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Sept. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, looky here, ladies and gentlemen.
Hubba Hubba, Duba Duba.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
I am Rush Lindboy, your guiding light and the epitome of morality and virtue, a man with whom you could and would totally trust your wife, your daughter, your son, your pets overnight in a quality hotel while you're out on business.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Well, once again, my friend, I am holding something here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers that is quite interesting.
Not only did Mrs. Clinton get the endorsement of the Letter Carriers Union, she has also received the endorsement of the Transportation and What is it?
Yeah, the Transportation and Communication Workers, which covers the railroad business.
See, we had a call in the previous hour from some guy who said, look, Rush, you can't get on the California Zephyr in a sleeper compartment.
Those things are sold out weeks, sometimes months in advance.
You can't get one as soon as Shu got one.
He said, how is this possible?
I said, well, sir, it's entirely possible.
Who runs Amtrak?
Federal government.
Some congressman, some senators, some whatever calls us, I need a sleeper compartment, he's going to get one.
But how, Rush?
How can that be if they're sold out?
See, ladies and gentlemen, what is printing back here?
Must be the 14th page of the union website.
In my world, I said there's never such a thing as sold out.
There is, rarely, but I don't seek something like a hotel room during those periods.
For example, I stay at, I have a favorite hotel of Los Angeles.
I get whatever I want whenever I need to go there, except when the Emmys, the Oscars, and the Grammys or whatever else, I don't even try.
But hotels, trains, whatever they do, I mean, there's always a compartment for the last-minute arrival VIP.
That's how the business is run.
And I'm a VIP.
It's kind of unfortunate.
It's actually a little unfair.
You know, I do not accept freebies from anybody because I don't want to be obligated.
It's a policy of mine.
When I was starving, quote unquote, nobody would offer to give me anything.
Now, when I don't need anything, is when people start trying to throw things at me.
And they know I don't need anything.
So what would be the point?
Well, I just, I don't want to run the risk of being obligated.
I don't want to have to pay back.
I just don't do it.
But a lot of people do.
A lot of people consider it status.
A lot of people go through life having things thrown out of them all their lives and expect that that's going to continue to happen throughout their lives.
Did not happen to me, and so I don't expect it.
But it's entirely possible that Shu, maybe not calling himself, could get on this train and get in a sleeper compartment.
And it is interesting here that at a meeting of the Transportation and Communication Union, which covers railroad employees, they announced on August 30th their endorsement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen.
So the people that run an Amtrak endorsed her.
So, I mean, look at, we're not saying anything.
We're presenting dots out there for you to connect in your own mind.
But remember, nothing that happens with the Clintons is coincidence.
Trumpet fanfare.
It means that an update is coming.
We go to the groove yard for it.
From the groove yard of forgotten favorites from the archives of the Rush Limbaugh program, Slim Whitman, Una Paloma Blanca, our peace update theme from many moons ago was actually born on this program in Sacramento, California during the first global peace march for nuclear disarmament.
And we tracked them all across the country as they watched.
And what they did when they finished their great peace march, great global walk peace, whatever it was, when they got, they went to the Energy Department building in Washington and they staged a die-in on the front steps.
And by that, I mean they simulated what would happen at the very moment of a nuclear blast being detonated.
They even had red paint to simulate blood, and so it caused a whole big mess there.
This is a great example here of how the left just keeps repeating its playbook.
A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday with a 1,000-person die-in at the U.S. Capitol led by former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute.
And guess who is going to be there?
Cindy Sheehan will be appearing at the die-in along with the other 999 people, the supposed 999 people.
And this is no, well, no, she's running for Pelosi's seat in California.
She's not retiring from any of this.
She's getting all cranked up.
That's where the Democrats are letting her down.
The Democrats are letting people like her down.
She got to do something.
What does the left do?
They have a protest and they stage a die-in on the steps of the Capitol building.
And of course, it's going to be covered with zeal and interest by the drive-bys.
