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RUSH: Brian in Tampa, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You are next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, after your last call<\/a>, I\u2019m not sure: are you for or against this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) My instincts are to be a little bit suspicious of this, but I don\u2019t think my opinion on it matters. We\u2019re beyond that. If this goes down anything like the Dubai Ports Deal went down, it doesn\u2019t matter what anybody thinks. It\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, the thing is, I think all the countries — the consortium of governments — that own this, I think it will be better because it won\u2019t be one person owning it. As we know, All-American businesses that are —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Wait. One person doesn\u2019t own it now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they\u2019re all Americans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not necessarily, got investors all over the world.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, okay, the CEO, the board, they\u2019re all Americans, and Americans always — large American corporations always screw over the shareholders. But my point is, is every country owning it doesn\u2019t have a reason to hate us. The only reason that Iran and all them hate us is because we oppress them, and we don\u2019t oppress any of those countries that are going to be owning it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t understand militant Islam. You don\u2019t understand the objectives of people who hijacked that religion. You look at Saudi Arabia, and you\u2019re talking about Wahabiism. There\u2019s plenty here to be concerned about. Your theory is something I said during the Dubai Ports Deal, that they\u2019re not going to blow up their own port if they own it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m saying we American does not — America does not oppress those governments, the ones you read off, they don\u2019t have any reason to hate us —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are not —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — unlike Iran.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Wait a minute. We\u2019re not hated because we oppress Iran. The Iranians don\u2019t hate us because we oppress them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, they do! That\u2019s why they act like that. They\u2019re just… Look, they\u2019re helpless. They would not act like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t understand the Islamic revolution in 1979. They hate us because we\u2019re alive; they hate us because we\u2019re not them; they hate us because we don\u2019t subscribe to their religion. You gotta understand that first and foremost. We don\u2019t oppress people anyway.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, get serious. Come on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who are we oppressing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (sputtering) You\u2019re telling me that they would actually just (sputtering) be angry at us for no reason except that (sputtering). We oppress them. That is why. If we stopped it, it would stop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not telling you, they are. Listen to them. They\u2019re the ones who are threatening to blow us off the map along with Israel!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, because we sanction that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Listen to bin Laden, listen to Zawahiri, listen to Ahmadinejad. Don\u2019t listen to me. Listen to them! That\u2019s what scares me. Nobody is believing what these people say. George Bush is the biggest enemy to some people in this country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: These people are swearing our extermination and we\u2019re not listening to them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Deep breath.) Mr. Limbaugh, look at all of the Arab countries. The ones that we\u2019re on friendly terms with are not terrorists. They only do that because they have no other way to speak out!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on! This is like saying ACTUP is justified throwing condoms around St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral because it\u2019s the only way they can be heard. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Deep breath.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You liberals are going to have to get over this silly notion that everybody is entitled to dump on us because we discriminate against people. The only way they can be heard? Why can\u2019t they just be happy and live amongst themselves? Why do they have to be on this massive effort to convert the whole world or wipe out those who refuse to go along with them? You gotta understand what this threat is about! I\u2019m not even talking about the Dow Chemical deal now. I\u2019m speaking specifically to your nonsensical assertion that countries that we don\u2019t oppress, don\u2019t hate us. Islamofascists don\u2019t even really have a country other than the Iranians, and they hate us — and we don\u2019t oppress them. We haven\u2019t done anything to them. We didn\u2019t do anything to bin Laden. We didn\u2019t do anything to Zawahiri. We haven\u2019t done anything to these people, not one thing — other than elect Bush and support Israel. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been killing us with acts of terror for 30 years, and we were slow to awaken to it. You\u2019re buying this tripe that\u2019s been taught to you by whoever, either in school or whatever that we are oppressing the world and as such we need to understand why they hate us and deal with them on that basis, and we don\u2019t have time to understand why they hate us. All we need to know is they do, and they have no desire to not hate us. They don\u2019t want to like us! They hate you every bit as much as they hate Bush, every bit as much as they hate me. They hate Pelosi. They think she\u2019s the biggest blithering idiot on the planet, but they still hate her. But she\u2019s useful to them, as will people like you be if you don\u2019t wake up. (sigh) This is worse than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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