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March 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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No, they don't all look alike.
Mr. Sterdley, we're just looking at some of these fox anchorettes, the infobabes.
Ah, they all look alike.
The one in the afternoon looks like the one in the morning, and they don't.
Dawn and I agreed on that, which is, I guess it, well, no, it doesn't get a little blurry when you're single.
It doesn't get blurry at all when you're single.
Just the exact opposite.
Greetings and welcome back, friends.
El Rushbo here from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today.
All right.
We have some light-hearted, off-the-wall stuff first from right here in Palm Beach, Florida.
For years, Janie Karp has battled depression and anxiety with the help of prescription drugs.
Though millions of Americans do the same, Karp admits that she's intensely private and can't help but feel stigmatized for needing medication to feel good and normal.
So when she read the printout that a Walgreens pharmacy attached to her prescription last week for the sleep aid ambient, she couldn't believe her eyes.
Typed in a field reserved for patient information, dated March 17th, was 2005, was the word crazy with two exclamation points after it.
In another field dated September 30th, 2004, it read, she's really a psycho.
Do not say her name too loud.
Never mention her meds by names and try to talk to her when, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The information continued on to another page, but that wasn't attached.
She says, I was devastated.
I was humiliated.
I was embarrassed.
I honestly couldn't speak.
I was trembling.
She filed suit yesterday against Walgreen.
They're based in Illinois, accusing the nationwide retail chain of defamation, negligent supervision, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Walgreens is investigating this, according to their company spokeswoman Carol Heifley, who said that computers are accessible to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
The drug utilization review includes a notes field intended for the pharmacist to use to enter reminders and patient requests.
We want to ensure that our pharmacy employees are acting in a proper and professional manner, so we're looking into this.
The notes field is intended for internal use.
It's a private reminder for the pharmacist, and the patient's never supposed to see it.
For Janie Karp, seeing the printout underscored her long-held fears of being labeled for taking medication to stabilize her moods.
In August, she moved full-time from Connecticut down to Palm Beach.
And when she was younger, she self-medicated her angst with alcohol and drugs, but now she's out using ambient and stuff.
So they sent her, they gave her these notes, crazy psycho.
It just, you know, it just, it just goes to show you about medical records privacy.
It just does, folks.
You just have no idea what's in these things.
Let's see.
Where's the deputy fire chief story?
Yes.
Leroy Donald Johnson caught this weekend in a barn with his pants down, literally, according to a sheriff's report.
You caught me.
I tried to bleep your sheep, Johnson told his neighbor, according to the report.
But the Mesa Fire Department deputy chief changed his story when a sheriff's deputy arrived on his doorstep minutes later, denying that anything had happened.
Johnson, who's 52, was jailed on suspicion of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing after the neighbor told investigators he found Johnson unzipped and holding a sheep down on its side.
That's the sanitized version.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office report released Monday night's a little bit more graphic.
Johnson's neighbor told sheriff's deputies he was called home Saturday afternoon when his 13-year-old daughter saw Johnson drag one of their sheep into a barn.
The teenager said that Johnson had first knocked on the front and back door of the home and I guess felt safe when it was an answer.
One of the deputies noted Johnson had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol.
And neighbors who confronted him said he admitted everything.
According to the deputy's report, the owner took me into the backyard, showed me where he and a neighbor pulled up.
He took me through the corral gate, and I saw the victim for the first time.
She was a small gray lamb, about three feet tall and four feet long.
The men told the deputy they walked over to the small barn, opened the door, saw Leroy holding the lamb down on its side in the hay with his pants down, trying to have sex with it.
And that's when he made the statement about bleep the lamb.
That'd be one way.
The story here does not divulge whether or not there was anything else, but there'd be a quick way to determine whether or not the story is true or not.
And that's if they find a Montana stick anywhere in the barn.
A Montana stick, we learned this last week.
A Montana stick is about three to four feet long and it has a mirror on one end and is used primarily to be able to determine whether or not the sheep is smiling.
