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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Somebody asked me this morning if um if I could remember a general or a high-ranking military officer ripping into President Bush like this, like uh McChrystal has ripped into uh Barack Obama.
	Well, uh the best of my memory, I can't remember a general doing it on active duty, but I can remember a whole bunch of them when they left.
	Uh either resigned or retired or what have you.
	I can remember a whole bunch of them piling on George W. Bush, and I remember the media making heroes out of these guys.
	Uh greetings, uh, uh ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
	It's Rush Limbaugh.
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	Well, once again, once again, ladies and gentlemen, it falls to me to put the uh the ring of truth and the proper analysis on this McChrystal Obama dust up.
	McChrystal's interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
	So many people are out there, including critics on our side.
	So you just don't do this.
	I mean, uh, obviously McChrystal wants out of there, uh obviously doesn't like um having to work for Obama, but go on Rolling Stone.
	I mean, if he can't figure out Rolling Stones the enemy, how's he ever going to figure out the Taliban?
	That's one of the arguments that I'm uh that I'm hearing uh from from people on our side.
	Well, then there's certain credence to that.
	I mean, of all places to go do this, Rolling Stone.
	And guess who's on the cover of this issue?
	Is that Lady Gaga is on the cover when McChrystal's uh little story is in the lower left-hand corner of the cover as terms of its uh being highlighted.
	Now, as I say this is this is very tough because there's no in the in the normal ebb and flow in the chain of command, civilian versus military.
	What McChrystal has done here is not defensible, but the fact that he has done it is interesting.
	I know he's apologizing, he's been summoned up there to talk to Obama, is gonna bend over forwards and backwards, whatever, apparently he's issued an apology.
	So it's um you know it's it's it's interesting to me on a number of levels.
	When I when I heard about this today, I got hold of some people I know who are uh very much well, they're much more expert in military matters than am I, and I and I sought out their opinion on this and particularly just who McChrystal is, what kind of guy he is.
	And uh just the these generals uh fall into two camps.
	You have the corporate generals and the warrior generals.
	The corporate generals act like Fortune 500 CEOs, and they will often remind you of someone running for office.
	They are very much concerned with what everybody thinks of them.
	They're very much concerned with their image and their public relations.
	They are constantly concerned about their image, and they are often criticized for caring more about how things look than the results they get.
	And I can give you an example.
	After the Fort Hood, and and I this is just a personal observation example.
	This is not something passed on to me by one of these well-informed experts.
	But if you look at General Casey after the Fort Hood bombing, uh when when uh Abdul, whatever what his name was, went and went nuts and started firing and shooting and killing a lot of people.
	What was the first thing General Casey said?
	We are not going to uh tolerate here a backlash against Muslims.
	And that is a that's an example I would I would just analyze on my own here, but I've been told this.
	Uh as a corporate general, first and foremost concerned with the politics of something, the political correctness of something, the image of something, rather than the results for a and and these these corporate generals are needed in for certain things.
	Logistics.
	These guys are needed, but sooner or later, if you're going to wage war, you need a warrior general, and that's the other kind of general that you have.
	And the warrior generals know that no matter how you try to spin this thing, you eventually have to go kill bad guys.
	I mean, that you have to kill people and break things.
	That's the mission.
	That's what it is.
	I'm told by people who know that General McChrystal is a warrior general.
	He's a former special ops guy who ran the joint special operations command team that tracked down all the high value targets in Iraq, including Saddam Hussein.
	I'm told that his men are fiercely loyal to him, that he has had some major closed door sessions at the Pentagon trying to get the corporate generals and Obama's people to back off these new restrictive rules of engagement.
	I've also been told that the restrictive rules of engagement are his.
	So I'm hearing different things about, and these rules of engagement are what leading to this medal for restraint that we've talked about, that NATO is actually a medal of restraint for that's the medal will be yellow.
	And this is a this is somebody who gets a medal for not firing their weapon.
