Sept. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| I know you people probably didn't see it last night, but PMS NBC really screwed the Brecht girl. | |
| I mean, they made him pay for his little response to Bush, but they interviewed Biden and Huckabee before they played the Breck Girl's response and didn't cost them anything. | |
| Greetings, my friends. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
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| Rush at EIBNet.com gearing up for a big trip tomorrow, going to Lincoln, Nebraska, USC Nebraska tomorrow night. | |
| USC Nebraska. | |
| Don't start, don't start ripping on Nebraska. | |
| Nebraska is a heartland, Mr. What are you doing in there? | |
| Well Nebraska don't do you sound like a lib. | |
| Where's Nebraska? | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| Well, I I I like USC Nebraska college football, yeah. | |
| And I got a big kick when I watched Hawaii in Northern Colorado when I was uh on the golf trip in Hawaii. | |
| That was a kick as that was on the uh that was on the sideline. | |
| No, this is gonna be a great uh great great game and a great and a great time. | |
| But Nebraska is the heartland of the country, Mr. Sturdley. | |
| Nebraska is the simplicity of life. | |
| It is, you know, you can go to Nebraska, you can capture America as it's always been. | |
| Oh, it's a great place. | |
| I've been I've been to uh Lincoln a couple times. | |
| Well, once for a for a Nebraska game. | |
| Uh played Notre Dame, creamed them. | |
| Uh back when Bob Davy uh was the coach. | |
| Anyway, looking, looking forward. | |
| Yeah, I own Nebraska. | |
| And you know, it in fact, uh uh on game day at Lincoln, one out of every six Nebraskans is in Lincoln for the game. | |
| It's big. | |
| It's big. | |
| It's a it's a it's an exciting event. | |
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, um uh more details on how the Breck Girl got screwed in just a moment, but while uh everybody's upset at the moveon.org ad, Lanny Davis is upset at me. | |
| Uh the former Clinton spinmeister was on the Fox News channel this morning on Fox and Friends, and uh Steve Ducey does the weather interviewed uh the the uh Lanny Davis and said, Look, I know you're familiar with uh with Hillary. | |
| Uh she wants to be president. | |
| She's not come out and denounced this moveon.org ad. | |
| Do you uh do you think she should? | |
| Every single Democrat uh should say that move on.org using the expression general betray us is engaging in uh outrageous and in my opinion offensive rhetoric, but no less so than some of the hate mongering that I hear from Rush Limbaugh and some of the people on the right questioning the patriotism of people like move on.org, who have a right under the first amendment to say anything they want. | |
| Why we give them such credence when nobody can take seriously that kind of outrageous exercise of their first amendment rights is to me uh amazing that you would start out with that subject rather than George Bush's speech last night. | |
| So uh the conversation continues with Lanny Davis bringing me back into it. | |
| Senator Clinton should denounce it. | |
| I don't know why, uh, but again, you're still focused on move on.org rather than President Bush. | |
| Why are you not questioning Rush Limbaugh attacking patriotism? | |
| Why hasn't Fox done one program about Rush Limbaugh? | |
| Would you answer that question? | |
| Let me interview you and Fox and Friends for a second. | |
| Why move on.org, which I denounce. | |
| Why are you not denouncing Rush Limbaugh questioning my patriotism for disagreeing on the uh Iraq war? | |
| Lenny, I I'm sorry, but I don't know what you're talking about. | |
| I haven't heard Rush Limbaugh do that. | |
| I'll look at it. | |
| Wait, why don't you why don't you do a study and invite me back and we'll have a program about Rush Limbaugh rather than just focusing on what you call the left. | |
| Lenny, you're filibustering. | |
| I welcome it. | |
| I hope Fox does a program on me. | |
| I won't participate in it because I don't do that, but um what have I said? | |
| What in the world have I said? | |
| All I've said was that they're invested in defeat. | |
| I've said that it's it's it's just un it's unacceptable. | |
| It's it's indecent. | |
| The way they attacked General Petraeus. | |
