Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And I'm going to tell you exactly why you feel that way.
Because I bet you a lot of people are just fit to be tied.
And Snerdley just said to me, I saw him staring intently right into my eyes.
He wasn't saying anything.
I said, what are you staring at?
He said, it feels like one of these days everything's spinning out of control.
Like nothing's going right.
Well, for me, that started last night.
I blew my top so many times last night, and I was ready to blow my top this morning.
I had so many BS minutia things going on.
It prevented me from doing work I needed to do.
And they're still going on.
But nevertheless, we're here behind a golden EIB microphone.
We got broadcast excellence straight ahead.
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You feel like things are spinning out of control?
You think nothing is going right?
I'll tell you what the primary reason for it is.
You are, if you're like me, you're watching these fires.
You're watching a million people evacuated.
You're watching people.
These are homes.
Now, there may be just stuff in those homes that you can replace, but these are home.
The stuff is what made those structures homes, and people are losing them left and right.
And it's just, this is worse than any hurricane.
And what are we getting?
We're getting the Democrats politicizing it.
They're blaming Bush.
They're blaming the war in Iraq.
They're blaming global warming for a natural disaster.
Drudge found an AP story that was on USA Today from, let me see, what has so many damn stacks here.
It's a wonder I'm organized here today, folks.
This is from 2003.
FBI, colon, al-Qaeda detainees, spoke of fire plot.
FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.
Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told the Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning, but didn't see a need to act further on it.
Now, this is speculation.
It's just an interesting story.
This is obviously now from four years ago.
Nobody's come forward or claim any credit.
It's just interesting to throw into the mix out there.
But this is a genuine disaster.
And you see a lot of people are talking about the differences between Hurricane Katrina and the Superdome and Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.
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There are a myriad differences between a Superdome and Qualcomm Stadium beyond the obvious.
One of the primary differences is that local and state officials in California have done their job in getting people out of the danger.
In New Orleans, they screwed that up.
They didn't get all the people evacuated.
And then the roads finally got damaged and flooded, and they couldn't get people out of there.
So you had all the mayhem in the convention center and in the superdome.
The drive-by media is trying to blow this thing up out in California in ways they did with Katrina because they think they really did great job at Katrina.
There are too many witnesses out there.
They cannot tell things that are not true.
That's a little side issue.
But the point is, you have this disaster happening.
You have local and state officials who are doing fine.
Don't need FEMA in there.
The feds are kind of going to get in there, but they're doing a great job handling this and protecting life and doing their best to save it.
Two deaths so far is what I've heard.
Five now, five deaths in all of this, which is amazing.
When you consider this stuff just started at 5 o'clock in the morning, people woke up in many areas of California to see the sky a glowing red and a glowing orange, and they had to get the hell out of there.
We've got stories about, oh, Hollywood is having to shut down in Hollywood, this and Hollywood.
It ain't about Hollywood.
There are a whole lot of people out there being affected by this.
And a million people evacuated.
San Diego Chargers had to decamp, go to Arizona.
Don't know where they're going to play their game Sunday, scheduled for San Diego, Qualcomm Stadium, but all depends on what happens with the fires.
And in the midst of all of this, which is a genuine human tragedy, we've got Democrats politicizing it.
And I, you know, what we hear talk all over the country, and we have for the last three or four years, and people have called here and discussed it.
I'm just feeling just depressed.
And you're depressed because the drive-by media had been reporting wrong news, bad news, trying to make you think the economy was going to hell in a handbasket.
We're losing the war in Iraq.
We got terrorists held against their will.
We need to give them constitutional, all this stuff that made no sense whatsoever.
It's the same thing happening here with these fires.
Plus, just the fires themselves, without any of the accompanying politicking going on about this, you have just the destruction that is visible and massive on television every day and every night.
I guess we need to start with this, the PS Des Résistance.
Here is Dingy Harry Reid.
Folks, he is losing it.
This was at a press conference yesterday about global warming and the fires in California.
