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Feb. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 19, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program here at the EIB Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Even on this President's Day, there is much truth to be pursued.
All you folks coming off the NASCAR win, focus because even though this is a holiday, there's a lot of stuff going on and we need to talk about it and get you tuned in.
First of all, of course, the hunt continues for Anna Nicole Smith's baby's father.
Many are being questioned now, and some are providing surprising testimony, providing surprising testimony.
Well, in fact, one rather prominent person here in the United States was closely questioned as to his connection to Anna Nicole Smith.
And under oath, this prominent person had this to say.
How would you fix the Department of Homeland Security?
No, that's not the one.
After that buildup, you played that.
No, we're talking about the Anna Nicole Smith baby father thing.
And again, the questioning continues.
What is it?
Five or six people lined up now claiming many others being asked about it due to, of course, their background, history, inclination, and so forth.
And under oath today, a rather famous person's denial.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
So anyway, apparently they're narrowing it down at least from there.
The story of the weekend.
I know the Senate voted.
We'll get to that.
Congress, Iraq, war, surprising poll numbers, and I'll get to that as well.
But the most interesting story was the mummified man, Vincenzo Riccardi, age 70, who apparently died of natural causes in his home while watching television.
What was strange about it is this could have been as early as December 2005.
The television was still on when they found the gentleman.
Now, I don't know about the utility company in your area, but this story had no plausibility with me whatsoever.
If I'm 10 minutes late paying San Diego gas an electric bill, the electricity is off like that.
Off like that.
What do you mean since December 2005, his television has been on?
Not to mention the fact, of course, that he was watching PMS NBC.
Keith Olderman, I think, was on.
Would have driven me, would have been, and now Olderman's down to what?
Four listeners, four watchers.
Look, the Fox News comedy show made its debut, and I was not able to watch this.
And it had Rush Limbaugh as president of the United States and Ann Coulter as vice president.
I don't know whether you watched it, and if you'd like to give me a review, give us a call at 1-800-282-2882.
But I think this idea of starting to use the liberals' favorite avenue of propaganda, which is comedy, against them, is long overdue.
Rush has been doing it here for, what, nearly 20 years.
There's a real strain of credibility using sarcasm and mocking and so forth to get at the hypocrisy and stupidity and idiocy of the left.
And Russia's been doing it here for years.
Finally, on television, they're realizing this could be, in fact, a winner in terms of ratings.
So we'll see what happens with this Fox comedy show, the Half-Hour News Hour.
And, you know, if you saw it, I'd like to hear from you.
Well, this is President's Day, and gosh, most of the all the government offices around here in San Diego are closed.
Some of the private sector folks are closed as well, but I tell you what, there was no traffic coming here.
We actually had traffic on the road that the road was built to carry today, as opposed to normally where it's 460% of the capacity of the roads.
This, of course, is I've never understood President's Day.
I was around when it was created.
Wasn't it Nixon or somebody who's created this thing because we no longer were going to have Lincoln's birthday or Washington's birthday?
We were going to have something called President's Day, which has become somehow a we have all these little acorns of titillation about all the different presidents.
Well, it's not supposed to be President's Day in the plural, I don't think, like all President's Day.
It was supposed to be Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday.
But now we don't have either of those people.
But I did go to the, I bring up, by the way, hesitatingly bring up the word Lincoln on this program.
The last time I did, I didn't realize there were so many millions of you unreconstructed Confederates out there, so I'll try to go slow here on this because I don't mean to resurrect the Civil War nor refight it in any way, shape, or form.
I did want to direct you, however, to the National Park Service at NPS.gov.
They have a description of the Lincoln Memorial.
See if this fits the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., with the guy seated up there in the marble and the columns and the famous speeches engraved in marble around him, the site of the famous Martin Luther King Jr. speech and so forth.
So here is the description on the National Park Service website of the Lincoln Memorial, which they describe as a symbol of democracy.
