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May 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 18, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Fired up, riled up.
It's Friday.
Joint live from New York City.
It's open line Friday.
It's Openline Friday, but we're talking about one thing so far.
We go to the phones.
You can still talk about something other than what I, of course, was talking about.
That is my gift to you on Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
So we just heard from a staffer up on Capitol Hill, the last caller of the last hour.
He said the phones over there are going nuts.
They are hearing from you.
I have not given out the phone number.
I'm sure other people have.
I, as a practice, don't give out the phone number because I want the calls to appear genuine.
And staffer said these calls appear genuine.
There's so many of them.
And it reminds me back in 1994 or 95, you know, Time Magazine did a cover story.
Then they, well, there was it.
Had uh had me smoking a cigar with the churlish look on my face and smoke wafting out of a corner of my mouth.
And the headline was, is Rush Limbaugh good for America.
H.R. just reminded me that Newsweek also did a call, at least they were they were trying to be competitive with one another.
Their cover story was, is there too much democracy in America.
Is there too much democracy?
That was aimed at me, too.
You know, talk radio was new, and people were getting riled up, and the Republicans had won the house.
Oh my God, there's too much democracy going on out there.
Well, the drive-bys are getting in gear here, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh the sob songs, the uh the victims, the rest of the propaganda is aimed at convincing us the bill doesn't go far enough.
And that's what the criticism from Dingy Harry and Pelosi is really all about.
Strategic maneuvering.
Uh there it's a moderate bill.
We should all just get behind this.
And I've got a story.
This is uh AP story, Mexicans fear U.S. immigration plan.
Congress's new immigration plan was bad news for tens of thousands of poor Mexicans who depend on a U.S. guest worker program for temporary jobs in agriculture.
Uh other seasonal work like landscaping and construction, millions of would-be migrants have been holding tight to President Bush's promise they could one day apply for temporary visas to get a glimpse of the American dream.
Oh, grab the violins.
See, the bill is still too harsh, folks.
At the U.S. consulate in Monterey, Mexico, which hands out more temporary visas than any other consulate or embassy in the world.
Edmundo Bermudez, a 36-year-old from the northern city of Durango, said the plan rewards those who've already entered the U.S. illegally while shutting out those who stayed home, hoping to gain legal passage.
He was especially offended by the plan to give preference to migrants with degrees and skills.
U.S. already has enough people with college degrees.
Who's going to cut their tobacco?
asked Bermudez, who's been working intermittently in the U.S. for the past eight years.
In Mexico makes about 10 bucks a day.
While in the U.S., he earns almost that in an hour.
$8 an hour.
Many in Mexico had hoped Congress would expand the guest worker program and allow more to cross legally.
They have.
The word just hasn't spread.
400,000 of them, folks.
It's in there.
I found it.
We we don't want the house or the latest car in the U.S. We want to go and work so our families can have a good life in Mexico, said another Mexican.
So the sob stories have begun and the drive-by's now are kicking in in uh in full gear.
ABC Radio News at the top of the hour said that the compromise, the Senate compromise, is receiving positive response from the Hill and from the President.
But the critics may try to pick the measure apart.
Hey, AP, AABC Radio, get with what's happening here.
Critics may try to pick the measure apart.
So the drive-bys have chosen sides.
And if this doesn't tell you something about what's in this legislation and what its aim is, I'm telling you, this is the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
I so dubbed it that when uh when I opened the uh the busy program.
I got an email uh last night when somebody said, Rush, I don't understand this.
I don't understand what happened here.
Senators, both parties get together and negotiate, and they come out and announce they've got a bill.
And then it's gonna start, they're gonna debate the bill on.
I don't understand this Senate procedure.
I've never heard of this.
And I thought it was a great question because I myself was asking the same thing.
What the hell?
Behind closed doors, and then we find La Razas in there with veto power or things they don't like.
The fact of the matter is that what happened here is not Senate procedure.
Senate procedure requires committee hearings by oversight committees and appropriations committees, votes in those committees.
It would require the marking up of the bill.
We look at the bill, we see things that we don't like, kick that out of it, put that in it or whatever.