He's got his big energy bill coming up, and he's trying to get it passed.
And listen to what he said.
One reason that we have the fires burning in Southern California is global warming.
One reason the Colorado basin is going dry is because of global warming.
There is a blatant attempt to politicize this.
And people don't want to hear this right now.
And everybody, what?
Global warming responsible for fires?
We have fires every year.
We have fires every decade.
We have fires every planet for as long as the planet's been around.
Lightning strikes.
Who knows how these fires were started?
But it's a tinderbox out there.
If we want to start assigning political blame, we can do that.
But now is not the time.
But then later on, about six minutes later, a reporter said to him, Senator, well, here, here we have the question.
And here's the reporter.
Senator, the California fire, she said that the reason the fires are burning in California is global warming.
No, here's what I didn't say the reason the fires are burning in southern California is global warming.
He denied it before he said it and then he denied it in a period of six minutes.
I want you to play these two cuts back to back.
We'll start again.
This is Harry Reid late yesterday on Capitol Hill holding a press conference about global warming.
One reason that we have the fires burning in Southern California is global warming.
One reason the Colorado basin is going dry is because of global warming.
You said that the reason the fires are burning in California is global warming.
No, here's what I didn't say the reason the fires are burning in Southern California, California.
But he did.
He's an idiot.
He also doesn't know, and we pointed this out yesterday, it's a desert.
There is no water there.
They have to bring water in from any number of places.
They put a town, they populated a desert, which is fine and dandy, but it's got certain characteristics of a desert.
And one of those characteristics is it's dry.
Then you have the wacko environmentalists who will not let anybody go in and clear out the dead wood, the dead bird.
There was a told you this yesterday.
Bush had signed the Healthy Forest Initiative or some such thing.
I don't know what the name of it was, which was designed to let people go in there and clear out the dead wood and the kindling that's at the bottom of these forests.
And they've had 59 lawsuits from environmentalist wackos not allowing that to happen.
So you've got a tinderbox out there.
What do you make of this?
Here is Harry Reid trying to politicize this, then denies saying it was about global warming after blaming global warming.
No, that took place.
Those two bites took place at the same press conference within a span, ladies and gentlemen, of six minutes.
This is the height of your responsibility.
And it goes on.
Here's Barbara Boxer.
She couldn't help it.
This is yesterday's Senate committee hearing.
Right now, we are down 50% in terms of our National Guard equipment because they're all in Iraq, the equipment, half of the equipment.
So we really will need help.
I think all of our states are down in terms of equipment.
So we have to politicize now the war in Iraq.
We have to blame our inability to do things and put the fires out on the war in Iraq.
Then California's lieutenant governor, John Garamendi, gets in on the act.
He was on hardball with Chris Matthews yesterday, who said, Is the federal government doing what it has to do here?
Well, they're doing a lot, and we appreciate what they have done thus far.
I got some doubt about the value of President Bush coming out here.
How many times did he go to New York, to New Orleans, and still made promises but hasn't delivered?
Okay, President Bush comes out.
We'll be polite, but frankly, that's not the solution.
How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq so that we have those people available here to help us?
This is what makes you think things are spinning out of control.
These are two Californians, Barbara Boxer and John Garamendi, the lieutenant governor.
And rather than focus and praise the people who are doing great work out there, and they are civilians, they are volunteer firefighters, they are business owners, they are people doing that the private sector is coming together here, working together with state officials.
The feds are late on the scene, but that's okay.
This is a demonstration of how it should be done.
And yet, in the midst of this, with people in droves losing everything, two Californians, one a senator, one the lieutenant governor, makes it their priority to bash President Bush and the war in Iraq.
Now, I maintain that the country is fed up with this kind of action, fed up with politicizing of these things.
And if you're feeling like everything's out of control and nothing's making any sense and everything's going wrong, this may be one of the reasons.
You may not be feeling that way.
After today's show, you might.
Depends.
Back after this.
That's right.