And they will tell us that this represents the thinking of millions of Americans.
And of course, ladies and gentlemen, will it accomplish anything?
It will not.
It won't accomplish one thing policy-wise.
These people are too blockheaded to understand it.
They're not even doing it for that reason.
Well, they are doing it for that reason, but there's another reason.
They want to matter.
They want to think they matter.
They want to think they are important.
They are wandering lost souls, and they are used by the Democrats, made to feel important when they're really not.
So, in addition, by the way, to this 1,000-person die-in on Saturday, they are going to shut down as many military recruitment centers as possible.
Now, if I were the Democrat Party, I would do everything I could to stop this because they're already in enough hot water, appearing as though, well, not appearing, convincing as many Americans as they have that they are interested in losing.
They want defeat and so forth.
And to the extent that this is not going to the Democrats thought that the Wellstone Memorial was one of the highlights of their party's career.
They just, they're tongued.
They have no idea how this is viewed by a majority of decent American citizens.
You know, I meant to mention this a mere moment ago, and I slipped my mind because there's so many other things here I wish to mention.
But all of you letter carriers out there who have called here so wonderfully and so graciously today and in the recent past and have mentioned that you listened to this program while on your mail routes, I must confess I have grave concerns.
Now that your union leadership has learned, and I don't know what your contract situation on this is, but now that your union leadership has learned that you are actually listening to this program while at work,
while walking your roots, delivering the mail to the people of this country, I certainly hope that it doesn't eventuate that your union leadership sends out a memo banning such activity.
I hope it does not happen after you have made these admissions on this program today.
Keep a sharp eye.
I wouldn't put...
Just hope it doesn't happen.
And maybe it can't happen because of your union contract.
I don't know what it says, but it's just my concern for you that I wanted to share publicly.
I have a piece here today from the American thinker Michael O'Shea, who I think has done a brilliant job in putting into perspective just who congressional leaders today are.
The title of his piece, I just want to share some brief excerpts with you.
The title of the piece, Child's Play in Iraq.
And he starts out really interestingly with a quote, I'm reminded of the time I saw my three-year-old daughter trying and failing to tie her shoes.
She got angry.
She still kept trying.
This is difficult, she concluded, but I like difficult.
That is a three-year-old child grittier than congressional leaders, spunkier than people 20 times her age.
She's Bill Gates' daughter, but that's immaterial.
Her mother, Melinda, wrote those words, but that's immaterial too.
What matters is what Melinda Gates also said to other philanthropists about starting the Gates Foundation.
Quote, turns out that her parents like difficult too.
And I suspect that you all like difficult, which is why you devoted your lives to solving some of the world's toughest problems.
Well, that's what congressmen are elected to do.
Solve some of America's and therefore the world's toughest problems.
But congressmen prefer childish ways instead, and so play.
They play statesman, they play leader.
Listening to leaders in Congress, one would imagine that like a child, they still believe in the stork.
Iraq, which they voted to liberate from Saddam's rule, would go from tyranny to ally against terrorism in four-tenths of a decade.
Well, it might well have had Iran-Syria-A-Qaeda not intervened.
Iran-Syria-Al-Qaeda threats all, threats each to peace in the Middle East and the world long before Operation Iraqi Freedom, rushing to Iraq to cripple Iraq, and congressional leaders now say have at it.
We attacked Iraq when it invaded Kuwait, and the world applauded.
We defend Iraq from foreigners invading it, and the world, the Senate, House leaders included, spits in our face.
But much of that world at least is not two-faced.
It didn't back regime change in Iraq as American policy under George W's predecessor, didn't authorize action under W himself, approve hundreds of millions of dollars to oust Saddam and start rebuilding his country, approve every general charged with directing the Iraqi campaign, hear testimony under oath from those generals themselves on Iraq's problems and progress, and then bludgeoned with blogs, bail.
That is what they did.
