Too Many Memorials, Not Enough Anger (Rush Limbaugh)

Rush Limbaugh website ^ | September 9, 2002 | Rush Limbaugh

[oldvike]

John Leo has an excellent point in his column, "Rage Is Not the Rage." He's exactly right. There just isn't enough anger and rage out there associated with the anniversary of September 11th, and there is way too much memorializing and wallowing – yes – wallowing – in victimhood.

I discussed this in length in my third hour monologue on Monday, which started when a caller asked if the EIB Network will follow the lead of many in the rest of the media and run commercial free on September 11th. We will not. The EIB Network will not do what everybody else is doing and will not participate in the over-memorializing of September 11th. You can hear it all in the audio link below as well as my response to another caller in which I reveal my reasons for rejecting an interview request from NBC on 9/11.

Following that third hour monologue, somebody sent me an e-mail with a great line: Too many people in this country have season tickets to Oprah. This guy could not be more right. We are just so overly sensitive these days that we don't even have the ability to be righteously angry at what's happened to us. Instead, we're struggling to understand those who did it. Well, that's easy to understand! I stopped giving a rat's rear end about understanding them when they started killing us. When they start killing us, then that's war.

I don't understand why there's not more anger about this. I think we're patting ourselves on the back too much, I think there are too many American flags being waved around, I think there are too many ceremonies going on, and it's all too morbid. That attack on 9/11 should make us angry, and spur us on to action, not make us sad and introspective.

[tet68]

Be sure to listen to Rush's second hour tomorrow,
Vice President Dick Cheney will be on , don't miss it.
Sure to be an eye opener!

I don't know about all that holy ground stuff, I feel
the way you do, when I was at Gettysburg, or Little Big Horn
or Okinawa, I had a sense of reverance for what happened
there.

The last holy ground I ever saw was in the 8th grade,
when Norma Vandenherk invited me into her bedroom.
Oh, and when I got off the plane from VietNam and kissed
the tarmac in California.

[KSCITYBOY]

The media won't show our rage and many Americans hide it because it is not PC to show rage or anger. It is out there in many more Americans than the media will ever admit. I have spoke to several people who in typically hushed voices express their rage at the islamic killers who attacked the WTC. Sadly after the past 20 years of the media telling us how we should feel and have empathy for those who would destroy us most people think the would be labeled as hate mongers or racists if they expressed their anger openly.

[Orion]

Unfortunately, the US will not get serious about defeating terrorism until a lot more Americans are slaughtered by Muslim lunatics.

Negative. The only thing that will get America off its duff is when we start to hurt in the pocketbook. As long as we all have a mini-van, good home in the burbs, kiddies in soccer and private school, and a nice 9-5 job, we don't care.

Had the Al brothers been able to fully derail our economy, there would be a lot more dead Arabs today. Until then, don't rock the boat on the economy.

[Orion]

This just might be the first empire in the history of the world to simply cry itself to death.

BINGO!!!
I have been trying to encapsulate my thoughts on why we are so scared of our own shadow. How the thrid world can call the shots in our republic, is beyond me.

Your statement says it all. There is nothing more to say.

[marron]

The proper memorial for them should include a series of prayers, followed by a listing of the battles fought and won on their behalf since then.

Followed by a listing of the battles that are on the agenda.

We best honor the dead by what we do to find and destroy the ones who did this. And by what we do to succor and help their other victims. I want to see a free Afghanistan. I want to see a free Iraq. And I most want to see a free Arabia... no longer "Saudi".

[Frank_Discussion]

I agree and don't agree. No we don't show our anger over this, but I think their are two reasons why this happens. The PC indoctrination is strong, so that's one emasculating factor to useful rage. However, I think there are quite a larger number of folks who don't show their rage out of a sense of focus.

A lot of folks know that polishing that chip on their shoulder only slows them down, so they suborn their anger until it can be vented. I don't have much affection for a roach when it crawls across the room, I'm repulsed. But I don't jump up and down and scream epithets at it, I just grab a can of Raid, and take care of business. And it is satisfying.

The terrorists are filthy human roaches. Squash 'em with glee!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Pretty close to being right. Clinton was our First Apologizer as you may recall.

[prisoner6]

Good Lord! I missed the last hour of Rush yesterday so I missed this commentary! I'm in TOTAL agreement! (I don't often totally agree with him,; He's a bit to my LEFT on some issues!)

Interestingly enough I spent some time late yesterday ranting to Wife and Kidz this very same point! They, having "season tickets to Oprah", are sick of me going on about how we should blast the Dome of the Rock, Medina, Mecca, etcetera.

As a people we desperately need to get angry. Angry as Ralphie did when a bullie pushed him over the edge in Sheperd's "A Christmas Story." Or as angry as Popeye when he proclaims, "That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!"

It's PAST time to open the spinach!

After years of indoctrination, and with not just a little help from trial lawyers, we have been emasculated to the point where we are a society of eunichs.

We need to grow new nads!

I hope someone, somewhere, at one of the memorials tonorrow, gets up and makes this point in a speech. Make the sheeple listening understand anger is as valid a feeling as compassion.

The next time someone asks "how I feel" about the Attacks on America, I 'm gonna say, " I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT TAKING IT ANY MORE!

prisoner6

[KSCITYBOY]

Very true - Channeling rage into action is the best thing to do.