There would uh they would have to entertain motions for amendments and in the Senate, possible filibuster, uh, and it would require publicly debating the bill on the floor.
That's how normal Senate procedure is supposed to work.
But this bill is so contrary to the interests of Americans in this country, they're not going to do it this way.
They will do all they can to railroad this through without anybody ever having seen it.
Now there are always enough Republicans who go along with this because they want to be viewed as compassionate, as opposed to hard-hearted right-wing racists, which is what the media will characterize anyone as who opposes this.
And that's why McCray uh I think uh McCain and Graham uh get on board this.
But I, you know, people say, well, why what about the president?
You know, what what what is this about the president?
I I remember in discussing uh the president's sticktuitiveness on Iraq, amidst all the criticism, all the pressure.
He doesn't waver.
He just he doesn't care what they say, he's immune to it.
And uh people ask me, why do you think that is?
And I can only hazard a guess.
And I'll repeat what my guess was.
The president, as we know, if you listen carefully, you don't even have to listen all that carefully, is a man of deep conviction, deep faith.
And I believe that that uh he, in the case of Iraq, is is just he's confident he's doing the right thing.
He is helping to establish a uh beachhead of democracy and that cauldron of hatred and racism.
Uh he thinks that that that uh he's doing the right thing here, that it's best for when you hear him talk about the uh yearning spirit of freedom that every human be human being is created with.
I mean, that that is uh uh one of the indications to me.
And I think here, uh pretty much the same thing.
I think he looks uh uh at the United States as the bright shining city on the hill as Reagan described it.
Uh it's the greatest place in the world, and here are some people from downtrodden backgrounds, they're poor, they're desperate, they're hungry.
And uh he wants those people to have salvation.
He wants those people to have hope and opportunity, and he thinks it's his mission to do this.
And in that regard, he believes that it's proper for the US and the United States government to engage in making this possible.
And you can see it in some of the uh domestic policy that the president of the faith-based initiative, the um uh no trial left behind act.
Uh yeah, going back when he was governor of Texas, that's right.
He was against Prop 187.
He would and and that his roots as governor of Texas, I think are important here if you want to understand his position, because there he had a reputation of bringing all sides together.
Democrats, Republicans loved each other.
Uh uh the the Hispanic population there was very much supportive of the president.
I I just think that there is a uh uh look at second-term presidents look for legacies.
Uh his is he wants to be compassionate.
Remember, uh in the campaign of 2000, I remember we jumped down his throat when he said, You use the old liberal phrase, we're not gonna balance the budget on the backs of the poor in my administration.
So don't start using lib lingo on it.
That's that's gonna harm you.
Uh so uh this is good works to him.
This is good works to him, and this is the greatest of his good works.
This and the the war on terror.
Uh bring people together.
Uh he doesn't want to be viewed as hard-hearted, liberals.
You know, conservatives, Republicans oppose anybody, uh, and they're hard-hearted, cold hearted, uh means-spirited, cruel, and all of this.
And that sucks a lot of Republicans in on legislation like this, make them support it, because they're gonna go out and get re-elected, and if uh you know they have their opponents start throwing these labels out.
I mean, it's liberals run that town, liberals run the beltway.
Uh and and you know, President, like, look at tax cuts.
He's he's he supports tax cuts because he believes in supply-side economics, but the second component of it, reducing spending didn't happen.
He believes in the usage of government to do good works for the downtrodden, for the poor, for wherever they are in the world.
Uh, and I, you know, is this uh I uh the only thing I can come up with.
And I'm not even critical of this.
I'm just I'm just trying to explain politically, it's the destroy the comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007.
He's not looking at it that way.
You're not looking at this through a political prison.
Senator Kennedy, everybody else is.
He's not.
This is this is uh this is good works for him.
All right, your phone calls are next.
Sit tight.
Welcome back to open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man utilizing talent on loan from God.
Got to zip out of here El Quico this afternoon, head in the airport, gotta go to LA.
Uh uh doing two or three sketches for the new half-hour news hour show that's uh running on Fox News Sunday nights at uh 10 o'clock.
And then tomorrow night after uh been eight or nine hours in the studio, guys.
I still have to tell you I could not do that for a living.