The description, however, must have been written by someone who recently went to a very politically correct university.
Here is the description.
Quote, The generation that designed the Lincoln Memorial essentially constructed a highly idealized, colossal white marble memorial to American democracy.
The period between 1865 and 1909 was a period marked as a time of incredible technological advance, rapid industrial growth, and imperialistic expansionism, of inflamed patriotism during and after the Spanish-American War, and a continuance of Jim Crow laws, the exploitation of the working class, and Tammany Hall-style politics.
Perhaps it should come as little surprise, I continue now to quote the National Park Service.
Perhaps it should come as little surprise that the predominantly white, classically minded, and university-educated upper-middle-class generation of architects and engineers that built the Lincoln Memorial would stress the theme of national unity over that of social justice, unquote.
What kind of communist claptrap is this?
This is the Bush administration.
This reminds me of the Enola Gay situation where the bomber that dropped the war-winning atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I guess it was Hiroshima, it was Enola Gay, was featured in the Smithsonian, a historic bomber.
And oh my goodness, the convulsions of political correctness.
How do we describe this?
Instead of just the straightforward description that this was the bomber that carried the bomb that ended the war and saved hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Japanese and American lives.
No, they weren't content with the actual facts of the matter.
So this is the same sort of thing.
What is this person talking about?
Incredible technological advances and rapid industrial growth did not lead to exploitation of the working class.
It led to the most rapid increase in the standard of living of any group of human beings in the history of human beings on this planet.
Tammany Hall-style politics were experienced, obviously, in the big cities, but a giant spreading of democracy also occurred.
Populist parties, the transformation of the parties into mass parties from elitist parties as they had been before.
I don't reconcile this paragraph with the actual experience of American history.
But then I guess we're not supposed to, because this is the rewriting of American history.
Anyway, we're, of course, at the rewriting of American history already, and some people are not happy with it.
The rewriting of American history that goes on every single day at places like NBC News, where their military analyst, Bill Arkin, I'm sorry, Ken Allard,
a former Army colonel who was called upon to be a military analyst on NBC News, resigned, citing their drift to the left at the PMS MSNBC and the leftist attacks on our military by Bill Arkin, who implied that the U.S. military was full of, quote, mercenaries, unquote, because they had volunteered.
Mercenaries, because they had volunteered.
That's nearly as bad as George Bush calling the Minutemen at the border vigilantes.
Not quite, but nearly.
So, anyway, that's the latest on rewriting history on today.
Apparently, the campuses, by the way, who produce people that would describe the Lincoln Memorial in the way I just quoted, are apparently at it still.
Chief, how do I say this?
Illiniwick.
In any event, the University of Illinois and the Illini, I guess it's Illiniwick, at Urbana-Champaign, they are getting rid of the chief, the symbol.
And of course, they had adopted the Native American regalia for this chief who performs during halftime at the football and basketball games at the University of Illinois.
They had adopted that as a symbol of bravery and courage and persistence.
This was a tribute symbol.
It was not a symbol of their teams that they were trying to get a symbol that would make them look less than the best team around.
They wanted a symbol that would make them look like the best team around.
So they adopted this guy from the, you know, in commemoration of the braves, right, of the Illini tribe.
Now they're getting rid of him.
This has happened to us in San Diego with the Monte Montezuma story.
Monty was the, you know, the student representation of the Montezuma, you know, the Aztecs, and we are the San Diego State Aztecs.
And so Monte Montezuma, and in correct regalia, again, symbolizing strength and power and perseverance and bravery and courage and all those things we want our teams to have here.
Suddenly, four people, or whatever, maybe it was five, said, oh, no, no, no, this is dissing the memory of Montezuma and the Aztecs.
Well, we had cleaned up the memory of Montezuma and the Aztecs quite a bit, by the way, to adopt Monte, because the Aztecs, of course, had a habit of getting themselves revved up for battle by taking the prisoners of war, ripping their hearts out with an obsidian blade, and eating the still pulsating heart.
