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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.
Snerdly taking a picture of me right now with his new iPhone.
By the way, hang on about that, folks.
I've got, we have 10 iPhones.
We're going to give them away over the next 10 days or so.
I'll tell you how in just a second.
I need a question answered.
It was this past weekend, the 4th of July weekend, or is the coming weekend, 4th of July week, this coming weekend.
Well, okay.
Well, then I missed it.
I mean, I had a weekend, but I didn't have anything 4th of July about it.
Anyway, greetings.
I never knew which weekend we're doing 4th of July.
So I know the fireworks go off on Wednesday night.
Anyway, greetings.
Great to be with you, folks, as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence here, Rush Limbaugh, 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, this is 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 the world.
Tremendous impact.
It just shows you where we are.
It just shows you where we are.
Oh, my.
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, deputy editor there, was on Fox News Channel's journal editorial report with Paul Juga.
And Jagot asked Henneger, 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.
Yeah, it's a 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 wealth.
Also, look at this headline.
This is from livescience.com, and it was actually from last Thursday, and I just got around to seeing it.
Exercise grows new brain cells.
Exercise grows new brain cells.
Oh, 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 international team also showed that blocking those signals can prevent fat accumulation and shrink fat deposits.
Well, as usual, ladies and gentlemen, you haven't really heard what a story means until I tell you what it means.
The premise here is that we're so stressed.
We're wrung out.
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 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 going to blame this on?
We have a panic or fear-related story or stories daily presented to us through the drive-by media.
Therefore, the drive-bys are the ones making you obese because they're the ones that are increasing stress in your line of promoting it for crying out loud.
So if you want to lose weight, stop watching television and stop reading the drive-by media and just listen here.
Now, I mentioned we have 10 iPods that we're going to give away.
And I have to tell you, I have to admit, I broke down iPhones.
Sorry, iPhones.
Yeah, we have 10 iPhones are going to give away.
And I broke down and I got one.
I vowed I was going to resist all of this.
By the way, they sold 525,000 of them on the weekend, Friday through close of business on Sunday.
In fact, mine's sitting right here behind me.
Check the charge.
Yep, charging well now.
Thought mine had a defect because it didn't think it was accepting a charge.
All of a sudden, the battery gauge just moved a whole chunk to the right.
I just, Snerdley actually went, stood in line for me, got mine on Friday night.
How long were you in line to get yours?
About an hour.
Okay, he said, you want me to drop by the house?
No, I'll wait till Monday.
So he brings it in here today.
Went through all the activation process.
I had to put the thing down.
I would have not gotten any show prep done.
This thing is, it's beyond whatever the hype was.
It's far more.
It's an amazing device.
So we have 10 of them that we're going to 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 daily email sent to subscribers.
Then it's the subscription to this is free, by the way.
It's part of RushLimbaud.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, just sent the email, whatever email address or addresses that you want to have it sent to.
And all you do is go there to the website and find the Russian a Hurry man.
You can't miss it because we've got it really highlighted at RushLimbaugh.com today.
So you just subscribe to the free Rush in a Hurry email newsletter.
There's a great big link in the homepage.
Just look for Russian a Hurry and click it and give us your email address.
And if you've already subscribed, you're already entered.
You don't have to re every subscriber is automatically entered here in what we're doing.
Starting tomorrow, we're going to give an iPhone a day away and we'll be announcing the winners on air.
Now, we're not going to do it on Wednesday because Wednesday is a best-of-show.
It's the 4th of July Independence Day.
But we will continue giving all 10 of these away until that happens.
And you may have a chance to win an iPhone.
I forgot to ask.
I hope they picked up 8 gigabyte versions of these things.
I'm sure that, you know, I just assume that the people I assign to do this will go get the best.
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.
Here's what's going to 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 winner is going to get a check with their iPhone of $1,493.76.
That means you get the check, you get the phone.
That's a two-year service contract with ATT.
And we're throwing in a year's subscription to Rush 24-7.
If you're already a subscriber there, we're going to 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 every afternoon.
And they're generally ready to go a half hour, 45 minutes after the program, 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 synced and used, activated through iTunes.
And it's like an iPod.
Every time you plug it in, if you want to, it'll sync automatically.
So it is a way for us to get talking a little bit about our iPod, the podcast downloads.
Yeah, I have a, I must admit to you people, a problem.
I don't hawk my own stuff well.
I feel nervous enough.
I don't talk about this a lot.
This is why we're doing this because I would rather spend valuable programming time on the issues and my golf game and what I did on the weekend.
But really, the website is just, we've updated the essential stack of stuff, and it's just an encyclopedia.
It's over 2,500 pages there of facts, documents, research, any number of things.
It's really worth going and checking out.
So starting tomorrow, an iPod a day for 10 days, not on Wednesday, iPhone with a two-year service contract thrown in.
We'll pay for that.
And one-year subscription to rushlimbaugh.com, Rush24-7.
All you have to do to be eligible is go to rushlimbaugh.com and sign up for the free Rush in a Hurry newsletter.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and get started with all of the rest of today's program right after this.
