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Oct. 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Thrill and a delight to be with you.
I am L. Rushbaugh, America's real anchor man.
Reporting to you the news that is important, with, of course, commentary and analysis and intelligence that you will not find anywhere else.
It's Friday, and that means live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, yes, yes, all right.
We've got our phones.
The program is all yours.
Monday through Thursday.
This program's devoted to things that interest me.
If I don't care about it, I don't talk about it.
Because if I don't care about it and talk about it, I'm going to sound bored silly.
And then nobody will listen.
I am a benevolent dictator.
There is no first amendment here.
Nobody has the right to speak other than me.
Nobody has the right to be heard.
Not even I. That has to be earned.
But on Friday, I cast aside these draconian rules and open up the program to any and all who might want to talk about whatever.
I have made a request today, ladies and gentlemen.
And it is based on the uh the concept that there are just droves and droves of uh cut and run conservatives out there.
By the way, I should point out that the drive-by media has has slurped up that phrase.
PMS NBC is running the uh PSA that we're running on this program.
The Washington Post, the Washington Times uh have both uh noted the cut and run conservative uh moniker that I have employed here to describe uh those of you who um are not going to vote because you were mad at the Republicans.
And in the process, I have made a request.
And normally I am unlike other hosts.
I want to hear what you think they'll say, and I throw out an issue and say, call me and tell me what you think.
That's because they've got nothing to say.
Uh and of course, that is never the case with me.
However, I am interested in something, because we've been at this a long time, you and me.
Uh many, many, many of you have been with us since the outset of the program, and certainly uh for the last fourteen years we've been at it eighteen, but for the last fourteen, we've been at the 500 radio station, Mark.
So uh vast majority of you have been with us for quite some time.
And we've been through a lot together.
We've been through the parade debacle, after which you apologized, uh saying that you should have listened to me, that uh I was right, and that you were wrong.
I was magnanimous in accepting your apologies, even offered counseling for some who were terribly distressed by it.
Same thing with the Buchanan brigades.
There have been a number of such incidents where those of you in this audience have uh uh concluded that I've lost it.
I'm out of touch, don't know what I'm talking about, and uh you break away.
You always come back, always acknowledge that I was right and that you were wrong.
So my question this time is, why do you think, to those of you who are cut and run conservatives, why do I not agree with you on this?
Why am I not cutting and running?
Why am I not leading the charge on this program to have more and more people join the quote unquote movement of cut and run conservatives?
Why am I not on your side?
Why do I not agree with you?
And I have specifically asked for people to call and explain that answer.
Uh we have do we get one, H.R. Did the guy pass the test?
I don't want to talk to him yet.
I want to stick with a guy in Crofton, Maryland, but we do we do have one who's gonna attempt to answer the question.
All right.
Well, we're not even sure, but we're gonna get it, we're gonna give it a shot.
Now, I I could infer much from this.
I can infer that, well, there aren't that many cut and run concerns, or otherwise we'd be flooded.
Or I can assume that some of you just know it's hopeless.
But I don't want you to feel hopeless.
I don't want you to think I'm not gonna argue with you.
I just want to know why you think I'm not with you on this.
If it's the principal position, if it's the no question about it position, why am I a de facto leader not leading you on this, and not with you.
So 800 282-2882 is the number.
If you want to be on the program and the email addresses rush at EIBNet.com.
Now I want to go back to this uh guy in Crofton, Maryland, named Brian.
He's in the stage Hands Union.
I am appearing in concert at the Warner Theater in Washington on November 16th, sold out in ten minutes.
The only tickets I know of that are available are uh being held by our affiliate in Washington WMAL and they're being uh used to uh as as giveaways uh throughout the broadcast day at WMAL.
Michael or Brian here usually can get tickets to anything being in the stage hands union, but he can't to this one.
And I don't understand Brian, what I'm I still it's maybe it's my hearing or whatever, but I don't understand who it is that's shutting you out this time.
No, Rush, it's it's um think of it like this.
Th there's always tickets available for any show.
