media.
Democrats are just livid over Bush daring to try to steal their issue, comparing Iraq to Vietnam.
And I found out some of the some of the authors of the quotes, the president mentioned in his speech yesterday.
I'll have uh have that for you, plus a lot of sound bites from these uh from these Dems and the drive-bys.
And have you heard about the Stefan Marbury?
Stefan Marbury, who uh is a guard for the the New York Knicks.
Uh has uh come out loudly, forcefully in defense of Michael Vick.
This is dog fighting just a sport.
And he compared it to hunting.
And there is reaction.
So we've got that.
We'll probably start with that on the audio sound bites when we get back.
So sit tight.
Broadcast accidents all yours right after this first EIB obscene profit timeout.
Well, that moose did stop breathing.
Everything you heard in that bit, by the way, was actually uh asserted as fact by a wacko group in Norway yesterday.
That the farts of a moose in Norway will pollute the planet more than a car traveling thirteen thousand kilometers.
Hey, wait, welcome back, folks.
Rushlin bought and the EIB network, a Beijing factory and used chopsticks in the news.
A Beijing factory used used chopsticks.
And they sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection.
A newspaper said on Wednesday in the latest in a string of Chinese food and product safety scares.
You believe that?
Who recycles chopsticks for crying out loud?
I don't even use them and never learned how.
Here's environmental flacos, I guess.
Why would anybody a chopstick?
Anyway, uh Stefan Marbury, this is uh uh last Monday night in Albany, said this about Michael Vick.
We don't say anything about people who shoot deers, shoot other animals.
You know, I mean, from what I hear, dog fighting is a sport.
You know, it's just this is behind closed doors, and I think it's tough that, you know, we build Michael Vick up and then we break them down, and I think he's one of the superb athletes, and he's a good human being.
I just think that he felt it's a bad situation.
Yeah, well, uh look at the this people look at it this way.
Uh Stefan Marbury's quote is uh an illustration of that.
And it does go on behind closed doors, and the uh the feds and all the other investigators tell you it's really tough to crack these things.
Uh these dog fighting rings that they're proliferate uh f uh quite numerously all over the fruited plain, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh we got a reaction uh uh from PETA on the Today Show today.
Matt Lauer uh talking to um uh uh well Ingrid Newkirk and the NAACP interim president Cortland Hayes.
And uh Mount Wauer uh said, Mr. Hayes, if Michael Vick were a white quarterback star athlete of Peyton Manning, uh, would we see the same amount of attention, the same amount of negative comments, the same amount of protest from people like PETA?
What we have to understand is the uh backdrop.
Uh we have to understand that what we're hearing expressed by some African Americans uh is their anger and uh hurt, uh distrust in a criminal justice system that they feel treats them uh like animals.
No dog deserves to be uh uh mistreated.
And uh blacks and Hispanics don't deserve to uh represent a majority of our prison population in this country, uh, while uh blacks and Hispanics represent only uh one third of the uh population.
Absolute non sequiturs.
By the way, I didn't hear a defense of Michael Vick in there, did I?
Wouldn't go that far, but uh uh no dog deserves to be mistreated.
Blacks and Hispanics don't what does that got to do with this?
How in the world is Vic being mistreated here?
Oh, it's just a sport, yeah.
Well, if it was a sport and they're and they were gambling on it, what else is Vic gambling on?
These are the questions that the team, the Atlanta Falcons and the League, the NFL have to worry about.
Not just what is what else might he be gambling on.
Who are these guys he's running around with?
And what kind of influence do they have on him?
There's all kinds of unanswered questions about this, even beyond the dog fighting business.
Here's Ingrid Newkirk of PETA.
Uh Matt O'Wauer said, Ms. Newkirk, Stefan Marbury, as you just heard, compared it to deer hunting, said he doesn't know that it's any worse.
I think I know, but how do you come down on that?
Peter, of course, opposes deer hunting.
Only seven percent of the U.S. population goes deer hunting.
But you don't douse deer in water and then electrocute them and beat them to death and slam them into the ground, and you don't build pits in your backyard for deer to fight.
So if somebody is um so mad as to say that there's an absolute comparison, they're wrong.
They're both cruel sports or can be if you're not a good shot.
Well, let me hunting, but dog fighting is a world unto itself.
It is blood and gutters.
Do you think there was a closely pursuit?
Uh so the controversy here thickens and uh and swirls.
Uh we're gonna get to the uh drive-by media reaction to uh President Bush's speech, both in print and in audio soundbites.
But let me uh before we go to the next uh break here, let me tell you who said what.
Uh that the president quoted yesterday, particularly about Vietnam.
