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July 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, we're back, Rush Limboy here and the uh EIB network, the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I want to talk about Cal Thomas here for just a second.
Cal Thomas does an audio commentary on a Washington uh D.C. radio station.
And recently, uh he compared radical Islam to a slow spreading cancer.
And the Council on American Islamic relations, care, with about what did I read, 25 or 29,000 members, is uh waging war on Cal Thomas, who uh all he did was dare to speak out against radical Islam.
So care is trying to get all of its supporters to call the radio station and to complain about uh about Cal Thomas.
And I I read a reaction to Cal Thomas, he's not backing down, and he's not gonna he's not gonna change his mind about what he's doing.
This is good.
This is a group of 25,000 people shut people down and get them fired, is a little bit over the top.
Uh and you know it's an opinion.
Radical Islam is slow spreading cancer, especially in the aftermath of what went on over there in the UK.
We find out now how many how many uh radical Islamists may be doctors in the National Health Service in Greatness, Socialist Medicine, and they go out and they they try to get doctors from countries around the world, uh, many of them from Muslim countries and end up getting radical Islamists, obviously.
Uh Working in the uh in the in the system is not very much background checking that goes on from what I understand, because they already think they're educated and highly skilled and so forth, they're doctors.
Uh so that's got to have people sitting on the edge of their chairs in uh in the UK.
Story today, John Solomon, Washington Post, splitting hairs, Edwards stylist tells his side of the story.
For 40 years, Joseph Torrinueva has cut the hair of Hollywood celebrities from Marlon Brando to Bob Barker.
So when a friend did you did you see, by the way, speaking of Bob Barker, the Clintons were in some sort of Fourth July parade yesterday or day before.
They were out there in Iowa for four days.
And uh apparently some some old women that were just there because it's something to do to get out of the house, saw Clinton and Hillary walking down the uh street, and they started screaming, it's Bob Barker!
It's Bob Barker.
They thought Clinton was Bob Barker because of his white hair.
Anyway, this guy, this stylist, uh Joseph Torreneva cut Marlon Brando's hair, Bob Barker's hair.
So when a friend told him in 2003 that a presidential candidate needed grooming service, he agreed to help out.
Uh he's a Beverly Hills guy.
He's a Democrat.
And uh he hit it off with the Breck girl, John Edwards, at a meeting in Los Angeles that brought several fashion experts together to advise the candidate on his appearance.
And since then, Joseph Torreneva has cut Edwards' hair at least sixteen times.
This is the $400 haircut guy.
At first the haircuts were free.
Like a good liberal.
Edwards was demanding a freebie and getting it.
And a good liberal haircut guy was offering the freebie.
But because Torrinueva often had to fly somewhere on a campaign trail to meet the Breck girl, he began charging $300 to $500 for each cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California.
Torrinueva said one haircut during the 04 presidential race cost $1,250 because he had a travel to Atlanta and lost two days of work in the process.
Now, get this.
This is torn in the way of a speaking of Edwards.
He has nice hair, and I try to make the man handsome, strong, more mature.
And these are the things that, as an expert, that's what we do.
Joe, you might be doing a great gig on the hair there when it comes to the Breck girl, but uh strong, uh, more mature.
And I'm not trying to be mean here, but the guy sends his wife out to do the dirty work on television shows.
It's some kind of commentary on the state of American politics, writes John Solomon in the post, that as Edwards has campaigned for president and vice president, now president again, his hair seems to have attracted as much attention as, say, his position on health care.
Well, there's a reason for that.
Edwards makes his hair an issue.
I mean, you've all seen the YouTube video of Edwards there primping the mirror with his hair before going on uh on television.
Anyway, Edwards said when all this 400 haircut stuff started, he said, I was embarrassed by the cost, and he didn't know that would be that expensive, uh, suggesting that haircuts were some kind of aberration given by that guy, his staff had arranged.
And this is what set off Joseph Torrinueva, because he had thought he had a good relationship with the Breck girl.
But the Breck girl threw him under the bus once the $400 haircuts hit, because the Breck girl called him that guy.
And the Breck girl knows his name, but the Breck girl tried to make up everything.
I ain't nothing to do with this.
My staff arranged a haircut.
So you think I got time to deal with haircuts?
That guy came out and get the So Nueva's account of his long relationship with Edwards, the first he's given, probably guarantees that uh the whole issue will not go away yet.
And if 400 seems a lot for a haircut, how about one for three times that, meaning the 1250 dollar uh haircut.
Ask for a comment.
