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	Day seven and all is quiet as the nation is braced for hurricane season.
	Mr. Snurgley is concerned that I may be taunting the hurricanes here.
	Let me go on record as suggesting I am not afraid of any hurricane as long as I have a full tank of gas in both the airplane and my car.
	Greetings.
	Welcome.
	Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here on the uh Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Telephone number if you'd like to join us, 800-282-2882.
	Email address rush at EIBNet.com.
	So far we've been discussing the uh the meaning of the election results yesterday, primarily in California 50, but throughout the state of California.
	One of the things that we kept hearing, we had a call, and I may not have given this guy enough credit out there for his, and he wasn't from California, but his analysis was that, hey, you know, this is a big primary.
	It's a Democrat primary uh in in most cases in California.
	Uh there weren't weren't a whole lot of Republicans on the primary ballot, the Democrat issues and a Democrat gubernatorial primary in California, yet only 30% of uh of the registered voters turned out.
	He may have had a better point than I originally uh considered it to be, because isn't it true we have been hearing uh how since 2000 Democrats are seething?
	They are seething with rage to go out and vote and right the wrongs that have taken place throughout the electoral system.
	And yet it doesn't seem to be a whole lot of seething going on out there, at least I mean, we know that that at least the seething that that uh uh results in a large turnout uh for largely Democrat issues, like big tax increases uh to fund a bond issue and uh and uh just meathead prop eighty-two.
	So it may have had a point of th that I think uh gentle ladies and gentlemen, I I frequently warn you, and I don't know this is tough because sometimes even I, uh L. Rushbow am susceptible to the daily of events as defined by the media bubble.
	No, and I'm telling you sometimes well, it may uh the reason that I sometimes uh fall prey to it myself is it it it is necessary for me to remain in that bubble in order to do this program.
	I have to immerse myself in daily media in order to do this program.
	Uh I, as a highly trained specialist, know how not to be affected by most of it.
	But on a day-to-day basis, there are some bits of conventional wisdom that are very subtly presented and and you end up accepting might be true, especially if you visit certain websites that uh that are that are uh visited by and hosted by wacko kook French Democrats, you would get the impression that there is a seething rage out there among Democrats, that they are fit to be tied, that they they have had it, and they can't wait to show up and vote.
	And uh it it's one of those things that I may have on occasion have fallen prey to believe.
	Uh and and I think one of the reasons that uh people have a tendency to fall prey to this kind of conventional wisdom is the power of fear.
	And the fear in this case is what if it's true?
	Because on the other side of it, we look at the Republicans and we see a lot of them out of touch and screwing up and not taking advantage of the uh of the discombobulated state of the Democrats.
	So we figure if a bunch of Democrats do turn out and vote, it could be a problem, especially when you hear talk that the Republican base is so fed up, but it's not going to turn out and vote.
	And I think that what what may be happening here is another bit of conventional wisdom that has never been right, and we can blow well, maybe not never been right, but uh certainly at this point in time uh may not be correct and accurate, and that is there may not be a whole bunch of seething Democrats.
	They're probably just as fed up with their people as some of us are with ours.
	They're probably just as fed up, they're just as angry uh and dispirited.
	I mean, they're the ones that have been losing.
	They're the ones that can't win an election to save their lives.
	Why in the world would we think they're all confident and happy go lucky and running around popping their uh suspenders thinking this is their day?
	Now they do live in a dream world, and I think that because of their entitlement to power, uh, Democrats have this notion that power is theirs, it's a birthright, and uh they they still can't come to grips with the fact that they haven't had it, essentially, uh, since 1994.
	You just I know they're angry.
	I'm not saying they're not angry.
	I'm saying they're seething, but does that seething and anger translate to an active participation?
	You'd have to say that the 30 percent turnout statewide in California does not auger for it.
	Now, I know it's a primary, it's June, as I said, but I'm just I'm holding out the possibility here that we're all a bunch of victims of a conventional wisdom.
	Uh of course the the drive-by media is a bunch of Democrats, and they are portraying uh uh their electorate as ready and locked and loaded and ready for battle.
	And uh if that's true, then then they would have been able to do better than 45 percent out in uh California 50.
