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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, folks, the Drive-By Media is — and the libs (and, of course, what\u2019s the difference?) — so predictable. One of my major themes is playing out already, and will soon be visible to one and all. One of those themes is: Any good day for America and the US military and the war effort is a bad day for liberalism, a bad day for the Democrats. Greetings, my friends. Hubba hubba. Great to have you on the EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh Program, from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. A special welcome to those of you watching the program at RushLimbaugh.com on the Dittocam today. Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is Rush@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/line>Yes, what\u2019s good for America is bad for the American left. <\/line>What\u2019s good for America is bad for the Democratic Party, although the libs do have some solace today. Some idiot related to the Federal Reserve started opening his mouth and flapping his gums about core inflation and price support getting very, very, very delicate now, and so the stock market has plunged. It\u2019s been down as much as 150 points. It\u2019s now down 10 points, down below 11,000, I think around ten-eight. NASDAQ was down about 50. So there are still reasons for the Democrat and the libs to find happiness even though the news out of Iraq is devastating <\/emphasize>to them. Now, they\u2019re putting up a good stiff upper lip out there by acting like this is a big deal, and they\u2019re praising the troops. In fact, let me give you one example. What is the audio sound bite number? Ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da. I think it\u2019s toward the end there, Mike. It\u2019s going to be #13. Dingy Harry today on the Senate floor. Let\u2019s listen to Dingy Harry and measure his attitude and tone here.<\/line> REID: Today\u2019s mission that we\u2019re talking about, and its successful outcome, are a testament to bravery, the skill, and the determination of those dedicated men and women on the front lines.<\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape a minute. Does it sound like Dingy Harry is reading this? Does it sound like Dingy Harry is very happy <\/emphasize>about this? I mean, it\u2019s risky to assign an attitude to someone\u2019s spoken words, but I know these people like the back of my hand, every square inch of my glorious naked body, and Dingy Harry sounds like he\u2019s delivering a eulogy here.<\/line>REID: Zarqawi — God knows it\u2019s a hard thing for me to say about any human being, but — he got what he deserved.<\/line>RUSH: Oh, jeez! (Laughing.) Jeez! (Laughing.) It\u2019s a hard thing? They just can\u2019t stand <\/emphasize>it!<\/line>REID: Anyone who aligns himself with him should know that they could await a similar fate, as long as they engage in terror.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: On Good Morning America, today, it was fascinating. ABC is, I guess, taking credit for “breaking” the story. (Laughing.) At any rate, one of their reporters, a guy named Bill Weir reminded the audience that Zarqawi beheaded American Nicholas Berg, then they replayed Berg\u2019s left-wing dad saying at the time that he had no desire for his son\u2019s killers to be killed. So ABC early this morning is out there actually running a tape of Nick Berg\u2019s dad saying, “I didn\u2019t want this guy killed. I didn\u2019t want anybody retribution,” and Mr. Berg is all over television this morning. Michael Berg is all over the place now ripping Bush. You want to hear a little bit of that? Let\u2019s start with audio sound bite #10. Fox and Friends, Michael Berg talking to E. D. Hill and she says, “He is the person who is despised by so many Iraqis for masterminding the massive killings of hundreds of thousands of people there. So this is, in essence…”<\/line>BERG: I don\u2019t think Zarqawi is himself responsible for the killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq. <\/line>HILL: No, hundreds or <\/emphasize>thousands. Hundreds or thousands.<\/line>BERG: George Bush is. George Bush is the one that invaded this country. George Bush is the one that destabilized it so that Zarqawi could get in, so that Zarqawi had to meet the American invaders.<\/line>HILL: I believe that the argument, of course, would be that the American forces went in there and that followed hundreds of thousands — certainly, under Saddam Hussein — being tortured and killed. In this case, al-Zarqawi, as I stated, hundreds and thousands of people were killed because of the direct orders of al-Zarqawi.