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May 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plan.
Time for broadcast excellence.
El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-feeling, all-sensing, maha-rushy, back in the saddle.
We are in New York, high atop the EIB building here in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited tourist sites in all of Midtown New York.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Now, since I was last here, and this is a note for those of you on the Ditto Cam, watching on the Ditto Cam today at RushLimbaugh.com, since I was last here, major, major work has been done to improve what was a poor lighting circumstance.
And we got little blue accent lights behind me for the backdrop.
We've got little miniature TV cameras blinding me now.
And here's what's happened.
We got the lighting perfect for television and perfect for the DittoCam.
It's so dark in here I can't read my stuff.
Don't know what the difference is in its identical studio.
Well, the fluorescents are a little bit different.
No, I've got enough light here to see.
John Creeley did a great job getting this set up.
He's sitting in there panicked, just hoping everything goes well.
And it's cool.
So we've got a lot to talk about today.
We're going to get to the debate.
And I know a lot of you are, you know, probably want to talk about the debate.
We will, but I still, the election is 500 days away, folks.
And there's some larger stories out there.
What's happening in Iraq, the Democrats.
That's one of the problems I had with the debate last night was that there's not enough attacking Democrats in this debate, the Republicans.
I know it's the primaries and so forth.
Now, I know that the questions, by the way, Fox showed last night how to professionally do a televised debate.
It wasn't like a school glee club, the way PMSNBC handled their debate.
And it was really well done.
No complaints about it.
We've got audio sound bites from it as well.
Before we're going to get to the program, let me address something.
A lot of you people, so I read my email, and I know that a lot of you people are, well, I don't know if you're angry, if you're frustrated, but look at it.
I can read between the lines even in email.
Such email subject lines as, so what are you, the new Johnny Carson?
Four days a week?
Are you sick?
You keep leaving.
What's wrong?
How come you're missing so much time?
Ladies and gentlemen, I have allotted myself as the CEO of EIB, allotted myself unlimited vacation time.
And I take it whenever I wish.
Now, you wouldn't like it if I took two days, two weeks straight.
I don't ever take two weeks to very rarely have I done that.
I take a day here, a day there, so that my absences are not prolonged because I miss you people too much when I'm not here.
Now, yesterday, I had a golden opportunity.
I had an invitation.
Yesterday was the only day that I could do it.
And if becoming CEO of your own company is not enough to allow me to make decisions like that, I don't know what is.
I mean, I've reached a certain pinnacle here.
It's America.
The country's not going to die with me not in the Attila the Hun chair for just one day.
I was invited with some friends to go play Auckmont yesterday in Pittsburgh, which is the site of this year's U.S. Open.
I lived in Pittsburgh in 1973 when Johnny Miller won the U.S. Open with a final round 63 on Sunday camping from way behind in the pack.
And I had never been there.
I don't even remember the course from watching it on TV back in 1973.
I didn't start playing golf until 1997, so I didn't spend a whole lot of time watching it.
But Bob Ford is the pro at Oakmont.
He's 26 or 27 or 30 some odd years he's been there.
He's also the pro at Seminole down in Florida, north of where I live, and that's where I played on Sunday.
He invited us up about a month or two ago and gave us a date range, and they were all during the week.
And they're trying to limit some play because they got the open coming up.
And I just had a great time.
It's probably the hardest golf course that I've ever played.
I shot a 94.
I'm going to tell you, for you people that play golf, this Oakmont was probably the golf course that made me appreciate, and I always have appreciated the talents and skills of professionals.
But this course makes me appreciate it all the more.
The greens there are impossible.
The rough is way up.
The fairways are narrow.
They've taken out 4,000 trees, which is good.
I don't know about for the environment, but they took out 4,000 trees.
So you don't have to hit in a bunch of trees.
But the rough makes up for that.
It was just a gorgeous golf course.
And the membership up there could not have been nicer.
