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Aug. 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 23, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know it.
Yeah, but I got it.
Talking to me in my ear again here, folks, and they're doing it on purpose.
They know that the program is starting now.
Anyway, uh audio soundbite number six, uh, Mike uh uh changing and altering the original plan.
Greetings, my friends, welcome back, Rush Limboy here, open line Friday on Thursday.
Because I'm not going to be here tomorrow, leaving at uh 5 a.m. tomorrow uh to begin a journey to Hawaii uh for a guy golf trip.
Have mucho BS to do this afternoon and tonight before I can actually leave and enjoy it.
Uh but as I said, we all have to overcome obstacles in life, folks, and I've got many obstacles here before I get to you know get the getaway day.
I'm thinking uh, by the way, of claiming a new title.
And that new title would be America's real civil rights leader.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, as evidenced by my monologue in the uh last half hour of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
I am the only American in public life offering real solutions to people who encounter all kinds of discrimination for whatever reasons.
Unlike liberal complainers and the civil rights movement.
Uh I articulate and inspire people to try to find ways around whatever obstacles are in front of them.
To believe in the power of themselves.
And as such, my friends, who better than me to assume the mantle of real civil rights leader?
It does not take a village.
If you wait for the village, you're going to be waiting and waiting and waiting until you are pushing up daisies.
Do it yourself.
And of course, when you say that, liberal critics will come back and say, Oh, yeah, well, easy for you to say.
I remember back during the uh the homeless debates, which really occur only when Republicans are in the uh White House.
But this is the late Ailey 80s and early 90s, and uh Mitch Snyder, he rests in peace, uh running around singing three million homeless and there and there weren't, and we'd talk about it.
Well, why don't these people, the ones that are capable, I just get a job.
Oh, yeah, easy for you to say.
As though it was committing some kind of incentive crime to suggest that they do what every normal person does.
That's work.
Work is valuable in a whole lot of ways.
People take their identity from it, a sense of their self-worth.
It's where you achieve.
It's where you also learn a lot about other people.
Uh it is how you earn a living.
Something the Kennedy family wouldn't know, but but it it it is the way you earn a living.
And yet it is constantly ridiculed for some people.
Well, yeah, easy for you to say.
No, we're trying to actually solve the problem here rather than just try to get credit for big hearts by noticing the problem.
Oh, look at that person that gutted that.
That's so terrible.
We've got to do something.
Let's do a rock concert.
Yeah.
Do the rock concert.
Person's probably in the gutter while a concert's going on, a concert's over, person's still in the gutter.
But all those people think they have made a difference.
And all the while they ridicule the rest of us for not having compassion or big hearts.
And it's just the exact opposite as I said.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I, El Rusho, in a in addition to being a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a national treasure.
I was even told recently by a caller that I am a prophet.
Fine and dandy.
I am also the real civil rights leader of this country.
Couple news items here.
Uh U.S. retailers.
This is so predictable.
The only thing different here is it's August.
I have for you, ladies and gentlemen, the first official doom and gloom story about the holiday season.
From Reuters.
U.S. retailers are still sweating through the back to school shopping season, but an early chill has already crept into their prospects for the all-important holiday season, as it does every year in the drive by media.
They present news to us that there is a chill over the retail outlook for the holiday season.
They normally don't do it in August, but they're doing it today.
Numerous retailers from Walmart stores to Target have warned that the second half of the year will be more difficult than the first as the deteriorating housing market, higher fuel and food costs, and an undulating stock market.
Take a toll on shoppers.
Wait a second.
How can that be?
I thought the stock market was for people in Wall Street.
I thought Main Street didn't uh benefit.
Oh, I take it back.
When the market goes up, only the rich do well.
When the market goes down, only Main Street suffers.
Yeah.
Uh there's caution in the air, said Marie Driscoll, retail analyst at Standard and Poor's.
While saying it's too early to predict how holiday sales will unfold.
Driscoll said that retailers will need to stock the absolutely right product this holiday season or expect to have to resort to cutting prices and matching competitors' discounts to win dollars from selective shoppers this.