<\/line>BERG: Yeah, like — like George W. Bush didn\u2019t okay– okay and torture and death and rape of people in the Abu Ghraib prison for which my son was killed in retaliation?<\/line>RUSH: All right, it gets even better. Next question was from Brian Kilmeade: “Did you read the New York Times Sunday? Did you see the little killing feels that were exposed, sir? I\u2019m amazed that you don\u2019t feel any relief that the person who beheaded your son is now dead.”<\/line>BERG: How do you know he did, because George Bush told you he did it —<\/line>KILMEADE: He claims he did. He was spotted on video.<\/line>BERG: because the FBI that lies all the time, plus George Bush lied to the American people, told you that?<\/line>HILL: Mr. Berg, I know that you\u2019re very emotional. There was video <\/emphasize>of it. <\/line>BERG: Yes.<\/line>HILL: He was identified in the video.<\/line>BERG: You believe everything you see on television?<\/line>RUSH: And next over to CNN\u2019s American Morning with Soledad O\u2019Brien to Michael Berg. “There\u2019s a theory that as they try and form some kind of government that in fact it\u2019s going to be brutal; it\u2019s going to be bloody.” One of the things you have to understand about all this, folks, is the prism or the lens through which the Drive-By Media and the Democrats look at this event today is no different. The lens and the prism is the defeat of American forces in Iraq, the defeat of the Bush policy, the defeat of Bush politically. Just because this event happens — and make no mistake about this, by the way. This is an event brought about by the United States military. <\/line><\/p>\n

I have said countless times on this program, and I even got a couple of notes today from people thanking me for being optimistic while their impatience and pessimism was growing, and they asked me, “How do you it?” I said, “It\u2019s easy. We\u2019re the United States of America. We don\u2019t lose<\/emphasize> unless we get sabotaged from within. but we\u2019ve got a commander-in-chief who is not going to lose in Iraq. It\u2019s simply unacceptable to him and he doesn\u2019t care what all these other people out there are saying or doing about this <\/emphasize>particular issue. He\u2019s standing firm in the concrete on his principles.” <\/line>We don\u2019t lose, folks. The United States military just doesn\u2019t lose. <\/line>It\u2019s depressing to see so many people attempting to be sabotage the effort, and that\u2019s how this prism is. You have to understand all this coverage. You wonder why there\u2019s no real happiness and celebration on the American left. Look at the Tony Snow press briefing this morning. It was typical. It was unremarkable in that it was predictable. Tony at one point got a little frustrated and said, “Why are you guys so hell-bent on us getting out of Iraq?” This commander-in-chief is not going to accept anything other than victory. This commander-in-chief is not going to lose in Iraq. That\u2019s something that is so foreign to these people. You have to understand the Drive-By Media, the Democrats, have already chalked this up as a loss, based on Bush\u2019s approval numbers and their giant electoral success in the…primaries<\/emphasize> on Tuesday. <\/line>I mean, they\u2019re in a different world here, folks. The template isn\u2019t going to change. The prism, the lens isn\u2019t going to change — and the Democrats say, “Well, this was good. Yes, a very fine effort, and we\u2019re very happy to see it, but it\u2019s not going to stop the terrorism, and it just means…” There were a lot of questions today, and it\u2019s being backed up by Jack Murtha, “Okay, so this ought to mean we can get out of there a lot sooner because we got the bad guy. Now let\u2019s get out of there, blah, blah.” It\u2019s just going to frustrate you to no end if you get caught up in it rather than understand the prism. So anyway, back to the question from Soledad O\u2019Brien to Michael Berg. “There\u2019s a theory that as they try and form some kind of government that in fact it\u2019s going to be brutal; it\u2019s going to be bloody. There\u2019s going to be loss…” See, here comes the negativism. They\u2019re going to retaliate. Oh, wow! By the way, they formed the government in Iraq and announced it today, the very day the #1 terrorist trying to stop it was killed. I\u2019m going to tell you something, folks: that\u2019s karma.<\/emphasize> Anyway, here\u2019s Berg\u2019s response to all this.