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July 2, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back folks.
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This is Evan Thomas of Newsweek magazine on a local Washington news show on Sunday.
What's the name of this show?
Hang on here for a minute.
Pages of the...
You know, this is...
This...
Yeah, inside Washington.
Thank you.
This is a weird day.
I was just telling Snerdley during the break, this feels like a weird karma biorhythm day.
We've got the 4th of July comes the middle of the week and people don't know which weekend to take off.
So they're taking both weekends off.
Essentially, most people aren't going to be working this week at all.
I'm here four days this week.
Most of you people are going to be working a day or two or even fewer if you can get away with it.
I got my new iPhone here.
I'm so fresh.
I want to play with the darn iPhone.
I can't play with the iPhone.
And I can't play with it right after the program because I've got to pay bills.
That'll take two hours.
I got to do something with the car.
I got all this stuff, all this wacko stuff I've got to do.
You know, I can't even find a right page for the Q-Shape.
is Inside Washington, Gordon Peterson, and during the panel discussion on the defeat of the immigration bill, Evan Thomas of Newsweek said...
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.
This just shows you where we are.
They're lamenting this all over the place in the drive-by media.
I want to go back to the guy who called from his name, Sal from California, because I had mentioned earlier in the program that the way to deal with this news story out there, the drive-bys are pumping everybody full of this news, the Republicans have just lost the Hispanic vote.
Boy, it's horrible.
I mean, the polls show that 62% of Hispanics plan to vote Democrat.
We never had a majority of the Hispanic votes to lose in the first place.
One of the big myths here.
And what's bothered me most about this is how the Republicans have sought to get these new people as voters by pandering to them rather than going out making the case for conservatism.
That's what works.
Now, that's hard work.
But they see the Democrats going full speed ahead, trying to get as many of these people in the country as possible.
But what happened?
I simply said assimilation is the fastest way and the best way for new arrivals to learn about America.
You know, over the weekend, the Democrats all gathered up there in Orlando at Disney World.
And Dennis Kucinich, you talk about pandering.
Dennis Kucinich got up there.
There was an audience of Hispanic people and politicians and so forth.
And Kucinich is, I think every American child should be required to learn Spanish.
Learning Spanish is not a bad thing, but that is pandering.
That's nothing.
And I do not pander.
And I was not going to pander this guy.
He's a nice guy from California.
But I'm not going to sit here and pander.
And I think that's what annoys a lot of people about what I do, is I don't pander to people the way that activists in the media do.
I try to appeal to Americans with American principles.
Folks, we're going to have to break this mentality that we have to pander to groups based on ethnicity or race or some other identifier.
That's what government does, and that's what the left does.
But that's not who we are as conservatives.
It's not what we do.
Now, look at what's happened.
Assimilation has become controversial.
Assimilation used to be something that was expected.
It used to be something that was practically required.
Now, assimilation is controversial.
Becoming a part of the distinct American culture is controversial.
Well, it is.
And that's just a sad thing.
But pandering is not the way to solve any of this.
And I don't do it.
Not going to start doing it.
But Mithril Limbaugh, it's phones.
It makes people feel better.
It makes them think that you care.
I'm not into being phony.
If I don't care, I don't want them to think I do.
And if I do care, I'm going to be legitimate and honest about why.
You start pandering to people and you're excusing their behavior.
If you pander to them, you're excusing what they do and allowing it to continue.
And you're basically not being a good parent.
If you pander to your kids, and you know a lot of parents these days do that.
And they do it.
I mean, you see it, it drives you nuts.
Just not going to do it.
One more thing here before we go to the break.
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Quick timeout.
We'll come back.
Other exciting items in the news.
I got a call last week from South Carolina.
A guy said, Rush, you got to help us find a candidate to run against Lindsey Gramnesty.
A candidate has emerged.
We'll be back after this.
And we're back.
El Rushbo, half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, John Cena, I don't know how he pronounces his name, C-I-N-A.
Might be, it's got to be Cena.
He's a Somerville, South Carolina businessman.