In starting philanthropy, Melinda Gates wrote, we knew what we stood for.
Other than re-election, what do congressional leaders stand for?
As important, what can they withstand?
Mr. and Mrs. Gates believe, quote, ultimately all people, no matter where they live, deserve a chance to live a healthy, productive life.
Congressional leaders would amend that to exclude Iraqis, to whom we've given our word.
Leaders frequently tout their business backgrounds as signs that they're savvy.
Then they display astounding ignorance of the struggles all business, including Microsoft, meet just to keep getting ahead.
As if iPods wondrously appeared with Narrion Newton among its ancestors.
IBM never stumbled.
Mercedes never goofed.
Kodak never almost croaked.
Xerox has the entire globe copying only it.
The big three are still big and still three.
ATT didn't have to be disemboweled to be reborn.
Sports isn't without scars either.
Becoming a champ is nowhere near as hard as staying a champ as the Packers, the Fordiners, the Jets, and the Cowboys painfully know.
Unlike Iraq, they have game films and scouting reports and player profiles and rules and everybody obeys or they're out.
Terrorists don't play fair.
Neither do congressional leaders who, when it comes to Iraq, could teach jihadists tricks on sighing to the heavens while slitting throats.
Male leaders must have missed labor room or passed out.
Female leaders must have hired surrogate moms.
None seems to recall that birth is painful and child raising is not a one-stop glee.
Despite billions in the bank and fame, congressional leaders can only envy and do Bill and Melinda Gates met hard knocks.
Our foundation works hard to think through problems carefully, but it's simply impossible to get our strategies exactly right in the beginning, they say.
Robert Gates would say the same.
He's not even related.
Donald Rumsfeld would, too.
Did withdrawing American troops when he thought Iraqis are ready to handle more on their own and finding they were not yet.
Any leader who's actually led and not just sweet-talked knows what sweat equity really means.
Life is tough, business is tough, football's tough.
They all have regulations.
Terrorists have none.
The military is adamant on lessons learned, and it learns.
Name one congressional leader.
One lesson congressional leaders have learned other than to emote before C-SPAN cameras.
Which congressional leader could be this blunt?
The lessons, a list of lessons Bill and I have learned since we started is just about as long as the list of mistakes that we've made.
And we're still making mistakes and learning lessons every day.
Who in Congress would dare be this frank?
Seeing where we missed something can be humbling, but it helps us understand how we can be more innovative the next time.
We try to bring that spirit of learning and changing to all of our work.
Well, look at congressional leaders one by one.
Who among them has convictions as deep as bin Laden's?
Who among them, like bin Laden, is unwavering no matter what?
Jihadists and U.S. troops have one thing in common and one thing alone.
They are willing to sacrifice themselves for something greater than themselves.
Can congressional leaders come close to that?
Bin Laden sacrifices everything he has, wealth, health, for his beliefs.
Belief.
That's bin Laden's power.
You can see it in his eyes.
And congressional leaders?
Beliefs that deep?
Eyes that steady?
Firm?
How many thousand Iraqis will join al-Qaeda when al-Qaeda in Iraq rules over Iraq?
Any congressional leader who cannot see that Iraqis are dying to live free, that Iraqi security forces are killed serving their country, that Iraq's politicians need help and American politicians could give it, that the world has looked to America because America has honored its word and stood by its allies no matter what.
Any congressman who can't see all of those things has a jihad of his own.
And there'll be no virgins stroking when all is said and done for congressional leaders.
This is one of the best pieces I have read to put into proper perspective the absolute cowardice, the arrogance.
I mean, they are always demanding Bush admit mistakes.
They never admit making mistakes at all.
They have all the answers.
They have no belief.
They have no staying power.
They have no sense of commitment, no sense of honor.
They cannot be trusted.
Even after they vote for all the things that we make promises to our allies and the people of Iraq, they are the first to cut and run, and they claim they are what's best for the country.
And they couldn't be more wrong.
