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Feb. 16, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, it's bad news for the uh mainstream media.
It's bad news for Democrats around the country.
They're doing a medical briefing down there in Corpus Christi on Harry Whittington, and he's in a good mood.
He's joking out there.
He's uh stable condition, doing well.
Doctors met with him this morning, and they're telling jokes.
So uh Harry Whittington is not going to die.
Or well, Harry Whittington did not die.
And of course, that's not good news for the people hoping that this story turns for the absolute worst.
Greetings, folks, great to be back with you, Rush Limbaugh here from the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You want to be on the program easy 800 282-2882 and the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
You heard uh the latest theory.
Explain.
There's another one.
That is Cheney's having an affair with the ambassador from Switzerland.
And she was down there at the ranch while he was, and that she was apparently out there hunting with him while the husband of the ambassador is also hunting, but like a mile or so away.
I I I kid you not.
It's gone from from the absurd to this was all done on purpose to send a message to Scooter Libby.
Uh to Cheney was drunk, and they're covering that up to now Cheney had a woman with him on a hunting trip.
Oh, and and that Lynn Cheney is really, really ticked off.
She's really mad she's not talking to Dick because it was an affair going on.
And that's what they're all trying to cover up here.
And uh just stand by, folks, it's only going to get better as um as well.
Um I I made a little note here right before the previous hour ended, but I'm I want to do this with a little bit more time.
Because I think you know, this there's more great economic news today.
The housing bubble that the media and and the left have been hoping for and promising is just not cooperating.
Housing starts booming in January.
The number of housing starts was near a record.
And even the story that I have on this is the housing bubble that refuses to happen was delayed yet again when blah blah blah.
So something that hasn't happened, something that is only hoped to happen, is still put in the story as it's gonna happen.
But in the meantime, we've got more great news than ever before.
Problem is if you look on the cable news networks, if you look at the New York Times Washington Post, you won't find this news placed prominently.
And I have a suggestion to the administration, particularly, and Dick Cheney could do this because he announced yesterday that he can now classify information along with the president.
He has uh that power under a new executive order dating back to 2003.
The left doesn't like that either, folks.
That means Cheney and Bush can be even more secretive.
And they didn't know this executive order had been signed, and they didn't know that Cheney could participate in the classification and declassification of documents.
Well, since they can do that, I suggest that from this point forward all economic figures be classified and be called top secret.
Be it the unemployment news, be it economic growth, be it uh housing starts, be it labor stuff, whatever economic news there is, classify it.
Do not release it.
Cause it to be leaked to people like James Ryzen of the New York Times.
And from yeah, just announce from now on that unemployment figures are confidential, employment figures are confidential, economic growth and income figures are confidential, they are no longer going to be made public.
Maybe a whistleblower inside one of these various departments will leak the numbers, and that way we will get the news on the front page.
Also got an email from uh a member at Rush 247.
And his name is Mike Svenson, and Mike I understandably is very upset.
He was responding to my uh uh monologue on these uh WMD Saddam tapes that Nightline played last night that are going to be made public tomorrow.
He said, Okay, so what's the use in listening to you tell the truth about things if people will not let it happen regarding the truth about these tapes, then you seem to think it's funny.
Now, I understand Mike, what's got you upset?
You're thinking, what's the point?
If if if the tapes come out and they're true, uh, but there are people that are going to try to cover it up because they've got a vested interest in making sure that the tapes are not perceived as true or not known to be true, then what's the point, Rush?
Well, what's the point of the truth in it being any?
Because if it can be covered up, then why should we even care?
And then what are you doing laughing at it?
Now, did I laugh about it, Mr. Snertley?
I don't remember laughing about it.
Uh maybe you misinterpreted a tone of my voice.
I did laugh.
I do a lot of things in an hour, and I sometimes can't remember them all.
Uh I I'm I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound cynical about this.
I'm just trying to be as informative as I can on this.
There's there's a lot.
How do I let me let me try this again?
Let me take another stab at this.
The people producing these tapes, and nobody's questioning the authenticity of the tapes.
And the House Select Intelligence Committee, led by Pete Hookster has has validated that they are the voices of Saddam and his henchmen.
That's not a matter of um shall I say debate.
But, and this this stuff matters.
