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Nov. 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 27, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I wasn't going to talk about this till Snerdley started giving me a little garbage about it here during the break.
And of course, Brian, you did it too, taunting me about this football game.
Steelers barely pull it out, 3-0, Nathan.
I've had so many people send him an email last night.
What a rotten game.
What a slop.
Folks, that was one of the greatest football games that I have ever seen.
But real football fans are the only ones apparently who can appreciate it.
Everybody else that's not a real fan is watching this.
Ew, look at the flame and the muck in the field.
Ew, look at that puddle.
Ooh, it's hella hard.
And of course, if you are a non-football fan, if you watched the game last night, I guarantee you the most entertaining moment to you was during that punt when the ball landed and plugged in the field halfway.
Those of us that play golf on wet golf course, it happens all the time.
But at any rate, football is a game meant to be played outdoors on grass in the elements, whatever they are.
They are the same for both teams.
I watched this guy.
I was mesmerized by this to watch these are the best athletes in pro football.
I don't know about the Dolphins, but I mean, these are the best people capable of qualifying to play pro football in this country.
And they were tested last night with things they don't normally get tested.
These are professionals.
You know, I wouldn't want to watch a high school game in that mess, and I certainly wouldn't want to watch a college game in that mess, but the professionals, yes.
And I just, I was mesmerized by it to find out who would be able to overcome the elements and win the game.
And, of course, at the end, it was the Pittsburgh Steelers who pulled it out.
I was a little scared during this game.
We're playing rookie quarterback starting his second game.
We've got the number one defense in the league, and these guys are marching all over the field on us.
We're unable to stop.
Our offensive line for the Steelers was practically non-existent last night.
But I watched the post-game interviews, and Mike Tomlin, who's the rookie head coach of the Steelers, he was echoing what I thought, great game.
We are so proud to come out of this with a victory because that was hard last night.
They're all hard.
But those conditions, that was impossible.
Your feet are sinking three inches or more in the turf when you plant and so forth.
I mean, there are a lot of things about it that can embarrass the league.
Steelers change turf on Saturday or Sunday, rather, and then here comes 24 hours of rain.
They put the tarp down.
The rain got under the tarp.
But nevertheless, I thought it was fabulous.
All right, let me move on here.
We got other things.
One more thing about college kids.
We just had the story about how they're not tattling on each other, not going along for all this diversity stuff at the University of Delaware, University of Wisconsin.
A series of articles in student newspapers at well-regarded institutions of higher learning indicate that not all young people are buying the global warming alarmism that the wackos are selling.
Consider a recent editorial in the Harvard Crimson of all places that calls Al Gore and other celebrities to task for talking the talk on saving the planet, but not walking the walk.
Editor Peter Tilton notes that Gore lives in his 20-room mansion, uses twice as much energy in one month than a typical American home does in a year.
And he points out that environmentalist actor John Travolta racks up tons of carbon emissions flying his five private planes.
An editorial in San Diego State's Daily Aztec is titled Death is Eminent: Global Warming Kills, and goes on to mock environmental doom saying, Global warming is not a problem we can fix.
Earth's history is riddled with warm times as well as cold times.
Global warming will not end the existence of planet Earth.
And the Stanford Daily gave a fair and balanced review of a lecture by noted global warming skeptic Siegfried Fred Singer.
The paper explained Singer's contention that global warming is produced by the sun, and it is, and we are in the middle of an 11-year active sunspot cycle with away.
The human contribution is negligible.
Included in the article was a quote from another student who said he appreciated Singer's unconventional views and believed it was healthy to hear dissenting opinions.
Stanford!
Stanford.
So there's a creeping change out there.
I'll tell you something, folks.
When I hear of this kind of thing happening on college campaign, where we've assumed that they're young skulls full of mush being propagandized by a bunch of left-wing socialist professors, and no doubt they are, but they're not all being taken in by it, and some of them are actually opposing it.
It's positive.
It is excellent.
Generational change, always good.
New York Times talked about, we talked about this cruise ship down in the Antarctic Ocean.
It hit the iceberg over the weekend, sank, had 150 people on the MV Explorer.
Turns out it was a bunch of eco-warriors down there to look at the evidence of global warming.
P.T. Barnum was a sucker born every minute.
All these environmentalist wackos are making millions off suckers.
It's like the story we had yesterday from the Daily Mail in the UK.
Women are out there getting themselves sterilized in order to save the planet.
These are liberals.
