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June 16, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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I know, I know, just uh looking for something here, and I wanted to do it on well, not on your time, ladies and gentlemen.
And I found it.
I welcome you back to the broadcast excellence of the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address rush at EIB net dot com Friday when we go to the phones.
The show is yours.
Hardly any dictatorial control over the content of phone callers on Friday.
Now it's not true Monday through Thursday.
As you know, I'm a benevolent dictator engaged in a benevolent tyranny.
There is no First Amendment on this program.
Nobody has the right to talk.
And even more than that, nobody has the right to be heard.
Except me.
You have to earn it.
All right, let me just cut to the chase on all this death statistic stuff.
You don't have to spend time calculating the demographic age of men between 18 and 29 in America versus the number of soldiers 18 to 29 in Iraq to figure out which is more at risk.
It's obvious a male 1829.
If you just look at the murder numbers, a male 18 to 29 is at greater risk for losing life in this country than in Iraq.
Uh if you're wearing a uniform.
Statistics bear it out.
The and now there are places you can go to this country and ensure your safety a little bit better than others.
Uh avoid cities, major cities in blue states or blue dots in red states.
Uh and you're improving your odds, but there's despite all this, folks, there is one place in this country, which if you're there, you are at far greater risk than any American soldier anywhere in the world today, including Vietnam, and that is the womb of an American woman.
Uniformed soldiers in Iraq are much safer than a baby in an American woman's womb, particularly if that American woman happens to be in a planned parenthood office.
If you wear the uniform of the United States military in Iraq, you have a fairly good chance of walking out alive.
That's not so if you are in a planned parenthood clinic in the womb of an American woman who happens to be inside the clinic.
Facts are facts.
And you don't hear the Democrats concerned about that at all.
You don't hear the American left concerned about that at all.
I have the results of a study, or a story here from all Reuters, It's in USA Today.
And to me, this is I've been around a long time.
I the this this attack on uh on Walmart, big discount, is unprecedented.
I know there have been attacks on big tobacco and big drug and big pharmaceuticals and so forth.
I shouldn't say it's unprecedented.
But get this.
The Economic Policy Institute, which EPI, it's it's it's uh it's uh it's a bunch of libs, went out and they did a study.
And they have concluded that Walmart could significantly increase employee wage benefits and wages without raising prices.
And they could still earn a healthy profit.
It'd be a smaller profit, but they could still do it.
The economic policy institute study comes as the world's biggest retailer, faces a barrage of criticism from labor unions, politicians, and community activists who say it pays poverty level wages and drives competitors out of business.
All right, well, let's examine that paragraph.
Who says this?
Comes as the world's biggest retailer faces a barrage of criticism from labor unions, politicians, and community.
Could it be that the criticism's all wet?
One of the things about the drive-by media template is that no matter what they're reporting on, the critics get as much, if not more, weight.
Particularly if the drive-by media is reporting on an enemy, and Walmart's an enemy.
And so the critics, whether they're right or wrong, that's that's what keeps uh loony-toon organizations like Center for the Science and Public Interest in Business.
They are critics.
They criticize uh the accepted norms.
They they criticize these and and so they become critics and they become just as legitimate as the business they are criticizing.
They become just as legitimate in this case as Walmart.
And the paragraph that I read tends to portray these critics as outnumbering the customers and employees who love Walmart.
I saw this headline today.
Walmart could raise pay and keep prices low, study sets.
What's the who's the EPI?
Why don't we get a report on who they are, what their agenda is?
Oh no, can't do that.
Why, they're liberals.
They can't possibly have an agenda.
They're just good people.
See, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago, it'd be over for Walmart.
Uh there this stuff would go out there, it'd be in the news vacuum, and it would survive as the primary and and conventional uh mode of thought about about Walmart.
But now, of course, we're here, and that is not the case.
Interesting story in the San Francisco Chronicle today by Mark Sandelau, the Washington Bureau chief.
Divisions among Democrats test Pelosi as leader.
Division.
Well, I thought I thought they're all singing Kumbaya together with the new plan.
