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March 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'll tell you, I'm not in a good mood today, folks, and I just want to warn you about this.
Have you seen a latest news from Forbes magazine?
153 New Billionaires, a grand total now 946 billionaires, and I'm not one of them.
Gosh, I envy those people.
It's time to raise their taxes.
Let's go, folks.
It's Friday.
Stick with us.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yes, one of the most eagerly anticipated days of the busy broadcast week, ladies and gentlemen.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program.
This is uh a unique day in the Glimmer Thursday.
We only talk about things I care about.
But on Friday, I wave that rule and open it up.
The people can talk about anything they want, whether I care about it or not.
If I don't care about it, I'll fake it.
I'll be nice.
So essentially we go to the phones, and the program is all yours.
Few hosts would take this kind of professional career risk.
I am happy to do it.
Is the telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
There is one restriction today, folks.
I am going to place one restriction on today's program.
I don't want any more of what I should be doing in addition to what I'm doing.
And not because I'm tired of hearing about it, although I am, it's because we've run the gamut on this.
Uh uh.
What do you mean?
How do I expect to be a billionaire if I don't give me that?
Billionaires don't work any harder than anybody else.
Everybody knows that.
They're just lucky.
They just happened to get in the market at the right time or inherited a bunch of money in Vit.
Don't tell me that billionaires work harder than anybody.
They're shouting at me, the IFB.
If you want to become a billionaire, you have to work harder.
I mean, do more.
Anyway, we've run we've run the gamut on that, uh, folks.
And plus, it's starting to offend me.
I mean, I'm even now getting critics.
Stop saying look at so much before you make a point.
I'll make an effort to stop saying look at so much.
Before I make a point.
Anyway, here's the number again, 800-282-288-2, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Unemployment rate in America dipped to four and a half percent.
That's 4.5 for those of you in Rio Linda last month, even as big losses of construction and factory jobs restrained overall payroll growth.
Wages grew briskly, and the U.S. uh uh citizens' average household worth net worth is skyrocket.
How can any of this be?
Why we live in the worst of times?
Why this country is in an absolute mess.
Nobody can get a job, everybody's going to Walmart, it's a mess.
The unions can't keep members.
How can this be?
How can the unemployment rate drop to four and a half percent and household net worth be skyrocketing if the economy is so rotten and if people are so unhappy?
And if they're so on edge, how can it be?
Anyway, we continue to tell you the good news.
Up to you to accept it and believe it, and participate in it, which you should, because you obviously are the ones uh making this happen.
Folks, the Democrat Party in both the House and the Senate is becoming a full-fledged joke.
Uh uh everywhere from from John Edwards refusing to appear on Fox because move on.org doesn't want him to, uh, to uh resolution after resolution after resolution.
What's happening in the house is an absolute joke.
It is hilarious.
Nancy Pelosi's lost control of Democrat caucus.
There are so many different caucus in the Democrats.
You got the out of a rock now caucus, you got the Stop the War Caucus, you got the Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, uh, you got the labor caucus, you got the blue dog conservative Democrats, 54 of them, and they're starting to flex their muscles.
But I want to start in the Senate because this was the subject of yesterday's morning update, and it was just uh well, today's actually did it yesterday, it ran today, and it it was hard for me to keep a straight face during this.
And if you miss the update, you have to hear this.
Uh the Senate Democrats are flexing their muscles, folks.
They're getting tough.
It's they've figured out there, the Senate Democrats have that they need to show some backbone.
Uh, and and they're gonna They're out there, they're breaking onions, and they and then they're out there to prove that they have uh onions.
Now they've come up with this uh elite strike force, Democrat elite strike force, three members, Senators John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Christopher Dodd have authored a resolution.
Now get this, vowing to punish Pakistan.
Now, Pakistan is a staunch ally of ours in the war on terror.
And the Democrats, this strike force wants to punish Pakistan if Pakistan doesn't get tougher on terrorism.
How many of you have a straight face here?
Well, it gets even better.
The Democrats are threatening to withhold delivery of 18 brand new fighter planes promised to Pakistan.