You ever noticed every year, you people, when you go out in Christmas shop, search for deals.
You don't do it any other time of the year, apparently, but you're always out there searching for deals.
And it's up to the retailers now to make sure they don't overstock the wrong items.
Guess what?
That is a concern.
It's part of the business plan 365 days a year, not just during the holidays.
But there's a there's a um there's a companion story.
Actually, what you know, I what did you say, HR?
I think I heard you, but I'm uh well, yeah, I I I make a see, I try to counter all this.
I do that too.
Not only do I try to buy the wrong stuff at the uh at holiday time, I try to find the most expensive.
In fact, if somebody's having a sale, I won't go there.
Because I want to help the retailers who are charging full boat.
Because I know they're in trouble.
What are you in pain in there, Mr. Snurdly?
Something acting up, or you are you got a caller?
Oh, okay.
He's in pain because he's talking somewhere on the phone.
Just be nice.
Companion story.
Fewer people sign up for jobless claims.
An encouraging sign that most businesses aren't resorting to big layoffs amid a housing slump and the painful credit crunch.
Well, wait a minute.
I thought we just heard that the holidays are going to be awful for these exact reasons.
The holidays are going to be good.
Here's the story.
Deteriorating housing market, higher fuel and food costs, and an undulating stock market take a toll on shoppers.
It is thought.
But fewer people signing up for jobless claims, encouraging sign that most businesses aren't resorting to big layoffs amid a housing slump and a painful credit crunch.
So what are we to uh believe?
The showing uh for the labor department, new applications file for unemployment insurance dipped by 2,000 to 322,000 for the week ending August the 18th.
The showing was a bit higher than the 320,000 analysts were forecasting.
Not 320,000 analysts.
Uh the 320.
Once again, the analysts, the experts stumped.
Unemployment claims just didn't come in the way they thought they were going to come in.
All right, let's take a brief break here.
We'll be back.
Oh.
Before we go, have you seen the story that seniors having more sex than you think?
You seen this story?
Well, I figured you would.
Um, we have this story.
I remember in mind, we had this story um in the early part of the program.
Let me find it here.
It's uh it won't be long, folks.
The stack is not that big.
Uh-d it is.
It is that women uh yeah, men with cavemen faces most attractive to women.
And a caveman face in the story, by the way, described as Will Smith or or or Brad Pitt.
It's a short forehead.
Looks like the Cromagnon's skull.
Is it that So what what kind of faces are the uh octogenarians and up who like to get it on attracted to?
Yeah.
Um what faces that are breathing?
We've come a long way.
You know, we're making jokes about these people in 80s and uh so forth having sex.
It used to be, and the jokes were that if you go to a nursing home, just on a visit, and all the uh residents smile at the same time, it'd stop everything and just declare it Halloween and bring out the pumpkins.
So we've got from those jokes jokes about having sex in their 80s.
This is BIP.
Very funny, very funny playing the theme song to Hawaii 5.0, cheesy song, cheesy tune.
Try this uh headline.
This is some CNN.
Uh uh Gross, this is this is fund manager, famed fund manager, bond fund manager Bill Gross.
You ever heard of uh famed bond manager Bill Gross?
Have you, Brian?
I've been to bomb walkett, and I never heard of the famed bond fund uh manager Bill Gross.
Anyway, he said that the White House should bail out the millions of American homeowners who face the dreaded prospect of foreclosure this year.
If we can bail out Chrysler, why can't we support the American homeowner?
Gross wrote in his monthly investment outlook on PIMCO's website.
With nearly two million homeowners at risk of losing their homes this year, and with housing prices rapidly receding, Gross said that President Bush, not the Federal Reserve, is the best hope for almost homeless homeowners.
Write some checks, bail them out, prevent a destructive housing deflation that Ben Bernanke is unable to do.
After all, W, you're the decider, aren't you?
He writes in his missive.
Okay.
Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross, a question.
