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Oct. 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 5, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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Okay.
Well, here we go.
Rush Limbaugh back in action.
Back in the prestigious Attila the Hung Chair.
Here at the Distinguished Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, thrilled to have you along with us today.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882 and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Here is what we know for sure.
Ladies and gentlemen.
We know that Mark Foley resigned and that he did not have sex with an intern.
That's where the facts stand today.
We also know that Bill Clinton did not resign, and he did have sex with an intern.
Not just sex.
He had phone sex with an intern fifteen different times.
The media, drive by media, breathlessly, awaiting a press conference by Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert.
Looks like uh I can't tell.
Is gonna be from his house.
Oh, he's dry.
Oh, so they got the house staked out.
They're gonna follow his caravan.
He's gonna go to his local office in Illinois in Chicago, and okay, that's why the cameras at the house.
So now they're staking out Hastert's house.
Why aren't they staking out the rehab center where Foley is?
Don't tell me they don't know where that is.
Someday I can tell you about how that works.
Uh but anyway, uh I I I hope Hastert doesn't step down.
I hope that's not what this is.
Uh I don't think so.
Because normally that kind of stuff always leaks.
And that and if that were the case, that the the uh the media uh graphics on TV, flash breaking news, stop the presses, what have you, Hastert to resign at press conference.
It doesn't say that.
They just say that he's uh going to explain his role in the X-rated Page scandal.
Uh that's explain his role in the X-rated Page scandal.
Um folks, let me tell you something.
If that's what they think this is, and it's not, if they think this is about an X-rated page scandal, then it is time.
Hastert ought to go out there and call for an investigation for the entire house.
We ought to turn over every congressman's instant messages and emails with the pages and find out just how deep this problem goes.
I haven't heard Nancy Pelosi call for such a thing.
I haven't heard any Democrat call for such a thing, haven't heard a Republican call for it either.
That's why I'm calling for it.
If that's what this is really about, why the hell look at what they got rid of Trent Lott.
Our guys helped swish him away.
They got rid of Tom Delay, our guys helped swish him away.
Now they're going after Hastert.
They got rid of Bob Livingston, they got rid of Newton.
What is it?
What is served by our guys resigning?
All it does is encourage the Democrats to keep demanding further resignations.
Now let's take a look at where the liberals are.
I think liberal sewer here is backing up.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's no question they had a series of October surprises.
They had an October surprise, a dirty political trick, and I'm sure they had one planned for every week in October.
They had so many October surprises they had to start in September.
With a national intelligence estimate, and in a Bob Woodward book, and then Foley.
But something happened.
Their sewer backed up on them and is now backed up into their living quarters.
Foley has flushed the NIE surprise.
Foley has flushed any news from Iraq off the front pages.
Foley has flushed every aspect of their campaign off the front pages and off the lead story items in broadcast news.
Foley clogged up the Bob Woodward October surprise.
Poor old Bob, can you imagine Bob Woodward sitting out there wondering, hey, how am I gonna sell my book?
How am I gonna get back in with the good DC crowd if you can't talk about my book and if I can't go on and talk about what is with this Foley stuff?
So their sewer is entirely backed up.
Now tomorrow is Friday, and I predicted earlier this week that there's another surprise on tap, probably for after three o'clock when this program ends to set the stage for uh the Sunday shows.
Now, if there is another October surprise that the Clinton War Room has planned for tomorrow, do they drop fully?
Or does Foley make them drop Friday?
Do they hold off on the surprise that they no doubt have waiting for us tomorrow and keep going with Foley and hope to keep spurting out some of these little drib drab uh details from the instant messages that continue to surface?
These instant messages, you know, I uh I I've really been looking into this, and I don't use Windows, which is why I've been asking about this.
I use Mac, and Mac uses a program called iChat that uh is compatible with uh with uh uh AOL.
I know there are a lot of chat services out there, but people are looking at these chat logs and it and I'm hearing all kinds of different things about how AOL and how Windows preserves them.
Uh and and uh apparently they're not as detailed in their preservation as they're shown on these reproductions.
Uh dates are there but not times or times and not dates.
Something, but but we're getting far more information from these uh instant message logs than are actually kept by the program itself, or so I am told.