The Edwards campaign said this week that Edwards had arranged for the stylist to give him numerous cuts over the past four years, but it said that a personal assistant handled paying for the haircuts and that Edwards didn't realize how much they cost.
I'm not buying it.
I am not buying this, ladies and gentlemen.
What America is he in?
He's all concerned about poverty and the lack of uh goods and resources and service.
Doesn't know what a haircut costs.
Breaking news.
This is spokesman uh uh Colleen Murray.
Breaking news, John Edwards got some expensive haircuts, probably didn't pay enough attention to the bills, but he didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction or spring scooter Libby, he just got some expensive haircuts.
Anyway, Torrin Nueva says he was hurt by Edward's response to all the flap.
He's had a four-year relationship with a guy and called him that guy.
Anyway, brief time out, we'll be back much more straight ahead after this.
Hi, we're back.
A couple more things in this uh Brett Girl situation.
Aside from the comedy of there being two Americas as his campaign theme.
I mean, every time one of these snaffos happens, what happens?
Brett girl brains a staff.
Or the staff comes out and takes the blame.
One of the two.
Of course not.
Uh and then gets all over the president for pardoning scooter Libby.
A, you're not president, so you couldn't have done that if you even wanted to.
But number two, you know, presidents don't pass off blame to the staff.
You've heard the old Harry Truman sign on the desk there, the Buck stops here.
Of course, with Clinton, they put a new sign, and the Buck never got here.
And with the Brett Girl, there's lots of books, but they're going to hair stylists.
Now, Clinton Inc., you know, I I you I use the term Clinton Inc.
quite a bit.
The organization that the Clintons have set up.
And they have infiltrated much of the drive-by media.
They have an operative that actually hosts a Sunday show on ABC.
His name is George Stephanopoulos.
Uh Rush, he's not an operative.
Well, it's you're in Clinton Inc., you're in Clinton Inc.
And uh, you know, Carville and Bigallo, they were on CNN as a as a team for a while.
I mean, the Clintons uh they've got all kinds of their people out there.
Clinton Inc.
is is all over the drive-by media, and Stephanopoulos, one of their operatives, and took on this Edwards story today because Edwards is doing better than Hillary is in Iowa.
They had the uh fill-in host today was Kate Snow talking to uh Stephanopoulos.
And uh she asked him about Stephanopoulos.
Uh nationally, he's in third place, but he's doing well in Iowa.
What about this, George?
As you know, Kate, he's been fighting these stories about the $400 haircut.
He and Elizabeth Edwards have been joking about it, but just yesterday, the hairdresser comes out.
A guy named Joseph Toranueva.
This is your worst nightmare.
If you're a candidate.
Apparently, this is a Beverly Hills hairdresser.
He used to cut the hair of Marlon Brando, Bob Barker.
He's been cutting John Edwards' hair since 2003, and he said he got very hurt when Edwards seems to dismiss him, say that, oh, I'm disappointed, I do feel bad.
If I know someone, I'm not going to say I don't know them.
When he called me that guy, it hurt.
And so he's gone out in detail.
This is the hairdresser.
This is the hairdresser, and he's gone out and said, listen, I cut the guy's hair sixteen times since two thousand three.
One haircut cost not four hundred dollars, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
And Stephanopoulos continued.
It does because, you know, he's tried to make his campaign around the idea of two Americas, and we have to make sure that the poor in America have an access to the American dream.
And this makes him seem more of an elitist, but even more than that, it seems a little callous to be sort of pushing off on the hairdresser, and when the hairdresser comes back and says, Wait a second, I was a friend of yours.
I worked hard for you.
It can't help.
More haircut headlines are not good news for John Edwards.
And of course, uh Clinton Inc.
Operative making the point on ABC's Good Morning America today.
Heidi, Kansas City, Missouri, you are next.
I'm glad you held on.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
Uh Ditto's from a proud mother of three rush babies.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
So you were talking earlier about how they don't have that that they're nothing but passion, and you're right.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Not quite what I said.
They've got this new spokesman.
Last year with George Lackoff.
Now they found a new guy, Drew Weston has written a book.
And his point was you gotta be, you have you have to use emotion.
Right, and you can use emotion for them.
Right.
They're just not using they're just not using any emotion that is tapping into anybody new.
Everything they're emotional about is negative for the country, but positive for some special interest group.
And those special interest groups are supporting them.
Yeah, but they are they're they're gonna support them anyway.
This is just trying to do that.
That's exactly right.