| Uh ladies and gentlemen, I I don't know if uh if if this conclusion has uh has come to anybody else out there, but during the Petraeus hearings, and even in the postmortem, you know, uh not one liberal, not one Democrat has asked what can we do to help you in the troops. | |
| While they were talking to General Petraeus, uh, Lanny, there wasn't one Democrat in the House or Senate on either committee that asked the general what they could do to help him and the troops. | |
| There wasn't one Democrat who said, What can we do to help the war effort? | |
| There wasn't one. | |
| Lanny, where is the poof? | |
| That I am challenging your patriotism. | |
| Up until today, your name hasn't come up in a while on this program. | |
| Uh you know, I I d yeah, I I think you guys are wrong in trying to undermine the war effort, U.S. national security. | |
| Uh, but challenging your patriotism has never been what I've done. | |
| I challenge your judgment uh and so forth. | |
| But uh if you want me to say I challenge your patriotism so Fox can do a show, okay. | |
| Anyway, uh the the Brett girl. | |
| This you know, we had a news yesterday that the Bret girl um had purchased time, two minutes of time, on uh on PMS NBC in order to reply to the president's speech. | |
| Now I thought uh that that they would run the Brett Girl's response right after Bush's speech, but no, they ran a rant response by Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed. | |
| And then after that, uh they did their round table discussions. | |
| They had they had Matthews on there and they had Howard Feynman on there, and they had uh Tim Russard on there. | |
| Uh and then they went and talked to Joe Biden and asked him what he thought. | |
| And they went to by the went to uh who else uh uh Mike Huckabee, a Republican, asked him what he thought. | |
| It must have been 30 minutes after Bush finished that they finally got to the Breck girl. | |
| The Breck girl is the only guy to pay, and they and they just ran it as a as a commercial. | |
| They ran it as a career. | |
| They didn't set it up, by the way. | |
| Now for a candidate response to President Bush's speech, here is uh the Bret girl. | |
| They didn't do that. | |
| He just ran it as a commercial, a commercial break, and after the Brett girl's response, they ran the obligatory I'm John Edwards and I approve of this message. | |
| It was uh it was a hoot, so he paid for all this time, and he needn't have paid for any of it. | |
| Uh because they're interviewing all these other people long before they got to his commercial. | |
| Would you like to hear what the Brett Girl said? | |
| Because I know nobody watched it. | |
| So uh here's here's uh here's just a portion of his response. | |
| The question of Iraq is separate from September 11th, as it always has been. | |
| Whatever George Bush would have us believe. | |
| Likewise, supporting our troops and pursuing a failed war are not the same things. | |
| Whatever George Bush would have us believe. | |
| Our troops are stuck between a president without a plan to succeed and a Congress without the courage to bring them home. | |
| But Congress must answer to the American people. | |
| Tell Congress you know the truth. | |
| Congress needs to tell him he only gets one choice: a firm timeline for withdrawal. | |
| No timeline, no funding, no excuses. | |
| It is time to end this war. | |
| I'm John Edwards, and I approve this message. | |
| Meanwhile, we have sound bites for you throughout the program today from Democrats are just beside themselves. | |
| They know they can't do anything to stop this, and uh Bush last night just be in there ten years, and they are beside themselves. | |
| We Bush said we're gonna have permanent bases. | |
| Bush said we're gonna we're gonna have a relationship with them. | |
| And I remember all these all these liberal Democrats were complaining and whining that Bush wasn't uh uh exercising diplomacy. | |
| Now Bush talked last night about essentially using diplomacy, and they're just they're just out of their gourds over this uh because they got skunked. | |
| As to move on.org, uh back to Lanny Davis for just a second, and and Mrs. Clinton denouncing it. | |
| Is anybody remember? | |
| Mr. Snerdley, you might. | |
| Does anybody remember what moveon dot org stands for? | |
| Why was it? | |
| It was move on right. | |
| It w it's it's it is a Clinton front group. | |
| It's a Clinton George Soros Font group. | |
| You know, Rudy Giuliani did a great thing yesterday when going for his New York Times ad and making the point that he wants one for the same rate. | |
