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April 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Say, Mike, in addition to cuts 14 and 15, we're going to go 14, 1, and 15.
Here's the story from the Reuters.
The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike the French.
According to an opinion poll published today, the survey of six nations carried out for the International Herald Tribune Daily and France 24 TV station said 44% of French people thought badly of themselves against 38% of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French.
Frankly, I can't blame the French for this.
Being honest with themselves over there, volcanoes are being blamed for prehistoric global warming now.
Scientists believe they've solved the mystery of what caused the most rapid global warming in known geologic history, a cataclysmic temperature spike 55 million years ago, driven by concentrations of greenhouse gases hundreds of times greater than today.
The culprit was a series of volcanic eruptions that set off a chain reaction releasing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
The eruptions occurred on the rift between two continental plates as Greenland and Europe separated in 10,000 years, which is a blip in Earth's history.
The polar seas turned into tropical baths.
Deep-sea microorganisms were extinct and mammals migrated poleward as their habitats warmed.
Now, all of this caused by volcanoes, but something also, it got cool after this.
After this massive baking 55 million years ago, it got cool again.
How did this happen?
Did we do anything to cause either of these?
We didn't.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention something, folks.
You know, that new planet that they discovered out there, this little red star that, you know, and the, you know, the people who think that the Earth is lost and that the experiment of society and civilization here is gone, they look at this new planet as an opportunity to start fresh, to go to a place where there's no racism, there's no bigotry, there's no environmental destruction, no oil derricks, no this or that.
I forgot to tell you how to get there.
When I was talking about this, it's just, it's, you know, in galactic terms, it's a hop, skip, and trip away.
It's 120 million, no, 120 trillion miles.
Now, I don't know how many light years that is, but here's, a lot of people want to start making plans to go up colonize this new planet since we've blown it here on Earth and we're about to destroy this Earth.
Here's what you do.
You blast off from Earth and then you head out to the outer reaches of our solar system.
And when you get to Uranus, hang a hard lift.
And that, the gravitational pull of Uranus, as you make that hard lift, will take you right out to this new pristine paradise of Just waiting for you to get there and start anew with no political parties and no countries, just one mass of humanity all getting along without any oil whatsoever.
Well, we don't know how long.
That's what I say.
I haven't calculated the light years, but we're told 120, 120, yeah, 120 trillion miles.
I mean, that's nothing in space distance.
Yeah, make sure you go to the bathroom first.
Now, you'll be up there in suspended animation, H.R., when you get on these right spaceships.
You won't even know that you're traveling.
You won't know anything's happened until you got there.
There'll be one person who has to be in charge of making sure that everybody makes that hard lift as they pass Uranus.
And then after that, straight shot.
All right, audio sound by time.
We played for you the inept, bumbling, and highly, highly indicative of incompetence in terms of national security answer that Barack Obama gave to Brian Williams' question.
Okay, look, God forbid a million times we're sitting here tonight, and we learned during the course of this press conference that two American cities have been obliterated, and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt it's al-Qaeda.
Barack's answer, well, we got to make sure we get the first responders out there.
You can't have another Katrina.
And he went on, we got to get the intelligence right before we attack, and we got to make sure the world communities consulted.
It was a bad answer.
Here's how Mrs. Clinton answered the question.
I think a president must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate.
If we are attacked and we can determine who was behind that attack, and if there were nations that supported or gave material aid to those who attacked us, I believe we should quickly respond.
Now, that doesn't mean we go looking for other fights.
You know, I supported President Bush when he went after Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And then when he decided to divert attention to Iraq, it was not a decision that I would have made had I been president because we still haven't found bin Laden.
All right.
So there's Hillary's answer.
And you have to admit, folks, that answer is far more intelligent.
The last half of it kind of, she went astray.
She had to throw in the bushbash for the base, understand that.
But move as swiftly as prudent to retaliate.
You know, that's that's, and she's the only one on the dais last night that said this.
This has caused Pat Buchanan to make a comparison of Hillary Clinton to someone you have all heard of.
Joe Scarborough was talking to him.
He said, Pat Buchanan, I'll tell you who was not energized, and that's your former conservative base.
All those Republicans who voted for you in 92, 96, tonight they're staring in the mirror wondering why they wasted their vote because you, you, Pat Buchanan, compared Hillary Rodham Clinton to Ronald Reagan.
Explain yourself, man.
A hurting, aching nation wants to know what's going through your mind.
