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April 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
Now there's no question about it.
This apology tour is based on it's very important, I think it's based based entirely on a belief that Barack Obama has.
And it's a belief that was drilled into him as a young boy as his growing up and so forth, and that is that the United States as a superpower is the leading cause of strife and problems in the world.
And so he's traveling around apologizing for the United States, trying to cut us down to size himself in the eyes of the world.
And by the way, not just in the eyes of the world, but legitimately cut us down in size.
Greetings, folks, great to be back.
Great to be with you, Rush Linboy here, as always with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushmo at EIBNet.com.
Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 166 points today.
It's been flirting around at 166 to 180, it's because Obama's coming home.
Remember when Obama left, the markets skyrocketed.
The markets know Obama's coming back, and so the markets are plummeting.
Have you seen the story about General Motors making the deal with the uh the makers of the Segway machine?
Basically, they're gonna have a wheelchair with a motor and a passenger compartment in there.
You can't call it a wheelchair with an engine.
You gotta call it a wheelchair with a motor.
They've got their little prototype here zipping around, top speed, which means it'll never be reached.
35 miles an hour, top range, 35 miles.
It's electric, you plug it in, nobody it's just I I just shudder to see what is happening to this once great country, which dreamed big, built big, expanded big, and here we're taking ourselves back to the stone age under a false premise of climate destruction, global warming, or what have you.
I think it's gonna catch look look, Snurgley.
If all these newfangle electric contraptions haven't caught on, why the hell you're gonna have your oddballs, fringe cooks, and weirdos driving around on these things.
Have you seen it?
There's no way they can be safe.
How can they put an airbag in one of these things?
How can they it it's it's the most ridiculous looking thing, and I know that the long-haired maggot infested, you know, the sandal wearing uh crown to be driving around on these things, heading off to Whole Foods, but once you get to Whole Foods, what the hell are you gonna put in this thing to take home?
I mean just it's just I don't know.
It's funny, it's sad at the same time.
You look at all this, you just wonder what the hell is happening here.
This is not leadership.
This is this is giving in.
This is uh this is crying uncle Ted Stevens corruption conviction tossed out by a judge just now.
We knew this was coming.
Now, everybody says, but rush, but rush, you can't make a big deal out of this because it was the Bush Justice Department that brought charges.
Now, look, we all know that the Bush Justice Department was polluted with career liberals and Clinton holdovers, that George W. Bush didn't get out of there as part of the new tone as part of the uh effort to get along.
This whole thing was politically trumped up.
The thing that I want to point out to people is the minute the charges were filed, before the left even had time to figure out what to say, and they figure out what to say in a reactionary way, people on our side would get rid of him, get rid of him.
We can't stand this kind of corruption in our party.
We have to show the American people that we're clean and pure as the wind grimm is get rid of him.
Which we are quick to do.
We are so quick to throw our own people overboard, get rid of our own governing majorities.
The left never does anything like this.
So now we've we've got a Democrat in his place, Governor Palin and somebody else up there, has asked the Democrat senator from Alaska to resign and and uh stand for another election.
Right.
Uh that's uh sadly uh ladies and gentlemen, isn't going to happen.
Let's see.
One of the reasons, people why Obama go to Baghdad.
You know, he stopped in in Baghdad's surprise trip stopped in uh in Baghdad, and he sounded he sounded very much like George W. Bush.
If you ask me, he said that uh bringing U.S. troops home is tied to making Iraq stable and not a safe haven for terrorists.
You will be critical in talking to military here at Camp Victory.
You will be critical in terms of us being able to make sure Iraq is stable, that it's not a safe haven for terrorists, and we can start bringing our folks home.
Now that sounds like the Bush policy from the get-go.
That that I don't know how we allowed a camp to be named victory, but that happened before Obama, so you know that that camp the camp victory and so forth.
I know.
Weird for but but you got to understand the military named itself uh and it's that camp, named it that camp before Obama.
I actually think what he wanted to do.
Did you hear that he's gonna have to talk to Iraqi leaders on the phone because a sandstorm uh prevented uh the helicopters from getting where they had to go?
I wouldn't be surprised if he was going to apologize for us being there.
I mean, what what else has he done everywhere he stopped on this tour but apologize for the United States one way or the other?
You know, I really do believe that he's a product of the way he was raised, who mentored him uh and and so forth.