| He linked her to move on.org. | |
| Move on.org means let's move on from Clinton scandals. | |
| And it's now MoveOn.org that won't move on. | |
| If you will, Mrs. Clinton's inexorably tied to Moveon.org, like she is to Media Matters for America, like she is for the uh Center for American Progress that uh Clinton's chief of staff, John Podesta runs a thing. | |
| This is tied to all of these things. | |
| Uh to expect her to denounce it. | |
| Uh by the way, she didn't say a word last night. | |
| I haven't seen Mrs. Clinton. | |
| She may have this morning, but she didn't say a word last night about the uh President's speech. | |
| All right, a brief, brief, brief timeout here. | |
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| And we will continue with Open Line Friday right thereafter. | |
| Welcome back to Open Line Friday. | |
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| A little reminder here about Moveon.org. | |
| You know how old moveon.org is. | |
| Take a guess, Mr. Sturdley. | |
| Howells MoveOn.org. | |
| When was it founded? | |
| Right exactly. | |
| This is one of the reasons I got the best staff. | |
| In all of media. | |
| 1998, move on.org. | |
| And back then, you remember we got we started getting seminar callers back. | |
| The moveon.org were the original seminar callers. | |
| Um they uh they were programmed to by the organization to to say that they were nonpartisan, they were non-political. | |
| Uh and and uh what when they called in, what they would say is, I'm a lifelong Republican, but I'm never gonna vote for the Republicans again if they don't stop this impeachment proceeding. | |
| That was move on.org. | |
| Can't we move on? | |
| Can't we move on from this? | |
| Uh it's a Hillary front group. | |
| So just wanting to remind you of that, uh, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Norman Shu is gonna have a chance to get back out on bail despite the suicide note, despite all. | |
| Um the disgraced Democrat fundraiser is in custody after jumping two million dollars bail in San Mateo County last week, will be spending an additional week in a Colorado jail unless he comes up with another five million dollars. | |
| County judge Bruce Rom said uh at a hearing in Grand Junction, Colorado yesterday, two million wasn't enough to keep Shue from running. | |
| Let's see if five million will do it. | |
| Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hotzinger said that uh $50 million bail, warning that Shu was an obvious flight risk. | |
| No kidding. | |
| Why any bail? | |
| The guys jumped bail twice. | |
| And he was willing to lose two million dollars to do it. | |
| Are they gonna get his passport from him this time? | |
| Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, the shoe story not going away. | |
| The shoe story we now learn has ties to dingy Harry. | |
| Uh the shoe story has ties to a number of Democrats. | |
| It is time to memorialize this via Paul Shhanklin in song. | |
| Exclusively here. | |
| Chinese tramps and thieves sums up the associations made famous by both the Clintons. | |
| That's uh Hillary Clinton is portrayed by Paul Shanklin, well-known white comedian exclusively heard here on the EIB network. | |
| All right, uh, the New England Patriots uh have been fined 250,000. | |
| Their coach Bill Belichick fined half a million dollars for spying on the New York Jets with a video camera crew on the sideline last Sunday at uh at Giant Stadium. | |
| They're also going to lose some draft choices, but you're the Patriots. | |
| I have to tell you something. | |
| This spying in the NFL goes on all you know who the best spies in the NFL are? | |
| The players on the field. | |
| Now, what Belichick was doing is a violation of the of the NFL operations manual. | |
| You're not allowed to have video crews on the sideline. | |
| Uh the only video crew can be in the press box. | |
| The rule says it's got to have two walls or three walls and a closed roof. | |
| So that's up there uh in the press box. | |
| But no video recording crew or equipment is allowed to be used by teams on the sideline at NFL Games, and Belichick knew it. | |
| Um he's got a little, I guess, some issues with Eric Manini, a Former assistant's assistant with the Patriots, now the head coach of the uh Jets, and it was Man Gini, turned him in. | |
| Apparently, a lot of teams have been suspicious of the Patriots doing this. | |
