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May 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Ladies and gentlemen, I uh I appeared this morning on my Sacramento affiliate, my adopted hometown and uh radio station that launched me uh to where I am now, KFBK, AM 1530.
I did about 17 minutes there, uh talking about this.
I don't know what this is other than just sheer incompetence, but what I want to what I want to say about this flap yesterday with the Barack the Magic Negro song and the television station Sacramento Channel 13.
Uh I'm actually feeling sorry for these people today.
Um it's it's it's been it's been a day.
They they still can get nothing right.
And I as I told the audience on KFPK this morning, I remember when I lived out there, local television news was huge, and it was respected, and the people, uh the anchors and the reporters uh were all very well credentialed and uh I mean it was must viewing.
And I don't I don't know what's happened out there, but clearly the uh the the television news, at least on this particular station, uh, is just it's it's gone south.
It's it's breathtaking how incompetent these people are.
They had a whole day yesterday to get this right, and they still don't have it right.
They st they are obviously they're on defense and they're backpedaling and they're trying to suggest that hey, we're we're just starting a dialogue.
Oh, we were we just saw this in the newspaper and we thought we'd ask the question.
But they said that uh you have to pay to vote on my website, which you don't.
Uh they said that I got into this and start attacked them.
I attack folks, I didn't attack them yesterday.
I destroyed them.
But I was simply sitting here minding my own business.
And of course I find out that they've done this.
This is my adopted hometown, and I know it's part of an ongoing campaign, and they're just little small-time dupes and don't even know they're being used by this organized campaign.
And they say I attacked them.
Uh they didn't attack me.
Oh, no, no, no.
They were just starting dialogue.
And then uh they said I was doing this for ratings.
Like I need to waste my time with a local television station for ratings.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is May Sweeps Week in radio, they said.
There is no sweeps week in radio.
Every week we are rated in radio.
Uh and besides, everything I do is ratings.
Why think my name's bandied about on every cable television show as often as possible.
Why do you think authors put my name in the titles of their books?
A bunch of parasites that couldn't sell their books without my name in the test.
Everything I do is I am ratings.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
So it's it's it's become apparent that that they see this as a glorious opportunity to call attention to themselves.
And I was asked by the uh the two people on KFBK this morning, Kelly Brothers and Amy, I said you uh do you think that they're dumb like foxes?
Uh doing all this for PR.
Maybe I said I don't think they're dumb like foxes.
I just I just think they're they're pathetically incompetent.
I mean, there's not even any journalism that's gone on here.
There's not the journalists investigate.
They don't see something on Wikipedia or YouTube and assume that it's true and run with it like these people did.
Uh but the thing is, if if if if they want to I don't know how anybody could believe any news story now ever again on Channel 13 Sacramento.
If they want to attract idiots, and if they want to use this as a ratings uh uh benefit or bounce to attract idiots, I mean there are plenty of them out there.
If that's what they want to go for, uh more power to them.
But I don't want to spend any more time on it uh than that.
There's nothing more that can be said.
Now look, it's Snurdley is in there groaning.
And there's too much, you know.
I didn't get to half the stack yesterday, and I, by the way, I'm not gonna be distracted.
You know, by this small fry stuff out there from getting to the real meat of the matter in the terms of the uh the big time news that uh that is out there.
So yeah, they they wanted me to come on their show, and there's no way.
Um why would I do that?
Uh well, I mean if it depends, you know, if I take some calls if it were partly depending on what the calls are.
Oh, they said that uh that flooded their their poll with my listeners.
I didn't.
All I did that played their video.
It was their video that gave out their website for people.
I didn't tell people to go vote on their stupid poll.
That's we don't do activism here.
Don't tell the audience what to do.
This is the most informed and knowledgeable audience in radio, and it's the most loyal, and it's uh it's it's the deepest.
They don't have to be told what to do.
At any rate, remember John Edwards?
Back in late April, John Edwards says there's no terror war.
Uh not a not a big he said uh uh there's no such thing as a global war on terror.
We're just we're gonna have these incidents out there, but there's no such thing as a global war in terror.