<\/line>BERG: Saddam Hussein didn\u2019t pull the trigger, didn\u2019t commit the rapes, neither did George Bush, but both men are responsible for their under their reins of terror. I don\u2019t buy that. Iraq did not have Al-Qaeda in it.<\/line>RUSH: It did.<\/line>BERG: Al-Qaeda supposedly killed my son. Under Saddam Hussein, no Al-Qaeda [sic]. Under George Bush, Al-Qaeda. Under Saddam Hussein, relative stability. Under George Bush, instability. Under Saddam Hussein, about 30,000 deaths a year. Under George Bush, about 50,000 deaths a year. I don\u2019t get it [sic]. Why is it better to have George Bush be the king of Iraq rather than Saddam Hussein?<\/line>RUSH: All right, now, some of you are saying Rush, “Come on, the man lost his son over there.” Yeah, yeah, but he\u2019s now inserted himself in the political process and as such being used by the media to advance an agenda item and therefore he\u2019s fair game. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to November 30th, 2005, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Jack Murtha held a press conference. Hey, Jack, you think Zarqawi thinks the American military is “broken” this morning?<\/line>MURTHA: We got real problems. The Army is broken. The equipment is worn out! We got a $50 backlog of equipment which needs to be repaired.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, really? Jack, you did your best out there to break everybody\u2019s will, but I guess it didn\u2019t work. I know that Zarqawi is now room temperature, pictures to approve it. You think his buddies that died with him and those who remain as supporters think the military is broke? And then on March 7th of this year on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Murtha said this.<\/line>MURTHA: When the military gets stretched too thin like it is, the problem is that they can\u2019t — we can\u2019t scare anybody. In other words, w-when Cheney makes a threat like that, uh, it\u2019s — i-i-it falls on deaf ears because they know darn well we couldn\u2019t accept it but the big thing is as much money as we spend on intelligence, we — we — we don\u2019t know where the targets are —<\/line>MATTHEWS (interrupting): Right.<\/line>MURTHA: — we — we — we don\u2019t know exactly what we need to do —<\/line>MATTHEWS (interrupting): M\u2019kay.<\/line>MURTHA: so there\u2019s no use even talking about the a military strike.<\/line>RUSH: Jack, you think Zarqawi and his deceased buddies and remaining supporters think we\u2019re unable to find out where they are? (Laughing.) Hey, Jack<\/emphasize>? Do you think Zarqawi and his dead compatriots and his remaining supporters think we don\u2019t have any intelligence and it\u2019s all a waste of time; we don\u2019t know where the targets are? We don\u2019t know exactly even what we need to do, Jack? Do you still think that\u2019s true, Jack? Hmm? Murtha was on television today, praising the effort. Give him credit for that. “Major victory,” blah, blah, blah. What else is he going to say today? Give him \u2019til tomorrow or tonight, maybe even. <\/line>But after even praising the effort and the mission, he said, “Ah, this just proves we can get out of there now. I mean, get out in six months. We can do it. We can get out of there now. That\u2019s all. Get out of there. I mean, it\u2019s a civil war. We\u2019re never going to win this thing.” Murtha said today, “We\u2019re never going to win this thing. We can\u2019t win this thing,” and that\u2019s what I mean. This is why the Democratic Party today and all their supporters are simply untrustworthy. <\/emphasize> We cannot trust them with the defense of this country or this nation\u2019s national security. They will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because it is policy<\/emphasize> for them. They are so blinded with hate and rage for George W. Bush that they can\u2019t intimidate him on this issue that they are just beside themselves. <\/line><\/p>\n

The worst <\/emphasize>thing that could happen to them happened today, and that is a successful mission by the best-trained, the best-equipped and the best military force the world has ever known, the United States military, and these people are not happy about it, and they\u2019re doing their best to cover that up. But it won\u2019t be long before they are unable to do so. I am waiting — and I am going to make a prediction to you people — it won\u2019t be long before somebody in the Drive-By Media or the Democratic Party raises the specter of… “Was anyone tortured to get the information that led to the identity of the un<\/emphasize>safe house, the whereabouts of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi?” Mark my words<\/emphasize>, my friends, because that\u2019s in the template. That\u2019s <\/emphasize>in the prism, and they\u2019re all about destroying our effort via Abu Ghraib, via Club Gitmo, secret black-ops prisons in Eastern Europe. The question will come. We got close to it today during [Maj. Gen William] Caldwell\u2019s briefing in Baghdad. Here\u2019s an exchange between Cox newspaper reporter Larry Kaplow<\/a>, and Caldwell.