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June 29, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks.
Great to have you back with us for the final hour of our excursion into broadcast excellence on Friday, and you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address Rush at EIBNet.com.
And of course, open line Friday, you can talk about anything that you want to talk about.
And you know what I find interesting today?
I should ask Mr. Snurgley about this.
We haven't had check my memory on this.
We haven't had anybody calling about the emigration debate.
We had one.
We had one.
Are you have you gotten others that you uh threw overboard?
Not many people wanting to talk about it.
That's it's sort of like a breezed a uh a huge sigh of relief time.
Anyway, whatever you wish to discuss.
You have a question, a comment, you want to whine and complain and moan.
Uh this is the day to do it, folks, because Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things that I care about.
This is a huge career risk that uh only someone like I takes in big media, and that is turning over content of a major media presentation to rank amateurs like you.
Lovable rank amateurs.
But you are not highly trained broadcast specialists, as am I. Again, the phone number 800 282-2882.
Here, one more sound bite from the all-American presidential forum on PBS last night with the uh Tavis Smiley uh uh doing the hosting.
Uh and they all got a question about uh taxes.
Uh do you agree the rich aren't paying their fair share of taxes?
And here is a montage of their answers.
We need to get rid of George Bush's tax cuts for rich people.
I would eliminate the tax cut for the wealthy.
The Bush tax cuts.
People aren't looking for charity.
They want people paying their fair share of taxes.
I want to see the wealthy pay their fair share.
You think it's an accident that all of a sudden we wake up that the wealthy aren't paying a fair share?
We have to change the tax system, and we've got to get back to having those with the most contribute.
There you have it, uh, Mrs. Clinton.
Not one shred's worth of difference in any of these people.
You know what the Democrat slogan ought to be?
Here's the Democrat Party slogan, particularly this group of candidates.
We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
That's who they are.
This whole notion that the rich aren't paying their fair share, the rich they're talking about, are never going to pay any more taxes than they are now.
There's no tax increase.
Uh subsidiary tax increase that's going to affect the rich as they want you to think they're talking about.
Uh it just it's it's something that we're gonna stay on, folks.
This is another uh major education initiative from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies as this campaign unfolds.
Now here's a story from uh Reuters.
Wait a minute now.
Let's see if they get these pages all screwed up here.
We're finding the second page of this.
Do we have a second page of this?
Maybe I threw the second page.
I did.
I threw the second page away, which means the second page worthless.
Uh Ishani Ganguli is the uh is the author of this piece.
Late starters can benefit from healthy habits.
Get this now, even in middle age.
Adopting a healthy lifestyle can lower the risk for heart disease and premature death within years of changing habits, researchers reported on Thursday.
Now, this is really good news for you young people out there, because you can just keep partying on.
You can do all the so-called unhealthy things in the world you want, and as long as when you get 50 to 55, then you start living right and you'll be fine.
Middle-aged adults who began eating five or more fruits and vegetables every day, exercising for at least two and a half hours a week, keeping their weight down and not smoking, decreased.
Their risk of heart disease by 35% and their risk of death by 40% in the four years after they started.
Uh the adopters of a healthy lifestyle basically caught up.
Uh within four years, their mortality rate and rate of heart attacks match the people who had been doing these behaviors all along.
So we've all been a bunch of suckers.
We don't have to start young living right.
We can abuse ourselves and we can poison ourselves, we can pollute ourselves, we can eat, drink, and be merry, We can go without sleep as long as when we hit 55, we straighten up and fly right.
And I I'm happy to know because this is exactly what I've done.
So all you people have been telling me all the years of my life that I am doing damage to myself.
I have scientific research on my side that says I haven't, and you have been wasting your time.
Try this headline.
Scientists believe that cats sort of domesticated themselves.
There actually is a story in the Washington Post today, research into how the cat became domesticated.
And they've actually concluded, you know, I've always said that cats have staff and dogs have masters.
Well, cats, this, this, the they start out by saying your hunch is correct.
Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around.
The sad truth is it may not be a final decision because they get mad at you, they may leave and go fearal again.
I know why my cat lives with me, and nobody can my cat cannot open a can.
My cat cannot open a sack.
That's why my cat lives with me.
I love my little cat, as you all know.
Punkin is her name.
