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March 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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And here we are back for more.
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I am Rush Limbaugh, highly trained broadcast specialist, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
I just sent Roger Ailes an email.
He said, Roger, we are definitely now in a country that is divided.
There are two Americas, and there are no bridges.
And there are two Americas, folks.
And I said, Roger, you need to move Fox News to Dubai.
Follow Halloween.
And if you think about them, we might have a branch office.
I could vacation over there by one of those houses they're building on one of those islands and just relocate to Dubai and be done with it.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Special welcome to those of you watching today on the ditto cam at rushlimbaugh.com.
Before we get to Fred Thompson, this is hilarious.
Story from Haley, Idaho.
A house cat attacked its own owner and sent her to the hospital by ambulance with more than 20 bite wounds.
What caused all this?
Well, the cat, which is a black and white domestic male, went on the rampage last Wednesday when a neighbor showed up at the door with a different cat.
And the neighbor thought that the cat that she was carrying belonged to the woman who had the other cat.
And the cat went berserk.
Jeff Nevins, the assistant fire chief for Wood River Fire and Rescue, said, yeah, she went to the door and her cat went berserk.
The woman is in her 60s, was taken to the hospital with pretty serious puncture wounds.
Neither the hospital nor the fire department would provide any details to the AP or to say when she would be released.
The owner said she's going to take her cat to the shelter because it's not the first time she has been attacked by the cat.
Come on, and I get attacked by pumpkin all the time when she wants to be fed.
Well, not attacked.
I get head-butted.
And the other morning I was telling the staff here, I refuse to react to the head-butts.
I'm not going to be run by a cat.
And I love this little cat, as you know.
I melt with this little cat.
She should be 10 in August, by the way.
But she'll come in, she'll start head-butting me to wake me up before I want to get up, before I want to wake up, before I want to get out of bed.
And I'm not going to sit there and act like a slave to the cat.
That's reinforcing this kind of behavior.
So she actually pulled the covers off of me and started biting my big toes.
Never done that before.
Never pulled the covers off.
Didn't have too much to go, but it wasn't a major project.
And I still didn't budge.
I just yanked my foot away.
I said, not doing it, Punk.
You're just going to have to wait till I'm ready.
There's food in the bowl.
Go eat what's there.
I hear this meow that I just know is an obscenity directed at me.
But once brought another cat into the house, and pumpkin went berserk, I mean, at the cat, not me.
You have to do it if you're going to do this.
You have to do it with smell.
You have to bring your second cat.
If you've had one cat in the house for a while, cat thinks it owns the house.
It's the cat's house.
You just have the privilege of living there.
You bring another cat in and the cat sees it, you've got problems.
What you have to do is introduce the second cat in a different room with the door closed.
The current cat will smell it, but not be able to figure out where, go berserk in the process, might scratch up the door where the other cat is.
But after a while, when they get adjusted to the scent and everything's everything's hunky-dory, I've learned to be a pretty good cat psychiatrist dealing with punkins.
I say this really, this irritates the left.
I've learned more about dealing with women by having pumpkin than any experience in my life prior.
I said that one, and they just went batty out there.
All right, Fred Thompson.
Fox News channel yesterday with Chris Wallace, who said, are you considering running for president in 2008?
I'm giving some thought to it.
I'm going to leave the door open.
It's not really a reflection on the current field at all.
As you know, some of them are very good friends of mine.
I'm going to wait and see how it pans out and see how they do, how it develops.
I think Newt Gingrich is doing this too.
I think Newt's waiting.
These guys are going to eat themselves up with so much time before the fall even gets around.
The first primary is not for something like nine months now.
You might be interested at Fred Thompson on the issues.
He's not as well known issue-wise as perhaps Giuliani, McCain, maybe on a par with Mitt Romney.
But here's just a little summary of his position on various issues.
He's pro-life.
He believes that federal judges should overturn Roe versus Wade.
Thinks it's bad law and bad medical science.
He opposes gay marriage, but would let states decide whether to allow civil unions.
He says marriage is between a man and a woman.
Judges shouldn't be allowed to change that.
He opposes gun control.
He praised last week's 2-1 federal appeals decision overturning a long-standing handgun ban in the District of Columbia.
