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March 23, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
Great to be with you.
It's another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence hosted by me, America's anchorman Rush Limbaugh, firmly ensconced behind this, the Golden EIB microphone.
800-282-2882 is a phone number if you'd like to join us today.
Email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Folks, we got a lot of stuff out there today.
We've got these ingrates from this Christian peacemaker bunch that were rescued from captivity in Iraq, and they're out there praising everybody but the people that rescued them.
In fact, the Washington Post reports that the Canadian and British aid workers were freed.
They were not freed.
They were rescued.
We also have, as an example, jobless claims fall more than expected.
Surprise, surprise, the experts once again shocked.
Everybody in media waiting for a housing bubble, and that's also not happening.
We've got existing home sales post unexpected gains.
So jobless claims fall more than expected.
Just it illustrates that the whole media action line on the economy is negative.
And when the, of course, there's some news they cannot avoid publishing, such as housing starts and jobless claims and so forth.
So they have to express shock because the action line has been the economy is still in recession.
It has shown no signs of improvement and Bush sucks.
And they just continue to do a disservice to everybody.
Before we get into all that stuff in detail, I have to tell you a story.
About a month ago, maybe a little longer, maybe two months, six weeks, two months ago, not ahead of me, because before the AT ⁇ T, and that was early February.
Okay, back in January.
I take different routes into work each and every day as a security precaution so as not to establish patterns.
Oh, yes, Mr. Snerdley, I do.
It's tough to do with only one road.
No, I do.
I take a different route in.
And one of these days, back in January, I was driving in, and for two or three days in a row, I go past this house that's under construction, and there's guys out there in front of it waving at me big time.
You know, so I waved back and I kept driving.
Well, you know, I go through my email a lot, and I spend a lot of time in the Rush 24-7 email account, and I scan subject lines as the first thing I do to determine whether something is interesting or not.
And I just, I randomly, quite accidentally, accidentally, just by chance, I happened to see a subject line that says, I'm the guy waving at you.
So the guy is a subscriber, rushlimbaugh.com.
So I read it, and he tells me that he's plumber.
And he tells me a couple other things.
He asks me to stop next time.
He'd just like to say hello.
I said, well, to myself, anybody can plunk down the money to join.
Anybody can do it.
So, you know, I thought about it for a while.
I finally today stopped.
And I wasn't even going to mention this until I saw a story in the New York Times.
And this is a second day story.
The first day story was yesterday.
We didn't talk about this yesterday.
It was in the stack.
I didn't get to it.
The Times version, it's about these buyouts at General Motors and the Delphi Corporation.
Once set for life, auto workers may have to gamble.
And if you go to printed page number three, you come across, no, page two, I'm sorry, you come across a fascinating quote.
A guy named Kaufman.
What's his name?
I'll be on the first page.
Well, anyways, there's a worker named Kaufman, Brian Kaufman, 30 years old.
And he's quoted in the Times piece this way.
Mr. Kaufman was lucky to get hired at GM in the first place.
About 80,000 people in Flint once worked for GM or more than one out of every two people here.
Now GM has only 15,000 workers left in Flint or about one in eight residents.
Brian Kaufman, 30 years old, says, there are no jobs out there for us.
And it's hard to start over.
Who wants to hire a washed up 30-year-old General Motors worker?
Who wants to hire a washed up 30-year-old, not 30-year employee, a 30-year-old GM worker?
So I saw this.
I said, I have to tell you the story of the plumber today.
So I stopped.
I got out and I talked to him.
He had on an EIB Rush Limbaugh golf shirt.
And there were two other people.
They were the only three people on the site.
It's a housing project.
They're building a nice house down here.
And the husband and wife contractor team also were there with the plumber.
So I walked up, I introduced myself.
They introduced themselves to me.
They went and got pictures.
We stopped and posed for pictures.
The plumber had a copy of my first book, The Way Things Ought to Be, signed that for him.
And then they told me something fascinating.
They said, you know, we were all, they started to tell me where they were the first day they heard me.
