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June 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hubba Hubba and Duba Dooba.
Greetings, my good friends.
Loyal and trusted audience.
I am well known radio rackantor Rush Limbaugh, ready to perform broadcast excellence on Friday.
You know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yes, the day we all look forward to here, especially Mr. Snurgley makes his job much easier.
Screening the calls in there.
Monday through Thursday, we talk about things I care about, and that's it.
I'm not going to sit here and talk about things I'm bored with.
I'll sound bored, and then nobody's going to want to listen.
But on Friday, I cast all that aside.
Throw it out the window.
And take one of the hugest career risks known to exist in major American media.
And that is turning over the content of the program when we go to the phone calls to you.
People who don't know how to do this.
Rank amateurs.
Lovable rank amateurs.
I don't mean this as an insult.
But we call them as they are.
So you can talk about whatever you want, is the bottom line.
The telephone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
You know, I we keep seeing more and more of these type of stories.
A Washington Post has it today.
Sunni insurgents battle in Baghdad.
Residents of Western neighborhood join groups fight against Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Al Qaeda in this story is reputedly victimized by a gets its own roadside bomb.
Problems arose on Tuesday when the Islamic army, a powerful Sunni insurgent group, posted a statement a local mosque criticizing Al-Qaeda in Iraq for killing dozens of other Sunnis in Fallujah and Baghdad.
Late Wednesday afternoon, according to residents reached by phone who would not be quoted by name for security reasons.
You notice there's a whole lot of that going on the media.
A bunch of people that won't give their names.
An armed group scrawled graffiti on a screw wall, reading, Down with Al Qaeda, long live the honest resistance.
When Al-Qaeda in Iraq members came to wipe away the writing, a roadside bomb exploded nearby, killing three of them.
I've been wondering, why haven't we done our own roadside bombs?
Well, apparently it's happening now.
Roadside bomb wiped out three Al-Qaeda members.
So what's happening here?
And there are more and more of these kinds of stories.
Sunnis are turning on Al-Qaeda, and the liberals are still out there talking about uh uh civil war with the Sunnis versus the Shia, and the Sunnis and the Iraqis uh are getting uh more and more fed up with it.
Get this story, folks, from the UK.
Asking pupils to put their hands up when they think they know the answer to a question in class could make quiet children fall behind, according to government advice.
I kid you not.
Researchers have identified a group of youngsters between seven and eleven who struggle to keep up with classmates despite doing well in previous years.
Ministers published a uh report advising scrubles how to help those so-called invisible children who often try to avoid drawing attention to themselves uh during lessons.
So uh asking kids to raise their hands.
Who knows the answer?
I do, I do, and don't tell me I know that.
That's not good because that humiliates the kids that don't know the answer or who don't want to raise their hand because they don't want to have any attention.
Call to them.
Uh it's what what's what's yeah, the the more harmful circumstance here is when you don't know the answer.
Uh my god, I uh I'll tell you what.
We had a long protracted and I must say, pretty good monologue yesterday on this on this show in the second hour about fear uh and about the country of where we are and so forth.
This kind of stuff is just taking over, and we are we're turning kids uh into these into these little waifs that we uh we think are incapable of accomplishing anything.
We're babying them, we are not pushing them.
I know this is the UK, but this is gonna the liberals are liberals everywhere, it doesn't matter, and they uh, as you know, have infested uh education, public education, both in the administrative uh ranks as well as uh not all, but but uh many of the many of the teachers.
And this reminds me of that story that I tell a lot when a 26-year-old teacher on a Saturday afternoon in a water volleyball game got in a heated argument with this woman about she they were pushing our kids too fast, or pushing them too hard, uh, or working them too hard, or trying to make them learn too much too soon, and we have to slow down, and so it's just the exact opposite.
Uh when you're young is when you have the energy and the ability to do all of this.
I read a column by Christina Hoff Summers, I think it was in the New York Post yesterday, uh, and she was doing a book review.
Uh two guys have written a book.
I'm gonna have to find this.
I should have printed it out and I didn't.
Because I knew I wasn't gonna get to it because of immigration.
But two guys have written a book on what it's like to be a guy, how to make the perfect paper airplane, how to how to how to get your G.I. Joe better to be just typical boy stuff.