This was the sort of civilization we were trying to.
I mean, we kind of, you know, we brushed by that to adopt Monty Montezuma.
And there was a huge, huge community backlash against these politically correct idiots to, again, reassert the Aztecs, Monty Montezuma.
And there was a lot of debate about what he should really be wearing and the headdress and all this stuff, which is probably a good debate.
We got a more, I think, a more accurate, historically accurate symbol.
But I can't believe the Illini are actually going to jump the chief.
But what do I know?
Anyway, let's take a break, and we'll come back with your thoughts about that Fox show, the half-hour news hour, in which the President of the United States is one Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Fill it in for Rush Today.
One more day, one more day of sick leave.
He's back tomorrow.
Let's take a break, and we'll be back with more after this.
Bill Clinton's name came up again today in the news, not only with respect to the Anna Nicole Smith baby paternity matter, but also with respect to, and this is actually the real news, that the top Dems are now floating the idea that when Hillary is elected president, the Bill would be appointed to the United States Senate from New York to replace her for the unexpired portion of her term.
Aren't they getting just a tad ahead of themselves?
Here's Joe in Bradenton, Florida, next on the Rush Show.
Hi, Joe.
Hey, Roger.
How are you, Megadittos from Florida?
Hey, thanks a lot.
What's going on?
Well, you mentioned the half-hour news hour last night.
It's the first time my wife is a big lib.
She went to the University of Colorado, has a master's degree and such.
And we watched that together last night.
And honestly, I don't know if I've ever seen her laugh so hard in her life.
She was crying.
It was just hilarious.
The Dom Herrera t-shirt skit with Ediamine, the other white meat, she-i't happens.
It was classic, just classic.
We loved it.
You know, if we can get libs laughing at this stuff, we're halfway home, Joe.
This is the best thing to happen ever if this starts taking off.
Yes, I agree.
Joe, I appreciate the call.
Here's Tracy in Bedford.
Is it Indiana?
Tracy, go ahead.
Hi, Roger.
I was calling about the show.
Yeah, what do you think?
Well, oh, my goodness, I loved it.
I missed almost all of Rush and Ann Coulter, but my husband was yelling from the other room.
Tracy, Tracy, you have got to see this.
Turn on talks quick.
And I just saw Ann's last little bit about turning everybody into Christians.
But listen, I don't want to take away the next caller's thunder about the ACLU, but honestly, that was so powerful.
And I think people really need to see that and think about that.
But my favorite part was that global warming guy that tied all that absurd stuff to global warming.
Even the fact that Britney Spears didn't wear underwear was the cause of global warming or the fault of it.
Oh, my gosh, it was classic.
It was a hoot.
You mean the fact that she doesn't wear underwear isn't caused by global warming?
That was a result.
I'm going to have to cross that off my list.
I did something as stupid as that.
Did you see that?
No, and you know what?
I missed the whole thing.
Now, hysterical.
So let's go back.
Let's go back to the beginning.
What was your favorite skit and what happened?
My favorite skit, honestly, was the global warming guy.
He was on, it was kind of a set like maybe Fox and Friends, the two commentators, and then this guy they were interviewing was sitting there in a chair with him.
And he said he could tie absolutely anything to global warming.
And they gave him absurd examples like the blizzard in Colorado.
And he went through, he said in six steps or less, he could tie it to global warming.
He went through this crazy thing, and he came around to the fact that the blizzard in Colorado had been tied to global warming.
Well, they went through three or four things like this, and then he said, give me something really hard.
And they said, Britney Spears doesn't wear underwear.
How is that the fault of global warming?
And he did it.
I mean, it was just crazy.
That's great.
Everything they said that gave him, he could tie it somehow to global warming.
And it was just ridiculous.
And it was on last night, right?
And what time was it on?
It was hysterical.
What time was it on in your area?
It was on at 10 o'clock on Fox.
Yeah.
