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Sept. 6, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yeah, I saw that.
I I I was a little surprised by that, too.
I mean, uh uh, you know, Oprah's got this big bash going on out there in her herb big estate out there in Montecito, which is Santa Barbara, for Barack Obama, big time fundraiser, and the uh the musical entertainment, the song stylist, uh, none other than the great Stevie Wonder, but Oprah's bringing in a chef from Ethiopia.
And to fix a meal for 200 big donors, a chef from Ethiopia.
Uh the last time I checked Ethiopia, they're getting to how many tens of thousands of dogs they're getting stray dogs are getting ready to slaughter in Ethiopia.
Before that, there was a famine over there in Ethiopia.
I mean, it's great to know that they have a chef in Ethiopia because that means there's food to cook there.
Um I have it on good authority, ladies and gentlemen, that they're going to send the leftovers back to Ethiopia from the Oprah Obama fundraiser.
Yuck Yuck.
And greetings and welcome.
Great to be with you as the fastest week in media continues to unfold right before our very eyes.
Telephone number if you want to be on the uh program today, 800 282-2882, and the uh email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Before we start with the debate and the serious stuff that's in the news out there, like where is Shu?
Where is Norman Shu?
Will he turn up dead or will he be found somewhere in Hong Kong or China?
Kathleen Willie, the manuscript for her book to be published in November has been stolen.
She's convinced a Clinton operative has stolen her manuscript.
Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, as I've said countless times, when it happens when the Clintons are involved, there is no coincidence.
But first, I want you to listen here to the um co-host of ABC's Good Morning America, Chris Kumo.
On the uh on the program Good Morning America today.
It has to do with something we discussed yesterday.
And that's the key distinction.
Having all this inhaled at the workplace as opposed to what can happen in your home and my home.
If this is true, that people at home eating popcorn can get popcorn lung.
It creates an entirely new level of concern.
Now, Chris Kumo is uh, of course, the uh the son of Mario Kumo.
And that, by the way, that's how the Reverend Jackson uh pronounces the name, and I've don't want to embarrass the Reverend Jackson.
So if he says it's Kumo, it's Kumo.
Uh Chris Kumo, the son of Mario Kumo, known also here as Mario the Pious, but his brother Andrew Kumo is the attorney general of the state of New York.
Now they've got this thing going that popcorn lung can kill you in your house.
And it's based on a phony fallacious story, and we had a details yesterday.
And and I I want to try to head this off at the past because the last thing I mean the popcorn police are gonna be heading out and and and and trying to determine what you can and can't do in your house.
Microwave popcorn fans worried about the potential for lung disease from butter flavoring fumes should know this.
The sole reported case of the disease in a non-factory worker involves a man who popped the corn every day and inhaled straight from the bag.
This is bizarre.
He really liked microwave popcorn.
He made two or three bags every day for ten years.
Said William Allstedder, a spokesman for the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, where the man's respiratory illness was diagnosed.
He told us he liked the smell of popcorn.
So he would open and inhale from freshly popped bags.
It was it was he was huffing it.
Exactly right.
And uh so you snort popcorn fumes from three bags a day for ten years, and you might you might get popcorn lung, but now they're trying to get because of you know, this is this reminds me of the way that they banned saccharine in this country once before.
They shot up a bunch of rats, a bunch of mice with the equivalent of five years worth of consumption of saccharine at one time.
He died of bladder cancer.
Uh oh, saccharin causes cancer.
Get it off the market.
Eventually had to get it from Canada.
Uh, but Well, you did.
And it eventually got back on the market and everything.
Yeah, yeah, destroyed Tab, which deserved to be destroyed because that stuff was horrible.
That was the most rot gut diet drink.
I remember my mom and dad forcing that.
Oh, sorry, talking about myself.
I'm I'm going to turn over a new leaf, ladies and I'm being too arrogant, too self-absorbed.
Uh I'm I'm gonna stop talking about myself.
So anyway, don't get folks if don't worry about popcorn lung unless you're out there snorting the fumes from the bags, and you gotta be doing it to a lot of bags.
