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April 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, you are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America.
This, the one and only Rush Limbaugh program from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We're in our secret, unmarked, highly secure broadcast complex here of the EIB Southern Command.
And it's great to be with you.
Yes, I am amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic, first and second-hand premium cigar smoke behind the golden EIB microphone.
Thrill and a delight to be with you.
Well, the funeral crashers are back.
Did you see the movie The Wedding Crashers?
A couple of guys that crashed weddings in the hopes of picking up dates.
The Democrats crashed funerals in the hopes of picking up votes.
This funeral, this memorial, was for the late and beloved Eli Siegel.
He was 63, former Democratic campaign operative, head of countless good guy organizations, including AmeriCorps, the domestic peace corpse created during the Clinton administration.
Siegel worked on the Wesley Clark campaign for president.
That would be Ashley Wilkes.
And CBS news site, the website has just a glowing, glowing, we like it old bit, I guess it is.
But we have audio here of the president crashing the funeral.
And it's no different than any other Democrat memorial.
He can't help.
It doesn't take long.
They eulogize the deceased for about five or six seconds, and then the rest of it is what a bunch of jerks the Republicans are.
Eli was quite lucky to be a child of the 60s.
It suited him.
It is fashionable today, or at least it was for a couple of decades before the other crowd got in power and got to show us what the counter 60s was.
It was fashionable to demean the 60s because we believed in civil rights and peace and we were idealistic.
We wanted to give our lives to public service.
And you wreck the culture and you just totally, I know, just wrecked the culture.
But hey, this is good because this is as close as you're going to get to hearing these people find out who you are.
Yeah, and let's not forget that one toke over the line for some of them.
But at any rate, so we got laudatory discussions here of the 60s and what it was.
And what memorial service, ladies and gentlemen, what Democrat memorial service is complete without some criticism of the Bush Medicare drug benefit?
If you look at how this drug benefit is played out.
Stop tape.
This is a eulogy for a deceased Democrat.
Talking about the Medicare drug benefit.
This Medicare drug benefit has played out in the lives of the American people.
You see what a problem it is if you have an idea and you don't execute it in the proper way.
If you don't have somebody like Eli who can really figure out how, you know, look around the corners and into the crevices and into all the permutations of possibilities.
I just want to make sure nobody leaves here without understanding how profoundly important this is for any democratic society.
That's right.
Now, the message here, folks, is that I apologize for my voice.
I don't know why.
I've been maybe yelling talking a lot lately.
Actually not, because Hillary won't let me talk until she approves some Jose.
But if old Eli was around his Medicare Part B, that'd be perfect and people would love it.
The problem is that they did some surveys recently and they found out that of the people that have signed up, 78, 80% of them like it and they're saving money and they didn't find it difficult at all.
This was a drive-by media fiasco once again to try to convince the recipients of this thing.
As DeLay said, it's the private sector in Medicare.
It's trying to put a little private sector capitalism into this entitlement on the prescription drug side, and these people end up liking it.
So here's Clinton and a eulogy.
Ripping the Medicare plan.
And any Democrat memorial would not be complete without a remembrance of the Clinton years when Democrats finally won an election or two.
Clinton says here that when they finally got their chance, it was not a blown chance.
Which was, I think, a very poor choice of words for him.
Listening to that.
What I want you to know is when we finally got our chance after all the elections we lost, the record will reflect it was not a blown chance in no small measure because over the decades we had learned how to take our dreams and turn them into reality.
Nobody, nobody did that better than Eli.
Anybody but me find it odd that he would talk about a blown chance.
Got to love the guy.
There is a fabulous column today, The Washington Post.
It's by Wade Zirkle.
Wade Zirkle, executive director of Vets for Freedom.
He served two tours in Iraq with the Marines before being wounded in action.
Listen to this.
It's an op-ed.
Earlier this year, there was a town hall meeting on the Iraq War sponsored by Representative Jim Moran, Democrat Virginia, with the participation of such anti-war organizations at Code Pink and MoveOn.org.