He has never sought public office before, but he's starting his political career by going after Senator Lindsey Gramnesty.
He said he's going to oppose Lindsey Gramnesty in next year's Republican primary.
He says, I'm not a politician.
I'm an everyday citizen, an hourly wage earner.
We need to consider what's best for the American people, what's best for South Carolina.
We've sent people up to Washington for a purpose, and they don't do anything we want them to do.
He's a self-described grassroots right-wing conservative with unwavering principles.
He most recently has worked as an engineering representative processing permits for cable TV and telephone companies with Synergetic Design Inc. in Florida and in South Carolina.
Said he began planning his bid in January, announced his intentions at the Dorchester County Republican Executive Committee meeting, said he hasn't met Graham, but is not happy with his record.
Now, some people say this is a long shot.
Of course it is.
He describes it strictly grassroots.
What I need to do is get myself known and for people to find out who I am and where I'm coming from.
He's amassed about $3.7 million, more than all but two of the many Republican senators up for re-election next year.
So that is what's happening in South Carolina.
That story goes back by way toward the end of June.
So it's not news today.
For South Carolinians in the know, it's old news.
This is Don in Lake Ronkonkama, New York.
Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
It's great to have you with us.
Hey, Megadittos Rush.
It's so great to speak to you again, the man who's running America.
Yes, you know it, and I know it.
Thank you very much.
Yes.
Listen briefly before I get to my question.
I just want to offer my prayers to Louis Libby and his family.
That's terrible what he's going through.
It's something I don't think anybody can even relate to.
I know, it's all.
It's 1984-ish.
It's Kafka-esque.
Yes, Patrick Fitzgerald joins the ranks of Mike Nifon and Ronnie Earl, it looks like.
Well, actually, I used to have a name for him, Fitzfogg, but I think it's more like Fitz Schumer.
Very good.
Rush, listen, your dad had written a wonderful piece entitled Americans Who Risked Everything about the Founding Fathers and Their Sacrifice for Independence.
Yes.
And I was wondering if you would read or post that historically relevant writing this week for Independence Day?
That's the signers, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, the men who risked everything.
My dad researched this and did a speech.
In fact, I remember when I first made this speech public, it's way back in the early 90s, a bunch of liberal activist groups went out and started researching my dad.
Plagiarism and all kinds of things.
It was just amazing.
They struck out.
But it's on the website.
It's in our essential stack of stuff.
And what Don here is asking that we bring it forward to the public side on the Fortune 19.
It's a good idea.
It's a great speech.
It's something that's not taught.
I wasn't taught this stuff, in fact.
I talked about the 56 signers, but when you read this and you learn what some of them, when they said we pledge our lives, our fortunes, a sacred honor, they meant it.
And some of them lost everything, including sons.
I mean, it's a striking, striking bit of information for people who don't know it.
And it's what those brave 56 signers, the Declaration of Independence, went through by publicly affixing their names to the document.
Good idea.
We'll do that so that people can access it.
Here's Fred in Bemidji, Minnesota.
You're next.
It's great to have you with us, too.
Rush, you are the man.
Yes, sir.
I am glad to talk to you.
And I want to say that I consider you one of the true sources of news in our country in spite of what the mainstream media says.
I think that in most cases, they don't know the difference between news and garbage.
I appreciate your saying that because I think you're exactly right.
I think we report in the three hours of this program tell people more what's going on than they do.
And they're agenda-driven, and I have an agenda, too.
I mean, in the sense that I'm trying to expand the number of conservatives and the number of people who understand it, believe it, and are able to explain it to others.
They've got an agenda, too, which forces them to leave out a lot of stuff that doesn't make the grade.
And there's, in fact, I probably have a couple examples in my stack today.
I'll try to find one or two of them after I finish your call.
What I called about is in reference to you're talking about the environmentalists continuing to push the idea that we need to leave the land untouched, that that's the only realistic and proper way to do it.
And I'm wondering how that foolishness is going to allow us to grow the additional 300,000 acres of corn that they want grown so that we can substitute that for fossil fuels.
