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Nov. 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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What?
There are a couple more out there.
Just make sure they're not explosives.
Well, I don't know.
Just go out and look.
Don't touch them.
Just look.
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Now during the break, went out there and uh tried to substantiate my theory, and it turns out that I'm on to something.
There are three states that had uh ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage.
Those states, Missouri, uh Montana, and Ohio.
And they all won in the you know 70% to 30% range, uh 75-25, I think, in Missouri, and that served to facilitate huge Democrat uh turnout.
Uh and and of course, once you get Democrats turning out, uh so pretty smart on those people's part.
Um that's right.
The eminent domain as well.
Every eminent domain won everywhere it was on a ballot, too.
Um that that was an issue that that uh like the judges uh that that was not given as much attention as it uh as it could have been, should have been.
Well, we're not gonna cry over spilt milk here, ladies and gentlemen.
We're going to move forward and react to whatever happens.
Um we we're sitting here discussing uh like I was telling Snerdley during the break, still bouncing off the call we got in the first hour from Allen in Fort Smith, Arkansas, uh, and another one just now.
Can't Bush, you know, if he just uh leads a conservative agenda here in the last two years of his term, why why that could give a lot of confidence to other conservatives out there legislatively and uh other electoral offices to keep fighting for it.
And yeah, I mean, and that that that's that's true.
Uh I don't oh man.
Um in my favorite carry the water mode, uh let me say it this way.
It's hard to continue something you haven't started.
There just hasn't been uh a an identifiable consistent conservative agenda that has been part of the uh White House political strategy.
They've had they've had uh other objectives.
And uh we're also talking about the minimum wage.
You look at you, you look at where it showed up in these states, and these victory margins for the minimum wage ballot initiatives were huge, 7525.
What is it 70, 30, whatever, but they're huge margins of victory.
Now, what does that tell you about the issue of the minimum wage?
It tells me that the conservative argument all of these years about minimum wage has just not made it.
It just hasn't permeated, it hasn't resonated.
It's it's uh and every time it comes up, the uh the usual arguments are advanced against it, and they just don't resonate because we're back to this word sympathy, nobody has sympathy for the business owner.
I don't care if it's large or small.
And there are a lot of businesses out there, small and large, but there are more employees.
And it's we've all been employees.
I remember when I was one.
We all hate the boss.
We all think we're not being paid enough.
We're all think the boss got more money than he's got and is squandering it for himself or doing whatever it could give us a little bit, but doesn't.
I mean, this is this is a a standard attitude that uh people have.
And so when when uh the minimum wage argument is is uh put forth, hey, it's it's gonna cost jobs, hey, is uh it's an arbitrary assignment of market value, all that stuff just gets lost on people.
Uh so it may be one of these things, let the Democrats have it.
House Republicans are gonna propose it anyway.
What the hell?
Chump chain small, let them have it.
Uh and if they want Bush is gonna give them their immigration amnesty, he wants that on his own.
Um and the theory is he could build up some political capital here by giving the Democrats a lot of what he wants or what they want, and then uh when on when it's time to start asserting yourself on important issues, that's when you say nope, not gonna go there to the Democrats.
Now, I don't know that that's what's happening.
I I I can just tell you, if I were in Bush's position, if I were president, especially in my second term, in the last two years, and all of a sudden a Democrat majority was elected in the House and Senate.
I would go for broke.
I would take the last two years and try to accomplish everything I wanted to accomplish and set things up for the future.
That's what I would do.
I don't know that that's going to happen.
Only uh only time will tell.
But it'll be an interesting thing to watch.
All right.
You know, this is this is just as funny as it can be.
For all of these years, the Atkins diet will kill you.
These low carb diets that kill you.
You can't go eating all that fat, clog your arteries.
Good cholesterol go down, bad cholesterol go up.
I mean, it just you can't stand these diets very long, it's just not healthy, and they try to destroy Atkins even after he had died, destroy his reputation.
Destroy the company that he had started.
Uh all kind and they were just basically health scientists that had competing diet conflicts of interest.
Uh it was what was driving them.
You can't go eat all that fat.
Well, a lot of people have done this diet.
