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	And greetings.
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	It's Friday.
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	John Bolton has a column that's in the Daily Telegraph, and he's pretty much on the same page that we are here at the EIB Network.
	It's a scalding piece.
	It's very tough on Bush.
	And the last two paragraphs have with what we're doing with Russia v. Georgia.
	And the last two paragraphs have something, fascinating things to say about Obama.
	But before reading those last two paragraphs, the guy that called, the last guy that called in the last hour, Jeremy from Los Angeles, who said he didn't want to come off as a commie lefty, but it didn't take long for him to get close to coming off as a commie lefty.
	In this piece by John Bolton, he says, it profits us little to blame Georgia for provoking, quote unquote, the Russian attack, nor is it becoming of the United States to have anonymous officials from its State Department telling reporters, as they did earlier this week, that they had warned Georgia not to provoke Russia.
	Every bit of information that we have says that we were totally not ready for a Russian invasion and that we have been trying to tell Georgia not to provoke Putin.
	Now, you can argue that both those things are bad, but how on earth do these lunatics argue that we orchestrated this when we tried to discourage it and weren't ready for it?
	There's a story being fabricated up, and the Russians have picked up on it.
	The Russians are putting it all over their media.
	The Russian media sounds nothing.
	It sounds exactly like the Daily Codes.
	It sounds like a Democrat Underground.
	It sounds like the Obama campaign.
	All this was McCain's fault.
	All this is Bush's fault.
	The Americans started this by telling the Georgians to do some things and tacitly approved of the Georgian move into South Ossetia last Thursday night, a week ago.
	But again, when you look at this, every bit of information we have says that we were totally not ready for this invasion.
	We were dumbfounded by it.
	It's not easy to say this.
	It's not something about which we can take great pride that we got surprised because they're supposed to have intelligence that tells us that all this armor and manpower has been amassed over the Caucasus and is poised to go.
	And I think we had all the information.
	Once again, the pieces weren't put together.
	But the point is, we were shocked.
	We were totally not ready for this.
	And we have been telling the Georgians not to provoke Putin.
	Now, you can say that both things are bad, but how on earth do these lunatics on the left in this country argue that we orchestrated this when we tried to discourage it and had no idea it was coming?
	Look, it sounds bad no matter how, but the lunatic fringe version of this does not stand up.
	in any type of analysis.
	Now let me share with you what Bolton wrote in his piece in the Daily Telegraph, the last two paragraphs here on Obama.
	Finally, the most important step will take place right here in the U.S. with a presidential election on November 4th.
	Americans have an opportunity to take our own national pulse, given the widely differing reactions to Russia's blitzkrieg from Senator McCain and at least initially Senator Obama.
	First reactions before the campaign's pollsters and consultants get involved are always the best indicators of a candidate's real views.
	McCain at once grasped the larger geostrategic significance of Russia's attack and the need for a strong response, whereas Obama at first sounded as timorous and tentative as the Bush administration.
	Ironically, Obama later moved closer to McCain's more robust approach, followed by, belatedly, Bush.
	In any event, let's go ahead and have a full general election debate over the implications of Russia's march through Georgia.
	Even before this incident, McCain had suggested expelling Russia from the G8.
	Others have proposed blocking Russia's application to join the World Trade Organization or imposing economic sanctions as long as Russian troops remain in Georgia.
	Obama has assiduously avoided specifics in foreign policy other than withdrawing speedily from Iraq, but that luxury should no longer be available to him.
	We need to know if Obama's reprise of George McGovern's 1972 campaign theme, Come Home America, is really what the American voter wants, or if we remain willing to persevere in difficult circumstances, as McCain has consistently advocated, querulous Europe should hope for its own sake that America makes the latter choice, because as Saakashvili said yesterday,
	who else is there that can stop this type of aggression but the United States?
	Dead on right.
	Who else is there that can stop it?
	But if we're not going to stop it, then let this, you know, let's find out what the American people think about this.
	And I'll tell you, Obama is out there on vacation while all this is shaking out.
	And the drive-by media is actually putting out the notion, as are the Russians, same thing Obama's people are saying, that McCain aggravated this, that Bush caused this.
	So you got the Obama campaign and the American left, almost word for word with what's coming out of the Russian media, while Obama's over there skiing and surfing and doing all this.
	Now, he's running for the presidency of the United States, and he's the Messiah, and he's the guy, he's the citizen of the world.
	He's the guy whose very presence is going to make other nations stop this kind of aggressive action.
	Where is he?
	The press isn't even interested in tracking him down to ask him about this.
