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June 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Well, I'm sure many of you have heard about this by now.
The Republican National Committee has been hit big time by a grassroots donors rebellion over the immigration bill.
The Republican National Committee has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors.
Ralph Hallow has this today in the Washington Times.
The RNC is faced with an estimated 40% fall-off in small donor contributions and aging phone bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update.
The National Committee yesterday confirmed the firings that took place more than a week ago, but denied that the move was motivated by declining donor response to phone solicitations.
Tracy Smith, Schmidt, uh RNC spokeswoman said the phone bank employees were terminated.
This is not an easy decision.
The first and primary motivating factor was the state of the phone bank technology, which was outdated and difficult to maintain.
The RNC was advised we would soon need an entire new system to remain viable.
Well, something doesn't wash here.
Put the system in.
I mean, you realize how important that this is fundraising.
The RNC fired a phone bank operators.
It's because they're not generating revenue.
It's because you people aren't donating.
And I can imagine how these phone calls go.
Hi, I'm from the RNT.
And I just want to confirm that your donation from last year you want to maintain.
Can we put you down for 75?
No, you can't put me down for anything.
Why not?
Well, because the immigration bill.
I don't, I have why should I continue to give money to people that are going to be re-elected and do the things that we don't want them to do?
That's not happening.
This is the president's bill.
Ah, there are a lot of Republicans out there that's supporting this too.
You can take your your donation, cram it in your phone bank that you just got rid of.
You know, that's what's probably a little microcosm of the conversations going on out there.
Fired employees acknowledge that the RNC committee's phone equipment was outdated, but they said a sharp drop-off in donations probably hastened the end of the RNC's in-house phone bank operation.
One fired phone bank solicitor who asked not to be identified.
Nobody wants to be identified anymore except on their MySpace page.
Last year, my solicitations totaled 164,000 dollars, and this year, the way they were running for the first four months, it would probably total a hundred thousand dollars by the end of the year.
There has been a sharp decline in contributions from RNC phone solicitations and other fired staffers said, uh reporting that many former donors flatly refuse to give more money to the National Party if Mr. Bush and the Senate Republicans insist on supporting what these angry contributors call amnesty for illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, John Derbyshire, uh National Review Online, has a Good, good little piece here on temporary workers.
He says Dan Griswold and other enthusiasts for the Senate immigration bill lay much emphasis on the temporary worker program, as if this was a wonderful new development in U.S. immigration practice.
But we've had temporary workers and programs forever.
There are currently six categories of visa covering temporary workers, and they're listed on the USCIS uh website.
Six categories for temporary worker visas.
You have the H1B, which is specialty, Department of Defense workers, and fashion models.
I'm not making this up.
Uh if you're fashion model from overseas, you come in here, you get you come in on an H1B visa.
The H1C visa, nurses uh going to work for up to three years in health professional shortage areas.
The H2A visa is a temporary agriculture worker, we all know who they are.
Uh the H3 visas for trainees, the H4 is the spouse or child of H1, H2, or H3.
So Derbyshire says the right question to ask is not do we need a temporary worker program, but why do we need another temporary worker program?
If, for instance, we need more fruit pickers, why doesn't Congress just up the H2A quota?
Now, of course, well, we'll answer that in a second, but the as the immigration wonks have told us till they're blue in the face, there's nothing temporary about temporary workers.
Once you're here, you're here.
And Derbyshire says, case in point me.
I came here in October 1985 as a temporary worker on an H1B visa, good in theory for only six years.
I'm still here.
Nobody's made a move to force me out.
Uh temporary worker program is hogwash.
There are no temporary workers, only settlers.
I'm here to tell you.
Now the question, why don't we just in the case of the illegals doing jobs Americans won't do, the fruit pickers and the agriculture uh jobs that come in on the H2A visa.
Why don't we just up the H2A visa quota?
The answer because employers do not want lawful visa temporary workers.
They want illegal immigrants who are cheaper.
And I got a somebody sent me a question today.
Rush, only you can explain this.
Don't these businesses who know full well that when these people are made legal, they're going to be unionized inside of 30 days.
Don't they understand this?
They're gonna they think they're getting all this cheap labor, and when the unions get hold of them and subjugate uh or uh uh subject these businesses to new union contracts.