If you're feeling sick, folks, it's the Democrats making you feel sick.
By the way, are you certain about this?
One of these fires was arson.
Okay, cops picked up an arsonist, and one of these fires was arson.
All right, so you might say, well, what does global warming have to do with arson?
Their answer for that is, well, global warming has dried it out.
There's a drought out there.
And of course, however, the fire starts, why, it's just going to go crazy.
The thing of the interesting weather aspect of this is that really one of the fuels for this is the Santa Ana winds.
And yesterday, I remember reading some global warming hack talking about the fact that the period of the Santa Ana wins is extended.
It's 38 days longer or 78 days longer than it used to be, whatever it is.
I forget the exact number.
Local meteorologists in Southern California are saying they were surprised that the Santa Ana's had not arrived at the same time they usually do.
They were late arriving this year.
Now they're there in full force, but they're not any more outrageously strong than on average, according to local meteorologists out there.
So here we have United States Senator Barbara Boxer, who's not even back in California trying to help out.
She is pontificating from the Senate.
What has she ever done to support the National Guard?
Here she's all worried about the National Guard being depleted because it's over in Iraq.
What has she ever done to support the Guard or the thinning of these forests by the logging companies?
They keep the logging companies out of as many wooded areas as they can.
You know, the leftists are always complaining that there aren't enough military personnel.
They've spent decades cutting military personnel.
California universities won't even let military recruiters on campus.
These people speak with disdain of the U.S. military.
We've chronicled this.
They are invested in the defeat of the U.S. military.
They constantly impugn them.
And now when they need them, push them to Iraq where they're on guard trips and so forth.
They complain about burning forests when Clinton, the environmentalist wackos, opposed thinning the forest and are filing lawsuits now to prevent going in and doing some of the thinning.
Duncan Hunter last night, a Republican presidential candidate on MSNBC with Dan Abrams.
And Abrams said, what do you make of this, Representative Hunter?
I mean, the idea that you have Barbara Boxer now and others coming out saying, look, there's no question the war in Iraq is straining our ability to handle natural disasters like this one.
What's your thought?
This is a big stretch.
And I can tell you, I've been chairman of the Armed Services Committee for the last four years.
We've got 2.5 million people under arms.
We've got less than 8% of those people in the warfighting theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You've got a 60-mile-an-hour wind hitting tender, dry sagebrush.
You could put the entire U.S. Army in front of it, and you're not going to stop it.
And the proof of that is this: we've got thousands of U.S. Marines right now at Camp Pendleton available to fight fires where we can use them here in San Diego County.
But you simply don't throw a wall of bodies up against an incoming wall of flame that's coming with high winds behind it.
Exactly right.
So what are the National Guard troops going to do?
Just stand there and blow in the opposite direction and say, fire, go away?
What are they going to do?
This is such meaningless BS.
And it is nothing more than politicizing a disaster.
And California officials, the lieutenant governor, Garret Mendy, who I knew when I lived out there, and Barbara Boxer, who I've not met wherever I've lived, trying to turn this into a political issue along with Harry Reid, blaming global warming, and then six minutes later denying he had even said it.
Here's the early show this morning.
And Hannah Storm was talking to David Paulison, who is the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA.
And she said, Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer complained of the ability of the state's National Guard's been compromised because too much of their equipment and personnel is in Iraq.
Is that true?
I have not seen that at all, quite frankly.
I have not seen that at all.
I was just at Qualcomm yesterday and last night, actually.
Things are under control.
There's plenty of food.
There's plenty of water.
There's lots of security.
I have not seen an issue with the Guard.
In fact, they're moving a lot of National Guards in here on the ground, working with Northcom and others to make sure that we have the right people here to do the job.
Well, Duncan Hunter made the case, all the Marines at Camp Pendleton and his statistics.
We've got 2.5 million people under arms, less than 8% of those people in the war fighting theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Democrats are just lying again.
They're just trying to politicize a really tragic event that is causing all kinds of disruption and sadness and devastation.