We have a breaking AP news alert here, ladies and gentlemen.
The Treasury Department says that the federal deficit running 9.8% lower than in the last budget year.
Well, we knew this is going to happen.
I mean, this just makes it official, but all that money can pour in here because of the tax cuts and the more than full employment that we have.
But will anybody care, ladies and gentlemen?
AP makes it a news alert, but will anybody pick it up?
The Democrats don't.
They want to massively increase spending and deficits and so forth.
They don't want good economic news out there, especially now.
But there it is.
By the way, I hope Mr. Snerdley is alone in his confusion.
The piece I read to you mere moments ago before the break was by Michael O'Shea at theamericanthinker.com, in which he quotes at various intervals in the piece, Melinda Gates, talking about how hard it is to run their philanthropy and how many mistakes they make and how it's an ongoing process, but how they believe in what they're doing.
And so they try to learn from the mistakes.
And they don't break promises that they make to people that they're going to make pledges to, that they're going to help.
And he was contrasting the Gates and the way they live and the way they run their lives with the U.S. congressmen.
So Mr. Snerdley thought that Melinda Gates wrote the whole thing.
And I hope I did not leave that impression.
This is from the AmericanThinker.com.
And we will link to this at rushlimbaugh.com later on today when we update the contents of the website today to reflect our content today.
Grovestown, Georgia, is that right?
This is Bob.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
Hi, Lego.
Hey, Ross.
I swear to God's Best for Truth member.
I'm not sure myself.
I'm having a real tough time understanding you.
Could you hold the phone a little further away from your mouth?
Okay.
Now try it again.
Here we go.
Tell you what, just hang on.
We're going to put John Hoberg in a phone number and call you back.
We got a bad phone line with you because it sounds like you're in a barrel and you're gagged.
I did hear him say that he is a member of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, so he might be gagged.
But we'll try to get a better phone line for him.
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.
We uncover more unknown towns on this program every day than any other show.
Mary in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Yeah.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You're brilliant, and you're my hero.
Well, thank you so much.
My comment is on the report by General Petraeus to the Senate, which I watched on CNN.
After it was over, I was switching channels to get some feedback, and I happened to catch Anderson Cooper on CNN taking General Petraeus' report point by point and challenging each one with a video clip and report from a reporter in that area.
I was furious.
First of all, for them to challenge a four-star general is appalling to me.
And for what reason, if not for political?
Yeah, I didn't see this, but I know it's infuriating.
This is what they do.
Everybody in a Republican administration is a liar.
You have to understand that was the narrative this week.
As far as the Democrats and the drive-by media concern, Mary, Petraeus was a liar.
And Bush made him lie.
Bush was making him a puppet.
And so their whole modus operate was not to listen to what he had to say for any reason other than try to find some video in some of their correspondence to provide out-of-context reports to indicate that the Democrats and the committees who were saying that Petraeus was lying are right.
But it didn't work.
The polling numbers in the Wall Street Journal, NBC poll of the people supporting the surge now continue to climb.
The numbers do.
The president's approval number is flat at 30% in this poll, but that didn't work.
Look, there's a reason why CNN is sitting there sucking air at the bottom of the list of cable news channels.
It's, well, they go back and forth with PMS NBC.
I understand your frustration.
It wasn't just at CNN.
We have a montage here of Chris Matthews on hardball last night, his assessment of the Petraeus hearings.
Petraeus and Crocker, this whole dog and pony show.
I'm watching this dog and pony show.
What do you make of the pony?
You're speaking well, the dog.
What about the pony?
It really is a dog and pony show.
The hypocrisy and the dog and pony show, the Petraeus dog and pony show.
Not one of those repeated.
That's Chris Matthews on Hardball last night referring to a decorated four-star general in full dress as a dog and pony show.
Look at, folks, there's an alliance.
You know it, I know it.
Democrats in the media, and it is to fulfill and project and advance a specific agenda.
