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Aug. 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 26, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Now this is truly amazing.
New requests for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week.
The first decline in a month, and a hopeful sign after a raft of negative economic reports.
That's uh AP.
But there's another AP story, and it says, regardless of numbers, it feels like a recession.
So it's getting harder and harder and harder for the partisan political operatives, disguised as journalists to even carry the water here.
Um we go down to what a 473,000 instead of 500,000.
And yeah, yeah, okay, fine.
But still we're in trouble.
It's gotta be depressing to be an AP today.
Uh greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
As always, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
And I had this story yesterday, and I I uh it for some reason I didn't get to it, but it has stayed alive.
You hear about Alan Simpson's comments to people about the he's on the Obama deficit reduction commission, Alan Simpson babe.
Did you hear what he said?
Well, this is funny as hell, because people want him to they want him to be fired now from the uh from the group.
Alan Simpson, the outspoken co-chair of Obama's debt commissions in hot water with some advocacy groups after he sent an email to the National Older Women's League.
I didn't even know that there was a National Older Women's League.
The director of this group is Ashley Carson, who cannot be old.
There's not an old woman named Ashley.
Back in the old days, Ashley was named Guys, like Ashley Wilkes.
But regardless, Alan Simpson compared Social Security to a milk cow with 310 million teats.
Only he didn't say teats.
He used the street slang word.
Now we have said this on this program constantly, maybe the we didn't 310 million, but uh we've referred for decades on this program to people feeding off the public teeth and so forth.
The letter was a response to a column that Ashley Carlson wrote for the Huffington Post in April, defending Social Security, entitled Enough with the Pink Panthers bit.
Simpson said there may be no group called the Pink Panthers working to protest Social Security, but I sure as hell am.
I've spent many years in public life trying to stabilize that system while people like you babble into the vapors about disgusting attempts at ageism and sexism and all the rest of that crap.
Simpson signs off by writing call when you get honest work.
Well, the National Older Women's League yesterday launched an online petition calling for Simpson to resign for his offensive and sexist email, Fox News reporting Social Security Works has joined the older women's league in calling for Simpson babe's ouster.
Simpson, a longtime critic of Social Security come under fire previously for suggesting greedy geezers of which he's won, are trying to protect their retirement checks while their grandchildren face a mounting national.
Look at in in certain instances, he's right.
I mean, I uh I remember remember that call we had Carolyn from Grafton off the moss turnpike.
She has since passed away, but she's a she's a seasoned citizen, and she didn't want to hear a thing about tax cuts because to her that meant less social security.
And I said, Well, what are you you you think your your kids ought to have to pay higher tax?
Damn straight.
She wanted her own kids to pay higher taxes.
She'd have wanted everybody to pay higher taxes to make sure she didn't get any social security cuts.
So she would have been an example of a greedy geezer.
Now they're not all greedy geezers, but Alan Simpson said that there are some greedy geezers trying to protect their retirement checks while their grandchildren face a mounting debt.
The bipartisan fiscal commission set to issue recommendations.
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Alan Simpson has apologized.
I apologize for what I wrote.
I was thinking about Rush Limbaugh at the time.
I can see that my remarks have caused you anguish.
He didn't say that.
He didn't say that either.
I just threw it in there.
I can see that my remarks have caused you anguish, and it uh was not my intention.
I certainly did not intend to diminish your hard work for the older women's league.
I know you care deeply about strengthening Social Security, as so do I, just as deeply.
I remember your testimony, our public hearing in June about the importance of retirement security for women.
Over the last 40 years, I've had my size 15 feet in my mouth and number two.
Uh to quote my old friend and colleague, Senator Lloyd Benson, when I make a mistake, it's a doozy.
Said he didn't respond sooner because he's on vacation.
Nothing odd about that.
I mean, the Obama people are on vacation when uh the oil spill happens, some other things they don't come off vacation.
Mm-hmm.
Because the truth is politically incorrect, Mr. Snerdley.
Sterling says, Why does everybody, except me, who speaks the truth have to end up apologizing?
The truth is politically incorrect.
You know what a political gaff is?
Well, somebody says the truth.
Really, it is.
