Dec. 18, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| I'm not kidding, my own hometown paper. | |
| Can you believe Evan Bye pulled out? | |
| My gosh, I was stunned. | |
| He was never in. | |
| Way didn't pull out. | |
| He said he was not going to get in. | |
| That's right. | |
| Really? | |
| No kidding. | |
| Evan Who? | |
| Ah, yes, Rush Limbaugh, the thorn in every liberal side, broadcast excellence here for a brand new full week, by the way. | |
| While most hosts uh lazily take off this week because they think there's nothing going on. | |
| I, L. Rushbow, in celebrating the holiday season. | |
| Christmas season uh with everybody am right here. | |
| We'll be up here through Friday. | |
| Uh, going to be in New York on Wednesday. | |
| Uh time to pass out staff Christmas presents. | |
| Uh, but we'll be back on uh on Thursday and Friday. | |
| But we're gonna be broadcasting two. | |
| We have two golden EIB microphones, one in the Southern Command here and one in uh New York. | |
| But uh looking forward to being with you all week. | |
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| Snerdly, your big Cowboys fan, okay. | |
| Tell me, T.O. spitz on the defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons, D'Angelo Hall. | |
| Snerdley's excusing it. | |
| The guy was in his face and wouldn't let you walk away. | |
| You walk you don't spit on somebody. | |
| Of course, I had to, I was watching the pointless ESPN pregame show yesterday, and the mock outrage from these guys. | |
| Michael Irvin and Tom Jackson really, five-minute lectures on how spitting on somebody is bad, and there's no place for it in football. | |
| You can knock somebody to hell, you can cream them, you can bury them, you can break their neck, you can do it. | |
| Don't spit on them. | |
| You'll get lectured. | |
| Yeah, TO2 apologized. | |
| Yes, T Well, of course, TO T apologize. | |
| I'm just telling you, bad news ahead here on the on the TO front. | |
| You asked me earlier in the season, and it's just I don't know if it's this season or what, but it's gonna not be good. | |
| Just uh just mark my words. | |
| All right. | |
| I want to start with audio sound bites today, folks, and another in a never-ending long line of illustrations of how it is that I, in this case and many others, are taken totally out of context on purpose by the drive-by media. | |
| And this uh this happened on reliable sources yesterday on CNN, uh, hosted by our old buddy Howard Kurtz. | |
| And he plays an audio sound bite uh from me in this program last week that makes it sound like I think Hillary Clinton should loosen up. | |
| But that was not the case. | |
| We'll play their bit, and then we'll follow it with the whole bite of what I had said, putting it in context. | |
| And of course, it misled one of the guests, a friend of mine, Deborah Saunders, who's a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, who was moved to profoundly disagree with me uh based on the out-of-context nature of the soundbite. | |
| So here we go. | |
| Howard Kurtz, let me play uh soundbite for you from Rush Limbaugh's radio show, in which he talked about the way Hillary Clinton is being treated by the media these days. | |
| Hillary needs to loosen up. | |
| Nobody really knows her. | |
| Nobody really knows who she is. | |
| She just so tightly wound that uh she appears fake. | |
| So what do they want her to do? | |
| Dance, smile, tell jokes, wear low-cut dresses, hell, wear dresses. | |
| Deborah Saunders, what accounts for the contrast between the way that uh Senator Clinton is treated and the way Senator Obama is treated? | |
| Well, everybody has seen Hillary Clinton for years, and she is not a new flavor. | |
| I couldn't disagree more with Rush Limbaugh. | |
| We know a lot about her on a personal level. | |
| We know who she is. | |
| We've seen her, we know what she's going to be like. | |
| All right, now, if you were just watching CNN and you heard that, you would think, my gosh, here's a conservative column is disagreeing with Limbaugh. | |
| Uh, and making it look like I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to Hillary. | |
| So remember where they started the bite. | |
| Hillary needs to loosen up. | |
| Uh, and let's uh the they left out um just trying to find the transcript here. | |
| They left out about 60% of the whole comment. | |
| What what you just heard was maybe 30 percent, 20 percent of what I said. | |
| Here is the whole comment that I made. | |
| And note that I am talking about what people in Iowa are saying about her. | |
| Iowa Democrats say that notoriously disciplined Senator Hillary Clinton may need to loosen up if she wants the state to support her presidential plans. | |
