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July 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Thank you, Johnny Donovan, Jed Babbin sitting in for rush today.
He's at Tony Snow's funeral, and he'll be out again tomorrow.
Back Monday.
Jed Babbin sitting in for rush.
First, Rush, thank you very much for trusting me with the golden EIB microphone today.
We're going to make a very good use of it.
Lots going on.
We've got, first off, some breaking news, all sorts of things going on.
Let me first say my condolences to Tony Snow's family, his wife Jill, and his children.
I knew Tony a bit.
He was a gentleman, a wonderful correspondent, and just one of the good guys in Washington, D.C. We will all miss him.
And go to Rushlinbaugh.com, please take a look at maybe contributing to the Tony Snow Family Foundation.
All right.
More news than we can handle.
We're going to touch on a lot of things to Iran with love.
Are we sending diplomats over there?
First, we also have a couple of bits of news.
The Reverend Jackson, apparently his spiritual powers are much, much greater than we'd ever thought.
He's performed a resurrection.
And we have something that troubles me greatly about the way the hostages were rescued from the FARC narco-terrorists down in Columbia.
There's a little tidbit there that we ought to be thinking about, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's first go.
First go to the idea of what is Mr. Jackson's true spiritual power.
I think it is very, very profound.
We heard in the original recording of the well, the uh proposed dissection of parts of Barack Obama by uh by the Reverend Jackson, his supposed off-microphone comments a couple of weeks ago.
Bill O'Reilly revealed uh most of it to the world.
And it was pretty unkind, and it was, you know, just one of those things that you'd expect uh from one of those dusty old frauds like Mr. Jackson.
But there's more to it.
Apparently, apparently, he used the N-word, the N-word, which we will not use here, because in reference to that particular word, I believe it was the NAACP HR.
They held a particular funeral for it.
I think it was a jazz funeral down in New Orleans about a year ago, and they buried the N-word for good.
But now, but now the miraculous, the fabulous Reverend Jesse Jackson has resurrected it.
So I guess now we'll be hearing it a lot more.
Maybe back uh Chris Rock will be back with it.
I don't think Bill O'Reilly's going to say it, but and neither will we.
But you can expect to hear it again and again and again.
The power, the spiritual power of Jesse Jackson.
Not to be messed with, ladies and gentlemen, but there is something.
There is something a little more serious.
What are we talking about as well?
The rescue of the three Americans, uh former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.
Uh one of the things that has come out now, BBC News is reporting that one or more, one of the Betton Corps rescuers wore a Red Cross uniform.
Now, I've been in or around the military all my life.
I have studied the Geneva Conventions a lot.
This bothers me.
This is the kind of thing that will get people killed.
Now I'm all for deception.
I am all for pulling every trick in the book dealing with hostage takers like those narco-terrorists at FARC.
The real problem here is when you put on a Red Cross uniform, you are breaking the Geneva Conventions.
This is not something you can do, not you something you should do.
I know that our guys, I think it was probably a party of Green Berets, uh, and those guys are very, very good, and they are very, very serious.
They were down there training the Colombian rescuers.
But I don't believe, and I know in my heart of hearts, they would not have suggested this again because it's a violation.
It's a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
We shouldn't do this.
Some guy is going to shoot some Red Cross worker because of this, and that's not what we want to have done.
I'll tell you how I know that our Green Berets would not be doing this.
I was port fortunate to be invited a couple of years ago down to the graduation exercise at uh Fort Bragg at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, and a very good friend of mine, now a very good friend, writes for human events uh once in a while.
His name is Roger Carston's uh Green Beret major at the time.
And he took me around during the Robin Sage exercises, the graduation exercise, the Green Beret School.
And part of that exercise Is a lot of the teams, the little individual A teams, they get dropped into various places.
They have to make their way to a fake guerrilla camp and make friends with the gorillas and try to uh train them and initiate all that stuff.
And part of the exercise, part of the exercise, the gorillas who are play actors, mostly they're retired special forces guys themselves, and and quite frankly, having much too much fun.
They do things like, you know, one of the parties will be transported out to the area on mule back, and uh some of the older guys might do something like two or three in the morning, uh sneak up on them and stampede their mules.
