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April 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, and happy Easter, everyone, and welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We have three full hours of broadcast excellence for you this uh this day.
Uh this is going to be another abbreviated week.
Uh Monday through Thursday, I will be here Friday.
I will now do we know who the guest host is on Friday HR.
Tom Sullivan, oh Goody, my buddy from Sacramento, Tom Sullivan will be here Friday.
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Latest Sullivan Group report, by the way, shows me to be documented all but it's almost always right 98.6% of the time.
Here's the phone number if you'd like to be on the program, 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at eIBNet.com.
I know I don't sound it because I'm a professional.
I'm a highly trained broadcast professional, but I am really in a foul mood today.
I am just I'm I was gotta hear I was I was fine when I got here.
Couple things happen, and I am as irritable as I can be, but I promise I will not take it out on any of you.
And had I not said this, you would never have known it today anyway, but I just wanted to pass it on.
Um you never know when something's gonna happen that set me back to that point.
I will do my best to avoid it.
I'm normally a you know uh uh just a nice guy, lurks in the background, doesn't bother people, but at any rate, that it is what it is.
We got the peace mug today, folks.
I finally got the sample peace mug uh that commemorates my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Here it is.
Let me zoom in for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
And by the way, uh welcome to all of you watching on the uh on the Ditto Cam at Rushlimbaugh.com.
There it is.
There's one side of it.
Uh and on the other side, that that's the peace medal, by the way.
That is the Nobel Peace Prize medal, presuming that I have already won it, says give peace a chance uh above the uh above the peace medal with my glorious picture, and here is the EIB logo uh on the uh on the other side.
You can see what it says there is peace through Limbaugh.
Now, the only thing the only thing wrong here that I want to change, and it's not really wrong, is that I I want to uh I want to reverse sides so that when uh if for right-handers, most people are right-handers uh uh left-handed people, obviously the result of poor potty training in the formative years.
Uh there aren't that many of them.
Uh but uh when you put the mug down like this, if you're right-handed, uh, people will not see the commemorative coins, so we'll not see this side.
So I just want to reverse the two sides, and it will be ready to go into um into production.
This, of course, is uh is a new uh premium for subscribers of uh Rush 24-7 and the uh Anna Limbaugh Letter.
All right, now uh for those of you uh remember we had Vice President Cheney on the program last Thursday.
Oh, and I I got a tremendous amount of uh very positive email over the discussion we had with Jenny Ballantine, and I want to thank James Taranto, uh, who writes the best of the web column for the Wall Street Journal's website.
He did two days on Jenny Ballantyne, and the first day, after ho only having heard the soundbite of her question to John Edwards that we played at town hall meeting last week, um he wrote a piece and he reacted much the same way that uh a lot of people did uh to her.
Thought she was a little self uh self-absorbed and thought that her struggles were you know mountains when they are common for uh people her age.
Uh and uh he he sent me a note on Thursday night saying, Look, uh I want to link to uh to your uh interview with her today, and I want a link to the uh question, but you've got them uh the the subscriber only on your website.
Can you convert these to guest links?
And I said, sure, we'd be happy to do this for you, James.
I'm glad that he noted it.
And on Friday, a big long lead piece, best of the web.com on the whole Jenny Ballantyne situation, and uh and got it, you know, pretty after the interview.
He uh understood, as we all did, uh uh the circumstances in which she found herself.
So it was really good.
Uh I had a great time doing that.
And it it just, you know, it illustrates there's a there's a there's a uh gold mine out there to be tapped amongst, you know, college students.
Uh and you heard her say in the interview, she's she's all confused because of her professors.
Her professors are out there telling her about all this injustice and discrimination that goes on in the country today, and she wasn't really ready to accept it.
But the one thing that she said that I I was really attuned to, she was ho she hoped that her professor wasn't listening.
Which which means that uh you know means what it means.
Didn't want to get grade consequences, suffer grave grade consequences if uh teacher heard her criticizing uh the class and and so forth.
Uh so then that that piece is still up at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's uh it was a lot of fun.
Uh and we may do more of this uh when circumstances warrant.
Also the Dick Cheney interview on Thursday.
I remember talking to several of you people after the program, and and while you were enthusiastic and excited uh about some of the things he said, many of you, and you know who you are.
You called here.
Uh where was the emotion?
Where was the rage?
Why why wasn't Cheney impassioned about this?