Uh and by I'm also told, uh, correct me if I'm wrong about this, somebody who knows and who uses Windows and does these and uses AOL.
I am I am told that uh the logs are saved, but not individual chats, and that it it's it's you have to tell it you want them to s this messages to be saved.
So it's just a continuous rolling log of all your chats, and you just can't go in there and search it by date and find the one you want.
You've got to read through the whole log to find what you want.
And then when you do that, you have to cut and paste it into a word processor program so that it's uh it's uh segregated, shall we say good liberal word, uh, from the entire log.
Now, this is what Windows people that I uh trust have been telling me about.
But seems to be all kinds of different explanations because there's different uh instant message programs out there that uh people can use for Windows.
Yahoo has one and uh Gmail, Google has one, and uh who the hell uh Microsoft has one, I guess, uh Microsoft Messenger, some such thing.
So I'm not sure I've got all the uh complete information about this, but it does seem to me that there has to have been some cutting and pasting here.
And once you start doing that, you know how easy it is to change it.
Uh uh not suggesting there are forged instant messages here, uh, but the the the congressman who has resigned the creepy pervert foley, who you must refer to obligatorily in that fashion, uh, is not here to say, hey, that never happened.
That wasn't said.
We know that one of the named pages, Jordan Edmund, has gone out and hired a lawyer.
Why?
To handle a book deal?
Movie rights?
What?
What does he need a lawyer for?
The lawyer was asked, why does he need a lawyer?
Stephen Jones, the Timothy McVay lawyer, Stephen Jones said, You've read those instant messages, you know why he needs a lawyer.
Yes, I have read them, and I don't know why.
I really don't.
I'm not trying to be provocative or anything here.
I just I don't quite get it.
So anyway, the Liberal Sewer is backing up big day tomorrow.
Do they release the next October surprise, or do they use Foley to uh drop Friday and delay it?
What the left needs now, ladies and gentlemen, is a plumber because their sewer is uh is backing up on them big time and the stench is already reaching us here at the EIB network.
As I suspected, ladies and gentlemen, Speaker Hastard is not going to resign.
Reuters just uh flashed an appropriate word for this story.
Reuters just flashed that Denny Hastard is going to announce reforms in the House of Representatives.
He is not going to resign.
I mean if he was going to resign, it'd be out there.
These things always uh always leak.
It would be so wonderful if Hastert demanded that every member of the House share his IMs in an internal investigation to find out, you know, what's been going on with the page program and so forth.
I still I know you think I'm beating a dead horse here, but the Democrats have not demanded such no neither have the Republicans, but the this place may be a cesspool.
And the uh uh I mean House Bank, the House Post Office.
Uh we know that this place just uh runs on an arrogance uh that you it's it's difficult to find in other aspects of uh of life.
Uh and it it it could well be that uh there's a lot more to be discovered here.
And the Democrats may be taking everybody down that road.
By the way, this uh this group crew that has been involved in the release of these instant messages from the get-go, the committee, what is it, for responsibility and ethics in Washington.
Their executive director is a name uh woman named Melanie Sloan, and I saw that yesterday, and I've no I've seen that name.
I've seen that name in Democrat circles and so forth.
It turns out that Melanie Sloan worked as a legal counsel to then Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden and minority counsel to ranking House Judiciary Democrat John Conyers.
The Clinton war room, uh ladies and gentlemen, is in full speed, at full speed.
Let's go to the phones.
People have been waiting patiently.
Oh, speaking of the phones, uh I gotta do this.
I'm gonna have to do this in this hour, and I'm gonna do it tomorrow again in the first hour.
We had, if you were not with us in the third hour yesterday, we had one of the best calls ever from a young woman in Oklahoma City named Julie.
It has nothing to do with the Foley situation.
It has very little to do with uh particular issue going on.
It is just it is an inspirational telephone call that I want as many people as possible uh to hear.
So and it's I'm gonna need what is it, Mike, about twelve minutes, thirteen minutes to play this thing.
Twelve minutes and eight seconds.
All right, look, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna play that coming out of the next break at the bottom of the hour.
We'll play and be it'll take up the um yeah, it'll it'll take up almost exactly the whole segment.