The anti-war senator in 1972, the president quoted in the speech yesterday, who asked, what earthly difference does it make to nomadic tribes or uneducated subsistence farmers in Vietnam or Cambodia or Laos, whether they have a military dictator or a socialist commissar.
You remember that quote?
Just it's from a liberal Democrat.
And these these are the people that tell us they care more than anybody else there about people.
They love people, especially the oppressed and the downtrodden, the peasants.
Subsistence farmers, these are the people Democrats have been saying all of my life that they care about and nobody else does.
And here's this guy ready to consign them to a lifetime of uh bondage.
It was Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of the early segregationists and the mentor to uh Bill Clinton.
The following story about how it's difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone from Vietnam.
That New York Times writer was Sidney Shanberg.
Uh be back, folks.
Sit tight.
Your phone call is also Coming up on open line Friday on Thursday.
All right, let's go through some of the uh thank you.
Uh I know.
Serving humanity simply by showing up Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Let's take a look at some of the uh newspapers today and uh how they are, as I predicted, by the way, because I know these people.
I know these these commie libs and these Democrats.
Well, I know them like every square inch of my which stopped shrinking.
Um Gloria stopped shrinking naked butt yeah, I kind of went off the diet pin.
This next week and the vacation is gonna be tough too, but I um I'm gonna I'm gonna do my best.
I hate it.
I did I've been off it for two weeks.
Uh well, not off of it, but I but but but I'm not I haven't been on it, and you can't you can't lose weight when you're not on it.
Anyway, some of these newspapers, New York Times historians question Bush's reading of lessons of Vietnam war for Iraq.
But if you read the story, let me give you a quote from the story.
President Bush is right on the factual record, according to historians.
Well, I guess all Bush has is the facts.
He didn't debate causes.
He's dealing with facts on the ground, both in Vietnam and in Iraq.
It's these libs who are paranoid and upset here because it is they, ladies and gentlemen, who have been using this Iraq Vietnam comparison, trying to create in people's minds the idea of defeat.
Remember, the Democrats own defeat.
They are politically invested in it.
And they've been trying to secure public opinion to go along.
See, they're not reflecting public opinion.
The O6 elections had nothing to do with Iraq.
They just want to say they did.
Now they're trying to have been trying to shape and form public opinion and haven't succeeded as poll numbers for the support of the surge continue to rise.
So you got all these Democrats and all these media people who have been making the Iraq-Vietnam comparison to dredge up uh all of this negative and doom and gloom in people's minds.
So Bush comes out, okay, you want a comparison here?
Try this.
And just threw it right back and it's outmaneuvered them again, and they just can't stand it.
Remember, they see him as a barbecue jockey, hayseed tin of chewing tobacco in the back pocket clearing brush down in Texas, kind of guy.
They see Rove and Cheney as the as the uh as the minds of George W. Bush.
So President Bush right on the factual record.
What more does he need if he's got the facts on his side?
UK Times.
This is another one of these stories, Bush is right but uh that uh that it ends with the the newspaper saying we can't leave a functioning Iraq behind us, and we should quit.
His history lecture is disputable, not least in his illusion of Vietnam and Cambodia.
However, is beyond controversy on the banal core of his main point that Iraq is not yet come right but couldn't in the future, although he uh skirted around the U.S. almost complete lack of control over that course of events.
Uh not so fast on Cambodia's, not wrong about Cambodia.
Uh sit tight on this.
The Times story.
No, he's they admit that he's right factually.
Uh but the Times says we gotta get out.
Uh the U.S. goals may be out of its reach.
To the extent that Bush's rash comparison uh with uh Vietnam is justified, it undermines his case.
Now, Peter Rodman, another Brookings institution guy, uh writing today in National Review called Returning to Cambodia, killing fields of media fallacies.
Uh yesterday, the some of the historians and some of the um Democrats in a drive-by media reacting to the president's speech, said that Bush got it all wrong that we destabilize Cambodia, that our presence there in the whole region destabilized the whole region.
And he quoted the New York Times stories and some of the other uh statements uh made by others that uh the best days of Vietnam were ahead when we got out of there, blah blah same thing with Cambodia.
We these these people, whenever we go anywhere where our national interests are at stake, we are accused of destabilizing the world, the region that we go to uh by these uh by these libs.
So, Mr. Rodman says, No, uh sorry, it's not the United States that destabilized Cambodia.
Uh North Vietnam did that uh by occupying parts of Cambodia and launching attacks.
Let me read to you.
Trying to debunk the President's VFW speech, the Times has lately resuscitated the hoary claim that it was U.S. military activity that destabilized Cambodia in the first place.
This claim, alas, is not supportable.
What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.
So the president has his history right.
The outcome in Indochina was not foreordained.