And I asked him, of course, does not this Pelosi stuff enrage you?
And he very calm and cool and collected.
He's Dick Cheney.
And I told you people, I said there's good there are plenty in this interview that if the drive-by's want to focus on it, they can make Mount Matterhorn out of it.
Or Matterhorn Mountain, and they did all weekend long, the Cheney interview, and particularly one thing when he accused Nancy Pelosi of bad behavior.
That just set them off.
Just it just totally set them off.
I thought one of the things that they would react to uh in uh in raged anger would be when I compared the Democrats on uh the the that Senate committee that turned down the uh ambassadorial nomination of Sam Fox to Belgium, Kerry and Obama demanding that he apologize for donating money to the Swift boats, demanding I call called that Stalinist refusing to vote for him to be ambassador to Belgium simply because of political donation.
Uh uh I and I call him Stalinist, and I said, Vice President Cheney, uh, this is my word, you don't have to accept it.
But to me, this is Stalinist-like behavior.
He said, You're dead on Rush.
I thought, oh my gosh, that that's what they're gonna focus on.
Some did on the blogs, but not in the drive-by media per se.
We have a soundbite or two.
Uh first off, this is uh sort of like a montage here, Thursday and Friday of people mentioning Cheney on this program.
We've got David Gregory, uh Caroline Shivley of Fox News and Steve Ducey.
Uh we got Brian Lamb, we got Kieran Chair, we got Tim Russard, we got Dana Mildman, we got John Robby.
They're all talking about Cheney's appearance on this program last Thursday.
They've deployed the vice president to use pretty strong uh words as he did with Rush Limbaugh this week.
Mr. Cheney spoke out about it on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, saying the meeting rewards Assad for bad behavior.
The Vice President on the Rush Limbaugh show chastised her.
You had uh Cheney bragging about it with Rush Limbaugh today.
Democrats are in sensed.
Vice President Cheney appearing on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegations.
Vice President Dick Cheney called her on that on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
Vice President Cheney went on the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
It's being directed, obviously, when it's made on uh Rush Limbaugh show towards the base.
Al Qaeda had a significant presence in Iraq before the invasion.
You heard what he told Rush Limbaugh.
Oh, yeah, that really set him off, too, because he does not of course he cited the evidence, uh Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who was in Iraq before we went in there.
Uh and uh the they just it just set him off.
Just as I knew it would.
And and by the way, when you read, if you if you go read the Cheney transcript and and uh uh you didn't hear it, just read it.
Uh as Mr. Snerdley pointed out this morning, it does sound harsh.
All of you who thought it was sort of milk toast because Cheney doesn't speak with a whole lot of pep or energy, uh never fear he got the message out and they heard it.
And the fact they spent so much time on this clearly illustrates they were bothered by it.
The only reason they'd be bothered by it is because he had a home run.
You know, if he's off the reservation or making wacko comments, they'd sit there and be laughing at it.
But uh, you know, he's challenging one of their templates, and that is the whole war was based on a lie that was unnecessary, and we don't need to be where we are at all.
There is no war on terror.
The war in Iraq is absolutely in fact they're still repeating on the blogs that it's uh it was uh a disguised purpose for the war was to secure oil uh for Bush's oil, but in Halliburton is still saying this, and we now know the contracts uh for the the first contract signed for uh uh Iraqi oil go to everybody but us.
It's it actually it's kind of frustrating.
The uh the Chinese are uh getting dibs on some of the oil, a couple of other countries as well, but not the United States.
And I some people think we ought to get some of that oil revenue as a way of repaying ourselves for the costs that we have uh we have incurred.
Uh they were also um they were also upset with Cheney having said uh that the vote was a test of supporting the troops for Democrats, uh meaning this this supplemental, that's the first thing that he spoke about spoke about on the uh on the program last Thursday.
So anyway, uh he hit the bullseye.
Uh, and it had him infuriated.
And if Chuck Todd uh of the uh of the hotline is he still with a hotline?
He was with a hotline.
Whatever.
Chuck Todd was on uh Meet the Press yesterday, and this is ironic.
I mean, this is this is funny, is describing how the conservative machine, the conservative media machine piled on poor Nancy Pelosi's trip.
This was uh the Republicans found an opening, you know.
Remember the plane incident with Pelosi.
Now, this is the second time that they've been able to get the sort of the conservative media machine going, Rush Limbaugh Drudge, all in sync, which really only for the first time, it seems like in three months, and they hit her hard.
