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Aug. 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 7, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, welcome back, folks.
Nice to have you.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
We are here at the EIB Southern Command at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the largest free education institution known to exist in the free or oppressed worlds.
There are no graduates.
There are no degrees.
The learning never stops.
You want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Well, from the Chicago Tribune today, there is a story about a new toy out there called the Michael Vick Dog Chew Toy.
Cost $10.99 plus a couple bucks shipping.
And the toy lets your dog take a bite out of Michael Vick.
It's Vic smiling with a football in his left hand and his home black and red Atlanta Falcons uniform.
It'll be available for delivery starting today.
The toy, it probably won't last long because they didn't get his permission.
And they're using the Falcons jersey and using his name as well as they're probably infringing on NFL trademarks because the uniform doesn't have any logos on it, but I mean, it's obviously the Falcons uniform.
The NFL watches this stuff like crazy.
But if you want to try to get one of these things, it's www.vicdogchutoy.com.
I don't know how big it is, but it's because there's a tiny little picture of it here.
We're going to melt their server.
I bet their servers melt it already.
VicDogChewToy.com.
Your dog can take a bite out of Michael Vick.
This was an AP story on Sunday.
More black women marrying men of other races according to the census.
For years, Toynetta Jones played the dating game by her mom's strict rule.
Yeah, mom always told me, don't you ever bring a white man home, recall Jones.
But at 37, the divorcee has shifted to dating anybody who will ask her out, regardless of race.
I don't sit around dreaming about the perfect black man I'm going to marry, Toynetta Jones says.
And in fact, it turns out black women around the country are reconsidering deep-seated reservations toward interracial relationships and are branching out.
All this comes as stats suggest that American black women are among the least likely to marry.
Toynetta Jones says, hey, I'm not saying that white men are the answers to all our problems.
I'm just saying that they offer a different solution.
Now, what could be going on here?
What in the world could be going on here?
This has to be, well, what would you circumstances do?
Or obviously it's a dwindling pool.
If you want to cut to the chase, there's a dwindling pool out there because of cultural circumstances.
Anyway, passing it on.
You know, these satellite radio guys, I have no brief against them.
Don't misunderstand.
And I've explained why this program is not on satellite radio a number of times.
Not that it never will be, but in this current ideation or iteration three-hour program Monday, Friday, it can't be because it would be cannibalizing the terrestrial radio stations that have made this program.
And I've assured them of that.
But they report their subscriber numbers.
And I think the combined total for satellite radio to both those companies is around 13 million, 6 million, and 7 million or 8 million.
What is it?
Maybe the story says.
Anyway, it doesn't matter what the total number is because one in 10 satellite subscribers are in unowned cars still sitting on the car lot.
The way these people report it is the number of radios sold or manufactured.
So then most of these satellite radios are in automobiles as they're manufactured, but one in 10 of satellite subscribers live in car lots.
Neither in cars that haven't been sold by anybody yet.
We read today in the New York Post that Pinch Schulzberger, who is the scion of the New York Times Company, is going to change policy abruptly very soon and eliminate the Times Select Service.
Now, you know what the Times Select?
Well, you may not know what the Times Select Service was.
It was the attempt by the New York Times to require subscriptions to get columnists and op-ed columnists and other certain special features.
And I think it was priced at $49 a year.
And what it had the effect of doing was walling off these nitwits from everybody.
So nobody had to read them other than the people that subscribed to the dead tree copy of the paper every day.
So these columnists, like the important Thomas Friedman, the deranged Frank Rich, the miserably and sadly unhappy Maureen Dowd, existed behind this wall of $49 a year that people were not paying.
And so they stopped being factors in the creation of the daily news agenda.
And so little Pinch has decided, we're going to get rid of Times Select, which is, you know, it's sad.
I was hoping it actually would work just to keep these people, at least well enough, to keep them behind the wall.
But that's not the only thing that didn't work.
The Associated Press is closing down a two-year-old premium multimedia service that emphasized non-traditional methods of storytelling, saying it had failed to gain enough traction with newspaper clients.
The service called ASAP will be discontinued as a standalone service on October 31st.
It was originally conceived as a premium service to help newspapers reach the 18 to 34 age group.
It had evolved into a broader product aimed at readers of all ages because the 18 to 34s are on the internet.
They're not reading newspapers.
The whole point of this was to come up with an alternative way of reporting to get away from the standard style book of journalism and let people from all over the country send in their stories.
