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June 17, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Your wish is our command.
You ask for it, you get it.
You demand it in large enough numbers and voices.
You get it.
We have added size 3X and 4X t-shirts to the new Gitmo line at rushlimbaugh.com.
Plus, we've added a third shirt, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, I should tell you that because of all the material that needs to be used to make these 3X and 4X shirts, there are additional premiums that added to the price.
The regular, the shirts from small up to 2X are $19.95.
The 3X is $22.95.
The 4X is $25.95.
And there are now three different shirts available, but they're all available for you at rushlimbaugh.com.
We have even added the five-day forecasts for Baghdad and Gitmo, just to offer you some comparison.
For example, today, 114 is the high forecast in Baghdad, 87 at Gitmo.
Go ahead and turn the Ditto cam on, Brian.
I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you about that.
I wanted it up when the program started.
Here we are, folks, Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the nation's leading radio talk show.
Show prep for the rest of the media, which follows.
Looking forward to talking to you today.
And you know the rules, pretty much whatever you want to talk about, whether I care about it or not.
800-282-2882, the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, ever since we started the Gitmo Resort brochure section of RushLimbaugh.com.
And we began offering t-shirts.
There were two t-shirts that we offered.
And they're in prison jumpsuit orange.
That's the color of the t-shirt.
Well, people are saying, why couldn't you do these in white?
Because you're at Gitmo.
They don't wear white at Gitmo.
They wear jumpsuit orange.
So these are jumpsuit orange t-shirts.
And they now come in size small all the way up to 4X.
They are $19.95 for the first four sizes.
The 3X and the 4X are $22.95 and $25.95 each, but people have been demanding it.
I've been getting emails.
Rush, I'll even pay extra.
Well, we tried to do this for the same price, but we just, you know, we're bound by the capitalist system and our wholesale suppliers.
And so this is the deal if you want a 3X or 4X shirt.
We have also added another shirt to the first two.
The first two t-shirts, on the front, it says Club Gitmo.
On the back says your tropical retreat from the stress of jihad.
The other shirt said on the front, Club Gitmo.
And on the back, all I got, my mullah, went to Club Gitmo, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
We have added a third t-shirt now.
On the front, it says Club Gitmo.
On the back, I got my free Koran and prayer rug at Gitmo.
This was in the original roster of, there were five or six suggestions that we had and came up with.
And we decided to go ahead because of the overwhelming popularity of the Club Gitmo t-shirts in Burnt Orange.
You'll also note, ladies and gentlemen, that when we went to, if you went to the website last night, we snuck it in on you.
Now it's prominently displayed graphically in our Club Gitmo brochure, the five-day forecasts for Baghdad and Club Gitmo.
And of course, it's 114 today in Baghdad, 87 at Club Gitmo.
That's for Dick Durbin, who is so concerned about the air conditioning being turned on and off at Club Gitmo.
But it's all there for you at rushlimbaugh.com as well as our podcasts continuing.
And that's just going great guns too.
So I wanted to fill you in on this, and I'm really happy to be able to do it.
I want to tell you, how many of you have seen an item available somewhere and it's not in your size?
And you get a hold of them and you say, can you make it a 3X or 4X?
And you never hear from them?
Or you, well, we can't do that.
It'd be too much trouble.
I started getting requests on Tuesday for 3X and 4X t-shirts.
And here we are by Friday, and we are offering them.
And so, and we're still working on other items that we could add to the Club Gitmo gift shop.
Yes, I am seriously thinking of, well, I don't think we need to offer him a, Sturdly's asking me if we're going to offer Senator Durbin a complimentary 3X shirt.
We can send Senator.
I think we will.
We'll send Senator Durbin's office all three shirts.
We have three different Club Gitmo, burnt orange, by the way, the orange jumpsuit color.
But I think he needs to go there.
You know, we can send him these t-shirts all day long, but he needs to go there.
I'm going to get into that here in just a second.
I just want to finish my thought here.
I'm ecstatic that we have been able to respond so quickly to an outpouring of requests.
Some of them were even demands.
And it's like I wrote him back.
I said, 2X, not big enough.
I mean, I can get into a 1X.
Well, they shrink up, Rush, you know, after you won.
I hadn't thought about that because I get my t-shirts dry cleaned.
I don't launder mine, and so they don't.
No, I do.
I do, Snerdly.
I get my dry shirts, my t-shirts dry, cleaned, and pressed.