I said, yeah, sort of like where you were where the Kennedy assassination took place.
Nobody forgets where they were the first day they heard me.
And they all started, well, that's true.
We did a show on that once.
They started telling me where they were when they first heard me.
And they all said that at the, it was about midnight, mid-1995, 96, something like that, they were all working for other people.
They were all employees.
And they were telling me, they told me that they are now self-employed business owners because of this program.
That they were going, and they didn't know each other back then.
I don't think that.
Maybe I didn't get that detail from them.
But I mean, it made my morning.
These people are telling me, and they're eminently successful.
Plumber's got his own truck.
He's got constant, a lot of jobs.
He's telling me some funny things about his customers.
He's got one customer.
Well, I better not tell this because he harasses the customer's big socialist liberal.
And the plumber puts my radio show on every time he goes in this guy's house to do some work there.
So I better not tell the details of the story.
But they were all going on and on and on about how they were inspired to go out and start their own businesses because of this program.
It's one of the things I always tell the critics who think that this program is what it is not because they've never listened to it and they don't know.
And always say, you don't know how inspiring this program can be.
You don't know how uplifting it can be.
We do countless numbers of hours on this program about improving yourself.
And they started talking about all that today.
And, you know, they made mention of the fact that, yeah, what you say is correct.
Most limitations that people have on themselves are self-imposed.
And they just decided to go out and take a risk.
And now this husband and wife contractor team are huge.
They spend every waking moment together.
I assume nighttime moments as well.
Looked exceedingly happy.
But they were just effusive in their praise.
And finally had to say, you know what?
You guys are making my day.
I appreciate this.
But you did the work.
And they said, yeah, but we would have never done it if we hadn't been listening to your show.
We would have never even done it.
It was safe.
We didn't like being employees, but at least it was safe.
So come back to this guy, Brian Kaufman at General Motor.
30 years old, he's subject now to a buyout or some layoffs.
He thinks his life is over.
When at 30, he's got more opportunity ahead of him than he can possibly know or see.
Now, you got to go out and access it.
It's not going to come to him.
But imagine thinking you're washed up at 30 years of age in this country.
And I'll tell you something.
He's got a bunch of things working against him.
And one is what's happening at General Motors.
That's a real-life circumstance.
And anytime you get fired, that's not uplifting and inspiring, but it can be an opportunity.
But also, if this guy pays much attention to the news, can you imagine what his own assessment of the future is based on what the media tells him about the economy and opportunity out there?
So somebody who knows Brian Kaufman in Flint, Michigan, needs to get hold of him and have him turn on this radio program just now and then.
And he will find out there's all kinds of opportunities.
Just because you've worked at General Motors, you've been laid off doesn't mean you can't do anything else.
And it certainly doesn't mean that other people are going to think you're unqualified just because you didn't make it at General Motors or General Motors didn't make it where you happen to be.
So I just, every time I run into people like these guys I met today, I love passing the information along and sharing the story because it is inspires countless others who hear it.
You know, most people aren't self-starters.
Everybody has the, well, all things being equal, everybody has the capacity to be, but a lot of people don't know how to do it.
You get so conditioned to being coming an employee.
You get so conditioned to accessing and establishing yourself in certain systems and formats that you get tunnel vision about what's possible.
And it really is so much opportunity in this country, and it's just waiting to be accessed.
If you look at the economic activity going on, all the new jobs that are being created, yet we hear about, well, we've lost 14 million manufacturing jobs.
We may have lost them, but we're replacing them.
We've got more people working today than we had three, four years ago.
We're setting records.
Wages are up.
Tax rates or tax rates, tax income is up as a result of all the new taxpayers.
Housing starts continue to defy all the experts.
There is no boom or bust, I should say.
They're all waiting for it.
And there will be at some point.
And they're going to be maybe two years from now.
They'll still see, see, we told you.
My point is, there's anybody can be negative.
Anybody can tell you you can't do something.
You can tell yourself you can't do something.
