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Aug. 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, I know.
I'm working on a concept of a new docudrama.
Working on the concept here of a new movie, ladies and gentlemen.
I have powerful friends in Hollywood, and they are always looking for story ideas to make movies and docodramas out of.
Greetings, welcome back.
Rush Limboy, your host for life, not retiring until every American agrees with me here on the one and only EIB network coming to you for the final day this week from the high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Here, the idea, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to pass on to my powerful creative friends in Hollywood.
The basic premise is that former President Clinton gets kidnapped and beheaded.
And the docudrama will be an in-depth study of what happens in America and the free world and the Muslim world.
This will be a thought-provoking critique of contemporary society, not just in America, and its ramifications for the war on terror.
Former President Clinton kidnapped and beheaded.
And of course, there'll be a thought-provoking critique of the ramifications of this on Hillary Rodham Clinton.
So I'll be going out to Hollywood.
Let's see, when am I going out there?
Wait, week after next.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just going out for the weekend.
So I will work on the concept here of Bill Clinton being beheaded, kidnapped and beheaded, and the thought-provoking critique of contemporary society, not just in America, the free world, but in the Muslim world as well.
And Canada.
We will want to know what the impact of the beheading of Bill Clinton.
We'll have panel discussions.
It's going to be a docudrama.
The panel discussions will come after the docudrama airs, and we'll screen it at a think tank in Washington.
Okay.
John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, has singled out Muslim immigrants for refusing to embrace Australian values.
He's urged them to fully integrate by treating women as equals and learning to speak English.
The call for a shift in attitude among some Muslims infuriated community leaders last night.
And it comes as the Australian can reveal, this is a newspaper, The Australian can reveal the Prime Minister's own Islamic advisors have already accused Mr. Howard and senior members of fueling hatred and mistrust by using inflammatory and derogatory language.
Mr. Howard says there is a section, a small section of the Islamic population, and I say a small section, which is very resistant to integration.
Fully integrating means accepting Australian values.
It means learning as rapidly as you can an English language if you don't already speak it.
He said this on radio, by the way.
And he said it also means understanding that in certain areas, such as the equality of men and women, people who come from societies where women are treated in an inferior fashion have got to learn very quickly that that is not the case in Australia.
Well, predictably, the comments prompted a fierce reaction from young female Islamic leader Iqtimal Hagi Ali, a member of the Prime Minister's advisory group.
She accused Mr. Howard of threatening to further marginalize Muslims.
There's no value in pointing out the minority of the Muslim group, she said.
Huh?
What does that mean?
There's no value in pointing out the minority of the Muslim group.
She said there's a whole lot of other ethnic communities whose parents, whose grandparents don't speak the English language.
It's never a problem in the mainstream Australian community for them to go on living their everyday life without speaking the language.
Yet, as soon as it's a person of Arab descent or a Muslim person, politicians feel like they need to bring it to mainstream attention as the only group like marginalizing us even more than we already feel marginalized today.
I might understand why they feel marginalized, but there's a way around this, and that is when militant Islamo fascists blow up an airplane or blow up a building, stand up and say you denounce it.
It's not that hard.
Audio soundbite time.
I can't, I'm going to be using this a lot.
I can't, I just can't get over this.
Tim Russert and Matt Wauer today on the Today Show.
This is Tim Russert.
Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq, something the president floated the other day.
Matt, this is 68 days before a midterm election.
The Republicans know that in 2002...
All right, stop.
That's it.
We can't find any Democrats who have suggested cutting funding for Iraq.
What in the world is getting out of Iraq mean?
This whole thing is just, it is mind-boggling to me in the sense that aren't they out there saying we're spending too much on it?
Harry Reid is.
Tim, these guys are all on your show saying this.
They're saying we're spending too much on the Iraq war.
Harry Reid the other day said for all the money we're spending on Iraq, we could have rebuilt 150,000 jobs in New Orleans.
Some such thing.
I don't understand this.
If the liberals, Tim, honest to God here, if the Democrats are not trying to get out of Iraq, if they're not trying to see to it that we get out, what's the debate?
Why is there even a debate about Iraq, Tim?
If you can't find Democrats to suggest we defund the war and get out, what about all these resolutions?
What is the debate?
I have to be missing something.
Anyway, since you've heard that, you've heard Russert say it.
Here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday with Nora O'Donnell on PMS NBC.
O'Donnell said, you've called the Iraq war a grotesque mistake.
