All Episodes
Previous Next
Feb. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:15
February 19, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
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, uh the hunt continues for uh Anna Nicole Smith's baby's father.
Uh many are being questioned now, and some are providing surprising uh testimony, providing surprising Well, in fact, one uh rather prominent person here in the United States was closely questioned as to his connection to Anna Nicole Smith.
And under oath, uh this prominent person had this to say.
No, that's not that's not the one.
After that build up you played that.
No, we're talking about the Anna Nicole Smith uh uh baby father thing.
Uh and 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, uh their background, history, inclination, and so forth.
And uh under oath today, uh uh a rather famous person's denial.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
So anyway, apparently they're narrowing it uh down at least from there.
Um the uh 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 s the the most interesting story was the mummified man, uh Vincenzo Ricardi, age seventy, 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 uh 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.
Uh if I'm ten minutes late paying San Diego Gas and Electric bill, uh 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.
Uh would have driven me.
Would have been a dri and and now older man's down to what?
Four four listeners, four watchers.
Uh look, uh the uh Fox New Fox News comedy uh show uh made its debut, and I was not able to watch this.
And uh 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 1800-282-2882.
But I think this idea of starting to use the liberals' favorite um of propaganda, which is comedy, uh, against them is uh long overdue.
Russia's been doing it here for what, nearly twenty years.
Uh there's a there's a real uh strain of uh 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 uh comedy show, the uh half hour news hour.
Um, you know, if you saw it, I'd like to hear from you.
Well, this is President's Day, and uh gosh, uh most of the uh well, all the government offices around here in San Diego are closed.
Uh some of uh private sector uh folks are closed as well, but I tell you what, there was no traffic coming here uh we actually we actually had traffic on the road that the road was built to carry today, as opposed to normally where it's a 460 percent of the capacity of the roads.
Uh this uh of course is I've never understood President's Day.
I'm now I was around when it was created.
Uh wasn't it Nixon or somebody's created this thing because we no longer were going to have Lincoln's Day birthday or Washington's birthday.
We were gonna have something called President's Day, which has become somehow a uh uh we have all these little uh uh acorns of uh 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 uh I I bring up, by the way, hesitatingly bring up uh the word Lincoln uh 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 uh 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 uh National Um 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 uh around him, the site of uh the famous Martin Luther King Jr. speech and so forth.
So here is the description on the National Park Service website of the uh 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 is the description.
This reminds me of the Enola Gay situation where the bomber excuse me, I'm not doing any better than Rush in terms of my voice.
Um the bomber that uh dropped the war-winning atomic bomb on uh Hiroshima Nagasaki, I guess it was Hiroshima was the Linola Gay, uh was uh featured in the uh Smithsonian, a historic uh bomber.
And oh my goodness, the convulsions of political correctness.
How do we describe this instead of just the straightforward description that uh 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 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 uh spreading of uh democracy also occurred.
Populist parties, the transformation of the parties into mass parties from uh elitist parties as they had been before.
I don't 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, uh we're of course at the rewriting of American history uh already, uh, 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 uh analyst, Bill Arkin, I'm sorry, uh Ken Allard, uh former Army Colonel who was called upon to be a military analyst on NBC News,
resigned, citing their drift to the left at the uh PMSN MSNBC, uh and uh the leftist attacks on our military by Bill uh 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 minute men at the border uh vigilantes.
Uh not quite, but nearly.
So anyway, that's uh the latest on rewriting history on today.
Apparently the the campuses, by the way, who produce people that would uh describe the Lincoln Memorial in the way I just quoted, are apparently at it uh still.
Uh Chief uh how do I say this?
Illinois Illinois.
Uh in any event, uh the University of of Illinois and the uh Alini, I guess it's a Lina Wick at Urbana Champaign, they are getting rid of uh the chief, the ch the symbol.
And of course, they had adopted the uh Native American regalia for this chief who performs during halftime at the football and basketball games at the University of Illinois.
Uh they had adopted that as a symbol of bravery and courage and and persistence.
This was a tribute symbol.
It was not a symbol of their uh 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 uh you know, in commemoration of the Braves, right?
Of the Aline tribe.
Now they're getting rid of him.
This has happened to us in San Diego with the Monte Montezuma story.