<\/line>KAPLOW: You referred a few minutes to intelligence from Zarqawi\u2019s network, and I\u2019m wondering on that, were those people who were under interrogation in custody, or people who came forward from Zarqawi\u2019s network to describe them?<\/line>CALDWELL: It would be inappropriate for me to talk about where the information actually came from and who provided it to the intelligence sources.<\/line>RUSH: Well now this is typical, too. The media wants to know, “How did you find out? Tell us! We want to know so that we can prevent you from finding out again. Tell us your secrets! We demand to know, people have a right to know,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, this question got pretty close: I\u2019m wondering, were those people sources, were they under interrogation, in custody?<\/emphasize> That\u2019s getting very close to: “Did you torture those poor people?” What we have since learned is that it was tipsters inside Zarqawi\u2019s own network and a number of others that gave us accurate intelligence. Now, what does that mean? Well, that means that they\u2019re not happy over there in the Zarqawi Al-Qaeda network. It means that they don\u2019t think they\u2019re winning. <\/line>Having fallout like this, it is clearly an indication of something that I have thought and many people thought for the longest time, that the tide has turned and that we are actually winning. <\/emphasize>Now, I cannot divulge my sources. (Why have you heard this before?) I honestly cannot divulge my sources, but I talked to some people this morning who know, in a position to know the intelligence here. One of the major things that apparently did happen here was that information from detainees — i.e., prisoners — did play a significant role and I hope <\/emphasize>that at some point the truth of that can be made official, because all we\u2019re hearing of course is horror stories about the humiliation going on in Abu Ghraib, torture, the alleged goings-on in Club Gitmo<\/a>. <\/line><\/p>\n

If indeed this — and, trust me, I don\u2019t question this. I just cannot get close to identifying the people involved here, but they made it clear that detainee reporting has played a significant role here. Also, how about this? You know, the charge that the US is alone, no effective coalition or cooperation in the area? I mean, didn\u2019t that take a big hit today? Multiple factors came together to make this possible. I mean, look at who was involved here. The Iraqis, the Jordanians, and the CIA targeting team (yes, a CIA targeting team) were all involved to bring this about. Jordan released Zarqawi from prison only to see 20 innocents of their own killed in Amman, Jordan — and Jordanians were in on this as a result. <\/line>The Iraqis played a part. You aren\u2019t seeing them yet but there are pictures of Iraq — well, I don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t seen them on TV. You might have. But there are still photographs of Iraqis celebrating, <\/emphasize>firing guns in the air, happy at the news that Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has assumed room temperature. So we had the Iraqis, we had the Jordanians and the CIA targeting team working between elements in that region, putting together the information, and it came up big. I\u2019m also told that that April 25th video of Zarqawi firing away, not knowing how to do it — he looked very weapons-challenged in that video. You might have seen that being played on TV today. <\/line>That played a role but they wouldn\u2019t tell me how. I said, “What was it? Did it give you an idea where he was?” <\/line> “Can\u2019t go any further than that.” <\/line>But obviously, folks, there was a tremendous amount of successful intelligence, Congressman Murtha, a successful <\/emphasize>military operation based on that intelligence, hitting the target — with two bombs, two 500-pound bombs from a couple of F-16s — and wiping out a whole cadre of Zarqawi units. The US military did this. This was not the result of the Democratic government of Iraq. What I mean by that is, it\u2019s great that they\u2019re having a democracy, great that