	I don't care what the historical record is there on who wins elections and how it may be a uh uh you know slam dunk Republican seat.
	My only point here, uh ladies and gentlemen, is to not assume uh because I uh look, let me tell you what I actually think.
	I've this would be a little bit repetitive.
	But I actually think that the Democratic Party is losing members.
	I think it's losing supporters.
	I think it is a minority party now.
	Union membership is way, way down.
	Recent surveys show that 50 percent of union workers vote Republican.
	The money still goes to Democrats, but 50 percent uh vote Republican.
	Uh I think the Democratic Party, by virtue of where it's reaching out, uh and by the way, uh this is sounding repetitive, but I'm saying this to buttress uh what I just said.
	Uh there's nothing inspirational, motivational, or or inspi inspiring in any way of what they're doing or what they sound for.
	There's th they're their public speakers, their representatives, Ted Kennedy, Dirty Harry, uh uh Nancy Pelosi.
	Come on.
	These people are not making people out there say, gee, I want to join that team.
	And I want to be on that team.
	It just isn't happening.
	And all the while we are fed a conventional wisdom that that is the majority party.
	Just like all these years we've been fed the conventional wisdom that abortion is an eighty-20 issue on the pro-choice side, when it never has been.
	So I I think it would uh it would serve you all well to try to even when you you can't escape the media bubble, and the media bubble is defined by the drive-bys, and uh their their perspective is Democrats gonna retake everything, Democrats on a roll, Bush down and out, can't get anything done.
	American people want out of Iraq, American people don't want this, American people don't like high gas prices, America this or that, and that has all meant that Republicans are history.
	And so far it has yet to manifest itself.
	It was going to manifest itself that way of the Paul Hackett election in Ohio, didn't happen.
	It was going to manifest itself in California 50, didn't happen.
	Uh and there's no reason to think that anything is going to dramatically change uh over the uh course of the next two or three months.
	I still say that all this is still mostly up to the Republicans and how they campaign and how they handle themselves.
	Freak, there's a fascinating little story here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, in the New York Times today about Senate emphasis on ideology has some in the Republican Party anxious.
	Now, I want to go back.
	Uh there's a there's a New York Times article uh on values front page above the fold, and it's it's it's this one.
	You remember at the end of the 2004 election, people and the media especially were shocked that values played such a strong role in the election.
	Uh uh it was, you know, there was arguments here, but the Democrats were running around saying, yeah, we for a day or two, yeah, we gotta get uh find out reach out how to the religious uh groups in this country.
	You've got to we missed it out on values.
	This is exit polling data that people were shocked and stunned by.
	Um and, you know, I remember saying, was it really values that that uh people meant, or was it honesty and integrity?
	Uh or or did the press analysis uh hit it on the nail, which was uh the divisive and hateful gay marriage and tax cuts for the rich that won it for the Republicans.
	It was uh it was a battle.
	Well, whatever the cause for what values really was about, here we now have the press advising and helping the Republicans by saying that values like gay marriage aren't gonna help them at all.
	When in fact they said at the end of the 2004 elections that was precisely what did win it for the GOP.
	That's the it's it's fascinating to look at this.
	Because after the 04 election, values, values, values, Democrats saying we've got to get something uh done about this.
	Uh and here's this story by Carl Hulse, the New York Times, Senate emphasis on ideology has some in GOP anxious.
	Though some Republican candidates may relish the Senate's current concentration on same-sex marriage and other ideologically charged topics, Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island is not among them.
	It may it may stir up my primary voters a little bit against me, said Chafee, a centrist, a liberal Republican.
	Look at this centrist business, who is up for reelection.
	He opposes the push for a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage is under intense pressure to back a proposed amendment that would forbid flag burning.
	He says, I'm collateral damage here.
	Republicans are heading out there on this values business again is going to hurt me.
	Other Republicans, including some conservatives, say Mr. Chafee may not be the only potential victim of what they see as a misguided effort to appeal to social conservatives by staging votes intended primarily to make a point about the party's values.
