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Sept. 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, we're back, uh ladies and gentlemen, and as always, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations.
In fact, the past two days, I have surpassed my own expectations and demands.
That's how good it has been.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, uh, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
And uh no, a lot of you have been on hold for a long time out there, but we'll and we're gonna get to you El Quico.
But there are lots of things in the news.
Plus, we got a global warming update uh coming.
It must be fall, right?
Uh we had the uh the fall equinox.
Uh back on the 21st and 22nd, depending on where you are.
And uh but there's another way you can tell it's fall.
Just search the drive-by media.
The headline, consumers face record winter heating costs.
Oh, we're gonna die.
By the way, Dawn sent me a note a moment ago promising she would not distract me during the program by doing cheerleader stretches.
And I wrote back and said, gee, thanks a lot.
Don, I just want you to know that would not be a distraction.
That would be motivational.
But nevertheless, uh uh to nevertheless.
See, I guess it is a distraction.
I'm already envisioning it.
U.S. consumers expected to pay record prices for heating oil, electricity, and propane to warm their homes this winter, and low-income families will need government help to cover those bills.
So that's how we know it is fall.
We've got uh two more, uh Mahmoud Achhmadini's odd sound bites.
It wasn't just Columbia University that uh that welcomed uh Mahmoud with uh open arms.
A drive-by has rolled out the red carpet for him, too.
At the National Press Club, and he assures them here that threatening war with Iran is just a propaganda tool of Bush.
He got a question here from the press club's president, Jerry Zrem uh Zremsky.
And Zremski said, uh Bernard Kuchner, the uh the new uh French foreign minister recently said the world would prepare for war with Iran if negotiations fail.
Is Iran willing to go to war with the West to protect the Iranian nuclear program?
We think that the talk of war is basically a propaganda tool.
Why is there a need for war?
People who talk about it have to bring a legal reason for going to war.
Why should they threaten another country?
Why should they create more insecurity?
I think officials who talk this kind of talk should really be pressured and warned to know how what to say and when not to say something.
They cannot endanger world security.
And if they haven't learned the lesson, then the international community has to tell them how to learn that lesson.
This is from the guy who twice a week threatens to blow Israel off the map, and about once a month to attack us.
But the drive-by's love this, folks, because uh you know is aiming right at uh at Bush.
The next question from Zremsky.
Well, here in the U.S. we have very long presidential campaigns.
It would be prompt uh an American reporter to ask, do you plan on running for real?
You plan on running for re-election.
It's like asking Saddam Hussein if he was gonna run for re-election in two years.
What do you think?
I think I'll listen to what you have to say.
That smile would seem to indicate.
Well, I want to see what you have to say for once, too.
I have no Iranian politics.
The press if I ran and became if I as a candidate again.
Because every day you'll be news about peace.
Good news coming.
Why do I feel like I'm in this movie, Mars Attacks?
I feel like this guy's a little Martian.
You know how they talked in that movie?
And that is this little translator here.
Sounds like a valley girl.
All right, anyway, Andrea Mitchell.
Now to sum up uh Mahmoud Akhmadinizad is on MSNBC this morning with Joe Scarborough, who said it were yesterday quite a speech up at Columbia.
Is the President of Iran gonna be able to top that one today when he speaks before the General Assembly?
This is a very, very clever politician.
He is clearly reaching out to the larger Muslim world to anti-U.S.
sentiment.
He is trying to undermine U.S. policy, and particularly the Bush administration policy, which, as you know, is very controversial.
And instead of focusing on his own problems at home, appeal to uh a large sentiment around the world, which is responsive to the plight of the Palestinian people, and which, especially the way he articulates it, is very hostile to Israel.
See, a brilliant politician, very clever, clearly reaching out to the larger Muslim world.
Yes, and Bush is controversial.
This guy is clever and smart and brilliant.
Bush's policies are controversial.
Thank you, Andrea Mitchell, in BC News.
Washington.
Let me ask you, folks, a question.
About a serious question here about Mahmood saying that uh they don't have the phenomenon of homosexuality in Iran.
Are any of you observing, and if you are observing, are you surprised or amazed?
How that one question and answer has become the question and answer that everybody in the drive-by media is talking about and analyze.
Uh I'm you know, the he says that they love women in Iran.
Women are stoned to death in Iran every day.
And for nothing.
Looking the wrong way.
Uh I mean, glancing the wrong way.
And of course, if they don't have the proper attire.