You want George Bush to rescue and bail out these homeowners.
Uh may I ask, with whose money you have in mind.
I'd really like to know who's going to bail them out.
Back to the phones.
Janet, Northport, Florida.
I appreciate your patience.
Thank you for waiting.
Yes, Rush.
Um, after my question, Rush, could I pass on a bumper sticker suggestion for the gals?
For the uh for the Democrats?
Conservative gals.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, thank you.
Um yesterday you mentioned the uh just released uh CIA internal report on uh George Tennant's uh failures fighting terrorism, and although it was never mentioned that I saw uh the failures were all during the Clinton terms.
And uh you know, they refused to go after terrorists even after all the attacks of the 90s, and this report referenced um this legal wall that prevented intelligence sharing.
Well, we know Jamie Gorlich erected this wall.
Uh she was the real attorney general, in my opinion.
Well, certainly she was directed by her boss, Hillary Clinton, since Mrs. Clinton decided all legal appointments.
So these were her people.
Uh Hillary's agenda, and and these failures, I would say to get bin Laden uh these dozen times were also hers.
And would you not agree if you if your horrible prediction of 80 percent comes true, uh, Gorlich would be sitting in that chair again.
Oh, Gorelli could be back, and so would Sandy Burglar.
Uh his his probation expires just in time for her inauguration or pretty close to it.
And there's uh Sandy Burglar needs a payback.
He's uh he risked it all for them.
Um, you know, this this report is uh is interesting.
It's it's uh it's a CYA report, dumps on tenant, there's no question about it, but also has a little noticed reference to Bill Clinton lying again.
Uh huh.
Uh about uh uh you know he he told uh a number of people, and including uh Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that he did everything he could to kill Bin Laden, did everything he could, but he never issued a kill order.
Uh what he did was issue an order to capture.
But the order to capture said you can't, there can't be any any uh uh collateral casualties.
Of course, bin Laden's hanging around with uh, you know, a bunch of cover and fans so forth.
The CIA in this report said we didn't really take this seriously because we don't go around the world capturing people, A, B, with this kind of restriction on us, so they just kind of let it go.
And then Clinton's been out there trying to rewrite history for his legacy, saying he worked harder on nothing except tax cuts, probably, uh to kill bin Laden and get him.
He didn't.
Now the the stuff that Gorelic is is uh and the wall is uh is not in this report.
I think I think the reason for that, I'm just speculating.
I think this is an internal CIA report uh where they are uh uh introspective about that agency.
And she was over at the Department of Justice.
But wouldn't you say that what she did, all that she did was under Mrs. Clinton's direction.
She made all those legal appointments.
I mean, she got rid of people, she hired people.
I don't I don't th the odds are, yeah, but I I um I don't know that.
Uh uh uh you got people like Jamie Garelic, they got their own ideas on how the world ought to be.
I I think you know the Clintons go out and they they populate their uh organizations with like-minded people, don't have to give them orders every day.
They are the only order is you say nothing about what you ever see or hear with us.
You will never ever talk about what we've said to you or anything.
But but other than that, I mean it's it's sort of like the media.
The media does not have to have a meeting every day in order to figure out what they're all gonna put on television at night.
It's all the same.
They don't need a meeting every day to say what's gonna be on the front page of the New York Times.
New York Times have a meeting, but they won't consult anybody else, but it's all the same.
And I think when you've got activists, which is what the Clinton administration put into office, uh likely right that then Clinton uh Hillary, Bill, both, whatever, issuing directives here.
Uh so she'll go through the whole campaign season without one question um directed to her about what they did not do.
Of course not.
That'll be that'll be attacking her, and that will be oh, that's the past.
We want to move forward.
You Republicans, you just can't let this go.
You have Clintonitis.
You got Clinton's on the brain.
And you and and they'll they'll uh dovetail it that way.
No, the the the idea that we're gonna get an open discussion of of uh of her incompetence.
Uh the Republican presidential nominee, whoever it is, will probably delve there.
These Democrats that are running against her, Edwards took the biggest risk lately by saying he's not going to rent.
