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Jan. 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, this is hilarious.
The media, the drive-bys, are in the midst of Obamagasms because Obama, that would be Barack Hussein Obama, has announced the perfunctory and predictable exploratory committee to go out there and ask people what they think he ought to do.
And on February 10th, he will announce his intentions, which we all know.
Really gutsy of Obama to do this while Hillary's out of the country.
Hillary had a 2 p.m. press conference today, but she canceled it because Obama's making such big news today.
It's kind of like the Brett girl was in New York yesterday ripping into Hillary while she was out of the country.
Shows that they still fear her greetings.
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A lot of people complained yesterday that in all the discussion of 24, we didn't talk football.
So let's talk a little football.
I'm going to make my Super Bowl prediction for you today, folks.
The game will be between the New Orleans Saints and the horses.
The Indianapolis horses, Peyton Manning.
Scenario, this is just, this is storybook stuff.
Peyton Manning, probably his last chance, and maybe not his last, but he's got to get off the schneide here.
Last chance here to beat the New England Patriots in Brady Chick.
I mean, he's beaten them in the regular season, but not the postseason when it counts.
They're at home.
They're in the stables there at the RCA dome.
And it'll be the Saints over the Chicago Bears.
And the Super Bowl is in Miami.
This means that Peyton Manning and the horses will return to the Super Bowl or go for the first time to play against the team his daddy played for from the city, New Orleans, which now represents America and Katrina victims.
I mean, this is just too much destiny in this scenario.
So Indianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl in Miami on February 4th.
Hey, I didn't watch.
I didn't waste any time watching the Golden Globes last night.
We have some pretty amazing sound bites from some of the intros, like what was it, Tom Hanks giving an award to Warren Beatty.
I'm not sure we can play this, even though it aired on NBC.
But I'm going to go ahead and play it.
But, I mean, it's pretty ribbal.
And then we had Sasha Baron Cohen, aka Borat, accepting his award, which was just as smutty.
But I didn't watch the awards themselves.
But I did check out a bit of the pre-show.
I mean, I've wondered about this for the longest time.
The stars show up and the Starts show up and the people, the media and the red carpet tell us what they're wearing.
And I couldn't help but wonder.
We hear who made the gowns.
We hear who designed the jewelry.
In some cases, we hear who did the hairstyles and so forth.
But the one thing, and I'm sure you'll agree with me on this, the one thing we never hear about is who did the silicone.
We never hear about who did the boob jobs.
Who is responsible for the silicone?
It's as much a work of art as the fashion and anything else is.
Oh, I can tell by looking at Dawn, she thinks I've stepped over the line.
Again.
What the hell, Dawn?
I mean, what's the name of the show?
It's the Golden Globes, right?
How can you not tell us who did the silicon?
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, very grave condition after three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection.
This from a Spanish newspaper today, the newspaper El Pace, I hope I'm pronouncing Pais, cited two unnamed sources from the Gregorio Maranon Hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid.
The city employs the surgeon who flew to Cuba in December to treat Castro.
Apparently what happened there, Castro had diverticulitis.
Diverticulitis, I mean, it's not life-threatening.
It's life-changing, but it's not life-threatening.
What they did, they had three failed operations to deal with this.
They took out part of the large intestine, and they had to rewire the plumbing, and it broke, and there was flooding of waste matter and all kinds of infections set in.
But the point is, very grave condition.
Now may not survive this if all this is true.
Three surgeries and all done by Spanish doctors.
The question is, I keep hearing about what a great health care system Cuba has.
The Cuban health care system, we keep hearing about it from the American left.
Why, everybody has free health care and it's really good.
And so for, I've never noticed any leftists going to Havana for their own medical care or sending their kids there.
And I guess when it came time to save his own life, Fidel decided he didn't want access to the Cuban health care system as well.
As you know, the Al Gore movie, an inconvenient, well, lie, truth.
They're trying to show it in as many schools across the country as possible.
In Seattle, some parents have finally said, wait a minute.
I mean, this is propaganda.
If you're going to show this, you know, show the alternative point of view on this.
This is by no means concluded science.
It's scientific consensus, which is not science.
Again, I say, folks, if there is consensus in science, there's no science.
What do you mean, Rush?
We all have to agree in good order.
Very simple.
I'll be happy to explain this.
Consensus is nothing more than a bunch of wusses getting together and coming up with a proposition they can all agree on for whatever reasons.