I was walking through the clubhouse and out on the veranda before and after everybody.
And Pittsburgh, you know, I live there and it's home of the Steelers.
And I've got fond memories when it was my first big city away from home.
But it's also a big Democrat town.
It is, always has been.
It's a big union town.
I was just, the membership, a bunch of people were just as nice as they could be.
And my caddy, Danny, you're going to talk about your trip to Oakmont when you get back on there.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I'm going to lead off my program.
Have you had a good time?
Well, yes, of course.
You can tell.
We were having a great time.
Bob Ford and I teamed up against my other two buddies, and we cleaned their clocks, cleaned their clocks.
The match was over at the 14th hole.
So it was, but we're just a great time.
And I want to thank everybody up there, and Bob Ford especially for setting this up.
As I say, folks, it's a unique opportunity.
And I've been very lucky to be thinking about these golf courts.
What?
Who said something?
What do you mean, in for it now?
Where have you been?
Did you just sit down, Snerdley?
I have been addressing the fact.
I know people are going to say, I'm in for it now.
You keep talking about golf.
Stick to the issues.
My friends, look, I am not going to allow this program to be reshaped or formed.
It has always been me talking about as much of my personal life as I feel like volunteering less and less and less over the years.
But like I told you last Friday, I love sharing my passions with people.
That's just something I like to do.
I wish I could have taken all of you who play golf with me.
But I couldn't.
So I'm telling you about it.
And it was just fine.
I don't want to thank the people that made it possible.
I'm just being a nice guy here.
We've got two hours and 46 minutes left here to get to the issues.
So anyway, a couple little stories here before we go to the break.
You know, I always, I tell a joke.
Let me tell a joke very quickly.
I've told it a couple times.
Set this story up.
God is watching the Oprah Winfrey Show, and he says, you know, I have screwed up.
The human race has just failed.
My worst creation.
I'm going to end the world.
I'm going to end it tomorrow.
So he calls journalists, reporters, from various newspapers.
First of all, calls the New York Times and says, hi, this is God.
Reporter says, didn't know you existed.
Well, I do.
And I'm ending the world tomorrow because you have made a mess.
The human race has made a mess of everything.
New York Times guy says, can I have an exclusive on it?
No, I'm calling other newspapers.
I need to get the word out.
Humanity needs to prepare for the apocalypse.
So the New York Times guy says, okay, thanks, and starts writing up the story.
God calls USA Today, calls the Wall Street Journal, a couple of other places.
The next day, the newspapers publish the story with their headlines.
And the New York Times headline, God Says World to End Tomorrow, details page C4.
The Wall Street Journal says, God says world to end tomorrow, markets to close early.
USA Today's headline, God calls, We're Doomed.
The Washington Post headline, God says world ends tomorrow, women and minorities hardest hit.
Now, that is a joke those of us in the media tell because that is a template.
Well, lo and behold, here's a story from CNN, and all these drive-bys are the same.
And it's a story about a poll.
Local government's ready for disaster.
Fed's not.
This is a perfect example of how lazy journalists use a poll for a story rather than actually doing reporting.
And here's the opening paragraph.
Most people say their families and local emergency agencies are ready for the next natural disaster, but the federal government is not.
Women and minorities are less confident on both counts.
I kid you not.
Women and minorities, hardest hit, women, you can count on it in every, just like there's a template developing for the Republican debate last night.
How come there are no women and minorities on stage?
I guess you forgot about 2004.
And I guess, you know, the Democrats never get those kinds of questions because it's always assumed that they're fair and just and not discriminatory and all that.
But anyway, this story, I guess it's too hard to investigate the government is actually ready for another disaster.
This is an AP story, but it's ran on CNN.
Reports on yet another stupid poll by another stupid news organization, which actually shows nothing but how stupid the public is in believing everything the drive-by media says.
We've got a poll of the American.
Why would you believe a poll of uninformed or ignorant people?
