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July 2, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Snerdley taking a picture of me right now with his new iPhone.
By the way, hang on about that, folks.
I've got um we have ten iPhones.
They're going to give them away over the next ten days or so.
I'll tell you how in just a second.
I need a question answered.
It was this past weekend, the fourth of July weekend, or is the coming weekend fourth of July week.
This coming weekend.
Well.
Okay.
Well, then I missed it.
I mean, I had a weekend, but I didn't think 4th of July about it.
Anyway, greetings.
Uh I I never knew uh which weekend we're doing Fourth of July.
So I know the fireworks go off on Wednesday night.
Uh anyway, greetings.
Great to be with you, uh, folks, as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence here, Rush Limbaugh, uh Man Who Runs America.
And by the way, this sentiment is being picked up even by members of the drive-by media.
Yesterday on ABC's Inside Washington, a local show in Washington, D.C., the host there, Gordon Peterson, during his panel discussion on the defeat of the immigration bill last week.
This is what Evan Thomas of Newsweek had to say.
The unfortunate reality is that Rush Limbaugh is more powerful than President Bush.
I mean, talk radio had more power in this than the power of tremendous impact.
It just shows you where we are.
It just shows you where we are.
Oh.
The man who runs America, you know it, and I know it.
And one more, Dan Hanniger, one of the editorial writers, a columnist of the Wall Street Journal, uh, deputy editor there was on uh Fox News Channel's journal editorial report uh with Paul Jigo.
And uh Jigo asked Henniger, why why haven't liberals been able to succeed on talk radio?
They tried.
I think it has a lot to do with the subject matter.
I mean, 90% of talk radio is conservative.
Let's think about what their target is.
The target of conservative talk radio is the state.
It's government for Rush Limbaugh, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
The government is always doing stupid things, whether it's the bureaucracies or the Congress.
The liberals love the government.
They love the state.
They've got to go on radio and defend this stupid stuff.
Their target is the private sector, which is a really hard thing to make fun of.
Uh yeah, it's hard thing to make fun of.
It's a hard thing to really criticize when it's the source of so many people's prosperity and uh and wealth.
Um also look at this headline.
This is from LiveScience.com, and it was uh actually from last Thursday, and I just got around to seeing it.
Exercise grows new brain cells.
Exercise grows new brain cells.
It's a good thing that my brain has more brain cells than I need, more brain cells than the average brain, because I don't need new brain cells, therefore exercise once again, not something I need to do.
And try this.
Obesity.
Obesity tied to chronic stress.
Washington Post yesterday.
Study on neurochemicals suggests ways to shrink fat or to grow it.
Scientists reported Sunday they have uncovered a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world's growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat for cosmetic purposes.
In a series of experiments on mice, researchers showed that the neurochemical pathway they identified promotes fat growth in chronically stressed animals that eat the equivalent of a junk food diet.
The uh international team also showed that blocking those signals can prevent fat accumulation and shrink fat deposits.
Well, as uh usual, ladies and gentlemen, uh you haven't really heard what a story means till I tell you what it means.
The premise here is that we're so stressed, and we're so we're just we're we're wrung out.
We're we're just wound so tight that that's causing us to become obese.
Well, what is the primary contributor to the stress that we feel in this country?
I would submit to you that it's the drive-by media.
The drive-bys are always trying to stress us out over every little thing.
They have a story in the uh stack here today.
Here it is.
U.S. consumers pay highest energy bills in decades.
Kilowatts, gallons, they all add up.
Energy is now sucking money out of Americans' bank accounts at a record level, blah blah blah.
Who are we gonna blame this on?
We have a panic or fear-related story or stories daily presented to us in the drive-by media.
Therefore, uh the drive-bys are the ones making you obese.
Because they're the ones that are increasing stress in your line.
They're promoting it for crying out loud.
So if you want to lose weight, stop watching television and uh uh stop reading the drive-by media and just listen here.
Now uh I mentioned we have ten iPods that we're gonna give away.
And I I have to tell I have to admit I broke down iPhones, sorry, iPhones, iPhones.
Yeah, we have ten iPhones are gonna give away.
And uh yeah I broke down and I I got one.
I I've I vowed I was gonna resist all of this.
By the way, they sold 525,000 of them on uh on the weekend, Friday through, close a business on Sunday.