Usually, they have political biases or some other thing.
Just want to avoid controversy.
Let's say that a bunch of scientists got together and said, you know what?
We have formed a scientific consensus.
The earth is flat.
Would the consensus make it right?
No, because science has told us we now know the earth is round.
You cannot, science is what it is.
It's not the result of consensus.
And the only reason people think that there's global warming is because a whole bunch of scientists have agreed and they come up with a consensus.
So this movie is all over the place.
And finally, some people are stepping up, parents, of all places of Seattle, to try to stop this.
Well, in the midst of all this global warming, and we keep hearing about all the mild temperatures in the Northeast and so forth, three nights of freezing temperatures have cost California up to three quarters of its billion dollar citrus crop.
This, according to an industry estimate given yesterday, is forecasters warned that the cold weather could battle groves through midweek.
Other crops, avocados and strawberries, have suffered damage in the cold snap as well.
This is one of those freezes that, unfortunately, we'll all remember, California Department of Food and Ag Secretary said damages from the last freeze will likely surpass those caused by a three-day freeze in December of 1998 that destroyed 85% of California's citrus crop, a loss valued at $700 million.
Now, the global warming advocates say, see, It is warming because in 98 when they had to freeze, 85% of the crop was destroyed.
This time, only 75% of the crop will be destroyed.
So it is getting warmer.
They'll twist it and turn it however they choose.
But the fact is, if we have global warming, I just get tired of trying to make this case.
Citrus growers already have lost between 50 and 75% of their crops at a cold snap.
When you're already cutting ice within the oranges, you know those are gone.
While growers hastened to pick as much of the $960 million in fruit still hanging on the trees before the cold hit last Friday, an industry labor shortage meant much of the crop went unharvested.
And yes, there is in association with this freeze in the California citrus industry a desire for more undocumented workers to do the picking.
They just don't have enough, despite all of the illegal immigrants in town and in the state.
The citrus growers, they still could have gotten a saving a lot more of the crop if they had just had some more undocumented workers.
All right, quick timeout.
Oh, great.
That looks like a fun first call.
All right, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue all kinds of exciting things today.
Great audio soundbites, tremendous items in the news.
And I'm sure your phone calls will hold up your end as well.
How about the story in the New York Times?
51% of women now living without a spouse.
And there are, but before we get into this, if you're not familiar with the story, if you haven't read it, start to, why do you think this is?
Why are 51% of women in America now living without a spouse?
Back in just a second, my friends.
The EIB network will roll right on.
It appears to me, ladies and gentlemen, way too many Republicans in the House are preparing for 40 more years in the minority.
At a recent meeting of the House Republican leadership, members of the new minority party looked around and realized that they were entering unfamiliar territory.
Only one of them, John Boehner, had ever served as a member of the minority party on Capitol Hill.
Yeah, we're all still finding our way, said Kay Granger of Texas, the Republican Conference vice chairman.
And this power shift has created its own internal struggles among Republicans.
The younger pit bulls, the Republican Party, want to go after the Democrats quickly and without remorse.
Some of the older Republican stalwarts prefer sitting back and allowing Nancy Pelosi and her party members to have their moment in the sun and to govern accordingly.
Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, it's in flux right now as to kind of what direction we take and how we operate now that we're in the minority.
There's a group of us who think we have to throw down the gauntlet, be on the offensive from the very beginning in battles from day one.
It's the only way we're going to get back in the majority.
Then there are others who say we need to let them have their time.
Several Republicans confirmed privately that more than two-thirds of House Republicans are favoring a slow approach, while a minority of members think that the attacks on Democrats should come rapid fire.
So it appears that the ghost of Bob Michael, the Speaker of the House for many of the remaining, well, a lot of years in the last years of the 40-year Democrat rule in the House prior to 1994's elections, seems like the ghost of Bob Michaels taking over here with two-thirds of the Republicans sitting back and say, well, you know, they want, and by the way, there's no in this story, it's a Washington Times story.
There's no indication here that the two-thirds of the Republicans want to sit back and do nothing hoping the Democrats will implode.
It's more that the Democrat Republicans are saying, hey, they won.
I mean, let them do what they want to do.
They won.
We lost.
And so for with no intention of fighting them or calling them out, trying to stop them or opposing them or what have you.
So it's going to be interesting to see who wins this subtle turf battle here inside the Republican Party.