The way these tapes found their way into the public is not an approved way.
Meaning there's a former intelligence guy who gave the tapes to a man named John Loftus.
Now, if you go to National Review Online today, you can read a piece on their blog called The Corner by Byron York, which is not flattering to Mr. Loftus at all.
I don't know John Loftus.
I don't know anything about him, but I but Byron York makes him out to be one of the biggest kooks that there's ever been.
He believes that the Bush family wealth derives from working with Hitler.
Well, I read it.
It's it's up there.
I mean we could I'll print it out and read it to you, but in uh uh after the after the break coming up.
But he and there's more than that.
And this is the guy who heads up the organization that got these tapes that is now making them public.
Um he has written a book that contains some controversial uh conspiratorial allegations, and so right there, you have enough for people who want these tapes to be discredited to jump on.
As I keep trying to tell you, the Democratic Party has staked its future on the concept that Bush lied.
You have the whole American left that's picked up that banner.
Bush lied.
There were no weapons of mass destruction.
There was no need for the invasion.
Bush only wanted to do this invasion for oil or to cover up failures uh the Iraq war, get everybody distracted from uh the war in terror rather, distract everybody from the inability to get Bin Laden.
You've heard all these, you've heard all these theories.
And what I'm telling you is that whereas, you know, i you know how tough it is fighting a federal bureaucracy.
You know how tough it is going up against the IRS or any of them.
You know how tough it is for the average ordinary citizen, even in great numbers.
And I'm not suggesting it's not worth the effort.
Please don't uh misunderstand me.
I'm just trying to warn you that this is not gonna be the slam dunk that everybody hopes it will be.
But there's another main reason for this.
Aside from the fact that all of those who would literally be destroyed if these tapes were said to produce evidence, incontrovertible evidence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction prior to our invasion and then move them.
These tapes focus on the mid-90s up to the year 2000, I think.
And they establish what everybody has known all along.
But the template and the action line on this story is that, well, Saddam didn't have weapons because we didn't find them.
Now there are two credible Iraqis out there saying, oh, he had them and he moved them, and they're in Syria.
Well, we haven't searched Syria.
But here's the here's the uh biggest problem as I see it.
The Bush administration itself, and this is just an observation, doesn't seem interested in evidence of proof of weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion in 2003.
They don't seem interested in these tapes.
The CIA's trying to say, that's no big deal, we knew this.
This is uh you had two former CIA Directors, uh John Deutsch, James Woolsey resigned from this group that John Loftus heads because they say they discovered credible evidence that the man who funds this organization is an Israeli with ties to the Russian mob, and so it's Russian mob money that's funding Loftus' organization, and they can't stay there.
That makes it uh unfeasible for them to stay there.
But the biggest problem is the Bush administration, and this is just my observation.
They don't seem interested in in these weapons of mass destruction.
Uh without that, folks, uh uh you can do all you want.
You can get all the tapes in the world out there you want.
I can't explain it.
I have no way to explain it.
I'm not suggesting to you nor laughing at this.
I'm not suggesting to you that it doesn't matter, and I'm not suggesting it's not important.
I'm just too often people get their hopes escalated and their expectations built way, way up on news like this, and then there are mitigating factors that come out later on, and there's some reality that that is ignored.
I'm just telling you, it's this is going to be a tough one because of all the people who are invested in the notion that there were no weapons of mass destruction.
The CIA is not going to sit around just let this happen.
The Democratic Party's not going to sit around and just let this happen.
Um and without the Bush administration being gung-ho to find these weapons and to prove their critics wrong about it, and just I'm just telling you it's going to make it even tougher.
Not suggesting that the effort's worthless.
I'm not suggesting that it be abandoned or any of that.
I'm just trying to get some reasonable expectations associated with this, because this is the kind of thing that can depress people if the expectations get way up here, and if those expectations aren't met, this is the kind of thing caused people to throw up their arms and say, I'm through with all this.
I'm giving up.
I uh I can't affect what happens in this country.
It's beyond my control as a citizen.
I don't have any power, I'm not voting by it.
And I don't want that to be the reaction that people have over this.
So I hope that explains it to you, Mike, but I wasn't laughing about it.
I mean, there are parts of it that are comical.
