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Aug. 12, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And I'll tell you something else about the Olympics.
I forgot to mention this.
When I was going through the whole business about how the whole thing's been chicken, what with all these stories of strife and turmoil.
Every athlete for crying out loud, it's probably taken him three years to do all these profiles on these athletes and all the horrible things they've had to overcome, every one of them.
There's something else about these games that's different in the past than the past, and that the chicken of all this, I am convinced, ladies and gentlemen, that they've got a bunch of female directors and camera people now at NBC because during the uh the uh events featuring female competitors, we're not getting the same camera angles that we used to always get.
We're getting boring, uninteresting camera angles, and when there is an interesting shot that you might say, ooh, they pull away from it or they widen the shot or whatever, they take it away from you.
And but who who I mean, who really wants to watch, you know, female on female competition?
I mean, it's the only exception to this is uh the uh the beach volleyball where the competitors are out there barely dressed.
There's nothing to chick directors, they probably don't even put the chick directors on that event.
Otherwise, there would be camera problems, and we wouldn't see it at all.
Greetings, welcome back, Rushland Ball, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to uh 26% greater risk of death in men and women, according to a study published yesterday that appears to confirm the importance of vitamin D. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore studied 13,000
initially healthy men and women from 94 to 2000, comparing the mortality rate, and they found that uh of the 1,800 people who died by December 31st, 2000, 700 from cardiovascular disease, 400 were deficient in vitamin D, which translated to a 26% increased risk of death.
Now, do you happen to know what one of the primary sources of vitamin D is?
Milk.
Yeah, milk, but I mean that's for kids.
What is the pri there's there's the the the there's a more primary source for vitamin D than even milk, Mr. Sturdley.
Don, do you know what it is?
Jim, you know what it is?
It's the sun.
The sun is the greatest source of vitamin D in the world.
And what does everybody do now?
They either stay out of it or they lather on all this sunscreen to protect them because the sun can kill you.
The sun can cause cancer, the sun can cause this and get sunburned, it's dangerous.
I don't deny that if you're in it too long and doing stupid things, but if you eliminate it totally, you're eliminating vitamin D. And if you're not getting it in supplements somewhere.
So once again, the unintended consequences that drive-by's have been scaring us out of the sun, or we might die.
And now there's a 26% greater chance of death due to vitamin D deficiency.
To the audio sound bites.
We're gonna go back here to March 22nd, 2007.
This was uh MSNBC after the announcement by John and Elizabeth Edwards that her cancer had returned and that it was incurable.
Senator Edwards said in that press conference he was going to continue his presidential campaign, and that his uh wife and the children would join him as often as possible.
Now there had been a leak.
An hour before the press conference, Politico got some bad news saying the Edwards camp was gonna fold up because of his wife's cancer.
Turned out to be just the opposite, and Howard Feynman was among those analyzing the Edwards press conference on DNC TV.
Looked at politically, diagnosed, if you will, politically, that was a 10-strike of a press conference.
They showed guts, was nothing short of remarkable and somewhat unexpected, and it's always great when something unexpected happens around here.
So the leak was wrong, and that everybody was praising Edwards.
What great politics this was.
What a great show this was.
What a great press conference this was.
This is gonna launch new fundraising.
This is gonna launch his press.
We had just been told his wife's got incurable cancer, and they're analyzing this.
And these are the people of compassion and tolerance and understanding and love.
And they're telling us that this is so great from the prism of politics.
Now, March 22nd, March 23rd, next day, 2007, on my show.
After the announcement of an Elizabeth Edwards cancer, this is what I said.
Now let me say something that might be accused of cynicism.
What is their religion?
I don't doubt their religious people, but we talked about this.
Yeah, political people are different than you and I. And, you know, most people, when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turned to God.
The Edwards turned to the campaign.
Their religion's politics and the quest for the White House.
And that's it's not just with them.
I mean, it's part and parcel of political people.
Well, same day, the drive by media gave me legions of heat for this.
And we have a montage here.
We've got uh, let's see, we got DNC TV, we got Larry King Live, uh April Woodard, Nord O'Donnell, Stephanie, all kinds of people here talking about what you just heard me say.
Controversy over what Rush Limbaugh said about brave Elizabeth.
Most people, when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turned to God.
The Edwards turned to the campaign.
That's radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh criticizing the decision.
Rush Limbaugh has been saying on his radio program that this is an effort by the Edwards campaign to relaunch his campaign.