[Orion]

There are millions of Arabs that are beyond lucky that I am not POTUS. I don't put the blame on Iraq (that is a separate issue and stems from kowtowing to the Saudis 10 years ago - thanks GHWB spit), I put the blame on the CFOs of terrorism - Saudi Arabia.

Last September would have cost them their ability to fund terrorism. Their oil fields would be under the control of the US military, their assets confiscated, their banks looted, and all their gold exported to the US. I would have moved their people off the oil fields, and let the chips fall where they may. Our account would be square.

The next attack of any consequence would cost them their holy shrines. That would take all of two hours to accomplish. If your religion motivates you to kill Americans, we will remove the religion.

The third time would result in all Arabs being moved off the Arabian peninsula. Call it genocide, but if I had to choose between 250million Arabs, or 280million Americans, I'll choose the latter.

We have been at war with these people for 30 years. Let's act like it. Arab-Islamists and Americans can not peacefully coexist on the same planet. Someone has to get off.

Rome decided that the Mediterranean was not big enough for Rome and Carthage. Carthage had to leave.

[soozla]

Hear, hear!!!!!!!!!! I agree! Holding hands and singing "Kum-Bay-Ah" did not make this country great, did not propel it through adversarial times (of which there have been PLENTY!!)

Is it any wonder "Prozac Nation" was written??? People "stuff" their feelings way too much, IMHO. I say, "I'm here, I'm pissed, get used to it!!!!!!!!!!!" The good old US of A has taken it on the chin one too many times, for my liking. We have been attacked, for *** sake!! The knuckleheads declaring jihad on America should know they are going to be staightened out, and fast!!!

The liberal, global view of "America sucks" is just plain wrong.......we are the original "Rodney King" we CAN all get along, and the fabric of the society here, which has been woven over the past 250 years, is proof of that. Maybe not perfect, but hey, we are trying. And we are getting it right alot of the time.

You know, America should NOT be someone's "vacation home": a place of great beauty, wealth & prosperity people hang out in for the summer and when they get homesick, go back. If you have business here, take care of it. If you visit, respect it, follow its rules. If you choose to stay here, commit to it!!! That's what ALL of our families have done and dammit, most of us have committed with ALOT of blood, sweat & tears, but most of all PRIDE in this accomplishment called USA!!

The world mocks Bush as a "cowboy", but hey, I say the "Don't mess with Texas" attitude WORKS.....BIGTIME!!

We should be on a roll to get Saddam out and any other half wit dictator who can't play by the rules and get along......and to those who ask "what gives us the right?" the answer should be "250 plus years of getting to be what we are today"......have a little respect for it, PLEASE!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I put the blame on the CFOs of terrorism - Saudi Arabia.

Bingo. Dittoes. You can say that again.

[Frank_Discussion]

Once again, this is the Media's line, not reality. I hope that ABCMSNBCCBSCNN etc. cries itself to death, actually.

They've been capitalizing on the adminstraton's justifiably quiet stance on what they're doing. The Media is feeding everyone a line that we are waiting to strike back forcefully, because the public is all PC and sorrowful. It's all bull crappus, and they know it!

The bulk of our wonderful country wants and expects action, and despite reports to the contrary. And the administration has been kicking a$$ and taking names for months now. For heaven's sake, we were within 170 miles of Bagdad yesterday, massively destroying the eye's and ears of Saddam's military. For all the talk of "Congressional Support" and "International Coalitions" we sure are doing a lot of damage in Iraq and Afganistan.

People, please! We're doing what we need to, softening the target, and preparing the battlefield.

[Frank_Discussion]

"It's PAST time to open the spinach!"

Soooo... That's what's in a can of WhupA$$!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I am at the anger stage now, but I will never take issue with those who still need to memorialize.

You must look back sparingly. If you look back too much you will get stuck in the past instead of living in the present.

[oldvike]

I don't put the blame on Iraq (that is a separate issue and stems from kowtowing to the Saudis 10 years ago - thanks GHWB spit), I put the blame on the CFOs of terrorism - Saudi Arabia.

I read an interesting theory a few weeks back which stated that if we installed a democratic governemnt in Iraq (aaaahhhccckkk! I hate nation building, but it might be necessary to achieve the long term goal of our own security!) then Saudi Arabia would eventually tumble like so much garbage. Wish I could find that damn article.

[prisoner6]

Flexing me forearms...

Yackackakakakakakakak!

Kidz! Make sure to eat yer spinach and drink yer Ovaltine!

prisoner6

[Orion]

Saudi Arabia would eventually tumble like so much garbage.

I have no desire to see SA "tumble." I want to see them ripped limb from limb. I want mothers to weep over their dead children. I want orphans to wander aimlessly around that pathetic land. I wand the fathers to be eating each other to stay alive. I want rats to be the national staple of SA.

I want them to suffer what thousands in the US suffered a year ago - on a national scale. More importantly, I want our government to establish this condition.

You have to hang a price on terrorism. Killing al-Queida is not enough. You have to destroy what is dear to al-Queida to get through to them.

Why is Atta's family still alive? They should have their tounges hanging about their collar bones - old and young.

Send a message. If we act like marshmallows, we deserve another 9/11.