You know, it's an interesting question, and the answer to it is this.
When liberals and environmentalists start defining and are in charge of land use, then of course it's good because they are good people and they are not destructive.
And of course, the pursuit of ethanol is to save us from global warming.
So they've got a good motive.
They have good intentions behind them.
So you can destroy the land if you have good liberal intentions.
That's the rationale.
Well, yeah, no, you can not only that, you can destroy the black family.
You can destroy prosperity for a lot of people.
You can destroy everything you want as long as you have good intentions behind it.
And as long as people are unwilling to judge the results of your destruction and will be won over by your good intentions.
Absolutely.
Well, this, to me, what is foolishness is that much of this is driven by emotion rather than the search and the consideration of what I would call true truth or true facts.
You know, most anything can be called a fact now.
If somebody says, well, I think this is true, so that makes it a fact.
Well, it does not.
It just makes it spin or creative lying or whatever you want to call it.
Truth is more difficult than that.
Well, of course, and the truth is easily sidestepped in the advancement of an agenda.
As far as the liberals are concerned, it's never too early or late to rise above principle.
Yeah.
Well, and I wanted to just throw in there that too many of our leaders are pushing this foolish idea that a bad plan or a bad bill or a bad idea is better than doing nothing.
And I think that that is completely wrong.
Well, it's illogical on its face to do something worse than what exists or to do nothing at all.
Who in the world would say that doing something worse than the current is good?
But then you've got to get into the argument of saying, well, is it really worse?
Well, any open-minded person looking at what this bill would have done would have to conclude, yeah, it's worse.
It's far worse.
Well, this is why I started out saying you, in fact, are a true news source because you bring a quantity and a quality of truth to the discussion that seems to be painfully missing from most mainstream and I would agree drive-by media.
Well, I appreciate that.
I'm glad you noticed.
You've made my day because that's something I've been, you know, we say we've been doing the drive-by media's job for them for decades here.
They gave up on it a long time, especially when they became aware that they lost their monopoly.
They have made it abundantly clear that they have chosen sides of the Democrats.
I have my buddy Evan Thomas here, who says I have more power than President Bush actually said going into the 2004 presidential campaign.
You'll remember this when I remind you.
He actually said that mainstream media support of John Kerry would be worth 15 points in the election.
I mean, that's coming out of the closet and admitting it.
And he's one of the chief editors at Newsweek magazine.
I appreciate that, Fred.
Very kind you are.
We'll be back and continue right after this much more broadcast excellence straight ahead.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
By the way, the men who risked everything, the signers, the 56 Signers Declaration of Independence speech that my father wrote and gave a number of times in his life, we made that the cover story of the, what was it?
It was the July 96 issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
And we had overages that year, so we used that issue as a premium until we ran out of them.
And I just talked to the Editrix.
Diana said, yeah, people still write in for requesting copies of it, Limball Letter subscribers.
Now, if you are a Limbaugh Letter subscriber and you didn't keep the July 1996 issue with the speech in it, you could spank yourself.
But I bet most people didn't throw it away.
It really is an amazing thing.
We will post it at rushlimbaugh.com in time for 4th of July reading and enjoyment.
James in Cleveland, you're next on the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Rush K1 Gittos, ultra-conservative alternative fuel vehicle manager here at a Honda and Tornado dealership.
And I just wanted to let you know that I'm driving a natural gas Civic.
Runs on natural gas.
It's about a buck a gallon equivalent coming out of your house.
You can pump it right from your house.
And I want to tell you about E85.
I don't think it's worth it.
It takes more fuel to make it.
It could be part of the problem.
Wait a second here.
Wait a second.
Do you enjoy your job?
I love my job.
Maybe we better stop this conversation.
We don't sell E85s at our dealership.
But, you know, the thing about E85.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold it.
Hold on just a second.
By the way, slow down a little bit because your phone quality is not the best.
I'm having a little trouble understanding you.
It's not your fault.
But what is an alternative fuel vehicle manager?
I handle the vehicles that run either hybrid, which isn't really considered an alternative fuel, but I would handle the natural gas Civic.