| Gordon Fisher, the former Iowa Democrat Party chairman, said Clinton's carefully controlled demeanor might prevent her from connecting with voters. | |
| I don't know that you can win in the Iowa cockeye and be a control freak, said Fisher, who supports the presidential perspirations of Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack. | |
| Fisher said that Hillary can improve her chances by visiting every county in the state before the Hawkeye Cockai, which are scheduled to be the first in the country in 13 months. | |
| You get a bus and you go to all 99 counties. | |
| You got to spend some time. | |
| You got to really talk to people. | |
| The whole concept here, Hillary needs to loosen up. | |
| Nobody really knows her. | |
| Nobody really knows who she is. | |
| She just she's so tightly wound that uh she appears fake. | |
| So what do they want her to do? | |
| Dance, smile, tell jokes, wear low-cut dresses. | |
| Hell, wear dresses. | |
| They wanted to act human. | |
| They wanted to take a position on something, wanted her cry. | |
| This woman cannot hold a press conference unless it's totally planned and scripted to protect her. | |
| She hadn't been asked any tough questions about anything from anybody in six years. | |
| Okay, so you see, I was totally quoting the people from Iowa and then ridiculed. | |
| What do they want her to do? | |
| They wanted to loosen up. | |
| They they wanted to uh drive around, dance, smile, tell jokes, wear dresses, low-cut dresses, or what have you. | |
| I was mimicking them. | |
| These are the people, but this is no big deal, and I'm not upset about it. | |
| Don't misunderstand the passion and enthusiasm in my voice. | |
| That's for my job. | |
| Uh I just love the job and I get worked up, but this is a clear and classic illustration. | |
| Now they had to have the whole bite because they pulled what I said from the middle of it. | |
| Uh it wasn't the beginning or it wasn't just the end, and so they left out the crucial part that I was sort of mocking the Iowa. | |
| What do you want her to do? | |
| What do we already not know about this woman? | |
| In essentially, Deborah Saunders and I think the same thing about Mrs. Clinton. | |
| I was chiding the people from Iowa, but in this case, Deborah was led astray by the out of context clip, as aired by our old buddy, Howard Kurtz at CNN. | |
| Since we're on the subject, let's go to Hillary. | |
| She was on the Today Show today, co-host Meredith Viera, said everybody's talking about you and Senator Obama. | |
| I mean, really, you're the By the way, do you know Obama's wife is on the board of Walmart? | |
| I kid you not, I just read that. | |
| Where did I re- I haven't printed it out yet. | |
| Maybe I did print it out. | |
| She's all concerned that she doesn't make as much money as her peers. | |
| She makes about 331,000 a year. | |
| And she doesn't make as much money as her peers. | |
| She and her husband combined do about 500 grand a year, not counting the book royalties. | |
| But she makes 45 grand a year on a board at Walmart. | |
| This is Hillary the Second. | |
| Hillary started out on the board of Walmart when she worked at the Rose Law Firm down in uh in Little Rock. | |
| So here you have two Democrats, uh high-ranked leading nominees for their party's presidential nomination, leading candidates, and this party's oriented toward destroying Walmart. | |
| Hillary has been on the board. | |
| Obama's wife is. | |
| I think uh oh, John Edwards. | |
| You know, I th Iowa is so excited about Edwards is being touted as the only person who can stop Hillary and Obama. | |
| And you know where he's gonna announce you not, and Edward the Breck girl I know it's it's unbelievable. | |
| The Breck girl is gonna announce his candidacy, I think between Christmas and New Year's in New Orleans. | |
| He's gonna go to the site of Hurricane Katrina. | |
| I have the story in here. | |
| It's all about his his his vision of two Americas has somehow vanished and it's morphed into into something else. | |
| I may take a break. | |
| We'll go to the Hillary sound bites after the first EIB profit center timeout of the uh day. | |
| We'll be back and continue shortly, folks. | |
| Stay right where you are. | |
| Manheim steamroller here, Los Peses. | |
| Uh in El Rio. | |
| As the fish in the river, uh, for those of you in Rio Linda. | |
| Hell, I'm real Linda, they probably know Spanish more than I do English. | |
| Anyway, greetings, welcome back, Rushlin, bought cutting edge of societal evolution. | |
| Here's that uh here's that story on Barack Obama's uh as wife. | |
| It's Thomas Lipson in the uh the American thinker.com. | |
| Poor Mrs. Barack Obama. | |
