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March 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey folks, here's a shock.
Stand by, Fox News has a new poll out which finds an increase in nuclear doubts and fears.
You know, it's interesting.
I got an email last night.
Something about Snerdley, something about the shows, the programs this week is bringing more questions than I usually get.
Questions about me.
And I gotta I got a question last night in the email.
Does nothing bother you?
Do you care about anything?
All you do is make fun of everything people are concerned about.
And I got to I got to thinking about I think the question was legitimate.
By the way, welcome back.
Uh El Rushbo 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the on the program.
I don't make fun of everything.
I just I I love to illustrate absurdity.
But the qu does anything bother you?
Um the best the best way to answer this question.
I am not worried that anything happened in Japan is going to happen to the United States because it happened in Japan.
Now, I'm well aware nuclear power plants can have accidents.
I'm well aware an earthquake can happen, the earth could split open, heck, EIB network could be swallowed up tonight.
But I don't worry about it.
And I don't make the correlation.
I would never, if I ran Germany, I would never think I got to shut down my nuclear in nuclear industry because an earthquake happened in Japan.
Which, by the way, if you look at history, Japan has these kind of earthquakes, maybe not nine point oh earthquakes, but every century they have huge earthquakes.
Tokyo, the whole the whole nation.
They're not they're not unfamiliar with them.
Uh I don't know what the earthquake frequency is in Germany, but that's even beside the point.
I do not, and I am immune, folks.
I am totally immune to anything in the media making me scared.
From the stock market, you wouldn't believe, I mean, the you know me, I am constantly trying to inform myself.
I've got people who are smart sending me emails rush, you might, you know, cash is where you want to be.
I've had people for three years telling me the municipal bond market is done.
It's gonna crash, and if you don't get out of it, you're gonna be.
And I just I read them and I say, yes, sir, and I I call the people who I have hired, and I ask them now and then, I accept the answer and I move on.
I just I I am not oriented to panic.
I'm uh we're all different.
But what's happening in Japan doesn't scare me in the least.
It just doesn't.
It doesn't tell me oh my god, oh my god.
Oh well.
Well, what what what happens if what happens if a nuclear plant?
Oh, I just I'm not oriented that way.
Uh to the extent that it sounds like I don't care.
I actually what what is caring?
You know, I this came up earlier this week in regard to the Japanese thing.
Oh, it's about these guys writing uh columns.
Don't give money to Japanese people, they got their own money, they can print it.
Give money to the third world.
Don't get sucked into this.
Now you've got even the president echoing that sentiment.
That led to a discussion here of what was the concept of caring and what does caring by itself accomplish.
By itself.
What is sitting around caring about something accomplish?
Now, if it motivates you to do something, that's an entirely different thing.
But I find that most people, or a lot, particularly people on the left, want plaudits.
They want gold stars.
They think of themselves as superior people just because they care.
And if they think you why wear the ribbons?
And if you don't care, then you are, well, you're heartless and you're cold and you're cruel.
And the whole purpose of wearing ribbons, what does it do?
It's an upper for the person wearing the ribbon.
That's why on my television show, famous TV show, I once did the show every week with every ribbon known to exist on my suitcoat.
The whole week.
Whatever color there was, I explained it all to show how much I care.
Did it change any of the events I cared about?
No.
Am I cold hearted and cruel?
Not in the slightest.
Empathy.
Empathy raises our humanity.
Okay, who said that?
Voltaire?
Pascal, Henry VIII.
Dun the midnight snack.
What what?
Empathy and empath empathy is caring.
Okay, you know how I use empathy?
Empathy, whenever, and it very seldom happens, but whenever young, budding young broadcasters ask me, what is the number one characteristic you can have for success?
I say, after you've learned the language, learn to speak it and to write it the best as best you can.
Because I said if you do that, that will alone attest to your perceived intelligence.
If you can master the English language, pronouncing it, speaking it, writing it, that alone will tell people you're smart, whether you're not whether you intelligent or not, whether you have knowledge or not, that is a good way to create the perception that you are.
All that's a fundamental, I would think you're gonna be in broadcasting.
The way I use empathy, I try to empathize with the audience.
For example, right now I am engaging in empathy, and I'm asking myself while talking about, are they getting tired of hearing about this?
Are their fingers near the button on the car radio to change channels?
