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March 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 1, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, uh conversationalists.
Uh all across the fruited plain.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network.
Now remember, this is a uh a program exclusively tailored to rich Republicans, like-minded conservatives, and those who aspire to both.
We know that libs are in the audience, and we know that they go nuts each and every day in the process.
It's fun.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 and the email address rush at eIB net.com.
Little teaser here for the global warming stack today.
This is just unreal.
A former Canadian defense minister is demanding government's worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes in order to stem the tide of climate change and global warming, according to a local newspaper in Canada, the Ottawa Citizen.
I would like to see what alien technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation.
That could be a way to save our planet, said uh 83-year-old.
83-year-old Paul Hellyer.
Um alien spacecrafts uh would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he told the newspaper.
Such alien technologies could offer humanity and alternative to fossil fuels.
Uh point.
Well, I it's I know it's hard to park the things.
I mean folks.
I know what you're thinking.
You're sitting up there, well, this is ridiculous.
It's it's this is typical of the entire global warming movement.
This is not strange.
You've got to understand this.
This is not far out.
This this is this is just as credible as carbon offsets.
Makes just as much sense as carbon offsets to fire to fight global warming.
You've got to understand this.
The best way to understand is this is not strange at all when thrown into the mix of everything else these people believe.
I get a lot of calls.
I get a lot of emails from people who uh that's just a teaser for the global warming stack.
There's much more in it.
I'm stunned.
I I literally am stunned.
I shouldn't be, but I am, because this is it's so clear to me that that this whole thing is a hoax and bogus.
Uh I'm stunned that so many people have uh bought into it.
I understand the techniques, but it's frightening to me.
How many people buy this lock stock and barrel?
Uh as you know, and I've addressed this uh countless times on many previous excursions into broadcast excellence, emails pour in.
Rush, are you on XM?
Rush, are you on Sirius Satellite?
Are you making any plans to go there?
And the answer has always been it would be very difficult.
I can't do it.
I mean, I've got I've got uh 800 radio stations here, uh, as it was testified to at Congress yesterday.
I've got 800 radio stations here, and I can't cannibalize them.
They've made me who I am.
They've stuck with me for uh 18 and a half years, almost 19 now.
Uh and and to um just abandon them.
Um it it it it's it's one of these it's one of these unfortunate things.
Uh uh sometimes when you're at the top, options are limited.
Uh and uh it just the way it is.
Anyway, as you may know, there are merger discussions taking place between the two satellite companies, and uh they're gonna have to get regulatory approval in order for the merger to be approved.
And the top dog at Sirius Satellite Radio, Mel Carmazon, testified yesterday on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee, antitrust task force on competition and the future of digital music.
And Congressman Stephen Cohen, uh Democrat from Tennessee, said now, Mr. Carmerson, the only competitor you have is XM, right?
We compete with terrestrial radio as well.
So I mean, as an example, right now, uh Rush Limbaugh is on terrestrial radio.
One could argue, would we and the answer is we're not.
I mean, so I'm uh you know, I'm not discussing, not that it would be bad.
All I'm saying is that if we chose to hire Rush Limbaugh, we would be competing with terrestrial radio, because he's on the 800 radio stations.
We're not competing with XM.
That the market is too small, sir.
The if we got all of their subscribers, if we got them all, okay, the market would still not be significant enough to pay for the fixed costs of operating the business.
So the only business model that works is us to be able to get more subscribers, and the way you get more subscribers when you're dealing, particularly when you have the money now available through some synergies to be able to offer lower prices.
So um uh he uh suggesting that one of the reasons for the uh the need for the merger is uh uh not that their competition is XM, the other satellite company, but rather terrestrial radio and uh me uh being on the eight hundred stage.
Now, what did this mean?
What was he what was he saying here?
One could argue would we well the answer is we're not.
I'm not discussing, not that it would be bad.
What's he talking about there?
Mr. Snodley, you have any ideas?
One thing I'm confused, all I'm saying is that if we chose to hire Rush Limbaugh, we would be competing with terrestrial radio because he's on the 800 radio station.
But if they hired me, I wouldn't be on the 800 terrestrial radio stations.