	Because civilians might be killed.
	And of course, this enemy happens to put civilians in front of them at every place they happen to be, even on the battlefield or in a village, town, or what have you.
	And we have very restrictive rules of engagement.
	And uh I'm I'm told that McChrystal resents them.
	I'm also told Byron York has a story that he's the author of them.
	So I I remain conflicted and not quite certain of just who is the authorship or who is the author of the rules of engagement, whether it is McChrystal or whether it's coming from the White House.
	I it may be both, and I don't doubt that some of it is coming from the White House.
	Well, you have a bunch of liberal theorists who hate the military orchestrating a war, and they're doing everything about it wrong.
	Timelines for withdrawal, I mean, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda just have to sit there twiddle their thumbs and bide their time.
	I mean, the the the the this this bunch hasn't the slightest, the Obama bunch hasn't the slightest idea how to wage war.
	They don't even like it.
	This is all being done because Obama made a big deal about it as a senator and as a candidate, that Iraq was the wrong place to go, that Afghanistan's where we should have been.
	So he really doesn't want to be there.
	It's a political inconvenience for him, gets in the way of his other agenda items.
	And so I think I think the people, the boots on the ground, I the what this incident points up to me is there's obviously uh lack of respect, lack of confidence from the warrior guys in the military relating to their commander-in-chief.
	And here's the this is an interesting aspect of this.
	This kind of discord, this kind of internal squabble, which is huge, this is the kind of thing we ought to be causing among the Taliban.
	Instead, it's happening to us.
	We're the ones that appear to be ununified.
	We're the ones squabbling amongst ourselves over theory, policy, strategy, and all of this.
	And meanwhile, our enemies around the world sit there and are laughing themselves silly over all of this.
	Make no mistake about that.
	Now, McChristal, again, from what I've been told, because I don't know him.
	McChristal is a man of deep principle who puts the men and women under his command first.
	And understanding how this administration works, a lot of people are surprised that it's taken this long for anybody, McChrystal or anybody else, to hit the destruct button, and make no mistake about it, despite the apology and despite the attempt here to go say I wish I hadn't done it.
	Many people feel that I talked to today think that was purposeful, and this is exactly what he's doing is to hit the destruct button to try to alert people that we have a mess here and that we have a regime that hasn't the slightest idea what they're doing, nor do they actually really care about it.
	This guy McChrystal has gotten almost no FaceTime.
	It took 70 days for Obama to meet with him.
	He met twice.
	They met once over at the Pentagon in some room, and the apparently McChrystal's first assessment, I think this is in the Rolling Stone piece.
	McChrystal's first assessment of Obama was somebody who was intimidated by the military, uncomfortable, didn't really want to be there, uh, was not inspiring confidence among uh unprepared.
	He came in unprepared, had no idea what he was talking about.
	McChrystal uh the most of these quotes in the Rolling Stone piece are from McChrystal's aides, not from him.
	This is something that needs to be pointed out.
	And you could also say who works harder.
	McChrystal runs seven to eight miles a day, eats one meal, he sleeps four hours a night.
	Compare that to Obama.
	Playing golf, watching baseball, playing golf, going bowling, shooting hoops, playing golf, walking the beach, looking for tarballs.
	So he's got no FaceTime with the president.
	One meeting in the Oval Office and one meeting with Biden and clearly these aides who've been quoted Biden, bite me, is how they reacted to Biden McChrystal's aides.
	He's gotten not only no FaceTime with Obama but uh very little FaceTime with the top people in the administration.
	His requests are either cut in half or ignored.
	They've warned him look how long it took he he wanted X number of boots on the ground to make this thing work out in Afghanistan.
	Look how long it took Obama has to go to West Point, make all these public comments, public hand ringing and so forth.
	Now a corporate general keeps his mouth shut a corporate general says that it's his job to follow orders, but in reality they want one more star.