In fact, mine's sitting right here behind me.
Check the charge.
Yep, charging well now.
Uh thought mine had a defect because it wasn't uh didn't think it was accepting a charge.
All of a sudden the battery gauge has moved a whole chunk to the right.
Uh I just uh snerdly actually went, stood in line for me, got mine on uh Friday night.
How long were you in line to get yours?
About an hour.
Okay, and uh he said you want me to drop by the house and no, no, no, no, no, I'll wait till Monday.
See, brings it in here today.
Uh went through all the activation process.
So I I had to put the thing down, I would have not gotten any show prep done.
This thing is it's it's beyond whatever the hype was.
It's uh it's far more.
It's an amazing device.
So we have ten of them that we're gonna give away, and here's how we are going to do it.
You know, we have a free I guess you call it a newsletter.
It's a it's a daily email sent to subscribers.
Then it's the subscription to this is free, by the way.
It's part of RushLimbod.com, but we call it Rush in a Hurry.
And it goes out 3 30, 4 o'clock Eastern time every afternoon, and it gives you a summary of what happened on that day's program.
And it's a free sign up.
I mean, it's just sent the email, whatever email address or addresses that you want to have it sent to.
Uh, and and all you do is uh is go there and uh to the website and find the Rush in a hurry mail.
You can't miss it because we've got it really highlighted at Rush Limbod.com today.
So you just you subscribe to the free Rush in a hurry email newsletter.
There's a great big link in the home page.
Just look for Rush in a Hurry and click it and uh and give us your email address.
Um and if you've already subscribed, you're already entered.
You don't have to read every subscriber is uh is is automatically entered here in what we're doing.
It's starting tomorrow.
We're gonna give an iPhone a day away, uh, and we'll be announcing the winners on air.
Now we're not gonna do it on Wednesday because Wednesday's a best of show.
It's the Fourth of July, Independence Day, but we will continue giving uh all ten of these away um uh until that happens.
Uh and you will you may have a chance to win an iPhone.
Um I don't I forgot to ask.
I hope they picked up eight gigabyte versions of these things.
I'm uh I'm sure that you know I just assume that the people I assigned to do this will go get the best.
Uh and then I had another thought.
I said, wait a minute.
You know how classless is it to give away an item that people are going to have to spend money on.
I.e.
activating the phone.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, not only are we giving an iPhone away, we're giving away activations.
We're giving away service.
We're here, here's what's gonna happen.
Every winner will receive in the form of a check for the $59.99 a month cost of the contract times 24 months.
So each each winner is gonna get a check with their iPhone of 1,493.76 cents.
That means you get the the check, you get the phone, a uh that's a two-year service contract with uh with AT.
Uh and we're throwing in a year's subscription to Rush 24-7.
If you're already a subscriber there, we're gonna extend your subscription by a year.
Now the reason we're doing this is we have podcasts of this program that are available via iTunes uh every afternoon.
And they're generally ready to go half hour, 45 minutes after the program, uh, as well as a video podcast of each day's morning update, which also goes out early in the afternoon after the program.
And so the phone, the iPhone has to be uh synced and used, activated through iTunes.
Uh and it's like an iPod every time you plug it in if you want to, it'll sync automatically.
So uh it is a way for us to get uh uh uh talking a little bit about our our our iPod uh the podcast downloads.
Yeah, I I have a I must admit to you people a problem.
I don't I don't hawk my own stuff well.
I feel I feel nervous in us.
I don't talk about this a lot.
So this is why we're doing this, because I would rather spend valuable programming time on the issues and my golf game.
Uh and what I did on the weekend.
Uh but uh really the the website is just uh we've updated the essential stack of stuff, and it's just it's it's uh it's an encyclopedia.
It's over 2,500 pages there of uh of facts, documents, research, uh any number of things.
It's really worth going and checking out.
So, starting tomorrow, an iPod a day for ten days, not on Wednesday, iPhone uh with a two-year service contract thrown in, we'll pay for that, and uh one year subscription to Rush Limbaugh.com, Rush 24-7.
All you have to do to be eligible is go to Rush Limbaugh.com and sign up for the free rush in a hurry newsletter.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and get uh started with all of the rest of the day's program right after this.
Uh, come on, folks, there's no trick going on here.
Everybody thinks this is too good to be true.
All I have to do is sign up.
I check the email.
