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Feb. 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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So Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian, is on Fox comparing this Cheney shooting, his accidental change, to a duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Hell, and now that Gerald Ford said to be dangerous on the golf course.
What?
Oh, this is just too much.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Let me Are you tired of it all?
It seems like when you when you turn on the news today, all you get is a bunch of Democrats and media people complaining, whining and moaning about something going on with this administration.
It just never stops.
That's all the news is.
That's the action line.
There's one action line, get Bush.
Another action, get Cheney, get Rumsfeld, get Rice.
And that's what the news is.
Every story has that tinge to it.
Anyway, here's a telephone number, 800 282-2882.
Now they've got video of Gerald Ford beating people with golf balls.
Or at least on the golf course.
They don't actually have any video of that.
But this is uh this is reaching.
I guess it's a slow news day for these people out there in network news, but it's not a slow day here.
Again, telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB Net.com.
And before anybody misunderstands, now we had a call last hour about uh about my interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox.
It was a great interview.
I had a great time.
He and the whole staff of his show could not have been nicer.
We had a caller call and and talk about how a particular question about how I invest seemed to catch me off guard, which it did, but I didn't I I have no I mean this it would be even incorrect to allude to any eel feelings.
It was a great time.
Neil's a great guy.
Um and and I was uh I was thrilled to uh to be in the same place he was.
I can't I can't do remote television interviews because of my cochlear implant.
It's just I mean I could do it if these shows had the proper hookups for me, but they don't.
Uh and and so I was out there and he was out there, so it was easy.
I was I was uh hitting balls on the range at spyglass where he happened to be on Wednesday and Thursday, so I was able to get up there uh and uh and do a show.
But I don't live where these shows come out of, so it's and I don't I'm just not gonna do remotes.
Um uh so that's that's why I don't do these shows as much as uh as I used to.
If these shows would come here, it'd be a different story.
Well, not I shouldn't say that because now they all will.
Uh but nevertheless, it was uh it was tremendous time.
And I also um, if you'll pardon me for this, I won uh just well indulge me for one moment.
I just had a great time at the ATT uh Pebble Beach Pro Am.
Um and played better in a tournament than I ever have because of my sterling golf lessons with the great Jim Hardy in Houston.
I give you an idea.
Tom Pernice and I were partners.
Pernice, he was just sad to watch because he just couldn't make a putt.
Just I mean, I if I made my living playing golf, I'd need a therapist twice a day to deal with it.
These guys are missing putts by fractions of an inch.
You know, and that's their business.
In the pro game is all putting.
They all stripe the ball, they all pretty much hit it where they want to hit it.
But if they're not sinking 18 to 20 footers for Bertie or Parr, they're in trouble.
And uh and Paul Goidos was having the same problem.
He was the other pro in the force.
He's a great guy, too.
His mother, he said, is a socialist.
So we we had joke with time, fun times discussing uh various autographed items I could send her.
I'm gonna go out and get a copy of the communist manifesto and uh autograph it for Paul's mother.
Uh the there was um well uh uh HR says seem to be more babes at the Bob Hope.
Um a lot of babes at the ATT.
So I mean the the the the biggest galleries are on Saturday at uh at Pebble Beach.
But uh I signed a lot.
I mean there were some babes at the AT and they asked me to sign them, not their books or their programs, but to sign them.
You gotta be careful.
You gotta be yeah, I did it.
You gotta be, I make them turn around.
Uh you you there's even a picture of that.
We got pictures from round three up on the website at rush limbaugh.com.
But we uh anyway, Tom was was plus six, six over power for the tournament.
We started Sunday, or Saturday started it at 10 under.
Uh and by the time we got to the 18th hole, the last hole, we were 19 under.
I just I I was putting out of my mind.
It was just a great we were one shot off the cut line.
The cut line was 20 for the for the for the amateurs to make the cut with their teammate, my case Tom Pernice.
Oh, if if he would have birdied the 18th, or if I would have parred it for a net bird, then we would have made the cut and played on Sunday, which is a whole different experience.
You play on Sunday in a PGA tour event.
But nevertheless, we both blew our drives out of bounds.
