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Nov. 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 24, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Uh how about this uh is it Wisconsin uh lawmaker that wants to arm teachers and a principal would that would that make the children safer?
Arming the principals.
Uh yeah, I would it was who scare the kids or scare the uh people sh Yeah, okay.
Well, that's I love scaring kids.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday.
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It's Friday, as you know, it's the end of the week.
It's been a very intense week, and there are going to be a lot more of them.
Uh many, many more intense days are out there.
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It really is getting absurd out there now.
There are there are polls out there that Republicans are going to lose 50 seats if Denny Hastert doesn't resign.
You know, how how many uh uh people in the country, if you did a name recognition test, know who Denny Hastard is.
You know, nobody knew who Tom Puff Dashell was.
These guys you know these are not household names to people outside news junkies and who watch cable television constantly.
Um they're just a poll like that is just uh just ridiculous.
Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic leader, is uh thinking Well, Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days, she's thinking 100 hours, according to the Associated Press.
Time enough, she says, to begin to drain the swamp after more than a decade of Republican rule.
As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats in her fondest wish win control in the midterm elections, and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first madam's speaker in history.
Day one, she would put new rules in place to break the link between lobbyists and legislation.
Day two, she would enact all the recommendations made by the 9-11 Commission.
By the way, Ashcroft's out attacking the 9-11 Commission in his book.
Said that the whole 9-11, the purpose of it was to protect Clinton.
He says it in the book.
He says the purpose of 9 11 Commission was set up to protect the previous administration and blame the Bush administration.
Ashcroft was the best witness that showed up before the 9-11 Commission.
Ashcroft's a guy that revealed a wall, talked about it, a memo.
Uh uh what's her name, uh Gorelic.
Slayed Gorton, a Republican on the committee, as attacked Ashcroft as the worst witness that came before the committee, and said nothing could be further from the truth.
And so forth.
Of course, what are they gonna say?
Yep, yeah, Ashcroft's right.
That we were here to cover up for Clinton.
Uh, and so forth.
So it's it's you know, Ashcroft is uh he's in Europe and can't be reached for comment, apparently, but uh it is uh it is in his book.
What else they say?
Um they're gonna raise the minimum wage to 725 an hour, maybe all at once.
Not not over uh five or six years.
Uh they're gonna cut the interest rates on student loans in half.
They're gonna allow the government to negotiate to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.
The government negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, that's not how it works.
It's the government walking in and telling pharmaceutical companies, you are going to lose money in this program, or you are going to be investigated and sued out of existence.
Uh also, uh Speaker Pelosi says that when the first 100 hours, first 100 hours, they're gonna broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds.
I hope with a veto-proof majority, she said in an interview with the AP yesterday.
She said, all the days after that, when we finish this stuff, it'll be pay as you go, meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care, or some other priority.
Now to do that, she said that Bush era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above a certain level.
She mentioned uh mentioned annual incomes of 250,000 dollars or 300,000 a year or higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era.
Details will have to be worked out.
Uh she said.
So that would be if if it's if it's a replica, it'd be thirty-nine percent up from thirty-five uh currently, and she would make it retroactive, which is what uh which is what Clinton did.
Then she went on to say, we believe in the marketplace.
Uh they have only rewarded wealth, Republicans.
They don't reward work.
We must share the benefits of our wealth beyond the privileged few, she added.
So I guess this is the first uh little dribbling of a uh of an agenda or a contract uh from Nancy Pelosi, just tasting it now.
Just taste becoming the speakerette of the uh of the House of Representatives.
And how about this?
You know, this is one of those things there, and I remember talking about this when it happened.
I'm not gonna go back and do I see it told you so.
A judge dismissed entirely child porn charges yesterday against the murder suspect John Mark Carr after prosecutors said they didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial.
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Renee Choteau ordered carr released immediately, bringing an end to his two-month odyssey in the U.S. criminal justice system after he was extradited from Thailand on suspicion of killing the six-year-old beauty queen.