It it works like every diet does.
Everybody, they're in a diet around that pr but that has its premise you'll lose weight, it doesn't work.
I mean, it's I'm not including the the obvious charlatan diets like the ice cream diet or the cupcake diet or whatever the hell.
But I mean, uh all of the the the weight watchers, the uh Jenny Craig's, the Nutrisystem, they all work uh at at losing weight.
It's after you finish them that uh the problems begin, as everybody who's been on them can tell you.
And it's they're not unique problems to any specific diet.
I've done the Atkins diet.
It worked like charm.
And in fact, when on the Atkins diet uh uh cholesterol numbers went down.
Uh insulin release uh was much less it is it is the triggering of insulin that uh uh begins the process of storing fat in your body.
And so if you uh it's like if you look at the French.
You ever wondered if French look at their look at their cuisine.
Fried brie, uh Bernays, Hollandaise on everything.
Uh I mean, the French diet is a really, really high fat diet.
How many fat French people waddling around do you see?
Not that many, especially in a percentage basis as compared to the United States.
So some wizards began to look in this, why is this?
And what they focused on was not so much the French diet.
Now I'm not making this up.
What they found, and I think you'll find this in the it's either the South Beach diet or the Palm Beach version of the South Beach diet or the sugar busters, I forget which it is, but you'll see it in there.
Uh the French, when they drink wine, eat cheese.
And what that causes, the protein in the cheese, combined with the alcohol in the wine, cuts the release of insulin in half.
And it's so protein with alcohol or or other insulin-inducing items.
Uh most people would think drinking wine and eating cheese would equal balloon city.
But it actually reduces the it cuts the insulin that the alcohol would release if you just drank it by yourself.
And well, I'm not saying I w no, I'm not saying a wine and cheese down make you skinny.
I'm I'm I'm saying that eating habits uh uh uh for for for overweight people, insulin is one of the keys.
And the the less of it you can cause now, all of this is out the window.
I'm not a doctor here, so don't anybody start quoting.
Listen to all of the words that I say.
All I'm telling you is that these scientists is these these dietitians have discovered that uh eating protein while drinking wine cuts the release of insulin and that reduces the uh uh amount of fat that's stored because insulin release is what starts the fat storing process.
Now, if you're diabetic, you've got a problem with insulin anyway, and you ought not be eating uh drinking booze and wine and this sort of stuff.
Uh but just for people that have normal insulin levels, uh uh it it's the less of it you can release the better.
And that, by the way, uh the the Atkins diet accomplishes the same thing.
A high-protein, low-fat diet reduces insulin release.
Doesn't eliminate it, but it takes less insulin to metabolize because you're not eating a lot of sugar.
You're not eating a lot of things that uh the metabolize sugar.
It only it only makes sense.
And yet here all these people came around and started trashing uh this uh this diet.
And now AP, low-carb diet doesn't raise heart risk at all.
Eating a low-carb high-fat diet for years doesn't raise the risk of heart disease, a long-term study suggests.
Easing fears that the popular Atkins diet and similar regimens might set people up for eventual heart attacks.
The study of thousands of women over two decades found that those who got lots of their carbs from refined sugars and highly processed foods nearly doubled their risk of heart disease.
At the same time, those who ate a low-carb diet but got more of their protein and fat from vegetables rather than animal sources, cut their heart disease risk by 30 percent on average compared with those who ate more animal fats.
Uh fat from what am I missing?
Dawn, off topic, what's a fat what what is a vegetable with a lot of fat?
I know they're starchy vegetables.
Uh avocado, that's right.
Okay, good.
Good.
Avocado is a good example.
Uh okay.
Conventional wisdom says uh risk of heart disease should increase for those eating the lowest carb, highest fat diet.
It didn't, which was a little eye-opening, uh said uh lead author Thomas Halton.
Conventional wisdom.
There you go.
The old CW says risk of heart disease should increase if you eat the low-carb highest fat diet.
But it didn't show up that way in this survey of thousands of women.
Brief time out.
Back with more after this.
Yeah, well, artichoke, that's got some fat in it, and the way people eat those things is even worse.
Peel off the leaves and dip them in mayonnaise or butter.