Okay.
Um Fred Thompson.
Now he has to know, he has to know that this is gonna happen.
Here's a headline from Bloomberg News.
Thompson runs for president under threat that cancer will recur.
Really, yes, on the four way.
Is that really one is on his mind?
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson treated for cancer three years ago, will always face the risk the disease will return, doctors say.
Thompson 65 is it's unknown whether he likes popcorn, particularly microwave uh butter-flavored popcorn.
Unknown.
But I'm sure this will be discovered uh during the media anal exam that he will get starting today, uh, such as this story.
We ever get stories of of uh any health problems that Democrat presidential candidates might be facing?
Like Mrs. Clinton runs for president under threat, she could get cancer.
Because theoretically, we all are going to get cancer if we lived long enough, every damn one of us would get cancer.
So if I wanted to publish in my newsletter, Mrs. Clinton running for office under threat of contracting cancer.
It's just uh and then there's another story about uh ABC's The Note or some blog or something.
They went out and they asked a former DNC chairman, the punk, Terry Terry McCallough, what he thinks of Fred Thompson.
Now, when's the last time they found a former RNC chairman to ask what he or she thinks of a Democrat presidential candidate?
And you know what the punk said?
The punk said I am never again going to take a B actor for granted.
I am never again gonna underestimate a B actor, which you know that's a little bit of a slam at uh at Ronaldus Magnus.
Uh about the debate last night.
Did you watch it?
You did.
Did you watch it, Snerdly?
Where are you staying, by the way?
You what?
Oh, oh, okay.
The place that threw me out after two months when I moved to New York.
And they did.
They did.
It's a long story.
I don't need to get it because I'm not talking about myself anymore.
Because that's self-absorbed.
And I'm not gonna do that.
Uh KHR, you watched.
I'm I'm watching here under grave conditions.
You know, I'm on my ability to focus because I'm suffering the ravages of this infection.
So I want to run some things by you in there, and then you people in the uh in the audience.
By the way, is this ditto cam out of I'm practicing I'm hardly in the frame here, sitting where I normally sit.
Yeah, I do.
I look like a weatherman.
The only thing missing is the map.
I thought the thing had been moving.
There we go.
A little bit more, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit more, a little bit more.
There you go.
I thought things looked odd, but I just, since I'm not being self-absorbed today, uh didn't pay any attention.
I just want to run this by you.
Did the Republican candidate seem feistier last night?
They did.
Did he seem less programmed to you last night?
Um was it did it seem to be more diversity up there for example.
For example, if you if you examine one of our debates, we can have an anti-war candidate, and we have one.
Ron Paul, maybe a little bit, but we got one.
The Democrats cannot have a pro-war candidate on their stage.
Correct.
Okay.
We can have a candidate that says start withdrawing.
Let's let's start withdrawing down now, but we can have a candidate on our debate stage and do that.
The Democrats cannot have on their stage somebody who says, let's win it.
Right?
So we're more right.
Um we can actually debate immigration among our candidates on the stage.
They only toss out this little focus group lines designed to attract a La Raza crowd.
Now I'm watching this, and I'm saying if the drive-by media were reporters, which of course, I mean that's a pipe dream.
If they were, this is speaking just theoretically.
If the drive-by media were reporters rather than party activists, they would spend far less time on the left and a lot more time on the right where the ideas are actually being discussed and debated.
There really are a lot of different ideas being discussed and debated on the Republican side here.
Uh and none.
The Democrats just a series of uh of talking points.
Left and right.
All right, a quick timeout.
Sit tight, folks.
Uh we'll be back before you know it on the EIB network.
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Well, the uh the Petraeus report's coming out next week.
Democrats not waiting for the Petraeus report.
In fact, they don't even call it the Petraeus Report, they're calling it the Bush Report.
Dingy Harry, Nancy Pelosi are calling it the Bush Report in an effort to discredit it.
Um weeks ago, I detected, and I was certain that I was right about this, that there had been some adults somewhere in the Democrat Party who realized that they've gone too far off the cliff with this defeat business and being so invested in it, and we're trying to, with the surge working, we're trying to get themselves back on dry land.