A gaff is when somebody screws up and tells somebody else the truth.
Now, Alan Simpson, let's let's keep in mind.
Alan Simpson was all for cutting and running from a rock.
He was part of um James Baker's Iraq Study Group, which said, get out of there.
Have you noticed how everybody's greedy except for politicians and public union employees?
Simpson called them greedy geezers, and there may be some, but the real greed in our country is in Washington, D.C., the real greed is with people who work for government who cannot do with a dime less than they had last year.
No matter what.
No matter how they get their more money, their increased money, their funding.
I mean, the real greed is among our elected political class.
Now, Paul Krugman, in his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal of the New York Times, wants Alan Simpson fired.
Figures.
Alan Simpson, in this instance, has uh no, I know this.
That the the Owls, the older women's league, they they um they work closely with the nags, the National Organization for Women.
They're just older nags.
It's it's the same bunch of people.
They're just they're just uh uh demarking their differences by virtue of age and chronology.
Oh, by the way, you know, I meant to I meant to talk about this yesterday too, and I slipped my mind.
I finally watched Sunday night's mad men.
I watched it every night, but I didn't get a chance to watch it live.
I had to watch it via Ti-Vo.
And there was the most incredible scene.
Now, this this show, if you haven't seen it, depicts life in the 60s, and it does so flawlessly.
It's amazing.
Centers around the advertising business and the people in it and their families.
But there are a lot of people who think the show went way over the line on Sunday night.
One of the characters is an 11-year-old girl, a daughter of Don Draper and his divorced wife Betty.
Um Betty now she married a different guy.
Don't living alone in an apartment in the city.
And occasionally Don gets visitation rights with the kids, and he takes them to the apartment.
The city goes out and have dinner, leaves them with a babysitter.
Sometimes the kids go over to their friend's house when the wife has them.
And little Sally was depicted in this particular school started for the most part around the country.
It hasn't started up north.
Because what I'm going to say here is this is why the show, I mean, it's in trouble in certain sectors.
They basically had this 11-year-old little girl, um, uh in a masturbation scene with her little ten-year-old, 11-year-old girlfriend.
And the reason people are upset about it is that they actually made this little 11-year-old actress do it.
I mean, you saw it, you knew exactly what was happening.
And then the mother of the friend or little Sally was visiting, takes her home, wakes up the mother Betty Draper, and says, This is crazy, we're not going to have this.
Your little girl was and it's almost unspeakable.
One mother to another describing what was happening, almost unspeakable.
Finally, the mother says, I don't want your little girl back in my house ever again.
She was blah, blah, blah, describes it.
And this causes the uh the mother to think the girl needs to shrink when actually it's the mother that needs to shrink.
But anyway, the people the reason there's outrage is they actually made the 11-year-old actress do it.
I mean, there wasn't much there wasn't much left of the imagination here.
And so some people say, where are these little actresses' parents?
How can they possibly let this little girl do this?
He's 11 years old.
I mean, acting is one thing, and it's one thing for you know, actors say, Oh, come on, mom, it's just acting and so forth.
But this was uh while while it was over the top, this episode was so right on the money in so many ways about little kids and what they think as they're reaching puberty and what they do as they're reaching puberty, and how how how paranoid their parents got back in those days, or when it really I I don't know what reminded me of this.
It might have been.
It was.
It was the old nags that I don't know what was it about the old nags that reminded me of this, but it was talking about the old nags that uh reminded me that I wanted to mention this to you.
Anyway, here's Paul Krugman.
I always thought the deficit commission was a bad idea.
It's only looked worse over time, as the buzz is that Democrats are caving into the Republicans, leaning even further toward an all-cuts, no taxes solution, including a sharp rise in the retirement age.
I've also had my eye on Alan Simpson, babe, a supposedly grown-up Republican co-chair who's been uh talking nonsense about social security from the get-go.
At this point, though, Obama's on the spot.
He has to fire Simpson or turn the whole commission into a combination of farce and tragedy, the farce being the nature of the co-chair, the tragedy being the Democrats are so afraid of Republicans that nothing will get them sanctioned.
So have you heard this?