Uh Monty was the uh, you know, the uh student uh uh representation of the Montezuma uh, you know, the Aztecs, and we are the San Diego State Aztecs, and so Monte Montezuma was and in and in correct regalia, again symbolizing strength and power and 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, uh said, Oh no, no, this is dissing the uh the memory of uh Montezuma and the Aztecs.
Well, we had cleaned up the memory of Montezuma and the Aztecs quite a bit, by the way, to adopt uh Monty because the Aztecs, of course, uh had a habit of uh getting themselves revved up for battle by taking the prisoners of war, ripping their hearts out with an obsidian blade, and eating the the still uh pulsating heart.
Uh this was the sort of civilization we were trying to.
I mean, we kind of you know, we brushed by that to adopt Mani Montezuma, and uh there was a huge, huge community backlash against these politically correct idiots uh to again reassert uh the Aztecs, Māori 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 uh uh I think a more accurate uh historically accurate uh symbol.
But uh I I can't believe the alini are actually gonna junk the chief, but what you know, what do I know?
Anyway, uh 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 won 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 uh today in the news, not only with respect to the Anna Nicole Smith uh baby paternity matter, but also with respect to um, and this is actually the real news that uh the top dems are now uh floating the idea that when Hillary is elected president, the uh uh uh 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?
Megadito's from Florida.
Hey, thanks a lot.
What's going on?
Well, my you know, that you mentioned the half-hour news hour last night.
It's the first time my wife is uh is a big lip.
She went uh to the University of Colorado with 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 edio mean, the other white meat, um Sheite happens.
It's it was classic, just classic.
We loved it.
You know, if we can get uh Libs uh laughing at this stuff, we're halfway home, Joe.
This is uh 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, uh is it Indiana?
Br uh 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 Fox quick.
And I just saw Ann's last little bit about turning everybody into Christians.
But listen, that 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 Brittany 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 response.
I'm gonna have to cross that off my list.
Something as stupid as that.
And did you see that?
No, and you know what?
I missed the whole thing.
Now let's go.
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 um 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 um 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 it 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, Brittany 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 they gave him he could tie it somehow to global warming, and it was just ridiculous.
And it was funny.
This was on last night, right?
And what time was it on this hour?
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.
I and again, I've uh didn't get to see it.
I was hard-pressed uh 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?
Make it ditto.
Good.
Thanks.
Listen, Tracy is adorable, but what the one thing she left out was this uh the the the routine about the uh global warming.
He was quote, a game show host slash uh activist.
And so what he said was I can give you six reasons.
The first reason is this, the second reason that 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 uh advertising business, so we knew that.
Um Rush and Anne were a hoot.
Uh the opening thing was, you know, Savvy was was the uh the opening uh bit was the uh the commentators, and there was a picture, a ghastly picture of Hillary, and it said, you know, she's elected, she's gonna have a cross section, a marvelous cabinet uh showing every face of America, angry lesbians.
Then they had a Oh, this has got to be good.
Oh, you you it was a hoot.
Of course, my husband and I are staunch conservatives, so we were we were crying.
Um they have a picture of Dennis Kucinich, and they say that he wants to bring back the fairness doctrine to to uh curtail uh the conservative talk show host.
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 wish I'd thought the HCLU was just an absolute riot.
It was wonderful, and God bless uh Joel.
All right, Linda, thanks very much.
Yeah, indeed.
I I should have DVR'd it.
I got that uh 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.
Uh ran out of the house on an appointment, came back, of course it was all over, and uh I was uh I was done and out.
So uh anyway, so I'm gonna rely on you at 1 800-282-2882.
Your favorite part of this show, and uh, should it continue, and what do you think?
Here's uh Wes in uh 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 BO Magazine.
And it was my political life and an 18-month journey.
And the things that Heath 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 it's sort of contradicting themselves.
All right, we'll take more uh comment on that, uh Wes.
I'm just glad to see humor being employed here, but you you may have a point.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Back after this.
All right, welcome back to our community forum here.
Uh this is the Rush Limbaugh program at the EIB uh at the EIB network, and uh 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 uh half hour news hour on Fox News that uh had its uh debut last night.
Again, Joel Sarno, the guy behind 24 is also the producer of this, the half-hour news hour.