	They say that voters are more concerned about the economy, health care, and immigration, and that replaying the marriage debate in particular could do as much damage as good as Republicans fight to retain control of as much damage as good as Republicans fight to retain control of Congress.
	So here it is, the Libs and the New York Times now advising Republicans get off this values business.
	Get off of it.
	This gay marriage stuff is going to kill you.
	The exact opposite is true.
	Why are the Democrats so up in arms about this when it was guaranteed to go down to defeat?
	Well, because we're wasting all this time.
	Well, here it is Wednesday of this week, and it's already done and over with and gone.
	Wave it bye-bye.
	Didn't waste a whole lot of time on this.
	Now all of a sudden, the media's concerned that Republicans may harm themselves by talking about values.
	They went out and I talked to Pat Toomey, former member of the House, uh, heads of the Club for Growth.
	He ran against Spectre, as you remember in the primary in Philadelphia.
	He said, I don't think the problem is primarily with social conservatives.
	The problem I see is with economic conservatives who see out-of-control spending, huge deficits, and that Republicans can't make the tax cuts permanent.
	That problem is on a different field.
	I, with all due respect to Mr. Toomey, I think all this is value-based.
	I think uh illegal immigration is values-based.
	What the hell else could it be?
	If law and order is not a value and not a principle, of course it's a values issue.
	Same-sex marriage is the same thing.
	Uh the the idea that health care, what that is a values issue.
	It's a values issue in the sense that Republicans do not believe that the taxpayers of this country need to pay for every America's health care.
	It's a value-based-based uh opinion.
	We don't need single-payer Canadian-style health care.
	Uh and how we deal with the economy, that's always a values-based question, particularly when it comes to well welfare reform and things of that nature.
	So they say in the Times, those who doubt the strategy are up against a long-held belief among Republican leaders that highlighting issues like same-sex marriage, flag desecration, and abortion speaks to the party's convictions and carries concrete political benefits.
	It they do.
	They work every time they're tried, but that's not the limit.
	Don't have to have values and principles on just those three issues.
	All these other things can be said to fall under the rubric of values as well.
	So it's fascinating.
	Now, the Democrats and the media trying to talk Republicans because it might hurt a liberal Republican like Link Chafee.
	You know what?
	Most people say, who cares?
	What good's Link Chafee in a Republican Party anyway when he votes for the Democrats 80% of the time?
	Uh the only good it is he helps the majority and keeps Democrats off chairmanships.
	But in terms of the other substance, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
	Uh, but now values is all of a sudden going to hurt.
	They're being consistent.
	The gay marriage amendment.
	Why, that was going to hurt the Republicans.
	They still don't get it right.
	They stem talking about the American left and the drive-by media.
	They are so out of touch, it's pathetic.
	Back in a sec.
	I'm going to tell you something else that's going on out there as as relates to the media, the drive-by media, conventional wisdom, and the Democrats.
	And I know this affects you people.
	Don't try to deny it, because I know it does.
	Every day we get a different poll.
	We got a tracking poll on Bush's approval numbers.
	We got the generic congressional ballot poll, which always shows that Democrats can tank back the House by a 10 to 11% vote margin, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Guess what?
	That is a classic example of the drive-by media doing polling to create news that they hope turns out.
	They're using those polls as front page editorials, essentially, as news stories to try to influence the minds and the hearts and the thinking of the American people.
	And uh the but the one thing that happens in this whole process is that these idiotic liberals and Democrats believe that garbage, and they think, oh man, look at what's look at what the poll says.
	Bush down a 31%.
	Why a country hates Bush, that means they hate Republicans.
	And the generic ballot, boy, look at that.
	Democrats gonna win back the house, or at least people prefer Democrats by 11 to 12 points over Republicans, generic ballot.
	And so these idiot Democrats believe this.
	And they end up living in a dream world.
	They live in a world that's not true, created by not just polls, but a bunch of drive-by media reporting, Abu Grab, Club Gitmo, now Hadith.
	I mean, the list is longer than I have time to mention it here.
	But the fact is they end up believing all this stuff, and then they wake up on election day shocked and stunned.