I haven't heard the scuttle butt that the Democrats are caving to Republicans in this.
I haven't heard that uh tax cuts are off the table.
Or tax increases are off the table, only spending cuts.
Does anybody believe this?
We all know we're gonna get a VAT suggested.
We all know we're gonna have all kinds of new tax increases suggested.
There have been leaks about the higher taxes coming out of this.
So here's this idiot ferret like uh Krugman who looks like a uh a ferret.
Looks like a uh what, a weasel, a muscle.
At any rate, he wants Simpson canned here, and claims the Republicans are caving, or the Democrats are caving to the Republicans.
So Alan Simpson has made some sense here, more sense than he's made in years, and the left has gone ballistic.
It's uh and you know, this kind of hysteria is precisely why Obama set the commission up to report back after the November elections.
December one is the report date.
The last thing Democrats want is a bipartisan discussion and public hearing on how their policies have screwed up the economy and how they intend to pass a VAT tax to solve a deficit problem.
They don't want any of that before the November elections.
Barack Hoover Obama does not want his economy-crushing depression era ruling class views aired at this point in time.
He wants a commission to suggest raising taxes for him.
He didn't want to have his fingerprints on it.
By the way, do you realize Obama had to take a conference call yesterday on vacation?
It's so unfair.
It is just not right.
Here we have our Young president working harder than he's ever worked in.
Oh, sorry, it's Clinton's life.
He's working very hard.
He cares so deeply.
I mean, this guy, he's only on his sixth vacation in the last eight weeks, Rachel.
You realize he had to take a conference call on the economy yesterday.
There's nothing fair here.
Listen, the state-controlled media with a montage here, trumpeting it as breaking news.
President Obama took a break from his vacation holding a conference call with his economic team.
The president took a break from his vacation to have a conference call with his economic team.
The president held a conference call from his vacation.
The president held a high-level conference call with his economic advisors.
President Obama today held a conference call with members of his economic team.
President Obama took time out of his vacation to hold a conference call with his economic team.
Meanwhile, in Martha's Vineyard yesterday, the media dared interrupt our young president's vacation with questions.
A reporter and the president had this little exchange.
We're buying shrimp, yes.
We're buying shrimp.
They're out eating fried foods.
They're talking about the restaurants they've been going to.
They're having a grand old time.
Obama's out there playing golf, saying he's had a he's having a blast, and it all got shattered.
All the wonderful good vibes of great times.
He had to take a damn conference call in the middle of his vacation.
There's just nothing fair.
It's another example of the discrimination that's uh that that our our young president faces on a daily basis.
Imagine in the middle of a vacation with your wife and kids, eating shrimp, buying shrimp, eating fried food, playing golf, and you have to take a conference call on the economy.
And nothing fair in life, folks.
Not a single thing.
Yeah, go ahead and treat it like open line Friday, and I'm gonna be here tomorrow.
Uh I just look at this on Fox Trapped Miners in Chile to get advice from NASA.
I didn't know that the trapped miners were Muslims.
I keep I I am continually surprised each and every day on this uh program.
You know, they they said that it was the uh it was the Republicans who wanted to keep the ground zero mosque flap alive, and now the media have got their poster boy for anti-Muslim backlash, this guy that tried to stab a New York cabby.
Now that that's happened, we're not gonna hear the end of it.
Guess who's gonna keep the mosque flap alive, ladies?
The media.
They think they can kill the Republican Party with the mosque story.
They've got it wrong.
They got their new Oklahoma City bombing as far as they are concerned.
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So quick brief timeout here as the uh open line Friday edition on Thursday of the Rush Limbaugh program now underway.
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As I say open line Friday on Thursday, I'll be folks.
It's uh it's time for the annual guy golf trip to Hawaii.
Uh every year at this time, the Last week of August or the first week of September, depending on the how the dates fall, and I've got to shoot a couple of um couple more uh episodes for the Haney Project for the Golf Channel.
Shot a couple this week's Sunday and Monday.
Monday of this past week, this past Monday was the first session with Hank Haney, and it's a blast.
This is gonna be so much fun.
We've got two shoots uh Tuesday, Wednesday in Hawaii, both both over on the uh on the big island.