And it just never took off.
They have an award-winning news service, the AP, has bombed financially.
And this is the ripple effect of newspapers going under, which is happening.
CBS said that it earned $404 million, 55 cents a share compared with a profit of $781 million in the year-ago quarter.
So CBS's profit nearly halved versus a year ago.
So they lost 48% of last year's profit at CBS.
That's not helpful.
I must tell you, we here at the EIB network are experiencing none of this.
We are not experiencing any kind of, we're not cutting back, nothing.
It's just, it's, we are a role model for new media.
And how to do it?
And of course, we are looked down upon with disdain.
It's fine, by the way, as long as they don't try to discover our secrets.
And of course, what's the secret?
The secret is content, content that people want to listen to and trust and enjoy and informed by, entertained by, whatever.
And that's a concept that just escapes elites who think they're smarter than their audience, smarter than everybody else.
And then when the audience complains, the elites say, you don't understand our business.
Here, take more of what you don't like.
And they cram more garbage in their papers and magazines that people do not want to read.
Example, ladies and gentlemen, of the incest, the incest that exists in liberalism and the drive-by media.
Christian Amanpour's husband, James Rubin, who was a State Department spokesman at Clinton years, is leaving his Sky News job and returning from London to join Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Christian Amanpour will continue her bit of campaign on CNN.
She will continue to campaign for Clinton on CNN, disguised as a reporter.
And of course, CNN nor Christiana Manpour will see any conflict of interest in her reporting while her husband works on a Hillary campaign and she works on a Hillary campaign disguised as a reporter at CNN.
As you know, last, what was it?
Last Friday, I came out for lead.
So therefore, I love this story in the UK Telegraph.
Police have warned of a bizarre crime wave sweeping Britain as thieves strip millions of pounds worth of metal off of buildings and they're shipping them to China.
They're shipping the metal to the ChiComs and other countries where demand for lead is strong.
So I assume this is more lead that the ChiComs can put into the toys that they are selling us.
All right, brief timeout.
We'll come back.
Your phone calls.
We've got some audio soundbites.
Mrs. Clinton, upfront and honest about taxes and her policy right after this.
America's Truth Detector, America's real anchor man, doctor of democracy, man who's running the country.
You know it and I know it.
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This is unbelievable.
This, I shouldn't, in fact, I'm not.
I'm not going to offer one word of commentary.
Under a little notice, new hiring policy introduced this year, job applicants to the FBI with a history of drug use will no longer be disqualified from employment throughout the Bureau.
Old guidelines barred FBI employment to anybody who had used marijuana more than 15 times in their lives or who had tried other illegal narcotics more than five times, but those strict numbers no longer apply.
The FBI bowing to modern realities.
And now, Mrs. Oh, phones.
I'll get the Hillary.
What did I say I was going to do?
Did I tell you?
Sound by, okay, you got to hear this soundbite.
We're going to go to the phones.
You people on the phones, be patient.
We're coming right at you.
This morning on CNBC, the host there, Dylan Rattigan, was interviewing Mrs. Clinton.
And the question is: is it the role of the government and tax policy to try to reconcile fairness?
Well, you know, I think it certainly is.
I mean, tax policy is one of the instruments the government uses.
I mean, George Bush has two major commitments in his term as president: tax cuts for people like Bill and me and the Iraq War, neither of which he's paid for.
And at some point, you've got to say, look, our system's out of whack.
Stop.
Stop the tax.
What do you mean, neither of which is paid for?
Mrs. Clinton, don't be a dunce.
Don't act like a dunce.
You may be, but don't act like it.
You're making it too easy for us here.
What do you mean the tax cuts aren't paid for?
Have you seen the revenue rolling into the treasury?
It is a fact that cannot be denied.
Even though your buds in the drive-by may not be reporting it, it is a fact.
There's more money rolling into Washington and the states than anybody dreamt would be rolling in.
And this business of including you and Bill, tax cuts for people like Bill and me, that is classless.
You're just telling people like my husband and I, who are filthy rich.
And I don't see you giving the money back, Mrs. Clinton.
I don't see you taking some of these tax cuts that you've received and sending the money back to the Treasury Department.
Here, listen to the rest of this.
People to do well.
A lot of people did extremely well during the 90s, but so did everybody else.
When you lift 22 million people out of poverty and when economic policies lift 100 times more people out of poverty than in the Reagan years, you know, that's the way the economy works for everybody.
Prove it.