The whole concept of American guilt predominates this guy's existence, and he considers himself to be part of a minority that has been subjugated and discriminated against, and so he identifies with the world.
You know, the rest of the world is a minority compared to the United States.
We're a superpower.
And then uh in the view of many on the left, all we've done is stomp all over the world.
I can't wait, he went.
He goes over to Strasbourg, France, and he tells Europe that we don't think enough of them, that we haven't respected them enough, that we haven't what were his exact words?
Um that we uh we we somehow have have uh have not granted Europe in our own minds the greatness is Europe wouldn't be there if it weren't for us.
It was just outrageous what the guy went over there and said, and he goes to Turkey, and he says, we're we're Turkey just like us.
Turkey's not a nation of uh Christians or Muslims, it's a nation of shared values and ideas.
Well, we're not a Christian nation, we're not a Jewish nation, we're not this.
We're a nation of shared values and ideas.
Not his.
The shared values and ideas that Barack Obama harbors are not the values and ideas that built this country.
That's what the argument is uh is all about.
We've got audio sound bites on all this coming up.
Almost half of the French population now believe, according to a poll, that it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs to lock up their bosses.
This, according to an opinion poll published today, staff at French plants run by Sony 3M and Caterpillar have held managers inside the factories overnight in three separate incidents to demand better layoff terms, a new form of labor action dubbed boss snapping by the media.
Now, while all this is going on, the New York Times has threatened to shut down the Boston Globe.
And the New York Times says if we don't get 20 million dollars in uh concessions from the unions, then we're gonna have to shut down the Boston Globe and either go all digital or just shut it down.
So when it comes to the New York Times and and of course, by extension uh other liberal organizations running their business, it's okay to wipe the unions out.
It's necessary to wipe the unions out, stay in business.
But when Obama's going to save the unions and in the process debilitate other industries, then that's fine too.
So this is a clear illustration, folks, of how the left is going to have two separate rules, sets of rules, one for them and one for everybody else.
And uh I think the New York Times did what didn't they not?
The uh the loan there they got from Amarillo Slim down in Mexico not enough.
Apparently not enough.
They got to go back to the slim guy and uh and get even more money or shut down the Boston Globe.
That's not a bad thing.
By the way, for the Boston Globe to be shut down.
They bought it for a billion and they uh they couldn't, they couldn't make it work.
I know.
Well Liberals running businesses as an oxymoron, anyway.
I mean, liberals were I mean, the New York Times ought to be writing editorials that this is how you run a business.
You don't make money.
This is how we want every other business to be run.
We want the unions to strangle every business out there.
We want the unions to do well.
We don't want management to do well.
We want the business to basically fail, but stay in operations so the union gets paid.
Look to us as to how to do this.
We are the New York Times.
Now that's what they ought to be.
If they were consistent, they'd be using their operation of the Boston Globe as a as a teachable moment, as an object lesson in how liberals think business should be run.
But when it comes to the New York Times' own financial situation, the union has to go.
The union has to make concessions, and they threaten to shut down the whole operation unless the union makes concessions.
Half of the French approve of locking up bosses.
That's all I know.
Give it a year.
Give it a year, and it'll be a majority.
More U.S. consumers are falling behind on their mortgages.
This is a Reuters story.
This is an indication that the housing market has yet to hit bottom.
Dan Adams.
President of U.S. information systems for Equifax reported that 7% of homeowners with mortgages were at least 30 days late on their loans in February.
That's an increase of more than 50% from a year earlier.
He also said this, 39.8% of subprime borrowers were at least 30 days behind on their home mortgage loans.
That's up 23.7% from last year.
He said, I'm trying to find optimism in these numbers, but I'm pretty hard-pressed to do that.
Despite a recent burst of relatively positive news that has fueled hope, the U.S. housing markets turned a corner.
What news that the U.S. housing market has turned a corner?
What see, we have a giant disconnect.
I'm sure you people saw did Mark Stein talk about the Pew poll yesterday showing Obama has the most polarized country in the history of president.
Okay.
Stein did talk about it.
Good.
The Pew poll came out, and all of this that we're hearing about a nation unified and happily glorified behind Barack Obama is nothing but a sack of manure.
There has never been more polarization in this country that uh under a president than there is with Obama, including under Bush.
According to Pugh, it's not reflected in the latest CBS New York Times poll.
It's not reflected in any media coverage.
This is a nation.
That is, it is it is bipartisan.
