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Jan. 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hey, Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement.
African American actress Halle Berry.
As a African American, I'm honored to have Ms. Barry's support as well as the support of other African Americans, Obama's.
He didn't say it, but I mean.
Anyway, there are those.
Greetings.
Trillseekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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New ethics charges have been filed by the North Carolina State Bar accusing the uh Durham District Attorney Mike Nyphong of withholding DNA evidence and misleading the court in a Duke Lacrosse case.
The amended complaint cites findings from April 2006 that DNA tests found on the alleged accuser excluded all of the Duke Lacrosse players as potential contributors.
The complaint also states that Nyphon was told of the test results by Brian.
We all know this, by the way.
Now, this and other stuff that they filed could have been a slap on the wrist.
Uh you know, these guys tend to circle the wagons around one another, but this has the potential to be serious.
This could get the guy's law license taken away.
This could get him disbarred.
This uh, ladies and gentlemen, this this could even interest, although I don't think it will, but it could interest the feds.
The U.S. attorney could look at this and find obstruction of justice in any number of things.
This is serious, serious stuff.
Uh the amended complaint also states that Nyphon and Meehan agreed that the potentially exculpatory DNA evidence and test results would not be provided to defense attorneys, which is a violation of rules.
The state bar also cited dozens of pretrial comments that Nyphong made to the media early on in the case.
Uh March 13, 2006, a woman who was working as an exotic dancer claims she was assaulted by three men, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, here's another interesting aspect of this.
With with this amended complaint that alleges that Nyphone withheld DNA evidence.
I know it's pardon me, my hand here in the microphone.
I've got a smudge on my glasses.
It's irritating me.
At any rate, with this amended complaint, you've got the attorney general's office in North Carolina now having turned the case over to two super duper prosecutors.
How in the world could these people go forward with a trial with all this having been alleged and under consideration about Nifong by the North Carolina Bar?
Would that not be outrageous and comical at the same time?
How could how can these people decide to try this case with the North Carolina State Barficially complaining about Naiphong's violation of serious rules?
I don't know.
Because this is just me, average citizen, uh asking the question.
It seems like it would provide a tremendous conflict and problem if they decide to go ahead and prosecute this, despite all of this.
I mentioned to you uh a standby audio soundbite number 26.
I mentioned that uh one of the most interesting things in the State of the Union last night was when the president was leaving.
They kept the microphones on.
At least on Fox, which is what I was watching.
And you were able to hear as well as see the president interacting with members from both sides of the aisle while they're asking for autographs and basically pawing the guy and then angling to get in the TV shot.
Uh and when the Democrats were doing this, it just, you know, this is so phony.
This is just they hate this guy.
And here they are, acting like they are in awe.
Uh and uh and and have all this uh respect.
So it it picks up here.
Um it's about two minutes long.
It picks up with uh Jesse Jackson Jr. asking a question to Bush, uh, who says, Can we count on the invite, sir?
Can I tell him the invite?
You're like your old man.
Can I tell him the invite, sir?
Comprehensive best line.
We did not vote for saying no one looking at it.
I didn't look at it.
Judge, how are you?
Yes, sir.
I want to thank you for your comments on ball four.
Yeah.
You know something.
All the time.
Every time.
Takes a text in the world.
Kirby and I were talking about you.
He said, How's Green here?
And I said, Grain is a distinguished name.
Kind of watching you like a hawk.
Good job, Mr. President.
Thank you.
You saw those Wisconsin farmers.
That's right.
Mr. President.
I hope you saw the feedback.
You were sweet.
Mr. President, you want me back in Minnesota.
Oh, absolutely.
Can you tell Sarkar?
I called him from the uh bus.
Oh, yeah.
Thanks for doing that.
Thank you.
Honoring.
Well, thanks.
That's the right thing.
We gotta get a kick up nice again.
Yeah.
Tell him again.
Tell him on the way out of the stadium and I asked you.
Okay.
Bishop, you want all those treats to go to Fort Mennonite.
Thanks for coming down.
Thanks for that.
Shelly Moore.
Nice job.
