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June 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I'm the senior fellow sitting in the what are you, what are you, what are you frowning about in there?
Yeah.
The prestigious Attila the Hun chair Snerdley in there, still angry about the first hour.
I went back to Snerdley's office.
I always like to check the temperature of the staff every day, make sure everything is hunky-dory and cool, and sitting there slouched over.
So what's wrong?
So I just don't understand it.
I don't understand.
I've been following politics all my life, and I just don't know how the Democrats keep getting away with it.
Democrats can destroy anybody they want and who doesn't do anything even.
And then you take a poor little guy like Scooter Libby, who's just really a peon in the big scheme of things, didn't do anything, 30 months in jail, you got a president of the United States, lied under oath, suborned perjury, and is running around like a rock star.
And I said, there's a one-word answer, and that's media.
And number, there's a secondary reason, too, and that is that the Republicans don't know how to fight this stuff.
After all these years, they don't know how to fight this stuff.
And they certainly don't know how to defend themselves.
And I think the reason is they're always on defense.
But it's just the way it is.
I know it seems unjust and unfair, but it's, you know, as I said, the guy earlier in the last hour, he wanted Democrats get a dose their own medicine.
The only time they do is at the ballot box.
They're not going to be treated the way Republicans are in the media.
And you're not going to hear stories about the American people upset at Democrats, be it Clinton or Congressman William Jefferson or Sandy Berg.
Really, they're not going to seek these people out.
And therefore, the impression is left the country doesn't care what Democrats do, only cares what Republicans do.
But recent elections don't bear that out.
Some do, but I still think November last year was about Republicans, not Democrats.
It wasn't endorsement of liberalism.
Speaking of which, you know, last night, CNN aired a special on faith and politics sponsored by Sojourners Call a Renewal.
It's an evangelical organization.
It was moderated by Soledad O'Brien.
And they talked to Hillary Clinton.
They talked to Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards.
They joined the forum.
And we've got audio soundbites of this.
And when I saw this is being done, and I happened, you know, I was last night, I was just wasted.
The past 10 days have just warned me.
In fact, I got here today, didn't know if I was going to be able to pull this off.
I mean, it was with energy.
I'm always here.
But I went to bed early last night for me, and I got in bed and I started channel surfing around.
And I said, I really need to go to sleep.
So I turned on CNN.
And I watched, I saw Anderson Cooper 180, and they were rehashing what had happened earlier on CNN.
And I'm watching this.
And a thought hit me.
I said, well, now, wait a minute.
The Republican Party, the Republican Party is doing everything it can to diminish the role of Christian conservatives In its structure, well, not every Republican Party is, not every Republican is, but you know, face it.
I mean, there are many moderate blue-blood Republicans out there just embarrassed all to hell that there are 24 million conservative Christians in the Republican Party.
They're known primarily as pro-lifers.
And of course, these moderate country club blueblooders, it's just embarrassing to be in the same party with them.
And we hear from the drive-by meeting the Democrats that religious people are to be feared.
If they ever get in power, they're going to do away with separation of church and state.
And that they don't think they're just stupid.
They're dangerous.
They want to impose their morality on everybody else.
And so I said, why in the world are these Democrat frontrunners showing up to talk about God?
And why are they showing up on CNN to talk about faith?
And why are they concerned about why?
What brought this on?
I mean, if Christians and Catholics, Protestants are the death knell for a modern political movement, then what the hell are the Democrats out there doing trying to court those very same people?
Well, of course, they're not the death knell.
The Democrats would love to peel them off.
The Democrats would love to get the NASCAR crowd without admitting it.
They'd love to have them vote for them.
I don't want anybody who'd be embarrassed at it if that happened.
But they're out there.
They're a large group of people and they are active and they are engaged and they vote and they care.
They're informed.
So this idea that the Christian element of American political society is somehow to be shunned and embarrassed of and so forth is absolute poppycock.
The Democrats are out there trying to court them.
I remember after the 2004 presidential election, and the Democrats are doing their post-mortem.
What happened to us?
They find out the exit polls that morality, moral views, decency on television, these kind of things matter to a lot of people went out and voted.
So the Democrats started saying, you know, we're going to have to shore up our values base.
That lasted about two weeks.
And they started debating how it was they could show themselves to be more religious.
But of course, the truly conservative Christian are not going to be fooled by it because, you know, you are who you are, not what you say you are.
And the Democrats are not.