He never did kill her.
He wasn't even there.
This was a comedy of errors.
He made the decision that he would rather come here and try and get out of the uh problems here by admitting to something he didn't do uh rather than spend the life to rot in a jail in Thailand.
In Bankers.
So we flew him back first, well, business class.
We flew him back business class, but the guy's such a tiny little wimp that even in a business class seat, I'm sure he felt like he was in a king-sized bed.
I've never seen a more pencil neck geek than this guy.
Uh champagne, his choice of uh in fact I was surprised.
I all I hear about how commercial air travel food's horrible these days.
It looked to me like this guy was having a banquet.
Uh well, that's what that's what I'm saying, snurdly.
They don't give you food.
I guess on international flights they still gussie it up some when you're going to be in the air a long time, Thailand, uh, wherever you're headed, Los Angeles, but at uh at any rate, he's now he's he's now free uh to go try to find Mark Foley wherever he is, and uh rekindled what has uh what has been lost.
Fewer than 190,000 people are living in New Orleans.
A year after Hurricane Katrina, do you know, ladies and gentlemen, the population of 187,525 is about 41 percent of the 454,000 people estimated to be living in Orleans Parish before the storm hit on August 29th.
A spokeswoman for the Louisiana Recovery Authority, Natalie Wyeth called the results the definitive most precise set of numbers we've seen.
Survey was conducted for the authority in the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals by the Louisiana Public Health Institute.
Uh man, 41% of the does that does that mean nearly 60%?
That that's incredible.
That is incredible.
That's a lot of Democrats that don't live there anymore.
They've scattered all across the fruited plain, diluting their um their voting strength.
I know.
Well, some of them are in Houston raising hell.
Some of them some of them just recently got kicked out of a hotel at JFK.
I was watching story about a month ago.
There's a guy still living in a hotel at JFK.
Uh hadn't gotten a job, hadn't done anything.
He's been living there since last August or September, and they just now kicked the uh kick the guy out.
Anyway, a brief timeout here, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll be back.
Your phone calls are coming up right after this on the EIB network.
Hey, folks, did you hear about the massive uh uh anti-war protests across the country yesterday in uh New York and in in other places?
Um the uh it was it was called what is it uh uh uh World Can't Wait.
The World Can't Wait Day of Mass Resistance.
And it was uh in New York City, they had well it was a huge turnout.
Um it was like less than a thousand people.
Now, you know, that to me has electoral consequences or or suggestions, implications, because we're told that the country hates the war in Iraq.
They just hate it.
They hate Bush and uh Democrats just can't wait to get out there and go vote against Republicans because of this.
And I've seen some pictures.
Here's here's a picture of uh of these are seasoned citizens.
These these are relics from the 1960s, anti-war days, and they masked on the streets, but the I mean it's a pathetic looking protest.
And there's a guy here holding up a sign that says the worst tyrants ever, Napoleon, Hitler, and Bush.
And the pictures of uh of Hitler and Bush have the swastika on them.
Uh and these just look I mean, it look like they just left Zaybars.
You know, the upper west side to go to this place.
No offense, Zay Bars.
I mean, I like Zay Bars, but it's the upper west side.
What?
What?
It is a great place.
Zabar's fabulous.
And then here's some poor old guy that I looks like he's got Alzheimer's, don't even know where he is.
Uh and he's wearing a sign, a sandwich board sign around his neck.
Bush regime out, torture work of devils, stop the wars, right if it turns the world over, stop deportations, restore America.
And this poor old guy, I'm sure they they got him out of the home and took him out.
These are all sixties relics that are just that are just getting their uh their jollies out there.
Here's uh Jeff in New York City, speaking of the devil.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Missouri Public Education Didos, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, you're uh Mercedes, did you get the iPod harness?
Uh for which car?
Well, your new one.
Well, there's two new ones.
Which one do you mean?
The MyBach or the SL sixty-five?
Uh the SL sixty-five.