Just to remind you of that, six men from New Jersey have been arrested in an alleged terror plot against soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
According to law enforcement sources, investigators said the men plan to use automatic rifles to uh enter Fort Dix, kill as many soldiers as they could at Fort Dix.
It was just one of several military and security locations allegedly scouted by this group.
The suspects uh have their their Albanian uh nationals.
Uh and the uh the Duca brothers, uh Dryden Duca and Elshvir Duca, Shane Duca.
Uh the Ducas are believed to be Islamic radicals.
They're in the United States illegally.
Well, uh another one uh in this group is a U.S. citizen born in Jordan.
The U.S. Attorney's Office told uh Channel 4 in New York that one of the suspects was born in Turkey, four in the former Yugoslavia investigators said most of the suspects have spent several years in the United States.
Tony Snow said, well, there's no direct evidence, quote unquote, that the men have ties to international terrorism.
No, I guess not.
They're just Islamic fundamentalists, and they want to kill as many soldiers as possible.
John Edwards says there is no war on terror.
Uh all of this, by the way, going to come back to uh to haunt them.
A couple lighthearted little stories here.
A Southwest Ohio woman who loves Starbucks coffees decided to drop the habit because she was offended by a religious-related statement that the company printed on the side of a cup.
Michelle Incano of Springboro, Ohio, said she got an unexpected jolt when she saw the statement on a cup of coffee she bought last week.
Here's what was printed on the cup.
Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help?
As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imagin imaginations for guidance?
Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome?
After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.
This is on the side I I've never been to a Starbucks, and I uh my my uh instincts have proven right.
They're proselytizing.
Now they're ripping God.
Now they're ripping religious people.
After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to survive.
Why the statement is attributed to Bill Shell, who is a Starbucks customer for London, Ontario.
And it was included on the Cup as part of an effort by Starbucks to collect different viewpoints and spur discussion.
Yeah, we're gonna have dialogue everywhere.
It doesn't matter if the dialogue is rooted in truth.
It doesn't matter if the people engaging in dialogue have a foundation of knowledge that gives them any relevance when they engage in the dialogue.
All this rattle trap of we gotta have dialogue.
We must have dialogue.
Dialogue is worthless if it's two ignoramuses talking to each other.
Dialogue is worthless if it's two idiots or one intelligent person trying to talk to an idiot.
That's why I'm dropping the Channel 13 thing.
Uh I mean it it dialogue, for the thick of dialogue, Mr. Limbaugh, we must have dialogue.
So Michelle Incono, who's Catholic, said as somebody who loves God, I was so offended by that.
I don't think there needs to be religious dialogue on the Starbucks cup.
All I want is coffee.
Now the company chooses about 30 new quotes every few months.
According to uh Trisha Morriarty, the spokeswoman for Seattle-based Starbucks, by the end of 2000, that would be this year, for those of you who uh watch Channel 13 Sacramento, nearly 300 quotes will have been printed since the program began in January of 2005.
We're strong enough to overcome the catastrophes we cause.
Why turn to a figment of your imagination?
And finally, before we go to break from the BBC, well, actually, it's a Daily Mail in the UK, the BBC has been ruined by women producing terrible programs, according to Sir Patrick Moore.
He's an astronomer, he's 84.
He said the corporation needed to revert to the golden days when the news was presented by men with impeccable English.
We've talked about on this program before the subject of the fact that newsrooms, local and national newsrooms in television, have been have been uh overrun with women, and and uh here's what he says.
He was asked if television had got better or worse.
He says, much worse.
The trouble is the BBC is now run by women, and it shows soap operas, cooking quizzes, kitchen sink plays.
You wouldn't have had that in the golden days.
Asked about female newsreaders, he said there was one day in 2005 when BBC News went on strike.
And then we had the headlines read by a man talking the Queen's English, reading the news impeccably, oh for the good old days.
Yeah, it's a generational thing going on here.
Obviously, the man is uh eighty-four years old, and you know, everybody that age looks back and thinks that the Golden Age was the era in which they lived.
He may have a point here, but there's no denying that uh that that women have become more prevalent in editor-producer positions, and that we've called it the chicken of the news here.