It's hurry up and wait.
I have a whole new appreciation of these actors.
No wonder they want to go on television and do something because it's all hurry up and wait, pretending to be somebody else.
Anyway, we're going here.
Well, I'm not gonna tell you where I'm going to dinner because I'll get mobbed.
And uh if if Clinton's in LA, he might stop in.
And I don't so I'll tell you about it when I get back to the EIB Southern Command on Monday.
Bruce in uh Waller, Texas, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks for having me on.
Well, you're won't bore you with details, but suffice to say I'm an American who has Canadian children.
One of my children came to visit me and was here for about six months and was told to leave the country, and that if she wanted to stay here, she would have to apply for citizenship just like everybody else.
Well, if that applies to her, why why doesn't it apply to all these illegals?
Great, great, great.
Well, because it's easy to deport your one daughter.
It's impossible.
We put a man on the moon, we have satellites or we've sent we've sent satellites, we've sent uh uh spacecraft to Mars and Jupiter.
We can't find 12 million people, get can't deport them.
But your one daughter, how old was she?
She's 23.
23.
Six months.
How did they even find her?
Uh they had uh checked her entry uh point when she came into the States um and found that she had been here too long.
But I okay, but she enters the country through the Canadian border, right?
Correct.
She flew flew in to Memphis, Tennessee.
I mean, I guess I guess they found out through her her uh entry credentials.
Uh I believe she was using a passport at the time.
I'm not sure, but uh they found out that she had not returned back to Canada.
Well, I wonder if that's from the NSA spy program.
Might have thought she was a terrorist.
Well, I don't know, but you know if if this law passes, uh if this bill goes into law, um, this is going to not just destroy the Republican Party, it's going to tear America down from within.
I know that's the purpose of it.
I'm telling, you know, people people think that I'm a little bit extreme when I say this.
But folks, I know these liberals.
I know what their objective is, and I know how raging angry they are over their loss of power in 1994.
They think they had the election stolen from them in Florida in 2000.
They don't lose elections.
They don't lose power.
They only acquire it and acquire more.
And this, they are filled with rage.
This is specifically about tearing down institution by institution, this country, and remaking the country in a liberal image, a socialist state, whatever you want to call it, big government, brand new entitlements and so forth, big tax increases to support it, uh, redistribution of wealth.
Uh look at that that's a central element to this.
You're gonna have these uh illegals proclaimed legal, but they're still their their financial status isn't gonna change that much.
They're still gonna make what they make, but they're not gonna make enough to support themselves uh in in all of their needs, and certainly not their wants, but we will.
Because the courts have ruled they are entitled to health care, they're entitled to education, they're entitled to all these things.
And guess who's going to pay, make up the difference of what they can't afford and what they're going to get?
You and I. It's redistribution of wealth, and the libs love that.
Prevents the creation of wealth.
Creates as many people dependent as possible.
You know all this.
This is this is specifically about remaking the country and and trying to uh uh marginalize the Republican Party in such a way that it'll never win another election.
Not ever.
I actually think it could work.
It's a long shot.
That's what they're trying.
You might say this, ah, Russia are you overreacting to this.
They couldn't pull that off anyway.
Well, maybe not.
But that's only because they're going to be people fighting him.
He just can't sit around.
I somebody said, You think this is a tipping point?
Could be, but it's not going to be a tipping point on its own.
Uh the people just can't sit around and wait for the tipping point to happen and wait for the tipping point itself to be the weight that uh that falls on this legislation.
It's it's going to take involvement by people to uh let elected officials know where they stand on it.
And that always works if it's genuine in large volume.
This is Cortez in Houston.
You're next on the EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you with us on open line Friday.
Thank you very much, Russ.
Uh Husker Ditto, longtime listener, first-time caller.
I've actually been listening to you for 15 years and uh credit a lot of what you said to the success I've had in in my career and life so far.
So thank you very much, sir.
Well, thank you.
I I appreciate your saying that.
Uh you know, I I'm a conservative Republican, uh, black American, uh, not African American, because my parents were actually born here, and so my grandparents.
But I I say that the the solution is just kick out all immigrants who have come in a hundred years or or less than that.
