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July 4, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2

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	And greetings once again, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
	I am America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, and harmless lovable little fuzzball, all combined in one bundle here at the prestigious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,
	noted Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and recent invitee by Senator Diane Feinstein to address the congressional interns this summer, sometime between June 6th and the uh the middle of August.
	Great to have you with us.
	Telephone number 800-282-2882.
	The email address is uh rush at EIB net.com.
	All right, I have to tell you this.
	I go back to last Friday's program.
	If you missed it, go to the website, look at it, because it was it was uh noteworthy on many, many scores, many ways.
	But the last call today came from Dr. Martha.
	I called her Dr. Martha because she was counseling me on my future with women and marriage and all of this.
	And uh that that that program, as I referenced in last hour's disorganized presentation, again, I apologize for that.
	Won't happen again.
	That call generated numerous emails, and they ran the gamut.
	Uh, women were wanting to know if I would if I well, she wanted me to make this list.
	The ideal woman.
	She said, You gotta do this, and then you do it for a reason.
	Just put the list the attributes, your ideal women, and if anybody comes along and and one or two of them uh don't fit, then bam, woman gets jettisoned.
	And uh you gotta do it that way.
	She's you've got you've got to put yourself first, that was her point.
	You can't run around trying to please everybody else by sacrificing who you are because it doesn't work, which is true.
	So I'm getting all these emails that run the gamut.
	Uh, you gotta make the list public.
	You gotta make the list public.
	Dr. Martha was right.
	Mostly women writing in.
	Vast majority of the people commenting on last Friday's program were in that regard, that portion of the program are women.
	And um were sending in their list and seeing if it fit with mine.
	I mean, it was it was fun.
	It was all over the place.
	Now, after that show, I was just checking the email here in one of the breaks.
	And this this goes to the crux of the problem.
	I'm getting email from women on how this shirt looks good or it looks bad, the color's good, the color's bad.
	Now, I realize they think they're just trying to be helpful, but do you know how I, Ill Rushbull hear this?
	Control.
	Here's the way I look at this, folks.
	Every morning I wake up, I go to the bathroom, I do the old routine to get ready for the busy broadcast.
	I go to the closet, I put on my clothes, happily so, choose them, get in a car, and head here to the EIB broadcast complex.
	If I were to ever get married, the first thing that would happen the first day after the honeymoon, if I survived it, first day back going to work, would do all that, put on my clothes, and then I would hear, are you really gonna wear that to work today?
	And I know that that's what I would hear because I'm hearing it now from women I don't even know.
	Uh in their in their own face.
	Now I know they're just trying to be helpful and so forth.
	Uh and uh this goes for whether the color loser.
	It's a black shirt.
	You know, I mean how can black be a bad color on anybody?
	Especially in a post-IMUS era.
	Uh it's just it's uh it's a mystery to me.
	Also, people want a diet update.
	Um it's about 54, 55 pounds.
	I've I'm wondering what I'm doing.
	I'm just I'm gonna go ahead and say it one time.
	Uh I'm using NutraSystem.
	I've did it once before, so I knew it worked, knew it worked fast.
	I did it back in the 1980s.
	Uh for the first two months, I followed it to a T. I didn't deviate once.
	I've started deviating since, but always go back to it, uh, and I've continued to lose.
	So I've 54 pounds since February 14th.
	Uh, and my waist is now 39 and a half.
	Uh down from I'm almost well, I'll admit it, I'm afraid to admit it, ashamed to admit, it was 48.
	So it waste 48 to 39 and a half.
	And uh got a note from my brother last night.
	Well, I'm gonna stay on this?
	Well, I'm I don't imagine myself ever really getting off of it.
	Uh that's what's changed this time.
	I mean, I'm I'm uh I'm not gonna stand up religiously for the rest of my life, but uh point I'm I'm not I'm not gonna for the first time in my life, I'm not going to revert back to a diet that's not a diet.
	I'm not going to end this.
	Let's uh put it that way.
	And the reason this neutral system is because it's it's it's worry-free, hassle-free portion control.
	You don't have to worry about whether the label ingredients are honest about calories and various nutritional uh uh values.
	It's just it's easy.
	And every when I tell people this, well, is the food taste good?
	I said, what does that matter?
	When you go on a diet, food has to become a background concern.