Yeah, but I mean, are you a salesman?
Are you a manager?
Salesperson.
Salesperson manager for the alternative fuel.
This is even more incredible.
So you sell these things and you're calling us to tell you you drive one.
It doesn't work.
No, no, no.
I drive a natural gas Civic that works great.
I don't drive an E85 vehicle.
I drive a natural gas Civic that runs perfect.
You could fill it up at your house.
Well, you do like the natural gas vehicle.
It's the hybrid that you're not crazy about.
Nope, I'm crazy about the hybrids, too.
It's the E85, the ethanol car.
Everybody's pushing ethanol.
Everyone's pushing the corn.
Everyone's pushing that.
Oh, the ethanol car is what you're criticizing.
Yes.
Well, I'm not necessarily criticizing it.
I think it's overly hyped.
Let me explain how I explain it to you, how I explain it to people.
You can't win a war with just the Marines, okay?
But you can win a war with the Marines, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and the National Guard.
E85 is just one portion of winning the war against dependency on foreign oil.
Believe me, I'd much rather drill in the United States, get our own oil from here, but that's not going to happen.
So we need to come up with alternatives.
And E85.
That's where I disagree with you.
I totally disagree with you.
It won't happen if we choose this alternative army, you're saying, of these worthless, and far as I'm concerned.
Well, I shouldn't say that.
I'm never going to buy one.
But they're not all worthless.
I'm never going to buy a natural gas car.
I'm not going to buy an E85 car.
I'm not going to buy a hype.
I'm never, ever going to buy one.
I will risk fines.
I'm not going to buy junk.
I'm not going to buy stuff I don't like.
But the more people who do, the more we are delaying actual production of our own energy.
We are not going to grow an expanding economy to the extent the American people demand it with defensive cutbacks with alternative fuels and vehicles like this when oil is still the fuel that runs everything.
We're not going to do it.
It's not going to happen.
I'm not asking for cutbacks.
I'm not asking for anything.
I'm asking basically, if you have your house, I'm sure it has natural gas running right into it.
You cook on that big stove of yours, I'm sure, with natural gas, right?
Yeah, Give runs a couple.
He runs the barbecue pit and the pool heater, the cooler and so forth.
Yeah, but not much else, not much else.
You're using an alternative fuel and you're saving.
You're actually doing something you don't even realize.
You're actually using an alternative fuel.
What?
Natural gas, the alternative fuel?
Yes.
Oh, it's they make hydrogen out of natural gas.
Maybe when you're talking about alternative to internal combustion engines, yeah.
But natural gas is as plenty.
There's nothing alternative about it.
It's in as much use as oil is for different reasons.
Right, exactly.
But you can get natural gas from different sources you can get it from.
And I don't want you to think I'm believing.
I got Nixon tattooed on my arm.
I'm so conservative.
But I see that there's other alternatives that we have besides giving those people across the pond there our money, and then they're giving it to terrorists so that terrorists can kill us.
And I know people that are over in Iraq, and I know people in the military, so I'm pretty up on what's going on.
But my main concern was calling you about E85.
And what I wanted to tell you right now is that every sixth row of corn is dedicated to ethanol right now.
Only 10% of your gasoline that you put in your tank, at the most, most it's 2% or 3%, but the most ethanol that's in your gasoline, it's your corner gas station, not E85 specific, which is 85% ethanol.
Every sixth row is dedicated to that 10%.
So if we're going to switch over to 50% or E85, we don't have enough land to grow this.
Now the environmentalists are finally realizing this.
I go to these meetings and everything, and I listen to these people.
They go on and on.
Yes, we do.
We've got plenty of land.
We'll just have to convert some other crop to grow corn.
Well, no, but there's other ways to do it.
And what I'm saying is that if they want E85 so bad, E85 is just part of it.
We can still use gasoline and we can still use diesel fuel.
But if we can cut the gasoline use and not have to give those people over there so much money, that's fine.
I'd rather drill here in the Gulf.
I'd rather get it.
Let me tell you what the flaw in your argument is.