This is this is a nation that is not unified, but in the press, of course, it's just the exact opposite.
The press presents this picture of a country totally enthralled with Barack Obama.
And the only people that are not are these kook fringe right-wing extremists.
But uh in fact, this this line here catches me.
I'm trying to find optimism in these dismal housing numbers despite a recent burst of relatively positive news that has fueled hope that the U.S. housing market's turned.
What positive news?
What is it?
Home starts are up, home starts are up, right?
You know why home starts are up?
Because in some places homes have finally gotten affordable for some people.
People are buying four closed houses.
The Chicoms are the biggest buyers of four closed houses.
The Chicoms are sending plane loads of people over here with bus tours in California to buy.
Okay, so you got that new, and that news is reported.
What?
A rebound in the housing when it's not true.
Just like 99% of what the drive-by media is reporting is not true.
That Obama was thought of as swooned over in uh in in Europe.
He was not.
He was not the British press wrote some of the most scathing funny stuff about his lack of oratorical skills.
You would never see this in the U.S. media.
So this is an excellent point.
Mortgage delinquents delinquency soar.
The housing market has not bottomed out.
It's nowhere near bottoming out.
And yet the drive-by's are reporting what?
That it's coming back.
Why?
Because Obama is too big to fail.
They are totally invested in Obama, and they are presenting a picture of him that even they know is not true.
He's not Superman.
He's nothing super special, but they're presenting that.
Because they want it to be the case, and they're trying to cover up for known deficiencies, deficiencies that they know that he has.
Now about these mortgages and the delinquencies rising.
How can this be?
Obama has dealt with it.
No, I'm serious.
He fixed it earlier this year.
Don't you remember?
We are going to pay the mortgages for those who can't pay them?
It's in the stimulus bill, isn't it?
And the stimulus bill got signed.
Why, this is supposed to be fixed.
We're supposed to be on the road to recovery here.
But now it's not just the subprimers who are delinquent, it is standard mortgages who are delinquent.
Now wonder why that might be.
Could it be that they heard Obama say government's going to take care of all this?
And the smart people say, why shouldn't we bother to stress ourselves paying this stuff when it's going to be bailed out at some point?
Because Obama doesn't want us out of our homes.
And the press doesn't want a uh continually souring economy.
That won't look good for Obama because after he gets this budget done, it's his economy, it's his economy now.
You can't continue to blame everything on Bush with credibility.
They're gonna try.
But he's been a lot of fanfare about all these things he's fixing.
While at the same time saying it's gonna be a long time before we see the results.
Nothing is being fixed in the sense that it's being repaired.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue.
Brian, this monologue has raised the temperature at two degrees.
Would you come in and lower the thermostat or thanks?
Even while he was traveling overseas, President Obama had time to send a verbal email message to employees of General Motors.
President Obama's memo to General Motors.
By the way, I need I guess I need to correct something.
I was talking about the new um the new wheelchair with a motor.
The collaboration, General Motors and Segway, and I said, wait, where are you gonna put the airbag in a thing?
I'm told, listen to this, it will not need an airbag because it will never ever crash.
Ideally, the vehicles would also be part of a communications network that through the use of transponder and GPS technology would allow the wheelchairs to drive themselves.
The vehicles would automatically avoid obstacles such as pedestrians and other cars and therefore never crash, said one of the engineers working on this.
Now, if this is all true, then the government's gonna know exactly where you are at all times, driving around your little wheelchair here.
So this is it's never gonna crash.
You can sit back and you can all you have to do is turn the thing on, and if you're about to run down a pedestrian somehow, it will miss the pedestrian.
It'll take a Yuey, it'll do some this I have to see.
And this just I I think this is it's just sad, folks.
But Rush, but Rush, this is innovation.
This is going to save the planet, it's going to reduce the pollution.
People are gonna have to be forced into these things.
They are not at all representative of reality.
Try driving around on one of these things in any kind of inclement weather.
Try driving around one of these things when you've got a snowpack, when you've got some ice, when you've got heavy rain, when when you've got wind, normal wind drive driving around one of these things.
It's just, it's just this is not the America that we have all come to know and to uh and to love.
I never thought that I would see this headline.
It's a Los Angeles Times.
You know the old joke, women and minorities hardest hit in the news have this headline.
Recession hits male workers more.
Shazam, men are getting laid off at a higher rate than women.