And his remark was basically, the court said the Constitution means what it says.
He supports the surge, the increase of troops to Iraq.
He said wars are full of mistakes.
You rectify them.
I think we're doing that now.
We've got to give it a chance to work.
He said he would pardon Scooter Libby on his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice.
He would do it now rather than waiting until all of his appeals are exhausted.
And I got a bunch of emails from people over the weekend after this had been announced from very excited.
And look at this is anecdotal.
I'm not saying this means anything.
I'm just sharing with you some of the reaction.
But I haven't gotten it about any of the others.
Closest to it would be Giuliani, I guess.
But not in the scope of what we got, what I got from people talking about Fred Thompson.
He is thought to be authoritative, a lot of presence, so forth and so on.
So it gets more and more interesting out there.
Then the prowler today at Americanspectator.org, anyone who doubts that Fred Thompson isn't the real deal needs to look at his performance on Sunday and rethink things, says a senior Republican National Committee official.
You can't watch Fred Thompson or read the transcript and wonder what the dynamic would be like with him in the race.
And he's talking about Thompson on Fox News Sunday yesterday, where it says here, unlike Governor Romney, Senator McCain, Thompson has no problem addressing where he stood on issues from abortion, gun control, and campaign finance reform.
The RNC officials, it isn't just Fred.
I mean, you see and hear Jeb Bush and you realize what the GOP field is missing.
You see those two guys and you want to vote for them.
With most of the guys in the race now, you just feel like eventually you're going to have to vote for one of them simply out of party loyalty.
This is an RNC official speaking.
Thompson doesn't have any campaign staff in place, it's not seeking support from his former colleagues in the Senate.
Although there have been published reports that Howard Baker, former Senator Howard Baker, was on Capitol Hill last week seeking support for Thompson.
But a Republican Senate leadership aide said that Thompson wouldn't do that to McCain and Brownbeck and other former colleagues.
My understanding is that some members asked Baker about what he thought Thompson was doing, and Baker answered honestly he didn't know.
He said that Baker was not pushing Thompson up there.
Did any of you happen to see meet in the press yesterday with Ted Koppel on the round table?
He was on there with Michael Duffy of Time magazine, Michael Beschloss, the noted presidential historian and the Washington Post Dana Priest.
And he said things about the war in Iraq that you will never hear anybody in the drive-by media or the Democrat Party say.
We'll play them for you when we come back.
Back to the phones we go.
People patiently waiting.
Here we go to Hagerstown, Maryland.
This Jeannie, nice to have you, Jeannie.
Welcome.
Hi, how are you doing?
It's an honor to talk to you.
Great.
Yeah, I was listening to Chris Plan on Friday evening on WBAL in Washington, D.C., and he was at that awards banquet.
And he said that when Roger Harris got up to speak, that about 50 people got up and walked out, one being Ted Kennedy.
And this is before he started talking.
And Ted Kennedy said, I've heard enough already.
Well, I'm just telling you, it's two Americas out there.
Yeah, I know.
It is really two Americas.
And this is not by any means unprecedented.
Democrats walk out of everything where there are conservatives involved.
They're just, you know, people, I think, probably react a little strangely if I use the word Stalinist, because it is a rather harsh word.
It's like calling a communist a communist.
You're really not supposed to do that because nobody wants to think they're communist among us.
This was the line back in the 80s.
Don't call them a communist.
There's other ways to persuade people.
Stalinist is a great way to describe what they are if you just go look it up.
I mean, I'll explain it to you.
They're just intolerant.
There's only one point of view.
Anything else got to be suppressed?
And in the true Stalinist days, anything that was opposed to the state could land you in prison.
Ask Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Now, we haven't reached that point yet in this country, but it is clear they're not interested.
We hear all this talk, well, there's rampant partisanship.
We must do what we can to promote civility and get away.
How can you do that when the left walks out of everything, when the left doesn't even have the confidence of its own ideas to sit and listen to opposing?
And Ailes, by the way, I read the transcript of the speech.
It didn't rip Democrats.
It was actually a very patriotic speech about the First Amendment, very supportive of journalists, and talked about the need for there to be diversity among journalists and so forth.