I don't know how much fat content that I just never heard of a lot of high-fat vegetables.
Uh uh I'm wondering what they are, too.
I just'm not aware of high fat people eat uh fat vegetables and uh in other words, we're talking about this Atkins business and and uh yeah.
As long as you get a lot of your fat calories from vegetables and uh other that but not meat products, animal products.
Well, what fat vegetables are there out there?
And are they actually fruits?
Now, fruit's got a sugar in it.
Uh that's uh that's a whole different uh don't even get me started on that.
I hate fruit.
Audio sound by time.
We have uh uh audio here from President Bush, a montage of him with Nancy Pelosi after their lunch meeting this afternoon at the White House.
We won't agree on every issue.
But we do agree that we love America equally, that we're concerned about the future of this country, and that we will do our very best to address big problems.
We both extended the hand of friendship, of partnership to solve the problems facing our country, the challenges that America's working families face.
Uh I look forward to working in a uh confidence-building way with the president, recognizing that we have our differences and we will debate them, and that is what our founders intended.
God bring on the National Honor Society uh competition, why don't we?
Bring on the Miss America pageant talent portion, and that's the uh another audio sound, but you gotta hear this.
This is uh founding fathers intended.
Uh now the liberals are gonna cloak themselves in the founding fathers.
Uh CNN, by the way, is reporting that uh George Allen will concede at 3 p.m. this afternoon of the shortly after this program ends.
Bill Marr was on uh Larry King alive last night.
A lot of the chiefs of staff the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party are gay.
I don't want to mention names, but I will Friday night.
But Friday night?
Well, there's a couple of big people who I think everyone in Washington knows who run the Republican.
Well, I I wouldn't be the first.
I'd get sued if I was the first.
But Ken Melman.
Okay, there's one.
I think people have talked about.
I don't think he's denied it when he's been people have suggested he doesn't say.
I'm not.
I'm walking around in a fall.
I never well, Ken Melman, I never heard that.
Walking around in a fog.
All right, so what what this is about uh Marr on his uh on his uh show?
What is the name of that show?
I don't care what the name of the show.
Oh, yeah.
Uh real time.
Whatever, he's gonna out a bunch of gay Republicans.
You know, we need to form a group of people.
We need to form our own think tank or squad or whatever we want to call it.
You know what we need to do, folks?
I mean, maybe I shouldn't say I don't want to give the idea away.
I I shouldn't say this.
Never mind, I'm not gonna say it.
I'll still pondering this in my mind.
I'm still thinking if it might be something worthwhile, but just to give you a hint, anybody ever done an in-depth profile of Bill Maher to find out just who the hell he is?
Has anybody done a profile of your average New York Times reporter?
I mean, these people set themselves up as the arbiters of morality and ethics and what's okay to say and what isn't to say, well, who were these people?
How many abortions have they had or paid for?
You know, what is their history at college and a number of other places?
Might be well worth knowing who these people are.
Above and beyond just a name on a news.
You can't do that.
Why?
We're journalists.
Hey, it's not about us.
Ho ho.
And we don't have any power.
Oh, ho, ho, you don't have power, it's not about you?
Ha ha.
It's all about you and your power.
Listen to this.
Move on to, let's see.
Um, well, let's just stay in order.
The one I want you to hear is uh is a helmet head Dorgan on the C SPAN's Washington Journal today.
But for that, uh CNN today, Solidad O'Brien was interviewing uh representative elect Patrick Murphy, a Democrat from Pennsylvania.
O'Brien said, Tom Delay basically said to me yesterday about uh the two of you and all your colleagues, uh new Democrats, incoming freshmen, don't unpack.
Uh uh what do you say to that, Patrick?
Well, with all due respect to Representative Delay, I plan to serve the citizens of my district for a long time.
And the fact is is if anyone's packing, maybe he should be packing for jail.
Interesting.
Hmm, interesting.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe he should be packing for jail.
Hmm.
Interesting.
And then this morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal of Guests, Senator Byron Dorgan Democrat North Dakota, the host, Pedro Echevaria, said, as far as tax policy is concerned, uh, what uh what do you envision the future of tax policy to be, especially how the classes will be taxed?