She's gonna weather this storm.
I think they need to, when they do these things, think what's the worst case scenario, and think about the optics of this.
They should have had those three Republican members of Congress that went sooner.
We should have had them with her on this trip.
She should have had more than just one Republican and possibly had a high-profile person from the Iraq study group, since that's what she has used as a defense.
She could have done this in a much more much more carefully orchestrated way.
Now, listen to this.
Listen, this guy is reaming us for being unified in the conservative media as though that never happens on the left.
The drive-by media, as we know, willing accomplices, bedfellows, if you will, with those in the Democrat Party, gives us grief for being coordinated for the first time in three months.
Uh there'd be no coordination here.
We had the vice president on the program.
If there was any coordination, it's in the drive-by's opposing Cheney.
If there's any coordination, every one of the drive-bys had the same objection, saying the same words as they always do.
But then here's Chuck Todd.
You want to talk about coordination, advising Pelosi on how she screwed up, what she should have done, and how to do something like this better the next time.
Brief timeout, folks, we'll be back.
We'll continue with much more on the EIB network right after this.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, coordinating with no one here, by the way.
How can I possibly coordinate with anybody?
I am the leader.
I am the Mr. Big.
If there's any coordination out there on the right, it's people following my lead, ladies and gentlemen.
Sorry, Chuck Todd to have to correct you.
Uh but remember again, there's old buddy Chuck Todd after complaining and noting this so-called uh uh conservative machine and its unity, there he is, offering media advice to Nancy Pelosi.
How to use Republicans the next time she does something like this so as to deflect heat from herself.
A couple of CI told you so's before we get on with all the rest of today's program from the American Spectator today, is WW.spectator.org.
It's a piece here by Jennifer Rubin.
You know, I've mentioned over the course of the many recent broadcast weeks that we seem now to live not only in a in a very wimpish uh and gutless culture, as evidenced by the way the Brits dealt with the Iranians.
By the way, don't think that wasn't a big win for the Iranians.
The Iranians have announced National Nuke Day.
We ought to we may as well make this a national holiday, folks.
Now the U.S. may not be the only world superpower.
National Nuke Day announced by Ahmadinezad, uh libs of me happy that an enemy of the U.S. is on the way to getting nuclear weapons.
But if you're the Iranians and you hostage take fifteen sailors who start confessing within 24 hours and whining and moaning, what are you gonna learn from it?
You're gonna learn that nobody in the West is gonna stop you from ramping up your nuke arsenal.
Uh this was uh and you also learn that you can play Western media like a like a stratovarius.
Well, we do.
We live in an we live in a culture where saying you're sorry is supposed to cover for everything.
In fact, you you you're supposed to say more than I'm sorry.
After you do something or say something that uh people find horrible, and I still find it amazing that people should be fired for words as opposed to deeds.
I mean, if we're gonna fire people on the radio for things they say, how about firing people like Al Sharpton for things that he does?
I mean, how about well let's take away Sharpton's ministry from it?
To want to brawly anybody?
I mean, how many lives did that actually harm?
Uh, you know, words.
Anyway, have all this sensitivity to words out there.
We have all this, and people go out there and they apologize.
And uh, in addition to apologize, well, you know, this really wasn't me.
That's not who I am.
Yes, it is.
It's who you are.
If you said it, that's who you are.
Stand behind it.
Don't wimp out and start apologizing.
Especially if you have a track record of that kind of stuff.
Anyway, I have made note of this cultural phenomenon in which we live, that we all have to run around and apologize.
And uh, and and I remember repeating this after talk to Charlton Heston the first time I interviewed Charlton Heston for the Limbaugh Letter, I noted in the interview that at the time he'd be married 50 years.
I said, How'd you pull that off?
He said, Well, it's really quite simple.
I had to learn four words, and I had to use them often.
Or actually three words.
Honey, I was wrong.
Just get it on the way.
No matter whether you're wrong or not, just say you were.
Honey, I was wrong, and it fixes everything and it stops everything dead in its tracks.
Lo and behold, here's a piece in the American Spectator Today by Jennifer Rubin about all these people saying things and how they deal with it uh properly and how those who deal with it incorrectly do so.
She's got the pull quote in here.
Mea culpas won't immunize a candidate or eliminate a story, but they can minimize the pain and maybe engender some sympathy.