Uh uh if if they if if they if they if they hired me, uh what do you say, Mike?
That would really do what?
They hired me, it would really screw things.
Well, I no, no, nobody gets screwed up by hiring me or partnering with me.
It doesn't it doesn't happen.
Anyway, that's that's just the latest on this uh uh but I look at you I I mention this only for this reason.
Many people uh, as I say, are frequently asking me about this, and I've I've went I've I've disgusted this in great detail in terms of the business model of it uh and and what would make it uh so difficult.
I cannot put this show on satellite at the same time it's on radio stations.
It it just why cannibalize the radio stations?
Can't do it.
But Rush, but Rush, I mean, there's some places I drive in the mountains of West Virginia I can't pick you up.
I feel bad about that.
Uh but but you know, that's not a sufficient reason to make the change.
Look at the lower universe of audience that would exist there.
Uh but he says it, he says it right here.
Market's too small.
If we got all of XM subscribers, if we got them all, the market would still not be significantly large enough to pay for the fixed costs of operating the business.
So the only business model that works is us uh to be able to get more subscribers, and the fast way to do that is to merge with uh with XM.
Well, that's uh that's anyway.
I just wanted to get this on the table and get it out there because it comes up frequently, just as even though it was just last week, we had a call from a very well spoken soldier talking to us about the circumstances in Iraq versus when he comes home and what he sees in the media.
Uh and he mentioned that he listened to the program at Iraq via podcast of my program, downloadable at Rush Limbaugh.com for subscribers.
So I said, you know, you just reminded me of something, and I take time out from uh your call.
We'll not shorten the length of time we spend with you.
So sure, go ahead.
As uh always getting emails from from people.
Why don't why aren't the parodies on the podcast?
Why isn't the music on the podcast?
And have explained this uh countless times and the explanations on the website as well.
Just got one last night.
How come no music on the podcast?
How come no parodies?
And very simple, it's a licensing issue.
We simply don't have the licensing permission to use these parodies uh and music beyond the radio program.
It's complicated.
The radio stations pay the license fee, our affiliates due.
Uh and and there's there right now it's just it's virgin territory here for additional ways of broadcasting, and we're always we're working on it and trying to find a way to get it done, but so far uh such a way has not made itself available, and that uh is the is the sole reason.
All right, let's take a brief time out.
John McCain uh informally announcing his presidential candidacy on Letterman last night, and in the process said that U.S. lives have been wasted in Iraq.
We'll come back, get started with all the rest of the day's program in uno no momento.
Yes, yes, yes, I know it.
I'm just looking for something here.
Uh Ah, here we go.
Here we go.
Let's go.
Audio sound by number five, six, and seven.
We have John McCain last night who announced on the Letterman show.
This is informal, by the way.
He told Letterman when he decided he's going to run for president.
He'd come back and do it on his show.
Formal announcement slated for some time in April.
But this is how it went last night on the late show with David Letterman.
I am announcing that I will be a candidate for President of the United States.
Stop the tape!
Who in the hell didn't know this?
Would you listen to this dumb idiot audience on the Letterman show?
I think it's big news.
Who in the world doesn't know this?
Re-Queue this to the top of the soundbite, uh, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
I don't know, folks.
I'm in a sort of a little testy mood today.
I don't know why, but my my my when when I get in these kind of moods, my sh my fuse get short when I'm confronted with idiocy.
Here we are again.
I am announcing that I will be a candidate for President of the United States.
Oh by the way, I'll be making a formal announcement in April.
So this was not the formal announcement.
This is the announcement.
You know, you drag this out as long as you can.
I see.
You know what I mean?
You don't just have one rendition.
Right.
All right.
Now keep in mind this is a comedy show that McCain appeared on last night.
And he said this about the war in Iraq.
We are where we are now.
And rather than review all the problems we had, if we withdraw early, literally every expert I know says it'll descend into chaos, sectarian violence, and even genocide.
So that's why I think when I say this may be our last chance to succeed, because Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be.
We wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, uh, which is American lives.