But it appears that it's only a minority that care to do anything about the Democrat majority.
And frankly, this is why I say it sounds like they're preparing for 40 more years in the minority.
And I also have to say, it doesn't surprise me.
Let's move on to Barack Obama.
The media today that drive by is having their Obamagasms.
He announced on his website he's going to be deciding to run for president by February 10th.
And that's it's a it's an audio, what's actually a video announcement.
Here is a portion of it.
I believe in you.
And that's why I want to tell you first that I'll be filing papers today to create a presidential exploratory committee.
For the next several weeks, I'm going to talk with people from around the country, listening and learning more about the challenges we face as a nation, the opportunities that lie before us, and the role that a presidential campaign might play in bringing our country together.
And on February 10th, at the end of these discussions and in my home state of Illinois, I'll share my plans with my friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans.
In the meantime, I want to thank all of you for your time, your suggestions, your encouragement, and your prayers.
And I look forward to continuing our conversation in the weeks and months to come.
Now, one of the things that I've noticed about Obama when he speaks, he uses a lot of clichés.
And, you know, the reason why I think this reverberates and resonates with people is that in a large number, I don't know if it's a majority or not, I fear that it is, that we have a country that is basically settled into passivity.
And they are mollified by meaningless words that they think are coupled with good intentions.
And they think, of course, we are told that people are tired and weary of the constant confrontations that are the byproduct of partisanship.
And of course, Obama comes along and much like Clinton, tries to convince them that he's not a partisan, that he is an American, and that he is, we've got to work together.
And I'm going to include you in my planning, and I'm going to include you in my thinking.
And this makes people feel comfortable without ever having to get into the substance of it or whether or not they have to even examine whether or not Obama is being substantive and being serious.
One of the things we don't have in the audio clip, but here's the, this is a classic example of the speaking in clichés.
But challenging as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most.
It's the smallness of our politics.
America's faced big problems before, but today our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way.
Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence.
And boy, see, people are going to hear that.
They're going to go, yeah, yeah, get rid of the lobbyists, get rid of the rich, get rid of people all in influence.
I don't have a chance of having what I want passed because I'm edged out and shoved out by all the wealth in politics.
He goes on to say it's become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions.
And that's what we have to change first.
And here comes the cliché, the clichés.
We have to change our politics.
Oh, yes, let's change our politics.
Okay, done.
And we have to come together around our common interest.
Oh, wonderful.
Well, let's come together on our common interests.
In fact, you and I will do that today on this program.
We will come together on our common, done, and we must come together around our concerns as America.
Well, people are going to go, Yeah, yeah, that's what we ought to do.
That's what we ought to do, not realizing that we have a guy here whose liberal voting record is close to 98%.
There's no such thing as compromise.
There's no such thing as changing our politics.
There's no such thing as coming together around our common interests because the way the left looks at things is there's only one common interest, and that's theirs.
Bipartisanship means Republicans and conservatives shut up.
Bipartisanship means conservatives cave, like it appears two-thirds of the Republicans in the House want to do.
Then Obama goes on to say, This won't happen by itself.
A change in our politics can only come from you, from people across our country who believe there's a better way and are willing to work for it.
Years ago, as a community organizer in Chicago, I learned that meaningful change always begins at the grassroots and that engaged citizens working together can accomplish extraordinary things.
So, even in the midst of the enormous challenges we face today, I have great faith and hope about the future because I believe in you.
Now, that's going to resonate too.
And in fact, if he meant it, I would support him.
I applaud this.
These are the kind of frankly things that people have asked me, Rush, would you ever run for president?
I said, No, my campaign wouldn't last after my first speech.
And my first speech would basically say, Look, you're looking to me to fix all the problems, but I'm not the guy who made the country great.
You are what makes the country rich, you pursuing excellence, being the best you can be, overcoming obstacles in life.
My job's to get as many of those obstacles out of your way, but it's not to get you over the obstacles.
You have to do that.
You realize how I'd be torn to shreds on that?
But Obama says it, and it's going to be appreciated and applauded.
And I say this somebody, I did an NPR interview yesterday, and it was about talk radio.
The guy, I forget his name, but he was interested in talk radio, and he kept asking, What's your purpose?
How do you view your purpose?
And I said, Well, I've been stating this for 18 years.
Interesting that you don't know it.