	It has to be something that's not, yeah, but you have to enjoy.
	I do.
	It tastes fine.
	It tastes good, but I mean it's not you know, the the the Nobody on a diet raves about the food.
	Uh it's fine stuff.
	But if if you my point of saying this, if people ask me if the food tastes good, and they think they want to go on a diet, they're not ready.
	If you're worried about the food tasting good, you're gonna blow it in going to work because you're not ready.
	It's just that simple.
	Uh anything else?
	Oh, Snerdley, remember last hour during the disorganized presentation that was last hour.
	I looked at Snerdley and he looked agitated, and I said, What's you having trouble in there with the callers?
	And he shook his head, no.
	During the break, he told me what he was what was happening when I thought he was agitated.
	He got a call.
	This guy in New Jersey.
	Guy couldn't go on the air because his body is riddled with cancer.
	Throat, mouth.
	Uh and the guy admitted, did he give you his first name?
	Do you remember what his first name was?
	First name was Dennis.
	And uh he admitted, you know, that he he was uh a short timer, doesn't have much to go because the cancer is just riddled his body.
	But he called here because he was still engaged with the future of his country.
	One of the things, you know, I've marveled at this too, and I've I've I've mentioned this when I was young, and as I've gotten older, uh we all know people that are older than we are, and many of us know people who are uh in the latter stages of their lives.
	One thing that's always amazed me, even as as I have been uh well-known radio raconteur and and host, uh I I'll meet people who are terminally ill, uh who will point at me and say, you keep doing what this country needs you, or the future of this country is is uh threatened and it's crucial, and I've always marveled at that.
	And I've wondered if if I ever had circumstance like that, if I ever fell into a terminal illness and had a very finite period of time left, would I care?
	I'm not gonna be around.
	Would I would I care as much as I cared when I was alive.
	Or would my attitude be, okay, I gave it my best shot, I've done my work, I've done the contributions.
	Not just me as a radio person, as a citizen, human being, you too.
	Uh and yet that's what's fascinating and and and wonderful about this is because love of country is so great that people who are soon to be passing away and passing on still care just as much about it.
	And and this guy called and he was just insistent that Mr. Snerdley pass on a message from him to me.
	He is livid at the Democrats, he is livid at the way they're tearing the country apart, particularly on foreign policy, and his idea was just suggest that they go neutral.
	Just have the Democrats become like Sweden.
	You know, just have them.
	You know, if if if if they can't root for us to win, just have them be quiet.
	Don't don't root for us to lose.
	Don't invest in defeat, just go neutral.
	You know, be who they are, but still go new.
	Stop all these incessant attacks.
	It's it was his opinion that uh their their their constant badgering of Bush and Republicans is uh is tearing the country apart.
	And that when he told me that, when Snurley told me that I remembered something, and you'll remember this too.
	Back when Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, and we began our our America held hostage countdown number of days left until Clinton was gone, so we'd all be released from bondage.
	The joke.
	And you remember how mad the Liberals got at that?
	You remember how mad the drive-bys got at that?
	And then they started running stories of I, Rush Limbaugh, was destroying the respect for the office of the presidency that the American people had.
	I, Rush Limbaugh was doing this.
	And it became, and then I, of course, was destroying the respect that common citizens had for government at large.
	So that when Timothy McVay and his cronies blew up the Mura building in Oklahoma City, the administration goes out there to try to blame me and others on talk radio until we called them on it.
	And what we were doing back then, by the way, might have sounded harsh to them because they have never been accustomed to criticism.
	Hello, fairness doctrine and wanting to shut people like me up.
	They don't like criticism.
	Those are personal attacks.
	But if they think what we were doing back then is in any way comparable to what they are doing now, then they have short memories.
	Everything we did about Clinton was humorous.
	It had a political point, but what we were making fun of and laughing.
	We were not filled with a paralyzing rage and hatred for the guy.
	The most it manifested itself as was an absolute mystifyingly inexplicable curiosity about why it is a majority of the American people bought hook line and sinker.
	Clintonism and his style and his lying and his this and that and the other thing.
	That's what we marveled at.
	And we were frustrated at it.
	But filled with rage and hatred.
	These guys, they accuse me and others of destroying respect for the office of the president.
