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Oct. 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, parts of which are being scorched right now, and the authorities have identified a suspect in one of the fires, a white male.
Witnesses claim they saw trying to start a fire.
That is all we know at the moment.
Welcome back.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
The email address, rush at EIBNet.com is the email address if you'd prefer to go that way.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me begin here with an apology to you.
There were a couple of occasions, and maybe more than that, in the previous hour, where I lost my famous composure, got a little angry.
And this is something I try to avoid because so much of talk radio that so many people do it that just get on the air, start shouting and raving and ranting and so sound like lunatics.
And I have studiously attempted to avoid that, but there were a couple of instances in the previous hour.
One time I even tried to count to 10 to avoid exploding, and I only got to five.
I didn't get there.
It was conduct unbecoming, your host.
And if it bothered you, I apologize for it.
I have tried to regain my composure during the top of the hour.
I think, ladies and gentlemen, as I look at the fires and I listen to the Democrats politicize the fires and try to blame the war in Iraq and blame global warming and blame George W. Bush, I am reminded as I watch these fires that this is dangerous.
These fires are dangerous.
You know, going in and putting these fires out while you're evacuating, they've evacuated 900,000 people on the way to evacuating a million.
It's the largest evacuation in the history of the state of California.
And the people fighting these fires are in grave, grave danger.
It is unsafe.
I think it's time to bring the firefighters home.
I think it's time to bring the firefighters out of there.
It's just too dangerous.
They're in there on a false premise anyway that they can put out the fire.
We can't win against the fire, folks, just like we can't win in Iraq.
So if the liberals want to politicize this, then I ask them to be consistent and admit defeat to the fire.
Admit we can't beat the fire and get these brave firefighters out of there and get our brave National Guard troops that are on the job out of it.
Get the Marines from Camp Pendleton that were out there fighting.
Get them out of there because they can't win this.
We're not going to beat this fire.
We're going to have to let it burn itself out.
We have no...
Yeah, it's just going to be back next year anyway.
We're never going to get rid of this.
The fire is just going to come back.
It's just a shame.
We're putting so many grave people at risk here fighting a fire that we can't win.
Sound familiar, ladies and gentlemen.
By the way, I mentioned a DREAM Act in the first hour of the program.
A DREAM Act is a stealth maneuver.
Before I describe to you the end result of the vote today, let me describe for you what the DREAM Act is.
It is a sleeper piece of legislation.
The DREAM Act, and it's in the Senate.
It's a Dick Durbin special with Dingy Harry, you know, flying shotgun here.
It would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
The Democrats need those people as voters.
Now, Dingy Harry has crafted it in a way that has gained not very much media attention, which means he might at some point get it.
He's not going to get away with it now because they failed to get cloture.
The motion to bring the DREAM Act to the floor of the Senate for debate failed 52 to 44.
It is dead in the water.
The DREAM Act is a nightmare for Dick Durbit and Dingy Harry as of now.
Democrats can bring it back up at a later point and go for it all over again.
And they will.
But before they do, we're going to spend some time here to inform you just what the DREAM Act.
I know a lot of you already know what it is, but for some of you who don't, it's a stealth maneuver that would grant conditional legal status to any illegal alien who claims to have arrived in the U.S. prior to age 16, which opens the same old can of worms and questions.
Well, how do we know that?
How can we prove?
How can they prove to us that they arrived in the U.S. before they were 16 years of age?
Any illegal alien can apply for the program that the DREAM Act would enact.
And those who would gain legal status via the DREAM Act provisions could sponsor any family members, allowing additional millions to access the program.
This is the without a DNA test, by the way.
They wouldn't have to, they just say they're my family.
No DNA test.
This is what Sarkozy is trying to get done in France, by the way.
A DNA test to prove that these people's family members are actually family members.
There would be a ban, get this.
You follow me on this already.
Anybody who was here before the age of 16, they claim, could apply for conditional legal status.