People's lives.
It just makes me sick, folks, and I'm sure that it does some of you.
Now, on ABC, Good Morning America, today, Claire Shipman talked to Governor Schwarzenegger.
She said, you say everybody's working together, but you've had, have you heard that there's been some complaints from officials, for example, in Orange County who say if we'd only had more resources earlier, more planes, more firefighting resources, we might have been able to hit off those fires that are ravaging Orange County right now.
Anyone that is complaining about the planes just wants to complain because there's a bunch of nonsense.
The fact is that we have all the planes in the world here.
We have 90 aircraft here and they can't fly because of the wind situation.
The point he was making, you have to be ready to fly.
Trust me when I tell you, you're looking for a mistake and you won't find it because it's all good news.
As much as you maybe hate it, but it's good news.
You know, it is sometimes, you know, Arnold's, Arnold's crossed the line here.
He's gone to the center.
But he's got these conservative instincts.
And the media apparently can still stir them and rouse Arnold from his sleep.
Because trust me when I tell you, you're looking for a mistake and you won't find it because it's all good news as much as you may hate it.
But it's all good.
And that's exactly right.
They're out there trying to find the Hurricane Katrina type stories in Southern California.
And they can't.
And they can't make them up like they did during Katrina because there are too many eyewitnesses.
Everybody's involved down there.
There's nowhere the drive-bys can go that nobody else can go.
People are already where the drive-bys want to go.
So what they're going to have to do is rouse a couple of citizens out there who are willing to tell tales of woe about how the Bush administration didn't do enough for them, and they'll find them.
But Schwarzenegger, not biting on it, not getting involved in this and letting them set the agenda as they did during Hurricane Katrina.
On the Today Show today, David Paulison back, FEMA guy, Matt Wauer, said, I think there's one real success story in this situation from my personal experience out there yesterday.
This reverse 9-11 calling system seems to really be working.
It worked phenomenally well.
The city was able to call out over 500,000 people and give them the direction to evacuate.
Most of everybody listened to that.
They got out of harm's way.
And that's the most important thing.
You know, people may lose their homes.
We can rebuild a home, but get out of harm's way.
You cannot replace your life.
And that's the great thing.
It's a point I made about one of the big differences between Hurricane Katrina.
I guess that noise was on the soundbite, is that right?
That was a chainsaw.
Oh, good.
Chopping down trees.
Yes.
Remember the old timber update we used to do with the might be time to bring that back at some point.
But at any rate, Hurricane Katrina, they didn't evacuate the people.
They didn't get them out of there.
Didn't use the school buses, and they were forced to hole up in a superdome, which, of course, sprugged a leak, four feet of water in there, all kinds of sewage problems.
Same thing at the convention center.
But they evacuated people in the danger areas in California.
They got them away from danger.
We'll take a quick timeout and be back.
Continue right after this.
What is this class?
What is this, Claire?
You got to be kidding me.
You won't believe this.
Well, you will believe it.
But it just, it fits the theme of the day.
Dawn has a junior in high school.
Dawn has a daughter, junior in high school.
She just got a text message from her daughter from the classroom.
In an American history classroom, the teacher just finished ragging on me about the S-CHIP program following the script from Media Matters for America that I beat up a kid in an American history class.
I'm being trashed in my own county in a high school with a teacher packed full of lies.
This is the one, same one we told you about folks who will not let God be mentioned in her classroom.
Once they say to the founding fathers are atheists.
This is the woman giving the tests, the questions and answers to the students 24 hours before the test was taken.
So they would all pass it.
So she would get approved by people who supervise her while she propagandizes a bunch of U.S. political science rather than teach history.
Ragging on me on the S-CHIP program in an American history class.
What's this teacher's name?
You don't want me to mention her name?
I would love to mention this to you.
People like this need to be called out.
Giving the students the test questions and answers 24 hours before the test is taken so that they all pass so that there's no question she's doing a good job and then she just does a bunch of uh propaganda.