And it is selling like hot cakes wherever it's available.
I'll get the title for you.
And it's an offshoot of what's happening, and Christina Hoff Summers has written about this.
She's got her own book about it, about how public education is totally uh demasculating boys all the way up through college.
Uh, everything is about uh girls in this because the girls are victims, they've been discriminated against all these years.
Feminist uh feminist agenda.
I'll find the name of that before the program is over and pass it on uh to you.
From the Los Angeles Times today.
Uh wait a minute.
That's not the one I want.
That's not the one uh uh this is the one I want.
Hang on, folks.
This uh makes sure that there's not.
Yeah, this is the one I want.
The California Senate.
California Senate voted yesterday to bar, prevent employers from denying promotions or raises to workers who juggle job duties with the demands of caring for children, sick spouses, or aging parents.
One of the first such efforts in the country, the measure would add familial status to the categories of discrimination banned by the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act.
Now that law already protects workers from discrimination based on factors like disabilities, national origin, marital status, age, and sexual orientation.
But as the number of working single parents in two-income households is increased, so have complaints that employers act against workers with caregiving responsibilities.
Uh Derek Tissinger was passed over for a promotion to captain in the Bakersfield fire department after his chief complaint he was taking too many sick days and trading shifts too often in order to raise his three children, um, of whom he had custody.
Uh, in one evaluation, a chief had written, I encourage Derek to continue to explore alternative methods of providing child care so that he can work as much as possible with his assigned crew.
He won $25,000 from a jury, but an appeals court threw it out, ruling that California law didn't bar employers from taking personal duties into account.
So California Senate said, Well, we're not gonna have that.
So uh you can't deny promotion or raises based on a worker's family responsibilities that affect their work.
Hello, France.
They tried this in France, this didn't work.
The new president over there is gonna have to get rid of it.
Uh yeah, you ought to go talk to employers about this.
I know most people hate the boss.
It's a natural phenomena of human nature.
Uh but the boss, you know, has responsibilities too, and that is certain work uh needs to get done.
And if you can't do it, uh things have to be accommodated.
Your work has to be done.
That's why you have the job.
You don't have the job for health care, you don't have your job.
The community is in good shape.
You don't have a job for uh uh unemployment insurance.
You have a job because somebody needs the work you are doing accomplished.
And if you are not the one that's going to accomplish it, they have to get somebody to do it.
I mean, it's it's it's just that simple.
Uh and now people are gonna be, well, I need a raise, I need a promotion.
Well, I've been really good with my family.
Well, yeah, we people um assume these responsibilities and then want somebody else to actually take over and fulfill them.
So stuff gonna continue to happen here, folks.
Uh California, it i it some of the stuff coming out of the legislature, the assembly out there is just off the wall, and this is the latest example.
A quick timeout will be back.
We will continue lots to do here on open line Friday, including talking to you.
That's coming up right after this.
You know, I just got nabbed here, folks.
I had on my computer screen the the uh DVD of the upcoming uh opening sketch for Sunday night's half hour news hour, the one I taped in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago.
And I forgot it was up there, just left it up and I had to check the email during the break.
Rush, are you sitting there with a couple of naked women?
You have pictures of naked women on your computer.
No, they're not naked.
They're scandally clad.
I've taken the picture down.
I understand that this is uh could be offensive to uh to some, but it's the opening sketch.
I'm president, of course, on this show, the half hour news hour.
It's 10 o'clock on Sunday night in the Fox News Channel, and uh I'm down at Cabo Wabbo on a working vacation, which is a bar down in uh Cabo San Lucas.
Uh Kabo Wabbit's Van Halen's bar.
Uh, and I'm not gonna tell you about it, but I I had it up there.
I was watching it.
I just got it FedEx this morning, and I was I was watching it.
It came out.
Really, I mean, it's so hilarious it hurts.
Now, the name of that book, uh, folks, that I was thinking about is the dangerous book for boys.
It's by Con and Hal Igaldon.
I G G U L D E N. Con and Hal Igaldon.
Uh, and they're obviously not illegal immigrants, and they uh they've they've this book is just it's going it's going wildfire out there because it's so needed.
It's just these two guys have written a book, uh, and they call it dangerous because it's it's purely boy things, and nothing subversive about it.