The only thing I don't send to the dry cleaners is the underwear.
Everything else goes to the dry cleaners.
It always looks brand new.
It never shrinks up.
So what is the big deal?
Snurdley's in there.
He's laughing himself.
Silly.
He cannot believe this.
Well, I don't wear jeans, but I guess if I did wear jeans, I'd get them dry clean too.
But I don't wear them.
At any rate, Dick Durbin, before we get to Dick Durbin, I found this last night.
On top of everything, folks, on top of everything, Halliburton, Halliburton will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at Gitmo.
Oh, man.
Do you love this?
We are just ramming it down the throats of these liberals.
You don't like Gitmo, Hama.
We're going to send your favorite U.S. corporation in there to build a new detention facility.
They'll call it a torture facility and a security fence at Gitmo.
Halliburton's going to do this.
$30 million.
U.S. is holding about 520 foreign terrorist suspects there.
The announcement comes the same week that Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it would created an image problem for the U.S. Is there any doubt that the image problem that's been created for the U.S. has been created by Senator Durbin?
And there is, get this, folks, before we get it, we got sound bites from the Senate floor yesterday.
I want to share it with you.
But I have the Chicago Tribune story here today.
Holding it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers by Jill Zuckman.
Now, get this headline.
Dick Durbin's passion ignites foes ire.
The Illinois senators charged attacks on Republicans inspire his party while firing up his critics, and he's not biking down.
This is passion, Dick Durbin's passion.
What if this were Tom DeLay?
When it's Tom DeLay talking in much milder terms about the American judicial system, they run out and write stories about how Delay is inciting violence against the judges in this country.
They don't talk about Delay's passion.
They don't talk about how much Delay really cares about his country.
And they don't talk about anything of the sort.
When Dick Durbin does it, his passion, this is passion, this is aid and comfort to the enemy.
We're going to get into this.
This is a story that will not go away.
The Democrats are defending him.
And folks, what I told you yesterday is happening.
I asked the Democrats to keep talking, to keep speaking, to do that because you're telling everybody in this country who you are.
And Durbin, keep talking.
And I urge you to call his office and thank him.
You know, don't be mean and don't be snied.
Don't call up and hang up.
Call up and be gentle and sincere and nice and say, I'm calling to thank Senator Durbin.
I think he's doing a great service for the voters of America.
He is helping the people of this country to learn just what the Democratic Party is all about.
That's the kind of call you need to make.
And I suggested the Democrats keep doing this.
And they heard me because more and more Democrats coming out supporting Durbin.
More and more Democrats.
John Conyers led this group that marched up to the White House yesterday to protest the Downing Street memo.
The Democrats, folks, maybe they're listening.
Maybe this time the advice I'm giving them, they like because they're certainly out there executing it.
We'll be back and get started with all the rest of the program today right after this.
I have to share with you this email that I got last night.
Mr. Snerdley, would you stop in there flirting with Dawn?
And we need to listen to this because it's about you.
Dear Rush Lynn Boy, this came in the main email box.
Dear Rush Limboy, I'm a 13-year-old girl who listens to your show maybe once a month for 30 seconds.
Once a month for 30 seconds.
You got my email address once a month for 30 seconds.
I have a question.
Is Mr. Snerdley your dog, your assistant, or your granny?
I'm glad you can hear again.
The reasons I listen to you are to pick up information about Mr. Snerdley because I like it when you impersonate Dingy Harry.
Thank you for saying enmity, not enity.
Tell me who Mr. Snerdley is or else Anna McCulfer.
Or else, tell me who Mr. Snerdley is or else Anna McCulfer.
She listens 30 seconds a month and she's got a crush on you.
Anna, your question, is Mr. Snerdley my dog, my assistant, or my granny?
Yes.
All right.
Let's go to the floor of the Senate yesterday.
This is after being told by his aides that Republicans were addressing his gitmaw comments.
Senator Dick Durbin returned to defend himself.
The statement that I made involved an FBI report, a report which has been uncontroverted and one which I read into the record in its entirety.
I said at the beginning when I read it into the record that I did so with some hesitation because it was so graphic in its nature.
But I felt that in fairness, so that the record would be complete, I had to read it in.
Because there have been allusions made to statements made by me, I feel it's appropriate to read it again so that my colleagues who may not have reflected on it will have a chance to do so.