I thought this new what is the name of the plan, New America.
Well, I forget it.
I read it yesterday too.
I don't even remember the name of it.
What's the name of the?
No, no, no.
They've got a name, Theme for America, Plan for America.
I forget what it is.
Um.
And I I I can't I can't remember it.
It's so uh unmemorable.
But I anyway, I thought they were unified.
I thought they were saying they were unified.
Let me give you some details of this story and then tell you what this is really all about.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's ability to hold her caucus together is being tested as internal party disputes over war ethics and its own leadership erupt into public view.
Uh Pelosi has presided over a period of remarkable unity among members of a party not traditionally known for its harmony.
Well such a crock.
But there are more important things in this piece.
Several factors have brought attention to party differences, members flexing their muscles during this week's debate over Iraq.
Black members complaining about efforts to oust Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana, and a surprise bid for the number two House leadership slot by a Pelosi ally, that would be John Murphy.
Pelosi has personally involved herself in each of these disputes, and outside of Capitol Hill has so far kept them relatively low profile affairs.
Whether the episodes reflect a growing confidence among Democrats that they will be the majority party next year, or the news media's obsession with exposing conflict.
What?
They admit to that in this piece.
The attention has become a distraction for Democrats intent on presenting a unified front.
The front page of the Hill, Capitol Hill newspaper, quoted a Democratic Aid describing Wednesday's weekly closed-door party meeting as a circus, as members fought over who should control time on the House floor during the Iraq debate.
What is that Stevens sometimes send in the clowns?
Nope, they're already here.
We don't need to send in the clowns.
They are the Democratic caucus.
Pelosi, who has drawn her strength as a leader in large part from her ability to keep Democrats together.
They're embarrassed of her.
This is all smoke.
Let's see, what's this?
Uh in a closed door meeting leading up to Thursday's meeting, tempers reportedly flared as Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat L.A. demanded that she and other members of the Out of Iraq caucus be given a prominent role in the debate, insisting they had been leaders on the issue.
Pelosi snapped back, we're all leaders.
According to one participant in the meeting who uh asked not to be identified, further angering some anti war members.
When when you have somebody saying that we're all leaders, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it means that there aren't any leaders.
It means that no one is is a leader.
The out of the out of Iraq caucus ought to be renamed the out of their minds caucus.
Because the out of Iraq caucus is going to take the Democratic Party down.
Even more embarrassing.
Here's the bottom line.
Make no mistake about this, folks.
I'm telling you here and now on June 16th, 2006, these stories, and this is not the first, it won't be the last, questioning uh Nancy Pelosi's leadership capabilities are simply laying the groundwork for making certain she will not be named Speaker if the Democrats do take over the House of Representatives.
Because I will wager you that inside the so-called out of a rock caucus and the Democrat caucus, period, there is mounting embarrassment every time she opens her mouth, such as the soundbite we had and played for you uh yesterday.
Mike, do you by any chance still have that sound bite?
Or could you get it?
I don't mean to find it right this minute since I've referenced it and people may not have heard it.
I'm wondering if we could dredge that up.
Anyway, we'll take a quick break.
We'll see if we can find it.
And if we find them, do the Kennedy sound bite, uh, and and John Kennedy, yeah, just do that whole little montage we put together yesterday.
We'll get to your phones right after this.
Stay with us, folks.
All right.
Uh speedy work by broadcast engineer.
Mike Mamonis produced uh Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry Bites.
Don't know if they're that order, but I do want to start with Pelosi.
I gotta remember the question.
She was on with Wolf Blitzer uh uh on the situation room earlier this week, and the question was about the unity of the Democratic Party in Iraq uh on the on the issue of war in Iraq, except for Mrs. Clinton.
Uh and I the question's important here.
You uh what was the question?
Question had to do with uh Mrs. Clinton or did it have to do with unity in uh in Iraq?
Because the question's important for this thing to sound as even funnier than it really is.
Do you remember what the question was, Mr. Snerdley?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I let's let's listen to the bite, and then I'll probably remember what the exact question was.
