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Nov. 30, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 30, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there is saying because the host is fearless, is engaged in a constant relentless pursuit of the truth.
We find it and we proclaim it, and it makes people nervous.
It's great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we are at the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the telephone number if you'd like to join us.
800-282-288-2, and the uh email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
I gotta tell you this one little story.
Uh I it was last Saturday.
And I had a whole family here, we've got the whole family together for the first time in 20 years.
There's only about five that couldn't make.
And uh they were here for like five and six days.
That was uh just a total blast.
It was just it could not have uh have gone any better.
I mean, there were one uncomfortable moment, and when you've got 48 people around for five or six days, there's only one uncomfortable moment, that's a success.
Anyway, my my little niece Caitlin, who is five or six.
I'm sitting in my library seeking privacy on day five of the proceedings, and I've got the door closed, and somebody knocks on the door, opens it, comes, you've got to come see what Caitlin had.
You've got to come see So I got up, and Caitlin had on her left hand, she's sitting out in the front bench out in the front yard.
She had uh a tiny little baby lizard.
I we love lizards now, these little geckos, they are little buddies because they eat insects, mosquitoes and all that, and uh and we did this are the cutest little things.
Um and she had one and it was it was on her hand, and it was totally comfortable, and she'd move her hand around and it would move to stay balanced and so forth, and it's case who run up her arm and then back and down and uh back down to her hand, and once it jumped up on her, she had on her shirt on her shoulder, so I I picked it up and uh and put it back down in her hand.
And I said, Now let me tell you why it likes your hand.
And I'm talking to a five or six-year-old, but I said, This is a reptile, and that means it's a cold-blooded animal.
It's a relative of a snake, uh, alligator, and and that family of lovable, adorable creatures.
As such, it's cold-blooded.
You have a constant body temperature of 98.6 degrees when it's normal, but these animals don't.
Uh so they you will always find if you want to find a lizard down here, find a hot surface like uh sidewalk or patio or what have you, and that's where you'll find them because that's how they get warm.
Now, right now, that lizard staying on your hand because it's warmer, your hand is warmer than uh the bench that you're sitting on, and so it's it's feeling good because it's it's it's it's warming up because of your body temperature.
And she's you mean it doesn't love me.
Uh well, it probably does love you.
Um that's why it's that's why it was it was just it was just the cutest little thing, and I just wanted to pass this on because it's how people we uh mo look at all the kids' books uh that use animals as um as training tools and we humanize them and so forth.
But it's not that's fine.
I'm not I'm being critical.
I just want to expand again on what I was saying earlier about how we're doing the same thing with terrorists and with our enemy rather than face who they really are.
Tiger's a tiger, but we still live and breathe in this.
We have hope.
We have hope.
How many of you believe?
How many of you who have had pets?
Be honest with me on this.
How many of you have hoped and prayed your dog or cat was gonna actually talk to you one day and break the laws of nature?
You know uh Andy Warhol did.
Andy Warhol, I remember he went nuts one day telling his dog, talk.
I know you can talk.
Say something.
Andy War, every human being hope.
He Warhol went nuts.
What was nuts went nuts.
Well, whatever.
He was he was uh well, we shouldn't speak gill of the dead, he had hope.
Uh but it's a it's just a common thing.
It's it's uh and I'm all for it.
You know, that the the people can construct um uh little fantasies and so forth about what their animals do and think and say that's that's I think that's one of the great uh therapeutic benefits of having an animal around, by the way.
Uh cats are the best, because you know they they only want you when they want you, and that's not much.
And you never have to let them out.
Uh You don't have to house train them or uh any of that.
But and and they're, you know, they purr.
They're they're cute.
I love cats.
I like dogs too.
I like them all, but I love these lizards.
But when we start humanizing our enemies the same way and hoping that they're just like us, uh in terms of our culture and society, then we're making a um a huge, huge error.
And we're in the midst of doing that.
Uh let's see.
It was a solemn pledge, ladies and gentlemen.
Repeated by Democrat leaders and candidates over and over during the campaign.
If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of September 11th, the 9-11 Commission.