	They don't know it's it's it was it got so ridiculous after the 04 election that Democrats had to go out and try to make a case that exit polling is more accurate than actual vote counting, counting the ballots, and that's in the exit poll said something so different than the actual vote count said, it must have been that we got cheated in the actual vote count.
	And that idiot, Robert Kennedy Jr. tried to make that point again in this stupid article he wrote in that worthless magazine, Rolling Stone.
	So I'm telling you the drive-by media assists us by creating this alternative universe that the Democrats and the Liberals in this country believe as they read this stuff each and every day.
	Uh and they just they they don't understand when reality slaps them upside the head on election day or uh on other days where these predictions and indications by all the drive-by media stories just bear no uh similarity or resemblance to reality.
	Tom in Philadelphia, glad you called, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Megan did uh Rush calling from Montgomery County PA.
	Thank you, sir.
	Um great to talk to you.
	Um I was wondering what your comments are on the uh article in the New York Times where the uh deputy uh Secretary General uh criticized uh the U.S. And your name was brought up.
	You and Fox News.
	You know, I I don't want to disappoint anybody, but I barely noticed it.
	Now everybody's calling you got your call about it.
	I got we got another call about it.
	Cookie has given me some audio about it.
	Uh look.
	I'm I'm I'm telling you, I my my life is being criticized by liberals.
	I mean, it's it's it stopped being newsworthy to me.
	It's it's it it ceased being noteworthy.
	Uh uh here's here's the story that that Tom is uh is referring to.
	It's uh yesterday.
	Well, actually uh it it was said yesterday by Mark Mallick Brown.
	Uh New York Times writes about it today.
	It says the prevailing practice of seeking to use the United Nations almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable.
	This is uh Kofi Anna's chief deputy, Mark Mallick Brown.
	Said, you're gonna lose the U.N. one way or the other.
	He said much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors, such as Rush Linboa and Fox News.
	And so Mark Malleck Brown is saying the reason that the United Nations is unrecognized for its greatness and its value.
	The reason that it's not recognized for its true benefit to world peace and blah, blah, blah, blah, is because of me and Fox News poisoning your minds.
	What's new?
	This is just another pointy-headed elitist liberal saying you're a bunch of mind-numbed robots, and you can't make up your own minds about things.
	The United Nations has not changed.
	It's still the bar war the bar scene in the first Star Wars movie.
	It's nothing but the vast majority of its members being tin horned dictators, and and and uh uh other little rug rats that are given legitimacy with their membership in the United Nations.
	It is an organization that seeks to fleece the American treasury.
	It's an organization that seeks to undermine U.S. foreign policy, blames us for the problems of the world, and I couldn't care less what this pointy-headed intellectual elitist has to say.
	Because he's just another in a long line of liberals who can't win in the arena of ideas, so he's got to go out and try to uh discredit the detractors.
	What what's new about it?
	You give the audio of Mark Malik Brown uh Mr. Uh Mr. Mamon Audio Soundbite number 14.
	Here's the actual statement of Kofi Annan's chief A. And he was making this speech yesterday.
	It was a luncheon speech at a midtown hotel in uh in New York to a conference on global leadership, co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation.
	Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors, such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
	That is what I meant by stealth diplomacy.
	The UN's role is if in fact a secret in Middle America, even as it is highlighted in the Middle East and other parts of the world.
	Uh no, I'm not offended, but I I long ago ceased being offended, Mr. Snurtley.
	I I just don't have the energy anymore.
	I've told you, I do not let people offend me.
	This is this is he's exactly right.
	Is is is so what he's on the world stage.
	The guy's a pointy-headed elitist, they're all the same.
	I don't care if they're in Little Rock or if they're in New York on the world stage.
	You know, can you get the the the UN, as I say, is nothing more than the than the than the bar scene, the first Star Wars, and now Mr. Malik Brown is uh trying to engage in the Empire strikes back.
	Uh you know, we're just a little federation out here doing our best to keep people informed and true.
	What a corrupt organization.
	Kofi Annan, oil for food.
	Hello.
	Iraq.
	Uh and Saddam Hussein.
	It's not like we're making this stuff up, ladies and gentlemen.
	And then you've got the peacekeepers, so-called, a blue helmeted guys over in Africa raping everybody they can find in their in their peacekeeping role for crying out loud here.