It goes by here pretty fast.
Well, uh uh exactly.
Yeah, no, I don't think there in the in the house there isn't very much support.
I don't exactly know what Senator Clinton's position is.
All right, that's what it was.
Uh uh support for the war in Iraq, support for the resolution, support for the war in Iraq among Democrats.
Uh uh but you've got you and you, but you know, Mrs. Clinton will ask uh uh where where does where does where is the party really on this?
Well, uh exactly.
Yeah, no, I don't think there in the in the House there isn't very much support.
I don't exactly know what Senator Clinton's position is.
Now you tell me.
Is this spring country?
It is.
And off we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks, and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor, and you re-elect.
And you reelect old Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're gonna start on the 96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton as a re elect him on the night.
I get the uh since here.
Yeah, okay.
Now you listen to that Nancy Pelosi by you tell me that when Democrats see and hear that, they don't cringe.
So I'm just telling you all these stories about about Pelosi and uh the falling apart Democrat caucus and so forth, they're setting the table.
Uh if if they are, if if if they do win back the house, which they won't.
But if they if well I think well, that's if if they lose, there's a definite goner.
If if they lose, if it I want to be here that morning.
Folks, because they think they've owned it already.
I I just this gonna be they lose, it's gonna be one of the funniest days that just afterwards, they're gonna broom they're gonna you're gonna have all these people's second and third command positions go nuts.
Uh Howard Dean be history, uh, it'll be it'll be fun to watch.
Charles in Alexandria, Virginia, you are next on the on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Megadetto is from Virginia.
Uh thank you.
I uh was telling you call screener, uh last night about eleven thirty at night, I uh flipped on uh C SPAN and I caught Christopher Shay's uh commenting on the end of the debate over the resolution today.
Yeah.
And he referenced uh the Revolutionary War.
And how at the time of the Rosemary War, uh, country was divided uh one third for the war, one third against, one third kind of hung in the middle there wasn't sure what they were going to do.
And his whole point about how in the beginning, how it was a failure, uh how Washington lost a lot of the battles and it wasn't looking good.
And yet how Congress supported Washington, gave him the financial support and the uh authority to continue the war, and we won.
And how in that time, if we had had the same mindset that the Democrats and Liberals have today about Iraq, we would very likely still be under British control.
Because we would have cut and run and never finished the battle.
We'll never finish the revolutionary war and would have conceded to the British.
Wait, wait, wait.
Just are you are you sure uh that was Christopher Shays?
Christopher Shays and another gentleman named Gomet, I believe it was G-O-H-M-E.
Uh T T was about 1130 last night on C-SPAN.
And I just sat there listening to him because he also referenced uh the Civil War and how Abraham Lincoln had uh had a lot of failures, and how in a second running for president uh he even had a general run against him, but yet he persevered and we won that war, too.
Lincoln had to get struggling for generals till he found Ulysses S. Grant, who said, I'll just keep following him till I burn him out.
Uh well now But the history, like you you said earlier today about the history, how Americans are ignorant of the history and how they buy into this whole liberal mindset of oh, well, 2500 dead, it's a terrible thing which would yank and run away from Iraq and I think they buy into it after five years of repeated pummeling.
I don't think they buy into it uh, you know, one or two news reports at a time or even a month at a time, but they no five years of relentless pounding on this stuff.
Certainly three, uh, when it comes to Iraq, can have an effect uh when there is no historical context.
I'm still sitting here, uh in in apoplex that Christopher Shays said this.
It w uh well that that's that was my point too, watching them.
That's why I stayed awake to really make sure I was seeing what I was seeing and hearing what I was hearing.
But uh, well, the reason I know he's been I know well, I know I know he's been backing the uh uh uh the Iraq action, but he's been whining about it the whole time, too.
But that see, see, this is the point.
I'm glad you told me this.
Because at eleven thirty at night, I'm not watching C-SPAN and nobody I pay is.
Uh oh wait, Snerdley is, I take.
Take it back.