There can be fewer liberals being born around the world as this.
We need to encourage this.
Sometimes, friends, you have to rise above principle.
Stop and think about that.
It's just that simple.
Anyway, the New York Times has a story on this MV Explorer today.
They've got a picture of these people that were on board being flown in a military-type aircraft to Chile.
And this is just hilarious.
I mean, this is with.
I'm looking at a plane load of suckers.
Now I understand that there are some cruise ships in the Antarctic that can actually take and see various wildlife and so forth that are not eco-warrior-oriented, but this one clearly was.
And these people are wearing some of the most expensive outerwear you can imagine.
And obviously, they would need it going down to the Antarctic Ocean.
But the New York Times approach to the story is: misgivings rise along with Antarctic and tourism.
From its beginning until its demise, the MV Explorer was an Antarctic pioneer.
And I go down to give a little history of the boat and the ship.
And it also talks about how people were worried that starting, you know, Antarctic has got enough problems of global warming.
We're going to go down there and look at it.
We're going to destroy it.
If we're going to go down there and sail it, we're going to destroy it.
We can't do this.
While the rescue, this is the great line from the New York Times story.
While the rescue may have been a success, the consequences for the Antarctic's fragile environment of having a submerged ship estimated to be holding 48,000 gallons of marine diesel fuel sitting off its coast are unclear.
Yes, even the New York Times is now worried.
But stop and think of the irony of this.
Here you have, I don't know how many of the 154 passengers on board were eco-warriors, but I'm sure a lot of them were, because this is an eco-warrior owner.
They get on this cursed.
Did you see pictures of this ship?
I wouldn't get on this ship if it was at dock.
If it was at the port, I wouldn't get on it.
These people are on this thing, and it hits an iceberg.
You got these guys going down to look at global warming and the evidence aglow.
Well, they hit an iceberg.
The boat sinks.
They are rescued.
The boat sinks with 48,000 gallons of fuel.
Look what they caused.
And I'm sure they have no guilt about it because they're down there to save the planet and accidents happen.
Of course, no reports on damage to fish stocks and other living beings that swim around.
But the footprint, what about the footprint of the rescue and this giant cargo plane to have to fly these people to Chile for safety?
Now get this, more than 35,000 tourists are expected to visit Antarctica this spring and summer compared with just 6,750 during 1992 and 93.
And rather than just ships like the MV Explorer that carry 100 or so passengers, the flotilla has included such behemoths of the cruise ship industry as the Golden Princess, which arrived with 2,500 passengers and 1,200 crew members last season.
Sorry, I just...
It's schadenfreude.
It's Shadden.
I admit I'm taking pleasure in the hypocrisy, the misery, and the suffering of others.
This is just too good.
By the way, welcome back.
Rushland bought talent on loan from God.
This is some CNN.
The Reverend Dax, a high-profile backer of Senator Obama's White House bid, says all the Democrat presidential candidates are ignoring African-American issues except for the Breck girl.
Said the Reverend Docs, the Democrat candidates, with the exception of John Edwards, who opened his campaign in New Orleans' 9th Ward and has made addressing poverty central to his campaign, have virtually ignored the plight of African Americans in this country.
The Reverend Jacks actually wrote this in the Chicago Sun-Times op-ed today.
So this just goes to show symbolism over substance.
John Edwards' little show there in the 9th Ward of New Orleans has impressed the Reverend Dax.
But Reverend Jackson.
They're all campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire right now, Reverend, and there really aren't too many blacks in those states.
Chill out.
They'll get to you.
They haven't forgotten you.
But the real point here is, and I mean this, bottom of my heart, Reverend Dax, they have been ignoring you for years.
They give you a seat at the table.
They let you pontificate it to conventions.
They throw you a bone here and there, but they're ignoring you for years.
This is the whole point.
And of course, guess what?
The other dirty little secret is that the Reverend Jackson It's glad that he is being ignored, or at least that his people are being ignored, because it's only the perception that his people are still en masse discriminated against by virtue of racism that keeps his charge of the racism business.
Well, the Oprah thing, I would bet you that the Reverend Zach is also a little jealous that Obama is pulling the Oprah out there to campaign for him and not asking the Reverend Zax to do it.
Back to the phones, Lois.
In Salt Lake City, welcome to the program.
I'm glad you waited.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
Longtime listener, great admirer of yours.
Well, thank you.
I just wanted to comment on the global warming of the Antarctica ship that sunk.
I have been, I've worked in travel for 33 years.