I was gone all last week on this golf trip.
And I know every time I'm gone for a week like this and I come back, I know there's going to be hell to pay.
I'm gonna get head butted at three o'clock in the morning.
I'm gonna have a cat pull my hair while I'm trying to sleep and so forth.
But this time that didn't happen.
Just she just would not leave wherever I went.
That cat was at my feet, didn't want me to leave again.
Um little surprised by this.
Cat cat uh becoming a little uh dependent.
She's not she's not like a dog and and you know, serving my wisdom whims and needs and so forth, but uh last night she finally got used to, I think last night she believed that I was home for good, and I didn't see her.
Couldn't find a way.
She's out prowling the house for lizards or some such thing.
Anyway, uh they this research says that uh the cats have been basically domesticated for 12,000 years, but they did it themselves.
They're uh inescapable conclusions of a genetic study of the origins of the domestic cat, and this is being published today in uh Science Magazine.
The findings drawn from the analysis of nearly a thousand cats around the world suggest that the ancestors of today's tabbies, Persians, and Siamese wandered into Near Eastern settlements at the dawn of agriculture.
They were looking for food, not friendship.
And what they ended up finding was these huge piles of grain, but the grain was attacked attracting vermin, like rats and mice.
And so the cat said, hmm, these humans are giving me an automatic food supply.
They didn't care about the grain, but they ate the uh the vermin, kept that population down, and uh they became adopted by the humans that uh loved what they were doing.
Yep, Carlos Driscoll, University of Oxford graduate student who did the work, uh, says, We think what happened is that cats sort of domesticated themselves.
Now, this is a science report, and I find it fascinating that the words sort of are in a report on science.
Well, I think what happened is that cats sort of domesticated themselves.
Interesting global warming story.
Oh, I've got actually two interesting global warming stories.
The first one here from Junkscience.com is Steve Molloy.
Should conservatives give up the fight on global warming just as the tide is turning in their favor.
In the cover story of the June 25th National Review, a software company CEO Jim Manzi wrote that conservatives should stop denying that humans are warming the planet and instead figure out how to use global warming to peel off one percent of the vote in the 2008 presidential election.
Manzie claims this strategy could represent a principled stand for a clever candidate.
But his strategy, in fact, represents the snatching of defeat from the jaws of victory, and all for relatively few votes of uncertain, if any political value.
Manzie says that conservatives should believe in global warming, not because of liberal scaremongering, but because of the underlying physics, which he apparently doesn't grasp in the least.
All else being equal, the more carbon dioxide molecules we have in the atmosphere, the hotter it gets.
Wrong.
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not likely to significantly contribute to the greenhouse effect.
It's just all part of the uh hoax.
But here's the here's the money quote in this story.
For all its alleged concern about catastrophic global warming, what is the alarmist friendly Democrat Congress doing about it?
And the answer is nothing.
Though the Senate passed an energy bill last week, it didn't dare approach the question of mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
It seems that burdening the economy because of Al Gore's dubious science may after all be bad politics.
Now the House of Representatives Wednesday Judd did pass a uh piece of legislation or a statement affirming the existence of global warming, but nobody is establishing policy to do anything about it.
We're not joining Kyoto.
People that live in areas that are supposed to be destroyed by global warming are still raising property values in those areas by creating a mad dash to buy there.
You know, my idea earlier in the week of setting up betting lines, take every proposition that Gore makes in this propaganda movie of his and make a betting line out of it.
New York City underwater in 20 years, whatever it is, and then watch and see how many of the proponents actually put money on their own predictions so that they could triple their money, double their whatever, and get rich, and none of them would.
None of them would risk their fortunes putting money behind their own predictions.
We could all get rich fast because we wouldn't lose.
We would win because there's not gonna these predictions are not going to happen.
As uh as Gore and others lay them out.
And finally, uh ladies and gentlemen, subject of our morning update today.
Classic.
A top Dallas law firm, Thompson and Knight formed a dedicated practice recently of 26 lawyers to handle climate change litigation.
And uh another one not to be outdone, Vincent and Elkins, another Dallas firm launched a 41 lawyer climate change battalion.
And these lawyers anticipate lawsuits brought by plaintiffs claiming damage due to global warming.
Not to mention all the coming legal activity surrounding caps on emissions.