Uh, you know, that'll solve a lot of the problem, and uh it'll it'll kind of get us started back where we were before.
Yeah, the uh uh legal immigration with assimilation uh has always been the immigration objective uh in the in this country.
Yeah, I I I understand your frustration.
Uh that that kind of thing isn't gonna happen.
You're basically saying we need to start over.
But that that is an interesting thought.
It's it's a it's an interesting philosophy to express and to contrast with what this legislation would do.
Uh this legislation gives up.
This legislation gives up on the whole premise of legal immigration into this country.
It gives up on the whole notion of it.
Assimilation, uh preserving and expanding a distinct uh American culture.
There's no pressure to assimilate.
In fact, there's no need to.
We got all these obstacles in the way of a assimilation, so we can uh we we're free to have the country uh balkanized uh if if uh people desire that.
And uh, you know, make no mistake, there are e even though there are people all over the world who envy us and they envy our economic power and our success, uh that sometimes breeds dislike and hatred, and you know it's out there, and and guess guess what party stokes that, by the way.
Guess what political party in this country encourages the hatred of this country?
It's a Democrat Party.
I mean, it it it's all of this is so pernicious.
Uh I remember I've told this story.
Immigration has always been a volatile issue for the people of this country.
There's never been a time that it hasn't been.
I I remember uh I went home, my grandfather who died at 104, he was a lawyer, he worked till he was 102.
I went home one day, one one weekend for a trip to Cape Girarde, Missouri, and had a conversation.
He wanted to know what a big thing happening on my radio show that previous week.
So I said, Pop, immigration people are just going nuts about immigration.
He started laughing.
He said, you know, back when I had to do my high school debate.
Uh he was a senior in high school, and I'm gonna guess the like 1902.
Well, 1908, something like that.
He said, Yeah, we were we've been debating that since early 1900s.
Uh his his debate proposition was resolved.
Immigration of Southern Europeans had to be stopped because they were dirty and filthy and destroying the country.
And he just laughed and and and said this is it's something that's always gotten people riled up.
Uh He had to argue both sides of it for the uh for his debate class, I think he told me.
But obviously the proposition, it was just a high school debate proposition, but it was an argument.
It was it was reflective of what was going on in the country.
Uh but even back then there were steps people had to take.
You know, the Ellis Island routine.
People had to take steps to get in here, and they had to prove they weren't carrying diseases when they came in.
There are plenty of people that were rejected.
It's not that way anymore.
And uh warning clouds all over the horizon about this.
Back in just a second.
Great to be with you today, folks.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
There are other things out there besides the illegal immigration such as this.
Story from the uh, what is this?
Uh AP from Boston.
Short, fat people may get rights.
Uh Ellen Frankel stands just four foot eight inches tall, a size that allowed larger co-workers to playfully scoop her up at the office and make remarks about her height.
Why some even patted her on the head.
They're just seeing if it was flat, so they had a place to put their drink.
Lawmakers are considering complaints, such as hers as they review a bill that would make Massachusetts just the second state to bar discrimination based on height or weight.
People in authority will very easily make comments about height that they wouldn't make about race or gender, said uh Frankel.
Jean Toombs understands the frustration.
She says overweight people routinely are discriminated against because of their size.
And it's not fair.
No matter what you think of fat people, they deserve to be treated like human beings, said Toombs, who's 59, a piano teacher who weighs in at 300 pounds.
Republican analyst Todd Domkey is concerned that lawmakers will scare off businesses if they expand protection to include short and overweight work.
Well, why?
Hell, everybody's a victim here.
You're a victim, everybody's a victim of something.
You need protection.
We might as well add colorblind, left-handed, allergic to cashews, and just get it over with, he said.
Uh before this is all said and done, everybody is going to have special rights conferred upon them in this country except the whams.
The WHAMs.
White heterosexual, able-bodied men.
They will be the only people that do not have special rights conferred on them because they're white, able-bodied, heterosexual.
If you're the ugly already have protection.
Everybody knows the ugly already have protection.
And they're getting more.
What do you what do you what do you think this is?
Fat?
And short?
What do you think that is?
They're just, they're just don't blame me for this.