Well, clearly there'll be a change in tax policy.
We are interested in a tax policy that is fair.
We believe working families are the ones that bear most of the taxes.
The administration and the Congress gave the biggest tax cuts by far to the wealthiest Americans.
You're wrong.
You know what we should do now is let's start saying to those that aren't paying taxes, pay your fair share.
Well, then say it to the middle class.
Because you you get into especially the lower middle class.
Senator Dorgan, this is disingenuous as it can be.
The vast majority of tax revenue is coming from people in the top one percent, the top five percent, and then the top ten percent.
The tax cuts of President Bush have reduced a family of four's income fifty grand, their taxes from thirty, five hundred down to fifteen hundred dollars.
All you can do, Senator, is raise people's taxes.
And in fact, a caller called him and uh and challenged him on that next.
Yeah, you know, the Republicans born the papal taxes would do up, and you just heard that.
Oh, no, and no, no, no, let me talk.
It's not God help us for the next two years if the painters are gonna be fine, especially from Henry Waxman, and you have had hearing after hearing after hearing on Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, and everything and God green earth.
The Democrats are gonna raise hell.
Put some sugar on the Cheerios and have a cup of coffee and take a nap, and you'll feel better.
We're not gonna increase people's taxes, and that's not what I said.
Yes, it is.
Who else?
It was it was it was what is what what's her name?
Ellen Tosher was on, got a similar kind of phone call saying, put some sugar in your coffee or some such thing.
The Democrats are even getting talking points when they go on C-span as to how to respond in a way that sounds uh uh automatic.
Ad lib uh when they're going on waiting for these phone calls.
All right.
More of your phone calls and other items in the stacks of stuff coming up after this.
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Wall Street Journal editorial today.
The election was a referendum on GOP failure.
Everybody's everybody's writing this.
Um I think I let it off.
It was not a failure of conservatism.
This is still a very conservative country in terms of the way people live their lives and identify themselves ideologically.
34% conservative, 21% liberal.
Uh, and 47% of you people are gutless wonder moderates.
Ha.
Uh.
But the Wall Street Journal has a great phrase.
Let me read the paragraph.
For Ms. Pelosi, this will mean deciding how much deference to give to the great society liberals who will soon run most House committees.
Henry Waxman, David Obi, Pete Stark, first name is Fortney, by the way.
Ed Markey, John Conyers, Barney Frank, these are the sons of the sixties.
Who helped drive the Carter and Clinton presidencies off a cliff.
The sons of the sixties.
I like that.
We'll have to work up a little cartoon type thing on the back page of the newsletter coming up for that.
The sons of the sixties, as they sit in the House.
Here's uh Demetra in Aurora, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush Megadiddle.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Same here.
Um look, I still think Bush is gonna have have a hard time passing his immigration bill in the House because of all these blue dog dog Democrats that just got elected.
I mean, I mean, a lot of them campaigned against amnesty for illegals.
How can they go back to that district in two years and vote for that?
Well, if i i it it's it's a good question.
We'll have to wait and see.
My my guess is that depends on how much Pelosi and the Democrat leadership want it.
Uh these people are in the House because of uh of Pelosi.
And uh uh w we if they can get this done early enough, the theory is that by the time re-election comes up in 2008, nobody'll remember it.
Here but see, let me let me go through this again.
What happens at Democrat orientation, freshman orientation for the Democrats?
Well, did you hear me go through this yesterday?
Yeah.
Okay, so I don't have to repeat it.
They'll basically be brought in there and I see you like it here.
I mean, is this look cool to you if you if you want to stay here longer than two years, here's the way we operate.
Right.
Uh the leadership makes determination on legislation, and you vote with us, and cool, and we'll make sure you get election campaign money from outside the district, and you'll get some, maybe if you if you do things right long enough, uh, you get a committee that's really cool, maybe a chairmanship down the road.
But if you buck us, and if you fight us, uh then you can make plans now to go home.
Uh you won't be here beyond 2008.
And she'll say, Heath Schuler, I donated 4500 to your campaign.
And she'll say, and and Schuler.