Yes, has it has uh they both have an iPod harness.
They do.
When you when you play uh uh a song or does it does it does it display correctly on your display?
Does can you read the whole long the whole song name if it's long?
Uh no.
Uh you know, I've never I've never paid any attention to that actually.
I've I mean the song displays, I think in certain long songs I get dots after it if it doesn't, if it because I don't think it scrolls to the next line on all of them.
But I mean I only have songs on there that I know.
So I don't need the title read out for me to know what I'm listening to.
Well, when I'm I have a problem with mine.
I I download your show and I listen to it on the way to yoga class.
And uh I don't know which plain because I don't know if it's the first hour, second hour, or third hour.
Yeah, see this now I I I've heard uh one of the uh one of the uh uh well I'll go ahead and say it complaints.
We don't get many complaints here, but one of the complaints that we get from podcasters is that the titles of the uh uh each hour of the program are very long, and the information you really need hour one, hour two, hour three is at the end of it.
And on the on the iPod screen itself, it often doesn't display.
It scrolls itself, but it doesn't scroll every single thing.
Right.
Uh uh exactly.
Well, our answer to that is screw you.
Uh folks, I'm in the name of it.
Yeah, but but there's there's a the the tech guy um uh explained this to me, and I don't remember what the explanation was.
Uh but we're we're undergoing a revamping of the whole website uh and and adding some things to it, and I think this is one of the things that uh the software buzzards are looking at and trying to uh trying trying to rectify.
Uh uh.
But until then screw you.
So what I have to do is the EIB network, it's a customer that's always wrong.
We're the experts and know what we're uh no, look, I th what I was gonna say about the understand the the uh the problem, but these sometimes these hours uh you know this program is so unique, even if you do hear the middle hour first, you're still hearing it.
You're not you're not really missing anything.
I understand the desire to hear it sequentially.
And a lot of people said, why don't you put all three hours on one file?
Be too big.
Yeah.
It'd be too big.
Um But look, we are working on that.
I I have I I have noticed that, and I've had a lot of people uh uh complain about an asked for revision.
It's a good question, and we're working on it.
Well, thanks.
All right.
Thank you much for the call.
Appreciate it out there.
It's Jeff in New York City.
Um and he's talking about our podcasts uh every afternoon uh um and it you'll get them about 25, 20 minutes after the program.
You'll get the video podcast of the next day's morning update plus the three hours of that day's program if you're a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com and you can choose to download the podcast either via iTunes or via our website directly to your hard drive, and you can put them in iTunes yourself or whatever your playback system is and then transfer them to your iPod.
And the titles uh Rush Limbaugh showed date comma da hour one, and in certain displays, the hour one, hour two, hour three do not display, so you don't know, and they're all in a list.
Uh so you don't know which hour you're actually listening to on a particular date.
Uh well the iPod, the iPod harness uh uh it it it's yeah, it's just it has a it's built in.
You drop the iPod in it, and the the connector at the bottom that you use to power it up or transfer data uh goes right into the audio system of the automobile.
And so you don't need to take CDs in the car, you just put the iPod in there, and whatever's on your iPod, be it podcasts of this program or music or whatever you can listen to, right through your audio system in the car, uh, and then just unplug the thing and it it gets power when you plug it in too.
It has power and it transfers the data into the system, plays it uh I don't know if it actually transfers the data, but it accesses the data on the hard drive of the iPod and plays it.
And uh you know, there's there's uh you can even do these in your house now.
You can you can put a little this is the size of the light switch, just a little cutout, put the jack in there, wire it to your amp.
Uh I mean, this stuff is it's amazing how quickly uh it's advancing and moving ahead.
Claire in Kansas City, Missouri.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Wow, it's an honor to talk to you, Rush.
Um I am one of your Rush babies.
I have listened to you since I was a kid because my mom is awesome and made me.
And it's just great to talk to you.
Um I need some advice.
I uh am in an English class that it I have an uh liberal professor.
Are you in high school or college?