	They're content to go to his stupid advisors.
	Because frankly, I don't think Obama knows what to say about this until the advisors do take a poll and do do a focus group.
	And then he'll put some words in his mouth and he'll come out and make some sort of a statement.
	And that'll change.
	He'll say two or three or four different things about this so that he'll be able to go back and say, well, I previously said and cite whichever version that fits the day that he's making the comment.
	But I just, you know, they're doing everything they can to cover up this guy's incompetence, his inexperience.
	They're doing everything they can to avoid having him address a serious issue, one that he has said will change drastically if he ever becomes president.
	Because he's going to go talk to these madmen like Putin and Ahmadinezad.
	And he's going to make sure: look, they're going to understand that we don't hate them and that we've gotten rid of Bush and everything's fine now.
	And America can be loved and trusted and respected.
	And we understand you hate us now.
	We haven't been what we could be, but we're going to change that just because I'm here.
	And that's Obama's theory.
	Well, let him come out and say this now.
	You know, other presidents in situations like this, and they've portrayed him as acting president.
	I remember George Bush 41 went and played golf shortly after the invasion, the first Gulf War, and the drive-bys had a cow.
	They were all over the place.
	And then Bush got spotted on his recreational speedboat off the coast of Maine and Kenneth Bunkport up there.
	And the drive-bys went nuts.
	And they were shouting no blood for oil and all that sort of stuff.
	And basically ripping Bush for sending people off to die while not caring about it himself.
	No such demands from or for Obama.
	And there should be because he's running for president.
	The Democrats had nominated this guy.
	And that takes us, of course, to their convention.
	And now the Democrats are worrying if Obama was actually taken for a ride by the Clintons.
	Did he cave to them too soon?
	And some people are saying, well, look, if Obama caved to the demands of two losers and at a four-day Democrat convention, the Clintons owned two of them.
	If he cave to the Clintons for peace or for whatever reason, then how in the world is this guy going to stand up to people like Putin or Ahmadinezad or others?
	And of course, now they're talking about Hillary's name being put in nomination.
	I can just see that roll call.
	If that happens, and if they go to a roll call, if Obama permits that, and this is going to be the night before he speaks, the night before he ostensibly accepts all of these commentators who are covering the convention, whoa, Tom, the vote's appearing a little closer than everybody expected it to be.
	It doesn't appear to be the Obama runaway that we all thought.
	Plus, the Obama campaign has secretly sent out word to one of his superdelegates to stay the hell out of Denver.
	That would be the mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick.
	They don't want him anywhere near there.
	Now, nobody will say that race is involved in this, will they?
	Nobody will accuse the Obama campaign of discriminating against a black mayor duly elected by his citizens, even though he is under indictment.
	But that's racist, too.
	In fact, folks, do you know that according to Reuters today, every time I say Obama is inexperienced, there is a tinge of racism in my commentary.
	Most amazing piece.
	No matter what you say about Obama, it's racist-related.
	Another thing I predicted has come to pass.
	We'll be back and continue with your phone calls on Open Line Friday.
	More soundbites too after this.
	This is AP, by the way, top Russian general said today that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation Poland to a possible attack by nuclear weapons.
	The Russian general said Poland, by deploying the system, is exposing itself to a strike 100%.
	This is the deputy chief of staff.
	And he said this, that Russia's military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons, quote, against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them.
	Meaning, the U.S. has nukes.
	Poland is helping us by allowing us to put the interceptor base there.
	So the Russians are saying they've got a doctrine that allows them to nuke our ally.
	At a news conference earlier Friday, the deputy chief of staff had reiterated Russia's frequently stated warning that placing missile defense elements in Poland in the Czech Republic would bring an unspecified military response.
	But his subsequent reports, statement, reported statement substantially stepped up a war of words.
	And despite this, despite this, this is our fault.
	All of this is up to the American left.
	All of this is our fault.
	And they're going to take this interceptor base.
	See, we're provoking.
	We're provoking the Russia.
	The Russians are totally innocent.
	They're nice people.
	There's nothing wrong with Putin or these guys.
	We're provoking them.
	These are not nuclear-tip missiles, by the way.
	These interceptor missiles that we put in, they're just interceptors.
	They take down ICPMs in flight.
	That's the theory.
	They take down nuclear weapons, which the Russians are threatening to use.
	Nothing appears to have changed.
	St. George, Utah, this is Mike.
	I'm glad you called, sir.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Yes, hello, Rush.
	Is that really you?
	It is.