Oh, well.
We're not exactly dealing with a wizard here.
So uh I don't know if this is the case with uh with a lot of them, but you know, it's it's it's gonna it's gonna matter what what what the leadership of the House wants as to what these freshmen do.
I don't think people like being conned.
I mean, that's why DeWine went down.
I mean, We just uh they're just not gonna.
Well, you're talking wait a minute, though.
You're talking about liberals and Democrats uh uh in and different standards.
Uh they're liberals first, that means power first.
I do think you're you know, your question but blue dog democrats is interesting.
Another word for that's Reagan Democrats and and the Republicans have lost them because they've somehow managed to put their conservatism in the bottom drawer of the bureau.
Right.
And so the uh that's that's who these so-called moderates are, if you want to know the truth.
Those are the r most of them are Reagan Democrats, they're not a bunch of linguini-spined little nothings.
And I think that it would wouldn't take much to get them back, just a solid conservative and uh agenda, and it'll it'll be it'll be interesting to see what they do on on this.
Um if the president goes for it again, and he's going to, he lit up yesterday during that press conference when this came up.
Right.
Uh and if he doesn't get it the second time, you know, that's that's and the Democrats want it because they need they're they're looking forward to all these voters.
Right.
But aren't there already a lot of the first time it came up when the House bill passed?
I mean, didn't they uh have over 40 Democrats vote with the Republicans?
How can they say, well, now I changed my mind, I'm gonna vote this way.
Uh well, good uh election year.
And they knew the vote would never matter because they knew that it was never going to be a compromise with the Senate.
It was a free vote.
Yeah.
I'm just saying don't don't count your uh chickens here before the egg is dropped.
Because I there there's there's um there's no uh there's just there's just no telling how this is gonna turn out.
We're talking about Democrats here.
Yeah, but there are a lot of sensible Democrats like my dad who came from Greece with a dream and came here legally, and my mother came nine months later, and they learned the language, they voted English, they take the driver's test in English, even though it's offered them to them in Greek.
Well, all right.
I don't want to insult your dad.
Please don't.
Well no, you say smart guy and he's cares about I'm no, I'm just who'd he vote for yesterday.
He didn't vote.
I am such I was a Democrat ten years ago, and now I'm a Republican.
I'm very conservative.
And my dad hold his nose to vote for Bolkoyevich.
I mean, he just could not do it.
No, I meant for Congress.
Oh, he didn't vote.
He's like, I I don't like any Democrats.
I'm not gonna do that.
Well, no, but you're citing a non voter as an example of how they might take it out on Democrats if they do the wrong thing on illegal immigration.
Yeah, they won't come out and vote for them.
But he didn't yesterday either.
Or Tuesday.
I mean, your dad didn't.
I was what I was going to say was you you were you were telling me your dad was was smart and understands this stuff.
And if your answer had been he'd voted for a Democrat, I was gonna then say to you, prove it.
As a joke.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, seriously, you hate you raise you raise a uh a good point.
The bottom line is nobody knows what's gonna happen.
That's why this is gonna be so much fun.
I think the blue dog Democrats are are they're gonna bark.
I I I don't know if they're gonna be able to put up with the le liberal leadership.
I I mean, I don't know.
Well, we'll see.
It look if they're gonna need an alternative.
They're gonna need an alternative.
You just can't say uh that you can't theorize that if uh Democrats legalize uh immigration and have an amnesty program and a guest worker program, that these blue dogs are gonna automatically vote against them.
Uh there's gonna have to be there's gonna have to be an alternative.
Right.
Well, we all they only have an 18th seat majority.
I mean, we don't need all of them to vote with us.
A lot of Republicans are gonna vote for this too.
I mean, you don't in the Senate for sure, but in the House, I think that you know there's still it's still pretty.
Yeah, wait a second.
Wait a second.
Have you ever heard the name J. D. Hayworth?
Yes.
All right.
Now let me tell you about J.D. Hayworth and stick with me on this.
Okay.
J. D. Hayworth from Arizona.
Now he's one of the Republican freshmen of ninety-four.
And he won that race by a very slim margin because it's a Democrat district.
He kept it up until Tuesday.