And if, as a successful radio host you have enough empathy with the listener, if you can put yourself in the position of listener as you are hosting or speaking, then you will know when it's time to switch.
Uh go to something else, change whatever.
Now that's that's how I use empathy professionally.
Empathy raises our humanity.
Meaning what?
Meaning if I sit here, or if anybody sits here and watches television and sees what's going on in Japan, and we feel horrible and sad and and that raises our humanity, as opposed to sitting here and looking at it and saying, well, it's five thousand miles away.
What the heck?
I can't do anything about it.
That's their problem.
I got my own.
That could happen to me someday, and I know nobody in Japan's gonna be able to help me out, I gotta take care of my is that not empathy?
And is that not I'm not saying that's what I do, I mean I'm just trying to think the opposite here.
Because if you sit here and empathize with the people in Japan, obviously not doing anything for them.
But your theory is that you are elevating your own humanity and becoming a more in touch, complete person, right?
You're a better human being.
Well then what's the point?
If it's not about becoming a better human being, what is elevating your humanity if it's not making you a better human being?
What do you mean?
Callous to the suffering that's going on in the world.
You know what Shakespeare said?
During one of his lucid moments, I contended half of what he wrote he had to be stoned, but nevertheless.
Shakespeare, and that's empathy.
Shakespeare said he jests.
He who jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Whoever laughs at scars has never felt a wound.
Well, I'm sorry, people perceive me as laughing at scars.
I have felt many wounds.
You know what I find fascinating?
I really do.
I've been in a radio twenty-three years.
That can't be an accident.
There have to be, particularly among others in this business.
There has to be an appreciation for how it happened.
It has to be a little bit of an understanding how it happened.
Yet none of that is present in any reporting on me.
This last night I got a note.
A friend of mine was reading the ABC News.com RSS feed.
And there was a story about some UCLA student who had made fun of something to do with the Japanese earthquake who'd been forced to apologize.
I was in the headline.
UCLA student Rush Limbaugh, da-da-da-da, uh feeling uh feeling uh whatever I for I forget what the headline was, but I was not in the story.
Well, you've when you read the story that you got after clicking on the link, I was not in it.
I said, Well, how did I end up in the headline?
I'm my name's even in the link to the story, but I'm not in the story.
So I started thinking, well, I know what this has to be about.
What I haven't made fun of anything about this.
I have, but I have bucked the conventional wisdom.
I haven't made fun of one aspect of this, not like Gilbert Gottfried did.
I have, or I I've not.
Joy Behar makes jokes about it, and she doesn't even know it.
She was on the View yesterday.
Uh I I forget it's uh people were telling her this is going to have any impact on food in the United States.
She says, Well, what happens if you go to a Japanese restaurant?
And I'm like, geez.
Now that's that's she was not cracking a joke, but I mean that's laughable.
No, don't go to Benihana, folks.
It's uh Japanese, you know, have an earthquake over there, there's radioactivity.
Anyway, I know what that ABC story was about, and it's because it's made the Hollywood reporter.
It's all about my I did make fun of Diane Sawyer, but not the Japanese people.
And maybe somebody in the ABC finally figured that out after they wrote the headline to say, you know, we're not going to put this in because he's not making fun of the Japanese people, he's not making the earthquake, making fun of our anchorette.
Uh recycling.
Sorry.
Was uh funny to me.
And then we did have the guy called who said, you know, poor Japanese people, they've done everything in the world to make amends to the earth for all the destruction here, and look what Gaia did.
Unleashes a tsunami on him.
I don't think that's making fun of the Japanese people.
I think that is cramming it down the throats of the liberals.
Which is what happens here on this program.
Sometimes we do it with irreverent humor.
By the way, I love Diane Sawyer.
I have talked her many times.
I've um, gosh, I have a couple secrets I could tell you about Diane Sawyer and me in ABC, but I'm not gonna go there.
Mooney Mooney Moons ago, back in the 90s.
She used to work for Nixon.
She was a former Miss America, I think, or uh contestant.
Or what have you.
But I can't think I'm the only one who finds it funny in the midst of nuclear rubble.
Wow, recycling.
It's it's like spitting on the fire in the reactor.
It's kind of not relevant.
But again, that's probably me and a lack of empathy and of lack of caring.
You just nothing seemed to worry you.
Nothing seems to bother you.
I don't worry about things that I have no control over.
I just I used to, big time.