I'm in college now.
What school?
Um it's a community college up in northern Kansas City called Maplewoods.
And those are those are problematic because the professors there think they're just as knowledgeable and powerful and elitist as major university uh professors do.
Oh, you have no idea.
Yes, I do.
I do.
All right, so the question is you got an English professor who probably doesn't talk English much, he talks politics, right?
Exactly.
We get into basement class all the time about Hurricane Katrina, about in an English class.
In an English class, correct.
In an English class.
And there are 19 students, and I am the only Republican.
Oh.
And this is a great opportunity for you.
Did you happen to hear the call from Julie two days ago?
Um, I'm not sure.
I worked two days ago, and I'm not allowed to listen to the radio.
All right.
You would have remembered it if you heard it.
Um I'm gonna play it again today.
I've I vowed to play it.
Jeez, I was gonna play well, I was gonna play it in the first hour today, I forgot to do it.
Let me summarize it for you.
Julie, okay.
Situation just like yours, well, not quite like yours.
She um has gone back to college ten years after after finishing high school.
Her whole life, nobody in her family told her she could accomplish anything.
They put down what she wanted to do.
She wanted to be an FBI agent or be in law enforcement.
She stumbled across this program in the in the 2000 election.
She'd been listening to this program regularly.
When she went back to college and ran into a professor in the class, she discovered that because she'd been listening to this program, she was more informed and knew more than the professor did or anybody else in the school.
And it made her feel good.
It made her feel valid and worthwhile.
She was able to out argue a professor.
Because the professor is one of these guys, just believes everything Dan Rather says or what's on the news or what's in the newspaper, if it's there, it's true.
Doesn't have an inquiring mind.
She was she's so stunned the professor that he's become a listener to the program.
Doesn't necessarily like all of it, but he's he's he's listened to it.
You are in a similar situation.
You're a one of uh of uh nineteen students, you're the only Republican, you got a liberal professor that talks politics in an English class, right?
Yeah, and the problem is that the past couple of days, we've been watching this, I don't know if you'd call it a documentary or just a whole bunch of bitter old news reporters that got fired from Fox, and they have been slamming the Fox Network and saying how to do it.
Are they playing oh I can't book their play you are being forced to watch that propaganda?
And my thing is Claire, Claire, Claire, hang on.
We have a commercial break coming.
I gotta think of the name of this documentary.
Um I know what it's about anyway.
Back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
That's right, a man, a living legend, a way of life having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Well, the Slick Willie Legacy tour continues in New York, announcing here that uh most foods of the New York City school system will not be allowed to have more than 35% of their calories from fat, telling kids what they can't have anymore, no fat, no sugar, no salt, or very little of it.
Uh agreements made with a number of uh of companies.
This from the city where you can get any well, you used to be able to get anything, and you used to be able to do anything.
Uh 24-7.
But it's becoming civilized.
Now back to Claire in Kansas City.
Claire, the the name of this documentary that you're watching called Out Foxed, the Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism.
That's it.
Yeah.
And so what in this documentary, their ex-Fox employees who talk about how they were told to uh slant things to conservatism to the right, and they were they were instructed, and that instructions came from on high how to report the news, how to select the news that will be reported and all that, right?
Yeah, exactly.
But the things that they focus on seem to be like editorial shows such as like Bill O'Reilly and Grand of Ancestor and Tony Snow, which are talk shows.
And they haven't said anything about Shepard Smith and his report.
And I just think that's kind of a good idea.
Well, there's a reason for that.
We won't go into it, but there's a reason for that.
Well, today in class, she was going to finish the movie.
And I was kind of, you know, by this time I've had enough of it and enough of her laughing in the corner.
So I kind of said right before Wait, wait, wait, the teachers uh her?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Well, right before class started, and she was putting in the DVD and everything.
I was like, excuse me, ma'am, but how will this help me write my paper?
And she freaked out, like planes in her eyes and everything.
And she was like, Well, would you rather sit there and listen to me talk about grammar?