But you know, the basic part is part of this exercise, and this is a very, very serious thing.
This is a make it or break it if you're going to make it an Army Special Forces.
Part of this is the guerrillas will fake and try to get the Green Beret trainees, they soon to graduate Green Berets involved in a war crime.
And it may be involved in shooting a captive, it may be all sorts of different things.
It might even be something like this.
Our guys would not train the Colombians to dress up in a Red Cross uniform, wear a Red Cross emblem.
It's just not the right thing to do.
Innocent people will get killed.
All right.
All right.
We're going to do an awful lot in this show.
Uh one of the things we're going to do is talk about next the fact that uh Rock Obama is going to be playing Baghdad pretty soon.
Later on in the show, we're going to be talking a lot also about offshore drilling.
Why are the Democrats just so adamantly opposed to doing the things that we frankly ought to have been doing for the past ten years?
We're going to be joined by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader in the United States Senate, and he's got some pretty good tough views on that, as well as on the fact that our dear friend, Harry Reid, the majority leader of the United States, Senator Democrat of Nevada, is bl breaking his word still on the confirmation of Federal judges.
So later we're going to have Senator McConnell on judicial nominations on offshore drilling.
But right now, and and leading up to the end of this segment, let's just start talking about this.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, 1-800 2082-2882.
I'm sorry, my uh glasses are just perfectly perfectly ranged, so I can't quite see the monitor.
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Uh let's talk about Rock Obama plays Baghdad.
This is the greatest media show, well, since the last Democratic convention.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a politically activist media in this country.
One of the things that we have to recognize is they're in about four stages.
They're in about four stages through this campaign.
The first stage was in the primary season, where they were kind of sort of showing both Hillary and Obama in a good light.
They didn't really want to select the between them because they like them both.
Now, you know, they had little shots in McCain during then.
I mean, they played a lot of games.
They put out false stories, for example, I don't know if you remember that associated press story that came out the day of the Iowa caucus, where they were saying that Fred Thompson planned to not win in Iowa and thereby drop out and endorse McCain.
Of course, it was false and was intended on trying to drive down the turnout for Fred Thompson in Iowa, probably succeeded.
Well, they did all that.
Now, okay, the selections have been made.
They're in stage two.
So what they want to do is start pumping up Obama.
Now, Obama, Rock Bama, is going to be playing his big concert at the Ivesco stadium on the night he accepts the Democratic nomination in August at the end of their convention.
And he's going to play to a crowd of 75,000, and I assume they're going to have smoke bombs and people flying through the air and and a lot of neon lights and a few rock bands.
But before that, he's got to play Baghdad.
So he's going over.
He's going over, and wouldn't you know it, just as a coincidence, I'm sure there's really no planning to this, but all three major network news anchors, Katie and Brian and Charlie, are all going to be on with him.
They're not only going to be on with him, they're going with him.
You know, when John McCain goes to Baghdad and sits down and meets seriously with David Petraeus, Rayo Dierno, our new commander over there, he is trying to learn things.
What is Obama doing?
The media is helping him stage campaign commercials here.
Think about this, ladies and gentlemen.
One of the things that's going on in our media today, I call them the 527 media because a lot of these guys act like 527 committees.
These guys can put together a very elaborate, very expensive, high production value, they call it in the trade.
Fancy graphics, good camera work, mixed sound, mixed music, all of these things.
They can put all that together every day for the evening news.
And they do.
And what they do in these cases is they make something that is going to be effectively a campaign commercial for Barack Obama, and they're going to play it as a news story.
And that's the real trick here.
That's the real thing you've got to be worried about and got to watch for.
These are not news stories, ladies and gentlemen.
These are campaign commercials.
So what are we going to see?
What are we going to see when Rock Obama goes to Baghdad?
We're going to see very serious conferences.
He's going to be pictured sitting and listening, nodding knowingly when Ray O'Dierno is trying to explain to him, for example, which end of the gun the bullet comes out of.
And when he goes and sits down with Zalma Khalilzad, well, he's not there anymore, but uh he's going to sit down with Moliki, I'm sure, and other people in other places.
What's going to happen?
All of these things are going to be pre-presented very, very well and very, very nicely in high production value stories.