And I hope that my colleagues from Kentucky and Virginia and other states who are following this debate will listen to this and then listen to what I said in the record afterwards so they understand the context of my remark.
It has been nothing short of amazing what some elements of the media have done with this remark and what some of my colleagues have drawn from this remark today.
All right.
Now, look, your question is as obvious as mine, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's listen to the question from Senator Mitch McConnell.
My question of the senator is not the words of the FBI agent, but the words of the senator from Illinois.
Does the senator from Illinois stand by these words comparing the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners to the Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or Paul Pott or others?
And Durbin had this to say.
In this particular incident that I just read from an FBI agent describing in detail the methods that were used on prisoners, was I trying to say that isn't this the kind of thing that we see from repressive regimes?
Yes.
No.
This is the type of thing you expect from a repressive regime, but you don't expect it from the United States.
You do not expect this is mild stuff for a repressive regime.
That's the point, Senator.
That's the point.
This is mild.
Turning the air conditioning on and off.
Go ask McCain if they had air conditioning in the hand, Oy Hilton.
Go ask him.
If he'll tell you the truth about it, ask him.
This business about being forced to sit in one position for 24 hours, maybe in the fetal position, or to be shackled and chained.
Come on, that's not the stuff of repressive regimes.
It's just incredible.
So McConnell said, well, listen to what he said.
Is the senator aware that Paul Pott murdered one to two million of his fellow countrymen?
The Nazis murdered from six to nine million women and children, mainly Jews, and the Soviets in their gulags murdered some estimated 20 million people over a 20-year period between 1930 and 1950.
The point is that.
And my observation, obviously, is, is this a fair comparison?
The comparison related to interrogation techniques.
It is clear, I will state it for the record, that the horrors visited on humanity by those regimes were far greater than these interrogation techniques.
But the point I was trying to make was, what do you visualize when you hear this kind of interrogation technique?
I visualize regimes like those I described doing things like this.
Did they do more?
Did they do worse?
Of course they did.
But the point I was trying to make was, this is not what America should expect.
No, that's not what you said.
You said it was the same thing.
You were made a valid comparison.
Now, Durbin is, not only is he digging in, I think we need to demand this memo that he's been reading from this FBI agent.
I think he ought to be made to produce this memo.
I mean, anybody can stand up and say, look what I just had sent to me.
You know, the Democrats have their memos.
Well, we have ours.
Wait till you hear this next story.
So release the memo, Durbin.
Release the information that you had so we can determine whether it was accurate.
After a barrage of criticism, Durbin went to the Senate floor Thursday night to repeat a controversial statement he made two days earlier and insist that he said nothing objectionable.
And he kept talking about what he got sent by an FBI agent.
Now, the military operates under strict guidelines that are widely distributed.
Only mild, non-injurious physical contact is allowed, such as light pushing.
Sleep deprivation is used along with stress positions, but they are limited in time.
One knowledgeable official familiar with the memo cited by Durbin, as well as other memos, said the FBI agent made no such allegation and that the memo described only someone chained to the floor.
Anything beyond that is simply an interpretation, the official said.
So what we have here is a knowledgeable official.
This is from the Fox News website.
A knowledgeable official familiar with the memo cited by Durbin, as well as other memos, said that the FBI agent made no such allegation, and the memo described only someone chained to the floor.
Anything beyond that is simply an interpretation, the official said.
So I think that's why I say we need to see this memo that Durbin read from.
We need to see it.
He can read from it.
He can copy it and piece of paper, take the piece of paper to the Senate floor, but let's see the actual memo.
Let's make him produce it.
You know, we have our memos now, and he's got his.
It's about time.
But here's the thing.
Let me suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that rather than taking another junket to Sweden or wherever these politicians like to go during the summer break, that Senator Durbin take a different trip.
This is a man who needs to be reminded what the Nazi death camps, the Russian gulags, and the Cambodian killing fields look like.
He needs to take some time off from his political gamesmanship and educate himself about the regimes that he used as examples to smear and defame the thankless work of the brave American soldiers working down at Gitmo.
And when he's done taking that tour, Durbin needs to meet with some of the survivors of these death camps.
He needs to educate himself about how they fought to live under these most inhumane conditions.
Next on his tour, Durbin needs to go back to ground zero and that field in Pennsylvania at the Pentagon and take a good look at where and how 3,000 of his fellow Americans were slaughtered in cold blood.
Senator Durbin needs to be reminded of how some of them jumped to their deaths, were burned to death, or were crushed to death, and he needs to meet with the families of the dead.