All I have to do is sign up for something free, and I might win an iPhone.
Yes.
And by the way, we've got a bunch of subscribers already.
We don't give the data out to anybody else.
Um we're we're just we're just using this to uh you know advance some of the things that we do here.
Podcasting, iPhones hot.
Uh I think Rush in a hurry is a great, great thing.
I uh I use it myself to remind myself what I talked about just hours earlier.
Because when the program's over, I forget.
I'm already focused on the next day.
Rush in a hurry comes in, uh, and you can get it.
It comes in in H HTML format, uh, so it's it's really cool.
So no, there's no there's no trick here.
You know you're not obligating yourself to anything.
You're not setting yourself up to be bombarded to subscribe.
Nothing's gonna happen to you other than you're gonna get rushed in a hurry every day, and you might win an iPhone and get a check to pay for two years of service to the phone with ATT and a one-year subscription to uh Rush Limbaugh.com.
Just found this during the break.
Smoking could kill one billion this century, according to the World Health Organization.
We just had the story.
Uh we we just had the story about the fact that stress is making us fat.
And that the drive-by media is the one creating the stress.
And so here we have what's this from?
Not sure where this is from.
Ed Copley, probably AP.
Smoking could kill one billion this century.
One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century, unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking.
According to uh World Health Organization experts make the uh statement uh today.
Tobacco's a defective product, kills half of its customers.
Douglas Betcher, head of the tobacco free initiative, said, hell, I gained weight just reading this story, folks.
I got so stressed out over this.
So the bottom line here, one million will die, or one billion will die unless government steps in now.
Um there's a theme that I have been spotting throughout the drive-by media today, folks, as we move on now to uh to politics.
And it's uh it's it's that we're not gonna get to Hillary's fundraising and Obama outdoing her and that.
That's that I think a lot is being made of that that uh uh I mean, Howard Dean out rose or outraged everybody uh when his campaign came along and bombed out in the first uh first uh the hawk eye cawkeye.
But we'll talk about that.
We're gonna talk about the New York Times is trying to destroy Fred Thompson as though that's gonna hurt him with the Republican base.
They try to do a story here on his sons.
They found nothing on Fred Thompson, so they're doing a story on his sons and their lobbying activity.
But even there, they don't find anything.
They just make innuendo.
Uh of course, if they're really interested in finding lobbying abuse, they might look at the family of Harry Reed, whose Senate offices have been used to uh to further lobbying efforts of his sons.
So clearly the attack is on, but what's what's the the theme that I noticed when I first got here, and it was uh started doing show prep this morning, and the same thing with uh on the television yesterday is the Republicans have lost the Hispanic vote because of the immigration debacle.
From the South Florida Sun Sentinel, a headline Hispanic voters could make GOP pay for defeat of immigration legislation.
And all over television today, the Democrats have had their talking heads and their political consultants and their analysts out there saying with big smiles on their face.
Oh, yeah.
It's over for the uh Republican Party.
They have so angered Hispanics out there that that's it.
Uh what how how can we lose voters we never had?
How can the Republican Party lose voters who never had this is a big myth, and the myth is being spread.
It's designed to frighten you, but more than that, it's designed to frighten Republican elected officials so that when this comes up again, and it will somewhere down the road, uh, that uh that they do something about it, because the Democrats still don't benefit from this.
They don't have their their endless parade of victims here without any check on it.
Uh so they still want to get this done.
Look, Reagan gave amnesty to nearly three million illegal aliens back in uh 1986, Simpson Mazzoli.
There was no political payoff, if you will, with a big movement of Hispanic votes for Republicans.
And the idea that letting in millions more illegals would have secured Republican majorities is literally nuts.
What was I saw a poll over the weekend that 62% of Hispanics are going to vote for Hillary or something like that for Democrats?
As though that's that's not new.
But it's been that way constantly.
That's it's it's never been the case that the Republicans got the Hispanic vote.
Maybe, you know what?
I guess what the Republicans ought to do uh is is just embrace Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, or they'll lose the black vote.
Let's go do that.
Let's embrace Sharpton and Jackson and show the black Americans that we're on their corner and they'll vote for us, right?
We am j Yeah, right.
Uh maybe we should just morph into Democrats.
Maybe what the Republican Party should do is just either go away or become Democrats.
