Aug. 6, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Man, oh man, this is unbelievable, folks. | |
| This is unbelievable. | |
| Well, I use that word too much. | |
| It's not unbelievable. | |
| It's totally believable. | |
| It's just I gotta come up with new words. | |
| I use mind-boggling too much. | |
| I use amazed too much. | |
| Amazing. | |
| I have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. | |
| How's the granola bar? | |
| I have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a story for the New York Times, November 3rd, 2000. | |
| Almost seven years ago. | |
| What we just had a story from Ron Fournier. | |
| If you're just joining us here, welfare recipient Medicaid recipient just getting up. | |
| We just had a story from Ron Fournier in the Associated Press, and the headline. | |
| Well, the lead of the story is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton running for president on her husband's White House record. | |
| It's a strategy that cuts both ways. | |
| I have here. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Adam McGurney, the New York Times, November 3rd, 2000, almost seven years ago, headline Clinton now running on husband's record. | |
| Moving into the final leg of her campaign for Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton sprinted from Buffalo to Manhattan to Long Island today, trying to do in New York State what Al Gore has studiously avoided doing across the nation. | |
| Run on the record of the Clinton administration. | |
| Looking fatigued and swinging bottled water to fight a dry cough, Mrs. Clinton disparaged Rick Lazio at every opportunity. | |
| They're recycling the even this story. | |
| This is a running on her husband's record. | |
| She had a paper-thin resume in 2000. | |
| She's still got a paper-thin resume. | |
| Is there any doubt that the drive by. | |
| No, there is no doubt. | |
| That the drive-bys are just mouthpieces for the Democrat National Committee. | |
| Here's here's here's more proof positive. | |
| Is that Reuters story from Saturday that I was telling you about? | |
| Here's the headline. | |
| Congress recesses amid Democrat achievements. | |
| I mean, this is nothing short of a spoof. | |
| You tell a big lie, someone, you tell it often enough, somebody will believe it. | |
| The telling part of this story, I'm not going to read the whole thing to you. | |
| The telling part of the story is not what it says about the Democrats, it's what it says about Reuters. | |
| After months of being flogged for accomplishing little, Democrats who control Congress head into a summer recess, having passed several high-profile bills, from raging the minimum wage to bolstering U.S. security to expanding children's health care. | |
| Uh raising the minimum wage, yip yip, bolstering U.S. security. | |
| Bolstering the Democrats. | |
| President Bush, by the way, has shown us how to raise kids. | |
| You keep them in detention. | |
| Congress is a bunch of spoiled brats. | |
| He made them stay through Saturday. | |
| For for this, for this to be credited to the Democrats for increasing security is an insult to the intelligence of any citizen in this country who pays even scant attention to what's going on with this. | |
| And that's why I say this is simply the drive-by as mouthpieces for the Democrat National Committee, the Democrats in the House. | |
| Much of the Democrats' progress was incremental and out of the spotlight of the fights with Bush. | |
| While those battles were raging, Democrats were able to plow ahead with bills they say will fulfill campaign promises to improve national security and help the neediest. | |
| Can't handle any more, folks. | |
| Can't deal with, not with, not, not, not with this story. | |
| Onto the audio sound bites. | |
| Let's go to the uh the uh kook fringe blogger convention that took place in Chicago. | |
| They by the way, the congressional leadership bailed on this Ron Emanuel, Dingy Harry, and uh who? | |
| Uh uh Pelosi. | |
| They were supposed to participate in a Meet the Leaders uh panel on Saturday morning at eight, and they bailed. | |
| They never even showed up because they had to stay in Washington. | |
| The House was in session and AA had important votes, but it didn't stop the presidential candidates from showing up. | |
| Um Democrat presidential candidates showed up. | |
| Uh some of them did, I don't know how many, but they don't go to the Democrat leadership council. | |
| They're avoiding all these moderate centrist, well, so-called moderate centrist Democrat organizations. | |
| But um just was asked a question. | |
| I sometimes don't think people realize the full scope and breadth of my talent. | |
