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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, and greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, ditto heads and rush fans all across the fruit and plain, well-known radio raconteur, general all-round good guy, and essentially harmless lovable little fuzzball, Rush Limbaugh, live behind the golden EIB microphone for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
	As it can only be done.
	We're here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	And the telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, and the uh email address rush at eIBNet.com.
	Well, tomorrow, or rather today, on the Today Show in an interview with Campbell Brown, the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, called me irrelevant.
	Yes, Dawn, he did.
	Dawn's mouth is open in the shape of a big O. Called me irrelevant.
	We will get to that and all the rest of today's program in just a moment.
	First, I want to thank all of you.
	I mean, we are being deluged with positive comments about the new website design at uh at Rushlimbaugh.com.
	There's just a couple things here that I want to mention to you about this.
	Uh for those of you who have not yet visited the site, and for those of you who are there now, the first thing is about the live ditto cam.
	Uh one of the things that uh uh, and I told you yesterday that this is not a beta.
	We're not going to use you to test uh things with a bunch of bugs in it, but one of the things that I have found is that there was not a live dittocam access button to click on uh until about ten minutes prior to the show's start, but those links were not activated until right around noon, and that's for a that that's a that's a technological reason.
	Um and if you don't refresh your browser, like if you've been logged on uh before noon, any significant time before noon, if you don't log refresh your browser, those links will not become active.
	So if you're trying to access a ditto cam right now, it is up and running, just refresh your browser and uh and you'll get it.
	Now, what we're trying to do is re build into it an auto-refresh when these links are updated each morning.
	They're not gonna be there 24-7.
	It's just gonna happen right before the program starts.
	And about half hour before the program, the daily stack of stuff link will be posted.
	Uh you can't miss it.
	It's in a bright orange banner right beneath the the new colorful header uh or header banner that uh highlights the top of the page at uh at Rushlimbaugh.com.
	Until we get this auto refresh built in for when we uh activate these links for the live ditto cam, you're gonna have to refresh your browser uh yourself.
	And I imagine some people are out there panicking, the Lincoln active, what do I do?
	What if I check the email right now, we'll probably find a significant level of panic.
	So we'll uh get this one done as quickly as we can.
	Uh some of the other features.
	I just want to briefly run through this with you.
	Um we have a new tabbed format that allows you to easily and quickly to refer to all of the content on the site, articles, audio, video, from the last week of shows in a single area.
	There's less clicking around.
	You don't have to click on archives anymore to get yesterday's show for it.
	It's right there on a tab.
	The current show and the four previous shows are all there on tabs by date.
	Click on them, and everything that was on those shows on the website will pop up for you.
	Uh there's a lot more articles uh in this new revamped version of Rush Limbaugh.com.
	The articles now cover essentially every segment of uh of my of my uh uh uh award-winning program, not just key highlights.
	And this is a big deal.
	Um there are literally two or three times as many daily articles, transcripts, references to what actually happened on the program.
	In essence, the website's now a complete online repository of each and every broadcast.
	Uh and and all of this is free to be read without a uh a membership.
	Uh and this is we I mentioned this to uh address those of you who complain about about free audio uh lack of it.
	The uh fact is that the transcripts, the virtually the entire repository of each and every broadcast is all free to read, the transcripts are.
	Um the audio and video live and on demand is now available in both Windows Media and RealForts, real player formats.
	Uh there's more real player coverage, and we added that uh to address Windows Media's lack of support for Macintosh.
	They've canceled it.
	They've uh they've pulled back on it.
	And for all of you questioning us about QuickTime, believe me, we'd love to offer QuickTime for live streaming, but the reality is that in our experience, QuickTime does a relatively poor job of handling live streaming.
	And this show streams live 15 hours a week to multiple tens of thousands of people accessing our servers.
	So if if if QuickTime is ever upgraded to be able to handle live streaming with tech support, then we will offer it.
	It's Apple.
	We do what we can, do the best we can.
	There's also a new daily free email that you can sign up for now at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	It's the Rush in a Hurry Daily Show notes.
	Within an hour of the end of the show, even as we are preparing the day's full website, we'll give you a fast read in your email box of the key topics from the program of today.
	It's free to everybody.
	And as an incentive for giving away eight 80 gig video iPods, which are specially engraved with my signature in a sweepstakes to show notes recipients over the next couple of months are going to do one a week.