But I'll tell you again, my purpose is to gave him the business definitions of success.
And I said, After that, because if that doesn't happen, all the rest is academic, because I'm just trying to create as many informed citizens as possible who want to participate in the process.
So when they vote, we got more of them on our side than the other side has on its side.
Essentially, this is what Obama is saying here.
My sincere question is whether he really means it or whether he's just speaking in clichés and platted.
Yeah, it was David Folkenflick of MCB.
And it was a good interview.
I just don't misunderstand the tone here, folks.
Don't start calling MPRDG.
Don't need that.
We are ready, Talon and Loan from God, Rush Limbaugh, making the complex understandable here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
One more thing about Barack Obama here: he says that New Orleans football season is all but over.
In a, I don't know if he realizes how insensitive his comment here that the Saints are going nowhere in the playoffs against his Chicago bears really is.
This is a man who wants to be president.
He's no longer an alderman, a state senator, or a United States Senator from Illinois.
He's a citizen of the world.
And as such, you have to understand in his position what the United States Saints mean.
They are not just the New Orleans Saints.
As Greg Easterbrook calls them, they are the United States Saints.
And they are playing not for championships.
They are not playing for personal reward.
They are playing to save and rebuild a city, not only infrastructurally, but in terms of the self-esteem.
And for Barack Obama, a, well, he's a half minority, to come out there and not identify with and bond with the suffering victims still scattered all over the fruited plan as a result of the unfair attack by Hurricane Katrina orchestrated by Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, and FEMA.
For him to callously just discard the Saints, knowing full well what they represent to the Democrat Party because of their ties to New Orleans and Katrina shows an unsophisticated lack of understanding of just what his responsibility is as a Democrat presidential candidate.
He said it New Orleans football season is all but over.
He said the Bears are going to the Super Bowl.
A gleeful Obama told reporters Monday outside a church in suburban Chicago.
He said, I'm happy for New Orleans.
I think it's a wonderful story for their city.
But this fairy tale ends when they come to Chicago.
It's a fairy tale as far as he's concerned.
That means it's not even real.
The Saints are not real.
What they're playing for is not real.
I'm stunned.
This is a, if Barack were really Barack Obama, Barack, you know what Barack Obama would have done?
Now, you people think I'm kidding out there.
Barack Obama would have come out for the Saints.
I know you think it's just a football playoff game, and he's got to show favoritism because he's got to beat his home teams, the Chicago Bears and so forth, but he's seeking the leadership of the free world.
And Katrina and the Saints and New Orleans are a Democrat cause.
But more than that, identifying with suffering and misery, starvation, thirstation, death, that's what the Democratic Party is all about.
And for him to just basically say to you people in New Orleans and your football team, and to gleefully predict your demise shows a parochialism on the part of this man that is somewhat curious to me, given the lofty heights and the wide horizons that he seeks.
A true liberal Democrat here, understanding liberal Democrat, even though he's from Illinois, would pick the Saints while saying great things about the Bears, while hoping it's their turn next time.
Say it's really hard to pick a team here, but he understands how the country can come together with the Saints winning the Super Bowl and pulling New Orleans out of the muck and showing what can happen when people hang together and work together and put aside their differences.
They can come together and win the Super Bowl out of the ruins of Hurricane Katrina.
Here is Paula in Durham, North Carolina.
Welcome, Paula.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I wanted to start this call out first by saying I have been a fan of yours for many, many years and would listen to you for five hours every day if you were on for five hours.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Really, that's cool.
But the last couple weeks I've grown sort of tired of listening to your barrage of negativity towards Durham and Duke University.
Now, I'm calling from Durham.
Yep.
I am a graduate of Duke University, and I have lived in Durham for 30 years.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm trying to understand.
Yesterday about 145, you made two comments about Durham and about Duke University, and I'm trying to understand.
And you always present yourself as trying to inform us and to expand our thinking, okay?
So yesterday you made a comment about Durham and the only thing that served any tax base at all was Duke University.
And there was such negativity in your voice there that I could not understand it.
Because Durham has so much more to offer besides what's going on here.
And I will be the first to say that this lacrosse situation is definitely a tragedy all the way around.
It's worse than that.
It's an abomination.
Yes.
It's a miscarriage of justice.
It's an embarrassment.
And it's a great illustration of what happens when liberals in politics and in law get control with unassailable power.
Yes, but you have left that part.