Uh, just in a throw your hands up frustrated sense, but uh it's it's not a funny situation.
I gotta run.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
And got your phone calls coming up, and all I think I got some more audio soundbites.
I may have run through them all.
We had an active first hour, but sit tight.
There's more straight ahead.
Hi, welcome back, L. Rushball with talent on loan from God.
The all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all feeling, all concerned, Maha Rushi.
All right, let me just read to you what Byron York wrote uh on the National Review Online blog today called The Corner.
Uh I'll I'll not repeat what I told you about Deutsch and Woolsey resigning from Loftus's group.
The name of the group, by the way, is uh uh Intelligence Summit, and that's the group's schedule to release the Saddam Tapes tomorrow.
All right, here's here's where it gets interesting.
According to Byron York, and I I don't know John Loftus from I've I've got a I've got a guy that emails me with everything Loftus has ever said, uh, but I don't know who John Loftus I may have seen him on television one time.
This is this is what Brian Byron York says.
Whatever the status of Cherney, which is the Israeli that that uh uh allegedly has ties to the Russian mob that's funding the Intelligence Summit caused the former CIA directors Woolsey and Deutsch to leave the group.
Whatever the status attorney, whatever the motives of Woolsey and Deutsch, what's missing from the New York Sun's story about all this is some perspective on John Loftus.
I first encountered his name in the fall of 2003 when I was working on a story about Bush hatred.
I was looking at the people who claim that the Bush family got its wealth from financing the Nazis.
And I discovered that one of the sacred texts of that particular worldview is a book called The Secret War Against the Jews by the authors Mark Ahrens and John Loftus.
In 1995, when the book appeared, anti-defamation league director Abraham Foxman, who can reasonably reasonably be counted on to speak out against people who finance the Nazis, called the book so exaggerated, so scantily documented, so overwrought and convoluted in its presentation that Loftus and Aaron's render laughable their claim to offer a glimpse of the world as it really is.
One might guess that the New York Sun is not aware of Loftus's other work, but that would be incorrect because in January of 2004, the New York Sun published an article on those notorious moveon.org ad submissions that compared Bush to Adolf Hitler.
The story included a quote from Loftus, who said the ads are basically accurate.
The Bush has played a significant role in bringing money into the Third Reich, Loftus told the paper.
They literally financed Hitler.
It was all about the money.
It wasn't about the ideology.
Now, all this time, I thought it was old Joe Kennedy that had these ties.
Thank you.
To the Nazis.
I did not know till I read this today that Loftus was part of the group that says the Bush family got its wealth from.
I mean, I thought the Bush family thought you got your wealth when your aunt died.
I didn't know anything to do with the fact that you got your wealth by financing the Nazis.
Loftus has other interests as well.
A visit to his website finds, among other things, a May 2002 article by him entitled What Congress Doesn't Know About Enron and 911.
And in that article, Loftus reports that the now defunct energy company had a contract with the Taliban to build a pipeline, and that Vice President Cheney determined to help out Enron, forbade U.S. intelligence sources from investigating the Enron Taliban Al-Qaeda connection in the months leading up to the September 11th attacks.
After outlining this somewhat Fahrenheit 911 like theory, that's the Moore movie.
Loftus concludes the Enron cover-up confirms that 9-11 was not an intelligence failure or a law enforcement failure, at least not entirely.
Instead, it was a foreign policy failure of the highest order.
If Congress ever combines its Enron investigation with 9-1-1, Cheney's whole house of cards will collapse.
Now Loftus is on to the Saddam Tapes.
If the House Committee is correct, the tapes are legitimate, but their release is sure to be accompanied by forceful commentary from Loftus, and in assessing that you might want to be careful.
That's that's what I saw this morning, and that's what uh Byron York has uh posted on the corner, which is the blog at the National Review Online.
All right, Rapid City, South Dakota.
Tom, I'm glad you waited.
Uh welcome to the program, sir.
Uh thank you very much, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's a true honor.
I was telling your screener that I was livid about those Abu Grab pictures.
And CNN flashing them all over the screens, but they won't.
Show those Muhammad cartoons.
So I'm just wondering maybe you can shed some light on it.
Uh who are these people trying to appease?
They are trying to force George Bush out of office.