Uh now the what's what's interesting about that, aside from just the audacity of the statement that we have uh wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, uh American lives, hours after McCain said this, uh a Democrat National Committee called on McCain to take back the wasted lives remark.
Now stop and think of that for a the Democrat Party, which is out there basically saying the same thing, and a couple candidates they don't know Obama used the exact word and did a big fast backtrack.
The Democrats out there pretty much that that's the basis of their policy on pulling us out of there are demanding that McCain take back the wasted lives remark.
The uh the statement from Karen Finney, a DNC spokeswoman, Senator McCain should apologize immediately for his callous comments.
How is it that John McCain now believes American lives are being wasted, yet he so stubbornly supports the president's plan to escalate the war in Iraq and put more American lives in harm's way.
Uh in uh in February, uh, which was just a day ago, uh Obama described the lives of troops in Iraq as having been wasted, but then later said he regretted the comment.
We ended up launching a war that uh should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and on which we now spend 400 billion dollars and uh have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.
Later in an interview with a newspaper reporter, Obama said, I was actually upset with myself when I said that because I I never used that term.
That's not me.
That's not who I Yes, it is!
That's who you were.
You said it.
I love this latest excuse.
That's not me.
I I don't speak that way.
I don't use that word.
So anyway, uh McCain with a little grief.
Uh he's trailing Rudy Giuliani in the polls, and there are a lot of people stunned about this.
The uh uh uh what was it, a discussion?
Tim Russert with Matt Wauer on the Today Show are discussing this, and it it's it's uh it's got him stumped.
How how Rudy is is out polling McCain right now, Rudy Giuliani is, and they're just well, we don't expect this to be the case, and that's because they're inside the beltway types.
Uh, and they don't clearly understand what's going.
People wonder why McCain is dropping in the polls.
It's not a mystery.
Right now, last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 talking to the forehead, Paul Bagala, and uh Cooper said, Why is McCain falling behind?
It's the war.
It's all about the war.
He has been the chief cheerleader for what most Americans think has been a disastrous war in Iraq.
And he decided a year Or two ago to really yoke himself to President Bush.
And now, you know, George W. Bush about as popular as you know, Mel Gibson at Bene Brith meeting.
I mean, he just people just don't like President Bush.
And now there's John McCain being sort of the Bush-era parent.
So it's everything is Bush's fault.
It's not McCain's fault, it's Bush's fault.
If if you just you just have to chuckle at this.
Now, in a related story.
Ralph Hallow today in the Washington Times, Senator McCain, the only Republican presidential candidate who will not address the nation's premier gathering of conservatives this year, the Conservative Political Action Committee, CPAC, begins today in Washington, brings together thousands of conservative leaders, grassroots activists, and they say that uh McCain is dissed organizers by attempting to schedule a private reception for attendees after rejecting invitations to speak at the event.
William Lauterbach, executive VP of the American Conservative Union said, It was a classical McCain move, dissing us by going behind our backs.
CPAC uh convenes through Saturday at the sold-out Omni Shoreham Hotel, 34th annual CPAC, and it'll feature personal appearances and uh televised speeches by every Republican presidential candidate except Mr. McCain, according to David Keene,
who's chairman of the American Conservative Union, which uh puts on the uh CPAC convention along with Young America's Foundation and human advanced conservative activists who speculated that Mr. McCain didn't want to be seen on television pandering to Republican right wingers, but wanted to court those same activists at a reception at the same hotel.
Now, that's speculation, uh, obviously.
But what if it's true?
What does it say?
Uh i i it it's uh it it's McCain's embarrassed to be seen on TV with these guys, but he'll gladly have a private reception of the hosts uh to be able and wine and dine them.
And if uh you know as I said yesterday, one of the reasons Giuliani is doing better in the polls right now for whatever it means, uh, at this early stage, and we're we're still nine and a half months away, ten months away from the uh from the first primary.
Uh but McCain's been out there running for president, and Giuliani is running for the Republican nomination, and there is a uh uh a huge difference, and it uh and it shows Robert Novak today in a column, New York-based political, and this is this is fascinating.
New York-based political consultant Kieran Mahoney's statewide survey of probable Republican participants in the 2008 Iowa cokeye shows this support for the big three GOP candidates.
