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Jan. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 22, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Wow, this is rich.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
You see Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post today.
Media all upset at Inside Magazine, using one source for a story on Barack Obama supposedly going to a Muslim school when he was uh young boy.
Anyway, greetings, uh my friends, and welcome.
You are tuned to broadcast excellence.
I am Rush Limbo, this is the EIB Network.
Glad to have you with us.
And as I promised, I'll get to your phone calls uh quickly in this hour.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Insight magazine last week, uh, which is owned by the Washington Times, cited unnamed sources in saying that young Barack Obama attended a madrasa or Muslim religious school in Indonesia.
Uh in his autobiography in 1995, Obama said that his Indonesian stepfather had sent him to a predominantly Muslim school in Jakarta after two years in a Catholic school, but Insight magazine went further, saying it was a madrasa, and that Obama was raised as a Muslim.
We mentioned this on the program, I guess it was Thursday or Friday.
Fox News spent a lot of time on Friday talking about it.
And this has led Howard Kurtz to uh to write a piece uh all about gee, this is horrible.
This is horrible.
They used unnamed sources.
They did use one source who said this.
And I thought this is this is just, and I love Howard Kurtz.
I mean, I hey Howard Kurtz, I have no quarrel with Howard Goodcept.
Sometimes he takes me a little out of context with his audio sound bites because of the need for brevity on his TV show on CNN, but still.
Here we have the media.
Drive-by media worried about publishing something without documentation.
Dan rather anybody unnamed sources are used all the time in the drive-by me.
Uh Mike Nyphong, Duke Lacrosse case.
Any of these unnamed uh uh sources close to investigation, this happens all the time.
How about these leaks that come uh from the Pentagon, the State Department, they're they're they're one sourced.
No, this is this is horrible.
Why, this is terrible.
Why we've got to get to the we can't allow this to happen.
Why this is this is not good.
Meanwhile, uh the Clinton campaign, but Insight Magazine said it was a Clinton opposition research uh research op that uh came up with this news about uh Obama.
Uh and uh New York News Day today has a story, Glenn Thrush in their uh Washington bureau, Washington, for those of you in Rio Linda, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's polster fired an opening salvo at Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards yesterday, uh, claiming their campaigns are stalled or falling, suggesting that Obama isn't tough enough to withstand Republican attacks in 2008.
Sure he is.
Anybody can withstand a Republican attack.
Republicans don't attack anybody.
Not elected Republicans and candidates, they don't attack anybody.
They don't get ideological.
I mean, if if uh if if uh if Obama is uh not tough enough to withstand any attacks, it's gonna be the attacks that come from the Hillary camp.
The day after Clinton announced that she would run for president and win, her campaign's chief strategist Mark Penn sent a memo to reporters intended to offset an avalanche of articles emphasizing Clinton's high disapproval ratings and questioning her electability.
She gets 41% of the vote out there among Democrats, and that's got to be shockingly low to them.
When you get right down to it, it's got to be shockingly low given they think they were anointed.
That they are entitled, that this is uh not a cakewalk, but this is something that uh the country, not just Democrats, the country is supposed to understand what Hillary Clinton has done is this is her turn.
It is her time.
You know, in the uh recent days, recent weeks, I have in admitted frustration, referred to the country as a bunch of pacifists, obsessed with guilt, uh, concerned about things that are irrelevant in the big scheme of things.
Lo and behold, I run across a piece at the AmericanThinker.com, one of our favorite uh blogs, by the way, and it's by Selwyn Duke, and it's called Soft People Hard People.
And he's not the first to come up with the uh terminology hard people versus soft people.
It's a really great, great piece.
And uh it what reminded me of it again was the what are we in day five now here of Is the American Idol being too mean to contestants.
In the 1976 Western, The Last Hard Men, if that movie has it right, we Occidentals metamorphosed into jellyfish sometime around the early twentieth century.
Although this title is more movie marketing than historical statement, there may be something to it after all.
Robert Boden Powell, a lieutenant general of the British Army, was motivated by the belief that Western boys are becoming too soft when he originated the Boy Scouts in 1907.
But regardless of the origin and rapidity of our transition from he men to she men, one thing is for certain.
We have become a very soft people.
When pondering this, I think about how it is now common to see men cry publicly.
He talks about George W. Bush or H.W. Bush crying when talking about his son Jeb, and Job did as governor, Edmund Muskie.
So his campaign scuttled by a few inopportune tears in 1972.
