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July 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Let's just get started.
Folks, greetings.
It's Friday.
Let's roll.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, goody goody gun drops.
We all look forward to open line Friday.
Most of the staff, because they look at it as the last day of the week and get to go home for the weekend.
I look at it as a burgeoning golden opportunity.
Well, I've seen how fast you get out of here sturdily on Fridays.
Anyway, here's the way it works on uh on Friday we go to the phones.
You own the show.
It's yours.
Whatever you want to talk about, for the most part, I mean it's fair.
We're not going to complain about phone bill or things like that, but uh uh.
Monday through Thursday, it's all about what I care about.
On Friday, um I remove that restriction.
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All right.
Uh the the the uh Democrats, the liberal media, drive by media, obviously upset uh at the way this is going in Lebanon and with uh with the Israelis.
You get so many conflicting points of view.
Uh the Israelis are shocked and stunned by the the rockets that are being launched by the Hezbows.
Uh didn't expect this kind of response.
Why it's a new kind of enemy.
Others are saying uh the Hezbollahs are in trouble.
The Sheikh Nasrala leader guy is hiding out somewhere.
The latest is that he's in the Iranian embassy in uh in Beirut.
That's one thing the Israelis will not attack.
Uh, or he is in Damascus, as we pointed out uh yesterday.
They are firing longer range rockets that have stunned everybody.
Uh, and then of course the drive-by media.
Bush looks totally defeated.
Uh there are numerous columns today about oh, Condoleezza Rice has blown it.
I mean, she may have done the right thing in terms of diplomacy, but she lose in the PR battle.
What did I tell you people two or three days ago?
The PR battle matters more to these people than reality does.
Uh then uh Eugene Robinson, a columnist in the Washington Post today, says it's Condy's war now because of her statement over there that we're not going to go back to the status quo.
It's Condi's war and the blood is on her hands.
And we're not even at war there.
Not directly.
There aren't any U.S. troops in this battle.
Uh then, you know what else I've noticed?
Howard Feynman saying Bush looks defeated and so forth.
Uh body language just uh it makes it look that I think it's just the opposite.
I think it's a transformational process underway.
It's going on right under these people's noses.
Uh, you know, I think Bush at times is his own worst enemy uh on certain things when it comes to communicating uh to the American people exactly the scope of the dire threat we face.
I don't think I don't think I don't think half of the free people of the world look at what's happening with militant Islm at all accurately.
I don't think they're bothered by it yet.
I don't think the world yet realizes what uh what the objectives of these militant Islamo fascists are.
It's gonna take a while before the world wakes up.
The world's always slow to wake up.
Uh the Brits didn't wake up until Hitler was on the march.
And it's gonna be the same here in this circumstance.
It's all gonna have to unfold as um naturally as things do.
But I get a sense that uh that that Bush is now operating on all cylinders.
I don't see this body language of defeat.
Uh the the drive-by media is spinning something entirely different, a different reality out there.
But to me, he's in command.
The world is looking and even deferring to him.
His administration speaking with one voice, Condoleezza Rice and John Bolton, who, by the way, made mints meat of Senator Kerry yesterday during his confirmation.
And I guess you I have to let you hear this since I've mentioned it now.
Grab audio soundbite 15.
This is just fabulous.
This is a smackdown of Senator Kerry at the Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing from Bolton.
Kerry says, are you prepared?
He's talking About uh uh North Korea.
Are you prepared to go to bilateral talks?
Quite the contrary.
We said expressly that what we wanted from North Korea was not simply a return to the six party talks, but an implementation of the September 2005 joint statement from the Six Party Talks, which would mean their dismantlement of their nuclear weapons program.
It's uh the nature of multilateral negotiations, Senator.
Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done?
That's what the Clinton administration did.
Uh, very poorly, since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.
And I would also say, Senator, that we do have the opportunity for bilateral negotiations with North Korea in the context of the six party talks, if North Korea would come back to them.
Oh, that is just a that's classic.
Very poorly, Senator.
Who?
Carries was?