McCain at 20 and a half percent, Giuliani at 16.3%, Mitt Romney at 3.5%, and they all astonishingly trail Jim Gilmore, the former governor of Virginia, who has 31%.
And Novak says, Well, how could this be?
Because it was not a legitimate survey.
It was a push-poll.
It was a push-poll done on purpose.
Uh uh push-poll is a clandestine effort to rig a poll by telling respondents negative things about various candidates.
And Mahoney, the pollster, made no secret that his voter sample was told of liberal deviations by McCain and Giuliani and Romney, and were at the same time told of the true blue conservatism of Gilmore, who happens to be uh Mahoney's client.
Now, Mahoney is trying to prove a point uh widely accepted in Republican ranks, and that is that none of the three frontline candidates is a natural fit for the uh right wing of the Republican Party, the conservative movement.
And without question, uh no uh Novak writes.
There is a conservative void.
The question is whether Gilmore or any new candidate can fill it.
The uh most commonly mentioned void filler is not Gilmore, happens to be Newt Gingrich, who met uh with the editorial board of the New York Post yesterday.
They write about it today, and he just launched into Hillary, called her nasty, uh, talked about their war room, predicted she's go, yes, she's got the nomination.
They're gonna make mincemeat of Obama before this thing is uh is finished.
He knows exactly what Clinton Inc.
is.
Clinton Inc.
is is is a is an organization that doesn't just try to defeat enemies, they try to destroy them.
Just get them out of the way and discredit them uh forever.
Anyway, about this uh this push poll in uh in Iowa.
You call up these polsters and you push them and you say, Look, uh, okay, what do you think about Romney?
Romney's gonna sort of wavered this.
What do you think about McCain?
McCain's uh he's done this, this sort of liberal uh Giuliani.
And then you call him and say, We got this Gilmore guy, he's straight down the line conservative, and that's the guy that wins.
Um it uh it it just it it buttresses the point that I've been making, which is we're in danger here of redefining conservatism by claiming that these three front runners who really aren't conservative are the new conservatism.
There's no such thing as a new conservatism.
It is what it is.
And if somebody's not a conservative, they're not.
It's that simple.
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Here's the story on Newt.
Newt Gingrich yesterday called Senator Hillary Clinton a nasty woman who runs an endlessly ruthless campaign machine.
He made the surprising comments.
Uh after months of taking care not to trash the Democrat presidential front runner in a wide-ranging New York Post editorial board interview.
Asked whether uh Americans are ready to elect Rudy Giuliani, a leader, the questioner noted, whom Ed Koch had called a nasty man, Gingrich shot back as opposed to a nasty woman.
Gingrich added that he thinks that she'll be the nominee, cited the battle between Clinton's camp and Obama's team last week over David Geffen bashing the former first couple.
Nobody's gonna out mud the Clintons, Gingrich said.
And he added he'll decide in the coming months whether to run for the White House.
He called uh Clinton's team one of the most talented in U.S. history, but endlessly ruthless.
Says you can't beat them tactically.
They're too relentless, they're too well organized, they have too big a machine, they'll just grind you down.
If they think Obama's a real threat, they're just gonna grind him up.
Now the post writes that Gingrich's uh harsh comments about Clinton were surprising because he has complimented her abilities and worked with her last year on a healthcare initiative.
Clinton campaign spokesbabe, sorry, spokesguy, Blake Zeff, cited several instances in the last year where Gingrich had kind words for the Senator.
Before Mr. Gingrich started running for president, he repeatedly praised Senator Clinton.
Uh we we take him at his word then.
During the post session, Gingrich also dubbed Obama a great counterimage to Clinton, but said he doesn't think uh Obama can win.
If the country wants therapy, they're going to elect Obama.
Newt.
The country may want therapy.
Have you ever watched the number one television show in this country?
It's nothing but therapy.
I speak of the big O, the Oprah.
Sometimes I think this country does want therapy.
Sometimes I think this country is in therapy.
I think it thinks it's in therapy.
I think I think it's been placed in therapy.