Um but that'll just tell you, and he is in a tight re-election battle in his district in Connecticut, and he is a moderate Republican.
And if he's saying these things uh about the Civil War and about the Revolutionary War, in an effort to provide historical context and being critical of the Democrats on this, it'll tell you what even his constituents in Connecticut think about this, and that is a blue state.
Wow, that is that is profound.
Well, I have another story.
Thank you, uh, George.
I appreciate your patience holding on today.
There's another fascinating story from Al Reuters uh about Christopher Shays today.
The headline of the story is Endangered Republicans play down party label.
Uh Christopher Shays cites his differences with President Bush, produces a chart outlining his moderate voting record, and pledges his independence and party leaders in Congress.
His Connecticut colleague, Republican Representative Bob Simmons, uh Rob Simmons says working with Democrats comes naturally in a district where voters favored Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam over Bush by ten points in two thousand four.
For Shays and Simmons and other Republicans running for Congress in Democrat leaning or swing districts in November, playing down their party label and playing up their independence has become a matter of political survival in a year when Bush can be a dirty word.
Here is uh here is Shays.
This this would not even be a close election if George Bush was popular.
This would not even be a close election if there wasn't a war in Iraq.
This president isn't doing well, and that's hurting me, said Shays, who distances himself from uh Bush but enthusiastically supports the Iraq war.
Well crying about Bush not being popular from a guy who's routinely distancing himself from Bush and doesn't want to be associated with him now wishes Bush were popular because he's in a tight race.
It's a child.
Acting like a baby in the crib.
Uh yes.
I know.
Uh we're back.
Uh EIB Network and uh Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I have found a question here uh for this Nancy Pelosi bite.
And it was from the situation room with uh with Wolf Blitzer on, I guess it was Wednesday.
And here was Wolf's question to Nancy Pelosi.
Mertha wants a redeployment over the next several months.
John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam wants a redeployment over the next several months.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, does not, but you, Nancy Pelosi are saying that Democrats, and you were more in line with Mertha than with Senator Clinton.
Well, uh exactly.
Yeah, no, I don't think there in the in the House there isn't very much support.
I don't exactly know what Senator Clinton's position is.
Yeah, no, you know what happened there.
The last thing she she wanted to do was to you know dish Hillary.
But that's what she did.
Are you saying Democrats and you are more in line with Mertha than with Senator?
Well, exactly.
Uh uh I don't know.
Uh I don't know what Mrs. Clinton's position is.
But we're in the House.
Uh I'm just telling you when Democrats see this, they hear this behind the closed doors in the cloakrooms and the various caucus that they have.
You know darn well that they are not happy and that they are embarrassed.
Well, well, I some of them sound as stupid as she doesn't they're not in the leadership.
She's out there saying we're all leaders, which means there isn't a leader.
Can you imagine with those leadership meetings?
Would you have loved to have been in there when a congressional black caucus was talking to her about Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana?
Anyway, former uh president Bill Clinton praised evangelical Christians uh yesterday for their recent efforts on global warming and debt relief for poor nations and said he sees growing understanding between people of different faiths.
Clinton made the remarks.
By the way, understand that Clinton is thinking of buying a summer home in Colorado since he learned that uh twelve-year-old girls can get married out there.
Clinton made the remarks while accepting an award from the Tannenbaum Center for interreligious understanding.
He said that as president, he had a consuming interest in the intersection of religion and politics.
This is pathological.
This is just pathological.
He'll praise you evangelicals, don't get excited out there.
He's depraving you today, but tomorrow he'll go somewhere else and he'll damn you.
Uh whatever it takes, whenever.
George in Windsor, Connecticut, welcome.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hey Rush, how are you?
Yeah, just to uh coattail on the Connecticut politics.
Uh, you're right.
I mean, for Shea Nancy Johnson to get even elected in a blue state, you have to be conservative.
And they're bailing off of their conservative uh beliefs, and this is why they're struggling.
But guess what?
Joe Lieberman is in a tough race.
There was an ad on the radio uh just today, and it's Ned Lamont is his person running against him.