If they find that, they might have a little bit evidence rather than just eyewitness accounts because those things, you know, when you're watching somebody have sex with a sheep, it could look like something else, I suppose, depending on just never know.
But if they find the Montana stick, and I understand that they're quite common in this practice, a Cape Coral, Florida resident concerned about people having sex in a yacht club parking lot took that concern to the streets.
Robert Payne, who lives next to the Cape Coral Yacht Club's overflow parking lot, recently placed used condoms that he found in the lot on sticks and planted them in the street median in front of a sign at the entrance to the yacht club.
His not-so-subtle message, I got a picture of it here in this story.
His not-so-subtle message was a response to anger building among neighborhood residents over condoms littering the parking lot and other problems at the Riverside Park.
So Payne and Mike Hermanson, who lives adjacent to the park, are concerned that as the park grows, these problems need to be addressed before they get worse.
Hermanson said, yeah, these things happen very slowly, referring to city officials' response to the complaints.
We're right in the front line.
If we don't speak up, we have a lot to lose.
So they're talking used condoms here, folks, just to clarify.
And there's a little picture here of the condom farm that they have, or condom garden, I guess you'd say, that is growing here in the median next to the yacht club.
So Cape Coral, Florida.
I never heard this kind of thing about Cape Coral, Florida, but it's, I guess it's happening everywhere.
We've got this story.
It kind of frightens me.
It frightens me.
It surprises me.
We've got this story.
Who is the group that's warning the women?
Yeah, that's right.
The American Medical Association has sent out a bulletin, if you will, to all girls going to spring break.
Is this just a girl's going to spring break here in Florida?
Or spring break, period, everywhere.
Girls going to spring break, period.
Apparently, what happens during spring break is that sexual activity and drinking spike up by a considerable amount.
What is it, 10% or more?
Oh, 10.
Oh, that's what it is.
10% of the girls have multiple partners.
And they've been warned in this bulletin, the AMA, that that is bad.
I can't find the story here.
Fresh my memory.
What is the point of the bulletin warning them not to do this?
Oh, that's it.
Girls shouldn't go wild.
Oh, that's right.
Then be wary of the girls gone wild videos and the guys who want to make them out there.
So this is one of those strange things.
The AMA thinks it's just learned something.
The girls and guys have been going to spring break have known this for 15 years.
Back in just a second.
Stay with me.
Yeah, here are the details on this AMA story.
Study warns women about spring break.
I don't think the women need to be warned.
They're the ones making it happen.
How could they possibly need to be warned?
The AMA is warning girls not to go wild during spring break, all but confirming what goes on in those Girls Gone Wild videos.
83% of college women and graduates surveyed by the AMA said spring break involves heavier than usual consumption of adult beverages.
74% said that the break results in increased sexual activity.
Well, why do you warn them?
They're the ones doing it.
They're the ones that provided the data for the survey.
That's like, I can't imagine.
Sizable numbers reported getting sick from drinking and blacking out and engaging in unprotected sex or sex with more than one partner, activities that increase their risks for sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
Kathleen Fitzgerald, a 21-year-old junior at Illinois State U, said the AMA's effort to raise awareness is a good idea, but probably won't do much to curb drinking during spring break.
I got a lot of students wouldn't really pay that much attention to this warning.
They'd be just like, duh, that's why we do it.
Well, exactly.
This is, yeah, this is not the thing that grabs me about the story.
I don't know how you people react to this, but I'm 55, and I'm going to tell you what.
When I was high school and college, we had to work at this.
All you got to do is apparently fly off some spring break capital and just stand there, and you will be attacked.
Hell, the teachers are making moves on students.
That never happened.
Now you've got this.
Man, oh, man, oh, man.
Dave in Dallas, Texas.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Russ, just wanted to tell you, I worked for Walgreens as a pharmacy technician for five years, just quit a couple of years ago.
I wanted to tell you this note-writing process is commonplace across the board.
We all would put it in.
Oh, I'm sure it is.
But do you write things that if the patient saw, they'd be insulted or angry?
Oh, absolutely.