There's nothing violent about it.
It's how to make the best paper airplane in the world.
Just things that boys do that have, for the last uh ten, fifteen years that the feminists have tried to wipe them out.
The feminists have done everything they can to try to say by the way, this is true of liberals everywhere.
Not just the feminists.
You know, the thing there's so many things to help you understand liberals, but one of the best things to help you understand them is they will not say or think or do anything that might lead anyone to believe that they discriminate.
And that's why there is no difference uh between uh Islam and Christianity or Judaism or Catholicism.
Because they will not they will not discriminate.
And particularly if they think people are members of minority groups or victims, then they really, really don't want to be perceived discriminating.
Mo boys and girls are not different.
Men and women are not different.
Remember the Time magazine cover in the mid-90s.
News study reveals boys and girls actually born different.
Imagine the mindset in the mind in the newsroom at time for that to be news to somebody.
And they've set about trying to make everybody equal.
The equality of outcomes, everybody wants to be miserable.
Uh well, they want everybody to be miserable because they don't think everybody can be happy, and everybody must be the same.
Everybody must be equal.
Nobody can be better than anybody else, nobody can be different than uh than anyone else.
Uh, and so what got this boys and girls stuff going in the classroom was just like this stupid story out of the UK.
Raising your hand is intimidating to kids in the class who don't, and so we're gonna wipe that out.
Well, guess where that started?
Girls were afraid to raise their hand.
They were not called on.
The boys' hand shot up.
They were eager to prove what they knew.
This was humiliating the girls.
That led to separation of the sexes in the schools, um, and this whole notion that the girls are being humiliated, the curriculum uh were designed uh to aid boys, the feminazis got in there, took control of everything, and it made a giant mess out of so much.
So these two guys have come along and written the book, the dangerous book for boys, because the marketplace works.
There is a need for it, and it is going bonkers out there.
And I wanted to uh mention that to you because I I've literally forgot to make mention of it yesterday.
Uh let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is funny.
We have one, two, three, four, five of them here from Hardball last night.
Uh, Chris Matthews, the topic, Rush versus Bush.
He had one of the executives from uh uh Dead Air America on there, and a former uh Bush 41 advisor, Ed Rogers.
And this is how Matthews opened a program last night.
So why is a conservative president giving the popular limbaugh the bums rush?
That's what Rush Limba himself would like to know.
But Bush's assault on his conservative bases ignited a fire storm on the right.
The truth is they don't like this immigration bill.
The rewards crossing the border illegally and invites millions more illegal crossings by creating a wide new path to citizenship.
Wait a second.
I did just the opposite.
People wanted me to get the dander up with Bush, but I was a gentleman about this.
I didn't take debate.
In fact, I said yesterday I don't think it was meant to be personal at all.
But I did mention that the drive-byers were gonna go bonkers because they love this.
They love the conservative movement falling apart because they hate conservatism.
That's what they think this represents.
Uh, and uh Bush versus Rush.
Oh, they hate me too, and so this would be an ideal vehicle for them.
All of this I predicted uh last night on hardball.
Here we go.
This is uh uh a tease uh by Matthews.
Bush versus Rush.
Boy, that's an interesting one because I love to see Rush Limbaugh get a little angry.
And there's this one.
Bush versus Rush Limbaugh.
What an interesting fight that's gonna be.
You never fight with a guy who's got a microphone.
So they kept teasing it, kept promoting this upcoming segment, Bush versus Rush.
And then last night, the guests uh are well, no, this one doesn't feature the guests, this is just Matthews and playing an audio soundbite for me.
Rush versus Bush, Tuesday in Georgia this week.
President Bush went on the attack to sell immigration plan to his political right.
I don't know.
Some supporters, including Rush Limbaugh, didn't take kindly to the president's tone.
Let's listen to him.
It's disappointing to me.
I'm not gonna hide the but the fact that he may be attacking me doesn't bother me.
I that that's what concerns me more about it, because you can't take this kind of stuff personally.
I this he didn't mention my name, and it I'm not gonna sit around here and start making assumptions.
The thing that that is most troublesome to me is is that the uh the words that he spoke yesterday were were criticism of the people who have stood by him through thick and thin when everybody's been trying to destroy him, be it on the National Guard story, uh you take your pick.