This is campaign fundraising time, you know, this is the primary season, and they're just trying to feed the beast that that the the that's the the kook fringe base.
But you're right.
I mean, their passion is all negative, and it is all fear-mongering.
And it's the thing that amazed me about the guy's book, the why the Democrats think it's so important, uh, is because they the book says don't don't worry about facts and truth.
That just can confuse people.
You've got to hit them with emotion.
And what what is liberalism if not an appeal to emotion?
Fear, cra negative emotions.
You're absolutely correct.
But what the part that they're missing that they don't understand, and that they're never going to understand.
I mean, you've talked to liberals, they're you know, don't confuse them with facts.
And the thing is is that they think that getting more emotional is going to help them, and it's not gonna help them.
It's not gonna garner anything new for them because they're not going to be gaining the interest of anybody other than who they've already gained the interest of.
Well, you know, uh I I was I was singing that song all last year, leading up to the 06 elections in November.
And I thought there was a lot of people.
People voted against the Republicans because of what the Republicans have done.
Uh that's true.
I agree, and I I couldn't agree with you more on that.
But at the same time, they I I was I I was stunned.
I still think it's gonna happen, but I still think it's gonna be a backlash against them for all this, not just the their rhetoric on the war and their their eagerness for losing it and their already uh proclamation that we have lost it, but just this this this constant anger, rage, and hatred.
It is not infectious.
And that's your real point, isn't it?
That is.
Because passion, in order to work, people gotta be talking about what they love.
That's right.
I mean, there was tons of passion with Ronald Reagan, and he garnered so much of the vote that had never ever voted conservative before, because he was speaking about things that spoke to people at their core being.
He wasn't frightening people, he was making people believe in themselves and believe in the country and believe that we had a chance to do something good.
That's exactly right.
That's why people said of Reagan that he made them feel good about the country again.
And the Democrats are not doing that, and then it's not in them to do that.
Uh fear uh and crisis are the uh the byword, the coins of their realm.
Uh if uh if you will because they're about control in as many facets of life as they can secure.
Heidi, great points.
I'm glad you called us.
Go to Steve quickly in Long Island out of New York.
Welcome to the program, sir.
You're up.
Hi, Russ, how are you?
Fine.
I just wanted to make a comment about the connection between uh the medical doctors and the terrorism in England.
Yeah.
Um I I'm just thinking about um if Hillary gets elected, then um, what is she gonna do when medicine is no longer a job that Americans are willing to do?
Where is she going to get doctors from?
And how is she gonna make sure that we're safe?
So, yeah, this is a problem with socialized medicine.
Exactly.
All the all the good doctors start uh you know private clinics if Mrs. Clinton would allow that.
You know, those have sprung up in the UK, by the way.
Yes, I know.
And people are able to afford their own health care are going to these private clinics, and that's got everybody roiled, and it has have for some time.
And that's why yeah, it's a good point.
That's why in the UK they're having to import doctors from around the world.
Well, it seems to me that she has some explaining to do of exactly how she's going to staff a national health service in the United States.
That's the whole point of talking about this book.
She's not gonna get into detail that their advisors are telling them those details that are just gonna confuse people, and it's just in truth, it's just gonna scare people.
They're gonna keep talking about uh uh health care in one of these SOP sob story emotional ways, all the children that don't have it.
We've got to do something.
We've tried the private sector, we've tried this, it's nothing worth it we working, we must go single for whatever.
It's gonna be a total emotional appeal, and it'll work on some people.
They're never nobody's gonna ask her those questions.
Well, we're too stupid to understand the details anyway, aren't we?
In their minds.
Some of us aren't.
See, they know some of us aren't.
And the ones that are smart enough to understand it are listening to this program and hosting this program.
Exactly.
And uh so something has to be done about that.
I agree.
Thank you very much.
Okay, Steve, I appreciate the call.
Thanks.
Uh thanks so much.
Oops, hit the wrong button.
Uh we've got to take a brief time out here coming up the break at the bottom of the hour.
Uh but try this headline.
Scientist tests husband's DNA fidelity.
A scientist tested the DNA in her husband's underwear and found out he had been unfaithful.
And she's the one in trouble because it's violation of the law.
Back after this.
You know, you just see some of the oddest, weirdest looking people when you watch television.
This is amazing.
Used to be everybody on TV was a looker.
They have Kenan Barbies, but they were looking.
You know, turn on TV.
You got you never know what you're gonna get out there, and sometimes you need to be prepared for it.
Lansing, Michigan is where this story is from.