	There's now a giant box on the home page with all of our major ongoing web features.
	The nap room, the Al Gore Doomsday clock, uh the only the rich pay taxes page, so on.
	It's uh it's bigger, it's more attractive, uh, and the new format means that we're gonna have more of them in the future as they spring fully formed from my fertile imagination.
	Now, the website, many people said it looks bigger.
	It is.
	And the one thing you have to remember, those of you who are using laptops or computers with small screens, you have to understand that web pages are bottomless.
	There's no end to them on the bottom.
	It ends when we decide to end the page, so keep scrolling down beyond what you see to find the full measure of the website.
	Now, the disgratificator, and I told you yesterday it was one of the last holdouts before we could activate the site yesterday.
	Big improvements there.
	Uh and do not misunderstand this small tool that is grontificator.
	It is a big key to enjoying the new website.
	In addition to changing the type on the page, both the font and the size without distorting the proportions of the rest of the page.
	It allows you to print a full article, including graphics like that.
	You can email full articles to your friends, your coworkers, and uh even those who are less enlightened than yourself.
	Even lets you keep your own address book online so you can quickly send articles to your list in the future.
	And there's something brand new with the uh uh this chronicator.
	We've added a my stack feature that lets you keep your own personal stack of stuff from articles on the website.
	You can start your own encyclopedia, if you will, create your own stack of stuff that we provide from our stack of stuff.
	Uh it's great for students, fabulous for students, battling liberal media bias and professor bias in academia.
	It's a yeah, basically your own personal memory division.
	Every article at RushLimbaugh.com that you read that inspires you that you're love that you love, just put it in your stack.
	Just click on the My Stack button and add it, and it will forever be there.
	Uh and and you can save any page that has the disgruntator in it, in your own personal favorite.
	So you never have to hunt it around uh in the future for your pa favorite pages on my site.
	I mean, whatever you've seen, if you just just put it in your stack right then and there, and you forget having to remember it all, it'll be in your stack.
	Um, we are anticipating here, of course, that many of you will have every page of the site in your own personal stack because how do you say one page is better than another?
	It's like trying to choose best of shows here at the EIB now.
	It's a real challenge.
	How do we say one was better than another?
	I mean, they're all best of, and the same thing with pages on the uh on the website.
	Um it's it's sort of like, you know, trying to trying to pick your favorite pages of my website is like trying to choose what you know which of your kids do you like best.
	Uh no parent wants to get into that.
	Uh you'll also see uh on every page a little small paragraph called Most Popular.
	And this is a list that's updated in real time of the most popular links on the website as chosen by you, not just to be viewed, but put in your stack.
	Uh it's Like a web version of uh Open Line Friday.
	Finally, we have a uh new search engine powered by Google since indexing the voluminous content of this site required a team of engineers with advanced degrees in in uh in white lab quote folks.
	This website is an encyclopedia every day.
	And you add these days all together, put them in the archives.
	We needed a brand new search engine powered by Google.
	You'll find the search engine that delivers better results and more of them if you fail to put your favorite articles in your stack.
	Uh now, here we are at the end of the opening broadcast segment, and I I wanted to go through these features with you, and we'll put it we'll what I just said will also be uh uh on the website when we update it this afternoon to reflect the contents of today's program to walk you through it.
	But I've I've run through the opening segment here the need for an obscene profit timeout, as well as my own modesty.
	I've talked enough about myself here in this brilliant site, uh prevent me from continuing.
	Uh small surprises everywhere will continue to highlight those.
	We'll be back after this break with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Today Show, calling me irrelevant.
	Yes, so welcome back.
	Music lovers and thrill seekers, Rush Linbaugh talent on lawn from God, serving humanity today simply by showing up.
	Yes, one-on-one interview today on the Today Show.
	Arnold appearing on the ta today show a lot uh lately, and every time he appears on the Today Show, he's asked about me.
	Every time he's on the Today Show, whoever it is, Matt Wauer, today it was Campbell Brown, could be Meredith Vieira, even could be Al Joker out there doing the weather.
	Uh they at 30 Rock, they they they throw something up Arnold that I have said recently.
	And it happened today.
	And he called me irrelevant.
	He said he's not my servant.
	And uh I uh I don't know how it is I can be irrelevant when every time he shows up on the Today Show, they ask him about me.