| Here I am in the middle of a brilliant monologue setting things up, and in IFB here, I get a question from Mr. Snerdley, who would only ask the question because he's confident enough to know that his interruption of me will not take me off track. | |
| His question is is it safe to say that Mrs. Clinton is running on her husband's coattails? | |
| No. | |
| It's not how I would characterize it. | |
| She's running on his zipper. | |
| I mean, if you're going to run on the Clinton administration record. | |
| You're running on his zipper. | |
| All right. | |
| To the Kook Blog Convention. | |
| This is Hillary Clinton. | |
| We have several soundbites here. | |
| We are certainly better prepared and more focused on taking our arguments and making them effective and disseminating them widely and really putting together a network in the blogosphere in a lot of the new progressive infrastructure institutions that I helped to start and support, like Media Matters and Center for American Progress. | |
| You know, we're beginning to match what I had said for years was the advantage of the other side. | |
| You know, when I made that comment about the vast right wing conspiracy, I wasn't kidding. | |
| What did I hear there? | |
| She admits to starting media matters. | |
| Now I've told you this. | |
| I thought it's a Clinton front organization. | |
| David Brock is slavish to Mrs. Clinton, and he runs the George Soros who's got some funding in there. | |
| But she set it up. | |
| And the Center for American Progress, which excuse me, John Podester runs at a think tank. | |
| He's a former Clinton chief of staff. | |
| Now the Center for American Progress just happens to be this independent organization that issued this report saying talk radio is unfairly balanced that we need the fairness doctrine. | |
| And of course, we all know what media media matters is. | |
| I mean, it's just it's just a bunch of bought and paid for Clinton hacks. | |
| And of course, the drive-by's don't tell us that. | |
| The drive-by's report what they did an independent watchdog agency. | |
| So she admits it. | |
| Also, last Friday, I didn't comment on this because I didn't want to embarrass Mr. Dion Jr. any more than he'd already embarrassed himself. | |
| E. J. Dion Jr., the Washington Post wrote a column in which he uh started by saying, you may have missed it, but Rush Limbaugh celebrated a 19th anniversary yesterday, went on to talk about uh, you know, the achievements and so forth, and then proclaimed that this Kook Fringe uh blogger site is now the Rush Limbaugh of the left. | |
| Now, how many Rush Limbaughs of the left have they anointed? | |
| Uh if you look at video of this convention, one of the things you'll see is uh uh a bunch of people sitting there disguised as empty seats. | |
| Even during the candidates forum. | |
| And I I they they proclaim to compare what the bloggers do to what they're just they're just grasping at straws. | |
| They are just so side themselves that they have failed to make inroads against me and uh others in the conservative new media. | |
| So, but of course, when E.J. Dion Jr. picks it up and says uh Kook fringe bloggers are the new Rush Limbaugh, then of course the rest of the drive-by's echo it. | |
| Here's Howard Kurtz, CNN reliable sources. | |
| I would suggest that liberals here are doing what Rush Lumba did for talk radio 15 or so years ago, which is uh trying to uh seize control and make a connection with uh their supporters. | |
| I'm I'm here to tell you this it's after 19 years, and these people still don't get what I do and how it happened and what my purpose is here. | |
| My my admitted purpose. | |
| I have countless times said this. | |
| They still don't get it. | |
| They're not even trying to get it. | |
| Uh seize, control, and make a connection with their support. | |
| We are running a business here. | |
| We're we didn't seize control over anything. | |
| We we well, we may have a lot of power. | |
| I mean, a man running the country here, but we're running a business here for crying out loud. | |
| The but it's all based. | |
| It's all based on the insatiable thirst that they have to acquire the kind of power that they think I started this program seeking. | |
| Uh we want one more soundbite here before the break. | |
| This is um this is at the Cook Fringe Blogger Convention in Chicago. | |
| Uh and uh it's the it's the Brett Girl. | |
| Uh here's one of the things he said. | |
| The Democratic Party, the party of the people. | |
| All to say from this day forward, we will never take a dime from a Washington lobbyist. | |
| We do not do business with these insiders. | |
| We're gonna give the power in this government back to the people. | |
| Senator Obama and I have already done it. | |