These Abu Grab pictures, they wa it it's it's it's it's the National Guard story all over again.
It's it's any number of uh news items that they're trying to scandalize.
The thing about this, and Mary Madeline made this point today on the uh Today show with uh with Katie Courick.
Does anybody remember how we first found out about Abu Ghrab?
It was this administration, the Army doing an investigation, and they released the uh results of the investigation.
And the New York Times ran stories about it.
It wasn't long after that that somebody leaked the pictures of this, and Mary Mapes of CBS got hold of the pictures, and they first ended up on CBS.
And but but the the there there was no scoop here.
The media didn't break anything when it came to Abu Ghrab.
The government got the story out.
They didn't put pictures out, CBS did that.
Um now that they're out, the whole notion that Bush is engaged in a cover up and Bush is torturing people and Cheney authorized it in Rumsfeld, uh, they can't let go of it.
They won't let go of it.
And, you know, to say that that um, you know, it's it's it's uh double standard because they won't publish the pictures of these cartoons, uh, lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
You're exactly right, but it's even worse than it.
Listen to this story, Tom.
This is some Champagne Urbana, Illinois.
Two high-ranking editors of the student newspaper at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign were suspended Tuesday after they decided on their own to run some of the controversial cartoons that have sparked protests and outrage from Muslims around the uh around the world.
Acton Gorton, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Allini, and Chuck Procheska, opinions editor, said they stand behind their decision to print cartoons Of the Prophet Muhammad that were originally published by a Danish newspaper.
The Daily Alini is owned and operated by the Alini Media Company.
It's a nonprofit organization independent of the university.
On Monday, the newspaper's editorial board apologized to the Muslim community and its readers for Gorton and Prochaska's actions.
Gordon 25 Senior from Carbondale said the piece ran as his opinion and not that of a newspaper.
He also claimed that other members of the editorial board saw the page before it went to press and they didn't say anything.
Bottom line, terrorism works.
You can make fun of Christians and Jews all day long.
You can make fun of Catholics.
You can build your career on it.
Because they won't cut your head off.
And nobody will raise their voices demanding that you stop it.
Terrorism works even in the academy.
When it's supposed to be independence of fault.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Wilmington, North Carolina.
This is Brian, and I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey.
Um back to the Cheney thing.
Um I don't know.
It just dawned on me after watching the news last night.
I did I hadn't heard it on any radio or any pundits speaking in it.
It just dawned on me.
I said, why did Cheney wait to speak to the police?
And why did he not go to a hospital?
And there's only there's got to be only one reason for that.
He he obviously he's already admitted he had one drink.
So possibly he's had more than that.
It's just if you shot your best friend, well, it wasn't his best friend, but if you shot a good friend, you wouldn't go to the hospital to see how he was doing.
I mean, what what is his excuse for not going to hospital?
You gotta know there's something not right with that story.
Um, I know it's hard on Shane.
I mean, maybe he only did have one drink, and he knows that God, I only had one drink, but they'll blow this so out of proportion that it's just I'll never win.
And that that may be the fact.
But the question should be asked, and the media should be tough on this.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Uh well, uh the media's been way too soft on Bush and Cheney, and I and I think they need to throw both barrels at them.
I look that's the point.
Well, then they're just letting them get away with it looking out for us, because you you you're too far to the right to look out for us, and that's the honest truth.
No, you know, my being on the right's got nothing to do with this.
I'm let me let me talk to you about what you just said for a second.
I'd like to know, you say you came at this independently, so I'd like to know how.
Well, I don't understand the thought process.
Because it just dawned on me.
I'm sitting there watching.
Well, no, no, no, no, no, but no, no.
No, no.
Let me let me ask the question, though.
You you so you you hear that Cheney didn't go to hospital.
You hear that Cheney shot a guy, there's an acquaintance, he didn't go to the hospital, uh didn't and didn't talk to the cops for twelve hours or so forth, even though the secret service are cops.
His secret service details a cop, and he's got a doctor that's part of his retinue.
His where do where do you make the connection?
Where what is the path in your brain that makes you dart immediately to he was?
If I was there, I would have been so worried about the guy, like he claims he was so worried that I would have been at the hospital, I wouldn't have left the hospital.