I mean, you say that, and I hear you say that continual every single day.
But at the same time, you said Durham, what tax base do they have there except for Duke University?
Well, come on now.
You have to admit this.
Well, I do admit, sir, that Duke University is a tremendous tax base, but there's also a majority of the tax base.
What is it?
But how about, have you never been to Research Triangle Park?
Now, what tax base, that's a huge tax.
Yes, I've driven by it when I've gotten off an airplane there.
Okay, well, the reason why I'm angry, well, I'm trying to understand why you have joined.
There were two comments you made.
And when you speak of Durham and Duke University right now, that is all that we have going here.
And the mass media nationally, every single day, is just pounding Durham as a community.
And Rush, in our paper.
Excuse me, Paula.
Yeah.
I don't hear that.
I don't hear the national media pounding anybody in Durham or at Duke.
I hear the national, you know, national, some of the national media starting now to finally question Nyphon.
But I don't hear Durham being ripped by the national media.
Excuse me, I overstated that.
In the beginning when all this came out, it was on the media continuously about Durham and about our politics and about our racial tensions.
But do you deny them?
I don't totally deny them, but there's a whole lot more going on there.
And we are not in the middle of civil unrest here.
And when the Black Panthers actually marched from West Campus to the actual house that it had occurred, you know, those people had a right to march, but we did not have civil unrest down here.
You didn't say that you did.
I'm not saying that you personally did, but the way that the media has portrayed it is that we are.
Because they wanted it.
You have to understand who they are, Paula.
They were trying to foment riots.
They were trying to foment with all this coverage.
They were trying to create the very thing that you fear that people think happened.
It didn't.
They were trying to.
This is the point that I've been trying to make is, in my discussion with all of this, is that Durham may be a victim of all this simply because of geography, because Duke is there.
But the fact is, the first so-called facts of this case fit a liberal template that made the nature of the evidence irrelevant.
They think that what happened there is what happens everywhere in this country, in the South particularly.
They think that there is still slavery, mass rape, lynchings, and all this, that when they can do a story that shows that this still happens, then they run to town with it without any facts whatsoever.
Well, I don't keep it.
It's totally trusting of a Democrat DA who is a member of their party, in this case, Nyphong.
And my attention yesterday particularly, I can't, you know, you're calling me and telling me how angry you are at what I've been saying about it.
No, no, no, sir.
Wait, no, no, no.
I am a huge person.
Yes, you did, but I can take it.
I have Sherman Tank body armor.
Not a problem.
I am a huge fan of yours.
But I think you know how angry I am at NIFON and the media and that university and some of the faculty.
The American judicial system is designed so that what happened there specifically does not happen.
And what happened illustrates the corruption of our good system when power-mad politicos, primarily liberals, get in charge of it.
Either a university or a district attorney's office somewhere in the criminal justice system.
This is simply an outrage.
Well, I agree with you 100%.
But the second part of your comment that you made yesterday was that if you were a parent of a white male, specifically an athlete, why in the world the last place in the world that you would send your child to would be Duke University right now, which is an implication then of that implying that all of Duke is all of this negativity.
I was just trying to get you, I hear you continually commenting on that liberalism has gotten a hold of this and it's blown it out of proportion.
However, when you made that comment, the second part of your comment that you made yesterday at 145 was that why would a parent that had a white boy send their child to Duke University?
Because Duke, my point being is that Duke and Durham have a whole lot more to offer than this situation.
I'm not, that, look at there are several ways for a talented host like me to make point.
And I was employing one of those techniques yesterday.
It costs $40,000 a year to go to that university.
If you get a scholarship for one of the athletic teams, of course it doesn't.
But just take a look at what happened here, Paula.
You had three, in terms of the nature of the evidence in this case, totally innocent young men from what were said to be wealthy white Northeastern families.
You have a black stripper comes and levels all kinds of allegations that turn out not to be true.
The university threw those students paying all this money or getting scholarships, whatever, their customers, threw them overboard without so much as a question.
They fired the lacrosse team coach without so much as a question.
The faculty started flunking a couple of players because they were on the team.
Now, if you're a parent and you're going to send a student there, do you understand my point was that the facts don't matter if the right person accuses your kid of doing something outrageous.
But sir, this university is going to throw your kid overboard and participate in ruining his life.
Sir, I agree with all the victims here.
There's lots of victims in this whole situation.