Uh course now he wasn't talking about the Clintons.
Everybody knows that.
Ha ha.
Like Michelle Obama wasn't talking about the Clintons when she talked about you can't run the White House, you can't run your own house, how can you run the uh run the White House?
However, as is always the case, Janet, we will be reminding people of all of this.
When it's time, when it's time, you don't want to burn people out.
You don't forget most people aren't like you and me, Janet, and the rest of us in this audience.
Uh you wait and see, folks, where uh and and uh we were commenting the other day, this has been uh in our memory one of the most active uh news cycle Augusts, and in fact summers, then uh than we can remember.
But even at that, you wait and see how things intensify and change starting September third.
Uh we know when all these people come back from Malibu, come back from the Hamptons, come back from wherever they are, uh, and get going.
The campaigns are gonna are gonna seize up the debates all of a sudden are gonna matter a hell of a lot more.
You wait and see the intensity's gonna really, really change.
Uh and and you gotta keep the powder dry for when people are emotionally and intellectually ready to accept it and not be turned off by it.
I appreciate the call.
This is Ted Moline, Illinois.
Hello, Ted.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call, ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Um yesterday I was at a uh picture frame store, and um a gentleman walked in very happy and showed me a picture of uh picture that he took of an osprey in this area.
I'm on Illinois, Western Illinois, Eastern Iowa, right on the Mississippi River, and Osprey, and he explained that the osprey is unusual to be seen in this part of the country.
Well, I didn't know that, but I told him that, well, it's been pretty different weather this year, a lot of rain in August here in the Midwest.
And he explained to me, oh, yeah, it's that global warming is creating havoc with the animal kingdom.
So I said, uh, well, I I I really don't think it's the animal or the uh weather uh global warming.
I think it's uh cycle.
I tried to explain it.
He looked at me very seriously and said, 'You are in denial.
And then he added, 'You are in the minority.
And when I tried to tell him that I don't think man probably is the reason that caused all this, he said, You sound like a George Bush neocon.
I couldn't believe it.
Rush, am I in denial?
Uh no, you're not in denial.
What you found, what you discovered, what you were confronted with is a brain dead Democrat, which illustrates that this whole thing is nothing more than a political issue.
It is it is disguised liberalism designed to gain more and more control over people's lives.
By the way, how does an Osprey know where Illinois is?
H.R. just sent me the uh New York Times editorial today on the CIA report.
Listen to this.
The uh CIA inspector general's report on the agency's failures before September eleventh was devastating.
But not because it showed that America's spies missed the rise of Al Qaeda.
George Tennett, then the director of the Central Intelligence rang the Al Qaeda alarm.
He sent a memo to the entire intelligence community saying he wanted no effort spared in the war with bin Laden.
He took on the president's closest advisors to agitate for a strike on an al Qaeda base in Afghanistan.
The disturbing thing was that this all happened under President Bill Clinton.
He's still my beating heart.
But Bill Clinton said that he had a virtual obsession in getting bin Laden, didn't he?
I tried to kill him.
I worked as hard as I could.
I what I gave an order to kill Bed Laden, we couldn't find a guy, but I did everything I could.
I tried I work and I work and I work.
That's what he told Chris Wallace.
And he has just been undercut by the Bible.
By the house organ.
The Democrat Party.
This first paragraph validates everything that's in the movie, The Path to 911.
Or the central elements of it.
By the way, still no DVD on that series.
I wonder why.
The disturbing thing is that when all this happened, Bill Clinton was in the White House.
When George W. Bush won the White House, Mr. Tenet seems to have shifted his priorities.
A CIA chief suddenly seemed consumed with hanging onto his job.
Wow.
So...
Now been watching the news monitors here all day.
New York Times generally dictates what the news is for other drive-by outlets.
Not today.
Elizabeth in Los Vegas, I'm glad you called Elizabeth.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I've been listening to you for 15 years, have about five radios going every time I listen to you, you know, all over my house.
Well, I appreciate that.