Well, I hope this thing takes off.
Tracy, thanks for the call.
And again, I didn't get to see it.
I was hard-pressed last night for some reason or other got busy with a lot of things going on, and I did not see it.
Here's Linda in Las Vegas with more on that.
Linda, welcome.
Hey, Roger.
How are you?
Good.
Thanks.
Listen, Tracy is adorable, but the one thing she left out was this routine about the global warming.
He was, quote, a game show host slash activist.
And so what he said was, I can give you six reasons.
There's six reasons.
The first reason is this, the second reason.
Then he did it in three, and he said, see, I'm the greatest.
It was the funniest thing.
That was the routine, with all due respect, of those of us being in the advertising business, so we knew that.
Rush and Ann were a hoot.
The opening thing was, you know, Savvy was the opening bit was the commentators, and there was a picture, a ghastly picture of Hillary.
And it said, you know, she's elected.
She's going to have a cross-section, a marvelous cabinet of showing every face of America, angry lesbians.
Oh, this has got to be good.
Oh, it was a hoot.
Of course, my husband and I are staunch conservatives, so we were crying.
They have a picture of Dennis Kucinich, and they say that he wants to bring back the fairness doctrine to curtail conservative talk show hosts.
The only problem is, unfortunately, for him, he announced it on Air America and no one heard it.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, Linda, this sounds good.
Yeah, I think I'd have to talk about the ACLU was just an absolute riot.
It was wonderful, and God bless Joel.
All right, Linda, thanks very much.
Yeah, indeed.
I should have DVRed.
I got that feature now.
You know, Russia's always talking about these features you can get to watch TV when you want to.
And so what?
I didn't do it.
Ran out of the house on an appointment, came back, of course, it was all over, and I was done and out.
So anyway, so I'm going to rely on you at 1-800-282-2882, your favorite part of this show, and should it continue?
And what do you think?
Here's Wes in Newton, North Carolina.
Is it?
Wes, go ahead.
Hello, how are you, Roger?
Good.
What's up?
I thought it was a fantastic show.
My favorite part, of course, was the Barack Obama comments about the magazine.
It was B.O. Magazine.
And it was my political life and an 18-month journey.
And the things that he's accomplished in 18 months, which would be absolutely nothing.
That's funny.
I do not feel it should have been on Fox News.
Why?
Because I feel that it's stooping to their level.
Now, I thought it was absolutely fantastic, and I understand maybe it being on just like normal Fox, but to put it on a news station that claims to be fair and balanced, I think, is sort of contradicting themselves.
All right, we'll take more comment on that, Wes.
I'm just glad to see humor being employed here, but you may have a point.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Back after this.
All right, welcome back to our community forum here.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program at the EIB at the EIB Network.
And this is, of course, President's Day.
Many of you may have this day off, but it's not a day off from the relentless pursuit of truth here.
And we're doing that with your calls, too, at 1-800-282-2882.
Now, part of this half-hour news hour on Fox News that had its debut last night, again, Joel Sarnow, the guy behind 24, is also the producer of this, the half-hour news hour.
Part of that will be up and is up now at rushlimbaugh.com.
Rush is part of it.
And I got to believe that liberals were just grinding their teeth at the idea, even in a satirical way, even in a comedy show, of presenting Rush Limbaugh as the president of the United States and Ann Coulter as the vice president.
That had to be good.
You know, Saturday was a rather unusual session of the United States Senate.
It was called for the purpose of passing a resolution to reject President Bush's plan to send another 21,500 combat troops into Iraq, the so-called surge.
Now, the cloture motion, which was made popular by the Democrats when they were in the minority over the last couple of years, they blocked all legislation because if you didn't have 60 votes to overcome the cloture, overcome the filibuster, then you proceed with a vote on the merits of the matter at hand, then if you didn't have that 60 votes, you weren't going anywhere.
And that's what Harid told the Republicans all the way along.
