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Feb. 8, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, the uh the uh one of the uh chamber of commerce speaking.
I'm not looking, we did that the first hour.
I don't even want to go forward.
I'm not even gonna, I'm not gonna play any of that speech.
I've already analyzed it.
I've already told people what they need to know about it, what the press is gonna do, try to compare Obama to JFK.
I mean, here's Obama trying to tell a Chamber of Commerce what to do.
It just nonsensical.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
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Against thanks to Secretary Rumsfeld for 45 minutes with us in the previous hour.
We'll have that transcribed soon and posted at rushlimbaugh.com so the media can misquote it accurately.
We always try to get stuff up there fast for them so that the drive-bys can make sure that they have the evidence they need to fully misquote it accurately and on purpose.
By the way, U.S. government, Wall Street Journal story, bulletin just crossed the wires.
A government investigation into Toyota safety problems has found no electronic flaws to account for reports of sudden unintentional acceleration.
Transportation officials and engineers with NASA say two mechanical safety defects previously identified by the government are the only known cause.
Both issues were the subject of large recalls, but there were no electronic flaws in Toyota's.
Now, where does Toyota go to get its reputation back?
Toyota had the U.S. government, which owns two of its competitors, Obama Motors and Chrysler, claiming that Toyotas were killing people.
And they had a bunch of drivers that, yeah, I was driving along, and I was almost going to die.
I was almost going to die.
The accelerator stuck in the brake wouldn't work, and I thought I was going to die.
And it miraculously didn't die.
They miraculously, somehow, the car stopped, or a cop car came up and somehow shepherded them off the road to safety.
Never mind, no problem.
So where do they go?
Where does Toyota go?
Poor old Toyota.
Mr. Toyota himself comes up, did everything but commit Hari Kari before a U.S. Congressional Committee on this.
Do you remember all of this?
This poor little guy and his management team up there being made to eat every excrement sandwich in the world, listening to all this pontificating from Democrats on the committee talking about how deadly their cars were.
And Mr. Toyota said, we take this as a matter of personal honor and pride.
I will commit honeycomb right now if you want.
We'll commit suicide.
I will honor and dison resign and dishonor this role.
Just and there was nothing.
Nothing.
A government investigation into Toyota safety problems has found no electronic flaws to account for reports of sudden unintentional acceleration, which is what got all the news.
Because somehow somebody found a couple of drivers to go out there and claim that their accelerators were sticking.
It just infuriates me from the Associated Press yesterday.
The regime is proposing a short-term relief to states saddled with unemployment insurance debt, coupled with a delayed increase in the income level used to tax employers for the aid to the jobless.
So here it is, folks.
This is the beginning of bailouts for the states and their unions.
Except this bailout already began with the stimulus, gave the states $150 billion in taxpayer money.
But Mr. Obama wants to help the irresponsible, mostly blue states that have ruined their economies and given so much to their public sector unions that they're now broke.
And now the taxpayers in responsible states are going to get to bail them out once again.
So here you go.
The administration plans to include the proposal in its budget plan next week.
The plan was described late yesterday by a person familiar with it, although he wanted anonymity.
Rising unemployment has placed such a burden on states that 30 of them owe the federal government $42 billion in money borrowed to meet their unemployment insurance obligations.
Three states already have had to raise taxes to begin paying back the money that they owe.
More than 20 other states likely will have to raise taxes to cover their unemployment insurance debts.
Under federal law, such tax increases are automatic once the money owed reaches a certain level.
So this AP article almost makes it sound like long-term unemployment benefits are not such a good thing, unless Obama can come along and bail them out.
Two of the nation's foremost economic experts, Nancy Pelosi and Austin Goolsby, you'll recall, have repeatedly assured us that giving out long-term unemployment money was the best thing we could do to stimulate the economy.
Remember, that stimulates economic growth.
What, every dollar in unemployment gave us $1.80?
I forget the numbers on economic return.
It was facetious then.
It's facetious now.
And so now we're going to have to bail out the states.
Why?
If unemployment compensation, if unemployment benefits, if extending them is such a boon to the economy.
So here you have it, folks.
I'm just warning you.
And along the same lines, this is from the Wall Street Journal.
Obama Motors is planning to pay its hourly workers in the U.S. at least $3,000 each in profit-sharing payouts.