And I said, Well, if it would help me write my paper, then I guess that's the best thing to do in an English class.
And she got kind of mad and said I could take my paper now and leave, or I could sit and watch the rest of the movie.
And so I got up and took the paper and six people followed me.
So okay, so so you're asking if you did the right thing or not?
Yeah, and I don't know if I should continue to stick up for myself or just keep my mouth shut and get my good grade.
Or I the you know, I we get this question a lot.
Uh and and I you know the the answer depends on a lot of variables.
Um I uh the the I always I always preach or pre- I always advise people to not suppress themselves.
To be not suppressing myself, that's for sure.
Well, but you're going to if you're gonna sit there and not say anything.
I mean, that's what it what my I always tell people uh be who you are.
Uh stand up for what you believe in.
You're in an educational system.
You tell this teacher there's supposed to be the free exchange and open flow of ideas here that you didn't show up for an indoctrination.
Um now the the risk that you run, you might get she might harm your grade.
She she might she might punish you with uh with the grade.
She sounds like she's very sensitive to the way she's teaching the class.
Yeah, but but I th I think you know, if you if you uh if you cop out in order to get the grade, you're s you're you're you're you're setting yourself up for coping out later on in life to avoid offending people.
Uh and you sh and you shouldn't do that.
I I uh I'm I always advocate stand up for who you are.
Because and it'll help you become confident by the way later in life and expressing that each time you have to.
If you if you allow these people to shut you up and and uh and and shut you down, uh you'll find it's easier to do that.
It's easier just to stay quiet, but if you already have the passion in you that makes you stand up and look, you were a leader.
Six people walked out of that class with you.
You now have a little bit of a responsibility.
They wouldn't have done it on their own, but they followed you.
So you've sort of established yourself here uh as an alpha female in that class.
And so I think you should be proud of yourself.
You know, and this is not the only grade in life you're going to get.
Uh you can you can in fact you can say, I want out of this class.
I want an English class.
I came here to learn English.
I didn't come here for an indoctrination.
And when she says, Would you rather watch this or me talking about grammar, you say, frankly, prof, I came here to learn about grammar.
So I can speak the language and write the language properly, because I know that that's going to be key to my getting ahead and communicating with people in this country and around the world.
I don't I don't care what your opinion is or this documentary's opinion of Fox News is.
I I'll go to a political science class for that.
But I'm here in an English class.
Now you don't have to stand up in class and embarrass her by saying this, but you can go to her privately if if if you want, if it comes up and if if your grade suffers from this.
But I think you'll find that throughout your life that when you're right and you stand up for it, and you learn to express your feelings and and your thoughts and your opinions, and you can back them up and tell them why.
It's going to increase the confidence you have in yourself in a whole bunch of different areas.
But if you sit there and suppress yourself and shut up, um you're gonna learn that you you you can maybe go through life with fewer bumps in the road that way, but you're always at the end of the day gonna regret it.
Now I understand you're calling here and asking if you did the right thing.
I think you know you did the right thing.
What you're wanting here is confirmation of it.
And so I'm giving it to you.
You did the right thing.
You don't need to be combative or provocative.
You you don't you don't need to be pugilistic about it.
You sounds like you've taken enough of this a long time.
This is not the first day of the class, obviously.
So um uh we give you a round of applause here and and uh use this as a learning experience.
Uh you're learning who you are, you're learning what your passions are, and one thing you'll never go wrong doing in life, Claire, is that's following your passions.
Um, you know there are in the era of foley, how do you say that?
You know what I mean.
Follow your career path.
Follow follow the th follow your dreams.
You know, we're we're not in the gutter here today on this program.
Claire, thanks much.
Andrew Frederick, Maryland.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rosh, how are you doing today?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
He's my birthday, and you just made it great.
Now, well, happy birthday.
How how are you?
He's angling for a president, but I'm not a president, but I'm not falling for it.
How old are you?
Uh 41.
Forty one?