If they say they were here before they were 16, they can bring their family members in with no tests to make sure that they are genuine family members.
And once anybody applies for amnesty, conditional legal status, they are thus banned from being deported.
There would be no ban, or there would be a ban on deportation for anybody who applies with no test.
Felons, child molesters, all somebody, all an illegal has to do is show up, say, I was here before I was 16.
Fine.
Well, then, granted, you got conditional legal status here, and you can't be deported.
By the way, why don't you go grab your family and bring them in, too?
They would be granted readily acceptance, ready acceptance into colleges and universities.
It's everything that we fought to stop in the amnesty bill.
This is the sequel.
This is Amnesty 2.
There is nothing about border security in it.
There's nothing about extra law enforcement to secure the borders, sanctuary cities.
Plus, this: illegals who apply for the DREAM Act can count their green card status toward the five years needed to attain citizenship, which lawful immigrants cannot do.
You're right, Don.
It's very sad, and it's not right.
All this is, the DREAM Act was nothing more than fast-tracking of illegals over others.
So I think what this all adds up to, the Democrats know that they cannot win, folks.
They cannot win with more victims without getting more victims, more people on the dole, more dependents.
And they cannot win unless they get some more people to put into the voter rolls illegally.
This is how they are counting on keeping power without one thought to the unintended consequences of any of this.
I got another story here.
This is oh, get this.
This is a Washington Post.
And the headline, poll finds Virginia focused on illegal immigrant issue could sway state and local races.
After years of simmering in the background, illegal immigration has quickly emerged as one of the key issues in Virginia's November 6th election, particularly northern Virginia, where voters say they are seeking candidates who will address it, according to a new Washington Post poll.
Snerdley, help me out here.
We had a story yesterday out of the Boston Globe.
It was about the special election up in Massachusetts District number five.
The Songhaus babe won it, but by a very much smaller margin than was expected.
And there was another story that we read, that I read that drive-by media, stunned that illegal immigration was an issue.
It was another Washington Post story.
That's right.
It was another Washington Post story.
So two stories in a row from the Washington Post where the reporters are stunned that illegal immigration is an issue that might sway elections.
Where were they during the amnesty debacle?
You know, they live inside the Beltway or in their newsrooms or whatever, and they are so disconnected to real events in this country, which is why they get all hot to trot and excited when Barbara Boxer blames a war on Iraq for a forest fire and a lack of National Guard troops to put it out.
The lieutenant governor of California, John Garimendi, does the same thing and takes some gratuitous swipes at Bush.
Yeah, they love that.
Absolutely love that.
And anybody else out there who wants to take a swipe at the war for depleting National Guard troops.
But in terms of understanding exactly what's happening in the country, I don't think they have, I don't think they have a clue.
Let's look at the Libs first.
Now, it's hard to separate the Libs from the drive-by media, but let's not.
Let's just bundle them together like they already are.
You are in California.
You have lost your home.
Or you know family members and friends who have lost their homes.
Or you are about to lose your home because a fire is raging on a fast track for you.
You turn on the TV and you hear Harry Reid blame it on global warming and then six minutes later deny he said it.
We have the audio.
You hear John Garimendi, your own lieutenant governor, well, if Bush comes out here, we'll be civil, but I don't know what he can do.
I mean, maybe bring our troops home from Iraq.
And then you hear Barbara Boxer, one of your senators, basically say the same thing.
Do you think some of these Californians are saying, screw you, Libs?
We've got a disaster out here.
And instead of politicking about this, come out and help us because we're already on the front lines trying to save our homes, save our schools and everything else that's burning up out here.
Do you think they have any idea how this is impacting the people who have been touched by this tragedy at all?
It is, I'd be interested to know.
And then Claire Shipman, we played this audio in the last hour.
Claire Shipman of ABC, trying her best to drum up bad news about the lack of firefighting airplanes and so forth.
And Schwarzenegger says, you are not going to find bad news.