And one of the one of the things that results from the chicken of the news is we have to have dialogue.
We just have to have dialogue.
We're we're gonna have we're gonna have dialogue.
The hell with whether anything you're being discussed is properly uh uh built, is true, or uh, or any of this.
And it's all about feeling good about ourselves.
By the way, one yes, and we have to have closure after the dialogue.
We must have closure.
By the way, we got a great global warming stack today, too.
I didn't get to any of that yesterday.
I just teased one story from the global warming stack.
I mentioned uh last week that I think we need to have separation of Earth and State, since uh global warming has become a religion.
I'm gonna build on that as the program unfolds today.
But last night, this is from the New York Times today.
Last night, Christopher Hitchens and the Reverend Sharpton had a debate.
Uh, and it was sold out.
It was a huge, well, I don't know what the capacity of the place was.
Uh, but it was before a crowd that packed the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library's Beau Arts Headquarters on Fifth Avenue.
And uh Mr. Hitchens said he realized that belief in God was uh something that a lot of people hold dear.
Mr. Sharpton, this is on page five of the New York printed page five of the New York Times story.
The Reverend Sharpton in a jab at Mitt Romney and the Mormon religion, which uh Hitchens had criticized because it once endorsed racial segregation.
Sharpton said, as for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don't worry.
That's a temporary situation.
So uh here is now the man who basically is the uh chief of police of speech at NBC and CBS, Al Sharpton, uh, who now says, well, as for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don't worry, that's a temporary situation.
Would that what we call that racial bigotry?
Would we what will we call this?
Religious bigotry.
The thing is nothing will happen to it could be hate speech.
Uh nothing, and could it be a call to arms to anti-Mormonism?
Uh get these people up in arms.
He doesn't really believe in God.
Get out there and vote against him or whatever.
At any rate, uh, nothing will happen to the Reverend Sharpton on this because the Reverend Sharpton is a uh minority and minorities because they have no power to be any of the isms like racists, bigots, or any of that.
Uh the uh the Reverend Sharpton uh will not be held accountable or called to account uh because minorities can get away.
They're just Trying to be heard.
Yeah, in the dialogue.
Uh just trying to be heard.
Nitt Romney, I think, ought to ask now for secret service uh protection, ladies and gentlemen, because of this hate speech from Reverend Sharp.
Back after this.
And welcome back, El Rushball, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
All right.
A little lesson here in drive-by media coverage, as it relates to the way they cover news about Republicans and Democrats.
I got a story here from a Houston Chronicle bitten uh written by Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau.
They headline Houston area firms steering pack money to Democrats.
The subhead packed money steered toward party that heads key committees.
All right.
Well, pretty boring, right?
This is standard day-by-day stuff in politics, is it not?
Let's read further.
Several large Houston area companies in the Republican-leaning energy industry.
Hmm, and other sectors have been shifting federal campaign contributions to Democrats, who are flexing their new power in Congress as they draft legislation on energy and the environment.
Political action committees for companies including Whoa, Conico Phillips, British Petroleum, Continental Airlines gave a significantly higher percentage of their contributions to Democrats in the first quarter of 2007.
Well, now wait just a second here.
Are we to now believe that Conico Phillips, British Petroleum, and other big oil companies are uh uh companies in the energy industry?
Why I guess so.
Why when big oil gives money to Democrats, they are Houston area firms leading energy industry firms, steering pack money to Democrats.
Now, can you imagine if this story was about these big oil companies giving money to Republicans?
Do you know how this story would be rewritten?
You know how the headline would be different.
Big oil firms continue to enrich Republican uh whatever, whatever it would be an entirely different thing.
So big oil is lavishing cash on the Democrats, but they're just firms and energy industries.
They are not big oil.
Here's Heather in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Heather, nice to have you on the uh EIB network.
Welcome.
Hi, awesome to talk to you.
Well, thank you.
I'm calling because um I wanted to ask you a question.
Um often you use the phrase feminization of America or chicken of the news, and I'm wondering what you mean exactly by that.
Uh well, what do you watch Channel 13 in Sacramento?