Um call was uh in two parts because I held her over at a break, but we'll get rid of that.
It'll it'll come across as just one call.
You have to hear this.
Uh it it will it'll just it'll it'll warm your heart, you get tingles, uh chills uh up and down your spine.
Morris in Tucson, Arizona.
We start with you today, sir, and uh uh thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Seventy-five percent ditto is from north of the Mexican border.
That's what's on people's mind.
Thank you.
Why seventy-five percent dittoes?
You know what dittoes mean.
That uh that we agree with everything you say.
No, it doesn't.
It it it it means that you love the program and you hope it never goes away.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Hey, uh on to the foley story, it's it's it's not a non-story, Rush.
It's a big story, and I'll tell you what, I don't think we should the the uh that we should drop that until the Democrats apolog apologize to the entire country uh for something that a lifestyle that they've promoted that they've defended and they embrace, Rush.
And for them to smear Foley over a text message is is just a national embarrassment.
I know, it's gay bashing.
It's what I said at the beginning of the program.
The Democrats and the media have uh I I'm sure uh in a in a in a very unintentional way have a have have equated uh gay behavior with pedophilia.
This whole story was about pedophilia.
Foley's a pedophile, he's a rank creep pervert.
He's gay.
He's gay, they say everybody's known he's gay.
You can try to hide it, but he's gay, he's gay, he's gay, they demand.
It was the Democrats that got this a Democrats, not Republicans that blew this white.
A Democrat he's gay, he's gay, he's gay, he's a pedophile.
Well, I think that Hassard needs to pull his tail out from between his legs, hold a press conference, get some rank and file members behind him, and and demand a national apology by the Democrats.
And I don't think we should drop this story until that's done.
Well, I tell you that that that that may be that may be appropriate at some point, uh, but I do like the whole concept of just being on offense.
Uh let's we'll see uh when the speaker speaks what we get.
Uh Wolfgang in Miami, you're next.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yes, how how do you do, Rush?
It's uh great to talk to the Doctor of Democracy here.
Thank you, sir.
Now, uh as as a long-term conservative uh uh you you have seen that and millions of us have uh where the liberal the liberal media gets all riled up about virtually nothing.
We uh we know that according to the liberal media, only liberals are innocent until proven guilty.
Conservatives and they're even innocent after that.
Oh, okay.
Conservatives are guilty even when proven innocent.
And conservatives are guilty for being conservatives.
Conservatives are guilty just by being alive and breathing, right?
And what what we're seeing here, this this this individual, uh foley, is gone.
Unlike what Democrats have done in the past.
Now, the economy is awesome.
The war on terror is still key in the minds of Americans, and and and and we think that uh it's it's it's very important to leave it up to the liberals.
And I am really not too sure that the Republicans are going to lose the Congress.
It it looks like the they're they're gonna keep the Congress any anyway.
Um especially when all this stuff begins to really surface.
You know, it wouldn't surprise me, Wolfgang, at all.
I I shared with you the information Florida thirteen, Catherine Harris's district is open.
Uh she's retired uh or resigned as she's running for the Senate, and and uh Vern Buchanan is the candidate there, uh the Republican candidate.
This is right next to Foley's district, and the and polling, internal polling in the last two days, uh shows him picking up ground, gaining ground against the Democrat uh opponent in that race.
This is right next to Fony's uh Foley's district.
So, you know, I I I I agree with you.
I don't I in fact I have a I have a theory.
Uh a lot of people are calling this the Democrats' uh reenactment of the Wellstone Memorial, uh, where they used the coffin of Paul Wellstone as a battering ram against Republicans.
And you know what was really offensive about the Wellstone Memorial, aside from everything you remember about it.
But if you want to if you want to know what really shocked people, here is a res Wellstone was respected.
Well stone, he was who he was, and he was not a liberal that hid behind a mask or any camouflage.
You knew who he was, you knew where his passions were.
Uh you could debate him openly, and and uh he was he was not a mean-spirited guy.
He was not one of these wacko kook extremists.
They might have been in his beliefs, but he was not in his behavior and his rhetoric.
So a bunch of Republicans from the Senate went to that memorial.
Trent Lott and and uh they got booed when they walked in.