	The corporate generals are looking for the fourth star, maybe maybe they're dreaming of the fifth star.
	And then then they they behave in political ways in order to get it maybe they want the top job of the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense.
	So they go along, you know, with whoever is running the show here he's a bunch of inept leftist socialist theoreticians who hate guns and who hate the Seconders they go along with them because that's the path that they've carved themselves.
	A warrior general cares too much about the men and women under his command to sit silently while amateurs and incompetence in Washington undercut the effectiveness of his fighting force.
	So McChrystal is there in Afghanistan on the ground.
	He sees the price we're paying on a daily basis.
	He sees it.
	He cares too much about his troops.
	They mean more to him than one more star on his uniform.
	So the people I've talked to say, despite his apology today and whatever else he will say when he meets with Obama, that he is the kind of guy who knew exactly what he was doing when he gave this interview.
	And he did so only after being ignored by the White House for over a year.
	And don't forget, Jonathan Alter has a book out there.
	And in this book, various unnamed White House people take shots at McChrystal and some of his people in Jonathan Alter's book.
	Wesley Clark, a great example of a corporate general.
	Wesley Clark, Ashley Wilkes, from the great movie Gone with the Wind.
	Now, Byron York's piece, in which he claims...
	that McChrystal's real offense is the rules of engagement I'm told that for the most part Byron's piece is accurate and that there's no denying that fighting a counterinsurgency can be very frustrating for the trooper in a specific area.
	Now, McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy is to hold and pacify the population centers and villages, but he wasn't given the number of boots that he wanted.
	And people tend to forget this.
	While his combat troops pacify, he sends out the hunter-killer teams to whack the high-value targets at night.
	So the public perception is that we are following along with Obama's dictates of the law.
	on this but at nighttime we're going out and kicking butt.
	The predator strikes are part of this as well and the final big piece is the spring and summer push into areas where the Taliban is congregated or is trying to reconstitute.
	So you have somebody on the ground and a general who's actually trying to win this he's a warrior general and it just finds no compatibility whatsoever with this crop of civilian leaders not just at the White House but over in the Pentagon.
	There's much more on this I gotta think a quick timeout here folks you know this is the fastest three hours in this this show, these segments go by.
	I mean, I I hate, I'm on a real roll here.
	I hate to have to stop, but I have to stop.
	But we'd be back before you know it.
	Yes, we're back.
	It's Rush Limbaugh, the fastest three hours in media.
	All right, from the Rolling Stone piece on rules of engagement.
	Now, there this I I've I've heard two conflicting things today.
	Byron York is reporting that McChrystal's real offense is the restrictive rules of engagement.
	Now we've talked about these.
	Again, these rules of engagement are what's leading to the creation of this new medal for restraint for not firing your weapon in a war.
	Uh that's that's what?
	The rules of engagement?
	Well, here's the Rolling Stone version of it.
	Their story, the rules handed out here are not what McChrystal intended.
	They've been distorted as they pass through the chain of command, but knowing that does nothing to lessen the anger of troops on the ground, who we know are frustrated by the ROE's rules of engagement.
	Here's here's another passage from the Rolling Stone.
	We got the PDF of it here.
	Uh, it doesn't hit till later in the week.
	When I came over here and I heard the McChrystal was in charge, I thought we would get our gun on, said Hicks, who has served three tours of combat.
	I I I get C O I N. I get all that.
	McChrystal comes here, he explains it, it makes sense, but then he goes away on his bird airplane.
	By the time his directives get passed down to us through the big army, they're all screwed up, either because somebody's trying to cover their rear end or because they just don't understand it themselves.
	But we are frigging losing this thing.
	This is, again, many of the comments are not from McChrystal.
	They are from his aides and others in this Rolling Stone piece.
	Now, from earlier in the piece, Rolling Stone piece on the rules of engagement, from the start, McChrystal was determined to place his personal stamp on Afghanistan to use it as a laboratory for controversial military strategy known as counter-insurgency.