And what Secretary Rumsfeld said yesterday is that those types of comments essentially are helping the enemy.
And the media over there takes those comments and betrays them and those emboldened terrorists.
To protect the American people, you have to know your power.
And we are diminishing that power by this war in Iraq, which is the wrong war.
It is not the war on terror.
It is the wrong war.
We should have stayed in Afghanistan longer and a fuller force to get the job done.
Tim, that woman didn't even want to go.
Now that she didn't want to go, she wants to get out.
You can't find any Democrats.
This is amazing.
I'm going to tell you something.
To try to cast Democrats now as never having said pull out, never having said defund it, cut funds.
There's a new dance going on out here.
You know what it's like?
It's like these Democrats that voted for the war who now insist they never did.
They never did.
They all voted against it.
Not that they voted against it before they voted for it.
They never voted for it.
Or if they get called on that, well, we were lied to.
Had we known then what we know now, we would have never voted for it.
So after all these years of saying Iraq was a mistake, we ought to get out of there, and we should spend the money better elsewhere.
The news spin is now that Rumsy.
See, I'll tell you what's happening here.
Rumsfeld's on attack, and he's hitting a bullseye.
And they can't debate the idea, so they've got to change subject.
They have to change the spin.
The spin is, we never said that.
What's he talking about?
He's impugning our character.
Blah, blah, blah.
He's just telling the truth.
So we're engaged in a massive spin machine control now where they're going to try to concoct the notion that the Democrats never want it out of Iraq.
They never said cut the funding for Iraq.
They haven't cut the budget for Iraq.
What are they talking about?
Well, we've got all these soundbites.
Nancy Pelosi, get out of there.
Shouldn't have been there in the first place.
O'Donnell says, you know, we're hearing from the White House that essentially this is a series of speeches that will kick off the third round of a defense of the Iraq war.
Just as, of course, we're getting ready to commemorate the five-year anniversary of 9-11.
We're just 10 weeks away from the November elections.
Do you, Ms. Pelosi, see now what the Republican strategery is to defeat the Democrats in November?
And how do the Democrats plan to respond to it?
We will not be swift voted by them.
We, again, call for a military second to none to protect the American people, diplomatic alliances to maintain the peace, to stop terrorism, to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
This administration has hampered our ability to do that by losing the credibility we have lost because of the war in Iraq.
with Democrats did she really say this?
Democrats call for a military second to none to protect the American people, and they accuse Bush of pandering in an election year and coming up with strategery during an election year?
And how are you going to answer the strategery?
And these people are already counting their chickens that they've won the House and the Senate back.
If they want to protect the military, if they want to be the biggest terrorist fighters in the world, and if they want to do all this, then what is the debate about?
If all of that's true, and if they don't want to defund the Iraq war, what's the debate about there?
Then why haven't they joined the rest of the country in this mission?
Why haven't they joined George W. Bush?
Simply because he's gone to Iraq and he's destroyed our credibility around the world?
Credibility to do what?
Have worthless, meaningless negotiations?
Back in just a second.
Want to go back to the archives of the EIB network, ladies and gentlemen, to our audio soundbite archive for you Rush babies out there who were too young in 1995 either to be paying attention.
Oh, before I do that, Tim Russert, Tim John Kerry, you know the old, I voted for it before I voted against it?
That was an 87, was it 83, 87?
$87 billion supplemental to fund the troops in Iraq.
And Kerry voted against it.
And then he flipped and voted for it.
And he went out there and said, well, I voted, no, he voted for it, then voted against it.
I voted for it before I voted against it.
Now, Tim, you were NBC.
You get resources there.
This just came to me from my memory.
But it was a central campaign theme to say that you can't find a Democrat that's voted against the war or voted to defund it.
Enough said.
There's something, there's something going on here, and I really do think it's an attempt to spin everything.
We never wanted out of Iraq.
We never, we said Iraq was the wrong thing to do, but we're not cut and run.
What do you mean cut and run?
We're not cut.
No, we've never, we've never, we never, we voted for it.
No, we always voted against it.
What do we do?
They're pretzeling themselves.
For you Rush babies who 1995, 11 years ago might not have been up to speed.
I mentioned earlier that I went to the GoPack speech.
People made a speech, and there was something with Medicare going on, then, as there always is, and I Democrats are talking about how that was going to lead to senior citizens and Medicare recipients being forced to choose between dog food and medicine.