Very nice.
Well, I smoked.
Let's see if I'm making sure you got everything to the city.
Jabby's my constituent now.
Thank you, sir.
God bless you, Mr. President.
I just took him.
I took the advice you gave me the other day in that meeting.
Work in there, but no.
Okay, huh?
No.
Hey, Kenny, how are you doing?
35 million.
You see me on my friend.
Russ.
He was right next to me.
Did all right.
So the last voices you heard there, I think Tom Harkin said, I tell you, did you see me on my feet?
And uh and Bush said Russ, and Senator Feingold said the computer was right next to me, you did all right.
Uh all this congeniality with uh with these Democrats.
Uh what you didn't see, the president signing autographs during this whole thing.
And he's got there was a Republican Congresswoman from um Wisconsin or Michigan.
I can't remember which she wouldn't take her hands off of it.
Had her hands on it for 30 seconds.
Uh if if not, if not more.
But she was a Republican, so um, I guess I guess no big deal.
And uh well, let me close out the segment with uh with this.
Once again, ESPN remains obsessed with me.
Last night on Pardon the Interruption with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.
That the fell too often looks like a game between the crips and the bloods without any weapons close, Po Tony.
What do you think of that?
I've said this before.
That is blatant race baiting.
He has done this.
That's bigot.
Once again, they didn't hear it.
They said, Rip Rush Limbo reportedly said Friday night.
No, I said it during the day on Friday, but I was among comments that went on for at least two segments, maybe 20 minutes total.
And here's a little excerpt of uh of those additional comments that I made that these two bigots either didn't hear or don't know about and are not interested in learning about.
A lot of people have theories on this.
I've heard this uniform black business has roots uh in gang culture, but I think also this is also rooted in you don't diss me.
You don't disrespect me, and and and disrespect can occur with just the wrong glance.
There's a hypersensitivity to it.
But it's not you know, it's it's it's not just black players who are engaging in this kind of behavior.
There's a the there's a I think it's a just general decline in class.
And you can't you can't leave out the television aspect of this.
It gets you on TV, gets you on the highlight reel.
There are many, many factors in it, there's no question.
And it's only gonna keep getting worse.
So I was discussing, as you people heard, an overall lack of class that seems to be affecting the National Football League.
Uh and it seems to be happening more and more.
We just had the tenth Cincinnati Bingle arrested yesterday.
Since the season began.
We've had players stomping on each other's faces.
We've had kicks to the groin.
We've Had and all of these things have what?
I'm not not baiting anybody.
I'm telling you what's what I've seen in each one of these actions has carried a meaningful penalty that has uh uh that it's harmed the team in a quest for victory and so forth.
All of this headbutting going on out there, and and uh it's you know, somebody said, Well, you know, Rush, why are you picking on the NFL?
I mean, it's worse than the NBA.
You know, remember what happened up there in Detroit at the Palace at Auburn Hills and so forth.
You know, I think there's there's an explanation for this.
Football already is a rough and tough and violent game, and the impression that people have of the people who play it is that they're rough, tough, really tough guys.
They, I mean, and they imagine these guys are acting this way at home, and they imagine uh, you know, that that that you gotta be of a certain mindset.
And so these kinds of things are not all that unexpected in football because it is rough and tough.
It is violent.
And it is monoamano, and it's uh it's it's brutal it's it's brutal.
You guys have no concept of the television does not do justice to the brutality of this game when it's played legally, as the rules indicate.
So I think there's less of a of a shock when uh when these kind of uh emotions boil over into this kind of uh uh behavior that we were discussing last week, whereas in in uh uh basketball where there are no pads, it's heavy contact game now.
It used not to be, but heavy, heavy contact game, but you know, no pads, it's not supposed to be contact, it's not a game about brutal use of force to dominate the opponent as football is.
And so it seems to stand out more so in um in in basketball.
At any rate, uh let's take a brief time out, we'll come back and continue, and as we do, we will incorporate more and more of your highly valuable phone calls, stay with us.
Okay, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
Always having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have your guiding light and living legend, all in one remarkable media presentation.