	Coin.
	Now, counterinsurgency, as the theory is known, is the new gospel of the Pentagon Brass, a doctrine that attempts to square the military's preference for high-tech violence with the demands of fighting protracted wars in failed states.
	Counter-insurgency calls for sending huge numbers of ground troops, which McChrystal did not get.
	Remember all the waffling over the numbers of troops, and Obama split the difference.
	So you send huge numbers of ground troops to not only destroy the enemy, but to live among the civilian population, slowly rebuild or build from scratch another nation's government, a process that even its staunchest advocates admit requires years, if not decades, to achieve.
	And Obama's put a time limit on all this of next year.
	Now, there are all kinds of criticisms of McChrystal out there.
	Jim Garrity at National Review Online.
	Many people I know think highly of McChrystal, and he's earned his accolades, but a general in the American Armed Forces cannot, on the record, mock or deride the vice president and the U.S. ambassador, much less the president.
	You and I can.
	We're just some schmoes.
	We don't report to him in the chain of command.
	I'm sure many generals have thought many colorful expressions of criticism toward presidents over the years, but they cannot blab them to reporters.
	Now, the exact same things that are being said about McCristol today were said about Patton.
	And they have been said about pretty much every great battle general we've ever had.
	And that's the point here in Corporate General versus Warrior General.
	The special forces people love McChrystal, and the spooks, the spies over at CIA love him because he sends his guys out to kill bad guys.
	And we've got a little guilt trip on about killing bad guys.
	Because our, you know, we think the bad guys are bad guys because of us.
	We've got a regime that believes the bad guys were really good guys at one time, but because of our oppressive worldwide policies and our siding with Israel, that we've turned good guys into bad guys, so we've got to be politically correct with them.
	there's a line about the former general being surprised at McChrystal's contempt for civilian leadership.
	How do you how do you expect these men of honor to feel when they've they've given it all to the United States Army?
	They wake up one day and they've got a community organizer running the show.
	See, the dirty little secret here is that what he said is true.
	And critics here are not accepting the danger we face with this president and commander in chief in military circumstances such as Iraq, Afghanistan, or Praetel, wherever else we might end up having to go.
	All right, now we're getting to the meat of this.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I I just I have a question.
	I how do we expect men of honor like McCristal, Petrayus?
	You name them.
	How do we expect them to feel when they have given it all to the U.S. Army, the military?
	And they wake up one day and they got a community organizer running the show, a community organizer, who won't even sit down with them.
	Instead, the community organizer sends his 60s radical Ivy League educated intellectuals to go talk down to these warriors and lecture them on how to run the war.
	And let's not forget these people have memories.
	President Obama was part of the Democrat Party cabal, hoping for defeat in Iraq.
	President Obama was part of the Democrat Party cabal that was doing everything it could to demoralize the U.S. military in Iraq, all for political advantage over George W. Bush.
	These guys know this.
	Barack Obama was part of the Democrat Party cabal, which was insulting U.S. troops, murderers, rapists, terrorists, thugs, they were being portrayed as.
	these people remember all this and they wake up one day and this guy happens to now be the commander in chief.
	Now the drive-by media, as is already happening, are going to try and make this about a rogue general.
	When the real story is staring him right in the face, we have an amateur in the White House who surrounded himself with people who have open disdain for the military.
	He himself does too.
	This rift, folks, I'm telling you, this has been brewing for a long time.
	This started back in Iraq.
	This started in 2004, 2005, when the Democrat Party decided for the first time in history to break with the United States of America and hope for defeat.
	All for the express purpose of political advancement of their own party.
	Some of the critics, I fear, even on our side, are focusing on the wrong thing.
	Which is, should the general have spoken like this in public?
	Well, apparently the general, I want to stress again, the general did not do all that much speaking in public.
	If we are to believe what is written in Rolling Stone.
