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March 30, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Wendy, how much these things cost.
You don't even know how much Right up.
Five dollars above.
Dawn is not here, uh, folks.
She's gone on a little trip, a little vacation, and Wendy is here in Dawnstead, and she's one of these incandescent or these compact fluorescent freaks.
Brought in four or five demanding we switch all of our bulbs out here.
I dealt with that earlier, no sweat.
There it is.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
We're back.
It's the end of the week.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
You know, both these women come in, they just want to take over.
Nice to be with you, folks.
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Last night I went up to Washington, as I mentioned uh on the program yesterday, flew up to Washington at Grand Hyatt, the Media Research Center's 20th annual gala, the uh dishonor awards.
It's really a it's a terrific show they put together every year.
They they uh during the year collect the most outrageous in four or five different categories, liberal media statements, uh audio sound bites, uh printed, you know, published stuff, and there's a panel of judges that uh selects the winner in each category.
I am on that panel.
And the uh dishonor awards uh go through all the nominees, and then uh the uh winner is announced, and somebody always accepts for the for the uh for the winner.
Uh it was it was hilarious last night.
The whole thing was hilarious.
Uh and uh one of the uh new things they've started is the uh the annual William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.
I, quite fittingly, was the first recipient of this award received last night.
And here's the uh here's the plaque.
I'll put it up in front of my face here so you can see through the glass.
Um I don't I have to hold this with two hands.
It's very, very heavy.
Um and I I can't zoom in, but uh we'll get pictures of this later this afternoon.
Brian will handle that with our 10 megapixel Sony uh camera here that uh that we got from Comp USA.
We'll get the pictures up there for you.
Um this uh by the way, uh I mentioned yesterday that the uh we we were gonna link to the uh Media Reseach Research Center's website on our website, so that if you wanted to watch the video of the uh whole program last night, you could.
And now we were afraid this is gonna happen, and it did happen, it always happens.
We crashed their server.
So last night very few people were actually ever to what able to watch this.
What we've done, uh, we've made audio of my acceptance speech available on the website, El Freebo.
It's on the free site, free side of the site, so anybody can listen to it.
Uh if you are a subscriber, if you're a rush member, Rush 24-7 member, we got a high quality video stream available, and it's up and it it's it's ours.
Uh our servers can handle a load.
It's about 20 minutes.
Uh they were running long last night, uh, about an hour late, and I was a last up, and uh looked out in the audience.
And people have been sitting there for a while, so I I cut my uh remarks from the scheduled hour and a half to twenty minutes.
Um it was just everybody had a just a fabulous time.
Let me give you some of the ideas of of who the winners were last night.
The overall winner uh of the absolute stupidest, dumbest, craziest quote all year uh went to Arthur Schultzberger Jr., the publisher of the New York Times.
He also won in the category God I hate America.
He won the award uh for that category.
And what he said, it was last May at a graduation address, State University of New York, uh new polts, uh apologizing to graduates.
He said, You weren't supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land.
You weren't supposed to be graduating in a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, whether it's the rights of immigrants to start a new life or the rights of gays to marry or the rights of women to choose.
You weren't supposed to be graduating into a world where oil still drove policy and environmentalists have to fight relentlessly for every gain.
You weren't, but you are, and for that I, Arnold or Arthur Schultzberger, am sorry.
Uh pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
His empire has lost 800 million dollars in the last uh year or two.
Uh and he also earned the quote of the year award for that.
Uh Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, accepted the award.
This was funny, too.
Because you know these people aren't going to show up to accept their award.
So Michael Steele uh accepted uh for Arnold or Arthur Schultzberger, the Dan Rather Memorial Award for the stupid analysis that was presented by Neil Bortz, and it went to Katie Couric for her 60 Minutes uh interview last September of Condoleezza Rice.
Couric noted that Rice rejects the notion that the U.S. is a bully imposing values on the world.
Rice said, Well, what's wrong with assistance so that people can have their full and complete right to the very liberties and freedoms we enjoy?
And Couric's reply, which won the award was, to quote my daughter, who made us the boss of them.