What does it matter that a majority of Americans don't think the federal government's ready?
Why not go ask the FEMA people?
They're the ones who would have to mobilize.
So we're to conclude, oh my gosh, the government's not ready.
Majority of people don't think so.
They must know something I don't.
It's just trash.
Absolute trash journalism.
Also, in the latter part of the story, Democrats were also less confident than Republicans that their families, local emergency agencies in Washington were ready for a disaster.
So, who cares?
We know that Democrats are idiots anyway on most things.
It's a story on what the American people think about who's ready and who isn't ready for the next disaster.
Of course, this is just a story in a run-up to June 1st, when the next hurricane season starts.
People are already mobilizing the news vans to head out there to the various beaches scanning the horizon, even though, well, I've been through this.
It's just frankly absurd.
But women and minorities are less confident that the federal government's ready for the next disaster.
I just, I look at this.
I have to laugh.
And I marvel at the lack of originality, creativity, and independent thinking that exists at all the levels of the drive-by media.
Okay, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Oh, one more thing.
Let's get Audio Soundbite 1 out of the way here, Ed.
This was last night on CNN's Showbiz Tonight.
That had to be CNN headline news.
I think it's headline news that does, well, that means nobody saw it.
Well, this is even better.
The host out there was A.J. Hammer, and his guest was the Reverend Sharpton.
And here's the question from the reporter A.J. Hammer and the Reverend Sharpton's answer.
You look at a guy like Rush Limbaugh, okay?
He has certainly said things and then later apologized for them.
He talks about Barack Obama on his show all the time.
He has referred to that man as a Hafrican.
He has played a song called Barack the Magic Negro.
On surface, I find that offensive.
A lot of people find that offensive, but the outrage over that paled in comparison.
Where do you draw the line and decide who's going to go after?
Because Mr. Lombard has done years of stuff against me, now Obama, others.
He has the right to do that with individuals.
That is not what we're talking about when you castigate a race or a gender.
And he's very, very careful that he will hit individuals.
I think he wanted us to come after that.
He called me Mr. Lombard.
Did you hear that?
Mr. Lombard's done years of stuff against me now.
He thinks I was set in a trap.
That's what they think this is.
No, I'm going to tell you what it is.
Because the Reverend Sharpton's got this right.
I go after individuals, not genders or groups or this kind of particularly minorities.
And I go after people of power, which is the mainstream media's primary reason for existing to investigate people in power.
And that's what I do.
I just investigate the people in power, drive-by-media ignores, Democrats and liberals.
But I actually think it's this.
They know, folks, that if you're going to take out the king, you take out the king.
If you make a move on the king and you fail, then it's over and you can't go back again.
And so this is not enough to take me out.
Don't think they don't want to, but the Reverend Sharpton knows this is not the arena to step in.
All right, now we'll go to the first profit center.
Time out.
We'll be back.
Continue with all the rest of the program right after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, sitting here in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, let's get in a little bit of debate discussion.
We've got audio soundbites.
I'm not going to get to those yet, Ed, but Ed's the substitute broadcast engineer today.
McCain is out, or Mamon is out.
What is he, antiquing again?
See, here's the difference.
When the primary broadcast engineer goes on vacation, he follows his wife around to antique stores.
Well, okay.
Now, Ed's stepping in and brewing his own beer.
Well, fine.
That's good.
He's done that for many, many moons.
I'm happy to hear it.
Yeah, it's a good point.
I'd be making my own beer, too, if I had to go antiquing on my vacations.
But anyway, we're not going to get to the audio soundbites of the debate yet because there's some things I want to say about it.
I watched some of it on the way back into New York from Pittsburgh last night.
And I know that everybody's got their own opinions about this.
I'm going to tell you what I think is going on.
The media, and I love the way that the Fox people, the professional way to do a debate, and they did it.
But they limited the questioning and the answers in such a way that Republicans ended up attacking Republicans.