Their pictures were shown on the giant video screens that they had erected in there, and they got booed again.
This was a mock funeral.
It was a memorial, and here were colleagues of Wellstone from the Republican Party showing up to pay their respects, and they got booed and hounded out of the place.
In addition to everything else that went on.
So a lot of people are saying, well, this is getting very much close to the Democrats repeating the transgressions that occurred in the Wellstone Memorial.
I think that that's probably true.
There may be a grain of truth to that, but there's also something else that I see happening, and and to explain it, I will go back to my mere moments ago uh depiction of the Democrat liberal sewer backing up on them.
All these October surprises, they had so many of them they had to start in September with a national intelligence estimate, and uh and then and I had to start with George Allen in September.
Uh and then um uh of course we had all the other things again with the Woodward book and and uh and you name it, uh foley has come along and has totally obliterated every one of their other scandals.
And it's also taken the issue that they were using as their number one theme to win re-election, Iraq, off of anybody's mind.
Now, is there something that happened in the last number of years that is analogous to this?
There is.
I would like to take you back to two thousand and two.
Actually, I would like to take you back to two thousand and one.
Shortly after nine eleven, the Congress authorized a massive resolution granting the president power to do whatever he wanted and needed to do wherever to take out enemies of this country who had been involved in nine eleven, who whore were involved in future threats.
The president felt that was all he needed uh for the use of force authorization in Iraq.
But the Democrats in the summer actually it was uh it was September of 2002.
So no no no no we want we want to debate this again.
We we we want to debate that they wanted to go on the record as being tough on terrorists.
They wanted to go on the record and they wanted to have another vote, another debate so they could go out and campaign on being tough on terrorists in the process what'd they do.
Well, their issues in that campaign were going to be kitchen table issues, back pocket, the economy, uh and all of that.
And they they took their own issue off of the front burner, and they've done it again here with this Foley business.
They've taken their own issue off the front burner.
And now the sewer's backing up on them, and they may not be able to get rid of this issue.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, the big question to me anyway.
The big question, how did the foley instant messages go public?
That's the question.
That's what I want the FBI to tell me.
How did the Foley messages end up going public?
All right, here is that phone call from yesterday in the third hour.
It is Julie from Oklahoma City, and uh it speaks for itself.
Julie in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
Just wanted to tell you a funny story.
Um in two I've listened to you since two thousand, and in two thousand four, I decided to go back to college after being out of high school for ten years.
Um much because of what I've heard on your show about how you can do anything.
You should do anything, you should not be okay with mediocre, etc.
etc.
You were the only one that's ever put that idea in my head.
Is that right?
Your whole life?
It's been yeah, it's been that kind of life, but yes, that's correct.
And it was drilled in my head over and over again from listening to your show.
You know, go out and do it.
Just do it, you know, make something better of yourself.
You have opportunity.
So I went back to school in two thousand four, and I had a professor who had a master's working on his second master's, who was so book smart, you know, thought he knew everything.
And he would bring up arguments in class over the economy, uh amendments, laws, different things.
And I am telling you what, the only thing I had done since high school was work, and then I started listening to your show.
I could go toe to toe with that guy and argue with him about anything and make him look stupid in front of the class just by listening to your show.
Did he know that he looked stupid or did he give you problems?
Did he did he think you were being insolent and disrespectful?
He no.
He he was baffled.
He looked at my profile and he said, Now, you've been out of school ten years.
He said, You've won this is your first year.
He said, How in the world do you know all this stuff?
And I said, I'm gonna be honest.
I said, all I do is listen to Rush.
Oh no, I knew that was coming in.
Then he said He said no.
He said, Oh, that's just hate speech, and I said, No, no, it's not.
And I said, you know what, I didn't even know how an informed and smart I was till I had got in this class, and I said, and realizing everything I've heard from that show, how informed and smart and capable I really am.
And now I said, you know, I couldn't believe it.
You know.
And um he said, Well, doesn't he just talk bad about people?
Doesn't he just make fun of Democrats?
And I said, No, it's actually very educational.
And he said, Well, I just I just can't believe it.
So I said, Well, give it a listen sometime.
And he ended up listening, and he doesn't listen every day because of classes, but he ended up listening and said he rather enjoys the show.