I mean, let's face it, the Democrat Party, for the most part, the exceptions, of course, the Democrat Party resents religion.
They don't like the firm resolve and the faith that people have.
It scares them.
They are scared by it.
They're scared by people who have faith in a higher power than that which is alive on earth today or the earth itself.
This is no mystery.
So I see this last night, and I said, we'll get some audio soundbites.
This will let you listen to what these Democrats are saying about this.
And we'll do that after the break coming up.
Quick little question here.
Normally, this is something I would say for Open Line Friday, but it's a guy watching the program on the Ditto Cam today at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
He says, on the Ditto Cam, you're speaking a good distance from the microphone, yet your voice comes through loud and clear.
How is this?
Brian just went, see, see, I told you, told you what?
What are you saying?
Well, we do have a great studio.
Brian's the broadcast engineer here and thinks he's going to be praised and complimented for this in my answer to the question.
The first thing is, I'm looking at myself on the demo on the Dittohead monitor here, and it does look like I'm quite a ways away from it, but I'm not.
It's an optical illusion.
I'm probably within three inches of this microphone.
But we have the two things that work here.
This is a golden EIB microphone.
It's Electro Voice EV20, I believe.
But those of us who are highly trained broadcast specialists know how to use these things.
The incorrect way to use a microphone is to put it right in front of you like this and speak into it because you pop your P's real bad, and that could be dangerous on certain words.
We broadcast professionals turn it to the side and speak across it so that our P's do not pop and we don't have to worry about anything like that.
And with the compression that is built into our system here, I can move this microphone even further away.
You're probably hearing me not quite as loud, but the presence is still there.
As I move it in closer, it gets a little bit more present, but not really louder.
Now, sometimes I do what we professional broadcasters refer to as eat the microphone.
And that is when I really want to make a point.
I am eating this microphone.
My lips are touching this microphone right now.
Any number of highly trained specialist techniques that we, who are professionals in this business, use.
But the one thing, the microphone, I can't have it in the way here because I gesticulate wildly and I don't want to be oops doing that and knocking the microphone away from me.
I might damage it as well.
So while it looks like it's far away on the ditto cam, it's actually right in front of me, just turned off to the side.
All right, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
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Feel free to ask any question at any time.
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Let me grab one phone call here before we go to the Democrats and their faith in politics soundbites.
Here's Tim in New Orleans.
Tim, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I have a couple of points.
First of all, I'm in Congressman Bill Jefferson's district.
You are.
And I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, and I voted for it.
I'll respond to that in just a minute.
But you'd be surprised how many people actually of his constituents are calling the local radio program and complaining that it's a conspiracy.
I'm not surprised at that at all.
Right.
And it will hinder the effort to get more money for the area.
But another question.
I'm not surprised.
I predicted this yesterday.
This is exactly what I expected to happen.
Right.
And the mayor, Ray Nagan, has left his options open to run for Bill Jefferson's spot if he should leave.
He has not said that he was not going to.
He said, I'll leave my options open.
But I voted for Bill Jefferson because of the opponent that was running against him last year.
There was a local sheriff here, sheriff of Jefferson Parish, spent several thousand dollars of his own money campaigning for Bill Jefferson because the other candidate was also questionable, maybe not as questionable as Bill Jefferson, but I guess his thinking was that the other candidate would be in there for the duration, and the sheriff actually expected the indictment and hopefully would leave the position open.
It should build.
All I can say is that that's some just really great choices that you had.
Right.
No, I agree.
And of course, lesser of two evils is obviously what you're facing there.
Well, look, I thank you for the report coming out of New Orleans, although even I didn't need it.
Not surprised at all that locals are calling local shows saying it's a conspiracy to get rid of our guy to stop aid from being sent to New Orleans and so forth.
Utterly, utterly predictable.
That's the other thing about the left and Democrats today.
They are just totally predictable.
And I'm looking, I'm like you.
I mean, sometimes if I can see it and if you all can see it, why doesn't everybody see it?
And to answer that, you have to understand the degree of rage and hatred that's making people irrational out there.
All right, let's go listen to the Democrats now talk about all of a sudden their faith.
Now, this group, Sojourners slash Call to Renewal, an evangelical organization.
You know, it's like, I don't know this group, but precisely because I don't know them is why I have questions about them.
There are all kinds of religious groups, all of a sudden, religious groups sprung up that are pro-global warming.
And I don't believe that they're actually religious.