	It is indeed, sir.
	Thanks for taking my call, sir.
	It's an honor to speak to you.
	Thank you very much.
	Congratulations on your 20 years and hope you have as many more.
	No doubt about it.
	Good.
	Please take care of yourself, Rush.
	You're a national treasure.
	If anything happens to you, I'm afraid this country will go into a depression like we've never seen.
	Yes, and nobody is more aware of that than I. That's why I exude my full responsibility to you and the country to be here and to prevent that very depression from happening.
	Thank you.
	Now to my question.
	Now that we make this contract with Poland on this missile defense, and Russia says they're going to get us for it, I don't know who they mean by getting everybody, but what do you think our illustrious leaders are going to do when Russia decides to say, now that we've done that, that they can move their bombers to Cuba and maybe long-range missiles to Venezuela?
	Hey, let me give you a heads up.
	Long before any of this happened, Putin started talking publicly about the need to put missiles back in Cuba.
	This is about a month ago.
	They're thinking about that.
	You people are going to have to.
	You know what?
	I'm 57.
	This whole episode, I've been doing the show for 20 years, as was just noted.
	And from actually 24 years, if you count Sacramento, so 1984 through 1980, the first eight years of the show were about communism, the Soviet Union, its satellite countries, its expansionist.
	I mean, when I started this program, when I started this program in Sacramento, what was going on then was all this stuff around the Bolin Amendment and our attempt to arm the Contras in Nicaragua, the Soviets attempting to establish a satellite client in Nicaragua with weapons and everything else.
	And the Democrats in Washington were doing everything they could to stop us from helping the freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
	They were backing the communist regime of Daniela Ortega.
	It's just starting to repeat itself.
	I'm getting the feeling here that, okay, so what should we expect the Russians do if we put these missiles, these interceptors in Poland?
	The Russians are already thinking about rearming in Cuba and probably a bunch of other places.
	This is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
	The 35 undeniable truths are going to become relevant once again.
	Some of them sort of faded away after the wall came down and the Cold War was ostensibly over.
	But another undeniable truth of life is that it is the aggressor who sets the rules in any conflict.
	Now, you can talk about the Geneva Convention and all of that sort of thing, but the Russians, the Soviets, whoever, they're communists still.
	Putin is KGB.
	Saakashvili is right about that.
	They're thinking about arming around the world as they once did.
	They are the aggressors in this.
	And this is what people, I guess, are having a tough time understanding.
	There is this seven years of poisoning the minds of the American people to accept the silly notion that the United States is the bad guy in the world.
	It's obviously taken hold with a lot of people.
	And we're not.
	We are the good guys.
	The United States is not the problem in the world.
	The United States is the solution to problems in the world.
	So we have a newly aggressive Russia run by the KGB, essentially.
	And it's foolish to sit around and waste time.
	Did we cause this?
	Is this our fault?
	Is this our responsibility to throw in ball?
	Did we make them make the threat and move in the door?
	It doesn't get you anywhere.
	Even if you conclude, yes, it's our fault.
	Those are still happening.
	But it's not our fault, and it's a key element of all this.
	Bill in Redding, Pennsylvania.
	You're up next.
	Open Line Friday.
	Hello.
	Rush, how are you?
	Thanks for all that you do.
	I just want to go back to the oil drilling legislation.
	And I have two points with regard to that.
	I agree.
	We're all glad the price has come down of oil to where it is today, but it's still too high.
	And I think we've got to keep the pressure on the Congress for when they come back to pass good domestic oil drilling legislation.
	Second point is if somehow the Democrats are successful in blocking it or they water it down that it's not worth passing an energy bill, then I think we need to support the Republicans with regard to the kind of the poker game of continuing resolution and the risks that that is to cut off government funding as of October 1st, but also eliminate the moratorium immediately.
	So I just, those are the two points, and I just wanted to get your reaction.
	Well, in the first place, Pelosi has now withdrawn her, I don't even know you could say it's a commitment, but she had said that she was willing to let there be a vote and a debate in the House on offshore drilling.
	But she has now pulled back from that.
	She's denied that.
	And the Democrats, they're in the process of losing this debate.
	However, they have a phrase that they have used successfully over the years in discussing this, that phrase of big oil.
	This is not about big oil.
	It's about drilling for more energy.
	It's about finding more energy to be independent, all of this sort of stuff, to add to the supply.
	You know the drill.
	The Democrats are saying, no, no, no, it's not about, this is about Republicans trying to enrich big oil and put more money in the backs of big oil.