I want to, oh, we got Bob back from Grovetown, Georgia.
He's a Swift boat member.
Okay, Bob, let's try again with a different phone line here.
Can you hear me now?
You need to pull that phone really far away from you because it's distorting the way you sound.
Okay, you hear me now.
Bob, what kind of phone are you?
Not a brand name, but are you using a cell phone or a landline?
No, these are landline portable phones.
A landline portable phone.
Oh, a landline portable phone.
Yeah.
All right.
Do you have any other phones in the house, Bob?
Cell phone.
Would you mind if we called you on that?
Yeah, I'm going to have to get my, I just got this, so I'm not used to this.
You got to get a cell phone number.
I don't know what it was.
Hold on, wait a minute.
Well, basically, oh, you don't have a cell phone number?
No.
Yeah.
Well, let's have to get it everywhere.
Okay, all right, good.
Well, basically, the way I use the cell phone, it'll ring, and then you hit the talk button.
It's a green button.
Just hit the talk button, and that answers it.
Look, Mr. Sturgeon will come back, give your instructions here.
We'll try again on the cell phone.
Okay, so you're the other guy.
Yeah, not me.
Don't give your cell phone number.
No, especially since you're a Swiftboat veteran for true.
No, hang on.
Okay.
You hang on.
Mr. Snerdley is going to get your number.
He will call you back on your cell phone.
He's on hold now.
All right, good.
You know what that the guy's phone reminds me?
You know, we used to play a parody of this guy driving into a fast food restaurant, and he would order what he wanted.
And the speaker, you know, those drive-ins, those drive-thrus, the guy eventually goes nuts because he can't understand what they're saying inside, talking back to him, repeating his order.
It was hilarious.
I'm sure we still have it.
Here it is.
We have an area.
This is exactly what it reminded me of.
All right, I think we got it here.
Third time's a charm with Bob in Grovetown, Georgia, who's now on his cell phone.
Bob, welcome back to the EIB now.
You guys, you can hear me out.
Yeah, I hear you much better now.
You're a Swiftboat veteran for truth?
Yeah.
I'll tell you how it happened.
I joined later.
I didn't show.
I wasn't a member, a regular member when they wrote the book, when John O'Neill wrote the book.
I only got involved when my kids told me I should get involved.
After all these Democrats were saying about the guys lying and all, it didn't happen.
They weren't lying.
Right.
And that's what got me out of the Democratic Party.
I was a Democrat.
And then that's what also got me to join them Swiftboat guys.
So they all know me.
Wait, when you left the Democrat Party when they started attacking John O'Neill about his book?
Yeah.
Because they lied about it.
See, I was on the 43 boat when Kerry, on Kerry's operations, most of his operations.
I was with Don Droves.
What boat was he on?
94 boat.
How far away from him would that have put you in the formation?
When one of his medals, when he got the guy out of the water, he was right in front of me.
We wanted to get out of the water.
He was right.
So you saw it.
So you, you, what did you did?
You meet Kerry?
I knew the guy.
I didn't know his name, but I knew the boat and all.
All right.
So he did a lot of stupid things.
I know that.
Well, apparently so.
And he's never refuted anything.
And they keep complaining about all the complaints or all the charges, but they never refuted any of them.
Anyway, I don't want to relive that.
You're calling for some other reason about that.
I know we just identified yourself as a Swiftboat veteran, but what was the reason you called?
About Petraeus, about the general.
I didn't like the idea of what they were doing to the guy.
I mean, they pull this stuff all the time.
You know, I got a little tired of it.
I'll bet especially when you heard Carrie commenting on him.
Yeah, that even made it worse.
He's no one that commented on that.
He didn't comment on anything.
Well, I'm glad we stuck with you.
You know, most shows, bad phone lion would have said, hey, it's not your fault, even though it was.
And the phone line's not working.
But we endeavored to get back in touch with you, Bob.
And congratulations on using the cell phone.