| I have to run, take a break, but I just saw the other day the biggest single group of contributors to the Brett Girls campaign is trial lawyers. | |
| If that's not a lobbying group, folks, I don't know what is. | |
| Okay, we got one more soundbite here from the uh the Kook Fringe Blogger Convention in Chicago over the weekend, and it's from uh Hillary. | |
| The one of the moderators of this panel was a New York Times reporter, uh Matt Bah, BAI as his name. | |
| And um uh after after the Brett girl said, uh, we're gonna take any lobbyist money. | |
| We ought to all refuse to take lobbyist money, even at least taking money for the trial lawyers and so forth. | |
| Uh the the New York Times writer said, you know, it's actually the second time you've made this very definitive statement about lobbying. | |
| Senator Clinton, would you make a similar statement? | |
| Uh or why would you think it's not a persuasive I don't think based on my thirty-five years of fighting for what I believe in, anybody seriously believes I'm gonna be influenced by a lobbyist or a particular interest group. | |
| Now, you know, I've been waiting for this. | |
| This gives us a real sense of reality uh with my being here. | |
| Tenor Edwards has really a very straightforward question here, which is will you continue to take money from lobbyists when you take his position? | |
| I will, because you know, a lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it or not, represent real Americans. | |
| They actually do. | |
| Yep, NRA is a lobbying group. | |
| She's right about that. | |
| She got booed up there by the Kook Fringe bloggers. | |
| Um look at. | |
| There's no way Edwards is gonna stop taking money from lobbyists. | |
| This this comes up, all these insiders trying to make themselves sound like outsiders. | |
| Edwards are reformer, blah, blah, blah. | |
| Uh they couldn't survive without lobby money. | |
| Even the new ethics bill. | |
| The House passed this brand new ethics bill supposed to be insured against uh uh having two hundred dollar lunches and dinners paid for by lobbyists. | |
| Oh, but you can still do it. | |
| You know how? | |
| You can still do it if it's a fundraiser. | |
| What the hell else is a lunch? | |
| If you call your lunch with a lobbyist to fundraiser, you can still take the money. | |
| It's uh it never there's certain things in politics aren't gonna change. | |
| They just aren't. | |
| And there's you know, she one thing here, she is not that dumb to take up this place. | |
| She knows anybody in their right mind running for office cannot answer this question. | |
| Yes, I'm gonna t I'm gonna eschew lobby money. | |
| Because you can't. | |
| It uh it won't happen. | |
| Jarita in uh Laurel, Delaware. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi, Russ. | |
| Hi. | |
| Oh, I just wanted to call you and let you know that there's some dedicated uh Rush listeners down here in Delaware. | |
| We aren't all liberals. | |
| And uh I want to tell you we started listening to you uh 911, a little bit after 911, because uh my grandson had to go to AI DuPont in Wilmington the morning of 91, and and that's when we began really listening to radio, and that's uh And you've been hooked ever since. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes, absolutely. | |
| I consider you the uh uh source of uh this worldly truth for myself I discount anything I hear on uh television. | |
| I watch it for a laugh. | |
| It is good fun. | |
| Um but I do enjoy uh hearing you, and I I just want you to know I'm dedicated because I've been holding on for two hours on my cell phone, so I know, I understand that. | |
| And uh, we were just waiting for the right moment to put you in. | |
| And I thought following Hillary Clinton would help you stand out all the more. | |
| Ah, yes. | |
| Well, I do hope I stand out from from her. | |
| I would want to, yes. | |
| Uh I I am amazed and astounded at the things I've seen in this country in the last, say, ten, fifteen years. | |
| Um we all are. | |
| We all are, I don't are. | |
| But We're trying to do something about it here so that we don't have to see it as often. | |
| I hope so. | |
| Um and I do want to say that I'm I'm ashamed of the things that I hear said about Mr. Bush. | |
| He is our he's the head executive, he's our president, and the things that are said to me are uh reprehensible. | |
| They are, but let me tell you something, Jarita. | |
| The one thing that I have learned, when you listen to people say the things about President Bush that they say, understand something. | |
| They're telling us far more about themselves and who they are than they are telling us anything about President Bush. | |
| Um take that to the bank. | |