| My income is pretty low compared to my peers, she says. | |
| So how much is she scraping by on? | |
| Well, according to a tax return released by the Senator, that would be her husband Barack Hussein Obama this week. | |
| The uh promo promotion that she got uh I guess the hospital nearly tripled her income from the hospitals to 316,090 uh 900 bucks in 2005 from 121,900 bucks in 2004. | |
| So she basically tripled her income. | |
| Uh her income coincidentally jumped when her husband Barack Hussein Obama was elected to the United States Senate. | |
| She handles community outreach for the University of Chicago hospitals, which uh does indeed sound like vital work right up there with open heart surgery. | |
| Uh but wait, uh there's more, as the late-night television commercials assure us. | |
| Husband bashes Walmart following the union boss catechism. | |
| The Chicagoan who would be president, maybe told members of a union-backed coalition, they have a moral responsibility to stand up and fight Walmart. | |
| The battle to engage Walmart and force them to examine their own corporate values and what their polities and approaches are to their workers is absolutely vital. | |
| The AP has quoted Barack Obama as saying. | |
| But story in uh Chicago's business, Crane Chicago Business by Greg Hines, has this little passage. | |
| Michelle Hussein Barack Obama making uh forty-five thousand dollars a year serving on the board of a Chicago area company that pays its executives a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in an economically deprived area, a company whose number one customer is you guessed it, Walmart. | |
| So she doesn't work at Walmart. | |
| Uh she is on the board of Chicago Company that pays its wherever she works, whatever the hell it is, it's uh its biggest customer is Walmart, while her husband is out doing everything in the world along with the Democrats to uh to destroy it. | |
| More hypocrisy. | |
| Not that that's gonna convince anybody of anything, as we discussed in great detail with a caller on Friday. | |
| Now, Mrs. Clinton, back to that. | |
| Today's show today, Meredith Vieira. | |
| Everybody's talking to you and about you. | |
| Senator Obama. | |
| Really, the cover of Newsweek. | |
| Most people have decided you're gonna run. | |
| The Senator from Illinois has said he's thinking about it. | |
| You've said you're thinking about it. | |
| Senator, tell us whether you've made a decision. | |
| I'm working hard to make a decision, and I will after the first of the year. | |
| It is really both very flattering and overwhelming to be looking at this, maybe more than anybody else. | |
| I know how hard this job is. | |
| I saw it in an up close and personal way for eight years. | |
| Stop the tape a second. | |
| Saw it up close and person. | |
| Hell, you ran it up close and personal. | |
| Intensely personal decision. | |
| You know, I'm very honored that people are urging me to run and saying they want to sign up. | |
| And yet at the end of the day, I want to be sure that my decision is right for me for my family, for my party, for my country. | |
| Well, if it's the country we're talking about, bag it. | |
| Uh, but in terms of uh family. | |
| The party. | |
| Some interesting Hillary stories over the weekend. | |
| The Washington Times, Democrats doubt Hillary's electability. | |
| This is not the first of these stories. | |
| There have been many of them. | |
| Several key Democrats say that Senator Hillary Have you heard the story, by the way? | |
| And I this is a week or two ago, and I'm not sure that I can confirm this, but I know I read somewhere. | |
| That if she's elected president, she has decided she wants to be called President Rodham. | |
| Did you hear that? | |
| I'm not making this up. | |
| I've read that. | |
| I can't recall where I read it, and that wasn't a it wasn't a parody piece. | |
| It was it was not a parody piece. | |
| But you'll understand why when I get to the second story here. | |
| This Washington Times story talks about the uh fact that Democrats worry Hillary could become the Howard Dean of 2008. | |
| Some say her biggest problem is her electability, an issue that can work against her in the cauc eye and the primaries among rank and file Democrats. | |
| Hillary Clinton is going to be a formidable opponent because she's able to raise more money, but does that make you the winner? | |
| Ask Howard Dean. | |
| He was raising more money than you can imagine. | |
| Ended up doing poorly in O4, said former Iowa Democrat chairman Rob Tully. | |
| When asked about Mrs. Clinton's lead in opinion polls, they also point to the ill-fated presidential campaign of Mr. Dean. | |
| Now what's the correlation to Howard Dean and Hillary? | |
| What do you think? | |