Anybody can tell you or make you think you're washed up at 30.
And if you go along with it, well, then you're going to think you're washed up.
A lot of people can tell you how to fail because everybody knows how to do it.
A lot of people can tell you how to be depressed and angry because everybody knows how to do it.
In fact, you don't need anybody to tell you that.
But if you don't have somebody out telling you how good you are, if you don't have somebody stimulating you, if you don't have somebody lighting the fire, you got to learn to do it yourself.
And it's possible.
The first key ingredient is finding your passion.
What is it you really love?
And then find a way to make money at it.
And you may not strike out right off the bat.
Sometimes this takes a process.
But the fun is pursuing the passion because the passion will make what you're doing seem less like work.
Everything is work, but there are degrees.
And the more you enjoy it, the less it will seem that way.
And that plumber's name was Patrick.
Patrick, thanks for flagging me down since January.
And as I say, if it hadn't been for this New York Times story, I would not have even shared this with you because you people would have thought I was just seeking an opportunity to brag about this program.
But that's not the case.
I'm one of these people that think if I can do it, anybody can.
And I've gone through the whole mess of being an employee and getting caught up in that whole mindset and mentality.
And I asked these people.
I asked all three of them today, despite the stresses and despite the challenges and the responsibilities, don't you like this more than being an employee without fail?
They all said yes.
Now, I know not everybody will do this, and I know not everybody's capable of it.
And so, this is not meant to criticize people who are employees.
But when I see a guy like Brian Kaufman, 30 years old in Flint, Michigan, there may not be much for him in Flint, so he doesn't have to stay.
But maybe he's got family and has to.
I don't know.
But whatever the limitations are, a lot of them are self-imposed.
And here's something else.
I mentioned this to these guys today.
I asked them if they said, What is this movie, Brian?
You've probably seen this movie, the Terry Bradshaw movie with Matthew McConaughey.
I can't think of the name of it.
It's about a guy, Matthew McConaughey, who has not moved out of the house with his parents.
He's 35 years old.
You know, this is one of my big bugaboos.
And this is something that's happening more and more.
I mean, you'd be surprised, ladies and gentlemen, how many 25 to 35, sometimes 40-year-old children are still living at home with mom and dad, with mom and dad providing the room free of charge and the rest of the whole house and the cooking and the laundry and all this.
And one of the aspects of that is that people are further limiting failure to launch.
That's what it is.
One of the aspects of this is that these people, and it's an increasing number of them, 30, 35 still living at home with mom and dad, are also limiting their own job opportunities because they're not allowing themselves the freedom to move out and move somewhere to seek an opportunity.
And that's going to have deleterious effects on them as well.
There's a great column in the San Diego Union Tribune about this today, which I will also get to.
We got audio soundbites, galore.
We've got great stories, funny, serious.
We're going to run the gamut today.
We'll cover it.
And we'll get started with all the rest of it right after this.
What is this?
More bumper music from home?
I don't remember hearing this before.
Oh, yeah.
I know we put that on the website.
Snirdley is reading a story on a website called BadGolfer.com.
I forgot.
I talked to that guy.
He interviewed me on the, I guess, the third day of the Bob Hope edit PGA West.
And I just saw it yesterday.
It just got published yesterday.
So, yeah, we posted it on the website, rushlinblode.com.
Look, folks, one other thing about this General Motors story and employment and so forth, it doesn't help.
People may think it helps, but it really doesn't help when the New York Times comes along after General Motors announces that they're going to buy you out or fire you or let you go.
It doesn't help when the New York Times comes along and wants to do a story about how rotten General Motors is.
And yeah, this sympathy is good, but then what do you do?
You can sympathize with people all day long.
Oh, I feel so sorry for you.
Yeah, but then what are you going to do after that?
And to come along and validate some, yeah, the 30-year-old washout.
I didn't publish that.
I mean, that's not helpful either.
This is, I mean, New York Times loves these kinds of stories.