Dingy Harry made the promise out there on the campaign trail.
So did Nancy Pelosi.
But with control of Congress now secured, Democrat leaders have decided for now against implementing the one measure that would affect them most directly.
A wholesale reorganization of Congress to improve oversight and funding of the nation's intelligence agencies.
Instead, Democrat leaders may create a panel to look at the issue and produce recommendations according to congressional aids and lawmakers.
Now, because the plans for implementing the Commission's recommendations are still fluid, Democrat officials would not speak for the record, but aides in the House and Senate appropriations and armed services and intelligence committees confirmed this week that a reorganization of Congress would not be part of the package of homeland security changes up for passage in the first 100 hours of the Democrat Congress.
Now you might say, well, so what?
I mean, these people break promises all the time.
Don't forget, they these these people campaigned on the notion that Bush lied.
That Bush and Cheney massaged the intel and presented lying, falsified data to members of Congress in order to secure their votes for what has turned out to be an unjust war that has descended into a civil war.
And a place we should have never gone.
There were never weapons of mass destruction.
Bush lied, people died, you heard all this.
And the Democrats, and they told the moderates of this country, and they told the independence of this country, and they call they told madcap extremist wacko Democrat base members.
We're gonna fix this.
We're gonna make sure that we implement that one tenant of the 9-11 Commission and make sure nobody can use intelligence, make it up, fabricate it, massage it, and lie to us ever again.
We're gonna fit now they're elect.
Guess what?
We're not gonna do it.
We're we're just we're we're not gonna it's it's too fluid out there.
Um we're we're we're not gonna do it.
Now, some people say it may seem like a minor matter, but members of the commission say Congress's failure to change itself is anything but inconsequential.
Uh of all our recommendations, strengthening congressional oversight may be among the most difficult and important, wrote the 9-11 panel.
So long as oversight is governed by current congressional rules and resolutions, we believe the American people will not get the security they want and need.
And now the Democrats are balking.
Republicans did too.
I mean, the Republicans didn't go to great lengths to reform all this, but that's because they didn't think anything was wrong.
And who are the 9-11 Commission?
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Talked about this last week.
Just because a bunch of blue ribbon panel people say do X, why do it?
It's gonna be the same thing with the Iraq study group.
Okay, they can recommend whatever.
But why do we have to do it?
They're not elected.
They have no accountability.
Why why do we have to do what they say?
But the Democrats promised to.
But now that they are in control of Congress, they don't want to reform it, as uh the Commission uh thought uh necessary.
And this is gonna cause a little anger out there among their troops out there in the base.
And I'll tell you something else that's gonna cause a little anger.
It is it's gonna dawn on uh independents and moderates and the kook left-wing blogosphere before very long that the Democrats have no intention of bringing troops home from Iraq in the next two years, or certainly before Christmas or next Martin Luther King Day, or next Memorial Day, or next Easter or whenever.
Ain't going to happen.
And it's gonna be interesting to see how the uh the anti-war factions of the moderates and the independents uh react to all this.
I gotta run.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We're gonna have fun chronicling it, though, as they do react, and we know they will.
Sit tight, be right back.
Okay, we go back to the phones to Clayton, New York.
This Julie, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Rush, it is so good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Oh my goodness.
I have taught I've listened to you for so many years.
Well, at least 18.
And there's only one other man besides my wonderful husband Tom I spend the afternoon with, and that's you.
Oh my goodness.
You made me laugh when I thought I was gonna cry, because everything looks so bad.
And I just thank you so much.
But that's not why I called.
Well, I appreciate that, though, nevertheless.
Um you were talking, actually, I just got into the car and they were talking about the humanizing of the animals.
And it's true.
We have humanized these evil people who want to destroy everything that we hold dear, including many.
We are we're up here by Fortrum, New York, and we have loved ones over there.
And uh these they're making it so difficult, you know, to these guys to get the job done.
Well, anyway, this morning I hear on the radio that um the handler of shamu, uh, who's been handling shamu for twelve years, gets yanked up by his foot underwater, and I thought, look at this.