This seems pretty obvious to me.
No, I don't.
Uh uh Okay, what do I mean by the feminization of America?
Right.
What I mean by the feminization of America is that feminist doctrine of the modern era, which has its roots in the late 60s and early 70s, has cowed men.
Men now have linguini spines, and women and the way they think and do things, pretty much taking over or is making inroads in a lot of places, particularly uh in education, all the way up to higher education.
Okay.
Look at there there you would you agree with me that that men and women are different.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, that's all it women are what they are and who they are, and men used to be uh who they are, or were uh but you know, men trapped.
I mean, men, men they just do anything to get where they want to go.
The promised land, if you know what I mean.
So there's been this there's there there is there's just been a general uh uh decline of masculine culture, masculinity, and when it shows up, it's lampooned and made fun of, and it's called brute force, and and so for the chickification of the news is is nothing more than you admit to me that men and women are different, women look at things different, they have different interests, and they now have uh more positions of prominence in the news business than they used to have.
So I guess what I'm trying to say, though, is that like to emasculate a man isn't the same as feminizing him.
Like I don't think that the lack of masculinity is femininity.
So it's to me like when you're saying that, you're kind of saying like to be a woman is to be linguini-spined.
To be a woman is to be what?
Lingwini spined.
When you say that feminization.
No, no.
Men are linguini-spined when they become like women, but it's women are not linguinis.
This this you're opening a big can of worms here because I actually think that in many cases women have stronger constitutions than men, and this proves it.
What proves it, me?
Uh no, no, no, not you.
The fact that that men are capitulating all over the place.
Okay.
Okay.
Well that I guess that makes sense.
Because I just think the concept of what's feminine and what's masculine.
It's tricky because it's easy to say like, yes, there's a difference.
All right.
You hang on.
I've got a story buried deep in the stack, but you have reminded me that's there.
Ta well, just hold on to the break uh and then I will use this to illustrate what I'm talking about.
Can you?
I'd love to.
Good.
Thank you.
A man, a living legend, a way of life.
Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network at 800 28282, back now to Heather in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
All right, you still there?
I sure am.
Uh hub a hubba.
I found this story.
It's from Springer Science dot com.
Well, Springer dash SBM dot com.
And it's a st here's let me just read the first paragraph.
I'm going to summarize what the story says.
New evidence on sex differences in people's brains and behaviors emerges with the publication of results from the BBC's Sex ID Internet survey.
Survey questions and tests focused on participants' sex-linked cognitive abilities, personality traits, interests, sexual attitudes and behavior, as well as physical traits.
The archives of sexual behavior that is uh devoted a special section in its April 2007 issue to research papers based on the BBC data.
Now let me this is this is sort of high end in terms of its literature.
So let me just summarize this.
They conclude based on their massive survey that men are different than women.
Now why would somebody have to do a survey to conclude this?
I ask you, Heather.
I'll never forget Time Magazine in the late nineties or in the mid 90s actually ran a cover as though they were shocked.
New research indicates men and women are born different.
It's it's outrageous.
And I think the fact that we know that hormones affect behavior and men and women have different hormones.
I mean, to me the looks kind of over.
They see things differently.
Men and women see things.
This is not a criticism.
It's a simply it's a simple recognition.
Let me give you an illustration.
You remember the men Menendez brothers trial?
Just barely.
Well, let me refresh your memory on this.
Lionel and Lyle and uh whatever the other Menendez brother were accused of killing their mom and dad.
And in court testimony, one of the Menendez brothers admitted that he fired point blank into his mother's face, but she was still alive, so he went out to the car, reloaded, came back, and made sure she was dead by firing again point blank.
The there were six female jurors from Los Angeles, and they all said we felt so sorry for him because he's not going to have his parents anymore.
And we're looking at this.
Well, of course not.
He killed them.
Yes, but it's so sad.
Those were really nice boys.
We're pretty now.
No, I'm not saying it is.
I was just going to say this is not symptomatic of all women, but that viewpoint is becoming more and more predominant in our culture.
Uh you know, there are activists of certain persuasions, and there are people who are docile.