	They are trying and probably have done it in many ways far more uh violently in a verbal sense than uh than anything the and and and of course they were called Clinton haters.
	We were called Clinton haters back then.
	Nobody hates Bush, you can't say Bush haters, uh but they are.
	And so this this wonderful guy was telling Sturdly how much he loves the program, even in the disorganized presentation that was the first hour of this.
	That's when he got this guy called.
	Uh I just, you know, it I I marvel at it uh at the uh the compassion and the love and the caring that that everybody has for this country, uh, especially people like Dennis, who uh called here from New Jersey, and I wanted to acknowledge him, even though he couldn't go on the air because his voice is racked, his uh mouth and his throat via and because of his cancer.
	All right, we must take a quick time out.
	We'll get to your phone calls and uh lots of stuff in the stacks of stuff.
	Obama uh back in the news.
	Uh 1,500 people in one story, 3,000 people in another story uh showed up at his speech in Kansas City.
	So what?
	He's a presidential candidate with all of this breath, and he'd draw in 3,000 people?
	I'd be embarrassed.
	Anyway, details and lots of other stuff coming right up.
	Stay with us.
	Okay, back we are on the one and only EIB network, calling for an end to the uh war.
	Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke in Kansas City Saturday afternoon on his first campaign visit uh there.
	Obama spoke to a crowd of more than 1,500 people at the downtown Marriott, hitting hard on the war, health insurance, and the president in a packed auditorium sweltering with body heat.
	Obama greeted the crowd.
	How's it going, Kansas City?
	The presidential hopeful said, speaking over applause and cheers.
	He warmed up the crowd, playing up his roots as a Harvard grad turned civil rights attorney in his lifelong battle with name recognition.
	Now, this, folks, is the Democrat presidential primary, and all these guys can do is go out and talk about Bush.
	I don't care who the Democrat presidential candidate we're talking about is, be it Mrs. Bill Clinton, uh Obama.
	They talk about Bush.
	They don't even try to debate each other to distinguish their views from each other.
	And is this supposed to be an impressive crowd size?
	1,500 people.
	I tell you, if I said I was going somewhere and only 1,500 people showed, we'd cancel it.
	Yes, we would, Don, we would cancel it because it would be Embarrassingly low, and it would be reported as such.
	Only 1,500 came out to hear, Limbaugh.
	I know people that get 25,000 people at book signings for crying out loud, where people actually pay.
	You have to buy a book to uh to get in there.
	Uh I remember once went to South Carolina early on, the Rush to Excellence tour, 5,000 people in some arena, and there were three protesters outside, a mother and two daughters, and that was the picture the next day on the front page with a headline protesters appear at Limbaugh appearance.
	10,000 people inside three protesters.
	With Obama, we don't know if there were any protesters, probably weren't, but 1,500 people.
	Meanwhile, Obama is uh being called a hypocrite because of his wife's link to Walmart.
	As a fluent public speaker, independent-minded wife, devoted mother and professional woman, Michelle Obama has been hailed as an invaluable asset to her husband Barack's mission to capture the Democrat presidential nomination.
	Yet while her style and performance are winning plaudits on the campaign trail, a little reported business interest of Mrs. Obama's has opened her husband up to one of the criticisms that politicians fear most, and that is the taint of hypocrisy.
	She's taking a break from her main job as a well-remuniated or remunerated uh remunerator.
	But for those of you in uh Rio Linda and for those of you in Sacramento watch Channel 13, that means well paid.
	Hospital executive in Chicago.
	Uh she's taken a break from that to campaign for her husband, but she has just been re-elected to the board of an Illinois food processing company, a position she took up two years ago to gain experience of the private sector.
	The biggest customer for the pickles and peppers produced by Treehouse Foods, that's the company she's on the board of.
	Biggest customer is Walmart, the world's largest corporation.
	And a hated corporation of American liberals, including Obama.
	He reps Walmart.
	Their hiring practices and their employment practices and a lack of health care, uh, their refusal to recognize trade unions.
	Uh as as Obama prepared to join the presidential fray last year, he threw his weight behind the union back campaign against Walmart.
	He said, Well, there's a there's a moral responsibility to stand up and fight the company and force them to examine their own corporate values.
	I tell you, I I you just look at the Democrat Party's enemies list, and that ought to be enough to get nobody with a brain voting for them.