He didn't go because he knew the doctors would probably pick up on something, and they may have been in his system.
And just like that's why he didn't talk to the police.
See, I think what you're in I think what you're engaging in, all of you people that come up with these theories, and you're engaging in something called projection.
You are assuming that's what you would do and why you didn't do something because you were drunk, and then you say, well, Cheney.
Because you have no evidence.
You know, the thing is, you've got literally no evidence about this, and yet you're grasping the.
Our media needs to be tough on the government.
It has been.
It's been asked.
Now they're asking, is he having an affair with the ambassador from Switzerland?
A newspaper column, North Carolina speculates and demands the question be asked.
Did Cheney do this on purpose to send a message to Scooter Libby as in the mafia?
I mean, do you get do I you understand how uh ridiculous you sound when you come up with this stuff?
It's not ridiculous.
It's an honest, objective look at it.
I'm like, what you know what you should do for your show is you should have somebody like us that can challenge you because you have so many people out there that believe everything that you say.
You are challenging.
Anyone can get on this show anytime they want.
It's called 1-800-282-288-2.
Be on there and balance your show out.
If you want the truth and you want the.
The mainstream press and all these other wacko leftist outlets that dominated monopolistically this country's media for years finally do have some balance.
This program's totally balanced because the focus of this program is truth.
You know what, Rush?
You're the one that won the election.
You run the election for Bush, and you know that.
You could you convince, you brainwash so many people out there with your version of the truth.
All we do is what we conservatives have been doing for 40 years.
We've been going to the American people, convincing them.
We're not dividing anybody up.
The country's always been divided.
It's always been an ideological battle.
We simply have to be happen to be winning because we have the truth on our side.
We're not lying to people, and we're not a bunch of kook wackos that are embarrassing our supporters.
We go out and we simply tell the American people this what we think.
This way we think X ought to happen, Y ought to take place.
This is way uh we think government should be run, we think this is what the Constitution means.
We've been out for 40 years persuading people, getting to their minds and hearts, not propagandizing them.
And we have not been you know getting a hold of a bunch of mind numb robots and programming them.
You're just losing that battle, and you're losing the battle because you don't have any truth.
You've got to jump to some of the most cockamy theories.
In order to keep your worldview alive.
Cheney was drunk.
Cheney's mean.
Cheney shot him on purpose.
All this stuff is frankly absurd, and it isn't working.
This is why when are you guys going to realize this stuff doesn't work?
Your mainstream press has been asking your question and all kinds of questions for three days or four days on this now.
And if you look at the polling data, only 25% of the people think this is a big deal.
So it's you you you're you again, you've glommed on to something here that is irrelevant.
And the only interest you have in this, you're not interested in Whittington's health, and you're not interested in justice, and you're not interested in the truth, you're interested in destroying this administration because you can't beat them or us at a ballot box.
So you have to scandalize us out of office.
But you're having to manufacture and create scandals with some of the most absurd baseless theories that end up causing mass embarrassment and laughter.
Anyone else that wants to call this program and challenge my beliefs, you're more than welcome to call 1-800-282-2882.
But the same deal that has always exist is going to exist.
If after 30 seconds or 60 or whatever, you resort to name calling and make me the issue, you are history.
You're gone.
If you really want to talk about this stuff, I've always been willing to do it.
I look forward to it.
I welcome it.
The opportunity to do so reasonably seldom presents itself.
But I appreciate the effort.
I'm glad you were patient and held on out there.
Um it's a good question.
If I'm such a good brainwasher, how come my brainwashing didn't work on that guy?
If I'm such a good brainwasher, if I'm oh, because they're smart.
You know, they're they're smart, they understand what I'm doing.
Just go out and have another drink.
Call me next hour.
Mark in Orlando.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, uh, this moron needs to realize that the vice president just can't go to a hospital.
I was gonna say that, but I figured you know, it was pointless.
I let me let me tell you what you're gonna say.
The vice president can't go to a hospital whether all of that retinue surrounding him, he can't do it.
It would they're they're they're trying to keep the matter private for Mr. Whittington's sake.
They're focusing on medical treatment.
It would shut down the ER for everybody else because of the security.
I mean, is this guy a moron?
Yes.
You know, that's why he didn't go.