But I guess the smart people, the adults lost out because this party is going over the cliff again.
They are doing everything they can to make sure that the truthful news out of Iraq about the success of the surge is perceived as a bunch of lies.
In fact, Chuck Schumer, let me find let me uh Schumer said something yesterday that is just beyond the pale here, folks.
It was what?
Was it let me see if we have the soundbite of it?
Let me see what it is.
I let me read the transcript.
I got the transcript a little early today.
I'm not used to that, and so I didn't read it.
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Play 15.
This is what this is what Schumer's saying.
Let me be clear.
Yeah.
The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge.
See?
Not because of the surge.
Right.
The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from Al-Qaeda said to these tribes, we have to fight Al Qaeda ourselves.
It wasn't that the surge brought peace here.
It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here.
This is you do this is outrageous.
This is outrageous.
This is Senator Schumer again saying the U.S. military is incompetent, doing everything he can to lie through his teeth to suggest the surge is not working.
Furthermore, has he forgotten that we have not forgotten that the original complaint that these people offered was that we didn't know how to get these warring tribes together, the Shiites and the Sunni.
We didn't know how to do that.
We had no idea about the so-called cultural religious differences throughout the country of Iraq.
Well, guess somehow the incompetent U.S. military has pulled off both things that the Democrats say can't be done.
Now, this is just outrageous.
This this is this is Chuck Schumer, uh, ladies and gentlemen, who wants to be considered the spokesman for the Democrat Party on so many issues.
Well, he owns this one, and the rest of his country or the party are gonna own defeat on this.
They are just I I I'm still stunned by it.
Now, here's the story was this is a Washington Times Democrats already dismissing the Iraq War report uh report.
In fact, they're they're causing report after report to be issued before the Petraeus report comes out next week, and every one of the reports that they're causing to be released that they are in charge of, of course, are gonna paint an entirely different picture than what they think the Petraeus report's going to say.
In an effort to discredit it.
Uh, Congressional Democrats trying to undermine Petraeus' credibility before he delivers a report on the Iraq war next week saying the general is a mouthpiece for President Bush and his findings can't be trusted.
They unanimously voted to confirm this guy.
Every damn Democrat in the Senate voted to confirm this guy.
And then they funded the mission.
You know, it is said that people are not paying attention to all this stuff, right?
I hope to hell that that's not true.
What these Democrats are doing, folks, is treasonous.
There's no other way to describe this.
Look it up in the dictionary.
There is no other way to describe this.
What you just heard Chuck Schumer say, now they're trying to discredit the commanding general, who is not political.
The report that is going to be issued by Petraeus next week, as written by Congress, the law requiring this report says that it shall be presented by the president.
There's nothing unusual about the White House presenting the report.
The Democrats in a drive-by is trying to make it look like Bush is taking over and writing the report because Petraeus is going to write something Bush doesn't want.
It's all a crock, folks.
It's as big a lie as the Democrat Party has ever told.
Now, in the midst of battle, in the midst of success, for a major political party in this country to come out and openly admit that they are doing everything they can to discredit the credibility, the character, the honor of the commanding general, for whom they all voted, and for whose efforts they funded.
They voted to fund his efforts.
This is just worse than shameless.
I don't know that there is a word in the dictionary to describe these people other than poll troons.
But that doesn't cover it even because that doesn't get to their motivations here.
The top Democrat, Denji Harry of Nevada, Nancy Pelosi of California referred the general's briefing as the Bush Report.
Dick Durbin, when asked about the upcoming report from General Petraeus, said, You mean the Bush report?
Pelosi said, Well, we'll see what the Bush report will be at the end of next week.
The facts are self-evident that the progress is not being made.
They might want to find one or two places where there has been progress, but the plural of anecdote is not data.
Democrats newly willing to compromise in Iraq is a story in the New York Times.
There's still some of them that don't like what's going on in their name from the leadership, but it's not that big a story, actually.
It's not that big a deal.
They're willing to compromise on a withdrawal date.