He's a killer whale.
And you know, we want to humanize these guys.
We want to love them and pat them, and I just thought it was funny when I heard you talking about, you know, your pets and the other leagues.
Well, you know, now this this that's interesting.
I have that story here, and I I have a companion story, but that to go along with this, but this is not the first time Shamu has attacked.
Now, I don't know if it's this particular whale, I think it was in Florida, but uh uh it was yeah, it was it was an orca.
Killed a trainer.
Uh there were there were two whales uh uh in the tank at the time, and the trainer it during a show in front of the children and their parents uh was riding the back of one of the whales, and the other whale came up and just smashed the trainer sitting on the back of the other whale.
And of course they cut down the show, they stopped the show and they they ushered people out.
Uh elephants have gone berserk um uh for no reason to us, no apparent reason to us.
It's obvious to me, and they don't like being caged and beaten on the butt and uh and told to hustle along.
You know, I I can I can totally understand this.
Uh but yeah, we it it's there's uh there's a certain magic about thinking we can train these animals to uh to perform.
But if if at the same time we're told how smart these are like dolphins, smarter than we are.
If we only had advanced language capabilities we could understand because they've got a very refined language, we are told, and that they uh they communicate.
And the same thing about humpback whales.
Get this.
And this is from Live Science.
This was uh published on Monday.
Humpback whales possess a vastly more elaborate vocabulary than was known.
Researchers now report.
Scientists had previously known of a very narrow range of sounds involved in humpback communication.
These included calls associated with hunting for fish and long complex songs from male humpbacks linked with mating.
I know you women are gonna be intrigued by this because at least male whales are romantic.
Uh so there's hope, I guess.
The uh to investigate the whales further, uh, researcher Rebecca Dunlop at the University of Queensland in Australia and her colleagues monitored humpback sounds and activity as the whales migrated along the east coast of Australia from breeding grounds inside the Great Barrier Reef to feeding grounds in the Antarctic.
The most surprising thing was that there were thirty-five different types of sounds that were detected.
We were expecting less than ten, Dunlop told Live Science.
Uh the whale calls might also be specific to one sex.
Now, what they're worried about here is that man-made noise is increasing in the ocean as we test mines, blow things up, uh, drill for oil.
We're making all kinds of all these tankers and their propellers and the engines.
There's a lot of noise in the ocean.
It didn't used to be there before man came along and invented these things.
And so the researchers are very much worried here about how this will affect individuals and Populations of whales without first knowing how they communicate in a relatively noise-free environment.
Now, I would like to alleviate any fears that people might have over this, because there was a time on Earth when there wasn't hardly any noise at all.
Thunderstorm was noise.
Maybe the thundering herds of the local T-Rex population bothered some people.
But there were no automobile engines.
There weren't any fireworks.
Traffic noise, uh air conditioners, airplanes, none of that stuff existed on this planet at one time when there were humans.
And now there is all of this noise.
I'm not aware that humans have lost their ability to communicate with each other in the midst of this noise.
Are you?
We still are able to communicate.
We build windows that close and air conditioning, and we find a way to insulate ourselves from it.
But even on the streets of Manhattan, where there's a high noise factor out there, plus the fumes that go along with the buses and so forth, uh people find a way to communicate, uh middle finger out the cab window, uh any any number of things that that can happen.
So I have faith that the whales will be able to handle the noise.
They're smarter than we are.
Uh if truth be known, they'll they'll they'll handle this fine.
Now, when I read this humpback whale vocabulary story, and then I saw that the SeaWorld trainer was hurt in a whale attack.
I figure at some point the orca said to the trainer, I am not doing this crap anymore, but the trainer didn't hear it, didn't listen to it, and so the whale had to take matters into her own mouth.
And she grabbed a trainer by the foot, took the trainer down to the bottom of the tank for less than a minute, trainer could hold his breath, it's 39-year-old guy.
Uh by the way, the animal is named uh Kasatka.
Uh and it was all happened during the finale.
The show's finale called for the female orca named Kasatka to shoot out of the water so that the trainer could dive off of her nose.