Well, just in terms of giving each other a heads up, you've got to understand the abuse we take in the retail business anyway, and we're constantly accosted and chastised and screamed at, and we sort of give each other as colleagues a heads up.
Right, the customer's always write syndrome.
Right, but there's no, there's no, I can't figure out how that could have gotten into the patient printout.
There had to be a glitch in the computer system.
We're all very careful of that.
That happens.
Sure.
Well, now, this is interesting to know.
So, virtually everybody that goes into a pharmacy, there are these notes, and whatever the people at the pharmacy think about the person might be found in these note fields.
Well, I can't speak for any other chain.
I can tell you that I no longer work for that company, but it wasn't anything.
I need to ask you a question about that, by the way.
Did you leave under favorable, friendly circumstances?
Absolutely.
Okay, so you don't have an axe to grind.
You don't have a vendetta against them, and that would be why you're not.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
As a matter of fact, many friends.
Well, as a journalist, I have to ask that.
Oh, sure.
Sure, absolutely.
But I'm really defending Walgreens more than anything else.
I'm trying to tell you that it was not a malicious thing.
If the lady said the things that the notes said, obviously, I'm inclined to believe the pharmacist and the staff.
Well, it did contain things that advised the clerks at the pharmacy, don't mention her meds by name.
Don't look at her.
Don't laugh.
Don't this.
She is crazy.
Right.
She's a psycho.
Well, you can imagine in retail pharmacy, we deal with every kind of person.
We deal with sick, we deal with the elderly, we deal with mentally unstable, and we certainly get our share of screaming matches and unfair, you know, long waits, all that kind of stuff that go along with the retail pharmacy field.
I understand.
I've seen that.
I've seen it.
The people go in there and think they own the stores.
Yeah, I know what you're going through.
Well, I appreciate the call.
Appreciate the information on that.
What are you doing now?
I actually am a full-time student finishing up a degree at a college here and actually working for another chain, but just a little friendly competition.
So you're going to college in Dallas?
Are you by any chance taking human geography?
No, I'm not.
Believe it or not.
I'm a journalism major, pretty far stretched from pharmacy.
You're a journalism major.
Yes, sir.
Broadcast, concentration in broadcast.
Okay, why did you want to get into that?
Well, I've always been strong at writing, but my family has always been involved in pharmacy, so pharmacy seemed like a natural thing to do.
No, no.
Why did you want to get into broadcast journalism?
Oh, well, I've always been told I have a pretty good voice for television and radio, and I enjoy writing, and I enjoy finding out the truth.
And the investigative side really interests me.
Okay, let me give you some advice.
That's the wrong thing to say to a professor or to anybody.
If you're ever in the halls of that J school, wherever you're going, and somebody says, why do you want to get in it?
What are you here for?
Here's your answer.
Because I want to change the world.
I want to make a difference.
I don't care what you say that, and they'll leave you alone.
If you tell them that you're there to get the truth out, you think the notes the pharmacy writes, what do you see, the notes your professor writes about you and send them out to people you're trying to get a job for?
This guy is interested in the truth, and you have just disqualified yourself.
Right.
I'm not trying to discourage you here.
I'm trying to help you.
You go, when you get the job, go do the truth.
We need people like you out there doing it.
Just don't tell them that's what you're doing.
Just don't.
That's not what you're there to do.
Yes, sir.
It is.
I'm not kidding.
I mean, I'm maybe exaggerating a bit to make a point here, but it's not about the truth.
It's not at the big jobs that you probably are.
Where do you want to work?
What's your ultimate job goal?
Oh, well, I certainly don't want to be just an anchor and a local affiliate.
I would love to report for one of the bigger cities and maybe one day be on a network.
Yeah.
We'll get there fast because they're not going to be doing news much longer.
At least they're not going to be doing it as big as they do it now.
Well, their audiences are, I shouldn't be saying this.
Look, just go out and be the best journalist you can, and that'll take care of it.
You'll end up wherever the best jobs are.
Just do that.
I'm not trying to discourage you.
I'm really not.
Just do that.
It's like any other job.
Go out and do it the best you can.