I suspect that uh, you know, Katie Currick and so maybe Brian Williams, maybe Charlie Gibson.
They're gonna have to smoke a cigarette after filming these interviews.
It's going to be unbelievable, pandering to Barack Obama.
He's going to be handing out candy to kids.
We're going to see this night after night after night.
All right, more on this after our break.
Jed Babbin for Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882.
If you want to play today on the Rush Limbaugh Show, we'll be right back.
Welcome back, everybody.
Jed Babin subbing for Rush Limbaugh today on the EIB network.
We're talking right now about the grand entrance.
Rock Obama plays Baghdad.
Mr. Obama, San's wife, which is understandable.
I wouldn't take my wife over there either.
He's going to Israel, to Iraq, to Afghanistan, in what Asians France Press, I love saying that.
It just sounds like Inspector Cluseo.
Asians France Press is now billing as his audition as commander-in-chief.
It's not a serious thing, of course, to want to be the President of the United States, to want to be the commander-in-chief in time of war.
It's an audition.
So Katie Currick and Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams, all three network anchors, are going along on the trip.
They're going to be there to play the tape for us.
They're going to interview him seriously.
They're going to see Mr. Obama playing to the media on just an unbelievably callous way.
And you know, it's almost as much the media's fault as it is his.
Now, of course Obama wants this.
He wants to be on the network news.
He wants to prove himself serious on national defense because he has never been in his life, because he is still, even after the surge has worked for the past year, even after General Petraeus's strategy has managed to reduce violence and stabilize the country substantially in the past year.
Well, Mr. Obama still doesn't get it.
He still wants to cut and run in sixteen months.
Now, maybe, just maybe, in this tour, in this tour of the Middle East, while our friends Katie and Brian and Charlie are going to be asking him such fun, frivolous questions like, oh, how did you really think when that little Iraqi boy came up and took that candy bar from you?
This is the penetrating analysis we're going to get from these people all through this trip.
And what we're going to have, though, I think, is an opportunity.
There is a string of questions, a long string of questions that Mr. Obama maybe could be asked.
Don't forget, this is a guy who doesn't do very well when he's not reading from a teleprompter.
He is not very good on his feet.
Visa V that listen, well, we don't have the soundbite right now, but I remember very distinctly, the Pennsylvania primary debate, hosted by ABC News, Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopoulos, they were asking Obama some real questions, maybe for the first time.
Hillary had been beaten up quite a bit by then, so she came out and answered reasonably well.
What happened with Obama?
He fell apart.
He couldn't answer real questions.
And for three days after that, he was whining about how tough he'd been treated by ABC.
It was just terrible.
And I just wondered after that, if you can't stand up to little Georgie snuffle up against Mr. Obama, how you plan to take on Putin, Ahmadinejad, and some of these tough guys around the world?
Well, now we have the situation where he's going to go over there and maybe, just maybe, people could ask him some real questions.
How about maybe when he visits Israel?
He said conflicting things.
Well, it's not unusual for a liberal, but he said very conflicting things.
In one hand, he said, Well, Israel should have the presence of Jerusalem, possession of Jerusalem, not partitioned.
And then subsequently he said, Well, I kind of made a mistake there.
We ought to have the Palestinians have part of Jerusalem.
Well, which is it?
I mean, around which questions like that, I mean, that particular question, wars start.
Don't we want to have a presidential candidate who actually knows what the heck he's talking about on that?
Let's ask him.
Let's ask him.
I only wish we could do one of these mission impossible things.
You know, maybe I could swap faces with Charlie Gibson and they'd do a voice transplant for me, and I could kind of put Charlie on ice for a couple of days and I'd go in his place.
Maybe we'd have a couple of questions asked, like, Mr. Obama, when you cut and run from Iraq, what happens?
What happens if uh as most likely the Iranians come in and assert their influence over there, take over part of the country?
What are you going to do then?
What are you going to do to protect the Strait of Hormuz if the Iranians decide to close it?
What are you going to tell the Israelis?
Should they or should they not attack Iran's nuclear weapons programs?
And what are you going to do?
Are you going to negotiate with Iran without preconditions, as you've said before?