Now, I don't want there to be any confusion out there in my analysis of this health care plan that's dead on arrival.
I know there are tax increases in it.
I told you this yesterday.
When I played this cruel trick on you.
There, yes, there are tax increases in it.
Here, as I understand it, the the impetus behind the program is to get as many people as possible buying their own health insurance so as to introduce as much market force into health care pricing as possible.
Now, not everybody's gonna do it.
And those that don't are gonna face a tax increase.
The any amount of health care benefit they get from their employer over $15,000 will be taxed.
I don't know at what rate, but it'll be taxed.
So, yeah, it's there's gonna be a tax increase, and the purpose of this is to balance whatever tax deductions the government's getting.
You know government never does with less.
Uh they uh would never hear about government willing to do with less.
So if they're gonna offer tax exemptions for those of you who go out and buy your own health insurance, they look at it as, oh, we've got to get that money back somewhere.
But the tax increase or the new tax on people at stay in their employer-paid health plans is designed as an incentive to get you to go out and leave that plan and buy your own.
And I'm just commenting on the fact I don't know about the likelihood of that.
Simply because so many people have come to think of it as free.
There is a benefit.
You may object to my use of the word free, but what is a benefit?
To dad on.
A Benny.
Benefit.
How many of you pay for benefits do you think in your own mind?
I'm just talking about attitudes here.
Forget the economics and the reality.
We deal with attitudes here.
And uh when you hear people clamoring for health insurance and health coverage, I'll guarantee you they're clamoring for something they don't want to pay for.
And one of the reasons they don't want to pay for it, I don't blame them.
It's so ridiculously expensive, and it's so ridiculously exclusive.
You've had a hangnail, you're gonna have tougher rates.
If you've had a heart attack, good luck getting insurance.
So it's just I don't know.
People think the whole system is rigged, and that's why the the benefit aspect of it uh is attractive to plus that whole benefit employer benefit uh system has been in place for so long that uprooting it and changing it.
And those of us that understand market forces understand for every one of us that do, there are 10,000 that don't.
And so when you start trying to sell this on the basis of market forces to bring prices down, it's going to go right over their heads.
That's not what this is.
They don't care.
I want my health insurance, Smith or Limbaugh.
Don't tell me my market forth and reducing prices.
I want health coverage, so I don't have to worry about it.
Okay.
And everybody's always clamoring for new ideas, read in the same old, same old.
Uh Bill in uh Orange Park, Florida, you are next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's a real pleasure to talk to you once again.
Yes.
Uh first of all, Rush, I have two points.
First one is uh I like what what you had talked about uh Fox News opening up their uh microphones last night.
Very, very, very telling.
Uh the other thing was I wanted to talk about the president's speech.
Yes.
Uh I thought that the president hit uh hit a nerve last night, and what I what I would call a defining moment in the war on terror, in that he asked a very, very simple question in the way that every single American can understand, in very simple language, and it's one that we can pose to liberals in the future.
And that is do you want the United States to win?
You want us to be victorious in the war on terror.
What do you mean?
We already got the answer.
They sat on their hands last night.
They're I've there they don't want us to win.
can't afford politically for themselves for us to win.
They're exposed now, Rush.
They're exposed for what they really are.
It it's plain for everyone to see now.
Well, you say that I've thought that so many times the last year about the liberals and Democrats, and they still won the election.
But believe me, Russia, from what I've been hearing from people, friends of mine in this area, friends of mine that are outside of the uh other parts of the United States, this is what resonated with people last night.
Not the health care proposal, not the energy thing, nothing of that sort.
I under I understand that because th Bush was the most passionate during the uh war on terror segment of the State of the Union.
Exactly, sir.
And you and you could did you see Lieberman stand up and applaud.
Yeah.
Uh there were some other uh moderate Democrats that stood up.
But you saw the you saw the real liberals last night.
I guess I've been seeing them all my life.
Uh I understand what you're saying.
You think people are gonna watch that last night and really have their eyes opened about who the liberal democrats are.
Yes, sir, I do.
Well, I hope you're right.