They have promised to uh threaten to block the sale of 18 more fighter planes, and further, they have promised to back out of an agreement to refurbish 30 other aircraft already in use by Pakistan's Air Force.
If Pakistan doesn't get tough on terrorism, as though the Democrats know anything about getting tough on terrorism.
Now, the leader of this elite strike force is John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
He said we must never forget the importance.
This is where I lost it during the update.
We must never forget the importance of going after the terrorists before they strike.
Now, do you know what that's called?
That's called preemption.
The preemption strategy, and the Democrats are trying to destroy George W. Bush because he used that same philosophy in Iraq.
Iraq was a preemptive strike based on all the intelligence that the world's intelligence services provided, in addition to the CIA.
So it's like a Shazam here.
The Democrats, John Kerry, we must never forget the importance of going after the terrorists before they strike.
The problem with this is they've already struck.
I'm not laughing about that.
I'm Senator Kerry, uh, 9-11, uh, 2001.
Uh think back.
Where were you?
What happened on that date?
The terrorists have already struck.
Uh, so it looks like Kerry's back in command of a Swift boat here.
The war on terror has been going on for years, and the elite strike force leader of the Senate Democrats says we must never forget the importance of going after the terrorists before they strike.
Now, despite all this, it's still momentous, folks, because here in a nutshell is the Democrat Party's strategy to win the war on terror.
Abandon the battlefield where terrorists are fighting us in Iraq, get out of there, pull out as fast as we can, instead redeploy to attack our allies, like Pakistan.
Then threaten to make Pakistan weaker by removing uh jets, not allowing jets to be delivered to them, which they have bought.
At the same time, demand that they step up their efforts to fight terrorists.
So Pakistan is being told by the Democrats, step up your effort to fight terrorists.
We got to stop the terrorists before they attack.
By the way, we're gonna pull those jets that we promised you.
We're not gonna repair the other 18 jets you've got uh and or the other 30 jets you've got.
Now, the irony here is that while they are threatening to make Pakistan weaker while demanding that Pakistan step up their efforts to fight terrorists, what are the Democrats advocating?
That the same terrorists in Iraq who who who they want Pakistan to fight, we're fleeing, we're cutting and running.
The Democrats are actually seeking defeat.
They own it, they want to pull our troops out of Iraq while telling Pakistan what to do.
I mean, this is the stuff of legend here, folks.
This kind of strategy is gonna be taught in every war college around the world, including Al-Qaeda war colleges.
I mean, this is beyond just stupidity.
This this is this is chutzpah.
And I, you know, these guys are just making all these statements for the record and so forth, and they don't know that there are people out there like me who are gonna pick up on this, analyze it, and break it down for you.
Uh, but it's just it's it is is just classic.
Now, there's a follow-up on this today.
A group of Pakistani lawmakers threatened today to halt counterterrorism cooperation with us if American military aids made conditional on their country's commitment to fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Pakistan and U.S. leaders are concerned that the link contained in a bill that has cleared the uh U.S. House could sour relations between Washington and a key ally against international terrorism.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed a milder text after strong opposition from President Bush.
Pakistan here worried that the SPAT could scupper the delivery of 18 new F 16s, an option to buy 18 more, and the refurbishing of 34 used aircraft already in the Pakistan Air Force's arsenal.
So leave it up to the Democrats once again.
They can't do enough for our enemies.
They can't they want to say this at date certainly.
I mean, even a CNN reporter yesterday had to admit that this is folly, that this plays right into the hands.
A CNN reporter, this guy Michael Ware, who been showing videos of uh of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Snipers taking shots at American troops and killing them.
Everybody understands the folly of all this.
The Democrats want to pull out of Iraq.
They want to get us out of the circumstances with the enemy at the same time telling Pakistan they better pick up the pace and stop terrorism.
Where it starts.
Now, I don't know about you.
You want to put uh Pakistan at the lead of the fight, protecting the United States?
Because that's what the Democrat strategy does.
Pull us out of Iraq, but then make sure Pakistan fights Al Qaeda and the Taliban, or they don't get any weapons to fight them.
No airplanes.
To which, by the way, we've already committed.