I understand, once again, your desire to not contribute to terrorist operations and regimes with the purchase of foreign oil.
Now, remember, you're talking to a conservative here, a very, very conservative person.
You could be Hillary Clinton, and I'm telling you the same thing here.
If we don't buy it, somebody will.
You have got to understand oil is the engine.
It's the fuel of the engine of the world economy.
And there is nothing that is going to change that dramatically in your lifetime or mine or hundreds of years from now.
It isn't going to happen.
I graduated from that class, Rush.
I understand that completely.
Well sold in.
Dabbling around in all this stuff is just cosmetics.
You make you feel better.
You can drive around in an E85 car and think you're burning corn.
You can drive around thinking you're driving a natural gas car to make yourself feel better.
But it's not depriving any oil-rich sheik of his money.
I don't do it to make myself feel better.
I do it because it's a challenge.
It's a challenge to win.
And I think that there's other alternatives.
Well, I understand that.
Sometimes I try to live with a thermostat at 72 instead of 70.
I understand challenges and trying to do my part.
But I know that when I keep my thermostat at 72 instead of 70, somebody's making up for what I'm doing.
It all balances out.
This is just you do feel better doing it.
I mean, admit it.
That's what you're trying to do.
And you want to be, you're trying to accomplish something too.
You're accomplishing a lot here.
You're engaging in a challenge.
You think you're overcoming the obstacles in the challenge.
You feel good about what you're doing.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I do feel good about what I'm doing.
And when I drive a Prius or when I drive a Honda Civic and I'm getting 600, 650 miles out of a tank or a mid-sized Camry or a mid-size Highlander SUV, I'm still beating the system.
I'm still coming out with more money in my pocket, even though I get a tax credit, and I'm still coming out with more money in my pocket.
When I can drive 6020 miles on one 10-year-old.
That's great.
That is just great.
And that matters to you.
And you're doing all, that's great.
But do not think while you're doing all that, I don't want to disappoint you or ruin the day here, but don't think while all of these great things that you like are happening that you are changing the world scheme of energy.
But more money in people's pockets because they're spending less on gas.
That means they're going to buy a better car.
That means they're going to buy more food at the grocery store.
That means they're going to buy more.
If they can buy a better car, they've got to buy something other than the kinds you've been describing.
Well, Honda's in Toronto, the test cars, some of the rated best cars in the world as far as the way they're built and they're reliable.
I mean, they're much more reliable than the Mercedes or a BNW.
You can look that up on the internet anywhere.
Yeah, you can look anything up on the internet.
And it's still not going to deprive the Sheikhs of their oil revenue.
Somebody's going to buy it.
I understand that, Rush, but you know what?
If we quit buying it from the Sheiks, believe me, they're going to be in a panic because we are their largest customer.
We can't stop buying.
By the way, the Sheiks, who do you think we buy the most oil from?
Well, we buy the most oil from Canada.
From where?
From Canada.
Canada.
Who's number two?
I believe it's South America, and then Russia is three, I think.
Mexico.
Well, South America, Mexico.
Mexico, and that's Central America.
Oh, that's right.
No, it's North America.
And then Venezuela is number four.
Yeah, I didn't mean to group that shit.
And that's now, that's a situation.
Do you know that that little dictator down there, that little pigfaced dictator, owns 15% of U.S. refining capacity or has financial interest in it?
You sit there all day, worry about the oil sheiks and so forth.
We've got this little megalomaniac down there who's rattling sabers, trying to buy submarines from the Soviet, well, the old Soviet, from the KGB.
I mean, this is, you know, as somebody described him over the weekend, he's Castro on steroids.
Anyway, look, I appreciate the call out there, James.
And if you love those cars, that is fabulous.
And if you have good fortune selling them and you have people that want to buy them, that's absolutely great.
I'm not being critical of that, but I don't want people to lie to themselves and tell themselves that you're depriving Sheikh Abdullah, whatever, of another gold-rimmed palace over there in Riyadh.
Back in a sec.
Ha, how are you?