Be the best at it that you possibly can be.
You'll probably stand head and shoulders of everybody else.
Just make sure you tell them you're there to make a difference.
We'll do that.
You see social injustice and you want to change it.
You want to make sure that life is fair, blah, blah, blah.
All that gobbledygook that journalists tell us that they do their jobs for.
But I'm not serious.
You stay focused on the truth.
Just do it.
Become the best you can be.
And you will end up wherever the big journalism jobs are down the road.
Here's Diana in Colorado Springs.
I'm glad you waited, Diana.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, how are you doing today?
Fine.
Never better, actually.
Good.
I'm glad to be on the program.
I just wanted to call in real quick and talk about the AMA.
Yeah.
I know you're, I understand where you're coming from, but on the other hand, I think what they're doing is wise.
A lot of these girls these days, I've noticed, they don't understand responsibility.
And they actually, it's sad, but they need to be warned.
They don't realize that having relations with people could give them a disease.
They don't realize that drinking themselves to death is, you know, going to get them sick or raped.
I mean, come on.
Diane, how old are you?
Do you mind if I ask?
You're 24.
All right.
Now, you know all this, right?
I do.
Okay, well, how did you figure it out?
Watching these other girls just ruin their lives.
And they're honestly just not that bright.
What about your parents?
Did your parents maybe have anything to do with in the way they raised you to create some dignity for yourself and to think highly of yourself?
You wouldn't engage in demeaning activity.
Your parents have anything to do with it?
My mother did the best she could.
Dad wasn't around.
Mom was kind of sick, and I had to pick it up.
I just kind of had to learn those things.
Okay, I guess, okay, you raise an interesting point.
The problem that I see out there with the girls that are younger than you, that the AMA is trying to warn here, is they've been, ever since the second grade, sex education or sixth grade or whatever, but sex education and the people that teach that do not teach consequences.
No, they don't.
It's basically a behavioral promotion program.
Plus, can we be real?
How many of the babes going the spring break are little virgins anyway?
Well, yeah, you're not going to catch me going on spring break, first off, because I'm trying to avoid those kinds of things.
Well, my point is that I shouldn't have said it.
Maybe I shouldn't have said it that way, but look, I've got a time constraint problem.
Can you hang on?
Because I have one more point that I want to develop with you based on something that you said.
Can you hang on for like three more minutes?
All right.
I'll be glad to do that.
You stay where you are.
We'll come back.
We will continue this because she did say something that I want to explore, bounce off of, what have you.
And we'll do that in just a second.
And here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
And Diana, you are still there in Colorado Springs, correct?
Yes, I am.
Okay, she's in favor of these AMA warnings to girls going to spring break that that's going to be really a boozy time and that the sex out there is going to be risky.
It'll happen more and more.
I guess the thing that you said that kind of took me aback.
You said these other girls just ruin their lives.
They're honestly just not that bright.
These are college kids.
I know.
These are college kids.
And they're going.
It's hard for me to believe at their age that they think so little of themselves that they're willingly engaging.
They're just trying to have fun.
They are, but fun, there's a limit to fun.
Oh, I'm not endorsing it.
Colorado Springs.
You're making it sound like they don't know what they're doing, and I can't believe that.
I mean, I see these girls growing up on the streets trying to be popular, trying to have fun, and they don't realize those risks.
Why they don't, it's beyond me.
I can't understand how you don't realize it, but they do.
I mean, our society, sadly, is filled with them.
And so somebody needs, I mean, it's not hurting anybody giving the listeners.
It may be, but I have never met one.
What was that last thing you said?
I said maybe one or two girls from this warning might listen and be able to change what they were doing.
Well, okay, I guess they're going to spring break for a reason.
The reasons are what they've always thought about it and maybe what they've learned since they've been before.
So for the AMA or anybody to warn them about what awaits them seems like I can't relate to this because they already know it and it's why they're going.
Right, but this is our society.
This is what our society has come to.
I don't support that.
I don't support the way our society is falling down in moral value.
But somebody has to say to these people, this is what's going to well, I'm not defending the action.