And uh and and it it reacts to people who uh who treat them as though they Clinton treated people as exactly as if we are all in therapy.
And uh and so I you know, if the country wants therapy, Obama may have a better chance than Newt thinks.
He said the Republicans, Newt did need to nominate a Ronald Reagan type candidate, and added, I think it's not an accident that Giuliani is running as well as he is in the polls.
He called New York's evolution under Giuliani tremendous story.
It's a different city now, went on and on.
But the highlights of his uh comments had to do with the nastiness and the endlessly ruthless nature of Hillary and her campaign machine.
Greg in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
And we go to the phones, uh, the engineer, time to catch up.
Greg in Jacksonville, Florida.
Hello.
I am a longtime fan of yours, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I uh I'm a retired Navy captain, and I'm a classmate of John McCain.
At Annapolis.
At Annapolis, and while I have a lot of mixed emotions about John McCain's politics, uh, he's a good guy, and I have a feeling you've interpreted his words perhaps a little too harshly.
I think that when he said lives wasted in Iraq, I think he means that that would be the case if we were to cut and run.
Uh I don't think he's saying they're wasted to date.
All right.
Well, let's let's let's listen again together.
Uh shall we?
Let's see if we let's Grab audio soundbite number six up there at Broadcast Central.
Uh here we go.
This is McCain about the war in Iraq last night on Letterman.
We are where we are now.
And rather than review all the problems we had, if we withdraw early, literally every expert I know says it'll descend into chaos, sectarian violence, and even genocide.
So that's why I think when I say this may be our last chance to succeed, because Americans are very frustrated.
And they have every right to be.
We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, uh, which is American lives.
All right.
Uh he doesn't say we will have wasted, he says we have wasted.
Well, I think the key phrase he says, if we withdraw early.
And I sort of uh and then he puts a lot of words in there, but I I put those two things together.
If we withdraw early, we will have wasted those lives.
Well, look, you are you are free to hear, Senator McCain as you uh as you choose.
Uh as is everybody else.
Uh it's just it's it's uh you know, it's about harsh.
Uh it's a harsh word to use, and it's dangerous because it's going to lead to people assuming that uh he thinks lives have been wasted to date uh in all this.
And when he says wasted, we have wasted a lot of our most I to me as a literalist, you know, I take people literally, uh, and I I I don't I don't think he's connecting it to if we leave, he would have said we will have wasted a lot of life.
Now maybe he intended to do that, uh uh I don't know.
Well, you know, one of the things about John McCain that I think most people don't realize when they talk about uh how stupid Bush is.
You know, John McCain graduated about third from the bottom of his class.
He has a little trouble with words at times, too, I think.
Well, but see that's you know that I know that's uh he's uh he doesn't have an Harvard MBA, he doesn't have a Yale law degree as Bush does.
But see, that's that's the difference.
Uh images are are projected of people.
Uh uh and and uh Bush's image is that he can't talk.
And that's why I've always told people learn to read and write the English language the best you can because it'll convince people you're smarter than you even are.
Uh McCain does not have any an image like that.
Drive by media has never once assumed that McCain has any intellectual screw loose.
Uh and so the fact he graduated third from the bottom, you'd have a lot of people saying that means he's a real guy.
Uh because third from the bottom of Annapolis is still Annapolis.
Um look, I I um I'm as I have told everybody uh at this stage of the game, I'm not I haven't endorsed anybody and I'm not choosing anybody.
I'm just passing the information off to you right now.
It's too early.
Too many things can happen.
I'm not it it it's a look it.
You can infer, and you can infer properly, that if I was gung-ho about one of these guys, you would know it.
All right.
That's that's about as much as I'm gonna give you.
Um I'm not.
And why fake it?
You know, why why why why I w to prove I can move a candidacy forward?
No, I couldn't care less about uh about that.
So I'm I'm um uh not trying to be hard or easy on anybody here.
Uh McCain, Romney, uh Giuliani, uh whoever else might get in the mix.
Appreciate the call out there, Greg.
This is Matt Lake Forest, Illinois.
Your turn.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, it's an incredible pleasure to speak to you about a long time listener.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I want to talk to you about Begalos Comments.