	Walmart, an enemy of the Democrat Party.
	I mean, it's understandable because of the union connection that they have.
	But so what?
	Only in the Democrat Party could it be that the wife of a candidate who's on the board of a pickle company who happens to sell pickles at Walmart, could that be an embarrassment?
	People forgotten that Mrs. Bill Clinton was actually on the Walmart board when she lived in Arkansas, supporting her husband when he was governor.
	Here's uh Donna in Westchester County, New York.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush.
	How are you today?
	I'm fine, never better.
	Thanks for the phone call.
	Oh, thanks for uh letting me call you.
	I do appreciate it.
	And thank you for everything that you you do.
	You're like my mentor, my personal mentor.
	I understand that.
	I appreciate that.
	Oh, thank you.
	Uh, were your ears ringing on Friday?
	Were my ears r oh yeah, but for a lot of reasons.
	I was talking about your Friday night because I went to eat at the Kobe Club down in New York.
	Oh, you went to the Kobe Club.
	Yes, I did.
	I thought it was fabulous.
	It was wonderful, and I I thought about you, and Friday was my birthday.
	Well, now wait a minute.
	You probably went to the Kobe Club because I had uh uh recounted my wonderful and fun experience there.
	That is exactly what I went to.
	Well, I knew you I I knew you'd like it.
	I I knew you'd have a great time in there.
	It's a steakhouse, but unlike anything you've ever seen before.
	Unlike anything I've ever seen before.
	Wonderful atmosphere, and uh it was unique and it was it was trendy, but it was comfortable, and it was uh You know that's a good point.
	Too many restaurants these days end up sitting on chairs that are no longer six inches wide uh and so forth.
	Their legs fall asleep Because they want to jam, especially New York, is they want to jam as many people into them as they can.
	Yeah, that's that's a good point.
	Yeah.
	Those books were really big.
	And I like the the big door when you went in, I had to open it with two hands.
	Because it was so heavy and so that's like a battery staycat.
	Yeah, but that's a that's a design uh uh uh thing.
	They did it on purpose to keep the riff ref out.
	The riffraff are generally weak or drunk.
	Uh and uh and and can't get in with two hands.
	They can't get in.
	Yeah.
	Some restaurants have somebody actually stationed inside the front door to keep the riffraff out.
	Uh in the case of the Kobe Club, they did it with a door.
	It doesn't make the door too heavy for the riffraff to open, and that uh gives them protection, saves money not to hire people like Walmart.
	That's right, a man, a living legend and a way of life.
	Rush Limbody, all knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, maha rushy.
	I'm thinking you're sitting here thinking about Michelle Obama.
	I wonder if Joe Biden thinks that she's clean and articulate, too.
	He's no doubt heard Michelle Obama speak.
	And I wonder, you we had the story last week.
	Walmart, when we reported this because it was no doubt celebrated in the Democrat Party, Walmart had its worst quarter in 28 years.
	That's cause for celebration when you are a liberal Democrat, a capitalist entity that's doing a better job of servicing the American people than government programs are, had the worst quarter in 28 years, that makes Democrats happy.
	But did you stop to think that Walmart had its worst quarter in 28 years while Mrs. Obama was connected to them?
	At the pickle company, the pickle and pepper company.
	By the way, an emailer suggests a brilliant point.
	The fact that Mrs. Obama's pickle and pepper company uh is uh uh uh supplies Walmart uh largest customer and so north.
	The fact of the matter is that Walmart is every supplier's biggest customer.
	By definition, they are.
	You gotta hear.
	You gotta hear these two sound bites.
	They're from the Oprah.
	And I want you to know what a professional and career risk I am taking by playing these bites.
	Uh the Oprah is not to be criticized.
	And when the Oprah is criticized, the drive-by circle of wagons around the Oprah.
	So I just want you to know this is a career risk.
	Well, not a career risk, it's a it's uh it's a professional risk.
	Career won't be threatened, but I'm I'm nevertheless going to take it by playing for you these two sound bites.
	One from Saturday.
	The Oprah was in Washington, D.C. at Howard University, a black university.
	She was the commencement speaker.
	And here's a portion of what she said.
	Because my grandmother was a maid and she worked for white folks her whole life.
