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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 Snerdley?
Oh, there you are.
What were you laying down on the floor or something?
I was going to 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 Thursday today, but this is essentially Friday for me since tomorrow.
Gee, I got to get up.
So, you know, folks, this going on vacation is fun, but I have to tell you, the two days that lead up to it, it's just a pain.
I have the barber coming over this afternoon.
I got to go home and I got to tell the 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 got to stand there.
I've got, because of my weight fluctuations, I have different sizes of everything in the closet in there.
I just can't tell the staff person, okay, get me 10 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.
And what else do I have to do?
I've got to get up at 4 o'clock because I did the bills yesterday.
That's another.
I had to do the bills.
I had to have a little psychological counseling session with Punkin.
You know, she's 10 years old now.
She misses me when I'm gone for an extended length of time.
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 the last three days or so just waiting, hoping I'll walk in.
Thank God she can't call me.
Let's see.
What else I got to do?
Well, no, I don't wash the, why would I wash the car?
I'm going to get on an airplane tomorrow.
No, don't cancel a newspaper.
No, none of that sort of stuff.
Oh, I'm taking a bunch of wine.
You know, it's a guy golf tripper going to Hawaii.
And I'm taking about two cases.
I'm taking 48 bottles of wine because there's going to be 10 of us.
So I had to go through my wine cellar list and pick out which bottle.
That took me a half hour.
You know, I just, it just, all this stuff, I mean, it's going to be fun once we got it.
I got to get up at 4 o'clock.
Got to get up at 4 o'clock because I got to get wheels up at 5.
I got to stop in a famous Midwestern city to pick up some guys.
We've got to wing our way over to Hawaii.
We get there about 1 o'clock in the afternoon 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 just to go on vacation.
Now, coming back, it's not nearly this bad.
You know, it's easy.
Except for the big stack of bills that they put on the desk for me.
That's a big thing to excitedly walk into and see first thing.
Anyway, we're going to do Open Line Friday on Thursday today, ladies and gentlemen, which means, you know, normally Monday through Thursday, you have to talk on the phones about the things I'm interested in because I'm not going to 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 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 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Have to start off with a correction today.
We had a story yesterday.
You know, that cat, Oscar the cat in Rhode Island that lives in a nursing home.
And this cat seemed to have a sense of when residents of the old folks home were going to cash it in.
And a cat would jump on the bed of the patient about to cash it in, and the patient would cash it in.
And they say, wow, this is incredible.
How does this cat know this?
Well, a lot of the inmates, the patients, were getting upset about this.
So there was a story yesterday that the cat had been found dead in the nursing home with a dented bedpan near the body.
And a very curious member of our audience, Jay Cockensparger, called the nursing home up there to confirm this because he thought the story might have been a hoax.
Not that I was making it up, of course, but that he thought it was a hoax.
And the lady that answered the phone up there said that Oscar is indeed alive and well.
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 Mr. Cockensparger wanted me to know here.
I hope I'm pronouncing his name right.
It's C-O-C-H, Kokensparger, Kochensparger.
I want to get it all because I don't mean to be disrespectful.
So anyway, we're all happy to know that Oscar the cat is still alive.
And maybe, well, look at, I guess the patients up there don't care.
Otherwise, the story would be true.
So, you know, it was a well-written hoax.
It's a well-written line.
And I should have suspected it.
You know, I let my professional guard down.
I should have suspected it because there was no identifying link source or whatever.
But it was written pretty well as a hoax.
So anyway, it was just a cat.
No big deal.
Cat's Little Alive 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 just born.
Oh, he's a farmer in India.
His name is Nanu Ramjogi.
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.
And 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 shortage, if there is one, and by the way, rather than overpopulation, there is a birth rate replacement problem worldwide.
At least 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.
Men with cavemen faces most attractive to women.
This Indian farmer doesn't exactly look like a caveman, but he'll never be on the cover of GQ either.
Guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history.
A recent study of the skulls of human ancestors in modern humans finds that women and thereby evolution selected for males with relatively short upper faces.
What's an upper face?
Forehead?
The region 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 any of you assign caveman-like faces to either of those two guys?
The next time a woman calls you a Cro-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 email to presumed Democrat supporters states, we need to turn a phrase that really jumps out and tells you right off the bat what this election is 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.
I worked on a few of my own, such as, Mr. Carville, 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 then, yeah, we're winning.
Let's quit.
Democrat victory through defeat of the United States.
Any number of ideas work.
Finally, before we go to the break here, this is a story from the Gaza Strip.
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 in 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 Riolinda, 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 pro-Fatah, 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.
You know, when they're going to raise all these cigarette and tobacco taxes to fund increasing amounts of health care insurance for the widow 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 widow children, which, by the way, now are qualified as children in this program up to age 25.