	I'm just sure he's sick and tired of hearing about it.
	He's sick and tired of getting the questions.
	The last time he asked about it, it was asked about me.
	He was very, you know, he was diplomatic.
	He said, Well, if he still smokes studies together, uh and so forth, and uh that that that would provide a bridge uh for common ground and so forth and so on.
	But here is the the the governor of the largest state acknowledging me while claiming all this time that I am irrelevant.
	They had this exchange, Campbell Brown with Governor Schwarzenegger.
	Rush Limbaugh is saying that you're not really a Republican.
	You're a Democrat pretending to be a Republican.
	Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant.
	I'm not his servant.
	I'm the people's servant of California.
	What they call me if it's a Democrat or Republican or an Ascender or a change to this and that.
	That's not my bottom line.
	This is for them to talk about.
	All right.
	Now, I could be charitable in this, and I could say when he calls me irrelevant, not irrelevant as a human being or irrelevant as a media figure or irrelevant as a conservative.
	What I say is irrelevant because he doesn't care, is what he might mean.
	That's being charitable.
	He's calling me irrelevant because he doesn't care what I say or what anybody else say.
	I'm irrelevant in terms of determining the future course of the state of California because that's his job.
	I can be charitable and take it that way.
	And uh since I'm one of good cheer and optimism, and I I basically think Arnold's a nice guy, I choose to take it that way.
	I don't think that Arnold is referring to me as irrelevant as a has been as a passerby, as uh uh human being or or what have you.
	Now I'm getting looks of doubt from Mr. Snerdley.
	Uh you have a different interpretation of this.
	Yeah.
	Well well, come on.
	Yeah, uh uh what is the Schnerdley says the question's wrong.
	What'd you say?
	Rush Limbaugh saying you're not really a Republican.
	You're well, that's true.
	But to these people in the drive-by media, Republican conservative equals the same thing.
	I have said he's not a conservative.
	And by the way, I want to remind all of you people in California, I have for the for the from the get-go.
	I have told you he was not a conservative.
	He's a good guy, but he's not a conservative.
	Is a Republican?
	There are a lot of Republicans who aren't conservatives.
	He's conservative on some things, although much fewer, as uh time has gone on.
	But folks, let me tell you why this is important.
	Uh Governor Schwarzenegger ran for office as a conservative after the recall of uh of the dry and dull Gray Davis.
	Uh and he was the subject of many hit pieces in the drive-by media out there the LA Times trying to destroy him with all these womanizing stories and so forth, and it actually uh drew people to him uh because he's a likable figure and has uh you know an image and a reputation forged on celluloid in Hollywood movies.
	But here's the truth of the matter.
	Arnold Schwarzenegger has done the typical sellout move.
	He has sold out.
	And there's too many conservatives selling out these days.
	You can find them all over Washington, D.C. I want to remind you that one of the problems I've got people ask me all the time have you chosen a Republican presidential candidate?
	Not yet.
	And one of the things I'm concerned about is there's not one Reagan conservative in the bunch.
	Which is okay, but then don't tell me that there is.
	Don't tell me that candidate A, be it Giuliani or Mitt Romney or McCain or whoever else is the new Reagan.
	There isn't a Reagan out there.
	I mean, there was one Reagan.
	We can dream that there might be another.
	We can't be imprisoned by that, but conservatism is what it is.
	Conservatism is not subject to redefinition on the basis of presidential candidates who are 30% conservative, 40%, 50%, whatever percent conservative they are.
	That's not the new conservatism.
	At least it won't be for me.
	And that is my point.
	They're good guys, they're Republicans, but they're not conservative.
	I happen to be a conservative, and I happen to be oriented toward conservative triumph.
	And conservatism won't triumph if we water it down and dilute it and say that people are 60% conservative or whatever happen to be the definition of new conservative.
	Democrats would love that.
	And the drive-by media would love if we conservatives begin to give up our principles and water it down on the basis, well, there isn't another Reagan, or on the basis that we can't win as conservatives.
	That has been disproven over and over again by actual experience from Ronald Reagan forward.
	It is when Republicans do not campaign as conservatives that they lose.
	Witness November of 2006.
	Witness any previous election where Republican conservatives failed to govern as conservatives, campaign in the future as conservatives, uh they paid the price.