Out the door goes cheap labor.
No, no, no, no, you're missing the point.
And I think a lot of people are missing the point.
There are still going to be illegal immigrants after we legalize a 12 to 20 million that are here.
There is no enforcement mechanism.
Ah, Rush, you're wrong about this.
Increased border security.
I'm not wrong about it.
It's Ted Kennedy who's been wrong every time he's opened his mouth about this for 43 years.
It is the illegal immigrants that the that the American businesses want.
That's the cheap labor.
After these 12 to 20 are legalized, uh they they uh they are gonna be less attractive to uh American business.
They want the illegal immigration, and that's the true uh low skilled, uh low wage, and uh an uneducated bunch.
And that's and there's nothing to stop that.
Everybody see, this is the problem with the bill among many other problems with it.
They're too numerous to catagalog here, but it doesn't stop further illegals from coming in in whatever numbers uh they can get in.
So even if we legalize these 12 to 20, we haven't solved the problem.
And that's that's where the disingenuousness is on the uh on the pro-Senate bill side of this.
Interesting story here, the uh Los Angeles Times on the whole concept of the unions and uh illegal immigrants.
And the headline of the story is unions split over immigration bill.
Thrust of the story is that the manufacturing unions are against the illegal immigration bill.
Government and service workers are for it, and it is dividing the Democrats in Congress over this, because of course big labor and one of their big, big, big constituency groups.
Uh uh anyway, they'll uh the problem's a little propping up, sprouting up all over the place with uh with this bill.
Welcome back, folks.
It's open line Friday with National Treasure Rush Limboy here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Mickey Kouse.
What was this?
Uh slate.com.
Headline Hillary caught eavesdropping.
Page 93 from the yet unreleased Girth Van Netta Hillary Clinton book has quite a bombshell, Kouse writes.
Listen to a secret secretly recorded audio tape.
Hillary Clinton listened to a secretly recorded audio tape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack.
The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with her husband Bill.
Bill's supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and a tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions.
So the Clintons were out there just like that couple, that uh grandparents driving on I-75 here in Florida, heading up to Jacksonville to do some Christmas shopping, and like every one of us, they had a uh cell phone monitor in their car, right there in a dashboard.
And they decided to tune in and listen, and they all of us quite by accident.
They they said they caught a moment of history.
They listened to Newt Gingrich talking to John Boehner.
By the way, who was it?
Jim Moran got this.
Was it Moran or or uh with a who?
McDermott?
Well, yeah, it was McDermott.
Baghdad Jim McDermott.
Anyway, this couple, the the just the sweetest people you'd ever want to run into, grandparents, accidentally tuning around their cell phone receiver in the car, uh, like we all have in our cars, and hear this conversation between Newt Gingrich and John Boehner.
Gee, this is history.
What do we do with this?
And they they decided to give it to Baghdad Jim McDermott, Congressman from Washington, who then gave it to the New York Times, which then published a transcript of the conversation.
So far, McDermott has been uh in lawsuits, has lost up to 800 grand now in terms of reimbursing uh Boehner uh for all of this.
We find out now the Clintons have been doing the same thing.
The Clintons have been engaged in illegal wiretapping.
They're monitoring cell phone frequencies of uh of uh so they hear calls from uh uh uh enemies of the Clintons plotting their next attack and so forth.
Now don't get carried away uh here, my friends.
This will not affect a single Hillary supporter or a single drive-by editor.
It's like that picture that's out there.
Hillary was uh making a speech yesterday, and somebody on the on the on the the graphic behind her misspelled the word tomorrow with two M's in it.
And Hillary's up there making a speech.
Now she didn't misspell it, but she's standing in front of it.
If this were a Republican, this would be all over the news today, as in Dan Quayle and Potato.
So the drive-bys are not gonna care about uh Hillary and the and uh you know monitoring people's cell phone calls.
But what this uh uh s sort of shows us is this the last three major wiretap stories on American citizens have been well, how many of you can name the three?
What are the big three wiretap stories uh on American citizens?
Going back a number of years.
Um, no, no, not the not the NSA.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Number one, Bobby Kennedy wiretapping Martin Luther King.