You're not going to get the permanent tax cuts.
You're not going to get anything you want out of this Senate unless you've got 60 votes.
And you're not going to get 60 votes on this tough stuff.
So the Republicans thought, okay, well, that's the new rule, 60 votes.
So do you have 60 votes to condemn the president and, in effect, take the enemy's side in this war?
They didn't.
They had 56, which is dangerously close.
56 to 34 was the vote.
So the debate could not begin.
Seven Republicans did vote with the Democrats.
They are, are you making notes?
Senators John Warner of Virginia, Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Gordon Smith of Oregon, and Susan Collins and Olympia Snow of Maine.
Only Coleman and Collins had previously sided with the Democrats, so the rest of them coming over was, well, was disappointing.
Joe Lieberman stood with the filibuster and voted against cloture.
A number of people were not there to vote, including John McCain, who said he would have voted with the president on this.
Now, of course, this Senate blocking now brings up more pressure because the House, of course, did pass this resolution, the House approving a resolution, 92 words, saying no to the deployment of more troops to Iraq, 246 to 182.
By the way, just as a parenthetical matter, I think you should know the Republicans because there weren't many who voted with the Democrats against the surge, against the idea of winning the war, against the idea of giving the Iraqis one last chance here to put this thing together.
So here are their names, and I apologize for taking precious broadcast time, but I think you ought to know whether or not your congressmen turned against the president in the middle of a war after voting for the authorization to conduct this war.
Those Congress members, there are 17, are as follows: Congressman Michael Castle of Delaware, Howard Cobble, C-O-B-L-E, Coble of North Carolina, Thomas M. Davis of Virginia, Tom Davis of Virginia, I guess there's two Tom Davis, John J. Duncan Jr. of Tennessee, Philip Sheridan English of Pennsylvania.
He should recant his name as well.
Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland, Robert Inglis, South Carolina, Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois, Walter Jones, North Carolina, Richard Keller, Florida, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Stephen Lautourette of Ohio, Ronald Ernest Paul of Texas, Thomas Petrie of Wisconsin, Congressmembers James, these are all Republicans voting against the president and for the slapdown, smackdown resolution.
James Ramstead of Minnesota, Frederick Stephen Upton, and James T. Walsh of New York.
Two Democrats stood with the Republicans and stood with our country and stood with our troops in Iraq.
Two Democrats, Congressmembers Jim Marshall of Georgia and Gene Taylor of I believe Mississippi.
So there is the rundown.
Now, while our troops are in combat in the field, Congress, and this is the first time, this is really the first time that this has happened, Congress taking this position against the president and against the war.
And they're doing so thinking that, well, that was the message of the voters in the November election.
That's what people want us to do is cut and run and leave it to the Iraqis to sort things out.
I mean, it's a civil war and so forth.
Oh, and by the way, though, we do want to go to Darfur and save those people in their civil war because, well, it's different somehow.
In any event, they should pay more attention, these folks, particularly those Republicans who voted to cut and run, on the polls today.
I know what happened in November, but here are the polls today.
In just one month, George Bush has increased his approval rating by 9%.
It's one of the fastest gains outside of the period right after 9-11 of his presidency and of many presidencies.
Nine points in one month.
Now, still, he's at, what is it, 35%.
Keep in mind that Harry Truman, going into the Korean War and into the 1952 elections, had a 22% Gallup poll approval rating, 22%.
He is now revered as one of our strongest presidents at the time, 22% approval.
President Bush now has 35%.
Nixon was down in the low 20s as well after the debacle of Watergate.
But these poll numbers are a warning to the political establishment of what?
Of this.
The American people don't like the Iraq war because we haven't won yet.
A lengthy, lengthy, ever-lengthening, lengthy war of any kind is not going to be popular.
We want this to be over and over quickly and over overwhelmingly, over like the first Gulf War was.
A tremendous victory.
It's done in about 15 minutes, given time for commercials, and there you are.
It's done.