His in the wash uh you know in the water to the left, I was about two inches out of bounds on the right.
And so we took sevens and ended three off the uh off the cut.
But I I this is what I wanted this is a risky thing to do because they don't do what they do to get thanks or appreciation.
But the people at CBS Sports, I had the most fun at any at at the ATT that I have had.
Uh they put my swing on their little slow motion swing analyzer and and uh uh on the second hole.
And it was funny because as we're leaving the first green, uh uh we all get to the T-box on number two, and I see these two cameras and they're unmanned.
And I and I walked over to Ron Lane, who was uh my amateur uh partner in the other group, the Tucsom uh that made up our force and I said, Ron, be careful, that's that slow motion swing analyzer equipment.
They're gonna they're gonna he said, Don't worry about it, there's nobody there.
It's way too early Saturday.
We were the second group off.
It was like 840.
Don't worry about it, they're out there getting the pros.
So the pros tee off back at their teeth, and I walk up to T often and and literally out of nowhere, like it was field of dreams, the two camera operators bop out of the bushes.
And I said, where did you guys come from?
Because you literally there were nothing, and they the the stuff is set up behind a row of bushes.
There was no place to sit other than on the other side of the bushes.
And the moment I start walking to the T, here they come.
I said, Where did you guys come from?
From the darkness.
They said, Okay, though this is just cool.
It's the last, it's the final round, and I gotta set up and I gotta swing in front of the swing analyzer, which means some they're gonna analyze it as though they analyze all the pros swings.
Peter Costas, who himself is a great teacher and instructor with Gary McCord down in Arizona, usually does this.
So, I mean, hearts racing, this is not what I do for a living.
Boom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, stand up there.
And I boomed one probably 275 or 280.
And I didn't see the swing analysis until later.
And Costa says, well, it looks good.
It looks up, up, up, taking it back too narrow, not rotating the lower body enough, too narrow at the top, need more rotation on that on that on that lower body because that'll make a wider arc coming down, and you get more swing speed, more club head speed.
But the club head impacted the ball right where it's supposed to in the top half of the club head, and it was a 275-80-yard ground.
I was like more power.
I I how could I hit it any better than this?
But it looked good.
I was I was lucky because had a good swing with the swing analyzer on.
Then we went to 15.
15 is is where they generally interview the celebrities playing golf.
They're set up there because there's this group of fans called Club 15, professional support for the amateur golfers.
About 150 guys, and no matter what the amateur does on the 15th T, they cheer like he's just won the tournament.
So I got up there and I boomed another one.
I boomed this one 30 yards past everybody.
And these guys are going nuts.
And uh that's when they did the swing analysis from which was on the second hole drive, uh, and and said that I needed to get more power uh with with with the lower body.
Then I did an interview with uh with David Feherty uh uh we're walking to the ball and uh I I saw later some of the coverage.
I just want to thank those guys because they were they were just they they made it as as more fun than I've ever had.
Faraday was great, Jim Nance and Lanny Watkins at the 18th booth, and Ray Floyd was up there.
I didn't know that, but he was up there, and I've got to know him a little bit down here.
They were just I'm not used to having nice things said about me anytime on television, anywhere.
Um I'm used to Snyder Mark, well that one's gonna go to the right.
Oh, Limbaugh go on the left.
The gallery shouts that at me when I walk by.
I said, You know how many times I've heard that today?
Come up with something else next time I see you.
Uh but the galleries were fabulous.
It w it was it was just uh.
No, well, no, no, I can't play.
Yeah, Snurdley says, Can I place the ball sometimes where I want?
No, it's an accident when it happens right.
I'm an amateur.
I aim.
If it ends up there, feel good.
If it doesn't, I'm an amateur.
I can't play if I can place it, I'd be playing on a tour, Mr. Snurton.
They can't place it where they want all the time.
What kind of question is that?
Can I place it wherever I want?
Well, I play once or twice a week.
I'm not gonna have no time to practice to go, I mess if I I could get better at it, let's put it.
But that it all came together this way.
It was the best tournament round uh three rounds that I've had.
But I want to thank the people at the ATT and and the and the Pebble Beach people, they were just they were just tremendous.