I can't tell you the shackles I had on myself, worrying about all kinds of stuff.
I was worrying about what might happen next year if I did this or did that.
It was nothing more paralyzing in my life than to be worried about stuff I had no control over.
And in the process, I actually limited what I could control.
Anyway, I'm a little long here.
I gotta take a brief break.
We'll do that, we'll come back and continue.
Uh, Michael Ledeen has an interesting post.
Uh don't know where this well, he sent me, it's like I guess it's a column that he's put somewhere.
He sent it to me.
What would a desperate wimp do?
It is a column exploring the similarities between Jimmy Carter at this point in his second term and Obama.
And how Carter was a wimp and what he did to try to revitalize and how that can be disastrous and dangerous for a nation.
And if Obama gets to that point, what will he do?
When a wimp seeks to prove manhood, look out.
That's the point.
Brief timeout here, folks.
Back with much more on the EIB network right after this.
Very simple, folks.
What's the difference in empathy and sympathy?
Very empathy is an understanding of things.
Sympathy is feelings.
Two entirely different things.
Empathy does not involve feelings at all.
That's what sympathy is.
And sympathy's fine and dandy for a while, but after a while, what does it get you?
What is accomplished?
Snurdley is in there.
It elevates your humanity.
Okay, I get that.
Here's the sound about us talking about yesterday.
Jay Carney.
It was our friend Jacob Tappert, ABC wanting information what's going on in Japan.
See Had Tapper say the European Energy Commissioner said today about Japan there's talk of an apocalypse.
And I think the word's particularly well chosen.
So Jake Tapper thinks, yeah, I'm looking at Japan, I'm seeing apocalypse.
Practically everything seems to be out of control in Japan.
I this tapper, I don't believe that, by the way, I'm just this is tapper.
I don't believe everything's out of control in Japan.
I don't care we're anywhere near to everything being out of control in Japan.
That's nonsensical to me to say everything's out of control in Japan.
But anyway, Tapper's question.
I cannot exclude the worst in the hours and days to come.
What's going on over there right now?
We've not heard the latest information from the NRC.
That's a government agency, or from the Japanese government.
Apparently there's been something that's happened in the last few hours.
What is it, Jay?
Well, it is clearly a crisis.
There is clearly deteriorating, but what specifically is going on.
Well, again, I'm standing here at the White House.
I think you have reporters in Japan.
You have uh reporters including ones here who could uh get the technical detailed information on what we know from the NRC from the Department of Energy.
We should rely on the media, not the government.
No, no, no.
I just referred to two government agencies who can provide technical information about what we know that's happening.
Yeah, but don't ask me.
I'm just here at the White House.
What are we supposed to know?
Jake Tapper want to know what the government here thinks and what the assumption is that our government, it's always gonna know more than we know from watching TV.
Mr. Tapper, have you forgotten?
Leon Panetta said he found out about what was going on in Egypt from watching CNN.
And he's the head of the CIA.
So I learned today that Jay Carney doesn't even meet with Obama.
The press secretary doesn't meet with the president.
He reports to Dan Pfeiffer.
Dan Pfeiffer runs the sh the communication shop in the White House, and that's who Carney reports to.
Now, Gibbs and Obama were buds.
Gibbs was involved in the Oval Office meetings.
He was there.
Carney isn't.
And that's the guy they send out as the spokesman.
So he's in a he's in a real no-win situation.
So he's gonna say, well, you got reporters over there.
Why don't you ask them?
Now there's a there's a website that uh that people tell me that is the most reliable information of what's happening.
It's called the Nuclear Energy Institute.
And as of 1135 this morning, Eastern Time, this is their update from Fukushima Fukushima Daiichi.
The reactors at that plant are now in stable condition and are being cooled with seawater, but workers at the plant continue efforts to add cooling water to fuel pools at reactors three and four.
The status of the reactors at the site Is as follows.
Reactor one's primary containment is believed to be intact, and the reactor is in a stable condition.
Seawater injection into the reactor is continuing.
Reactor two is in stable condition.
Seawater injection continuing.
The reactor's primary containment may not have been breached, says Tokyo Electric Power Company and the World Association of Nuclear Operators official today.
Access problems at the site have delayed connection of a temporary cable to restore off-site electricity.
The connection will provide power to the control rod drive pump, instrumentation, batteries, and the control room.