So already lawyers are talking with uh uh Inuit, the the Canadian Eskimo tribe, who claim their island paradise up there has been harmed by global warming and are out to sue somebody, uh an American or Americans.
A Houston lawyer, Steve Sussman says that melting glaciers will not make big legal waves, but you wait till the first big ski area closes because it has no snow, or wait until portions of Manhattan and San Francisco are underwater.
So you got a bunch of lawyers gearing up here, folks.
Who are they gonna sue?
If Manhattan ends up underwater, who are they gonna sue?
Who they're gonna sue?
They're gonna sue somebody.
Think John Edwards on this.
So here's here's how this works.
First, liberals invent a problem based on junk science, in this case global warming, and then they promote it via their drive-by media allies, and then liberal politicians make laws to protect the supposed aggrieved victims, the little guys.
Then a bunch of John Edwards types descend on American companies.
The lawyers get wealthy, and then from their wealth they donate some money back to liberal politicians and they keep the cycle going.
And this is this is what's at stake here.
This is when when lawyers start getting in the game to start setting up, start trolling for lawsuits.
They expect this to produce more money, folks, than those giant tobacco settlements.
Keep a sharp eye.
Follow the money, and uh and understand what's really at work.
This is a hoax, it's junk science.
It's being portrayed as something to make you scared to death, we're all gonna die.
You're supposed to vote liberal for this, you're supposed to make some sacrifices, pay higher taxes, drive a car you don't want to drive, live in a house you don't want to live, live where you don't want to live, use detergent you don't want to use, all this rot gut stuff.
And at the end of the day, even after doing all that, you're still gonna get sued.
Or you're gonna pay a price for being so or maybe you'll be a turncoat and hire one of these lawyers.
Big rainstorm comes, floods your house, that's global warming.
Who can I sue?
Well, a lawyer will find somebody to sue for you.
Hello.
If you if if big tobacco thought that they were in the crosshairs, I don't know who's in the crosshairs on this, the U.S. government, but it's gonna be.
It's gonna be various industries who are said to be polluting.
Uh various uh big oil will probably be the big target here.
Big oil, uh big natural gas, electricity, utilities, this sort of thing.
It's coming.
You have been warned.
Before we get back to the phones, I want to share this story with you from the Times Online, a UK newspaper, and it's from uh, ladies and gentlemen, the Life and Style section.
And I I want to tell you that the name of the writer of the story is Nicola Woolcock.
Maybe Nicola, but Nicola, Nicola Woolcock.
Sue Wilkinson, 53, university professor, was married for 17 years before the relationship ended in divorce.
She has now been with her female partner, Celia Kitzinger, for the same length of time.
The couple married in 2003 in Canada, where same-sex unions are legal.
Last year they lost a high court battle to have their marriage recognized in Britain.
Ms. Wilkinson, professor of feminist and health studies at the Lowborough University said, quote, I was never unsure about my sexuality throughout my teens or twenties.
I was a happy heterosexual.
I had no doubts.
Then I changed through political activity and feminism.
Spending time with women's organizations, it opened my mind to the possibility of a lesbian identity, quote unquote.
This woman is admitting that feminism made her a lesbo.
Ms. Wilkinson met Ms. Kitzinger, also a university professor through their work at the British Psychological Society.
She added, I'd had a very happy marriage and a very good relationship with men.
My husband took all this very badly.
I'll tell you, I uh wonder why.
I have I've I've uh I've warned you people about this.
I've I've uh I'll tell you when this has come up.
During the arguments that people don't choose a gay lifestyle, I've always said, I know a bunch of women who become feminists at some point in their life and become and become lesbians.
The politics of it, the idiot people they meet, they do for whatever reason.
We and you know you it's not this is I don't know how frequent it is, I don't know how widespread it is, but this woman's not saying I was latent homosexual all my life.
I was happy I was hetero, a 17-year marriage, and everything went fine when I was teens and twenties, but when I got in feminism, that's when we became a lesbian.
I'm I'd not I'm just repeating what's here, folks.
All I'm telling you is is that uh when it when it comes to the notion of choosing it, this woman's admitting that she did.
Or that she might have been influenced into it, but she's not saying that she was latent all those years, and all of a sudden, you know, whatever happened, uh world opened up and she saw the light.