Oh, Carrie, Kerry's uh Mr. Snerdley, who watched this, big exciting Thursday for you, huh?
Uh uh his hand was over his face.
Kerry was was just uh uh humiliated uh by by, of course, this bully, uh John John Bolton.
One more of Senator Kerry uh at the same confirmation hearing, he added this.
If you're a leader in North Korea, you've seen the United States attack Iraq, yeah.
Uh presumptions of weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist.
If you announce a preemptive strategy of regime change, if you are pursuing your own new nuclear weapons, bunker busting nuclear weapons, and you're sitting in another country, you would have a perception of threat that makes you make a certain set of decisions.
And historically, throughout the Cold War, that drove the United States and the then Soviet Union to escalate until ultimately President Reagan, conservative president, President Gorbachev said we're going to come down in Reykjavik to no weapons.
So we reversed fifty years of spending money and chasing this thing.
I would respectfully suggest to you that North Korea is sitting there making a set of presumptions.
And unless you begin to alter some of the underlying foundation of those presumptions, you're stuck.
You're stuck?
How about we're stuck?
Anyway, do you know what he just did there?
He unwittingly admitted that the Iraq war has put pressure on North Korea, uh North Korea.
And and uh then uh you talk about either a misunderstanding or a mischaracterization of how the Cold War ended.
It was the opposite of drawing down missiles and not spending any more money.
Reagan and uh Gorbachev did not agree to get rid of all missiles.
Uh Gorbachev proposed it.
Reagan walked out at that point.
I'll never forget Reykjavik.
Everybody knows that what ended the Cold War was our threat to spend even more on anti-missile systems, it was called Star Wars.
Uh, and the Soviets knew they couldn't keep up, and they were just they were imploding of their own immorality at the same time.
And uh uh a bunch of powerful forces converged at a moment in history um and led to the defeat of the Soviet Union.
And now we got a new similar threat that's effervescing and bubbling up out there, and it is worldwide, and it's militant Islamism, and it's uh you know Neville Chamberlain.
You have to say for Neville Chamberlain at least ended up recognizing he was wrong.
That's the difference between Neville Chamberlain and the uh and the liberals and the American left today.
With Chamberlain, when he was duped by Hitler, he eventually realized he was wrong and then supported the Churchill government.
The liberals today are of a different sort.
They are treacherous.
Uh they they uh are are in fact Peter Bynert calls them out today in the Washington Post, the editor of the uh new republic really calls them out on this.
Uh you can read it any number of ways.
To me, it is another drive-by media warning to the Democrat Party.
Hey, you guys better shape up.
It's an advice piece, uh pretty hard-hitting.
Share some excerpts with you as the program unfolds today.
What I was gonna say here before I interrupted myself with John Kerry, though, is that the um uh presidents operating on all cylinders, got one voice going here, Rice and Bolton, the rest of the world is deferring to us.
The drive-by media's gone out and found some Arab street uh reaction that says, you know, the Arabs are changing their minds about this, the early condemnation of Isbalon, but now the uh more and more Arabs are supporting uh uh the Hezbollah.
If you read the story, the story doesn't say that.
It purports to say that, and a duped New York Times subscriber will believe it says that, but it's not what it says.
Uh you know what else is not going on?
Has this struck you people as it has struck me?
There aren't any leaks coming out during this Israeli HezboConfeb from the government, from the administration that showed discord.
The usual Colin Powell, Richard Armitiv j leaks, I don't see.
Uh I haven't seen any.
I haven't seen anybody at the State Department of Pentagon or the CIA run to the New York Times or the Washington Post with a story about how there's terrific division in the government here in the administration, and how everybody's inhumiliated and embarrassed over how incompetent Condoleezza Rice is.
I've not seen any of that.
So the drive-by media, in one of the most uh humorous, ridiculous moves in recent weeks, has gone to the architect of the failure twice of Mideast policy in Iran, Warren Christopher, who was the arch this is precious.
Warren Christopher, the guy who led Carter's foreign policy during the time of the 444-day hostage seizure by the Iranians of American citizens, resulting in the empowerment of the Islamo fascists in Iran.