A state forensic scientist who said that she tested DNA in her husband's underwear to find out whether he was cheating on her, could be disciplined if investigators determined that she violated the use of state equipment.
Anne Chamberlain Gordon testified in a March 7th divorce hearing that she ran the test in September on the underwear of Charles Gordon Jr.
Asked by his attorney what she found, she answered another female.
It wasn't me.
She also said during a May 25th hearing in Ingham County family court that um uh she ran the test on her on her own time with chemicals that were set to be thrown away from her office.
Uh, Michigan State Police, which oversees the Lansing Forensics Lab where Chamberlain Gordon works, started to investigate her after her husband's attorney wrote to authorities and media outlets questioning how many times DNA tests have been improperly run.
Investigators expect to decide by next week.
Uh what they found.
Uh her duties have not been restricted during the investigation.
We don't know exactly what was or wasn't done yet, said the police spokesman Shannon Aikens.
They're still looking into this.
Uh she got a pass.
She's gonna get a pass.
You know darn well she's gonna get a pass.
The indignity of all this.
She's gonna get a pass.
She should get a pass.
Why do you think she should get a pass?
Tell me very quickly.
Why do you think she should get a pass?
Because the guy's cheating on her?
Okay, I agree.
I agree.
If you're gonna cheat, take some peroxide for the DNA or do something.
Uh Kurt and White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
It's uh it's quite an honor to talk to the uh the great one as a new time caller.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh my comment is on the H1B visas.
I think that's kind of shot under the radar here, and I I think we kind of need to get the word out that this really is detrimental to our computer industry, not to mention our national security.
We have talked about this.
We talked about this a lot during the immigration.
Well, I couldn't say we talk about a lot because the the amnesty provisions are what were front and center, but yeah, the the the number of legal immigrants that we're allowing in on the H1B visa of skilled uh and highly educated workers is really insufficient.
Now, there's a there's another side to this, though.
I've I've talked to a number of uh people that uh have uh businesses out in Silicon Valley, and they're making the same case you do.
Uh that they can't find the kind of talent homegrown in this country.
That's baloney.
Pardon?
Well, I know it's Balony.
We've got the finest educational institutions in the world.
I know most of these that they want to have uh become uh H1B visa uh immigrants are coming here to be educated.
We all know this.
Uh what what what the uh the other side of it is is that you know they like anybody else that runs a business, they got to get the best labor they can for the cheapest price.
Oh, I agree with that.
And so that's that's why that's why some of these guys want the H1B visas in the uh in the computer business.
Well, yeah, they do, but it's destroying the rest of us that are trying to make a decent living out of it.
I mean, we're having to compete with wages that are a third of what uh we're normally used to getting.
And uh you know, I believe in the marketplace as much as anybody else, but how about America's marketplace and not worry about the world marketplace?
Uh well, you can't you can't it's a genies out of the bottle on uh on global economies and things like global markets, genies out of the bottle.
Okay, well, look at it from a national defense standpoint, national security.
I mean, Do you want people from another country writing code that's running your financial institutions and your government defense systems?
Um especially in light of China's continual cyber attacks on it.
Look at look at excuse me, but they don't care, apparently.
I mean, you're gonna look at the immigration bill as a whole, and you could ask that about the illegals.
They don't care.
That was that was not the by the way, the H1B visas, I th I think I misunderstood you.
Did you I thought you said we need more of them.
Oh, God, no.
Oh, then I misunderstood you, because there aren't that many.
Everybody industry is pressuring for more.
Well, yeah, but even this bill didn't increase it very much.
Fifty thousand a year is nothing.
It's chump change.
Yes, it is, but it adds up over time, and like I say, we all it takes is just a few of these people to come in there and write malicious code, and we've got trouble.
Well, but look at you could have a homegrown lunatic write malicious code.
I mean, you're talking about odds here, but anybody anybody could do that.
That's true, but we have, in fact, people do.
We've got homegrown Americans that are hacking all over the place out there and trying to hack into Pentagon computers.
They got people already trying to hack into the iPhone, tear it apart.
Yeah, well, that's true.
Yes.
You know, and then they're not using H1B visas to do it.
China is the biggest source for viruses and hacking into Pentagon systems, and it's happening every day.
And all we're doing is by letting these people in on an H1B visa, we're giving them more access to more of our systems, and it's just going to be a matter of time.
Well, you could say that about anything.
I mean, it's gonna be it's only it's only gonna be a matter of time before some idiot tries to set off a firebomb and it doesn't work.
It's only gonna be a matter of time before they fly another airplane into a building.