G. Gordon Liddy accepted for Katie Kurick.
The I'm not a political genius, but I play one on TV award was presented by the great Herman Cain, and it went to Rosie O'Donnell for saying that conservative uh Christians are just as dangerous and militant as Islamo fascists, Pat Sajak uh accepted the award for um Rosie O'Donnell and a couple other awards.
Ten Foyle hat award for crazy conspiracy theories uh went to Jack Cafferty, who suggested the Bush administration might be coordinating with Osama bin Laden, and bin Laden actually accepted.
Uh uh he sent in a tape.
Bin Laden sent it a tape accepting for Jack Cafferty last night.
And the Puppy Love Award went to Charles Gibson of ABC for his comments on Nancy Pelosi's election as speaker when he said, Look at that!
She can nurse the kid, she can balance the grandkid on the knee, and she can uh she can protect the killed children and protect the country at the same time.
Uh Ward Connorly accepted for uh for Charlie Gibson.
It was a great, great, great uh assemblage of people last night.
Everybody just had a uh a blast.
Um, one one thing about the award, the William F. Buckley Jr.
Award for media excellence.
Uh I I can't really describe what an honor this is because of the importance, and although he had no clue at the time, that Mr. Buckley uh has played in my whole career, uh, and even my life prior to the career starting.
Uh my father and William F. Buckley Jr. are the two primary inspirational figures and idols uh that inspired and motivated me throughout my life to not just I mean, I uh grew up instinctively conservative, but it was those two figures which helped me to understand why and to be able to explain it, and not just spout instincts, and in the process be able to inspire others, and that's how this works.
One inspires someone else, uh, one learns how to express what they think and feel, and that inspires others in turn.
And uh one of the things I mentioned last night in my uh little short acceptance speech was I I will never forget the first time that I I met Bill Buckley.
It was at his legendary Masonette on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
And it has to be 1990, like 17 years ago.
Uh he had invited me to attend uh an editor's meeting of National Review.
They did this once or twice a month, and they always did it.
It was a tradition, uh, at his home.
And I had my driver go around the block a couple times while I while I built up the courage to actually enter this place.
The important thing at this event, though, this this evening was how Mr. Buckley and and his editors, everybody there that night, welcomed me into the war into their world.
I mean, they had no idea who I was.
I was just some whippersnapper on the radio.
They were intrigued.
Uh and they wanted to say, What's all this about?
They were very gracious, they were very accommodating, and it was it was that night, and I uh you know, meeting your idol and having your idol interested in what you do, and and then end up being supportive and encouraging.
Uh that was it's one of the memories that I will cherish, one of the highlights of my life that I will cherish for the rest of my life.
That that was the first night that I had a sense, if you can understand this of belonging to the quote-unquote movement.
And here's one of the things that I think is is in a way a little sad as the movement has grown.
It has become more and more competitive, and new arrivals, media, new arrivals in the media and uh publishing and so forth are often viewed as threats now, or as interlopers.
Everybody is competing to be the quote unquote leader of the conservative movement, the smartest guy in the room, the brainiest guy, the the one who's inspiring all the thought.
Everybody today, or a lot of people that trying to be the uh the next William F. Buckley, and this creates jealousy and uh creates a guarded personalities and uh people who become protective of their turf and so forth.
And none of that existed when I walked into that editor's meeting, National Review at Mr. Buckley's home.
They weren't threatened, they weren't jealous, they weren't in any, they were just they wanted to find out what I was made of, who I was, and when they discovered that uh, you know, I shared the same passions and the same desires uh that uh that had formulated the founding of National Review and its ongoing efforts to spread conservatism, they welcomed me in into their into their world.
Uh and my good fortune in the timing of all that uh is something that cannot go uncommented upon.
Uh those good those people at National Review back then they were solely devoted to the advancement of their ideas and passions, and they sought to inspire everybody who shared them.
Uh that's not prevalent today.
There's and it's it's natural.
I mean, it's human nature.
All this all the uh the the ascension and the rise of the new media has created all kinds of competition.
I'm sure that you know, you uh you you dial around your radio and you hear one conservative host bash another conservative host, and there are five conservative hosts bashing somebody else, or you'll find uh print conservatives bashing media conservatives, and vice versa, and so forth.