The event also featured Representative John Murthy, Democrat Pennsylvania, former Marine, who had become an outspoken critic of the war.
To this Iraq war veteran, it was a good example of something that's become all too common.
People from politics and the media and elsewhere purporting to represent our views, the views of the Iraq soldier.
With all due respect, most often they don't.
The tenor of the town meeting was mostly what one might expect, but during the question and answer period, a veteran injured in Afghanistan stood up to offer his view.
Quote, if I didn't have a herniated disc, I'd volunteer to go to Iraq in a second with my troops, said Mark Seavy, a former Army sergeant who had recently returned from Afghanistan.
I know you keep saying how you've talked to the troops, and the troops are demoralized.
And I really resent that characterization.
The morale of the troops I talk to is phenomenal, which is why my troops are volunteering to go back despite the hardships.
And Congressman Moran, 200 of your constituents just arrived back from Afghanistan.
We never got a letter.
We never got a visit from you.
You didn't come to our homecoming.
The only thing we got was a letter from the governor of this state thanking us for our service in Iraq when we were in Afghanistan.
It's reprehensible.
I don't know who you're talking to, but the morale of the troops is very high.
What was the response?
Murthy said nothing.
While Moran attempted to move on, no pun intended.
Moran stated, that wasn't in the form of a question.
It was a statement.
It was indeed a statement, a statement from both a constituent and a veteran that should have elicited something more than silence or a dismissive comment highlighting a supposed breach of protocol.
This exchange, captured on video, was on C-SPAN, has since been forwarded from base to base in military circles.
It has not been well received there, and it only raises the already high level of frustration among military personnel that their opinions are not being heard.
I might add, or are being ignored.
In view of his distinguished career, John Murthy has been the subject of much attention from the media, is a sought-after spokesman for opponents of the Iraq war.
He's earned the right to speak, but his comments supposedly expressing the negative views of those who have and are now serving in the Middle East runs counter to what I and others know and hear from our own colleagues, from junior officers to the enlisted backbone of our fighting force.
Murtha undoubtedly knows full well that the greatest single thing that drags on morale in war is the loss of a buddy.
But second to that is politicians questioning in amplified tones the validity of that loss to our families, colleagues, the nation, and the world.
While we don't question his motives, we do question his assumptions.
When he called for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, there was a sense of respectful disagreement among most military personnel.
But when he subsequently stated that he would not join today's military, he made clear to the majority of us that he's out of touch with the troops.
Quite frankly, it was received as a slap in the face.
Like so many others past and present, I proudly volunteered to serve in the military.
I served one tour in Iraq and then volunteered to go back.
Veterans continue to make clear that they are determined to succeed in Iraq.
They're making this clear the best way they can by volunteering to go back for third and sometimes fourth deployments.
This fact is backed up by official Pentagon recruitment reports released as recently as Monday.
The morale of the trigger-pulling class of today's fighting force is strong.
Unfortunately, we've not had a microphone or media audience willing to report our comments.
But despite this frustration, our military continues to proudly dedicate itself to the mission at hand, a free, democratic, and stable Iraq and a more secure America.
All citizens have a right to express their views on this important national challenge, and all should be heard.
Veterans ask no more, and they deserve no less.
That again is Wade Zirkle.
He's the executive director of Vets for Freedom, two tours in Iraq with the Marines before being wounded in action.
I have a little bit of experience with this.
I went troop visit in Afghanistan a year ago, February, and I didn't find, I found frustration at the way the news is reporting what they're doing in Iraq and what they're doing in Afghanistan.
I didn't find morale problems.
And I've talked to Democrat soldiers, Republicans.
I think they covered the political spectrum.
But I didn't find any morale.
And I was not restricted in who I could talk to.
I found just the opposite, folks.
And I'm sure you talked to a lot of this.