I've sailed on over 60 different ships.
I pick and choose where I go and make sure that safety factor is always of concern on a ship.
Well, that's good.
I would hope that everybody attending a cruise and going on a cruise would consider the safety factor in the ship.
And from my experience, people, after they've done the regular cruises, they start looking at more adventure and type of cruises.
You mean like running into icebergs or the possibility of it in the Antarctic?
I would be worried about that, but it's the highest on my list that I still want to do.
And I hope that I do get to do it.
And I feel that a lot of the companies are very, very safety conscious.
I'm not that familiar with the background on this ship.
We've had very little information in our newspapers here.
Of course, nobody has the full story in their newspapers.
That's why I'm here to dig it out.
Oh, that's why I watched it.
The ship's owned by some guy named Bruce Bruce.
I can't, I got to get this on.
If I miss this up, I'm big.
Bruce Poon Tim, what is it?
Yep, Bruce Poon Tip.
And he's from GAP Adventures, a big friend of Al Gore.
Well, that says it all, doesn't it?
Yes, yes, it does.
Now, I understand your concern, Lois.
I mean, you're the travel agency business, and you hear me being critical of Bruce Poon Tip and the MV Explorer, and I'm sure you don't want negative reactions to the subject of Antarctic cruises.
And I'm not trying to generate that at all.
I mean, the boat sank, ran aground, ran into an iceberg with a bunch of eco-warriors aboard.
It's a self-contained story.
And I did say, I know there are plenty of Antarctic cruises that have nothing to do with global warming.
People want to go down and see some of the islands.
They don't really get close to the continent itself.
I mean, they get fairly close, but they don't.
I don't think there are any docks there with Tiffany and Chanel that you get off the boat and go shop.
But they have some islands down there with some wildlife that's unique to that part of the world, and people do want to see that.
Joe in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Never better.
First time caller.
I've been listening to you since the very beginning.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
My question was: you know, I've been voting since Jimmy Carter, and I voted for Jimmy Carter in the beginning until my eyes were opened up when Ronald Reagan came in.
But I've just been thinking lately that I'm starting to see George Bush as the Republican Party's Jimmy Carter.
Why?
What do you mean?
You know, Rush, I remember some years ago listening to you, working, you know, construction, everything, had my headphones all the time, and you were saying how you believed that George Bush was trying to govern to destroy the Democratic Party.
But I think he's been doing everything in his power almost to restore the destroy the Republican Party the way he's been governing the past seven years.
That's just my own perception.
I mean, I think he's a good man.
I don't think he's like Jimmy Carter or something.
But for us in the Republican Party, we who are conservatives, we just have strong ideals for our leaderships.
We want them to govern in ways that are really going to benefit our nation and our country.
And for myself, who have been voting, you know, Republican all these years now, I'm just really becoming disheartened with the leadership that's in Washington, especially with George Bush, when I think and I know that he could be doing much greater.
I do believe that the man has the potential, but just in my heart and everything, I just feel he's been failing us as a people and as a country.
Okay, I understand a lot of people have your view, but Bush's got a year.
What are you going to do about it?
I guess the only thing is I'm a little curious as to the timing of your call.
Is this tied to an issue that's out there now?
Is something got you upset, or is it just overall in general?
Just, you know, Rush, four years ago, I went into business on my own because I had two sons who I thought would do great in business.
And at 50 years of age, I made a big effort to go out when I had it made where I was and everything, sacrificed everything, hocked everything to start a business.
And now when I see the things that are coming down through Washington that are affecting me as a businessman and everything, I get tremendously discouraged.
I look at George Bush, who would have the potential.
I own an excavating business now.
Started out with two employees.
I'm up to 15 and growing.
And now when I see these fuel prices, okay, I understand what you're saying about as far as let the market forces govern and stuff like that.
But why, as an American, should we be like Europe?
Why do I have to pay $5 a gallon for oil like the rest of the world?
We are America.
We should be doing things better and greater, you know, for our country and stuff like that.
And as a businessman, I think my eyes are just being opened up to how the government is governing my life.
And, well, just one other little thing, Rush.
I look at the war.
I see how George Bush, and I agree with the war.
I'm for him 100%.
We have to fight this battle and everything.
But he has all these guts and all this ambition to go out and send our forces over to the Middle East.
Why isn't he fighting this battle back here in America?
I think that there's a bigger battle going on over in America.
I think it's time that we stop fighting this conventional war in America and start bringing up some special warship warfare in America.
