Posted on 09/07/2006 5:31:11 PM PDT by BlueJ7
Rush Limbaugh delivered the "freeSpeech" segment on Thursday's CBS Evening News. Anchor Katie Couric set up him up: “With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 coming up, the topic tonight is the war on terror. And there may be no one more opinionated on the subject than radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.” Limbaugh began: “My friends., it's time to face a hard cold fact: Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we're alive and don't believe as they do....Now, this threat is not just go away because we choose to ignore it.”
He soon zeroed in on the problem: “But some Americans, sadly, are not interested in victory. And yet they want us to believe that their behavior is Patriotic. Well, it's not. When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents at Abu Grahib and Guantanamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us; when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it; when they want to grant those who want to kill us, U.S. constitutional rights, I don't call that patriotic.” (Full text follows)
Video clip (1:40): Real (2.9 MB) or Windows Media (3.3 MB), plus MP3 audio (600 KB). CBSNews.com has posted the text and video, as has RushLimbaugh.com
Greg Sheffield got up a NewsBusters post on this earlier tonight with a link to HotAir's video.
The full text of Limbaugh's September 7 “freeSpeech” commentary on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (text corrected against video of what aired, so it does not match CBS's posted transcript):
“My friends., it's time to face a hard cold fact: Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we're alive and don't believe as they do. And they have been killing us for decades. It is time to stop pretending these are mere episodic events and face the reality that our way of life is in grave danger. Now, this threat is not just go away because we choose to ignore it.
“Some say we try diplomacy. Yeah, well tell me, how do we negotiate with people whose starting point is our death? Ask them to wait for 10 years, before they kill us? When Good negotiates with Evil, Evil will always win. And peace follows victory, not words issued by diplomats.
“But some Americans, sadly, are not interested in victory. And yet they want us to believe that their behavior is Patriotic. Well, it's not. When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents at Abu Grahib and Guantanamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us; when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it; when they want to grant those who want to kill us, U.S. constitutional rights, I don't call that patriotic.
“Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation, to defeat Islamo-Fascism. Patriotism is supporting our troops on the battlefield, not undermining the mission and morale. But let there be no doubt about this. America will prevail. We're the same country that survived a bloody Civil War, defeated the Nazis and the Soviets. Each generation has a responsibility to the next. Our generation will not disappoint.”
Well done, Rush.
Thanks Rush, that was exactly how I feel too. Amazing how you do that...
Rush was on a roll. Savage played some of it in a bizarre jealous attempt to make fun of it.
Try and picture Eric Sevareid uttering those words.
"We killed the Patriot Act -- YAHOOO!!"
Uh, as I recall, many here on FR hated the Patriot Act too.
I'm just saying...
I don't see the harm in lecturing Katie's fans on their lack of patriotism.
Awesome. Thanks.
I wasn't one of those who defeated the Patriot Act. My only problem with it is actually part of a bigger problem we have in this country: the Federal creep into our lives. Once given/taken, the Govt. has a hard time giving that power up.
I don't mind letting the Feds in for a while when it's necessary, but we should all be justifiably leery. The Act should have been renewed for another 5 years.
Weiner is sick...it's best just to pity him and count your blessings.
Savage is a poseur (sp).
In a nutshell, the Lawyers and Hezbocrats serve only their OWN interests and agenda.....
I thought it was masterful - hit the lefties right where it hurt the most. Everyone knows about liberal bias, they expect Rush to foam about that. This was a perfect curve ball, DU took it right between the eyes.
WOW! Let's see Harry and Nancy censor that! The RNC should make that an ad and run it in every "at risk" district and state. Might get the base angry enough to get out and vote.
Well, I question their patriotism.
I'm going to cut and paste the text and send it to everyone in my address book.
I suggest everyone do the same.
It's newspeak, straight out of 1984.
Just like "love is hate", "freedom is slavery", "war is peace". Orwell had the contemporary Left nailed, even down to "Big Brother".
Another excellent example of Leftist newspeak is their calling themselves "Liberals".
There is nothing liberal about these people--they are tyrranical, totalitarian, oppressive, conformist. They are opposed to liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press.
As Rush pointed out, capitalism means liberty--is liberty--but these Leftists fight it constantly. They champion Marxism, which, like the rest of their agenda, requires a powerful, oppressive, totalitarian government for its implementation.
For that reason among others, Leftists love big, intrusive government.
Do not refer to these people as "liberals". That's their own newspeak for what they are. There is nothing liberal about them.
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