It was a fabulous time.
And I something else I I heard a couple of pros, and I forget who said they weren't playing in this event because they don't like the greens.
The greens are too bouncy and they can't put accurately.
They these courses were in some of the best condition I've ever seen them.
And and if if I can sink the putts I was thinking, so can they.
Paul Goidos had a funny line uh on Friday at uh at Spy Glass.
He had a really long putt, almost the whole green, and he had to really strike it hard, and it bounced a couple times off his putter.
He missed the putt by a couple feet, and he said, Well, it looked good in the air.
Uh but it was it was just tremendous time, and I just want to thank everybody for uh uh contributing to the enjoyment that I had.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
And continue in just a moment.
And we're back.
Great to have you with us, L. Rush Ball from the one and only.
Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's anchor man.
Well, this is from the New York Post.
And this was uh Hannaby Saturday.
The GOP might have been Sunday.
GOP seeing its first signs that it's made some Nicks in Senator Clinton's political armor in a new poll that shows her support dropping dramatically.
The poll from Rasmussen Reports.com, which has surveyed Hillary's presidential hopes every two weeks over the last year, found the support for her presidential ambitions has hit rock bottom.
Now just 27% say they definitely vote for her.
That's down seven points from the start of the year.
Forty-three percent say there's no way they would cast a ballot for her and eight-point uptick in the past month.
That's pretty close to what was a Harris poll or a gallup poll, one of the two, which reported uh similar results.
The polster is Scott Rasmussen, who accurately forecasts the outcome of the 2004 presidential race.
He said that Hillary's support has plummeted among men and among party faithful.
This poll is the latest in a trend of weakening support for her White House hopes.
She now has 47% unfavorable rating and 45% of respondents say that she is a political liberal.
And don't forget we've had Jonathan Alter go south on her of Newsweek.
She'll take the Democrats on a kamikaze mission.
And Ken Bowdy, uh former CNN writing in the Indianapolis Star on Friday, said that um she has no chance.
It just literally uh the Democrats, even people that like her uh don't think she has a chance.
Even people that want to like her say shun Oh, they've they I guess they could be.
I mean, it could be setting her up to be the comeback woman.
Uh who knows?
But I I think she's being um she's being deemed a little bit say we we had we had this piece.
I want to remind you about this last week, but well, yeah, it was last week.
Daniel Hinninger in the Washington in the Wall Street Journal, who wrote a piece about the fact that uh people clamor for ideology.
That that's what this left-wing nutcase blogosphere wants.
They want ideology.
They don't want moderates, they don't want people trending to the center, they don't want phonies.
They want they're proud of who they are.
They're proud of high taxes, they're proud of supporting America's enemies.
They're and that's what they want their their candidates to say.
And he went on to say that this this whole notion that the great middle determines things.
It's getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
So Hillary uh I think that in order to appeal to these people, that's when she gets mad.
That's what she thinks they want is anger.
She because that's how she interprets them.
That's how she hears them.
Um liberals have have the biggest Problem, uh, I think in properly assessing people.
They've always thought I'm angry.
The whole concept of angry white male.
But they don't listen.
They just associate these terms with people like me because it fits it fits a template.
At the same token, they think that this blogosphere on the left is, and it is angry, but it's it's clamoring for some specifics as well.
Uh they're kooky and loony specifics, but they're nevertheless clamoring for them.
And and so they think all you got to do to get that support is be angry.
They just they just it's it comes from their elitism and it comes from their superiority complex that they have about themselves.
I mean candidates and elected Democrats like Hillary in uh in misassessing this.
But uh I think w one of the things that that did not help her uh was putting Dean in front of this party.
Howard Dean, by but he is he is an ideologue and he is a kook, and and he is the face of the party, and he is the rallying cry for all these kooks of the left wing blogosphere and so forth.
Um and that's that's where I think they've they've can't go back and undo it, but one of the mistakes they made was not having anybody seriously oppose Dean for the uh party chairman.
You can see he's doing a lousy job of raising money, he's doing a lousy job of of mainstreaming and broadening the basis.
It's embarrassment.
