Liberals Still Obsessed with Rush & Path to 9/11

RUSH: This next story — I’m sure you’ve seen this, heard about it. This is the kind of thing that infuriates me, and I have to tell you, when I watched The Path to 9/11. (By the way, we’re going back to audio sound bites three and four next, Ed.) When I saw all of the hesitation and all the rules and all the regulations that prevented us from taking out Bin Laden or other terrorists, my blood boiled, and now there’s this story in the New York Post today. Taliban — and there’s a picture of it. “Taliban terror leaders who had gathered for a funeral – and were secretly being watched by an eye-in-the-sky American drone – dodged assassination because U.S. rules of engagement bar attacks in cemeteries, according to a shocking report. 

“U.S. intelligence officers in Afghanistan are still fuming about the recent lost opportunity for an easy kill of Taliban honchos packed in tight formation for the burial…” NBC had the pictures. It looked like there might have been a hundred and ninety of them there! “The unmanned airplane, circling undetected high overhead, fed a continuous satellite feed of the juicy target to officers on the ground. ‘We were so excited. I came rushing in with the picture,’ one U.S. Army officer told NBC. But that excitement quickly turned to gut-wrenching frustration because the rules of engagement on the ground in Afghanistan blocked the U.S. from mounting a missile or bomb strike in a cemetery, according to the report. Pentagon officials declined comment and referred The Post to Central Command officers in Afghanistan, who did not respond to a request for comment or explanation,” by press time. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This next story. I'm sure you've seen this, heard about it.
This is a kind of thing infuriates me. And I
have to tell you when I watched the Path to
nine eleven. By the way, we're going back to audio
soundbites three and uh and four next ed I just
when I saw all of the hesitation and all the

(00:20):
rules and all the regulations that prevented us from taking
out Bin Laden or other terrorists, my blood boiled. And
now there's their stories in the New York Post today
Taliban and there's a picture of it. Taliban terror leaders
who had gathered for a funeral, and we're secretly being
watched by an eye in the sky. American drone dodged

(00:42):
assassination because US rules of engagement bar attacks in cemeteries.
According to a shocking report, US intelligence officers in Afghanistan
are still fuming about the recent lost opportunity for an
easy kill of Taliban han shows packed in tight formation
for the burial. NBC News had the pictures. It looks

(01:04):
like there might be a hundred ninety of them there.
The unmanned drone circling undetected high overhead, fed a continuous
satellite feed of the target to officers in the ground.
We were so excited they came rushing in with the picture,
one U S Army officer told NBC. But that excitement
quickly got to turn to gut wrenching frustration because the
rules of engagement on the ground in Afghanistan blocked the

(01:27):
US from mounting a missile or bomb strike in a cemetery.
According to the report, Pentagon officials declined comment. Referred to
New York Post to Central Command officers in Afghanistan, who
didn't respond to request for comment or explanation by by
press time. Now, the Taliban bombs other Muslim funerals. The

(01:51):
Taliban hides behind women and children, as does al Qaeda
and all of these other terrorists. This is a new
kind of war, and we're gonna have to rethink these rules.
I know why we do it, folks, I know why
we do what we do it to, uh maintain the
United States dignity and and and so forth. I understand

(02:12):
that blowing up cemeteries and this sort of thing. But man,
when these people are we just we spell out hiding
places for him, uh in the in the process. Let
me go back. There's a couple more soundbites here on
the Path to nine eleven UM, we have an unreal
analysis here from a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
his name is Michael Dellicapini, and being interviewed by PBS

(02:36):
Course Moment Jeffrey Brown, who says, there have been reports
in recent days about ties between the filmmakers the past
to nine eleven and conservative causes our organizations. I wan quickly,
and it's not quite clear what that means exactly, or
what those ties would mean. But because it's been so
much disgusting, what ways would that matter to you? Perhaps?
In what ways wouldn't it matter to you? I think

(02:57):
it matters a lot. And the ties are both with
the direct and with the screenwriter, and they have to
do with involvements with organizations that have as part of
their mission bringing more conservative views into mainstream media. What
the audience needs to know and what needs to be
upfront with people as they view it, if they're going
to watch it critically and understand what's being said to them,

(03:18):
is that that's the case. I would put on the
network a very strong obligation to let its audience know
that they are getting a film that comes from a
point of view, even if there is an effort to
make that point of view more subtle. Stop stop that,
Mr Mr Deli Carpini, Would you also agree that we

(03:38):
need such disclaimers in front of practically ninety percent of
the movies that come out of Hollywood, from the big
screen and for television. What is this to say that
there is an agenda behind movies? Is new and only
conservatives are doing it and the public needs to be
warned about this. And by the way, what is so

(04:01):
threatening and what is so dangerous about conservatives in Hollywood
attempting to produce and write and distribute product. Well, I'll
tell you what's so threatening about it, folks, The same
way this program threatens them. They used to have a
monopoly and they're worried, sick they're going to lose it.
This movie, The Path to nine eleven, was an earth