One reason may be that male-dominated sectors like construction, manufacturing, and financial services have been hardest hit.
Well, there's no bad news in this, right?
You know what they're gonna call this wheelchair with a motor on it?
The Puma.
You know what?
Now, a Puma is one of the fastest cats on the planet.
This thing is not a Puma in any way.
That stands for personal urban mobility and accessibility.
And they say that the GPS system in there is going to prevent this from heading in the you don't have to drive it.
You have to sit there and be cool, calm, collected.
It's going to miss everything.
Sees a pedestrian, sees a car, it's going to miss it.
What I want to know is what's going to stop a car from running into it.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
If you're going to drive around this, I guarantee you you are going to be knee pads.
You need them.
Have you seen the picture of this?
Well, you know what a segue is.
The stand-up thing?
Imagine with a little bubble on top of it with a little leg room in front that you sit down.
You're going to need knee pads.
These are hopped-up wheelchairs.
And since you're going to need knee pads, this would be perfect thing for Monica Lewinsky to endorse as a product.
Maybe Lewinsky and Clinton together as a means of spreading the word, shall we say, on the on the new Puma?
I mentioned earlier that the British press, who are not personally invested in the presidency of Barack Obama, are far more diverse and not of a single voice.
When reviewing Obama's performance at the G20, one guy, Nick Robinson, really wrote a piece that dissects sentence by sentence an answer to a question that Obama gave that he did not have a teleprompter for, and the guy just it's it's funny as it can be, and he's right.
It's nonsensical, it doesn't make any sense.
Obama loses his train of thought throughout another British member of the press, and it's boring.
Is this guy gonna leave towns?
He's boring.
Of course, nothing like that would be reported by the U.S. media.
Now here is the answer.
This is last Wednesday on April 1st.
President Obama and Gordon Brown holding a joint press conference, Nick Robinson from the BBC has a question.
He said the Prime Minister has repeatedly blamed the United States for causing this financial crisis.
France and Germany blame both Britain and America for causing the crisis.
Who's right, Mr. President?
And isn't the debate about that at the heart of the debate about what we do now?
I I would say that uh if you look at the the sources of this crisis, uh the United States certainly uh has some accounting to do with respect to a uh regulatory system that was inactive.
Stop stop the stop re queue this.
I forgot to give the audience a warning.
This goes two and a half minutes.
We have a limit here.
Normally I put a restriction on the soundbite crowd.
I don't want any longer than a minute.
If it goes long, cut it up into two or three sound bites.
In this case, we have made an exception to the rule.
This goes on for a full two and a half minutes.
Okay, here is Obama basically asking, how do we assess blame?
Is the United States really responsible for the crisis, or what do we do about it now?
I I would say that uh if you look at the the sources of this crisis, uh the United States certainly uh has some accounting to do with respect to a uh regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that had taken place in the global financial system.
I think what is also true is that uh here in Great Britain, uh in continental Europe around the world, uh, we were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and uh the highly integrated uh global capital markets that had emerged.
And stop the say uh the remember now the question here who's right, who's really responsible for this, and isn't the debate about that who's responsible for it at the heart of the debate about what to do now?
So at this point, uh I'm less interested in identifying blame than fixing the problem.
And I think we've taken some very aggressive steps in the United States to do so.
Not just responding to the immediate crisis, ensuring that uh banks are adequately capitalized, uh dealing with uh the enormous drop-off in demand and the contraction that's been taking place.
But more importantly, over the for the long term, making sure that we've got uh a set of uh regulations that are up to the task.
Uh and that includes uh a number that will be discussed uh at this summit.
I think there's a lot of convergence between all the parties involved about the need uh, for example, to focus not on the legal form that a particular financial product takes or the institution that it emerges from, but rather what's the risk involved?
Uh what's the the function uh of this product and how do we regulate that adequately?
Much more effective coordination uh between countries so that we can uh anticipate some of the the risks that are involved.
Are you following this?
Dealing with the problem of derivatives markets.
And making sure that uh we set up uh systems that uh can reduce some of the risk there.
So I actually think that there's enormous consensus that has emerged in terms of what we need to do now, uh, and uh I'm a big believer in looking forward rather than backwards.
So here we have a stumbling, bumbling two and a half minute answer to the question.
And uh you need to remember this bite each time you hear what an impressive trip Obama had and what a great orator he is.