Warren Christopher with a piece in the Washington Post today, telling everybody the right way to handle this.
It is precious, it is priceless, and it's just a sample of what's coming up on the EIB network today.
Wait till you hear our audio soundbite roster from the Democrats uh press conference yesterday on Capitol Hill as they unveiled their new direction for America.
And Emmanuel Cleaver, my former mayor in Kansas City.
Now a congressman from Kansas City had his time before the microphone and came up with a new slogan for the Democrats as their campaign begins.
The slogan, quite simply two words, taint enough.
Taint enough.
Wait till you hear this.
It's all coming up right after this.
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I want to I want to talk about what happened on a couple TV shows.
Uh here, uh ladies, this just unbo now what did I do with the second one?
I tell you, trying to keep myself organized in here with 14 different stacks sometimes gets tough to do, but I'll I'll find it.
Anyway, let's do the audio soundbite first.
This happened today on the Today Show.
And I would I would title this uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh uh how you can train your husband like a zoo animal.
Uh that's what I think the segment of the Today Show should have been titled.
Matt Wauer interviewing the author Amy Sutherland.
Amy Sutherland wrote a column in the New York Times, can you train your husband?
Uh psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz uh is also there.
Uh Lauer says, You also say teach incompatible behaviors.
Incompatible behavior is something that you can't do at the same time of the thing you would like them to stop.
Give me an example.
An example was that um when I was cooking, my husband often crowded me at the stove.
So instead of like nagging him to leave me alone, I started putting chips and a beer on the other side of the kitchen island, right?
This is uh segment on the Today Show today, uh, of how you can train your husband.
What's this husband doing crowding her at the stove anyway?
What do you think that's about?
Is he trying to help her cook?
Or is there something else cooking?
You think it's the latter?
Okay, so she's in a stove and she's she's not interested in the other kind of heat, but the old husband's over there nagging and getting close.
So all she has To do.
If it's your, if you're right that he's not trying to help, all he's trying to do is, you know, get close, a little whoopee time, whatever you want to say.
He can be bought off with some chips and a beer on the other side of the room.
Wouldn't work on me.
Uh, but nevertheless, the whole point is women being trained here, uh, told here by this babe on the Today Show that they can train their husbands.
You know the dirty little secret is that women instinctively know how to do that.
They don't need to be trained.
It's just part of who they are.
Try this headline.
Payphones suffer as cell phone use rises.
Not only is there human suffering in the Middle East.
Now payphones are suffering.
It says here, right to ABC News story.
A stroll along Ninth Avenue in Manhattan reveals an ugly picture of the state of the payphone these days.
The phones are sticky, they're beat up, they're scarred.
Some of them don't work at all.
A child's change purse is stuffed on one phone ledge, along with a large wad of wrapping plastic.
Gotcha.
On a nearby ledge, an empty bottle of tequila sits in front of a hole that once held a phone, with rising cell phone use and vandalism and neglect taking their toll.
Payphones are disappearing around the nation.
They're suffering.
Payphones suffer as cell phone use rises.
So once again, we have the humanization now of phones following the humanization of SUVs.
Consumer activists and advocates for the poor have protested the drop in uh payphone numbers, saying that the public phones are necessary in emergencies and represent a lifeline for those who can't afford a cell phone or even a landline.
Notice it's always the libs in their policy, is always the lowest common denominator.
The very people who need the phones are the ones tearing them up.
The very people they say, the very people these activists say need the phones are the ones destroying them.
Actually, it's the market.
Can't afford a cell phone.
My gosh, that's how many people it's ridiculous.
The whole thing's ridiculous.
Try this.
This is another TV story.
Good day New York anchor Jody Applegate had an on-air meltdown yesterday when a pair of internet pranksters simulated an unexpected power tool mishap on her show.
Live is Good Day New York, Fox Five New York.
Two filmmaker brothers, Casey and Van Nystat, were supposed to be demonstrating how to steal a bicycle.