So we're doing Open Line Friday on Thursday today.
Uh we've got Urbanski in here tomorrow, and Urbanski, as a guest host, will be interviewing my brother David on his new book, Crimes Against Liberty, and then a series of revolving guest hosts next week.
He'll be back as usual on the Tuesday after Labor Day, which is either I think it's the 6th, 6th or 7th of uh of September.
This is genuinely the slowest time of the of the year, and I thought may as well try to coordinate my vacation with Obama's sixth vacation.
Back on the 7th.
That's the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Right.
Well, I'm actually going to be back on the third.
Uh that's a weekend.
No, no, no.
I'm not saying that snerdly.
I'm just saying we'll be back on the third, be here for Labor Day weekend.
Well, we got some uh some family plans and so forth.
Now, this this uh the cabbie that that stabbed the uh the the Muslim cab driver, you know, as I said, the media's all excited.
It was the Republicans keeping the mosque issue alive, and now the media can't let go of it.
They think they've got their new Oklahoma City here.
Now, it's interesting to know this guy that stabbed a cab driver in New York, worked, he was a volunteer for a group that seeks outreach with the Muslim community, and that is for the mosque.
So the guy that stabbed the cabbie works with a group that's for the construction of the mosque near ground zero.
And uh and they're blaming everybody here.
They're running around and blaming Fox News, the Republican Party, and of course me for the stabbing of the cab driver in New York when I, ladies and gentlemen, wasn't even there.
The discovery of 72 slain Central and South American migrants on a ranch just south of the U.S. border provides that horrific reminder of the brutality of human trafficking in a country dominated by drug cartels.
That would be Mexico.
Migrants running the gauntlet up Mexico to reach the U.S. have long faced extortion, violence, and theft.
But reports have grown of mass kidnappings of migrants who are forced to give the telephone numbers of relatives in the U.S. or back home, who are then required to transfer ransom payments to the abductors.
In an April report, the leftist group, Amnesty International, called the plight of tens of thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing Mexico for the U.S. a major human rights crisis.
The report called their journey one of the most dangerous in the world and said every year an untold number of migrants disappear without a trace.
Well, maybe.
Just maybe the leftists at Amnesty International will call on the U.S. to do more to close its border.
And maybe now Amnesty International will express its support for Arizona's new legislation as well.
I'm just kidding.
We all know that the leftist group Amnesty International do nothing to try to address the root of the problem.
See, if we close the border, the migrant traffic would stop.
Their kidnapping and killing would stop if we would close the border.
Where's the outrage?
Do the lives of illegal aliens only matter when they finally get into the United States?
Is that the only time a Democrats are going to care about them?
Illegal immigrants or migrants can get mass murdered or be mass murdered before they get here in Ho-Hom, no big deal.
But when they get here, it's a whole different matter.
It's uh I don't know.
It's just another societal breakdown happening left and right and the outrage misplaced over all of these kinds of uh incidents.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites.
Chris Matthews won't leave it alone.
He won't leave it alone.
I am trying to s uh uh uh in a uh subliminal way call Obama a Muslim, which I never have.
All I've ever done is quote Moamar Qaddafi when he said Obama was a Muslim.
And these guys in the media are just beside themselves.
They don't understand why 20 to 25% of the American people think Obama is a Muslim, and a bunch of them uh decreasing number think he's a Christian.
I've been trying to help them understand.
I've been telling Matthews and anybody who listen, unlike you, we just do not blanketly believe everything Obama tells us or that you tell us.
Common sense gets in the way of mass belief.
Okay, so Obama tells us a Christian, but we don't see any sign of it.
The latest thing that Matthews has misunderstood and over the top on is, and I knew this was gonna happen.
I had it was the media tweak of the day.
I said, How in the world can the United States be considered Islamophobic when we elected a man whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?
Now, Matthew said, see, there he goes again.
He's a smart guy.
He's trying to tell everybody that he's a Muslim.
No.
I did not say the following.
I did not say, how can a country that elects a guy, Barack Hussein Obama, be considered Islamophobic?
What I said was, how can America be considered Islamophobic when it elects a man with the name of Barack Hussein Obama?