Uh part of that will be up and is up now at Rush Limbaugh.com, uh Russia's part of it.
And uh I I gotta 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 uh 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 uh cloture motion, which uh 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 sixty votes to overcome the the the uh cloture, overcome the uh filibuster, uh then you uh to proceed with a vote on the on the merits of the of the matter at hand, then uh if you didn't have that sixty votes, you weren't going anywhere.
And that's what Harry Reid told the Republicans all the way along.
You're not gonna get the permanent tax cuts.
You're not going to get anything you want out of this uh out of this Senate unless you've got sixty votes.
And uh you're not gonna get sixty votes on this tough stuff.
So the Republicans thought, okay, well, that's the new rule, sixty votes.
So do you have sixty votes to uh condemn the president and in effect take the enemy's side uh in this war.
Uh they didn't.
They had fifty-six, which is dangerously close.
Fifty-six to thirty-four was the vote.
So the debate could not begin.
Seven Republicans did vote with the Democrats.
Uh they are.
Are you making notes?
Senators John Warner of Virginia, Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Arlan Spector of Pennsylvania, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Gordon Smith of Oregon, and Susan Collins and Olympia Snow of Maine.
The uh only Coleman and Collins had previously sided with the Democrats, so the rest of them coming over uh was uh uh well was disappointing.
Uh Joe Lieberman uh sta uh stood with the uh filibuster and voted against uh cloture.
A number of people were not there to vote, including John McCain, who said he would have voted uh to uh with the president on this.
Now, of course, this Senate blocking uh now brings up more pressure because the House, of course, did pass this resolution.
The House uh approving a resolution, uh 92 words saying uh 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 congressman turned against the president in the middle of a war after voting for the authorization to conduct this war.
Those uh Congress members, there are 17, um, 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 um recant his name as well.
Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland, uh, Robert Inglis, South Carolina, Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois, Walter Jones, North Carolina, Richard Keller, Florida, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Stephen La Tourette of Ohio, Ronald Ernest Paul of Texas, Thomas Petrie of Wisconsin, uh Congress members uh James, these are all Republicans voting against the President and for the uh slapdown, smackdown uh resolution.
James Ramstead of Minnesota, uh Frederick Stephen Upton, and uh 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.
Congress members Jim Marshall of Georgia and Gene Taylor of uh, I believe Mississippi.
So there is uh 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 uh that this has happened, uh 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 of the voters in the November election.
That's what people want us to do is cut and run and and uh and leave it to the uh 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.
So somehow.
Uh in any event, uh they should pay more attention, these folks, particularly those Republicans who voted to cut and run on the polls today.
I know I know what happened in November, but here are the polls today.
In just one month, George Bush has increased his approval rating by nine percent.
It's one of the fastest gains uh outside of the uh period right after 911 of his presidency and of many presidencies.
Nine points in one month.
Now still he's at uh what is it, 35 percent.
Keep in mind that uh Harry Truman going uh into the uh Korean war and into the 1952 elections uh had a 22 percent Gallup poll approval rating, 22 percent he is now revered as one of our strongest presidents uh at the time, 22 percent approval.
President Bush now has 35.
Nixon was down in the low 20s as well, after the uh debacle of uh Watergate.
But uh 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, uh given time for commercials, and there you are.
It's done.
Big victory.
Put the notch on the uh, you know, on the on the butt of your gun and go home.
Uh we've been now in Iraq, oh, 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.
Uh 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 uh 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.
Are 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 uh Sauder and his guys had fled.
Uh the Shiite uh crazies had fled.
The uh the uh Washington Post had to say that uh there was a relative quiet in Baghdad since Wednesday.
Fewer people shot in Baghdad, for instance, than in LA over the period of the same number of days.
I hate to bring that out for the uh for the LA folks.
But this is uh this is what we're facing here is 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.
Uh one person has got to be killed here.
That's the only headline they know how to do.
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 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 Mertha 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 uh be a much more clear-cut uh 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 uh later in the program as well.
But I hope there's no doubt in your mind that as you look around you, with John Mertha uh uh just at the at the at the moment of his of his uh uh triumph, he now has a stranglehold.
