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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 until 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.
I've had so many people send him email last night.
What a rotten game.
What a sloppy.
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 and the feel.
Look at that puddle.
Ooh, it's 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 uh on wet golf course happens all the time.
Uh 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.
Uh I watched this guy, I was mesmerized by this to watch these are the best athletes in pro football.
Well, I don't know about the Dolphins, but I mean, these are these are these are the best people to capable of qualify to play pro football in this country.
Uh and they were tested last night with uh with things they don't normally get tested.
These are professionals.
You know, I wouldn't want to watch a high school game in net mess, and I certainly wouldn't want to watch a college game in net mess, but the professionals, yes.
And I just I was I was mesmerized by it to find out who would be able to overcome the elements uh and and uh and win the game.
And of course, uh at the end it was the Pittsburgh Stalors who uh who pulled it out.
I was a little scared during this game.
We're we're we're playing rookie quarterback starting his second game.
We got the number one defense in the league, and these guys are marching all over the field on us.
Uh we're unable to stop them.
Our offensive line for the Steelers was practically non-existent last night.
But I watched the I watched the post-game interviews.
And Mike Tomlin, who's the the rookie head coach of the Steelers, he was uh 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, if you it that was impossible.
Your your feet are sinking three inches or more in the turf uh when you uh 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 uh rain got under the tarp.
Uh but nevertheless, I just I just I thought it was I thought it was fabulous.
All right, let me move on here.
We got other things.
Uh 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 uh 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 many, uh 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 States 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 of global warming is produced by the sun, and it is, and we are in the middle of an 11-year active sunspot cycle with a way.
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 this there's a creeping change out there.
When you when you when you I'll tell you something, folks, uh, 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 they're not all being taken in by it, and some of them are actually opposing it.
It's positive.
It is uh it is excellent.
Generational change, always good.
New York Times talked about we talked about this cruise ship down in the Antarctic Ocean that hit the iceberg on uh over the week and sank, had 150 people on the MV Explorer.
Uh turns out was a bunch of eco-warriors down there to look at the evidence of global warming.
P.T. Barnum was as a sucker born every minute.
All these environmentalist wackos are making millions off suckers.
It's like this this 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 could we need to encourage this.
Sometimes, Frank, you have to rise above principle.
It's not 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 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 is some some cruise ships in the Antarctic that uh they can actually take and see various uh 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.
Um obviously they would need it going down to the Antarctic Ocean.
Uh, but the 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 to go down to get a little history of uh of the of the boat uh and the ship, and it also talks about how people were worried that starting, you know, we Antarctic has got enough problems with global warming.
We need to uh we're gonna go down there and look at it, we're gonna destroy it.
If we're gonna go down there and sail it, we're gonna 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.
Oh yes, lady, 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 cruise.
Did you see pictures of the 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.
But these people are on this thing, and it hits an iceberg.
They got these guys going down to look at global warming.
And the evidence of global, 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 the accidents happen.
Uh, of course.
No uh no reports on damage to uh 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 a hundred 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.
Um sorry, I just it's it's it's Shadna Freud.
It's Shadden I uh I admit I'm I'm taking pleasure in the in the in the hypocrisy, the misery and the suffering of others.
Now this is just too good.
By the way, welcome back.
Uh Rushland bought talent on lawn uh from God.
This is some CNN.
The uh Reverend Uh Dax, hmm, 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 Jacks, hmm.
The Democrat candidates, with the exception of John Edwards, who opened his campaign in New Orleans ninth ward and is made addressing poverty central to his campaign, have virtually ignored the plight of African Americans in this country.
The uh Reverend Uh Jax actually wrote this in the Chicago Sun Times Up Ed today.
So this just goes to show symbolism over substance.
John Edwards' little show there in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans has impressed the uh Reverend Dax.
Uh but uh uh Reverend Jackson Psst.
Uh they're all campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire right now, uh Reverend, and uh there really aren't too many blacks in those states.
Uh chill out, they'll get to you.
They haven't forgotten you.
Uh the f but but you real the real point here is, and I mean this, bottom of my heart.