I I've thought how much more can people's eyes be opened or need to be opened about liberals.
See, you know, one of the one of the things that I uh wished had happened last night, in addition to the thing that you cite.
And that is contrast.
I wish the president would have contrasted his views with the views of the Democrats.
But he just doesn't do that.
He's he is he's not ideological in that sense.
Reagan did this constantly during his date of the union or another speech, Reagan would tell the American people what his opponents think, what they want, what they oppose, and what kind of obstacle they are.
And he also did it in very simple language that the average American can can understand.
He did, but y George W. Bush has people in that room who are invested in Vic in defeat.
George W. Bush has people in that room trying to undermine the policy.
Now he can find a way to say that, and he can get booze and cat calls on that side of the aisle, but he's leaving it up to people who watch this who see the Democrats sit down and not applaud when he mentions victory, and he's a he's he's leaving it up to the viewer to conclude this.
Uh for him.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
Well, I'm just saying, but i on any of these proposals that he made.
I don't care the domestic side, uh in the in the war on terror, these people are who they are, and he needs to tell the American people what he's up against as he's trying to protect this country for us and everybody else.
Well, I think, sir, that last night every single American was able to see.
The camera told a lot last night.
And and these these liberals, these Democrats that sat on their hands, they were there for all of us to see.
So You know something?
I have seen Hillary Clinton looking dour and sour in State of the Union addresses for the last six years.
I have seen Democrats not applaud obvious patriotic things for the last six years.
I've seen this is this is nothing new uh in terms of Democrat behavior.
Uh there were a number of things they stood silent on last night uh uh that that are that that would be good for the country, but that didn't involve the government getting bigger.
Uh and I've been watching this my my whole life, and yet the Democrats still won in November.
Well, who's gonna be the first in the news media, the drive-by media as you like to call them?
And I and I like that term.
Yeah, thank you.
Uh who's gonna be the first one to look Hillary straight in the eye and say, do you want us to be victorious?
Uh now her answer is gonna be yes, but that that's not gonna get that far.
There will not be an answer for Mrs. Clinton because that question will never be posed to.
That's what I was wondering.
Will that question everyone?
Gotta run.
Gotta see you in a minute.
All right.
Rudy Giuliani, uh, ladies and gentlemen, and this is this uh sort of an extension of the last uh last phone call of uh uh gentleman on the phone uh thinking that last night's display by the Democrats will finally awaken the America people that realize that the Democrats want to lose.
Uh if the American people don't know that by listening to the Democrats for the last year and a half, they're never gonna figure it out.
Now, the only thing is that the the power of pictures, yes, power of pictures, and by the way, the combined viewership for the State of the Union last night on all the networks that appeared outdid American Idol.
So a lot of people saw it.
A lot of people watched it, probably because they were expecting a train wreck.
But nevertheless, they watched.
Now, Rudy Giuliani is uh he's polling high in a lot of places.
Now, why would that be?
What is Rudy Giuliani known for?
9-11, Mr. Tough, America's mayor.
And he's not a liar, Mr. Tough America's mayor, it didn't flanch and so.
I have to think that uh country thinks that uh that that Rudy Giuliani would be tough and no nonsense in a war on terror.
Now, if the public really wanted out of Iraq and they really wanted defeat, don't you think that Chuck Hagel, who's trying his damnedest to get noticed, would be riding high in the Republican polling rather than being talking about as an independent party candidate, which is what he's doing.
Uh uh Mrs. Clinton, who voted for the war and has spent the most amount of time pulling back from that position, is leading the Democrat primary polling right now.
The Barack Obamas and the John Edwards, who are making it Obama never voted for the war, and Edwards former presidential candidate, vice presidential candidate, those guys, if there was really sediment in this country to get out and lose, then a whole bunch of people would be, and if Iraq is the single most important issue on people's minds, and a lot of different people will be leading these early polls now than the ones who are.
With that having been said, let's listen to Chuck Hagel.
Uh Chuck Hagel uh uh this was this morning of the Senate foreign relations committee hearing, and he just was I mean, well, you listen, this is just over the top.