	For example, McChrystal did not mock Biden.
	One of his staff did in a bar.
	This is what McChrystal said about Biden.
	Are you asking about Vice President Biden, McChrystal says with a laugh, who's that?
	It was a top advisor who then added Biden.
	Did you say, bite me?
	We don't know if McChrystal even heard that.
	According to the Rolling Stone story, a lot of these exchanges took place, very casual settings, bars, and over a long period of time.
	They were not official press releases like Douglas MacArthur condemning U.S. policy in Korea and Formosa, Taiwan.
	Now, the wrong thing is being focused on.
	Judy has spoken out in public like this.
	This really isn't the issue.
	See, folks, we face a big problem, And that is that the war in Afghanistan is not going well.
	The troop level that this general had originally asked for was denied to him.
	The politicians are calling too many of his shots, as they did during Vietnam.
	End dates are announced.
	End dates.
	This is pure sophistry.
	And these end, you know why the end dates are being announced?
	So Obama can pacify his far left fringe base.
	No responsible military leader or commander in chief announces when we're gonna stop something, especially if we haven't achieved victory.
	But we've done it twice now.
	This administration has with a timeline for exit in Afghanistan.
	We have young men and women over there fighting.
	While our president's unfocused, inexperienced, motivated by his leftist base instead of being motivated by the right things.
	This is an extraordinary story, my friends, because of what is being said about Obama, and most of it is true.
	And once again, we face the same circumstance that we faced with Barton.
	Barton said things that were true, but his timing was not wise.
	Democrat National Committee already has this uh this this ad, this TV commercial featuring Barton's words.
	I don't think it's gonna help him.
	Because everybody knows it's true.
	And what McChrystal's aides here and this Rolling Stone story say.
	Most of it's true.
	And this is why the left is having conniption fits again today, because, as I said yesterday, those who control the language control the agenda.
	And you know, we we can't have these kind of truths out there about our boy wonder president.
	We're just not that's why the left and the media are going nuts.
	They want this to be about the general and his staff, not about Obama and his staff.
	This is about Obama and his staff.
	This is about the United States military sent to combat with ridiculous rules of engagement, and now timelines.
	So what do we what are we faced with here?
	At the end of all this, Joe Wilson, you lie, Joe Wilson should go.
	Joe Barton should go, and now McChrystal should go.
	Meanwhile, Obama Pelosi, Harry Reid, and all their all their cohorts, they they're the ones that ought to stay.
	The architects of so many disasters.
	Have you seen the existing home sales stats for May?
	Once again, the limbaug media tweak.
	Unexpected plunge of 2.2%.
	What the hell's unexpected about it?
	What the hell is unexpected about a plunge in existing home sales in this economy?
	So the architects of this nation's demise should stay.
	Everybody else should either shut up or speak in hushed tones.
	And it's a uh I don't know, folks, it's just a dispiriting thing.
	Uh you would rather this not happen at all.
	You would rather the circumstances that caused this to happen did not exist.
	You would hope that this is the kind of discord that we would be promoting amongst our enemy and causing them to unravel and become disunified with no sense of purpose.
	Unfortunately, it's working the other way around.
	Anyway, um, let's go to the audio soundbites.
	I want to start here with me on this program back in October 6th of 2009.
	And I well, just listen to it.
	Speaks for itself.
	I think McChrystal, I mean, this is deadly serious stuff what's happening over there.
	This is not just Afghanistan.
	We get rolled over there and it's over.
	And I think this guy, trans general, takes it very seriously.
	I think he's scared to death of what he's dealing with, folks.
	I really do, and I think that's why he leaked his report.
	I'm just guessing.
	I'm just a wild guess, but I think this general is scared to death of what he's dealing with in a commander-in-chief who has no foreign policy.
	Now, remember what I'm talking about there.
	Remember, McChrystal has already been summoned by Obama once.