	Um here's John Bolton.
	John Bolton reacted to this.
	Uh he was on Fox this morning, uh, I think with David Asman, and he was asked about this, and this is Bolton's reply.
	And even worse was the condescending and patronizing tone about the American people.
	That fundamentally and very sadly, uh, this was a criticism of the American people, not the American government, by an international civil servant.
	What's new?
	What is new?
	I th that's what I don't get about this.
	Uh, folks, I'm not trying to be cavalier about this.
	Uh my whole career here.
	I've had to deal with critics, say you're nothing but a bunch of mind-numb robots, I'm just a Svangali, and that you're idiots.
	Uh, and if it weren't for me poisoning your minds, why you would realize what a beautiful, lovely organization a UN is, how wonderful the Democratic Party is, how wonderful liberals are, how great abortion is, blah, blah.
	Go on down the list.
	It's all my fault.
	Uh to me, it's actually a badge of honor.
	But it's I don't care whether it's a diplomat on the world stage, it's still a phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller.
	Living in his little elite world, uh, and and when he goes out attacks me and attacks Fox News, uh, Bolton is right, it's actually an attack on the American people.
	Well, what what what's different about his attack on the American people than Ted Kennedy's daily attack or Harry Reed's or anybody else's.
	Uh they routinely attack the American people for being stupid for not seeing the light, uh, not being enlightened enough.
	In fact, ladies and gentlemen, as I have told you, you can't be a liberal without having contempt for average people.
	You have to have contempt, and you have to look down upon them with condescension, arrogant, arrogant condescension.
	You wouldn't be a liberal otherwise.
	If people could take care of themselves, if they were smart enough to deal for themselves, well, you wouldn't be needed.
	Well, they can't have that.
	So I don't know.
	Bolton, by the way, uh, you know, Kofi Annan's term ends on uh December 31st, and so does so does Mark Malik Brown's, he'll go with him.
	John Bolton, uh front page of New York Sunday in the New York Sunday, is suggesting it that that Kofi's whole staff go, that everybody working with Kofi fly the coop so that whoever the next Secretary General is can put together his uh his own staff.
	I think the United Nations is something we have to suffer.
	I think it's something we have to tolerate and put up with.
	And I frankly, I I don't know it'd be difficult here, particularly in recent years to chronicle where they've ever been helpful to us.
	In uh in in the real sense, my God, if it weren't the UN couldn't do anything if it weren't for we are the UN when it comes to really solving problems.
	Otherwise, they're just obstacles to everything.
	Uh and it's it's no different than Madeline Aldbright's view.
	They're upset that we're the lone superpower, they're upset at our prosperity, they don't think it's fair, it isn't right, and they're trying to whittle us down to size in the uh in the in the in the ways that they know best how to do.
	David in uh Annachortis, Washington, or is it Washington?
	Yes, welcome to the program, sir.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Uh yes, Rush.
	Uh actually you've taken uh most of my points, but I'd like to make two points about the uh Moloch Brown uh statement.
	First of all, uh Bolton said that it was a very, very grave mistake and that it was just illegitimate.
	And uh his comments about it being an attack on the American people is absolutely correct.
	The second point that I'd like to make is that uh he identified the fact that Moloch Brown as well as Kofi Annan are international civil servants, and that's something that I think people tend to forget.
	They treat Kofi Annan like a head of state, and he is really nothing more than an administrator, and you're absolutely right.
	We should have gotten rid of him a long time ago, and we need to clean house at the end of this term, if not before.
	Yeah, it it it is it is typical, too.
	Here's here's Kofi, you're right.
	He's not an he's not a head of state, but acts like one and is accorded that status uh by most around the world, uh not in the United States.
	Uh and and the the idea that that he is uh uh nothing more than an administrator uh and should be gotten rid of, I I guarantee you that the anybody else who would have been involved in something like the oil for food program with that kind of documented corruption, uh and the and the and the absolute incompetence of Mohammed Alberada's outfit, the International Atomic Energy Agency and so forth.
	Uh you can't even criticize these people.
	And that's what Malik Brown is essentially saying.