To me, Larry, this is beyond the pale.
When a Rush Limbaugh says he's doing this as a political stunt.
Did Rush say that?
Yes, Rush did say that.
Well, who was right?
Who turns out, as is always the case, who turned out to be right.
The whole thing was a stunt because he was having a fair.
And his wife probably knew about it.
And then, you know, by the way, my my my wife's cancer was in remission when I started.
Oh, really?
Is it that that makes it okay or better somehow?
I remember I told people around here when this inquirer story, I don't think I mentioned this on the air, but I'm gonna go ahead and mention it now.
I wish I had mentioned it on the air.
When the inquirer story on the Bret girl's philandering came out, I said, you know what this is gonna be?
You know what the explanation's gonna be?
He's gonna say he was out doing research to find out just how and how you can't have sex with a wife who's got cancer and so forth.
She was he was doing it for her, doing it for Elizabeth.
And damned if he didn't get pretty close to saying that she was it's just these people.
What is it about these libs?
Everything is looked at through a political prism.
They are calculating, and of course the drive-by's trying to hide this was perhaps an even bigger story than the uh than the Brett girl himself getting involved.
By the way, uh I mentioned to you on Friday before I got out of here that uh I had a little bit of a head start on this Atlantic monthly story that hit yesterday on these internal memos and emails in the Clinton campaign, and this is really good.
What has come out of this, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is this.
There were two camps inside the Hillary campaign.
There was the Mark Penn, Bill Clinton side, and then there was the other side.
I forget who the people were, but they were going at it in there all the time.
And going into Iowa and coming out of Iowa, Mark Penn and Clinton wanted to just go after Obama.
They wanted to go negative on Obama.
And the other side said, no, no, no, we can't go negative on Obama.
He's who he is.
We we've we've we've got to build Hillary up.
And Penn and Bill said that's a lost cause.
We got to go after Obama.
And Penn said something very cryptic.
We've got to use the tapes.
And everybody said, What tapes?
What the hell tapes is he talking about?
And everybody's been running around trying to find out what the tapes were.
Well, it turns out that the tapes were heard by uh people at the Washington Times.
And among the things I'm looking Yeah, yep, here we go.
Is this it?
Yes.
Here it is.
The Washington Times on um January 31st of 2008.
Barack Obama, the senatorial candidate of 2004, might have a bone to pick with Barack Obama, the presidential candidate of 2008.
Videotapes of debates and speeches that were obtained by the Washington Times show Mr. Obama took positions during his Senate campaign on nearly a half dozen issues ranging from the Cuba embargo to health care for illegal immigrants that conflict with statements he has made during his run for the White House.
For instance, in MSNBC's October 30th presidential debate, Obama hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democrat rivals to declare that he opposed decriminalizing marijuana.
But as a U.S. Senate candidate, Obama told Illinois college students in January of 2004 that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use or possession.
He said in this video, I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.
This is during a debate at Northwestern, but I am not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana.
So apparently had a bunch of tapes in the Clinton campaign of Obama contradicting himself as a presidential candidate versus a Senate candidate and some things he had said while a street activist in uh in Chicago.
And apparently somebody did get the tapes out to the Washington Times.
And I do know, I do know, I can tell you this, that the Clinton campaign was trying to get conservative media outlets to use various things they had on Obama.
They were afraid to do it themselves for the obvious reasons.
I mean, they were out there peddling the Jeremiah Wright stuff for a long time.
They were.
They just didn't want to use it themselves.
And they were peddling these tapes.
And we can see from these internal memos that Mark Penn and Clinton wanted to release the tapes and other people didn't, so they they did a surreptitious release to the Washington Times that hardly anybody noticed because the Times is a newspaper can't play the tapes, other than on their uh on their website.
So anyway, it it it it showed that that uh after after Iowa, there was a total breakdown in the Clinton campaign as to how to go forward and how to handle it.
And in one instance, Hillary is having a meeting with one of her two staffs, and she's shouting and moaning and nobody saying anything.
And she blows up at that.
So, okay, well, I guess it's really good.
I can sit here and talk to myself all day, huh?
Well, what do you think Hillary?
You had a bunch of yes men in there.
All they did was do what you wanted them to do.
I mean, she's running the show, but they haven't given up on the nomination.
They have not given up.
They uh would love nothing more than for the Democrat convention to become a war zone.
Anyway, quick timeout here, my friends will be back.
Lots more straight ahead, plus your phone calls after this.