If you wanted to go to uh like the Detroit, whatever, to the World Series and you say, hey, it's Rush Limbaugh, give me tickets to say, okay, we're gonna get tickets for you.
Well, I uh I uh wait no wait, just so I used to work for the Kansas City Royals.
I know how many tickets are set aside for the home team and the visiting team and their barmaids and their girlfriends.
I know all that.
Exactly.
I know that they all tickets are held back for every event.
Exactly.
Right now and you always have access to those.
All I'm asking you is who's denying you access to these?
No one's denying me access yet.
What I need to do is I I need to trick them somehow into getting these tickets and you know, almost let it not be known for me.
They know I'm coming.
But why do you have to trick them if you can get them to any event?
Rush, these guys think you're the antichrist, man.
What guys?
Everybody, Rush.
Everybody.
There's like a lot of people.
But so it's the union it's well, it's the union guys that has these tickets.
Yeah, well, it's the union leaders, guys that are way up in the way up in the union, guys that run the venues that can get the tickets for you.
Okay because they know people in production.
It's you know, scratching your back scrap, you know.
Okay.
Basic, you know, basic stuff.
You still have to pay for them, you still get the tickets.
You don't get them for free or anything, but they can get you tickets to good shows, things that are sold out, you know, things like you.
So but I I need this some way to trick them or trap them in the game.
Do I say they're for my mom?
Do I, you know, say they're for my brother?
Because when they say they're for me, I mean these guys are beyond liberal rush.
They're you know, these are competitive.
Yeah, but d do they know that you are conservative.
They know I'm conservative, but they don't know the full extent of it.
I can't talk politics with them because you know, you don't get blackballed because in in my union it's a little it's different.
You get you have to work in my union.
I mean, I love my un I you know, I love the guys I work with.
I love my job because you know you get to be in around a lot of exciting stuff, but you you just can't talk politics there because it's just you know, on my side, it's I'm more like one of two guys.
There's like three of us, maybe in the entire union that are conservatives.
You know what?
You know what I'm hearing here?
When you when you boil it all down, I'm hearing that you're afraid to ask as you would on any other show.
Uh uh yeah, afraid maybe maybe.
Well, don't let fear stand in your way.
If if you're I'm not so much afraid as I am uh you know, I I'm Well, but you are you're you're afraid they'll turn you down.
No, I'm not I I know they're gonna turn me down.
I know that.
So I'm not afraid of that.
You don't know that.
You don't know that until it happens.
Rush, Rush.
It's gonna happen.
You don't know that.
This is a good idea.
I need a trick, I need a ploy.
I need, you know, I I need to come up with an idea to get these from these guys.
You know what I mean?
They will turn me down.
That's a guaranteed lock.
You know how there's a lead pipe lock.
That's what I'm saying.
When's the last time they turned you down for tickets to a show?
Uh they never have.
Never.
Uh not not my friends.
These guys are all my friends.
You know, they're I'm good friends with a lot of these guys, but they're just, you know, they're you know, they're all right.
I mean, no now we got a cut-and-run stage hand who's afraid to go to the libs and ask for tickets.
Come on, Rush.
It ain't like that.
It is nothing like that, man.
It's a guaranteed lead pipe lock.
You know what I mean?
You and you give out the thing.
All right, so what do you want from me?
You you want me a ruse.
You want you you want for me to offer you a ruse, i.e.
something you can tell them that is a love.
Exactly.
Do I say that from my mom?
Like my sister went and saw you in Dallas or somewhere, somewhere in Texas, she saw you.
But um, you know, she said you were great.
Of course I want to see you.
I mean, I've been a fan of yours all my life, ever since my dad introduced me when I was young.
And you know, I'm a lifelong conservative ever since I was a kid.
So I just, you know, I just need a ploy.
I need a trick.
I need you know, you you're always good at this stuff.
I think.
How many tickets do you need?
How many do you need?
Two.
Or one.
I'll go by myself if I have to, but of course I want to bring my lovely girlfriend.
Ring your girlfriend.
Well, now there's the answer.
Let her ask.