That's he did.
They wiretapped Martin Luther King and they were collecting a dossier on his infidelities.
The Kennedy, attorney general, the Kennedy Justice Department was doing Bobby Kennedy wiretapped Martin Luther King.
Then we had Baghdad Jim McDermott passing on wiretaps of Republicans, as we've talked about, and now Hillary Clinton wiretapping anybody she says is an enemy, uh monitoring their cell phone calls with a cell phone receiver.
Chairman Miao, we call her.
Chairman Mao, Chairman Meow strikes again.
Umbody's gonna care.
Well, it's gonna be in the book.
The book's not yet released, but uh Kauss is a copy of it and uh has put this on the website.
We'll see what kind of traction it gets.
Jeff in Indianapolis.
Uh your next as we go back to the phones.
Hello.
Great to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
I have to share with uh a story with you, and I know you as professor of the uh advanced uh institute for advanced or conservative studies.
I get uh just a student.
Um I had a conversation with my mother this past weekend, which we used to get into some heated political debates.
And um I I I I learned something about liberals this week, and I know you say that you well, you know them very well.
But we we progressed from subject to subject, one from the war to global warming to defending the war now that we're actually there.
And the two things that really stood out to me for the first time ever that I really find lacking in almost the uh in all liberals would be logic and reason.
They don't have either one of those things on their side.
It it's it's a belief that they have and they're sticking to it.
There's no room for debate.
It's a really it's a religion and they don't have to explain it.
If you don't get it, you're the kook.
They don't have to justify what they believe to you.
You have to justify what you believe in them.
They're having a superior why d some of them do.
Your your mom just she uh a lot of it's just governed by emotion.
Um it's what they feel and uh that that governs their um their political point of view.
But uh most most liberals have a uh a superiorist view of their uh of themselves and there's there there is no debate on anything.
There is no other side.
There is no alternative.
And if you start talking to them about it, oh you're just threatening a little cocoon uh in which their worldview is housed.
That is absolutely true, and my mother pretty much closes up at that point, says, Nope, that's the end of the discussion, and I'm like, but but but she got not she can't explain she can't explain what she thinks.
She doesn't think.
And if you don't understand how she feels, then you're the insensitive boob.
But she doesn't she doesn't think she should have to explain it.
She has to justify liber liberals don't think they have to explain it.
Yeah.
Well, I d I just appreciate all you do, and uh for those people who seem to think that we're mind numb robots out there, we're uh we're nothing nothing like that.
They know it.
They know that's why they're so afraid of you.
They know you're not mind numbed robots and try to discredit you by saying that.
They know.
They know exactly what's happening.
They just they uh in terms of this alternative media creating more informed educated people in the arena of ideas.
That's what bugs them.
That's why they're fairness doctors, want to shut it all down.
Appreciate the call.
Jeff Judy in Tampa, you're next on open line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Uh great to talk to you.
I'm a big fan.
Thank you.
Um but I kind of did a double take.
I don't know if it was this week or last week when you were talking about uh preschool to pre universal preschool initiative that uh I think Hillary was pushing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and that it was d indoctrination, and that may be the case with the in universal model.
But I think you also said that it was like babysitting and preschool, there's nothing to back up that there's any advantage with preschool, and actually there is.
There are there are studies, they're very solid studies gotta do a lot of people.
Excuse me?
We're talking four year olds.
Yes, but you know, there is research to say that eighty-five percent of social, intellectual and psychological development occurs before the age of five.
I mean, whose research well I don't have the the I could I could get it for if you want me to.
I can't do it right this minute.
But based on that based on that, there have been longitudinal studies that show that I mean there's a what I'm trying to get at here is this.
Um there's another way of looking at this, and there is a business case for supporting pre-K, not for a universal model, which I agree with you can be very problematic.
Well, but that's what we were talking about.
Oh, okay And that's what Hillary wants.
And you know, add another year of school.
We're look at the problem is not that we're not taking care of our fourth grade or four fourth or four year olds, right?
It's the by the time they get to the second, third grade, too many of them can't read.
And there's nothing and and so what we're gonna do instead of fixing, oh, let's add another year of school and let's put the federal government charge of it.