	And her idea of having a big dream was to was to have white folks who at least treated her with some dignity, who showed her a little bit respect.
	And she used to say, I want you to, I hope you get some good white folks that are kind to you.
	And I regret that she didn't live past 1963 to see that I did grow up and get some really good white folks working for me.
	All right.
	All right.
	Now, what if I am the commencement speaker at a university and say, you know, my parents told me, if you're gonna get some Mexicans to work for you, you make sure that you get good Mexicans.
	And I my dad died before he had a chance to see that I found some great Mexicans to work for me.
	Or what if I turned it around?
	What if I said, you know, my dad said, Look, we you can't get through life without some black folk working for you.
	But my dad died way too soon.
	He never knew that I finally got to a point I have really good black folk working for me.
	Do you think I would still be here?
	Well, yes, I I would have weathered it, but can you imagine the storm, ladies and gentlemen?
	Now, this is a this is this is a it's it's a good illustration of the fact that when you're a minority, even though Oprah's the most well paid, the highest paid broadcast entity in the in the world, probably, uh she's still a minority.
	And as a minority, she's powerless.
	And so she can say these things because slavery, of course, in this country is our original sin.
	Uh And it's it's never going to be forgotten.
	The race business will not allow it to be forgotten.
	But uh these these these graduates.
	Well, she was talking about cotton fields and all this stuff.
	These graduates from 1987.
	Now a question would be how many of them have any direct personal relationship with a cotton field?
	They don't.
	I'm sure they know about it.
	Uh some of them do, because I'm sure that uh they were they were told and taught that aspect of of black heritage uh in in America.
	Um the misunderstanding has to start someplace, and it starts at home and in a lot of cases.
	But these students she's talking to have never been to Cottonfield.
	Um out there singing songs.
	Uh-oh.
	So I knew this is going to be a risk.
	Snurdley, who is black, says I'm being too hard on the Oprah.
	Think I'm being too hard on the Oprah.
	Uh it's a test.
	It's a it's it's a test.
	Yes.
	Well, how okay, good point.
	Snurdly says it's a testament to how far things have come, how much progress has been made.
	Fine and dandy.
	Let's acknowledge it and move on then.
	But that's not what this was about.
	And by the way, who why why how who is anybody troubled the fact that you are telling some some recent graduates, some graduates, Howard University or anywhere, that one of the measures of success in life is whether or not you get good white folk to work for you.
	I mean seriously, is that is that sort of commenting on the progress?
	Isn't isn't it racially charged?
	Um let's listen to the next bite, and then and then uh you weigh in on this.
	This this is from uh September 25th of last year.
	This is on the Oprah's uh XM satellite radio show uh called the Oprah and Friends, and she's talking with her uh good buddy out there, Gail King, and here's a here's a portion of their exchange.
	Hope you get some good white folks like I did, because I work for some good white folks.
	They're so nice to me.
	They give you clothes and clothes and you get food to take home, and they give you good clothes, too.
	Not all worn out.
	I did grow up to get some good white folks working for working from A. Look around here.
	These good white folks.
	There's white people everywhere.
	One black man in here.
	There's one everywhere you look.
	There's George, more white folks thumbing up.
	Yeah, George is giving the thumb thumbs up.
	I'm a good white folk.
	Okay.
	Still have the same it snurly takes it back.
	See, I knew I set him up.
	I knew you'd take it back.
	Uh that's just last September.
	By the way, that that is a radio show that XM's paying a lot of money to does that sound like they've got nothing to talk about.
	Yeah, big time.
	Hisperia, California, Phil.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Nice to have you with us, sir.
	Nice to talk to you, Rush.
	Pleasure's mine.
	Hey, uh, I think you answered my uh statement here, though, uh, when you apologize for the first hour, because when you open it up about our troops being captured, yeah.
	You neglected to bring up the point, according to our friends on the left.
	Al Qaeda could not have done that because I caught Al Qaeda's not in Iraq.
	Uh boy, you got me.
	You are absolutely right.
	I thought I had a brilliant point to make, and it was.
	It was a brilliant point that I made.
	But you have you might have trumped me on this, uh, Phil.
	Because he's right.
	We've got these three, we got three soldiers, Al Qaeda in Iraq claims to have captured them, and they're warning us, they're warning the United States of America that it'll be held to pay if we keep searching for them.