we\u2019re putting it together, but the United States military is going to win this. Te United States military, if turned loose like this, Katie, bar the door. <\/line>In addition, ladies and gentlemen, I read something by Andy McCarthy today in National Review Online, and I want to expand on this, because he didn\u2019t spend a whole lot of time on it but it was enough of a mention to excite my fertile brain. He talked about how eager the Jack Murthas and the Democrats in Congress are to indict the Marines of Haditha, without even knowing yet officially what they did, and yet we can\u2019t do anything to Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). So men and women in the Marine Corps have no <\/emphasize>benefit of the doubt. They are already guilty. They\u2019ve gotta be strung up, drawn and quartered! Meanwhile, Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana)? <\/line>Why, we\u2019ve got to make sure that constitutional protections remain in place for him!<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I want you to hear these Tony Snow bites from the daily press gaggle this morning. Normally the morning gaggle isn\u2019t TVed. They TV the one that starts about now, 12:30. But this was important. Unidentified reporter (don\u2019t know who this guy was) says, “The president has said security needs of the new government going to be one of the prime topics for discussion. No discussion of troop levels? Surely there\u2019s going to be some discussion on troop levels, Tony.”<\/line>SNOW: Yeah, but you guys are all — why are you so hell-bent on saying, “We\u2019re going to get out tomorrow?” or, you know… It\u2019d make a good news headline, but the facts on the ground, we\u2019ve got six additional dead guys out of the terror network, but there is still a significant problem here. So I don\u2019t think — of course there\u2019s going to be a discussion of the way ahead and there will be discussions, if this happens, what happens here.<\/line>RUSH: You\u2019ve got to understand these questions. It\u2019s the template. It is the prism. We\u2019ve lost. The press has already decided this. The Drive-By Media has already decided it. Whether we win or lose, we\u2019ve lost, and so we\u2019ve got to get out of there. “Look at the president\u2019s poll numbers. Look at all the deaths. We\u2019ve got to get out of there.” These people do not even consider alternative views to the ones they\u2019ve decided they want, folks. As a human characteristic, you have to understand this about them: nothing alternative to what they believe or hope would happen affects them. It\u2019s like a foreign language to them, and so, despite all the news, “Why, this is further evidence. We could get out now. I mean, since we\u2019ve lost the war.”<\/line>You\u2019ll note here that any administration official speaking today, be it Snow or Rumsfeld or the president, they\u2019re not doing victory dances out there because this is not the end of anything. It\u2019s a ground-breaking and much-needed victory, not just for the morale of the troops, but for the country at large — another reason the press, the Drive-By Media, is not happy about it. There\u2019s still a lot of work to do. Here was this exchange, too. You gotta hear this. Tony does a fabulous job I think up there as the press secretary. He\u2019s the best press secretary I can remember being up there in a long, long time. Marlin Fitzwater was good for what he did. This is just really good stuff. Listen to this exchange.<\/line>REPORTER: My good colleague over there is being hell-bent to get troops out tomorrow, but I think there are some poll numbers that suggests Americans are getting antsy to see some troop movements, you know, back in… <\/line>SNOW: I understand that, but I —<\/line>REPORTER: What I\u2019m asking is: How does the president view that? I mean,<\/line>you — you — you say… <\/line>SNOW: Yeah. Absolutely.<\/line>REPORTER: Does he like that?<\/line><\/p>\n