And how is that going to work?
What makes you think you're going to succeed, Mr. Obama?
Let me tell you one thing.
In the 29 years that that cacistocracy has ruled the nation of Iran, cacostocracy being a word I learned from Bill Buckley.
It means the government by all the worst people.
When this caucusocracy took over Iran, there has never been since then a successful negotiation with them.
No one, not the EU three, France, Britain, and Germany, in years of trying to negotiate with them about their nuclear weapons programs, in years of negotiations on a lot of other things.
Nobody, but nobody has ever successfully changed their course of behavior, the Iran regime's course of behavior, by the simple matter of negotiation.
So what do you believe, Mr. Obama, is your strategy?
Why do you think that you all of a sudden could succeed when no one else has been able to for three decades?
I'd like to know the answers to those questions.
I suspect you will too.
And I suspect also that we will hear none of those questions asked because the 527 media, the politically active media, ABC, CBS, and NBC among them, they are in stage two of the campaign, as I said.
Now they're trying to build up Barack Obama's credentials.
Stage three is going to be at the conventions, where you're going to see the media play along as they did in 2004 in trying to hide the craziness that goes on at the Democratic Convention.
You remember in 2000, when the gay, lesbian, transgender whatevers were screaming and shouting down the Boy Scouts.
We didn't see any of that in 2004.
For the simple reason was that the media was complicit in allowing the Democrats to hide it.
They're going to do that again.
And they're going to do the opposite, of course, of the Republican convention.
And then we're going to see all of the bad stuff come out.
Well, we're going to see an awful lot of things after that, too, throughout the balance of the campaign.
And we're going to see an awful lot of people, an awful lot of people shaking their heads and wondering, why can't these guys ask a good question?
Well, maybe the liberals don't want to ask a good question.
All right, Jed Babin for Rush Limba on the EIB Radio Network.
We're going to take a break in just a minute and come right back to your calls at 800-282-2882.
We're talking about Rock Bama, how Rock Obama is going to play Baghdad and play Kabul and play Jerusalem.
It seems to me that he's going to have a very easy time.
If, if, if the media let him do that, and how long?
How long are the media going to allow him to get away with not answering tough questions?
And how much?
How much is Mr. Obama going to simply try to use our troops as stage props in this election?
I think it's going to go all the way, ladies and gentlemen.
What do you think?
800 282-282.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh.
I am really pleased to be here today.
It is a great, great privilege to be sitting behind the golden EIB microphone.
Let's have a conversation.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh will be right back.
Welcome back, everybody.
Jed Babin sitting in for Rush Limbaugh today, the Rush Limbaugh Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We're talking about our buddy, Rock Bama going to the Middle East and just touring, putting up a big Rock Bama tour, thanks to ABC, CBS, and NBC News anchors.
They're going all along with them.
They're going to play the game, play the story, actually film the story for you and for history.
They're going to be making campaign commercials every night for Barack Obama and passing them off as news stories.
All right, 800-282-2882.
Let's go to the phones.
Ed in North Fort Lauderdale, our Fort Lauderdale.
Welcome to the show.
Hey, how are you doing, Jed?
I'm doing great.
Listen, uh, the hypocrisy of these Democrats is unbelievable to me.
When President George W. Bush or Colonel Alan West, who's running for Congress down here, John McCain, uh go over and they talk to our troops as people who have actually served or are commander in chief, uh, the Democrats constantly scream that they're being used as a backdrop.
Now that is exactly what Barack Obama is doing over there.
He's already laid out his plan.
So basically, he's going over there to use them as a backdrop.
Well, of course, but it's more than that.
He's using them as a campaign device.
You know, he's using this whole Middle East crisis, the war that we're in.
You know, literally, he has to go.
I mean, he he must go over there and at least attempt to learn something.
I mean, Mr. Obama is profoundly ignorant of it.
But, you know, we're gonna have to see.
He's gonna go in, he's gonna meet, I'm sure, with General Petraeus and General Odierno, he's gonna meet with Prime Minister Maliki, I'm sure he'll meet with uh President Karzai when he's in Afghanistan.
Those things, you know, he has to basically do.
The real issue is going to be whether anybody asks him some good questions over there.