The whale's about 17 feet long, weighs well over 5,000 pounds.
Well, after several hundred spectators watched, or as they watched, the whale and the trainer plunged underwater because the trainer never got a chance to dive off the nose because the whale didn't cooperate.
Kasatka, the whale grabbed a trainer by the foot, held him for less than a minute before surfacing.
The trainer was being pinned by the whale to the bottom of the pool.
When they came up, the trainer tried to calm the animal by rubbing and stroking its back, but it grabbed him and plunged him down again for about another minute.
Uh if he were if he just had the ability to understand uh what what the orca Kasotka, I'm not doing this crap anymore.
I re if you read the story, you find that Kasaka has been for she's 30-year-old whale, has been performing most of her life and was familiar with the routine.
You think there's been a minimum wage increase for the whale during this period of time?
It's a Republican-controlled place.
See World San Diego, you can't fool me.
Whales simply got tired of being exploited.
Probably saw some of the people in the audience who said, I am doing this for these dingbats.
So um, you know, you have to understand these things are um these things are going to happen, and the longer we go, ladies and gentlemen, being unable to understand what these uh animals are saying to us, then our human trainers and and people that work with them are going to be at greater, greater risk for serious injury and uh and death.
Uh, and and that takes away from hope.
Uh Deborah in Lima, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rice.
I have a serious question for you.
Um I heard you the week before the election talking to an older gentleman about, you know, he wanted to have stem or he didn't do the stem cell, he went the adult stem cell.
And now today I heard you saying that you are for the embryonic, and before you were against it, I just wanted to know what's going on.
Well, uh I have one minute here.
I'll try to explain this as quickly as I can.
Okay.
Democrats won the election.
Shortly afterward, President Bush met with them to talk to them about how they could work together in uh in healing the wounds and and then moving forward.
I did the same thing.
I requested a meeting with Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi to see what uh we could do talking about the future of conservatism uh and talk radio to get their ideas on it since they won the election.
They have refused My uh offer to meet.
I read today that Dingy Harry has named as one of his three priorities in the Senate's agenda, embryonic stem cell research.
They won the election, and I wanted to illustrate to people that I know this, and I, you know, I take my medicine.
And that uh, you know, I'm deaf uh and I want you know I want to hear again.
Uh uh I know there's no evidence that embryonic stem cell research will restore my hearing, but I have hope.
Uh and when it comes to my hearing versus uh the life of an embryo in the womb, my hearing and my hope are going to win at each and every turn.
Because I have a constitutional right to hear that's being denied me.
I just wanted to know, Senator Reed, I'm on his side.
I want people to know what Senator Reed is supporting.
I know.
Enjoying every moment of the busy broadcast day.
Here at the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network to South Portland Maine, Bill.
Uh, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Negadivos, Rush.
Thank you.
Uh I've listened to you since 89.
I first hated you, then I kept listening and became uh a conservative.
What I want to talk to you about, this you squid and told me to go right to the point.
Your talk about being uh hopeful about stem cell research uh reversing your deafness.
Here's the problem, what you did.
I I realize what you did, but John, who called earlier, he he honestly believed I uh for the call that I uh the the way I interpreted the call that I I uh that he made was that he believed You you you think you're worried that some people are believing me here.
Exactly.
Well, that's because I have credibility.
Well, I know you do, Rush, you have it with me.
But the problem is you got to be careful what you do because you because of your credibility, there are people like John who honestly may have been against stem cell research, but by the time you got done with them, now he's for it.
You didn't mean to do that.
I realized this, but be careful, guy.
Boy, this is tough to digest.
I I um Rush, it's just like I went ballistic today out first of all, the elections were harsh off of me.
Then I turn you on and you're talking about reaching out to Pelosi and Reed.
I'm about to reach out to those two with arrest warrants.
I mean, I don't want to work with these people.
They're national menaces, and I know you believe it too, but for crying out loud, uh you've got to realize that some people don't recognize Kerity.
Well, is that my fault?
No, but think about it for a minute.
