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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.
Uh 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.
You did see the movie The Wedding Crashers.
Couple of guys that crashed weddings in the hopes of picking up dates.
The Democrats crash funerals in hopes of picking up votes.
This funeral, this memorial, was for the late and beloved Eli Siegel.
He was 63, a former Democratic campaign operative, head of countless good guy organizations, including AmeriCorps, the domestic peace corpse uh created during the Clinton administration.
Siegel worked on the Wesley Clark uh campaign for president.
That would be uh uh Ashley Wilkes.
And uh CBS News site uh website has just a glowing glowing uh uh well like an old bit.
I guess I guess it is, but we have we have audio here of the president crashing the funeral.
And it's it's no different than any other Democrat memorial.
He can't help.
It doesn't take long.
They they they eulogize the uh the 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 sixties.
It suited him.
It is fashionable today, or at least it was for a couple of decades before the other crowd got in power uh and got to show us what the counter-60s was.
It was fashionable to demean the sixties 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 it just totally, I know, just wrecked the culture.
But hey, this is good because we're this is as close as you're gonna get to hearing these people find out who you are.
Yeah, and let's not forget the uh one toke over the line for some of them, but uh at any rate, so we got we got we got laudatory uh uh discussions here of the 60s and 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 isn't this is this is a eulogy for a deceased Democrat.
It's a talking about the Medicare drug benefit.
This Medicare drug benefit is 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 how you know, look around the corners and into the crevices and into the 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 uh I apologize for my voice.
I don't know why it's I've been maybe yelling talking a lot lately.
Uh uh actually not because Hillary won't let me talk until she approves a mose.
Uh but uh we if if old Eli was around his Medicare part B, that'd be perfect, and people would love it.
The problem is that uh they did some surveys recently, and they found out that of the people that have signed up, 78, 80 percent 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 uh recipients of this thing is as Delay said it's it's it's it's the private sector in Medicare.
It's it's trying to put a little private sector uh uh capitalism into this entitlement on the on the prescription drug side, and these people end up liking it.
So here but here's Clinton and F had up at 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 uh, I think a very poor choice of words for him.
Listen 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.
Gotta love the guy.
There is a fabulous column today, the Washington Post.
It's by Wade Zirkel.
Wade Zirkel, 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 Mertha, 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 disk, 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 talked to is phenomenal, which is why my troops are volunteering to go back despite the hardships.
And Congressman Moran.
Two hundred 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?
Mertha 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 dismissive comment highlighting a supposed breach of protocol.
This exchange, captured on video, it 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 Mertha's 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 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.
Mertha undoubtedly knows full well that the greatest single thing that drags on morale in war is the loss of a buddy.
That 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 um Wade Zirkel.
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 I found frustration at the way the news is reporting uh what they're doing in Iraq and what they're doing in Afghanistan.
I didn't find morale problems, and I've I've talked to Democrat uh soldiers, uh Republicans.
I think they they they they covered the uh the political spectrum.
But I didn't find any moran and I was not restricted in who I could talk to.
Uh I found just the opposite, folks.
Uh, and I'm sure you talked to a lot of this is 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 that's something more in the form of a of a statement.
Make let there be no mistake.
When you hear Mertha or Moran or any of the other usual suspects on the left of 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, uh, 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 we go, Buffalo, New York.
This 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.
Um, we went to a homecoming this past weekend for our very good friend son who returned from the um after um Iraq.
He was there a little over a year.
He keeps hollowing on 15 day leave, and he brought a beautiful slide show 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 say, no, we're, you know, it's pretty quiet.
We're helping over here with this building, the streets are quiet.
Okay, pack 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 when President Bush called the media on this at his last press conference, and it sent him into a tizzy.
Uh, but th 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 were now weren't any media there because there was nothing going wrong in Afghanistan when I was there.
Uh and that was one of the laments, by the way, of of not just military uh rank and file, but commanding officers.
Where's the media?
I mean, we're doing great things over.
That's why they're not here.
There's no problem.
There's nothing they can show that's going wrong.
Uh and and in Iraq, I, you know, they 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 uh Iraq.
Shannon in Charlotte, North Carolina.
You're next.
Great that you waited.
Welcome.