Can we all accept the fact that the name Barack Hussein Obama has links to particular cultures?
Barack Hussein Obama, those are Muslim names.
Here's a guy with a Muslim name, and he was elected president.
Therefore, how in the world can this country be said to be Islamophobic, which is the latest attempt with the left to once again uh impugn the entire population of this country?
So instead of understanding what I said, Matthews is out there trying to say I'm subliminally trying to convince people that Obama is a Muslim.
He had George Pataki on, and Pataki cleaned up with Matthews.
Here's the first of a couple of sound bites from last night's hard boiled.
Governor, it just seems to me that the people on the right of the spectrum, uh, right across the right, center right all the way over, he really don't like Muslims.
Take a look at this.
Here's Rush Limbaugh today.
Here's what he said today about the our election of well, he refers to President Obama basically as a Muslim here again.
Here he is.
Let's listen.
My question, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Feynman.
A question for you.
How can America be Islamophobic?
We elected Obama, didn't we?
If this is a nation that is Islamophobic, how do we elect a man whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?
Now, that question to me is artfully posed.
You know, I say what I mean, I mean what I say, and I love hearing myself say it.
It's just like George Brett once told me he loved hitting home runs.
Well, I can understand that.
I love being right.
I love the sound of me being right.
Just like he loved the sound of a home run off the bat.
So we elected Obama, didn't we?
If this is a nation that's Islamophobic, how do we elect a man whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?
I didn't say, how do we elect a guy who's a Muslim if we're I didn't say that?
Whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?
The exchange with George Pataki continued.
Governor, this is why I think 25 or some 30% of people think that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
This trash talking by Rush Limba, the voice of the American right here who speaks for so many Republicans, assuming that he's a Muslim because we voted for him.
That proves we're not anti-Muslim.
What do you think of guys that keep putting out lies like that?
Well, I think it's clear uh that uh Rush and I both understand that Barack Obama is a Christian.
He has expressed his Christianity.
He has shown that he goes to church, although I have doubts about uh uh his choice of the right church when he was with Reverend Wright for so many years in Chicago.
And Matthews says that Muslim students are gonna hear me and decide not to go to Michigan State.
I've just quoted Rush Limbaugh from today's broadcast, where he's making it sound like we've elected a guy who's Islamic and therefore we're not anti Islamic, playing that old game again at Kennard that he's really not a Christian.
I would think if I were a guy sitting in a Cairo cafe right now, I'd be thinking, you know, I don't really want to go to Michigan State and study engineering because those people don't like me.
How can he get mad out of it?
Why and Chris, why in the world are you thinking about a guy sitting in a cafe in Cairo?
The guy sitting in a cafe in Cairo is trying to figure out how to get out alive.
He's not trying to think about how to get into Michigan State.
I just saw a promo up there on MSNBC, Katrina, five years later coming up the disaster that keeps on giving.
Speaking of disasters, there's a couple of hurricanes out there, Hurricane Danielle and Hurricane Earl.
And the uh the media just hoping and praying that the forecast tracks are wrong.
Both tracks have a turning way north going out to sea.
One of them may skirt Bermuda.
But the media doesn't care about Bermuda.
So if it gets torn up, it's no big deal.
But uh, they're very upset.
They're very upset.
You can see when they report on the tracks of these two hurricanes.
They're gonna turn north way, way, way out there in Atlanta, they get nowhere near New Orleans, uh, nowhere near Palm Beach, where I live according to the tracks now, and you can just you can just see, you can hear the uh disappointment.
Now let's go a little bit further on this Islamophobia of the United States.
How in the world could we be considered Islamophobic if we elect a guy whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?
Do you know Barak spelled with a Q on the end?
Barack was the name of the winged horse-like creature that took Mohammed to Paradise in the famous night journey.
Barak was the name of Mohammed's horse.
Spelled with a Q. Barak, spelled with a Q can also mean Allah's blessing.
Hussein was the name of Mohammed's grandson, who was one of Mohammed's fiercest warriors.
But the question is, once what's wrong with being a Muslim?
It's not like the Muslim world declared war on the rest of us.