When I go on talk radio, and and I've been on a lot of different shows, by the way, I'm hugely wanted to be on yours.
Uh I have to think and think and think first before I ever pick the phone, because I'm afraid that somebody will misinterpret what I say and then go exactly the opposite way of what I wanted to go to.
Oh, see, you know what you're doing, though?
You're making a mistake.
As a professional caller, you're a su you're you're trying to assume or ascertain what uh what the audience wants to hear and do that rather than just launching uh with your beliefs and with your passions.
Well, I do want what my I do.
Yeah, but you're you know, you're you're you're you're doing it with reservations because you're concerned about how it might be heard, and with as many people as you are speaking to as a professional caller, you can't predict what every listener is going to think.
Exactly.
But I I want to minimize my damage.
In other words, I don't want to get up there and make a statement and five days later something awful happens, and I look back and you know, that was my statement that did that damage.
This this is this is this is let let me try let me try this a different way.
Uh in acknowledgment of your of your complaint.
Uh Michael J. Fox, let's go back and and and revisit the the stem cell commercials that he was doing.
Uh Michael J. Fox appeared on television suffering the effects of over medication for his Parkinson's disease by his own admission.
He appeared on tape or on film in a way in which he wanted to appear.
I mean, they taped it.
They filmed it, whatever.
If they didn't want it to appear that way, they would have done it a different day when he wasn't betraying symptoms that way.
They wanted it to appear that way.
Number two, uh he was speaking out in favor of a Democrat candidate uh who was for embryonic stem cell research, and Michael J. Fox was trying to convey Without saying so directly that he has hope that his Parkinson's will be cured someday, if not in his life, other sufferers will find a cure, have a cure found with embryonic stem cell research.
He then went on, which there's no evidence to support that at all.
It's Zilt Zero Nada.
In fact, all the progress with stem cells is in cord blood and adult stem cell.
Doesn't matter.
Michael J. Fox has hope.
And that's what that commercial was about.
Hope that he wouldn't have to appear that way or be that way, that he could be cured.
And furthermore, he pointed out that a Republican candidate wanted to criminalize those who were trying to give him hope.
Jim Talent and others that he ran the commercial for were supposedly against this research when they weren't.
They're not against stem cell research that was going on, and not again, they're not for federal funding of embryonic stem search, stem cell research, but nevertheless, Michael J. Fox and others who have done commercials like this, kind of beat around a bush.
They didn't really say what was at stake or what was going on here.
They were allowed to be portrayed as victims and as sufferers.
They uh were allowed to uh uh evoke pity among people while denying that they wanted any.
And then they were able to say things that weren't true and get away with it because you can't criticize them, they're victims.
So I read today that Harry Reed, the Senate majority leader now, uh, will be in January, announced his agenda for the uh first three items that they're gonna try to push in the Senate come January.
A minimum wage increase, ethics reform, and embryonic stem cell research.
And uh I realize that Democrats won the election, they have the power.
I'm I'm simply trying to help Senator Reed communicate what the Democrat agenda is.
And I chose to make it personal.
I too suffer from a disability.
I am deaf.
One hundred percent totally deaf.
If I take off my cochlear implant here, I can hear nothing other than you know the white noise my brain creates.
I literally hear no environmental sounds, nothing.
People can't grasp that.
They think this is a hearing aid, and it technically is, but it's it's actually a bionic ear.
I can hear nothing.
Oh, I don't like this.
I want to hear like everybody else can hear.
It's not fair, it's not right, and if there's research out there that might someday, even if it's a hundred years down the road, restore my hearing, then I have hope.
I'm like everybody else, I have a constitutional right to hear.
It's in the First Amendment.
If you read it as a living breathing document, I know some of you are guffawing at this.
But look, the right to free speech is in there, what's speech worth if nobody can hear it?
I mean, you all have free speech.
If I can't hear it, I'm being denied a constitutional right.
So inherent in the First Amendment is my right to hear.
And it's not there.
Okay, so there's this prospect now that Democrats are going to engage in embryonic stem cell research to provide hope for millions of America.
Well, I am one of those millions of Americans that wants hope.