This is what's the school, you know what?
Well, don't know the school, don't know the well, I do know the teacher's name, but I will respect your wishes that the teacher not be identified on this program.
At any rate, you know, everybody is these drive-bys trying to, and the Democrats trying to politicize and look at every disaster through their political bias and lens.
Any governor or mayor or councilman or supervisor with any degree of competence knows that states and localities are the best at dealing with this kind of disaster, assuming you have competent leadership at that level.
And it's apparent that we do in Southern California with some federal help going in.
Their first actions, by the way, were not to call Barbara Boxer.
Their first actions were not to call FEMA.
Their first actions were to attack the fires.
They don't want to be thought of as victims.
You know, when this all started this past weekend in Malibu, there were people with garden hoses stamping out fires in tennis shoes.
The tennis shoes were catching fire.
By the way, another one of these fires was caused by a downed power line.
So we have suspected arson in one of them, a downed power line in another, and Dingy Harry out there blaming it on global warming, and then six minutes later denying that he had blamed it on global warming.
And we're going to keep playing those bites unbelievable.
These people are cracking up out here.
Global warming caused these fires.
Then global warming should put them out since it's supposed to also cause flooding.
Right?
The people in the state, both the state government and the public, are acting responsibly and fighting this disaster.
It is the federal politicians who have nothing to do with this, who are looking to exploit it, liberal federal politicians.
Why do we care what Harry Reid has to say about it?
Why do we care what Barbara Boxer has to say about it when she's not involved in any of the rescue efforts?
All the media attention that they receive.
They have nothing to do with fighting these fires.
All they do is make political pronouncements.
They're not news, except to the drive-by media.
Give you the media searching, lurking for political angles that fit their political bias right along with the Democrats.
Grab a couple phone calls.
Arbor, Kentucky.
This is Robert.
Your first up today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Yeah.
I have been listening to you since 1987.
I'm a retired Marine.
I served 20 years.
I retired in 1978.
And when I was listening to your monologue, I got myself all heated up and saying, wait a minute, there's Marines in Pendleton that were promised to be there.
And I heard a report yesterday that they were there.
They were just waiting for the conditions to be right to fight this fire.
But of course, after listening to you, I see you on top of it.
You had all those reports.
But listening to you and not being able to respond, sometimes I get a little uptight.
Well, why?
Because you want to add to what I'm saying?
Just want to, you know, say, hey, look, there are people out there that are doing something.
I think most of the people look to the politician.
Our military has served this country well, and they're doing a great job in Iraq, but they're getting blamed for murders and all kinds of crazy things.
I know, I know.
See, it's all combined into one.
This is why you feel like things are spinning out of control.
Everything's going wrong.
Nothing makes sense.
It seems like immorality, lying, and depravity have become the norm in the drive-by media, which is people's primary information source, and it affects their moods.
Look at you.
You have just made my point.
You listen to these guys attack the military for four years, then a forest fire breaks out or a hurricane.
Where's the military?
Where's the military?
We need the military.
We don't have the military.
We can push into the military to Iraq.
We got plenty of National Guard personnel here.
We got thousands of Marines at Camp Pendleton.
Duncan Hunter is exactly right.
What do you do with these people?
You just send them out there to perish in the fire?
Just send them out there for a show of force.
Is all the fire's going to be impressed with their presence?
You know, fighting fires is not just a matter of manpower going out.
There is a science to it.
And it just, how many forest fires have we had?
How many fires like this fueled by the Santa Anas in your lifetime where the Democrats and the media tried to make a political issue out of it?
I mean, it's common to take certain things, disasters, and make political issues out of them, I suppose, but this just seems to be more over the top than usual.
And they're having a lie in the process, which is, I guess, common.
Let's go to St. Louis.
Jim, hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Megadittos to you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm just wondering where the call for defeat from the fire is.
It's already too strong, and they're actually calling for a surge for the fire.