	And this is what Schwarzenegger is doing, and to me it's worth pointing out.
	This is this is akin to what happened in 1976 with Ford versus Reagan.
	Reagan came along, he was a conservative.
	Gerald Ford represented the country club blue blood wing of the Republican Party.
	Of course, everybody says Reagan had this 11th Commandment, thou shalt not attack another Republican.
	It didn't exist when he was campaigning against Gerald Ford.
	It was a close race.
	Of course, Ford won at that convention.
	It was in Detroit, but it all set the stage for Reagan uh uh ending up out of that convention more popular than Ford was and set up the 1980 uh landslide over Jimmy Carter.
	So what happens when when Schwarzenegger or other former conservatives sell out, they attract a certain percentage of people who will vote for them because of party identification.
	So he stays a Republican but starts talking like a liberal Democrat.
	Well, some Republicans obviously will stay with him on the basis of party loyalty, and then he can attract some liberal Democrats as well, because he's actually sounding and proposing things like we remember he this new tax increase that he proposed, he was going to call it loans.
	And there's a little blog at the LA Times.com today.
	Uh who was the author of this?
	Well, I'm not sure.
	Maybe it's Robert.
	No, yeah, it could be Robert Halliday Saladay, isn't it?
	And anyway, uh it talks about Arnold referring to me as irrelevant today.
	And then the guy writes this in recent weeks, Limbaugh has complained the Schwarzenegger's views on global warming are no different than one greed piece would say.
	When the governor called a proposed twelve billion dollar levy on hospitals, doctors, and health plans alone, because it goes back to health care.
	Limbaugh couldn't stop laughing on the air, said Schwarzenegger's rhetorical spin was no different than former President Clinton calling tax increases investments.
	And he points out here I've always been cautious about Schwarzenegger and his conservative credentials.
	I know Arnold.
	I've I've I have smoked stoggies with Arnold.
	And I like Arnold.
	He's he's an engagingly friendly, nice guy.
	But it's why I'm always say, folks, it it really when you're to position as I am, a national commentator.
	The one thing you can't do is become friends with these.
	When you become friends with them, you can't criticize your friends.
	When they become part of your uh your traveling gang or your inner circle, th they're they are insulated from your criticism, and that that's not going to help me, and that's not what I'm here for is to uh is to make friends with these people.
	So um this is this is a sellout, and I'm seeing way too many Republicans do it, and it's not good for conservatism, which is where my loyalty law is, not with the Republican Party.
	Just happens to be the Republican Party is the home base of conservatism, but the entire party, of course, is not.
	Uh I don't know what happened to Arnold.
	I I don't he obviously didn't have the leadership skills to articulate conservative principles and win over the public as Reagan did, because if he had the leadership skills to articulate conservative principles and win over the public as Reagan did, then he would have stayed conservative.
	But he felt like he was unable to do that, and so in order to get re-elected and become popular and be liked and so forth, he um he broomed the conservatism, became a liberal while calling himself a Republican.
	Back in a sec.
	Yes, a man, a living legend, a way of life, learn it, love it, live it.
	You see this story out of Washington, it's an AP story.
	About one third of the people living in the nation's capital are functioning ill functionally illiterate compared with about one-fifth nationally.
	Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps, and filling out job applications.
	The question I have is how many of these illiterates in Washington, D.C. work for the federal government?
	That's what I would like to know.
	The study by the state education agency, a quasi, a governmental orifice, created by the U.S. Department of Education to distribute federal funds for literary services, was ordered by the mayor, Anthony Williams in 2003 as part of his four-year $4 million adult literacy initiative.
	Now, I know of about a thousand literacy charities out there, adult literacy charities, and they're all over the place, and they're big in New York.
	And I want to know what is actually being done beyond the parties that these people have to raise money.
	Beyond that, what does this say about the public education system?
	You couple this with the dropout rate, one-third Washington, D.C., one-fifth nationally.
	Functionally illiterate.
	And what is this about using a bus schedule or a map?
	How about giving them C Dick Jane run after spot and whatever?
	And see if they can understand that.
	What?
	Functional ill literally, if you can't comprehend a bus schedule, read a map or fill out a job application, then you are functionally illiterate.
	Uh let's see, what else is there?
	The world's estimated four billion people who live under the poverty line represent an untapped global market worth five trillion dollars in local purchasing power, according to a new report.