Here's Brian, Brian of Los Angeles.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Megadinos from La La Land, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
No, no, no.
This well, yes, you are in La La Land.
I have to grant you that.
Yes, sir.
I uh I'm a minority because uh um because I'm straight.
So anyway.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't go there.
Okay, sorry, sorry.
You're not a minority because you're straight in La La Land.
Oh, okay.
Um, I uh I keep hearing this uh commercial on the radio constantly out here about how uh if you change uh uh uh a light bulb in your house, it it takes four hundred thousand cars off the road.
And um And I just it baffles my mind, so I sat down and started thinking.
Uh and I'm not a very smart man, so I wanted to run this by you and and and maybe you could help me out.
I'm sure I can.
Uh the wife drives a uh a camera, so I base this on a cameraman, not my Ford F two fifty 7.3 turbo diesel.
That I need.
I need for work.
Don't show clients.
Justify it.
You don't have to explain to anybody the kind of truck you drive.
It's a beautiful truck.
It's a beautiful truck, and you sound like a guy who'd drive a truck, and you sound like a guy who'd like that kind of it.
You don't have to defend her or explain yourself on this program.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, no problem, sir.
Okay, uh the Toyota Camry, if you took 400,000 of them off the road, that'd be uh 10.2 billion dollars.
So I'm gonna raise that, purchase those and take them off the road this year.
Um that would be like taking 800,000 gallons of oil, 240 million gallons of gas, 200,000 gallons of break fluid, 200,000 tons of steel, eight thousand tons of rubber.
I couldn't come up with a number for uh roadway repair, labor profit or tax dollars.
But uh this car boasts a uh 400 watt speaker system.
That's a hundred and sixty million watts.
Uh that's three point two million watts or uh three point two million uh where are we headed with this bulbs, anyways.
You know what I'm saying?
So if you take all this office.
Okay, Brian, hold it.
Hold hold on, hold on, hold on.
I've got to go to commercial break, and I just know the entire audience is intrigued beyond their ability to handle it to know what's next.
Sit tight so we can all find out.
And we are back, happily sold.
Could barely hold my breath here for what comes next with Brian in Los Angeles.
So I gather what you've done, you've run all the numbers of these 400,000 Toyota cameras that'll be taken off the street if you f if you switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Right, right.
Well, the thing is is that you you know I'm a young uh corporate entrepreneur, and and I just keep hearing this uh commercial, and I I go over and over my head, and that last stat that I was giving you, um the there's a 400 watt stereo in this car.
That would be 160 million watts.
Now, in order to equal that of 50 watt light bulbs, that would be 3.2 million 50 watt light bulbs.
Now, but that's not the point because the car has four bulbs in the front at 65 watts, 65 watts, 51 watts, and 51 watts, that would be 92.8 million watts.
Now I know it it's fueled that's it's ruining all this, but you gotta make sense.
Actually, let me let me intercede here.
I I know what you're trying to do, but but and maybe you're not missing the point, but to me it sounds like you might be missing the point.
This is a you're talking about these compact fluorescents, and one of the things that one of the proponents of a compact fluorescent light bulb is saying, that's Lori David.
Right.
She's saying that if we would all just put one of these in our house, it would be the equivalent of taking four hundred thousand cars off the road in terms of pollution.
In terms of uh But they don't say that on the commercial, though.
They don't say that, and they don't say four hundred thousand per year, four hundred thousand per week, per month.
They don't say any of that.
They just say four hundred thousand on this commercial.
If you get a bulb.
They just say if you go out and buy one of these bulbs, you'll get you'll you'll be doing the equivalent of taking four hundred thousand.
Well, look at the bottom line with this is that it's all a joke and it's stupid and it's idiotic.
And you're you're uh you're trying to have fun with it, which I understand, but the the proponents of this are actually trying to say that these light bulbs, if we all would just put one in our house, would be the equivalent of taking four hundred thousand cars off the highway.
They don't describe what kind of car they don't do it it's it's it's right, and that's even that's ridiculous because the the sexy voice man uh voiceover even says that global warming is uh not a choice.
It's uh it's uh oh it's not inevitable, it's a choice.
What is that?
What is that?
Propaganda.
Okay.
Hey Rush, thank you so much.
Great weekend.