The cops, the firefighters, the wives and husbands, the children, the parents and grandparents who lost loved ones.
And then Dick Durbin needs to go to Walter Reed and other hospitals treating our brave men and women in uniform, some of whom are struggling to live because of major head or organ wounds, those who have lost limbs or sight or hearing or are horribly burned.
He should talk to these soldiers and their families.
And after he visits these hospitals, he should go to Arlington National Cemetery, where so many of our heroes have been buried defending our country in this war and past wars.
And on the last leg of his education tour, then send him to Gitmo.
He should witness how our magnificent troops care for the enemy, an enemy that is in fact the latest incarnation of the Nazis, the Stalinists and the Cambodian communists.
Let him see for himself the difference between good and evil and see that we are good and that they are evil.
He will see that these American soldiers he smears and defames are the only line of defense we have against the would-be mass murderers of September 11th.
Take that trip, Senator Durbin.
I will pay for it if you will take it.
Open Line Friday continues.
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No matter what you do, you just can't make people happy.
No matter how hard you try, sometimes it just doesn't work.
Hey, Rush, what about the polo golf shirts for Gitmo?
I guess we could do that, but you're going to run up the price point here, Fabio.
I'll look into it.
You ask for it.
We'll see if we can find it.
You want a polo-style golf shirt in burnt prison jumpsuit orange for Club Gitmo?
Then, well, we'll see if we can put one.
I just got an email from a prison guard out in California.
He's ordered a bunch of shirts.
He's going to wear one to work.
So the prisoners, so the prisoners see it.
He can't wear it a whole day, but he said it'll stand out because the official prison color in California is the jumpsuit blue.
Jumpsuit burnt orange.
At any rate, back to Senator Durbin.
I will, if he will take this tour, I will pay for it.
I'll pay for his trip to take this tour.
And let him see these American soldiers that he smears and defames.
Let him see that they're the only line of defense we have against these would-be mass murderers that they watch over, that we feed so well.
What Durbin will learn is that we are a civilized, compassionate people who believe in the rule of law and liberty, so much so that we treat the most evil barbarians far better than they treat themselves.
My friends, the people who are imprisoned at Gitmo are living better lives than their free friends and neighbors back at home in the vast majority of cases.
And I do wonder, I really do wonder, where is Senator McCain on this?
Senator McCain, a United States senator with actual POW experience, the Hanoi Hilton, he knows that what Senator Durbin is saying is an abomination and an insult.
Where is Senator McCain on this?
He is strangely, suspiciously silent.
But let me just say this, as an American citizen, I remain stunned despite all the yucks that we're having with this and despite the great political event it is in just further smearing and ruining the Democratic Party as it exists today, because the more he doesn't back off of this, the more he confirms it, the more he backs it up, the more he tells people what the modern-day Democratic Party is.
The more that Harry Reid defends Durbin, the more other Democrats start acting out in similar fashion to Durbin's words, the more the American people will learn about who these people really are.
And that's why, you know, I am of mixed emotion.
I hate hearing this stuff, but in a political sense, I encourage Senator Durbin to keep talking.
And I'm serious when I suggest you call his office and thank him.
Be polite, soft-spoken, brief.
Thank Senator Durbin for doing a great service to the American people, for helping him to understand who the Democratic Party is today, what it's become.
Nevertheless, all that aside, I remain stunned that a U.S. senator from a great state like Illinois, a state that gave us Abraham Lincoln and Everett Dirksen, could produce a politician like Dick Durbin.
So devoid of human sensibilities and compassion that he would risk, it seems, our very destruction in a perverse show of political ambition.
He so badly misreads the American people, it is amazing to watch.
And I guess some people are calling for him to resign because he is a disgrace.
But I don't think he should resign until he takes the tour that I have outlined and offered to pay for because he's in need of a very serious history lesson.
At the very least, he's digging in and refusing to apologize.
We've got an expert source familiar with this FBI memo who said it doesn't say what Durbin says it said, that most of what Durbin is saying is extrapolation, interpretation.
He's adding to what the memo itself actually says.
But here you have, you know, I don't want to hear ever again from Democrats how you support the troops.
I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to get into a waste of time arguing with you about your notion that you can support the troops, but I disagree with the mission.
Don't want to hear it.
It's intellectually vacant.
It makes no sense, and it's insulting.