Uh the homosexual thing in uh in Iran is probably not a big deal because they're they don't permit it.
But the idea here that that has been the one thing everybody here is focusing on.
Uh it it leads me to believe that Israel might be able to actually turn world opinion to its side if Israel would simply come out and be as pro-homosexual as possible, with as many people living in homosexual uh relationships publicly and out of the closet.
Why American Academy would love them, be hard pressed to criticize them.
You know, the uh homosexuality in the on the American left is a political issue.
And that's why and of course, liberals make everything about them.
So when Ahmadini's odd gives his answer, we don't have any homosexuals in Iran, we have that phenomenon.
Oh, could you say that?
How can you say that?
And by the way, how long will it be?
I make this prediction today, or I ask this question how long will it be before some liberal or democrat somewhere says, you know.
Ahmadinizad sounded a lot like right-wing Republicans, Falwell and Robertson when he was talking about no homosexuals in Iran.
How long will it be before we hear that?
But the real real story is the plight of women in Iran.
Uh this gay thing is is is captivated the media here.
Uh now, as to as to Achhmadine's odd's answer to is he gonna run again?
What he what it was really saying, you know, you have to you have to see be able to see the stitches on a curveball, see the stitches on a slider here, not just the stitches on a fastball.
You gotta be able to see the stitches on a curveball.
And I can.
Now, what what Mahmood was really saying is of course I'm running, I'll be running as a Democrat.
I'm running on a peace agenda.
Uh uh my fundraiser, Mr. Shu, is in some problems right now, the little busy, but uh, I'm sure I will trump every one of my opponents in uh in fundraising.
Uh and perhaps even I will be allowed to appear on your Oprah show uh if she wears a burqa.
And I would be glad to make my candidacy available uh to the American media, running as uh Democrat from Tehran.
You gotta hear these next two sound bites, ladies and gentlemen.
This is in Stillwater, Oklahoma, it's last Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium.
And the Oklahoma State head football coach, Mike Gundy, is just livid with a column written by a female drive by a journalist in a local paper.
He just fit to be tied.
Listen.
If you want to go after an athlete, one of my athletes, you go after one that doesn't do the right things.
You don't downgrade him because he does everything right and may not play as well on Saturday.
And you let us make that decision.
That's why I don't read the newspaper.
Because it's garbage.
And the editor that let it come out is garbage.
Come after me.
I'm a man.
I'm 40.
I'm not a I'm not a kid.
Write something about me or our coaches.
About a kid that does everything right.
That's heartbroken.
And then say that the coaches said he was scared.
That's not true.
So get your facts straight.
And I hope someday you have a child and somebody downgrades him and belittles him, and you have to look him in the eye and say, you know what?
It's okay.
That's all I got to say.
Makes me want to puke.
Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gunde speaking for millions of Americans and their opinion of the drive-by media.
Well, here's the reaction.
The drive-by reporterette, uh, who no doubt will make her career on this.
Uh modern American journalism is based on just this kind of thing, destroying people's lives with no accountability for it.
I.e., the Duke rape case.
Um her name is uh Jenny Carlson, and uh this morning she had this a montage of her reaction.
I I firmly believe that my reporting is solid, uh, my sources are solid, my observations are solid.
So I stand firmly on the facts of the column.
It was unbelievable that uh that this was happening.
I just was really not suspecting that there was gonna be this uh this sort of outrage.
Well, doesn't that kind of get to the nub of it?
They go out there and they write these things that uh in many cases try to destroy people shocked that there would be blowback, uh, that there would be outrage to it.
Uh it's amazing how insulated from reality they are.
All right, to the phones to Chicago.
This is uh it's Mark.
Mark, I'm glad you called, sir, and welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, Megadiddles from Chicago.
It's always a highlight to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
Hey Rush, in light of what you talked about yesterday, and not being covered by the drive by media, and then you had that brilliant caller on Monday talking about connecting the heart and the mind.
My my direct question to you is if the American electorate does not connect the dots on Hillary and what's going out on there, do you really think she has a shot of pulling this thing off and sitting in the Oval Office January of 09?
Hell yes.
I mean, I was the first to say that there's an 80% chance that she's the next president.
Would you would you ask me a question, answer a question for me?
I realize many people think I'm capable of doing this on my own.
But yesterday was a gold mine for Republican presidential candidates.
It was a gold mine for the Republican National Committee.
Have you heard any of them?