	And Pelosi is saying, when you've got two oil men in the White House for eight years, that's how you get $4 a gallon gasoline.
	She actually said that.
	Two oil men in the White House for eight years equals $4 a gallon gasoline.
	So they're playing the class envy game.
	They're going to keep focusing on big oil, this, big oil, that, and saying this is nothing but a trick to enrich the oil companies, which I'm running out of time in this segment to deal with this, but it's just, it's specious.
	So there's not, she's not going to allow any ledges.
	This is why it remains a huge winning issue for us.
	And what do we do?
	We make gang of 10 type deals.
	We're going to go back to the audio soundbite, starting at number nine here.
	We actually have the audio of the things I described for you yesterday, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil talking to Charlie Gibson.
	And this first bite is Tillerson on how much the oil companies pay in taxes.
	Everything we do, the numbers are very large.
	I saw someone characterize our profits the other day in terms of $1,400 in profit per second.
	Well, they also need to understand we paid $4,000 a second in taxes and we spent $15,000 a second in cost.
	We spend $1 billion a day just running our business.
	So this is a business where large numbers are just characteristic of it.
	When profits are so high, why is spending on exploration so low?
	Well, we're spending at record levels.
	Through the first half of this year, we have spent $12.5 billion.
	That's a record level of capital and exploration expenditures for us.
	Did you hear that question that Charlie Gibson asked?
	When profits are so high, why is spending on exploration so low?
	Charlie, would you tell me where in the name of Sam Hill they are allowed to explore in this country?
	They're exploring everywhere but here.
	You know, folks, there is so much absurdity out there.
	It's like, have you seen this story on what they have found in the Sahara Desert?
	Listen to this.
	The Sahara Desert, it's a desert.
	For those of you in Rio Linda, it means it's miles and miles and miles of dry, parched sand.
	You will die there in two days, unless you run into an oasis.
	A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
	The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons at a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations that lived there a thousand years apart when the region was moist and green.
	Paul Serino, University of Chicago, and colleagues were searching for the remains of dinosaurs in the African country of Niger when they came across the startling find detailed at a news conference yesterday, the National Geographic Society.
	Part of the discovery is finding things that you least expect.
	When you come across something like that in the middle of the desert, it sends a tingle down your spine.
	Some 200 graves of humans were found during field work.
	Everywhere you turned, there were bones belonging to animals that don't live in the desert.
	I realized we were in the green Sahara 5,000 years ago.
	Now, it almost sounds foolish to me to have to ask the question.
	But if the Sahara Desert was once fertile, green, and lush, people and animals lived and thrived there, which means plenty of food was also available there.
	And 5,000 years later, it's now a barren desert.
	And there were no automobiles, there were no light bulbs, there were no fossil fuels, there were no automobiles, there were nothing.
	There was no industrialization.
	There were no coal-fired power plants.
	There was zero in terms of carbon footprint.
	So somebody explained to me how the hell a lush, dense, green area 5,000 years ago becomes a barren desert.
	Now, it's patently obvious that the climate of this planet goes in its own pace, in its own time, does what it wants to do when it wants to do it, and we have diddly squat to do about it.
	And these poor saps that lived in that region had no more ability to stop the warming back then that was going to turn the place into a desert than we have the ability to stop it now because we're not causing it.
	We cannot.
	Stories like this just make the whole global warming story patently absurd.
	Just absurd.
	It makes you wonder why you have to spend any time on it at all discussing it.
	And the same thing here with this Russian and other situations, the oil situation.
	I have said the most expensive commodity in this country is ignorance.
	And it's on display and it's costing us more.
	It's going to cost us some of our freedom if it doesn't stop.
	It's going to cost us lots of money.
	So here's poor old Rex Tillerson.
	And it was Obama, by the way, that said $1,400 a second in profits.
	But $15,000 a second in cost, $4,000 a second in taxes, while Pelosi and other irresponsible, shameful members of her party demonize people like Rex Tillerson and the oil companies.
	What is the federal government doing?
	They are the biggest thief on this planet.
	They're the ones without doing diddly squat get $4,000 a second in taxes off of the hard work of Rex Tillerson and his boys at ExxonMobil and then all the other oil companies combined.
	The government gets the biggest damn take of everybody's output and labor in this country.
	They do.
	And those people that get elected and run the place then have to turn around and tar and feather the producers and the movers and the shakers and the people that make this country work, demonize them as thieves and criminals when the thieves are in Washington, D.C.
	And they can never get enough.
	They're going to get close to $3 trillion produced by you and me and Rex Tillerson and his boys.