Rumsfeld, the entire war in Iraq, uh, the whole weapons of mass destruction thing, uh the people have stood by him, and because they they they trust him and believe him on those issues.
And they also did not want the uh the Democrats to get away with taking him out.
Uh now the interview portion of the program.
Rush Limbaugh is really funny, and so is George Bush.
Bush is probably scratching his head, wondering where these opponents use such demagogic phrases as amnesty.
It's not literally amnesty, as you know, because you have to pay a fine.
One last point on Rush Limbaugh.
I know exactly who he is.
Enormously talented.
He gets higher ratings than Air America.
He has 10 million people listening.
He has five to eight percent of America listening.
Good for radio, awful, awful for politics.
Eight percent doesn't win an election.
Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant to someone who doesn't care about winning Republican primaries.
If Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant, what is Air America?
If I'm irrelevant, why was I the show last night?
Why, why, why is this old this whole fake topic of Rush versus Bush a big deal?
But first, the the voice you heard was Mark Green, who is the brother of the uh the new owner of uh Dead Air America.
Uh and he doesn't even know what he's talking about here.
He said it's not literally amnesty, as you know, because you have to pay a fine.
No, you don't have to pay a fine.
That's unless you want citizenship.
If you don't want citizenship, you just want to become legal, you don't pay a fine, Mark.
No fine whatsoever.
Also, audience is twenty million, Mark uh in a week.
Twelve million from beginning to end of each three-hour program.
Five million at any one time.
Uh I love these guys.
They sit out there and they go on and on and on about how irrelevant I am while at the same time making me relevant.
Uh, this is a story from uh the the DC examiner.
And the headline is is uh juicy local liberals learning new lessons on diversity.
While President Bush and pro-amnesty members of Congress are pushing an unpopular immigration reform bill that would bestow American citizenship on millions of people Who have no regard for America's laws?
Liberal Democrats across the Washington region are increasingly complaining about overcrowded houses, noise, loitering, and general public nuisance, all caused by illegal aliens.
Now that illegals have migrated to their neighborhood, such liberals have become pro-enforcement all of a sudden.
It's happening to them, and they're singing a different tune.
Turns out that liberals in half a million dollar houses don't like living next door to a single family house filled at a brim with illegal aliens who park on the front lawn, throw trash everywhere, and urinate outside.
Why not, liberals?
What about diversity?
This proves my point.
The elites and the liberals who are all for this are convinced it's never going to touch them.
But it is touching.
Virginia's becoming a problem state as well.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back in just a sec.
All right.
I sometimes this wears me out.
Rush, rush, rush.
You're wrong.
You're wrong, you're wrong.
Cabo Wabbo in Cabo San Lucas is not Van Halen's bar, it's Sammy Hagar's.
All right, fine.
I get out to LA.
We start the they show me the script last Friday night, and I look at it at Cabo Wabbo.
I sort of laughing.
I love the way you guys come up with these wacko names.
Oh, that's a real place.
Van Halen's bar, Cabo San Lucas.
Okay, so I trust the people who wrote the script know that Cabo Wabbo is Van Halen's.
Now it's Sammy Hagar's place.
Fine.
We'll correct it.
Get it right.
Anyway.
I have five stories here.
The details of the stories are irrelevant.
What I want is to read the headlines to you.
Fear, crisis, we're doomed, the standard daily template of the drive-by media.
Lake Okeechobee, 79 years later, fears of another deluge.
Galveston, where the nation's deadliest disaster hit, only one way out.
New York City, dreading a once-a-century storm that washes out lower Manhattan, the outer banks.
Seventy-five percent of these islands could be gone.
Miami, America's playground, risks another disaster.
All of these stories they came out today, last night for today, because today is the traditional beginning of hurricane season.
Not because nature says it is.
We just decide to call it hurricane season starts on June 1.
The only thing they haven't done that I thought they would do was send the cameras out to the beaches, scanning the horizons.
Finally getting some rain here today.
It just started sprinkling.
You know, I looked at the uh I look, there's a bunch of websites I know.
I'm a weather buff out there.
Uh they're forecasting in the next 48 hours maximum of 10 plus inches for us.