Now just stop right there.
You gotta, you've got to get that one firmly implanted in your mind as the rest of the story unfolds.
Fox Five New York, Jody Applegate schedules a segment with two guys to show how to steal a bicycle in Manhattan.
Not how to prevent your bicycle from being stolen.
How to steal a bicycle.
Applegate didn't see the humor in the stunt that these two pulled and then cut them off the air.
She was fuming.
She said, I'm apologizing that that got out over the air at all from behind her anchor desk upon returning from a commercial Drake.
Uh break.
Here's what happened on the show.
These two brothers, Casey and Van Nystat, show up clad in white lab coats, invited by the show to demonstrate one of the methods of stealing a bicycle.
As Applegate watched on the sidewalk nearby, Van Nystat began to saw through the chain that was locking the bicycle with an electric grinder, while his brother Casey offered analysis of the ongoing theft attempt.
What Applegate missed was that Casey Nystatt was hiding packs of ketchup in his fist.
Anyway, this these two guys simulate the uh the grinder machine going nuts and slitting the guy's throat.
And he grabbed the ketchup packs, and and she didn't see that he had them and plastered them all over his neck and was all over the ground screaming and lying, crying and so forth, writhing around in great pain with all this ketchup on his throat, making everybody think that the stunt had gone awry, and that the grinder they were using to saw through the chain on the bicycle actually had slit his throat.
Seconds later, both brothers stood up, started laughing.
We were just kidding, but Applegate was already yelling at him as the camera panned around the scene wildly trying to get off of this sight.
No, Applegate shouted, we're trying to do a serious thing here.
And this is not funny.
What was the serious thing they were trying to do?
Tell people how to steal a bicycle in Manhattan.
A segment like that deserves a stunt.
And here's the anchor shit.
Everybody says you really overreacted to this.
Uh, but I get a lot of people on the street did too.
Uh I imagine uh depending on my angle.
I might have uh my first reaction might have been uh to believe it was it was genuine too.
But uh anyway, these are a couple well-known pranksters, as it turns out.
I love pranksters, folks.
It's the kind of stuff I did all through high school in my early days in radio.
But the segment, serious thing, we're trying to do a serious thing on this show, said the hostette.
Teach people how to steal bicycles.
Back uh uh much more after this.
Stay with us.
And we are back, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Uh Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Well, let's see, today we have uh we have two more stories advising the Democrats on what they need to do to win.
Uh and uh whatever mistakes they're making.
It never ends.
It used to be weekly, now it's daily, and sometimes it's multiple stories every day uh from the drive-by is on advising the Democrats what to do.
For them, Democrats themselves had a big meeting yesterday, big um uh well, they unveiled their new direction for America agenda.
Uh, and may have a new Democratic starborn here on the national scene.
Uh Emmanuel Cleaver, my former mayor in Kansas City, uh now Congressman from uh from Kansas City, uh took over this meeting yesterday.
I think this was the six for 06 agenda.
They've got a document called a new direction for America, a brief compilation of six themes that the Democrats have been pushing in various ways all year.
Here are the themes of the new direction uh for America uh national security.
Uh they don't offer any national security, they don't even appear to take it seriously.
Jobs and wages.
Yeah, everybody's against jobs and wages.
Let's come out for jobs and wages.
Energy independence.
They will, they're the people that stand in the way of it.
Uh Affordable Healthcare.
They're the ones that tried it all during the 90s.
Didn't work out.
Retirement security.
Well, they're the ones that stand in the way of that.
Social security reform and college access for all.
College is overrated.
The idea that everybody needs to go to college is not accurate today.
More on all that in due course.
But first, you've got to hear Emmanuel Cleaver at the press conference of Democrats held at their six for 06 agenda, very close to 66.
Uh, you know, and I I I question their thinking on this to call this the six for 06 agenda.
That's the six issues.
And the six issues I just read to you, six for oh six, one little typo, and the Democrats are on the side of Beazzlebub.
All right.
And not far from that anyway, in my opinion, as it is today.