(04:23):
chattering But what is no crime in being sorry this
there is? Conservatism is criminal. They're attempting to criminalize conservative ideology.
Here's the rest of the bite. We got one more
from this guy, just as we would expect a news
show to tell us where their information is coming from.
Is there a bias? Is this an opinion hold? Hold
hold it. When do we get that? When do we

(04:44):
ever get a new show telling us of their bias
and where a certain story came from? What is this
guy is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Here's
the rest active presentation of things. And then the next
bite is this, uh, actually different, different, It's not the
same guy that that again was a University of Pennsylvania

(05:05):
professor Michael Dela Carpini. On MSNBC yesterday, the anchor Babe
Melissa ray Burger talking to Democrats strategiist Flavia Colgan. Maybe
it's Flavia. I don't know, I've never heard it pronounced,
ray Burger says, after you saw the Path to nine level,
are you upset ABC didn't pull it all together or

(05:25):
did the edited version make a difference? Oh, absolutely not one.
I think it undercuts the credibility of a film when
you have it being released to Rush Limball beforehand, forty
million dollars funding it. We don't know where it's coming from.
Sandy Burger and Clinton were well um within their rights
certainly to appeal to Tom Kine the forty million dollars

(05:48):
and we don't know where it came from. How about ABC.
It's an ABC movie. Flavia Flavia Touchstone put it out.
I do who have the DVDs? It's imitates him so much.
They can't they can't get over this. They're beside themselves
with the fact that I got the DVDs. But I

(06:09):
wasn't the first Flavia Flavia. How many times have I
got to say this? This movie was screening the National
Press Club and half the audience was Democrats, including Richard
ben ven East and some people from the nine eleven Commission.
I was not first on the list. I had nothing
to do with writing this thing. I didn't even talk
to Cyrus nor Rasta in the process. All I knew

(06:30):
was some years ago he was working on it. But frankly,
when he told me about it, it went in one
ear and out the other, because I figured this thing.
Don't have a prayer, but go for it, Cyrus. I
didn't even get all the details. I had no clue
what this thing was gonna be before I. They think
I wrote it. They think they told I guided Cyrus

(06:51):
and what Cyrus and his people. This is an ABC project, folks,
This is an ABC project. And I'll bet you before
all this hubbub came up. This thing was so good.
I will bet you ABC I thought it was one
of the greatest things they'd ever produced internally, this University
of Pennsylvania professor. For just a second, Michael Delhi Carpini

(07:12):
PBS News or with Jim Alara being asked about the
movie Path to nine eleven and uh, I'm not gonna
listen the whole thing stand by ed for when I
tell you to kill it. I think it matters a lot.
And the ties are both with the director and with
the screenwriter, and they have to do with involvements with
organizations that have, as part of their mission bringing more

(07:36):
conservative views into mainstream media. What the audience needs to
know and what needs to be upfront with people as
they view it. If they're going to watch it critically
and understand what's being said to them, is that that's
the case. I would put on the network a very
strong obligation to let its audience know that they are
getting a film that comes from a point of view.

(07:57):
Stop the alright, are Mr Della Carpini. Let's say I
were to take your suggestion to something useful and valuable.
I would then say this to PBS and the News
are with Jim Larra, and next time you have University
of Pennsylvania professor Michael Della carpinion, Inform your viewers he

(08:17):
has a point of view. Inform your viewers where he
comes from. Inform your viewers whether he's a liberal criticizing
what he thinks, he is a conspiratorial conservative movie. I mean,
if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
If conservatives in Holly would have to identify their work,
we're conservatives, and this has a conservative slant that I

(08:40):
think every liberal ought to be forced to do the
same thing. People, you know that all these professors and
all these elite is the smartest people in the world
cut above, and they're not. They're so easily refutable that
it's it's refutable for those of you in real inda
that it's hardly worth the time. I want to go

(09:01):
back and correct something folks. I said a moment ago
that these libs think that I co wrote the Path
to nine eleven because I'm a friend of the writer
Cyrus No Resta, and they think and they aren't there
trying to say that the released the Limball first Limball,
and trying to imply Limball was in on it. Here's
the bottom line. They know I had nothing to do
with this. They know full well I had nothing to

(09:24):
do with any aspect of this movie. This is just
the way they do things, typical smear tactics. I'm bad, Cyrus,
No rest is bad. That equals the movie is bad.
They do it to people. They do it to people
like me and Cheney and Bush and Rovan Rumsfeld. They
do it to companies ex On, Walmart, Halliburton. They do

(09:44):
it to objects, guns, cigarettes, and cvs, SUVs. All they
do is smear things and smear people. They produce nothing.
Liberals produce nothing, They accomplish nothing, They're responsible for nothing.
So they seek and destroy because that's the only way
they can deal with their opponents is to discredit them.