	They're warning us to suspend the search.
	And the point that I made at the beginning of the program was wait a second, how can this possibly happen?
	Why, we've cleaned up our actors, Abu Ghraib, we've punished all the people that were guilty there.
	We're gonna punish even more.
	We're giving all kinds of benefits to our prisoners now.
	We're not torturing them every war.
	We've given them Geneva convention protection and so forth.
	And and uh Democrats and Liberals told us that we had to do that uh so that so that when we have soldiers captured that they too will be treated humanely by Al Qaeda.
	Well, see, I've I've learned a little bit from listening to you because uh I've been listening to you since the first Friday of the first week you were in Sacramento.
	Wow.
	I haven't graduated, I know, but I I still listen to you.
	Well, there are no graduates, so don't take that personally.
	Uh and you're a good reason why.
	I mean, if you had stopped learning, you wouldn't have come up with this thought that you just came up with.
	Correct.
	And it is a great point.
	How can Al Qaeda have captured our soldiers?
	They aren't in Iraq.
	Dingy Harry and the rest of the Democrats out there saying so.
	Tim in Old Town, Florida, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
	Great to have you with us.
	Uh, Thank you, Rush.
	It's good to speak with you.
	You bet, sir.
	I'm one of your mind numb robots.
	Uh, what I'd like to ask you is what do you think the likelihood is that the left will take to the streets when they lose in two thousand and eight, like they're doing in France, like they did in Mexico.
	Well, predicting the future is a kind of a tough thing to do.
	Uh, don't know really anybody who can do it, especially those psychics that got shut down in Philadelphia because they didn't see it coming.
	Um still that's one of the funniest stories.
	Bunch of psychics.
	Twenty five of them fortune tellers get shut down.
	Didn't see the cops coming to close them.
	True story.
	Uh I think they're already pro-I I think they've been protesting not in the streets, not rioting per se.
	They've been verbally rioting, Tim, and I'm serious about this.
	The you know, we hear about the coursening of our discourse, the lack of civility.
	And I am here to tell you that the architects of the modern era of the loss of civility and lack of dick discourse.
	Uh you can lay that directly at the feet of the uh of the American left.
	And I think they've been verbally rioting ever since Florida 2000.
	There have been some protests out there.
	They haven't got their anti-war people turned out in as great a numbers as they would like.
	The uh illegal immigration rallies are bigger.
	There hasn't been uh nearly as much violence uh as there was during the protests in the 60s over the Vietnam War.
	But it is it is an interesting question because psychologically, because they are convinced that the 2008 election is over, and they are convinced that they're gonna get the fairness doctrine passed and shut me up, and of course, if they shut me up, uh they think they'll have no more criticism and that they'll be able to get away with uh whatever they want to get away with scot-free.
	They are setting themselves up here.
	They are living under the assumption that uh the 08 presidential race is theirs.
	And you can see that, by the way, if you watch the uh latest uh the last MSNBC uh Republican candidates debate, you could you could just tell that the uh the moderators, the journalists that were on that show questioning them just thought that it was a fruitless exercise.
	These guys really don't have a chance for just doing this because we're journalists and they're gonna find out what these guys think.
	But you can tell on the attitude.
	And I I have to tell you they had that attitude going in in November of 08, too, or 06.
	They they they had that very uh arrogant uh cocksure attitude.
	They were just confident as they could be, and they turned out to be right on that one.
	And there were the two words.
	I gave you two words to explain how the Democrats won the House and Senate.
	In the Senate, they won because of the word macaca, and in the House they won because of the word foley.
	Well, maybe two words there, mark foley.
	Uh and now they've they've taken that victory and attached a mandate to it that they that they uh that they didn't win.
	But if they're this confident, and if they're so sure of it, and all they're doing is just waiting for the election day to come and go to finalize it, formalize it.
	If they end up losing, I nothing would surprise me.
	They're charging they've set it all up.
	You can't trust the ballot box anymore.
	We can't trust the voting machines, we can't trust election officials, we can't can't trust this or that.
	Um and uh when they lose elections, they are convinced that they actually won them, that their their votes have been stolen or manipulated.
	Uh liberals are liberals wherever they are around the world, and so I can understand your question.