Jed, you know what worries me though?
He's also, I'm sure, going to there's gonna be clips of him with some Iraqi family that the United States military bombed their house accidentally, or he's gonna go to Palestine and talk to some uh Palestinians who were who were bombed by the Israelis.
I'm sure we're gonna see all of that nonsense.
I think we're gonna see some of that, but I don't think we're gonna see all of that.
You know, one of the things that Barack Obama is doing is is treading around on thin ice, and he knows that.
The guy has no resume, no experience, no education, no training.
He is clearly unprepared to be commander-in-chief.
Now, if he went over there and did as you suggested and went to some Palestinians uh homes that might have been shot up by the Israelis in a in a counterattack or something like that, that would blow back against him very, very big time.
But what he will do, he will do, he'll go out there and he'll be filmed handing out candy to kids.
He'll be handing out a lot of platitudes to the government leaders out there, and he's gonna be walking around, I'm sure he'll put on some body armor and a helmet, and he'll look, you know, semi-serious, and he'll be having his picture taken with with Ray O'Dierno and Dave Petraeus.
And you know, it's gonna be a question of what he says.
Is he going to say things that are going to be taken seriously?
I doubt it.
Well, actually, they may be taken seriously, mistakenly so.
I uh I just hope that he has his Michael DeCaucus moment, and I hope that Then I see skating on breaks.
Well, here you go.
Hey, thanks very much for the call.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, the Rush Limbaugh Show, 800-282-2882.
You know, that's really the issue here.
What's going to happen when Barack Obama goes over there?
How broadly, how blatantly is he going to play this?
I think if we can take the examples from what we've seen so far from the networks, it's going to play very big time.
Very big time because they're going to shut off pretty much all the other news.
You know, Mr. McCain, at this point, God love him, can't even buy a headline.
But at that point, you're going to see, you're going to see Mr. Obama dominating the news like nothing else does.
If he goes over there At the time when President Bush is going over to Beijing to be in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, you know, that'll even drown out the Olympic opening ceremonies.
Obama is a rock star.
It is an audition for commander in chief.
He's trying to be serious, or he's going to try to at least give the appearance of being serious, and he's going to try, the media are going to try very hard to work him into a position where he appears serious, where he appears to have the gravitas to be commander in chief.
The object of this A exercise, ladies and gentlemen, is to get you to trust this guy, Barack Obama, more than you trust John McCain with respect to the Iraq war.
Now all of the things that are going to be shown, all of the things that are going to be staged, all of the things you will see on the three networks and frankly on the cover of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and all these other folks, this is going to be the biggest show for Barack Obama.
This is his chance to drown out John McCain and the media is going to be working overtime to try to make that work for him.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, let's talk to Michael in Champaign, Illinois.
Welcome to the show.
Sir, I wanted to answer your question that you had posed just a little while ago concerning if Obama has the opportunity to talk to the Iranians, he would have an advantage based on the fact that the Iranian, for instance, the Iranian students in the late'70s look at the black hostages at the time, buddy, as people that were closer to them as far as being oppressed by the white man, the capitalist white man.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Michael, where do you get that from?
Where do you g I've talked to some of the hostages of you?
They were not no one is treated any differently.
They were all Americans.
They were treated the same very harsh way.
And there was no distinction between them.
The only distinction was there were a couple of women amongst the hostages, and they were given some lesser rough treatment than the men were I I would ask you to read uh the book called um guests of the Ayatollah.
Um and if you look at the historical record, you will find that the uh black hostages at the time were that's Michael, I don't know who wrote that.
In any case, in any case, maybe Obama cannot uh verbalize what he is thinking, but he would have an advantage.
So you think you think we're better off having a black president deal with the Iranians, for example, than uh than a white president?
How does that figure?
Why do you think that's the thing?
I feel we're gonna be able to do that.
You're in a bad cell, Michael.
To answer your question, I do believe that Obama would have a heads up on anybody that was not of color when speaking to these people.
Because that's how they view the minority in this country.
Well, I think that is absolutely wrong, Michael, and you've got to go back and read what's happened with the Iranian regime for thirty years.