They're really amazing.
And it sounds much.
Bob, before you, if you don't mind my asking, I shouldn't do this.
Yeah.
I need what do you, where did you get your portable wireless phone there?
Not the cell phone.
Verizon.
No, no, no.
Not the cell phone, the one that we couldn't.
Oh, oh, at Walmart, I think.
Walmart.
Yeah.
Either Walmart's or Sam's Club, same thing.
Walmart or Sam's Club.
Yeah, it's one, a six of one, half dozen or the other.
Excuse me.
Well, that's not the best phone for you if you're going to call us back here on the EIB network.
So if you call back, use your cell phone.
That's a good idea.
Okay, all right.
Bob, thanks so much.
I appreciate your call.
I really do.
And your service.
Every time we hear from somebody who served in the military here, we get lumps in our throats here, especially with the way you all have been maligned and mistreated in the general this week and so forth.
We all share your anger.
I'm glad you called.
I got to do some audio soundbites here, folks.
I've been promising this, and it fits the theme, and I don't want to wait and put these off until tomorrow.
We've talked about Congressman, shared the piece with you from Michael O'Shea and the AmericanThinker.com.
They're gutless.
They don't have beliefs.
They don't keep promises.
They don't stick to things and so forth.
We've discussed all aspects of their arrogance today, their conceit, their elitism.
There was a Democrat, and then they're nuts.
There was an online forum with the Democrat presidential candidates moderated by Bill Maher.
And Senator Biden got this question from Bill Maher.
Senator Biden, forgetting about the upcoming Iowa caucus for just a moment, which would you honestly say is more likely to contribute to the death of your average American, a terrorist strike or high fructose corn syrup and air that has too much coal in it?
Air that has too much coal in it, corn syrup next, then a terrorist attack.
But that is not in any way to diminish the fact that the terrorist attack is real, but hundreds of thousands of people die and their lives are shortened because of coal plants, coal-fired plants, and because of corn syrup.
Do you believe this?
Hundreds of thousands of people die and their lives are shortened because of coal plants?
I told you all about seeing this giant, giant cargo ship of coal on Long Island Sound heading in to give coal.
It gets so big it can't get it ashore after tenders come out and take the coal in.
Coal was, by the way, not from America.
Senator, you want to try firing these power plants with something else?
You tell us what it is.
This is just pandering of the first order.
Mrs. Clinton got the next question from Bill Maher.
Senator Clinton, all the senators here except Senator Obama voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002, saying their decision was based on intelligence they believed to be accurate at the time.
In other words, George Bush fooled you.
Why should Americans vote for somebody who can be fooled by George Bush?
Well, Bill, it was a little more complicated than that.
I sought out expert opinions from a wide variety of sources.
People inside and outside the government, people in my husband's administration.
And I think it is fair to say that at the time, I made it very clear I was against a preemptive war.
And I believed that giving the president authority to go back to the United Nations and put in inspectors was an appropriate designation of authority.
That's just at variance with the truth, folks.
That's not what the resolution, the use of force resolution, did not say anything about bombing the United Nations.
That is just disingenuous.
And how about that cackle?
You know, if I were Bill Maher, that cackle, she did not want that question.
That question, how can you be, she's the smartest woman in the world.
Now, we've got all these soundbites.
Here's Hillary, September 15th, 2002 on Meet the Press.
Listen.
I doubt it.
I can support the president.
I can support an action against Saddam Hussein because I think it's in the long-term interests of our national security.
Her Senate floor speech, October 10, 2002.
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program.
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Hillary Clinton, October in 2002, back after this.
Rudy Giuliani wants to run a full-page ad Friday in the New York Times.
He has asked for the same rate they gave movon.org.
The rate card, $167,000.
Moveon.org was charged $65,000.
Rudy Giuliani wants the same ad rate for a full-page ad in Friday's New York Times.
I knew this was going to happen.
We will see if he gets it.
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