Ross, hi.
Um, I was calling because I've been upset this past week.
We're planning on going up to the Easter egg roll um at the White House this coming Monday.
And um 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 out and having fun rolling some Easter egg.
Well, the uh here's from what I understand now, the uh uh the the gay families uh that that want to uh attend this are gonna line up a weekend in advance.
Yeah.
They're starting to line up tomorrow.
Oh uh and and and so that they get at the front of the line.
Uh and I know what you're y you know, why politicize this?
That's that's probably one of your concerns is uh wh why why turn in the White House Easter egg roll into a into a political event?
But then of course when you look at the people involved, why not?
I mean everything is political and 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 go finally he's five and this will be a lot of fun, and I knew I had to get there early and that people camped out, but now people are gonna show up just because of some other issue rather than rolling Easter egg.
Welcome to America two thousand six.
I mean I I have warned you several times and the Democrats are out of powers when they do crazy wacky things.
Well, I think we're gonna 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 would be a good thing.
Just a second now.
No, wait, don't do that.
How long you've 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, by they won't know the day.
Go ahead and go.
This is the White House.
There's not this this is not gonna be something with no security involved.
There's that there if if things happen here, believe me, they'll be handled it, it'll be controlled.
I I if you've been planning it this long, I and you have tickets.
You have tickets, right?
No, I don't.
You have to go stand in line Satur well they're available at seven thirty Saturday.
Oh, you don't have oh, I misunderstood you earlier.
I thought you said you've had tickets, you had to get them used.
No, you have to go stand in line to get them.
And I called and they say people camp 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 they're gonna be uh probably thousands of more people now just because of this uh you know new growing hawk.
Well, this is a dilemma for you.
I I can 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 that that it's not gonna be delightful.
You're just assuming that.
I mean that that's what I'm talking about.
They're not they're not gonna allow this thing to become a giant love in or whatever else you're afraid is gonna 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 we're we're we're uh i in in for example, Montgomery County, Maryland, the school board is letting kids I know your child is five, letting them out of school uh to go to protests and so forth to learn about the issues involved.
And so you might want to say we're f your child's a little young here to be exposed to this kind of uh 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 should go.
Um I I you know what I I still 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 the you're th they're not gonna lose control of this event there.
Whatever happens, it's you're you're gonna be fine.
I I I'd go.
It's it's well I'm sure it's great for I think everyone should go to it.
I just don't think that you know, people should make a and a point about discussing other issues other than you know how they're gonna get the egg rolled up.
Well, they're not gonna have they're not gonna have sound systems in there and there aren't gonna be people making speeches, and if stuff like that starts, those people are gonna 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 in they're not inside the grounds.
If that stuff starts, those people are gonna be ejected.
My you know my uh uh I I just refuse to go anywhere where you have to stand in line.
Well, that's I don't care.
I don't care who's in line, uh it doesn't matter to me who's in line.
I just refuse to do it.
I will not do it.
Well, I my limit was getting there at five in the morning, but I'm certainly not camping out.
No, well no, don't maybe next year.
Okay.
Well see you've talked yourself out of it.
You're not now now you're not now you're not gonna go.
I don't know.
And and on I'll tell you what's good.
On Monday when they when you see the pictures of it, Sunday night, Sunday afternoon, see the pictures of it, you're gonna regret you didn't go.
Maybe the odds are.
Uh the only the real concern for you is with all these people lining up in advance, are you and you don't want to do that.
Are you even going to get in if you go?
That's that's the uh the question that you really have to ask yourself more than more than uh anything else.
I gotta 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, L. 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 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 block.
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 of 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 to 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.
This is Harvard.
Now you immediately have a couple of instant reactions to this.
In the first place, uh 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 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 revenors.
When they party, they go to a NASCAR race.
You know, they're just they're that's what they think.
And for and and remember, after the um 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 uh we certainly miss this values business.
We're gonna have to find a way to get back in touch with values, these people in the red states, but they can't do it.
They just can't do they cannot come out and and 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 it's the anti-abortion crowd, the pro-lifers.
They just can't make the leap because they associate the the uh 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 rule.