General Motors going bad, American corporations being mean-spirited and evil, and firing decent, hard-working Americans and placing them on the unemployment line and blah, And the people that get interviewed for these stories end up reading them are not served well by all that.
Now, here's this is the a lot of stories today are irritating, but this is the top of the stack for me.
Washington Post says it all: Canadian British aid workers freed in Iraq.
They were not freed.
They were rescued.
Three Christian peace activists kidnapped last year in Iraq were freed Thursday in an early morning military operation the British embassy in Iraq announced.
The three men rescued.
Oh, fine, the third paragraph, and they get it right.
The three men rescued Thursday, two Canadians and a Britain were freed in a planned rescue.
You can't be rescued, and I know that they're using the word freed to make it sound like this wasn't a rescue.
They want to make it look like the bad guys were good guys and gave these people up.
And in fact, these statement from these, what are they again, Christian peace activists, whatever the name is, they have this statement that's on the website.
Not once, not once do they mention the rescuers.
Not once do they mention the military team that got them out of there.
They thanked the Muslims, and they go on to say that this is a classic example of United States imperialism around the world.
They wouldn't even have been in this situation were it not for the U.S. attacking a sovereign country and so forth.
It's just, it's everything I said about this, I made you some predictions about this, if you'll recall.
And my main prediction was that they would be released so that they could run around thanking the Muslims and thanking the terrorists, the insurgents, for caring for them so well and understanding their mission of peace.
Well, I was wrong about that prediction, but I wasn't wrong about who they're thanking.
And I wasn't wrong about who they still think is responsible for them being kidnapped in the first place.
They're blaming the United States.
They're blaming Bush.
When in fact, they're the ones that went over there in the middle of a war zone to try to make some silly social political statement.
It's sort of like, what do we call these people that go over there, try to stop a military attack?
They go over and they stand there.
What do we call these people?
Yeah, human shields.
They're just as idiotic as these human shields.
And so they think that their mission is one of good works.
And they are just ecstatic with the fact that they were released and that they can now go out and tell their story about how evil the coalition forces are in Iraq, bringing about all this suffering and misery.
Maxine Nash, one of the three workers from the group still remaining in Baghdad, told Reuters that she and her colleagues were very glad to hear of their release and waiting to see them.
They were not released.
They were rescued.
Pure and simple.
People have lined up on the phones that want to talk about this, and we will get to all of you.
In fact, before we go anywhere else, mention any other exciting item from any of the stacks of stuff.
We've got some audio from some of these people, so the statement, you'll hear what I'm talking about, plus the phone calls, right after this when we get back.
All right, this is Unreal.
You talk about ungrateful.
The official statement by the Christian Peacemaker team that they posted on their website does not make one mention of the coalition forces who rescued them.
In fact, it's even worse than that.
They used the statement as a platform to attack coalition forces and blame illegal occupation for the kidnapping in the first place.
We have some audio excerpts of this statement that we got from the web.
So this is web quality.
This is Doug Pritchard.
He's the group's co-director.
And it's the first of two bites.
We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces is the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering in Iraq today.
The occupation must end.
Today, in the face of this joyful news, our faith compels us to love our enemies, even when they have committed acts which cause great hardship to our friends and sorrow to their families.
In the spirit of the prophetic nonviolence that motivated Jim, Norman, Harmeet, and Tom to go to Iraq, we refuse to yield to a spirit of vengeance.
Nobody is asking you to yield to a spirit of vengeance.
How about a little gratitude, twerp?
How about just a thank you instead of blaming people that rescued you?
You made the decision to go there on your own.
This idea of insecurity, the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering.
Yes, yes, we refuse to engage in vengeance, and our faith compels us to love our enemies.
It would help if you loved your friends.
Here's the second bite.
Throughout these difficult months, we have been heartened by messages of concern for our four colleagues from all over the world.
We have been especially moved by the gracious outpouring of support from Muslim brothers and sisters in the Middle East, in Europe, and North America.
That support continues to come to us day by day.
Gagged.
We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit, call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being held illegally by U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.
