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RUSH: Barbara in Norwalk, Connecticut<\/a>. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. In my mind, you are the most valuable conservative voice on the radio, and therefore when you took your position — and I don\u2019t need you to go into any of the details because I\u2019ve heard everything you\u2019ve said about it; I don\u2019t want to have you rehash on the radio, but your position on Dubai and the ports and United Arab Emirates as being an ally, I really took it in, and I thought about it, and I thought, “This makes a lot of sense,” and now I feel that, from comments you\u2019ve made today, and I want to know, you\u2019ve gone from being a person of principle on this issue and seeing how pragmatically it\u2019s just not going to work, and also because the Clintons were involved and have sullied the United Emirates situation that therefore there was really no value to it at all —<\/line>RUSH: No.<\/line>CALLER: — and it\u2019s kind of bothered me that I saw this sea change.<\/line>RUSH: Well, let me explain something. Those are some excellent questions, and I — and I\u2019m happy for the opportunity to answer, as I campaign to maintain my audience here. In the first place, if I\u2019ve not made it clear today, I will say it again. I find nothing wrong with Dubai Ports World owning these six or nine terminals, or whatever it is.<\/emphasize> I have no problem with it. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a security problem. Global economy, foreign investment, allies — all that I believe. At the outset on day one and two of this, though, of two or three weeks ago, I always was honest and thought, “The politics of this are going to kill it,” and shortly after that the eruption occurred.<\/line>The president is out there defiantly saying, “I\u2019m going to veto this,” blah, blah, blah, and that just stoked the fires even more. It\u2019s comical to me since then. The ongoing theory to explain why I am the only talk show host with my point of view is because I am sucking up to Bush, that I am “in the tank” for Bush. Even Peter King accused me<\/a> on my own New York radio station of being in the tank for Bush and blaming me for single-handedly lessening <\/emphasize>the opposition to this. Now, the reason why this is funny, I\u2019ve been doing this for 18 years, and in the last five years of the Bush administration, I have had plenty of things to say in disagreement. <\/line><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t told you people this. I\u2019ve had emissaries from Washington come down here to try to “get my mind right” on immigration, and I haven\u2019t changed my mind on it at all. I\u2019m not going to supply names, but you\u2019d know them. Now, the bottom line to all this is that the new factor for me that I learned last week was the Clinton involvement in this. Now, that doesn\u2019t disqualify Dubai. It doesn\u2019t disqualify them; it doesn\u2019t change my assessment of the security risk. I have not changed my assessment of what it was that was behind the original opposition that people had to this before they understood any of the deal and the detail, and I totally understand it. I can understand why people had that initial, visceral, gut reaction. I don\u2019t know why I didn\u2019t. I think it\u2019s because I just see conventional wisdom and I run the other way. <\/line>I have never been a conformist and a member of the pack, nor have I ever said something on this program just because I thought it would help me or that\u2019s what I thought you, in the audience, wanted to hear. The Clinton angle in this that\u2019s interesting to me is that if this were a Republican, and we had learned that a Republican ex-president or ex-secretary of state was out there earning maybe seven figures from Dubai, was secretly learning for the deal, trying to get his associates from Madeleine Albright to a few others in on the financial aspect of the deal and that his wife, a US senator, was out there saying she didn\u2019t know anything about it while she was opposing it, to me that\u2019s something else about this that needs to be examined. <\/line>The drive-by media is not going to look at it, but we find out here that who\u2019s really been driving this is not George W. Bush — and everybody is the in Republican Party is out there saying, “Well, Bush has lost his mind. We can\u2019t count on Bush. He was leading in the war on terror, and now he wants to make a deal with a country that sponsored terrorism, or allowed them to run around in the streets over there.” Bush said he didn\u2019t know anything about it; he got beat up for admitting that, but who has <\/emphasize>been behind the scenes pushing this thing, all the while his wife is as opposed to it as anybody, introducing legislation to ban X, Y and Z, while they are personally enriching themselves with payments from Dubai. <\/line>That is a separate story to me that I think needs to be learned; it needs to be broadcast. It needs to be spread around so people know about it, because Clinton himself is even being allowed both sides of the issue. He\u2019s allowed. I\u2019m talking about by critics. There\u2019s no scrutiny of his behavior in this at all. He\u2019s out there promoting the deal. He\u2019s advising the Dubai people. “Hey, give them 45 days. You go in there and say, ‘Give us 45 days and examine us even further,'” and guess what? The Dubai people did that, and that\u2019s the period we\u2019re in now where these hearings are going on and more investigation and security risks that are posed by the deal, and then Clinton accident after coming out.<\/line>“I love these Dubai people. I\u2019ve been over there and I think they\u2019re fine people. I\u2019ve been over there and it\u2019s growing fast,” but then he\u2019ll come back over, “I do think we have a security problem.” It\u2019s unreal! The guy is for it, and he\u2019s against it, his wife is totally against it. They\u2019re making tons of money at the same time, he\u2019s not registering is an agent representing a foreign country or a government as a lobbyist, and yet he\u2019s out there lobbying. I mean, that to me is a separate entity here, and it does change the politics of it to me, in a sense, that you can say Bush is the one pushing it, but Bush hasn\u2019t been lobbying it. Bill Clinton has. Does that answer help you?