That's the largest amount ever.
After the company's return to profitability in 2010.
Now, when they say General Motors is planning to pay this bonus, that means that we, the taxpayers, are going to pay the bonus because General Motors still hasn't paid back whatever Obama lent them to be purchased or what have you.
So Obama Motors, in the next week, expected to disclose the size of profit-sharing checks that go to 45,000 workers as part of an automaker's contract with the United Auto Workers Union.
This figure is still being finalized.
Now, isn't it cozy?
Ladies and gentlemen, the UAW, the owners, get to give themselves bonuses.
I mean, the UAW owns part of the company for crying out loud.
They get to give themselves bonuses now using our money.
Who else has bonuses built into their contract?
So this Wall Street Journal reporting this, it's been out there in a number of other places as well.
Blue Dog Democrats might support a plan from House Republicans to cut $32 billion in discretionary spending this year.
The Blue Dog Democrat openness to the Republicans comes amid strained relations with Nancy Pelosi.
Yesterday, the Blue Dog leader, Heath Schuller, a new Democrat from North Carolina, who challenged Pelosi for the job of Democrat leader, said the coalition has been shut out by Pelosi's office.
The only power that the Democrats in Congress are going to have is when they caucus with the Republicans.
They're going to be shut out totally.
They're not going to have any power.
Not that the Republicans are going to shut them out, but they just don't have any power.
If they want to have a role in anything coming out of the House of Representatives for their own reelection efforts, they're going to have to sign up with the Republicans here.
And as far as the blue dogs are concerned, Pelosi is still upset that a whole bunch of them are still in there, and she is still willing to thin the herd.
Pelosi would love it if there are only 150 Democrats in the House, as long as they were full-fledged, 100% leftists, no moderate Democrats, no blue dogs, of which there really aren't any anyway, but in her way of thinking.
So, all these hand-wringing stories of the plight of the Democrats.
Oh, it's so bad.
Pelosi doesn't want anything to do with them.
Brief time out, my friends.
We'll come back, and your phone calls are next here on the EIB network.
Sit tight.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you a little story.
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He was listening to this program last October, and he heard me talking about the ESTEAM hearing implant.
It's a revolutionary way to revive your hearing.
And he was hard of hearing, and he used a hearing aid, turned up almost had a volume all the way up to be able to hear anything, including the radio.
He heard about the ESTEAM on this program, the implantable device that restores hearing using the eardrum.
There's no microphone.
It just uses your ear, your residual hearing, and amplifies that within the ear.
He had surgery.
He decided to go out after hearing about the device.
He had his surgery in November, a week before Thanksgiving.
They activated the device seven weeks later.
It's anywhere from four to seven weeks.
They have to wait for the swelling to come down after the surgery before they can turn it on, activate it, and tune it.
So he had his turned on and activated in January on schedule, and he claims that the results are miraculous.
In this note, he sent a note to all of his friends here, dated January 21st.
I get a copy of it.
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So that's what he says here.
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Here is Liz in Mansfield, Texas.
Liz, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm so excited.
I'm a first-time caller.
I never thought I'd be calling you about an item in my own backyard.
Let's see, Texas Backyard Arabic in the schools.
That's what you're calling about, right?
And I, yes, thank you.
First of all, the first issue I have with it is that it's mandatory.
The second is basically immersing the entire school curriculum from the opening bells, the closing bell every day.
And the third way was the sneaky way that our school board handled it.
Yeah, these are, there's some, if you're just joining us, folks, some Dallas area schools, intermediate and elementary schools have made Arabic mandatory now.
And not just the language, but also cultural education about it.
And they didn't tell the parents.
They just instituted it.
And of course, the reasons given, well, you know, it's the language of the future.
Or, well, these are things that our students need to know or what have you.
Now, naturally, if you're a parent of one of the students in one of these schools, you're saying, well, why not tell us?
And what's so important about this?
And then you start thinking, okay, well, who's behind this and why, really?
What is the motivation for this?
That's what people are wondering, right?
Well, that's my issue, too.
I had my child in private school right now, but we planned to put him in public school when it came time for intermediate.
Well, you have to think about that again then.
If this is mandatory, you're going to change your mind on that?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
We'd consider another private school, a different school district.