But it was a stand-up defense of journalism.
And 50 journalists walk out of there from AP and Reuters.
Make no mistake here, folks.
This is not about trying to get along.
This is not about building bridges anywhere.
This is not about trying to bridge the partisan divide.
There's no design.
I'm just telling you, if these people win in 2008 with the White House and they hold the House of Representatives, you're going to see one of the most blatant leftist power grabs the country has witnessed.
This is not the Democratic Party of the 60s.
It's not even the Democratic Party of the 70s.
The 60s Democrats, the war protesters, are now running the show.
When I'm talking about Democrat Party of the 60s, I'm talking about elected officials like Hubert Humphrey and LBJ and that crowd.
Go back and look at some Hubert Humphrey speeches today on the family.
You think you're listening to James Dobson, Jerry Falwell.
We played those bites many, many, many, many moons ago.
And people were shocked and stunned.
This is Barbara in Calderville, Illinois.
Thank you for calling.
You're next on the EIB network.
Well, hello, Rush.
A good welcome from Southern Illinois.
And we're just good to hear you.
We're a first-time caller, but not a first-time listener.
Great.
It's nice to have you with us.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
I'd like to comment on the Halliburton.
I'm so tired of these companies leaving our country, and I think it's about time they clamp down on this and either cut off their contracts or give them no more and make them pay back some of what they're taking out of the country.
You can't be serious.
Yes, I am.
Well, who's going to when you say they ought to be made to do this and they ought to not be able to get their contracts and they ought to have their contract, who's going to do this?
We the people.
No, we the people are not going to do that.
You know, we need to stand up for our rights.
We have a constitutional right, and it's about time we stood up protected for what we're doing.
Where does it say in the Constitution we've got a right to tell a business where it can move?
I think I have the right to voice my opinion to all of my lawmakers, which I do quite regularly.
You most certainly do, but I mean, sir, ma'am, you can voice your opinion all day long, but we don't have a constitutional right.
Well, I tell you what, all these companies that are making goods outside of the United States, cheaply sending back inferior products, I am just not for that.
They're running out to get out of paying their due share of what's due here in the country, and we're going to have to do something because these other countries are going to take us over if we aren't careful.
Those other countries don't have a chance in competition with the Democrat Party taking us over.
What's the Democrat Party?
We're supposed to be under a Republican, not a democracy, but a Republican.
Look at your Constitution, guys.
You're under a democracy, I agree, but that's not what we're guaranteed.
This is not a democracy.
It's a representative republic.
I don't agree with you.
Well, you yourself said the other day that we're under a democracy.
What do you mean you don't agree with me?
You can disagree all you like, but if you're wrong, you're wrong, and you're wrong.
You're wrong.
You are wrong about everything you've said.
It's sad.
I don't think so.
You are so misinformed.
It's no wonder the Democrats are having the success they're having when you think that they can go get Halliburton and punish him and bring him back and not let him move.
Who's they?
You obviously want the government to step in and tell Halliburton what it can and can't do and where it can and can't go.
Okay, who is the government?
Josh right.
All right, so it's we the people or the government, and it's time we stood up and placed that civics 101.
But if you keep letting these companies go out of the country, my son works at a place at Peteyville that's closing and going to Mexico.
All right.
All these people are going to be out of jobs.
I'm going to explain this to you one more time in the strict business sense.
Halliburton is a global company.
Halliburton is in the oil services business.
They don't have oil wells.
They're not part of big oil.
They don't drill for oil.
They don't bring it up.
They don't refine it.
They don't do it.
They're in the oil services business.
They do a number of things related to what big oil needs in order for them to do their business.
There just isn't much business in the oil-related industries in the United States.
And it's not because big oil has moved, Barbara.
It's because your precious government, led by leftists and Democrats, has made it impossible for them to do business here.
They cannot drill in this country.
We can't drill and end war, even though we have all these energy shortages and crises, ostensibly.
And although we're so dependent on foreign oil, we can't go get any more of our own than we already have.
China is going to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mexicans in the Gulf of Mexico just found a huge field.
We can't.
We have environmental restrictions.
We can't upset nature.
We can't do anything in this.
So Halliburton, most of their business is in Asia, where they are going like banshees to try to find more oil.