This is why there's big disconnect here between the way the drive-by media is covering this.
And I'm glad to see this reported.
To have Moran diss a constituent and a veteran.
Well, that's not a question.
That's something more in the form of a statement.
Let there be no mistake.
When you hear Murtha or Moran or any of the other usual suspects on the left or the Democratic Party make their comments, they are impugning.
They are impugning the military.
They're impugning the character of the people who volunteer.
They impugn their backgrounds.
They impugn their efforts and they disregard the worthwhile status of the mission at large.
And the troops know it.
And that's what this column in today's Washington Post illustrates.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back with much more on the other side right after this.
Back to the phones and go Buffalo, New York.
This is Amy.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, it's such an honor, Rush.
Such an honor.
Thank you.
We went to a homecoming this past weekend for our very good friend, son, who returned from Iraq.
He was there a little over a year.
He's home on 15-day leave.
And he brought a beautiful slideshow of pictures that he had taken when he was over there of all the good being done.
And we started talking about, and when you said it about the media only looking for the bad, he said journalists drive around and would come up to a unit and ask, what did you guys see today?
You know, anything.
And they'd say, no, we're, you know, it's pretty quiet.
We're helping over here with this building.
streets are quiet.
Okay, pick up leaf.
And he said it's very one-sided.
The media only wants the blood and the gore, nothing good.
And the pictures he had were just wonderful, just outstanding of all the good that's being done.
Well, that's a story that we continue to hear.
And in fact, when President Bush called the media on this at his last press conference, and it sent him into a Tizzy.
But this is the drive-by media.
We just continue to hear story after story after story.
And I'm an eyewitness.
I mean, I've not been to Iraq, but I've been to Afghanistan.
And there weren't any media there because there was nothing going wrong in Afghanistan when I was there.
And that was one of the laments, by the way, of not just military rank and file, but commanding officers.
Where's the media?
I mean, we're doing great things over there.
That's why they're not here.
There's no problem.
There's nothing they can show that's going wrong.
And in Iraq, they may like the blood and guts, but I tell you what they like more than anything is a bombed-out car.
That seems to be the staple of footage that we get from Iraq.
Shannon in Charlotte, North Carolina, you're next.
Great that you waited.
Welcome.
Ross, hi.
I was calling because I've been upset this past week.
We're planning on going up to the Easter egg roll at the White House this coming Monday.
And I have a friend who emailed me some information that some gay family groups are planning on attending and not creating, but are going to create a statement about being gay at the Easter egg roll.
And I'm concerned because I don't know if I want to bring my five-year-old to a protest about something else other than just going up and having fun rolling some Easter eggs.
Well, here's, from what I understand now, the gay families that want to attend this are going to line up a weekend in advance.
Yeah.
They're starting to line up tomorrow so that they get the front of the line.
And I know what you're, you know, why politicize this?
That's probably one of your concerns is.
Why turning the White House Easter egg roll into a political event?
But then, of course, when you look at the people involved, why not?
I mean, everything is political.
Well, I feel like I'm being pushed out to the fringe because it is hard to get tickets to that.
I've been planning this for a couple of years.
I said, finally, he's five, and this will be a lot of fun.
And I knew I had to get there early and have people camp out.
But now people are going to show up just because of some other issue rather than rolling Easter eggs.
Welcome to America 2006.
I mean, I have warned you several times, and the Democrats are out of power when they do crazy, wacky things.
Well, I think we're going to have to pass this year.
And I know the original intent, apparently what happened from what I read from the media, so I don't know if that's correct, was that this mother was going to be able to do it.
Just a second now.
Wait, don't do that.
How long have you been planning to go to this thing?
For a couple of years.
And everybody said my son was too young.
Well, how old is he now?
Five.
Well, they won't know the date.
Go ahead and go.
This is the White House.
This is not going to be something with no security involved.
If things happen here, believe me, they'll be handled and it'll be controlled.
If you've been planning it this long, and you have tickets, you have tickets, right?