You know, Ronald Reagan won two massive landslides without winning most Hispanic votes.
This is not a news story.
Well, here's the way to look at this, though.
If the country is changing in ways that elect more and more Democrats, then we need to fight that.
We don't join them, and we don't accept their definitions of who is and who isn't going to vote for Republicans.
The answer to this, folks, and this is one of the big problems with the immigration bill that uh that came up was assimilation.
There wasn't any provision for assimilation in it.
And assimilation is the answer to this.
If you want the Hispanic vote, then assimilate them.
Get them into the distinct American culture.
The Democrats don't want assimilation.
That's the point.
But when people understand our traditions and our history, when they understand what makes America special, then Republicans have a shot if they have the gumption.
Uh people flood into the country to earn a few dollars, have no real connection with our system or history, then we're doomed.
Uh if they don't try to assimilate.
I don't know why this is so hard to comprehend for people in the White House and some of these pundits that are that are all still upset because this bill went s up because the bill was defeated.
Uh and I I think the problem really is they're not interested in it because it's hard work.
It involves breaking down barriers that have been built up over decades to divide us as a people.
And believe me, the left has been doing this and they continue to do it, and that's what the immigration bill was about was dividing the country.
Um how many of you have been reading all these horror stories as I have about, oh no, oh no, the Supreme Court, why it it's it's it's gone right wing on it.
Oh no, oh no.
The now reactionary force under uh under George W. Bush.
Uh, you know, this this case with the the school desegregation business was really a four-to-four decision with Kennedy on the fence in future cases.
Uh, you know, and you got Joe Biden out there now talking about this opinion's an ominous Sign of things to come.
Uh what what what's happened, you know, last week everybody's talking about it was a banner week, and it was, but there was no advance of conservatism last week.
There was just a stoppage.
We put the brakes on uh the advancement of more liberalism.
I'm not complaining about it, but the idea of these people out there complaining and whining and moaning about how the court's gone right wing and how uh the the Republicans aren't gonna get any Hispanic votes and so forth.
Uh it's it's all smoke.
And it's all designed to confuse and to uh misstate the facts of the situation.
Joe Biden has this this column that just it's it's hysterical to read.
It's in the uh Miami Herald today.
I wonder how many people in this country actually believe that bussing for racial reasons is a mainstream view as he makes it sound.
Uh we're just losing rights every day.
Do you know that we're losing civil rights, human rights, we're using unconditional rights, we're losing all kinds of rights if you listen to these people.
Anyway, quick time out, we got to go to a break.
We'll be back.
Your phone calls coming up soon, 800-282-2882.
By the way, all these uh columns, uh Joe Biden and the Miami Herald today.
Isn't isn't that criticizing the judiciary?
All these people on the left reacting to this uh the Supreme Court decision last week on uh racial quotas in schools, isn't that criticizing the judiciary?
I I thought we weren't supposed to do that.
I I thought Tom Delay was uh crucified for this.
Number of people were really criticized.
I was talk radio was great.
I thought we weren't supposed to criticize judiciary, but they apparently are able to uh to do so.
Columbus, Ohio, Jim will start with you on the phones today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Oh, Jim, before before he says, I have been asked to say to those of you trying to sign up for the Rush in a hurry free newsletter.
Uh we there's so many of you logging on and trying to that we've almost started our own denial of service attack here.
Uh and just be patient.
Um if you have trouble logging in and and uh getting it done, be patient, keep trying, it'll eventually work.
Right.
Jim, thanks for waiting and welcome to the program.
Wow, Rush, I I tell you what, I've listened to you since 1989.
I so admire you.
You say everything I want to say articulately, diligently, and to the point.
I cannot believe I'm actually talking to you.
Well, it's uh it's your lucky day.
I'm I'm I'm flattered uh with your with your comments.
Great to have you on the uh on the program.
Revit is the soul of wit, and that's why I try to get in, get it, and get out.
Well, Rush, I'll try to be as articulate because I'm a little nervous because I can't believe I'm actually speaking to you.
But you know, what I want to say this to all callers.
Nobody expects a caller to be as articulate or as um uh succinct as I am.
Nobody has an expectation, so you shouldn't be nervous.
Uh, well, I I tell you what, I have so many things I would love to sit down and talk to you about, but I will get to the point really quick.
I would like to hear I have not heard a single word out of Hillary Clinton discussing the immigration bill.