I think that they're libs calling themselves a religious group, trying to move forward that particular.
Now, what are you laughing at?
It's starting to get distracting.
Having something funny, well, I mean, that funny in at least 10 minutes.
And what are you still laughing?
Are you telling jokes about something in there?
Are you going to clue me in?
Questioning who?
Who am I questioning?
The New Orleans people.
Oh, they are.
Oh, they are.
I'm not.
I'm totally.
I'm not questioning their faith.
I'm questioning their legitimacy.
They can be faithful all they want.
I'm just telling you that all of a sudden, out of clear blue, we've got religious groups that are pro-global warming.
How come I've never heard of this before?
And then we've got, and then they're starting to make inroads in the conservative Christian community on global warming.
I grow government.
Hey, I didn't fall off the turn of truck.
I wasn't born on one, so I couldn't have fallen off one.
But I mean, this is who it is.
I don't know about this group, but I just, when we start talking about Democrats and faith and God, I'm telling you, it's a trick.
It's a trick.
Otherwise, they've been doing it all the time.
They wouldn't be embarrassed about it.
But, okay, there you have it.
U.S. News and World Report describes Sojourners as a liberal Christian group.
Well, how many of those are there besides a United Methodist Church?
Which is my church, so I can say it.
Of course, maybe the Episcopalians, they're sort of off the straight and narrow for a while there, too.
But some sects.
But we're going to look at, you just quit distracting me in there so that I can play these sound bites.
People are chomping it the bit here to hear John Edwards and Obama and Hillary talk about their faith in God.
And so here we go.
Jim Wallace is the founder of the Sojourner Call to Renewal.
And they invited Democrat presidential contenders Hillary, Barack Obama, John Edwards, to join this forum.
Now, is it a little odd?
Do you imagine if Jerry Falwell had called up or Pat Robertson today, call up, see, and I want to do a religious forum.
Would it happen?
Of course not.
I'm eating the microphone now.
So we know what this is.
And we know it's a trick.
What's interesting about it is they think they have to do this.
These are the people that run around ridicule conservative Christians, make fun of them.
You people drive the pickup trucks.
You live in Mississippi.
We're at a plaid church.
You got a bottle of old crow sitting next to you.
You're going to go bomb an abortion clinic in a couple of days.
You watch NASCAR.
You don't have your two front teeth.
That's what they think of you, and you know it.
Now, all of a sudden, they want you.
Huh.
All right.
Here's the first question from Solid O'Brien.
In this religious series, Faith and Politics, do you think homosexuals have the right to get married?
No, not personally.
Now, you're asking about me personally.
But I think there's a difference between my belief system and what the responsibilities of the president of the United States are.
Mario Cuomo.
That's the reason we have separation of church and state.
And they're very good people, including some people that I'm very close to.
My daughter, who's sitting on the front row here tonight, feels very differently about this issue.
And I have huge respect for those who have a different view about this.
So I think we have to be very careful about ensuring that the President of the United States is not using his belief system and imposing that belief system on the rest of the country.
Well, okay, you just failed, dude.
If you're out there trying to attract conservative credit, you have just blown it sky high.
It's not that conservative Christians want a president to impose his view on the American people.
It's about character.
It's about morality.
And it's about having the courage of your convictions.
This is how Mario Cuomo tried to get around with the Catholic Church, his pro-choice stance.
And he went to Notre Dame and he made this big speech.
And he said, my personal beliefs are my personal beliefs, but I would not ever, ever impose them on the country.
Really, you pose your tax policy on the country.
You'll impose your pacifist foreign policy views on the country.
You'll impose every economic policy or socioeconomic or immigration policy you've got on the country.
Why not this?
Why not this?
And I would ask the same thing of Senator Edwards.
No, not personally.
Now, you're asking me personally, but I think there's a difference between my belief system and what the responsibilities of the president.
Well, if your belief system is that unimportant to you, then why are you running?
You know, most people that run for president, who would put up with this?
It's a never-ending, from the moment you announce, even sometime before you announce, if they think that you're interested in it, you get a media anal.
It's not as bad for the Democrats as it is for the Republicans.
Who would put up with this?
The people that put up with it have this incredible passion and this desire.
And you can say about this what you want, but the fact of the matter is the people that run for the office of president believe the country can't get by without them.
You have to have some kind of drive like that.
And I don't mean in an arrogant, egotistical way.
I'm talking about passionate belief.