Here's Emmanuel Cleaver at the press conference, a Democrat star is born.
Missouri has picked every president except one during the last century.
I think we have a feel for America.
My great-grandpa, the Reverend Noah Albert Cleaver, stood in the chancellor of the church one Sunday, and as the ushers brought the offering plate down, he shouted, get that offering out of this church.
And the ushers immediately turned around and began to recess.
And then one of them had the nerve to raise the question.
He stopped and said, Reverend Cleaver, what is the problem?
He said, I said, get it out.
He said, The offering is tainted, and I want it out of this church.
Tainted.
He said, Taint enough.
Okay, so you see, a new star is more.
We got a new Democrat slogan.
So apparently his dad told whoever was donating money to the church to screw you, get it out of here.
Taint enough.
Here's more of uh the Reverend Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver.
They claim 5.4 new jobs.
That's true, except that's after losing 2.7.
So we actually have a 2.7 job gain taint enough.
Five dollars and fifteen cents minimum wage.
Taint enough.
Five percent of the containers are actually being looked at in this country.
Taint enough.
I'm telling you, we have 202 Democrats in the House.
Taint enough.
Fifty-four senators in the United States Senate.
Taint enough!
I'm telling you, America is ready to get enough.
And the only way we get enough is to go into a new direction.
Say taint enough for Paul.
Say yes for Paul.
Here is a montage.
Taint enough.
Enough.
So there's the new slogan and the new star for the Democratic Party.
Emmanuel Cleaver, my former mayor, uh in uh in Kansas City.
Actually met him once uh after I left Kansas City, became a big star, and he was he was uh shocked.
Uh but he was cordial when we when we met.
But let's see if his slogan uh it takes over now.
Taint.
Ta it is funny.
Well, you you think it's funny?
He is funny, guy.
There's no question it's funny, but but uh if okay, is that gonna be their slogan?
Taint enough, taint enough, taint enough, taint enough.
Uh I'll tell you what, in this country it may ring true.
Because no matter what somebody has, taint enough.
Everybody wants more than what they got.
We may be on to something here.
Now let's let's go back now to the old stars of the Democratic Party, and that's Dingy Harry.
At the uh at the same at the same meeting, uh, listen to this overwhelming crowd response.
Dingy Harry says that the Democrats will crisscross the country with their new message, and his message is Bush sucks.
Uh uh I I don't know if he's going to incorporate the taint enough slogan uh uh with his own message, but here's what he said.
I'm tired, as are the American people, of being second-fiddled to the oil companies and the pharmaceuticals.
I, like the American people are tired of the incompetence and mismanagement of this administration, which has taken America and the world in the wrong direction.
We're going to cross this country during the August recess.
Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate, we will be united in our message that the course of America needs to change.
Yes.
That was the response.
Response taint enough, folks.
Taint enough response there from Ditchy Harry.
Well, let's move on, Miss America here.
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker to be, uh, according to the Democrats.
She actually uh lists all the new plans and slogans they've tried over the last six months.
We will do all of this with integrity, as we announced in our honest leadership open government presentation in January.
We will do it with real security, tough and smart, secure to keep America safe, as we announced in March, and we will do it in a new direction, as we announced in June and now are promoting here today.
Jobs, health care, education, a safer America, energy independence, a dignified retirement.
These are the priorities of the Democrats.
We are a United House, Senate, Governors, Mayors, Democratic National Committee.
In the month of August, we will own August.
We will have a drumbeat across America.
We will have a drumbeat across America.
Taint enough, uh, Miss Pelosi.
Neither you nor Ginger Harry uh bring enough.
Taint enough.
Give me Emanuel Cleaver.
You have get let me hear Emmanuel Cleaver again.
We got to get the Democrats back to life.
Is it ready?
Yes, let it roll.
Taint enough.
Enough.
Do it for Paul.
And you hear the crowd going all along with him there.
He got the crowd all revved up.
Don't know how big this crowd was.
Doesn't sound like it was uh uh all that big.
All right now here's the first of a couple of advice pieces given to the Democrats, and this one is pretty hard hitting.