J. D. Hayworth led, and this is Arizona.
This is uh this is a state that's really up in arms about illegal immigration.
J.D. Hayworth led the fight in Congress on the Republican side against illegal immigration.
He lost.
Now the the details of his loss Are being totally misrepresented with the drive-by media.
He ran against a Democrat who was parroting and echoing everything JD said was making himself out to be an even bigger anti-illegal immigrant guy when he wasn't.
Right.
But the message, but but but who's gonna know that?
Right.
What what the the drive-by media is portraying this as anybody who was really pro anti-illegal immigration got swept away.
Anybody they're they're trying to kill this issue, the drive by, as they always do, they're trying to massage and and write that J.D. Hayworth lost because he came across as nativist, racist, and too strident and anti-Mexican.
Now, what message does that send Republicans?
If they're the usual weak need Republican Oh, gosh, I that's a losing issue.
I I I can't, I can't I can't do what JD did, I'll lose too.
The media will write that I'm a racist and that I'm a nativist and that I hate Mexicans.
So uh you you you you can't assume that Republicans are going to be voting against this either.
Well, then there's no way we're gonna get any majority back if they're gonna hide their own.
We may not get a majority back with this current crop.
Uh but uh that's that's what the winnowing out process is uh is all about.
That's tied.
Some people said it'd be better if we lose anyway.
Right.
So we've lost.
I'm not I'm looking, I'm not trying to depress you.
I'm uh I'm trying to just uh share my the way I look at this with you.
Uh and one of one of my theories, as you well know, is that one of the reasons that conservatives get talked out of it is the media.
Right.
And what has happened here to J.D. Hayworth is a classic example.
They are mischaracterizing why he lost.
They're now saying he's nativist and racist and anti-Mexican, and I'm telling you to to Washington Republicans, they read that, and that that's the last thing they're gonna want said about them.
Right.
So they won't go there.
Well, hopefully leaders like Mike Pence and Thomas Corborn, you know, they'll stand up for us.
And uh I'm really looking forward to some new leadership, especially in Mike Pence.
I bet I hope he runs for minority leader.
That's gonna be fun to see, too.
That that'll be uh let's see how that shakes out, because that's that's where this this new gang of leadership is gonna have to come from.
Right.
And we have to see who it is.
All right, look, uh Demetra, I'm I'm I'm glad you called.
I have to go, though, because I'm on the uh the constraints of time thing here.
But you you have a have a wonderful week, and I'll talk to you next time, okay?
Okay.
Bye-bye.
You bet.
Bye.
Bye bye.
See you later.
Hit I hit the button so you can.
I want to go back and play one of my favorite ads from the um campaign, because we've learned something new about this ad.
This is the ad that the uh uh RNC ran against Harold Ford in Tennessee.
Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough?
Terrorists need their privacy.
When I die, Harold Ford will let me pay taxes again.
Ford's right.
I do have too many guns.
I met Harold at the Playboy Party.
I'd love to pay higher marriage taxes.
Canada can take care of North Korea.
They're not busy.
So we took money from porn movie producers.
I mean, who hasn't?
The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Harold, call me.
Okay, we remember after this, Ed Rand, you can't do that.
Why that's racist.
Hey, that's that's yeah that's racist.
It's it's it's uh it's the old Southern strategy.
It's this or that and the other thing.
Even though Harold had admitted he had dated uh white babes.
Well, it turns out that the woman in this ad was not white.
She is of Mexican descent.
Might have even might have been illegal.
Um turns out that the white bimbo that they all railed about was played by an actress of Mexican heritage.
I just look at it, I just wanted to throw this in there.
I mean, I it's it's not a big deal now, of course.
If you noticed also, let's see, we had Michael Steele in Maryland, black.
We had uh Lynn Swan, uh running for governor in Pennsylvania, black, uh both Steele and uh Swan Republican.
We had Ken Blackwell running for governor in Ohio black and Republican, and Harold Ford, uh running for the Senate, black and Democrat.
Uh they all four lost.
But in only one case was there racism.
Harold Ford.
A bunch of white retnecks.