And before you score me for not embracing the metrosexual model, remember the impression this gives to the rest of the world.
Feminization may be fashionable, but it doesn't engender respect among the more patriarchal peoples.
Then Mr. Duke writes, I think about our unwillingness to discipline our children, something to which our jungle-like schools bear witness.
And should someone use punitive measures harsher than the euphemistically named time out, something that might actually work, he is often excoriated for damaging little darling's self-esteem and a spanking?
Perish the thought.
We're told this could scar a child irreparably, although we seldom ponder the ravages of pickling a young brain with ridlin.
And the idea is so foreign to many parents spanking they cannot even conceive of placing a hand on their cherubim's sanctified little posteriors.
In contrast, the people of the third world, especially the Muslim fanatics who have designs in the West, are hard as stone.
We fret.
And this was laughable too.
It was not laughable, it was somewhat troubling to me.
We fret over the fact that Saddam Hussein endured some taunts before he was hanged.
While next door in Saudi Arabia, they may still chop off the hand of a thief.
We cater to the religious wants of incarcerated terrorists, providing everything from the Quran to prayer rugs to desired foods, and the soft set still laments the terrible privation these poor victims must endure.
In contrast, the terrorists' Muslim brethren often disallow the practice of other religions in the abode of Islam.
We let illegal aliens run roughshod over our nation, sometimes bestowing government benefits upon them, and then we still feel guilty about not exalting them sufficiently.
In a third world, though, foreigners are often treated like second class citizens under the Mexican Constitution.
One foreign born will never enjoy the full rights of citizenship, and in many Muslim societies, a certain kind of second class status is reserved for infidels.
All this is not surprising.
After all, luxury and living high soften the sinews, and regrettably, sometimes also the head.
The hand that spends its entire existence inside a velvet glove will remain soft and delicate.
The one wielding workmen's tools, from dawn to dusk, becomes calloused and hard, more able to inflict injury and more resistant to it.
I know, I know what's coming.
That's what makes us better than the nations in question, proclaimed some, allowing themselves a rare foray into the realm of cultural superiority.
As for me, this is Selwyn Duke writing.
As for me, I'm not awash in moral relativism, but neither do I fall victim to blind cultural chauvinism.
For anyone who believes that we have a monopoly on virtue is living in a fantasy world of smug self-delusion.
Don't get me wrong, we're better in some significant ways, but also worse in a few ominous ones.
We lack certain manly Virtues, qualities on which national survival may hinge.
There is an immutable truth of human nature when soft people clash with hard people, the soft are vanquished.
That is, unless they become hard.
The fact is nobody, no matter how strong, imposing, and well armored, can survive an untreated disease metastasizing rapidly within the smallest bacteria can kill giants as easily as dwarves.
And that's what ails us.
Every time an action designed to preserve Western civilization is taken, a great internecine battle ensues.
We capture combatants on the battlefield and we spend millions in legal fees debating whether to adjudicate their cases in a civil or military court.
We rightly scrutinize imams making a scene at an airport and spend millions more arguing about so-called racial profiling.
And it's incessant.
Every act nowadays, from singling out illegals for deportation and the suspicious for scrutiny to getting swatted by tigger to a six-year-old boy giving a girl a peck of the cheek is met with hand-wringing and disproportionate reaction.
And far too often a litigation results costing us valuable resources.
Let's be very clear about this, folks.
Every dollar in currency and passion we spend on litigation is one dollar less we have to fight those who would see us in ashes.
This means fewer resources to secure our borders, ensure domestic tranquility, and root out terrorists within and without.
Now, lest I be misunderstood, I don't suggest we become the Hunnish Empire.
We don't need to become the Huns.
It's noble to recognize that Saddam's tormentors might have demonstrated more dignity.
It's a sign of civilization to expect our troops to behave as professional soldiers, not rampaging warriors.
And it's most divine to realize all God's children are valuable in his eyes.
But to the excesses of justice, correction or interrogation, we react not with measured admonition, but with hysteria.
Our civility should be the fruits of manly virtue, but it's the putrescence of pusilanimity.
Look it up.
And here I think of G.K. Chesterton's profound description of our condition.
Nowadays, we have Christian values floating around detached from one another.
Consequently, we see scientists who care only about truth but have no pity, and humanitarians who care only about pity but who have no truth.
Will we find it in ourselves to harden ourselves once again?
Well, who knows?
What's fairly certain is that we won't much longer have the luxury of being a soft republic with enemies on both sides of the gate.