| Uh I, you know, I I think this it's obviously a violation of the rule. | |
| The argument that's being uh uh taken today, or that's it's it's underway today is whether the penalty was sufficient enough. | |
| For example, they play again, I think it's December 16th in Foxboro, the Jets and the and the Patriots, and some people think that Belichick should have been suspended for the whole week. | |
| No contact with the team for the week and suspended from the sidelines during that game. | |
| Um they also lost some draft choices, and it depends on how they finish as to what draft choices they lose. | |
| Yeah, they can lose a first-round draft choice uh if they uh if they make the playoffs. | |
| But that's okay. | |
| You want to know how smart the Patriots are. | |
| It's almost as though the Patriots had insurance here that they were gonna get caught someday. | |
| They have two draft choices next spring. | |
| They have the San Francisco Fortner draft choice, and they have their own. | |
| They're gonna lose their own draft choice because they are going to make the playoffs. | |
| The 49ers draft choice is gonna be a much better draft choice than their own would have been. | |
| So they're not gonna lose a first-round draft choice. | |
| Now, if they don't make the playoffs, they will lose their second and third round uh draft choice. | |
| But they they're they're they're not I mean, that's not gonna happen. | |
| Uh unless Tom Brady gets hurt, that that's the only way they they might have a stumble on the way to uh finishing in the playoffs, probably winning the uh NFC or the AFC East. | |
| So Belichick has apologized. | |
| He's not gonna talk about it anymore. | |
| Uh a lot of teams, as I say, have been suspicious that this was happening with the uh with the Patriots. | |
| You know, it's it's arguable, folks. | |
| I'm a football expert, uh, and it is uh arguable uh to suggest that the sideline video taping the Patriots were doing could help them during games. | |
| Especially if you go back and look at this game on Sunday between the Jets and the Patriots. | |
| Uh the video crew was spotted and escorted off the field in the first quarter. | |
| Uh everybody knows the outcome of this game. | |
| The Patriots were able to run past uh, you know, run their game plan, their offensive game plan at will. | |
| Uh I think what what they probably were doing is building up a library of videotape for uh future study uh down the road when they play the Jets again. | |
| Uh, and that's probably what they have been doing uh all along with this, because using this stuff during the game, there's really not enough not enough time for it. | |
| Uh and everybody said, but why why would he do it? | |
| Smartest coach in the league, he's the best coach in the league. | |
| The rule is the rule. | |
| He's been warned about it before. | |
| Why would he do it? | |
| That's the question they have in Boston. | |
| Why would he do it? | |
| What's the point? | |
| Especially no offense. | |
| Jets fans. | |
| But especially against the Jets, it's there would it wouldn't be necessary. | |
| And of course, that's where the Eric Mangini uh situation uh involves itself. | |
| So basically, I think the Patriots they have uh uh people are gonna be doubting their achievements. | |
| They've got, you know, a half an asterisk uh around all their accomplishments, but in truth, that will probably subside. | |
| It's it's it's just a it's an amazing thing. | |
| The real question they're asking in Boston is the real why do it when you've been warned and when you know what the rule is, and you don't need to. | |
| Uh and this is something, of course. | |
| Uh yeah, it's like Nixon and McGovern. | |
| Why break in to the DNC, Nick, when you when you knew that you you were not gonna lose to George McGovern? | |
| Why do it? | |
| We're still asking ourselves that. | |
| By the way, it was uh Paul Shanklin's sister Carol. | |
| Shanklin, Carol Shanklin, portraying uh uh Hillary Rodham Clinton and this shrill. | |
| She's white too. | |
| Yes, she's uh she's a sister of a white comedian, a white sister of a white comedian. | |
| She uh, by the way, people say uh lyric line are kind of tough to understand. | |
| Well, well, she does a great shrill impersonation of uh of Mrs. Clinton. | |