And this only went on back then uh when somebody had strayed from the from the dynamic or strayed from the course.
Now this bashing goes on as uh more often than not as just typical jealousy and and uh turf protecting and this sort of thing.
Uh and that was all beneath uh Mr. Buckley.
Uh he didn't feel threatened by anybody joining him.
He didn't feel any, and he did everything he could to encourage me, by the way.
And he even made a you know a couple stories about me in National Review.
Those things I just don't think happened today.
I mean, they they do in in certain regard.
National Review is still very very good about that, but I mean I'm talking about movement-wide.
So I am I was highly appreciative of this award last night uh to receive the first one, uh, named after someone as uh as great and uh and important and personable.
Uh just a generally nice man, his whole family, William F. Buckley Jr.
So thanks again to Brent Bozell and everybody at the Media Research Center, everybody was there last night, because it was a hoot.
Now, the only thing is I don't know who else they're going to be able to give this award to after I got it, because who else is going to qualify?
See, just kidding.
Playing to play off my just mentioned comments about the jealousy and so forth in the in the movement.
Now there are plenty of people uh that are that are almost as qualified to receive this award, and I'm sure Bosell will find a couple of them in the next year or so.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue with uh all the rest of the program right after this.
America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all-caring, all sensing, all feeling Maha Rushy here on open line Friday at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Couple other things here, a correction uh from yesterday Where there was a Washington Post blog story that I quoted in uh illustrating a see I told you so after Tony Dungey's Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl during his uh interview on the field with Jim Nance CBS Sports after the game.
Dungey said, Yeah, it's important that Lovey Smith and I are both black.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the most important thing is that we are Christians, and we did it the Christian way, and we are both champions and so forth.
And I said, how long is it going to be where somebody raises hell about this?
The NFL has to apologize for Christianity showing up on the NFL post-game show at the Super Bowl.
Didn't take long.
Tony Dungy apparently has uh spoken at a uh convention of people in Indiana that oppose gay marriage and has agreed with their stance, and this has caused a major hubbub uh in some drive-by media circles, and the Washington Post blog yesterday took after Dungy and uh in the typical ways, and I erred in identifying the blogger.
I said that the blogger's name was uh Ben Dominich, and that was not right.
Uh uh Ben Dominic was a blogger at the post, and he got blown out shortly after doing his first couple blogs, even if he did that because he was conservative, and the Washington Post blog sphere had no desire for him to be there.
The blogger that attacked Tony Dungey was Emil Steiner.
Uh and Mr. Dominic, because of the power and influence of this program got all kinds of hate mail yesterday after my mention.
And I wanted to correct this.
Ben Dominic is a good guy.
Uh, the the emailer or the blogger at the Washington Post was somebody named Emil Steiner.
Also, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I may be forced into taking drastic action.
Listen to this.
Al Gore won pray.
He was in Oslo yesterday.
He won praise from a man with the power to change lives, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, after he gave a speech, Gore did, urging more action to fight global warming.
Ole Danbolt Majoes, if I'm pronouncing that right, said that Al Gore's speech was a very important message after hearing Al Gore, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, say the planet was under threat from a buildup of greenhouse gases mainly caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
Uh well, Gore's over there lobbying.
That's cheap.
You're not supposed to lobby for this thing.
You're supposed to have dignity.
You're supposed to sit back there and let the selection process take its course.
But there's Gore over there lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I'm not doing that.
As you know, I'm an accredited nominee this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, and I'm not over there speaking to these people about anything.
We submitted our application full of qualifications, the resume, uh, all of the uh support materials.
We're not going over there trying to influence these people uh and their and their votes.
Uh Stein Toneson, head of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo said, I have Gore as a clear favorite here for the Peace Prize.
I think the committee will be unable to resist the temptation to add their voice to concerns about global warming.
Objections include that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won only in 2002.
It may be too soon for another U.S. Democrat to win.
They're going to announce the 07 prize winner in uh in October.
Uh I d I I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this.
What in the what in the hell is global warming have to do with world peace?
I have done more for world peace to promote liberty and freedom than Al Gore has.