In fact, we got Howard Dean sound bites that illustrate all this for you.
But first, John in Chicago.
Next up you are, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Rush.
How are you today?
Just fine, sir.
Thanks.
Um, I'm kind of angry.
Wasn't when Hillary was co-president in her administration, the first one, didn't they have at least three chances to snack bin Laden and didn't do it?
Yeah, that's a good point, too.
Yeah, Hillary's out there saying that we can't find the tallest man in Afghanistan, but was her her husband's presidency, and she was co-president, that let the guy go.
Sudan offered bin Laden to the United States at least twice, and uh Clinton turned him down because turned them down because we didn't have some legal basis or means to uh hold him.
That's really not the answer.
Clinton didn't want to deal with it.
The Clinton administration was not about doing hard stuff, folks.
It was it was about keeping those approval numbers up.
Pure and simple, for the legacy.
Brian in Annapolis, Maryland.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, one thing I want to talk to you about.
Um, don't be surprised if Mr. Armstrong comes out and actually takes the blame for that shooting.
Um the reason I say so is because I I don't know his amount of experience when he's hunting, but um uh we all know that uh Vice President Cheney is an I guess an accomplished hunter or has or well experienced.
And um what what they had said in the news or from what I'd seen so far, they said he had come up on his backside or where he couldn't see him.
And that's like a cardinal sin when you're hunting foul uh or game that flies, you know.
Um what were they hunting?
Quail or dove, I'm not sure, but they're gonna be flying from left to right or right to left when they kick them up out of the brush.
And when when those birds take off, your barrel's gonna swing normally from you know 90 to 120 degrees, but no for but in the spot he had to be in for him to shoot them, there's no way Vice President Cheney's gonna spin that gun, whatever, two hundred to three hundred degrees in a circle.
I I think I think you have uh a point.
By the way, the victim's name is uh is Harry Whittington.
He's not a member of the Armstrong family, he's an Austin uh Texas lawyer.
And uh th that's the man uh Cheney's friend's name.
Uh and what what happened uh is this uh Cheney did not realize that uh that Mr. Whittington had rejoined the group without announcing himself, which is proper protocol among hunters.
He apparently had left the group and came back but didn't re-announce himself uh and they had no idea that he was there.
This this is from uh Catherine Armstrong uh on whose ranch everybody was hunting.
Bird flew up, vice president followed it through around to his right and shot, and unfortunately, unbeknownst to anybody, Harry was there, and he got peppered pretty good with a spray of twenty-eight gauge pellets, Armstrong said in a phone interview.
The person who is not doing the shooting at the point is just as responsible and should be as the person actually shooting.
So it was up to this man it it's an accident.
Uh don't uh we start assigning blame here to these kinds of things.
It it it misses the point.
Uh it was an accident, and there are uh apparently uh things for people that hunt makes sense that explain this.
James and Creston, Ohio, your next hello.
Hello, Rush.
I'd like to say, you know, I agree with you that that was an accident.
But the simple fact that uh he spun around and did that, that broke a cardinal sin.
I mean the number three rule on firearms safety at any time, according to the NRA or even state of Ohio's, you know, training for youth or for anyone else's, always know what you're shooting at and watch beyond that.
And uh I I would like to say, you know, that I really really, you know, President Bush, uh Vice President Cheney, I agree with what they do on everything, but he really disappointed me as a hunter and all those hunters out there.
Well uh well I don't know that he did you can't speak for every hunter out there.
We just had a guy call and say just the opposite of what you said.
Yo, Rushmore the cutting edge of societal evolution by the way uh I neglected to mention the all the things I talked about at the opening of the program the interview with David Ferdy on CBS the swing analysis of my drive on the second hole the drive on the 15th hole with the uh uh Club 15 focus it's all on the website all the video is there uh along with still shots from uh all three rounds on the free side at uh rush limbaugh.com I I am I am still I I guess I I don't know if I'm
gonna s ever cease to be amazed uh at this or not.
The the the this reporting on the Cheney shooting accident has got to be one of the dumbest stories ever.
They don't even know exactly what happened yet.
And their main point to meet me is we should have been told earlier.