Prove it.
100 times more people out of poverty than the Reagan years, 22 million.
Prove it.
Throw these numbers around.
Nobody challenges them.
Prove it.
It's a bogus number.
If they proved 100 times more people out of poverty than we wouldn't at Edwards wouldn't have, we wouldn't be running around.
And then, of course, tax policy, one of the instruments the government uses to reconcile fairness.
There it is, folks.
That they're brazen.
They're being dead straight honest with us as to what they view the purpose of the tax code for, fairness.
And they define fairness as making sure nobody can get as rich as they are with the income tax and making people in the middle class think that they're getting their life's better off because the rich people are getting it stuck to them.
Their taxes are going up.
It won't change anybody else's life for the better.
Maybe for the worse, actually, you start taxing the people that hire other people and you've got problems.
This woman is a disaster waiting to happen, and there's an 80% chance as we sit here today that she's the next president of the United States.
She is a disaster waiting to happen.
Ray in Nashville, sell call.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Military Chapman Ditto is here on the road as I pass the Titan Stadium.
Pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I've started paying attention about 17 years ago when I started listening to you.
I appreciate that.
Ever since then, I've not been one to panic.
And I'm one of those who graduated seminary and got into some of those low-rate adjustable mortgages.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've heard nothing but the record foreclosures and all the housing markets just going to crash.
And the next year, I thought I couldn't get a hold of my financial advisor, so I'd call a rush and get a better perspective.
Well, look, you know, the U.S. economy is not bulletproof.
And throughout my life, when I've been through what were called recessions, hell, I was alive.
How old are you?
I'm 37.
37.
So what year were you born?
1970.
70.
Well, you're too young to remember this.
Richard Nixon put wage and price controls on because we had inflation at 3.5%.
Everybody was panicking over that.
Wage and price controls.
And of course, it was an abomination.
It was a disaster.
I'll tell you how wage and price control, because the wage controls worked, because the employers were, oh, they love the wage, but the price controls didn't work.
Because let's say you go to the grocery store, and before the price controls go into market, let's say you go to Butcher and you got your ribeye and your filet, your T-Bow and your Porterhouse, and your ground sirline, your ground chuck, whatever it is.
After price controls, get what?
Guess what?
There's a whole brand new cut, the special ribeye super duper.
And there's no price control on us.
They can charge whatever they want for it.
And any number of places operated that way.
So it was an abomination.
We had gas lines.
We had rising energy prices, and then we got Jimmy Carter with what?
The inflation was 14%.
Interest rates were 20%.
It was a disaster.
And look where we are at it.
The point is, I want to make to you is a housing market, because of some of these subprime mortgages, the whole industry, it might cause a temporary blip.
But even, let's say when the oil price, I remember this too, in the 70s sometime, oil price plummeted.
Oil was at 10 bucks a barrel.
It was so low, the domestic industry couldn't make any money.
They capped wells.
They're still capped.
Now, the consumer was making out like a bandit.
It was great news for the consumer.
But the oil industry domestically was really taking it hard.
So my point to you is, is that, yeah, there may be a housing blip.
Nothing goes up and keeps going up forever.
Everything levels off, may drop here and head back up.
But it's no reason to think it's the end of the world.
And it's no reason to think, as far as the U.S. economy is concerned, that it's the end of prosperity and it signals the peak of American experience and exceptionalism.
And we're going to start a downward trend.
Drive-bys will try to convince you of this.
But I'll tell you what's going to happen.
My guess, wild guess, is that the Fed's going to meet, I think, Friday, sometime this week.
The Fed's going to meet sometime Friday.
Interest rates probably will hold steady at five and a quarter.
If they lower the interest rate, then no problem.
Everything will be solved, but they won't do it.
Probably in October, they'll lower it.
I wouldn't be surprised if the interest rates are down a point and a half by sometime next year.
Now, if they don't lower interest rates, what will happen is there will be some kind of a, if it's that bad, there'll be some kind of federal intervention bailout to cover it.
I hope not, but it could happen.
But there's another way to look at record foreclosures out there, Ray, and record foreclosures are great time for investors to purchase.
You know, the vulture funds are really kicking up in gear here.
Warren Buffett can't wait.
He just can't wait.
This is where people make their money in the foreclosure.
Everything is cyclical.
There is no single element that will single-handedly destroy even a segment of the economy.
People are always going to need shelter until we start growing fur and are able to climb trees.