It's by the new Republic editor Peter Beinert.
He also is a commentator now and then, or used to be, I haven't seen it in a while.
I guess he's still there on uh Stephanopoulos' Sunday show on ABC.
After years of struggling to define their own approach to post-September 11th Foreign policy, Democrats seem finally to have hit on one.
It's called pandering.
In those rare cases when George W. Bush shows genuine sensitivity to America's allies and propounds a broader and more enlightened view of the national interest, Democrats will make him pay.
It's jingoism with a liberal face.
The latest example came this week when Democratic senators and House members demanded that the Iraqi Prime Minister either retract his criticism of Israel or forfeit his chance to address Congress.
Great idea.
Maliki, who runs a government propped up by U.S. troops, is desperate to show Iraqis he's not Washington's puppet, as I pointed out.
And the United States desperately needs him to succeed because unless he gains political credibility at home, his government will have no hope of surviving on its own.
Maliki took a small step in that direction this week when he articulated a view of the Israeli Hezboy conflict, quite different from that of the Bush administration.
His views were hardly surprising.
Iraq's not only a majority Arab country, it's a majority Shiite Arab country.
And in a democracy, leaders usually reflect public opinion.
Maliki's forthright disagreement with the U.S. was a sign of political strength, one that the Bush administration wisely indulged.
But not Congressional Democrats.
Oh no, Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry demanded that Maliki eat his words or be disinvited from addressing Congress.
Your failure to condemn Hezbollah's aggression and recognize Israel's right to defend itself raised serious questions about whether Iraq under your leadership can play a constructive role in resolving the current crisis and bringing stability to the Middle East.
That's what Harry Reid wrote, along with Durbin and Schumer on July 24th.
Now, Binart says, how exactly publicly humiliating Maliki and making him look like an American and Israeli stooge would enhance his leadership, was never explained in their letter.
But of course, Reed's letter wasn't really about strengthening the Iraqi government at all.
That's Bush's problem.
Reed was about appearing more is poor Israel than the White House, and thus pandering to Jewish voters.
A Democrat is writing this, by the way.
Reed's letter is not an anomaly.
It's part of a pattern.
In February, Democrats and some Republicans slammed the Bush administration for allowing a company from the United Arab Emirates to take over operation, though not management, of several ports.
The Dubai Ports deal.
Yeah.
Democrats insisted that they were standing up for Homeland Security.
But in fact, Homeland Securts overwhelmingly said the move didn't represent a risk.
The principle animating the Democrats' attack was not security, it was politics.
I told you that when this was going on.
This is amazing to see this written by a Democrat and telling you all this talk about Democrats going to win the House, Democrats going to win the Senate, blah, blah.
There is genuine fear in the honest hearts of the drive-by media over that whole concept, over that whole prospect.
They have to understand just how silly and stupid the Democrats are behaving in this whole area of national security and how they don't come off as genuine.
The principal animating the Democrats attack, not security was politics, Bush administration argued that America's long-term security required treating Arab countries with fairness and respect, especially countries such as the UAE that assist us in the struggle against jihadist terrorism.
One might have thought that the Democrats, after spending years denouncing the Bush administration for alienating world opinion and thus leaving America isolated and weak, would find such logic compelling.
But what they found more compelling was a political cheap shot, their very own Panama Canal moment, in which they prove that they could be just as nativist as the GOP.
Privately, some Democrats, while admitting that they haven't exactly been taking the high road, say that they have no choice, that in a competition with Carl Rove, nice guys finish last.
But even politically, that's probably wrong.
The Democratic Party's single biggest foreign policy, and here's the money quote.
Democrat Party's single biggest foreign policy liability is not that Americans don't think Democrats are soft.
It is that Americans think Democrats stand for nothing.
That they have no principles beyond political expedience.
And given the party's behavior over the past several months, it's not hard to understand why.
Amen.
It's nice to be echoed in the drive-by media now and then.
Oh, they're another way of saying this, all they care about's reacquiring their power.