You you get you could tell them that your girlfriend is uh not a big fan and wants to see what all the hubbubs are about.
That's pretty good.
That might work.
Plus she's beautiful.
She's a really good looking girl, so she she she can trap up some people too if she has to.
Uh what what is good looking guy?
Is she conservative or liberal?
she's conservative for sure.
Okay, well this tell her tell her that you've got a woman that wants to come heckle.
That I mean, how could they resist that?
Okay, you think that'll work?
Well, I don't know.
I I um as one who never has trouble getting tickets to anything.
Exactly.
That's that's my point.
I'm this this this is uh it's it's a new challenge for me.
Uh I'll tell you what, look, Brian, I gotta run here, but we I will think about this.
Staff and I will put our heads together.
HR, I want you to get his phone number if you're not afraid to give us that.
Oh, I already gave it to Rush, not afraid at all.
All right, and we'll we'll we'll figure uh we'll uh we'll figure something out here.
All right, thanks, my man.
You're the greatest.
I know.
Uh Brian, thanks for the call.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us, my friends.
Open line Friday on the one and only EIB network, Rush Limbaugh, as usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right.
And we had a couple comers here who um uh takers actually want to uh answer my question, why am I not with them in cut and run mode?
And uh we go first to Demaris, Georgia, and Don.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Welcome, thank you for having me, Rush, and of course I'd like to say megadiddos to you from the great Beach State of Georgia.
You bet.
Uh I'd like to say that I think the reason that you do not uh condone the cut and run is you don't want your remarks to be fodder for the likes of John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reed.
Don't you believe that if you did say let's go ahead and get out of there, you'd be on every uh drive by media's uh talking bites from now until election day.
Uh well that would probably happen, but that's not why I am not joining the cut and run crowd.
Uh uh but I'll tell you i you don't understand I don't believe Rush, the reason we're calling for the cut and run.
Well, that's why I'm I'm I I basically but give me a better reason than I'm afraid of what Pelosi and Kerry would say.
Why am I if you've if if you think you're right and I'm wrong, why am I wrong?
Why am I not with you?
If if it's so plain for you to see, why don't I see it?
Because Rush, sometimes you just have to learn things the hard way.
And sometimes this country is going to have to learn things the hard way.
Unfortunately, it it's sad.
Uh I'm a father of two.
Um, you know, I I tell my son to go ahead and clean up his room.
He doesn't clean up his room, and he knows the alternative.
There's there's things that are taken away from him.
Television's taken away.
Going outside is taken away from them.
Sometimes they have to learn the hard way, Rush.
And I'll tell you, the United States problems began in October of 2001, when we went in there into Afghanistan, when in all honesty, in all honesty, we're not fighting this war the way we fought world to.
And I can do that.
I know that I don't want to hear the thing that oh.
Well, I've said that myself.
I I've said that myself.
I have talked about all the problems, illegal immigration, the fact that we didn't use real shock and awe, that we're not fighting this the way we're hearing my words thrown back at me.
But th I I know why you are cutting and running.
I you don't you don't have to tell me.
I mean, I've I've talked enough, I can figure it out.
I but but you still haven't told me why I don't see it your way.
You you you you think that I would, except I'm afraid that uh Pelosi and Kerry would pick it up.
Well, if I were with you, I would want that to happen.
If because basically, when you talk about cut and run, you want them to lose.
And you don't care any about anything else that happens.
You want them to lose the hell with whatever happened.
You want to teach them a lesson.
Well, if I were of the same mind, then I'd be pounding it from the mountaintop here that I want them to lose.
I'm cutting and running.
They don't deserve to be a relic.
And I would want the Democrats to harp on what I'm saying.
And I would want them to amplify it all over the country.
That's not why.
I am not part of the uh cut and run movement.
This is gonna be it.
I don't think I'm gonna get an answer that is any way satisfactory.
We'll try uh let's see, uh uh Rob in Melbourne, Florida.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you very much for talking to me, Rush.
I'm uh big fan, although it always ha it hasn't always been like that.
Um I believe that you're not cut and run, and I'm not either, even though I desperately want to be.