And what I say that is, is that I sent a letter to both senators of my great state of Ohio, um Sherrod Brown and George Bonovich, and I am uh very much a conservative, and I voted for Bonovich in the last election.
Um I did receive an email back from uh Sherrod Brown, who blamed everything on NAFTA.
And Vonevich, I never heard a single word from.
But uh after calling his office relentlessly last week.
Wait, wait a minute.
Wait, hold on a minute.
I thought you said you haven't heard Hillary saying about it.
Well, I haven't heard anything from Hillary, but I'm just saying is that w what I find interesting is is that the ones that voted for cloture, I don't hear anything from.
Nothing.
Except for Sherrod Brown, which I expected to hear from him anyway, because he wants to blame everything on that.
Well, I you may not be hearing from them personally, but they're out there speaking.
Uh and and Hillary has come out and said after the vote failed, she had a you know, a couple of things to say in a press conference.
I don't know if she put out a press release on it or anything, but uh she's not making a big deal of it in her campaign.
They're heading into Iowa.
She and Bill are heading into Iowa today for four days.
Um she can't get it done without him out there.
Uh and and it I've got a story on it.
We'll get to it in uh in due course.
Um well, Barack raised more money than Hillary, but that's not the full she's gonna be the nominee.
You know, this is Howard Dean wrote raised more money than anybody else, and he lost in the first Hawkeye call.
Uh and then that's where that's where John Kerry's quote unquote electability surfaced is when Dean bombed out.
Clinton Inc.
hadn't even started working on Obama yet.
I think look at you got to remember something.
I warned you about this many, many moons ago.
The Clintons they're sort of conflicted on this whole concept of inevitability.
They like it, but they don't like it at the same time because the whole concept of inevitability of her being elected president, uh, they think uh can can work negatively and positively.
So having Barack out there as something she must overcome, must win a fight, must overcome this obstacle, is something that they probably probably secretly like.
Now, I don't think that they ever expected him to be raising this kind of money.
If you add all these numbers up, the Democrat candidates have raised a total of in this year, I think, of the what's been reported of about sixty-one million dollars.
And uh nine of that is Edwards.
That Edwards would just nowhere, folks.
That's the as far as money is concerned, literally nowhere, compared to Hillary and Barack.
And of course, none of the others are raising any significant money either.
But if you add them all up to 61 million dollars, I don't think I don't know where the Republicans are.
I don't even think they're halfway there if you add them up as a as a field.
Uh but you know, too much, too much uh emphasis, I think, is is put on on money, particularly during uh during primaries.
Mrs. Clinton, seven million, I think of her total is for the general uh election, uh, which is a positive thing for her because it shows she's able to go out and get seven million dollars for the general election right now before she's even won the primary.
Barack doesn't have any money for the general election.
Uh obviously, so you know they've they've got they've got uh uh numbers of ways of looking at this.
Plus, there's so many institutions, media matters for America, and all these other little organizations that are just extensions of the Clinton that don't count when you start raising money.
But how much are they worth when all this free publicity and a tax that they dole out on any opponent of Hillary Clinton?
So, yeah, if you just look at the money in in one sense, uh you you you would conclude that uh Barack's, you know, doing very well and Hillary isn't, but he doesn't have near the organization that she does.
I think she's got the same problems that anybody else uh is is gonna have uh or she's gonna have, not anybody else.
She's got problems of likability, and she's got problems of uh of uh she's not a real person.
Nobody really knows who the real Hillary is.
And she hasn't had to put that on display much yet.
She's gonna have to do a pretty good job of covering that up.
You know, money is one thing and it's the mother's milk of politics.
At the same time, uh there's this uh this thing that Barack is doing right now is generating, in addition, the money is in d indication of this.
He's generating a lot of popularity, a lot of excitement.
There seems to be a big buzz.
Frankly, he's he's got 154,000 individual donors that have given the total of 31 million dollars.
I find it amazing.
I don't, you know, you you watch this stuff, I don't see this happening out there.
I see it happening in the media, but I don't see it happening yet.
The money rolls in.
I mean, they can't lie about the numbers.
So it's obviously real.
You just don't you just don't see the evidence of it, other than, as I say, in the media, and that could be uh where the excitement's actually being generated.