Even though he he was voted against as majority leader, he has a stranglehold on the uh 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 7475 when they voted to cut off funds to the South Vietnamese, even to help them to resist uh the North Vietnamese army invading uh uh into the South and to resist the complete takeover of uh South Vietnam.
They're still there.
They're committee chairman.
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, Infor Rush 1800-282-2882.
Your call next.
The uh leading Democrats in the Senate have uh I think just descended into semi-incoherence.
Here is the stentorian voice of uh Joe Biden, for example, Senator Biden, uh 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 is has troops in there is to, in fact, um 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 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 I gotta laugh at some of your callers talking about that Fox half hour news hour thing.
I mean, even though the most ardent right wing website are panning it.
I mean, it's absolutely awful.
The first was about Obama having uh revealed that he had done cocaine in the in the past.
Uh his standing with Democrats has now dropped to an all-time low of 99%.
I mean, hit me over the head with a sledgehammer.
When you gotta have a show with a land track, which hasn't happened since the 70s, someone's got to tell you in a laugh.
It's not funny.
I mean, you you guys need to stick to the comedy that you guys do, which is like Gallagher's brother squashing pumpkins on a stage.
I mean, that's conservative comedy.
You got it just doesn't work.
It's not funny.
Well, Brian, now we've got we've got some people who think it is and you don't.
Now let me ask you this question.
Are you going to are you going to are you going to watch it again?
No, it's it's awful.
I mean, you know what?
It's like watching a train wreck.
It really is.
I mean, you can look at any of the right wing websites that are viewing it the same way.
They're embarrassed.
I mean, I I would think that you'd be embarrassed that they'd 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 uh were saying it was funny.
I I laughed when you said it.
Really?
Oh my God.
Well, you're you're an easy audience, let me tell you.
You're a comedian's dream.
Uh right, Brian, thank you for your uh for your review.
Let's see what others uh think.
Here's Chuck in Apple Valley, California.
Chuck, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hi, this is Chuck.
Yeah, I thought it was hilarious.
In fact, it was so good we T vot the thing to because I want others to see it as well.
It I uh I hope that uh Rush becomes a regular on that show.
Good.
How was he as president?
Uh did he did he look presidential?
Uh absolutely harbinger of things that we would like to see happen.
I think it would make it 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.
It's a um think it they could uh tighten up the writing a little bit.
The second half of the show dragged a little, but um the opening with Rush was marvelous.
Well, that's great.
Well, we we hope uh and we know that Joe Sarnau, who's of course the the uh brains behind uh uh twenty-four, the uh the acclaimed uh series twenty-four is is the brains behind this half hour news hour, so we'll see what happens with this.
Uh I hope it gets uh nothing but better and nothing but more uh uh uh more uh controversial.
I I don't know.
I laughed when he said this thing about his uh Obama's uh rating went down after the revelation he did cocaine to 99%.
Excuse me, I think that's funny.
Uh Steve and Anderson, Indiana.
Steve, welcome to the Rush Show.
Rogers, clothes folding stay at home and dad ditos.
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 uh the park service.
Yeah, and the Lincoln Memorial, yeah.
Yeah, my wife and I were uh uh in Philadelphia in December, and we took our uh our children to uh independence.
And while we were there at Independence Hall, we had a uh tour guide who uh I wrote what he said down because it was so amazing that a man in a federal uniform would say this, and he said uh he was talking about the development of the of the Declaration and and the country pr uh 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.
My wife and I looked at one another as if what?
Yeah, as if uh we we we I mean I mean could not believe ask each other if we'd heard the same thing.
I wrote it down.
You know, you know 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 go they're even going to support you, and the number one news item, four days in a row, is Brittany 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 gonna take a short break on the Rush Show back after.
And we're back on the Rush Show at the EIB network.
Roger Hitchcock filling in for Rush Rush.
One more day of uh recuperation, and he'll be back uh tomorrow to uh swing into this week with the Democrats in complete incoherence.
Uh they want a resolution that supports the troops but doesn't support the troops doing anything.
They want a uh resolution that maybe we can redeploy.
Uh Levin uh Carl Levin saying, well, maybe we could just uh be in a support position instead of a combat mission.
What would you be supporting uh over there?
One side or the other?
Uh 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.
▲
Export Selection