As far as from what I've heard this morning, the current plan to implement this is on hold indefinitely.
Now, how long that remains that way, or, you know, who knows?
Yeah, well, I think they got quite a miracle from the parents.
Yeah, they did.
But let me just warn you about something here.
And I'm just trying to be realistic, not pessimistic.
Liberalism never gets put on hold.
Let me put it this way.
Liberalism never stays on hold.
They will put themselves on hold.
But after they think that you've kind of died down and they've weathered the storm, they'll be back, perhaps in an even more circuitous route.
Now, the Department of Education is paying for this.
This is the result of a Department of Education grant, Liz, and it's being implemented in five other schools across the country that we haven't even heard about yet.
Four other schools, five total.
Well, the biggest issue I have is that they're making it mandatory for those particular campuses.
Why?
They're not giving it as an option.
It's mandatory.
Why?
I wish I knew.
I think I would need to see the terms of the grant because I have a feeling there's something coming down from Washington that requires them to make it mandatory.
Otherwise, it could be an optional program.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
But this is, I would think when people hear about this, this is Dubai Ports deal number two.
I mean, it's not.
You don't think it's Dubai Ports deal number two, certainly?
You don't?
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Well, look, we don't know that.
Okay.
Let's say that what's behind this, Liz, is these enlightened educators simply taking it upon themselves to prepare their students for the reality of the world to come.
That Arabic will be a predominant language in the world.
This is what they think, and they're simply exercising their rights or their responsibilities as educators.
NASA transformed as a reach out to Muslims and Muslim scientists.
We've had the Dubai Ports deal.
That didn't last long.
But this is, you know, out of the blue, we're told that Arabic is the language of the future.
You've got to say, who's telling us this?
And why do they think so?
Whoever heard of that?
Arabic being the language of the future?
When I was growing up, it was going to be either French or Spanish.
My dad told me Spanish back when I was in junior high.
Junior High in high school, it's going to be the 60s.
So Arabic.
Mandatory.
She's right.
There are a lot of people that are very concerned about this in her own backyard.
Liz, thanks much.
This is Ben in Brooklyn.
You're next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
I just wanted to point out that Mr. Obama is the opposite of JFK.
JFK said, ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you.
And here he's telling everybody to demand health care from their country.
He goes into a room and speaks to a handful of corporations.
Corporations, not people.
The 43% of the country who are not paying taxes, who are giving nothing to their country and taking.
United R workers who are being bailed out by their fellow citizens and are not contributing the way that everybody is expected to.
Those are the people he's supposed to address.
Well, we were told, no, don't forget, at the passing of Senator Kennedy, we were told that Obama was the last of the Kennedy brothers.
Bill Clinton was the first black president, and Obama's the last of the Kennedy brothers.
And you're right.
I mean, if the Obama presidency had a subtitle, it would be line up here for your benefits.
Right.
Trying to invoke JFK.
Thanks, Ben.
Appreciate it.
This is Buck in San Antonio, Texas.
Hello, Buck.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, Limp Ball getting chummy with Rummy.
You know, those who want to rewrite history can't escape reality, and the world is united on that.
So let me tell you something, Mr. Nostradumis.
Here's a prediction for you.
Rummy's book, Bombs.
Here's something else for you.
Okay?
Suicide is a solution.
Do something for the country instead of doing something for yourself.
Wait a second.
Hey, hey, Buck, is this really you?
Hey, this is your castrati.
You remember me?
I know you don't like to take real questions, but today you do.
No, no.
Today you do.
Is this the guy you spoke to?
Is this Buck, though?
Is this the guy who told you his name is Buck?
That's right, son.
All right.
So you.
Homicide is a solution.
Hang on, you are the guy that identified yourself as...
You were for the country.
Why would...
Why would you want to kill yourself?
Things are not that bad, Buck.
I can understand you being, you're already confused.
And I can understand you wanting to end it all.
I can understand you looking out there and thinking things are bleak.
A lot of us do.
But for crying out loud, man, don't run out there and kill yourself is not going to help anybody.
Snurby, why are you giving me a phone call?
Somebody wants to commit suicide and sounds happy about it.
Here we are.
We're on a roll here.
And was this guy, he's a member of the new Castrate, obviously.