You're not going to get me to admit bad news.
You're looking for bad news, but you won't find it.
The good news is good news.
The news is good here in terms of how we're fighting this and how we're dealing with it.
And as I mentioned, Schwarzenegger's going across the line.
He's crossed the aisle now.
He's calling himself a centrist.
He wants everybody to go to the center with him.
But he's still got those conservative instincts.
And the media light him up.
So when Claire Shipman tried to get him to pile on with all this bad news, he basically swatted her away like a little pesky fly.
Just got a, well, actually, it was sent to me yesterday after the program.
Might have been last night.
The most amazing satellite picture, Roy Spencer, the official climatologist of the EIB Network, sent me an image from the NASA satellite, Aqua.
It is the most amazing.
The resolution is so great.
The picture is so big.
I have a 30-inch monitor here, and the picture is too big for that.
So you have to scroll to see it.
But it's a picture taken right over California and the Baja Peninsula.
And it shows the effect of the Santa Ana winds.
All of these forest fires are visible in terms of the smoke and the smoke.
And all the fires are designated little orange or red rectangles.
And you can see the Santa Ana winds just blowing the smoke straight out over the Pacific Ocean.
And if you scroll down to Baja, the Baja Peninsula, to illustrate just how strong the Santa Ana winds are, you can see a very visible and very large streak of dust from the deserts of the Baja Peninsula being whipped up by the Santa Ana's from the middle of the peninsula.
I'm not talking about dust from the western shores of the Baja Peninsula.
I'm talking about from the middle of the Baja Peninsula.
And you can see the wind just whipping this dust up in a stream straight out over the Pacific, much farther south than the smoke from the fires.
Just an amazing, an amazing satellite picture that illustrates, not the resolution is one thing.
It's just incredible.
But to see the smoke and the dust and the effects of the Santa Ana winds, and if you understand the effect of winds and fires and putting them out, you realize what a massive, massive, massive task still awaits everybody that's involved in the firefighting effort.
This is Tony in San Diego.
Tony, thanks for the phone call.
Nice to have you on the ways at Qualcomm Stadium.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
Nice to hear you.
I'm so mad right now.
I don't know where to start.
Everybody down here is taking care of each other.
All this stuff about bringing National Guard in and everything, they took 800 guardsmen off of the border where they should have stayed to come down here to Qualcomm.
And all it is is a big tailgate party.
Everyone's helping each other.
Wait, I want to make sure.
Wait a minute.
Tony, I want to make sure I heard this.
Did you say they took 800 guards off the border, National Guardsmen or border guards or whatever, and brought them to Qualcomm?
If you guys would listen to the not you rush, I'm sorry.
I'm just so angry.
I've been up all night evacuating horses up in Harmony Grove, and it's not just Qualcomm Stadium.
We got 10,000 there.
We got 10,000 at the Del Mar Racetrack, Pomerano High School, Vista High School.
Everyone's taking people in, and there's no rioting.
There's no fighting.
Everyone's helping each other.
They brought the National Genesis.
You go see some of these pictures down at Qualcomm.
They got National Guard guys walking around.
No nothing, shorts on, rolled up sleeves, because everyone is taking care of each other.
This is absolutely stupid.
I don't know where our political officials are getting this stuff.
And then they want to bring them in to fight the fire.
Well, let me tell you.
Wait, hold it, hold it, hold it, just a second.
Tell me what it is when you just said, I don't know where our political officials are getting this stuff.
What are you hearing them say that they've got wrong?
Like they want to bring in the National Guard to fight the fires.
The guys that are on here that are on the pumpers out in Harmony Grove, I live in Carlsbad, and we're one of the places that's on the beach, but there's fires on both sides of us.
The problem is the stuff is moving so fast, unless you were God, you can't stand in front of it.
And everybody knows the only way to stop these fires is for the firemen to get out in front of them.
Well, they're not getting out in front of them.