No, because your faith, you you claim to have faith, but when when when it comes to that 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 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 gotta 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 if they're gonna read this and believe it, they're gonna have problems with this because they can't how they campaign for the the so-called spiritual unless, unless the word spiritual here is uh uh uh very cleverly deployed uh to include virtually any religious belief that you want, and uh and call it spiritual.
Uh-huh.
Well, I I did I said I Mr. Snerdley reminds me, and uh 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?
Well, I want to be the official program.
Anybody can sit there and watch the program.
Well, what does he do?
I get this question all the time when I go out there.
And here's there'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 uh that I predicted this some years ago.
Uh and I remember now on the basis of what there's some some demographers who'd uh had been studying generations of of this country since the beginning.
And this country, every generation feels.
Every generation thinks in his last days.
Every generation thinks everything's going to hell in a handbasket when they're alive, they're alive, and it's never been worse.
This is natural pessimism.
And yet, and we and we've had generations where things were, you know, morally decrepit, uh uh politically corrupt.
I mean, it was all that but somehow it always changes, and who is it that's responsible for it?
That's young people who uh 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 flowers well, 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 uh 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, or 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 uh true to true to the course.
And the fact that it's coming from Harvard, it's gonna be tough for them to um uh dismiss it.
Now they will dismiss it because they they're like they're like uh you know 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 uh of religion and values.
Now, Mr. Snurdley, you're from New Jersey, right?
I know I'm 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.
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, a New York 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 1201 AM 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 that the door opens, supposed a backwash of smoke back into the building might kill people.
Still don't know of one person dead from secondhand smoke in this uh in this country.
The business owners in New Jersey had no clue.
They've been making plans to build these outside decks, or people want to smoke and go outside because they thought it was just inside.
And now here the state 7 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 uh speaking of taxes, I almost fired my accountant this week.
You see, uh, he sent me, he sent me the return that I have to sign and send in, and there was a there was a refund that uh I'm going to apply to next year's taxes.
Whoa, wait a second.
I don't like this refund business.
I that means I have overpaid my taxes during the course of the year.
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 uh I guess, yes.
Uh the broadcast engineer just shouted at me, or buy another airplane.
Uh the but I tell you, it's letting the government keep your money without any interest, and I just I I will always want to zero out or even owe some.
And uh this year, I guess, you know, I file quarterly estimates and uh 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.
Uh 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 uh yesterday, or I'm sorry, today, that it earned this is Thursday, right?
35 million dollars 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.
They're blaming the high cost of newsprint uh for their first quarter profits of 35 million dollars.
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 the 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 LA, 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.
Somebody the intern or somebody spikes his drink as he's walking out of the building or the room where the reception's 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 at 10.4 million for its last on January 24th.
It ain't 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.
They have a trucker section and a truck stop.
Yeah, it's in the restaurant, it's a section for drivers only.
And uh 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 engage in conversation.
Here was this clown in there.
How many how many of you drive Bill?
How many of you drivers?
Well, there were about uh 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.
Uh he saw claims he saw Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld in 1983 shaking uh uh Saddam Hussein's hand.
And then he started going on about all this uh stuff on the internet, which I'm sure is a pack of lies.
And I uh I spoke up uh uh as well as the rest of the drivers spoke up, told him he's uh full of it, and uh, you know, keep his comments to himself.
He said it's on the internet, it's true.
The white is in there got upset, started uh 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 the cashier had to stop and say, Look, are you gonna pay for your meal?
So he threw some money down and he went out.
He got run out of the truck stop.
And a way.
And a way.
You you so you encountered in person a full-fledged left-wing fringe kook.
Yeah, a limp wristdemocrat, 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 uh he he says that he, you know, it's on the internet.
I'm telling you what, they're being captivated by all this hatred and rage.
So he comes into the truckers area and starts ranting and raving on on uh Cheney and Rumswell.
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.
Uh I'm that's a it's a great story, and I hope it enthused you.
It encouraged you not to put up with this kind of gunk.
It's people are gonna be getting braver and braver as the election nears.
We're gonna need more people like you out there, Bill.
Thanks.
Be back in a minute.
Okay, that's it, folks.
Another broadcast in the can.
Open line Friday is up next in uh 21 short hours.
We always look forward to that.
Never gonna know what you're gonna get.
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