They are not, you know, if if the Iranians, God forbid, had a nuclear weapon and and took us on at some point, they're not going to try to distinguish between Americans.
That is absolutely wrong.
These people do not see people as people of color or people of non uh or white people.
You know, the basic point here is the Iranians see us as non-believers.
We're all infidels in their eyes.
They don't care what color they we are, which, you know, whether you're yellow or red or black or white, it doesn't matter.
We're Americans.
We're the great Satan.
This issue is manipulated.
When they release hostages at different times and different levels, it's like when that old fraud Jesse Jackson, we were talking about him before.
He'd go out and and negotiate some hostages released somewhere.
You know, that was something that was done for political purposes.
It's not because one is a a a white American or a black American.
You don't get it, Michael.
The fact is these people are our devoted and avowed enemies.
We have been at war with them, or actually they've been at war with us since they took the embassy in nineteen seventy-nine.
The real issue is we have not I'm not saying we need to return the favor in a very direct way, but the fact is we have not taken them as seriously as possible.
Michael, thanks for the call, but I just don't think anybody could seriously believe that we have people in Iran who want us to elect a black president because then they're gonna be reasonable to us.
We're the great Satan.
It doesn't matter who our president is, they still are our adversary.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882 Dale in Las Vegas.
Welcome to the show.
Hi, I was just listening and uh I was thinking there was a while back when Obama made Hillary look bad, and she had a very strong angle going, being a woman and the first serious woman candidate.
He has Obama has such charisma.
I don't think anything he does on this tour, no matter how bad it is, is going to steal the hold he has over the American public.
It's incredible the amount of appeal this man has.
Well, the charisma gap, if you want to call it that.
I mean, clearly Mr. McCain is not a warm, fuzzy guy.
He does not attract followers.
He has supporters.
You know, that's the difference between McCain and Obama.
McCain's supporters believe in him politically.
Obama's supporters follow him as if it were a cult.
And that's a very big charisma gap.
You're right.
I mean, I've met charismatic characters in my life, and they have a different effect on people.
Mr. McCain has to break through that.
And you know, he wants to run this Marquis of Queensbury rules campaign.
Mr. McCain does really well when he takes Obama on.
And Obama dodges him every chance he gets.
Well, sure, because Obama can't stand a debate.
This is a guy, like I said before, this is a guy who does really, really well reading from a teleprompter, with a rock band behind him and an adoring crowd in front of him.
This is where he shines.
But the point of the matter is if he gets into a debate, if he even gets asked serious questions, not abrasive questions, not tough questions, but just serious questions.
He falls apart.
He's not good on his feet.
For a guy who was the head of the Harvard Law Review, he doesn't seem very good in a debate.
I'm looking forward to having some debates in this campaign.
Debates that are going to be serious, debates that are going to be hosted by serious people.
I'm very hopeful that Mr. McCain is not going to agree to anything like the the CNN boob tube debates.
I mean, we don't need plastic snowmen asking questions of presidential candidates.
What we need, what we need is some serious people asking serious, tough questions.
And maybe that would uh exclude Keith Olberman and Chris uh Matthews.
Yeah.
You know, I don't think we want to have somebody who's who's distracted in a debate, and he can't ask a good question because he's got a tingling feeling running up and down his leg.
That's so true.
Very good.
Well, thanks.
I wanted to ask you one other thing.
Okay, real quick.
Okay.
McCain was at the La Raza uh convention.
Yep.
So was Obama.
Yeah, he took the very serious question, and he held his ground very well about the borders need to be secured.
Yes, he did, and he did very well with that.
I'd like to hear him flesh it out, though.
Mr. McCain has said that he's learned the lesson from last year's Bush McCain Kennedy immigration disaster, and he now believes that the border should be secured first.
I really would love to hear him say just how he plans to do that.
Hey, Dale, great call.
Thanks for it.
I think we've got to go to another one of those break things.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back, everybody.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882.
A little breaking news we need to bring to you right now.
Uh judge has just ruled that one of the very first trials, I think it is the first trial, to go ahead at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the terrorist detention center, will proceed next week.
Hamdan, one of the first to be brought up on trial.
This is a guy who's been in the litigation business for the past three or four years.