Congress had the last word, however, between 73 and 75, and that's when they defunded uh the war.
Maybe we should get clarification on this from John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
He said he was in Cambodia at uh at Nixon.
Uh or at Christmas time, that the that uh it was sent there, and we found that that wasn't true.
Remember?
Uh it was seared, seared in his mind that he had been there.
And then we find out the only thing that was seared was his mind.
And it has remained seared to this day.
And of course I'm swift, but oh, by the way, speaking of swift voting, have you heard what the Brecht girl said?
The Brecht girl is out there saying the Lincoln bedroom's not for rent.
All of this, and of course, and a couple other things, direct direct references to the Clinton years.
But of course it's not about the Clintons.
No, no, no way.
Why would anybody think a Democrat presidential candidate suggesting that the Lincoln bedroom's not for rent?
Well, we're talking about the Clintons.
And of course, Mrs. Clinton's out there again.
She's being able to play the victim again because of this.
Uh uh, and and uh, you know, she's not the it's amazing how willing she is.
You you feminizes out there, I mean you better pay attention to this.
This woman is all too excuse me, all too eager to play the victim rather than the strong woman.
At the same time, we are told that she is victim, and she's this victim of unfair attacks, and yet she's stronger than any man and smarter than any man.
Um, New York Times, free Iraq is within reach, Bush declares.
President Bush delivered a rousing defensive as Iraq policy on Wednesday, telling a group of veterans that a free Iraq is within reach, and warning that if Americans succumb to the allure of retreat, that they will witness death and suffering of the sort not seen since the Vietnam era.
Uh so that this the piece, this piece, my old buddy Jim Rutenberg, by the way, and uh and Cheryl Gay Stolberg, boy, they put three reporters on this.
This must have really agitated him.
It's Jim Rutenberg, Cheryl Gay Stolberg, and Mark Mazzetti.
They put three reporters on something they really ticked off.
And the whole point of this story is not only did he bring up Vietnam, but he had the audacity to say the United States could still win.
Doesn't he know that's not part of the narrative anymore?
Doesn't he know that's not part of the template?
What do you mean?
Win.
We can't win.
In fact, New York Times had an editorial.
I think it was yesterday.
Pardon the sniffles.
The uh he had an editorial on the uh it was yesterday.
You know what?
I don't think the summation of the other I'm paraphrasing, they said it it doesn't matter.
Even if there is a uh a Holocaust or a genocide, we still need to get out of there.
Still, it was it was uh I don't I think it might have been slightly in reference to the president's remarks yesterday because the editorial written before the remarks, but the White House did put out uh text of the uh speech.
On Wednesday, a second Democrat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called for Mr. Maliki to quit, lashed out at American lawmakers who have questioned his competence, Mr. Bush, uh, who on Tuesday confessed to a certain level of frustration with the Iraqi government, responded uh yesterday by supporting Molochy.
Uh so um uh Hillary echoes LeVen, or Levin, so she's getting some uh star coverage uh in the in this particular story.
So um what is this uh Oh.
LA Times.
Now, this is this if you people the LA Times want to know why.
You are losing subscribers at a quick rate.
This story is a good example.
You think your audience, your readers, are stupid, and admittedly.
Some of the liberal readers are.
They believe everything that you pump at them, just like the Times and New York subscribers do.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki warned the Bush administration after talks with longtime U.S. adversaries in Syria on Wednesday that Iraq can find friends elsewhere if Washington doesn't like how he runs his country.
The Los Angeles Times in this story rewrites history and tells their readers, and now I'm passing it on to you because I know some of you are smart enough not to buy it.
It's a business expense for us, so we can deduct it.
Trying to tell their readers that Al Maliki was talking about Bush.
He was talking about Carl Levin.
And now Hillary, Levin came out of Iraq earlier this week and said Maliki's gotta go.
It was that he was reacting to.
They have to know this at the New York Times.
AP did the same thing.
Well, of course, once they w one does it, they all do it.
They're all um in the same group think.
All right, we'll get to some of your phone calls after this.
Next EIB profit center timeout, folks.
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Jeff, nice to have you, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Uh you know, listening to these Democrats now calling for the replacement of Al Maliki really reminds me of or tells me that they want to recreate Vietnam.
Anyone who reads history can can go back and see that the Kennedy administration acquiesced in the uh or gave a tacit approval to the assassination and the replacement of the DM regime, which was the only political force that was able to maintain a unified South Vietnam.
And then after that, there was a succession of U.S. installed puppet leaders, big men is the one I can remember the most, because he was in there about two or three times.
And all through the Johnson administration, this went on.
And all through that, I mean, I was in the military and I turned against the Vietnam War some years later, because the Johnson Johnson administration had no intention of winning.