Um because of the security issue.
There are those who will fight the war and try to save our lives.
And there are those who don't care that there are people trying to kill our mothers and daughters and sons.
And that's the issue that trumps everything else right now, in my opinion.
Well, okay.
That's good for you.
That's that's part of the answer for me.
I I um if if somebody were to ask me well I'm a if if if I were to explain it, I'm not going to until somebody can guess it, uh that would not be what I would say.
Uh it might be a small part of what I would say.
But uh uh you know, I I should alert every time I try to do this, it never works.
Hey, ask for specifics, it just never works.
I remember the days we used to say we're only taking calls from women, men would call.
You know, thinking and uh that that they'd sneak through and uh so forth.
Okay.
Uh anyway, Rob, I appreciate your sentiment and I appreciate your call.
Again, am I and maybe I'm not explaining this right.
Let me try again.
I'm trying to do this in a in a dignified way as I can.
Uh we are all in the same family here.
That's how I view it anyway.
And some of you want to cut and run the party.
You want to you want to abandon it.
You're not gonna vote, you want to teach them a lesson.
Now we're all in the movement here.
If it's the straight position, it's the wise position.
If it's the s if it's the position that makes the most sense in this election, and since I make sense, most of the sense, most of the time.
Why am I not with you on this?
I I'm tempted to tell you some of the things I expected to hear, but then I would shut down the response.
Let's try again.
Jay in Atlantic City.
You want to give the first off, are you cut and run?
Okay.
Uh thanks for taking the call, Rush.
Uh I'm tired of hearing myself being called cut and run, but I am.
I am definitely a conservative uh Why are you too why wait wait wait what what bothers you about it?
Um my feeling do you want me to do it the way the screener said it?
Why you why I feel that you won't change your mind, or do you want me to do it my way?
No, the the screener's not hosting the show.
Okay.
Well, just wonder why I thought you don't change your mind.
I think you are sincere.
I think you will not change your mind.
You're just locked into your sincerity.
You want to finish the mission over there.
I don't think you're uh pawn of George Bush or anything.
Um I think that's a problem to not have an open mind a little bit when things are going so bad over there.
Um, I have the same problem at home.
My wife is ultra conservative as I am.
My son has been to Iraq and back.
Uh he has the option of going whenever he wants.
He's reserved now, and he's an airborne SF unit, so he can pick and choose.
Um he now has will not go.
I'm hoping he won't go to Iraq.
He said if he goes back over there, he volunteers, he'll go to Afghanistan and not Iraq.
We can't win over there, Rush.
That's the problem.
We've set ourselves up in a position over there.
Is that why you're cutting him?
Is that wait a minute.
Go ahead, Rush.
Go ahead.
It's your show.
No, no, no.
It's just I I I I know why people are cutting and running.
I don't need to hear it from the cut-and-run crowd.
I I'm just want to know why the cut and run crown, if it's the brilliant maneuver, thinks that I'm not with you.
Are you Okay, I think you're sincere.
I think there's awfulness over there that are sincere.
Uh why do you not like the term cut and run?
Um I want to do is see us fight the war properly, and then I'd say we could stay there, but we're not fine, all right.
And the people that are running, but this is we'll not let us do it.
This is what I don't understand.
I let's fight the war properly.
With Nancy Pelosi as speaker, Harry Reed is the Senate majority leader, and all and and uh and Jay Rockefeller as the uh as the uh chairman of the intelligence committee.
That's smart.
Back in a minute.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, I've come to a uh conclusion.
I've I've had this question open for an hour and a half now.
And in an hour and a half, and we have we have you have no idea how many phone calls we get on this program, but We've got for crying out loud, folks.
I mean, the millions of people out there trying to get through here.
It is we we and we run through these things fast.
The screening the calls on this program is an art.
In an hour and a half, I haven't gotten one of exactly what I'm looking for.
It's it and it's it's I know why.
I'll tell you in just a minute.
I'm looking for the ardent, enthusiastic, passionate cut-and-run conservative who's not voting because these Republicans need to be taught a lesson or whatever.