But, you know, where's the call for defeat and all this?
You know, that is somewhat interesting.
Here you have pictures all over the country of utter destruction and devastation, and no way to stop it.
We had pictures coming out of Iraq of the same type.
We had explosions, dead bodies, burning and smoldering cars.
And the Democrats come and react, oh, we've got to cut and run.
Our troops can't win.
This is horrible.
Wave the white flag and so forth.
Didn't fire anybody up.
These pictures, same people say, what are we going to do to stop?
What are you going to do to stop this?
They're asking people.
It's an excellent point, but you have to understand, I guess this is the disturbing thing, folks.
As far as Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer, and some apparently in the media, and John Garamende, the lieutenant governor, apparently this devastating series of fires presents a greater political opportunity that has them all excited than actually dealing with this, putting these fires out.
Can you imagine a rebuilding?
I look at those fires and I look at these homes going up and I just put myself in the shoes of those people and I don't think politics at all.
I just, I have my thoughts are pure 100% feelings, emotion.
What must it be like, even though you have insurance, it's still dicey.
How long is it going to take?
Who are you going to have to fight with the insurance company to get your money and get your house rebuilt?
What do you do?
Where do you go?
These things.
Last thing I think about is politics.
And it would never occur to me to find a way to blame Democrats for this or one of the presidential candidates like Hillary Clinton.
But boy, when they start in and do that, you have to defend.
And that's when you start talking about the environmentalist wackos.
You want to start applying blame, and this is what the Democrats love to do.
They see a disaster, and rather than dealing with it, putting the fires out, putting lives back together, all they want to do is find blame through their political lens.
And it's just depressing to a lot of people.
It's not depressing to me.
Fires me up and makes me mad.
Does not depress me.
Back in a second.
Here's a question for you to ponder, ladies and gentlemen.
Every winter in California, in certain parts of the state, we get heavy rains and mudslides, do we not?
And some of those mudslides carry with them houses down the hills.
We all remember this.
It will happen again this year.
And we will be told that this is due to global warming.
And we will be told that it's due to the fires, that the fires have taken away some of the natural forestation that would stand in the way of the floods and the mud, soak up some of the rain, but now it's not there.
They're going to be predicting disaster all based on global warming.
Now, when they blame it on global warming, and by the way, how much pollution do you think these forest fires are creating?
It is so much more this there's more pollution, more carbon, more gunk belching into the atmosphere than the combined pollution of General Motors ExxonMobil.
It is stunning.
And Mother Nature is doing this.
You know, Mother Nature creates more pollution than man ever could, and then Mother Nature reverses it too.
Harry Reid wants you to think that you did this, that this is your fault.
Look at folks.
When these people blame global warming, don't forget what they're blaming.
They're blaming prosperity.
They're blaming advanced lifestyles.
They're blaming people for the way they live.
Because the fix to global warming is to roll back lifestyles to a more primitive level.
That's what this is all about, and turning over more power to the government to tell you how you can and can't live.
So when they start talking about this is because of global warming, you got to hear them on what they're saying.
What they're saying is it's your fault.
You people in California, your lifestyles are too this and too that.
Here is Jason Fletcher, Ohio.
Hi, Jason.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, sir.
Hi.
My statement is that I heard on CNN, I'm Paul McHale saying they have 17,000 National Guardsmen, 550 Marines.
And I understand I agree with your point about not sending all these people in.
But what I heard him say is that they have not been asked to go in.
Now, I'm wondering, why does the government need to be asked to help in a catastrophe like this?
I'm really having trouble understanding you because I guess a combination of your phone and my implant, and I'm not sending all the, I don't know who Paul McHale is.
Oh, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul McHale.
It's spelled like Mikhail Gorbachev here in my transcriber machine.
Russians infiltrate the Defense Department.
We haven't been because the states have to ask the feds.
The feds just can't send willy-nilly troops wherever they want them to go.
It's the government's job to protect us.