You do the same.
Uh keep calculating out there.
What what kind of entrepreneurial business are you in?
Oh, I mean, construction.
Yeah, I started I incorporated uh four years ago out here in uh Los Angeles from uh Cincinnati, and um I just uh go out it every day, six days a week, and uh I try my best.
Well, I appreciate that.
That's that's uh that's the can do spirit at it.
Yes, sir.
Let me do let me ask you this question, though.
Do you hire you hire day laborers?
No, no, from day one.
That that has been my biggest thing that I will not, cannot, and and uh won't ever, ever do.
Now, I'm gonna be honest with you.
That's what I've had I've had uh I've had uh subs that I suspected, but but I didn't I didn't card anybody.
Well, I appreciate your honesty on that.
We need more of that in this country.
Thank you, sir.
Brian, thank you for the appreciated Charles South Bend, Indiana.
Welcome to the uh EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
How are you doing?
Good, sir.
Okay, I'm a former Nation of Islam follower to a loyal Russell Limbaugh listener.
Wow, that's quite a transition that you've made.
Oh, very, very.
And you and you have been the catalyst behind it, believe me.
I mean, you you just don't know how much you have uh you have influenced my life.
I mean, uh, I went uh I was a former high school dropout, I was homeless, and uh all of a sudden I was angry, and I started listening to you around I think it was 89.
I think uh you had a call on their name, Rita X. Oh, yes.
And uh X. And I started listening to you around that time, and um and it just and uh and uh and at the time I was going through some things and I wanted some answers, and at the time the nation of Islam provided easy answers to to to tough questions and the questions that I really didn't want to look at in my life,
but uh listening to you, um I pretty much faced those questions in my life head on, and uh and my life has been has been an improvement since I dug a big hole for myself, but I've I finally got I I finally got and gotten out of the hole.
Well, we all you know what, we all dig holes for ourselves and sometimes we fall in them, but there's nothing greater than getting out of the hole.
That's right.
That's right.
Great sense of achievement, and uh and you did it yourself, it sounds like that's great.
That's terrific news.
Yes, and I also just wanted to let you know, uh one the years ago you had a uh a commercial, uh, and I wanted to save up money to buy this uh this program, this thing you had called verbal advantage.
And uh and I remember I started listening to you, and I started writing down the words that you were saying and going to the dictionary and actually expanding it, trying to expand my vocabulary, and voila, sooner sooner than I thought, I found out that I really didn't need the verbal advantage that you were the verbal advantage.
Well, you're I you're overwhelming me here.
I don't know what to say.
Thank you.
And uh, and I mean I just I I just want to tell you that I just want to tell you that uh you just don't know how much you've been uh you've been an influence in my life.
I mean, me being a black American with me with me telling people that I listen to Russ Limbaugh, um, I get all kind of crazy looks and um well, you know, what's what's wrong, what's wrong with this man, but but Rush, I Russ, I listen to what you say.
I don't hear you.
Most black America just hear you and they don't listen.
You know, that's that's the difference.
People people hear you, but but they don't really listen.
You know that's not just that's actually a good observation, but that's true about a lot of people.
I you know, I'm amazed when I when I meet some people down and talk to them and uh sit down and talk to them and so forth, I find a lot of people are amazed to f uh uh w to find out what I hear, what I how I listen to them.
I'm mo because I most people don't.
Uh most people too busy thinking about themselves.
Most people worrying is what I'm saying, stupid.
Um or when they're listening to somebody, how do I look?
They're looking at me real closely, how do I look?
And they're not even listening.
And I I um I make it a point to listen.
I'm always stunned at how people remark on it, and I think it's true of a lot of people that they don't listen.
It brings so much prejudice uh and and uh and bias to things, uh, plus the fact that most people are self-focused.
Uh and it's tough uh to to stop thinking about themselves when other people are even talking.
So that's that's a that's a prescient observation you've made.
Yes, and I was I just really wanted to make the point also as to why I think black America don't look at what Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton say as being derogatory, because Rush, most black America look at themselves as victims, and and Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton, they've learned to appeal to the weakness of black America.
And and they when you appeal to the weakness in black America, we've been a lot of black Americans have been conditioned to respond to people who who appeal to to our weaknesses, the things that uh that that are weak that are weak within us instead of appeal appealing to our strengths that's a side of us to overcome those weaknesses.