All they're doing is structure protection because the flames in some cases are 30, 40, 60 feet high.
And I don't care if you had a whole platoon of guards, and it's going to run right over them.
These people do not understand.
And for them to politicize this, I'm sorry, man, my voice is breaking up.
I've been up for 36 hours trying to do this stuff.
And the problem is, if they just leave us alone, we would get through it.
Do you realize you probably don't because you won't hear this on the local media?
At one time, there were more doctors, nurses.
Our hospitals are closed because they're going down to Qualcomm.
They're going down to Del Mar to take care of people.
And at one time, there were more caregivers down there than there were evacuees.
We're at Qualcomm?
Do we lose his cell connection?
We lost a cell connection.
Well, you know, Darman, sorry, we lost his connection, but I just asked the question: what must these Californians be thinking who've lost everything or on the verge of losing everything and they know people have lost everything?
What must they think when these Democrats stand up and start saying all this?
We just got our answer.
I've seen the pictures out of Qualcomm Stadium.
I know what people are doing there.
And they're taking care of themselves.
They're not victims.
In fact, let me grab this soundboard.
Where's the put a list here, bottom of the stack?
Duncan Hunter, number 17.
He was on Fox News channel yesterday.
Your world with Neil Cavuto.
Cavuto says, you must be looking at this again and saying, uh-oh.
I don't look at San Diegans as victims.
We're tough.
The middle name and the trademark for San Diegans is character.
We're going to bounce back from this.
We're going to rebuild.
And, you know, these are the shores from which American Marines and sailors go forth to fight for freedom all over the world.
We're used to sacrifices.
We're used to burdens.
We're going to get through this fire.
They don't want to be victims.
And that's exactly the attitude this guy who called us from Qualcomm Stadium exemplified.
We're not victims.
Tell them to stay out of here.
Didn't want them.
Why did you pull 800 border guards away?
We don't need them at Qualcomm Stadium.
There aren't any riots.
There aren't any murders.
There aren't any rapes going on.
None of this sort of stuff.
People would love for that to be happening.
They would love for that kind of chaos.
I'm talking about in a drive-by media for that kind of chaos and even more to be taking place.
By the way, for those of you on the ditto cam, let me apologize real quickly.
I kept the bars off on purpose in the first segment because I felt I still might blow my stack in the middle of my apology, and I just didn't want it on tape if it happened.
A man, a living legend, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, they can never take that away from me.
The man who runs the country, you know it and I know it.
The primary target of the Democrat Party and the drive-by media, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Back to San Diego.
This is Carol.
It's great to have you here.
Welcome.
Hi.
I'm calling because I'm hearing that everything is, like all other situations, they're turning it into a political kind of thing.
We've decided it's the difference between the red and the blue.
San Diego is conservative.
We don't need the government.
We want to take care of ourselves.
We are watching out for one another.
There's more volunteers than there are, like that last gentleman said, than there are evacuees.
My daughter is out in an island off the coast with several hundred horses.
FEMA is there.
They've got all the food, all the water, all the hay.
Everybody is being taken care of, and we're doing it ourselves.
And you look at New Orleans, and it's the government's fault.
It's the government not taking care of us.
And that's the difference between the red and the blue and conservative and liberal.
Well stated.
That is nailing it, folks.
That's what you call it.
Very good, Carol.
Well, I just we can't get you locally because, of course, our stations are 24-7 with updating us with what's going on.
I know, you know what's happening?
Mark May, Clear Channel CEO, after talking with Harry Reid, decided that our flagship station out there is being simulcast on seven Clear Channel-owned and operated radio stations.
in order to...
Harry Reid had nothing to do with it.
I'm just kidding.
But we need the world to know that we are doing wonderful.
We've got incredible leadership with our county supervisors, our mayors, our Office of Emergency Services.
Everybody is positive and upbeat, and we're taking care of ourselves unless, unlike we've had two looters arrested in, what, four days, and they're going to prosecute them to the maximum.