So, I made a speech, and I told my mother I was happy that I was able to afford a new can opener for her so that she could more easily get to the dog food, and how Patsy Schroeder, Congressperson Colorado, believed it, didn't understand it was a joke, making fun of the Democrats, and went to the floor of the house and raised hell about it.
We went to the archives, and here is what she said: it's November 13th of 1995.
And they had the big kahuna of GoPak come speak, none other than Rush Limbaugh himself, who stood there and said to all these people who paid all this money to keep GoPAC rich, he was hailing the GOP budget.
He said, according to the paper and according to the C-SPAN tape, he thought it was wonderful because it would starve the poor and it would drive Medicare recipients, including his mother, to eat dog food.
But not to worry, mom, he says, I'm sending you a new can opener.
Wow.
That tells you what today's about.
And I wonder why they don't understand the humor when I handicap the new survivor show.
So the next day, November 14th, she did it again.
She was angry with me because I played the above soundbite on the air and said that I'm going to send my mom some Mighty Dog and a new can opener.
So she went back to the floor of the house the next day.
We see them saying that it's perfectly all right that we cut loose on the safety net that had been there for America's children and for people who are relying on Medicare.
We see them having their favorite comedian come and talk about, oh, this is great.
My mother will be on dog food.
The poor will starve, but we'll get them new can openers.
Isn't that wonderful?
You know, I don't really think that's too funny.
I don't think that's funny at all.
It's not the America I knew that.
You're out there saying it's what's going to happen, Patsy.
At any rate, they just threw her words right back at her.
And really, we just made an idiot out of her because she didn't really understand it was a joke.
And she had to cover by saying, I don't see the humor.
My mother thought it was hilarious.
My mother wanted the can opener anyway.
I ended up getting her a new can opener, but it wasn't for the dog food, flesh.
She had a little cat.
Rich in Riverside, California.
Great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey, Rush, longtime listener since 89 up in Sacramento.
Moved there from Missouri.
Enjoy your show a lot.
Thank you very much.
As while as my wife, she listens to you as the same.
The reason I'm calling, I was in the Marine Corps in 66 to 68.
I enlisted for two years.
I had two-year enlistment.
And I went to Vietnam.
I knew where I was going when I went.
And when I came back, well, we all know how that went.
We have a much different commander-in-chief now, which is key.
But what I remember is about the same thing that's happening now.
And I know the Democrats and the media try to make this or try to.
I think they've kind of given up on it recently as another Vietnam conflict.
They'd throw that in there to see if it would stick occasionally.
But the only thing I see that's similar to Vietnam is the same ideology of the left and their conversations.
Now, what happened in Vietnam, we know about two, three million people got slaughtered when we pulled a plug there and pulled out.
Exactly.
Now, what happens now is they're coming here.
You know, we can make this a game and a political show, but the president's the only breath of fresh air that says what's really going on.
And people better wake up.
Because when the plug's pulled over there, brother, that means the pool gets refilled.
We're swimming around in there with a lot of terrorists.
And it won't be long.
And I don't mean very long at all.
They're going to be here.
Well, they've already been here.
That's the thing that's so amazing.
They've already been here.
I know what you're saying, but they already have been here.
They're probably here now again, living amongst us.
It's not that hard.
But you're exactly right.
Pull a plug in Vietnam, get out.
And a Democrat.
The thing about that to the Democrats, who they hate death, and they hate killing.
They hate wanton killing and massacre and genocide and all that.
Well, Pol Pot went to town.
Ho Chi Minh and his cronies went to town when the North finally went and took over the South and we fled out of there.
Three million people killed.
The Democrats, that's a highlight of their life.
That is an immediate too.
Why, man, that is Springsteen time.
That is the glory days.
It is.
And they want to relive it.
And they want to do it again.
And they somehow think that by pulling out of Iraq, we're going to enhance our reputation around the world.
And I don't know what that's going to have anything to do with the terrorists who want to kill us, who already hate us.
They're not going to hate us less because Democrats are in the White House or running the show in Congress and Bush is gone.
And they're not going to hate us any less because somehow we get along with a bunch of Western European socialist countries better than we get along with them now.
They're just, these people, folks, it said they are dangerous.
I'm talking about the American left and people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and those who echo their sentiments because they just, it is disastrous.
Eric, Rich, I'm so glad you called because you are so right on the money to put it in that context.
And when you say that the Cambodians, the Vietnamese and so forth are here, I know you're talking about immigration.
You're not talking about they're not continuing the war here.
The point is they come.