And I think it's time.
We're talking about winning the White House here.
And I know it's the primaries.
We've got to pick a nominee.
But enough of this beating each other up stuff.
There's plenty that the Democrats are doing and saying that's attackable.
And Giuliani did hit the Democrats, but I just didn't hear enough of it for me.
But I think there's something more important.
The way the media covers all this, and I think the way some of you may even watch these debates, it's more about the game right now than the substance.
And I'll give you an example.
Giuliani is being praised.
He's going to rave reviews for the way he stood up to the comment made by Ron Paul, in which we need to examine our policies and listen to what the terrorists are saying if we want to understand why they're attacking us and killing us.
Now, all the other candidates on that stage wanted to respond to Ron Paul Toob.
They weren't allowed to.
Rudy just got the first shot in.
Now, this is not to criticize Rudy, but folks, how hard is it to sit there and criticize anybody, Republican or Democrat, who essentially says something that most people are going to hear as criticism of the country?
How hard is it?
So people, well, big time score, Rudy, Julian.
I understand how people think it, but that's more, let's analyze the game of this rather than the substance of things.
And the substance is important to me.
Like, I think Romney, a lot of people disagree with this.
I think Romney's getting stronger.
Seems to me has his positions nailed down.
The flip-flopping charge nevertheless seems to take him off step for a second.
But he looked like he was in command to me.
That's just my opinion.
I've formed no conclusions about anything.
I'm giving you the game analysis of the debate last night.
I think if McCain were pressed as hard as Rudy is being harassed about his non-conservative positions, I think McCain would be finished by now.
But, you know, there are so many of them.
There's so many non-conservative positions that McCain has, but the action line in the media these days is Rudy.
And is he a conservative?
And Rudy's funny makes a play.
I'm not a conservative.
I'm a center-right Republican.
He's not going to try to play the game that he's a conservative anymore.
Ergo, his new position on abortion.
Now, it was obvious to me last night that both Rudy and McCain want the election to be about the war.
That's what they think their strong suits are.
Understand that politically.
But the reason you have to understand the reason for this is that neither of them are that conservative.
But you can sound conservative and tough on the war and maybe overcome some of your lack of conservative credentials by capitalizing on your strength on an issue that many people, Republican Party, most people feel very important and that's the war on terror and threats to the country.
But a president has to do it all.
A president's going to be doing much more than just managing or leading a war, has to fight a war, has to protect our liberties at home from those who threaten them with their big government agenda.
And, you know, conservatism is still important to me here, folks.
Not center-right Republicanism, but conservatism.
And when you focus on the war, you are like that because you don't have to zeroed in on the positions other than the war.
I have a few more thoughts on this, but it's time for another timeout.
We'll get your phone calls in on all of it as well.
You sit tight.
We'll be back faster than you know it.
Yes, yes, thank you very much.
Rush Limbaugh here with half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, we're at 800-282-2882.
Look at this.
This is from the Los Angeles Times today.
Food prices eat deeper into wallets.
Grocery costs in Southern California are up 5.7%, outpacing the U.S. and rising at their highest rate in years.
Really?
Prices are rising in food at their highest rate in years?
Well, now, that's got to mean gouging's going on out there.
There got to be some gouging happening out there among food producers.
I wonder who's we need an investigation.
Somebody's gouging out there.
And, you know, you might want to say, well, it's the ethanol crowd because they're really causing corn prices to skyrocket out there.
Nationally, food prices rose 3.9% in April compared with the same amount last year.
The outlook is equally chilling.
Somebody tell me when prices have gone down.
I mean, everything goes up.
Prices are always going up.
Well, oil, yeah, oil goes down, but everybody knows that's just a setup for the later price increases.
You know, now everybody, gas prices, average family of four now, average American spending $1,000 more per year on gasoline now than, well, a year ago or whatever it was.
The price of, well, I mean, that's true.