We conservatives happen to be very docile.
We sit around and we let this wave of cultural and sociological change just sweep over us because we're not out on the streets marching, and we're not out there saying everything said and done offends us.
We're out working.
We're productive, we're making the country work.
These people are just out agitating because they're not happy with themselves in general, or they're miserable people, and they're trying to spread the misery to everybody else.
And so this stuff's Wait, how can you s how can you disagree with me when the feminization of culture, when you look at what's happened to the uh U.S. military during the Clinton administration, it became a social playground, experimentation playground.
Women in combat, uh note asked, don't tell.
All kinds of the the mission of the military changed drastically to become socially acceptable, according to whose terms, rather than a lean, mean fighting machine designed to kill the enemy and break their stuff.
Yeah, I guess what I'd say is that they're redefining what femininity is.
Well, feminism has done that, yes.
Yeah, completely and they've tried to they've and they've they've they've they've sort of trashed femininity if it includes relationships and joy and happiness derived from the city.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think a classic example is that um I might get in trouble for this.
But homeless very like blatantly homosexual men are often described as effeminate.
And I think that's outrageous because I don't know any women who behave the way those men do.
It's like a caricature.
Well, uh I wish you hadn't brought that up because I have to um I have to tell you what's in this brilliant BBC report.
Oh no.
In addition to the news in this I mean, thoroughly researched, many, many participants in the survey.
Not only did they conclude that men are different than women, they also conclude that homosexuals think like women.
Thanks a lot.
What's in here?
It's the BBC saying this.
It's right here.
Uh homosexuals think more like women.
Now, I I have to say uh that neither of these shocked me, and I was curious as to why we needed a survey.
Men and women are different.
Homosexuals think more like women.
Well, they try to.
Well, try or what?
And this is not an indictment, but just sociological observation.
Uh by the way, I have another study that just came in from the BBC.
They've concluded that water is wet.
I mean, how you know how how ridiculous so anyway, the chicken of the news is simply an adjunct of that.
It's based in the and rooted in the fact that women look at things differently than men do, and when they get in positions of power and authority, their their their uh worldview, their influence is going to be felt, and you can see it.
Whether you want to be critical of it or not, it's another thing.
But it's it certainly exists.
So would you say that Condoleezza Rice is a feminine woman?
Yes.
And Condoleez, you know, it's Condoleezza Rice is a lady.
She's a woman and she's a lady.
Uh and I don't know how she acts with these guys in private, but I don't imagine she's a pushover.
Right, right.
Okay.
So I guess I'm just trying to say, like, that there's different ways of being feminine that are both actually I think Condoleezza's way of being is more genuine and more true than the caricatures of femininity that the feminists try to hoist on everyone.
Well, okay.
Do you think Nancy Pelosi, is she feminine?
She's a lady, is she a woman?
How does she strike you?
Yikes.
No, take politics out of it.
Take politics.
Okay.
Wait a minute.
Great and another another great example.
Feminization of culture.
The day that she's inaugurated as the Speaker of State.
Not speaker of the House, Speaker of the State.
There she is on the House floor.
And this is traditional.
She's not the first to have done it.
She's got family out there.
Big day, first female speaker of state.
And she's got grandkids being balanced on her knees.
She's got kids running around and all that.
And Charlie Gibson of ABC News.
And I don't doubt that a female editor or producer wrote this for him to read on the teleprompter, because that's what happens at uh newsrooms on television.
Talked about how look at this, isn't that a wonderful sight?
She can not only take care of her grandchildren and children, she can take care of the country at the same time.
That is what I mean by the feminization.
You would no more have had Walter Cronkite report something like that in that fashion sixty years ago, 40 years ago, than you would have had anybody else uh discussing it.
These are just cultural and sociological shifts.
And from that observation, we're supposed to conclude, by the way, that because of this newfound uh sensitivity, uh uh the ability to balance grandchildren and children on the knee and take care of the country at the same time that somehow this is a step forward.
See, what you have to understand about the left, Heather, and all that this is based in liberalism, is that incumbent in it or inclusive in it is the slam at traditions and institutions that have come before.