| It's great to have you in the audience. | |
| I'm I'm thrilled that you're there. | |
| Thanks much. | |
| Joe in uh Grand Prairie, Texas. | |
| Welcome, sir to the EIB network. | |
| Good afternoon and Mega SUV Ditto's rush. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I heard a caller earlier call you and talk to you about Michael Irving. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I want to totally disagree with him and agree with you. | |
| I think I listened to that speech. | |
| I came home, brought it up on my computer again from the local newspaper and had it on. | |
| And I could not be more impressed with what that man had to say and the example that he set, I think, for his children, for the children that were in that audience. | |
| And I'm 70 years old, and I know in 70 years I've made a few mistakes in my life, and I've been forgiven for them. | |
| I can't say they've been as serious as Michael Irvins, but we all make mistakes, and I truly, truly believe that that man has turned his life around. | |
| God bless him, and I hope he continues to, and I hope his kids that were listening take what he said from the heart, no notes, no nothing, just speaking for 25 minutes, totally from the heart. | |
| I couldn't believe it. | |
| There aren't many people that can do that. | |
| I mean, I uh uh and and not stutter around and lose their train of thought. | |
| I mean, anybody can go up and try to talk for 25 minutes without uh notes, but there aren't very many people who pull it off and uh and be cogent uh uh organized and so forth. | |
| It was I it was incredibly inspirational. | |
| There's not enough of that. | |
| Uh I agree. | |
| Uh running around, especially the the uh uh uh daily dose of media pap that we get today. | |
| It was um it was welcome. | |
| Well, I'm glad I'm glad you had that reaction to it, because like we all make mistakes, the severity of the mistakes we make differs from person to person to person. | |
| There isn't a personal line, but uh uh personal life that doesn't make mistakes. | |
| So the question is after you make one or a series, what do you do? | |
| Uh you overcome it, you learn from it, and do you uh you you try not to repeat it uh or do you let it get you down and you let it beat you down and say, uh, I'm worthless. | |
| I have made this, I'm never gonna recover from it. | |
| I'm never gonna get over it. | |
| I'm never gonna get past whatever I did here that's caused people to think this of me. | |
| And that's what he was talking about. | |
| Right. | |
| He felt that way. | |
| He thought he thought he killed his chances for the whole of it. | |
| He thought it was over. | |
| I know. | |
| And there he was in there, and and uh he was just trying to tell people uh get up. | |
| Well, you know the one other the one other thing that really impressed me about that speech and about the reaction. | |
| His wife and his family has forgiven him and his mother. | |
| And by golly, if they could forgive him, so can I. Well, that's pretty big because that's they're the ones that were touched personally by it. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Very big of you out there, Joe. | |
| Thanks a whole bunch. | |
| I uh I appreciate it. | |
| We move on to St. Augustine, Florida. | |
| This is Holly, and welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Uh hi, Rush from E Florida Ditto's Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| Did you know that Rush is on the uh my top ten list of favorite male names? | |
| Ha ha, you beat me to it. | |
| You beat you beat me to it. | |
| Okay. | |
| Um I'm just getting a little disturbed with Newt lately. | |
| Um he was at a conservative conference last week and said we were waging a phony war and uh we weren't winning this war, and I think that just gets the liberals more talking points. | |
| Uh yeah, I saw that I I I was I was um when I saw I said, My gosh, he's he's echoing John Edwards. | |
| I mean Edwards out there saying it's a bumper sticker war, and and Newt says it's a phony war. | |
| I I I'm at a loss to explain it. | |
| I I I have the same reaction that You did. | |
| Okay. | |
| And of course he's maybe running for president, so he's looking for his own uh talking points. | |
| But that just gives you a lot of people. | |
| One of the things, one of the things I think that put it in context, I'm I am aware of some things that Newt's been saying for the past I don't know, three months. | |
| He's really been ripping the administration. | |
| Uh uh incompetent, uh not focused, uh and uh and this sort of thing. | |
| And his he thinks the primary focus ought to be domestic agenda and re-building country in a number of ways, morally and spiritually, that sort of thing. | |