And there's just nothing.
I'm surprised you had that many.
I am too, actually.
But we're doing wonderful.
You know, we want the world to know what's going on.
We want their support.
But we are taking care of ourselves, and we're doing fine because we're conservatives here in San Diego.
Although we're getting a little purple as time goes by.
Well, that's the illegals coming in.
We all know that.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Have you lost any property or had it damaged in the fires?
No, I did in the cedar fire, but all we've done is evacuate our horses.
And right now, my home is okay, but we've got the trailer hooked up and everything packed, and our whole area is like that.
And we're all communicating with one another.
You know, and if they say go, all we have to do is put the horses in the trailers, and we're going to Fiesta Island.
All right, now this is interesting.
Do you know people who have lost their homes?
The people that I know, like up in Ramona, one of the gentlemen stayed there.
He is still safe.
He is still okay.
I don't know anyone at this time because we don't.
I have friends in the other areas like Encinitas and where the fire, Powwe, where the fires are going real bad.
Encinitas has been allowed back in.
They didn't lose their home.
So I have not known anyone yet, but I have friends in Powwe that I haven't been in contact with that.
Powwe has been really creamed.
A lot of the San Diego Chargers players live there and have had to evacuate.
Plus, some of these guys are in Arizona practicing for a game on Sunday.
They don't even know if it'll be played, much less where.
And it's the same way with our media.
A lot of them have, well, you saw one of our reporters watched his home burn down.
Yeah, that was a guy reporting on his own house that he's lived in for 25 years going up in flames.
Exactly.
Yes.
And he wasn't shouting, where's FEMA?
No.
Where's the federal government?
No.
That's it.
I just, I'm so proud of my city and my state and the governor for a change.
You know, I've been a little disappointed in him.
Yes, I know, but he's saying some good things to the media out there.
He is.
He is.
Now, let me ask you a question.
I should have asked this of our previous caller who called from Qualcomm Stadium.
You are not able to listen to the radio program over the radio because radio stations gone wall to wall with coverage.
Exactly.
So how do you know what the media is saying?
How are you learning what is being said?
And what made you want to call this program to get the word out to the rest of the country that what's being reported is what's being said by some of these liberal politicians and media people is not true.
The newspaper is getting out, and I flipped over.
You know, it's like you're blurry-eyed watching the TV.
But I flipped over to CNN, and I listened to even Diane Feinstein.
I just wanted to throw up.
Excuse my language.
I've had that feeling too.
You and I have a lot in common here today.
They're politicizing all this stuff, and that's not what we need.
What about John Garimendi?
Did you hear what he said?
No, I didn't.
Oh, you want to hear Garamendi?
Yes.
Oh, this was fabulous.
He was on television last night.
I think, what is the sound bite here?
It's number 11.
Yeah, he was on hardball with Chris Matthews.
You ever watch that show?
Well, I try not to.
Yeah, yeah, another thing we have in common.
And Garamendi, who's the lieutenant governor, was asked by Chris Matthews if the federal government is doing enough.
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 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 was your lieutenant governor, Carol, last night on TV.
That makes me sick.
Oh, gosh.
I wish I could strangle him.
What about Barbara Boxer?
Did you hear what she had to say?
No.
Oh, that's even better.
She was Senate committee hearing yesterday.
This is at a Senate committee hearing.
Soundbite number 10 on our roster today.
Soundbite number 10.
I know I sprung this on Mike's.
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.
You know what?
They're lying.
Yes, we are low, but we're fighting and we're doing fine with it.
I just can't stress enough that we're doing fine.
It's not that they're lying.
It's that they're trying to politicize this.
This is an attack on the Gulf, on the war.
Harry Reid yesterday, Carol, I don't know if you heard this.
Did you hear what Harry Reid said yesterday?
No.
Okay, we have two sound bites here.
This is Harry Reid.
This is a sample of what you're missing by not being able to listen to the program.