The ugly have already been denoted in several.
There's there's a research think tank.
We've so cited their work.
They've set themselves up as the arbiters who is and who isn't ugly.
I was first on this uh way back in the uh in the actually the early 80s in uh Kansas City.
Try this headline.
The story is irrelevant.
It's the headline.
I had me rolling on the floor.
Democrats moving to the left on the war from the Boston Globe.
Define stance as GOP courts their party base.
Democrats moving to the left on the war.
There's one decent thing about this headline.
The Democrats have already secured defeat.
Dingy Harry has pronounced the war lost.
If that is moving to the left, good.
It's true, it's honest.
But the idea that they have moved to the left and they're and they haven't been there is uh laughable.
And one thing before we go to the phones.
Paul Wolfowitz, head honcho at the World Bank, forced to resign because of a relationship he had with a feminist Arab Muslim, his girlfriend, is very conservative.
And Wolfowitz embarrassed these guys.
You think you think that these kinds of quote unquote relationships don't happen at the World Bank in other offices or at the United Nations?
Wolf let me tell you why Wolfowitz is being sent out of there.
Wolfabitz is being sent out of there because A, he is a conservative, and he was put there by Bush.
Secondly, Wolfowitz, when he got to the World Bank said, you know what?
The salad days are Over.
If you are a corrupt institution or government, you're not getting World Bank money.
You know, tell a corrupt that they got to clean up.
You get the guy that's gonna uh make you clean up out of there.
And they've just been waiting.
They've just been waiting for their chance, and this is it.
But the interesting thing about this to me is where are the nags?
Where's the National Association of Gals?
Where are the billions and billions and billions of feminists out there?
Where are the 10 to 20 feminazis that are out there?
Where are the protests?
Where are the TV appearances?
Where are the op eds?
Shaharisa is the name of Wolfowitz's girlfriend.
And she's been violated by a pack of old white European males.
Shaha Ali Reze is the companion of Paul Wolfowitz.
Might be the lover, significant other main squeeze, whatever.
And she is disdainfully referred to as his girlfriend.
Girlfriend?
She's in her mid-50s.
Girlfriend.
She has a master's degree from Oxford's Anthony College.
She speaks English, Arabic, French, Italian, Turkish, girlfriend.
Not supposed to call women girls, not in a professional capacity.
You can try it on your own in private and see what happens, but in this kind of thing, you're not supposed to do it.
She was a rising star at the World Bank long before Wolfowitz became president there.
Uh and utter silence from the feminists over this achieved, accomplished woman being denigrated with the term girlfriend and being she's gonna get thrown out of there too.
She's she's been tarred and feathered here.
Uh all because she apparently they say he gave her a little promotion that she shouldn't have gotten because he had the power to do it, and it was the boyfriend, and so hey, Kofi Annan, oil for food program.
He was allowed to get out of there with his reputation intact.
But Kofi Annan hated Bush.
So that's cool.
In fact, that's good.
Uh John in Carlsbad, California.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Good morning, Rush.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm sitting here smoking my cigar looking at Steve Ailes.
Well, you know, don't tell me that.
I'm sitting here in a city that doesn't permit it.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I can't have my one o'clock cigar here at the EIB building in uh Midtown Manhattan.
Oh, that's too bad.
Yeah, it is, but we all have to obey the rules of society.
So I have a prediction and a and a fact, I think.
I think Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, was a way for him to raise money for his presidential campaign.
And I think that he's searching for a mandate where at the 11th hour, this is my prediction, he will be pulled to save the world and become the presidential candidate, reluctantly, of course.
Well, the one thing here, uh, you may be right, although he doesn't need the money from this movie.
He's he's he's got all kinds of well he his Occidental Petroleum money.
Al Gore owns oil stock.
Al Gore owns stock in Occidental, or he got a his his dad was tied up somehow with them.
He's got connect.
Instead of family trust, something like that, but he's got Occidental Petroleum.
Al Gore's what it's what I say sixty feet he's um he's done well with stock with Apple or Google or something.
I forget.
He's on the board of Apple, but I th the number I heard thrown around was sixty-five million dollars.
Uh but that's his money.