I don't think we've ever had a coherent strategy.
In fact, I would even challenge the administration today to show us the plan that the president talked about the other night.
There is no plan.
There are real lives.
And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.
We better be as sure as you can be, and I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 centers to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think.
Don't hide anymore.
None of us.
So you you think it's just the Democrats that want defeat.
Here's Chuck Hagel joining them.
And he's not the only one.
Uh Chuck Hagel, we've got Voinovich.
Uh was it Susan Collins?
Uh yeah, Gordon Smith and Brown back.
Sam Brownback, The uh conservative uh Republican from uh Kansas.
Oh, yeah, and John Warner.
I mean, you you you're a lot of reasons.
This is there's just so little party discipline, and there's so much fear, and there's so much.
Why in the wor I I do you ever you you ever recall Democrats joining Republicans on the make no mistake, this is political.
These guys all want to hide behind the notion of trying to save the lives of our soldiers and protect our soldiers and so it is maddening and it's frustrating.
But that's Chuck Hagel.
Now, if if if that sentiment expressed by Senator Hagel really was resonating in America today, he wouldn't be an obscure independent party candidate or third party candidate.
He'd be at the top of the Republican tier.
But he's not.
Rudy Giuliani is near the top of the Republican tier, and he does not have the reputation of a guy who wants to lose and pull out and is weak.
So make up your own mind.
Let's listen to the drive-by media now, agonize over post-speech polls.
Uh first off is uh Bill Schneider.
It took a snap poll out there.
Americans who watched the speech liked it.
So Bill tries to distort it by splitting very positive and somewhat positive, uh, which was on the screen, uh, but left out by Schneider.
So if you added up the somewhat positive and very positive uh groups in their poll, you had a total of 78% who reacted positively.
When you add very positive and somewhat positive together um uh on whether we can still win in Iraq, you got 82%.
Knowing that, here's how Schneider reported it.
The numbers tell us that the response to the speech among those who watched it, remember, was fairly positive, but not as strong as it has been in the past.
Forty-one percent of Americans said they had a very positive response to the president's speech.
And uh were those who watched the speech confident that the United States will be able to achieve its goals in Iraq.
Still a lot of skepticism.
Only 15% said they were very confident.
Forty-six percent said they were not confident that the United States could achieve its goals.
Right.
But see, he leaves out the we we always, when we have polling data, and you've got four or five different categories, really positive, somewhat positive, don't know, not positive, totally negative, don't know.
You add him up, and this is how people get a general sentiment, and he's leaving out half the information in a poll.
They were stunned by this result.
They were stunned by their post-poll.
They were expecting more of the same kind of thing that's resulted in what they say, our presidential approval numbers in the low 30s.
Moving on now, here's more of Bill Schneider.
He had he had to admit, he had to admit that he had more Democrats than usual in his pool because they wanted to see Nancy Pelosi.
Normally the audience for president's speech is very partisan.
People of his own party watch, the other party doesn't bother.
This audience was about equally divided between Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
Why, with an unpopular Republican president that a lot of Democrats watch?
Simple.
Nancy Pelosi.
They wanted to see the new Democratic Congress, see the new Speaker of the House, and I think that brought a larger than usual Democratic audience to a Republican president's speech.
Well, I mean, that makes it even more interesting, then, doesn't it?
If you have a larger percentage of Democrats watching a Republican speech and they still got all this positive feedback after the speech, I guarantee the drive-by's are not happy.
And they're scratching themselves, their heads.
And trying to figure out how this happened.
So they got to say, well, it's Pelosi.
Hey, tuned in to see Miss America.
And unstated, but probably thought, and no reason, uh, no wonder they liked the speech.
Bush was nice to her.
Here's Bill Plant, CBS, listen to this.
A CBS News online poll after the speech found that eight in ten who watched were supportive.
And the president even made some progress in urging a troop surge.
That number went up.
But again, a reminder, that's only among those who watched, and overall sentiment continues to be majority against the war.
Yeah, so what are you gonna well why didn't you go out and find what people who didn't watch the speech thought of the speech?