Okay, so you get it?
The terrorists, the insurgents, they're the ones that are the good guys here.
They're the ones that are the good guys.
They're the ones that engage in all the gracious outpouring of support from their Muslim brothers, sisters, Middle East, Europe, and North America.
We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit, call for justice.
He's aiming this right at the United States.
It's exactly who the peace movement is, folks.
This is exactly who they are.
The enemy is the good guys.
The bad guys end up being the good guys in the warped minds of these people.
This is just poor manners, too.
I mean, they were just not raised right.
They may think they're Christians and so forth and so on, but they have lousy manners.
They have no gratitude.
They show no sense of appreciation for the people who actually saved their lives.
Here's Keith in Savannah, Georgia.
You're up first on this, Keith.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
I think you said it best when you've been saying ungrateful.
What these people don't realize, or maybe do realize and just don't care, is that the type of mission that these guys had to go out, the hostage rescue mission, it's by far the most dangerous type of mission out there that the guys overseas are having to go on.
Planning is rushed.
You go out, you don't care.
Give us your qualifications, Keith.
You know something about this, it sounds like.
Who are you?
Well, I'm in the Army.
I'm a Ranger down in Savannah.
You are an active duty Ranger?
Yes, sir.
Oh, wow.
The Rangers, for those of you out there in San Francisco and on college campuses, the Army Rangers are the closest with the SEALs and the Green Berets are the closest thing we have to Supermen in this country.
People don't know what you go through to become a Ranger.
Right, Roger, that's right.
You know, the thing is, the guys overseas that went on, I don't know what unit actually did this.
Obviously, that's all classified and everything, but they probably don't care that these guys are ungrateful.
That's not really their concern.
What really, I think, probably concerns them is the fact that they're wasting their time.
Instead of going and getting terrorists and getting the bad guys and bringing this war to an end possibly over there, they're having to worry about these peace activists and devote time, devote money, devote assets to them instead of possibly going and getting terrorists on that same day.
You know, that is exactly right.
And what you have nailed here is that these self-absorbed, self-inflated, self-important people have made this all about them.
They try to take every of it.
And I think this goes back to childhood.
I think it goes back to the way they were raised.
I think it goes back to a whole lot of things in their early days.
Everything is about them.
They want to be the focus of attention, and they don't mind taking the military off path and out of its mission, and they have no appreciation for it in the first place.
I mean, just totally ungrateful.
It's offensive.
So I'm glad you called.
You sound remarkably composed, given the details of this story.
You don't sound like...
I mean, I read the press release this morning before I went to work, and I was pretty upset.
I've had some time to cool down.
This, along with the Law and Order guy making his comments the other day, that combined with this press release really got me upset.
But now I've had some time to cool down and realize that these people don't matter.
I know the majority of Americans are pretty level-headed about this.
They realize that.
No, you do.
Let me ask you this.
Let me ask you that.
And another big story today, folks, is the media.
The media is just beside itself.
Bush went to West Virginia, went to Wheeling yesterday.
He got a question in the town hall format.
He got a question from a woman who, in her own way, criticized the media, and a place erupted.
The place erupted in applause, almost as much applause for her question as for a bunch of applause Bush was getting for previous answers on different subjects.
And the media saw this.
They were there.
They know full well that they are not pulling the wool over people's eyes.
They know full well that their polling data is showing 80% of the American people, 70% of the American people hate Bush, don't want to be in Iraq.
How come John Kerry didn't win?
How come only a paltry few thousand of these people showed up to protest the war?
The media is out there spreading all kinds of misinformation, half-truths, half-stories about this.
And this is another aspect of it here, Keith, that I want to ask you about.
You know, you read this on the website today.
You took it easy.
You mentioned Richard Belzer, the Law and Order guy, the actor on Law and Order, what is it, SVU.
I don't know if you heard what this game is on Bill Maher's worthless show on HBO, and he just confirmed everything I have ever told you people about the left's view of the military.
He said, I don't care what the soldiers in Iraq are saying.