Big victory.
Put the notch on the butt of your gun and go home.
We've been now in Iraq.
Is it as long as or longer than World War II?
That is not a formula that the American people like.
Now, what are the American people searching for?
Defeat?
Which is where the Democrats are leading us.
No, I would dare to suggest that the American people want victory.
Still.
And that's what every poll is also saying, as Rush brought out here on this program.
Bush says David Broder may be set for a political comeback on the strength of what is going on today in Baghdad.
The mainstream press, the drive-by media, by the way, are apoplectic.
They have to wait for the next bomb to go off in Baghdad for there to be any news from the Iraq war, because that's the only news they report.
Our bombs going off.
So for several days, there was no news from Iraq, even though the news, of course, was.
The Sunni militants had fled.
The Sauter and his guys had fled.
The Shiite crazies had fled.
The Washington Post had to say that there was a relative quiet in Baghdad since Wednesday.
Fewer people shot in Baghdad, for instance, than in L.A. over the period of the same number of days.
I hate to bring that out for the L.A. folks.
But this is what we're facing here.
It's almost no news now out of Iraq because there's no bad news.
Now, today a couple of bombs went off.
Immediately, the pictures were there.
The headlines were there.
Ten people killed.
Two people killed.
One person has got to be killed here.
That's the only headline they know how to do.
The mainstream media, the drive-by folks, the Democrats are now invested in defeat.
It cannot go any other way, or the entire basis of their political appeal to the American people does not make sense.
And I know it's been said many times on this program.
It needs to be said many times again because you're not getting that, obviously, in the drive-by media.
That this idea of John Murtha defunding and defeating U.S. troops on the battlefield and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is the basis of the appeal of the Democratic Party to the voters of this country.
Now, I'm not sure it's as clear what the Republican appeal is, because I'd like to see it be a much more clear-cut strategy for victory, a strategy that includes, by the way, as much security on our border in the United States as we're concerned about between the border of Iraq and Iran.
And we'll get to that issue later in the program as well.
But I hope there's no doubt in your mind that as you look around you, with John Murtha, just at the moment of his triumph, he now has a stranglehold, even though he was voted against as majority leader.
He has a stranglehold on the money and plans to put conditions on funding U.S. troops, plans to say, you must have this amount of time rotated out, you must have this kind of training, this kind of, you know, all of this micromanaging that defeated us in Vietnam.
We're going to get it all again because all of those folks, do you know that nine committee chairmen in the House of Representatives were there in 74-75 when they voted to cut off funds to the South Vietnamese, even to help them to resist the North Vietnamese Army invading into the South and to resist the complete takeover of South Vietnam?
They're still there.
They're committee chairmen.
They're in charge now, and they want to replay from the same old playbook.
That's what we're fighting.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, InforRush 1-800-282-2882.
Your call next.
The leading Democrats in the Senate have, I think, just descended into semi-incoherence.
Here is the stentorian voice of Joe Biden, for example.
Senator Biden, the Democrat from Delaware, was on CBS Face the Nation talking about, now try to follow this now, talking about what his plan would do.
Make it clear that the purpose that he has troops in there is to, in fact, protect against al-Qaeda gaining chunks of territory, training the Iraqi forces, force protection for our forces.
It's not to get in the midst of a civil war.
I don't know what to say about that, except it's not a parody.
That actually was Senator Biden, and I have no comment because I don't think one is necessary with this group.
Brian in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Brian, you're on the rush show.
Go ahead.
Hey, Roger.
I got to laugh at some of your callers talking about that Fox half-hour news hour thing.
I mean, even if the most ardent right-wing websites are panning it.
I mean, it's absolutely awful.
The first was about Obama having revealed that he had done cocaine in the past.
His standing with Democrats has now dropped to an all-time low of 99%.
I mean, hit me over to head with a sledgehammer.
When you've got to have a show with a laugh track, which hasn't happened since the 70s, someone's got to tell you when laugh, it's not funny.