What's the what is the the point of telling us, remember now, remember?
He's trying to qualify it.
As though the people that watch the speech are such a minority the whole population that we really can't give any credence to our own stupid poll.
If that's the case, why report it?
So we yeah, well, I mean remember now, this is only among people who watch the speech, CBS viewers.
Well, I would hope it's only who watched the speech.
If you're out polling people who didn't, it'd be uh poll malpractice.
Moving on.
This is Martha Raditz, Info Babe at ABC.
There were some real sad echoes of things he said so many times in the past when he got to the global war on terror, when he got to Iraq, and and you heard him concentrate on that global war on terrorism.
Those were the sad echoes.
He brought up Al Qaeda again.
He brought up Osama bin Laden.
He brought up Zarkawi in Iraq, who died many, many months ago.
That's what he concentrated on.
He avoided uh to a great degree the sectarian violence, which is really the major problem in Iraq.
And once again told Americans that if it if we didn't succeed in Iraq that the terrorists could come to the United States.
And he said that so many times in the past.
Well, and you're bored by it.
See, it's so boring, so boring.
Being reminded of the possibilities in the real world are just so boring.
So yeah, Zarkawi's dead because we killed him.
But he wrote a whole lot of things that indicated their strategy.
I wonder if she would be so dismissive of writings that were uncovered having been written by Hitler.
Uh at any rate.
They were just they're just disgusted.
They, I'm telling you, wanted Bush to plummet.
They were hoping he'd fall off the podium.
They'd hoping he'd break down in tears, beg forgiveness, announce the troops are coming home, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Whatever.
Uh Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this justin, it's an ABC news alert, alert alert, alert.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a non-binding, meaning gutless measure, saying President Bush's plan to increase troops in Iraq is, quote, not in the national interests of the United States, unquote.
You know what it means?
It's non binding.
They didn't touch funding.
They didn't put any action behind their words.
And this is typical of a bunch of blowhard politicians who have no accountability.
They're not commander in chief, but every damn one of them thinks they should be.
And back to the phones we go here on the Rush Limbaugh program, a program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations every day.
This is Mary in Canal Fulton, Ohio.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Brush.
Ditto's thank you.
Hey, I was struck last night watching the speech.
Just what an honorable and decent man, President Bush came across.
Yeah, no.
His introduction of Nancy Pelosi, he went way above and beyond what he needed to do when he referenced her father.
And I thought that was so kind and personal for her, which I wouldn't have done it because I I I think that's who he is.
Pardon?
It's who he is, and that's how the family, the Bush family is.
That's that that's just that's who he is.
It was very clear.
And I was left with the thought that, you know, this man is not gonna send people over to die for his own political purposes or to justify his legacy or do anything like that, that he knows as the commander in chief what he's doing, and he lays that option be I mean, the consequences and the cost that other people's families are gonna have to pay before he makes these decisions, and he does not do this lightly.
And for all the Democrats to um act as if he's some terrible terrorist or he's just like Adolf Hitler is so wrong, and I think the American people can see that.
And the contrast between him and the um the way that Webb um greeted him at that reception where he was so rude to him and wouldn't even answer his question, to have him be the response.
I thought it was very telling.
Well, uh, two things on this.
One of the reasons that Webb did it is because there's hardly other any other Democrat senator they can find to do it that hasn't, you know, that that that didn't vote for the war.
That's true.
Uh uh and you know, they they they can't pick one of the presidential candidates, uh, because it'll be unfair to the old say you rule out Hillary and Obama and Edwards and all that.
Now you're gonna go find somebody that that that did not vote for the war to go do the traditional Democrat response.
You gotta get Webb, who's a rookie.
There's a second factor here, too.
Democrats are really, really, really uh making a play for for for Virginia in in every political way they can.
They They had to f the the newly elected governor do a response to something within the last year.
Now here's Webb uh uh doing it.
So there's there's a lot of things that went into choosing.
Well, what do you think of Webb?
Did you watch his response?
Yeah, I I thought he was just really well, he was nothing.