Buck, I know you're teasing about it, but in case you're serious, you got to be at least three stories up.
Here's Steve in Germantown.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You better say I've been waiting long, but I wanted to comment on the recent tragic shooting of the president at Ford's Theater.
But anyway, it's hard to follow Buck.
But I wanted to comment when I was listening to you talk about the Media, the way they're hoisting Obama up on the shoulders of JFK, and they've been doing it with Reagan, and there's references to other presidents.
It just occurs to me, who is Barack Obama?
All he is, is a caricature of some other president.
Exactly right.
Whoever he is, they can't tell us that.
When it's re-election time, Obama is either Reagan, now he's JFK.
But he can't be Obama.
Wouldn't put up with that.
All right, let me explain this call from that new Castrati guy, Buck, who wanted to go commit suicide.
By the way, Buck, I need to include one more bit of information.
You got to be at least on the third floor, preferably higher.
And then jump into an alley, not the streets, so that you don't stall any traffic.
Now, the reason Snerdley put Buck up there was that Buck wanted to ask me what I thought of the halftime show at the Super Bowl.
So during the break here, Snerdley asked me what Buck never got around to.
And I said to him, I'll just tell you what I told him.
I said, from the vantage point I had, I was at the ring of honor level at Cowboy Stadium, and I had 40 clients at the Super Bowl this weekend.
I do it every year, but this was the first in four years I've stayed for the game.
Normally I go down for a Friday night dinner, and then I come home and I host my own party on Sunday at my fashionable Oceanside estate.
But this year, I decided to stay for the entire weekend.
We had just a great, great client dinner on Friday night at Nick and Sam's.
Al Michaels came by, said some words beforehand.
Michael Irvin, I asked him to come by and do 30 minutes on what it was like to appear in one of the game.
And he had, Michael Irvin had people in the palm of his hand.
He did one of the most dramatic, heart-stopping 30-minute explanations of what it's like to play in a Super Bowl, what this one was going to be like, what it's like in the tunnel going out for the game, especially your first one.
And then Al Michaels and his wife came back.
They left after his little 30-minute opening speech, Q ⁇ A, and so forth.
This is the second time Al's done that.
He left to go to Commissioner's Party.
He came back because the food over there was bad.
So he came back to Nick and Sam's, and we finished eating dinner about 10 or 11 o'clock on Friday night.
Yeah, and we played football in the back room.
Catherine and I went back there.
We got some pictures playing football.
We set out a football field in the back.
We took over the wine room.
And Robert Kraft and his wife Myra of New England Patriots were there.
We're having a grand old time.
So Sunday, Saturday, we just basically, Catherine and I took the day off.
We did have a fundraising thing on Saturday night.
But went to the game on Sunday, and we're in a corner suite.
We've got 46 people in there.
And we're on the Steelers side in the corner down the Steelers' end zone.
Great view of everything.
And there are about six or seven televisions in there, but none of them have closed captioning.
And the volume's turned up.
I can't hear anything coming out of speakers.
It's just even if I could hear it, I wouldn't be able to comprehend it without closed captioning on, and I didn't care.
He had Jerry Jones' big 30-yard line to 30-yard line video board up there.
And here's what I just told everybody.
And this is just me.
But I didn't feel like I watched a Super Bowl game.
I thought I watched a game that wasn't much more exciting than a regular season game.
This is not a slap at what happened.
This is not because I'm a Steelers fan that they lost.
I never thought the Steelers were in this game.
The game I watched, I didn't think they were ever, ever in it.
I didn't think they ever had a chance to win this thing.
After the first three and out, the Packers were able to stop them or cause a turnover.
The Steelers could not stop the Packers.
It was just a matter of time.
It just, it, it, now, stick with me on this, and I'll tell you, I have a different perspective after watching it on television when I got home.
Snerdley asked me about the halftime show.
Well, this is the first halftime show at a Super Bowl I have seen in, I don't know, the last time I went to a Super Bowl was 15 years ago, and I never stayed for the halftime show.
I went someplace.
I'm watching this.
Can't hear the lyrics, have no idea what this group is singing.
All I can see is the production.
And I've never seen anything like it.
For what they did in 20 minutes to set this up and seeing this in person, I was, well, I was impressed.