Oh, that's right.
You're talking about other people's money to exactly.
All right, let's say you're right.
What what does this say?
You've got Time magazine out there building Al Gore up in their most recent issue.
What does it say about the Hillary Clinton candidac?
That all these Democrats are waiting for some white knight to write in and save a day.
Apparently Obama's plummeting a little bit in the polls.
Hillary's not excited.
I I thought Hillary was a de facto nominee of that party.
But see, at the 11th hour, he'll get pulled in reluctantly to save the world.
He wants to be the president.
And this get he doesn't have to campaign, he doesn't have to tick off the Clintons.
We'll pull him out to save us.
He's already ticked off the Clintons.
They don't get along.
Gore blames Clinton's overall office escapades for costing him a big sweeping victory in 2000.
And no love lost between uh the Clintons and the Gores.
Oh.
And by the way, Al Gore's out there saying that he's fallen out of love with politics.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Politics has fallen out of love with Al Gore.
Is uh prediction he will be the candidate.
All right.
Well, I'll mark it down to here May 18th, uh, that uh that you, John in Carlsbad, California, who have been the first to call it.
Well, now you might be there.
There's so many people hoping for what you have predicted to come true.
Mike in Hillsborough, New Jersey, thanks for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Rush, you're great.
I I I really appreciate what you're doing for this country.
Thank you, sir very much.
I'd like to suggest uh you were talking earlier in your program, uh, that there's a mindset, there's a mentality, uh, primarily we have to deal with the battle in our time.
You mentioned two items the illegal immigration and the war on terrorism.
Yes.
I I I would like to suggest to you that overarching to those two items is a conflict of interest for state and federal governments to do anything about the supply to increase the supply of oil, because that will be tentative to a de facto tax cut.
And they will not do it voluntarily.
Wait.
Are you s are you saying that there is a uh government interest, state and federal government interest in limiting the supply of oil?
There is no incentive for our politicians who can legislate, for example an increase in supply by allowing for drilling, for a line for the development of additional refineries without barriers, without obstacles.
If they had that incentive, then the result will be more drilling, more refineries.
If you just logically, I understand that.
I don't I don't get uh maybe I'm caught up on the wrong thing.
I thought you said that they don't want any of that to happen, but I don't know, I don't know what your theory is as to why.
You I gather that you believe they want to limit and keep the supply of oil low, uh, because if there's more oil out there, uh somehow that's gonna result in a tax cut.
Um I'm losing you.
What I'm what I'm trying to explain is if the supply of oil goes up, as helped by government legislation, for example, the price per gallon will plummet.
The percentage every state and the federal government.
Oh, I see what you saw.
You saying they want the supply limited to keep the price up because they're taxes.
Absolutely.
Well, but the problem the problem though the more gasoline sold, the greater the tax revenue.
The tax rate is static, whatever the price.
Some states it's a percentage, but in other states, it's a static rate.
Whatever the price of gas is, the tax is the same.
Uh so if it goes government does not lose money when the price of oil goes down.
Government does not lose money when the price of gasoline goes down.
Uh the o if they wanted to increase their tax revenue, uh they they would have to encourage more gasoline to be sold.
And that is what isn't happening because even though it well, it is happening, but not because they're in they're encouraging it.
Pelosi, these people trying to scare everybody about rising gasoline prices.
But you're right, they are not allowing it's the Democrats running around talking about energy independent.
There's sort of like you remember the Wizard of Oz, we talk about this a lot, but uh Dorothy had those red slippers.
All she had to do is click her heels, and uh and bam, whatever she wanted, she got.
Magic slippers.
And sometimes I think the liberals are Dorothy of Kansas.
When energy independence snap their heels, bam, we got energy independence.
We want alternative energy, jam the red slippers together.
We got alternative energy.
It's it's like it's gonna happen by magic.
And it's it's uh uh and they just say these things platitudinally in order to score political points with it.
But but uh uh while they're out there demanding alternative energy and uh energy independence, they're the ones standing in the way of the things that you mentioned.
New supply, that is ours, new refineries, uh, and so forth.
And it's er with with the liberals with Democrats, the reason for this in every instance is political.