Well, it's it's it's true.
It's uh for it's it's much easier if you're if your life is not what you wish it was.
It's much easier to blame somebody else for it or to or to be told that somebody else is responsible for it, i.e.
that you are a victim.
You'd be okay if it weren't for X, this group or that president or or what have you.
But you know, it's it it really this is the thing that has always sort of puzzled me, and it actually offends me the way they pander and look down to all of their their constituent groups, not just blacks.
They try to create as many victims out of people as they can.
And they try to because they basically look at people and see victims anyway, whether they are or not.
They see people who are incompetent.
They see people that are uh not capable of of doing things.
So they ride into the rescue and say we'll take care of you.
The thing that always amazed me about this, Charles, is that for however many number of years the uh black community has been voting ninety percent for the Democrat presidential candidate.
And yet, every four years, whoever the Democrat presidential candidate is keeps talking about how rotten life is for the American black community and citing all the statistics.
And yet, after all these years, the Democrats have been promising to fix all that and to and and to help these people find salvation.
And yet the same complaints keep being uttered, the same victim status keeps being cemented, and you wonder at at what point are some people gonna wake up and say, These people have been telling me that things are gonna get better for 30, 40, 50 years, and they're not.
Maybe it's time to look at the other guys.
Yeah, but but Russ, but Russ, the problem with that, the problem that black America has is that if they look at other guys, that they will have to look at themselves because they start to turn away from what they will from from what they believed in, and that would that would that that would ultimately mean that they will have to look at themselves.
And a lot of a lot of people, not only black Americans, but uh but black Americans in resistance do not want to look at themselves to actually question what's been going on because their whole foundation, their whole way of life, their whole way of thinking has been has been tied to this.
So for them to do what I've done myself, you know, I I I had to go through that process myself.
Well, I had to question everything in my life, everything in my life has been a lie concerning politics and history and and the way I've been taught.
And I have to really reprogram myself and uh and for black America to do that, that that would that would what have to take place in order for black America to actually start to start to entertain the thought of actually supporting other people.
You know, that's actually great advice for anybody.
Whenever whenever there's a problem in your life, the first place to if you have any role, you gotta look at yourself.
I mean, if you're gonna be honest about the source of the problem, uh and you really want to solve it, uh you have to you have you cannot exempt yourself from it and continue to blame everybody else.
And it's it's not till you do that.
I don't care whether you're black, white, you know, Haitian, Hispanic, until you're able to do that, you're not really gonna be able to confront whatever it is standing in your way.
And uh this is this you what you're saying is music to my ears.
It it really is.
Yeah, they thank you, Russ.
I mean, I just want you to know I'm a business owner now.
I'm uh I have a couple of inventions I'm trying to patent and uh do conservatism, conservative conservatism has pretty much open up those those dark crevices of my mind where I've been able to explore and and do things that that me being a high school dropout and being a former homeless man, I I pretty much thought I would think thing I'm doing things now that I thought I would never do.
So you have been a catalyst in that, and uh starting with you, everything else has started to come together for me as far as information and reading about people and uh just opening up my mind, and I just want to really want to thank you because it because it all started with you.
Well, I I I appreciate that.
How old are you, Charles?
Uh well, right now I'm forty-four.
Forty-four, did you say?
Yeah.
When did you start this path?
Uh, yeah, nineteen eighty-nine, but it really didn't take hold about to about the nineties.
I was still going through some rough times, and um and right now, like I say, I have more I have a cleaning business, and um I'm uh I'm an entrepreneur and I'm doing things and life is just it's just really good.
I look forward to to life, and I look forward to uh to waking up each day, you know, uh to uh uh putting it having things in my mind, uh taking things that that's in my mind to actually conceive and to achieve.
So that's that's that's that's you're Charles.
Let me ask you one more question before we have to go here, and I'm gonna have to go pretty quick because of time, but um I pr I appreciate your uh uh thanking me and and saying that this program was the catalyst.
But you do understand, don't you, that you did this.
That's right, yeah, I know.
Okay, so don't be afraid to credit yourself is the point.
Oh, yeah, I think it's it's not it's not bragging, and it's not being selfish, it's it's none of those it it's not ill-mannered, and I'm not talking about walking around and you know, carrying a placard around the street.