This is why I say that the presidential election is going to be about the future.
And it's interesting.
I thought when I saw your call up on the board, you asked me if he's Jimmy Carter.
I thought you're going to be talking about the Annapolis conference today involving the Middle East.
So you kind of surprised me here.
Back in just a second.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
All right, I'm going to do two things here.
I really thought Joe in Allentown, when he made this comparison to Jimmy Carter, Bush to Jimmy Carter, was going to be talking about the Annapolis Peace Summit or conference today between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
And I was totally blindsided by where he went.
His disaffection and anger at Bush.
Price of gasoline, he said five bucks a gallon.
We're not paying five bucks a gallon.
I understood his point.
American exceptionalism seems to be on the wane.
But I have to, Joe, I know you're still out there, and I have to be honest here about something.
I don't do well with calls like yours, and I've had a couple lately.
We had one from a similar guy in Texas, small businessman, would not tell me what business he was in, but he was railing about the difficulties he's having staying in business, and it was largely because of Republicans and the Bush administration and so forth.
My problem is, and I don't want to insult you two guys.
I'm sure the guy in Texas is still listening.
I'm sure Joe in Allentown is.
The reason that I don't do well with those kind of calls is because I don't do well with whiners.
We conservatives are not whiners.
We're doers.
Life is hard.
It's got roadblocks.
It's got obstacles.
It's got challenges to it.
It's got liberals in it and it's got government, whoever is running it.
And the idea, the difference between liberals and conservatives is we don't sit around and whine about things.
We do whatever's necessary to get past these obstacles.
Because whining doesn't accomplish anything.
And complaining, I realize we all have to vent, but after you, it's sort of like saying you feel sorry for somebody.
Good, what's that going to do for them?
A little show of affection.
Oh, I feel so sorry for.
Good.
That's great.
But now what are you going to do?
Life is action.
It's not a spectator sport.
And we conservatives do not sit around.
I mean, we lament the fact that government's in our way and we try to do everything we can to elect people that will get government out of our way, but sometimes they don't.
But we don't give up and start whining about it.
We kick them out.
And we replace them with new people or else they quit on their own so they can become lobbyists a year before the rules change.
No names mentioned here.
But the point is that, you know, Bush has got one year to go.
And to sit, I don't know what the point was.
Are you going to vote Democrat, Joe?
Are you going to vote independent?
I mean, for whatever is going on, it's unhappy, made you unhappy now.
It's only going to get worse if the other side, if the Democrats get in, you think you've got obstacles to running your business now.
But this is the nature of business, the nature of government, rather.
It grows and it intercedes and it wants to take more and more control, the irregulation, and a number of other things, as we all know.
So I mean, I don't know what we do have a great war that we're fighting here, but I may have a different definition of the war that we're fighting.
And the war we're fighting in this country is against liberals.
The war that we're fighting here is against the media, who are trying to secure America's defeat, who are trying to promote in the minds of as many Americans as possible that there is no such thing anymore as American exceptionalism.
They're trying to pollute and poison the minds of the American people into believing their country's better days are behind them.
And we have no future.
And it's bleak and it's miserable.
And that just, I have no patience for that because it A, isn't true.
And I get very frustrated when people fall prey to the old conventional wisdom about that.
Because we're a bunch of doers.
And anybody can sit around and complain about what is and then blame the president for it.
But I want you to ask yourselves, folks, just how much impact on a daily basis in your business or in your life does any elected official have as opposed to the impact on it you can have.
Now, I'm not being pollyannish here because there are differences.
A liberal politician in charge is going to be a much greater obstacle than, say, a conservative or somebody else.
But despite we've had liberals in power in my lifetime, we've had Republicans in power.
And throughout my lifetime, people have prospered, and they have done what's necessary to do so.
We're involved in politics, and we're interested in politics primarily because we each as individuals have a vision for the future of the country.
And we realize that there is a government, and we realize it has to be led.
We also realize that a lot of people in the country have to be led, that they're not self-starters.
And so we want leaders that reflect our worldview and our core beliefs and principles.
And when we don't get them, we think, oh, my gosh, we're in trouble.
Oh, everything's going to hell in a handbasket.
But it never really does.
However, we're at a point now where I think a lot of people are really truly worried about what the future of the country will be, given the election of the Clintons, for example, if they get back in, or John Edwards.
It's going to be much tougher to overcome these people because these people are the kind of people that not only want power in government, they want power over as many citizens as possible.