And so don't let anybody make you panic.
It's really unfortunate and can be tough for people who have gone through it.
But we've all been through tough economic times, relatively speaking.
So your financial advisor may tell you something totally different as to what to do with your own portfolio loot or what have you.
But I'm just giving you a philosophical and attitudinal reaction to it all.
Yeah, making the complex understandable.
Rush Limbaugh talent on loan from God.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have erred.
It is not an opinion error, and so it will not count against my accuracy rating.
The Fed Reserve meets today and will have an announcement on what they're going to do with interest rates.
I said they will meet Friday.
They will meet today.
Now, you just heard Mrs. Clinton's soundbite.
And you just heard my call with Ray in Nashville, worried about the housing market.
Folks, it is just An incredibly great country where the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have never managed anything, who have never created anything, who have never done anything productive private sector-wise, who have only run for public office, can become multi-millionaires.
And it is a great country where they can make it known to everybody how wealthy and how rich they are and not be called gauche and classless.
What a great country.
They tried to do this in Whitewater and it didn't work, but they finally are able to go out there and tell us as often as they wish how wealthy they are.
Now, as to Ray in Nashville, conservatism 101.
Each of us decide what type of life we're going to live, what kind of obligations that we're going to take on for ourselves.
We know what we can and what we can't afford.
Whether we live by it is another thing, but we know what we can and can't afford.
You take on a loan, I don't care what kind of loan that you can't afford, and then if things go south, no offense to Mississippi.
It's simply not the responsibility of your neighbors to pay off your loan.
May happen if this is reputed to be as calamitous as they say.
But if that ever occurs, there will be no responsibility by those who are on their own assume these obligations.
If you know somebody else will bail you out, on the other hand, in our country, you can work and produce and think your way out of these situations.
But there's an assumption, just like we had the guy calling the other day on Friday on healthcare.
All right, the government ought to pay my health care.
Got an opportunity for conservatism 101 in that call.
But, you know, there's no responsibility of your neighbors to bail you out of a bad loan, to bail you out of a loan that you had no business taking.
I can't believe how cold and cruel you are.
I'm just not being cold and cruel.
We're talking about responsibility.
And we all, do you know how many people encounter difficulty and don't start running off and whining and moaning to the media or don't start running off whining and moaning to the government?
They just deal with it.
We've done shows on those people.
White-collar people in their 40s and 50s got laid off.
They didn't demand everybody else take care of them after that because they got screwed late in their careers.
Why do you think we have such a large middle class as well as wealthy people?
We're not a third world economy where the central government regulates these things, or at least we shouldn't be.
I mean, they regulate a lot.
But we all face challenging events.
Housing market now, high oil and gas prices now, low oil prices back then, Jimmy Carter's administration, four years of LAs.
We all face challenging events, economic and otherwise.
But on the whole, we're able to earn, learn, and progress.
You know, in a lot of places, and I've been to some of them, there aren't any good times.
There are no good times.
And the expectations of people in these countries where there are no good times don't match ours.
We have high expectations because we're Americans.
We have high expectations because we have experience.
We're born and raised in this country.
We grow up knowing its potential.
This is why I just cringe when I start hearing people talk about, well, we've peaked.
American exceptionalism is over.
The days of kids being able to do better than their parents, not anymore.
You've got people who want to make that happen in this country, and they actually do believe it.
Pessimists, doom and gloomers, and so forth.
But it's not the history of the country.
It is not what happened, and it's not what's predicted.
This is the one country where people have great and high expectations because this is the one place in the world where people know that they can meet them and achieve them.
Dale in Cleveland, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Well, thank you very much.
Rush, you mentioned a while back that the media elite look down on their audience and say, these were your words, they think they're smarter than you.
Well, Rush, don't you think you're smarter than us?
No.
Really?
No.
No, no, no.
Kind of tongue-in-cheek, but damn it, I want you to be smarter than I am.
Well, this is, I understand what you were trying to get me to fall into my braggadocious personality that irritates the libs.
But it's a great question you've asked because I think the reason I'm answering it this way is I don't come in here every day with anything but respect for you.
I expect that if I talk about some of the various aspects of energy production or global warming, I expect that everybody in this audience is smart enough to understand it.
So I don't approach you like you're sixth graders with no knowledge whatsoever.
That's how elites approach everybody, particularly in the media.
They have a condescending contempt.
They think that they're so stupid that they can pull the wool over their eyes with lies and deceit every day.