| But um the the w it I th I still can't explain it. | |
| I mean, other than to tell you that it fits with previous criticisms of the uh administration and how he thinks that they're uh incompetent and and screwing things up. | |
| But it I don't know. | |
| In the middle of the surge working uh just as as the Liberals would say it wasn't useful. | |
| Well, we got another study out there, folks. | |
| Another big time study out there that men who get angry at work are rewarded, and women who get angry at work are not rewarded. | |
| Uh and the angry guys make more than the angry women. | |
| Just that just makes the women madder. | |
| So it's a it's a vicious cycle out there in the workplace. | |
| And other factors, and the anger multiplies, obviously. | |
| There's just nothing can be done about it. | |
| Uh by the way, uh the the the spin on I forgot to add this, the spin on Newt's comment about uh the war being phony. | |
| The spin is now the the he said he was taking it a context that he was referring to the way we're waging the war, not the war itself. | |
| Uh which sadly is not much better. | |
| In fact, let's grab soundbites nine and ten. | |
| Because this is why whatever somebody says if the war is phony or the strategy is phony or whatever it is, uh, in the midst of what's happening now, it's just it's it it raises question marks. | |
| Uh I mean, this if you wanted to say this, say it six months ago. | |
| Uh saying it in the middle of a reports that the surge is working, which is precisely new strategy. | |
| It makes people wonder what Newt or anybody who would say something like that is looking at. | |
| We'll go to um Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. | |
| He talked to um uh these two guys that wrote the uh op-ed a week ago today in the New York Times, that of course Times readers have not even read, apparently, and they think it's worthy. | |
| Uh Ken Pollock, Brooking institution. | |
| What did you see over there that led you to believe the troop surge might actually work? | |
| You see in a few places in Iraq some very dramatic changes. | |
| The one that everyone knows about is on Bar province, where the Sunni Sheikhs have flipped on Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the other Salafi groups and are now working with U.S. forces. | |
| Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, which at one point in time it required tens of thousands of troops just to keep the place from flying apart, was now mostly being handled by Iraqi security forces with only a very small American presence up there. | |
| And elsewhere in Baghdad and the Southern Belts, the northern belts, we also saw progress, important progress on the security front, and even some progress with local economic and political developments. | |
| Now we got one more bite on this too, and and this is from O'Hanlon. | |
| He was also on the show. | |
| He's a co-author, Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow Brookings institution. | |
| Chris Wallace uh well, what what wouldn't you add to that, particularly this question that I asked Secretary Rice about, which is sectarian violence, this argument that this is trying to provide some kind of circuit breaker in terms of sectarian civil war. | |
| We have suppressed the sectarian violence. | |
| We are seeing much more progress against the Al Qaeda and Iraq, the other Salafist groups, some of the extreme Shia militias, and that part is going much better because Iraqis, along with the surge, Iraqis are getting sick of the violence uh from other Iraqis against them, and they're getting tired of these extremist movements. | |
| That does not solve the sectarian problem. | |
| That's going to have to be phase two of this. | |
| But the first phase is looking fairly good on the military battleground at least. | |
| Right, it is. | |
| Um that's the strategy. | |
| So the strategy is uh alteration has been has been good. | |
| It's a political situation, the political situation is a political situation, it's just the political situation. | |
| It's all here's here's a montage. | |
| Let's go to Soundbite 8. | |
| Carl Levin, uh CNN's late edition, a montage of his Remarks, and by the way, we have repeated nothing in this montage. | |
| The whole purpose of the surge was to give the Iraqi political leaders the breathing space to reach a political settlement. | |
| The surge has not succeeded. | |
| That is not political progress. | |
| Cautious about any political progress or the political progress benchmarks, political progress between the Iraqis, the failure of political progress, the chances of political progress. | |
| How do you produce political progress? | |
| Political progress. | |