Uh the Washington Times has just a hilarious story today.
Party baffled by its own war plan.
Even the journalists, even the drive-by media is laughing at the Democrats on this.
We've got sound bites to illustrate coming up right after this.
Ladies and gentlemen, there was breaking news yesterday in the drive-by media excitement that was barely able to be contained with fanfare, with glee, with dramatic music.
There was breaking news.
Democrats have a new plan for defeat in Iraq.
Here's a montage.
Tonight, the battle over the war.
Congressional Democrats will try to force the president to pull combat troops out of Iraq.
The Democrats try a new tact to bring the troops home.
War plan.
Democrats draw new battle lines with President Bush, setting a deadline for withdrawing the troops.
Do Democrats finally have their act together on their plan?
A brand new Democratic plan.
Democrats finally have a plan.
No, they don't.
They don't have a plan.
They've got 17 or 18 plans.
They don't have one plan that anybody is going to get behind.
It's an absolute joke, except for the subject matter.
Washington Times today, Christina Bellantoni.
For all the fanfare surrounding the announcement of the House Democrats Iraq war plan, few members seem to understand the specifics in the bill or when it would actually bring troops home.
The confusion added a layer of comic relief to a tense debate about the factions of the Democrat Party as groups held dueling press conferences yesterday.
Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat of the Out of Iraq caucus, could hardly keep the details straight as she attempted to excoriate the plan proposed by her Democrat leaders.
We got audio coming up of this.
What they say is if in fact there is no progress that will pull out.
If they can't certify by October, by December, but if there is progress, if they're doing well, we'll stay.
Well, this would eventually get us out perhaps by March.
The latest we would get out, I guess, with another progress reporter certification would be August of 1980.
Yes.
She said 1980, come again.
Wait, August 08.
Uh, Jan Shikowski, Illinois Democrat, quickly corrected uh the lovely and gracious uh Maxine Waters, who then corrected herself.
Yes, yes, uh, August 08.
That that's how confusing it is.
Now the back and forth caused reporters to stifle laughs, but it also illustrated how few members had a part in crafting this bill.
It highlighted how it was a working document up to the moment Democrat leaders held their press conference explaining it 25 minutes later than planned.
After Miss Pelosi uh carefully detailed the Democrats suggested benchmarks and requirements for President Bush to ensure that troops are fully ready before being sent to Iraq.
Reporters peppered her with questions to try to get the point.
One reporter said to her, I'm confused.
Pelosi said, Well, okay, let's try again.
If the President cannot demonstrate that progress has been made in reaching the benchmarks, which he has established by July 1 of 2007, we began the 180-day period of redeployment begins, to be finished in 180 days.
Well, the reporters said, well, what happens between July 1st and October 1st?
Well, if the president shows that progress is being made on July 1...
Uh, say he can certify that, then we reporter said all he has to do is say progress is being made.
Well, Pelosi said, he has to certify and demonstrate that it that it has been.
If he can't, if he does that, when that takes us to October 1st, where we want to see the completion of those benchmarks.
If if that's not achieved, the 180 days begins.
And then the people just are giggling throughout the room.
So Pelosi got very exasperated.
She said, Look, no matter what, by March 2008, the redeployment begins.
White House all the while saying, Nope, we're gonna vetoed this baby.
It's never gonna get anywhere.
This this confusion, by the way, is causing a republic they peeled off some Republicans to support this whole concept, and the Republicans that they had peeled off are backing F now because this is uh it it's it's a joke.
You know, this is this is what happens when you try to please all these different factions and you let your left wing anti-war kook base uh direct uh direct you and so forth.
This this is just an absolute joke.
I mean, they go into office and they're gonna clean everything up, and we're gonna have the most ethical Congress and we're gonna do this, and now we're gonna get all this stuff done in this short amount of time.
And they're becoming a joke, even to the drive-by media press corps.
I mean, that's not gonna last, but just this one instance uh becoming a joke, added uh uh adding to yesterday's confusion the total size of the spending bill was anyone's guess.
Surely it was upward of the roughly one hundred billion dollars that most speculated as Jack Mertha rattled off a few million here and there for veterans, and as Democrats noted, increased funding for Hurricane Katrina relief in this resolution.