| It's the scream. | |
| Hillary has a tendency, you know, Dean, he had a one-syllable screen, scream. | |
| Hillary has a uh a tendency to scream whole speeches or whole paragraphs. | |
| Anyway, the the you know all kinds of undercurrents, and there have been for a while from Democrats. | |
| I'm not sure she can win. | |
| And then in the Washington Post on Sunday was was this this I I don't I don't know how to describe this sop story. | |
| The president in the room, Hillary Clinton's biggest issue, a certain someone in her background. | |
| Listen to way this story starts. | |
| He stood far behind. | |
| Hiding in plain sight through his glowing white hair and ruddy complexion rendered him as inconspicuous as a face on Mount Rushmore. | |
| The spotlight was not Bill Clinton's. | |
| It belonged instead to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as she celebrated her re-election victory. | |
| So Bill stood poker faced. | |
| He clasped his hands. | |
| He held his head high. | |
| He clapped when appropriate. | |
| He smiled ever so faintly, and he did not move. | |
| When Hillary offered thanks to him and turned around to acknowledge him, he did not step forward, did not step to her side. | |
| He stayed put several feet away as if taking pains to soak up not one ray of the spotlight he so dearly loves, but that now more than ever must be hers and hers alone. | |
| I'm telling you, this is worse than the power was crackling through his jeans on Catalina Island. | |
| This is uh a woman, of course, wrote the story, Lynn Duke. | |
| Well, I'm assuming it's it's a female because it's an E on the end of Lynn. | |
| Anyway, I just wanted to read the open to you. | |
| That's not the point. | |
| The point of the story is how they're gonna keep him quiet. | |
| The biggest challenge Hillary has is managing Bill. | |
| How does she keep him from dating? | |
| How does she keep him from being photographed with other women? | |
| How does she keep him out of Canada where he's got what his babe stashed up there? | |
| How does she keep him from trying to hog the spotlight all over the testicle lock box is one option, but she's been using that for years and is uh found other uh substitutes since uh testicle lock box uh has probably been hidden from him. | |
| If she runs, will voters focus too much on him? | |
| Will they remember too much of the national trauma known as that woman? | |
| And the presidential prevaricating hair splitting what is is anyway, and impeachment that followed. | |
| Can voters look at Bill Clinton without thinking of sex? | |
| And if they don't think of sex, they'll likely still think the word president, which also may not be such a good thing for a spouse who wants that title. | |
| Can Bill Clinton control himself during her presidential campaign? | |
| Bill Clinton, the management challenge. | |
| Drive bys are sending her a message. | |
| The drive-by's are telling her what they perceive her big problems to be in the campaign. | |
| Uh and then there is and I'm only sharing this with you because she said the decision to run is gonna hinge on what's best for her family. | |
| Uh now, here's something I don't think I knew. | |
| Near the end of this story, well, but little more than halfway through this story. | |
| Since the Lewinsky scandal, Bill has received counseling for sex addiction. | |
| Had you heard that? | |
| You ha have you heard that, Brian? | |
| Don, have you heard about that? | |
| You know, Bill has received counseling for sex addiction. | |
| He and Hillary have grown as a couple. | |
| She has burst out of her role as wife and first lady to become a politician in her own right. | |
| He has had a brush with death. | |
| I mean, this is just it's syrupy. | |
| And then you compare the stories Obama is getting, and then look at your average coverage of Newt Gingrich gets or or me or anybody else. | |
| Uh and it's just it's it's it's it's just laughable. | |
| But I didn't know that Clinton went through sex addiction. | |
| I, ladies and gentlemen, know a little bit about sex addiction. | |
| I've never undergone counseling for it because I've never had a sex addiction, but I know people who have. | |
| In fact, when I went to drug rehabilitation out in Arizona, about 80 people in the place at any one time, the vast majority of them are being treated for sex addiction. | |
| it. | |
| Alcohol was number two, drugs of various kinds was number three. | |
| Um the sex addicts were a mess. | |
| And it it's a tough it's it's I have my doubts that he's actually had counseling for it because it's something you don't do overnight. | |
| I know, sometimes you just feel like singing along with this stuff rather than doing the program. | |