React to what was said either by Bollinger and what his what he said, what it means, or to Hillary doing a total flip-flop and sounding like George W. Bush, both of them should be approached by media members, both of them should be tagged by Republican presidential candidates.
Wait a minute, if this is what you guys really think, why aren't you supporting the United States effort in the Middle East?
Where where if if the Republicans don't get out of field when they've I mean, this this is this is sit and duck handed to him on a silver platter.
So if if nobody's gonna go after her, uh, and if if uh if nobody's gonna put in perspective, you know, the importance of what Bollinger said from the standpoint they've always known it.
He didn't just come up with these views in Iran yesterday or the day before when he wrote his little introduction of Ahmedini's odd.
He felt this all along.
So why where's the support been?
Where's the support for the United States of America?
These are these are these are I mean, there's countless opportunity here to to to to make this stuff uh uh connectable, dot-wise.
Hey, Rush, Rush, is as I travel, and even in light of yesterday, you still see the incredible support for her, and how you say she's the world's smartest woman, and there's no interest in even in even trying to connect the dots to say this is the most disastrous thing we could ever do as a nation is put her in that Oval Office.
Well and I'll be honest, Rush, it really I'm not gonna use the word fear, because you've taught me to overcome fear.
It concerns me.
It's a major concern.
Again, being a being in the military parent, too, it's a huge major concern.
Uh believe me, I understand totally.
What you have to understand here is that she's going to get a certain amount of support because she's a Democrat, party loyalty.
There's nothing you're going to be able to do about that.
And you got you're we're dealing here with uh, you know, over what 15 years of name recognition.
Now, not all of it has been good.
But Mrs. Clinton benefits quite a bit from playing the victim.
You know, she's um she's you know, th both Clintons routinely love to point out how they're constantly attacked with a right-wing conspiracy.
And and when you've got the drive-by media on your side carrying that water, it's able to drum up sympathy.
You're able to drum up sympathy.
Uh she is not scrutinized.
Her words are not scrutinized, but at least five television shows.
Five television shows on Sunday.
And I picked one thing that she said on Stephanopoulos, nobody even asked her a tough question.
Russard did on a rock, but that that was about it.
Uh but the drive-by's didn't pick up on that and report it, nor was it reported anywhere else in MSNBC.
They're just not the same kind of scrutiny in the drive-by media that there are all kinds of explanations for this.
But I also think lurking out there, something else that the drive-by's don't talk about, uh, Mark, and that is there are plenty of people, and the dirty little secret is that a lot of them are women who do not like this woman.
And she might, my 80% figure is as of now.
This is subject to change, of course.
But she could end up redefining negative turnout, too.
Meaning people showing up to vote against her.
She is not liked.
Her unfavorable number hovers around 49%.
She is not a likable person.
She does not have a likable personality, and she does not have this force of nature.
Uh aura that uh her husband Der Schlieckmeister has.
Uh she's she's got the more she talks, the more her numbers plummet, which is the big challenge uh uh for them is as this you know unfolds.
But I understand your frustration.
This comes up every year.
Where are the American people?
How come they don't see me?
Half of them are not paying attention right now, by the way, either.
That's well, they're not.
Uh and they're not going to start paying attention in earnest until after Labor Day next year, maybe through the convention.
But after, you know, this is this is all right now for the wonks.
And uh and so forth, and those who can be made interested in it.
Uh Leah in Providence, Rhode Island.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
First time call.
I love your show.
Thank you very much.
Listen, your your question about why the uh drive-by uh liberal media focused more on the uh homosexual remark, because the reason that they did that, then they'd have to really admit about some of the other telling remarks that this megromaniac made.
And one of them was that he admitted how Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons on his people, killed hundreds of thousands of them, and then he made mention of a reporter that works at the United Nations that one is is a deformed survivor of this hideous chemical warfare.
And and the liberals out there are the ones calling President Bush a liar.
They never had chemical war, chemical, biological, or God forbid, even seeking nuclear capabilities.
And I thought that was very telling.
And the second remark that's been been nut made about kind of equating the Holocaust to physics.
Uh when he was talking about science and going on and on about science should be free of ideology and it should be pure.
Maybe he should have told that to the four Iranian doctors that trained in Iran that tried to blow up the airport in Scotland.
Well, yeah, you're right.
He's not he's not getting uh that kind of scrutiny because that's that's not what the interest of the drive-by media and the leftist in his visit is.
Exactly.
He's a celebrity.
He is a he's a celebrity.
This is pop culture news coverage.