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.
Now, we don't will not stop paying them.
They just won't have to go to work.
There'll be nothing for them to do.
Quick timeout, folks.
So we'll be back.
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 authors of the quotes.
The president mentioned in his speech yesterday.
I'll have that for you.
Plus a lot of soundbites from these Dims and the drive-bys.
And have you ever heard about Stefan Marbury?
Stephon Marbury, who is a guard for the New York Knicks, has come out loudly, forcefully, in defense of Michael Vick.
This is dogfighting.
It's 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 soundbites when we get back.
Sit tight.
Broadcast excellence, 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 asserted as fact by a wacko group in Norway yesterday.
The farts of a moose in Norway will pollute the planet more than a cart traveling 13,000 kilometers.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
Rushlinbaugh 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, and 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.
I never learned how.
Here's environmentalist wackos, I guess.
Why would anybody a chopstick?
Anyway, Stefan Marbury, this is last Monday night in Albany, said this about Michael Vick.
We don't say anything about people who shoot deads and shoot other animals.
You know, I mean, from what I hear, dog fighting is a sport.
You know, it's just behind closed doors.
And I think it's tough that, you know, we build Michael Vick up and then we break him down.
And I think he's one of the superb athletes and he's a good human being.
I just think that he fell into a bad situation.
Yeah, well, people look at it this way.
Stephon Marbury's quote is an illustration of that.
And it does go on behind closed doors.
And the feds and all the other investigators tell you, it's really tough to crack these things, these dog fighting rings, that they proliferate quite numerously all over the fruited plane, ladies and gentlemen.
We got a reaction from PETA on the Today Show today, Matt Lauer talking to Ingrid Newkirk and the NAACP interim president, Cortland Hayes.
And Matt Lauer said, Mr. Hayes, if Michael Vick were a white quarterback star athlete of Peyton Manning, would we see the same amount of attention, the same amount of negative comments, the same amount of protests from people like PETA?
What we have to understand is the backdrop.
We have to understand that what we're hearing expressed by some African Americans is their anger and hurt, distrust in a criminal justice system that they feel treats them like animals.
Oh, come on.
No dog deserves to be mistreated.
And blacks and Hispanics don't deserve to represent a majority of our prison population in this country, while blacks and Hispanics represent only one-third of the 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 no dog deserves to be mistreated.
Blacks and Hispanics don't.
What has 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 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 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 dogfighting business.
Here's Ingrid Newkirk of PETA.
Matt 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 7% 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 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.
Deer hunting, but dog fighting is a world unto itself.
It is blood and gut.
Do you think there was pursuit?
So the controversy here thickens and swirls.
We're going to get to the drive-by media reaction to President Bush's speech, both in print and in audio soundbites.
Let me, before we go to the next break here, let me tell you who said what.
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 from a liberal Democrat?
And these are the people that tell us they care more than anybody else.
They're 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 bondage.
It was Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of the early segregationists and the mentor to 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.
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 thank you.
I know.
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Let's take a look at some of the newspapers today and how they are, as I predicted, by the way, because I know these people.
I know these commie libs and these Democrats.
Well, I know them like every square inch of my which stopped shrinking.
Gloria Stopped Shrinking Naked But yeah, I kind of went off the diet pin.
This next week and the vacation is going to be tough too, but I'm going to do my best.
I hate it.
I've been off it for two weeks.
Well, not off of it, but I haven't been on it, and 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 06 elections had nothing to do with Iraq.
They just want to say they did.
Now they've been trying to shape and form public opinion, and they 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 all of this negative and doom and gloom in people's minds.
So Bush comes, 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 minds of George W. Bush.
So President Bush is right on the factual record.
What more does he need if he's got the facts on his side?
U.K. Times.
This is another one of these stories.
Bush is right, but that ends with 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, he's beyond controversy on the banal core of his main point that Iraq has not yet come right but could in the future, although he skirted around the U.S. almost complete lack of control over that course of events.
Not so fast on Cambodia.
He's not wrong about Cambodia.
Sit tight on this.
The Times story.
They admit that he's right factually.
But the Times said, we got to get out.
The U.S. goals may be out of its reach.
To the extent that Bush's rash comparison with Vietnam is justified, it undermines his case.
Now, Peter Rodman, another Brookings Institution guy writing today in National Review called Returning to Cambodia, Killing Fields of Media Fallacies.
Yesterday, some of the historians and some of the Democrats in a drive-by media reacting to the president's speech said that Bush got it all wrong, that we destabilized 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 statements made by others that the best days of Vietnam were ahead when we got out of there, blah, blah, blah.