	Obama was in Great Britain, some economic meeting and they had to get Crystal on a helicopter and airplane to go meet Obama.
	Because McChrystal would put out some other report.
	This is not the first time that this has happened.
	And I don't believe that there are coincidences.
	Now, the state controlled media.
	I mean, is just out of control.
	Remember now, Bush was president.
	McChrystal would be a hero, a whistleblower.
	But listen to this montage.
	They need to fire him.
	He needs to go today.
	If he gets to that meeting at the White House tomorrow without having resigned, I will be stunned.
	Cost the general his job.
	Can the president fire the top general in Afghanistan?
	Go off and fire him for insubordination.
	The end to McChrystal's tenure as the commander in Afghanistan.
	Is he self-aware enough to know that maybe he should resign?
	It crosses the line of insubordination and the military code of justice.
	He has challenged the commander in chief.
	And legally, morally, ethically, professionally, he ought to be camped.
	I'd be amazed if this wasn't it for General McChrystal that threatens civilian control of the military.
	Okay, so there's your average run of the day.
	Mainstream media, state controlled media montage.
	Ingry and Richard Lindy seniors in Washington.
	It crosses the line of insubordination, the military code of justice.
	Okay, fine and daddy, it may do that, but look at what's behind it.
	Does this guy have a history of speaking?
	Speaking out like this, or his aides.
	Remember now, McKiernan was a general who first went off the path.
	Obama had to get rid of him.
	He replaced him with McChrystal.
	Now can can the media experts cite one example from the Rolling Stone piece where McChrystal challenged the president.
	His aides do.
	His top advisors make it very clear, but can they find one example where McChrystal did?
	My point is still, though, McChrystal's got to go, Joe Barton's got to go, Joe Wilson has to go, but all these architects of the destruction of this country.
	No, they get to stay.
	They have to stay.
	The state-controlled media up in arms.
	McChrystal would personally insult Obama.
	Good morning, America Today.
	George Stephanopoulos.
	Spoke with Martha Raditz.
	She said, he said, Martha, it's it's not the first time McChrystal has had friction with the White House.
	This Rolling Stone article is really different, George, and I think it's why the administration is so angry.
	This is personal gossip.
	This is personal laundry.
	It's not about policy, it's not about troops, and we're in the middle of a war.
	What don't think that's necessarily true.
	Personal laundry.
	It is about policy.
	It's about the rules of engagement.
	It's about one of these aides that we're losing.
	One McChrystal's aid, we're losing over there.
	It is about policy.
	I dare say most of these media experts are opining here without even having read the uh Rolling Stone article, which only became available about an hour ago.
	Do you know that only an hour ago up until that time, everything being reacted to here is based on leaks and innuendo.
	How many of these these wizards of smart in our punditocracy have actually read the Rolling Stone Peace?
	Here is newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin speaking with the Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starts, CNN about McChrystal questioned a lot of people thinking uh what was he thinking?
	Top commander, general overseeing what's happened in Afghanistan.
	Why?
	Yeah, I wish I had an answer to that.
	I think that that's uh what everyone is asking.
	You know, we've uh like most of the Pentagon press corps.
	I've covered General McChrystal for many, many years.
	He is one of the most serious-minded individuals I have ever met.
	He rarely publicly has a sense of humor about much of anything.
	He has taken this job to heart.
	Exactly.
	My point earlier.
	He's taken this job to heart, and he wakes up one day, commander in chief is a community organizer from Chicago.
	All right, we're back.
	More audio soundbites.
	Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by being here.
	Simply by showing up.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
	As I said at the top of the program, it's uh it's seems like it's always left to me.
	Say these things.
	The obvious.
	Nobody else wants to talk about it.
	Well, certainly nobody in the state-controlled media.
	The dirty little secret is that's not really a secret if you have your eyes open.
	Our president is not respected by the commander in Afghanistan.
	It's patently obvious.