He is an exciting and intriguing figure to them because they think he hates Bush.
Uh and and that it can't be all bad if he hates Bush.
Because Ahmadinejad fits the mold.
I mean, the Democrats line, and we know it is a total lie.
But the Democrats lie in the last four years, I am so depressed about what the world thinks of my country, and Bush has ruined our reputation in the world, and Bush has ruined our status, and I so upset because I wanted to be admired as an American, and they're laughing stock now, and we just they hate it.
So here comes Ahmadinijad spouting his hateful rhetoric toward America, and they say, See, see, this happened because of George W. Bush, Mr. Limbaugh, this happened because of Bush.
And this is why we must get rid of Bush.
We should impeach Bush now.
And Cheney and Halliburton, too, because Ahmadini Jad would not hate us if it weren't.
And that's what they think.
So he fits uh he fits their little narrative, if you will.
Uh, being inundated here, ladies and gentlemen, with requests via email to replay the audio soundbite of Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy.
And so um uh you say it, we play it.
If you want to go after an athlete, one of my athletes, you go after one that doesn't do the right things.
You don't downgrade him because he does everything right and may not play as well on Saturday, and you let us make that decision.
That's why I don't read the newspaper.
Because it's garbage.
And the editor that let it come out is garbage.
Come after me.
I'm a man, I'm 40!
I'm not a I'm not a kid.
Write something about me or our coaches.
We'll write about a kid that does everything right, that's heartbroken, and then say that the coaches said he was scared.
That's not true.
So get your facts straight.
And I hope someday you have a child and somebody downgrades him and belittles him, and you have to look him in the eye and say, you know what?
It's okay.
That's all I got to say.
Makes me want to peek.
That was at Boone Pickett Stadium last Saturday in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma State uh head football coach Mike Gundy was talking about the uh drive-by uh columnist at the Daily Oklahoman, uh staff writer Jenny Carlson.
It's a shame too.
Jenny is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
But still is.
And this is a montage of her reaction to the coach's reaction to what she wrote.
I I firmly believe that my reporting is solid.
Uh my sources are solid, my observations are solid.
So I stand firmly on the facts of the column.
It was unbelievable that uh that this was happening.
I just was really not suspecting that there was going to be this uh this sort of outrage.
Well, I wonder why not.
How out of touch can you be?
There's a great illustration here of two things, the chickification of the news and drive-by-ism.
Great illustration of it.
But uh people are cheering this coach, and you ought to see the video.
He is leaving the podium.
He almost walks into the audience on the side in the in the press area where they're sitting in the usually press uh conference area.
He walks away from the podium and he is pointing his finger and he is jabbing, and he is he's living, he's defending a kid who can't speak for himself.
And that's honor.
And that is loyalty.
And it's integrity.
And he kicked this reporter's rear end.
Um a lot of people, you gotta understand a lot of people have that that that desire, this visceral reaction to things in the media.
And of course, the media destroys people all the time.
They try to.
I mean, that's one of the objectives is to take down the powerful.
That's what the coach was saying here.
Come after me, this kid didn't have any power, this kid didn't do anything.
This kid doesn't do anything wrong.
This kid's not a reprobate, didn't play well on Saturday.
Apparently, uh somebody, she she reported that the kid said somebody told her that the kid was scared during the game and uh and so forth, and uh now he's heartbroken because that got out and he didn't play well, but he's a model citizen.
And he still gets assaulted and attacked like this.
She's uh he's saying, Leave this kid alone, come after me.
This kid can't defend himself as a college student.
So um uh Mr. Gundy has developed, I'm sure, quite a strong uh and loyal following in defense of his player.
Like, what was the question, uh Mr. Snow?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Now I don't think people have never played football understand the first thing about it, especially when you get to the college level and the uh and the uh uh and the prologue.
Uh you can't possibly from watching it on television or even in the stands, understand uh the intricacy, the brutality of the game.
You only see it when some kids paralyzed from a hit, uh spinal cord injury.
Uh and that that's the reminder.
But I mean, those those you know, one of the most profound things is to watch a football game on the sideline and to see an offensive running play, the collision on the offensive line on a running play is the equivalent of being in a head-on crash at 10 or 15 miles an hour.
And it happens countless times during a game.
Now, I say running play because it pass play, the offensive lineman pullback and their pass blocking.
But everybody's surging forward.
You have no idea what goes on in those in those pile-ups when there's a fumble.
Uh but it's and and people don't understand the inter I love meeting women who tell me they love football.