	Uh we we are above criticism.
	Uh I certainly just don't like Mrs. Rush Limbaugh or Fox News daring to attack our integrity in honor.
	Now let me tell you something.
	Let me ask you people a question here.
	How many of you and how many people on my staff have sold young women into prostitution?
	How many of my staff took money and oil from Saddam Hussein?
	How many of my staff opposed defending the Rwandans who were being slaughtered while the United Nations was watching?
	I haven't done anything of the sort, and they can sit there and portray, nor has anybody at Fox News engaged in any of this kind of activity.
	Uh I mean, this is just to me, folks, I ri wish I knew a better way to say this.
	It's just typical.
	It is just, and I I actually think it's born of a frustration.
	I secretly think that all of these libs, I don't care where they are, wish they had one-tenth of the power that people like me and my cohorts on Talk Radio on the right and Fox News have.
	And the reason they don't is because they do not have the ability nor the respect for you to actually engage you.
	Uh it's sort of like the rift uh that exists on this immigration business in the conservative movement.
	Uh you have the weekly standard crowd and others inside the beltway who think McCain is the is a catch meow, who think immigration reform as written by the Senate is the catch meow, and they and and they're all excited and they are disdainful of all of us who don't see it their way.
	Now, at the root of their disdain and disappointment is the fact that they're in the minority on this.
	They've got their magazines and they've got their TV shows, but somehow they haven't been able to influence you on this.
	They haven't been able to persuade you.
	So they've given up on even trying to do that.
	They seek to influence policymakers because they believe that it's policymakers who make the country work.
	Well, I believe that it's you.
	I believe that it's the American people who make the country work.
	It is the American people who, in the final analysis, and there are exceptions, of course, we always have to fight these things.
	The American people generally get what they want.
	The majority of people wants Bush to be president, it'll happen.
	If a majority of people want a Walmart store in their neighborhood, it's going to happen at some point.
	Now, I know you've got decisions like Kilo and Eminent Domain, but you wait before it's all said and done.
	That's going to get fixed too.
	And not because a bunch of policymakers and editorial writers and pointy-headed elites do it.
	You, the American people are going to get fed up with it at some point and make sure it gets fixed.
	By virtue of your power at the ballot box.
	Ditto illegal immigration.
	They can sit there up in Washington and come up with all these pointy-headed intellectual elitist ideas, uh, insulated from reality as they are, and we'll just see how that turns out at some point.
	Um as I say, there are there are exceptions to it.
	Here's I just got this story.
	It's from the Rapid City Journal uh newspaper.
	Uh Walmart appeared headed to an overwhelming victory Tuesday for a zoning change that clears the way for a new Walmart Super Center to be built on U.S. Highway 16 south of Rapid City.
	At 1030 p.m. with about 79% of precincts reporting, there were 7,292 votes in favor of ordinance 5083, uh which would allow the building of Walmart, and 3,144 no votes.
	The ordinance changes the zoning of 54 acres of land from general agriculture to general commercial.
	Changing the zoning would allow Walmart to build a second store at the intersection of Highway 16 and Samus Trail, a prospect that generated controversy and considerable community debate for more than a year and a half.
	Now, for the last I don't know how many years, the drive-by media and the Democratic Party has been trying to assault Walmart and convince all of you that Walmart is bad for America.
	They have written columns with just that title.
	They have written news stories.
	They have had television exposes on how Walmart is bad for America, Walmart damaging the cities of America.
	And yet, the people of Rapid City said, screw that and screw you by massive percentages.
	So the result here will be, amongst the pointy head elites, you in South Dakota are stupid.
	You don't know what's good for you.
	You don't know what you really want.
	If you were smart, you really wouldn't want this.
	And then they will tell themselves that somehow the election was bought off that some Walmart conspiracy team just frightened them into voting for it, because only governments know what's really best for the people.
	Only the policymakers and their buddies outside government know what's good for the American people and ditto the United Nations.
	Only those thugs and dictators that make up this august body know what's good for their own people.
	You sure as hell don't know what's good for you.
	And that's why I say criticism from this clown Mark Malik Brown is just common.