Uh in the next 40 hours, starting primarily after two o'clock this afternoon.
I hope that happens before is after we get out of here, because I don't get flooded.
Uh parking garage have to stay up here all weekend, like happened.
Uh there is no EIB chopper to scramble.
He's got a note in the I of B, so we scramble the EIB chopper.
All right, to the phones.
It's open line Friday.
Quentin in Dayton, Ohio.
Uh, nice to have you with us, sir.
You're up first today.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you today.
I know, thank you.
Well, I can show you with three simple laws exactly how conservatives are just as bad as feminists in the destruction of boys and men.
You can show me with three simple laws exactly how conservatives are just as bad as feminists in the destruction of boys and men.
Yes, they go right along with it.
The first one is Congressman Mike Turner has tried to introduce a bill banning civil courts from making custody changes while someone is deployed.
This is an issue that I wrote both my Republican rep and my senator about, telling them it needed to stop.
It's against the the uh solder sailors act of 1942, but civil court judges ignore it and they're totally.
I don't deny that there are conservatives who are kowtowing to women.
Frankly, we all do at various points in our lives.
And they do vote.
And uh uh, what's it what's it?
I understand the custody, but I've I've I've I've heard a lot about it.
I know the inequities in that uh in that circumstance.
Fortunately, they've never been a factor in my life.
What's the next one?
Ohio has passed a law making it so you do not have to be convicted, only accused to be uh required to be a registered sex offender.
That was pushed by the Republican Party.
Wait a second.
What's that?
You're talking about sex offenders.
What the hell is anti-male about that?
Do you want sex offenders in your in your neighborhood?
Ah, but it's accused, not convicted or anything.
Not to mention, if you look at it, women face almost no way they are a sex offender.
Did this did this become law?
Yes, it is law.
It has last year.
All right.
What what's the next one?
I'm I'm I'm unimpressed so far.
What what's the next one?
The violence against women act.
It specifically excludes men from receiving services, even if they have to deal with an abusive spouse.
Receiving service what uh you know, in in legal lingo, that means something maybe other than what you what what uh it specifically excludes men from receiving service.
What kind of services?
Uh being able to go to a shelter, being able to receive money and legal support in dealing with a violent spouse.
Okay.
Yeah, well, that's uh that's clearly a bunk.
Yeah, you've given me three examples, but you can't you have to understand what I'm saying here.
Conservatism ideologically does not hold these beliefs.
You might have some renegades out there in the conservative movement henpecked.
The only thing they do behind their wife's back is zip her up, might have to put this stuff you never know what goes on behind closed doors.
Uh but but as it it liberalism ideologically has been is been it is about the destruction of standard traditions and institutions.
Uh and you can't say that about conservatives.
I mean, you know better than to try to call me and kill me on this.
Conservatives conservatives just call it chivalry instead.
That's the only difference.
With conservatives, they claim it's chivalry.
Chivalry.
Yes.
You've you've got to be nice to these women and you gotta be chivalrous to them, and you've gotta be, you know, you've got to be able to do that.
What's wrong with being nice to women?
Well, the problem is is they've been so busy trying to show chivalry and gain that women vote and everything like that that they have literally taken the way the right.
Let me ask let me ask you a question.
Are you an accused sex offender and have you lost the custody of your kids?
Yes, to both, and I've been cleared on both, and I'm supposed to gain custody on uh June sixth.
But the funny part is you're thanking ad.
I just got a protective order placed against me for spanking my child, which prevents my from gaining custody.
Place to spanking you.
Yeah, I've heard of I've heard about all this.
Look at I know if the word gets out that you are m but this is feminism that's done this.
Feminism has tried to establish the notion that all fathers are predators, that their little girls are not safe, their kids are not safe in their homes.
All it takes is one phone call to social services from a disgruntled wife or the kid playing a practical joke, and you are being hauled out of there in handcuffs.
You're correct.
And conservatives go right along with it.
That's the problem.
I heard my congressman for years telling them we needed to do something about this, and I was flat ignored.
And then they turn around and pass laws saying that I should be required to register as a sex offender because I was accused, even though I was cleared.
You were cleared of being a sex offender.
Yes, repeatedly.
Glad to know that because this would have been the first known sex offender to appear on this program had you not uh cleared that up.