The advance of liberalism is always said to be major progress.
That's what I disagree with.
It is not major progress.
The advance of liberalism is destructive to traditions and institutions that have made the country great.
The advance of liberalism is destructive to customs and tried and true ways for society, populations to manage themselves in uh law abiding ways and other ways.
They're tearing things down constantly on the basis of false premises.
Uh and one of the false premises out there is that women are somehow more competent and uh and and able because of the differences, their their sensitivity or whatever to do things than men are.
And this has been something that's part and parcel of feminism for um, well, you know, since 1969, 1970.
That's when I uh remember the modern era of it actually commencing because that's when it started impacting my life.
And I'm telling you, I do not have fond memories of it, folks, and I never will have.
You know, I touched on this story yesterday.
I didn't have as much uh uh time to delve into it, but I want to go back to it today.
Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, all those far-left fantasies about the talking points that Carl Rove was faxing around to all the conservative pundits and all the radio talk show hosts, and talking about this this uh uh they drew a tree diagram to illustrate uh how news is made in the conservative media and Rove writes the talking points,
and it filters down uh to uh various elements of the conservative media in the food chain, and this is said to corrupt media and so forth.
In fact, the opposite is true.
We we have proven many times that it's it's what the Democrats do.
The Democrats constantly do this talking point stuff, and they are coordinated with with their buddies in a drive-by media, um, as as we've documented countless times.
You can have the same phrase, the same point made by 15 different journalists on a whole bunch of different networks about the same story.
Well, this New York Times story uh shows that that this criticism that Rove and somebody in the White House sending out all these talking points to the minions is another example of projection in reverse.
The New York Times reported on um actually this was, I guess Saturday or Sunday.
It was May the 6th, I think, which is uh Yes, I guess it was Sunday, reporting that anti-war wacko groups conduct a conference call every morning with the leadership of the Democrat Party.
And these anti-war groups, I mentioned that they've got a leash around the neck of Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry every morning.
Representatives from a cluster of anti-war groups gather for a conference call with Democrat leadership staff members in the House and Senate.
Shortly after, in a cramped meeting room in Washington, they convene for a call with organizers across the country and they hash out plans for rallies.
They sketch out talking points for rapid response news conferences.
They discuss polls that they've conducted in several dozen crucial congressional districts and states across the country.
And it really focuses here on um on move on.
On Thursday last week, leaders of moveon.org, the including the group's Washington director, sent a harshly worded warning to the Democrat leadership in the past few days.
We've seen what appear to be trial balloons signaling a significant weakening of the Democrat position on the war in Iraq.
On this, we want to be perfectly clear.
If Democrats appear to capitulate to Bush, passing a bill without measures to end the war, the unity Democrats have enjoyed and Democrat leadership so expertly built will immediately disappear.
The letter went on to say that if Democrats passed a bill without a timeline and with all five months of funding, they would essentially be endorsing a war without end.
Move on will move to a position of opposition.
So exactly what they accuse, falsely accuse of happening on the conservative side of the aisle is exactly what happens in the Democrat Party.
And this, and it's in the New York Times to boot, and it makes it clear that everything you hear from Dingy Harry and Pelosi and Jack Merth, and these is dictated by moveon.org and these wacko internet groups that uh that are literally yanking the chains of the Democrat Party.
And this, by the way, is why Hillary Clinton is so off balance here on uh on her vote for the Iraq War.
She doesn't dare apologize for that because that will kill her in the general.
But she somehow got to get past all this during the primaries.
And in the process, she's she's she's out there saying, we need a new vote to de-authorize the war in Iraq.
She knows that's never going to happen.
That's unprecedented.
That's just fodder for these little groups out there that have taken control of the Democrat Party.
This is, by the way, not new news.
Move on.org and a number of other these kook fringe websites on the left uh threatened that they were going to take over the Democrat Party from the Democrat National Committee, that the leadership just wasn't there.
And this this these are the people that are that are steering elected Democrats further and further left.
It don't take a whole lot of tugging on the leash to get them to move left because they already move in that direction on their own.
But here's every day.