Even if he was I hope he's hoping he's listening today.
Was your college in Oklahoma City?
Yes, it is.
I I couldn't let you go without thanking you from the uh bottom of my sizable beating heart.
No, saying thank you for opening up my eyes because really there was no one else around to do it, and the only reason I started listening to you was the election of two thousand.
I just felt I couldn't believe what I was seeing on ABC NBC, and I said, What would Rush Limbaugh have to say about this?
Let's get a different point of view, and ever since then I've been listening.
Sounds almost like divine intervention.
Right.
What would Rush do?
Yeah, well, of all people you can think of, uh and you hadn't listened before.
No, my sister has listened since you since you had your TV program.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
She's listened and she's always talked about you, and I almost felt guilty listening to you, but I thought, oh she'll be well, my sister would love this.
I said she would love this, you know.
And I think one thing I have to ask you, because this is you said uh earlier in in your call that nobody in your life had ever spoken to you about the positive aspects of you, the potential that you as an American citizen have, that you can be better than you think you are, you can do more than you think you can.
Nobody ever talked to you that way at any time in your life.
Let me tell you why, because when I was seventeen and when I was eighteen I had a baby.
So everyone said, Well, just go get a job, just go pay your bills, just make it the best you can.
You know, because I had a a baby at a young age, people were thinking, well, you know, you just would be doing good to be make making more than a bit before that I I just I sometimes I make the mistake of because I had a very normal childhood.
And I had I had, you know, just typical middle class middle America upraising.
Upbringing.
And and uh that's w it was it was via my my whole family that that I first and I didn't put it in these words, but that's where I first became cognizant and aware of what I now call American exceptionalism.
And my dad and my as some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could.
But you know, I I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time.
But but still the the concept that uh there's a great land of opportunity out there, uh and all you have to go to do all you have to do is is is go attack it was not something foreign to me.
It's so it's why I'm I'm I'm one of the few members of my family that left home.
I mean, I I left home when I was twenty.
Uh and you know, struck out on just following my dream uh I've told the story countless thousands of times.
What I what I'm amazed at is that th i i and I wonder how common this is, that up until the time you had your baby when you were seventeen, that the whole concept that there's greatness for you out there, that you are uh a a special person, that you're better than average, that all it takes is a little hard work, that there's far more out there than what you think.
This was something that never occurred to you or was never taught to you.
Well, no, it was because I wanted to be a police officer, I wanted to be an FBI agent, and everyone would say, Oh, Julie, you know, you can't do that.
You could never do that.
That's a man's work, you know.
Just put that idea out of your head.
And so I would start to think, well, maybe I you know, maybe I can't.
And that's where really I think there's probably a lot of that out there.
Um i i i in in general.
No, you can't do that.
I mean, I've I've been told that too.
I was not told that by my family.
Right.
But I've been told that by people that fired me.
Uh I I've I've been told that by by friends when I told them what I wanted to do.
It can't.
I mean, we all hear.
It's easy to be negative.
You know, you'll you'll never go to the the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.
Right.
And it doesn't take any special insight.
But these people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions.
Because it's something that doesn't occur naturally, apparently.
Even in this country where I think it ought to be occurring.
But then you look at the political drivel that suffices as news most of the day for most people, and the country sucks, it's going to hell on a handbasket.
In fact, there's a shortage of handbaskets.
Because the economy is doing so pat poorly.
Uh Bush is lying, people are dying, all this that it's a constant negative drumbeat uh that is by the Democratic Party echoed by the media, so uh I'm I'm not surprised that that stuff's easy to be caught up in, but uh what did your parents do?
What what did your dad do?
Um he was an accountant.
He was an accountant.
Well, that's not hard.
I mean, that's not easy.
That requires a lot of hard work and specific talent and...
Uh maybe it was he wasn't around, so it was just my mother.
So I guess the idea of her having a poke daughter who wanted to be a police officer or FBI agent or whatever was just far fetched.
Just no, not my daughter, you know.
Don't you want to be a hairdresser, a waitress, a secretary, you know?
And I said, no.
I would, you know, this is what I want to do, and then came into the whole, well, you've got a baby now, so you know, you're gonna do good just to make it.