Yeah, this is so great.
This is so fabulous.
This what's this from?
This is from the National Journal.
Americans uh uh recent uh coverage global warming a little according to a survey.
Forty per 47% of Americans consider global warming an important issue to them personally, down from 52% in 2007.
The numbers are plummeting is the point on the number of people who think global warming is a pressing issue that matters.
And from Rasmussen, voters overwhelmingly believe that politicians will break the rules to help people who give them a lot of money, but most say there's a bigger problem in politics today, and that is media bias, media bias, according to 55% of the American people is a bigger problem than campaign cash.
And they wonder, they wonder why they're losing audience and subscribers and ad revenue and pages.
And they wonder.
Back to the phones, Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
This is James.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Is he uh is he gone?
That James, you there?
Oh, darn.
He wanted to talk about Edwards and who knew and what were the motivations.
And I've got a theory about the motivations.
Well, I don't know that I can I don't know that I can put this one on the air.
Why not?
Well, it's it's I mean, at some point, at some point you gotta exhibit maturity and restraint.
You know, and I do that constantly.
What would be the motivation?
Well, I don't know.
Look, let me see if I can run you through this and get you to think what I'm thinking without my actually saying it.
That might be a pretty big talent if I could do that.
Make you think what I'm gonna say without my having to say it.
Therefore, if anybody gets in trouble for saying it, you say it.
We know.
We've been told that Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards.
That's part of the puff pieces on them that we've seen.
Ergo.
If j if if if Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards, is it likely that she thinks she knows better than he does what his speeches ought to contain?
And what kind of things he ought to be doing strategy-wise in the campaign.
If she is smarter than he is, could it have been her decision to keep going with the campaign?
In other words, could it be that she doesn't shut up?
Now that's as far as I'm going to go.
I'm missing something.
Well, Snerdley says he's missing something.
If you're missing it, you're going to have to provide it.
What are you what are you missing?
I can't close the loop on it.
I can't, I can't close the loop on it.
I'm on, you know, I'm in a little quicksand already today talking about how the chicks are giving us boring pictures of the female athletes from the Olympics.
Because I know, you know, the diversity crowd is going to be upset.
Are they going to, who do you...
You think the Olympics are just so you guys can ogle women?
Yes, because we do not care to watch them compete.
Um but back to Elizabeth and and and uh and the Brett Girl.
I'm sorry, my friends, I just I can't.
It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman.
Yeah.
Whose mouth did something other than talk?
All right, here's uh Sandy on I-35 in Dallas.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, brush, Megadetto.
Thank you.
Actually, I'm coming from Greater Tishamingo, Oklahoma, just south of the Red River.
I wanted to tell you that uh Rune Arledge doesn't do the Olympics anymore, so that's why you're not getting any great female shots, but you probably know that.
Uh who doesn't do the Olympics anymore?
Rune Arledge.
Rue Narland, yes.
Exactly, exactly right.
Rune Arlids does well, but Rune Arledge hasn't done the Olympics uh in a long time.
And I remember the NBC Olympics uh back at where were they, Greece?
Yeah.
Yeah, there was there were there were a lot, there's a lot more to look at then than there is this year, I guarantee you.
Right.
But also uh that's why you're not getting the great female shots when back when Rune used to do all the sports.
Yeah, that's no question about that.
But also, where's all the boxing promotion?
What happened to the great boxing promotion we used to have?
What do you mean boxing?
No boxing promotion.
If we're are we gonna see any boxing this summer?
Uh you mean at the Olympics?
Yeah.
Well, what do you mean boxing promotion?
You mean advertising it it's coming up?
You we're not we're not even seeing the boxing matches, is that what you're saying?
Yeah, but we you know, used to when when you when the summer Olympics were coming on, we saw boxing promotion right and left with uh through the years with the.
What are you big?
Are you you're a big boxing fan?
Yes, I am.
I uh said uh the Friday night cavalcade of sports with my dad on a little pink radio back when saw the George Foreman and uh Yeah, this is this is cool.
Yeah.
This is this is really cool.
Yeah.
Well, um this thing rather I look at you know, you can see boxing, but you have to well, I've I've been checking out all of their various channels, and they've got a uh on at least I have direct TV, and they've got a high definition channel, uh, NBC Universal, which is Channel 74 on Direct TV, and that's where a lot of the boxing has been.
It hasn't been on NBC, and they're putting the really I mean the dinky stuff on MSNBC.
Uh, he might be reruns, I'm I'm not sure.