You've changed.
You've changed.
I think Rush Limbaugh could be on my case in the morning.
I mean, look, you know, I've watched Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I was not expecting great things from her, and I thought Barack was going to come through.
And I thought, Joe, she was at the top of her game.
And the one answer I thought was almost Reagan-esque was when she went into that answer on what she would do.
We're going to be prudent, but we're going to retaliate against these folks.
And if we find out a country was behind it, we want to be sure, but we're going to retaliate.
Now, Reagan would have done it much more smoothly and instinctively.
And she seemed programmed, but she hit every single point correctly.
You know, even those of us, Joe, in the vast right-wing conspiracy have got to give them credit when they do well.
So Pat Buchanan thinks that the answer that you just heard Mrs. Clinton was Reagan ask, and he thinks I'm going to be all over his case, which I'm not.
You can think what he wants to think.
But in the context of the other answers that came, Barack Obama's answer was pretty much the same as all these other candidates up there.
Well, first responders, intelligence, they just took the opportunity, the question, to bash Bush and to try to make political points on everything they think has gone wrong, like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a number of other things.
Hillary was also asked a question about Walmart, and I'm looking for her answer.
She used a specific two words or one word, and I can't find it.
I'll have to look for it during the break.
But she was being prayed.
When I'm flying home last night, I'm channel surfing around up there, and I'm watching MSNBC because they're the only ones really talking about the debate aftermath because they carried it.
It's number eight.
Okay, they were raving about this particular answer that she gave.
Yes, here it is.
The question from Brian Williams.
Senator Clinton, overall, is Walmart a good thing or a bad thing for the United States of America?
Well, it's a mixed blessing.
When Walmart started, it brought goods into rural areas like rural Arkansas, where I was happy to live for 18 years and gave people a chance to stretch their dollar further.
As they grew much bigger, though, they have raised serious questions about the responsibility of corporations and how they need to be a leader when it comes to providing health care and having, you know, safe working conditions and not discriminating on the basis of sex or race or any other category.
You know, Brian, this is all part, though, of how this administration and corporate America today don't see middle-class and working Americans.
They are invisible.
That answer was being treated as the best thing any candidate said last night by the people that I was watching on PMSNBC discuss this.
And what they loved was, it's a mixed blessing.
They think she was brilliant in pointing out that Walmart's done some good things.
They started small and they were able to stretch the dollars of poor people, but now they're stretching the dollars of everybody and that's hurting other people.
And then we get this routine.
They're discriminating on the basis of sex or race.
They don't have safe working conditions.
They're not providing health care.
They're going to open 400 clinics.
Walmart's going to open 400 health clinics throughout their chain of stores.
They're going to do more for health care than Mrs. Clinton has done for health care with her stupid Hillary care plan.
But the thing about this, forget the mixed message.
The last thing she said here is the key.
You know, Brian, this is all part of how this administration and corporate America don't see working Americans.
They are invisible.
It's just the exact opposite.
The truth of the matter is the way Democrats see average Americans and they see them through the lens of contempt.
They see them through the lens of incompetence.
Democrats like Mrs. Clinton look at you and see hopelessness.
You don't have what it takes to overcome obstacles in life.
You can't get along unless Mrs. Clinton is riding herd on the evils in our society.
And who are they?
Well, they're big oil.
They're big drug.
They are Walmart.
Any big corporation, you look at their enemies list and who they want to get even with.
She wants to take the profits of the oil company.
She said that very, very socialistic proposal that she made.
Of course, nobody hyped on that much, but they look at average Americans and don't see potential at all.
And they're out there sitting and talking about how average Americans are invisible to corporate America and this administration, which has done more for average Americans than any Democrat administration to come down the pike in I don't know how long, with tax cuts and economic growth and opportunity.
It is amazing.
The affluence in this country today is astounding.
And nobody is really aware of it because it's not being reported.
Individuals are aware of it, obviously, in terms of their own life, but they hear how rotten things are, so they think they're just lucking out.
They feel even a little guilty about doing well because they think so many other people aren't because they're being fed a bunch of lies about the truth.
This country is so effluent.
There's so much economic opportunity here.
It is breathtaking, especially when you travel the world or have traveled the world and see what genuine poverty is and genuine economic depression, lack of opportunity.
This place is the Garden of Eden.
This country is the Garden of Eden.
And they refuse to see it that way.
They cannot possibly.
When is the last time you have heard a Democrat say something positive about this country?