We have a right to know you should have told us this is the same lame bunch of people that will not run those Danish cartoons because it's entertaining and because they tasteless and we must respect the differences that we have with our neighbors in the world.
We don't want to fan flames and so forth.
They'll report on the riots all day long, but they won't show the cartoons, and they won't tell us the true story about this anyway.
This is all trumped up.
I have a story in the stack here written by Amir Tahari that appeared in the New York Post over the weekend about the genesis of all this.
And it goes back to September when some of these cartoons originated originally, published originally.
And these two wacko imams from somewhere traveled to different countries, Egypt and Lebanon, trying to get people all worked up about it, and both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hathaway.
Hamas said no no no no we gotta wait we're we're trying to put on this face of moderation right now we got this election coming up in Israel and uh we've got some other things wait until January or February and then we'll gin this up and that's exactly what happened.
This is not a religion folks this whole cartoon business the thing that you have to understand this is not a religion acting out this is a new fascist movement a new political movement disguising itself as a religion in order to get all kinds of sensitivity and protection.
So here we have a lame brain mainstream media in America which will not run these Danish cartoons won't tell us the true story about this because they're tasteless the pictures are tasteless they report on the riots they won't show us the cartoons um it's not about free speech it's about creating a phony scandal that's all this cheney thing is once again and that's that's what it's been for four or five years the attempt to take every news story and try to create out of it a scandal pure and simple that's what's driving this and nothing else.
Mike in my adopted hometown of Sacramento.
Hello sir welcome hi Rush it's Mike I just wanted to call and say uh I watched you a little bit at the ATT on Saturday you played there at Pebble Beach and uh I was there at the at your landing spot except on the opposite side of the uh hole on number 14 and you were you did a great job I thought and it was fun to watch you.
Well thank you sir I appreciate that the gallery the galleries were great people were supportive and uh and great Fuzzy Zeller the first time I played one of these gave me the best advice I it's hard to follow it but he gave me the best advice said look I'll tell you two things the people that listen to your radio show to come out to watch it they don't care how you play golf.
They love it if you play well but they don't care.
They're out there just to see you.
And we pros, we couldn't care less how you play.
You can't impress us don't get caught up in what we think and you can see amateurs do that all the time when I get praise from the pro they're playing with the pros couldn't care less it's how they earn their living so anyway it's it's it i vice was meant just to uh help me help me and anybody else who heard it to relax is hey, just go out and have a good time.
Uh but it's it's still tough because you've still got all these people watching, and it's not what you do for a living.
Uh and Gary was at a dinner Saturday night and Gary McCord was honored to this dinner, and he put it he in fact he's got a book out, Golf for Dummies, and he autographed one to me.
He said, Two rush non-excellence in golf.
Gary McCord.
But he he praised all the amateurs for having August to show up and do this.
Uh people that have not done it don't know uh what it's actually like.
Uh but they all help make it just a a great time.
Uh can I ask you people a question?
How many of you, over the course of many years now, has to be at least 10, if not more, have believed that a high fat diet will lead to cancer, and that therefore eating less fat would lower your risk of cancer and heart disease.
Probably every one of you has heard this, and every one of you at one point or another time in your life has attempted to follow the dictates of the latest health studies and science studies.
Well, guess what?
They spent 10 years and 415 million dollars studying this theory, and they got an answer that they did not want.
Less fat may not lower cancer risk.
Eating less fat late in life failed to lower the risk of cancer and heart disease among older women.
Disappointing news for those who expected greater benefits from a healthy diet.
Well, who's out there defining healthy diet?
Once again, a bunch of Center for Science in the Public Interest?
Who is it?
Here we this is almost as this is almost like the news we got from the battlefield in Iraq, but we were told that the fatality rate, battlefield fatality rate, was at an all-time low.
And Reuters, oh, this is horrible news in the Washington Post, C Connells is terrible news.
Terrible news.
Now we find out we had some people hoping.
They had a bias going in.
We hope that eating less fat later in life would reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease, but it doesn't, so we are disappointed.
Even so, scientists say the results from the government study of forty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-five women.
The results don't mean that dieters should just throw up their hands and eat cake.