Power has not been available at the site since the earthquake on March 11th.
Reactor three is in stable condition with seawater injection continuing.
The primary containment is believed to be intact.
Pressure in the containment has fluctuated due to venting of the reactor containment structure.
TEPCO officials say that although one side of the concrete wall of the fuel pool structure has collapsed, the steel liner of the pool remains intact based on aerial photos of the reactor taken today.
However, helicopters dropped water on the reactor four times during the morning Japan time today.
Water also sprayed at reactor four.
Reactors five and six were both shut down before the quake occurred.
Primary and secondary containments are intact at uh both reactors.
Temperature instruments in the spent fuel pools at reactors five and six are operational.
Now when you read this, this is from a site that I'm told is as credible as anything out there.
It's not a news media site, Nuclear Energy Institute.
This contradicts almost everything I'm seeing on television.
On television, it's the apocalypse.
So what are we to do?
Answer, don't panic.
EIB, El Rushbow, starting a million conversations.
And we go back to the phones now.
Lincoln, Nebraska, the place I have been numerous times.
Keith, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
How about Lincoln, Kansas this time, Rush?
Ah, you're right.
You know what?
I uh that's my fault.
I misread that.
I've not been to Lincoln, Kansas.
Oh, it's beautiful.
It's it's the limestone capital of the world.
I would like to implant in my brain the Rush Slimball computer chip for excellence in journalism.
And with your empathizing, I would like three topics real quick.
I would like to be able to give you my top three on presidential, the Libya and Japan.
Here's my top three.
I would go with the non-politician, Herman Kane, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, and on Libya, I would have never been indecisive.
I would have done just what I'd have done in North North Korea when they sunk the 53 South Koreans on the ship.
I would hit a nuclear facility.
I would go into Libya and I would dispose of them.
Hold on a minute.
I want to ask you why.
Why would you if you were president of the United States, why would you care what Qaddafi's doing?
I care because if we don't do it now, five, ten, fifteen years from now, we're going to do the same thing we did in Iraq, where there's hundreds of thousands of innocent protesters begging for us to come in there and help them.
Help us establish our standing in the world again, like in Bahrain, Iran, if they decided to protest, or even North Korea, I want them to know the United States is still there, they're powerful, and they're going to do something about it.
They're not going to be bittering, and they're not going to be they're going to just get rid of the.
Have you ever have you ever asked yourself at any time in your life?
You're young and growing up, and you start paying attention to news.
And any time something happens around the world, in any country large or small, there was always one faction of the story had to do with what the United States was going to do.
Have you ever asked yourself why does that matter?
For example, look, let's let's pick Bahrain.
You're growing up in Bahrain, and you read of some protests going on in the Philippines.
If you live in Bahrain, do you ever wonder, well, what are we going to do about that?
People I think it's the people of the United States uniquely Ask themselves, well, what are we going to do about that?
Especially when it comes to people's freedom being oppressed.
I think we're the only people in the world.
Were you like that growing up?
What do we got to do with this?
I, when I was young, that was one of the first questions I had when I was reading or uh absorbing news from from places around the world, there was always a United States angle or component to it.
I had it took me a while to understand the nature of a superpower and our role in it.
Even outside the notion that we had a competitor in the Soviet Union, here we just automatically, as Americans, okay, got problems in Libya.
We have to do something.
I don't think any people uh any nation in the world think that when something happens outside their country.
Well, why is it Well, when I was growing up in junior high in Manhattan, Kansas, there's a guy by the name of now David, a friend of mine.
Everybody made fun of him because of his glasses, the way he dressed, but he was a genius.
And I said to myself, what can I do to help this young man?
And I became his best friend, and he's one of my best friends I ever had in my life.
And that's the way I look at life in general.
I it's just like in Japan.
You ask if you're carrying well, Rush yes, you care about the 14.3 trillion dollar, you care about the 1.7 deficit.
You care about original bills, no earmarks, drill domestically.
Let's get energy independence.
You do care, but what can you do?
What can you do about it, Rush?
I mean, you you address the problem, you hit it right on the head, and and the thing about Japan is these people are getting 3,200 micro sieberts of uh radiation.
The average person gets 6200 a year, 100,000 in lifetime it takes to have health problems, 50,000 in lifetime is your average radioactivity that you will receive.
So I do I do I care, do I empathize?
Do I s have sympathy for Japan?
