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RUSH: To Atlanta. This is Jay. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It occurs to me that if “24” is inciting US military personnel to torture and murder —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which is absurd.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, of course it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just absurd. It\u2019s a mainstream media concoction that is filtering down through the rest of the media. It\u2019s just absurd.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, of course it is. To me, perhaps the answer is to do a little inciting of our own, but let\u2019s do it with reality. Maybe they should interpolate clips of Daniel Pearl being beheaded with a machete. Perhaps they should show the actual news clips that never get on the Drive-By Media of body parts of children in blown-up buses in Israel. Maybe instead of just showing a mushroom cloud in “24”, they should show the real devastation of that city that supposedly had a nuclear bomb fall on it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be Valencia. Nobody would care.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, perhaps. But the point being is let\u2019s show \u2019em some reality. Let\u2019s show why those soldiers or the Jack Bauers of the world have to do what they have to do. There is a reason for it. There really is torture and inhumanity taking place, but it\u2019s not by our guys. It\u2019s the other ones, and they\u2019re not showing that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We can\u2019t even show — we can\u2019t even go back and look at — tapes of the airplanes hitting the towers on 9\/11. “It\u2019s too soon!”<\/p>\n

CALLER: But what\u2019s to stop an independent producer of a show like “24” from interpolating those news clips in, particularly if they could get them off of al-Jazeera, they don\u2019t even have to pay royalties for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s the thing. The network wouldn\u2019t clear those things to be broadcast.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Groans.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: The network wouldn\u2019t clear it. I guarantee you. Plus I don\u2019t think the producers would want to do that. This is not commenting on your point here; I think it\u2019s a great point. Did you happen to watch the videotape on the Internet of the Pearl beheading?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve seen two or three of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. What made you want to watch it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Simply the fact that it was there and to me, these were the things that Americans should have been seeing, however horrendous they are. They tell us why we do what we do, and if they can\u2019t make the connection, if the other guys are just “freedom fighters” with rocks and hand grenades and we\u2019ve got nuclear weapons and assault rifles and we\u2019re torturing everyone we catch —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that\u2019s so incredibly one-sided, but if you can\u2019t tell the difference between fiction and reality, for God\u2019s sakes, let\u2019s see some reality!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I happen to agree with you. I remember when the videotape hit the Internet of the beheading of Daniel Pearl. I mentioned that I had watched it, and I heard: “How dare you? How could you! That\u2019s such a sacred moment! How could you do that,” and I said, “I want to see what these people are capable of.” I would think everybody would benefit from knowing exactly just what you said, “what we\u2019re facing here,” and the fact of the matter is, we have been turned into the bad guys! They have been turned into the victims, and they are the ones being given excuses and reasons for doing what they\u2019re doing because of some “atrocities” we\u2019re committing, such as at Abu Ghraib, Club Gitmo, or even before that, like you said, just because we have nukes, or just because we support Israel. The whole theme of this program today is centered on the fact that there\u2019s an ongoing effort to destroy the primary institution that guarantees the freedom and security of this country. That\u2019s the US military. That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here. That is really what\u2019s happening with this resolution in the House of Representatives, and now Dingy Harry, he\u2019s all bent out of shape because the Republicans have thwarted him, and he\u2019s out there saying (paraphrased), “We want to do it in the Senate, too!”<\/p>\n

The Democrats in the House and the Senate are racing each other to see who can be the first to come up with a resolution that supports defeat — and make no mistake that\u2019s what this is about. They claim the resolution is supporting the troops by getting them out of the war zone and showing displeasure with the president\u2019s ratcheting up of reinforcements, the good guys, the surge, whatever you want to call it. So Dingy Harry\u2019s been thwarted because the Republicans in the Senate were able to stop him. The Republicans in the House are powerless. I hope… You know, they may not have even realized before the election how powerless they were going to be! They may not have, because I didn\u2019t see a whole lot of effort from them about wanting to get reelected in the first place. I, frankly, didn\u2019t. But they are utterly powerless; they can\u2019t stop anything, and they\u2019re running around whining about how the Democrats are breaking promises to let \u2019em be involved in competing resolutions and so forth. The Democrats don\u2019t have to let the Republicans do anything in the House!<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got no power, and amassing is it is what politics is. The Democrats consider power their birthright. They\u2019re not going to come in and share it with the Republicans, and why should they when 12 Republicans are willing to join the Democrats in this silly resolution anyway? One of the darkest, most shameful days of the House of Representatives is going to be tomorrow when they take a vote on this resolution. Now, Republicans in the Senate have been able to stop some of this, and it\u2019s made Dingy Harry mad, but this is a frightening thing, and (sigh) it\u2019s got long-term consequences, and not just for the country. If you go back and look at the last time the Democrats tried this and the last time they succeeded, it was Vietnam and Nixon, and they ended up being McGoverned. They were branded the pacifist, peacenik, weak-on-defense bunch and they have not gotten over it, and they think that was their finest hour because they ended the war in Vietnam. They think this is going to be their second finest hour and it\u2019s going to have long-term consequences. They may win the presidency in \u201908 but they\u2019re going to lose it big in 2012 if they do. It will be huge. Whoever wins the presidency in \u201908 for the Democrats, if that happens, it\u2019s going to be the worst four years in this country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very quickly: Joe in Ellicott City, Maryland, welcome to the program, sir. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thanks, Rush. I hope you\u2019re feeling better soon. I\u2019m just questioning in my mind as I listen to the program today how the convoluted thinking must work for individuals who, on the one hand believe that a fictitious TV drama would have impact on our forces serving overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq — but, oh, by the way — their elected officials in real life can go on the record, and can go on the news, and claim that the mission of those very troops is wrong and doomed to failure. How can you say the one followed by the other?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is an excellent point! That is an excellent point. We have “24” supposedly influencing American troops to the negative, but votes of Congress and public statements by members of Congress talking about the mission being immoral and lost, somehow don\u2019t affect the troops? That\u2019s a great, great point out there, Joe.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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