Uh Reverend Dax, hm, 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 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 Dax, hmm, is 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 in mass discriminated against by virtue of racism that keeps his in charge, him in charge of the racism business.
Uh well, the the the Oprah thing, I would bet you that the uh Reverend uh Dax is also a little jealous that Obama is uh pulling uh the Oprah out there to campaign for him uh and not asking the uh Reverend uh Dax, hmm, uh 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, long time listener.
Great admirer of yours.
Well, thank you.
I just wanted to uh 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 sixty different ships.
I pick and choose where I go and make sure that um 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 uh consider the safety factor of the ship.
And and from my experience, um, people after they've done the regular cruises, they start looking at more adventure and um type of cruises.
You mean like running into icebergs uh the possibility of it in the Antarctic?
Uh I would be worried about that, but it's it's the highest on my list that I still want to do.
And um 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 um, you know, the background on this ship because we've had very little information on in our newspapers here.
Of course nobody has the full full story in the newspapers.
That's why I'm here to dig it out.
Oh, that's why I was shipwrecked.
The ship's owned by some guy named Bruce Bruce.
Uh Bru I I can't I gotta get this on if I miss this up, I'm big Bruce Poontin, what is it?
Um, Bruce Poon Tip.
And he's a uh is from GAP Adventures, a big friend of Al Gore.
Well that says it all, doesn't it?
Uh yes, yes, it does.
Now I understand your concern, Lois.
I mean, you're in the travel agency business and you hear me uh uh being critical of uh Bruce Poon Tip and the MV Explorer, and I'm sure you don't want uh negative um reactions to the subject of Antarctic cruises.
And I'm not I'm not trying to generate that at all.
I mean the boat sank, ran aground or 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.
There's people want to go down and see some of the islands.
Uh 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 uh uh Tiffany and and uh Chanel that you get off the boat and go shop.
Uh 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.
Uh my question was is 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 just been thinking lately that I'm starting to see George Bush as uh the Republicans' party is Jimmy Carter.
Why?
Well, 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 believe 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 uh to 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 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 with the leadership that's in uh 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 c as a people and in the country.
Okay, I understand a lot of people have your view, but Bush's got a year.
What what what's what's uh what are you gonna do about it?
I mean is I'm I'm I guess the only thing is I'm I'm a little curious as to the timing of your call.
Now, like what is this tied to an issue that's out there now or something that you upset, or is it just overall in general?
Uh just you know, Rush, four years ago I went into business on my own because I had two sons that uh who I thought would do great in business, and at fifty fifty years of age, I made a big effort to go out when I had it made where I was and everything, sacrificed everything, hawked 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 I look at George Bush, who would have the potential.
I I 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, uh, 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 five dollars 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.
Uh and as a businessman, I think my eyes are just being opened up to how the the government is governing my life.
And uh, well, just one other little thing, Rush.
I I look at the war, I see how George Bush, and I agree with the war on foreign one hundred percent.
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 warfare in America.
This is 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 and 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 uh you kind of surprised me here.
Back in just a second.
Ha.
Welcome back, Rush Linball, the excellence at Broadcasting Network.
All right, I'm gonna do two things here.
I I really thought Joe and Allentown, when he made this comparison of 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.
Uh and I was totally blindsided by where he went.
Uh is disaffection and anger at Bush.
Uh 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 on the wane.
But I have to, Joe, I know you're still out there, and I I have to be honest here about something.
I I don't do well with calls like yours, and I've had a couple lately.
We had one from uh 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.
Uh 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 are doers.
Uh 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 it's sort of like saying you feel sorry for somebody, good, what's that gonna do for him?
Little show of affection.
Oh, I feel so sorry for good.
That's great, but now what are you gonna 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 uh 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.
Uh no names mentioned here.
But the point the point is that that you know, Bush has got one year to go and and to sit, I don't know what the point was.
Are you gonna vote Democrat, Joe?
Are you are you gonna vote independent?
I mean, I I for for whatever is uh going on that's unhappy made you unhappy now, it's only gonna get worse if the uh 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 and the nature of government, rather, it grows and it intercedes, and it wants to take more and more control, the irregulation, and uh number of other things, as we all know.