Yes, I do.
But you know what, though?
It's gonna all turn out to be sensationalism and journalism.
Well, that's part of it.
But I'm I'm I'm basically focusing on what it is to be an American.
And we do think there's something we could do in Japan.
Some think there's something we should do.
There are a lot of us that think only we can do it.
It's relatively new in this country that we have leaders who say, hey, you can print your own money, go ahead and handle it yourself.
That's new.
It's really new to have a president who basically tunes out, makes a speech now and then, and it supposedly fixes it, solves it, covers it, or what have you.
I find it I find it incredibly uh noteworthy that we are the only country in the world where an event outside our country happens, I don't care what, it could be large or small, once we hear look Somalia.
I'll never forget how that happened.
The New York Times publishes a picture on the front page, black and white picture, of an obviously starving Somali child with insects hovering around his head, and that was it.
The president was forced to send a military over there in a meals on wheels operation.
The American people demanded it.
Pictures being very powerful things.
I dare say that on that continent, there wasn't one country upon seeing that picture, well, we got to do something about this.
They probably said the U.S. has got to do something about this, or we'll join the U.S. if they do, but I doubt the Brits get up and say, gosh, look at all the suffering in some Malica.
We got to do something.
But they're closest to us in that.
And they're they're they're very uh uh crucial or important allies.
So, well, see, that's that's what it boils down to.
It's you know, I I'm asking everybody, okay, why what okay, yeah, Qaddafi and and and the Pan Am, the downing of Pan Am Jet, you know, Qaddafi and worldwide terrorism.
Gaddafi, yeah, I can understand we've got our grievances with Qaddafi, but all of a sudden we got some rebels there.
Why in the world do we care?
What it's and the and the answer is always boils down to morality.
The United States has always been the moral force for freedom and goodness and decency.
Isn't that why so many of us just revolt at the view of this country held by the left and our current regime?
They find our country flawed.
They don't think we have any moral superiority when it comes to freedom and liberty.
There is no such as beacon business.
They may say the words, their policies don't follow it up.
But it it's not only, folks, it's not only that when we see events around the world happen that we say to ourselves, what are we going to do about it?
We just naturally assume that there's something we could or should do about it.
Everybody else in the world is looking to us too.
Everybody else, what's the United States going to do?
Who is the first on the scene when there's a disaster?
It's always us.
American exceptionalism, American superpower status, economic might, moral superiority, whatever you want to cause it, or call it, but it is that moral superiority that gives the left problems.
They don't believe it.
They look at this country as immoral.
And they'll tell you why.
Slavery, racism, sexism, bigotry, lack of agreement, the same-sex, marriage, you name it.
The fact that we don't grant amnesty, the fact that we don't open our borders, let virtually anybody, how can we claim to have any moral superiority, the moral force of the world when we are so inherently flawed ourselves?
So it leads to these internal battles between ourselves inside the country.
Meanwhile, if we don't take action somewhere, that's why Libya is important, what is the Mid East going to become if we stay out of it?
And that's too frightening to contemplate.
If you throw the United States in the mix of this, in within the rubric of our moral obligation and our moral, maybe superiority is the wrong word, but uh we we do have a moral standing, particularly in the areas of standing for liberty and freedom, people who want to escape tyranny and oppression.
We've always been the country around the world where that happened.
Freedom was up to us.
That's why it was so important to maintain and guarantee our own.
If we didn't do that, it was worthless to anybody else.
So if we just say, okay, well, the Middle East, what right do we have to be there?
If we're not there, what does it become?
And in that regard, how are our interests affected?
And it could be disastrous if we stay out of it.
Most people confuse, not most, a lot of people confuse our desire to do something with Qaddafi as trying to impose our will on a bunch of people who have no desire to see that imposition, which is really not in the old days the express purpose of U.S. foreign policy.
The purpose of U.S. foreign policy was to protect our own national interests.
Now, in the case of the Middle East, what if a multination total Al Qaeda or Taliban run Middle East is the result of what goes on there?
After Qaddafi, after Mubarak, uh whatever happens in Bahrain, suppose suppose the militant Islamists get hold of the Saudi oil supply, and next to Abu Dhabi or Qatar,
we can't allow it to happen, but not just because of our selfishness, but because the free flow of oil around the world at market prices is in fact the fuel of the engine of freedom.