Since Bush was elected, when's the last time?
Even if they get close, Walmart's a mixed blessing.
Still got to tear the whole thing down.
Started off fun when I was on the board.
Now, and just destroying people's lives.
And she was on the board of Walmart, folks, and it was all just fine.
Right, David, the beginning.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
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800-282-2882 to St. Catherine, Ontario, which is in Canada.
For those of you in Rio Linda, this is Nicole, and it's great to have you on the program, Nicole.
Welcome.
Rush, it is the greatest honor and privilege to speak with you.
Thank you so much.
I was the last female caller in the second last caller of 2006 on your show when I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Walter E. Williams about the lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses.
I'll bet that was a great conversation.
Oh, it was.
Did you get a word in edge-wise in that call?
Oh, yes, quite a few.
Good.
Anyhow, I'm calling almost about the same matter.
I'm pursuing my master's degree in popular culture, and I had yet another wonderful opportunity to attend and present at an academic conference in Boston earlier this month.
Yes.
But I ran into a little bit of a situation that I thought you and your listeners might be interested in.
I would love to hear about it, but I first have to ask you a question.
Sure.
I'm amazed at what you can get a master's in these days.
I know.
You get a master's in basket weaving.
You get a master's in physical education, therapies, and a master's degree in popular culture.
Yes, actually, it's a unique interdisciplinary study to Canada.
However, the United States of America offers far more interesting programs pertaining to media studies and communities.
Well, that's because our popular culture is probably more perverted than yours.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Remember, America is the land of the free and home of the brave, and free speech doesn't seem to exist in Canada, or at least in the Institute of Commission.
Well, you may have a point on that.
Okay, so you ran into professor somewhere.
Yes.
My colleague and I, who's also a conservative, we were there together, and these three, after a cocktail party about the conference, and it was at the Boston Marriott, these three profs invited us out for a drink.
And I sort of know that everyone is sort of liberal.
It's very hard to meet a conservative professor.
And actually, that's what I asked Professor Walter E. Williams about.
But anyhow, they invited us out for a drink at the hotel bar, and I said, What the hell?
And, you know, one of the profs found out that I wanted to attend a U.S. institution for my PhD and that I love America and think it is the greatest nation in the world.
The issue of politics came up.
And I told this prof I'd rather not discuss my political leanings, but he kept on badgering me.
Yes.
Finally, I said, Fine.
Are you married?
Oh, no, no, no.
So you're not wearing a ring.
Oh, no.
No, okay.
Well, just try to get the lay of land here at the bar.
No, I live with my guinea pig, actually.
But anyhow, I am a conservative.
I said, I am a conservative.
I watch Fox News and I listen to Rush Limbaugh and I think Gregan was the best president ever.
And the prof looked at us in disgust.
And it wasn't because of our looks, because your screener said he could see my beauty through the phone.
So the female, there was.
Snurdly, you are pathetic.
You are pathetic in there.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were talking to me.
No, I'm admonishing Snerdley for coming on to you.
Oh, I hope I didn't get him in trouble.
I can see your beauty through the phone.
That is quote-unquote, by the way.
What else is going on in there, though?
The prof was looking.
He looked at you in disgust.
Well, actually, that wasn't the prof I had the problem with.
There was this female prof about in her late 40s, early 50s, from the University of Oklahoma, and asked me what I thought about socialized health care.
And when I said I'm not an advocate, she literally harassed me.
She grabbed my arm.
She started pointing her finger at me and crying and yelling at me because I guess she's talking about a personal situation.
And I immediately knew I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
So I left.
And, you know, I made sure that when I was at the door, I turned around, went back, and shook all of their hands.
My colleague stayed, and apparently more drama pursued after that.
But the moral of the story is: students, beware of your prof. And, yeah.
Well, we hear these kinds of stories routinely, but you shouldn't be surprised by these.
Oh, no, no, no.
I wasn't surprised.
Look, the trouble began when you mentioned my name, right?
Actually, that prof didn't, sure, that trouble could have began when I mentioned your name, but clearly the trouble began when I said that America was the greatest nation in the world.
Yeah, well, there's so many individuals.
Yeah, but don't discount the fact that it was mentioning my name in Fox News.
That's what set them off.
Okay, time for another answer here from Barack Obama.
If you want to say anything about this press conference last night, if you wanted to characterize it as something, look at it as the first audition for Mrs. Clinton's vice presidential candidate.