And some people, they're right.
But that's what's great.
This is the most informed audience in broadcast media.
Not according to me, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press did a poll or did a survey.
And so attitudinally, I come in here and I think everything I talk about, I can make you understand because you have the ability to understand it.
Well, I understand that, and I'm glad.
For instance, you used the word gauche a little while back, and you expect us to know what it means.
I do.
I do.
Do you know what it means?
Oh, yes, I do.
Well, see, I was right.
And it comes from a Latin word, I believe, for left.
No.
No.
Do you know?
Do you know what the word calumny or calumnies means?
Yes.
You do or don't?
No, I do.
You do.
All right.
Well, yeah, neither of you.
It's a commotion.
No, but yeah, but I have a story about it.
Oh, okay.
I was not checking to see if you knew.
There's a story.
Conrad Black was on trial in Chicago for looting his company, Hollinger, and so forth.
And he was prosecuted by the office of the state, or U.S. Attorney there would be Patrick Fitzgerald.
And one of the techniques that the prosecution team used in opening arguments was to share emails that Conrad Black had written friends using the word calumnies.
He had a blue-collar jury, and they were trying to illustrate that this guy's so high up in the clouds, he's such an erudite intellectual snob that he doesn't even speak real English.
And so they used an email where he discussed calumnies and then got irritated when somebody didn't know what it meant.
So there's a my only point here is that there's a lot of resentment for achievement.
There's a lot of resentment for people to use the language correctly.
I have always, from the moment I became someone that others would ask, how do you succeed in radio?
First thing I say, learn to read, write, and speak the English language to the best of your ability.
That alone, however you do it, that alone will convey education and intelligence.
This is why so many of us are so concerned about illegal immigrants not being forced to learn the English language.
It's a cultural thing.
We only want the best country we can have.
We want the most educated, informed people we can get.
And if you continue to baby people and treat them like they're idiots, they're going to stay idiots because you're going to get down to their level to make sure they understand things.
You're not going to even care if they understand things.
So I approach this program each and every day with the confidence that everybody here will either, A, know what I'm talking about and understand it, therefore the communication link will occur, or they will be made curious enough to want to know.
Both of which are win-wins.
If my attitude was, I'm smarter than you, and I don't care whether you understand what I'm saying.
In fact, I want you to stay dumber than I am, then I wouldn't have an audience here.
And that's one of the myriad things that's happening to the drive-by media.
Yeah, I know.
The late arriving show prep here looking for something.
Ah, this is cool.
Well, it's not cool.
It's interesting.
Preschoolers preferred the taste of hamburgers and French fries when they came in McDonald's wrappers over the exact same food in plain wrapping.
This, according to U.S. researchers, which suggests that fast food marketing reaches the very young.
Really?
Really?
You mean the happy meal actually reaches eight-year-olds?
Ronald McDonald actually appeals to young kids?
Why it took researchers to figure this out?
Overwhelmingly, kids chose the one that they perceived was from McDonald's, said obesity prevention expert Dr. Thomas Robinson of the Stanford University Scruel of Medicine, whose work appears.
Where do they get these magazines?
The archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine.
I swear every day there is a new journal of some sort of opinion for some of these specialists.
Robinson and colleagues conducted a taste test with a total of 63 kids, aged three to five, who were enrolled in a Head Start preschruel for low-income families.
In about 60% of the tastings, the kids preferred food in the McDonald's wrapper.
They actually thought the food tasted better, said the researcher in a phone interview.
They even put carrots in a wrapper calling them the carrots, and the kids liked them.
Now, you know where this is headed.
Anybody say the word trial lawyers?
Here is Dave and Carrie, North Carolina.
Hello, Dave.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush Meganetto from North Carolina.
How are you, sir?
Thank you, sir.
A couple of things.
You have a comment and then a cigar-related question if you have time.
Fire, by all means, fire away.
Let it rip.
Okay, number one, don't get me wrong.
I love your show.
I love you.
I love the Clintons, but I'm thinking you're a little hypocritical here and calling them to task on bragging about your wealth and things like that.
I think certainly et al. can back me up on this when you talk about the minions you have around the studio that hand wash and wax your car and your doing it right now.
In fact, I was good.
You reminded me to look, check.
Don't get me wrong, Rush.
I aspire to live as opulently and extravagantly as you do, but I think you're just being a little bit hypocritical there.
You do?
Absolutely.