Big TV, the plasmas, the flat screens are coming down because of people like me who go out and pay the big freight prices early on, allowing the price to come down for other people.
But it says food prices here are increasing at their highest rate in years.
Even the rising cost of corn, highly sought after, not only as ingredients for thousands of food products, but also to make ethanol.
A bushel of corn has gone up.
The price of a bushel of corn gone up 46% in one year.
And of course, it's just the latest in the never-ending effort of the drive-by media to keep everybody panicked and in the doom and gloom.
Oh, it's going to hell in a handbasket mode when it's life.
You know, it's life.
And I really cringe, you know, when I then read stories.
Poll says majority of Americans say government needs to do more about rising price of X.
And government has nothing to do with it.
Well, I don't want to go there.
They do in certain ways, but the whole dependence on government thing is like this.
It's like there's a story in the stack here about hurricanes and their disastrous impact potential this year, and it's all about FEMA.
And FEMA says, despite this poll of the American people that says they don't think the feds are ready, FEMA says they are.
Now, who do we believe?
FEMA or the American people, who have no clue what FEMA's doing right now.
But anyway, the story is rife with people in the story saying, I don't know if we can depend on the government.
The government's not going to...
Good!
Try depending on yourself.
As if in a storm's coming, leave.
You know, ensure your place the best you can and get out if a storm's coming.
It's a big bugaboo of mine, and it's something the Lyft has been successful at for 50 years, is creating this notion that government has to do something or nothing will get done.
And it's just the exact option.
Now, back to the debate.
I want to reiterate this point again.
Rudy and McCain obviously want the election to be about the war only or primarily.
And the reason is that they're not all that conservative.
And talking about the war will allow that to be that fact to be not as obvious.
You have to remember that presidents have to do it all.
They have to fight wars.
They have to protect our liberties at home from those who threaten them with big government agendas.
Now, McCain, somehow McCain has managed to claim the mantle of spending cutter.
But big government's more about spending.
I mean, he would massively increase the power of government with his support for Kyoto and his position on global warming.
I mean, that is a position specifically designed, a whole policy designed to grow government and eliminate as much individual liberty as they can in the process.
And he's not getting called on in this stuff.
So He was opposed to tax cuts, which is our money.
Now says he wanted spending cuts as well, but we couldn't get the cuts.
So he would have let the government continue to take more and more of our money.
All this coming out after the fact.
But he's the guy who undermined the effort to kill the Democrat filibuster of judges when Bill Frist was ready to defeat it.
Remember the nuclear option or ready to pull the trigger on a nuclear option?
And it was McCain who puts together the gang of 14.
Conservatism is far more than national security.
That's a very important element of it.
There's no question.
And of course, we've got McCain Feingold.
And McCain Feingold, the worst assault on free political speech since our founding.
And we've got open borders.
And McCain is, you know, this immigration bill that they're trying to ramrod through again here is partly his creation.
He's not getting called on any of this stuff yet.
And I don't know that he will.
But I think he's highly vulnerable, but he has not been effectively hit.
Romney tried a little bit last night.
And some people said that McCain's attack and response was superior to what Romney did, where he said he's been consistent and Romney has not been consistent.
But McCain can be consistent.
He'd been consistently wrong on a lot of things.
Whereas Romney says he's learned.
McCain hasn't.
I'm just sharing the thoughts here with you folks in the game manner that, well, actually in a substance manner, because I think most people look at this debate, especially in the media, as a game.
It's like the horse race.
The media is always involved and interested in horse races rather than the substance of things.
And an analysis of the debate, as I am offering you now, I have not seen.
I have seen analysis.
McCain scored here and Romney didn't score there and Ron Paul blew up over there.
And Rudy really give me substance on this stuff.
And if they don't give it to me, I'll provide it myself.
Rudy, I mean, how hard really was it to smack down Ron Paul for his statement that everybody perceived to be blaming America for the 9-11 attack?
Rudy was first out of the box to attack him.