And I believed that for so many years.
I'm doing good just to make it, and I thought, wait a minute.
I can do way more than that.
Well, you know, there that that it it takes all kinds.
I and uh uh uh the uh not not everybody is is gonna reach their potential, and not everybody is gonna tap their full ambition.
It just doesn't for a lot of reasons.
Some of them you just mentioned.
Um and other people will settle.
I mean, you had had you not uh happened upon this program, probably because what your mother had said enough times, you would have just said, okay, uh this is this is my lot in life, and you would have tried to make the most of it and be happy, uh, and so forth.
Uh and I think that probably happens more often uh than not, but yet somehow you swerved and stumbled into this program.
And now you've gone back to college ten years.
And when did you start college again?
Two thousand and four.
Two thousand and four.
And this profess this professor of yours, and of two thousand four, I had been on the air uh sixteen years.
And this guy had no clue what actually happened on this program, even though you don't need a secret radio or password to listen to it.
Well you gotta do is turn on the radio.
And his guy teaching college had no clue.
He just believed it was all hate speech, bashing Democrats every day and so forth.
Uh and you were able to educate him.
How'd that make you feel?
I mean, I'm telling you, when I it was not until I walked in that class and he would start lecturing on certain things, and I could argue with him and I could make him look really dumb that I was like, whoa, you know, I haven't just been listening, I've been learning.
I mean, it was I mean, it just made me feel wonderful.
And he was one of those guys that he believes everything he sees on TV.
Well, you know, Dan Rather said it, it must be true if the book says it must be true.
He never questioned anything.
He was so institutionalized.
Right.
And so this is what the book says, this is what it is.
He never questioned anything, and you know, that's one thing I've got from your program.
Don't just listen.
You got a question.
Go out, explore, get knowledge.
Right.
Learn to read the stitches on the fastball.
Exactly.
And that's what I've done, and I just didn't like I said, i I was just amazed that I could go up against a guy who had a master's for crying out loud.
Well, see that yeah, that's another thing to learn.
You uh you said at the beginning of the phone call, there are there are countless book smart people who have lots of education.
Uh, but it doesn't mean they have a lot of knowledge.
And yeah.
And I so I mean it was just a little bit surreal, you know, not surreal, but you know.
Well, what are you studying?
Police science.
Police so you're following your original dream.
That's that's fabulous.
Yes, I am.
Fabulous.
And I'm finally I am almost there, too.
Terrific.
Well, damn it, I'm proud of you.
Thank you very much.
I mean, that's that is just awesome.
You you you held on to the dream for ten years and now you're doing it and you're and you're doing it at the university level.
That's that's just great.
And I've I hope and I've made the president's list every semester.
While I've got two kids, while I'm working full time.
That is just incredible.
See, you are living proof.
To anybody and by the see, the great thing here, not only what it's doing for you, uh, and and the way you feel about yourself and your future, but anybody else who comes in contact with your story, uh you're gonna influence in a in a positive way.
Uh and and so your life experiences are gonna transfer to others, and you're gonna make them better because you're gonna make them think it's also possible for them.
That's just this is just terrific.
Well, you gave me the you gave me the big push that I needed.
Well, I understand that.
I understand.
Somebody had to.
I'm glad we were there when uh when you tuned in at this propitious moment.
You happen to be listening when we weren't bashing Democrats.
Uh do you have a computer?
Yes, I do.
Are you uh are you a subscriber to my website?
No, I'm not.
I'm sorry.
Well, you are now.
I'm gonna make a compliment.
Yes, right.
You because you're one of the c you are you are you will not believe what all is there.
You think that you're informed and educated now.
Wait till you tap into the resources that are on my website.
And I'm also gonna throw in a a year subscription of the Limbaugh letter, that's the newsletter, and uh give you a couple items from the EIB store that you can pick out.
So Julie, hang on, uh a nice man who will not ask you the name of your kids.
No, thank you.
You've you've made our day here.
Well, good.
You've you've made a big difference to me, so thank you.
Thank you, J. Thanks, Julie.
We also uh we also threw in a sleep number bed from Select Comfort of her choice.