The appropriations committee couldn't even supply the price tag an hour after the Democrat press conference.
Other Democrats in the out of Iraq caucus were none too pleased with the plan, saying 2008 is not soon enough.
Lynn Woolsey, California Democrat, made the same 20th century goof as Mr. Obi did.
Uh she said out of Iraq caucus plan would fund, fully fund a safe, orderly withdrawal of American troops and military uh contractors by December 31st, 19, and she caught herself no, no, not nineteen, two thousand seven.
She paused again, using the gaff to reconsider.
Actually, one of troops home with her families by Christmas time.
Uh the article is priceless.
This is Christina Bellontoni in the Washington Times today.
The whole spectacle, folks, is hilarious until you stop to think about the gravity of the subject matter into which this bunch of unqualified idiots have inserted themselves.
I wonder how many of the American people actually think that 200 plus Democrats in the House of Representatives are competent and qualified and capable of lead this country's national security.
Because that's what the Democrats are trying to portray themselves as.
The leaders of national security and the defense.
We got the out of Iraq caucus.
We got the black caucus.
I wonder how many cockeye Maxine Waters is a member of and does she even remember?
These cock eye meet, how often she'd probably be in meetings twenty-four-seven.
Which might not be a bad place for her, just keep her away from the uh floor of the House.
But in order for the Democrats uh uh to have supporters, if you're a Democrat to be a Democrat today, you have to believe that the U.S. House knows more about fighting the war in Iraq than the commanders on the ground, and that passing silly resolution to withdraw forces will ensure our success and end the war on our terms.
And meanwhile, keep in mind what the elite Democrat Senate strike force is doing.
Carrie Dodd, and uh, who's the other one in the strike force, Carrie Dodd and uh doesn't matter.
Because Carrie's speaking for him, but he's out there telling us, telling Pakistan, you guys better you better start preemptive action against terrorists, because if you don't, we're pulling these jet planes away from you.
We've got to have preemptive action against a terrorist while they support pulling troops out of Iraq.
Here is Pelosi yesterday, proudly declaring that her bill has for the first time a date certain for defeat in Iraq.
There are dates certain here for the first time in the Congress for the redeployment of our troops out of the podium there with her little piece of paper.
And then Dingy Harry spoke to the press a portion of his announcement.
Iraq must take responsibility for its own future, and our troops should begin to come home.
That's why today I'm introducing a joint resolution calling for the president's change course and bring stability to Iraq by beginning a phased redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq no later than a hundred and twenty days from enactment of the resolution, with the goal of redeploying combat forces from Iraq by the end of March of next year.
So once again, Senate Democrats, get us out of Iraq.
Make Pakistan carry the water.
fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan.
This has much more to go.
Sound bites galore.
We'll get to them after this.
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All right, here's Mitch McConnell yesterday.
This is the best soundbite of the day.
Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor exposing the Democrats for the clowns that they are.
There's sixteen of them.
There was the Biden resolution, and there was the Levin Resolution, and there was the Reed Pelosi resolution, the Mertha plan, the Biden Levin resolution, the Conrad funding cut.
And there was a waiver plan, a timeline plan, a fine gold resolution, an Obama resolution, a Clinton resolution, a Dodd resolution, a Kennedy resolution, a Feinstein resolution, a Byrd resolution, a Kerry resolution, and today would make uh number 17.
And of course, the drive-by media announcing the 17th with breaking news and big fanfare to lead the nightly newscast like oh, they're just excited as they get Democrats own defeat, Democrats gonna get us out of a rock.
White House uh is gonna veto all this.
They don't have unity on any of this in the House or the Senate.
And uh keep in mind, McConnell knows he's the most powerful man in the Senate.
Whatever the House does, if they're able to craft something and cobble it together, the Senate will uh will will tear it apart as this the uh dingy Harry doesn't have the votes here.
And I think uh, and I don't know if the Democrats are deluding themselves, fooling themselves, or if they really think they have a chance here, but I do know I'll never forget what Schumer said.