If politicians learned what husbands have known for years, you might as well apologize right away, get it over with.
They would fare better.
Besides, heartfelt apologies play very well on YouTube.
See, I have told you every we i we just apologize.
In fact, apologize before you say something and apologize after you say whatever you want to say, and the country will love you and they'll think you're sensitive.
And husbands have known this forever, uh, as I pointed out after having learned it from Charlton Heston.
And then I don't know how many of you uh will remember this.
Snerdly, you will.
You remember Lori back from WABC days when we were when we were there.
She's a broadcast engineer for a while, and she wanted to move on up.
And I, of course, uh wasn't married, and yet I needed the services of some of the services that a wife provides.
So I set Laurie up.
I said, why don't you just start doing things for me?
And I called her my rent wife.
Remember that?
And she'd run around and she did the grocery shopping, she did uh all this sort of stuff.
Uh, and you know, predictably, the women in my audience had a fit.
They just thought it was the biggest put down of the fit.
How could you do this?
I said, Well, you know, she's willing to what?
Oh, yeah, it was demeaning, it was insulting, it was it was uh it was it was beyond the pale.
How could you do this, Russian?
This came after the period where I had uh tried requiring a photo from every female caller before they would be allowed on the air.
And that worked.
I mean, women were sending in photos in droves, and they were coming in various kinds of photos from all over the country.
And of course, even my sister-in-law and a couple of friends blew up at me.
One night I was in Bimmelman's the bar at the Carlisle.
And you know, Bimmelman's is a reserved and uh refined place, and they've got some piano music in there, sometimes a singer, and I was getting yelled at in there to the point that people, other patrons were saying, Well, what the going on over there, pointing at us in our corner of the room, and my sister-in-law giving me grief over requiring pictures of women callers uh before they could, and I must this is look at uh uh to tell you the truth, it wasn't, it wasn't my it was Mario Snerdley's idea.
Uh it was Mario Snerdley on the prowl.
I just thought it was funny, I decided to do it.
But I have to take credit for it, because I mean I the blame for it, because Mario Snerdley could have had the idea, and if I didn't execute the idea, nobody would have known it, so I can't pass it off on him.
Uh but then came the rent a wife, and then it just did just blew people to.
Well, looky here.
This is from Sky.com, Sky News and the BBC.
WWW dot rentawife.
See how on the cutting edge I am.
Here we get two stories today.
One, the American spectator, hey, just you politicians and public figures get in trouble.
Learn what every husband has known.
Honey, I was wrong.
Say it often, say it loud, say it soon.
And now there's this uh it turns out that it's a bogus website, but it claims to rent out wives and deliver them to homes in boxes.
It's been blasted by women's groups across Belgium.
They got a 35-second clip showing a man strapping one wife into a box to be collected and going to the door to find the postman with a new delivery, smiling blonde who waves through the perspecs uh cover of her box.
So, again, they're just now picking up on this in Britain, even though it's a bogus site, but the Red Awife concept and the honey I was wrong over a decade ago on this program just now hitting the real world.
Ever fear, folks, just waiting for the printer to spit out something, and I'm back.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network.
Great to be with you.
Telephone number.
800-282-2882, just uh just to make it firm.
No guests scheduled today, no guests scheduled tomorrow, no guests scheduled, no guests scheduled ever, as far as we know now, no guests on this program.
They will show up everywhere else, but not here.
Why do something you can get everywhere else?
We have never done that and not going to start now.
Now, Matt the Iranians calling today National Nuke Day.
Stanley Kurtz at National Review Online has uh an interesting observation about this.
And I want to pass this on because it sort of dovetails with uh with with where we are right now in dealing with genuine threats to our own national security.
His basic point, I don't want to read his whole piece here, but his basic point is this is the exact reason we went into Iraq to find and stop the production of weapons of mass destruction.
Now, according to the quote unquote powers that be, there weren't any in Iraq.
Of course, we know that there were.
I don't want to get into an argument about that.
We know there's somewhere, but point is the country was all for it.
The country was all for a preemptive strike in Iraq, 90%, 80% uh to stop weapons of mass destruction from being used in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.
Stanley Kurtz says in the debate to come over Iran's nuclear capacity, there'll be constant references to our intelligence failure in Iraq.
The dispute will be about exactly how close Iran is to a bomb, but let nobody forget that Iran, Iran is already at a point that would easily have justified the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
This fact by itself doesn't decide the issue of what to do about Iran.