	And it's, you know, it gives me an opportunity to restate why all this stuff exists the way it does.
	Well, honestly, folks, I've long ago surrendered the ability of anybody to offend me.
	It just it just doesn't happen.
	Plus, as I say, this stuff happens so much it's part and parcel of my job uh that to get upset about it would be stupid.
	We'll be back in just a second.
	You know, uh Mr. Snergley still can't believe that I'm not offended by this.
	I've told you how many how how many times have I told all of you these are signs we are winning?
	It's singled out like this.
	Do they not have any idea what they're actually doing?
	What is all this really mean?
	It means that a free press and free talk radio are a pain in the ass to corrupt, undemocratic, dictator loving bureaucracies like the United Nations.
	And they want the U.S. government to go out and actually defend the United Nations against assaults on it being made in the free press in this country.
	Hey, you and why don't you defend yourselves?
	If it's that easy to do, Mr. Malik Brown, why don't you mount a famous PR campaign to defend the United Nations.
	I mean, the fact of the matter is this frankly kind of honors me, folks.
	This is my my dad would not believe this.
	Susan and he wouldn't.
	Susan in Boston, welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hey, Rush.
	Um I told your uh uh handler there that I used to work for uh Ted Kennedy's campaign.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	In conservatism, we don't have handlers.
	Uh we have we have associates.
	He he's the screener.
	Oh, well, he was very nice, fellow.
	And um uh yes, I come from uh long history uh of uh Democrats.
	Yes.
	However, in this generation, uh we are slowly uh maturely becoming conservative.
	Even my gay brother has conservative um uh point of view here in Massachusetts.
	Um and for for example, I've talked to uh many uh gay men, and um I'm very concerned about uh children of uh who who don't have uh mother and a father who were raised in broken homes.
	And uh Massachusetts uh is the uh teenage suicide capital of the United States.
	A few years ago, Brian McQuery of the Boston Globe did a three-part series, and uh there uh the the single determinant of the teenage suicide in Massachusetts linking all of these children are the absence of a father in the home.
	And uh as well as we know in federal studies.
	Let it also be noted that this is official United Nations policy, that that's quite fine with them around the world.
	Yes.
	And also the um uh n uh Democratic National Committee gets its policy on uh shared parenting and child custody from the National Organization of Women from their website.
	It's word for word.
	Um and I also wanted to say that um uh a couple years ago here in Massachusetts, we had a referendum on shared parenting, where if there were if all things being equal, uh at the time of separation or divorce, do the voters of Massachusetts want shared parenting where a child keeps a relationship with both the mother and the father.
	Eighty-five percent of the voters said yes, but the the liberal democratic-controlled uh uh legislature here will not support it.
	Of course not, and even if they did, the liberal democratic Massachusetts Supreme Court would overrule them.
	Exactly.
	And um I I have a uh uh a thinking of uh the the um noun uh called mercy in uh Senator Kennedy's lexicon does not exist.
	At the time when conservatives were asking for mercy for the brain-injured woman who was in a hospice and denied water in Florida at the very same time, his first wife was found passed out drunk on a sidewalk in the middle of the night in the pouring rain and at the mercy of a stranger, a good Samaritan who brought her in and restored her to consciousness and brought her to the hospital at the very same time.
	Mercy that that does not exist for Senator uh Kennedy.
	Um uh so anyway, I'm a I'm a convert.
	I I don't vote.
	Um I I I am not uh a Republican because uh Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	You said you don't vote?
	Uh I do I'm sorry, I do vote.
	I I have to tell you, Massachusetts, we have a unique strategy here.
	I am not uh uh a a Republican.
	Uh uh I'm an independent for the purpose of being in Massachusetts because at the time of the Democratic primary, I go in and I vote the least destructive Democrat.
	I see.
	I got it.
	I I have to keep it.
	Susan, I have to I have to run because of uh suddenly out of time.
	Uh this break does not float, and I must take it.
	Great to hear from you.
	Thanks so much.
	Back after this on the EIB network.
	All right, we've uh we've wrapped up the second hour on its way by uh armored courier to the secret warehouse housing artifacts for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum the next hour.

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