Same thing with Cambodia.
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, by these libs.
So Mr. Rodman says, no, sorry, it's not the United States that destabilized Cambodia.
North Vietnam did that 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 the war.
Maybe we should get clarification on this from John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
He said he was in Cambodia at Nixon or at Christmas time that it was sent there.
And we found out that wasn't true.
Remember?
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 voting.
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, 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 way.
Why would anybody think a Democrat presidential candidate suggesting that the Lincoln bedroom is not for rent would be 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.
And, you know, she's not the, it's amazing how willing she is.
You, you feminazis out there, 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's a victim and she's this victim of unfair attacks, and yet she's stronger than any man and smarter than any man.
Anyway, New York Times, free Iraq is within reach, Bush declares.
President Bush delivered a rousing defense of his 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.
So the piece, this piece, my old buddy Jim Rutenberg, by the way, and Cheryl Gay Stolberg.
Well, 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.
They had an editorial on the, it was yesterday.
You know what?
I don't, the summation of the, I'm paraphrasing, they said it doesn't matter.
Even if there is a Holocaust or a genocide, we still need to get out of there.
Still, it was, it was, 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 text of the speech.
On Wednesday, a second Democrat senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, called for Mr. Malachi to quit, lashed out at American lawmakers who have questioned his competence.
Mr. Bush, who on Tuesday confessed to a certain level of frustration with the Iraqi government, responded yesterday by supporting Maliki.
So Hillary echoes Levin, or Levin, so she's getting some star coverage in this particular story.
So, yeah, what is this?
Oh, L.A. Times.
Now, if you people of the L.A. 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 Nouri 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, Malachi's got to go.
That he was reacting to.
They have to know this at the New York Times.
AP did the same thing.
Well, of course, once one does it, they all do it.
They're all 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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It's Jeff.
Nice to have you, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
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.
Anybody who reads history can go back and see that the Kennedy administration acquiesced in the, or gave a tacit approval to the assassination and the replacement of the Diem 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 Min 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 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, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Explain to people why the Johnson administration had no intention of winning and wanted a stalemate with a draft.
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 realize that, but the fact was that according to what the Johnson administration people will tell you is they were afraid that it would escalate into the Third World War.
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 a ceasefire.
Yeah, well, thanks to people like Walter Crunkite, 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 and I forget the other guy's name.
They would be military 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 afterwards.
Right, which is what the government is.
But the Democrats now are 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.
These people are disgraceful.
This is exactly what the president was talking about yesterday.
The prime minister, president, whatever, South Vietnam that he's talking about, folks, is Win Cow Ki.
And I will, remember that?
It was mispronounced back then, Nguyen.
Nguyen Khao Ki, but it's actually the Vietnamese pronunciation of it is Wynn.
In fact, the Dallas Cowboys had one of their great interim middle linebackers was Dat Wynn.
And it's spelled the same way.
He had to quit because of injury.
But anyway, the Democrats back then, the Johnson administration, were indeed, everybody was afraid of the Chinese getting involved.
They already were involved.
Once again, it's 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 along as a stalemate.
And finally, he's right about this too.
Qualar is right about this.
The Democrats started demanding all these new leaders in South Vietnam, and we actually installed them.
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 who isn't.
So, Jeff, thanks for the call.
Brief timeout.
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.
Marv, and by the way, I am disappointed in some of you people.
Those of you sending me emails, I will explain this in the next hour.
But you people sending me these emails about Clinton and having life again, you obviously are not listening.
Because we did this yesterday.
We beat everybody on this by a day.
Anyway, Marvin in Reading, welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Yeah.
I had a comment regarding Stefan Marbury's comments.
I don't condone beating or Polson anyway.
I love dogs.
My favorite animal.
They're man's best friend, by the way.
But I can understand some of his logic.
If you think about horse and dog racing 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 that.
Yeah, yeah, but I understand where he's coming from.
Yeah, yeah, and we electrocute pigs in a slaughterhouse, too.
Well, and a lot of people have never been to a slaughterhouse.
I have been.
And if you've been there, you know exactly how inhumane that is.
And so, like I said, 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.
They're not that kind of pet.
They don't have pigs in the house.
And in this country, they don't eat their dogs.
Well, yeah, we don't eat the dogs here.
But they do eat them in most of the Asian countries.
Well, but that's where we haven't descended yet to that necessity.
But the animals, these dogs, even these pit bulls, are considered by a lot of people because we make pets out of these dogs to be the essence of innocence.
Any dog, not just a pit.
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 or ten-week-old puppy.
And it was just the cutest little thing.
I know dogs, man's best friend, and all that.
I've had both dogs and cats, and I can tell you, totally different.
Dogs have masters.
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