You love it, and you believe it.
It should be as you want it to be.
And you want the power of the bully pulpit to take the country in the direction you believe it should go.
And he's just sitting here saying, I wouldn't oppose my personal views.
I'm not buying this for a moment.
This is just his way.
Well, he says, I'm personally not for gay marriage.
But, that would not have a thing to do with the way I ran the country.
Anyway, that's a question at the religious forum.
There's more.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
All right.
So John Edwards just told us what his view is on gay marriage.
Let's go back, shall we?
This is Sunday on CNN.
Wolf Blitzer interviewing his wife Elizabeth Edwards.
And Blitzer asks her about Bob Shrum's book.
You know, Shrum wrote that more troubling was an exchange I had with Edwards one afternoon.
We were throwing around questions and answers in his law firm's conference room.
I said, what's your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?
Edwards said, I'm not comfortable around those people.
You were there, Ms. Edwards, at that conversation.
What really happened?
I believe that Bob Shrum brought up the issues of gays and lesbians.
And John said, you know, I come from a small southern town, Baptist, you know, as far as I know, I don't know.
This is honestly, he said, honestly, an abstract issue for me because he said, you know, I don't really know, as far as I know, know any gay people.
You know, so sort of talked to me about it.
And I said, well, actually, you do.
And I said, I referred to a friend of mine from English graduate school and how we had been out for John and Ivan out for the evening.
I saw this old friend from English graduate school when we were still in law school.
And I went over and spoke to him, and I knew that he was gay.
And I said, you know, I'm engaged.
There's the fellow over there I'm engaged to.
And he said, oh, he's awfully cute.
I might snake him if he wasn't with you.
And I told John that, and this is where he used the word uncomfortable.
He said, that made me feel uncomfortable.
Okay.
She said it, folks.
The gay guy wanted to snake John Edwards.
And that made Edwards feel uncomfortable.
And then she continued the explanation with this.
So Bob correctly remembers the word uncomfortable, but incorrectly remembers the circumstances in which he said it.
I mean, all of us feel uncomfortable about someone snaking us, I guess, in the presence, trying to snake us in the presence of our fiancé.
And that made him feel uncomfortable.
And John talked about that.
So he's just, he remembers it slightly, but it remembers it incorrectly.
And I have a from my book, you'll know I remember things very in quite good detail from years ago.
And I remember this conversation very clearly.
And I have talked to John about that, and he does recall exactly the same thing.
So that's why Edwards got the question.
What do you think about gay marriage?
Let's move on now.
Another soundbite here from the Breck girl, Wolf Blitzer.
I'm sorry, no, O'Brien, this O'Brien, who's Solid O'Brien, who'll host the show.
He said, if you think something's morally wrong, though, and you morally disagree with it as president, don't you have a duty to go with your moral belief?
No, I think that, first of all, my faith, my belief in Christ, plays an enormous role in the way I view the world.
But I think I also understand the distinction between my job as president of the United States, my responsibility to be respectful of and to embrace all faith beliefs in this country, because we have many faith beliefs in America, and for that matter, we have many faith beliefs in the world.
And I think one of the problems that we've gotten into is some identification of the president of the United States with a particular faith belief, as opposed to showing great respect for all faith beliefs.
Now, I assume here that we are talking about Bush and perhaps even Rinaldus Magnus.
And of course, Bush is one of the most tolerant presidents we've had of faiths other than his.
Look what he's trying to do in the Middle East.
Look at the faith he has and the Islamo-fascist population to straighten out.
At any rate, you see what's happening here.
The Democrats continue, well, I'm this and I'm that, but I don't believe it enough to really have my views based on it, my morality or what have you.
So this is a play for the Christian conservative vote.
And they say, yeah, I believe in God, we're faithful, but I don't know why they're doing it.
Because I've, well, I know there's a lot of bucks in there, but I mean, the point is they're angering their base with you.
Their base hates the Christians.
Their base has no desire.
I'm talking about these wacko-kook fringe-based people.
We're constantly told that we've got to de-emphasize these people from American politics.
And here come the Democrats out now trying to court them.
Here is, here's one more.
This is John Cook.
I'm sorry.
The Reverend Suzanne Johnson Cook, president of the Hampton University Ministers Conference.
The next question.
It takes a village is an African proverb.
In fact, one of your colleagues has written about it, but it speaks about the blessed of us really helping the rest of us.
Now, quite frankly, the African-American community felt with Katrina that our American village disappeared.