Because, look, folks, she's going to be the nominee.
It's not even a matter of question.
And as I said last week, there's an 80% chance, as we sit here today, that she's the next president of the United States.
You got Pat Buchanan out there comparing her to Ronald Reagan.
And you have me praising an answer.
So this is just, you know, who's going to be her Veep is what this is all about.
I was going to give you another answer from Barack Obama.
Question from Brian Williams.
What in your personal life, Senator Obama, have you done personally to make for a better environment, your personal life?
Well, we just had Earth Day, and we actually organized 3,000 volunteers to plant trees, which I mean like light bulbs.
Well, I thought the tree thing was pretty good.
Well, we've lost a lot of help.
We've also been working to install light bulbs that last longer and save energy.
And that's something that I'm trying to teach my daughters.
Okay.
So I'm just playing for you some of the highlights.
These are the highlights of the Democrat candidate press conference last night on MS NBC.
I know we're in a war for survival.
We're in a war about national security.
Well, Mrs. Clinton already sewed that answer up.
You know, once she says she's going to retaliate, there's nothing left for these other people to talk about intelligence and first responders and this sort of thing.
But he's organized 3,000 volunteers, plant trees.
He didn't even do it himself.
And of course, we now know that the whole planting tree thing is a scam.
This whole carbon offset thing is a scam.
The Financial Times ran the story yesterday.
We told you about it.
It is a 100% total scam, which we've known.
At any rate, David in Omaha, glad to have you on the EIB network.
Nice to welcome you to the program.
Hey, Mega Courthouse Gardos, right?
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I was wondering what's going to happen if there is a total stalemate and Congress never gives funding to the troops and just keeps attaching this baloney to the legislation.
There won't be a stalemate.
What if there were?
Where would we get the fund?
Well, I don't believe in if.
If it's for children.
Oh.
And it's, I mean, we can play the game.
I'll play the game with you, but I'm going to answer your question seriously.
They're not going to defund the war.
Carl Levin has said so.
Mrs. Clinton, in a story in the Hill newspaper yesterday, said that it's going to be impossible to override the president's veto, and that I'm not sure the Democrats want to defund.
All this stuff in the House and Senate the past two days has been, David, is a political state.
What?
I was just wondering.
I'm sorry.
One of the kids get out of the house or something?
Yeah, they're always running around.
Hey, I was just wondering, wouldn't it be a shocker if the American people actually ended up just going ahead and funding our troops themselves, you know, out of their pockets?
I would think that would be crushing to the Democratic political party.
Well, okay.
Now you're living in dreamland.
I mean, we may as well start doing bank sales to fund the war in Iraq.
You know, we've got the 15th anniversary of Dan's bank sale coming up, I think, on May 24th.
I think that's when we went to Fort Collins.
I don't know that I'm going to...
In fact, there's not enough time to set something up.
Because I just now realize that the anniversary date is May 24th.
But that's not going to happen.
They're not going to defund it.
Even USA Today has a story today.
Jim Moran, who's about as radical a Democrat as you can find, says, I think we're ultimately going to lose this battle, although I think it'll be a pyrrhic victory for the White House because they are going to lose the war for public opinion.
Representative Jim Cooper, conservative Democrat from Tennessee, said, look, the money's going to flow because the troops always come first.
This is really just a battle for the mind of the public.
Congressman Cooper, this is more than politics.
This is the point that they don't get to them and the Democrats and this whole best defunding the war and this withdrawal target dates.
It's all politics to them.
It's purely political.
And it's about far more than that.
This is, I'm telling you, the American people know this, and the Democrats are doing themselves no favors with all this.
This is going to redound to their, they're going to regret it somewhere down the line.
You just can't behave and say the things that they're saying in the midst of times like this.
Remember, they didn't have the guts to talk this way before the election last November.
They were doing anything they could to keep their agenda hidden.
It was all about the culture of corruption, and it was macaca, and it was Foley, and all.
But now they're so giddy with their new power, they can't help themselves.
They're finally telling us who they are.
And the more of that, the better.
Here's Lori in Detroit.
Lori, you're next.
It's Open Line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Rush.
I'm in full panic mode here.
Why?
I've heard three times today a disclaimer on 760 WGR Detroit, the views and opinions of WJIR 760, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What's going on?
What's going on here?
Are they trying to take you off 760?
And if they do, I'll never listen again.
Well, no, no.