It was just amazing.
Usher comes down and does, he should have been the headliner, I guess, but he came down and did his little cameo.
But I thought, well, this is amazing.
So after the game, we're driving home and I get out the iPad and I start reading up on the game and I find out all kinds of things I had no clue that happened.
I didn't know Charles Woodson had broken his collarbone and didn't play for most of the game.
I didn't know they lost the other cornerback.
I didn't know the Steelers lost Emmanuel Sanders.
I didn't know that Flozell Adams got hurt.
I knew none of that.
None of us in the booth knew any of that.
Had no clue.
So I decided I'm going to watch this because I TVO'd the games.
I'm going to watch it on TV.
I'm going to see if my perspective of this changes.
And I watched enough to get through the first half last night, and it does look entirely different on TV.
It has an entirely different feel on TV.
Not so much because of the announcers, but because of what cameras show you that you don't see on replays.
You don't get the replays in the stadium that you get on television.
You get it from the TV crew inside the stadium.
You get some of them, but not all of it.
And you don't know which is which.
You don't know what you're seeing that the TV audience is seeing and what they're not.
So I've got to watch the second half and this supposed vaunted Pittsburgh comeback, but they supplied.
I mean, the Steelers had a little momentum here in the third quarter than Richard Mendelhaul fumbles on the first play, third quarter.
But, you know, look, I'm not trying to depress anybody here, but I just, after the first two series, I thought this game's over.
I just, well, what about the last two minutes when Rothesburger had two minutes left?
For some reason, I didn't think this was going to happen this time.
I didn't think we're facing another minute and a half miracle march because it hadn't happened.
There hadn't been any indication the previous 58 minutes that they were going to pull this off.
So I don't know.
That's just not, I was not depressed about it.
I'm just an objective opinion of what I was watching.
So I'm going to watch the second half tonight and see if I have a different opinion of it watching it on television.
I had, again, I had no clue anybody was hurt.
And I had no clue that the black-eyed peas had ripped Obama in their lyrics about needing jobs.
I was stunned when I finally read the review of the halftime show and they were getting ripped to shreds.
I'm thinking, well, it's a good thing I'm not in the music review business because I thought it was good.
I thought the production was amazing.
Snerdley is telling me he thought it was the most horrible, inept thing he's ever seen on television.
So I'll have to watch it on TV to see if I have any different impression of it.
But the visual explosion, I mean, they had the entire stadium involved in that show.
They had hundreds of people on the field.
They had the whole, they had these, what do you call these glow sticks.
I didn't bother opening mine.
You know, I don't let everybody else play around.
I didn't open my glow stick, but everybody else did.
The stadium lights up doing that.
So visually, I thought it was a treat.
Musically, I couldn't hear the lyrics.
I couldn't hear the melody.
It wouldn't have mattered who the group was.
That would have been the case for me.
But this is, again, no slam to the Packers.
I don't want anybody to misunderstand here.
I just, I don't think that that game gets even close to some of the so-called great exciting Super Bowl games that we've ever had.
But that's just me being there in person watching it with about 50% knowledge of what all was really going on in that field.
Pure and simple.
Okay.
Now that's what Buck wanted to know.
But instead, Buck wanted to commit suicide.
So, yeah, one other question.
The seat cunt.
Yeah, I saw the seats.
I saw the seats not being used.
I didn't know anything about that until after the game.
Seat gate?
I just looking outside the suite.
I said, what are all those seats down there not being used?
What's all this seats folded up?
What is all that?
How come there are any empty seats in this place?
That's all I knew.
I didn't know there was a seat gate.
Again, I didn't know 90% of what I know about the game until I'm in the car going home after turning on my iPad.
Okay, folks, judging from my email, it's apparent the reason that I thought the halftime show at the Super Bowl was good was precisely because I could not hear the lyrics or hear any of the performances.
Okay, I have not seen any of the commercials.
As I was watching what I've seen in the game, I forward through them.
I have not taken the time to read the commitment.
One of the one other thing.
Oh, folks, I just want to, poor old Buck.
I don't know that it's happened, but it is certainly possible that we all may have probably paid for Buck's sex change operation via Obamacare.
There's a number of things going on here that would lead to that poor unfortunate circumstance.
That's why we dealt with it with as much compassion as we could.