But I did read uh in the New York Post today that uh one of our great hopes from the Bronx uh had his clock clean 20 to 5 and like the first Round or two.
Just a little paragraph.
There may not be much of a story to tell out there, Sandy.
And I have to run because we're out of busy broadcast time for this segment.
Back after this.
Ah, yes, Wilson Pickett in the midnight hour.
Mustang Sally.
Okay, we're back.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, uh my my theory that I just explained to you uh about why, you know, what what could have uh John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Riley Hunter uh given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that um did something with her mouth other than talk.
I think I can back this up from her.
We have a soundbite.
This is February 2007, she was on the tabloid show extra.
And this is what she said.
Listen very carefully.
The whole experience was life altering for me.
One of the great things about John Edwards is that he's so open and willing to try new things and do things in new ways.
Open to new things.
Folks, it is what it is.
He gets mad at me for bringing the truth to you, but it is what it is.
Here's uh George in Fair Oaks, California.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, sir.
Uh good morning, Rush.
Well, I guess it's the afternoon where you at.
Yes.
And thank you.
I was waiting for a long time and uh soaked up all that free vitamin D. I almost got sunburned.
I'm glad you got a sense of humor, George.
But I like to comment on this uh and uh all this uh Georgia problems.
I think uh this Georgian president could not have chosen a worse time to to do what he did to evade these.
What did he do?
Well, he invaded uh autonomous territories militarily.
And uh I compare there I'm a Serb and I look at this Wait now wait I I really want to learn here because you now are the second, you know, the third caller who has uh bl and and you're I know you're Russian, right?
No, no.
I'm a Serb.
You're a Serb, okay.
So you're s but but you're the third caller to blame this on Georgia and Shashvili.
Yeah, Gashvili, yeah.
And yeah, Shashvili.
And well.
This is i it's going against everything that I've heard here.
I w what what what what did what did Shahvili do to uh provoke the Russians?
This is have to do with South Ossetia.
Well, of course, because he attacked uh a province.
And he used the Olympics to do that because he was thinking that Russia, because Putin there and uh our president is there, there wouldn't be any retaliation.
And that's stupidity on his part.
He knows that Russians will never they don't care what's happening in the world, where the world is gonna think about harmony and sports or anything, they're gonna protect their territory.
And they feel it's their territory because it is settled by ethnic Russians or Athitians or whatever they are.
And if they had that autonomy, then why did they have to invade them?
They'll leave you within the state.
But South South South Sessia has been a uh for years they have been uh uh disunified or deunified if I can say this with with Russia.
I mean, I with Georgia, this is this is th I don't know what what what did Shashvili do that he hasn't been doing that hasn't been going on for years that prompted this.
I I'm I'm really stunned at the number of people that want to try to to say that the the Russians had every right to go in and do what they did and that we were meddling and that Josh Vili was meddling and he finally got what he deserved.
That's that's that's well Jukashwili, our influence is really great in Georgia.
And you know, our American influence.
And what this guy's doing, pulling a card right now, he wants to assert himself as a leader, pro-westerner, uh somebody who wants to be part of the European Union, and he used this part to have the uproar of the whole world against the Russians for for the actions that he took.
And I think he is like a prostitute looking for a better John.
And now how to get a better John is to get John's piss part of my language uh tipped off at each other, let them duke it out, and I'll start I'll just stand in the back.
And that was a mistake on his part.
He'll backfire on him, you'll see.
I'll tell take this under advisement.
None of what I have read Has proffered this theory.
But yet you are the uh you are the second, third caller today, which has essentially said that uh the Russians had no choice, that they were simply defending themselves.
So our first caller referred to Shakeshvili as a sack of excrement.
You have referred to him as a prostitute looking for a better John.
Well, you know, you're making this guy sound like a Democrat.
Yeah, well, uh, thank you.
I'm uh I'm a right wing uh military right wing, as a fair fair.
I don't align myself with anybody.
But I'm looking at the Serbia and Kosovo, and we bombed their infrastructure to uh Stone Age, and for what?
Another autonomous province, which is actually Serbian territory, which was occupy occupation by population.
Same thing that's happening in our country right here.
We are being occupied, occupation by population, foreigners come again illegally, and more and more amusing our you know services, same thing happened over there, and Serbs got clubbered.
Yeah, but now there was a religious component there.
Well religious component was uh overblown by the media, associated press and for misinformation, I should say, because never, as you know yourself, what kind of writing goes on in newspapers who have a payment.