Even though he went to the rebel cafe or whatever it is and hung around the Confederate flags and wore that camouflage duck hunter hat when he was at the rebel cafe or whatever it is.
Still the rednecks voted against.
Time magazine says so.
I think it's a blog, some some stupid viewer leader, listener, reader comment, but because it's not signed here.
But yeah, it was racism.
A bunch.
In Harold Ford's case, the awful truth is simple.
If he were white, he would have won.
That card's not going away anytime soon, ladies and gentlemen.
The le the media and the Democrats are not going to get rid of that cliche anytime soon.
Dave and Reston, Virginia.
Welcome to the program.
Rush, thanks for taking my call and for speaking nothing but the truth as you see it for the last eighteen years.
I don't know about anyone else, but I listen to all the words.
Anyway, I was interested in your take on how the drive-by media coverage will change as a result of the election.
Is all of a sudden the economy gonna get sunny and rosy?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, in fact, the economy is gonna get rosy.
Uh they're gonna go out there and they're gonna talk to individual Americans whose lives have changed for the better dramatically in just a few short months and weeks.
Uh uh the uh we'll get individual stories of people feel better about their futures and their children's future than they have in six years.
But we can't we get credit for that when they start writing those stories.
After all, Bush is the one who put those policies in place, the Republican Congress, hasn't even left yet.
Uh here is the age-old canon You have to understand the media.
Uh there's a segment of the population that knows the truth, and then there's a larger segment of the population that does no diddly squat until they see it on ABC, CBS, NBC, or some of the cable networks.
It's an aging audience, and a lot of them don't care about the future.
They just don't believe anything until they see it on television, or hear some respected anchor say so.
Uh this is the the age-old dilemma.
I mean, we know what the truth is.
Uh but the drive-by media can shape it, and did uh probably a more consistent and obvious way that I have ever seen in this campaign cycle.
So it's uh i it's it's it's always going to be there.
Uh there they don't have the power that they used to have, but they still have enough.
Here's Justin in Pensacola, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rosh Mega 7 for Five Dead O's.
Thank you.
By the way, happy birthday to the Marine Corps tomorrow, in case I forget it tomorrow.
You bet.
Thank you.
Happy birthday.
Listen, real quick, I'd just like to declare a triumph of conservative medicine.
That might sound kind of weird considering the circumstances, but thanks to uh daily inoculations by yourself and others, we have beaten the uh the pandemic of post-election stress syndrome.
I was thinking about that early.
You know, after the election in 04, right down the road here in Fort Lauderdale, these wacko shrinks were opening the doors to the seasoned citizen population and other liberals who ha couldn't deal with the loss, and it was called post-election stress disorder or trauma, pest, and they were calling uh people who go in and it have encounter groups and so forth, so like a 12-step meeting to get over this.
And it was, you know, we we called attention to it and uh offered our own services here on the air, and they got mad at us.
This was a serious problem.
A very serious psychological and emotional problem, and to make fun of these people was was was just unfortunate.
And yet I haven't heard of any, I haven't heard of a reported instance, a single case of post-election stress trauma after the election results on Tuesday.
It's absolutely right.
It's excellent point, sir.
Thank you.
You bet.
Thanks very much for the call.
Just as we haven't, we haven't seen any demands for recounts, uh, lawyers going to court, holding up outcomes over a thousand vote margin or five thousand vote margin.
Uh we haven't seen threats.
Uh, we haven't seen channel and none of the none of the stuff that we always see when Democrats lose.
And I guess, you know, I some people just don't notice this stuff when it happens and doesn't make any impression, or they don't remember it when it happens, but we'll continue to remind people.
I have to take a brief time out here, uh, my good friends.
Show is, I mean, it's zipping by fastest three hours in media, and we're looking forward to tomorrow.
be open line Friday.
Tomorrow is, by the way, uh November 10th.
It's the birthday of the Marine Corps.
So happy birthday a day in advance.
We'll remember it tomorrow, too, but nothing like two happy birthdays in two days for that group.
Nancy Pelosi on Getting Out of Iraq.
She says it's not about the Democrats in Congress forcing the president's hand.
Uh-oh.
Gonna be trouble out there in Kook Land.
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