Can't go, and is nothing he can do anyway.
He's not a doctor.
That's why these people are projecting.
You know, if if if you and I had been in the circumstance, and uh and and we you know, we okay, um uh let's say I had shot Harry Whittington.
Okay, I'll go to the hospital, I'll go there, but they're not gonna let me in anywhere.
I'm gonna be out in a waiting room and I'll be waiting on a doctor to come out and tell.
I'll guarantee you, Cheney knew more back at the ranch than the average person would know sitting there waiting for a doctor to come out with information.
But you're exactly right.
He's the vice president, big traveling party, you know, big uh big big caravan of SUVs just can't pull in.
It would have alerted everybody to what's going on, uh, And their focus was on Mr. Whittington's health at the at the moment.
But you're right, security would have had to set up phone lines.
That's where the vice president is.
It would have been an absolute nightmare.
Yep.
Hey, God bless you for carrying the truth.
Yeah, thank you, Mark.
I appreciate it.
There have been times, ladies and gentlemen, where uh presidents and vice presidents have visited the EIB broadcast complex.
And when it's planned, you wouldn't believe what happens.
They they sh while it's longer than a day in advance.
Some they shut down two or three days in advance.
They come and take over the phones.
The phone company has to come in, put in, and if even if the the the president and vice president is only going to be within our complex for 10 minutes to 30 minutes, they come in and they set up a remote command center with phones and phone lines.
A phone company has to come in, they take over an office, kick some people out of the office and so forth.
They have security sweeps, they got the dogs and all kinds of stuff.
The vice president just can't walk into a public facility like an average citizen and say, How's my friend Harry that I just shot?
He just can't, and then these idiots uh start projecting.
Yeah, he was hiding a fact, he was drunk.
Yeah, he was drunk.
Drunk.
Uh having an affair with the ambassador from uh Switzerland.
And uh had to get back home and men fences with Lynn who was back at the ranch getting ready for dinner.
It's just all absurd.
But look, folks, I believe in giving them a forum.
I can sit here and tell you about these people all day.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body, but it's nothing better than you hearing it for yourself.
We will be back.
I'm getting I'm getting bombarded with emails.
Don't these people on the left understand facts?
Facts no.
If they understood and went on the basis of facts, they'd have to shut down liberalism.
Liberalism is destroyed by facts.
The whole liberal mindset cannot withstand an assault of facts.
Now, Brian and Wilmington, I know you're still out there and and uh and a lot of your your liberal buddies.
Let me give you what is official here.
The Secret Service, which is a police force.
It is cops.
The Secret Service is on record saying they notified the sheriff with when within one hour of this incident.
They set the interview with Cheney for the next morning at 10 a.m.
He moved it up to eight.
They took Harry Whittington first to a local hospital, and then they choppered him.
That's helicopter, for those of you who don't understand military lingo on the left.
They put him in a helicopter, took him to Corpus Christi.
Cheney said he had one beer at lunch six hours before the accident.
The sheriff report on the record, no alcohol involved.
Now, those are facts.
Now, a liberal, in order to deal with this and still be a liberal, will have to say everybody's lying.
Secret Service is lying, Cheney is lying, Harry Whittington is lying, the helicopter pilot is lying, the Corpus Christi hospital people are lying, the sheriff is lying, the sheriff has probably taken aside and said you'll be shot if you don't go along with our official version of this, and that's how liberals survive.
You give them the facts, doesn't play.
Facts destroy liberalism.
That that is an undeniable truth of life.
Tony Bethesda, Maryland.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Oxymoronic Ditto's from Bethesda, Maryland, Rush.
Yes, sir, I'm all for you.
Hey, uh your previous caller, the one just before me, referred to the guy that uh went uh toe-to-toe with you as a moron, and I just want to jump on the pig pile.
Did you notice that uh he represented himself when he introduced the topic as having come from an independent point of view?
But what's the one?
Yeah, he said that he said he'd not heard anybody raise the question that he was going to raise.
I didn't buy that, but I'm not gonna second he was arguing that you needed a balance on your show, someone like him to balance your conservative perspective out.
Right, right.
Isn't it interesting that these folks have to lie about where they come from, even to engage the dialogue?
Yeah, it's interesting.