That's right.
I can't I can't disagree with you on that.
We've uh we've we've called attention to that um on uh previous occasion.
Well, look, thanks, George.
Uh I appreciate it very much.
I'm glad you waited.
And we go to Aston, Pennsylvania.
This is David, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Bomba do do do.
David in Ashton, Pennsylvania, are you there?
Yes, Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much.
Good.
Thank you very much.
Listen, uh, this kind of has to do with Obama and the Georgian conflict and all these things.
My question was if we were on his energy plan of we're not allowed to drill for oil, we can't do anything at all.
So how would we ever wage a military campaign against Russia?
Would we be having like destroyers running on sunflower oil and you know I mean how can he do that?
You missed the point that we wouldn't need uh to wage military campaigns because with Obama there wouldn't be any more.
He would talk everybody out of them.
Like he's according to Tim Kane, the governor of Virginia, Obama's the one who got the ceasefire in Georgia and South Ossetia because he asked the Russians to stop it, and and uh Tim Kane said they he's happy that the Russians listen to Obama, so I mean that's what the Obama camp is saying.
Oh, well, of course.
I mean, do you understand where do you understand where I'm coming from?
I mean, I mean, how can he possibly fake this?
I mean, he's called the audacity.
It's called the audacity of audacity.
And uh what it is is Tim Kane who's trying to be selected as uh Obama's V just groveling.
But no, you're your qu your rhetorical question is is right on the money.
If we're not gonna have our own independent sources of energy, how in the world are we going to maintain our status as a superpower?
See, this is the problem.
I you know, we've we've we've been in a jocular mood for much of the day today, but I'll tell you, I made a speech last night in Aspen, Colorado, is why I was not here yesterday, and it it uh had to fly out there in the afternoon to get there in time for the speech, and I spoke about what we face here.
We we there there's a there's a war going on in our country for the definition of our country and its structure in the future.
And uh on one side of the war is us, and we want to preserve this nation as it was founded.
On the other side are people like Obama and the leftists who don't like this country as it was founded.
They have a problem with too much individual liberty and freedom.
They want bigger governments, uh, higher taxes, and more individual control over as much of the way people live as they can get.
And it's very, very serious.
And our legislators on our side, we do not have any elected leadership in Washington.
Our legislators do not understand that we're in a war.
They have a like the this this gang of ten thing that happened last week.
The Republican senators in that deal do not understand how they just almost took away the one winning issue Senator McCain has and that we have over the Democrats.
Because they believe, mistakenly so, that what the American people want is for Republicans and Democrats to get along.
And as I told Senator Chandless last week, that's not what the American people want.
What what the Republicans, what conservatives in this country want, Is to mop the floor with Democrats.
We are tired of accepting their premises and then going along with them to show that somehow we're not the bad guys.
We are the good guys, and we just don't have any elected leadership.
So this is going to be it's going to be a grassroots series of grassroots operations that build conservatism back.
For example, this is this is not a big deal, but it was announced today that uh three Republicans have decided to endorse Obama.
They are former Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, former Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, and prominent lawyer and former White House intelligence advisor, Rita Hauser.
Now Obama's out there, and the Democrats are saying, whoo, wow, we got three Republicans endorsing Obama.
But come on, Jim Leach.
Chafee stopped being a Republican a long time ago.
Jim Leach was never Republican.
He was a moderate.
And his houser babe nobody ever heard of.
The dirty little secret about this, the way I see it, these are exactly the kind of moderate Republicans in name only that McCain courted all these years.
These people, Jim Leach, Lincoln Chafee, Rita Hauser, why they ought to be first to be endorsing McCain.
That's the exact kind of Republican he's going after.
And look, they've signed up with Obama.
It's pathetic, but it's funny at the same time.
And so we we're we're in, we're in this war for what kind of country we're going to have and what kind of future people's children and grandchildren are going to have.
We are a nation, a great nation at great risk in a dangerous world, with a bunch of sophists who want control.
I mean, the Democrat Party has actually nominated a neighborhood activist, a street activist, as its presidential candidate, who is clueless.
The man doesn't think he simply is able to reiterate what he's been taught.
And if you look at the people he's hung around and the people who've taught him, it's all the blame America crowd that you find in academia.
He's got Jeremiah Wright poisoning his mind.
He's got he's got his wife hangs around with his wife and she's mad every day of the week, too.