Well, look, I appreciate the call.
I understand that conservatism is not monolithic.
Uh well, conservatism is conservatives are not monolithic.
Liberals are are uh are much more so.
I'm not trying to diminish the frustrations you feel because I know they're they're real, and I've heard them from countless uh other fathers over my my uh stellar broadcast career.
Occasionally out of the woodwork, these phone calls will come in like this.
You get keep a sharp eye on custody, because if if you're not careful in there, Snurdley, we're gonna be talking about custody like it's illegal immigration today.
That just it's a magnet.
It's just and I understand that.
Quentin, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
Fayetteville, North Carolina.
This is Rob, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush Pleasure here.
I've been uh chartered listeners since 1986.
Appreciate That, sir.
Thank you very much.
Yes, sir.
And I and I agree with you about 99% of the time, but today I'd like to take a task on education.
I'm a retired educator, retired last year after 30 years.
I am a conservative.
And I I know some people think that's unusual if conservatives are in the classroom, but actually half my staff that I taught with was conservative.
Uh and you know, we get this coming government schools.
Are you compared to are you going to deny my assertion that the vast majority of educators and teachers are libs?
Uh no, absolutely not.
That's all I said.
Okay, well no, but but the it's always coming out that it's just the the the bastion of liberalism and the you know education and you know, and I see that.
I say, What I battle these people.
I battle them through my kids.
I give them the the other end of the story, if you will.
And I actually, you know, sending me out with marching orders when you have a teacher that makes a statement that is on the left side, now you have the right side.
I want you to go in there, I want you to debate this thing.
Don't take it sitting down.
No, I understand that there are lots of you out there, but the the institution of public education is dominated by the unions, which employ the teachers, the uh the administrators.
It's dominated by the fact that they need federal money, and you've got if you want federal money, you gotta do what the federal government says to do in your various school systems and school districts and so forth.
Yeah, but Rush, there's another point.
North Carolina is not a unionized state.
We have an association that's worthless, thank God.
And I think only about 15% it's North Carolina Association of Education, but we're not unionized.
We had they we're we are not dictated to by union, thank God and I wouldn't listen to them, but we're not unionized.
We this is a right to work state here.
Right.
So that that doesn't go on here.
We don't we don't get marching orders from the union.
You know, that's that's good.
And you look at I you are doing the Lord's work standing up to this this behemoth.
Yes that uh and I must say my background lends me to that.
I I'm a product uh my my father was a foreign service officer, and I traveled the world.
I went to sixteen different schools, you know, Italian school, French school, there we go.
Yeah, foreign service, you mean State Department?
Yes, State Department.
He's a diplomat, U.S. diplomat, and he was a USIA uh uh public affairs officer, and then he was at the Shea's Embassy, and then he uh his his last job uh in Washington was assistant director of the Voice of America, and that's when things were somewhat on a conservative side of going.
Yeah, that was when Reagan ran the thing, I'll bet.
Yes, yes, right.
And actually what his last boss was Edward R. Murrow.
So it's been a while back, but you know, the uh uh times have changed.
Edward R. Murray was his boss, so I was wrong then.
Uh well, uh look, I I appreciate the call.
The uh uh I I said most when I when I first made this claim, I you know that the I know that you guys are very proud of your work you're doing in standing up to this liberalism that's out there, and I hear from from students and teachers alike uh describing how you know outnumbered they are.
Uh and that's the thing that we need to take away here at the end of the call.
You you did the Lord's work in standing up for it, and others who are conservative are doing the same thing.
But the idea that the public education uh system uh is not governed by infested wi with uh liberals uh and the liberal agenda is to put the head in the sand.
Gotta be right back after this.
In the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, I am senior fellow Rush Limbaugh, uh National Treasure.
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Here's Tim in Hillsborough, Oregon.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Good morning, Rush.
Hi.
You I just wanted to tell you, you rock, man.
Um, up until 9-11, I did not give a rip about politics or any of that stuff.
I thought you were just this bombastic big voice, you know.
Well, I am.
I have a voice.
I'm in bombastic.
I didn't care.
You know, I just thought you were a jerk, because I never listened to you.
But I had a friend who used to listen to you all the time.
This was around the time of Waco.
Oh, the Waco invasion of a Janet Reno.