I used babysitting as a as a as a means of of uh uh sort of in a flippant way attacking this, because they just we want to get hold of these kids and indoctrinate them because actually your research is exactly right.
That's prof that's precisely when all kinds of psychological and intellectual developments taking place that we don't see.
Yeah.
But could I tell you this that um there is another business case for this and businesses are wanting to get involved in helping disadvantaged kids who are not making it through the school system, they're not entering the workforce, they're not contributing to the tax base, they're becoming criminals.
There is a longitudinal study, there are a couple of them that are very respected now, showing that high quality pre K for a disadvantaged kids does have very, very good academics.
I know Mrs. Clinton cited that.
That's uh was in the story I read.
That's Mrs. Clinton cites it, you know, that's the one.
But what I'm saying to you, why let her take why let her get why let her use the study?
Why not use the study for your for a more of a business case and for a tax base?
I mean, there are businesses interested.
I mean, she's why let her get the issue.
But the reason why is because even if it's thought by experts, quote unquote, that doing something like this would be good for these four-year-olds, it ain't gonna be good if the feds run it.
It isn't it isn't gonna be good if Hillary Clinton's federal government runs it.
And that was my point.
Okay, well then what I'm saying.
What are the parents for for crying out loud?
Okay, but then what I'm saying is why let Hillary take this take this issue?
Why not say why not go along with their our business?
Now there's a big move now among businesses to work with these initiatives to target just a lot of people.
Well hey hey, commercial break.
Commercial break.
Hang on.
We'll be right back with you.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
We go back to Judy in Tampa.
Judy, just so uh uh you don't you don't misunderstand me on this.
I I don't have any disagreement that uh that daycare and pre-K and all that can help disadvantaged kids and get them into elementary schools.
Um so that by the time the kid enters a public school, he can't read at grade level, by the time he reaches eighth grade, it gets worse in high school.
And we end up having remedial classes in college.
We've already what's the difference in age four and age five when we start kindergarten, the problem is not there.
The problem's happening later on.
No, but the thing is the problems happen later on because they don't get the good foundation.
And it isn't just getting remediation in college.
It's getting more criminal activity, it's getting people who are not making any money, not getting into the workforce.
There's more and more competition.
These kids don't have a chance, and Head Start is not cutting it.
There's getting to be more and more emphasis on pre-K.
You know, you're missing the whole point.
Whatever good, and I will look let's I'll accept your premise.
Whatever good is done in in pre-K for five years of age is gonna be undone by the t the way the public schools are crying.
It's not my opinion here.
It's happening.
The dropout rate sky high, particularly among Hispanics and African Americans in New York and Los Angeles.
Um you could you could start with them when they're age two.
But but these kids who are dropping out have not had pre-K advantage as far as I know, or have they.
It wouldn't matter.
You can have all the advantages, my theory.
You have all the advantages in the world at age four.
By the time they get into second and third grade, that's when it starts falling apart for some reason.
There are studies saying that they it doesn't fall apart.
That's what I'm saying.
It's it's what I'm saying is it's worth looking into.
And I'm what I'm saying is why.
Why there'd be studies that say it doesn't fall apart when we haven't done it?
Well, they have done it.
I mean, they have done it on a small scale.
And the thing is, it's been it's what's anecdotal.
This is how stuff gets rammed down our throat.
This is how tax increases and expanded government get rammed down our throat, and the dirty little insinuation here is that parents can't do this.
Only trained specialists from your friendly government can handle something this major.
What I'm saying is this isn't going away.
And if you let Hillary take this, you're more likely instead of taking this looking at it seriously and try to turn it into more of a business model.
Sadly, it isn't going away precisely because more people in this country don't have the guts to stand up and accept their own responsibilities as parents.
And until we get to farm it off and do look at it as babysitting.
And that is what I meant.
Uh government will take and grab every aspect of life it can if you let them.
Now you keep I know you keep talking about businesses doing this and businesses having uh an interest in this.
Well, let's let businesses run all the schools then.
Let's just have let's turn the whole thing over to private sector.
Let's do that because I guarantee you the results will be better than what we're getting now on a on an overall basis.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks much for holding through the break.
Who's next on this program sternly?
Keep up here.
Craig in Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome to the program.
Oh.
What?