I I didn't wasn't impressed with him.
I thought the things he brought up were just silly, what he started with.
I can't even remember it.
It was really a non-issue.
It's something about four hundred years ago in Jamestown.
Yeah, well, that and then even the issues that he talked about.
Well, the President.
It was he was a t this guy there, but he's a conservative Reagan conservative.
This guy painted a picture of Soup Line America.
He made up phony numbers about the disparity between CEO and uh worker pay.
Uh wanted to continue to portray this uh economy as only good for some people.
Wall Street is irrelevant, main street's what counts, and main streets hurting, and blah, blah, blah.
Um, and it's just it it was it's it's more class envy that the Democratic Party is uh is is known for.
And then he totally misrepresented Eisenhower uh and his uh actions uh before pulling out of uh of South Korea.
Well, then he also referenced how he says that the majority of the military is opposed to this.
I don't know where he gets that information.
I've never heard anything like that before.
Yeah, people wonder where where is that?
Uh I had the same question.
What who's he talking to?
Most of the military opposed.
I I you know, there's just no basis for that.
There's no substantiation available for it.
Well, you think of his hair.
I thought his hair looked silly.
And I thought even when he started talking, he sounded like he was starting to have the deepest voice he could have, and he sounded ridiculous.
Well, uh very earnest and uh and very serious.
They made a big deal, by the way, last night.
Apparently Reed and Pelosi wrote the response, and he tore it up and wanted to write his own.
I heard that.
And they were this guy, he can do it all.
Well, he can write his speeches, he can deliver his speeches, he can style his hair so it looks like a toupee.
Uh I don't know.
Any he can affect or affectate his uh his voice in in such a way, but we can't.
Nobody watches the responses except idiots like me.
Well, I only watch it because I Pardon?
I guess I'm an idiot too, because I did watch it.
Well, there's a couple of us idiots around.
I I only watch it because I know the audience has expectations that I will be able to comment on it.
Otherwise, it would have been back to the movie room for me.
Well, we count on you for that, Rush.
Yeah, I know.
Because I understand what the expectations are, and I try to meet and surpass them each day.
It's thank you very much.
You have a beautiful voice.
I want to tell you.
Thanks, Mary, for the call.
We'll be back right after this.
Yeah, this is a performer at the halftime show at the Super Bowl this year.
The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.
Berwin, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you waited, Tom.
It's your turn on the EIB network.
Is the president not aware of the catastrophic economic effects of trying to switch to E 85, which by the way is doomed to fail.
Corn and corn products are in everything we eat.
Wait a second, you're talking about ethanol here, right?
Yes, sir.
You gotta speak language people real in to understand.
They don't know what E 85 is.
Uh corn is in everything we we eat, prices for food will skyrocket.
Hey, already starting to look at the price of tortillas is skyrocketed in Mexico, and there are gonna be riots now.
I'm not making it up.
I look at I agree with you.
I predicted this.
By the time you start taking all this corn for fuel, which costs more than gasoline.
It's ridiculous.
Ethanol gasoline is gonna cost more than regular gasoline.
Because it it's a shipping thing.
It's uh it's uh storage and a shipping thing.
And it'll idea.
It's a lib idea for all these alternative fuel ideas, a typical liberal idea.
You come up with something, you save the planet, and you hurt the very people who libs claim to love and support the little guys.
There will be riots in the Southern Hemisphere over the price of corn before this is all said and done.
And here's the evil United States, uh thought of as compassionate United States when liberals run it.
Um uh the selfishly selfishly cornering the corn market.
Well, the benefits about twelve big uh farmers like Archer Daniels Midland.
Yeah, well, I know.
I uh that that's it's it's uh it benefits that's the way of the world.
It's the way it's the way of wash.
I don't have time to back up.
We've got to go to a break.
Ask the question in the uh in the next hour.
Sit tight, ladies and gentlemen.
Because broadcast excellence will continue.
We but this ethanol business, I'm telling you, is is uh it's it there's so much uh the with the unintended consequences are gonna be devastating.
Not just to the people of Southern Hemisphere.
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