	And it's not enough.
	They're going to come back for even more.
	The whole point of this stupid, worthless, totally fraudulent hoax, global warming, is about getting more money and denying you and making you feel guilty so that you'll pay it gladly.
	And it's so obvious.
	And yet all they've got to do is big oil, big oil.
	Every time, Obama actually said, how stupid.
	There's not another word for this.
	Every time you fill your tank, big oil fills its coffers.
	Well, hell yes.
	You're buying their product for crying out loud.
	Where is it going to go?
	You fill your tank with gasoline, who's going to get the money?
	The people that produced the gasoline sold it?
	I would think.
	Every time you fill your tank, big oil fills its coffers.
	Every time you fill your stomach, big food fills its coffers.
	Every time you buy a surfboard for your vacation in Hawaii, big surfboard fills its coffers.
	How stupid is this?
	I really worry about the state of my IQ if I have to keep trying to teach and train people about this stuff because I'm going to lose patience with it.
	There's more Rex Tillerson.
	Charlie Gibson said, former senators had the temerity to say the other day that Americans are whining.
	Are they whining?
	Or do you really, can you, from where you are, feel the pain of the American consumer?
	No, I don't think it's whining, Charlie, because I don't think there's any question that at these prices, $3.5, $4 a gallon for gasoline, and the follow-through effects on the cost of electricity, that this is causing a lot of problems for a lot of Americans.
	Again, who their budgets just are very difficult for them to accommodate this, and they don't have other options.
	Much of the world, certainly here in Texas where you're visiting, we do not have large mass transportation systems, and so people don't have a lot of other options than to get in their car and have to drive to get about their daily requirements.
	So then Charlie Gibson says, well, let's come back to Senator Obama.
	He's calling for a windfall profits tax, $65 billion, five years.
	Oil companies and his plan pay it.
	And when the public sees the kinds of benefits the oil companies are making, and ExxonMobil in particular, and when they see the size of the stock buybacks, isn't it fair that they wonder why not?
	Well, I guess the question is, what's that going to solve?
	Nowhere in windfall profits tax do I see anything that addresses the problem.
	I understand that may be popular with some people because of how they view our current day profitability.
	But again, Charlie, I think the question is, are we going to have a serious debate about solving the long-term energy problem or are we just going to look for short-term solutions again to make everybody feel better?
	That's what we're going to have as long as Democrats and the drive-by media control the debate.
	That's exactly what it's going to be.
	Solutions that solve nothing, no solutions, just a bunch of stupid rhetoric appealing to the lowest common denominator of common sense and intelligence in this country.
	Yeah, make big oil suffer.
	Make them suffer.
	Why doesn't anybody ever say make government suffer?
	Why?
	How come it is that the one element that always botches what it attempts, it tries to fix poverty, it makes it worse.
	It tries to fix racism and discrimination, it busts up the black family and destroys it.
	It tries to run the post office a billion dollars in debt over everything it does.
	And people say, let's let the government fix it.
	Health care, you name it.
	And yet, whatever it is that they do, they screw up and people still are willing to turn to them to fix what they broke in the first place.
	I intellectually understand there is 50 years of this kind of class envy rhetoric from FDR on, maybe 60 years by now, close to it.
	All these the government is benefolent, the government's here to help you and so forth.
	And by the way, I don't have any animosity.
	I don't hate the institution of government.
	This is just way too big.
	It's way out of hand.
	It's being run by too many charlatans and phony plastic banana good time rock and roller leftists who have a view of government that's far different than most of us who want it limited out of the way, certain responsibilities that it excels at and does very well, and then get out of our way, just to leave us alone.
	And the other side wants this government involved in every step of your life they can because they don't trust you to live your life right without them.
	And some people have just bought hook, line, and sinker into the class envy argument, and they'll tell you.
	They'll tell you they know that a tax increase on the rich isn't going to help them.
	It's going to make them feel better.
	Yeah, find out what those people are going to feel like when they suffer.
	Well, the point is you raise taxes on the people that hire people, and fewer people are going to get hired.
	So the very intended beneficiary, which is nuts to say anyway, of tax increases on the rich are the very people that get hurt by losing their jobs.
	Anyway, and I'll tell you what, if a windsfall profits tax, we've done it.
	Jimmy Carter did it.
	It didn't.
	All that happened was the supply drop because big oil stopped doing business in America and their profits were down.
	So there were less profits to pay windfall tax on in the first place.
	The windfall profits tax does not punish big oil.
