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RUSH: I am serious to you liberals. If you want to live an 18th Century lifestyle or seventeenth century lifestyle, go off and join the Taliban or join Al-Qaeda or something, but don\u2019t do it here. <\/emphasize> You are not going to succeed. Don\u2019t give me this. We had a liberal call last hour, sniveling all the way. “What are your solutions, Rush, if you don\u2019t believe in global warming?” You know something? The left doesn\u2019t fix anything, folks. The history of liberalism is it screws things up. It doesn\u2019t fix <\/emphasize>anything. “We care! We care!” I\u2019m through judging you on your intentions. We all ought to just throw these good intentions out the window because they haven\u2019t led to anything. Bill Sammon has a story here today, and I think I know what\u2019s happened. The left has finally abandoned Cindy Sheehan and they\u2019ve picked up Hurricane Katrina. I mean, we don\u2019t even have an accurate body count yet! We don\u2019t even have a full estimate or accounting of the full scope of this disaster, and already <\/emphasize>the left is out there doing everything they can to blame this on political opponents. I told you the last hour: I know why this is, but it\u2019s no less repugnant nevertheless. Knowing why they\u2019re doing it because they\u2019re panicked over their 40- or 50-year loss of total control of the country and they see it slipping away, fine and dandy, but it doesn\u2019t justify the kind of things we\u2019re getting — and I said last hour, “I don\u2019t like having to come here and discuss this in political terms, but I do here every day what I\u2019ve done every day that I\u2019ve been behind this microphone: I defend the institutions and traditions that I believe make this country great, and when they are under assault — and I don\u2019t care when — I\u2019m going to defend them.”<\/line>And as long as people on the left are going to try to take the occasion of this natural <\/emphasize>disaster ? there\u2019s nothing manmade about this. Now they\u2019re even comparing it to 9\/11! Somebody out there, on some of these liberal websites, “This is even worse than 9\/11. This is far worse. This ought to show us that 9\/11 was nothing.” It\u2019s worse than 9\/11. So you want to compare a natural disaster to an act of war and say this is worse, and we shouldn\u2019t be doing anything about 9\/11, it shows our priorities are out of whack? I\u2019m sorry, that is sick. <\/emphasize>To even come up with… What kind of thinking wants to compare the two? Yeah, you can compare the damage, loss of life, this sort of thing, but to try to draw some sort of equivalence between the two is just beyond the pale. Now, I mentioned that the left seems to have abandoned Cindy Sheehan and said hello to Hurricane Katrina. I got audio sound bites that will back this up. But first Bill Sammon today, in the Washington Times: “Powerful liberal advocacy groups like MoveOn.org are taking a less active role in Cindy Sheehan\u2019s anti-war activities in the wake of criticism that they may have muddied her message.” I\u2019ll tell you what, when MoveOn.org abandons you, you know <\/emphasize>you\u2019ve gone over the edge. When you can outflank MoveOn.org on the left and embarrass them, you know that you\u2019re not even in sight, you\u2019re so far gone. Now, yesterday, ABC\/Washington Post came out with a poll. <\/line>Devastating news to the media: 79% of the American people said they were not moved at all by the Sheehan protest. That poll did not appear in the newspaper. It appeared on their website. It was posted at seven o\u2019clock in the morning. I said, “Hmm, let\u2019s see if the results of that poll show up in the newspaper.” Well, the story in the newspaper that I have doesn\u2019t mention that aspect of the poll. All it talks about is Bush\u2019s approval numbers now at an all-time low, but the fact of the matter is Cindy Sheehan has been abandoned. <\/emphasize>“The groups, which played a major role in her month-long vigil, are scaling back their involvement as she prepares to leave Texas today on a bus tour to Washington. Critics had said that it appeared that Ms. Sheehan had morphed from a mother grieving the loss of her son into a pawn of liberal advocacy groups. For example, the protesters no longer receive strategic and political advice from Fenton Communications, the large left-wing PR firm from San Francisco. That role now will revert to an outfit called Mintwood, a small operation that helped Ms. Sheehan early on. Also taking a lesser role will be MoveOn.org which spent August running anti-Bush TV and newspaper ads featuring Ms. Sheehan. The group, which posted images on its website likening the president to Adolf Hitler, once pledged to raise $2 million to keep Sheehan ads on the air. Despite the effort to return Cindy Sheehan\u2019s cause to a grassroots movement she\u2019s made no attempt to ratchet down her rhetoric. Yesterday, for example, she railed against the reckless commander-in-chief for waging a cowardly and ignoble war.”<\/line><\/p>\n

She has not moved American thinking on this at all, and so the left is abandoning her. They\u2019re outta there, because Hurricane Katrina has come along, and so what do we have? We got the National Guard story, then we have Bill Burkett, then we have 9\/11, and then we have the 9\/11 Commission, then we had Richard Clarke, then we had the Jersey Girls, and then we had Cindy Sheehan and Bill Burkett, and they just move from one issue to the next, to carry on the agenda — which is still beyond me. They\u2019re not running against Bush anymore! I told you, I\u2019ve had conversations with people on the left who, you know, for the most part, reasonable and intelligent and so forth. They\u2019re educated, and the last time it happened. I said, “Can I ask you something? Do you care about winning elections?”<\/line>“I just want Bush outta there. I hate Bush! We\u2019ve just gotta get rid of Bush!”<\/line>“Well, he\u2019s not on the ballot anymore.” I was trying to seriously engage them. “Do you have a plan to win elections? Do you have a plan to go out there and tell anybody?”<\/line>“I don\u2019t care. The first priority is get rid of Bush,” and they\u2019re stuck on that, and so that\u2019s why Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, has replaced Cindy Sheehan. I mean, you might see Sheehan pop up when she shows up in Washington now and then, but that won\u2019t be \u2019til September 24th. She\u2019s only going to be on this bus trip for two days. She\u2019s going to surface trying to protest a Blue Angels air show in Maine sometime in September. September the 9th, I think.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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