| One other thing about Norman Shue here, folks, from the Cybercast News Service, after pledging to return $850,000 raised by Norman Shu, Senator Clinton's presidential campaign found this week to do more rigorous background checks of these big donors, but some law enforcement officials contend that uh Mrs. Clinton, or somebody close to her, Should have known about Shu's fugitive status, given the routine background checks conducted by Secret Service on protected persons. | |
| I, you know, I wish I'd have thought of this myself. | |
| I I don't know how many times uh I've been to the White House. | |
| I have to go through a background check every time I'm gonna go there. | |
| You gotta send your social security number up there, and they they they just they background check everybody that walks in there for any reason whatsoever. | |
| And the same thing, you know, when when Hillary hosted this dinner at the Museum of Modern Art, the restaurant there where Shu shows up, and Hillary and Shu show up in the same picture. | |
| Um he has to go through a background check to get in there. | |
| Now, this I mentioned this only because Mrs. Clinton's acting like she didn't know, we didn't know, nobody in the campaign knew. | |
| It's not possible. | |
| It's all B.S. She knew everything. | |
| She didn't care. | |
| That's the point about this. | |
| You know, this is uh one of these situations you could say, okay, what how much did she know, and when did she know it? | |
| Carl Rowan, a federal agent, both the FBI and the U.S. Marshals for a decade, that would be ten years for those of you in Rio Linda, said in an interview that uh, quote, I would absolutely be shocked if the protective intelligence division of the Secret Service was not fully aware of Shu's status as a fugitive. | |
| The Clinton campaign dismissed the theory. | |
| Howard Wolfson said, sorry, you're not correct. | |
| The Secret Service did not vet Mr. Shu. | |
| Well. | |
| Okay, then there's lax security surrounding Mrs. Clinton for crying out loud. | |
| Uh if people they don't know can get close to her for a photo op just coming in with wads of cash. | |
| Remember, ladies and gentlemen, I want to keep reminding you of this. | |
| For all these hacked Democrat spokesmen and operatives out there ripping on me and others for questioning their patriotism. | |
| I just want to remind you that not one liberal, not one Democrat during the two days of Senate and House testimony from General Petraeus, asked him, what can we do to help you and the troops? | |
| Uh not one Democrat on either committee said, What can we do to help you and the war effort? | |
| Not one Democrat came anywhere near their whole purpose was to destroy and impugn the character and reputation of a decorated four-star general in full dress uniform sitting before them. | |
| This call it lack of patriotism or whatever, what I called it was indecent. | |
| And that's exactly what it was. | |
| Get this, folks, car buying spurs retail sales rebound. | |
| Retail sales posted a modest gain in August, helped by the biggest jump in auto sales in more than a year. | |
| But there are concerns that spending could falter. | |
| As the steep slump in housing and financial market turbulence weigh on consumer confidence. | |
| Of course, they had to add that last sentence because they cannot permit there to be a conclusion that there's good news out there. | |
| Now, why is all of a sudden car buying uh going through the roof? | |
| How come people buying cars? | |
| It is this program, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Oh, by the way, can I want to thank you people about you know I should have started the program with this? | |
| You people are greatest audience in the history of media, and I mean this from the bottom of my beating and sizable heart. | |
| Yesterday, uh I gave uh a little plug to Laura Ingram's book, Power to the People. | |
| Uh, and about about ten after one, ten after the second hour when it when it started. | |
| And at the time, uh they didn't know this at the time, but at the time her book was number 61 on the Amazon nonfiction list. | |
| By five o'clock yesterday afternoon, it was number one. | |
| And today it's number one overall, nonfiction and fiction. | |
| It is ahead of Clinton's uh book. | |
| It's ahead of the O.J. book that's out there, and you people did that. | |
| You p you uh you I'm telling you, you are you are the the the most fantastic uh audience in all of media. | |
| That's just I admit it, I admit it, yes, I suggested that you get it and read it, but you did, and it just it's it's uh this was this was just uh an amazing thing. | |
| I didn't, I got it, I got an email flash from a friend. | |