| Anyway, gr great to be back with you, folks. | |
| Uh Rush Limbaugh here on the EIB network. | |
| It was Dick Morris who was on John Gibson's show in early December, who said that um she would not be another President Clinton. | |
| She would be President Rodham. | |
| I'll bet you that if she wins, that's what she has people call her, Morris said on Fox News. | |
| Do you think the country is ready for this succession line of presidents? | |
| George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Hillary Rodham Clinton. | |
| Or do you think the public even thinks about things like that when they vote for president? | |
| Do you do you think that the the country is ready for what is it? | |
| It'd be five terms, five six terms, six terms of uh with basically two families running the country. | |
| That's a fascinating question. | |
| Here's uh Kimberly in Dayton, Ohio as we go to the phones. | |
| Kimberly, Merry Christmas. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| Um I just wanted to call, and I don't I don't want this to sound like a rude call, so I apologize if it does. | |
| But um you really underestimated Hillary. | |
| Everything made everything you said made sense when she ran in New York. | |
| She shouldn't have won that. | |
| You go up there and you run, you don't even live there, you buy a house to run. | |
| She shouldn't have won. | |
| And everything that you said in the 2006 election about the cut and run conservatives, you it all made sense. | |
| But I kept trying to call and tell you it's really happening. | |
| Well, I I'm here in Ohio, and I can tell you that Wait, wait, I've lost you now. | |
| Okay. | |
| Let's let's go back to the beginning. | |
| I where I was wrong about Hillary was I predicted she wouldn't run, and she did. | |
| After she said she would run, I don't think I ever predicted she would lose. | |
| She's been running since she walked into the White House the first time. | |
| I think we seriously underestimate her passion for world domination here. | |
| And who and how many people she's going to to cut the legs off of to get there. | |
| And the thing is, is that I I also think that you seriously, and and I'm sorry that that it's the case. | |
| You have no idea how sorry I am, but that you seriously underestimate how many uneducated people there are in this country that don't listen to your show. | |
| And they aren't educated and they go out there and they vote. | |
| And my daughter goes to school with a whole castle of them who are gonna vote for Hillary Clinton just because she's a woman and they know nothing about her. | |
| We have got to have a serious intense contrast to who this woman is. | |
| Not just a mediocre moderate, but a serious, intense contrast so that so that the people of America can see, don't give up hope. | |
| We need a founding father, and I know people keep saying there's not going to be another Ronald Reagan, but I really think that there are good people out there who don't necessarily have to be, you know, senators or governors. | |
| I mean, they're in they're in office right now. | |
| They know how to do the do the thing, but they're overlooked because the m the Republican Party is pushing their machinery through, and that's what makes everybody upset because they keep shutting people like Michael Wine down our throats, and they don't give us the real thing. | |
| I think the only thing that's gonna be Hillary Clinton is rallying the women, educating them, getting the real thing. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Oh my gosh, I'm hyperventilating. | |
| I'm getting dizzy here trying to keep up with you. | |
| I'm breathing. | |
| Let me see if I understand. | |
| You are scared to death of Hillary. | |
| I'm not scared to death. | |
| Yes, you are. | |
| You could have said you could have said what you just said. | |
| You could have said it in three words. | |
| I'm scared to death of the ignorance of the American people. | |
| That is what scares me. | |
| I'm I w that's something we're always gonna have to uh we're always going to have to deal with. | |
| Um I mean the the the education system being what it is. | |
| I mean you you started by saying that you you disagree with me that uh I don't apparently think there's a lot of idiots out there. | |
| I do. | |
| I think there's a plenty of blooming. | |
| It's not so much they're idiots. | |
| It's they don't pay attention as closely as things that you and I do. | |
| They're interested in other things, and that's and and when they do pay attention, the places they go is where the little brainwashing starts or the propaganda. | |
| They go to big big media places and or if the in the case of young people, I hear about it in school from teachers and professors and and uh and this sort of thing. | |