They're stupid.
They're 19, 20-year-old hicks that can't get a job and can't get into school, so they join the army.
They don't read 20 newspapers like I do every day.
They don't know what's going on over there.
They're programmed robots.
They can't be critical.
It's against the uniform code of military.
Just really impugned them, insulted them.
And exactly as I have told all of you the way the left holds them in contempt, he made my whole point for me.
So you mentioned that, Keith.
Here you have the ongoing effort by the press in this country, and you see it every day, to demoralize the American people, to gin up an anti-war sort of mentality amongst as many people as possible.
Then you get this story with these ingrates from the Christian peace team, whatever, failing to congratulate and thank their rescuers.
How do you keep yourself up, sir?
How do you keep yourself inspired and motivated?
Well, our motivation is not their gratitude.
Our motivation is, you know, hunting down and killing terrorists or capturing them, honestly.
But, you know, this is just a side mission, and that's not our main objective out there, is to rescue peace activists.
Yeah, but I mean, when you watch the news in this country, you see it every day.
I mean, you think you're doing heroic things.
You think you're protecting the country.
You're doing what you signed up for.
You're defending the Constitution and the people of this country.
And then you watch these ingrates on television who impugn what you're doing, tell half stories about what you're doing.
I'm just asking you, as human being to human being, even though you're a Ranger, how does it make you feel day in and day out?
It is a little disheartening, I'll say that.
When I hear the guy make the comments on Bill Maher's show and then the crowd applause erupts and applause over what he says, that kind of brings me down because I'm thinking, not only is this idiot saying these horrible things about our military that are just, you know, flat out not true, but then all these people in the audience are there supporting him and clapping.
I realize they're on Bill Maher's show, but still, the vast majority of them applauding that is just, that's disheartening also.
But then again, that's different.
That's different, Keith, because the people in the audience are just, they're citizens with their own opinions.
And they're just showing up and they can applaud or boo, whatever they want to do.
But when you have a business or an institution with constitutional protection, the United States media, which has now assigned itself an agenda here, which is to help the Democratic Party engineer the defeat of this president, however which way possible, including demoralizing support for this war, that's a different thing.
I mean, because the reason some of these yin-yangs in that audience were applauding is because they believe the rotgut and a drivel and a bilge that they see on the news every night.
Either that or they believe what their parents tell them.
But there libs.
It all kind of goes together, but there are people who know better who still refuse to do what they can to tell the whole story.
In fact, John Burns, I had a little note sent to me today.
John Burns, who's the Baghdad bureau chief for the New York Times, was asked, you guys not really reporting all the good news?
He said, that's probably true, but it's not on purpose.
Yeah, it's probably true, but it's not because we want to.
It's not because we have an agenda.
Yeah, we're probably not reporting all the good news.
Keith, I'm glad you called.
It's an honor to talk to you, and it's a thrill to have people like you in the audience.
We'll take a timeout, be back right after trying to say more than my brain can keep up with.
It's rare.
Most people's brains are faster than their mouths.
Well, my brain, and you know how fast it is, and I only use half of it.
And my mouth's even faster.
I'll get them coordinated here.
Sit tight.
We'll be back in just a sec.
One of the guys at my website, Dean, just sent me an email reminding me of something.
I had forgotten about this from October 7th, 2004, statement of conviction by Tom Fox, the American found dead in Baghdad.
Note, not murdered, although he was tortured and shot, but it's not said that he was murdered.
No, no, no, no.
He was found dead, the news media said.
Found dead.
Not murdered, but he was tortured.
He was shot.
But this is what he wrote back in October of 2004.
Quote, We, the members of Christian peacemakers teams in Iraq, are aware of the many risks both Iraqis and internationals currently face.
We reject the use of violent force to save our lives should we be kidnapped, held hostage, or caught in the middle of violent conflict situations.
Well, that's their official statement of conviction by the American member of this team that was tortured and shot.
Now, if that's the official statement, why did they accept the rescue?