It's not surprising, but it's uh it's an interesting note uh uh that you pick up on there.
Uh um the the whole this this guy obviously been listening for a long time because the the the you the the the what is the timeline or what the the evolution of criticism of this show start out in 1988 and uh in August and after the election the uh the mainstream conventional wisdom is once Limbaugh got to talk about all he talked about was the election, the election's over.
What's he gonna talk about now?
Um and then when Bush lost the election in 1992, well, that's it, Bush's guy lost, Limbaugh's discredited.
What's he gonna talk about?
Uh when Clinton uh won in 1996, they said, Well, what Clinton, what's with Limbo gonna talk about now?
I mean, Clinton just got uh re-elected.
Limbaugh's point of view is this is this is this is this crazy.
During the buildup, they all said that you in this audience were mind-numbed robots being programmed, that I was a Pied Piper in a Svengali, and you were totally brainless.
You had no ability to make up your mind, you were hitting code words for me to go out and say things, do things, vote the right way, and so forth.
Uh and all of that was wrapped.
Oh, and then they said I needed to be balanced, that I was that I was uh unfair.
There was no opposite point of view.
And that's what I came up with the notion notion of saying, no, I am equal time.
This program doesn't need balance at all.
It is balance against what else is out there in the mainstream press and has been as a monopoly for over fifty years, which ended, by the way, starting in 1988 when this show started.
So he was just reciting in his uh brief way all of the criticisms, and now it's gotten to the point you need balance, and the reason for that is is they can't beat me.
They can't beat this show when it comes to the arena of ideas.
They can't beat the show, period.
They can't even come close, but they can't beat conservatism in the arena of ideas.
They just can't.
And so what they want is to get shows like this squelched, discredited.
Why do you think every liberal initiative is oriented toward discrediting conservative spokespeople and conservative people?
It's not, it's not oriented toward beating them.
They have no way.
They cannot beat us.
Facts destroy liberalism.
Facts destroy their worldview and the the alternative reality that they have set up, their little dream land in which they survive and live.
And so they have to discredit.
They have to they have to, or or try to put their enemies in jail, as in Tom Delay, or Ed Meese or whatever.
And it's been this way for long, scandalizing opponents ever since Watergate.
Ever since Watergate, they have given up on trying to win elections and ideas.
They don't have any ideas now that they can be honest about because then they would really be up creek.
So facts are of no consequence.
Trying to water this program down with liberals and the opposite point of view for balance wouldn't be necessary if all their other liberal competitors were making a mark, but they're not.
Because they can't.
Because liberalism doesn't persuade anybody.
Liberalism scares people, liberalism uh shocks people, uh, liberalism is what actually brainwashes people.
Liberalism is the easiest and most gutless choice you can make in life.
You don't have to actually do anything.
You just have to say your ex-wives.
Well, I care about suffering.
Oh, I care about the poor.
Oh, I care about inequality, and they expect to be lauded for being wonderful, compassionate, sensitive people.
Do they ever accomplish anything in dealing with all this suffering that they see?
Never.
They do not.
If anything, they make it worse.
And they are confronted with that reality all of I mean, every liberal outpost around has failed, or is in the process of failing.
And yet they don't see it.
They'll blame it on hanging Chad's.
They'll blame it on debold voting machines, and blame it on Halliburton, they'll blame it on Enron.
In the case of the Soviet Union, they'll blame it on the fact that Gorbachev chickened out too soon.
Or they'll blame it on Reagan calling him the evil empire or something.
They will not acknowledge that their entire world view is a failure.
And it is a failure specifically and directly for the people they claim to care most about.
Liberalism does nothing for the suffering.
It does nothing for the poor.
It does nothing but maintain those present circumstances.
It enhances and promotes victim status, victimology.
Well, a victim doesn't have to do anything for himself Because he's got an entitlement and an excuse to sit there and be mediocre.
And the more mediocre people there are, the liberals are happy, because they think the mediocre will vote for them to get even with people who are not mediocre.
It's a sick system, folks.
Back in just a moment.
Hey, Brian in Wilmington, I know you're still out there.
I do think you have a point about one thing.
I think Clinton, if he shot somebody, would go to the hospital with him just to check out the nurses.
You never know what you could pick up there.
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