In an effort to blindly support the administration, Rush's official position seems to be that he has no position. And the dittoheads aren't buying it. After days of trying to tell his listeners to think more clearly, but not offering any alternative way of thinking, they have openly turned against him. I'll let Rush speak for himself:
CALLER: Thank you. Thank you. Rush, you know, I've just got to come right out and say it. I think you're missing the boat on this port authority -- or port management -- story.
RUSH: Okay, I have to ask you a question. What do you think my position on it is?
CALLER: I think you're for the sale of the port authority -- or port management from the UK to the United Arab Emirates.
RUSH: Have I said that? I haven't said that. I said, "It makes great sense economically but it will never fly politically."
CALLER: Well, what is your position? Are you for it or against it?
RUSH: My position on it is, is that there's such a knee-jerk, tsunami reaction that we're not thinking about it all the way through.
CALLER: No. Well, we haven't been thinking about it at all.
RUSH: We're using a knee-jerk reaction to form an opinion here and we're making a decision based on fear, and I don't like doing things -- I don't like making any decision -- based on fear. I'd rather be hashing it out, I mean talking about some of these -- I think economics education in this country is so woefully inept and this is a classic example of it. But I know this --
CALLER: No, it's not about economics. It's about security.
RUSH: It is totally about economics, which is also linked to security.
CALLER: No, it's about security --
RUSH: See, that's the whole point. You have got one whole side of this totally eliminated from relevance.
CALLER: -- nd that's why --
RUSH: The tsunami has swept you along.
CALLER: (Laughing.) No. You listen to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan said a few things about national security, and I happen to think Reagan is an authority on national security, not Jimmy Carter.
RUSH: Well, I told you -- I led off the program saying -- that the worst thing that could have had for the United Arab Emirates is for Carter to come out and support the deal. That effectively kills it. I mean that's --
CALLER: (Laughing.) Yeah, you're right.
RUSH: It does.
CALLER: My point is that 9/11 was a wake-up call, and there are certain things that we need to revisit, and these are called "strategic industries." Is the port management a strategic industry or not? I think it is.
RUSH: Well --
CALLER: And I think that there's some economic --
RUSH: We don't manage the ports now!
CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. That's why after 9/11 we should have went, "Oh, wake up! What else should we do with homeland security?"
RUSH: Wait a second. This is point. Let me give you some facts on this. It's not true to say we don't manage the ports, because we do. The British currently, or pending the deal, the British own these container docks and ports and so forth, but it's American law that's in place. It's American union contracts that are in place. It's American employees that are in place. We've been through this with the Japanese. I went through this. I've been through this for three or four days. I'm getting really frustrated. I'm sorry [I've said]some really truly insightful, brilliant things about this and you people are not listening. You have gotten so caught up in this tsunami. Go back to the eighties. We had the same year that the Japanese are going to take over and ruin our culture. Didn't happen. We've had these fears. They constantly come up, and they never prove out.