Everybody other, every other candidate up there wanted to, but they weren't allowed to.
But this is being portrayed as the greatest moment of the debate.
The best pull quote of the debate is said to be, I don't even remember who said it, about John Edwards.
Somebody wants to spend money.
Who was it?
Yeah, that's right.
Mike Huckabee.
These guys want to spend like John Edwards in a beauty salon or some such thing.
That's being said, cited as one of the best pull quotes of the night.
But I'll tell you what, I think I still say this, if one of these guys would just take over the debate and start attacking Democrats, whatever the questions are, they'd score a lot more points with voters, which I think is the point here.
Now, last night, Chris Wallace was more interested in Republicans attacking Republicans, and that's okay.
It got the debate going, and it was far superior to MSNBC.
But from a conservative point of view, remember, I'm a conservative, not a center-right Republican.
The issue today is the left.
The issue today is the Democrats, the American left, liberals, et cetera, et cetera, and how our guys are going to deal with them.
Are they going to try to appease them?
Are they going to try to reach out to them and try to get along?
I want to know how they're going to deal with the left.
And I want to know during the primary season.
I don't have to wait till we get a nominee to find out because then it might be too late.
That's why all this is too early for me.
This is why I keep telling you, I'm not all that revved up about this yet, because the first primary, 500 days away.
Do you people understand this?
500 days away.
And the media, I realize they have a role here.
The media don't want Republicans attacking Democrats yet.
And as good as the questions were last night, those guys at Fox didn't want any attacks on Democrats last night.
But the Republicans, let's be honest, are picking somebody who's going to run against the candidate of the other party.
And the point is to see who that should be, not who can best slam other Republicans.
I mean, if you want to get into a contest slamming Republicans, I can win that one hands down.
I can also win the contest who's best slamming Democrats, but I am not running for any office because of the pay cut.
Now, the debate was handled professionally as compared to PMSNBC.
And for one big reason, the PMSNBC hosts are partisan Libs, Matthews, Olberdork, for all the talk about Fox being one-sided.
Britt Hume, former ABC, Chris Wallace, former NBC and CBS.
Wendell Goeller is a longtime reporter.
And Chris Matthews, you've got Tip O'Neill's chief of staff and a Jimmy Carter guy.
You've got Olberdork, who is the puppet of David Brock's Media Matters little blog.
And all these all sorted other nuts that they put up there as so-called credentialed journals.
I don't think there was any comparison last night between the MSNBC debate and the Fox debate last night.
All right, a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Grab some of your phone calls after this.
Stay with us.
All right, let's go to the phones and let's see what excitement's lurking out there behind those blinking lights on the phone.
We go to Anaheim, California.
Johnny, you're up first.
Great to have you with us.
Good morning, Rush.
It's a real thrill to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I really found the debates last night very interesting.
But one of the most interesting things I found were their post-debate polls on who won.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Post-debate polls.
Yeah.
And I feel that probably Ron Paul got a real boost from the Democrat listeners.
They found a real soulmate there.
Ron Paul sounded like a Democrat to you?
He sure did.
Well, you know, I've had a couple people make that comment.
It's not that much different.
But I'm going to tell you what's happening out there.
Let's play the bite just to bring it up to speed here.
Five and six out there, Ed.
This is the debate last night at University of South Carolina.
And Chris Wallace says to, I'm sorry, Wendell Goeller says to Ron Paul, are you suggesting we invited the 9-11 attack, sir?
I'm suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it.
And they are delighted that we're over there because Osama bin Laden has said, I am glad you're over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.
They have already now, since that time, killed 3,400 of our men, and I don't think it was necessary.
These ridiculous chimes, too.
I'm getting so sick of these time zap-zap little sound effects in what are supposed to be debates.
Giuliani then responded to that.
That's really an extraordinary statement.
That's an extraordinary statement as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq.
I don't think I've ever heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th.