The terrorists are already here.
But if we pulled out of there, that would be Mogadishu times 10.
It would be utter disaster.
They would be so emboldened and so confident nothing would stop them.
And it would have everything that they have been doing up to now confirmed as the right thing to do.
Democrats are in utter disaster right now.
They just literally are.
And the American left as well.
We've got to be back right after this.
And I have another question, ladies and gentlemen.
We're getting back into this business.
The Iraq War is a disaster.
It's an absolute unmitigated disaster.
It's horrible.
It was a mistake.
We should have never gone there.
It's destroyed this.
It's destroyed our reputation in the world.
And it's prevented us from actually winning the war on terror.
Blah, Okay.
If the war is such a disaster, and if the liberals really believe that, why wouldn't they support cutting off the funding for it?
Why wouldn't they support these resolutions to get the hell out of there?
Why would you keep funding a disaster?
Why would you keep investing in a disaster?
I mean, that's what the journalists need to be asking.
And of course, I know why.
They need a disaster.
Well, they need something they can say as a disaster as a campaign issue.
So they are happy for things to go to hell, even though they are not.
But they would be more than happy for things to go to hell just to campaign on it.
And if they don't go to hell, they'll tell us they're going to hell anyway.
Things are going to hell, not them.
Let's see.
You got to hear this.
Oh, by the way, do you know, you've heard this big oil spill over there in the Philippines?
Do you know what they're combating the oil spill with?
Hair.
They're cutting off people's hair.
People are volunteering, going bald and using chicken feathers.
And they're putting hair in a bunch of bags like sandbags.
They're throwing it out that apparently just soaks up.
Well, you know how oily your hair can get if you don't wash it.
Hair apparently can soak up all kinds of oil.
And so it's a public service over there.
The Filipinos are getting shaved to soak up.
Hey, it makes more sense than grabbing a bottle of dawn and some paper towels and heading out wiping off the rocks at Prince William Sound.
We had a caller about this yesterday.
ABC Last Days on Earth.
ABC's 2020 special called The Last Days on Earth.
Elizabeth Vargas last night focuses on the possibility that the geyser out there at Jellystone Park could explode at any time.
Few realize that one of the world's largest super volcanoes lies underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Yellowstone experiences a super eruption about once every 600,000 years.
The last one was more than 630,000 years ago.
If Yellowstone was going to erupt, it is possible that we might have very little warning that a series of eruptions were about to begin.
Oh, yes, the crisis mentality.
And did you hear the breathless read?
Few realize that one of the world's largest super volcanoes lies underneath Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
And it's late.
You know, every 600,000 years, the things go kablooey.
And it's 30,000 years late.
30,000.
Now, of course, this is designed to scare the hell out of you.
It's designed to make you think, well, if global warming is going to kill you, the black hole ain't going to kill you, then the geyser out there will kill you, the volcano.
All right, now, if it's 30,000 years late, what all has gone on in the last 30,000 years?
Just to put this in perspective, the pyramids got built either by those aliens or by the Egyptians.
We're still not sure who built the pyramids.
Stonehenge, ancient Rome, 2,000-plus years ago, Colosseum, the Forum, some of the great artifacts of the world.
I mean, try to put this in perspective.
But it's 30,000 years late.
Yes, it can happen tonight.
It can happen tonight.
It could happen tonight before I get to see the George Bush assassination movie.
Oh, no.
Then they went out on their special, The Last Days on Earth, with Elizabeth Vargas.
They went out and they asked people what they would do if a black hole was going to hit Earth.
This story just happened two days ago.
Somebody put the idea of how horrible it would be if a black hole swallowed us up.
Already out there asking about it.
Vargas said to people on the street, for example, an asteroid, a black hole where we can see we'll know the exact time and date of our death, sometimes decades in advance.
The question is, what do you do when you know the date of your death?
And we actually asked a lot of people that very question.
If I knew that the world was going to come to an end, I would travel over the world.
Swim in the ocean, spend more time with the grandchildren.
I'll probably cry a lot.
Party like this tomorrow.
I would go probably back to my country and take my family with me.
That make sure that my family was with me.
My whole family.
I definitely want to see my family one more time.
See my family?
This is pathetic.
This is embarrassingly pathetic.
The answer to the question, if somebody from ABC sticks a camera and a microphone in your nose is, what do you do when you know the date of your death?
Say, I've never thought about it.
Get out of here.
My family, Party all night.
I said, smoke a cigar.
