Posted on 12/08/2006 7:11:50 PM PST by goldstategop
RUSH: The Feds have arrested a would-be terrorist allegedly planning to attack a Chicago area mall during the Christmas rush. It will be interesting to see how they got this guy. Wonder if they used wiretaps to get this guy. He had planned some kind of attack in Rockford, Illinois. He was acting on his own. He had no connection to any cell. He planned to set explosive devices off in garbage cans in a shopping center during the busy holiday shopping season. He's 22 years old, he lives in Chicago. Well, obviously, folks, this is happening because of our relationship with Israel. If we would just abandon Israel. When are people going to understand this? Now we've got terrorists trying to blow up Chicago and we know it's because of Israel.
What do you bet this guy, 22 years old. Let's see, 22 years old. What do you bet he's a Methodist? We're going to profile here and assume he's a Methodist or he's a Presbyterian. (interruption) Do you think they're not going to understand this, Mr. Snerdley? (Laughing.) Mr. Snerdley is worried that I should mention to the Drive-By Media that I'm being sarcastic here. It doesn't matter what I say here. They don't listen. They're going to listen and take this out of context someplace else. The left does not have a sense of humor. Can I tell you this? I was just laughing myself silly the other day. There was a letter to the editor in my hometown paper, the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Do you remember the cat story I told last week? Well some lib resident of my hometown quoted the story and had as his intro to it, he was very sarcastic and snide about what a rotten, mean guy I am. He didn't use those words, but there's been an ongoing letter to the editor debate in my own hometown paper about how I've brought dishonor to my hometown. I brought dishonor to my hometown. I brought dishonor to my family. And letters to the editor have been pouring into my hometown from people in town and neighboring towns. So this guy is the latest to enter the sweepstakes, if you will.
I told the story about the cat. I'll try to recreate the story. I love my cat. I got the greatest little cat in the world. You people know it. I pet this cat. I love this cat. I feed this cat. But I'm smart enough to know she only really wants me when she wants to be fed. I have learned enough to know that when she comes and starts head butting me or walking around my legs, she wants to be fed. So I take her, I feed her. After I feed her, she wanders off to whatever part of the estate that she wants to hang out until she's next hungry. I said that she's a very smart cat. She gets fed. She gets petted. She gets caressed. She gets sheltered, all these things, and she doesn't have to do anything for it. And then I said: This experience has been more valuable to me than anything else in learning about women. (Laughing.) Well, there is no sense of humor out there! I don't know how you get offended at that. I really don't. You've got to be wound too tight. (interruption) Well, the objection was not clear. I'm assuming that in the long line of complaint letters to the letter to the editor of my hometown what a rotten guy I am, how I've dishonored my hometown, I've dishonored my family and its name, that this guy was just piling on, "Okay, here's more evidence this guy is an SOB. Listen to this lovely story about his cat." (Laughing.) I have to laugh. So when you tell me, "Hey, you better tell the Drive-By Media you're being sarcastic that terrorism in Chicago is because we support Israel," I'm telling you, I think one of the greatest divides that exists, talk about bipartisanship or partisanship, the left has no sense of humor. Liberals simply have none. We've had a couple of callers this week, if you recall, just enraged and they won the election. They are just as angry as they can be, and they still are. Go to their websites. They're still POed, over anything. I don't know what it's like. I've said it constantly. What must it be like every day to get up and be a liberal? No joy in your life. No happiness, and no humor. The things they do laugh at are funny, in a way. Not if you laugh with them, you laugh at them.
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Anyway, I'm just assuming that of course the terrorists could not be Islamist. This guy in Chicago has to be a Presbyterian or Methodist, maybe a Baptist; he could be upset about something there. The Iraq Study Group makes it clear, ladies and gentlemen, that Israel is to blame for Iraq and for wherever there is terrorism, Bali, Singapore, doesn't matter. New Zealand. It's Israel. So I'm just trying to learn what's been stated in the Iraq Surrender Group report, and I want to be as smart as those guys. Don't you understand? They have so much to teach us, and life is an ongoing continual education. Something I had never considered before, that Israel was to blame and responsible for all of this. So Israel might be responsible for 911 too for all we know.
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RUSH: Joan in Detroit, you're next. Open line Friday. Hubba, hubba, hi.
CALLER: Hi Rush. My husband listens to your show all the time. He just came in and told me about the comment you made about the cat and comparing the way you treat your cat to learning about women and how so many people got instantly offended by that. I gotta say --
RUSH: Wait a minute. I don't know that a lot of people did. I just know that liberals, I mean, it's shown up on three different liberal websites, followed by 80 comments. It showed up on the Huffington Post and there were 80 comments, and the comments were so vile that the original poster had to write a piece, "I don't like the direction this post is taking. Yes, Limbaugh is an idiot when it comes to women and cats, but we don't need that kind of language." They're just wound so tight. I look at this in a lot of perplexity. I don't understand how anybody can stay so revved up, angry, enraged all the time and not have any break in it, not have any sense of humor.
CALLER: It must be exhausting. No, I agree with you. In fact, I laughed at my husband and I said, "Are you kidding me? If all you did was take care of me and stroked me when I needed to be stroked, my ego, that is, and then left me alone to deal with my life the rest of the time, I'd be in heaven. Just leave me alone when I want to be left alone."