An attack on Iran would be militarily tougher and uh than the invasion of Iraq.
Occupation seems out of question, but there are also questions about how far an attack would actually set back Iran's nuclear program.
Yet all of these difficulties and considerations notwithstanding, the fact is that we are under a threat of exactly the sort that everyone agreed would justify action in Iraq.
Now our hands are tied.
Now we're not going to do anything.
It doesn't appear we're going to do anything.
I know people who say that George W. Bush is not going to leave office with uh Iran in possession of nuclear weaponry.
We'll see.
But clearly, and I made mention of this some years ago, that the the real basic problem what the drive-bys and the left have done in destroying the Iraq war effort is they've also destroyed any other attempt that we might need to make anywhere else around the world to accomplish the same thing.
His point is exactly what's happening in Iran is exactly why we went into Iraq.
And now our hands are tied.
We will not do anything about well, that's not his point.
Uh it's mine.
Uh I think it's a it's an it's an excellent point.
Uh and when you realize that within the population of the country, there probably isn't any kind of agreement that we need to stop Iran from getting a nuke.
Yet there was in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 to stop Iraq from getting weapons of mass destruction.
And don't forget, there'd been 14 years of ignored UN resolutions and so forth the case was made, and the Iranians are doing the same thing.
So now what we're gonna get is well, our intelligence bushes is in manufacturing bushel warmonger Bush wants to go in there, and we're pretty much paralyzed.
Uh, which is exactly what the left Wants, folks, the left precisely wants us paralyzed.
They don't want us to be able to defend U.S. national security.
They do not want us involved in these things that uh might imperil us.
And you might have to say that they've succeeded in this in regard to the situation with Iran.
Plus you add to it the uh the PR plus that the Iranians got out of the uh British hostage situation and how bad the West looked in that, particularly the British.
It was it just it was it's just embarrassing.
Uh the w now these these uh hostages out selling their stories to the highest bidder, you know, talking about how threatened they felt and they apologized and they confessed and so forth uh within hours of uh of having been caught.
Of course, the message that this will send to terrorists and people like the Iranians is that at least the Brits have gone wobbly and have linguiny spines, and they probably will think the same uh of us, particularly once George W. Bush is uh is out of office.
Joseph in Akron, Ohio, let's start on the phones with you today.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
All right, thank uh thanks for having me, Rush.
Yeah, you just had a couple quick points.
I listened to your interview with the young lady the other day, the young college student, and I have to say it it kind of inspired me.
I'm uh I wouldn't say I'm a longtime listener.
I've I've been listening for about four or five years now, if you can consider that long time.
Uh I'm a twenty-four-year-old college student.
When I first started listening to you, I was just kind of coming out of high school.
I can't say I was the brightest person in the world, 2.3 GPA.
And a lot of what you've said as far as uh, you know, going going above and beyond and being more than you could you could be, so to speak, it's kind of helped me drive myself through college.
I'm 24 working on my second master's now.
So I mean it's you know, you've you've really helped me.
And also I wanted to wanted to mention you you mentioned that the uh the liberal media keeps saying, you know, you you interviewed the president and whatnot, and that's you know, going out to your base, so to speak.
And I don't think they they realize that your base are people like me a former liberal college student that's really going to drive the elections of tomorrow.
You know, it's an excellent point.
Uh I don't know about the college age demographic, but they do believe well, uh the drive-by's believe that this audience is a one-note samba, and that I'm sort of like a pied piper in the audience of my numbers, or whatever I tell them to do, they do, whatever I tell them to think they think.
But Tom Dashell knows the truth about this.
After the 2002 elections, I will never forget this.
Tom Dashell at a press conference said that they'd uh he'd gone out and found experts, I don't know who they were, uh, to analyze the listening audience of this program.
And Dashell was trying to warn Democrats, he was shocked.
He said, not only do conservatives listen to Limbaugh, but a lot of our people do too, and they are changing their minds.
But you're right, most everybody thinks that this audience is a is a select core group of like-minded and similarly thinking people when it's not, and you are evidence of that, and there's there's countless uh other audience research that we have to illustrate this too.
But I want to congratulate you.
You know, you um uh I appreciate your crediting me, but the bottom line was you did the work once you once you got inspired, once uh once you were motivated.