How'd it feel when you turn 40?
Were you bothered by it or not?
No, I've got a uh thirteen-year-old and a ten-year-old, so they keep me young regardless.
You think Well, uh, believe me, they do.
They definitely keep me on my toes.
So I thank God everyone.
You're probably aged to fifty by now internally.
That anyway, that's another matter.
That's very true.
My point that I'm calling about is the Dems.
Now go in what what foley and everything is, I think that w they're just killing time.
You've got four well, five weeks when you get down to it, basically, until the election.
If they can play this as much as possible, keep it in the forefront of the news, keep it in front of everybody's face.
It keeps you know them off topic.
In other words, they can't debate on topic for anything.
Okay, so what you you think that they can trick people like me into talking about fully all day every day, avoiding the issues that people really care about, and thereby actually helping their elector electoral chances by by making sure the liberals are not exposed to the weaknesses on these ideas that everybody really cares about, right?
That's That's absolutely true.
Because they have no ideas.
I I understand.
You know, this is this is thinking that uh has been around since and I've inspired it, so I I credit you for it.
Uh but this is thinking that's been around uh for as long as they've been doing the show, eighteen years, and it dates back to the period where everybody thought that the Democrats were ten times as savvy in strategy as we were, and that we were easily taken off the game, we were easily distracted, and they did this on purpose.
This is not one of those circumstances.
They are going to town on this issue.
They are again doing what they do, they smear.
The whole effort now is to get Denny Haster to resign.
The whole point is to have an investigation of the House leadership as corrupt.
This is an issue to them.
They are purposely going to this.
Look at they're circulating this list of gay congressmen, Republican gay congressmen and staff members on Washington or in Washington, they're hoping it goes public.
The purpose for doing this, Andrew, is to shock uh uh conservatives and members of the evangelical right into realizing that their party is a bunch of them.
They they just believe that when the uh Christian right finds out how quote unquote infested this is how liberals think now, how infested the Republican Party is with them, they will feel betrayed, they will feel angry, they will abandon the Republican Party because my God, you can't have those kinds in government and be family value people.
That's what they're hoping.
They are the ultimate bigots, and they are trying to destroy the Republican Party with this whole Foley, but they are gay bashing.
Folks, I I made a point of mentioning this yesterday, and we can't say this enough.
What the Liberals are doing here is gay bashing.
When Brian Ross puts those uh emails up last night, these instant messages on a brand new story, three more pages came forward.
You ought to.
I wouldn't dare read this stuff on the radio to you.
They've got all their disclaimers.
But I'm telling you this guy at ABC, Brian Ross must have a penis fixation.
Because these things are totally devoted to this.
There's nothing journalistic about this.
This is pure, pure prurient, guttural BS that has nothing to do journalistically with the story.
It is gay bashing.
What else is it?
Mark Foley is gone.
Nobody cares about the human being that is Mark.
He may be suicidal.
It is, it's as I said yesterday, it's it it really is interesting to me how our whole culture looks at people involved in circumstances like these as heartless and cold-hearted and feelings, and they're not they're not uh uh uh in any way human uh and and the the continual dumping here on foley serves no journalistic purpose.
Somebody tell me what it is.
What is the journalism associated with continuing to dribble and drabble the contents of these various instant messages that he had with pages?
There's no journalism there.
This is gay bashing.
The Democrats and their buddies in the media are gay bashing.
That's all this is.
They are gay bashing, they are trying to portray this Republican uh congressman Mark Foley resigned as a perverted pedophile who is gay.
They're making that perfectly known.
I don't know what else you call this.
They're the ones that accuse us of being racists, bigots, sexists, homophobes, they are the ones that are engaging in nothing but pure gay bashing.
That's all this is, and the reason for it is to make sure that if that list, or if even if the list doesn't go public, they are trying to disgust values voters in the Republican Party with the Republican Party because guys like Foley are in it.
They don't even have to release the list.
All they have to do is allude to it.