I said, I chain smoke cigars.
I go out and try to find every woman I could I ever wanted to meet.
What am I going to say here?
I'd kill myself.
I can't stand the tension.
I hate waiting.
I'm impatient.
I'm going to jump into Niagara Falls.
And then in the last days on Earth with Elizabeth Vargas, she talked to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who put the icing on the cake.
She said, how crucial is the next 100 years to the survival of the human race?
Now, remember, we've been around here.
I don't know how long.
It's a debatable question.
But this geyser erupts every 600,000 years.
We're 30,000 years late.
In those 30,000 years, there's been quite a lot of advancement in human civilization.
But the next hundred years.
Here is Hawking's answer.
We face a number of threats to our survival from nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, and genetically engineered viruses.
The number is likely to increase in the future with the development of new technologies and new ways things can go wrong.
Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years.
By that time, we should have spread out into space and to other stars.
So a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race.
Well, there you have it.
We just got to spread out to some other stars.
We got 10,000 years.
Well, I mean, the odds of 10,000 years, 1,000 to 10,000 years, and we're doomed, folks.
It's over.
An asteroid black hole is going to hit it, even though we're 23, 30,000 years beyond the deadline here for that geyser to go bongo out in a Jellystone Park.
Well, you know what I think about this.
This is exactly what I was talking.
This is a kind of made-up, invented, self-imposed storytelling about the future that we cannot possibly know.
We have a scientist, though, say, oh, yes, we can know it.
And so that's going to happen.
You couple this with the fact.
And this is unarguable.
Every generation has people in it who think that we're in the last days.
It can't get any worse, Rush.
We're going to hell on a handbasket.
Why look at the cultural decay?
Why look at how we're monkeying around with a human genome?
Look at what we're doing at cloning.
It isn't going to be long.
Yeah, well, I can say the same thing.
God could be watching the Oprah Winfrey show and say, human race is a failure.
I'm ending it tomorrow.
But nobody knows.
And so all this stuff can limit you in experiencing the most that you can get out of life.
Because just sit around and wait for disaster.
It's just a shame.
It's just a shame.
And it's come to this.
In the drive-by media, Nate in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Yes, and small business owner, a veteran Ditto's rush.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Yes.
I had a quick point to make about the, you talked yesterday about the people out in California and Oregon and whatnot that are running over people and claiming to be terrorists and the police are not paying them any attention.
I'm just curious, if this happened in Israel, you had an Arab running over Citizens there and then claiming to be a terrorist, they'd probably agree that he was a terrorist.
Yeah, but here, though, they're just mentally unstable because of prearranged marriages and something.
They're not happy people.
It's just accidental.
It's just one of these quirky things.
It happens once or twice a month.
I do have an answer to a couple of your self-imposed questions, though.
Yes.
I figured out what Tim Russert is saying.
Oh, good.
Let me in on it.
Well, he's claiming that nobody wants to defund Iraq.
So you have to look at the exact wording because he's talking about defunding Iraq.
But Kerry voted to do that.
Kerry voted to do that.
No, they voted to defund the warrant.
War on Iraq.
Yeah.
They'd be happy to send money over to Iraq till the end of eternity.
They just don't want us to be over there.
But I may be missing you here, but didn't Tim Russer.
Well, let me go back.
What is it?
Sound by four?
Three?
Are you sure it's I think it's four?
It could be three.
Hell yeah, these numbers run together.
I thought he talked about they couldn't find anybody who defunded the war in Iraq.
Couldn't find a Democrat who'd voted to defund.
Yeah, it says number three.
Let's listen to it.
Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq.
Something the president of the cutting off funding.
That means eliminating it totally.
I guess they can't find that.
That's the point.
Then Tim ought to say, well, if it's such a disaster, why aren't you suggesting this?
Maybe he just meant since they asked five minutes ago.
Let's put everything in context.
Yes, ever so true.
All right.
Thank you out there.
I appreciate it, Nate.
We've got to run a quick brief time out.
We'll be back and continue with broadcast excellence after this.
What was it?
A couple days ago, maybe yesterday, we told you about the New York Times story.
It's two days ago.
New York Times story: real wages down.
It's horrible out there.
We got productivity is way up, but money's going down at tubes.
Nobody's earning anything.
It's desperation time.
We've got to find some stars to move to because it's impossible to live and make money right now in the American economy.
What a difference three days make.
72 little hours.
Ken Shepard from the Business and Media Institute.