However, I don't think you can just, when you made that point yesterday, you were saying that would be the last place that you would send your child in America.
I think that's something how you said it.
And you being somebody who was sought after by the mass media and by law enforcement, I would think that you would be understanding that you cannot group everything exactly like that.
Are you trying to say, when I heard that, what I thought was that you should never then move to Florida if you were a middle-aged white male who might be in radio talk show, who might, you know, you see myself.
In hindsight, you have a point.
Yeah, I'm a point.
In hindsight, no.
I've been questioning that ever since all this garbage happened.
In hindsight, you have absolutely.
I do tell friends of mine a conservative, if you don't move to Palm Beach County, go to Martin County, but don't move here.
Don't locate.
Do.
I'm consistent here.
At any rate, look, I know what's upsetting you.
Upset you because I insulted Durham where you live.
And because I understand that your feelings are hurt, let me apologize.
I'm sorry.
I was wrong.
It was a mistake.
I strayed a bit too far from my intended point, which was specifically about this case and the way Duke responded to this case specifically.
I'm sorry.
Thank you so much for the call.
I'm a little long here.
I wish I had more time to spend with you, but I don't.
Got to go.
Back here in just a second.
Didn't the people of Durham, North Carolina, re-elect Nyphong in the midst of all of this insanity and stupidity?
Of course they did.
Anyway, welcome back.
It's El Rushbow having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Look, Jack Kelly, I think he's with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, written a column about Nyphong and Fitzgerald's prosecutorial abuse.
And although you've heard this in different words from my sizable oral cavity, let me share with you what Jack Kelly has to say about this.
Liberals rushed to condemn the Duke lacrosse players because they love the narrative.
Rich white guys abuse poor black woman.
Some furious backtracking is taking place as evidence of their innocence mounts.
A new verb, to Nyphong, has been coined.
It's a synonym for to frame.
Liberals also love the original narrative in the Plam case.
Bush aides persecute whistleblower.
But the disclosure that Mr. Armitage was the source demolishes it as thoroughly as the DNA evidence has discredited Nyphong.
Those who wonder why Nyphong went forward with the Duke prosecution after receiving the DNA results should wonder also why Mr. Fitzgerald has persisted, despite learning that no crime was committed when Ms. Plam's name was leaked and that Mr. Armitage, who has not been indicted, was the leaker.
Is to Fitzgerald a synonym for to Nyphong?
Yeah, this is dangerous stuff.
You better hope you never get caught up in it, folks.
You look at all this stuff from the sidelines, say, well, we're going to have mistakes.
I know, I know, but you just better hope that it never happens.
Put yourself in the shoes of these parents and these three guys at Duke, if you can.
This is Rusty and Fenwick Island, Delaware.
You're next.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
You've been in time.
Because I've tried to get through before, and this is the time.
Listen, I wanted just to thank you for admitting that you were wrong.
I had this overwhelming feeling of, you know, elation that, oh, you know, he's just like me.
I have to apologize for all kinds of stuff that I've done that offends people.
And I'm just happy to hear that you can do it too.
Well, yeah, you think I need to apologize more often?
Yeah, you know, think how much more popular you might be.
You know, you'd have all these people off your back.
And, you know, if you were more humble like the rest of us have to be.
Yeah.
Well, do you think apologizing makes me humble?
Well, it doesn't necessarily make you so, but you sound humble.
Yeah, well, you know, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings ever.
Yeah, I can buy that.
Well, I don't.
I mean, who wants to go through life hurting people?
I wish people wouldn't give me the power to hurt their feelings.
I don't give others the power to hurt my feelings except when something, you know, some sort of relationship or whatever.
But I mean, at the same time.
I realize.
God damn.
Whatever.
I realize.
No, I didn't know you're pulling my leg.
Well, you sound a genuine.
Do you know the most popular word or the most useful word in America today is I'm sorry.
I had five stories on this.
I didn't have a chance to get to five stories on this before Christmas.
Or maybe it was before New Year's.
No, it was before Christmas.
I'll see if I can find a couple of them here.
I got to take a break right now.
I appreciate that, Rusty.
Don't go away, folks.
We'll be right back.
Folks, I apologize.
I'm really sorry.
We are out of time for this segment, but there's another one, another whole hour, another two hours coming up right around the corner.
We'll be here before you know it.
Can't wait.
Sit tight.
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