	But he's also not respected by our allies in the UK, in Germany, France, and Israel, among others.
	He's not even respected by our enemies.
	They mock him as weak.
	They laugh at him.
	Mamud Akhmadinizad.
	Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro's telling jokes about him now.
	He's not respected by most of the governors along the Gulf Coast.
	He's not respected by law enforcement.
	Remember Cambridge.
	He is not respected by most business people and entrepreneurs.
	See, the point is here that Obama uses his office to demand respect and to demand compliance, but on his own, he's not earned any of it.
	He does not have that kind of person, except with his toadies on the left, who respect him because they think he can speak well.
	And he's one of them in the intellectual sense.
	The truth is his actions, his statements, and their consequences have been disasters.
	We're living in the midst of a domestic disaster.
	We're living in the midst of a foreign policy disaster.
	McChrystal shows Obama more respect than Obama shows respect for Bush.
	Again, dirty little secret.
	My point is that if you want to be treated with respect, then act respectfully to others.
	Let's not forget this man, our president, ran down the U.S. military for years during the Iraq war.
	He's trash talking all the time.
	Who's ass can he kick next?
	He targets individuals.
	I am but one.
	He targets businesses, he targets politicians, he targets Israel.
	He smears, he attacks, he creates straw dogs.
	I'm making no excuses here, but observations are still permitted, right?
	And these are mine.
	Let's skip soundbite seven.
	Let's go to audio soundbites eight and nine.
	Wolf Blitzer could barely contain himself last night on CNN.
	Rush Limbaugh railing against Republican leaders who pressure Texas Congressman Joe Barton to take back his apology to BP.
	We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world.
	I'm Wolf Blitzer.
	You're in the situation room.
	Get this Rush Limbaugh slamming GOP leaders for forcing a congressman to retract his apology to BP.
	Rush Limbaugh wading into the Joe Barton controversy as well.
	That story coming.
	Wait until you hear Rush Limbaugh railing against Republican leaders.
	What did they do to get him angry?
	Rush Limbaugh with some angry words for Republicans over their response to a GOP lawmaker's apology to BP.
	We're going to tell you his take on the so-called shakedown comments.
	That's a montage of Wolf Blitzer spending almost his entire show promoting his segment on me.
	Now, I'm playing these sound bites because this is going to happen tonight about this McChrystal business.
	The same thing.
	I am going to be attacked because it will be said that I defended McChrystal.
	And if you listen carefully, I lament the fact that McChrystal did this.
	I'm sorry this it's a it's an absolute tragedy this is happening in our country.
	This is the kind of thing we ought to be fomenting among our enemies.
	So here's now let's go to the next soundbite.
	Wolf Blitzer introducing the segment on me.
	Now listen to conservative radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh.
	We don't have all the facts yet, but shakedown would appear to be the correct term if BP surrendered 20 billion dollars to the White House under duress.
	And let me ask you a question.
	Would BP have done this on their own?
	They were already complying with existing law on liability.
	They were already up to 65 million dollars on their way to much higher figure.
	Takes an interesting twist, this story right now.
	And when Rush Limbaugh is saying that, I assume Democrats, that's music to their ears.
	Yeah, it is at first.
	It is at first.
	But then they come to realize just as in I Hope He Fails, they still can't get that out of their minds.
	As I say, folks, uh, it always seems to come down to me and many others on our side to say these things, because our guardians of Democracy and the so-called mainstream media have abrogated their constitutional responsibilities.
	Now, on this matter of respect, there's a Rasmussen poll out there today.
	So the American people, majority would prefer Hillary to Obama as president.
	So you don't want to argue with me about this respect, Mrs. Note.
	And McCrystal, by the way, don't misunderstand, this guy is not flawless.
	His judgment can be severely impaired at times.
	He admits in the Rolling Stone piece that he voted for Obama.
	So don't think this guy is flawless.
	He does have his problems.

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