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.
We're just using this to advance some of the things that we do here.
Podcasting, iPhones hot.
I think Rush in a Hurry is a great, great thing.
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, and you can get it.
It comes in an HTML format, so it's really cool.
So there's no trick here.
You're not obligating yourself to anything.
You're not setting yourself up to be bombarded to subscribe.
Nothing's going to happen to you other than you're going to get Rush in a Hurry every day, and you might win an iPhone and get a check to pay for two years of service of the phone with ATT and a one-year subscription to rushlimbaugh.com.
Just found this during the break.
Smoking could kill 1 billion this century, according to the World Health Organization.
We just had the story.
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 1 billion this century.
1 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 World Health Organization experts, make the statement today.
Tobacco is a defective product, kills half of its customers.
Douglas Becher, 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.
There's a theme that I have been spotting throughout the drive-by media today, folks, as we move on now to politics.
And it's that we're not going to get to Hillary's fundraising and Obama outdoing her and that.
I think a lot is being made of that.
I mean, Howard Dean outraged everybody when his campaign came along and bombed out in the first, the Hawkeye cauckey.
But we'll talk about that.
We're going to talk about the New York Times is trying to destroy Fred Thompson as though that's going to 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.
Of course, if they're really interested in finding lobbying abuse, they might look at the family of Harry Reid, whose Senate offices have been used to further lobbying efforts of his sons.
So clearly the attack is on.
But what's the theme that I noticed when I first got here, and it was started doing a show prep this morning, and the same thing 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 defeated 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, this is it.
That's over for the Republican Party.
They have so angered Hispanics out there that that's it.
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, that they do something about it because the Democrats still don't benefit from this.
They don't have their endless parade of victims here without any check on it.
So they still want to get this done.
Look, Reagan gave amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal aliens back in 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 not new.
But it's been that way constantly.
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 is just embrace Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson or they'll lose the black vote.
Come on, it's going to do that.
Let's embrace Sharpton and Jackson.
It'll show the black Americans that we're on their corner and they'll vote for us, right?
Right.
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 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.
People flood into the country to earn a few dollars, have no real connection with our system or history, then we're doomed 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 all still upset because this bill went up, because the bill was defeated.
And 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: dividing the country.
You know, how many of you have been reading all these horror stories as I have about, oh, no, oh, no, the Supreme Court, it's gone right wing on it.
Oh, no, oh, no.
The now reactionary force under George W. Bush.
You know, this case with the school desegregation business was really a four-to-four decision with Kennedy on the fence in future cases.
You know, and you got Joe Biden out there now talking about this opinions, an ominous sign of things to come.
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 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 the Republicans aren't going to get any Hispanic votes and so forth.
It's all smoke.
And it's all designed to confuse and to misstate the facts of the situation.
Joe Biden has this column that just hysterical to read.
It's in the Miami Herald today.
I wonder how many people in this country actually believe that busing for racial reasons is a mainstream view as he makes it sound.
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 timeout.
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 columns, Joe Biden and the Miami Herald today, isn't that criticizing the judiciary?
All these people on the left reacting to this Supreme Court decision last week on racial quotas in schools, isn't that criticizing the judiciary?
I thought we weren't supposed to do that.
I thought Tom DeLay was crucified for this.
A number of people were really criticized.
I was.
Talk radio was criticized.
I thought we weren't supposed to criticize judiciary, but they apparently are able to do so.
Columbus, Ohio, Jim, we'll start with you on the phones today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Jim, 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, there's so many of you logging on and trying to that we've almost started our own denial of service attack here.
And just be patient.
If you have trouble logging in and getting it done, be patient.
Keep trying.
It'll eventually work.
Right.
Jim, thanks for waiting and welcome to the program.
Wow, Rush.
I tell you what, I have 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 your lucky day.
I'm flattered with your comments.
Great to have you on the program.
Revity 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.
Well, you know, I want to say this to all callers.
Nobody expects a caller to be as articulate or as succinct as I am.
Nobody has that expectation, so you shouldn't be nervous.
Oh, well, 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 why I say that is, is that I sent a letter to both senators of my great state of Ohio, Sherrod Brown and George Boenovich.
And I am very much a conservative, and I voted for Boenovich in the last election.
I did receive an email back from Sherrod Brown, who blamed everything on NAFTA.
And Boenovich, I never heard a single word from.
But after calling his office relentlessly last week, wait a minute.
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 what I find interesting 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 NAFTA.
Well, you may not be hearing from them personally, but they're out there speaking.
And Hillary has come out and said after the vote failed, she had 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 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.
She can't get it done without him out there.
And I've got a story on it.
We'll get to it in due course.
Well, Barack raised more money than Hillary, but that's not the full.
She's going to be the nominee.
Howard Dean raised more money than anybody else, and he lost in the first Hawkeye caucus.
And 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, you've 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, they think 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 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 what's been reported, of about $61 million.
And nine of that is Edwards.
Edwards is just nowhere, folks.
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, 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 field.