I want people to understand what Dingy Harry is doing.
Dingy Harry is suggesting that when it comes to the hope of individuals suffering from these terrible diseases.
Despite the fact that there's no evidence there's ever going to be a cure with this stuff, that doesn't matter.
Hope shall be kept alive here, even if we have to kill embryos, babies in the womb.
And so to help Senator Reed get his message out, because so few of these people are willing to plainly speak about this.
I could do a TV commercial.
I could go on television with my cochlear implant off and attempt to be in a conversation with somebody and not hear it, and have people feel sorry for me and look at me as a victim, and then say there's a way out there that I can be cured, but that there are some people who are standing in the way of it, and they're depressing my hope.
And if I have hope for a cure, don't I have a right to say or do support anything?
Yes, because that's the theory.
Oh, I want my hearing back, because I'm very selfish person.
If Dingy Harry's the guy that's going to work hard to get it back, I'm going to support it.
I want people to know how he's going to do it.
He's going to lead a movement to kill babies in The womb so that I can hear again.
That's what the Michael J. Fox commercial was essentially all about.
That's what my commercial would be all about.
So you think I'm engaging in parody here.
I am merely engaging in what I think Senator McCain describes as plain talk.
I'm simply explaining to everybody what exactly in fact I'll tell you where I came across when I was when I went up to Washington to the Warner Theater to do the Rush to Excellence tour up there.
I did a whole segment at the end of the uh at the end of the performance about this this whole Michael J. Fox thing, and I think it's about time to give people an analogy.
And I gave them this exact analogy.
I could do a commercial.
I can't hear.
I'm deaf as a doornail.
If I take off my implant, that makes me a sufferer.
It makes me a victim.
I mean, I didn't do anything to cause it.
My immune system went nuts one day.
Bam oh, six months I'm deaf.
I'm as innocent a victim as anybody is.
I want to hear.
And my desires are more important than anything else.
And I have a Democrats on my side.
You think I'm not going to use them?
Let's see.
Where is this?
I think this is Houston.
Ah, yeah, it is.
Kate, it's it's uh it's in Katie, Texas, with the Houston area.
Check this headline here.
Residents use pig races to deter building of mosque.
Residents don't want group in their area.
There's an awful lot of exciting news when you were round the corner on Baker Road.
One of two big yellow signs announces a new neighbor's coming soon.
KIA, that's the Katy Islamic Association, plans to build a mosque here.
It's not an appropriate place to have a mosque or church, said resident Barbara Simpson.
Isn't going over real well there.
Uh house of worship, uh they shouldn't be disturbing the peace and tranquility of fifteen homes, said resident John Wetmore.
Neighbors tell us they're concerned about traffic and drainage, a little fear of the unknown.
Some of the homeowners even offered to buy the land back for more than a million dollars.
But the uh Katy Islamic Association doesn't seem very interested in the office or offers.
Uh Alvi Muzfar of the Katy Islamic Association said, We are not going anywhere.
So it seems the community at the end of Baker Road in Katie has a pretty good fight.
But it's gone much further than just uh fight between two neighbors.
See, in these fights, sometimes neighbors throw mud at one another.
In this instance, they're wallowing in it.
Guy named Craig Baker owns pigs.
He's the guy behind the second big yellow sign on Baker Road.
That's the one announcing Friday night pig races.
What does it matter?
I can do whatever I want with my land, right?
Ask landowner Craig Baker.
Sure can, at least for now in Texas.
But aren't pigs on the property line racing on a Friday night a little offensive to a Muslim neighbor?
The uh meat of a pig is prohibited in the religion of Islam, said Katie Islamic Association member Yusuf Alam.
It's looked upon as a dirty creature.
Yeah, there's that, and also that Friday night is a Muslim holy day.
This is definitely a slap in our face, said Alam.
Now, before you um you go thinking that Craig Baker is unfair or full of hate, hear him out.
Baker has long roots here.
His family named the road, and when the new neighbors moved in, he tells us they asked him to move out.
Basically that I should pack up my family and my business, find a place elsewhere.
That's ridiculous.