I know.
It's sort of like putting a warning.
Let's say the FBI sends out a PSA warning, don't steal, we will catch you.
It's not going to stop anybody.
A thief is a thief.
Somebody's going to go, they think they can get away with it.
There's nobody who actually engages in theft or that kind of crime that thinks they're going to get caught.
Otherwise, they wouldn't do it.
I had to learn as well.
And I mean, I've made my mistakes growing up.
I mean, now I'm settled down.
I'm married.
I have a family.
But I had to make mistakes sometimes alone.
But I also learned if, I'll tell you, if you like the warning, then there ought to be a better one.
Don't go.
Here's what awaits you.
Don't go.
But to warn them of what awaits them, that's just going to titillate them.
You're going to have boots.
Oh, wow.
Look at what you got at Spring Break.
Look what the AMA told me I'm going to find there.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs with this, but I just, I think it's the AMA is a bureaucracy.
They have a magazine.
They occasionally do some good things like everybody does.
But I think this is more a feel-good thing for them than it is something that's actually going to have any substantive meaning to it.
Well, we warned those girls.
We told them that we're good people and we care and so forth.
I want people to know that we care and that we did good things and we do good work and blah blah blah.
Boy, Rush, you sound awfully cynical about that.
No, it's just liberalism, folks.
It's just, it never solves anything.
It just doesn't.
It only makes matters worse.
Thanks for holding on, Diana.
I appreciate it.
Samantha in Raleigh, North Carolina, you're up next.
Welcome.
Mega Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
I have been listening to you forever, it seems.
And I just wanted to put my two cents in with the young lady right before me.
I'm a college student here in Raleigh.
No, I do not go to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because, well, they're strange.
Amen to that.
Yeah, well, Chapel Hill is trying to change its city motto to left of center, right at home.
Yeah, there's a reason that normal people don't live in Chapel Hill.
Anyway, I'm a college student here in Raleigh, North Carolina, and I figured out a long time ago that I think you give the general populace way too much credit.
Most people are just not that bright.
And while I disagree with the general premise that the Democrats have that they run around trying to save people from themselves, unfortunately, most people do need to be saved from themselves.
Oh, come on.
I'm not going to want to hear this.
You sound like a liberal.
You're being very condescending to the people of your own country.
I understand that, and it pains me to say such a thing.
I was born and raised.
You said most people.
I can agree with some, but you said most people.
Most.
Most people.
How many of them have you met?
Where have you been?
How old are you?
I'm actually pushing 30, which makes me a really old college kid.
Well, but it doesn't make you old in life.
And you have to, you can't look.
You can't look out at the country, look at the economy, look at the achievement, look at the technological leadership and advancement, and conclude that most of the people in this country are blockheads.
But they just are.
I don't know.
Maybe I've spent too much time with really intelligent people and have just.
You've got to be careful about that because, you know, they're not, they may be intelligent in certain discernible ways, but they may not actually be your best sample to determine who's smart and who isn't.
I just, I mean, just driving on the streets, it amazes me that most people don't die in their own cars.
I don't know.
50,000 a year do.
Yeah, it amazes me that only that many die in their cars.
But that's okay.
Now, what is that?
Is that based on the way you see them driving or just that we drive, period?
The way I see people driving.
Did you see the story today about the woman in Great Britain, and actually in Wales, who was fined 200 pounds for farting in her car?
No.
No, I did not.
That's an interesting thing.
It's a French word, farting with a D, and it means to apply makeup.
Now, that's common.
I warned people about that 18 years ago.
So you're on, I mean, there are people using cell phones and this sort of thing.
But, boy, you are extreme in this.
You are really down on your fellow citizens.
Well, I mean, take into consideration, I grew up in Massachusetts, so I've seen people elect Kennedys and more Kennedys.
Now, I will admit over the course of this program, I've had callers like you who have in despair, after certain elections, people in this country are stupid.
They're just plain idiots, Rush.
And like you, they've said, you're giving them too much credit for saying.
And I've, you know, I always, I look at, especially this audience in a farting.