	It punishes end users.
	Anyway, quick time out.
	We'll be back and continue after this.
	Ha.
	Welcome back.
	It's Rush Limbaugh, and this is Open Line Friday.
	I guess this is one of these days I just feel like I need to get things off my chest.
	I get sometimes just so frustrated with the stupidity of the things I talk about.
	Not the stupidity of the things I say, because I don't say stupid things.
	The stupidity of having to talk about some of these things, like oil as oil companies is a villain, like global warming is something that's actually happened.
	It's frightening.
	And then I was the other day, in fact, it was last night, I was out to dinner.
	And just to show you the power of the drive-by media, the subject of the automobile companies came up.
	And one of my dinner partners started ripping into General Motors.
	They said, yeah, well, look at what's happening to them.
	Toyota's running rings around them.
	General Motors, they deserve what's happening.
	They haven't built cars anybody wants it.
	What are you talking about?
	What do you mean they don't build cars that people want?
	Who's telling you this?
	Drive-by media?
	Yeah, they're not making enough fuel-efficient cars, and they're just selling these big SUVs and hummers and so forth.
	That's not true.
	It simply isn't true.
	But all this anti-corporate mentality in this country aimed at American corporations.
	I guess, you know, I'm just proud to be an American.
	I love the fact that God made me an American.
	And I don't understand anybody who doesn't appreciate it.
	I have a tough time.
	I don't mean blanket approval, blind patriotism, but I don't understand the people who want to make this country and the people who have made it great enemies.
	And we seem to be on this big capital, anti-capitalist push right now, and it's being led by absolute idiots, people with no brains who have sponged up a bunch of drivel and bilge from America's leftists because their lives are meaningless.
	They don't amount to anything in their own minds.
	And so they're trying to give themselves some reason to say their lives count.
	And so they buy into global warming.
	They buy into the fact that big oil is rotten.
	They buy into the fact that General Motors is rotten.
	General Motors, folks, has more models that have less 30 miles a gallon or better on the highway than any other manufacturer.
	They do.
	Their fleet mileage standards are fine.
	I just get frustrated as I can be because all this criticism is mindless.
	It's like the criticism we got earlier today from the guy from LA who didn't want to sound like a commie lib that took him three sentences to pull it off.
	Blaming us for Russia going into Georgia, blaming us for triggering the whole thing.
	Blaming us because Blackwater might have been there training Georgian soldiers as though everything that we do is evil.
	Bernie in Chicago, your next Open Line Friday is all yours.
	Thanks much.
	Yeah, Chicago White Sox dittos to you.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	I appreciate that.
	Okay, seven years ago, Hillary said, you know, I think I'm going to run for the U.S. Senate.
	And she said, gee, should I run in my home state of Illinois?
	Should I be a real big liberal, an East Coast liberal, and run in the state of New York?
	And she chose New York, of course, as we all know.
	Could you imagine if she would have run in the state of Illinois, her home state, there would be no such thing as a Barack Obama today?
	Yeah, and she probably sits there and cries about it, but there's nothing she can do about it.
	Obama's there.
	It is what it is.
	She chose to run in New York because she wanted to live in Chappaqua.
	Yeah, but, you know, that's something she can kick herself over if she ever does that kind of thing later on.
	Thank you.
	All right, Bernie, appreciate it.
	Mitch, Rich, sorry, Moscow Mills, Missouri.
	Moscow Mills, we're back to Moscow Mills.
	Rich, welcome to the program.
	Hey, Rush.
	As always, great to talk to you.
	I've been listening to the show out here in Conservative Studies.
	And I caught Bush live yesterday on the TV when he made his announcement.
	And I just wanted you, as a professor of the class, to tell me where I may be reaching.
	But I don't recall any time that this president or any president has ever made a statement from the lobby of the CIA in the middle of this Russia-Georgia conflict or any other conflict that may have been going on.
	You know, when I saw that, that happened yesterday during this program, and I saw that, and I had the same brief flash go through the neuron circuitry of my fertile mind.
	I have seen presidents in the lobby walking in and out of the CIA, but I'm not sure I've seen a statement made from the CIA.
	Now, I'm not sure.
	It may have been done, and maybe joint statements with the director of the CIA.
	But I don't know.
	Well, we're out of time here, but even if he did make a statement, he's the first one to do it.
	What's the significance of it?
	Back in a second.
	I'm going to go find to see if I can find another printer to kick the heck out of.
	Get rid of some of this pent-up frustration.
	In the meantime, sit tight.
	We're coming right back.

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