They just bought the place one week prior, and he's telling me I should think about leaving.
The new owners deny they ever said anything like that, but Baker isn't budging.
Uh Baker admits that the pigs and the pig races are a message he is not leaving.
Katie, Texas, pig races to deter the building of a mosque.
We will keep a sharp eye.
Elizabeth in Orlando, Florida, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Russ.
Hey.
Hey.
I am so thrilled to talk to you.
This is a highlight of my season.
I was very sad this morning when I uh heard you talk about your alone weekends and all the time that you spend alone.
And I think that you're not going to be able to do it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what did I say that?
You said that you spend uh a lot of your time alone.
Uh well, yeah, but I mean it's by choice.
It's called freedom.
No, but the the larger point I was making, Elizabeth, was I was talking about um uh what was the I don't even remember the subject, but it was oh uh everybody wanted to know where I'd been the past two days, and I said I'm not telling I'm gonna maintain a certain amount of privacy in my life because every seems like every good thing, bad thing, personal wart in my private life is under scrutiny.
It gets publicized out there, and I was just saying that I don't have a circle of friends who can relate to that.
Nobody I know has there's the media, the the tabloids, nobody th they don't they have no interest in anybody I know.
And so what it's it's fair enough, Rush, but but I think what I'm hearing from you is that you have sworn off women.
Windows I think it's because you don't know when when I boy, this is you are I didn't say that.
You have in the past.
Well, I did in the past, but I didn't say it today.
Well, yeah, right.
But you see, you are a wise man, and your optimism is infectious, and you have helped me to be wiser, and by the way, I understood your humor all along this morning, and you didn't need to to go into all that that uh explanation that you just had to go through with the previous caller because I'm smart enough because I've listened to you enough.
But what I think you need, Rush, is a close friend and ally who is female, who is wise, who is opinionated, who is strong enough to be holding her own on the female side of the agenda so that you will be more balanced because men are not made to be alone unless celibate,
according to God's rule, and you need a counterpart to bounce things off of to help you be um in on how we think, and there are women like us who are willing to put a man first and yet be a whole and develop my own life.
And there are people like us.
I'm married 33 years.
My husband's after uh you're after him, you're the wisest man that ever lived.
Okay, so you're that you're not applying here.
No, no, I'm not.
We're married, I was No, no, no, no, I'm not.
I'm saying there are people like me who are out there who could make your life very, very happy.
I make my husband very, very happy.
He started out on minimum wage, and now he's in the rich category.
And you did it.
No.
I helped him do it.
I've built into him who I am.
I learned not to be intimidated by him.
I learned to be his counterpart.
It took years, of course, because I was intimidated at first.
He's I don't believe that.
Yeah.
I just don't believe that.
I don't b there's all this whole notion that you say I need a strong woman that can put up.
I need three backbones when I'm with a woman because I'm the one that's intimidated.
No, that's because the woman has to be strong but respectful.
You see, if a woman understands a man and that his maleness, do you know that male means noteworthy?
Now the the way women understand men is that they're they're just not good enough.
There's always something wrong with them somewhere.
You're you're around the wrong women like Solomon.
No matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter what you accomplished, there's still something wrong.
No, well, nobody's perfect.
See neither am I. You see, my husband my husband wears off my revit rough edges respectfully, and I rub off his rub uh uh rough edges respectfully, and now we've met we like to say to each other with a twinkle in our eye, we have made each other.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what scares me.
No, no, no, no, no.
Whole whole, who you should be, not creating somebody that I think he should be.
But look, with all due respect, you sound sweet as as as is all get out.
But uh your husband you're you're I look, I've got I'm sure your husband is more like you want him to be than he realizes.
Which is probably fine for him that he's ignorant about it.
I appreciate the uh call.
I wish I had more time, but I really have to go thank you, Elizabeth very much.
Okay, folks, I have to go.
Got a lot of stuff to do this afternoon, and tonight cannot and will not tell you what it is.
Nor will I tomorrow.
But we'll be here tomorrow.
Open line Friday coming up next.
Can't wait.
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