SNOW: No, the president understands what the polls are but he also understands what his obligations are as commander in chief, and if the polling data is contrary to the national security interest, guess what? The national secure interests win. Period. That\u2019s how he views it, and so you can look at the poll data — and we do; we\u2019ve taken very cold and honest looks at the poll data — but the one thing, as commander in chief, he is not going fail in Iraq. He is not going permit failure.<\/line>RUSH: Period. End of subject. Subject closed. <\/line>Of course it\u2019s not closed!<\/line>(sniveling liberal reporter impression) “Why isn\u2019t the president listening to our poll numbers? Those are our <\/emphasize>poll number, Tony! We are producing those polls, and they say the American people want to see some movement on troop withdrawals!”<\/line>It\u2019s all bogus. It\u2019s all a result of the questions that are asked after <\/emphasize>the stories that are presented. I went and took a gander today, folks, at some of the kook blog websites on the left. It\u2019s hilarious. It\u2019s just… Ha! Oh, they are fit to be tied. You gotta remember, too, that these are the people that the Democrats consider to be their new base. On guy at Daily Kos \/ Chaos, however you pronounce it. (I still don\u2019t know and I, frankly, don\u2019t care, but I hate wasting time having to pronounce it both ways.) One of the bloggers there complained that using military force to kill Zarqawi, quote, “violates everything my America stands for. It violates of rule of law. It invokes the rule of force in what should be a criminal, not a military matter.”<\/line>Another Daily Kos-er upset because he thought the news would benefit President Bush. “No doubt Karl Rove will have the sock puppet president acting as if he personally dropped the bomb that killed that jackass, but other than a couple of photo-ops of Bush looking cocky, it does nothing because two more tin-plated Zarqawis will pop up.” A third poster at Daily Kos suggested there was little difference between the top Al-Qaeda terrorist and the leader of the free world. He wrote, “Now that we\u2019re rid of one murderous tyrant, how about the removal of another one believed hiding in a safe house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?”<\/line>These are actual Americans, folks, posting at what is said to be the most popular liberal blog in the country! I went over to Democrat Underground, and the reaction to the death of Zarqawi was also negative there. A Democrat Underground poster said, “Convenient, too, that this would happen now. I guess we should just all forget about that Haditha mess, the fact that we\u2019re approaching 2,500 dead, the fact that our economy is in trouble [sic].” So this whole thing, the timing was conspiratorial, to take all the other bad news off the front page. Another poster at the Democrat Underground said that killing the Al-Qaeda chief? Ah, it\u2019s not such a big deal! <\/line><\/p>\n

He said, “Zarqawi was a fringe group of Al-Qaeda, definitely not responsible for the bulk of the insurgency and civil war now going on there. Any gains that they hope to receive will be short-lived when reality strikes home.” So that\u2019s the Democrats in the, quote, unquote, “Democrat heartland” wherever the hell that is, blue state America, and that\u2019s just a sample. That\u2019s just an early sample of what\u2019s happening out there, but it\u2019s not just there. ABC News The Note today. You\u2019ve gotta listen to this. This is Mark Halperin and his crew that write this daily briefing on the events of the day, how they\u2019ll play out politically, who\u2019s going where, who\u2019s going to say what. <\/line>These guys, they do everything they can to hide the fact that they\u2019re left of center, but they are. Here\u2019s their post for today, The Note, June 8th: “Zarqawi is dead. A decent interval has passed. The politics has begun. The briefed facts so far (safe house, killed by air, macho American tracking ingenuity, body recovered and fully identified, video documentation, few or no civilian or U.S. collateral damage, letting the Iraqis announce it, the simultaneous additions to the new government) could not be better politically even if General Rove had directed the operation. You are watching the rollout of a serious PR plan.” <\/line>This is not <\/emphasize>a blog. Well, it\u2019s a blog, but it\u2019s not the kook fringe blog. This is ABC News! <\/emphasize>They\u2019re calling it a “public relations plan.” They\u2019re calling this operation, the “rollout” of a PR plan. After the “death” of Zarqawi, after the mission. They\u2019re not saying that the “killing” of Zarqawi is the mission. They\u2019re saying everything — announcing it and thereafter — is the PR plan. <\/line>“Major 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue tick-tocking has already taken place, and it will continue, unabated, throughout the day. Things the White House cannot (totally) control: When will the first public poll with presidential job approval numbers come out? (If CNN and Fox have different numbers, how will the nation — and the on-air talent — deal with that?) When will be the first time that DeanPelosiReid speak out, starting