| Have you seen where Laura's book it? | |
| No, I'm not, I'm working on tomorrow's show. | |
| So I went and looked at it and clicked on the link, and it was number two at like four o'clock yesterday afternoon, an hour after the program, and I thought, well, that's not bad. | |
| Number sixty-one to number two, and then at five o'clock I clicked against the updated every hour to become number one. | |
| Um I mean, that's just great for her, and it's it's great. | |
| You know, we all got to hang here together, folks. | |
| Uh oh eight's important, and this book is uh it's got some timely information, inspirational things in it. | |
| It really, as I said yesterday, is uh well worth your checking out. | |
| But I I just I really wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. | |
| That is just amazing what you people do. | |
| And it's happening with General Motors. | |
| You know, General Motors is a sponsor here, and their sales are going up. | |
| Um you know Well, we uh we we we look at I don't want to tell the story in great detail, but for 19 years we've been trying to get a major auto dealer, and they had their advertising plans and they wanted to rub them. | |
| And finally excuse me, we came up with a plan for them that made it I'm not gonna give away the secret. | |
| We came up with a plan that made it feasible for them. | |
| And not involving money, but we came a strategic. | |
| Uh and so GM sales, auto sales going up and it was just fabulous. | |
| Uh and uh I can't I d I really don't want to gush here too much, but I just can't tell you what I think of you all. | |
| You are you are just you just blow me away. | |
| You are literally just just amazing, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. | |
| All right, Mohammed in Richmond, Virginia, you're first as we go to the phones on Open Line Friday. | |
| Hello, sir. | |
| Yeah, how's it going, Rush? | |
| I'm a big fan. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Uh sir, I just wanted to tell you uh I'm a Muslim who studies homeland security in my university, and uh we love this country very much. | |
| I've been to the Middle East, I've lived there almost half my life, and what we don't hear on the media is the other side of the Middle East that wants us to stay the course. | |
| Um our allies in the region, Jordan, Kuwait, other uh others they want us to stay, they don't want the dangers that are right now in Iraq to get exported to them because they have seen what it will do. | |
| Well, let me ask you this. | |
| How much how how greater fear in these countries, uh, including Saudi Arabia, do you think they there is and exists of of uh Iran and its intentions? | |
| Because they're a Muslim country as well as an Islamic republic. | |
| Uh well, there's actually a bigger um scare of Iran, bigger than the scare of Al Qaeda. | |
| Like, if you remember, the only reason that uh the Arab countries backed up Saddam Hussein was in order to stop Iran. | |
| Like, you know, you there's still pictures of the late King Hussein and Saddam Hussein in a bunker looking at the bombs falling on Iran. | |
| Uh it's it's a scary thing, and Iran is not just uh saying, hey, you know, we want this and that. | |
| They they are uh literally moving on the Gulf countries, on Bahrain, on Qatar, on all those um Gulf countries. | |
| Uh yeah, and I'm I'm sure that they've got their eyes on Dubai. | |
| Because what the Dubai people are doing cannot possibly uh make the uh the fundamentalist Islamists uh happy at all, catering to the wealthy of the rich and uh of the wealth western cultures and so forth. | |
| Uh Mohammed, thanks for the call. | |
| Yeah, this question of of moderate uh Muslims. | |
| It's a it's a it's you know, it's it's a challenging thing uh because uh uh i i I've I've I've uh well I've I've mentioned this uh before about my friend Andy McCarthy, who now uh uh among many other things, writes at National Review Online. | |
| He was on the prosecution team out of the uh U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which is Manhattan, uh prosecuted the the blind sheikh. | |
| And uh I've told this story again, so I'll tell it briefly here. | |
| Uh he was had to prepare to cross-examine the blind shake if the blind sheikh took the stand. | |
| Now he didn't think the blind shake would take the stand, but he had to be prepared in case. | |
| And the official position of the U.S. government back then was that there was a fringe militant extremist Islamism, and that there were moderates. | |