So he basically, his ad uh takes a shot at at Lieberman for basically just riding the coattails of Bush and Cheney, and he says if you want a real Democrat.
Hold a bit.
Who's ad takes a shot at Lieberman?
Ned Lamont, who's the Democratic his democratic challenger.
Oh, oh, that's right.
I am told, and perhaps you can confirm this up there, George.
I'm told Lieberman's thinking of going independent.
Well, he may have to because Lamont is basically founding a campaign saying if you want a real Democrat, then you need to vote for Ned Lamont in August in the primary instead of Joe Lieberman.
Uh, this is this is uh quite telling, too.
The uh the left-wing blogosphere has done its best to destroy Joe Lieberman because he supports the Iraq war and the war on terror.
Uh and uh uh the they're running him out of party.
And and he's he's been a faithful Democrat on on the vast majority of Democrat issues up there.
Uh and they don't care.
Run him out of the party.
He he's keeping an option open for the independent uh campaign because he may have no choice.
He may have to run as a third party candidate, essentially.
Uh Jerry in West Milwaukee.
Open line Friday, it's all yours.
Welcome, sir.
Hi, thanks there, Rush.
Um I I believe it is extremely important to go after terrorists, and we have to use our intelligence capabilities to go out after them.
But what deeply concerns me, Rush, is that Dick Cheney didn't allow telecom executives to testify in front of the Sun and Intelligence Committee.
Now the the program, the NSA program might be legal and it might be necessary, but it's it's responsibility of the Intelligence Committee to oversee such programs.
If if you if you're stripping them the that ability, then you you you have essentially one branch of government.
Well, I disagree with you, uh, because in my mind, Cheney can do no wrong.
Cheney can do no wrong.
Well, Cheney's got to abide by the U.S. Constitution.
Uh well, sometimes, yeah.
He's the he's the vice president.
What are you talking about?
Cheney told telecoms not to be.
Well, what about the telecom?
The telecom uh executives couldn't testify on uh especially in tele especially uh national security matters.
There was information that supposedly that these telecom executives had they related towards the NSA um wiretab program.
Arnold Inspector was angry.
Our inspector was angry at Cheney for this.
I think well, yeah, but I think Cheney was lobbying uh other judiciary committee members.
He wasn't ordering the telecom guys himself not to do it.
He was well within his right to go up to members of the judiciary committee to stand up for his position on it.
But he wasn't calling the telecom guys personally.
You will not go testify I'm Dick Cheney.
Can't do that.
You're right, but he wasn't doing that.
So so pr Vice President Cheney doesn't think that the Senate Intelligence Committee should have real oversight on exactly what these uh uh telecom executives were doing in relation to the I don't know what's in Cheney's mind, but he's he certainly has the right to go lobby members of the committee to vote against the concept of bringing them up there.
It's not just voting.
It's it's it's the it's denying the testimony.
It's denying the testimony.
It's not just a vote.
They gave they gave the Senate a total briefing on this.
I think one of the problems out there, Jair, is that uh this administration doesn't trust these guys, even on the Intelligence Committee.
Well, that doesn't matter.
It's still they got to abide by the Constitution.
Uh I don't think Cheney's violating the Constitution is what I'm telling you.
I mean, there there is I I don't know what the complaint here is.
To say that the Vice President of the United States cannot go lobby members of Congress to uh to oppose uh something, uh the the Judiciary Committee does not have to take up everything the chairman wants.
They vote on things.
Uh you know, I I um I don't think that uh that he's these he's playing in the Spectre's hands here at all.
There's an interesting story uh uh that's a companion to this in a way.
The U.S. government, the U.S. government has sued the New Jersey Attorney General's office on grounds of security concerns to prevent it from asking telephone companies if they gave customer call records to the National Security Agency.
New Jersey Attorney General Zulema Farber sent subpoenas to ATT Verizon Communications, singular wireless, Sprint Nextel and Quest on May 17th, asking if they had cooperated with the NSA.