	Now, is anybody upon hearing that are you struck by a coincidence or some irony, let's say?
	Let me read this again.
	The world's estimated four billion people who live under the poverty line represent an untapped global market worth five trillion dollars in local purchasing power.
	Well, I well, I mean, I mean, if if it's an untapped market, four four billion people below the poverty line, what are they rich?
	On what basis do they represent an untapped global market worth five trillion dollars in local purchasing power?
	Who's gonna give them the money to get them out of poverty?
	Because clearly, you know why there's poverty in the world, don't you?
	Mass poverty on a mass scale.
	Poverty in the U.S. is not poverty, by the way, compared to poverty around the world.
	I've seen it.
	Don't argue with me about it.
	You try to make hay, but you won't you won't succeed.
	Poverty here people here can't relate to poverty.
	I don't care who they are.
	Uh the reason there's poverty is because there's a lack of distribution of capitalism.
	Now, I'm gonna have to recreate this from memory, and I'm gonna get the numbers wrong because I don't remember them precisely, but I'm gonna make the point to you.
	Had a conversation with a friend of mine two weeks ago who said that he had been to a some sort of fundraiser function or something with somebody who uh uh works with one of the major investment houses.
	I want to say Merrill Lynch, but I I'm not sure it was Merrill Lynch.
	This guy was an expert in the energy sector.
	And he said, and it bad this story backs it up.
	He says, of the world's six and a half billion people, and this is gonna stun you.
	That's what I mean about poverty.
	In the case of the world's six and a half billion people, four and a half to five billion do not have electricity, do not have running water in their homes, do not have automobiles and all this sort of thing.
	One and a half billion people of the world's six and a half billion are using all of the energy right now.
	And China, of all the people in China right now, what's the Chinese population?
	A billion, something like that?
	They've reached it, right?
	In China, the number of people who have automobiles and electricity regularly and and in their in their homes, not where they work, but in their homes, is less than 500,000.
	But it's growing rapidly.
	His point was if we were ever able to reverse this statistic, this number of people in the world that do not have electricity and do not that's why the people where these places where these people live are on an absolute environmental disaster and mess.
	They don't have the means to clean up the messes they're making, and yet that's what the wackos tell us we should be aiming at is that kind of native lifestyle, a pristine lifestyle.
	Anyway, imagine if we did get capitalism equally distributed around the world, and the four and a half billion people without electricity, running water, automobiles, all of a sudden got it.
	Think of the demands on energy around the world.
	When I heard this, when I heard this story, you know, my first I didn't articulate it.
	My first gut reaction was, my gosh, I'm just going to become the biggest fan of socialism and dictatorship for four and a half billion people.
	I I'm kidding.
	I'm kidding, but stop and think if if if this were ever reversed, think of the pressures that there would be on energy development, usage, and this sort of thing.
	Uh well, it it yeah, it it would lead to more production.
	There's no good demand would cause there to be more production.
	There's no question that would happen.
	And we get all kinds of things changed, where we can drill for oil, where we can.
	That's when real ingenuity and uh entrepreneurship on alternative sources of fuel and alternative fuels uh would would begin.
	But it's it wouldn't happen overnight.
	If somebody were able to throw a switch, and that's what this story reminded me of it.
	The world's estimated four billion people who live under the poverty line represent an untapped global market worth five trillion in local purchases.
	Well, fine and dandy.
	But who's gonna who's gonna don't they have to be given the five trillion before they can spend it?
	Where's this gonna come from?
	They don't have it by definition, they live in poverty.
	But the point is, if it were somehow just with a snap of the fingers done overnight, there would be all kinds of pressure brought to bear on a number of the uh this is especially the energy sector uh in uh in this country.
	You'd be stunned at the number of people in this in this world who live over 500 miles to the nearest hospital.
	You you would be stunned, even in our own hemisphere.
	That's why, you know, when I hear people talk about poverty in America, I I uh catch myself because uh poverty is a relative thing relative to our gross domestic product and our per capita income.
	Yeah, we have poverty, but it's not like uh poverty around the uh world.
	Now there's a wealthier mid-tier group with per capita incomes between three thousand and twenty thousand dollars.
	That represents a global market worth twelve and a half trillion dollars, but they're better off in general living mainly in cities and are better served.
	Uh so that's that's the next group above those who are in abject and uh and dire Poverty.