They wanted a stalemate.
They were drafting young men to go over there and get killed.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Well, they were you know, they had this idea that China would intervene if they tried to win the war, disregarding the fact that China had one of the most massive earthquakes in history and had hundreds of thousands of people displaced and had their own problems.
Well, the Chinese were already in there helping the North Vietnamese.
Yeah, I I realized that, but the fact was that the according to what the Johnson administration people will tell you is they were afraid that it would escalate into the Third World War.
Uh and anyone who was over there in the early stages understands that the United States could have won that war.
Of course.
In fact, the North Vietnamese said after Tet they were willing to negotiate terms of of uh of a ceasefire.
Well, thanks to people like Walter Cronkite, Tet was portrayed as a giant defeat for us.
Absolutely.
And then finally, when the Nixon administration came in with their plan, they got key uh uh key and and I forget the other guys because they needed to run the military.
They succeeded in Vietnamization.
The South Vietnamese were defending their territory, and they were basically at a military stalemate until the Democrats withdrew all financial support for the South Vietnamese government.
And that led to everything that we know happened after.
Which is what the But the Democrats now are doing trying to do exactly the same thing.
They're trying to get the United States to be put on the block with everybody over there, is installing a puppet government.
And then who knows what happens after that?
Well, These people are disgraceful.
This uh this is exactly uh what the president was talking about yesterday.
The uh the uh uh prime minister president whatever South Vietnam that he's talking about, folks, is Win Kow Key.
I and I will I will remember that uh it was mispronounced back then.
Uh Nuyun Kaukee, but it's actually the the Vietnamese pronunciation of it is win.
Uh in fact the Dallas Cowboys had one of their one of their great interim uh middle linebackers was uh dat uh win.
Um and it's spelled the same way.
Um he had to quit because of injury, but uh anyway.
Uh the the the the Democrats back then, the Johnson administration were indeed everybody was afraid of the Chinese getting involved.
They already were involved.
Now, once again, it was if it's what you what you get with a defensive posture.
If we win, we might make somebody mad.
And that we don't want to do.
Now we'll run the risk of making our own countrymen mad, and we'll sustain this thing and go on along as a stalemate.
And finally, he's right about this too.
Caller is right about this.
The Democrats started demanding all these new new um uh leaders in South Vietnam, and we actually installed them.
Uh Iraq has no comparison other than the way the Democrats are trying to portray it.
They have a duly elected parliament and a president.
And it's up to them in Iraq now who is their president and uh and and who isn't.
So, Jeff, thanks for the call.
Uh brief time out.
We'll squeeze another one or two in after this.
Hi.
How are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have uh Marvin by the way, I am disappointed in some of you people.
I uh those of you sending me emails, I will explain this in the uh in the next hour.
But you you you people sending me these emails about Clinton and having live again, you you obviously are not listening.
Because we did this yesterday.
We beat everybody on this by a day.
Uh anyway, Marvin uh in reading, welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Yeah.
I uh I had a comment regarding uh Stefan Marbury's comments.
I don't I don't condone beating or in any way.
I I love dogs, my favorite animal.
They're man's best friend, by the way.
But I I can understand some of his logic.
If you think about horse and dog racing uh and horse racing, they use a whip to force the animal to the finish line, and then if he breaks a leg, they euphanize him.
And we also when you talk about electrocuting these dogs, we still electrocute human beings.
So I mean, I understand his rationale.
Don't agree with it.
Yeah, yeah, but I understand where he's coming from.
Yeah, yeah, we uh we we uh and we electrocute pigs in a slaughterhouse, too.
Well, and a lot of people have never been to a slaughterhouse.
I have been.
So if you've been there, you know exactly how inhumane that is.
And uh I I like I said, uh, he's saying something that a lot of people probably think but don't want to say because they love their animals too.
Well, I'm one of them.
I'm one of them.
I know.
People don't have horses in the house, you know, that kind of pet.
They don't have pigs in the house.
Uh and in this country they don't eat their dogs.
Well, yeah, we don't eat the dogs here in the country, but they do eat them in in most of the Asian countries.
Well, but that that's uh we're we haven't we haven't descended yet uh to that to that to that necessity.
But the animals, uh these dogs, even these pit bulls, are are considered by a lot of people uh because we make pets out of these dogs uh to be the essence of innocence.
Any any any dog, uh not not just a pill.
I I saw when I was out in Wyoming on Monday, cutest I had never seen one of these dogs.
A miniature greyhound, and it was like an eight, eight or ten week old puppy.
And it was just the uh the cutest little thing.
I know dogs man's best friend and all that.
Uh I've had both dogs and cats, and I can tell you uh totally different.
Uh dogs have masters.
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