Then of course you have as David Ahrenreich and the L.A. Times in an op-ed piece back in March pointed out the magic Negro aspect of the Barack campaign.
Well, a lot of guilty white liberals can say they're supporting Obama right now and make themselves feel better and prove to everybody that they're not racists, even they have no clue what he stands for.
Uh so it's all very fluid, but I I don't I I think the only thing that Clintons are really unhappy about and surprised about is the amount of money that Barack has raised.
But the fact that he's there, uh haven't even started trying to take the guy out yet.
I mean, we're talking Clinton Inc.
here, folks.
And uh well, they uh I have just been asked, can they afford to do their usual tricks on Yes, of course they can, because all their usual tricks never have their fingerprints on them.
That's one of the key elements of Clinton Inc.
You don't know who did it.
What happened to Howard Dean?
Howard Dean was taken out in the in the uh in the Hawkeye Cockye that somebody uh released uh a letter from the uh that that Dean had written Clinton when he was president, saying we needed to do something about Iraq, we need to do something about Saddam Hussein, and of course, Howard Dean was running an anti-war, anti-this campaign.
Um, and you know, well, we all know who released it.
It had to be Clinton's office, but nobody ever knew it for sure.
All that was reported.
Oh, look at this letter Howard Dean wrote.
Classic illustration of how Clinton Inc.
functions.
Brief time out back after this.
I can't believe some of your questions on our little iPhone giveaway.
I'm getting bombarded.
Is there going to be an Oprah tax at the end of the year on what you're giving away?
That's uh that's a reference when Oprah Winfrey gave away all those cars.
Uh yeah, the owners had to pay tax, but we're nowhere near the threshold where you will be taxed.
You're entitled to give away to anyone twelve thousand dollars a year right now.
That's the number, without having anybody pay any tax on it.
If you give away thirteen thousand, and you have to pay tax, gift tax rate on uh on one thousand.
My friend, we're not gonna give anything away here that's gonna cost you any money.
We're giving away ten iPhones, we're giving away a check, nineteen uh nineteen hundred dollars and some change to cover a two-year service contract for each winner, and a one-year subscription and these are eight gig uh iPhones, by the way, the big ones.
We're also giving away a year's subscription to uh uh Rush 24-7.
All you have to do to be entered in this or give one a day for the next 10 days, except for Wednesday.
Um, and we're gonna just sign up for the free Rush in a hurry newsletter at rushlimbought.com.
And there's not I mean, there's no trick here.
Your email address doesn't go anywhere, and nobody you're not gonna start being bombarded even by us, uh, other than the newsletter you'll get every afternoon uh shortly after the program's over.
It's a summary of what happened on the program uh with uh some active links uh to be able to listen to it before the full site is updated, which usually happens around you know 5 30 to 6 uh Eastern Time.
So no, there are no tax consequences if you win.
Uh well, Snerdley back down at Snurley, and even if there were Sner, you should still accept it and gladly pay the tax, is Snerdley's uh point.
But we're there there's not going to be any of that.
This all qualifies within the uh the uh the gift rule.
Now, look at uh I want to clarify something here too about about Mrs. Clinton and her fundraising along with Obama.
They both have a lot of money.
It'd be one thing if Obama had raised 31 and Hillary had raised nine, like the Breck girl.
Well, what is it?
3124?
I mean, that they both have a lot of money.
And you've got to remember all of these front groups, they don't tally the financial value of these front groups, Media Matters, the Center for American Progress, they're all her groups, and they're all supposedly independent and supposedly uh non-ideological, supposedly uh charitable, uh nonprofits, this sort of thing.
But they're Hillary fundraising groups are front groups that go out and promote her and attack her enemies.
And how do you put a dollar value on that?
Uh that's that's part of uh Clinton Inc.
You know, she's she she she will be the nominee.
There's there's no question about it.
Uh and it's gonna be tough for her.
She's she's gonna have trouble concealing her hated personality.
She's not a likable woman.
Uh everybody knows this and is worried about it.
Plus her leftist agenda, how's she gonna hide that?
You know, she's um especially the primary, she's gonna have to really trumpet that leftist uh leftist agenda.
New York Times, as I mentioned earlier, too, is smearing Fred Thompson.
Uh and getting nowhere doing it.
And I mentioned uh earlier that if they really want to start looking at lobbying efforts uh that have actually been reported in newspapers, LA Times and the Atlanta Journal of Constipation, uh, to have real potential criminal implications.