	Let's go to the phones.
	People have been patiently uh waiting.
	Let's see who's first.
	The Samantha in Belleville, Michigan.
	Hi, Samantha.
	I'm glad you waited and welcome to the program.
	Hi, Russ.
	Thanks so much.
	Mega podcasting did us to you.
	Thank you.
	Um my comment is with regard to Schwarzenegger.
	And I think, you know, it's more than just him turning back on conservatives.
	I think he is looking long term.
	He's very ambitious.
	He's seen the writing on the walls, uh, and he thinks the Democrats are going to win in 08, and he is making overtures towards them to get a position in the White House.
	Uh you know, I I don't think that's I don't think that's what's going on here.
	Uh I uh I don't think he, you know, he if he wants to if well I've heard, I don't know if this is accurate, ought not speculate on it, that he's eyeing a a run for the Senate.
	Uh you know, what what position in the White House does he want?
	He can't be vice president, he can't be president because he was not born in the United States.
	He was not born a citizen.
	Right.
	Maybe, you know, wasn't there a Republican under Clinton who made uh was it the the Secretary of Defense or just a higher position, even though um not you know legal legal as the common thing?
	I I think the first part of what you're saying may have merit that he thinks the Democrats are gonna rule the ruse for the next bunch of years, and that's the side he wants to be on in order to win elections, but I don't think it has to do with serving in somebody's uh somebody's White House.
	Uh but I look you you could be right.
	Uh this you lead me, Samantha, into yet another item here in the snack of stuff.
	I found this very interesting today.
	Uh Bill Merkison, who writes out of Texas, has a column at uh Townhall.com entitled The Democrat Implosion.
	And I read this, and I had to admit I myself have predicted this.
	And I recently predicted this, within the context of the way the Democrats own defeat.
	Democrats literally own defeat in Iraq and the war on terror, and there's no escape from it now.
	They are wedded to it, they're committed to it, they cannot allow victory.
	The victory in the war on terror, victory in Iraq would seal their fate, seal their doom.
	And as such, I said I don't know if it's going to be 2008, but they are they are McGovernizing themselves all over again while thinking they're strengthening themselves, and in the process they are going, they're see sowing the seeds of their own landslide defeat somewhere down the road.
	Don't know if it's 08, don't know if it's 212, but it's gonna happen.
	Uh now I read I read Merkison's piece about the Democrat implosion, and here here's his way he opens it.
	What I mean is, can't the Democrats see?
	Don't they have eyes?
	A single set would help under the circumstances.
	What others are watching with mounting anxiety is the moral and intellectual implosion of a political party.
	And I don't mean the Republican Party for all its undoubted problems and shortcomings.
	I mean the party of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Pat Lahey, John Murthus, so on and so forth, who for two months, and we're only getting started here, folks, have kept their country in carefully engineered turmoil.
	It isn't necessary to love or just put up with the Bush administration in order to feel the flesh crawl whenever an eminent Democrat prescribes for us a Democrat official, such as the AP quoted last week, gloating in the uproar over the firings of these U.S. attorneys, saying we know from last year that Democrats can win in Republican districts where corruption is an issue.
	Wherefore bring on corruption.
	Now his point is that the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep you in as much turmoil and angst and chaos as possible because they think it is from that that they will win elections.
	Now I have to I have to be honest about this.
	All last year, all of last year, wherever I went, from the golf course to wherever it was, people said to me, Rush, you think the Republicans are gonna hold a House?
	And without hesitation, I said, Yeah.
	I said, Who's gonna vote for the Democrats?
	Who's gonna vote for a bunch of people whose defining elements are seething rage, hatred, pessimism, and doom and gloom.
	And yet, look what happened.
	I was wrong.
	I thought they were in the process of imploding, too.
	I still do.
	But I don't know, folks.
	I I I would love for Merkison to be right about this, but I yes, the country's in turmoil, and yes, the country is full of angst.
	And I know this personally because whenever I act positive and of good cheer.
	I'm deluged with people wondering how the hell I do it.
	Why am I not filled with angst?
	Well, one is I don't pay attention to the Democrats other than to comment on them.
	I don't listen to them.
	But people who watch the drive-by media, look at the more you expose yourself to this stuff every day, the the greater the chance it's going to affect you.