Because he basically mumbled and jumbled through a non-anser.
And if you want to if you if you want to try to ascertain any substance in this at all, it is that yes, I think the United States is to blame, but I'm not gonna look back.
We're gonna look forward and we're gonna find ways to punish the United States.
I'm just telling you here in a way that you can't understand.
Last night on Fox News, as uh as you know before uh uh the end of last week, David Patterson, the governor of New York, in announcing his new millionaires tax, which will hit people at $300,000 a year and up.
He was asked what he thought of my announcement that I'm leaving.
Finally, this is the tipping point.
I'm getting out of there.
He said, if I had if I had known that my tax increase would have gotten rid of limbaugh, I would have raised taxes sooner.
Neil Cavuto decided to do his commentary that closes his show on the Fox uh news channel yesterday afternoon about this.
Here's the first of two of those sound bites.
Rush Limbaugh to New York.
Drop dead, I'm leaving.
New York to Rush.
Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
And with that, New York Governor David Patterson left off a millionaire packing up and heading out.
Patterson even found it funny.
If I knew that would be the result, he said, of Russia's leaving, I would have thought about the taxes earlier.
Everyone laughed.
Why?
Because this isn't about a broadcaster named Rush, but a tax hiking rage for which politicians seem in such a rush.
The governor is free to laugh off Rush bolting from a fancy Fifth Avenue Pet House condominium.
Clearly, the govern's not a fan of Rush, but I suspect he is a fan of Russia's money.
He's gonna need it, and now he won't have it.
And if other rich guys join Rush, guys like Donald Trump, he won't have a lot of it, or then.
And here's how it concluded.
What will become of the governor's millionaires tax, for which 300 grand is enough to qualify?
If you can't stick it to the rich who are bolting, how much lower on the financial food chain are you gonna have to be moving?
Because you better move fast, Governor.
I suspect what happened with Rush won't stay with Rush.
But the governor chooses not to pick a fight with Donald, just Rush.
Even though others will be wandering who have nowhere near the money of Rush.
But Governor Patterson, you don't see that, you just see Rush.
And you want the always compliant media to just see Rush and only Rush, and then laugh at Rush and their hatred of Rush and their love of anything hated by Rush.
If only they'd stop rushing to conclusions, because this isn't about a broadcaster who could easily afford to keep a pad here, but won't.
But many who barely could and are wondering now if they will.
If they follow Rush, it won't be funny, Governor.
For you and your state, it won't be funny at all.
Said yes.
Funny now.
Now, earlier in the program, Cavuto had as his guest Donald Trump, who also has said he's thinking about leaving.
That was in the New York Post yesterday.
Uh Trump called Patterson and said, you know, it's ridiculous.
I have to pay New York taxes on money I don't earn here.
And this is the opposite of what happens to me.
They pay taxes only when I am there, but it's not just that.
It's the it's it's it what is it now?
Twelve years of being audited every year.
The legal fees, the accountant fees.
Each audit takes six to nine months for 15 to 20 days a year.
It's just pure harassment and the tax increase to propose taxing to resist a tipping point.
It's an omen.
Get out.
It's only gonna get worse.
Trump says he called Patterson and said, Look, you know, he's got his he's does a lot of work out in LA with his TV show.
I don't think I should have to pay taxes on money I don't earn in New York.
And that's essentially what New York is trying to do to him.
So Cavuto had him on, and they talked about this whole thing, and Cavuto's question to Trump, if tax increases are in, is Donald Trump out.
Well, I guess you have no choice.
The fact is that the state of New York did something very, very foolish, and they passed a tax and income tax and increased it very substantially from what it was, and I believe that's going to be a total disaster for the state.
So Cavuto then said, well, um that was the argument Rush Limbaugh made, as you know.
That he has, I think, some Fifth Avenue Penthouse.
He's looking I'm not in the city that often, but when the taxes are going up everywhere they are, I certainly don't want to encourage the city, so he's out too.
Russia's one example, and he's a great example, but you have many, many people in the same situation, and they'll just say, you know, thank you very much.
Let's sell our apartment, then let's get the hell out.
A huge percentage of New York City taxes come from the people that will be fleeing New York, and you just can't do it.
It's a horrible thing.
I've spoken to literally 25 to 30 people that are now either leaving or going to consider leaving.
It is a foolish and in fact very stupid thing they are doing.
Have you seen Patterson's approval numbers?