And I don't want to, I don't, you all are telling us clearly what your priorities are here.
You're telling us on whose side in this you really are.
You've got Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera on television and their website plastering Durbin's words all over the place because they know what an assistance those words are.
They know how helpful Durbin's words are in ginning up the very thing Durbin fears that what's going on at Gitmo.
He thinks that what's going on is Gitmo is going to cause more hate to accrue to Americans.
What Durbin is saying is going to do that.
Durbin is creating far more than Gitno or Abu Grab ever could, a false impression of the United States.
He is telling a bunch of leftist ideologues around the world that this is the new Nazi Germany, that we may as well have Pol Pot running this country.
Such is their hatred for Bush and the Democratic Party that some of them may actually believe this.
But I think it's time for Senator Durbin to take this trip, if nothing else, to acquaint himself with the facts so that he can be duly embarrassed, if he's capable of that.
But he continues to hang tough.
And in fact, in fact, it's not just the Republicans.
The commander of the veterans of foreign wars called Mr. Durbin totally out of line.
Senator John Warner, Virginia Republican, set off a tense debate on the Senate floor that lasted more than an hour, part of which we played for you earlier.
Warner accused Durbin of insulting American soldiers with a grievous error in judgment by comparing U.S. treatment of all kinds of suspects to the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, came to the floor to defend his chief deputy.
He's a deputy whip.
This is the number two guy for the Democrats in the Senate, Durbin is.
And Dingy Harry came to the floor to defend him, to lash out at press reports and the White House, which earlier in the day had called Durbin's remarks reprehensible.
Dingy Harry said the noise machine of the far right never stops.
It's gotten so much more in operation in the last few weeks.
This is all a distraction by the White House.
But Harry Reid did not directly address Durbin's gulag comparison.
So this is a distraction by the White House.
This is more typical thinking by the Democrats, or not thinking.
This is a tactic.
Your guys say something and get you in deep doo-doo and deep trouble.
Blame the administration for causing it.
I'm sure that Karl Rove somehow found a way to sneak this memo and these comments over to Dick Durbin, disguised as an FBI agent.
The White House caused this.
The mad scientist, the mad genius, Karl Rove, is behind this.
Senator Robert Byrd, by the way, Sheetsbird spent more than 10 minutes recognizing Father's Day yesterday after Dingy Harry accused the White House and the right-wing media machine of ginning up its operation.
After Sheetsbird finished his 10 minutes on Father's Day, Senators John Kyle and Jeff Sessions of Alabama further denounced Durbin's comments and echoed the calls for an apology.
Warner began this whole thing with a floor speech in which he read from a front-page account of Durbin's remarks in yesterday's editions in the Washington Times.
And once again, this takes us to the Chicago Tribune story.
Dick Durbin's passion ignites foes' ire.
The Illinois senators charged attacks on Republicans, inspire his party while firing up his critics.
And he's not backing down.
And I'm quoted in this story.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said in his show, this is the kind of thing that ought to force him to resign in disgrace.
And then later on, they quote me as making comments on the impact of this and how it's been used by Al Jazeera.
So as far as the Chicago Tribune, and the left-wing media is not upset about this.
The left-wing media is not, they're not fired up.
They don't see what the big deal is here.
They're more concerned about the childlike innocence of the 20th hijacker.
And they're more concerned that he just doesn't even know where Florida is.
He doesn't really know where the United States is.
He's just a child, just a terrible child.
The 19 hijackers, Michael Duffy of Time magazine.
Well, you know, they're gone now, and we'll just never get to know them.
We'll never know who they were.
They were just children, childlike, innocent children.
Here comes Dick Durbin comparing Gitmo guards, the Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler.
Chicago Tribune says it's his passion.
So I said, let Tom DeLay offer some legitimate criticism of members of the judiciary, and the whole left-wing media gins up en masse that Delay is inciting violence against judges.
They don't write about Delay's passion and how his passion ignites the ire of his foes.
They don't write about how Delay's passion inspires his party.
They write that Delay must go.
But in Durbin's case, it's his passion.
Folks, there's a great lesson for those of you still on the fence out there about the association, the left-wing media and the Democratic Party and the American left in general.
And if you're still on the fence about who the Democrats really are, you have no excuse now.
They are out in the open and proudly, finally announcing who they are.
Not backing down, digging in even deeper.
Back after this with your phone calls.
It's going to be one of those days.