| There's not going to be political progress. | |
| It's political progress, a political settlement. | |
| A uh political surge, work out a political reconciliation. | |
| Well, let's go back to uh Soundbite 7, which takes us back to July 24th on this program and listen to what I predicted. | |
| It cannot be reported that the surge is succeeding. | |
| So what we'll be focused on instead, ladies and gentlemen, is how the political situation is falling apart and not making progress and so forth. | |
| So whatever wherever the good news is, it's like the drive-by's in a Democrat Party find a way uh to avoid it. | |
| But this is uh the worst nightmare is for this news to start trickling out for the uh for the Democrat Party. | |
| So I suggested that they focus on the on the on the on the process, the progress, lack of progress, political progress, and so forth, just to keep the negative uh drum beat going. | |
| And the purpose of that during the recess here is to uh separate recalcitant Republicans in the Senate from President Bush. | |
| That's that's what the Democrats are gonna be trying to do throughout the recess, getting ready for the Petraeus report. | |
| They're gonna try to get these like Hegel, they've already got and Olympia Snow, they're gonna try to get more Republicans to distance themselves from the President and vote next time they offer resolutions at September to get the troops out by uh a certain date. | |
| Uh president has a veto-proof house right now, so uh whatever the Senate does may be inconsequential. | |
| But that's what the focus is, the political progress. | |
| No political progress. | |
| Can't be said that it's succeeding. | |
| So Chris in Woodbridge, Virginia. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey, Rush. | |
| Good uh Hey, I I just wanted to clarify what I think Newt's talking about when he talks about a phony war. | |
| I thought I just did that, but go ahead. | |
| And I wanted to base it on things that he's written. | |
| He has a newsletter and that sort of thing out there. | |
| And the phony war is it's spelled PHO N EY War. | |
| And it's a period of during World War II, like from 1939 to 1941. | |
| Hitler had occupied Poland and they were making their intentions known. | |
| And um nobody everybody thought they could avoid war with Hitler, and then he attacked France and the phony war, according to Newt, was then over and the real war had begun. | |
| And he had written this in response to Prime Minister Brown banning his ministers from using the word Muslim in connection to all of the terrorist attacks that are going on in Britain. | |
| I think that's Newt's point. | |
| I don't think everybody has the context of what phony war means. | |
| It's actually a historical term. | |
| Okay, well, that's fair, but the spin that I'm getting uh is that the phony war meant the strategy, not the war itself being phony. | |
| Yeah, I I think I think, though, on strategy or strategy or whatever that it's it's the fact that we're often ignoring the real culprit being radical Islam, that we don't want to talk about those sorts of things, that people are they want to destroy Western civilization, and I think that's where it becomes a phony war, and that we don't really face up to who our enemies are on a worldwide stage, not necessarily the question of the city. | |
| Wait, wait, wait, wait. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now you're talking about something different. | |
| Uh uh, we don't we don't have this bite, but I heard Giuliani say yesterday in the debate that he listened to the Democrats, and not one of them in their last debate ever uttered the words Islamo fascism or militant Islamist fanatics, not even talking about who the enemy is. | |
| The Republicans are, and the President has done his share of it. | |
| He may not use the term uh Islamo fascists. | |
| Right. | |
| But but but we all know who the enemy is that we're fighting over there. | |
| I don't I I think if you're talking about political correctness in this country, yeah. | |
| There's no question it's going on, and it's it's it's uh frankly makes me mad. | |
| Yeah, and it makes me mad too. | |
| But I just I simply wanted to give context. | |
| I think that it it's it's more a historical term from Newt's perspective, and and putting it in context, I think helps us understand it just a little bit better. | |
| Uh okay. | |
| But it's still how can I say that? | |
| Because you people know I like Newt. | |
| And I I have great respect for Newt's brain and his intelligence, but to come out and use the word phony, you gotta know how that's gonna play into the hands of you've got you got John Edwards out there saying it's a bumper sticker war. | |