Twenty-six percent.
I have higher approval numbers than Patterson does.
Patterson, only twenty-six percent of the American people think he should be elected.
He's not even elected.
In the words of Democrats, he's illegitimate.
He has not been elected governor.
He's gonna run for election for the first time in 2010, and his approval numbers are at twenty-six percent.
And the Democrats in the state are saying if you don't get those numbers up, you're not gonna be our candidate.
We're gonna get rid of you, we're gonna broom you.
I gotta take a break, we'll do that, we'll be back, and much more straight ahead.
Stay with us.
Let's go to the audio soundbites of Obama in Ankara, Turkey.
Or Obama apologizes to the Muslim world for the United States of America.
I know there have been difficulties these last few years.
Stop too.
Ray Cuit.
There have been difficulties.
Three thousand dead Americans in one day.
At the hands of militant Islamo fascists.
Yeah.
There have been difficulties.
I know there have been difficulties these last few years.
I know that the trust that binds the United States and Turkey has been strained.
And I don't know that strain is shared in many places where the Muslim faith is practiced.
So let me say this as clearly as I can.
The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam.
And that did a lot.
Yeah!
Right on, right on, right on, right on, right on, right on, right on.
So, I don't even know that that needs a reply.
I don't know that did anybody ever say we were at war with Islam.
No, did anybody ever say that?
We're at war with militant Islamo-fascist terrorists.
It's called Al Qaeda.
In fact, George W. Bush went out of his way to say this.
He went out of his way to say it, I don't know how many times.
While not in Turkey, while in the United States of America.
So here's Obama being applauded for this.
Bush bent over backwards and forwards to tell the Muslim world that we have no gripe with them.
But now that Obama's saying, oh, how brilliant.
Oh, this is going to make the world safer.
Then he goes on to say that we're not gonna insult Muslims any longer the way Bush did.
America's relationship with the Muslim community.
The Muslim world cannot and will not just be based upon opposition to terrorism.
We seek broader engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
We will listen carefully.
We will bridge misunderstandings, and we will seek common ground.
We will be respectful even when we do not agree.
We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world.
Including in my own country.
He really said that, Snurdly.
He really said that.
He said that the Islamic faith has done so much over the centuries to shape the world, including in my own country.
Okay.
Well, I think 9-11 did have a big shaping factor here.
3,000 people are dead.
That did reshape America.
What in the world is he talking about?
Has he ever heard of Iran?
Has he ever heard of Hamas?
Has he ever heard of Sir Zi?
Hear what these leaders of these nations who are Islamic?
Does he hear what they are saying?
We're gonna listen to them now.
We're no, we're not gonna provoke them anymore.
We're we're we're gonna, we're we're gonna, we're gonna bridge misunderstandings.
All this liberal gobbledygook that comes out of conflict resolution 101 in junior high school will be respectful even when we don't agree, as though we haven't been respectful now.
They're chopping our heads off.
What how Mr. Obama, Mr. President, how about the respect for the Islamic world that we afforded and accorded the people of Iraq?
We got rid of a dictator that had rape rooms and it was a mass murderer.
And even you, sir, go there today to talk about the success that Iraq is and tell the military that continuing success is up to them.
And we somehow have um not been respectful, we haven't bridged misunderstandings.
The Islamic faith has done so much over the centuries to shape the world, including my own country.
Gonna need some help on this, because I don't know what other than 9-11 he's talking about.
I don't mean to be offensive here.
I mean, look, I'm interested in historical fact.
What's been done?
In fact, you know, our first war with Islamists was waged by Thomas Jefferson, the Barbary Pirates.
Well, it was.
The Somali pirates are just the uh the latest version of the Barbary Coast pirates that Thomas Jefferson had to wage war against back in the days of our founding.
The hell is this person talking?
What is he, what is he talking about?
I swear I don't know.
In the next bite, he says we're not a Judeo-Christian nation, which I'll play that bite for you when we have time.
I don't have time right now.
We'll be back here.
Stay with us.
Seriously, folks, whoever said we were in a war with Muslims, nobody ever said that.
In fact, even Libs, the Libs, don't forget, we didn't go in there to liberate Muslims.
We didn't go into Iraq to liberate people.
We went in there for oil, right?
And all of a sudden, their president's running around talking about how we've got to stop this notion that we're at war with Muslims.
Everybody knows it was about the oil, and we botched that.
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