| And the official position of the U.S. government was that Islam is moderate. | |
| So Andy said, okay, I I I gotta I I know that this guy's a nut. | |
| I I know that this guy is off his rocker. | |
| So I I'm gonna take what I know that he has said in speeches, and I'm gonna take what he has written, and I'm gonna go to the Quran and I'm gonna find where he is exaggerating it. | |
| And he couldn't find it. | |
| Uh everything that the blind sheikh said was in the Quran. | |
| And Andy is trying to warn people today about this. | |
| He said, This is the th, you know, this this whole extreme versus moderate thing is something that we want to believe. | |
| But then on the other hand, I was you see, Charlie Rose last night had uh Professor Fwado Jami, who is Muslim, and he's a s well, I'm not sure now I'm confused. | |
| Sunni or Shiite, I am not uh he's Shiite. | |
| He is Shiite, that's and he's from he's from uh he's from Lebanon. | |
| Uh he is one of the world's great Middle East scholars. | |
| And he was on Charlie Rose last night, part of a panel with George Packer of the New Yorker, uh Al Hunt and Cheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times. | |
| They were talking about the President's speech. | |
| And I I must tell you, Fuada Jami was just terrific. | |
| And he didn't talk so much about the speech. | |
| The arguments he made, and this just had the rest of the panel stumped. | |
| Uh the arguments he made were that America's influence in the Middle East is stronger post-Iraq war, that the war was a noble undertaking, and that we can succeed, and that we are seeing a transformation on the ground there. | |
| That we are seeing unreported political progress from the central government. | |
| Now, of course, the news out today, the White Houses issued their uh their report on the political progress, and they say it hasn't been much, because the last one was in July, and these guys over there took August off, like our guys do. | |
| But Fawata Jami said there's much more political progress in the Central Government Iraq than is being reported. | |
| Uh he called the president's critics defeatist. | |
| I guess they now claim that he challenged their patriotism. | |
| And there was a lot more. | |
| Now, what th this is significant because uh Fwada Jami knows the region better than almost anybody in America, including anybody in a drive-by media. | |
| And as I say is a Shiite Muslim from Lebanon. | |
| You've seen him. | |
| He's very urbane looking, has a uh a beard, g he's he's well spoken, he's a he's a he's a brilliant writer. | |
| Uh and last night he was a tiger. | |
| The rest of these panelists were just doing the usual narrative and template of ripping Bush to shreds. | |
| And he was talking about the substance of the uh of the of the issue. | |
| Uh uh and of course uh they act you th they they know Fwada Jami. | |
| I mean, he's one of them. | |
| And they're acting like he's from Mars. | |
| They're acting like who is this guy? | |
| Uh but he knows Iraq and he knows the Middle East far better than these clowns on the panel did. | |
| He was just there. | |
| Uh and uh you could find and I've got him too. | |
| I've got right here, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| I've got the specifics that he has cited latest trip uh holding here in my uh in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. | |
| Now, uh he is a Shiite Muslim from Lebanon, and you would have to say that he is not in any way shape, he's an American now. | |
| He's he's he's in no way, shape, manner, or form uh out of the Islamo-fascist mold. | |
| So uh interesting, and take it for what it is, but Fwada Jami is somebody worth listening to on this. | |
| I gotta go a little long in this segment here, folks. | |
| Be patient. | |
| Rolling right along, unstoppable, unbreakable, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network. | |
| It's open line Friday, and so we'll focus on the phones for the time being. | |
| Moraga, California. | |
| Stuart, your next, and I'm glad you called, sir. | |
| Rush, do you remember when the timeline for ending a war? | |
| By the way, stop it just a second. | |
| Stop just Sir, do you have an iPhone? | |
| No. | |
| Would you like one? | |
| Sure. | |
| I'm gonna send you one, and you know why? | |
| Why? | |
| Because you got right into it. | |
| You just you just got Rush about this time. | |