| And uh, in the midst of the surge, where can it come out and use that word. | |
| It's an invitation to be taken out of context. | |
| If in fact your uh explanation is uh is accurate. | |
| Dave on his truck in Indiana, burning up fossil fuels and polluting the planet, changing the climate at a boy. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Thank you, Rush. | |
| Let me tell you it's an honor to speak with you. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Uh you were talking earlier uh about the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and that a lot of people seem to think there's no money from the infrastructure. | |
| I'd like to point out that every single big truck on the road today that registered in any state pays five hundred and fifty dollars every single year, and it's classified federal heavy highway use act. | |
| That's above and beyond what paying road taxes for their license plates. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I'm telling you, the idea that our government doesn't have enough money uh is a scam. | |
| It is a it is a liberal hoax. | |
| They got more money they know what to do with it. | |
| They got so much they can't count it. | |
| They can't keep track of where it all goes. | |
| This this call for raising taxes to fix one bridge that falls, and then to tell us, well, there's 70,000 that could fall tomorrow. | |
| You know what I also laugh at? | |
| I have folks, we are such as a society, we are such a bunch of children and kids. | |
| Okay, so the bridge in Minneapolis, the I-35 West Bridge, does what it does, it collapses. | |
| The next day and the next couple days, newspapers in a local cities all over the country and television stations are examining local bridges. | |
| Hell, they did it here, and a story here. | |
| Two of the bridges spanning the intercoastal waterway could be deficient. | |
| Yes, they are. | |
| We already know they are. | |
| We live here, they're gonna replace them by 2010. | |
| They're structurally okay, but they're gonna wear out. | |
| So everybody gets caught. | |
| Is my bird safe? | |
| Oh no, is my bridge gonna fall tomorrow? | |
| Uh and the news and drive-by's dutifully comply with this panic and fear by going out and uh talking to all these people, and of course, what's the answer? | |
| From coast to coast, city to city, little town to little town. | |
| Well, our bridges are we think they're safe, but we don't, we don't have all the money we need to either repair them or even investigating. | |
| We do need increased funding. | |
| And so worldwide, nationwide, every little newspaper, local television state, local radio state, the message goes out. | |
| Government is broke. | |
| Government doesn't have money. | |
| The bridge may fall, you may die, and we can't do anything about it. | |
| Aside from this bridge, can somebody tell me when the last bridge collapse was? | |
| There are actually quite a lot of them every year. | |
| Little tiny bridges that sometimes people aren't on them, sometimes they. | |
| When's the last time you heard of this happening? | |
| When's the last time a bridge like this collapsed? | |
| And don't tell me, Katrina, I mean, that's that's that's that was a you know, a man-made disaster. | |
| George Bush ordered that, so you throw that off the. | |
| Seriously, when when do when does this happen? | |
| And everybody panic, but should I cross this bridge or not? | |
| I read the paper today that DOT said really deficient. | |
| Oh my god, no money to fit. | |
| What am I gonna do? | |
| Because I've I've got to get over to Blockbuster. | |
| What happened? | |
| Everybody in just a I get so ticked off at the way the drive-by media takes a singular event like this, makes it sound like it's a national plague or or epidemic, and of course the end result is we need more money. | |
| And boy, we need more money. | |
| Get it from somebody else. | |
| As I reference uh occasionally, uh, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| People say, Rush, are you sure about this kid's business? | |
| I mean, you're really how much of this is just for show and how much of it is just none of it is for show. | |
| I had the story last week. | |
| I really I've had this perpetual fear ever since I saw it when I was a kid myself with other families. | |
| I We had this story out of Italy where this 61-year-old guy had still not left home, and his mother finally kicked him out of the house because he wouldn't pay. | |
| He wasn't getting a big enough allowance. | |
| She's doing all this. | |
| Sixty-one years old still at home. | |
| So the fear is I believe. | |
| Bankruptcy. | |
| Poverty. | |
| For me. | |
| That's that's the fear. | |
| Nothing. | |
| Destitution. | |