And I by the way, I love women that love football.
Don't misunderstand it.
Tell me what a slot right 60 prevent hook-a go is.
Well, I have no idea.
Uh I'll explain it to you.
Uh do you know who the Mike linebacker is?
Can you tell me as you're watching who the Mike Linebecker is?
Uh no.
Uh I'm not surprised they haven't played the game.
There's no reason to know what the Mike Linebecker, what the play is a slot right, 60 prevent hook a go.
By the way, slot right, 60 prevent hook and go, Stalworth from Bradshaw, Super Bowl 14, Rose Bowl, 72 yards for a touchdown, game over.
Slot right, 60 prevent, hook and go.
Now, anybody who knows football knows exactly what everybody's responsibility on the offense is with that play call.
Uh but uh it's it the offensive and defensive uh play calling and the and the playbook is it really is it's far more complicated and difficult to learn, memorize a huge playbook uh uh and know what every play is with these coded uh ways that they're described.
So I don't think most people understand it.
Uh Mr. Snerdley, you're uh you're absolutely right about.
But that's okay.
It is what it is.
But you would think somebody in the drive-by journalism community would uh have a little bit of understanding here about the fact that she's going after this kid, uh, who's apparently a model citizen, just had a had a bad day on the uh on the field, writing that he was scared.
You know, that's apparently coach it wasn't true.
Tada!
Ted-ut-t-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
That's the trumpet fanfare.
That means, folks, it's time for a global warming update.
The crazy world of Arthur Brown.
And a wicked witch of the East melting because of global warming.
All right, here's the news in the global warming stack from Bend, Oregon, a Bend, Oregon woman facing possible legal action for hanging her laundry out to dry.
Susan Taylor lives in the upscale Aubrey butt.
It's got to be Butte, B-U-T-T-E.
Uh in the upscale Aubrey Butte neighborhood says she's trying to do the right thing for the planet by stringing up her family's clothes rather than using the dryer.
But in doing so, she's violating rules meant to keep up appearances in her subdivision, which means she might become a martyr in the so-called right to dry movement.
The uh trouble began last spring after Susan Taylor, 55, decided to do her silly part.
I added silly, of course, it's not in this drive-by media report.
Uh her silly part to address global warming by stringing up her family's clothes between the pine trees behind their 2400 square foot.
How the hell can you have something as tiny as a 2400 square foot house in an upscale neighborhood?
Well, anyway.
This is the right thing to do with what's going on with our climate, said the part-time nurse standing behind her Toyota hybrid sedan.
But neighbors soon complained.
In June, she got a letter from the neighborhood's developer Bend Brooks Resources Corp, saying she was violating Aubrey Butte's covenants, conditions and restrictions, the rules required at clotheslines as well as garbage cans and lawn cuttings be screened.
Well, what is a devoted environmentalist wacko trying to make a difference to do now?
Following the edicts from the Al Gore movie And from all the other silly advice places that she gets, hanging clothes out to dry to save electricity.
Uh just trying to do the right thing.
You got to applaud that, trying to make a difference.
Turns out there's a violation of covenants.
So she's finding out what it's like to deal with homeowners association.
It can be little communist countries to, you know, self-contained.
They really can.
I mean, but you know that going in if you read the covenants.
Like, yeah, I've there there were there were homeowners associations out in the Sacramento.
You could not have a car visible in the driveway or on the street.
How do you have people over?
How do you throw a party?
How do you do it?
I never got the answer to that.
Other than we don't.
Maybe you charter some buses and bring them in, have a central parking lot somewhere down at the commune grocery store.
Uh get this.
Fertilizing oceans from Times Online, fertilizing oceans with iron may combat climate change.
Scientists are considering a plan to combat climate change by dumping millions of tons of iron into the ocean to alter its chemical makeup.
They believe that the iron could act as a fertilizer, promoting the growth of tons of plankton that would soak up carbon dioxide from the surrounding sea water.
When the plankton died, their bodies would sink into the deepest waters and sediments where the carbon would be locked up indefinitely.
The theory known as ocean fertilization has long caused controversy among marine scientists, many of whom doubted that it could work.
This week, uh leading researchers will meet at the Woodshole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts for a scientific conference to discuss the idea.
Uh the uh Dr. David Santillo, senior scientist at the Greenpeace, research laboratories at Exeter University said iron fertilization is a foolish idea.
There's no proof the plankton blooms result in carbon being locked into sediments.
