Posted on 02/09/2005 9:21:23 AM PST by Kaslin
America's top radio talker Rush Limbaugh was greeted like a rock star on Monday during an appearance in San Jose, California, while taking a few days off from his regular broadcast to play in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament.
The packed house at the San Jose Civic Auditorium "welcomed him with a standing ovation," reported the San Jose Mercury News. "There were no hecklers or protesters, and the only shouts were of love for the host," the paper said.
"We are in the midst of a seminal historic shift in this country," Limbaugh told the audience. "The Democrat party and the media have lost their monopoly. They don't rule the roost anymore."
The watershed political moment would have amazed his father, the top talker observed. "If my father could see what's happened today, just the sight of the Democrat party would extend his life by 10 years."
That's one reason conservatives have nothing to fear from Hillary Clinton, he assured those on hand.
Still, the GOP faces a major political problem that can no longer be ignored, he warned. "The Republicans' failure to understand the American people's building rage on illegal immigration" could give rise to a third party candidate, he said, who could tip the 2008 presidential race to the Democrats, much the same way Ross Perot's campaign did in 1992.
Limbaugh also seemed to revise earlier criticism of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for not being conservative enough, telling the audience, "I was wrong."
2,700 people paid $40 a piece to see Limbaugh live. Proceeds from the event will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a charity Limbaugh has supported since he went national in 1988.
"Maybe I AM a Kerry sympathizer.........mmmmmmmmmm You don't really know do you? LOL!"
You'd rather attack me than him.
So I guess I do know for sure.
The balcony was 25$
I think we should all stop this thread with TonkinGulfYachtClub ....and he'll go somewhere else.
byeeee.
If there was ever a need for an ignore button.
Sheesh.
America needs mo traitors in the Senate.
Kerry is a liar, a traitor and is illegally sitting where an honest man should sit.
Throw the bum out!
It would let me know that Rush is listening to the folks who made him what he is. Oh, then that would mean actually listening.
Rush has become obsolete. Right never will be so.
I read them.
Cool! You get all your opinions pre-formed.
Pity us poor beggars who must form our own.
JOHN KERRY & VIETNAM--THE WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL
Ad, ran in Marine Corps Times | September 6, 2004 |
Dexter Lehtinen
former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida
In 1971, I awakened after three days of unconsciousness aboard a hospital ship off the coast of Vietnam. I could not see, my jaws were wired shut, and my left cheekbone was missing, a gaping hole in its place.
Later, while still in that condition at St. Albans Naval Hospital, one of my earliest recollections was hearing of John Kerry's testimony before Congress. I remember lying there, in disbelief, as I learned how Kerry told the world that I served in an Army reminiscent of Genghis Khan's; that officers like me routinely let their men plunder villages and rape villagers at will; that "war crimes" committed in Vietnam by my fellow soldiers "were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."
Then Kerry went to Paris, meeting with North Vietnamese enemy officials, all while our soldiers still fought in the field. The pain and disbelief I felt listening to his words went deeper than the pain I felt from the enemy fire which seriously wounded my face.
Eighteen months later I was discharged from the hospital, the wounds inflicted by the enemy fully healed. But more than 30 years later, the wounds inflicted by John Kerry continue to bring pain to scores of Vietnam veterans. Those wounds--the bearing of false witness against me and a generation of courageous young Americans who fought and died in Vietnam--are much more serious than any wound warranting a Purple Heart. Those wounds go to the heart and soul. Those wounds never go away.
Today, my son is a Marine Corps weapons officer, flying the F/A 18 Hornet. He belongs to the same Marine Corps Kerry ridiculed with his 1971 book cover showing protestors simulating the Iwo Jima Memorial, raising an upside-down American flag. He flies the same F/A 18 fighter jet Kerry voted against in the U.S. Senate. And today, Kerry's picture hangs in an honored place in Saigon's war museum, as a hero to the Vietnamese Communists.
Yet, John Kerry shamelessly drapes himself in the imagery of Vietnam, military service and the support of veterans, devoid of any media scrutiny. Meanwhile, the criticism and disapproval of Kerry by scores of veterans continues to fall on deaf ears. Worse yet, any legitimate criticism of Kerry's post-war record is discredited as a "personal" attack or an attack against his service.
John Kerry is quick to surround himself with a handful of veterans and claims overwhelming support from the veteran community. He ignores, nowever, the wounds he inflicted on millions of veterans, and he refuses to sign a waiver to release his military personnel and medical recoreds. This is the portrait of a man who has failed to come to terms with his treacherous past.
Army paratrooper and Ranger Dexter Lehtinen was severely wounded in 1971 while a reconnaisance platoon leader in Vietnam. He later was graduated first in his class from Stanford Law School and served as a Florida State Senator and the United States Attorney in Miami.
I, Dexter Lehtinen, paid for this ad personally, without any connection to other individuals or groups, because I want the public to know what John Kerry did to our Vietnam veterans.
S'OK. $40 and the proceeds go to charity so I ain't complainin'.
T'was a fun event.
Hey! I sure as heck care!! Tonkin is educating the public!!!
There are a LOT OF PEOPLE who don't know someone personally, who was VERY ill-treated when they returned from Nam. There are still people who don't quite believe that sKerry, etal, were instrumental in that....Personally, I hope Tonkin NEVER stops posting what he has!
"Rush Greeted Like Rock Star"
just thought I'd throw that out....
Just got to the thread--
Your remark re: Roger Hedgecock---I agree
You know, Rush wrote the forward to Mark Levin's new book---
I wish Rush would get "The Great One" to sub for him---
he would rock with that big of audience!!
Thank you for posting that about Gulf---
I love seeing his posts on the threads I am on!!!!
Wow! I would love to see him in person. He is my hero. In 1990, he lead me out of the darkness that is liberalism. I will forever be grateful to him.
El Rushbo is one of the main reasons I turned my back on the Democratic Party. Call me conservative. Thanks, Rush. And thanks to a very patient sister.
Easy on the eyes, too!
The possessor of a voice I could never hope to imitate...but UncleShag might be able to pull it off...MUD
This is ridiculous to attack someone in SUCH a childlike manner.
Walter Williams is the closest thing to Rush I have heard. He has the same wit and sense of humor.
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