This is John Warner's idea, which some compromise, uh, a withdrawal date, start date for withdrawal, uh, and a deadline for completion.
Well, how how brilliant is that?
They can't put a deadline on this, and yet they're saying, well, if we go along with Senator Warner's idea, we might be able to get ourselves off the hook on this.
The bottom line is uh that this is um.
I don't know.
You some of you older than I are gonna have to tell me if this is unprecedented.
I mean, I remember Vietnam and I remember Vietnam and I I remember the uh the roiled circumstances in the country there.
I don't recall uh a situation where with a Democrat in the White House, LBJ, you had Republicans actively working to undermine the whole thing.
Uh certainly not in the midst of successful operations.
And certainly not, I mean, this this uh this war in Iraq is against an actual U.S. enemy.
These are people that attacked us in 9-11.
This is this is just you listen to what Chuck Schumer said.
You read what these People are trying to do all these reports coming out between now and Petraeus designed to um suggest that what Petraeus reports that Bush relays is just a bunch of lies.
Uh when you examine their motivation, you know that that just throw the country under the bus.
The hell we're just throwing Larry Craig under the bus.
The Democrats are throwing the whole country under the bus.
If they're driving it, they'd be glad to throw the whole country under the bus.
Uh this naked, uh irrational, uh desperate move for power at all costs, is just as unseemly as anything I can recall in uh in politics.
And that's that includes much of the Clinton years.
Uh, although I might have to revise and extend those remarks as I consult my memory further.
Back in just a moment.
Quick uh question here, ladies and gentlemen.
Isn't it sort of like questioning General Petraeus's patriotism?
That old saw to suggest that his uh he's just a lackey.
And he just is the report's just gonna be tailored to what Bush wants.
Is his report has no credibility whatsoever.
A man who has been uh recognized by even the Democrats who voted for him as perhaps the most qualified general for this particular position uh and and command in uh in recent American military history.
Just just uh stunning.
But it yet doesn't it doesn't slack off from there.
How many of you people uh uh know who Matt Hasselbeck and Max Strong are?
Matt Hasselbeck is a quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks.
Mac Strong is a running back for the Seattle Seahawks, and they went out there and they visited President Bush last week in Bellevue, Washington.
Uh the Seahawks quarterback and fullback gave the 43rd president a number 43 jersey, Seahawks jersey with his name on it.
It was at a $1,000 a plate fundraiser for Representative Dave Reichert at the Hyatt in Bellevue, Washington.
At the time, Hasselbeck called it a thrill and said it was a win-win, this opportunity to meet the president and to get out of a team meeting.
But as soon as he saw the picture of the two players with Bush, Gary Wright, the Seahawks vice president of administration said he was concerned about negative reaction.
Maybe in really red Republican states it wouldn't have been a big deal, but Washington's a blue state in deep, deep Democrat blue King County.
So objections were raised, Hasselbeck heard them and read them.
He got nasty voicemails, emails, and text messages.
I had no idea, Hasselbeck said.
One guy told him, I hate you.
I will never wear your jersey.
I'll never light the Seahawks again.
As evidence were the responses to Angelo Brusca's blog posting on Seattle PI.com.
How dare Hasselbeck declare Bush an honorary Seahawk?
Who is Matt speaking for?
Bush is no Seahawk.
He's the worst president of my lifetime.
I'm almost 60.
Shame on you, Matt.
To learn that two of the most popular Seahawks are strong Bush supporters ruins the season for me and my family, wrote another.
Timothy you people need to get lives.
For crying out loud, do you know how many NFL players I know to love Democrats hasn't destroyed my love for the game?
You people are just nuts.
You people on the left are lunatics.
You are certifiably insane.
And you can't really be fans of the Seattle Seahawks if your fandom can be shaken and destroyed.
What kind of emotional midgets are you?
The new Castrati, aliva.
You don't have any business being football fans.
You're not tough enough to be football fans.
If you can't handle your quarterback liking a certain president without having to destroy your season, go see a shrink.
You tell you what, you need, you people need help.
What happens to you liberals in Seattle when they do a flight?