| You just got right into it. | |
| You didn't ask me how I was doing, you didn't blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| But I don't mind the other. | |
| But I just loved it. | |
| So I'm if you hang on here after this is over, and uh, we're gonna send you an iPhone. | |
| We'll don't because we'll get all the information necessary to do it. | |
| I'll send you, I'm gonna send you an extra cord charger and uh and uh uh dock uh for the for the thing as well. | |
| All right, now uh even though you started outright, I interrupted you, but that was for a good and gracious reason. | |
| Start again, please, sir. | |
| Uh thank you. | |
| You're very gracious. | |
| And the reason I called was to ask if you remembered when the timeline for a war depended on when the enemy surrendered. | |
| Uh uh Yes. | |
| Yeah, those are why why is it why is it that John Edwards and the rest of the Democrats don't understand that principle? | |
| Well, I think they do. | |
| Uh, but they they don't they they can't they they've they're too far gone politically now on the uh investment of defeat. | |
| And their line is it isn't a war. | |
| It's a civil war, it's sectarian, and we can't stop it, and there's nothing we can do, and they're gonna have to fight it out for themselves. | |
| So forth. | |
| This is look at the they're they're they're being led around by their their kook fringe leftists. | |
| Uh the anti-war movement in this country, and then that's that's that's who they are proving fealty to, and and nothing is going to change that. | |
| But they're not interested in victory. | |
| You have to understand now, Stuart, which I'm sure you do, uh, politically, the absolute worst thing that can happen is for this to work and for this to succeed and for there to be victory at the end of it. | |
| The worst, absolute worst thing it can happen, especially if uh we make significant progress toward that prior to 2008. | |
| That that's correct from the Democrats' point of view. | |
| Uh, Mr. Glimbaugh, there's one other thing I wanted to mention about Swada Jami. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And and the the evidence that he was right last night is that Syria right now is very upset with the rest of the Arab world for not condemning Israel, which uh last week did a long-range bombing strike into eastern Syria, and none of the other Arab countries are complaining about what Israel did because they think Syria deserved it because what was bombed was a missile battery that was provided by Iran. | |
| Exactly, and it may have been nuclear. | |
| They're they're they're still looking into that, but there might have been some nuclear sites that Israel also hit. | |
| Interesting point. | |
| Uh, he did make that point that uh nobody's condemning uh uh Israel in the Middle East, and that is unreal. | |
| That that is that's almost never happened. | |
| Thank you very much, sir. | |
| I appreciate your graciousness, and uh, I will use your gift uh to the uh maximum credential. | |
| Have you ever seen an iPhone? | |
| Have you ever seen one used? | |
| Um I've seen them at the store, but I have never seen one used. | |
| Well, you are going to be well you have a Mac or do you have Windows? | |
| Um presently I have Windows, but that could change. | |
| Well, it'll work with Windows. | |
| I mean, it's it's it's uh you have iTunes, you use iTunes? | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, you need iTunes. | |
| You need the latest version of iTunes to activate the phone and to sync all the data. | |
| It's just like an iPod, except it has much more on it. | |
| You will be you'll be stunned and blown away. | |
| I am sure I will. | |
| All right. | |
| Good, good. | |
| I like appreciative people. | |
| Now stay on stay on hold here so we can get all the vital information necessary to get this to you. | |
| In the meantime, a quick timeout will be right back after this. | |
| Have you heard about this story? | |
| And the odor of cigarette smoke has caused a school employee to lose her job. | |
| The Denton Independent School District has removed employee from her position because she smells like cigarette smoke. | |
| Suzanne Lidster was thrilled when she was recently hired to assist a student with disabilities at the L. A. Nelson Elementary School. | |
| And she got canned because she showed up smelling like cigarette smoke. | |
| We'll have details when we get back. |
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