Adding iron on such a scale would damage natural ecosystems.
Folks, forget all that.
There's just one thing that you have to How many of you have flown over the Pacific Ocean?
Or flown over the Atlantic or flown over the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico?
How many of you have flown over one of the great lakes for crying out maybe not for their fresh water, but I'm just giving you.
Do you think we've got enough iron to put in the ocean to make a piddling's worth of difference?
The next thing you know, these same people are gonna say we need to flood the seas with fresh water to dilute the brine and the salt content so that that water could be drinkable.
I actually had somebody asked me when I live here on the beach in four.
We get a lot of great thunderstorms out there over the Atlantic.
They're gorgeous to watch.
And some of them have just great lightning shows.
And one when they're most beautiful is when it's not raining, you'd be out on the deck, and you can watch those thunderstorms in the daytime, and you can see all the rain out there.
And I actually had somebody ask me once, do you think that that rain today is um uh reducing the salt content?
The ocean.
I looked at this person and said, you you you cannot be serious.
You literally can't be serious.
Well, in this person's eye, the the horizon was only so big, didn't look that big, that thunderstorm looked huge.
I said, have you ever heard of the saying a drop in the ocean?
And so the same principle of putting iron in there, that this is just we got a bunch of paranoid idiots running around trying to solve a problem that we can't solve.
It may be warming, but who says it's even been bad?
One degree.
One degree in 100 years, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
And it may be good.
How do we know?
I told you about the uh this is this is funny.
I but I gotta take a break.
I'm way longer.
Let me let me finish this when we come back after this brief EIB obscene profit center timeout.
From the UK Times Online, a renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is contributing more to global warming than Fossil fuels, according to a new study from scientists.
Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rape seed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they saved.
Can we just use the word ethanol, please?
Rape seed and maize.
People in Rio Linda will have no clue what this story's about unless I'm here to translate this for them, which I happily do.
Here we go again.
We have caused a food panic in Mexico because of the tortillas.
Food panics in Italy and Germany because shortages of corn driving price, well, not shortage, but the demand driving prices up.
Only to make matters worse.
Doesn't matter, folks.
We are never to examine liberal results.
No, only their good intentions.
John in San Diego, nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Uh Sla RC for taking my call.
Hey, I just wanted to see if you would comment on this comment is very institution, liberal institution, that kicked out the ROTC, invites a man that if he could, if it wasn't for the United States military, would either kill or convert everybody in that.
Exactly right.
That's why this whole notion of this being a free speech enterprise was total BS.
Look at you can handle this this whole argument of free speech.
Okay, Mr. Bolland, you want to say it's free speech.
Nobody has the right to be heard.
Now that's what you're essentially saying.
Yeah, he had a right to be hurt.
No, he doesn't.
Freedom of speech gives you the right to speak, but nobody has to listen to a damn word anybody says if they don't want to.
Jackie in Champagne, Illinois.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
I love your show.
Thank you.
I listen to you after work every day.
Listen, I'm just calling I'm a coach's wife, and I have to tell you that that coach from Oklahoma is my hero.
Um I I've said to be able to say that.
In at the campus where my husband's a coach, I get so tired of the media beating up on the coaches and the ADs and and most especially the kids.
And this young lady who did what she did went too far, and she owes that young man an apology.
Shh.
That ain't gonna happen.
She stands standing by her sources like the media did in the Duke rape case.
Well, you know what?
Even if what she said is true, doesn't common decency tell you not to go after some young kid in that manner, even if everything was true, which I don't think it is.
Doesn't common decency tell you not to do something like that to an individual?
Jackie.
I know.
I live in a lala land, but I that's just the way I was brought up, and my goodness.
That's the way most that's the way most of us are brought up, and that's why we're so outraged by it.
It's just that's why so many of us love what the coach did.
We'd all love to be able to do that to the drive-bys.
I sure would.
I sure would love to do it.
Um did you actually just ask me if uh you thought somebody in the media would exhibit decency?
Yeah, I know I'm expecting too much, but man, there you know.
I just don't want to give up on people, but my goodness.
It's it's just a shame.
And and what he said to her that someday he hopes she has a kid, blah, blah, blah.
Well, it will happen.
Not not not not not so fast.
Not so fast.
That's a generalization that we can no longer make about women.
Uh, it's been another stellar day here, folks.
Cleaned up um most of the messes made by the drive by media in the last twenty four hours, and do it again tomorrow on Hump Day.
Program never ends, folks.
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