You have an above-par audience.
Absolutely.
Well, that's evidence of that is that you're in it.
Well, thank you.
You're welcome.
All right.
Well, I appreciate your input on this.
So you think that basically kids are, if the country is basically dumb, then they're dumb sexually too.
They really are.
And, I mean, the college kids nowadays have never had any consequences for anything.
You know, it's always been, you know, I mean, every generation has had we want to raise our kids better than the one before.
Well, unfortunately, the generation that's now college kids, they've never had any consequences for anything.
I mean, they've never had to work a day in their life for anything.
One of their problems is that their parents are baby boomers and the baby boomers only think about themselves.
I mean, my parents are technically baby boomers, but I mean, I worked, I got my first job at 12.
I wanted to go to summer camp.
I worked to earn my way to summer camp.
Well, you and I have a similar resume.
I did the same.
My parents weren't baby boomers.
They're World War II babies, but I'm a baby boomer.
There are exceptions to all this, obviously.
But the baby boomers, as a unit or collective unit, are very, very, very self-absorbed.
Me, The world revolves around them.
And it might have had an impact in the way some of them raised their kids.
But I still think at some point most parents want better for their kids than they had for themselves.
The reaction now people are having is, hey, I don't mind you having more than I had, but don't expect it at 21.
There seems to be a high level of expectation in the country because of the prosperity that everybody sees.
One more before the break.
Thanks, Samantha.
This is John in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Dittos, Rush.
Thank you.
Well, I was just calling to kind of refute the last two callers.
I mean, I'm 26 years old, been through college, been to a couple spring breaks.
And, you know, I knew exactly what I was going down for, loosen up, you know, not technically drink myself into excess, but we all know the consequences of our actions.
We're, like you said, we've gone through high school, be it it as may in the public school system.
We still know what we're going down for.
Yeah, but wait.
Wait a second, John.
The AMA didn't warn the guys.
The AMA only warned the girls.
So we need to ask you: the girls that you've run, do they know what they're doing, or are you unfairly able to take advantage of them as a guy at spring break because they're that ignorant and stupid about what they're running into?
Absolutely not.
We happen to be at the same place for the same reason.
They're not there coincidentally or by accident, Russ.
Okay, so he's confirming my theory.
It's easy.
You just show up as a guy down here.
The AMA is going to warn the girls.
That's only going to excite them.
And it's have fun.
I'm just telling you, when I was your age, had to work for hell, still do.
Okay, before we get out of here, I have to mention the Civil War, the declaration of war that Hillary Clinton and her associates have waged on the mayor of Cooksville.
That would be Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic Party.
The Washington Post has this story today.
Democrats' data mining stirs an intra-party battle.
It's Harold Ickes that's going to run this.
George Soros is going to fund this.
And you could almost describe this as the Democrats' version of Abel Danger.
They're going to go out there and they're going to start data mining a competing list of donors and try to pirate some of the existing donors from the Democrat National Committee.
Now, of course, ladies and gentlemen, this is only for Hillary's Senate run.
It's nothing to do with anything else.
A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton raising millions of dollars to start a private firm.
And this is for-profit, by the way, a private firm that plans to compile huge amounts of data on Americans to identify Democrat voters and blunt what has been a clear Republican lead in using technology for political advantage.
The effort led by Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton White House and advisor to Hillary, is prompting intense behind-the-scenes debate in Democrat circles.
Officials over at Cooksville, the Democrat National Committee, think that creating a modern database is their job.
And they say that a competing for-profit entity could divert energy and money that should instead be invested with the National Party.
And this is all happening because Dean has not quit.
Dean has not surrendered.
He's not gone away.
They're just trying to take over the Democratic Party apparatus basically and set it up as a for-profit outfit.
This is going to be a big civil war, and this is the Clintons trying to officially take over, maintain, whatever you want to say, control of the Democratic Party's fundraising efforts.
Ickes and others involved in the effort acknowledge their activities are in part a vote of no confidence regarding the mayor of Cooksville, Howard Dean.