And I at the last minute decided to throw in a uh uh a rush pack from Allen Brothers Steaks in Chicago, the uh the best steaks, bacon, whatever you want you have ever tasted, abstakes.com.
Uh and I got I I think I have had as much feedback email-wise on this phone call uh as anything else in the last ten or twenty years, uh twelve years of the I think the last time this kind of response, and it's close.
I mean it's it's close, but we did the three days when the white collar guys had been laid off in the uh mid-90s, uh, and these are people their 40s and 50s.
And uh we did three days of uh phone calls from them as to how they were handling it, what they were doing, and it was it was just as inspirational as uh as Julie's call uh was yesterday.
People love to hear these kinds of stories.
And uh uh the Oh, yeah, we we we also take took calls some people who bailed out of society because they'd given up as well.
And we tried to reorient them uh and remind them what country they live in.
You know, they're not in Kazakhstan here.
Uh they're in the United States of America.
But this kind of stuff is just it's as inspirational as it can be, and it's it never ever gets old.
I have always believed, just based on my own life experiences that the vast majority of people have no clue how good they can be.
They have no clue what they're really capable of, because most people are not self-starters, and they don't get that kind of inspiration in the uh in the course of growing up.
They hear more negatives than positives.
Anyway, I'm a little long here, but I wanted you to hear that phone call because it truly inspires.
We'll play it in the first hour tomorrow, or maybe next week.
I don't give it some time, but I want the whole audience to hear that at some point.
Be right back, folks.
It's getting ridiculous out there now, ladies and gentlemen.
While uh you were listening to the call from Julie in Oklahoma City, I was watching Fox uh Martha McCallum has a show, then there's a round table at the end of the show, and one of the guests on the show is Mark Ginsburg, former Clinton ambassador to Morocco.
And they're talking about Hastert, the former Clinton ambassador to Morocco talking about Hastert.
And Ginsburg.
Ginsburg was questioning whether or not Tom DeLay had a role in the in the Foley episode.
Now the next thing you know, somebody's gonna posit that Jack Abramoff might have been involved in this somehow.
I mean, they could since the sewer's backing up, why not throw everything in the toilet?
Can't flush it anyway.
Clinton war room.
There's only one relevant question.
At this time, at this time, five weeks away from an election, Foley has resigned, he's gone.
The perp uh is is out, and the victim's name and identity are out there.
The only relevant question is how did these instant messages find their way into the public domain?
That's the relevant question.
For me anyway, right now.
Here's Janet in Gross Point, Michigan.
Hi, Janet.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Arts and calls on crowd ditto, and may I just say you're magnificent.
It's been a pleasure listening to you today.
Thank you.
I just wanted to um you opened up regarding Mark Foley.
You opened up the show saying where's the humanity.
And I think that's so spot on that we shouldn't ignore what you said.
What the Democrats are doing, um, Lawrence Larry O'Donnell, whatever that fellow's name was talking about it, but uh supposed list of gay representatives, gay politicians, Republicans up on the hill that's going to come out perhaps.
Yes.
That's you.
You always say that the Democrats go back to their old playbook.
And this is an old play.
We first saw it with Paula Jones when those store when that story came out, the gays, the lavender mob in in politics, uh outed David Brock, the author of the Kapala Jones story to hopefully.
And that sent that's right, that sent Brock running uh for cover to the libs.
Exactly.
That's what there's a lavender mafia, the Catholic Church had it.
It causes people to look the other way.
Wink wink, nudge nudge, don't look over there.
Kind of like how Bill Clinton was running Arkansas.
And then the other thing that they you always say that Democrats can't do is they can't talk about faith.
Oh, and on the on that, uh the reason the the Democrats want to um throw out that there's more Republicans that are gay out there is because they want people like me.
You know, me, the bigoted one over here.
Right.
Who listened to They want you to abandon the party because they want you to be shocked and stunned that there are gay people in the Republican Party, as though you don't know this.
Uh Janet, it's brilliant.
You reminded me I have to talk about this humanity thing I brought up in the first hour.
I'll do that soon.
Thanks much.
Gotta go back in just a second.
One thing I just can't get out of my mind for why does this kid need a lawyer?
The page.
What if this whole thing's a trick?
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