What?
Yes.
What?
What did you say?
Tomato?
No, no.
I said rush bow.
Rush bow.
Thank you very much, sir.
Great to have you.
Yes.
Black conservative dittoes to you, my f and um you you're a real inspiration.
It's a real honor to say.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Yes.
And and my comment is no more nice guys in the White House.
Uh President Bush.
I respect President Bush.
I respect the question.
I have a question.
Shoot.
Before you finish your point here, is I'm a student of voices and dialects accents.
Are you are you a Katrina refugee?
Oh no, no.
Are you from New Orleans or Louisiana?
No.
Lifetime Richmond, Virginia uh resident.
Wow, okay.
Well I didn't I didn't mean anything insulting by it.
It was just in Well, uh look, I've been told I have a southern accent.
Um I could act say that.
And they tell me I need to get rid of the accent.
No, it's who you are.
Don't get rid of it.
Don't let them talk you out of that.
Well yeah yeah well I'll make him his own movie this summer and I'm gonna have a little clip of you it's about me but I'm gonna be video will be on I'll have something inspirational that you're saying.
Everybody wants to get in the act.
Okay, no more Mr. Nice Guys is president that's what you're saying, huh?
Well, listen, the Fort Dix thing was that was Clinton being a nice guy.
And, I mean, hey, a nice guy can marry my daughter.
A nice guy can live next door to me.
But when it comes to Commander-in-Chief, come on, Rush.
I mean, we help these people out over there, and they come here, Fort Dix thing.
We bring them into Fort Dix to get them acclimated to their new home.
How do they repay us, Rush?
And Bush will do this with the President Bush, let me be respectful.
He wants to do this with 45,000 Iraqi people.
refugees they they want to bring them here so much nice guy well you have a point you you you I mean you you you have a point particularly in dealing with the enemy yes uh you uh you actually do have a point but the country wants nice guys uh countr country wants nice touchy feely people but if you if you take attributes of a president and you categorize them in numerical order let I want nice guy to be in the mix but I don't want to be one,
two or three my goodness I wanted to be eight, nine or ten.
Yeah hear ya.
I I hear you right on right on right on.
Wait, can you imagine how Teddy uh not Teddy can you imagine a Harry Truman would go over today with with uh with his salty language and his uh take no prisoners uh attitude about things uh look at on the other side r Ronald Reagan was uh for all intents and purposes uh outward appearance of nice guy he was tough as nails behind closed doors and in uh in dealing with uh with Gorbachev and others that's a good point sir I uh appreciate the call thanks so much this is Joanna is it
Joanna or Joanna?
It's Joanna.
Joanna, she's Steubenville, Ohio, and it's your turn on Open Line Friday.
Rush, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you.
This is the second time ever I've talked to you in my lifetime, and I've lived a long time.
And I appreciate all of your thoughts, and I want your thoughts on this thing that has my husband and I troubled.
The other night, well, not troubled, but confused.
Disturbed, a little disturbed and concerned.
Sort of confused, yeah.
The other night we were watching Charlie Rose, Warren Buffett.
was interviewing Warren Buffett.
Now I'm sure you know who Warren Buffett is.
Well yes I played Warren's golf tournament a couple I was on my way to play in his golf tournament on 91 we had to turn back and come back after the towers were hit.
Yeah he's pretty rich isn't he?
Well yeah I'm the second richest guy in the country.
He talks he talks about he talks about billion dollars like I talk about five but Charlie Rose came right out and asked him uh if he were to vote now uh does he have you know any preferences as to who he thinks would make a great president and he said oh yes I do Hillary Clinton or Obama Barack Obama.
And you were surprised he's a Democrat?
No it wasn't so much that I was surprised he was a Democrat but I was surprised at the praise that he handed he laid on him afterwards and the praise he laid on Hillary I could not believe what he was saying.
The only thing I could figure is he was talking about all this money he's going to give away or has given away and will be giving away and he wants it all gone by the time he's gone and I guess he wants Hillary to help him well give me your thoughts on it.
I'd be happy to Warren Buffett I've uh is a nice man at at these uh at these golf tournaments these charity golf tournaments he'd always uh Uh there'd be a dinner after our lunch, and after lunch he get up and and speak.