They ever do fly over military jets over the game when it starts?
Well, that must freak you out.
In fact, I'm going to violate my rule here.
I'm going to talk about myself for a second.
A new rule because I was accused of being self-absorbed yesterday, talking too much about myself.
This is uh San Diego.
Uh at the what was it when the stadium was then called the Murph.
Uh and it's a horseshoe, it's Super Bowl, Denver Broncos and a Washington Redskins.
This is the, you know, the Redskins blew them out that Day.
But I'm sitting in the closed end of the stadium in uh one of the end zones.
And Herb Alpert goes out there to play the national anthem.
The teams are lined up.
The giant American flag covers the entire field.
I think this is my first Super Bowl in person.
And they said on the PA system that uh there was gonna be a flyover of uh, I guess as Navy jets, I'm not sure which.
Uh and oh, this is gonna be cool.
Uh, because I've never seen one of these either.
And so Herb Alpert's out there playing, and I'm scanning the stars, the skies looking for these jets.
And all of a sudden on my left I saw them, and I saw them heading there on a downwind leg for you pilots for you aviation people, a downwind leg they're flying parallel to the stadium, but away from it.
And as they turn on their base, which is uh uh forget it.
It would turn toward the stadium.
You see them coming, and I'm saying, how are they gonna pull this off?
How are they gonna time this so that they show up just as soon as Herb Alpert finishes the national anthem with his trumpet?
Well, he had to hold the last note for a little longer than normal, so it did kind of stuck in the air out there, but didn't know jets came over.
Folks, I it was my first flyover, and they're just right above you, and the noise.
I just I stood up and I started pounding my buddy, who's now my caddy at the ATT, Ed Tatoji and I started pounding him on the shoulder.
Damn it, Ed, how in the world?
And I shouted this as loud, how in the world can you be a Democrat after seeing that?
And there were two people in front of me that were from Washington who turned around and said, We're Democrats.
And I said, Well, how can you how can that be?
That was the most patriotic thing.
I I just it I goosebumps when that happened.
I couldn't wait to get home to watch, I would VCR'd the game.
I couldn't wait to get home back to Sacramento to see what it sounded like.
I'm telling you, it doesn't say the sound on television in nothing of a flyover compared to being there.
So I wonder for you you you little mental midgets, you Seahawks fans.
I knew there was a reason your team lost to the Steelers in the Super Bowl a couple years ago.
You this is outrageous.
You have just you now you you got you maybe have created a head case out of your quarterback who's gonna be worried if something violent's gonna happen to him because he's a Bush supporter when he goes out and takes the field and tries to lead the team to victory.
This is just you you you leftists are just literally brain dead.
You are insane, you are poisoned.
There is a Bush derangement virus is eating your brains alive right before our very eyes to get all worked up over the fact that QB goes to a dinner, a fundraiser for Bush.
Well, for a local congressman.
So it's a good question.
What do they do with flyovers?
I wonder if they even have them.
I wonder if they even have them for cr.
I bet they're they're probably not allowed.
You know, you know, Boeing has buildings out there where they make warplanes.
Uh how does Seattle deal with this?
Let's go to the phone.
Diane in uh Chester County, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciate your patience, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, thanks, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you today.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
I just am a little nervous though.
I I haven't been able to listen to you as much recently.
I've been listening to you since 92.
Yeah.
And I love hearing you talk about yourself.
You are such an inspiration to me.
I used you as an example to my boys.
I I love hearing everything.
I love when you talk about your trip, your home, your your life.
And I hear today you might not do that anymore.
I uh I'm I'm I'm shaking.
What's going on?
Well, I really got a lot of grief uh yesterday, Diane from a couple people said I was gonna get rude, and then uh one guy said that I've really changed in the last month that I all I do is talk about myself.
I'm too self-absorbed.
I asked him for examples, he said, Well, yeah, golf and Hawaii and cigars when you're I said I just started talking about those things this month.
I've been talking about those things for years.
Anyway, so I've been getting you think, you know, uh people say I am unresponsive to criticism.