No, I don't.
You have to go stand in line Saturday.
No, they're available at 7.30 Saturday morning.
Oh, you don't have?
Oh, I misunderstood you earlier.
I thought you said you've had tickets.
You had to get them out.
No, you have to go stand in line to get them.
And I called, and they say people camped out for this.
And I'm coming from North Carolina.
I don't want to spend Friday night camping out near the White House to get tickets.
And there are going to be probably thousands of more people now just because of this, you know, new.
Well, this is a dilemma for you.
I can understand.
Well, it just seems like a shame.
I don't understand why people have to take something that's really delightful and turn it into something else.
Well, you don't know that it's not going to be delightful.
You're just assuming that.
I mean, that's what I'm talking about.
They're not going to allow this thing to become a giant love-in or whatever else you're afraid is going to happen there on the White House lawn.
Well, I just don't want people yelling and screaming in front of my child and having him to be subjected to not age-appropriate.
Well, but now, for example, in Montgomery County, Maryland, the school board is letting kids, I know your child is five, letting them out of school to go to protests and so forth to learn about the issues involved.
And so you might want to say your child's a little young here to be exposed to this kind of education.
Well, I'm a little old school.
I'm just, you know, I don't want to be put in a situation that you never know what's going to happen or you don't have as much control over.
But so you think we could go?
Well, I'm not sure.
You know what?
If you've made these plans and if you've wanted to go for two years and it's the White House Easter egg roll, I'd go.
I don't think that they're not going to lose control of this event there.
Whatever happens, you're going to be fine.
I'd go.
Well, I'm sure it's great, but I think everyone should go to it.
I just don't think that people should make a point about discussing other issues other than how they're going to get the egg rolled out.
Well, they're not going to have sound systems in there, and there aren't going to be people making speeches.
And if stuff like that starts, those people are going to be ejected.
The White House, private property, even though it's public, and there are security concerns, and there are activities that are allowed there and activities that are not.
And the protest areas are across the street.
They're not inside the grounds.
If that stuff starts, those people are going to be ejected.
I just refuse to go anywhere where you have to stand in line.
I don't care who's in line.
It doesn't matter to me who's in line.
I just refuse to do it.
I will not do it.
Well, my limit was getting there at 5 in the morning, but I'm certainly not camping out.
No, no, don't.
Maybe next year.
Okay, well, see, you've talked yourself out of it.
Now you're not going to go.
And I'll tell you what, on Monday, when you see the pictures of it, Sunday night, Sunday afternoon, see the pictures of it, you're going to regret you didn't go.
Maybe.
The odds are.
The real concern for you is with all these people lining up in advance, and you don't want to do that.
Are you even going to get in if you go?
That's the question that you really have to ask yourself more than anything else.
I got to run here because of the constraints of time.
We'll be back and continue in a moment.
That's either a scream of joy or a scream of abject pain and suffering at the very mention of my name, El Rushball, with a half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right.
Now, according to a study at Harvard University, all the attention that the political parties are focusing on the illegals is misplaced.
College students are becoming more religious, and it is affecting their political views, according to a new Harvard University survey of this potentially influential voting bloc, religious centrists rule, according to the university.
A full 70% say religion plays an important part in their lives, with a quarter, 25%, saying that their spirituality has increased at college.
Six out of ten say they are concerned about the moral direction of the country, according to the poll of 1,200 students and pupils from across the country conducted March 13th to 27th and released this past Tuesday.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues, said Gene Shaheen, a former New Hampshire governor and director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, which conducted the poll.
The Harvard study advises political parties to woo the spiritually inclined, a demographic the popular press mostly deems the exclusive territory of the religious right.
This analysis foreshadows the 2008 general election campaign for president, where religious centrists, nearly 25% of the student vote, will be the critical swing vote and likely the most influential group in American politics for years, not the illegals.
Now, this is Harvard.