No matter how ingratiating and gracious I am, no matter how nice I am, audience members are asking for and getting things.
There's some case demanding things and getting them.
Already had a Wise Acker acre little email from a 13-year-old who says she listens for 30 seconds a month.
And she signed it, tell me who Snirdly is or else.
And I just got this.
Fix your damned voice is the subject line.
You sound awful.
Your scratchy, clogged voice is getting in the way of the points you're trying to make.
Perhaps if you cut back on your jet set lifestyle and rest it a bit at night, your voice would improve.
It might also spare us from your whining about how tired you are after a late night.
Cheers.
Stephen Cape Cod.
Now, have I been whining about how tired I am?
I will admit I've been up late.
I got to bed.
It wasn't too late, 1.30 this morning.
Does my voice sound that scratchy?
Does it sound distracting?
You must be listening on a cheap radio.
I mean, if it's anything, it's the sex.
But I can't imagine what else it would be.
But it's just this one of these days, I'm going out of my way.
I've done one of the greatest shows we've had in a long time here all week, tremendous shows, responding to public demand.
And all I'm getting is complaints and grief from wise-ass little 13-year-olds and now some elite liberal living up on Cape Cod.
Mike in Hartford, Connecticut, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Beyond wondering where Senator McCain might be on Senator Durbin's remarks, I'm wondering where the so-called moderate seven in the Senate, the Democrats, is there no one on their side outraged by those type of comments?
They don't dare.
They don't dare.
You know, anytime there's a controversial matter before the American people, you always have some recalcitrant Republicans going out there.
And it's happening now.
You got some Republicans leading this move to start troop withdrawals from Iraq.
And one of them is Walter Jones, a conservative from North Carolina.
And of course, the media applauds these people.
Yes, these are reasonable people.
These are enlightened people.
Yes, these are the Mavericks.
And the message is they know their party is a bunch of Nazis and so forth.
But you never hear about Democrats breaking ranks, do you?
We never, on the judge fight or whatever else, we never hear about the potential Maverick Democrats that might vote against their party.
That's because one of two reasons.
They're either already in ideological lockstep, and there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat when you get right down to it, or they're under command orders from the top.
If you want to enjoy your life here in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, then you do not step away from the leadership position on this.
It's one of those two things, Mike.
Right, absolutely.
And that's the point.
And people of America need to know that they can the chairman of the Democratic Party and the Democrats in Congress can talk a good game as far as reaching out to Red State America.
But the reality is they wouldn't be able to find those states on a map.
I don't think they're even talking a good game.
I don't think they're even pulling that off.
I know your point you're trying to make, but I don't think they're reaching out to anybody with any of this.
They are, if this is just further evidence that the Kook Fringe, moveon.org, Michael Morrow, they're running the party.
Because this is this, don't forget the fundraising aspect of this, folks.
I mean, this is designed to go out there and help the Democrats raise money because this is who they are.
I don't know if you talk to them.
I'm sure some of you run into them, but I mean, this is who they are.
They are every day they get angrier.
They are obsessed with more rage.
And whenever there's, you know, the more success we have, the more on the right track we are, the even angrier they get.
Scott in Kiwani, Illinois.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Ditto's from the land of Lincoln, Rush.
Yes, sir.
I'd like to know why the Republicans or people in the media have not inquired with Senator Durbin how he would run Gitmo, because obviously they're doing a bad job now.
That's a good point, but I don't think we've gotten to that stage.
I don't think to do that would be to change the momentum.
Okay, Senator Durbin, how would you run it?
You don't give him the platform.
He's not qualified to tell us how to run it based on his assessment of how it's being run now.
I understand your point, but you don't want to ask him that.
How would you run it?
Because that'll change the subject.
And Durbin will continue to be the subject, as it should be.
Quick timeout.
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Open Lion Friday.
And El Rush Bos sitting firmly here in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair.
The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, now number 28 on the Forbes magazine Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities list, moving up from number 31 last year to number 28 this year.
Some of the people on this list as being in the top 10 most powerful celebs, a little curious.
Johnny Depp, Madonna, not really sure of the entire formula here, but still moving up, number 28 on the top 100 most powerful celeb list.
And that means there are far many people behind me, far more behind me than there are ahead of me.
Oprah Winfrey, the perennial number one, followed by Tiger Woods.
Mel Gibson, number one last year, fell to number three this year because he didn't have another Passion of the Christ movie.
But that was what it was about last year.
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