A Supreme Court case with his name on it came out, I believe, in two thousand and six, and this is one of the continuing Supreme Court cases that has kept everything pretty much up in the air at Guantanamo Bay.
A judge has just ruled, despite the uh Boomedien case that uh gave the right of habeas corpus to detention uh prisoners down at Gitmo a couple of weeks ago, that this trial can go forward next week.
This guy was Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard.
He is charged with war crimes.
He will be tried.
He probably will be convicted, and he may well be sentenced to death.
This is a great step in the right direction.
When you look at what's going on down there, I've been there.
I've talked to a lot of the people down there, many of the interrogators.
I talked to the base commander.
I saw some of the interrogations going on.
I went from STEM to Stern in that place, and I saw.
I saw what was going on.
It made me proud, not ashamed.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing all these people like this uh this coder, one of the other detainees down there, the tape that was released a little while ago of him whining and crying about how he's being badly mistreated.
I saw some uh blog on the Wall Street Journal today, some lawyer who's been representing a lot of these guys, uh doing uh basically dropping his trousers in a press conference to show how it's just so undignified for these poor Muslim guys to be strip searched down at Gitmo.
You know, I'm really pretty tired of this.
We have a very serious war going on.
These people are entitled to humane treatment, which they are receiving.
And you know what?
Let's get on with these trials.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882.
Let's go to uh Tony in Moline, Illinois.
Welcome to the show.
Uh, thank you for taking my call.
I know you're making comments regarding Iran.
I just wanted to make sure that you do indicate that there was one thirty-six of Iranians were basically massacred by this government itself.
They massacred their own people.
Yes, uh, Tony, that's a very good point.
Look, the the this government, and I call it uh one advisedly, it's really just a regime that has seized control and oppressed the nation of Iran.
Iran is not naturally the enemy of the United States.
Iran was an ally for decades.
And it could be again.
It very well could be again if we did not have to deal with this radical theological radical Islamist regime there.
I I agree.
Look, the the Iranians, uh again, they could be our allies, but this regime, this regime is the central terrorist sponsor in the world.
We cannot win this war without winning it against them.
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh got to take a quick break and be right back to you.
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All right, break break, break break.
Let's switch subjects.
I don't know what you paid the last time you bought gas.
It cost me about four dollars and thirty-seven cents a gallon to fuel my high test Mustang the other day, and it really didn't make me very happy to see that the Democrats are doing absolutely everything they can to not increase the supply of oil coming to America.
It seems it seems that Harry Reid, hapless Harry, the Senate majority leader, really fervently believes that we shouldn't drill offshore, that we really should not have an increase in the supply of oil.
And you know why?
He believes, and and these are his words.
I'm gonna read to you in just a second.
Harry Reid apparently believes that there's no increase in the demand for oil in the world market.
We're gonna have Senator Mitch McConnell on right after the top of the hour to talk about that in judicial nominations, but let's talk right now, Harry Reed.
Yesterday, 16 July 2008, on the Senate floor, 1007 AM.
Mr. Reed says, quote, what has happened to supply and demand that justifies doubling the price of oil in one year?
The answer is nothing that has happened to supply and demand in the last year.
What has happened is this unbelievable rush of new money into these futures markets through speculators.
End quote.
Okay, it's all the speculators' fault.
I don't think so.
1014 A.M. What has happened in the last 12 to 14 months that has justified the doubling of oil?
Demand up?
That is not the case.
Well, Mr. Reed, I beg to differ.
Let's look at the New Hampshire Union leader yesterday.
Uh inner G information coming out, according to the International Herald Tribune.
Chinese oil demand just by itself went up six point two percent in one month.
They're the second largest consumer of oil.
Chinese demand for crude up eighteen percent over two thousand and seven.
It's supply and demand, Mr. Reed.
Why don't you get that?
Jed Babin for Rush Limbaugh, we've got to take another break.
We're gonna come back with Senator Mitch McConnell, the ri minority leader in the United States Senator, one of these guys who really is fighting to bring down the cost of oil.
If we don't bring down the cost of oil, ladies and gentlemen, everybody in Congress who has not worked hard to do that, maybe they ought to be thrown out this year.
Jed Babin for Rush, stick with us.
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