They are pandering, lying, and endangering the nation, I might add.
Bynert doesn't say that in their quest to achieve it.
Back after this.
Phone calls next.
Bush and Tony Blair in a joint press conference of the White House, just listening to a little bit of it there during the Profit Center timeout.
And I think the President heard me uh the other day as he was describing all of the human suffering in uh Lebanon and the uh Palestinian state.
Obviously, it's a uh an attempt to uh gain sympathy from drive-by media members.
Uh any time you start talking about human suffering, I mean that that's glue.
I mean, they they gotta think you have a heart when you do that, uh, unless you somehow come out in support of human suffering, uh, which of course Bush didn't do.
I heard enough to know that.
To the phones, Tyler in um at Illinois State University, your next and first on the EIB network today, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
I wanted to comment about the Democrats' uh new plan about the four-year college for everyone.
And I just want to say President Bush expanded funding to community colleges and technical schools, which can lead to better paying jobs for the average American rather than a liberal arts degree from a four-year institution.
Well, that's I don't know that that's arguable.
That may be uh that may be correct uh in terms of the value of a liberal arts education versus uh community college and technical school depends on what somebody's talents are.
You know, we do live in this notion here, and it's it's uh and it it comes out of the depression.
I was talking about this yesterday that college is mandatory.
If you don't go to college and have a prayer, well, tell me.
Uh tell Steve Jobs, tell uh Bill Gates.
You know, it's a different world out there.
Passion, creativity, entrepreneurism, uh readily available capital, despite what Democrats say, uh to support a good idea, uh, is uh uh part of the American landscape now.
So yeah, but the Democrats' agenda is is it's nothing more than those six points.
Accessible college for everybody, health care for everybody, uh retirement security for everybody.
It's just big government, folks.
It's all it is nanny state big government.
And that either their playbook remains 30 years old, their plays are 30 years old, affordable health care.
How many times have we heard that phrase?
Everybody wants affordable everything.
I'd like to have an affordable car.
My car was ridiculously expensive.
I wish my car were more affordable.
My house, you wouldn't believe my house.
I wish it were more affordable, but it cost what it cost.
I wish my cigars were affordable.
Fifteen, fourteen bucks apiece, fourteen bucks a stick.
I wish they were more affordable, but they cost what I just you know, I that's just it.
You know, I've got I got plenty of plasma TVs.
I just put a new projector, uh my new toy.
It's been going in all week in the in my theater room.
You guys have seen it, right?
See the theater room.
I got this new projector, five times the brightness and contrast.
That's how much they've improved just since I put that projector in since uh we're gonna put it in there in what, 2000.
2000, 2001.
And new screen.
It's a 15-foot screen, and it's glass, with the screen between two panes of glass in there.
It looks like a 15, 14 foot plasma TV in HD.
It was stu I could not believe it yesterday.
But it cost a hell of a lot of money.
I I am all for affordable projectors.
You know, we all want affordable like this little monitor here that I watch myself on the Ditto Cam at Radio Shack.
This thing is probably 199, 200 bucks.
Same little monitor on my airplane's 5,000.
I wish it was more affordable, but it has to be approved by the FAA, the FCC, Homeland Security, uh, the underwriters' laboratories.
Uh I wish it were more affordable.
But uh it isn't.
Things cost what they cost.
I wish everything was free.
In fact, and maybe the Democrats could do that.
Because, you know, Emmanuel Cleaver running around saying, Taint enough, taint enough, taint enough.
I'd say too much, too much, too much.
Make it free.
Just make everything free.
Start with gas.
Back in a second.
And uh happy to say the still alive and breathing Ray Davies uh and the Kinks here in our bumper rotation.
Story from the Chicago Tribune today that does not mention uh City Councilwoman uh uh Tony Preckwinkle, uh, but it says that their big box law that the uh city council passed yesterday faces a huge legal test.
The city lawyers advise them before the vote that the measure uh is legally suspect.
Well, why would that stop a bunch of Democrats in a city council of Chicago?
Details coming up, as well as more of uh your phone calls.
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