So why is it that they have to be asked with something this large magnitude?
Please.
It's your job to protect yourself in the first place.
If a fire comes to your house, you're going to sit in there and burn to death waiting on the government to show up or get the hell out.
Come on.
Come on.
What?
What?
Hello?
Testing once again?
Yeah, go ahead.
Why is it that they have to be asked?
I understand.
You know, you can't send all these people in.
Have you ever heard of the Constitution?
One, two, three, four, five.
Damn it!
I didn't get to 10.
Have you ever heard of the Constitution?
If you let the Fed send the military anywhere for anything, they can come get your gun if they want to, if you have one.
Their job is to protect us.
They're doing that in Iraq, and guy probably wants us out of there.
Vinny in Manhattan, save me here.
Vinny, I'm on the verge of a nuclear explosion here at the EIB Southern Command.
You know, FDNY Ditto is a great one, first off.
I expect, and I even understand this type of dishonest behavior and demagoguery from the likes of Boxer and Reed, but just who the hell is this nobody, this insignificant little man, this lieutenant governor from California?
I am outraged that he could say such as he said about the president and what he expects to be.
Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Let's be precise.
You're not outraged that he could, because he can say what he wants.
You're outraged that he would.
Yes.
Well, I'm outraged that he did.
How's that?
Okay, better.
He did it.
He did it.
The world has heard it.
But you know what?
This is this guy's grab.
Nobody's ever heard of this guy.
I certainly have.
And maybe you're the only one on this radio program who has heard of this guy.
Okay?
And yet, we do feel like we're being ground into the dust by an oppressive liberal media and the party they love and support, the Democratic Party.
But at the end of the day, Rush, at the end of the day, it is we on the side of right, rugged individualism, and conservative ideas that are going to win the day to hell with these people.
Well, they are winning the day.
This is, I think, one of the reasons that there is such desperation on the part of the libs.
They are jumping at everything.
They know that they can't get anything done of any consequence in Congress, the House of the Senate, Iraq, all of these things.
And they're just desperate.
Now, there is something.
By the way, I'm not going to have this whole show sidetracked by this today because there are things going on.
Dingy Harry and Dick Durbin got this little plan in the Senate today called a DREAM Act, which is amnesty all over again.
We're going to talk about this today before the program ends.
But let's go back, grab audio soundbite number 11.
This is Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, California.
He was on hardball last night with Chris Matthews, and this is the guy in his comment that had Vinny.
So outraged.
Well, they're doing a lot, and we appreciate what they have done thus far.
I got some doubt about the value of President Bush coming out here.
How many times he goes to New York, to New Orleans and still made promises but hasn't delivered?
Okay, President Bush comes out.
We'll be polite.
But frankly, that's not the solution.
How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq so that we have those people available here to help us?
That's just irresponsible.
It is just irresponsible.
He knows it's irresponsible.
But that's who these people have become.
Tried it with Hurricane Katrina.
They'll try it with any disaster, a Midwestern flood, Mudslaw, whatever.
Get used to it, folks, if you're not already.
Let's see.
Vinny, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Listen to Katie Couric.
Here, Katie Couric, CBS Evening News, got a little montage here of her report, gives credit to an inanimate object, Qualcomm Stadium, for doing a good job.
Qualcomm Stadium is now home to as many as 15,000 evacuees.
One woman I spoke to described it as Woodstock without the drugs.
From afar, it looks like a massive tailgate party.
And inside, the mood is much the same.
During Katrina, New Orleans' attempt to shelter people in a sports stadium went terribly wrong.
The Superdome turned into a small city of violence, filth, and chaos.
But even with an estimated 10,000 people sleeping in Qualcomm, the stadium is getting high marks.
The stadium's getting high marks.
How about the people that are administering what's happening at the stadium for crying out?
Wow, this.
Okay, folks, the first hour is in the can.
And we've got two more busy broadcast hours to go here on the Rush Lindbaught program and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And we are going to delve into other areas beside the California fires.