Uh uh and then I I do not listen to the critics, and I should because the critics are just trying to be helpful.
Oh so uh I I figured I come in here today with a new policy of uh of being less self-absorbed, which means talking less about myself.
No.
You can't do that.
Well, please.
What what what will we do?
How will we learn?
Yeah, I I know inspiration for so many of us.
Oh, I appreciate that.
That's that's very kind.
Well, I'll take your suggestion under advisement.
I think you should.
And is it true you're coming to Philadelphia?
Uh shh.
Yes.
Yes.
Did I say something I shouldn't have said?
No, just too late now.
We can't go back over the airwaves or pull it out of there.
I haven't been listening, and I just heard it this morning, and I was like panicking.
I thought I must have heard that wrong.
I didn't know.
I think it's October the 11th.
Okay.
Well, I am going to look into that.
Uh it'll be fun.
Thank you.
All right.
Thanks.
Thanks, Diane, very much.
I appreciate it.
Let's take a brief timeout.
Come back with some more phone calls.
We got to get some of the debate sound bites in there just to cover our bases.
So all that coming up right after this.
You see what happened a couple days ago.
This is September 6th, so September 4th.
Do you see what happened?
Uh the FTC.
Do you know what that stands for?
Federal Trade Commission, for those of you in uh Rio Linda.
And you know what they said?
They uh can after concluding a a month's long uh research project.
They concluded that there was no price gouging from the oil industry following Hurricane Katrina.
FTC.
No price gouging.
They said high gasoline prices then and now are simply the result of ordinary market forces.
Really?
Okay, fine, but that's not the end of the story, ladies and gentlemen.
Because I'd like to know where Senator Schumer is on this issue.
Where is Senator Schemer?
I'm sure the microphones and cameras are set up, and the most dangerous place for you to be when such a situation exists is between Senator Schemer and the cameras and microphones.
Um we've got but like Madeline Albright here has a column in the Washington Post.
How to change Iraq.
Bush should start by admitting fault.
And one of the constant refrains of the Democrats has been that Bush should admit his mistakes.
If he would just admit his mistakes, why why we could be all getting along right if Bush would just admit that he's an idiot and had done this now.
Here's Aldbright.
Okay, well that kind of cuts both ways, doesn't it?
I mean, I've heard this rant so many times, come clean with the American people.
Admit mistakes.
So where is Chuck Schumer now?
And I mentioned Chuck Schumer because he all but accused uh big oil of price gouging.
He was the one who demanded the investigation, folks.
It was Senator Schemer who demanded the investigation, the FTC investigation, at which they just concluded there wasn't any gouging, couldn't find any.
Why?
It was just normal market forces.
FTC reported no price gouging market forces.
What a great opportunity for a photo op.
Senator Schemer in front of a gas station.
Lights, camera, action, roll them.
Senator Schemer, go out there and admit his mistakes.
I wish to apologize the oil industry.
I wish to apologize the American people, because I falsely accused big oil of price gouging, and I now know because of the investigation I call for that that didn't happen.
The only problem with this is that it it won't happen and it hasn't happened.
And the drive-by media will never go to Senator Schemer and say, What about this investigation that you demanded that there was price?
In fact, the next time there is a gasoline sprite, Senator Schumer will come out and say there's prouse gouging going on.
And a drive-by media will report that without reporting on the FTC report that we just learned of two days ago.
Sandy in Seattle.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh my gosh.
Rush.
Yes.
I just I prayed for you when you had your ear thing, and I can't believe I'm talking to you.
But you know what?
Here I am in Seattle, and I was at a Mariners game about two or three weeks ago.
Of course, we were playing the Yankees, and the place was packed, and the Blue Angels did their flyover more than once, and the place erupted.
My son my friend's son sang the national anthem and at the seventh inning stretch saying America the Beautiful, and everybody sang and everybody cheered.
So I don't know if it was full of Christians that day, but it was awesome.
Full of Christians that day.
But I'm So I'm so upset about Hasselback that situation.
I did not know that.
And because I don't read those wacky papers.