It's only a matter of time before we see a 9-11 that's not a 9-11, but 9-11 squared.
Thus, to play on Otto von Bismarck's metaphor, we can proceed with a velvet glove, but within must lie an iron fist.
We have no other choice unless that is we fancy death a viable option.
Selwyn Duke, the hard people losing out to the soft people, a nation consumed with guilt.
Uh and a number of the we'll link to it at Rushlinbull.com so you can read the whole thing.
I just gave you highlights there.
We'll be back.
Your phone calls are next.
Sit tight.
As promised, it's back to the phones, and we'll start in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
This is Randy.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Your turn.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
God bless you from the Carsonogenic capital of the world.
Thank you, sir.
Um I just wanted to call because and make an observation.
I'm concerned about you.
Before the uh election, the Democrats were running around looking like characters out of a George Romero novel.
I mean, they were just like chickens with their heads cut off, terrified.
And it seems like you've switched places with them psychologically.
I mean, it's like they're they've had scotch injections.
You're petrified.
What do you what are you talking about?
Well, what did I say?
When did I say it?
And about whom?
I can hear it in your voice every time you talk about Nancy Pelosi and uh and uh especially Hillary now.
I think the thought of uh democratically controlled executive and legislative branch um would uh is just terrifying to you and nauseating.
I can understand it, but you know you you're trying to voice your whole mannerism.
I think you should back up punt and maybe take a vacation for a while, Rush.
I'm worried about you.
Nice try.
You know, the simple fact of the matter is I am the lone voice of reason here.
It is I'm not panicked about Hillary.
She puts her pants on one leg at a time like every other guy does.
I mean, I'm the one that has to calm down my audience.
I'm the audience is constantly calling here worried about Hillary.
Everywhere I go, people say, Rush, ha ha!
Can we beat Hillary?
And I uh up until I saw the current crop of Republican candidates, I said yes.
I I'm I'm not a f I'm I'm not afraid of any of these people.
I'm simply pointing out some things in the opening of the program about uh I think you misunderstood the passion in my voice, the excitement I was to be here for uh what did he call it?
Uh petrified and distraught over over.
Now, maybe in my in my haste and my desire and my rush to inform people, uh, you sir inferred incorrectly that I am sitting here panicked.
Uh certainly not the case.
I just trying to get people to understand what's going on.
Mrs. Clinton is entitled to this.
She's got this, you wants to have this conversation with America now, and I guarantee what that's about.
That's that's precisely so she doesn't have to answer any hard questions.
When has she anyway?
When can you remember her being on TV answering any hard questions?
She doesn't get them.
The press does not ask them.
She got their testicles in a lockbox.
And I'm telling you that the same thing with her New York Senate race, uh the listening tour in New York, that was designed to put the focus on her constituents, and so is this.
Actually, if if there's something out there to be upset, panic, not even distraught, I just people ask me, Rush.
Who do you like in a Republican field?
Answer nobody.
And there's a story here in the LA Times, conservatives, uh conservative core seeks a contender.
As conservatives survey the 2008 field, and particularly the early Republican frontrunners, many are despairing.
Senator McCain, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani have all broken with conservative orthodoxy at one time or another.
Many activists have neither forgiven nor forgiven.
There's absolutely no contender that's a bona fide conservative, said K.B. Forbes, who's worked for a number of conservative candidates and causes since the 1960s.
I mean, the the in this in this article, the criticism of the current Republican crop is that just a bunch of insiders, squishes, and moderates, ladies and gentlemen, which is why we have created a musical tribute to the dilemma.
The last I could tell, the conservatives are on the radio.
That's Paul Shanklin with his underwear tight, as uh as Paula Cole, and where have all the conservatives gone.
Try this headline from Salatunk Salon.com says colorblind.
Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race if he were actually black.
Says Deborah Dickerson of the Salon.com website.
This confuses me.
Who then is black?
Clinton was black, but Clarence Thomas and Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell and Condoleza Rice are not black.
Uh and now Salon says that Obama is not black.
I guess you believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
Oh, you're black if you win.
Oh.
Maybe.
And we're back.
I want to give you some excerpts from this piece at Salon.com by Deborah J. Dickerson.
Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race if he were actually black.
She starts by saying, I'm confident that I've held out longer than any other pundit to weigh in on both the phenomenon that is Barack Obama and the question of whether race will trump gender as America looks toward election 2008.
Doesn't matter.
2008 is the guilt election.
Make no mistake about it.