I know what the Nobel Peace Prize is, which is why I have been nominated.
Also, ever since I started talking about the uh this remarkable series on the Discovery Channel, Planet Earth.
Wendy, have you watched that?
Wendy, you've got to watch this.
The next two episodes, 11-part series, it is just phenomenal.
It is what it's it's the best series of its kind uh to show all life forms other than humans and how they survive and how they live and where they do it and so forth.
Uh if you watch this one, I'm not trying to be provocative here.
If you watch this, there's no way you will conclude there's no way that switching to these bulbs will make an iota's bit of difference on the fate of the climate and the planet.
But anyway, one of the things we learned is that male polar bear and male grizzly bears eat their cubs.
And I said, I don't know why.
And they didn't explain this in the series.
In fact, if a polar bear female gives birth to two polar bear cubs, she has to choose one.
She can only nurse one.
One will die, whether the male eats it or not.
And of course, light bulbs and fossil fuels have nothing to do with those deaths, but yet children across the world are being scared and frightened to death that we are killing the polar bears.
Anyways, I've had a lot of answers on why the male bears eat the cubs.
And here's here's what I've been told.
I've looked this up.
It seems to be accurate.
They eat and they don't eat their own cubs.
It is other males who come along and find other females with their cubs.
They eat the cubs because when the mother is is nursing, she cannot be in heat.
And all the male bears care about is sex.
And so they eat the cubs to stop the mom from nursing, and she goes into heat when that happens.
It's it's it's it's it's the it's the Bill Clinton effect in the bear world, and that is why uh they eat the cubs.
It's just it's it's simply so the female go into heat and they can have a good time.
That's exactly what happens here.
Real life explained truthfully, factually, and honestly.
Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Great audio sound bites uh coming up uh as uh pretty exciting stacks of stuff today.
Actually, got a good global warming stack uh out there as well.
John Travolta.
Now, this is this is typical.
You know, John Travolta owns five airplanes.
He's got a 707, he's got some Gulf streams, he's got uh forget what the fifth airplane is.
And uh he's out there saying people need to do their bit to uh stop global warming.
He says, Well, look, I need five airplanes because uh movie business means I travel a lot.
Five airplanes, including a Boeing 707 that he got from Quathus.
He flies all these, but he's uh he's an excellent pilot.
I landed at Teterborough once, and there was this G2, a Gulf Stream 2, and it landed at uh at that time he was using the millionaire FBO, and this thing, this this airline uh this airplane was parked not in any semblance of order.
They always line these things up in a row when you park.
This thing was just smack dab in the middle.
I said, Who the hell's plane is that?
And the line guy, that's Travolta.
Uh, he lost all electrical coming in from Washington and just dove down here and he just pulled up and got out and left.
Just left the plane where it is.
But he's an excellent flyer, but I mean, this is typical.
Here's urging everybody else to do their part while he's running around flying five airplanes.
I don't care because I don't think it matters.
But it's the it's the hypocrisy that the you know these people are gonna get away with uh their quote unquote excessive carbon footprint lifestyle.
They go out and buy these carbon offsets, which are a scam, and they don't reduce their carbon footprint at all.
They just say some clown's gonna point a plant a bunch of trees to make up and absorb all the pollution they're putting out there.
It's frankly a scam and an absurd.
We're gonna the thing, we're gonna start selling our own carbon offsets here, liberal offsets, any kind of offsets at the uh EIB network on our website.
We're working on that.
To the phones, we'll start in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
We have a 14-year-old named Kayla, and you're first.
It's such a pleasure to have you with us today.
Pleasure to talk with you, Rush.
So I wanted to say just how stupid and idiotic um Algorithm movie is.
We were required to watch it in geography class because apparently it's it's has to do with the fate of the world and geography, apparently.
At least that's what our teacher said.
So I'm taking it uh that our geography teacher is definitely a liberal.
And I honestly now everyone is walking around the school talking about how all the polar bears are drowning and that we're all gonna die, and it's it's crazy.
You didn't fall for it, though, it sounds like no, I think it's really stupid.
Why?
Why do you why why are you so different than everybody else?
Well, if you remember, like a while ago, like 50 years ago, they were saying they're complaining about global cooling.