And and then people get the impression, well, party must be infested with these foley types, not gays, foley types.
Because foley and these, you know, these are the people who tell us to be tolerant and understanding of alternative lifestyle.
Uh and and uh uh uh young men and young boys uh associating together in a public school system.
Well, it's gonna be helpful.
These are the people that tell us to be understanding and tolerant of things that are different.
And they are going way beyond destroying Mark Foley.
They are destroying Mark Foley on the basis that he is a creep, pervert, gay predator.
I don't know if they're going to blackmail people with a list.
They want to publicize the list.
They're working on a way to get the list publicized.
They want names out there.
They want names of Republican staffers.
They think the sheer, not the individual names, they think the sheer number of them will shock the people who live in the back of their pickup trucks in the church parking lot.
I'm just warning you people out that that's what this is.
They are engaged, these tolerant, compassionate, understanding, soft and gentle people.
Gay bashing.
I mean, it it's I hate to be repetitive, but what else do you call this?
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This is Aaron in Louisville, Kentucky.
You're next.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing?
Just fine.
Thank you.
How are you?
You know what?
I am so excited to be talking with you.
You are one of my freedom heroes.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Hey, I just wanted to uh comment on that young lady that was uh on earlier who had the English teacher.
That'd be Claire from uh Kansas City, Missouri, yes.
Claire from Kansas City.
Um I gotta tell you, Rush, I felt so much pride when she was telling her story and uh about basically um you know, confronting the teacher and uh calling a spade a spade.
And uh, you know, I just I love this country and I love it when I hear people that are willing to stand up for what they believe in and um and tell it like it is, and that's why I appreciate you so much in what you're doing and allowing people like that to come on.
Well, um, yeah, we we we permit a couple lows a month.
We don't want to overdo it.
The whole show could be calls like that if uh if we uh uh allowed it to be.
Uh there's so many appreciative people about this program.
So many want to express their uh adore adoration and and support, love for the program, and I'm I can't tell you how meaningful that is uh for me, but I I tell you something, Aaron, I think that more and more people, more and more young people students are standing up to their professors.
Uh there are a lot of rush babies out there, young uh young people that grew up with their parents listening to this program, uh, and they have stayed conservative and they've gotten themselves into college, and we keep hearing about this uh frequently.
Uh it's a it's a it's actually a new way to protest at in a way that actually matters.
You are you are protesting the source.
Well, no, I I don't think I don't think it's rush babies that the teachers want to be armed against, Maman.
Uh broadcast engineer just asked me over the IFB, is because all these rush babies confronting teachers is why the teachers want to be armed.
It's a congressman, uh a lawmaker who wants to arm the principals and teachers.
That that is Wisconsin school, right?
Where this is happening.
Yeah.
Um and you know, some people it wasn't, it wouldn't be all that long ago.
You mentioned that.
And there would be an explosion.
I mean, in not so long ago, that would be front page news even with the Foley story at its current stage.
Because the anti-gun mob was huge.
But now the Democrats have lost that issue.
Democratic candidates have to run around and talk about how they are not opposed to gun control.
Uh and they appreciate hunting.
I John Kerry went out there to Iowa, because this is where I get me a hunting license.
Uh yes, sir, do you know where the trigger is?
Hey, of course I do.
I I served in Vietnam.
Yeah, but I don't know if you shot anybody you got shot, but did you shoot anybody?
Anyway, oh, no where the trigger is.
You can't insult me.
I'm John Kerry.
At any rate, in the old days, arming anybody other than law enforcement would have led to a cacophonous protest.
This is actually being met with some hmm.
Would this work?
Just as arming pilots in a cockpit is also met with the same, hmm.
Would that work?
Back after this, armed air marshal from the airport.
Snerdly, I said to Serdler, I said, This is a pretty good Friday show today.
He said, Yeah, I love these callers.
And I said, I wasn't talking about the callers, I was talking about me.
And he got this groaned look on his face and says, See, I'm just pretending to be a girl.
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