We're just gonna paper this administration to resolution after resolution after resolution.
We are going to recreate those days back in Vietnam, and they're in the process of doing it.
The um amazing thing is that they think that this will lead them to some kind of victory when in fact, mark my words, they are sowing the seeds for an eventual huge rebuke on the part of the American people.
Landslide defeat somewhere down the uh down the line.
General David Petraeus yesterday press conference in uh in Iraq.
And uh this this bite is General Petraeus reacting to the drive-by media constantly asking him, have you won yet?
Have you won?
It's kind of like the little kid in the back seat.
Are we there yet?
Are they waiting?
They keep asking Petraeus.
Have you won yet?
Have you won yet?
Is it over?
I have been on occasion bemused by people uh saying, How's it going?
Have you won yet?
And uh the answer is we've just started.
There is a point at which uh if someone is willing to blow up himself, particularly perhaps disguise himself that and use a vest rather than a vehicle, the problem becomes very, very difficult indeed.
Uh so and this uh Petraeus, by the way, is uh earning gold stars from a lot of people, and his reputation is ascending.
Uh, said to be perhaps the smartest general in the army today, uh, wrote the manual on dealing with counterinsurgencies such as what we face in Iraq.
Now, let's move on to Maxine Waters.
I mentioned in the last half hour that we had audio sound bites.
It's always a thrill to hear from Maxine Waters, because you uh that's just a thrill.
Uh it's uh she's she's upset here.
She says the blue dog Democrats, which are the conservative Democrats, and the conservative media have tried to paint her as unintelligent.
Uh she's on the situation room last night with uh Wolf Blitzer.
The guest host was Suzanne Malvaux.
Uh and Suzanne Malvaux said, uh, who were you talking about earlier this morning?
Are those trying to paint you in a way that makes you seem unreasonable or not intelligent?
Well, uh a number of people.
Sometimes we get it from the more conservative press.
Uh sometimes there are staffers uh that are trying to whip us in line, uh, who will give those kind of stories to the press.
Sometimes members of the blue dogs, the Democrats.
Yeah, Democrats will paint us that way.
Sometimes Republicans.
So we wanted to set the record straight to say that we want to end the war, certainly.
We want our troops home.
We know that it cannot happen overnight, and so we think it should be done within a reasonable time period.
Yeah, well, here's the problem with this reasonable time period business is it's what it you know, what it's always been.
The problem with the reasonable timetable is that you're just announcing defeat.
You are j with without any kind of victory.
I can talk about these bull benchmarks all they want, but without any kind of victory, you're just signaling to the enemy that they win on a date certain.
And in fact, I was blown away when I found out about I didn't know what CNN, I was reading uh newsbusters.org, a conservative media watchdog website.
Mark Finkelstein reporting that something's happening on the ground in Iraq, something even certain representatives of the drive-by media can't deny.
Earlier this week, as newsbusters noted, NBC's Brian Williams offered some unusually positive observations.
Now comes this eye-opening exchange from earlier this afternoon.
This is posted uh yesterday, on CNN International between the host Jim Clancy and correspondent Michael Ware reporting from Iraq.
Clancy said Democrats are pressing for a deadline, be it at the end of 2007 or 2008 to bring all the troops home.
How's that gonna affect General Petraeus, the Iraqi government, and the Iraqis themselves?
And it was Michael Ware, the CNN reporter, and of course a lefty.
Well, Jim, certainly in terms of the Iraqis and the war that's being fought in the streets of the deserts of this country.
I mean, what's happening over here, what the Democrats are saying about timetables may as well be happening on the planet Pluto for all that it counts to the bloodshed and endless combat that we're seeing day in, day out.
All that it does, anyone setting time frames like that without real preconditions, anyone trying to put artificial deadlines upon this conflict is only aiding the enemies, so-called of America, Al Qaeda and Iran.
Uh but in terms of the broader strategic framework, this uh the deadline artificial only serves America's enemies.
This actually ran on CNN International yesterday, live from Iraq with a CNN reporter.
Only serve now, for those of you libs out there, and you know who you are, and you have reacted grotesquely and angrily and petulantly, when I have said that you and your party own defeat.