And then you've got this uh lunatic Father Flegger, and you got this terrorist guy, Bill Ayers.
I mean, that's why these people's associations matters, why their character matters.
If you look at who uh apparently has structured the Obama character, I mean it's how else do you explain this guy telling a seven-year-old kid who wants to know why he wants to be president?
Because my country's not what it once was.
Where in the hell when's it been better?
Or when's it been worse?
When's it been better?
Either way.
And it's just, it's just, he just mouthing these things because that's what he thinks people want to hear.
He thinks people are like him.
This is the arrogance and the condescension.
He thinks most people look at their country and find immediate fault with it.
But I'm just telling you, all these people that did not vote for him in these late state primaries, these blue collar, white, traditional Democrat voters, I'll tell you something, folks.
They're not being interviewed on television.
The drive-bys aren't talking about them.
These people, I don't care if they're Republicans or Democrats or whatever, they do not want to see a rookie presidential candidate in Berlin or anywhere else in the world run down their country.
Especially a Democrat presidential candidate who ought to be thanking God that he is an American, that he lives in this country, and that it has provided him and his wife such a wonderful life and a great...
He's running for president for crying out loud, and he still sees fit to criticize this country.
And I'm just gonna tell you all of these blue-collar white Democrats, Pennsylvania, Ohio, you name it, wherever Obama was not able to close this thing against Hillary, they heard it, they saw it, and they don't like it.
They may not teleposter that, but when they get a chance to vote, I guarantee you it is not gonna be for the Messiah.
I just got an interesting note from a friend of mine who is in the area of uh international studies who's been monitoring the program today.
And uh he said that the guy who just called uh uh uh the the Serb who just called from Faros, California's got a got a point.
But but it still needs to be modified somewhat because all the callers today that we've taken so far in this said the Russians were right to defend themselves, that somehow Shkashvili provoked all this.
And the note I have for my friends is this is not what has caused this.
It's not that Shkashvili did anything.
He said that the the the caller, the Serb caller had an important point.
The Serbs to this day are rightly angry that our State Department and the European Union, and even people like McCain decided to show how much they love Islam by allowing the Kosovo Muslims to annex part of Serbia.
Rather than stop it, because they want to be critical of Islam, want to show our magnanimity magnanimity, okay, go ahead and do that.
Now, Russia was the Serbs' protectors.
And they protested at the time, saying that these nitwits were settling or setting a precedent to allow insurgent separatist terrorist factions to break away from sovereign countries.
And that's basically what the Kosovo Muslims annexing part of Serbia was.
So the State Department, European Union all ignored the Russians and their complaints, and the Russians said, okay, if that's the way you want it, and so now Putin has encouraged his own insurgent separatist terrorist factions to break off parts of Georgia.
On the pretext that Georgia has caused this, that Shkoshvili has brought this about.
The bottom line, though, it's still all a pretext.
Russia would have done this anyway, because that's who they are.
But this is why some people think that we have given the Russians the pretext because we didn't object when we uh allowed part of Serbia to be annexed for Kosovo for the uh for the for the Muslims there.
And to all of this is all of you people who who have called here today who might think that the Russians are defending themselves.
Yeah, okay, the Russians are defending themselves.
How?
That's why they tried to kill the now president of Ukraine with poison.
It's why they've killed some expatriates, it's why they've murdered and jailed some journalists who dare to question Putin.
It's why they have jailed several corporate executives who don't bow to Putin, and that's why Putin circumvented his own constitution by switching jobs so he could still run Russia.
It's all in self-defense.
All you're how about Ledvinkel, Ledvinko or whatever, the guy they poisoned with polonium-212?
Simply because he was criticizing Putin.
I mean, they have been engaging in Soviet-style tactics for a long time here.
And of course, that's all Shashvili's fault, too.
I mean, how how can we sit here and say that the Russians are simply defending themselves when they're out there committing all these atrocities?
As for Obama, is weak.
He's got no foreign policy.
He runs out and beats up on his own country, and our enemies view him as weak and easy to roll, which is very, very dangerous, which is why what he says about this is indeed an important factor.
Be right back.
Okay, what do we learn today?
Well, we learned that the Chikoms and their collective society is neato and it's the wave of the future.
This according to David Brooks of the New York Times, and that the Russians were just minding their own business, doing nothing to anybody when that evil excrement Shkashvili attacked them with nuclear weapons, and they had no choice but then to respond.
Have a wonderful Tuesday, folks, and we will see you tomorrow do it all over again.
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