And we've heard that Dingy Harry actually is inspired, motivated by his poll numbers at various Democrat websites as to how he's doing, and he will modif modify his uh his rhetoric in order to get his poll numbers on these websites up.
Uh stunning admission.
The New York Times, Tim in San Marcus, California.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Yeah, I'm great, sir.
Thank you.
I have two things.
One is a bit of praise, and uh another's a little bone to pick with you, but first I want to mention you know, you've been using the phrase uh drive-by media for a long time.
Yeah.
I thought that incident yesterday with that local TV station was probably the perfect illustration of that term.
And it really opened my eyes.
I thought, man, this is perfect, because here they took a story that was two months old.
They extrapolated this ridiculous premise, such as him needing secret service protection as a result of that song.
And then they tried to influence their own poll results by using phrases like uh what's going on?
Does Rush want to keep his job?
Or he's in really dangerous waters here.
And then they say, uh, but what do you think?
Well, you know, after they poison the well, then they want your opinion.
Right.
And so then they started reading emails that were either completely negative or that were at best backhanded compliments.
And I thought, you know, I I can't help but imagine these people sitting around in their conference room at the office saying, Hey, you know, let's go after Limbaugh today.
You know, we can call him a racist, and then we'll act like we're a real concern for his career.
That's not what happened, though.
Now uh let me very briefly what happened with these people uh they all claim, by the way, now on their on their air this morning to be rush babies.
They all claim to have grown up listening to me.
Uh and that uh I'm a good guy and uh have a loyal audience and all this sort of stuff.
And they but the guy, one of the guys says, Look, I I got into work at 3 15 in the morning and I see this newspaper story about this song.
So I went on the internet and I heard the song, and I whoa!
And I sit right next to a black guy.
Gosh, I thought about turning it down because I didn't want him to think I'm a racist, and that's what led to our poll.
Their story was not about a poll anyway, that they're just trying to cover it.
But the the truth of the matter is, this is a news organization that was totally unaware this song existed for two and a half months until they read a newspaper story on it sometime Sunday morning or Monday morning at 3 15.
And that's what is they didn't do any investigation, no research to find out what is this.
They they accepted a video on YouTube as source authority.
I mean, everything about journalism that is wrong, these people did it.
And it is an example of drive bite.
How well they just want to let's let's stir the pot out there today.
This could be really, really good.
Exactly.
And you know, the g there was a guy yesterday who said it's more than just sloppy journalism.
He said these people purposely went after you.
And you know, as I listened to the comments that they were making and this this faux concern that they had in their voices of, oh, you know, as if it's like poor Rush, he's going over the edge.
What you know, can we call him, find out what's going on?
I thought, stop the fakery.
You people are doing exactly what you want, which is a hit piece.
Right.
And they could have called, uh, and they never did.
Yeah, exactly.
So anyway, that that was my praise.
What's the bone to pick?
Okay.
Well, I called about six months ago after the Michael Richards incident, the guy from Seinfeld.
Oh, yeah.
And you know, there's a lot of you know he was being referred to as a racist at the time.
Yeah.
And I live here in San Diego, and we are routinely referred to as racist if we are against, for instance, 20 million people sneaking over the border and taking over the schools.
My my kid yesterday tells me that he's constantly being called a gringo in school, being teased.
And so I called up and I was in tongue-in-cheek.
I was going to say, you know, Rush, can you help me figure out whether or not I'm a racist if I'm opposed to such things?
And one of the things I asked Bo snerdly, I said, for instance, uh in the United States.
And I've got 30 seconds.
I so if you can get Okay.
I said, Am I a racist if I'm against uh nine any group in which nine out of ten of them vote for the exact same party?
And he said, them, them?
No, uh sorry, we don't want that tone on this show.
And I thought, you know, you've had Rita from Detroit on here so many times with her blue-eyed devil rather.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
But Rita do not do not compare yourself to Rita X. Um I I'm gonna ask Sturdly, I'll get the I get the details of it, but don't take that personally.
Please don't take it.
It was not meant that way at all.
Okay, folks, got to take a break, planning our next Al Sharpton parody song here in the break.
We'll be back.
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