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RUSH: Here\u2019s Ralph in the Jersey Shore. Ralph, thank you for waiting. It\u2019s great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m okay. Doing pretty well.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I\u2019m not. I\u2019m very, very upset. First of all, I just want you to know that I\u2019m a former US Marine Recon, Vietnam veteran, and to hear what I heard this morning on this radio, on this station from Geraldo Rivera, who, by the way, is very dangerous because he likes to make people believe that he\u2019s a conservative, but, oh, my God.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Geraldo Rivera —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hold it, whoa, whoa. Geraldo is trying to do what? Make people think he\u2019s conservative?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Yeah, he\u2019s middle of the road, but I lean to the conservative side, that kind of thing. This morning he said —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, here\u2019s the thing. You know the poll you gave before about the veterans, like myself, that are gonna vote for Romney, it\u2019s like 28% more?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: His comment to that was, and I heard it with my own ears, that\u2019s probably because they\u2019re from the South, they\u2019re religious, and not very bright. Probably Republicans. That\u2019s his exact words. I was out doing my run this morning, I almost ran into a wall.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, look, this should not be news to you. Ralph, you know full well that the Democrat Party even pre-Obama, pre-Geraldo, the Democrat Party has denigrated — and this has made me so mad over the years. I\u2019ve talked about it on this program. They have claimed the only reason people join the military is because they\u2019re either stupid or America is in such bad shape, it\u2019s such an unjust country that that\u2019s the only chance some of these poor people have to get an education, to get a job. America is such a forlorn place that the military is their only option. I read this and alternately, as you heard, they have really been insulting of military people. They\u2019re shortsighted. They\u2019re not very bright. They\u2019re just a whole bunch of warmongering Second Amendment types, can\u2019t wait to pull the trigger, all this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ve always asked myself, “Okay maybe you\u2019re anti-war, but why denigrate these people? What\u2019s in it for you to denigrate these people? They\u2019ve done nothing but offer their lives in sacrifice for your freedom. Why do you find it necessary to insult them?” What is it that makes the left think they have to go out and personally impugn people like you? You\u2019ve never done anything to them. All you\u2019ve done is put yourself up as the line of defense for them. It\u2019s always made me very angry. I said I\u2019ve never understood it. Well, I do understand it. I know exactly why they do it. They\u2019re just flat-out mean people when you get right down to it. And it\u2019s really no more complicated than that. But there\u2019s some ideological aspects to it as well. But it frosts me. Okay, so you\u2019re anti-war. You may not like war. You may think we shouldn\u2019t be in Iraq. You maybe think we shouldn\u2019t have gone to Afghanistan. These people volunteered. So we even have to denigrate that. <\/p>\n
We can\u2019t say they volunteered because they\u2019re patriots, because they want to guarantee and defend this country and protect freedom. No, no. It has to be something else. It has to be they\u2019re stupid and have no other opportunity in life, or it has to be the country sucks and there\u2019s no opportunity unless they do this. And they\u2019re all a bunch of hayseeds, all a bunch of Republicans, you know, a bunch of people that have been fooled by religion. It really irritates me when these people get denigrated and impugned like this, and it always has. For crying out loud, Obama went out yesterday, he saw that Gallup poll. Obama\u2019s Memorial Day speech was all about defending Vietnam vets. <\/p>\n
He went back and relived Vietnam vets coming home and being spat on and disrespected, and he stood up for \u2019em. (interruption) By his fellow liberals, that\u2019s the people that were doing it, exactly right, Obama\u2019s crowd were engaging in all those, quote, unquote, atrocities against returning Vietnam vets. But he knows the trouble he\u2019s in with the military, understandably so. So I tell you, if what you heard actually happened, that\u2019s not helping Obama. Look, I\u2019m glad you called, Ralph. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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