| Uh yeah, but Russia, I'm not talking about those people. | |
| I'm talking about the people who are paying attention, the conservatives, the real conservatives, the homeschoolers, the people who know what's going on, they've lost hope. | |
| And I think I think that that they've lost Well, then vote for Barack Obama. | |
| Oh, please. | |
| That's not the answer. | |
| Well, I mean, he's the man of hope. | |
| We've had the man from hope, now we've got the man of hope. | |
| You need to calm down out there. | |
| I'm trying to tell you I am the norm, and and you're you're fine, but everybody else is screwed up. | |
| You're fine, but everybody else is worried. | |
| You're fine, but everybody else is depressed. | |
| You're fine, but everybody else wants to commit suicide, you're fine, but everybody else is ready to throw up their hands and say, I quit. | |
| I'm moving to Switzerland so I can renounce my U.S. taxpayer status. | |
| Yeah, let's stop that. | |
| How do we stop that? | |
| So we keep that from happening. | |
| How do we give them hope? | |
| Um Well gee, I don't know. | |
| I'm a radio guy. | |
| You know, I'm I'm not trying to get votes, and I'm not the people in this audience have hope. | |
| The people of this audience enjoy their lives. | |
| Uh the people and I I I don't run around in fits of depression all day long. | |
| Uh well, I mean, I sometimes I get down to dumps, but I know how to get out of it now. | |
| Uh whereas I used to not know how to do that. | |
| I know how to but I don't I don't live there when that happens to me. | |
| Uh and I've I'll be I'll tell you what, Kimberly, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let whoever becomes president ruin my life. | |
| I mean it's a but they have the ability to do that. | |
| In many physical ways. | |
| You're right. | |
| Mindset is mindset, and you can overcome it. | |
| But they have the ability to put us in a place I mean, six years is way too long to send a message, and we've sent a lot of messages for six years into Washington, and that's gonna have a very, very big impact on all of our lives. | |
| And people did that on purpose. | |
| I saw them walk into the polls with their eyes closed. | |
| No, I don't want your voter information, even if that was nonpartisan. | |
| They went with a mission. | |
| They went to send a message, and now we have to live with this message. | |
| How do we keep that from happening in 2008? | |
| I guess that's my question. | |
| Well, um I what who went where for six years and did what? | |
| I I lost you there. | |
| Sherid Brown is now the senator representing Ohio for six years. | |
| Fine. | |
| And he's not the only one all across the country. | |
| We we we set some really good people in in place um uh in in various places around the country. | |
| And they're not gonna be able to do that. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| We we we we are replaying the aftermath of the electioneer. | |
| I think I think I totally understand what you're talking about. | |
| You're talking we've sent people to Washington for six years or whatever, and they didn't do what they were gonna do, they didn't they didn't fulfill their promises and so forth. | |
| And what happened to them happened. | |
| They lose in that cer in that circumstance. | |
| That's how the process works. | |
| And if they want to get their power back, they're gonna have to come out and figure out what it is that their supporters and voters want and then campaign on it and then try their best to deliver it after they uh after they get elected. | |
| Yeah, I th these things are repeating cycles. | |
| Um what's frustrating is that the losers never seem to learn from it. | |
| Uh and they ex they just they they expect that these winning and losing cycles are gonna continue, and that when they lose, it's uh not that big a deal as these things happen in uh in in politics. | |
| Uh at any rate, I appreciate the call, Kimberly. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Try to calm down. | |
| It's never as bad as you think it is. | |
| And it's but after all, you've you were just named Time Magazine's person of the year. | |
| Uh uh why is anybody depressed today? | |
| Well, I don't understand how anybody you I we all are Time magazine's person of the everybody in the country, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Um and you didn't you didn't see this? | |
| You don't know about this? | |
| Time magazine cave. | |
| They have destroyed the whole franchise of person of the year. | |
| And I think it was a joke for the longest time anyway. | |
| But they have actually their their person of the year is everybody. | |