There is a worldwide need for it because the world is forever growing and more and more people are becoming accessible or having access to sources of energy that, because they've been poor and downtrodden, has been denied them.
This means that there's a need for it.
You can do all the corn and ethanol you want.
You can do all the alternatives you want.
You can do all of the windmills you want.
It's not going to satisfy the world demand for energy.
You could do nuclear power plants here and save a lot of problems, but of course the left won't let us do that either.
Ever since the movie The China Syndrome, we can't have nuclear power in this country.
So Halliburton has a business.
Most of it's in Asia.
It's much cheaper to go where your business is located if you're based in Dubai than it is if you're based in Houston.
But they're not leaving the United States.
They're still going to be a U.S. incorporated business.
They'll be paying taxes in the United States.
They'll still be subject to subpoenas from Democrats of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
They'll still be investigated and so forth, but it's a clear business decision.
They're a global concern.
I just love this.
All these leftists who've been blaming Halliburton for being part of the giant conspiracy to take over the world's oil supply, particularly in Iraq, as part of Cheney and Bush's effort to enrich their oil buddies.
Now, Halliburton's moving out, and it's you can't do that.
You're taking our jobs.
You're taking our jobs.
Most of Halliburton's jobs are overseas because that's where their business is.
There's only, I think, two or three companies in the world, including Halliburton, that do what they do.
One of them's in France, and I can't remember the name of that company.
What is it, Sean Roger?
Oh, that's right.
Sloan Rouger.
It looks like Slumberjay.
But yeah, they're one of the companies that do it.
Barbara, I hate to say this, but you need to start learning.
Get rid of all these preconceived misconceptions that you have and then stop reacting like a robot to whatever sources of information you tune to and start using your brain.
I know it's hard.
Sometimes it can be hard to think.
It takes effort.
It's much easier to react, get all angry and so forth, invent your frustrations, but start thinking.
Too many of you people out there are just absolute reactionaries based on whatever preconceptions that you have, based on the pablum that is being puked at you by the drive-by media and your precious little Democrat stalivists.
Back after this, stay with us.
Have a good time.
Look, folks, even you people who are stupid can think more than you are.
You don't have to sit out there and just be these silly little sponges for whatever incendiary rhetoric comes at you from the left.
You can think.
Everybody can think.
Well, I just got a couple of notes from DeRush.
This is a lost cause.
You're talking to the wrong people.
Stupid is stupid.
I do not have that condescending view.
Yes, there are differing degrees of intellect and so forth, but everybody can think if they're just taught to.
And everybody can be taught to be a skeptic.
Perhaps, ladies and gentlemen, I am too optimistic, but I have seen these changes take place in people that many have thought to be lost causes.
This is an Atlanta urinal constipation blog from last Friday.
It hasn't gotten widespread news yet or play.
But former U.S. Senator Zell Miller made a little news in Macon last week when he declared that abortion has contributed to the military's manpower shortage, the Social Security crisis, and the flow of illegal immigrants to the United States.
How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
Here's the brutal truth that no one dares mention.
We are too few because too many of our babies have been killed, said Zell Miller.
Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country.
They'd be filling our jobs.
They'd be paying into Social Security.
Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America.
It's unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.
And they say here on the blog, if you doubt us, check the video.
They can't believe somebody would actually say it.
They can't believe somebody would actually think it.
So if you doubt what we're reporting here, here's the video.
At the Macon Telegraph's website, the comments are made at a Tuesday night fundraiser for a local anti-abortion counseling center.
State Senator Nancy Schaefer, a Republican from Turnerville, Georgia, who has become an ideological ally of Zell Miller on the abortion issue, made a similar statement almost exactly a year ago, but backed off upon inquiries by the press.
Somehow, we don't think Miller is inclined to throw himself in reverse.
I would only have one small nitpick with former Senator Zeller over this.
How many of these 45 million children who have been aborted would be Democrats, would be the offspring of Democrats.
And as such, how many of them would have jobs?
As such, how many of them would even think of joining the military?
I know there's some Republican liberal babes in there that going out and had abortions too, but the vast majority of them are liberals.
This way, if you look at the demographics of the future, you could say liberals are aborting themselves out of the majority if current trends hold.