That would be Harry Reid and his kids, uh, and some of the shenanigans they've done in Nevada, and then that has direct links to the Senate.
But even for getting Dingy Harry, look at Hillary's husband.
Hillary's husband earns tens of millions of dollars talking to companies, special interests, which money belongs to her too.
And that's no big deal.
Well, yes, it gets filed jointly in her reports of their wealth and so forth.
Absolutely, it's it's hers.
Uh and and the, you know, he's after talking to Dubai.
He's out there talking to all these foreign governments.
He's taking money from them.
You don't think this is lobbying?
You don't, in fact, the Dubai Ports deal, Clinton was a hired lobbyist.
He was out there trying to make the uh U.S. Congress go ahead and vote for the uh for the Dubai Ports deal.
The idea he's not lobbying, the idea that he's not engaged in some kind of chicanery here, a nefarious activity.
Um all of these people that are paying Clinton, all of this money to make speeches are banking on one thing.
They are banking on Hillary becoming president.
And if you look at the media, it's all Hillary all the time, all Democrat all the time.
Uh it's it's that's what everybody's focused on.
Now, while they're attacking Fred Thompson, and they're trying to make Fred Thompson look dirty with lobbying and his sons, there is a far more direct link and question when Hillary's husband is raking in tens of millions and they're bragging about it, as they always do.
They're out there bragging about how much money they're earning and how much I don't need that tax cut.
You know, uh uh, but they won't give it to me.
Well, I haven't seen anybody offer the government any money back.
On the Clinton side.
But I mean they're taking in tens of million dollars uh talking to everything from insurance companies, farm groups, the sawdies.
Uh they're they're paying Clinton big bucks to get to her because she's the one who will have power.
This is how they work.
Hillary is getting this money.
It's hers just as it is his because it all has to be reported.
Uh it's it's contributing to both of their wealth.
Clinton's out, he's just a blowhard right now, but he's doing the front work.
He's getting all the money, and he's making the contacts for her because that's what this is all about.
That's how Clinton Inc.
works.
You haven't seen Obama over there talking to Sauddies, have you?
You haven't seen Obama over in Dubai.
Here's Kyle in Lake County, Florida.
Kyle, great to have you on the program.
You there, Russ?
Yes, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
My uh the Dubai thing is what I'm leading into as you contrast uh your position and then Talk Redo's position on the Dubai Porch deal and how you made cogent logical arguments about that.
Yet it was You never got anywhere with changing the American public or the lawmakers and had no influence on that decision.
Yet here everyone's trying to say that it is you and talk radio who sank the immigration bill.
So can you just give an analysis what you think is I'd be happy to give you an analysis of this, but I'm afraid that the drive-byers are listening, it'll destroy them.
Because the drive-bys have this image of people like you, Kyle, of being literal sponges.
You're just you're your your head's empty, and you don't you don't go anywhere for news or information until you turn on this program from noon to three.
And after that, you turn it off, and you don't know anything else.
So they think that all you know is what I tell you.
You are a mind-numbed robot.
You do not have a mind of your own.
It's not possible.
Why this many people doing this, having this, but it's not possible.
I couldn't have minds of it.
You've got to understand liberals look at average Americans with contempt and condescend condescension anyway.
You're not bright, you're not smart, and they fuel that belief by uh by furthering the notion that you're just, you know, I'm I'm Pied Piper.
I'm a Svindalian, and you're just you're just walking robots.
Well, what both of these incidents show is that you and the Pew Center for People in the Press has proven this and shown it in research.
This is the most informed broadcast audience in this country.
Uh you are fully able and do to make up your mind on issue after issue.
And the Dubai Ports deal is a great example.
You know, I um I was one of the lone voices uh that was that was uh looking at that in a different way from most people, but the people that they made up their own minds.
I mean, I I might have changed a few, and some people call here and say so, but uh that was just like the immigration deal.
People had their own minds made up because they are smart.
You are engaged and involved.
You follow this stuff every day, and you know what's right and wrong in America, you know the traditions institutions you want to preserve.
Uh you don't you don't need a Pied Piper coming along filling your head with things because it's empty.
It's just the exact opposite.
That's what they don't admit.
But they're out there thinking you are, and that's why they're thinking I'm more powerful than the president.
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