And the uh the most the last one that I was able to attend, um, he started railing against the estate tax.
And he told all of us that the last thing he was going to do was bestow his wealth on his kids, and it would ruin their lives.
He's only going to give them a couple billion.
Um he didn't say that, but that's what that's come out later.
But he's all for the estate tax.
He does he thinks it ought to be thrown.
He's a he's a liberal Democrat.
Now, uh the uh it it's surprising to people because the the left has created this image that all rich people and all tycoons are big time evil uh mean-spirited extremist Republicans.
But he's not that.
He's uh he's very liberal, he's very Democrat.
Uh and sounds very smart.
Well, you he is.
I mean, there's you know, there's there are all kinds of ways to define smart, though.
Um uh uh m the Mr. Buckley uh wrote a column about that in Playboy magazine back in 1985 or 1986 called I forget the exact title, but um how do we define SMART today, back then in 1986 is what what is the task that he assigned himself when he started writing it.
Smart is an elusive.
You know, there's intelligent, there's informed, there's educated.
I think Warren Buffett obviously is brilliant in the world of finance.
Obviously brilliant.
His politics uh make me wonder, you know, what's he missing?
Uh and his little minor little contradiction.
I had this story last week, or maybe it was the week before, shortly before or after the uh Hillary Clinton babysitting story on uh K-4, uh or the the pre-K4, what uh the uh uh major airlines have to pay the majority of taxes.
Well, their customers do, but they the they have to make the payment to the federal government to run the air traffic control.
And the uh uh somebody came out and said, Well, you know, corporate jets aren't paying nearly their fair share, and there's a lot of them out there now.
And the major airlines were all for this.
Oh, yeah, we need to share the burden.
We need to get rid of some of our taxes and pass it on to corporate owners.
And Warren Buffett owns a company called Net Jets, which is a partial ownership plan.
Uh you can buy a fourth of an airplane, different kinds of airplanes, you buy a tenth, you can buy half of one, you can buy X number of hours on one a year.
Uh and it's a big it's been very successful, and he argued against increasing the tax burden on corporate owners because of the impact it might have on his business.
So when something like that happens, uh-huh, tax cuts, tax increases, well, they're great when they happen to other people, but all of a sudden when they impact you, well, it's a different different story.
I have uh you have to have a lot of respect for Warren Buffett, what he's accomplished, what he's done, uh and he is very philanthropic.
Um for those of you in real Linda means he gives a lot of money uh to charity.
But I think Warren Buffett is is sort of like an argument, you know, people out there saying that some of all of our ideology is genetic, uh not environmental.
It's genetic.
Now some people disagree with this, but I'm I can understand your frustration.
How can somebody like Warren Buffett uh look at Hillary Clinton and not see the danger she poses to the very economic climate that allowed him to become the second wealthiest way?
She's out there talking collectivism.
She's out there talking, taking corporate profits, big oil and all this.
She's talking about shared responsibilities.
But I'll tell you what next yeah, tell you what you do.
Next time any of you in Washington or New York, next time you hear hear that Hillary's flying someplace to uh make an abandonment.
Here's what you do.
Uh if she's flying out of national, you're gonna have trouble because that's really they've really tightened that down because of uh 9-11 and so forth.
And you have you gotta, if you fly international on your own plane, corporate plane, you've got to have air marshals and at least one, uh it's a big pain in the rear.
But if she flies out of Dulles, which the restrictions are not nearly like they are at Nashville, because Nashville's right downtown, um uh next time you learn hear that she's flying somewhere on a personal appearance, head out to signature flight support at Dulles and say you want to hit your ride with her because you're going to the same place.
Because, well, she's talking about sharing and a common good and uh and and all of this.
And next time that she's getting somebody to give her a ride on their corporate jet, just be out there say, I'd like to go.
You know, I'm going where you're going, and uh I won't bother you when I get any, I won't drink or eat anything.
I don't I'm not I'm I'm not gonna bother sit in the back of the boy.
I just need to get where I'm going.
And I've heard you so brilliantly and eloquently say, Mrs. Clinton, that we all need to share, and we all need to uh work for the common good and so forth.
I mean, I th this this is made to order for you.
Let's see what she says.