I just I just wish those kinds of things are happening to people like you earlier in your life.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, if if you look at it, like I I look at a lot of my friends and things of that nature, and it it seems that with with the way the media is nowadays, you know.
I grew up, I watched CNN, I watched programs with that with my father, you know.
I mean, he's a hundred percent hardcore union guy, you know, grew up a liberal, and I I pretty much that was the only side of the coin I saw for eighteen years.
You know, I mean, without the proper guidance from places like you or or other, you know, media outlets as far as the talk radio goes.
I I don't think people like me until until Fox News really came onto the scene.
We we weren't seeing the other side of the coin.
It was pretty much a doom and gloom atmosphere.
Well, it wasn't just that.
Not only were you not seeing it, you were told that the other side of the corn uh coin was uh whatever it was, a bunch of wackos, kooks, racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, or whatever you what have you.
Uh and of course, then you couple that with something that we can't escape.
I mean, this is just this is human nature more than anything else.
You're 24, and the time you're growing up when you're when you're when you're teen years, you're watching CNN with your dad the big union guy, and and you're getting a double dose of all that thinking, and you're all but part I'm sure what you heard was uh a constant chaos and doom and gloom about the future of the country and where we were, and all whoa, we got so much discrimination, so much unfairness, so much poverty, so many poor people.
So and you're thinking your country sucks because your histor your your historical perspective began the day you were born, and the history education you got when you were growing up was so inept that you didn't hear about how really rotten it's been in this country when we were founded and what all was necessary to get us to this point, what kind of progress has been made, and furthermore, you weren't told what the true reasons for the greatness of this country are uh in comparison to every other civilization of human being that has lived on this planet.
So you grew up with a totally perverted and distorted view of your own country, in addition to whatever you were learning on CNN and hanging around your parents.
And the fact that you have overcome that.
Well, well, part of that, I mean, if you look at our our public education system, I mean, as far as American history and the way things were, the Constitution, we learned absolutely nothing.
I mean, we we barely brushed the surface, and in a home environment, I don't know if I'm the typical American, so to speak, but I mean, if a conservative got elected president, my mom would cry.
You know, I mean, that's how how far far left liberal they were.
Uh well, I know.
Uh, and and this is the frustrating thing.
We all know this.
You're in the middle of it and you don't.
But you learned it.
Yeah.
Uh, and we're in the process of uh the ongoing education.
That's what the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies is all about.
We we here are thrilled we reached you.
Well, I you know, I just just want to thank you for uh, you know, paving the road to enlightenment, so to speak.
And uh, you know, it's it's like said, it's hard to find resources out there to really combat the uh I won't really call it ignorance, but uh misinformation that's out there.
No, it's not, it's not anymore.
It used to be, but it's not anymore.
There's all kinds of resource.
What do you mean by resource?
Sometimes people mean money when they say resources.
Not so much resource, I mean just uh enlightenment resources.
Uh, like like you say, your your limbaug letters are a good place to look and read, uh really combat the liberal media bias.
There's all kinds of things out there.
You're just you're just not directed to them, or else if they are referenced, they're always lampooned or uh or made fun of.
But look, uh, since this has happened to you, you now carry the weight uh on your shoulders of helping spread the movement.
And you're gonna someday I can run for office, maybe and carry the movie.
Well, even before even before that'd be great, but even before you do that, you got friends, you've got you got people in your immediate circle, you're gonna be influencing people you have no idea.
Uh some of them are gonna be mad, some of them will ignore you, but you're gonna be influencing people.
It's up to you to hang tough.
Uh and because you're gonna be under a lot of pressure from people once you go public with all this stuff, as you have, and I'm sure you've you've discovered that already.
But hang in there because you know you've been set free here, and uh, this is not something to take lightly.
Do not go back to the bondage and shackles of liberalism.
Yeah.
Well, thank thank you for carrying the torch, Rush, and I'll uh I'll let you go here.
Joseph, thanks much, and nice to have you on the program.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
I have three words for you people.
Dubai ports deal.
Do you remember the conniption fit that erupted out there when the Dubai Ports Deal was announced?
What was going to happen?
Dubai, uh the United Arab Emirates has a company called Dubai uh Dubai Ports World or something like that.
Uh and they were going to run six not ports, but six terminals at various ports in the United States.