If that's the official statement, if they didn't want force to be used, violent force, to save their lives, they should have told whoever it was that went in there to get them out.
Nope, nope, nope.
You came in here with the force of violence propelling you, and we are staying.
Some principled bunch, huh?
Here's Tom in Miami.
Tom, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, Rush, you made an emotional appeal.
Everything said in their statement is true.
We did illegally invade a sovereign country and we're illegally holding principles.
You didn't address the statement.
You made an emotional appeal about how people feel.
I think that's what the liberals used to do to us.
Tom needed to address the facts.
Tom, can I ask you a question?
Sure.
Because I really don't know the answer to this myself.
I can only ask somebody like you, what does it feel like to be so wrong so often?
Well, I'm looking at it the facts, not emotionally.
You're not addressing what I'm saying.
Well, see, that's even more relevant if you're looking at it the facts.
I'm not totally off subject.
No, not.
I don't expect that.
I'm not off-subject.
I'm not wrong.
I'm calling to tell you you're wrong.
Well, then you should have said that.
I'm telling you you're wrong.
You couldn't be more wrong, but I don't know how being wrong feels since I'm not.
And I'm asking you, how does it feel to be wrong?
Tom, it's a nice tribe.
If you're not going to answer the host's questions, and you were given ample opportunity to get your point, and you were put to the front of the line when you called by identifying yourself as a liberal.
And you got to say what you wanted to say, your salient points uninterrupted until I could take no more and had to ask you what it must be like.
I've wondered what's it like to get up and be miserable every day.
What's it like to get up and be unhappy?
What's it like to get up and be angry and want to stay that way and go to bed that way and have lunch that day and be so wrong all the time?
And I don't know that I'm going to get the answer from you, so we will move on to Amy, St. Mary's, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush.
I'm in a fury right now, so I hope everybody can keep up with me.
All these peace freaks need to shut their mouths.
They do not appreciate our military.
No, no.
My husband is in the military.
No, we want them.
We want them, Amy, to keep talking.
We want to our country.
We want people in this country to know who leftists are.
We want people in this country to know who it actually is.
It's in the so-called peace.
It's demoralizing.
It is so demoralizing.
You know, my husband watches TV at night, right?
It would only be demoralizing if you and I weren't able to counter it in far greater numbers and with far more intellectual moral force than these people have.
We are dwarfing these people today, Amy.
I don't know if you listened to Neil Bortz this morning, but there was this woman on there.
She was part of that peace activist thing.
I don't know when the last time this woman took a shower, shaved her armpits, and put a bra on.
But she wouldn't even acknowledge that the soldiers rescued these peace people.
There's nothing you're going to do to stop it.
These are people made to order.
I mean, I'm sure Neil Bortz had his own reason for putting a woman on, and probably the same reason I would.
If somebody wants to make a fool of themselves, get out of the way and let them.
Mainstream media will look to this woman and these people as props to advance their own ideas and agenda about this.
But in the process, you're not going to stop it.
And in the process, they're informing people.
They're letting people know who they are, who the Democratic Party is.
Nobody doubts for a moment how they vote.
They're libs, they're wackos, they are kooks, and they are Democrats in the voting booth.
And the more people, I mean, who wants to identify with these people other than the people already in a sick way do?
But there's nothing these people saying it's inspiring.
There's nothing they're saying that's uplifting.
They're not creating new recruits for their beliefs.
They're like their, what's his face, George Clooney at the Oscars.
They know they're out of touch, so they've got to go make speeches about how they're proud to be out of touch.
Because they think being out of touch means that they're elitists and way above us.
They think they're smarter than everybody else, but the more they open their mouths, Amy, and the more they speak, the greater the number of people who learn what a bunch of glittering jewels of colossal ignorance they are.
Now, they may be dangerous here and there, but on balance, I vote to let them keep talking.
Back in just a moment.
All right, the first hour is officially in the can, soon to be placed in an armored courier vehicle, transported to a secret location housing all artifacts that will soon comprise the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
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