I had irritably avoided columnizing on these crucial topics for several somewhat unorthodox reasons.
First, because the Clinton Obama standoff has been more than well covered, and in an overly simplistic, insubstantial, annoyingly celebratized way.
Horrors.
Obama smokes, but isn't he hot in his swim trunks?
I was waiting for the discussion to get serious, and at last it has.
Finally, we're asking the tough questions.
Instead of just crowing that he's raised twenty million, we're starting to wonder where it came from, and what will be asked for in return for that much sugar.
Why is the supposedly eco-friendly new aid senator supporting coal, however liquefied, as a way to wean ourselves off foreign oil.
By the way, that make a note.
This is beginning to irritate me.
This the Democrats and reducing our dependence on foreign oil and the domestic policies they enact are going to ensure that our dependence on foreign oil will only increase.
At uh at anyway, I had also held off from writing about Obama because the tsunami of attention and adulation, this son of a Kenyan goat herder, has uh has had to navigate is just too much too soon.
One would think learning to be a senator might keep a person occupied for a while.
Anyway.
Which brings me to the main point I delayed writing about Obama.
For me, it was a trick question and a game I refused to play.
Since the issue was always framed as a battle between gender and race, uh, and you may by the way, read that non-whiteness is the question is moot when all the players are white.
Since the issue was always framed as a battle between gender and race, I didn't have the heart or the stomach to point out the obvious Obama isn't black.
Black in our political and social reality means those descended from West African slaves.
Voluntary immigrants of African descent are just that, voluntary immigrants of African descent with markedly different outlooks on the role of race in our lives and in politics.
At a minimum, it can't be assumed a Nigerian cab driver and a third generation harlamite have more in common than the fact that a cop won't bother to make the distinction.
They're both black as a matter of skin color, but only the harlamite, for better or worse, is politically and culturally black, as we use the term.
We know a great deal about black people, but we know next to nothing about immigrants of African descent.
Whites, on the other hand, and this is the key.
Whites, on the other hand, are engaged in a paroxysm of self-congratulation.
Barack is the equivalent of your black friend.
Swooning over nice safe Obama means you aren't a racist.
I honestly can't look without feeling pity and indeed mercy at whites' need for absolution.
Well, Deborah, it's all about collective guilt, permeating our society.
For all of our sakes, it seemed again best not to point out the obvious.
You all are not embracing a black man, a descendant of slaves, you're replacing the black man with an immigrant of recent African descent, of whom you can approve without feeling your guilty or frightened.
If he were Ronald Washington from Detroit, even with that same resume, he wouldn't be getting this kind of love.
Washington would have to earn it.
Yet just not just show promise of it, and even then whites would remain wary.
Since Obama had no part in our racial history, he's free of it.
And once he's opened the door to even an awkward embrace of candidates of color for the highest office, the door will stay open.
A side door, but an open door.
Yet until Obama survives the scourging, he's about to receive from Hillary.
God help him if he really did lie about his Muslim background.
And the electoral process, no candidate of color will ever be taken seriously until he survives this.
Clinton isn't about to leave the stage in the name of racial progress, and the pundit class has only just begun to take apart the Senator's record, associates and bank accounts.
Still this is progress.
A non-black on the down low about his non-blackness is about to get what blacks have always asked for, to be judged on his merits.
So let's all just pretend we've really overcome.
Well, obviously, there's some disquietness out there among some in the media that Obak is uh Obama's getting all this uh adulation and praise having crossed the barrier when he's not.
It's her words that I just read to you.
He's not black.
I haven't been writing about first black candidates, he's not black.
Which again, I swear I'm losing my ability to know.
Obama is not black, but Bill Clinton was the first black president.
And at the same time, Clarence Thomas and Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell and Condoleezza Rice are not black.
And now Salon says Obama isn't black.
You see, black is just like feminism in a sense.
It's not about skin color sex, about liberalism and how best to advance it.
And that's why Obama isn't black.
He doesn't fit the template.
Just doesn't fit.
Bill in the Gallup, New Mexico, thanks for waiting.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
It's it's an extreme honor to speak to you again, Russia.
Thank you, sir.
You're you're a great person.
Everything you say is true, and you're the only one on God's earth that gets out and speaks out and and and and tells the true colors of these liberals.
You know, our our Republican base, it's a it's a crying shame that they don't have any guts.
You can't be politically re uh correct.
I respect uh Trent Watt, but when they say something's not true, he says, Well, that's not exactly the way it is.