Now, you immediately have a couple of instant reactions to this.
In the first place, the last place you expect to hear that religion is on the march, is being practiced, and is a political component is a major institution of higher learning, particularly Harvard.
That's the first reaction I had.
If this is true, that's shocking.
The second thing is, we all know that the left, the Democratic Party, disdains religion.
Part of the fabric of being a Democrat is almost a requirement that you think of Republicans as all the hayseed, religious hick right.
They drive pickups, gun racks in the back.
They got moonshine and stills that they're still hiding from the revenues.
When they party, they go to a NASCAR race.
You know, they're just that's what they think.
And remember, after the 04 election, one of the exit polls indicated that values played a larger role than anybody thought.
And for a couple of days, maybe a week after the election, Democrats were coming out.
Yeah, well, we certainly missed this values business.
We're going to have to find a way to get back in touch with the values, these people in the Red States.
But they can't do it.
They just can't.
They cannot come out and say anything positive about the dreaded religious right because who is it?
Well, for one thing, it's Falwell.
For another thing, it's Pat Robertson.
For another thing, it's Limbaugh.
But more than that, it's the anti-abortion crowd, the pro-lifers.
They just can't make the leap because they associate the pro-life movement exclusively with Republican hick, hayseed religious fanatics.
Now, I know what you Democrats in the audience, and I know you're there, and you know you're there, and you know who you are.
And so do I.
And I know what you're saying to all this.
The Democrats are saying, no, no, no, no, Mr. Limbaugh, you got this wrong.
We are deeply religious, and we have our faith as well, but we just don't discuss it in public.
I have heard this so many times.
We don't believe in discussing our faith in public.
It shouldn't have a role.
No, because your faith, you claim to have faith, but when it comes to that faith meaning anything, it always loses.
Like, I'll never forget Mario the Pious, deeply religious, devout Catholic, but somehow, when it came to the issue of abortion, he doesn't want his religious views to have any impact on public debate.
When it comes to taxes or dealing with the poor, and quote the Bible all day long, they'll run out there and say, in the Bible 500 times, it says we've got to take care of the poor.
Now, they'll be glad to share that religious view with us when it promotes the welfare state.
But when it goes against their sacrament, which is abortion, well, then they have problems with it.
The bottom line is this, if they're going to read this and believe it, they're going to have problems with this because how they campaign for the so-called spiritual, unless the word spiritual here is very cleverly deployed to include virtually any religious belief that you want and call it spiritual.
Well, Mr. Snerdley reminds me, and that's one of the reasons, you know, he's the official program observer.
A lot of people, what do you mean, official program observer?
I want to be the official program.
Anybody can sit there and watch the programmer.
What does he do?
I get this question all the time when I go out there.
And here's a little bit of evidence.
One of the things that the official program observer must do is remember what happened on this program many, many moons ago.
And he just reminded me here in the IFB that I predicted this some years ago.
And I remember now on the basis of what?
There's some demographers who'd been studying generations of this country since the beginning.
And this country, every generation feels, every generation thinks in its last days.
Every generation thinks everything's going to hell in a handbasket when they're alive, and it's never been worse.
This is natural pessimism.
And yet, and we've had generations where things were, you know, morally decrepit, politically corrupt.
I mean, it was all, but somehow it always changes.
And who is it that's responsible?
It's young people who, when they mature to adulthood, decide, we're not putting up with this anymore.
And they take the country and their generation in a different direction.
Like, there has been a definite rebellion against these flower people, whatever, in the 60s and so forth.
And that's happening now.
And in this way, Snerdley reminded me that I predicted that it would be kids who eventually rebelled against the values of their parents.
And in one sense, this could be it, that these college students are finding religion because they want meaning in their lives.
And they don't want to have to go to the protest march.
They don't want to have to camp out outside Bush's house down in Texas to find meaning.
They want real meaning to their lives.