Everybody knows that's who's having the majority of these things.
All right, Ted Koppel.
He was on Meet the Press yesterday with Tim Russert during the roundtable with Michael Beschloss, noted presidential historian, Michael Duffy of Time magazine and the Washington Post Dana priest.
Koppel, by the way, is now with the Discovery Channel.
Speaking of the Discovery, I have to tell you something.
You people know I am a huge aficionado of high-definition television.
I have been watching some of the most amazing programming on HD Discover, Discovery HD, about the migration of birds, the shots, the video shots they get of all kinds.
It's a two-hour show, hour, 45 minutes, and birds all over the world and how they migrate.
There was something I watched last over the weekend, or maybe it was Friday night, I can't remember.
It was just, it'll come to me.
But some of the most amazing photography, and watching it in high definition is, I can't take my eyes away from it.
And there's nothing political about it.
It's just straight down the world.
Some of the stuff's from Animal Planet, which, of course, does tend to be these animal rights wackos, but still, some of this stuff was just fascinating.
The photography as well.
Anyway, that's where Koppel is working.
But he said some things on Meet the Press that you will never hear from anybody else that drive-by media or the Democrat Party.
Russert said, Ted, the meeting in Iraq, the Iranians, the Syrians, the Iraqis.
What should we think about it?
Let me tell you what, we can't even agree that we spoke to them.
The Iranians in the United States cannot even agree that they had direct talks.
I mean, when you can't even agree that you've spoken.
Anyway, here's what Koppel said.
Everyone is concerned about the United States being in the middle of a civil war inside Iraq.
But they forget about the fact that if U.S. troops were to pull out of Iraq, that civil war could become a regional war between Sunnis and Shia.
The idea of pulling out of there and letting that national civil war expand into a regional civil war, something the United States cannot allow to happen.
Stop the presses.
Have you ever heard anybody in the drive-by media?
Well, yes.
Sort of.
We had the audio soundbite from last Friday, Michael Ware, maybe it was Thursday.
Michael Ware of CNN talked about basically the same that we pull out of there, it'll be an utter disaster.
But where else do you hear that?
You don't hear from the Democrat Party who's invested in defeat.
They're doing their best.
They own it, and they want to clamp down.
They don't even want to have a mortgage on it, folks.
They want to own defeat outright.
And Ted Koppel saying you didn't pull out of there.
The United States cannot allow this to happen.
And now in this next one, you'll hear Russert and Koppel admit that Iraq is part of the war on terror.
You don't hear that from the drive-by media or the Democrats.
Iraq was unnecessary.
It was a diversion from Afghanistan.
Why we should never have gone there.
Bush lied.
People died and all that.
Russert said, Ted Koppel, you are tonight airing on the Discovery Channel a special called Our Children's Children's War, the long war, as you call it.
Call it repeatedly.
This war on terror is much more than just Iraq, and it's going to go on for a long time.
If you look back at the elements of the war against terrorism, that war was going on and has been going on for the past 24 years.
We just didn't connect the dots.
24 years ago, the precursors of Hezbollah blew up the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
That was 1983, 241 Americans killed.
In the interim between then and now, you had two attacks on the World Trade Center.
You had the blowing up of Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
You had the attempt to blow up the USS Cole.
You had the bombing of the two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
This war has already been going on for 24 years.
We were just a little bit slow to recognize it.
Should I pollute this by pointing out that a number of those incidents happened in the 90s?
Or should I just let this stand on its own?
What do you think?
The majority of these incidents happened in the 1990s.
We just weren't connecting the dots.
We weren't taking it seriously.
But I know Bill Clinton says he was obsessed with bin Laden.
He was obsessed with terrorism.
In fact, his administration, he said, was telling him he was spending too much time on it.
Anyway, you don't hear this in the drive-by media.
You don't hear this from the Democrat Party.
And here we have a couple limbo echoes in this next bite.
Russert said, Ted Koppel, what do you see in Washington?
The Democrats are making a great deal of hay out of saying we have to get out of Iraq, and indeed we do at some point or another.
But the notion that the war will be over when we pull out of Iraq and even after we pull out of Afghanistan, you heard what General Abbasid had to say.