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
You know, at Drive-By Media, they just recycle things.
Every year in May, we're going to get all the hurricane stories.
Every fall, we're going to get all the snow, possible snow stories and whatever happens.
Everything just gets recycled.
Get this.
You know what the key to a good marriage is?
This is Associated Press.
You know what the key to a good marriage is?
Let me just take a little informal survey.
Brian, according to the AP, and it's actually the result of public opinion polls of married couples who both failed and succeeded by the Pew Research Center.
What is the key to a good marriage today?
No, that's not it.
No talking is not it.
Snurdley, what would you say, given that you're an expert here?
What do you think the key to it?
Remember the context here.
What's the key to a good, as a, you want to hint, as a man when you were married, what did you always hear most about in terms of complaints?
No.
No, not what your complaint was, the complaint that you got.
No, come, I can't believe you guys.
This is a no-brainer.
Dawn, you want to take a stab at it?
Female perspective?
No, the key to a good marriage is sharing housework.
I kid you not, the percentage of Americans who consider children very important to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal.
According to a sweeping new survey, the Pew Research Center survey on marriage and parenting found that children had fallen to eighth out of nine on a list of factors that people associate with successful marriages, well behind sharing household chores, good housing, adequate income, happy sexual relationship, and faithfulness.
Now, in 1990, in a world value survey, children ranked third in importance among the same items.
65% saying children were very important to a good marriage.
Only 41% said so in the new Pew survey.
Chore sharing, cited as very important by 62% of respondents, up from 47% in 1990.
Well, yeah.
But this is, haven't you, this is on a par if you lift that toothpaste lid open or you didn't lower the toilet.
Housework, sharing the house, it's a cliche.
You know, it's an absolute cliche.
Oh, you never helped me with the hell.
You know all these surveys are.
I'm going to tell you exactly what they are.
What do men have to start doing to fix the marriages that they inherently break up simply by being in them?
Jason in Fort Worth, Texas, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I'm a huge fan of Apple and Steve Jobs.
And I just think I'm just so fascinated by this new phone.
I've tried one out, and they're fantastic.
But I think that what baffles me the most is to see how he aligns himself more often than not with his good buddy Al Gore.
And I just don't get that.
I mean, for one, I mean, he's really a representative of the perfect example of what entrepreneurship in America and greatness is all about.
You know, it's one of the mysteries of life that's Warren Buffett.
How can Warren Buffett be sidling up to Hillary Clinton, one of the premier capitalists of all time?
And as I was sitting here waiting on the phone, I got all wound up thinking about it.
And I was like, how great would it be to have a Rush and Steve Jobs interview on an Open Line Friday?
And that even sparked my interest further to have a Rush entrepreneurial series with some of the greatest achievers in our country, i.e. Tiger Woods, Roger Goodell, Steve Jobs.
I think this would be a fantastic idea, Rush.
What do you think?
Well, you know, I think that would be a good idea because back in the 90s when the white-collar downsizing movement was taking place, all these middle-aged white-collar guys were losing their jobs, and women too.
And it was unique because normally when there are layoffs, they usually happen with the blue-collar types.
And everybody was kind of, there were mixed emotions, but there were people out there really happy, you know, a whole class interview.
Well, I'm glad these white-collar guys are finally finding out what it's like to be fired.
They deserve to be fired.
So Three or four months into this, we did, I think, three or four days, maybe a whole week, taking calls from people who had lost their jobs, white-collar executives, and what they were doing because their age made them not very competitive in the job market.
Younger people work for lower wages because they're inexperienced.
So, these guys that called told some of the most amazing stories about the businesses they started and how much happier they were being in charge of this and much hard work it was, but how fulfilling it was to finally take the plunge and go do what they want to do.
So, it's not a bad idea to do that again periodically.
I appreciate the suggestion.
As for Steve Jobs, I don't know that he would accept the invitation to do an interview.
They're very political company, and they're very liberal-minded with gores on their board, of course, obviously.
So, anyway, we've got to go here, folks, because of time constraints.
So, be back and close it out in a second.
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