Wasn't 50 years ago, it was like uh thirty.
Thirty somewhere in there.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're complaining about global cooling, and now they're complaining about global warming thing.
Let me ask you, let me ask you a question out there, Kayla.
Well, let's say that the global warming scare of 1979 and 80 had stuck.
And and let's say that instead of all this global warming, let's say that uh we were freezing and uh the uh Greenland was expanding and Antarctica and Arctica were expanding and the ice sheets are going nuts and we're threatened here.
Do you think Al Gore would do a movie advocating everybody go out and buy the biggest SUV possible and drive it around?
Do you think Al Gore would be doing a movie that would advocate more factories, more smokestacks, more cows expelling gas methane, everything that they say is causing warming.
Do you think they would advocate that very so-called pollution to warm up the planet?
You never know.
He probably would, knowing Al Gore.
He's kind of cuckoo.
No, wouldn't happen.
It would not happen.
Wouldn't happen because that th that then they'd be terribly conflicted because they'd be advocating uh pollution.
And besides, the reason they wouldn't, is that they'd be promoting capitalism.
And the global warming movement, the the the whole thing is is is nothing but an anti-capitalist rant.
It's a religion, it's not science.
Uh and and the th th the proof of this is you're what you're used to geography class, you had to watch this?
Yeah.
Are they giving you anything counter to it?
Are they showing anything else or asking you to read something that disagrees with Al Gore's propaganda?
Nope.
Of course not.
They say it's science, right?
Yeah.
Well, how can there be science when so many scientists disagree with it?
If there's consensus, it can't be science.
It's impossible.
Science is not up to a vote.
Science is what it is.
This is no different than a bunch of idiots saying the world is flat, get three thousand scientists, come up with an agreement, go to the UN.
Wouldn't make it flat.
We just say there's a consensus, and then a bunch of brain dead idiots that follow along would somehow believe it.
This is the same kind of well, are you threatened by your disagree?
Do you make your disagreement in class public?
Yeah, I did, because we had to do our opinion on it, and everyone else said, oh, it's real, and then I ended up getting yelled at by everyone else after class, saying you're an idiot, and uh how do you react?
I mean, is it does it uh threaten you?
No, no.
I know what I believe, and I think it's right, and I'm not gonna fall for yelling at me about that.
In this case, you don't have to think it's right.
You can be very confident that you're right.
Exactly.
Uh let's see, I was gonna ask you one other question about that.
It slipped my mind.
Uh oh.
Have your parents been forced to go to the class and watch it too?
Nope.
That's happening in Florida.
Kids are being told our parents have to come watch this Gore movie, or they might suffer consequences in their grade.
That's crazy.
Now, yeah, I well, it's it's more than crazy.
It's frightening.
It's uh uh and and you know, somebody's parents are coming out of there and they're they're you know becoming true believers in this propaganda as well.
It's an ongoing battle.
But here, look.
Got the brand new issue of the Limbaugh Letter here, folks.
With me on the cover as Moses, let me zoom in here on this just to show you.
I'm rolling back the global warming B.S. That's the cover story in the latest issue of the Limbaugh letter.
You'll be getting yours soon.
I, of course, as editor and publisher get mine first before anybody else does.
Uh still waiting for my peace mug.
We got the samples back yesterday.
Something wrong with the color, tiny little color problem, send them back to the manufacturer.
I'm gonna get my sample of the final peace mug product on Monday, and then they'll be good to go.
Kayla, great to hear from you.
Keep it up.
Don't buckle.
You're on the right side of this.
Bob in uh in Ava, New York, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Ditto's from a reform McGovern Democrat.
Well, thank you very much.
You ought to recognize the modern day Democrats then.
They were nothing like I was.
No, but the modern day Democrats today are doing their McGovern imitation.
They're I mean, they're McGovernizing the whole Democrat Party today.
Well, I got an education and grew up and now I'm a Republican.
Well, we'll have happy to welcome you to the fold here, sir.
Anyway, my question is I have two on Korea.
Number one, do you think we can attain an internal peace in Iraq by following the same program we did in Korea?
You mean by subdividing the country?