It's all it's only gonna be a matter of time before every American agrees with me.
Well, let's hope so.
Look, I understand these these these um these concerns are all are all valid.
Um I'm I try to be sensitive to it.
I know that they could not grant anybody an H1B visa who could do my job.
You know, so I sometimes I don't take these things seriously enough.
I'm just I'm just joking.
I I I know that this is a serious concern, and every time it's come up.
In fact, last we had uh uh I forget TJ, what was this guy's late from from uh TJ Rogers, yeah, of uh semiconductor company out in in California.
He called and he was making the case for these things.
Uh he couldn't he couldn't get the talent.
He said that he needed.
Boy, did we get a barrage of phone calls like um like Kurt here following that.
So I'm I'm uh I'm to the problem.
Well, we do we do we do more background checks on the H1B visas than you would believe.
We do.
It is tough.
The H one B visa is one of the toughest things.
That's why everybody says, if we can do it on the H1B visa, why can't we do it at a border?
Why can't we do it in any other area of immigration?
Uh I I think there is a lot of scrutiny already out there, Kurt.
You brought up the ChICOMs.
We got a funny story, interesting story here about the ChICOMs, and it's the San Francisco Chronicle today.
United States is pressured to help China curb emissions.
Whoa, I thought we were failures at it too.
I thought that's what we had to do with live earth.
I thought the United States was destroying the planet.
But now that the ChICOM have surged past the United States to become the world's leading source of greenhouse gases, pressure is growing on U.S. policymakers to cast aside longtime anti-SHICOM sentiment and help the SHICOMs clean up its emissions, spewing coal power industry.
The argument for aiding the ChICOMs is being made in the most urgent terms.
While scientists agree that the U.S. and other wealthy nations caused the greenhouse gas buildup that has brought the planet close to a tipping point of irreversible absolutely wrong.
There's also growing consensus that the growth of the ChICOM emissions could push the world over the edge.
Who said this?
Representative Steve Israel, Democrat in New York, said with the ChICOMs surpassing the U.S. as a number one producer of Carbon dioxide emissions, we're missing an historic opportunity to create a global alliance with China on clean energy.
New data released last month confirmed that the ChICOMs have become the number one greenhouse gas producer, emissions rising at a rate that and by the way, the ChICOMs are denying, Mr. Snerdley.
That story in the Financial Times last week.
The Financial Times had a story saying that the ChICOMs convinced the World Health Organization to eliminate from its latest pollution report that 750,000 ChICOM citizens die from pollution every year.
The ChICOMs are denying this.
They said they did not demand that it be taken out, and it just somehow happened.
But that they didn't demand it be taken out.
Anyway, the new data showed the ChICOMs are just polluting like crazy out there.
Buried in these data released by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, as well as in reports by other international agencies, is the fact that the ChICOM's coal-fired power plants are increasing their emissions by an annual amount that is twice as large as the total emissions growth of all the world's industrialized economies combined.
So the emissions that the ChICOMs are putting out there dwarf the rest of the industrialized world's emissions.
And by the way, reiterate here, there's no there's no scientific proof that these emissions cause warming.
At any rate, when the headline says U.S. is pressured to help China curb emissions, what what is meant, and it is detailed later in the story, they want us to pay the ChICOMs to build the equipment necessary to clean up their coal plants and so forth.
Kelly Gallagher, director Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project at Harvard, proposed a multi-billion dollar multinational fund with a major U.S. contribution that would give loans and grants for construction of low emission power plants to the Chicons.
I'm not kidding you.
Chi Chi China has 1.2 trillion dollars in reserves.
They also are beneficiaries of a huge trade imbalance with us.
So all this is the same old thing.
Every liberal proposal designed to save somebody or something is genuinely a disguised attempt to fleece the U.S. taxpayer.
Why should we be paying the ChICOM?
The ChICOMs, they've got 1.2 trillion dollars in reserves.
Plus the trade imbalance.
And the uh what won't they do anything about?
Well, they're current well, I know that ChICOM currency is undervalued, but things that people don't understand.
The ChICOMs don't care.
They don't care whether they're polluting.
They don't care.
They've got a billion people, 750,000 of them die in a year.
They're probably it's good news for them.
750,000 people don't have to feed.
They've got they've got huge problems over there.
But they're growing.
They're trying to manage a communist state-run government with a with a just breaking uh out free market.
But they are also, and this is what people don't understand, they are communists and we are the enemy.
And if they love the fact our trade deficit imbalance with them is in their favor.