the Rube Goldberg process that goes from Karl-Rove\u2019s-ears-to-Ken-Mehlman\u2019s-BlackBerry-to-Tracey-Schmitt\u2019s-keyboard-to-Jack-Kingston\u2019s-talking-points-to-the-Limbaugh-Institute-for-Advanced-Conservative-Studies?” <\/line>Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all part of the PR campaign. So Rove will react to Dean, Pelosi and Reid, and Rove will send out the talking points to Ken Mehlman at the RNC, then over to Tracey Schmitt who is the information babe at the RNC, Jack Kingston, a congressman from Georgia, and then to the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies for final <\/emphasize>dissemination to America. Uh… (sigh) I\u2019m getting blue in the face. We don\u2019t get talking points from here, and I don\u2019t think we\u2019re even that liked right now in the Rove office of the White House, to tell you the truth, Mark. (Speaking here to Mark Helprin at ABC\u2019s The Note.) I don\u2019t think we\u2019re looked upon favorably in that shop right now for a host of reasons. <\/line>They are admitting that they at ABC don\u2019t reach America. It\u2019s like this UN guy. This UN guy is complaining that it\u2019s me and Fox News that define American attitudes, and so here is ABC\u2019s The Note saying that without me, the White House can\u2019t get its message out. Then: “How much more violence will there be this week in Iraq? [The White House “cannot control that.”] Watch how Democrats handle today\u2019s news (and if they regret sending the that letter about Ambassador Khalilzad canceling his Senate briefing appearance).” Khalilzad the ambassador in Iraq, he canceled the Senate briefing appearance, the Senate got all upset about it. How will they handle that news, given the death of Zarqawi?<\/line>“Republicans will be watching to see if the death…” See, let me sum all this up. This is nothing more than the latest political event! The Drive-By Media cannot stop looking at this through the prism of a political event. What they don\u2019t get is that Bush doesn\u2019t.<\/emphasize> He is serious about the war on terror. If they haven\u2019t learned that! They may find fault with him in other areas. They may think he\u2019s movable on other subjects, but not <\/emphasize>this. He ignores the polls on this. He doesn\u2019t react to the negative polls in Iraq. He just continues the mission. Now, they would counter by saying, “What do you mean Bush doesn\u2019t look at this as a political event? Ever hear of Karl Rove? Every White House looks at this as a political event.”<\/line>If you think that, you don\u2019t know Bush. You think you do, but you don\u2019t. Sure he\u2019s got political people around him, but to call all of this a PR issue or PR campaign, a PR plan is part and parcel of what I have offered to you as an explanation for those of you who just can\u2019t figure these people in the mainstream media out. They have gotten so caught up in their own polls, they believe the polls they do. They believe the stories. It\u2019s like they still can\u2019t get over what happened Tuesday. There was no way Bilbray was going to win. They had all the polling data; they had the RNC spending all that money. They just couldn\u2019t believe it. They believe their own PR! They believe their own propaganda, and they get flabbergasted <\/emphasize>and stunned when reality is always <\/emphasize>different from what their polling data suggests, or what their own prognostication are. They just continue to resist <\/emphasize>reality as a means of trying to show they have the power to create it as the used to when they had their monopoly. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s see what we got when we go out there and sample the opinion of the people who make the country work, the audience of this program. We\u2019ll start with Renee in Hamilton, Ohio. You\u2019re up first, and it\u2019s an honor. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, thank you so much. This is such a wonderful day. I gotta tell you, whenever — and I thought of this Jack Murtha, and you were so right to remind everybody that — well, him and John Kerry both wanted like six months to get out, and that was over six months ago, and had we listened to them, we would not have this victory here today.<\/line>RUSH: Murtha still is saying we should get out in six months.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. And when they were showing the rubble, the people digging things out of the rubble where Zarqawi was killed, they showed a little blue teddy bear and some little children\u2019s shoes, and I immediately <\/emphasize>thought of Murtha and how he accused our Marines of murdering in cold blood, and I just figured his response was going to be something like, you know, now we\u2019re still targeting children deliberately in cold blood to take out Zarqawi.