And I all I want to know is why am I not with you?
Does it bother you that I'm not with you?
Knowing how many times I've been right about these things in 18 years, I'm not with you.
Nobody has called that really has gotten there.
This is not to impugn those of you that I have spoken to.
I think the reason is there aren't any.
Or there certainly aren't that many.
This is a media creation.
This is a media template.
Now there are some cut and runs, but I mean, I should I should have a full board of people who can't wait to give me the business over this, who can't wait to chide me for not getting it.
I should have callers out there who are accusing me of being tied to the White House, of doing the president's bidding, of being a stooge of Carl Rhodes, of being in on the RNC plan.
I should be getting all kinds of people telling me why they think that I am not joining them in cutting and running in terms of the uh conservatives sitting out the election.
That's what I expected to get.
I expect to get people saying, well, because you you you you can't afford to make the enemy said, or whatever the I was open up to any possibility it might happen.
Or I was I was prepared for people, you just don't get it, Rush.
You're just don't you just don't get it.
Uh but mostly what the people who've gotten through have wanted to tell me is why they're cutting and running.
And they've all had a singular issue that matters to them.
It's either the way we're fighting the war on terror, or I forgot what else.
It only took three calls.
And we don't uh is this guy that we have up here uh next uh is he on this or is he is he not?
Hell, I don't know.
Bill in uh in Savannah, sell call.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Meg Dills, 25-year Marine veteran here.
Uh got a message for the cut-and-run Republicans and a cut-and-run Democrats.
Uh we're at a turning point in this war in Iraq right now.
Um we may very well lose the war.
And the reason we're going to lose it if it happens is uh, number one, if the Democrats get into power, but number two, for the same reason we lost the war in Vietnam.
The people in Iraq are watching what's going on.
Um America has one thing to offer, same thing we offer NAfghanistan, it's why we won over there and why Russia lost, we offer hope.
Right now, the Iraqi people, and really for the last year are looking at the media, looking at the politics, they're seeing which way the wind blows.
If, and it's what's happening right now, they they seem to think that we're going to cut and run out of Iraq.
They're going to do what they're starting to do right now and side with the terrorists.
They're going to start turning um information over to the terrorists because they don't want to be on the wrong side of the line when the balloon goes down.
And uh that's what happened in Vietnam, and that's the thing happened.
Well, but see, no, but you've got to understand Democrats and liberals love that.
They love that we lost in Vietnam.
In fact, they love to mischaracterize the Tet Offensive.
They love to they've been hoping and praying that they could make people think that Iraq was Vietnam so that we would lose that too, so they could drive support from the war.
There are people in this country who don't want us to win.
And those people may end up in power because of the cut and run Republicans.
I want to re- you you talk about the civilians in Iraq, and uh, if they think we're gonna pull out, they'll side with the bad guys because they want to stay alive.
Uh there's there's no question about it.
I want to run something else by you again.
I mentioned this in the last hour, and and I actually started this discussion and thought process in September.
And in September, I presented it to you thus that the largest group of undecided voters is actually Al Qaeda terrorists and the insurgents, whoever they are in Iraq.
Because that's where most of the fighting against terrorism is taking place these days.
And the undecided back in September, and I raised the question, which way are they going to go?
With whom are they going to vote?
On what side will they fall?
And I said, we're going to have to wait and see.
We'll know by their actions.
Well, their early voting has begun, and they have obviously sided with the Democrats.
They are trying to create more mayhem and chaos than ever in a short concentrated period of time.
They're even in league with CNN, giving video away, showing snipers kill American soldiers.
CNN dutifully, slavishly runs it.
And so the terrorists have chosen up their voting Democrat.
But I have a question about this.
The Democrats say that we're losing the war.
That we can't win the war.
There's no prayer.
We have no hope.
The Democrat strategy such as it's been articulated is to get out of there, cut and run, redeploy.
We can't win it.
It's not possible.
Besides, in addition to that, in addition to the fact that we are not only losing it, we have no chance of winning it, we're creating more terrorists.
Bush is creating more terrorists by even having gone to Iraq.