And if we punt, it's not just that we're getting out of it because we have no business there and they have self-determination.
The people in these countries are not exhibiting self-determination.
The rebels in uh in Libya may in fact be trying to express self-determination.
We're still trying to figure out what it all means in uh in Egypt.
But it's best to have a role in this for our own national interest and the interests of freedom and liberty here and around the world.
But if you don't have a leader articulating that, if you don't have an administration with that as a guiding principle of their foreign policy, then you're gonna have nothing but mud, murkiness, and confusion, which is gonna lead to dispiritedness and a loss of a sense of purpose of the United States.
And I'll tell you, I I am I'm really worried that that is what's happening now.
That around the world, people are questioning the purpose of the United States where they never did before.
They're questioning our commitment as a people and as a nation to the concept of freedom.
Now, those of you who are young, born in this country and never been anywhere else, you don't know the rest of the world.
You don't know the story of humanity, and sadly it's not being taught to you in schools.
You hear this, uh you hear the term American exceptionalism, and it can mean many things, but it does not mean that we are better people than anybody else in the world.
It does not mean that we are special because we were born here.
The rule, if you look at history, the story of humanity has been poverty, misery, imprisonment, tyranny, dictatorship, starvation, massive suffering.
The exception to that is the United States.
That's why, to me, we are exceptional.
And why are we, why has human freedom been the dominant theme of this country?
Why has realizing individual dreams ninety-five percent of all human beings who have lived since creation were denied the opportunity to fulfill their dreams, their main number one objective was surviving against the stranglehold of other human beings.
That has never been a concern of people in the United States.
Our concerns are much less dangerous.
Our concerns are can I be first in line to get the new iPad?
Our concerns are how do I prolong my life and get better health care?
And I'm not belittling our concerns.
I'm trying to draw a contrast here and to stipulate what's special about this country, why we are looked at the way we are, and why we're looked to the way we are, and what is exceptional about us.
And what's frightening is that we don't now have an administration that accepts or believes any of that.
There's nothing special about this country.
In fact, our crimes, if you will, our transgressions far outweigh whatever goodness there has been in this country.
It's time for us to pay a price.
That's what this current regime believes in many ways.
So Middle East on fire.
Let's go play golf.
Let's go to ASP and give you my brackets.
Send Mrs. Clinton over there without a message, without a mission, that so upsets her she wants to check out of everything, which is the only benefit.
The UK, the Brits, uh, ladies and gentlemen, when they were a superpower, and they voluntarily gave it up, they voluntarily withdrew from the world.
And almost simultaneously they opened their borders.
And it's been downhill ever since.
When they were a superpower, they used to concern themselves with the problems of the world.
Do you does the name Wilberforce mean anything to you?
You ever heard that name William Wilberforce?
He is the guy who abolished slavery in the world.
He's a Brit.
And a beautiful, wonderful movie was made about it.
It it uh didn't get a whole lot of attention.
I saw the screener.
I talked about it on the program.
No, he was just a he was just a uh traitor, and he helped rid the world of the he got rid of slavery and the slave trade in uh in the UK, William Wilberforce.
Philip Anschutz's company made the uh made the movie about it.
But If you spend any time, I've I marveled every time I go to Europe, go to the UK, turn on Sky News, BBC, go to Italy, wherever I've been in the world.
It's incredible.
Every news story has to do with what the United States will do about whatever the problem of the day is.
Don't care where you go.
Every news story, particularly foreign policy, will deal with some quote from some American foreign policy person what the U.S. role in that story is going to be.
It's probably the same all over the world.
It's everybody looks to us.
So it's shocking to see headlines about how we're waiting for a UN resolution about going into Libya.
This is just not who we are.
We're the ones going to the UN trying to get a coalition put together, as in Iraq.
Now in Libya, it's a tough call, which is why Obama's by no means qualified.
In Libya, the opposition probably largely influenced by Al Qaeda.
The rebels in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are largely Shiites, which is influenced by Iran.
Now these are tough calls, what side to come down on.
It's not a show.
It's not a speech.
It's why we need somebody with good judgment at the helm who has an interest in U.S. interest in it, and it doesn't appear that that's the case.
House of Representatives has voted along party lines to proceed with a measure to bar federal money to NPR.
I've been looking, and I can't find uh any news stories where the House of Representatives has made their sweet 16 picks.
The uh NCAAs.
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