But as to Mr. Buffett, I think it's it's a mystery to me uh how big time capitalists uh can sit there and openly support somebody who, if you believe what she says, wants to really start whacking away at the capitalist system we have here.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution rush limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
We're on open line Friday, and we go to Boston.
This is Terrence.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Rush, I was watching TV the other night, and I was pretty disturbed.
I want to get your opinion on this.
Have you seen the new Lowe's commercial?
Anyway, it's the new Lowe's commercial.
I don't think so.
But you know Well, it has let me let me let me tell you what it is.
It's got a couple on there, a husband and wife, and they're talking to a uh a specialist, this woman, and every time the woman suggests something, the husband says, It's too hard, I can't do it.
I can't do it, it's too hard.
And the woman's specialist, oh, you can do it.
So finally at the end, the husband gives in and says, Honey, you were right, I was wrong.
I was thinking, you know, this commercial's really emasculating.
And I I feel like all these shows and these commercials are up to the city.
Wait a minute.
I need to know some I need to know so.
You say it's a commercial lows.
Yes.
L-O-E-W-S.
L-O-W-E-S.
Lowe's Lowe's hardware.
Oh, well.
I need to know a little more information.
The f the first thing I advertising, I have always said, is a window on the soul of the country, because people who design advertising, the creative people that do it, have to reach out and find a way to separate people from their money.
And commercials have to be entertaining or informed or all those things, penetrating, they have to stand out.
Uh the way I would interpret that is the dirty little secret in American commerce is that the particularly in married couples, the wives are the ones spend the money.
Right, but isn't it the man?
The the guy's gonna do all the work anyway.
Well, that's the joke of it.
The joke is that the guy can't do it, uh doesn't want to do it.
Uh yeah I'm not I'm not disputing your point, because I'll guarantee there's a couple female creative people that put that together.
Uh it had to be.
A husband's a lug.
Uh wife knows what to get done, what to buy, and so forth, and she's not gonna do it.
She's gonna teach him to do it.
Oh, he can he finally realize he's right.
And of course, the the payoff line in that, I think, and I haven't seen it, is honey, I was wrong.
Everybody knows that that's that's the fastest way out of trouble for any husband.
Well, you know, my girlfriend saw nothing wrong with the commercial.
You know, but the more I thought about it, you get this is absurd.
I mean, it was ridiculous.
It's it was almost like two women against the one guy who portrays an idiot.
It may not be that absurd.
And the idea that that that's why this uh this book that the the the uh dangerous book for boys is out.
More and more men are not learning the fix-it-up stuff.
Uh because it's too manly.
You know, it's it's we're just not doing it.
Women have been taking it over because it needs to get done.
And of course it makes them feel empowered that they can do it too.
Look, I can find a garden hose and I know where to point it.
Look, I can rake the leaves or or what have you.
But but I I th I think there's a lot of humor in that commercial as a as rather than an attempt to masculine.
I think it derives from the fact that whoever put that together already thinks that that circumstance exists.
And they're trying to sell products, and if they're doing it, if you're gonna do things that are gonna offend a whole lot of people, it isn't going to work.
Well, do you think it's a grow, I mean a growing trend?
I mean, surely this isn't the only commercial like that.
Feminization of the culture, yeah.
No question about it.
But I mean, the fact that it's now, I mean, not only is it in TV shows and in books and in magazines, but I mean, now are very advertising.
It's in the schools.
That's what I'm telling you.
Advertising is a window on the soul of America.
Advertising will tell you what's going on in the country.
I study advertising.
I don't watch it.
I study it.
Uh I mean, I have to watch it to study it, but uh I'm I'm sophisticated enough to separate myself from the uh the tricks that the marketing tricks.
I should shop at Home Depot.
Well, you know, do me a favor and keep an eye out for this commercial.
I will.
I look I have to I I don't mean to be rude here, but uh the constraints of time choking me here.
I have to run.
Thanks much.
Well, I'm sure we'll be talking about this even more now, though.
Say, Terrence, and Boston, I know you're still out there.
I just checked the email, and a lot of women I just got we're gonna comment on this in the next hour.
A lot of women think you're a wuss for reacting to a commercial that's what he was sort of his point.
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