What's the what's what's wrong?
And in fact, speaking of, you know, Matthew's worrying about a guy in Cairo.
What's a guy in Cairo listening to the EIB network?
At first, it's what how can that be?
Then it would make perfect sense.
You know, uh guy in Cairo listening to EIB network and saying, yeah, you know what?
After hearing this, I don't want to go to Michigan State and uh and get my engineering degree.
Here's Mayor Bloomberg, who quickly is becoming one of these guys.
You put a bag of manure somewhere in front of him, he's bound to step in it.
Islam did not attack the World Trade Center.
Al Qaeda did.
To implicate all of Islam for the actions of a few who twisted a great religion is unfair and un American.
Today, we are not at war with Islam.
We are at war with Al Qaeda and other extremists who hate freedom.
Let me declare that we in New York are Jews and Christians and Muslims.
And we always have been.
And above all of that, we are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose.
There is nowhere in the five boroughs that is off limit to any religion.
Hmm.
I wonder if we should take that literally.
And above all of that, we are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose.
A Jewish guy wants to go into a mosque and pray.
Oh, come on, Rush, you know what he means.
By the way, the Japanese did not bomb Pearl Harbor.
Extreme militarists under the command of the Emperor did.
But the Japanese didn't attract Pearl Harbor.
Everybody knows that.
And the Americans did not attack Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Americans didn't do that.
Bombs did.
Bombs that happened to fall out of airplanes flying over, but the Americans didn't attack.
What is this?
This guy is just hellbent on getting this mosque built.
Now, who is Mayor Bloomberg?
Let's go back May 3rd.
CBS evening news, the Anchorette InfoBabe Katie Courick Interviewed Mayor Bloomberg.
This is about the Times Square bomber.
If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that.
Somebody who's homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something.
It could be anything.
Yeah, good.
It could be anything.
It could not be a militant Islamist.
It could not be a terrorist.
No, no, no, no.
The guy that wanted to blow up Times Square had to be a tea party.
Had to be somebody that didn't like Obama's health care plan.
That was the gut instinct.
I'm telling you, these people hate us more than they hate any American foreign enemy.
The American left, the Democrat Party, leftists, they hate conservatives more than they hate anybody else.
We are a bigger threat to them than people who would actually kill them.
To the phones in Hartford, Connecticut, we start with Steve.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Thanks for waiting.
And welcome to the program.
Yeah, Rush, where uh men are created equal because of the placement of their belly button dittoes.
I enjoyed that story some some time ago.
But anyway, um, AP also has had a report out, because you were talking AP earlier, and uh about Obama going to address the nation with um, you know, the withdrawal of the combat troops in Iraq and how successful Iraq is.
And AP said Obama should get credit for the success in Iraq.
I almost flipped out.
I couldn't believe it.
Here here's the president, he is blaming Bush for all the jobs loss.
He's blaming him for the economy, everything.
So he's willing to blame Bush for something that he did, but yet he wants to take credit for something that Bush did.
And AT is going to be a willing accomplice in the media.
And and Matthews, you just gave plenty of examples of how they just circle the wagons around this guy.
Vice President Bightney got this all started by claiming that uh our Iraq policy, the Obama Iraq policy, uh, was working and was uh one of the high points of the uh of the regime.
And of course, everybody knows that that from Bite me on down to Obama spent their entire years prior to ascending to the presidency, bashing the mission, trying to destroy it, secure defeat.
Uh Harry Reid, this war is lost.
Hell, I mean, Obama announces a troop withdrawal, and combat troops are continuing to pour in there.
Combat troops are continuing to pour into Iraq.
That you're right.
This is this is just the media trying to cover uh uh Obama's tracks and give him some high praise.
It's fascinating, too, when you consider that for all of those years the media and the Democrats did everything they could to discredit the war, and they tried to convince as many Americans as possible it was unjust and immoral and a total waste of time, a waste of troops, a waste of money, a waste, and now and now all of a sudden it was a great adventure.
It was a great example of American uh compassionate military might.
So great a mission that we have to give Obama credit for it.
This is this is what they think we're stupid.
And we're not.
We don't buy this anymore.
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