You never go so far as to mention your net worth, but it's always implied in your terms on the Gulf Streams and this and that.
And don't get me wrong, I want the same for myself.
But, you know, I guess the Clintons are maybe a little more direct about it, but you definitely imply it from time to time.
You know, I have a special bond with this relationship.
And when I make these references to which you just referred, it's always done with a little humor and sometimes even some self-deprecation.
The Clintons are doing this in a way, the attitude behind what they're saying is, we've got it, and you don't.
And then they're going, we got so much, we don't need it.
But then they don't turn around and give any of it away or send it back to the government or what have you.
But you know, I appreciate your assessment about that.
That's true.
I appreciate that.
Okay, quickly.
Do you get the impression?
Let me ask you a question.
Okay, okay.
By the way, I'm not insisting that you pay more taxes, and I'm not insisting that whatever you have is too little or too much, and I'm not trying to make policy to go take what you've got.
I'm trying to encourage everybody how to go get as much as they want based on their ambition, their drive, their education, desire, and all that.
The Clintons are making targets out of people who they think have too much money other than themselves.
I speak inspirationally and positively about the opportunities in the country.
They want to shut them down.
They want to shut them off.
That's a good point.
That's a very good point.
And I defer to your point there as well.
Plus, I do not rip other people who make a lot of money.
I don't criticize them.
I don't hold them.
I don't find fault with it.
The Clintons do.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
They do.
They do.
And I don't accuse the wealthy of being greedy.
And I don't accuse the wealthy of being selfish.
And I don't accuse the wealthy of being Satans walking the planet.
The Clintons do.
I'm not suggesting that somebody else should pay for my health care.
The Clintons are.
I'm not suggesting that somebody ought to pay for everybody else's health care.
I'm not trying to raise your costs on anything by taxing oil companies.
I'm not trying to tax employers out of business so that you lose your job.
The Clintons are doing all of this.
How dare you, sir, compare me to these people?
How dare you do it?
My deepest apologies.
I'll make up to it by subscribing to Rush 24-7.
And my quick cigar question for you, and I have a steak in writing on this.
And you may not be free to answer this.
I think you may have an endorsement deal with LaFour Dominicana, but if so.
I have no endorsement deals with any cigar outfit.
Okay.
Okay.
I say that the best Cuban cigar is still better than the best-made Dominican, Nicaraguan, et cetera, cigar, just due to the climate and the soil and the expertise that goes into the blending.
My friend says he thinks there's some out there that are on par.
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good Dominican, Nicaraguan, et cetera, cigars out there.
I love a lot of them.
But I still think the best Cuban is still better than the best one.
Where did I go wrong with you today?
Now you implicitly implied that I am violating the Trading with the Enemy Act by smoking Cuban cigars and can offer you a comparison between them and Dominicans.
Only while you're on vacation in countries that legally sell such cigars, sir.
You know, it's even, I find it's against the law to buy one anywhere.
You're kidding.
No, it really is.
It doesn't matter if you're in a country where they're legal.
It's so silly.
The whole thing is just so silly.
I will tell you this.
Back before 1995, maybe 95 is the last, I would have agreed.
What are you, rattling papers out there?
Oh, sorry about that.
1995, I would have agreed with you.
But then the Cubans got into the mass production of their cigar to keep up with the worldwide demand, and they stopped aging properly.
They had a couple of hurricanes.
And by the way, when the Soviet subsidy of $5 billion a year ran out, they started holding up all their retailers around the world for advance payment on product, and it just went to just, it just, I mean, not even the greats.
You're right about the Vuelta Bajo, the soil, the amount of sunlight, the rain, all of that.
It used to be the best.
I'm told I haven't had a Cuban cigar.
I can't tell you how long.
Really?
No, I haven't.
Stop.
The Dominicans, I've found this.
I'm smoking a La Flor Dominicana double Leguero chisel right now, but I don't have an endorsement deal.
I smoke a wide variety of things.
But I'm told by people who know that the Cuban cigars are coming back.
But I haven't had a new one, and I can't tell you.
But I'll tell you, if you want a real, real, really fine Cuban cigar, find one from the 80s.
Find one from the or go back and find some pre-embargo.
Yeah, that's I tell you, those things they melt in your mouth.
I got to run here.
All right, another exciting excursion.
Another hour into broadcast excellence about over.
Headed for the museum housing artifacts for the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum and Massage Parlor.
Well, if Clinton can have one, I can throw a little room in there for myself.
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