You were president of the U.S. What are the first two things that you'd do to rebuild a Gulf in New Orleans, not just the damage that was done physically, but also the hopes of the people that were deferred?
Well, let me say, first of all, this cause of New Orleans is also very personal to me because you may know that I announced my campaign from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
Yeah, why?
700 college kids down to work during their spring break in New Orleans a little over a year ago.
And I've been to New Orleans and to Louisiana repeatedly since the hurricane.
Answer the question just a few weeks ago.
The single biggest thing to be done is the President of the United States needs to put one person, a very high-level, competent person, in the White House in charge of New Orleans.
And that person, the president should say to that person, I want you in my office every morning telling me what you did in New Orleans yesterday.
And the next day saying, I want you in my office telling me what you did yesterday.
I'm not interested in what you do.
I've got to do six months from now.
I want to know what you did yesterday.
And I want to know what's happening on the ground.
The president, what's happening on the ground every single day.
What has happened in New Orleans is a national embarrassment.
Now, remember now, this is a conference, a TV show on faith and what?
Faith in politics.
So we'd have somebody in the White House.
You know, New Orleans, you're not in charge of yourself anymore.
If John Edwards is elected, there's going to be somebody in his office of the White House who's going to be in charge of fixing you up.
Let's keep going.
I mean, if I start commenting on all of these things, we're never going to finish this.
Solid O'Brien to who is the Barack Obama.
The President talks a lot, as you know, about sort of good versus evil in war.
Do you agree with that?
There have been times in our history where that requires that we take up arms.
I think that the Civil War was a just war.
Good.
I believe that defeating fascism and ensuring that Europe was liberated was the right thing to do.
What was also interesting about Lincoln, though, during the course of the Civil War was his recognition that simply because we've engaged in something just doesn't mean that there aren't times where we may act unjustly.
Abu Ghraib, obviously, is something that all of us should be ashamed for, even if you were supportive of a war.
I believe Guantanamo, the decision to detain people without charges, is unjust.
And so the danger of using good versus evil in the context of war is it may lead us to be not as critical as we should be about our own actions.
Okay, here you go, folks.
These are the people that want to defend you.
These are the people that want to claim to you that they'll do whatever it takes to protect you.
And yet, whenever these questions come up, what do they do but attack their own country?
Next question, Mrs. Clinton gets it.
Solid O'Brien, I am going to ask you a delicate question.
Infidelity in your marriage was very public.
And I have to imagine it was incredibly difficult to deal with.
And I would like to know how your faith helped you get through it.
Well, I'm not sure I would have gotten through it without my faith.
And, you know, I take my faith very seriously and very personally.
And I come from a tradition that is perhaps a little too suspicious of people who wear their faith on their sleeves.
A lot of the talk about and advertising about faith doesn't come naturally to me.
It is something that, you know, I keep thinking of the Pharisees and all of the Sunday school lessons and readings that I had as a child.
But I think your faith guides you every day.
Certainly mine does.
But at those moments in time when you're tested, it is absolutely essential that you be grounded in your faith.
Okay, you people buying this.
Here's more.
She continued her answer with this.
For some people, being tested in cruel and tragic ways leads them away from faith.
For me, because I've been tested in ways that are both publicly known and those that are not so well known or not known at all, my faith and the support of my extended faith family,
people whom I knew who were literally praying for me in prayer chains, who were prayer warriors for me, and people whom I didn't know who I would meet or get a letter from sustained me through a very difficult time.
But I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right, regardless of what the world thought.
And that's all one can expect or hope.
All right.
Now, whether she got some applause.
Now, whether.
You think there's something noteworthy about what she just said?
I mean, it's all one can expect and hope for, regardless of the world fought, do what I thought was right.
Well, how come that's not applicable in Iraq, the war on terror?
How come what the world thinks is so damned important to all you Democrats, but when it comes to your faith, you don't care what the world thinks you're going to do it.
Look, I don't care whether you're buying this or not.
The point of this is, for those of you who are faithful, for those of you who are deeply religious, you can judge whether or not this sounds sincere to you on your own time.
The important thing about this that you have to keep in mind is that they are courting you, that they are out there trying to make you think that they are one of you.
And you have to balance that against all the years and years and years you know of where they have impugned you and laughed at you and made fun of you and wished that you weren't around.
And see, you can take this and interpret it however you wish, but don't take the political aspect out of it because that's the primary point here.