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By the way, episode five of the Haney Project airs tonight at 9 Eastern on the Golf Channel.
This is the episode I've been, of all the episodes, this is the one to watch.
This is when it all comes together.
And it all came together after I had left Haney.
It all came together.
He's in China.
He's doing other things.
And I'm doing trying to implement what he has changed about my swim.
It all comes together.
He sees it for the first time tonight.
And it's just great.
Now, one thing over the weekend in Dallas, a couple people came up to Catherine and, oh, we enjoy seeing you on the Haney Project.
And I just wanted, that's not Catherine.
Catherine is not on the Haney project.
That is Suzanne.
That is Haney's wife.
Catherine has, Catherine doesn't want to be on the show.
She doesn't have any desire to see a camera and get in front of it.
So I just wanted to pass it along.
I was shocked.
I think they were just trying to be nice.
But it's amazing.
Television is one of these.
It's just amazing.
You know, nobody on television ever remembers anything you say.
They remember what they think you look like or how you looked or what have you.
But on radio, in order to have a connection, that's why I love it.
People hear what you say, and that's what they respond to.
Television is a little bit different thing.
So people came up over the weekend.
Catherine, I really like you on the Haney project.
She's not on it.
I just wanted to make that clear for people in case there's been any confusion.
I'm stunned that there has been, but nevertheless, Don in Des Moines, Iowa, you're next on the program.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
While I was on hold, I had called in prior to Uncle Buck calling in, and I was screaming at the phone, almost hung up, but I've kind of collected myself.
I am a little bit nervous.
But just what I remember about Mr. Rumsfeld is in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, if you remember correctly, Don Rumsfeld refused to leave the Pentagon.
He stayed there until making sure all the people got out.
The Secret Service, his security detail, was trying to get him to leave.
He rolled up his sleeves and he was there doing the hard work.
While Nancy Pelosi was jetting off every weekend back home to California, while John Kerry was out making excuses why he voted for the war, he was against it before he was for it, and then he was for it.
He could never make up his mind.
All the liberals that said all the nasty things they said about Rumsfeld and Bush, Rumsfeld was at the military hospitals visiting the troops, visiting their families quietly, never saying anything until eventually he had had enough.
Then he came out and responded to them.
And you can take Buck, maybe before he commits suicide, maybe he would make a trip to Washington, D.C., get all the liberals in Congress, all the progressives, all the independents that can't make up their mind, and the Republicans that try to jump on the anti-Rumsfeld bandwagon, gather them all up together in one pile, and calculate the sum total of all their character, their integrity, their morality.
It wouldn't even equal the square root of the integrity and the character found deep within the soul of Don Rumsfeld.
Yeah, that's and I thank you for putting him on.
That's a great way to put it.
It's hard to get your arms around the fact, but he said he was elected and he's 32 years old.
He's coming up on 78.
To me, I find that he meets Cheney.
We all know Cheney is vice president, Darth Vader, all these things.
He met Dick Cheney when Cheney shows up applying to be an intern in his congressional office.
And they are best friends to this day.
Social friends, business friends, and so forth.
Rumsfeld has been, he has seen everything.
He has seen it all from as many vantage points as possible.
And this book is surprisingly candid and open about most of it, 815 pages, with a lot of stuff that was declassified.
But you're right.
Rumsfeld, he refused to leave the Pentagon despite the smoke that was leaking into the National Military Command Center.
He's a true patriot.
He's a genuine statesman.
And he didn't have to put up with any of that.
He didn't need any of this.
But he's a devoted public servant and a true patriot.
And I feel flattered that I've gotten annoying just a little bit because he's a prince of a man, great American.
And I appreciate your call, and we'll take a brief time out.
I'll be right back after this.
Don't go away.
I know, I know.
I'm being told, Rush, you really, you really, by telling people that your wife is not going to be on the Haney show, do you realize what damage you've done to potential ratings?
Yeah, yeah, but what can I say?
Catherine is her own woman, and it's not her on the show.
Just wanted to stress that.
Chicagoland, Blago lawyers claim the tape phone conversations with Rahm Emmanuel have disappeared from evidence.
We're not shocked.
Don't act surprised sturdily.
You're not surprised that evidence has disappeared in Chicago.
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