If they are, it won't happen until after next Thursday because I've got a personal appearance there at the Novi Center that's sold out.
So I don't, no, they're not going to do that.
It's censorship.
No, they're not censoring anything.
They're just saying in their disclaimer that whatever I say, they don't agree with.
Yeah, but why all of a sudden?
Why all of a sudden?
I've been listening for two years.
I'm the one who called about the gas rebates, and I've been listening for two years.
I've been converted to conservative views, so I've been listening to you, and if I don't get my rush, I will be cranky.
You will.
I know.
Yes, you will get your rush.
Oh, okay.
You might be cranky, but you will get your rush.
Oh, Rush, I hope so.
Don't worry about this.
I don't know what's behind this.
Something's going on, though.
This happened when the program first started.
When the program first started back in 1988, we started 56 little radio stations and WABC in New York, and it grew rapidly.
And, you know, it was controversial in its day.
And so I did the disclaimer myself as a means of protecting the radio station, views expressed by the host of the show, and not necessarily those staff management nor sponsors of this station.
And nobody's felt the need to disclaim the show until recently when WJR, I think it started today, as we got a phone call earlier from a guy who couldn't go on the air, but said he had heard it like you did.
But beyond that, I don't know what it's about.
But don't sweat it.
Everything's cool.
If I can't get my rush weekly, I will be a mess.
You will get it.
I mean, if the worst possible thing happened, you would still be able to get it on the internet.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes, there's always an answer, and there will always be Rush.
Okay, we love you, Rush.
Always, and I love you too.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate your concern, but please do not do not ⁇ do not be worried about this.
Everything's fine.
As long as they make it known up there that whatever I say they don't agree with, then everything will be cool.
And nothing will happen.
Here's Ron in Parkland, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you, buddy.
Thank you, sir.
Well, nice to have you with us.
Listen, something I noticed, I found it completely remarkable watching the beginning of that, you call it a press conference.
I call it a Love Fest last night.
Whenever it was probably the first five questions right off the bat, and I'm sitting there astounded, like, am I not paying attention or am I missing something?
It seemed like whenever, and Brian Williams asked five pointed questions, they never answered the question.
Well, of course not.
They went right into their talking points.
Of course not.
They said that's a good question or something.
Oh, that little observation of yours illustrates the pointlessness of doing all this in April of 2007.
The reason they didn't answer the questions is because the only thing that mattered last night was not screwing up.
Don't make a gaffe.
Don't be aggressive.
This is not the time.
People, when they go to vote in these primaries that are going to start early next year, are not going to remember what happened last night unless somebody sticks their foot in their mouth.
And I'll tell you, this Obama answer on what he would do if we were hit again, if some of those other Democrat candidates want to start taking shots at Obama on the basis of he's not ready for the office,
that answer, if there was a gaffe last night, if there was a goof, it's a toss-up between that and Edwards being tongue-tied for 12 seconds when asked who he looks to for morality or moral leadership, who was his moral inspiration.
Grab that bite.
What soundbite number is that, Mike?
My Q sheet here is all over the place.
I'll see if I can plant it here.
It's all over the place, and I play it.
It was number 12.
Because people may not have heard this if they just joined the program recently.
Here's a question that this is gaffe number two of the night.
Edwards was asked who his moral leader is.
This is his answer.
I don't think I could identify one person that I consider to be my moral leader.
My Lord is important to me.
I go to him in prayer every day and ask for both forgiveness and counsel.
My wife, who I think is the finest human being I've ever known, is a source of great conscience for me.
My father, who raised me to believe that every human being on the planet, no matter who they are, where they live, or what the color of their skin or what family they were born into, has exactly the same value.
Yeah.
So that's gaffe number two.
Obama's is the first gaffe.
And that 12 seconds of silence is legitimate.
And unlike other cable networks, we didn't add to it.
We didn't shorten it.
We didn't lengthen it.
We didn't loop it.
We didn't put little funny noises in it.
We just played it for you as is.
Now, why did he stumble?
Why did it take 12 seconds?
And then he finds I don't think I can identify one person as my moral leader.
Probably sitting there saying to himself, what the hell is this question?
We're a bunch of liberals here and he's asking us about morality.
We'll be back.
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Claire in Charlotte, North Carolina, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Rush, great to talk to you today.
Thank you very much.
I've been sitting here listening in almost disbelief at the praise for Hillary Clinton's answer to that question last night.