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: It does help, because as I said, you\u2019re a man of principle and that\u2019s why when I heard you today, I thought, “Why does he sound fuzzy on this? Why does he sound like this is not a good idea,” because the idea of having, you know, some real ally as such in the United Emirates as far as the people over there. It sounded important to me, because this is what people don\u2019t understand is how important the Middle East is and how important it is what we\u2019re doing there, and this is all linked to it, so that\u2019s why what you said originally made sense, and I don\u2019t want these other conservative people to talk to the radio say, “Oh, now, Rush! You know, Rush has folded and he\u2019s on our side” — <\/line>RUSH: (laughs)<\/line>CALLER: — and I\u2019m glad you had a chance to express yourself, because I think the Clinton thing really sullies it. They Albright connection, all that stuff really sullies the matter.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m just going to tell you. If people who are opposed to this on the security side, which I\u2019m not, but — and I know most people are, then you better start asking yourself, “Why didn\u2019t Bill Clinton care about national security?” and stop asking about Bush.<\/line>CALLER: The only good thing I could think of that comes out of this with all of this with the plane deal and this is that everyone is focused now on national security, which we couldn\u2019t say about the Democrats until now.<\/line>RUSH: Well, but the Democrats are not focused on it. That\u2019s another thing. I think this is a very persuasive argument. The Democrats now claim that they are in the game on national security, and they have found the enemy, and it\u2019s the United Arab Emirates, all right? <\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: Now time to ask them, “Okay, you now admit we\u2019ve got a port security problem, even though not a single act of terrorism in this country has come at, through, or at a port. We\u2019ve got a security problem at the ports, and you guys are the first to spot it, and we applaud you. (clapping) Welcome home Democrats! I guess this means that since it\u2019s such a big security problem, you are going to allow provisions of the Patriot Act. You\u2019re going to support them now in order to secure the ports, and I assume you\u2019re going to back off on your opposition, the National Security Agency\u2019s program on foreign intelligence gathering. I guess you\u2019re going to allow that now, because the ports are so vulnerable,” and they\u2019re not going to change their minds on this. This is purely political for them.<\/line>CALLER: You don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to make any change in they\u2019re going to be the same people they\u2019ve always been?<\/line>RUSH: Yes!<\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Because their position is that Bush is bad. They\u2019re opposing Bush on everything, and because Bush is behind the ports deal, they <\/emphasize>think they can get to the high ground by talking about national security. They\u2019ve been worried for the longest time that they\u2019re perceived as weak on it because they are, and so they think this is going to work. Remember, the Democrats are smoke and mirrors. The Democrats wear masks and camouflage. That\u2019s why I\u2019m saying somebody\u2019s got to put it to them: “Okay, you found the enemy. We got an enemy, and we\u2019re vulnerable at the ports, then what measures are you going to take?” <\/line>CALLER: It makes them really stand up and explain exactly what their position is, which they never do.<\/line>RUSH: No. That\u2019s why they\u2019re backing off of this already, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re saying, “You know, we\u2019re getting tired of being called xenophobes and racists. Bush made us that because he\u2019s been using the ‘club of fear\u2019 for four years in this country ginning up hatred against Arabs.” They\u2019re trying to make it out to be Bush\u2019s problem. Theirs is a purely political, opportunistic position which can be and will be exposed as this heads on down the track. The Republicans are a different story. The Republicans are just scared. It\u2019s an election year, they\u2019ve got polls out there saying they\u2019re going to lose X seats in the House, X seats in the Senate, might lose the House, and so instead of reacting in a way that, “Well, we\u2019re just not going to do that,” they\u2019re acting defensive, and they see an tighten to distance themselves from an unpopular president, 34%, 41% approval. Whatever number you want to use, it\u2019s not good. They don\u2019t like that, and now they think that this deal\u2019s been so muddled that they have no confidence in the White House to run the Republican Party in a political way and a political machine. They have no confidence at the RNC and so they\u2019re running for the tall grass, bailing out on the president as fast as they can because they think that\u2019s their best shot at being reelected.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s the principles. Their principles are fuzzy now because of that.<\/line>RUSH: No. No. Their principle is: I must get reelected.<\/emphasize><\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line>RUSH: Learn that.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you very much for your explanation.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, Barbara, I\u2019m glad you called and asked for clarification. I generally think of myself as the finest communicator produced by humanity, but your call illustrates I needed to take a second stab at it and I thank you for that.<\/line>CALLER: Well, thank you very much.<\/line>RUSH: All right. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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