One brief recommendation, and that is you've been articulate on the global warming hypocrisy of Gore.
You might consider having on an MIT professor, his name is Lindzen, and he completely debunks the entire issue of global warming man-made cause.
Okay.
I appreciate that.
Okay.
Um Bagala says, But remember, yes.
I am the expert on that.
Uh Bagala wrongly says that uh McCain is falling just because of Bush.
Giuliani has had the exact same position on the war.
He fully supports the surge, he fully supports the Iraq policy.
So he's completely wrong.
I also Wanted to mention, Rush, that if you notice guys like Bagala and the media, the ride-by media constantly claim that that uh prominent conservatives are stupid.
Bush, uh Clarence Thomas et al.
You never hear them say a prominent Democrat is stupid.
You can't name one.
Well, of course not.
I mean, that's that's but that's that's part and parcel of the uh of the arrogance and the hubris of who they are.
It's not just the conservatives are stupid.
Conservatives are as alien as aliens are.
Conservatives in the in the liberal mindset, uh, a conservative is a circus freak.
Uh and and all else descends from that.
They're not very bright and so forth.
This is the arrogance that's constantly gotten them into trouble.
I mean, hey, they said this about Reagan, Reagan, an amiable dunce.
They called Ronaldus Magnus as he ran rings around them.
Uh your your observation about Rudy, uh not suffering at all uh from the uh support of Bush uh uh as as as McCain has uh vis-a-vis Begala.
You have to understand the liberals and the Democrats have got Bush Itis.
They have Bush on the brain.
Everything is t is targeted and aimed at Bush.
Whatever goes wrong, it's Bush's fault.
And Bush isn't running anymore.
Particularly there's the the the there is not another election, which is going to be a referendum on George W. Bush, but they can't let go of it because of a personal animosity and an irrational hatred for the guy dating back to the aftermath of the Florida 2000 election.
And it's going to come back to haunt him.
Um folks, I am telling you, and I I I hate to keep saying I'm telling you, but I say this when I when I become repetitive.
It may not happen in 2008, but these people on the Democrat side of the aisle are sowing the seeds of their eventual landslide defeat.
And the more prominent they are in the majority, the more prominent they are in the media.
Uh the more likely and the more obvious to me this this this huge landslide defeat is eventually going to take place.
Uh and it is I know human nature.
Whether this country is indeed in therapy or wants therapy, I do know that at some point people are going to tire of the irrationality of these people.
They're gonna tire of the hatred.
They're gonna tire of the of the doom and gloom and the negativism.
They're gonna get fed up with it at some point, uh, particularly when it's inconsistent and when it is not accurate and when their predictions don't come true and so forth and so on.
May take some time.
These things are cyclical.
Quick timeout here.
We'll be back.
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Little lifestyle news, lifestyle stack.
Largo, Florida, the city commission there has voted to begin the process of firing.
Where's Largo?
Uh it's up, it's it's not near Keelargo.
It's uh it's somewhere up north uh somewhere.
You know where Largo, Florida is, Brian, your dad have a radio station up there.
Um I know you own the small markets in this state.
Uh City Commission voted to begin the process of firing a top official less than one week after he announced plans to pursue a sex change operation.
Well, we were gonna have our own choppedick off of me here in Florida.
There's a five to two vote on Tuesday, started a three-step process to remove city manager Steve Stanton from his job that he's held for 14 years.
He's 48.
He confirmed last week he's a transsexual with a solid reputation as a forceful and energetic leader.
He had hoped to keep his 140,000 a year gig as he underwent the gender reassignment process.
It it's just painful to know that uh seven days ago I was a good guy, and now I have no integrity, Stanton told the Commission.
My challenge here has always been that someday I was going to have this choppetick off of me.
So I'm gonna do it with a smile on my face.
Wow.
Uh just just south of Clearwell.
I knew it was up there in the Tampa area.
I knew it was up there.
Uh should have followed my own instincts.
Our first well, there may have been more, but this first I've heard about the state of Florida.
We're getting progressive down here, Mr. Snerdley.
This is cool.