Trying to be nice, my esteemed colleague, the heck with that.
You're in a fight, you fight to win.
I uh and you tell it the way it is, and and when they tell a lie, it you bring it right out on the media, but nobody else does.
It's a shame.
Uh I'll tell you what we should do with everybody when they when they run for office and they get elected, they should go to Marine Corps boot camp uh to toughen up a little bit to really fight to win.
Look.
And then they should listen to Merle Haggett song.
If you're running down our country, you're walking on the fight inside of me and fight.
Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that, but uh uh we we've discussed this I don't I don't know how many times.
I'll tell you what.
Uh you know, the Republican uh caucus, the Republican minority is now divided.
Two-thirds of the Republicans in the House want to just go along.
Hey, the Democrats won.
Let them let them let them let them do what they want to do.
Let them have their day.
And shut up about it.
Uh one third, the younger ones in the Republican Party in the House want to fight them.
Publicly make noise and oppose them and this sort of thing.
And there's a uh there's a real battle.
Um look at I've I have I've been following this a lifetime, and Republicans are not they're just not made that way.
They're they're not yeah, it's yeah, but there are exceptions.
Newt was one, Reagan was another.
He did it in a very stylish and uh classy way, but he was certainly not afraid to be ideological and lead a movement all the while he was campaigning or governing, as either governor or uh or president.
But uh that's that's not the uh the way it exists today.
There just there just isn't that orientation about them or uh or motivation.
And I don't know, you know, all the reasons.
Fear of being lamb-based and lampooned in the media or what have you.
I suspect it's fear of something.
Fear is usually at the root of these things.
James in Greenville, South Carolina, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you.
Yes, hello?
Yes.
Oh, h hello, Rush.
Um, I was calling a comment about your uh opening segment, and I I'd like to say something uh uh about um about the fact that I'm I'm very pleased with with uh uh talking to you today.
Um I am not a liberal, I am an independent, but um I I understand, I understand your perspective from about that.
But but um I'm calling about that opening segment and the and the stats that you were uh uh presenting.
I got an email very similar to that, and and when I saw the numbers, I I thought that the numbers were were questionable, so I went back and and took a closer look at a lot of those numbers.
And the reason that I'm calling is that that in much the same way that the previous caller was concerned about presenting presenting untruths, uh when I did my research, it it indicated to me that um that a lot of those numbers that that you presented were actually incorrect.
Such as well, the the home valuation, for instance, being up over 100 percent over the past three and a half years, according to to um my information, the 169,000 in uh 2000, that's six years ago, and it hasn't it has it's now two hundred and thirty-eight, and That's a that's roughly a fifty percent increase, but nowhere near a hundred percent.
Uh unemployment was four percent in two thousand before the Bush administration took office.
It's four point five percent today.
Labor participation participation rates were higher back in uh Well unemployment even in the nineties, that's I didn't say I said in the last I said in recent years unpl I think Clinton's lowest unemployment was actually three point eight percent.
But you're missing the point of all that.
If you want to focus on the numbers, go right ahead.
The point is the economic news is good, but people don't feel it.
They don't sense it because there's so many unsettling things and upsetting things that are disquieting them.
And when you talk about uh y you what home prices, you know, you can argue with my figures, I can argue with your figures, but the point is every one of those line items is up or down as they should be.
Inflation is down, unemployment is down, uh tax revenues are up, tax rates are down.
What's the new direction?
Well now.
If the Democrats want to change direction, what direction they want to take us?
The opposite of where we're going in all these areas?
Well, uh what I'm taking exception with is that as compared to 2000, which is before the the Bush administration took office, that that's not the case.
That that uh we were in the beginning of a recession in two thousand.
I'm not gonna look at you know, you you people can try here, you must remember I am the host and you are callers.
We were in the we were in the first days of a recession in two thousand.
The Clinton administration had totally doctored numbers from the Commerce Department uh and and uh on on corporate numbers and inflation, a number of other things.
When then we had nine eleven hit, we have had a an amazing economic turnaround.
That is the point that you don't want to look at.
All you want to do is bush bash.
You guys cannot get away from looking at Bush.
I'm trying to get people look at the country, and I'm looking at the future.
And the Democrats are promising a new direction on all these things, and what's that new direction?
What's wrong with the direction we've been going since after 911?
We had a recession already started, then 911 hit.
We have rebounded with an economic expansion that in normal times would have been heralded as one of the greats of all time.
But because Bush was in the White House, no, we can't do that.