Within 72 hours, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7% wage increase over the last year after inflation.
This is David Leonhart and Stephen Greenhouse somberly noting in the August 28th edition of the New York Times: the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages.
And then they added a political spin to data showing the median hourly wage dipping 2% since 2003 after factoring in inflation.
However, new data released on August 30th pushed Leonhart to admit the death of wage growth he wrote about earlier might be greatly exaggerated.
In a different publication, not the New York Times, in an August 31st business day, which is two-day, a story about, I'm sorry, it is in the New York Times, sorry, Business Day section in the New York Times, same place.
Story about how new government data on the gross domestic product, Leonhardt found economists arguing the new report was a welcome sign at a time of significant uncertainty about the economy's direction.
Perhaps the biggest surprise, he writes today, was new evidence of a surge in wage and salary income in the first half of this year, with pay up at an annual pace around 7% after adjusting for inflation, according to an economic consulting firm, MFOR, MFR.
What's more, Leon Hart conceded, as a result, wages and salaries no longer make up their smallest share of the gross domestic product since World War II.
Instead, they now account for 46.1% of economic output in the second quarter, an increase from 45.4% last year.
So that 28th story, I told you I knew it.
It was bogus from the get-go.
Here is Lyle in Tampa, Florida.
Hi, Lyle.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you very much, Rush.
I have tears in my eyes right now.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
Truth, which is very few people today know what that word means.
But the reason I'm calling you is regard to a call from Jill.
Oh, yeah, Jill from Ithaca, New York.
Wherever she's from, tell her how bad it is out there.
And I want to tell you and your listeners, I'm not telling you how bad it's for my neighbor.
I'm not telling you how bad it's for my community or my country.
I'm talking about me.
And guess what?
It's not bad.
I've worked all my life.
I was the second lieutenant in the Army on my way to go to Vietnam.
I had an auto accident.
Put me in bed for eight weeks.
I was not able.
I was 4F.
A lot of my buddies went there.
I continued my life.
I fought many battles.
We all do.
But to hear this woman talk about it, I made a lot of money in my life.
I lost a lot of money.
I'm telling you, Russ, you know, we have cards in life.
We have choices.
This is what's great about this world.
And they're great about the religion.
And I'm proud to be a Christian.
We can make our own choices.
It's up to us.
And I made choices, made right choices, made wrong choices.
But I was able to have a family.
I got four beautiful kids.
I lost my wife to cancer.
I got it a year later.
I almost died.
But I won.
I believe in what you believe in.
There's only one outcome of a war, no matter how little it may be to the individual.
It's victory.
That's where it comes from.
And you're listening to me.
I did it.
I'm 64.
I lost everything.
I own nothing.
But I'm a proud American.
I voted Republican all my life, and I'll be Republican until I die.
But I'll tell you this, Rush.
I'm on Medicare.
It was costing me, I haven't, as I said, nothing.
It was costing me $65 a month for about $300 a month medication through Hillsborough County in Tampa.
I went on to the Medicare drug program.
You know how much I pay now?
How much?
$25 a month.
And all you hear is people complaining about what?
Well, there's a big difference.
You know, Lyle, there's a big difference between you and the people that you're talking about.
And they have either it's who they are or they've succumbed to the pressure around them, but they just succumb to becoming victims.
They've bought into the victim status.
It sort of exempts them from any responsibility.
It's somebody else's fault.
Like the caller Jill you referred to.
I mean, she feels like a victim and she thinks her neighbor is a victim, her disabled neighbor and so forth.
And that's, I hate to say it, there's an ideology and a political party that seeks to create as many of those people as possible so they can vote for them and that's the Democratic Party.
The fact is we have, and I'm a firm believer that I'm not alone.
I'm not alone, and there's no doubt in my mind when this election happens, you're going to, I really truly believe that the Republicans are going to take seats away from the Democrats, not the other.
Because you know we'll never meet a more positive man than me.
And you never get anywhere thinking negatively.
Nobody has and nobody will.
Well, God bless you, Lyle.
I'll tell you, people need to hear from people like you more and more.
That was uplifting and it was inspiring.
And it brought tears to some people's eyes, I'm certain.
God bless you, sir.
I am so honored to have you as a member of this audience.
And I hope your optimism bears out in November.
We'll be right back.
And Rush Limbaugh and my charmless self, now taking leave, ladies and gentlemen.
And we'll see you shortly tomorrow.
Actually, back from the EIB Southern Command.
Look forward to it.
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