It's not going to be over.
It's going to be a different war, but the war continues.
You know, language means something.
You said something a moment ago about it is the Democrats' goal to have all the troops out of Iraq by August of 2008.
Sometimes goals are met.
Sometimes goals are not met.
The Democrats are going to find themselves in a terribly uncomfortable position when this becomes their war.
Well, they think they can always make it Bush's war, but he's right on the money.
Words mean things.
Language means things.
The Democrats own defeat in this war.
Right now, that's just not been firmly established in people's minds because Bush remains the focal point as the commander-in-chief.
But the Democrats are doing their best.
Well, actually, they don't want to own the war.
They want Bush to get out of there before they become president.
Hillary Clinton even said that she would resent it if Bush didn't wrap this Iraq thing up by the time she is inaugurated in 2009.
I wonder she'll be seminarily upset if Bush doesn't wrap up this Iranian thing by then.
If he doesn't wrap up a North Korean thing by then, if he doesn't wrap up the Venezuelan thing by then, if he doesn't wrap up the China problems that we have by then, I wonder if she wants a clean slaves.
This is just absurd.
In the Los Angeles Times today, very strange editorial.
It's worth noting.
And if the American people understood what the Times editorial is saying, that the bill the Democrats are talking about is simply nothing more than a bill.
All of their resolutions are nothing more than part of the electoral partisan process.
And that's the point this L.A. Times editorial makes, that their resolutions and their bills really have little to do.
Although I will distance myself a bit from this, I do think the Democrats are trying to secure defeat.
I think that, but that's part of electoral partisan politics as well as they aim for the next election.
As far as the Democrats are concerned, nothing better could happen than for us to lose the war in Iraq and have the Republicans and Bush be blamed for it, meaning the Democrats get to sit there with open arms and sweep in all the voters.
But this is not about winning the war.
It's not about the military serving and doing so with valor and honor.
This is about Democrats trying to enhance their electoral chances, and the L.A. Times has figured it out.
Congress can cut funding for Iraq, but it shouldn't micromanage the war.
In fact, the title of their editorial is, Do We Really Need a General Pelosi?
Last paragraph of this editorial.
Members of Congress need to act responsibly, debating the essence of the choice the U.S. now faces, stay or go, and putting their money where their mouths are, but too many lives are at stake to allow members of Congress to play the role of Eisenhower or Lincoln.
We'll link to the editorial at rushlinblow.com.
If you care, you can read the entire thing.
Speaking of Pelosi, a few dozen peace activists marched across the Golden Gate Bridge and gathered outside the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi on Sunday, demanding that Congress stop funding the war in Iraq.
Toby Blom, a physical therapist who organized the event, said San Francisco has been against this war from the very beginning.
This is our fifth year of the war.
Nancy needs to wake up and represent San Franciscans.
Blom was holding a plate of cheese and bread and a glass of wine, and she was stopped on her way to Pelosi's front door, told the speaker would not see them.
Blom said about 10 other activists said they planned to camp outside the residence overnight.
I think these babes are from Code Pink.
Can it possibly be?
I didn't read the whole story.
At any rate, they're having a wine and cheese party.
I'm sure it was Chibli.
It might have been something else.
They're having a wine and cheese party while they're protesting.
They're walking across a Golden Gate Bridge to Pelosi's San Francisco residents.
A little long here.
Got to take a break.
Don't interrupt me.
Don't ask me anything until we come back.
All right, let's stick with the phones.
Howard Beach in New York, this is Charlie.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush, mega Dittos from the airport, baby.
I'm on vacation, and I always promised myself I was going to call in your show when I was off.
Because I actually never listen to you unless I'm driving.
But I had two questions, if you'd be so kind.
Sure, but I have a couple of questions here.
Where are you going?
Well, pretty much just to Delta and Customs and back in Valley Stream.
And it says driving 80 miles in a circle for 21 years now.
But I've only been listening to your show for 20 years.
Oh, I thought you were going on vacation somewhere.
No, I'm going to Atlantic City Thursday.
When I'm driving, you know, I'm glad you're feeling better.
And I just wanted to see the day when Kerry lost, I was picturing you in your studio, like, lighting up a cigar, and you were like the happiest man on earth.