Uh and what I'm calling about is you mentioned the other day a lady asked you why you enjoy golfing.
And you said because you can go out with your friends and take it, you know, enjoy walking and so forth.
The ordinary Well, you put up with the walking, but I mean you get out there, you forget everything.
Well, the go I mean you're just getting a chance to relax.
And you uh actually and the ordinary golfer in Las Vegas, now I only know about the public courses, I don't know about the private, but you're required to play with strangers.
And uh uh or pay the green fees to four people.
And then the strangers proceed to tell you how to golf.
And uh I'll tell you what, I'd pay the green's fees for four people rather than play with some people I don't know.
Exactly defeat the whole purpose.
But uh the uh especially with the kind of fame I have, that couldn't be done.
No, I know, and uh it that's what I'm saying.
It isn't fair for the the ordinary person.
They I enjoy just golfing with my friend.
And uh by the way, my my dad was born in in Dundee and and raised in St. Andrews.
And that's been a long time ago.
Wow.
And uh they Well I feel for you.
I feel for you.
I wish I could build you your own golf course.
Wouldn't that be nice?
I I don't mind like I said, I don't mind the stranger part, except for the fact you're forced into it.
It's the only sport I know of where they force you to play with a stranger.
Uh basketball or something doesn't require it.
But um anyhow, uh just uh uh an off side is if you have a yellow practice golf ball.
Do I do it uh uh say that again?
If you have a yellow practice golf ball, put it in your bath one of your bathtubs and put your cat in there and they laugh they'll play forever because the ball keeps coming back to them.
Oh you're talking I've I I get it.
Uh uh yellow practice ball to bathtub will entertain the cat.
Yes.
Hmm.
Well, I've been in the yell actually.
What does it have to be yellow?
Hello.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, well, actually, cats like yellow.
They like yellow pencils.
Well, give it a shot.
My cat's never been in the bathtub that I know of.
Well, mine jumps in and out, plays with the ball, and rent all over the house.
So I appreciate the uh tip.
Okay.
Enjoy your golf over there in Hawaii.
I will.
Thanks very much.
You're welcome.
Appreciate it.
I ran into enough strangers out there on a golf course.
You can't avoid running into them.
Um boy, having to be forced to play with them.
The public course.
That's uh Well, but y the only way that if if she doesn't have two or three friends she can take with her, then then that's the problem.
She needs to meet some other people at play.
Leslie, Brockton Illinois, welcome to the EIB network.
Ghetto's Rush.
Thank you.
Um I had a question in regards to what is being done about Hugo Chavez.
Nothing that anybody knows.
Really?
Yeah.
Not to say that there's nothing being done.
But uh nothing that anybody knows.
It's just rather alarming to hear that he's taking over telecom, wants to have indefinite terms.
And then I saw on Fox that uh he's looking to take over private citizen property.
Yeah.
He's already nationalized the oil companies, uh they're the oil uh uh derek's that are down there, the drills, uh and the platforms, uh basically the operations of big oil, he's nationalized that.
He also has a uh uh a big PR campaign going on in this country designed to uh convince the American people that what is said about Hugo Chavez, what you just said, for example, is not true.
And that's why he uh he he's a photo ops with uh with these brilliant Hollywood types like Sean Penn and uh Danny Glover and so forth.
It's it's part of that uh PR effort.
I look it.
The um intelligence agencies of this country and uh State Department, they've got desks and files on every one of these countries and guys like this.
I'm sure that uh if I'll give you give you an example.
I don't know what we're gonna do about Chavez.
One of the problems dealing with Chavez is oil.
Uh but but th there was a there's a story today.
Let me see.
I know I've got a stack, and a stack is not that big, so it won't take me long to get to it.
Here we go.
If you didn't if you didn't have any background on this story like I do, it probably wouldn't stand out.
You'd think that would relegate this to the last thing I read.
Here's the headline.
Iran threatens German banks over pull out.
Tehran is threatened to bar major German banks that are pulling out of Iran due to U.S. pressure and sleep uh steep administration costs from returning to the country.