There is no mistaking it.
And now how you're gonna deal with one of your own drive-bys in Iraq, essentially saying the same thing.
This is not George W. Bush saying it's nobody in the White House saying it's not Scooter Libby saying it.
Uh uh, it's it's not Dick Cheney saying it.
It is it's it's and then this Pelosi got really upset when Cheney said this.
Cheney essentially said the same thing.
In terms of the broader strategic framework, it serves only America's enemies.
Fits right in to the Al-Qaeda strategy.
Remember, Pelosi went nuts.
You can't say that's we're like Dill Wilton.
You can't she called the White House.
She wanted to talk to Bush.
You can't do that.
That's Brighterson tip running the mic.
You can't do it.
And of course she didn't get the president.
She talked Josh Bolton.
Little bitty babies, but now they got a drive-by or somebody on their side telling them the same thing.
Maxine Waters then denied that she is cut and run.
Says Bush is lying when he says that.
Suzanne uh Malvo, CNN to Maxine Waters.
The president essentially is calling your position, saying that this is uh means of success, a win here for Bin Laden.
The president uh uses uh all kind of language to try and intimidate and have people believe that we're just cutting and run.
Uh that somehow uh we don't know how to win, that we are not willing to fight terrorism, so we're accustomed to all of those kind of sound bites that don't really mean anything.
The fact of the matter is the president misled us.
We thought we were going because this country was at risk.
Uh that somehow we were fighting terrorism, only to find out there were no weapons of mass destruction, and that Saddam Hussein was a bluffer, and that he did not have us at risk at all.
Who didn't have us at risk, Saddam or President Bush?
Anyway, Bush lied about this the same way Scooter Libby leaked Valerie Plame's name.
It didn't happen.
They're living in the they're they're living this lie that is just laughable, but given what it is about, it's uh it's deadly serious.
So it's it's becoming anybody that has any sense of uh of commons, any common sense, any intelligence whatsoever knows full well that the Democrats are indeed doing the bidding of Al Qaeda.
They are siding and advancing the philosophies and strategies of America's enemies, particularly Al Qaeda and the insurgency in Iraq.
There's no doubt about this.
Democrats own defeat.
Back after this.
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Snerdley handed me a news story today, and it is it's kind of funny.
He put a couple notes on here, and I I I would disagree with one of the notes that uh that you wrote on this on this story.
It's an AP story.
It's entitled War Protests.
And basically the headline ought to be the Kooks Revolt.
Some opponents of the Iraq War are taking their protest straight to Congress, staging occupations in lawmakers' offices on Capitol Hill and in their home communities.
Uh Representative Rahm Emanuel's office in Chicago was targeted on Thursday.
A day earlier, protesters were headed off before getting into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco.
In a video posted on the internet site YouTube, a Democrat lawmaker, uh, and this is uh who is this, Obi?
David Obey is all upset about this.
Upset that the Kooks are protesting Democrats.
So he he put a he put a video on YouTube and he see pounding his fist repeatedly into the air, complaining loudly that Democrats don't have enough votes to cut off war funding, and the protesters don't understand the debate in Congress.
That makes no sense.
It doesn't work that way, Obi said at one point, he says, We just don't have the votes.
We don't, we of course they don't have the votes.
All of this is purely symbolic.
But those kooks, those kooks, see the Democrats claimed the mandate after the after November elections, and those kooks bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
Those kooks think that they're the reason that the Democrats won the election, and those kooks don't want any of this benchmark stuff in 180 days.
They want them out yesterday.
And the Democrats can't deliver, so they're protesting Democrat offices.
And Snerdley's note says, Libs, you made the kooks.
You live with them.
I disagree with you that they made the kooks.
I've been thinking about this.
Do you remember, I guess it was Wednesday on this program.
I got a little frustrated and I do something I never do.
I did something that I've never done.
Everybody was calling here, you're not doing enough.
You need to do X, Y, and Z. You're not, you're just not doing it.
What are you doing with the power you've got?
You've got so much power.
What are you using?
And I finally, in a very restrained and controlled manner, said, What more do you want?