And if this survey is true, that the religious activity that they're engaging in now is transferring into political values, then I guarantee you they can go out there and register all the illegals they want on the Democratic Party, but this is going to send chills up their spines if this is valid, if this holds true to the course.
In fact, it's coming from Harvard.
It's going to be tough for them to dismiss it.
Now, they will dismiss it because they're like, if you've known people, you tell them the truth and it's bad news.
They just pretend it you didn't tell them.
They pretend it doesn't exist.
They just can't face it, don't want to deal with it.
And that's where the Democrats are on this whole issue of religion and values.
Now, Mr. Snerdley, you're from New Jersey, right?
I know.
Oh, that's okay.
I take it back that Snerdley moved to New Jersey.
He's from New York.
I know in this audience there are countless millions of you in New Jersey.
I feel so sorry for you people.
I mean, some of it you brought on yourself with the people you elect, but I still feel sorry for you.
Get, get this.
And this is no surprise.
I don't understand how anybody could be surprised by this.
This is from the Star Ledger, the Newark Star Ledger.
With less than two days remaining until New Jersey bans indoor smoking in public places, restaurant and bar owners discovered, with just two days before the ban goes into effect, just discovered they're facing an unexpected restriction.
Nobody told them about no smoking within 25 feet of a building.
In releasing 77 pages of proposed restrictions, The State Department of Health and Senior Services yesterday unveiled the 25 feet rule that might all but snuff out plans that businesses had to create outdoor areas such as decks where customers could smoke.
The ban called the Smoke-Free Air Act is scheduled to go into effect at 12.01 a.m. Saturday.
The proposed restrictions are effective immediately, although they won't be finalized until September.
This will prevent a phalanx of smokers outside the door, which is not only unsightly, but it's unpleasant, said the health commissioner, Fred M. Jacobs.
He also said it'll prevent a backwash into the restaurant when the door is open.
You got these huddled masses smoking their cigarettes outside the door.
The door opens, supposed the backwash of smoke back into the building might kill people.
Still don't know of one person dead from secondhand smoke in this country.
The business owners in New Jersey had no clue.
They've been making plans to build these outside decks for people who want to smoke and go outside because they thought it was just inside.
And now here are the states, 77 pages of proposed restrictions on smoking.
Dale Florio, a lobbyist for the Restaurant Association, was not upbeat.
April 15th is a low day in New Jersey.
It's a day you pay your income tax and also a day you lose your freedom.
It's a shame it's happening on the same day.
It is a double whammy, except actually not because tax day is not till April 17th.
So you have until Monday to get over the shock of the new anti-smoking regulations until you get shocked all over again by sending in your tax return.
Don't forget, folks, pay your taxes on time because 12 million illegal immigrants are depending on you.
You know, speaking of taxes, I almost fired my accountant this week.
You see, he sent me, he sent me the return that I have to sign and send in, and there was a refund that we're going to apply to next year's taxes.
Whoa, wait a second.
I don't like this refund business.
That means I have overpaid my taxes during the course of the year.
And I know some of you people plan your tax finances so you get this huge refund thinking you're screwing the government because you can go out and buy a big ticket item or pay off some bills or whatever with it.
And I, yes, yes.
The broadcast engineer just shouted at me, or buy another airplane.
But I tell you, it's letting the government keep your money without any interest.
And I just, I always want to zero out or even owe some.
And this year, I guess, you know, I file quarterly estimates, and there was a, there was a, it wasn't a big enough mistake, a big enough error to fire the guy, but I thought, whoa, whoa, going against stated policy here.
Bad news.
There is bad news in the economy, folks.
If it weren't for the drive-by media, who knows how roaring this economy would be.
The drive-by media is obviously a drag on the economy.
New York Times Company reported yesterday, I'm sorry, today, that it earned, this is Thursday, right?
$35 million in the first quarter, down sharply from the $111 million they earned in the first quarter last year.
Media company recorded a big gain from the sale of its headquarters building last year.
blaming the high cost of newsprint for their first quarter profits of $35 million.