The vice governor of the Iranian Central Bank, Mohammed Jafar Mojarad told the Financial Times Deutschland that the bank's actions could have long-term consequences.
We are not happy with the bank's decisions.
Now, okay, Germans are pulling out of whoopy do.
No, no, no, far more than what you think is going on here.
What are we gonna do about Iran Rush?
What are we gonna do about Iran?
I mean, uh nuke it, what are we gonna do about it?
I don't know, but I'm convinced they're gonna do something.
Well, it appears, ladies and gentlemen, that uh there is a strategy in operation here between the United States and Germany to uh pull German money out of there.
And what do you bet what do you bet we're doing the same thing with other countries too?
What do you bet it won't be long before the French announce something like this?
What if the strategy is to literally shut down their economy in Iran?
Could well be.
Has anybody has that been announced, by the way?
Does the president said anything about that public?
Of course not.
So obviously, we got a plan dealing with Iran.
I can see it here.
But I I don't know what's going on with Chavez.
But there has to be something.
In fact, it's not just Chavez, by the way.
Chavez is a pr is a big problem.
Yeah, little uh that little Kami Pinko Ortega's back in power in Nicaragua.
That's not insignificant.
You know, the Southern Hemisphere uh very close to us, and it's uh it's going all kinds of bad directions.
And the uh uh there was a what was the country?
Argentina, was it Brazil?
The leader came up here, he's doing great guns fighting.
It was Colombia, it was Colombia doing great guns on stopping the uh drug cartels and uh freeing up that country and turning it into a uh a free market economy, comes up here and he gets dissed by the Democrats.
Pelosi Reed won't see him because they're mad at him over the way he dealt with the drug cartels and what he's doing with uh with unions down there.
Just literally literally absurd.
He can't count on the Democrats to protect the country or to even be respectful to our allies.
John Kerry speaks with some respect and wants some understanding about the re-education camps in Vietnam, which were nothing more than torture chambers until people got their mind right.
But then, of course, Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo come along and he has no sensitivity and no understanding has got a These people will run around and meet with these foreign leaders that despise this country.
They have the guts to go on Fox News.
Uh they are who they are.
Thank God we got people in in the administration now that are recognizing the threats posed to this country.
You know, one of the one of the big things here, and I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this, but I can say it because I'm leaving.
We have in this country a large group of people who want to draw a distinction between moderate Islam and Al-Qaeda-type terrorists, the Islamo-fascists.
And uh friend of mine, Andy McCarthy, who uh writes at National Review Online, uh, was one of the members of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Manhattan, which tried to blind sheik.
Omar Abdel Rahman.
And uh the official position, even back then in the uh early 90s of the U.S. government was this moderate Islam and then the extreme Islamo-fascists.
And Andy was preparing to maybe have to cross-examine a blind sheik.
Uh didn't happen, but he had to be prepared for it in case a blind sheikh took stand.
So what he did, he started uh examining everything the sheikh had written, and he started comparing it with what was in the Quran, and he's certain that he would find a bunch of things the sheikh had written was saying that were not in the Quran, and he couldn't find them.
They're all there.
All this stuff is there.
There is no moderate versus extreme.
I mean, these terrorists that they're they're reading it, it's there.
Uh and they're being trained in it, and they're being, you know, revved up in it and so forth.
The point I'm making about all this is that when I get a question of what are we doing about Venezuela?
I don't know, but I'm confident somebody's got a plan somewhere.
I'm not gonna be confident if somebody like Hillary Clinton and Jamie Garellick and the rest of that crowd gets back in there precisely because of what we just learned about the CIA report.
They took nothing seriously, other than their own image and their approval numbers and their legacy.
And it we are we are a nation, you know, big nation at big risk in a dangerous world.
We have to have people uh leading it who understand those threats, and this bunch doesn't.
Back in a sec.
All right, here's this story on CNN about the seasoned citizens having more sex than you think.