| There's another reason. | |
| Um seen this or not. | |
| This is Slate.com. | |
| Rudy Giuliani's uh John Giuliani's daughter supporting Barack Obama. | |
| There's one vote that Rudy Giuliani definitely can't count on his presidential bid, his own daughters, according to the 17-year-old Caroline Giuliani's Facebook profile, she is supporting Barack Obama, designates her political views as liberal. | |
| Uh and uh at least till this morning proclaimed her membership in the Facebook group Barack Obama, one million strong for Barack. | |
| According to her profile, she withdrew from the Obama group at 6 a.m. | |
| Monday after Slate sent her an inquiry about it. | |
| You see, if with a capital I and a capital F, if I ever became a candidate for anything, I would also not be burdened with this kind of thing. | |
| A rebellious lunkhead kid running around causing me all kinds of problems. | |
| What? | |
| I put my name in the ring for what? | |
| Oh. | |
| Oh, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| I'm sorry, I don't know what you guys are saying. | |
| Let me move on. | |
| Scott in Greensboro, North Carolina. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Scott. | |
| Scott. | |
| Hey, you're usually a pleasure talking to you. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Yeah, well, the football season started, uh, or starting, I thought, um, discussing and get your feedback um on the induction ceremony this past Saturday. | |
| Uh, I was glued to it for three and a half hours on a Saturday night. | |
| It was probably one of the better ones I've ever seen. | |
| Of course, I'm a sucker for those kind of things, but just really the uh the the substance of the topics, for example, you know, your your Missouri boy Roger Worley and and then again Bruce Matthews and their Christian conviction, um, Michael Irvin starting off his speech with a prayer, um, a white man from uh Mississippi from the 50s being uh wheeled out um due to his his dementia and uh all Alzheimer's by three of the best black running backs in the history of the NFL. | |
| It was so much, it was so much to absorb, and it was it was amazing. | |
| And I just wanted to get your feedback on what you thought of these. | |
| I assume you've seen all of them. | |
| I've always loved these NFL Hall of Fame induction ceremonies because I always find them inspirational. | |
| I love football, and I've played it, and uh people who reach the pinnacle uh in in the game uh understand exactly what's necessary to do it. | |
| I don't think people who've never played this game have no clue. | |
| They there's no way you could. | |
| Uh you know, folks, uh I was in the Astrodome once and was down in Houston for Rush to Excellence tour, and a foreigners were down there playing the Houston Oilers during Montana's uh heyday. | |
| And Lee Steinberg, the famous sports agent came and sat next to me. | |
| He just casually observed, do you know nobody knows how tough these guys are looking at at the game out of this? | |
| Do you realize the average human being could not get up after one of those collisions? | |
| After just one offensive play, especially a running player when the offensive line starts. | |
| People have no clue. | |
| They have no clue. | |
| These guys are going through summer camp right now, and I uh two days in high school is brutal. | |
| It is boot camp. | |
| And they do it every year. | |
| The Army does it once. | |
| Now, uh veterans, it it's it's a little different as that as they get older, but no, I'm t I I think that the the stories these guys all tell about this is not baseball. | |
| This is this is not any other sport. | |
| Uh they only play it once a week because you couldn't play it more often than that and survive. | |
| Uh and even you you see what happens, some of these guys later in life uh who have played a number of years. | |
| So I've the the inspiration that these guys know and share, because it's taken that, and they've all needed inspiration from others to get where they've gotten. | |
| Uh And I'm a big believer in inspiration and speaking positively and motivating people. | |
| And you can't succeed in that game unless you are motivated and have the ability to inspire and motivate others. | |
| We're going to have some global warming news tomorrow, but let me tease the headlines. | |
| Abnormally cold temperatures in Texas this summer threaten the cotton crop. | |
| And from the Sunday Herald in uh where is this? | |
| Scotland. | |
| Firms guilty of making fake green claims. | |
| That's all coming up tomorrow, as well as whatever is worth talking about that happens between now and then. | |
| I will look forward to it. |
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