And it was it was amazing to watch the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington got into a race to see who could be first to pass legislation denying this, and the Republicans succeeded in it, and then Dingy Harry went out there, tried to credit Chuck Schumer for it in a press conference, but every you people out there were just a god you couldn't believe why after 9-11, Dubai from the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East gonna run our ports.
Oh my god, this is horrible.
It's w Of course I tried to tell you that I'd done uh serious investigation of uh of DPW, Dubai Ports World, I've been to Dubai, and uh I told you all the other ports they run around the world and all the other terminals they run, and uh some of you changed your opinion on them, but most of you didn't and thought that I'd lost my mind.
Well, I have two more words for you now.
Dow chemical.
If you thought, if you thought the Dubai Ports World deal was bad, wait till you hear this.
A consortium of Middle Eastern investors and an American buyout firm, a couple of them, preparing a $50 billion approach for Dow Chemical in what could be the world's biggest ever leveraged buyout, quoting sources close to the deal.
The Sunday Express, UK tabloid paper said a financing package has been put in place for a breakup bid of between 52 and 58 dollars a share, and an approach valuing the company at at least 50 billion could come by the end of this week.
At least half of the capital for the buying out Dow Chemical is being provided by investors from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, which includes Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.
With the rest contributed by a number of U.S. buyout firms, including Kolberg, Kravis, and Roberts.
Representatives of Dow Chemical and KKR were not immediately available for comment.
So a consortium of Middle Eastern countries is to buy one of our largest chemical companies.
Sweet.
I mean, you're gonna have Arabs owning Dow chemical.
Just the word chemical, Dow Chemical.
You know what can be you get a hold of a chemical company as big as Dow, who knows what you can make.
And you thought the Dubai Ports wheel uh quartz deal was bad.
I want to see.
I'm just gonna sit back.
I'm not gonna make any more mention of this.
I'm gonna sit back and I'm gonna wait.
And I'm gonna see if all hell breaks loose over this.
Because this is infinitely.
I mean, we all hear about chemical weapons.
Weapons of mass destruction.
And here now the largest chemical company in the country is going to be in purchased by Arabs.
Oh in conjunction with an American company, Colbert Kravis and Roberts.
Okay.
Anyone say mustard gas being made in North Calwell, New Jersey by the Sopranos.
Speaking of the Sopranos, Mark in Orlando.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Megadigos, Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
How are you?
Thank you.
Couldn't be better, sir.
Thank you.
I'm looking for your expert review on the Sopranos airing last night, and really haven't heard you talk too much about it.
And if you had some advanced screenings like you did with 24, and what's your take on the season?
Well, I didn't get any advanced screenings of the Sopranos.
Uh uh, I don't know.
Some TV critics say, I don't think they send those out to too many people.
I did I'm not on the list, never have been.
I watched it last night.
In fact, before the master started yesterday, I went back to season six, the first uh episodes that ended last summer, and I watched the last two just to get myself uh ready to go.
Uh you know, it was it was uh uh for what it was, the episode self-contained as it was, you just look from the beginning to the end of the episode.
Uh it was pretty good.
A lot of parallels to last season.
Uncle Jr. shoots Tony last year, and everybody thought, whoa, what a start.
And then the season fizzled and died.
Last night, Bobby Bacala takes a shot at Tony.
And we're going, whoa, what a start.
Now the the history is the show will fizzle out.
We got eight more episodes.
Here's my look, just as a consumer, you know, I'm not a critic as uh of an artiste.
Like I've got I've read, and this is true, by the way, but I don't look at it this way.
People say, you know, art, art asks questions.
It doesn't answer them.
And so you've got the uh New York uh elite establishment analyzing this thing in all kinds of artistic terms that escape me.
To me, there's one simple thing this show better do this year and advance toward the end of things.
And last night didn't.
So they've got at eight episodes to get toward the end of things.
Uh I mean, unless you want to say the family's breaking up and Bobby Bacala challenging Tony but that, you know, these episodes are self-contained.
Sometimes they don't they don't ever refer to things that have happened in previous episodes.
So I enjoyed it.
It was 45 minutes before I looked at a watch the first time, not criticizing the episode as a consumer.
This is the last season.
We gotta get to the end of this, and I don't think the first episode did, and there are only eight more to go, so that's my take.
If you think this takeover of Dow Chemical by Arab dictatorships needs to be stopped, fine and dandy, but I have a big question for you, if you do.
And we'll get to that.
Oh, if somebody asks me, somebody calls and tells me they supposed.
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