Actually, this story does not relate to me because I must be honest, say I don't think about seasoned citizens having sex.
So I don't know how they can be having more sex than I think they're having, because I don't think about it.
I didn't think about it until I saw this headline, and it's from CNN.
Seniors having more sex than you think.
Many older Americans routinely engage in intercourse.
Lewinsky's and masturbation, a landmark study on a long taboo subject reported Wednesday.
Now how many of you want to think about this now?
From a social perspective, I would say that old people are young people later in life, said Dr. Stacy Tesla Lindau, the lead author of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Sexual activity reported among the 3,005 women and men who participated in the survey did decrease with age, particularly among the oldest participants, from 73% among those 57 to 64, and 53% from 65 to 74 years of age, 26% among those 75 to 85.
Among the survey's many discoveries was that about half of those, 57 to 75, uh, who remained sexually active, reported engaging in Lewinsky's.
The figure on uh masturbation reflects a level of sexual need, even among men in a very advanced age, said Edward Loman, study co-author and a sociologist of the University of Chicago, speaks to the fact that sexuality is a lifelong proposition.
Now, what is it do you think prompted this?
I mean, these things just not scientists these researchers you know pop out of the jack in a box one day, say what I wonder if all folks out there getting it on.
I'll tell you what, and the reason CNN's gonna report it's because all of these baby boomers, me, me, me, me, me, are wondering what it's gonna be like when they're that old, and they want to know if they can still go out and do their Lewinskys and all these other things.
So they decide to do a survey to find out what's ahead of them.
So to speak.
Well, I could have said in front of them, and that would have been worse.
Uh JC in Belton, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network.
Sir, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush.
Um, I was curious on your thoughts about the fact that in President Bush's speech yesterday, he spent far more time talking about post-war Europe and uh Japan, post-war in the Pacific, Korea, and yet not a single comment from the Moonbean Media.
It's all directed at his comments on Vietnam.
Why do you think that is?
Because he's uh the the thing, other things, just like Vietnam are inarguable.
He can't.
Even the even the stories today in the papers, the New York Times, LA Times, where they rip the president for doing this.
They still admit he was factually correct.
Absolutely right.
Factually correct, and of course, it's unassailable.
What happened in Japan happened.
What happened in Germany happened.
What happened in other places we've liberated happened.
What happened in Korea, North Korea, South Korea happened.
Uh, and all every one of those places, the liberals of that era said it can't happen.
It's not possible.
And democracy's not for it.
The reason they focus on Vietnam's because that's one of their issues, and he took it away from them.
Well, yeah, and all of the lies that got told then they are invested in and keep telling them, and I know their lies because I was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, and I know what happened over there.
So do a lot of people now.
What did you think of McNamara's book?
Did you read it when it came out?
Uh, yes, I did.
That had a T you off like mad.
Uh yeah, there were there were moments, literal moments when I put it down in rage.
I'll bet.
It was it was a difficult exercise, but I felt like I I owed it to myself and a lot of my friends who didn't make it home to fight through it.
Well, I understand.
I I hate I don't mean to be rude, uh, but the constraints of time are such I've really got to take a break here.
But thanks, uh thanks, JC very much for the call.
This is a real quick time out here, folks, and we will be uh right back.
Okay, folks, just enough time here to uh close it out and say goodbye.
We got uh let me get the roster here.
We got guest hosts.
We got uh Walter Williams.
I meant to get a great column today, too, and I didn't get a chance to get to it.
Uh tell Dr. Williams to share the story, the theory, and he's called with the audience tomorrow.
He'll be here.
On Monday, Tom Sullivan, Tuesday, Wednesday next week, Mark Belling, and Thursday and Friday, we're introducing a new guest host, Jason Lewis uh from KTLK FM in Minneapolis will make his debut on the EIB network, which means in a matter of months he'll have his own national show, and uh we'll be out there looking for somebody else.
Uh, you people relax.
Everything's going to be fine.
I'll have a good time.
I'm gonna miss you.
I'm gonna miss the program I always do.
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