Yes.
Yeah.
And uh but that was kind of where I first picked up on you.
But I'll tell you, since 9-11 and the last elections, you've turned me into a political animal.
Oh, right.
You just uh man.
I can't thank you enough for what you're doing out there.
Well, I appreciate that very much.
My heart is always warmed with these kinds of calls, and snertily dutifully finds a bunch of them each day.
And I I really appreciate that.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I mean, I just Well, what were you politically before before 9 11?
I mean, um what I was pretty much probably liberal.
But you didn't care much.
What tell me something?
I'm fascinated by that.
I am still fascinated by this.
I uh I literally do not understand how it is that uh my bombast, which is uh how that is a turn off.
I mean it it's uh I I and it is for a lot of people.
I will admit that I am bombastic, but uh I will admit no more than that.
But I what was it see?
I have a different theory.
I don't think it's the bombast that would turn people away, such as you.
I think it's people are uncomfortable when they hear somebody who is so certain he's right, so confident, so self-assured, that's what's off putting.
Not the bomb, because the bombast, frankly, if you have an open mind, it's funny.
Oh, absolutely.
I know now it's just part of your stick, you know.
I am not shtick.
Well, I'm not sure.
No, it's just it's you.
It's what it's how you do your thing.
And I so really appreciate it now.
Well, thank you.
I how it it took you how many uh once you started listening, how long did it take you to to uh realize that you had uh made an error in judgment prior?
Oh lordy.
Uh six weeks?
Uh less.
Well, then you beat the national average, and normally for a new listeners take six weeks to fully comprehend uh the uh the the vast horizons possible on this program.
Yeah, but today's one of the I don't know, I'm home today recovering from some uh spinal surgery.
It's one of the few days I've got no upper or lower.
L5 that's one low down at the bottom, blew a disc out.
Man, was there no other option than to have them cut on you?
When they start cutting on the spine, that's I've got I've got some problems with my C5 and C6 up near the top and back of the neck, and the surgery to fix this goes through my larynx.
So I'm not doing it.
They say, Oh, there's only a two percent chance.
Well, I can't take the two percent chance.
No, can't you?
And I don't my grandmother had uh the similar surgery, and after she had it, her voice always sounded like she was gargling.
Uh because they just you know the the little Nick is all it takes.
I just I can't risk it, but I can cutting on the spine.
That's just that's well, this was the very lowest one by your tailbone.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's uh I guess you it was causing great sciatic pain and uh there's a lot of money.
No, we just lost the people in Rio Linda.
Uh what what what uh has it worked?
How are you is the recovery successful?
Well, I just had the surgery Wednesday, and I'm home yesterday.
It's almost outpatient.
It's a mic called a microdisctomy.
Right.
Well, we wish you that we wish you the best with it out there.
I know this stuff is not easy.
I've I've I've had surgery, you know, fairly close to what you're talking about.
Yeah, but it's I but it's just I'm able to listen to the whole show.
Usually I I get like uh I can listen during my lunch hour.
But your whole number of whole show, and I decided I'm gonna call this man and express my gratitude.
Well, I again I thank you so much.
I it means more than you know.
Well, thank you, Rush.
And keep it up, man.
I'll do that.
I know no other way uh out there, Tim.
And all the best to you, okay.
Hey, you too, Rush.
All right.
Well, we've got to take a brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll be back and continue with more bombast in a moment.
I asked this staff, uh wonder how many people even know what bombastic means.
You know what it means?
What would you say it means?
Just get a couple of words to describe or define bombastic.
Uh siferous.
Well, you're close.
Uh here's here's the dictionary definition of bombastic.
Rush limbaugh.
No, uh it pompous pompous, blustering, turgid, verbose, high flown, high sounding, overwrought, pretentious, ostentatious, grandiloquent, informal, highfalutin, puffed up.
Faustian, and rare.
And and when you when you are pompous, blustering, high flown, high sounding, overwrought, pretentious, ostentatious, and grandiloquent.
and right at the same time, that's what sends them over the edge.
Nobody's supposed to be that certain of them.
Gee, folks, I really don't know.
This is what I think, but I won't offend any of you when I say this.
That's what makes people feel comfortable.
But of course, that ain't me.
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