Back in just a sec.
All right, doing a little research here to find out about this group.
Sojourners, whatever it is, Sojourners call to renewal.
Who are the Sojourners?
It's an evangelical Christian ministry that preaches radical left-wing politics.
It championed communist revolution in Central America.
Is there any wonder CNN found this bunch to co-sponsor this business?
The founder is Jim Wallace.
The mission statement here is that the Sojourners has professed to a devotion to the pursuit of social justice.
Giving voice to Sojourners' intense anti-Americanism, Jim Wallace called the United States the great power, the great seducer, the great captor, the great destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in his totalitarian claims and designs.
The founder of this group has that opinion of the United States of America.
And his, by the way, the source on this is discoverthenetwork.org.
His bio on this site, activist preacher and editor of the left-wing Christian magazine Sojourners, is a Democrat Party operative.
He's an apologist for communist atrocities in Cambodia and Vietnam.
He's a dedicated foe of capitalism and contends that biblical sculpture calls for large central government to aid the poor.
I knew it.
I knew it just because the guys on CNN.
I just knew it.
My instincts are such, I know these people.
I didn't need to read that to know it.
I got some details, but I knew it.
One more from Mrs. Clinton.
She was, and this is a montage of her, of her answer, but she was asked this question by Monsignor Kevin Sullivan of Catholic Charities USA.
Now, remember, this is faith and politics.
Mrs. Clinton, you have spoken a lot about our need to work for the common good.
In an age in which there is oftentimes narrow and excessive individualism, this guy should have excessive, narrow and excessive.
This guy, you realize this country could not have been built if these people were around in the 17 and 1800s?
What do you think got them through the 1800s?
Anyway, let me get to the question here.
In an age in which there is oftentimes narrow and excessive individualism, how will you speak to our country about the need for sacrifice and restraint when it comes to the critical issues of taxes, gun control, health care, and energy consumption?
And all this is presented to the CNN audience as faith and politics.
Here's a montage of her answers.
Take health care.
I think we could get almost unanimous agreement that having more than 45 million uninsured people, 9 million of whom are children, is a moral wrong in America.
An uninsured person who goes to the hospital is more likely to die than an insured person.
I mean, that is a fact.
So what do we do?
We have to build a political consensus.
And that requires people giving up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.
The same with energy.
You know, we can't keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God's creation and just let business as usual go on.
That means something has to be taken away from some people.
Something has to be taken away from some people.
And the CNN audience went berserko.
Something has to be taken away from some people.
That's Mrs. Clinton.
Here is Chris in Old Bridge, New Jersey.
Welcome to the program.
Hello?
Yeah.
Hi, Chris.
Are you there?
Yes, Rush.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, you bet.
Listen, I just wanted to comment on when Rush was talking, I'm sorry, when Hillary was talking, you were playing a soundbite.
She was talking about how she acts on her faith and all of that.
I was just, something sparked.
I was thinking that maybe that might be the most honest thing that she's ever said because she never said what her faith is in.
I was just that she acts on her faith.
I was waiting for this.
I said to the staff during the break, I said, did anybody, any of you guys hear what she said her faith is in?
I was reluctant.
I don't like to challenge people's faith.
That happens too much.
Faith is deeply personal.
That's why this is not a church.
I'm not sitting here at a pulpit and I don't do sermons.
But I know that people who are deeply faithful can analyze what Mrs. Clinton's saying and they can figure out whether they think it's legitimate and genuine or not.
And you've nailed it.
What does she have faith in?
She didn't say.
Edwards did.
Edwards talked about his belief in Christ.
Obama didn't say, and Hillary didn't say.
All right.
Well, I just wanted to run that by you and see what you thought about that.
Well, I think it's very, very astute observation on your part.
In fact, it's one that I had myself.
And anybody comes up with something I'm thinking before I've thought it, and therefore before you know it, is pretty bright.
You ought to be feeling really good about yourself today because you're on the same wavelength as a host without the host having said something to get you on that wavelength.
Well, thank you very much.
It's been an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad you called.
There's something to brag about to your friends and family tonight.
I'm not kidding.
This doesn't happen much.
Well, I've got my wife listening on the computer in the other room, and she's going to come in gloating.
Well, that'll get you a gold star for a couple hours at least.
But congratulations.
That's really, really, really, really well done.
I was hoping somebody in the audience would ask this question and not me.
And the guy was right there.
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