Yes, and putting the Shiites in the North and the Sunnis in the South with the U.S. in the DMZ.
Well, you know, somebody has that idea.
Do you know whose idea that is?
Nope.
Come on, it's one of your former buddies.
Joe Biden.
My former buddy was uh was uh JFK.
He was a Democrat I like.
Well, JFK would if J.K. came back to life as he was in the 60s, he wouldn't be a Democrat today.
I know.
Oh, he couldn't be a Democrat.
I mean, they'd keep him in the party, but he wouldn't agree with any of them.
He'd be persona non gratis.
First thing he'd do is propose his tax cuts, and they'd uh they'd exile him from the party.
Um partitioning a country uh is is that that's that isn't going to work.
That's not a long-term uh solution to the problem.
Uh victory is uh of course it's possible.
This is the this is the thing that continues to amaze me when Americans ask if victory is possible.
It's a sad thing that they ask it.
Uh and many of them who have doubts obviously have as their formative experience in their lives, the Vietnam experience, where we we lost and we lost for precise reasons.
Political reasons, drive-by me, and by the way, the drive-by media today and the Democrat Party are trying to repeat what they think of their glory days from the Vietnam era and Watergate in order to secure defeat because they own it.
They are full-fledged owners.
They've got the deed of defeat not only in Iraq and the war on terror.
In fact, just I've got a great soundbite here.
Uh Mike, go to the end of the line.
I think it's Madame Albright.
Let me go to the last page here.
It's uh Yeah.
Cut number 14.
Madam Albright last night on uh CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
And Cooper says, Look, uh Tony Tony Blair spoke today about stepping up the pressure on Iran.
You've said in the past pressure needs to be put on them.
How do you put pressure and yet de-escalate at the same time?
I think that the sanctions that the UN uh voted last week are very important.
They show a unanimity uh of uh agreement among the powers on the council, and that is pressure.
But at the same time, I hope that there are a lot of diplomatic activities going uh on behind the scenes.
I'm concerned, Anderson, about an accident in the Persian Gulf with our forces in there and the Iranians uh with kind of loose ships.
We do not need another war at this point.
Now, did you hear this?
What is Madeline Albright's number one concern?
Here the Iranians have illegally captured 15 British soldiers, marines.
They were not in Iranian waters.
They're being held, they're being used not for propaganda purposes, they're being forced to write letters that are full of lies.
They're being paraded around in violation of the Geneva Convention, and Madeline Albright's worried about our Navy.
He's worried about our Navy causing an accident.
So this is where they come from.
Everything is our fault.
And the question, how do we that Anderson Cooper asked, how how do we uh how do we ratchet up the pressure uh and yet de-escalate at the same time?
I'll tell you what, folks, the Iranians are surrounded by us.
We are engaging in uh stepped up military activity, naval activity on the waters that uh surround uh well that that uh border Iran.
We've got troops in Iraq, we've got troops in Afghanistan, we've got troops every and don't think they don't know it.
And uh, you know, this this is exactly how the game is played.
If you've got spokesman for the Democrats, Madeline Albright, UN, UN, we gotta go to the UN.
The council has to do something about this.
The Brits have already gone to the UN, Ms. Albright, they've already demanded a statement of disapproval.
Do you think the mullahs are gonna cower in fear over that?
If the mullahs are afraid of anything in this situation, it is indeed our presence.
And that would be a good thing, but not to them.
Brief timeouts, meaning the Democrats.
Stay with us, folks.
Broadcast excellence resumes after this.
I predicted this.
I predicted it in an instant message session I was having with my buddy F. Lee Levin two or three weeks ago, and uh then I shared that with you on the air today.
I said it's not gonna be long.
You wait till Giuliani rises to the top of the Republican crop, and the drive-by's are gonna take him out.
And that has happened.
You know, there's a there's a new poll out there, and and the drive-bys are all in a tizzy over it.
Giuliani beats Obama by one point, beats Hillary by ten points, Obama beats Hillary, and they can't figure this out.
And they're all over TV today trying to analyze what's wrong with this.
What's wrong with Hillary?
And they're concluding it ain't good.