The Republicans have developed a cadre of people who appreciate databases and they know how to use them.
We're way behind that march.
It's unclear what the DNC is doing.
We don't even know what they're doing over there.
Is it going to be kept up to date?
I'll tell you who else is going to like this: Cooksville.
Not just the mayor.
Do you think moveon.org is going to sit around?
Moveon.org is doing just that.
They claim to have 3 million donors, contributors, participants, or whatever.
So here's Hillary and this new George Soros-funded effort.
And they're going to go out there and they're going to basically be competing with their base.
You know, the one thing that Howard Dean did, this is what's crazy.
Dean did raise a lot of money on the internet.
It's Ickies and the boys that couldn't figure out how to do it.
John Kerry, the guy that led them into battle, he served in Vietnam once.
Went down to blazing defeat, 4 million votes.
Dean didn't know what to do with the money, but he did raise it.
I think he raised something like $42 million in the internet.
That's why the Democrats are going all gaga before the primaries.
They thought they were on the cutting edge.
They thought they were tearing it up.
They thought they were leading the way.
Hey, Republicans can't hold a candle of this.
They didn't know how to use the money.
Dean flitted it all away, frittered it all away, and so hasn't been able to reciprocate it as the mayor of Kooksville.
So here comes George Soros and Harold Ickies, and to add insult entry, they're going to do it for profit.
So this is data mining.
They're going to be poking through every computer database they can find.
Your name's going to be on a couple of them.
My name's going to be trying to identify Democrats.
And they're going to try to make them donors and contributors and so forth.
And it's exactly what Abel Danger was doing, trying to find terrorists.
They did succeed at that.
Nobody wants to admit it.
The pressure on Democrats to begin more aggressive data mining in the hunt for votes began after the 2002 midterms when the GOP harnessed data technology to powerful effect.
So you almost could say that Hillary is setting up an echelon-type system.
Keep your sharp eyes out for this, folks.
It's going to be fascinating to watch.
David in Tampa, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, Mega Dittos from Tampa.
How are you doing?
Thanks, Very.
I'm great.
Thanks very much.
I've been a long-time listener.
I've never been motivated enough to call you before, but this Samantha just pushed me over the edge.
She says most people are stupid and need to be protected from themselves.
But who is she to take away my right to be stupid?
That's a good point.
We all have the right to be who we are.
If I want to do something that I know is stupid, but I want to do it anyway, I'm taking the risk.
Who is she to tell me that I'm not allowed to do that?
That's the same thing as these states that pass seatbelt and helmet laws.
If I don't wear a seatbelt or I don't wear a helmet on a motorcycle, yes, I'm stupid, but I have a right to be stupid.
I don't have a lot of people.
And nobody can take away that right to be stupid, and nobody can take away your stupidity.
That's right.
If you're stupid, you own it.
And proudly.
Good for you.
All right.
Thanks much.
Let's see.
Craig in Washington.
Squeeze you.
We've got about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
Megan and Evil Evish and Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
I think this is a result of the attempt by the liberals to create a consequence-free society where there is no right or wrong and there are no hassles that result from anything that you do.
Take abortion.
You go out and you have sex.
Well, what do you do?
Yeah, you get a baby, just kill it.
And so it's the same way.
There are actual consequences, and the AMA has seen them, whether it's in STDs or other problems.
And so, hey, wait a minute, we need to let these people know.
It's the same way with taxes.
People don't recognize that.
I get that.
I do.
I could not agree with you more.
I guess you have helped me focus my actual thoughts on this.
The time to start issuing these warnings is in high school, where there is no spring break.
For all I know, there might be spring break in high school.
But certainly, after you're warning the people that are already engaging in the activity, warnings need to start earlier or they attempt to teach.
But I appreciate your comment.
Thanks.
You're great.
You got it in exactly the minute that I had.
Back in just a second, folks.
Sadly, my friends, we're out of busy broadcast time, but that's okay because there's always tomorrow.
And I will look forward to being with you then and being on the cutting edge with whatever news is made between now and then.
Hope you have a great hump day.
And we will have a brokeback day.
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