RUSH: Speaking of principle, ladies and gentlemen, and honor, I am seriously considering withdrawing my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. I’ll tell you why. I’ll tell you why. If I am to win this, I’m already going to be in a club that’s got schlubs like Jimmy Carter in it. That’s bad enough. But get this. You ever heard of Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams? She ‘won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped start peace talks in Northern Ireland.’ In 1992, the Texas governor, ‘Ma’ Richards, ‘appointed Betty Williams to the Texas Commission for Children and Youth.’ So she still lives in Ireland. She came back. She was in Dallas last night making a speech. She was a keynote speaker at the International Women’s Peace Conference, and she told the crowd — they had about a thousand people there — that the Bush administration ‘has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.’ This is a quote from her remarks: ‘Right now, I could kill George Bush. No, I don’t mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.’
Well, my friends, obviously this club of Nobel Peace Prize winners is certainly a group of people around whom I would not like to associate, nor would I like to be considered in any shape, way, manner or form like them. The only problem here is that I have a thriving merchandise business with my Nobel Peace Prize coffee mug! (interruption) Ah, the agent for change. Yes, I could be the agent for change. So, anyway, the Bush Derangement Syndrome is all over the place out there, and it is spreading, and there are nutcase liberals shooting and trying to blow up Americans, people that read the left-wing Democrat blogs and so forth. Now this peace prize winner goes and advocates the nonviolent murder of George W. Bush. Oh, it’s not the first time. A movie has been made, a book has been written — and of course there’s no condemnation! There’s serious analysis. ‘Well, this is a Nobel Peace Prize winner. We must listen carefully to her thoughts. There may be something we can all learn from this.’ It just makes you puke.