Now, Joe's own business, his business is growing.
He's gone from 2 to 15 employees.
And we have all kinds of great economic news to report.
I don't know how much Joe's attitude is based on his actual day-to-day experience with his business or how much of it's due to his exposure to drive-by media each and every day that is causing his attitude to be challenged.
But I'm not going to try to talk anybody out of the attitude they have.
That's your attitude is yours, your feelings are yours, and I don't own them.
And so I'm not going to try to change them in a wag my finger in your face business.
Yes.
Well, I understand there's the fear at the housing, the mortgage thing, and the oil price going up.
There's fear, but the reason for the fear is you have no control over it.
You know, you always have more comfort in life over things that you can control.
Like, for example, once your kids get a certain age, you can't control them, and then every day is a crapshoot.
You just hope and pray, right?
You just hope and pray.
Same thing here.
I understand the oil business and so forth and the subprime and the mortgage, the credit crunch.
When those things happen, I just rely on, I'm 56 years old, I just rely on history, my own life's history and the history that occurred before I was born.
And I look where the country is today versus where it was in the 60s versus where it was in the 70s.
I mean, when all those gasoline lines, look at, I was, when I turned 16, was driving age, gasoline was 25 cents a gallon.
There were gas wars.
Now, that was 1969, 70.
Two years later, gasoline was a buck.
Now, you go from 25 cents to a dollar in two.
That's a huge, significant percentage increase in terms of the impact on the budget, the average family budget.
And then despite, even with the price being a buck, there were gas lines.
And that was Panic City because you have to have gasoline in your car.
And then they went to rationing on various days.
When I lived in Pittsburgh, stations opened two hours a day.
They were open every other day or what have you.
We all have these fears because you can't control them.
But these situations with the right people in charge, look at Reagan got rid of the gas lines.
Jimmy Carter didn't.
I mean, it matters who wins elections.
I'm not saying that it doesn't.
But as individuals, we can't sit up, get up every day and look whatever direction Washington is from your house and bow down and pray to them to do the right thing.
All I'm saying is you have more control over your life and your future and how to deal with these obstacles than you realize.
And if you just learn to get hold, grasp that concept, just the idea of being able to take action to deal with it.
And sometimes it's not going to work.
Nothing works all the time.
There are going to be ups and downs, and that's the point.
But for every down, there is a corresponding up that is going to happen down the road.
And when the up happens, we're generally better off than we were when the previous down occurred.
I don't mean to preach here, folks.
And I don't mean to get on Joe, and I don't mean to get on the other guy.
Perhaps whining is not the best.
I'm really talking about myself.
I just don't do well with people who complain.
I don't know what to say.
Well, man, I mean to them when they're on the phone.
I just, I don't, because we all want to be sympathetic when somebody's whining and complaining about something.
After a while, if they keep whining and complaining about the same thing, you lose patience, right?
Well, I've been 20 years of listening to whining here.
Back we are, Rush Lindbaugh here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Nice to have you with us, 800-282-2882.
Since I was expecting Joe from Allentown to talk about the Annapolis Peace Commerce, whatever it is, whatever they're calling it, with his comparison to Bush to Jimmy Carter, which, frankly, is absurd in virtually every.
That's the first one.
When I found out, he wasn't talking about Middle East peace, because a lot of Republicans are livid with Bush over this.
A lot of conservatives are just fit to be tied over Bush because they think he's legacy building, just like Jimmy Carter did in the Middle East.
But to compare Bush as a president with Jimmy Carter, on what level is there a comparison?
And frankly, that's when a red flag went up.
It doesn't make any sense.
Things were so bad during Carter economically, we had to have a misery index to measure it.
We did.
Inflation would double digits.
Interest rates were double digit.
Unemployment was double.
You think we had a credit crunch and then try getting a mortgage at 14 to 15 percent and buy a house.
Back when Jimmy Carter was, this is what I mean with things get better even when they're who wants to go back to the 70s and Jimmy Carter?
Frankly, I hated the 70s.
I hated the music in the 70s.
None of it would, I mean, all this Seals and Crofts willowy little wimpy stuff and stuff like that.
You can take that decade, boy, and I'm going to just farm it out.
The only thing decent about the 70s was the Pittsburgh Steelers and their fourth Super Bowl.
Well, and the Kansas City Royals, I worked there during the 70s.
Those are great men.
But I'm telling you, when I was in radio in those years, I mean, I'm sitting there in Kansas City at a radio station playing disco, thinking I had a future in the business.