	We'll see.
	Won't be long before we know.
	Brief time out, we'll be back and continue it a sec.
	And we're back.
	Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, still documented to be almost always right, 98.6% of the time, according to the most recent uh opinion audit from the Sullivan Group in Sacramento.
	This is Al in Bayside out in Queens.
	Nice to have you, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hey, Rush.
	Hey.
	Uh Rush, concerning the fairness doctrine.
	Yeah.
	Suppose the Democrats do capture the White House in 2008, and this thing does go through.
	How long do we have talk radio?
	Well, it's not gonna work.
	And I I I'll tell you, I'll answer your question, but it's it's not gonna work.
	You have to understand that in 1987, when the Fairness Doctor was gotten rid of, the total number of talk radio stations in this country was infinitesimal.
	I I think there might have been a hundred.
	It was really, really tiny.
	Today there are over 1,500 of them.
	That means all kinds of people have jobs, and the reason that it's gone, it's it's it's grown by that much is because it's profitable.
	The radio industry is not going to sit around and just take this lying down.
	They're not going to stand for it.
	They will petition, they'll fight it, they'll lobby, they will go to the FCC, do whatever they have to to see to it that it doesn't get that far.
	This is the genie's out of the bottle.
	They're trying it's a classic illustration of they're trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
	But let's say that it did pass.
	Uh I don't know if there would be a period of time for it to uh take hold again.
	I don't think they would go from, okay, the president signs it and tomorrow it's law, probably one of these six months things where it sort of evolves and has an experimental period to see how it's working and then how it needs to be tweaked to be improved and so forth.
	And if that ever happened, it would be such it'd be so obvious what a mistake it was that it would it it would be exposed, and they would be exposed for what it is.
	I don't doubt their desire to do it.
	I know they would love to do it, they would have done it yesterday.
	But folks, there's one thing about this that uh I'm gonna take the occasion of your call uh to mention, Al.
	Uh I th the Democrats are are who they are.
	This story shows up in a conservative publication today.
	Do you know what else is going on in Washington today?
	There is rigorous debate on the new immigration bill going on in the Senate.
	And the Democrats are dumb like foxes because they, and they thought they would trick me.
	They thought they'd get me spending this whole show talking about the fairness doctrine.
	This didn't show up in the New York Times.
	What's not in the Washington Post?
	It's in these two Democrat staffers leaking to Bob Tyrrell's magazine, The American Spectator.
	Genuine disgust will result from that.
	Conservative talk show hosts will be talking about it, and guess what?
	Maybe not talking about the immigration bill.
	Now, as I say, I do not doubt that they would love to get this done.
	But the idea that this hits today when the immigration bill is, and it's a website, so it's it's not a magazine they had to target the story for publication date.
	This is their website where this story appears.
	And the immigration debate is crucial because, as I told you last year, the only reason the immigration debate, the immigration bill in the Senate was stalled, is because the House, then under Republican leadership, refused to even go to conference.
	They refused, Denny Hastert and the Boys refused to even appoint a conference committee to go talk to Senators about reconciling the difference in the two immigration bills.
	And so the Republicans in the House stopped it.
	And I made that point prior to the November elections, because so many people were so bent out of shape about the Republican position on immigration from the president's bill is uh his idea was was adopted pretty closely by McCain and and Senator Kennedy.
	Uh and if it hadn't been for the House Republicans, that might have seen the light of day.
	It might have passed.
	Well, now they're gone, folks.
	The Republicans in the House are powerless.
	They can't really stop much.
	If the Democrats are united on something and want it passed.
	Uh now again, uh depends on what the bill is, but if this bill comes out of the Senate that's pretty close to what the House Democrats want and is close to what Bush wants, then what's there to stop it now?
	Nothing.
	Except you.
	Raising hell on the phones in emails to your elected officials.
	That's the only thing stopping it.
	And of course, the way the Democrats think is, well, if you don't know about it, because conservatives have been distracted by talking about the fairness doctrine, uh, then they won't hear from their constituents.
	They'll be able to get this done essentially under the cover of darkness.
	But as you just heard, ladies and gentlemen, I have not fallen prey to the uh trick because I know the Democrats, no liberals, you know how it goes.
	Like every glorious square inch of my glorious yet shrinking naked body.
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