Now the suit, the federal government suit, charged that New Jersey's attorney general issued the subpoenas without proper authorization from the feds.
The lawsuit named ATT, Verizon Sprint, Quest and Singular, uh, as defendants as well as Farber and other New Jersey officials.
USA Today reported last month that ATT Verizon and Bell South gave the NSA access uh to their records and turned over call data so it could secretly analyze calling patterns to detect terrorist plots, which provoked a host of lawsuits and objections uh from uh from privacy advocates.
Uh also don't don't forget this chair as uh constitutionally uh Dick Cheney's president of the Senate.
Martha in St. Louis, uh it's great to have you on the program.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you very much, Rush.
I'm calling about your health.
I want to congratulate you for uh being able to be very successful and getting yourself off prescription medications for pain.
But my question was, I worried about you for five days and five nights when you first left.
I've heard that those are the worst days of anybody's life.
Is that true?
Well, it depends.
Uh they weren't for me.
Good.
But I but I but I tried unsuccessfully two previous times to um to detox on my own and uh it was in one case it was like twelve days of hell.
Yeah.
Uh I s I assume you're talking about withdrawal.
Yes, it's throwing up constantly.
Oh, let me let me t I am I am convinced that most uh people who are addicted to opiates be it uh heroin or prescription drugs or uh the prescription pain medication or whatever, it's all opiates.
Uh I'm I'm convinced that that most of them uh uh after a certain passage of time will do anything to avoid withdrawal.
Uh it is hell on earth.
And opiate withdrawal is the absolute worst withdrawal.
Crystal meth is uh is a bad one from what I learned, but it's and and cocaine, but those are basically psychological.
Um this is a physical uh i it it is it is uh y nobody would want to do it if they if they knew that it was going to happen to them.
Help you get through this.
Well, there's a um uh there's uh the the first two times I I call I tried what was called rapid detox.
Uh-huh.
Uh which which is uh uh uh basically they pump naltrexone into you while you're uh under anesthesia.
Naltrexone attap attaches to opiate receptors in the brain much faster and tighter and and stronger than opiates do, and it it basically flushes the opiates out of the brain and that go puts you into immediate withdrawal, but you are you are uh under anesthesia, so theoretically you don't feel it and you don't know it.
But that's what I was hoping you were under.
I hope I was hoping you didn't.
No, no, no, th don't the uh I don't know about anybody else, but it was not good for me.
It's not because there's y uh uh the the the the after I five five days, ten days it was it was it was i it was it was murder.
Oh I'm it was it was it was absolute it was horror.
But but but but uh uh when I went to the professional place, there are ways of the the the detox people here that are uh uh I don't want to say painless, but compared to a cold turkey or a step down withdrawal, uh it's it's uh it's a piece of cake.
There's uh they've developed used to use methadone for the uh there's a new new drug that's been developed called buprenorphine.
And buprenorphine you take in a reduced dosage according to the doctor's analysis of your circumstance over the course of anywhere from two weeks to a month.
And you reduce the dosage, they reduce it for you, and you step down, you step down.
If you uh some some magic in the drug, I'm not a scientist to understand it to explain it scientifically, but there's also in the drug a derivative of this naltrexone.
And if you in the process of stepping down, then take more than you are supposed to, the naltrexone kicks in and you go into immediate cold turkey withdrawal and you it it so the motivation is to stay on this uh and and it that they had me on it for thirteen days and I was uh it was painless.
Well, uh, the f the first five da there was no I had zero physical uh discomfort uh when I was at the meadows.
Uh the first five days I was in denial.
I can't believe I'm here.
Yeah.
And I thought I was gonna be with the dregs of society.
I learned that that's not the case.
I I was there with two former NFL quarterbacks.
There were executives from major corporations there.
There were uh I was stunned by by uh what I found there.
Uh there's a there's a code of silence for everybody who goes there, so I I can't talk about names or any of that, but uh it was quite eye-opening.
But after those first five days, I got into it.
I sunk my teeth into it uh like I got into electronic school when I was sixteen years old.