Researchers suggested the women in the long-running study with an average of age of 62 may have started their healthy eating too late.
They also didn't reduce fats as much as the diet demanded, and most remained overweight, a major risk factor for cancer and heart problems.
The eight-year study showed no difference in the rate of breast cancer, colon cancer, and heart disease among those who ate lower fat diets and those who didn't.
But the scientists declined to call the 415 million dollar venture of failure.
Of course they're not going to call it a failure.
How many times have we heard coffee is going to kill yet now?
No effect.
Oatbrand, eat that.
Oh, you're gonna be healthy.
The gastrointestinal tract and everything.
It doesn't matter.
Every one of these health surveys, don't eat this or do eat this and so forth, eat your water crest, don't eat your water crest, whatever.
Um amazing how like Pied Pipers we are when some group of scientists or so-called experts.
You know, the idea that scientists are infallible, how about this clown from South Korea who made it all up about his stem cell lines?
Now the scientific communities out there trying to well, of course these things happen.
In fact, there's a I've got a story in the stack here about how science journalists now have a tougher job than ever.
Because who do they believe?
It's called reporting.
What do you mean who do you believe?
It's called reporting.
You're supposed to believe no one.
I thought you're supposed to be skeptical of uh of everybody.
The study, by the way, that I'm referring to here, was designed mainly to investigate breast cancer risk.
Dietary fat initially Thought to be implicated because breast cancer rates are high in Western countries with fatty diets, but recent studies have failed to show any relationship at all, said Dr. Michael Thune of the American Cancer Society.
Now, I have my own theories about all this, but I'm not a scientist.
And if I announce my own theories, based on my own observations, as a long-living adult who has studied this, not scientifically, anecdotally, I have studied it.
I have my own theories.
And if I were to announce my theories to you today, I would be bombarded with criticism from people.
You have no right.
You have no right to be imparting m scientific evidence and medical evidence when you are not a scientist, then you are not a doctor, and you have no right.
Right, like you guys have all the right in the world to get it wrong, as long as you call yourself scientists.
You get 450 million dollars spent on a theory, and the theory blows up at still you can't say that the theory's wrong.
You tell us about coffee, you tell us about oat bran, you tell us about Chinese food, tell us about coconut oil, tell them all these things.
Look at your experts out there, Center for Science of the Public Interest and all these other whacked out nuts.
But if I were to give you my theory, well uh I how many how many uh how many of you know um how many of you make the assumption that people who are overweight to one degree or another automatically have high cholesterol?
You know how wrong you would be.
So much of this stuff is in the genetic code that we all inherit, and there's some of it that there's not much we can do about.
We're you know, there's a there's a there's a thing here that is at work that all these people just can't seem to get, and that is we're all going to die.
Yes, my friends, it's true.
I can announce it with certitude, not as a scientist, but just as an intelligent observant human being.
We are all going to die of something somehow, sometime.
Our life expectancy is getting longer despite rotten economies, infested swamps, global warming, war and pestilence.
How is all this happening?
How is the life exp well be one of the major enemies of the Democratic Party has a lot to do with it?
Big pharma.
Big pharmaceutical, the drug companies.
Because we all know none of us are living health healthier lives, are all eating too much, we're all not getting enough exercise, kids are a bunch of deadweight couch potatoes, watching television, playing video games.
We hear the reports and studies every day.
We're that we're just a we're a laconic society, we're lethargic society, we're just a bunch of slubs, sit around on a couch all day, we don't get enough exercise, we drink too much, we eat too much, we're living longer.
You figure it out.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
And we're back.
Great to have you with us, L. Rushbow.
America's Doctor of Democracy and Truth Detector with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Let's go to Salina, Kansas.
Keith, your next sir.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing, Rush?
Yes, fine, Keith.
Thanks much.
Hey, I was calling on this hunting thing, and uh winter hunting birds, there's a lot of different things that can happen.
And um tell me about wait a minute.
Tell me about hunting quail versus, say, ducks.
What's different about hunting quail and ducks?
Oh, well, you hunt you hunt quail with dogs and you flesh them out, and you're usually walking in a line, and sometimes you have blockers, and also with pheasants.