<\/line>RUSH: Did you hear him say that or you just thought you heard?<\/line>CALLER: No, that was just going through my mind. See, I was watching —<\/line>RUSH: You\u2019ve gotta give this time. They\u2019re not that dumb, but they can\u2019t help themselves. They\u2019ll have enough discipline to hold their fire on what they really think of all this for a day, but just be patient out there. It won\u2019t be long. They\u2019ll start asking the questions, “Was anything tortured?” When they learn that there was a detainee role played in this, when they learn that detainees offered intelligence — meaning prisoners, wherever we\u2019re holding them — you mark my words, “Were they tortured in any way?”<\/emphasize> I mean, some of the other things, folks, that you can expect to hear from assorted liberals over the course of the remainder of the week:<\/line>“Did we have to<\/emphasize> use violence? Couldn\u2019t we have tried diplomacy? Couldn\u2019t have we talked to Zarqawi?”<\/line>This, of course, is the voice of the “new castrati,” as I call them, those who have been neutered and have no spine, backbone, or couple other things. <\/line>“What was the urgency? <\/emphasize>Couldn\u2019t we have offered a few carrots? We could have talked to him. Why did we have to do so quickly? Now the world is going to hate us! The world is going to hate us even more! Bush is destroying our image in the world. Now we\u2019re killing people and putting them on TV like we\u2019re happy about it! Haven\u2019t we learned that violence begets violence? I mean, if we had been mature, if we had been mature enough to leave and cut and run, then that man, Zarqawi, would be alive today, would be alive today, perhaps on the verge of rehabilitation — and, I\u2019ll tell you what we\u2019ve done. All we\u2019ve done with this — this is not a victory. This does not advance our cause. All we\u2019ve done is create more terrorists. They\u2019re going to flock from the world over!”<\/line>You know what they\u2019re going to say, and then some of them are thinking, “We would have gotten Zarqawi a year sooner if Kerry were president,” or “If we listened to Biden, or if Democrats were in power, Zarqawi would have never been in Iraq,” blah, blah, blah, blah. You\u2019re going to hear themes, variations on all these themes in due course. Their first reaction when they heard it at home was a lump in the throat. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some exceptions to this, but the Democratic Party is just like the Drive-By Media. They look at everything through the prism of politics and the politics today is: “How do we defeat Bush?” who is not even on the ballot. It\u2019s ridiculous. But nevertheless… It was probably the same when we captured Saddam. We captured Saddam? Oh, you know there was a lump in their throat there! (Choking sounds.) Choking and breath cut off for a while in stunned shock and disappointment. I\u2019m sure that in many, many quarters of the American left today and in certain sectors of the Democratic Party, there was an, “Oh, damn! <\/emphasize>Damn it! Just when we were on a roll! We\u2019ve got Bush right where we want him; we had a moral victory in California 50. We\u2019ve got a California governor nominee that is going to defeat Schwarzenegger. Oh, my God, we were going to take back the House. Damn it!”<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: One other quick point here before we have to go to the break — we\u2019re going to move on to other things after this, but we\u2019ll still take calls from you. I know you want to weigh in on this. This is something the Drive-By Media and the American left will miss totally. This Zarqawi death today, it\u2019s not just a huge military victory, but it\u2019s a huge moral <\/emphasize>victory as well. One of the most brutal and evil men on the face of the earth is dead. That\u2019s a good thing all by itself quite apart from its impact on the war effort. But just in terms of the morality of this, evil has lost. <\/emphasize>The bad guys have lost a big one here, and in addition to whatever military significance it has, it is an amazing moral victory as well — and don\u2019t forget that, because you\u2019re not going to hear very many people in the Drive-By Media talking about “moral victories.” Not this kind.<\/line><\/p>\n

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