I soaked that stuff in with the probably the most valuable five weeks as an adult I've ever spent in terms of learning about myself.
It would be worthwhile for anybody who has no alcohol or or any kind of addiction problem whatsoever to go through.
It was just if you get into it, it was just like psychotherapy.
Uh in a way.
You might say that.
I uh in it just in terms of convey one word to convey it to people, it is, but it's it really th you don't see psychiatrists.
Right, exactly.
Or or or psychologists.
You don't you know it's not no, it's it's it's really uh uh they they they take you deep back into your uh earliest memories and and they try to show you exactly why you do what you do and the things you what motivates you and as as a means of uh of overcoming those things yourself.
That did they don't teach willpower, they don't teach anything because that doesn't work.
They uh uh teach a whole bunch of things to you that uh uh if you really get into it, they're the best for me the the most uh important uh things that I have done to ever learn about myself.
You know, everybody has pain in their life, I mean emotional pain and so forth, and most people suppress it.
It's it's not it's not uh uh manly to show it uh or to express it, so you you either suppress it or you medicate it, however you medicate it.
Um and eventually, after you've suppressed it or medicated it for so long, it's gonna explode into destructive behavior.
And that's what the learning experience is all about is how that cycle began and how to avoid it repeating.
And you take ownership now of everything you do, and you can't own anything anybody else does.
Uh Amen.
Amen.
That's why I refuse to be offended.
I refuse to give people the power to offend me.
Exactly.
And I picked that up from you immediately upon your return.
All right.
Martha, I'm a little long, I've got to run, but it's great to talk to you.
My question.
You bet.
We'll be back in just a second, folks, and be back after this.
Stay with us.
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Rolling on to Kansas City, Missouri.
This is Rebecca.
Rebecca, welcome back.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, I am truly honored to be speaking with you for yet a fifth time.
I'm I'm proud of that now.
I used to be kind of embarrassed by it because I did not see the truth and the and the light of your ways.
I am now a converted dittohead.
Well, congratulations.
I glad glad to be, you know, uh under your wing again.
Rebecca, where where are you?
At a truck stop?
No, I I'm I'm I'm I I'm out enjoying the weather here in Kansas City.
Oh, you're outside, okay.
Yes.
I I I just I I uh I had to get some things done and I did not want to miss a chance to to tell you like how appreciative I am of of your words and uh and uh and your wisdom and being able to uh to really truly understand what you were saying for all those years.
Uh I remember you, I think.
You you used to we used to argue a lot.
You'd call here and we're waiting.
Yes, uh about uh I think uh I did debate my senior year in high school, and it was about health care that year.
Oh, oh, that's right.
So you got out of the high school environment and now you are uh you're one of us.
Well, see, I I went I went off to college, I was political science major, and I got tired of listening to all the BS.
You know, the the the liberal the liberals span on every single textbook.
It was people were teaching their political theories instead of the political truth.
You know, and I I just I couldn't I couldn't take it, so I left I left that particular very liberalist institution, and I'm I'm proud to be thinking the way that I am independently, without their influence.
All right, one quick question.
I've got thirty seconds.
Who was it besides me that helped you see the light?
My father, who is a huge fan of yours and a very, very staunch conservative.
Well good.
Excellent.
I'm only sorry.
I'm only sorry it didn't happen sooner, but it happened.
It is never too late to convert.
Amen.
Rebecca, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
It's uh it's it's great to hear she she she used to uh uh uh uh call I we would talk about the best barbecue in Kansas City uh when she called.
And uh because I was an expert at it and an expert on it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have uh sadly come to the uh shrieking conclusion of our program.
As you know, this is Father's Day weekend, Sunday Father's Day, and I'm I'm I'm not a father.
And as such will not, you know, have a little sticky hands that just made pancakes for me, uh you know, scratching my face Sunday morning.
But I am a father in a sense to millions of rush babies out there.
And I haven't gotten one card.
Didn't expect it either.
Twenty-four starts repeats of uh season five tonight, uh two episodes every Friday for the next twelve weeks.
We will see you Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
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