Uh and the prism of politics, how can we be benefited by doing this?
And the last thing Democrats want is a definable something people can feel roaring economy with a Republican in the White House.
They just Don't want they want misery.
They want chaos.
They want you rolling on the floor in angst, worried that we might be running out of breathable air.
That's it's all about them getting their power back, folks.
And then when they get it, never ever surrendering it again.
In the uh what are you guys eating in there?
I was gonna say it looks like cigars.
And I had you if you you guys were taunting me by eating some of those candy cigars.
I would have sought revenge.
Earlier this week, folks, by the way, welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program where there is too much democracy for the drive-by media.
Um the uh the we had a story a couple past couple of days that Mrs. Clinton on her website is asking visitors to her website to come up with uh her campaign song.
And I don't have the story in front of me anymore, it's back in one of the stacks.
I had the perfect song.
But I, you know what?
I've got this, I've got this little fear that if if I if I give you the title of the song, I don't want to create sympathy voters for Mrs. Clinton.
Uh well, I'll go ahead and tell you what it was, because I'm not gonna do it.
I was gonna play the song, I was gonna sing just my idea was Sir Mixelot had a song back in the early 90s called I Like Big Butt.
And I thought, well, she's looking for a song, we're gonna get somebody on a website to nominate it.
I was thinking about this when going through the story about these two whales out there.
Uh in in uh that's what reminded me of it.
Um we have let's see.
This is um Yeah, songs to lure wayward whales toward home.
The recorded siren songs of humpback whales played from a Coast Guard cutter yesterday as a biologist tried to lure an injured whale and her calf out of a shipping channel and back toward the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away.
Could take weeks to get these two whales back where they belong, said scientists.
Still hundreds of people line the riverbanks to uh watch the progress on Thursday mornings.
Is out in Sacramento.
This, and I you know what's gonna happen with this, if it hasn't already, they're gonna be people out.
It's yeah, they're after in the Delta.
It's the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta.
Uh, and so they're playing this song, and well, whatever song they're using and try to get the whales out of there and go back to where they should be, that could also be uh a song you can nominate for Mrs. Clinton's campaign song or what have you.
But beyond all that, this has happened before.
This happened when I lived out there.
I lived out there 84 to um uh first half of '88, and it happened.
I don't remember when, but I don't remember one or two, but a whale got in there.
What they're gonna say here is that this is a result of global warming.
Uh it's uh it's it's disorienting these great beasts, these are great sea mammals and their sonar and their radar, they they think they're in saltwater and they're not, and they end up, oh, it's global war.
It's happened before.
And the same procedure to try to get them out of there was used, and nobody, I mean, they were talking about global warming back then, but not blaming everything that happened on it.
You know what?
51 degrees here in New York today.
Overcast, cloudy, supposed to rain, hasn't started yet.
May 18th, 51 degrees.
55, maybe 55 now.
And now it's global warming.
Russia, of course, it's unusual.
Global warming is you see people walking the streets today.
Of course, I don't walk the streets, but people walking the streets all bundled up and huddled up, and it's interesting.
Because in New York, this happens a lot.
People don't put their winter clothes up here by May 18th.
They had them readily accessible.
Why?
Because it's happened before.
It's not unusual.
It's not uncommon, but all of these things are being highlighted as uh evidence that things are out of whack and totally abnormal.
You got whales out there in this in the Delta, and it's all that's happened before.
Cold weather in May.
I don't know what song.
What is the song that they're playing?
Sirens.
Oh, they're actually playing whale songs.
Whales serenade each other.
Um killer whale song?
No.
A killer whale will not kill another whale.
You think play the sounds of predators to scare them out of there.
Well, what is the biggest predator of a whale?
Us.
Us.
What do you get?
Giant squids gonna come along and Japanese whale hunters.
Uh absolutely.
All right, quick time out here, folks.
Open line Friday resumes right after this.
Okay, uh, people say, Sir Mixelot, I like Big But.
I never heard of that song.
Be patient, ladies and gentlemen, because if you haven't heard I Like Big Butt by Sir Mixelot, we'll have it for you in the monologue segment of the next hour.
Be right back.
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