They love the fact that their currency is being undervalued because it screws everything.
They're fighting a war.
They haven't launched any missiles yet.
But I mean, these guys are the Chicoms are siding up with the Iranians, sharing nuclear energy.
They got deals going with Hugo Chavez, and we're supposed to spend tax care taxpayer money to build these people new power plants that put out fewer emissions.
Give me a break.
Couple interesting things here.
David Broder has a piece uh in the Washington Post today about the defeat of the immigration bill.
And I know he doesn't write the headline, uh, but the headline to the piece is a mob rule moment.
Uh and he says this letter reporter who's not running for anything suggests exactly the opposite may be true here.
A particularly virulent strain of populism has made official Washington altogether too responsive to public opinion.
And let me read to you the close of his piece.
It Is this.
The point's pretty basic.
Politicians are wise to heed what people want, but they also have an obligation to weigh for themselves what the country needs.
That's that's true, by the way.
In today's Washington, the wants of people count far more heavily than the nation's needs.
That's subjective, sir.
You can win elections by promising people what they want, but you win your place in history by doing what the country needs done.
So now, Mr. Broder is what he is.
He's the dean of the Washington Pundatocracy.
And you people are just a bunch of rubes.
You just don't see it.
You don't see what's good for the country out there.
Only inside the beltway people are educated, qualified to know what's good for the country.
And then you you browbeat your poor senators, and uh they they caved.
And it doesn't make uh elitist Washington happy at all.
Time magazine, Mark Halpern has a study, been following the Hillary and Bill show in Iowa.
And he pans.
This guy used to run the political unit at ABC News, you know, was the lead writer for the Note.com.
You had two things here.
This is funny.
You know, the Clintons out there saying that they're running on change.
American people want change.
And Halpern says, well, thanks to Bill Clinton's eight years in office, Hillary Clinton is by association an established dynastic candidate rather than an emblem of change that Americans want from their next president, a strategist for Barack Obama, acknowledges that Clinton's a wildly popular former president, but notes that people are anxious to turn the page from the politics that we have now.
And then there's this little diddy.
With the crowd duly warmed up, Hillary Clinton took the stage for 25 minutes, dwelling on her biography and on her major issues health care, environment, education, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
She attacked the alleged corrupt practices and cronyism of the Bush White House, just as her husband did 16 years ago, but the crowd seemed similarly ambivalent.
About eight minutes into her speech, some started to get distracted, holding audible conversations, even moving away from the stage rather than angling forward.
The moment highlighted the risk of following the former president's act.
Bill Clinton sounds intimate, conversational when he's discussing energy policy.
Hillary sounds like a policy wonk when she talks about her mother's childhood struggles.
So Clinton goes out there, warms up the crowd.
Hillary takes stage, and everybody falls asleep.
Time magazine reports it.
Get the head too.
I mean, there were witnesses.
Uh Roger in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
It's uh honor to speak to you, Mr. Linwaugh.
You're doing a great job on running the nation.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Everybody knows it.
Yes, and uh, I just had a little story.
Um I told your screener.
Uh I used to be a Democrat.
I voted for Bill Clinton the first time he ran, and uh I got real turned off by him uh when he signed the NAFTA deal.
I got turned off by him and the unions.
And uh and I I used to didn't like you at all.
Uh as a matter of fact, I worked in a factory.
We had one little TV in one channel, and when you would come on at five in the morning, I would go up and turn the TV off and dare anybody to touch it.
And nobody touched it.
And uh they'd say, Who does he think he is?
He can control the TV, and I said, Well, if you turn it on, I'll show you who he is.
But uh, to make a long story short here, uh then on my way to work, I started uh listening to your program during uh Monica Lewinsky scandal, and uh I really start liking it when listening to the parodies.
Uh, you know, uh the little show uh the song done to the tune of uh the green berets and stuff.
I start listening, but then the more I listen, I've changed now, and uh I voted for uh George Bush the last two times, so I guess I atoned for that one mistake I made when I voted for Well, you did.
Uh uh it's interesting.
You but before you had ever heard the radio program and watched TV show, you had just you did concluded on what you had been told that I was X. Uh and then after the Lewinsky scandal, you're driving around, you hear it, you find out that uh I'm not X. I'm Y, Z, A, B, C, D. Everything but X, anyway what you've been told.
Which uh we're happy to have you aboard, but don't forget that life experiences because the same people who told you what I'm not, in large measure are those who are reporting the drive-by news to you every day.
Okay, folks, have to skate here.
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