The Tribune Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers, said its first quarter profit fell 28% on stock options expenses and costs to cut jobs.
And is that the, yeah, I mean, big media continuing to suffer economically.
And of course, Hillary Clinton has already been impeached.
ABC is preparing to cancel this program, Commander-in-Chief.
TV executives at ABC have all but decided to pull the plug on the breakthrough drama, according to top sources speaking to the Drudge Report.
A well-placed insider said this week from L.A., no one here will probably publicly say it's over, but it's over.
The program returns this evening after a long recess.
You know, I don't know if you watch this program, and I don't care if you do, I'm going to tell you what happens on this program tonight because it's absurd.
The president played by Gina Davis, but it's supposed to be Hillary Clinton.
This show started out to be a model, a test run for a Hillary Clinton presidency.
I mean, Hillary staffers worked on this show.
Others who have been involved in Democratic politics helped write this show.
And tonight, the president's husband gets caught groping an intern.
The female president's husband gets caught groping an intern.
He's somewhere at a reception.
The intern or somebody spikes his drink as he's walking out of the building or the room where the reception is taking place.
Because of the drink being spiked, he loses his balance.
He falls and he grabs an intern in a very inappropriate place to try to steady himself.
Bang, pictures start being taken.
President's husband gropes an intern.
And it gets more ridiculous after that because the female president is so upset over this that she's actually not able to make breakfast for the kids.
They're not going to renew this program unless audience levels can hold a 15 share.
The show crashed from a high of nearly 17 million viewers for its second episode to 10.4 million for its last on January 24th.
It ain't happening out there.
That's why I say Hillary Clinton impeached after less than one year as president on television.
Bill, a cell phone call from Kansas City, Missouri.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Great to be here.
God bless you, Rush.
You're a great American.
Thank you.
Rush, I wish you could have been at the Petro truck stop in Oklahoma City for breakfast this morning.
It would have warmed your heart.
We were sitting there in the trucker section.
They've got a horseshoe where drivers sit around.
Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
They have a trucker section and a truck stop?
Yeah, it's in the restaurant.
It's a section for drivers only, and they get special service.
They try to speed up your eating and everything.
Oh, I see.
But we were sitting around the table there, and you know, drivers engaging conversation.
Here was this clown in there.
Bill, how many of you drivers?
Well, there were about 15 in there in that area.
So this guy came in there and started ranting and raving about something he saw on the internet.
He claims he saw Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld in 1983 shaking Saddam Hussein's hand.
And then he started going on about all this stuff on the internet, which I'm sure was a pack of lies.
And I spoke up as well as the rest of the drivers spoke up, told him he's full of it, and keep his comments to himself.
He said it's on the internet.
It's true.
The waitresses in there got upset, started.
One of the waitresses came over.
She said she had a son in the middle, and he needs to keep his mouth shut.
And the rest of the drivers were getting agitated.
He got up, left, left his breakfast sitting there and said, it's on the internet.
It's got to be true.
And walked out.
And the cashier had to stop him and say, look, are you going to pay for your meal?
So he threw some money down and he went out.
He got run out of the truck stop.
Out of way.
Out of way.
So you encountered in person a full-fledged left-wing fringe kook.
Yeah, a limp-wristed Democrat, whatever he was.
Was this guy a truck driver?
Yeah, he was a truck driver.
I mean, I'm 60.
He was in his 50s, but he says that, you know, I'm telling you what, they're being captivated by all this hatred and rage.
So he comes into the truckers area, starts ranting and raving on Cheney and Rumswell.
Well, I'm proud of you.
And you're right.
I would have loved to have been there at the Petro truck stop in Oklahoma City.
It's a great story, and I hope it enthused you.
It encouraged you not to put up with this kind of gunk.
People are going to be getting braver and braver as the election nears.
We're going to need more people like you out there, Bill.
Thanks.
Be back in a minute.
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