So I I I mean, I I don't know uh well, we do have a great war that we're fighting here, but I may have 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 polyannish 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.
It's we we're in 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 uh 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.
Uh however, uh 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 are the kind of people that not only want power in government, they want power over as many citizens as possible.
Uh now, Joe's own business, his business is growing.
He's gone from two to fifteen employees.
And we have uh uh all kinds of uh great economic news to report.
I don't know how much Joe's attitudes 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 gonna 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 gonna try to change them in a in a wag my finger in your face business.
Well, mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Well, I I understand because there's the fear at the housing, the mortgage thing, and the and the oil price going up.
There's fear, but the reason for the fear is you have no control over it.
You know, it's 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 it's every day is a crapshoot.
You just use hope and pray, right?
You just hope and pray.
Uh same thing here.
I understand the oil business and so forth uh with and the and the and the uh subprime and the mortgage, the credit crunch.
Um those things happen, I I just rely on I'm fifty-six years old, I just rely on history, uh 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 sixties versus where it was in the 70s.
I mean, when all those gasoline lines, look at I was when I turned 16 and 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 twenty-five 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 we 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.
Uh stations opened two hours a day, they were open uh every other day, or or what have you.
I've been I mean we all have these these fears because you uh because you can't control them.
But these situations with with the right people in charge.
Look at look at Reagan got rid of the gas lines, Jimmy Carter didn't.
I mean, there's 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, uh just the idea of being able to take action to deal with it, uh, 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's 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.
A quick I don't mean to preach here, folks.
I'm just, and I don't mean to get on Joe, and I don't mean to get on the other guy.
I perhaps whining is not the I'm really talking about myself.
I just I just don't do well with people who complain.
I don't know what to say.
Well, I mean, no, I mean I mean to them.
When they're on the phone, I just I don't quiz I want we all want to be sympathetic when somebody's whining and complaining about somebody.
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 Linbaugh here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Nice to have you with us, 800 282-2882.
Since since I was expecting Joe from Allentown to talk about the Annapolis uh peace commerce, whatever it is, whatever they're calling it, uh, with his comparison to uh Bush to to Jimmy Carter, uh, which frankly is absurd in in frankly in virtually every that that's the first one.
I when I found 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 that frankly, that's when a red flag went up.
Uh I just it doesn't make any sense.
With if things were so bad during Carter economically, we had to have a misery index to measure it.
We did.
Inflation with double digits, interest rates were double digit, unemployment was double.
You you think we had a credit crunch, then try getting a mortgage at 14 to 15 percent and buy 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 anyway.
I hated the music in the 70s.
I didn't none of it would.
I mean, all this seals and crofts, willowy little wimpy stuff and uh stuff like that.
You can take that decade, boy, and I'm gonna just farm it out.
The only thing decent about the 70s was the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And they're in their four Super Bowl.
Well, and the Kansas City Royals, I worked there during the 70s.
Those are 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, 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, there are a lot of a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives think that this is just a waste of time, 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 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 uh uh, you know, foreign policy successes here to uh play off of.
Here's my problem with this, uh, and it's it's not what the president's 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.
Uh 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 the Fatah, I mean, really, they are in effect, they are in a civil war with 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 for 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 any part of it.
Now, Ralph Peters' brilliant point in the New York Post today was that 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 uh confusion or cleaning toilets?
Uh well, he's using that as a as as an illustration.
But the Limbaugh doctrine.
Do you remember the Limbaugh doctrine, folks?
Sure, what the limbo doctrine says?
What is this of 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, uh, 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 it.
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 flushing is Israel.
Yeah, well, the reason why you don't have clean drinking water, it's 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 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 uh break in the hostilities, which is what this is not designed to do.
This is designed to create a timeout and get them to stop.
But it's I mean, when the when the uh when the Saudis show up and say, I'm not shaking hands anybody.
Kind of tells you something.
I'm not gonna I'm not a picture of me shaking hands with uh uh the Israeli leader.
You're not gonna get to have my people back home see that.
I 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 gonna 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.
Uh you look at his picture, he looked bad.
He looks like he's beleaguered as he can be.
He's being dragged into this by a uh a huge ally.
At any rate, uh 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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