Oh, I did but to yourself, when you talk to yourself, be honest with yourself, you did what you did.
Oh yes.
Oh yes, oh yes.
I'm uh I'm uh, you know, I'm I uh I I I I remind myself of that every day.
I remind myself of that every day, and a lot of people look at what I do as being is being conceited and and being uh selfish.
Dana, you're not because you're just confident and they're and that people that that that that uh are not confident, not sure of themselves, are really put off by people who are.
They don't think anybody should be that sure of themselves.
So just it it it makes them nervous.
They lash out and blame you for having a bad attitude or uh you know an arrogant attitude when it's their own insecurities here that are causing it.
Don't let that change who you are.
I gotta run.
It's great talking to you.
Thank you uh so much.
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After that just...
Great call from Charlie that you just heard of South Bend, Indiana.
I'd like for you to hear Democrat David Obey on the House floor yesterday.
Wing radio today looks at those airwaves as being their own private preserve.
And they're not gonna give them up at all.
But don't worry.
I would not for a second want to see Rush Limbaugh moderate.
I want to see the real raw rush.
I want him and folks like him to be thoroughly and fully exposed to the American listening audience in all of their bloviating glory.
I want to let Rush be rush.
And uh that isn't gonna bother me if he goes on for hours and hours with his one-sided diatribes.
Everybody knows he's plugged directly into Republican national headquarters, and so in my view, he's virtually discredited.
And I'd like to keep it that way.
I think it speaks for itself.
David Obie, Democrat, Wisconsin, doesn't get it.
David in Springfield, Massachusetts, you're next on the uh open line Friday edition of the program.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush, make it old from Springfield.
You bet.
Question regarding your Sullivan survey, the 98.6 thing.
Um, does that take into account you used to say a lot that um you thought President Bush and maybe Carl Roe were like designing the destruction of a Democratic Party?
Is that something you still believe in, or is that something that uh I I I I uh I think that that was one of the well, I know it was.
I I just think they terribly miscalculate.
I know that they're uh this effort to uh legalize these illegals and uh amnesty and so forth was an effort to pull to pull the Hispanic vote in a majority basis to the Republican Party to counterbalance that that the uh the Democrats have with the black vote in this country.
I I know that to be I just know it.
I can't tell you how I just know it.
And it's it it I never did believe it.
I never thought it would work.
Uh hell, we just got to poll sixty two, sixty eight percent of Hispanics uh that have been polled recently gonna vote for Hillary before the immigration bill.
So I I never thought it was true, but yes, I thought that's what they were out.
What they've inadvertently done is split the Republican Party.
If you look at look at who they chose to align themselves with in legislation, Ted Kennedy on education, Ted Kennedy on No Child Left Behind, Ted Kennedy on immigration.
Um it was uh Yeah, I mean I I definitely agree.
President Bush done a terrible job in regards to that.
Um and again, that's not to knock you or anything, but but is that considered part of the survey?
Do they take out any consideration that that you may have been wrong on that, or or is that just No, they were wrong.
They were No, no, I mean they being a Republicans, I mean they being the survey.
When when it comes to what you said, and again, I'm I'm a big fan of yours.
You probably don't believe that, but I am a big fan of yours, but everybody is.
I mean, even those who are won't admit it are.
Right.
You see, you know, again, you should say that uh he that Bush is trying to destroy the Democratic Party as part of his thing.
So you want to know if this is gonna negatively impact my opinion on it.
That's correct.
Um, because I I wasn't I wasn't I didn't tell you it would work.
I just said this is what they're doing.
This is one of the things that's motivated.
I think there are countless other things that motivated them on uh on immigration.
Uh but the the believe me.
You know, I I have to be discreet about certain things.
I'm just I'll just tell you that uh when this was first proposed, whenever it might have been the first term, and I didn't buy it, emissaries were dispatched to my home.
And believe me, I got the facts and figures of how this is all gonna work out.
And I I it just never made any sense to me.
So uh I'm not wrong for saying that's what they wanted to do.
They're they they did the miscalculation, not me.
And they don't have opinion thought.
Have a great weekend out there, folks.
I'll be back bright-eyed bushytail on Monday and kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence with you.
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