Uh Rob in Greenville, South Carolina.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, I'm a second time 24-7 polar.
It's again my honor, sir.
Thank you, sir.
It's a pleasure to have you with us.
So I have a quick question, and then I'd like to play you a compliment on your website if you give me the opportunity.
By all means, I always accept compliments.
Matt a boy.
You know why?
Please.
Because I'm not good at accepting them, and I need to work on it.
They embarrass me, so I've I've been told accept every compliment you can encourage them.
Uh, so that you can learn to get better at at uh thanking people.
So I'll be glad to hear the compliment.
Well, good.
Well, my question, and I'll be happy to pay it.
My question is this.
If, or more likely when, John McCain begins to realize that he might be falling off the presidential map, and given his personality, can you foresee him having one of those very public Howard Dean moments?
Why are you asking me this?
Uh because I fear for the man.
I anticipate a blowup.
You're asking me basically if I think somewhere down the line McCain's going to implode.
Yes, sir.
As though I'm an expert in this on people imploding?
No, not at all.
Uh uh why not you obviously think he might.
I mean, the thought is in your head, so you want to ask me, the guru on politics and conservatism if I agree with you.
What do you think might cause this?
Uh Rush, I actually have precedence in my question.
I I saw uh John McCain have a very bad moment in Greenville, South Carolina during the 2000 election.
And I worry that the small audience I was a part of is going to become a national audience in this election.
Why do you worry about that?
Uh you don't want him to implode?
No, I don't know.
I don't necessarily have a problem with that.
I worry that he'll take someone else with him.
Ooh.
Why who?
Like another candidate that is running ahead of him.
Well, how would that happen?
If McCain implodes, how can he take somebody else with him?
Well, rants take on their own personality.
Uh a lot of times when you go on a rant, you rant about someone else, and the media will be more than happy to feed that rant if it serves their broader purpose.
Yeah, but but uh if if McCain's imploding and he's let's say he decides to take Giuliani with him, uh, or or is is ranting on Giuliani, I don't know how that hurts Giuliani.
Um what what before we even delve into that, what what is it about McCain?
I know you said you said uh the primary of 2000, but uh uh you wouldn't you wouldn't ask me, I'm sure if I expect Giuliani to implode.
You wouldn't ask me if I expect Mitt Romney to implode, yet you're asking me if I expect McCain to implode.
So there's obviously uh as I read this, something inside you that thinks that he is going to.
So could you tell me how?
Could you give me some scenario where you see it happening and what would cause it?
Well, I I believe John McCain has uh uh is extremely is comfortable when he's in a pre-planned environment and situation.
When the environment goes off the cuff, uh I believe, and when he's challenged, I believe he's exceptionally volatile.
Well, he does have a temper.
I mean, there is that uh that that that reputation about him.
I I have told the story many a times in the past several years uh when the uh when the truth expressed what was the name of the train that came uh the straight straight straight.
Straight talk express came to South Carolina in 2000.
I was an enormous John McCain believer.
Uh I went to a public forum and uh saw him speak and uh saw the speech degrade into a rant about him being Luke Skywalker.
Uh and he was taking on the empire.
And um I never understood you people back in 2000 who thought that.
I rush it happened.
I know it did.
And I and I was in an audience and uh we were all true McCain believers when he came into South Carolina, and when his speech was over, there was an audience full of people who just sat there absolutely stunned.
We were in shock.
How good he was?
Uh no, at where he went.
Um we all kind of looked at each at each other as if to say, what in God's name did we just witness?
Well, what caused it?
I've got twenty seconds here.
No time for the compliment.
Too bad.
What caused the implosion?
Uh uh my only interpretation was that he was under attack from George Bush when he came into South Carolina.
Uh well.
You felt the pressure.
Here's the thing.
If you think he's gonna implode, if you think he's keep a sharp eye on the drive-by media.
If anything is going to cause him to implode, it would be the drive-by media uh abandoning him.
Uh I have to take a break.
Uh time's up here, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
That's too bad I didn't get to hear that guy's compliment.
Because I I do need to work on uh receiving compliments and been advised to accept as many as possible, maybe even solicit them in order to get better at it.
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