RUSH: I damn well understand it, because my cat is in heaven even if she doesn't have the brains to know it. All I know is she's never left.
CALLER: Don't say that. Don't compare that to women.
RUSH: No, no, but she's never left.
CALLER: That's right. She knows where the love is. She comes and gets it.
RUSH: Well, she's attached to me. I'm not saying the cat, I'm not saying that she's aloof. She's certainly not. But, I mean, she's a cat! And when I tell this story to women, I love telling the story to women in person. They all laugh. They all get it. In fact, some of them have been very proud when I--
CALLER: People love to be offended, Rush, really.
RUSH: Well, I know. There are people looking to be offended.
CALLER: They thrive on that. They're always up for opposition.
RUSH: You know Jay Leno or Letterman can tell that joke and it would be all over the media the next day as a great example of humor that America needs. It all depends on who is telling these things and these stories. But it still is inescapable these people have literally no sense of humor, and to write a letter to the editor about that story. (Laughing.) In my own hometown paper!
CALLER: Have a great day, Rush.
RUSH: The newspaper printed it. Of course, my name in the paper, my name on your TV show, my name on your book. It equals sales. That's another thing you people don't understand. You don't understand what life is like as a commodity. You people will never understand -- (interruption) well you won't. You won't. This is so many things, I've told you I was going to write a book about success and what I thought it was going to be and how it's not in a lot of ways what I thought it was going to be. I'm not complaining. Don't misunderstand. I can't wait for the letters to the editor on this. (Laughing.) I can't wait for the posts on the Huffington Post on this. But being a commodity, the easier way to explain that is that there are people who really couldn't care less about me personally but will use whatever I can bring them. They'll approach under the guise, and it's not unique to me, every player on a major league sports team that goes to the World Series or the Super Bowl has more friends than he never met come out of the woodwork asking for tickets. It's nothing new.
Another thing I've learned, the more generous I am, the more expecting people are of continued generosity, rather than just express gratitude and say, "Oh, that's cool." They have this growing expectation that that's the beginning of a trend, and that's part of the commodity aspect. So I learned a lot growing up. When I share some of these things I've learned it gets passed on and posted on these liberal websites. (interruption) What do mean? That's not miserable, it's human nature. Snerdley is saying, "That's pretty miserable, people who do that." No, no, it's human nature. That's what you have to understand. This is why, I don't know if you've heard people say this, "You've got to be careful with whom you are charitable, because some people are going to have a different reaction to it." That's why motivation counts for a lot of things. If one is charitable for the gratitude of it, if you're just giving money away or being generous, contributing and donating because you want people to thank you and so forth, wrong motivation. They're going to sense it and keep coming back and asking for more and keep thanking you. If you donate because you believe in a cause, and you do it quietly and don't make a big hullabaloo about it, I think the motivation matters in terms of how you react to those people with whom you are generous and charitable. Look, I would love to continue to wax eloquent about this, but I'm up against the programming format.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I was listening to that today and thinking that he was absolutely correct. Liberals live angry humorless lives.
Heard Rush when he talked about the kitty. So harmless, frankly very nice. Once again the liberals just can't conservatives. Doesn't matter who says it- whatever the conservative says is horrible and should be stopped.
Sounds like a mooselimb life/deathstyle to me.
Maybe they should have a liberal saint for the perpetually perturbed.
S~aint Gloria of the perpetual litigant.
S~aint Cindy of the nonexistant IQ.
S~aint Susan of the gravely voice.
S~aint MoDowd of the man haters she man club.
Muslims and liberals have "Our lady of perpetual ourage".
You just have to understand them. They don't have time for humor.
Money, power. Power, money. It's a never ending cycle. They just don't know how to get off the treadmill.
I've known several really outstanding people who like cats. I've only known one really rotten person who liked cats. I'm glad Rush has one. They're a comfort...
101st undeniable truth is that Rush has problems with women.
Ya' think? Now, can you think of one man who doesn't? Just curious, you understand.
I suppose. But Rush has had how many marriages? 1,2,3 or 4. I can't remember. Now he is learning about women from cats. I know this is politically incorrect on FR, but Rush for all his virtues has problems that are hard to ignore.
Similarities between "liberals" (leftists) and jihadists.
1. No sense of humor.
2. Things that normal people find funny they use to justify their destruction of people. Liberals by character assasination, jihadists by head chopping.
3. They have a different world-view that normal people can not understand and can't relate to.
4. They hate themselves
5. They hate children. Liberals show it by their love of abortion. Jihadists by their love of blowing their children to bits just so that they can kill a Jew or a Christian or two.
6. They have nothing to look forward to. Nothing gives them joy or pleasure.
7. They hate it when other people are enjoying something. Liberals hate the joy at Christmas time, and try to eliminate it. Jihadists hate the joy at Christmas time, and try to eliminate Christians.
8. They coerce others into accepting their ideology. Liberals by laws, jihadists by murder.
9. They deny all the above.
"You will obey me, oh opener of the cans."
Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff.
"They don't have time for humor."
Nor do liberals have the intellect for humor. eg John Kerry.
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