Uh hunt a lot of pheasants.
And uh what you're trying to do with quail, the quail are underground and you're trying to flush them in the air.
Right.
Trying to get them to start flying.
Now exactly.
Now, if you can't now uh you it seems to me that that you're you'd be you'd be hunting in in rather you know long or tall grass in a circumstance like this.
Uh lots of different cover.
And um I've been shot before, and uh I've seen well, I've even shot a kid before.
Um not intentionally, but wait a second.
Wait a do you mean this has happened before?
Yes.
Hunters have accidentally shot other hunters.
Exactly.
This has happened.
This is Not a unique, never ever before happened story.
Well, the way I'm watching this go, this has never happened before.
Well, most people would like to line up on a lawyer, but uh no, it happens.
No, I'm just kidding.
I just but the way this is being covered is uh it's absurd trying to create a scandal out of it.
Uh well it's I mean there's there's there's things, and you had one caller earlier that that said something about depending on what the other hunter that's not shooting is doing.
And for instance, the guy I shot one time, uh, he was blocking the end of the field as we crossed into it, and he ducked behind a weed when birds started flying, and I couldn't see him.
And as a result, he got hit.
Makes total sense to me.
And in a situation like that, um is there a mad dash to assign blame?
No.
Um when you're running with a group of hunters, the camaraderie is like you can't believe.
And those those things happened.
I mean, some people may get, you know, like, oh, a little mad.
Oh man, that hurt, and and I've been shot before too.
With what?
I got whacked in the knees one time hunting with what?
With a 12-gauge shotgun.
Oh.
And um Do you still have a knee?
Oh, yeah, but see, you gotta keep your spread.
You don't want to hunt just side by side.
You gotta keep the spread.
You've been hunting before.
And um when things like that happen.
It was it was ducks, and and the guns were never pointed anywhere but up when they were made.
Well, but you're you're in a blind and you're waiting for things to fly into you, and when you're hunting quail or pheasants, you're actually walking them with dogs and pushing them out of fields.
Right.
And you're using a line of hunters and they fly all over the place, and you can swing around, and you know, I I've seen people get shot where they were even standing and the other hunter pulling.
I mean, there's there's some things that you need to think about while you're hunting, but sometimes you just don't see the other guy, but that's why you make a spread so that if you do hit another guy, you're not I mean, okay.
Well, let me let me let me cut to the chase with something here with you, then, Keith.
You obviously experienced hunter and you've done it a lot.
Uh I know you can't speak for all hunters by any stretch of the imagination, but as you watch the coverage of this on television, what what is your reaction to it?
Oh, I just laughed.
I mean, uh it's something that happens, and the way they're covering it is just bizarre.
You know, they're So you don't think there's any you don't think there's any scandal here.
Uh no, other than the fact that the guy may be a lawyer.
No, and not maybe he is.
I mean, a lot of people would like to get a lawyer or two, you know.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Um the well look, I got it.
Keith, I gotta run, but I I appreciate the um Oh, one other question.
When when when you got shot, uh did anybody in your group of hunters call the media?
Uh no, it was my brother-in-law that shot me, and he just laughed and said, suck it up.
Okay.
Thanks uh a lot for that professional input.
Quick timeout.
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All right, Greg in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I got one minute, but I know you can squeeze this in.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I I I've been wanting to ask you this for five years, which is every time you talk about, oh, you're not afraid of Hillary, she's not the greatest candidate in the world, she's not that likable.
I just think, well, how did her husband get elected?
He got elected with Ross Perot splitting the Republican vote.
What if John McCain, Pat Robertson, someone like that gets her in the office by running as an independent?
That's how she's gonna get in.
Well, I I think it's more likely you're gonna have uh uh what did I we just it was just last week.
There was talk of uh of an independent candidate on the Democrat side.
I forget I forget who it was, but that that party's in danger of splitting up.
The kooks out there are more likely to to um uh have somebody split the Democrat Party.
I don't think it's gonna happen on the Republican side.
If she gets elected, we deal with it.
What else are we gonna do?
Uh unlike Al Gore, I'm not gonna pack up and move to Saudi Arabia.
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