And some of these drive-by are saying, you know, I I know some people uh hierarchy the Democrat Party.
And I, oh, really?
You know some people hierarchy the Democrat Party.
Yes I do and then uh they're they're they're saying privately they're very concerned here about the these numbers with Hillary uh negatives are just way too high.
Could have told you that.
She's the most polarizing figure out there.
Well, we just had the poll the other day.
50% of people said they're not gonna vote for her or wouldn't vote for her, very close to 50%.
So anyway, Rudy has risen to the top here of the heap on the Republican side in a in a McCain, too, by the way.
McCain would beat either of them, I think.
I'll have to have to check that.
Yeah, in a poll today.
Yes, that's true, in a poll today.
Now you know what I think about these early polls.
But the people who treat polls as as the gospel, why they're gonna be in in Panic City.
So, lo and behold, New York Times today testimony by Giuliani indicates he was briefed on Carrick in 2000 and may have not been forthcoming with the grand jury.
Washington Post, Giuliani faces questions about September 11th.
It's all about how the firefighters and uh who firefighters and who else?
They don't like him because they think he's screwed up with a radio communication.
Firefighters and their families.
Don't like Rudy.
That's what the story is.
I'm just it.
I know the firefighters union guys in Hillary's pocket.
Doesn't matter the truth.
What I'm telling you is that the drive-by's are aiming at Rudy now.
Predicted this would happen.
And it has.
And of course, you know, yesterday, Mike grab audio soundbite.
Uh, where the hell is it?
Grab uh yep, number eight.
I was in the process of minding my own business yesterday, hosting the program, and as you know, we've got uh the drive-by news channels on here on the monitors.
And I happen to see this graphic that went by, and I saw it, and I said, please tell me that I didn't see that.
Tell me I'm hallucinating.
And the crew on the other side of the glass assured me that I wasn't hallucinating and I had seen it.
And the graphics said that Rudy Giuliani said that he would want his wife Judith in cabinet meetings.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Here is the soundbite that was on Good Morning America.
Yesterday, Barbara Walters, fresh off her puff piece with Hugo Chavez talking with uh with Rudy and his wife Judith.
And Walter said, uh, how much involvement will your wife have in your campaign?
As much as she wants.
Will your wife be involved in policy decisions?
Uh to the extent she wants to be.
I couldn't have uh a better advisor.
Will you sit in on policy meetings?
Again, if he asks me to, yes, and certainly in in the areas of health care.
If and when you were president, would Mrs. Giuliani sit in on cabinet meetings?
If she wanted to?
If it were relevant to something that uh that she was interested in?
That would be something that I'd be very, very comfortable with.
Oh why?
What what's what's what's the uh I just know I can I know you people are reacting to my reactions.
What are you?
Some kind of a sexist.
No, I'm not.
I'm not I'm not a sexist.
Be careful about what?
Snerdley's warning me to be careful.
What you think I'm on the verge of getting in trouble again?
How now what basis could I get in trouble?
How could I get in trouble with any response that by tr trouble trouble?
He thinks I he doesn't even know what I'm gonna say.
He thinks I get in trouble by telling the truth about what I want to say about this.
If that's if that's the case, then you what you think my truth must be is that you think I get in trouble with women.
Right?
Well, well, well, what's new about that?
I've I've been in trouble with women my whole life.
You know, and it's it isn't going to change.
Um, I guess what we're to take from this is that we've got to we gotta pretend that Judith's on the ballot, too.
Um I okay.
All right.
Well, he's doing it to get the Hillary vote.
Um he's doing it to get the Hillary vote.
He's doing it to get the Hillary vote.
Isn't that why?
Half the people in the country have negatives about Hillary.
She wasn't elected and tried to take over the whole administration.
Isn't that why?
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Well, that's it.
The first hour of Broadcast Excellence, the Rush Limbaugh program in the can.
Lots of other stuff coming up, though.
Gasoline prices are soaring, according to the New York Times, and drivers are shrugging.
Consumption of gasoline is going up.
Why is there no panic?
Why is the drive-by media not trying to get you frightened and all worked up and angry at the Bush administration and big oil as gasoline approaches $3 a gallon again?
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