I'm not missing a thing.
No, because you called in.
So this is Harry Reid at a press conference about global warming yesterday in California.
The first of two bites, we'll play them separately.
Here's the first one.
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.
All right.
So now that bring global warming in, blame that.
Blame the war in Iraq.
Blame George W. Bush.
And of course, with the way these guys believe global warming, you're responsible for global warming because your lifestyle is too affluent.
We've got to roll that back.
So six minutes later, Carol, a reporter asked Harry Reid about this comment he made, the fires being due to 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 Goldmore.
He's an idiot.
He's a blooming.
They're all just beside themselves trying to politicize this.
But your call, Carol, you are so wonderful.
Your call is so fabulous because it's more than what you said.
You know, you drew the comparison between conservative and liberal and red and blue.
But it goes even beyond that.
When this all happened, when it first started, there was no sitting around and victimization.
Oh, woe is us.
Who's going to come in here and stop this for us?
Who's going to help us?
Who's going to do this?
Where's the federal government already?
You go to Qualcomm Stadium, people that are there have been evacuated.
You go to Del Mar, people have been evacuated.
Some of them have lost their homes.
Some of them might.
They are hanging around and they're in good moods.
They're optimistic, as you just pointed out, because that's the kind of people you are.
Yes.
Yes.
And, you know, people were evacuating other people's horses before they took care of their own because they were temporarily okay.
And it's just the human, it just gave me so much pride and hope for the human race again because we've got to get rid of these liberals.
We've got to get rid of these Democrats.
We have to beat them.
When you say get rid of them, media matters might take your words out of context and target you as a woman that's eager to incite violence.
We can't help you.
I'm just going to list.
All right.
Well, Carol, thanks much for the phone call.
Good luck.
Appreciate the fact you took time to reach us.
Thank you.
You bet.
We'll be right back after this, folks.
Hang tough.
Okay, I want to go back, folks, and I want to replay the caller.
Before we go back to the live phones, I want to play the caller, Tony, who called from Qualcomm Stadium.
And the reason I want to do this is because HR pointed out, and he's right, this is a great example of a guy in the middle of being drive-byed.
Here is a guy at Qualcomm Stadium where everything's fine.
They're doing everything they can to help each other.
They've been up for 36 hours.
There aren't any crimes going on.
There's no unrest of any kind.
Everybody's banding together and they're trying to make the best of it.
It's going very, very well.
And he's in the middle of a great, great story, and he's hearing how the drive-by media and the Democrat Party is trying to characterize this as something that it isn't.
This is a perfect illustration of a guy getting drive-byed.
San Diego, Tony, thanks for the phone call.
Nice to have you on the ways at Qualcomm Stadium.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
Nice to hear you.
I'm so mad right now.
I don't know where to start.
Everybody down here is taking care of each other.
All this stuff about bringing National Guard in and everything, they took 800 guardsmen off of the border where they should have stayed to come down here to Qualcomm.
And all it is is a big tailgate party.
Everyone's helping each other.
Wait, I want to make a break.
Wait a minute.
Tony, I want to make sure I heard this.
Did you say they took 800 guards off the border, National Guards, or border guards or whatever, and brought them to Qualcomm?
If you guys would listen to the not you rush, I'm sorry.
I'm just so angry.
I've been up all night evacuating horses up in Harmony Grove, and it's not just Qualcomm Stadium.
We got 10,000 there.
We got 10,000 at the Del Mar racetrack, Pomerano High School, Vista High School.
Everyone's taking people in, and there's no rioting.
There's no fighting.
Everyone's helping each other.
They brought the National Stadium.
You go see some of these pictures down at Qualcomm.
They got National Guard guys walking around.
Guns, no-nothing, shorts on, rolled-up sleeves, because everyone is taking care of each other.
This is absolutely stupid.
I don't know where our political officials are getting this stuff.
And then they want to bring him in to fight the fire.
Well, let me tell you.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.