But, you know, too much emphasis, I think, is put on money, particularly during primaries.
Mrs. Clinton, $7 million, I think, of her total is for the general election, which is a positive thing for her because it shows she's able to go out and get $7 million for the general election right now before she's even won the primary.
Barack doesn't have any money for the general election, obviously.
So, you know, they've got numbers of ways of looking at this.
Plus, there are 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 attacks that they dole out on any opponent of Hillary Clinton?
So, yeah, if you just look at the money in one sense, you would conclude that Barack's 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 is going to have, or she's going to have, not anybody else, she's got problems of likability, and she's got problems of 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 going to 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, there's this thing that Barack is doing right now, is generating, in addition, the money is an indication of this.
He's generating a lot of popularity, a lot of excitement.
There seems to be a big buzz.
Frankly, he's got 154,000 individual donors that have given the total of $31 million.
I find it amazing.
I don't, you know, 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 see the evidence of it, other than, as I say, in the media, and that could be where the excitement's actually being generated.
Then, of course, you have, as David Ehrenreich and the L.A. Times in an op-ed piece back in March pointed out, the magic Negro aspect of the Barack campaign.
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 racist, even they have no clue what he stands for.
So it's all very fluid, but I don't, 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, they haven't even started trying to take the guy out yet.
I mean, we're talking Clinton Inc. here, folks.
Well, I have just been asked: can they afford to do their usual tricks on Barack?
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 Hawkeye Caucasi.
Somebody released a letter 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.
And, 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 timeout 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 a reference when Oprah Winfrey gave away all those cars.
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 $12,000 a year right now.
That's the number, without having anybody pay any tax on it.
If you give away $13,000, then you have to pay tax, gift tax rate on $1,000.
My friend, we're not going to give anything away here that's going to cost you any money.
We're giving away 10 iPhones.
We're giving away a check, $1,900 and some change to cover a two-year service contract for each winner and a one-year subscription.
And these are eight-gig iPhones, by the way, the big ones.
We're also giving away a year subscription to Rush 24-7.
All you have to do to be entered in this, we're gone a day for the next 10 days, except for Wednesday.
And we're going to just sign up for the free Rush in a Hurry newsletter at rushlimbaud.com.
And there's no trick here.
Your email address doesn't go anywhere.
You're not going to start being bombarded even by us other than the newsletter you'll get every afternoon shortly after the program's over.
This is a summary of what happened on the program with some active links to be able to listen to it before the full site is updated, which usually happens around 5.30 to 6 Eastern Time.
So, no, there are no tax consequences if you win.
Well, now Snerdley back down at Snurdy.
And even if there were, you should still accept it and gladly pay the tax is Snerdley's point.
But there's not going to be any of that.
This all qualifies within the gift rule.
Now, look, I want to clarify something here, too, 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 Brett girl.
But what is it, 3124?
I mean, 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 non-ideological, supposedly charitable, non-profits, this sort of thing.
But they're Hillary fundraising groups or front groups that go out and promote her and attack her enemies.
And how do you put a dollar value on that?
That's part of Clinton Inc.
She will be the nominee.
There's no question about it.
And it's going to be tough for her.
She's going to have trouble concealing her hated personality.
She's not a likable woman.
Everybody knows this and is worried about it.
Plus her leftist agenda.
How's she going to hide that?
Especially the primary, she's going to have to really trumpet that leftist agenda.
New York Times, as I mentioned earlier, too, is smearing Fred Thompson and getting nowhere doing it.
And I mentioned earlier that if they really want to start looking at lobbying efforts that have actually been reported in newspapers, L.A. Times and the Atlanta Journal of Constipation, to have real potential criminal implications, that would be Harry Reid and his kids and some of the shenanigans they've done in Nevada.
And that has direct links to the Senate.
But even forgetting 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 hers.
And he's out there 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?
In fact, the Dubai Ports deal, Clinton was a hired lobbyist.
He was out there trying to make the U.S. Congress go ahead and vote 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, 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.
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.
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 talking to everything from insurance companies, farm groups, the Saudis.
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.
It's contributing to both of their wealth.
Clinton's on, he doesn't just 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 Saudis, 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, Rush?
Yes, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
The Dubai thing is what I'm leading into as you contrast your position and Talk Radio's position on the Dubai Ports deal and how you made COVID 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 could you just give an analysis of what you think?
I'd be happy to give you an analysis of this, but I'm afraid if the drive-bys are listening, it'll destroy them.
Because the drive-bys have this image of people like you, Kyle, of being literal sponges.
Your head's empty.
And 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 are this many people doing this, having this?
It's not possible.
I couldn't have mindset.
You got to understand liberals look at average Americans with contempt and condescension anyway.
You're not bright.
You're not smart.
And they fuel that belief by furthering the notion that you're just, you know, I'm Pied Piper.
I'm a Svengali and 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.
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 was one of the lone voices that was looking at that in a different way from most people.
But the people that they made up their own minds.
I mean, I might have changed a few, and some people call here and say so, but 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.
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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