And I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn't really mean that.
And Ron Paul didn't do that.
And here's what's happening out there, folks.
Ron Paul has a lot of supporters.
He's got supporters.
And they are spamming polls on the internet.
They are spamming radio talk shows to try to defend Ron Paul against what happened.
He's, you know, he's got a lot of, he's got a lot of energetic and passionate supporters.
I've been getting them on the email.
I got a threatening email from a Ron Paul supporter, Rush.
And this is very cleverly done, by the way.
I was watching TV last night.
I've been listening to radio this morning, and every other talk show host has been predictable on this.
I'm looking for you to stand up and stand out from the crowd by being honest about what a great American Ron Paul was and what he did and didn't say last night.
And where?
This next one.
Let's go there.
Corey in Norfolk, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hey, Rush, I'm 30 years old, and I've been listening to your show on and off for half my life for 15 years.
Rush, baby.
Great to have you with us.
Well, you know, I'm just wondering, you said that you consider yourself a conservative first rather than a Republican.
Would that be correct?
Yes, and I said that many times on this program behind this very microphone.
I just don't understand.
I consider myself a conservative with, you know, admittedly libertarian leanings.
You know, you look at Ron Paul and you look at the other fields out there this year.
It seems to me that if you go down the issues, you know, Ron Paul is the only one who speaks strongly against a larger government and other things.
You know, he's very socially conservative.
I don't understand why you don't support him.
Well, I haven't made up my mind on any of these candidates yet.
But there's also, look, I'm going to be honest with you out there, Corey.
It's not my job to support these guys and give them a boost.
Their job is to go out and get the support.
Their job is to go out and get, they're the ones hunting for votes.
And I'm just going to be honest with you.
I don't think Congressman Paul has a snowball chance.
Well, I think that, you know, I mean, again, you say that, you know, your reasoning is not to promote a particular candidate.
But if you were to decide that he was the candidate that most identified with your conservative nature and you supported him in that way, you have the power yourself to make him the Republican nominee.
Enough of the base listens to your show that you could effectively change the balance, as it were.
And I just want to say that.
That is very true.
You do not know how right you are.
And that is why I must exercise this power responsibly, not as a cheerleader, not as somebody trying to demonstrate that awesome power.
I have to do this responsibly.
Which is why I'm not picking a name right now, because I understand exactly what you said.
I alone have the power to move the base.
Can we talk for a second about the 9-11 quote in the debate?
Here's my concern.
He said what he said.
Now, he said what he said, and I'm getting emails from Ron Paul supporters talking about, hey, he's been totally misunderstood.
You guys have to understand politics is perceptions.
And that's why I said the perception of what he said was not good for him.
And you're not going to be able to clean this up with emails and polls and phone calls to talk shows.
You're not going to be able to clean it up.
That's the media's perception, though, and that's what you're good at, is pointing out where the media gets it wrong.
Well, it wasn't the media's perception.
I mean, it was Rudy's perception, too, is every Republican on that stage last night wanted to take a swipe at this.
Just Rudy got in there first.
Look, there's the big flaw.
I can't even believe I'm doing this.
The big flaw in what Congressman Paul said was, we've been attacked long before we ever went to Iraq.
We've been attacked by terrorists.
And he said they're not attacking us because they like our freedom and like our liberty and so forth.
They're attacking us because we're over there.
They're attacking.
We listen to what they say.
Well, you can selectively do it.
I do listen to what they say.
And they're promising to wipe us all out for a host because we're infidels.
His position on this is libertarian.
We got no business going anywhere.
U.S. national interests be damned.
And it's not realistic.
I'm sorry.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
So the American people won out of Iraq, huh?
If that's the case, how come the Senate rejected a bill to cut off funding a year from now by a vote of 29 to 67?
It all happened this morning, even though Mrs. Bill Clinton voted for it, as did Barack Obama.
Details on that, lots of other stuff straight ahead.
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