I mean, you guys need to stick to the comedy that you guys do, which is like Galger's brother squashing pumpkins on a stage.
I mean, that's conservative comedy.
It just doesn't work.
It's not funny.
Well, Brian, now we've got some people who think it is and you don't.
Now, let me ask you this question.
Are you going to watch it again?
No, it's awful.
I mean, you know, it's like watching a train wreck.
It really is.
I mean, you can look at any of the right-wing websites.
They're reviewing it the same way.
They were embarrassed.
I mean, I would think that you'd be embarrassed that they put it on there.
I mean, it just makes it look like you can't do comedy.
You don't do funny good.
Well, a lot of people were saying it was funny.
Barack Obama joke is funny.
I laughed when you said it.
Really?
Oh, my God.
Well, you're an easy audience.
Let me tell you.
You're a comedian's dream.
All right, Brian, thank you for your review.
Let's see what others think.
Here's Chuck in Apple Valley, California.
Chuck, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hey, this is Chuck.
Yeah, I thought it was hilarious.
In fact, it was so good we Ti-Voed the thing because I want others to see it as well.
I hope that Rush becomes a regular on that show.
Good.
How was he as president?
Did he look presidential?
In fact, it was a harbinger of things that we would like to see happen.
I think he would make a great president.
It's wonderful to see him on TV again.
Well, there you go.
The business of Ann Coulter being the vice president, I thought, was an absolute riot.
They could tighten up the writing a little bit.
The second half of the show dragged a little, but the opening with Rush was marvelous.
Well, that's great.
Well, we hope, and we know that Joel Sarnow, who's, of course, the brains behind 24, the acclaimed Series 24, is the brains behind this half-hour news hour.
So we'll see what happens with this.
I hope it gets nothing but better and nothing but more controversial.
I don't know.
I laughed when he said this thing about Obama's rating went down after the revelation he did cocaine to 99%.
Excuse me, I think that's funny.
Steve and Anderson, Indiana.
Steve, welcome to the Rush Show.
Rogers, clothes folding, stay-at-home and dad dittos.
It's good to talk to you again.
There you go.
All right, go ahead.
I want to take you back to something that you said earlier in your opening monologue about the Park Service.
Yeah, on the Lincoln Memorial, yeah.
Yeah, my wife and I were in Philadelphia in December, and we took our children to Independence Hall.
And while we were there at Independence Hall, we had a tour guide who I wrote what he said down because it was so amazing that a man in a gut federal uniform would say this.
And he said, he was talking about the development of the Declaration and the country in general.
And he said, the Enlightenment philosophies congealed to produce this idea of America and the Declaration of Independence.
And the jury's still out on whether it's a good thing or not.
And I looked at one another as if.
Yeah, as if we could not believe, ask each other if we'd heard the same thing.
I wrote it down.
The only thing the jury is out on, Steve, is whether it's a good thing for our troops.
And imagine being in battle.
Now, you're in Baghdad.
You're getting shot at.
The Congress of the United States debating on whether or not they're even going to support you.
And the number one news item, four days in a row, is Britney Spears shaving her head.
You've got to have some doubts out there.
That's all I can tell you.
Steve, thanks for the call.
We're going to take a short break on the Rush Show back after.
And we're back on the Rush Show at the EIB Network.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Rush.
One more day of recuperation, and he'll be back tomorrow to swing into this week with the Democrats in complete incoherence.
They want a resolution that supports the troops, but doesn't support the troops doing anything.
They want a resolution that maybe we can redeploy.
Carl Levin saying, well, maybe we could just be in a support position instead of a combat mission.
What would you be supporting?
Over there, one side or the other?
Does any of this make any sense?
As opposed to the fact that on the ground in Iraq, things are getting more peaceful as the surge is starting to work.
The political implications of that are going to reverberate here for the next couple of months and set the stage for what?
The most improbable of things, a Bush comeback?
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