If we were attacked, that she would take retaliate.
Yeah.
Because no one asked her what type of retaliation or if that meant military action.
And that took me back to the 9-11 Commission hearings where we heard over and over and over again from both William Cohen and Madeline Albright that none of the intelligence we had on Al-Qaeda was actionable.
I don't know if you remember that.
I remember all that, but that was all BS.
Well, I know, but so is this.
That's my point.
She's just saying what she thinks people want to hear.
And I don't believe that.
How does that make her any different than any other politician?
Well, it doesn't really.
I'm going to tell you something.
We've got to be honest about it.
We're going to talk about this.
Yeah.
We've got to be honest about it.
If you compare her answer to that question to all those other Democrats up there, it was a good answer.
That's true.
You have to say that.
I mean, retaliation, that's the normal natural instinct when your country is hit.
If there's anything remarkable about this, it is that the answer is remarkable.
Stop and think it's the natural thing to say.
Well, we get somebody in two cities, we'll find out who did it and take it to them.
Everybody would say the fact that Mrs. Clinton is one of eight Democrats to say it has caused the presses to stop.
Now, what does that tell us?
That she's the best.
No, it tells us.
By telling people what they want to hear.
It tells us that Democrats and media people are stunned when a Democrat sounds tough on national defense, sounds tough on national security.
Why?
What a great answer.
It's not a great answer, except when you compare it to the rest of the funny duddies that were up there.
It's a right answer, but it wasn't great.
It's remarkable only in the sense that it's remarkable.
Any Democrat actually said it.
Okay, I see your point.
Yeah, I had not really looked at it that way.
The typical answer is Obama's.
Well, we make sure we don't have another Katrina first.
We got to get the first responders.
We got to make sure FEMA, whatever.
All that other stuff that has nothing to do with retaliation or even preventing another attack or demonstrating U.S. strength, making sure the world community understands that we're not out there trying to hurt them, that we're working with intelligence agencies.
We're not going to lie about it.
That's what people expect from Democrats.
That's what people have come to expect.
Mrs. Clinton comes, I'm going to kick their ass, is essentially what she said.
Whoa, we don't hear this from Democrats much.
And we certainly haven't heard it since the Iraq War started.
We've been hearing withdraw, get out, America can't win, we need to lose.
And here she is rattling sabers like this, just within the context of where Democrats and liberals are on this.
That's why that answer is remarkable.
And the fact that it's remarkable to me is an indictment of Democrats.
And the fact that the media stopped the presses.
So, whoa, and that Pat Buchanan, whoa, this sounds Reagan-esque, is the greatest illustration of where the modern-day Democrat Party is when it comes to protecting this country.
That kind of an answer opens mouths.
Well, I'm awfully glad I called so that you could add all that clarification to that because I see what you mean by that.
And even though I still don't like her, and you put much more context into your reason for saying that.
I am the leading host in America.
Well, that's why.
But I didn't say I like her.
No, no, no.
I mean, I just mean putting it in the context that that is just proof once again, like you said, that it is just so shocking to hear a Democrat actually say something for you.
Exactly.
So shocking that Pat Buchanan pronounces it Reagan-esque.
Stop and think of that.
You think Hillary likes hearing that?
Oh, not one little bit.
Justin Nixon-esque.
There you go.
At any rate, I appreciate the call.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Before you go, before you go, I just thought of a question to ask you.
Yes.
You get upset when I announce my theory, a belief that Hillary, as of this moment, as we're sitting here, 80% chance she's the next president.
Does that bother you when I say that?
No.
It doesn't bother me.
I guess because it energizes me, Rush.
I'm very involved in grassroots politics here in Charlotte.
And it just energizes me to go out and energize the base and get people out, you know, and hopefully to get behind whatever, if there is a true conservative candidate to get behind on the Republican side.
The only reason I asked is because I still can't escape it no matter where I go.
There is an abundance of Hillary fear out there.
And I'm routinely hit with the question.
Do you think she's really going to win?
Oh, yeah, 80%.
Oh, no, no, don't you.
Yes, people have been asking me this, and I've been wrong on Hillary every statement.
I've been wrong when I said she wouldn't run for the Senate.
At some point, you got to, wearing my shoes, sitting in my chair behind my microphone, you got to assess the situation as it is.
Right now, there's an 80% chance she's the next president, folks.
I'm telling you.
Boy, the fastest three hours in media and the fastest week in media.
We got one hour left in this week.
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