Well, see, that's we do it for you here, so you don't have to be able to do that.
Yes, you do, and I'm just drivel.
And we really should have a Republican governor, but you know, you heard about that recount, recount, and more recount.
I know.
I remember that I remember well.
I just You know it's the the uh the Mariner Stadium's right next door to the uh the uh C. Seahawks.
Oh, yeah.
And and uh I I uh I'm stunned.
I'm literally stunned that uh somebody didn't try to shoot the blue angels down.
Well, maybe they did, but I didn't see it, and maybe it's because I was so caught up, just it was so unbelievable, and it wasn't.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Sandy, can you hang on for just a second?
Sure.
Because I got somebody who's got a slightly different story from yours.
Oh, also from Seattle.
This is Jason.
Jason, uh, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, Dudos from Seattle.
Thank you.
Hey, just uh just wanted to hit on a little bit about uh about the people of Seattle here.
Um actually I was at a Seahawk game as the Seahawk Cowboys game last year, and they did have a uh a fly by some Army helicopters, and uh the crowd did give a a uh great response.
But uh one thing I wanted to hit on is that uh here in Seattle every year, every summer we have what's called seafair and the blue angel.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
Just I want to make sure I heard you.
There was a flyover of helicopters at the Seahawk game.
Yeah, there was.
And it didn't get much response.
No, it did.
It did get response.
It did get response, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Um cheap, but the Mariners get the blue angels for crying out loud.
Helicopter flyover?
Nothing against you.
Chopper pilots, but for crying out loud.
Exactly.
Okay, so you get the blue angels out there every summer, right?
What happens next?
Yeah.
Well, the uh the people of Seattle, there's this big push to uh ban the blue angels from coming back to Seattle.
And uh and I know just personally, you know, I've talked with uh with people about it, and uh and there is a lot of animosity about uh blue angels come to town.
And I was talking to a friend, um, actually a group of people, um couple of his friends, and I was like, Oh, isn't it great the blue angels are here?
And uh and this lady actually uh disagreed and said uh, you know, they're they're vehicles of war, and uh they kind of echoes the whole attitude in Seattle about the war.
I'll tell you, I I I'm getting so sick and tired of living amongst these literal idiots, blithering idiots in full.
Jason, thanks.
I want to go back to Sandy.
Sandy, do you know this?
Uh protesting the blue angels out there trying to get them prohibited from ever coming back to Seattle to perform.
No, but that doesn't mean that it's not happening, but I will tell you that a personal friend of my um late precious husband Roy, and um Jim Horsley, former Blue Angel, goes to my church, and he's so awesome.
And I mean, you know, you get caught up in the glory of it all, and I guess you you miss this other stuff.
It's just disgusting.
Um you do get caught up in the glory of it all.
But I I I I just I I look uh Sandy, Jason, both of you, thanks uh thanks much for the uh for the calls.
These people, folks, are becoming more and more incomprehensible.
It it it's it's not enough just to laugh at them now.
Something more is required.
Deportation or something.
These people are not Americans.
I don't care.
Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom.
When you are actively engaged uh in trying to weaken the ability of your own country to defend itself, protect itself.
Um just institutionalization is actually what I'm thinking.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, El Rushbo here, high atop the EIB building in midtown Manhattan.
Uh President Bush uh in Sydney, Australia today said that he has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao, uh the Chicom leader to attend the two thousand eight Summer Olympics in Beijing.
A move likely to inflame China's critics who are calling for a boycott of the games to protest human rights abuses in uh in that country.
Uh Hujintao extended the invitation, reiterating an offer that he had made before during a ninety-minute private session with Mr. Bush on the eve of an economic summit meeting of Asian nations.
A talk touched on a range of topics of climate change and how the Chikoms ain't gonna do anything about it.
To Iran's nuclear ambitions and the recall of Chinese-made toys and the soon-to-be recall of Chinese-made condoms, which are faulty uh running around the nation's capital.
Maybe when Bush goes to Beijing in the summer of 08, he can ask and maybe find Norman Shu.
Uh, while he's there, get Wu uh to help him find Shu.
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