| Because of the new ability of everybody to contribute to media, average Americans, bloggers, the YouTube people, the MySpace people. | |
| We are having the ability now to create our own media within our own universes, and so everybody is person of the year. | |
| And what it was, I tell you what it is, the people at Time Magazine are scared to death. | |
| The last place I would want to work today if I were a journalist was at a news weekly magazine. | |
| Time Newsweek, U.S. News World. | |
| The last place I'd want to be. | |
| They are they're slowly evolving to irrelevance. | |
| Even though they publish once a week, they can't possibly break news. | |
| They can do you know interviews with people who say things haven't said anywhere else, but they can't break news anymore. | |
| It's tough and tough till they get genuine exclusives because with the time they go to press, uh what they're gonna write about, subject-wise, everybody's already known. | |
| This person of the year thing, though, is a great illustration of how they just copped out. | |
| Now they're saying, well, we named a computer in 1982, and we named the planet in 1988 or what. | |
| Yeah, but this is everybody. | |
| You they have named everybody. | |
| You everybody is the person of the year. | |
| Uh they could have gotten serious about it, but they just for some reason couldn't. | |
| They couldn't, and they farmed out the decision-making process. | |
| They had consulting groups made up of various kinds of people. | |
| Doing it's it's almost like Time magazine was acting like Congress, got a tough decision to make, farm it out. | |
| Get some blue ribbon panel in here of people that don't know what they're doing to make suggestions and then go with that rather than make the decision yourself. | |
| It's not that I care about the person of the year that much, but in just uh I'm a marketing guy. | |
| They have destroyed and made a joke out of what once was a very, very high honor to be named person of the year. | |
| It was something people sought out. | |
| It's they've just rendered it a meaningless joke. | |
| We're all winners. | |
| They didn't have the- I mean, this is we're all equal. | |
| Nobody, they didn't have the ability to pick one person because that would signal everybody else out, it's a bunch of losers. | |
| Or as unworthies or what have you. | |
| Anyway. | |
| Quick time out here, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Big broadcast excellence continues in a second. | |
| You know, folks, when you believe in nothing, you'll believe anything. | |
| And that's the best way to sum up this Time magazine business. | |
| When you believe in nothing, you'll believe anything. | |
| Uh here is uh Mike and Bingham to New York. | |
| Welcome to the program, sir. | |
| Nice to have you. | |
| Rush, it's an honor and a pleasure. | |
| Uh Megadiddos from a disillusioned college student in Bangton, New York. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Um I'm just calling to ask you if I'm allowed to use the Time Magazine Person of the Year as a resume builder. | |
| I would. | |
| I I I think everybody should do things like this. | |
| I mean, you've been you've been named to Time Magazine Person of the Year. | |
| In fact, if I'd put out I'd put out a press release uh uh maybe write a college paper, how honored you are uh when you saw the cover, you saw yourself on it, and and you were you you didn't know this is coming, something you've aspired to your whole life, you had no clue, and now it's finally happened, and wow. | |
| Um I I'd I'd go to town with it if it'll make you feel good and be funny and and uh parody this whole thing because it's an absolute joke. | |
| Well, yeah, it's it just goes in with the whole you know feeling in educational field that everybody's a winner and nobody can be a loser. | |
| Yeah, it's it's populism, you know. | |
| It's it's it's uh uh it's it's there are a lot of a lot of liberal roots in this thing, but here look at what they could have done. | |
| They could have believed in the um war effort and named George W. Bush as I'm not joking. | |
| I'm just these Are the choices they had? | |
| They could have believed in something. | |
| They chose to believe in nothing. | |
| And when you believe in nothing, you believe in anything. | |
| That is a profundity, folks, and write it down and never forget it. | |
| When you believe in nothing, you will believe anything. | |
| In fact, it's a great way to describe moderates. | |
| Now look at what they could have believed in. | |
| The very liberal time magazine could have believed in the war effort if they wanted to. | |
| They could have forget politics for a moment. | |
| I'm just worried about human beings. | |