No, just a second.
Tell.
Tell me what it is when you just said, I don't know where our political officials are getting this stuff.
What are you hearing them say that they've got wrong?
Like they want to bring in the National Guard to fight the fires.
The guys that are on here that are on the pumpers out in Harmony Grove, I live in Carlsbad, and we're one of the places that's on the beach, but there's fires on both sides of us.
The problem is the stuff is moving so fast, unless you were God, you can't stand in front of it.
And everybody knows the only way to stop these fires is for the firemen to get out in front of them.
Well, they're not getting out in front of them.
They're doing is structure protection because the flames in some cases are 30, 40, 60 feet high.
And I don't care if you had a whole platoon of guards, and it's going to run right over them.
These people do not understand.
And for them to politicize this, I'm sorry, man, my voice is breaking up.
I've been up for 36 hours trying to do this stuff.
And the problem is, if they just leave us alone, we would get through it.
Do you realize, you probably don't, because you won't hear this on the local media, at one time there were more doctors, nurses, our hospitals are closed because they're going down to Qualcomm.
They're going down to Del Mar to take care of people.
And at one time, there were more caregivers down there than there were evacuees.
We're at Qualcomm?
Do we lose his cell connection?
We lost the cell connection.
Well, you know, Don, sorry, we lost his connection, but I just asked the question: what must these Californians be thinking who've lost everything or on the verge of losing everything and they know people have lost everything?
What must they think when these Democrats stand up and start saying all this?
We just got our answer.
That was the call from Tony at Qualcomm Stadium that happened just in the last half hour of the program.
And, you know, here's what I wonder.
I wonder how people say who went through Hurricane Katrina, if they're watching this on television, or any other natural disaster like this, watching what's happening out in California, and they see scenes from Qualcomm Stadium and other places, I wonder what they think.
Going back to what Carol was talking about, your red and blue, conservative versus liberal, what you have in San Diego, and I'm sure most of the other parts of Southern California where this all is happening, what you have are people who have not surrendered the control of their lives to the government.
You have people who are fiercely independent.
You have people who have not allowed themselves to become dependent on government, politicians, or what have you for anything.
These are self-reliant, rugged, individual people who are band together, banding together to help one another out and doing so in the midst of the best mood that you could possibly imagine in light of the devastation that is all around them.
It is a, and their local government works.
The local government, the state government, aside from this lieutenant governor who's in the bag for Clinton and Gore, aside from Garamendi, the state government is working.
They don't need the feds.
They really don't need it.
There's not this massive call for the feds.
And you've got Garamendi say, well, if Bush comes out, we'll be polite, but you know, we got the National Guard in Iraq.
It's Iraq.
People call it Iraq.
You want to rack them, will you?
Back to the phones on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Let's go to Pittsburgh.
This is Steve.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Rush, you say profound things, even when you think you're just flying off the handle or venting.
And I wanted to thank you for being such a great teacher.
When your blood pressure was rising there in that first hour and you were describing your reaction to the fires, you talked about the emotional response, the compassion you had for the homeowners and the victims.
And it's easy to compare that with your rational assessment of political items and see the difference.
But you've taught us that the liberal response to political items or life events or anything is an emotional response, and they don't have that rational assessment of the issues.
And so when you're talking about how they are politicizing these fires, it's obvious there's no barrier between their thought patterns.
It's all emotional to them.
And so that just opened my eyes.
And I thought that was a great example when you compared the emotional to the rational.
Well, I appreciate that.
They're a very, very, you are a great student.
That is a profound observation on your part that matches the profundity of my original remark.
Well, you're very kind.
I only get that from listening to you for a long time.
Well, I want to add one thing to what you said.
In addition to the liberal, the crossover between the political and the emotional, have you noticed that all these comments these liberals are making about this fire are about them and their political future and their fortunes?
They take these disasters no compassion for the people suffering.
It's all an opportunity for them.
It's all about them.
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