At least it was better than Seals and Crofts with some of that.
I don't even know how I would describe it.
New age garbage with lyrics.
But this business of the Annapolis Peace Conference, a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives think that this is just a waste of time, and that this is Jimmy Carter-esque.
Legacy building, there's no hope here that he's turned the Bush doctrine on its head.
Why the hell have Syria there?
How in the world can you complain and whine about Nancy Pelosi going to visit Basher Assad and then invite Assad to Annapolis to participate in the Middle East so-called peace process, trying to set up a Palestinian state side by side with the Israelis?
This is formulaic.
This is nothing new.
It happens.
This is a constant, never-ending battle.
There are timeouts.
This is a timeout.
It has gotten the point that there's a timeout.
We're going to go through the motions of a peace agreement here.
Now, some people say also, I'm not sure I would agree with this, some people say that Bush is dealing with a position of strength on this, that he has already shaken up the Middle East.
The war in Iraq is winning.
We are winning it, that there are a number of foreign policy successes here to play off of.
Here's my problem with this.
And it's not what the president is trying to do.
This is nothing.
By the way, he's always pushed for a Palestinian state.
This is something that he's not new.
The problem is that every time this thing comes up, it's Israel has to give things up.
It's Israel has to stop because the other guys will not.
The other guys will simply not accept any concessions.
Now, Ralph Peters, writing today in the New York Post, makes an excellent point.
He said, the dirty little secret is that all of these different groups, Hamas and Fatah, I mean, really, they are in, in effect, they are in a civil war.
Would any of you Democrats, you want to talk about civil war in Iraq?
How about Fatah and Hamas?
Now, there's a genuine civil war among the Palestinians, and the reason of the civil war is that one small faction is really fed up with all the violence and would really like to have peace in a growing economy, and the other side doesn't want to be part of it.
Now, Ralph Peters' brilliant point in the New York Post today was that the business of hating Israel and the business of terrorism against Israel and the business of constant agitation has become a business.
It is the way they earn their living.
And if they somehow agreed to peace, what would their new jobs be?
Cleaning toilets?
This is something.
Would you rather be armed with AK-47s and Kalashnikovs and running around creating hell and confusion or cleaning toilets?
Well, he's using that as an illustration.
But the Limbaugh Doctrine, do you remember the Limbaugh Doctrine, folks?
You know what the Limbaugh Doctrine says?
What is this?
Peace.
We're trying to once again come up with peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
The Arabs in that world don't want any part of peace.
Most of the Arab countries in that part of the world, be they oil states or not, have populations that do not share in the wealth of the leadership.
And who gets blamed?
The Israelis.
The Israelis are the most convenient whipping dog that the Arab states have.
They don't want to get rid of them.
They don't have to lose that.
That's the biggest excuse they've got to tell their people, yeah, well, the reason why the toilets aren't forced is Israel.
Yeah, well, the reason why you don't have clean drinking water is Israel.
And they don't want to give that up because their populations believe it.
They hate the Jews.
As does Hamas and as does Fatah and all these other jihad groups.
And so this is not going to permanently end.
This is the Limbaugh Doctrine.
This is not going to permanently end until one side wipes the other out.
Peace does not happen from words.
It does not happen via negotiation.
It does not happen.
You might get a temporary break in the hostilities, which is what this is designed to do.
This is designed to create a timeout and get them to stop.
But it's, I mean, when the Saudis show up and say, I'm not shaking hands, anybody, kind of tells you something.
I'm not having a picture of me shaking hands with the Israeli leader.
You're not going to get me doing the bad.
I'm not going to have my people back home see that.
We've got nothing to shake hands about.
Why should I shake his hand?
So until one of these sides is wiped out, that's when you'll get peace.
But until that happens, this is just going to continue the way it's going, and we're going to have the peace process.
And at every turn, Israel is going to be asked to make concessions because the other side will not.
And poor old Olmert, I mean, he's out of his league.
You can look at his picture.
He looked bad.
He looks like he's as beleaguered as he can be.
He's being dragged into this by a huge ally.
At any rate, I'm up against it here on time.
A quick break, and we'll be back here in just a second.
Folks, go back if you want to count the number of Middle East peace conferences we've had and accords.
You can't put them on two pieces of paper.
And how many of them have worked?
Zero.
The whole point is we sit and ask Israel to continue making concessions for a broader peace that never, ever happens.
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