	And I so I don't know if the if it's the simple notion that the Democrats are trying to find a scandal everywhere.
	We know why they do this is because of Watergate.
	I mean, this is the founding uh formative event in the recent incarnation of Democrats that think the best way to win the ballot box is to is to formulate scandal after scandal after scandal.
	If Republicans continue to just bow down and kiss their feet or bend over forwards and backwards, try to placate them during all this, then I don't see where the people are going to get upset about it because the Republicans will be tantamount to admitting their guilt in this stuff when they don't fight back.
	So anyway, wanted to run that by a quick timeout.
	Back with much more after this.
	Go ahead, folks.
	Open up and admit it.
	You are addicted to this show.
	It's called EIB.
	It's an airborne phenomenon spread by casual contact, and once you get it, you are cured.
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	L. Rushbow on the EIB network.
	Andrew in my adopted hometown of Sacramento, California.
	Hi, Andrew.
	Hey, Rush Diddle.
	Thank you, sir.
	I go back to listening to you and your Diet for Peace.
	The Diet for Peace.
	Tell me, do you remember what the objective of the Diet for Peace was?
	I I I don't.
	It's uh kind of vague.
	We caught you on uh taped replay.
	Well, let me tell you what it was.
	I had toured uh an Air Force Base, I forget the name of it, in uh in Kansas.
	And uh they they were uh they had a bunch of B-2 bombers out there on the ramp.
	And they let me climb up and go in one, and it was a tight squeeze in there.
	And uh and I had dreams of being able to rush sound of the siren, sit in the pilot seat, take off and bomb Moscow.
	But I needed to lose some weight to be able to slide easily into the pilot seat.
	So that's what the Diet for Peace was.
	Well, congratulations on that effort, too.
	Good job.
	Thank you, sir.
	Well, I'm just amazed that from where back then, all you've done for this conservative movement.
	Uh here we are today where we got a Republican governor of California, so-called Republican governor.
	And he got elected as a conservative.
	Saying that you're irrelevant.
	What's uh first, how did this happen?
	Second, isn't it kind of time that we begin to see the the House of Conservatism isn't in the Republican Party.
	It may be on paper, but it isn't really.
	And we need to see this kind of uh inaction political.
	This is what I'm saying.
	Conservatism runs the risk here being redefined by people who are Republicans saying they're the next Reagan when they're not.
	No, I they're they're okay guys, but but conservatism is what it is, and conservatism is not gonna get watered down as far as I'm concerned, so that a candidate who is not a conservative can be called one.
	I'm not gonna do this.
	If if whoever the Republican nominee is not conservative, I'm not gonna say he is.
	I'm not gonna participate in this watering down the definition of conservatism.
	As for Arnold calling me irrelevant, um there's two things at work here.
	A, I think he's just fed up being asked about me every time he's on this damn show.
	Every time he's on the Today Show, they throw my name at him.
	And for the first four or five times, he was very diplomatic about it.
	Today he uh limbo's irrelevant.
	I run California, I'm the servant.
	What these people talk about is irrelevant to me.
	Or whatever.
	I also think that there could be a strategery here, because now he knows he's gonna be asked about me when he goes on the Today Show.
	He's got to figure it every time he's on there it happens.
	So maybe he came up with this, uh maybe he and Maria said, look, call Limbaugh relevant, and the people in Hollywood will love you even more.
	Because there are plenty of leftists who hate my guy.
	I will guarantee you, Schwarzenegger calls Limbaugh irrelevant, we'll be all over the left-wing blogs of the drive-by media by the end of the day.
	And then there will be seminars.
	There will be discussions on the Sunday shows and on media review shows.
	Is Limbaugh irrelevant?
	And they'll start examining the kind of impact they say Limboy used to have, but now the blogs have taken over.
	The blogs are far more.
	Schwarzenegger will be proclaimed right.
	Uh is a possibility.
	That's the pattern that these things usually take.
	Uh but as I said earlier, he's a nice guy.
	I've smoked cigars with him.
	I, you know, but I can't get you can't make friends with these people when you do what I do.
	You do you can't make you end up not criticizing your friends, and that's not that's not you can like them, but they can't become inner circle friends.
	I just think he's tired of hearing my name thrown at him on that show.
	Okay, first hour is in the can, but there are two more to go.
	Be patient.
	Fastest week in media rolls on right after this top of the hour.

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