He didn't create more terrorists by going to Afghanistan to get bin Laden, but he's creating more terrorists by going to Iraq.
Now, if I'm a terrorist leader, whoever it is, let's uh say, I don't care who it is.
If I'm a terrorist leader and I'm gonna speak in this terrorist leader's voice, if I'm a terrorist leader and I'm really winning this thing big time, and if the Democrat Party and the American left and the media is right, that the United States can't beat me, and in fact the United States is losing big time, and the United States has no prayer of ever winning, that there needs to be a new plan, there needs to be a new structure.
And if at the same time the Americans can't beat me, and I am cleaning their clocks, the same time Americans are creating more terrorists for me, if all of this is making my ranks swell and grow, if I've got people all over the world wanting to join my terror group, because George Bush is fighting, then who am I going to be for?
Well, if I'm logical, and if I'm smart and I really want to win the war, and if I'm in the middle of really cleaning America's clock, I want the guy that's the architect of America's defeat to stay in office.
And I want his party to stay in office.
Because I want to keep winning and I want to close this out, and I want more terrorists to join my side.
And yet what do I do?
Why throw in with the Democrats?
All of a sudden, I'm trying to make it look like it's so bad over here for George W. Bush and the Americans, and it's what it's pointless and it's worthless, and the Americans are dying for no reason whatsoever, and I'm gonna support I know that's gonna cause the American people to vote for Democrats.
Why would I, Mr. Terrorist leader, who's got one of the greatest runs going in military history?
I'm about to beat the United States of America, and at the same time they're creating more battlers, warriors, and soldiers for me, more terrorists.
Why would I undercut my own victory by getting rid of the guy and his party who is responsible for my victory?
Why would I want people who are going to assume office and leave Iraq?
Oops.
Maybe did I answer my own question, ladies and gentlemen?
Could it well be that the terrorists are the last people on the planet who think they're winning?
Could it be that the terrorists in Iraq are the last people on earth who think that Bush is good for their cause?
Could it be that the terrorists in Iraq and around the world think that maybe their biggest problem is Bush and his party?
Must be the case because the terrorists in Iraq, the great undecided who are the first voters, the early voting crowd Is doing their best to get rid of the guy who is taking America down to a humiliating defeat.
They're doing their best to get rid of the president and his party, who single-handedly is creating more terrorists around the world, which makes me more powerful, and yet I'm doing everything I can to get rid of this guy, who's the weakest enemy I could have ever imagined.
Something here doesn't jibe.
But I'm just going to tell you if if you were not slightly outraged and offended when you stop and consider that our enemy is actually siding with the Democratic Party in the American left and trying to affect the outcome of an election because they know that Democrats' victory is what takes them to victory.
They know that Democrats winning the House in the Senate and in the White House in 08, that's what ensures terror victory.
That's what they want.
Are you not the slightest bit outraged over this?
And are you not the slightest bit outraged that they also understand how to play the American drive-by media to further advance the cause?
I.e.
secret videotape exclusive only to CNN that shows terrorists and snipers killing essentially American soldiers in non-battlefield circumstances?
Cold blood.
Are you not the slightest bit mad that the enemy of the United States, the people who are behind the 9-11 attacks, are voting in this election now and have chosen sides, and it's with the Democrats.
Open line Friday rolls on Rush Linboy, your host for life, Jeff in Pittsburgh.
You're next.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
Big fan.
Thank you.
No mega disses on this one.
The reason why you're not with us is because it's a business to you, and you built a franchise around getting Republicans into office.
I don't believe they can stay in the forest for the trees.
Okay, so you think I'm actually missing this.
I can't see the force of the story.
The big picture.
The big picture is we need leaders, whether it's immigration issues, spending out of control, we're not waging an all-out war.
We're not taking it seriously as we should in terms of the real war and we're gonna put people in in uh in charge who'll do it even worse.
Now if we get Republicans, if Republicans own the House, we get more of the same.
Uh well.
You think there's you We need leaders.
You if you're talking about the war, uh, that means you're upset with Bush.