And the next one, let's say it's like a Super Bowl.
Do you think the next Hillary losing, because she's obviously going to run, I mean, be the candidate.
Do you think her losing is bigger than Kerry losing?
Because I respect your opinion.
Yeah, it is.
Because if Mrs. Bill Clinton loses, that's the end of Clinton, Inc.
Bigger than Kerry Lee.
I mean, would you be happier?
I know you're.
Well, you know, we try to not exist here in Chattanfreude.
That is taking pleasure and satisfaction in the misery of others.
Yeah, but you're a human being.
You're 55.
I'm 47.
That was another thing.
I was going to call you on Open Line Friday and suggest that you talk to women 27% longer than your mail callers.
And what's your explanation for that, sir?
You've actually run that calculation?
You've run those numbers?
Pretty much, because you said you're right 98% of the time, so I figure you're big on numbers.
I don't know.
Maybe it's because I'm heterosexual.
Yeah, but you like talking to women.
If I was a radio show guy, I would probably enjoy getting calls from women.
Sure, we all love women here.
I mean, why not talk to them?
But you never mentioned, you know, like, because Giuliani, the country doesn't like him because he's a New Yorker, right?
And I'm a New Yorker.
No, Giuliani's leading in the polls.
He's running away with everything so far at this point.
But you never said, you know, I know you're a Republican.
I mean, you would just vote basically who's ever running on the ticket, right?
It could be like, I don't know, my mailman if he was a Republican.
What are you trying?
You're doing something with these questions.
I'm glad to answer the questions, but you're a confessed lib.
No, I am a liberal.
You don't liberate.
And I can't vote for any of these guys because they're all horrible.
Obama's a joke, and Hillary is Satan.
Not Satan, you know, but, you know, it's what the other sh the other.
Can I ask you something off the record?
Do you mind when people parody you on other radio shows?
No, no, no, no.
You don't mind that?
No, of course not.
I'd ever hear it anyway.
I don't listen to other radio shows.
There aren't any other radio shows.
This show is cool.
Do you do like all the, you know, like all the production yourself, or do you have a lot of people help you with it?
We got a staff here, three or four, that do the production organ of things.
Yeah, we do.
There's a real dawn.
This show is too big anymore.
I used to be able to do it all myself.
It's too big now for all of you.
I feel like I owe you because you give me all this entertainment for three hours and I'm never given a chance to give you back anything.
Oh, you're doing quite a lot here today.
And it's great talking to you.
There is a real Dawn.
There is a real Dawn?
My niece's name is Dawn.
And every time you talk to her, I feel like I think of my niece.
That's how this program relates.
Really?
You're just part of the family.
I love your show, Rush.
I'm glad you're feeling better.
I know you were sick for a while, and I missed calling you on your birthday.
And the main thing is, you're going to be happier if she loses than you were happier the morning Kerry lost.
Because you sounded that.
I've listened to you for four years.
That's the happiest you ever sounded at that time.
Yes, I mean, I'm not going to deny there's joy when my side wins.
Of course I'll be happy when my side.
I hate losing to those people, but the answer to the question, I don't know if I'll be happier.
I'm just telling you that the meaning will be far.
But John Kerry losing is sort of like the Democrats' throwaway candidates.
We call him Lurch, you know.
I'm 47.
It's like, that's my generation, you know.
Like, you should come up with, like, a nickname for, I don't know, for Obama or Hillary, you know, like you call like Dawn on Gilligan's Island.
We've got a nickname for Obama.
It's Odumbo.
Oh, okay.
It's sensitive to his ears.
Yeah, he doesn't like talking about that.
But anyway, as.
I love you, Rush.
I waited a long time to talk to you, but I just want to tell you, I listen to you every day.
I'm going back to work Monday.
Charlie, I've talked to you more than I talk to most women, but that's 22%.
That is love.
That's not starting any rumors.
I got to run time's up back here in just a second.
Somebody on the phone thinks that I was bodily orifice, ladies and gentlemen, for the way I treated a previous female caller.
We'll get to that caller.
And Global Warming Stack, I got to start digging into it because it is mounting up.
Be right back.
Don't go anywhere.
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