We have to try to depress the country and make them think it's sup line America.
Then you want to call here and talk about how great things were in the nineties and in two thousand, and then Bush came into office and totally destroyed everything.
The Clinton administration, particularly the economy, was a house of cards built on a flimsy foundation, was just starting to fall apart as he left office.
As was the military, as was a number of institutions that had to be rebuilt.
You people make me sick.
You can't even think about the country.
You can't even listen to comments I make and honestly react to them about the future of the country.
I do happen to care about the country and the people that live in it, and I want the best for them, and all you want is for Bush to hang.
And I don't have time to talk with you people about it anymore.
Call your friends and other real liberal talk shows where nobody listens and had a bath.
All right, heavy more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
You know, I ought to learn my own lesson.
Eight out of ten times you cannot have a reasonable conversation with liberals.
You just can't, even when you treat them with respect and try to tr treat their uh the points that they're making with uh maturity.
Uh that's just Bush bash after Bush bash after Bush bash.
And frankly, folks, that happens enough out there in the media without it happening here.
Linda in St. Louis, thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, it's great uh talking to you.
Um I have a quick uh comment.
Yes.
Uh I hear you always you always make uh comments about um um independent registered independent voters as being moderates.
There's no way on earth I'm a moderate.
I'm as conservative as they come.
I uh I'm fifty-nine.
I registered when I was twenty-one, and I didn't know which party because my family didn't get into politics and didn't vote.
So I registered independent, and until two thousand I never voted a straight ticket.
And in two thousand That's the problem.
Well, no, I went by the man.
I said, Oh, this sounds like well, I was young, I was twenty more.
You went by the man and you found a Democrat worth voting for, I have to question.
Well, yeah, I f I learned over the years as I got older that you can't do that.
I'm to the point now where I don't even vote for the local councilman as Democrat.
I vote strictly Republican, and I was disgusted with talent, but I went out and voted for him anyway because I figured he was better than McCaskill, but you know, he didn't win.
But uh at least I went out and voted.
So what you you you just you don't you don't like it when I make comments about independents being no different than liberals?
Well, when you say they're just we're moderates, they're moderates, and therefore they're no different than liberals, and and I didn't know Well, you may be the exception, and if you are, I'm sorry.
I apologize.
But I'm gonna t I'm gonna tell you something.
Most independents and moderates I know of are that precisely, so they don't have take a position on anything.
I know my sister says she's a moderate, but she's as diagonal liberal as they come.
Right.
Just doesn't like the label or more than it's about what people think of them.
When they say they're moderates, they think people are going to look at them as open-minded and visionary and not closed-minded and rigid.
Right.
And when I say I'm a registered independent, people say to me, Well, you're liberal.
And I'm saying, no, I'm not.
Well, look at all I can tell you is this.
Linda, even though and I apologize for saying if uh an independent is not a conservative.
If conservatives were independents, that what we would call ourselves.
Now we don't.
They call ourselves conservatives.
So if you're conservative, join us in name and spirit.
Quickly to uh Michael in Roanoke, Virginia.
Your next, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how's it going, buddy?
Good, buddy.
Listen, I just wanted uh my comment was originally, and I know Tom is going into the two o'clock hours, I gotta get in quick about the fact of how a lot of times I know this uh conservative talk radio, when they're exposed, they take over, they back to God.
So long, pal.
Bye-bye.
This is not conservative talk radio.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program, and I'm not gonna open this program up to generic seminar bashers today.
You call this is not conservative talk radio, it's the Rush Limbaugh program, and it's always going to be that way.
Take it somewhere else.
My patience has worn out.
I don't care what you wanted to talk about, because I already can tell it's not worth my time or the audiences.
You heard about Robert Redford going nuts out there at Sundance.
These clowns just won the election.
They're talking like they're imprisoned and oppressed, and they've been lied to, and they deserve an apology.
Uh it just it's it's mind-blowing.
People are sick.
Try this headline.
Premieres at Sundance.
Now, for those of you in real Linda, best you probably know what it means in uh Rio Linda.
It means sex with animals.
They have a documentary on sex with animals being shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
And the uh director says, No, no, no, no, there's nothing.
This this this it's there's nothing there, no gross depictions, uh that no, it's just it's part of our society and culture.
If you want, I'll give you the details of this.
It's being heralded as a great body of work.
It's called zoo.
It is, it's called zoo.
The world of zoo makes some goat ew is the uh headline in the LA Times.
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