Yeah, I mean, is Bush leading the House at the House?
Is there a is someone in the House, you know, coming up to the hill?
I mean, where's the theory?
I mean, the House, the House and the Senate are given Bush everything he's asked for in a war.
And no reason to throw him out for that.
You can't throw Bush out this race.
Right.
All you can do is make him impotent.
Okay, what about like immigration?
Spending out of control.
All right, well, where's the where's the Okay?
So you're just mad.
All right, and but let me let me take it first things first.
Uh uh I have not built a business putting Republicans into office.
In fact, uh, I think is my first book, wrote a chapter called My Success Does Not Determine By Who Wins Elections.
And if it ever were, I would be in a mess.
I wouldn't have survived the 80s, uh the Clinton years, because it would have meant I have no power.
Uh that's not the purpose of the program.
This this is the radio business, and I have two requirements in order to be successful, and that is to attract an audience and hold it so that I can then and the the biggest audience possible, and then so I can charge confiscatory advertising rates from sponsors who get results.
That's it.
Now, there are other factors thrown in.
I'm honest.
I have I have no program director here.
I don't have anybody that I have to have a meeting with to do this program.
I never consult with a soul, and I haven't for 18 years what I'm gonna say in this program or what I'm gonna talk about.
Um thus I have freedom to say the things I believe and have the fun I want to have And do it with your satirically, sarcastically, seriously, or what have you.
Serious discussion of issues combined with uh irreverent humor, illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
But if I if I were in business here to get Republicans elected, uh that'd be the end of me.
Because it ain't gonna happen all the time.
And I would be demonstrating my lack of power, influence, and all that, and then I'd be sunk.
That is not at all what's going on here.
See, this is I have been honest about why I'm not cut and run.
And yet, for some reason, some people don't think that's true.
That I'm not being honest when I am, that there must be some other reason.
It's got business related or whatever it is.
Uh asked immigration, since I pretty much nuked the Bush and the House and the Senate on the war business.
There is one reason why the McCain Kennedy bill in the U.S. Senate, which granted total amnesty to whatever number of illegals in this country.
One reason why that bill is not law today, and that's the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
They refused to go to conference on that bill when it passed the Senate.
They refused to even negotiate on it.
That was this summer.
And after they refused to negotiate on it, they um in the process of refusing, they put their own bill forward, which was border security first, and then we'll talk about all the rest.
The Senate didn't want anything to do with border security, didn't want to tell you.
Now we've got a fence bill.
The president wants to sign it.
The Republicans in the House have actually prevailed on this.
Now maybe they didn't get to it soon enough for you, but there's one reason why.
Whatever millions of illegals in this country do not have total amnesty and citizenship today.
It's the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Okay, precious few minutes uh remaining here.
Uh what one more thing.
The suggestion that I am not with you on the cut and run business for business reasons is absurd.
Uh remember, I'm here to acquire and attract and hold an audience.
And by not being with you, I would be shunning you, it'd be running you off.
It would be the exact opposite of my objective.
So the idea that there's a business reason for making you mad, a business reason for not joining you in your brilliance.
Uh somebody also said, would you explain conf confiscatory, confiscatory advertising?
That means as much as I can get.
Gouging.
Think big oil.
Think ExxonMobil.
When I want the largest audience possible held for as long as possible so I can charge confiscatory advertising rates, it means I want more than anybody else gets because it's worth it.
I want to gouge them.
Rush, you admit this?
Oh, they already know it.
They're paying it.
and That's just a way to express the business purpose here, ladies, which I have expressed over the countless months and years that I have been hosting the program.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's it.
We are out of precious broadcast moments here.
Uh I think one of the things I can I can illustrate here, during the Perot episode, I couldn't get rid of callers who wanted to tell me how wrong I was for missing it on Perot.
It went on for months and months and months and months and months, so much so that my partners back then were really afraid that I was losing the audience.
Today, begging and pleading for cut and runners to call and tell me why I'm not with them.
We got really two, proving that this is largely a media-made myth.
Have a great weekend, and I'll see you on Monday.
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