| They could have believed in the war effort, and they could have recognized, having believed in the war effort, that basically one man has had the backbone to stand up and realize the threat faced by the enemy around the world and tried to do something about it and given the award to George W. Bush. | |
| They could have believed in the threat the world faces and given the award to Mahmood Ahmadinejad. | |
| They've done that in the past. | |
| I mean, this is person of the year, not popular person of the year. | |
| They could have believed in losing the war, as they do. | |
| They could have believed in the whole anti-war rhetoric and named John Mertha. | |
| Jack Murphy's the person of them, just giving you some possibilities. | |
| I'm not, these are not suggestions, but this is these are things they copped out on. | |
| They could have believed in the Bush haters. | |
| They could have believed that finally, after all these years, the Bush haters succeeded. | |
| Uh and they could have named George Soros. | |
| They could have named, they could have named Nancy Pelosi. | |
| They probably thought that would be too easy. | |
| They could have believed in the effectiveness of the UN, and they could have made it Kofi Anon. | |
| Now, I know intellectually they couldn't uh pull it off, but these are the choices that they had. | |
| You know, they they they they could have picked anybody. | |
| But what did they do? | |
| With a whole lot of fanfare and little belief, they named their person of the year all of us, which waters it down because frankly, not all of us deserve being person of the year. | |
| Most people in this country don't deserve being person of the year, because most people in the country do not have any public persona. | |
| Although I do believe the people who really make the country work are those of you out there who don't care for fame, don't have any, and are living your lives to the best of your ability for the sake of raising your families and so forth, doing jobs that sometimes others won't do, and uh, you know, basically playing by the uh by the rules. | |
| I think that's that's why the country works, not because of these highfalutin elites, but nevertheless, this is just a straight flat-out cop-out. | |
| Uh, who's next? | |
| Jay uh in Shreveport, Louisiana. | |
| You're next on the EIB network. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hey, what's up, Rush? | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Yeah, I was listening Friday, and uh, you said you were going to watch the Nativity Story, and like the gentleman that you gave the hot dog to, I respect your opinion, and I was gonna see if it's worth going to watch or not. | |
| You know what? | |
| I did watch it. | |
| In fact, the first thing I did when I got home Friday evening was watch it, and I'll I'll have my take on it in the next hour. | |
| You have reminded me of something. | |
| I got in in my member subscriber email, Rush 24-7 email. | |
| I mean, I wouldn't call it hate mail, but there was some genuine anger out there. | |
| You people think I fell for a trick. | |
| And you think that when I gave this guy this caller from uh Friday, who's he wanted to taste the Allen Brothers hot dogs, but his mother wouldn't let him buy them because she thought they were too expensive, and and she was she wasn't gonna spend that kind of money on something she had no idea about the quality of. | |
| So you people, and you know who you are. | |
| I mean, you sent me these notes. | |
| The old Rush would have told this guy to stand up to his mother and tell her to take a hike. | |
| He was he was playing you from the get-go. | |
| He was all he was doing, Rush was trying to get a freebie. | |
| It's a tight one, probably a liberal. | |
| I know exact and and uh many people thought that. | |
| And in fact, folks, I was at the beginning of that call, I knew it. | |
| I was gonna ask you in front of him. | |
| Do you think this guy's asking for a freebie? | |
| But for some reason, who knows, in these uh hasty moments of impromptu ad living uh featured on this program, the syllables never came out of my mouth. | |
| But you misunderstand. | |
| The fun for me is giving it away. | |
| The fun for me is sharing it now. | |
| Well, yeah, well, we're the ones buying it all, and you're giving it to some creep liberal beggar. | |
| Makes us mad. | |
| Where do we get our And that I totally understand. | |
| It's just the luck of the draw. | |
| Okay, first hours in the can here, folks. | |
| On the way to the museum warehouse, all artifacts for the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum shrouded in secrecy to be displayed later. |
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