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RUSH: We go to Chicago. Hello, Paul, nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I have to say that I\u2019m a little disappointed with your take on the Dubai port deal or the lack thereof at this point, and the reason that I say that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — is that I\u2019ve read everything you\u2019ve said, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to read the transcripts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Transcripts? Wait, wait, wait. Transcripts? Oh, the transcripts on my website?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the issue that I see here — and I understand that you\u2019re saying that this, that our security is tied to, uh, to economics, that there\u2019s a relationship there, but my — my point would be, Rush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Go ahead. Yeah. I\u2019m having a hard time. I feel… Should I correct you or let you go on, because you\u2019re getting…? You can\u2019t repeat everything I said, so you\u2019re taking little snippets, and I\u2019m not being critical of you here, but it\u2019s important when you say security is tied to economics. That\u2019s all true, but I\u2019m battling the desire to jump in here and going off on a little monolog about that, that will take away from your time, so I will refrain and let you continue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Basically from what I understand, it looks like what you\u2019re implicitly stating here is that countries like the UAE should receive the same consideration and credit than a country that shares our cultural history like Britain does —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — hundreds, if not thousands of years of history with us, should receive the same credit, uh, for that, and be there we can enter —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — into a port deal which —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. You are on shaky ground. You\u2019re on shaky ground here, and I feel like reaching out and saving you before you sink in the quicksand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, why is that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Give me the “cultural similarities” between the United States and the communist Chinese who own ports in LA — or terminals. They control the terminals in ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. Could you give me the cultural similarities to the country in Singapore that owns quite a few port operations, terminals or what have you? You know, once you start down this road that you\u2019re on, if you\u2019re going to be consistent, you have to kick everybody out of this country who poses any kind of a security risk based on these “cultural differences.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying: “We don\u2019t want Arabs running our ports, but it\u2019s not because they\u2019re Arabs.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct, and in order to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you realize what you just agreed to?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not because of the fact that they\u2019re Arabs. If Britain all of a sudden —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You heard it. I was conducting a little test. You heard it and you smack-dab right then agreed with it: “We don\u2019t want Arabs running our ports because it\u2019s not because they\u2019re Arabs.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think it\u2019s more of… Again, it\u2019s a cultural thing. If Britain subscribed to the same ideology and belief and had the same cultural history that they had, then, again, we would have to put them in the same category, but we can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Okay, then we gotta be consistent. No longer can the United Arab Emirates fly airlines, airplanes, into our airports. Same thing with Saudi Arabia. No, no!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that if the if they genuinely were an ally on the war on terror, that they would be more willing to respect the fact that at this point in our history that we\u2019re not comfortable with them representing our ports, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened here. You know, but I also have to note — and I\u2019m glad you called, and please: I\u2019m not trying to be personally critical. You have been unable to answer any question I put to you. Now, I understand you want to call and tell me what you think, but when you do that, when you say, “We can only have relations with people that have cultural similarities,” you better look into what you\u2019re saying and if that\u2019s what you\u2019re really going to base this decision on and your belief in the future on — when it comes to economic development and interaction with foreign governments, countries, companies and so forth — you are going to have sanitize this country in ways that you will not believe. You don\u2019t know what. You wouldn\u2019t answer.
\nThe “cultural differences” that we have with the communist Chinese are profound, literally profound, and yet nobody\u2019s making a move to get them out. I know they had nothing to do with 9\/11, but that\u2019s not what you\u2019re saying. You\u2019re saying “cultural similarities,” and what I think you\u2019re doing is dancing around the fact that, “We don\u2019t want Arabs running our ports, but it\u2019s not because they\u2019re Arabs.” You want everybody to believe that. “We can\u2019t have Arabs running the ports. It\u2019s not because they\u2019re Arabs, though.” Well, be very careful. Think about what you\u2019re saying here, because it\u2019s not persuasive. I understand the emotion. I\u2019ve understood the emotion that the opponents of this have from the get-go, and I can understand genuine fear — up to a point.<\/p>\n

But after a while, if you take the time to look at what this company was and is and where they are and how we interact with them already and have been for decades, years, whatever, at some point the emotion will subside, allowing the penetration of reason in a select few little dark gray cells in the cranium — and that is going to happen as well. But what you said — despite the fact that the press today is attempting to say that Bush is involved in another scandal; Bush secretly pulled the deal, told DPW to pull the deal; Bush and Rove did it, whatever, however, it happened; Chuck Schumer thinks he\u2019s responsible for it; Republicans in Congress think they pulled this off; now they\u2019re blaming Bush for doing it — the bottom line is that the DPW people wanted no part of this for the very reasons that you said and a couple others, probably.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: How many cab drivers in New York? There are about 14,000 cabs, 14,000 medallions the last I heard. So how many cab drivers in Manhattan are Arab or wear turbans? As I say, I couldn\u2019t discuss this on ESPN, but here we can do this. Now, I myself know that there are quite a few because I have ridden with them — and, you know what? I am alive today to talk about it! But did I take a risk. Now, granted this is before 9\/11. I was just going to say that. I haven\u2019t ridden in a cab in ten years, but I did ride in a cab after the World Trade Center \u201993 explosion. Yes, I did, so I haven\u2019t ridden in a cab after 9\/11. I\u2019m just asking the question. It\u2019s on the table here that we gotta protect ourselves with the “cultural differences.” We can\u2019t have this! I\u2019m just throwing the question out.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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