I gave you a Republican Congress in '94.
I gave you a Republican Senate.
I spawned an entire conservative media.
I spawned other talk shows.
I spawned blogs.
I spawned a conservative-oriented Fox News cable network.
I s I we got your Republican president 2000-2004.
And I said, if you don't believe this, where were we in 1988 when I and I alone started?
I felt bad after doing that.
All of this is true, but I think that's for others to say.
It's it's it's gratuitous when I say it about myself.
But in the process of thinking about this that night, feeling a little guilty that I had been so blatantly honest, talking about myself in a in a I mean, it's it's just it's it's unseemly to go out and shovel credit your own way.
Credit is for others to grant and give.
And I I felt bad about it, but then I I've started thinking about all of the calls to end bipartisan or to for bipartisan to end the the horrible partisanship.
And and and to and and it did why we've never been more divided, people say, and the rhetoric and the incivility of reached new laws and so forth.
And I'm thinking I'm probably responsible for that.
I think, Mr. Snurdly, I have created the kook left.
I think I have driven them insane.
I think I'm the reason the left wing blogs are going.
I think I'm the reason there is so much hatred.
Look at.
Since I started, they have done everything they can to take me down and to take me out.
They have tried their own liberal hosts and networks.
They are a laughing stop.
They are bankrupt.
They don't go anywhere.
Anyone who is anybody in other forms of showbiz wants to get into radio now because that's where they think the impact is.
From stand-up comedians to movie stars to uh ex-actresses, Jane Fonda, Hoopy Goldberg.
I mean, everybody wants to come to radio now.
And of course, radio management's only, you know, they get starstruck just like anybody else does, so they're eagle and eager to take all these no talents that have never had any radio experience and put them on.
And think they're gonna but the process here, radio has become a focus.
And the left cannot get a foothold in it.
No matter what they do.
I think that I and partially, the reason I think that I'm responsible, the kooks were far mellower when they ran the show.
You know, when the Democrats ran Congress for 40 years and they had Bill Clinton in office and so forth.
Uh and and everything was just, you know, get up.
The Republicans behave themselves by shutting up and staying silent, reducing numbers to like 190 in the House of Representatives.
Bob Michael is uh Republican leader in the House, was happy if he got to play golf with Tip O'Neill now and then.
Uh and those days are over.
Then Newt Gingrich uh came along and they won the House in 1994.
And I actually think that I and the Ribald success of this program and everything else that it has spawned has actually created the seething rage and hatred on the left.
I I I'm gonna raise my, I'm dead serious.
I think I'm responsible for it.
Now, let me uh add a caveat.
I'm not responsible for the way they speak.
They are not imitating me.
They are not copying me.
They're not saying, well, if Limbaugh doesn't, we can do it.
They are who they are.
What I have done is take away the shell of pretense.
This cocoon of pretense that they lived under, that they were the nice ones, the tolerant ones, the compassionate ones.
All the masks are gone, the camouflage is gone, the left has been exposed for what it is and who they are.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, did it.
I am I am not going to apologize.
I'm very proud of this.
I think it's very, very opportune for everybody to learn who the left is, who they are, what they are.
So I raise my hand and I claim all credit for creating the incivility on the left, the anger, the seething rage.
I know Bush has done his share of it since 2000, but it started long before that.
And I'm the one that did it.
Before me.
I mean, they were just obnoxious and uh arrogant and condescending.
But now look at them, they're going insane.
They're literally insane, many places out there, protesting their own congressman.
Pelosi's off, trying to overrun it with protests because they won't get us out of a rock.
They haven't the slightest clue the Democrats haven't the power to do it.
The Senate Democrats have zero power.
way.
I was thinking about it.
So Snurley writes his note on here.
Hey, Libs, you made these kooks.
You live with them.
They didn't.
They didn't.
I didn't.
I'm not kidding, folks.
We have words that are so heinous, they have been all but banned by the left.
The N word, the F word before Ann Coulter, that's the four letter word, the F word after Ann Coulter, the word that stands for cigarette.
The real unmentionable is the R word.
Rush.
Try that in leftist circles and see what happens.
We'll be back.
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